Saviour likely for titsup training firm
Advent students still waiting for a saviour
Administrators for Advent Computer Training, and its sister school for plumbers, believe they have found buyers for the company.…
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Microsoft skips patch for PowerPoint add-on
Microsoft fixed eight flaws in Windows and Office Tuesday, but passed on patching one Windows component because it cannot be automatically updated.
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EFF dubs Apple a 'jealous feudal lord' over iPhone dev contract
Apple's agreement with iPhone developers contains several "troubling" clauses that paint the company as a "jealous and arbitrary feudal lord," the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) said yesterday.
The nonprofit digital rights advocacy group on Tuesday published a January 2010 version of the iPhone Developer License Agreement obtained from NASA through a Freedom of Information Act request.
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Government spends £11k on ID card 'branding'
£1m spent on advertising, no public relations
The government still seems to be shying away from spending too much money advertising its ID card and National ID Register schemes.…
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'Phantom Eye' hydrogen strato-spy drone starts building
Cruises 12 miles up on pair of Ford car engines
Global arms'n'aerospace behemoth Boeing says it will now begin work in earnest on its "Phantom Eye" high-altitude hydrogen spy drone, powered by a pair of modified Ford car engines.…
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UK plastic fraud losses fall for first time in 3 years
Online banking losses up though
A rise in online banking fraud losses took some of the shine off the overall fall in debit and credit fraud in the UK last year.…
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Mozilla Jetpack flies out of laboratory into loving arms of Firefox
SDK lands with a bump
Mozilla has promoted its web extensions prototype package - Jetpack - by pushing it upstairs and readying it for production with its Firefox browser.…
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SpringSource adds springiness to Tomcat server
Free licenses lure cloud army to VMware
Open-source Java framework specialist SpringSource has unveiled a new incarnation of its Apache Tomcat-based tc Server, offering application developers and operators additional tools for building, deploying, and monitoring their software on the lightweight runtime platform.…
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Arm sees over 50 new iPad-like devices out this year
The launch of Apple's iPad will pave the way for a slew of rival products this year, an Arm executive said Wednesday, predicting over 50 tablet PC devices will be launched globally.
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Ex-Sun chief dishes the dirt on Gates, Jobs
Don't expect Jonathan Schwartz to go quietly.
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Twitter adds filter to cut phishing lines
Every twt.tl bit helps
Twitter has tightened up security procedures in order to curtail phishing attacks against users of the micro-blogging service, which have become rampant over recent weeks.…
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Microsoft whitewashes MSN in latest Web2.0rhea whimsy
Still not shining Silverlight on UK video player
Microsoft has taken the beta wraps off its MSN homepage, which the company relaunched in the US in November 2009.…
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Y2.01K hits Garmin sat-nav
Routing like it's 1949
Garmin's Geko 201 GPS kit can't decide what year it is, flipping between decades every time it's switched on, though it's performing better on days of the week.…
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UK is safer from al-Qaeda 'bastards', says security minister
Well done chaps, no damage to society at all
The minister responsible for counter-terrorism has said that despite "some very nasty bastards out there who aim to do us harm", government security initiatives have made the UK safer from attacks in recent years.…
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Young people are lazy, think world owes them a living - prof
Trick-cyclist blasts Googleplex massage parlour
It's official. Proper actual science* has confirmed that the young Westerners of Generation Y (people now in their 20s) are idle, workshy loafers by comparison to their elders. They are also think that the world owes them a handsome living, having higher expectations of salary and status than their predecessors.…
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BT boss urges fines for filesharing customers
Corporate crusaders for free speech unite
Mandybill Ian Livingston, the boss of Britain's biggest ISP BT, is lobbying for the government's proposed technical sanctions against filesharers to be replaced with fines.…
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Twitter to begin screening some links for phishing
Twitter has launched a new link-screening service aimed at preventing phishing and other malicious attacks against users of the popular microblogging service.
Part of the new service is a new Twitter tool to shorten URLs, so users will see some links in email notifications and direct messages from other users written as twt.tl, Twitter said in a blog post.
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Microsoft boffin scoops Turing Award
Hardware guru wins computing's 'Nobel prize'
A Microsoft researcher has received the Turing Award in recognition for his pioneering work in personal computing hardware and networking technology development.…
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WD targets Win XP users to ease 4KB drive upgrades
Sector inspector
Western Digital is to help Windows XP users more easily make the transition to so-called '4K' hard drive technology, the new standard for basic drive formatting.…
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IT gives Windows 7 the green light
Jim Thomas said no to Windows Vista -- but Windows 7 is an entirely different matter.
Thomas, CIO at Pella, says his IT team began beta testing Vista's successor a year ago as an upgrade path from Windows XP. By October, just two months after Windows 7 launched, the Pella, Iowa-based window and door manufacturer had 225 Windows 7 clients up and running -- and the feedback from both IT staff and users has been generally positive.
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