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1st January 2013 Archive

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  • Official SCIENCE*: HIGH HEELS make you SEXY (Ladies)

    Awe-inspiring research in phwoar-inspiring breakthrough

    However uncomfortable, overly expensive and impractical killer heels may be, think again before ditching them for your next night out: new science has proved high-heeled shoes definitely make women look sexy. In the same year CERN boffins found the Higgs Boson in a gigantic underground particle accelerator, an academic study …

    Science 1 Jan 06:24

  • Drobo B1200i: The heavy-duty array even your mum could use

    Review It sure looks pretty, but can this storage box cut the mustard?

    Drobo has jumped in to the enterprise storage market with the B800i and the B1200i iSCSI appliances designed to be the simplest devices of their kind. For the past month, I have put the larger of the two - the 12-disk Drobo B1200i - to the test. It has both served in my test lab and been pressed into production; I've tormented …

    Storage 1 Jan 08:33

  • It's JUST possible, but Apple MIGHT not make an iWatch in 2013

    And if it did, it just might be Rather Dull

    What's better than smartphone that is not strapped to your wrist? A smartphone that IS strapped to your wrist. In what is a strange rumour even by the standards of supply chain rumours - Chinese manufacturing news site iPhone.TGBUS says that Apple is planning to release a watch in 2013, and the story has been widely circulated …

    Hardware 1 Jan 11:15

  • Anti-virus products are rubbish, says Imperva

    ‘Spend not proportional to effectiveness’

    A study released in December by US security outfit Imperva has tipped a bucket on the multi-billion-dollar anti-virus industry, claiming that initial detection rates are as low as five percent, and concluding that enterprise and consumer anti-virus spend “is not proportional to its effectiveness”. Working in conjunction with …

    Security 1 Jan 21:15

  • Oz R18+ game rating goes live

    World+dog yawns

    With the sole exception of a media that’s campaigned for the legislative change, World+dog has greeted the activation of Australia’s R18+ game rating with a collective yawn. The existence of the rating means three things: a rating now exists under which some games, previously refused classification and therefore illegal to …

    Broadband 1 Jan 21:48