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Microsoft reshuffles Windows 7 Family Pack
Toast marshmallows, burn Vista
Microsoft has decided to rerun its Windows 7 Family Pack promotion, which was iced by Redmond at the end of last year.…
Symbian users Swype Samsung's tricks
World-beating text entry comes to Nokia
The world's fastest text entry system, Swype, is now in Beta for Symbian S60 5th edition, allowing Nokia users to write by tracing a path rather than the old-fashioned tapping on keys.…
Geek tech firm loses Jedi credentials
Lucasfilm swoop crushes opposition
Jedi Mind Inc has conceded that someone else might just own the term Jedi, and has changed its name to Mind Technologies Inc.…
Gartner chops PC shipment forecasts for 2010
Treat yourself to a new PC before Halloween
It is looking like Friday, October 22, is going to be a fabulous day to buy a new desktop, notebook, or netbook. That's a week before Hewlett-Packard finishes its fourth quarter of fiscal 2010 and also a week before PC rival Dell completes its third quarter of its fiscal 2011.…
Open source PS3 hack code posted
Homebrewers 1, Sony 0
Want a PlayStation 3 hacking dongle but worried Sony's legal fight with the gadget's suppliers will prevent you from buying one?…
SEC doesn't do a Moody
Credit rating allegations? Not our job
The Securities and Exchange Commission is dropping an investigation into alleged fraudulent behaviour at ratings agency Moody's because it is not sure if it has legal jurisdiction over the company.…
Panasonic signs Ubisoft for games on TV
Stereo 3D titles to run on your console telly
Panasonic and Ubisoft are to develop games for the consumer electronics giant's 3D TVs, the pair said today.…
Lock up your Crackberries
Smartphones can be secure
Sysadmin blog Most of the articles about the security of Research In Motion’s Blackberries have focused on governments that want a peek behind RIM’s encryption, but other elements of the Blackberry make it well-designed for a business environment.…
Texan cooks up deep-fried Guinness
Beer in pretzel dough. Tasty
Visitors to the forthcoming Texas State Fair will be able to enjoy* what can rightly be described as a culinary first - deep fried Guinness.…
DARPA's video search push gets another $11m
Not content with giving Google just one business model
Pentagon R&D chiefs at DARPA have awarded $11m to discover a technical secret for which, one may be sure, Google executives would pay a substantially larger sum - that of true video search.…
Archos announces five Android tablets
Big ones, small ones
Archos will release a raft of Android-based tablets later this month, with more following in October.…
Survey scammers serve up supposed shelter from survey scams
Kind of ironic when you think about it
Cheeky scammers are offering prospective marks an application that supposedly shields them from exposure to survey scams.…
Google butterfingers slip jazz hands bug into Gmail
Party like it's 1929 (whether you want to or not)
An extremely annoying bug that plays an old ragtime tune has commandeered Google’s Gmail, after the company debuted its ‘Priority Inbox’ feature earlier this week.…
BlueLock: Risky cloud business
Admitting the imbalance is a good start
VMworld One of our first meetings at VMworld was with BlueLock, who have the distinction of being one of a small handful of cloud service providers participating in VMware’s big vCloud Datacenter initiative. We spent a bit of time grilling Pat O’Day, BlueLock CTO, in their booth and learned some new things about the cloud value proposition.…
Speculation swells as Apple event draws near
What Steve Jobs is expected to unveil
Apple's media event draws close - it kicks off it 6pm this evening - but the rumours regarding just what CEO Steve Jobs - with halo or horns, it's your choice - will announce.…
Apple livestreaming heralds Jobs-to-fanboi brain-linking
Cupertino's chilling plan to sideline journos, bloggers
Apple's live streaming of its latest revolutionary product launch today is a dry run for the Mac maker's massive server farm which will eventually allow Steve Jobs to bypass mainstream media and download news directly to fanbois' brains.…
webOS 2 launches early access
It's really real!
Palm has made public details of webOS 2, and launched an Early Access Program for developers, proving that HP has plans for the platform it acquired back in April.…
Every cloud has a platinum lining
Says 3PAR CEO
Conversations with various people suggest that 3PAR is keen to rebut any suggestion it has been shopping itself.…
Crowds greet A380 at Manchester Airport
Enthusiastic welcome for new Emirates service
An enthusiastic crowd greeted the first Airbus A380 to land at Manchester Airport earlier this afternoon, marking the end of an 18-month, £10m upgrade of the airport to accommodate the beast.…
.XXX domain deal stripped bare
Gun-totin' pornsters step up
The company behind a proposal to create .xxx, an adults-only top-level internet domain, is set to run the gauntlet of objections from angry pornographers and appalled Christians for the sixth time.…
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