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Apple and Amazon's tablet rivals don't get it
Saturday February 4, 2012 12:01 pm GMT

None of the newly launched tablets has the two things that have made Apple and Amazon's tablets so successful, says Jason Hiner

(ZDNet UK - Mobile Devices)

German iPhone, iPad sales temporarily banned
Friday February 3, 2012 9:04 pm GMT

Apple was forced to remove several iOS devices from sale on its German online store on Thursday as a result of its...

Dell climbs stack with new software group
Friday February 3, 2012 6:50 pm GMT

Dell has created a dedicated software group and tapped John Swainson, former head of IT services specialist CA...

ACTA's EU future in doubt after Polish pause
Friday February 3, 2012 5:33 pm GMT

Polish prime minister Donald Tusk has suspended his country's ratification of ACTA, in a move that could make the agreement null and void across the EU

(ZDNet UK - Intellectual Property)

AMD looks to ARM itself for low-power tablets
Friday February 3, 2012 5:20 pm GMT

The company is opening up its processors to technologies from other chip makers, potentially including low-power specialist ARM, so it can develop products better suited to mobile devices, such as tablets

(ZDNet UK - Processors)

FBI call hacked by suspected Anonymous activists
Friday February 3, 2012 5:07 pm GMT

The FBI has confimed that hackers intercepted a conference call to discuss the Anonymous hacking group with Scotland Yard and other cybercrime officers, after obtaining an email setting up the call

(ZDNet UK - Security Threats)

BT accelerates fibre plans as revenues fall
Friday February 3, 2012 4:40 pm GMT

The telecoms provider plans to allow premises to choose whether they want full-speed fibre connections that support downloads up to 300Mbps

(ZDNet UK - Networking)

UK customers to lose out in Microsoft licensing change
Friday February 3, 2012 3:26 pm GMT

Changes to Microsoft's European volume-licensing pricing structure in the summer will see UK customers likely to pay more, according to the software maker

(ZDNet UK - IT At Work)

Clever on-off switch for graphene. Transistors next?
Friday February 3, 2012 1:23 pm GMT

The Manchester University team that first isolated graphene has discovered a way of introducing a band gap into the...

HP brings emerging OpenFlow networking to switches
Friday February 3, 2012 1:10 pm GMT

HP has updated the software on 16 of its switches to support OpenFlow, a software-defined networking technology that could improve networking operations and resiliency in enterprise networks

(ZDNet UK - Networking)

Ericsson, Qualcomm demo 4G-to-3G voice handover
Friday February 3, 2012 12:17 pm GMT

The companies have announced a significant step in making all-IP voice calls viable on LTE phones

(ZDNet UK - Mobile Devices)

NASA video shows dark side of the moon
Friday February 3, 2012 12:13 pm GMT

NASA has released a rare video of the far side of the moon, captured by one of the two GRAIL probes that are orbiting...

Windows Phone 8 details emerge
Friday February 3, 2012 11:04 am GMT

Details of Microsoft's forthcoming Windows Phone 8 have surfaced via a leaked video obtained by Pocketnow.com

(ZDNet UK - Mobile Devices)

Kelihos botnet returns from the dead
Friday February 3, 2012 10:06 am GMT

A botnet apparently killed by Microsoft and Kaspersky Lab has been resurrected and resumed its spamming activities

(ZDNet UK - Security Threats)

Metropolitan police leak victims' email addresses
Friday February 3, 2012 9:46 am GMT

London's police service is apologising to more than a thousand crime victims, who were shown each others' email addresses in an CC/BCC field mix-up

(ZDNet UK - Security Threats)

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