Windows 8 Release Preview open for download |
- Windows 8 Release Preview open for download
- HP-Oracle Itanium smackdown starts
- Milky Way DOOMED to high-speed smash with Andromeda galaxy
- HP 'overcharged New York City by $163m' on 911 system
- Microsoft hands out tools to sneak Skype onto new PCs
- EU politicos put the boot into sickly ACTA
- SpaceX Dragon SPLASHDOWN in Pacific! Private space triumph
- 'Super-powerful' Flame worm actually boring BLOATWARE
- EMC: Atmos CAN mix an excellent cloudy cocktail
- Open API lessons for LinkedIn and Facebook
- Hands on with the Intel-powered Orange San Diego
- Oracle will roll out cloudy services next week – Ellison
- Third-gen Ultrabooks must offer USB 3.0, anti-theft tech
- Steve Jobs speaks from beyond grave: 'iPads are toys'
- SkyDrive slips snapshots into cloudy wallet
- UK.gov beats down Microsoft software price hike to 1pc
- Jeremy Hunt 'sympathetic' to Murdoch's BSkyB bid
- PayPal whips out barcode app for high-street glad rags
- Digital music sales beat discs for first time in UK
- Wealthy Kensington & Chelsea residents reject BT fibre cabinets
- Google's 7in Jelly Bean Android tablet spied in benchmark
- Richard Branson gets nod to strap rocket on SpaceShipTwo
- Vyclone
- Number 10 shuts wallet on closed-source IT projects
- SpaceX Dragon freed to push off home
- BSkyB blocks The Pirate Bay for millions of Brits
- Orange unveils Intel Atom smartphone
- ISP Zen's slower customers choke over breakfast
- Amazon's Lovefilm HD shuns Sony fanboys
- I need to multitask, but Windows 8's Metro won't let me
- Sony PlayStation 4 will not be download only
- CGI Group beds Logica in £1.7bn cash deal
- Online bookie can't scoop £50k losses made by 5-year-old
- Australia bets on licences for offshore gambling websites
- China sends likely pair to student cluster smackdown
- Most of Home Office's savings scored from haggling over ICT deals
- Singapore pours cash into gov.cloud
- Facebook smacks away hardness, sticks MySQL stash on flash
- Alibaba's Linux phone pulls in one MILLION punters
- Panasonic DMC-GX1 compact system camera
- Windows 8 release preview imminent
- CIO says Telstra becoming 'best IT shop in APAC'
- Thai webmaster walks after insulting royals
- Flexibility needed to score expat gigs in Asia
- New Zealand considers <i>yourname.nz</i> domains
- Microsoft offers Office 365 build tailored for government
- Boffins build all-silicon CNOT gate
- Privacy Commissioner unhooks Google again
| Windows 8 Release Preview open for download Posted: 31 May 2012 01:29 PM PDT Sinofsky predicts two months to RTMAfter much speculation, Microsoft has opened its Windows 8 Release Preview for download, the last major update before the client code is released to manufacturers.… |
| HP-Oracle Itanium smackdown starts Posted: 31 May 2012 01:03 PM PDT Larry versus |
| Milky Way DOOMED to high-speed smash with Andromeda galaxy Posted: 31 May 2012 12:42 PM PDT Faces possible three-way NASA warnsObservations from the Hubble telescope have shown that the Milky Way is on a high-speed collision course with the nearby Andromeda galaxy and the two will merge into a new elliptical system.… |
| HP 'overcharged New York City by $163m' on 911 system Posted: 31 May 2012 11:01 AM PDT IT titan fires back: 'Read the contract'New York City comptroller John Liu has accused Hewlett-Packard of overbilling the Big Apple to the tune of $163m on a long-delayed upgrade to the 911 emergency call system. HP says Liu is misinterpreting the contract and it is delivering its part of the 911 call center upgrade under budget.…
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| Microsoft hands out tools to sneak Skype onto new PCs Posted: 31 May 2012 10:02 AM PDT 'Silent installs' for victory, or at least growthMicrosoft is eliminating the download experience from Skype for consumers by giving OEMs the tools to slip the VoIP client into PCs.… |
| EU politicos put the boot into sickly ACTA Posted: 31 May 2012 09:38 AM PDT International Trade committee urged to kill anti-piracy treatyThree European Parliament committees have rejected the barely breathing Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA).… |
| SpaceX Dragon SPLASHDOWN in Pacific! Private space triumph Posted: 31 May 2012 09:19 AM PDT Commercial cargo ship returns from space stationThe SpaceX cargo capsule Dragon, first privately built ship to visit the International Space Station, has splashed down safely in the Pacific ocean at 10:42 Central Time after nine days in space.… |
| 'Super-powerful' Flame worm actually boring BLOATWARE Posted: 31 May 2012 08:32 AM PDT More Jabba the Hutt than lean Windows killing machineAnalysis Flame may be big in size but it's nothing like the supposedly devastating cyberwarfare mega-weapon early reports of the malware suggested. This new nasty is quite complex by design, yet researchers are still hunting for any truly evil and innovative attack techniques, or similar threats, within the code.… |
| EMC: Atmos CAN mix an excellent cloudy cocktail Posted: 31 May 2012 08:02 AM PDT You don't node, Nirvanix ...It seems EMC thinks Nirvanix's marketing veep Steve Zivanic has got it wrong on Atmos. He put forward some opinions about EMC's Atmos which Hopkinton rebuts vigorously.…
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| Open API lessons for LinkedIn and Facebook Posted: 31 May 2012 07:30 AM PDT Code to play, not pay to playOpen... and Shut One of the cardinal rules of open source is reciprocity: you can use my open-source code under the same terms that it was given to me. But as open source shifts to open APIs, "open" is increasingly a one-way street.… |
| Hands on with the Intel-powered Orange San Diego Posted: 31 May 2012 07:05 AM PDT Assault on battery?First look Orange joined forces with Intel today to launch its first Atom-powered smartphone, the San Diego, which I had the opportunity to play with ahead of release.… |
| Oracle will roll out cloudy services next week – Ellison Posted: 31 May 2012 07:01 AM PDT Larry says he likes the cloud nowOracle is planning to launch a new suite of cloud software products and services in the first week of June, billionaire chief exec Larry Ellison said.… |
| Third-gen Ultrabooks must offer USB 3.0, anti-theft tech Posted: 31 May 2012 06:45 AM PDT Intel getting tough on bloatware too?"Ultrabook", you'll recall, is an Intel trademark. If you want to use the name in association with your laptop, you need to follow the chip giant's rules. Those edicts have been extended for third-generation machines, which, Intel hopes, will spearhead the platform's entry into the mainstream.… |
| Steve Jobs speaks from beyond grave: 'iPads are toys' Posted: 31 May 2012 06:29 AM PDT Tablet computers? Like THAT'S going to do wellVideos starring the late Steve Jobs are now available on iTunes for anyone interested in retracing Apple's super-soaraway decade-long journey from niche player to fondleslab fever.… |
| SkyDrive slips snapshots into cloudy wallet Posted: 31 May 2012 06:03 AM PDT The Redmond cloud bulks upMicrosoft is updating SkyDrive, its cloud storage file gobbler, to add SkyDrive-accessed picture viewing in the Windows 8 Photo application.… |
| UK.gov beats down Microsoft software price hike to 1pc Posted: 31 May 2012 05:48 AM PDT Redmond and Cabinet Office ink 3-year dealGovernment bodies and agencies will pay 1 per cent more for Microsoft volume licences from 1 July under the newly penned Public Sector Agreement (PSA) 12, The Register can reveal.… |
| Jeremy Hunt 'sympathetic' to Murdoch's BSkyB bid Posted: 31 May 2012 05:19 AM PDT He dismisses 'cheerleader' claims in Leveson probingCulture Secretary Jeremy Hunt fought for his political career this morning during questioning at the Leveson Inquiry over his handling of News Corp's failed BSkyB takeover.…
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| PayPal whips out barcode app for high-street glad rags Posted: 31 May 2012 05:03 AM PDT No bonking please, we're BritishVid PayPal's barcode-driven payment app has crossed the pond and now works in all manner of UK high-street stores … as long as they're selling women's frocks.… |
| Digital music sales beat discs for first time in UK Posted: 31 May 2012 04:43 AM PDT But wait 'til Xmas: How do you wrap up an MP3 licence?Digital music revenue has overtaken revenue hauled in from sales of plastic discs for the first time in the UK. British music industry trade group the BPI released figures showing that digital revenue – from downloads, subscriptions and advertising – had made up 55.5 per cent of income in the first three months of this year.… |
| Wealthy Kensington & Chelsea residents reject BT fibre cabinets Posted: 31 May 2012 04:29 AM PDT Quite ghastly, insist NIM-historic-streetscapersBT has been forced to withdraw its plans to plonk 108 fibre optic cabling cabinets on the streets of the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea.… |
| Google's 7in Jelly Bean Android tablet spied in benchmark Posted: 31 May 2012 04:21 AM PDT Asus made, Nvidia insideGoogle's Asus-made 7in tablet has turned up in web-posted benchmark results. It's running Android 4.1.… |
| Richard Branson gets nod to strap rocket on SpaceShipTwo Posted: 31 May 2012 04:13 AM PDT Supersonic Virgin Galactic test flights this yearVirgin Galactic has finally got the green light to attempt supersonic rocket-powered SpaceShipTwo flights at the end of the year.… |
| Posted: 31 May 2012 04:01 AM PDT Multi-angle mega movie mash-up mixeriOS App of the Week Everyone's looking for the new Instagram – an app with zero revenue that was bought by Facebook for $1 billion – and there's a lot of buzz on the web right now about video-sharing app Vyclone.… |
| Number 10 shuts wallet on closed-source IT projects Posted: 31 May 2012 03:42 AM PDT Come back when you've read Eric Raymond's The Cathedral and the BazaarGovernment IT projects that don't explore alternatives to closed and proprietary software are getting kicked back and denied funding.…
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| SpaceX Dragon freed to push off home Posted: 31 May 2012 03:17 AM PDT Cargoship detaches from ISS and tootles towards EarthThe Dragon is free of the International Space Station as it prepares for splashdown this afternoon around 17.40 BST (9.40 PDT, 12.40 EDT).… |
| BSkyB blocks The Pirate Bay for millions of Brits Posted: 31 May 2012 03:02 AM PDT BT will also obey court's banning order within weeksBSkyB's broadband biz has cut off conventional access to The Pirate Bay website following a High Court order at the end of last month.… |
| Orange unveils Intel Atom smartphone Posted: 31 May 2012 02:50 AM PDT Keeps mum on San Diego's battery life, natchIntel's first real threat to ARM will arrive in the UK next week in the form of the Orange San Diego smartphone.… |
| ISP Zen's slower customers choke over breakfast Posted: 31 May 2012 02:44 AM PDT Reboot your router to clear soggy cereal portsCustomers on Zen Internet's slowest package lost connectivity this morning, for an hour or two, but a rebooted router should now bring things back to normal.… |
| Amazon's Lovefilm HD shuns Sony fanboys Posted: 31 May 2012 02:29 AM PDT PS3, Bravia support coming. More than a trickle of content tooAmazon's Lovefilm video-on-demand service will begin offering HD streams today, but what resolution viewers get will depend on what gadget they're in front of.… |
| I need to multitask, but Windows 8's Metro won't let me Posted: 31 May 2012 02:23 AM PDT Er, Microsoft? Multi = more than 2Sysadmin blog What is multitasking? Different people seem to mean different things when they use the word multitasking. The definition chosen has implications for accepting or rejecting the prevailing design choices of modern user interfaces.… |
| Sony PlayStation 4 will not be download only Posted: 31 May 2012 02:05 AM PDT Disc not slippedSony's next PlayStation will feature an optical drive - Blu-ray, presumably - after all. Plans to drop disc and go download only have been seemingly shelved.… |
| CGI Group beds Logica in £1.7bn cash deal Posted: 31 May 2012 02:03 AM PDT Shares leap 64% at news of outsourcing nuptialsAnglo-Dutch tech group Logica is being scooped up by Canada's CGI Group in a £1.7bn cash deal.…
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| Online bookie can't scoop £50k losses made by 5-year-old Posted: 31 May 2012 01:27 AM PDT High Court rules the website contract terms were unfairA man who blamed his girlfriend's five-year-old son for making loss-making trades in expensive natural resources through his online betting account is not bound by a term he agreed to on the bookmaker's website, the High Court has ruled. The term stated that an accountholder is deemed to have authorised all trading made under his or her account number.… |
| Australia bets on licences for offshore gambling websites Posted: 31 May 2012 01:08 AM PDT Review of gaming laws suggests licensing, blacklisting, for poker sites and bookiesAustralian policymakers may have gotten themselves in another technological tangle, this time over which mediums are fit for the purpose of gambling.… |
| China sends likely pair to student cluster smackdown Posted: 31 May 2012 01:02 AM PDT Meet Tsinghua U and NUDTISC 2012 China is sending two teams to the ISC Student Cluster Competition (iSCC) this June in Hamburg. Tsinghua University and the National University of Defense Technology were survivors of a rigorous Hunger Games-style play-in competition; they had to beat out four other teams for the coveted Hamburg spots. Chinese server/services vendor Inspur is providing hardware and underwriting both teams.… |
| Most of Home Office's savings scored from haggling over ICT deals Posted: 31 May 2012 12:39 AM PDT But £24.2m just a drop in £1.8bn targetThe majority of procurement cost savings in the Home Office for the third quarter of 2011-12 came from ICT, according to its permanent secretary Dame Helen Ghosh.… |
| Singapore pours cash into gov.cloud Posted: 31 May 2012 12:06 AM PDT S$1.2b up for grabs in "co-creation" projects between government, vendorlandThe Singapore government has unleashed tenders for S$1.2 billion (£600,000) worth of technology projects for 2012.…
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| Facebook smacks away hardness, sticks MySQL stash on flash Posted: 31 May 2012 12:04 AM PDT Replaces HDD with Fusion-io flashinessFacebook is using Fusion-io server flash cards in its datacentres to store MySQL data as well as process it faster because it's better than using disk drives.… |
| Alibaba's Linux phone pulls in one MILLION punters Posted: 31 May 2012 12:00 AM PDT Handset business buttresses bazaar's bank balanceChinese web tat flogger Alibaba finally has some good news to report after sales of smartphones based on its Aliyun OS hit the million sales milestone in the People's Republic less than a year after its launch.… |
| Panasonic DMC-GX1 compact system camera Posted: 30 May 2012 11:00 PM PDT Micro Four Thirds maestroReview Panasonic's DMC-GX1 camera is the Lumix model many Micro Four Thirds enthusiasts have been waiting for since the release of popular DMC-GF1 back in 2009. This 16Mp shooter will appeal to seasoned users with easily accessible controls for customisation on an enticingly compact aluminium body – a combination that will take it places that wouldn't suit lugging a full-sized SLR. Furthermore, Micro Four Thirds offers one of the largest ranges interchangeable lenses in the compact system cameras category.… |
| Windows 8 release preview imminent Posted: 30 May 2012 10:32 PM PDT Missing post says 31 May, SkyDrive update says 'first week of June'Microsoft is about to release a new Release Preview of Windows 8, according to a pair of blog posts.… |
| CIO says Telstra becoming 'best IT shop in APAC' Posted: 30 May 2012 09:37 PM PDT Agile methodologies and 'fail wall' changing cultureTelstra's CIO has boldly claimed that the carrier's ongoing Agile IT transformation will soon be one of the most successful stories of enterprise Agile at scale in the world.… |
| Thai webmaster walks after insulting royals Posted: 30 May 2012 09:29 PM PDT Suspended sentence sees activists warn of ominous futureIf you plan to unleash the snark online over Jubilee weekend, spare a thought for a Thai webmaster Chiranuch Premchaiporn, who has just been sentenced to eight months porridge - thankfully suspended - for online statement deemed harmful to Thailand's monarchy.…
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| Flexibility needed to score expat gigs in Asia Posted: 30 May 2012 08:14 PM PDT Employers want to cut hiring costs and improve qualityEx-pat IT pros are finding it increasingly difficult to persuade Asian employers to put them on the payroll, but opportunities exist for those who prove they can be flexible, adapt easily to a new working culture and have deep knowledge at the cutting edge of technology, according to experts.… |
| New Zealand considers <i>yourname.nz</i> domains Posted: 30 May 2012 06:44 PM PDT Kiwis want personalised internetNew Zealand's Domain Name Commission has commenced a consultation process to discuss the possible introduction of a yourname.nz domain name registration service.… |
| Microsoft offers Office 365 build tailored for government Posted: 30 May 2012 06:30 PM PDT FISMAed up and ready to goRedmond has released a new build of its Office 365 cloudy productivity suite that's been specially hardened and certified for government use.… |
| Boffins build all-silicon CNOT gate Posted: 30 May 2012 04:23 PM PDT Only this time, 'it's quantum innit'One of the challenges of putting quantum computing theory into practice is replacing large laboratory setups with integrated devices. A group of Cambridge researchers says it has demonstrated that a quantum controlled NOT gate can be implemented all in silicon devices.… |
| Privacy Commissioner unhooks Google again Posted: 30 May 2012 04:22 PM PDT Won't re-investigate StreetView slurpGoogle is once again to be spared the nightmare horror of being savaged by Australia's privacy watchdog its StreetView data slurp.…
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