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- Obama drops Twitter bombs on debt-ceiling foes
- Amazon cloud hosts nasty banking trojan
- It's official: IE users are dumb as a bag of hammers
- Facebook dangles cash rewards for bug reports
- Fujitsu fluffs COBOL, Java on Azure clouds
- <strong>[<abbr title="Not Safe For Work">NSFW</abbr>]</strong> Truck nuts swing onto US freedom of speech agenda
- Firefox maker moves towards a browser-free world
- Isilon's iSCSI here to stay, insiders insist...quietly
- CA catches WatchMouse for SaaSy monitoring tools
- Google gobbles Big Blue IP stash
- SpaceX set to send supply ship to ISS in November
- Call of Duty heats up for $1m showdown
- Spotify smacked with patent suits in US and Netherlands
- Yahoo! ends! row! with! Alibaba! for! $6bn!
- Shetland 'Topiary' suspect extended in custody for 3 days
- 'Missing heat': Is global warmth vanishing into space?
- HTC delays Evo 3D release
- Jesus Phone saved from being man-in-the-middled
- 'LONDON IS THE CENTRE OF THE technology WORLD'
- Ubisoft insists DRM 'a success'
- Lumbering STEC struggles to turn corner
- Facebook honeytrap used in Belgian hypermart blag
- Chinese giant Alibaba offers 'Cloudphone'
- Canon EOS 600D 18Mp DSLR
- Scumbags get sneaky with new self-robbery trojan
- Nokia's cheapies strategy bombs
- Google TV box flop costs Logitech $34m
- WinPho 7.5 captured in action
- LOHAN spaceplane project starting to shape up nicely
- Aussie ALDI withdraws infected greybox offering
- Murdoch muscles BBC out of Formula One driving seat
- LightSquared and Sprint, sitting in a tree, K-I-S-S-I-N-G
- Exogear Exomount universal gadget mount
- BSkyB hands out £1bn, board backs James Murdoch
- APP OF DEATH plots local fatalities on demand
- BT on site-blocking: Every case will need a court order
- Alcatel Lucent goes black
- Sci/tech MPs want peer review, not pal review
- Scottish telly news pumps goatse link
- Hitachi GST plugs its areal hole with shingles
- <cite>NotW</cite> 'targeted' phone of Sarah Payne's mum
- IBM chips in with Golfball anniversary
- From Dust
- World needs needs Tequila power: report
- Gun-toting meth addict gets 12 years for ID theft
- Novell's Vibe Cloud floats away
- Cray gears up for big Q4, shrugs off US.gov debt worries
- Sony brings its online bank to Aus
- Intel: Apple has online app sales exactly backwards
| Obama drops Twitter bombs on debt-ceiling foes Posted: 29 Jul 2011 02:15 PM PDT 'Call. Email. Tweet. —BO'The US dept-ceiling legislative dogfight ratcheted up a notch on Friday morning when President Obama's campaign staff launched a Twitter-bombing run on US legislators.… |
| Amazon cloud hosts nasty banking trojan Posted: 29 Jul 2011 02:05 PM PDT SpyEye taps S3, adopts 'agile' programmingAmazon's cloud storage service has been caught hosting services used to control the notorious SpyEye banking trojan, researchers said.… |
| It's official: IE users are dumb as a bag of hammers Posted: 29 Jul 2011 01:00 PM PDT 100,000 test subjects can't be wrongA comprehensive study of web users has determined that the dumber you are, the more likely you are to use Microsoft Internet Explorer.… |
| Facebook dangles cash rewards for bug reports Posted: 29 Jul 2011 12:16 PM PDT Microsoft, Oracle, you listening?Facebook has joined Google and Mozilla in paying cash rewards to researchers who privately report vulnerabilities that could jeopardize the privacy or security of their users.… |
| Fujitsu fluffs COBOL, Java on Azure clouds Posted: 29 Jul 2011 11:38 AM PDT IT cannot code by C# and VB.NET aloneFujitsu customers who use its COBOL and Java application development and middleware software can finally run that code on the Fujitsu Azure clouds, significantly enhancing their appeal in Japan.… |
| Posted: 29 Jul 2011 11:29 AM PDT Forget the debt crisis, my truck's got ballsNSFW The lower portions of the US are distracting themselves from the Washington debt-ceiling car crash by asking whether the use of "truck nuts" constitutes obscenity or is a question of free expression.… |
| Firefox maker moves towards a browser-free world Posted: 29 Jul 2011 10:11 AM PDT Mobiles need 'a strong infusion of Mozilla values'Open...and Shut Something interesting is brewing at Mozilla, and it appears to have very little to do with browsers.… |
| Isilon's iSCSI here to stay, insiders insist...quietly Posted: 29 Jul 2011 10:00 AM PDT Rumours of its death |
| CA catches WatchMouse for SaaSy monitoring tools Posted: 29 Jul 2011 09:45 AM PDT Cloud-on-cloud actionEver-acquisitive CA Technologies has bought WatchMouse for its monitoring tools for cloud, Web, and mobile applications.… |
| Google gobbles Big Blue IP stash Posted: 29 Jul 2011 09:24 AM PDT Patents: Both sword and shield in corporate combatHaving been rebuffed earlier this month in its effort to buy the patent portfolio from defunct telecom gear maker Nortel, search engine giant Google went trolling to fill its patent war chest and made a call to IBM, which has boatloads of IP.… |
| SpaceX set to send supply ship to ISS in November Posted: 29 Jul 2011 08:58 AM PDT Era of Soyuz set to be shortlived as Dragon roars aheadSpace Exploration Technologies – SpaceX – is one small step closer to producing the world's first commercial taxi cab to drop off astronauts and cargo at the International Space Station (ISS).… |
| Call of Duty heats up for $1m showdown Posted: 29 Jul 2011 08:54 AM PDT Mercenary businessAre you one of those saddoes who sits around all day with mates playing first-person shooters, bragging on-line about endless kill streaks and how you 'PWN' every soldier in sight? If so, then maybe it's time to put your money where your mouth is.… |
| Spotify smacked with patent suits in US and Netherlands Posted: 29 Jul 2011 08:28 AM PDT Wait for my brother, he's much biggerUS company PacketVideo has filed patent infringement lawsuits against Spotify with courts in the Netherlands and the US.… |
| Yahoo! ends! row! with! Alibaba! for! $6bn! Posted: 29 Jul 2011 08:20 AM PDT Yahoo! shareholders: No you are not dreamingYahoo!, Alibaba and Softbank have signed a framework agreement to settle their long-running row over payment service Alipay.… |
| Shetland 'Topiary' suspect extended in custody for 3 days Posted: 29 Jul 2011 08:03 AM PDT Man cuffed by airborne plods 'not local', say localsThe Metropolitan Police has been granted another three days to question the suspected hacker arrested on the Shetland Islands yesterday.… |
| 'Missing heat': Is global warmth vanishing into space? Posted: 29 Jul 2011 07:28 AM PDT It's gone away somewhere, that's for sureNew research from satellite man Dr Roy Spencer, principal research scientist at the University of Alabama in Huntsville and maintainer of the UAH temperature record, sheds some light on climate science's "missing heat" mystery.… |
| Posted: 29 Jul 2011 07:00 AM PDT Vodafone says noHTC has confirmed reports that the HTC Evo 3D has been pushed back to September, two months from when initially proposed.… |
| Jesus Phone saved from being man-in-the-middled Posted: 29 Jul 2011 06:46 AM PDT Slab of Jobs to get backdoor stoppered alsoApple has released another security update for iPhones and fondleslabs less than a fortnight after a security fix intended to prevent the tightly controlled devices being jailbroken.… |
| 'LONDON IS THE CENTRE OF THE technology WORLD' Posted: 29 Jul 2011 06:20 AM PDT Tired of the Silicon Roundabout? You're tired of lifeDemand for IT jobs in London grew by 18 per cent in the last quarter compared with the same period in 2010.… |
| Ubisoft insists DRM 'a success' Posted: 29 Jul 2011 06:15 AM PDT Sales against piratesUbisoft has responded to backlash over the company's determination to use an Internet-at-all-times DRM policy, insisting it is a success and does protect its products from piracy.… |
| Lumbering STEC struggles to turn corner Posted: 29 Jul 2011 06:02 AM PDT Difficult for a supertanker to win in a Flash dogfightSTEC shares sank like a stone after it predicted a depressed outlook in its quarterly report. It never really recovered from last year's EMC over-purchase fiasco, and has suffered from over-priced product and missing PCIe flash.… |
| Facebook honeytrap used in Belgian hypermart blag Posted: 29 Jul 2011 05:26 AM PDT Fake lady lure saw boss snatched, safe pillagedBelgian crooks used a Facebook relationship lure to trick a hypermarket manager into a trap, kidnapping him and obtaining keys to the store's safe before making good their escape.… |
| Chinese giant Alibaba offers 'Cloudphone' Posted: 29 Jul 2011 05:01 AM PDT Apps? Get with it, grandad, time for cloudy pocketsChinese internet behemoth Alibaba is getting into software with the launch of a mobile operating system and handset.… |
| Posted: 29 Jul 2011 05:00 AM PDT Choices, choices...Review Those looking for a new DSLR haven't had a decision this tricky in years. In one corner, Nikon's D5100 and in the other, Canon's EOS 600D. Both offer similar specifications, and neither is exactly lacking when it comes to both image quality and platform support.… |
| Scumbags get sneaky with new self-robbery trojan Posted: 29 Jul 2011 04:38 AM PDT Can't be bothered to steal your cash themselvesMalware-peddling scumbags have developed a particularly sneaky banking Trojan that attempts to trick victims into transferring funds into bank accounts controlled by cybercrooks or their partners.… |
| Nokia's cheapies strategy bombs Posted: 29 Jul 2011 04:30 AM PDT Shanghai surpriseFor a decade after 1998, when it first grabbed the top spot, Nokia was a bellwether of the mobile handset business. So much so, that small modulations in Nokia market share caused earthquake scale upheavals across the industry. That's because Nokia was credited with understanding (and blanketing) the world with phones so comprehensively that a stumble may perhaps indicate the market signaling something important.… |
| Google TV box flop costs Logitech $34m Posted: 29 Jul 2011 04:13 AM PDT Ouch: More Revues returned than soldAnalysis Poor sales of Logitech's Google TV box Revue have hit the company in the wallet. More Revues were returned by dealers than sold, and Logitech is slashing the price from the original $299 to $99 and taking a $34m one-time charge in Q1. Chairman Guerrino De Luca returns as interim CEO, with Gerald Quindlen stepping down.… |
| Posted: 29 Jul 2011 04:06 AM PDT Mango movie shakedownThe world's first Windows Phone 7.5 has been outed in a fresh video showing a Toshiba-Fujitsu IS12T handset. The OS, better known as Mango, gets a show off its new tricks in this three minute movie.… |
| LOHAN spaceplane project starting to shape up nicely Posted: 29 Jul 2011 04:00 AM PDT Initial thoughts on our audacious ballocketWe at the Special Projects Bureau have been mulling just how our Low Orbit Helium Assisted Navigator (LOHAN) project is going to work and, having looked at your suggestions and ideas, have put together our initial thoughts.… |
| Aussie ALDI withdraws infected greybox offering Posted: 29 Jul 2011 03:40 AM PDT Multifunction hard drives hotching with ConfickerThe Australian branch of supermarket chain ALDI has withdrawn a range of hard drives from its stores following the discovery that the hardware was infected with malware.… |
| Murdoch muscles BBC out of Formula One driving seat Posted: 29 Jul 2011 03:30 AM PDT 'We're absolutely delighted,' insists BeebBSkyB has snatched the full Formula 1 broadcasting rights from the BBC, which had been the exclusive channel showing the live races since 2009.… |
| LightSquared and Sprint, sitting in a tree, K-I-S-S-I-N-G Posted: 29 Jul 2011 03:18 AM PDT Record pre-pay card with $4.5bn on it issuedSprint has agreed to run LightSquared's US Long Term Evolution (LTE) fourth-gen mobile network operation, in exchange for $9bn cash and roaming rights, while LightSquared customers will be able to use Sprint's 3G network in a deal benefiting everyone except Clearwire.… |
| Exogear Exomount universal gadget mount Posted: 29 Jul 2011 03:00 AM PDT Grips, sticks and stays stuckAccessory of the Week I've been after an affordable and reliable way to stick an HTC Desire HD to a windscreen or desk for some time. Yes, there are plenty of options out there, but they have all been too expensive - HTC's own car mount will set you back £50 - too fragile, too wobbly or just too cheap and nasty.… |
| BSkyB hands out £1bn, board backs James Murdoch Posted: 29 Jul 2011 02:52 AM PDT Not even walking round the table with a baseball bat, eitherBSkyB, which is 39 per cent-owned by Rupert Murdoch's media empire News Corp, coughed up £1bn to investors today and threw its full support behind its embattled chairman James Murdoch.… |
| APP OF DEATH plots local fatalities on demand Posted: 29 Jul 2011 02:39 AM PDT Want to find the dead centre of town?A new smartphone application helpfully plots murders, and traffic fatalities, on an interactive map of the local area, showing you at a glance how many people died nearby in the last 18 months, and what killed them.… |
| BT on site-blocking: Every case will need a court order Posted: 29 Jul 2011 02:23 AM PDT Pick on our freetards over our cold dead corpseBT's head of retail Simon Milner came out swinging after the legal setback over web-blocking. While admitting the company is "not deliriously happy", it welcomes a clarification. And BT won't be appealing the decision.… |
| Posted: 29 Jul 2011 02:01 AM PDT Once you go red you sometimes go back, babyAlcatel Lucent returned to profit in the second quarter on the back of cost-cutting and some market share gains in IP and optics.… |
| Sci/tech MPs want peer review, not pal review Posted: 29 Jul 2011 01:37 AM PDT UK science publishing not exactly scientificThe House of Commons Science and Technology Select Committee has called for greater integrity and data disclosure in peer-reviewed literature. It recommends that all UK research institutions should have "a specific member of staff leading on research integrity".… |
| Scottish telly news pumps goatse link Posted: 29 Jul 2011 01:19 AM PDT Och aye the NOOOViewers of Scottish TV news were treated to a close-up of a link to internet super-meme goatse in yesterday's lunchtime bulletin.… |
| Hitachi GST plugs its areal hole with shingles Posted: 29 Jul 2011 01:00 AM PDT Listens to Google, Facebook as much as HP or DellHitachi GST, in the process of being acquired by Western Digital, says Shingle Magnetic Recording is a necessary gap-filler before advanced disk recording technologies come on stream. It is currently talking to Facebook and Google about this.… |
| <cite>NotW</cite> 'targeted' phone of Sarah Payne's mum Posted: 29 Jul 2011 12:30 AM PDT Bent PI had number of Brooks-given blower, says reportThe mother of murdered eight-year-old girl Sarah Payne reportedly had her mobile phone targeted by the News of the World's private investigator Glen Mulcaire.… |
| IBM chips in with Golfball anniversary Posted: 29 Jul 2011 12:00 AM PDT Revolutionary typewriter tech is 50 years old this SundayIBM's Selectric typewriter - the text processing tool that replaced traditional font with the 'Golfball' - will be 50 years old on Sunday.… |
| Posted: 28 Jul 2011 11:00 PM PDT Playing GodReview Microsoft's Summer of Arcade has become something of an institution these last few years, ushering in the release of some of the best seen download-only games yet seen; the likes of Limbo, Braid, Shadow Complex and last week's Bastion to name but a few. Up next is From Dust, a release with a pedigree all of its own in the gaming world, having been developed by none other than Eric Chahi, lead developer of the seminal Another World, which wowed the games-buying public back in 1991.… |
| World needs needs Tequila power: report Posted: 28 Jul 2011 06:30 PM PDT Agave a better biofuel than sugar caneAgave produces a highly-efficient intoxicant, as anyone who's woken up "Wasting Away in Margaritaville" can attest. According to a joint Sydney University / Oxford University study, the plant could also be a highly-efficient feedstock for biofuels.… |
| Gun-toting meth addict gets 12 years for ID theft Posted: 28 Jul 2011 05:11 PM PDT Phisher of 38,500 menA California man has been sentenced to more than 12 years in prison for his role in an international phishing ring that stole the identities of more than 38,000 people.… |
| Novell's Vibe Cloud floats away Posted: 28 Jul 2011 04:49 PM PDT Farewell, web-collaboration service – we hardly knew yeAfter floating it around the market for only three months, Novell has decided to evaporate its Vibe Cloud web-based "social collaboration platform for the enterprise".… |
| Cray gears up for big Q4, shrugs off US.gov debt worries Posted: 28 Jul 2011 04:13 PM PDT Waiting on Opteron 6200sTrying to cram a half year's worth of business into the final few weeks is no mean feat. And if it were not for the fact that supercomputer maker Cray already did it once already, in 2010, then Wall Street would probably be all kinds of jumpy about Cray trying to do it again here in 2011.… |
| Sony brings its online bank to Aus Posted: 28 Jul 2011 04:00 PM PDT No, seriously...Sony's financial arm is moving into Australia opening a Sony Bank representative office in Sydney in August.… |
| Intel: Apple has online app sales exactly backwards Posted: 28 Jul 2011 03:27 PM PDT Hipsters mixing up hats and hammers says chip giantApple may be having phenomenal success with its iOS App Store ecosystem, but Intel thinks it's going about online app sales in the wrong way.… |
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