| Oz deal site admits e-book piracy snafu Posted: 29 Feb 2012 03:15 PM PST Cudo loses kudos Dominant Australian group buying player Cudo has issued a mea culpa for its ill-fated decision to promote a Chinese e-book reader pre-loaded with 4000 pirated books.… 
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| Antimatter asymmetry: new results bring solution closer Posted: 29 Feb 2012 03:00 PM PST Fermilab physicists' fingers crossed Physicists are inching closer to explaining why we – and anything else made of matter – exist, with new results inching closer to an explanation of the universe's matter-antimatter asymmetry.… |
| Dotcom bail survives appeal, extradition hearing in August Posted: 29 Feb 2012 02:08 PM PST Megaupload kingpin seeks $NZ220 per month expenses Accused Megaupload copyright conspiracy leader Kim Dotcom (formerly Schmitz) has been released on bail following hearings yesterday in which the FBI tried to keep him behind bars.… |
| Aussie soldiers let rip on Facebook Posted: 29 Feb 2012 01:45 PM PST Women, Muslims the fave targets Australia's armed forces still appear addicted to offensive social media activities, a new investigation has found.… |
| IBM peddles used servers, PCs in China Posted: 29 Feb 2012 01:20 PM PST A market economy matures As the Ferengi rules of acquisition point out, anything worth selling once is worth selling at least twice and maybe three times. And thus, Big Blue is opening up a server and PC refurbishing center in Shenzhen, the first such facility in China and one aimed at the burgeoning second-hand equipment market in that country.… |
| 'Kill yourself now' - Torvalds throws openSUSE security tantrum Posted: 29 Feb 2012 11:30 AM PST Root password protocol 'mentally diseased' Linux creator Linus Torvalds has issued a rare public spanking for openSUSE after falling foul of its security procedures.…
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| Millions of China's tweeters 'silenced by real names decree' Posted: 29 Feb 2012 11:04 AM PST State's new web rule will hit popular Sina Weibo Chinese micro-blogging phenomenon Sina Weibo has warned that new government rules mandating the use of real names on social networks could silence at least 40 per cent of the site's punters.… |
| Thai floods float Seagate to top of hard drive biz Posted: 29 Feb 2012 10:54 AM PST Western Digital submerged, gurgling Last year's severe flooding in Thailand may have been human and economic disaster, but if every cloud has a silver lining, that silver has slipped into the pockets of Seagate as it retook the top sales spot among hard drive businesses, unseating Western Digital.… |
| India splurges £10m on new mega internet snooping HQ Posted: 29 Feb 2012 10:29 AM PST All tweets, emails and status updates are belong to them India's clampdown on its netizens is set to continue after its government revealed it is setting up a National Cyber Co-ordination Centre to monitor all web traffic flowing through the country - in the name of national security.… |
| Inside Eric Schmidt's brain: Holodecks, robo-cars and jail bandwidth Posted: 29 Feb 2012 10:06 AM PST Censorship, regulation also on Google kingpin's mind MWC 2012 Telephony standards supremos at the GSMA love the phrase "connecting the unconnected" – the notion of getting data and voice links out to the masses.… |
| VMware mashes up Hadoop with Spring Posted: 29 Feb 2012 09:55 AM PST Corralling that big data elephant inside a framework VMware has taken its Spring Java application framework and integrated it with the open source Apache Hadoop distribution to create a mashup that it's calling – somewhat unimaginatively – Spring Hadoop.…
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| Microsoft drops 'risky' Windows 8 preview on World Posted: 29 Feb 2012 09:44 AM PST Metro-lovers to rub themselves into 'fast, fluid' frenzy? Microsoft has released to the World near-final code for Windows 8 - its riskiest bet yet.… |
| Powerful, wallet-sized Raspberry Pi computer sells out in SECONDS Posted: 29 Feb 2012 09:28 AM PST Tiny Brit wonder hardly even touched the shelves The first batch of 10,000 ARM-powered Raspberry Pi computers went on sale at 6am GMT today - and sold out within minutes.… |
| Riot police encircle Mobile World Congress Posted: 29 Feb 2012 08:57 AM PST The natives are getting restless MWC 2012 Student protesters are gathering outside the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, chanting and shouting, which would be more concerning if they weren't more or less outnumbered by the riot police.… |
| G-Cloud guru slaps down Cloud Store critics Posted: 29 Feb 2012 08:46 AM PST You gotta have (NSIT) standards... G-Cloud governor Chris Chant has defended the standards adopted to construct the Cloud Store framework and the length of contracts on offer.… |
| Irish ISPs urged to fit child porn filters Posted: 29 Feb 2012 08:44 AM PST Net biz accused of caring about copyright more than kids Irish senators have put forward a motion in the Seanad (Senate) urging the justice minister to force ISPs to block child abuse material online.… |
| Ellison's Oracle cloud lives as hype winds down Posted: 29 Feb 2012 08:21 AM PST A slow conversion better than no conversion Oracle Cloud Conference For better or worse, Oracle has taken a conservative stance on "the cloud".…
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| iPhone photo-slurping loophole sparks app privacy fears Posted: 29 Feb 2012 07:58 AM PST Contact lists, pics, vids ... what else can devs grab? Exactly how much data can be extracted from iPhones by apps without explicit user consent has been called into question after it emerged that software granted access to location-finding services can siphon off punters' photos.… |
| Wireless operators to become less, er, wireless Posted: 29 Feb 2012 07:39 AM PST You just can't beat copper MWC 2012 Everyone is making small base stations this year, some will even drop into the palm of a hand, but that's good as operators are desperate to get their wireless services safely ensconced in copper as quickly as possible.… |
| Hacking scandal: James Murdoch quits UK newspaper biz Posted: 29 Feb 2012 07:28 AM PST NYC-based son of Rupert flees News International James Murdoch has quit as executive chairman at News International.… |
| Stop snubbing top scientists' advice, Lords tell MPs Posted: 29 Feb 2012 07:21 AM PST Dossier of gov's dodgy decisions reveals sidelined advisers The government must tap up its top boffins sooner and heed their advice before putting policies into action, a House of Lords committee report concludes.… |
| Qualcomm poised to zap wireless charging rival into dust Posted: 29 Feb 2012 07:02 AM PST WiPower and Qi in battle for the batteries MWC 2012 Qualcomm is on the verge of licensing its wireless charging tech WiPower to a big-name brand, which could be enough to unplug rival standard Qi.…
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| iPad 3 launch news pushes Apple shares to $500bn high Posted: 29 Feb 2012 06:43 AM PST Cook likely to shake out $7bn to the shareholders Following an email announcing the iPad 3 launch, Apple's share value hit an unprecedented $500bn in pre-marketing trading this morning, making the company worth more than Poland and many other things.… |
| Yahoo! scared! of! dot! brand! squatters! Posted: 29 Feb 2012 06:17 AM PST But nobody else is Yahoo is worried about unscrupulous domain name registrars trying to cybersquat on its brands.… |
| CBOSS puts out operator bait: Dinner date with 'booth babe' Posted: 29 Feb 2012 06:03 AM PST Fancy a bit of deep packet inspection, guv? MWC 2012 The quest for attention has ratcheted up a notch at this year's MWC, with CBOSS putting "booth babes" – the attractive staff at its MWC stall – on the table as dinner companions in the hope that someone will ask just what the company does.… |
| US gov IT services vendor swallows HBGary Posted: 29 Feb 2012 05:48 AM PST ManTech wants to penetrate deeper into cyber-security market US government IT services firm ManTech International has bought HBGary, the network forensics and malware analysis firm best known for last year's hack by Anonymous against its now-defunct sister firm, HBGary Federal.… |
| Google tramples over Euro data protection law – French watchdog Posted: 29 Feb 2012 05:27 AM PST 37 US attorneys general also 'troubled' by personal info being 'held hostage' Google is hours away from changing its terms of service for its users, just as French data protection authority CNIL once again urged Larry Page's company to postpone its planned cut-and-shut tweak to its privacy policies.…
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| Keeping Score in the Public Sector Posted: 29 Feb 2012 05:10 AM PST Managing data effectively in the modern world Live event Stuck between a rock and a hard place? That's what public sector organisations feel like when it comes to managing data according to our latest Register Reader research. It's not getting any easier - our latest Reg Reader research looks at why? The findings of this study will lead the live discussion on March 13th 11:00 GMT; Anchor-man Jon Collins will be the host to a panel of Business Intelligence sympathisers to find out the 'How to' overcome information management related challenges over and above those experienced in the private sector.… |
| GPS glitch leads perp-pursuing cops to wrong house Posted: 29 Feb 2012 05:07 AM PST Stolen iPhone elsewhere A man has been left with a £500 bill for a new front door after "tracking software" used to trace a stolen iPhone led Police to the wrong house.… |
| Tory minister: Let's exploit our rich resource of mud, er, wind Posted: 29 Feb 2012 05:01 AM PST Energy MP's hot air is no good for economy nor environment Britain would be "mad" not to make strategic use of its rich natural resource of mud, a government minister has said.… |
| IBM layoffs now top 1,200 Posted: 29 Feb 2012 04:48 AM PST Most of the cuts in the US and Canada IBM has laid off over 1,200 employees in the last few days, according to a union organising group for the company's staff.… |
| Hands on with the Sony Xperia S, P and U Posted: 29 Feb 2012 04:39 AM PST The NXT generation |
| Microsoft demos 3D desktop with transparent OLED Posted: 29 Feb 2012 04:26 AM PST Reach 'round and move me Microsoft's Applied Sciences Group has combined a transparent OLED display with an Xbox Kinect sensor and a smidgeon of software sorcery to create a space where users can manipulate on-screen objects at different depths within the screen.… |
| UK Broadband flicks switch on Blighty's first 4G network Posted: 29 Feb 2012 04:14 AM PST But this is not the 4G you were hoping for MWC 2012 UK Broadband, wireless internet service provider to Swindon Council and beyond, has switched on its LTE network to claim the UK first, but don't expect to be making 4G phone calls any time soon.… |
| Tomorrow's smartphone tech today Posted: 29 Feb 2012 04:00 AM PST Look what's coming to mobiles in 2012 |
| Toshiba swaps flood-soaked Thai plant for WD disk biz Posted: 29 Feb 2012 03:48 AM PST Will that make the European Commission happy? It's as if we were tipped off: Toshiba is buying the 3.5-inch disk drive operations that WD has to sell to gain EU approval for its Hitachi GST acquisition.…
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| HP culls nearly half remaining webOS team Posted: 29 Feb 2012 03:31 AM PST 275 engineers not required in move to open source Hewlett-Packard continues to dismantle its webOS engineering team by handing nearly half of the remaining 600 techies their pink slips.… |
| Ancient Iceman murder victim was lactose-intolerant, sickly Posted: 29 Feb 2012 03:16 AM PST 5,000-year-old corpse shows Oetzi might have pegged soon anyway Scientists sequencing the genome of the 5,000-year-old "Iceman" corpse found 20 years ago in the Tyrolean Alps, have discovered that he had brown eyes, was lactose-intolerant, prone to heart disease and had Lyme disease. The boffins also found that he may be related to some modern-day Northern Mediterraneans.… |
| RIM PlayBook price cut specials become standard Posted: 29 Feb 2012 03:06 AM PST New low price... for now? |
| How big telcos can repel the Valley's OTT insurgents Posted: 29 Feb 2012 03:00 AM PST And why they probably shouldn't try Part 2 After years of bouncing around PowerPoint slides, the battle between telcos and "Over The Top" insurgents is now very real. It's a scrap that's characterised as Silicon Valley upstarts storming the gates of the closed network world, and that's not a bad nutshell introduction. Long-time OTT champ Dean Bubley of Disruptive Analysis calls these insurgents "access-independent internet services".… |
| Court wonk tweets Apple's IPAD appeal showdown with Proview Posted: 29 Feb 2012 02:47 AM PST See Apple's hearing in blow-by-blow detail In an unprecedented display of openness, a Guangdong court will embrace the social networking craze by allowing one of its officials to "live blog" today's appeal hearing during which Apple hopes to secure the right to use the iPad trademark in China.… |
| Microsoft's Azure cloud down and out for 8 hours Posted: 29 Feb 2012 02:26 AM PST 'Cert issue' crashes Windows cloudy platform's service management Updated Microsoft's cloudy platform, Windows Azure, is experiencing a major outage: at the time of writing, its service management system had been down for about seven hours worldwide.…
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| Sony shifts more than a million PS Vitas Posted: 29 Feb 2012 02:23 AM PST Can it maintain the pace? |
| Trusted computing: It's BACK, and already in a pocket near you Posted: 29 Feb 2012 02:12 AM PST That bulge could be SOMEONE ELSE's tool MWC Trusted Computing, the widely-derided idea of computing secured for, and against, its users, is back and the necessary hardware is already in the majority of pockets.… |
| France: All your books are belong to us Posted: 29 Feb 2012 02:01 AM PST Pirate Party, Free Software bods, authors in IP land-grab fight If the phrase "digital pirate" conjures up a lone socially challenged male with a large collection of Manga comics and Cory Doctorow ravings, think again. Some of the biggest "pirates" in the world are nation states.… |
| Apple assesses 14in Air for Asia Posted: 29 Feb 2012 01:52 AM PST Mid-size MacBook mooted Amid all the iPad 3 hoopla comes some Mac news: Apple is said to be "considering" the introduction of a 14in MacBook Air.… |
| From server to end user: What's coming up for NFS? Posted: 29 Feb 2012 01:28 AM PST Big changes: Hole-punching and application data blocks Deep Dive NFS (Network File System) is one of two of the most successful file protocols in the history of computing. From the 1980s with NFSv2 through the widely deployed NFSv3 in the 1990s, and now with today's NFS4.1 standard – and if you don't know about NFSv4.1 and pNFS (parallel NFS), you should – the protocol has been developed to keep pace with user requirements and the changing nature of data access and processing.… |
| Microsoft tripped up by Blighty's techie skills gap Posted: 29 Feb 2012 01:03 AM PST Unis not working hard enough to please us, says UK chief One of the UK's top Microsofties told MPs on Tuesday that even the mighty Windows maker was feeling the impact of Blighty's skills gap.… |
| Nepal asks for a leg-up to nail Everest's height Posted: 29 Feb 2012 12:29 AM PST Appeal for foreign help probably not directed at China The Nepalese government has been forced to ask for international assistance in nailing the exact height of Everest, less than a year after it declared it was more than capable of settling the matter once and for all.…
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| New tool turns any marketing wonk into a mobile app whiz Posted: 29 Feb 2012 12:01 AM PST FrontPage-like drag-n-drop software development MWC 2012 Calling a company Antenna when what you make is an abstraction platform, rather than antennas, might not be sensible – especially at a congress stuffed with mobile techies – but what the firm actually does works well for the trend of this age. Technology follows fashion more than we'd like to admit, and apps are where it is at.… |
