Apple cops $AU2.5 million fine for misleading consumers |
- Apple cops $AU2.5 million fine for misleading consumers
- Twitter back online (mostly) after unexplained outage
- Finnish PM rules out Nokia rescue package
- NASA sniffs water ice on the Moon – maybe
- AMD puts network, chip guru in charge of Opterons
- European vote hammers another nail into ACTA's coffin
- Red Hat pumps up Enterprise Linux to 6.3
- Rare AutoCAD worm lifted blueprints from Peru, sent them to China
- Sequoia: Can anyone learn to wield this mighty HPC weapon?
- Tech fault at RBS and Natwest freezes millions of UK bank balances
- Vatican subtly shifts its position on <i>The Blues Brothers</i>
- Major London problem hits BT broadband across southeast
- The reseller lining in the SME security cloud
- Campaign to reduce RIM jobs gets underway
- Turing Machine brought to life with Lego
- Pirate Bay founders appeal to EC to save them from Swedish justice
- Amazon Android App Store to invade Europe
- Former Acer CEO Lanci trousered £27m after PC-mountain cockup
- Oracle accepts a nice round number in damages from Google
- Amount of meat we eat will barely affect future climate change
- Crime Map
- Brits spent £334 each year on games
- Realising the benefits of cloud for mobile workers
- Supercomputer flash kings: TLC needs, er, TLC
- Larry Ellison buys island 1000x bigger than Branson's
- Samsung to probe Galaxy S III blaze claim
- Dixons Retail: A mirror held up to Europe
- Brutal web vice of the People's Republic crushes innovation, growth
- Sony taps bug peepers to kill gloss-screen glare
- Microsoft set to 'do a Nexus' with its Surface tablet
- Panasas on server flash cache: 'What problem are you solving?'
- New body to supervise as your NHS file includes more and more stuff
- Row on between publishers, researchers over data mining techniques
- Samsung offers cool green RAM for the same cold hard greenbacks
- Windows 8 'harder for malware to exploit', says security analysis
- LinkedIn faces class action suit over password leak
- Pricey China could put off ex-pat IT pros
- Apple desperate to prevent nightmare scenario of iPad in Iranian hands
- Whamcloud flogs wild Lustre pig into obedience with data whip
- Philips 46PFL9706T 46in 3D smart TV
- Nigerian scams are hyper-efficient idiot finders
- Chinese search newbie Jike takes on Baidu and Google
- TPG hit with AUD$2m fine
- Gigapixel camera heralds new world of snoopery
- European Parliament prepares for crucial ACTA vote
- The Hague says Apple infringed Samsung patent
- Consumer Affairs Victoria drops App Store malware claim
- Red Hat hits the top and bottom numbers in fiscal Q1
- NBN Co preps revised access undertaking
- Pegatron named as Microsoft Surface fondleslab foundry
| Apple cops $AU2.5 million fine for misleading consumers Posted: 21 Jun 2012 02:55 PM PDT There's eight minutes that Cupertino will never get backThe "Apple 4G deception" imbroglio in Australia has concluded with the company slapped with a $AU2.5 million dollar fine for advertising capabilities it couldn't deliver down under.… |
| Twitter back online (mostly) after unexplained outage Posted: 21 Jun 2012 01:58 PM PDT Thar blows the Fail WhaleUpdated Twitter users have been outraged after services failed for a few hours on Thursday, but there are still reports of the Fail Whale surfacing on occasion.… |
| Finnish PM rules out Nokia rescue package Posted: 21 Jun 2012 12:28 PM PDT Local heroes must sink or swimThe Finnish Prime Minister Jyrki Katainen has ruled out any government rescue package for ailing Nokia, saying the company is on its own.… |
| NASA sniffs water ice on the Moon – maybe Posted: 21 Jun 2012 12:26 PM PDT Don't schedule that lunar hockey game just yetThe unusually bright floor of an ancient crater at the Moon's south pole may be proof that over 20 per cent of it may be coated with water ice. Or not.… |
| AMD puts network, chip guru in charge of Opterons Posted: 21 Jun 2012 11:53 AM PDT Server CTO departed last DecemberAMD's new CEO Rory Read has been shaking things up in the past couple of months while at the same time settling things down – particularly on the Opteron server chip front. To help accomplish both, he's made a major management move, hiring Suresh Gopalakrishnan to be vice president and general manager of AMD's server business unit.…
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| European vote hammers another nail into ACTA's coffin Posted: 21 Jun 2012 10:15 AM PDT Will no one rid us of this turbulent treaty?The European Parliament's International Trade Committee (INTA) has voted decisively to reject the controversial Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) and is recommending that the treaty be rejected in next month's plenary vote.… |
| Red Hat pumps up Enterprise Linux to 6.3 Posted: 21 Jun 2012 08:57 AM PDT Get ready to become a digital numadAhead of its Red Hat Summit in Boston next week and the reporting of its financial results for fiscal Q1 yesterday, commercial Linux distributor Red Hat is pushing out its next iteration of the Enterprise Linux operating system for servers and workstations.… |
| Rare AutoCAD worm lifted blueprints from Peru, sent them to China Posted: 21 Jun 2012 08:54 AM PDT Reverse engineering superseded by forward engineeringSecurity watchers have discovered a worm that targets drawings created in AutoCAD software for computer-aided design (CAD).… |
| Sequoia: Can anyone learn to wield this mighty HPC weapon? Posted: 21 Jun 2012 08:00 AM PDT Top500 co-founder Dr Jack Dongarra talks to the RegPodcast Here at ISC 2012 in Hamburg, I sat in on a podcast with Rich Brueckner of insideHPC and Dr Jack Dongarra, co-founder of the Top500 list. We talked about the 20-year evolution of the list and, of course, Sequoia, the BlueGene/Q system that topped the June 2012 rankings.… |
| Tech fault at RBS and Natwest freezes millions of UK bank balances Posted: 21 Jun 2012 07:16 AM PDT No fix date available for devastated customersRBS and Natwest have failed to register inbound payments for up to three days, customers have reported, leaving people unable to pay for bills, travel and even food. The banks - both owned by RBS Group - have confirmed that technical glitches have left bank accounts displaying the wrong balances and certain services unavailable. There is no fix date available.…
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| Vatican subtly shifts its position on <i>The Blues Brothers</i> Posted: 21 Jun 2012 06:51 AM PDT No obvious signs of Templar involvement, howeverThe Vatican has subtly shifted its stance on the Blues Brothers, with in-house(ofgod) magazine Osservatore Romano declaring the 33-year-old movie "a modern classic".… |
| Major London problem hits BT broadband across southeast Posted: 21 Jun 2012 06:37 AM PDT 'Turn it off and on again'. No, reallyUpdated BT is struggling to get its broadband service up and running in parts of the capital and across the southeast of England this afternoon, after the telecoms giant was hit by a massive outage.… |
| The reseller lining in the SME security cloud Posted: 21 Jun 2012 06:23 AM PDT Mining the threat landscapeOn paper, the cloud is a wonderful thing for small businesses. It gives even the smallest of firms access to enterprise-level software, reduces capital expenditure, and is increasingly seen as being a good move for security, too.… |
| Campaign to reduce RIM jobs gets underway Posted: 21 Jun 2012 05:55 AM PDT Push email folk to get the push from next weekThe axe has started swinging at RIM in the latest round of job cuts, the beleaguered BlackBerry maker has confirmed.… |
| Turing Machine brought to life with Lego Posted: 21 Jun 2012 04:54 AM PDT Researchers put their Mindstorms to itCheck out this badass Turing Machine made from a single Lego Mindstorms Nxt kit, an impressive reincarnation of the classic concept conceived by maths boffin Alan Turing in 1936.… |
| Pirate Bay founders appeal to EC to save them from Swedish justice Posted: 21 Jun 2012 04:51 AM PDT It is famously a very oppressive placeTwo founders of notorious BitTorrent search website, The Pirate Bay, are bidding to get an earlier Swedish court verdict overturned at the European Court of Human Rights.… |
| Amazon Android App Store to invade Europe Posted: 21 Jun 2012 04:37 AM PDT Temptations for developersAmazon will bring its Android App Store to Europe, tempting more developers to jump on board with a new revenue split, an easier submission process and a pledge to waive annual fees.… |
| Former Acer CEO Lanci trousered £27m after PC-mountain cockup Posted: 21 Jun 2012 04:31 AM PDT We just wanted issue settled quickly, says WangAcer's former CEO pocketed a tidy pay-off worth NT$1.28bn (£27.2m) after exiting the Taiwanese PC giant last year, the vendor has revealed.…
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| Oracle accepts a nice round number in damages from Google Posted: 21 Jun 2012 04:19 AM PDT Let's get this over with so we can appeal alreadyOracle has agreed to accept damages of $0 from Google in the Java case for the small bit of copyright infringement of which the judge found it guilty.… |
| Amount of meat we eat will barely affect future climate change Posted: 21 Jun 2012 04:11 AM PDT Look at the numbers, forget the spinFor the last few days, the mainstream British media have been assuring us that rich westerners must seriously cut down the amount of meat we eat - and the rest of the world must keep to its current meat-light diet - in order to stave off planetary apocalypse. But what are the facts?… |
| Posted: 21 Jun 2012 04:00 AM PDT Watching the defectivesiOS App of the Week It's often been said that there's big difference between the public's perception of crime – getting worse all the time, the country's going to the dogs, blah-Daily-Mail-blah – and the actual crime figures that have shown a decrease in recent years.… |
| Brits spent £334 each year on games Posted: 21 Jun 2012 03:39 AM PDT Moving to mobileThe average British gamer spent £334 on their hobby last year, it has been calculated.… |
| Realising the benefits of cloud for mobile workers Posted: 21 Jun 2012 03:32 AM PDT Like it or not, it's hereVid Even today, many enterprise users are unsure about cloud computing. They don't understand what it means, and they think that it's mere hype. And yet mobile devices primed for the cloud are making their way into the enterprise, whether IT departments like it or not.… |
| Supercomputer flash kings: TLC needs, er, TLC Posted: 21 Jun 2012 03:27 AM PDT Three-layer cell NAND, the iron bicycle of memoryISC12 Here at Hamburg's supercomputer fest, three merchants of flash were plying their wares. What did they think about the chances of 3-layer cell (TLC) NAND, the stuff that's cheaper than MLC but slower and with a drastically shorter working life? Cue shaking of heads and whole stack engagement.… |
| Larry Ellison buys island 1000x bigger than Branson's Posted: 21 Jun 2012 03:13 AM PDT No details yet on volcano, submarine dock etcBillionaire CEO Larry Ellison has fulfilled the dream of mega-rich folks everywhere: he has just bought his very own island.…
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| Samsung to probe Galaxy S III blaze claim Posted: 21 Jun 2012 02:50 AM PDT Hot product got too hot?Samsung has confirmed it will investigate claims that its Galaxy S III Android smartphone may be susceptible to overheating, causing damage to the case and the devices within.… |
| Dixons Retail: A mirror held up to Europe Posted: 21 Jun 2012 02:44 AM PDT Southern pain, northern gain, Pixmania ruining it for everyoneDixons Retail's top and bottom lines slipped in fiscal 2012 ended 28 April, according to preliminary results.… |
| Brutal web vice of the People's Republic crushes innovation, growth Posted: 21 Jun 2012 02:30 AM PDT Our man in China eyes up prospects for digitalAnalysis Recent high profile scandals in China, the fall of Poliburo member Bo Xilai and the US Embassy dash of human rights activist Chen Guangcheng, have highlighted both the limits and the grim extent of country's world-leading online censorship regime. However, web firms within the People's Republic and online businesses looking to expand into the region will now be more worried about whether they can survive and thrive there given the increasingly prohibitive restrictions placed on them.… |
| Sony taps bug peepers to kill gloss-screen glare Posted: 21 Jun 2012 02:23 AM PDT Fly's Eyes Wagner inspired?Love the colour reproduction of glossy screens but hate their reflectivity? Sony may have the solution: a film capable of ensuring the former yet massively reducing the latter.… |
| Microsoft set to 'do a Nexus' with its Surface tablet Posted: 21 Jun 2012 02:14 AM PDT Acer boss Shih argues it will be a one-off playMicrosoft's much-hyped tablet PC launch is a one-off designed to boost Windows 8 adoption and encourage other manufacturers to produce their own tablets based on the OS, Acer's outspoken founder Stan Shih has argued.… |
| Panasas on server flash cache: 'What problem are you solving?' Posted: 21 Jun 2012 02:03 AM PDT We don't need the speed, we don't heed the feedISC12 Storage array feeding of server flash caches is not needed for high-performance computing because network latency is negligible - according to parallel storage biz Panasas.… |
| New body to supervise as your NHS file includes more and more stuff Posted: 21 Jun 2012 01:44 AM PDT 64b/1: Circumstances of asphyxiation. Auto-erotic (Y/N)The Department of Health is setting up a new organisation to oversee the scope of the clinical content in the NHS Summary Care Record (SCR). An SCR is an electronic patient record that sums up all of the data collected in the course of all an individual's treatments by the NHS.…
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| Row on between publishers, researchers over data mining techniques Posted: 21 Jun 2012 01:28 AM PDT IPO attempts to data mine consultation responsesPlans to enable researchers to use computerised techniques to read information contained in journal articles without infringing publishers' rights have drawn "strongly divided" views from the industry, the Intellectual Property Office (IPO) has said.… |
| Samsung offers cool green RAM for the same cold hard greenbacks Posted: 21 Jun 2012 01:14 AM PDT Confidentially admits being 'generations ahead' of rivalsISC12 Samsung is promoting its green memory here at ISC 2012 in Hamburg, Germany, saying its 20nm-class DRAM uses less electricity than 50nm-class RAM and runs cooler too. Oh, and it costs the same.… |
| Windows 8 'harder for malware to exploit', says security analysis Posted: 21 Jun 2012 01:00 AM PDT Getting penetrated doesn't mean they own youMicrosoft's upcoming operating system is a step forward in security, at least according to a security researcher who is among the first to take a detailed look at early releases of Windows 8.… |
| LinkedIn faces class action suit over password leak Posted: 21 Jun 2012 12:41 AM PDT People can take data from us, but not moneyLinkedIn is facing a class action suit over the security breach that saw millions of users' passwords posted online.… |
| Pricey China could put off ex-pat IT pros Posted: 21 Jun 2012 12:31 AM PDT Rocketing living costs may be good news for Hong KongEx pat IT professionals could soon find more job opportunities appearing in Hong Kong than on the mainland after new research revealed rocketing living costs in some Chinese cities, forcing employers to reconsider where they locate candidates.…
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| Apple desperate to prevent nightmare scenario of iPad in Iranian hands Posted: 21 Jun 2012 12:18 AM PDT Power of 'slab too awesome to risk in sale to US citizenVid An Apple Store in the US state of Georgia refused to sell an iPad to an American teenager because she spoke the Iranian language Farsi in the store. A student in the nearby city of Atlanta was also banned from buying an iPhone for the same reason, according to a report by local TV channel WSBTV.… |
| Whamcloud flogs wild Lustre pig into obedience with data whip Posted: 21 Jun 2012 12:02 AM PDT It's the only language these open brutes understandISC 2012 Whamcloud is adding enterprise-type data management features to the open-source Lustre parallel file system.… |
| Philips 46PFL9706T 46in 3D smart TV Posted: 20 Jun 2012 11:00 PM PDT Inspired by the eyes of a mothReview Philips TVs have long been synonymous with technical ingenuity. From an evangelical support of HD Mac and PAL Plus, through to the launch of 21:9, the brand has never shied away from pushing the televisual envelope. At least in the short term, that tradition looks set to continue under the stewardship of its new owner, TP Vision. The 46PFL970T reviewed here is another example of Philips invention.… |
| Nigerian scams are hyper-efficient idiot finders Posted: 20 Jun 2012 09:39 PM PDT The bigger the lie, the bigger the pile of cash scammers scoop, says MSFT boffinA Microsoft researcher, Cormac Herley, has penned a paper titled "Why do Nigerian Scammers Say They are from Nigeria?" (PDF), and concludes the whoppers the scam includes are actually a very efficient way of finding likely targets.… |
| Chinese search newbie Jike takes on Baidu and Google Posted: 20 Jun 2012 09:02 PM PDT It's government-owned but promises 'natural' searchChinese government-owned search engine Jike took another step towards competing with the big boys, Baidu and Google, a year after its launch by announcing advertising on the site.… |
| Posted: 20 Jun 2012 07:43 PM PDT ACCC takes action on tricky telco adsThe Australian Competition and Consumer Commission has again taken a local telco to task for dodgy advertising practices.…
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| Gigapixel camera heralds new world of snoopery Posted: 20 Jun 2012 07:32 PM PDT You want detail? We got detailIf you listen very carefully, you can hear the owners of high-end digital SLRs yelling "I want it!" at their computer screens: Duke University researchers have stitched together 98 "microcameras" into a 50-gigapixel monster called AWARE 2.… |
| European Parliament prepares for crucial ACTA vote Posted: 20 Jun 2012 07:07 PM PDT 2.8 million people say no to treatyOn Thursday the European Parliament's International Trade Committee will vote on the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) and give its recommendations on whether or not to recommend the controversial treaty.… |
| The Hague says Apple infringed Samsung patent Posted: 20 Jun 2012 05:06 PM PDT Incremental win in excremental battleThe worldwide lawyers' progressive dinner that is Apple-versus-Samsung has stopped over for a quick dessert in The Netherlands, where a court has decided that Samsung has been wronged and should receive damages.… |
| Consumer Affairs Victoria drops App Store malware claim Posted: 20 Jun 2012 04:44 PM PDT Chatting to Apple to clarify things, so page comes down for nowConsumer Affairs Victoria (CAV) has taken down a page on which it alleged Apple's App Store contains "counterfeit or 'cloned' apps" that "look like real apps but don't have the same kind of security as those made by established software programmers" and "can expose personal data to malware or predatory, virus-like software."… |
| Red Hat hits the top and bottom numbers in fiscal Q1 Posted: 20 Jun 2012 04:25 PM PDT Billings look a bit weakEverybody seems to be a bit jumpy about the global economy these days, and Red Hat will be giving Wall Street a case of the jitters when the market opens on Thursday even though it exceeded its revenue and profit targets in its first quarter of fiscal 2013.…
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| NBN Co preps revised access undertaking Posted: 20 Jun 2012 04:21 PM PDT New agreement expected by year-endNBN Co, the company building Australia's National Broadband Network, will revisit the rules and pricing for access to its network in response to feedback from access seekers.… |
| Pegatron named as Microsoft Surface fondleslab foundry Posted: 20 Jun 2012 03:57 PM PDT Low margins may annoy Redmond's partnersTaiwanese electronics manufacturer Pegatron has been awarded the contract to build Microsoft's Surface tablet, and sources suggest Redmond's got a twin strategy for tablets.… |
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