Microsoft claims Google bypassed its browser privacy too |
- Microsoft claims Google bypassed its browser privacy too
- Squirrelled away: seeds survive 30,000-year winter
- Australians like the NBN: poll
- Pakistani military building PAC-PAD fondleslab
- Exascale by 2018: Crazy ...or possible?
- Panasonic to take on LG with passive 3D TV
- SmarTone lets users cancel all-you-can-eat contracts
- Panasonic to include trackpad remotes with top-end TVs
- French National Front woos internet pirates
- Panasonic outs dual-core Euro-centric Android phone
- Fujitsu tempts Europe to splash cash on waterproof mobes
- Security biz scoffs at Apple's anti-Trojan Gatekeeper
- Valve responds to Half-Life 3 grumbles
- Unions: MoD 'mad to fire staff while increasing consultant spending'
- Pirate Bay AND its users violate labels' copyright - judge
- Microsoft holds peace talks after Hyper-V booted from OpenStack
- Apple goes to European Commission with complaint about Motorola
- Brit sat biz Inmarsat owed $56m by ailing LightSquared
- Google plots Chrome web password maker
- LOHAN flashes fantastical flying truss
- UK mobile networks start to phase out Sony Ericsson handsets
- Eric Schmidt to cash in $1.45bn Google shares
- Brazilians unveil Microsoft SkyDrive's secret – revealing pics
- Huawei pumps $6bn sweetener into US biz trio
- Foursquare ousted? Google sneaks out Latitude leader boards
- iPad 3 chip leak squeaks dual-core tweaks
- Nokia Asha 201 Qwerty phone
- Chinese smut site boss gets 10 years in the slammer
- Climate models need revising: Droughts, heat waves not such a big deal
- FTC urged to probe Google's Safari-tracking gaffe
- Brit student locked up for Facebook source code hack
- Boy died after satnav fault delays ambulance
- HP's ProLiant Gen8 control freakery
- Samsung spins off loss-making LCD biz
- Insight hands UK ops baby to Griffiths – temporarily
- Lantronix xPrintServer
- Gov CloudStore opens for business
- Upstart startup STT punts big on universal memory
- Don't reform copyright yet, begs publishers' body
- 70 London 999 calls lost due to clock-change IT glitch
- IBM, Actifio to help wannabe providers take on cloud giants
| Microsoft claims Google bypassed its browser privacy too Posted: 20 Feb 2012 02:26 PM PST P3P policy flaw gave automatic accessMicrosoft has released data showing that Google has been bypassing the user-defined privacy settings in Internet Explorer by using incorrect P3P identification terms.… |
| Squirrelled away: seeds survive 30,000-year winter Posted: 20 Feb 2012 02:00 PM PST Russian permafrost yields up a secretAbout 30,000 years ago, a squirrel saved some fruits in a burrow that was frozen over, and stayed that way ever since. Now, Russian scientists have not only recovered the seeds – they've grown viable plants from them.… |
| Australians like the NBN: poll Posted: 20 Feb 2012 01:30 PM PST Gaining ground again after slumpThe campaign against Australia's National Broadband Network appears to be losing ground, with a poll by Essential Research showing growing support for the government's infrastructure project.… |
| Pakistani military building PAC-PAD fondleslab Posted: 20 Feb 2012 12:21 PM PST Android tablet comes with military stampThe Pakistani military has been using spare manufacturing capacity to build an Android fondleslab to go up against Apple's dominant tablet.…
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| Exascale by 2018: Crazy ...or possible? Posted: 20 Feb 2012 11:06 AM PST It may take a few years longer, but not too manyHPC blog I recently saw some estimates that show we should hit exascale supercomputer performance by around 2018. That seems a bit ambitious – if not stunningly optimistic – and the search to get some perspective led me on an hours-long meander through supercomputing history, plus what I like to call "Fun With Spreadsheets."… |
| Panasonic to take on LG with passive 3D TV Posted: 20 Feb 2012 10:07 AM PST iPad-like LCD tech in play tooPanasonic is to launch a passive 3D TV in a bid to compete with LG's punter pulling models.… |
| SmarTone lets users cancel all-you-can-eat contracts Posted: 20 Feb 2012 09:29 AM PST Operator tries to put unlimited tariff fiasco to bedHong Kong network giant SmarTone has decided to allow customers who signed up to new mobile contracts before 13 February to have them rescinded, as the fallout of its handling of new regulations governing unlimited contracts continues.… |
| Panasonic to include trackpad remotes with top-end TVs Posted: 20 Feb 2012 09:26 AM PST App alternative for smartphone ownersPanasonic was keen to tout its updated smartphone remote control for its new Viera TVs at its annual European Convention today but it was its touchpad-equipped remote units that caught our eye.… |
| French National Front woos internet pirates Posted: 20 Feb 2012 08:58 AM PST Extreme right backs music tax alternative to HadopiThe leader of the French National Front party, Marine Le Pen, wants Hadopi scrapped and replaced with a blanket licence to compensate creative industries. The extreme right party's freetard-friendly gambit has caused the Socialists, who also oppose Hadopi, to rethink their policies.… |
| Panasonic outs dual-core Euro-centric Android phone Posted: 20 Feb 2012 08:53 AM PST Eluga caviar?Panasonic today showed off its upcoming smartphone - it's first for Europe - the Android-based Eluga.… |
| Fujitsu tempts Europe to splash cash on waterproof mobes Posted: 20 Feb 2012 08:28 AM PST Hopes quirky phones and slabs will swim rather than sinkMWC Japanese firm Fujitsu is gearing up to launch its smartphones and tablets in Europe, taking on incumbents Apple and Samsung.… |
| Security biz scoffs at Apple's anti-Trojan Gatekeeper Posted: 20 Feb 2012 07:58 AM PST Apple dev ghetto fears - plus it only probes executablesSecurity watchers are expressing reservations about whitelisting security that Apple plans to integrate with OS X Mountain Lion this summer.…
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| Valve responds to Half-Life 3 grumbles Posted: 20 Feb 2012 07:45 AM PST Gordon Freeman gets bakedValve has responded to demand for Half-Life 3 information, claiming to have its games more "baked" before any announcements are made.… |
| Unions: MoD 'mad to fire staff while increasing consultant spending' Posted: 20 Feb 2012 07:39 AM PST Calculator says no – but watch the colonelsAnalysis UK public-sector unions say that revelations of what the Ministry of Defence (MoD) spends on specialist consultants show that current plans to fire tens of thousands of staff will lead to increased expenditure. Could they be right?… |
| Pirate Bay AND its users violate labels' copyright - judge Posted: 20 Feb 2012 07:26 AM PST High Court ruling paves way for web blockA High Court judge has ruled that notorious file-sharing website The Pirate Bay and its users violated the copyrights of nine record labels based in the UK.… |
| Microsoft holds peace talks after Hyper-V booted from OpenStack Posted: 20 Feb 2012 06:58 AM PST Keen to get 'dead wood' hypervisor back on Linux cloudsMicrosoft is in talks for its Windows hypervisor to be readmitted to the Linux-for-the-cloud project OpenStack.… |
| Apple goes to European Commission with complaint about Motorola Posted: 20 Feb 2012 06:37 AM PST Tell Moto it can't use standards-essential patents that way, dad ...Apple has lodged a complaint with the European Commission over Motorola Mobility's use of standards-essential patents in lawsuits with the fruity firm.… |
| Brit sat biz Inmarsat owed $56m by ailing LightSquared Posted: 20 Feb 2012 06:18 AM PST Hard-up mobile broadband dreamers can't use sold spectrumFailed cellular disrupter LightSquared owes $56.25m (£35.46m) to UK operation Inmarsat for 10MHz of radio spectrum that the FCC won't let LS use.…
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| Google plots Chrome web password maker Posted: 20 Feb 2012 06:01 AM PST How the secrets are stored and recovered is another matterGoogle is developing a password-generating tool that will bolt into its Chrome browser.… |
| LOHAN flashes fantastical flying truss Posted: 20 Feb 2012 05:38 AM PST Experimental Vulture 2 launch platformIt's taken us a while, and a not inconsiderable amount of head-scratching, but we've finally come up with a design for the Low Orbit Helium Assisted Navigator (LOHAN) launch platform.… |
| UK mobile networks start to phase out Sony Ericsson handsets Posted: 20 Feb 2012 05:22 AM PST Vodafone, Orange don't even stock flagship Xperia Arc SBritish mobile networks have been quietly dropping Sony Ericsson handsets, a sign that the brand is en route to a swift exit from the market. The buyout and forthcoming rebrand as Sony could rekindle demand for the phones, but in the meantime, the Sony phones made during its marriage with Swedish company Ericsson are off the shelves.… |
| Eric Schmidt to cash in $1.45bn Google shares Posted: 20 Feb 2012 05:03 AM PST A little something for the rainy day fundGoogle chairman Eric Schmidt plans to sell off $1.45bn (£914m) shares in the company - a move that represents his biggest annual disposal in the company.… |
| Brazilians unveil Microsoft SkyDrive's secret – revealing pics Posted: 20 Feb 2012 04:46 AM PST |
| Huawei pumps $6bn sweetener into US biz trio Posted: 20 Feb 2012 04:29 AM PST Qualcomm, Avago and Broadcom land contractsChinese telecoms equipment maker Huawei has taken its turn at cementing US-Sino relations by announcing contracts worth $6bn with California OEMs Qualcomm, Broadcom and Avago - and reckons this will create tens of thousands of job "opportunities" in the States.… |
| Foursquare ousted? Google sneaks out Latitude leader boards Posted: 20 Feb 2012 04:14 AM PST No mayoral frippery, green stars will be your only rewardOver the weekend Google has tweaked its location-sharing Latitude product to enable checking in, following the trend which has failed to make money for Foursquare or Facebook.… |
| iPad 3 chip leak squeaks dual-core tweaks Posted: 20 Feb 2012 04:11 AM PST A5X logic board spiedApple's next tablet offering will feature a dual-core A5X system-on-a-chip, if snaps of a supposed iPad 3 logic board that surfaced on-line are anything to go by.… |
| Posted: 20 Feb 2012 04:05 AM PST Cost-conscious callerReview When Nokia announced its three new Asha budget phones in October they didn't attract much attention alongside the WinPho 7 handsets that were punted by the company at the same time.… |
| Chinese smut site boss gets 10 years in the slammer Posted: 20 Feb 2012 03:58 AM PST World's strictest web censorship laws try to put Jiarong, er, rightA man in China has been sentenced to 10 years in prison for running a US-hosted porn site as the Communist Party continues its crackdown on illegal content.… |
| Climate models need revising: Droughts, heat waves not such a big deal Posted: 20 Feb 2012 03:43 AM PST 'Not something we expected', say US gov boffinsSo, the world's climate is changing - that's one thing most scientists are indeed agreed on. But what does that actually mean for the future? Could hotter summer temperatures kill off growing plants, leading to runaway atmospheric carbon increases and turning the Earth into a lifeless baking hell?… |
| FTC urged to probe Google's Safari-tracking gaffe Posted: 20 Feb 2012 03:31 AM PST Choc Factory blames Apple's browser 'functionality' for ad slurpGoogle is once again under fire after a Stanford researcher discovered that the search giant and other advertising outfits have circumnavigated the privacy settings of millions of Apple Safari users.…
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| Brit student locked up for Facebook source code hack Posted: 20 Feb 2012 03:14 AM PST Unfriended, unliked, unfreeA British computer science student was jailed for eight months on Friday for hacking into the internal network at Facebook.… |
| Boy died after satnav fault delays ambulance Posted: 20 Feb 2012 03:05 AM PST Could they not have used a map, asks mumA child died after a faulty satnav caused an ambulance to arrive late, a coroner heard last week.… |
| HP's ProLiant Gen8 control freakery Posted: 20 Feb 2012 02:58 AM PST 'So smart they virtually take care of themselves'Look out system administrators: Hewlett-Packard wants to give you more time to play video games or polish up your resumes – or both – with the forthcoming launch of its ProLiant Gen8 servers. .… |
| Samsung spins off loss-making LCD biz Posted: 20 Feb 2012 02:36 AM PST Newly independent telly-maker may slurp OLED unit as wellSamsung Electronics has decided to split off its LCD division into a separate company in the hopes of turning the loss-making business around.… |
| Insight hands UK ops baby to Griffiths – temporarily Posted: 20 Feb 2012 02:19 AM PST Emma de Sousa is taking maternity leaveInsight Direct is handing temporary control of the UK operation to company veteran Justin Griffiths as current incumbent Emma de Sousa goes on maternity leave.… |
| Posted: 20 Feb 2012 02:00 AM PST AirPrint for grown-upsGeek Treat of the Week As far a tech goes, my encounter with the Lantronix xPrintServer was somewhat unusual. This fag packet of a device plumbs into your network and enables an iPhone, iPad or even an iPod Touch to access the local printers, assuming there's a Wi-Fi access point on the same subnet. There's no need to track down an AirPrint compatible printer, as the xPrintServer lets you use grown-up printers in the office or home.… |
| Gov CloudStore opens for business Posted: 20 Feb 2012 01:38 AM PST 255 suppliers named – SMEs bag half the slotsThe Cabinet Office has anointed 255 IT and comms suppliers of all shapes and sizes to sell their wares to public sector punters via the CloudStore – an online catalogue of services.… |
| Upstart startup STT punts big on universal memory Posted: 20 Feb 2012 01:23 AM PST Spin overcomes resistanceVCs are funding resistive RAM startup Spin Transfer Technologies to the tune of 36 million greenbacks so it can start creating its universal memory – combining DRAM speed, flash non-volatility, and breaking NAND scaling limits.… |
| Don't reform copyright yet, begs publishers' body Posted: 20 Feb 2012 01:04 AM PST We want to see whether the Digital Rights Exchange works...The government should not change UK copyright laws until supposed problems with the current framework can be assessed in light of how a new 'digital copyright exchange' (DCE) works, the Publishers Association has said.…
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| 70 London 999 calls lost due to clock-change IT glitch Posted: 20 Feb 2012 12:03 AM PST Emergency calls lost in British Summer Time balls-up last yearThe London Ambulance Service trust has confirmed that more than 70 emergency calls were not visible to staff due to a technical fault caused by a switch from British Summer Time last year.… |
| IBM, Actifio to help wannabe providers take on cloud giants Posted: 19 Feb 2012 11:03 PM PST Thin copying partnershipThere's thin provisioning and there's thin copying, which Actifio provides. IBM likes what it sees and is partnering Actifio with a get-you-into-the-cloud offer for wannabe service providers. The pitch is that you need far less disk storage and fewer storage-specific applications so that you can offer out cloud services while not paying existing storage hardware and software prices.… |
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