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Angry Birds take wing on Android

Fight or flight?

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Angry Birds take wing on Android

iPad scammers hack Kirstie Allsopp’s Twitter

Posh property presenter pwned iPad scammers managed to reach a huge potential audience last weekend after they took over a Twitter profile maintained by British TV presenter Kirstie Allsopp.…

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iPad scammers hack Kirstie Allsopp’s Twitter

HPC goes mainstream

Marrying IT to HPC Workshop   Many people tend to associate High Performance Computing (HPC) with exotic supercomputers with esoteric CPUs, high-end networking and storage fabrics, and custom applications simulating nuclear explosions, virtually crash-testing cars or designing the aerodynamics of the latest jetliner.…

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HPC goes mainstream

Air mouse targets TV – Apple to follow?

Gesticulating at the telly will actually make things happen! Movea, the company behind the Gyration Air Mouse, is pushing into television with a module for adding gesture control to the humble zapper.…

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Air mouse targets TV – Apple to follow?

Browser security warning lookalike pushes malware

Zeven deadly sins Scareware peddlers have developed a new ruse that relies on mimicking browser warning pages.…

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Browser security warning lookalike pushes malware

Judge Dredd returns to the silver screen

‘Futuristic neo-noir’ action flick promised Those of you still recovering from Sylvester Stallone’s 1995 interpretation of Judge Dredd will have to wait until 2012 to see if Karl Urban can make a better hash of bringing the classic 2000 AD character to the silver screen.…

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Judge Dredd returns to the silver screen

Samsung: demand for Windows Phone 7 ‘specialised’

Demand for Symbian is ‘invisible’ Samsung is focus on Android and Bada for its smartphones after claiming there is no demand for Symbian phones and only “specialised” demand for Windows Phone 7.…

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Samsung: demand for Windows Phone 7 ‘specialised’

Virtual security: Even better than the real thing?

The jury’s still out VMworld   VMware is taking some big steps in the security and network management arena with its vShield product set. I sat in on a deepish dive into the somewhat new security products being offered by VMware to deliver on the ‘secure’ part of their “Secure Hybrid Cloud” initiative.…

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Virtual security: Even better than the real thing?

Death by iPod: beware the zombie trance

Mind how you go A 46 year-old woman wearing headphones was run over and killed by an ambulance in Sydney, Australia at the weekend. Police think she may not have heard the sirens.…

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Death by iPod: beware the zombie trance

O2 upgrades Dell Streak to Android 2.1

Gentlemen, start your downloads O2 has updated its version of the Dell Streak 5in internet tablet – reviewed here – to Android 2.1 .…

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O2 upgrades Dell Streak to Android 2.1

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