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1. Nokia trims research and development division

   (Mobility/Mobility Features)

   Friday, 20 November 2009

   It says streamline Finnish phone giant Nokia said that it is to reduce the number of people that work in its R&D division - with 330 people affected in Denmark and Finland. Nokia said that this number ...

2. 'Hobbits' really are a new human species

   (General Sciences/General Sciences Features)

   Friday, 20 November 2009

   ... brains of a chimpanzee. The skull and jawbone features are much more primitive-looking than any normal modern human. Statistical analysis of skull shapes show modern humans cluster together in one group, ...

3. China has free reign over US computers

   (Security/Security Features)

   Friday, 20 November 2009

   ... Army. "China's peacetime computer exploitation efforts are primarily focused on intelligence collection against US targets and Chinese dissident groups abroad," it said. The committee did not say how ...

4. Nvidia remains "committed" to gaming industry

   (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

   Thursday, 19 November 2009

   HPC market is not its primary focus Nvidia has reiterated its strong commitment to the gaming industry. Company spokesperson Bryan Del Rizzo told TG Daily that rumors of Nvidia abandoning gaming for the ...

5. British police bust Zbot Trojan ring

   (Security/Security Features)

   Thursday, 19 November 2009

   ... a link to a website hosting malware." Cluley also warned that the Trojan hijacked infected computers by adding them to a nefarious criminal botnet.  "Hackers control thousands of compromised computers ...

6. McAfee indulges in bout of cyber scare mongering

   (Security/Security Features)

   Tuesday, 17 November 2009

   ... commissioned 20 so-called "experts" for its Virtual Criminology Report 2009. "War is not a term to be tossed around lightly. That is why the growing debate over cyber war has caught our attention," CEO ...

7. How to stop the Feds tapping your phone

   (Security/Security Features)

   Tuesday, 17 November 2009

   ... "represent a serious threat to the accuracy and completeness of wiretap records used for both criminal investigation and as evidence in trial," says the paper, presented at the CCS security conference ...

8. Put your faith in the cloud

   (Security/Security Opinion)

   Monday, 16 November 2009

   ... yourself, whether as a company or as an individual. If you've got a lot of data, that's a lot of work and probably a mistake. Robert Grimes hit upon a seldom-spoken truth in his column last week. He wrote, ...

9. Sprint launches Palm Pixi smartphone

   (Mobility/Mobility Features)

   Sunday, 15 November 2009

   ... iPhone 3GS challenges RIM's control of smartphone market Dell touts Mini 3 Android smartphone Motorola Droid snipes at iPhone's market share 
Apple plans iPhone lockdown  ...

10. Apple outflanks Psystar in crushing legal victory


    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Saturday, 14 November 2009

    ... original files with unauthorized software. According to Alsup, Psystar executed three primary unlawful modifications: Replacing the Mac OS X bootloader with an alternative to run unauthorized copies ...

11. Getting paid to watch porn

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Saturday, 14 November 2009

    ... at all of these images, in order to sort out the ones that constitute a criminal offence. When I started in forensics a few years ago, you'd expect an exhibit in an images job to contain a lot of generic ...

12. Intel-AMD deal doesn't end the bitter war

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Thursday, 12 November 2009

    ... designed to hurt AMD, he said. Building relationship, trust. Graphics products covered AMD is trying to reset the relationship between it and Intel. It's been intense, emotional and acrimonious for many ...

13. Painted ladies fly to ISS

    (Space/Space Features)

    Thursday, 12 November 2009

    ... to bring spaceflight experiments into classrooms around the country," said BioServe Director Louis Stodieck, principal investigator on the project. "Our continuing goal is to inspire K-12 students around ...

14. Marvell employee accused of profiting in Galleon case

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Wednesday, 11 November 2009

    ... Street Journal, Ali T. Far, a hedge fund trader, named the executive as Sam Miri and alleged that he wired payments to Miri through a broker. Far has already pleaded guilty in the criminal and civil cases, ...

15. NEC glasses translate different languages

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Monday, 09 November 2009

    ... computer and then on to a remote server.  The server provides a translation, which is then sent back and beamed onto the retina "using the afterimage effect", says the company. The text appears as ...

16. Nanospheres can repair spinal cord injuries

    (General Sciences/General Sciences Features)

    Monday, 09 November 2009

    ... long enough to circulate to damaged tissues. "With the micelles, you need only about 1/100,000th the concentration of regular polyethylene glycol," Cheng said. The experiment mimicked a traumatic spinal ...

17. Rickrolling worm infects jailbroken iPhones

    (Security/Security Features)

    Sunday, 08 November 2009

    ... attempting to mask its presence by hiding in a filepath similar to the Cydia application.   
 "The source code is littered with comments from the author suggesting the worm has been written as an experiment. ...

18. Adult Friend Finder: paedophiles are just one click away

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Thursday, 05 November 2009

    ... which include many single parents, are placed in close proximity to paedophiles and criminals that run sites containing illegal child content. Weigh risks and benefits If you are looking for contacts ...

19. Smartphone market: Android and iPhone continue to grow

    (Mobility/Mobility Features)

    Thursday, 05 November 2009

    ... that Android is rapidly evolving and responsive to suggestions from OEMs and developers,” he continued. Nokia, RIM and Apple all did well. Apple shipped its highest volume in a single quarter. It is now ...

20. Carly Fiorina to run for Senate

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Wednesday, 04 November 2009

    ... Boxer of California. Fiorina's entry into the race could present the liberal Boxer with her toughest re-election challenge, but Fiorina has to win a Republican primary against state Assemblyman Chuck ...

21. UK court rules that global warming is a religious belief, not science

    (Sustainability/Sustainability Features)

    Tuesday, 03 November 2009

    ... protected by the 2003 religion or belief regulations." Nicholson said he was 'delighted by the judgement for himself and other people who may feel they are discriminated against because of their views ...

22. Ruiz quits Globalfoundries

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Monday, 02 November 2009

    ... announced. Ruiz submitted his resignation in September with an effective date of January 4th, 2010. He will be replaced by Alan E. 'Lanny' Ross, who will serve as interim chairman, effective immediately, ...

23. US government opens $9m cyber security center

    (Security/Security Features)

    Saturday, 31 October 2009

    ... Emergency Readiness Team and the National Coordinating Center for Telecommunications. Apparently, US government computer systems are scanned millions of times a day by potential hackers, criminals and ...

24. Apple iTunes update disables Palm sync

    (Software/Software Features)

    Friday, 30 October 2009

    ... been really boring and primarily revolved around arcane details of software development," wrote Moren. Moren also described Palm as "lazy," and suggested that the corporation design its own Mac-compatible ...

25. Facebook wins $711 million against spammer

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

    Friday, 30 October 2009

    ... actually have $711.2 million. "While we don't expect to receive the vast majority of the award, we hope that this will act as a continued deterrent against these criminals," said Sam O'Rourke in a company ...

26. Astronomers find most distant object yet

    (Space/Space Features)

    Thursday, 29 October 2009

    ... Universe was very young and also was undergoing drastic changes. The primal cosmic darkness was being pierced by the light of the first stars and the first galaxies were beginning to form. The star that ...

27. Intel, Numonyx trumpet phase change memory breakthrough

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Thursday, 29 October 2009

    ...  More information about the memory cell, cross point array, experiment and results will be published in a joint paper titled "A Stackable Cross Point Phase Change Memory," to be presented at the 2009 ...

28. Intel: Windows 7 offers "improved" performance and stability

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Wednesday, 28 October 2009

    ... of technology and features inherent in Intel processors and complement the capabilities on the software side," said Kaushik. "So, we focused on two primary areas to ensure energy efficiency: timer ...

29. Ex AMD CEO named in insider trading scandal

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Wednesday, 28 October 2009

    ... still AMD's CEO. Rajaratnam, co-founder of Galleon, and five others are currently facing federal criminal and civil charges. The men are accused of using inside knowledge to help investors make an illegal ...

30. iPhone 3GS challenges RIM's control of smartphone market

    (Mobility/Mobility Features)

    Tuesday, 27 October 2009

    ... Carton noted that RIM (Research In Motion) has fallen one point to a 40 percent market share and was currently at its "lowest level" in two years. "RIM is still in second with 27 percent of planned ...

31. Intel optimizes Windows 7 SSD performance

    (Software/Software Features)

    Monday, 26 October 2009

    ... use a Windows 7 attribute - not an acronym - known as Trim to ensure "continued" high performance.  Intel has introduced a solid-state drive toolbox that optimizes 34nm X25-M  SATA SSD performance ...

32. Leaving the iPhone behind

    (Consumer Electronics/Consumer Electronics Opinion)

    Monday, 26 October 2009

    ... its primary use is as a cellphone and secondarily as an MP3 player. Its tertiary functions are to read and reply to emails when I'm not at my desk, for which it is, at best, adequate. I use it as a camera ...

33. Kingston accelerates Windows with 40GB SSD

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Monday, 26 October 2009

    Kingston has introduced a bootable 40GB SSD drive. According to company spokesperson David Leong, the SSDNow V drive is "aimed primarily" at desktop users as a "performance upgrade" for existing systems. ...

34. Nokia, Apple suit reeks of desperation

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Opinion)

    Friday, 23 October 2009

    ... suit against Apple for allegedly breaching its patents.He said then: "You have traditional competitors like the Korean and Japanese companies and now we have new competitors like Apple and RIM. We are ...

35. Rumor is Microsoft buying RIM

    (Mobility/Mobility Features)

    Thursday, 22 October 2009

    ... is thinking about buying Canadian company RIM - you know that lot that make the BlackBerrys. There's possibly no truth in it whatever, but it makes sense in a perverse way. Microsoft really has got the ...

36. AT&T sues display manufacturers over alleged price fixing

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Wednesday, 21 October 2009

    ... that LG Display, Sharp and Chunghwa were previously forced to pay $585 million in criminal fines after a US Justice Department probe found the companies guilty of illegally price fixing LCDs used in flat-screen ...

37. Windows 7 launches in London hospital

    (Software/Software Features)

    Wednesday, 21 October 2009

    ... if ever there was one.In Windows 7's favour, the multi-touch version of the GUI does work well. It appears to be used primarily to showcase what Microsoft is calling 'Surface Globe'. This seems to be Microsoft’s ...

38. BlackBerry gets Bolder with 9700

    (Mobility/Mobility Features)

    Wednesday, 21 October 2009

    Research in Motion (RIM) released the BlackBerry Bold 9700 as the high end version of its 9000 Bold series. Research in Motion (RIM) released the BlackBerry Bold 9700 as the high end version of its ...

39. SSDs inch toward the desktop

    (Hardware/Hardware Opinion)

    Wednesday, 21 October 2009

    ... SSDs are sexy. That's primarily because they have the advantage of being fast, up to 250MB/sec for reads, in some cases. There's no mechanical device scrambling around reading and writing data, so information ...

40. News aggregation sites threatened with legal action

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Tuesday, 20 October 2009

    ...  "But we have had enough of indiscriminate attacks. To vilify all aggregators as "cheap worthless technological news solutions" and "content kleptomaniacs" is just empty rhetoric. Not only is that misleading ...

41. Brain is capable of ultra-precise time recognition

    (General Sciences/General Sciences Features)

    Monday, 19 October 2009

    ... that code time with extreme precision in the primate brain. These neurons are found in two interconnected brain regions, the prefrontal cortex and the striatum, both of which are known to play critical ...

42. 'World's biggest crater' discovered

    (General Sciences/General Sciences Features)

    Friday, 16 October 2009

    ... Shiva's outer rim forms a rough, faulted ring some 500km across, encircling a central peak, known as the Bombay High - about three miles tall from the ocean floor. Most of the crater lies submerged on ...

43. The best IT vendor CEO of the decade is...

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Opinion)

    Friday, 16 October 2009

    ... Paranjpe drove the global outsourcing flood in the last 10 years, Wipro's primary contribution was leverage of labor arbitrage, an old business model, not true management innovation. However, the pace ...

44. BlackBerry Storm 2 lays siege to Apple iPhone

    (Consumer Electronics/Consumer Electronics Features)

    Thursday, 15 October 2009

    Research in Motion (RIM) is readying an all out attack on the successful Apple iPhone with Storm 2 - likely to be released by Verizon in the US in November.Research in Motion (RIM) is readying an all out ...

45. Barnes and Noble leaks e-reader details

    (Consumer Electronics/Consumer Electronics Features)

    Wednesday, 14 October 2009

    ... much like the Kindle's. However, the Barnes and Noble e-reader also includes a second, smaller multi-touch display tucked away under the primary screen. "What's interesting is that B&N will sell ...

46. Pterosaur discovery points to modular evolution

    (General Sciences/General Sciences Features)

    Wednesday, 14 October 2009

    ... evidence of a controversial type of evolution. Pterodactyls, which ruled the skies around 250 million years ago, fell into two types: primitive long-tailed forms and their descendants, short-tailed pterosaurs, ...

47. Atom microarchitecture buoys Intel revenue

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Tuesday, 13 October 2009

    ... traditional notebook market remained one of Intel's "primary" drivers of revenue growth and emphasized that notebooks currently "enjoyed" a higher share than desktops. Otellini also commented on his expectations ...

48. WikiReader puts Wikipedia in your pocket

    (Consumer Electronics/Consumer Electronics Features)

    Tuesday, 13 October 2009

    ... terms. The history button stores all visited Wikipedia pages and somewhat serves as a back button. The software itself is a primitive web browser that navigates through a compressed html file that is ...

49. Apple Snow Leopard devours user account data

    (Software/Software Features)

    Monday, 12 October 2009

    ... restarted and logged into my primary account and guess what!?!? Absolutely everything on the computer got deleted and reset to basically what the computer is from the factory. All programs, documents, ...

50. Radio waves used to see through walls

    (General Sciences/General Sciences Features)

    Sunday, 11 October 2009

    ... a moving person or object. The devices transmit radio waves at powers 500 times less than a typical cell phone. In their experiments, the team obtained radio signal strength measurements from all the ...