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Headlines week ending - Monday 13 October 2008

Hacker McKinnon's mum squares up to US

INQ Spodcast Gary's chances improve

Mon, 13 October 2008, 18:23

Laptop refresh could signal new direction for Apple

Applophile Saint Steve heads for the bargain bucket

Mon, 13 October 2008, 16:11

Open sauce Alfresco has its best ever quarter

Tough times spur higher open source takeup

Mon, 13 October 2008, 15:38

Girl gamers get their own gathering

The female of the species is more deadly than the male

Mon, 13 October 2008, 12:50

Elcomsoft dopes up Wi-Fi cracking

Better crack on NV GPUs

Mon, 13 October 2008, 11:34

Eee brand expands to motherboards

Baby PCs need a mother too

Mon, 13 October 2008, 10:50

No PS3 price-cut this year

Console round-up Wii Speak dated

Mon, 13 October 2008, 10:29

30 million German phone user details lost

Deutsche Telecom cock-up

Mon, 13 October 2008, 9:45

Computers fail to fool humans

The undefeated Turing test

Mon, 13 October 2008, 9:10

Let your inner geek run wild

Hardware Roundup VW Wagon PC

Sun, 12 October 2008, 10:31

Shark in virgin birth shocka

The second coming of Jaws

Fri, 10 October 2008, 15:54

C4 dumps digital radio plans

Counting the pennies

Fri, 10 October 2008, 14:30

New UK speed cameras unavoidable

Stop flashing me

Fri, 10 October 2008, 13:25

HP plans new factory in southwest China

To open in 2010

Fri, 10 October 2008, 11:23

Vodafone finally grasps Vodacom

Springbok for African safari

Fri, 10 October 2008, 10:24

Micron cuts global work force by 15 percent

Memory outfit forgets staff

Fri, 10 October 2008, 9:52

Myspace used for gang recruitment

Police and hacks go hysterical in Atlanta

Fri, 10 October 2008, 9:16

Quantum cryptography now a reality

With a little help from Albert Einstein

Thu, 09 October 2008, 15:40

Sprint Nextel are the best over-payers in the business

Money for nothing, chips for free

Thu, 09 October 2008, 13:27

Baltimore gets mobile WiMAX

Sprints to the finish line

Thu, 09 October 2008, 11:17

PPP cleanup attempt has familiar Eckoh

Shurely some mishtake

Thu, 09 October 2008, 10:57

Microsoft gets off of its Cloud

Volish cloud becomes Strata

Thu, 09 October 2008, 9:48

Youtube adds vocals to comment

All you ever wanted

Thu, 09 October 2008, 9:07

Sun terrible place to work

MySQL co-founder walks

Thu, 09 October 2008, 6:57

Universal Music Group joins Kiwibox

Music match made in heaven

Wed, 08 October 2008, 15:12

Aussie TV network guilty of subliminal ads

Admonished but not penalised

Wed, 08 October 2008, 14:12

Google Earth takes a swim

What lies beneath

Wed, 08 October 2008, 12:12

RIM smartphone takes the world by Storm

Hopes new interface will click with users

Wed, 08 October 2008, 11:20

Google adds ads ad infinitum

You can run... but you can't hide

Wed, 08 October 2008, 10:32

Ipod doomed says Wozniak

It is just a fad

Wed, 08 October 2008, 9:34

Analysts weigh in on AMD split

Talking heads

Wed, 08 October 2008, 8:37

DDR3 key to winning DRAM wars

Good news for Samsung, Hynix and Elpida

Wed, 08 October 2008, 6:26

Eee PC saves Asustek bacon

Makes cash while others suffer

Tue, 07 October 2008, 16:28

Dragon to teach teens

Joining four other academies

Tue, 07 October 2008, 15:43

Comcast to shut down free Usenet access

MAFIAA made it a deal it couldn't refuse

Tue, 07 October 2008, 14:50

Robot suit available for rent

Helps you walk even when you are legless

Tue, 07 October 2008, 13:04

Mozilla's Geode will keep tabs on you

Where am I?

Tue, 07 October 2008, 12:21

Nokia Music challenges Itunes

App works inna PC stylie

Tue, 07 October 2008, 10:29

AMD splits, Intel falls over

Complacency sets in

Tue, 07 October 2008, 10:10

Asteroid lights up night sky

Pretty lights over Darfur

Tue, 07 October 2008, 9:50

AMD finally goes fabless

Crystall balls Real men don't need 'em

Tue, 07 October 2008, 8:00

Mobile broadband router now available from 3

Easy way to share your connection

Mon, 13 October 2008, 17:11

UK IT workers are skiving slackers

And we don't care

Mon, 13 October 2008, 15:59

Small Business Week begins with a bang

Bank bailout means there's finance to be had

Mon, 13 October 2008, 15:28

Dell departure would decimate Limerick economy

There once was a direct seller called Dell

Mon, 13 October 2008, 12:28

WoW geek fest 2008

Blizzcon pilgrimage

Mon, 13 October 2008, 11:04

Sun and Fujitsu make huge leap in server performance

Sun baked chips

Mon, 13 October 2008, 10:50

Saudi-owned TV portal hit by cyber attack

Website turned to Shiite

Mon, 13 October 2008, 10:09

Plastic film gets glowing report

Making lamps obsolete

Mon, 13 October 2008, 9:38

OpenOffice 3.0 is out

On the mirrors, announcement tomorrow

Sun, 12 October 2008, 12:58

Seagate talks SSDs

The tide is high

Fri, 10 October 2008, 18:30

Mandriva Linux 2009 released

Spiffy KDE 4.1, plus LXDE for netbooks

Fri, 10 October 2008, 15:54

Microsoft could pick Blackberry

Sticky fingers

Fri, 10 October 2008, 14:08

Bill Gates bumped off the top spot

Pile of cash shrinking

Fri, 10 October 2008, 12:15

Laptops blamed for Qantas flight incident

All electronic devices should be switched off NOW

Fri, 10 October 2008, 10:43

KDDI has 3D handset screen

No glasses required

Fri, 10 October 2008, 10:24

Verizon stuffs up on privacy

...in email advertisements for security conference

Fri, 10 October 2008, 9:29

Cooler Master HAF932

Daily Roundup Coolest box on the market?

Fri, 10 October 2008, 8:34

Sony, Microsoft begin battle of virtual worlds

Console capers

Thu, 09 October 2008, 14:43

Cyberlink broadens Linux offerings

More power to the penguin

Thu, 09 October 2008, 13:20

Adobe warns Clickjackers could take over your web cam

Put some clothes on, at least

Thu, 09 October 2008, 11:12

China cracks down on mobile spam

Shutters 18 service providers

Thu, 09 October 2008, 10:28

HP cuts over 3000 EDS jobs in UK

Scrapheaped

Thu, 09 October 2008, 9:48

Create your own game as you drive

More augmented reality than Top Gear

Thu, 09 October 2008, 8:57

Spammers prefer Obama to McCain

Bigger interest makes a better spam hook

Wed, 08 October 2008, 16:12

Opera maverick is still making waves

Speaker's Corner Jon Tetzchner, Opera Software

Wed, 08 October 2008, 14:40

Bust bankers oversaw AMD deal

Lehman and Weep

Wed, 08 October 2008, 13:59

Computer brings down Qantas jet

We told you to turn it off

Wed, 08 October 2008, 11:52

AMD spin-off... good, bad or ugly?

Or just plain Dubai-ous

Wed, 08 October 2008, 10:59

Fring is spreading

Now available on the Iphone

Wed, 08 October 2008, 10:04

Can Spam is five

Winner of chocolate teapot of the decade award

Wed, 08 October 2008, 9:34

Ocean Blue telly chip covers all bases

HD, digital and analogue on a single chip

Wed, 08 October 2008, 8:06

Novatech taking orders for Core i7

Price jacked in the UK

Tue, 07 October 2008, 22:50

Asus breaks-in quad-core DTR

Asus goes Alienware

Tue, 07 October 2008, 16:14

Pub quiz cheat service reaches a milestone

What are this week's lottery numbers?

Tue, 07 October 2008, 15:10

Parental controls for cars are a-coming

Slow down, be quiet and put your seatbelt on

Tue, 07 October 2008, 14:05

2008 physics Nobel Prize awarded

Better late than never

Tue, 07 October 2008, 12:51

Dubai to build biggest ever LED screen

I can see for miles and miles

Tue, 07 October 2008, 11:43

Google's Goggles may shave you from embarrasshment, hic!

Don't drink and email

Tue, 07 October 2008, 10:21

AMD Foundry spinoff details start to emerge

Update Hector goes with the fabs

Tue, 07 October 2008, 10:00

Oyster Card security flaw identified

Susceptible to unlawful cloning

Tue, 07 October 2008, 9:38

Microsoft contest hacked and defaced

More fun than writing in .net

Tue, 07 October 2008, 2:49

Ex-AMD chief, Ruiz, lands himself $3 million bonus

It's a rich man's world

Mon, 13 October 2008, 17:10

Corporate data breaches blamed on employees, not hackers

Data Breaches start at home

Mon, 13 October 2008, 15:50

Youtube offers full-length video

Essential viewing... for Star Trek fans

Mon, 13 October 2008, 13:50

Lord British blasts off

5, 4, 3, 2, 1...

Mon, 13 October 2008, 11:40

Micron snaps up Inotera shares

Thanks for the memory

Mon, 13 October 2008, 10:50

AMD not guilty of antitrust say lawmakers

AMD DOJes a bullet

Mon, 13 October 2008, 10:50

IBM turns punters into virtual eunuchs

No ball games in China's Forbidden City

Mon, 13 October 2008, 9:56

US wastes $5 billion running ancient air traffic control

Sits on plan

Mon, 13 October 2008, 9:24

HP admits 38 desktops have defective Nvidia chips

Time to update the 8-K filing

Sun, 12 October 2008, 10:43

Apple notebooks have defective Nvidia chips

Nvidia still won't come clean

Fri, 10 October 2008, 18:25

Yahoo brings on the BOSS

Anything for more money

Fri, 10 October 2008, 15:20

Spammers prey on the financially confused

FTC issues a warning

Fri, 10 October 2008, 13:45

New media reinforcements battle Taleban

Government propaganda proposals

Fri, 10 October 2008, 11:50

Green house uses hydrogen fuel cell

Stop throwing stones

Fri, 10 October 2008, 10:40

NSA listened in on sex calls

US tax dollars at work

Fri, 10 October 2008, 10:17

Google satellite sends back first snaps

Testing, one, two, three

Fri, 10 October 2008, 9:20

Digg founder has mid-life crisis and haircut

Nevermind the buzzcuts

Fri, 10 October 2008, 6:05

Is there anybody out there?

A social networking "hello" from Earth

Thu, 09 October 2008, 14:00

Real DVD ban extended

While judge has a ponder

Thu, 09 October 2008, 12:28

Brits are losing their memories

Sticks, not minds, that is

Thu, 09 October 2008, 10:57

Nvidia 270, 290 and GX2 roll out in November

Why you shouldn't get too excited

Thu, 09 October 2008, 10:01

Acer claims top laptop spot

Number one

Thu, 09 October 2008, 9:30

6TB NAS tested

Hardware Rounds Synology’s DS408 leaves an impression

Thu, 09 October 2008, 8:48

PowerVR 531 is out and about

Imagination reckons UMPCs are hot

Wed, 08 October 2008, 16:02

Symantec acquires MessageLabs

$695 million cash deal

Wed, 08 October 2008, 14:21

Intel brandishes patents at AMD fab spinoff

Blusters about rights and royalties

Wed, 08 October 2008, 13:34

Manhunt 2 released on Halloween

Killer game wrapped in cotton wool

Wed, 08 October 2008, 11:44

Opera for the unwashed masses

Changes galore in browser version 9.6

Wed, 08 October 2008, 10:42

US data mining under fire

Fails to detect terrorist activity

Wed, 08 October 2008, 9:58

Holograms coming to a TV near you

Help me Obi-Wan Kenobi

Wed, 08 October 2008, 9:34

DDR2 deal of the year

Daily Rounder $70 will get you record-breaking DDR2 performance

Wed, 08 October 2008, 8:05

Ofgem threatens changes

Misleading prices hoik in punters

Tue, 07 October 2008, 17:25

Arabian Micro Devices explains itself

Emirate Kingdom to make Oily Chips

Tue, 07 October 2008, 16:00

Nintendo introduces Wii Speak

You'll never hear the last of it

Tue, 07 October 2008, 15:00

Assault on batteries could fatten Ipod

Must be easily removable

Tue, 07 October 2008, 13:58

SAP says it is hurting

Recession bites

Tue, 07 October 2008, 12:32

UK to run out of electricity this winter

Get your USBs now

Tue, 07 October 2008, 10:42

Oracle-SAP talks collapse

Tomorrow Now is yesterday's news

Tue, 07 October 2008, 10:13

Ballmer ducks Vista Capable court appearance

I am incapable, m'lud

Tue, 07 October 2008, 9:51

E7300 and E5200 deliver a beating

Daily Roundup Bantamweight and Flyweight KOs

Tue, 07 October 2008, 8:07

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