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Details of Dell's Netbook leaked online
News Details of Dell's entry into the low-cost laptop market are leaked online, with a claim that we could see the device sooner rather than later.
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Open source licences hold up in court
News An American court has ruled that open source developers can sue if the licensing terms are broken.
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Government wants to store all text, email and browsing data
News The information will be used by police for crime fighting, but also other government bodies such as health authorities and the Post Office.
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iPhone has hidden 'kill switch'
News Apple has the ability to remotely disable any applications installed on the latest version of the iPhone.
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Asus launches yet another Eee PC
News The Eee S101 boasts an Atom processor, 64GB SSD and comes in at half the price of Apple’s MacBook Air.
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DNS researcher claims 35 ways to exploit flaw
News Dan Kaminsky has told the Black Hat conference that the DNS security flaw is even worse than expected.
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Apple fixes DNS security flaw
News Apple protects itself from a highly publicised DNS vulnerability which has the potential to severely hit browsers and operating systems.
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DNS protection not good enough, says researcher
News Dan Kaminsky, the security researcher who first unveiled the DNS vulnerability, has said that systems administrators are not enough to protect users.
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Government admits data losses far higher than claimed
News It looks like the Ministry of Defence weren't being completely forthcoming when admitting how many laptops it has actually lost.
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Tech trouble corrupts London's Oyster cards
News A server crash took out Transport for London's payment infrastructure yesterday, and left some people with damaged travel cards.
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AVG solves fake traffic problem
News After pressure from webmasters the antivirus company has implemented a fix for its ‘LinkScanner’, to solve the issue of ‘fake’ traffic flooding the internet.
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Nvidia to miss profit targets
News Production problems, reduced demand, and price challenges expected to hit Nvidia profit margins.
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Firefox version 3.1 expected this month
News The next major version of the popular browser may be available as early as this month, hot on the heels of the 3.0 release.
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Cable & Wireless expected to boost Thus bid today
News Reports suggest Cable & Wireless will increase its offer for Demon Internet-owner Thus today.
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Virgin Media loses disc with bank details
News Virgin Media data breach sees CD with banking information of 3,000 go missing.
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Wi-Fi hotspots now in court
News Courtrooms across the UK will be offering Wi-Fi access for solicitors as well as jurors and defendants.
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Fall in open source errors boosts security
News Open source software is becoming more secure, with the number of errors and security holes falling 16 per cent in two years, a new report has found.
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Government plans to store call, email details
News A massive database to store call, email and browser session information is being considered to battle terrorism.
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Software to trap lying employees
News Calling in sick for the day could become riskier as firms start to use lie-detecting applications.
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MySpace promotes openness with data sharing scheme
News MySpace attempts to revive slowing traffic by making its data openly available to sites such as Yahoo and eBay.
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Asus: Processor shortage to hit cheap laptops
News A looming shortage of Intel's Atom processors will make it difficult for others to enter the low-cost portable laptop market, Asus has said.
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US DoJ questions Google and Yahoo over ad deal
News An advertising collaboration between the two search firms has drawn the attention of the US Department of Justice on anti-trust concerns.
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Google tipped as UK's biggest ad channel
News The search giant has overtaken TV channels such as ITV and Channel 4 to become the largest advertising channel in the UK, according to an analyst.
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Elonex to announce £99 Eee PC rival
News UK computer company to launch sub-£100 notebook for the education sector, going head-to-head with Asus' Linux-based Eee.
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