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Captain Cyborg: Computers are alive, like bats or cows
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Andrew Orlowski
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Self-harming attention-seeker Kevin Warwick has admitted to snooping on the public in a previous life. Warwick made the creepy confession on Radio 4, recalling an earlier job as a GPO engineer: “I remember taking ten different calls and plugging them all together; one call would continue, the other nine would listen in. Then I’d patch…
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HP vs Oracle: IT’s nastiest ever row?
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Andrew Orlowski
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It has never been smooth sailing on the good ship Itanic, but now the processor is at the centre of a poisonous row, one that’s as nasty as any I can recall in years of tech reporting Read more at The Register… Read More
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Button it, Bob
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Andrew Orlowski
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More hysterical shrieking reaches us about Apple’s new music feature, I’m afraid. Earlier this week a lone lawyer said that iTunes Match, which populates an online store with songs you already have, encourages infringement. Well, this one is even nuttier. It’s actually so spectacularly muddle-headed, I thought it might be is a good time to…
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Google hands millions to ‘independent’ watchdogs
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Andrew Orlowski
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What do you do when a global corporation pays out millions to the watchdogs that we expect to protect us against it? It’s a fair question to ask in light of the Chocolate Factory’s legal settlement this week, over Google Buzz. The privacy class action suit has landed a windfall of millions of dollars to…
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Don’t blame Elop or Microsoft for Nokia’s catastrophic fall from grace
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Andrew Orlowski
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Pundits this week are describing Nokia’s fall from grace as one of the greatest corporate car-crashes of all time. But here’s an unfashionable view. Nokia’s problem is not Stephen Elop, or his strategy. Its problem is it didn’t have Stephen Elop, or his strategy, in place two years ago.… Read More
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What is UltraViolet and why should you care?
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Andrew Orlowski
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ltraViolet is the most important media service you’ve probably never heard of – a grand plan for Hollywood to get everything right that the music business has got wrong.… Read More