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UCLA touts 300GHz graphene transistors

We know graphene is the best thing since sliced gallium arsenide to hit the electronics industry, thanks to the speed with which it dispatches electrons across its famous chickenwire network of... Read more

7 September, 2010 23:26 by Lucy Sherriff

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Govt to review US extradition treaty

Posted by Tom Espiner on 8 September, 2010 16:58

The UK government is to review the extradition treaty between the UK and the US in the light of cases like Gary McKinnon's, home secretary Theresa May has announced.

A panel of experts will be appointed to report by the end of next summer whether the treaty is unbalanced, the Guardian reported on Wednesday.

Critics of the treaty say that the burden of proof is lighter when the US extradites people from the... Read more

Ofcom pumps up the volume for 3G networks

Posted by Rupert Goodwins on 8 September, 2010 16:26

Ofcom has doubled the maximum power limit for 3G mobile phone operators base stations, from 62dBm to 65dBm - in old money, 1.5 kilowatts to three kilowatts, roughly the power of four microwave ovens.

More power is good, because it increases the range of a base station and improves the quality of calls and speed of data within that cell. More power can also be bad because it raises the chances of interference... Read more

Acer Aspire easyStore H341

Posted by First Take on 8 September, 2010 16:05

It's been fairly quiet on the Windows Home Server (WHS) front for a while, no doubt as manufacturers keep a keen eye on developments with the upcoming Mark 2 version, codenamed Vail. However, a recent fairly meaty update to the existing version of WHS coincided with Acer announcing a new version of its EasyStore server.

The Aspire easyStore H341 is cosmetically identical to the current H340 model, with the... Read more

Druva's smarts back up your laptops

Posted by manek on 8 September, 2010 11:42

Mobility is where we're all going, say the sages, and evidence seems to bear them out. From the kids at home to workers in the office, laptops are ousting desktops in a whole host of situations.

In particular, at work they're being used by people at all levels, allowing them to work wherever they are. But laptops are bit of a problem if you're an enterprise IT manager.

They're on and off the network at... Read more

Getac V200: a powerful, rugged convertible notebook

Posted by First Take on 8 September, 2010 09:07

Getac UK has announced the V200 fully rugged convertible notebook, which it says is the most powerful of its kind in the world. It's also the first rugged notebook to run on Intel's 2.0GHz Core i7 processor.

The notebook is MIL-STD-810G and IP65 compliant. It has a full magnesium alloy casing and features a fanless cooling system. It can be used in temperatures as low as minus 20 degrees Celsius.

The... Read more

LG phones to ship with next-gen Nvidia chips

Posted by Jack Clark on 7 September, 2010 18:19

LG Electronics has announced that its next series of high-end smartphones will come with Nvidia's Tegra 2 mobile processor.

The LG's Optimus Series of smartphones, due to ship in the fourth quarter of 2010, will be the first smartphones to use the chip.

Although not officially lauched, Tegra 2 is a system-on-chip (SoC) based on 45nm dual-core ARM CORTEX A9 CPU architecture integrated with Nvidia's first... Read more

Google's blobby mystery doodle consumes more CPU than Flash video (updated)

Posted by Jack Schofield on 7 September, 2010 12:44

Google has provided people who use its home page in the UK and Germany with a new toy: a blobby doodle where the balls that make up the letters flee from your mouse pointer. And like the Buckyballs doodle I wrote about recently, it’s a resource hog. In Microsoft’s Internet Explorer 8 running on Windows XP, it consumes about 40% of the CPU while the blobs are moving. It’s more efficient in Google Chrome,... Read more

Hackers - 25th Anniversary Edition

Posted by Book Reviews on 7 September, 2010 08:06

Twenty-five years ago the term 'hacker' didn't mean a cybercriminal, and the few who used it meant it as high praise. When Hackers first came out in 1984, Steven Levy was documenting how thirty years of brilliant and eccentric geeks (who were more interested in bending technology to their will than in building businesses, or even in what computers can actually do) had somehow produced a personal computer... Read more

Cloud Wars: The 3PAR Strikes Back

Posted by Archie Hendryx on 7 September, 2010 02:54

A long time ago (November 2009 to be precise), in a Cloud far far away, the Rebel Alliance of EMC, Cisco and VMware joined forces to form what are now dubbed Acadia and the VCE coalition. Soon after came the launches of VBlocks 0, 1 and 2 each respectively incorporating the EMC Celerra, Clariion or VMax with a stack of Cisco blades and switches and a layer of VMware virtualization to suit. Marketed as ‘best of... Read more

A Ping by any other name would pong a bit less

Posted by Jack Schofield on 7 September, 2010 00:48

As you have probably noticed from the associated geekgasm, Apple has announced a sort of social network that is tied to its own online shop and elephantine iTunes software.

Although some people found it to be “a big pile of steaming dung”, a haven for spammers and, as Mashable claimed, “slower than molasses in January at the North Pole during a legitimate Ice Age,” there’s nothing as weird about it as... Read more

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Govt to review US extradition treaty

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8 September, 2010 by Tom Espiner

Ofcom pumps up the volume for 3G networks

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8 September, 2010 by Rupert Goodwins

Acer Aspire easyStore H341

Blog Post It's been fairly quiet on the Windows Home Server (WHS) front for a while, no...

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Druva's smarts back up your laptops

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Well, itâ��s amazing. The miracle has been done. Hatâ��s off. Well done, as we know that â��hard work always pays offâ��, after a long struggle...

5 hours ago by mgibs17 on Salesforce chief: Enterprise tech lacks innovation

Well, itâ��s amazing. The miracle has been done. Hatâ��s off. Well done, as we know that â��hard work always pays offâ��, after a long struggle...

5 hours ago by mgibs17 on Govt to review US extradition treaty

omg!!!! I been using read hat linux for a while sience 1998 and i recently got tire of that distor and tryed slackware 13.1.... i no longer want...

10 hours ago by OpenSourceLinux on Slackware Linux 13.1

omg!!!! I been using read hat linux for a while sience 1998 and i recently got tire of that distor and tryed slackware 13.1.... i no longer want...

10 hours ago by OpenSourceLinux

About time too!

11 hours ago by Tezzer on Govt to review US extradition treaty

Speaking purely from observation, I've seen only a handful of people actually using netbooks (and have one myself). None of them were running...

11 hours ago by Tezzer on While PC shipments will grow to a million per day, netbooks are in decline

Imagine how stupid ZDnet must feel considering it takes about 10-30 seconds to load their stupid webpage filled with ads from other sites. While...

11 hours ago by WasteOfTime on Google’s Buckyballs doodle costs people money, drives users away

Unfortunately AnAmericanFellow you seem to be in the minority. ;)

12 hours ago by SeanTheMac on Google’s Buckyballs doodle costs people money, drives users away

@manek - No, I'm saying that there are concrete statements from netbook manufacturers and REPUTABLE analysts that indicate the Linux share of the...

13 hours ago by J.A. Watson on While PC shipments will grow to a million per day, netbooks are in decline

Mary : Being familiar with both Windows and Linux extensively, I would be curious to know what kinds of learning issues there were with Linux...

13 hours ago by apexwm on While PC shipments will grow to a million per day, netbooks are in decline

I always thought that Wave was ideal for machines and lousy for humans...

13 hours ago by sbisson on Forcing Things Social

Any news on when we'll see the putative benefits? It would be nice to see an uninterrupted data connection - even a 2G one - on a a train journey I...

13 hours ago by manek on Ofcom pumps up the volume for 3G networks

So you're saying that some 25 percent of netbook buyers throw away a copy of Windows they've paid for and install Linux instead. If netbook users...

13 hours ago by manek on While PC shipments will grow to a million per day, netbooks are in decline

Jamie, you bring up a good point. There hasn't been much news regarding netbooks in a while, especially on what they are running. Jack doesn't...

15 hours ago by apexwm on While PC shipments will grow to a million per day, netbooks are in decline

On behalf of all Americans, I would like to apologise for the twit that insisted on the American spelling of 'realized'. Some of us are aware of...

16 hours ago by AnAmericanFellow on Google’s Buckyballs doodle costs people money, drives users away

IE 7? It uses all that CPU just to open a tab. Really, I saw those claims, really, most of them are, simply put, just full of BS. My machine isn't...

17 hours ago by feaband

Mmm. Google could do with something like this. It would be brave of them - in fact, they could call it Google Brave. Or Cave. Or something like that.

17 hours ago by Rupert Goodwins on Forcing Things Social

"Linux being a disastrous failure in the netbook marketplace. (Linux went from 100% market share to less than 5%" Obviously untrue. Here is...

18 hours ago by J.A. Watson on While PC shipments will grow to a million per day, netbooks are in decline

> just want my default browser to load quickly so I can then as effortlessly as possible type > the URL I do want to go to and be done with it. In...

18 hours ago by Chris Rankin on Google’s Buckyballs doodle costs people money, drives users away

I always use Google as a home page for any PC I work on as I just want my default browser to load quickly so I can then as effortlessly as possible...

18 hours ago by eldridgep on Google’s Buckyballs doodle costs people money, drives users away