Ron Paul’s web campaign mired in pokey pages

Ron Paul’s web campaign mired in pokey pages


Ron Paul’s web campaign mired in pokey pages

Posted: 12 Jan 2012 03:34 PM PST

Bettered by Romney (again), POTUS not much better

An analysis of the web-page performance of candidates in the 2012 US presidential elections shows disappointing results for Ron Paul, supposedly one of the more internet-savvy candidates in the race.…

Oz skeptic offers prize if Rossi’s E-cat works

Posted: 12 Jan 2012 03:10 PM PST

Presentation in hippie-ville

Australian entrepreneur, philanthropist, skeptic, aviator and eccentric Dick Smith has offered $AU200,000 for proof that the Andrea Rossi "energy catalyzer" actually works.…

Aussie fraud buster seized by global rival

Posted: 12 Jan 2012 02:30 PM PST

Founder joins as global CTO

Cybercrime buster ThreatMetrix has added Australian malware protector TrustDefender to its global fold.…

SMS emergency management goes national

Posted: 12 Jan 2012 02:00 PM PST

Telstra first to provide location-based alerts

Location-based warnings via SMS will become a feature of Australia's emergency management system this year, with Telstra the first carrier to commit to a system on a national basis.…

NBN Co unclogs sign-up pipeline

Posted: 12 Jan 2012 01:30 PM PST

Wholesale contract no longer sucks, it seems

The drawn-out negotiations over the National Broadband Network's wholesale contract offering have concluded with a rush of ISPs agreeing to an amended contract announced yesterday.…

Cryptome releases list of social sites monitored by DHS

Posted: 12 Jan 2012 01:10 PM PST

Situational awareness in a social media age

Venerable internet repository Cryptome has released a list of social media web sites that the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) monitors to gauge the mood of the online populace.…

Oracle punts carrier-grade Sparc T4 servers

Posted: 12 Jan 2012 12:17 PM PST

Revs up TimesTen in-memory database

Sun Microsystems used to be the dot in dot-com, and sold billions and billions of dollars of Sparc/Solaris gear during the first waves of the commercial Internet build out.…

Stratfor slaps website back online after Anon mega-hack

Posted: 12 Jan 2012 08:58 AM PST

CEO: Hacktivists can't silence us - and soz about the credit cards

Stratfor has restored its website to normal operation on Wednesday, more than two weeks after a hack attack by Anonymous that made the global intelligence analyst firm a byword for information insecurity.…

Activist hedge fund Taconic ups CA stake

Posted: 12 Jan 2012 08:31 AM PST

Wringing out the cash

New York-based hedge fund Taconic Capital Advisors has upped its stake in systems software maker CA Technologies in an effort to convince the company to wring more profits from its books.…

Bookies set odds on Apple NYC launch

Posted: 12 Jan 2012 07:52 AM PST

Wagers of sin

With so many flooding the interweb on a daily basis, it can be rather difficult to assess the legitimacy of Apple rumours. But you can always trust a bookie, right?…

Germany lifts Computacenter out of UK slump

Posted: 12 Jan 2012 07:37 AM PST

Across the channel and into the trees

Computacenter saw UK revenues plunge 13 per cent last year, but says growth in Germany and France more than offset its home-turf woes.…

Gartner: Ultrabooks aren't tickling anyone's fancy

Posted: 12 Jan 2012 07:04 AM PST

Just as world PC market shrinks 1.4% in Q4

The global PC market contracted in the last three months of 2011 and Ultrabooks failed to take off, Gartner's preliminary results showed yesterday.…

Microsoft sharpening axe for marketing heads - report

Posted: 12 Jan 2012 06:32 AM PST

Hundreds of jobs at stake in cultural revolution, say sources

Another year and another shake-up is coming to Microsoft. A restructuring of the team responsible for how Redmond is perceived and sells itself will be announced in the next 30 days, Bloomberg reports.…

Microsoft postpones plans for web telly service

Posted: 12 Jan 2012 06:03 AM PST

Content companies wanted too much money

Microsoft has postponed plans to launch an online subscription service for TV shows and movies because new content costs too much to license.…

Footie club sacks striker for homophobic tweet

Posted: 12 Jan 2012 06:02 AM PST

Own goal scored in jibe at gay rugby player

Oxford City have sacked ageing striker Lee Steele after he posted a homophobic tweet.…

Ofcom sets out spectrum mega-auction, again

Posted: 12 Jan 2012 05:46 AM PST

2Mbps to everyone who can get a voice call

Ofcom is proposing greater coverage requirements, but fewer ownership caps and simpler lot sizes, in its latest round of proposals for the forthcoming mega-auction.…

Nuclear Mars tank thrusts hard into perfect position

Posted: 12 Jan 2012 05:34 AM PST

NASA shows Russians how Phobos-Grunt should have worked

Unlike the broken-down Russian Mars probe Phobos-Grunt, the NASA Mars Science Laboratory is on track for touching down on the Red Planet after smoothly pulling off some well-choreographed thrusts.…

Judge bans stolen student sex pics sharing on BitTorrent

Posted: 12 Jan 2012 05:22 AM PST

Net privacy game changed by landmark ruling against seeders

Conservative MP Louise Mensch has welcomed a landmark ruling in an internet bullying case as an advance for individual liberty.…

Scammers punt bogus pink Facebook makeover

Posted: 12 Jan 2012 05:02 AM PST

Lame lure promises to banish 'boring blue'

The latest survey scam doing the rounds on Facebook works by falsely offering to change the profile of prospective marks from blue to red, black or shocking pink.…

Best-selling games of 2011 revealed

Posted: 12 Jan 2012 04:53 AM PST

Guess which

Google's social search mash gets EPIC FAIL

Posted: 12 Jan 2012 04:48 AM PST

Privacy warriors mull FTC complaint

Building an internet within the internet isn't as easy for Google as it once was - and critics of Mountain View's latest efforts to make its search estate more "social" are becoming increasingly vocal.…

Samsung loads Netflix onto smart TVs

Posted: 12 Jan 2012 04:29 AM PST

Firmware update required

Compellent co-founder dismounts disk biz

Posted: 12 Jan 2012 04:24 AM PST

Storage vet and CEO Phil Soran heads for retirement

Compellent co-founder and CEO Phil Soran has announced he is retiring on 31 March, the integration of Compellent into Dell having been more or less completed.…

Philips Cinema 21:9 Gold 50in ultra widescreen TV

Posted: 12 Jan 2012 04:13 AM PST

The film buffs' telly gets cheaper... and smaller

Banana war: Velvet Underground shoots holes in Apple bag

Posted: 12 Jan 2012 04:04 AM PST

Sues Andy Warhol Foundation over artwork deal with iPhone case-maker

Legendary New York band The Velvet Underground has filed a lawsuit against the Andy Warhol Foundation, after the deceased artist's company agreed to a licensing deal with a case- and sleeve-maker for Apple products.…

LG touts tellies with cloud-gaming capabilities

Posted: 12 Jan 2012 03:52 AM PST

While OnLive gets into GoogleTV

US killer spy drone controls switch to Linux

Posted: 12 Jan 2012 03:42 AM PST

Flying assassins upgraded after Windows virus outbreak

The control of US military spy drones appears to have shifted from Windows to Linux following an embarrassing malware infection.…

Republican pol rips online piracy bill, defends Google

Posted: 12 Jan 2012 03:21 AM PST

Issa: 'SOPA? Throw it away'

CES 2012  At least one powerful Republican member of the US House of Representatives takes a dim view of the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) wending it way through the House.…

Toyota teases next-gen Prius styling

Posted: 12 Jan 2012 03:09 AM PST

Hydrogen hatchback too

Acorn King Moir: BBC Micros, Ataris and 'BS' marketing

Posted: 12 Jan 2012 03:01 AM PST

'Intel processors were awful'

One company you'll be familiar with, and the other less so, yet both were successful pioneers in the personal computing revolution of the 1980s and both were founded by ferociously talented geeks.…

Ofcom sides with Orange over price hikes

Posted: 12 Jan 2012 02:48 AM PST

Operator action will not be probed

Ofcom has ruled that it will not investigate Orange's controversial 2011 price-hike as the carrier's move is unlikely to have breached legislation.…

Hubble probes star death blast clue to universe riddle

Posted: 12 Jan 2012 02:42 AM PST

9bn-year-old supernova could explain dark energy

Pic  Astronomers have photographed the faint embers of a star explosion that happened 9 billion years ago.…

Honda NSX reborn as a hybrid

Posted: 12 Jan 2012 02:26 AM PST

Will still go like stink

Xerox CEO's cure for US educational woes: 'Cool' and cash

Posted: 12 Jan 2012 02:13 AM PST

Put down that basketball and pick up those books

CES 2012  The Chairman and CEO of Xerox believes that one way to fix the US educational system is to make science, technology, engineering, and math "cool". Another is money.…

Samsung Remote

Posted: 12 Jan 2012 02:00 AM PST

AV kit control over Wi-Fi

Vauxhall prices up Ampera e-car for Blighty

Posted: 12 Jan 2012 01:49 AM PST

Power package?

Bomb threat lobbed at Finnish anti-piracy squad

Posted: 12 Jan 2012 01:33 AM PST

Freetard fury after The Pirate Bay is blocked

A Finnish anti-piracy group said yesterday that it had received a bomb threat for its role in blocking The Pirate Bay in Finland.…

Davos report: Cyber-attack risk to global stability is real

Posted: 12 Jan 2012 01:03 AM PST

Not as menacing as the sharpening economic pyramid though

Cyber-attacks against governments and businesses are among the top five risks in the world in terms of likelihood, according to the startlingly obvious World Economic Forum's (WEF) Global Risks for 2012 report.…

French get <i>unlimited</i> mobile for €20

Posted: 12 Jan 2012 12:31 AM PST

Free Mobile's price plan: 60 minutes a month for nothing at all

Disruptive French broadband provider Free Mobile has announced pricing for its new mobile venture, and it's cheap, really cheap, thanks to lots of Wi-Fi and femtocell offloading.…

Go Daddy not liable for cybersquatting, US court rules

Posted: 12 Jan 2012 12:02 AM PST

Oil company domain name 'lookalikes' redirected users to smut site

Go Daddy was not liable for a form of trademark infringement when a system that the domain name registrar operates was used to redirect visitors from allegedly 'cybersquatting' web domain names to a pornographic website, a US court has ruled.…

Lindy wireless extender and projection server

Posted: 11 Jan 2012 11:00 PM PST

Putting on a display

Apple to stage New York education event next week

Posted: 11 Jan 2012 04:35 PM PST

Big Apple launch in the Big Apple

Apple has sent out media invitations to a launch event in New York on January 19 that will announce a new initiative aimed at the education sector.…

Dell upgrades Karaboutis to CIO

Posted: 11 Jan 2012 03:59 PM PST

Johnson leaves "to pursue other opportunities'

The executive changes continue at Dell, with the company appointing a new global chief information officer to knock its data centers and systems into shape.…

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