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- Trade Me completes IPO, starts trading
- JB Hi-Fi rolls out own digital music service NOW
- FCC (finally) cracks down on <i>BLARING! TV! ADS!</i>
- Nokia exec: Young fashonistas 'fed up' with iPhone
- LightSquared screams 'conspiracy' over leaky test results
- Cloud biz ASG unwraps early Xmas gift: Atempo
- Cosmic Cannonball snapped blazing a bloody trail of star guts
- Why there's real hope for webOS - if HP is committed
- 2011: annus horribilis for Microsoft and RIM
- Android malware victims offered free WinPhones by MS
- Strictly Come Dancing in 3D: the facts
- AT&T and Deutsche Telekom stall for time with DoJ
- Higgs boson hunters have god particle in their sights
- World's biggest music streaming service launches - for tech idiots
- Ebooks must stay fat with VAT, blame the EU, MPs told
- Winamp mends trio of old-school security holes
- Windows Phones message hub hit by killer SMS
- Virginia ponders tax breaks for (dead) human space flights
- Now Post Office branches hit by computer glitches
- NetWare-Linux love child turned up to 11
- Google beams disaster tourists into tsunami aftermath
- God particle hunt breakthrough expected TODAY
- Sony off the hook for killing Linux on PS3
- AOL sweeps 3.5m dial-up users under web biz rug
- Laptop bags: 13- and 14-inchers
- Asus Tegra 3, Android 4 tablet priced up for Brits
- Ofcom squeezes local TV into 20 cities' tight White Spaces
- Steelie Neelie dreams of apps slurping public data for free
- Sony takes PS Vita on Blighty-wide tour
- Learning about chip design from Silicon Roundabout
- Is Microsoft brewing a Win8, WinPho code merge?
- Startup's enviable flash stamina 'attracts Apple's gaze'
- Go Contacts EX
- P2P veterans sue the Cloud ... for copying their stuff
- ISIS signs Gemalto, aims to scoff Google Wallet's lunch
- Micron plans to force itself into tablets, ultrabooks
- Typosquatters set up booby-trapped High Street names
- Hynix figures to win on NAND by being smaller than rivals
- RIM BlackBerry Curve 9380 with BBM music
- Certification for Malaysian IT pros?
- Jimbo Wales ponders Wikipedia blackout
- Bristol boffins bring qubit computing a tiny step closer
- Espionage hack attack preys on chemical firms
| Trade Me completes IPO, starts trading Posted: 13 Dec 2011 03:30 PM PST Trans-Tasman float creates $NZ1-billion monsterFairfax Media's New Zealand online auction site Trade Me began trading on the Australian and New Zealand stock exchanges yesterday.… |
| JB Hi-Fi rolls out own digital music service NOW Posted: 13 Dec 2011 02:31 PM PST Australian tunes in to the high streetGadget house JB HiFi is extending its digital footprint with a music subscription service.…
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| FCC (finally) cracks down on <i>BLARING! TV! ADS!</i> Posted: 13 Dec 2011 02:14 PM PST After four and a half years of Rep and Dem squabblesThe US Federal Communications Commission has issued rules requiring television broadcasters and cable and satellite providers to maintain constant volume levels for programs and commercials.… |
| Nokia exec: Young fashonistas 'fed up' with iPhone Posted: 13 Dec 2011 11:36 AM PST Not too happy with Android either, says WinPho punterA Nokia exec has identified the target market to which his Espoonians will "deliver services and phones that are different" from the industry-leading iPhone and Android-based smartphones: jaded kids.… |
| LightSquared screams 'conspiracy' over leaky test results Posted: 13 Dec 2011 09:39 AM PST Satellite net biz comes out swingingLightSquared's CEO is demanding an investigation into how draft test results on its technology were leaked from a government-assigned testing house to Bloomberg.… |
| Cloud biz ASG unwraps early Xmas gift: Atempo Posted: 13 Dec 2011 09:11 AM PST Backup software developer snapped upASG has gone and bought itself a Christmas present; Atempo and its archiving and backup software. The price was kept secret.… |
| Cosmic Cannonball snapped blazing a bloody trail of star guts Posted: 13 Dec 2011 08:45 AM PST 3,000,000MPH neutron star formed from supernovaPic The so-called Cosmic Cannonball, a neutron star moving at over three million miles an hour, has been captured in this new satellite image - or at least the red rose of supernova remnant that encases it.…
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| Why there's real hope for webOS - if HP is committed Posted: 13 Dec 2011 08:22 AM PST A forking good alternative to iOS and AndroidOpen...and Shut It's too soon to declare that Hewlett-Packard has "dump[ed] webOS in the open source trash can", as my friend and mobile open source expert Fabrizio Capobianco insists. But it's also way too soon for HP to speculate on its action being any sort of victory, given the immense difficulties inherent in successfully open sourcing technology.… |
| 2011: annus horribilis for Microsoft and RIM Posted: 13 Dec 2011 07:56 AM PST Google's year insteadIt's hard to know who has had a worse 2011. Microsoft, because during the first ten months of the year, its old OS outsold its new one? Or RIM, because its market share has more than halved during the same period?… |
| Android malware victims offered free WinPhones by MS Posted: 13 Dec 2011 07:45 AM PST 'Haven't they suffered enough?'Microsoft is offering free Windows phones to Android malware victims, providing they are prepared to tell world+dog about their problems.… |
| Strictly Come Dancing in 3D: the facts Posted: 13 Dec 2011 07:22 AM PST How to avoid missing celebrity hoofers in three dimensionsApparently some Brits are keen on the BBC's playground for sparkly attired hoofers, Strictly Come Dancing, which comes to its latest grand final this Saturday.… |
| AT&T and Deutsche Telekom stall for time with DoJ Posted: 13 Dec 2011 07:04 AM PST Extra month to sort out proposed T-Mobile US mergerAT&T and Deutsche Telekom have given themselves an extra month to figure out how to rescue their legislator-challenged deal for T-Mobile USA.… |
| Higgs boson hunters have god particle in their sights Posted: 13 Dec 2011 06:46 AM PST Are universe's secrets lurking in energy spike?The Higgs boson has been glimpsed by boffins at CERN who are now much closer to pinning down the particle after crunching through hundreds of gigabytes of raw data.… |
| World's biggest music streaming service launches - for tech idiots Posted: 13 Dec 2011 06:42 AM PST There's a lot of them out thereA new music streaming service launches today in 23 territories, the biggest launch so far. You're unlikely to want to sign up - it's aimed not at the tech-savvy user but at someone who has broadband but finds Spotify too complex.… |
| Ebooks must stay fat with VAT, blame the EU, MPs told Posted: 13 Dec 2011 06:18 AM PST UK.gov is the cat with the eggnog creamWhen it comes to applying VAT to ebooks, the UK government remains bound by EU law, the Exchequer Secretary to the Treasury told MPs yesterday.… |
| Winamp mends trio of old-school security holes Posted: 13 Dec 2011 06:02 AM PST Heap overflow? Winamp? Party like it's 1999An update to Winamp closes a terrible trio of critical security holes in the popular media player application.… |
| Windows Phones message hub hit by killer SMS Posted: 13 Dec 2011 05:46 AM PST Text of doomA security flaw has been discovered in Microsoft's Windows Phone OS which allows hackers to disable a handset's messaging system by SMS.… |
| Virginia ponders tax breaks for (dead) human space flights Posted: 13 Dec 2011 05:41 AM PST The right stuff - crematedThe US may not be able to singlehandedly put a live man into space right now, but Virginia politicians may be about to boost the number of dead Americans catapulted into orbit.… |
| Now Post Office branches hit by computer glitches Posted: 13 Dec 2011 05:19 AM PST Xmas queue misery after Royal Mail's web failComputer glitches reduced Post Office branch services to a crawl on Monday.… |
| NetWare-Linux love child turned up to 11 Posted: 13 Dec 2011 05:02 AM PST SUSE Linux 11 SP1, that isNovell and SUSE Linux may technically be separate companies, but they are owned by the same Attachmate conglomerate and they still have to work together on specific products, such as Open Enterprise Server, which bolts NetWare print and file services to SUSE Linux Enterprise Server.… |
| Google beams disaster tourists into tsunami aftermath Posted: 13 Dec 2011 04:43 AM PST Street View before-and-after gallery erectedGoogle spy cars have been out snapping the wreckage from the Japanese tsunami, so everyone can see the damage a big wave can do and how long reconstruction is taking.… |
| God particle hunt breakthrough expected TODAY Posted: 13 Dec 2011 04:28 AM PST Cancel lunch - significant Higgs boson data promisedExpect an update on modern science's understanding of the fabric of the universe this lunchtime: physicists working on the Large Hadron Collider will announce their latest findings at 1300 GMT.… |
| Sony off the hook for killing Linux on PS3 Posted: 13 Dec 2011 04:24 AM PST Insufficient evidence against it, says JudgeA federal judge has fully dismissed a class-action lawsuit brought against Sony over the electronics giant's decision to axe "Other OS" support from its PlayStation 3 console.… |
| AOL sweeps 3.5m dial-up users under web biz rug Posted: 13 Dec 2011 04:19 AM PST Is CEO Tim Armstrong brushing away old tech?AOL is folding its dial-up business into the company's web services division, in a move that boss Tim Armstrong hopes will simplify its structure.… |
| Laptop bags: 13- and 14-inchers Posted: 13 Dec 2011 04:00 AM PST Mid-size machine holdersXmas Gift Guide Fed up of lugging your laptop around in a tatty old backpack? Fancy something a little more stylish? Feel your other half ought to carry a pack that's more chic? Here are five of the best bags for 13in and 14in laptops that Reg Hardware saw during 2011.… |
| Asus Tegra 3, Android 4 tablet priced up for Brits Posted: 13 Dec 2011 03:43 AM PST Incoming January 2012Online retailer Clove has priced up the eagerly anticipated Asus Eee Pad Transformer Prime - a tablet will not only serve up a slice of Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich but also Nvidia's five-core Tegra 3 chip.… |
| Ofcom squeezes local TV into 20 cities' tight White Spaces Posted: 13 Dec 2011 03:42 AM PST Grimbsy, Swansea, London and others in the frameOfcom has identified 20 locations where it believes local telly, broadcast in White Space, is technically possible, and stands the best chance of being commercially viable.… |
| Steelie Neelie dreams of apps slurping public data for free Posted: 13 Dec 2011 03:22 AM PST EU digital chief proposes pumping info to devsSteelie Neelie Kroes, European digital agenda commissioner, has called for public data to be more easily and cheaply accessible, a move that could benefit smartphone and web developers.… |
| Sony takes PS Vita on Blighty-wide tour Posted: 13 Dec 2011 03:14 AM PST Try before you buySony will take the PlayStation Vita out on the road ahead of the device's launch in February 2012, offering British gamers the chance to try before they buy.… |
| Learning about chip design from Silicon Roundabout Posted: 13 Dec 2011 03:02 AM PST 'Let me through - I'm a nontrepreneur!'Yesterday would have been the 84th birthday of Robert Noyce - who with Jack Kirby invented the integrated circuit, and who was one of the three founders of Intel.… |
| Is Microsoft brewing a Win8, WinPho code merge? Posted: 13 Dec 2011 02:41 AM PST Mobile chief now straddles both OS dev teamsMicrosoft's Windows Phone chief Andy Lees has been given a new role, leading a stealth project straddling Windows Phone and Windows 8.… |
| Startup's enviable flash stamina 'attracts Apple's gaze' Posted: 13 Dec 2011 02:19 AM PST New rumour: Anobit could be bought for $500mApple is rumoured to be considering buying Anobit, a flash controller startup whose signal processing technology makes cheap non-volatile memory as reliable as the more expensive stuff.… |
| Posted: 13 Dec 2011 02:00 AM PST Better contacts management by a country dial?Android App of the Week There are dozens of dialer apps in the Android Market. Actually, that's a lie: I've found nine. The best I've tried is the dialer component of Contacts EX from the Go Developer Team, one of the most consistently impressive and reliable bunch of coders for the Android platform.… |
| P2P veterans sue the Cloud ... for copying their stuff Posted: 13 Dec 2011 01:38 AM PST Man, this is totally different to the RIAAGoogle, Amazon, Dropbox and VMWare are on the receiving end of a law suit brought by former P2Ptards who claim that cloud products from the big companies infringe their peer-sharing patents.… |
| ISIS signs Gemalto, aims to scoff Google Wallet's lunch Posted: 13 Dec 2011 01:18 AM PST Two thirds of American bonk-banking goes DutchyThe ISIS Consortium has awarded the contract for running its NFC platform to Dutch specialist Gemalto, claiming that two thirds of proximity transactions will end up being routed through the company's service.… |
| Micron plans to force itself into tablets, ultrabooks Posted: 13 Dec 2011 12:58 AM PST Aims to pump up its fab before entryMicron is going to enter the market for tablet and ultrabook flash next year with mSATA solid state drives.… |
| Typosquatters set up booby-trapped High Street names Posted: 13 Dec 2011 12:32 AM PST Xmas shoppers who carnt spel targetedFraudsters have established thousands of typosquatting sites designed to hoodwink customers of popular shopping sites into handing over personal information to fraudulent dopplegangers.… |
| Hynix figures to win on NAND by being smaller than rivals Posted: 12 Dec 2011 11:58 PM PST Ha ha, with my 15nm tech I run between your legs, giantsHynix, which trails Samsung and Toshiba in the flash market, is trying to gain ground on them with a 20 per cent better NAND process.… |
| RIM BlackBerry Curve 9380 with BBM music Posted: 12 Dec 2011 11:00 PM PST Going for a song?Review Perhaps sensing that it's on the verge of losing the smartphone battle, BlackBerry manufacturer RIM has all but swamped the market recently with a rash of handsets, each offering something a little bit different. The Curve 9380 is the midrange full-screen model, smaller and cheaper than the Torch 9860, and with no hard Qwerty keyboard.… |
| Certification for Malaysian IT pros? Posted: 12 Dec 2011 04:30 PM PST Government seeks BOFH controlA proposal to introduce a bill to force all IT workers in Malaysia to be certified and registered via a single industry body has sparked agitation in the tech sector.… |
| Jimbo Wales ponders Wikipedia blackout Posted: 12 Dec 2011 04:17 PM PST Asks Wikipedians: 'Should we go dark to protest SOPA?'Wikipedia founder Jimbo Wales is contemplating taking "the encyclopedia anyone can edit" down – temporarily – in protest of the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) currently wending its way through Congress.… |
| Bristol boffins bring qubit computing a tiny step closer Posted: 12 Dec 2011 04:02 PM PST Spooky action at a VERY SMALL distanceUntil now, quantum computing has suffered the same problem that vacuum tubes had in the 1950s: the hardware's too damn big – a problem addressed by Bristol boffins who have put a reconfigurable two-qubit processor on a single chip.… |
| Espionage hack attack preys on chemical firms Posted: 12 Dec 2011 03:44 PM PST Spotted in the wild: Nitro Part IIMore than two months after the discovery of an organized malware campaign targeting dozens of companies in the defense and chemical industries, the espionage hack attack shows no signs of letting up.… |
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