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David Davis tells El Reg that Labour is 'mesmerised' by tech

Liberties sacrificed for 'an illusion'

Interview As polling day approaches for the Howden and Haltemprice by-election, voters and observers are left with an eerie sense of déjà vu as Labour once again refuses to debate its civil liberties record with David Davis.…

eBay Australia ditches PayPal scheme

Seller fury prompts backdown

eBay Australia has given up on its attempt to force virtually all payments through its subsidiary PayPal.…

'Anaconda' 200m rubber snake generator scheme gets funding

'Bulge' wave power - a hard one to swallow?

British professors have secured government research funding for their plans to generate energy using gigantic black rubber snake-like devices moored off the UK coasts.…

Geldof backs Davis 'For Freedom' by-election

Banana republic, sceptic isle redux

Popstar turned humanitarian Bob Geldof has thrown his unkempt weight behind David Davis' by-election campaign.…

Opera update fixes stability bugs

And mystery code injection flaw

Opera released an update to the latest version of its browser on Thursday.…

Google deigns to comply with a privacy law

Corporate Rainmen avoid panic attack over word count

Google has finally added a link to its privacy (or lack thereof) policy on its homepage following pressure from privacy advocates.…

Palm, BlackBerry-beating demand for 3G iPhone claims researcher

US consumers eye Apple smartphone

More than half of US consumers looking to buy a smartphone in the next three months will opt for Apple's 3G iPhone.…

Microsoft gets hip with da yoof to flog email

Doing it for charidee

What could be more insincere than a bunch of marketing types concocting a fake blog to pimp their company's services by hitching them to worthy causes?…

BSA slams EC's 'narrow-minded' interoperability vision

EIF 2.0 draft ruffles some proprietary software feathers

An open standards row is brewing between the EC and a lobbying group for software multinationals over a proposed European framework on interoperability – a draft of which is due to be published on 15 July.…

MS readies Vista code injection risk fix

Redmond security gnomes get tough

Critical bug fixes are on the agenda for this month's monthly patch update from Microsoft.…

Government waves cutlass at IT budget

Offshoring ahoy!

Treasury minister Yvette Cooper yesterday announced a plan to look for wide-ranging cost cuts in government budgets.…

Oracle risks loss of influential BEA users

Free from Applications Unlimited

During its trumpeted webcast on plans for BEA Systems, Oracle's top brass stressed their commitment to middleware to keep the new flock happy. So it purchased BEA to expand Oracle's presence in Asia and Japan - that wasn't the point.…

Solar-curtain "soft house" plan proposed by MIT prof

Soft buildings: require no foundation of hard facts

Architect Watch Heavens be praised* - the energy security/climate/fuel-price crisis has been solved by an MIT professor. Remarkably, not a professor of engineering or science either - but an architecture prof. Sheila Kennedy and her partner Frano Violich - assisted by other architects - have designed a "soft house" powered by "energy harvesting" solar-photovoltaic curtains.…

Apple takes axe to MacBook Air SSD price

Overnight, £300 cheaper

Apple's MacBook Air - still the world's slimmest laptop; VoodooPC's Envy isn't shipping yet - just got cheaper. Well, sort of. Apple's knocked £300/$500 off the price of the solid-state drive model.…

Would a data notification law improve UK data security?

How to prevent more government data disasters

A panel of experts in data protection was beaten yesterday by a simple question from the floor: "Can you give us an example of good data security practice by the British Government?"…

Judge grants Viacom 12TB of YouTube user records

Google's privacy comeuppance

In the ongoing $1bn legal spat between Google and Viacom, a federal judge has ordered the search giant to turn over all existing records of every video viewed on YouTube. That includes user account names and IP addresses.…

Nut launches death threats at Debian women

'You're killing freesource'

Exclusive Women working on Debian have been getting death threats from a nut job who believes they're killing free software.…

EU still greasing IBM antitrust probe despite PSI withdrawal

'Your complaint stands'

IBM may have corked the wails of antitrust outrage coming from the diminutive mainframe vendor Platform Solutions (PSI) by purchasing the upstart, but the European regulator genie has already slipped out the bottle.…

Strange cults, vocal surgery and the quiet man: Inside Microsoft

Mary-Jo Foley on life after Gates

Radio Reg Who'd have thought a bad haircut and rocking backwards and forwards in your chair like a child with ADD could pass as must-have traits? Yet, such was the cult of Bill Gates at Microsoft, company employees adopted these to become more like their boss.…

Microsoft flogs subscriptions to the unwary and confused

Bad omens

Comment There's no such thing as a coincidence or a missed opportunity in the world of Microsoft, and this is no ordinary week.…

'HD TV gas' 17,000 times worse for planet than CO2, claims boffin

Nitrogen Trifluoride emissions balloon on flat-panel production

LCD TVs, praised as being greener than old-style tellies because they consume much less power, may actually be speeding climate change, a chemical expert has warned.…

Are the ice caps melting?

Climate science's bipolar disorder

PBEM The headlines last week brought us terrifying news: The North Pole will be ice-free this summer "for the first time in human history," wrote Steve Connor in The Independent. Or so the experts at the National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC) in Boulder, Colorado predict. This sounds very frightening, so let's look at the facts about polar sea ice.…

Microsoft touts trustworthy browsing with IE8

If it asks if you'd like to see some puppies, just say no

Microsoft has detailed a raft of security improvements due to appear in Internet Explorer 8. The second beta of Redmond's web browser will be packed full of features designed to thwart phishing and drive-by download attacks, Redmond explained on Wednesday.…

Wife-slaying Linux guru may have 'developmental disability'

Lawyers brand Hans Reiser 'mentally incompetent'

Lawyers for prominent Linux developer Hans Reiser, who was convicted of his wife's murder in April, have written to the trial judge this week to argue that their client may be mentally ill.…

UK and US agree biometric heavily vetted trusted traveller deal

'Built on UK success' - have the yanks lost the plot?

The UK and US governments are to set up a fast-track scheme for trusted, frequent travellers between the two countries, immigration minister Liam Byrne announced today. So say goodbye to immigration blues? Not so fast - the agreement between the two countries only "sets out the shared determination to develop a swift channel across the two borders for trusted travellers", presumably meaning that it'll be a while yet.…

The Moderatrix will see you now

Cue Aunt, cue Agony

Those among you who are still adrift on the sea of life - despite our resident Agony Aunt's best efforts to guide you to the shores of sanity - will be relieved to learn that the Moderatrix has once again opened the door of her basement boudoir to offer spiritual succour to the needy.…

Boozers rejoice - it's the USB wine tap!

Faucet through

If a glass of plonk is your limit after a long day at the office, then you’d better not read on, because a tipple at your desk is now much easier, thanks to the fabulous French invention that is the USB Wine Tap.…

Transatlantic data sharing talks stumble over access to justice

Sharing is caring, says EU

High-level transatlantic talks on data sharing have hit a snag over EU citizens' right to defend their privacy in US court, the European Commission said in Brussels yesterday.…

Linspire CEO defends Xandros buy-out

Hopes Linux will 'touch more people'

The CEO of Linux distributor Linspire has confirmed that rival desktop Linux maker Xandros Inc has acquired the firm.…

Scareware runs amok on PlayStation site

Sony gamed by hackers

Gamers visiting the US Sony PlayStation website risk malware infection after the site was hit by hackers.…

What powers a solar-powered snail, kids?

Dumb and dumber science exams

Boffins have slammed examiners in England for setting school children seriously dumb questions.…

ISO certifies Adobe's PDF

Standard delivers, albeit at leisurely pace

The International Standardisation Organisation has ratified Adobe's Portable Document Format (PDF) as an official international standard, though it won't make PDF documents load any faster.…

Firefox 3 makes up world record to set world record

Oh-oh, dedication download's what you need

The Mozilla Foundation has officially set a previously non-existent Guinness World Record for the largest number of software downloads in a day.…

Brit carrier deals inked at last

We should be happy - but we aren't

Comment The UK media this morning is alive with "giant carrier" headlines, as the long-awaited contracts for the Royal Navy's new carriers are signed at last. In fact, as some news sources reported at the time, the deals were effectively confirmed six weeks ago, but today is the public announcement.…

Pay-by-phone commerce coming closer

Talk, text and pay

The global trade body for the mobile industry and a European monetary organisation have signed a pact to speed up the deployment of handset payment services in Europe.…

America wakes up to the surveillance society

Who watches the watchmen's mobile phone?

Civil liberties groups in the US are demanding that the Department of Justice cough details of its use of mobile phone tracking - particularly how often it's done so without probable cause of a crime being committed.…

Built-in browser expiry proposed to fight botnet menace

45% fail to update surfing software, report finds

Nearly half (45.2 per cent) of all internet surfers neglect to regularly update their browser software. Slackness in applying updates in a timely fashion leaves an estimated 637 million surfers vulnerable to drive-by download attacks, according to a new survey.…

Research: Wind power pricier, emits more CO2 than thought

'Windfarm output is never zero. Sometimes it's less'

Fresh contenders have entered the UK wind power debate, as a turbines expert funded by the Renewable Energy Foundation publishes an investigation into a hotly-disputed subject - the variability in output to be expected of a large UK windfarm base.…

Tories pledge to flush away eco slums

Contemplating stools for Gaia

Who would have guessed that in 2008, a pledge to give British people flushing toilets would be a shock vote winner?…

Openmoko to release Linux handset tomorrow

Open Source calling

Anyone fond of creating their own applications within a open source environment will soon be able to get mobile. Openmoko has finally announced the launch date of its Neo FreeRunner open-source phone.…

Sony pulls PlayStation 3 software update

Version 2.40 messing with gamers' consoles

Sony has been forced to withdraw the anticipated 2.4 PS3 firmware just a few hours after the update became available, because the new code has apparently been playing havoc with consoles.…

Moody's to fix sub-prime computer error

CCC rating (That's Credit crunch computer cock-up)

Moody's, the ratings agency, is reviewing its computer models and setting up a central monitoring system after admitting that a bug led it to incorrectly grade several European mortgage debt instruments.…

Virgin warns 800 punters for file-sharing

'Important. If you don't read this, your broadband could be disconnected'

The BPI has written to 800 Virgin Media customers warning them to stop sharing music files or risk losing their broadband connection.…

OMTP says mobile Web 2.0 is a beach

Now to get everyone to agree what that means

Operator talking shop the Open Mobile Terminal Alliance has embarked on an ambitious plan to bring Web 2.0 to mobile phones, called Bondi to reflect the joy of surfing.…

Nvidia throws itself under the bus with chip defect, delays and lost sales

The $200m laptop failure surprise

Nvidia issued some somber news for shareholders today, revealing a financial forecast cut short due to slowing sales, a delayed ramp for new product, and a hefty payout due to faulty laptop chips.…

Dell buys into Dell for $100m

He's a believer in pocket change

Dell's rebirth as a technology juggernaut is well underway. Just ask Michael Dell.…

Jobs and Apple board fingered in backdating civil lawsuit

SEC may forgive, but lawyers won't forget

The US Securities and Exchange Commission may have washed its hands of the Apple stock option backdating affair, but Steve Jobs and company aren't quite clear of the dirt yet.…

Bill Gates battles Kermit the Frog in the name of open source

Twittering Shuttleworth's gas

Radio Reg Every time Mark Shuttleworth farts an angel gets its wings. Or at least that's what his girlfriend told me.…

Google a broken hell for five-year-olds

Ex employees embrace life after beta

So, everyone and their brother is yapping about a recent blog post from Microsoftie Dare Obasanjo, who says he knows lots o' people who've forsaken Larry and Serg for Big Steve.…

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