Mindspeed gets China Mobile femto gig |
- Mindspeed gets China Mobile femto gig
- Oracle juices homegrown Xen to match own-brand Linux
- Backdoor sniffed in ZTE's US Android smartphones
- Tech Data still feeling the burn from Brazilian shave
- 'Dated and cheesy' Aero ripped from Windows 8
- Google snubs Euro watchdog's 'abuse of dominance' claims
- ALL NHS patient records online by 2015
- IBM parks parallel file system on Big Data's lawn
- NVIDIA VGX VDI: New tech? Or rehashed hash?
- Audi proposes PC-packing stunt bikes
- Met cops' CSI mobe-snoop tech sparks privacy fears
- Does private cloud follow virtualisation?
- IP law probe MPs hunt for smoking gun, find plenty of smoke
- Nasdaq red-faced after software snafu stalls Facebook IPO
- Core Wars: Inside Intel's power struggle with NVIDIA
- Ouch! Facebook slumps below IPO value on day 2
- What's copying your music really worth to you?
- Brussels throws antitrust settlement lifeline to Google
- Resistance is futile? Memristor RAM now cheap as chips
- Another NHS trust coughs up £90k fine for lax fax acts
- Waterstones stores surrender to Amazonian invaders
- T-Mobile slip exposes 1,100 punters' email addresses
- Acer crosses Ivy Bridge with latest laptops
- Bang & Olufsen Beolit 12
- Raspberry Pi gets snappy with camera add-on
- Zuck weds self to lady friend in surprise ceremony
- Met bobbies get CSI kit to probe perps' mobes
- Yahoo! gets! $7.1bn! injection! from! Alibaba! stake! sale!
- Brit knits jumper for NASA space chicken
- New Oyster online service goes live at TfL
- Facebook and IM apps abused to spread social-climbing worm
- NHS car-crash spatters CSC accounts with red ink
- UK mobile broadband carriers compared
- Smoke-belching flash drive self-destructs on command
- Creatives spin copyright licence that sticks to web
- Windows Phone beats iOS sales in China
- China blesses Google's Moto buy, patent problems persist
- Microsoft, NetApp, Citrix, team for FreeBSD on Hyper-V
- Anonymous takes out Indian CERT as attacks continue
- Cloud mega-uploads aren't easy
- Alain de Botton wants better online smut
- iinet poaches Internode CTO
- Noise can improve quantum computing, says ANU scientist
- IBM’s first tape drive turns 60
- Pakistan blocks Twitter, then changes its mind
| Mindspeed gets China Mobile femto gig Posted: 21 May 2012 02:01 PM PDT Must rig out support for political legacy, thoughMindspeed, sugar daddy to the UK-based Picochip, will be setting up a development lab with China Mobile to deploy cells using TD-LTE tech, but also supporting TD-SCDMA – as politics, rather than technology, demands.… |
| Oracle juices homegrown Xen to match own-brand Linux Posted: 21 May 2012 12:43 PM PDT One Ellisonized kernel to bind them allSystem maker Oracle has upgraded its version of the Xen server virtualization hypervisor with its own variant of the Linux kernel to bring it in synch with its Enterprise Linux server operating system distro.… |
| Backdoor sniffed in ZTE's US Android smartphones Posted: 21 May 2012 12:04 PM PDT Dial R for RootChinese handset manufacturer ZTE has confirmed the presence of a backdoor in one of its Android smartphones.… |
| Tech Data still feeling the burn from Brazilian shave Posted: 21 May 2012 10:01 AM PDT Country exit keeps hitting sales, but profit creeps upTech Data Corporation, the IT distie giant and parent of Computer 2000 and Azlan in the UK, has seen net income rise to $51.7m in the first quarter of the year, despite a fall in revenue.… |
| 'Dated and cheesy' Aero ripped from Windows 8 Posted: 21 May 2012 09:03 AM PDT Never liked Windows 7 anywayMicrosoft must really love Windows 8, or hate its legacy install base.…
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| Google snubs Euro watchdog's 'abuse of dominance' claims Posted: 21 May 2012 08:37 AM PDT Happy to have a chat about 'concerns'Google remains at loggerheads with anti-competition officials in Brussels, who today went public for the first time with concerns about the search giant's "abuses of dominance".… |
| ALL NHS patient records online by 2015 Posted: 21 May 2012 08:23 AM PDT If at first you don't succeed...The nation's medical records are going online by 2015 as part of a consumerisation of the NHS under a digital strategy unveiled today.… |
| IBM parks parallel file system on Big Data's lawn Posted: 21 May 2012 08:03 AM PDT Mirror, mirror on the wall, who is the fattest of them all?The IT universe is seeing a massive collision taking place as the worlds of high-performance computing, big data and warehousing intermingle. IBM is pushing its General Parallel File System (GPFS) further to broaden its footprint in this space, with the 3.5 release adding big data and async replication features as well as customer metadata and more performance.… |
| NVIDIA VGX VDI: New tech? Or rehashed hash? Posted: 21 May 2012 07:31 AM PDT You comment, we respondHPC blog My article about NVIDIA's new VGX virtualised GPU being a potential holy grail for task- and power-user desktop virtualisation inspired reader comments that are well worth addressing. They also brought out a few details that I didn't cover in the article. First, let's address a few of the specific comments.… |
| Audi proposes PC-packing stunt bikes Posted: 21 May 2012 07:12 AM PDT CPU assisted wheelies, anyone?Audi has revealed what it believes to be the future of e-bikes: the Wörthersee, a electric bicycle that features smartphone connectivity and a built-in computer system.… |
| Met cops' CSI mobe-snoop tech sparks privacy fears Posted: 21 May 2012 07:01 AM PDT Data held onto even if you're cleared in courtAnalysis The mobile device data extraction system that has just been rolled out by the Metropolitan Police is designed to provide an easier way to slurp evidence from the mobile phones of suspects brought into custody. But some argue that the move is likely to change how crimes are investigated while it raises several data retention and privacy concerns in the process.… |
| Does private cloud follow virtualisation? Posted: 21 May 2012 06:46 AM PDT Consolidation or constructionA general assumption is often made that private cloud is the next logical step after virtualisation. But is this really the case?…
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| IP law probe MPs hunt for smoking gun, find plenty of smoke Posted: 21 May 2012 06:32 AM PDT The IPO whodunnit continuesAnalysis There's an elephant in the room as Parliament's inquiry into intellectual property policy rolls on. In the foreground, there's the role of the officials who are supposed to support it. In the background, there's something more troubling.… |
| Nasdaq red-faced after software snafu stalls Facebook IPO Posted: 21 May 2012 06:18 AM PDT 'Humbled' chief promises fix for temperamental public debut systemNasdaq OMX chief Robert Greifeld has said he is "humbly embarrassed" by the technical glitch that held up Facebook's IPO on Friday.… |
| Core Wars: Inside Intel's power struggle with NVIDIA Posted: 21 May 2012 06:01 AM PDT Kepler takes Knights Corner?GPU Technology Conference Intel and NVIDIA are battling for the hearts and minds of developers in massively parallel computing.… |
| Ouch! Facebook slumps below IPO value on day 2 Posted: 21 May 2012 05:55 AM PDT Stock stumbles after mega-hyped debutUpdated Facebook's stock tumbled below its initial public offering valuation to $37.46 per share in pre-trading figures on Wall Street this morning.… |
| What's copying your music really worth to you? Posted: 21 May 2012 05:42 AM PDT Quite a lot, it seemsHow much would your iPhone be worth to you if the only music it could play had been bought on the device itself, from Apple? If your answer is "a lot less" or "not very much", then you're not alone. New empirical research has attempted to measure how much we value the ability to copy our music across formats and devices – and it's a significant sum.…
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| Brussels throws antitrust settlement lifeline to Google Posted: 21 May 2012 05:28 AM PDT Almunia urges Schmidt to offer quick fix or face possible 'abuse' chargesGoogle has been given the chance to settle an antitrust investigation of the company's business practices in Europe, competition officials in Brussels confirmed today.… |
| Resistance is futile? Memristor RAM now cheap as chips Posted: 21 May 2012 05:21 AM PDT UCL breakthrough after team toyed with LEDsCheaper memristors could result from an accidental discovery at University College London.… |
| Another NHS trust coughs up £90k fine for lax fax acts Posted: 21 May 2012 05:03 AM PDT Patients' privates sent to wrong address for monthsThe taxpayer-backed NHS has suffered another fine from the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) for outing patients' private information to the wrong people.… |
| Waterstones stores surrender to Amazonian invaders Posted: 21 May 2012 04:41 AM PDT Kindle deal to fire up bookseller's bottom lineUK bookshop chain Waterstones will start stocking Amazon's Kindle ereaders in an attempt to revamp its stores for the digital age.… |
| T-Mobile slip exposes 1,100 punters' email addresses Posted: 21 May 2012 04:19 AM PDT Telco sweats it in the HothouseSubscribers to T-Mobile's Hothouse - a focus group-like mailing list - got an added benefit this morning: the email addresses of everyone else on the list. The gaffe was swiftly followed by an apology and a request to delete the offending information.…
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| Acer crosses Ivy Bridge with latest laptops Posted: 21 May 2012 04:02 AM PDT Drive up the M5 and TravelmateAcer has revealed a pair of Ivy Bridgers through a new addition to its TravelMate laptop range and another Aspire M-series Ultrabook with dedicated graphics and an optical drive.… |
| Posted: 21 May 2012 04:00 AM PDT AirPlay exemplarGeek Treat of the Week There are AirPlay speakers and there are AirPlay speakers. This unit from Danish hi-fi gods Bang & Olufsen is eye-wateringly expensive but has plenty of features, including a built-in re-chargeable battery which, B&O says, will give you eight hours play time on one charge.… |
| Raspberry Pi gets snappy with camera add-on Posted: 21 May 2012 03:59 AM PDT Say cheeseWhile the the Raspberry Pi foundation continues to struggle to meet the demand for its £16 Linux machine, it has already revealed improvements. The latest: a prototype camera add-on.… |
| Zuck weds self to lady friend in surprise ceremony Posted: 21 May 2012 03:39 AM PDT That's how you top a $104bn IPO... bitchMoneybags Mark Zuckerberg updated his relationship status to "married" on Saturday - just one day after floating Facebook on Nasdaq.… |
| Met bobbies get CSI kit to probe perps' mobes Posted: 21 May 2012 03:23 AM PDT Skip lengthy lab analysis, press here for cluesThe Metropolitan Police is deploying mobile phone forensic systems in 16 boroughs, allowing ordinary coppers to play their favourite CSI character with wrong 'uns' handsets.… |
| Yahoo! gets! $7.1bn! injection! from! Alibaba! stake! sale! Posted: 21 May 2012 02:46 AM PDT Web biz flogs tasty slice of online tat bazaarChinese e-commerce biz Alibaba has signed a deal to buy back half of Yahoo!'s 40 per cent stake in the company, marking the beginning of the end of their partnership.… |
| Brit knits jumper for NASA space chicken Posted: 21 May 2012 02:18 AM PDT Rubber mascot wraps up warm for solar eclipse missionA British woman has enjoyed the peculiar honour of knitting a jumper for Camilla the rubber chicken – the mascot of NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory.… |
| New Oyster online service goes live at TfL Posted: 21 May 2012 02:05 AM PDT Allows travellers to check the damage onlineTransport for London (TfL) has launched an online service for Oyster card holders, which allows them to look back over their journey history and fares paid.…
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| Facebook and IM apps abused to spread social-climbing worm Posted: 21 May 2012 01:38 AM PDT Points you to a .zip archive full of badnessSecurity watchers are warning users about a new worm that spreads via Facebook's instant messaging feature and also inserts itself under the guise of misleading messages on other social networking websites and IM services.… |
| NHS car-crash spatters CSC accounts with red ink Posted: 21 May 2012 01:19 AM PDT 'Very poor' results, blubs CEOThe CEO of Computer Sciences Corporation (CSC) said that his company's performance in the last year had been "very poor", as he announced a staggering yearly loss of $4.2 billion.… |
| UK mobile broadband carriers compared Posted: 21 May 2012 01:00 AM PDT Network vs network |
| Smoke-belching flash drive self-destructs on command Posted: 21 May 2012 12:27 AM PDT Do not press the red button!Vid Chinese flash biz Runcore has built a self-destructing solid-state drive.… |
| Creatives spin copyright licence that sticks to web Posted: 21 May 2012 12:02 AM PDT Using baton of new technology to enforce rightsA range of organisations from across the global creative industries have formed a coalition with the aim of developing a universal standard framework for licensing out use of their copyrighted material.… |
| Windows Phone beats iOS sales in China Posted: 20 May 2012 11:00 PM PDT Where did all the fanbois go?Microsoft is claiming something of a PR win over arch rival Apple, after a senior exec reportedly revealed that its Windows Phone devices are outselling the iPhone in China after just two months.…
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| China blesses Google's Moto buy, patent problems persist Posted: 20 May 2012 10:36 PM PDT Chocolate Factory must achieve fine balancing actAnalysis Google has finally won approval from Chinese anti-trust authorities for its $12.5bn takeover of handset maker Motorola Mobility, removing the final major obstacle to the deal, but analysts believe the securing the long-term success of Android will be the Chocolate Factory's priority, rather than producing hardware.… |
| Microsoft, NetApp, Citrix, team for FreeBSD on Hyper-V Posted: 20 May 2012 09:44 PM PDT Cunning ploy to boost ONTAP-v virtual array?NetApp, Microsoft and Citrix have teamed up to let Free BSD run natively in Hyper-V.… |
| Anonymous takes out Indian CERT as attacks continue Posted: 20 May 2012 08:42 PM PDT DDoS aplenty in retaliation for site blocking orderHacktivist group Anonymous continued its attacks on the Indian government and creative industries at the weekend by taking out the web sites of the national CERT and the country's President in retaliation for widespread blocks on video and file sharing sites.… |
| Cloud mega-uploads aren't easy Posted: 20 May 2012 07:55 PM PDT Google, Microsoft, can't explain how to get big data into the cloud, despite rivals' import servicesGoogle and Microsoft don't offer formal data ingestion services to help users get lots of data into the cloud, and neither seems set to do so anytime soon. Quite how would-be users take advantage of the hundreds of terabytes both offer in the cloud is therefore a bit of a mystery.… |
| Alain de Botton wants better online smut Posted: 20 May 2012 07:23 PM PDT Site will liberate net from "stupidity, brutishness, earnestness and exploitation"Clearly not satisfied with being the thinking woman's sex symbol, philosopher Alain De Botton is taking on sex in a new digital venture that will attempt to position pornography – mostly the online iteration- as a therapeutic tool rather than a grubby thrill. De Botton issued a press release from his philosopher think tank The School of Life extolling the virtues of porn if executed in the right fashion. "No longer would sexuality have to be lumped together with stupidity, brutishness, earnestness and exploitation. It could instead be harnessed to what is noblest in us."…
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| Posted: 20 May 2012 06:38 PM PDT John Lindsay gets top technologist roleHigh profile internet industry CTO John Lindsay is moving from his role as chief technologist at Internode to running the CTO function at parent company iiNet.… |
| Noise can improve quantum computing, says ANU scientist Posted: 20 May 2012 05:47 PM PDT It's quantum computing: of course there's a paradoxHere's a nice paradox: since noise gets in the way of quantum computing, cure it by adding more noise.… |
| IBM’s first tape drive turns 60 Posted: 20 May 2012 05:31 PM PDT Model 726 Magnetic tape reader/recorder replaced punch cardsIBM's first tape drive turns 60 today, May 21st 2012.… |
| Pakistan blocks Twitter, then changes its mind Posted: 20 May 2012 03:15 PM PDT Offensive tweets put officials in a spinTweets offensive to Islam have prompted Pakistan's government to block Twitter – but a strong public reaction saw the ban lifted after eight hours.… |
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