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YouGov's voluntary stalkware unpicked
h4Tracking software 'potentially unwanted'/h4
pYouGov recently confronted survey participants with an odd offer to download software that would track users' surfing habits.…/p
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EMC hints at mid-range storage system
h4NX3e - e for exciting/h4
pEMC has a target="_blank" href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/09/08/emc_low_end/"signalled/a that a new mid-range storage system is coming - a low-end one in the $10,000-$75,000 area. We reckon it's the Celerra NX3e, and we're spilling the beans here.…/p
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MP urges Parliament to reform FOI laws
h4Block ministerial veto too/h4
pMinisters should not be able to block freedom of information (FOI) requests, according to amendments to FOI legislation proposed by a Liberal Democrat MP. A Labour former minister has said that the law should extend to media companies.…/p
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MoD awards BT £810m contract extension
h4'If you would like to start a war, please press one'/h4
pThe UK Ministry of Defence (MoD) has extended its contract with BT to provide fixed telecommunications services.…/ppstrongsmalla href="http://whitepapers.theregister.co.uk/paper/view/1472/?td=rss"Reg Guide to Enterprise Virtualization - Free Download!/a/small/strong/p
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McKinnon family welcomes extradition treaty review
h4Fate of Pentagon hacker still rests in politicians' hands/h4
pThe coalition government's decision to review extradition law has been welcomed by family and supporters of Gary McKinnon, even though it's unlikely to have an immediate effect on his case.…/p
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Koran-burning 'pastor' loses website
h4Dove World Outreach Center is out of reach/h4
pRed-nosed pastor Terry Jones, who plans to burn copies of the Koran and Jewish text the Talmud at the weekend, has either had his website hacked or his ISP has pulled the plug.…/p
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UK agrees copyright cooperation with China
h4Pledge to work together/h4
pThe UK and Chinese governments have agreed to coordinate policies and development of copyright law. The governments have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) pledging closer working on the issue.…/p
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LG Optimus GT540 Android smartphone
h4Economy class social networker?/h4
pstrongReview/strong LG's first Android phone was the a href="http://www.reghardware.com/2010/04/01/grouptest_qwerty_smartphones_lg_intouch_max_gw620/"InTouch Max/a, which impressed with its slide-out Qwerty keyboard, social networking features and low price. Dispensing with the keyboard and utilising a lower quality camera, the Optimus adds to LG’s growing range of Android handsets, and offers social networking features with a few other tricks besides.…/p
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Google Instant blacklists the Slutskys
h4'Streaming' search doesn't give a f**k/h4
pGoogle's a href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/09/09/google_instant_analysis/""Instant" search engine/a includes a blacklist for words and phrases involving what the company considers "violence, hate, or pornography."…/p
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Jailbreak hole in iOS 4.1 will be hard to close
h4All Steve Jobs's horses and all Steve Jobs's men .../h4
pJust hours after Apple released iOS 4.1 to great fanfare, hardware hackers found a way to jailbreak devices that run the new operating system. More surprising still, there doesn't appear to be anything Steve Jobs can do to stop them in the near future.…/ppstrongsmalla href="http://whitepapers.theregister.co.uk/paper/view/1340/?ftd=rss"Reg Guide to Improving Systems Agility - Free Download!/a/small/strong/p
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Google Instant – more searches, less thought
h4Sergey Brin gets in your head/h4
pstrongAnalysis/strong Google is on a mission to make web search as fast as the human brain will allow. On Wednesday morning in San Francisco, as she a href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/09/08/google_search_announcement/"unveiled/a Google Instant, a radical overhaul of the company's search engine that updates search results as you type, uber-Googler Marissa Mayer called it "search at the speed of thought." We can safely classify that as an exaggeration for effect, but Mayer's bon mot at least gets to the heart of Google's intentions.…/p
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Amazon buys (some of) digital music site Amie Street
h4Founders sing a new Songza/h4
pDigital music site a href="http://amiestreet.com/" target="_blank"Amie Street/a has been bought by Amazon, but the founders of the user-fueled music service aren't abandoning their efforts to bring social networking to music lovers.…/p
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Microsoft wins court order crushing mighty spam botnet
h4Waledac's 276 domain names seized/h4
pA federal magistrate judge has recommended that Microsoft be given ownership of 276 internet addresses used to control “Waledac,” a massive botnet that the software company has been working to bring down.…/p
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Appro sells another flash-happy HPC cluster
h4Trestles gives Opteron 6100s some love/h4
pAppro International, the upstart HPC cluster maker, has got another big order from its biggest customer, the San Diego Supercomputer Center.…/p
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NoSQL CouchDB founder turns to phone and cloud services
h4CouchIO no more/h4
pNoSQL start-up CouchIO is targeting mobile and clouds after just a year of trying to monetize the company's CouchDB document store.…/ppstrongsmalla href="http://whitepapers.theregister.co.uk/paper/view/1340/?ftd=rss"Reg Guide to Improving Systems Agility - Free Download!/a/small/strong/p
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Netezza, Symantec jump on takeover rumors
h4Eat or be eaten/h4
pThe global economy might not be on the mend as much as we would like, but there are plenty of IT behemoths sitting on big bags of cash, and tongues are a-wagging today about data warehousing appliance maker Netezza and security and systems software maker Symantec both being possible takeover targets.…/p
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Adobe Reader 0day under active attack
h4No mitigations for click-and-get-hacked exploit/h4
pResearchers have uncovered sophisticated attack code circulating on the net that exploits a critical vulnerability in the most recent version of Adobe Reader.…/p
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Hurd to take $950,000 salary after Oracle pay cut
h4Shares and $10m bonus topper upper in play/h4
pMark Hurd will take a 25 per cent pay cut to work for Larry Ellison — if HP fails in its legal maneuver to block the Oracle CEO's audacious hire.…/p
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Apple releases iOS 4.1 into the wild
h4Old devices need not apply/h4
pApple has released iOS 4.1, which Steve Jobs outlined in his a href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/09/01/apple_music_event/"presentation/a one week ago, during which he also introduced Cupertino's a href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/09/02/new_ipods/" target="_blank"new iPods/a, revamped a href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/09/03/apple_tv/"Apple TV/a, and iTunes-based delmusic sales/del social networking effort, a href="http://www.apple.com/itunes/ping/" target="_blank"Ping/a.…/p
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Google pulls trigger on 'Instant' search engine
h4Results rejig as you type/h4
pstrongUpdated/strong iUpdate: This story has been continually updated with additional info from Google's press event./i…/ppstrongsmalla href="http://whitepapers.theregister.co.uk/paper/view/1661/?ftd=rss"Free Whitepaper - When legitimate sites threaten your network/a/small/strong/p
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