PayPal dispute ends in violin destruction

PayPal dispute ends in violin destruction

PayPal dispute ends in violin destruction

Posted: 04 Jan 2012 03:00 PM PST

T&C hell, or a warning about how to buy old instruments?

Like just about every collectable, violins are subject to fakery and claims of fakery – something that a seller complains has led to the destruction of what the seller claims was a $US2,500 instrument in a PayPal dispute.…

Study finds piracy withering against legal alternatives

Posted: 04 Jan 2012 02:50 PM PST

People just aren't prepared to be screwed

A study has found that people are perfectly prepared to pay for online content, provided that the alternatives aren't too harsh.…

Quickflix bolstered by streaming

Posted: 04 Jan 2012 02:30 PM PST

Gaining digital ground

Quickflix's move to digital streaming in December has sparked 10 percent of its subscribers to choose streaming as part of their package.…

Civil society NGOs under threat, says Access

Posted: 04 Jan 2012 02:00 PM PST

A call for help

Attacks on the freedom-of-speech community worldwide seemed to grow in 2011, according to umbrella organization Access.…

New CEO Rometty tweaks IBM exec lineup

Posted: 04 Jan 2012 01:52 PM PST

Kern retires, looks for CEO position elsewhere

Ginni Rometty was tapped to be IBM's president and CEO last October and took the reins from Sam Palmisano, still the company's chairman, on January 1.…

Lunar mineral turns up in Oz

Posted: 04 Jan 2012 01:33 PM PST

Tranquillityite spotted in WA rocks

Until now, the mineral tranquillityite – consisting of iron, zirconium, yttrium, titanium, silicon and oxygen, and almost completely useless – has only been observed in rocks brought back from the glory days of the moon landings. Now, a team of scientists in Western Australia has found it for the first time in Earthbound samples.…

Mobile carriers face big ticket spectrum costs

Posted: 04 Jan 2012 01:31 PM PST

800 Mhz set to make the govt a motza

Australian mobile carriers are turning activist in the lead up to the Federal Government's final determination on the pricing for retaining their 800MHz mobile licences.…

Judge sets date for Google v Oracle showdown

Posted: 04 Jan 2012 12:41 PM PST

Springtime for Ellison in California

A pretrial order from the California courts has set the dates for the forthcoming trial between Oracle and Google over the rights and wrongs of Java's intellectual property rights.…

Apache lets fly Hadoop 1.0 data muncher

Posted: 04 Jan 2012 11:33 AM PST

This ain't no Dumbo

The Hadoop project at the Apache Software Foundation is beating its chest for delivering the v1.0 version of the open source MapReduce data analysis tool, its Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS), and other related code.…

Android Market tops 400,000 apps, climbing fast

Posted: 04 Jan 2012 10:27 AM PST

Fart App Index™ parity with iOS unclear

Google's Android Market now has over 400,000 apps, and the pace of new code additions is accelerating.…

Google grabs yet more patents from IBM war chest

Posted: 04 Jan 2012 09:33 AM PST

Instant message take-back IP among new lawsuit ammo

Google continues to fill up its sack of patents, once again with the help of IBM, bagging scores of patents from the tech titan.…

Brits got Kindles for Christmas

Posted: 04 Jan 2012 09:06 AM PST

More e-book readers given as prezzies than tablets

Ask punters what they got for Christmas and a rather large number of them say they got a Kindle.…

IBM buys Green Hat for virty dev tools

Posted: 04 Jan 2012 09:01 AM PST

Red Hat would complete the set

Setting up systems to do software testing is almost as annoying as setting up systems to run in production, or maybe it is more annoying because of the multiple scenarios you have to test before you throw the code over the wall into the data center. That is why IBM has bought Green Hat, which is neither a cuckold (in China wearing a green hat is idiomatic for being made one) nor a galero (much as a red hat designates a cardinal, this wide-brimmed hat designates a bishop), but rather an Anglo-American software company that makes software testing tools that do some things that Big Blue's Rational toolbox does not.…

China Telecom piggybacks EE to create UK network

Posted: 04 Jan 2012 08:25 AM PST

Service for Chinese speakers in Blighty to launch 2012

China Telecom is following through on its promise to launch a UK network in 2012, piggybacking on Everything Everywhere's network for the 400,000 Chinese speakers in the UK.…

At least 10 days till hot Phobos-Grunt chunks rain down

Posted: 04 Jan 2012 08:02 AM PST

Earliest estimate for fallout from doomed Russian Mars probe 'may change'

Any fragments of the doomed Russian Mars probe Phobos-Grunt that don't burn up in the fiery explosion of its fuel tanks hitting the atmosphere are likely to fall to Earth on 15 January.…

Nokia posts car-to-phone comms app

Posted: 04 Jan 2012 07:19 AM PST

MirrorLink debuts on Symbian Belle

The Connected Car Consortium's MirrorLink technology - it allows an compatible in-car entertainment system to show what's on your phone's screen and control the handset over Wi-Fi, Bluetooth or USB - is now available to folk with Symbian Belle devices.…

Analysts: Samsung will show us the MONEY on Friday

Posted: 04 Jan 2012 07:02 AM PST

Q4 take expected to rise to $4.1bn on smartphone sales

Samsung will be announcing a healthy profit in its quarterly results, according to market-watchers, who reckon the Korean electronics giant has powered through the period with strong smartphone sales.…

Videogame piracy figures show decline

Posted: 04 Jan 2012 06:56 AM PST

2011 torrent abuse exposed

Videogame piracy may be in decline, according to a study investigating which games were illegally downloaded the most last year.…

Yahoo! bags! CEO! from! PayPal!

Posted: 04 Jan 2012 06:34 AM PST

Ex-prez drafted in to steer web biz to glory

As rumoured all over the web this morning, PayPal president Scott Thompson has been snapped up by Yahoo! for the role of chief executive. Yahoo!'s acting CEO Tim Morse has returned to his job as chief financial officer.…

Pastebin on the mend after DDoS battering

Posted: 04 Jan 2012 06:14 AM PST

Were hacktivists the real target?

Popular text file sharing service Pastebin.com has returned online following a denial of service attack on Tuesday.…

Samsung Ultrabook specced up by retailer

Posted: 04 Jan 2012 05:48 AM PST

CES premiere?

Samsung's upcoming Ultrabook, the Series 5 line member NP530U3B-A01, has been specced up on a US retail site ahead of its formal launch - which will presumably take place next week at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES).…

Ubuntu hoists skirt, flashes 'concept' gadget at CES

Posted: 04 Jan 2012 05:42 AM PST

Desktop Linux goes TV - or tablet?

Ubuntu shop Canonical has promised to make a splash at the annual gadget jamboree, the Consumer Electronics Show, in Las Vegas, Nevada, next week.…

Samsung confirms refreshed Galaxy Ace for UK

Posted: 04 Jan 2012 05:34 AM PST

Power up

Samsung has given its Galaxy Ace handset a facelift, unveiling its beefed-up successor, the Samsung Galaxy Ace Plus, and saying the smartphone will come to Blighty.…

Apple shoots for Premier League soccer streaming rights

Posted: 04 Jan 2012 05:30 AM PST

iTunes 1, Sky 0?

Apple will push for further global domination by taking on Sky, the BBC and multimedia rival Google in the billion-pound fight for the rights to transmit Premier League football.…

Nokia Ace to launch from $100m mountain of ad cash

Posted: 04 Jan 2012 05:21 AM PST

Microsoft and co bet big on new WinPhone

Microsoft and its partners will start spending money like water in the next three months, following the launch of the Nokia Ace, according to sources cited by Betanews.…

Germans increase office efficiency with 'cloud ceiling'

Posted: 04 Jan 2012 05:02 AM PST

Worker output boosted by illusion of open sky overhead

So you thought you had deployed every form of office technology that could possibly increase the productivity of your company's cripplingly expensive salaried employees? You were wrong. Remorseless German boffins have discovered a way to make office workers still more efficient using - quite literally in this case - cloud technology.…

Virtual sanity: How to get a grip on your home PCs

Posted: 04 Jan 2012 04:41 AM PST

Set up once, use again and again anywhere

Sysadmin blog  Virtualisation can have a role in the home computing environment. Personal computers are kind of crap at migrating (or duplicating) your settings, applications and data from one system to another. Virtualisation can remove some of this grief.…

Anonymous hunts neo-Nazis with WikiLeaks-style site

Posted: 04 Jan 2012 04:23 AM PST

Loads of alleged donors, right-wing players to send those pizzas to

Members of Anonymous have re-doubled their offensive against German neo-Nazis.…

Dizzy: the Ultimate Cartoon Adventure

Posted: 04 Jan 2012 04:00 AM PST

Eggsemplary gaming

Antique Code Show  Resident Evil is considered a classic by many. But did you know that the design of the first three games was popularised ten years prior by a little eggy wegg?…

EMC Isilon stiffens penetration into NAS arena

Posted: 04 Jan 2012 03:51 AM PST

Waggles rising revenues at rival NetApp

EMC is making great progress attacking the scale-out NAS market with Isilon and trying to cap NetApp's growth there.…

Comet 'sold 94,000 pirate Windows CDs', claims Microsoft

Posted: 04 Jan 2012 03:21 AM PST

Redmond sues retail chain over counterfeit disc allegations

Updated  Microsoft has accused high-street retailer Comet of pirating 94,000 Windows Vista and Windows XP recovery CDs and selling them to consumers.…

Exotic Russian rock CAME FROM OUTER SPACE

Posted: 04 Jan 2012 03:02 AM PST

Alien quasicrystal find sheds light on solar system birth

Atom-bothering boffins have proved that a crystal previously only found in labs also occurs naturally - in outer space.…

Weak Sony PS Vita sales prompt price-cuts

Posted: 04 Jan 2012 02:52 AM PST

3DS sets an example

Sony's PlayStation Vita experienced a rapid decline in sales during its second week on Japanese shelves, prompting suggestions the company may have to reduce the console's price.…

Asus promises to open Prime bootloader

Posted: 04 Jan 2012 02:33 AM PST

Blames current encryption on Google and DRM

Asus has pledged to release a tool that will unlock the bootloader built into its Eee Pad Transformer Prime tablet, possibly from 12 January, the date on which it will be pushing out the gadget's Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich update.…

Xio sends its new Admiral Nelson into storage offensive

Posted: 04 Jan 2012 02:33 AM PST

Now drive biz says it's part-owned by Seagate

Xio's new CEO John Beletic has moved quickly to put his stamp on the company by appointing a new marketing boss - Richard Nelson.…

UK space agency to boldly send techies ... behind a desk

Posted: 04 Jan 2012 02:02 AM PST

Blighty advertises for boffins, IT workers and admin staff

The UK space agency has launched a 'jobs feed' on its website to keep Brits up to date with all the career opportunities relating to exploration above and beyond Earth's skies.…

Cops get 3D laser scanners for motorway crash sites

Posted: 04 Jan 2012 01:29 AM PST

£2.7m from DfT for new tech will help tackle closures after smash-ups

The Department for Transport (DfT) has awarded 27 police forces across England £2.7m worth of funding for the implementation of 3D laser scanning technology.…

PCIe flashers bash storage networks

Posted: 04 Jan 2012 01:02 AM PST

They slow you down, man

Blocks & Files  A sea change in storage industry thinking is occurring: storage networks are now seen as slowing down access to data. The PCIe flash DAS hare beats SAN and NAS tortoises every day of the week.…

Saudi hackers plaster 14,000 credit card privates on web

Posted: 04 Jan 2012 12:03 AM PST

Raid on Israeli sites exposes up to 400,000 punters

A Saudi Arabian hacking group claims it has leaked information on up to 400,000 Israelis, including names, addresses and credit card details.…

HTC Sensation XL

Posted: 03 Jan 2012 11:00 PM PST

Beats drums up another Android

Review  Following on the Sensation XE, HTC's other Beats Audio-enabled handset is certainly bigger, but it comes out looking the weaker of the two in almost every criteria except size.…

US military's non-lethal weapon plans revealed

Posted: 03 Jan 2012 05:52 PM PST

Laser aircraft disruption, sonic scuba repeller, blinders, more

Details of the US military's wish-list for non-lethal devices have been published online and show some interesting new technologies, as well as some more familiar ones that are to be beefed up.…

Space soldiers save satellite from FLAMING DEATH

Posted: 03 Jan 2012 05:41 PM PST

The little engine that could rescues $2bn military bird

The US Air Force Space Command's 14-month effort to save a $2bn military communications satellite overcame failed thrusters, threatened explosion, space debris, and destructive radiation, thanks in great measure to tiny thrusters with a mere 0.05 pounds of oomph.…

Chip sales sag says semiconductor seller survey

Posted: 03 Jan 2012 03:32 PM PST

2011 semi flat, 2012 semi hopeful

Thanks to the flooding in Thailand and other macroeconomic issues, chip sales fell by 3.1 per cent last November to $25.13bn, according to statistics from the Semiconductor Industry Association. Those figures are a three-month moving average running from September through November, compared to sales from the same period on 2010 – which was a pretty good time for the chip biz.…

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