RIM extends management software to iOS, Android

RIM extends management software to iOS, Android

RIM extends management software to iOS, Android

Posted: 03 Apr 2012 12:31 PM PDT

Releases 'BlackBerry Mobile Fusion' in bid to stay alive relevant

Beleagured Research in Motion has extended its mobile-device management software, now dubbed BlackBerry Mobile Fusion, to embrace not only its own BlackBerry handsets and tablets, but also iOS and Android devices.…

IBM's DB2 database update does time travel, gets graphic

Posted: 03 Apr 2012 11:56 AM PDT

'Continuous data ingest' gorges on bits, compression crunches 'em

With the launch of DB2 10.1, Big Blue is adding a slew of new features that make DB2 more useful for modern, big-data workloads.…

Facebook: Server management systems 'a big headache'

Posted: 03 Apr 2012 11:27 AM PDT

Open Compute Project goal: stripped and minimalist

Collaboration Summit 2012  Amir Michael, manager of systems engineering at Facebook and a key player in the company's Open Compute Project (OCP), used his opening keynote at the sixth annual Linux Foundation Collaboration Summit to decry the current state of server-management code.…

Google pockets card payment biz, slips it into Wallet

Posted: 03 Apr 2012 11:04 AM PDT

Token effort - or strategic brainwave?

Google has bought payment processor TxVia to beef up its Wallet offering, putting scalable payment and token management into the Chocolate Factory's hands.…

EMC shoots mystery virtual weapon into cloud next week

Posted: 03 Apr 2012 10:01 AM PDT

Miracle-cream-slathered tool spurts on 12 April

EMC's VSPEX emerged out of the Hopkinton void on Friday. Now EMC has an event scheduled for 12 April that looks a lot like a VSPEX launch.…

Facebook accused of 'wanton' use of Canadian woman's pics

Posted: 03 Apr 2012 09:33 AM PDT

You signed up for this ... bitch

A Canadian woman has filed a class action lawsuit against Facebook in the Supreme Court of British Columbia for "wanton, reckless and callous" use of her photo and profile in the social network's ads.…

Citrix champions CloudStack, throws OpenStack under a bus

Posted: 03 Apr 2012 09:04 AM PDT

'Project Olympus is dead' - fabric rivalry begins

If you have been wondering how Citrix Systems was going to juggle two different cloud fabrics in its product line – its own open-source CloudStack and a commercialized variant of the similarly open-source OpenStack project started by NASA and Rackspace Hosting – you can stop wondering.…

Phonedeck pushes out web 'n' mobe app for Android

Posted: 03 Apr 2012 08:33 AM PDT

Reach into the cloud to get to your pocket

Phonedeck's promises to integrate an Android phone with a desktop computer though PIM synchronisation could yet prove its downfall.…

iPad app that lets mute kids speak menaced by patent lawsuit

Posted: 03 Apr 2012 08:02 AM PDT

Hardware that makes the 'slab look cheap and flexible

A company that makes specialist talking tablet computers for speech-disabled children has mounted a patent lawsuit which seems set to kill off an iPad app that does the same thing for a tenth of the price. The firm is making no commitment to provide replacement affordable software for consumer devices.…

Facebook logins easily slurped from iOS, Android kit

Posted: 03 Apr 2012 07:39 AM PDT

Team Zuck working on slapping crypto into mobile app

Exclusive  Facebook's iOS and Android clients don't encrypt users' logon credentials, leaving them languishing in a folder accessible to other apps or USB connections.…

G-Cloud rep: We'll mop up data breach flood with red tape

Posted: 03 Apr 2012 07:17 AM PDT

Security accreditation is vital, says MoJ ICT manager

The government is speaking out about "myths and confusion" surrounding its plans for security accreditation on G-Cloud.…

Star's guts turned INSIDE OUT in supernova mega-blast

Posted: 03 Apr 2012 07:01 AM PDT

Young Cas A star spews stellar innards

Pics  An X-ray study of Cassiopeia A, one of the youngest exploded stars in our galaxy, has found that it not only blew up, but also ripped its insides out in the process.…

How to manage IT like a (service) pro

Posted: 03 Apr 2012 06:36 AM PDT

Can corporate IT learn from managed service providers?

Live broadcast  On April 17th at 10:00 BST, we've got a live broadcast featuring a service management workshop.…

Motorola Mobility in double Euro probe over patent warfare

Posted: 03 Apr 2012 06:27 AM PDT

Apple, Microsoft trigger antitrust investigation

The European Commission's anti-competition division has opened two formal investigations into Motorola Mobility after complaints from Apple and Microsoft about how it uses its patents against them.…

Foxconn staffer lets slip iPhone 5 ship date

Posted: 03 Apr 2012 06:12 AM PDT

Hiring thousands of workers to assemble handsets

iPhone 5 rumours picked up a couple of notches today after a Foxconn recruiter let slip that the manufacturer is hiring staff for the next-gen Apple phone's production.…

James Murdoch QUITS BSkyB chairmanship

Posted: 03 Apr 2012 06:02 AM PDT

Remains as non-exec board member

BSkyB chairman James Murdoch is reportedly stepping down from his role.…

LOHAN checks into REHAB chamber

Posted: 03 Apr 2012 05:42 AM PDT

Shed-built hypobaric rig hewn from living steel

Hot on the heels of the first test of the improvised vacuum pump for our Low Orbit Helium Assisted Navigator (LOHAN) Rocketry Experimental High Altitude Barosimulator (REHAB) experiment, we're pleased to report that we've put together the shed-built hypobaric chamber which will form the centrepiece of our explosive tomfoolery.…

Motorola refreshes Razr with huge battery boost

Posted: 03 Apr 2012 05:32 AM PDT

Talk for over 17 hours

Motorola extended the battery life of its newly-designed Razr handset, releasing the Razr Maxx, a jazzed-up version of smartphone with more than 17 hours' talk time.…

Sony diagnoses Xperia S screen jaundice

Posted: 03 Apr 2012 05:30 AM PDT

Users blue over yellow display

Sony admitted that tis flagship smartphone, the Xperia S, has display issues after reports surfaced that the screen goes yellow when the device gets too warm.…

Sony to bring Google TV to Europe

Posted: 03 Apr 2012 05:23 AM PDT

£167 set-top setting for ad giant's content store

Google TV will be coming to Europe this September, two years after the little loved web telly service was launched in the States.…

Teen hacker suspect Ryan Cleary in the clink for bail breach

Posted: 03 Apr 2012 05:19 AM PDT

LulzSec accused broke the offline rule

Teenage LulzSec suspect Ryan Cleary is back behind bars after breaching his bail conditions by going online, it has emerged.…

Virgin Media tightens throttle on hardcore hogs

Posted: 03 Apr 2012 05:02 AM PDT

Bust the limit, lose half your downlink speed

Virgin Media has introduced new throttling "trigger levels" for customers who make heavy use of its network.…

Regulator probes Groupon as shares tumble

Posted: 03 Apr 2012 04:39 AM PDT

SEC looking into daily deal site's accounting snafu

Daily deals site Groupon has seen its stocks tumble nearly 17 per cent, after mistakes in its fourth quarter results announcement forced the firm to issue a revision over the weekend.…

Canon reaches for stars with DSLR refresh

Posted: 03 Apr 2012 04:38 AM PDT

Aimed at astrosnappers

Canon sent its latest DSLR into orbit today with the launch of the EOS 60Da, a high-res snapper designed for astrophotography.…

'Leap year' bug drives TomTom satnav users up the wall

Posted: 03 Apr 2012 04:21 AM PDT

GPS fix fail

TomTom's satnavs have been caught out by a "leap year bug" this week which has caused the company's GPS receivers to suddenly stop working, driving users crazy.…

Home Sec: Web snoop law will snare PAEDOS, TERRORISTS

Posted: 03 Apr 2012 04:13 AM PDT

May asks Blighty to 'think of the children'

The Home Secretary has defended her department's decision to resurrect net-snooping plans that were abandoned by the previous Labour government in 2009.…

Game of Thrones Blu-ray disc set

Posted: 03 Apr 2012 04:00 AM PDT

The greatest fantasy TV show ever made?

Review  Historically, TV generally doesn't do 'epic fantasy' well: Merlin, Robin of Sherwood, He-Man and the Masters of the Universe. All noble efforts, but ultimately flawed in vision and execution. Heck, outside of Jackson's Rings trilogy, even the movies often fail to get the genre right.…

Apple to take shine off glossy iMacs, say moles

Posted: 03 Apr 2012 03:43 AM PDT

Adding anti-reflection tech

Your iMac's screen to shiny for you? The next version of the Apple desktop will have a reflection resistant coating applied to its ('retina'?) display, it has been claimed.…

Hitachi GST lays 4TB Easter egg

Posted: 03 Apr 2012 03:39 AM PDT

Highest capacity enterprise drive

Hitachi GST has laid a nice Easter egg: a 4TB enterprise disk drive and a first at this capacity level. It's HGST's second 4TB product.…

O2 Wi-Fi slips into McDonalds, steals The Cloud's lunch

Posted: 03 Apr 2012 03:21 AM PDT

Snatched just in time for the Olympics

O2 continues to expand its free Wi-Fi offering, this time donning a hairnet to push into 1,200 McDonalds hotspots which will become O2 branded just in time for the London Olympics.…

Sky joins BBC for Olympics coverage

Posted: 03 Apr 2012 03:12 AM PDT

24 sports channels inbound

Sky is celebrating the London Olympics through two dozen new BBC channels, dedicated to live coverage of the event.…

Samsung to spank $7bn on China chip fab

Posted: 03 Apr 2012 03:01 AM PDT

Splashes cash to build flash stash

Chip behemoth Samsung has decided to sink $7bn into its first memory factory in China, which will build NAND products.…

New Intel flash hardness performs faster for less

Posted: 03 Apr 2012 02:44 AM PDT

330-series SSD is cheap as chips

Intel has a new budget 330-series solid-state drive (SSD) coming on Friday, 13 April, according to Amazon and other online bazaars, and it almost doubles the current 320 SSD's performance.…

Email cock-up blamed in Check Point domain expiry snafu

Posted: 03 Apr 2012 02:26 AM PDT

Renewal alert 'sent to wrong address'

Check Point has downplayed the significance of a domain renewal mix-up that resulted in its home page being replaced by a holding page for a brief period on Monday.…

ONE MILLION YEARS B.C. - Humans begin artificial CO2 emissions

Posted: 03 Apr 2012 02:05 AM PDT

'Could be an essential part of what makes us human'

Fossil-furtling boffins have announced that the human race was burning things - and irresponsibly releasing carbon dioxide into the atmosphere - fully a million years ago, some 300,000 years earlier than had been thought.…

Runtastic Push Up

Posted: 03 Apr 2012 02:00 AM PDT

Push, fat boy, push

Android App of the Week  Those of you with six-packs, biceps of iron and a physique from a eugenicist's wet dream can stop reading now. For the rest of us, who have been planning to "get fit" next week, next month or next year, Runtastic's Push Up app may be just what's needed to whet our blunted purpose.…

Vid storage biz Object Matrix gets over tape hate

Posted: 03 Apr 2012 01:32 AM PDT

2003: Tape, boo! 2012: Tape, you're all right

Another object storage supplier is embracing tape. It's Object Matrix and it's following in the footsteps of HDS.…

EU plans tougher punishment for hackers – and their bosses

Posted: 03 Apr 2012 01:02 AM PDT

Biz could be criminally liable if it 'profits' from employees' cyber attacks

The European Parliament's Civil Liberties Committee overwhelmingly voted to approve proposals to criminalise certain activity relating to cyber attacks last week. The proposals contain plans to make specified "legal persons" within companies liable for certain offences.…

Cable-cutting rogue engineer caused ultra fast broadband havoc

Posted: 03 Apr 2012 12:46 AM PDT

Ex-SingTel employee given 15 months

A former SingTel engineer took revenge on the Singaporean telco giant after being given the sack by sabotaging fibre optic cables on a staggering 600 separate occasions.…

Success-hungry Valley needs code, not cash

Posted: 03 Apr 2012 12:27 AM PDT

When a VC's A round 'ain't enough

Open... and Shut  When someone makes the bold claim that 90 per cent of the startups TechCrunch hypes are dead and buried within six months, you'd expect Silicon Valley to be in uproar. Surprisingly, though, the collective response seems to be, "Sounds about right." While I don't think the data support the claim, it is true that a large percentage of technology start ups fail.…

Sumo Logic slings log file ops into the clouds

Posted: 03 Apr 2012 12:02 AM PDT

Meet me at the Chatsubo bar for a big data bash

Sumo Logic CTO and co-founder Christian Beedgen sports a Chatsubo Bar banner on his t-shirt. When you meet a startup guy wearing a Neuromancer t-shirt you know the product is going to be a dreadful self-indulgent failure or an extremely cool resource that delivers the goods. Sumo Logic's Log Management and Analytics Service is the latter.…

Chinese shoppers lead way in global e-commerce stakes

Posted: 02 Apr 2012 11:17 PM PDT

Can't get enough of that online stuff

Shoppers in China are twice as prolific online as those in the UK and US but retailers are struggling to keep up with the growing sophistication of their multi-channel purchasing behaviour, PricewaterhouseCoopers has found.…

Google ads 'misleading and deceptive'

Posted: 02 Apr 2012 11:16 PM PDT

Oz court: Advertiser keyword grabs ARE Google's fault

Australia's Federal Court has found that some Google ads are misleading and deceptive, overturning a previous ruling that the search giant is not responsible for dodgy ads its advertisers create.…

Samsung Galaxy S WiFi 5.0 Android media player

Posted: 02 Apr 2012 11:00 PM PDT

Small tablet or big PMP?

Review  I reviewed Samsung's first Android media player just over a year ago and frankly thought it was awful. I'm sure I wasn't alone. Undaunted, Samsung tried again with a new device packing a larger screen, faster CPU and bigger battery but only costing £40 more.…

Fujitsu says sayonara to Toshiba in bid to take on Apple

Posted: 02 Apr 2012 10:28 PM PDT

Japanese electronics giant still struggling internationally

Japanese computing giant Fujitsu has bought out Toshiba's share of the firms' joint mobile venture, to give it a clear crack at unseating Apple, which only recently jumped into top spot in the land of the rising sun.…

Oz launches DNSChanger testing site

Posted: 02 Apr 2012 06:24 PM PDT

Government service advises of connection-preventing malware infections

Australia's government has created a website which detects the presence, or otherwise, of DNSChanger, a nasty piece of malware which the sites says "... changes a user's Domain Name System (DNS) settings, enabling criminals to direct unsuspecting internet users to fraudulent websites and otherwise interfere with their web browsing."…

Microsoft makes Top 20 list of Linux kernel contributors

Posted: 02 Apr 2012 06:15 PM PDT

Linux Foundation reports most key developers are paid

The Linux Foundation has released its annual report on the state of the software, and reports that Microsoft has made it into the Top 20 of companies that sponsor development of the Linux kernel – quite a change for the operating system Steve Ballmer used to dismiss as a cancer.…

Samsung forging ARM server chips?

Posted: 02 Apr 2012 06:04 PM PDT

Maybe so, maybe not

The Wall Street Journal has played a variant of "connect the dots" using LinkedIn profiles of chip techies formerly at AMD and now working at Samsung Electronics across town in Austin, Texas, and has come to the conclusion that Samsung is getting ready to jump into the server-processor market with derivatives of the ARM RISC processor.…

Busted in the US? 'Drop your trousers, sir'

Posted: 02 Apr 2012 05:53 PM PDT

Supremes allow strip search for any offense – nuns too

Again displaying their infinite law-and-order wisdom, the US Supreme Court has ruled that anyone arrested for any offense, however innocuous, can be strip-searched, even if there's no suspicion that they are concealing contraband.…

SQL Server 2012 on sale … now!

Posted: 02 Apr 2012 05:43 PM PDT

New licensing arrangements may cost you more

Microsoft has shoved SQL Server 2012 down the slipway in a very modern way – with a blog post and a virtual launch event. If you want to play with it, go get a freebie here.…

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