| iiNet swallows Internode a month early Posted: 31 Jan 2012 03:00 PM PST Didn't touch the sides iiNet has announced that its acquisition of Internode has been completed a month ahead of schedule.… 
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| NASA: Solar system may have alien origin Posted: 31 Jan 2012 02:37 PM PST The case of the missing oxygen The latest data from NASA's Interstellar Boundary Explorer (IBEX) probe has found a curious disparity in the distribution of some of the key elements of our solar system, notably why there is so much oxygen in it.… |
| Telstra upgrades coverage in West Australia Posted: 31 Jan 2012 02:30 PM PST Footprint to pass half-a-million square kilometers Telstra is tipping infrastructure investment equivalent to $AU106 million into the state of Western Australia as part of an extension to regional mobile phone coverage.… |
| Quickflix adds Android with Samsung Posted: 31 Jan 2012 02:15 PM PST A Galaxy of mobile TV Samsung Galaxy slab-fondlers will soon get access to movies and TV shows, with IPTV aspirant Quickflix inking a deal with Samsung Australia.… |
| The IEEE and the Electric Universe Posted: 31 Jan 2012 02:00 PM PST A podium isn't endorsement says Victoria chapter The IEEE's outpost in Victoria is to play host to an airing of the fringe "Electric Universe" theory today.… |
| Woolworths cuts off Dick Posted: 31 Jan 2012 01:34 PM PST Quick slice better than a slow death Woolworths has rung the death knell for bricks-and-mortar electronics retailing in Australia, as it announced that it is divesting its iconic Dick Smith electronics chain.…
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| SGI slings out departmental filer box Posted: 31 Jan 2012 01:02 PM PST Modular InfiniteStorage SGI has produced a modular version of its InfiniteStorage product for the departmental NAS market that comes as a storage server or a JBOD.… |
| Obama washes hands of O’Dwyer piracy extradition case Posted: 31 Jan 2012 11:33 AM PST Not my fault, blame the DOJ President Obama has said he has nothing to do with the decision by US authorities to extradite British student Richard O'Dwyer on copyright charges for linking to pirated content.… |
| Amazon France leaks iPad 3 release date? Posted: 31 Jan 2012 11:31 AM PST Today's fondleslab rumor 'pour les nuls' Amazon France may have leaked the release date for Apple's next iteration of its überpopular fondleslab, the iPad.… |
| Why I'd pay Apple more to give iPad factory workers a break Posted: 31 Jan 2012 11:23 AM PST Time to 'think different' on production line demands Open ... and Shut Last quarter Apple churned out extraordinary profits: $13.06bn of them. But according to a New York Times article, Apple achieved these amazing profits on the backs of Chinese workers, who are subjected to punishing work conditions to ensure high-quality iPhones and iPads at the lowest possible price.… |
| Red Hat now supports RHEL 5 and 6 for a decade Posted: 31 Jan 2012 10:58 AM PST Live longer and prosper more Companies that like Red Hat Enterprise Linux but hate changing Linux versions because of the hardware and software qualification process just got an excuse to be lazy for the next decade.…
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| Nekkid Tech: Our chefs boil biz data into clouds Posted: 31 Jan 2012 10:47 AM PST Turning up the heat on dependable storage Podcast Greg Knieriemen saw off the hordes at the New England Area VMware User Group and debated burning topics from virtualisation to sex equality in tech, thus serving up another piping hot podcast pie for El Reg readers last week.… |
| SeaMicro adds Xeons to Atom smasher microservers Posted: 31 Jan 2012 10:15 AM PST Now sporting brawny and wimpy cores For the past 18 months, SeaMicro, the upstart maker of microservers that are based on Intel's Atom processors, has heard from x86 competitors trying to keep it out of hyperscale data center server deals that the Atom cores are too wimpy to do heavy lifting workloads. But now, the SM10000 line of microservers – actually more like a supercomputer cluster of minimalist microservers – is getting the brawny cores in Intel's Xeon E3 family of server chips, closing the gap with x86 alternatives and removing a big barrier to adoption for its machines.… |
| Google Professor appointed in Paris Posted: 31 Jan 2012 09:29 AM PST Dr Oompa Loompa will see you now Google has created a sponsored academic post in France, the Google@HEC chair at the HEC Paris business school. It's "a worldwide first for Google", according to the Chocolate Factory's PR department.… |
| Muscle chip strength leaves ARM shouldering meaty profit Posted: 31 Jan 2012 08:58 AM PST High-end RISC cores boost $773m revenue headline ARM, the eponymous designer of the chip architecture, had a stonking 2011 with revenue and profits up as it tightened its hold on both embedded and generic computing.… |
| Google dings missive to lawmakers: 'We're misunderstood' Posted: 31 Jan 2012 08:54 AM PST Chocolate Factory promises it's not locking your privates in a vice Google has responded to US politicos who demanded answers after the advertising giant announced it was "simplifying" its privacy policies across its huge online estate.… |
| Baby Bills, Windows 8 and a Microsoft 'Zynga' stealth project? Posted: 31 Jan 2012 08:28 AM PST Nerds on the rise in a Redmond revolution MicroBite 33 A cultural revolution is creeping through Microsoft. With a reorganisation in full swing and job cuts rumoured, the future looks uncertain for an entire class of marketing types and MBAs at Redmond: the software giant's officers seem intent on resetting the corporate clock to year zero to recapture the spirit of Bill Gates.…
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| Cyberwar report: Israel, Finland best prepared for conflict Posted: 31 Jan 2012 08:01 AM PST Do GCHQ and the NSA have some catching up to do? Analysis Israel, Finland and Sweden are more prepared than larger nations to fight a conflict in cyberspace, according to a McAfee-backed cyber-defence study.… |
| iPhone 5 rumoured to be packed with pay-by-bonk tech Posted: 31 Jan 2012 07:34 AM PST NFC will have punters running for the tills Rumours - fuelled by comments from a MasterCard chief and an iOS developer - suggest that this year's next-gen iPhone could be packing a wireless pay-by-wave chip.… |
| Virus-slingers abuse WordPress vulns, dose punters with exploit Posted: 31 Jan 2012 06:58 AM PST Blogs also infected with information-harvesting Trojan Malware-spreaders are hacking into vulnerable WordPress-powered sites in order to drive traffic towards pages loaded with exploits.… |
| EU snaps on glove, starts formal antitrust probe of Samsung Posted: 31 Jan 2012 06:43 AM PST Korean firm may be abusing 3G standards with Apple lawsuits The European Union has formally started an antitrust investigation of Samsung over its use of standards-related 3G patents in its patent battles around the world.… |
| US judge rejects Oracle's fraud claim against HP Posted: 31 Jan 2012 06:37 AM PST That whole Itanium death thing rumbles on through the courts A US judge has dismissed an Oracle fraud claim against HP in the companies' ongoing legal battle over the Itanium platform.…
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| iPhone doc will detect cancer, diabetes - boffins Posted: 31 Jan 2012 06:22 AM PST Touch screen literally meets bleeding-edge science A drop of blood or saliva can be analysed using an ordinary touch screen - and once boffins perfect the identification of biological molecules, then diagnosis by iPhone isn't far off.… |
| <i>Angry Birds</i> boss: Piracy helps us 'get more business' Posted: 31 Jan 2012 06:01 AM PST Slams music biz's 'terrible' attempts to crush pirates Music industry chiefs must have been pleased to hear that the maker of pig-squishing iPhone game Angry Birds has learned from its mistakes in combating piracy.… |
| BSkyB snaps up fewer new subs in Q2, still rakes in cash Posted: 31 Jan 2012 05:43 AM PST Promises 1,300 new jobs, drills into superfast fibre market BSkyB has once again seen the number of new subscribers signing up to the broadcaster's products fall, compared to the same period a year before.… |
| Paris Metro brings a bit of style to NFC Posted: 31 Jan 2012 05:19 AM PST Philippe Starck designs last Navigo card The Paris Metro will be getting new payment cards next year, cards which pave the way to board-by-bonk phones by being compatible with the NFC standard.… |
| Phoenix IT Group to axe over 300 jobs Posted: 31 Jan 2012 05:04 AM PST Heads roll and real estate cut in cost-cutting drive Phoenix IT Group is to axe more than 300 jobs as part of a company-wide reorganisation.… |
| NASA launches Facebook game for space nerds Posted: 31 Jan 2012 04:45 AM PST Cram up for tough Web2.0 rocket quiz NASA has created its first ever multiplayer online game, Space Race Blastoff - and it's now available on Facebook.…
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| Top RIM jobs were too powerful and had to go - inquiry Posted: 31 Jan 2012 04:27 AM PST BlackBerry biz shakeup demanded by independent review Research in Motion (RIM) has handed out a largely moot independent report revealing that it shouldn't have had its CEOs as chairmen of the board.… |
| US shoots down key Rambus patent Posted: 31 Jan 2012 04:13 AM PST Barth trio invalidated, multimillion income stream dries up Legal attack dog Rambus has suffered another blow to its memory technology licensing business after a US patent office appeals board declared three Barth patents invalid.… |
| Ten... A3 inkjet printers Posted: 31 Jan 2012 04:00 AM PST Poster campaigners Product round-up The most probable reasons for printing A3 documents are 1) posters or folded A4 newsletters, and 2) large photos. The types of printer needed for these two requirements are different. For posters and newsletters you want a machine intended primarily for plain paper print and it will save time if it can print duplex. For photos, you're more interested in high quality output, often with more than four ink colours in the mix.… |
| German court rejects Samsung tablet appeal Posted: 31 Jan 2012 03:46 AM PST Galaxy Tab 10.1 sales ban to remain in force Apple's demand that the Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 be banned from sale in Germany has been once again confirmed by a German court.… |
| New Blighty crime map will track crooks' punishment Posted: 31 Jan 2012 03:43 AM PST UK.gov also talks up new national cybercrime fighting force UK citizens can now gawp at the amount of crime committed around nightclubs, railway stations, parks and other hotspots on a revamped website launched by the Home Office. The same site will also eventually track arrests and charges brought against wrongdoers.… |
| Motorola slices out Razr smartphone bootloader lock Posted: 31 Jan 2012 03:36 AM PST 'Developer Edition' handset in-bound Motorola is to offer Europeans a version of its new Razr smartphone with an unlocked bootloader.… |
| Lightning crashes: How to manage server flash caches Posted: 31 Jan 2012 03:31 AM PST Step change in complexity What does it mean for a storage array to manage server flash drives as will happen with EMC's Project Lightning?… |
| Sky to open net telly channels to all Posted: 31 Jan 2012 03:22 AM PST Pay to view over the internet Sky is to enter the IPTV arena with an internet-hosted TV service of its own.… |
| Apple lures Dixons boss Browett to run global retail biz Posted: 31 Jan 2012 03:14 AM PST Takes Cook's dollar to expand store empire Channel bully boy Apple has nabbed Dixons chief exec John Browett to head up its worldwide retail biz.… |
| No 'Xbox 720' in 2012, says MS exec Posted: 31 Jan 2012 02:57 AM PST Rien ne vas plus, says French Xbox bloke World+Dog wasn't expecting the 'Xbox 720' - or whatever Microsoft's next console will be called - to go on sale this year, but a company executive has confirmed it anyway.… |
| Man recreates ZX81... in Lego Posted: 31 Jan 2012 02:42 AM PST Eight-bits and pieces You can pick up the real thing cheaply enough on eBay, but that hasn't stopped retro-computing fan and Lego nut from knocking up a version out of the plastic bricks.… |
| NHS unfurls condom app – for iPhone-toting teens Posted: 31 Jan 2012 02:39 AM PST Droid lovers will have to source their own love gloves Kent's NHS Trust is hoping that youngsters' love of iPhones, coupled with a new app, will lead to a fall in teen pregnancies in the county.… |
| Dim-but-rich buyers targeted with million pound laptop Posted: 31 Jan 2012 02:27 AM PST Hang on, it's only a Samsung... Can this be the world's most expensive laptop?… |
| New Nimbus flash motor nibbles just 5 watts per terabyte Posted: 31 Jan 2012 02:21 AM PST 500TB of silicon will cost lot more than an E-Class Merc Flash array pioneer Nimbus has doubled the capacity of its non-volatile memory slabs with a fault-tolerant data vault that scales to half a petabyte.…
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| AirDroid Posted: 31 Jan 2012 02:00 AM PST Remote control for your smartphone Android App of the Week If you've ever wanted to manage your Android phone from your computer's desktop then AirDroid is the answer to your prayers.… |
| iPads propel Apple to PC market top slot Posted: 31 Jan 2012 01:54 AM PST Client computer market would have shrunk without tablets Apple is now the world's leading personal computer seller, having pushed past HP in Q4 2011, market watcher Canalys said today.… |
| Newzbin barrister struck off for owning site he represented Posted: 31 Jan 2012 01:43 AM PST Fined for not 'fessing up and for Twitter outburst A barrister has been struck off and fined after failing to disclose that he was the owner of a copyright-infringing website that he represented during trial - and for posting abusive Twitter messages.… |
| When a DNS outage isn't an outrage Posted: 31 Jan 2012 01:03 AM PST Proper IT support and a snappy postmortem make all the difference Sysadmin blog A little over a decade ago I registered my very first personal domain name. This domain was not registered for a client or an employer. This was a domain name all my own.… |
| Council fined £140k for leaking kids' sensitive info Posted: 31 Jan 2012 12:02 AM PST First Scottish organisation fined by information commissioner The Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) has fined Midlothian council £140,000 for disclosing sensitive personal data about children and their carers to the wrong people on five separate occasions.… |
| Cocktail Audio X10 CD copier and music streamer Posted: 30 Jan 2012 11:00 PM PST A rip-roaring trade? Review The Cocktail Audio X10 is a compact hi-fi component with a network connection for internet radio, audio streaming from shared devices and file transfer. It's fitted with a 500GB or 1TB hard disk, which serves as your music library, either for existing digital audio files that you copy to it or CDs ripped using its slot-loading drive. You can output to an amplifier or attach speakers directly, as it has a 2x 30W power output, although loudspeakers aren't supplied.… |
| Show us the big data money: Isilon gets Hadooped Posted: 30 Jan 2012 09:01 PM PST One-stop Hadoop/Isilon/Greenplum shop EMC is betting big on big data analytics and has integrated the Hadoop filesystem into its Isilon scale-out filer offering and enabled its Greenplum analytics product to use Hadoop data.… |
| Steerable bullet aims for mass army deployment Posted: 30 Jan 2012 05:16 PM PST Sniping's not just for Special Forces anymore Researchers at Sandia National Laboratory are developing a steerable bullet designed for general military use, giving the standard squaddie the capabilities of an advanced sniper.…
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