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MS and Oracle's big dev tools - who needs 'em?
A chunky Visual Studio 2010 releases soon, packing more features and representing perhaps more hours of development than any other single-vendor's development tool.…
Acer H5360 3D ready projector
Review 2010 is supposed to be the year that 3D breaks into mainstream home entertainment but most of the PR puff has been focused on expensive TV sets. Acer does a good job of making this currently tiny market a damned sight more interesting with its H5360, a sub-£600 '3D Ready' digital projector.…
Microsoft fluffs Feds with secure cloud
Microsoft has beaten rival Google to deliver a version of its online applications tailored for US government users.…
Intel and Yahoo! spawn open-source 'Tashi' cluster
Backed by Yahoo!, HP, and Intel, the computer science mavens at Carnegie Mellon University have added a new compute cluster to the worldwide Open Cirrus test bed, a collection of clusters designed to explorer the frontiers of interwebs-scale distributed computing.…
Fedora 13 Alpha release delayed
Fedora Project developers said they will push back the first alpha release for Fedora 13 by one week.…
US government rescinds 'leave internet alone' policy
The US government’s policy of leaving the Internet alone is over, according to Obama’s top official at the Department of Commerce.…
Apple uncovers child workers in its plants
Apple has found children were hired to help build some of its products, with one employer in its Mac, iPod and iPhone supply chain falsifying records.…
Facebook patents user news feed
Facebook has been awarded a patent on displaying news feeds of users' activities — creating an interwebs stir that basic social network functionality could soon fall prey to Facebook IP rights.…
Microsoft warns over rogue Security Essentials
Microsoft has warned Windows users to be on their guard against a piece of rogue antivirus software passing itself off as Microsoft Security Essentials.…
Parallels fondles Steve Jobs' bare metal
Parallels has introduced a bare-metal hypervisor for servers built by the Jobsian cult.…
Gay site says bank shut account over 'objectionable' blog
Citibank - the third largest holding bank in the US - has apologized to a gay social networking website after its founder claimed the bank had blocked his account due to "objectionable content" on the site's blog.…
IBM quietly shoves ISS wares into Tivoli
IBM Internet Security Systems (ISS) products have quietly been booted from Big Blue's global services business and into the ever-expanding Tivoli brand product line, The Register has learned.…
Microsoft and the Windows Phone 7 noise machine
Radio Reg Critics of the company and Web 2.0 fashionistas frequently assert that Microsoft is no longer "relevant," in an era of Google and open source.…
Samsung joins the Skype-TV crowd
Samsung has joined LG and Panasonic in embedding Skype into its high-end TVs, putting video calling firmly into living rooms.…
eBay Germany faces PayPal probe
eBay Germany is being investigated by competition authorities concerned that its tying of PayPal to certain eBay purchases is in breach of consumer law.…
O2 intros 'light use' mobile broadband deal
O2 has adjusted its Mobile Broadband monthly subscription rates, adding a 1GB data transfer limit package for more casual users.…
O2 revamps Sim-only tariffs for end-of-contract iPhone owners
O2 is looking to win over eBay buyers who've picked up a second-hand iPhone or another make of smartphone. Today it launched new 'Simplicity' Sim-only tarrifs aimed at people who aren't looking for a new handset.…
<strong>[<abbr title="Not Safe For Work">NSFW</abbr>]</strong> 'Promiscuous slapper fruitfly sluts prevent mass extinctions'
NSFWFI Hot hot news from the world of insects this week, perhaps with insights to be gleaned into the conduct of human relations.…
Ofcom decides it can't decide on spare spectrum
Following six months of consultation Ofcom has decided it can't decide what to do with 8MHz of sub-1GHz spectrum, so will do nothing until after the general election.…
Jobs: I'll decide what to do with Apple's $40bn cash pile
Steve Jobs has told shareholders not to complain about the Mac maker's $40bn and growing cash mountain as he could decide to do something interesting with it at any time.…
