Techies cook up Minority Report-style video calling

Techies cook up Minority Report-style video calling


Techies cook up Minority Report-style video calling

Posted: 01 Sep 2012 04:00 AM PDT

Electronic director cuts to most 'interesting' member during group calls

Boffins at BT's Adastral Park have been looking at video calling, trying to work out why we persist with voice and how video calling might get good enough for the whole family to enjoy.…

Ten... 15in notebooks for under 400 quid

Posted: 01 Sep 2012 12:00 AM PDT

Back to school, boys and girls

Product Round-up  As much as Intel would like us all to rush out and buy an expensive new Ultrabook, the fact remains that the top-selling laptops for most manufacturers are still low-cost 15.6in models. Laptops for £400 or less have back-to-school appeal written all over them, but the mix of components varies enormously to appeal to different needs.…

Facebook announces crackdown on fake 'Likes'

Posted: 31 Aug 2012 05:11 PM PDT

When only bots love you

Facebook will crack down on profiles that issue fake "Like" clicks on its site in an effort to reassure advertisers that its system works.…

Oracle backtracks from Java EE 7 cloud claims

Posted: 31 Aug 2012 05:06 PM PDT

Cloudy components 'might not be quite ready'

In a move that's becoming all too familiar, leaders of the effort to develop Java EE 7 – the next version of Oracle's Java platform for enterprise computing – have recommended that certain planned components be deferred to a later version in the interest of keeping the project on schedule.…

Google engineer finds British spyware on PCs and smartphones

Posted: 31 Aug 2012 04:30 PM PDT

FinSpy turning up in dictatorships across the world

Two security researchers have found new evidence that legitimate spyware sold by British firm Gamma International appears to be being used by some of the most repressive regimes in the world.…

The dead reanimates as HP ships Open webOS beta

Posted: 31 Aug 2012 04:16 PM PDT

Meg's boys are also hiring webOS developers. Curious...

As promised, HP has shipped the beta release of Open webOS, the open source version of the web standards–based webOS mobile platform that was the last hurrah of the former Palm before HP absorbed it in 2010. More surprisingly, however, HP actually seems to be staffing up its webOS development team – an odd reversal of recent trends.…

How to run Windows Server 2012 four days early

Posted: 31 Aug 2012 04:08 PM PDT

Australian company offers a cloudy head start

Microsoft will officially launch Windows Server 2012 next Tuesday, September 4. But if you want to run the OS now, Australian public cloud outfit Ninefold will let you create a server and automatically switch it over to a fully-licensed version.…

IBM to double-stuff sockets with power-packed Power7+

Posted: 31 Aug 2012 04:03 PM PDT

Big boost in clock speed, smart accelerators

Hot Chips  Power Systems users, start your engines. Or, more precisely, start your budgeting cycle so you can get ready for Big Blue's impending Power7+ RISC processors to run your AIX, Linux on Power, and IBM i (formerly known as OS/400) workloads.…

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