Pacnet adds Honkers datacentre |
- Pacnet adds Honkers datacentre
- NEC squeezes out Aussie blackspots
- Dell PowerEdgies built like Marilyn Monroe
- UK Cops 'duped' into arresting wrong LulzSec suspect
- Bulgarian coeds exposed in hidden camera stuffed apartment
- ElasticStack 2.0 allows clouds to catapult SANs
- Microsoft boffins propose cloudy home furnaces
- DHS scraps nukes-in-cargo-containers scan plan
- Ubisoft revisits Internet-at-all-times DRM
- Ubuntu dressed in cheap elastic support, sent out in public
- Lithium cells take salt to extend life
- World first: UK boffins print out working 3D aeroplane
- Vanishing OEM robs Quantum of black ink
- Beeb rolls out global paid iPlayer app in €urope
- UK's first Stealth fighter in successful catapult test
- Intel: SSD 320 power loss bricking bug can be fixed
- Nearly everyone in SOUTH KOREA HACKED IN ONE GO
- Geeks Guide<sub><small>2</small></sub>... iPhone 4 Development
- Ten... in-ear headphones
- Naughty JavaScript can be planted in IM status messages
- Ashley Highfield quits Microsoft, becomes <i>Scotsman</i> boss
- ICO won't investigate Tory minister
- Film studios thrash BT in Newzbin site-block test case
- Nintendo cuts cost of 3DS by a third
- Pwned HBGary boss cancels public debate after legal threats
- Jupiter spacecraft mounted atop bloody big rocket
- Symantec bubbles up, though services revenue deflates
- Three prunes prices of smartphone contracts
- Revenues down at BT for Q1, share price up
- Camera Prime
- ICO probes Tory minister PI blagging allegations
- News leech loses appeal on High Court copyright case
- MPs slam government's 'obscene' IT spend
- Improving service monitoring with Watermelon metrics
- HP's fondle-slab dilemma: What to do when you're No 2
- Birmingham council backtracks on moving IT jobs to India
- Call of Juarez: The Cartel
- Cabinet Office government-by-Facebook plans probed
- Feds take closer look at Google plans to buy AdMeld
- eBay shopping lands wild colonial in lock-up
- NASA's former CTO launches Nebula cloud controller
- LiveJournal groans under 'immense' DDos attack
- 'War texting' hacks car systems and possibly much more
- CA refreshes cloud code in 'cloud choice' suite
- Optus slices fat from management ranks
- Cloud fluffs Citrix numbers in Q2
- 'Evil' Aussie hacker 'named', refused bail
| Pacnet adds Honkers datacentre Posted: 28 Jul 2011 03:08 PM PDT Rollout targets Asian cloudPacnet is continuing its Asia-Pacific data centre expansion with a new Hong Kong data landing station (DLS), which the company says provides a one-stop collocation and connectivity solution.… |
| NEC squeezes out Aussie blackspots Posted: 28 Jul 2011 02:39 PM PDT Extends DSLAM network in multi-million dollar investmentNEC Australia has made the first significant investment in its Nextep network in five years with the upgrade of its regional DSLAM and MPLS core networks.… |
| Dell PowerEdgies built like Marilyn Monroe Posted: 28 Jul 2011 02:28 PM PDT 'Cos some like it hotA lot of new hardware features were rolled up into Dell's PowerEdge 11G servers, which came out in 2009 and were enhanced throughout 2010.… |
| UK Cops 'duped' into arresting wrong LulzSec suspect Posted: 28 Jul 2011 12:41 PM PDT Will the real Topiary please stand up?The 19-year-old Scotsman fingered Wednesday as a central figure of the LulzSec hacking crew is a fall guy who was framed to take the heat off the real culprit, according to unconfirmed claims from a rival group.… |
| Bulgarian coeds exposed in hidden camera stuffed apartment Posted: 28 Jul 2011 12:17 PM PDT Air-bags, pizza, Florida? You get the picture...A brace of Bulgarian coeds have been left shaken after discovering that their Florida apartment was bristling with hidden spy cams.… |
| ElasticStack 2.0 allows clouds to catapult SANs Posted: 28 Jul 2011 11:44 AM PDT Sheepdog herds server disksElasticStack has just revved its eponymous infrastructure cloud software with a 2.0 release that lets it run more cheaply than the prior release and gives its more attention grabbing rivals a run for the money.… |
| Microsoft boffins propose cloudy home furnaces Posted: 28 Jul 2011 10:23 AM PDT Heat your digs with a basement data centerA team of Microsoft and academic researchers has come up with a proposal for using cloud computing not as an energy drain, but as a source of country-wide energy savings by turning cloudy servers into home and office furnaces.… |
| DHS scraps nukes-in-cargo-containers scan plan Posted: 28 Jul 2011 09:03 AM PDT We will rely instead on Jack BauerPlans to install nuclear radiation detectors at all US ports of entry have been dropped.… |
| Ubisoft revisits Internet-at-all-times DRM Posted: 28 Jul 2011 08:30 AM PDT Drive away the piratesUbisoft has revealed that in order to play its forthcoming title Driver: San Francisco on a PC, users will require a permanent internet connection.… |
| Ubuntu dressed in cheap elastic support, sent out in public Posted: 28 Jul 2011 08:23 AM PDT Public cloud, that isCanonical's Ubuntu Linux variant is popular out there on the public clouds of the world, but there is a serious mismatch between how support contracts are sold for bare-metal servers used inside corporate data centers and how virtual servers are deployed and used out there on the cloud. And Canonical wants to fix that and make a bit of money, too.… |
| Lithium cells take salt to extend life Posted: 28 Jul 2011 08:00 AM PDT Imide live longerLi-ion battery technology looks set to be given a new lease of life with the emergence of an improved electrolyte process that promises increased heat tolerance and a significantly longer lifespan.… |
| World first: UK boffins print out working 3D aeroplane Posted: 28 Jul 2011 07:24 AM PDT Tech for difficult, shapely beauties like the Spitfire or LOHANA team from the University of Southampton has produced the world's first fully "printed" airworthy plane – a 1.5-metre-wingspan UAV created in just five days by selective laser sintering (SLS).… |
| Vanishing OEM robs Quantum of black ink Posted: 28 Jul 2011 07:16 AM PDT 'There's a bunch of people who need to improve'If sales revenue had been just 3 per cent higher, Quantum would have broken even. Instead its first fiscal 2012 quarter showed a $5m loss on revenues of $154m – instead of the expected $160m.… |
| Beeb rolls out global paid iPlayer app in €urope Posted: 28 Jul 2011 06:54 AM PDT Slab-fondlers lured with Fawlty Towers and so onExpats or foreigners who own an Apple iPad and are interested in a weekly dose of Brit TV gruel – grisly East End folk, crappy daytime shows or pointless period dramas – should rejoice, as the Beeb is launching an international version of iPlayer.… |
| UK's first Stealth fighter in successful catapult test Posted: 28 Jul 2011 06:26 AM PDT Royal Navy version of the F-35 shot into skyVid The tailhook version of the F-35 Lightning II stealth combat aircraft – which, following the recent UK defence review, is now planned to fly from new Royal Navy carriers in years to come – has successfully completed its first catapult launch test.… |
| Intel: SSD 320 power loss bricking bug can be fixed Posted: 28 Jul 2011 06:01 AM PDT In the meantime, try not to have a power lossThe bug making Intel SSD 320s shrink to 8MB bricks is close to being fixed, according to Intel.… |
| Nearly everyone in SOUTH KOREA HACKED IN ONE GO Posted: 28 Jul 2011 05:54 AM PDT Local equivalent of Facebook hit: Fingers point at ChinaPersonal information on as many as 35 million users of a South Korean social network site may have been exposed as the result of what has been described as the country's biggest ever hack attack.… |
| Geeks Guide<sub><small>2</small></sub>... iPhone 4 Development Posted: 28 Jul 2011 05:41 AM PDT |
| Posted: 28 Jul 2011 05:28 AM PDT Aural fixationProduct round-up It's time for another headphone roundup and considering we've already covered the bulkier over-ear and on-ear models, it was inevitable that in-ears would follow. After all, not everyone likes walking the streets, turning heads with a pair of oversized Mickey Mousers on.… |
| Naughty JavaScript can be planted in IM status messages Posted: 28 Jul 2011 05:28 AM PDT Technique shown for ICQ as well as SkypeSecurity shortcomings in both ICQ instant messenger for Windows and the ICQ website create a possible mechanism for account hijacking, a security researcher warns.… |
| Ashley Highfield quits Microsoft, becomes <i>Scotsman</i> boss Posted: 28 Jul 2011 05:04 AM PDT Former iPlayer overlord gets £500k helloAshley Highfield is leaving Microsoft following a management restructure at the company.… |
| ICO won't investigate Tory minister Posted: 28 Jul 2011 05:01 AM PDT No-one will investigate his investigatorsTory justice minister Jonathan Djanogly will not be investigated for setting a team of private investigators on his own constituency staff.… |
| Film studios thrash BT in Newzbin site-block test case Posted: 28 Jul 2011 04:30 AM PDT Who comes out of this looking worse?Analysis In a landmark test case, the High Court in the UK has ordered BT to block access to the pirate site Newzbin2. The site makes movies, music and applications available and describes itself as "the Google of Usenet". It's a stunning victory for six major Hollywood film studios who brought the case, with counsel from the Motion Picture Association.… |
| Nintendo cuts cost of 3DS by a third Posted: 28 Jul 2011 04:05 AM PDT Giant game giveaway tooNintendo has confirmed it will slash prices of the 3DS by a third next month and offer current owners 20 free games, so early adopters don't end up feeling shortchanged.… |
| Pwned HBGary boss cancels public debate after legal threats Posted: 28 Jul 2011 04:00 AM PDT Barr barred from no-holds-barred battleEx-HBGary chief exec Aaron Barr has abandoned plans to speak at the DefCon security conference in Vegas next week.… |
| Jupiter spacecraft mounted atop bloody big rocket Posted: 28 Jul 2011 03:46 AM PDT |
| Symantec bubbles up, though services revenue deflates Posted: 28 Jul 2011 03:34 AM PDT 'Threat landscape continues toxic and targeted'. Er, quiteAlthough services revenue was a blot on the earnings landscape, Symantec revenues and profits increased nicely in its first fiscal 2011 quarter.… |
| Three prunes prices of smartphone contracts Posted: 28 Jul 2011 03:20 AM PDT Ends call for upfront chargesThree has encouraged consumers to join the smartphone bandwagon today by slashing prices on five models and removing upfront handset costs.… |
| Revenues down at BT for Q1, share price up Posted: 28 Jul 2011 03:04 AM PDT It sucks to be us, but it really sucks to not be usBT reported a 5 per cent decline in revenues for its first quarter ended 30 June, while pre-tax profit climbed 20 per cent.… |
| Posted: 28 Jul 2011 03:00 AM PDT Say, 'cheese'iOS App of the Week After taking some really rubbish photos at a friend's birthday recently, I decided I needed some sort of timer app for the camera on my iPhone.… |
| ICO probes Tory minister PI blagging allegations Posted: 28 Jul 2011 02:52 AM PDT I needed two things: a drink and a clue. I knew where to find the first...The ICO is making enquiries into Tory justice minister Jonathan Djanogly's hiring a firm of private detectives to blag information from his own constituents.… |
| News leech loses appeal on High Court copyright case Posted: 28 Jul 2011 02:33 AM PDT Attention scrapers: Headlines are copyrightCommercial news parasite Meltwater has lost an appeal in the High Court against the newspaper industry. The company provided a commercial headline-scraping service to clients in PR and marketing agencies. But a landmark judgment in the High Court last November decreed that it would require a licence, ruling that newspaper story headlines were effectively separate literary works.… |
| MPs slam government's 'obscene' IT spend Posted: 28 Jul 2011 02:19 AM PDT Gov pays 7 to 10 times the going rateAn all-party committee of MPs has found that successive governments' over-reliance on big IT companies and poor in-house skills, has led to a "perverse situation" in which governments have wasted "obscene" amounts of public money.… |
| Improving service monitoring with Watermelon metrics Posted: 28 Jul 2011 01:37 AM PDT When green really means redBroadcast Are you measuring your IT services using watermelon metrics? They are green on the outside, but red on the inside.… |
| HP's fondle-slab dilemma: What to do when you're No 2 Posted: 28 Jul 2011 01:23 AM PDT The TouchPad is good – but is being better good enough?Analysis After just one year, the iPad is making more revenue than Apple's 30-year-old personal computer division. It's almost bringing in as much as Dell brings in from PCs. This is a huge business, already. And nobody can quite say what their iPad is good for. If ever a computer was a means to an end, then the iPad is it – rather than doing anything uniquely iPad-ish, it takes lots of "ends" a laptop (or Kindle, or smartphone) gets you to, and just gets you there slightly more conveniently. PCs are going to be around a long time; the iPad will be right there alongside them.… |
| Birmingham council backtracks on moving IT jobs to India Posted: 28 Jul 2011 01:02 AM PDT Sent an email about it, got no answerService Birmingham, the joint venture with Capita that provides services for Birmingham city council, has been asked to abandon plans to offshore IT and other jobs.… |
| Posted: 27 Jul 2011 11:00 PM PDT Drugs, thugs and automobilesReview In theory, The Cartel's contemporary setting is a wise move for the Call of Juarez series. The moderate success of the first two Western-themed games was instantly undone when Red Dead Redemption moseyed into the overlooked genre, rounded up the pretenders and rode them out of town. By relocating to the present day, developer Techland shifts the series away from comparison with Rockstar's inimitable classic. But in doing so, The Cartel strays into the sights of modern Triple-A shooters, and the comparisons are no more favourable.… |
| Cabinet Office government-by-Facebook plans probed Posted: 27 Jul 2011 10:00 PM PDT 'Get the ICO in,' advises 'Recipe for ripoffs' reportMPs have called on the government to work with the Information Commissioner on how to implement the Cabinet Office's personal data proposals, which include the possibility of farming out its ID-handling to third parties such as banks and Facebook.… |
| Feds take closer look at Google plans to buy AdMeld Posted: 27 Jul 2011 05:37 PM PDT Hurry up and waitThe US Department of Justice is taking a closer look at Google's proposed $400 million acquisition of AdMeld, a move that could delay completion of the deal.… |
| eBay shopping lands wild colonial in lock-up Posted: 27 Jul 2011 05:01 PM PDT Was it the potassium nitrate or the anti-personnel mines?A 35-year-old man from the country town of Castlemaine in Victoria has been remanded in custody to face court after spending $AU17,000 on eBay buying bomb-making equipment.… |
| NASA's former CTO launches Nebula cloud controller Posted: 27 Jul 2011 04:26 PM PDT One giant leap for OpenStackAll of the IT vendors who thought they were going to be able to make some money peddling cloudware based on the open source OpenStack cloud controller just got some pretty serious competition.… |
| LiveJournal groans under 'immense' DDos attack Posted: 27 Jul 2011 04:25 PM PDT Service disruptions for past 48 hoursLiveJournal is weathering a massive web attack that has meant service disruptions for people who read and write the more than 16 million journals hosted on the community and blogging service.… |
| 'War texting' hacks car systems and possibly much more Posted: 27 Jul 2011 04:08 PM PDT Remotely start cars, attack SCADA, through GSMSoftware that allows drivers to remotely unlock and start automobiles using cell phones is vulnerable to hacks that allow attackers to do the same thing, sometimes from thousands of miles away, it was widely reported Wednesday.… |
| CA refreshes cloud code in 'cloud choice' suite Posted: 27 Jul 2011 03:51 PM PDT Management, security focusCA Technologies has announced a refresh of a chunk of its cloud-management software, in what it says is an effort designed to help customers manage the confusing and heterogeneous environment that confronts enterprises moving into the cloud.… |
| Optus slices fat from management ranks Posted: 27 Jul 2011 03:45 PM PDT 250 jobs set to goOptus is tightening up its middle and senior management ranks, confirming that it is shedding 250 positions.… |
| Cloud fluffs Citrix numbers in Q2 Posted: 27 Jul 2011 03:33 PM PDT So long PC eraCitrix Systems turned in record-breaking financials in the second quarter.… |
| 'Evil' Aussie hacker 'named', refused bail Posted: 27 Jul 2011 03:28 PM PDT Infrastructure screwed by hacking truckerThe unemployed truck driver allegedly behind some of Australia's most aggressive corporate network hacking attacks in recent months has been refused bail after being charged with 49 counts of accessing restricted data and one count of an unauthorised change of data.… |
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