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Evidently not impressed with Street View spymobile

The Shetland Islands are proving fertile ground for Street View tomfoolery, and hot on the heels of yesterday's Incredible Hulk revelation we have this chap offering Google's Orwellian black Opel the traditional local welcome:…

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Repo man rampage

A disgruntled worker allegedly caused chaos after he hacked into a vehicle immobilisation system and remotely disabled cars, Wired reports.…

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Buy and read e-books in OS X

Amazon has rolled out the Mac version of its Kindle-on-a-computer application, and it's open to e-book buyers in the UK.…

Udall proposes SUN Act to expand solar power
Aspen Daily News
announced Wednesday a new bill intended to boost solar energy production by extending solar tax credits to residents who invest in community solar farms to ...
Bill would extend solar tax credits to solar farmsBusinessWeek
US Sen. Mark Udall Unveils Community Solar Gardens BillCleanTechnica
Sen. Udall introduces community solar system legislationGlenwood Springs Post Independent
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Lawyers step in to block bargain sale

The auction of the controversial domain name sex.com has been delayed, after some of its owner's creditors stepped in with a bankruptcy claim.…

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Hobbit Huddled-mass detectors cop an axeing

Plans to erect a chain of tall towers topped by all-seeing eyes along the US southern border - for the purpose of detecting inbound huddled masses, rather than troublesome hobbits - have perhaps been torpedoed at last, according to reports.…

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Delivering stability for the movers

Workshop In the past decade we have witnessed the use of laptops in organisations reaching similar levels to those of desktops. All the signs are that the penetration of such machines will soon exceed that of their immobile siblings. Today, they are more than status symbols. They are established as essential business devices, without which many users would find their jobs difficult, if not impossible, to perform adequately.…

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Construction Manager - Electrical - Wind Farms
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Experience in the area of turnkey project management from the wind, power plant or construction industry will be an advantage. Solid financial knowledge as ...

Still searching for social success

Yahoo! is making another attempt to strengthen its weak social networking products by buying Citizen Sports.…

Offloading malware protection to the cloud

As modern DRM schemes get more annoying and invasive, the common wisdom is to vote with your wallet and avoid supporting developers and publishers who include such schemes with their games. Or, if you simply must play it, wait a while until outcry and complaints have caused the DRM restrictions to be loosened. But will any of that make game creators rethink their stance? An article at CNet argues that gamers are, in general, an impatient bunch, and that trait combined with the nature of the games industry means that progress fighting DRM will be slow or nonexistent. Quoting: "Increasingly so, the joke seems to be on the customers who end up buying this software when it first comes out. A simple look back at some controversial titles has shown us that after the initial sales come, the publisher later removes the vast majority of the DRM, leaving gamers to enjoy the software with fewer restrictions. ... Still, [waiting until later to purchase the game] isn't a good long-term solution. Early sales are often one of the big quantifiers in whether a studio will start working on a sequel, and if everyone were to wait to buy games once they hit the bargain price, publishers would simply stop making PC versions. There's also no promise that the really heavy bits of DRM will be stripped out at a later date, except for the fact that most publishers are unlikely to want to maintain the cost of running the activation, and/or online verification servers for older software."

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Sony and Intel join plan to rule world with ads

Google has joined forces with Intel and Sony to build a television set-top box based on its Android mobile operating system and Chrome web browser.…

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Holographic light at end of the tunnel

Collapsed holographic storage maker InPhase is being resuscitated.…

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CoRoT-9b- Extra Solar Planet Proffers Hope of Inhabitation
TopNews United States
“This is the first planet where it makes sense to apply the models developed for planets within our solar system", said Dr. Deeg, who works at the Instituto ...
New 'temperate' exoplanet hints at solar system like our ownChristian Science Monitor
New exoplanet like 'one of ours'BBC News
Newly discovered Jupiter-sized exoplanet might become cosmic 'Rosetta stone'Oneindia
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ZDNet: "In a Globe and Mail report, the insurance industry wants to use sites such as Facebook to collect and use background information collected to contradict any evidence you have used in your claim for damages."

Teasing the education from the evangelism

Lab There are few if any technologies that have garnered as much industry coverage as virtualisation has enjoyed over the last few years. Okay, maybe ‘Cloud Computing’ has too, but that’s more vendor talk than action right now. As far as real-world activity goes, virtualisation is a hotbed of activity and a magnet for vendors to prove their worth/disprove the worth of others and help/hinder those trying to harness the technology to benefit their organisations.…

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Green Energy Live Sees Growth Potential for Target Acquisition's Solar ...
CNNMoney.com (press release)
Based on the number of bids submitted, new inquiries, contracts awarded and projects in progress, Peck believes its solar panel installation division has ...

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ANALYSIS-Wind energy gains still lost in grid lock
Forexyard
Spanish fossil fuel power producers also suffer from gluts of subsidised wind power which force wholesale prices down to zero for hours at a time. ...
Wind power bill advancesOmaha World-Herald
Wind energy creates jobsREVE

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Just how much of an ongoing burden are they?

Workshop In some organisations, the ERP system represents the biggest single entity within the IT environment. This is particularly the case in industries such as manufacturing, distribution and others that are heavily manpower- or goods-centric. Even if ERP in itself doesn’t account for a lot of the infrastructure per se, it is one of those applications (or suites of applications) a lot of other stuff needs to be plugged into. It's therefore not something you can easily put to one side and forget about.…

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Tabs to be kept

A code of practice for the forthcoming Police National Database says that an audit trail will be created to tackle abuse.…

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A business box to get your pulse racing - surely not?

Reviews You know where you stand with business-oriented laptops. They're chunky, dull-looking machines with all the pizazz of a rainy afternoon in Chester. Dell's Vostro range has been a case in point: a collection of low-power, low-charisma laptops likely to appeal only to the most frugal of IT department bean counters.…