Opposition to SOPA mounting as Google, Facebook link arms |
- Opposition to SOPA mounting as Google, Facebook link arms
- Intel unveils $100m plan to juice AppUp Center devs
- Is iiNet about to spend a bob on TransACT?
- SingTel launches e-reader
- 'Devastating' protocol flaw could paralyze Bitcoin system
- Adobe Flex SDK bombshell STUNS developers
- Nvidia: An unintended exascale-super innovator
- Ballmer shoots down Microsoft breakup advice
- OpenCL ratchets up to version 1.2
- 'Do Not Track' standard edges towards daylight
- Enormous orbiting solar raygun power plants touted
- Petaflop = Top500 table stakes by 2016
- Angry Bird rockets into <i>spa-a-a-a-ce!</i>
- SCC11: Meet the Purdue Boilermakers
- Assange takes extradition fight to Supreme Court
- AT&T LTE hits Vegas and five other slots
- SCC11: Meet the Colorado Buffaloes
- SCC11: Meet Team Texas
- SCC11: Meet Team Taiwan
- Facebook filth flood – Fawkes Virus to blame?
- SCC11: Meet Team Russia
- SCC11: Meet Team Costa Rica
- US student to fill heavens with Sprites
- Samsung's Bada outshipped WinPho 7 in Q3
- IKEA cuts ribbon on 'I've Got A Screw Loose Street'
- SCC11: Meet Team China
- Step forward the chief information security officer
- SCC11: Meet the Boston U Terriers
- Ultimate flight-sim crashes into living rooms for 36 grand
- Visa to tell shops where their punters' wallets went next
- 'Hands free' pissing contest games installed in boozer
- Engineer sues Huawei for axing him 'because he's a Brit'
- LHC results may solve riddle of how universe can exist
- <i>Voyager 2</i> finally agrees to a long hard thrust
- PETA riled by Mario's raccoon skin suit
- C&W Worldwide boss out after 4 months
- Rackspace: OpenStack beds Disney, NASA, Sony
- Mystery malware poisons NZ ambulance system
- BT poaches TV wizard from Virgin Media
- <i>Harry Potter</i> director takes on <i>Doctor Who</i> movie
- A pint a day keeps the doctor away - scientific FACT
- New anonymity rule on Euro airport body scanners
- Apple's cloud music service 'WIPES your iPHONE'
- Red Hat: Let OpenShift cloud compile your Java apps
- Halo: Combat Evolved Anniversary Edition
- 'Leccy car plug map keeps greenies juiced up
- TalkTalk bleeds punters, revenue in Q2
- Google will ignore your Wi-Fi router ... if <i>you</i> rename it
- Irish woman doesn't go down after scrotum ripping assault
- Samsung demands a quickie in iPhone 4S Oz ban bid
| Opposition to SOPA mounting as Google, Facebook link arms Posted: 15 Nov 2011 03:00 PM PST Tech giants and freedom fighters friend each otherAn MPAA-backed bill designed to let rights-holders block Websites on the accusation of copyright infringement has drawn the ire of Google, Facebook, Yahoo!, eBay, Twitter, LinkedIn, Zynga and others.… |
| Intel unveils $100m plan to juice AppUp Center devs Posted: 15 Nov 2011 02:35 PM PST Mucho mazuma for 'application developer-centric equity deals'Intel Capital has unveiled a new $100m AppUp Fund to jumpstart companies developing content for its online Intel AppUp Center store, which is currently limited to software running on Windows XP, Windows 7, and MeeGo devices based on the Atom processor.… |
| Is iiNet about to spend a bob on TransACT? Posted: 15 Nov 2011 02:30 PM PST Rationalisation of Australian network business continuesTalk of a sale of Canberra-based ISP and pay TV company TransACT is back on the agenda, with reports that iiNet is a front-runner to buy the carrier.… |
| Posted: 15 Nov 2011 01:43 PM PST Skoob-y snacks for publishingSingapore Telecommunications has launched Singapore's first e-book service, branded skoob.… |
| 'Devastating' protocol flaw could paralyze Bitcoin system Posted: 15 Nov 2011 01:39 PM PST Scientists propose 'Red Balloon' incentive solutionComputer scientists say they've identified a fundamental flaw in the Bitcoin electronic currency system that could eventually stunt its development unless developers change the way users are rewarded for their participation.… |
| Adobe Flex SDK bombshell STUNS developers Posted: 15 Nov 2011 12:59 PM PST Open source group takes controlAdobe is to hand over its Flex SDK, which lets you develop applications for the Flash runtime using XML and ActionScript code, to an open source foundation. The company is committing to HTML 5 as the "best technology for enterprise application development", according to a statement issued on Friday, November 11 by two Adobe product managers.… |
| Nvidia: An unintended exascale-super innovator Posted: 15 Nov 2011 12:33 PM PST CEO just wanted to play 3D video gamesSC11 Jen-Hsun Huang, one of the cofounders of graphics-chip maker Nvidia, never intended to be a player in the supercomputing racket. But his company is now at the forefront of the CPU-GPU hybrid computing revolution that is taking the HPC arena by storm as supercomputing centers try to cram as much math into as small a power budget as possible.… |
| Ballmer shoots down Microsoft breakup advice Posted: 15 Nov 2011 11:59 AM PST Shareholders fractious over investment returnsSteve Ballmer has scotched suggestions from investors at Microsoft's annual shareholders meeting that his company should spin off some of its divisions… |
| OpenCL ratchets up to version 1.2 Posted: 15 Nov 2011 11:51 AM PST Open source heterogeneous standard adds new capabilitiesOpenCL, the open-source standard for programming heterogeneous computing systems – aka CPU/GPU mashups – has reached version 1.2 with the ratification and public release of its latest specification documentation.… |
| 'Do Not Track' standard edges towards daylight Posted: 15 Nov 2011 11:27 AM PST First draft of spybuster deal released by W3CAn internet standard on online privacy is expected to be published by the middle of next year. In the meantime, the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) has released a first draft of the so-called "Do Not Track" (DNT) mechanism, with input from the major browser makers.… |
| Enormous orbiting solar raygun power plants touted Posted: 15 Nov 2011 10:58 AM PST Trusty scientifiction staple gets another outingMany years ago, in Galaxy magazine, Jerry Pournelle devoted his A Step Farther Out column to describing how satellites could be used to harvest solar energy on a scale impossible underneath Earth's atmosphere.… |
| Petaflop = Top500 table stakes by 2016 Posted: 15 Nov 2011 10:30 AM PST HPC to rocket aheadInsideHPC's Rich Brueckner and I sat down yesterday with Jack Dongarra and Hans Meuer from Top500.org, the guys who put together the twice yearly list of the 500 largest supercomputers.… |
| Angry Bird rockets into <i>spa-a-a-a-ce!</i> Posted: 15 Nov 2011 10:17 AM PST Soyuz orbital insertion confirmation office on dutyWhen the Russian Soyuz TMA-22 successfully launched from Kazakhstan's Baikonur cosmodrome on Monday morning, its crew manifest listed NASA's Dan Burbank and Roscosmos' Anton Shkaplerov and Anatoly Ivanishin.… |
| SCC11: Meet the Purdue Boilermakers Posted: 15 Nov 2011 10:15 AM PST Have sledgehammer, will clusterTeam vid Purdue is one of two teams that's participated in the SC11 Student Cluster Competition (SCC) since its inception. They're a solid team with a half-n-half mixture of rookies and SCC veterans. This year they're bringing the typical workmanlike Purdue attitude to the competition – along with a plethora of traditional HPC gear.… |
| Assange takes extradition fight to Supreme Court Posted: 15 Nov 2011 10:03 AM PST Supping in last-chance saloonLawyers acting for Julian Assange have filed appeal papers with the UK Supreme Court to fight his extradition to Sweden.… |
| AT&T LTE hits Vegas and five other slots Posted: 15 Nov 2011 10:02 AM PST Telco keeps next-gen mobe broadband promiseUS carrier AT&T has announced six new markets for its LTE network, which is currently spreading like wildfire across the country, in an attempt to catch up with rivals Verizon Wireless and Sprint.… |
| SCC11: Meet the Colorado Buffaloes Posted: 15 Nov 2011 09:45 AM PST Sixth time the charm?Team vid The University of Colorado Buffalo team has competed at every Student Cluster Competition – this is year six.… |
| Posted: 15 Nov 2011 09:33 AM PST Adds mineral oil in bid for cluster crownTeam vid What can you say about the University of Texas Longhorns that they haven't already said about themselves?… |
| Posted: 15 Nov 2011 09:29 AM PST '10 Champs look for repeatTeam vid The team from Taiwan's National Tsing Hua University is on a mission: to become the first university to repeat as Student Cluster Competition champions. The team in Seattle this year is almost entirely new, but they have the same coach and have been mentored by their predecessors from the 2010 championship team.… |
| Facebook filth flood – Fawkes Virus to blame? Posted: 15 Nov 2011 09:28 AM PST Objectionable tsunami surges up WallsThe newsfeeds of numerous Facebook users have become flooded with filth – specifically violent and pornographic images – as the result of an attack against the social network over the last day or so.… |
| Posted: 15 Nov 2011 09:19 AM PST Second time the charm for Russian Bear?Team Russia, representing the State University of Nizhny Novgorod, is returning to the Student Cluster Competition for the second time.… |
| Posted: 15 Nov 2011 09:15 AM PST Can Rainforest Eagles soar to cluster glory?Team vid Team Costa Rica is another first-time entrant in the 2011 Student Cluster Competition in Seattle. Their official name is Tecnológico de Costa Rica, but to me they're the Rainforest Eagles, and they've earned respect for not only representing their entire region but for the hardships they overcame to make it to the SCC.… |
| US student to fill heavens with Sprites Posted: 15 Nov 2011 09:03 AM PST You too can have your own miniature satelliteA Cornell University postgrad student is offering enthusiasts the chance to get their own diminutive bit of kit into space, in the form of a miniature satellite.… |
| Samsung's Bada outshipped WinPho 7 in Q3 Posted: 15 Nov 2011 08:47 AM PST Android ahead of all; Symbian ahead of ApplePoor old Microsoft. Even Samsung's Bada smartphone OS is more popular than yours.… |
| IKEA cuts ribbon on 'I've Got A Screw Loose Street' Posted: 15 Nov 2011 08:44 AM PST Facebook vote names new Spanish thoroughfareFlatpack monolith IKEA has announced that its new tentacle in Valladolid, Spain, will sit on "I've Got A Screw Loose Street".… |
| Posted: 15 Nov 2011 08:33 AM PST Does Tianhe legacy spell SCC win?Team Vid China's NUDT (National University of Defense Technology) shocked the world in 2010 when it unveiled the fastest supercomputer known to man, the 1.86 Pflop Tianhe-1A. It came out of nowhere and caught the entire industry by surprise.… |
| Step forward the chief information security officer Posted: 15 Nov 2011 08:22 AM PST Leader of the pack |
| SCC11: Meet the Boston U Terriers Posted: 15 Nov 2011 08:19 AM PST More cores, more betterTeam vid Boston U has brought more than a taste for clam chowder to the 2011 Student Cluster Competition in Seattle; they also brought more hardware heft than anyone else.… |
| Ultimate flight-sim crashes into living rooms for 36 grand Posted: 15 Nov 2011 08:07 AM PST Reach for the cloudsFlight-sim enthusiasts often spend fortunes building mock-up cockpits in their homes. But who needs to construct anything when you could simply buy one of these badass bubbles?… |
| Visa to tell shops where their punters' wallets went next Posted: 15 Nov 2011 08:02 AM PST Spending habits data toutedVisa has become a minority partner in Beyond Analysis in order to better exploit the 11 billion transaction records it has knocking around on its servers.… |
| 'Hands free' pissing contest games installed in boozer Posted: 15 Nov 2011 07:51 AM PST Bin the Wii, play with weeDrunks can now piss away hours playing games while at the urinals after the gents at The Exhibit Bar in south London was kitted out with a hands-free gaming |
| Engineer sues Huawei for axing him 'because he's a Brit' Posted: 15 Nov 2011 07:42 AM PST Chinese giant hauled before tribunalA British software engineer is suing Chinese company Huawei for racial discrimination after they made him redundant but allegedly employed new Chinese staff in the Basingstoke office where he worked.… |
| LHC results may solve riddle of how universe can exist Posted: 15 Nov 2011 07:28 AM PST Antimatter bombshell set to explode physics applecartTop boffins at the Large Hadron Collider – mightiest particle-punisher and largest machine of any kind ever assembled by humanity – say that they may have uncovered a vital clue explaining one of the greatest mysteries of physics: namely, how is it that matter itself can exist?… |
| <i>Voyager 2</i> finally agrees to a long hard thrust Posted: 15 Nov 2011 07:16 AM PST Probe takes light-ages to return boffins' callsVoyager 2 has finally gotten back to NASA to let engineers know that its switch to back-up thrusters was successful.… |
| PETA riled by Mario's raccoon skin suit Posted: 15 Nov 2011 07:09 AM PST Bloody outragePETA, the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, has launched a scathing campaign against Nintendo's mascot, Mario, claiming his use of the tanooki suit is unethical.… |
| C&W Worldwide boss out after 4 months Posted: 15 Nov 2011 07:01 AM PST Ailing carrier also files some nasty first half year numbersCable & Wireless Worldwide is swapping boss John Pluthero with Vodafone exec Gavin Darby after exceptional charges pushed the firm into the red for the first half of 2011.… |
| Rackspace: OpenStack beds Disney, NASA, Sony Posted: 15 Nov 2011 06:47 AM PST VMware not invited to cloud love shackThe OpenStack cloud operating system is emerging as the main alternative to VMware because of its frenetic pace of development. So says Rackspace, OpenStack backer and internet hosting giant.… |
| Mystery malware poisons NZ ambulance system Posted: 15 Nov 2011 06:38 AM PST Dispatch staff forced to call medics' mobilesA computer virus infection affecting the New Zealand Ambulance service last week forced dispatchers to resort to manual backup systems, according to local media reports.… |
| BT poaches TV wizard from Virgin Media Posted: 15 Nov 2011 06:24 AM PST Joins at 'pivotal moment'BT beefed up its TV business today, after it poached Virgin Media wonk Alex Green.… |
| <i>Harry Potter</i> director takes on <i>Doctor Who</i> movie Posted: 15 Nov 2011 06:14 AM PST Tardis to spin into theatres, but who will be the Doctor?Boy wizard director David Yates is planning to take Doctor Who onto the big screen in conjunction with the BBC.… |
| A pint a day keeps the doctor away - scientific FACT Posted: 15 Nov 2011 06:02 AM PST Latest study shows beer as beneficial as wineThe latest boffinry news brings good news for beer lovers: statistics have shown that moderate quaffing confers a significant benefit to cardiovascular health. You will actually be noticeably healthier than a teetotaller if you down a little more than a pint a day on average, and as healthy as a teetotaller if you drink a bit more.… |
| New anonymity rule on Euro airport body scanners Posted: 15 Nov 2011 05:52 AM PST Nudie-watching staff kept away from passengersThe European Commission has adopted new rules for the use of body scanners at airports.… |
| Apple's cloud music service 'WIPES your iPHONE' Posted: 15 Nov 2011 05:43 AM PST Actually just threatens to, but is lying - reportsApple's cloud music subscription service iTunes Match has gone live – for Americans only, at first.… |
| Red Hat: Let OpenShift cloud compile your Java apps Posted: 15 Nov 2011 05:32 AM PST Compile code from a crap laptop at the |
| Halo: Combat Evolved Anniversary Edition Posted: 15 Nov 2011 05:25 AM PST Bark of the CovenantReview Love it or hate it, it's impossible to ignore Halo's legacy. With the exception of Super Mario, no other videogame series has been as critical to the success of its target platform - or as influential on the videogames industry as a whole.… |
| 'Leccy car plug map keeps greenies juiced up Posted: 15 Nov 2011 05:22 AM PST Never let your battery buggy run down againThe UK Ministry of Transport is drawing up a map of plug-in points for electric cars in order to make it easier for the drivers of battery-buggies to charge up their vehicles.… |
| TalkTalk bleeds punters, revenue in Q2 Posted: 15 Nov 2011 05:11 AM PST Not so happy-clappy web blockersTalkTalk lost 43,000 subscribers during its second quarter as punters disconnected from the telco - which has been hampered by its poor customer service record.… |
| Google will ignore your Wi-Fi router ... if <i>you</i> rename it Posted: 15 Nov 2011 05:02 AM PST robots.txt for hotspotsGoogle has magnanimously offered to ignore Wi-Fi hotspots that have been renamed with a trailing "_nomap" to let the snoops know what you don't want them to know.… |
| Irish woman doesn't go down after scrotum ripping assault Posted: 15 Nov 2011 04:53 AM PST Man wishes to put extruded testicle incident behind himA Dublin woman who ripped her boyfriend's scrotum, leaving him with an extruded left testicle, has been spared jail.… |
| Samsung demands a quickie in iPhone 4S Oz ban bid Posted: 15 Nov 2011 04:32 AM PST Permanent injunction hearing in MarchSamsung has agreed to waive its request for a preliminary banning order in Australia against the iPhone 4S in exchange for a fast-tracked hearing for a final injunction next year.… |
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