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- Applied Micro leaps ahead in ARM server race
- Miley Cyrus cracker: 'I'm too short for the slammer!'
- Tesla pre-sells all 2012 Model S output
- Apple shifts Lossless Audio Codec to open source
- ARM specs out first 64-bit RISC chips
- RIM backdoor access for Indian probers
- Fancy buying Brocade – again?
- NetApp scores video benchmark wins
- HP UK PC team baying for rivals' blood
- Demand for Ruby, Hadoop and HTML5 rockets, C devs still best paid
- Dell bundles Ubuntu Linux on PCs in China
- Safe as Windows: Smartphones' security nightmare
- Acer first PC vendor to confirm price hike
- SeeSaw shut down
- Isilon on its separate scale-out reality
- Steve Jobs: the Exclusive Biography
- Quantum claws its way back to profit
- CTIA wins battle over cancer labelling on phones
- Boffins teach old radios new channel-hopping tricks
- Stallman: Did I say Jobs was evil? I meant <i>really</i> evil
- Server, disc glitches mar Battlefield 3 launch
- Internap joins OpenStack cloud race for 'first'
- Uncharted 3: Drake's Deception
- Feds nab granny in moon rock sting
- 'With great code comes great responsibility'
- Boss leaves robot in charge of office
- Zimbabwean claims prostitute turned into donkey
- 'Social' TV app Zeebox goes live
- UK CB radio crowd celebrates three decades of legality
- Nokia: The first year of the Elopcalypse
- Samsung making over half its cash from its mobes
- Ingram bemoans tough European retail market
- HP has another crack at fondleslab market
- Surc universal remote case
- Details of <i>all</i> internet traffic should be logged – MEP
- We like zombies… because we <i>are</i> zombies
- LSI snaps up flash controller company
- Hackers commandeer US government satellites
- Hands on with Canon's EOS-1D X full-frame DSLR
- Asia Pac networks filled with entertainment
- Catch of the Day on track for $AU250m
- Murdoch’s Oz hacks to get special paywall discount
- Google+ opens up to enterprises and apps
- AMD CEO vows 'maniacal' chip-baking fix
- Urban legend nips iiNet 'subliminal' campaign
- Facebook triple stuffs Swedish data center
- Fact check clears Czech in botnet case
- HP flip-flops on sale of Personal Systems Group
| Applied Micro leaps ahead in ARM server race Posted: 28 Oct 2011 02:34 PM PDT ARMed and extremely dangerous – to Intel, AMDApplied Micro Circuits, a company known for networking chips and for dabbling a bit in embedded PowerPC processors, has aimed a haymaker of an ARM server chip right at the cloudy jaws of Intel and AMD.… |
| Miley Cyrus cracker: 'I'm too short for the slammer!' Posted: 28 Oct 2011 01:52 PM PDT Looking to avoid painful stretch insideA Tennessee man, found guilty of cracking the Gmail account of Miley Cyrus and posting private photos of her online, has asked the sentencing judge to spare him prison because of his diminutive stature.… |
| Tesla pre-sells all 2012 Model S output Posted: 28 Oct 2011 12:31 PM PDT Don't worry – there'll be 20,000 more in 2013If you've been dithering about whether you should pre-order Tesla Motors' Model S sedan, you've dithered too long.… |
| Apple shifts Lossless Audio Codec to open source Posted: 28 Oct 2011 11:36 AM PDT Audiophiles pleased at Cupertino's belated moveCupertino has open sourced its Apple Lossless Audio Codec (ALAC), seven years after first introducing it.… |
| ARM specs out first 64-bit RISC chips Posted: 28 Oct 2011 11:16 AM PDT Punching Intel, AMD in the server jewels from belowThe ARM RISC processor is getting true 64-bit processing and memory addressing - removing the last practical barrier to seeing an army of ARM chips take a run at the desktops and servers that give Intel and AMD their moolah.… |
| RIM backdoor access for Indian probers Posted: 28 Oct 2011 10:01 AM PDT Mumbai centre up and running since earlier this yearRIM has opened a monitoring centre in Mumbai to help the Indian government sip data from Blackberry users there, said the Wall Street Journal today, quoting unnamed sources.… |
| Posted: 28 Oct 2011 09:29 AM PDT It's in playFibre Channel and Ethernet networking company Brocade may be shopping itself around again, the The Wall Street Journal reports – again.… |
| NetApp scores video benchmark wins Posted: 28 Oct 2011 09:01 AM PDT But it's E-Series... not ONTAP 8.1NetApp says its Media Content Management (MCM) system has outperformed all previously ATTO-tested storage subsystems.… |
| HP UK PC team baying for rivals' blood Posted: 28 Oct 2011 08:29 AM PDT Vendor back on the attack after landmark decisionHP UK's PSG team is unsurprisingly eager to put to bed the disastrous events of the past few months and go on the offensive.… |
| Demand for Ruby, Hadoop and HTML5 rockets, C devs still best paid Posted: 28 Oct 2011 08:01 AM PDT Silicon Roundabout is hiringDemand for Ruby, Hadoop and HTML5 developers jumped this year, with jobs requiring those skills increasing 70 per cent compared to the same period in 2010, according to a survey of the tech jobs in London by recruiters Adzuna. Adzuna collated every tech job advertised for London last month, a total of 100,000. HTML coders are still the most in demand, but also the most poorly paid – both at entry and top levels.… |
| Dell bundles Ubuntu Linux on PCs in China Posted: 28 Oct 2011 07:40 AM PDT Hái méi for Ubuntu on PowerEdge serversCommercial Linux distributor Canonical and PC and server maker Dell are tag teaming to peddle Linux on PCs in China.… |
| Safe as Windows: Smartphones' security nightmare Posted: 28 Oct 2011 07:19 AM PDT Apple, Android and the PC experienceOpen ... And Shut These days, smartphones are a bit like Dr Seuss' mythical "thneed," doing anything and everything – including (gasp!) making phone calls. Unless you're on AT&T, of course, with its penchant for dropping calls. Ironically, however, we're fast approaching the time when users may care far more about PC-era issues like viruses and other malware, rather than whether they can call home.… |
| Acer first PC vendor to confirm price hike Posted: 28 Oct 2011 07:01 AM PDT Impact of Thai flooding on disk drives blamedAcer has become the first major PC vendor to confirm a price rise in response to flooding in Thailand, which it says has led to a 20 per cent hike in the cost of disk drives.… |
| Posted: 28 Oct 2011 06:54 AM PDT Plug pulledUK video-on-demand service SeeSaw has closed down.… |
| Isilon on its separate scale-out reality Posted: 28 Oct 2011 06:29 AM PDT Why it's different from NetApp ...Comment Isilon has said it has a NetApp differentiation problem with Sunnyvale's version of scale-out filing conflicting with its own. Meanwhile it is looking appreciatively at deduplication, server flash and running apps on its S-Series.… |
| Steve Jobs: the Exclusive Biography Posted: 28 Oct 2011 06:02 AM PDT A life less ordinaryReview If you're looking to any fresh insight into the character of former Apple CEO Steve Jobs, you won't get it from Walter Isaacson's biography.… |
| Quantum claws its way back to profit Posted: 28 Oct 2011 06:00 AM PDT Gets Standard & Poor upgrade...Quantum returned to profit after its unexpected loss last quarter and has expanded into SME filer storage and virtual server backup and dedupe.… |
| CTIA wins battle over cancer labelling on phones Posted: 28 Oct 2011 05:45 AM PDT San Francisco down, but not outA Californian court has ruled that forcing phone retailers to display cancer warnings infringes their first amendment rights, unless said warnings also point out the FCC's scepticism over the threat.… |
| Boffins teach old radios new channel-hopping tricks Posted: 28 Oct 2011 05:29 AM PDT Smart comms for dumb techITU Telecom World Alongside self-congratulatory presentations on how telecommunications is improving life on Earth, ITU Telecom World also hosts detailed technical discussions about making use of new techniques, including the developing field of cognitive radio.… |
| Stallman: Did I say Jobs was evil? I meant <i>really</i> evil Posted: 28 Oct 2011 05:15 AM PDT Macs are pretty digital handcuffsAs if Richard Stallman's first pot shot at Steve Jobs didn't cause enough outrage, the founder of the Free Software Foundation has decided to clarify his stance – with some more criticism. Apple products digitally handcuff their users, Stallman observes. And the fact that they are pretty just makes it worse.… |
| Server, disc glitches mar Battlefield 3 launch Posted: 28 Oct 2011 05:12 AM PDT War goes bangBattlefield 3 shot onto shelves today and multiplayer functionality was immediately slaughtered by an army of problems.… |
| Internap joins OpenStack cloud race for 'first' Posted: 28 Oct 2011 05:01 AM PDT Beefier, networkier, more availabilityOpenStack's produced its second "first" of the year, with managed service provider Internap claiming commercial availability of the first OpenStack cloud compute service.… |
| Uncharted 3: Drake's Deception Posted: 28 Oct 2011 05:00 AM PDT Third time luckyReview Naughty Dog has created a monster; I remember when I first snapped up the original Uncharted, back when Sony was still looking for its first killer PS3 title. Resistance: Fall of Man had been mooted as such a title but ultimately disappointed, Motorstorm wowed us with its graphics but was limited by its genre, Heavenly Sword teased us with what Sony's console might be capable of but little more and need I even mention the name Lair? Into the void stepped one Nathan Drake; brave, indignant, and the answer to Sony's prayers.… |
| Feds nab granny in moon rock sting Posted: 28 Oct 2011 04:44 AM PDT 74-year-old who tried to sell husband's pressie arrestedA Californian grandmother was taken down in a sting operation by government agents when she tried to sell a tiny piece of moon rock dust she claims to have owned for nearly four decades.… |
| 'With great code comes great responsibility' Posted: 28 Oct 2011 04:29 AM PDT Plus: Jobs on acid, 'a million cocks' for El RegQuotW This was the week when hacking group Anonymous felt it was doing the world a favour by shutting down a child pornography site and outing its membership list, forgetting that the people whose actual job is dealing with this sort of thing (the police) might have liked to arrest the members and get some info out of them.… |
| Boss leaves robot in charge of office Posted: 28 Oct 2011 04:25 AM PDT Judge droidWhen you manage an office of 25 staff members, working from home can be an impossible prospect. Not for entrepreneur Richard Garriott, though, chief of a games development company in Austin, Texas.… |
| Zimbabwean claims prostitute turned into donkey Posted: 28 Oct 2011 04:14 AM PDT Novel excuse for making beast with six legsA Zimbabwean man collared having sex with a donkey sensationally claimed the object of his affections was actually a prostitute who mysteriously metamorphosed into a hot piece of ass.… |
| 'Social' TV app Zeebox goes live Posted: 28 Oct 2011 03:59 AM PDT iPlayer guru's next big thingAs of this morning anyone can try Zeebox, the new interactive TV venture from Anthony Rose. Rose rescued the BBC's iPlayer and was chief techie behind YouView, formerly Project Canvas – prior to that he was Kazaa's CTO.… |
| UK CB radio crowd celebrates three decades of legality Posted: 28 Oct 2011 03:39 AM PDT Thirty years since the bears stopped listeningBreakers around the UK will have their ears on come 2 November, holding out for a copy to mark 30 years since Citizen's Band turned legit in the UK.… |
| Nokia: The first year of the Elopcalypse Posted: 28 Oct 2011 03:22 AM PDT Timing is everythingAnalysis As the sun sets on Nokia World 2011, you have to pinch yourself to believe the transformation from a year ago. The last Nokia World in 2010 was addressed by an outgoing lame duck CEO, and his Number Two roared that "Nokia is Back!" before adding that he, too, was packing his suitcase and leaving. Symbian was still an unhappy independent foundation, and Meego seems like a really strange dream. Even the extraordinary "Burning Platforms" memo now seems so long ago.… |
| Samsung making over half its cash from its mobes Posted: 28 Oct 2011 03:02 AM PDT Apple won't be ousting these guys without a serious fightSamsung won't be leaving the mobe sector in a hurry, as it's now making more than half its money on smartphones, according to its third quarter results.… |
| Ingram bemoans tough European retail market Posted: 28 Oct 2011 02:47 AM PDT Operational hitches in Oz don't help Q3 numbers eitherIngram Micro profits have tumbled by nearly two-thirds on the back of an ultra aggressive pricing market in Europe and the fall out from the botched ERP upgrade in Oz.… |
| HP has another crack at fondleslab market Posted: 28 Oct 2011 02:29 AM PDT Meg strokes Windows 8, unsure about webOSHP will make another run at the fondleslab market.… |
| Posted: 28 Oct 2011 02:00 AM PDT Best way to control your AV kit with your iPhone?Accessory of the Week I've looked at a number of devices, including the Gear4 Unity and the ThinkFlood RedEye, that allow you to use an iOS device as a remote control for your TV, DVD player and other AV kit. The Surc is another.… |
| Details of <i>all</i> internet traffic should be logged – MEP Posted: 28 Oct 2011 01:31 AM PDT Politician claims data records will help ID paedos and predatorsA member of the European Parliament wants users' "traffic data", rather than the specific content of online communications, to be logged under expanded EU laws on data storage. This is according to a statement from the European People's Party (EPP) at the European Parliament.… |
| We like zombies… because we <i>are</i> zombies Posted: 28 Oct 2011 01:18 AM PDT Social scientist sees humanity in their glazed, undead eyesWe make zombies in our own image, says Durham University social scientist Dr Nick Pearce, and he reckons that the braindead machine-gun fodder zombies of today ain't a good sign.… |
| LSI snaps up flash controller company Posted: 28 Oct 2011 01:01 AM PDT Big news on the solid state frontFlash industry consolidation took another step forward, with semiconductor company LSI buying flash controller startup SandForce to strengthen its server and storage array flash offerings for ultrabooks, notebooks, servers and storage arrays.… |
| Hackers commandeer US government satellites Posted: 28 Oct 2011 12:03 AM PDT Blame ChinaHackers interfered with two US government satellites on four separate occasions in 2007 and 2008, according to a report scheduled to be released next month by a congressional commission.… |
| Hands on with Canon's EOS-1D X full-frame DSLR Posted: 27 Oct 2011 11:00 PM PDT Shooting starFirst look Canon's top-end DSLR range has long been a slightly confusing place. The EOS-5D, both Mark I and II cameras, were self evident – slower, very high-quality stills models for studio photographers on a budget. The high-end, featuring EOS-1D variants was baffling, though.… |
| Asia Pac networks filled with entertainment Posted: 27 Oct 2011 06:30 PM PDT Netflix still hogs US bandwidthAsia-Pacific bandwidth is increasingly being consumed by users of 'real-time entertainment' according to the latest Sandvine Internet Phenomena Report.… |
| Catch of the Day on track for $AU250m Posted: 27 Oct 2011 06:00 PM PDT New group buying sites on wayInvestors may be turning off the group buying craze in the US – courtesy of Groupon - but in Australia the verve for online discounts continues to ka-ching.… |
| Murdoch’s Oz hacks to get special paywall discount Posted: 27 Oct 2011 05:30 PM PDT Get your News at half priceThe News Limited paywall experiment in Australia which started on Monday has received a less-than-rapturous welcome among its journalists, who are being asked to pay to access the site.… |
| Google+ opens up to enterprises and apps Posted: 27 Oct 2011 04:58 PM PDT Catching up to Facebook, feature by featureAs promised at last week's Web 2.0 Summit, Google has opened its social networking site to enterprises, via integration with Google Apps.… |
| AMD CEO vows 'maniacal' chip-baking fix Posted: 27 Oct 2011 04:57 PM PDT Customer trust 'eroded', not 'irreversibly damaged'AMD's newish president and CEO fairly flaggelated himself for his company's failure in execution during its last quarter, a failure that caused Intel's only real competition to do the unthinkable: leave money on the table.… |
| Urban legend nips iiNet 'subliminal' campaign Posted: 27 Oct 2011 04:30 PM PDT Free TV punts 'two-frame freebie' adsAustralian ISP iiNet has pulled a TV advertising campaign after its two-frame "Easter egg" fell foul of this country's advertising rules.… |
| Facebook triple stuffs Swedish data center Posted: 27 Oct 2011 04:26 PM PDT It's boxy, but good – and very coldOpen Compute Summit In concert with the launch of the Open Compute Foundation on Thursday in New York, social media giant Facebook announced it is building a data center in Sweden close to the Arctic Circle, its first outside of the United States.… |
| Fact check clears Czech in botnet case Posted: 27 Oct 2011 03:30 PM PDT Redmond removes dotFREE from defendant listMicrosoft has announced that it's dropped dotFREE from its ongoing lawsuit over the Kelihos botnet.… |
| HP flip-flops on sale of Personal Systems Group Posted: 27 Oct 2011 03:08 PM PDT We love PCs, after allMeg Whitman, who in September replaced the deposed Leo Apotheker as president and CEO of HP, has decided that "exploring options" for the company's PC business will not, after all, involve selling the division.… |
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