Skype slurping software threatens IP exposure

Skype slurping software threatens IP exposure


Skype slurping software threatens IP exposure

Posted: 01 May 2012 03:02 PM PDT

It's a P2P problem says Redmond subsidiary

Code posted online that can skim the last known IP address of users is being checked out by Skype as a possible security flaw.…

New standard test of Big Data bang per system buck rolls out

Posted: 01 May 2012 02:31 PM PDT

A sim so good you could use it instead of Oracle or SAP?

There's a new big data benchmark in town: TPC-DS.…

Permabit flashes enterprise SDK at mystery partner

Posted: 01 May 2012 12:28 PM PDT

Deduping a flash array. Could it be Violin's?

Funky array startup Violin Memory is apparently adding deduplication to its memory array, and it could be licensing Permabit's Albireo technology to do it.…

Are Valley VCs playing hide-the-money?

Posted: 01 May 2012 11:29 AM PDT

How dot-com bubbles burst in hard times

Open... and Shut  Nick Bilton has written a hard-hitting expose of an alleged trend in venture capital, accusing venture capitalists of encouraging portfolio companies to forgo sales to allow them to fabricate inflated valuations based on hype and a prayer. The only problem with the article is that it doesn't appear to be true.…

BlackBerry 10 developer kit aims to unleash application tsunami

Posted: 01 May 2012 11:09 AM PDT

Last chance saloon for Canucks to counteract Apple, Android

RIM has marked the start of its BlackBerry World conference by announcing the release of the developer kit for the much-delayed BlackBerry 10 operating system and handing out crippled prototype handsets that should go on sale by the end of the year.…

RIM takes BlackBerry 10 out for a spin, forgets to bring phone

Posted: 01 May 2012 10:38 AM PDT

Mobile biz has one last throw of the dice

Video  RIM's latest CEO has been showing off what its next OS, BlackBerry 10, will do, although without any hardware it's hard to be impressed by a touchscreen keyboard.…

LG: We're not walking away from Windows Phone

Posted: 01 May 2012 09:32 AM PDT

More of a mosey, or perhaps a stroll

LG is denying it has lost interest in Windows Phone following reports in the Korea Herald which claimed an "insignificant" number of Microsoft-bearing handsets had been sold.…

Microsoft storage boffins serve up smoking 2012 NFS server

Posted: 01 May 2012 09:03 AM PDT

Lustrous clusters, bakeathons and the bleeding-edge

Sysadmin blog  Developed by Sun, NFS version 2 was published as an IETF standard. Sun guarded NFS development for nearly two decades before handing protocol guardianship over the ITEF for version 4. This openness fueled adoption by the major UNIX vendors, even though most had their own competing protocols.…

HTC peeves punters with One X woes

Posted: 01 May 2012 08:56 AM PDT

Buyers blast bugs

HTC's new flagship smartphone, the One X, is apparently dogged by issues, with annoyed customers venting their frustration over faults from burning smells to flickering screens.…

Biennial boner blights Beemer biker

Posted: 01 May 2012 08:31 AM PDT

Bloke sues over priapism-inducing BMW saddle

A California man is suing BMW and custom motorbike saddle maker Corbin-Pacific for an epic stiffie which he insists was caused by a "ridge-like" seat fitted to his wheels.…

Sega squirts urinal game console onto shop shelves

Posted: 01 May 2012 08:21 AM PDT

One for Pee-C gamers?

Sega's videogame business hit a 'new flow' this week when the firm pushed its urinal games terminal, the Toylet, out into retail in Japan.…

Hard-up Europe snubs slabs as US, Asia snap up gear

Posted: 01 May 2012 08:02 AM PDT

Amazon loosens Apple's grip on tablet sales

Almost one in five personal computers shipped globally in the opening three months of 2012 were tablets, market stats from bean counter Canalys reveals.…

Zuckerberg: Now share your organs with Facebook friends

Posted: 01 May 2012 07:29 AM PDT

Like this to get my kidney

Facebook is about "connecting and sharing" - especially now it can help you donate your internal organs, Mark Zuckerberg announced today.…

Google, PayPal protest against Brits' pay-by-bonk threesome

Posted: 01 May 2012 07:02 AM PDT

Why should UK telcos have a monopoly when we could?

Google and PayPal have reportedly been whispering to the EU that allowing the UK operators to band together and promote NFC payments would be anticompetitive and shouldn't be allowed.…

Ten-year .co.uk domain names now available

Posted: 01 May 2012 06:28 AM PDT

Gives you a really long time to forget your logins

From today it is possible to register or renew .co.uk domain names in annual blocks of up to 10 years at a time, following policy changes at .uk registry manager Nominet.…

Google Street View Wi-Fi data slurper named

Posted: 01 May 2012 06:02 AM PDT

Unmasked 'rogue engineer' worked on wardriving app

The 'Engineer Doe', who designed Google's Street View Wi-Fi software to collect personal data, has been named by an American newspaper.…

Groupon appoints ace financial duo to its board

Posted: 01 May 2012 05:43 AM PDT

Daily deals site needs folks who can do sums

Groupon has added two financial experts to its board in a bid to do its accounting right, although investors don't seem too cheered yet.…

Phone-hack saga: Murdoch 'not fit' to run News Corp, blast MPs

Posted: 01 May 2012 05:27 AM PDT

Media baron roasted for 'wilful blindness'

Rupert Murdoch is "not fit" to run a multinational corporation after demonstrating "wilful blindness" in his handling of the phone-hacking affair, which killed off his company's 168-year-old Sunday tabloid News of the World, MPs concluded today.…

Fujitsu inks £50m deal to lay 'gigabit' cable for telco CityFibre

Posted: 01 May 2012 05:18 AM PDT

Privately-funded FTTP for Blighty's cities

Fujitsu has inked an engineering deal worth £50m with CityFibre Holdings to roll out cabling on behalf of the telco.…

Boffins bone up on rover skills as Curiosity speeds to Mars

Posted: 01 May 2012 05:01 AM PDT

100-day countdown to touchdown

There are now fewer than a hundred days until the Mars rover Curiosity tries to touch down on the surface of the Red Planet - and boffins at the Jet Propulsion Lab are polishing up their remote driving skills.…

Now on Freeview HD: Olympic arts channel that's tough to watch

Posted: 01 May 2012 04:42 AM PDT

And tough to argue why anyone would want to watch

Freeview HD got a new channel this morning, which will be filled with events from the Cultural Olympiad as well as the occasional Hitchcock film and the usual arts nonsense.…

Want to be a better marksman? Play shooting games

Posted: 01 May 2012 04:32 AM PDT

Resident Evil 4 really is good training for the apocalypse

Gamers who play shooting games have improved accuracy when firing a weapon in real life, a new study has found. They're also more likely to aim for the head, apparently.…

Gov IT supermarket G-Cloud will cost £4.93m says Maude

Posted: 01 May 2012 04:23 AM PDT

£340m to be saved - but won't say how or where

The British government has published numbers on the cost of G-Cloud and Cloudstore and the savings the public sector ICT procurement framework is expected to make.…

Micro Anvika shutters stores, axes staff in fight for life

Posted: 01 May 2012 04:13 AM PDT

Troubled retail biz gets green light for rescue bid

Troubled Tottenham Court Road retailer Micro Anvika's short-term future is looking more secure after suppliers gave its proposed rescue package the thumbs up.…

Textgram

Posted: 01 May 2012 04:00 AM PDT

The Post-it note de nos jours?

Android App of the Week  Textgram is another app designed to differentiate your digital self from the masses, in this case by letting you send graphically enhanced missives as MMS messages, or as pictures to your social network.…

Intel bakes palm-sized Core i5 NUC to rival Raspberry Pi

Posted: 01 May 2012 03:42 AM PDT

A $35 ARM board has Chipzilla rattled or amused?

Pictures and details of a stripped-back ultra-compact desktop computer from Intel have hit the web.…

Microsoft hikes volume prices by more than a third

Posted: 01 May 2012 03:22 AM PDT

Redmond's Euro vision sends UK channel scrambling

Microsoft will ramp up the cost of volume licensing by as much as a third from the start of July when it aligns list prices across Europe to the Euro currency.…

Samsung unwraps 17in Ivy Bridge beast

Posted: 01 May 2012 03:12 AM PDT

Chuck out your desktop

Apple may be considering an end to the production of 17in desktop-replacement laptops, but Samsung isn't. It just announced the 17.3in Series 7 Chronos 17.…

UK ad watchdog probes Apple iPad '4G' boasts

Posted: 01 May 2012 03:02 AM PDT

Furious fanbois further flummoxed by fondleslab's 4G foible

The UK's advertising watchdog is taking another look at Apple's "4G" claims for its new iPad after receiving fresh complaints.…

America, China go ape for tablets

Posted: 01 May 2012 02:44 AM PDT

Impecunious Europeans less so, says researcher

Count tablets as personal computers and already fondleslabs account for almost a fifth of the world PC market.…

VCs pour $80m into Violin, hope for shower of gold later

Posted: 01 May 2012 02:41 AM PDT

Flashy upstart poised for float

Venture capitalists have been fighting to get a slice of hot flash startup Violin Memory, which announced a $50m D-round of funding in March. That turned into an $80m injection because GE Capital and other VCs wanted a piece of the action. Why this VC frenzy?…

Nympho hauled to loon-cooler after serial bonkathon brutality

Posted: 01 May 2012 02:18 AM PDT

'I can't walk. Please help me', sobbed second victim

A Munich nymphomaniac is languishing in hospital under psychiatric observation after two men suffered extended sexual ordeals at the hands of the rampant temptress.…

Dell fending off EMC's maintenance push

Posted: 01 May 2012 02:01 AM PDT

Will wheel ex-partner's kit into new solutions centres if asked

Customers who bought EMC kit from Dell before the pair dissolved their relationship are not flooding back to the storage specialist for their support needs, according to Steve Schuckenbrock, President of Dell's services operation.…

Ultimate simulator to streak into living rooms next month

Posted: 01 May 2012 01:53 AM PDT

IMAX for gamers

Avid fans of simulators may want to save their wages - and then some - for the TL1 Racing Flight and FPS Simulator, which shoots into (large) living rooms this June.…

iTunes fanbois outraged by Apple's sex-life quiz probe

Posted: 01 May 2012 01:33 AM PDT

Haven't they suffered enough?

Apple iTunes users are peeved at being made to answer a three-part questionnaire about their cars and where they had their first kiss as part of a compulsory security regime.…

EMC's Project Thunder stuffs Lightning in a box

Posted: 01 May 2012 01:01 AM PDT

Collected flash

EMC's Project Thunder is boxing up VFCache PCIe flash cards and networking it to servers.…

Met seeks new £200m command-and-control system

Posted: 01 May 2012 12:28 AM PDT

9-year deal for kit, services... and wave goodbye to the old gear

The Metropolitan police is seeking a deal to implement a new command-and-control system.…

Blighty's IP framework one of world's worst for consumers

Posted: 01 May 2012 12:02 AM PDT

Report: 'Anti-consumer bias continues to pervade IP legislation'

A "panel of IP experts" devised a list of 49 criteria that consumer groups in 30 countries used to assess how best the IP frameworks in those nations serve consumers. Consumers International (CI), which is a global campaign group for consumers with members including Which? and Consumer Focus in the UK, published (8-page / 1.36MB PDF) how the countries were rated in a new "watchlist".…

Dell XPS 13 Ultrabook

Posted: 30 Apr 2012 11:00 PM PDT

Airs and graces

Review  Having been in the hardware reviewing game for more years than I care to mention - cue the violins - I have looked at a huge number of notebooks claiming to be both thin and light.…

Terrorists 'build secure VoIP over GPRS network'

Posted: 30 Apr 2012 10:52 PM PDT

Secret comms channel eludes Indian spooks

Terror group Lashkar-e-Taiba has developed its own VoIP network that connects its members over GPRS networks, according to the Times of India.…

Dell's rapier-thin PowerEdge M420 to render Hobbits?

Posted: 30 Apr 2012 08:55 PM PDT

Launch in three weeks at same time as low power eight-core Xeon E5

Dell has disclosed a few more details of the rapier-thin PowerEdge M420 server we spotted back in February.…

Internode pollinates on iiNet DSLAM gear

Posted: 30 Apr 2012 08:18 PM PDT

Rolls out services wide with parental support

iiNet-owned ISP Internode is leveraging its parent's infrastructure investment and offering ADSL2+ services across an additional 240 exchanges through Australia. The residential service, Easy Broadband, will now be carried across the iiNet network which more than doubles the number of exchanges that can deliver Internode Easy Broadband services from 208 to 450.…

Jury mulls verdict in Oracle-v-Google Java spat

Posted: 30 Apr 2012 05:37 PM PDT

Phase one of trial nears completion

The jury in the copyright trial between Oracle and Google over the use of Java in Android has retired to consider its verdict after closing arguments from both sides.…

Astronomers provide new estimate for neutrino mass

Posted: 30 Apr 2012 05:19 PM PDT

WiggleZ in the space-time continuum

The WiggleZ sky survey, which last year announced that its map of 240,000 galaxies provided strong evidence for "dark energy", has now formed the basis for a new estimate of neutrino mass.…

RuggedCom will block industrial control backdoor

Posted: 30 Apr 2012 04:30 PM PDT

Races to fix years-old vulnerability

A year after it was first discovered, a backdoor in industrial networking kit from Canadian RuggedCom is to be fixed – sometime soon.…

Nvidia: What would you do with a petaflops super?

Posted: 30 Apr 2012 04:07 PM PDT

One freebie Kepler GPU down, 999 to go

Nvidia is being a tease, but your good idea could land you with a Telsa GPU coprocessor based on the future "Kepler" GPU chip.…

Moore's Law has ten years to run, predicts physicist

Posted: 30 Apr 2012 04:00 PM PDT

Silicon reaching the end of the road

Renowned theoretical physicist Michio Kaku has predicted Moore's Law will run out of steam within the next ten years as silicon designs run up against the laws of physics.…

UK Ministry of Defence eyes GPS patent payoff

Posted: 30 Apr 2012 04:00 PM PDT

US cries foul over inventor's 'insider' status

A British patent is causing jitter in the GPS community, as the Ministry of Defence looking to satellite navigation vendors for royalties.…

Australia 'needs' powers to ensure net neutrality

Posted: 30 Apr 2012 03:30 PM PDT

Review suggests new regulatory body, structural separation for broadcasters

Australia needs to change media policy for the digital age, because current arrangements "have outlived their purpose" and "now run the risk of inhibiting the evolution of communications and media services".…

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