Indonesia cleans up SMS

Indonesia cleans up SMS


Indonesia cleans up SMS

Posted: 28 May 2012 12:30 PM PDT

Telcos spammed one other to harm service

Indonesia has changed its telecommunications laws to ensure that the nation's mobile carriers pay for SMS messages sent to rivals.…

Scan co-jacking nets crooks '€40k in IT gear'

Posted: 28 May 2012 10:02 AM PDT

Imposters lure recession-hit suppliers

Crooks have masqueraded as buyers at web bazaar Scan to obtain goods from its suppliers by deception.…

Facebook needs Opera - to rescue it from dependence on Apple

Posted: 28 May 2012 09:37 AM PDT

Fat lady barely starting a preliminary gargle, though

Analysis  Facebook is reported to be interested in buying Scandinavian browser company Opera Software.…

Dual-dock prototype iPad eyed on eBay

Posted: 28 May 2012 09:13 AM PDT

Own a piece of history

Some time back, an Apple was granted a patent which showed an iPad with two dock connectors, allowing the device to be docked in either landscape or portrait mode.…

Complex cyberwar tool 'Flame' found ALL OVER Middle East

Posted: 28 May 2012 09:01 AM PDT

20 times larger than Stuxnet, two years old... and still active

A new super-cyberweapon targeting countries like Iran and Israel that has been knocking around in computers for two years has been discovered by researchers.…

Facebook phone tagged for 2013 release

Posted: 28 May 2012 08:50 AM PDT

Off the wall

The Facebook hardware rumour mill is in full spin again this week after reports suggest the social network is preparing its own smartphone for 2013.…

UK High Court split over Twitter airport bomb joke

Posted: 28 May 2012 08:29 AM PDT

New hearing ordered to discuss fate of Paul Chambers after judges disagree

A man who was convicted of posting a tasteless joke on Twitter about blowing up a UK airport is to have his case heard again.…

Hit upgrade on Symantec Backup Exec, and unleash Hell

Posted: 28 May 2012 08:02 AM PDT

Irate users jet into company HQ for facemail criticism

Backup Exec 2012 users are screaming in frustration over the "improvements" pushed out this year.…

Steve Jobs' Atari memo, Apple I to go under the hammer

Posted: 28 May 2012 07:28 AM PDT

Bids for musings of 19-year-old pre-titan start at $10k

Before Steve Jobs came up with the iPhone or even the Apple II, he designed paddles for ball-flipping games at Atari where the scruffy 19-year-old was employed to improve game design.…

Agriboffins' site downed by DDoS after GM protest

Posted: 28 May 2012 07:27 AM PDT

Hactivists may have been linked to Anonymous

Agricultural research institute Rothamsted Research was pulled offline in a DDoS attack just hours after police stopped protestors destroying a GM crop trial at the facility.…

Renesas rumours: Semi seeks $1.3bn stimulus, stiffs 12,000

Posted: 28 May 2012 07:02 AM PDT

Chip giant ducks mass redundancies claims

Down-on-its-luck semiconductor biz Renesas Electronics announced today the first step of a rumoured restructuring plan that's believed to include 12,000 job cuts.…

Crazy Geckos: Nitot on Mozilla's post-Firefox mobile crusade

Posted: 28 May 2012 06:33 AM PDT

Open-source handset versus Android and Apple

First came the BlackBerry, bringing the smartphones for suits perfected by RIM to consumers. Next came the iPhone, which quickly hoovered up 23 per cent of the market. But the iPhone came at a price: the freedom of users and coders. It is tightly controlled by Apple, as Adobe quickly found to its cost with Flash.…

Microsoft will fiddle with prices as euro burns, UK biz fears

Posted: 28 May 2012 06:02 AM PDT

Tumbling currency a nightmare for costing volume buying

Microsoft's partners are braced for further changes in volume pricing this year as the euro flutters wildly in the economic storm.…

Student cluster warriors to face off on new battlefield: ISC

Posted: 28 May 2012 05:39 AM PDT

Nearly THIRTY Chinese universities entered heat

HPC blog  I've been following the annual SC Student Cluster Competition (SCC) for a few years now. It's a great programme that pits teams of university undergrads against each other in the quest to design, build, and benchmark their own clustered systems. In the process they learn a lot about HPC, get a lot of exposure to the industry, and generally have a great time.…

YouView reportedly set for 2500-home pre-Olympics trial

Posted: 28 May 2012 05:15 AM PDT

Soft launch to justify deadline met claims?

YouView, would IPTV world's answer to Freeview, may get a soft launch into 2500 homes before the start of the Olympic Games.…

Facebook ninjas scale wall, pluck iPhone techies from Apple's garden

Posted: 28 May 2012 05:03 AM PDT

Social network boosts hardware skills as Zuck mulls Facebook phone

Facebook has apparently hired in more than six iPhone and iPad engineers who could well be the social network's team for a Facebook smartphone, the The New York Times reports.…

Dell Windows 8 tablet, hybrid details leak

Posted: 28 May 2012 04:49 AM PDT

United slates

Dell's tablet plans for 2012 have slipped out, revealing a chunky Windows 8 slate and a tablet-laptop hybrid also set to run with Microsoft's tile-centric OS.…

Phoenix restructure sends profits down in flames

Posted: 28 May 2012 04:45 AM PDT

Salesforce distracted by overhaul

Phoenix IT Group saw its wings decisively clipped over the last year, as a wide-ranging restructure battered profits and helped knock sales off-course in an already tough market.…

Self-driving Volvos cover 200km of busy Spanish motorway

Posted: 28 May 2012 04:33 AM PDT

Real-world test for Project Sartre

Three cars have successfully driven themselves by automatically following a lorry for 125 miles on a public motorway in the presence of other, normal road users.…

Cloud migration: The applications killing season

Posted: 28 May 2012 04:30 AM PDT

How to determine the business value of an app

Moving applications to the cloud can help to tighten the efficiency of the IT department, but does that mean that every application should be moved?…

Space Station crew enter the Dragon

Posted: 28 May 2012 04:12 AM PDT

Pop the hatch, get blast of 'new car smell'

Pic  The crew of the International Space Station cracked open the hatch of the SpaceX Dragon cargoship to see what's inside - after the docked capsule was declared safe for them to step in.…

Sony KDL-55HX853 55in 3D LED TV

Posted: 28 May 2012 04:00 AM PDT

Flagship Bravia with the Olympics in mind

Review  The 55inch KDL-HX853 is currently the highest ranked of Sony's 2012 TVs. It heads up a new Spartan range from the brand intended to rebuild its TV fortunes. Interestingly, it doesn't come laden with features seemingly pulled at random from a brainstorming session down the local Karaoke; which means it's not competing directly with Samsung's massively-pimped ES8000 models, and as a consequence it's considerably cheaper, at around £1,800. It is, however, comparable on style and packs Hubble-grade image enhancement.…

Virgin Media wipes out websites with routing blackhole

Posted: 28 May 2012 03:43 AM PDT

'Issues which may cause issues' leave network 'virtually unusable' for days

Virgin Media customers have been struggling to access websites via the telco's network for the past four days, after routing errors crippled the service.…

'6,000 RIM jobs at risk' of a pink slip

Posted: 28 May 2012 03:33 AM PDT

Heins source claims layoffs as early as June

BlackBerry maker Research In Motion is threatening to axe thousands of its workers, according to reports.…

LG shows off 'first' full HD LCD for smartphones

Posted: 28 May 2012 03:31 AM PDT

5in, 440dpi screen, anyone?

And the latest entry in the 'how many pixels can we cram into a phone display' stakes comes from LG which today announced a 5in in-plan switching (IPS) LCD with a 1920 x 1080 resolution.…

Free Windows 8 desktop app development is dead

Posted: 28 May 2012 03:13 AM PDT

Metro or bust with Visual Studio 2011 Express

The next free version of Microsoft's Visual Studio programming suite won't build normal Windows desktop apps, it has emerged.…

EU set to smack Chinese telcos over state subsidies

Posted: 28 May 2012 03:02 AM PDT

Getting money off gov is not playing fair, kettle tells pot

The European Trade Commission is all set to launch a massive case against Chinese firms Huawei and ZTE for allegedly dumping products on the EU market after allegedly benefiting from illegal state subsidies.…

Fusion-io stuffs workstation storage into bulging hand luggage

Posted: 28 May 2012 02:41 AM PDT

Dual-GPUs, 3GB/sec I/O and fits in overhead bin

HPC blog  Fusion-io nabbed prime real estate on the GTC 2012 exhibit floor – right inside the entryway. They took advantage of it by offering a hosted oxygen bar, complete with an oxygen bartender and a wide selection of coloured/flavoured airs. I got the lowdown on their offerings (it's hospital grade oxygen – something I insist upon) before talking to Vince Brisebois, industry manager for Fusion's high performance group and product manager for its new ioFX workstation SSD.…

Disk-flash storage mix biz chief on the SSD situation

Posted: 28 May 2012 02:18 AM PDT

A NexGen view of flash

Interview  EMC has confirmed a 3-layer enterprise flash cake composed of server cache, server-area Thunder array and SAN-attached Xtremio technology, but not a new design hybrid flash and disk drive array.…

Jabra Clipper

Posted: 28 May 2012 02:00 AM PDT

Discreet Bluetooth headset

Geek Treat of the Week  Jabra's Clipper is a two-piece Bluetooth headset designed to be attached to clothing or a bag.…

Why don't the best techies work in the channel?

Posted: 28 May 2012 01:32 AM PDT

'Cos the channel doesn't want them

I'm OK at Firewall One, but any number of people reading this are better, completing the tasks 10 times more quickly and screwing up 10 times less often.…

TalkTalk subsidiary's customer data placed on the web in IIS whoopsie

Posted: 28 May 2012 01:01 AM PDT

Called TalkTalk, not ListenListen

Updated  Greystone Telecom, adopted child of TalkTalk and provider of telecommunications to the business community, is unwittingly sharing customer and contract details with the world: but TalkTalk doesn't care.…

New Brit nano-satellite to use Xbox Kinect for docking in space

Posted: 28 May 2012 12:29 AM PDT

Consumer kit really is more powerful than trad space gear

Boffins at Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd (SSTL) have come up with a second zany satellite in their STRaND line, which will use Xbox Kinect technology to hook up with another satellite in space.…

Ex-Nokia Siemens engineer admits eBaying nicked routers

Posted: 28 May 2012 12:01 AM PDT

Cash-strapped dad in court for Wi-Fi kit theft

A hard-up ex-engineer at Nokia Siemens swiped wireless routers worth thousands of pounds from his employer to refurbish and flog on eBay.…

Foxconn to create workers' paradise?

Posted: 27 May 2012 11:03 PM PDT

Report suggests 144 per cent pay rise on the way

Foxconn plans to double the minimum wage of its mainland China workers by 2013 as part of a renewed attempt to soften the image of the ultra-secretive company, says Taiwanese site Want Daily.…

Hands on with Nokia's 808 41Mp camphone

Posted: 27 May 2012 11:00 PM PDT

Lumia 610 too

First look  If a company needed some luck right now, then Nokia would certainly fit the bill. Having partnered with Microsoft to deliver a new range of smartphones based on Windows Phone 7, it consequently shares a platform with the likes of HTC and Samsung. Still, Nokia is thinking lucky because it reckons it can deliver services on WinPho7 that will give it the edge.…

Biz social networking set for take-off

Posted: 27 May 2012 10:57 PM PDT

Asia Pac leading the rush to work smarter

The market for enterprise social media and Web 2.0 tools is growing by over 20 per cent a year and will top $126m (£80m) by 2017 as firms look for better ways to collaborate and manage content across Asia Pacific, according to a new report from Frost & Sullivan.…

China claims piracy at new low

Posted: 27 May 2012 09:16 PM PDT

Wait a minute, how low?

The rate of software piracy in China dropped to just 38 per cent in 2011, according to new government-backed figures that are markedly different to those from the Business Software Alliance (BSA), which recently branded the country the world's worst offender.…

Acronis loses Australian General Manager

Posted: 27 May 2012 09:09 PM PDT

Interviews under way for replacement, steady as she goes etc.

Backup software vendor Acronis has lost its General Manager for Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific.…

ITU adopts <i>two</i> ultra-high def TV specs

Posted: 27 May 2012 07:27 PM PDT

4K and 8K both get UHDTV moniker

The International Telecommunications Union (ITU) has "agreed a draft new Recommendation on the technical details for 'Ultra High Definition Television'," but has decided that both 3840x2160 tellies, and future 7680 x4320 screens, both get the name UHDTV.…

Bandwidth broker to light up dark nets

Posted: 27 May 2012 07:03 PM PDT

Mobsource adds "network as a service" to the "x-aas" lexicon

A new global bandwidth exchange and trading platform targeting the growth in cloud based services and leveraging a global bandwidth glut has been launched by an Australian telecommunications executive.…

Trekkie wants to build USS Enterprise … in twenty years

Posted: 27 May 2012 06:21 PM PDT

Suggests open source design process to get spaceship boldly going

A US Star Trek fan has launched an online project aimed at building a working replica of the USS Enterprise … in twenty years.…

'Biocoal' fuels steam train comeback

Posted: 27 May 2012 05:23 PM PDT

Uni of Minnesota steampunks plot loco speed record

Trainspotters who find the homogenized world of modern locos a bit dull could soon be celebrating the return of steam, if all goes well in a University of Minnesota study.…

Big Blue supers crunch kaon decay

Posted: 27 May 2012 05:14 PM PDT

Massive machines probe matter mystery

Looking at the fundamental properties of matter can take some serious computing grunt.…

Short-lived backhaul declaration better, says Voda

Posted: 27 May 2012 04:40 PM PDT

'Don't lock in long-term price', carrier tells ACCC

Vodafone is warning the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) against setting backhaul service prices too far into the future, saying that an early review would be better for the industry than a long-term lock-in.…

YouTube takes on Instagram with 'Frontrow'

Posted: 27 May 2012 04:37 PM PDT

Global launch at Sydney Opera House's Vivid Festival

YouTube has unleashed an app which takes it into Instagram territory, in the form of an Australian-devised app called Frontrow which has made its debut at the Vivid LIVE festival at the Sydney Opera House.…

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