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Saturday - September 11th | | 2:00 | | Earth's first all Klingon opera debuts
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Klingon invitations running lateEarth has witnessed its first Klingon opera.…
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| 0:30 | | OpenSolaris spork ready for Oracle challenge
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'An exciting new distribution'A spork of the open-source edition of Solaris, OpenSolaris, is ready to start taking on Oracle's official Unix operating system.…
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| 0:30 | | Wikileaks will soon post biggest military leak ever
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Focus turns to IraqWikileaks is just weeks away from posting a huge cache of classified documents related to the US war in Iraq in what one journalist says will be history's biggest military leak.…
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| 0:30 | | Google Instant sinks raft of search controls
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Suggest forever on, results locked at 10In rolling out Google Instant
– a new incarnation of its search engine that serves up results in 'real-time' as you type – Mountain View has also made several peripheral changes to the way its engine traditionally operates.…
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Friday - September 10th | | 22:30 | | Nokia's Canuck boss claims Arctic bond with Finland
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'We play ice hockey too'Nokia held a press conference today to introduce its first ever non-Finnish CEO, Stephen Elop. We learned that the outgoing predecessor's cards were marked ages ago, and that Nokia looks set to give the newcomer the chance to shake things up at the bureaucracy-bound tech giant.…
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| 21:30 | | What Adobe could learn from The Flying Wallendas
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Do security safety nets make Reader less safe?Analysis The Flying Wallendas were a legendary circus troupe that performed death-defying acts from a high wire without the use of nets or safety devices of any kind. Even when they performed their world-famous four-person, three-level pyramid act 50 feet in the air, patriarch Karl Wallenda steadfastly eschewed nets out of a belief they sapped the aerialists' concentration.…
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| 21:30 | | Google Instant 'invented by Yahoo! in 2005'
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Ex-Yahooligan rues death of LiveSearchA former Yahoo! product manager has claimed that Google Instant
was invented by Yahoo! in 2005.…
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| 18:00 | | 'Hyperbolic map' of the internet will save it from COLLAPSE
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Ark boffins say 'black hole' net events already commonInternational computer boffins are warning that the internet may 'collapse' at some point within the next decade. They propose the use of a new routing method based on hyperbolic geometry, and have devised what they call a 'hyperbolic atlas' of the entire net to aid in this plan.…
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| 17:30 | | IBM wheels and deals on servers
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It's good to be your own bankThe engineers and marketeers have got the servers out and polished up their sales pitches, and now it is time for Big Blue to bring in the bankers to close the deals.…
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| 17:30 | | Now SEC piles into HP bribery probe
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DoJ, SEC, OMGHP is facing a widened bribery investigation by the Department of Justice and US financial regulators, a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) reveals.…
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| 17:00 | | Come clean NetApp
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Put up or shut upDespite Oracle and NetApp dismissing
their ZFS-based or related lawsuits against one another, NetApp is refusing to withdraw its threatening letter to Coraid and stop threatening 'all appropriate remedies for any infringement' of NetApp's patents.…
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| 17:00 | | Bollywood 'recruits DDoS hired guns to fight movie pirates'
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There's totally a movie in thatAn Indian firm claims it was hired to carry out denial of service attacks against film download and torrent tracker websites at the behest of Bollywood movie distributors in India.…
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| 17:00 | | Ranting Ohio Republican scares interwebs
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Shouty bloke SEEKS OFFICEVid Ohio councilman Phil Davison made an unsuccessful pitch to become his local Republican Party's nominee to run for Stark County treasurer on Wednesday, in the process scaring the living daylights out of the interwebs.…
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| 16:30 | | Every tech market loves a monopoly
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Facebook. Google. Apple. Hurrah!Open...and Shut It may not be that 'Every woman adores a Fascist,' as the poet Sylvia Plath once caustically penned
, but it certainly seems that every market appreciates a monopolist.…
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| 16:30 | | BT preps nationwide TV network
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Signs Content Delivery System deal with CiscoBT is upgrading its national network to reliably deliver TV on-demand, partly in preparation for the launch of Project Canvas alongside the BBC and other broadcasters.…
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| 16:30 | | Osborne plucks strange fruit from the loon tree
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UK.gov to use Spending Challenge website ideasHM Treasury has said it will implement three ideas submitted by the public to its Spending Challenge website which include a government e-auction site.…
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| 15:00 | | Beeb creates new global iPlayer post
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DIY meatThe Worldwide wing of the BBC has hired Mark Smith as its global iPlayer launch director, in its latest attempt to get its video-on-demand service off the ground outside the UK.…
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| 15:00 | | US military builds laser backpack for 3D indoor mapping
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Only a matter of time until Google gets involvedMilitary-funded researchers in the US have developed a backpack system containing cameras, lasers and inertial sensors which can be carried around indoors and generate a detailed, accurate 3D map of the spaces it moves through.…
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| 14:30 | | Second SMS Android Trojan targets smut-seeking Russians
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Horse rides you</e>, etcA second SMS-sending Trojan targeting smartphones running on the Android operating system has appeared, being distributed via Russian-language sites offering pornographic video clips.…
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| 14:30 | | Microsoft boss waves goodbye to biz division wonder kid
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Stephen Elop elopes to NokiaStephen Elop’s tenure at Microsoft proved to be short and sweet. He arrived in time for the Windows Vista death march, followed by the happy-clappy launch of Windows 7, and then – as a last hurrah – the retail release of Office 2010 in June.…
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| 14:30 | | 'Is this science, or literature?'
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MPs mull 'climate enquiries' that failed to enquireMight the University of East Anglia now rue its handling of the Climategate affair? An MP tells us that the University has ignored instructions given to it by the House of Commons Science Committee earlier this year, and MPs were given misleading impressions.…
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| 14:30 | | Shock treatment! Nokia's radical break with the past
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Tackling the corporate bureaucracyAnalysis So Nokia's board has decided the company needs shock treatment: it's brought in a non-Finn for the first time in its history, and someone who carries very little baggage to boot. This should be interesting.…
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| 14:00 | | Grand Theft Auto to launch on the Mac
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iPads first...Rockstar Games is to release the Grand Theft Auto Trilogy on the Mac 'most likely later this year', the publisher said in a Q&A posted
on its website.…
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| 14:00 | | BT's onshoring call centres scheme continues
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Bringing jobs back from IndiaBT's aim of bringing call centres back to the UK continues to make progress.…
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| 14:00 | | MEPs try again to force ACTA transparency
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Show us yer negotiation documentsThe European Parliament has repeated its call for greater transparency in negotiations over an international intellectual property agreement. A majority of MEPs has signed a declaration demanding the publication of negotiation documents.…
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| 13:30 | | Adobe reignites Flash on iOS
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But still not in SafariAdobe is steaming ahead with its Packager for iPhone that recompiles Flash applications as iOS apps, now that Apple has cleared the technology for distribution though iTunes.…
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| 13:30 | | Microsoft hangs head, makes apology for US cloud bust
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My BPOS bleeding heartMicrosoft admitted yesterday what has been pretty clear to many of its US customers for the past few weeks – it has recently failed to match its promise of reliably providing some of its business services via the cloud.…
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| 13:30 | | eBay wins partial victory over Craigslist
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This was never going to end welleBay has won a partial victory in its long-running court case against Craigslist - a Delaware court ruled in its favour over the dilution of its shares in the free ads firm but said it did not have a right to a seat on the board.…
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| 13:30 | | Smartbook done to death by Apple iPad
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Tablet frenzy claims victimWondering what happened to all those ARM-based netbooks we were promised last year would be the Next Big Thing? According to the boss of chip maker Qualcomm
, the iPad killed 'em.…
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| 13:30 | | NHS IT juggernaut rumbles on
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Coalition's conservative cutsAnalysis The major casualty of an overhaul of NHS IT has been revealed. The National Programme for IT (NPfIT) is no more - up to a point.…
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| 13:00 | | iPhone finds its Google Voice
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AT&T won't be amusedApple has told a third-party developer that his Google Voice client will be approved when resubmitted, though fans may have to buy it for a third time.…
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| 12:30 | | ACPO defuses impending photo row with police forces
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Clarification clarified. Clear?Just two weeks since they clarified their position on the law regarding photography, the Association of Chief Police Officers last night issued a short note further clarifying its clarification.…
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| 12:30 | | Robots capable of 'deceiving humans' built by crazed boffins
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'We do understand there's a downside to this'Worrying news from Georgia, America, where boffins report that they have developed robots which are able to 'deceive a human'.…
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| 12:30 | | US government recruits Paris Hilton
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Voice of America - now with added celebutardinessIn what is evidently an attempt to mitigate the damage caused by Koran-burning pastors, the US government will attempt to dissuade outraged citizens of the Middle East from joining al-Qaeda by beaming Paris Hilton, Kim Kardashian and Britney Spears across the Voice of America's airwaves.…
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| 12:00 | | Cinema chain bans laptops, tablets
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Maybe mobile phones too, soonCinema chain Vue
is deciding whether to ban mobile phones from its venues, having already decided that laptop computers are a no-no.…
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| 11:30 | | Microsoft hosts bring-a-bottle cloud trust code of practice ..
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Show me the trade bodyAnalysis Blighty’s cloud computing industry now has a trade body that wants to champion trust in data stored at a tech firm’s outhouse, by getting vendors to commit to certification that, by mid-2011, will be independently scrutinised. We just don't know by whom - yet.…
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| 11:30 | | All CO2-spewing kit now in exis..
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That V8 Jag? Run it 'til it wears out, you're OKAll the carbon-spewing machinery the human race now possesses - powerplants, transportation, boilers, the lot - can be kept running for its entire designed life without any significant ill effects on the planetary ecosystem, according to new analysis. It is the new machinery to replace what we now have which will either push atmospheric carbon over the UN's red line - or not.…
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| 11:00 | | $9m RBS WorldPay hack mastermind avoids jail
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Extradition unlikelyThe Russian hacker at the centre of a massive $9.4m fraud against RBS WorldPay has avoided jail after he agreed to turn informant on his fellow cybercriminals and pay compensation to the bank.…
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| 11:00 | | Google Earth gets its very own website
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'Lots of great content'Google Earth boasts, as of right now, its very own website
, featuring 'lots of great content including images, videos, tours, maps and tutorials'.…
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| 11:00 | | Dell resells Bridgehead software with DX6000
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Integrates Enterprise VaultDell is reselling Bridgehead software with its DX6000 object storage array - the one using OEM'd Caringo
software that competes with EMC's Centera. It's also integrating Enterprise Vault.…
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| 10:30 | | Nokia's new boss is Microsoft man
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Big changes promisedNokia has brought in Microsoft's Stephen Elop to replace its CEO, Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo, who leaves the company with little more than €4.6m in severance pay and 100,000 Nokia shares.…
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| 10:00 | | MS preps 9 bulletins for September Patch Tuesday
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Four criticalMicrosoft is planning another busy Patch Tuesday this month - with nine bulletins that tackle a total of 13 vulnerabilities ready for delivery next Tuesday (14 September).…
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| 9:30 | | Budget DSLR Cameras
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Five sharp shooters for budding BaileysGroup Test If we at Reg Hardware made DSLRs, we’d be looking nervously over our shoulders, as compact cameras have never been so good. The rise of APS-C EVIL (Electronic Viewfinder, Interchangeable Lens) cameras, such as the Sony NEX models, promises DSLR-quality without the bulk to carry around. Size matters and Canon
now appears to be considering a compact DSLR – whether we’re headed for a new take on Pentax’s Auto 110 SLR film camera
remains to be seen.…
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| 9:30 | | Multi-touch iPod nano stripped bare
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Get your heat gun and come insidePhotos Apple new sixth-generation iPod touch 'is more like a Shuffle with a screen than a Nano with true multi-touch' says Kyle Wiens, CEO of iFixit
, the parts-and-repairs website that glories in dissecting electronic devices to discover what makes them tick.…
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| 2:30 | | Email worm wants to party like it's 1999 (almost)
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'Here you go'A fast-moving email worm that began spreading on Thursday has been able to affect hundreds of thousands of computers worldwide, anti-virus provider Symantec warned.…
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| 2:00 | | Oracle sneaks out Solaris 10 refresh
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Pre-OpenWorld goodiesRather than wait two weeks for its own OpenWorld extravaganza, Oracle has snuck out the long-awaited update to the Solaris 10 operating system. The related Solaris Cluster clustering software and Solaris Studio development tools were also tweaked.…
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| 1:30 | | Firefox 4 preview knocks back Jäger shot
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Buzzed browser races rivals for JavaScript crownMozilla has released preview builds of Firefox 4 that include JägerMonkey, the new JavaScript engine extension designed to outpace rival engines
from the likes of Google and Opera.…
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| 0:00 | | Steve Jobs lectures devs, dodges antitrust action
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Weeding the walled gardenComment Over two years after the debut
of the iTunes App Store, Apple has finally provided developers with guidelines describing what apps are and aren't acceptable for inclusion in what Steve Jobs has called Cupertino's 'curated platform
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| 0:00 | | Google search index splits with MapReduce
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Welds BigTable to file system 'Colossus'Exclusive Google Caffeine — the remodeled search infrastructure rolled out
across Google's worldwide data center network earlier this year — is not based on MapReduce, the distributed number-crunching platform that famously underpins the company's previous indexing system. As the likes of Yahoo!, Facebook, and Microsoft work to duplicate MapReduce through the open source Hadoop project
, Google is moving on.…
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Thursday - September 9th | | 23:00 | | Ex-Sun CEO sees rosy future in health
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Synergies Ahoy!Former Sun Microsystems chief executive Jonathan Schwartz has opted for the hard life of Silicon Valley startup rather than running another Fortune 500 mega corp into the ground.…
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