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Vodafone pitches Comic Sans as the next Crazy Frog
29 October, 2008 - 15:02Oooh, I love your dingbatz
The search for the next ringtone - a product that costs nothing but customers will willingly pay for - has finally borne fruit with the launch of FlipFont, a Vodafone service enabling punters to change the text font on their handset.…
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What's to become of Fujitsu Siemens?
29 October, 2008 - 13:02Hopes for Happy Christmas
It could be a happy Christmas for Fujitsu Siemens Computers, with its continuing existence confirmed by that date.…
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NetApp's de-duping VTL arrives
29 October, 2008 - 10:32Finally answers Data Domain, Quantum, and EMC
NetApp has added block-level de-duplication to its Virtual Tape Library (VTL) product line and claims an up to 20:1 de-duplication ratio. At last, the company has an answer to Data Domain, Quantum, and EMC.…
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Yahoo! begs world+dog for free engineering
29 October, 2008 - 08:30'Opens' code for social networking's dying breath
After announcing last week that it will lay off 1,400 employees, Yahoo! managers have birthed a new strategy that could recoup much of its soon-to-be-lost engineering talent: Get somebody else to do the work for free.…
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TomTom ships Go x40 satnav series
29 October, 2008 - 08:02New road-savvy range released in UK
Exclusive The TomTom Go x40 Live range consisting of the Go 540, 740 and the flagship 940 - first seen at IFA in August - has been officially launched in the UK.…
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Google sends 'Duke of Data Centers' to Land of Oz?
29 October, 2008 - 07:46Down Under with Project Will Power
Google has apparently dispatched its self-styled "Duke of Data Centers" to the land of Oz, as it considers whether Australia is worthy of Project Will Power.…
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E-voting fears run high as election day looms
29 October, 2008 - 07:36'Flipped' votes reported in three states
With just a week to go before the US presidential election, academics, politicians, and voters are voicing increased distrust of the electronic voting machines that will be used to cast ballots.…
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Intel sees little trouble in big China
29 October, 2008 - 07:27Defies Meltdown with $20m solar play
What does Intel's investment arm look like waving off the current economic gloom? A bit like it does when making new "cleantech" investments in China, laying down $20m funding for the solar energy kit provider, Trony Solar Holdings.…
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Carmack's rocket wins $350,000 in mock moon mission
29 October, 2008 - 05:18Third time's the charm for Doom creator
John Carmack, creator of the childhood-innocence-purging video games Doom and Quake, has finally lead his team of rocketeers at Armadillo Aerospace to victory in the annual Northrop Grumman Lunar Landing challenge.…
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TSA vows relaxation of carry-on liquid limits
29 October, 2008 - 04:26Pulling the curtain on 'security theater'
Airline passengers on both sides of the Atlantic could be free to carry larger bottles of liquids in carry-on luggage under a two-year plan to relax current security rules that sharply restrict the amount of shampoo, hand lotion, and other types of liquids that can be brought in a plane cabin.…
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Windows 7 borrows from OS X, avoids Vista
29 October, 2008 - 03:45No pain, no gain
PDC When it comes to Windows 7, Microsoft hasn't just learned from the mistakes of Windows Vista. It has picked-up a thing or two from Apple's OS X, judging by first impressions.…
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Google settles Book Search suit for $125m
29 October, 2008 - 02:47Will sell scanned works
Google has agreed to pay $125m to settle a three-year-old class action lawsuit that accused the ad broker of infringing publisher and author copyrights with its library-digitizing Book Search project.…
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'Series of Tubes' Senator convicted of corruption
29 October, 2008 - 02:43McCain calls for resignation
Alaska Senator Ted 'Series of Tubes' Stevens was convicted Monday on seven felony counts for lying about hundreds of thousands of dollars in free home renovations and other gifts from a wealthy oil contractor.…
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IT credit crunch comes home to roost
29 October, 2008 - 01:31Tech lease defaults on the rise
The weakening global economy and the tightening of credit for both companies and consumers is making it tougher for IT vendors to rely on a common tool - equipment leasing - to grease wheels and get sales. Defaults on tech leases - and indeed all kinds of capital equipment leases - are on the rise in the United States, and IT makers are starting to feel the pinch at both ends as some deals go south and it gets harder to make new deals.…
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Microsoft unveils 'lightweight' Office for Web
29 October, 2008 - 01:25Works in Firefox, Safari, and IE
PDC Microsoft has finally announced a version of its Office productivity applications for the web with the next full-edition of its suite…
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Windows 7 early promise: passes the Vista test
29 October, 2008 - 00:00Safe, solid - exciting?
PDC Windows Vista is better than its reputation, but its reputation is pretty bad. During the press briefing for Windows 7 at Microsoft's Professional Developers Conference (PDC), corporate vice president for Windows product management Mike Nash insisted Microsoft had learned from the Vista experience.…
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Pipex upgrade causes email snafu
28 October, 2008 - 23:54Customers cut off by settings change
Some Pipex customers have been without email access for several days due to an platform upgrade that meant their settings were wrong.…
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Intel misses Competition Commission deadline
28 October, 2008 - 23:34Chip giant waits for court decision
Intel has missed the deadline to respond to the Supplementary Statement of Objections sent by the European Competition Commission in July.…
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Big Blue to build DARPA cat-brain machine
28 October, 2008 - 23:22To scale through 'entire range of mammalian intelligence'
US military attempts to develop "programmable neuromorphic" electronic artificial mouse- and cat-bonce brain podules have now moved into gear, with IBM scooping a $5m contract award.…
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Home Office acts to kick out Iceland's hate preachers
28 October, 2008 - 23:19No safe haven for Norway or Liechtenstein
Just weeks after the UK government used the 2001 Anti-terrorism, Crime and Security Act to seize all of the IOUs in British branches of Icelandic banks, tough-talking Home Secretary Jacqui Smith has made it clear that Britain will no longer be a safe haven for terror preachers from Iceland. Or indeed from Norway or Liechtenstein.…
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