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Hannspree outs £329 10.1in Android tablet
Tegra 2 in its tank
Hot on the heels of Viewsonic's ViewPad 7 Android tablet comes an altogether more exciting - we have more of the spec, in other words - 10in model from Chinese electronics maker Hannspree.…
Sony Oz mod chip dongle ban hearing delayed
Defeat will set 'dangerous precedent', says co-defendant
The ban granted to Sony against three Australian companies who had been offering PSJailbreak, a USB dongle that lets PS3 owners play ripped game discs, has been extended.…
Lady vicar tells Anglicans to learn from Black Sabbath
Jesus is metal
A Church of England vicar has told the Anglican community that it could do worse than learning to relax and taking a few cues from heavy metal.…
Little black dress with SIM card slot offered for 2011
Now, a way to look even barmier in public
A mobile phone built into a black dress? Marvellous. And with pictures too? Hold the science page for this one, but don't look too closely.…
Project Horizon: VMware's plan to restitch the desktop
Your cloud identity
VMworld VMware has released new versions of its View virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) and its ThinApp application streaming software, while promising some sort of consumer "cloud identity" offering sometime next year.…
Report recommends UN climate panel shakeup
Rearrange the chairs please
An enquiry into the UN's climate panel, the IPCC, has recommended administrative changes, including a full-time chief executive. It found the IPCC had "assigned high confidence to statements for which there is very little evidence", had failed to acknowledge criticism, or follow its own guidelines.…
Fake TweetDeck update lures prompt password resets
Are UK hackers behind Trojan horse attack?
Compromised Twitter accounts have been used to post links to an exploit portal that poses as a download site for an update to TweetDeck, the popular micro-blogging client software package.…
Boffins baffled by mysterious Martian crater
Likeliest explanation: Alien spacecraft prang
New photos gleaned by the Mars Express spacecraft in orbit about the red planet have failed to shed any light on the origins of an "enigmatic" elongated crater named Orcus Patera.…
Microsoft divorces Live Mesh from kitchen Sync drama
Just let me keep my name, goddammit
Microsoft has yet again renamed its Live Sync service which will now be dubbed Windows Live Mesh when it is released this autumn.…
VMware floats into developer cloud services
Three-way fluffing promised
VMworld VMware is floating a Microsoft Azure-like developer cloud for coders building apps on SpringSource's middleware, but the news is carefully wrapped in a fluffy statement on "branding".…
VMware blows vCloud across skies public and private
Project Redwood is go
VMworld VMware has officially lifted the curtain on Project Redwood, its long-expected platform for building so-called infrastructure clouds. Now known as vCloud Director, the platform underpins Amazon EC2-like public clouds from VMware partners such as Verizon, but it's also a means of building similar services inside private data centers. The idea is to provide a single "hybrid" platform that lets businesses run applications across the public and the private.…
LG to show 31in OLED 3D TV at IFA
But acronym-tastic telly not out until 2011?
LG will be showing off a 31in ultra-slim OLED TV at the IFA show in Berlin later this week.…
MS hits refresh on Windows 7 SP1 for select few
Build 7601.17077 takes partners by the hand
Microsoft pumped out fresh beta builds of its first service packs for Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 late last week.…
Skype pulls up socks for corporate service
Doing the business for businesses
Skype has moved its connect service out of beta and is pitching it at businesses as speculation grows about the VoIP pioneer's future.…
Crooks said swiped church funds were for sex crime victims
It was simply resting in their account
Scammers who made off with $600,000 after breaking into the bank account of a Catholic diocese claim the funds have been earmarked for the victims of paedophile priests.…
Microsoft <strike>wins</strike> wants right to appeal Word patent ruling
Supreme Court next step
Microsoft has won asked for* the right to appeal a recently-lost patent case brought by Canadian firm i4i.…
Google strikes AP deal to ensure re-heated news
All the news that's fit to ear
Google has renewed its deal with AP for news content.…
OED goes the way of all <strike>flesh</strike> paper
Internet does for weighty print version?
The Oxford University Press is apparently planning to can the full-fat Oxford English Dictionary - the 20-volume, 22,000-page linguistic epic which weighs in at 150lb.…
Physicists, biologists pick ScaleMP to manage memory
Bigger is better
Blog ScaleMP made some HPC news lately by announcing that the Bielefeld University Physics Department has selected ScaleMP’s vSMP Foundation software.…
Viewsonic intros £350 7in Android tablet
Not just a tablet, it's a phone too
Viewsonic has introduced its 7in Android 2.2-based tablet, as expected. It claimed the gadget is a world first - thanks to the device's "phone functionality".…
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