Magic, Rodman and more will school you

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The UK tech incubator set up last year to transform technology ideas into businesses has completed its first intake with investments already being made into the companies that have emerged.

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Difference Engine completes first phase

The closest you’ll get to Zelda without dusting off your NES? Review   Feeling nostalgic for 8-bit gaming? Then 3D Dot Game Heroes will, no doubt, satisfy. There’s no need to drag out your NES as this square-edged upstart hails from the land of Sony and is exclusive to Playstation 3 . With fervour for the 1980s increasingly present in popular culture ( Hot Tub Time Machine , anyone?), 3D Dot Game Heroes buys into this sentimentalism and looks, plays and sounds like nothing else around since 1986.…

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3D Dot Game Heroes

Dust up over supposed evil particles A futurologist has defended his controversial warning that “smart dust” is liable to become a future information stealing threat.…

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Futurologist defends ‘malevolent dust’ warning

Microsoft has entered a licence agreement to use security technology from Cryptography Research to protect against…

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Microsoft licenses security technology from Cryptography Research

Just as well, as it doesn’t play DVDs

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News: Lovefilm Streaming Heading to Wii

HSBC has saved more than $1m in energy costs after rolling out technology that shuts down 300,000 PCs during evenings and weekends.

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HSBC saves $1m in energy costs by turning off computers

UK businesses are increasingly joining their North American peers in switching to third-party technical support to cut costs of owning big-ticket enterprise software.

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Rimini Street expands UK operations

A ClearPath to the development skies A mainframe cloud may seem oxymoronic like a lead Zeppelin (“a” included on purpose), or intuitively obvious (given the virtualization and metering capabilities that have been in mainframes for decades). But Unisys has nonetheless fluffed up a mainframe cloud for its ClearPath mainframe customers.…

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Unisys floats mainframe cloud

$20 million BlueArc, the hardware-accelerated NAS array supplier startup, has pocketed another $20m in a seventh funding round, taking total funding to around $225m.…

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BlueArc gets extra greenbacks