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Monster Afghan spy airship to feature quad drinking straws
US aero-weapons goliath Lockheed, builder of the famous P-791 airship prototype, was beaten to a half-billion-dollar deal to supply spy ships above Afghanistan earlier this year - but the firm is still marketing its P-791 technology aggressively.…
HP and EMC vie for disk storage lead
IDC's latest quarterly disk storage tracker shows EMC and HP competing for the market lead, with EMC growing faster than HP. NetApp is growing faster still but has a lot of ground to make up.…
Wanted: Front End / Client Side Web Developer
Situation Publishing, owner of The Register and Reg Hardware, is looking for a full time developer to primarily work on HTML(5), CSS, JavaScript/jQuery and template engines such as XSLT and Perl’s Template Toolkit.…
Google Wave washes ashore in soggy cardboard Box
Google has boxed up its unsuccessful Wave project and handed the unwanted code to open source developers.…
Glasses-less 3D TV by Xmas? Not likely, says 3D TV exec
Toshiba may be gearing up to release a no-specs 3D TV in Japan by the end of the year, but Philips' 3D TV development partner reckons we will have to wait longer. It doesn't reckon any vendor will have one out before 2013.…
Apple Ping unfriends meanie Facebook
Ping, Apple's latest foray into social networking, won't play nice with Facebook - despite the connection appearing in Steve Jobs's on-stage demonstration and in the documentation.…
Energizer bunny hits iPhone, BlackBerry - wirelessly
The wireless power consortium, Qi, is celebrating the launch of a solution with a known brand - Energizer - attached, but the technology is still a long way from the mainstream.…
Superhuman Chinese monk does a bunk
A celebrity Taoist monk has gone awol after it was revealed he probably couldn't in reality sit crossed-legged under water for two hours.…
ViewSonic outs Windows/Android 10in tablet
Here is ViewSonic's other Android-based tablet, though here the Google OS is secondary to Windows 7.…
Capgemini buys big Brazilian dealer
Capgemini has bought a 55 per cent stake in Brazilian reseller CPM Braxis for £194m.…
Digital Carter returns, uncensored
Lord Stephen Carter, the founding head of Ofcom whose blockbuster report provided the basis for the Digital Economy Act, made a return to the public stage this week.…
Netgear launches next-gen powerline Ethernet kit
Netgear has announced what may well be the world's first consumer networking products based on the as-yet-unratified IEEE P1910 next-gen powerline Ethernet standard.…
Spammers latch onto Ping to pump iPhone survey scams
Spammers have been quick off the mark in exploiting Apple's new iTunes social network to punt survey scams.…
Samsung shows 'airfoil' luxury laptops
More laptops have been announced at the IFA show by Samsung. This time it's the "premium" QX series - given a "airfoil design exterior" that's aluminium clad like as certain fruit-branded manufacturer's notebooks.…
UN steps into Blackberry debate
The secretary general of the International Telecommunications Union has stepped into the lawful interception debate, saying that companies are just going to have to provide governments with access somehow.…
Symantec Snoop Dogg rap contest site rickrolled
Symantec's attempts to link up with Snoop Dogg to launch a cybercrime rap contest have descended into farce after it emerged that vulnerabilities with a dedicated site can be easily rickrolled.…
Virgin punts cheap BlackBerry Curve
Virgin Media is offering the BlackBerry Curve 8520 - reviewed here - in what it claims os the "most competitive" pay-monthly package this smartphone can be found on.…
Toshiba warns of fiery laptops
Toshiba and US and Canadian consumer watchdogs are recalling three laptop models after receiving reports that people have been burned by the AC adapters.…
'Rock star' spewed guts after emitting vast pearl necklace
The equivalent of a "rock star", having lived a "fast, flashy life and died young" apparently exploded with unimaginable violence in the year 161,000 BC and spewed "guts" across an enormous area. The exploding prehistoric luminary had previously ejected a "string of pearls", according to investigating boffins.…
Phone bugging scandal reignited as <em>NotW</em> suspends reporter
New allegations of phone hacking at the News of the World have resulted in the suspension of one of the Sunday paper's reporters, pending legal and disciplinary action over allegations of tapping into the voicemail messages of an unnamed television personality.…