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Northamber musters 'cautious optimism'
Veteran distributor Northamber allowed itself a glimmer of optimism today as it unveiled its preliminary full year results.…
Panasonic adds iPlayer, Twitter to tellies
Panasonic has quietly rolled out a software update for its 2009 series of internet-connectable HD TVs. The patch usefully adds BBC iPlayer and - perhaps less so - a Twitter client.…
UK jobs growth grinds to a halt
The UK jobs market is unlikely to get any better this year - public sector jobs are falling and private sector posts are barely growing.…
Sony updates PS3 system software
Sony UK has posted PlayStation 3 firmware version 3.42. The update incorporates a "patch... added to address security vulnerability in the system software".…
Greenland ice loss rates 'one-third' of what was thought
The rate at which ice is disappearing from Greenland and Western Antarctica has been seriously overestimated, according to new research.…
Google rejigs privacy policy after ice-cream van man slam
Google announced that it tweaked its privacy policy last Friday, just hours after a satirical video ad appeared on a huge screen in New York's Times Square that poked fun at the firm's boss.…
TechCrunch purges Zeus malware attack
TechCrunch Europe has cleaned up its website following the discovery of malicious code that left visiting surfers exposed to infection by a variant of the infamous Zeus banking Trojan.…
Dell Streak causes user fury
Dell's Streak might now be running Android 2.1, but those who've upgraded are finding the newer OS takes away more than it adds to the tablet/phone crossbreed.…
Would you pay for a cooler, less creepy Facebook?
Sick of creepy, unaccountable social networks that are little more than hoarders and traders of personal information? Pete Lawrence, founder of the Big Chill Festival is too, and will today unveil his plans a member-supported service.…
Druva delivers deduping laptop backup
Three-year-old start-up Druva is opening an office in the UK and delivering global deduplicating backup software for laptops. It's Outlook and Office-aware to reduce network transmission loads, and it provides user self-service restores, which Druva says Avamar cannot.…
Think tank calls for gov IT commoditisation
The Network for the Post Bureaucratic Age has published a paper urging the government to break down its IT projects into smaller chunks.…
Retailers price up Samsung 7in Android tablet
Samsung's upcoming 7in Android tablet, the Galaxy Tab, is beginning to be priced up by retailers ahead of its anticipated arrival next month. Alas, it looks like it'll be a pricey offering.…
Custodial offence for deliberate invasion of data protection? Forget it!
I must confess that I find it rich that New Labour Ministers, who were in government for more than a decade, are now huffing and puffing about their “phone inboxes being hacked”. The sad truth is that, in government, they could have done a great deal to protect individual privacy by making such hacking a custodial offence.…
Symantec stumbles, drops further behind EMC
The gap between EMC and Symantec storage software revenues is widening, according to IDC's worldwide quarterly Storage Software Tracker.…
Happiness: Yours for £50k a year
US researchers have found that happiness can be yours for an income of $75k a year (or £48,814.44 as of this morning), although trousering more than that won't necessarily increase your joie de vivre.…
UK patent attorneys: ECJ should reject advisors' opinion
The European Court of Justice should reject the opinion of its advisors and put pragmatic economics ahead of legal technicalities and approve a pan-EU patent court, the UK patent attorneys' trade body has said.…
Bowers and Wilkins P5 headphones
Review Renowned for it high-end hi-fi, Bowers and Wilkins’ decision to make headphones is a bit of a departure for the company. At first glance, its debut set of cans, the P5s, certainly appear an impressive addition to its respected range of audio porn.…
Intel and USB 3.0
DigiTimes thinks Intel could add a USB 3.0 host controller to its Cougar motherboard reference design.…
Ellison taps ex-HP CEO Hurd as Oracle co-prez
Ex-HP CEO Mark Hurd has been named co-president at Oracle.…
