Attempts to protect 1,600 UK staff ... not including Lynch Unite and the Public Services Commercial (PCS) unions will form a tag team to "use every means possible" to safeguard the jobs of 1,600 HP UK employees under risk of redundancy.…
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Keep Zuck's shareholders happy... please Now that Facebook is being scrutinised by its new-found shareholders, it really needs people to start clicking on its ads.…
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Computers for kids Google is to indirectly equip 102 UK schools with Raspberry Pi devices.…
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Me and my shadow Pic  NASA's Mars rover Opportunity snapped a dramatic photo of itself roaming around the planet's Endeavour Crater today.…
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Embedded ones, true, but what's wrong with off-the-shelf hardness? EMC has always maintained that it is not is in the server business, but now it is developing servers – albeit to go into its arrays and run application software inside VM containers.…
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Making money-grabbing malware is too easy on Android, say experts A firm that disguised Android malware as Angry Birds games has been fined £50,000 ($78,300) by UK premium-rate service regulator PhonepayPlus.…
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Under-10s' social network spreads Monstro city, the social network frequented by all the coolest kids in the playground, is going mobile and has signed a deal with Gree to deploy at least two games on that platform.…
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Keeping things simple for the users... Sysadmin blog  My previous article focused on migrating Exchange into Microsoft's cloud, but there is more to Office 365 than just Exchange. Single Sign On (SSO) between Office 365 and your local Microsoft domain can be a bit tricky. A proper implementation has high minimum requirements, and there are very good arguments against cutting corners.…
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Don't want to be an all-flash also-ran NetApp is a veritable money machine these days, and is currently clocking in growing fourth quarter and annual results, but a blip may have appeared on the horizon as it searches for a way to bolster its flash offering. The tech giant has signalled it is going to both partner up to expand on flash technology and work on a few in-house flashy developments.…
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Mobile print-takers identify perps in seconds Met bobbies will soon be able to scan suspects' fingerprints on the street and pull up their records in seconds using internet-connected handheld gadgets.…
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ISP blocked for a week after 'ignoring' complaints Analysis  Pipex subscribers struggled to send emails for several days after antivirus biz Trend Micro declared the ISP's network a source of spam.…
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Live 'leccy stats from the cloud to save 'millions' We're all going to be much richer thanks to British Gas, which will push kit from Cambridge startup AlertMe into 10,000 homes this summer. The rollout will reach the rest of the energy giant's ten million customers in the autumn.…
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Station 'nauts see light on but no one home on capsule It's another moment of truth for upstart space startup SpaceX as once again the company attempts to do something that has only ever been accomplished to date by major government space agencies: docking one spacecraft to another in orbit and transferring cargo.…
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Playing the SLA long game When IT is your day job it is easy to lose sight of why you are doing it. Alright, it’s to pay the bills, fund your next holiday, buy nice stuff and so on.…
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But RSA claims it would only work on rootkit-compromised gear Analysis  RSA Security has downplayed the significance of an attack that offers a potential way to clone its SecurID software tokens.…
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Exercise motivate-urgh, urgh iOS App of the Week  There are dozens of apps aimed at joggers that can plot a route for you, and measure your speed, progress and calories burned. Yet none of them deal with the fundamental fact that jogging is the most boring form of exercise known to humanity.…
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OMAP out, Tegra 3 in Toshiba has taken its very thin AT200 tablet, ripped out the 1.2GHz Texas Instruments OMAP 4430 CPU and flung in an Nvidia Tegra 3 penta-core processor instead.…
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CNIL unhappy with previous answers on privacy French data regulator Commission Nationale de l'Informatique (CNIL) has demanded more answers from Google over its handling of the data of its users.…
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Eco-tech funds in, tribunals out in draft bill Vince Cable presented his new Enterprise and Regulatory Reform Bill to Parliament on Wednesday afternoon, promising more action on competition, streamlined employment tribunals and a £3bn Green Bank that will funnel cash into eco-friendly energy and tech industries.…
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Thin telly requires fat wallet LG showed off its 55in OLED TV at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in January, and despite demo'ing the device again this week, this time over here, it's still vague about the release date.…
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You'll be sorry if you flip it off, though HPC blog  New tech at GTC12 lets punters pretend to be Tom Cruise in Minority Report: opening windows, moving them, closing them, and essentially acting like a cool, futuristic cop.…
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Mounting excitement down in REHAB The epic saga of our shed-built hypobaric chamber – the Rocketry Experimental High Altitude Barosimulator (REHAB) experiment – continues today with the news that we've just laid our hands on a proper vacuum pump which allows LOHAN to suck an impressive 27 inches.…
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Extension launch scuppered by certificate blunder Yahoo! today released its Axis extension for Chrome – and accidentally leaked its private security key that could allow anyone to create malicious plugins masquerading as official Yahoo! software.…
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Screen-inflation nation We're not speaking to people on our phones, these days, we're mostly browsing the web. And that, says market watcher ABI Research, is driving demand for devices that lie in the grey area between smartphones and tablets.…
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New additions to federate and protect as trio adopt VPLEX VCE, the VMware/Cisco/EMC converged system threesome, has introduced two new Vblocks and adopted VPLEX to federate Vblocks.…
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