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04 Jul 2008 15:57:27 Finding the sharing button Interview Did anyone, I wonder, ever buy just one Motown single? Or just one 2-Tone single? And while you're pondering... can you even remember what major label your favourite artist is on? Unigram, perhaps. Or Polycorpse.… 04 Jul 2008 15:45:48 Hitachi promises 1TB per square inch Hitachi has pledged to release a 5TB 3.5in hard drive within two years, and it claims two of the drives will boast enough capacity to store everything in your brain.… 04 Jul 2008 15:39:32 Who has the first SCC with Intel's new chip? PC World today claimed to have beated Asus to the punch by launching the first Small, Cheap Computer in the UK equipped with an Intel Atom processor.… 04 Jul 2008 15:23:59 As in 'Dude, where's my multispectral imaging device?' DARPA, the renowned bulgy-bonced battle-boffinry bureau (apparent motto: 'If you can't beat them... well, some sort of murderous killer robot army would seem to be in order') has just issued its latest call for notions. This time, the Pentagon science chiefs want a new and ultra-puissant combo nightsight module.… 04 Jul 2008 15:20:04 Photoshoppers, pick up your brushes... Competition More than a decade after it crashed and burned so spectacularly, WiReD - the house magazine for the Children of the Corn - is returning to the UK.…  04 Jul 2008 14:39:14 Waiting for the second coming Apple has failed to keep software for the iPhone up to date with patches available for its desktop PCs.… 04 Jul 2008 14:12:31 Job cuts consultation underway Government services firm Serco is looking to cut up to 500 jobs from its IT division, with satellite offices and its Birmingham HQ all likely to be hit.… 04 Jul 2008 13:54:54 Next gen network quid pro quo tabled The boss of Ofcom has given the clearest indication yet that regulators are ready to offer BT more control over a next generation UK broadband infrastructure in exchange for investment.… 04 Jul 2008 13:22:18 And be damn grateful about it, worms Well, I was actually hoping to spend this Friday performing my usual duties, perhaps enjoying a little light banter with my colleagues, and then sauntering out at lunchtime to get society-endangeringly drunk.… 04 Jul 2008 13:00:00 Claims targets exceeded, but fee income tiny Government plans to position the Identity & Passport Service as the UK's de facto identity services broker seem not to have entirely caught the imagination of the private sector, figures in IPS' annual report and accounts suggest. Although IPS recruited 44 new customers for its Passport Validation Service (PVS), income from this for the year ending March 2008 was only £357,000.… 04 Jul 2008 12:47:43 Military celebrate limited-disaster triumph The UK Ministry of Defence has received some qualified praise for its ongoing, enormous effort to replace hundreds of different internal IT systems comprising scores of thousands of machines with a single integrated infrastructure.…  04 Jul 2008 12:23:45 Like déjà vu all over again Wall Street shut down for the long July 4 weekend pondering a puzzler. It emerged yesterday that Verisign CEO Bill Roper had suddenly quit the firm to be replaced by the firm's founder and chairman, Jim Bidzos.… 04 Jul 2008 12:13:29 Bringing digital to Scart-free tellies Review Thousands of Brits are going to find their analogue TVs incapable of picking up a signal come 2012. Clearly, that doesn't concern too many of us, since we're still buying plenty of analogue tellies.… 04 Jul 2008 11:43:11 Liberties sacrificed for 'an illusion' Interview As polling day approaches for the Howden and Haltemprice by-election, voters and observers are left with an eerie sense of déjà vu as Labour once again refuses to debate its civil liberties record with David Davis.… 04 Jul 2008 11:26:03 Seller fury prompts backdown eBay Australia has given up on its attempt to force virtually all payments through its subsidiary PayPal.… 04 Jul 2008 11:17:31 'Bulge' wave power - a hard one to swallow? British professors have secured government research funding for their plans to generate energy using gigantic black rubber snake-like devices moored off the UK coasts.… 04 Jul 2008 11:09:13 Banana republic, sceptic isle redux Popstar turned humanitarian Bob Geldof has thrown his unkempt weight behind David Davis' by-election campaign.…  04 Jul 2008 11:00:46 And mystery code injection flaw Opera released an update to the latest version of its browser on Thursday.… 04 Jul 2008 10:58:16 Corporate Rainmen avoid panic attack over word count Google has finally added a link to its privacy (or lack thereof) policy on its homepage following pressure from privacy advocates.… 04 Jul 2008 10:10:48 US consumers eye Apple smartphone More than half of US consumers looking to buy a smartphone in the next three months will opt for Apple's 3G iPhone.…
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