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We’ve already been looking forward to the Nexus Two here at IT Pro, but it seems that the Nexus One hasn’t actually done as well as the Google publicity machine would have us believe.

Oh dear, now I do not believe that was meant to happen. It appears that users of Office 2003 who also protect their documents with the Microsoft Rights Management Service (RMS) have found them so well protected that nobody can open them - not even the person who created the documents in the first place.

Bletchley Park, the top secret code breaking hub that played a pivotal role in the outcome of World War Two, has finally been awarded development funding of some £460,500 ($735,500) from the Heritage Lottery Fund.

He was one of the unsung heroes of World War Two, a brilliant mathematician and code-breaker who led the technological fight against Hitler. Some 55 years too late, British Prime Minister Gordon Brown has apologised for the prosecution and persecution that ended up killing Alan Turing.

Is Android just a distraction for Google or can it really compete with Apple and the iPhone?

It is either a clever bit of strategy or a shambolic u-turn depending upon your view of the company, but Microsoft has now formally abandoned plans to sell the controversial Windows 7 E edition in Europe.

There are two things you can be sure of about the annual Las Vegas Black Hat security conference: nobody will use the free wifi as they are all too worried about being hacked, and someone will demonstrate an exploit that will scare the living bejesus out of you. The latter has just happened for iPhone users who now have to worry about being their Jesus Phone being hijacked by nothing other than a malformed SMS text message.

It is bad enough that the bad guys constantly try and phish your financial data via email and fake websites, now cash machines are getting in on the act - thanks to Windows XP.

Ever wondered just how big the Internet is? I know I have, and during my search for an answer I have discovered along the way how fast it is and how much spam it produces. But now I know how big it is as well: 183 million big in fact.

Consultants working with CoreLabs have unearthed what they say are "multiple vulnerabilities" in the application which is a remote access element of Sun's Java Communications Suite. If leveraged, these could enable attackers to target users through exploiting cross-site scripting.

It might seem like something of an odd question, unless your idea of a good night in is a box of popcorn and a copy of some dodgy DVD featuring a Captain Jack lookalike doing unmentionable things to his crew. Yet the answer is that these two things, the illegal file-sharing we commonly refer to as piracy and the porn business, have loads more in common than you might imagine.

I love this time of year, especially when it means reading about IBM buying Linus Torvalds (apparently Novell made an unsuccessful bid for Richard Stallman earlier this year) who will be required to appear in IBM commercials and promotional materials.

As phishing messages go, it was never likely to be the most successful. A high ranking member of the British Government asking his friends for 3000 bucks because he had lost his wallet while abroad? I don’t think so.

Remember last month when DaniWeb reported how some 1400 jobs were to be lost at Microsoft? These losses forming the first part of a plan to trim costs which would see a total of 5000 Microsofties facing the axe. Well now, in the most bizarre of twists, it seems that the axe is not good enough and some of those laid off workers are feeling the twist of the Microsoft knife as well.

Official Kaspersky hacking statement leaves plenty of questions unanswered and reminds me of a man facing a firing squad with fingers in ears and yelling 'la la la' like that will stop the bullets.

Has Bill Gates finally gone mad, or is he just after some of the Steve Ballmer media attention? The former Microsoft main man has chucked a bucket full of live mosquitoes over the audience at a tech conference, apparently to make a point about malaria in third world countries. Shame he was never that inventive about marketing Windows huh?

Google has taken the eternal Beta that is Gmail offline and you know? Nobody has raised a single word of complaint, and for a damn good reason.

Looks like the British Government is considering taxing all broadband users so as to compensate the music and movie industry for losses through Internet piracy. Seems to me they have not thought this through, if they tax you £5 per month and you download £50 of pirated stuff then you are still quids in.

What do you do when you poo? It is the kind of question you might expect your ten year old son to ask his ten year old mates in the school playground. However, it seems that Microsoft has been asking pretty much the same thing in order to generate some much needed publicity for Windows Mobile.

WiFi encryption has just got even less secure now that the Russians reckon you can crack WPA and WPA2 passwords with both ATI and NVIDIA graphics cards.