No API in spec for new Sydney traffic model

No API in spec for new Sydney traffic model


No API in spec for new Sydney traffic model

Posted: 13 Jun 2012 02:45 PM PDT

3000 Sydney intersections to be modelled, developers left to watch .. for now

The State government of New South Wales has invited interested parties to build a new a new "Mesoscopic traffic model of Sydney road network," but seems to have made a policy backflip by leaving out a requirement for a public API, or even public access, to the model.…

Pegasus rocket lofts NuSTAR X-ray telescope into orbit

Posted: 13 Jun 2012 02:05 PM PDT

Black hole scanner air launch successful

NASA has confirmed the Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array (NuSTAR) X-Ray telescope has successfully made it into orbit after an airborne launch over the Pacific Ocean.…

Serengeti corrals Hadoop inside VMware hypervisors

Posted: 13 Jun 2012 02:04 PM PDT

Squeezing elephants inside ESXi VMs

Hadoop World 2012  It is a wonder why VMware has not rolled up its own Hadoop stack yet and made it part of its Cloud Foundry project, but perhaps a new project called Serengeti, the virtualization juggernaut that wants to rule the cloudy world is taking another step in that direction.…

AU domains on security alert

Posted: 13 Jun 2012 01:45 PM PDT

auDA proposes world first domain registration security measures

Australia's self-regulatory domain name registration regime is set for a shake up, following a proposal from governing body auDA that calls for the introduction of a mandatory information security standard (ISS) for all existing and potential registrars.…

AMD to plunk ARM core onto Fusion, Opteron chips

Posted: 13 Jun 2012 10:02 AM PDT

Don't get too excited – it only runs TrustZone security

In February, when the new management team at Advanced Micro Devices presented revised roadmaps for PC and server processors that were a bit more conservative than what the old AMD might have drawn up, the company's top techies hinted that they were interested in integrating other intellectual property into Fusion and Opteron processors. And now we find out that one of those things is an ARM core.…

Torvalds splits 2012 Millennium Technology Prize with gene scientist

Posted: 13 Jun 2012 09:58 AM PDT

'Socialist' Linus on capitalism in Silicon Valley

Linus Torvalds picked up his share of the world's largest technology award, the Millennium Prize, along with a check for €600,000 ($752,000) at a ceremony in Finland.…

Finally a use for quantum computers: Finding LOL-cats faster

Posted: 13 Jun 2012 09:04 AM PDT

Really big search engines need really tiny gates

Boffins at the University of Southern California have been looking at applications for quantum computing, and discovered that it's going to make for some serious search engine tech.…

Apple silences mute kids' speech app in patent blowup

Posted: 13 Jun 2012 08:01 AM PDT

iThing maker plays judge, jury and executioner

Apple is accused of silencing children after its App Store pulled an iPad speech synthesiser that gave mute youngsters a voice.…

That new 'Microsoft GCSE': We reveal what's in it

Posted: 13 Jun 2012 07:02 AM PDT

What the Windows 8 maker wants Brit kids to know

Exam board AQA's head of accreditation Mary Jane Newman has revealed a few more details about the so-called "Microsoft GCSE", which will be taught in Britain from September.…

Trust lawyers, not techies, when it comes to the cloud

Posted: 13 Jun 2012 06:32 AM PDT

Minefield of privacy and data laws - so tread carefully

CCWF2012  CIOs thinking of shifting to the cloud or kicking off a flagship big data project would be better off talking to their lawyers than their techies before starting to leaf through glossy corporate presentations.…

Watch out, world! Ofcom is off the leash to bite radio jammers

Posted: 13 Jun 2012 06:02 AM PDT

Watchdog back in the kennel after the Olympics

The UK radio regulator will start regulating the use of radio spectrum, but only at Olympic venues and only for the duration of the Games, despite calls for Ofcom to be given longer-lasting clout.…

Nokia eyes private equity buyer for bling-phone firm

Posted: 13 Jun 2012 05:54 AM PDT

Vertu can be yours for €200m

Private equity firm EQT appears to be back in the running as a potential buyer of Vertu, Nokia's wholly owned maker of bling-phones for the extremely well-heeled.…

Music SEVEN times more valuable to UK plc than first thought

Posted: 13 Jun 2012 05:28 AM PDT

Gov beancounters discover photography, gigs and dance

Government statisticians and economists have revised their estimates of the value of copyright investment in the UK economy - and found it's worth £3.2bn more than they previously reckoned.…

'You don't have to take Prozac to work at Capita - but it helps'

Posted: 13 Jun 2012 05:01 AM PDT

Staff morale withers under lingering job cuts threat

Capita IT Services' morale-zapping redundancy programme is not running to schedule nor playing out smoothly, say company insiders.…

Speaking in Tech: Dell loves acquired firms like 'adopted kids'

Posted: 13 Jun 2012 04:27 AM PDT

LIVE from the Dell Storage Forum

All of Europe's data in US servers? We're OK with that - EC bod

Posted: 13 Jun 2012 04:06 AM PDT

'It shouldn't matter where your files are held'

CCWF2012  A European Commission director has said that it shouldn't really matter where Europe's data is stored, as long as it's secure and protected.…

Top bosses admit: Tweets, Facebook Likes influence decisions

Posted: 13 Jun 2012 03:48 AM PDT

'This guy in his shed lol'd at our product - axe it'

Nine out of 10 execs think Big Data - the hoarding of information from server logs to social networking posts - is the fourth most important input to a business. The execs questioned in a survey published yesterday described data sets as the fourth factor of production after land, labour and capital.…

Blighty's new anti-bribe law will do more HARM than good

Posted: 13 Jun 2012 03:33 AM PDT

Ban on palm greasing could knacker UK in global trade

Analysis  We used to draw a distinct line between what was acceptable business conduct here at home and what we did abroad with Johnny Foreigner.…

Xperia Tipo tips up as two-Sim Sony

Posted: 13 Jun 2012 03:27 AM PDT

Social smartphones out too

Sony today signalled a few fresh Xperias, including a low-end social smartphone and a handset with dual-Sim capabilities.…

CSC UK touts jobs at RIVALS to techies facing chop

Posted: 13 Jun 2012 03:03 AM PDT

Bungling NHS IT outsourcer outsources vacancies

Outsourcing biz CSC has allowed rivals to advertise job vacancies on its intranet as hundreds of workers face redundancy.…

Three touts 'unlimited' Euro data roaming for a fiver a day

Posted: 13 Jun 2012 02:51 AM PDT

Browse but don't stream

Three has promised its contract-bound punters unlimited internet access in the rest of Europe for just a fiver a day.…

Newbie German team 3-to-1 fave in cluster building compo

Posted: 13 Jun 2012 02:28 AM PDT

Just don't mention ze /var

HPC Blog  Early money makes Germany's Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) a heavy favorite to win both the LINPACK and Overall number-crunching benchmark competitions at next week's Student Cluster Challenge in Hamburg, Germany.…

Updated MacBook Air sports tweaked SSD tech

Posted: 13 Jun 2012 02:20 AM PDT

Retina display Pro too

Apple has changed the MacBook Air's SSD connector - again.…

Cisco vs TiVo DVR smackdown: Whose patent is it anyway?

Posted: 13 Jun 2012 02:02 AM PDT

Time for a slow-motion replay of telly tech battle

Analysis  It's hard to read a "TiVo is sued by someone" headline these days and get excited about it. Multiple courts, going up to the highest in the US, have backed TiVo's claims to its Time Warp and other patents, dating back to 2001, so how can it get its patents re-examined once again?…

UK.gov cloud is 'biggest breakthrough' - UK.gov cloud CIO

Posted: 13 Jun 2012 01:30 AM PDT

I am great, no really

CCWF2012  The UK public sector's IT bazaar Cloudstore sold about £500,000 of services between February and April this year, government CIO Andy Nelson said.…

Apple's Retina Macs: A little too elite?

Posted: 13 Jun 2012 01:01 AM PDT

Ouch! Video makers asked to dig deep for work-able models

Analysis  Apple loves to be ahead of the competition on the technology curve, but has it shuffled up that curve a little too far? The new retina MacBook is causing angst among Apple's most loyal professional users.…

W3C: 'Do not track' by default? A thousand times: NO!

Posted: 13 Jun 2012 12:33 AM PDT

Punters should have to switch it on, says standards body

New technology that stops websites gathering information about users should not be switched on by default, but should require an explicit instruction to begin working, an internet standards body has said.…

Foreign Office commercial chief: Suppliers, don't be liars

Posted: 13 Jun 2012 12:02 AM PDT

Director calls for more honesty on procurement risks

The commercial director at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office has argued that if the government is to achieve its goal of procurements taking 120 days, both Whitehall and suppliers have to understand what they are procuring and the risks associated with it.…

Asus Transformer Pad TF300

Posted: 13 Jun 2012 12:00 AM PDT

Plastic fantastic

Review  It's no secret that I like the Asus Transformer Prime a lot. Still, £500 is a lot for a tablet even if it does go like the clappers, is made of aluminium and has a cracking keyboard dock with a built-in extra battery.…

Media moguls urged to go mobile in Asia

Posted: 12 Jun 2012 11:45 PM PDT

PRC to account for a third of net-connected mobe-sters

Around a third of the world's mobile internet users will come from China by 2016, driving a boom in the digital entertainment and media market, although concerns persist over digital piracy across some Asian countries, according to a new report.…

China fingered as lappie disappears from Taiwanese boat

Posted: 12 Jun 2012 11:15 PM PDT

Machine could contain info on high-speed stealth ships

Taiwanese military types are trying to allay fears that a laptop which went missing from a high-speed missile boat last month could pose a risk to national security, after concerns that the device was stolen by Chinese spies.…

BYOD will cost a packet, warn experts

Posted: 12 Jun 2012 11:00 PM PDT

HTML5 touted as way to keep app dev costs down

Enterprise mobility experts have warned IT managers not to enter bring your own device (BYOD) programs with cost reduction in mind, arguing that application development and support costs can quickly get out of hand if not strictly controlled from the start.…

Exploit posted for vulnerable F5 kit

Posted: 12 Jun 2012 05:30 PM PDT

Metasploit code on Github gives remote access to BigIP

A vulnerability in F5 kit first announced in February may be in the wild, with code posted to Github purporting to be an exploit.…

Oracle staffer accused of sex-for-favours in Singapore

Posted: 12 Jun 2012 05:15 PM PDT

Corruption case gets steamy

Oracle is red-faced in the Asia-Pacific, as one of its staffers has been accused of trading sex for favourable treatment by Singapore's narcotics agency.…

World+dog discovers hi-res aerial maps, thanks to Google and Apple

Posted: 12 Jun 2012 05:01 PM PDT

'Military grade spy stuff', my arse

While I'm happy to join in the general outrage about intrusions on our privacy, the metaphorical 72-point front-page headlines about Google and Apple display a deep ignorance about the existing, common, mundane uses of aerial imaging.…

Chambers: Cisco has bounced back

Posted: 12 Jun 2012 04:34 PM PDT

Ready to thump challengers – or itself

Cisco Live 2012  Cisco Systems is fired up, and if you are in one of its markets and one of its new adjacencies, the company is coming for your market share and more than its fair share of the profits.…

New ID leak from Global Payments

Posted: 12 Jun 2012 04:25 PM PDT

More fallout from hack attack

Credit and debit card processor Global Payments has warned that additional confidential information on its servers may have been compromised in the hacking attack earlier this year that saw around 1.5 million credit card details snatched.…

McAfee upgrades cloud security and Intel identity kit

Posted: 12 Jun 2012 03:53 PM PDT

Free to customers and channel

McAfee has upgraded its enterprise Cloud Security Platform and activated the first in a series of integrations with parent company Intel's identity management systems.…

TSMC joins giant fab race

Posted: 12 Jun 2012 03:50 PM PDT

450 mm wafers in five years, maybe

Taiwanese contract fab TSMC has become the latest chip-maker to join the 450mm (18 inch) wafer push, announcing a five-year project to put between $US8 billion and $US10 billion into a new chip plant.…

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