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It's alive! Duke Nukem Forever breaks out of vapour trail

Fri, 09/03/2010 - 22:46
Balls of steel, baby, balls of steel!

Duke Nukem Forever is the video games world's equivalent of the flying car: mothballed in the garage.…

Ubuntu 'Maverick Meerkat' erects own App Store

Fri, 09/03/2010 - 21:06
Beta mongoose flaunts new face

Review  Ubuntu fans, fire up your virtual machines. The beta release of Ubuntu 10.10 is here. Maverick Meerkat, as this release is known, is actually several weeks ahead of the original schedule, and that means Ubuntu 10.10 is on track for its final release October 10.…

Doctor Who goes to the Proms

Fri, 09/03/2010 - 20:28
Music to watch monsters go by

Love Doctor Who, love the theme music - this is hardwired into the DNA of most Brits.…

Unity – iPhone code swap approved by Jobs (for now)

Fri, 09/03/2010 - 20:14
Un-Flash eyes world of Google

Steve Jobs forbids you from building iPhone applications with a language other than Objective C, C, or C++. If that other language is Adobe Flash. What if it's not Adobe Flash? Are you still forbidden?…

Nigerian man gets 12 years for $1.3m 419 scam

Fri, 09/03/2010 - 19:58
Hunting 'mugu' in America

A Nigerian man has been sentenced to more than 12 years in US prison for orchestrating an advance payment scam that bilked victims out of more than $1.3m.…

Oz school in homosexual kookaburra rumpus

Fri, 09/03/2010 - 18:05
Gay Fun your life must be...

An Oz primary school head is taking a bit of stick after insisting that kiddies should not follow the exact letter of Kookaburra Sits in the Old Gum Tree.…

All the week's <i>Reg Hardware</i> reviews

Fri, 09/03/2010 - 16:57
Can you handle the truth?

In the past seven days, Reg Hardware reviewed many products from the worlds of consumer electronics and mobile communications.…

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Gordon Brown joins World Wide Web Foundation

Fri, 09/03/2010 - 16:51
That's Doctor Brown to you, says unemployed PM

Former Prime Minister Gordon Brown has buddied up with the Greatest Living Briton by becoming a director of the World Wide Web Foundation.…

Is a HAMR blow falling on Seagate?

Fri, 09/03/2010 - 16:29
The opposite of NIL desperandum

Seagate may be facing the abandonment of a favoured future technology as the price for hard disk drive (HDD) industry unity.…

Joy Division designer tackles England footie strip

Fri, 09/03/2010 - 16:24
'I've lost the ball again...'

Football minnows Bulgaria face an uphill struggle in their forthcoming clash with England, because not only will they confront some of the most talented, hard-working and successful players in the history of the beautiful game, but their opponents will be clad in a new strip created by former Joy Division designer Peter Saville.…

Desktop pleasure, desktop pain

Fri, 09/03/2010 - 15:47
Evolution and management of the client computing environment

Let's face it, the desktop and laptop environment is one of the major points at which the rubber meets the road when it comes to business computing.…

Wells Fargo hops NFC train

Fri, 09/03/2010 - 15:46
Joins BoA and Visa in trials

Wells Fargo is joining the effort spearheaded by Visa to help NFC break in the difficult American market.…

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Google's Schmidt satirised as privacy pervert

Fri, 09/03/2010 - 15:42
Run for your lives, kids. The ice cream man is coming!

Eric Schmidt has been portrayed as a depraved privacy pervert by the US-based ConsumerWatchdog.org, which is running an advert in New York’s Times Square that mocks the Google boss.…

IT workers getting back to work - sort of

Fri, 09/03/2010 - 15:27
June and July not as bad as all that

The US Department of Labor kicked out its monthly jobs report, and there's some good news for once. First of all, private sector employers added 67,000 jobs last month, although the overall economy shed 54,000 jobs as the federal government winds down the 2010 census and lays off temporary workers hired to count heads.…

Paul Allen's patent madness not worth single penny

Fri, 09/03/2010 - 15:00
Execution wins. Not ideas

Open...and Shut  Businesses aren't built on ideas. They're built on execution. Google didn't win because it was the first to the search market. It won because it did search better than anyone else, and devised an ingenious way to monetize it.…

German gov pooh-poohs biometric ID card hack

Fri, 09/03/2010 - 14:52
Nicht ein biggie

German hackers successfully used off-the-shelf kit to extract personal data from the federal government's supposedly secure ID cards, but the government has downplayed the significance of the attack.…

TomTom drums up upgrade for iPhone app

Fri, 09/03/2010 - 14:38
Follow that photo!

An update for the TomTom app on the iPhone is "coming soon".…

Ex-spook jailed for selling secrets

Fri, 09/03/2010 - 13:50
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.…

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Apple TV: Third time unlucky, Mr Jobs

Fri, 09/03/2010 - 13:47
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

Fri, 09/03/2010 - 13:20
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.…