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  • Met Police PCs take 30 minutes to boot

    has revealed it uses PCs that take 30 minutes to boot up and systems dating back to the 1970s, giving the government a run for its money. Assistant commissioner Mark Rowley revealed the dire state of the Met Police IT during a Budget and Performance Committee meeting in London on Tuesday, admitting, "The nature of the infrastructure meant that for many officers around the Met to log on to ...

  • Apple issues Java patch for Mac OS X users fixing 40 critical vulnerabilities

    Apple has released a security patch to keep Mac OS X users safe from 40 vulnerabilities that were recently found in Oracle's Java platform. The firm issued the update a few hours after Oracle announced the critical patch, promising to protect its Mac OS X user base from a number of Java vulnerabilities. Apple warned in its support centre that the most serious vulnerabilities exist in Java ...

  • BT CEO Ian Livingston steps down after five years

    BT CEO Ian Livingston has announced that he will be leaving the firm after leading it for five years. Livingston revealed the news on Tuesday, announcing that he will leave BT for a government role as trade and investment minister. He will be replaced by Gavin Patterson, BT revealed, who has served as the CEO of BT Retail and as a BT board member since 2008. Livingston said in a statement, ...

  • Cisco to invest in Israeli venture capital funds

    JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Cisco Systems (CSCO.O) will invest $15 million (9 million pounds) in Israeli venture capital funds as part of a broader plan to expand its operations in Israel and outside the United States, the company said on Wednesday. ...

  • DroidLanding Twitter account reactivates for new campaign

    (Credit: Verizon (screen grab: Scott Webster)) The official DroidLanding Twitter account has reactivated itself and is broadcasting beacons ...


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Movie Review

Speed 2: Cruise Control

Don't let the movie poster fool you. Even though Sandra Bullock takes top billing and her face is most prominently displayed on the advertisements for "Speed 2: Cruise Control," she spends most of the movie taking a back seat to Jason Patric's action hero, Willem Dafoe's mugging villain, and director Jan De Bont's confusing action and bigger-than-life special effects. Bullock, who has a sly and wo ... ...

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