Section 19. Nanananana..........

The problem of police decision-making on who is permitted to take photographs of what is highlighted again in a disturbing incident at the weekend, where film was seized at an anti-fascist protest in Brighton.…

Sony's upcoming motion controller is more than just a Wiimote clone. Thanks to its player-facing camera and its powerfully precise targeting, it offers a peek at what full-fledged augmented reality will look like.

Nikon's Small World microscope photography winners are revealed today. This gallery features some of the most interesting winning images of ordinary stuff like snowflakes and banana leaves. Vote for your favorites and help choose the popular-vote winner.

3M begins marketing the first waterproof, transparent, pressure-sensitive tape after employee Richard Drew figures out how to coat strips of cellophane with adhesive.

Computer lab manager Don Hodges knows why Pac-Man, at level 256, suddenly turns into a hideous mess of ASCII letters and graphics.

The Gravity Balans from Variér Furniture is far less nefarious and cranium-cracking than it looks. We'd heard a great deal about its ergonomic benefits and decided to give it a spin in our quest to find the perfect marathon gaming/lounging chair.

Porsche panache comes to the carpool lane, and Mercedes Benz makes burning rubber with kids in the back seat comfy for everyone!

We'll sell 10m in a year, predicts exec

Watch out, Apple, Samsung wants your market share. The South Korean giant has forecast that its Galaxy Tab 7in Android tablet will account for a third of the slate market by this time next year.…

None of your fantasies about multi-touchscreen smartphones can be realized until someone makes a dual-core chip that would know what to do with multiple screens. But Samsung's new Orion 1-GHz dual-core ARM microprocessor could make those kinky dreams come true.

Doomsday Weekend 3: sometimes a god complex isn't a bad idea

Sysadmin blog Many sysadmins among us certainly have a god complex. The truth is, no matter how well-prepared for a large project we try to be, we can't control our users.…

Be happy, and hand over your memory to Google

Eric Schmidt did his best to raise the bar on his harshest critics yesterday, by telling an audience in Berlin that "we know where you are, we know what you like".…

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What's Finnish for Jesus?

Strong operator demand for new kit from Nokia means the company may be emerging from its darkest period in modern history, according to a report from Morgan Stanley.…

Email salary details to everyone ploy foiled

A court has ordered a UK hacker to pay compensation after he used a purloined laptop to hack into his ex-employer's personnel database.…

250GB bundle

Microsoft has priced up the Xbox 360 Kinect bundle it's hoping will tempt console-less consumers when the motion control tech launches on 10 November.…

Fast access to priority bookings

O2 has been tempting existing and potential customers with the carrot of early access to event bookings for some time. Now it's made getting hold of tickets easier.…

Cheaper flash storage array drives

The march of MLC flash into mainstream enterprise storage took another step forward today as Pliant launched its Enterprise Flash Disk (EFD) products.…

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CSC gets a pittance

Connecting for Health spent £470m with BT last year, more than twice as much as went to CSC.…

A bundle of Windows 7 joy

It looks like someone didn't get the deal done in time for the VMworld virtualization and cloud extravaganza last week. Today, server wannabe and networking giant Cisco Systems and virtualization player Citrix Systems will announce their first partnership, bundling up the XenDesktop Swiss army knife of desktop and application virtualization on Cisco's "California" Unified Computing System blade servers.…

BlackBerry chalks up another acquisition

BlackBerry maker RIM has apparently bought out DataViz, publisher of the popular Documents To Go, in a deal worth $50m in cash.…