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Graphene, the 21st century's most promising new material, has acquired yet another entry in its burgeoning CV. A team led by graphene co-discoverer Professor Sir Andrew Geim at the University of Manchester has demonstrated that thin films of graphene oxide are impermeable to most gases and... Read more
by Rupert GoodwinsSamsung has been denied its second 3G patent claim against Apple by a German court. The Mannheim regional court in Germany rejected Samsung's... Read more
27 January, 2012 17:01 by Ben WoodsMotorola Mobility went from $80m in profit to a fourth-quarter loss of the same amount, thanks largely to expenses related to the pending takeover by Google Read more
27 January, 2012 17:19 by Roger ChengCompanies need to give people more access to personal information held about them, according to UK data protection authority the Information... Read more
27 January, 2012 17:01 by Tom EspinerResearch in Motion has cut the price of its QNX-powered BlackBerry PlayBook tablet for the second time since launch. The 16GB Wi-Fi only variant of... Read more
27 January, 2012 17:01 by Ben WoodsA lawyer who defended Newzbin at its 2010 trial has been indefinitely struck off, because it turned out he owned the file-sharing site. The Bar... Read more
27 January, 2012 16:01 by David MeyerThe technologies that underpin cloud computing have become so accessible that several UK datacentre operators are launching cloud services, but they are finding it difficult to distinguish their products among customers Read more
27 January, 2012 15:58 by Jack ClarkThe European Commission has dropped a privacy infringement case against the UK government over BT trials of Phorm behavioural advertising. The... Read more
27 January, 2012 15:01 by Tom EspinerSamsung's mobile phone sales were up 54 percent in the last three months of 2011, balancing weaker demand for PC memory and disaster-blighted supply chain problems Read more
27 January, 2012 15:31 by Ben WoodsPentagon hacker Gary McKinnon's case has 'dragged on', according to a high court judge, who has fixed a court date for July and told both defence and prosecution they must submit evidence before then Read more
27 January, 2012 14:23 by Tom Espiner 3 commentsIn 2011, Samsung became the world's largest manufacturer of smartphones, when it overtook both Apple and Nokia, according to US-based research company... Read more
27 January, 2012 14:01 by Jack Schofield
Blog Post Mark Shuttleworth's recent post about the planned Ubuntu Heads Up Display has...
27 January, 2012 by Jake Rayson
Blog Post In 2011, Samsung became the world's largest manufacturer of smartphones, when...
27 January, 2012 by Jack Schofield
Blog Post I do believe 2012 is going to be an exciting year for cloud computing, and...
27 January, 2012 by Alan Priestley
Blog Post Don't mind Google knowing your real name, or putting your photo against the...
26 January, 2012 by Simon Bisson and Mary Branscombe
"They have neglected to publicize a post-mortem..." I am sure that more granular details of the attack will eventually come out, if they are not...
7 hours ago by apexwm on Windows security breaches on the rise
At the end of the day, so to speak, one of the biggest problems is the unintended consequences, something we are all familiar with these days. We...
8 hours ago by Moley on UK signs ACTA as activists urge resistance
Malware stats are subject to the law of large numbers; the huge market share of Windows makes it the platform to attack. If we ever see the year of...
9 hours ago by Simon Bisson and Mary Branscombe on Windows security breaches on the rise Jack - not just the advertising but the Web tools, like Google Analytics, which is how Google can associate you searching for say 'how do I declare...
10 hours ago by Simon Bisson and Mary Branscombe on 'Do you trust Google?' is the wrong question Time that the case just went away, just like the Phorm case reported on ZDNet today. Reading the article, I don't see a strictly legal case to...
10 hours ago by Moley on Judge lights fire under McKinnon proceedings
@apexwm I was simply pointing out the naivety of your statement that "if they don't want their information stored at Google, then they shouldn't...
11 hours ago by Jack Schofield on 'Do you trust Google?' is the wrong question
kernel.org and linuxfoundation.org are run by the people *most* knowledgeable about Linux and security. You do not find anyone anywhere who knows...
11 hours ago by honeymonster on Windows security breaches on the riseIs this the beginning of the end to freedom of speech???
14 hours ago by Tim Syass via Facebook on UK signs ACTA as activists urge resistance Jack, what is your definition of " a partial PaaS"? I haven't heard the term partial PaaS or full PaaS before. Sounds a bit like hedging on...
14 hours ago by chris haddad on Amazon cuts off stack at the PaaS Yes, stricly speaking, McKinnon is wanted for 'stealing' blank passwords (an impossibility if ever there was one, not to mention that passwords...
15 hours ago by JonathanJ on Judge lights fire under McKinnon proceedingsCrucially, without the damage, McKinnon's actions are not an extraditable offence. Even his admissions to the non-extraditable Summary Offence are...
15 hours ago by Claire Simmons via Facebook on Judge lights fire under McKinnon proceedings
Interestingly, at a recent conference held by analyst STL Partners, security was no longer top of the list of concerns. Instead, it was IT jobs...
15 hours ago by manek on Will 2012 be the year of the cloud? Jack : I am not saying I agree with Google excessively tracking users. But, I think social networks (i.e. Facebook, Google+) are doing much worse...
17 hours ago by apexwm on 'Do you trust Google?' is the wrong question @apexwm Google puts a long-life cookie on your hard drive, and a Wall Street Journal article found it tracked you more than anybody else because...
18 hours ago by Jack Schofield on 'Do you trust Google?' is the wrong question servermanagement : Agreed. I highly recommend using a non-Internet Explorer browser, if you are using Windows, like Firefox or Chrome. And in...
18 hours ago by apexwm on Windows security breaches on the rise Ironically I have just re-read / re-listened-to Cory Doctorow's "Scroogled" which just shows that, thus far, Google is not that Evil at all.
18 hours ago by natalief on 'Do you trust Google?' is the wrong question @toast171 You're asking for *facts* about Windows on a blog called "The open source revolution"? ;-)
18 hours ago by Jack Schofield on Windows security breaches on the rise Google and any of these services aren't going to know your name and personal data, other than your IP address, client, etc. that is obtainable...
19 hours ago by apexwm on 'Do you trust Google?' is the wrong question Do you have statistics on thenumber of incidents on Windows rising at the end of 2011, or is it just an assertion?
19 hours ago by toast171 on Windows security breaches on the rise
@James Watters Thanks for pointing that out. Amazon has developed significant PaaS capabilities since Vogels first said that a little under a year...
21 hours ago by Jack Clark on Amazon cuts off stack at the PaaS
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There's a pretty good chance your wide area network (WAN) looks like a mess right now. The rapid adoption of... Read more
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