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- Eolas claims royalties for browser apps and plug-ins
- US Navy preps railgun for tests
- Solarflare turns network adapters into servers
- Telcos to shape up under new code
- Path runs screaming from privacy snafu
- Toshiba may be getting excess WD disk biz
- Sir Paul McBeatle to offer free iTunes concert
- Nekkid Tech: The Great Backup Industry SMACKDOWN
- Chrome to weed out dodgy website SSL certificates by itself
- Ancient cave girl genome could crack Man's genetic puzzle
- Sony posts PlayStation firmware patch
- Apple's Hong Kong store rolls out iPhone 'reservation' system
- Cray puts super stake in the big data ground
- New driver-snooping satnav could push down UK insurance premiums
- Resellers: Microsoft price hike was 'demanded by Euro country bosses'
- Quarter of Wolfram Alpha brainteasers come from Siri
- Revealed: Apple's plea for fairness in mobile patent war
- Mozilla explains user-tracking proposal for Firefox
- Virident flasher claims Oracle database streak record
- Indonesian train roof fare-dodgers given the brush off
- Glad to be hybrid: Office 365 flits from cloud to cloud
- Now HDS joins server flash party
- LinkedIn offers MORE SECURE hobnobbing option
- Marlinspike asks browser vendors to back SSL-validator
- Nokia: No Belle download for Apple users
- Android's Chrome finish comes too late for Flash coating
- Halliburton latest biz to dump BlackBerry for iPhone
- Yahoo! chairman! falls! on! his! sword!
- Greenpeace releases meaningless 'Cool IT' rankings
- Apple's new TV allegedly spotted... in Canadian office
- Toshiba 14in USB LCD Mobile Monitor
- Virgin Media finally turns an annual profit
- Samsung reveals Tocco Lite 2 release details
- Russians drill into buried 20 million-year-old Antarctic lake
- Amazon 'rolling out a retail store in Seattle'
- T-Mobile's Full Monty speed 'capped at 1Mb/s'
- Huawei's super-skinny Ascend P1 S headed to China in March
- HP may be going the server flash route
- NFC leader Inside Secure to IPO this month
- Nokia axes 4,000, shifts smartphone manufacturing East
- Coke-snorting cop bots to replace sniffer dogs
- Heathrow facial recognition tech stalled by borders fiasco
- Move over cybercrims, DDoS now protesters' weapon of choice
- Apple won't rule out all singing, all dancing iBooks on Kindle
- Ten... Freesat TV receivers
- Australian sports get busy with copyright special pleading
- SGI to restructure (again) after fiscal Q2 loss
- 'App Economy' has created 466,000 US jobs
- Laser boffins blast bits onto hard drive at 200Gb/sec
- Hong Kongers protest over end to all-you-can-eat tariffs
| Eolas claims royalties for browser apps and plug-ins Posted: 08 Feb 2012 02:04 PM PST Berners-Lee warns of disaster for internetEolas Technologies has begun its trial against Adobe over two patents that, it claims, gives it the rights to embedded browser applications and plug-in and AJAX (asynchronous JavaScript and XML) web development techniques.… |
| US Navy preps railgun for tests Posted: 08 Feb 2012 02:00 PM PST Bedding down BAE Systems prototypeThe US Navy's Office of Naval Research is preparing to test a prototype railgun delivered by BAE Systems under a $US21 million contract signed in 2010.… |
| Solarflare turns network adapters into servers Posted: 08 Feb 2012 01:51 PM PST When a CPU just isn't fast enoughSolarflare, a maker of 10 Gigabit Ethernet server adapter cards for performance-obsessed companies like stock exchanges, hedge funds, and supercomputer centers, is turning its network interface cards into servers, more or less.… |
| Telcos to shape up under new code Posted: 08 Feb 2012 01:30 PM PST Comms Alliance lays down the lawAustralian carriers, voice services and ISPs will be forced to take their obligations to the rights of consumers seriously under a new revised consumer code from industry group, the Communications Alliance.…
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| Path runs screaming from privacy snafu Posted: 08 Feb 2012 01:10 PM PST We meant to copy your address book but we didn't think you'd mindAfter sparking an outcry – and arguably putting itself on the wrong side of privacy laws outside America – ex-Facebooker and now CEO of Path, Dave Morin, has blogged an apology.… |
| Toshiba may be getting excess WD disk biz Posted: 08 Feb 2012 12:29 PM PST Rumour mill spits out Tosh as buyerWe are hearing that Toshiba is buying Western Digital's "excess" 3.5-inch disk drive business, clearing the way to the completion of the WD's acquisition of Hitachi GST .… |
| Sir Paul McBeatle to offer free iTunes concert Posted: 08 Feb 2012 10:56 AM PST B.Y.O. Bottom, should you desire a kissSir Paul McCartney, late of Wings, will celebrate the release of his latest album with a live concert streamed over Apple's iTunes this Thursday at 7pm, Pacific Time.… |
| Nekkid Tech: The Great Backup Industry SMACKDOWN Posted: 08 Feb 2012 10:07 AM PST Plus, adopt a needy cloudPodcast Last week, Greg Knieriemen turned the heat up on Marc Farley, StorageIO's Greg Schulz and the legendary StorageZilla.… |
| Chrome to weed out dodgy website SSL certificates by itself Posted: 08 Feb 2012 09:23 AM PST Ditched online checks like 'seat belt that snaps when you crash'Google will drop online checks for revoked website encryption certificates in future versions of its Chrome browser after it decided that the process no longer offers any tangible benefits.…
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| Ancient cave girl genome could crack Man's genetic puzzle Posted: 08 Feb 2012 09:09 AM PST Boffins pore over 500GB of data plastered onlineNearly 500GB of data from the DNA of an ancient girl has been published for the first time. The genetic information - made available for wider analysis by intrigued boffins - was extracted from her finger bone and tooth, which were unearthed in the Denisova Cave in Siberia in 2008.… |
| Sony posts PlayStation firmware patch Posted: 08 Feb 2012 09:02 AM PST Bye-bye, PSN; hello, SENSony's latest PlayStation firmware - version 4.10 - is now available for download, with the Sony Entertainment Network ready for PS3s from here on.… |
| Apple's Hong Kong store rolls out iPhone 'reservation' system Posted: 08 Feb 2012 08:56 AM PST Yes, sir, but have you booked an appointment?Apple has been forced to restrict iPhone sales in its Hong Kong store to discourage the recent epidemic of scalpers.… |
| Cray puts super stake in the big data ground Posted: 08 Feb 2012 08:37 AM PST Crunch thisBig data may or may not pan out for the users, but it is a bit of a boom for IT vendors, who are scrambling to prove their data analytics chops and go for the easiest money in the market these days. And to that end, supercomputer maker Cray is setting up a dedicated division to chase big data biz.… |
| New driver-snooping satnav could push down UK insurance premiums Posted: 08 Feb 2012 08:18 AM PST TomTom signs up with Motaquote to stuff spy in GPS boxThe idea has been hovering in the ether for some time, but TomTom is the first satnav firm to sign on the dotted line and bring insurance to drivers through their GPS.… |
| Resellers: Microsoft price hike was 'demanded by Euro country bosses' Posted: 08 Feb 2012 08:04 AM PST Insiders say UK channel exploited weak pound to fuel deals on continentMicrosoft's planned overhaul of volume-licensing prices was in response to cries of frustration from its European country managers unhappy their UK counterpart were benefiting from the regional disparity to win biz on the continent, channel sources claim.… |
| Quarter of Wolfram Alpha brainteasers come from Siri Posted: 08 Feb 2012 08:01 AM PST Apple's smart-arse software relies on boffinry websiteA quarter of traffic to the intelligent computational engine Wolfram Alpha comes from Siri, Stephen Wolfram said in a New York Times article.…
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| Revealed: Apple's plea for fairness in mobile patent war Posted: 08 Feb 2012 07:31 AM PST Letter to telecoms body begs for level playing fieldIn November Apple wrote to the European Telecommunications Standards Institute suggesting an overhaul of the whole FRAND system of licensing patents fairly and reasonably.… |
| Mozilla explains user-tracking proposal for Firefox Posted: 08 Feb 2012 07:14 AM PST Telemetry has no UUID, Metrics Data Ping mightIn a story published yesterday your humble Reg writer wrongly confused Mozilla's Telemetry project with the open-source outfit's so-called Metrics Data Ping proposal. Mozilla has been in touch to clear things up.… |
| Virident flasher claims Oracle database streak record Posted: 08 Feb 2012 07:01 AM PST Solid disks thrust into willing 80-core NEC boxExit Exadata, Fusion-io and Violin Memory - so to speak: the Oracle database random IO speed record has been smashed by an 80-core NEC server fitted with eight Virident flash drives.… |
| Indonesian train roof fare-dodgers given the brush off Posted: 08 Feb 2012 06:39 AM PST Foul-smelling brooms purge carriages of surfing commutersIndonesian train operators have come up with yet another ingeniously cruel system designed to discourage fare-dodging commuters from blagging a free ride on the roof of their carriages - this time involving brooms covered in putrid gunk.… |
| Glad to be hybrid: Office 365 flits from cloud to cloud Posted: 08 Feb 2012 06:30 AM PST Public and private partnershipInterview "The hybrid cloud environment is a great place for Office 365," evangelises Simon May, appropriately enough a tech evangelist at Microsoft UK.…
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| Now HDS joins server flash party Posted: 08 Feb 2012 06:17 AM PST Still no comment from HPHitachi Data Systems intends to join the server flash storage party, throwing its NAND hat into the ring to speed application I/O and increase the virtual machine population.… |
| LinkedIn offers MORE SECURE hobnobbing option Posted: 08 Feb 2012 06:02 AM PST Social-network-for-suits finally gets some SSL loveLinkedIn is now gradually rolling out secure browsing for its social-networking-for-suits service.… |
| Marlinspike asks browser vendors to back SSL-validator Posted: 08 Feb 2012 05:38 AM PST 'Convergence' open source dev needs vendors to balance the loadAnalysis Moxie Marlinspike is encouraging browser developers to support an experimental project to shake up the security of website authentication by moving beyond blind faith in secure sockets layer (SSL) credentials.… |
| Nokia: No Belle download for Apple users Posted: 08 Feb 2012 05:27 AM PST Even if they have its own Mac OS X updater appNokia has told Mac-using owners of handsets capable of being upgraded to its Belle operating system they need to switch to a PC to apply the update themselves.… |
| Android's Chrome finish comes too late for Flash coating Posted: 08 Feb 2012 05:17 AM PST Adobe confirms Flashless browsingGoogle may have got its Chrome browser running on Android, but Adobe is standing by its decision not to port Flash to any new mobile browsers, not even Chrome.… |
| Halliburton latest biz to dump BlackBerry for iPhone Posted: 08 Feb 2012 04:58 AM PST But our developers are raking it in, screams RIMCiting better application support, oilfield services giant Halliburton will be handing out iPhones in future - despite RIM's claims that its app developers have never had it so good.…
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| Yahoo! chairman! falls! on! his! sword! Posted: 08 Feb 2012 04:42 AM PST Bostock and three directors quit ailing web biz to save itYahoo!'s chairman and three other board members are stepping down as the once-mighty web firm continues its drawn-out internal shake-up.… |
| Greenpeace releases meaningless 'Cool IT' rankings Posted: 08 Feb 2012 04:25 AM PST Hippies' 'leaderboard' apparently made using dartboardAnalysis International hippie* collective Greenpeace has issued a "Cool IT leaderboard" of apparently randomly selected major firms which it has assigned meaningless self-generated scores intended to indicate how eco-friendly the companies are.… |
| Apple's new TV allegedly spotted... in Canadian office Posted: 08 Feb 2012 04:13 AM PST Will be controlled by Siri, waving, unicornsPrototypes of the hotly anticipated Apple TV are sitting in the offices of telcos in Canada, reports newspaper The Globe and Mail. The report adds that the new TVs will feature voice-control through Siri, gesture control and video chat.… |
| Toshiba 14in USB LCD Mobile Monitor Posted: 08 Feb 2012 04:01 AM PST Panel beater?Review It sounds like a great idea: a 14in LCD monitor that connects using USB. Perfect for tablets, netbooks and mobile phones, right? Well no, because it doesn't work with them.… |
| Virgin Media finally turns an annual profit Posted: 08 Feb 2012 03:47 AM PST Only took five years since beardie rebrandVirgin Media pulled in annual revenue that was just shy of £4bn, the company reported this morning.… |
| Samsung reveals Tocco Lite 2 release details Posted: 08 Feb 2012 03:45 AM PST Budget blower inboundSamsung revealed it will launch the successor to its popular Tocco Lite handset this March, with the budget blower targeting the social network generation. No surprise there, then.…
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| Russians drill into buried 20 million-year-old Antarctic lake Posted: 08 Feb 2012 03:33 AM PST Will boffins find prehistoric life - or secret Nazi files?Russian scientists have drilled through to a 20-million-year-old lake under Antarctica, which, depending on who you listen to, could harbour alien life forms, prehistoric microbes or Hitler's secret hideout.… |
| Amazon 'rolling out a retail store in Seattle' Posted: 08 Feb 2012 03:14 AM PST Apple Store-inspired Kindle-pushing boutique rumoured...Amazon could be about to open a bricks-and-mortar store in Seattle aimed at selling the Kindle - according to rumours on blog goodereader.… |
| T-Mobile's Full Monty speed 'capped at 1Mb/s' Posted: 08 Feb 2012 03:11 AM PST Cellco denies, confirms capT-Mobile's unlimited tariff, The Full Monty, has come under scrutiny after reports surfaced that the cellco may have placed a speed limit of just 1Mb/s on the package.… |
| Huawei's super-skinny Ascend P1 S headed to China in March Posted: 08 Feb 2012 02:59 AM PST Home market gets first dibs on 0.26-inch 'iPhone-killer'Chinese electronics giant Huawei could be set to launch what it claims to be the world's slimmest phone as early as next month, according to reports.… |
| HP may be going the server flash route Posted: 08 Feb 2012 02:41 AM PST Company won't confirm it, but the G8 looks pretty flashyHP's new G8 servers will sport lots of flash, according to a knowledgeable HP fan.… |
| NFC leader Inside Secure to IPO this month Posted: 08 Feb 2012 02:17 AM PST It's no Facebook, but it does actually design stuffInside Secure has filed for an initial public offering, looking to raise almost €80m a day after it celebrated shipping 20 million chips, and signed up a major handset manufacturer.… |
| Nokia axes 4,000, shifts smartphone manufacturing East Posted: 08 Feb 2012 01:59 AM PST Factories hit in cost-cutting driveHaving reviewed operations at its manufacturing facilities in Hungary, Mexico and Finland, Nokia has decided to halt its assembly lines there. Smartphones will still be customised at the three sites, but the gear itself will be built in Asia.…
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| Coke-snorting cop bots to replace sniffer dogs Posted: 08 Feb 2012 01:28 AM PST Roboplod finds could count as evidence in courtSniffer dogs can get tired, but fibre-optic sniffer robots don't have the same problem. And they are just as good at detecting cocaine, says Tong Sun, a professor of sensor engineering at City University London.… |
| Heathrow facial recognition tech stalled by borders fiasco Posted: 08 Feb 2012 01:01 AM PST Airport's scanner rollout to miss Olympics targetHeathrow airport may now not get facial recognition technology at all five of its terminals in time for the Olympics as planned, according to the Financial Times.… |
| Move over cybercrims, DDoS now protesters' weapon of choice Posted: 08 Feb 2012 12:31 AM PST Attackers swap rifles for machine guns with laser sightsIdeological hacktivism has replaced cybercrime as the main motivatation behind DDoS attacks, according to a study by Arbor Networks.… |
| Apple won't rule out all singing, all dancing iBooks on Kindle Posted: 08 Feb 2012 12:03 AM PST But they must be free. And will need an Android appApple has come under fire for keeping all products of its new interactive book-making tool within its walled garden. According to a tough End User License Agreement, any iBooks created by the iBooks Author software can only be sold through the iBookstore so Apple can help itself to a 30 per cent cut.… |
| Posted: 07 Feb 2012 11:00 PM PST Orbital options for the digital switchoverProduct round-up Whether you've cut the cord and churned away from Sky, or need to survive the digital switch-over without recourse to Pay-TV or aerial, it's worth considering Freesat. The gratis satellite TV service matches Freeview for SD channels, and offers a smattering of high-def plus the BBC iPlayer, hardware permitting. It's a good bet for both the cash-strapped and the locationally challenged.… |
| Australian sports get busy with copyright special pleading Posted: 07 Feb 2012 07:31 PM PST Chewing on the government's earAustralia's sports administrators, usually busy trying to steal each others' audiences, have discovered the spirit of cooperation in the face of the Optus TV Now Federal Court decision.…
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| SGI to restructure (again) after fiscal Q2 loss Posted: 07 Feb 2012 05:30 PM PST Blame Europe, Xeon E5 product transitionsIt is becoming more apparent why supercomputer and server maker Silicon Graphics' former president and CEO Mark Barrenechea decided to exit stage left back in December. While the company was growing gear sales, it was heading deeper into the red ink as old machines came off maintenance and new machines await their ramps this year.… |
| 'App Economy' has created 466,000 US jobs Posted: 07 Feb 2012 05:15 PM PST Thanks to Apple, Google, Facebook...Although Apple may be facing mounting criticism for outsourcing its manufacturing beyond US shores, creating 700,000 jobs in China and elsewhere, one tech-industry advocacy group claims that Apple, the Android ecosystem, Facebook, and lesser lights account for roughly 466,000 US jobs in what it calls the "App Economy".… |
| Laser boffins blast bits onto hard drive at 200Gb/sec Posted: 07 Feb 2012 04:51 PM PST Superheating drives forego magnetic write headsA team of scientists have published a new way of using heat to store data magnetically, which could increase the speed of hard drives over a hundredfold.… |
| Hong Kongers protest over end to all-you-can-eat tariffs Posted: 07 Feb 2012 04:03 PM PST SmarTone on the receiving end of user furyHong Kong dwellers have staged a mini-protest outside one of the stores of SmarTone against the cellco's response to new rules from the local regulator which will force all network operators to scrap unlimited data tariffs.… |
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