Android app sales skimpy, sluggish, slack, scanty...

Android app sales skimpy, sluggish, slack, scanty...


Android app sales skimpy, sluggish, slack, scanty...

Posted: 27 May 2011 01:03 PM PDT

Want profits? Build iPhone apps

Android-based smartphones may have passed the iPhone in terms of market share, but developers of Android apps aren't profiting from that rise. iPhone users buy far more apps.…

Intel switches ARM stance from 'No' to 'Maybe'

Posted: 27 May 2011 01:01 PM PDT

New wrinkle in Apple-Samsung spat

Ten days ago, Intel CEO Paul Otellini told US investors that Chipzilla wouldn't use its new 22nm Tri-Gate process technology to build chips based on an ARM core. At a UK investors confab this Thursday, CFO Stacey Smith hedged on Otellini's emphatic "No".…

Honda security breach exposes 283,000 customers

Posted: 27 May 2011 12:55 PM PDT

2nd data leak in 6 months

Honda's Canadian division has suffered a data breach that exposed the personal information of 283,000 customers, according to its website and published media reports.…

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Data, not software, paves the road to riches

Posted: 27 May 2011 10:44 AM PDT

Open source: A pauper's game

Open...and Shut  For those who believe software is a quick road to riches, think again.…

iOS dev nemesis Lodsys pressures Android coders too?

Posted: 27 May 2011 10:27 AM PDT

In-app payment fight spreads

Lodysys – the patent holder that has pressured iOS app developers to turn over revenue from in-app payments – is taking aim at Android app developers as well, according to a post on Google's Android discussion list.…

Bind DNS resolver purged of critical DoS bug

Posted: 27 May 2011 10:24 AM PDT

Query domain, server goes boom

Makers of the internet's most widely used domain name resolution software have patched a vulnerability that allowed attackers to crash many systems that run the program.…

Feds break up Chinese-US counterfeit Cisco ring

Posted: 27 May 2011 08:31 AM PDT

Female mastermind stripped of Porsches, houses, freedom

Federal lawmen have announced success in breaking up a "sophisticated scheme to import and sell counterfeit Cisco-branded computer networking equipment" in the USA, masterminded by a Virginia woman who made millions from the scam.…

BT, TalkTalk seek leave to appeal DEA ruling

Posted: 27 May 2011 07:59 AM PDT

Plan to challenge 4 of the 5 points addressed by High Court

BT and TalkTalk are seeking leave to appeal a ruling on four points relating to their challenge to the Digital Economy Act, after their legal gambit against it failed last month.…

SwiftKey plunders social networks for style

Posted: 27 May 2011 07:54 AM PDT

Working out what you were trying to say

The latest version of mobile-keyboard SwiftKey will sample your Tweets and Facebook updates and work out what kind of writer you are to better guess what you're trying to say.…

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Lockheed Martin suspends remote access after network 'intrusion'

Posted: 27 May 2011 07:41 AM PDT

InsecureID for hacked defence contractor

Lockheed Martin has reportedly suspended remote access to email and corporate apps following the discover of a network intrusion that may be linked to the high-profile breach against RSA earlier this year.…

Go Daddy 'negligent' in handing over ownership of accounts

Posted: 27 May 2011 07:28 AM PDT

US judges say domain registrar's conduct 'caused concern'

Companies that register the names of websites can be held responsible for wrongly transferring their ownership, a US appeals court has ruled.…

Star Wars fanboys to restore Tatooine Homestead

Posted: 27 May 2011 07:24 AM PDT

Preservers of history

Last year a bunch of Star Wars fanbois went on a pilgrimage to the Lars homestead on Tatooine - or rather the part of Tunisia in which George Lucas shot the movies.…

Microsoft gets five bucks for every HTC Android phone

Posted: 27 May 2011 07:19 AM PDT

Analyst spills royalty payment beans

Buy an HTC smartphone and $5 of what you spent on it goes to Microsoft - even if you've just bought an Android device.…

Endeavour 'nauts wrap last ever shuttle crew spacewalk

Posted: 27 May 2011 06:17 AM PDT

End of an era at the ISS

Mission specialists Greg Chamitoff and Mike Fincke earlier today wrapped the fourth and final spacewalk of Endeavour's STS-134 mission to the ISS – the last ever EVA by space shuttle crew members.…

Vatican crackdown at Rome's Playboy Mansion-style monastery

Posted: 27 May 2011 05:14 AM PDT

Lapdancing nuns, 'lifestyle irregularities' uncovered

A controversial monastery in Rome – the scene of performances by lap-dancing nuns and "lifestyles that were probably not in keeping with that of a monk" – has been closed down on the orders of the Pope.…

Skype pushes out Windows update following massive login glitch

Posted: 27 May 2011 05:11 AM PDT

Trying to connect you...

Skype has published an update that provides an easy way for users to log back into the system following a software glitch that resulted in the VoIP service hanging up on users on Thursday.…

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Zuckerberg labels Ceglia lawsuit a 'brazen, outrageous fraud'

Posted: 27 May 2011 05:06 AM PDT

Boydroid's Facebook status remains the same

Mark Zuckerberg has asked a federal court in New York to throw out a lawsuit filed against him, because – according to the Facebook boss – the case is a "brazen and outrageous fraud on the court".…

CIX conferencing system is bought out – again

Posted: 27 May 2011 05:03 AM PDT

Veteran online hangout gains a new lease of life

CIX, probably the oldest surviving online service in the UK, has a new owner, ICUK, which hopes to grow the system and attract new users.…

Waking to check mail? You're not alone

Posted: 27 May 2011 04:58 AM PDT

One in three can't make it through the night

One in three mobile workers wake regularly during the night to check their email, while 40 per cent will interrupt a meeting to answer a call.…

Submarine seized by pirates turns up in Vegas pawnshop

Posted: 27 May 2011 04:56 AM PDT

Cops baffled: Underwater buccaneers plague California coast?

A stolen submarine has been returned to its wealthy Californian owner after it was pawned in Las Vegas, according to reports. Investigating plods are baffled and the seagoing freebooters who originally pirated the sub remain at large.…

SeeSaw video-on-demand service to close

Posted: 27 May 2011 04:51 AM PDT

Arqiva fails to find a buyer, internal email reveals

Arqiva is closing down its online video-on-demand service, SeeSaw.…

Google Chrome OS: Too secure to need security?

Posted: 27 May 2011 04:49 AM PDT

Confident anti-virus-less chocolateers may be repeating Apple's mistakes

A leading security researcher has warned that Google risks repeating Apple's mistakes on security with its new Chrome OS.…

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Dirt 3

Posted: 27 May 2011 04:11 AM PDT

Rally ho!

Review  The fact that rally is a niche market, even among petrolheads, perhaps goes someway to explaining why Codemaster's Dirt franchise strives to rein in the time challenge aspects of the sport – instead favouring racing, albeit in a way which retains the drifting and suicidal cornering of the motorsport. Codemasters: good decision.…

Rackspace cloud prepared for WAR, but Google AE chokes

Posted: 27 May 2011 04:00 AM PDT

Cloud providers leave Damon frowning over mirrors

WAR on the Cloud, Part 3  I'm moving mirrors of my busy-ish website from my hand-crafted dedicated colo solution into the cloud to try to get geographically closer to my global user-base, reduce latency and improve perceived performance, save money, and hopefully make administration easier.…

Nokia will get own Windows shop window

Posted: 27 May 2011 03:45 AM PDT

But still backing Symbian until 2016

Nokia will be selling Windows Phone applications from its own marketplace, with Symbian applications sharing space on the Nokia store shelves until 2016 at the least.…

Rural areas win UK.gov broadband upgrade, but some miss out

Posted: 27 May 2011 03:41 AM PDT

Three councils given £50m from £530m BDUK piggy bank

The government has divvied up £50m of its £530m rural broadband cash to councils in Wiltshire, Norfolk and Devon and Somerset, in its final wave of pilots.…

Chicago lawyer deploys distractionary dumplings

Posted: 27 May 2011 03:15 AM PDT

Court opponent objects to busty 'paralegal'

A couple of Chicago lawyers are engaged in an unseemly scrap over a busty paralegal, which one claims the other is using in court as a jubular distraction.…

Boffins tail bees with tiny radio tags

Posted: 27 May 2011 03:14 AM PDT

How long is a beeline?

Bees with radio tags glued onto their backs have been busily demonstrating just how long it takes them to get home, and how much easier it is to travel west.…

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A bit about Bitlocker

Posted: 27 May 2011 03:00 AM PDT

Encryption, Windows and you

Encryption is the staple weapon of the security business. As old as war itself, it scrambles data to conceal it from those not meant to see it.…

ICO: Knowing your rights is a priority in new strategy

Posted: 27 May 2011 02:41 AM PDT

Consults with public on how to maximise its impact as a regulator

There should be a high level of awareness in organisations of their obligations to protect customers' personal information, the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) has said.…

Bloke drives with knees while manipulating two mobes

Posted: 27 May 2011 02:37 AM PDT

Hefty fine likely for Norfolk prestidigitator

A Norfolk man is potentially facing "six points on his licence and thousands of pounds in fines" after cops nabbed him allegedly driving with his knees while manipulating two mobile phones.…

German boffins win prize for 'MP3 for phones'

Posted: 27 May 2011 02:35 AM PDT

iPhone, iPad FaceTime tech now obsolete

Remorseless German boffins are patting themselves on the back after winning a prize for their efforts developing "MP3 for phone calls".…

ARM-based MacBook Air test sample spied

Posted: 27 May 2011 02:25 AM PDT

Tablaptop inbound?

It's not proof that Apple has plans to produce and sell such a machine, but the Mac maker certainly seems to have been exploring the possibility of offering a MacBook Air laptop based not on an Intel but an ARM processor.…

Utilities turn in blacklisted carbon emission credits

Posted: 27 May 2011 02:06 AM PDT

More fallout from high profile cyber-heists that shut registries across Europe

More prominent power generation outfits have surrendered stolen carbon emission permits after realising that they had inadvertently purchased illicit goods.…

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Naked cyclist streaks through Suffolk village

Posted: 27 May 2011 02:01 AM PDT

'Fun' two-wheeled wheeze ends in conditional discharge

A Suffolk man has discovered to his cost that the courts do not consider cycling naked through sleepy villages a "fun" activity for a Monday afternoon.…

Nokia: regular WinPho handset releases through 2012

Posted: 27 May 2011 01:51 AM PDT

New kit every 2-3 months

Nokia could be punching out Windows Phone handsets at the rate or one every two months, the company has said.…

HTC to stop locking smartphone bootloader code

Posted: 27 May 2011 01:08 AM PDT

OS tweaking to be made easier

Smartphone maker HTC has pledged to stop locking down its handsets' bootloader code, a move that makes it easier to install complete custom operating system releases.…

Fujitsu embiggens Eternus

Posted: 27 May 2011 01:07 AM PDT

Mmm, thin provisioning

In a revamp of its Eternus drive arrays, Fujitsu has come out with the second generation – the S2 versions – of its twin controller DX60, DX80, and DX90 entry-level drive arrays, as well as its DX400 mid-range array.…

Google accused of stealing PayPal's mobile payment secrets

Posted: 26 May 2011 11:01 PM PDT

Exec defected for Google 'while brokering Android pact for PayPal'

PayPal has sued Google and two Google executives who defected from PayPal to help the search giant's push into mobile payments. The suit was filed in California on Thursday, the same day Google unveiled its mobile payments system in New York.…

<i>Total Recall</i> rehash – exit Martians, enter Jessica Biel

Posted: 26 May 2011 11:00 PM PDT

Hollywood Can Re-imagine It for You Wholesale

Those film fans among you who were sitting in darkened rooms, trembling at the prospect of Hollywood's re-imagining of Paul Verhoeven's 1990 sci-fi romp Total Recall, should rest assured that things look promising for the latest interpretation of Philip K Dick's We Can Remember It for You Wholesale.…

Mio Spirit 687 satnav

Posted: 26 May 2011 11:00 PM PDT

Vocal performance

Review  The 687 sits at the top of Mio's new range of Spirit satnavs and is a good illustration of exactly how much navigational kit you can expect to get for £150 these days. For your money you get a 5in, 480 x 272 screen, voice command, Bluetooth, road maps of 44 European countries, free TMC traffic data and some rather handy navigational niceties.…

Amazon opens online Macware store

Posted: 26 May 2011 08:57 PM PDT

'Come, ye Apple refugees, and find refuge herein'

Amazon has opened a shelter for Mac software developers who either can't or don't want to sell their apps in Apple's Mac OS X Mac App Store: the logically named Mac Download Store.…

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NBN Co details satellite offering for country folk

Posted: 26 May 2011 05:00 PM PDT

Call for more service providers

Australian broadband customers in regional areas will have to pass a service qualification test in order to use the NBN Co's Interim Satellite Service.…

Server biz bouncing back to boom times

Posted: 26 May 2011 04:54 PM PDT

Oracle, Cisco, others party like it's 2008

Server makers got good news from IDC earlier this week, and now the box counters at Gartner are providing tidings of good first-quarter cheer.…

Take that, content. APIs get own delivery network

Posted: 26 May 2011 04:31 PM PDT

Apigee on the edge

Apigee – a company dedicated to improving the use of APIs across the interwebs – has unveiled an API delivery network designed to grease API calls in much the same way a CDN smooths the transfer of images and other net content.…

Insider data theft costs Bank of America $10m

Posted: 26 May 2011 04:29 PM PDT

Bank details for 300 purloined

A Bank of America insider who stole customers' personally identifiable information and gave it to identity thieves has cost the bank $10 million in losses, according to media reports.…

Kiwi carrier heads to court over split

Posted: 26 May 2011 04:00 PM PDT

Competition watchdog not happy

Telecom New Zealand has attracted the wrath of competition watchdog, the Commerce Commission over the carrier's plans to structurally separate.…

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BlueStacks lets Android apps frolic on PCs

Posted: 26 May 2011 03:03 PM PDT

iPhone apps? Er, no

A startup called BlueStacks has come out of stealth mode with shiny new venture funding and an eponymous product that lets Android apps run on PCs.…

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