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Is a HAMR blow falling on Seagate?
Seagate may be facing the abandonment of a favoured future technology as the price for hard disk drive (HDD) industry unity.…
Joy Division designer tackles England footie strip
Football minnows Bulgaria face an uphill struggle in their forthcoming clash with England, because not only will they confront some of the most talented, hard-working and successful players in the history of the beautiful game, but their opponents will be clad in a new strip created by former Joy Division designer Peter Saville.…
Desktop pleasure, desktop pain
Let's face it, the desktop and laptop environment is one of the major points at which the rubber meets the road when it comes to business computing.…
Wells Fargo hops NFC train
Wells Fargo is joining the effort spearheaded by Visa to help NFC break in the difficult American market.…
Google's Schmidt satirised as privacy pervert
Eric Schmidt has been portrayed as a depraved privacy pervert by the US-based ConsumerWatchdog.org, which is running an advert in New York’s Times Square that mocks the Google boss.…
IT workers getting back to work - sort of
The US Department of Labor kicked out its monthly jobs report, and there's some good news for once. First of all, private sector employers added 67,000 jobs last month, although the overall economy shed 54,000 jobs as the federal government winds down the 2010 census and lays off temporary workers hired to count heads.…
Paul Allen's patent madness not worth single penny
Open...and Shut Businesses aren't built on ideas. They're built on execution. Google didn't win because it was the first to the search market. It won because it did search better than anyone else, and devised an ingenious way to monetize it.…
German gov pooh-poohs biometric ID card hack
German hackers successfully used off-the-shelf kit to extract personal data from the federal government's supposedly secure ID cards, but the government has downplayed the significance of the attack.…
TomTom drums up upgrade for iPhone app
An update for the TomTom app on the iPhone is "coming soon".…
Ex-spook jailed for selling secrets
Ex-MI6 worker Daniel Houghton has been sentenced to 12 months in prison for unlawfully disclosing top secret material, in breach of the Official Secrets Act.…
Apple TV: Third time unlucky, Mr Jobs
Comment This is the day that Apple lost the war for Over The Top content, not only in America, but globally. The winner can’t yet be announced, but this was the shot that Apple had to get it right, and to us it’s bungled it.…
Vulture 1 Mk 2 release mech prepped for testing
The Paper Aircraft Released Into Space (PARIS) team is preparing to turn down the pressure with a second visit to Qinetiq's hypobaric chamber.…
Monster Afghan spy airship to feature quad drinking straws
US aero-weapons goliath Lockheed, builder of the famous P-791 airship prototype, was beaten to a half-billion-dollar deal to supply spy ships above Afghanistan earlier this year - but the firm is still marketing its P-791 technology aggressively.…
HP and EMC vie for disk storage lead
IDC's latest quarterly disk storage tracker shows EMC and HP competing for the market lead, with EMC growing faster than HP. NetApp is growing faster still but has a lot of ground to make up.…
Wanted: Front End / Client Side Web Developer
Situation Publishing, owner of The Register and Reg Hardware, is looking for a full time developer to primarily work on HTML(5), CSS, JavaScript/jQuery and template engines such as XSLT and Perl’s Template Toolkit.…
Google Wave washes ashore in soggy cardboard Box
Google has boxed up its unsuccessful Wave project and handed the unwanted code to open source developers.…
Glasses-less 3D TV by Xmas? Not likely, says 3D TV exec
Toshiba may be gearing up to release a no-specs 3D TV in Japan by the end of the year, but Philips' 3D TV development partner reckons we will have to wait longer. It doesn't reckon any vendor will have one out before 2013.…
