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Public sector down, private sector not really up
The UK jobs market is unlikely to get any better this year - public sector jobs are falling and private sector posts are barely growing.…
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Blocks homebrew hack?
Sony UK has posted PlayStation 3 firmware version 3.42. The update incorporates a “patch… added to address security vulnerability in the system software”.…
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New results ‘deviate sharply’ from established wisdom
The rate at which ice is disappearing from Greenland and Western Antarctica has been seriously overestimated, according to new research.…
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Gotta wait until 3 Oct, though
Google announced that it tweaked its privacy policy last Friday, just hours after a satirical video ad appeared on a huge screen in New York’s Times Square that poked fun at the firm’s boss.…
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Oh, God
TechCrunch Europe has cleaned up its website following the discovery of malicious code that left visiting surfers exposed to infection by a variant of the infamous Zeus banking Trojan.…Free On-Demand Webcast - Virtualizing the Hard Stuff
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Android fluffs it again
Dell’s Streak might now be running Android 2.1, but those who’ve upgraded are finding the newer OS takes away more than it adds to the tablet/phone crossbreed.…
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Optimus line primed
LG is to power a series of smartphones with Nvidia’s tablet-oriented dual-core Tegra 2 system-on-a-chip.…
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Big Chill founder launches a members’ social network
Sick of creepy, unaccountable social networks that are little more than hoarders and traders of personal information? Pete Lawrence, founder of the Big Chill Festival is too, and will today unveil his plans a member-supported service.…
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Outlook and Office-aware
Three-year-old start-up Druva is opening an office in the UK and delivering global deduplicating backup software for laptops. It’s Outlook and Office-aware to reduce network transmission loads and provide user self-service restores, which Druva says Avamar cannot.…
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Big savings from little projects
The Network for the Post Bureaucratic Age has published a paper urging the government to break down its IT projects into smaller chunks.…