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An anonymous reader writes "Toyota just announced that it will invest $50 million in Tesla Motors and the two companies will partner to manufacture electric vehicles to meet California's growing demand for greener cars. Bay Area residents should be especially excited, as this venture is expected to create thousands of new jobs in the San Francisco Bay area, and is sure to be a boon to California's flagging economy. Tesla fans as well should rejoice as the new partnership will allow the EV startup to bring its highly coveted, iconic design to more affordable electric vehicles like the Model S sedan, which will sell for $49,900 and gets 300 miles on a 3- to 5-hour charge."

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Asus, Acer and co. need to worry more than Amazon does

iPad owners are very happy with their purchase, it seems. Only two per cent of the are in any way unsatisfied with their purchase.…

Takes the knocks and the shots

Review Hardy products, such as Panasonic's range of Toughbooks, Dell's XFR laptop range, or Olympus's venerable range of Tough cameras, are a tricky sell. Not only do weather proofed, shock-resistant products command inflated prices, it's also difficult to convince the average electronics buyer that they really need the extra strength.…

Bloom and bust

Mozilla has begun circling its shaky, new age wagons around a web app store model that won't short change developers.…

Please sir, don't take my pork barrel away

Dell is urging the coalition government not to cut the world's most expensive civilian IT project - the NHS's National Programme for IT.…

'Suppressive persons'

Italian police reportedly unearthed hidden dossiers on 'enemies' during a raid on Church of Scientology offices in Turin.…

Free White Paper - IBM Sets Pace in Unix Virtualization

Beacon and GPS kit unveiled

It's with great pleasure that the Paper Aircraft Released Into Space (PARIS) team today officially welcome aboard radio man Steve Daniels (callsign G6UIM), who's put together some tasty kit for the project and will be our in-the-field radio operator when launch day arrives.…

Battery bolting duties continue

Atlantis mission specialists Michael Good and Garrett Reisman exited the International Space Station at 12:27 GMT to kick off the third and final STS-132 mission spacewalk.…

€4.4bn in the coffers, incumbents on the airwaves

The month-long German radio spectrum mega-auction has finally wound up, with the existing operators snapping up all the available bandwidth and contributing €4.4bn to the German economy.…

Violates own privacy policy

Facebook has been giving advertisers data that they can use to discover users' names and locations, contrary to its privacy policy.…

Data Center Savings

Pax681 writes "[London Mayor] Boris Johnson declared that London will have all bus stops and lamp posts Wi-Fi enabled by 2012 for the Olympics. In an article on Tech Eye, Boris waxes lyrical (or as lyrical as he can get) about how it would be done at a Google Zeitgeist event in Hertfordshire. These would be public Wi-Fi hotpots; as such, would these break the new law on open access points? Would they be just the thing for people to use to infringe with impunity and anonymously bypass the chances of running foul of the Digital Economy Act?"

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More protections for thin-skinned Antipodeans

A row has broken out in Australia after it emerged that Customs officers are searching laptops and mobile phones for smutty snaps.…

Red faces at Big Blue

IBM has apologised after supplying a malware-infected USB stick to delegates of this week's IBM AusCERT security conference.…

By your powers combined...

Trying for glory a second time, Seagate is very soon to announce a hybrid solid state and spinning disk drive, the Momentus XT, with no operating system dependencies.…

Vorsprung durch fertigungstechnik

Remorseless German boffins have developed a new type of paint which effectively coats ships, planes and wind turbines in sharkskin, reducing drag and saving energy.…

Headlines to which the answer is yes!

Microsoft Europe's spinmeister-general Peter Devery is swapping the flatlands of Reading for a 1,000 mile bike trip along the length of the UK.…

Data Center Savings

Digital Agenda pushes standards

Updated The European Commission will strengthen legal protections for personal data, reform copyright law and ensure that device and software makers embrace standards, it said when outlining its new digital policies.…

We'll drink to that

It's come to our attention that a Young Boozer is standing for Alabama State Treasurer - a position of immense responsibility which the "active Eagle Scout" Birmingham native will doubtless handle with all the fiscal sobriety the post requires.…

Keeping track ain't so easy

Blog Trying to write an article concerning actual real world implementation of technologies like roaming profiles and folder redirection has proven surprisingly difficult.…

Providers must respect watershed

Advertisers and broadcasters must make sure that viewing of their adverts is as controlled on video-on-demand (VOD) services as it is when traditionally broadcast, advertising regulator the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) has said.…