New Fedora boss pushes for the clouds

New Fedora boss pushes for the clouds

New Fedora boss pushes for the clouds

Posted: 07 Feb 2012 03:24 PM PST

Robyn Bergeron takes the reins

Red Hat has appointed former Fedora program manager Robyn Bergeron to that distro's next project leader – and she has plans to make the operating system more focused on cloud services.…

Koala food may power US Defence force

Posted: 07 Feb 2012 03:15 PM PST

US Navy bigwig boosting biofuel in Queensland visit

Koalas might soon face a food shortage if the US Department of Defence pursues its interest in Australian research for the creation of biofuels from local flora.…

Global digirati head to Sydney

Posted: 07 Feb 2012 02:45 PM PST

LBI and ZINFI Tech set up shop

New South Wales has attracted two more international digital developers to its burgeoning "Silicon Valley" styled digital economy.…

Will Apple set up shop in Walmart warehouses?

Posted: 07 Feb 2012 02:02 PM PST

Sets sights on middle America

The contrast between Apple's prestige city-centre stores and the Sam's Club warehouse chain – where budget goods are sold straight from the pallet – is sharp. But that's where Apple wants to set up mini stores to sell its gadgets.…

VMware crafts mega-controller for public clouds

Posted: 07 Feb 2012 01:54 PM PST

Easier provisioning for service providers, resellers

If VMware wants service providers to dump Xen and KVM hypervisors, it has to make the job of using the VMware stack easier than the hodgepodge of usually hand-crafted tools that service providers employ and that, to a certain extent, give them their competitive advantage. Or, perhaps in some cases, a competitive disadvantage. So VMware has cooked up a special uber-controller aimed specifically at service providers, called vCloud Integration Manager.…

Spacemen urge NASA to build nuke ship for Mars trip

Posted: 07 Feb 2012 01:19 PM PST

Nuclear rocket engines rise from the dead

Mars has given nuclear spacecraft engines a new lease on life, with nuke ships being named as a top priority – along with electrical propulsion – in a new report that recommends what NASA should focus on in coming years.…

Stratus ruggedizes VMware clouds

Posted: 07 Feb 2012 01:09 PM PST

Fault tolerant appliance for vCenter control freak

Clouds have a single point of failure, and Stratus Technologies thinks it can make it some dough fixing it.…

HP readies next-gen servers for launch

Posted: 07 Feb 2012 12:03 PM PST

Looks like Xeon E5 boxes

Server juggernaut Hewlett-Packard is hosting a shindig in Las Vegas next week with the bigwigs in its server unit, and the speculation is that the company will preview its forthcoming ProLiant G8 servers sporting Intel's "Sandy Bridge-EP" Xeon E5 processors.…

Google adds Chrome finish to Android

Posted: 07 Feb 2012 11:33 AM PST

Ice Cream Sandwich users only, sadly

Google has announced a beta version of its increasingly popular Chrome browser for Android users, but only if you're on the most current build, version 4.0, dubbed Ice Cream Sandwich.…

NetApp slaps down Lightning with multi-card flash flush

Posted: 07 Feb 2012 11:29 AM PST

Supports vMotion and DRS

NetApp is developing a server flash storage offering that will include beefy NetApp steak and not just EMC Lightning sizzle, according to insiders in the company.…

Rambus drops $35m for Unity Semiconductor

Posted: 07 Feb 2012 11:01 AM PST

Cash for CMOX

Rambus is spending $35m (£22.13m) in cash to buy Unity Semiconductor and get into the post-NAND memory business.…

Xeround's cloudy MySQL database goes freemium

Posted: 07 Feb 2012 10:42 AM PST

Rejiggers pricing, puffs up on other clouds

Xeround, a startup with experience in making scalable database management systems for telcos and service providers, vaulted itself into the cloudy database business last June with the launch of its eponymous database service running atop Amazon's EC2 service. Now it is tweaking the product's packaging and pricing to make it more appealing to a larger number of customers.…

6,300 wannabe astronauts flood NASA inbox

Posted: 07 Feb 2012 10:30 AM PST

Second-highest number of applications since 1978

NASA has received the second-highest number of astronaut applications ever for the 21st astronaut class when more than 6,300 people signed up to be space invaders.…

Chinese company demands $38m, 'apology' from Apple

Posted: 07 Feb 2012 10:29 AM PST

Convoluted iPad trademark battle grinds on

A Chinese trademark-infringement case against Apple's right to use the name "iPad" that has been rumbling along since October 2010 has taken another turn: the Shenzhen company involved in the imbroglio now wants Cupertino to be levied a $38m fine – and it wants an apology.…

Canonical kicks Kubuntu to the kerb

Posted: 07 Feb 2012 10:03 AM PST

Axed KDE-based Linux distro was biz non-starter

Ubuntu shop Canonical has withdrawn support from development of the KDE-based Kubuntu Linux desktop after seven years for commercial reasons.…

Cloud proves that OldSQL is still cool

Posted: 07 Feb 2012 09:31 AM PST

Relational lives to fight on

Open... and Shut  As the IT world scrambles pell mell into the cloud, veteran vendors like Oracle are having to figure out how to make money in an IT market that is increasingly turning its back on traditional software licensing. While Oracle has faced down challenges to its core database business before from open source, the cloud presents an even thornier problem. If the world wants NoSQL and its ilk, will Oracle be forced to capitulate?…

TRENDnet home security cam flaw exposes thousands

Posted: 07 Feb 2012 09:01 AM PST

Just when you thought you were alone in the bath

TRENDnet has acknowledged a flaw that meant that live feeds from its home security cameras were accessible online without needing a password.…

Google's whack-a-mole Marketplace cleans house again

Posted: 07 Feb 2012 08:44 AM PST

Rovio Mobile, not Rovio MobiIe

Google's reactive policy over content on the Android Marketplace saw dozens of applications popping up overnight with names close enough to the real thing to reel in a mark or two.…

Apple eyes ISPs to sell 'iTV'

Posted: 07 Feb 2012 08:40 AM PST

Canny marketing as World+Dog goes IPTV

Analysis  What are we to make of the claims from moles within Canada's two key telcos that both companies have Apple HD TVs in their labs?…

USER-TRACKING Firefox sparks Mozilla civil war

Posted: 07 Feb 2012 08:19 AM PST

Devs spar over unique identifiers in MetricsDataPing code

Mozilla coders are arguing among themselves about the open-source outfit's Metrics Data Ping project, which was designed to monitor Firefox usage metrics. Several coders in the Mozilla camp have expressed concern about how some developers are proposing the project should collect data from users of the browser.…

Channel body count hits dotcom implosion high

Posted: 07 Feb 2012 08:01 AM PST

Reseller bloodbath in 2011

The channel body count in 2011 reached a high not seen since the dotcom bubble burst, stats from credit reference agency Graydon UK reveal.…

2020: A Press Odyssey – reporter licensing explained

Posted: 07 Feb 2012 07:39 AM PST

Daddy, who's Hugh Grant? Oh, you mean Lord Grant

Sketch  It's 2020, and a schoolgirl is doing her homework.…

Acer sues ex-boss Lanci for shacking up with Lenovo

Posted: 07 Feb 2012 07:16 AM PST

Contract's non-compete clause in question

Acer has sued former president and CEO Gianfranco Lanci amid claims that he breached a non-compete clause by joining rival Lenovo.…

Oracle demands retrial in SAP slurp spat

Posted: 07 Feb 2012 07:02 AM PST

Snubs paltry $272m payout, wants full $1.3bn in damages

Oracle has filed for a retrial in its SAP spat over illegal file downloading, moaning that the reduced damages awarded just aren't enough.…

O2 quietly cans gratis Cloud Wi-Fi connectivity

Posted: 07 Feb 2012 06:54 AM PST

Own-brand hotspots offered instead

O2 has quietly dropped The Cloud from the list of Wi-Fi hotspot aggregators it grants its mobile customers free access to.…

Blighty's PC market fell to its knees in Q4

Posted: 07 Feb 2012 06:43 AM PST

Consumer and biz sales slide, Apple posts growth

The UK PC market shrank by nearly one fifth in the Christmas quarter, suffering the worst decline in half a decade.…

UK's digital policy seized by fanatical bureaucrats, say MPs

Posted: 07 Feb 2012 06:29 AM PST

'Hey... That's OUR job!'

Analysis  The UK government's digital policy has been captured by ideological fanatics at the IPO, Parliament heard today.…

Raspberry Pi ship date slips

Posted: 07 Feb 2012 06:21 AM PST

Crystal trips

Raspberry Pi won't make it into buyers' hands before 20 February and perhaps not until the end of the month, the organisation behind the $25 microcomputer has admitted.…

Google goggles with Terminator HUD 'coming soon'

Posted: 07 Feb 2012 06:01 AM PST

8GB of flash, front-facing cam, voice recog and head-tilting nav

Google is actually working on twitch-responsive sci-fi-style head-up display glasses, according to a report by 9TO5Google. And the new tech apparently includes a cursor that responds to head movements.…

UK.gov's mega-cloud VIP biz list kept under wraps

Posted: 07 Feb 2012 05:41 AM PST

Suppliers find out if they're in the G-Cloud club

Scores of IT suppliers and consultancy firms have made it onto the G-Cloud framework, but government officials are keeping schtum about the names and numbers until a two-week cooling off period passes.…

Conclusive PROOF of human activity causing glacier to VANISH

Posted: 07 Feb 2012 05:17 AM PST

Captain Prat blagger cuffed with hot ice slung in cooler

Even the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has had to walk back on the idea that the world's glaciers will all be gone within decades due to human-caused carbon powered global warming: but news has now emerged showing that in at least one case human action has absolutely indisputably led to the disappearance of large chunks of glacier.…

Hackers spunk 'pcAnywhere source' after negotiation breakdown

Posted: 07 Feb 2012 05:01 AM PST

'Fed posing as Symantec worker' offered $50k to activists

Hacktivists affiliated with Anonymous uploaded what they claim is the source code of Symantec's pcAnywhere software early on Tuesday, following the breakdown of negotiations between the hacking group and "a federal agent posing as a Symantec employee".…

YouView will launch this Spring, says TalkTalk

Posted: 07 Feb 2012 05:01 AM PST

Consumer trials coming

ISP TalkTalk has reiterated its expectation that YouView, the would-be UK standard IPTV platform, will launch this coming Spring.…

Brazil sues Twitter over police checkpoint tweets

Posted: 07 Feb 2012 04:40 AM PST

Threatens $290k fine... daily

Twitter should be more proactive in blocking tweets about police checkpoints, according to the Brazilian Attorney, who reckons a daily fine of R$500,000 ($290,000) will get the company moving.…

Nokia posts 'major' Sym... er... smartphone OS update

Posted: 07 Feb 2012 04:33 AM PST

Belle, end of Symbian?

Nokia may be obsessed with Microsoft's Windows Phone OS, but that hasn't stopped it rolling out the latest version of its other OS, Belle, to a seven handsets.…

Mac OS X ARM port by Apple work experience kid revealed

Posted: 07 Feb 2012 04:21 AM PST

Project sparks non-Intel-powered MacBook rumour fever

A Dutch computer science student's homework has stirred the old rumour that Apple may ditch the Intel platform and power its Macbooks with ARM processors.…

ViewSonic V350 dual Sim Android smartphone

Posted: 07 Feb 2012 04:08 AM PST

For business and pleasure

Review  Every now and again, a brand new product comes along that seems to hark back to days of yore, to a time when things were different. One of those things would be the steam-powered PC, another is the ViewSonic V350 – a smartphone that can work on two networks simultaneously.…

High Street chains vow to play fair on warranties

Posted: 07 Feb 2012 04:02 AM PST

Dixons, Comet and Argos pulled over by OFT

UK retailers have offered a number of concessions after the Office of Fair Trading had a word about their extended warranties on electrical goods.…

Toshiba releases 'world's thinnest' Android tablet

Posted: 07 Feb 2012 03:50 AM PST

Sales limited to a single retailer

Toshiba's 'world's thinnest, lightest' tablet, the AT200 - aka the Excite in the US - goes on sale over here next week.…

Has Microsoft finally killed off Windows 8 Start button?

Posted: 07 Feb 2012 03:44 AM PST

Era of Windows 95 finally over

Microsoft is reportedly killing the Start button in Windows, a staple of Redmond's PC operating system since the landmark Windows 95.…

Parliament ponders £400,000 iPads-for-MPs plan

Posted: 07 Feb 2012 03:35 AM PST

Representatives to get slated

Members of Parliament may soon be issued with an iPad each in a scheme that could cost the tax payer over £400,000.…

Google unleashes 'Solve for X' confabs to save the world

Posted: 07 Feb 2012 03:31 AM PST

Boffins gathered for new TED-like talks

Internet giant Google is once more trying to save the world, this time with its TED-rip-off "Solve for X" project.…

TalkTalk loses 43,000 customers, chunk o' revenue in Q3

Posted: 07 Feb 2012 03:19 AM PST

Better HomeSafe than sorry, telco insists

TalkTalk lost 43,000 broadband customers during the company's third quarter and reported that revenue in that area of the business had fallen year-on-year.…

HTC wants a hug after glum Q1 estimates

Posted: 07 Feb 2012 03:03 AM PST

Under-pressure biz seeks 'emotional connection' with punters

HTC could be in for a spot of bother in 2012 after its Q1 outlook missed analysts' estimates. Commentators suggest the firm may struggle to compete with Apple, Samsung and the wealth of handset manufacturers crowding this increasingly competitive space.…

Beware Freedom of Info law 'privacy folktale' - ICO chief

Posted: 07 Feb 2012 02:42 AM PST

Chicken Lickens in a flap as FOIA scrutinised

Is Blighty's Freedom of Information (FOI) law working?…

Chilli crab scoffing boffins build anti-cancer claw robot

Posted: 07 Feb 2012 02:22 AM PST

New stomach tumour busting gadget inspired by top Asian nosh

The fight against cancer reached a weird new level after Singapore's centuries-old chilli crab dish inspired boffins to build a tumour-removing robot.…

Avast! Mobile Security

Posted: 07 Feb 2012 02:00 AM PST

Prepare to repel boarders

Android App of the Week  The security or lack thereof of the Android platform - real or imagined - is a common topic of conversation at the moment so it seems like a good time to take a look for a comprehensive security app. My preferred choice is Avast!.…

Mac demand helps Apple business bloom in Blighty

Posted: 07 Feb 2012 01:39 AM PST

Rival PC players slump

Apple was the only major computer maker to increase its shipments into the UK PC market during the final three months of 2011.…

N Korea mobile phone subscribers top 1 million

Posted: 07 Feb 2012 01:37 AM PST

No need to be ronery in hardline communist state

Axis of evil North Korea now has a whopping one million mobile phone users some four years after the technology was first introduced in the repressive state.…

Google-hosted blogs to be censored on country-by-country basis

Posted: 07 Feb 2012 01:18 AM PST

But you can work around it with a 'No Country Redirect'

Google will remove content posted on its blogging platform on a country-by-country basis after altering the way the service organises blog posts.…

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