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• March 12, 2010
• 18:49

  Man fined for insulting ex-girlfriend on Facebook

   » ‎ CNET News.com
  A court decides to fine a man for offensive messages sent to his former lover on Facebook. What kind of precedent might this set?
• 18:30

  Microsoft races to plug IE hole after exploit code released

   » ‎ CNET News.com
  Software giant's patch process speeds up after researcher releases code on Net that can be used to target the vulnerability and take over PCs.
• 18:25

  SXSWi: Emergency alarm evacuates convention center

   » ‎ CNET News.com
  Was it a glitch or a mischievous prankster who pulled the fire alarm during the South by Southwest Interactive Festival? Or is it a sign that everyone should just head to happy hour?

• 18:21

  Programmer gets 4 years in TJX hack case

   » ‎ The Register
  Dirty laundry delivered via FedEx

  A former Barclays Bank programmer received 46 months in prison for helping TJX hacker Albert Gonzalez launder as much as $800,000, according to news reports.…

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• 18:19

  Reporters' Roundtable podcast: Future of laptops

   » ‎ CNET News.com
  It's been four years since laptop computers passed desktops in U.S. unit sales. But laptop vendors can't rest, with the Netbook phenomenon sweeping the world and the iPad coming.
• 17:32

  Day one at SXSWi (photos)

   » ‎ CNET News.com
  The annual interactive festival has only been under way for hours, but already the scene is full of energy--and lots of people.

• 17:21

  ICANN delays decision on pornography domain

   » ‎ The Register
  .xxx must wait. Yet again

  ICANN has delayed its ruling on the proposed .xxx internet porn domain until this summer.…

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• 17:20

  Netflix cancels recommendation contest over privacy

   » ‎ The Register
  Not as anonymous as you think

  Netflix has canceled a contest designed to improve its movie recommendation system out of concern it might compromise the privacy of its customers.…

  Web threats: Why conventional protection doesn't work

• 17:07

  Apple COO gets $5 million thank you

   » ‎ CNET News.com
  Tim Cook will get $5 million plus some extra stock options as a reward for filling in for Steve Jobs last year.
• 17:01

  Windows Phone 7 and SkyDrive could be awesome together

   » ‎ CNET News.com
  In the search for cloud-based music storage, Microsoft has all the pieces to offer an unparalleled experience on Windows Phone 7.
• 16:45

  GDC: Sid Meier and his mind games

   » ‎ CNET News.com
  Game developer and guru tells developers that if they want to create the next best seller, they need to get inside the player's head.
• 16:43

  Drowning in ads at SXSWi

   » ‎ CNET News.com
  Marketers are everywhere at the annual digital-culture fest. It sort of makes your face start to melt a little bit.
• 15:44

  Consensus emerges for key Web app standard

   » ‎ CNET News.com
  Indexed DB isn't a sure thing, but it's got most of the right allies in the browser world to become an enabler of the cloud-computing vision.
• 15:42

  FCC tool collects broadband speed data

   » ‎ CNET News.com
  A new FCC tool tests whether consumers are actually getting the broadband speeds they're paying for.
• 15:40

  Come see Paris--in 26 gigapixels

   » ‎ CNET News.com
  Site, which offers a breathtaking view of Paris, enables you to pan around, see monuments, and get a high-def feel for what the City of Light is all about.

• 15:27

  Trojan armed with hardware-based anti-piracy control

   » ‎ The Register
  Zeus borrows page from Microsoft

  The latest version of the Zeus do-it-yourself crimeware kit goes to great lengths to thwart would-be pirates by introducing a hardware-based product activation scheme similar to what's found in Microsoft Windows.…

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• 15:25

  EMC wants to distribute data

   » ‎ CNET News.com
  EMC has unveiled a vision for globally federating data, essentially a cache for storage across wide area communication links.

• 15:15

  Ford preps anti-hacking tech for in-car WiFi

   » ‎ The Register
  Sync My Ride

  Ford is developing anti-hacking technology in a bid to make upcoming in-car WiFi systems resistant against drive-by downloads and other forms of computer security attacks.…

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• 15:11

  Privacy concerns derail Netflix contest

   » ‎ CNET News.com
  Netlix says privacy concerns have prompted the company to cancel a contest that rewards technology that best predicts a user's movie-viewing preferences.

• 14:45

  Google Wave opens extensions gallery

   » ‎ The Register
  Beefs 'robot' API

  The Mountain View Chocolate Factory has unveiled an extensions gallery for Google Wave, the still-gestating browser-based app that crossbreeds email with IM and document sharing.…

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• 14:43

  'Cloud' vs. 'source' in the battle of bland corporate names

   » ‎ CNET News.com
  Open source and cloud-computing start-ups have one thing in common: a tendency to wear their industry trend on their sleeves.
• 14:27

  ICANN postpones decision on .xxx domains

   » ‎ CNET News.com
  Advocates for a .xxx designation for adult sites will have to wait until at least June after the ICANN board postponed a decision on the matter at its meeting Friday.
• 14:00

  Week in review: Game on for Sony

   » ‎ CNET News.com
  Sony joins the motion controller wars, and broadband gets ready for a big leap. Also: SXSWi goes geolocation.
• 13:55

  Tech finds its place at SXSWi (roundup)

   » ‎ CNET News.com
  As the Web generation descends on the South by Southwest Interactive show in Austin, several location-based start-ups try to put themselves on the map.
• 13:39

  Friday hiatus: CNET News Daily Podcast

   » ‎ CNET News.com
  There will be no News podcast today.
• 13:24

  When malware strikes via bad ads on good sites

   » ‎ CNET News.com
  Who is responsible for malware in ads, Web site owners or ad networks and delivery firms?

• 13:13

  China warns Google over uncensored search threat

   » ‎ The Register
  Stop filtering and 'you will bear the consequences'

  China's Minister of Industry and Information Technology has warned Google that if it stops censoring search results in the country, it will "have to bear the consequences."…

  Offloading malware protection to the cloud

• 11:52

  Obama lines up with copyright owners

   » ‎ News items | ZDNet
  As a presidential candidate, Barack Obama was a young technology fan who appeared to be an establishment outsider. But he now appears to have lined up on the side of copyright owners. by Greg Sandoval CNET News

• 11:50

  'Twitter gives voice to the voiceless' - eg the US President

   » ‎ The Register
  Twitter sensation follows Chief Twit's amazing claims

  Blabbertastic palmtop chunter-casting service Twitter* has received another massive hype injection from the BBC, which has published an interview - already causing a Twitter sensation - on how important Twitter is, given by Twitter's co-founder.…

  Web threats: Why conventional protection doesn't work

• 11:35

  Giant flying pliers menace West Bromwich

   » ‎ The Register
  Street View captures transdimensional DIY moment

  We're obliged to all those readers who've sent us new Street View sightings gleaned from the pretty-well nationwide coverage now enjoyed by the UK, especially those involving surveillance feedback loops.…

  Offloading malware protection to the cloud

• 11:29

  Doctor Who to materialise on Wii this Autumn

   » ‎ The Register
  Geronimo!

  The BBC's first Doctor Who game in years will be released in October and will be released for Nintendo's Wii, moles have claimed.…

• 11:11

  Safari update cages numerous security bugs

   » ‎ The Register
  Code inject and info flaws fixed

  Apple published an update of its Safari browser on Thursday that plugs 16 security vulnerabilities.…

  The power of collaboration within unified communications

• 10:25

  Body of James Brown disappears from family tomb

   » ‎ The Register
  The hardest working corpse in show business

  Update: Other members of James Brown's family have now denied the his body has gone missing. This story has been updated to reflect this.…

  The power of collaboration within unified communications

• 10:21

  Virgin contractors grip up for more cuts

   » ‎ The Register
  Another 15 per cent off

  Virgin Media contractors earning more than £300 a day have been told to accept a 15 per cent cut in rates or leave the company.…

• 10:12

  Female porn director turned pol grabs Kent by the ballots

   » ‎ The Register
  Lib Dem wants X's in the box

  Opinion  The citizens of Tunbridge Wells may not have been disgusted, but a few will quite possibly have been spluttering into their cornflakes Friday morning at the news that a well-known director of adult films will be standing as a parliamentary candidate for a nearby Kent constituency.…

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• 10:02

  Currys claims 3D TV 'first'

   » ‎ The Register
  'We're taking orders,' chirps retailer

  DSG chain Currys was today keen to tell World+Dog that it not only has "the first 3D TV in the UK" at on of its biggest shops, but that it's the "only" chain taking orders.…

  The power of collaboration within unified communications

• 10:00

  Hedge fund suitor denies Novell asset sale rumors

   » ‎ The Register
  Elliott wants it all - especially the cash

  As the week was ending, rumors were swirling that the hedge fund suitor of Novell, Elliott Associates, which last week offered $1bn net of cash to take over the perennially struggling software maker, was going to start selling off its target's assets if it clinches a deal.…

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• 9:42

  SSD tools crack passwords 100 times faster

   » ‎ The Register
  Ultra brute force attack

  Password-cracking tools optimised to work with SSDs have achieved speeds up to 100 times quicker than previously possible.…

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• 9:41

  Info Commissioner pleads with Tories to jail data thieves

   » ‎ The Register
  Third time lucky

  The data protection watchdog has strongly urged an incoming Tory government to quickly bring in jail sentences for data thieves, after the current government reneged on the idea.…

  Web threats: Why conventional protection doesn't work

• 9:39

  OCZ's low price Onyx SSD

   » ‎ The Register
  Slips under $100 price point

  OCZ has a sub-$100 SSD offered as a netbook, laptop and desktop hard drive replacement.…

  Case Study: WhatsUp keeps Legoland turnstyles ringing

• 8:40

  Why no one cares about privacy anymore

   » ‎ News items | ZDNet
  Google co-founder Sergey Brin adores the company's social network called Google Buzz. We know this because an engineer working five feet from Brin used Google Buzz to say so. by Declan McCullagh CNET News

• 8:40

  'Health and safety killjoys' kill cheese-rolling race

   » ‎ The Register
  Traditional Gloucester hill stampede canned

  In grim news for those who think it's a bit of a wheeze to chase an 8lb Double Gloucester cheese for 200 yards down a near-vertical hillside, the organisers of the Cooper's Hill Cheese Rolling and Wake have announced that this year's event is cancelled.…

  Case Study: WhatsUp keeps Legoland turnstyles ringing

• 8:36

  Virtualisation and vendor support

   » ‎ The Register
  What happens when you have a problem?

  Lab  You may be playing around with virtualisation on the edges of your IT environment or be well down the road to making it part of the furniture. But what happens when something goes wrong and it’s not immediately obvious what the problem is?…

  Web threats: Why conventional protection doesn't work

• 8:09

  NZ internet filter goes live - gov forgets to tell public

   » ‎ The Register
  The rise of the secret censor

  New Zealand’s internet filtering system went live last month – but the government forgot to mention this to its electorate until its hand was forced by online freedom campaign, Tech Liberty.…

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• 7:58

  GCHQ loses Top Secret laptops

   » ‎ The Register
  And struggles to recruit net experts

  It is the secretive heart of government information security, dispensing advice and setting standards throughout officialdom, but GCHQ's "cavalier" in-house policies have come under fire in a report revealing it lost 35 laptops.…

  The power of collaboration within unified communications

• 7:51

  Sony PlayStation Move: your questions answered

   » ‎ The Register
  What you need to know about the Wii-style PS3 accessory

  Sony this week formally announced its long-awaited Wii-style motion controller system for the PlayStation 3. Once thought to be called Arc, the add-on is now officially Move. And here is all you need to know about it.…

• 7:47

  IPCC Rainforest eco-tastrophe claim confirmed as bunk

   » ‎ The Register
  Official UN website still shows it as fact, though

  More bad news today for the International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), as another of its extravangant ecopocalypse predictions, sourced from green campaigners, has been confirmed as bunk by scientists.…

  Offloading malware protection to the cloud

• 7:32

  Barclaycard and Orange plot NFC Christmas

   » ‎ The Register
  But not saying how, or when

  Barclaycard has let slip plans to deploy NFC-enabled mobile phones, along with Orange, before the end of 2010.…

  What is your recession sales strategy?

• 7:26

  Microsoft offers SMEs cash to use Dynamics ERP software

   » ‎ The Register
  Claims NetSuite not so

  Microsoft has responded to NetSuite's recent reseller commissions sweetener by offering an MS Dynamics honey pot to customers of its ERP (enterprise resource planning) rival.…

• 7:13

  Ofcom smears 3G across spectrum

   » ‎ The Register
  900, 1800MHz approval in August

  Ofcom has finally proposed the use of 3G technologies at 2G frequencies, slipping the amendment into a bundle of updates and tweaks that should get approval come August.…

  The power of collaboration within unified communications

• 7:09

  McAfee inadvertently speeds creation of Metaploit IE exploit pack

   » ‎ The Register
  Unsanitised blog laid exploit hunt clues

  A security researcher has credited McAfee for helping him to develop exploit code that cracks open an unpatched flaw in older versions of Internet Explorer.…

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• 6:51

  Former model sues Universal over 'x-rated prop' outrage

   » ‎ The Register
  Couples Retreat actor cracks one off to bikini-clad Russian

  A Russian former model is suing Universal Pictures for allowing actor Jon Favreau to crack one off to a picture of her in a bikini in the film Couples Retreat.…

  The power of collaboration within unified communications

• 6:33

  AMD to pitch Fusion chip at netbooks, ultrathins

   » ‎ The Register
  'Bobcat'-based CPUs out in 2011

  Claims that AMD has a some kind of Damascene conversion and is to finally target the netbook sector directly are, frankly, nonsense.…

  The power of collaboration within unified communications

• 6:32

  UK shoppers ignorant of online rights

   » ‎ The Register
  But Brits busiest e-shoppers in Europe

  UK web users are Europe's biggest online shoppers but are not aware of their consumer rights when it comes to e-commerce, a government survey has found.…

• 6:30

  Hold onto your pants it's iPad pre-order day

   » ‎ The Register
  Early adopters get up early

  Apple's US online store is currently being updated, ahead of opening for pre-orders of iPads.…

  Web threats: Why conventional protection doesn't work

• 6:19

  Police issue lock-up-your-chihuahuas killer owl warning

   » ‎ The Register
  European flying beast threatens Wiltshire

  Wiltshire police have warned locals "not to approach" an escaped European eagle owl which could, if it felt a bit peckish, make off with cats and diminutive dogs.…

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• 6:12

  Mozilla gives passive-aggressive missive to pre-Firefox 3.6 hold-outs

   » ‎ The Register
  Upgrade now, thankyouplease

  Mozilla has begun shepherding Firefox fans through the browser door marked 3.6, in a move to encourage users to upgrade to the open source outfit's latest surfing tool.…

  The power of collaboration within unified communications

• 5:37

  Light bulbs inspire boffins to find fast data transfer trick

   » ‎ The Register
  Many lights make bytes work

  Switch a lightbulb on and off fast enough, and you can transmit data without giving everyone in the room a headache.…

  Case Study: WhatsUp keeps Legoland turnstyles ringing

• 5:22

  Elon Musk's Falcon 9 suffers rocketus interruptus in pad test

   » ‎ The Register
  Backfires, blows cloud of soot, but won't start

  The Falcon 9 rocket made by famed tech hecamillionaire Elon Musk's company SpaceX has suffered a test-firing failure on the pad in Florida.…

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• 5:16

  HMRC may get hands on missing bank data

   » ‎ The Register
  Poacher turns gamekeeper

  Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs may be well known in the UK for losing files on every family but it's not above turning corporate data losses to its own advantage.…

  Offloading malware protection to the cloud

• 5:03

  Turkey cuffs 23 'militant' hacker suspects

   » ‎ The Register
  PKK s'kiddies

  Turkey has arrested 23 hackers suspected of links with the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) and attacks on government websites.…

  The power of collaboration within unified communications

• 4:46

  Vodafone hands out free books

   » ‎ The Register
  If you have the right kind of phone

  Vodafone customers can get free books today, assuming they've got the right kind of handset and can find the download page.…

  Web threats: Why conventional protection doesn't work

• 4:45

  Clinton report warns human rights are online too

   » ‎ The Register
  Repression now includes the web

  An annual report by the US State Department has found dictators and repressive governments around the world are making sure they have as much control over their citizens when they're online as they do the rest of the time.…

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• 3:21

  Euro Parliament threatens court action over ACTA secrecy

   » ‎ The Register
  Demands to be kept in the loop

  The European Parliament has threatened to take the European Commission to the EU's highest court if it does not disclose the details of a secret international copyright treaty.…

  Web threats: Why conventional protection doesn't work

• 3:02

  Nikon D3s digital SLR

   » ‎ The Register
  A shot in the dark?

  Review  Since the launch of the D3, Nikon has released a studio version, the D3x with its unsurpassed full frame resolution of 24Mp, and now comes the D3s intended for the photojournalist, sports and wildlife photographer.…

• 2:02

  Mozilla births first Thunderbird 3.1 beta

   » ‎ The Register
  Pushes Firefox update

  Mozilla has released the first Thunderbird 3.1 beta for Windows, Mac and Linux.…

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• 1:02

  Sarah Palin to testify in email hack trial

   » ‎ The Register
  After Yahoo! breach 'paralyzed' Veep campaign

  Former Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin will testify in person against the college student accused of breaching her Yahoo mail account and leaking some of its contents online, according to published reports.…

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• March 11, 2010
• 19:00

  Steve Jobs Flash rant put to the test

   » ‎ The Register
  CPU hog Adobe v HTML5

  When Steve Jobs badmouthed Adobe Flash to The Wall Street Journal, he said it was buggy, littered with security holes, and a "CPU hog". It's hard to argue with the first two, but a new study claims the Apple cult leader was wrong about the hog bit.…

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• 18:59

  TSA worker tried to sabotage terror database, feds say

   » ‎ The Register
  One week after losing job

  A former data analyst for the US Transportation Security Agency has been accused of trying to sabotage a terrorist screening database used to vet people with access to sensitive information and secure areas of the nation’s transportation network.…

  Web threats: Why conventional protection doesn't work

• 17:37

  Microsoft plants Bing on Google-free Chinese Androids

   » ‎ The Register
  Google apps 'postponed' on China carriers

  Motorola will soon push Microsoft's Bing search engine onto Android phones in China, after announcing an alliance with the Redmond software giant that will see Bing appear on Androids across the globe.…

  Web threats: Why conventional protection doesn't work

• 15:55

  Judges uphold Word patent-infringement ruling

   » ‎ News items | ZDNet
  A US Court of Appeals panel has upheld a judgement that Microsoft infringed on another company's patent with its custom XML tags in Word 2003 and Word 2007. by David Meyer ZDNet UK

• 15:04

  One-third of orphaned Zeus botnets find way home

   » ‎ The Register
  Cyber security's short-lived victory

  The takedown of 100 servers used to control Zeus-related botnets may be a short-lived victory, security researchers said after discovering that about a third of the orphaned channels were able to regain connectivity in less than 48 hours.…

  The power of collaboration within unified communications

• 14:07

  Super Micro to launch AMD render cloud

   » ‎ The Register
  A great game console in the sky

  The conceptual render cloud that Advanced Micro Devices was showing off a little more than a year ago at the 2009 Consumer Electronics Show is going commercial this year.…

  Web threats: Why conventional protection doesn't work

• 10:03

  Target offers mobile coupons

   » ‎ News items | ZDNet
  Mobile coupons are coming to mega-retailer Target, which will allow shoppers all over the U.S. to use their mobile handset to get discounts on all kinds of products. by Marguerite Reardon CNET News
• 7:53

  Browser choice not coming to Asia

   » ‎ News items | ZDNet
  Microsoft rivals have indicated that they will not be pushing for a similar action in the Asia-Pacific region. by Liau Yun Qing ZDNet Asia
• March 10, 2010
• 16:35

  Twitter aims to filter out malicious links

   » ‎ News items | ZDNet
  Twitter is launching a new service designed to stop users of the social-media site from getting duped by phishing links that steal their login credentials and other attacks. by Elinor Mills CNET News
• 16:20

  Potential console killer OnLive to go live June 17

   » ‎ News items | ZDNet
  OnLive, a streaming video game service that, if properly implemented, could threaten traditional console makers. by Daniel Terdiman CNET News
• March 09, 2010
• 15:29

  Drudge Report accused of serving malware

   » ‎ News items | ZDNet
  For the second time in less than six months, visitors to the Drudge Report say they got malware in addition to the Web site's usual sensational headlines. by Elinor Mills CNET News

• 14:45

  Cisco 'forever changes internet' with...a router

   » ‎ The Register
  322 Tbps of bandwidth (not quite) here

  How will Cisco "forever change the internet"? With a new router.…

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• 14:24

  Google tests TV set-top search, says report

   » ‎ The Register
  Satellite TV meets YouTube meets online ad machine

  Google is privately testing a television set-top box that lets users search satellite TV programming as well as video websites like its very own YouTube, according to a new report.…

  Web threats: Why conventional protection doesn't work

• 14:08

  New Internet Explorer code-execution attacks go wild

   » ‎ The Register
  IE 6 and 7 users targeted

  Online thugs are exploiting a security bug in earlier versions of Internet Explorer that allows them to remotely execute malicious code, Microsoft warned on Tuesday.…

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• 14:00

  Curt Schilling's 38 Studios, EA in Big Huge game deal

   » ‎ News items | ZDNet
  Ex-baseballer Curt Schilling's developer 38 Studios has struck a deal with EA to publish an upcoming single-player role-playing game. by Tor Thorsen GameSpot

• 12:29

  Dell intros restyled biz laptops

   » ‎ The Register
  Vostro 3000 line debuts

  Dell has introduced a set of new Vostro notebooks, pitching the products as "a range of new thin, lightweight and durable laptop computers".…

• 11:20

  FA launches security probe after England team bugged

   » ‎ The Register
  Lancaster Gate-gate

  Reported attempts to sell recordings of conversations between England squad players and coaches have sparked a security breach investigation at the FA.…

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• 11:14

  March Madness over 3G and EDGE

   » ‎ CNET News.com
  T-Mobile switches its default mobile browser, Tekken is coming to the iPhone, and CBS has a new app that will stream March Madness over 3G and EDGE.

• 11:13

  Terracotta's Ehcache back-ends Hibernate

   » ‎ The Register
  Web Sessions gets some tweaks, too

  If you want to make money, and perhaps especially in the open source software racket, you have to keep improving your software to help it get more widely adopted among enterprise customers who get nervous if they don't hand over big wads of cash to someone to babysit the code. That's why Terracotta, a maker of systems programs that help Java applications scale, has made a number of acquisitions and has tweaked two key programs in its portfolio.…

  Web threats: Why conventional protection doesn't work

• 10:37

  Smartphone app botnet experiment blows up a storm

   » ‎ The Register
  WeatherFist shows phone vulnerability, devs claim

  Security researchers fooled nearly 8,000 iPhone and Android users into joining a mobile smartphone "botnet" under the guise of installing an apparently innocuous weather app.…

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• 9:48

  Nokia killed free navigation, alleges EU complaint

   » ‎ The Register
  The fall of Nav4All

  A customer of the late Nav4All has filed a complaint with the EU, alleging that Nokia abused its market position to drive the competition out of business.…

  Web threats: Why conventional protection doesn't work

• 9:36

  Doctors tell government to stop the health records roll-out

   » ‎ The Register
  SCR ain't ready for primetime

  The British Medical Association is calling on the Department of Health to suspend the roll-out of summary care records.…

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• 9:30

  Open source boss quits Sun Oracle

   » ‎ The Register
  Simon Phipps rides out of Ellison town

  Sun Microsystems' veteran Simon Phipps quit his chief open source officer post at the Oracle-owned company yesterday.…

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• 9:24

  Tories ask: Why BBC3, BBC4?

   » ‎ The Register
  Is this the wrong question?

  Conservative culture front bencher Jeremy Hunt is asking what’s the point of BBC3 and BBC4? It’s a good time to ask the question. In an interview with the Independent, Hunt queried why £100m was being spent, merely to attract "very, very small" audiences.…

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• 8:37

  Northerners give up ID cards for Lent figures suggest

   » ‎ The Register
  Has gov gotten cold feet on ID scanning centres?

  Comment  The initial rush to join the government's ID card scheme appears to have eased, with applications from people in the Northwest running at an average of as little as 14.5 per working day.…

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• 8:35

  Android - the winning formula for tablets and netbooks?

   » ‎ The Register
  It's the only game in town, says the maker of the other iPad

  What might the iPad have been? Apple announced it as a Magical and Revolutionary Device, defining "an entirely new category". But it actually only addresses a small part of the yawning gap between mobile handsets and notebook computers, where there's still a lot of defining to be done. There's space there for dramatically different reimaginations of the iPhone, for counter-attacks from handset companies, and for diverse devices based on Google's Android.…

  The power of collaboration within unified communications

• 8:13

  HP sues Asian firms over patents

   » ‎ News items | ZDNet
  Hewlett-Packard has filed a suit against four companies based in Hong Kong and Taiwan, accusing the defendants of patent infringement, according to various reports. by Vivian Yeo ZDNet Asia

• 8:13

  Critical bug does a Custer on Apache for Windows

   » ‎ The Register
  Old warrior clobbered

  Older versions of the Windows flavour of Apache's web server software are vulnerable to a critical code injection flaw as well as a pair of lesser security bugs.…

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• 8:11

  UK still lousy on electronic nosiness

   » ‎ The Register
  Report shows state of international surveillance heavyweights

  A new report highlights a depressingly consistent drift towards ever greater control of the population using new technologies.…

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• 8:09

  Cisco promises to 'forever change the internet'

   » ‎ The Register
  Stock jumps as rumors fly

  Today will see Cisco making an announcement that it claims will "forever change the internet". The stock market certainly believed it, sending the IP giant's shares to their highest level in more than a year ($26.34) yesterday. Given Cisco's heritage and product strategy it has more likelihood than most of delivering on its claim, but remains tightlipped about the details - sparking rumors from a gigabit wholesale network to an extended wireless core play to a set-top box.…

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• 7:15

  Kentucky woman breastfeeds sheriff's deputy

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  Third degree assault rap for 'biohazard' mam squirt

  A Kentucky woman cuffed for public intoxication added a third degree assault charge to her rap sheet after allegedly squirting breast milk into a sheriff's deputy's face.…

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• 7:14

  Employers call for end to Mickey Mouse degrees

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  Send fewer to uni, charge 'em more

  A recruiters group is calling for an end to government targets to get 50 per cent of school leavers involved in higher education.…

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• 7:13

  Windows 7 speculation claims SP1 will land in Q4 2010

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  Pretty much slotting into Microsoft's typical roadmap, then...

  Microsoft has pulled the release of Windows 7 Service Pack 1 forward to the final quarter of this year, according to a speculative report.…

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