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Sun burnishes scripting credentials
Sun Microsystems has released its latest version of NetBeans, adding expanded support for dynamic languages.?
Layoffs be damned!
Adobe MAX Sun Microsystems has promised to deliver on JavaFX despite uncertainty in the wake of massive layoffs and a corporate re-organization.?
Regulating a uniform hue of greenwash
The EU is asking data centre owners and operators to "voluntarily" sign up to a Code of Conduct (CoC) which will include oversight of their energy efficiency in what could be green regulation through the back door.?
Boards galore, but still no chips
SC08 While there was plenty of talk this week at the Supercomputing 2008 trade show in Austin, Texas about the just-announced "Shanghai" quad-core Opterons, as well as GPU-powered personal supercomputers based on nVidia's Tesla co-processors, the hot topic at the show is Intel's forthcoming "Nehalem" Xeon processors, which will sport two, four, and eight processor cores.?
The music machine rolls on
Unlicensed music distributor Baidu has admitted taking money from unlicensed medical companies.?
Plucky Brits shrug off Mytob network blitz
IT staff at three major London hospitals have spent a second day struggling to restore IT systems following a major computer virus outbreak.?
Computer says: It's getting warmer
There have been a few red faces at NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS) in recent days, to match the predominant color of its October global temperature map. Based at Columbia University in New York, GISS is the division of NASA that is responsible for global climate data and is used by the media in assessing global warming. After analyzing the data, GISS reported that October 2008 was the warmest October since reliable record-keeping began in 1880. But there was something very wrong with the numbers.?
Bigger screens and keyboards for your phone
Celio is convinced that some people don't want to lug around a smartphone and a notebooks, so it?s expanded its Redfly smartphone terminal range by two models.?
Davenporn Lyons defends Army F*ckers
The law firm Davenport Lyons, best known online for accusing people of illegally filesharing on behalf of video games companies and threatening to take them to court if they don't pay hundreds of pounds, has now begun doing the same for producers of hardcore gay porn. It denied any plans to work for "adult entertainment" rights holders less than three months ago.?
Disconnection looms
European law is introducing a "three strikes and you're out" law for ISPs to disconnect illegal file sharers "under cover of stealth", according to legal experts. The EU's telecoms reform package could guarantee the legality of such schemes.?
Genie + bottle = foot + mouth
The first public sector employees are waking up to the fallout from the leaking of the BNP membership list yesterday.?
Continued to crack one off 'while resisting arrest'
An Oz driver has been fined AU$600 for "offensive behaviour, resisting police and disobeying a police direction" after cracking one off into a pasta sauce jar even as coppers attempted to subdue him with batons and capsicum spray following a "slow-speed" car chase through Newcastle, New South Wales.?
Indian navy sends buccaneer mothership to Davy Jones
The world's media continues to follow the long-running piracy problems in the Gulf of Aden, with interest stimulated by last week's fatal shootings by Royal Marines off the Yemeni coast and the reported sinking of a buccaneer "mothership" by the Indian Navy yesterday evening. Meanwhile, other seaborne raiders in the region successfully hijacked five merchantmen including a 300,000-ton supertanker loaded with crude oil.?
Attorneys corral shareholders for class action suit
Novafora's takeover of Transmeta could be threatened by a class action lawsuit from disgruntled shareholders.?
'Steve, can you lend me a grease gun?'
Space shuttle Endeavour mission specialist Heide Stefanyshyn-Piper yesterday dropped her toolbag as she and Steve Bowen worked outside the International Space Station, in the process consigning to oblivion "two grease guns, scrapers, several wipes and tethers and some tool caddies".?