Gates' Corbis busted again for fraud |
- Gates' Corbis busted again for fraud
- Australia's first space park launched
- Pirate Bay struggling to get on feet after DDoS to the knee
- UK.gov's G-Cloud 2.0 pushes back launch date
- Nvidia shows off superjuiced Kepler GPU
- Mobile fee dodgers will get away with enough cash to bail out Greece
- Samsung and SK Hynix shares slide on Apple snub
- Speaking in Tech: The worst government IT deal of ALL TIME
- Is there life after ads for St Zuck?
- Britain has 10 million twits, tweets Twitter
- Three pitches 'cheaper' MiFi mobile hotspot
- NASA found filming August's Mars landing in California desert
- Logicalis profits throttled by tight-fisted biz
- BBC deletes <i>Blue Peter</i> from BBC One
- Pure pushes flash stash, mocks spinning disk with YouTube gag
- Google unleashes Chrome 19, flattens 20 bugs
- <i>Social Network</i> scribe to turn hefty Steve Jobs tome to popcorn-fodder
- Pints under attack as Lord Howe demands metric-only UK
- Why GM slammed the brakes on its $10m Facebook ads
- 'Catastrophic' Avira antivirus update bricks Windows PCs
- Real-time drone videos get GPU-tastic
- <strong>[<abbr title="Not Safe For Work">NSFW</abbr>]</strong> Watchdog bites bar over 'offensive' Facebook ad
- Fasthosts officially not the best in UK for virtual servers
- Confused, pessimistic on G-Cloud? You must work in government
- Lost Winds 2: Winter of the Melodias
- HTC phones held up at US ports after Apple patent ban
- Dell feeds Xeon E5s to hungry new PowerEdge beasts
- The Incredible 4PB Hulk: EMC monsterises VMAX
- Carphone Warehouse touts cut-price iPads
- ASA tuts at TalkTalk over broadband speed estimator
- Sony outs 1080p skinny laptops
- EMC rounds up rival arrays, beats 'em into submission
- Google+ dying on its arse – shock new poll
- Facebook starting to go big in Brazil. Hmm ...
- O2 dips toe into Groupon's pond with tat discounts
- Only global poverty can save the planet, insists WWF - and the ESA!
- Hitachi GST releases skinny spinner
- One in two punters don't mind cookie-spewing stalking ads
- IT bungle left dole office unable to check benefits for months
- Microsoft touts 400% Asia growth for Office 365
- Nokia Lumia 900 WinPho 7 smartphone
- 75,000 Raspberry Pi baked before August
- Telstra denies IPTV shift
- Stuxnet ≠ cyberwar, says US Army Cyber Command officer
- China steps up crack down on hi-tech exam cheats
- Apple places massive DRAM order at Elpida plant - report
- Graphics shocker: Nvidia virtualizes Kepler GPUs
- South Australia plans digital evidence review
- <i>Casablanca</i> to screen for free on Facebook
- Button batteries BURN KIDS FROM INSIDE
| Gates' Corbis busted again for fraud Posted: 16 May 2012 03:29 PM PDT Infoflows wins US$12m in damages, Gates still madCorbis, the digital stock photo company founded by Bill Gates in 1989, remains embroiled in a protracted fraud case instigated by Seattle based Infoflows.… |
| Australia's first space park launched Posted: 16 May 2012 01:00 PM PDT WA set to track space stations Swedish styleAustralia's only dedicated satellite park, SSC Space Australia, is now open for business and is currently in advanced negotiations with two international space agencies from Europe and Asia to use the new West Australian (WA) facility.… |
| Pirate Bay struggling to get on feet after DDoS to the knee Posted: 16 May 2012 11:29 AM PDT Anonymous says 'not us, dude'The Pirate Bay claimed to be "getting back up! Stronger than ever!" this evening after crumpling under a DDoS attack for most of today.… |
| UK.gov's G-Cloud 2.0 pushes back launch date Posted: 16 May 2012 11:03 AM PDT Public sector IT bazaar turns to open sourceThe launch of the second version of the UK government's IT shopping catalogue G-Cloud has slipped to the end of spring.… |
| Nvidia shows off superjuiced Kepler GPU Posted: 16 May 2012 10:27 AM PDT From workhouse to racehorseHPC blog There were quite a few surprises in today's GTC12 keynote by NVIDIA CEO and co-founder Jen-Hsun Huang.… |
| Mobile fee dodgers will get away with enough cash to bail out Greece Posted: 16 May 2012 10:01 AM PDT US code paranoia lets cash trickle through cracksMobile customers are dodging fees running to hundreds of billions of dollars by a combination of accident and design – both facilitated by badly designed billing systems which aren't up to the task. However, US paranoia plays its part too.…
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| Samsung and SK Hynix shares slide on Apple snub Posted: 16 May 2012 09:32 AM PDT Memory-makers hurt by losing contract to bankrupt ElpidaShares in Samsung have fallen over 6 per cent on news that Apple preferred to place huge chip orders with bankrupt firm Elpida Memory.… |
| Speaking in Tech: The worst government IT deal of ALL TIME Posted: 16 May 2012 08:59 AM PDT The one about the oversized Cisco routersPodcast It's the eighth episode of our enterprise tech podcast – and it's a special one. The podcast is split up into two parts: in the first part, your hosts interview a journalist investigating the State of West Virginia's absurd purchase of drastically oversized Cisco routers – it's an incredible story you have to hear to believe.… |
| Is there life after ads for St Zuck? Posted: 16 May 2012 08:48 AM PDT Facebook credits, and what they might buyAnalysis As we reported today, the third-largest advertiser in the United States says it's going to stop advertising on Facebook, citing lack of engagement. General Motors is taking the $10m it spunks on Facebook ads somewhere else. This is a tiny proportion of GM's $1.1bn annual advertising budget, but it's hardly a vote of confidence from major brands in boy-child St Zuck's burgeoning global empire.… |
| Britain has 10 million twits, tweets Twitter Posted: 16 May 2012 08:17 AM PDT Why shout at the TV when you can yell at the web instead?There are ten million active Twitter accounts in Blighty, the microblogging wunderkind announced on, er, Twitter this morning. And 80 per cent of UK twits access the site on their mobiles.… |
| Three pitches 'cheaper' MiFi mobile hotspot Posted: 16 May 2012 08:05 AM PDT As good as the current model, but less expensiveThree hasn't said how much cheaper its new MiFi device is than Three's existing one, but that's what the telco is promising.…
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| NASA found filming August's Mars landing in California desert Posted: 16 May 2012 07:58 AM PDT 'Just a rehearsal for the real one', insist rover boffinsNASA boffins have been found at a site deep in California's Mojave desert with a Mars rover of the exact type they say will land on Mars this August, filming the machine as it drove about among the Earthly sand dunes.… |
| Logicalis profits throttled by tight-fisted biz Posted: 16 May 2012 07:53 AM PDT UK earnings down a quarterICT jack-of-all-trades Logicalis UK has been hit by a freeze in demand as customers weathered the biting economic storm.… |
| BBC deletes <i>Blue Peter</i> from BBC One Posted: 16 May 2012 07:38 AM PDT Children's TV staple sent away to digitalBlue Peter - home to four-legged rascal Shep, the coat-hanger advent crown and school-boy favourite Janet Ellis, is being turfed out of its home on BBC One.… |
| Pure pushes flash stash, mocks spinning disk with YouTube gag Posted: 16 May 2012 07:19 AM PDT Cheap as NAND chipsVid Pure Storage is pushing the idea that its deduped flash array is cheaper than tier one enterprise disk array storage but miles faster and more reliable.… |
| Google unleashes Chrome 19, flattens 20 bugs Posted: 16 May 2012 07:02 AM PDT Hot fuzz spawns QuickTime patchGoogle released a major update to its Chrome browser on Tuesday that tackles 20 security vulnerabilities, eight of which are classified as high-risk bugs.… |
| <i>Social Network</i> scribe to turn hefty Steve Jobs tome to popcorn-fodder Posted: 16 May 2012 06:26 AM PDT Plus: Aston Kutcher grows creepy beard for role in the OTHER Jobs filmThe screenwriter who brought a bratty young Mark Zuckerberg to life in the film The Social Network has been appointed as the writer of new Steve Jobs biopic.…
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| Pints under attack as Lord Howe demands metric-only UK Posted: 16 May 2012 06:03 AM PDT Weights and measures a 'uniquely confusing shambles'Lord Geoffrey Howe of Aberavon has demanded that the UK goes fully metric as soon as possible, describing the current mix of miles and kilometres and pints and litres as a "uniquely confusing shambles".… |
| Why GM slammed the brakes on its $10m Facebook ads Posted: 16 May 2012 05:38 AM PDT Wheels fell off 'boring inefficient' car advertsAnalysis In the week that Facebook finally went public, General Motors has axed its paid-for advertising on Mark Zuckerberg's social network.… |
| 'Catastrophic' Avira antivirus update bricks Windows PCs Posted: 16 May 2012 05:17 AM PDT rundll32.exe? cmd.exe? You clearly don't need thoseSecurity software biz Avira has apologised after its antivirus suites went haywire and disabled customers' Windows machines.… |
| Real-time drone videos get GPU-tastic Posted: 16 May 2012 05:02 AM PDT Swimming in sensors, drowning in dataHPC blog Here at the GPU Technology Conference (GTC 2012), you see a lot of things that you didn't think were quite possible yet. Case in point: cleaning up surveillance video.… |
| Posted: 16 May 2012 04:45 AM PDT Stoke venue's man oysters leave ASA open-mouthedNSFW The Advertising Standards Authority has sunk its teeth into the Manhattan Bar in Stoke on Trent, for a Facebook promotion "likely to cause serious or widespread offence".…
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| Fasthosts officially not the best in UK for virtual servers Posted: 16 May 2012 04:27 AM PDT Boasts in adverts banned by ASA after rival complainsBrit web biz Fasthosts has been slapped down by the Advertising Standards Agency (ASA) for boasting that its virtual servers were the "best" in the UK.… |
| Confused, pessimistic on G-Cloud? You must work in government Posted: 16 May 2012 04:16 AM PDT VMware's ex-G-Cloud man's cure: communicationConfusion and pessimism about the government's G-Cloud and ICT plans is widespread among civil servants running the nation's technology .… |
| Lost Winds 2: Winter of the Melodias Posted: 16 May 2012 04:00 AM PDT Blow job?iGamer With his Chibi proportions and boyish looks, Toku cuts an extremely familiar figure, as do most of the things around him: talking animals, impish sprites and elemental deities. So pervasive is Nintendo's influence throughout Winter of the Melodias, in fact, that neither the land of Mistralis nor its diminutive hero would seem out of place in a Mario or Zelda game.… |
| HTC phones held up at US ports after Apple patent ban Posted: 16 May 2012 03:47 AM PDT Stocks low as customs search boxes for illicit gearUS sales of two new HTC smartphones have been held up at customs over the company's patent battle with Apple.… |
| Dell feeds Xeon E5s to hungry new PowerEdge beasts Posted: 16 May 2012 03:28 AM PDT Cheaper duos and quads, so we hearDell has added nine new Xeon E5-powered boxes to its PowerEdge 12G lineup as it chases the booming market for quad-socket machines in Asia.… |
| The Incredible 4PB Hulk: EMC monsterises VMAX Posted: 16 May 2012 03:14 AM PDT Last big primary data array push before flash tsunamiEMC has gained top datacentre dog bragging rights with a coming 4 petabyte VMAX 40K storage array, storing 60 per cent more than HDS's biggest VSP array and 74 per cent more than IBM's DS8000. This is possibly one of the last massive primary data arrays before flash takes over the primary data storage universe*.…
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| Carphone Warehouse touts cut-price iPads Posted: 16 May 2012 03:07 AM PDT Catch: they're last year's modelCarphone Warehouse still has plenty of iPad 2s in its stock cupboard and has just knocked up to £50 off the price to shift them.… |
| ASA tuts at TalkTalk over broadband speed estimator Posted: 16 May 2012 03:01 AM PDT Tool can stay, but ISP must add warning about potential inaccuracyTalkTalk got rapped on the knuckles by the Advertising Standards Authority today after it upheld a complaint that its broadband speed checker was rather overestimating the actual speed of web surfing.… |
| Sony outs 1080p skinny laptops Posted: 16 May 2012 02:47 AM PDT Vaio Z revampedMore updated Vaio laptops from Sony, this time the Z series - the latter the original Ultrabook, introduced before the MacBook Air and long before Intel coined the term.… |
| EMC rounds up rival arrays, beats 'em into submission Posted: 16 May 2012 02:41 AM PDT You will work with each otherEMC VMAX arrays will team up competing drive arrays with a new version of the VMAX Enginuity OS.… |
| Google+ dying on its arse – shock new poll Posted: 16 May 2012 02:21 AM PDT Bet-the-company wager goes southGoogle has bet the company on Google+, but it's dying on its arse. A study by traffic analysts RJ Metrics suggests that public engagement with the social network is weak, and failing to gather momentum.… |
| Facebook starting to go big in Brazil. Hmm ... Posted: 16 May 2012 02:01 AM PDT Plus: Monaco and Iceland have more accounts than peopleFacebook's user base is plateauing across Europe and the US and the site has seen losses as well as gains in the developing world, the latest statistics from Social Analytics firm Socialbaked show.… |
| O2 dips toe into Groupon's pond with tat discounts Posted: 16 May 2012 01:38 AM PDT Polls punters for special offer ideasTaking a leaf out of Groupon's book, O2 is asking its "Priority Moments" customers which firms it would like O2 to negotiate deals with, tapping the social networks to discover that most O2 users like Nandos regardless of their demographic.…
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| Only global poverty can save the planet, insists WWF - and the ESA! Posted: 16 May 2012 01:19 AM PDT Windfarms for all, but without using steel or concreteAnalysis Extremist green campaigning group WWF - endorsed by no less a body than the European Space Agency - has stated that economic growth should be abandoned, that citizens of the world's wealthy nations should prepare for poverty and that all the human race's energy should be produced as renewable electricity within 38 years from now.… |
| Hitachi GST releases skinny spinner Posted: 16 May 2012 01:02 AM PDT Slim slow sliderWestern Digital's latest acquisition, Hitachi GST, has released a skinny single platter drive for consumer electronics devices.… |
| One in two punters don't mind cookie-spewing stalking ads Posted: 16 May 2012 12:31 AM PDT Survey: Do not track, or do if you wantNearly half of UK internet users are happy for advertisers to track their online activity in order to deliver more targeted ads, according to new survey figures.… |
| IT bungle left dole office unable to check benefits for months Posted: 16 May 2012 12:07 AM PDT Tech delay hit DWP's Work ProgrammeLate delivery of IT to support the Work Programme left it without a system to carry out automated checks on whether people - who had been placed into work by the programme's 18 prime contractors - had stopped claiming benefits.… |
| Microsoft touts 400% Asia growth for Office 365 Posted: 15 May 2012 11:47 PM PDT SMBs make the leap online but Google benefiting tooMicrosoft is trumpeting impressive 400 per cent growth in adoption of its Office 365 online productivity suite by Asian SMBs over the past three quarters, although analysts pointed out that Google is still taking business from Redmond worldwide.…
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| Nokia Lumia 900 WinPho 7 smartphone Posted: 15 May 2012 11:00 PM PDT Bigger and better?Review So you're trying to revive the fortunes of what was, until a few weeks ago, the biggest mobile phone manufacturer on the planet. You've launched a handset or two with a new operating system and they've gone down quite well. So what next? How about taking one of those handsets and releasing a near-identical one, different only in size and capabilities. Bigger and better, you know?… |
| 75,000 Raspberry Pi baked before August Posted: 15 May 2012 10:50 PM PDT Distie says Arduino sales 'overtaken in an instant'RS Components, one of two distributors for the Raspberry Pi, says the 75,000 of the tiny computers are burbling through the manufacturing supply chain and will be ready for release "in July to August".… |
| Posted: 15 May 2012 10:34 PM PDT Ellis review results hold staff in suspenseTelstra has strongly rejected claims that the company will move away from the IPTV market, in a response to The Register's report last Monday that it was reviewing its IPTV strategy and considering moving its 300,000+ T-Box customers to Foxtel.… |
| Stuxnet ≠ cyberwar, says US Army Cyber Command officer Posted: 15 May 2012 10:31 PM PDT AusCERT: What is cyberwar anyway?While "cyber* operations" are becoming an increasing focus of both government and private research, legal frameworks are failing to keep pace, the US Army Cyber Command operational attorney Robert Clark has told the AusCERT security conference in Queensland.… |
| China steps up crack down on hi-tech exam cheats Posted: 15 May 2012 10:22 PM PDT No, you may not take that tablet into the exam hall...The Chinese ministry of education has been forced to update its rules prohibiting cheating in college entrance exams to take account of the increasingly ingenious hi-tech methods used by desperate students and their parents to succeed in the hugely important exams.… |
| Apple places massive DRAM order at Elpida plant - report Posted: 15 May 2012 08:55 PM PDT Memory-hungry fondleslabs and iPhones the culpritsApple has taken a punt on bankrupt Japanese DRAM manufacturer Elpida, placing orders for a whopping 50 per cent of the firm's production of chips at its Hiroshima facility, according to Digitimes.…
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| Graphics shocker: Nvidia virtualizes Kepler GPUs Posted: 15 May 2012 07:11 PM PDT VGX revs virty desktops, fluffs gamy clouds, changes everythingGTC 2012 You game-console makers who still want to be in the hardware business, look out. You console makers who don't want to be in the hardware business (this might mean you, Microsoft), you can all breathe a sigh of relief: after a five-year effort, Nvidia is adding graphics virtualization to its latest "Kepler" line of GPUs.… |
| South Australia plans digital evidence review Posted: 15 May 2012 06:04 PM PDT Laws mentioning "telegram and telegraph" may not cover Internet adequatelyLaw reform advocates in South Australia are leading a push to have the rules of evidence reviewed to take new computer and communications technology into account.… |
| <i>Casablanca</i> to screen for free on Facebook Posted: 15 May 2012 05:52 PM PDT Not the beginning of a beautiful friendship outside the USASeventy year-old flick Casablanca is set to get a free outing in a new medium: Facebook.… |
| Button batteries BURN KIDS FROM INSIDE Posted: 15 May 2012 05:11 PM PDT Where's that dead CMOS battery you replaced last week?The next time you replace a button battery, do take care to dispose of it thoughtfully lest your kids swallow it and end up subjecting their innards to a damaging electrical current.… |
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