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Mutated genetic supertrout developed in lab
After ten years of tinkering with DNA in a Rhode Island lab, a top fish boffin claims he has created a genetically enhanced mutant supertrout.…
Database state breached 11 times
Home Secretary Alan Johnson has given Parliament some details on the most recent breaches of the various identity databases held by his ministry.…
Estonian DDoS revenge worm crafter jailed
An Estonian virus writer has been jailed for two and a half years for creating a Windows worm family that launched denial of service attacks on the websites of a local insurance firm and ISP.…
Tories pat small biz heads in open source IT procurement pledge
Shadow chancellor of the exchequer George Osborne claimed today that the Conservative party, if elected to form the next government, would meet its "ambition" of ensuring that the next generation of "Googles, Microsofts and Facebooks" were British companies.…
Home Sec says 17m ID cards in circulation by 2017
The government expects to have issued 17 million ID cards by 2017, Home Secretary Alan Johnson told the Commons yesterday.…
Virgin signals start of telegraph pole broadband test
Virgin Media is to see whether it can string up extensions to its fibre-optic network to Britain's telegraph poles in a bid to explore ways of bringing high-speed broadband to rural communities.…
Home Secretary swats away calls for Mosquito ban
A European committee is calling for a community-wide ban on the Mosquito device which gets rid of teenagers by emitting an irritating buzzing noise that older people cannot hear, even though the device has the backing of Home Secretary Alan Johnson.…
Punters: we want our internet TV
Consumers really do want to access internet video on their tellies, market watcher In-Stat has concluded.…
Top exorcist says Satan at work in Vatican
The Catholic Church's top exorcist has warned that Satan is alive and well and causing a whole load of problems at the Holy See.…
Tories on cyber war: Waffle, mutter, waffle. Um, vote for us!
Tory peer and shadow security minister Baroness Pauline Neville Jones has set out her party's thoughts on cyber war and defence. Unfortunately once the waffle is stripped away there's pretty much nothing there.…
Japanese phone boasts killer slacker-sensing app
Japanese phone co KDDI has been telling the BBC that its latest phones can sense when an employee is slacking off.…
Password reset questions dead easy to guess
Guessing the answer to common password reset questions is far easier than previously thought, according to a new study by computer science researchers.…
MySpace first to drop pants on Outlook
Microsoft has now slotted MySpace updates into its Outlook application.…
Sony launches 'WiiMote for PS3'
It's not Arc, it's Move, Sony revealed yesterday when it took the wraps off its Wii-style motion controller system for the PlayStation 3.…
US comp-boffins claim fix for multicore 'concurrency bugs'
American computer boffins say they have developed new software which makes programming of multi-processor machines much easier.…
Geeks Guide 2 Cloud Computing
Geeks Guide2 Cloud Computing with the Windows Azure Platform is written for aspiring Windows Azure programmers by Roger Jennings, author of over 30 books on Microsoft technologies. It offers an excellent overview of cloud computing and provides a structured tutorial format that guides you through Jennings’ approach for programming Windows Azure Storage Services and web, worker, and .NET Services applications.…
Jobcentre turns to the iPhone
The UK's Jobcentre Plus service is now available through an iPhone application and Android, providing a vital service to the jobless-but-gadget-obsessed.…
Bogus Playstation emulators pack Trojan payload
Retro gaming fans are being targeted in a new con designed to infect computers with a Trojan linked to scareware scams.…
Microsoft shows Bottom to Young Ones
Microsoft was due to take the full fat version of its video player out of beta today, treating UK viewers to high-end entertainment such as Skins, Shameless and The Young Ones.…
Blighty surrenders to Street View
Blighty today surrendered to Sreet View's all-seeing eye as Google extended the service's coverage to encompass 95 per cent of the UK.…
