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Google Wave limps on until year end and beyond (maybe)
Haunts interwebs for rest of 2010
Mountain View will keep its Google Wave engine running until at least the end of 2010.…
US undergrads crash NASA satellite into Arctic
Whoa, dude, check this out
Undergraduate students in America managed to get control of the manoeuvring thrusters of an orbiting 2000-lb NASA satellite at the weekend, sending it plummeting into the Earth's atmosphere to rain burning fragments across the chilly seas north of Norway and Russia.…
Motorola unveils re-chiselled Milestone smartphone
'Lifestyle-resistant' Android handsets unwrapped
Motorola has introduced two new Android handsets: its second incarnation of the Milestone and the all-weather Defy. Both feature enhanced Motoblur, the company’s widget-based management tool that integrates e-mail, messages and social networking updates.…
Nandos 'village bike' ad not sexist, rules ASA
Just ask nicely in a Portuguese accent
Referring to the village bike or asking to borrow a friend's girlfriend is not sexist, offensive or derogatory to women, the ASA has ruled, as long as it is done in a comical Portuguese accent.…
SCO gets sale approval
Software biz is go
SCO's request to sell off its software business has been approved by the bankruptcy courts.…
Samsung shows curvy computers
New netbooks and notebooks in-bound
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
Can you hear me now?
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!
Press pass kerfuffle makes for excellent start
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
Apple quakes, a bit
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
If you can't destroy the world, drown it in data
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
Cybercrime gang allegedly raked in $16m
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
'They said I was mad! But they'll all be very sorry'
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
Unless someone else wants it
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
Ex-boyf numberplate a white right sight
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
So that's why they need a firewall..
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
3-year joint development
HP is partnering with Hynix to bring Memristor technology from lab to fab.…
Ad watchdog to bite Facebook, Twitter
ASA extends tentacles online
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
Calls for tougher contract law
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
Tripping the light fantastic
Security researchers using hardware hacking techniques have unearthed generic flaws in supposedly ultra-secure quantum cryptography systems.…
Back-to-school 10in Netbooks
Which machines score top marks?
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.…
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