Cloud Sherpas follow acquisition trail to Sydney |
- Cloud Sherpas follow acquisition trail to Sydney
- iOS, Mac, Android users still vulnerable to bogus certs
- Sprint joins US feds in anti-AT&T lawsuit
- Torvalds dumps Kernel.org for Github after breach
- Cisco accused of tailoring tech to aid Chinese abuses
- NSA open sources Google database mimic
- NASA releases stunning new moon-landing snaps
- Memo to kid coders: Enterprise software exists
- 'Satnavs are definitely not doomed', insists TomTom man
- Virgin Media to beef up mobile-data backhaul
- Painters wrap Forth Bridge job after 121 years
- Inside 'Operation Black Tulip': DigiNotar hack analysed
- Everyone knew <i>NoTW</i> 'rogue reporter' bit was untrue
- Battered Sony hires cyber-security chief
- Judge may order Page and Ellison into mediation
- Toshiba in Rugby World Cup personal data compo cockup
- Bodycount
- Nokia offers $10,000 for new ring tone
- New NASA site offers solar system and time travel
- Claimed DigiNotar hacker: I have access to four more CAs
- Dell chums up with Baidu for China smartphone charge
- AndyPad Pro low-cost Android tablet now on sale
- 'Poems are the original text messages,' says Laureate
- Dixons drops Motorola Xoom price... again
- No pain, some gain: Ubuntu Oneiric Ocelot examined
- SETI alien hunters re-open search for volunteer coders
- French bloke fined for failing to shag missus
- Hologram Live
- Ofcom misses deadline: but on Sitefinder, not 4G
- Ancient crater lake evidence found on Mars
- Notebook makers cautious about Ultrabooks
- Jesus appears, acquires vast following, bitchslaps Justin Bieber
- Freeview HD will deliver new IPTV channels this month
- Children's body busted for email, file cabinet blunders
- Gov removes 'general appeal' rights for accused freetards
- Jeff Bezos' spaceship self-destructs in test flight
- LaCie CloudBox storage combo
- NBN Co awards $879m in network rollout deals
- Single-molecule 'motor' measures just a nanometer
- Oz bookseller fires back in online battle
| Cloud Sherpas follow acquisition trail to Sydney Posted: 06 Sep 2011 02:39 PM PDT Buy up local Google app shop DevnetCloud based Google apps service provider Cloud Sherpas has herded up Australian Google app reseller Devnet and will setting up shop in Sydney.… |
| iOS, Mac, Android users still vulnerable to bogus certs Posted: 06 Sep 2011 01:29 PM PDT Apple and Google inaction in wake of DigiNotar breachEight days after the discovery that a fraudulently issued web credential actively targeted Iranians as they accessed their Gmail accounts, millions of people who rely on Google and Apple products remain vulnerable to similar attacks.… |
| Sprint joins US feds in anti-AT&T lawsuit Posted: 06 Sep 2011 12:58 PM PDT Lobbyists and politicos rake in Big Phone millionsHot on the heels of the US Department of Justice's lawsuit to block the proposed merger of AT&T and T-Mobile, Sprint Nextel has filed its own legal challenge to derail the deal.… |
| Torvalds dumps Kernel.org for Github after breach Posted: 06 Sep 2011 11:56 AM PDT Linux 3.1 finds temporary homeLinus Torvalds has released the most current build of Linux 3.1 via Github, rather than use kernel.org, which is still experiencing downtime.… |
| Cisco accused of tailoring tech to aid Chinese abuses Posted: 06 Sep 2011 11:09 AM PDT Falun Gong content easy to spot, marketers boastA group accusing Cisco Systems of helping the Chinese government commit human rights abuses against Falun Gong members said it has presented new evidence that the networking giant customized its technology to spy on people tied to the outlawed religious organization.… |
| NSA open sources Google database mimic Posted: 06 Sep 2011 11:08 AM PDT Crypto masters incubate Son of BigTableThe US National Security Agency is open sourcing a distributed "NoSQL" database based on Google's proprietary BigTable platform.… |
| NASA releases stunning new moon-landing snaps Posted: 06 Sep 2011 11:03 AM PDT No, not taken at a secret Hollywood film studioNASA has released a series of photos of Apollo moon-landing sites that are dramatically improved over previous photos taken as recently as 2009.… |
| Memo to kid coders: Enterprise software exists Posted: 06 Sep 2011 09:28 AM PDT There's more to life than Google adsOpen...and Shut If you live or spend time in Silicon Valley, it's easy to forget that enterprise software exists, or that it still drives $245 billion in annual revenue, according to Gartner.… |
| 'Satnavs are definitely not doomed', insists TomTom man Posted: 06 Sep 2011 08:28 AM PDT No grim future of joblessness for me!IFA With satnav companies announcing revamped apps all over IFA Berlin, you'd be forgiven for thinking that moving onto smartphones and tablets was the game plan for a market that has seen sales plummet in the last few years.… |
| Virgin Media to beef up mobile-data backhaul Posted: 06 Sep 2011 07:48 AM PDT Three, Orange, T-Mobile ink £100m deal for extra gruntThree, T-Mobile and Orange customers will find it quicker to use the internet on their phones thanks to a new deal between the operators and Virgin Media Business. But the effects may take a couple of years to kick in.… |
| Painters wrap Forth Bridge job after 121 years Posted: 06 Sep 2011 07:26 AM PDT English language mourns loss of famous phraseThe English language is preparing to mourn the loss of one of its most agreeable similes as painters finally apply the last lick of paint to the Forth Bridge.… |
| Inside 'Operation Black Tulip': DigiNotar hack analysed Posted: 06 Sep 2011 07:01 AM PDT CA systems falsely told Iranians they were secureThe Google webmail of as many as 300,000 Iranians may have been intercepted using fraudulently issued security certificates made after a hack against Dutch certificate authority outfit DigiNotar, according to the preliminary findings of an official report into the megahack.… |
| Everyone knew <i>NoTW</i> 'rogue reporter' bit was untrue Posted: 06 Sep 2011 06:46 AM PDT Including the police, says former tabloid lawyerJames Murdoch was made aware in 2008 that alleged phone-hacking practices at the News of the World went beyond "one rogue reporter", the former legal manager of News Group Newspapers claimed to MPs today.… |
| Battered Sony hires cyber-security chief Posted: 06 Sep 2011 06:29 AM PDT Late of US Homeland Security, Defense and MicrosoftSony is beefing up its security staff after the devastating hacking attack in April that crippled the Playstation Network for 23 days and led to the potential exposure of millions of users' account information.… |
| Judge may order Page and Ellison into mediation Posted: 06 Sep 2011 05:57 AM PDT Battle of the Two Larrys could go face to faceLarry Ellison and Larry Page could be forced into mediation to negotiate a settlement in Oracle's multi-billion-dollar claim that Google's Android tramples Java patents it owns.… |
| Toshiba in Rugby World Cup personal data compo cockup Posted: 06 Sep 2011 05:19 AM PDT Muddied oafs fail to defend open ID goalToshiba has made something of a ruck-up in a Rugby World Cup competition, exposing customer details in the process.… |
| Posted: 06 Sep 2011 05:00 AM PDT Esprit de corpseReview In the ever deepening reservoir that is the FPS genre, most games ultimately fall into one of two categories. There are those which encourage thought, exploration, tactical nous, micro-management of resources and, of course, a good shot. We're talking the likes of Deus Ex: Human Revolution, Half-Life 2, BioShock and even Modern Warfare to an extent.… |
| Nokia offers $10,000 for new ring tone Posted: 06 Sep 2011 04:59 AM PDT Must evoke chaos, despair, impending doomNokia is looking for a new ring tone, and offering $10,000 to anyone who can come up with something the next Dom Joly can use to annoy people.… |
| New NASA site offers solar system and time travel Posted: 06 Sep 2011 04:50 AM PDT Mission data from 1950 to 2050 for your viewingNASA is making many a child's dream come true by letting the public take a trip through the solar system – and you don't even have to leave your living room.… |
| Claimed DigiNotar hacker: I have access to four more CAs Posted: 06 Sep 2011 04:26 AM PDT Iranian 'Comodohacker' says he can still issue bogus certsThe digital miscreant known as ComodoHacker has claimed responsibility for the high-profile DigiNotar digital certificate authority hack.… |
| Dell chums up with Baidu for China smartphone charge Posted: 06 Sep 2011 04:13 AM PDT Reckons 200 million registered users can't be wrongDell is partnering with China's Baidu on smartphones and tablets as its fortunes start to flag in Western markets.… |
| AndyPad Pro low-cost Android tablet now on sale Posted: 06 Sep 2011 04:09 AM PDT Cheap and cheerfulThe AndyPad Pro - highlighted as a Recommened purchase in Reg Hardware's recent Ten… Budget Android Tablets round-up - has now gone on sale.… |
| 'Poems are the original text messages,' says Laureate Posted: 06 Sep 2011 03:58 AM PDT An old pond / A 8) jumps n / PlopPoet Laureate Carol Ann Duffy wants to bring literature to new audiences, and she argues that children who use test messaging and social networks were honing their poetry skills.… |
| Dixons drops Motorola Xoom price... again Posted: 06 Sep 2011 03:49 AM PDT Retailer blinks first, before puntersDixons has knocked the price of the 32GB Motorola Xoom tablet to £329 - not at all bad when you consider the fondleslab was priced at £500 at launch.… |
| No pain, some gain: Ubuntu Oneiric Ocelot examined Posted: 06 Sep 2011 03:44 AM PDT Love it or leave it, Unity is hereReview Ubuntu 11.10, just released as its first beta differs only slightly in its looks from its 11.04 predecessor – a fact that will be welcome news to penguins still reeling from that earlier version's grand re-boot.… |
| SETI alien hunters re-open search for volunteer coders Posted: 06 Sep 2011 03:27 AM PDT Help wanted dealing with radio-telescope dataThe project hunting for intelligent life elsewhere in the universe is continuing its recruitment of citizen scientists despite the loss of one its key architects.… |
| French bloke fined for failing to shag missus Posted: 06 Sep 2011 03:13 AM PDT 'Not tonight, Josephine'A Frenchman has been ordered to pay his former wife €10,000 for failing to fulfil his marital duties in the bedroom department, the Telegraph reports.… |
| Posted: 06 Sep 2011 03:00 AM PDT Liquid wallpaperAndroid App of the Week Android's live wallpapers offer the kind of personalisation that iOS users can only dream about in their most fevered imaginings but I'm still not a fan because they don't do your battery any favours and more often than not they make it difficult to see what else is on your screen.… |
| Ofcom misses deadline: but on Sitefinder, not 4G Posted: 06 Sep 2011 02:57 AM PDT Not saying it won't go two for two, mindOfcom hasn't slipped the dates on the UK's 4G auctions, at least not yet, but that's not stopped various media titles reporting that things are already going awry.… |
| Ancient crater lake evidence found on Mars Posted: 06 Sep 2011 02:39 AM PDT Dusty bowl once filled with water, probe images showA satellite from the European Space Agency (ESA) has photographed the meandering channels of a dried-out river on the surface of Mars.… |
| Notebook makers cautious about Ultrabooks Posted: 06 Sep 2011 02:19 AM PDT Initial production runs limited, moles claimNotebook makers are playing it cautious with Ultrabooks, it seems, limiting shipments to 50,000 or less as the gauge demand through the remainder of 2011.… |
| Jesus appears, acquires vast following, bitchslaps Justin Bieber Posted: 06 Sep 2011 02:19 AM PDT On Facebook as it is in heavenA page created on Facebook called 'Jesus Daily' is proving very popular among people interested in a little heavenly intervention during their social network fix.… |
| Freeview HD will deliver new IPTV channels this month Posted: 06 Sep 2011 01:58 AM PDT Mysteries of the >100 data channels revealedExclusive Dozens of new television channels are coming to Freeview this month, thanks to clever use of the MHEG standard and the connectivity already built into every Freeview HD box.… |
| Children's body busted for email, file cabinet blunders Posted: 06 Sep 2011 01:27 AM PDT Staff forced to attend compulsory ICO workshopsThe Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) has found that the organisation which investigates the care of Scotland's most vulnerable children had twice failed to protect sensitive child welfare information.… |
| Gov removes 'general appeal' rights for accused freetards Posted: 06 Sep 2011 12:57 AM PDT Three letters in a year gets you on the Black ListThe government has asked Ofcom to avoid giving alleged copyright infringers a general right of appeal against warning letters they may receive about their online activity in new regulations due out shortly, the telecoms regulator has said.… |
| Jeff Bezos' spaceship self-destructs in test flight Posted: 06 Sep 2011 12:02 AM PDT Amazon kingpin's pocket rocket splatters across TexasWould-be spaceman Jeff Bezos' prototype private rocket has crashed and burned after sputtering out during its test flight.… |
| Posted: 05 Sep 2011 11:00 PM PDT In here and out thereReview It's quite common for hard disk drives to also include an element of on-line backup these days. But even if you buy a big hard disk with 1TB or more of internal storage, the free on-line storage component tends to only be a few gigabytes – it's really just a taster to try and get you to sign up for a subscription service that provides additional on-line storage.… |
| NBN Co awards $879m in network rollout deals Posted: 05 Sep 2011 06:47 PM PDT Transfield and Lend Lease rocking Victoria and WALend Lease and Transfield Services have secured coveted NBN Co fibre rollout contracts for Victoria and Western Australia worth collectively up to $AU879 million.… |
| Single-molecule 'motor' measures just a nanometer Posted: 05 Sep 2011 05:30 PM PDT Don't drop this on the floorIt's not the first single-molecule nano-motor, but it's the first one to be driven by electricity: a Tufts research team has demonstrated that you can "provide electricity to a single molecule and get it to do something that's not just random" (as team leader Charles Sykes put it).… |
| Oz bookseller fires back in online battle Posted: 05 Sep 2011 04:30 PM PDT Amazon in Dymocks' crosshairsAustralian bookseller Dymocks, practically the "last man standing" as the combination of online competition, inept management and a rising currency decimates the local publishing industry, is firing back with what it calls an "end to end" online service for local authors.… |
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