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  • NASA preps robots for future fake moon landings

    Celebrates 38th anniversary of special effects excellence

    Creeping slowly over the permafrost locked within the arid and isolated polar desert of the Haughton Crater, two robots survey the world around them. From a low resolution video feed at the NASA Ames Research Center in Silicon Valley, it's hard to distinguish the landscape surrounding the robots from the surface of Mars, or …

    Space 21 Jul 2007, 00:02

  • Netezza nets plenty of cash in IPO

    Teradata licks lips

    Netezza sure sounds like some namby-pamby Web 2.0 start-up destined for failure. The company, however, is actually a masculine, high-end hardware and software maker that just enjoyed an almost spectacular initial public offering (IPO). On Thursday, Netezza stock - NZ on the NYSE - jumped 45 per cent from $12 to $17.39 per …

    Servers 21 Jul 2007, 01:00

  • The audience cackles as Sony launches Crackle

    Comment It's just Grouper regrouped

    You may have heard that Sony has renamed the Grouper user generated website that it bought a while back for some $65m, as Crackle, and begun trying to drag its content into the professional zone by putting up minor amounts of content that Sony owns to make the professional level of the site stronger than, say, YouTube. We …

    Music and Media 21 Jul 2007, 08:02

  • Oracle refutes 'SSH hacking' slur

    Mystery over bogus DenyHosts listing

    An investigation by Oracle has revealed the none of its systems were involved in launching a recent brute force attack on secure servers around the net. From the beginning of May until earlier this week, "compromised computers" at Oracle UK were listed among the ten worst offenders on the net for launching attacks on servers …

    Enterprise Security 21 Jul 2007, 20:02

  • Is 'green' software possible?

    It isn't easy being green in an abstract world

    As Kermit the infuriating frog puppet once said "It's not easy bein' green" - especially as a software developer. OK you can do all things that everyone else does - buy a Toyota Prius hybrid or even cycle to work (as long as you avoid Lycra and silly helmets). You can scribble notes on recycled paper with a pencil (made of wood …

    Developer 21 Jul 2007, 20:08

  • Keeping abreast of disappointing Apple products

    Comments Does anyone have the young nympho's number?

    The iPhone continues to dominate this week, with many comments telling us or fellow readers to shut up. Nobody seems to have any intention of doing so, which is as it should be. Reg reviewer Cade Metz decided to return his iPhone and moaned about the restocking fee. This led to a great many comments. As usual, there was a …

    Letters 21 Jul 2007, 20:23