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  • Financial Times allegedly hacked by Syrians Financial Times allegedly hacked by Syrians

    Britain's Financial Times was hacked last week by a mysterious group calling itself the Syrian Electronic Army. The newspaper's technology blog was hacked to display a slogan saying: "Hacked by the Syrian Electronic Army." Several Twitter feeds run by the Financial Times were also plastered with similar slogans. The FT later said its blogs and social media accounts had been compromised ...

  • Hackers target important Saudi websites Hackers target important Saudi websites

    The Saudi Arabia state news agency has reported a coordinated attack on the country's government websites. Several government websites in Saudi Arabia came under heavy cyber attacks last week, shutting them down for a short time. The attacks have been traced to IP addresses from a number of countries. Saudi investigators found the attacks had been launched from hundreds of Internet ...

  • Broadband tablets apps and iPlayer add to the BBC’s online appeal

    The BBC Trust's report (PDF) was published today and followed up on early summaries in 2008 and 2010. This is the first time that the online services have been reviewed together. Overall the appraisal was that the BBC is a popular source for news and telly, but could be easier to navigate. The BBC has a target to reach 65 percent of the UK online population by 2014. It is on its way, but ...

  • Nokias Lumia 925 is more expensive than the Samsung Galaxy S4

    . In comparison, Samsung's Galaxy S4 can now be picked up from £552.00 SIM-free, while Apple's cheapest iPhone 5 is priced at £529.00. The website is also selling the handset on two year pay monthly contracts with T-Mobile and Vodafone, with the cheapest tariff priced at £37 a month. This will get buyers a free Nokia Lumia 925 handset, 600 minutes, unlimited texts ...

  • A brilliant trip back to the technological future

    Lem concluded we should abandon analysis for creative activity (Image: Aleksander Jalosinski/Forum/Reuters/Corbis) WHEN Germany occupied Poland during the second world war, a young Pole was scratching a living under false papers as a car mechanic. The man, Stanislaw Lem, who was to become one of world's most famous science fiction writers, used to "mend" German vehicles so they ...


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Late Spring (Banshun) [DVD]

Late Spring (Banshun) [DVD]

Late Spring is one of Yasujiro Ozus most direct and powerful shomin-geki, or modern family dramas. Shomin-geki was the genre in which Ozu excelled, and the second half of his cinematic career is defined largely by the poignant, sympathetic, and utterly transcendent wa ... ...

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  • Yahoos blog finds new home at Tumblr

    Along with its billion-dollar intent to purchase Tumblr, Yahoo finds a new home for official blog -- and tries to drive home the message that all will be ...

  • LG to demo bendable unbreakable smartphone screen

    (Credit: James Martin/CNET) LG Display is preparing to demonstrate a new, flexible smartphone panel that promises to be unbreakable. The new screen is set to pop up at the Society for Information Display's annual ...

  • Acer accidentally outs the first 8in Windows 8 tablet

    longstanding brothers, the Iconia W8 and the Iconia W7 tablets, the Iconia W3 is featured on the product webpages at www.acer.fi despite never having been previously announced or launched. Upon asking an Acer representative what was going on, we were told the firm "does not comment on products that have not been launched", and it seems that it doesn't comment on products that ...

  • Google chairman Eric Schmidt will meet with David Cameron

    and Google chairman Eric Schmidt is set to meet with British prime minister David Cameron, just as Google is embroiled in another UK tax avoidance row. Ever since Schmidt gave up his CEO post at Google to become chairman, he has been busy meeting politicians on Google's behalf. His latest stint of glad-handing will occur this week ...

  • Intel sees GPU shipments drop while AMD and Nvidia see gains

    Intel saw its GPU shipments fall while AMD's remained flat overall and Nvidia posted an increase despite falling PC shipments. As Intel's reliance on the PC industry has been revealed with falling PC sales, the firm's GPU chip sales have also declined. According to analyst firm Jon Peddie Research, Intel's GPU shipment figures are down 5.3 percent from last year, while ...

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