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1. Modern life is rubbish

   (Hardware/Hardware Opinion)

   Sunday, 22 November 2009

   ... frame of mind is achieved. This isn't a defeatist attitude in my opinion, it's a worldview that is to be admired. I believe that this statement is supported by various schools of philosophy and science. ...

2. Hackers steal confidential global warming data

   (Security/Security Features)

   Saturday, 21 November 2009

   ... to have remained private, the truth is now that the genie is out of the bottle," explained Cluley. "Interested parties around the world have grabbed the archive of documents - so even if the Russian FTP ...

3. Weekly hardware roundup

   (Hardware/Hardware Features)

   Saturday, 21 November 2009

   ... supercomputer race The AMD-powered "Jaguar" system was dubbed the world's "supreme supercomputer" by the TOP500 organization. 

The upgraded Cray XT5 - which is based in the Oak Ridge National Laboratory ...

4. Gameloft chooses iPhone over Android

   (Mobility/Mobility Features)

   Friday, 20 November 2009

   ... games on iPhone than on Android," claimed Rochefort. Gameloft's abrupt announcement sparked concern amongst a number of bloggers and journalists, including Nicholas Bonsack of MacWorld. 
 "Whether it's ...

5. Microsoft: No backdoor in Windows 7

   (Security/Security Features)

   Friday, 20 November 2009

   ... into Windows," a company spokesperson told Computerworld. Microsoft's official denial was prompted by the recent testimony of National Security Agency (NSA) official Richard Schaeffer, who confirmed ...

6. We need Chrome

   (Software/Software Features)

   Friday, 20 November 2009

   ... in the world that will be saved because people actually will turn off their computers because they no longer dread the wait time to boot them up each day. Chrome will also be the ideal system for people ...

7. Nokia trims research and development division

   (Mobility/Mobility Features)

   Friday, 20 November 2009

   ... employed worldwide in the division.  ...

8. Steve Ballmer hallelujahs Windows 7

   (Software/Software Features)

   Friday, 20 November 2009

   The lid it is lifted Delightfully understated Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer has finally lifted the lid on how well Windows 7 sales have been doing. Previously Ballmer has only told the world that the operating ...

9. Brain boffin calls for schools to get back to books

   (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

   Friday, 20 November 2009

   ... over the world have been falling over themselves to use computers in lessons, particularly in math classes, because of a myth that they help a child learn. However, Professor Della Sala told Scotland's ...

10. Hacker restores Atom support for Snow Leopard netbooks

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Thursday, 19 November 2009

    ... hackintosh netbooks!" However, Jeff Porten of MacWorld warned that executing the Atom crack was not a "point-and-click" operation. "You'll need to roll up your Terminal sleeves for a few simple steps ...

11. Google rolls out Chrome OS source code

    (Software/Software Features)

    Thursday, 19 November 2009

    ... OS 
The world waits for Google's Chrome OS Microsoft accelerates JavaScript with IE9 Chrome OS: Lame Copy or Amazing new OS? 
Google preps Mac Chrome beta for holiday launch  ...

12. The world waits for Google's Chrome OS

    (Software/Software Features)

    Thursday, 19 November 2009

    ... OS/2. Even if Google is ready to throw a beta of the operating system into a waiting world today, it will have something of a struggle to push it on computing platforms. The Mac and Linux OSes have a ...

13. Gaming hardware to hit $27 billion next year

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Thursday, 19 November 2009

    ... senior video game industry analyst at JPR, said: "Due to significant growth across all major markets, the worldwide PC gaming hardware market is expected to skyrocket 30 percent in 2010."  ...

14. British police bust Zbot Trojan ring

    (Security/Security Features)

    Thursday, 19 November 2009

    ... around the world - using them as a zombie army to spew out spam, spread more malware and launch denial-of-service attacks." Finally, Clueley emphasized that the rapidly spreading Zbot pandemic was not ...

15. Microsoft accelerates JavaScript with IE9

    (Software/Software Features)

    Wednesday, 18 November 2009

    ... performance," said Sinofsky, who was quoted by Gregg Keizer of Computerworld. "[However], on SunSpider, we're on par with IE9 [and] getting very close to the other browsers." Indeed, previous Computerworld ...

16. TechCrunch crucified over Google phone rumor

    (Mobility/Mobility Features)

    Wednesday, 18 November 2009

    ... based on rumor and not call it that, he can do it. If he wants to make logical and illogical leaps in his articles, he can do that, too. The point is there are no rules for Arrington." PC World columnist ...

17. Nvidia and Asus tout 3D Vision notebook

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Wednesday, 18 November 2009

    ... Vision display - will offer a stereoscopic 3D experience for over 400 PC games, including Resident Evil 5, Borderlands, World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King, Batman: Arkham Asylum, and Star Trek D-A-C. ...

18. Be a Martian, says NASA

    (Space/Space Features)

    Wednesday, 18 November 2009

    ... by all, exploring Mars has become a shared human endeavor. People worldwide can expand the specialized efforts of a few hundred Mars mission team members and make authentic contributions of their own." ...

19. Six rules are laid down for Intel to obey

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Wednesday, 18 November 2009

    ... in the worldwide PC market for four consecutive quarters. See Also Otellini, Barrrett others sued by shareholder over antitrust Intel would like to give AMD a Glaswegian kiss Intel maintains innocence ...

20. Chrome OS: Lame Copy or Amazing new OS?

    (Software/Software Features)

    Wednesday, 18 November 2009

    ... they can compete in a world of reality TV shows?   They do have that big unprofitable YouTube audience to satisfy after all, and the video of Eric Schmidt’s job interview  simply isn’t that funny anymore. ...

21. AMD debuts ATI Radeon 5970 GPU

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Wednesday, 18 November 2009

    ... overclocking capabilities were enabled by next-gen fan and vapor technologies, as well as a "fully vented" exhaust to keep the card cool. 

 "The 5970 features the world's most powerful graphics core ...

22. Electronic Arts closes Pandemic Studios

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

    Tuesday, 17 November 2009

    ... as the iPhone and Wii have contributed to the rise of the casual gamer. Various MMOS's, including World of Warcraft (WoW) have also impacted the playing field. According to Hilleman, casual gamers have ...

23. McAfee indulges in bout of cyber scare mongering

    (Security/Security Features)

    Tuesday, 17 November 2009

    ... that the world is more and more reliant on information systems but has trouble coming to a definition of what cyber war actually is. It says that countries are developing advanced offensive cyber capabilities ...

24. Obama meets polar bears, the Riemann Hypothesis, and Enermax

    (Networking/Networking Features)

    Tuesday, 17 November 2009

    ... venerable HardOCP site takes a look at the Enermax ECO80+ 620 watt power supply. It thinks it is the bee's bollocks. It's here. TechCrunch seems to believe that the whole world will be very interested ...

25. 'Unfriend' is Word of the Year

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

    Tuesday, 17 November 2009

    ... from the world of technology. There's also birther – a conspiracy theorist who challenges President Obama’s birth certificate - and deleb: a dead celebrity. See the full list here.  ...

26. Phenom II overclockers shatter 7GHz barrier

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Monday, 16 November 2009

    Heroes of the HPC world AMD has released an HD video chronicling the exploits of Phenom II overclockers who managed to shatter the infamous 7GHz clock barrier. "This video depicts the herculean efforts ...

27. Semiconductors to bound back next year

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Monday, 16 November 2009

    Chips with everything Two things aren't going to go away unless there's a world wide catastrophe - semiconductors and the internet. Gartner has started to believe this too. According to a report it issued ...

28. Intel would like to give AMD a Glaswegian kiss

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Monday, 16 November 2009

    ... settlement was the dawn of a new era of sweetness and light where it and Intel will work together to create a brave new X86 world. Intel talked as though what it would really like to do is to jump over ...

29. Intel claims it's driving supercomputers. Not AMD

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Monday, 16 November 2009

    And announces Nehalem-EX Chip firm AMD is blowing its own trumpet by saying its Jaguar system is the world's supreme supercomputer. But AMD's new friend Intel is not going to take that lying down. It ...

30. Egypt creates first Arabic domain name

    (Security/Security Features)

    Monday, 16 November 2009

    ... Russian and Korean. Speaking at a meeting of the Internet Governance Forum in Sharm el-Sheikh, Yahoo co-founder Jerry Yang said that although there are over 300 million Arabic speakers in the world, fewer ...

31. Open Book Alliance slams Google Book Settlement

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Monday, 16 November 2009

    ... Most critically, the settlement proposal must not grant Google an exclusive set of rights (de facto or otherwise) or result in any one entity gaining control over access to and distribution of the world's ...

32. AMD powered Jaguar wins supercomputer race

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Monday, 16 November 2009

    2.3 petaflops of peak performance The AMD-powered "Jaguar" system has been dubbed the world's "supreme supercomputer" by the TOP500 organization.  The upgraded Cray XT5 - which is based in the Oak Ridge ...

33. Google: Better ethics than the Vatican?

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Opinion)

    Saturday, 14 November 2009

    ... regions of the world and its work with the UN High Commissioner for Refugees have been widely praised. Yes, Google is in business to make money. (Lots and lots of it.) But it still seems to push good ...

34. Getting paid to watch porn

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Saturday, 14 November 2009

    ... innocent images at a time and hone in on the bad ones and while this is an essential skill to learn, all the hash databases in the world still can't take away the requirement for someone to actually look ...

35. Audi gives up designing cars

    (Mobility/Mobility Features)

    Friday, 13 November 2009

    ... users for input on the topic of connectivity, the Audi Design Team received overwhelming demand to stay in touch with users' digital worlds - even behind the wheel. Taking this insight to heart, the design ...

36. Apple tablet will have a pen

    (Consumer Electronics/Consumer Electronics Features)

    Friday, 13 November 2009

    ... to the world that its huge lemon, the Apple Newton, was not a complete joke, but rather ahead of its time.   The Newton was also a pen based tabletish device but it was laughed off the market.  If the ...

37. Scientists develop thinner optical fibers

    (Networking/Networking Features)

    Friday, 13 November 2009

    ... of Adelaide and Director of IPAS. Meanwhile, another IPAS researcher, Dr Yinlan Ruan, has recently created what is thought to be the world's smallest hole inside an optical fiber – just 25 nanometers ...

38. Google preps Mac Chrome beta for holiday launch

    (Software/Software Features)

    Thursday, 12 November 2009

    ...  Unsurprisingly, Baum's forum post prompted an enthusiastic response from a number of journalists and bloggers, including MacWorld's Dan Moren. "The developer preview versions of Google's Chrome Web ...

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

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Thursday, 12 November 2009

    ... and an extension of a five year cross license agreement, and the cessation of hostilities in other courts around the world. But AMD still has some complaints that haven't been settled by the agreement ...

40. Snow Leopard fatal flaw discovered

    (Software/Software Features)

    Thursday, 12 November 2009

    ... been involved. The BBC also claims that, contrary to earlier reports, Snow Leopard installations worldwide may number as few as 4,000. Experts also believe that the problem may be connected with mice. ...

41. Intel settles antitrust dispute with AMD

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Thursday, 12 November 2009

    ... billion. AMD will drop all cases including the antitrust case in Delaware and two cases pending in Japan. AMD will also withdraw regulatory complaints worldwide. A webcast is pending. We'll update this ...

42. Bill Gates says people get paid too much

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Thursday, 12 November 2009

    Richest man in the world in jawdropping statement Bill Gates is only worth $40 billion this year, according to the latest Forbes report - down $18 billion but once again the world's richest man. So perhaps ...

43. AMD says Fusion will knock Intel for six. Or five

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Wednesday, 11 November 2009

    ... can’t do. We believe why we’re in a really good position. We’re taking two world class teams and merging them together. The APU (accelerated processor unit) is truly a supercomputer on a chip. “ He explained: ...

44. CO2 levels 'stable since 1850'

    (Sustainability/Sustainability Features)

    Wednesday, 11 November 2009

    ... unchanged since the advent of the industrial revolution. Scientists at Bristol University in the UK say that, despite rising emissions, the world is still able to store a 'significant' amount of greenhouse ...

45. Microsoft locks out thousands of gamers

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

    Wednesday, 11 November 2009

    ... as 600,000 accounts around the world have been disabled in the company's latest assault on piracy - although Microsoft refuses to confirm that figure. Affected users no longer have access to Xbox Live, ...

46. Feds indict RBS WorldPay hackers

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Tuesday, 10 November 2009

    ... company RBS WorldPay. The 16-count indictment charges Sergei Tsurikov (Estonia), Viktor Pleshchuk (Russia), Oleg Covelin (Moldova) and "Hacker 3" with conspiracy to commit wire fraud, computer fraud, ...

47. Nintendo poised to "regain control" of console market

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

    Tuesday, 10 November 2009

    ... 15 million units worldwide," said Divnich. He added that Uncharted 2: Among Thieves is expected to be the top-selling game for the month of October at over 600,000 units. 

 "If sales trends continue ...

48. Amazon releases Kindle for PC

    (Consumer Electronics/Consumer Electronics Features)

    Tuesday, 10 November 2009

    Color my world? Amazon is offering a free Kindle for PC application that runs on XP, Vista and Windows 7. But while this might not be any big deal, an advert on top of the download page shows a Winnie ...