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Eagles and staple guns reloaded
They've been rebooted, re-imagined and uncut, but now Space 1999 is getting its own on-screen revival next to sci-fi classics Battle Star Galactica, Star Trek and Star Wars.…
Coming later in the year
Apple is going to release a 7in iPad - but not next month when it unwraps the iPad 3.…
Offline profits hell beckons net denizens
Open ... and Shut Even as offline retailers and other traditional "brick-and-mortar" businesses struggle to build their businesses online, some of technology's biggest online denizens are looking for ways to go offline. Google is the latest, reportedly opening a store in Dublin, Ireland, to sell branded merchandise, but it's just the latest in a group that includes eBay and even Amazon.…
Piracy prohibited in proposed industry-only domain
The Recording Industry Association of America and other music industry groups are backing a proposal for a highly regulated ".music" top-level domain.…
Sealed with an XSS
Microsoft plans to publish nine updates next Tuesday – four of which are critical – as part of a Valentine's Day edition of its Patch Tuesday update cycle.…
VC owner of component distributor Caseking gets acquisitive
German private equity firm Afinum - owners of distributor Caseking - has swallowed specialist components etailer Overclockers UK for an undisclosed sum.…
Planned 2012 revival falters
Acer has not made the positive start to the year that it was banking on after confirming a double-digit decline year-on-year in sales for January.…
Gang man Huang banged up
The suspected ringleader of an internet and telephone fraud gang based in Penang, Malaysia, has been nabbed by police after being lured to Taiwan by his former gang-mates, it has emerged.…
Hated anti-counterfeiting treaty's myths exploded
Analysis A mob that's filled with self-righteous fury isn't very discriminating.…
Mere millions seal the deal after judge kneecaps state's case
Intel has agreed to fork over a mere $6.5m to settle an antitrust lawsuit by New York's attorney general.…
Ice Cream Sarnie inbound
Samsung said in November 2011 that Android 4.0 - aka Ice Cream Sandwich - will be coming to its Galaxy S II smartphone some time in 2012. It has yet to narrow that window, but industry leak merchant Eldar Murtazin has now said ICS will hit the S II in March.…
Tough-talking Almunia will take mobile giants to task
European anti-competition chief Joaquin Almunia has warned that the EU won't stand for any messing about with technology standards-related patents.…
Real-world device testing begins
Google is working on an in-home entertainment gadget able to stream content from the internet - or, at least, it's testing such a device in employees' homes.…
iPad domination grew in Q4
Apple saw off attempts by rivals to eat into its fondleslab market share and actually tightened its iron grip on the market across Western Europe in over the Christmas quarter.…
Imminent Chocolate Factory tweak speeds up lawsuit review
A lawsuit brought against the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) over its inaction regarding Google's imminent changes to its terms of service was expedited yesterday.…
Sponsor pixels for new £150k exhibition at Bletchley Park
The National Museum of Computing (TNMOC) has turned to a tried-and-tested fundraising method to establish a home for the rebuilt Colossus computer at Bletchley Park.…
Back+ in+ black+
Google has once again rejigged its user account navigation bar, making it ever more slavish to the company's strange devotion to all things social within its silo.…
'You can have a new one when you buy one'
Vid An angry American IT pro has responded to a rude Facebook post from his daughter by riddling her laptop with a fusillade of bullets and posting video of the shooting on YouTube.…
The cutest camera in the world?
Review When it come to compact system cameras, Pentax has form, if your memory goes back far enough. Like the Auto110 SLR film camera of old, the Pentax Q is laughably small, but in a good way. It’s a happy laugh – like a friendly chuckle at the burblings of a new-born. Its design is achingly cute – especially the white version I received for review – while build quality is impressively and surprisingly high.…
Plus: Your new project sounds exactly like TED
Quotw This was the week when it was claimed that whatever else Apple, Google, Facebook and the rest of them might be up to, they were also giving Americans jobs.…
Our Vulture 2 spaceplane to get the laser sintering treatment
Video There are champagne corks popping today at Special Project Bureau headquarters as we announce we've cut a deal to have our Vulture 2 aircraft hewn from living nylon.…
Gull-wing doors? 85kWh battery? Pah!
Car writers are focusing on the Tesla X's gull-wing doors, but it's the electric SUV's touchscreen-tastic dashboard that does it for us.…
Crack the PIN? No, just hit reset
Turns out it's not necessary to decrypt the PIN, or even hack into Google's Wallet, just ask the phone nicely and it will let anyone root though its innards.…
Separates phone cost from airtime package
Phones 4U has come up with a new phone package it claims makes it easier to change handsets.…
Boffins manage to fix spacecraft's computer problems
US space boffins have managed to sort out the computer problems on the Mars Science Laboratory, currently tootling through space with the spanking-new rover Curiosity on its way to the Red Planet.…
'It wasn't porn, it was a real-life rape' claims one
Three former ministers in the Indian state of Karnataka have until Monday to explain themselves to the Speaker of the local assembly after they were allegedly caught watching porn on a mobile phone during a debate in the House.…
You'll just have to guess from now on
Just days after releasing disappointing Q1 estimates that could point to a difficult year ahead, Taiwanese Android handset make HTC has decided not to reveal future sales figures for its smartphones.…
BBC iPlayer on board
Roku has released its compact media streaming set-top boxes in the UK. With it comes BBC iPlayer support.…
CacheWorks twinned with RamSan server flash storage
Nevex, the Canadian supplier of flash and DRAM caching software for Windows, is working with Texas Memory Systems to super-charge its RamSan PCIe flash acceleration of app I/O.…
And an even longer wait for some handsets
HTC smartphone owners: you should be getting Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich updates at the end of next month - if you have an unlocked Sensation or Sensation XE.…
Blackhatters desperate for props from pals, says security firm
Cybercrooks have embraced the open-source model in the development of banking Trojans following the release of source code for the infamous ZeuS cybercrime toolkit last year.…
Redigi sued by music giant over copyright violations
Redigi has escaped a court injunction that would have prevented it trading throughout the duration of a court battle over alleged copyright infringement.…
Girls more gizmo hungry than ever
Forget roses and Roses: buy your other half - if female - some tech for Valentine's Day, now just four days away.…
Requests for info on passengers' movements up 15%
The Metropolitan police has requested Oyster card data relating to citizens and other personal information from Transport for London (TfL) more than 22,000 times since 2008, according to figures published by the capital's transport authority.…
Groundhog Day again already?
Intellect 2012 Open source and open standards are the direction for UK government IT, the civil servant leading the government's technology change agenda has said.…
Storage done virtually
Red Hat is providing a Virtual Storage Appliance using Amazon cloud storage and claiming enterprise, scale-out NAS capability.…
Gaming desktop telly, anyone?
Review The DM2350D is the first 3D combination monitor/TV released by LG. Sharing the same passive FPR 3D panel technology as its Cinema 3D TV siblings, it’s presumably aimed at wannabe 3D PC gamers and those looking for a jack of all trades screen that’s easy to accommodate in student digs or wherever.…
R-acle 11g, Quant Edition
Relational database juggernaut Oracle has embedded the R programming language used by more than 2 million statisticians and quants the world over into its 11g relational database. Call it R-acle 11g, Quant Edition.…
Microsoft aims for separate but equal
Windows boss Stephen Sinofsky has ended months of speculation with the first (fairly) detailed drilldown into Windows 8 on ARM (WOA) platform, and says it should be ready for a simultaneous launch with its x86/64 counterpart.…
Because it’s Friday…
It’s one of those wonderful discrepancies that happens when a site has to wait a year or so between visits from the Google StreetView photo-harvesters.…
Low or no interest rates
It's a new year and a new first quarter and a new and somewhat challenging economy in North America, and therefore IBM is offering financing deals in the United States and Canada.…
Asia Pac enjoys a satellite bonanza
Hong Kong satellite operator AsiaSat and space launch company Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX) will launch two new communications satellites in 2014 servicing the Asia Pacific region.…
Big data = big bucks
Data warehousing pioneer and big data playa Teradata has just turned in the best fourth quarter and full year in the company's 33 year history, thanks to the big data wave and a number of key acquisitions that the company that have moved it beyond its core data warehousing biz.…
Google grins at Adobe jury’s verdict
A jury in Texas has ruled against Eolas Technologies in its patent battle to lay claim to the concept of in-browser applications and most plug-ins.…
Also Asia, Europe and Africa
It’s going to be a heck of a reunion: the Pangea supercontinent that broke up to create the atlas we know today will one day reform in the Northern hemisphere.…
Aus tech entrprenuers back new publishing house
Internode founder Simon Hackett is behind the launch of Australia’s newest cross-platform book publishing house, MidnightSun Publishing.…
Blows it onto the Fusion app cloud
Only two months ago, Taleo, the seller of online talent management software, was saying that it intended to remain independent despite the cloud software feeding frenzy. But today, Larry Ellison, CEO and co-founder of Oracle, made Taleo CEO Mike Gregoire an offer he couldn't refuse: $1.9bn.…
Sex, drugs and bomb threats
Steve Jobs' drug use, court cases and personality flaws were all investigated by the FBI, as a file released on Thursday reveals.…
What lurks inside the Windows admin's toolkit...
Sysadmin blog Windows is a powerful and complex Operating System (OS). As with any modern OS, it comes equipped with numerous features, utilities, and applications. But Windows' default tools are not always the best widget for the job at hand.…
They do it with mirrors
Access Optical Networks says it has developed a 1.2TB holographic storage cube that can transfer data at 155MB/sec and last longer than 50 years. Oh, and it's done using mirrors – but no smoke.…