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E-book readers to stay pricey next year
Holding out for a £100 e-book reader before snapping up one of these gadgets for yourself? You may get lucky this year, but don't expect prices to fall any further.…
DVLA doubles annual IT spend
The Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency is to more than double what it spends annually on its IT deal with IBM.…
Virtualisation in the smaller business
Lab Many of your comments on some of the virtualisation articles we have written to date have suggested that smaller organisations have different challenges and priorities when it comes to virtualisation. Here we report back on what we have been told so far and ask you for your insights.…
New iPhone worm is 'more serious'
New sensitive space gloves: NASA spends wad freely
NASA handed out $350,000 in prize money to astronautical haberdashers vying for glory in the space agency's Astronaut Glove Challenge this weekend.…
eBay stamps on Mussolini's brain
Customers of online tat bazaar eBay were on Friday denied the chance to bid for bits of former Italian dictator Benito Mussolini, when the site swiftly pulled a listing for samples of his blood and brain.…
Murdoch puffs Microsoft over Google
Rupert Murdoch is in talks with Microsoft over his plans to delist his newspaper websites from Google.…
Chrysler dumps e-car plans
Leccy Tech Chrysler's e-car strategy has vanished down the plughole, taking with it any chance of us getting intimate with the Lotus Europa-based Dodge Circuit.…
Imation ships wirelessly-connected hard drive
Imation has announced its external hard drive that connects by wireless USB to PCs and Macs is now shipping.…
Freeview HD - your questions answered
With the first Freeview HD transmissions scheduled to start on the 2 December in the London, Liverpool and Manchester areas, Register Hardware answers all your questions about the new telly technology.…
Apple Announces Black Friday 2009 Sale
As expected, Apple has announced that they will be holding a one day shopping event on Friday, November 27th. In the U.S., the day after Thanksgiving is called "Black Friday", which is historically one of the busiest shopping days of the yea...
EU ministers agree e-government aims
European ministers have signed a declaration outlining policies to deliver 'smarter' online public services by 2015.…
Call to jam prison mobile signals
Atlantis astronaut flying high over baby's birth
NASA astronaut Randy Bresnik ventured out on his first spacewalk on Saturday, just hours before his daughter was born 220 miles below.…
First malicious iPhone worm slithers into wild
A Dutch internet service provider has identified a worm that installs a backdoor on jailbroken iPhones and makes them part of a botnet.…
eBooks: What to read on which reader
eBook readers will be everywhere this Christmas, in the shops if not under the trees, but even publishers don't seem to know what books one can read on the things.…
Is data overload killing off human initiative?
Book Review Delete – The Virtue of Forgetting in a Digital Age is one of those high premise pseudo-techy works that appeals to the chattering classes – not least because it beguiles them with a false sense of "doing technology".…
Apple voids warranties over cigarette smoke, users say
A Mac user claims that Apple voided her warranty and refused to repair her machine because it was "contaminated" with cigarette smoke.…
One Vision for Magazine Content on the Apple Tablet
Triumph in Geneva! LHC beams up and running again
There were emotional scenes last night at the headquarters of underground international atom-smasher science alliance CERN, as joyful boffins celebrated the successful restarting of the Large Hadron Collider. The colossal machine circulated its first beam around the entire 27-km supermagnet circuit at 22:01 Swiss time, and sent the opposing beam round the other way at midnight.…
