Commbank bakes Kaching into NetBank |
- Commbank bakes Kaching into NetBank
- Big Blue goes terabit with opto transducer
- Speedy 3D printer creates 285µm Formula-1 speedster
- Megaupload boss: Site popular among US government users
- Oracle starts peddling Exalytics in-memory appliance
- How a tiny leap-day miscalculation trashed Microsoft Azure
- Nokia readying Win8 tablet for 2012 release?
- IDC: Big data biz worth $16.9 BILLION by 2015
- New iPads to hit Apple stores on Friday
- if year > 2013 then PC != Personal Computer
- Asus: We are NOT killing off Transformer Prime
- Hackers penetrate smut site, claim to have slurped users' privates
- SafeNet swallows cloud-based authentication firm
- Thousands of Brits bombarded in caller spoofing riddle
- High Court asked to keep 'cheap DVD' VAT loophole open
- EU antitrust bigwig offers Apple, publishers ebook truce
- Windows 8: Thrown into a multi-tasking mosh pit
- Human 4G masts assemble roaming hobonet for pennies
- Legendary artist Moebius dies
- Take your pics: Facebook shuts down Gowalla
- Samsung spanks Apple in world's biggest mobile market
- iPhone tethering app uses HTML5 to defeat Apple's censors
- Nanocapacitor slab to boost car batteries
- Nokia Money shot: Mobile banking service axed
- Jimbo Wales 'to advise Whitehall on transparency'
- Apple resellers left to pick bones of dwindling iPad stocks
- UK cybercops cuff abortion clinic web hack suspect
- Marvel to animate comic action with AR app
- WTF is... White Space radio networking?
- Picture this: Photo-fiddling app Instagram on Google Android
- Game Group shares slide under a penny
- Cambridge student wins 'Hack Idol'
- Apple iPad 3 'retina display' uses Sharp super-high aperture tech
- Dell working on cloudy analytics apps
- Mozilla to drop Windows 8 Firefox bomb on IE 10
- 1,600 pubs and bars to get free Wi-Fi
- Jupiter and Venus get cozy in revealing late-night display
- Council spunks '£100k on how to wash your hands' vid
- Kogeto Dot 360° video lens
- Brocade brags about EASILY bedding campus LAN biz
- Rub Facebook pals in your wealth with 'social' credit card
- That steady diet of EastEnders IS turning her into a shrew
- NHS claws back £1.8bn from IT project fiasco
- China's 4G licenses still years away
- Cyber snoopers target NATO commander in Facebook attack
- The seven types of commentard
- Greenland melt threshold lower than thought
- The challenges of hot rocks and big data
| Commbank bakes Kaching into NetBank Posted: 12 Mar 2012 03:14 PM PDT Apps encourage download and use of wireless payments appWeeks after using free beer and food to promote its Kaching wireless payments app, the Commonwealth Bank has baked it into its iOS banking app.… |
| Big Blue goes terabit with opto transducer Posted: 12 Mar 2012 02:16 PM PDT 'Holey Optochip' sets record for speed and cheesy namesWith the growth of terabit optical systems, the race has been on to shrink their components, so it's no surprise that IBM has attracted attention with its demonstration of the 'Holey Optochip', a single-chip transceiver with terabit per second transfer speeds.… |
| Speedy 3D printer creates 285µm Formula-1 speedster Posted: 12 Mar 2012 01:33 PM PDT Nanoscale engineering just got much fasterScientists at the Vienna Institute of Technology have demonstrated a polymer and laser etching technique that promises to dramatically speed up the printing of tiny 3D objects.… |
| Megaupload boss: Site popular among US government users Posted: 12 Mar 2012 12:25 PM PDT May be tempted to name names in Justice, SenateThe boss of the recently shut-down Megaupload file-sharing site claims that his records show plenty of US government users, including members of the Senate and the Department of Justice.… |
| Oracle starts peddling Exalytics in-memory appliance Posted: 12 Mar 2012 11:16 AM PDT Big data costs big bucksAnalysis Oracle has begun shipping its Exalytics in-memory appliance, and if you are thinking about using one of these devices, you had better brace yourself for an intense negotiation about deep price cuts, as well as writing a big check to Oracle even after you get a good deal. Exalytics ain't cheap.…
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| How a tiny leap-day miscalculation trashed Microsoft Azure Posted: 12 Mar 2012 11:01 AM PDT Redmond drills into cause of eight-hour outageAs soon as Microsoft's cloudy platform Azure crashed to Earth, and stayed there for eight hours, on 29 February, every developer who has ever had to handle dates immediately figured it was a leap-day bug.… |
| Nokia readying Win8 tablet for 2012 release? Posted: 12 Mar 2012 10:58 AM PDT Finnish phone folks to dip tiny toe in tablet marketThe long-rumored Nokia Windows 8 tablet is set to debut in the fourth quarter of this year, according to the Taiwanese market-watchers at DigiTimes.… |
| IDC: Big data biz worth $16.9 BILLION by 2015 Posted: 12 Mar 2012 10:22 AM PDT Up from $3.2bn in 2010 ...How big is the big data business? That depends on how you dice and slice it.… |
| New iPads to hit Apple stores on Friday Posted: 12 Mar 2012 10:13 AM PDT But they're not in the back room, m'kay?Staff at Apple's Covent Garden store confirmed that they will have the new iPads in the shop first thing on Friday morning, despite pre-orders clearing out piles of the slabs.… |
| if year > 2013 then PC != Personal Computer Posted: 12 Mar 2012 10:07 AM PDT Personal Cloud will be your digital hub insteadThe abbreviation 'PC' will soon no longer stand for 'Personal Computer', but 'Personal Cloud'. Come 2014, the latter will be where consumers keep their digital content, not the former.… |
| Asus: We are NOT killing off Transformer Prime Posted: 12 Mar 2012 10:01 AM PDT It's just that availability has been pantsAsus has not placed the Eee Pad Transformer Prime on the scrap-heap just yet, but availability has been so poor that channel folk can be forgiven for thinking it had been killed off, the vendor has admitted.…
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| Hackers penetrate smut site, claim to have slurped users' privates Posted: 12 Mar 2012 09:43 AM PDT Used to be my Digital PlaygroundHackers claim to have made off credit card records and other personal information after mounting a smash-and-grab raid on porn site Digital Playground.… |
| SafeNet swallows cloud-based authentication firm Posted: 12 Mar 2012 09:17 AM PDT Cloudy Cryptocard acquisition for cash rain...SafeNet has bought UK-based cloud-based authentication firm Cryptocard. Financial terms of the deal, announced Monday, were not disclosed.… |
| Thousands of Brits bombarded in caller spoofing riddle Posted: 12 Mar 2012 09:02 AM PDT Small biz blamed for silent calls at 2amThousands of Brits were tormented by nuisance calls after West Midlands businesses were caught up in a caller ID spoofing blitz.… |
| High Court asked to keep 'cheap DVD' VAT loophole open Posted: 12 Mar 2012 08:28 AM PDT Judicial review begins this weekThe English High Court will tomorrow begin an investigation to determine whether online retailers should be allowed to avoid paying VAT on CDs, DVDs and Blu-ray Discs.… |
| EU antitrust bigwig offers Apple, publishers ebook truce Posted: 12 Mar 2012 08:27 AM PDT But only if sacrifices are madeThe EU is willing to consider settling its differences with ebook publishers and Apple if they're willing to make some sacrifices, the European Commission's antitrust chief said.… |
| Windows 8: Thrown into a multi-tasking mosh pit Posted: 12 Mar 2012 08:02 AM PDT Ribbon rescue rope too slippery to climbSysadmin blog Does Windows 8 improve upon Windows 7 for the use cases that my real world customers and users demonstrate? After a week of tinkering with the consumer preview, the answer is far from simple.…
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| Human 4G masts assemble roaming hobonet for pennies Posted: 12 Mar 2012 07:43 AM PDT Homeless bods strapped to wireless kit at Texas bashSXSW An advertising agency has broken boundaries by attaching 4G gear to homeless people and encouraging them to roam around the SXSW festival while radiating data packets.… |
| Posted: 12 Mar 2012 07:39 AM PDT Sci-fi loses another visionaryThe world of sci-fi is in mourning after legendary French cult artist 'Moebius' died following a long battle with cancer.… |
| Take your pics: Facebook shuts down Gowalla Posted: 12 Mar 2012 07:17 AM PDT Location service checks outSXSW Facebook have shuttered the check-in location service Gowalla three months after acquiring it. The Gowalla site is displaying a notice thanking users for "going out" with the service – and offering users the option to download their photos and check-ins.… |
| Samsung spanks Apple in world's biggest mobile market Posted: 12 Mar 2012 07:01 AM PDT iPhone maker snubs 650m Chinese puntersApple's efforts to dominate the largest mobile market in the world are being frustrated by old foe Samsung and its own stubborn refusal to bring out a 3G device compatible with market-leading network China Mobile.… |
| iPhone tethering app uses HTML5 to defeat Apple's censors Posted: 12 Mar 2012 06:38 AM PDT Pushing web language to the limitA Wi-Fi tethering application for the iPhone has managed to bypass Apple's restrictions on such apps by doing the whole thing in HTML5 - and charging for it too.… |
| Nanocapacitor slab to boost car batteries Posted: 12 Mar 2012 06:20 AM PDT Oz company hopes to cash in on green 'stop-start' car plansAustralian company CAP-XX has announced a supercapacitor module for cars that it hopes will take a load off chemical batteries.…
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| Nokia Money shot: Mobile banking service axed Posted: 12 Mar 2012 06:02 AM PDT World domination plans crumble under boot of realityNokia is axing its banking service in India, the only place it was ever launched, as the company continues to scale back to focus on selling mobile phones.… |
| Jimbo Wales 'to advise Whitehall on transparency' Posted: 12 Mar 2012 05:47 AM PDT Foxes to advise on henhouse securityIn what may prove to be a political gift to Labour, Wikipedia's spiritual leader Jimmy "Jimbo" Wales has been hired to advise Whitehall on openness and transparency.… |
| Apple resellers left to pick bones of dwindling iPad stocks Posted: 12 Mar 2012 05:46 AM PDT Demand 'off the charts' says channel bully boyApple has run out of iPads stocks worldwide, before the third-generation slab of fondling loveliness has even hit store shelves.… |
| UK cybercops cuff abortion clinic web hack suspect Posted: 12 Mar 2012 05:32 AM PDT Info leak threat after site vandalisedCybercrime cops have arrested a bloke suspected of hacking into and defacing the website of Britain's largest abortion provider.… |
| Marvel to animate comic action with AR app Posted: 12 Mar 2012 05:21 AM PDT Kerplow! Splat! out of your phone's screenMarvel has jumped on the augmented reality bandwagon with an app that brings panels in its paper comics to life on a handset's screen.… |
| WTF is... White Space radio networking? Posted: 12 Mar 2012 05:00 AM PDT Channel surfingFeature 2012 will be the year White Space radio starts delivering networks of unprecedented speed and range, but if it works then White Space will also change how radio is used across the spectrum.… |
| Picture this: Photo-fiddling app Instagram on Google Android Posted: 12 Mar 2012 04:33 AM PDT 27 million punters is not enoughiPhone photo tinting app Instagram has bagged 27 million users and will release an Android app "very soon", CEO-founder Kevin Systrom said at SXSW.…
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| Game Group shares slide under a penny Posted: 12 Mar 2012 04:18 AM PDT End nigh for High Street retailer?High street retailer Game has put itself up for sale after shares plunged to a penny this morning amid concern over the company's future.… |
| Cambridge student wins 'Hack Idol' Posted: 12 Mar 2012 04:17 AM PDT Teen grabs trophy after 6-month challengeUpdated A 19-year-old computer science student has been named the UK's Cyber Security Champion following months of competition.… |
| Apple iPad 3 'retina display' uses Sharp super-high aperture tech Posted: 12 Mar 2012 04:05 AM PDT Pixels too muddy without itWhat's the secret behind squeezing four times as many pixels into the same iPad screen area as Apple's display suppliers managed with the previous model and making it look better? A technology called "Super High Aperture", apparently.… |
| Dell working on cloudy analytics apps Posted: 12 Mar 2012 04:01 AM PDT Survey says SMBs want one SaaS throat to chokeIf you have a multi-billion dollar business selling servers and PCs directly to small and medium businesses, what happens when companies start shifting some of their computing needs to the cloud? You shift from being a manufacturer of IT gear to being a maker of cloudy systems and applications and a reseller of cloudy wares where you don't have products.… |
| Mozilla to drop Windows 8 Firefox bomb on IE 10 Posted: 12 Mar 2012 03:39 AM PDT One browser to straddle Metro and classic UIsThe Mozilla Foundation has started work on a Firefox port that will run in the Windows 8 classic desktop and the tablet-friendly Metro user interfaces.… |
| 1,600 pubs and bars to get free Wi-Fi Posted: 12 Mar 2012 03:23 AM PDT O2's shoutYes, Mitchells & Butlers does sound like a comedy duo or a brand up up-market smokes, but it's actually the owner of a string of eateries that O2 will be equipping with gratis Wi-Fi.… |
| Jupiter and Venus get cozy in revealing late-night display Posted: 12 Mar 2012 03:21 AM PDT Red Planet also makes an appearanceBe prepared to hear a lot of irritating New Age chatter about the planets being in alignment over the next few days, because some of them actually will be.… |
| Council spunks '£100k on how to wash your hands' vid Posted: 12 Mar 2012 03:19 AM PDT Outraged Telegraph administers West Sussex a righteous shoeingWest Sussex County Council is taking a bit of a shoeing down at the Telegraph for allegedly spending £100,000 on a video showing people how to wash their hands.…
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| Posted: 12 Mar 2012 03:00 AM PDT For iPhone panoramic video shootsGeek Treat of the Week If you've ever dabbled in the world of panoramic photography and tried to stitch images together so that they form a virtual reality movie, you'll know, frankly, what a pain in the backside it can be.… |
| Brocade brags about EASILY bedding campus LAN biz Posted: 12 Mar 2012 02:32 AM PDT Simplified networks package anticipates smartphone data delugeBrocade is baking new campus LAN products with its HyperEdge technology providing mix-'n'-match edge switch stacking and single point management.… |
| Rub Facebook pals in your wealth with 'social' credit card Posted: 12 Mar 2012 02:02 AM PDT Citibank ticks Web 2.0 boxes for moneybagsThose who don't feel they're sharing enough can now sign up for a Citibank Clear.24.7 card, linked to their Facebook account and earning awesome badges of recognition.… |
| That steady diet of EastEnders IS turning her into a shrew Posted: 12 Mar 2012 01:28 AM PDT Study shows soap operas trigger aggression in womenJust as the viewing of violent movies or videogames can turn people nasty, so it seems that hours spent watching angry fictional drama protagonists cheating, bullying, deceiving and shouting at one another will also have evil effects.… |
| NHS claws back £1.8bn from IT project fiasco Posted: 12 Mar 2012 01:01 AM PDT CSC in cash-back deal with Department of HealthThe government has reached an agreement for a reduction in its contract with CSC, the largest supplier to the now-defunct National Programme for IT (NPfIT). The total saving for the Department of Health (DH) from NPfIT will now be approximately £1.8bn.… |
| China's 4G licenses still years away Posted: 11 Mar 2012 10:02 PM PDT Long road ahead for the base station buildersIt might have close to one billion mobile subscribers but China's 4G network infrastructure won't be ready for another two or three years, according to a government official.…
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| Cyber snoopers target NATO commander in Facebook attack Posted: 11 Mar 2012 09:21 PM PDT China blamed againNATO's most senior military official has come under a concerted cyber attack from hackers believed to be operating from the People's Republic of China.… |
| Posted: 11 Mar 2012 08:59 PM PDT Researchers say labels beyond 'lurker' and 'contributor' neededThrow out your old definition of online communities as comprised only of lurkers and |
| Greenland melt threshold lower than thought Posted: 11 Mar 2012 04:30 PM PDT Ice could disappear with half as much warming: studySpanish and German scientists have have alarmed the international environmental community with modeling suggesting that Greenland's ice sheets could disappear at lower temperatures than previously thought.… |
| The challenges of hot rocks and big data Posted: 11 Mar 2012 04:00 PM PDT Interview: NICTA CEO, Hugh Durrant-WhyteOf all the alternative energy proposals suggested for Australia, geothermal is probably the least-understood in the public mind.… |
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