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Dotty logo revamp strikes bum note AOL has revamped its logo and plans to launch the new look after its parent company Time Warner dumps the struggling web outfit early next month.… Web threats: Why conventional protection doesn't work
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Erotica 2009 - I'll have what she's having NSFW In a week when scientists trumpeted the discovery of a new drug to boost flagging female libido , Erotica 2009 - the UK’s premiere female-friendly erotic event - was looking decidedly limp.… The power of collaboration within unified ...
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New storage boxes are bigger on the inside Data Robotics has added two new products, enhancing both the basic Drobo and the more capable Drobo Pro. It now claims to provide the simplest and best value iSCSI SAN in the world.… What is your recession sales strategy?
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No messing this time The second worm to infect jailbroken iPhone users reportedly targets customers of Dutch online bank ING Direct.… Case Study: WhatsUp keeps Legoland turnstyles ringing
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iPhone
Are we nearly there yet? Workshop Who wouldn’t want IT to be delivered in a more dynamic, flexible, agile, [insert your least detested buzzword here] way? Optimal configurations for server and desktop workload delivery have been discussed, and indeed, attempted, for many years. So how close ...
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Worth the wait? Windows 7 on a netbook Review Lenovo’s new IdeaPad S10-2 is an update of the S10e. The hardware is conventional netbook fare with a dual core Atom processor and a 10.1in screen all dressed up in a smart chassis that makes it look like a baby ThinkPad. There have been a number ...
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Cheap credit is over and its not coming back, says CBI The impact of the recession on British businesses may well be permanent, and will certainly last until well into the next decade, the UK's union for bosses has declared.… The power of collaboration within unified communications
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When two become one Google has confessed that its Chrome OS and Android projects are likely to come together at some stage down the line as the firm continues to tinker with its operating system vision of the future.… Web threats: Why conventional protection doesn't work
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Android
Shoulda bought Yahoo! Amazon Radio Reg Basking in the afterglow of the recently released Windows 7, Microsoft has rallied the faithful to share the love at its annual Professional Developers' Conference in Los Angeles, California.… Case Study: WhatsUp keeps Legoland turnstyles ringing
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You're safe with me. Unless stuff crashes The Freedom Personal Safety is a GPS device that's supposed to alert loved ones that you're in trouble, but actually seems about as trustworthy as the only other man in the train carriage who appears to have moved a seat closer to you every time you ...
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Tech has important mole-cruiser implications, too MIT boffins are pleased to annouce that they have at last perfected a long-sought-after technology - that of the robot clam. It seems that metal shellfish able to dig themselves into the seabed will make excellent anchors for somewhat larger ...
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Hybrid-core computing The idea that hybrid computing is becoming a mainstream technology was one of the major threads running through SC09 last week. Convey Computer , founded in 2006, has a different take on how to best implement hybrid architectures, to deliver better performance and to ...
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From WebOS 1.1.3 to 1.3.1 The Pre smartphone will be refreshed with an updated webOS “within the next few days”, manufacturer Palm has promised.… Web threats: Why conventional protection doesn't work
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'We're well within our rights,' claims software giant The possibility of class-action lawsuit arising from the ban of roughly 1m gamers from Xbox Live doesn’t worry Microsoft, because the firm believes it is in the right.… Case Study: WhatsUp keeps Legoland turnstyles ringing
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Cramming eight on a card Fusion-io has put eight of its ioDrives on a single PCIe card to produce 800,000 IOPS and 6GB/sec bandwidth.… What is your recession sales strategy?
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New species of unpatched bug bites IE6 and 7 Internet Explorer users are at risk from a newly discovered and unpatched vulnerability in older versions of Microsoft's browser.… Offloading malware protection to the cloud
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Have we progressed that much in 25 years? Workshop When packaged applications first appeared on the scene a quarter of a century ago, it was normal for them to be very proprietary in nature.… Offloading malware protection to the cloud
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Mini 3i internals revealed Dell has come clean on the full specifications of its Mini 3i smartphone, and it doesn't impress.…
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Code belly's gonna get you Comment It is becoming increasingly obvious that a virtual server wastes great chunks of its memory occupied by the operating system wrappers around the applications in the virtual machines (VM) running in the physical server. If each VM occupies 50MB, and 20MB of ...
