2nd May 2009 Archive

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Sri Lankan Army site 'assasinated' by rebels

'Horrible' and 'gruesome'

The Sri Lankan army has said its website was hacked by rebels who posted "horrible and gruesome images." The attack on the www.army.lk site sent army technicians scrambling to remove the content. By Friday afternoon California time, the site appeared to be running normally. The defense ministry blamed the attack on Tamil …

Security 2 May 00:15
Google hires goat army for lawn maintenance

Bleats mowing the lawn

Job openings are few and slim in Silicon Valley these days, but at least Google is hiring. Applicants are required to have at least 2 years experience eating grass with a four-chambered stomach. Google said today it has enlisted a small army of hungry, hungry goats to help manicure the expansive fields at its Mountain View …

Odds and Sods 2 May 00:17
IT utilities, the biggest game in town

Comment Is your supplier a player or not?

IT suppliers are lining up to play at the Data Centre Casino, the biggest IT game in the world, to stake a claim as a supplier of IT services as utilities. There are just two tables with limited seats; complete systems on one, essential components on the other. Are your IT suppliers in the game or not? This is all about …

Servers 2 May 00:20
Man survives death march to display-on-a-chip

Happy Birthday, IC Looking into the micromirror

Today, the Digital Micromirror Device puts images onto new-age movie screens. But in a past life, this light-bouncing semiconductor was a print technology. Sometime in 1984, inside a Texas Instruments research lab, Larry Hornbeck and his cohorts first demonstrated their tiny-mirror tech by printing a few choice words on spare …

Science 2 May 05:55
Flu chip fights pig plague

Pick your pandemic

As swine-flu mania continues to suck up every available nanosecond of fear-mongering media maundering, one small company has developed a sure-fire way to detect the potent piggy pathogen. CombiMatrix, a biotech firm in Mukilteo, Washington, announced Friday that it has updated the microarray in its Influenza A Detection System …

Science 2 May 06:04
Microsoft and Linux trade patent words in Europe

USification-of-EU play

Microsoft has teamed with General Electric to petition European regulators on a fundamental principle that will continue to drive a wedge between the company and open source supporters. The duo filed an amicus brief arguing that regulators should believe in the existence of patents in software and that these patents should …

Government 2 May 07:13
Vodafone shows off HTC's second Android phone

Video Google-powered Magic on camera

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Reg Hardware 2 May 08:02