EU opens €1.2bn warchest for technology R&D

The EU is to make €1.2bn available in R&D funding for tech projects, which has led to its largest call for candidates to come forward with projects. More than 2,000 researchers meet today in Cologne for an 'Information Day' to discuss priorities for the projects, which will focus on areas such as communications, software systems and services, networked media, electronics, photonics and embedded systems. ...more

HP joins life-sized virtual-meeting room race

HP has introduced a video conferencing system for businesses that puts everyone in the same virtual room. The HP Collaboration Studio employs three plasma displays in each location to enable participants to see those they are collaborating with in life-size images. The studios are equipped with broadcast-quality lighting and audio designed to create a vivid, face-to-face environment where users are able to see and hear one another's physical and emotional reactions to conversation and information as it is being shared. ...more

Google defends inclusion of anti-semitic web site

Google has run into trouble with Jewish groups over an anti-semitic website appearing in its results. However, the search engine is refusing to remove the site from its listings. By typing 'jew' into Google the top ranked site that appears is 'Jew Watch', a site that claims to be 'Keeping a Close Watch on Jewish Communities & Organizations Worldwide'. ...more

Security firm beats Microsoft to patch VML hole

A group of security researchers known as the Zeroday Emergency Response Team (ZERT) has issued a patch for the Vector Markup Language (VML) flaw in Internet Explorer. The patch is unsupported, and ZERT warns that although the patch is tested, it is provided 'as-is with no guarantee as to fitness for your particular environment. Use them at your own risk or wait for a vendor-supported patch'. ...more

British engineer gets $10,000 magazine reward from Intel

Intel has given a British engineer $10,000 for a copy of a magazine that has been lurking under his floorboards for thirty years. David Clark, from Surrey became the first person to contact Intel to say he had a near mint edition of the magazine that first expounded Moore's Law. Intel had placed an advert on eBay asking the world if anyone had a copy of the 1965 issue of Electronics Magazine in which the company's founder Gordon Moore first set out in print the idea of 'Moore's Law'. ...more