Larry smells money in madness Exclusive Oracle is cooking up a strategy around the cloud, something chief executive Larry Ellison once referred as "idiocy" - albeit the sort of fashionable idiocy he's willing buy in to.… Full published article at: Read More »

It's not exactly all that uncommon for Dell to misprice an item on its website and, if you're lucky, it might even honor it. But it looks like the stakes have just been raised considerably in Taiwan, where the company recently listed a 19-inch monitor for NT$500 (or about $15US) and promptly received more than 26,000 orders for close to 140,000 of the monitors. Now, ordinarily, Dell would simply send out a polite email explaining their mistake and call it a day, but Taiwanese regulators have now stepped in and ordered Dell to honor the misprice after...Read More »

Meet the Keyser Soze of malware Miscreants have developed one of most sophisticated click fraud malware applications to date.…Offloading malware protection to the cloud Full published article at: Read More »

Orange crushed again? Word surfaced Wednesday that O2 has been tapped to be the exclusive carrier for the Palm Pre in the UK.… Full published article at: Read More »

A few days after blocking PlayStation 3 users, Hulu has yet to respond to questions concerning the change which has only helped to fuel rumors it is related to the Microsoft ad campaign currently featured on the site, but that seems less likely now that we've confirmed it also began blocking the Flash-enabled Skyfire browser on Windows Mobile devices at the same time. Whatever the cause is, if you prefer a homegrown hack over something like PlayOn or TVersity, Eric over at ypass.net has put together a simple enough walkthrough for creating an...Read More »

Bridgestone's already showed off some fairly impressive e-paper displays, and gone into mass production with displays for inventory tags and whatnot, but it now looks like the company is now set to make its biggest push into the market yet. According to Tech-On, Bridgestone will be announcing details of its plans in July or August, but it appears that the announcement will concern e-paper displays for e-book readers, at least one of which will be A4 in size. That particular screen was making the rounds of exhibitions back in April, and makes use of...Read More »

Arrest foils 'Devil's Day' scheme The leader of a malicious hacker collective who used his job as a security guard to breach sensitive Texas hospital computers has been arrested just days before his group planned a "massive DDoS" attack for the July 4 Independence Day holiday.… Full published article at: Read More »

And it wants to build yours, too Unisys may have not taken over the world as either a system maker or an outsourcer, but it's a player in both markets and it doesn't want the move to cloud computing to leave it behind.… Full published article at: Read More »

Activision's long awaited saviour for DJs with Guitar Hero envy is on the way, but it's going to cost the dancey-folk a mighty £108 to get their fingers on the turntable peripheral and game.   The recommended retail price for the game is far more than the £70 we'd expect to pay for a Guitar Hero package, and a good bit along the way to the £135 for which you can get the full Guitar Hero: World Tour bundle with drums, guitar and microphone.   - Guitar Hero Metallica hands-on video - Ultimate Set-up: Guitar Hero   Retailers are sure to drop the...Read More »

While most of the British Isles is rooting for Andy Murray to bring home the Wimbledon Singles Title on Sunday, one retailer is offering an added incentive to back the timid Scot; a free television set.   Cdiscount UK will serve-up a full refund on any TV bought before the final if Murray can somehow get his hands on the famous golden trophy at SW19 come Sunday evening.   - T3's Top Ten Full HDTV sets - Vote now in the T3 Gadget Awards and win big   The deal, which covers any set up to a value of £1269, is great news...Read More »