Steve's Network

Think tank calls for gov IT commoditisation
7 September 2010, 4:10 am

Big savings from little projects The Network for the Post Bureaucratic Age has published a paper urging the government to break down its IT projects into smaller chunks.…

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Retailers price up Samsung 7in Android tablet
7 September 2010, 3:56 am

Ouch Samsung's upcoming 7in Android tablet, the Galaxy Tab, is beginning to be priced up by retailers ahead of its anticipated arrival next month. Alas, it looks like it'll be a pricey offering.…

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Custodial offence for deliberate invasion of data protection? Forget it!
7 September 2010, 3:45 am

You had your chance, Labour I must confess that I find it rich that New Labour Ministers, who were in government for more than a decade, are now huffing and puffing about their “phone inboxes being hacked”. The sad truth is that, in government, they could have done a great deal to protect individual privacy by making such hacking a custodial offence.…

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Symantec stumbles, drops further behind EMC
7 September 2010, 3:11 am

Shaky second quarter The gap between EMC and Symantec storage software revenues is widening, according to IDC's worldwide quarterly Storage Software Tracker.…

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Happiness: Yours for £50k a year
7 September 2010, 2:45 am

Optimum income for joie de vivre US researchers have found that happiness can be yours for an income of $75k a year (or £48,814.44 as of this morning), although trousering more than that won't necessarily increase your joie de vivre.…

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UK patent attorneys: ECJ should reject advisors' opinion
7 September 2010, 2:44 am

Pan-EU patent court a good thing The European Court of Justice should reject the opinion of its advisors and put pragmatic economics ahead of legal technicalities and approve a pan-EU patent court, the UK patent attorneys' trade body has said.…

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Bowers and Wilkins P5 headphones
7 September 2010, 2:00 am

Aural excitement Review  Renowned for it high-end hi-fi, Bowers and Wilkins’ decision to make headphones is a bit of a departure for the company. At first glance, its debut set of cans, the P5s, certainly appear an impressive addition to its respected range of audio porn.…

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Intel and USB 3.0
6 September 2010, 9:26 pm

The cougar gets it DigiTimes thinks Intel could add a USB 3.0 host controller to its Cougar motherboard reference design.…

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Ellison taps ex-HP CEO Hurd as Oracle co-prez
6 September 2010, 8:27 pm

Phillips replaced by Larry tennis buddy Ex-HP CEO Mark Hurd has been named co-president at Oracle.…

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Mozilla 'cloud' code editor breaks with Lando Calrissian
6 September 2010, 2:00 pm

Skywriter goes Javascript Mozilla's Bespin project – an open source effort to build a web-based code editor – has been rechristened Skywriter, and its official repository has been moved to GitHub so that developers can more easily fork the project.…

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