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Work in a cold climate
As the winter temperature plummets and heating costs rise, Register Hardware’s hacks have grown fond of the leg warmth generated by laptops. But if you’re not a fan, check out Logitech’s latest.
Hardware
09 00:02
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Free cycles for plastic sun capture
The World Community Grid, a network of donated processing capacity established by IBM for do-gooder supercomputing projects, said today that it would be donating time to a bunch of Harvard University researchers who are looking for organic materials from which to make flexible and cheaper solar cells. Plastic solar cells, to be colloquial about it.
Science
09 00:07
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Mainframe marriage
Consolidation in the legacy application rehosting and modernization software space continues apace, with compiler and rehosting expert Micro Focus announcing yet another acquisition. This time, it's shelling out $9.7m in cash to pick up Relativity Technologies, one of its competitors in the IBM mainframe and midrange server spaces.
Financial News
09 00:32
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It's a steal
Identity thieves who claim they stole details of 21 million German bank accounts are offering to sell the data on the black market for €12 million (US$15.3 million), a German magazine reported over the weekend.
Security
09 00:58
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Rumors finally have a freshness date
Second only to Barack Obama's lack of US citizenship, the Rumor That Refuses to Die award rightfully belongs to the Microsoft Zune Phone - and today a date was finally ascribed to that elusive hardware's release.
Phones
09 01:38
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Rich enterprise play
Adobe Systems is collaborating with SpringSource on rich-internet applications combining Flash, AIR and PDF with open-source Java for the enterprise.
Developer
09 01:39
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Buddy system to go on five more years
Dell is going to resell best buddy EMC's Celerra NX4 NAS product, giving suppliers such as NetApp stronger competition. EMC and Dell are also extending their partnership for another five years to 2013.
Storage
09 05:02
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Delivering the information on information delivery
Tune in today at 2.30pm GMT for our last webcast of 2008. Our expert panel returns to the Reg studios once again to explore the factors needed to create an optimum working environment.
Productivity
09 08:15
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Two inches can go a long way
So, how much difference does two inches make? This is what you must ask yourself when deciding if the Archos 7 is worth the extra cash over and above its 5in-screened sibling, the Archos 5.
Hardware
09 09:07
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Scottish expansion
Onyx Group bought the Edinburgh reseller Dundas IT last month for a "six figure sum".
The Channel
09 09:12
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Pesky passengers disturbing our kip
Airbus A380 operator Emirates has encountered an unexpected problem with the aircraft - it's "too quiet" for pilots to enjoy a quick kip in the crew rest area.
Science
09 09:35
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Sugarbeet is the EU's Iowa corn
In a move which has surprised analysts and environmentalists, the European Union will leave plans for strong takeup of biofuels sourced from food crops unchanged. A plan has been agreed in Brussels which will see biofuels dominating Europe's "renewable" transport quotas in coming years.
Science
09 09:50
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Local police clueless too
A Register reader has been left baffled by the reaction of her local police force when they were asked what exactly is likely to constitute an actionable image when the extreme porn laws come into force in January.
Law
09 09:55
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Three dead on the ground, pilot ejects safely
An F/A-18D on a training mission yesterday crashed into a suburb of San Diego, killing three people on the ground, Reuters reports. One person is still missing, although the pilot ejected safely.
Science
09 10:11
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Ribbony prototype tested
Bendy plastic displays might actually arrive in a year or two - HP has developed a prototype of a flexible display screen with Arizona State University's Flexible Display Center.
Hardware
09 10:25
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It's good to talk
Mobile phones could one day be powered by your banter, if research being carried out by two US universities proves fruitful.
Phones
09 10:32
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Pillar of the EV community?
Better Place has shown off its first electric car re-charging points in Israel.
Science
09 10:44
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Sale is on again
It's on again. After rumours of Fujitsu wanting to sell its hard disk drive business to Western Digital surfaced and sank a few weeks ago, the mooted sale is on again.
Storage
09 10:59
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Wikimedia's hypocrisy
There has been a storm of controversy over a decision by the Internet Watch Foundation (IWF) to blacklist a page of Wikipedia. But the criticism of Britain's online watchdog is unfair and hypocritical.
Law
09 11:22
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RIP Oliver Postgate
Oliver Postgate - the man behind Bagpuss and the Clangers - has died aged 83, the BBC reports.
Bootnotes
09 11:27
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Anonymise after six months...
Microsoft will only agree to European demands to slash the time it keeps online search query data if Google and Yahoo! adopt the same methods.
Law
09 11:35
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Mobile browser war opens new front
Skyfire, the mobile browser for Nokia S60 and Windows Mobile devices, has broadened its beta testing to include the UK and no longer requires users to register with the service.
Mobile
09 11:38
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No breach of broadcasting code
Ofcom has ruled that Top Gear presenter Jeremy Clarkson was not in breach of the broadcasting code for a quip he made on the show alluding to lorry drivers murdering prostitutes.
Bootnotes
09 11:44
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Gameplay problem fix
Rockstar has promised to do everything it can to fix the problems that gamers are experiencing while playing the recently launched PC edition of Grand Theft Auto: IV.
Games
09 12:16
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'Look, that regulator isn't wearing any clothes'
As the dust settles over the Internet Watch Foundation's (IWF) little local difficulty with Wikipedia, the question that needs to be answered is whether this was all just storm in a teacup - or the beginning of the end of a conveniently complacent relationship between government and the internet industry.
Broadband
09 12:17
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Bold beater?
Research In Motion has officially announced its latest BlackBerry handset, the unveiling no doubt timed to stir up demand before the phone’s impending UK release.
Phones
09 12:26
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One step forward, two steps back
The recent takedown of a notorious botnet-friendly web-host was a major victory for the good guys but the cybercrime outlook remains grim, according to a flurry of annual reports from security vendors published on Tuesday. The reports collectively show that the internet remains a cesspool of malware and that crooks continue to have no trouble in duping ordinary surfers into getting infected.
Security
09 12:39
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Left on school servers, as well as sent as Word documents
An IT class at a school in Lincolnshire will be allowed to appeal after failing their diploma because they submitted their work in the wrong formats, including Microsoft Word.
Applications
09 12:49
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Temps and perms go
Sony is closing a factory in France as part of a billion-dollar cost-cutting plan which will see it lose at least five production sites by March 2010.
Financial News
09 13:04
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The message machine to be seen with?
It might seem slightly perverse for RIM to produce a clamshell Blackberry when almost every other phone maker's attitude seems to be ‘been there, done that’ while they focus on sliders and candybars. But there is method in the madness.
Phones
09 13:19
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Burn, baby, burn
A video of a burning fire is now available as a premium application for the iPhone, but it remains to be seen if even iPhone users are stupid enough to pay $2 to listen to advertisements for Christmas albums.
Phones
09 13:25
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Just like being shot in the head, apparently
Videogames will give you a headache if you play for too long, but TN Games’ latest peripheral promises to make it feel like you really have been shot in the head.
Hardware
09 13:28
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Let there be pr0n
The second beta of Firefox 3.1 landed yesterday for Windows lovers and Mac fanboys keen to fiddle with Mozilla’s new private browsing porn mode feature.
Applications
09 13:40
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404: FAIL
The UK government's resilience website is itself far from resilient. Attempts to fill out the feedback form consistently return an ironic runtime error page (screenshot here).
Servers
09 13:55
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Slippery enough to crawl under a snake's belly wearing a top hat?
The feedback from last week’s article, What the heck is an IT Architect anyway?, has been a genuine pleasure to sift through (even the remark that suggested I should work in IT for a dozen years or so - thanks, Jake, I’ll keep that in mind).
Systems
09 14:03
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Boris loses yet another adviser
David Ross has resigned from his position as adviser to London Mayor Boris Johnson, after coming under fire for using his stake in Carphone Warehouse as collateral for a loan, without informing the company.
Mobile
09 14:15
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A viable 4G technology?
LG has begun testing a mobile phone chip that could pave the way for download and upload speeds of, it claimed, up to 100Mb/s and 50Mb/s, respectively.
Broadband
09 14:50
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Memory stick, car park fail
Leeds Council has apologised for losing a memory stick containing unencrypted details of 5,000 nursery-age children.
Policy
09 15:05
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Red hair faces all round
Surfers attempting to visit Microsoft's Irish website via Microsoft.ie on Tuesday morning were greeted with a defaced page instead.
Security
09 15:31
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Bloody...great
Fans on the puke-inducing Saw horror films could be in for some disappointing news, because it’s rumoured that production of a game based on the film series has stalled.
Games
09 16:01
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Spot the difference
Microsoft has released alpha code for an "open source" blogging platform dubbed Oxite.
Developer
09 16:07
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Gets ready for Intel's Nehalem Xeons
While it isn't always the case, Sun Microsystems usually likes to wait until it can actually ship products before it sends out a press release. So while Advanced Micro Devices announced the "Shanghai" quad-core Opterons for servers nearly a month ago, Sun is only making its "Galaxy" x64 launch today because it has enough of the chips to start pumping out boxes.
Servers
09 16:40
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'Quantum physical information wave' technology employed
If you believe that mobile phone use puts your brain at risk from electromagnetic radiation, then a Belgian firm’s latest offering may put your mind at ease. It's a gadget that's said to neutralise a phone’s potentially harmful rays.
Phones
09 17:23
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18 hours at -20°C
Two pilots spent 18 hours floating on an ice sheet after their aircraft suffered twin engine failure on a flight from the US to Sweden, the Sydney Morning Herald reports.
Bootnotes
09 18:08
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Hardened browser pwned
Security researchers are reporting in-the-wild attacks targeting a previously unknown vulnerability in fully patched versions of Microsoft's Internet Explorer browser. They surfaced on the same day that Microsoft released its biggest batch of security patches in five years.
Security
09 18:17
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Goobuntu rumor resurfaces
Over 10 per cent of Google's internal machines are hiding their software makeup from the outside world, according to data collected by Net Applications, a web analytics outfit that captures user traffic on more than 40,000 sites across the net.
Software
09 19:07
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OpenCL 1.0 spec debuts
Apple's Snow Leopard bounded closer to reality today - and there's a strong possibility it leapt well past Windows 7 in the process.
Operating Systems
09 19:20
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If only they can get the security to work
Google is entering the rich-client game with a project allowing online applications to tap your desktop through the browser.
Software
09 20:33
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Boffins insert another 'leap second'
As if the leap day in February wasn't enough stalling for time, scientists intend to delay the arrival of 2009 by one additional second.
Science
09 20:39
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Botches California county's results
A four-year-old software glitch wiped out almost 200 votes from a small California county's November elections tally, causing officials to certify results that are now known to be incorrect.
Government
09 21:12
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Beats older competition
Adoption of GPLv3 has surpassed many older licenses in a short time, according to license watcher Black Duck Software.
Software
09 21:35
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Litter the planet
Intel's research labs have worked on some truly sci-fi concepts in their time - shape-shifting micro-robots and online-gaming "anti-cheat" technology, to name just a pair.
Science
09 22:22
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10% workforce cut looms
The massive layoffs that Yahoo!'s departing CEO Jerry Yang warned about in October will reportedly hit the search firm's employees Wednesday morning.
Business
09 22:52
