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- Regulator unloads on ASX over buggy IT
- Graphene circuits from an inkjet printer
- Westpac unchiefs the information officer
- 1,000 Chinese workers strike at Apple and IBM supplier
- Three labs, one (big) cluster
- 'Rebel' biologist and neo-Darwinian skeptic Lynn Margulis dies
- Dyson sinks £1.4m into Cambridge engineering chair
- Microsoft pitching Kinect control tech to telly makers
- Apache developers scramble to fix proxy flaw
- Nokia promises not one but two Lumia 800 power fix patches
- Huawei builds channel red army in Europe
- Jew or not Jew app withdrawn from iTunes
- Dell fastens shrink ray tech onto new file vault
- Hybrid clouds 2012: the private cloud myth lives
- Scientists probe Earth's core, make mystifying discovery
- SHARKS tempted by BIKINI CLAD Thanksgiving BABES
- How digital audio ate itself and the music industry
- Richard Branson plans submarine tours of dead whale corpse
- Thanksgiving menaced by virus-laden fake iTunes vouchers
- HMV plays catch up with video on-demand service
- Apple eyes set on Sharp IGZO tech for iPad 3 screen
- Terry Pratchett computer sniper-scope: Spec-ops mini version
- Ofcom: ISPs can cripple the web as much as they please
- Struggling tech resellers face winter of annihilation
- Fake Steve Jobs tells kids: 'Do what you want to do'
- Cheshire councils to axe 70 IT jobs
- San Diego woman strips to bikini to look for her chihuahua
- Apple pulls games subs app DAYS after approving it
- We talk to <i>Moon</i> designer about ULTIMATE sci-fi ship
- Sweeping net filters trample ISPs' rights, says Euro beak
- Rogue Russian Mars probe communicates - but in gibberish
- Ubuntu savaged by rivals infected with fondleslab fever
- Spillover from 400lb man squeezed fellow flier into galley
- Bloke pays inked tribute to <i>Top Gear</i>
- Punters go postal with erratic Royal Mail site
- Actual computer hacking by UK media: Suspect cuffed
- Levelling the EMC Lightning playing field
- Ten... top PlayStation Network game downloads
- HTC forecasts stormy future, laments Apple S3 defeat
- Apple crushes High Street in UK web shopping stakes
- UK's first stealth jumpjet rolls off line – but we don't want it
- LG runs up third-gen Prada phone
- Obama steps in as Britney Spears wrestles Page on Google+
- 2016: Death of the wallet as NFC tap-cash arrives at last
- What should a sci-fi spaceship REALLY look like?
- EA retreats, offers free Battlefield 1943 after all
- US gov spunks $200K on busted weather app
- Rampaging Brit looters cost Dixons £4m
- Server makers start pushing Opteron 6200 tin
- Exoplanet ranking suggests INTERSTELLAR WAR imminent
| Regulator unloads on ASX over buggy IT Posted: 24 Nov 2011 03:03 PM PST Next time, make it workIn its annual review of the Australian Securities Exchange's performance, Australian corporate regulator ASIC has criticized the exchanges handling of IT.… |
| Graphene circuits from an inkjet printer Posted: 24 Nov 2011 02:30 PM PST Magic material gets yet another surprising applicationLong gone are the days when the inkjet printer was the consumable that people bought for school projects and family photographs: a group of researchers from Cambridge University has added graphene-based transistors to the list of things that you can take from the output tray.… |
| Westpac unchiefs the information officer Posted: 24 Nov 2011 01:36 PM PST Tumbril cart calls for the PHBComment In a move that will send a thousand chills running down a thousand spines, the Australian bank Westpac has sent the janitor down the hall to the office marked "CIO" with a screwdriver and removed the brass plate.… |
| 1,000 Chinese workers strike at Apple and IBM supplier Posted: 24 Nov 2011 11:09 AM PST Cupertino singled out on forced overtime, conditionsAround 1,000 workers at a Chinese plant that manufactures components for Apple and IBM downed tools this week in protest ahainst enforced overtime, a rights group has claimed.… |
| Posted: 24 Nov 2011 10:00 AM PST Top 15 system to manage nuke stockpileWe spent a few minutes at an Intel SC11 hospitality event in Seattle talking with Matt Leininger, Lawrence Livermore National Lab Deputy of Advanced Technology Projects, about the U.S. DOE National Nuclear Security Administration's Tri-Lab procurement.… |
| 'Rebel' biologist and neo-Darwinian skeptic Lynn Margulis dies Posted: 24 Nov 2011 09:31 AM PST Science loses a great mindObituary Biologist Lynn Margulis has died, aged 73, at her home in Massachusetts.… |
| Dyson sinks £1.4m into Cambridge engineering chair Posted: 24 Nov 2011 09:10 AM PST Intellectual vacuumVacuum-maker James Dyson has plunged over a million pounds into funding engineering research at Cambridge University.… |
| Microsoft pitching Kinect control tech to telly makers Posted: 24 Nov 2011 08:53 AM PST Gesture politicsMicrosoft has contacted television manufacturers to discuss integrating Kinect's motion control tech into future tellies.… |
| Apache developers scramble to fix proxy flaw Posted: 24 Nov 2011 08:46 AM PST Admins, nail down your systemsApache developers are working on a fix of a flaw in its web server software that creates a possible mechanism to access internal systems.… |
| Nokia promises not one but two Lumia 800 power fix patches Posted: 24 Nov 2011 08:33 AM PST Software updates in December, JanuaryNokia has pledged to release a software update early next month that will begin to fix the rapidly depleting battery woes some Lumia 800 owners have experienced.… |
| Huawei builds channel red army in Europe Posted: 24 Nov 2011 08:31 AM PST Signs distie deal with SDG for UK, France and the NetherlandsHuawei has penned a distribution deal with SDG to punt its enterprise kit to resellers in the UK, France and the Netherlands.… |
| Jew or not Jew app withdrawn from iTunes Posted: 24 Nov 2011 08:15 AM PST French anti-Racism campaigners force Apple to nix app worldwideApple has pulled an app that asked users to judge how Jewish they were after a lawsuit was brought against it in Paris.… |
| Dell fastens shrink ray tech onto new file vault Posted: 24 Nov 2011 08:01 AM PST Plays Ocarina for backup box in 2012Dell appears to have a new disk backup array in development, with a launch likely in the first half of 2012.… |
| Hybrid clouds 2012: the private cloud myth lives Posted: 24 Nov 2011 07:46 AM PST Marketeer snake oil for scared CIOsHybrid clouds are all the rage in cloud computing today, with Gartner naming them "a major focus for 2012", even as hybrid clouds constitute fully 20 per cent of enterprise clouds today. But are they really anything more than a new face on private clouds? Marten Mickos, chief executive of private cloud company, Eucalyptus Systems, doesn't think so.… |
| Scientists probe Earth's core, make mystifying discovery Posted: 24 Nov 2011 07:26 AM PST Colossal magnet we live on perhaps a Silicon roundaboutScientists carrying out extreme boffinry into the makeup of the Earth's liquid core have announced that they are very puzzled to find it is not made of what they had thought it was.… |
| SHARKS tempted by BIKINI CLAD Thanksgiving BABES Posted: 24 Nov 2011 07:16 AM PST Experiment to ruin dreams of evil billionaires everywhereHalf-naked women will swim with great white sharks in an experiment conducted by a marine biologist to understand the fish's hunting patterns.… |
| How digital audio ate itself and the music industry Posted: 24 Nov 2011 07:00 AM PST Part One: The birth of a new scienceSpecial Report Digital audio began life with high ideals and worthy engineering feats, with its extended dynamic range came the promise of noise-free recording. This is a story of how it first charmed and then choked the industry it was designed to enhance.… |
| Richard Branson plans submarine tours of dead whale corpse Posted: 24 Nov 2011 06:46 AM PST Snaps up bloated blubbery body, tows it offshoreSan Diego's dead beached whale was towed offshore last night, with the help of billionaire Richard Branson.… |
| Thanksgiving menaced by virus-laden fake iTunes vouchers Posted: 24 Nov 2011 06:31 AM PST Malware-hunters finger scamSupposed iTunes gift certificates doing the rounds in the run-up to Thanksgiving are actually loaded with malware.… |
| HMV plays catch up with video on-demand service Posted: 24 Nov 2011 06:23 AM PST Modern storefareHMV has modernised its content delivery efforts, launching a video-on-demand rental service for PC and Mac.… |
| Apple eyes set on Sharp IGZO tech for iPad 3 screen Posted: 24 Nov 2011 06:22 AM PST Brighter, more energy efficient panels ahoy!Apple's iPad 3 may not be thicker than its predecessor after all, thanks to a smart display tech from screen partner Sharp.… |
| Terry Pratchett computer sniper-scope: Spec-ops mini version Posted: 24 Nov 2011 06:16 AM PST Secret supertroops want version for solo shooterFamous Pentagon boffinry powerhouse DARPA has made a new announcement on its "One Shot" programme, which ensures that a million-to-one shot will – as on Terry Pratchett's Discworld* – hit the target nine (well, six) times out of 10.… |
| Ofcom: ISPs can cripple the web as much as they please Posted: 24 Nov 2011 06:02 AM PST Throttling good, net neutrality bad, says watchdogUK regulator Ofcom won't force operators into net neutrality pacts, being happy to rely on competitive pressure to keep the web open, but it does want transparency for customers.… |
| Struggling tech resellers face winter of annihilation Posted: 24 Nov 2011 05:51 AM PST Bloodbath predicted after glum XmasReseller insolvencies are predicted to remain at record highs during the December quarter as the UK economy hangs on the edge of a second recession.… |
| Fake Steve Jobs tells kids: 'Do what you want to do' Posted: 24 Nov 2011 05:41 AM PST Counterfeit iPhones, now bogus biographiesThe Chinese have been counterfeiting iPhones, iPads and even Apple stores for years, but now an enterprising Taipei publisher has gone one further and attempted to make a quick dollar in China and Taiwan by leeching off the greatest Apple asset of all: Steve Jobs.… |
| Cheshire councils to axe 70 IT jobs Posted: 24 Nov 2011 05:32 AM PST Begin 3-month consultation on shared IT staffCheshire West & Chester and Cheshire East councils are to launch a consultation on the future structure of their shared ICT service in December. The councils estimate that this could lead to about 70 of their combined 217 IT staff members being made redundant.… |
| San Diego woman strips to bikini to look for her chihuahua Posted: 24 Nov 2011 05:21 AM PST Refuses to dress till she finds her ChispitaA San Diego woman has done absolutely nothing for her hopes of finding her beloved chihuahua after pledging to strip and stay stripped until the mislaid canine is found.… |
| Apple pulls games subs app DAYS after approving it Posted: 24 Nov 2011 05:11 AM PST Big Fish yanked out of iTunes pond with 'no explanation'Days after ushering Big Fish into the iTunes store, opening the way to subscription gaming on the iPad, Apple has yanked out its app without a hint of explanation.… |
| We talk to <i>Moon</i> designer about ULTIMATE sci-fi ship Posted: 24 Nov 2011 05:00 AM PST Gavin Rothery points out successes, skewers failuresGavin Rothery was visual effects supervisor on the British sci-fi smash Moon, and has been a creative force on a welter of hit video games, and so has a lot to say on the subject of spacecraft design.… |
| Sweeping net filters trample ISPs' rights, says Euro beak Posted: 24 Nov 2011 04:51 AM PST Can't be forced to sniff all trafficEurope's Court of Justice has affirmed that blanket monitoring of internet communications breaches fundamental rights. The Court of Justice of the European Union was adjudicating a complaint by a Belgian ISP and copyright royalty collecting society SABEM.… |
| Rogue Russian Mars probe communicates - but in gibberish Posted: 24 Nov 2011 04:45 AM PST Experts mull mission to asteroid or Moon instead of MarsThe European Space Agency managed to get telemetry data from lost Martian probe Phobos-Grunt last night, but hasn't been able to decode the messages.… |
| Ubuntu savaged by rivals infected with fondleslab fever Posted: 24 Nov 2011 04:41 AM PST Help, the penguins are revolting!The penguins are on the march: they are leaving Mark Shuttleworth's Ubuntu and migrating towards other Linux distros, fresh data suggests.… |
| Spillover from 400lb man squeezed fellow flier into galley Posted: 24 Nov 2011 04:37 AM PST US debates 'sweaty hambeasts', overpaid tall people on airplanesAmericans struggling home from Thanksgiving have yet another etiquette nightmare to deal with: what to do when the gargantuan passenger next to you spills over and annexes most of your seat.… |
| Bloke pays inked tribute to <i>Top Gear</i> Posted: 24 Nov 2011 04:31 AM PST 'The best tattoo of James May on a leg I have ever seen'There's a long tradition of fans getting their idols etched into their flesh, but Top Gear presenter James May hasn't until now featured heavily on the list of hero-worship tattoos.… |
| Punters go postal with erratic Royal Mail site Posted: 24 Nov 2011 04:21 AM PST 'How very sorry we all are', say postiesThe Royal Mail's electronic redirection website was finally restored on Thursday, days after problems affected the postal service's website on Sunday.… |
| Actual computer hacking by UK media: Suspect cuffed Posted: 24 Nov 2011 04:11 AM PST Not just voicemail - proper technical stuffAn inquiry into computer hacking by the UK media resulted in the arrest of its first suspect, a 52-year-old from Milton Keynes.… |
| Levelling the EMC Lightning playing field Posted: 24 Nov 2011 04:03 AM PST Another way to avoid lock-inOpinion Here's a blogger saying an open industry standard will not be the best way to level the storage array/server flash card playing field and prevent EMC locking in Project Lightning customers, writes Chris Mellor… |
| Ten... top PlayStation Network game downloads Posted: 24 Nov 2011 04:00 AM PST Cheap thrillsProduct Round-up Games are expensive these days, with contemporary titles often commanding in excess of £50. Some people even paid thousands for an early copy of Modern Warfare 3.… |
| HTC forecasts stormy future, laments Apple S3 defeat Posted: 24 Nov 2011 03:49 AM PST Disgraced acquisition carpeted for 'holistic evaluation'Taiwan smartphone maker HTC has written off any hopes for sales growth this quarter citing cooling demand in a weakened global economy and fierce competition from rivals.… |
| Apple crushes High Street in UK web shopping stakes Posted: 24 Nov 2011 03:42 AM PST Second best by traffic ... not salesApple overtook Tesco, Argos and M&S this year to become the second most popular online retail site in the UK. Only Amazon UK beat them for hits in the latest quarterly figures published by IMRG HitsWise.… |
| UK's first stealth jumpjet rolls off line – but we don't want it Posted: 24 Nov 2011 03:32 AM PST First of three supersonic Harrier replacement orphansThe first ever supersonic stealth jumpjet to be built for the British armed forces has rolled off the assembly line. There's just one snag: Britain decided last year that it would no longer have jumpjets, meaning that the aircraft will never serve with the Royal Navy or RAF.… |
| LG runs up third-gen Prada phone Posted: 24 Nov 2011 03:28 AM PST iPhone is so last year, dahlinksFashionistas, take note: LG will be releasing a third-generation Prada-branded smartphone early in 2012.… |
| Obama steps in as Britney Spears wrestles Page on Google+ Posted: 24 Nov 2011 03:21 AM PST Oops Larry, I did it againPop princess Britney Spears now has the most followers on Google+, which President Barack Obama's team just signed up to.… |
| 2016: Death of the wallet as NFC tap-cash arrives at last Posted: 24 Nov 2011 03:11 AM PST Or is it 2014? Analysts bicker over e-cash futureForrester research reckons 2016 will be the year when electronic cash takes off, thanks to PayPal, but over at ABI they're saying 2014 will see Google Wallet filling virtual pockets.… |
| What should a sci-fi spaceship REALLY look like? Posted: 24 Nov 2011 03:00 AM PST Saucers, flying caravans and floating oil rigs...People making sci-fi movies have it easy.… |
| EA retreats, offers free Battlefield 1943 after all Posted: 24 Nov 2011 02:51 AM PST PS3 gamers to get promised freebieEA has changed its tune and pledged to give all PlayStation 3 Battlefield 3 customers a free copy of Battlefield 1943, all to avoid embarrassing legal entanglements.… |
| US gov spunks $200K on busted weather app Posted: 24 Nov 2011 02:51 AM PST iPhone version a bargain at $56,000The US Department of Labor spent more than $200,000 (£129,000) creating a mobile application telling people to drink four cups of water every hour, and didn't even manage to get a BlackBerry version working.… |
| Rampaging Brit looters cost Dixons £4m Posted: 24 Nov 2011 02:41 AM PST Chain's losses narrow but widen at group levelDixons Retail has fared relatively better than High Street rivals after trading results today showed that its fiscal half-year losses narrowed substantially in the UK.… |
| Server makers start pushing Opteron 6200 tin Posted: 24 Nov 2011 02:32 AM PST Where's Acer? And Oracle and Fujitsu?The 16-core "Interlagos" Opteron 6200 processors marched into the x86 server chip war nearly two weeks ago, and Advanced Micro devices made its sales pitch against Intel's Xeon server lineup. The question now is: who is actually making servers selling Opteron 6200 processors?… |
| Exoplanet ranking suggests INTERSTELLAR WAR imminent Posted: 24 Nov 2011 02:24 AM PST Too late to recall idiotic message beamed at alien starAn international team of boffins has ranked the various extra-terrestrial planets and moons known to humanity in order of ability to sustain life. It's bad news for the human race, as the planets of the Gliese 581 star system are near the top of the list: and if an intelligent race is present there, we have already mortally offended it.… |
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