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  • Chill out, biz barons... your new IT system might not look like the old one

    Being over-prescriptive will cost you

    Organisations that wish to update their IT systems and transform their business need to be careful not to be overly prescriptive with suppliers and overlook other important considerations, an expert in resolving IT disputes has said. Ian Birdsey of Pinsent Masons, the law firm behind Out-Law.com, said that organisations often …

    CIO 27 Dec 08:01

  • Christmas ruined for 2,100 sex offenders booted off online games

    Good.

    Thousands of online gaming accounts linked to convicted sex offenders were shut down in the US this month. Operation: Game Over resulted in the closure of 2,100 accounts registered through Gaia Online, NCSOFT, Funcom, THQ and other gaming platforms. Earlier this year 3,500 accounts were deleted from Microsoft, Apple, Blizzard …

    Security 27 Dec 11:25

  • Motorola pulls out of China, leaves locals behind till of Android shop

    Google not Play(ing) in PRC any time soon

    Google's hardware arm has shuttered its Chinese Android store, one of the few which lets punters pay for apps, saying its work is done and the competition is too fierce. SHOP4APPS was set up by Motorola in 2010, providing an Android marketplace in a region where Google Play still fears to tread, but Google's absence combined …

    Applications 27 Dec 12:01

  • Feeling poor? WHO took all your money? NOT capitalist bastards?

    Comment Actually it was nurses and firemen and teachers

    Lies, damned lies and statistics: we all know the saying, but you'd be surprised just how many of these “facts” manage to enter the national consciousness, emerging as Guardian headlines and stories on Radio 4's Today. Allow me to tiptoe through the process as to how this happens. Let's start with this lovely little chart: …

    Government 27 Dec 12:45

  • Rocket 'Grasshopper' leaps higher than tall building in single bound

    Balancing on a roaring needle of FIRE

    Elon Musk's private space program jumped another 40 meters just before Christmas, with the VTVL "Grasshopper" rocket successfully lifting more than its own length into the air and safely setting down again. The test follows one from September which involved lifting a few feet, and a November test of a couple of meters, but …

    Science 27 Dec 12:51

  • Osborne stumps up £20m of your cash for wiggly wonder stuff graphene

    'We're backing a winner'

    The Chancellor will allocate up to £21.5m for research into the wonder material graphene, he confirmed today. The cash will be distributed to Cambridge scientists investigating wearable computers, and Imperial College researchers hoping to incorporate the super-strong, super-conductive, super-light material into aeroplanes. …

    Government 27 Dec 13:16

  • Israel plots gigabit fibre-to-home rollout

    Seven years, 25,000 km of fibre

    The Israeli government, via state-owned electricity utility Israel Electric Corp (IEC), is taking tentative steps towards deploying a gigabit-capable fibre-to-the-home network it hopes will cover two-thirds of the country. Having tasked IEC with managing the rollout earlier this year, the government has now announced that …

    Networks 27 Dec 20:51

  • New WordPress vuln emerges

    W3 Total Cache has faulty defaults

    Sorry to spoil the day for any sysadmins that thought today would be a slow day, but a security researcher has announced a serious vulnerability in the default configuration of a popular WordPress plugin. W3 Total Cache, which boasts high-traffic sites like Mashable and Lockergnome among its users, has serious vulnerabilities …

    Security 27 Dec 21:29