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SCO gets sale approval
SCO's request to sell off its software business has been approved by the bankruptcy courts.…
Samsung shows curvy computers
Samsung has introduced the NF netbook family it plans to bring to market here in October. The new machines sports Intel's new dual-core Atom N550 chip.…
Orange goes High Definition
Orange UK has launched an HD Voice service, so now a mobile phone can sound as clear as a good Skype connection if the technology is available end-to-end.…
VMworld: Oi, no sneaky meetings!
Blog GCG staff were summarily kicked out of the VMworld press and analyst area this morning. Our crime? Trying to have a short meeting with an industry contact while sitting inside the cordoned-off analyst/press corral. Last year, and in years past, we routinely took briefings in this area with no trouble.…
Sony to announce iTunes-alike streaming service
Sony is set to announce a streaming service to rival Apple's iTunes at a trade show in Germany.…
The Large Hadron Collider's mega-pic churn
Blogs The Large Hadron Collider has been operating for a few months now, and it hasn’t ripped apart the space/time continuum – not where I live, anyway, and that’s mostly all I care about. Of course, it could be that it’s still early, and that the cumulative effects of accelerating particles really fast could still spell the end of everything. Until that happens, the LHC is generating enough data to keep scientists busy from now until doomsday (unless doomsday is in the next couple of years).…
Russian cops cuff 10 ransomware Trojan suspects
Russian police have arrested 10 suspected members of a ransomware gang who allegedly made millions via a locked computer malware scam.…
New super-Flash chips to run on SiO<sub><small>x</small></sub>, not graphite
Stateside chip boffins say they have developed a radical new method of building memory, which will smash through the "brick wall" that Moore's Law is about to run into.…
Ofcom makes space for luvvy radio until August 2021
Ofcom has ended various rounds of consultation by laying out its plans for the Program Makers & Special Event spectrum users, promising them priority access to interleaved spectrum and channel 38 until August 2021.…
NZ woman pays motorised tribute to A RYAN 1
The New Zealand Transport Agency has declined to withdraw a woman's numberplate tribute to her ex-boyfriend, despite another motorist's complaint that ARYAN1 wasn't particularly well thought through.…
Porn-browsing Oz minister quits
The point of the Great Australian Firewall is revealed at last today - it's to keep Aussie politicians in line.…
HP & Hynix join forces for memristor fab
HP is partnering with Hynix to bring Memristor technology from lab to fab.…
Ad watchdog to bite Facebook, Twitter
The Advertising Standards Authority is to take responsibility for more online content, not just the paid-for advertisements it currently regulates.…
Consumers should get price transparency, says OFT
Current law on fairness in consumer contracts contains a loophole that may be harmful to consumers, according to consumer watchdog the Office of Fair Trading (OFT). Businesses should be more restricted in their freedom to charge ancillary fees, it says.…
Hardware hackers defeat quantum crypto
Security researchers using hardware hacking techniques have unearthed generic flaws in supposedly ultra-secure quantum cryptography systems.…
Back-to-school 10in Netbooks
Group Test The summer hols are over, and it's back to school for the kids. Or to college, for the older ones. Whatever their age, though, your offspring - perhaps even you yourself - are likely to have their eye on a new computer for the new term.…
Scottish iSchool goes 100% iPad
A Scottish independent Christian school has forsworn books, pencils, pens, and paper, and will now educate its young charges solely via Apple's iPad.…
SGI bleeds less than expected
Supercomputer and hyperscale server maker Silicon Graphics is still losing money, but it's hopeful that the years ahead will actually yield some profits. And thus, as the company announced its fiscal 2010 financial results today, SGI's board of directors reanimated a latent $40m stock buyback program that the merger between Rackable Systems and Silicon Graphics put on hold.…
CarderPlanet founder charged in $9.4m RBS WorldPay hack
A man accused of being one of the most prolific sellers of credit-card data has been charged with participating in the brazen hack of RBS WorldPay in 2008 that funneled about $9.4m out of the payment processor in just 12 hours.…
Mexican telco exec: iPhone 4 antenna fix imminent
According to a Mexican telco exec, Apple will release an iPhone 4 with an upgrade to its problematic antenna after its "free case" giveaway ends on September 30.…
