Very tiny RF transistor made from graphene |
- Very tiny RF transistor made from graphene
- Mobile software devs to link arms at CES
- Big cloud Internap eats little cloud Voxel
- Rhino horn price spike drives record poaching
- SoundCloud gets US$50m for sonic growth
- Microsoft celebrates the death of IE6
- Riverbed could snap up failed WAN optimiser for $10m
- Sprint grants LightSquared last-minute stay of execution
- Oracle VM whips rowdy virtual machines into submission
- Darth Vader dies peacefully in hospital
- How Apple won the West (and lost the world)
- China's new year's resolution: Build a flash fab
- Stratfor so very, very sorry in wake of mega-hack
- Asus asked to decrypt Eee tablet bootloader
- Boffins unimpressed by LOHAN's sizzling thruster
- Iron digi-curtain: Belarus nationalises internet
- Rupert Murdoch and 'unverified' missus in Twitter tangle
- Steve Jobs action figure set for shop shelves
- Japan tasks Fujitsu with creating search-and-destroy cyber-weapon
- Asus drops GPS from tablet spec after issues emerge
- Samsung Series 9 900X3A laptop
- BlackBerry PlayBook in US price plummet
- HP teases next Ultrabook launch
- Nokia rests Symbian's future on a bunch of muppets
- Asus primed for 7in tablet outing
- Area 51 to host sci-fi knocking shop
- LG to show 55in, 4mm-thick OLED TV at CES
- NASA's twin GRAILs reunite in lunar orbit
- That Brit-built £22 computer: Yours for just £1,900 or more
- DRAM it: Elpida, Toshiba may hook up
- Apple accused of starving French reseller of hot stock
- Dagenham council: Only language our tenants understand is SMS
- Apple to conquer connected TVs? Steady on, lad
| Very tiny RF transistor made from graphene Posted: 03 Jan 2012 03:00 PM PST Sweden's Chalmers mixes up smaller, faster microwave electronicsResearchers at Chalmers University in Sweden have demonstrated a graphene-based transistor design that allows more compact RF mixer processing.… |
| Mobile software devs to link arms at CES Posted: 03 Jan 2012 02:30 PM PST Lobby group for the appocratsA new cabal representing the interests of mobile application developers is to be launched at CES next week.… |
| Big cloud Internap eats little cloud Voxel Posted: 03 Jan 2012 02:08 PM PST $30m (or more) to net smaller fishThe appetite for cloudy infrastructure expertise continues apace in 2012. Managed-hosting and colocation services provider Internap has bolstered its position in the cloudy infrastructure peddling market by acquiring sometime-competitor Voxel for $30m.…
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| Rhino horn price spike drives record poaching Posted: 03 Jan 2012 02:00 PM PST More than 400 taken to feed crime and superstitionGrowing demand for quack cures derived from rhinoceros horn have driven horn street value to around $US65,000 per kilo, leading to a one-third increase in poaching from 2010 to 2011.… |
| SoundCloud gets US$50m for sonic growth Posted: 03 Jan 2012 01:37 PM PST Mary Meeker joins boardBerlin based social media audio sharing site SoundCloud has raised up to as rumoured US$50 million in funding led by Silicon Valley venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers.… |
| Microsoft celebrates the death of IE6 Posted: 03 Jan 2012 12:13 PM PST We come to bury IE, not to praise itMicrosoft is celebrating the news that Internet Explorer 6 (IE6) use in the US has officially dropped below one per cent of internet visits.… |
| Riverbed could snap up failed WAN optimiser for $10m Posted: 03 Jan 2012 10:04 AM PST Picking up assets cheapRiverbed is reportedly looking to pick up failed WAN optimiser Expand Networks for $10m, a pittance.… |
| Sprint grants LightSquared last-minute stay of execution Posted: 03 Jan 2012 09:34 AM PST 30 days to get FCC approval or wireless broadband dream is overSprint Nextel has given wireless broadband biz LightSquared until the end of January to get FCC approval for its network, putting a hard deadline on the viability of its revolutionary plan.…
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| Oracle VM whips rowdy virtual machines into submission Posted: 03 Jan 2012 09:02 AM PST Control freak hypervisor and VirtualBox updates unwrappedJust in time for the holidays and giving techies an excuse to stay out of the kitchen and be helpful, Oracle unwrapped updates to its Oracle VM implementation of the Xen hypervisor for x86 servers and the alternative VirtualBox hypervisor for x86-based PCs and servers.… |
| Darth Vader dies peacefully in hospital Posted: 03 Jan 2012 08:28 AM PST Bob Anderson - the man who made lightsaber work of Obi-WanMaster swordsman Bob Anderson, the Hollywood fencing coach who wielded Darth Vader's lightsaber, died peacefully in a West Sussex hospital on Sunday, aged 89.… |
| How Apple won the West (and lost the world) Posted: 03 Jan 2012 08:02 AM PST Android, even RIM and Java, taste victoryOpen ... and Shut The spread of high-end smart phones throughout the rich, developed world is largely made possible by expensive data plans. Such plans enable carriers to subsidise expensive iPhones and Android devices, to the point that even a big swath of teenagers in the Western world can realistically plan to buy iPhones and iPads.… |
| China's new year's resolution: Build a flash fab Posted: 03 Jan 2012 07:34 AM PST It wants to own all the chips at the tableBlocks and Files China has no hard disk drive, DRAM and flash memory production facilities of its own – but that could change.… |
| Stratfor so very, very sorry in wake of mega-hack Posted: 03 Jan 2012 07:01 AM PST Private spook biz still reeling from credit card data raidThe website of global intelligence-analysing firm Stratfor remains offline - a week after hacktivists broke into its poorly secured systems and extracted passwords and credit card details.…
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| Asus asked to decrypt Eee tablet bootloader Posted: 03 Jan 2012 06:37 AM PST Let us hack our firmware, petitioners demandAsus' decision to encrypt the bootloader built into its Eee Pad Transformer Prime has prompted prospective punters to petition for the practice to end.… |
| Boffins unimpressed by LOHAN's sizzling thruster Posted: 03 Jan 2012 06:31 AM PST Vulture 2 designers suggest mightier hybrid motorThe Low Orbit Helium Assisted Navigator (LOHAN) team has just about shaken off the effects of excessive Yule cheer, and is back at the workbench further pondering a potential powerplant for the Vulture 2 spaceplane.… |
| Iron digi-curtain: Belarus nationalises internet Posted: 03 Jan 2012 06:05 AM PST Massive fines to control foreign accessEurope's last Stalinist state could fine citizens half their salary for visiting foreign websites in a domestic clamp-down on the internet.… |
| Rupert Murdoch and 'unverified' missus in Twitter tangle Posted: 03 Jan 2012 05:39 AM PST Media mogul's account is real, Wendi_Deng is notUpdated Despite his former disdain for the internet, media mogul Rupert Murdoch has joined the Twitterati, apparently with his wife in tow.… |
| Steve Jobs action figure set for shop shelves Posted: 03 Jan 2012 05:18 AM PST GI JobsThe popularity of collectable figurines may have declined from the golden years of Star Wars statues and Hulk Hogan toys, but when it comes to Apple fanboys, replica models of the late Steve Jobs are sure to be a hot property.… |
| Japan tasks Fujitsu with creating search-and-destroy cyber-weapon Posted: 03 Jan 2012 05:05 AM PST Zombie boss hunter developed in labFujitsu has been commissioned to develop 'seek and destroy' malware, reportedly designed to track and disable the sources of cyber-attacks.… |
| Asus drops GPS from tablet spec after issues emerge Posted: 03 Jan 2012 04:42 AM PST Sleeping satellite?Asus has dropped the word 'GPS' from its Eee Pad Transformer Prime spec sheet after early adopters of the 10in Android tablet found the gadget's satnav tech doesn't work too well.… |
| Samsung Series 9 900X3A laptop Posted: 03 Jan 2012 04:41 AM PST The almost UltrabookReview Samsung's Series 9 is the Korean giant's thin and light flagship, and one of several recent models to come to market that borrow engineering and design principles from Apple's Air range. Which means decent performance, decent components, but minimal expansion.… |
| BlackBerry PlayBook in US price plummet Posted: 03 Jan 2012 04:37 AM PST Everything must go - for $299 eachRIM's frenzied attempts to offload bags of its unpopular PlayBook tablets continues, with prices on all models in the US slashed to $299.…
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| HP teases next Ultrabook launch Posted: 03 Jan 2012 04:06 AM PST Spectre wafts outIntel hopes 2012 will be dubbed 'the year of the Ultrabook', and its old pal HP has wasted no time in pitching its own überslim laptop offering.… |
| Nokia rests Symbian's future on a bunch of muppets Posted: 03 Jan 2012 04:04 AM PST Sesame Street pals star in eBooks for handsetsNokia has released two interactive books documenting the happy-go-lucky lives of Sesame Street's residents, while apparently failing to notice that it has no tablet computers and has given up on Symbian.… |
| Asus primed for 7in tablet outing Posted: 03 Jan 2012 03:42 AM PST No more wait for late slate?The Consumer Electronics Show (CES) kicks off in Las Vegas next week, and the rumour-mill is awash with whispers of what to expect. The latest: a 7in Android tablet from Asus.… |
| Area 51 to host sci-fi knocking shop Posted: 03 Jan 2012 03:34 AM PST 'Alien Cathouse' will cater to 'all flavors of geek fantasy'An enterprising Nevada brothel owner has decided to cash in on the fame of Area 51 and offer alien-hungry tourists the chance to get their rocks off in a sci-fi themed knocking shop.… |
| LG to show 55in, 4mm-thick OLED TV at CES Posted: 03 Jan 2012 03:18 AM PST Four-colour pixel tech on displayLG will be showing off its largest OLED TV at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) next week having taken the telly tech to 55 inches.… |
| NASA's twin GRAILs reunite in lunar orbit Posted: 03 Jan 2012 03:06 AM PST Formation-flying probes reach the MoonNASA's GRAIL spacecraft duo are back together again and circling the Moon in preparation for their lunar study mission.… |
| That Brit-built £22 computer: Yours for just £1,900 or more Posted: 03 Jan 2012 02:40 AM PST RaspberryPi beta boards sell like hot cakes at auctionThe British-designed credit card-sized RaspberryPi computer, eagerly awaited due to its £22 price tag, can be yours this week for a mere £1,900 or more.… |
| DRAM it: Elpida, Toshiba may hook up Posted: 03 Jan 2012 02:09 AM PST Anybody seen a white knight?Loss-making Japanese DRAM fab fabricator Elpida is reportedly in dire straights and being pushed into an alliance with disk drive and flash-maker Toshiba by the Japanese government, sources say.…
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| Apple accused of starving French reseller of hot stock Posted: 03 Jan 2012 01:26 AM PST iPhone maker hauled into court over throttled suppliesApple squeezed supplies to a top reseller and used its own retail stores to gain an unfair competitive advantage, claims a French shop chain that is taking Apple to court in Paris.… |
| Dagenham council: Only language our tenants understand is SMS Posted: 03 Jan 2012 12:57 AM PST yr rent S n arrears weer gunA thrO u otBarking and Dagenham council has launched a free text message service which allows housing tenants and leaseholders to get information about their council related affairs more easily, without having to use the local authority's contact centre.… |
| Apple to conquer connected TVs? Steady on, lad Posted: 03 Jan 2012 12:02 AM PST Report of telly kit success misses the markAnalysis A very inward-looking report by Strategy Analytics, published last month, seems to ignore the entire Over the Top video market - and makes Apple an out-and-out winner with its $99 Apple TV device by taking 32 per cent of the Connected Home Device market in 2011.… |
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