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Home Secretary swats away calls for Mosquito ban

Thu, 11 Mar 2010 12:39:15 GMT

Hoodie-busting sonic weapon row

A European committee is calling for a community-wide ban on the Mosquito device which gets rid of teenagers by emitting an irritating buzzing noise that older people cannot hear, even though the device has the backing of Home Secretary Alan Johnson.…

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Punters: we want our internet TV

Thu, 11 Mar 2010 12:28:28 GMT

Net-sourced video, yes; web browsing, no

Consumers really do want to access internet video on their tellies, market watcher In-Stat has concluded.…

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Top exorcist says Satan at work in Vatican

Thu, 11 Mar 2010 12:27:58 GMT

When did they bring in the equal opps policy?

The Catholic Church's top exorcist has warned that Satan is alive and well and causing a whole load of problems at the Holy See.…

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Tories on cyber war: Waffle, mutter, waffle. Um, vote for us!

Thu, 11 Mar 2010 12:22:58 GMT

'Computers. Clicking, typing. Email. I could go on'

Tory peer and shadow security minister Baroness Pauline Neville Jones has set out her party's thoughts on cyber war and defence. Unfortunately once the waffle is stripped away there's pretty much nothing there.…

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Japanese phone boasts killer slacker-sensing app

Thu, 11 Mar 2010 12:20:47 GMT

Oh the data will find work for idle hands to do

Japanese phone co KDDI has been telling the BBC that its latest phones can sense when an employee is slacking off.…

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Password reset questions dead easy to guess

Thu, 11 Mar 2010 12:18:29 GMT

Your pet's name is Poochie? You're pwned

Guessing the answer to common password reset questions is far easier than previously thought, according to a new study by computer science researchers.…

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MySpace first to drop pants on Outlook

Thu, 11 Mar 2010 11:46:19 GMT

Microsoft slips through Web2.0rhea looking glass

Microsoft has now slotted MySpace updates into its Outlook application.…

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Sony launches 'WiiMote for PS3'

Thu, 11 Mar 2010 11:33:54 GMT

PlayStation Move to debut... just as Wii begins decline

It's not Arc, it's Move, Sony revealed yesterday when it took the wraps off its Wii-style motion controller system for the PlayStation 3.…

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US comp-boffins claim fix for multicore 'concurrency bugs'

Thu, 11 Mar 2010 11:24:41 GMT

Pleasurable programming for plentiful processors

American computer boffins say they have developed new software which makes programming of multi-processor machines much easier.…

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Geeks Guide 2 Cloud Computing

Thu, 11 Mar 2010 11:04:42 GMT

Save 40% at Reg Books

Geeks Guide₂ Cloud Computing with the Windows Azure Platform is written for aspiring Windows Azure programmers by Roger Jennings, author of over 30 books on Microsoft technologies. It offers an excellent overview of cloud computing and provides a structured tutorial format that guides you through Jennings’ approach for programming Windows Azure Storage Services and web, worker, and .NET Services applications.…

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Jobcentre turns to the iPhone

Thu, 11 Mar 2010 11:03:09 GMT

'gis a job - there's an app for that

The UK's Jobcentre Plus service is now available through an iPhone application and Android, providing a vital service to the jobless-but-gadget-obsessed.…

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Bogus Playstation emulators pack Trojan payload

Thu, 11 Mar 2010 10:49:25 GMT

'Will be around for a long time'

Retro gaming fans are being targeted in a new con designed to infect computers with a Trojan linked to scareware scams.…

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Microsoft shows Bottom to Young Ones

Thu, 11 Mar 2010 10:47:24 GMT

Takes retro turn with video player

Microsoft was due to take the full fat version of its video player out of beta today, treating UK viewers to high-end entertainment such as Skins, Shameless and The Young Ones.…

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Blighty surrenders to Street View

Thu, 11 Mar 2010 10:31:00 GMT

95% coverage goes live

Blighty today surrendered to Sreet View's all-seeing eye as Google extended the service's coverage to encompass 95 per cent of the UK.…

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PayPal restores Cryptome for real

Thu, 11 Mar 2010 10:28:46 GMT

Now go away

PayPal has finally made good on its pledge to restore Cryptome's account many hours after the firm's head of global communications told Register readers it had already done so.…

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UK.gov OKs plan to flog digi dividend by end of year

Thu, 11 Mar 2010 10:00:07 GMT

Meek spectrum proposals triumphant

The government has asked Ofcom to implement Kip Meek's proposals for spectrum reform, with a view to getting shot of the digital dividend by the end of 2010.…

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Bloggers spring 'baccy happy landlord from slammer

Thu, 11 Mar 2010 09:33:19 GMT

After a week of Paypal faffing

Just occasionally the blogosphere can be about more than just hot air – as it proved today by raising over £10,000 to pay off the fine of pub landlord Nick Hogan and to bring about his release from prison.…

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Computacenter sees profits up, revenues down

Thu, 11 Mar 2010 09:30:40 GMT

UK div sees 'encouraging signs'

Mega reseller Computacenter delivered on its forecast of better-than-expected profits for 2009, though revenues actually declined at the firm.…

Carlos Slim is world's richest man, Bill Gates now number two

Thu, 11 Mar 2010 09:16:58 GMT

How's the recession been treating you?

Mexican telecoms bazillionaire Carlos Slim is the world's richest man, pushing Bill Gates into second place.…

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Sony to peddle trade-in scheme to speed upgrade cycle

Thu, 11 Mar 2010 09:02:01 GMT

Incentives to encourage take-up of new tech, recycling

Exclusive Sony is planning to offer a trade-in scheme targeting Blu-ray Disc player owners later this year.…

Opera Mini 5 betas on Google Android

Thu, 11 Mar 2010 08:02:02 GMT

'No decision' on Opera Mobile

Opera has released an Opera Mini 5 beta for Google's Android platform.…

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Bowers and Wilkins Zeppelin Mini

Thu, 11 Mar 2010 08:02:02 GMT

Blimp wristed?

Review Bowers & Wilkins' Zeppelin is undoubtedly the world's most iconic iPod speaker. Every one of its rivals, from the high end of the market downward, looks pretty much how you'd expect an iPod speaker to look. Not so the elongated ovoid that is the Zeppelin.…

Patent attack hits Apple, RIM, AT&T, Moto...

Thu, 11 Mar 2010 07:02:02 GMT

Texas troll two-step

Apple, Research in Motion, and a gaggle of other deep-pocket firms have been slapped with a wide-ranging patent infringment suit by an obscure Texas firm.…

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Feds likely to oppose Google mobile ad deal, says report

Thu, 11 Mar 2010 06:45:17 GMT

Sworn declarations on AdMob

The US Federal Trade Commission is likely to oppose Google's acquisition of mobile ad outfit AdMob after requesting sworn declarations from Google competitors and advertisers, according to a report citing people with knowledge of the matter.…

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CA eats Nimsoft cloud watcher

Thu, 11 Mar 2010 06:02:02 GMT

Acquisition binge continues

Systems software seller CA is shelling out $350m in cash to buy Nimsoft, an outfit that makes monitoring tools for managed service providers - aka cloud providers.…

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Swedes serve up flicks with KVM

Thu, 11 Mar 2010 06:02:02 GMT

Cisco blades, minus VMware and EMC

Everybody is talking up the idea of integrated stacks these days, but some customers just won't listen. They think they can just pick and choose any technology they want, like in the old days.…

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Mozilla open source license set for facelift

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 23:42:40 GMT

10-year-old shows her age

Mozilla is updating its open source license after more than 10 years of use.…

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Zeus botnets suffer mighty blow after ISP taken offline

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 23:23:57 GMT

One quarter of C&C channels vanish

At least a quarter of the command and control servers linked to Zeus-related botnets have suddenly gone quiet, continuing a recent trend of takedowns hitting some of the world's most nefarious cyber operations.…

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Intel's redemos six-core Gulftown

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 20:04:32 GMT

Gamers watch and wait

Intel has given developers another peek at its upcoming Core i7-980X Extreme Edition processor.…

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Citrix tunes XenApp for Windows Server R2

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 19:44:32 GMT

App-V virtual embrace

Citrix has unveiled XenApp 6 after re-architecting the product from the ground up to take full advantage of Microsoft's Windows Server 2008 R2.…

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Google boss says something will happen in China 'soon'

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 19:20:08 GMT

Seven weeks and counting

Google CEO Eric Schmidt has reiterated that the company is currently in negotiations with the Chinese government over its future in the country - despite the Chinese government's claims to the contrary - and he expects some sort of development "soon".…

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Google flips switch on mobile YouTube banner ads

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 17:55:10 GMT

Phone vid traffic up '160%'

Google is now serving ads on the mobile incarnation of YouTube.…

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LG 3D TV line to debut in May

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 17:02:02 GMT

Freeview HD and internet connectivity on board too

LG will release its 3D TV range in May, the company said today. The line-up will comprise a pair of LED TVs and a Blu-ray Disc player.…

Voltaire brings InfiniBand switch to the masses

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 16:24:50 GMT

Accelerators speed up cluster work

InfiniBand and Ethernet switch maker Voltaire this morning rolled out its Grid Director 4200, a midrange 40 Gb/sec InfiniBand switch that shoots the gap between its entry and high-end switches, and that is the product that Voltaire expects companies to buy as they adopt InfiniBand for database clustering and other HPC jobs.…

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Pistol fired on Olympic honour campaign for Turing

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 16:13:48 GMT

Celebrated cryptographer was accomplished runner

The campaigner who led a successful effort last year to secure a public apology for the UK government's mistreatment of Alan Turing is calling for recognition of the celebrated cryptographer during the 2012 London Olympics.…

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Cryptome: PayPal a 'liar, cheat and a thug'

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 16:10:18 GMT

Account still restricted

"PayPal is a fucking liar, a cheat and a thug," says Cryptome operator John Young. The eBay-owned payment service closed the Cryptome account last week, with over $5,000 of donations intended for Young in limbo.…

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Underground mole-satnavs to work off lightning strikes

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 15:28:32 GMT

'Sferic' zap-sniff tech for future subterranean warriors

News has emerged of a secret US military programme intended to let troops navigate about inside huge underground enemy tunnel complexes by measuring energy pulses given off by lightning bolts.…

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Ex-Sun boss punts Apple-Microsoft-world 'tried to sue me' missive

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 15:26:00 GMT

My own brother, a goddamn, shit-sucking vampire

Former Sun Microsystems boss Jonathan Schwartz has claimed that Apple chief Steve Jobs threatened to sue the server and software maker in 2003.…

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Zero* welcome for 200 Welsh TV shows - in Wales

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 15:12:59 GMT

Nid wyf yn deall gair rydych chi'n dweud

Almost 200 Welsh language programmes broadcast by S4C last month attracted precisely zero viewers, leaked audience figures show.…

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MoJ halves consultancy spending

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 15:04:06 GMT

Don't need no good advice

The Ministry of Justice reduced its consultancy spending from £20.7m in 2007-08 to £10.5m in 2008-09, despite the failure of other departments to meet government cost-cutting targets.…

Samsung to bundle glasses with 3D TVs

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 14:34:44 GMT

Tackles hidden cost of 3D TV viewing

In a bid to become the leading supplier of 3D TVs, Samsung will bundle every one of its 3D tellies and Blu-ray Disc players with two pairs of active-shutter specs and a copy of Monsters vs Aliens, the company announced last night.…

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Freesat BBC iPlayer beta gets red button access

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 14:07:28 GMT

Code-only entry ended

Humax and the BBC have extended their iPlayer offering to all of the manufacturer's Freesat set-top boxes, making the catch-up service available through remotes' red buttons.…

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Saviour likely for titsup training firm

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 13:44:57 GMT

Advent students still waiting for a saviour

Administrators for Advent Computer Training, and its sister school for plumbers, believe they have found buyers for the company.…

Government spends £11k on ID card 'branding'

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 13:29:02 GMT

£1m spent on advertising, no public relations

The government still seems to be shying away from spending too much money advertising its ID card and National ID Register schemes.…

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'Phantom Eye' hydrogen strato-spy drone starts building

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 13:26:00 GMT

Cruises 12 miles up on pair of Ford car engines

Global arms'n'aerospace behemoth Boeing says it will now begin work in earnest on its "Phantom Eye" high-altitude hydrogen spy drone, powered by a pair of modified Ford car engines.…

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UK plastic fraud losses fall for first time in 3 years

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 13:21:31 GMT

Online banking losses up though

A rise in online banking fraud losses took some of the shine off the overall fall in debit and credit fraud in the UK last year.…

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Mozilla Jetpack flies out of laboratory into loving arms of Firefox

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 13:20:49 GMT

SDK lands with a bump

Mozilla has promoted its web extensions prototype package - Jetpack - by pushing it upstairs and readying it for production with its Firefox browser.…

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SpringSource adds springiness to Tomcat server

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 13:02:02 GMT

Free licenses lure cloud army to VMware

Open-source Java framework specialist SpringSource has unveiled a new incarnation of its Apache Tomcat-based tc Server, offering application developers and operators additional tools for building, deploying, and monitoring their software on the lightweight runtime platform.…

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Twitter adds filter to cut phishing lines

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 12:46:30 GMT

Every twt.tl bit helps

Twitter has tightened up security procedures in order to curtail phishing attacks against users of the micro-blogging service, which have become rampant over recent weeks.…

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Microsoft whitewashes MSN in latest Web2.0rhea whimsy

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 12:16:30 GMT

Still not shining Silverlight on UK video player

Microsoft has taken the beta wraps off its MSN homepage, which the company relaunched in the US in November 2009.…

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