FCC's net-neut rules now official |
- FCC's net-neut rules now official
- Amazon settles sales tax spat with Governor Moonbeam
- Experts suggest SSL changes to keep BEAST at bay
- How the Yahoo! homepage predicts your clicks
- Neil Armstrong: US space program 'embarrassing'
- Ingres rebrands as Actian, tackles low-end BI apps
- Xbox Live patrols hit by ugly SWAT attacks
- Display defect may crimp iPhone 5 shipments
- Mac malware uses Windows-style PDF camouflage ruse
- Apple staff in UK told to cancel holiday in early October
- Second Ubuntu Ocelot beta slips in some Xen
- Missing moon rock found among Clinton's knickknacks
- Samsung plots 3G iPhone, iPad bans in the Netherlands
- Wyse does a cloud on the desk for iPad, iPhone
- Tokyo trains get lightsabre handrails
- Laptops en route to Europe by rail for first time
- Bot spanking for social network ranking
- PC games to outsell console software in 2014
- Who owns 4G mobile technology?
- 45% of Android users to upgrade to rival phone OSes
- I saw Facebook's music service 3 years ago. Done properly.
- Red Hat signs giants to anti-VMware open-source project
- Rogue toilet takes out Norfolk server
- F1 2011
- MS denies secure boot will exclude Linux
- Oracle's UK server bellyache continues
- Intel rejects Atom rename claim
- Avast buys Android thiefbuster developer
- Tech City UK quango rearranges Shoreditch
- Microsoft moots mobiles with interchangeable accessories
- Lady Gaga loses squatting complaint
- LaCie releases Thunderbolt HDD, SSD boxes
- OCZ flashes its cache at hard drives
- Lingo iMini DAB/FM iOS pocket tuner
- Designer pitches game arcade laundry
- Samsung-Apple patent lawsuit tally hits 21, and counting
- Oracle looking for $1.16bn, not $2.2bn, in Java patent case
- Brits registering .uk domains mostly get first choice
- Play.com swallowed by Rakuten
- Ofcom asks Arqiva to stick price on 600MHz spectrum
- Boffins play ping-pong with single electron
- Acer Iconia A100 7in Android tablet
- HP: Still choosing the wrong women
- Apple sued for iPhone, iPad chip 'patent rip-off'
- Put your hard drives into the cloud
- Sydney Uni hosts virgin hackathon
- Spanish boffins unwrap anti-magnetic cloak
- Dell, Intel rope Texas-sized 10 petaflopper
- Three more charged in Anonymous hack spree probe
| FCC's net-neut rules now official Posted: 23 Sep 2011 03:13 PM PDT Let the lawsuits beginThe US Federal Communications Commission's open-internet rules have been published by the Federal Register, and they're set to go into effect on November 20 of this year.… |
| Amazon settles sales tax spat with Governor Moonbeam Posted: 23 Sep 2011 02:43 PM PDT etailer drops ballots to get one year tax breakCalifornia governor Jerry Brown and Amazon have settled their long-running dispute over the state's urge to charge the etailer sales tax.… |
| Experts suggest SSL changes to keep BEAST at bay Posted: 23 Sep 2011 02:15 PM PDT Google protected. PayPal? Not so muchWith just a few hours until researchers unveiled an attack they say decrypts sensitive web traffic protected by the ubiquitous secure sockets layer protocol, cryptographers described a simple way website operators can insulate themselves against the exploit.… |
| How the Yahoo! homepage predicts your clicks Posted: 23 Sep 2011 02:00 PM PDT We! Know! You! Want! To! Click! Here!In the summer of 2008, at an artificial intelligence confab deep in Silicon Valley, Yahoo! senior research scientist Deepak Agarwal revealed that the web giant was using automated algorithms to select news stories on its famous front page. These algorithms, he said, had boosted click-through-rates by 25 to 30 per cent, driving millions of additional dollars in ad revenue.… |
| Neil Armstrong: US space program 'embarrassing' Posted: 23 Sep 2011 12:25 PM PDT Aging moonmen denounce NASA, ObamaThe first and last men to walk upon the moon have testified at a Congressional hearing that NASA is a national disgrace.… |
| Ingres rebrands as Actian, tackles low-end BI apps Posted: 23 Sep 2011 12:13 PM PDT Big BI goes boutiqueWith the current brouhaha over Oracle's commercial extensions to MySQL, you might expect the competition to be making a play for disgruntled users. Instead, Ingres – which was previously pursuing such a strategy – has now decided to re-brand itself and focus on lightweight applications.… |
| Xbox Live patrols hit by ugly SWAT attacks Posted: 23 Sep 2011 11:28 AM PDT Spoofed emergency texts draw armed copsHackers trying to cheat the Xbox Live game network have stooped to a new low: sending hoax emergency distress calls to police with the goal of drawing an armed response to the homes of Microsoft employees.… |
| Display defect may crimp iPhone 5 shipments Posted: 23 Sep 2011 09:21 AM PDT EVE Online addicts, take noteThe iPhone 5 rumor mill continues to churn, with today's tidbit being a report that a flaw in Wintek-produced touchscreen displays will put a crimp in shipments of the not-yet-acknowledged Cupertinian superphone.… |
| Mac malware uses Windows-style PDF camouflage ruse Posted: 23 Sep 2011 09:03 AM PDT Pops open fanboi backdoors as they look at Chinese islandMac malware creators are adopting Windows malware camouflage trickery in a bid to trick users into running their malicious creations.… |
| Apple staff in UK told to cancel holiday in early October Posted: 23 Sep 2011 09:02 AM PDT Could be The Fifth Coming of the Jesus PhoneApple staff have been told to cancel all leave for the first two weeks in October – which would appear to confirm industry talk that the arrival of the iPhone 5 is imminent.… |
| Second Ubuntu Ocelot beta slips in some Xen Posted: 23 Sep 2011 08:47 AM PDT KVM is not the only fruitA second, and final, Ubuntu Oneiric Ocelot beta has been served up, favoring portable computing and slipping an old virtualization face back into the pack.… |
| Missing moon rock found among Clinton's knickknacks Posted: 23 Sep 2011 08:25 AM PDT Rare lunar souvenir spent decades gathering dustA missing moon rock has been found gathering dust in a box of Bill Clinton's papers from his time as the governor of Arkansas.… |
| Samsung plots 3G iPhone, iPad bans in the Netherlands Posted: 23 Sep 2011 08:14 AM PDT How d'you like them ApplesSamsung is seeking a sales ban on all 3G iPhones and some iPads in the Netherlands as the South Korean giant's bitter war with Apple rumbles on.… |
| Wyse does a cloud on the desk for iPad, iPhone Posted: 23 Sep 2011 07:58 AM PDT $1/month to fondleslab all your stuff - ahead of iCloudWily Wyse is offering software and a service that turns your desktop computer into a networked storage system for Apple's hand-held gadgets.… |
| Tokyo trains get lightsabre handrails Posted: 23 Sep 2011 07:47 AM PDT Star Wars weapons charm commuters20th Century Fox Home Entertainment Japan is celebrating the latest Star Wars release - the compete saga on Blu-ray Disc - with a funky campaign on Tokyo's train network, turning the handrails on trains into lightsabres.… |
| Laptops en route to Europe by rail for first time Posted: 23 Sep 2011 07:28 AM PDT Silk Road back in bid to avoid seaborne computer glutThe first batch of Acer notebooks sent by rail is set to arrive in Europe in the next two weeks, and the rail-freighting trend may soon be adopted across the PC industry.… |
| Bot spanking for social network ranking Posted: 23 Sep 2011 07:02 AM PDT Blabber tracker exposed as load of old KloutSocial media types who enjoy measuring their "popularity" in the social media arena are in for a shock.… |
| PC games to outsell console software in 2014 Posted: 23 Sep 2011 06:43 AM PDT But not if Sony, MS, Nintendo have any say in the matter...Graphics card manufacturer Nvidia claims that, come 2014, more money will be spent on PC games than on games for consoles.… |
| Who owns 4G mobile technology? Posted: 23 Sep 2011 06:26 AM PDT Patent pie-slice analysis gives LG a gutbuster portionAnalyst Peter Misek has been crawling through piles of patents to guess who owns LTE, with the surprise result that most of it belongs to LG Electronics.… |
| 45% of Android users to upgrade to rival phone OSes Posted: 23 Sep 2011 06:25 AM PDT Apple fans very keen to stick with their favoured brandCall it the fanboy effect, call it the superior user experience the device offers, but research shows that iPhone owners are much more likely to stick with Apple than are folk who've bought handsets from other companies.… |
| I saw Facebook's music service 3 years ago. Done properly. Posted: 23 Sep 2011 05:57 AM PDT Why have engineering values gone AWOL?Three years ago I caught a glimpse of a new social network built around music. You could follow people, chat with them, and enjoy the same music stream in real time. There were many other clever things about it, such as a very slick integration of music news. But the killer feature, one that made it unique, was that you could also drop songs you liked into a little box, and keep permanently. This was genuine P2P file sharing. There were no strings attached - no DRM, no expiry, no locker (your stash was your hard drive) and no additional fees for this feature.… |
| Red Hat signs giants to anti-VMware open-source project Posted: 23 Sep 2011 05:39 AM PDT CoVirt operationsRed Hat is taking on VMware with five enterprise heavyweights through a vendor-neutral virtualisation community project based on its RHEV-M stack.… |
| Rogue toilet takes out Norfolk server Posted: 23 Sep 2011 05:18 AM PDT Crazy crapper's crippling crashThe IT support chaps and chapesses among you doubtless have a few entertaining war stories regarding preposterous causes of system outages, and we'd like to offer you this fine Friday the tale of the cantankerous crapper and the company server.… |
| Posted: 23 Sep 2011 05:00 AM PDT Lap it upReview It's a funny old sport, F1: an ever changing maelstrom of rule adjustments and technology upgrades, ensuring any given season is entirely disparate from the next. Imagine if FIFA suddenly deemed that football's throw-ins were to become kick-ins, before adjusting the rule once more the next.… |
| MS denies secure boot will exclude Linux Posted: 23 Sep 2011 04:53 AM PDT Lock-out security tech can be disabled, if OEMs wantMicrosoft has hit back at concerns that secure boot technology in UEFI firmware could lock out Linux from Windows 8 PCs, saying that consumers will be free to run whatever they want on their PCs.… |
| Oracle's UK server bellyache continues Posted: 23 Sep 2011 04:42 AM PDT Gobbled up something that didn't agree with itOracle's UK server sales continued to slide downwards in the second quarter despite a recovery across the market that was exploited by most of its rivals.… |
| Intel rejects Atom rename claim Posted: 23 Sep 2011 04:27 AM PDT No plan to change the brand, says chip giantIntel has denied a claim that it will change the name of its low-power Atom processor when the next version of the chip, codenamed 'Cedar Trail', ships later this year.… |
| Avast buys Android thiefbuster developer Posted: 23 Sep 2011 04:21 AM PDT Reset-proof tech combats smartphone thievesAntivirus scanner firm Avast has acquired mobile phone theft protection and recovery company ITAgents. Financial terms of the deal, announced on Thursday, were not disclosed.… |
| Tech City UK quango rearranges Shoreditch Posted: 23 Sep 2011 04:01 AM PDT Couldn't find a*se with both hands and their mapSomething odd is happening in East London. Last November David Cameron launched "Tech City UK", a bid to extend the nontrepreneurial hub of Silicon Roundabout into the éléphant blanc of the Olympic zone at Stratford.… |
| Microsoft moots mobiles with interchangeable accessories Posted: 23 Sep 2011 03:43 AM PDT One for allMicrosoft's R&D department has drawn up plans for a slider phone with swappable accessories, a concept previously attempted elsewhere that failed to become a success commercially.… |
| Lady Gaga loses squatting complaint Posted: 23 Sep 2011 03:43 AM PDT Object of adoration will stay upLady Gaga has lost her fight over the domain name LadyGaga.org after an arbitration panel ruled that a punter was well within her rights to use it for a fan site.… |
| LaCie releases Thunderbolt HDD, SSD boxes Posted: 23 Sep 2011 03:41 AM PDT While WD revamps Mac drive lineGood news for Mac users: LaCie has at long last made its Thunderbolt-connected Little Big Disk external hard drive available to buy.… |
| OCZ flashes its cache at hard drives Posted: 23 Sep 2011 03:14 AM PDT SSD has got the write stuffHard disk drives are getting a caching flash wrapper if OCZ has its way. Watch out for this SSD supplier's Synapse caching flasher.… |
| Lingo iMini DAB/FM iOS pocket tuner Posted: 23 Sep 2011 03:00 AM PDT Digital switchoverAccessory of the Week DAB radio: always a contentious topic given its cost and varying fidelity. But a DAB radio accessory for iOS devices and for £55 too? You might as well skip the rest of this waffle and head for the comments now. Go on, you know you want to.… |
| Designer pitches game arcade laundry Posted: 23 Sep 2011 02:41 AM PDT Suds'n'fragsOne bright student has decided to merge his love of videogames with the task of laundry, creating a hybrid machine that puts a new spin on household chores.… |
| Samsung-Apple patent lawsuit tally hits 21, and counting Posted: 23 Sep 2011 02:38 AM PDT WHOLE WORLD to end up locked in the walled orchard?Analysis The legal activity around Android continues to mount, with the chief antagonists - Samsung and Apple - increasing their lawsuit tally to 21. And another may follow soon, as Samsung threatens to sue to block sales of the iPhone 5 as soon as it launches, at least in its home country of Korea.… |
| Oracle looking for $1.16bn, not $2.2bn, in Java patent case Posted: 23 Sep 2011 02:25 AM PDT Stop whining Google, we're not looking for that much moneyOracle is looking for around $1.16bn in damages from Google over the Java patent throwdown, and not the $2.2bn the Chocolate Factory has been whinging about.… |
| Brits registering .uk domains mostly get first choice Posted: 23 Sep 2011 02:01 AM PDT Don't fancy yours muchMost Brits think it's easy to find a .uk address for their websites, but almost half admit to having settled on a domain that was not their first choice, according to a new survey.… |
| Posted: 23 Sep 2011 01:38 AM PDT Zero resistance as Japan invades Channel IslandsOnline DVD and CD seller Play.com has been flogged to Japanese web conglomerate Rakuten for £25m in cash.… |
| Ofcom asks Arqiva to stick price on 600MHz spectrum Posted: 23 Sep 2011 01:26 AM PDT Six new HD Freeview channels up for grabsArqiva, holders of a virtual monopoly on UK broadcast infrastructure, has been asked to provide indicative pricing in case anyone fancies launching some TV channels at 600MHz.… |
| Boffins play ping-pong with single electron Posted: 23 Sep 2011 12:58 AM PDT Sounds more like pinball to us, but they're the boffinsResearchers at Cambridge University have managed to bat an electron back and forth along a wire in a high-tech game of ping-pong that could help out with quantum computing.… |
| Acer Iconia A100 7in Android tablet Posted: 23 Sep 2011 12:00 AM PDT Pocket-sized and throbbing with powerReview Hey, tablet geeks out there, do you remember what you hated most about Samsung's original 7in Galaxy Tab? The grainy display, the glitchy software, the lack of memory, the poorly located buttons that you kept pressing by mistake?… |
| HP: Still choosing the wrong women Posted: 22 Sep 2011 08:58 PM PDT Ann Livermore and the road untraveledThe news that Meg Whitman has taken over the top job at HP has left some in the industry scratching their heads. Sure, she was a reasonably safe pair of hands at eBay (besides splashing out billions on Skype for reasons best known to herself), but as a replacement for Leo Apotheker, she's unlikely to be a success. That's because HP has an identity problem. There's no status quo to manage.… |
| Apple sued for iPhone, iPad chip 'patent rip-off' Posted: 22 Sep 2011 08:52 PM PDT Efficient loading of data? That's ours, says VIAApple has been sued by the Taiwanese fabless semiconductor-design firm VIA Technologies for – what else? – patent infringement.… |
| Put your hard drives into the cloud Posted: 22 Sep 2011 06:00 PM PDT Literally"Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of tapes hurtling down the highway," Andrew Tanenbaum wrote in 1996, when most people used dial-up networks and Australians couldn't yet get ADSL.… |
| Sydney Uni hosts virgin hackathon Posted: 22 Sep 2011 05:30 PM PDT Hacking for good..well at least for doshThe University of Sydney and technical publisher Elsevier are holding the first official competitive hackathon for students and professional software developers.… |
| Spanish boffins unwrap anti-magnetic cloak Posted: 22 Sep 2011 05:03 PM PDT How to hide a magnetNo, I don't mean "non-magnetic": if you wrap a magnet in cotton, you can still detect the magnet outside. "Anti-magnetic" means you can put a magnet inside and not detect it from the outside, and similarly, from the inside, you can't detect outside magnetic fields.… |
| Dell, Intel rope Texas-sized 10 petaflopper Posted: 22 Sep 2011 04:29 PM PDT Xeon E5 and many-core MIC insideIntel has scored its first big win for its Many Integrated Core (MIC) x86 coprocessor, code-named "Knights Corner," in a hybrid supercomputer that will be installed at the Texas Advanced Computing Center at the University of Texas in January 2013.… |
| Three more charged in Anonymous hack spree probe Posted: 22 Sep 2011 04:26 PM PDT Trans-Atlantic sweep continuesFederal prosecutors filed charges against three men accused of carrying out website attacks as part of an extended campaign linked to the Anonymous hacking crew.… |
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