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Google sets Android on pirates
Android now comes with an API allowing applications to phone home to check for a licence when launched, locking out pirates and anyone with an unreliable data connection.…
Sky turns 3D on Oct 1
Sky is launching a 3D TV channel, Europe's first, on October 1.…
Authentic Navy rum: Yours for £600 a bottle
Those of you with a taste for rum and 600 quid to spare might like to uncork a bottle of Black Tot "Last Consignment" British Royal Naval Rum, lovingly decanted from the official stocks held by the Senior Service since sailors' final rum ration in 1970.…
Data breaches blamed on organised crime
Cybercrooks continue to be a menace to corporate security, with hackers and malware authors collectibly responsible for 85 per cent of all stolen data.…
UK privacy watchdog clears Google Wi-Fi slurp
The “pay-load” data collected by Google’s Street View cars did not slurp up “meaningful personal details”, the UK’s privacy watchdog concluded today.…
iPads for hospitals: is this a good idea?
Next year, 500 doctors and nurses in Victoria hospitals, will trial the use of iPads.…
Papal crackdown on bare-kneed tourists sparks hypocrisy claims
The Vatican's stripey knickerbocker-clad Swiss Guards have launched a crack down on scantily-clad tourists in and around the Holy See.…
ID card astroturf - No2ID beats the truth out of IPS
A cackling Phil Booth, No2ID National Coordinator, writes to tell us that six months after he first pestered the Identity & Passport Service about its quotes from ID card-toting happy campers in its publicity material, it has confessed - um yes, all but one of those quoted worked for the government.…
Supercomputer geek builds Cray-1 around home PC
Daryl Brach, known as pfaffen online, has built a scale model of the Cray-1 supercomputer to house a PC.…
DfT 'unwittingly' bigged-up speed camera benefits
Exclusive The Department for Transport (DfT) has "unwittingly" misled the public over the benefits of speed cameras for the last four years.…
UK population to be guaranteed mobile 768Kb/sec service
The government has endorsed the plan to pass organisation of the digital dividend mega auction back to Ofcom, with universal service guarantees, and promises a new-for-old deal for the Programme Makers and Special Events (PMSE) crowd.…
Opposition to can Aus $1.3bn school laptops program
Australia's general election is in full swing and disputes over tech funding and tech policy continue to intrude on today centre stage.…
Turkish pranksters load Facebook Translate with swears
Facebook's attempts to crowdsource translations have gone awry in Turkey.…
BT layoffs boost profits
Layoffs and cost-cutting at BT have boosted BT's first quarter net profits by a third to £284m.…
Managing change in the application portfolio
Workshop Nothing stands still forever, particularly not in IT, and with good reason. When we researched the drivers that were having the most impact on how x86 server environments are architected, evolved and operated for example, we found that data growth was the number one driver, followed closely by new application requirements, and then changing requirements from existing applications (Figure 1).…
Churchill's dentures go under the hammer
A set of dentures belonging to Winston Churchill and described as "a vital weapon" in Britain's struggle against Nazism come under the hammer today, the BBC reports.…
Sage poised for huge Italian buy
The recently installed chief executive of Sage is planning a massive bid for Italian business management firm TeamSystem.…
Russian city blocks YouTube
The Russian city of Komsomolsk-on-Amur has ordered ISP Rosnet to "restrict access" to YouTube and four other websites containing "extremist" material, Pravda reports.…
Amazon takes Kindle to the UK
Amazon UK's front page is dominated today by a letter to its customers, introducing the "third generation of Kindles".…
Cell phone eavesdropping enters script-kiddie phase
Black Hat Independent researchers have made good on a promise to release a comprehensive set of tools needed to eavesdrop on cell phone calls that use the world's most widely deployed mobile technology.…