ISPs say AWS listed by Australian peering services

ISPs say AWS listed by Australian peering services


ISPs say AWS listed by Australian peering services

Posted: 12 Jun 2012 03:16 PM PDT

Source says co-located data centre testing under way

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is close to turning on an Australian facility, The Register has been told by a provider of IP networking services.…

Cisco puts a virty router in the clouds

Posted: 12 Jun 2012 02:30 PM PDT

And a virty server in a router, among other unnatural acts

Cisco Live 2012  Nothing is what it appears to be in the data center any more. Servers have integrated storage and switching, routers and switches are getting servers. And virtual switches and now virtual routers are running inside of servers and blade enclosures.…

Menaced cartoonist raises $60,000 for copywrong

Posted: 12 Jun 2012 01:57 PM PDT

Ignorant or cynical?

A popular internet cartoonist has been served a demand for $20,000 after he failed to use the DMCA to defend his rights.…

Yahoo! spinout rolls up first Hadoop stack

Posted: 12 Jun 2012 10:12 AM PDT

Hortonworks hears a $

Hadoop Summit 2012  Hortonworks, the company created a year ago from the spinout of the Yahoo! engineering team behind the open source MapReduce method of data munching known as Hadoop, is leading its first release to market by the nose.…

McAfee embraces managed services providers

Posted: 12 Jun 2012 10:09 AM PDT

Tune in to channel prog in Q3

McAfee is to unwrap a hosted channel programme in Q3, 2012, the IT security vendor told a press briefing in Marbella today.…

Bye, bye Apple. Now Facebook's the global app kingmaker

Posted: 12 Jun 2012 09:01 AM PDT

Zuck's lot will sift the gold from the mud... bitch

Analysis  Facebook is helping Apple to solve the biggest problem facing mobile app stores: sorting through the quagmire of mediocrity endemic in the industry. But more importantly Facebook has found a way to turn mobile punters into profit.…

Hitchhiker shot while researching 'Kindness of America'

Posted: 12 Jun 2012 08:27 AM PDT

Sticks out thumb, catches lead

A hitchhiker researching a book on "The Kindness of America" is currently recovering in hospital after a gun-toting truck driver gave him a small donation of some searing hot lead.…

Ex-disco kid Computacenter boss: 'Cloud? It makes me angry'

Posted: 12 Jun 2012 07:58 AM PDT

Norris on enriching sales, pushing tin and running a public company

Part 2  Computacenter's Mike Norris began his ascent through the ranks in 1986, when he was made the firm's top account manager. Two years later he was regional manager for operations in the capital, and he then became GM of the systems division in 1992 before finally becoming CEO in 1994. the company was a £463m sales organisation when Norris took the helm with an operating profit of £8.5m. In 2011, turnover was £2.85bn and operating profit was £74m.…

World smart TV sales surge

Posted: 12 Jun 2012 07:35 AM PDT

More folk buying - but are they watching?

Smart TVs - tellies with internet connectivity - accounted for almost 20 per cent of the televisions that manufacturers shipped in Q1.…

UK regulator re-opens probe into Google Street View slurp outrage

Posted: 12 Jun 2012 07:26 AM PDT

ICO hauls Chocolate Factory back onto the data carpet

The Information Commissioner's Office has reopened its investigation of Google's controversial Street View technology, after its data-collecting cars collected payload data including emails and passwords from unencrypted Wi-Fi networks.…

Raspberry Pi IN THE SKY: Wallet-sized PC is disaster drone brain

Posted: 12 Jun 2012 07:01 AM PDT

ARM-powered flying mercy bot to the rescue!

A British-led Japan-based group is building a free-software-powered flying robot for use by disaster relief organisations – and at its heart is tech darling the Raspberry Pi.…

Thief open-sources Richard Stallman's laptop, passport, visa

Posted: 12 Jun 2012 06:29 AM PDT

Free Software firebrand's hardware liberated in Argentina

Richard Stallman, founder of the Free Software Foundation, was distressed to find his personal belongings had been liberally distributed sans GPL - his prized laptop, wallet and passport were nicked at a conference in Argentina.…

Assange demands that Supreme Court reopen extradition case

Posted: 12 Jun 2012 06:08 AM PDT

WikiLeaks supremo wants to avoid Swedish summer heat

WikiLeaker-in-chief Julian Assange is pushing to have his extradition hearing reopened after his lawyer won a two-week delay to consider the verdict that went against him late last month.…

Apple Passbook card-'n'-ticket app paves way for iOS e-wallet

Posted: 12 Jun 2012 05:01 AM PDT

The barcode just won't die

WWDC  Apple's Passbook, announced at yesterday's developer conference as part of iOS 6, is clearly a step towards NFC payments, but even in its present form it has people pretty excited, so it's a shame that it won't work with the UK's biggest e-ticket deployment.…

Source code smoking gun links Stuxnet AND Flame

Posted: 12 Jun 2012 04:43 AM PDT

Kaspersky: Devious cyber-weapons share software DNA

A direct link exists between the infamous uranium enrichment sabotage worm Stuxnet and the newly uncovered Flame mega-malware, researchers have claimed.…

Sole British 'naut Major Tim embarks on NASA deep space mission

Posted: 12 Jun 2012 04:25 AM PDT

'Splashdown' for Tim Peake, as team heads beyond point of no return

Blighty's one and only astronaut, Tim Peake of the European Space Agency, has just embarked on a bold mission into an environment where few human beings have ever ventured: that of the saturation diver, semi-permanently adapted to life under high pressure and able to survive only deep underwater or inside pressurised containers.…

HTC handsets hit by grip of death

Posted: 12 Jun 2012 04:17 AM PDT

Antenna-gate re-opened

Reports of problems with HTC handsets continue to flood the web, with its flagship One X dogged by various Wi-Fi woes and the One S becoming disorientated when struggling for a data connection.…

New UK curriculum ramps up lessons in SPAAAACE

Posted: 12 Jun 2012 04:13 AM PDT

More facts crammed into brains in draft schools shakeup

British children will be taught more about the solar system and evolution in an overhaul of the primary school curriculum proposed yesterday by Education Secretary Michael Gove.…

Volkswagen Up!

Posted: 12 Jun 2012 04:00 AM PDT

Honey, I shrunk the Golf

Review  They say good things come in small packages, and at only 3.5m long Volkswagen's new city car is certainly small. To put that into context it is 28.5cm shorter than the unloved Fox it replaces and only 53.5cm longer than the original Mini.…

NASA's Curiosity rover will try risky landing near Mount Sharp

Posted: 12 Jun 2012 03:48 AM PDT

Space agency confident it can dodge mountainous Mars obstacle

NASA has decided to up the ante for the Mars rover Curiosity's arrival next month by pushing the landing site nearer to the foot of an inconvenient mountain.…

Sainsbury's pays £1 entrance, heads into ebook club

Posted: 12 Jun 2012 03:43 AM PDT

Slurps HMV's 64% stake in Anobii for peanuts

British grocery chain Sainsbury's has entered the ebook market by snapping up HMV's stake in Anobii for a nominal £1.…

Buffalo drops 802.11ac '5G Wi-Fi' router into Blighty

Posted: 12 Jun 2012 03:40 AM PDT

1.3Gb/s wireless, anyone?

Buffalo's next-gen Wi-Fi router is now available to buy in the UK, though only from two retailers.…

Apple pulls in TomTom, kicks Google off iPhones

Posted: 12 Jun 2012 03:19 AM PDT

iOS 6 Maps app uses TomTom's cartographical database

Buried among the data in Apple's new iOS is a win for TomTom, which will be providing the maps for iPhone-navigators.…

Ssssh. Apple quietly mashes monster MacBook Pro

Posted: 12 Jun 2012 03:10 AM PDT

17-incher excised

So farewell, then, the 17in MacBook Pro. Your demise was forecast back in April by market watcher Ming-Chi Kuo of KGI, a stockbroker, and sure enough you're no longer listed among Apple's selection of laptops.…

Supercomputers need standard shot glass to measure out juice

Posted: 12 Jun 2012 03:03 AM PDT

Can't fix it unless you can quantify it

Webcast  The biggest challenge in getting to the next level of supercomputer performance – Exascale – is the massive amounts of electricity these systems will consume. On a smaller scale, energy consumption also inhibits HPC installations. The problem isn't just getting enough plugs from your walls to the grid; it's also the cost of electricity when you're guzzling it in such massive quantities.…

Fate of dot-word bids decided by ICANN archery shoot-out

Posted: 12 Jun 2012 02:41 AM PDT

That $185,000 gTLD application rests on MILLISECOND timing

Who should own .web? Will the internet get a .porn address? What does Google plan to do with 50 new top-level domains? Why is ICANN putting companies through an online "archery game" that requires millisecond timing?…

For FORK'S sake: GitHub checks out Windows client

Posted: 12 Jun 2012 02:19 AM PDT

The rise and rise of Torvalds' tool

Open ... and Shut  Just two years ago, Git barely eked out a mention in Forrester's analysis of the software configuration management (or source code management) market, despite a clear trend toward open-source SCM tools. Now Git owns 27.6 per cent of the SCM market, according to a recent Eclipse Foundation survey, with Subversion apparently in terminal decline. Git's success, long driven by its embrace of the open-source ethos of forking, is now set to hit overdrive as it has broadened its appeal beyond command-line-loving elites to Windows developers.…

UEFA Euro 2012

Posted: 12 Jun 2012 02:00 AM PDT

Three Lions?

Android App of the Week  Assuming you haven't been on another planet for the last few months you'll be aware that soccer's 2012 European Championships kicked off in Warsaw on Friday. Sixteen teams, 31 matches and, I predict, the usual post-mortem in regards to England's woeful performance.…

The incredible shrinking NAND: I'm MEELLLLTING

Posted: 12 Jun 2012 01:31 AM PDT

Flash array bubbles burst

Blocks and Files  NAND is heading to the graveyard, getting closer and closer with every geometry shrink and every added cell bit. Any replacement NV-RAM technology will require controller software rip-and-replace, which could kill one trick pony flash array startups.…

ICO could smack Google Street View with fine after all

Posted: 12 Jun 2012 01:01 AM PDT

How a Swiss court's conclusions could translate into UK law

In one of my blogs on Google Street View, I wrote that the Information Commissioner (ICO) could not serve a Monetary Penalty Notice (MPN) on Google when its software captured some personal data from household Wi-Fi systems. This assessment was based on the fact that Google published statements to the effect that only an insignificant cache of random personal data was captured and that any capture of personal data was wholly unintentional.…

Google Apps cloud fine print may not protect EU biz

Posted: 12 Jun 2012 12:32 AM PDT

Storing private data outside the Eurozone? Welcome to a world of pain

EU businesses that provide applications to consumers through the Google Apps platform may require additional mechanisms to the new contract terms offered by Google - in order to legitimately transfer personal data collected from app users overseas, an expert has said.…

Hardy handymen handed handy hardened handheld hardware

Posted: 12 Jun 2012 12:03 AM PDT

Job sheets beamed directly into Scottish sparky palms

Fife council has pushed ahead with its mobile working plans by issuing building services staff with Motorola-built handheld devices to receive job instructions.…

China makes human rights play ... but forgets the internet

Posted: 11 Jun 2012 11:52 PM PDT

Increasing broadband speeds but content still censored

China has issued its latest action plan on human rights, glossing over minor issues such as online censorship and press freedom but re-affirming commitments to increase broadband penetration in the country.…

ZTE and Huawei execs get ten years for bribery

Posted: 11 Jun 2012 09:26 PM PDT

Sentenced in their absence by Algerian court

Huawei and ZTE suffered a PR blow this week after it emerged that executives from the company had been convicted of bribery offences in Algeria and sentenced in their absence to ten years each in jail.…

Two new Jovian moons confirmed

Posted: 11 Jun 2012 07:59 PM PDT

'S/2010 J 2' is smallest moon ever spotted from Earth

Jupiter's tally of moons has gone up by two, after researchers published their observations of two previously unknown Jovian satellites.…

Mobile chip firms ditch feature phone biz for smartphones

Posted: 11 Jun 2012 05:59 PM PDT

R&D efforts focused on web-enabled devices

One of the world's largest mobile chip companies, MediaTek, is focusing its R&D efforts on smartphones at the expense of its feature phone business in another clear sign that the market for budget 3G handsets in countries like China and India is about to explode.…

Western consumption helping to kill off species

Posted: 11 Jun 2012 05:53 PM PDT

Sydney Uni maps global extinction link to trade

Grab a coffee, add two sugars, and check the news on your tablet: you've just helped kill off a species in a country you might never have heard of.…

Dell blades up EqualLogic storage arrays

Posted: 11 Jun 2012 05:44 PM PDT

Part of the Converged Blade Data Center

Dell is previewing a new blade server implantation of its EqualLogic storage arrays that will slide into its M1000e blade enclosures and offer customers and all-blade server, storage, and switch option, while at the same time not many compromises on performance or density.…

Apple juggernaut cranks out big, <i>big</i> numbers

Posted: 11 Jun 2012 05:33 PM PDT

Trillions, billions, millions, and so on

In addition to updating its laptop line; providing more details about its July release of the next OS X, Mountain Lion ($19.99); and unveiling the Google-goading iOS 6, set for a fall debut, Apple also tossed around some interesting – and some very, very big – numbers on Monday morning during the keynote to its Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) in San Francisco:…

Fusion-io gives Cisco blade servers some flash

Posted: 11 Jun 2012 05:03 PM PDT

Anything HP, IBM, and Dell have...

Upstart server maker Cisco Systems has tapped server flash-drive maker Fusion-io to be its OEM supplier for flash storage in its "California" Unified Computing System blade severs.…

The changing skills sets for the private cloud

Posted: 11 Jun 2012 05:01 PM PDT

Cloud challenge forces IT to learn new tricks

According to Lucas Searle, head of private cloud at Microsoft UK, as the cloud brings increased automation and more efficient delivery, it also shifts the IT focus away from just keeping the infrastructure going.…

Money men want bombproof data centre on satellite site

Posted: 11 Jun 2012 04:53 PM PDT

Apollo radio site Jameson Earth Station slated for redevelopment by Oz company

Australian telecommunications company PlusComms is poised to acquire a piece of global telecommunications and space history as it seeks to raise capital for the purchase of the Jamesburg Earth Station.…

iPhones, iPads to be FULL OF FACEBOOK and NOT GOOGLE

Posted: 11 Jun 2012 04:18 PM PDT

Mountain View 'dairy product' feels Cupertino lash

If you're harboring any doubts about bad blood bubbling between Apple and Google, Cupertino's iOS headman Scott Forstall dispelled them on Monday when introducing the next version of Apple's mobile operating system, iOS 6.…

Study fingers humans for ocean heat rise

Posted: 11 Jun 2012 04:16 PM PDT

'No matter how you look at it, we did it'

A study published last weekend on Nature Climate Change claims to give the lie to the notion that if the world is warming, it's not our fault.…

Password flaw leaves MySQL, MariaDB open to brute force attack

Posted: 11 Jun 2012 04:03 PM PDT

Ubuntu, Fedora, and openSUSE versions vulnerable

A basic flaw in the password software used by MySQL and MariaDB allows a brute-force attack to bag the password and gain full root access in a few seconds, according to details published by security researchers.…

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