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BBC - Headlines

Bill Clinton hails Barack Obama
Bill Clinton resoundingly endorses Barack Obama who is formally nominated by US Democrats as their presidential candidate.

House prices 'fall 10.5% in year'
UK house prices are down 10.5% on a year ago, the first annual double-digit fall since 1990, the Nationwide says.

£50m appeal to keep Titian work
Two UK galleries appeal for £50m to buy a painting by Italian Renaissance artist Titian - estimated to be worth £150m.

Social factors key to ill health
Social factors - rather than genetics - are to blame for huge variations in ill health and life expectancy around the world, a report concludes.

Arson attack house still 'unsafe'
Police hope to be able to enter the home of a missing family that was destroyed in an arson attack later, once it is declared safe.

BBC - Technology

Computer viruses make it to orbit
Laptops taken to the International Space Station were infected with a computer virus, Nasa confirms.

iPhone ad rapped as 'misleading'
The Advertising Standards Authority calls an iPhone advert "misleading" for saying all of the web is available on the phone.

Robo-skeleton lets paralysed walk
A human exoskeleton robotic suit is helping people paralysed from the waist down to stand, walk and climb stairs.

Trusted sites thwart net hijacks
Tricky hack attacks could be thwarted by using trusted sites to police web use, say researchers.

Green tech in 'Formula Zero' race
Six international teams competed this weekend in the first-ever hydrogen-powered motorsport race.

Network World

Microsoft virtualization tools reinforce user's data center plans
Hosting provider RackForce Networks expects that Microsoft's just released Hyper-V virtualization technology will give it a chance to take a major step in its business strategy.

Air traffic network glitch cleared-up for now
As of this morning, the FAA said flights around the country were not longer being delayed after a massive communications malfunction Tuesday.

Cisco buys into e-mail with $215 million PostPath acquisition
Cisco is buying PostPath, a maker of e-mail and calendaring software, for $215 million and plans to add those capabilities to its on-demand Web Ex Connect collaboration platform.

Locked iPhones can be unlocked without a password
Private information stored in Apple's iPhone and protected by a lock code can be accessed by anyone with just a few button presses.

Baseball's video and secure telephone links ready for instant replay
Major League Baseball has installed a video setup and secure telephone links in all 30 stadiums in preparation for Thursday's debut of instant replay.

ZDNet UK News

Linux Foundation plans end-user summit

High-profile users of Linux will get a chance to meet the kernel community at a New York summit in October

Museum gets funding to promote the web

A museum in Bradford that aims to promote understanding of the web's impact on our lives will benefit from funding from the Wolfson Foundation and the government

Linux cryptography attacks seen in the wild

Secure Shell keys are being compromised and stolen from Linux-based systems, US-CERT has warned

Researchers exploit web protocol to hijack traffic

At the recent Defcon security conference, Alex Pilosov and Tony Kapela demonstrated an attack on BGP, the core internet routing protocol

Lenovo to bring UWB laptops to Europe next year

The manufacturer will launch ultrawideband-toting notebooks — probably using Wireless USB — in the EMEA region in the first quarter of 2009