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Blog The Uncanny Valley is a concept of which I'm particularly fond. It describes the effect robots or avatars have on us when they fall between the unthreateningly unhuman and the acceptably similar....
Patently brilliant
Leader The patent system is unfair, expensive and counterproductive. New thinking may save the day
Forested ursine defecatory incident reported
Blog Heavens, could there be some unironed issues with biometric technology? Good job there isn't some enormous, costly scheme on the horizon which'll stand or fall on biometrics, eh?
Florida man charged in botnet attack on Akamai
News Prosecutors allege the man used an email worm to create a network of hijacked PCs that swamped the target's servers
Shaggy elephant story
Blog A Korean scientist's commendable but misguided attempt to stem the tide of species extinction by cloning the distinctly deceased woolly mammoth has been frozen in its tracks, report our friends at...
Should we be covering IMS?
Blog I spent yesterday afternoon at the MultiService Forum press day at BT Central. Subjected to a mind-boggling array of acronyms, I'm afraid I bordered on nodding off at several points, but it did get...
National open source centre comes to Birmingham
News The centre will host conferences and seminars and publish research papers on open source policy and innovation
Nokia's BlackBerry-killers get Oracle field apps
News Mobile Field Service and Siebel Wireless are now certified and available for the E61 and E62
Data centre energy crisis looms
News Data centres are consuming power at a rate that can no longer be sustained, a new report warns
Will XP SP3 ever arrive?
Blog Last week, we reported that Microsoft has pushed back the launch of the third service pack for XP. This decision appears to have alarmed some in the IT community, who now doubt that XP SP3 will...
Tech giants court mainframe customers
News Oracle OpenWorld: The mainframe figured prominently at Oracle's customer conference this week
iSoft faces another financial probe
News The Accountancy Investigation and Discipline Board will investigate 'recent events' at iSoft, centring on its financial statements
BT buys Bruce Schneier's security company
News BT has snapped up Counterpane for its managed security services, with 'Bruce as a bonus'
A look at Internet Explorer 7 for Windows XP SP2
Video Your chance to see how the latest version of the Microsoft browser stands up to scrutiny
Foundry hammers security into switches
News Foundry is the latest vendor to build firewall and denial-of-service protection into the network
TeleWare unveils private mobile network
News The system allows companies to plug a short-range GSM system into the PBX, making for a new kind of fixed-mobile convergence
Silicon Graphics sues ATI over patent
News The move comes just days after SGI exited Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection with new financing, a trimmed-down product line and new executives and board members
Chipmakers trim prices
News AMD's Turion price cuts should mean lower-cost notebooks
Botnet malware proliferates on Windows PCs
News Microsoft found more than 43,000 new variants of such insidious software in the first half of 2006
Microsoft ships Windows Defender
News The free anti-spyware program is expected to raise the competitive stakes with security vendors McAfee and Symantec, which charge for similar products
Firefox 2 goes live
News New features include session restore, phishing protection and a revamped interface
