NASA study identifies the ‘low hanging fruit’ in climate change

NASA study identifies the ‘low hanging fruit’ in climate change


NASA study identifies the ‘low hanging fruit’ in climate change

Posted: 16 Jan 2012 03:12 PM PST

Rocket scientists say warming reduction isn't rocket science

A group led by NASA and Columbia University has published a study claiming that an immediate focus on two non-CO2 pollutants – soot and methane – will help address climate change in the short term while international geopolitics wends its way through the Byzantine politics needed to get a global agreement.…

Telstra Int adds a German PoP, gets closer to Asia

Posted: 16 Jan 2012 02:30 PM PST

All set for trans-Mongolian link

Telstra International has invested in a new low latency telecommunications route from Europe to Asia in addition to provisioning a new Point-of-Presence (PoP) in Frankfurt.…

Crossley cops two-year suspension

Posted: 16 Jan 2012 02:00 PM PST

Tribunal slaps down ACS:Law pirate-bothering

Andrew Crossley of bankrupt practice ACS:Law has received a two-year suspension from the Solicitors' Regulatory Tribunal over the techniques he used to pursue alleged file-sharers.…

Red Hat RHEV 3.0 to launch this Wednesday?

Posted: 16 Jan 2012 01:57 PM PST

We're virtually sure...

Commercial Linux and Java development tool distributor Red Hat has big aspirations in the server virtualization and cloud computing arenas, and it looks like the company is getting ready to bust out the 3.0 version of its Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization hypervisor – RHEV for short.…

News Ltd gets deeper into Arabia

Posted: 16 Jan 2012 01:30 PM PST

Snares stake in Middle East media empire Moby

News Corp has further embedded itself in the Middle East media market taking a strategic stake in Dubai-based media, content and technology player, the Moby Group.…

Wikipedia to shut down Wednesday in SOPA protest

Posted: 16 Jan 2012 01:16 PM PST

Anger grows against online-piracy bill

Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales has announced that the "encyclopedia anyone can edit" will go dark this Wednesday in protest of the Stop Online Piracy Act, aka SOPA, that's dividing Washington DC – not to mention pitting online content providers against ISPs, search-engine sites, civil libertarians, and others.…

Data-digesting cloud colossus touted by Fujitsu

Posted: 16 Jan 2012 10:11 AM PST

Gulps chunks of info sniffed from punters, rivals, sensors

Being online to serve your customers is not enough anymore. You have to spy on your customers and prospective clients, as well as anyone else you can get data on, and mash it all up to do big data analytics to drive more revenues and profits.…

Former US CIO Kundra joins Salesforce.com

Posted: 16 Jan 2012 09:47 AM PST

Cloud champion to head up emerging markets

Cloudy CRM software supplier Salesforce.com has hired Vivek Kundra, the first CIO for the US government, to be its executive vice president of emerging markets.…

Motorola repels US import ban bid by Apple

Posted: 16 Jan 2012 09:37 AM PST

No evidence of patent infringement, for now, says ITC

The US International Trade Commission has been unable to find evidence that Motorola is infringing Apple's patents, so has declined Cupertino's filing for an import ban, though the fight continues.…

Israel's stock exchange site knackered by hackers

Posted: 16 Jan 2012 09:02 AM PST

Cyberwar breaks out in the Middle East

The website of Israel's main stock exchange was floored by a denial-of-service attack on Monday. Israeli airline El Al has also come under attack by hackers, but its website remains running despite the assault.…

Tape lives on: Sony to squeeze out LTO-6

Posted: 16 Jan 2012 08:32 AM PST

Storage world still loves the reels

CES 2012  Tape is not dead: Sony, which has stopped developing its proprietary AIT/Super AIT tape media, has signed up for an LTO-6 licence agreement.…

Child labour, lost wages uncloaked by Apple factories audit

Posted: 16 Jan 2012 08:01 AM PST

$3.6bn handed out to underpaid iMakers

Apple has for the first time released a complete list of its suppliers [PDF], publishing the names of 156 companies who make the parts for everything from Macbook screens to iPad covers.…

SOPA bins DNS blocking after White House wades in

Posted: 16 Jan 2012 07:32 AM PST

Come up with something better, Obama's three czars plead

The sponsor of the anti-piracy bill SOPA has agreed to drop DNS blocking of websites from the proposed legislation after a joint statement from leading White House officials.…

Experts: We're stuck with passwords – and maybe they're best

Posted: 16 Jan 2012 07:02 AM PST

20 years of alternatives have failed

Late last year IBM reckoned biometrics would finally replace the password within the next five years. The prediction was part of a series that also speculated that the digital divide would cease to exist and that mind-reading technology would become a possibility. But, at least on the subject of passwords, new research from Microsoft's Cormac Herley and computer science professor Paul van Oorschot explains why, despite the tech industry's best attempts, this is not the case.…

Sony teases DotSwitch multi-screen tech

Posted: 16 Jan 2012 06:54 AM PST

Flip instantly from telly to tablet?

Sony left fans drooling today with a video-clip that teases an upcoming feature called "Dot Switch".…

Amazon floats free Windows Server clouds

Posted: 16 Jan 2012 06:32 AM PST

Compute and storage honey for .NET bees

Amazon is giving Windows shops a taste of Microsoft's Windows server for free in the cloud.…

Nokia flogs 350 vital mobile phone patents

Posted: 16 Jan 2012 06:01 AM PST

Buyer Sisvel is throwing a 4G patent pool party - all invited

Patent licensing outfit Sisvel has acquired 450 patents from Nokia, 350 of which are essential for mobile telephony, but despite appearances this is no desperate attempt to borrow cash from the future.…

Groupon: IPO rumble mutated us into Wolverine

Posted: 16 Jan 2012 05:43 AM PST

X-Men wannabe CEO explains SEC showdown on telly

Vid  Groupon's 31-year-old CEO and founder Andrew Mason went on CBS chat show 60 Minutes to explain why Groupon misreported its profits in the months before its flotation on the stock exchange.…

Formula 1 revs engines through Virgin Media

Posted: 16 Jan 2012 05:41 AM PST

Smiles for Sky Sports subscribers

Virgin Media has announced that Sky Sports' new Formula 1 channel will be available this March for those subscribed to the Sky Sports package already offered.…

Stop this energy smart meter 'fiasco', UK.gov urged

Posted: 16 Jan 2012 05:22 AM PST

Miliband's mandatory kill switches criticised

So-called 'smart meters' are under renewed attack – this time from MPs and Which? magazine, which has recommended a halt to the programme.…

The Sons of Khan and the Pascal Spring

Posted: 16 Jan 2012 05:02 AM PST

How Embarcadero made Delphi as groovy as a Lumia phone. Um...

Stob  [We last heard from the Sons of Khan in 2010. The scriptures continue - Ed.]…

Keeping score in the public sector

Posted: 16 Jan 2012 04:44 AM PST

Share and share alike people

Hardly a day goes by without news coverage around whether some public sector organisation or other is delivering against expectations, making the best use of funding, or otherwise performing adequately.…

Virgin Media takes itself in hand after punter-package tickle whoopsie

Posted: 16 Jan 2012 04:32 AM PST

Apologises for 'gremlins', promises doubles all round

Updated  An email that arrived in the inboxes of an unspecified number of Virgin Media customers on Friday that promised "faster broadband, for less" was embarrassingly pulled by the telco just hours later.…

Lovefilm lengthens UK content collection

Posted: 16 Jan 2012 04:23 AM PST

ABC TV shows brought to Blighty

Amazon struck a deal with Disney this week that'll see ABC TV content available on demand to Lovefilm subscribers.…

Skype is coming to Windows Phone - really

Posted: 16 Jan 2012 04:14 AM PST

And the XBox. And Win 8. Telcos, start your griping

Skype has again promised to slip its eponymous telephony application into Windows Phone handsets real soon - while integrating with Facebook and working out what people might actually pay for.…

HTC Explorer budget smartphone

Posted: 16 Jan 2012 04:00 AM PST

The Android for noobs

Review  The latest from startlingly prolific smart phone manufacturer HTC won't be top of the list for mobile aficionados. It's a basic entry-level Android with middling specs though these are still probably a cut above its bog-standard price. But for smartphone newbies, what it offers may prove to be more than enough.…

Flog secondhand MP3s at your peril - law guru

Posted: 16 Jan 2012 03:44 AM PST

Upstart startup sued for reselling music files

Opinion  Redigi, an American startup company, has found itself in trouble for selling legally downloaded digital music tracks secondhand. Last week it was on the receiving end of a copyright infringement suit in the US.…

<i>Angry Brides</i> lob stilettos in dowry shakedown takedown

Posted: 16 Jan 2012 03:32 AM PST

Bad boy bridegrooms battered in game against banned tradition

Indian matchmaking service Shaadi.com has launched a new game based on the immensely popular Angry Birds that aims to highlight the unfair and illegal practice of demanding dowries in South Asian countries.…

Five things that knocked CES 2012 for six

Posted: 16 Jan 2012 03:17 AM PST

The bits of gear you'll be hearing about this year

And now, after worn-out CES 2012 attendees and exhibitors have stumbled off home in a daze, Wireless Watch presents the five themes that stood out at the week-long celebration of consumerism that you ought to know about.…

Apple iPad 3 to sport LTE '4G'

Posted: 16 Jan 2012 03:04 AM PST

Quad-core CPU too

Apple's upcoming iPad 3 will incorporate LTE connectivity, it has been claimed.…

Big Data in Context

Posted: 16 Jan 2012 03:00 AM PST

Beyond the relational database

Big Data is an 'umbrella' term that is commonly used to refer to a number of advanced data storage, access and analytics technologies aimed at handling high volume and/or fast moving data in a variety of scenarios. These typically involve low signal-to-noise ratios, such as social media sentiment monitoring, or log file analysis, to mention just a couple. If you listen to the PR folks, it's the next 'big thing' in IT, but does it really warrant the relatively high level of media attention and coverage it is currently receiving?…

Google MORTIFIED by Mocality's 'scalped data' claims

Posted: 16 Jan 2012 02:43 AM PST

Says soz to Kenyan startup

Google issued an apology to Mocality late on Friday after the startup's CEO uncovered evidence that employees working for Mountain View had lied about their biz relationship with the Kenyan biz.…

Pollution-gobbling molecules in global warming SMACKDOWN

Posted: 16 Jan 2012 02:17 AM PST

Boffins: Newly observed particles scrub our filthy air

Elusive pollution-busting molecules are scrubbing our planet's atmosphere at a much faster rate than first imagined, according to gas-bothering boffins.…

Apple touts touch-free perspective-powered 3D tech

Posted: 16 Jan 2012 02:11 AM PST

Patent potential

Apple patents aren't always an indicator of the tech just around the corner, but it doesn't stop the rumour mill latching onto them as evidence of such.…

Zappos coughs to HUGE data breach

Posted: 16 Jan 2012 02:06 AM PST

Up to 24 million users zappwn3d

Online shoe and apparel outlet Zappos.com has apologised over a massive data breach that exposed the personal details of millions.…

MS, Intel challenged over Windows 8 tablet prices

Posted: 16 Jan 2012 01:53 AM PST

Manufacturer moles fling FUD

The message from Taiwan's computer manufacturers: lower the price of Windows 8 tablet components and software or the devices will be so expensive that consumers won't want them.…

Golden booty-shakin' bug named after pop diva Beyoncé

Posted: 16 Jan 2012 01:32 AM PST

That ass is fly

Hot pic  American popular music luminary Beyoncé has had a species of horse fly named after her in honour of the one-time Destiny Child singer's celebrated bottom.…

Flash drive meltdown fingered in Swedish IT blackout

Posted: 16 Jan 2012 01:01 AM PST

Tieto's EMC VNX5700 array sparked 5-day disarray - new claim

Tieto's five-day outage disaster started with multiple failures of its EMC VNX5700 array's FAST Cache, according to a Finnish source close to the matter.…

Hospital gopher fined for prying into ex's family records

Posted: 16 Jan 2012 12:02 AM PST

Court dishes out £1,500 bill for data breach

A former healthcare assistant at Royal Liverpool university hospital has been fined £500 and been ordered to pay £1,000 towards prosecution costs after she unlawfully accessed the medical records of five members of her ex-husband's family.…

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