NASA: 'Asteroid armageddon less likely than we feared' |
- NASA: 'Asteroid armageddon less likely than we feared'
- Microsoft, IBM tussle for tech value runner-up
- Amazon's Kindle Fire being sold at a loss
- Pandemonium as Microsoft AV nukes Chrome browser
- Samsung offers Apple TOP-SECRET peace deal in Australia
- Android's scariest nightmare: resurgently sexy Microsoft
- Final insult for Full Tilt as Channel Islands kill its licence
- <strong>[<abbr title="Not Safe For Work">NSFW</abbr>]</strong> Bo Peep insures jubs for $1m
- Provider: Anti-piracy ruling has 'killed Usenet'
- Microsoft takes the Android profit, the Wonkas take the pain
- Kinect 'augments' Bulgarian airbags
- Nokia punts cheapo NFC dev kit
- Life-size Lego assault rifle really works
- Electric plane-flinger for US and Royal navies doing well
- 500 jobs threatened as Virgin Media shutters Liverpool call centre
- MS names Nokia WinPho models in compo blunder
- Huawei inks distie deals in enterprise push
- Apple turns the screws on reseller channel
- Nominet suspends fake pharma domains
- Quattrone blasts Ellison, says Autonomy is right
- Telcos cough mobe tracking habits
- Beer bottle shagging beetles with HUGE MEMBERS win prize
- Human 'alarm clock' enzyme discovered
- Fifa 12 kicks off with £2 HMV deal
- Mighty trash-bag balloon cluster soars above Nevada
- Samsung shows second second-gen 7in Galaxy Tab
- Mobes to slurp messages, links over NFC
- Feds probe triggers Chinese tech stock tumble
- Air traffic control data found on eBayed network gear
- Ico & Shadow of the Colossus Collection
- Facebook spurns privacy probe as 'routine audit'
- Don't bother with that degree, say IT pros
- Maguro+ zombie resurrected as Oracle beast
- Prang finder site reveals accident blackspots
- GNOME emits 'head up the arse' desktop update
- Logitech AV Stand
- Computer sim explains why hippies became extinct
- Fire burns away the Kindle dream of interactivity
- 007's car outdrives iPhone in battle of the brands
- Netscape founder's web BI investment targets IPO float
- We7 morphs from jukebox into a radio station
- Bank emails punters asking for their, er, email address
- Euro beaks mull copyright of software features
- Toshiba Regza 47VL863 passive 3D TV
- Qualys endorses alternative to crappy SSL system
| NASA: 'Asteroid armageddon less likely than we feared' Posted: 30 Sep 2011 02:28 PM PDT But what to do if one drops in to say goodbye?First the good news: there are fewer Earth-threatening asteroids than previously thought. The bad news: there are still plenty of dinosaur extinction–sized globe crushers out there, awaiting their turn.… |
| Microsoft, IBM tussle for tech value runner-up Posted: 30 Sep 2011 12:21 PM PDT Steve Jobs suppresses chuckleIBM appears on the verge of passing Microsoft in market capitalization for the first time in 15 years, as the two duke it out for the number-two tech company slot, behind Apple.… |
| Amazon's Kindle Fire being sold at a loss Posted: 30 Sep 2011 11:31 AM PDT When losing money makes good business senseAt $199, Amazon may be selling its new Kindle Fire at a loss, emulating King Gillette's marketing brainstorm: sell razors dirt cheap and make money on the blades.… |
| Pandemonium as Microsoft AV nukes Chrome browser Posted: 30 Sep 2011 10:24 AM PDT 'Pleasepleaseplease someone come up with a solution to this!'Users of Google's Chrome browser are in an uproar after antivirus software from Microsoft classified it as virulent piece of malware that should be deleted immediately.… |
| Samsung offers Apple TOP-SECRET peace deal in Australia Posted: 30 Sep 2011 09:56 AM PDT Korean firm wants to end patent dispute Down UnderSamsung has held out the olive branch to Apple to end their patent dispute in Australia, a Sydney court was told today.… |
| Android's scariest nightmare: resurgently sexy Microsoft Posted: 30 Sep 2011 09:38 AM PDT Will Redmond's new tarts out-seduce Google's frump?Open...and Shut Microsoft, lost in the mobile woods for so long, may have finally found a way back.… |
| Final insult for Full Tilt as Channel Islands kill its licence Posted: 30 Sep 2011 09:27 AM PDT Poker site in Ponzi scheme probeThe Channel Islands have revoked the gambling licence of Full Tilt Poker, the online gambling firm US prosecutors have accused of being a global Ponzi scheme.… |
| <strong>[<abbr title="Not Safe For Work">NSFW</abbr>]</strong> Bo Peep insures jubs for $1m Posted: 30 Sep 2011 09:03 AM PDT 'I thought I'd cover my assets', quips US burlesque starNSFW Holly Madison, the US "reality TV star and model", has insured her D-cup jubs for $1m, lest they suffer a mishap during her Las Vegas extravaganza Peepshow.… |
| Provider: Anti-piracy ruling has 'killed Usenet' Posted: 30 Sep 2011 08:43 AM PDT 'Impossible to check the contents of 15 to 20 million messages a day'Europe's biggest Usenet provider News-Service Europe (NSE) says anti-piracy organisation BREIN has "killed Usenet". The Dutch organisation this week lost a landmark case in which it was ordered to remove all pirated content or risk fine of €50,000 per day.… |
| Microsoft takes the Android profit, the Wonkas take the pain Posted: 30 Sep 2011 08:26 AM PDT What price a Google Zeitgeist invite now?Google's troubles with Android aren't just financial. They're actually much, much worse than that, which all seriously throws the company's golden reputation for perspicacity into doubt. Why buy into Google's vision of the future when its own estimation of the present is so deeply flawed?… |
| Kinect 'augments' Bulgarian airbags Posted: 30 Sep 2011 08:13 AM PDT Virtual chesticle enhancer looks swellA Japanese developer has augmented what is, arguably, the only thing worth augmenting: virtual breast enhancements with real physics, courtesy of Microsoft Kinect.… |
| Nokia punts cheapo NFC dev kit Posted: 30 Sep 2011 07:57 AM PDT Pretend you love Symbian and score a cheap C7Desperate to spur interest in Near Field Communications, Nokia is flogging an NFC development kit with a C7 and two dozen tags for €180, or about half the cost of a C7.… |
| Life-size Lego assault rifle really works Posted: 30 Sep 2011 07:40 AM PDT Brickin' it?We've seen all sorts of gadgets built from Lego and this wouldn't be the first piece of artillery either. However, this life-sized Gears of War assault rifle replica is far too impressive to ignore.… |
| Electric plane-flinger for US and Royal navies doing well Posted: 30 Sep 2011 07:27 AM PDT New tech which will bring back UK carriers is on trackThe electromagnetic mass-driver catapults that will equip the next generation of aircraft carriers in the British and US navies are doing well in tests. This is important to both services, as their next carriers will be effectively useless without the new technology.… |
| 500 jobs threatened as Virgin Media shutters Liverpool call centre Posted: 30 Sep 2011 07:26 AM PDT 'Excellence' sought in SwanseaVirgin Media is closing its outsourced call centre in Albert Dock, Liverpool, and "consolidating" its operations by shifting to an existing site in Swansea.… |
| MS names Nokia WinPho models in compo blunder Posted: 30 Sep 2011 07:02 AM PDT Sabre and Sea Ray slip outMicrosoft has inadvertently leaked the names of forthcoming Nokia Windows Phone handsets by including them in the terms and conditions of a competition.… |
| Huawei inks distie deals in enterprise push Posted: 30 Sep 2011 07:01 AM PDT Micro P confirmed, TD Azlan expectedHuawei has inked a distie deal with Micro P in the UK and is understood to have inked a deal with TD Azlan across Europe as it steps up efforts to give rivals a bloody nose in the enterprise space.… |
| Apple turns the screws on reseller channel Posted: 30 Sep 2011 06:35 AM PDT Halves early settlement discounts to 0.5% in miserly boom-time moveChannel bully boy Apple is halving the early settlement discount for resellers across Europe in a phased rollout.… |
| Nominet suspends fake pharma domains Posted: 30 Sep 2011 06:33 AM PDT Global pill crackdown pops 13,000 sitesNominet, the .uk address registry, has suspended hundreds of internet domain names as part of a global police crackdown on crime gangs peddling fake pharmaceuticals.… |
| Quattrone blasts Ellison, says Autonomy is right Posted: 30 Sep 2011 05:58 AM PDT The Whopper Wars - what's Ellison's game here?Comment Investment banker Frank Quattrone has said Autonomy's Mike Lynch is right and Oracle is wrong: Mike Lynch did not shop Autonomy to Oracle - he did.… |
| Telcos cough mobe tracking habits Posted: 30 Sep 2011 05:44 AM PDT AT&T knows where you were last summer and the summer beforeThe American Civil Liberties Union has compiled 381 information requests to establish who is slurping information from phone networks and what they're finding out.… |
| Beer bottle shagging beetles with HUGE MEMBERS win prize Posted: 30 Sep 2011 05:28 AM PDT Boffins scoop Ig Nobel by stalking horny insectsAussie beetles who mistake the brown bobbly bit round the rim of beer bottles for an alluring female have landed two entomologists this year's Ig Nobel prize for biology.… |
| Human 'alarm clock' enzyme discovered Posted: 30 Sep 2011 05:09 AM PDT Boffins isolate molecular wake-up callWhen your alarm clock doesn't go off, you can thank a humble enzyme for getting you out of bed, scientists at the Salk Institute reveal in research published today.… |
| Fifa 12 kicks off with £2 HMV deal Posted: 30 Sep 2011 04:53 AM PDT Save a lot, that's the goalWith this season of the FA Premier League long underway, the annual refresh of football-related videogames is now upon us. EA returns today with its kick-about Fifa 12, which can be picked up for a generous £1.99 at HMV.… |
| Mighty trash-bag balloon cluster soars above Nevada Posted: 30 Sep 2011 04:49 AM PDT High school student gets airborne for just $50It's a tip of the hat this morning to Las Vegas high school student Manuja Gunaratne, who for just $50 managed to launch a helium balloon mission and return some impressive snaps of Nevada.… |
| Samsung shows second second-gen 7in Galaxy Tab Posted: 30 Sep 2011 04:46 AM PDT More Apple lawyer fodder?Here's another one for Apple's lawyers to sink their teeth into: the Samsung Galaxy Tab 7.0 Plus.… |
| Mobes to slurp messages, links over NFC Posted: 30 Sep 2011 04:38 AM PDT Optional mailbox feature added to specsNFC devices are to get an optional open mailbox into which messages and requests can be dropped by other NFC devices, hopefully leading to cross-platform P2P applications.… |
| Feds probe triggers Chinese tech stock tumble Posted: 30 Sep 2011 04:27 AM PDT DOJ joins SEC and FBI in irregularities inquiryChinese tech companies' stock has been sliding on the NASDAQ today, after a report that the US Department of Justice (DOJ) is investigating accounting irregularities at US-listed Chinese firms.… |
| Air traffic control data found on eBayed network gear Posted: 30 Sep 2011 04:14 AM PDT NATS passwords and info left on £20 switchA switch with networking configurations and passwords for the UK traffic control centre was offered for sale on eBay, raising serious security concerns.… |
| Ico & Shadow of the Colossus Collection Posted: 30 Sep 2011 04:08 AM PDT Bossin' in HDReview Can games be ahead of their time? I've heard it said of musicians, film directors, even comedians but rarely attributed to any person, or any particular release, within the games industry. Perhaps it's time we started? Take Ico, for example, originally released for PS2 in Europe in 2001 to critical praise but scant commercial success.… |
| Facebook spurns privacy probe as 'routine audit' Posted: 30 Sep 2011 04:01 AM PDT More of a gentle poke than an outright digFacebook's international headquarters are in Dublin, Ireland, where the company just so happens to face a regulatory probe into the handling of personal data on the social network.… |
| Don't bother with that degree, say IT pros Posted: 30 Sep 2011 03:52 AM PDT Bedroom coders just as skilled as graduatesLearning to code in your bedroom will prepare you for the IT job market just as well as a three-year degree costing £27,000, professionals said in a survey published today by CWJobs.co.uk.… |
| Maguro+ zombie resurrected as Oracle beast Posted: 30 Sep 2011 03:44 AM PDT Database server gets freaky fans and flapsThe genesis of Oracle's mini-Exadata – its new Database Appliance – was quite involved.… |
| Prang finder site reveals accident blackspots Posted: 30 Sep 2011 03:27 AM PDT Road crash map from gobbled UK gov dataWeb coders have plotted a map of UK road crashes using data pulled via the Department of Transport's API.… |
| GNOME emits 'head up the arse' desktop update Posted: 30 Sep 2011 03:16 AM PDT All your online accounts are belong to OSThe GNOME Project has updated its desktop barely six months after the controversial introduction of version 3.0.… |
| Posted: 30 Sep 2011 03:00 AM PDT Turn your tab into a telly, kind ofAccessory of the Week It's well known that the iPad's speaker is, well, a bit weedy. While there are a million and one low cost stands out there, if you really want to use your iPad as a movie screen, you need one that incorporates a decent speaker too.… |
| Computer sim explains why hippies became extinct Posted: 30 Sep 2011 02:38 AM PDT Egalitarian societies of the past were doomed to oblivionOld-time egalitarian societies were just too stable to survive in a dog-eat-dog world, according to Stanford University researchers, a situation which led to them being overrun by the stratified societies which dominate humanity today.… |
| Fire burns away the Kindle dream of interactivity Posted: 30 Sep 2011 02:21 AM PDT Your chance to lead a creative wolfpack - goneAmazon's new Kindles don't have keyboards, an omission which says more about how the Kindle has evolved than any of the shiny new capabilities which have been added.… |
| 007's car outdrives iPhone in battle of the brands Posted: 30 Sep 2011 02:15 AM PDT Bond is better. Again.The annual CoolBrands survey has returned this year, and Apple has again failed to claw back the top spot that its much coveted iPhone held just a couple of years before.… |
| Netscape founder's web BI investment targets IPO float Posted: 30 Sep 2011 02:00 AM PDT GoodData CEO on common ground with eBay inflaterRoman Stanek has backed the "right thing" at the right time twice during his career in tech. Is he now onto his third?… |
| We7 morphs from jukebox into a radio station Posted: 30 Sep 2011 01:37 AM PDT Users un-demand on-demandIs there anyone in the world who needs to know the difference between "on demand" and "non-interactive" music? We use the words "jukebox" and "radio" as shorthand – but really, no one should care.… |
| Bank emails punters asking for their, er, email address Posted: 30 Sep 2011 01:19 AM PDT Cahoot users feared headslap move was phish attemptA number of Cahoot customers were left mildly confused this week when they received an email from the bank asking them to confirm their, er, email address.… |
| Euro beaks mull copyright of software features Posted: 30 Sep 2011 01:02 AM PDT Can what a program does be protected?The European Court of Justice (ECJ) should apply copyright protection to the functions of computer programs, a software company has told it, according to media reports.… |
| Toshiba Regza 47VL863 passive 3D TV Posted: 30 Sep 2011 12:00 AM PDT Telly that works with 3D glasses from the cinemaReview Although ostensibly an aperitif to Toshiba's incoming flagship LED TV models, this modestly priced 47-incher is a headline maker in its own right. Not only is it the first flatscreen from the brand to offer access to the newly-opened Toshiba Places portal, it's also Toshiba's first passive 3D panel.… |
| Qualys endorses alternative to crappy SSL system Posted: 29 Sep 2011 10:00 PM PDT Moxie Marlinspike's Convergence gets show of supportSan Francisco-based security firm Qualys is throwing its support behind an experimental project designed to improve the security and privacy of website authentication by reducing reliance on certificate authorities that issue secure sockets layer credentials.… |
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