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Consultants bag £37m from failed e-Borders contract
The Home Office paid more than £37m to just one consultancy for advice on the e-Borders contract, which was torn up by the coalition after the election.…
Google squirrels into human brains with Scribe experiment
Google has created an atmosphere of McCarthyism and a postage stamp-sized image of what the hell the world will look like if us hacks use the firm's latest creepy tool, dubbed Scribe.…
Think tank rages at NHS' £700 bill for fertility clinic porn
A right-leaning Health think tank has condemned the NHS for spending £700 a year on porn to assist male visitors to fertility clinics to produce samples.…
Coalition launches extradition treaty review
The controversial extradition treaty between the US and the UK is to be reviewed by the government.…
Two-lane BRIDGE FOUND ON FAR SIDE OF THE MOON!
In blockbusting news, a NASA spacecraft has discovered a bridge wide enough to carry a two-lane road on the far side of the Moon.…
Cisco pays millions to end DoJ probe
Cisco Systems and distie Westcon Group North America, owned by South African firm Datatec, are to pay $48m to end an investigation by the US Department of Justice into overcharging.…
Assange asks for new lawyer
Julian Assange has requested a new lawyer to represent him during a rape investigation in Sweden because his previous brief, Leif Silbersky, was not engaged enough with the case.…
New mid-range product coming from EMC
EMC will introduce a new mid-range storage product in early 2011.…
Safari and Firefox updates plug critical holes
Tuesday marked a busy day for alternative browser security updates with patches from both Apple and Mozilla.…
Cattle-burp eco menace mastered - by oregano
A bovo-boffin in Pennsylvania says he has saved life on planet Earth from being gradually stifled into extinction by burgeoning clouds of cattle-belch methane. The solution is apparently to feed cows oregano.…
Sussex police try new tactic to relieve snappers of pics
The problem of police decision-making on who is permitted to take photographs of what is highlighted again in a disturbing incident at the weekend, where film was seized at an anti-fascist protest in Brighton.…
Samsung scents strong Android tablet sales
Watch out, Apple, Samsung wants your market share. The South Korean giant has forecast that its Galaxy Tab 7in Android tablet will account for a third of the slate market by this time next year.…
Save us from our users
Sysadmin blog Many sysadmins among us certainly have a god complex. The truth is, no matter how well-prepared for a large project we try to be, we can't control our users.…
Eric Schmidt warns Berliners: 'We know where you are'
Eric Schmidt did his best to raise the bar on his harshest critics yesterday, by telling an audience in Berlin that "we know where you are, we know what you like".…
Bullish analysts: N8 will save Nokia
Strong operator demand for new kit from Nokia means the company may be emerging from its darkest period in modern history, according to a report from Morgan Stanley.…
UK hacker fined for personnel database mischief
A court has ordered a UK hacker to pay compensation after he used a purloined laptop to hack into his ex-employer's personnel database.…
MS prices up Xbox 360 Kinect console combo
Microsoft has priced up the Xbox 360 Kinect bundle it's hoping will tempt console-less consumers when the motion control tech launches on 10 November.…
O2 rolls out early-bird ticket app
O2 has been tempting existing and potential customers with the carrot of early access to event bookings for some time. Now it's made getting hold of tickets easier.…
Pliant does MLC flash
The march of MLC flash into mainstream enterprise storage took another step forward today as Pliant launched its Enterprise Flash Disk (EFD) products.…
BT takes 40% of CfH spending
Connecting for Health spent £470m with BT last year, more than twice as much as went to CSC.…