Tackles hidden cost of 3D TV viewing

In a bid to become the leading supplier of 3D TVs, Samsung will bundle every one of its 3D tellies and Blu-ray Disc players with two pairs of active-shutter specs and a copy of Monsters vs Aliens, the company announced last night.…

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The CodePlex Foundation has announced the arrival of several new board members, including Jim Jagielski, the Chief Open Source Officer of SpringSource. Jagielski, who was one of the original cofounders of the Apache Software Foundation (ASF), brings a lot of credibility and leadership experience to the CodePlex Foundation.

When the CodePlex Foundation was established by Microsoft last year, an interim board of directors was assembled to help get the organization off the ground while permanent board members were being chosen. A number of the interim board members, including Novell's Mono project leader Miguel de Icaza, will be turning their seats over to new representatives. Former Microsoft open source evangelist Sam Ramji, currently VP of strategy at Sonoa, will be remaining on the board, along with Microsoft .NET Framework program manager Davies Boesch.

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Code-only entry ended

Humax and the BBC have extended their iPlayer trial to all of the manufacturers' Freesat set-top boxes, making the catch-up service available through remotes' red buttons.…

Offloading malware protection to the cloud

Water-saving device uses the length of your first shower as a benchmark, indicating via a series of gently flashing "traffic lights" when you need to get out of the shower already!

Advent students still waiting for a saviour

Administrators for Advent Computer Training, and its sister school for plumbers, believe they have found buyers for the company.…

£1m spent on advertising, no public relations

The government still seems to be shying away from spending too much money advertising its ID card and National ID Register schemes.…

Web threats: Why conventional protection doesn't work

Cruises 12 miles up on pair of Ford car engines

Global arms'n'aerospace behemoth Boeing says it will now begin work in earnest on its "Phantom Eye" high-altitude hydrogen spy drone, powered by a pair of modified Ford car engines.…

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Online banking losses up though

A rise in online banking fraud losses took some of the shine off the overall fall in debit and credit fraud in the UK last year.…

The power of collaboration within unified communications

SDK lands with a bump

Mozilla has promoted its web extensions prototype package - Jetpack - by pushing it upstairs and readying it for production with its Firefox browser.…

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Solar start-up 1366 Technologies is working on a technology that promises to dramatically cut the cost of solar cell manufacturing.

Free licenses lure cloud army to VMware

Open-source Java framework specialist SpringSource has unveiled a new incarnation of its Apache Tomcat-based tc Server, offering application developers and operators additional tools for building, deploying, and monitoring their software on the lightweight runtime platform.…

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Mobile technology that could allow prying bosses to monitor every movement of their staff is developed in Japan.

Every twt.tl bit helps

Twitter has tightened up security procedures in order to curtail phishing attacks against users of the micro-blogging service, which have become rampant over recent weeks.…

Offloading malware protection to the cloud

Still not shining Silverlight on UK video player

Microsoft has taken the beta wraps off its MSN homepage, which the company relaunched in the US in November 2009.…

Offloading malware protection to the cloud

Routing like it's 1949

Garmin's Geko 201 GPS kit can't decide what year it is, flipping between decades every time it's switched on, though it's performing better on days of the week.…

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Exactly 10 years ago, during the height of the dot-com mania, the Nasdaq reached its all-time high of 5,408.62 on March 10, 2000. It has never recovered.

Intel Labs is showing off technology that would allow consumers to collect and analyze environmental data and then share it over the Internet.

When simple games like Farmville snag 83 million users, designers who are used to working for years on a project have little choice but to embrace the era of Facebook titles.

The competition will be particularly fierce at the annual digital-culture bash between Foursquare and Gowalla, rival social-media services that want to own the location-based networking market.

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