IBM fails to keep Oz harassment case under wraps |
- IBM fails to keep Oz harassment case under wraps
- Irish DPC to investigate Facebook
- MC Hammer getting into search business
- Trade Me set for end of year float
- Google Analytics goes with the flow
- Fund manager withdraws legal threat over security vuln
- Google adds default end-to-end encryption to search
- Holographic storage biz files for Chapter 11
- New RAM shunts data into flash in power cuts
- Apotheker right hand man Wohl exits HP
- Juniper profits get a haircut in Q3
- Cassandra database now ready for mere mortals
- Viacom appeals dismissal of $1bn YouTube lawsuit
- AMD taps Papermaster as CTO
- Would you go to Facebook for mobile tech support?
- Domain registrar touts dot-surnames for $500k
- HP assembles specialist storage sales squad
- Samsung Android 4.0 smartphone priced for Blighty
- Trojan targets Mac's built-in security defences
- Libel reform vows to slay anonymous trolls
- Motorola sharpens smartphones with revamped Razr
- Reseller loses veteran chairman and CEO in shake-up
- UK has enough sheep shearers, needs more coders
- Mystery over bogus Facebook login data dump
- Telefonica, Verizon ready VMware schizophones
- ITU heralds ultra-high def TV progress
- RIM lifts skirt, flashes 'new' OS at devs
- Trusteer scraps with analysts over 'bank security bypass'
- TfL wheels out digital bus info upgrade
- Vegas man begs web for $1m to fix gigantic scrotum
- Leaked Intel roadmap reveals PCIe flash kit
- Zend floats PHP cloud development platform
- BSkyB earns more dosh out of fewer new punters
- Debt collectors warned off pursuing punters on Facebook
- ASA upholds complaint against 'best gaming' Virgin ads
- Dell Vostro V131 13.3in Core i5 notebook
- Alcatel-Lucent hacks off an arm for $1.5bn
- Lenovo aims to seize PC crown within 3 years
- Nipples and teen lesbians sexy even when ironic, ASA rules
- Groupon IPO could be as soon as Monday
- Yahoo! revenue! AND! profits! bomb! as! expected!
- Sony names PlayStation Vita release day
- Currys, PC World websites slated by punters
- Another World 20th Anniversary Edition
- HP boasts of 3PAR benchmark boost
- Samsung, Google whip out Android 4.0 Nexus
- Using SaaS for a more efficient business
- 'Mental act' computerisations no longer automatically unpatentable
- Report: Hacking forum is a cybercrime academy
- Philips Fidelio DS9
| IBM fails to keep Oz harassment case under wraps Posted: 19 Oct 2011 03:30 PM PDT Squalid tale to play out in publicAustralia's Federal Court has ruled against an attempt by IBM to suppress the details of a sexual harassment case against it.… |
| Irish DPC to investigate Facebook Posted: 19 Oct 2011 03:02 PM PDT More information than they needEven if you're not a Facebook user, chances are that your computer is carrying cookies from The Social Network™. They're scattered all over the Web like digital malarial mosquitoes waiting for the next host.… |
| MC Hammer getting into search business Posted: 19 Oct 2011 02:56 PM PDT Please, Hammer, don't hurt GoogleStanley Burrell, AKA MC Hammer, is getting into the search business with a startup called Wiredoo.… |
| Trade Me set for end of year float Posted: 19 Oct 2011 02:30 PM PDT $NZ300m under Fairfax's Xmas tree?Fairfax Media's partial float of dotcom asset Trade Me may be on the cards before the end of the year according to industry reports out of New Zealand.… |
| Google Analytics goes with the flow Posted: 19 Oct 2011 01:38 PM PDT New visualization tools for web site operatorsWeb 2.0 Summit Google is adding a visualization tool to its analytics stream that gives website operators a more graphical representation of who is visiting their pages.… |
| Fund manager withdraws legal threat over security vuln Posted: 19 Oct 2011 01:30 PM PDT Sanity prevailsFirst State Super, the company that called the police and fired off legal threats when a security researcher notified it of vulnerabilities in its online funds management application, is reportedly softening its stance.… |
| Google adds default end-to-end encryption to search Posted: 19 Oct 2011 12:59 PM PDT SSL omissions of Yahoo and Bing remainGoogle is rolling out default end-to-end encryption to people who use the site to seek for images, news and general webpages, a change that will better protect search queries and results from eavesdroppers.… |
| Holographic storage biz files for Chapter 11 Posted: 19 Oct 2011 11:03 AM PDT InPhase unfazed, may rise againIf you listened hard you might have heard a thin scream of despair as holographic storage developer InPhase Technologies filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection yesterday.… |
| New RAM shunts data into flash in power cuts Posted: 19 Oct 2011 10:27 AM PDT No batteries neededViking has built a hybrid, battery-free, non-volatile storage memory product, combining DRAM and NAND, which is faster than PCIe flash. Eat your heart out, Fusion-io.… |
| Apotheker right hand man Wohl exits HP Posted: 19 Oct 2011 10:18 AM PDT Waves goodbye via TwitterHP's short lived chief communication officer Bill Wohl - a close ally of blundering former CEO Leo Apotheker - has confirmed that he has followed his buddy out of the business.… |
| Juniper profits get a haircut in Q3 Posted: 19 Oct 2011 10:11 AM PDT Hits sales targets, thanks to switchesProfits at Juniper Networks have had a haircut after costs for manufacturing, research, development, and sales all grew faster than revenues in its third quarter. But revenue is growing and hitting targets, which is a good sign for the networking business in general, and for Juniper in particular.… |
| Cassandra database now ready for mere mortals Posted: 19 Oct 2011 10:08 AM PDT 'You don't have to know so much'The NoSQL database Cassandra has hit 1.0-level maturity with a heavy play for enterprise customers.… |
| Viacom appeals dismissal of $1bn YouTube lawsuit Posted: 19 Oct 2011 09:32 AM PDT Video site dragged back into courtViacom is trying to convince an appeals court to overturn an earlier ruling in which a federal judge dismissed the $1bn lawsuit the TV behemoth brought against Google's YouTube.… |
| Posted: 19 Oct 2011 09:02 AM PDT No stranger to controversyHot potato techie Mark Papermaster has been chosen by Advanced Micro Devices to be its new chief technology officer. The appointment lays to rest speculation on who will be drawing up the company's processor and systems roadmap as the chip maker tries to hang in there against goliath Intel and a slew of ARM upstarts.… |
| Would you go to Facebook for mobile tech support? Posted: 19 Oct 2011 08:41 AM PDT Telco offered integration with Zuckerberg's ReservationNokia Siemens Networks is punting Facebook integration to mobile phone operators that reckon their customers would prefer using a social network over calling tech support.… |
| Domain registrar touts dot-surnames for $500k Posted: 19 Oct 2011 08:21 AM PDT Coming in 2013: Paris.hilton?Could it be the ultimate in internet vanity addresses?… |
| HP assembles specialist storage sales squad Posted: 19 Oct 2011 08:02 AM PDT 3PAR sees triple-digit growthHP is setting up a channel-specific team to help resellers punt its storage on the back of triple-digit growth in 3PAR and rising demand.… |
| Samsung Android 4.0 smartphone priced for Blighty Posted: 19 Oct 2011 07:43 AM PDT Galaxy Nexus heads north of iPhone 4SUK mobile phone seller Clove has priced up the Samsung Galaxy Nexus at £515 sans Sim lock.… |
| Trojan targets Mac's built-in security defences Posted: 19 Oct 2011 07:41 AM PDT Malware takes a bite out of Apple's OS XMalware coders have created a Mac-specific Trojan that is designed to attack anti-malware defences built into Apple's Mac OS X operating system.… |
| Libel reform vows to slay anonymous trolls Posted: 19 Oct 2011 07:22 AM PDT Single complaint could take down a postA single complaint about an anonymous article or posting online could be enough to legally force a website to take it down – if new Parliamentary proposals on defamation get passed into law.… |
| Motorola sharpens smartphones with revamped Razr Posted: 19 Oct 2011 07:17 AM PDT Thinner, stronger, faster, smarterMotorola revived one of its most popular handset brands today: Razr.… |
| Reseller loses veteran chairman and CEO in shake-up Posted: 19 Oct 2011 07:02 AM PDT Maxima to unload biz units, issue sharesManaged services and software reselling outfit Maxima has raised £2m through a rights issue to fund future development and as a precursor to offloading business units that are deemed "non-core" over the coming months.… |
| UK has enough sheep shearers, needs more coders Posted: 19 Oct 2011 06:39 AM PDT Immigration wonks eye up job shortagesPositions in Britain's IT sector are still going to homegrown workers, according to the UK Border Agency, although software developers and graphic designers are needed to produce visual effects and 2D/3D computer animation for film, TV and video games.… |
| Mystery over bogus Facebook login data dump Posted: 19 Oct 2011 06:16 AM PDT Smells phishy...The publication on Pastebin of the supposed login details of more than 10,000 Facebook users fails to pose any security risks, at least on the social network, because the data is bogus, according to Facebook.… |
| Telefonica, Verizon ready VMware schizophones Posted: 19 Oct 2011 05:51 AM PDT Persona Android GrataVMworld Europe VMware rules the x86 server virtualization racket, giving physical servers multiple personalities. And now cell phone operators are lining up to support its Mobile Virtual Platform (MVP) hypervisor on smartphones.… |
| ITU heralds ultra-high def TV progress Posted: 19 Oct 2011 05:49 AM PDT Even though 8K x 4K telly is ten years offThe ITU, an international standards setter, has agreed "the pertinent technical characteristics" of the ultra-high definition televion (UHDTV) format.… |
| RIM lifts skirt, flashes 'new' OS at devs Posted: 19 Oct 2011 05:28 AM PDT QNX rebranded BlackBerry BBXThe PlayBook will get push email and BBM support just as soon as the BlackBerrys get QNX, which has been rebranded BBX to make it seem shiny and new.… |
| Trusteer scraps with analysts over 'bank security bypass' Posted: 19 Oct 2011 05:16 AM PDT Building a good RapportTrusteer continues to spar with researchers at Digit Security over claims that it might be possible to bypass Trusteer's online banking security technology Rapport.… |
| TfL wheels out digital bus info upgrade Posted: 19 Oct 2011 05:03 AM PDT Countdown II embraces API-hungry developer massesAs winter sets in, commuters in London stand huddled at bus stops, hoping the shelters' electronic signs report an accurate "due" arrival time rather than a crappy guess.… |
| Vegas man begs web for $1m to fix gigantic scrotum Posted: 19 Oct 2011 04:52 AM PDT 'A huge watermelon encased in a bandage'An American has turned to the internet to raise $1m to pay for an operation to fix his scrotum, which has swollen to an eye-watering 45kg.… |
| Leaked Intel roadmap reveals PCIe flash kit Posted: 19 Oct 2011 04:41 AM PDT How the stats measure upTom's Hardware has reported a leaked Intel storage roadmap that confirms a PCIe flash product is coming, as well as confirming updates across Chipzilla's three flash product families.… |
| Zend floats PHP cloud development platform Posted: 19 Oct 2011 04:34 AM PDT Elastic AppFabricZend has announced a cloud for building and deploying PHP apps on other clouds – but without the management hassle.… |
| BSkyB earns more dosh out of fewer new punters Posted: 19 Oct 2011 04:24 AM PDT Kerching!BSkyB's number of customers signing up to its products fell from 96,000 new subscribers in the company's Q1 last year to 77,000 in the first quarter ended 30 September 2011 – despite that, both revenue and pre-tax profit climbed.… |
| Debt collectors warned off pursuing punters on Facebook Posted: 19 Oct 2011 04:07 AM PDT OFT will bitchslap agencies who send heavies onto social networksDebt collectors should not be allowed to chase people who owe them money on social networking sites, including Facebook and Twitter, the UK's Office of Fair Trading has said.… |
| ASA upholds complaint against 'best gaming' Virgin ads Posted: 19 Oct 2011 04:06 AM PDT Too much jitter for claimed low lagAnother slap on the wrist for Virgin Media from the Advertising Standards Authority: the ISP was today told not to claim its 50Mb/s broadband package is the "best for online gaming".… |
| Dell Vostro V131 13.3in Core i5 notebook Posted: 19 Oct 2011 04:00 AM PDT Looks the business?Review Back in the old days, you knew where you were a Dell business laptop. Heave it out of the box and you'd be rewarded with a giant, hot-running thing with the aesthetic appeal of a pile-up on the M40.… |
| Alcatel-Lucent hacks off an arm for $1.5bn Posted: 19 Oct 2011 03:52 AM PDT Genesys and its 1,800 staff get new ownerAlcatel-Lucent has sold off its Genesys division to investment fund Permira for $1.5bn (£952m), but will hang onto its "enterprise" operation as no one seems to want it.… |
| Lenovo aims to seize PC crown within 3 years Posted: 19 Oct 2011 03:42 AM PDT Acer and Dell heads already scalped, HP is next targetLenovo is aiming to become the biggest shifter of PC tin on the planet within three years after recently swiping the number two spot from Dell.… |
| Nipples and teen lesbians sexy even when ironic, ASA rules Posted: 19 Oct 2011 03:31 AM PDT But regulator says Duke Nukem ad violence OKThe Advertising Standards Authority has put the kibosh on an ad for Duke Nukem Forever that confronted post-watershed viewers with pole dancers, schoolgirl lesbians and multiple nipple flashes.… |
| Groupon IPO could be as soon as Monday Posted: 19 Oct 2011 03:12 AM PDT Oft-rumoured coming out party could kick off next weekGroupon's foray onto public markets hasn't exactly been smooth, but sources are saying it's a go for next week after many rumours of the on-again-off-again variety.… |
| Yahoo! revenue! AND! profits! bomb! as! expected! Posted: 19 Oct 2011 03:02 AM PDT Empty CEO seat has whoopee cushion appealYahoo! surprised no one yesterday when it reported its third quarter results to Wall Street.… |
| Sony names PlayStation Vita release day Posted: 19 Oct 2011 02:47 AM PDT Sony fanboys to start queueing now?Having already confessed that the PlayStation Vita won't hit the UK this year, Sony today said fanboys will have to wait until February 2012 for their next portable PlayStation fix.… |
| Currys, PC World websites slated by punters Posted: 19 Oct 2011 02:32 AM PDT Customers irate over price, delivery and usabilityDixons Group's websites for Currys and PC World are among the worst online shops for electrical appliances, according to a new study by consumer rights group Which?… |
| Another World 20th Anniversary Edition Posted: 19 Oct 2011 02:00 AM PDT Poly gone?iGamer It's one of gaming's longest enduring and most profound existential questions. Twenty years and as many platforms later, Another World - aka Out of this World in the US -remains as enigmatic as ever, surviving even creator Eric Chahi's own fascinating personal deconstruction of his work at this year's Game Developers Conference.… |
| HP boasts of 3PAR benchmark boost Posted: 19 Oct 2011 01:39 AM PDT Says it has doubled customer base since last year's acquisitionHP is blowing its 3PAR horn loudly, saying it has doubled 3PAR's customer base since buying it last September, and that 3PAR is now top dog on the SPC benchmark.… |
| Samsung, Google whip out Android 4.0 Nexus Posted: 19 Oct 2011 01:35 AM PDT Ice Cream Sarnie smartphone launchedHere's the Samsung Galaxy Nexus - aka the Galaxy Prime - launched by the South Korean Apple biter and Google in Hong Kong this morning.… |
| Using SaaS for a more efficient business Posted: 19 Oct 2011 01:16 AM PDT Dorma shares their experienceLive Today SaaS might give you more availability, it might cut your capital costs, and it might give you a big empty server room in your basement where you can play ping pong after work, but will it make your business more efficient?… |
| 'Mental act' computerisations no longer automatically unpatentable Posted: 19 Oct 2011 01:01 AM PDT IPO changes tack on software-implemented inventionsThe UK's Intellectual Property Office has changed its guidance on how its reviewers will consider the 'mental act' exemption to patentability when assessing patent applications for computer-implemented inventions.… |
| Report: Hacking forum is a cybercrime academy Posted: 19 Oct 2011 12:30 AM PDT Learn skills, buy Trojans, make new matesCertain underground hacking forums are acting as training academies and tech-support networks for cybercriminals as well as creating a marketplace for a vast array of cybercrime tools, say researchers.… |
| Posted: 18 Oct 2011 11:00 PM PDT Dock de luxe?Review Philips' audio engineers must be feeling rather pleased with themselves these days.… |
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