NetApp reveals Exadata backup plan |
- NetApp reveals Exadata backup plan
- Apple to Google Maps: ‘Get lost’
- Flying Spaghetti Monster's works spotted in space
- NASA: The future of space is public/private partnerships
- NICTA mines for hot rocks
- Microsoft talking turkey with OnLive over Office to iPad
- Solar storm arrives, nobody notices
- NOAA picks IBM for supercomputer storm chasing
- Microsoft rolls over as Uniloc wins decade-long war
- HD glitch for Apple TV punters
- Tim Cook's post-PC iPad domination dream crushed by reality
- 'The new iPad' selling out at AT&T
- Lenovo recalls 160,000 all-in-one PCs after blaze warning
- <i>Titanic</i> director James Cameron prepares for deep sea dive
- Cisco outs third gen UCS blades and racks
- 3D: 10% of LCD TVs in 2011, 25% in 2012
- SECRET of the flashing Amazon jungle Drobo EXPLAINED
- Elgato's Thunderbolt SSD goes on sale
- Microsoft tech turns any object into a touchscreen
- US Justice Department threatens Apple and publishers with court battle
- World's Raspberry Pi supply jammed in factory blunder
- Researchers find MYSTERY programming language in Duqu Trojan
- Orange 3G data network goes titsup
- Job-seeking IT pro? Head for China
- Pollster charts rise and rise of the e-book reader
- New iPad: Crack open your wallets, fanbois, here's what it'll cost
- Stratfor email hackers were tricked into using Feds' server
- SOPA poked an angry bear and set it loose on the net
- Netflix lets Apple TV owners subscribe on screen
- NASA to blast 5 rockets in 5 min in jet stream test
- SUPERCOMPUTERS vs <i>your</i> computer in bang-for-buck battle
- Virgin TiVo iPad app out in September
- Anonymous takes down Vatican website
- Renault Mégane 265 Trophy 2.0 turbo
- Web 2.0 cash wad surge spunked on telly ads in UK
- IBM shines light on terabit-per-second optical chip
- Telefonica flashes cash, jangles office keys to lure UK startups
- New iPad 4G data connection will only work in America
- Banks toss $8bn into Facebook's lap ahead of IPO
- Chinese tech firms fingered for military collaboration
- Proview demands 'new iPad' sales halt in China
- Hands on with the Apple iPad 3
- Poynt
- Crims fall back on old-school cons to avoid anti-fraud tech
- Ofcom supremo dreams of filling WORLD'S cracks
- Top Brit authors turn flamethrowers on barmy IPO
- <strong>[<abbr title="Not Safe For Work">NSFW</abbr>]</strong> Lingerie-clad she-devils romp past watchdog
- Inside Sony's Home Entertainment HQ in Japan
- Australia considers national digital archive
- Disaster preparation gamified for Oz kids
| NetApp reveals Exadata backup plan Posted: 08 Mar 2012 03:24 PM PST Exadata users want more than Oracle backupNetApp has quietly announced, through its blogs and user community, a backup solution for Oracle's Exadata appliances.… |
| Apple to Google Maps: ‘Get lost’ Posted: 08 Mar 2012 02:45 PM PST iPhoto geo-tagging switched to OpenStreetMapThanks heavens it's only for photo-tagging: Apple has tossed yet another gauntlet onto the ground in its ongoing spat with Google, dropping Google Maps out of iPhoto for iOS and opting for OpenStreetMap instead.… |
| Flying Spaghetti Monster's works spotted in space Posted: 08 Mar 2012 02:45 PM PST Boffins find noodly galactic gas filamentsAstrophysicists have found that galaxies can produce tails of "filamentary structures" with a noodle-like appearance.…
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| NASA: The future of space is public/private partnerships Posted: 08 Mar 2012 02:41 PM PST Google and others dream of heading to the starsThe future of space exploration is going to be dependent on a mix of public and private money, and it's likely that the first Mars colonization missions will be commercial operations.… |
| Posted: 08 Mar 2012 02:30 PM PST Big data set to down tools for geothermal activityDrills are set to be dumped for sophisticated data analytics in a $AU5 million initiative featuring geothermal university experts from across four states working with Australian research facility NICTA, in the pursuit of geothermal energy targets.… |
| Microsoft talking turkey with OnLive over Office to iPad Posted: 08 Mar 2012 02:21 PM PST Strangle VDI at birth or tax it?Microsoft has said it is "actively engaged" in discussions over licensing terms with OnLive over its service streaming Office to iPads.… |
| Solar storm arrives, nobody notices Posted: 08 Mar 2012 02:00 PM PST 'Spin' deceived forecastersIf you notice the complete absence of global catastrophe, it's because the solar storm that arrived after this week's series of eruptions from the Sun only struck the Earth a glancing blow.… |
| NOAA picks IBM for supercomputer storm chasing Posted: 08 Mar 2012 01:21 PM PST Power out, Xeon inUpdated The server executives at Big Blue are probably breathing a bit easier now that the company managed to survive a competitive bidding process on a monster supercomputer contract at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the climate modeling arm of the US Department of Commerce. As a result, IBM has the potential to reap $502m in rewards building and supporting supercomputers for NOAA through 2021, if all the contract provisions are extended and activated.…
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| Microsoft rolls over as Uniloc wins decade-long war Posted: 08 Mar 2012 01:19 PM PST Oz David bags Redmond GoliathUniloc, the Australian software developer that has been embroiled in a decade long legal battle with Microsoft over copyright infringement, has reached settlement terms with its bete noir.… |
| HD glitch for Apple TV punters Posted: 08 Mar 2012 09:58 AM PST A lawyer has just rung CupertinoHBO isn't giving up its box seat for anybody – not even Apple.… |
| Tim Cook's post-PC iPad domination dream crushed by reality Posted: 08 Mar 2012 09:37 AM PST Gartner reckons 400 million desktops will shift in 2013Despite Tim Cook's declaration that we live in a post-PC world as he presented the new iPad to the world, analysts at Gartner forecast that demand for PCs will accelerate in the next two years.… |
| 'The new iPad' selling out at AT&T Posted: 08 Mar 2012 09:27 AM PST White guys in short supplyIf you're planning to preorder your "The new iPad", you better get cracking – some models of Apple's revamped "magical and revolutionary" fondleslab are already on backorder.… |
| Lenovo recalls 160,000 all-in-one PCs after blaze warning Posted: 08 Mar 2012 09:08 AM PST Potentially incendiary ThinkCentres must come backLenovo wants punters to send back a grand total of 160,000 ThinkCentre all-in-one desktop PCs because the machines' power supplies might overheat and burst into flames.… |
| <i>Titanic</i> director James Cameron prepares for deep sea dive Posted: 08 Mar 2012 09:07 AM PST Filmmaker to plummet to the deepest point in the oceanJames Cameron, the man behind water-logged blockbusters like Titanic and The Abyss, has announced his intention to dive alone to the deepest point in the ocean in the next few weeks and bring back some of the alien creatures that live there.…
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| Cisco outs third gen UCS blades and racks Posted: 08 Mar 2012 08:48 AM PST California dreamingWhen Intel launched its "transformational" "Nehalem-EP" Xeon 5500 processors for two-socket boxes three years ago, Cisco Systems picked that moment to jump into the server racket and got pole position on the announcements. It's three years on now and while Cisco is not yet a tier-one server maker, it has built a business with a $1.3bn annual run rate and now 11,000 customers and has to be taken seriously. And, it can lay back a day or two and wait for the roar to die down about a new Intel processor to talk about its new machines that make use of it.… |
| 3D: 10% of LCD TVs in 2011, 25% in 2012 Posted: 08 Mar 2012 08:36 AM PST Passive catching up with activeStill think 3D TVs are popular? We hate to say it, but only ten per cent of LCD TV panels that shipped in 2011 were 3D capable.… |
| SECRET of the flashing Amazon jungle Drobo EXPLAINED Posted: 08 Mar 2012 08:34 AM PST Data-hungry daemon came from the cloudsDrobo, the stylish desktop and small rackable storage box supplier, is finally adding flash drives to its rack-mounted box plus Amazon cloud storage for backup.… |
| Elgato's Thunderbolt SSD goes on sale Posted: 08 Mar 2012 08:09 AM PST External SSD shuns USB 3.0TV tuner specialist Elgato's surprise foray into storage goes on sale this week.… |
| Microsoft tech turns any object into a touchscreen Posted: 08 Mar 2012 08:04 AM PST Projector-cum-detectorMicrosoft's research team has revealed a shoulder-mounted projector-cum-detector that can turn any surface in front of you into a gesture-sensitive display.… |
| US Justice Department threatens Apple and publishers with court battle Posted: 08 Mar 2012 08:02 AM PST Alleges firms conspired to push ebook prices upThe US Justice Department has warned Apple and five big publishing houses that they may be seeing the inside of a courtroom for allegedly inflating the prices of ebooks if they can't settle the issue between themselves.… |
| World's Raspberry Pi supply jammed in factory blunder Posted: 08 Mar 2012 07:24 AM PST Unprotected network jacks spark delay fearsShipments of the long-awaited and heavily fought over Raspberry Pi boards could be delayed thanks to a manufacturing cock-up.…
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| Researchers find MYSTERY programming language in Duqu Trojan Posted: 08 Mar 2012 07:02 AM PST Anti-virus boffins appeal to devs for helpSecurity researchers are appealing for help after discovering that part of the Duqu Trojan was written in an unknown programming language.… |
| Orange 3G data network goes titsup Posted: 08 Mar 2012 06:49 AM PST Fault stretches from Glasgow to Bristol, at leastSome Orange customers are without data at the moment as a network fault of some sort has knocked out 3G across the country - and the cause isn't known.… |
| Job-seeking IT pro? Head for China Posted: 08 Mar 2012 06:28 AM PST But you'll probably need to speak the lingo, recruiter warnsChina's explosive economic growth has led to a boom in job opportunities for ex-pat IT managers who fancy a new challenge, although the market remains intolerant of those without the requisite language skills or cultural know-how, according to a leading recruiter.… |
| Pollster charts rise and rise of the e-book reader Posted: 08 Mar 2012 06:17 AM PST But is the boom coming to an end?Nearly a third of adults in the US now read books on a tablet or e-book readers.… |
| New iPad: Crack open your wallets, fanbois, here's what it'll cost Posted: 08 Mar 2012 06:02 AM PST 659 quid for top-price fondleslab in BlightyThe new iPad that was revealed to feverish fanbois last night in San Fran will be on UK shelves in about a week's time - 16 March. Yes, Brits, you can pre-order one now, or grab a sleeping bag and start making your way to Regent Street.… |
| Stratfor email hackers were tricked into using Feds' server Posted: 08 Mar 2012 05:36 AM PST Spotlight on source of WikiLeaks' filesWikiLeaks – and Julian Assange – could get caught up in the investigation into the LulzSec takedown saga because it published the internal emails of Stratfor, the private global intelligence firm that was attacked by Anonymous hackers, it has emerged.…
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| SOPA poked an angry bear and set it loose on the net Posted: 08 Mar 2012 05:01 AM PST Free Ride author Rob Levine on copyright and WikipediaInterview I'm not defending greedy bastard corporations, says author Rob Levine, and you don't have to either. But we need something better than a broken digital economy.… |
| Netflix lets Apple TV owners subscribe on screen Posted: 08 Mar 2012 04:51 AM PST Cough up through iTunes tooWhen Apple ships the new Apple TV on 16 March, owners of the small set-top box will be able to sign up for Netflix on screen and pay for the subscription streaming service through their iTunes account.… |
| NASA to blast 5 rockets in 5 min in jet stream test Posted: 08 Mar 2012 04:43 AM PST Turbulence-mapping will light up night skyNASA is planning to light up the night sky in the next month, sending five rockets at the same time to the edge of space to find out more about the jet stream winds that circle the planet.… |
| SUPERCOMPUTERS vs <i>your</i> computer in bang-for-buck battle Posted: 08 Mar 2012 04:33 AM PST iPad 2 pwns Cray-2? Wife's desktop beats all?HPC blog A couple of weeks ago I posted a blog here (Exascale by 2018: Crazy...or possible?) that looked at how long it took the industry to hit noteworthy HPC milestones. Chatter in the comments section (aside from the guy who assailed me for a typo, and for not explicitly calling out 'per second' denotations) discussed what these massive systems do and why they're necessary.… |
| Virgin TiVo iPad app out in September Posted: 08 Mar 2012 04:30 AM PST Long gestationVirgin Media will finally release its long-promised TiVo-tapping app for the iPad in September, the cableco's CEO has revealed.… |
| Anonymous takes down Vatican website Posted: 08 Mar 2012 04:17 AM PST This one's for the kids, and, er, selling indulgences in the Middle AgesItalian hackers affiliated with hacktivist collective Anonymous pushed the Vatican's website offline last night. The hack was in "retribution" for the child abuse scandals in the Catholic Church and Vatican-endorsed acts going back thousands of years, the group claimed in a message.… |
| Renault Mégane 265 Trophy 2.0 turbo Posted: 08 Mar 2012 04:00 AM PST Tuned to perfection |
| Web 2.0 cash wad surge spunked on telly ads in UK Posted: 08 Mar 2012 03:47 AM PST Ad revenues grew in 2011 thanks to Google and chumsTV advert spending went up in the UK last year, fuelled partly by telly slots bought by web firms that mostly make their money from online advertising.…
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| IBM shines light on terabit-per-second optical chip Posted: 08 Mar 2012 03:46 AM PST The hole truthNeed to get a lot of data - and I mean a lot of data - around your system? Look no further than this new chip from IBM: a part capable of shifting one trillion bits every second.… |
| Telefonica flashes cash, jangles office keys to lure UK startups Posted: 08 Mar 2012 03:34 AM PST They're only in it for the moneyTelefonica will provide offices on Tottenham Court Road to 20 startups, along with funding of up to €50,000 (£41.8k), pushing entrepreneurs to develop ideas, but mostly to make more money.… |
| New iPad 4G data connection will only work in America Posted: 08 Mar 2012 03:14 AM PST UK's Freeview TV, existing 3G squat on slab's LTE freqsOne of the main new features in Apple's just-announced third iPad is 4G mobile networking: but keen fanbois planning to purchase it should note that the new fondleslab will only be able to achieve 4G connection in North America for the foreseeable future. Even in the States it won't be able to change networks.… |
| Banks toss $8bn into Facebook's lap ahead of IPO Posted: 08 Mar 2012 03:01 AM PST Not worried that FB's coughed to having fake usersFacebook has admitted that some of its 845 million accounts might be fake or duplicated user identities, but that doesn't seem to be worrying the banks since they have doubled the social network's loans to $8bn to take care of its market debut.… |
| Chinese tech firms fingered for military collaboration Posted: 08 Mar 2012 02:43 AM PST US defence report alleges firms help army's R&DThe People's Liberation Army is actively arming and developing its soldiers with advanced information warfare capabilities which would represent a "genuine risk" to US military operations in the event of a conflict, a new report has alleged.… |
| Proview demands 'new iPad' sales halt in China Posted: 08 Mar 2012 02:19 AM PST And before Apple's even announced a launch dateAiling monitor biz Proview has done its best to spoil the third-gen iPad party by ordering Chinese distributors to not sell the shiny new tablet due to Apple's unresolved trademark dispute with the firm.…
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| Hands on with the Apple iPad 3 Posted: 08 Mar 2012 02:11 AM PST We fondle the new fondleslabFirst look Last night, Apple CEO Tim Cook revealed the company's latest tablet. It's the new iPad, folks. And this year it's just called "the new iPad", not iPad 3 or iPad HD. To some, it means that 2011's model, the iPad 2, sounds newer than the latest, 2012 one. But more important than the name, should you buy one?… |
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| Crims fall back on old-school cons to avoid anti-fraud tech Posted: 08 Mar 2012 01:29 AM PST Cheque, telephone banking swindles soarCrims are returning to more traditional cheque and telephone banking fraud techniques according to stats from the UK Card Association.… |
| Ofcom supremo dreams of filling WORLD'S cracks Posted: 08 Mar 2012 01:04 AM PST Gaps in spectrum need a lick of white paintOfcom's chief executive has been telling Brussels about the importance of White Spaces, and how Europe should be leading the shift to dynamic spectrum allocation rather than following behind the Americans.… |
| Top Brit authors turn flamethrowers on barmy IPO Posted: 08 Mar 2012 12:32 AM PST Bureaucrats, and Amazon, under fireBritain's best-loved storytellers turned their fire on the People's Revolutionary Council of Newport yesterday – otherwise known as the Intellectual Property Office. The IPO wants to use the power of the state to rob authors of the right to see any royalties from sales into education.… |
| Posted: 08 Mar 2012 12:02 AM PST ASA rejects Agent Provocateur vid complaintNSFW The Advertising Standards Authority has rejected a complaint that an Agent Provocateur video featuring a pack of lingerie-clad she-devils menacing another woman is "disturbing and misogynistic".… |
| Inside Sony's Home Entertainment HQ in Japan Posted: 07 Mar 2012 11:00 PM PST Image is everything, say Bravia boffinsFeature Sony is getting back to basics in an effort to revitalise its underperforming TV division. After haemorrhaging cash for eight long years, a fresh management team are betting the farm on new display technologies and a return to core values in order to turn things around.… |
| Australia considers national digital archive Posted: 07 Mar 2012 10:07 PM PST Copyright Act amendment could see all electronic publications in National LibraryAustralia's Legal Deposit requirement, which compels publishers to send copies of all books to the National Library, may be extended to digital works.… |
| Disaster preparation gamified for Oz kids Posted: 07 Mar 2012 09:37 PM PST iOs game teaches 10-15 year olds how to survive storms, floodsAustralia's Federal Government has released an iOs game, Before the Flood, to teach ten to fifteen year olds what to do when water levels start to rise.…
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