13th September 2008 Archive
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Apple unsheathes Jesus Phone 2.1
iSavior or iFlop?
Apple has released a software update for the iPhone, saying it will cut the number of set-up failures and dropped calls while providing "significantly better" battery life. The iPhone 2.1 update also patches eight security vulnerabilities, including the seven Apple mended on the iPod touch earlier this week and an extra bug …
Mobile 13 Sep 07:09
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Virginia de-convicts AOL junk mailer Jeremy Jaynes
Overturns anti-spam law, invokes Founding Fathers
Notorious American AOL spammer Jeremy Jaynes had his nine year federal prison sentence overturned today, when Virginia's high court ruled the state's tough "anti-spam" law violates the First Amendment right to free speech. The court unanimously agreed Virginia's anti-spam law is "unconstitutionally overbroad" because it bans …
Spam 13 Sep 07:33
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Sapphire 4850 Toxic graphics card
Review Solving the regular Radeon's heat problems
Sapphire’s HD 4850 Toxic graphics card tackles a perceived problem of the reference AMD ATI Radeon HD 485 by changing the cooling package to lower the temperature. The standard HD 4850 runs at a toasty 80-90°C as a result of having 800 unified shaders humming away inside the GPU. AMD uses a variable-speed fan that spins up to …
Reg Hardware 13 Sep 08:02
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China's nonstop music machine
Exclusive Baidu versus business
Baidu is renowned as China's glittering internet success story, and as the start-up that gave Google a bloody nose. It dominates the web in the world's second biggest economy with 70 per cent market share, and on Wall Street carries a market cap of almost $12bn. But Baidu's success comes at a price, for the legitimate music …
Music and Media 13 Sep 17:47
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Enterprises throw caution to the wind in 802.11n rush
Standards bodies far behind the WLAN adoption curve
The wireless industry changes at the speed of light and so do the attitudes of its customers. Five years ago, amid the intense nervousness of enterprises about adopting pre-standard fast Wi-Fi standards or insecure - Wi-Fi at all - who would have predicted the carefree abandonment with which corporates are now embracing pre- …
Data Networking 13 Sep 17:48
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Furse should not resign, she should be sacked
Comment Furse's farce at the LSE
The farce of the London Stock Exchange not only crashing but failing to get its systems up and running again should surprise no one. Well, no one except LSE boss Clara Furse, who demonstrates little understanding that technology is crucial to her business. I’ve worked for members of the London Stock Exchange and everyone …
Financial News 13 Sep 17:48
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Educating Verity
Stob A breeze is riffling academia's pubic hair
It's my own fault. If you've told me once, you've told me a hundred times to ignore them. You know the sort of thing: Bacheelor, MasteerMBA, and Doctoraate diplomas available in the field of your choice that's right, you can even become a Doctor and receive all the benefits that comes with it! Last year, I fell victim to a …
Developer 13 Sep 17:51
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