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Toshiba BDX2000 budget Blu-ray Disc player
Review Toshiba is late to the Blu-ray party, having waited a decent interval after the death of HD-DVD. The BDX2000 - oh, how futuristic products used to seem, just by adding the millennium to their name - is its first offering. It’s a sleek unit, with a pull-down front panel that hides the disk tray, display, controls and an SD card slot.…
Lib Dem candidate admits to unnatural vice
The political blogosphere is getting itself all lathered up about the orientation of adult film producer and Lib Dem parliamentary hopeful, Anna Arrowsmith, aka Anna Span.…
Programmer gets 4 years in TJX hack case
A former Barclays Bank programmer received 46 months in prison for helping TJX hacker Albert Gonzalez launder as much as $800,000, according to news reports.…
ICANN delays decision on pornography domain
ICANN has delayed its ruling on the proposed .xxx internet porn domain until this summer.…
Netflix cancels recommendation contest over privacy
Netflix has canceled a contest designed to improve its movie recommendation system out of concern it might compromise the privacy of its customers.…
Trojan armed with hardware-based anti-piracy control
The latest version of the Zeus do-it-yourself crimeware kit goes to great lengths to thwart would-be pirates by introducing a hardware-based product activation scheme similar to what's found in Microsoft Windows.…
Ford preps anti-hacking tech for in-car WiFi
Ford is developing anti-hacking technology in a bid to make upcoming in-car WiFi systems resistant against drive-by downloads and other forms of computer security attacks.…
Google Wave opens extensions gallery
The Mountain View Chocolate Factory has unveiled an extensions gallery for Google Wave, the still-gestating browser-based app that crossbreeds email with IM and document sharing.…
China warns Google over uncensored search threat
China's Minister of Industry and Information Technology has warned Google that if it stops censoring search results in the country, it will "have to bear the consequences."…
'Twitter gives voice to the voiceless' - eg the US President
Blabbertastic palmtop chunter-casting service Twitter* has received another massive hype injection from the BBC, which has published an interview - already causing a Twitter sensation - on how important Twitter is, given by Twitter's co-founder.…
Giant flying pliers menace West Bromwich
We're obliged to all those readers who've sent us new Street View sightings gleaned from the pretty-well nationwide coverage now enjoyed by the UK, especially those involving surveillance feedback loops.…
Doctor Who to materialise on Wii this Autumn
The BBC's first Doctor Who game in years will be released in October and will be released for Nintendo's Wii, moles have claimed.…
Safari update cages numerous security bugs
Apple published an update of its Safari browser on Thursday that plugs 16 security vulnerabilities.…
Body of James Brown disappears from family tomb
Update: Other members of James Brown's family have now denied the his body has gone missing. This story has been updated to reflect this.…
Virgin contractors grip up for more cuts
Virgin Media contractors earning more than £300 a day have been told to accept a 15 per cent cut in rates or leave the company.…
Female porn director turned pol grabs Kent by the ballots
Opinion The citizens of Tunbridge Wells may not have been disgusted, but a few will quite possibly have been spluttering into their cornflakes Friday morning at the news that a well-known director of adult films will be standing as a parliamentary candidate for a nearby Kent constituency.…
Currys claims 3D TV 'first'
DSG chain Currys was today keen to tell World+Dog that it not only has "the first 3D TV in the UK" at on of its biggest shops, but that it's the "only" chain taking orders.…
Hedge fund suitor denies Novell asset sale rumors
As the week was ending, rumors were swirling that the hedge fund suitor of Novell, Elliott Associates, which last week offered $1bn net of cash to take over the perennially struggling software maker, was going to start selling off its target's assets if it clinches a deal.…
SSD tools crack passwords 100 times faster
Password-cracking tools optimised to work with SSDs have achieved speeds up to 100 times quicker than previously possible.…
Info Commissioner pleads with Tories to jail data thieves
The data protection watchdog has strongly urged an incoming Tory government to quickly bring in jail sentences for data thieves, after the current government reneged on the idea.…
