I for one welcome our four-toed non-human overlords.

Can Tony and Gordon take off their disguises now?

I'd have more sympathy for Assange if he fronted up and answered the sexual assault charges that have been levelled against him.

Claiming persecution and making a national cause celebre out of his attempts to evade the legal system still doesn't absolve him from having to address the allegations two women have made.

He may have a point about freedom of speech but what about the rule of law?

What a sad story

Setting aside the trivial Apple bashing of a few small minded individuals, the main point here is that someone was duped into selling one of his major organs for a small cash incentive.

Many people commenting here seem better informed of the facts than i could find on the story but fundamentally I find it a shame that the sort of people that carry out these organs for cash operations don't have more heat brought down on them sooner.

Two tech titans battling it out in court.

I bet their respective corporate lawyers are rubbing their hands with glee.

The only loser in all this? Us again, the consumers :-(

Java won the smartphone wars (and nobody noticed) .

Or in the context of smartphones: Java won the smartphone wars (and nobody cared) .

Hmmm 2mm target?

If it's that accurate, it'll definitely be able to hit Alderaan.

Bet they were surprised

That knock on the door must have given them a shock.

Though targeting a police organisation (SOCA), even if it's in another country, is always going to stir up a hornets nest. They should have stuck to defacing their school intranet pages and friends homepages.

No comments yet?

Article posted at 12:38 GMT, by 14:09 still no comments.

This speaks volumns about how much people really care about the flippin FB IPO.

Is it really such a big deal that Mr Zuckerberg is going to get significantly richer in a few days time?

Circling the drain

It may be that the tech media have made up their minds about RIM already as all the reports I see tend to reinforce the image that RIM is circling the drain.

It's be a shame to lose a formerly innovative player in the mobile arena but I can't see how RIM can come back from this without either massive financial outlay and/or some unforseen "next big thing" to generate optimism for them.

Beer for the RIM employees to cheer them up.

It doesn't matter who supplies the services/kit

What matters are implemeting fit and proper contracts with real teeth if/when the suppliers don't come through with the goods on time.

It seems that the large suppliers tender for these contracts knowing they'll never be able to supply the goods at the price and rely on wriggling out of the initial contracts before then extracting huge amounts of additional cash from the NHS to finish the job that they should have finished at the original price. Meanwhile the original contracts are so flimsy the is no comeback from the taxpayer other than to bend over and take it.

I really hope this one is different but the track record for these large Govt/NHS contracts is not the best.

Elephant in the room?

"As Good competes with RIM, there's no BlackBerry support"

So if RIM was the previously (almost) unchallenged incumbent, having glossy charts showing everyone else but RIM is hardly giving a balanced view of the state of enterprise gadget management.

Like a chart of PC operating systems missing Microsoft products.

Vodafone in arbitration?

I wonder if the arbitration company will sign them up for a minimum 24 months?

Propaganda...

...from China? Surely not....

Trying to hack the experts?

I don't know much about "hacking" but surely rallying a bunch of script kiddies mixed with hard-core hackers to attack the experts in countering this sort of behaviour is asking for the less able hackers to be found out and prosecuted.

At least attempting to hack the Chinese isn't generally going to generate a knock on the door from the rozzers or worse (though if you REALLY annoyed them, it might be much, much worse).

After his last few outings, I'd have thought they'd elect Adam Sandler to president of the Razzies.

Seems to do what most want it to

Easy to use, fairly intuitive and does enough to make your pics look nice without having to do a training course first.

Just what the majoirty of people would like. It'll probably sell well but I agree that it should really come bundled with iOS.

AU - Astronomical Units

Could we have the measurements in more meaningful El Reg units please rather than AUs?

Double decker busses / Elephants ?

Nice angle

When Britain or the US buy way more of some shiny toy than everyone else the headlines scream about our evil consumerism and how bad it is for the world + dog etc.

Now the emerging countries are jumping on the bandwagon the tone of the article is such that we are made to feel somehow lacking as we are not consuming as much as they are?

Should I feel guilty or pleased Britain is slipping back in its ravenous desire for disposeable tech?

Decide wheter to patent or not?

"They have found some papers hardier than others, and are continuing experiments while considering whether to file patents or commercialize the technology"

Wow, how nice to see people giving consideration as to wheter a patent is worthwhile or not rather than just filing for the patent automatically as well as patenting everything else that is vaguely associated with it.

Could it be?

Is this hope that the utterly ridiculous patent wars could come to an end and the consumer might actually benefit from innovation again?

Or is it just the first round of a new patent land-grab to build up the biggest stash of stupidly obvious patents just in case the negotiations come down to a round of willy waving.

Unencrypted lost laptops

Was the user of the laptop who lost it previously employed by one of the security services?

They seem to make losing laptops with sensitive data a speciality.

Oh no, an article mentioning a phone

Cue the usual Android Vs iPhone rantings.

You don't make the same choices as me therefore you must be a moron, Wah! Wah! copy me and my choices etc. etc.

That satellite..

looks surprisingly like Bill and Ted's time machine phone booth....Excellent!