$18k for Aussie domain sets new record

$18k for Aussie domain sets new record

$18k for Aussie domain sets new record

Posted: 10 Jan 2012 03:30 PM PST

Fertile ground for domain trading

The domain name creditcard.net.au has set a new sales record in the Australian market for a .net.au domain name, selling for $AU18,200 in a private trade.…

Boeing backs biofuel boffinry

Posted: 10 Jan 2012 03:00 PM PST

Growing our own jet fuel

Boeing and the CSIRO have signed an agreement to look at whether Australia's far north is a good place to grow biofuel feedstocks.…

Vodafail riles ACMA again

Posted: 10 Jan 2012 02:30 PM PST

Rogue telemarketers won't toe the line

The house of VHA is in trouble with authorities again, this time attracting the ire of the Australian Communications and Media Authority for breaching the 'Do Not Call Register' Act.…

IBM helps GlobalFoundries ramp New York foundry

Posted: 10 Jan 2012 02:09 PM PST

How long before GloFo buys Big Blue's fabs?

GlobalFoundries has begun baking chips at Fab 8 in upstate New York, and is doing so for none other than semiconductor process partner IBM.…

Panasonic buys into JT's MySpace TV experiment

Posted: 10 Jan 2012 01:30 PM PST

Get social from your couch, potatoes

Has Justin Timberlake just sounded the death knell for subscription TV? Timberlake and Specific Media, the new co-owners of Rupert Murdoch's digital mischance MySpace, have unveiled a new platform with Panasonic which they claim that it will transform the television experience into a social one.…

Google merging more personal data into search results

Posted: 10 Jan 2012 12:57 PM PST

Tighter Google+ and Picasa integration ahead

Mountain View is rolling out much tighter integration of its Google+ network into search results with what it calls "Search plus your World."…

Juniper stalled by Q4 slowdown

Posted: 10 Jan 2012 11:14 AM PST

Anything Cisco can do. . . .

Juniper Networks is having its Cisco moment, but it doesn't look like it is much to worry about.…

IBM pumps out two Xeon rackers

Posted: 10 Jan 2012 10:56 AM PST

Cost-cutters ahead of the Sandy Bridge onslaught

It may seem odd that IBM would update two x86 servers when Intel is prepping its "Sandy Bridge-EP" Xeon E5 processors for launch in early 2012, but the cut-throat competition in the server racket waits for no chip launch. And thus, IBM is revving up two "value priced" Xeon-based servers to compete against Hewlett-Packard, Dell, and others without having to cut prices on existing System x machines with pricier components.…

Hubble shows images from record-breaking 13.1 billion light-years

Posted: 10 Jan 2012 10:44 AM PST

Spots quintet of infant galaxies in formation

The Hubble telescope has broken its own distance record, spotting a cluster of five galaxies 13.1billion light-years away.…

AT&T joins 'Linux for cloud', boosts HTML5 apps

Posted: 10 Jan 2012 09:44 AM PST

Smartphone, TV, web code-jockey play

AT&T – one of America's largest internet, phone and TV service providers – is throwing up an open-source cloud running OpenStack to court application developers.…

OCZ conquers Everest, flashes 3-bit NAND at world

Posted: 10 Jan 2012 09:18 AM PST

Next-gen MLC gets TLC

OCZ is showing the first mainstream computer flash drive using 3-bit NAND at CES 2012.…

Foreign sabotage suspected in Phobos-Grunt meltdown

Posted: 10 Jan 2012 08:44 AM PST

Russian space chief doesn't want to point any fingers, but...

The head of the Russian space agency has hinted that foreign sabotage might be to blame for the malfunction of the country's Martian space probe, Phobos-Grunt.…

Android-powered goggles bring virtual reality closer

Posted: 10 Jan 2012 08:33 AM PST

Handy augmentation

Pro-Israel hackers threaten tit for tat after credit card leak

Posted: 10 Jan 2012 08:29 AM PST

Saudi e-stores and Israeli diplomat's site nobbled in cyber-spat

Pro-Israel hackers have reportedly breached Saudi shopping sites in retaliation for the publication of Israeli credit-card details by a pro-Palestinian "Saudi" hacker last weekend.…

Facebook obsessives overlook enterprise riches

Posted: 10 Jan 2012 08:02 AM PST

Big biz software is where all the cool kids are at

Open ... and Shut  It's not that enterprise software is boring. But let's face it: if you had the choice to tell your mom that your company makes it easy for 800 million people to talk to each other, or that your business makes it easier for companies like Chevron to do business more productively, the former is going to sound a heck of a lot cooler.…

WD updates video streamer for Netflix, iPlayer

Posted: 10 Jan 2012 08:01 AM PST

Fresh firmware brings IPTV services aboard

Michael Dell: PC profits plunge <i>not</i> down to tablets

Posted: 10 Jan 2012 07:31 AM PST

It was floods and the economy – anyway we're buying cloud startups now

The sluggish demand for PCs that saw Dell's profit dive below Wall Street estimates in the last quarter is not due to tablets, Dell CEO Michael Dell said yesterday.…

Apple CEO Tim Cook has a massive package

Posted: 10 Jan 2012 07:03 AM PST

$376m in stocks for taking over from Jobs

Apple CEO Tim Cook bagged a huge award when he took the helm at the fruity firm last year.…

Panasonic pitches portable Skype screen

Posted: 10 Jan 2012 06:44 AM PST

Take up your PC videocall and walk

Sprint tucks Google Wallet into new pay-by-tap phones

Posted: 10 Jan 2012 06:32 AM PST

Two 4G LTE phones, one wallet, no legacy networking

Sprint's two newly announced 4G handsets both support Google Wallet, bringing an important boost to Google's aspirations, but they also hammer the death nail into WiMAX in the USA.…

Microsoft schedules Kinect for Windows launch

Posted: 10 Jan 2012 06:11 AM PST

Fresh motion control kit inbound

Samsung: 'We'll nick Nokia's global mobe crown this year'

Posted: 10 Jan 2012 06:03 AM PST

Cocky S Korean biz bats aside Apple in race to the top

CES 2012  Samsung is feeling confident that it can ship more handsets than Nokia this year, making it pretty much the top mobile phone company in the world.…

Powerline Ethernet group posts 1Gb/s spec

Posted: 10 Jan 2012 05:54 AM PST

HomePlug AV2 ready for adopters' adapters

Opera's new store beams HTML5 apps into tellies

Posted: 10 Jan 2012 05:41 AM PST

Facebook and Vimeo squeezed into punters' TV time

CES 2012  Opera Software is making a play for turning your TV into a window-on-the-web with the announcement of Opera TV Store.…

Profs call for harsh taxes on sweet carbonated beverages

Posted: 10 Jan 2012 05:19 AM PST

California moves toward tapwater-only lifestyle

Medical scientists in San Francisco have sent a chill wind blowing through the IT industry as they issue a call for swingeing taxes on "soda, fruit punch, sweet tea, sports drinks, and other sweetened beverages".…

Sony shows off NXT-generation smartphone

Posted: 10 Jan 2012 05:11 AM PST

Iconic identity inbound

Oracle mounts Cloudera's elephant for big data ride

Posted: 10 Jan 2012 05:01 AM PST

Cloud biz chosen for number-stomping Hadoop stack

When Oracle co-founder and CEO Larry Ellison clambered onto his own Big Data elephant back in October as his company announced the Big Data Appliance, Oracle gave the impression that it would be rolling up its own implementation of the open-source Apache Hadoop data muncher. This turns out to be not true.…

Sony goes inorganic for 'eye popping' OLED TV rival

Posted: 10 Jan 2012 04:52 AM PST

'Crystal' set contains 6m LEDs

Think twice before moving to SaaS office

Posted: 10 Jan 2012 04:44 AM PST

Benefits available, but must do homework

Reg Reader Study  We all have enough scars to remember that when it comes to core email and office productivity capabilities, migrations are never as easy as they seem. So when SaaS vendors claim that they can magically make things cheaper and simpler we know that it may not be quite that smooth in practice. So what's the real deal when it comes to Office and Email in the SMB space?…

VW catches electric Beetle

Posted: 10 Jan 2012 04:29 AM PST

Prototype two-seater unveiled

HP Pavilion dv6 15.6in quad-core notebook

Posted: 10 Jan 2012 04:00 AM PST

Llano laptop, anyone?

German cops hacked in revenge for dad spying on daughter

Posted: 10 Jan 2012 03:49 AM PST

Payback after officer used cyber-bug at home

An infiltration of a German federal security system last year has been traced back to a botched attempt by an unnamed security official to use a Trojan to monitor his daughter's internet usage, Der Spiegel reports.…

Nokia sheds light on latest Lumia

Posted: 10 Jan 2012 03:49 AM PST

WinPho Tango calling

HP unveils glass-cased Ultrabook

Posted: 10 Jan 2012 03:29 AM PST

The iPhone 4S of laptops

In Netflix vs Lovefilm, the winner (probably) takes nowt

Posted: 10 Jan 2012 03:19 AM PST

Video war kicks off. ZZzzz

Analysis  It isn't exactly your cliche of two bald men fighting over a comb, but victory in the battle royale between Netflix and Amazon's Lovefilm might not mean much to the eventual 'winner'.…

Tesla 300-mile e-car UK debut set for 2013

Posted: 10 Jan 2012 03:09 AM PST

With a 17in touchscreen on the dash

Siri's artificially intelligent news anchor sister bags $6.2m

Posted: 10 Jan 2012 03:01 AM PST

Funding found for DARPA-backed web sniffer Trapit

Siri's little sister Trapit, an intelligent discovery engine that pumps individually curated digital content to users, has closed a $6.2m Series A round of venture funding led by Hong Kong's Horizon Ventures.…

Samsung joins Ultrabook race

Posted: 10 Jan 2012 02:41 AM PST

Cues up 13.3in, 14in entrants

NASA halts 'naut flogging <i>Apollo 13</i> notebook

Posted: 10 Jan 2012 02:39 AM PST

Jim Lovell put emergency checklist up for auction

NASA has sparred with one of its most famous astronauts over the sale of a checklist of life-saving calculations.…

Samsung shows 55in OLED über-TV

Posted: 10 Jan 2012 02:21 AM PST

Dual-core, app-tastic and motion-controlled

TV Guide UK

Posted: 10 Jan 2012 02:00 AM PST

See what's on telly - quick

Orange touts tropical tablet

Posted: 10 Jan 2012 01:57 AM PST

Own-brand Tahiti on sale today

French court fines Google $65k over search suggestion

Posted: 10 Jan 2012 01:31 AM PST

Did your $%&* algorithm just call me a crook?

Google has been fined $65,000 by a French court after its search engine suggested the French word for 'crook' when users typed-in the name of an insurance company, according to reports.…

Vodafone using 'partners' to help it penetrate global markets

Posted: 10 Jan 2012 01:01 AM PST

Just friends with benefits...

Vodafone is increasingly adopting local partners, rather than buying up local operators, to push its brand and services into new markets around the world.…

CES headman: 'Microsoft not gone, just on pause'

Posted: 10 Jan 2012 12:21 AM PST

Ballmer's final (?) keynote a crashing bore

CES 2012  When Microsoft said in December that this year's Consumer Electronics show would be its last, it failed to convince the president and CEO of the Consumer Electronics Association, the organization that produces CES.…

Bit-part actress slings sueball at IMDb over age gripe

Posted: 10 Jan 2012 12:02 AM PST

Work dried up, 40-year-old Junie Hoang claims

An actress who claims work dried up after her age was revealed on movie compendium website IMDb is suing the Amazon-owned company.…

HD JuiceBox HDMI over Powerline kit

Posted: 09 Jan 2012 11:00 PM PST

High voltage hi-def

Astronomers map largest ever zone of dark matter

Posted: 09 Jan 2012 05:10 PM PST

MegaCam maps 10 million galaxies

An international research team has presented the largest ever map of dark matter at the 219th American Astronomical Society conference in Austin, Texas.…

Intel ignores Steve Jobs, adds touchscreen to Ultrabook

Posted: 09 Jan 2012 04:37 PM PST

Research departments come to 180° conclusions

CES 2012  Intel's research department has overruled Steve Jobs: touchscreens have been added to the next generation of Chipzilla's Ultrabook spec.…

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