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LG KS360 Qwerty keyboard phone

A little lightweight on the latest must-have mobile features

Review Normally you’d suspect any handset with a slide out Qwerty keyboard and touchscreen functionality of having smartphone aspirations. But not so the LG KS360.…

04.10.2008 10:02:03 - The Register

Oracle and HP's database machine predicated on Voltaire

Israeli firm says Infiniband is best of all possible I0s

Interview "Common sense is not so common" is a quotation attributed to Voltaire, the 18th century French philosopher, essayist, writer and wit. So, how sensible were HP and Oracle in basing their database machine around an IO fabric that has struggled to find favour beyond the HPC market?…

04.10.2008 08:02:03 - The Register

Facebook co-founder Dustin Moskovitz calls it quits

Parting is such sweet sorrow...bitch

04.10.2008 01:51:36 - The Register

Apple surrenders the Pink (to Microsoft)

Zune pilfers famous codename

And so it has come to this: Microsoft has stooped so low as to filch Apple's codenames.…

04.10.2008 01:33:13 - The Register

HP preps secret iPhone rival

Everyone loves a parade

04.10.2008 01:26:37 - The Register

Mapping the universe at 30 Terabytes a night

Jeff Kantor, on building and managing a 150 Petabyte database

Interview It makes for one heck of a project mission statement. Explore the nature of dark matter, chart the Solar System in exhaustive detail, discover and analyze rare objects such as neutron stars and black hole binaries, and map out the structure of the Galaxy.…

03.10.2008 21:15:30 - The Register

Brit, German indicted for stateside satellite TV attacks

Can't beat 'em? DoS 'em

A British man and a German man have been indicted by a US federal grand jury for launching a campaign of denial of service attacks against two US-based home satellite television vendors on behalf of a rival company.…

03.10.2008 21:14:10 - The Register

Microsoft taints open source CodePlex well

Some projects less open than others

Microsoft is posting code to its much-trumpeted CodePlex open-source projects site using licenses and conditions that go against the principles of open source.…

03.10.2008 20:57:49 - The Register

Sudden outbreak of democracy baffles US pundits

That didn't last long

Comment Something very spooky happened in the United States last week. The chances are you noticed it too, many days before it was reported.…

03.10.2008 20:47:44 - The Register

Hackers exploit Neosploit to booby trap BBC, US postal service

200K login credentials found on crimeware server

Cybercrooks have used the latest version of Neosploit to booby-trap an estimated 80,000 legitimate sites with malicious code.…

03.10.2008 19:24:23 - The Register