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ICO reveals 356 breaches last year

27th Oct 2009 The Information Commissioner's Office has revealed that over 350 individual reports of data loss or theft from private and public sector companies were made last year. [2]

Microsoft opening Outlook data format

27th Oct 2009 Microsoft has pledged to make a full specification of the .PST format used by its Outlook e-mail client available for use, free from patent restrictions. [1]

Yahoo deletes GeoCities today

26th Oct 2009 Yahoo is today permanently deleting all content on the mid-nineties web publishing service GeoCities, with the loss of around 10 terabytes of data. [27]

Psystar launches Mac OS install tool

23rd Oct 2009 Psystar has announced the launch of a commercial software package to ease the installation of Mac OS X Snow Leopard on non-Apple hardware. [35]

MS offers Win 7 USB installer

23rd Oct 2009 Microsoft has, for the first time, released a version of its Windows operating system which can be easily installed from a USB drive - perfect for netbooks. [18]

Sapphire Radeon HD 5870 Vapor-X winner announced

22nd Oct 2009 We announce the winner of our Sapphire Radeon HD 5870 Vapor-X competition. [860]

Windows 7 more popular than Harry Potter

22nd Oct 2009 Win7 is finally, officially here - and its pre-order run has been one of the most successful in Amazon's history, outselling the last Harry Potter. [33]

Firefox Mobile on the way

22nd Oct 2009 Mozilla's John Lilly has confirmed that Firefox Mobile - codenamed Fennec - will be released on Nokia's Maemo, Google's Android, and Microsoft's Windows Mobile. [11]

SCO terminates McBride's job

20th Oct 2009 Darl McBride's position of CEO and President at The SCO Group has been terminated, which could halt the drawn-out legal campaign against Linux. [3]

Sony demos 3D display prototype

20th Oct 2009 Sony will demo a prototype of its true 3D display at Japan's Digital Content Expo on Thursday, and it's certainly a departure from the norm. [21]

Mozilla blocks vulnerable MS plugin

19th Oct 2009 A vulnerable Firefox plugin which installs into Firefox without user interaction has been added to the central blacklist by Mozilla - but this one comes from Microsoft. [27]

Websense warns over OWA attack

19th Oct 2009 Security firm Websense has issued a warning regarding a major attack against Outlook Web Access portals, designed to install a banking Trojan into company systems. [2]

Google to launch e-book store

16th Oct 2009 Google is looking to launch an e-book store which will see it competing with Amazon - although it plans to quell discontent with a profit-share offering for existing sellers. [11]

Mozilla launches plugin security check

15th Oct 2009 The Mozilla Foundation has launched a page which allows users to check their installed plugins to find vulnerable or outdated versions. [5]

Finland to make broadband a legal right

15th Oct 2009 The Finnish government has announced plans to make 1Mb/s Internet connectivity a legal right of all citizens - and to extend that to 100Mb/s for all by 2015. [40]

Enermax Competition Winners Announced

15th Oct 2009 Well done to the lucky winners, who have bagged themselves a PSU, case or fan! [143]

OpenMoko launches WikiReader

14th Oct 2009 OpenMoko - the group behind the open-source FreeRunner smartphone - have launched an offline, pocket-sized device designed to read Wikipedia on the go. [8]

ATI Stream SDK now supports GPU-accelerated OpenCL

14th Oct 2009 AMD has announced the release of the ATI Stream SDK Beta 4, which finally introduces support for GPGPU computing. [8]

Mac 'Snow Leopard' bug eats user files

13th Oct 2009 A bug in the Snow Leopard version of Apple's Mac OS X - triggered when logging in as the guest user - can result in the permanent loss of all user files and settings. [31]

Adobe Reader attacked by JavaScript bug

12th Oct 2009 Security researchers have identified a Trojan which attacks a flaw in Adobe Reader's JavaScript handling to insert a backdoor - and a patch isn't due until tomorrow. [11]

Dell told to repay millions in state aid

12th Oct 2009 Dell has been told by the North Carolina government that its closure of the state-backed Forsyth County manufacturing plant means it owes millions in grants and tax breaks. [9]

Win loads of Asus and AMD hardware

9th Oct 2009 There's only a few days left to vote on this year's Custom PC & bit-tech Awards. Read on to find out how you could win some great prizes!

MS to offer free Office Starter Edition

9th Oct 2009 Microsoft has announced that a "limited functionality" version of Office 2010 will be available pre-loaded on OEM PCs, supported by an advertising framework. [23]

Fujitsu unveils rugged RFID

8th Oct 2009 Fujitsu has launched a new, rugged RFID tag which is flexible, can withstand up to two atmospheres of pressure, and work even in temperatures of up to 120° Celsius. [9]

Eolas sues half of the Internet

7th Oct 2009 Eolas - a patent-holder which won a multi-million dollar judgement against Microsoft a few years back - is again suing some of the biggest names on the 'net for patent infringement. [48]

Nvidia working on CUDA-based anti-virus

7th Oct 2009 Nvidia has announced that it is working on producing a CUDA-based anti-virus system which will offload the task of checking for malware on to its range of graphics processors. [32]

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Visual Clarity in Character Design II
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Joe Martin on 23rd Nov, 10:42

Why Britain's watchdogs have fewer teeth than goldfish
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