Barnes & Noble readying themselves for new Nook Color?

October 28th, 2011 by Alex Lay

The Nook Color is somewhat of an Android phenomenon, and according to the folks over at The Digital Reader the sequel is potentially just around the corner. 

Sources close to them from Barnes & Noble have previously leaked information regarding a successor to the popular e-Reader.

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bug in location services suspected

October 26th, 2011 by Flynn Prieur

A flaw in Apple’s location services system in its new iOS 5 software is increasingly suspected of being the cause of rapid battery drain for some owners of the iPhone 4S.

A growing number of people have found that the “Setting Time Zone” element of the Systems Services within the broader Location Services product seems to be operating even when there is no chance that the user would have moved to a different location or time zone.

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Join us in the cloud security debate

October 19th, 2011 by Gabrielle Plain

When IT managers and CIOs hear the words ‘cloud computing’ alarm bells start ringing in their collective ears.

Moving information away from the organisation carries with it both data loss and compliance concerns – just further headaches for the IT department to deal with.

Almost every survey on cloud adoption ranks security as the top concern amongst IT professionals. A recent poll from Sungard showed a measly 10 per cent of CIOs surveyed in the UK were “completely confident” over the security and resilience of third party cloud offerings.

Vendors have noted the potential though. IDC thi

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Unseen 64-minute Steve Jobs interview from 1995 being remastered

October 19th, 2011 by Alex Lay

The past couple of weeks has seen the web filled with tributes to Steve Jobs who passed away on October 5th. With those tributes has been a lot of imagery and video from Jobs history, some of which has rarely been viewed before.

There is one piece of footage that has never been seen before though, and was actually thought lost forever. Its the full interview with Steve Jobs from 1995 when he was still running NeXT.

Around about 10 minutes of the interview was used for the show Triumph of the Nerds, but few people know that around 64 minutes of interview was given by Jobs that day at NeXT headquarters in Redwood City.

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