WA sex criminals get tracked by satellite

WA sex criminals get tracked by satellite

WA sex criminals get tracked by satellite

Posted: 30 Apr 2012 03:21 PM PDT

Perverts get their own GPS systems

The West Australian government will use satellite tracking technology to monitor dangerous sex offenders.…

Yahoo! tacks! two! more! patents! onto! Facebook lawsuit!

Posted: 30 Apr 2012 02:35 PM PDT

Denies FB's claims, moans about lack of integrity

Yahoo! has slapped two more patents onto its list of grievances against Facebook in their patent battle, while denying the social network's claims and accusing it of not playing fair.…

EU plans summer launch for Optimis cloud toolkit

Posted: 30 Apr 2012 02:17 PM PDT

Smaller businesses targeted for cloud deployment

An EU-funded project to develop open source cloud deployment tools for business will be ready for launch in June.…

Red Hat opens up OpenShift platform cloud

Posted: 30 Apr 2012 02:16 PM PDT

The species of Origin

As it promised it would, commercial Linux distributor Red Hat has opened up the source code for its OpenShift platform-as-a-cloud service.…

At last: Violin to push out HANA appliance

Posted: 30 Apr 2012 11:26 AM PDT

It's why SAP invested

We should be seeing HANA running on a Violin Memory platform, a HANA appliance, probably within 60 days. This is a forthcoming Violin Memory array using TLC flash with embedded servers running SAP's HANA in-memory database.…

SpaceX test-fires Falcon 9 rocket as Dragon sleeps

Posted: 30 Apr 2012 11:01 AM PDT

Launch rescheduling confirmed for 7 May

NASA and SpaceX have confirmed that the new launch date for the blastoff of the Dragon cargo capsule to the International Space Station will be 7 May.…

Fusion-io's flash drill threatens to burst Violin's pipes

Posted: 30 Apr 2012 10:28 AM PDT

Both touting in-mem databases with SSD backing

Blocks and Files  NoSQL database supplier Couchbase says it is tweaking its key-value storage server to hook into Fusion-io's PCIe flash ioMemory products - caching the hottest data in RAM and storing lukewarm info in flash. Couchbase will use the ioMemory SDK to bypass the host operating system's IO subsystems and buffers to drill straight into the flash cache.…

Cedexis helps admins fight performance anxiety

Posted: 30 Apr 2012 09:59 AM PDT

And shop for cloudy infrastructure

If you are shopping around for cloudy infrastructure or content delivery network providers, you probably experience a certain amount of performance anxiety while you're haggling. Even if you get a good price for compute, storage, or network capacity, you can't know how various services are performing until you have made your commitments... unless you use the tools developed by Cedexis, which has just put out a freebie portal into the data it gathers every day about the performance of the major ISPs, clouds, and CDNs.…

Over 1,200 dot-word bids flood ICANN at $180k a pop

Posted: 30 Apr 2012 09:43 AM PDT

Domain explosion showers net overlord with cash

Web baron ICANN has braced itself for at least 1,200 applications for new top-level internet domains in the first round of its controversial gTLD expansion programme.…

Zunicore adds GPUs to clouds

Posted: 30 Apr 2012 09:39 AM PDT

Cloudy child follows hosting parent into HPC

Zunicore, the cloudy infrastructure division of Peer 1 Hosting, is going ceepie-geepie hybrid and making its cloud suitable for parallel supercomputing workloads that are goosed by GPU coprocessors.…

BT missing from Pirate Bay High Court slap-down

Posted: 30 Apr 2012 09:15 AM PDT

ISPs, entertainment industry react to web blocking order

BT has been granted more time to respond to an order to block The Pirate Bay that was handed down by the UK's High Court in London late on Friday afternoon.…

Visa Europe muscles in to UK cloudy wallet market

Posted: 30 Apr 2012 09:01 AM PDT

Another day, another payment platform...

Visa Europe is filling in some of the details behind the logo it launched last year, scheduling a autumn launch for its cloud-based wallet as the payment war heats up.…

Boy wrecks £22k worth of MacBooks by weeing on them

Posted: 30 Apr 2012 08:35 AM PDT

IT department gets pissy

An 11-year-old boy has been charged with vandalism after relieving himself on a cartful of Apple MacBooks at school, causing $36,000 (£22,170) worth of damage.…

Judge: Big Five ISPs must block The Pirate Bay

Posted: 30 Apr 2012 08:26 AM PDT

'Musicians, sound engineers, video editors deserve to be paid for their work'

As expected, the High Court has ordered British ISPs to block access to The Pirate Bay. Five ISPs – Virgin Media, TalkTalk, BSkyB, Everything Everywhere and Telefonica – are involved in this case, which was brought by nine record labels.…

Nokia, private equity chat about €200m bling phone firm sale

Posted: 30 Apr 2012 08:12 AM PDT

Vertu is its own reward?

Nokia's plan to sell off Vertu, its subsidiary that makes handsets for folk with so much money they don't even need sense, emerged back in December 2011. Now it looks like the sale may go ahead.…

Microsoft stuffs $300m into Nook, bolts B&N app to Windows 8

Posted: 30 Apr 2012 08:03 AM PDT

Let's go double-team college students and forget about that Android

Microsoft has made a big push into ereaders today by pumping $300m into the makers of the Nook tablet - bookseller and Amazon arch-rival Barnes & Noble.…

BT to swing axe at sales account managers – sources

Posted: 30 Apr 2012 07:28 AM PDT

Redundancies feared at Engage IT as Dabs staff face chopping block

Staff at BT Engage IT are bracing themselves for further redundancies amid talk of a shift away from traditional reselling to managed services.…

Everything Everywhere rolls out the 4G astroturf

Posted: 30 Apr 2012 07:01 AM PDT

Celebrities line up to deny involvement

Everything Everywhere's attempt to garner public backing for its UK monopoly on 4G launched to angry responses today. EE has promised to inject £75bn into Blighty's economy if only the regulator would stand aside.…

The truth about Apple's mind-boggling low tax rate

Posted: 30 Apr 2012 06:33 AM PDT

NYT reckons it's 9.8 per cent - and that's BONKERS

Analysis  The New York Times has revealed, as a simple matter of fact, that Apple's cash-paid tax rate for 2011 was only 9.8 per cent.…

LightSquared founder Falcone steps aside on creditor's orders

Posted: 30 Apr 2012 06:02 AM PDT

Swaps power for seven-day debt extension

Philip Falcone, the force behind wannabie network operator LightSquared, has stepped aside in exchange for delaying bankruptcy by a week while a longer extension is negotiated.…

Google's latest webspam crusade 'breaks' search results

Posted: 30 Apr 2012 05:41 AM PDT

Webmasters label Penguin update a dud

Google's latest search engine algorithm update – dubbed Penguin – is proving to be something of a dud, according to website owners not happy with the latest tweak.…

What smaller businesses should look for in cloud software

Posted: 30 Apr 2012 05:30 AM PDT

Cutting SaaS down to size

Cloud services – particularly software as a service, or SaaS – ought to be an obvious option for a smaller business.…

Welsh NHS fined £70k for patient psych file leak blunder

Posted: 30 Apr 2012 05:16 AM PDT

Email address typo leads to ICO spank first

The UK's Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) has slapped its first fine on the NHS after a mental health patient's file was leaked in an email gaffe.…

Google KNEW Street View cars were slurping Wi-Fi

Posted: 30 Apr 2012 05:00 AM PDT

Wheels fall off 'one rogue engineer' claim

Google knew its Street View cars were slurping personal data from private Wi-Fi routers for three years before the story broke in April 2010.…

Foxconn daddy's shares slip on weak Q1 profit

Posted: 30 Apr 2012 04:46 AM PDT

Hon Hai is spending more on staff and new factories

Foxconn's parent company Hon Hai's shares dropped 7 per cent today after it announced weaker profits than expected in the first quarter.…

Star Wars set to expand into Disneyland

Posted: 30 Apr 2012 04:33 AM PDT

Space conversion in Paris

Disneyland Paris is said to be working on a new Star Wars zone that'll include a Jedi Academy and even a Mos Eisley Cantina restaurant.…

LOHAN enjoys a silicone lightbulb moment

Posted: 30 Apr 2012 04:29 AM PDT

Cracks hypobaric chamber seal

We've been beavering away on the Rocketry Experimental High Altitude Barosimulator (REHAB) element of our Low Orbit Helium Assisted Navigator (LOHAN) mission, and last week enjoyed a lightbulb moment as to how to create a decent seal between the metal hypobaric chamber and the glass lid.…

Bank dumps customers in 'irrigation ditch'

Posted: 30 Apr 2012 04:16 AM PDT

House repossessed? Please update your address details

It's clear that things are pretty rough in Spain, but we wonder if it's really necessary for banking monolith La Caixa to rub its customers' noses in it.…

Lenovo U300s Ultrabook

Posted: 30 Apr 2012 04:00 AM PDT

'Ang on lads, I've got an IdeaPad

Review  A body made from a single piece of aluminium. Uh-huh. A case held shut with magnets. Righty. A multi-gesture trackpad with a glass surface. Ohhh-kayyy, I think I can see what's happening here.…

Relationship between private and public cloud

Posted: 30 Apr 2012 03:53 AM PDT

help us to explore this further...

Tech Panel  We were really surprised by the positive sentiment that surfaced in relation to private cloud during our recent survey on the topic. The stark contrast between this and the mixed reaction we usually get when asking readers about public cloud was very noticeable, and the differences too great to be accounted for by the bias we might expect from an IT pro audience worrying about hosted services being a threat to job security.…

Boffins cross atom-smasher streams, 'excited' beauty pops into being

Posted: 30 Apr 2012 03:44 AM PDT

Like Weird Science on a sub-atomic scale

Topflight scientists operating vast, difficult-to-comprehend machines located in an underground cavern laboratory say that an "excited beauty" has been called into existence after they crossed the streams emanating from two unprecedentedly powerful particle accelerators.…

Hosting firm suffers 'innocent' intrusion after billing system hacked

Posted: 30 Apr 2012 03:28 AM PDT

Sore eUKHost: No financial data was taken

Web-hosting firm eUKHost has been hacked by Pakistani hacking team UrduHack, which appeared to have gained access to its billing system.…

Woz says Windows Phone 'sets the mark' for mobile UI

Posted: 30 Apr 2012 03:13 AM PDT

Would pick it over Android

Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak has again voiced support for Cupertino's rivals, this time professing his admiration for Microsoft's Windows Phone platform. He believes is "sets the mark for user interface".…

Revealed: Inside super-soaraway Pinterest's virtual data centre

Posted: 30 Apr 2012 03:13 AM PDT

How to manage a cloud with 410TB of cupcake pictures

It's every startup's dream: to be growing faster than Facebook without having to build a Facebook-sized server farm.…

Freed Facebook hack Brit vents fury at $200k cleanup claim

Posted: 30 Apr 2012 03:02 AM PDT

Mangham longs for security job after sentence halved on appeal

A UK man jailed for hacking into Facebook has vowed to rebuild his life – and his reputation – after winning an appeal against his sentence.…

Half of UK smart TV owners don't know what the 'smart' bit is for

Posted: 30 Apr 2012 02:44 AM PDT

Bought to be up-to-date, not to connect to interweb

More bad news for TV makers and smart-telly fans: only a third of Brits planning to buy a smart TV are doing so to make use of its internet connectivity.…

YouView: You’re delayed – Sugar

Posted: 30 Apr 2012 02:38 AM PDT

Set top box 'to miss Olympics 2012' deadline

The YouView set-top box won't be on sale in time for the Olympics, according to a report. Baron Sugar of Clapton, aka Alan Sugar, the chairman of the consortium, doesn't deem the technology ready for prime time.…

LG readies Dropbox, iCloud alternative

Posted: 30 Apr 2012 02:25 AM PDT

USP: on-the-fly video transcoding

Samsung is expected to launch a cloud-based sync'n'store service for its smartphones soon, but arch-rival LG has got there ahead of it.…

Griffin Helo TC Assault

Posted: 30 Apr 2012 02:00 AM PDT

Minicopters... ATTACK!

Geek Treat of the Week  Griffin's Helo TC Assault helicopter is the latest version of its app-powered chopper.…

Descriptive Camera develops text instead of images

Posted: 30 Apr 2012 01:50 AM PDT

Picture tells a thousand words

A camera for the blind sounds almost as pointless as a comb for baldies or a pedal-powered wheelchair, yet with the Descriptive Camera - a snapper that chronicles an image in text - the possibility seems less absurd.…

Windows Phone 7 'not fit for big biz ... unlike Android, iOS'

Posted: 30 Apr 2012 01:29 AM PDT

Enterprise sec expert bigs up Microsoft rivals

B-Sides  Window Phone 7 is not yet fit for enterprise deployments, according to an application security expert.…

Server flash-pusher Fusion-io is running out of steam

Posted: 30 Apr 2012 01:02 AM PDT

Record revenues ... but firm still reports $5m Q3 loss

Fusion-io is something of a contradiction. If it's so hot why isn't it making bucketloads of cash? That's the question that comes to mind after hearing hot server flash product market Fusion-io reported a loss of almost $5m in its third fiscal 2012 quarter.…

HP and Epic 'preferred bidders' for UK eHospital plan

Posted: 30 Apr 2012 12:28 AM PDT

NHS trusts to ink 10-year deal to move to shared platform

Cambridge University Hospitals and Papworth Hospital NHS foundation trusts have named HP and Epic as preferred bidders for the implemenation of a common technology platform, including the deployment of an electronic patient record system (EPR).…

Expert: UK would break its own rules with web-snoop law

Posted: 30 Apr 2012 12:02 AM PDT

Hello there, Data Protection Act

The UK government will have to create a new exemption to the rules for processing sensitive personal data in order to facilitate any new "fast-track mechanism" for data-sharing by its departments and public bodies, an expert has said.…

Judge delays decision in key web freedom case

Posted: 29 Apr 2012 10:59 PM PDT

Thai journo faces TWENTY years for insulting royals

An online news editor facing up to 20 years in a Thai prison for failing to delete quickly enough comments on the site insulting the royal family has had her case postponed again as webmasters in the country wait nervously on the outcome.…

Beijing removes all online mentions of fleeing activist Chen

Posted: 29 Apr 2012 08:49 PM PDT

'According to relevant laws ... these search results cannot be shown'

China's online censorship machine flew into overdrive at the weekend to remove all mention of blind human rights lawyer Chen Guangcheng, who fled house arrest and is reportedly now under protection in the US embassy in Beijing.…

Optus’ free broadband: the details

Posted: 29 Apr 2012 07:36 PM PDT

Has there been a bigger naked DSL rollout in Oz?

Optus' new "free broadband" offers are a little more complex than the "free" headline would have you believe.…

Wind farms create local warming

Posted: 29 Apr 2012 06:19 PM PDT

Turbines stir things up

Wind farms heat up their local environment, creating an effect similar to the urban heat islands generated by cities' intensive energy use.…

Tabcorp bets on IPTV

Posted: 29 Apr 2012 05:27 PM PDT

Live races, punting, coming to tablets and IPTV

Australian betting giant Tabcorp is ramping up its IPTV connectivity in significant deals with Akamai and Kit Digital as it expands its streaming media and integrated betting applications globally.…

Study finds water cycle accelerating with warming

Posted: 29 Apr 2012 05:14 PM PDT

Wet gets wetter, dry gets drier

Climate models are inaccurate, but not in a comforting way: that's the conclusion of an ocean salinity study conducted by CSIRO and the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, which indicates that changes in the water cycle are running faster than models predicted.…

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