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Microsoft patents spy-TV to check you've paid for content

Buying content by the friend

Media 7 Nov 22:00

AMD shutters German Linux lab, gives devs the axe

Updated Kernel contributors sent packing

Operating Systems 7 Nov 20:45

Microsoft boasts of Big Data chops for in-memory SQL

Data warehousing gets handier with Hadoop

Software 7 Nov 20:27

Hitachi offers to cram 300TB of hardness into your array tray

Fast flash memory lovin' for your virty storage boxes

Storage 7 Nov 19:12

Sprint snags spectrum, and customers, from US Cellular

$800 a customer, and we'll throw in spectrum too

Mobile 7 Nov 18:33

Boffins splash fluids on special soggy biscuits in anti-flood demo

China's 'Silicon Valley' builds bricks that let water IN

Science 7 Nov 18:28

'iPhone 5 is so easily scratched we just can't get them out the door'

Fiendish mobe impossible to make in any numbers

Hardware 7 Nov 17:59

Widow lost savings in Facebook stock, sues all concerned for $1.9m

It says 'bumwad from Bank of Toyland' right on it

Law 7 Nov 17:52

Lenovo ships first US-designed server

Still built in China, though

Servers 7 Nov 17:40

CSC pops its cork after slashing costs faster than expected

Turns a profit, worries about the US and Europe

The Channel 7 Nov 17:01

Apple screen maker preps 'retina' iPad Mini panel, pants reporter

Or maybe, just maybe a 5.2in iPhone 6

Hardware 7 Nov 16:43

Office for Android, Apple iOS: 'REALLY REAL this time' - report

O please please let us fondle our spreadsheets

Applications 7 Nov 16:28

AT&T spaffs another $14bn on 4G cellular and fibre

Aims to get in below the ground floor

Networks 7 Nov 16:11

Pixar names HQ after Steve Jobs

Apple founder's name goes up above the front door

Media 7 Nov 16:07

Flooded inboxes derail New Jersey vote-by-email scheme

Official directs voters to PERSONAL HOTMAIL

Government 7 Nov 15:55

Bald? Looking old before your time? Don't panic, but you might DIE

It's not the years, it's the mileage, say docs

Science 7 Nov 15:27

President Obama declares VICTORY over JUSTIN BIEBER

I think we all know who the real enemy is

Government 7 Nov 15:27

Apple tries to add Galaxy Note, Jelly Bean to patent slapfest

Slab market is OURS, says so right in the Bible

Law 7 Nov 15:17

Adobe spurts spackle* into Flash's gaping holes

Google strikes again leaving Player moist and lumpy

Security 7 Nov 14:57

Fallen flash star STEC sputters: We're cutting our OEM losses

Plays the joker in the PCIe card game

Storage 7 Nov 14:52

Juniper in shock dump of biggest supplier

Plexus finds Facebook status suddenly 'single'

Data Networking 7 Nov 14:22

2.5 million trades a DAY: How ISE admins became Puppet masters

Sysadmin blog Penguins and Windows kids pull strings

Data Center 7 Nov 14:00

UK prosecutors, cops ponder new probe into NASA hacker McKinnon

Lawyers, plods to meet following 'preliminary enquiries'

Security 7 Nov 13:36

Apple engineers 'pay no attention to anyone's patents', court told

Cupertino ordered to pay $368m as FaceTime infringes VPN tech

Law 7 Nov 13:20

Fujitsu guru: Win 8 will triumph. And we'll have brain plugs in 2027

Quite literally inside the mind of the CTO

The Channel 7 Nov 13:00

The genetic button that could turn a WOMAN into a CHIMPANZEE

Or a man, of course. Just doing our bit for equality

Science 7 Nov 12:44

Microsoft mulls 'Xbox Surface' slate for games

Logical seven-inch extension of SmartGlass?

Hardware 7 Nov 12:26

Microsoft and Skype to axe world's most popular IM client early 2013

If it works, don't fix it. Kill it and go P2P

Applications 7 Nov 12:04

Bird of Prey: 1980s IT on on the small screen

Monitor How an overweight computer expert took on a Europe-wide conspiracy and won

Media 7 Nov 12:03

Theresa May DDoS case: Man cuffed by eCops

Home Office topple coppers take trip to Stoke

Security 7 Nov 11:43

GCHQ lines up BAE and pals for 'Cyber Incident Response'

When only a huge, bloated military contractor can help

Security 7 Nov 11:19

BBC argues it is not bound by FOIA in bid to keep Climate 28 secret

Analysis We're private sector! Auntie's shock claim

Policy 7 Nov 11:00

Xbox SmartGlass comes to iOS

Microsoft caters for Apple community

Media 7 Nov 10:58

Fujitsu hugs SAP, says it's all about solutions now

Welcomes users after saying goodbye to boss

The Channel 7 Nov 10:38

Snake-fondling blonde nude punts Polish coffins

NSFW Catholic church condemns candid casket calendar

Bootnotes 7 Nov 10:19

Telefonica stirs up clouds, offers steaming mug of Instant Servers

99.996 per cent uptime. Not 99.995, not 99.997: 99.996

Cloud 7 Nov 09:57

Intel in Flash flush, offers 'smoother' fresh jobbie to data centre bods

Read the 'rithmetic on righted 'riting from Chipzilla

Storage 7 Nov 09:36

Prudential cops £50k ICO slap for giving customer's life savings away

Company repeatedly mixed up pair with same name, DOB

Government 7 Nov 09:19

Phone lacking NFC pay-by-bonk tech? It can go on a SIM

Sorry iPhone fanbois, no bonking for you though

Mobile 7 Nov 09:01

WTF is... RF-MEMS?

Feature Apparently, a way to make smartphones much, much better phones

Networks 7 Nov 08:01

NetApp offers middleweight refreshments

Will you paddle happily in your Flash Pool?

Storage 7 Nov 07:39

Google's UK grip slips a bit, brutal dominance basically unshaken

Lowest share in 5 years - still almost 90 per cent

Media 7 Nov 07:19

I, for one, would like to welcome our Android overlord

Open ... and Shut Domination now and FOREVER

Operating Systems 7 Nov 07:00

Smartphones eclipse laptops as top WiFi hogs

Phondleslabs now using cellular merely to fill in gaps

Mobile 7 Nov 06:28

Torvalds: I want to be nice, and curse less, but it's just not in me

'People do think I'm grumpy ... CHRIST this is ugly code'

Software 7 Nov 06:00

Google Search and Maps take a pounding in China

Govt restrictions and local rivals undermine Android advantage

Business 7 Nov 05:50

Kyocera boffins make on-screen buttons feel real

Piezoelectric magic offers hope to fat-fingered typers

Hardware 7 Nov 05:28

HIV vaccine safe for Phase II human trials

Canadian university claim no adverse effects from first tests

Science 7 Nov 04:32

Boffins foul VM sandboxes with CPU-sniffing hack

Elaborate attack watches CPU activity on co-located VM, retrieves crypto key

Security 7 Nov 02:27

Rackspace sales and profits pop in Q3

'We are the birth mother of OpenStack'

Cloud 7 Nov 02:01

Bangor University touts 20 Gbps access tech

Backbone vendors throw hats in the air

Networks 7 Nov 01:34

Earlier stories

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Sysadmin blog Penguins and Windows kids pull strings
Bird of Prey DVD
Monitor How an overweight computer expert took on a Europe-wide conspiracy and won
The BBC HD Testcard
Analysis We're private sector! Auntie's shock claim
NSFW Catholic church condemns candid casket calendar
WiSpry RF-MEMS eval kit
Feature Apparently, a way to make smartphones much, much better phones
Open ... and Shut Domination now and FOREVER
Birdy genius stuns scientists with twiggy feats
Master Chief
Feature From 'Pillar of Autumn' to genre foundation
'Not necessarily from outer space', reports paper
Office on Perceptive Pixel screen
Obviously don't just become an iOS dev, though ...