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- Zuckerberg and Google elite hit Google+ privacy button
- Database high priest mud wrestles Facebook
- W3C moves to snuff Apple web patents
- VMware: We will virtualize entire world in six years
- Bangs for bucks: Our lightning tour of cloudonomics
- Google's Facebook: It rocks, but who cares?
- Ballmer's breaking point: Is Windows 8 already too late?
- Cisco gooses switching, virtual I/O for blades
- Netflix splits DVD, streaming offers in 60% price hike
- Bischoff's bargain-basement breakout battle at Acer
- News Corp kills BSkyB bid amid 'difficult climate'
- Many parents are only on Facebook to stalk their kids
- Moto cold shoulders upgrade-hungry Xoom users
- Console gaming giant goes into handjobs
- US court test for rights not to hand over encryption keys
- Sony launches 3D adverts channel for Bravia tellies
- Lexus CT200h hybrid
- China Telecom plans iPhone launch, says report
- Data ownership becomes fuzzy in the cloud
- Beeb flogs <cite>Doctor Who</cite> episodes via Facebook
- vSphere 5 takes on HP with virtual storage appliance
- Triceratops horn find supports meteor extinction theory
- Microsoft kills Windows Vista SP1 support
- LG debuts eye-tracking no-specs 3D screen
- Elton John rouses <i>Atlantis</i> crew - with Rocket Man
- UK smartphone market growth stalls
- Anonymous spaffs Monsanto employees' details
- .XXX to launch nothing-but-smut unsafe search engine
- Coalition renames GCHQ internet spook-tech plans
- German cops hunt HUGE ERECTION-inducing SPIDER
- Google sets up €13m academic legal institute in Berlin
- Microsoft gives glimpse of Windows Server 8
- Western Digital to offer Windows-based small storage
- 'Bluetooth sniper' Windows vuln fix in light Patch Tuesday
- Euro court: eBay etc can be liable in fake tat cases
- Long-lost IT bigwig found in Surrey forest
- Yell and Microsoft ink SMB deal
- Videotree VideoSpa bathroom TV
- Marathon for iPad
- Apple's chief patent lawyer exits, says report
- VMware taxes your virtual memory
- Coke cans used to build sound-wave 'superlens'
- AFACT escalating threats against ISPs: reports
- New NZ copyright law means ISPs could cash in
| Zuckerberg and Google elite hit Google+ privacy button Posted: 13 Jul 2011 02:37 PM PDT Do as we say, not as we doMark Zuckerberg, Google founders Larry Page, Sergey Brin, and a whole raft of Google's top brass have suddenly activated the privacy settings on their Google+ profiles.… |
| Database high priest mud wrestles Facebook Posted: 13 Jul 2011 02:11 PM PDT Rubbishes MySQL. Bitchslaps NoSQLMike Stonebraker is famous for slagging Google's backend. And now he's slagging Facebook's too.… |
| W3C moves to snuff Apple web patents Posted: 13 Jul 2011 11:53 AM PDT Er, Steve. HTML5 is royalty freeThe World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) has launched a bid to overturn two Apple patent filings that may apply to the HTML5 standard.… |
| VMware: We will virtualize entire world in six years Posted: 13 Jul 2011 11:40 AM PDT Deeper and deeper penetrationVMware is unquestionably the bellwether of virtualization on the x64 server platform, particularly within corporate data centers that run companies not in the internet business. And among VMware's customer base, the penetration of virtualization is on the rise.… |
| Bangs for bucks: Our lightning tour of cloudonomics Posted: 13 Jul 2011 11:00 AM PDT How to measure a piece of stringThe important question about moving to the cloud is: am I getting a good deal? It is easy to ask, but if you start to think about it in detail you might fancy a long lie down in a darkened room.… |
| Google's Facebook: It rocks, but who cares? Posted: 13 Jul 2011 10:00 AM PDT Better isn't always betterOpen...and Shut The geek alit are abuzz with the NEXT! NEW! THING! It's called Google Plus (Google+), and my inbox is peppered with notifications that I've been added to so-and-so's Circle. Unfortunately, I'm already connected with many of these people on Facebook. More unfortunately, I've never heard of some of the people that have been adding me.… |
| Ballmer's breaking point: Is Windows 8 already too late? Posted: 13 Jul 2011 09:30 AM PDT Office 365 politicsRadio Reg Steve Ballmer is feeling the heat. Last month, he was so concerned with criticism of his leadership skills, he spilled some Redmond financial results he probably shouldn't have spilled.… This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Cisco gooses switching, virtual I/O for blades Posted: 13 Jul 2011 09:01 AM PDT Servers not yet crossing Sandy BridgeCisco has rolled out upgrades to its "California" Unified Computing System blade servers, but its announcement could have been much more interesting.… |
| Netflix splits DVD, streaming offers in 60% price hike Posted: 13 Jul 2011 07:51 AM PDT Think of it as a discount on a thing you never use!Netflix has announced that they're no longer offering a streaming-plus-DVD service. Instead, you can have either streaming or DVD, but if you want both, you'll have to pay for both.… |
| Bischoff's bargain-basement breakout battle at Acer Posted: 13 Jul 2011 06:59 AM PDT Fujitsu vet wrestles mighty landslide of cheapo boxesTroubled Taiwanese PC maker Acer has enlisted the services of former HP and Fujitsu Siemens exec Bernd Bischoff to advise on a "ground-up restructure" of its EMEA professional business.… |
| News Corp kills BSkyB bid amid 'difficult climate' Posted: 13 Jul 2011 06:50 AM PDT But will besmirched Murdoch try again in 2012?News Corp has withdrawn its bid to acquire the remaining 61 per cent of BSkyB that it didn't already own, following immense political pressure in the House of Commons today.… |
| Many parents are only on Facebook to stalk their kids Posted: 13 Jul 2011 06:46 AM PDT Try to friend offspring without speaking to themA survey has revealed that fully 30 per cent of British parents' Facebook "friend" requests to their children get rejected, and that many then resort to using other people's login details in order to keep track of their offspring's Web-2.0 activities.… |
| Moto cold shoulders upgrade-hungry Xoom users Posted: 13 Jul 2011 06:44 AM PDT No help for Brits stuck with Android 3.0 as Yanks get 3.2Motorola offered no consolation today for the many UK-based owners of its Xoom Wi-Fi-only tablet who feel let down because OS updates made available in the US have not come to this country.… |
| Console gaming giant goes into handjobs Posted: 13 Jul 2011 05:38 AM PDT Electronic Arts buys Bejeweled maker PopCapGame giant Electronic Arts is spending over a billion dollars on phone and iPad gaming company PopCap – the maker of Bejeweled and Plants vs Zombies.… |
| US court test for rights not to hand over encryption keys Posted: 13 Jul 2011 05:15 AM PDT EFF pushing for digital Fifth AmendmentCivil liberties activists have lent their support to a case that will test whether a US citizen can refuse to decrypt personal data on the grounds that it might be self-incriminatory.… |
| Sony launches 3D adverts channel for Bravia tellies Posted: 13 Jul 2011 05:13 AM PDT Are 3D TV owners really so desperate for content?Not to be outdone by Samsung, Sony has rolled out a 3D video-on-demand channel for its Bravia TVs.… |
| Posted: 13 Jul 2011 05:00 AM PDT Too posh to rush?Review Give Toyota its due, it's wringing the maximum amount of value from the Hybrid Synergy Drive power train. The 1.8 VVT-i Atkinson Cycle petrol engine and associated electric motor have already turned up in the Prius and Auris Hybrid, and now you can have them in a posh frock with a Lexus badge on the nose.… |
| China Telecom plans iPhone launch, says report Posted: 13 Jul 2011 04:36 AM PDT Jesus mobe coming to more of the PeopleChina Telecom is reportedly planning to launch Apple's iPhone in the tightly controlled People's Republic by the end of 2011.… |
| Data ownership becomes fuzzy in the cloud Posted: 13 Jul 2011 04:30 AM PDT Stand up for your rightsIf Facebook has taught us nothing else, it is that people can be cavalier about protecting their data.… |
| Beeb flogs <cite>Doctor Who</cite> episodes via Facebook Posted: 13 Jul 2011 04:27 AM PDT Secure browsing has to be disabled to view pay-CybermenBBC Worldwide has begun offering episodes of the Corporation's hugely popular Doctor Who as rental options via Facebook.… |
| vSphere 5 takes on HP with virtual storage appliance Posted: 13 Jul 2011 04:22 AM PDT Now there is more than one VMware-certified offeringEMC's VMware unit is taking on HP with a Virtual Storage Appliance (VSA), building a small and medium business mini-SAN from servers' direct-attached storage.… |
| Triceratops horn find supports meteor extinction theory Posted: 13 Jul 2011 04:19 AM PDT Hell Creek fossil not actually coated in iridium, but ...A team of boffins from Yale University look likely to have uncovered the world's youngest dinosaur and in the process provided support for the Alvarez hypothesis – that the dinosaurs were wiped out as a result of a massive meteor strike some 65 million years ago.… |
| Microsoft kills Windows Vista SP1 support Posted: 13 Jul 2011 03:59 AM PDT Update to proper, working Vista! We call it 'Windows 7'Microsoft is once again trying to bump the 10 per cent market share of people and businesses still lumbered with the company's unloved Windows Vista over to its latest operating system.… |
| LG debuts eye-tracking no-specs 3D screen Posted: 13 Jul 2011 03:58 AM PDT Monitor in 'interesting story' shockMonitor stories are usually zzzzz, but here's an interesting one for a change: a glasses-free 3D screen that tracks your eye movements to ensure, it's claimed, you always see a perfect picture.… |
| Elton John rouses <i>Atlantis</i> crew - with Rocket Man Posted: 13 Jul 2011 03:40 AM PDT 'Nauts toil to empty station bins, unload deliveriesThe crew of space shuttle Atlantis were woken this morning by Elton John's Rocket Man, followed by a personal message from Britain's national musical treasure.… |
| UK smartphone market growth stalls Posted: 13 Jul 2011 03:26 AM PDT Potential upgraders not being persuaded to do soPersuading punters to upgrade from ordinary handsets to smartphone is seen as the next big opportunity for phone makers and network operators. The bad news, according to UK pollster YouGov, is that there's no well marked interest in doing so.… |
| Anonymous spaffs Monsanto employees' details Posted: 13 Jul 2011 03:19 AM PDT Targets Canadian oil sands for 'Tarmageddon', tooAnonymous has latched onto yet another new target with the release of potentially sensitive data from controversial agricultural giant Monsanto.… |
| .XXX to launch nothing-but-smut unsafe search engine Posted: 13 Jul 2011 03:00 AM PDT Hostile porno lords fear dominanceICM Registry, the company behind the forthcoming .xxx domain extension, plans to launch a search engine devoted entirely to porn at search.xxx.… |
| Coalition renames GCHQ internet spook-tech plans Posted: 13 Jul 2011 02:14 AM PDT IMP is dead: Long live the £2bn CCDPHome Secretary Theresa May said the Labour government's Interception Modernisation Programme (IMP) is coming back to life.… |
| German cops hunt HUGE ERECTION-inducing SPIDER Posted: 13 Jul 2011 02:03 AM PDT 13cm Brazilian arachnid leaves victims panting, priapicA supermarket in the German town of Bexbach was evacuated last Friday after an employee spotted a potentially-deadly Brazilian spider legging it from a crate of bananas.… |
| Google sets up €13m academic legal institute in Berlin Posted: 13 Jul 2011 02:00 AM PDT Euro law must 'catch up' with using other people's stuffGoogle will fund a research centre at Humboldt University in Berlin, which from October will examine the evolution of the internet and its impact on society, science and economy.… |
| Microsoft gives glimpse of Windows Server 8 Posted: 13 Jul 2011 01:39 AM PDT Forget vSphere, feel our Hyper-V loveWPC 2011 Microsoft has given a peek into Windows 8 Server, the successor to Windows Server 2008 R2 and companion to the tablet-tastic Windows 8 client.… |
| Western Digital to offer Windows-based small storage Posted: 13 Jul 2011 01:30 AM PDT Wants a piece of that Soho pie action ... mmmSOHO, SOHO, it's off to work we go... Western Digital is using Windows Storage Server to build a small office storage offering.… |
| 'Bluetooth sniper' Windows vuln fix in light Patch Tuesday Posted: 13 Jul 2011 01:27 AM PDT Unpatched machines can be crashed wirelesslyMicrosoft's latest patch Tuesday landed last night with four bulletins, the most significant of which fixes a Bluetooth-related vulnerability in Windows 7 and Windows Vista.… |
| Euro court: eBay etc can be liable in fake tat cases Posted: 13 Jul 2011 01:15 AM PDT Online marts to cop it if they take 'active role'EBay and other online marketplaces will be liable for sellers' trademark infringements if they promote infringing sales or help sellers to "optimise" their pages, the European Court of Justice (ECJ) has ruled.… |
| Long-lost IT bigwig found in Surrey forest Posted: 13 Jul 2011 01:00 AM PDT 'Great way of positioning capital' says Tarzan of the ChannelDimension Data's former long serving EMEA CEO Russell Bolan has ditched the corporate lifestyle to hang out in the woods.… |
| Yell and Microsoft ink SMB deal Posted: 13 Jul 2011 12:30 AM PDT Doesn't matter that Yell previously sold itself to GoogleYell and Microsoft have signed a "broad strategic alliance" aimed at small and medium businesses.… |
| Videotree VideoSpa bathroom TV Posted: 12 Jul 2011 11:00 PM PDT Spray and displayReview Forget 3D TV and Internet-connected sets, de rigueur this season is a waterproof TV for your bathroom. Admittedly, the Videospa is primarily intended for posh hotels and overly moist gyms, but developer Videotree is also making a bit of a push into what it refers to as 'innovative designer residential homes'.… |
| Posted: 12 Jul 2011 11:00 PM PDT 'Frog blast the vent core!'iGamer To hear PC gamers talk about how first-person shooters don't work on consoles because the machines don't have mice, you'd think that's how it always was.… |
| Apple's chief patent lawyer exits, says report Posted: 12 Jul 2011 09:25 PM PDT A Chip for a BJApple's top patent lawyer will soon exit the Cupertinian mothership, according to reports. As is usual with such high-profile departures, the question arises: did he jump, or was he pushed?… |
| VMware taxes your virtual memory Posted: 12 Jul 2011 09:11 PM PDT The hidden cost of vSphere 5Analysis The rumored feeds and speeds of the latest ESXi 5.0 hypervisor at the heart of VMware's just-announced vSphere 5.0 server virtualization stack were pretty much on target and something that customers will applaud.… |
| Coke cans used to build sound-wave 'superlens' Posted: 12 Jul 2011 06:00 PM PDT French boffins in tinny acoustic focus triumphFocused sound waves aren't just the domain of children fooling around with long-distance microphones. They're also important in ultrasound machines, and in biomedical laboratories, for "acoustic actuators" using sound to sort cells.… |
| AFACT escalating threats against ISPs: reports Posted: 12 Jul 2011 05:01 PM PDT Talk loudly and carry a bigger stickAustralia's "copyright versus the Internet" battle, which had become quiet as rights-holders prepared their High Court appeal against the iiNet trial decision, has flared in fine style, with rights-holders' rep the Australian Federation Against Copyright Theft (AFACT) escalating its threats against Internet service providers.… |
| New NZ copyright law means ISPs could cash in Posted: 12 Jul 2011 04:00 PM PDT Illegal downloaders on your network? Charge the content ownersNew Zealand ISPs could have a tidy new revenue stream courtesy of their illegal downloading customers as new copyright laws take effect in September.… |
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