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- Apple relents, doubles EU warranty (sort of)
- Parents shocked by priestly PowerPoint pr0n
- Violin Memory flashes $50m wad from SAP
- Proview snatched from liquidators' jaws to pursue iPad fight
- Microsoft withdraws software silos from Germany in patent war
- HTC sues fans for premature unboxing
- Ice Cream Sandwich gives Android mobes brainfreeze – Sony
- Thin-client giant Wyse gobbled by Dell
- Terrafugia flies first prototype: Flying cars 'within a year'
- Mac Java hole exploited by wild Flashback Trojan strain
- Internet Explorer nibbles browser rivals, swells by 1%
- Visa dumps Global Payments after it flashed 1.5m US card numbers
- Qualcomm's S4 chip set to shrink laptops further
- Dell's bespoke server unit pushes over $1bn of tin
- What does the Titanic's sinking tell us about modern science?
- Check Point in domain expiry snafu
- No-strings nookie radar tugged offline in stalking backlash
- Vodafone deputy chairman to quit amid CWW rows – report
- Big Blue preps 'next gen' machines that manage themselves
- Coders' 'lives sucked out' by black-and-white Visual Studio 11
- Adam Sandler's cross-dresser shocker is Razzies stonker
- Capita job cuts, offshoring 'driven by expectations', says MD
- Groupon bungles figures, slides $65m into the red
- Pastebin.com hiring staff to get rid of activists' dumps
- Limber up for a more dynamic approach to managing change
- Steve Jobs' death clears way for Ashton Kutcher's role of a lifetime
- Toshiba AT200 Excite
- UK.gov to unveil reborn, renamed net-snoop plans in Queen's Speech
- Tibetan activists' Macs targeted using trojan-laden MS Office files
- Freeview telly shoved aside for iPad-compatible 4G
- Game chain sold
- Nokia v Apple nanoSIM format war: Victor will be named next month
- Red Hat: Amazon love 'yes', its own cloud 'no'
- Are you an ECO POET? Climate science needs YOU
- Druva adds BYOD crenellations to its data fortress
- Battling remote-control helicopters
- Blighty slaps £100m spending cap on govt IT projects
- Analysts see no Oracle hardware-biz recovery on horizon
- Bring-your-own-mobe pilot for BlackBerry-shunning council bods
- Chelsio box-o-SSDs does 1.1 million IOPS
- Huawei looks to India to spur 4G revenue growth
- Big Blue to handle SKA's Big Data about Big Bang
- China purges coup rumours from social media
- Free CompSci 101 finally launches this month
- Oz to review copyright law for digital age
- Austar one step closer to Foxtel
- Australians love mobile devices, but not mobile downloads
| Apple relents, doubles EU warranty (sort of) Posted: 02 Apr 2012 12:07 PM PDT Another victory for 'European Socialists'Apple has quietly updated their warranty coverage in the European Union, extending it to two years as required by EU law.… |
| Parents shocked by priestly PowerPoint pr0n Posted: 02 Apr 2012 11:14 AM PDT 'No crime committed' says churchParents in Northern Ireland were shocked when a priest's PowerPoint presentation in preparation for their children's First Holy Communion displayed gay pornography.… |
| Violin Memory flashes $50m wad from SAP Posted: 02 Apr 2012 10:31 AM PDT HANA in-memory database prospectFlash array start-up Violin Memory has gained business software powerhouse SAP as an investor.… |
| Proview snatched from liquidators' jaws to pursue iPad fight Posted: 02 Apr 2012 10:01 AM PDT Fat lady hasn't sung on trademark battle with AppleAiling monitor biz Proview has a green light to pursue its long-running dispute with Apple over the IPAD trademark after a Shenzhen court rejected a request from one of its creditors to liquidate the company.… |
| Microsoft withdraws software silos from Germany in patent war Posted: 02 Apr 2012 09:36 AM PDT Distribution HQ moves to The Netherlands to dodge Motorola showdownMicrosoft is moving its European distribution centre out of Germany and into The Netherlands to protect itself from patent machinations in the German courts.…
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| HTC sues fans for premature unboxing Posted: 02 Apr 2012 09:28 AM PDT One X-posedHTC is attempting to sue an HTC fansite for unpacking - 'unboxing', as The Kids calls it - the company's forthcoming flagship smartphone, the One X, on camera.… |
| Ice Cream Sandwich gives Android mobes brainfreeze – Sony Posted: 02 Apr 2012 09:17 AM PDT Phones choke on big, slow and crashing upgradeSony says its customers should avoid upgrading their Android devices to Ice Cream Sandwich, adding that many of them won't get the option anyway.… |
| Thin-client giant Wyse gobbled by Dell Posted: 02 Apr 2012 08:55 AM PDT Someone's in a hurry to pump clouds into desktopsPC and server maker Dell never made a machine that needed a dumb terminal, but it does make servers that could end up driving the 21st century equivalent: the thin client served up a virtual desktop over the internet. That is why Dell has shelled out an undisclosed sum to snap up Wyse Technologies, the volume shipper of thin clients.… |
| Terrafugia flies first prototype: Flying cars 'within a year' Posted: 02 Apr 2012 08:50 AM PDT Unleaded fuel-chugging wing-mobile passes the testThe much-delayed street-legal flying car from US firm Terrafugia has passed another milestone on its long road to mass production: a successful flight from an airport.… |
| Mac Java hole exploited by wild Flashback Trojan strain Posted: 02 Apr 2012 08:38 AM PDT Flaw fixed for Windows, Apple fanbois left outSecurity watchers have discovered a strain of Mac-specific malware that exploits an unpatched vulnerability in Java.… |
| Internet Explorer nibbles browser rivals, swells by 1% Posted: 02 Apr 2012 08:19 AM PDT Microsoft celebrates market share rise as competitors droopInternet Explorer's share of the browser market went up last month, by 0.99 per cent, according to new data from Net Market Share. Microsoft's slow claw-back of market share from its rivals puts Internet Explorer's global market share at 53.83 per cent, saving it from plunging below the 50 per cent mark and marking an overall net gain of 1.2 per cent in the past five months.…
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| Visa dumps Global Payments after it flashed 1.5m US card numbers Posted: 02 Apr 2012 08:02 AM PDT Processing firm: This was our first intrusion...Visa has dropped Global Payments from its list of approved service providers after a security breach at the firm exposed 1.5 million US card numbers.… |
| Qualcomm's S4 chip set to shrink laptops further Posted: 02 Apr 2012 07:44 AM PDT Ultrabooks aren't light enough, apparentlyQualcomm is readying its own quad-core Snapdragon S4 chips for super lightweight laptops, which will go head to head with Intel's next batch of Ultrabooks due later this year.… |
| Dell's bespoke server unit pushes over $1bn of tin Posted: 02 Apr 2012 07:32 AM PDT Five years old, and growing like a weedIt has been five years since Forrest Norrod and his colleagues at Dell drew up the first custom server design on a napkin at a bar at the Driskill Hotel in Austin, Texas, getting the server maker into the tailoring business. Dell now custom fits servers for very precise workloads and can cater to the tight data center power and cooling requirements found at hyperscale web operators.… |
| What does the Titanic's sinking tell us about modern science? Posted: 02 Apr 2012 07:11 AM PDT No, we didn't get that the wrong way roundAnalysis Tons more mouldering bilge scooped from the wreck of RMS Titanic has hit the science news this week: it tells us nothing of note about the liner's sinking, but it does tell us quite a lot about the state of scientific publishing.… |
| Check Point in domain expiry snafu Posted: 02 Apr 2012 06:57 AM PDT How to firewall off your website - the wrong waySecurity giant Check Point failed to renew its dot-com domain name on time over the weekend.… |
| No-strings nookie radar tugged offline in stalking backlash Posted: 02 Apr 2012 06:39 AM PDT Women-hunting app was for 'geo-social exploration', say devsRussian developers have hit back at claims that their Foursquare app Girls Around Me was a creepy tool for anonymous stalkers.…
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| Vodafone deputy chairman to quit amid CWW rows – report Posted: 02 Apr 2012 06:19 AM PDT Sir John Buchanan legging it to ARMVodafone's deputy chairman Sir John Buchanan is reportedly exiting the company after taking up a chairmanship post at Cambridge-based semiconductor firm ARM.… |
| Big Blue preps 'next gen' machines that manage themselves Posted: 02 Apr 2012 06:01 AM PDT Well let's just see you install yourself, Mr CleverIBM is getting ready to launch a new server platform, known internally as the "Next Generation Platform" and also known by that moniker in discussions with business partners that have been briefed over several weeks.… |
| Coders' 'lives sucked out' by black-and-white Visual Studio 11 Posted: 02 Apr 2012 05:46 AM PDT Beta testers feel trapped in 1920s Metro movie madnessWindows software developers have given a thumbs down to the black-and-white Metro-style Visual Studio 2011 and sent Microsoft back to the drawing board - preferably one with coloured pencils.… |
| Adam Sandler's cross-dresser shocker is Razzies stonker Posted: 02 Apr 2012 05:31 AM PDT Jack and Jill sweeps all ten movie dishonoursAdam Sandler's cross-dressing "comedy" Jack and Jill made a little bit of movie history over the weekend by scooping all ten Razzies, with the actor sensationally picking up both Worst Actor and Worst Actress awards.… |
| Capita job cuts, offshoring 'driven by expectations', says MD Posted: 02 Apr 2012 05:14 AM PDT Union rattles strike sabre as management gets out chopperCapita IT Services (CITS) boss Mark Quartermaine told staff the rapid expansion of the group through acquisition and more recently a slow down in sales led to the redundancy programme.…
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| Groupon bungles figures, slides $65m into the red Posted: 02 Apr 2012 04:59 AM PDT Investors squirm at web upstart's Q4 accounts gaffeDiscount coupon hawker Groupon has revised its fourth quarter revenue-and-loss statement, heightening concerns about the quality of its financial reporting.… |
| Pastebin.com hiring staff to get rid of activists' dumps Posted: 02 Apr 2012 04:44 AM PDT No matter how I scrub, stink of leakage still on mePastebin.com has promised to police content on its site more tightly by hiring staff to delete data dumps and other sensitive information more quickly.… |
| Limber up for a more dynamic approach to managing change Posted: 02 Apr 2012 04:30 AM PDT Put away your fire-fighting kitFor most of the past 20 years, the provisioning and daily operations of IT systems has been mainly concerned with specifying the physical components – servers, storage and networking – required to deliver the expected service levels.… |
| Steve Jobs' death clears way for Ashton Kutcher's role of a lifetime Posted: 02 Apr 2012 04:14 AM PDT But WHO will play Ballmer?Foursquare investor, Twitter personality, Rihanna love-interest and actor Ashton Kutcher has been chosen to play Steve Jobs in an upcoming biopic film - titled Jobs.… |
| Posted: 02 Apr 2012 04:00 AM PDT The world's thinnest tablet, apparentlyReview At only 7.7mm thick, Toshiba boasts that its new tablet is the slimmest yet and it's a claim I can't argue with either. Dubbed the Excite in the US and the rather less exciting AT200 elsewhere, Tosh's slim slab is 0.9mm thinner than the previous title holder, the Samsung Galaxy 10.1. While the Apple iPad 2 seems positively portly measuring up at 1.1mm thicker.… |
| UK.gov to unveil reborn, renamed net-snoop plans in Queen's Speech Posted: 02 Apr 2012 03:55 AM PDT If at first people protest, try telling them on SundayThe Coalition's plans to hugely step up surveillance of the internet aren't new - indeed they date from well before the Coalition - but readers could be forgiven for thinking it's all brand new this morning after a quick look at the national newspapers today.…
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| Tibetan activists' Macs targeted using trojan-laden MS Office files Posted: 02 Apr 2012 03:43 AM PDT Backdoors popped by unusually sophisticated methodsA string of booby-trapped Microsoft Office files that plant malware in Apple Macs via rarely abused vulnerabilities have been detected in the wild.… |
| Freeview telly shoved aside for iPad-compatible 4G Posted: 02 Apr 2012 03:29 AM PDT Ofcom mulls 2018 frequency bumpOfcom's latest wheeze for better wireless broadband in the UK is to bump Freeview down into the 600MHz space no one wants, enabling US-compatible LTE for anyone still using a new iPad come 2018.… |
| Posted: 02 Apr 2012 03:20 AM PDT Retailer rescued by Comet ownersUK High street retailer Game has been acquired by Comet owner OpCapita.… |
| Nokia v Apple nanoSIM format war: Victor will be named next month Posted: 02 Apr 2012 03:14 AM PDT 4FF: Even smaller than it soundsTelecoms standards overlord ETSI has postponed its vote on the official tiny SIM design until the end of May - while carefully considers who it can afford to upset the least.… |
| Red Hat: Amazon love 'yes', its own cloud 'no' Posted: 02 Apr 2012 02:57 AM PDT 'We don't use Oracle as a model'Red Hat won't spin up its own public cloud service but is getting serious with Amazon on OpenShift.… |
| Are you an ECO POET? Climate science needs YOU Posted: 02 Apr 2012 02:42 AM PDT Creative writing and global warming formally alliedThe dividing line between creative writing and climate science - sometimes thin - has been triumphantly dissolved. A new postgraduate course at the University of East Anglia hopes to bring together "researchers in the environmental sciences, philosophy, history and literature to develop new ways of thinking about environmental change and social transitions".…
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| Druva adds BYOD crenellations to its data fortress Posted: 02 Apr 2012 02:18 AM PDT Fondleslab'n'mobe package lets you manage users not boxesDruva's inSynch product has been revved to add tablets and smartphones to its existing laptop data protection scheme and bring them all into a uniform enterprise data protection and security scheme.… |
| Battling remote-control helicopters Posted: 02 Apr 2012 02:00 AM PDT Aerial combatGeek Treat of the Week If flying a remote control helicopter is no longer enough of a challenge, it's time to move to the next level and add a little spice to the mix. The Battling Gyro helicopter allows you to do just that by including an 'attack' button on the remote control.… |
| Blighty slaps £100m spending cap on govt IT projects Posted: 02 Apr 2012 01:31 AM PDT MPs fed up of blowing millions on crap contractsThe coalition's election pledge to cap IT contracts at £100m will become official policy from next month.… |
| Analysts see no Oracle hardware-biz recovery on horizon Posted: 02 Apr 2012 12:58 AM PDT Sun sinks slowly in the westThe road ahead for Oracle's plucky band of hardware resellers in not certain say analysts.… |
| Bring-your-own-mobe pilot for BlackBerry-shunning council bods Posted: 02 Apr 2012 12:27 AM PDT Fandroids and Apple fanbois out themselves to bossesCambridgeshire county council is to launch a bring your own device (BYOD) pilot, which will allow 50 employees to access corporate resources on their own gadgets.… |
| Chelsio box-o-SSDs does 1.1 million IOPS Posted: 02 Apr 2012 12:01 AM PDT JBOSSD di tutti JBOSSDChelsio, a network adapter card supplier, will demo a 1.1 million IOPS SAN array at SNW Dallas.…
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| Huawei looks to India to spur 4G revenue growth Posted: 01 Apr 2012 11:35 PM PDT Chinese telecoms equipment giant set for 40 per cent growthChinese telecoms equipment maker Huawei is looking to ramp up its investment in India to capitalise on the country's 4G plans, as western markets become increasingly hostile towards the firm.… |
| Big Blue to handle SKA's Big Data about Big Bang Posted: 01 Apr 2012 11:34 PM PDT Dutch government hands over €32.9m for exascale computerBig Blue has been given the ultimate big data gig - collecting and analysing data all the way back to the universe's early history, thanks to a brief from the Netherlands Institute for Radio Astronomy (ASTRON) and a €32.9m cheque from the Dutch government. ASTRON and IBM will collaborate on a computer capable of ingesting the expected exabyte a day that will be generated by the Square Kilometer Array (SKA).… |
| China purges coup rumours from social media Posted: 01 Apr 2012 09:41 PM PDT Six arrested, sites shuttered, after reports of Beijing coup spread onlineTwo of China's biggest social media companies, Tencent and Sina, have reportedly been punished by the government and forced to temporarily suspend comments on their micro-blogging sites, after the authorities clamped down in response to unsubstantiated online rumours of a coup in Beijing last month.… |
| Free CompSci 101 finally launches this month Posted: 01 Apr 2012 09:34 PM PDT Stanford lecturer's course teaches true coding secret: projects always run lateA free Computer Science 101 course that planned to launch in February 2012 will now launch on 23 April.… |
| Oz to review copyright law for digital age Posted: 01 Apr 2012 07:30 PM PDT Law Reform Commission asked to consider social networks, time-shiftingAustralia will review its Copyright Act to ensure the they serve the nation in the digital age.…
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| Austar one step closer to Foxtel Posted: 01 Apr 2012 05:22 PM PDT While Foxtel battles parent piracy claimsAustar shareholders have green lit the proposed merger with Foxtel despite the swirling piracy allegations against Foxtel's majority stakeholder News Corporation and its former subsidiary NDS.… |
| Australians love mobile devices, but not mobile downloads Posted: 01 Apr 2012 04:45 PM PDT Fixed net throughput sprints aheadThe next time you queue up to buy an iPad, 3G wireless broadband dongle, or an Android phone or tablet, ask yourself: why are the data plans so expensive, when they deliver so little?… |
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