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Opera censors Chinese content

Opera has updated the Chinese version of its mobile browser to stop users accessing restricted content. Opera Mini was updated on Friday from an international to a Chinese version,...

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[25 Nov 2009]

by Tom Espiner


Thursday 26 November 2009, 11:17 PM

Nasa hacker extradition to go ahead, minister says

From Care in the Community | News Blog | Add a comment

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Karen Friar Gary McKinnon's extradition to the US to face hacking charges is set to move forward, after home secretary Alan Johnson said he will not intervene. McKinnon's supporters had asked the minister to halt the extradition on the grounds that it... more


Thursday 26 November 2009, 4:53 PM

Cosmic conundrum for Celtic computing

From Mixed Signals | News Blog | Rupert's Diary | 1 comment

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Rupert Goodwins The BBC has a nice story for anyone who hopes that IT can bring economic benefits to disparate communities. Which it should, given that you can do anything online from anywhere on the planet - forcing people to huddle together is a relic of... more


Thursday 26 November 2009, 2:18 PM

Could copyright crackdown kill superfast broadband demand?

From Communication Breakdown | 1 comment

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David Meyer I just spent the morning at a Westminster e-Forum (ISPs, policy makers, politicians, etc) about the future of next-generation broadband in Britain. One of the big topics of discussion was the notion of "killer apps" — specifically, what can... more


Thursday 26 November 2009, 1:00 PM

How I create a blog entry

From Web design & FOSS | 2 comments

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Jake Rayson Even if I say so myself, I've managed to hone my blog-writing into a lean number of minimal of keystrokes, from which somebody may glean something useful. Maybe. 1. Come up with an idea. This is normally something that bugs you. Occasionally... more


Thursday 26 November 2009, 12:36 PM

Cloud computing guzzles juice: official

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manek This story is is spot on: although network vendors make noises about reducing power consumption, in reality the nature of both their products and their locations in the datacentre mean that existing switches and routers aren't going to be thrown... more


Thursday 26 November 2009, 10:20 AM

Why smart new businesses are looking for leads on socnets, not Google

From The Business Web 2.0 | Small Business Blog | Add a comment

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wecando.biz I was asked to speak to a group of recently unemployed people at Whittle College in Chelmsford last night about digital marketing. I gave Google about ten minutes of a two hour talk. And here's why. The people I met last night were inspirational.... more



Wednesday 25 November 2009, 2:09 PM

Does 10x faster development dumb down programming?

From Software application development | 14 comments

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Adrian Bridgwater If you’re in the business of reviewing software application development news, which coincidentally I am, then tenfold programming productivity claims tend to either raise my eyebrows or raise my hackles in equal measure. Software development... more


Wednesday 25 November 2009, 6:42 AM

Less than an OS, less than free

From 500 words into the future | 7 comments

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Simon Bisson and Mary Branscombe What's an OS for? Thanks to Rupert Murdoch, Google has spent most of the time it probably wanted to be talking about Chrome discussing the value of paid content on the Web; but that's actually an awful lot of what Chrome is really for. It's... more


Tuesday 24 November 2009, 5:23 PM

Symantec website breached

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Tom Espiner Security company Symantec has said that one of its websites was successfully breached. Romanian security researcher 'Unu' posted details of the breach in a blog post on Monday. Unu claimed to have cracked the Symantec server using a blind... more


Monday 23 November 2009, 8:26 PM

Opera Web Browser version 10.10 Released

From Jamie's Random Musings | Reviews Blog | 3 comments

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J.A. Watson I just noticed that Opera 10.10 is available for download. Here's a one-word review: WOW!. I am quite partial to Opera, and I have been since way back in the days when I liked it enough to pay money for it. It has always been a little bit... more


Monday 23 November 2009, 1:29 PM

Data Robotics launches Drobo Elite and Drobo S

From Product Central | Reviews Blog | 1 comment

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Charles McLellan Data Robotics, the company behind the Drobo range of 'self-managing, self-healing storage solutions' for small businesses and creative professionals, has launched two new additions to its product line — one aimed at each of its target markets. Drobo... more


Monday 23 November 2009, 1:15 PM

Campaigners criticise '£10bn NHS IT overspend'

From Security Bullet In | News Blog | Sentry Posts | 2 comments

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Tom Espiner The National Health Service's flagship IT project has been criticised by a tax campaign group for running billions of pounds over budget. The NHS National Programme for IT (NPfIT) has overspent by £10.4bn, the Taxpayers' Alliance said in... more


Monday 23 November 2009, 1:05 PM

Ion pleases the eye and kills off the netbook

From Communication Breakdown | Reviews Blog | On The Road | 1 comment

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David Meyer The netbook has been a rapidly evolving beast. The idea was initially unveiled about four years ago by the OLPC initiative, who wanted to bring out a cheap educational tool for the developing world. A couple of years later, not much concrete... more


Monday 23 November 2009, 10:35 AM

A Tempest in a Nostalgic Teapot

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J.A. Watson Apparently a decision was made last week, at least according to omg!ubuntu!, to remove the GIMP image editing software from the next Ubuntu release (10.04, Lucid Lynx). This has produced dramatically different reactions in various parts of... more


Monday 23 November 2009, 8:30 AM

BlackBerry developer chief demos new services & prototype apps

From Software application development | On The Road | 1 comment

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Adrian Bridgwater Late last week I got to share milk and cookies with Mike Kirkup who is RIM’s director of developer relations. Mike was passing through London on the European leg of his 'press the flesh with press' tour 2009 after the recent RIM developer conference... more


Saturday 21 November 2009, 8:34 PM

The importance of copyleft

From Web design & FOSS | 2 comments

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Jake Rayson Copyleft is one of the 20th century's most important technological achievements, on a par with computers and the World Wide Web. There, I've said it. Copyleft is the principle whereby the freedom of Free Software is guaranteed using the... more


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Thursday 26 November 2009, 7:04 PM

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Opera Web Browser version 10.10 Released

I just noticed that Opera 10.10 is available for download. Here's a one-word review: WOW!. I am quite partial to Opera, and I have been since way back in the days when I liked it enough to pay...

J.A. Watson

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Data Robotics launches Drobo Elite and Drobo S

Data Robotics, the company behind the Drobo range of 'self-managing, self-healing storage solutions' for small businesses and creative professionals, has launched two new additions to its product...

Charles McLellan

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Ion pleases the eye and kills off the netbook

The netbook has been a rapidly evolving beast. The idea was initially unveiled about four years ago by the OLPC initiative, who wanted to bring out a cheap educational tool for the developing...

David Meyer

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Cosmic conundrum for Celtic computing

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