Commbank shouts free beer, meals, to promote NFC payments

Commbank shouts free beer, meals, to promote NFC payments


Commbank shouts free beer, meals, to promote NFC payments

Posted: 28 Feb 2012 03:30 PM PST

Which bank slings punters a tenner or buys dinner for enduring lesson from "Kaching Kachampions"

Australia's Commonwealth Bank is buying beer or paying punters ten Australian dollars to endure a brief lesson in its Kaching wireless payments app.…

Virgin Galactic announces test flight plans

Posted: 28 Feb 2012 03:30 PM PST

Can Branson get it up in 2012?

Virgin Galactic has announced that it expects to go ex-atmospheric in a test flight this year.…

The problem with Telstra’s NBN plans

Posted: 28 Feb 2012 03:00 PM PST

Copper in the incumbent's saddlebags

Regulatory rules have helped put Telstra in the uncomfortable position of launching the most expensive National Broadband Network fibre-based plans in the Australian market.…

M2 Telecoms buys some Time

Posted: 28 Feb 2012 02:30 PM PST

Hungrry for more acquisitions

M2 Telecommunications continues its acquisition drive, snapping up Time Telecom via subsidiary Southern Cross Telco for $AU18.5 million.…

Optus fails to silence AFL boss

Posted: 28 Feb 2012 02:00 PM PST

Joins long list of people who can't get Demetriou to shut up

After winning the first round of its TV Now court case, Optus has had a minor loss when it asked an Australian court to stop Australian Football League boss Andrew Demetriou.…

Telstra gets ready for the split

Posted: 28 Feb 2012 01:32 PM PST

ACCC okays break-up plan; opposition finds shark and jumps

In a landmark move, the Australian regulator has accepted Telstra's structural separation undertaking (SSU) to be implemented via the migration to the National Broadband Network.…

SUSE Linux moves to 3.0 kernel with SP2

Posted: 28 Feb 2012 01:05 PM PST

Bread-and-butter file system goes mainstream

SUSE Linux, the commercial Linux distributor owned by software conglomerate Attachmate, is moving up to the Linux 3.0 kernel and also taking the btrfs file system mainstream alongside Linux container virtual private servers.…

Apple's German win was really our victory, honest, says Motorola

Posted: 28 Feb 2012 12:49 PM PST

'Years of fruitless negotiation' ending?

Motorola Mobility (MMI) says it has been 'vindicated' in Monday's ruling by a German appeals court, which permitted Apple to continue selling the iPhone and iPad in that country during Cupertino's appeal of a December legal victory in an Apple-MMI patent tussle.…

Fat margins squeeze Apple against Android

Posted: 28 Feb 2012 12:07 PM PST

iPhone subsidies can't beat 'free'

Open ... and Shut  There are a million ways to over-analyse iOS versus Android market share, but one thing is often overlooked: Apple's high-margin strategy depends upon buying customers through subsidies, and may not be able to keep pace with Android's low-cost model over time.…

Younger generation taking 'sledgehammer' to security

Posted: 28 Feb 2012 12:02 PM PST

Digital natives v digital immigrants

RSA 2012  The new generation of "digital natives" coming into the workplace is going to blow apart existing security practices, Symantec's CEO Enrique Salem warns.…

Banking Trojan hijacks live chat to run real-time fraud

Posted: 28 Feb 2012 11:36 AM PST

Simpler, faster, better... for crooks

A new strain of financial malware is hijacking live chat sessions in a bid to hoodwink business banking customers into handing over their banking login credentials or into authorising fraudulent transactions.…

Now Samsung supremo sued by sister in inheritance spat

Posted: 28 Feb 2012 11:03 AM PST

Faces off with siblings over dad's shares

The eldest sister of Samsung Electronics chairman Lee Kun-hee has joined that exec's brother in filing suit against him over an inheritance from their father.…

Disk shortages stall Q4 server sales (a bit)

Posted: 28 Feb 2012 10:50 AM PST

Tier one players slip – except Dell

Considering the challenges that the server biz has faced in recent months, global server shipments have remained relatively healthy, with revenues impacted mostly by declining IBM mainframe sales.…

Nekkid Tech: Keep Austin weird

Posted: 28 Feb 2012 10:39 AM PST

AT&T passes the buck, Dell leaves PC brigade and techies headbang at SXSW

Podcast  This week Greg Knieriemen and trusty sidekick Ed Saipetch (@edasi) chat to Gina Minks (@gminks) and Nekkid Tech virgin and new media strategist Sarah Vela (@orchid8) about LTE networks; the SXSW tech, biz and music bash in Austin; and why Dell is so keen to branch out.…

Stratfor leak: US 'has secret indictment' of Julian Assange

Posted: 28 Feb 2012 10:26 AM PST

Email claims charges ready and waiting for him

US prosecutors have drawn up secret charges against WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, according to a leaked internal email extracted from private US intelligence firm Stratfor and obtained by the whistleblower site.…

Hackers chop down UN eco-agency, release rare data into wild

Posted: 28 Feb 2012 10:17 AM PST

Admin logins among files dumped after raid

Hacktivists claim to have raided the website of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and extracted sensitive internal information.…

AppSense pushes out Dropbox encryption app for iOS

Posted: 28 Feb 2012 10:01 AM PST

You left your iPad where..?

Virtualisation software maker AppSense has moved into Apple kit with the release of its first iOS app ever – DataLocker – a security layer for Dropbox apps.…

Apple issues invitations to March 7 iPad roll-out

Posted: 28 Feb 2012 10:01 AM PST

'We have something you really have to see'

Apple has issued invitations for a March 7 event that will presumably – based on the iPad image that graces the email invite – introduce the oft-rumored iPad 3 with a "retina display", possibly with a resolution of 2048-by-1536 pixels.…

Cisco CEO: Mobile cloud threat for service providers

Posted: 28 Feb 2012 09:32 AM PST

Invest, preferably in Cisco

MWC 2012  Network pitchman John Chambers has cautioned service providers that they risk being stranded by the mobile cloud.…

Hacking breach made us stronger says RSA

Posted: 28 Feb 2012 09:27 AM PST

Attack causes rethink on security skills

RSA 2012  RSA president Art Coviello has said the hacking attack that breached its servers ended up making the company stronger and more effective.…

Texas flash: TMS Ramsan-820 born in the USA

Posted: 28 Feb 2012 09:02 AM PST

Reassures US buyers it's keeping jobs onshore

TMS latest RamSan-820 is a high-availability box that the Texans say packs more terabytes into its 1U rack case than that of any other vendor.…

Top Rambus attack dog Harold Hughes to retire

Posted: 28 Feb 2012 08:42 AM PST

Lawyers' best friend going

Rambus CEO Harold Hughes is stepping down - causing grief, devastation and woe in intellectual property lawyers' offices across the USA.…

O2 to balance work, life on smartphones

Posted: 28 Feb 2012 08:21 AM PST

Business and pleasure in one handset

Wii workouts unlikely to improve fitness

Posted: 28 Feb 2012 08:19 AM PST

Researchers suggest compensation

Trying to keep your nippers in trim with a Nintendo Wii workout may be pointless. Research suggests motion-controlled videogame systems do very little to help kids fulfill their daily exercise requirements.…

Mobile net kingpins v the world: 'Why should we pay the 4G tab?'

Posted: 28 Feb 2012 08:19 AM PST

The data crunch is coming – and Apple makes the crunchiest phones

MWC 2012  Life's tough for a mobile operator. The regulators treat you like a cash cow and the over-the-top services are leeching all the money. And unless we get back to the good old days of the 1990s, they "won't be able to make the investments necessary for 4G".…

Cops cuff premium-rate SMS Android malware suspects

Posted: 28 Feb 2012 08:02 AM PST

French plod nab duo after 100k euros slurped

French police have arrested two men over an Android malware scam that netted an estimated €100,000, according to L'Informaticien.…

Price-comparison site: OCZ reviews 'questionable'

Posted: 28 Feb 2012 07:32 AM PST

Trip Advisor revisited?

Austrian price comparison site Geizhals has flagged up reviews of OCZ's flash products on its site as suspicious.…

Apple tells Siri rival Evi: Get a facelift and you can stay

Posted: 28 Feb 2012 07:03 AM PST

Brit voice command app may not be axed from App Store

A British voice-recognition app that works like Siri may be allowed to stay in Apple's App Store, if it makes some changes, says a report in The Verge.…

Dell: 'Now they see they HAVE to consider working with us'

Posted: 28 Feb 2012 06:43 AM PST

Muhaha! Data centre dominance shall be ours

Dell is relying on its EMEA channel to take it into enterprise data centres as the big biz becomes a bigger and bigger focus for Round Rock.…

Nicked sensitive Avnet server disks sparks ICO probe

Posted: 28 Feb 2012 06:31 AM PST

Watchdog sniffs 'potential data breach' at distie

The Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) has confirmed it is investigating a potential data breach at Avnet Technology Solutions (TS) following the break-in prior to Christmas.…

For those thinking Private Cloud

Posted: 28 Feb 2012 06:12 AM PST

Here's your project check list

Live today  Our very own Tim Phillips is dragging some clever sorts from the industry and beyond into a studio to talk about building private clouds. They're remit is 'be helpful' and to give us a, 'check list for building a private cloud.' We're hoping by the time they're finished you'll have something of a weighty steer on what it takes to do a private cloud project.…

Quantum computing IN OUR LIFETIME - IBM breakthrough

Posted: 28 Feb 2012 06:02 AM PST

Big Blue boffins crack pesky unstable qubit puzzle

IBM boffins reckon their research has catapulted quantum computing forward a few decades, making it possible within our lifetime.…

Storage players pitch DRM tech for downloads

Posted: 28 Feb 2012 05:55 AM PST

If World+Dog streams HD, who'll buy our hard drives then?

Warner Bros. and 20th Century Fox have said they are working on yet another DRM technology for HD video, this time with the support of storage companies WD and SanDisk.…

Samsung admits Android tablet cash haul is disappointing

Posted: 28 Feb 2012 05:42 AM PST

'We're not doing very well in fondleslab biz'

Samsung has 'fessed up to something that the industry already knew: punters are still not falling for the charms of its fondleslabs.…

Windows Phone armed with 'military-grade' email upgrade

Posted: 28 Feb 2012 05:28 AM PST

Office invasion planned

Microsoft is bullet-proofing email on Windows Phone in an effort to follow Apple and Google into the workplace.…

Yahoo! threatens! Facebook! with! patent! spanking!

Posted: 28 Feb 2012 05:17 AM PST

Pay up or see us in court! yells Yahoo!

Like certain other tech companies that have failed to keep up with rivals' innovations, Yahoo! is resorting to a patent battle to top up its revenues.…

Microsoft 'fesses credit cards exposed by Indian store hack

Posted: 28 Feb 2012 05:01 AM PST

U-turn leaves punters in hot pickle

Microsoft India has warned customers of its online store that their financial details may have been compromised, backtracking on a previous statement to the contrary.…

Telcos gang up to snatch in-app cash from Google, Apple

Posted: 28 Feb 2012 04:38 AM PST

Nine operators draw up WAC API blueprint

MWC 2012  Nine operators have implemented an in-application API for the Wholesale Applications Community, so AJAX apps will soon be able to empty your pockets just like the competition can.…

Toyota, Samsung partner on car, phone connectivity

Posted: 28 Feb 2012 04:23 AM PST

MirrorLink app, dashboard inbound

Epic net outage in Africa as FOUR undersea cables chopped

Posted: 28 Feb 2012 04:19 AM PST

Ship blunders allegedly to blame

Underwater data cables linking East Africa to the Middle East and Europe have been severed, bringing transfer rates to their knees in nine countries.…

Bookeen Cybook Odyssey e-book reader

Posted: 28 Feb 2012 04:00 AM PST

The one with the animated E Ink screen

China raked in £184bn from IT outsourcing in 2011

Posted: 28 Feb 2012 03:38 AM PST

It was a very good year to be in software and services

China's software and IT outsourcing industry is booming, rising by a third in 2011 to reach a whopping 1.84 trillion yuan (£184.33bn), according to new government figures released by the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology.…

Linux PC-in-a-stick to cost coders £139

Posted: 28 Feb 2012 03:31 AM PST

Cotton Candy orders now being taken

Bone-bothering boffins build GIANT penguin from fossils

Posted: 28 Feb 2012 03:14 AM PST

Tall, thin linux geek bird roamed New Zealand 25m years ago

Bone-bothering boffins have reconstructed a giant prehistoric penguin species from fossils that were first found in New Zealand in 1977.…

Cineworld flaunts '4D' movies

Posted: 28 Feb 2012 03:03 AM PST

You'll be shaking in your seats - literally

British cinema chain Cineworld has announced it will branch out beyond mere 3D offerings - 'Pah!' - into a fourth dimension, with vibrating seats (ahem) that synchronise their shaking to the action on screen.…

Silicon Valley's assault on Mobile's Gated Kingdom

Posted: 28 Feb 2012 03:00 AM PST

Barbarians at the IP gateway

Part one  The Gated Kingdom guarded by the mobile industry is the last great frontier for Silicon Valley to crack.…

Nokia opens e-books for WinPho mobiles

Posted: 28 Feb 2012 02:44 AM PST

It's an Instapaper clone too

Hungry Dell iron monsters FEAST on your puny apps

Posted: 28 Feb 2012 02:41 AM PST

Compellent and arrays feed server flash beast

Dell is adding Micron-based Express Flash to its servers and will feed the server flash beast from Compellent arrays.…

Orange to impose overseas data cap to beat bill shock

Posted: 28 Feb 2012 02:24 AM PST

Pitches pre-pay bundles at roamers too

Reading this? You're probably planning to skill up on mobile in 2012

Posted: 28 Feb 2012 02:19 AM PST

There's gold in them there mobile coding languages

Hoary old coders are skilling up on mobile says a survey from CWJobs, revealing that 81 per cent of UK IT pros are planning to refresh their skill sets by sitting down and swotting up on some HTML5 in 2012.…

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