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  • Boffins embed electronics into fibres

    Hope for cheaper telecoms kit

    University of Southampton and Penn State researchers have demonstrated a technique to embed electronics into optical fibres, which if commercialised would enable simpler and cheaper telecommuniations kit.?



  • Hollywood gathers to pick over Limewire?s corpse

    Whip? Check. Dead horse? Check.

    Movies studios are moving on the defunct Limewire, filing a complaint in a US Federal Court to take their cut from the company?s copyright infringments.?



  • Can Sony's new supremo make the sacrifices to save his biz?

    We drill into the uphill battle ex-Playstation boss Hirai faces

    Comment When Faultline first began following Sony in 2003, it was worth $36 billion on the stock market. At the time Apple was worth $9.8 billion and it was about to launch the iTunes Music Store. We said that Sony should buy Apple and put Steve Jobs in charge.?



  • Tame the gas monster with sensors, suckers and a spiffy new fan

    More performance-tuning for your home and office

    Part 3 I'm pleased to say that what with the relatively warm 2011 and our conservation efforts we had the lowest consumption of electricity and gas at home of any year yet, a bit over 1,500kWh ('units') of electricity and under 4,000kWh of gas. (A typical UK household is nearer 3,300kWh 'leccy and 18,000kWh gas.) With our solar PV exports we were just carbon-negative for power by my calculations.?



  • Eight... HD camera smartphones

    Sharp shooters for parties and protests

    Product round-up You know that really annoying person who is videoing the gig with their camera phone to stick on Facebook when they get home? That's me. These days my TV is HD and my games console is HD, so it only makes sense that my phone ? the device I use the most, day in and day out ? should be HD too. Luckily, HD on smartphones is becoming more commonplace and so rather than judge these handsets on their mobile merits, this round-up focuses on their HD video camera performance.?



  • Zuckerberg's 2012 personal income tax bill: $1.5 billion

    That's 'billion', with a 'b'

    If all goes according to plan, Facebook founder, chairman, and CEO Mark Zuckerberg's share of the profit in his company's upcoming initial public offering will result in him facing a tax bill of around $1.5bn for 2012.?



  • Study links dimwits to conservative ideology

    US, UK research: Thick kids more likely to become bigots

    British and American children who are less intelligent are more likely to grow up to be conservative and/or bigots, according to new research published in Physiological Science.?



  • Micron CEO Appleton dies in plane crash

    Expert pilot, experimental aircraft

    Steven Appleton, the long-time CEO at memory chip maker Micron Technology, died this morning in a crash of an experimental plane in the company's hometown of Boise, Idaho. He was 51 years old and one of the youngest CEOs and chairman in the Fortune 500.?



  • Opinion poll: Anti-regulatory 'hype' unwarranted

    Rival small-business boosters, Obama foes disagree

    One advocacy group has published a survey it says proves that US small-business owners aren't unduly concerned with government regulations. Another group says that the first group's opinion poll is tainted by bogosity.?



  • Facebook post-IPO: Free not fee will make Zuck a buck

    Dam friction-less sharing and the company is toast

    Open ... and Shut No sooner did Facebook file its S-1 in preparation for an IPO than speculation kicked into high gear on how Facebook could possibly sustain its $75bn to $100bn valuation. After all, despite its hugely impressive revenue and profit numbers, key components of its revenue model ? like advertising revenue ? are decelerating. So should we expect Facebook to impose a paywall on some or all of its users, as MyLife.com chief executive Jeff Tinsley suggests it could??

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