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Sony settles lawsuit against Playstation 3 hacker George Hotz

File this under "didn't see that coming," but iPhone and occasional PS3 hacker George "GeoHot" Hotz have buried the hatchet, not just with pleasantries but in legal terms too.
Apple A4 chip perfect for low power servers say analysts

Apple's internally developed A4 chip could be implemented in new devices such as low-power servers, TVs or even communications or entertainment boxes, if the company tries to expand the chip's footprint, analysts said.
Cambridge researchers develop lean cloud programming framework

Researchers in the UK are developing a lean-and-mean programming framework called Mirage that is designed specifically to support applications running on cloud infrastructure platforms such as Amazon Web Services and Google App Engine.
SMS users could be open to attack say researchers

Flaws in the way some mobile-phone networks handle SMS message could leave them open to a whole new range of attacks according to security reaearchers.
US air traffic control vulnerable, audit finds

An audit by a US government agency has warned that the US air traffic control systems are at high risk of attack due to their links to insecure web applications run by aviation authorities around the country.
Hitachi enters server, network monitoring business

Hitachi Data Systems has released three new software products to provide enhanced monitoring of business applications, virtualised servers and the storage they use.
Juniper challenged to post router code on web

A networking industry exec has challenged Juniper to post its operating system source code on the Internet, and stop hiding behind legalese and paperwork.
Kryptiva offers free email encryption

Kryptiva has released a free encryption plug-in and server software for common email systems.
Chip rivals launch embedded chipsets

Intel has launched two quad-core processors for embedded applications, more powerful than the Woodcrest dual-core Xeon.
Linux to power super-router

A group of networking experts has launched a project designed to give Cisco's routers some open source competition.

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Customised malware attacks grow increasingly widespread

The rising popularity of custom malware and the inability of antivirus software to keep pace poses potent challenges for enterprises trying to keep their systems secure.
Open source Facebook alternatives

Facebook claims to have more than 400 million active users. In fact, according to web analytics firm Alexa, only Google is a more popular site. So, with all that going for it, why are so many users unhappy, with one poll showing that more than half of Facebook users are thinking about leaving?
Your guide to virtualisation vocabulary

"Desktop virtualisation" isn't a specific technology or even a single delivery method. It's a broad description that includes all the ways it's possible to use a desktop, laptop or other device to access data or applications that live somewhere else.
Is your office printer secure?

Hackers may be using your office printer as a conduit for criminal activity. Think about it: A printer in today's office environment often saves on its hard drive all images of documents that are printed, scanned or faxed.
Special delivery: Keeping the email flowing

The sheer volume of email now puts a staggering load on network and servers.
SyncML links communications devices

This platform-agnostic standard provides a way to synchronise servers and a wide range of clients - especially mobile devices - across a network.
The closely observed network

The day when companies record everything employees do at their PCs is not that far away. But what would such a system look like?
It's time to take IPS seriously

By examining traffic that firewalls pass, the IPS asks a pertinent question: "Is there a reason to drop this packet?"
HP, Sun take different paths with thin clients

Sun and HP are each offering new thin-client computing, but they're giving users different choices: server-based clients versus rack-mounted blade PCs.
OpenSolaris has a leg up on Linux

If there's one aspect of Linux that has led to its popularity, it's the ability of suitably enthused individuals to produce their own distribution. But we now have a new player: OpenSolaris and everything's changed.

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Intel's Sandy Bridge architecture stole the limelight this year, summarily trouncing its predecessors, and the best that AMD had to offer, with considerable performance boosts and power savings. Today, Intel is announcing the Sandy Bridge Extreme Edition, an £800 CPU that distills the lessons the company has learned over the past year into a single piece of premium silicon. read more...

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