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Desktop pleasure, desktop pain

Fri, 2010-09-03 10:47
Evolution and management of the client computing environment

Let's face it, the desktop and laptop environment is one of the major points at which the rubber meets the road when it comes to business computing.…

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Wells Fargo hops NFC train

Fri, 2010-09-03 10:46
Joins BoA and Visa in trials

Wells Fargo is joining the effort spearheaded by Visa to help NFC break in the difficult American market.…

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Google's Schmidt satirised as privacy pervert

Fri, 2010-09-03 10:42
Run for your lives, kids. The ice cream man is coming!

Eric Schmidt has been portrayed as a depraved privacy pervert by the US-based ConsumerWatchdog.org, which is running an advert in New York’s Times Square that mocks the Google boss.…

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IT workers getting back to work - sort of

Fri, 2010-09-03 10:27
June and July not as bad as all that

The US Department of Labor kicked out its monthly jobs report, and there's some good news for once. First of all, private sector employers added 67,000 jobs last month, although the overall economy shed 54,000 jobs as the federal government winds down the 2010 census and lays off temporary workers hired to count heads.…

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Paul Allen's patent madness not worth single penny

Fri, 2010-09-03 10:00
Execution wins. Not ideas

Open...and Shut Businesses aren't built on ideas. They're built on execution. Google didn't win because it was the first to the search market. It won because it did search better than anyone else, and devised an ingenious way to monetize it.…

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German gov pooh-poohs biometric ID card hack

Fri, 2010-09-03 09:52
Nicht ein biggie

German hackers successfully used off-the-shelf kit to extract personal data from the federal government's supposedly secure ID cards, but the government has downplayed the significance of the attack.…

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TomTom drums up upgrade for iPhone app

Fri, 2010-09-03 09:38
Follow that photo!

An update for the TomTom app on the iPhone is "coming soon".…

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Ex-spook jailed for selling secrets

Fri, 2010-09-03 08:50
12 months for CD & USB shenanigans

Ex-MI6 worker Daniel Houghton has been sentenced to 12 months in prison for unlawfully disclosing top secret material, in breach of the Official Secrets Act.…

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Apple TV: Third time unlucky, Mr Jobs

Fri, 2010-09-03 08:47
Going down for the last time

Comment This is the day that Apple lost the war for Over The Top content, not only in America, but globally. The winner can’t yet be announced, but this was the shot that Apple had to get it right, and to us it’s bungled it.…

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Vulture 1 Mk 2 release mech prepped for testing

Fri, 2010-09-03 08:20
Coming soon: Hypobaric chamber - The Revisiting

The Paper Aircraft Released Into Space (PARIS) team is preparing to turn down the pressure with a second visit to Qinetiq's hypobaric chamber.…

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Monster Afghan spy airship to feature quad drinking straws

Fri, 2010-09-03 08:01
Also: New vid of unsold P-791 Walrus suck-belly ship

US aero-weapons goliath Lockheed, builder of the famous P-791 airship prototype, was beaten to a half-billion-dollar deal to supply spy ships above Afghanistan earlier this year - but the firm is still marketing its P-791 technology aggressively.…

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HP and EMC vie for disk storage lead

Fri, 2010-09-03 07:32
IBM looking peaky

IDC's latest quarterly disk storage tracker shows EMC and HP competing for the market lead, with EMC growing faster than HP. NetApp is growing faster still but has a lot of ground to make up.…

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Wanted: Front End / Client Side Web Developer

Fri, 2010-09-03 07:27
El Reg is hiring

Situation Publishing, owner of The Register and Reg Hardware, is looking for a full time developer to primarily work on HTML(5), CSS, JavaScript/jQuery and template engines such as XSLT and Perl’s Template Toolkit.…

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Google Wave washes ashore in soggy cardboard Box

Fri, 2010-09-03 07:18
Drops unwanted code in open source developer laps

Google has boxed up its unsuccessful Wave project and handed the unwanted code to open source developers.…

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Glasses-less 3D TV by Xmas? Not likely, says 3D TV exec

Fri, 2010-09-03 07:11
More like 2013

Toshiba may be gearing up to release a no-specs 3D TV in Japan by the end of the year, but Philips' 3D TV development partner reckons we will have to wait longer. It doesn't reckon any vendor will have one out before 2013.…

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Apple Ping unfriends meanie Facebook

Fri, 2010-09-03 07:02
Snazzy new social thing walled off

Ping, Apple's latest foray into social networking, won't play nice with Facebook - despite the connection appearing in Steve Jobs's on-stage demonstration and in the documentation.…

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Energizer bunny hits iPhone, BlackBerry - wirelessly

Fri, 2010-09-03 06:55
Qi gets branded products

The wireless power consortium, Qi, is celebrating the launch of a solution with a known brand - Energizer - attached, but the technology is still a long way from the mainstream.…

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Superhuman Chinese monk does a bunk

Fri, 2010-09-03 06:51
Celeb Taoist conman on the run

A celebrity Taoist monk has gone awol after it was revealed he probably couldn't in reality sit crossed-legged under water for two hours.…

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ViewSonic outs Windows/Android 10in tablet

Fri, 2010-09-03 06:48
For OS fence-sitters

Here is ViewSonic's other Android-based tablet, though here the Google OS is secondary to Windows 7.…

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Capgemini buys big Brazilian dealer

Fri, 2010-09-03 06:47
£194m shelled out

Capgemini has bought a 55 per cent stake in Brazilian reseller CPM Braxis for £194m.…

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