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- WorldTradeCenter.com on the block
- Dell puffs up OpenStack clouds
- Unemployed truckie charged with NBN provider attack
- Suspects in PayPal web attack not so anonymous after all
- One-third of US consumers will buy an iPhone 5
- Kit steals Mac login passwords through FireWire port
- Note to Apple: Be more like Microsoft
- UK Govt refuses to ban shale gas 'fracking'
- NAB digs in to fight Congressional land grab
- Amazon recruiting for Indian conquest campaign
- Apple MacBook Air 13in Core i5 laptop
- BET24 warns over data breach – 19 months later
- Departing Acer chief Lanci will not go to Samsung
- Legal expert: Letters can be evidence, so can Facebook
- Space scope spies soggy, stupendous Saturnian doughnut
- Hacking scandal starts to spread beyond News Corp
- ARM scooping in cash but remains cautious
- Ex-Microsoft bigwig Bob Muglia joins Juniper Networks
- Phishers go after your Google AdWords account
- Dongling P2P downloaders 2nd-biggest mobe data users
- PC mountain accumulates in Blighty
- Dead bloke reanimates in mortuary
- IT boss jailed for plundering Scottish library
- OS X Lion paves way for "Retina Display" monitors
- Rogue kangaroo floors broom-wielding 94-year-old
- Songwriters bite Grooveshark
- Mozilla moots open source web OS for mobiles
- Ofcom extends deadline for interferers, those who fear them
- Ofcom told to use 4G auctions to complete UK coverage
- Historypin
- Lost 1967 spacecraft FOUND CRASHED ON MOON
- EMC boss Tucci in lucky escape from poverty
- Mystery data centre snag floors LiveJournal
- Utah cops baffled in case of mysterious anonymous cuffee
- Hague promises Foreign Office cyber confab in London
- Why should storage arrays manage server flash?
- HTC Salsa Android smartphone
- Crypto shocker: 'Perfect cipher' dates back to telegraphs
- Sorry, time travelers, you’re still just fiction
| WorldTradeCenter.com on the block Posted: 26 Jul 2011 03:12 PM PDT Domain name sale just weeks before 9/11 anniversaryThe owner of the internet domain name WorldTradeCenter.com is planning to sell it, just weeks before the 10-year anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks.… |
| Dell puffs up OpenStack clouds Posted: 26 Jul 2011 02:34 PM PDT Rackspace providing backstop supportDell has announced an OpenStack-based suite of hardware, software, and services as the core of its new cloud-in-a-box strategy, and released a software tool, appropriately called Crowbar, to help its customers pry their way into their cloudy futures.… |
| Unemployed truckie charged with NBN provider attack Posted: 26 Jul 2011 02:07 PM PDT "Evil" dude faces 50 hack charges, media falls into NBN security-gasmA 25 year old self taught hacker from regional NSW has been arrested by federal police over 50 alleged malicious attacks on Platform Networks, one of NBN Co's trial service providers.… |
| Suspects in PayPal web attack not so anonymous after all Posted: 26 Jul 2011 01:33 PM PDT DDoS as civil disobedienceSome of the suspects accused of participating in a December attack organized by the Anonymous hacker collective that caused numerous service disruptions on PayPal were shocked to learn that the net isn't all that anonymous, or that it's illegal to impair other people's computers.… |
| One-third of US consumers will buy an iPhone 5 Posted: 26 Jul 2011 12:26 PM PDT Touchdown in first week of September?According to a new survey, over one third of US consumers plan to buy an iPhone 5, and a new rumor suggests that they'll only need to wait until the first week of September to assuage their aching desire.… |
| Kit steals Mac login passwords through FireWire port Posted: 26 Jul 2011 11:19 AM PDT OS X vulnerable even when locked, FileVaultedA California software maker has released a program that quickly recovers login passwords from Macs, even when running Apple's completely overhauled OS X Lion, that have been locked, put into sleep mode, or have FileVault disk encryption turned on.… |
| Note to Apple: Be more like Microsoft Posted: 26 Jul 2011 09:57 AM PDT One (astronomically successful) company is not an ecosystemOpen...and Shut Despite challenges from Google Android, the Apple train continues to roar forward at an incredible pace. The Cupertino company smashed analyst estimates in its most recent quarter, with revenue up 82 per cent to $28.57bn and profits up 125 per cent. Apple is minting money.… |
| UK Govt refuses to ban shale gas 'fracking' Posted: 26 Jul 2011 09:20 AM PDT Flaming tapwater risks 'hypothetical and unproven'The UK government has welcomed new developments in "unconventional" gas resources. It is largely a let's-wait-and-see response, which acknowledges the economic, environmental and security benefits of shale gas. Calls from environmentalist campaigners to freeze exploration in the UK have been given the bum's rush.… |
| NAB digs in to fight Congressional land grab Posted: 26 Jul 2011 08:27 AM PDT Pry mah spectrum from m'cold dead fingersThe National Association of Broadcasters is calling upon its members – US television channels – to warn the public that the White House, and Senate, are eyeing up television's most-valuable asset.… |
| Amazon recruiting for Indian conquest campaign Posted: 26 Jul 2011 07:44 AM PDT Can it subdue the subcontinent?Amazon is gearing up to launch an Indian version of its site.… |
| Apple MacBook Air 13in Core i5 laptop Posted: 26 Jul 2011 07:30 AM PDT Pricey, but niftyReview The lightweight, streamlined design of the MacBook Air is undeniably attractive, and still leaves most of its ultraportable PC rivals looking like a chaotic collision metal and plastic. However, that sleek design has always come with something of a premium price – especially given the relatively modest specification of its processor and other components.… |
| BET24 warns over data breach – 19 months later Posted: 26 Jul 2011 06:57 AM PDT Don't look back in anger, begs bookieBET24.com warned customers on Monday that their personal data may have been exposed by a breach that took place in December 2009.… |
| Departing Acer chief Lanci will not go to Samsung Posted: 26 Jul 2011 06:31 AM PDT Rumours not worth the electrons they're printed onTalk of former Acer CEO Gianfranco Lanci joining Samsung to head up its channel business or notebook biz is wide of the mark, The Register understands.… |
| Legal expert: Letters can be evidence, so can Facebook Posted: 26 Jul 2011 06:25 AM PDT As stalksite-using forklift driver finds ...Opinion Private things turn up in court cases. This has always been the case, and there are many people in jail, paying fines or out of a job because of what they have said or done in private.… |
| Space scope spies soggy, stupendous Saturnian doughnut Posted: 26 Jul 2011 05:54 AM PDT Incontinent moon squirts wetly onto ringed giantThe European Space Agency's Herschel Space Observatory has discovered just where the water in Saturn's upper atmosphere comes from: a giant aqueous doughnut surrounding the planet, formed by H2O hosing from the moon Enceladus.… |
| Hacking scandal starts to spread beyond News Corp Posted: 26 Jul 2011 05:19 AM PDT Uneasy faces and sweaty palms all along Fleet StreetTrinity Mirror Group Plc – owner of the Daily Mirror, Daily Record and The People, is opening an internal investigation into ethics and editorial procedures.… |
| ARM scooping in cash but remains cautious Posted: 26 Jul 2011 05:19 AM PDT From iPhone A4 and rivals' Snapdragon to washing machinesARM has outperformed estimates for the second quarter, increasing revenue by 18 per cent as its chips continue to be embedded in everything from mobile phones to washing machines.… |
| Ex-Microsoft bigwig Bob Muglia joins Juniper Networks Posted: 26 Jul 2011 05:01 AM PDT Ballmer's reject - or Ballmer's point man?Erstwhile Microsoft server and tools biz boss Bob Muglia has taken a job at Juniper Networks – a company headed up by Redmond's one-time platforms and services division Kevin Johnson.… |
| Phishers go after your Google AdWords account Posted: 26 Jul 2011 04:43 AM PDT Clone website slurps Chocolate loginsCybercrooks have launched a "Google AdWords" phishing campaign in an attempt to trick marks into handing over sensitive login credentials to a bogus, newly registered, website.… |
| Dongling P2P downloaders 2nd-biggest mobe data users Posted: 26 Jul 2011 04:32 AM PDT Operators seeking to charge by content typeAlmost 90 per cent of operators now charge for data by volume, but billing by content is growing, with free access to social networking and partner sites becoming commonplace.… |
| PC mountain accumulates in Blighty Posted: 26 Jul 2011 04:28 AM PDT Biz-crushing computer avalanches fearedPC vendors' shipments into the UK channel slid by more than a fifth in Q2 as distributors wrestled with high inventory levels, particularly on Acer.… |
| Dead bloke reanimates in mortuary Posted: 26 Jul 2011 04:19 AM PDT Terrified attendants flee ghostly screamingA 50-year-old South African man, whose relatives had prematurely packed him off to the local mortuary, proved very much alive when he woke up screaming, prompting two terrified attendants to take to their heels.… |
| IT boss jailed for plundering Scottish library Posted: 26 Jul 2011 04:02 AM PDT Of money, not booksThe technology boss of the National Library of Scotland has been jailed for two years for embezzling money.… |
| OS X Lion paves way for "Retina Display" monitors Posted: 26 Jul 2011 03:56 AM PDT Jaggies-be-goneMac OS X Lion incorporates support for displays packing four times as many pixels as they do today.… |
| Rogue kangaroo floors broom-wielding 94-year-old Posted: 26 Jul 2011 03:38 AM PDT Berserk marsupial takes on cops, cops a pepperingA 94-year-old Queensland woman came off worst in an encounter with a rogue kangaroo which piled into her in the garden of her Queensland home.… |
| Posted: 26 Jul 2011 03:21 AM PDT Been a load of compromisin' on the road to my horizon ...Partially licensed music site Grooveshark has now been sued by composers, including the author of Rhinestone Cowboy, Mark Weiss, for copyright infringement, CNet reports.… |
| Mozilla moots open source web OS for mobiles Posted: 26 Jul 2011 03:14 AM PDT Chrome for phones?Mozilla has revealed plans to create an open-source web-centric operating system along the lines of Google's Chrome OS but designed to compete with Android on phones and tablets.… |
| Ofcom extends deadline for interferers, those who fear them Posted: 26 Jul 2011 03:02 AM PDT 4G vs granny-alarm deathmatch rumbles onOfcom is extending the deadline for feedback on potential interference from, and to, 4G services ahead of next year's mega auction.… |
| Ofcom told to use 4G auctions to complete UK coverage Posted: 26 Jul 2011 03:01 AM PDT Bring voice if not data to the unconnected, says CCPOfcom should look beyond revenue generation for the government and seek firm commitments to the extension of mobile coverage into today's "not-spots" when it holds the 4G spectrum auctions next year.… |
| Posted: 26 Jul 2011 03:00 AM PDT ...and over there by the gas works used to be the leper colonyAndroid App of the Week If you've ever wondered what your environment looked like in the past, or just like looking at old photographs of places you know, then Historypin is well worth a download.… |
| Lost 1967 spacecraft FOUND CRASHED ON MOON Posted: 26 Jul 2011 02:30 AM PDT Probe wrecked on farside snapped 'the pic of the century'NASA scientists believe they may have found the final resting place of a 1960s space probe which took "the picture of the [last] century" before crashlanding on the far side of the Moon.… |
| EMC boss Tucci in lucky escape from poverty Posted: 26 Jul 2011 02:17 AM PDT $1m here, $1m there, soon you're talking real moneyEMC boss Joe Tucci has managed to escape poverty by the skin of 8.2 million teeth; he has just cashed in his stock options for a cool $8.2m.… |
| Mystery data centre snag floors LiveJournal Posted: 26 Jul 2011 02:05 AM PDT Eyes crossed out, tongue protrudingCommunity and blogging site LiveJournal is continuing to suffer a prolonged outage.… |
| Utah cops baffled in case of mysterious anonymous cuffee Posted: 26 Jul 2011 01:53 AM PDT 'Well-spoken ... just doesn't want to be found'Utah cops are attempting to identify a man who's unnecessarily spent over three weeks in jail on three minor misdemeanor charges because he refuses to reveal his name.… |
| Hague promises Foreign Office cyber confab in London Posted: 26 Jul 2011 01:27 AM PDT Bringing down governments online. Not us, obviouslyForeign Secretary Wee Willie Hague is hosting a cybersecurity conference later this year.… |
| Why should storage arrays manage server flash? Posted: 26 Jul 2011 01:00 AM PDT One butt to kick if it all goes, erm, pear-shapedEMC's Project Lightning has a storage array managing flash cache in servers networked to the storage array. Dell is thinking along similar lines. This is supposed to provide better storage service to the servers. Really? How?… |
| Posted: 25 Jul 2011 11:00 PM PDT Facebook fandangoReview HTC has released two 'Facebook phones' of late – the Qwerty-packing ChaCha and the Salsa, the latter being a compact bundle of fun, which wears its dedicated Facebook button just beneath its screen.… |
| Crypto shocker: 'Perfect cipher' dates back to telegraphs Posted: 25 Jul 2011 10:12 PM PDT 35 years prior to being inventedA computer scientist has unearthed evidence that a theoretically unbreakable form of cryptography was in use by telegraph operators as early as 1882, 35 years before its supposed invention by a duo from Bell Labs and the US Army.… |
| Sorry, time travelers, you’re still just fiction Posted: 25 Jul 2011 07:30 PM PDT If a photon can't outrun light, none of us canTime to start crying in your beer, people: according to researchers at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, not only is it impossible to break the speed of light, it will always be that way.… |
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