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Apple fights it out with Chinese ‘Ipad’ manufacturer in Shanghai courtroom

- Gadgets & Tech RSS Feed — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 00:00:01 +0000

The escalating legal battle over the rights to the iPad name in China has reached a Shanghai courtroom, in a case that could prevent Apple selling the wildly popular tablet computer in the country's commercial heartland.

Will Dean’s Ideas Factory: ‘Get out of the shot, before I get you out of the shot’

- Gadgets & Tech RSS Feed — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 00:00:01 +0000

Been to the Acropolis or Pisa or maybe Paris and found your holiday snapshot ruined by the bustling crowds?

Can we pull the plug on the plug?

- Gadgets & Tech RSS Feed — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 00:00:01 +0000

Eric Giler points a remote control at a small black pad leaning against the wall, and three lamps instantly light up and a tablet computer starts charging. The funny thing is, the devices all sit several feet away from the black pad, which provides power, and aren't plugged in.

Mr Dotcom wins bail and vows to fight extradition

- Gadgets & Tech RSS Feed — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 00:00:01 +0000

Kim Dotcom, the founder of the file-sharing website Megaupload, was released on bail yesterday after a New Zealand judge determined that the authorities have seized any funds he could have used to flee the country.

SanDisk daddy: Flash to ‘checkmate’ hard drives by 2020

The Register - Hardware: Storage — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 02:01:10 +0000

Next on the hit list: DRAM

ISSCC Although some industry observers – as The Reg recently noted – say that flash memory is approaching a technical brick wall, the cofounder and former CEO and chairman of SanDisk sees things differently.…

‘Pictures of crushed limbs are OK – but no breastfeeding’: Facebook’s ‘rules’ laid bare

- Gadgets & Tech RSS Feed — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 00:00:01 +0000

Rules that govern what Facebook's 845 million users can post have been leaked, leaving the social networking website red-faced.

Google logs into live share prices with the LSE

- Gadgets & Tech RSS Feed — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 00:00:01 +0000

Google has signed a deal with the London Stock Exchange to become the first major website offering private punters real-time rather than delayed share prices.

Gooch in a plunge after laser letdown

- Gadgets & Tech RSS Feed — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 00:00:01 +0000

The laser technology company Gooch & Housego issued a profit warning yesterday which saw its shares plunge nearly a fifth.

Experts: RSA weak keys flaw restricted to network devices

The Register - Hardware: Data Networking — Tue, 21 Feb 2012 18:03:04 +0000

Primal fear

Analysis Flaws in the way some of EMC's RSA security division encryption keys are generated are down to a weakness in generating random numbers that's restricted to network devices rather than digital certificates on websites, according to both RSA and cryptographic researchers.…

Mellanox: Just jump straight to 40GE networks

The Register - Hardware: Data Networking — Tue, 21 Feb 2012 15:08:05 +0000

Unless you really want only 10GE

Network adapter and switch maker Mellanox Technologies is riding the wave of upgrades to 10 Gigabit Ethernet switches and is excited about boosting sales of 10GE adapter cards when Intel launches its "Sandy Bridge-EP" Xeon E5 processors sometime this quarter. But Mellanox CEO and chairman Eyal Waldman has his eye on a bigger prize: peddling 40GE switches and network interface cards.…