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Tape is sexy again - so why can't Quantum stop drowning?

When the bathplug pops out you'd best get hold of the baby

Storage 2 Nov 07:26

Panasonic pulls Euro smartphone after just a year

Horse, barn door scenario as losses mount

Business 2 Nov 06:33

It's official: No 10 mandates 'open systems' options for Sir Humphreys

Whoops, there goes my budget

Government 2 Nov 06:29

Nationwide to perform IT equivalent of 'replacing jet engine mid-flight'

On my count: Pull it all off mainframes and onto SAP

Servers 2 Nov 06:00

Dolphin, Lion, Blue Magpie in Asian data centre battle

Hong Kong, Singapore and Taiwan vie for foreign bit barn business

Data Center 2 Nov 05:42

iPad Mini's quite a handful

First Fondle Accelerometer could use some extra speed

Hardware 2 Nov 04:18

Google defamed Australian man with links to gangster

Search results connected everyday punter with nasty drug dealer

Law 2 Nov 03:19

Big Data lets CIOs go all CSI

Bagged evidence in data stores can catch an insight, if you prepare now

Data Center 2 Nov 02:25

Singapore gov think tank plots SSD takedown

1TB hybrid uses less power than SSD, could work in Ultrabooks and tablets

Storage 2 Nov 02:01

Apple updates iOS 6, Safari

Dreaming of a fix for the crap Maps app? Dream on

Software 2 Nov 00:33

Amazon fattens up EC2 compute cloud, chops prices

Embiggened CPU and memory, but EBS storage only

Virtualization 1 Nov 23:15

Businessweek: 'It's Global Warming, Stupid'

Sandy's climate change supersizing is controversial 'only among the stupid'

Science 1 Nov 23:04

African kids learn to read, hack Android on OLPC fondleslab

Why your next sysadmin could be Ethiopian

Hardware 1 Nov 22:52

Hobbits enlisted to make punters look at the air-safety vid

Fasten your sseat belt, preciouss

Media 1 Nov 22:30

US court dumps on “browserwrap” T&Cs

Zappos’ customer contract tossed

Law 1 Nov 21:39

FTC shuts down five US robocall operations

'This is Rachel from cardhol ... bzzzz'

Government 1 Nov 19:57

Apple enables 'Superstorm Sandy' donations in iTunes Store

No, Cupertino won't take its 30% cut – it all goes to the Red Cross

Applications 1 Nov 19:52

Apple puts less of its takings into R&D, hires more sales cultists

Knows its own business model best

Financial News 1 Nov 19:02

Inside the iPad mini: Pray you never have to open one

Teardown Stereo speakers, not mono as Amazon claims

Hardware 1 Nov 18:37

Big Switch Networks stuffs $25m more down its trousers

Like VMware's Nicira SDN biz, but still for sale

Virtualization 1 Nov 18:35

Russia launches internet blacklist to protect the kiddies

And you thought SOPA was bad

Government 1 Nov 18:30

Oldest town of the Old World found in Bulgaria

Cut their dead up and buried them with pots - as you do

Science 1 Nov 18:06

Tokyo court says Micron can wed Elpida, birth world No.2 chipmaker

Mem warrior wants into bed of penniless DRAMurai princess

Storage 1 Nov 17:51

Daily Telegraph punishes expats with paywall

Take that, traitors!

Media 1 Nov 17:28

Teradata customers plead: 'Stop, we can't buy any more stuff!'

Oh go on, it's only wafer thin

Data Center 1 Nov 17:27

Microsoft price hikes start to bite down on EMEA partners

'Reasonable show from all vendors - except the biggest'

The Channel 1 Nov 17:13

Sony promotes Vita with QUAD-JUBBED WOMAN

Over-endowed French femme proves quite an Eiffel

Hardware 1 Nov 17:06

Windows 8 'penetrated' says firm which sells to world's spy agencies

Various spooks now have secret keys to Redmond's kingdom

Windows 8 1 Nov 16:58

Analyst slams Apple innovation FAIL

Why can't you put touchscreens on iMacs and MacBooks, eh? EH?

Hardware 1 Nov 16:39

Windows Server 2012: Microsoft's other Big Push

Liam Proven walks us through the technical launch

Servers 1 Nov 16:28

Sony turned off by CEA's 'Ultra HD' TV label

Respectfully, honoured American trade body, we prefer '4K'

Media 1 Nov 16:27

British judge: Say you're sorry Apple... this time like you MEAN it

Smackdown for surly 8-yr-old style Samsung copy statement

Law 1 Nov 16:22

ISS 'nauts pop out to fix a radiator... in SPACE

Six hours to fix coolant leak in solar array

Science 1 Nov 16:22

Felix Baumgartner sadly turns out to be blinkered FOOL

Comment That's it. Nobody drink Red Bull any more

Science 1 Nov 16:09

iPhone 5 imperilled by Sharp's 'huge' problems with tellies

Japanese elecronics woes - at last, a reason to care

Hardware 1 Nov 15:58

Qualcomm chip puts 60GHz wireless gigabit into Dell Ultrabook

WiGig delivered through Wi-Fi kit

reghardware 1 Nov 15:56

Free Android apps often secretly make calls, use the camera

Free: it isn't, in mobile and in lunches

Security 1 Nov 15:03

Flash slash at OCZ: New CEO cuts nearly 200 jobs, 150 products

Bonfire of flash vanities

Storage 1 Nov 14:49

Sony admits PSPs will not fly off shelves, says phones and PS3s will

Single-purpose devices down all round for troubled giant

Hardware 1 Nov 14:39

Microsoft reveals Windows Phone 8 support for Mac

Connector overhaul

Mobile 1 Nov 14:37

Google stiffs Samsung on price, now wireless charging too

Boy, these Android guys are mean

Hardware 1 Nov 14:17

5 Tokyo devs cuffed over 'The Movie' Android app scam

Record records reaper slurped 90,000 mobes

Security 1 Nov 13:57

MPs slam Europe's plan for rejig of data protection law

Such rigidity will never be acceptable to us

Law 1 Nov 13:44

Apple axed Brit retail boss for doing his job well - TOO well, perhaps

Comment Browett was used to selling value-for-money products

The Channel 1 Nov 13:30

AMD, Samsung must be ARMed to the teeth to oust Intel servers

Analysis The attack always comes from below - and at the edges

Servers 1 Nov 13:00

Sky squeezes even more money from customers, gets fewer new ones

£550 pa? Who said satellite dishes were for poor people

Media 1 Nov 12:44

Hardware hacker proves Apple Fusion Drive works on older Macs

New role for OS X 10.7 Lion's CoreStorage logical volume manager

Hardware 1 Nov 12:32

BlackBerry 10: Dozens of networks probe the final RIM shot

Phone maker VERY EXCITED about mega mobe probe

Mobile 1 Nov 12:29

Uh-oh! Kim Dotcom is back with a brand new Megaupload site

'Ha ha, kiss my shiny encryption keys, Agent Smith'

Media 1 Nov 12:18

Cisco stretches UCS uber-control-freak across larger clouds

How's 10,000 nodes grab ya?

Servers 1 Nov 12:10

A history of personal computing in 20 objects

Feature Part One - From the 17th Century to the 1970s

Hardware 1 Nov 12:00

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On my count: Pull it all off mainframes and onto SAP
Windows server 2012 logo
Liam Proven walks us through the technical launch
Comment That's it. Nobody drink Red Bull any more
Comment Browett was used to selling value-for-money products
Analysis The attack always comes from below - and at the edges
Apple Fusion Drive logo
New role for OS X 10.7 Lion's CoreStorage logical volume manager
Babbage Difference Engine No. 1
Feature Part One - From the 17th Century to the 1970s
EE 4G banner
Very high speeds - if you can pick up a signal
Inside of a shop on Google Business Photos, credit Google
Interview Snapper describes out-of-the-blue recruiting call
The two Wicked Lasers fired up
Soon to be mounted on head of a shark. Or maybe donkey