Gongs ring in Oz tech sector

Gongs ring in Oz tech sector

Gongs ring in Oz tech sector

Posted: 26 Jan 2012 02:30 PM PST

Geeks make the Order of Australia

The father of 802.11a wireless chipsets, Dr David Skellern, is one of a bunch of tech-sector luminaries to be gonged in the Australia Day honours list.…

IBM demos new nanotech

Posted: 26 Jan 2012 02:00 PM PST

Carbon nanotube, graphene research boost transistors' future

Somehow, we still manage to inch-out the limits of Moore's Law: in a double-whammy to end the week, IBM has demonstrated the smallest carbon nanotube transistor, and has claimed the world's fastest graphene transistor.…

Nikon compact, only $AU100k

Posted: 26 Jan 2012 01:45 PM PST

Deal too good to miss

We're all familiar with the syndrome: someone forgets to fill in the price field in a database, and all of a sudden, an online store is offering products at zero dollars.…

Digislide slips into administration

Posted: 26 Jan 2012 01:38 PM PST

ASX listed projector start-up hits the wall

Award winning digital technology start-up Digislide has been plunged into administration after collapsing in a mountain of debt and irate shareholders.…

UK probes Snickers over 'celebrity' Twitter adverts

Posted: 26 Jan 2012 01:05 PM PST

Rio Ferdinand and Jordan fingered for promo tweets

The UK's Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) is to investigate a promotional campaign by confectionary giant Mars, which hired B-list celebrities to push its Snickers candy bars.…

Mellanox shrugs off Intel's InfiniBand buy

Posted: 26 Jan 2012 12:37 PM PST

Turns in good Q4, will grow in 2012 despite price cuts

Having bought rival Voltaire, Mellanox Technologies has pretty much ruled the InfiniBand adapter and switching roost for the past several years. But this week Intel shelled out $125m to acquire the InfiniBand chip, adapter, and switch businesses from QLogic, and the big question now is: what does this mean for Mellanox?…

<strong>[<abbr title="Not Safe For Work">NSFW</abbr>]</strong> iPad Fleshlight lets fanbois express their love

Posted: 26 Jan 2012 11:56 AM PST

Coming soon: Fondleslab f**king

NSFW  A conceptual design for a new iPad case would let Apple fanbois get very personal indeed with their favorite fondleslab.…

Intel bags $120m patent hoard from RealNetworks

Posted: 26 Jan 2012 11:05 AM PST

190 patents, 170 applications, and 'next-generation' video codec

In the latest maneuver of the tech industry's ongoing patent wars, Intel has struck a $120m deal with RealNetworks to purchase 190 patents and 170 patent applications, along with what both companies define as "next-generation video codec software".…

NEC slashes 10,000 jobs – blames Thai floods, smartphone slump

Posted: 26 Jan 2012 09:26 AM PST

Japanese IT giant a victim of Apple's success

NEC is set to slash 10,000 jobs including 3,000 unlucky employees from its workforce outside of Japan, after its revised forecast revealed the Japanese electronics giant would make a year end net loss of ¥100bn (£820m).…

Google emails Virgin Media subscribers ... about privacy

Posted: 26 Jan 2012 08:57 AM PST

Infuriated customers want to know how the Goog got their addresses

Fuming Virgin Media customers have taken to the telco's forum to complain that their email addresses have been used by Google, instead of being kept private.…

Rhapsody nabs Napster UK

Posted: 26 Jan 2012 08:31 AM PST

Rubber brand

Napster UK has a new owner: Rhapsody, the company that killed the service off in the States.…

Google exec questions Reding's 'Right to be forgotten' pledge

Posted: 26 Jan 2012 08:26 AM PST

Says certain aspects of article 17 are 'unworkable'

CPDP  Google's privacy policy counsel in Brussels has questioned certain parts of European Commissioner Viviane Reding's freshly tabled draft bill on data protection law within the EU.…

New Earth-observing satellite snaps 'blue marble' shot

Posted: 26 Jan 2012 07:55 AM PST

Three-month-old Suomi NPP captures hi-res Earth pic

The newly renamed Suomi NPP satellite has snapped a hi-res composite of the Earth from a number of swaths over the surface taken on 4 January.…

Blackhole crimeware kit drives web threat spike

Posted: 26 Jan 2012 07:27 AM PST

Report: Conficker also still causing mayhem

Fake anti-virus scams are on the wane but drive-by-download threats have rocketed over the past year thanks to the hugely popular Blackhole crimeware kit, while Conficker remains prolific some three years after its release, according to Sophos.…

WD's MyBook takes a Thunderbolt to the chest

Posted: 26 Jan 2012 07:02 AM PST

2-drive external storage system for mega-fast read/writes

WD has announced its new Thunderbolt-bolstered MyBook, telling us that we can soon eyeball the super speeded-up gear at a demo at the Macworld/iWorld show.…

Apple dishes out cheap, tasty Macs 'n slabs to staff

Posted: 26 Jan 2012 06:47 AM PST

Employees sink teeth into hefty $500 Macbook discounts

As if the joy of working for Apple wasn't reward enough, all Apple employees will now get a $500 discount off Macs and $250 off iPads.…

Korean boffins make e-books more like real ones

Posted: 26 Jan 2012 06:17 AM PST

Paperback swiper

Korean researchers have developed an app which makes reading e-books more like flicking through the pages of the real thing.…

Big biz BlackBerry refuseniks adopt Apple over Android

Posted: 26 Jan 2012 05:39 AM PST

Enterprise iPhone activations dwarf rivals

Smartphone owners working for big business are activating far more iOS devices than they are Android ones - at least those who employed by firms using Good Technology's corporate email system are.…

Small pile of cash, dying platform: 2011 is bad news for Nokia

Posted: 26 Jan 2012 05:32 AM PST

Sales, profits, margins, all spiralling down

Nokia's results for 2011 show the company has shipped a million Lumia handsets and has cash in the bank, but other than that there's nothing good to report.…

FetchTV owner looks for buyer

Posted: 26 Jan 2012 05:04 AM PST

Video-on-demand, set-top box biz up for sale

Russian supply ship heads for ISS, space garbage crashes into Pacific

Posted: 26 Jan 2012 04:58 AM PST

Vittles, manoeuvring fuel up: Rubbish bins down

A Russian "Progress" supply ship has successfully lifted off bound for the International Space Station orbiting the Earth, even as another departed the station crammed with rubbish destined for fiery destruction during re-entry above the Pacific.…

Archos 35 Smart Home Phone

Posted: 26 Jan 2012 04:30 AM PST

Skype savvy Android DECT set

Review  The last Android-based home phone that landed on my desk came from iDect – that's Binatone to the rest of us. Frankly, I was less than impressed by it's lack of integration with Gmail contacts. Now, Archos is out to crack the same nut with its 35 Smart Home Phone which adds quite a few refinements.…

EMC moves into LSI WarpDrive

Posted: 26 Jan 2012 04:18 AM PST

Mister Sulu, stand by to make your manoeuvres ...

LSI WarpDrive solid state drives will be used by EMC in its Project Lightning server flash product.…

Nintendo cuts full-year forecast – by BILLIONS

Posted: 26 Jan 2012 04:03 AM PST

Super Mario-maker hopes Wii U release can help it power-up

The mighty yen and weak sales have combined to take a whack out of Nintendo, forcing the Japanese gaming firm to forecast an even bigger full-year loss.…

Symantec's profits up in calm third quarter

Posted: 26 Jan 2012 03:46 AM PST

Growth in security and compliance keeps ship steady

CEO Enrique Salem stands crisp and smart on the poop deck of the good ship Symantec, looking back at a straight course and ahead to more growth. It's a pretty unexciting third quarter story really.…

Flag-waving Lego Canuck soars to 80,000ft

Posted: 26 Jan 2012 03:29 AM PST

Canadian teens stake claim on upper atmosphere

A couple of Canadian teenagers have staked their country's claim on the upper atmosphere by sending a flag-waving Legonaut to 80,000ft (24,384m).…

TVCatchup

Posted: 26 Jan 2012 03:27 AM PST

Live telly beamed to your iDevice

Apple and Google ramp up proxy war

Posted: 26 Jan 2012 03:14 AM PST

Motorola flings another 6 patent suits at the Fruity One

Apple and Google might not be facing each other across a courtroom, but they're fighting just the same, with the Chocolate Factory wielding Motorola against the fondleslab-maker.…

Ten exabytes wedged into a rather large box by Cleversafe

Posted: 26 Jan 2012 03:02 AM PST

But with 4,500,000 drives, it's gonna cost ya

It must surely be some sort of landmark? Object storage supplier Cleversafe now has a 10-exabyte system customers can buy.…

Billions of net-ready boxes in homes by 2016

Posted: 26 Jan 2012 03:02 AM PST

Will anyone still watch broadcast TV?

Google Maps to dish out disaster alerts

Posted: 26 Jan 2012 02:39 AM PST

Nearest McDonalds is... oh, there's an earthquake comi-... aaaah

Google tried to claw back the moral high ground on Wednesday by adding a new emergency alert service to its popular mapping tool, designed to give the public up-to-the-minute information on serious weather, public safety and earthquake-related events.…

Foxconn tooling up for iPhone 5

Posted: 26 Jan 2012 02:29 AM PST

Bigger body, bigger screen, says factory insider

Taiwanese contract manufacturer Foxconn is preparing its production lines for the iPhone 5, a company mole has claimed.…

Boffins one step closer to invisible shed

Posted: 26 Jan 2012 02:20 AM PST

Successfully cloak 3D object from microwaves

Invisibility-investigating boffins have managed for the first time to cloak a three-dimensional object in free space – but only from microwaves.…

Apple loses ground to Android in tablet biz

Posted: 26 Jan 2012 02:16 AM PST

But sells so many iPads it needn't care

Apple may have topped the US smartphone chart in Q4 2011, thanks to the iPhone 4S, but it needs a revamped iPad if it's to reverse the trend in the tablet market.…

BBC's images of murdered infant did not breach privacy, copyright

Posted: 26 Jan 2012 02:02 AM PST

Court rules: Happier times snaps from trial were in public interest

Copyright and privacy law do not prevent the BBC from publishing images of a murdered child, a Scottish criminal appeals court has ruled.…

Apple takes smartphone lead

Posted: 26 Jan 2012 01:51 AM PST

Top of the US chart in Q4

Apple topped the US smartphone chart in the final three months of 2011, pushing past all its Android rivals. Well, just - and it's losing ground in the tablet arena.…

Microsoft's magic bullet for Azure: Red Hat Linux

Posted: 26 Jan 2012 01:32 AM PST

Cloud biz falls short of $80m revenue target

Analysis  If Microsoft loves money, and it does, then making Linux publicly available on its proprietary Azure cloud can't come soon enough.…

1 euro in every 7 spent on a Visa card

Posted: 26 Jan 2012 12:58 AM PST

Digital wallet coming this year

Visa will be launching a digital wallet this year, and expects to see half of Europe's transactions being done on a mobile phone by 2020, but plastic cards are looking good too, according to Visa Europe's Annual Report.…

DWP's Work Programme IT already broken at launch

Posted: 26 Jan 2012 12:02 AM PST

National Audit Office: Functionality still not available

The IT underpinning the Department for Work and Pensions' (DWP) Work Programme was not fully functional when the scheme was launched and some of its key functionality is still not available, according to a National Audit Office (NAO) report.…

Netflix vs Lovefilm

Posted: 25 Jan 2012 11:00 PM PST

Streaming giants go head to head

Red Hat juices speed freak MRG Linux

Posted: 25 Jan 2012 05:05 PM PST

Shadowman gets the message

Red Hat updated its core Enterprise Linux operating system stack to 6.2 in December and its Enterprise Virtualization commercial-grade KVM server hypervisor to 3.0 last week. Now Shadowman has polished up a new release of a special stack of Linux and systems software called MRG aimed at hard-core messaging, real-time, and high performance computing workloads where generic Linux just don't cut it.…

Scientists shift electron orbits for atomic storage and quantum computing

Posted: 25 Jan 2012 04:51 PM PST

Jupiter's orbital mechanics inspires mesoscopic physicists

Scientists have found a way to stabilize and regulate the orbit of electrons in an atom, after drawing inspiration from the orbit of asteroids around Jupiter.…

Citrix rides the virty desktop wave

Posted: 25 Jan 2012 04:34 PM PST

Thanks for Windows 7, Microsoft – can I have another?

The maturation of desktop virtualization was coincidentally, and fortunately in the case of the Wednesday's financial results from Citrix Systems, timed more or less with the launch of Windows 7 desktops two years ago. The results show Citrix has been steadily capitalizing on its $500m acquisition of XenSource and others.…

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