August 1, 2010 | ||||
| 11:41 | Ofcom prepares to open up on emissions | |||
| <h4>Unless they're secret of course</h4> <p>Ofcom is preparing to open up its radio licence database, so anyone who wants to keep their transmissions secret needs to let the regulator know before 12 November.…</p> | ||||
| 05:15 | Aussie broadband is slower than a slow thing in a slow town | |||
| <h4>Slower than New Zealand</h4> <p>So Australia is building a superfast fibre to the home (FTTH) national broadband network and not a minute too soon.…</p> | ||||
| 05:15 | Biometric and Other Locks Fail to Foil Hackers at DefCon | |||
| LAS VEGAS — It wouldn’t be DefCon without a noted lock hacking team demonstrating the gross insecurity of some of the latest security locks, such as a biometric lock that could be easily cracked with a paper clip. <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/Hc1bFCzeXj9r25Q2JWjBDKLflHE/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/Hc1bFCzeXj9r25Q2JWjBDKLflHE/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/Hc1bFCzeXj9r25Q2JWjBDKLflHE/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/Hc1bFCzeXj9r25Q2JWjBDKLflHE/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/wired/index/~4/KB4LjcCpiSo" height="1" width="1"/> | ||||
| 05:15 | Do Not Call List Tops 200 Million, Some Still Ignore It | |||
| <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/GrBccdR8akv41LJMbTnga3uNIyA/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/GrBccdR8akv41LJMbTnga3uNIyA/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/GrBccdR8akv41LJMbTnga3uNIyA/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/GrBccdR8akv41LJMbTnga3uNIyA/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/wired/index/~4/GVllY-Nnol8" height="1" width="1"/> | ||||
July 31, 2010 | ||||
| 17:31 | 3D Dot Game Heroes | |||
| <h4>The closest you’ll get to <em>Zelda</em> without dusting off your NES?</h4> <p><strong>Review</strong> Feeling nostalgic for 8-bit gaming? Then <em>3D Dot Game Heroes</em> will, no doubt, satisfy. There’s no need to drag out your <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20071020045136/http://www.nintendo.com/systemsclassic?type=nes" target="_blank"><em>NES</em></a> as this square-edged upstart hails from the land of Sony and is exclusive to <a href="http://www.reghardware.com/2010/03/20/review_gaming_sony_ps3_slim_console/">Playstation 3</a>. With fervour for the 1980s increasingly present in popular culture (<a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1231587/" target="_blank"><em>Hot Tub Time Machine</em></a>, anyone?), <em>3D Dot Game Heroes</em> buys into this sentimentalism and looks, plays and sounds like nothing else around since 1986.…</p> | ||||
| 14:13 | Reg Hardware Reviews Digest | |||
| <h4>Another chance to see our reviews from the last week</h4> <p>In the past seven days, <em>Reg Hardware</em> reviewed many products from the worlds of consumer electronics, photography, gaming, mobile communications and information technology.…</p><p><strong><small><a href="http://whitepapers.theregister.co.uk/paper/view/1514/?ftd=rss">Free On-Demand Webcast - Virtualizing the Hard Stuff</a></small></strong></p> | ||||
| 14:13 | iPhone 4: And now we are 3 (Mobile) | |||
| <h4>Cheap deals for all</h4> <p>3 Mobile is shipping iPhone 4 today - along with <a href="http://www.reghardware.com/2010/07/30/iphone_4_tmobile/">T-Mobile UK</a>, it was the last UK network to announce availability.…</p> | ||||
| 14:13 | Sony Bravia KDL-32NX503 32in LCD TV | |||
| <h4>Smaller sized set with big screen extras</h4> <p><strong>Review</strong> Monolithic is a desirable word, unless it’s applied to small things like a mobile phone, a peanut, a shrew. So does it fit a flatscreen TV, especially one at the lower end of screen sizes deemed suitable for a living room?…</p> | ||||
| 14:13 | Disney throws $763m at social gaming | |||
| <h4>Getting animated about Facebook</h4> <p>Disney has thrown over three quarters of a billion dollars to bring it up to Goliath status in the online gaming world, acquiring two and a half year old Playdom, which offers games for social networks – the new buzzword in gaming that has all the VCs on the planet hopping onto investments.…</p> | ||||
| 09:18 | Social-engineering contest reveals secret BP info | |||
| <h4>Hacking human gullibility at Defcon</h4> <p><strong>Defcon</strong> A hacker competition that challenges contestants to trick employees of large companies into divulging potentially sensitive information aims to show how human gullibility is the biggest security vulnerability of all. During its first day at the Defcon hacker contest in Las Vegas, it had clearly achieved its goal.…</p> | ||||
| 09:18 | 'Death to browsers!' cries Apple mobile-app patent | |||
| <h4>The camel's nose under Google's tent</h4> <p>A trio of Apple filings seek to patent mobile-application "systems and methods" for travel and online shopping — and to move us three steps closer to a Google-free world.…</p> | ||||
| 09:18 | Microsoft gets dirty with Gmail cloud cash fight | |||
| <h4>Dressing up what you kill</h4> <p>Microsoft is so committed to the cloud that it's throwing everything at rivals like Google to crack open the door on sales and gain momentum online.…</p><p><strong><small><a href="http://whitepapers.theregister.co.uk/paper/view/1514/?ftd=rss">Free On-Demand Webcast - Virtualizing the Hard Stuff</a></small></strong></p> | ||||
| 09:18 | RIM answers Apple iPad with...The BlackPad* | |||
| <h4>* - offensive humor may vary</h4> <p>BlackBerry maker Research in Motion is preparing to launch an iPad competitor in November, and it will be called the BlackPad, according to a report citing two people familiar with the company's plans.…</p> | ||||
| 09:18 | AMD, GlobalFoundries, and the Intel gap | |||
| <h4>Gate not closing</h4> <p>When AMD spin-off GlobalFoundries broke ground on its fab in upstate New York last year, the chip manufacturer boasted it was "closing the gap" on Intel. "We were a year behind Intel at the 45nm node, and that difference will be cut significantly at the 32nm generation," <a target="_blank" href="http://english.ime.cas.cn/ns/es/201001/t20100108_49904.html">said</a> vice president of manufacturing systems technology Tom Sonderman. "By 22nm, there will be no difference. It will be in the noise level."…</p> | ||||
| 09:18 | Boffins authenticate Apple 'Antennagate' | |||
| <h4>Judas Phone 'death grip' proven fatal</h4> <p>More evidence has surfaced that Apple's beleaguered Judas Phone does, indeed, have serious reception challenges — and today's facts and figures come from a sophisticated source.…</p> | ||||
| 09:18 | MS preps emergency patch for Windows shortcut peril | |||
| <h4>Attacks on rise</h4> <p>Warning of an uptick in attacks, Microsoft plans to issue an emergency update to patch a critical Windows vulnerability that hackers are exploiting to seize control of PCs.…</p> | ||||
| 09:18 | Microsoft cries foul on Yahoo!-Google Japan deal | |||
| <h4>Hunts down Japanese FTC</h4> <p>Microsoft will try to stop Yahoo! from hooking up with Google in Japan.…</p><p><strong><small><a href="http://whitepapers.theregister.co.uk/paper/view/1514/?ftd=rss">Free On-Demand Webcast - Virtualizing the Hard Stuff</a></small></strong></p> | ||||
| 09:18 | Microsoft Street Slide: Street View done properly | |||
| <h4>Take a peep</h4> <p>Leaving aside the creepy privacy aspects, Street View is one of Google's most valuable services. The ability to familiarise yourself with somewhere strange, before you arrive, is genuinely useful.…</p> | ||||
| 09:18 | Futurologist defends 'malevolent dust' warning | |||
| <h4>Dust up over supposed evil particles</h4> <p>A futurologist has defended his controversial warning that "smart dust" is liable to become a future information stealing threat.…</p> | ||||
| 09:18 | Unisys floats mainframe cloud | |||
| <h4>A ClearPath to the development skies</h4> <p>A mainframe cloud may seem oxymoronic like a lead Zeppelin ("a" included on purpose), or intuitively obvious (given the virtualization and metering capabilities that have been in mainframes for decades). But Unisys has nonetheless fluffed up a mainframe cloud for its ClearPath mainframe customers.…</p> | ||||
| 09:18 | BlueArc gets extra greenbacks | |||
| <h4>$20 million</h4> <p>BlueArc, the hardware-accelerated NAS array supplier startup, has pocketed another $20m in a seventh funding round, taking total funding to around $225m.…</p> | ||||
| 09:18 | US law to neuter libel tourism | |||
| <h4>Render foreign beatdowns unenforceable</h4> <p>The US House of Representatives has passed a law which will render libel rulings from the English courts unenforceable there. The bill has already been passed by the Senate and will go to US President Barack Obama to be signed into law.…</p><p><strong><small><a href="http://whitepapers.theregister.co.uk/paper/view/1514/?ftd=rss">Free On-Demand Webcast - Virtualizing the Hard Stuff</a></small></strong></p> | ||||
| 09:18 | UK supermarket starts contactless payments | |||
| <h4>No touching</h4> <p>Spar is going contactless, attracted by the four pence per transaction the company could save by not asking shoppers for their PINs.…</p> | ||||
| 09:18 | Microsoft should starve on radical penguin diet | |||
| <h4>Capitalism and open source</h4> <p><strong>Open...and Shut</strong> When the mouthpiece of American capitalism calls a company a dog, it's time to re-evaluate that company's chances.…</p> | ||||
| 09:18 | Mozy insists: It's not a bug... | |||
| <h4>...it's a... yes, one of those!</h4> <p>Mozy says that the bugs <a target="_blank" href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/07/27/mozy_home_repetition/">reported by users</a> concerning repeated full backups were not bugs at all, instead reflecting a feature of the product.…</p> | ||||
| 09:18 | Delegate hacks into Black Hat streaming video | |||
| <h4>What happens in Vegas...</h4> <p>Security shortcomings in Black Hat's newly established streaming media service allowed a security consultant to hack into the system and see presentations for free.…</p> | ||||
| 01:51 | Analysis: Google Stumbles, Again, With China Outage Report | |||
| Google mistakenly reported Thursday that China began censoring its web search again. It's a blunder that adds to a list of missteps over the last six months that have the net's top tech company looking unprofessional. <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/FMwrVbO3V_FiEV5m67wP5FgxkxI/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/FMwrVbO3V_FiEV5m67wP5FgxkxI/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/FMwrVbO3V_FiEV5m67wP5FgxkxI/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/FMwrVbO3V_FiEV5m67wP5FgxkxI/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/wired/index/~4/O7Z4ZXywS3M" height="1" width="1"/> | ||||
| 01:51 | American iPad Users Pay Among the Highest for Data Worldwide | |||
| Accessing data on the iPad is the United States is a lot more expensive than almost anywhere in the world. American users pay some of the highest prices in terms of dollars per gigabyte of data on the iPad. <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/fLslhA6HLvZpAsG_G0XvdCLKLAU/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/fLslhA6HLvZpAsG_G0XvdCLKLAU/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/fLslhA6HLvZpAsG_G0XvdCLKLAU/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/fLslhA6HLvZpAsG_G0XvdCLKLAU/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/wired/index/~4/oyQb2IrsLDM" height="1" width="1"/> | ||||
| 01:51 | Physicists Dream Up the Antilaser | |||
| Fifty years after physicists invented the laser, ushering in everything from supermarket scanners to music CDs, scientists have conceived its opposite — the "antilaser." <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/jYJJ60DcmyQK7vQS-ZrglpW5oq8/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/jYJJ60DcmyQK7vQS-ZrglpW5oq8/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/jYJJ60DcmyQK7vQS-ZrglpW5oq8/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/jYJJ60DcmyQK7vQS-ZrglpW5oq8/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/wired/index/~4/qaco-d3f7KM" height="1" width="1"/> | ||||
| 01:51 | Cheaper, Better Satellites Made From Cellphones and Toys | |||
| Instead of investing in their own computer research and development, engineers at the NASA Ames Research Center are looking to cellphones and off-the-shelf toys to power the future of low-cost satellite technology. <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/TvcOSWDt-IaIIfXDVW6fXNIdmw0/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/TvcOSWDt-IaIIfXDVW6fXNIdmw0/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/TvcOSWDt-IaIIfXDVW6fXNIdmw0/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/TvcOSWDt-IaIIfXDVW6fXNIdmw0/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/wired/index/~4/HpusZZjAE0s" height="1" width="1"/> | ||||
| 01:51 | DIY Wearable Computer Turns You Into a Cyborg | |||
| A Swedish researcher and entrepreneur has taken the first step toward becoming a cyborg by creating a wearable computer that can be slung across the body. <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/yCr8Q8S1XBycdKMTxV0IVdgVZSM/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/yCr8Q8S1XBycdKMTxV0IVdgVZSM/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/yCr8Q8S1XBycdKMTxV0IVdgVZSM/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/yCr8Q8S1XBycdKMTxV0IVdgVZSM/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/wired/index/~4/CyQ5r-eKE_g" height="1" width="1"/> | ||||
| 01:51 | WikiLeaks Posts Mysterious 'Insurance' File | |||
| In the wake of strong U.S. government statements condemning WikiLeaks' recent publishing of 77,000 Afghan War documents, the secret-spilling site has posted a mysterious encrypted file labeled "insurance." <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/PwEMs-cu313drdDu152b4YXLAik/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/PwEMs-cu313drdDu152b4YXLAik/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/PwEMs-cu313drdDu152b4YXLAik/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/PwEMs-cu313drdDu152b4YXLAik/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/wired/index/~4/Zn2gFbWrt-E" height="1" width="1"/> | ||||
July 30, 2010 | ||||
| 21:15 | Sharp Shooting Sony Cam Guides You, Even When Lost | |||
| A camera that's equal parts handsome sharpshooter and capable GPS guide? That would be the Cyber-Shot DSC-HX5V. <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/jGLg0nmO-Dya7-PxPQm2W9MVFoo/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/jGLg0nmO-Dya7-PxPQm2W9MVFoo/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/jGLg0nmO-Dya7-PxPQm2W9MVFoo/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/jGLg0nmO-Dya7-PxPQm2W9MVFoo/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/wired/index/~4/fB9llOX7SN0" height="1" width="1"/> | ||||
| 21:15 | Porn Industry Aroused by FaceTime Possibilities | |||
| You will not be surprised that the porn industry is all over the iPhone 4 -- and the latest business opportunity is, almost inevitably, FaceTime. <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/Ud3lFGsCuxwg8RXGDiDRw9MDdTU/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/Ud3lFGsCuxwg8RXGDiDRw9MDdTU/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/Ud3lFGsCuxwg8RXGDiDRw9MDdTU/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/Ud3lFGsCuxwg8RXGDiDRw9MDdTU/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/wired/index/~4/mD8fW8g7QH8" height="1" width="1"/> | ||||
| 21:15 | iPad Popular With Aviation Crowd | |||
| Developers and pilots are embracing the gadget, with apps that do everything from tell you the weather to show you the way. <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/znNZZKGqWdcgzA2Tnm_8GNzUNjw/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/znNZZKGqWdcgzA2Tnm_8GNzUNjw/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/znNZZKGqWdcgzA2Tnm_8GNzUNjw/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/znNZZKGqWdcgzA2Tnm_8GNzUNjw/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/wired/index/~4/D8qrJU9PGOk" height="1" width="1"/> | ||||
| 21:15 | Spotify Denies Reported Setbacks to U.S. Launch | |||
| Spotify's longstanding effort to launch in the United States was reportedly sent "back to square one" due to the derailment of its negotiations with one or more major labels. However, the company tells Wired.com that the report is bogus, and that it is still on track to launch here by the end of the year. <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/BcwFAb03X-FmWXv5kGQGIWFSsts/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/BcwFAb03X-FmWXv5kGQGIWFSsts/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/BcwFAb03X-FmWXv5kGQGIWFSsts/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/BcwFAb03X-FmWXv5kGQGIWFSsts/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/wired/index/~4/p_nV5xJXArM" height="1" width="1"/> | ||||
| 21:15 | Anonymous Sources Delay Speculated Facebook IPO Again, To 2012 | |||
| Facebook 'will probably' put off until 2012 the IPO it hasn't even acknowledged thinking about much yet, three people tell Bloomberg News. That adds about a year to the latest idle speculation of when Facebook might let its 500 million members (or anyone) become owners, as well. <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/1ctK2aVm2Rru52oZSxMEPOeHJpU/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/1ctK2aVm2Rru52oZSxMEPOeHJpU/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/1ctK2aVm2Rru52oZSxMEPOeHJpU/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/1ctK2aVm2Rru52oZSxMEPOeHJpU/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/wired/index/~4/HyUlPPkdboY" height="1" width="1"/> | ||||
| 21:15 | Pakistanis Ask: Drones? What Drones? | |||
| Here in the America, the CIA's drone war in Pakistan is hotly-contested. In Pakistan, two-thirds of the people have never heard of the drones, according to a new poll. You can hear the champagne corks popping at Langley. <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/UDZWmh55YwtkPqqR_l4PWCnEzFY/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/UDZWmh55YwtkPqqR_l4PWCnEzFY/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/UDZWmh55YwtkPqqR_l4PWCnEzFY/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/UDZWmh55YwtkPqqR_l4PWCnEzFY/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/wired/index/~4/WF0o1_uXsbg" height="1" width="1"/> | ||||
| 16:03 | Czechs toast Bud-beating beer win | |||
| <h4>Na zdraví!</h4> <p>Beer drinkers in the Czech Republic, and that's most of country, will be raising a glass today to celebrate a local victory against Anheuser-Busch, the maker of US "beer" Budweiser.…</p><p><strong><small><a href="http://whitepapers.theregister.co.uk/paper/view/1514/?ftd=rss">Free On-Demand Webcast - Virtualizing the Hard Stuff</a></small></strong></p> | ||||
| 16:03 | Xiotech forging secret Katana project | |||
| <h4>HDD & SSD hybrid craftsmanship?</h4> <p>Word has reached us of a development project codenamed Katana inside Xiotech, with hints that the project involves HDD and SSD hybrid craftsmanship.…</p> | ||||
| 16:03 | Cyber Security Challenge winner announced | |||
| <h4>Quickest crypto off the mark</h4> <p>The UK's Cyber Security Challenge has announced the winner of its prologue <a target="_blank" href="https://cybersecuritychallenge.org.uk">crypto puzzle</a>, as well as the solution - for anyone still struggling to find an answer.…</p> | ||||
| 16:03 | Former NSA Director: Hold Nations Responsible For Cyber Attacks, Period | |||
| LAS VEGAS — Attribution is one of the biggest problems on the internet when it comes to cyberwarfare. How do you hold a nation responsible for malicious attacks if you can’t determine whether or not the activity was state-sponsored? It doesn't matter, former NSA Director Michael Hayden says. Do it anyway. <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/tWiMvBxRVhpGMbBN3ChpidKqodc/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/tWiMvBxRVhpGMbBN3ChpidKqodc/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/tWiMvBxRVhpGMbBN3ChpidKqodc/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/tWiMvBxRVhpGMbBN3ChpidKqodc/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/wired/index/~4/W7wnnwx49N8" height="1" width="1"/> | ||||
| 16:03 | TalkTalk talks up SIM only mobile deals | |||
| <h4>Signs Voda UK for heavy lifting</h4> <p><a target="_blank" href="http://broadband.talktalk.co.uk/">TalkTalk</a> is to launch its own mobile phone service, thanks to a deal with Vodafone UK.…</p> | ||||
| 16:03 | UK.gov sticks to IE 6 cos it's more 'cost effective', innit | |||
| <h4>Uproarious web developers die a little inside</h4> <p>Computers in Whitehall will largely continue to run Microsoft’s Internet Explorer 6, which will make web coders spit out their cheese‘n’pickle sarnies this lunchtime.…</p> | ||||
| 16:03 | T-Mobile UK pumps out the iPhone 4 | |||
| <h4>Shaves tariffs</h4> <p>Last month, we reported T-Mobile UK's price-plans for the iPhone 4. Today the telco start shipping the iphone, and has come in with lower tariffs .…</p><p><strong><small><a href="http://whitepapers.theregister.co.uk/paper/view/1514/?ftd=rss">Free On-Demand Webcast - Virtualizing the Hard Stuff</a></small></strong></p> | ||||
| 16:03 | Polaroid 300 instant print camera | |||
| <h4>Fun retro-snapper revived</h4> <p><strong>Review</strong> The news that Polaroid has a new instant camera, after we thought it was <a href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/02/11/polaroid_plant_closures/">done with all that frivolity</a>, is likely to be greeted with squeals of nostalgic joy. While digital is superior in almost every sense there's a real warmth about those 80s prints that we remember adorning fridges and noticeboards. The Polaroid 300 (tsk, these unwieldy techie names) takes you straight back to your childhood, making a spontaneity-encouraging break from all that DSLR refinement.…</p> | ||||
| 16:03 | NatWest dumps O2 Money | |||
| <h4>So who gets the DVD collection?</h4> <p>A year after leaping into bed with O2, NatWest is no longer backing the operator's pre-paid credit card offering, citing differences in strategic goals as the cause of the breakup.…</p> | ||||
| 16:03 | YouTube ups video time limit | |||
| <h4>Generosity knows no bounds</h4> <p>YouTube has bumped its upload limit to 15 minutes for users of the Google-owned video sharing website.…</p> | ||||
| 16:03 | Alleged expenses fiddlers to face justice | |||
| <h4>Parliamentary privilege claim kicked out</h4> <p>The four politicians facing fraud charges over their expenses today failed in their bid to avoid prosecution by using ancient Parliamentary privilege laws.…</p> | ||||
| 16:03 | Nude trampolinist bounces free from court | |||
| <h4>Hey, Mr Trampoline Man... what's that in your hand?</h4> <p>A 55-year-old described by the BBC as a 'man' and by Scotland's <i>Daily Record</i> as a 'pervert' has avoided jail after being spotted by neighbours having too much fun with too few clothes on a trampoline.…</p> | ||||
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