Dymocks dances with Google |
- Dymocks dances with Google
- US Supremes liken GPS tracking to <i>1984</i>'s Big Brother
- Russian Mars mission launches after multi-year delays
- Telstra targets SMEs in next cloud push
- Advertiser settles charges for use of Adobe Flash cookies
- Mozilla updates to Firefox 8, disables add-ons
- Optus latest to reveal fibre service pricing
- <i>Consumer Reports</i>: iPhone 4S antenna doesn't suck
- Intel stretches HPC dev tools across chubby clusters
- NASA deep-space ship gets 2014 unmanned test flight
- Flood-hit HDD parts supplier resumes production
- Only Samsung will challenge Apple's iPad in 2012
- Hackers can spring Death Row crims from cells
- Boffins give chatty robots a creepy human face
- Ryanair ponders in-air mucky movie service
- Secret US 'Jedi' ghost-copters kept out of bin Laden raid
- Dealer bosses jailed for flogging fake Cisco kit
- Upcoming EU data law will make Europe tricky for Facebook
- Barclays knocks RIM shares down a peg
- Ultrabooks will rescue PC industry – beancounters
- Elite DARPA cyber heroes will protect interwebs
- Boffins: Punters can't get a grip on online privacy tools
- Report: World digital music sales to soar £250m
- UK firm slammed for flogging spy software to Iran
- HTC prepares quad-core smartphone for 2012
- Theresa May won't quit job over UK Border Agency fiasco
- Feds warn 'pox party' zealots not to send viruses in post
- New pics of giant black sphere hurtling toward Earth
- Red Hat finds its feet in cloud gold rush
- Anonymous blasts El Salvador offline
- The Evercookie: Like trying to kill Steven Seagal
- New plastic telescope ammo machine gun is light as a rifle
- EU cybercops: Tighter web privacy will stamp out bullies
- Honda upgrades humanoid robot to SERVE BEER
- Huawei butters up Microsoft to avoid Android patent war
- Apple trains store bosses to <strike>ignore</strike> deal with unions
- Samsung PS64D8000 64in plasma 3D TV
- Building the perfect flexible worker
- Bright Computing bursts HPC to EC2 clouds
- Oregon offers vote by fondleslab-swipe
- Scantily clad spambot vixens make blokes shun security
- Prince Harry given free run of Arizona town's womenfolk
- Best Buy UK spent £200m on failed megastores
- Panasonic preps rubber-clad Android tablet
- Google's top lobbyist quits amid antitrust probe
- BeWeather
- UK Space Agency OKs teeny-tiny satellite
- Ubuntu republic riven by damaging civil wars
- HP seeks buyer for WebOS
- Fujitsu Eternus: It's time to settle this thing
| Posted: 08 Nov 2011 02:30 PM PST Adds frequent reader points programmeAustralia's largest bookstore retailer, Dymocks, has gotten into bed with Google introducing Google eBooks into the local market. The hook-up follows Google's eBookstore launches in the UK and Canada. Google also announced yesterday that it is also launching its affiliate program in all three countries.… |
| US Supremes liken GPS tracking to <i>1984</i>'s Big Brother Posted: 08 Nov 2011 02:01 PM PST 24/7 surveillance, no warrant needed (maybe)If the Obama administration wins a crucial case testing when police may use GPS devices to track American's whereabouts, investigators would be free to attach them to all nine members of the nation's highest court without a warrant.… |
| Russian Mars mission launches after multi-year delays Posted: 08 Nov 2011 01:44 PM PST Phobos-Grunt scheduled to head to Mars later todayAfter years of delay, Russia has successfully launched its first planetary probe since the Mars 96 failure at the end of the last millenium.… |
| Telstra targets SMEs in next cloud push Posted: 08 Nov 2011 01:30 PM PST 'Small' means you have a spare hundred a month or moreWhile some providers are looking to free trials to get businesses, particularly small ones, to try out the cloud, there's no such pussyfooting around from Telstra: it's launched a small business cloud service that ranges upwards from $AU200 per month.… |
| Advertiser settles charges for use of Adobe Flash cookies Posted: 08 Nov 2011 12:18 PM PST Makes it easier to stop online trackingAn internet-based advertising network has agreed to settle Federal Trade Commission charges stemming from its use of Adobe Flash cookies to track internet users' browsing history, even when they took steps to evade monitoring.… |
| Mozilla updates to Firefox 8, disables add-ons Posted: 08 Nov 2011 12:15 PM PST New browser adds Twitter search for desktopsMozilla has released the new build of its Firefox browser and, as promised, it's cracking down on third-party add-ons.… |
| Optus latest to reveal fibre service pricing Posted: 08 Nov 2011 12:00 PM PST Oz number two carrier also testing service aggregationOptus has become the latest carrier to reveal its NBN service pricing, with bundled services starting as low as $AU39.99.… |
| <i>Consumer Reports</i>: iPhone 4S antenna doesn't suck Posted: 08 Nov 2011 11:50 AM PST Antennagate closedThe product testers at Consumer Reports have given the iPhone 4S a clean bill of health.… |
| Intel stretches HPC dev tools across chubby clusters Posted: 08 Nov 2011 10:21 AM PST Cluster Studio XE ready for MICs, not for GPUsSC11 Supercomputing hardware and software vendors are getting impatient for the SC11 supercomputing conference in Seattle, which kicks off next week. More than a few have jumped the gun with product announcements this week, including chipmaker Intel.… |
| NASA deep-space ship gets 2014 unmanned test flight Posted: 08 Nov 2011 09:50 AM PST 'We're still going to the Moon, not listening to Obama'NASA has announced that it will test-fly its pork-tastic Orion spaceship, conceived under the Bush administration for the purpose of carrying astronauts to the Moon once more and now rebranded as a "deep space" vessel for trips to asteroids and perhaps one day Mars.… |
| Flood-hit HDD parts supplier resumes production Posted: 08 Nov 2011 09:29 AM PST Motor maker Nidec re-opens two factoriesMajor disk drive motor supplier Nidec has resumed production at several facilities in Thailand, but continues to deal with damage to six sites that are still under water.… |
| Only Samsung will challenge Apple's iPad in 2012 Posted: 08 Nov 2011 09:11 AM PST Single-figure market shares for the restApple's share of the tablet market may be heading downward, but it's still going to sell a shedload of fondleslabs next year.… |
| Hackers can spring Death Row crims from cells Posted: 08 Nov 2011 09:03 AM PST Researchers prove SCADA jailbreak riskComputer systems used to control federal prison facilities are riddled with vulnerabilities that might allow criminals to meddle with cell door opening mechanisms or shut down internal communications systems, according to security researchers.… |
| Boffins give chatty robots a creepy human face Posted: 08 Nov 2011 08:39 AM PST Face/onBoffins from Germany and Japan have teamed up to create a human-like face for robots.… |
| Ryanair ponders in-air mucky movie service Posted: 08 Nov 2011 08:23 AM PST Boogie flightsRyanair has hinted that it may be planning to offer flyers adult entertainment in flight.… |
| Secret US 'Jedi' ghost-copters kept out of bin Laden raid Posted: 08 Nov 2011 08:19 AM PST Downed Stealth Hawk was actually second-rate kitThe top-secret "Stealth Hawk" helicopters aboard which elite US Navy SEAL operatives travelled into Pakistan to kill Osama bin Laden were by no means the most sophisticated aircraft available, according to a new book on the operation. Apparently, even stealthier "Ghost Hawks" - also known as "Jedi rides" - were kept out of the mission as it was feared that the secrets of their advanced technology might be revealed to other nations.… |
| Dealer bosses jailed for flogging fake Cisco kit Posted: 08 Nov 2011 08:01 AM PST Networking's not working for them nowThe bosses of US reseller Direct Deals has been sent down for touting fake Cisco gear imported from the Far East.… |
| Upcoming EU data law will make Europe tricky for Facebook Posted: 08 Nov 2011 07:45 AM PST Must gain explicit consent to use your dataEU-ro-crats are mulling new data protection laws that could make Europe a hostile place for Facebook and other social networks.… |
| Barclays knocks RIM shares down a peg Posted: 08 Nov 2011 07:39 AM PST BlackBerry crumbles in the eyes of investorsThe shine has been taken off BlackBerry-maker RIM's shares after the firm's stock was downgraded by Barclays. The reassessment of the Canadian biz comes after a string of problems that more than halved its stock price in the last six months.… |
| Ultrabooks will rescue PC industry – beancounters Posted: 08 Nov 2011 07:21 AM PST But only if prices fall below the $1,000 bracketUltrabooks will give stagnating notebook sales and the wider PC components industry a shot in the arm, but only when prices are chopped, beancounter IHS iSuppli has warned.… |
| Elite DARPA cyber heroes will protect interwebs Posted: 08 Nov 2011 07:01 AM PST 'We invented it, we'll save it'DARPA is upping its cyber game in order to protect the internet it came up with, increasing its research budget from $120m (£74.6m) to $188m (£117m) for the fiscal year 2012.… |
| Boffins: Punters can't get a grip on online privacy tools Posted: 08 Nov 2011 06:39 AM PST Config and confusion issues make anti-tracking kit uselessPrivacy tools that offer a means to prevent advertisers from tracking the activity of surfers online are largely ineffective, according to a study by computer scientists.… |
| Report: World digital music sales to soar £250m Posted: 08 Nov 2011 06:19 AM PST CD and LP sales flag, but discs beat downloadsGlobal sales of digital music rose this year and are predicted to top £3.92bn ($6.3bn) by the end of December, an increase from £3.67bn ($5.9bn) in 2010, according to a report from Gartner.… |
| UK firm slammed for flogging spy software to Iran Posted: 08 Nov 2011 05:58 AM PST Lord fingers biz with Foreign Secretary linksA senior lawmaker has called on the UK government to ban the export of British-made surveillance software to repressive regimes.… |
| HTC prepares quad-core smartphone for 2012 Posted: 08 Nov 2011 05:48 AM PST Beastly blower bad for battery?HTC is preparing an onslaught in the mobile marketplace by launching the first quad-core handset in 2012.… |
| Theresa May won't quit job over UK Border Agency fiasco Posted: 08 Nov 2011 05:47 AM PST Home Secretary still standing despite relaxed checks rowHome Secretary Theresa May confirmed today that she would not resign from her Cabinet position, despite the UK Border Agency fiasco that led to an unknown number of people entering the country without proper checks.… |
| Feds warn 'pox party' zealots not to send viruses in post Posted: 08 Nov 2011 05:41 AM PST Poxy spit safer than 'live' vaccine say refuseniksHealth officials in Tennessee have warned parents that giving their children chickenpox-infected lollipops ordered over the internet is not a legitimate substitute for the state's mandatory immunisation programme for the scratch-inducing infection.… |
| New pics of giant black sphere hurtling toward Earth Posted: 08 Nov 2011 05:32 AM PST Vast spaceball 'safely will safely fly past' - NASAA vast, inky black sphere approximately the size of a nuclear aircraft carrier is plunging through the void of space towards planet Earth, though NASA rather panickily insists that it will definitely not smash into our planet with devastating force.… |
| Red Hat finds its feet in cloud gold rush Posted: 08 Nov 2011 05:23 AM PST Hang on, lads, I've got a great ideaOpen ... And Shut Cloud computing may be the future, but it appears to be one fraught with unpredictable downtime and security breaches. In other words, it's very much like the bad ol' days of corporate data centres, except that this time Amazon, Salesforce and other cloud providers get the blame when things go wrong - rather than one's local IT folks.… |
| Anonymous blasts El Salvador offline Posted: 08 Nov 2011 05:13 AM PST Ay, caramba!The government of El Salvador's websites were taken out on Saturday in what was a weekend of big hacks by the Anonymous collective.… |
| The Evercookie: Like trying to kill Steven Seagal Posted: 08 Nov 2011 05:03 AM PST And running Java is just criminally irresponsiblePart 2 In part one of this series, I explored the privacy threats presented by targeted advertising, and asked why we should care. Browser referral, social media buttons and cookies were examined as examples of basic methods used to track our movements across the internet.… |
| New plastic telescope ammo machine gun is light as a rifle Posted: 08 Nov 2011 04:52 AM PST Every soldier could get heavy-weapons firepower in futureThe US Army has announced successful tests of a new, lightweight portable machine-gun which fires special plastic ammunition. The gun and ammo are so much lighter than current weapons and their brass-cased cartridges that some soldiers are suggesting that every infantryman could in future pack the sort of firepower reserved today for heavy-weapons specialists.… |
| EU cybercops: Tighter web privacy will stamp out bullies Posted: 08 Nov 2011 04:41 AM PST Sensitive info leaking to tormentors and paedos – reportImproved safeguards and greater resources for law enforcement are needed to tackle the related problems of cyber-bullying and online grooming, according to a report by an EU security agency published on Tuesday.… |
| Honda upgrades humanoid robot to SERVE BEER Posted: 08 Nov 2011 04:29 AM PST Asimo gets voice, face recognition tooHonda's stair-climbing robot, Asimo, has resurfaced now that its developer has given the 'droid the ability to recognise faces and voices, and to pour drinks.… |
| Huawei butters up Microsoft to avoid Android patent war Posted: 08 Nov 2011 04:28 AM PST Shock new approach for UK mobe launchChinese infrastructure giant Huawei is bucking the trend by talking to Microsoft about patent licensing before launching potentially infringing Android devices.… |
| Apple trains store bosses to <strike>ignore</strike> deal with unions Posted: 08 Nov 2011 04:18 AM PST Up the workers. Right up 'emApple has begun training its US store managers on how to deal with attempts by retail workers to organise themselves into unions.… |
| Samsung PS64D8000 64in plasma 3D TV Posted: 08 Nov 2011 04:14 AM PST Widescreen whopperReview With Samsung's domination of the LED TV market all but complete (bwahahaha!) it's perhaps easy to forget the brand is a major purveyor of plasma screens too. Its current largest is the 64in D8000, which with stand weighs in at over 38kg and dominates all but the largest of living rooms.… |
| Building the perfect flexible worker Posted: 08 Nov 2011 04:12 AM PST Half man half iPhoneBroadcast Working outside the office isn't a perk. Every day more of us are expected to do it. Problem is, we're not very good at it yet.… |
| Bright Computing bursts HPC to EC2 clouds Posted: 08 Nov 2011 04:02 AM PST A veritable – and virtual – clusterSC11 If you want to do cloud bursting in an HPC environment, the last thing you want to do is try to manage the movement of running workloads from your own cluster out to a compute cloud like Amazon's EC2 compute cloud. Bright Computing, the maker of the Bright Cluster Manager, would go so far as to say that its HPC cluster control freak is the only thing that should be trusted to do such work.… |
| Oregon offers vote by fondleslab-swipe Posted: 08 Nov 2011 03:52 AM PST Special service for disabled citizensThe US state of Oregon is pioneering fondleslab-voting for a primary election to replace US Representative David Wu, who resigned after a sex scandal.… |
| Scantily clad spambot vixens make blokes shun security Posted: 08 Nov 2011 03:43 AM PST Men most likely to friend dodgy Facebook strangersMen are more likely to be suckers for Facebook scams than women, according to a new survey by Bitdefender, and it's usually because they're hitting confirm on friend requests accompanied by pictures of hotties in bikinis.… |
| Prince Harry given free run of Arizona town's womenfolk Posted: 08 Nov 2011 03:31 AM PST 'Thank you,' pants ecstatic waitressPrince Harry has been given the green light to deflower the maidens of a small US town, after the town manager explained reports Cap'n Windsor had been warned off "fornicating" as "a total fabrication".… |
| Best Buy UK spent £200m on failed megastores Posted: 08 Nov 2011 03:23 AM PST Consumer meltdown, delays and Dixons forced closureBest Buy's efforts to win over UK consumers were an expensive failure, costing some £200m to set up just 11 big box stores.… |
| Panasonic preps rubber-clad Android tablet Posted: 08 Nov 2011 03:13 AM PST Ten incher for men on polesLooking for an Android fondleslab that's a bit less fragile? Next Spring, Panasonic will release what it hopes will be just the ticket.… |
| Google's top lobbyist quits amid antitrust probe Posted: 08 Nov 2011 03:11 AM PST Davidson leaps from fiery WashingtonGoogle's top Washington lobbyist, Alan Davidson, has quit the company.… |
| Posted: 08 Nov 2011 03:00 AM PST For those who live in a kingdom of rainsAndroid App of the Week BlackBerry Messenger aside, there can't be many BB apps that Android users have been waiting for. But one such is BeWeather which has just been ported across.… |
| UK Space Agency OKs teeny-tiny satellite Posted: 08 Nov 2011 02:42 AM PST Liftoff expected late 2012The UK Space Agency has approved the design of UKube-1, the UK's first CubeSat mission.… |
| Ubuntu republic riven by damaging civil wars Posted: 08 Nov 2011 02:30 AM PST Can the Linux Jedi hold things together?Analysis There's a popular misconception about open source: that it's democratic, that all users have a vote over its direction and development or even the running of the community around it.… |
| Posted: 08 Nov 2011 02:28 AM PST For sale, one mobile OS. One previous owner. Will swap for tablet business strategyHP is seeking a buyer for WebOS, the mobile operating system it acquired by buying PDA pioneer Palm last year.… |
| Fujitsu Eternus: It's time to settle this thing Posted: 08 Nov 2011 02:21 AM PST Masked man and Schneider doff coats, get in the Jell-OVMAX is modular and Eternus is not really enterprise class, having several limitations, according to an EMC fan. Fujitsu says the person is ill-informed.… |
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