Bunny people working at IBM's US chip plants face tough times.…

Perhaps you've rescued the universe from marauding space pirates on your Nintendo DS — but can you save civilization from your own ugly face?…

Phishing exploitation kits can be picked up for free on the internet but these packages are regularly backdoored, according to a new study.…

LinuxWorld Enterprising engineers will soon get the chance to find out how Openmoko's Linux-powered phones work and to modify them.…

An American man has accidentally spent $999.99 on an iPhone app that does nothing but display a glowing red ruby.…

INQUIRER Newsdesk the Inquirer, Thursday 7 August 2008. 19:37:00

Coughs up $35 mill

NVIDIA SAID IT WANTS TO license Transmeta Corp's Longrun and Longrun2 technologies and a few other bits and bobs. It will pay $25 million to use the intellectual property. Satan Clara-based Transmeta said Nvidia is out to get its power management expertise and can have 'em so long as it...

Dell's grip on a "cloud computing" trademark may not be as solid as it first seemed.…

Paul Taylor the Inquirer, Thursday 7 August 2008. 19:46:00

Hardware Roundaboot Hands-on with Intel’s bloomers

NEHALEM ISN’T THAT FAR OFF and Intel has demoed plenty of prototypes across the globe. Mobo makers are the guys to look for if you want to do what Maximum PC did: they rang up their people who let them in to their labs and play around with Nehalem for...

Teradata appears to be surviving a global economic slowdown that's affecting some of its largest customers.…

Bruce Ivins, the deceased US government bioscientist accused of perpetrating the infamous 2001 anthrax mailings, was also a closet member of the online cult known as Wikipedia.…

A new round of SQL injection attacks has infected millions of web pages belonging to businesses and government agencies, including those that belong to the National Institutes of Health and Education Department in the US and the UK Trade & Investment.…

Tony Dennis the Inquirer, Thursday 7 August 2008. 17:27:00

3 prepaid gives net access to anyone

TALK ABOUT connecting the unconnected. The INQ has just discovered that mobile operator 3 UK has been connecting the previously unconnectable with its mobile broadband offering. Former UK Prime Minister Tony Blair had the socially disadvantaged in mind when he was urging the ICT industry to help get all UK...

Stewart Meagher the Inquirer, Thursday 7 August 2008. 16:45:00

Remote control back door shenanigans

IPHONE EXPERT Jonathan Zdziarski has discovered, whilst poking about in the handset's coded innards, that the nice folks at Apple have left a back door open which will allow them to wipe any nasty bits of software which don't meet the approval of the Cupertino Cabal....

INQUIRER staff the Inquirer, Thursday 7 August 2008. 16:58:00

Will outsource to cut costs

TAIWAN PC OEM Asustek said Thursday that notebook shipments fell short of its target in the first half of 2008 but that it will cut costs and expects renewed growth going forward. Asustek president Jerry Shen told an investors conference that meeting the company's full year notebook shipments target would...

Stewart Meagher the Inquirer, Thursday 7 August 2008. 17:09:00

I Am Rich gag backfires

WHEN ARMIN HEINRICH posted his I Am Rich application to the Iphone App Store, we're sure he never expected anyone to be stupid enough to actually buy the useless but amusing bling simulator. And when we read the comments from people on the Apple forums demanding that the app be...

T-Mobile will launch RIM’s first tri-band HSDPA 3G handset into the UK next month.…

INQUIRER staff the Inquirer, Thursday 7 August 2008. 15:29:00

A supercomputing first for Big Blue

THE BLUE SUITS at IBM celebrated its first 10 years of supporting Linux and open source software Tuesday at the Linux World / Next Generation Data Center conference by marking the company's first ever contribution of open sauce software for supercomputing facilities....

Emma Hughes the Inquirer, Thursday 7 August 2008. 15:57:00

Now for the back catalogue

HAS DELL been fitted with a halo recently? Back in 2007 Dell announced that it was aiming to reach Carbon Neutral status by the end of 2008. Not only has the box-shifter managed to reach this status, it managed it five months ahead of schedule....

Computer maker Dell has claimed it is now a carbon neutral company.…

The Free Software Foundation is asking for someone travelling back from China to bring a small package back with them, presumably leading to some interesting questions at airport security.…