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'Google Earth for the Iraq insurgency' gets $115m
Pentagon boffinry chiefs have decided to spend more than a hundred million dollars on a new military database/map system which will let troops in the field collect, share and organise intelligence more effectively.…
Google grabs another ad company
Google has bought another display ad company - the second this month.…
Record company exec cuffed for failure to twitter
Long Island police last week cuffed Island Def Jam Records vice prez James Roppo for failing to disperse a crowd of hysterical teenagers with the social networking equivalent of the water cannon - a tweet.…
Combat games disrespect war laws, report claims
Videogames should respect the real-world rules governing wars, a report has concluded, following research into how many videogames break them.…
Samsung X520 notebook
Review With smooth, curved edges and an eye-pleasing design, the 15.6in X520 slips into Samsung’s new X-series range. There are two other X-series models: the 11.6in X120 and 14in X420. The focus is on mobility here and, as such, all feature so-called CULV - Consumer Ultra-Low Voltage - processors and integrated graphics from Intel.…
Imation notebook flash upgrade as easy as pi to 30 places
You now have the option of pepping up your sorry notebook by using an Imation solid state drive (SSD) upgrade kit, but only if you are happy getting inside its casing and swapping out its hard drive for the SSD.…
iPhone conquers half the (smartphone) world
Apple's iPhone now accounts for 50 per cent of worldwide smartphone usage, according to a new report. But off in the distance, there's an Android approaching.…
Government ICT spending heads for plateau
Public sector spending on ICT is set to stabilise over the next five years.…
Wikipedia springs free labor leak
Wikipedia is leaking free labor - and fast.…
Adaptec sacks sales chief, boots CEO from board
Adaptec has suddenly fired John Noellert, its worldwide sales boss, and Adaptec's CEO has been voted off the board.…
Cray previews XT6 Opteron nodes
SC09 The SC09 supercomputing trade show finished up late last week, but El Reg still has a bunch of things to tell you about. One of them is a preview of the Opteron blade server for the upcoming high-end XT6 and midrange XT6m supercomputers from Cray.…
HP floats Q4 profit on services biz
Hewlett-Packard's profits grew 14 per cent in the fiscal fourth quarter, boosted by corporate cost-cutting and solid performance by its enormous services unit.…
Facebookers hit with steamy clickjacking exploit
Facebook administrators have blocked a clickjacking exploit that displayed images of a scantily clad woman on profile pages without first prompting the user for permission.…
IBM's cat-brain sim a 'scam,' says Swiss boffin
Responding to its nation's sovereign call to develop electronics with the intelligence of a cat, IBM last week announced a major step in feline gray matter simulation. But professional rivalries clearly run deep inside puss brain replication circles, with a leading neuroscientist blasting the project as a "scam" and a "mass deception of the public."…
IE bug leaks private details from 50m PDF files
A bug in Microsoft's Internet Explorer browser is causing more than 50 million files stored online to leak potentially sensitive information that could compromise user privacy, a security researcher said.…
Rogue iPhone dev unmoved by App Store spin
Apple marketing veep Phil Schiller has put another smiley face on company's capricious iPhone App Store approval process - but at least one developer who spent months battling the App Store police isn't buying Schiller's spin.…
Bing search bribery a retailer magnet
Bing has boosted Microsoft's retailer revenues by nearly 50 per cent, according to a new search-ad study.…
Google hoodwinked into pushing Chrome OS scareware
Rogue anti-virus scammers have tainted search results for Chromium OS - the open source version of Google's Chrome OS - in a bid to expose surfers hunting the web operating system to a fake anti-virus scan scam instead.…
Cisco pumps out iPhone security app
Cisco has pushed out a new iPhone app that helps IT managers respond to newly-detected security threats by the seat (pocket) of their pants.…
Weather balloons no longer a crazy idea for rural coverage
As the US gets serious about opening up mobile broadband to its entire population, it is hunting for new spectrum options to support that.…