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HP bids $2.4bn for 3PAR
HP has raised its bid for 3PAR to $33 a share, around $2.4bn, beating a revised Dell offer made earlier today.…
Apple states tax take on UK iPod pricing
Apple has made it explicitly clear how much more its charging UK consumers for its kit than US-based buyers.…
Jobs takes swing at Google over Android activations
Google and Apple's bush war flared up again as Steve Jobs apparently cast aspersions over Android's activation numbers as he unveiled Apple's latest iPod and TV scrub-up yesterday.…
Apple inks Ping trademark deal with golf gear maker
Apple cleared the use of the word Ping with golf company PING before using the name for its new Web2.0 music look-up feature in iTunes.…
General Motors bitchslaps Tesla with Range Anxiety™
As US motor mammoth GM gears up for the launch of its plug-in hybrid Chevrolet Volt, it has applied to trademark the term "range anxiety" - meaning the fear suffered by battery-car owners regarding their ability to get home again after a given journey. Upstart battery car maker Tesla Motors has issued a panicky and unconvincing statement in response.…
Verbatim InSight 500GB external hard drive
Review Verbatim's InSight external hard drive is an unusual-looking offering, but that odd wave-like curve at the front is home to the unit's status readout screen.…
StreetView passed by Kiwi cops
Police in New Zealand have bounced a complaint about Google's StreetView service back to the country's Privacy Commissioner.…
RFID patent pool prices up wireless
The RFID Consortium has opened for business after five years of negotiations, providing a one-stop shop for all the patents needed to manufacture RFID tags and readers.…
Punters still puzzled by broadband ads
It will come as no surprise to regular readers that 90 per cent of UK consumers are confused by broadband advertising - we'd have to assume the missing ten per cent are marketing bods for ISPs.…
My Exchange conversion
Sysadmin blog Recently I had the opportunity to walk through complete installs of Exchange Server 2003 and Exchange Server 2010. Although I have used Exchange Server 2007 for the past two years, as with Vista, I prefer to pretend it never happened.…
NASA seeks inflatable popup roof for camper vans on Mars
NASA says it has selected finalists in an engineering competition to design an "inflatable loft", reminiscent of the extending roofs often fitted to camper vans, but in this case intended to deploy from the roof of a "hard-shell prototype habitat" for use by astronauts on the Moon or Mars.…
Hands on with Motorola's Milestone 2 and Defy
Video Tom Satchwell, Director of Marketing, Motorola Europe demonstrates the company's latest Android offerings, the Milestone 2 and the Defy.…
If HP gets 3PAR, does Donatelli get HP?
Opinion 3Par has not issued a statement recommending HP's $2bn bid for the company, despite the ending of a three-day period for Dell to mount a counter-offer.…
Samsung specs up 7in Android tablet
Samsung has posted the spec for its upcoming Android tablet, the Galaxy Tab. And Vodafone has announced availability.…
Nokia blows Ovi Files out of the sky
Nokia has pulled the plug on Ovi Files, its cloud-based storage system, and told users they've got a month before the the system gets wiped.…
Symantec and Snoop Dogg launch cybercrime rap contest
Symantec has teamed up with rapper Snoop Dogg to launch a cybercrime rap contest.…
UK.gov fishes for ID ideas
Directgov has asked IT suppliers to come up with new thinking on identity verification.…
How much aircraft fatigue is too much?
Here’s another “How HPC saves your worthless hide” type of story - our pals at InsideHPC publicized a collaboration between the Federal Aviation Administration and the Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC) that should increase air safety for people riding on planes and for the people standing around underneath them.…
Cyber-jihadists deface home of teddy bears' picnic
Geographically mixed-up Algerian hackers made themselves look rather silly by defacing the website of an English stately home instead of Belvoir Fortress in Israel, their intended target.…
Dixons sales ain't all that
DSGi shares fell very slightly this morning after the company said trading had held steady in the three months ended 24 July.…
