US Senator's Twitter account back after hack |
- US Senator's Twitter account back after hack
- Laser used to cool semiconductor
- Rara and Rdio take on Aus music industry
- Telstra opens fibre to competitors
- Group buying stalls in Asia
- Mellanox chops 10-gig Ethernet switch, adapter prices
- Potent proton pulse to BOMBARD EARTH Tuesday morn
- YouTube tops one hour of video uploads per second
- Survey: Android set to beat iOS in battle for coder love
- Google+ funny numbers mask falling growth
- MPAA threat sparks White House petition for bribery probe
- Joyent rakes in $85m to build out SmartOS clouds
- Intel upsets apple cart, snaps up QLogic's InfiniBand biz
- Micron bought the ashes of crashed Virtensys
- Bletchley Park flogs Alan Turing first day covers
- Gov.uk loses 2 top techies, needs some new ones
- Furious freetards blitz the wrong SOPA
- Sourcefire jumps into anti-malware market
- Anonymous tweets for hack targets
- Fujitsu and Unite shake hands on pay, pensions deal
- HP, RIM, ARM among thousands in ICANN dot-brand ban
- World music sales slide despite digital dividend
- Man vanquishes robot cop in hand-to-hand combat
- Japanese manufacturers cut domestic disc, telly production
- Plus is king now: Google shutters more products
- Tablet, e-reader ownership doubles over Xmas
- Live Music law to decriminalise trumpet-playing
- Fans teased with Doc Who PS3 promo
- Android hackers mull rooted mobe app marketplace
- iPad 2, iPhone 4S finally jail-broken
- ITV wrist-slapped for showing video game as IRA attack
- SharePoint gods peek into colleagues' info – poll
- DreamHost nightmare attack sparks passwords reset
- Public sector imperatives
- 'Hannibal' leaks '100,000 Facebook logins'
- Acetrax joins Inview VoD squad
- Europe exposes its stiff data protection law this week
- IPTV UK: what's on tonight?
- Trevor and chums tackle IT certification
- Networks nag Nokia to lower Lumia levy
- Filesonic cleans up after Megaupload bust
- Power7 chips going for a song in Big Blue January sale
- Bonfire of the brands: ICANN's top-level domain selloff
- Software AG plots Valley invasion by Terracotta army
- Russia and NASA plan to COLONISE the Moon
- RIM's co-CEOs quit in top exec shake-up
- UK.gov marches on with solar 'leccy cash slash by spring
- Dixons cuts Ice Cream Sarnie ready Xoom to £225
- Romanian who hacked NASA spared cooler stint
- Hospitals snap up cloudy storage as disk space runs out
| US Senator's Twitter account back after hack Posted: 23 Jan 2012 03:05 PM PST Anti-SOPA activists play 'occupy @ChuckGrassley'The office of US Senator Chuck Grassley has confirmed that his Twitter account was taken over and used to launch anti-SOPA messages on Monday, US time.…
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| Laser used to cool semiconductor Posted: 23 Jan 2012 03:00 PM PST Next: the quantum physics case-modLasers heat things up, right? – unless you happen to hit upon the right resonance, in which case it seems you can use lasers to cool things down.… |
| Rara and Rdio take on Aus music industry Posted: 23 Jan 2012 02:30 PM PST Digital radio players turn it up to 11The Australian radio industry is enjoying an international invasion of digital music streaming upstarts, with the launch of Omnifone backed Rara.com and the music project from the Skype founding crew, Rdio.… |
| Telstra opens fibre to competitors Posted: 23 Jan 2012 02:00 PM PST FTTP in South Brisbane, housing estates goes wholesaleTelstra has managed to avoid having Australia's competition regulator set the prices of its fibre-to-the-premises networks, with minister Senator Stephen Conroy announcing a regulatory exemption for the carrier's South Brisbane fibre network.… |
| Posted: 23 Jan 2012 01:37 PM PST Deal sites storm the exit doorsThe Asia Pacific group buying market is in consolidation mode due to intense competition, according to a new report from Daily Deal Media.… |
| Mellanox chops 10-gig Ethernet switch, adapter prices Posted: 23 Jan 2012 01:28 PM PST Making it up in volumeMellanox Technologies is not happy about the 10 Gigabit Ethernet switch and adapter ramp, and it is doing something about it: slashing its own prices.…
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| Potent proton pulse to BOMBARD EARTH Tuesday morn Posted: 23 Jan 2012 01:20 PM PST Sunspots get angry, planes get reroutedLate Sunday, the sun aimed a huge coronal mass ejection (CME) at our planet, along with a "solar energetic particle" event – the largest since September 2005 – which is expected to cause a solar storm of highly energetic protons to hit us on Tuesday at 9am Eastern Time, plus or minus seven hours.… |
| YouTube tops one hour of video uploads per second Posted: 23 Jan 2012 11:33 AM PST 4 billion views per day – Nyan Cat rejoicesGoogle has announced that uploads to YouTube now total one hour of video every second.… |
| Survey: Android set to beat iOS in battle for coder love Posted: 23 Jan 2012 11:02 AM PST Google OS racing to top of app developers pollAndroid is set to become the number one choice for mobile application developers in the next 12 months as the Google platform pushes ahead of arch rival Apple, according to the latest research from Ovum.… |
| Google+ funny numbers mask falling growth Posted: 23 Jan 2012 10:32 AM PST Friends with Posh and BecksOpen ... and Shut Google has always been about crunching big numbers. But only recently has it begun to apparently fudge them.… |
| MPAA threat sparks White House petition for bribery probe Posted: 23 Jan 2012 10:04 AM PST Politicians should remember who bought them, MPAA CEO warnsChris Dodd, ex–US senator and current CEO of the Motion Picture Ass. of America, may face a White House investigation after he made an extraordinary outburst that appeared to threaten politicians who had the audacity to take the entertainment industry's money and then abandon SOPA/PIPA online-piracy legislation.…
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| Joyent rakes in $85m to build out SmartOS clouds Posted: 23 Jan 2012 09:58 AM PST Going globalJoyent has built a sophisticated infrastructure cloud founded on the open-source Solaris environment with the hopes of taking on Amazon's EC2 – and now it has a big pile of cash with which to globalize that cloud.… |
| Intel upsets apple cart, snaps up QLogic's InfiniBand biz Posted: 23 Jan 2012 09:47 AM PST Time for AMD to eat MellanoxThe high-performance networking market just got a whole lot more interesting, with Intel shelling out $125m to acquire the InfiniBand switch and adapter product lines from upstart QLogic.… |
| Micron bought the ashes of crashed Virtensys Posted: 23 Jan 2012 09:41 AM PST Payout for stockholders will be $0Analysis Far from backers celebrating anything like a fourfold payout after Micron bought Virtensys, it turns out the sad reality is that Virtensys was close to collapse and Micron is buying the ashes of a crashed startup.… |
| Bletchley Park flogs Alan Turing first day covers Posted: 23 Jan 2012 09:26 AM PST Enigma codebreaker puts his stamp on 2012Computing pioneer and Enigma codebreaker Alan Turing is to be commemorated next month in a series of limited edition first day covers for stamps designed to celebrate the centenary of his birth and help raise some more funds for the renovation of Bletchley Park.… |
| Gov.uk loses 2 top techies, needs some new ones Posted: 23 Jan 2012 09:01 AM PST Glam jobs up for grabs at DWP and Cabinet OfficeThe government's second-in-command techie is leaving this month for a job with storage giant EMC.…
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| Furious freetards blitz the wrong SOPA Posted: 23 Jan 2012 08:39 AM PST 'Don't care if you inspect farmers - STOP WHAT YOU'RE DOING'Angry copyfighters barraged a small Scottish food certification agency with abuse last week - in the belief they were protesting against hated US anti-piracy legislation.… |
| Sourcefire jumps into anti-malware market Posted: 23 Jan 2012 08:28 AM PST Cyber-outbreak defence tech to shore up big bizSourcefire, the security biz behind the commercial versions of the open-source Snort intrusion-detection software, is bowling itself at enterprises and touting tech designed to quickly detect and block malware outbreaks.… |
| Anonymous tweets for hack targets Posted: 23 Jan 2012 08:07 AM PST Who do we go after next? asks V-masqued mobHacktivist guild Anonymous has taken to Twitter to ask followers for tips on who the group should attack next.… |
| Fujitsu and Unite shake hands on pay, pensions deal Posted: 23 Jan 2012 07:58 AM PST Ongoing row defused as striking staff appeasedStaff at Fujitsu's UK sites in Manchester and Crewe have ended their long-running dispute with the electronics giant after bosses agreed to bump up salaries and sort out other quibbles including pensions.… |
| HP, RIM, ARM among thousands in ICANN dot-brand ban Posted: 23 Jan 2012 07:43 AM PST If your name's on the list, you're not coming inICANN's decision to open the floodgates to hundreds of new generic top-level domains last week is expected to create a land-rush of "dot-brand" internet addresses.… |
| World music sales slide despite digital dividend Posted: 23 Jan 2012 07:22 AM PST Downloads on the upDigtal music sales rose eight per cent worldwide during 2011. Good news for Apple, owner of the download-centric iTunes Music Store, but not for CD sellers: the industry as a whole saw revenues slide three per cent.… |
| Man vanquishes robot cop in hand-to-hand combat Posted: 23 Jan 2012 07:18 AM PST Droid 'hurled through door', fleshies mete out beanbag justiceThe ongoing Rise of the Machines to their inevitable dominance over humanity faltered last week, when a police robot tangled with a human being in hand to hand combat - and was handed a severe beating.…
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| Japanese manufacturers cut domestic disc, telly production Posted: 23 Jan 2012 07:17 AM PST Demand falling, costs risingJapanese manufacturers have started to take production abroad, with Hitachi and Mitsubishi announcing an end to their domestic arrangements for television sets and compact discs, respectively.… |
| Plus is king now: Google shutters more products Posted: 23 Jan 2012 07:03 AM PST I'm+ sorry+, what+ was+ that+? I+ can't+ hear+ you+Larry Page's first nine months as the second-time-around Google CEO has been defined by his attempts to cut out the rot at Mountain View while pollinating the company's entire online estate with social goo.… |
| Tablet, e-reader ownership doubles over Xmas Posted: 23 Jan 2012 06:55 AM PST Volumes of demandTablet and e-book reader ownership almost doubled in the US over Christmas.… |
| Live Music law to decriminalise trumpet-playing Posted: 23 Jan 2012 06:43 AM PST Bill passes through CommonsA private member's bill that will make the promotion and performance of live music in small venues easier was passed by the Commons on Friday, which means it's now almost certain to become law.… |
| Fans teased with Doc Who PS3 promo Posted: 23 Jan 2012 06:25 AM PST Vworp! Vworp!Looking forward to the next attempt to make a decent Doctor Who videogame? Past attempts have generally not passed muster, but The Eternity Clock might just the one that finally gets it right.… |
| Android hackers mull rooted mobe app marketplace Posted: 23 Jan 2012 06:21 AM PST As if things weren't complicated enoughAndroid hackers are discussing the creation of a specialist app store, listing software for rooted handsets and other things that even Google won't allow.… |
| iPad 2, iPhone 4S finally jail-broken Posted: 23 Jan 2012 06:03 AM PST Tut, what took you so long?The Apple iPad 2 and iPhone 4S have finally fallen to jail-breakers.…
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| ITV wrist-slapped for showing video game as IRA attack Posted: 23 Jan 2012 05:44 AM PST Not fined for YouTube rip and bungled riot coverageITV has escaped a fine for using video game footage to illustrate IRA activities, and portraying the wrong riot, but will tighten up procedures to stop it happening again.… |
| SharePoint gods peek into colleagues' info – poll Posted: 23 Jan 2012 05:22 AM PST Security is for other peopleSharePoint admins are abusing their privileged status to sneak a peak at classified documents according to a poll that shows consistent abuse of security in Microsoft's business collaboration server.… |
| DreamHost nightmare attack sparks passwords reset Posted: 23 Jan 2012 05:03 AM PST Hackers inappropriately touched customer databaseUS-based hosting firm DreamHost is advising customers to change their passwords following a database breach.… |
| Posted: 23 Jan 2012 04:44 AM PST Sneak peak of poll resultsReader Research We've just had a little look at the results so far from our currently running public sector poll.… |
| 'Hannibal' leaks '100,000 Facebook logins' Posted: 23 Jan 2012 04:32 AM PST Then demands Middle East cyber-war truceThe tit for tat between pro-Palestinian and pro-Israel hackers escalated at the weekend after a hacker called Hannibal claimed to have leaked the Facebook login details of "100,000 Arabs".…
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| Acetrax joins Inview VoD squad Posted: 23 Jan 2012 04:19 AM PST Second-tier set-tops to get IPTV |
| Europe exposes its stiff data protection law this week Posted: 23 Jan 2012 04:13 AM PST Time for Facebook, Google et al to lobby hardStringent proposals for the revision of Europe's outdated 1995 data protection law are to be revealed by officials this coming Wednesday.… |
| Posted: 23 Jan 2012 04:00 AM PST Worth watching yet? |
| Trevor and chums tackle IT certification Posted: 23 Jan 2012 03:48 AM PST HR under the spotlightPodcast Trevor Pott, along with his friends and colleagues, explores the benefits and pitfalls of training and certification. Do they think certificates are a good thing and worth the paper they're printed on. Or are they just a way for the less talented to get a bigger pay cheque?… |
| Networks nag Nokia to lower Lumia levy Posted: 23 Jan 2012 03:44 AM PST Competitive chargeNokia's upcoming Windows Phone handset, the Lumia 710, has been deemed too expensive by UK networks. And they have pressured the Finnish outfit to lower prices in order to compete more effectively with rival low-end smartphones.… |
| Filesonic cleans up after Megaupload bust Posted: 23 Jan 2012 03:43 AM PST Rapidshare whistles... STONED and GUILTY? Not usFilesonic, one of the top 10 file-sharing sites on the net, has disabled file-sharing features and restricted access to its cloud locker service following the Megaupload takedown. The site Uploaded.to has followed suit. But others are whistling nonchalantly. Rapidshare, which wants to reposition itself as an above-board personal storage and transfer service such as Dropbox or YouSendIt, said it wasn't concerned.… |
| Power7 chips going for a song in Big Blue January sale Posted: 23 Jan 2012 03:32 AM PST Getting rid of inventory?Power Systems, the line of big iron packing Power7 CPUs, was one of the bright spots in IBM's server business in the fourth quarter - so a price cut on Power7 processor cards and processor core activations might be one of the last things you would expect out of Big Blue. But this week, that is precisely what the company did.… |
| Bonfire of the brands: ICANN's top-level domain selloff Posted: 23 Jan 2012 03:17 AM PST Is small biz priced out of the market?Despite what in the final months seemed to be stiff competition, ICANN went ahead with its new generic domain names, letting companies register .whatevertheycanthinkof from 12 January.…
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| Software AG plots Valley invasion by Terracotta army Posted: 23 Jan 2012 03:01 AM PST Colour us red, white and blue, says top Euro bizEurope's second largest software company, Software AG, is reorganising in the US with a huge focus on the West Coast around big-data purchase Terracotta.… |
| Russia and NASA plan to COLONISE the Moon Posted: 23 Jan 2012 02:37 AM PST 'We want to do more than just step on it'Russian, American and European space agencies are in talks to create a human colony on the Moon, according to Russian news source Rianovosti.… |
| RIM's co-CEOs quit in top exec shake-up Posted: 23 Jan 2012 02:17 AM PST Will it be too little, too late?A Research in Motion management shake-up has swapped out its co-CEOs for a new top exec following a challenging period for the gadget maker.… |
| UK.gov marches on with solar 'leccy cash slash by spring Posted: 23 Jan 2012 02:02 AM PST Grid feed-in payback cut is energy minister's Plan A and BIf the Government loses its appeal against a High Court ruling on its plan to reduce solar incentives from December 2011, then it will apply the reduction from 3 March 2012, it has said.… |
| Dixons cuts Ice Cream Sarnie ready Xoom to £225 Posted: 23 Jan 2012 01:59 AM PST Catch it if you canCut-price 32GB Android tablet, anyone? Dixons is now pricing the 32GB Motorola Xoom at £249 - if you can find one.… |
| Romanian who hacked NASA spared cooler stint Posted: 23 Jan 2012 01:27 AM PST If you can't do the time, well, do the crime anywayA Romanian hacker who admitted breaking into NASA's network has avoided jail, receiving a three-year suspended prison sentence instead.…
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| Hospitals snap up cloudy storage as disk space runs out Posted: 23 Jan 2012 01:04 AM PST Overwhelmed with patient data, NHS trust runs into EMC's armsWith an HP system nearing the end of its usefulness and a thirst for more storage, St Helens and Knowsley teaching hospitals trust decided to switch to a cloud array for its patient data.… |
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