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More black than black is our motto here... IFA In move to take on the likes of the Pioneer Kuro and Panasonic's Viera, Philips has announced the 42PFL9803 TV with black enhancing LED backlight technology.â¦
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Rogue staffer tinkers with login trousers Set yourself a rude password at Lloyds TSB, and it is just possible that you might find it changed to something politer. That was the experience of Lloyds customer Steve Jetley, who attempted to set "Lloyds is pants" as his telephone banking password.â¦
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European court clears injunction, washes hands of hacker case The European Court of Human Rights has refused to intervene in preventing the US extradition of accused Pentagon hacker Gary McKinnon.â¦
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Talk about a spin machine The X2 prototype superhelicopter had a successful first flight yesterday, according to its makers Sikorsky. The revolutionary (cough) aircraft hovered and manoeuvred using its twin main rotors without problems, but trials of its tail propulsor will take place on a future flight.â¦
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Darkroom Knight Microsoft has inked a cross-licensing patent deal with camera maker Nikon.⦠
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Full stream ahead or does this digital radio run out of puff? Review In what Roberts claims to be a world first, this unit delivers DAB, FM as well as Wi-Fi connected internet radio and music streaming all in a traditional kitchen-style portable.â¦
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'Julie Moult is an idiot' A hapless Daily Mail hack's failure to understand Googlebombing has led to her becoming victim of her own twisted definition of the mischief-making practice.â¦
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We don't need no stinkin' ISO7816 The French National Railway Company is trialling contactless tickets with USB connections, replacing the ubiquitous ISO7816 for online top-ups and data storage.â¦
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West Wing creator to pen epic internet tale Be afraid, be very afraid - Sony has asked West Wing creator Aaron Sorkin to write a movie about how internet superphenomenon Facebook was spawned, and by way of research he's waded straight in with a group page down at the social networking website.â¦
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Autumn debut IFA LG's not going be left out of the Small, Cheap Computer arena - it'll be releasing its own would-be Eee beater, the 3G-integrated X110, in October.â¦
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Olympic delay for iPlayer tweak BBC engineers have solved a mysterious, long-running bug that has meant iPlayer and live TV streams have frequently prompted the BT Home Hub, UK's most common router, to reset itself.â¦
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Pentagon hacker's final appeal Accused Pentagon hacker Gary McKinnon is approaching his own D-Day, with his fate due to be sealed in the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg.⦠
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Telly integration IFA Panasonic today pledged to bring IPTV to the masses: it's going to build net-delivered video right into its HD TVs.â¦
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British-built model gets full fat transmission Tesla Motors, darling of the electric vehicle industry, has confirmed that it will produce a European "special edition" of the famous Roadster sports car. European buyers will be the first to get Roadsters with full-performance transmissions - early US cars now being delivered have "intermediate" lower-performance machinery which will need to be replaced.â¦
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Interims disappoint Computacenter shares are down more than seven per cent this morning after the firm reported a 14 per cent fall in profits in the first six months of the year.â¦
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Our survey says... Which?, the UK consumer organisation, has ranked the UK's most reliable laptops.â¦
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Reunion bash planned Some 400 staffers from that flag bearer of the 1980s UK home computing revolution, Acorn, are to gather next month to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the firm's foundation.â¦
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BT insists orders will be delivered Online retailer Dabs.com has told customers to hang fire for a few days while orders due to be delivered by Amtrak are reassigned to another courier.â¦
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To Guam and beyond It looks like Google is prepping another underwater comms cable.â¦
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Rent due again? Suing communication providers over alleged patent infringements has worked pretty well for Judah Klausner.⦠
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The semantics of force feedback Microsoft and the force-feedback technology firm, Immersion, appear to have come to final terms after six years of suing each other.â¦
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It's easy. Those tubes are busted More evidence that the intertubes are fundamentally broken has been served up by Wired.com in an article laying out a technique to surreptitiously hijack huge chunks of the internet and monitor or even modify unencrypted traffic before it reaches its intended destination.â¦
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Chinese Democracy, American Extremism The FBI has arrested a 27-year-old American blogger for leaking some unreleased Guns N' Roses tunes to the internet.â¦
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SQL tools plug gaps What was seen as a major hole in Google's MapReduce database technology has been plugged, not once but twice. In the same week.â¦
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German spies Phenom X2 Quite contrary to rumors AMD scrapped its plans to bring dual-core K10 parts to the market, the chip maker may have already begun selling the line to its partners on the sly.â¦
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A road map for regulators of the future Getting a head start on the world's antitrust regulators, an astute Finn is offering a bastardized version of Google's search engine that ignores sites served up by Google itself.â¦
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Parlez-vous GoogleTalk? Er, no Android developers have admitted that Google's mobile phone platform won't support GoogleTalk in its first version, and that Bluetooth support will be severely limited.â¦
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Peterborough Attacks A small British company developing a unique form of hovering aircraft says it will soon demonstrate a new and much more serious version of its technology.â¦
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More false positives ahoy? Microsoft wants to rein in more Windows XP pirates over the coming weeks, by pushing out a new version of its ânagwareâ which detects when a machine is running a fake copy of the OS.â¦
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Gore-Tex killer? UK company Plasma Product Innovations (P2i) today demonstrated a chemical process it claims can render any material 100 per cent waterproof.â¦
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130 redundancies at A Novo UK A Novo UK, which services mobile phones, monitors and set-top boxes, is laying off at least 130 staff and closing its Manchester repair centre.â¦
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Unnecessary for fraud clampdown UK election scrutineers are pushing for polling stations to require tougher proof of identity to reduce the risk of ballot-rigging, but do not want voters to be forced to bring photo ID.â¦
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Handset sales continue to soar Global mobile phone sales will exceed 1.2bn handsets this year, although tough economic conditions are already biting into phone sales, market watcher Gartner has warned.â¦
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But UK punters still protected The Mobile Marketing Association has published its guidelines for advertising pushed over Bluetooth connections, and considers anyone who hasn't opted out to be fair game for spammers.â¦
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Modest GPS-enabled mobile from Nokia Review The upgraded successor to last yearâs 6110 Navigator, the 6210 is a tidy slider-design handset, bearing more than a passing resemblance in looks and specs to the recently-launched 6220 Classic.â¦
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'Off the record' browsing is go Updated Microsoft has outlined the new privacy tools available in its forthcoming browser Internet Explorer 8 (IE8).â¦
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Rum, sodomy and the lash Avast there and unfurl the Twat-O-Tron ye scurvy landlubbers of Middle England, lest Portsmouth Historic Dockyard make barrel boys of ye all, damn their eyes:â¦
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Push two keys to bypass password iPhones protected by a password aren't actually protected at all, as just by pressing a few keys a miscreant can access all the phone's functions without needing the password at all.â¦
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Playing with the big boys now Serco is to acquire SI International, an IT reseller specialising in the US federal market, for $423m cash - a 40 per cent premium on SI's closing price on NASDAQ yesterday. Serco is also asssuming net debt of $87.3m, so the enterprise value of the deal is $510m - a multiple of 12.3 on forecast EBITDA for 2008.â¦
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Show us the money, says NASA Presidential contender John McCain and two other bigshot Republican senators have written to George Bush urging that NASA keep the Space Shuttle fleet alive beyond 2010. The politicians are concerned about US reliance on Russia for manned space transport in the early years of the next decade.â¦
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Local gov hates marketeers Most local authority electoral officers support the information commissioner's recommendation to scrap the edited electoral roll, according to a new survey.â¦
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Jesusphone fails ASA test The Advertising Standards Authority has told Apple UK not to show an advert which suggested the iPhone contained "all parts of the internet" any more.â¦
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'A niche market' An army of online deal seekers has called for a boycott of Boffer.co.uk, after the "daily deal" site fooled them into coveting a non-existent bovine sex device.â¦
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Have you seen my identity? The number of personal information leaks reported in the US this year have already exceeded the total amount in all of 2007, San Diego-based Identity Theft Resource Center said today.â¦
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Stolen keys unlock back door Attacks in the wild are under way against Linux systems with compromised SSH keys, the US Computer Emergency Readiness Team is warning.â¦
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Worm infects International Space Station laptops A computer worm that ferrets out passwords managed to stow away on laptops aboard the International Space Station, NASA has confirmed. It is not the first time a NASA computer has become infected.â¦
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Calls for death of Mac EULA Psystar, the company that sells open systems capable of running Mac OS X, plans to fight back against the copyright infringement lawsuit Apple has filed against it.â¦
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Microsoft not the only fruit Embarcadero Technologies has updated its recently acquired CodeGear Rapid Application Development (RAD) suite and languages for Windows.â¦
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Modular Linux goodies return Hardware hackers can soon start building their own Linux gadgets with a fresh batch of Lego-like building blocks from Bug Labs.â¦
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'You want savings? Pay us an extra hundred' US telco giant AT&T has announced two new international data plans for the Jesus Phone, saying they'll save Americans "hundreds of dollars" on journeys abroad. But we all know this is just another way for the company to hold your wallet hostage.â¦
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