Can 24/7 porn rescue Google TV? |
- Can 24/7 porn rescue Google TV?
- Internode adds Darwin POP
- Australia Network tender shut down
- BlackRock takes $NZ250m taste of Telecom NZ
- Microsoft gives Phone 7 Mango jailbreak its blessing
- DNS cache poisonings foist malware attacks on Brazilians
- Apple shovels $400m in stock options to top execs
- Linux Mint moves to Gnome 3, keeps Gnome 2 MATEy
- Google launches Google+ Pages for businesses
- White space database trial points to 2011 launch
- Router glitch causes widespread net outages
- US pols sack Santa Claus in cost-cutting drive
- AT&T survey: Cloud computing saves cash, planet
- Fujitsu readies 23 petaflops Sparc FX10 super beast
- Goodyear introduces new concept of 'Blimpworthiness'
- UK Home Sec: 'I authorised biometric bypass pilot'
- US IT sector gains jobs
- NASA tells <i>Voyager 2</i> to save its strength
- Google's legal boss is fed up with patent warfare
- B&N fans fondleslab flames following Kindle Fire
- Compact Disc death foretold for 2012
- Adidas pulls down sites hit in 'sophisticated' hack
- Longhorns on top in kid cluster compo
- Gartner: Eurozone crisis will bash IT spending
- Anonymous runs amock in Israel, Finland, Portugal
- Greens threaten to sue over solar 'leccy cash slash
- Goldeneye 007: Reloaded
- Drive chip biz warns of flash-disk hybrid boom
- Gallery mulls 'damage' after cleaner scrubs modern art
- Google: We're <i>not</i> pushing our gear over rivals
- Japan develops powered armour suit for nuke workers
- Apple faces Germany ban after court no-show
- Robbers steal £1m worth of Modern Warfare 3 packs
- China's web biz bosses crank up gossip crackdown
- Hard disk famine shaping up as predicted after floods
- US.gov: We aren't hiding any space aliens
- Adventures in Tech: Dive on in, the IPv6 is lovely
- Billions on mobe broadband in Ericsson's dystopian future
- Samsung offers Galaxy Nexus pre-orders through Phones4U
- It's time to rethink storage management
- Sony Alpha SLT-A35 translucent mirror camera
- HP offers devs £130 32GB TouchPad tablets
- Drug cops log Nigerian star's 24 bowel movements
- Boffins spy on iPhone screens from 200ft away
- HTC confirms Ice Cream Sandwich tablet for 2012
- Anonymous backs off in clash with Mexican drug cartel
- HTC to release first Ice Cream Sandwich updates 'early 2012'
- Common brain parasite 'can affect host's actions'
- Elgato EyeTV Mobile
- Best Buy to shutter all UK megastores
| Can 24/7 porn rescue Google TV? Posted: 07 Nov 2011 03:03 PM PST 'Cheap Trixxx', 'Feet First', and more – all Vivid, all the timeGoogle TV has not exactly set the world on fire, but a time-tested treat that catapulted such technologies as DVD, VHS, and even Super 8 into millions of homes is now available on the sputtering service.… |
| Posted: 07 Nov 2011 03:00 PM PST Expanded Oz backhaul makes far north feasibleThe expansion of Australia's backhaul networks is paying off for Darwin residents, with ISP Internode announcing that it's going to add its own POP in the country's northernmost state capital.… |
| Australia Network tender shut down Posted: 07 Nov 2011 02:30 PM PST Government afflicted with Joyce Syndrome*The Australian government has terminated the protracted and controversial tender process for the $AU223 million Australia Network broadcasting contract.… |
| BlackRock takes $NZ250m taste of Telecom NZ Posted: 07 Nov 2011 01:48 PM PST Bigger bite or placeholder for coming attractions?New York-based multinational investment behemoth BlackRock Inc has stepped into the New Zealand telecommunications market taking a 5 percent stake in Telecom New Zealand.… |
| Microsoft gives Phone 7 Mango jailbreak its blessing Posted: 07 Nov 2011 01:32 PM PST If it's good enough for ChevronWP7, it's good enough for hobbyistsMicrosoft has shifted its stance on the jailbreaking of its Phone 7 operating system, and seems to be embracing – rather than trying to crush – such developments.… |
| DNS cache poisonings foist malware attacks on Brazilians Posted: 07 Nov 2011 01:18 PM PST 'Desperate cries' from those visiting innocent sitesAn attack on several Brazilian ISPs has exposed large numbers of their subscribers to malware attacks when they attempt to visit Hotmail, Gmail, and other trusted websites, security researchers have warned.… |
| Apple shovels $400m in stock options to top execs Posted: 07 Nov 2011 12:40 PM PST 'Stick around, guys, and we'll make it worth you while'Apple CEO Tim Cook and his board of directors appear keen on keeping their executive brain trust intact – so much so that they have just shelled out around $400m worth of stock options to their top talent.… |
| Linux Mint moves to Gnome 3, keeps Gnome 2 MATEy Posted: 07 Nov 2011 12:40 PM PST Lisa goes both ways, with shell to ease transitionThe forthcoming release of Linux Mint will see it shift to the Gnome 3 desktop for the first time, but it will continue to support Gnome 2 users with a separate root, and has a shell to ease the transition between the platforms.… |
| Google launches Google+ Pages for businesses Posted: 07 Nov 2011 11:25 AM PST 'Hangout' on Monday with Kermit and Ms. PiggyGoogle has unveiled some enhancements to Google+ aimed at expanding that people-to-people social networking service to people-to-businesses and people-to-organizations.… |
| White space database trial points to 2011 launch Posted: 07 Nov 2011 11:04 AM PST Technology is able, users less soThe first trial of a live white space database has completed, and demonstrated that the technology works – even if the people using it need a little more work.… |
| Router glitch causes widespread net outages Posted: 07 Nov 2011 11:01 AM PST Level 3, Time Warner, BlackBerry reported to see problemsInternet services throughout the North America and Europe saw widespread outages and slowdowns on Monday after backbone provider Level 3 Communications suffered a global failure, network providers said.… |
| US pols sack Santa Claus in cost-cutting drive Posted: 07 Nov 2011 10:31 AM PST 'Happy Holidays, now p*ss off', 2,000-year-old worker toldA local government in New York state has cut Father Christmas from the county payroll as part of a vicious cost-cutting program.… |
| AT&T survey: Cloud computing saves cash, planet Posted: 07 Nov 2011 10:03 AM PST Biz spends 69% less after move to the cloud, says cloud services providerPutting your data in the cloud could save carbon as well as cash, says a new survey (PDF) on the advantages of the cloud from the Carbon Disclosure Project, funded by US telco AT&T. The report concluded that a large US company that made the switch now could be achieving annual savings of $12.3bn and annual carbon reductions equivalent to 200 million barrels of oil by 2020.… |
| Fujitsu readies 23 petaflops Sparc FX10 super beast Posted: 07 Nov 2011 09:46 AM PST 16-core Sparc64-IXfx chip on deckAhead of the SC11 supercomputing conference in Seattle next week, Japanese IT conglomerate Fujitsu says it's not only going to commercialize the K supercomputer that just busted through the 10 petaflops barrier, but that early next year it will double-stuff the design with a new Sparc64 chip, and sell it to entities other than the Japanese government.… |
| Goodyear introduces new concept of 'Blimpworthiness' Posted: 07 Nov 2011 09:39 AM PST 'Zeppelinworthiness' presumably coming soonUS tyre company and former airship builder Goodyear has come up with a new word as part of a marketing ploy. The firm, introducing online polls to determine which sporting events its iconic airships should attend, has framed the question: is a given event "blimpworthy"?… |
| UK Home Sec: 'I authorised biometric bypass pilot' Posted: 07 Nov 2011 09:23 AM PST MPs told passport checks 'abandoned on occasion'Home Secretary Theresa May fought for her political life in Parliament on Monday after it was revealed that immigration border guards were told to ignore biometric chips on the passports of non-eurozone citizens.… |
| Posted: 07 Nov 2011 09:04 AM PST Unemployment rate inches downThe job situation in the United States has improved in the past three months, but the growth in the workforce is still not sufficient to keep up with population growth, much less make much of a dent in the unemployment rate, which remains stubbornly at high levels.… |
| NASA tells <i>Voyager 2</i> to save its strength Posted: 07 Nov 2011 08:42 AM PST Agency wants ship to explore the outer limits for 10 more yearsVoyager 2 is conserving energy by using its back-up thrusters as it continues to boldly go where no spaceship has gone before.… |
| Google's legal boss is fed up with patent warfare Posted: 07 Nov 2011 08:24 AM PST But who doesn't think the system is broken?Legal tangles over patents are stifling innovation and will lead to stagnation in the tech industry, said Google's chief patent lawyer in a newspaper interview in the San Francisco Chronicle.… |
| B&N fans fondleslab flames following Kindle Fire Posted: 07 Nov 2011 08:01 AM PST Bookshop chain's Nook Tablet unveiledUS bookseller Barnes and Noble has caught fondleslab fever, unveiling its Nook Tablet today to compete with Amazon's Kindle Fire.… |
| Compact Disc death foretold for 2012 Posted: 07 Nov 2011 07:45 AM PST Major record labels to kill format?The major record labels are planning to kill off the CD format by the end of next year to make way for digital downloads only.… |
| Adidas pulls down sites hit in 'sophisticated' hack Posted: 07 Nov 2011 07:44 AM PST Gymwear biz given a right shoeingAdidas has taken some of its websites offline as a precaution following the discovery of a "sophisticated, criminal cyber-attack".… |
| Longhorns on top in kid cluster compo Posted: 07 Nov 2011 07:22 AM PST We look at the odds in computer sport smackdownSC11 There have been some big changes in the odds since we opened up the Student Cluster Competition (SCC) 2011 betting pool to the public. (For details on the SCC and the teams, click here.) The betting has tightened up the field as SCC fans pick their favorites to win both the Overall Prize and the LINPACK portions of the fight.… |
| Gartner: Eurozone crisis will bash IT spending Posted: 07 Nov 2011 07:02 AM PST Ahoy, recession, we meet againEnterprise IT spending will stagger and fall this year but may back on one leg in 2012 despite swingeing public sector cuts and the looming Eurozone financial catastrophe.… |
| Anonymous runs amock in Israel, Finland, Portugal Posted: 07 Nov 2011 06:43 AM PST Spook sites downed, citizens' data revealedAnonymous activists marked the 5 November anniversary of the Gunpowder Treason Plot to get up to all sorts of mischief over the weekend.… |
| Greens threaten to sue over solar 'leccy cash slash Posted: 07 Nov 2011 06:22 AM PST FiT hit leaves FoE in a fitWhile there's been growing discussion of a "Robin Hood Tax" recently, its very antithesis was quietly introduced last year: a Reverse Robin Hood Tax. This entails a wealth transfer from the poor to the middle classes – and the means is a market-rigging mechanism that ensures that the energy we use is much more expensive than it needs to be. Via a feed-in tariff (FiT), the government guarantees to buy the domestically-produced output of solar photovoltaic cells at a huge markup over the market rate.… |
| Posted: 07 Nov 2011 06:01 AM PST Yesterday never diesReview Here we go again. Back to bungie jumping from the dam at Arkhangelsk. Back to sneaking across the snowy fields around the Severnaya satellite installation. And back to dodging fierce crossfire on the gantries of an antenna cradle.… |
| Drive chip biz warns of flash-disk hybrid boom Posted: 07 Nov 2011 05:53 AM PST 'Most' HDD makers will follow Seagate's leadMarvell, the main supplier of disk drive controller system chips, says most disk drive vendors will have hybrid flash-disk products in a few months.… |
| Gallery mulls 'damage' after cleaner scrubs modern art Posted: 07 Nov 2011 05:41 AM PST Mistook rainwater installation for rainwaterA German museum is continuing to show a controversial $1.1m modern art installation after one of its cleaners deciding what the piece really needed was a good going over with some Cilit Bang.… |
| Google: We're <i>not</i> pushing our gear over rivals Posted: 07 Nov 2011 05:34 AM PST Antitrust probe told everything is a search resultEric Schmidt claimed in a letter to the US Senate's antitrust subcommittee that Google's huge array of web properties are not "separate products and services" offered by the company.… |
| Japan develops powered armour suit for nuke workers Posted: 07 Nov 2011 05:22 AM PST Motorised limbs allow heavy rad shielding to be wornA splendid Japanese professor has offered his "HAL" powered exoskeleton suit for use by nuclear powerplant workers at Fukushima, pointing out that the suit's motorised limbs would allow users to lift radiation-proof armour which would otherwise be prohibitively heavy.… |
| Apple faces Germany ban after court no-show Posted: 07 Nov 2011 05:11 AM PST Did its lawyer get stuck in traffic?Sales of iPhones and iPads are on the brink of being banned in Germany as a result of a court battle over Apple's alleged infringement of Motorola patents - but the fruity fondleslab maker reckons it can get the injunction suspended even though it failed to turn up.… |
| Robbers steal £1m worth of Modern Warfare 3 packs Posted: 07 Nov 2011 05:07 AM PST Call of bootyJust one day before it launches, Activision's Modern Warfare 3 has already got people pulling out real weapons and committing crimes.… |
| China's web biz bosses crank up gossip crackdown Posted: 07 Nov 2011 05:02 AM PST Stoke the Great Firewall ... or elseChinese tech firms have agreed to add more bricks to the Great Firewall of China at the end of a summit hosted by the country's government.… |
| Hard disk famine shaping up as predicted after floods Posted: 07 Nov 2011 04:53 AM PST Would you steal or kill if your family needed storage?Flooding in Thailand is causing disk drive supplies to dry up and prices to rise.… |
| US.gov: We aren't hiding any space aliens Posted: 07 Nov 2011 04:42 AM PST We can handle the truthThe American government is not in contact with aliens and is not aware of any living on Earth, the White House revealed today in response to 12,000 American citizens who told the government "they could handle the truth".… |
| Adventures in Tech: Dive on in, the IPv6 is lovely Posted: 07 Nov 2011 04:31 AM PST Blub blub blub, no really it's greatPart 2 In the previous part I explored why you should limber up to IPv6 sooner rather than later, and now here's my experience actually walking the talk.… |
| Billions on mobe broadband in Ericsson's dystopian future Posted: 07 Nov 2011 04:23 AM PST Metropolis nowIn the grim, urban future, over half of the planet will have a mobile broadband subscription, according to a report from Ericsson.… |
| Samsung offers Galaxy Nexus pre-orders through Phones4U Posted: 07 Nov 2011 04:17 AM PST Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich smartphone nears releaseSamsung has begun taking advance orders for its Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich-based Galaxy Nexus smartphone.… |
| It's time to rethink storage management Posted: 07 Nov 2011 04:12 AM PST So say the expertsIn these cash-strapped times spending you way out of a data boom isn't as easy as it was so last week we packed our studio with 3 storage experts to talk through the alternatives.… |
| Sony Alpha SLT-A35 translucent mirror camera Posted: 07 Nov 2011 04:02 AM PST Great shotReview Sony's Alpha SLT-35 expands on its translucent mirror camera models that offer similar handling to a DSLR and compatibility with its A mount Alpha range of lenses. The catch with this magic mirror tech is that to keep things compact, you end up with an electronic viewfinder, rather than an optical one. The gains are fast AF and continuous shooting on more affordable and entry-level models.… |
| HP offers devs £130 32GB TouchPad tablets Posted: 07 Nov 2011 03:56 AM PST App encouragement, or warehouse clearance attempt?Want a cheap HP TouchPad? The computer giant is offering "for a limited time" the 32GB version of its WebOS-based fondleslab for £130. The catch: you have to be a registered WebOS developer.… |
| Drug cops log Nigerian star's 24 bowel movements Posted: 07 Nov 2011 03:51 AM PST Law made to look an assNigerian authorities have been forced to release an actor they suspected of drug smuggling after he produced no less than 24 narco-free bowel movements.… |
| Boffins spy on iPhone screens from 200ft away Posted: 07 Nov 2011 03:44 AM PST Shoulder surfing goes high-techVid North Carolina boffins have been watching text entered into iPhones from 60 meters (197ft) behind the shoulders of users – or from the front, by reading the reflections in the users' glasses.… |
| HTC confirms Ice Cream Sandwich tablet for 2012 Posted: 07 Nov 2011 03:39 AM PST Android 4.0 fondleslab inboundHTC has confirmed it plans to take another stab at the tablet market in 2012 after officially announcing a new fondleslab with Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich early next year.… |
| Anonymous backs off in clash with Mexican drug cartel Posted: 07 Nov 2011 03:23 AM PST 'Kidnap victim released' claim backpedalling hacktivistsOn-again-off-again plans by the Anonymous collective to publish details of the infamous Zetas drug cartel and their associates were finally cancelled over the weekend, following the supposed release of a kidnapped member of the hacktivist collective.… |
| HTC to release first Ice Cream Sandwich updates 'early 2012' Posted: 07 Nov 2011 03:14 AM PST First wave of handset upgrades announcedHTC will be bringing Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich to four of its handsets early next year in what it described today as "the first wave of HTC phones that will receive upgrades".… |
| Common brain parasite 'can affect host's actions' Posted: 07 Nov 2011 03:12 AM PST One-in-five chance your mind is being manipulatedBoffins here in Blighty say that a brain parasite which is carried by up to 20 per cent of the population is capable of affecting its host's actions for its own benefit – but against the interests of the host.… |
| Posted: 07 Nov 2011 03:00 AM PST iDevice digital telly on the goGeek Treat of the Week The sooner 2012 has been and gone, the better. By the time next year is out, Britain will no longer be transmitting terrestrial telly signals in analogue, and products like Elgato's EyeTV Mobile will be considerably more useful than they are now.… |
| Best Buy to shutter all UK megastores Posted: 07 Nov 2011 02:43 AM PST Dixons sent 'em packingBest Buy's big box experiment in Europe is over: the US retailer is set to close its megastores and retreat into Carphone Warehouse (CPW) shops.… |
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