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- Cupertino to ban permissionless address book copying
- BlueGene/Q heads for Melbourne
- Internet simulcasts don’t need extra royalties
- Cisco complains to the EU about Microsoft/Skype deal
- Linux talent shortage drives up salaries
- Twitter mobile apps storing address books for 18 months
- Nekkid Tech: Big data divas, Whitney and how to OWN the cloud
- Apple seeks permission to kick Kodak's corpse
- Femtocell Forum grows big – rebrands as Small
- Critical IE update dominates Valentine’s Patch Tuesday
- HD bandwidth limits BBC Olympics 3D coverage
- 'Linux for cloud' floats anti-Amazon cloud taster
- SanDisk snaps up PCIe cacher
- Mobile chiefs warned: Ditch unlimited tariffs... or else
- Google tightens its Wallet after PIN reset goof
- Acer's proud Wang: We're on the rise at last
- Boy burned in Nintendo sensor substitution
- Shareholders! attempt! Yahoo! coup!
- Sony 'fesses to Whitney Houston price hike 'error'
- Hey Commentards! This pre-populated 'reply to' is for you
- Life at Googleplex REVEALED in hot pics
- HP chiefs bet big at Vegas on cloud payday
- FCC hangs up on 4G broadband biz LightSquared
- Bonkers MS security update flags Google.com as malign
- 500 Brit techies at risk over NHS IT fiasco
- HP Pavilion dm1-4125ea 11.6in netbook
- Mobile networks told to sniff punters' privates for profit
- Disk fab output pumping up, prices 'to stay high and dry'
- Motorola 'Intel inside' Android 4.0 phone spied on web
- Proview fears fanbois will derail iPad export ban bid
- Whistleblower: Decade-long Nortel hack 'traced to China'
- UK cops cuff suspect after RnBXclusive takedown
- Apple's Chinese labourers get 1.6 per cent of iPad loot - report
- Changing room spy cam sparks privacy tsar blast
- HP iSCSI slogger usurped by younger flashy model
- Leisure Suit Larry in the Land of the Lounge Lizards
- Europeans turn backs on Ultrabooks
- Blighty's gov to spunk up to £2.9b on crim-stalking tech
- Microsoft code not the security sieve sysadmins should be worried about
- Child abuse files stolen from council worker in PUB - £100k fine
- Intel 520 240GB SSD
- Heartland Institute documents leaked
- Mobile internet devices to outnumber humans this year
- Alcatel-Lucent opens up Aladdin's cave of patents
- Apple CEO defends fixes to suppliers' working conditions
- Japanese robot mirrors master’s movements
- Qld council gets crafty with mobile data mining
| Cupertino to ban permissionless address book copying Posted: 15 Feb 2012 02:30 PM PST A lesson in faking sincerityApple – arguably a villain in the "Path copies your address book" brouhaha – has, under pressure from US lawmakers, decided to require that apps prompt users before accessing their address book data.… |
| BlueGene/Q heads for Melbourne Posted: 15 Feb 2012 02:00 PM PST Live sciences get Big Blue green boostVictoria's troubled VLSCI at the University of Melbourne has announced that IBM is to supply an 836-teraflops BlueGene/Q supercomputer for the research centre by June this year.… |
| Internet simulcasts don’t need extra royalties Posted: 15 Feb 2012 01:30 PM PST Oz labels lose case against radio stationsMusicians and record labels will probably be joining the queue behind sports codes and mobile carriers to demand more rights-holder-friendly copyright laws, after losing an internet radio case in the Federal Court yesterday.… |
| Cisco complains to the EU about Microsoft/Skype deal Posted: 15 Feb 2012 12:47 PM PST Wants assurances Redmond won't lock down videoCisco has issued a formal complaint to the General Court of the European Union over Microsoft's acquisition of Skype, saying it needs assurances that Redmond will play fair on standards.…
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| Linux talent shortage drives up salaries Posted: 15 Feb 2012 12:06 PM PST Pick your perquisites, Penguin peopleIt pays to be a Linux expert, and if you have any needs that are not being met by your employer and you have Linux skills, now might be a good time to start making some demands.… |
| Twitter mobile apps storing address books for 18 months Posted: 15 Feb 2012 11:13 AM PST Tim Cook quizzed by Congress on privacyTwitter has become the latest in a growing list of companies caught storing user's data without making it explicit.… |
| Nekkid Tech: Big data divas, Whitney and how to OWN the cloud Posted: 15 Feb 2012 11:03 AM PST Look into my eyes, take me to the clouds abovePodcast Last week's Nekkid Tech was all about the future of tape as a storage medium and back-up software lock-ins.… |
| Apple seeks permission to kick Kodak's corpse Posted: 15 Feb 2012 10:56 AM PST Asks court to allow patent claim against dying photo iconApple has asked the New York branch of the US Bankruptcy Court for permission to sue what's left of Kodak, the once-mighty film firm, for patent infringment.… |
| Femtocell Forum grows big – rebrands as Small Posted: 15 Feb 2012 10:09 AM PST That's just over a smidge largerThe Femtocell Forum has changed its name to the Small Cell Forum, reflecting how the tech is migrating upwards, but also how femtos haven't yet set the world alight.…
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| Critical IE update dominates Valentine’s Patch Tuesday Posted: 15 Feb 2012 09:27 AM PST Explorer patch the only one giving sysadmins the fearThe Valentine's Day edition of Patch Tuesday brought nine security bulletins that collectively address 21 software vulnerabilities.… |
| HD bandwidth limits BBC Olympics 3D coverage Posted: 15 Feb 2012 09:22 AM PST Highlights show, two ceremonies, one raceThe BBC has revealed what parts of next summer Olympic Games it plans to beam into homes in glorious 3D-o-Vision.… |
| 'Linux for cloud' floats anti-Amazon cloud taster Posted: 15 Feb 2012 09:05 AM PST Dev, test, now b*gger off!Updated How does a cloud project solve a problem like Amazon? The once genteel etailer of toasters, books and CDs has now become a byword for "cloud".… |
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| Mobile chiefs warned: Ditch unlimited tariffs... or else Posted: 15 Feb 2012 08:18 AM PST Regulators ready to pounce, says OvumAnalysts have warned Asia Pacific mobile operators that they risk alienating customers and incurring the wrath of regulators if they don't ditch unlimited data tariffs and focus more on quality of service.… |
| Google tightens its Wallet after PIN reset goof Posted: 15 Feb 2012 08:04 AM PST Now only proper hackers can steal punters' doshGoogle has started provisioning electronic wallets again having fixed the more trivial security flaw in its product - though determined hackers will still get in.…
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| Acer's proud Wang: We're on the rise at last Posted: 15 Feb 2012 07:28 AM PST Return to profit in Q4 can't stave off £142m loss in 2011Acer returned to profit in the fourth quarter, albeit marginally, but the recovery came too late in the year to prevent it from posting very significant losses for the whole of 2011.… |
| Boy burned in Nintendo sensor substitution Posted: 15 Feb 2012 07:10 AM PST Candle in the WiiFirefighters today warned gamers not to simulate the Nintendo Wii's sensor bar with candles after an eight-year-old boy set himself on fire doing just that.… |
| Shareholders! attempt! Yahoo! coup! Posted: 15 Feb 2012 07:02 AM PST Investor tries to muscle onto board amid Asian talks snagTroublemaking Yahoo! shareholder Daniel Loeb, head of hedge fund Third Point, has filed with the SEC to appoint himself - and three other directors nominated by him - to the board of the beleaguered web firm.… |
| Sony 'fesses to Whitney Houston price hike 'error' Posted: 15 Feb 2012 06:32 AM PST Albums mistakenly made more expensive hours after diva's deathSony Music has finally issued a statement on hiking the price of tragic pop songstress Whitney Houston's albums after her death, apologising for the "error" in the iTunes listing.… |
| Hey Commentards! This pre-populated 'reply to' is for you Posted: 15 Feb 2012 06:10 AM PST DenigglingWe took our time to remove this niggle, but you should like this little update:… |
| Life at Googleplex REVEALED in hot pics Posted: 15 Feb 2012 06:04 AM PST Or slightly hinted at anywayEver wondered what it would be like to work in the bosom of a warm, cuddly company for which making money is incidental to saving/taking over the world? A place so magical and mysterious that it has been nicknamed The Chocolate Factory after Roald Dahl's immortal creation?… |
| HP chiefs bet big at Vegas on cloud payday Posted: 15 Feb 2012 05:43 AM PST Resell ours or build your own, says bizCloud computing is forecast to balloon to an $143bn industry by 2013, according to HP's internal analysis, and the tech company wants to put a framework in place for resellers to help it swipe a slice of the action. And now HP is taking the show to Vegas, dishing out a bunch of cloud-related channel programmes at the invite-only Global Partner Conference (GPC) in gambling capital.… |
| FCC hangs up on 4G broadband biz LightSquared Posted: 15 Feb 2012 05:26 AM PST Let the legal shenanigans beginThe US regulator has issued a statement saying it plans to suspend the waiver under which LightSquared was planning to build its national 4G network, putting the kibosh on the whole plan.…
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| Bonkers MS security update flags Google.com as malign Posted: 15 Feb 2012 05:14 AM PST Don't be |
| 500 Brit techies at risk over NHS IT fiasco Posted: 15 Feb 2012 05:02 AM PST Contractor CSC cuts staff after UK ditches duff patient record systemUp to 500 IT workers could lose their jobs over CSC's botched computer system for the NHS, which is costing everyone involved with the fiasco dearly.… |
| HP Pavilion dm1-4125ea 11.6in netbook Posted: 15 Feb 2012 05:00 AM PST AMD's Atom smasherReview Now that everyone and their dog has or wants a smartphone or tablet, the recent drop in netbook sales can hardly be a surprise. Yet does this mean there is no space for a small, cheap laptop? Of course not and HP's recently refreshed Pavilion dm1 is a fine example of why I hope the breed never dies.… |
| Mobile networks told to sniff punters' privates for profit Posted: 15 Feb 2012 04:38 AM PST How else to make money once everyone has a smartphone?Mobile network operators will have to be more cavalier in their approach to customer data if they're going to be able to make money once mobile penetration becomes ubiquitous.… |
| Disk fab output pumping up, prices 'to stay high and dry' Posted: 15 Feb 2012 04:18 AM PST Flood-hit makers to meet hard drive demand by mid-2012 - analystDemand for hard disk drives will outstrip supply until at least the middle of 2012, analysts at IHS reckon, as a result of the deadly Thai factory floods that dented drive production.… |
| Motorola 'Intel inside' Android 4.0 phone spied on web Posted: 15 Feb 2012 04:14 AM PST Hello MedfieldDetails of Motorola's first Android 4.0 smartphone have leaked online, with the device also the company's first handset to sport Intel's 'Medfield' Atom platform.… |
| Proview fears fanbois will derail iPad export ban bid Posted: 15 Feb 2012 04:02 AM PST Chinese love Apple gear too much, warn customs officialsChinese firm Proview has admitted it might be tough to get a ban on iPads in China, despite the ruling that the name infringes on their trademark, because the local customs authorities are unlikely to get involved.… |
| Whistleblower: Decade-long Nortel hack 'traced to China' Posted: 15 Feb 2012 03:41 AM PST They had access to everythingNortel was the victim of a years-long network security breach that allowed hackers to extract its trade secrets, according to a veteran of the bankrupt Canadian telco systems biz.… |
| UK cops cuff suspect after RnBXclusive takedown Posted: 15 Feb 2012 03:16 AM PST Anti-crime-gang squad seizes music site, starts asking questionsBlighty's Serious Organised Crime Agency (SOCA) has arrested an individual in connection with the closure of UK music exchange site rnbxclusive.com, an agency spokesperson told The Reg.…
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| Apple's Chinese labourers get 1.6 per cent of iPad loot - report Posted: 15 Feb 2012 03:02 AM PST Foxconn staff get only $8 of tablet's $499 price tagAs Apple desperately tries to repaint itself as a caring company when it comes to workers' rights, news has emerged that employees in its suppliers' Chinese factories get just $8 of the $499 sale price of each iPad 2.… |
| Changing room spy cam sparks privacy tsar blast Posted: 15 Feb 2012 02:39 AM PST Hong Kong biz barons told snooping on staff is bad, mmkayHong Kong privacy tsar Allan Chiang has been forced to clarify to bosses that it's not OK to spy on their employees, after property company Hong Yip was found to have installed spy cameras in one of its buildings to monitor staff.… |
| HP iSCSI slogger usurped by younger flashy model Posted: 15 Feb 2012 02:21 AM PST 6.4TB P4900 for just $199kHP has announced an all-flash version of its LeftHand Networks P4000 iSCSI storage array, the P4900… |
| Leisure Suit Larry in the Land of the Lounge Lizards Posted: 15 Feb 2012 02:00 AM PST Thanks for the mammaries |
| Europeans turn backs on Ultrabooks Posted: 15 Feb 2012 01:42 AM PST Cheap 15-inchers or pricey Macs, s'il vous plaitEuropeans don't want Ultrabooks - and their lack of interest in the platform will hit Intel's platform market share forecast where it hurts.… |
| Blighty's gov to spunk up to £2.9b on crim-stalking tech Posted: 15 Feb 2012 01:32 AM PST Six-year deal touted for software and gear by Ministry of JusticeThe Ministry of Justice (MoJ) is looking to spend up to £2.9bn on electronic monitoring technology.… |
| Microsoft code not the security sieve sysadmins should be worried about Posted: 15 Feb 2012 01:03 AM PST Study finds hackers aren't hitting the apps your biz thinks they areThe gap between software patched by IT departments and the applications cyber-criminals actually target is leaving organisations at a greater risk of attack.… |
| Child abuse files stolen from council worker in PUB - £100k fine Posted: 15 Feb 2012 12:04 AM PST Another council coughs £80k for HAND-DELIVERING kid's info to neighbourThe UK's data protection watchdog has fined two English council bodies a total of £180,000 after finding they had failed to keep "highly sensitive information" about children secure.… |
| Posted: 14 Feb 2012 11:00 PM PST Sandforce insideReview The rumour mill was working overtime throughout 2011 with suggestions that Intel was considering forsaking the Marvell controllers it had used for its previous generation of consumer SSDs, the 510 series. The story went that the company was jumping into bed with another third party controller manufacturer, namely Sandforce, for the next generation of its solid state drives.… |
| Heartland Institute documents leaked Posted: 14 Feb 2012 07:38 PM PST Koch-up or konspiracy?Gifted amateurs and interested activists the world over are poring over documents published on the Desmog blog and elsewhere, which appear to detail the US think-tank the Heartland Institute's budget and anti-climate-change strategy.…
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| Mobile internet devices to outnumber humans this year Posted: 14 Feb 2012 05:12 PM PST Skynet's plans proceeding wellThe number of mobile devices will outstrip the global population in 2012, according to Cisco's latest Global Mobile Data Traffic Forecast.… |
| Alcatel-Lucent opens up Aladdin's cave of patents Posted: 14 Feb 2012 03:45 PM PST Signs up with RPX licencing cabalAlcatel-Lucent has joined an international patent licencing syndicate RPX Corp which will open up its portfolio of 29,000 issued patents and expects to reap a handsome fiscal return.… |
| Apple CEO defends fixes to suppliers' working conditions Posted: 14 Feb 2012 03:42 PM PST Underage labor 'abhorrent', overtime abuse 'endemic'CEO Tim Cook wants you to know – really wants you to know – that despite what you may have heard, Apple takes working conditions at its Asian contract manufacturers quite seriously and is working to improve them.… |
| Japanese robot mirrors master’s movements Posted: 14 Feb 2012 03:30 PM PST Do dat crazy Avatar danceThe Avatar headlines were inevitable, weren't they? Japanese researchers have unveiled a master-slave robot that moves in synch with kit worn by the robot's controllers.… |
| Qld council gets crafty with mobile data mining Posted: 14 Feb 2012 03:15 PM PST Logan's mobility runSouth East Queensland's Logan City Council has implemented a mobile strategy that assists the local council in data collection and deployment of business services.…
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