Charlie Demerjian the Inquirer, Thursday 9 October 2008. 10:01:00 Why you shouldn't get too excited IF YOU WERE wondering why Nvidia put out the GTX260-216 with a stupid-sounding name instead of the saner 270 moniker, here is your answer. There

Paul Taylor the Inquirer, Thursday 9 October 2008. 08:48:00 Hardware Rounds Synology's DS408 leaves an impression A NAS SERVER is a thing to behold, in particular when it does just about everything you can imagine for your network. Olin, over

Nick Farrell the Inquirer, Thursday 9 October 2008. 09:07:00 All you ever wanted THE PEOPLE at YouTube have decided that it is not bad enough you have to read the moronic comments under each clip, it is now vital you

INQUIRER Newsdesk the Inquirer, Thursday 9 October 2008. 09:30:00 Number one TAIWANESE OUTFIT Acer is putting it about that it sold more laptops than both Dell and HP during September. The firm is telling its mates in Taiwan that it

Nick Farrell the Inquirer, Thursday 9 October 2008. 06:57:00 MySQL co-founder walks DAVID AXMARK, co-founder of MySQL, has quit Sun because the place is too big. In his resignation letter, Axmark said he quit Sun Microsystems because he hates all

Nick Farrell the Inquirer, Thursday 9 October 2008. 08:57:00 More augmented reality than Top Gear BOFFINS at the Berlin University of the Art have created a game based on what you see as you drive your car. Carcade is a

Nick Farrell the Inquirer, Thursday 9 October 2008. 09:48:00 Volish cloud becomes Strata IT LOOKS like Microsoft does not really like the idea of being too literal about the name of its long-rumoured cloud operating system. When the shy and

INQUIRER Newsdesk the Inquirer, Thursday 9 October 2008. 09:48:00 Scrapheaped HP SAID it is to cut 3,378 jobs in its UK EDS operations after buying up the company (Electronic Data Systems) last year. The company is culling some 24,600 jobs

Emma Hughes the Inquirer, Thursday 9 October 2008. 11:12:00 Put some clothes on, at least YOU'VE HEARD of "hijacking" and more certainly the word " click", but you may not have heard of the most ridiculous word blend of the

Egan Orion the Inquirer, Thursday 9 October 2008. 10:28:00 Shutters 18 service providers THE CHINESE Ministry of Information and Information Technology (MIIT) has ordered 18 cellphone service providers to suspend operations due to "irregular activities", a local news service reported

Tony Dennis the Inquirer, Thursday 9 October 2008. 10:57:00 Sticks, not minds, that is RESEARCH BY London-based community web site, Gumtree, shows that the memory stick has entered the Top Ten most frequently lost items. It's got a long way

Emma Hughes the Inquirer, Thursday 9 October 2008. 14:43:00 Console capers SONY AND MICROSOFT are poised to do battle in virtual worlds. The console kids both announced Second Life-style virtual environments at the Tokyo Game Show today. Both games show

Egan Orion the Inquirer, Thursday 9 October 2008. 13:27:00 Money for nothing, chips for free US TELECOM Sprint Nextel tops the list of companies that overpaid their top executives in 2007, said a study released this week by an investors'

Emma Hughes the Inquirer, Thursday 9 October 2008. 15:40:00 With a little help from Albert Einstein DATA SECURITY worries could soon be an anxiety of the past as in a world-first discovery quantum cryptography is used to form an unbreakable

Emma Hughes the Inquirer, Thursday 9 October 2008. 14:00:00 A social networking "hello" from Earth SEVERAL DIFFERENT forms of messages have been beamed into space today in the hope that they will somehow reach an intelligent life-form and receive a

Emma Hughes the Inquirer, Thursday 9 October 2008. 13:20:00 More power to the penguin CYBERLINK HAS INTRODUCED high-definition PowerDVD and PowerCinema software for Linux. The firm is eyeing a growing market in Linux-powered Netbooks, Nettops and, no doubt, stockingtops. Alice

Tony Dennis the Inquirer, Thursday 9 October 2008. 10:57:00 Shurely some mishtake THE UK's phone-paid services regulator, Phonepay Plus (PPP), has attempted to rebuild the tarnished reputation of the phone quiz industry by publishing a list of approved suppliers. It's

Paul Taylor the Inquirer, Thursday 9 October 2008. 11:17:00 Sprints to the finish line INTEL FINALLY HAS reason to rejoice about WiMAX, following the ClearWire mess, as they've finally managed to see their 4G technology come to fruition with a

Paul Hales the Inquirer, Thursday 9 October 2008. 12:28:00 While judge has a ponder A US JUDGE has extended the restraining order against Real Networks' Real DVD software while she has a think about the whole business. District Court Judge

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