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- Salesforce.com CEO savages Ellison for OpenWorld tactics
- Patent troll lawsuits may be on thin ice
- Oracle previews RHEL-ish 2 Linux kernel
- Netflix on global spree
- Teradata adds hardware compression to data warehouses
- Rackspace spins up OpenStack Foundation
- Meltemi is real – Nokia’s skunkworks Linux
- Cisco CEO: The future of communications is video
- Water like that of Earth's oceans found in comet
- HP uncloaks 10GbE top-of-racker, IPv6 guidance
- Mozilla to Firefox users: Ditch crashtastic McAfee plugin
- Mobile industry fights San Fran 'carcinogen' labelling
- Disney's animated back-catalog gets re-released in 3D
- iPhone 5: Apple 4S, pundits 0
- IBM woos Oracle punters smarting from price hikes
- When Ellison goes, will he go gracefully?
- Crooks beat anti-fraud cops with old-school bank scams
- Hitachi Data Systems on the acquisition trail again
- Channel giant SCH sales up, profit down
- EMC snaps up database optimiser for $10m
- I/O holds up the traffic in virtual systems
- The security mistakes users make
- UK firms splash even more cash on online ads
- Apple predicted AI assistant for tablets in 1987
- The $35 android tablet, a snip at $50
- Google+ inertia sets in at Chocolate Factory
- What's <i>not</i> in the iPhone 4S ... and why
- Sony Ericsson Mix Walkman
- Can a user really do BI from the desktop?
- Americans offered sleep-monitoring datatouch card
- Unite calls off strikes at Fujitsu
- Europe to launch bold Sun swoop mission
- Sony Ericsson: 'We dropped the ball on iPhone'
- Bletchley Park lands £4.6m restoration bonanza
- Bulgarian airbag saves Russian in knife attack
- Boffins place living creature under control of brain chip
- Symantec fends off VMware for data centre throne
- Five... great iPhone racers
- Oracle OpenWorld snub fails to put off Salesforce CEO
- Belgian telcos ordered to blockade Pirate Bay
- Dell, HP Ultrabooks out Q1 2012
- Samsung seeks bans on the iPhone 4S
- Judge cracks down on Bayesian stats dodginess in court
- Security by obscurity not so bad after all, argues prof
- NASA to recruit fresh batch of astronauts
- Ten... Androids to outshine the iPhone 4S
- The iPhone 4S in depth: More than just a vestigial 'S'
- IBM open sources Blue Spruce to aid medical research
- Oracle tweaks MySQL with milestone update
- Lack of data holds up Exadata deployments
| Salesforce.com CEO savages Ellison for OpenWorld tactics Posted: 05 Oct 2011 03:28 PM PDT Guerrilla marketing and faux demo a PR disaster for OracleOpenWorld There was not one but two demonstrations being held in San Francisco Wednesday; a real one carried out in support of Occupy Wall Street and a fake one outside the St Regis hotel staged by Salesforce.com.… |
| Patent troll lawsuits may be on thin ice Posted: 05 Oct 2011 03:00 PM PDT Is Innovatio trying an end run around new laws?Innovatio's strategy of suing Wi-Fi end users might already be on uncertain ground, according to an American IP lawyer.… |
| Oracle previews RHEL-ish 2 Linux kernel Posted: 05 Oct 2011 02:54 PM PDT Lawrence TorvaldsOpenWorld As part of the OpenWorld extravaganza being hosted by Oracle in San Francisco this week, Edward Screven, chief corporate architect at the software giant and the guy who is responsible for the company's Linux and Xen hypervisor variants, gave a brief preview of the next iteration of Oracle's homegrown Linux kernel.… |
| Posted: 05 Oct 2011 01:58 PM PDT Look at what people steal to find out what they wantNetflix is bullish about its international expansion strategy and will be aggressively rolling out the platform to more territories and acquiring rights for global content, according to chief content officer Ted Sarandos.… |
| Teradata adds hardware compression to data warehouses Posted: 05 Oct 2011 11:53 AM PDT Compress this, LarryTeradata invented the data warehousing market and is not about to let Larry Ellison take it over without a fight.… |
| Rackspace spins up OpenStack Foundation Posted: 05 Oct 2011 10:29 AM PDT Will hand over trademarks and copyrights to independent groupExclusive Rackspace is letting go of key components of the OpenStack Linux-for-the-cloud initiative it is helping to lead, with the creation of an OpenStack Foundation, The Reg has learned.… |
| Meltemi is real – Nokia’s skunkworks Linux Posted: 05 Oct 2011 10:25 AM PDT You can still p-p-p-pick up a PenguinSources tell us that Nokia is developing a Linux-based replacement for its S40 phones, called Meltemi. The news was leaked, accurately, by the Wall Street Journal last week. Now we can confirm it.… |
| Cisco CEO: The future of communications is video Posted: 05 Oct 2011 10:14 AM PDT John Chambers gets into prediction industryOpenWorld Cisco CEO John Chambers predicts that video is the future of global communications – and, coincidentally, his company can sell you the hardware to deliver it.… |
| Water like that of Earth's oceans found in comet Posted: 05 Oct 2011 10:00 AM PDT The seas may have arrived from the skyIce found in a comet supports the theory that the earth's oceans were delivered to the planet in the form of crashing comets.… |
| HP uncloaks 10GbE top-of-racker, IPv6 guidance Posted: 05 Oct 2011 09:47 AM PDT A day of HP sanity: no Apotheker, Whitman, or clueless boardInterop 2011 HP is polishing up some new switches and gussying up some others, following up on a broad set of announcements that it made back in May. The company is also trotting out some services to help customers make the transition from IPv4 to IPv6.… |
| Mozilla to Firefox users: Ditch crashtastic McAfee plugin Posted: 05 Oct 2011 09:29 AM PDT Security FAIL... but is it Mozilla's or McAfee's?Mozilla is advising Firefox users to disable a McAfee plugin that the open-source browser supplier blames for a high volume of crashes.… |
| Mobile industry fights San Fran 'carcinogen' labelling Posted: 05 Oct 2011 09:01 AM PDT Coffee shops don't have it, they're equally dangerousThe ongoing battle against product labelling in San Francisco has now hit the courts, with the cellular industry fighting the City of San Francisco for the right to avoid mandatory labelling.… |
| Disney's animated back-catalog gets re-released in 3D Posted: 05 Oct 2011 08:54 AM PDT Dizzy yet?Following last month's successful 3D re-release of The Lion King, Disney has announced four more animated classics from its extensive collection are set for the extra-dimensional polish-up too.… |
| Posted: 05 Oct 2011 08:35 AM PDT Hacks, bloggers cover asses, as Apple readies right kitComment Hell hath no fury like a hack spurned. Don't agree? Then look at the huge numbers of column inches being devoted today to Apple's "failure" to come up to journalist expectations and announce the iPhone 5.… |
| IBM woos Oracle punters smarting from price hikes Posted: 05 Oct 2011 08:29 AM PDT Stop, think, turn to Big BlueIBM is trying to exploit a series of Oracle software and hardware price hikes in recent years to woo firms into using its database appliances.… |
| When Ellison goes, will he go gracefully? Posted: 05 Oct 2011 08:01 AM PDT Alpha Oracle CEO may never be ready to be replaced...Comment Graceful CEO exits are rare: the driven man with his hands on the corporate steering wheel finds it hard to sit in a rear seat and let someone else drive. More often they want to be the satnav. As far as they're concerned, it's their way or an abrupt turn onto the highway.… |
| Crooks beat anti-fraud cops with old-school bank scams Posted: 05 Oct 2011 07:29 AM PDT Fraud losses fell overallPayment card and banking fraud losses fell this year against a rise in cash pilfered through old-school cheque and telephone banking fraud, according to figures released today for the UK.… |
| Hitachi Data Systems on the acquisition trail again Posted: 05 Oct 2011 07:00 AM PDT Shoden buy to create make mega data-systems beastHitachi Data Systems has announced its intention to buy Shoden Data Systems. Data systems companies have to stick together, right?… |
| Channel giant SCH sales up, profit down Posted: 05 Oct 2011 06:42 AM PDT Tax bill, crappy economy pulled down bottom lineSpecialist Computer Holdings – parent of reseller SCC and distributor SDG – pushed up sales in the year ended 31 March 2011, but the biting economy and the payment of a disputed tax bill dampened profits.… |
| EMC snaps up database optimiser for $10m Posted: 05 Oct 2011 06:14 AM PDT Zettapoint was founded with just $1.5mEMC is buying database optimisation company Zettapoint for a reported $10m.… |
| I/O holds up the traffic in virtual systems Posted: 05 Oct 2011 06:00 AM PDT Clearing the bottlenecksWe can now host 512 virtual machines on a single physical server. That's a lot of virtual machines trying to squeeze a lot of I/O out of a single server's networking interfaces.… |
| The security mistakes users make Posted: 05 Oct 2011 06:00 AM PDT Because you can't always be there for themLive broadcast Social networks, local admins, unpatched software, missing USBs: the causes of security problems in your business are often not just the big stuff that tries to get inside the firewall, it's the little problems that are already on the inside.… |
| UK firms splash even more cash on online ads Posted: 05 Oct 2011 05:44 AM PDT Videos and search adverts do well despite downturnDespite eurozone woes, volatile markets and double-dip recession fears, online advertising continues to climb in the UK, according to a report on the first half of 2011.… |
| Apple predicted AI assistant for tablets in 1987 Posted: 05 Oct 2011 05:36 AM PDT You can not be Siri-usAt Apple's iPhone event yesterday, the company talked-up its voice-activated AI assistant, Siri - a feature of iOS 5 that'll first see beta release on the iPhone 4S.… |
| The $35 android tablet, a snip at $50 Posted: 05 Oct 2011 05:29 AM PDT UK designed, Indian builtThe Indian government has unveiled its $35 android tablet, and admitted that with shipping, boxes and manuals it will ultimately cost $50, but government subsidies will make up the difference.… |
| Google+ inertia sets in at Chocolate Factory Posted: 05 Oct 2011 05:14 AM PDT Googly elite uninspired by Googly serviceGoogle+ – unlike Buzz and other failed Chocolate Factory experiments – may have graduated from the soon-to-be-defunct Labs wing of the ad broker's web estate, but questions remain about the company's plans to make it THE social |
| What's <i>not</i> in the iPhone 4S ... and why Posted: 05 Oct 2011 05:08 AM PDT Apple plays it safe on radio tech, Paypal et al sigh with reliefNo 4G radio and no NFC payment technology: the only new radio on the iPhone 4S is a CDMA connection for travellers that, it turns out, most travellers won't be able to use.… |
| Posted: 05 Oct 2011 05:00 AM PDT Last shot for the not-so-smart music phone?Review Recent figures may show that smartphones are now outselling no-so-smart mobiles in Europe, but that's not to say ordinary handsets are dead and buried. New to their ranks is Sony Ericsson's Mix Walkman, which attempts to put some life into the old dog by exploiting Sony's music player branding.… |
| Can a user really do BI from the desktop? Posted: 05 Oct 2011 04:46 AM PDT Commentards, tell us what you think.Analysts at Gartner (and Forrester, and elsewhere) have predicted that 2011 will be the year of self service business intelligence, as users demand tools to help them access and understand company data.… |
| Americans offered sleep-monitoring datatouch card Posted: 05 Oct 2011 04:29 AM PDT What next? NFC incontinence pants?T-Mobile USA is pushing out SleepTrak, a card which accumulates data on the user's sleeping habits and uploads it to a Nokia C7 for analysis.… |
| Unite calls off strikes at Fujitsu Posted: 05 Oct 2011 04:21 AM PDT Keeps quiet on pay deal for membersTrade union Unite has halted strike action at Fujitsu UK after negotiating an eleventh-hour deal with management over pay.… |
| Europe to launch bold Sun swoop mission Posted: 05 Oct 2011 04:16 AM PDT And dark energy space 'scope will probe universe's growthThe European Space Agency hopes to blast into space a probe that will get closer to the Sun than any other craft has managed.… |
| Sony Ericsson: 'We dropped the ball on iPhone' Posted: 05 Oct 2011 04:01 AM PDT No, really? Good godSony Ericsson's CEO has admitted the company should have cottoned on earlier to the iPhone's success, though as he wasn't in the chair at the time it's not his fault.… |
| Bletchley Park lands £4.6m restoration bonanza Posted: 05 Oct 2011 03:52 AM PDT Codebreaking centre still needs private donationsWartime codebreakers HQ Bletchley Park has won a grant of £4.6m from the Heritage Lottery Fund.… |
| Bulgarian airbag saves Russian in knife attack Posted: 05 Oct 2011 03:41 AM PDT Blade stuck in 'huge' jub implantA Moscow woman emerged pretty much unscathed from a vicious knife attack at the hands of her husband after the blade wedged in one of her silicone breast implants.… |
| Boffins place living creature under control of brain chip Posted: 05 Oct 2011 03:29 AM PDT Hooray! Monkey butlers at last! Well, rodent butlersBoffins at Tel Aviv University have successfully implanted an artificial cerebellum into the skull of a rat with brain damage and restored its ability to move.… |
| Symantec fends off VMware for data centre throne Posted: 05 Oct 2011 03:14 AM PDT Virtualisation and clouds targetedSymantec Vision Symantec is fortifying its Storage and Availability Management software (SAMG) for the virtualised cloud world with the release of version 6.… |
| Posted: 05 Oct 2011 03:00 AM PDT Motor-vationiGamer If there was any doubt about the suitability of the iPhone or iPad as a platform for racing games, the sheer variety, number and quality of those now available on the App Store has surely killed it stone dead.… |
| Oracle OpenWorld snub fails to put off Salesforce CEO Posted: 05 Oct 2011 02:50 AM PDT Ticked-off Benioff sets up speech at nearby hotelSalesforce.com CEO Marc Benioff has managed to turn an Oracle slight into a nice little piece of publicity, vowing that his scheduled keynote at the OpenWorld conference would go ahead in a nearby hotel.… |
| Belgian telcos ordered to blockade Pirate Bay Posted: 05 Oct 2011 02:36 AM PDT Court rules ISPs must cut access to torrent siteThe Belgian Anti-Piracy Federation (BAF) has urged all Belgian ISPs to block Swedish freetard site The Pirate Bay after a higher Antwerp court ordered Belgian cable company Telenet and telco Belgacom to make the site inaccessible to their subscribers.… |
| Dell, HP Ultrabooks out Q1 2012 Posted: 05 Oct 2011 02:22 AM PDT 'Ivy Bridge' inside?Acer may have rushed to introduce skinny laptops based on Intel's Ultrabook specification - it debuted the Aspire S3 at the IFA show in September - but fellow top-three PC vendors Dell and HP haven't.… |
| Samsung seeks bans on the iPhone 4S Posted: 05 Oct 2011 02:17 AM PDT Korean giant gunning for Jesus-mobe in latest battle of patent warSamsung is making good on its promise to block the iPhone 5, even though it's now an iPhone 4S, announcing on its blog that it will be filing for preliminary injunctions in Paris and Milan against the new Jesus-mobe iteration today.… |
| Judge cracks down on Bayesian stats dodginess in court Posted: 05 Oct 2011 02:00 AM PDT Terry Pratchett effect angers beakAnalysis A judge in a (sadly unnamed) British case has decided that Bayes' Theorem - a formula used in court to calculate the odds of whodunnit - shouldn't be used in criminal trials.… |
| Security by obscurity not so bad after all, argues prof Posted: 05 Oct 2011 01:24 AM PDT Game theory suggests secrecy has some usesSecurity by obscurity may not be so bad after all, according to a provocative new research paper that questions long-held security maxims.… |
| NASA to recruit fresh batch of astronauts Posted: 05 Oct 2011 12:57 AM PDT Fancy going into space once every ten years?Ever wanted to get into space, armed with your three PhDs or test pilot's licence, but nothing suitable comes up in the Jobcentre search? Well luckily for you, NASA is hunting for a new class of astronauts - but, be warned, new recruits may wait a long time to get into space.… |
| Ten... Androids to outshine the iPhone 4S Posted: 05 Oct 2011 12:00 AM PDT The smart (phone) choiceProduct Round-up Yes folks, it's that time again when across the land otherwise rational and even sensible adults feel the need to whip themselves into a frenzy over the pending arrival of the latest iPhone.… |
| The iPhone 4S in depth: More than just a vestigial 'S' Posted: 04 Oct 2011 05:53 PM PDT Fanbois, shake off your 'No iPhone 5' anguishAs marketing headman Phil Schiller ate up more and more minutes of Apple's "Let's talk iPhone" event, waxing rhapsodically about the new iPhone 4S, it became increasingly clear to those in attendance that the iPhone 5 wasn't going to make an appearance.… |
| IBM open sources Blue Spruce to aid medical research Posted: 04 Oct 2011 05:40 PM PDT Doctors get help on cause and effectIBM has open sourced part of its Blue Spruce web collaboration suite for use by doctors studying the features and genetic origins of illness.… |
| Oracle tweaks MySQL with milestone update Posted: 04 Oct 2011 05:37 PM PDT NoSQL ain't the only story in townOpenWorld While the news about NoSQL has garnered much attention, Oracle has quietly published a development milestone release (DMR) for MySQL.… |
| Lack of data holds up Exadata deployments Posted: 04 Oct 2011 05:35 PM PDT User group takes initiative on trainingOpenWorld Lack of training and information on Oracle's Exadata platform is proving a headache among some users, and the Independent Oracle Users Group (IOUG) is moving to address concerns over the next 18 months.… |
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