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- Pay to watch free stuff on Xbox 360
- Can general relativity explain the OPERA neutrino result?
- Westboro Baptist Church plans picket of Steve Jobs funeral
- SpyEye banking trojan: now with SMS hijacking capability
- OCZ buys PLX PCIe design smarts operation
- LibreOffice fixes virus-friendly Word import flaw
- Samsung and Google's next Nexus specs leak
- Steelie Neelie stares down telcos over fibre sharing
- HP EMEA: No plans on global deal-stealing policy
- Thai prime minister Twitter hack suspect charged
- BBC One and bureaucracy spared in Auntie cuts
- News of Steve Jobs' death causes market jitters
- Fujitsu TS axes channel boss role
- Deduplication: a power-hungry way to streamline storage
- Survey: Most TV viewers surf while they watch
- Firefox 8 to slurp updates silently
- Call routing scam costs telcos $150m a year
- Facebook SIM brings social network to dumb phones
- Report: Web firms must do better for foreign punters
- Oracle v Google patent punchup probably postponed
- Dell hoists resellers into the clouds
- Lenovo ThinkCentre Edge 91z all-in-one PC
- ICO: NHS data security breaches are just 'plain daft'
- Unity: 'We'll make a terabit chip by 2014'
- Obama+world pays tribute to Steve Jobs
- Lovefilm Player for iPad
- Dell updates Inspiron all-in-one desktop
- Facebook scammers exploit Steve Jobs' death
- BBC iPlayer, Lovefilm, 4OD aim for Xbox
- Users shut down Italian Wikipedia to protest Wiretapping Act
- Gas bill climbed £13,000 after correct online reading given
- 'Hey, Tories, who knows what a nontrepreneur is?’
- Geeks chip in to fund nerd's space station gizmo launch
- Quantum bigs up entry dedupe
- BT superfast home fibre plans fall behind schedule. Again
- Iomega Mac Companion external hard drive
- Android malware under blog control says Trend Micro
- The life and times of Steven Paul Jobs, Part One
- Oracle floats Fusion apps, puffs up public cloud
- Microsoft! touted! to! buy! Yahoo!
- Attack on Apache server exposes firewalls, routers and more
- Apple cofounder Steve Jobs is dead at 56
- HPC 2.0: The monster mash-up
- Infraserve goes with CA while Ninefold looks to open source world
| Pay to watch free stuff on Xbox 360 Posted: 06 Oct 2011 03:30 PM PDT An offer too good to refuseThere are many characteristics about Australia that people from other countries don't get: dangerous animals, a big empty country, political angst over an economy that stubbornly fails to plunge into recession, and so on. But two I'd like to single out here are TV and the Internet.… |
| Can general relativity explain the OPERA neutrino result? Posted: 06 Oct 2011 02:12 PM PDT Imperial College physicist looks at gravitational time effectsCERN's decision to release data about its "superluminal neutrino" experiments at an early stage is providing the world with a rare insight into the process of scientific peer review. Another small step in that process in relation to the fascinating OPERA results asks whether general relativity can be called in to help explain the results.… |
| Westboro Baptist Church plans picket of Steve Jobs funeral Posted: 06 Oct 2011 01:47 PM PDT Tweet the news via an iPhone in irony failMembers of the Westboro Baptist Church (WBC) have announced their intention to protest at the funeral of Steve Jobs, in a Twitter message sent via an iPhone.… |
| SpyEye banking trojan: now with SMS hijacking capability Posted: 06 Oct 2011 12:45 PM PDT One-time passwords zapped to fraudstersThe SpyEye banking trojan has acquired the ability to reroute one-time passwords sent to victims' cellphones, a measure that bypasses protections more and more financial institutions are adopting.… |
| OCZ buys PLX PCIe design smarts operation Posted: 06 Oct 2011 09:01 AM PDT Snaps up UK R&D centre, IP licences and a 40-person research teamConsumer and business solid state drive supplier OCZ is buying a UK development centre, IP licences, and a 40-person team from PLX Technology, possibly for a song.… |
| LibreOffice fixes virus-friendly Word import flaw Posted: 06 Oct 2011 08:29 AM PDT Free and clearLibreOffice users ought to update their software: a security hole has been discovered in the code used to import Microsoft Word documents into the open-source productivity suite. The latest version of the software contains a fix for the problem.… |
| Samsung and Google's next Nexus specs leak Posted: 06 Oct 2011 08:04 AM PDT Ice Cream Sarnie flagship to be be unveiled next weekSamsung and Google have yet to announce the next of their Nexus handsets - the debut is expected to take place next week - but the smartphone's spec has already leaked out.… |
| Steelie Neelie stares down telcos over fibre sharing Posted: 06 Oct 2011 08:01 AM PDT Euro digital queen will make them ditch copperOpinion Telco operators have a wonderful habit of neither listening nor being rational when local loop unbundling is ever mentioned. The reactions, spread across the European press, to the two consultations announced by Neelie Kroes, European Commission Vice President for the Digital Agenda, mostly accuse her of being mad and her ideas unworkable.… |
| HP EMEA: No plans on global deal-stealing policy Posted: 06 Oct 2011 07:45 AM PDT Nothing from HQ on how we'd implement these 'comments' – says managerHP UK will not adopt a kiss-ass policy of firing staffers found pilfering services deals from resellers.… |
| Thai prime minister Twitter hack suspect charged Posted: 06 Oct 2011 07:29 AM PDT Cops ferry student to a press conference with gov ministerThai police have arrested a man suspected of hijacking the Twitter account of the Asian country's newly elected prime minister, Yingluck Shinawatra.… |
| BBC One and bureaucracy spared in Auntie cuts Posted: 06 Oct 2011 07:01 AM PDT 2,000 Beebsters face axe in £700m savings planThe BBC has safeguarded Radio 4 and BBC One from moves to slash £700m from its £5bn annual budget, but it will axe a further 2,000 jobs.… |
| News of Steve Jobs' death causes market jitters Posted: 06 Oct 2011 06:41 AM PDT Shares back up in Germany after early fall, down slightly in NY premarketApple stocks are now trading higher on the Frankfurt market, after falling earlier today on news of Steve Jobs' death.… |
| Fujitsu TS axes channel boss role Posted: 06 Oct 2011 06:20 AM PDT Musical chairs continues as Martin Smith quits for MicrosoftFujitsu Technology Solutions has removed a layer of management after head of channel Martin Smith left the firm to join former colleagues at Microsoft.… |
| Deduplication: a power-hungry way to streamline storage Posted: 06 Oct 2011 06:00 AM PDT Data wants to stay singleWindows Server 8 is coming, and it is bringing storage enhancements with it.… |
| Survey: Most TV viewers surf while they watch Posted: 06 Oct 2011 05:44 AM PDT Bad news for ad-slingers: 75% are scanning two screensA shade under three-quarters of TV viewers with broadband are surfing the web while they watch, with 38 per cent of them discussing what they're watching on social media.… |
| Firefox 8 to slurp updates silently Posted: 06 Oct 2011 05:29 AM PDT Mozilla concedes enterprises might matterUpdated Mozilla is changing the way Firefox installs on computers in an apparent concession to enterprise users it previously ruled were irrelevant.… |
| Call routing scam costs telcos $150m a year Posted: 06 Oct 2011 05:14 AM PDT Victims often unaware of complex phone swindleFraudulent call termination is costing operators huge amounts of money, though the victims are often unaware they've been tricked.… |
| Facebook SIM brings social network to dumb phones Posted: 06 Oct 2011 05:01 AM PDT South America ahoyPersonal Argentina is the first operator to deploy a Facebook-enabled SIM, bringing the social network to any GSM handsets, and into hitherto unexploited markets.… |
| Report: Web firms must do better for foreign punters Posted: 06 Oct 2011 04:44 AM PDT Trade wonks tut at absent warranty and contact infoMore companies need to participate in cross-border online trading in order to improve competition and help attract more consumers with lower prices, a new report by consumer organisations has said.… |
| Oracle v Google patent punchup probably postponed Posted: 06 Oct 2011 04:29 AM PDT Move along lads, an actual crime needs sorting outThe first day of the Oracle versus Google patent trial is likely to be postponed from its current Halloween date to make way for an unrelated criminal case.… |
| Dell hoists resellers into the clouds Posted: 06 Oct 2011 04:14 AM PDT This stuff is hard, cries execBox shifter Dell is assembling a cloud component for its channel programme with a launch set for the end of January.… |
| Lenovo ThinkCentre Edge 91z all-in-one PC Posted: 06 Oct 2011 04:00 AM PDT Tidy desktopReview It may not match the sleek, silvery elegance of Apple's iMac, but Lenovo's ThinkCentre Edge 91z is a far more affordable option for people who want a compact all-in-one desktop computer.… |
| ICO: NHS data security breaches are just 'plain daft' Posted: 06 Oct 2011 03:39 AM PDT As bad as gossiping about patients down the pub, says watchdogNHS staff should be more aware of data security risks as patient confidentiality "is at the heart of what they do", Jonathan Bamford, head of strategic liaison at the Information Commissioner's Office has said.… |
| Unity: 'We'll make a terabit chip by 2014' Posted: 06 Oct 2011 03:19 AM PDT Semiconductor firm touts NAND flash successorUnity Semiconductor thinks its CMOx technology can be the silver bullet the storage industry needs, succeeding NAND with next-generation memory combining DRAM speed and flash non-volatility – with Micron's help.… |
| Obama+world pays tribute to Steve Jobs Posted: 06 Oct 2011 03:02 AM PDT US president joins global outpouring for Apple co-founderUS President Barack Obama has joined the outpouring of tributes to former Apple CEO Steve Jobs, who died last night.… |
| Posted: 06 Oct 2011 03:00 AM PDT Video on demand for your fondleslabiOS App of the Week Well it's about time. LoveFilm may be the UK's main disc rental and video-on-demand service, but it's taken it a disappointing amount of time to get its act together as far as iOS is concerned.… |
| Dell updates Inspiron all-in-one desktop Posted: 06 Oct 2011 02:54 AM PDT Sandy Bridge, Nvdia chippery addedDell has upgraded its Inspiron One all-in-one desktop PC, ditiching the old model's Pentium P6100 processor for shiny new second-generation Core i Sandy Bridge chippery.… |
| Facebook scammers exploit Steve Jobs' death Posted: 06 Oct 2011 02:52 AM PDT Offer of non-existent iPads lures thousandsFacebook scammers have wasted little time in exploiting news of the death of Apple founder Steve Jobs as a theme for survey scams.… |
| BBC iPlayer, Lovefilm, 4OD aim for Xbox Posted: 06 Oct 2011 02:44 AM PDT MS' Live service to gain TV content for XmasMicrosoft has signed up video-on-demand companies Blinkbox and Lovefilm, and Channel 4's catch-up viewing service 4OD, to bring their offerings to the Xbox 360 this year.… |
| Users shut down Italian Wikipedia to protest Wiretapping Act Posted: 06 Oct 2011 02:41 AM PDT Wikimedia consigliere backs them up as mooks in Parliament debate lawItalian Wikipedia has been hidden in protest at a new Act making its way through the Italian Parliament. The Wiretapping Act or "DDL intercettazioni" could make Wikipedia legally untenable in Italy if it passes into law.… |
| Gas bill climbed £13,000 after correct online reading given Posted: 06 Oct 2011 02:29 AM PDT Online calculator's crazy shenanigansReg Reader and Stockport dweller Rob was shocked to find that trying to save his mother a few pounds on her gas bill ended up pushing the tab up £13,088.43, rather than down the 20 quid he was expecting. It was the unlikely result of entering a meter reading on Southern Electric's website.… |
| 'Hey, Tories, who knows what a nontrepreneur is?’ Posted: 06 Oct 2011 02:28 AM PDT Andrew does the Conservative Party FringeSpecial report To Manchester, where I had been invited to liven up a Conservative Conference Fringe discussion on digital policy. I shared the panel with influential moderatrix Dominique Lazanski, a former Yahoo!er who recently got the Pirate Party into the Culture Ministry; a young parliamentary candidate called Nick Pickles who had worked with Big Brother Watch; and Jeff Lynn of Coadec, a new group flush with lobbying cash from Google and Yahoo!… |
| Geeks chip in to fund nerd's space station gizmo launch Posted: 06 Oct 2011 02:26 AM PDT Astronomy graduate raises $18k for ISS 'detector' lampA self-described rocket nerd will be able to turn his International Space Station 'detector' gizmo into a product after fellow geeks chipped in thousands of dollars of investment.… |
| Posted: 06 Oct 2011 02:24 AM PDT Capacity on demand styleQuantum has a new entry-level deduping product with capacity-on-demand upgrade by licence key.… |
| BT superfast home fibre plans fall behind schedule. Again Posted: 06 Oct 2011 01:53 AM PDT Telco now upgrading six (not 12) exchanges by end of 2011BT won't hit its target of kitting out 12 exchanges with its new fibre network by the end of this year as originally hoped.… |
| Iomega Mac Companion external hard drive Posted: 05 Oct 2011 11:00 PM PDT iMac-friendly storage and USB hubReview If the name of this hard drive isn't explicit enough, one look at it will tell you exactly who it's aimed at. The brushed aluminium surround and smoky black top mean that it looks right at home sitting beneath an iMac or Apple Cinema Display.… |
| Android malware under blog control says Trend Micro Posted: 05 Oct 2011 08:07 PM PDT Beware the Chinese e-book readerTrend Micro is reporting a Chinese Android malware that operates partly under the command and control of a blog.… |
| The life and times of Steven Paul Jobs, Part One Posted: 05 Oct 2011 06:57 PM PDT From grade-school hellion to iMac redemptionWhen sober, F. Scott Fitzgerald may have been devastatingly intelligent, but he got it dead wrong when he wrote "there are no second acts in American lives".… |
| Oracle floats Fusion apps, puffs up public cloud Posted: 05 Oct 2011 06:32 PM PDT Salesforce.com 'stickier than a roach motel'OpenWorld Salesforce.com CEO Marc Benioff probably didn't want to be at Oracle's OpenWorld extravaganza in San Francisco today, even after making a fuss about Oracle yanking his keynote on Wednesday. That's because Salesforce.com and SAP were the punching bags this afternoon while Oracle CEO and Benioff's former boss, Larry Ellison announced the availability of the Fusion suite of applications and the Oracle Public Cloud.… |
| Microsoft! touted! to! buy! Yahoo! Posted: 05 Oct 2011 06:17 PM PDT Redmond may be ready to pick over the carcassMicrosoft is mulling the purchase of Yahoo! according to published reports that pushed up the share price of the declining portal site by about ten per cent in Wednesday's trading.… |
| Attack on Apache server exposes firewalls, routers and more Posted: 05 Oct 2011 05:57 PM PDT Reverse proxy bug may haunt rival webservers, tooMaintainers of the open-source Apache webserver are warning that their HTTP daemon is vulnerable to exploits that expose internal servers to remote attackers who embed special commands in website addresses.… |
| Apple cofounder Steve Jobs is dead at 56 Posted: 05 Oct 2011 05:01 PM PDT Creative genius revolutionized computers, music, phonesSteve Jobs, Apple's cofounder and former CEO, has died. He was 56 years old.… |
| Posted: 05 Oct 2011 05:00 PM PDT When Big Data gets big, data centres should get nervousBlog This is the second of a three-part series on the convergence of HPC and business analytics, and the implications for data centers. The first article is here; you're reading the second one; and the third story is coming soon.… |
| Infraserve goes with CA while Ninefold looks to open source world Posted: 05 Oct 2011 04:00 PM PDT Clouds at both ends of the pitchCA is celebrating another win in the Australian cloud market, with Verb Group company Infraserve adding AppLogic-based platform-as-a-service offerings to its cloud portfolio.… |
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