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Microsoft slings mud in VMware living room - Taunts estranged son VMworld Microsoft's assault on VMware knows no bounds.…

LaCie catches ultra-small USB Flash drive bug - MosKeyto flies in Ordinary USB Flash drives to darn big for you? LaCie's new MosKeyto protrudes a mere 6mm from the USB port it's connected to.…Free On-Demand Webcast - Virtualizing the Hard Stuff

HyTrust takes auditing, monitoring to the clouds - Safe SOX for your virtual box VMworld Virtual security appliance maker HyTrust is revving up its wares with a new 2.1 release and positioning itself as the go-to partner for auditing and compliance for VMware's new vCloud Director.…

Dell throws in 3PAR towel - HP pumps fist Dell has admitted defeat in its attempt to buy 3PAR.…

HMRC issues CD-rom alert to employers - Quaint system to be replaced in 2011 HM Revenue and Customs has warned employers who use its Employer CD-rom to update it immediately to avoid miscalculations.…

Toshiba touts £329 Folio Android tablet - 'Failio' spec? Do computer companies never learn from history? Clearly not, if Toshiba is anything to go by. Today, it launched its Android tablet, revealing the gadget is called Folio.…

US loses last chance for free wireless - Never a flyer, but finally grounded for good An audacious plan to provide free wireless internet access across the US has finally been killed off by the FCC, much to the delight of the cellular industry.…

AOL goes soul-searching with Google in 5-year deal - Gets into mobile search (result), agrees to provide content to YouTube (not so much) AOL has signed a deal with Google to make it the sole provider for paid text-based search and contextual ads on the company's US websites for the next five years.…Free On-Demand Webcast - Virtualizing the Hard Stuff

iTunes update plugs WebKit flaw - Ping-pong The latest version of iTunes for Windows addresses 13 security vulnerabilities, as well as adding much-publicised social networking functionality.…

Boris bikes for tourists delayed till year end - Systems not robust enough Visitors to London, and anyone else without a full account, will not be able to hire Boris bikes until the end of the year.…

HP bids $2.4bn for 3PAR - Dell's new offer given drubbing HP has raised its bid for 3PAR to $33 a share, around $2.4bn, beating a revised Dell offer made earlier today.…

Apple states tax take on UK iPod pricing - You pay this, we take that, George Osborne gets the other, Eurocrats get the rest Apple has made it explicitly clear how much more its charging UK consumers for its kit than US-based buyers.…

Jobs takes swing at Google over Android activations - Who's got the bigger count? Google and Apple's bush war flared up again as Steve Jobs apparently cast aspersions over Android's activation numbers as he unveiled Apple's latest iPod and TV scrub-up yesterday.…

Apple inks Ping trademark deal with golf gear maker - Orange Ping sticks to sweet stuff Apple cleared the use of the word Ping with golf company PING before using the name for its new Web2.0 music look-up feature in iTunes.…Free On-Demand Webcast - Virtualizing the Hard Stuff

General Motors bitchslaps Tesla with Range Anxiety™ - Fixed grins at cheeks-aflame 'leccycar firm As US motor mammoth GM gears up for the launch of its plug-in hybrid Chevrolet Volt, it has applied to trademark the term "range anxiety" - meaning the fear suffered by battery-car owners regarding their ability to get home again after a given journey. Upstart battery car maker Tesla Motors has issued a panicky and unconvincing statement in response.…

Verbatim InSight 500GB external hard drive - Coming clean on capacity Review Verbatim's InSight external hard drive is an unusual-looking offering, but that odd wave-like curve at the front is home to the unit's status readout screen.…

StreetView passed by Kiwi cops - Google's data slurp legal in New Zealand Police in New Zealand have bounced a complaint about Google's StreetView service back to the country's Privacy Commissioner.…

RFID patent pool prices up wireless - 0.08 cents per tag The RFID Consortium has opened for business after five years of negotiations, providing a one-stop shop for all the patents needed to manufacture RFID tags and readers.…

Punters still puzzled by broadband ads - Thanks for that Sherlock It will come as no surprise to regular readers that 90 per cent of UK consumers are confused by broadband advertising - we'd have to assume the missing ten per cent are marketing bods for ISPs.…

My Exchange conversion - Exchange Server 2010 heals 2007 release trauma Sysadmin blog Recently I had the opportunity to walk through complete installs of Exchange Server 2003 and Exchange Server 2010. Although I have used Exchange Server 2007 for the past two years, as with Vista, I prefer to pretend it never happened.…Free On-Demand Webcast - Virtualizing the Hard Stuff

NASA seeks inflatable popup roof for camper vans on Mars - Space 'lofts' to feature two-ply 'bummer shielding' NASA says it has selected finalists in an engineering competition to design an "inflatable loft", reminiscent of the extending roofs often fitted to camper vans, but in this case intended to deploy from the roof of a "hard-shell prototype habitat" for use by astronauts on the Moon or Mars.…

Hands on with Motorola's Milestone 2 and Defy - Latest Android handsets shot in the wild Video Tom Satchwell, Director of Marketing, Motorola Europe demonstrates the company's latest Android offerings, the Milestone 2 and the Defy.…

If HP gets 3PAR, does Donatelli get HP? - HP, Dell, everyone schtum on 3PAR bids Opinion 3Par has not issued a statement recommending HP's $2bn bid for the company, despite the ending of a three-day period for Dell to mount a counter-offer.…

Samsung specs up 7in Android tablet - Vodafone to sell it Samsung has posted the spec for its upcoming Android tablet, the Galaxy Tab. And Vodafone has announced availability.…

Nokia blows Ovi Files out of the sky - Get off our cloud Nokia has pulled the plug on Ovi Files, its cloud-based storage system, and told users they've got a month before the the system gets wiped.…

Symantec and Snoop Dogg launch cybercrime rap contest - Now thass geekster Symantec has teamed up with rapper Snoop Dogg to launch a cybercrime rap contest.…

UK.gov fishes for ID ideas - Turns to IT suppliers, says 'Er, what do you think?' Directgov has asked IT suppliers to come up with new thinking on identity verification.…Free On-Demand Webcast - Virtualizing the Hard Stuff

How much aircraft fatigue is too much? - HPC eases the strain Here’s another “How HPC saves your worthless hide” type of story - our pals at InsideHPC publicized a collaboration between the Federal Aviation Administration and the Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC) that should increase air safety for people riding on planes and for the people standing around underneath them.…

Cyber-jihadists deface home of teddy bears' picnic - Get their Belvoirs mixed up Geographically mixed-up Algerian hackers made themselves look rather silly by defacing the website of an English stately home instead of Belvoir Fortress in Israel, their intended target.…

Dixons sales ain't all that - iPads and World Cup should've been a bigger boost DSGi shares fell very slightly this morning after the company said trading had held steady in the three months ended 24 July.…

Boffins explain greatest ever free kick - Roberto Carlos and his amazing exponential spiral Scientists have agreeably concluded that Roberto Carlos's 1997 free kick against France - a seemingly impossible blast into the back of the net from 115ft - was not the fluke some have claimed.…

Large companies ignore data centre advice - survey - Feel the need for it though Large companies across the UK increasingly turn to independent consultants when they want advice on the design and specification of a data centre. Almost all of them then ignore some or all of that advice, according to research released today.…

D-Link DHP-306AV powerline Ethernet adaptor - Network your mains cabling Review I use a couple of Devolo dLAN AVplus powerline Ethernet adaptors at home, to hook up my wired-only Sony Bravia connected telly to my router. They're great adaptors, but with a pass-through three-pin power socket, they're bulky. D-Link's latest adaptor, the DHP-306AV, offers a more compact alternative.…

MokaFive outs bare-metal PC hypervisor - Somewhere between VMware and Citrix Disappointed with the ridiculously skinny PC coverage offered by the XenClient bare-metal hypervisor just announced by Citrix Systems? Annoyed that VMware took its Client Virtualization Platform, also a so-called type 1 hypervisor for PCs, out behind the barn and gave it the Old Yeller? Then MokaFive is cooking up something you might find useful.…Free On-Demand Webcast - Virtualizing the Hard Stuff

New iPod crew: 'Phoney, futuristic, retro, doomed' - Apple admits error shock Apple has revamped three quarters of its iPod line. Or, more accurately, it upgraded one quarter, redesigned another, took a step back in time with a third, and left the final, not-even-mentioned quarter alone.…

Microsoft locks down Windows Phone 7 code - 10 million hours of test Windows Phone 7 is finally finished.…

Feds crack phone clone scam that cost Sprint $15m - More than 10,000 accounts spoofed Federal prosecutors have uncovered a scam that used tens of thousands of cloned cellphones to defraud Sprint out of $15m in lost long distance revenue.…

Red Hat in talks to buy JBoss cloud fluffer Makara - Middleware union Red Hat is in talks to buy a JBoss cloud provisioning startup called Makara, according to a source familiar with the matter.…

SUSE Linux hitches ride on enemy hypervisor - Straddles vSphere in search of cash VMworld Strange bedfellows VMware and Novell have officially released SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for VMware, a version of Novell's open source OS that piggybacks on every copy of VMware's vSphere hypervisor.…Free On-Demand Webcast - Virtualizing the Hard Stuff

Apple goes social with musical Ping - Games, networking and music Apple CEO Steve Jobs has unveiled the next two generations of iOS, updates that will bring multiplayer gaming and high-definition photography to iPhones, iPads and iPod Touches next week and wireless printing and media streaming in November.…

Cray and SGI push upgrades to latest supers - Tickle me, Elmo Supercomputer makers Cray and Silicon Graphics have done years of engineering to get their respective XE6 and Altix UV 1000 massively parallel supercomputers to market. And now, despite research funding woes among governments, research institutions, and corporations, the two companies face the challenging task of convincing customers of their prior machines to upgrade to the new iron.…

VMware app dev platform gazes beyond SpringSource Java - Eyes Ruby, PHP, .NET VMworld VMware says that its Cloud Application Platform – a means of building and deploying applications that has grown up around the SpringSource Java framework – will eventually embrace other programming languages, including Ruby-on-Rails, PHP, and perhaps .NET.…

Microsoft releases FixIt for critical flaw in 100 apps - Relief for Firefox, Nvidia, PowerPoint Microsoft has released a software tool that helps system administrators protect PCs against a critical class of vulnerabilities found in more than 100 applications from a variety of software makers.…

LightSquared illuminates 'partners' on US 4G roll out - America has a middle? Wholesale 4G network LightSquared is planning to start deployment in the middle of the USA and then spread to the coasts, according to documents sent out to potential partners.…Free On-Demand Webcast - Virtualizing the Hard Stuff

We've been here before: MS tweaks volume licensing site again - Partners prep brollies for November rain Microsoft will once again overhaul its error-prone volume licensing website in November, following months of glitches with the portal since Redmond relaunched it late last year.…

Tosh has tiniest flash bits - 24nm? It's what you do with it that counts, etc Toshiba has started mass-producing NAND flash ships using a 24nm process, and is offering the world's smallest 8GB flash chips.…

Microsoft reshuffles Windows 7 Family Pack - Toast marshmallows, burn Vista Microsoft has decided to rerun its Windows 7 Family Pack promotion, which was iced by Redmond at the end of last year.…

Symbian users Swype Samsung's tricks - World-beating text entry comes to Nokia The world's fastest text entry system, Swype, is now in Beta for Symbian S60 5th edition, allowing Nokia users to write by tracing a path rather than the old-fashioned tapping on keys.…

Geek tech firm loses Jedi credentials - Lucasfilm swoop crushes opposition Jedi Mind Inc has conceded that someone else might just own the term Jedi, and has changed its name to Mind Technologies Inc.…Free On-Demand Webcast - Virtualizing the Hard Stuff

Gartner chops PC shipment forecasts for 2010 - Treat yourself to a new PC before Halloween It is looking like Friday, October 22, is going to be a fabulous day to buy a new desktop, notebook, or netbook. That's a week before Hewlett-Packard finishes its fourth quarter of fiscal 2010 and also a week before PC rival Dell completes its third quarter of its fiscal 2011.…