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TomTom drums up upgrade for iPhone app
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An update for the TomTom app on the iPhone is "coming soon".…
Ex-spook jailed for selling secrets
12 months for CD & USB shenanigans
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
Going down for the last time
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
Coming soon: Hypobaric chamber - The Revisiting
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
Also: New vid of unsold P-791 Walrus suck-belly ship
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
IBM looking peaky
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
El Reg is hiring
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
Drops unwanted code in open source developer laps
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
More like 2013
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.…
Apple Ping unfriends meanie Facebook
Snazzy new social thing walled off
Ping, Apple's latest foray into social networking, won't play nice with Facebook - despite the connection appearing in Steve Jobs's on-stage demonstration and in the documentation.…
Energizer bunny hits iPhone, BlackBerry - wirelessly
Qi gets branded products
The wireless power consortium, Qi, is celebrating the launch of a solution with a known brand - Energizer - attached, but the technology is still a long way from the mainstream.…
Superhuman Chinese monk does a bunk
Celeb Taoist conman on the run
A celebrity Taoist monk has gone awol after it was revealed he probably couldn't in reality sit crossed-legged under water for two hours.…
ViewSonic outs Windows/Android 10in tablet
For OS fence-sitters
Here is ViewSonic's other Android-based tablet, though here the Google OS is secondary to Windows 7.…
Capgemini buys big Brazilian dealer
£194m shelled out
Capgemini has bought a 55 per cent stake in Brazilian reseller CPM Braxis for £194m.…
Digital Carter returns, uncensored
Europe's stuck in the mud, says former Ofcom head, comms czar
Lord Stephen Carter, the founding head of Ofcom whose blockbuster report provided the basis for the Digital Economy Act, made a return to the public stage this week.…
Netgear launches next-gen powerline Ethernet kit
But no Gigabit performance just yet
Netgear has announced what may well be the world's first consumer networking products based on the as-yet-unratified IEEE P1910 next-gen powerline Ethernet standard.…
Spammers latch onto Ping to pump iPhone survey scams
Quick off the mark
Spammers have been quick off the mark in exploiting Apple's new iTunes social network to punt survey scams.…
Samsung shows 'airfoil' luxury laptops
Apple flavoured?
More laptops have been announced at the IFA show by Samsung. This time it's the "premium" QX series - given a "airfoil design exterior" that's aluminium clad like as certain fruit-branded manufacturer's notebooks.…
UN steps into Blackberry debate
Firms will just have to get used to it
The secretary general of the International Telecommunications Union has stepped into the lawful interception debate, saying that companies are just going to have to provide governments with access somehow.…
Symantec Snoop Dogg rap contest site rickrolled
#hackiswacked
Symantec's attempts to link up with Snoop Dogg to launch a cybercrime rap contest have descended into farce after it emerged that vulnerabilities with a dedicated site can be easily rickrolled.…
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