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  • Microsoft's IE9: Don't believe the hype

    Review Modern. But moving slow

    Microsoft must be rattled by the steady decline in the market share of Internet Explorer. Worldwide it has gone from 68.5 per cent in July 2008 to 46 per cent today, according to StatCounter. Internet Explorer 9, now in release candidate phase, is Microsoft's answer. Highlights include hardware-accelerated graphics, a new fast …

    Applications 14 Feb 03:00

  • How Nokia and Microsoft will carve up mobile services

    And poke Intel in the eye

    Nokia smartphones will be running Windows Phone, but the company is hoping to hang on to some of its service-provider identity even as Microsoft grabs the choicest morsels. Nokia tried hard to redefine itself as a provider of services, which is what everyone wants to be these days - hardware margins are tight and most software …

    Mobile 14 Feb 04:00

  • Adobe Flash: 20m phones flip Steve Jobs the bird

    How do ya like them Androids?

    Is Steve Jobs the best thing that ever happened to Adobe Flash? Nine months after Jobs unloaded his infamous open letter on Flash, defending Apple's decision to completely ban the technology from the iPhone and the iPad, Adobe has announced that in 2010, more than 20 million smartphones shipped with or were upgraded to Flash …

    Developer 14 Feb 05:00

  • Gemalto squeezes Facebook onto a SIM

    Dumbphones can soon thumb noses at smartphones

    Gemalto has managed to get Facebook running on a SIM chip, making every GSM phone a Facebook phone and bringing social networking to the dumbest of handsets. The SIM-based client isn't as pretty as its smartphone contemporaries – don't expect picture streams or sliding interfaces – but it was developed with the help of …

    Mobile 14 Feb 07:45

  • Paleontologists: Standardise 3D laser image files, for pity's sake

    End this misery of plaster moulds, incompatible formats

    Bone-fancying boffins in the States have issued an impassioned call for the world of paleontology to standardise on a digital file format for 3D images of fossils before it's too late. Until recently, fossils were recorded by investigating boffins using moulds or casts of plaster or rubber. But such records are cumbersome, …

    Physics 14 Feb 08:49

  • Job cuts on the rise

    Cuts start to bite

    The number of companies expecting to make people redundant in the first quarter of this year is expected to rise sharply. Figures from KPMG and the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development show private sector jobs might help offset public sector cutbacks - but overall two out of three employers expect to have less …

    IT Director 14 Feb 09:15

  • Samsung intros 10in Android tablet

    MWC 2011 Vodafone gets first dibs

    Samsung has taken the wraps off a 10in Galaxy Tab slate, this one running Android 3.0 Honeycomb. Vodafone has the exclusive. Beyond these points, the 10in, 1280 x 800 Tab's spec largely matches that of its 7in predecessor. The camera on the back is 8Mp, but who's going to be taking snaps with a monster 246 x 170 x 11mm snapper …

    reghardware 14 Feb 09:57

  • PlayStation phone to come with Crash Bandicoot

    MWC 2011 Xperia Play pushes all the right buttons?

    Sony Ericsson has officially launched its much-anticipated PlayStation phone - the Xperia Play - confirming the leaks and whetting appetites further with some titillating pre-installed titles. Revealed at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona last night, the Xperia Play is the first smartphone device to run "PlayStation certified …

    reghardware 14 Feb 10:02

  • Humanity's stored data measured in CDs to the Moon

    Or books blanketing China, if you prefer

    The BBC has splendidly reported that all of the data we accumulated between 1986 and 2007 on PCs, DVDs and good old-fashioned paper would, if slapped on CDs, create a megastack of discs "that would reach beyond the Moon". Yes indeed, the distance to the International Space Station measured in stacked dollar coins just doesn't …

    Storage 14 Feb 10:08

  • Latest boffinry: Feeding TNT to sheep

    There's a good reason, honest

    Stateside boffins are diligently getting a small number of laboratory sheep to eat as much TNT as possible. One should point out straight away that this will not - or ought not to, anyway - involve any sheep then exploding in a sequence of fearful fleecy detonations and spattering the landscape with woolly fluff and raw mutton …

    Science 14 Feb 10:22

  • Samsung updates Galaxy S with two-core chip

    MWC 2011 Bada gets NFC support too

    Samsung's Mobile World Congress announcements don't stop with the 10in Galaxy Tab: it's unwrapped new Galaxy S and Bada-based smartphones too - the latter with tech flavour of the month near-field comms. The Galaxy S II, first - it's an Android 2.3 Gingerbread phone based around a 4.3in, 480 x 800 OLED touchscreen and a 1GHz …

    reghardware 14 Feb 10:23

  • Russian SMS scam Trojan poses as Valentine MMS app

    Soppy idiots at risk

    Criminals have developed a scam application that poses as a way to send MMS messages to loved ones and targets Russian mobile users. In reality the supposed MMS application sends SMS messages to premium rate text messaging services in Russia. The malware comes in a downloadable file called "love_mms.rar" that includes a Java …

    Malware 14 Feb 10:32

  • Sony Ericsson outs Neo, Pro smartphones

    MWC 2011 One for keyboard lovers, one for the rest

    Sony Ericsson's other Mobile World Congress-launched smartphones - Neo and Pro - won't garner as many headlines as the Xperia Play, but these near-identical siblings are worth a look. Sony Ericsson's Xperia Pro The two differ only in the Pro's inclusion of a landscape-orientation slide-down Qwerty keyboard. Both run Android …

    reghardware 14 Feb 10:43

  • Vodafone signals own-brand handset refresh

    MWC 2011 World's cheapest touchscreen phone?

    Vodafone has refreshed the range of handsets it puts out under its own name, offering three options for the shallow-pocketed mobile user. The Vodafone 252 is a cheap-as-chips handset with minimal spec, boosted by the presence of M-PESA - a system for making payments with a phone. That system is only active in parts of Africa, …

    reghardware 14 Feb 10:48

  • I’m not a Trojan horse: Nokia’s Elop hits back at neigh sayers

    MWC 2011 Beware Canadians bearing gifts...

    The first non-Finnish president of Nokia confirmed that he’s not a plant for Microsoft and that he intends to sell his MS shares. This is after a heckler asked CEO Stephen Elop: "Are you a Trojan Horse?" after the Canadian's keynote speech at Mobile World Congress. Elop was then questioned about his share-holdings in both …

    Mobile 14 Feb 10:57

  • Police hit delete on DNA profiles

    If you're not charged or convicted, your sample will probably be binned

    DNA records will no longer be kept on innocent people questioned over routine crimes in England and Wales, the government has said. It will still keep samples of those questioned in connection with terrorist offences. The move is a major change in Government policy and will result in a massive reduction in the number of …

    Policing 14 Feb 10:59

  • Ericsson and Akamai pair to side-step mobile net neutrality

    MWC 2011 Network infrastructure: less sexy, more important

    Edge-of-network caching, mobile payments and Wi-Fi management: it might not fit into your pocket, but network infrastructure is trying hard to be interesting. Ericsson takes the title for Monday‘s most-interesting announcement at MWC, taking the stage with Akamai – a company that already delivers 30 per cent of the web from …

    Mobile 14 Feb 11:06

  • Flying dildo downs Oz stag party bloke

    Exotic dancer performs mock cock head shot

    A shaken Oz stag party reveller has recounted how he was left "battered and bloodied" after taking a head shot from a flying dildo. According to this very silly report, 31-year-old Darwin architect Jure Skumavc joined groom-to-be Peter Rolih and around eight other pals in a Brisbane pad on 28 December for the traditional pre- …

    Bootnotes 14 Feb 11:08

  • Motorola confirms Xoom tablet is Blighty-bound

    MWC 2011 Just don't ask how much it'll cost

    Motorola will be bringing its 10.1in Android tablet, Xoom, to Europe, the company confirmed at Mobile World Congress today. The large slate, with its 1280 x 800 display, 1GHz dual-core processor 5Mp video camera, 2Mp webcam will come complete with the tablet-centric Android 3.0 Honeycomb operating system. Launched at this …

    reghardware 14 Feb 11:09

  • After Black Friday, Nokia acts to halt share slide

    Lock down the exits, quick

    Why did investors who rallied to Nokia two weeks ago, when new CEO Stephen Elop hinted at a Microsoft deal, desert the company on Friday? The market wiped $17bn off Nokia's share price on Black Friday, once the strategy was disclosed, with the stock losing almost 14 per cent in value in a day. The fall continues: three per cent …

    Mobile 14 Feb 11:15

  • RIM rips 4G out of PlayBook for low-tech nations

    MWC 2011 Offers alternative 4G tech for other territories

    Research in Motion's BlackBerry PlayBook tablet launch at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) this past January centred on the 4G version. Today, it said that model will be joined by HSPA+ and LTE versions, plus a Wi-Fi only unit for those us in countries without these high-speed mobile broadband networks. The latter model's …

    reghardware 14 Feb 11:28

  • Markets whack Phoenix shares

    Despite steady trading

    Phoenix IT Group shares took a dive this morning after the company told markets this morning that business was on track, but it still has some worries about public sector cutbacks. Sales and profits from the end of last year, from 1 October, were in line with expectations. The Servo business it bought in 2006 had a decent …

    Channel Register 14 Feb 11:33

  • Firefox 4 now one beta away from Release Candidate status

    Mozilla man confident test build phase nearly over

    Firefox 4 looks set to have just one more beta pushed out before Mozilla shifts the forthcoming browser to its Release Candidate stage, making the whole thing ready for showtime within the next few weeks. "There are currently fewer than 20 'hard' blocking issues which have been identified as requiring beta coverage [1] and …

    Applications 14 Feb 11:34

  • LG tunes in to YouTube for 3D phone videos

    MWC 2011 Three and Orange signed up to sell it

    LG has officially launched the Optimus 3D auto-stereoscopic Android smartphone and has joined hands with YouTube so users can upload and view 3D content directly from the device itself. Unveiled at Mobile World Congress, the Optimus 3D, which doesn't require glasses to view 3D videos and snaps, is the first mobile handset to …

    reghardware 14 Feb 11:35

  • Channel Five reborn as Channel Five

    LogoWatch 'Five' now with added 'Channel', and bargain-basement logo

    Channel Five will as of today be known as Channel Five, or rather, Channel Five has regained the "Channel" it lost when it decided that "Five" was a more happening moniker for a TV station. Five years after its 1997 launch*, Channel Five spunked not inconsiderable amounts of cash to rebrand as Five, in an attempt to reinvent …

    Bootnotes 14 Feb 12:07

  • Radiohead goes out on a limb with 'newspaper album'

    Getting physical with the digerati universe

    Radiohead have declared their new album The King Of Limbs will be available for fans to download for between £6 and £9 depending on the format from Saturday 19 February. Separately, the Oxford group, whose last studio effort In Rainbows was released in 2007, will spin out what Radiohead have described as a "newspaper album". …

    Music and Media 14 Feb 12:30

  • Anonymous hacktivists: We've got Stuxnet code

    You don't say!

    A member of Anonymous claims to have taken possession of code for the infamous Stuxnet virus. Topiary, an online activist affiliated with the 4-chan-spawned internet coalition, claimed on Twitter to have gained possession of the malware. He said: "Anonymous is now in possession of Stuxnet – problem, officer?" Anonymous claims …

    Malware 14 Feb 12:31

  • Proporta poses Royal Wedding Phone Pouch

    Tasteless Tech One for monarchists - and male strippers, seemingly

    The last time royals wedded, the acme in patriotic tat were cups and saucers. This year, monarchy mavens will be able to spend their recession-eroded salaries on an even more diverse array of memorabilia - such as this Gold Union Jack Smartphone Pouch from case maker Proporta. Yes, it does sound like a male stripper's smalls …

    reghardware 14 Feb 12:32

  • Global warming will not cause 'permanent El Niño'

    Major climate shifts unseen in previous warm eras

    Boffins in Blighty have said that global warming and retreating Arctic sea ice cover is unlikely to result in a so-called "permanent El Niño" state in the Pacific, nor cause similar major weather-changing shifts in the behaviour of the Atlantic ocean. The possibility of such major changes in the world's weather has been …

    Environment 14 Feb 12:45

  • Binatone HomeSurf 7 Android tablet

    Review Seven-inch fondleslab for under a ton

    If 2010 was the year of the Apple iPad, this year will, if Motorola, HTC, HP and others have their way, be when everyone else gets in on the touchscreen computer act. Binatone has made an early strike with its super-low priced machine that’s powered by Google’s Android operating system. Donut anyone? Binatone's HomeSurf 7 …

    reghardware 14 Feb 13:00

  • IPCC chief: ANPR is 'a victim of its own success'

    System provides too much information ...

    The commissioner of the Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) has said there are severe difficulties in running automatic numberplate recognition systems. Nicholas Long said that ANPR systems are often overwhelmed with information and cannot be monitored properly. He was speaking following an investigation by the …

    Policing 14 Feb 13:27

  • Techies floored by 'virus' after Playboy mansion party

    Domainers meet Playmates, call for Doctors and Nurses

    LA Public Health Officials are investigating The Playboy Mansion after 100 techies became horribly ill in the wake of a party there. According to local reports, Hef's mansion was the venue for a fundraiser and end-of-show party for the DomainFest conference earlier this month. The show itself was at the Fairmont Miramar Hotel …

    Bootnotes 14 Feb 13:37

  • Acer shows laptop lid look tablet

    MWC 2011 Iconia avoids iPad-alike styling of rivals

    Acer has unwrapped its iPad alternative, the ten-inch Iconia Tab A500, which features the now de rigeuer Android 3.0 Honeycomb. Due in April, the A500 is powered by Nvidia's two-core Tegra 250 chip running at 1GHz. The 10.1in screen has a 1280 x 800 resolution, but you can also play content through the tablet's mini HDMI port …

    reghardware 14 Feb 13:46

  • Dell crams two four-way Opterons into cloudy server

    First up with clock-cranked 'Magny-Cours'

    Are you a hyperscale data center and supercomputer shops looking to cram lots of x64 cores in a tight space while having plenty of PCI-Express peripheral expansion? Take a good look at the new PowerEdge C6145, announced today by Dell. The PowerEdge C6145 is one in a growing line of bespoke cloudy boxes that Dell sort of …

    HPC 14 Feb 14:00

  • Orange enhances phones with sentimental shortcuts

    MWC 2011 A touching gesture

    Orange has boosted its range of Android smartphones with an app that triggers shortcuts when symbols are drawn on the screen. Orange Gestures means that rather than clogging up the homescreen with shortcut widgets, users can activate them by marking out a symbol instead. The app recognises 27 gestures which customers can …

    reghardware 14 Feb 14:14

  • Can Oz compete in the outsourcing market?

    Neighbours should be there for one another

    Could Australia become one of the next outsourcing hotspots? The country certainly has part of what people are looking for: a well-educated English-speaking (well, up to a point) workforce, technologically adept and almost certainly with more knowledge of other English-speaking cultures than any of the others have of that in Oz …

    Channel Register 14 Feb 14:17

  • Pink Floyd guitarist pays McKinnon's health bills

    Shine on you crazy diamond

    Pink Floyd guitarist David Gilmour has stepped in to pay for Gary McKinnon's psychiatric treatment. The support came after the Asperger's syndrome sufferer, who faces the threat of deportation to the US for hacking US military systems in 2001 and 2002, became a victim of budget cuts by the London NHS Trust, the Sunday Express …

    Enterprise Security 14 Feb 14:18

  • AMD cranks up Opteron clocks

    Before Bulldozer, a few more megahertz

    Advanced Micro Devices is firing off the first salvo in the ongoing x64 war between Intel and itself, revving up its high-end Opteron 6100 processors to try to get a bit more market share. The crank on the eight-core and twelve-core "Magny-Cours" processors, which debuted last March, is not huge, so don't get too excited. AMD …

    PCs & Chips 14 Feb 14:33

  • Wooden spaceship descends into Moscow sandpit

    Suited Martian sim-naut invaders emerge

    Joyous news from the European Space Agency today, which reports that it has successfully landed three astronauts on Mars. Sadly this is only simulated Mars: the three spacesuited pioneers are at present exploring a large indoor sandpit, having spent the previous eight months inside a wood-panelled simulator pretending they were …

    Space 14 Feb 14:52

  • Acer unveils big-screen smartphone

    MWC 2011 Android-powered Iconia to take on iPhone?

    Acer today made much of its new Iconia's Smart's screen, a big 4.8in, 1024 x 480 boy. That sounds impressive, but it's no "retina display" to rival the iPhone 4 display. The Smart's screen has a density of roughly 235 pixels per inch, well below the iPhone's 326ppi. Still, the Smart runs Android 2.3 Gingerbread on a 1GHz …

    reghardware 14 Feb 15:52

  • One third of Russians say Sun revolves round Earth

    'Quite amazing', admits heliocentric pollster

    Those of you brought up in the heliocentric tradition are advised to look away now, because a poll has revealed that one-third of Russians favour the Ptolemaic model of our solar system. A shaken spokeswoman for state pollster VsTIOM admitted on Friday that a survey of 1,600 across Russia confirmed the worst: 32 per cent of …

    Science 14 Feb 16:04

  • Mobile World Congress 2011

    MWC 2011 All the stories, all the mobile tech

    Mobile World Congress (MWC) is the mobile phone business' most important shindig. It's the launch site not only for new smartphone and new services, but now new tablets too. Here are this year's key products and stories. Tablets RIM boss: 'Our PlayBook shames the You Know What' Nvidia pledges to pass water on Core 2 Duo this …

    reghardware 14 Feb 16:11

  • Operators launch anti-Google WAC

    MWC 2011 But no killer API 'til September

    The operator-backed Wholesale Application Store has launched commercially, with eight operators and 12,000 apps, but developers will have to wait for the APIs that make the platform unique. From today customers can buy basic Ajax applications from the eight operators that have launched them, namely: Vodafone, AT&T, SMART, …

    Mobile 14 Feb 16:31

  • Nokia's developers wait and wait for Windows Phone

    Elopocalypse: Day Four From Burning Platform to Half Baked Platform

    One oddity of Nokia's bet-the-farm decision to move to Windows Phone is how much work needs to be done to bring Microsoft's software up to par with Nokia's existing platform. You remember, the Burning One. Today, developers are finding out. With Windows Phone 7, Microsoft took the Window CE kernel and built a tightly …

    Mobile 14 Feb 16:34

  • Microsoft outlines WinPho 7 roadmap

    MWC 2011 From NoDo to Mango

    Microsoft is to bring Internet Explorer 9 to Windows Phone 7, though it failed to say exactly when this and a number of other updates will be coming to the smartphone platform. One update will definitely come in March, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer said at Mobile World Congress (MWC) in Barcelona today. He also pointed to …

    reghardware 14 Feb 16:45

  • HP gives Lou Reed a right shoeing

    webOS seamlessly connects to musical outrage

    We suspect that Lou Reed fans will be queuing up to do to HP what the company has done to Walk on the Wild Side, ie: give it a right shoeing ... This celebration of "Everybody On" magic aired during the Grammys last night, with HP no doubt hoping to seamlessly connect with tuned-in hipsters. It may well have succeeded, …

    Bootnotes 14 Feb 16:54

  • Microsoft polishes Windows Phone 7

    MWC 2011 Multi-tasking, Twitter and Kinect integration

    Steve Ballmer took the opportunity of his MWC keynote to tell people what Windows Phone 7 will be like this time next year, and remind them how great it already is. Despite already being great, Windows Phone 7 will see some upgrades later this year - multitasking, of a sort, and lots of Sky Drive integration along with IE9 and …

    Mobile 14 Feb 16:59

  • HP buys Vertica for data analytics

    Apotheker starts making software moves

    Hewlett-Packard's new president and chief executive officer, Leo Apotheker, has made his first move in software by having HP acquire an in-database analytics startup called Vertica Systems for an undisclosed sum. Vertica is located in Billerica, Massachusetts, and was founded in 2005 by database giant Michael Stonebraker, who …

    Applications 14 Feb 17:10

  • Google open video codec faces second challenger

    VP8 v MPEG v MPEG LA v acronym chaos

    Google's royalty-free video codec is facing yet another challenger. The MPEG standards body – not to be confused with the MPEG LA patent-pool organization – has announced plans for its own royalty-free codec. At its annual meeting in March, the organization will begin accepting proposals for a new video-compression technology …

    Developer 14 Feb 17:16

  • Google, MS, Mozilla: Three 'Do Not Tracks' to woo them all

    So many ways to do one simple thing

    With the arrival of Microsoft's IE9 release candidate, we now have three separate "do not track" mechanisms from three separate browsers makers. There's room for them all. But it would be nice if we could agree a single mechanism that makes it as easy as possible for netizens to sidestep behavioral ad tracking, as the US Federal …

    ID 14 Feb 18:00

  • Stuxnet blitzed 5 Iranian factories over 10-month period

    12,000 separate infections

    The Stuxnet worm repeatedly attacked five industrial plants inside Iran over a 10-month period, according to new data collected by researchers from antivirus firm Symantec. Three of the undisclosed organizations were targeted once, one was hit twice and one was targeted three times, members of Symantec's Security Response Team …

    Malware 14 Feb 18:53

  • Intel samples 'Medfield' next-gen phone chip

    MWC 2011 Chips, cash, and commitments

    Intel has announced that its "next-generation phone chip", code-named Medfield, is now sampling to customers, with production scheduled for later this year. The company is undoubtedly hoping that the proverbial third time will be the proverbial charm, seeing as how Medfield's two low-power mobile predecessors, Menlow and …

    Mobile 14 Feb 19:57

  • HTML5 kicked into 2014

    Another three years of crushing hype

    HTML5 won't be finished for another three years, the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) has warned. On Monday, the standards body said that it has extended the charter of its group hammering out HTML5, with plans to advance the proposed spec to last-call status in May. Then we wait – for three years. The group gave as the reason …

    Developer 14 Feb 19:59

  • Boffins devise 'cyberweapon' to take down internet

    Love BGP will tear us apart

    University Boffins say they've devised a way to take down the internet by turning core parts of its routing protocol against itself. The attack, which was presented last week at the Network and Distributed System Security Symposium in San Diego, California, attacks functionality in the BGP, or Border Gateway Protocol. The …

    Enterprise Security 14 Feb 21:13

  • Google Chrome extension bars domains from search results

    Your very own webspam blacklist (that you share with Google)

    Google has released an experimental Chrome extension that lets you automatically remove individual domains from Google search result pages. The extension is also a way for the company to gather information about undesirable domains as it works to combat so-called webspam. When you block a site, the extension notifies Google, …

    Applications 14 Feb 21:30

  • Qt sees its future in Microkia

    Symbian and MeeGo embers will float

    A Qt loyalist reckons that his cross-platform app and UI framework has got a bright future, even though Nokia has swallowed Microsoft's Windows Phone. Qt ecosystem director Daniel Kihlberg, responsible for Qt sales, marketing, and services, has blogged that Qt "will continue to play and important role in Nokia". Unfortunately …

    Mobile 14 Feb 21:34

  • Australia online ad spend reaches A$2.65bn

    IAB says we really love video ads

    Australian online advertising recorded its biggest ever spend in the last quarter, peaking at $A627.75m, a 22 per cent increase from the Q4, 2009. Total online advertising expenditure for 2010 was $A2.265bn, according to the IAB Australia Online Advertising Expenditure Report (OAER). IAB Australia says the market is on track …

    Music and Media 14 Feb 21:55

  • Ericsson to deploy 4G/LTE into Telstra network

    42 Mbps, here we come

    At the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Telstra CEO David Thodey has announced deployment plans for the carrier’s 4G/LTE network. Thodey says the central business districts of all Australian capitals, plus selected regional centres (bets on Newcastle, Wollongong and the Gold Coast), will be upgraded to the technology by …

    Networks 14 Feb 21:56

  • Telstra stirs NBN pot with 4G/LTE deployment announcement

    You can probably guess the rest

    For predictable, spiritless repetition, Australia’s broadband network debate beats Groundhog Day hands down. It’s like being condemned to spend eternity on tour with a geriatric opera: the same actors for each performance croak out the same parts with the same orchestra in the pit, the chorus limply recites its lines, and …

    Networks 14 Feb 21:59

  • Lasoo: Users click with online catalogues

    Aussies like it mobile

    Australian online catalogue aggregator Lasoo has doubled its audience in the last year, reporting a record high 5.6 million product views in December. Lasoo, which allows consumers to window shop and compare prices online, revealed that 257.8 products were viewed on Lasoo every second, in the three months leading up to …

    Financial News 14 Feb 22:00

  • Aussies shine at Geek Oscars

    CineSync gonged

    South Australian company Rising Sun Research has been recognised by the Academy (of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences – you know who we mean) for its work in developing the remote collaboration technology cineSync. Developers Tony Clark, Neil Wilson, Alan Rogers and Rory McGregor have been given a Scientific and Technical …

    Music and Media 14 Feb 22:01

  • Intel demos MeeGo 'tablet user experience'

    MWC 2011 Goal: 'irrelevancy'

    Intel has released a video demonstrating the MeeGo mobile operating system on a tablet PC, mere days after Nokia pulled the rug out from under their MeeGo partnership with Intel by embracing Windows Phone for their faltering handset line. As part of its marketing onslaught at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, the company …

    Mobile 14 Feb 22:49

  • Luckless Lush hammered in hack

    Australia site of bath bomb retailer blitzed

    Australian cosmetics retailer Lush has pulled the kill-switch on its web store following a security breach. In a statement that replaced its home page on Tuesday, Lush Australia says it has been alerted that the security breach may have exposed customers' credit card information. The statement directs customers to contact …

    Crime 14 Feb 23:16