Tech News 14/02/2012
Sepaton plans to crush mid-range boxes ‘Kill the rabbit…’
Sepaton, the large enterprise deduping storage vendor, reckons its big boxes can replace lots of those pesky, seemingly continuously accumulating Data Domain mid-range boxes with a single system that does the job properly.…
FIVE more councils say soz for exposing people’s privates ‘Disclosing details about someone’s social housing status can be upsetting’
The Information Commissioner’s Office has found that five local authorities have breached the Data Protection Act by failing to protect personal information about citizens.…
Prada Phone by LG 3.0 Diallers are a girl’s best friend?
Review Why is black and white classier than colour? And should we want our phones, with their increasingly glorious screens, to mute their rainbow hues? It’s the arrival …
Tech News 09/12/2011
Post Office wins contract to take snaps of foreigners Checks on non-Brit residents to include online service for employers
The Post Office has won a contract to take photographs and fingerprints of foreign nationals seeking biometric residence permits (BRPs).…
US judge: Ad-pushers may be liable for ‘facilitating’ website piracy Chitika gets off, but others may not be so lucky – court rules
Advertising networks can be found liable for contributing to copyright infringement on websites if they facilitate that infringement, a US court has suggested. It ruled that the ad network in question was not liable, but suggested that others could be in other situations.…
OnLive Game System cloud gaming console Server-ance play
Review The OnLive cloud gaming service was launched in the UK …
Tech News 26/11/2011
Ten… colour laser printers Rainbow warriors
Review There are two main technologies that can put colour text and graphics on paper; inkjet and laser. Though inkjet makers like Epson and HP have tried to push inkjets into the lower end of the office market, it’s still dominated by colour lasers, due to their speed and the high permanence of solid toner over liquid ink.…
Amazon cloud rival adds object storage service Joyent: Expect petabytes and petabytes of storage
Amazon cloud competitor Joyent is going to add an object storage service which will be a good testbed to see if the cloud could be an object storage launch ramp.…
Slip of a lad to play James Bond’s Q Youthful gadgetmeister joins Skyfall cast
Brit thesp …