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El Reg in Street View drive-by snooping

Orwellian spycar menaces Vulture Central

Vulture Central is today in full counter-surveillance lock-down mode following the sighting of a Street View Orwellian black Opel in the very street where El Reg has its London headquarters:…

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24.10.2008 14:02:04 - The Register

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Fancy nipping for a quick two-thirds of a pint?

Does proposed new measure wet your whistle?

Here's some splendid news for those of you who can't in all conscience go into a boozer and ask for a half, but reckon that a full pint might hamper your post-Friday-lunchtime workplace performance: The National Weights and Measures Laboratory (NWML) is proposing to introduce a two-thirds of a pint measure which would "increase the flexibility of the pub and brewing industries to innovate in the presentation of beer to consumers".…

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24.10.2008 13:56:18 - The Register

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Police poison speed debate with fuzzy figures

Not just crime figures getting spin dry treatment

This may be the week when the Department for Transport learns about the risks of making a case for road safety based on figures that every expert in the field knows to be untrue.…

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24.10.2008 13:49:19 - The Register

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Vodafone emboldened by Orange's BlackBerry Bold woes

RIM's first HSDPA phone back on Orange UK next month

Vodafone has told its third-party sales partners to use the "software issues and technical faults" it claims forced Orange to stop selling the new BlackBerry Bold to persuade consumers it has a better 3G network than its rival does.…

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24.10.2008 13:37:17 - The Register

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Windows 7 and Microsoft's cloud - The Reg takes a MicroBite

PDC preview: Gates' trainers and Ozzie's head

Radio Reg Microsoft's massive Professional Developers' Conference (PDC) hits Los Angeles, California, next week. It's the event for anyone interested in the direction and details of where Microsoft's software is headed.…

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24.10.2008 13:34:37 - The Register

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Xerox waves job axe at 3,000 staff

As Q3 results disappoint Wall Street

Printing giant Xerox Corp looks set to cull its worldwide workforce by five per cent.…

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24.10.2008 13:33:10 - The Register

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Apple MacBook Pro Late 2008

A powerful, professional piece of kit

Review The new MacBook Pro may not be the total revamp that the renewed MacBook is, but it’s an attractive – and intriguing – update nonetheless.…

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24.10.2008 13:31:00 - The Register

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Dell's PCs to come with music

Sounds good?

SanDisk’s already launched Micro SD cards with pre-loaded tunes on. So Dell’s decided to get in on the music scene too and has launched a service to pre-install music on your new machine.…

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24.10.2008 13:21:48 - The Register

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MEPs warn on 'virtual strip searches'

Old bodies, new scanners, new danger

Members of the European Parliament have asked the Commission to look carefully at the privacy implications of millimetre wave scanners - which effectively produce naked pictures of passengers.…

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24.10.2008 13:13:01 - The Register

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Steve Jobs 'heart attack' citizen hack wasn't a short seller

Wall Street just got punk'd, SEC reportedly finds

The US government investigation into an 18-year-old's false "citizen journalism" report that Steve Jobs had had a major heart attack has so far found he did it for the craic, according to a report.…

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24.10.2008 12:35:28 - The Register

El Reg in Street View drive-by snooping

Orwellian spycar menaces Vulture Central

Fancy nipping for a quick two-thirds of a pint?

Does proposed new measure wet your whistle?

Police poison speed debate with fuzzy figures

Not just crime figures getting spin dry treatment

Vodafone emboldened by Orange's BlackBerry Bold woes

RIM's first HSDPA phone back on Orange UK next month

Windows 7 and Microsoft's cloud - The Reg takes a MicroBite

PDC preview: Gates' trainers and Ozzie's head

Xerox waves job axe at 3,000 staff

As Q3 results disappoint Wall Street

Apple MacBook Pro Late 2008

A powerful, professional piece of kit

Dell's PCs to come with music

Sounds good?

MEPs warn on 'virtual strip searches'

Old bodies, new scanners, new danger

Steve Jobs 'heart attack' citizen hack wasn't a short seller

Wall Street just got punk'd, SEC reportedly finds

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