Redmond campaigns for gay marriage rights

Redmond campaigns for gay marriage rights


Redmond campaigns for gay marriage rights

Posted: 20 Jan 2012 01:55 PM PST

RealNetworks and Nike join fight for equality

Microsoft has thrown its political weight behind a new law in its home state of Washington that would set up equal marriage rights for LGBT couples, an effort joined by local employers RealNetworks and Nike.…

Intel chieftain outlines broad tablet, smartphone blitz

Posted: 20 Jan 2012 12:27 PM PST

Blames Android for iOS success, touts Win8 slabs 'in the queue'

Intel CEO Paul Otellini sees his company moving into all levels of the tablet and handset markets, from Android and Windows 8 fondleslabs to smartphones, feature phones, and what he dubbed "value phones".…

Intel stirs up management team

Posted: 20 Jan 2012 10:53 AM PST

Shaken – just a bit – to beef up ARM, RISC defense

Management changes at Intel make it more clear who might end up running the company – after the current execs decide to retire many years hence – and who is going to be leading the fight against ARM processors at the bottom of the Intel line and RISC processors at the top.…

Congress puts PIPA and SOPA on back burner

Posted: 20 Jan 2012 10:44 AM PST

Put down the champagne, protesters, it's not over yet

Political leaders have cancelled plans to vote on the SOPA and PIPA legislation currently before Congress, saying more time is needed to examine the issue.…

Alcohol DOUBLES LIFESPAN, helps resist stress

Posted: 20 Jan 2012 09:53 AM PST

We're filing this from the pub, naturally

Pour yourself another one, quickly, as scientists have proven that alcohol can double life-span.…

Iranian gov mouthpiece Press TV finally gets taken off the air in the UK

Posted: 20 Jan 2012 09:32 AM PST

'The royal family done it', raves foam-lipped channel

Iranian government-backed broadcaster Press TV has finally got its fondest wish and lost its UK broadcast licence, but its martyrdom is self-inflicted rather than the result of any government conspiracy.…

Intel's Xeon E5 to (finally) launch in Q1

Posted: 20 Jan 2012 09:08 AM PST

'Not your grandmother's server business'

Intel's president and CEO Paul Otellini said in a conference call with Wall Street analysts after the market closed yesterday that the "Sandy Bridge-EP" Xeon E5 processors and their related "Romley" server platforms, are now in volume shipment and due to be launched during the first quarter, as was widely speculated.…

Micron buys PCIe extender Virtensys, backers trouser hefty payout

Posted: 20 Jan 2012 08:57 AM PST

Like a SAN without the SAN. And you know what that means

SSD maker, Flash and DRAM fab operator Micron is buying Virtensys, a startup selling PCIe-sharing appliances…

German court shoots down patent gripe against Apple

Posted: 20 Jan 2012 08:27 AM PST

Samsung 0 for 3 in fruitchomp face-off

A German court in Mannheim has ruled against one of the patents in a suit brought by Samsung against Apple, one of the many battlegrounds in the tech titans' patent wars.…

Ingram Micro supremo logs off for good

Posted: 20 Jan 2012 08:03 AM PST

Spierkel quits as mega-distie coins it from disk drought

Ingram Micro chief exec Greg Spierkel is today standing down after nearly six years in charge.…

Supremes: Congress can extend copyright terms if it wants to

Posted: 20 Jan 2012 07:26 AM PST

Even if this removes works from the public domain

The US Supreme Court has rejected a case that argued that works whose copyright terms have once expired should remain in the public domain, even if the term of copyright is subsequently extended to cover them again.…

Sci-tech cheerleader NESTA spared from quango bonfire

Posted: 20 Jan 2012 06:55 AM PST

Keep calm and carry on multidisciplinary stakeholder engagement

The government has secured the future of the science and tech quango NESTA, which was previously uncertain. Like the Design Council, NESTA will be reconstituted as a charity, the Department for Business said today.…

Feds: Apple, Google, Adobe, Intel, Pixar had wage-fixing no-poach pact

Posted: 20 Jan 2012 06:27 AM PST

Lucasfilm also named: Says it has no need of techies

Emails between Apple, Adobe, Intel and others are making them look bad as the US Justice Department mounts a case against them for setting up "anti-poaching" deals in which they allegedly agreed not to hire each other's people away.…

Boffins cook up transparent solar car roof

Posted: 20 Jan 2012 06:18 AM PST

OLED tech goes opaque at the flick of a switch

Like the idea of a car that has the all-round clear viewing of a convertible but doesn't let the rain in? Philips and chemicals giant BASF are working on the basis for just such a notion, using OLED technology.…

Use iBooks Author, only Apple can ever publish the result

Posted: 20 Jan 2012 06:18 AM PST

Cupertino grants itself exclusive rights via EULA

Budding authors attracted to Apple's latest content-creating tool should tread with care lest the small print locks them in tighter than they'd imagined.…

Page won't show his ring to prove Google+ 'engagement'

Posted: 20 Jan 2012 06:07 AM PST

90 million 'users' ... but are they just there for GMail?

Analysis  Mountain View is still struggling to explain exactly how many of the people who have at least signed in once to its social network are actually sticking around and sharing posts with other users.…

Mozilla pushes browser-based alternative to passwords

Posted: 20 Jan 2012 05:33 AM PST

Give us your keys to look after, we're lovely

Mozilla is promoting a browser-based alternative to usernames and passwords for website logins.…

Windows Phone to overtake iOS in 2015

Posted: 20 Jan 2012 05:30 AM PST

MS swallows smartphone share

Nokia's ever-expanding friendship with Microsoft means that come 2015, the Windows Phone platform will overtake Apple's iOS as the world's second most-favoured operating system after Android.…

Ancient tulip-like stomach-onna-stick creatures found in Rockies

Posted: 20 Jan 2012 05:07 AM PST

Waving anus-tipped filter flowers covered Cambrian sea bottom

Fossil-boffins probing into the remains of a soft-bodied tulip animal that lived in the Rockies 500 million years ago have just published a paper revealing the secrets of the weird creature.…

BT biz broadband staggers to its feet after 4-hour titsup

Posted: 20 Jan 2012 05:01 AM PST

Major outage knocks out punters' connections

BT suffered what it described as a "major business broadband problem" today, which kicked off at about 07.25 GMT.…

Iranian coder faces execution 'for building smut websites'

Posted: 20 Jan 2012 04:44 AM PST

Supreme court backs death penalty for photo upload tool

A programmer faces imminent execution in Iran after the country's supreme court upheld his conviction for "developing and promoting pornographic websites".…

Samsung NX200 20.3Mp APS-C compact system camera

Posted: 20 Jan 2012 04:34 AM PST

A serious take

Review  Samsung's NX200 compact system camera (CSC) is not a mere upgrade of its predecessor but a game-changer for the company's place in the mirrorless cameras market. Not only does the NX200 look completely different to the NX100 but Samsung has also upped its game and provided this newcomer with head-turning specs designed to attract enthusiasts and semi-pro users.…

Twitter gobbles news-foraging mobile app startup

Posted: 20 Jan 2012 04:26 AM PST

Read all about it - or not once Summify is fully enveloped

Twitter has bought news-hungry Canadian startup Summify for an undisclosed sum. The upstart biz, which developed a mobile app that automatically rifles through articles being shared across social networks and gathers them together, will up sticks to Twitter's San Francisco office.…

Apple to take sales space in posh people's shop Harrods

Posted: 20 Jan 2012 04:08 AM PST

Toffs to tune in to iTech

Apple is set to open a shrunken version of its Apple Store in the toffs' shopping establishment, Harrods.…

RM cuts loose Easytrace, flogs AMI biz as top boss legs it

Posted: 20 Jan 2012 04:04 AM PST

But it has kept school network toolkit

Education technology provider RM has cut loose its loss-making access control and cashless catering system wing of its AMI business, known as Easytrace.…

'Why would I make any more Star Wars movies?'

Posted: 20 Jan 2012 03:42 AM PST

Plus 'I've worked with kids who will urinate in a bottle in their room'

Quotw  This was the week in which Google tiptoed into the weird end of the news when it patented tracking your fridge - yes, your fridge. The designs describe registering the change of ownership of an appliance as well as storing info about its usage in a communications card.…

American search team fails to find women's G-spot

Posted: 20 Jan 2012 03:22 AM PST

Dig finds no evidence for earth-moving equipment

US researchers have concluded that there's little evidence to support the existence of the legendary Gräfenberg Spot - a bundle of nerves located in the front wall of the vagina which can supposedly cause the earth to move.…

Poll: Linux's big data guzzling worries melt away

Posted: 20 Jan 2012 03:06 AM PST

Too bad there's a kernel nerd drought

Concerns about using Linux on servers to crunch huge data workloads are evaporating, according a survey.…

Quantum physics to encrypt clouds of the future - boffins

Posted: 20 Jan 2012 02:47 AM PST

No chance of sniffing your privates on qubit-crunching computers

Boffins looking for the perfect alliance between science and technology have married quantum computing to the future of IT - the cloud.…

Avnet: Server thieves snatched our privates

Posted: 20 Jan 2012 02:21 AM PST

Sensitive staff, customer info on nicked office kit

Avnet Technology Solutions has admitted that servers stolen during a break-in at one of its offices contained confidential data on staff, reseller customers and vendors.…

Hold on a sec - leap seconds granted a last-minute reprieve

Posted: 20 Jan 2012 01:56 AM PST

Boffins delay decision on using sunrises or atomic clocks to set the time

A decision to kill leap seconds and permanently change how time is measured has been deferred until 2015 by the International Telecommunication Union.…

Coraid schmoozes Euro Nexenta distie sextet

Posted: 20 Jan 2012 01:34 AM PST

Will open storage band hit the right notes?

Six European Nexenta disties are setting up EraStor to sell pre-built Nexenta/Super Micro storage servers, and there is a Coraid Ethernet storage array connection.…

NHS has to pay docs to put life-sign sensors in patients' digs

Posted: 20 Jan 2012 01:04 AM PST

Telehealth tech take-up too tardy

An NHS Trust is having to pay GPs to use its new cost-cutting Telehealth project - which sticks sensors in patients' homes to monitor their life signs.…

NASA shuts off Voyager 1's central heating

Posted: 20 Jan 2012 12:29 AM PST

Probe enters energy-saving phase at edge of space

NASA has switched off a heater on a part of the Voyager 1 probe, plunging the temperature of its one functioning instrument to below minus 110° Fahrenheit (minus 79°C) – well below the minimum temps of minus 31° Fahrenheit (minus 35° C) at which it was designed to operate.…

Online ad body: Let's slather 'opt out' icons everywhere

Posted: 20 Jan 2012 12:04 AM PST

Cookie-sniffer info packages for the stalked masses

An advertising icon that explains to internet users about online behavioural advertising (OBA) should be displayed alongside almost every ad regardless of whether they themselves are targeted ads, an industry body has said.…

Iomega TV with Boxee networked storage

Posted: 19 Jan 2012 11:00 PM PST

If, at first, you don't succeed...

Review  I've reviewed various models in Iomega's ScreenPlay range in the past and, to be honest, haven't been wildly impressed by any of them. Weaknesses such as the inability to list album tracks in the correct order suggested that Iomega's designers hadn't exactly thought things through properly.…

Microsoft blames poor Windows sales on PC slump

Posted: 19 Jan 2012 05:11 PM PST

Fingers Thai flood whipping boy and netbook decline

Microsoft has released its quarterly results, and reports that Windows revenues are down 6 per cent when compared with the previous quarter.…

Google shares tank after disappointing financial report

Posted: 19 Jan 2012 04:28 PM PST

'Only' 25 per cent revenue growth for quarter

Google's share price fell sharply after the company released results that underperformed market expectations, with after-hours trading seeing the stock price fall by nearly ten per cent.…

Currency flux incapacitates IBM's Q4 sales

Posted: 19 Jan 2012 04:22 PM PST

Earnings better than expected

The fact that IBM's $29.5bn in sales in the fourth quarter (up 1.6 per cent) was about $200m shy of Wall Street's expectations was not as big a deal to the company's top brass as the fact that net income of $5.5bn was up 4.4 per cent and higher than the Street anticipated.…

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