Google gets fresh with search algorithm tweak |
- Google gets fresh with search algorithm tweak
- Ninefold ties up with Australian incubators
- Web credential authority rebuked for 'poor' security
- Virtualization market faces shake-up
- Court forces bisexual budgie smuggling blogger to go down
- NASA: Martians likely lived underground
- eBay boss declares era of e-commerce is over
- Apple requires Mac App Store candidates to be sandboxed
- US Army orders more Judge Dredd smartgun ammo
- Oracle gives Solaris 11 final spit and polish
- Apple assails mobile porn purveyor's URLs
- HP plonks Boeing bigwig into global biz hot seat
- Robot cop tackles mystery tinfoil poo-bomb bandit
- RIM is now worth less than its assets
- China, Russia called out as cyberspy hotbeds
- Crime-fighting Seattle superhero unmasked, fired
- Flood recedes at Toshiba's Thai fabs
- Some signs of life detected in gov IT spend
- Computer sports battle in Seattle: A punter's guide
- Has your account been pwned? New website will tell you
- Hands on with the Motorola Xoom 2 10.1in Android tablet
- <i>All</i> 4G telcos must hit 98% coverage, Ofcom told
- LG seeks cash to save its smartphone biz
- Nude lady recreates <i>Star Wars</i> tauntaun scene in dead horse
- UN set to dump GMT for tech-friendly Atomic Time
- Beijing to get free Wi-Fi with obvious strings attached
- Fujitsu boffins send DAN into storage fight
- Fixing Android mobes costs telcos millions
- Welsh gov splashes its cash on 10 lucky resellers
- Moto rolls out Xoom 2 Android fondleslabs
- Shock movie upset - Daniel Craig still James Bond 007
- Brit boffins print blinking booze bottle labels
- Google and co join gov's identity marketplace
- Want to avoid all private-data breaches, ever? Here's how
- Amazon on Facebook: 'la la la we're not listening'
- Universal Music sued by its artists over downloads dosh
- Kindle users can 'borrow' an extra book - forever
- Yamaha RX-V471 5.1 AV receiver
- Smart meters: Nothing can possibly go wrong, says gov
- Apple iOS 5's hidden 3D revealed
- Americans' right to hang fake balls on trucks left dangling
- Trevor works out on VDI roll-outs
- Gadget 'bouncers' hired to patrol biz clouds
- Maggie Philbin on tech, teens and cardigan fear
- Toshiba prices up Portégé Ultrabook
- Apple was OK to fire man for private Facebook comments
- The trials and tribulations of data centre networking
- Adobe Reader
- Facebook denies silent stalking of punters (again)
- RM threatens to axe 300 staff
| Google gets fresh with search algorithm tweak Posted: 03 Nov 2011 03:12 PM PDT Results come quicker for breaking newsGoogle has tweaked its search algorithm to give more up-to-the-minute results for searches, improving the likelihood of more recent news and reviews.… |
| Ninefold ties up with Australian incubators Posted: 03 Nov 2011 03:00 PM PDT Cloudy outlook for startupsFledgling cloud provider Ninefold has announced tie-ups with Australian startup hubs Pollenizer and Starmate, as it tries to attract new companies to its cloud services.… |
| Web credential authority rebuked for 'poor' security Posted: 03 Nov 2011 02:46 PM PDT Digicert Malaysia banished from Chrome, IE, FirefoxMicrosoft, Google, and Mozilla will banish yet another web authentication authority from their software after learning that it issued secure sockets layer certificates that could be used to attack people visiting Malaysian government websites.… |
| Virtualization market faces shake-up Posted: 03 Nov 2011 02:41 PM PDT The hypervisors, they are a-changingServer virtualization is perhaps not as pervasive as many believe, and customers are not as locked into any particular hypervisor as many companies peddling this magic software layer might hope.… |
| Court forces bisexual budgie smuggling blogger to go down Posted: 03 Nov 2011 02:30 PM PDT Downunder Speedo is a scared domainBisexual blogger, Dave Evans, has been ordered by an Australian Federal Court to shut down his websites because they featured swimwear manufacturer Speedo's swimming costumes and domain names using the company's trademark.… |
| NASA: Martians likely lived underground Posted: 03 Nov 2011 02:12 PM PDT Surface water fleeting, subsurface flows enduringIf life ever existed on Mars, it's likely that its longest-lasting enclaves would be underground.… |
| eBay boss declares era of e-commerce is over Posted: 03 Nov 2011 12:31 PM PDT Consumers don't care, it's all just shoppingOpen Mobile Summit John Donahoe, CEO of eBay, has said that the concept of e-commerce is dead and buried, since consumers really don't care about where they buy, so long as they get the cheapest price.… |
| Apple requires Mac App Store candidates to be sandboxed Posted: 03 Nov 2011 12:26 PM PDT Protection for your own goodDevelopers submitting applications to Apple's Mac App Store will soon be required to add an extra layer of security for their wares to be accepted.… |
| US Army orders more Judge Dredd smartgun ammo Posted: 03 Nov 2011 11:02 AM PDT Shoots-round-corners computer rifle gets another $24mThe US Army has assigned an extra $24m of funding to the futuristic XM-25, a high tech personal weapon which can hit and kill an enemy even if he is hiding behind a rock, in a trench or round a corner.… |
| Oracle gives Solaris 11 final spit and polish Posted: 03 Nov 2011 10:39 AM PDT A shiny new Unix bows next weekSystems maker Oracle is getting out the dogs and ponies and hauling them to New York City for the official launch of the long-awaited Solaris 11 operating system next week.… |
| Apple assails mobile porn purveyor's URLs Posted: 03 Nov 2011 10:22 AM PDT 'iPhoneporn4s.com ... hmmm, what might that site contain?'Apple has reportedly filed a complaint against a porn-purveying website that has glommed onto a gaggle of iPhone-related domain names that redirect unwary users to their hardcore smut service.… |
| HP plonks Boeing bigwig into global biz hot seat Posted: 03 Nov 2011 10:21 AM PDT Meg taps Hinshaw, promotes FlowerMeg Whitman has made her first senior appointment as HP CEO by creating a new role - exec veep for global tech and biz processes - and giving it to former Boeing bigwig John Hinshaw.… |
| Robot cop tackles mystery tinfoil poo-bomb bandit Posted: 03 Nov 2011 10:11 AM PDT Plods feared massive turd explosion, evacuated large areaToronto residents were hastily evacuated from homes and businesses in the city yesterday as police feared that tinfoil-wrapped packages of human excrement found beneath a car might explode, flattening an entire neighbourhood in a devastating poo-based blast horror incident of some type.… |
| RIM is now worth less than its assets Posted: 03 Nov 2011 09:56 AM PDT Troubled BlackBerry maker's shares dipA fall in the share price of battered BlackBerry maker RIM puts the firm's market value below the value of all its stuff today.… |
| China, Russia called out as cyberspy hotbeds Posted: 03 Nov 2011 09:41 AM PDT The spy who hacked meRussia and China are using cyber-espionage to steal the US's tech and economic secrets, according to a government report.… |
| Crime-fighting Seattle superhero unmasked, fired Posted: 03 Nov 2011 09:35 AM PDT Phoenix Jones banned from working with childrenSeattle's self-styled superhero has been fired from his job after getting involved in a fracas outside a Washington nightclub.… |
| Flood recedes at Toshiba's Thai fabs Posted: 03 Nov 2011 09:32 AM PDT Not the ones that makes disk drives, thoughToshiba Corp expects to crank up Thai production lines early next year at a number of plants on one industrial park as the waters have started to recede.… |
| Some signs of life detected in gov IT spend Posted: 03 Nov 2011 09:19 AM PDT But it's mid-market sales that cheer Insight in Q3Insight Enterprises says the public sector is starting to show some signs of life again but it was the mid-market and services wins that fuelled modest growth in Q3.… |
| Computer sports battle in Seattle: A punter's guide Posted: 03 Nov 2011 09:01 AM PDT Who takes cluster crown? You tell usSC11 The 2011 Student Cluster Challenge (SCC), the premier event in computer sports, is heading toward Seattle like an out-of-control, rocket-powered freight train. Eight teams of university students are getting ready to travel to SC11 to prove that their clusters can wring more processing out of 26 amps than those of their rivals.… |
| Has your account been pwned? New website will tell you Posted: 03 Nov 2011 08:47 AM PDT If you trust it with your email addressSecurity researchers have set up a website that allows punters to check whether or not their email addresses have appeared in data dumps slurped from compromised databases.… |
| Hands on with the Motorola Xoom 2 10.1in Android tablet Posted: 03 Nov 2011 08:40 AM PDT And the 8.2in Xoom 2 Media Edition tooFirst Look Motorola will be selling its new Xoom 2 tablets - a 10.1in model and the 8.2in "Media Edition", both unveiled today - primarily through Dixons' stores and Carphone Warehouse. Those are both consumer-oriented outlets, so why will so many business apps - Citrix, GoToMeeting and QuickOffice, for instance - be pre-loaded onto the tablets?… |
| <i>All</i> 4G telcos must hit 98% coverage, Ofcom told Posted: 03 Nov 2011 08:33 AM PDT MPs not happy with EE flogging free frequencies, eitherOfcom should demand 98 per cent coverage from all 4G operators, rather than 95 per cent from one, and claw back some cash from EE for the spectrum it was given.… |
| LG seeks cash to save its smartphone biz Posted: 03 Nov 2011 08:16 AM PDT Massive shares issue to pump mobes, workforceLG Electronics is planning to raise 1.0621 trillion won (£588m) in a shares issue so it can pour funds into core businesses like smartphones and take on new staff, its board said today.… |
| Nude lady recreates <i>Star Wars</i> tauntaun scene in dead horse Posted: 03 Nov 2011 08:02 AM PDT Beast killed with .300 magnum, not light-sabreAn Oregon woman who posted photos of herself reclining nude and spattered with equine bodily fluids in the carcass of a dead horse has declared she was partly inspired by Star Wars.… |
| UN set to dump GMT for tech-friendly Atomic Time Posted: 03 Nov 2011 07:44 AM PDT Just a minute...Greenwich could lose its place at the centre of global time if a move to "atomic time" is voted in by the International Telecommunication Union in Geneva in January 2012.… |
| Beijing to get free Wi-Fi with obvious strings attached Posted: 03 Nov 2011 07:34 AM PDT Mobile number needed to access 480,000 hotspotsOver the next five years Beijing will get 480,000 free Wi-Fi hotspots, but using them will require a mobile number and an agreement to have your activities tracked and monitored.… |
| Fujitsu boffins send DAN into storage fight Posted: 03 Nov 2011 07:17 AM PDT Disk Area Network tightly trusses disks to CPUsHas Fujitsu issued a DAN dare to the networked storage industry, challenging its entire existence?… |
| Fixing Android mobes costs telcos millions Posted: 03 Nov 2011 07:03 AM PDT Punters confused by versions and broken kitKeeping up with repairs and returns on Android mobes is costing operators up to £1.25bn ($2bn) a year, according to a new study.… |
| Welsh gov splashes its cash on 10 lucky resellers Posted: 03 Nov 2011 06:52 AM PDT Cymru names IT suppliers in two-year dealTen resellers have won a place on the Welsh Assembly Government's (WAG) two-year framework for PCs and peripherals.… |
| Moto rolls out Xoom 2 Android fondleslabs Posted: 03 Nov 2011 06:50 AM PDT Little and large tablets to swallowMotorola officially announced its fondleslab followups today, launching the anticipated Xoom 2 and a smaller sibling, the Xoom 2 Media Edition.… |
| Shock movie upset - Daniel Craig still James Bond 007 Posted: 03 Nov 2011 06:42 AM PDT Showbiz insiders predict shooting, babes in SkyfallDaniel Craig is back as James Bond 007, blond-haired ball-busting hero of new film Skyfall that will start filming today.… |
| Brit boffins print blinking booze bottle labels Posted: 03 Nov 2011 06:33 AM PDT Now that's a light beerA Cambridge-based printing biz has managed to print little lights onto beer bottle labels that flash as you grab your favourite tipple.… |
| Google and co join gov's identity marketplace Posted: 03 Nov 2011 06:24 AM PDT Midata: A lucrative ID trade-offGoogle is among 26 companies that have signed up to the government's latest effort to create a British business sector out of the handling of private data and an individual's online identity.… |
| Want to avoid all private-data breaches, ever? Here's how Posted: 03 Nov 2011 06:13 AM PDT Wilderness guru speaks, world listensInterview As information and privacy commissioner of Ontario, Ann Cavoukian's jurisdiction is limited to the Canadian province. But that doesn't mean the effects of her post don't extend into territories across the globe.… |
| Amazon on Facebook: 'la la la we're not listening' Posted: 03 Nov 2011 05:54 AM PDT Ann Summers deliciously responsive, howeverThe Facebook Pages for some of the UK's biggest retailers are awash with marketing messages, but often ignore questions and complaints from their customers, a new study has found.… |
| Universal Music sued by its artists over downloads dosh Posted: 03 Nov 2011 05:45 AM PDT Wrinkly rockers want their Eminem iTunes slice of pieA class-action lawsuit by artists against the world's largest record company has been given the green light by a judge. The dispute, which pits Universal Music against a number of its featured artists, sounds arcane – but an estimated $2bn (£1.25bn) in royalties is at stake.… |
| Kindle users can 'borrow' an extra book - forever Posted: 03 Nov 2011 05:36 AM PDT That's not what 'library' and 'lend' mean, say publishersAmazon will lend Kindle owners a book every month as part of a new ebook borrowing scheme known as the Kindle Owners' Lending Library.… |
| Yamaha RX-V471 5.1 AV receiver Posted: 03 Nov 2011 05:30 AM PDT Ridiculously good value?Review Yamaha's RX-V471 is more than just a budget 5.1 AV receiver with 3D-friendly HDMIs. It represents something of a reboot for the celebrated hi-fi brand. Despite having a heritage with AV that can be traced back to the very first surround sound decoder, the past few years have seen the company floundering. For some reason it just wasn't hitting the right notes. … |
| Smart meters: Nothing can possibly go wrong, says gov Posted: 03 Nov 2011 05:27 AM PDT Sky box in charge of your house is a tip-top notionA UK government minister has reassured Parliament that upcoming deployments of smart meters will be secure.… |
| Apple iOS 5's hidden 3D revealed Posted: 03 Nov 2011 05:18 AM PDT Aussie dev's tweak could mean spinning teapots for alliOS 5, the latest OS for Apple trinkets, has hidden depths in the form of support for 3D objects embedded in web pages though the use of WebGL, and not just for paying customers.… |
| Americans' right to hang fake balls on trucks left dangling Posted: 03 Nov 2011 05:09 AM PDT Truck nuts case not seen as low-hanging fruit by courtAmericans on the horns of a constitutional dilemma over their right to hang simulated, over-sized testicles from the back of their pickups will have to wait even longer for the issue to be decided.… |
| Trevor works out on VDI roll-outs Posted: 03 Nov 2011 05:00 AM PDT Stories from the trenchesDeploying virtual desktop integration may save you lots of money (or not). It may increase your employees' mobility (or not). But if you stream the footie match in high definition on 30 virtual machines, it will definitely do a number on a single Gig-E interface.… |
| Gadget 'bouncers' hired to patrol biz clouds Posted: 03 Nov 2011 04:46 AM PDT If your name's not down, you're not connecting inSecurity appliance firms are using the big industry push towards cloud services, and the trend of allowing staff to bring their own devices into work, to sell technology that attempts to fix the resulting security mess.… |
| Maggie Philbin on tech, teens and cardigan fear Posted: 03 Nov 2011 04:36 AM PDT Tomorrow's World icon was first to say 'I'm on a train'Interview It could all have been so different. Thanks to a lack of sound career guidance, techie icon Maggie Philbin didn't become an engineer and instead co-presented the BBC's Tomorrow's World.… |
| Toshiba prices up Portégé Ultrabook Posted: 03 Nov 2011 04:33 AM PDT Pro, consumer models on offerToshiba's first Ultrabook - the Portégé Z830; see our eyes-on, launched during September's IFA consumer electronics show - will finally go on sale this month.… |
| Apple was OK to fire man for private Facebook comments Posted: 03 Nov 2011 04:26 AM PDT 'Image is so central to Apple's success', says tribunalApple was right to fire an employee of one of its UK stores for saying rude things about the company on his Facebook wall, an employment tribunal in Bury St Edmunds ruled.*… |
| The trials and tribulations of data centre networking Posted: 03 Nov 2011 04:15 AM PDT Survey results: No easy answersReg Research For much of the last decade data centre networking, along with networking in general, has become accepted as part of the glue that is invisible to business users.… |
| Posted: 03 Nov 2011 04:00 AM PDT Proper PDF perusal on't 'Pad?iOS App of the Week It's hard to believe that it has taken Adobe so long to release a PDF reader for iDevices, especially since the Android version has been available for more than a year now.… |
| Facebook denies silent stalking of punters (again) Posted: 03 Nov 2011 03:53 AM PDT Hamburg watchdog pokes 'suspicious' cookiesFacebook has once again been forced to defend its use of cookies after a German watchdog said it was "suspicious" that the dominant social network was creating tracking profiles of its users without seeking their consent to do so.… |
| Posted: 03 Nov 2011 03:42 AM PDT Education IT budgets collapse blamedRM has told up to 300 staff that their necks are on the line following the completion of last month's strategic review.… |
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