10-year-old shows her age Mozilla is updating its open source license after more than 10 years of use.…The power of collaboration within unified communications

One quarter of C&C channels vanish At least a quarter of the command and control servers linked to Zeus-related botnets have suddenly gone quiet, continuing a recent trend of takedowns hitting some of the world's most nefarious cyber operations.â...

Gamers watch and wait Intel has given developers another peek at its upcoming Core i7-980X Extreme Edition processor.…The power of collaboration within unified communications

App-V virtual embrace Citrix has unveiled XenApp 6 after re-architecting the product from the ground up to take full advantage of Microsoft's Windows Server 2008 R2.…Web threats: Why conventional protection doesn't work

Seven weeks and counting Google CEO Eric Schmidt has reiterated that the company is currently in negotiations with the Chinese government over its future in the country - despite the Chinese government's claims to the contrary - and he expects some s...

Phone vid traffic up '160%' Google is now serving ads on the mobile incarnation of YouTube.…Offloading malware protection to the cloud

Freeview HD and internet connectivity on board too LG will release its 3D TV range in May, the company said today. The line-up will comprise a pair of LED TVs and a Blu-ray Disc player.…

Accelerators speed up cluster work InfiniBand and Ethernet switch maker Voltaire this morning rolled out its Grid Director 4200, a midrange 40 Gb/sec InfiniBand switch that shoots the gap between its entry and high-end switches, and that is the produ...

Celebrated cryptographer was accomplished runner The campaigner who led a successful effort last year to secure a public apology for the UK government's mistreatment of Alan Turing is calling for recognition of the celebrated cryptographer during the...

Account still restricted "PayPal is a fucking liar, a cheat and a thug," says Cryptome operator John Young. The eBay-owned payment service closed the Cryptome account last week, with over $5,000 of donations intended for Young in limbo.…Case Study:...

'Sferic' zap-sniff tech for future subterranean warriors News has emerged of a secret US military programme intended to let troops navigate about inside huge underground enemy tunnel complexes by measuring energy pulses given off by lightning bolts.â...

My own brother, a goddamn, shit-sucking vampire Former Sun Microsystems boss Jonathan Schwartz has claimed that Apple chief Steve Jobs threatened to sue the server and software maker in 2003.…What is your recession sales strategy?

Nid wyf yn deall gair rydych chi'n dweud Almost 200 Welsh language programmes broadcast by S4C last month attracted precisely zero viewers, leaked audience figures show.…The power of collaboration within unified communications

Don't need no good advice The Ministry of Justice reduced its consultancy spending from £20.7m in 2007-08 to £10.5m in 2008-09, despite the failure of other departments to meet government cost-cutting targets.…

Tackles hidden cost of 3D TV viewing In a bid to become the leading supplier of 3D TVs, Samsung will bundle every one of its 3D tellies and Blu-ray Disc players with two pairs of active-shutter specs and a copy of Monsters vs Aliens, the company anno...

Code-only entry ended Humax and the BBC have extended their iPlayer trial to all of the manufacturers' Freesat set-top boxes, making the catch-up service available through remotes' red buttons.…Offloading malware protection to the cloud

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.…

£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.…Web threats: Why conventional protection doesn't work

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.…What is your reces...

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.…The power of collaboration within unified communications

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.…What is your recession sales strategy?

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, an...

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.…Offloading malware protection to the cloud

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.…Offloading malware protection to the cloud

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.…Case Study: WhatsUp keeps Legoland turnstyles ringing

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 recen...

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...

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.…Case Study: WhatsUp keeps Legolan...

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.…The power of collaboration within unified...

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.…Case Study: WhatsUp keeps Legoland turnstyles ringing

WebOs goes native Palm has released its Plug-in Development Kit, enabling native development for those who find AJAX just can't cut it.…What is your recession sales strategy?

Connect-your-own-storage DVR too Sharp will release the first of two Freeview HD set-top boxes at the end of April. It's also preparing a regular Freeview DVR that uses USB-connected storage to make it a doddle to transfer taped programmes to a PC.â€...

Wife is 100% free range and foie gras fed A New York chef is offering samples of cheese made from his wife's breast milk with the promise that it's "100 per cent organic, free range and foie gras fed".…Offloading malware protection to the cloud

Warns of more bumps ahead Gordon Brown is set to announce the Budget will happen at the end of the month, increasing the likelihood that the election will be on 6 May.…Case Study: WhatsUp keeps Legoland turnstyles ringing

Kiss and don't tell Celebrity publicist Max Clifford has agreed to accept a £1m plus payoff in exchange for dropping phone hacking allegations against the News of the World.…Offloading malware protection to the cloud

Turn left here and jump that red light Google is offering a cycling option for users of its map service.…Offloading malware protection to the cloud

Hard to resist Review The flourishing Android operating system has appeared on phones made by Motorola, Sony Ericsson, Samsung, LG and HTC. Now Google has launched its own handset, though it’s actually made by HTC, which has made the bulk of Androi...

Dual-node MS2 cluster Criticising the pain of single-silo deduplication products, Sepaton has introduced a dual-node clustered product that can be upgraded to its larger ES2 system.…What is your recession sales strategy?

Feds cuff JihadJane A suburban Pennsylvania woman who went by the online alias JihadJane used the internet to recruit Islamic terrorists and to plot the assassination of a Swedish cartoonist who depicted the Prophet Mohammed, according to a federal i...

The non-iPad iPad clone The publicity whores at China's Shenzhen Great Loong Brother tablet-PC maker are at it again.…What is your recession sales strategy?

Doggies digitized for your protection Even if your beloved Westie is spending her declining years curled up by the hearth, Home Secretary Alan Johnson suggests she should be microchipped for the protection of her potential victims, and you should pon...

One stop Google bolt-on shop The Mountain View Chocolate Factory has unveiled an online marketplace for third-party applications that hook into its Google Apps suite of web-based businessware.…The power of collaboration within unified communication...

Is it real? Or is it Skytap? Skytap - the Jeff Bezos-backed startup that lets you mimic internal IT infrastructure in the so-called cloud - has introduced a new set of automation tools designed to facilitate the creation of complex network topologies...

Agrees to safeguard customer data An Arizona company that sells services designed to prevent identity theft has agreed to pay $12m to settle charges it oversold their effectiveness and didn't adequately protect sensitive customer data.…Offloading m...

Reliability boost roadmap Pillar Data Axiom storage arrays can go a whole lot faster, use less energy and be more reliable, thanks to a range of new features from flash drive enclosures to pre-emptive copies.…The power of collaboration within unifi...

The first rule of iPhone Club is... In the 1999 movie Fight Club, Brad Pitt famously tells a huddle of pugilistic aspirants: "The first rule of Fight Club is: you do not talk about Fight Club."…Offloading malware protection to the cloud

The new Microsoft Adobe's ubiquitous Reader application has replaced Microsoft Word as the program that's most often targeted in malware campaigns, according to figures compiled by F-Secure.…Web threats: Why conventional protection doesn't work

322 Tbps of bandwidth (not quite) here How will Cisco "forever change the internet"? With a new router.…Offloading malware protection to the cloud

Satellite TV meets YouTube meets online ad machine Google is privately testing a television set-top box that lets users search satellite TV programming as well as video websites like its very own YouTube, according to a new report.…Web threats: Why...

IE 6 and 7 users targeted Online thugs are exploiting a security bug in earlier versions of Internet Explorer that allows them to remotely execute malicious code, Microsoft warned on Tuesday.…Offloading malware protection to the cloud