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- HTC 'dismayed' by Apple's bizarre patent allegations
- Ruby daddy Matsumoto joins Heroku Rails crusade
- NASA 'nauts wrap last spacewalk of shuttle era
- Microsoft: HP, eBay polishing Azure cloud-in-a-box (honest)
- VMware launches vSphere 5 into the clear blue sky
- Heat sink breakthrough threatens ventblockers
- BlackBerry-style LG Android phone outed
- Interwebs IDE hits the mother Node
- McAfee head vanishes, replaced by two more
- Elpida aims to issue $1bn of paper to fund re-tooling
- Hunt splashes £56.9m broadband cash on Wales
- US Marine gets date with Meg Griffin on YouTube
- 'Meltdown Monday' Anonymous hackers leak military mails
- Citrix swallows OpenStack ally Cloud.com
- 'Unconvincing' Met top cop Yates: <i>My</i> phone was hacked
- HP TouchSmart 610 touchscreen all-in-one PC
- Cisco may slash 10,000 jobs
- Netflix Europe debut set for January 2012
- 'I caught a virus from Murdoch's organ' – famous secret hooker
- <i>Sunday Times</i> accused of blagging Gordon Brown's records
- 'Being cyber-stalked is as bad as being raped, or in a war'
- Computacenter Germany pips UK operation in growth stakes
- Microsoft to Windows XP diehards: Just under 3 more years' support
- Brussels acts to ensure arrival of new, unknown legal highs
- Assange™ in court to fight extradition order
- Dinner Spinner
- Go Daddy no-no means No Daddy is no-go
- BBW: Over 900 police staff caught misusing databases
- ISS and <i>Atlantis</i> crews face 'daunting' box-shifting job
- Putting the Square Kilometre Array on a Cloud
- UK court dishes out 13 years' porridge to e-fraudsters
- Contour GPS Bluetooth camcorder
- IBM heaves new System z minis at mainframe shops
- Data centres become carbon tax scare-story
- ACCC calls for input on wholesale rules
- Quickflix hires another ex-Telstra exec
- Website FAIL flings freebies at Kiwi punters
- Apple ordered to pay $8m over playlist patents
- Heroku: A development cloud for all seasons
- Ballmer begs partners to love Microsoft clouds
- Foxtel gets closer to Austar swoop
| HTC 'dismayed' by Apple's bizarre patent allegations Posted: 12 Jul 2011 02:42 PM PDT Assertions only a lawyer could loveHTC has snapped back at Apple's second patent-infringement complaint over the Taiwanese manufacturer's Android-based smartphones and tablets.… |
| Ruby daddy Matsumoto joins Heroku Rails crusade Posted: 12 Jul 2011 02:14 PM PDT Some time in cloud landRuby creator Yukihiro Matsumoto has joined Heroku, the San Francisco outfit that cut its teeth with an online service for building, deploying, and readily scaling Ruby on Rails applications.… |
| NASA 'nauts wrap last spacewalk of shuttle era Posted: 12 Jul 2011 01:13 PM PDT Clapped-out ISS ammonia unit stowed aboard AtlantisNASA 'nauts Mike Fossum and Ron Garan have wrapped the last spacewalk of the shuttle era, during which they successfully stowed a clapped-out International Space Station ammonia pump in Atlantis's cargo bay.… |
| Microsoft: HP, eBay polishing Azure cloud-in-a-box (honest) Posted: 12 Jul 2011 12:25 PM PDT Deadlines reset, evaluations ongoingWPC 2010 A year after they were announced and six months after they were to be delivered, Microsoft has offered a fleeting glimpse of its Windows Azure cloud-in-a-box appliance parnerships with HP and eBay.… |
| VMware launches vSphere 5 into the clear blue sky Posted: 12 Jul 2011 11:53 AM PDT 'We run 50 per cent of everything'VMware has unveiled the latest version of its vSphere hypervisor – vSphere 5 – along with a suite of additional technologies for building what the world insists on calling "infrastructure clouds".… |
| Heat sink breakthrough threatens ventblockers Posted: 12 Jul 2011 11:51 AM PDT Death to dust, curtains for crudA US government lab has opened for licensing a novel way of improving the cooling technology used in everything from CPU and GPU coolers to air-conditioning units: make the fan the heat sink, and the heat sink the fan.… |
| BlackBerry-style LG Android phone outed Posted: 12 Jul 2011 09:08 AM PDT An Optimus for pros, apparentlyWhy does slapping a BlackBerry-style micro Qwerty keyboard make a smartphone professional? It doesn't, but vendors continue to pitch handsets that way, the latest being LG.… |
| Interwebs IDE hits the mother Node Posted: 12 Jul 2011 09:00 AM PDT Joyent on Cloud9Cloud9 – a startup offering developers an IDE that runs entirely on the web – has announced that its creation now plugs directly into the Node.js service run by Node chief steward Joyent.… |
| McAfee head vanishes, replaced by two more Posted: 12 Jul 2011 08:31 AM PDT Security management à la Lernaean hydraMcAfee has decided that it needs two presidents – namely Michael DeCesare and Todd Gebhert – to replace David DeWalt, who is quitting the firm.… |
| Elpida aims to issue $1bn of paper to fund re-tooling Posted: 12 Jul 2011 07:26 AM PDT DRAM it, we've been left behindElpida needs to raise nearly one billion dollars to fund a transition into making memory for smartphones and tablet PCs, relying less on PC DRAM in the future. Revenues from DRAM have fallen short of what's needed and Elpida will issue new shares and convertible bonds to pay for the direction change.… |
| Hunt splashes £56.9m broadband cash on Wales Posted: 12 Jul 2011 07:03 AM PDT 'Frustrated? Urge your member to fatten up your pipe'Wales has won broadband funds of £56.9m from the Coalition's £530m investment pot, following a successful bid for the cash from the Welsh Assembly.… |
| US Marine gets date with Meg Griffin on YouTube Posted: 12 Jul 2011 06:23 AM PDT 'Do it for your country', Justin Timberlake urgesA US Marine serving in Afghanistan has successfully obtained a date with Hollywood star Mila Kunis by asking her out in a YouTube video.… |
| 'Meltdown Monday' Anonymous hackers leak military mails Posted: 12 Jul 2011 06:08 AM PDT AntiSec hacktivists blasted for breaking own manifestoAnonymous uploaded 90,000 military email address and associated password hashes onto a file-sharing network on Monday as part of an operation it christening Military Meltdown Monday.… |
| Citrix swallows OpenStack ally Cloud.com Posted: 12 Jul 2011 06:00 AM PDT Cross-platform promiseCitrix Systems has purchased Silicon Valley startup Cloud.com as part of its effort to help customers build, deploy, and manage Amazon-style "infrastructure clouds".… |
| 'Unconvincing' Met top cop Yates: <i>My</i> phone was hacked Posted: 12 Jul 2011 05:31 AM PDT But I didn't think it was worth investigatingJohn Yates, Metropolitan Police Assistant Commissioner, claimed today at a parliamentary hearing into the ongoing phone-tapping allegations against News International publications that his voicemail had been illegally intercepted too.… |
| HP TouchSmart 610 touchscreen all-in-one PC Posted: 12 Jul 2011 05:00 AM PDT Quite literally, laid backReview This is going to be good. I reviewed the first TouchSmart 600 all-in-one home desktop computer in January 2010, and loved it, frankly. I fondly remember Reg Hardware readers expressing their admiration for my gushing praise at the time... That was sarcasm. Enough, I'm over it.… |
| Posted: 12 Jul 2011 04:36 AM PDT Company-wide axe massacre set for next monthCisco may be bigger and bolder in its cost-cutting plans than first anticipated: it has been revealed the firm is getting rid of close to 10,000 staff worldwide.… |
| Netflix Europe debut set for January 2012 Posted: 12 Jul 2011 04:32 AM PDT Spanish movie industry exec spills beansNetflix's long-awaited European debut may have been scheduled for January 2012, if claims from Spain are to be believed.… |
| 'I caught a virus from Murdoch's organ' – famous secret hooker Posted: 12 Jul 2011 04:18 AM PDT Malware de Jour also hit Girl With One-Track MindTwo prominent sex bloggers suspect the Rupert Murdoch owned Sunday Times of hacking into their computers using Trojan horse malware. The fears are not based on any hard evidence but are nonetheless sure to add further grist to the mill of the escalating News International hacking scandal.… |
| <i>Sunday Times</i> accused of blagging Gordon Brown's records Posted: 12 Jul 2011 04:05 AM PDT Murdoch's troubles fail to die with NotWNews International journalists from multiple papers persistently tried to get gossip on the former prime minister Gordon Brown by "blagging" access to his bank account, legal documents and even his son's medical records, it has been alleged.… |
| 'Being cyber-stalked is as bad as being raped, or in a war' Posted: 12 Jul 2011 03:56 AM PDT Amazing claim from, erm, a new cyberstalk research centreA new survey into the phenomenon of cyber-stalking has made the remarkable claim that many victims of online or other electronic harassment suffer from Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) in very much the same way as soldiers who have been in combat or people who have been raped.… |
| Computacenter Germany pips UK operation in growth stakes Posted: 12 Jul 2011 03:35 AM PDT But for you, Fritz, the glory will be short-livedComputacenter's (CC) UK operation fell under the shadow of its German counterpart – for the first time in history – during H1 following steep declines in product reselling.… |
| Microsoft to Windows XP diehards: Just under 3 more years' support Posted: 12 Jul 2011 03:33 AM PDT 'Eventually, there comes a time to give us more money'Microsoft continued its campaign yesterday to convince stuck-in-the-mud Windows XP customers to upgrade to Windows 7, the company's current operating system.… |
| Brussels acts to ensure arrival of new, unknown legal highs Posted: 12 Jul 2011 03:21 AM PDT Crackdown should mean boost for Chinese synthi-drug labsThe European Commission is promising tighter rules on 'legal highs' despite surveys indicating that most people think such action should be based on medical evidence.… |
| Assange™ in court to fight extradition order Posted: 12 Jul 2011 03:08 AM PDT WikiLeaks' boss appeal hearing beginsWikiLeaks founder Julian Assange™ arrived at London's High Court this morning to begin his challenge against an extradition order that relates to allegations of rape and sexual molestation brought by two women in Sweden.… |
| Posted: 12 Jul 2011 03:00 AM PDT Bring me vicious mustards to pierce the tongue like Cardigan's lancersAndroid App of the Week Dinner Spinner is a classic example of the slick and inventive apps that have made the iOS App Store what it is today. It's also a good example of the way those same apps are now migrating to Android.… |
| Go Daddy no-no means No Daddy is no-go Posted: 12 Jul 2011 02:34 AM PDT High-ranking gripe nemesis nabbed by targetGo Daddy has managed to effectively gag its fiercest critics by acquiring and then shutting down the high-ranking Go Daddy gripe site: NoDaddy.com.… |
| BBW: Over 900 police staff caught misusing databases Posted: 12 Jul 2011 02:27 AM PDT Cops check squeezes, neighbours, pass info to crimsMore than 900 police personnel were disciplined for unlawful data protection practices in the past three years, privacy campaigners have said.… |
| ISS and <i>Atlantis</i> crews face 'daunting' box-shifting job Posted: 12 Jul 2011 01:25 AM PDT 'Nauts must shift 4 tons of shopping, 2½ tons of station binsThe combined crews of the International Space Station and space shuttle Atlantis are facing a "daunting" box-shifting job, following the successful transfer of the Raffaello multi-purpose logistics module from the space shuttle's cargo bay to the orbiting outpost's Harmony node.… |
| Putting the Square Kilometre Array on a Cloud Posted: 12 Jul 2011 01:24 AM PDT Should be enough to get free Amazon shipping, anywayBy now, you may have heard of the Square Kilometre Array: it is to be the world's biggest radio telescope, assembled from 3,000 15-meter dishes into a collecting area of, yes, one square kilometer.… |
| UK court dishes out 13 years' porridge to e-fraudsters Posted: 12 Jul 2011 01:01 AM PDT Cyber-cops: £1m phishermen had 40 bogus bank sitesThree fraudsters have been jailed for a combined total of 13 years and six months over their involvement in a sophisticated phishing fraud against UK and international banks.… |
| Contour GPS Bluetooth camcorder Posted: 11 Jul 2011 11:00 PM PDT Extreme sports shooter with iPhone viewingReview Contour has been making a lot of noise recently about the new wireless viewfinder feature for its HD range of helmet cameras. With these units being necessarily small, the idea is that the viewfinder bulk is taken care of by using your phone's display, with a Bluetooth connection streaming the pics and video. Simply download a free app and you're all set.… |
| IBM heaves new System z minis at mainframe shops Posted: 11 Jul 2011 09:01 PM PDT Hooking fat Xeon blades into 'system of systems'In the hope of continuing the System z upgrade boom that started last summer, Big Blue has rounded out its lineup with a midrange – what IBM calls "Business Class" – mainframe, the System zEnterprise 114.… |
| Data centres become carbon tax scare-story Posted: 11 Jul 2011 09:00 PM PDT Your rackspace will cost you more!Given that the IT business swallows nearly three percent of Australia's power output, it's hardly surprising that the industry is viewing the country's coming carbon tax with some trepidation.… |
| ACCC calls for input on wholesale rules Posted: 11 Jul 2011 08:38 PM PDT Define 'discrimination'The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission is pushing on with its frenzy of National Broadband Network-related activity with a consultation paper looking at the question of discrimination between wholesale customers.… |
| Quickflix hires another ex-Telstra exec Posted: 11 Jul 2011 06:00 PM PDT Readies for digitalQuickflix has made its second high profile appointment in less than a week, snaring the former director of Telstra Media, Chris Taylor as its new CEO.… |
| Website FAIL flings freebies at Kiwi punters Posted: 11 Jul 2011 05:00 PM PDT Dick Smith coughs up free tech gearThe Australian tech retailer Dick Smith unexpectedly gave its New Zealand online customers a massive discount when its ecommerce system failed and allowed transactions to be processed for zero dollars.… |
| Apple ordered to pay $8m over playlist patents Posted: 11 Jul 2011 04:56 PM PDT Personal Audio spatA federal jury has ordered Apple to pay a patent-holding firm $8m for violating two patents, after a protracted battle in the Eastern District of Texas, a jurisdiction notorious for handing down decisions friendly to patent holders.… |
| Heroku: A development cloud for all seasons Posted: 11 Jul 2011 04:24 PM PDT Rails, Node, Clojure, and other hipnessHeroku began life as an online service for building, hosting, and readily scaling Ruby on Rails applications. But the "platform cloud" has since expanded beyond the decidedly hip net programming language, embracing two other decidedly hip options: Node.js and Clojure.… |
| Ballmer begs partners to love Microsoft clouds Posted: 11 Jul 2011 04:15 PM PDT Promises 'full vim and vigor'Steve Ballmer wants to rally business partners around Microsoft's flagship internet and mobile initiatives, but in the process, he reveals just how far Microsoft has to go and how much the company relies on decision-makers outside of its control.… |
| Foxtel gets closer to Austar swoop Posted: 11 Jul 2011 04:09 PM PDT Regulatory approval still pending for monopolyThe phone-hacking scandal might have slammed the brakes on Murdoch's bid for BSkyB in the UK, but in Australia Foxtel is getting closer to creating a national Australian Pay-TV monopoly with the acquisition of rival Austar.… |
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