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Google Wave relies on kindness of strangers
Dreamforce 09 Google has been stumping for its Wave real-time collaboration system among the Salesforce.com faithful.…
Major IE8 flaw makes 'safe' sites unsafe
Exclusive The latest version of Microsoft's Internet Explorer browser contains a bug that can enable serious security attacks against websites that are otherwise safe.…
Dell is beat by The Street
Dell released its financial results for Q3 ended 30 October on Thursday, and for its troubles, it took a beating in after hours trading.…
Google Chrome OS - do we want another monoculture?
Yes, Google has open-sourced Chrome OS, its much-discussed browser-based operating system. But as usual, the open sourcing only says so much about its openness.…
Al Gore entertains the supercomputer troops
SC09 Former vice president and Nobel Prize winner Al Gore did his self-deprecating politician and climate change champion routine as a keynote for the HPC (high performance computing) faithful at the SC09 trade show in Portland, Oregon, this morning and did his best to get the HPC community fired up about the job they need to do to help normal people (as well as politicians) see and understand that we need to address climate change by changing our energy, transportation, water, and agriculture systems.…
Write haiku, win home server
Microsoft and Intel schwag?
Creativity
Intel and Microsoft want to give you a home server in exchange for 17 syllables of poetic artistry.…
Why Microsoft's IE 9 will frustrate standards fans
PDC Performance and standards look like dominating work on Microsoft's next version of Internet Explorer.…
Google adds automatic captions to YouTube
Google is adding new technology to YouTube that can automatically add text captions to videos using speech recognition.…
Intel invests in exafloppy future
Intel has announced that it is joining forces with a trio of French institutions to create a European research center focused on the development of supercomputers with exaflop-level performance.…
Users howl as Fedora 12 gives root to unwashed masses
Updated This story was updated about 11 hours after it was published to reflect that Fedora developers have reversed course. Operating system users once again will be required to enter a root password before installing software packages.…
Google open sources flash-happy Chrome OS
Updated It's a big week for Microsoft. Which means Google has made a point of spotlighting a product designed to undercut its Redmond arch rival.…
Scareware tool dumps smut on Windows PCs
Rogue anti-virus slingers are getting even sneakier. Instead of offering to clean up non-existent malware threats as per the traditional approach, one rogue scanner offers to clean up images of porn it claims to have found on a prospective mark's PC.…
AOL appeals for 2,500 job axe volunteers
AOL has asked 2,500 workers to volunteer for redundancy packages at the ailing web firm.…
FCC approves radio mast 'shot clock' rule
The FCC has agreed that local authorities must approve or deny applications for new radio towers within 150 days, or 90 days for additional kit on existing towers.…
NJ teen jailed over Scientology DDoS
A New Jersey teenager convicted of participating in a denial of service attack against the Church of Scientology has been jailed for a year.…
IBM squishes systems software into new business unit
As is usually the case at IBM, the official convergence is often announced long after various product lines were already well on their way toward a confluence behind the scenes. And so it is with a new unit of Big Blue's Systems and Technology Group, which put all of its operating systems and hypervisor virtualization software under the control of one group back in early September, but is just talking about it now.…
California votes in HD TV power pruning law
Legislators in California have voted to exterminate overly energy-hungry TVs, creating a law that insists the state’s tellies meet strict energy consumption standards.…
Will Ferrell is Hollywood's most <strike>over-rated</strike> overpaid star
Will Ferrell has landed Forbes' "Most Overpaid Star" honour, topping a list of names who sometimes "cost more than their box office worth".…
Qualcomm's nifty Skifta home P2P
A 6 man "startup" was one of the highlights of Qualcomm's first European R&D showcase today. Skifta is a private P2P network for media sharing - much like Orb. There's a small daemon that runs on Linux, Mac or PC and this sprays music, photos and other movies around different devices such as games consoles, TVs, your mobile or work PC.…
Santa menaced by sex offender postie
The US Postal Service has pulled the plug on a Santa Claus letter service which has run since 1954.…