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New iPods coming September 9th, but no new MacBook? PDF E-mail
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by Davey Winder   
Tuesday, 26 August 2008
The entire iPod range revamped, a new 'stick' iPod, lower prices and of course iTunes 8: all are likely to see the light of day on September 9th. But what about the new MacBook?

 
JavaScript speed boost ahead for Mozilla's Firefox PDF E-mail
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by Stephen Withers   
Tuesday, 26 August 2008
Web applications are set for a speed boost, but it's nothing to do with their developers. The TraceMonkey project is hard at work on a new and much faster implementation of JavaScript for the Firefox browser.

 
Testing a 'known good' iPhone 3G proves what? PDF E-mail
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by Stephen Withers   
Monday, 25 August 2008
There's a lot of noise about the iPhone 3G and how well it does - or doesn't - connect to 3G networks. But if you wanted to shed light on what's going on, would you test a handset that was working well, or one that was working badly?

 
Chef serves up food ad network PDF E-mail
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by Stephen Withers   
Monday, 25 August 2008
An Australian chef aims to link major brands in the food and beverage markets with specialist web sites that cater for culinary enthusiasts.

 
How secure is MobileMe if used while, well, mobile? PDF E-mail
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by Davey Winder   
Monday, 25 August 2008
It might seem like something of a silly question, but people are asking just how secure the Apple MobileMe service is if you use it while mobile after learning it has a surprising lack of data encryption functionality...

 
Red Hat fesses up to Fedora FOSS security fiasco PDF E-mail
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by Davey Winder   
Sunday, 24 August 2008
A week or so ago, end users of the Linux-based Red Hat Fedora OS were warned to avoid downloading packages due to an "issue in the infrastructure systems" which waved big red flags suggesting a security breach to many industry observers. Now Fedora has admitted Red Hat OpenSSH packages were compromised by two separate server intrusions... 

 
Virtual Outsourcing: gold farming employs 320,000 Chinese cheaters PDF E-mail
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by Davey Winder   
Sunday, 24 August 2008
It sounds like something right out of a Roald Dahl story, but this is much stranger than any fiction: gold farming has become a $500 million global virtual outsourcing business.

 
Ay Carumba: microchipping middle-class Mexicans PDF E-mail
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by Davey Winder   
Sunday, 24 August 2008
It would appear that wealthy Mexicans are so worried about being kidnapped that some are prepared to be microchipped in order for them to be traced in such an eventuality...

 
Reddit blames black holes for downtime PDF E-mail
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by Davey Winder   
Friday, 22 August 2008
Even in these always-on times when business continuity translates into keeping your website up, it is not that unusual for the occasional downtime to occur. Most sites do not blame black holes for downtime though...

 
Criminal blunder as UK government loses 84,000 prisoners PDF E-mail
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by Davey Winder   
Friday, 22 August 2008
The UK Home Office has admitted that a memory stick with the data concerning every single prisoner in the country, all 84,000 of them, has managed to escape. Of course, this being the UK government, the data was not encrypted...

 
Microsoft granted Page Up Page Down patent PDF E-mail
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by Davey Winder   
Friday, 22 August 2008
If patenting the obvious is considered something of an art form in the world of IT, then Microsoft is undoubtedly an old master. The Page Up Page Down patent it has been granted would seem to confirm this...

 
MillionDollarCu.be: can lightning strike twice? PDF E-mail
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by Stephen Withers   
Friday, 22 August 2008
Perhaps you remember UK student Alex Tew and his million-dollar home page? It triggered a number of copycats back in 2005 and 2006, but none that we've seen have come within coo-ee of matching the original's success. But someone thinks it's time to take another shot.

 
Demand growing for mobile content and services PDF E-mail
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by Stephen Withers   
Friday, 22 August 2008
Fewer people are buying more mobile content, according to the latest Australian Mobile Phone Lifestyle Index. The study is published by the Australian Interactive Media Industry Association, and sponsored by mobile broadband application provider m.Net and user interface design company Ideal Interfaces.

 
How the World loves Linux, according to Google searches PDF E-mail
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by Stuart Corner   
Friday, 22 August 2008
Internet monitoring company, Pingdom, has plotted the popularity of the various Linux distributions by geography on the basis of how often their names are used in Google searches. Rigorous it may not be, but this 'distribution of distributions' is certainly fascinating.

 
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