Oracle gives away updated Ops Center control freak |
- Oracle gives away updated Ops Center control freak
- Microsoft opens betas on virtual app control and App-V update
- Square kilometre array decision delayed again
- Fujitsu wins another big super deal in Japan
- Google shows off Project Glass augmented reality specs
- Arizona bill makes it illegal to 'annoy or offend' online
- SanDisk shares tumble as chip-maker lowers Q1 forecast
- OCZ's new Vertex 4 SSD: Faster... and slower
- Dell guns for IBM mainframes with Clerity gobble
- Ubuntu hammers out Metal-as-a-Service tool for microservers
- Apple plugs Java hole after Flashback Trojan intrusion
- Samsung slips on Ice Cream Sandwich
- RIM begs app devs to fish it out of BlackBerry jam
- Yahoo! axes! 2,000! workers!
- Brit pockets £100k in Samsung Bada dev compo
- TripAdvisor chucks antitrust complaint on Google's pile
- Browsium rescues HMRC from IE6 – and multimillion-pound bill
- Microsoft parts private cloud to reveal its infrastructure
- Publisher hails CS Lewis 'space trilogy' e-book debut
- Nature ISN'T fragile nor a bossy mother-in-law - top eco boffin
- iPhone fanbois enraged by Instagram's Android triumph
- Man stabbed at BlackBerry bash
- Speaking in Tech: Creepy apps, big data and toasty iPads
- Dutch firm slams limping RIM with patent lawsuit
- UK hacker jailed for nicking PayPal, banking data from MILLIONS
- Shareholder flings class action lawsuit at Groupon
- Red Hat, VMware and Eucalyptus in cloud boast bluff-off
- SHOCK! FIFA 12 goalie does it doggy style with striker
- Google plonks reCAPTCHA on Street View, makes users ID your house
- Fans fly to forums to signal iPad 3 Wi-Fi woes
- Yahoo! countersued! by! Facebook! in patent! spat!
- Watchdog sniffs David Beckham's wedding tackle
- RIM should focus on BBM, find a human CEO
- Analogue switch-off hits London today
- Ctera rocks up at BYOD party with big boy's cloud storage
- Xbox 360 credit card slurp alert under fire
- Prehistoric monster snake crushed prey under 1.5 Brooklyn Bridges
- Nuke plant owners to pay out up to £1bn per balls-up
- Blighty's new top supercomputer bagged by software boffins
- BT slurps from first govt broadband cash pot in Lancs deal
- UK net super-snooping clashes with Euro privacy law - expert
- China puts the boot up ISPs to close digital divide
- Chinese social sites lift post-coup controls
- Ten... ADF-based inkjet all-in-one printers
- Crowdsource yourself a new job
- China and India to power global enterprise software market
- NJ lab claims plasma fusion breakthrough
- ATO to refresh developer website
- Shock jocks take NBNCo cash, then trash its ads
- General Dynamics, HP fluff up $249.8m Army cloud
| Oracle gives away updated Ops Center control freak Posted: 04 Apr 2012 02:56 PM PDT Solaris 11 under its thumbSoftware giant and now engineered systems player Oracle bought Sun for its Java and Solaris software, but in taking on hardware it also needed a management tools. Thus Ops Center is one of the more important bits of code for the company and Oracle has announced new enhancements to it on Wednesday.… |
| Microsoft opens betas on virtual app control and App-V update Posted: 04 Apr 2012 02:49 PM PDT Free add-ons for MDOP customersMicrosoft has released a pair of beta applications for its virtualization customers aimed at improving the access and control of its virtual applications.… |
| Square kilometre array decision delayed again Posted: 04 Apr 2012 02:28 PM PDT Board may consider joint Oz-South Africa operationThe board deciding on the location for the Square Kilometer Array has once again delayed choosing between Australia and South Africa as the host nation.…
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| Fujitsu wins another big super deal in Japan Posted: 04 Apr 2012 12:23 PM PDT Sparc-x86 hybrid, with GPUs later this yearJapanese IT conglomerate Fujitsu has been pushing hard to peddle its Sparc and x86 supercomputer clusters to take on IBM, Cray, Silicon Graphics, and others, and not surprisingly Fujitsu it has scored some big deals in the home country. The company just took down a big hybrid Sparc-x86 cluster deal at Kyushu University, which is the dominant educational institution in the southern part of Japan.… |
| Google shows off Project Glass augmented reality specs Posted: 04 Apr 2012 12:13 PM PDT Nerdy but niceGoogle has been showing off the expected capabilities of the augmented reality spectacles that it is calling Project Glass.… |
| Arizona bill makes it illegal to 'annoy or offend' online Posted: 04 Apr 2012 10:38 AM PDT Rough-and-ready westerners or dainty shrinking violets?The Arizona legislature has passed a bill that makes it illegal to annoy anyone over the internet.… |
| SanDisk shares tumble as chip-maker lowers Q1 forecast Posted: 04 Apr 2012 10:29 AM PDT Flash shares fall 10%Flash memory maker SanDisk haS suffered a 9.47 per cent dip in its share price in trading today, after they announced a summary of results for the first quarter of 2012.… |
| OCZ's new Vertex 4 SSD: Faster... and slower Posted: 04 Apr 2012 10:01 AM PDT You win some, you lose someOCZ has a new SSD that's both faster and slower than the previous model. That's what can happen when you swap controllers on an SSD.…
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| Dell guns for IBM mainframes with Clerity gobble Posted: 04 Apr 2012 09:49 AM PDT Have UniKix, will travelDell is hungry for more server revenues while building out a portfolio of software at the same time - and the acquisition of mainframe application rehosting company Clerity Solutions hits both targets with the same bullet.… |
| Ubuntu hammers out Metal-as-a-Service tool for microservers Posted: 04 Apr 2012 09:35 AM PDT When virtualisation isn't enoughCanonical has unveiled a Metal-as-a-Service (MaaS) offering to provision and manage high-density Ubuntu microservers running hyper-scale computing centres and clouds.… |
| Apple plugs Java hole after Flashback Trojan intrusion Posted: 04 Apr 2012 09:17 AM PDT 6 weeks after Microsoft machines are patched...Apple released a security update for OS X Java on Tuesday, plugging a security vulnerability exploited by the latest Flashback Trojan.… |
| Samsung slips on Ice Cream Sandwich Posted: 04 Apr 2012 08:50 AM PDT Tricky Android snack sets back Tab 2 releaseSamsung's two Galaxy Tab 2s, the (7.0) and the (10.1) - the South Korean company's brackets, not ours - will arrive at the end of the month.… |
| RIM begs app devs to fish it out of BlackBerry jam Posted: 04 Apr 2012 08:29 AM PDT Coders set 'unconference' agenda in MayRIM's app-makers will be treated to an "unconference" at their yearly "BlackBerry Jam" held in Orlando, Florida, between 1 and 3 May.… |
| Posted: 04 Apr 2012 08:07 AM PDT Jobs cut to save troubled web biz $375m a yearYahoo has said that it is laying off about 2,000 employees as it struggles to regain its web crown.…
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| Brit pockets £100k in Samsung Bada dev compo Posted: 04 Apr 2012 07:32 AM PDT Flying-game-for-mobes bags prizeSamsung has announced the winner of its Bada Developer Day UK Challenge, a "futuristic" flying game for mobile phones.… |
| TripAdvisor chucks antitrust complaint on Google's pile Posted: 04 Apr 2012 07:03 AM PDT Follows Expedia flight path to land in Brussels commissioners' lapsOnline travel reviews outfit TripAdvisor has followed in the footsteps of Expedia by filing an antitrust complaint with the European Commission about Google.… |
| Browsium rescues HMRC from IE6 – and multimillion-pound bill Posted: 04 Apr 2012 06:35 AM PDT Undercuts Capgemini-Fujitsu dream teamA browser startup has undercut some of government's biggest IT suppliers to win its largest deal: shifting HM Revenue & Customs from Internet Explorer 6 and Windows XP to IE8 and Windows 7.… |
| Microsoft parts private cloud to reveal its infrastructure Posted: 04 Apr 2012 06:21 AM PDT Join the MVAReview Brightly coloured videos with a cast of improbably good looking people and some upbeat music don't shift data-centre gear. Instead of the endless merriment of terrible marketing videos, Microsoft has focused on education.… |
| Publisher hails CS Lewis 'space trilogy' e-book debut Posted: 04 Apr 2012 06:06 AM PDT Forgets it had already released it over hereFans of CS Lewis' other sequence of novels - the 'Perelandra' trilogy, not all that stuff with furniture and leonine Christ metaphors - will be pleased to hear they're now out in e-book form.… |
| Nature ISN'T fragile nor a bossy mother-in-law - top eco boffin Posted: 04 Apr 2012 05:42 AM PDT Get rid of hippies, save the planetComment The Green movement needs to rethink its philosophy from the ground-up. That's according to Peter Kareiva, a leading conservation expert and chief scientist for The Nature Conservancy, the world's biggest environmental group.…
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| iPhone fanbois enraged by Instagram's Android triumph Posted: 04 Apr 2012 05:19 AM PDT So 'app' isn't short for Apple then?Photo-bleaching camera app Instagram has notched up more than a million downloads in its first 24 hours on sale in the Android store.… |
| Man stabbed at BlackBerry bash Posted: 04 Apr 2012 05:14 AM PDT Aggro at RIM partyResearch in Motion's latest BlackBerry promotional shindig ended in bloodshed last night after a man was stabbed in the neck at the London event, which was attended by pop singer Jessie J.… |
| Speaking in Tech: Creepy apps, big data and toasty iPads Posted: 04 Apr 2012 05:01 AM PDT Why hot fondleslabs are still, er, hot ... |
| Dutch firm slams limping RIM with patent lawsuit Posted: 04 Apr 2012 04:44 AM PDT BlackBerry-maker gets kicked while it's downDutch semiconductor firm NXP has filed a patent lawsuit against BlackBerry-maker RIM alleging infringement of six of its patents.… |
| UK hacker jailed for nicking PayPal, banking data from MILLIONS Posted: 04 Apr 2012 04:29 AM PDT But York-based cybercrook only made £2.4k, court hearsA UK cybercrook has been jailed for 26 months following his conviction for stealing millions of banking and PayPal identities, the Southwark Crown court confirmed to the Reg.… |
| Shareholder flings class action lawsuit at Groupon Posted: 04 Apr 2012 04:16 AM PDT Alleges site tricked investors into buying stockThe hits keep on coming for Groupon, as it now faces a shareholder lawsuit on top of another day of falling stocks, all over its materially weak accounting.…
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| Red Hat, VMware and Eucalyptus in cloud boast bluff-off Posted: 04 Apr 2012 04:01 AM PDT Openness is a matter of needOpen... and Shut No matter how you define it, cloud computing is big. The 451 Group forecasts the cloud computing market to hit $16.7bn in revenue by 2013, while Forrester more aggressively projects it to top $241bn by 2020.… |
| SHOCK! FIFA 12 goalie does it doggy style with striker Posted: 04 Apr 2012 03:55 AM PDT Man oh manWe don't usually report glitches in games unless it has unintentionally hilarious results - think dragons flying backwards in Skyrim. But when it involves a goalkeeper appearing to get down and dirty with a striker in FIFA 12, we thought it too rib-tickling a mishap not to pass on.… |
| Google plonks reCAPTCHA on Street View, makes users ID your house Posted: 04 Apr 2012 03:44 AM PDT Human brains tapped for more accurate mapsExclusive Google is getting the public to identify house numbers and signs from Street View photos as part of its reCAPTCHA anti-spam technology - and feeding the data into its online mapping service.… |
| Fans fly to forums to signal iPad 3 Wi-Fi woes Posted: 04 Apr 2012 03:36 AM PDT Genius Bar confirmation?Apple's iPad 3 is drawing fire for its wireless performance, with many an owner complaining about poor Wi-Fi reception. Tests performed by staff in Apple's own stores allegedly show it too.… |
| Yahoo! countersued! by! Facebook! in patent! spat! Posted: 04 Apr 2012 03:28 AM PDT The tables are turned ... bitchFacebook has launched a patent counterattack on agitator Yahoo!… |
| Watchdog sniffs David Beckham's wedding tackle Posted: 04 Apr 2012 03:16 AM PDT Goldenballs in his undies ruled not offsideThe Advertising Standards Authority has ruled that a poster campaign featuring David Beckham in his undies and displaying a fine pair of goldenballs is unlikely to traumatise wide-eyed kiddies.… |
| RIM should focus on BBM, find a human CEO Posted: 04 Apr 2012 03:02 AM PDT Social's where the money is... bitchAnalysis RIM ended last week in more self-inflicted disarray. It announced a huge write-down of unsold fondleslabs, a sizeable operating loss, waved goodbye to its co-founder and its CTO, and then had to spend the next two days clarifying that it wasn't deserting its most loyal users.…
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| Analogue switch-off hits London today Posted: 04 Apr 2012 02:51 AM PDT Farewell, snow-filled picturesLondoners: don't forget to retune your Freeview kit today, be it a set-top box, a telly with an integrated digital tuner, or a tuner dongle or card hooked up to a PC.… |
| Ctera rocks up at BYOD party with big boy's cloud storage Posted: 04 Apr 2012 02:42 AM PDT Need to access your biz files? There's an app for thatEmployees using their own laptops, tablets and smartphones under bring-your-own-device policies at work can securely access enterprise cloud storage facilities through gateway supplier Ctera.… |
| Xbox 360 credit card slurp alert under fire Posted: 04 Apr 2012 02:17 AM PDT Sniffing wiped privates not possible says MicrosoftDoubts have arisen over claims that credit card numbers and other personal information can be recovered from used Xbox 360 consoles - even after users take the precaution of restoring their kit to its factory settings.… |
| Prehistoric monster snake crushed prey under 1.5 Brooklyn Bridges Posted: 04 Apr 2012 02:00 AM PDT BBC gets the measure of South American monsterThe BBC's improbable measurement unit is on top form this week, in this report on a monster snake which terrorised the prehistoric South American jungle.… |
| Nuke plant owners to pay out up to £1bn per balls-up Posted: 04 Apr 2012 01:29 AM PDT UK.gov hikes liability limit over next five yearsNuclear operators are to be liable for damages amounting up to seven times the current limit in the event of a nuclear incident, the Government has confirmed.… |
| Blighty's new top supercomputer bagged by software boffins Posted: 04 Apr 2012 01:01 AM PDT Blue Big beast equivalent to 1 million iPadsThe UK government is buying an IBM Blue Gene/Q supercomputer and iDataplex [PDF] servers, with DDN storage, to use in its Daresbury laboratory. The lab is used for developing software for next-generation supercomputers, presumably the exascale thingies needed for chewing through Really Big Data.…
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| BT slurps from first govt broadband cash pot in Lancs deal Posted: 04 Apr 2012 12:32 AM PDT Fights off absolutely no oneThe first round of the government's public broadband funding has been awarded to Lancashire County Council, after the local authority agreed to a £62.5m project with national telco BT.… |
| UK net super-snooping clashes with Euro privacy law - expert Posted: 04 Apr 2012 12:02 AM PDT Real-time surveillance won't wash with Brussels says lawyerNew legislation that would enable a UK intelligence agency to monitor data from internet communications in real time without a warrant could be challenged at EU level unless other privacy safeguards limit the scope of that monitoring, an expert has said.… |
| China puts the boot up ISPs to close digital divide Posted: 03 Apr 2012 11:30 PM PDT Faster speeds and lower prices please ... or else!China has pledged to increase broadband speeds and reduce the price of internet services in the country, which can be up to four times more expensive than those in rival countries including the UK and US.… |
| Chinese social sites lift post-coup controls Posted: 03 Apr 2012 11:16 PM PDT Comment is free ... but could get you in a lot of botherThe Chinese authorities have as promised allowed social media giants Tencent and Sina to re-open their popular micro-blogging platforms to comments, although these firms could face a tough time going forward as government censors increase their scrutiny.… |
| Ten... ADF-based inkjet all-in-one printers Posted: 03 Apr 2012 11:00 PM PDT Feed me, feed me nowProduct Round-up Inkjet all-in-one printers have two different focuses: photos and documents. Those aimed at document handling often forsake things like card readers and twin paper trays, in favour of fax and Automatic Document Feeders (ADFs). With an ADF you can scan or copy multi-page documents unattended, giving you extra time to drink hot beverages or consult twitter.… |
| Crowdsource yourself a new job Posted: 03 Apr 2012 10:40 PM PDT Don't just sell yourself by the hour, says freelancer.com CEOCrowdsourcing is a chance to create yourself a new job, rather than just raise some cash between gigs or while slacking, according to Matt Barrie, CEO of boom site freelancer.com.…
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| China and India to power global enterprise software market Posted: 03 Apr 2012 09:30 PM PDT Asia Pac is where it's all happening ...China and India are set to lead worldwide enterprise software growth over the next four years as Asia Pacific cements itself as the powerhouse of the global IT industry, according to Gartner.… |
| NJ lab claims plasma fusion breakthrough Posted: 03 Apr 2012 06:30 PM PDT Confined reaction close to a couple of billion degreesA private laboratory in New Jersey is claiming to have fulfilled two key conditions of a workable fusion energy system: it's confined atomic nuclei in an ion "bottle", and heated them to 1.8 billion degrees Celsius.… |
| ATO to refresh developer website Posted: 03 Apr 2012 06:00 PM PDT Seeks Drupal, MySQL help for "additional complex functionality"The Australian Taxation Office (ATO)needs help with open source software.… |
| Shock jocks take NBNCo cash, then trash its ads Posted: 03 Apr 2012 05:48 PM PDT UPDATED WITH MP3s:Live reads pulled after DJs criticise NBNNBNCo's plans to win over the hearts and minds of middle Australia have taken a hit, after two prominent radio announcers editorialised before reading paid ads which explained the company's role as a wholesaler.… |
| General Dynamics, HP fluff up $249.8m Army cloud Posted: 03 Apr 2012 05:47 PM PDT Private cloud, Sir!The US Army has signed a $249.8m deal with primary contractor General Dynamics to manage the creation of something called APC2, and, no it's not a new armored personnel carrier, but rather the next-generation Army Private Cloud. (Sir!)…
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