PGP founder, Navy SEALs uncloak encrypted comms biz

PGP founder, Navy SEALs uncloak encrypted comms biz


PGP founder, Navy SEALs uncloak encrypted comms biz

Posted: 14 Jun 2012 02:52 PM PDT

Claim total security for phone, text, email, and more

Phil Zimmermann and some of the original PGP team have joined up with former US Navy SEALs to build an encrypted communications platform that should be proof against any surveillance.…

Apple adds gay and lesbian icons to iOS 6 messaging

Posted: 14 Jun 2012 02:44 PM PDT

Let the "homosexual agenda" fear-mongering begin

Apple's next-generation mobile operating system, iOS 6, will include oh-so-cute 'n' cuddly gay and lesbian emoji couples for your texting and emailing enjoyment.…

Dell to focus on enterprises and cut $2bn in costs

Posted: 14 Jun 2012 01:20 PM PDT

Wall Street gets a divvy reward

If you have Dell stock in your portfolio this week, your 401(k) is probably a little bit happier and healthier. The computer maker is to pony up some cash dividends, funded in part through aggressive cost cutting and a continuing expansion into enterprise IT and away from over-reliance on consumers.…

openSUSE 12.2 release delayed, team calls for a rethink

Posted: 14 Jun 2012 12:36 PM PDT

Candidate's coding can't continue in current condition

The OpenSUSE community is engaged in an intense debate about the future of the project after the team announced that the 12.2 build won't be ready for release on July 11 as scheduled.…

Apple, Time Inc. ink iPad magazine subscription deal

Posted: 14 Jun 2012 12:30 PM PDT

Year-long dalliance consummated at last

Apple and mega-magazine publisher Time Inc. have decided to consummate their year-long digital-subscription dalliance and go, as the kids used to say, "all the way" by sealing a deal that will allow iPad users to subscribe to Time, People, Sports Illustrated, and other rags directly from their Cupertinian fondleslabs.…

Tomb Raider dev denies Croft rape scene

Posted: 14 Jun 2012 09:55 AM PDT

Implied threat only

Crystal Dynamics has denied the existence of rape scenes in the upcoming Tomb Raider refresh, after the title's Producer implied just such a threat faces Lara Croft in the new game.…

Outrageously old galaxy spied birthing new stars at furious rate

Posted: 14 Jun 2012 09:18 AM PDT

Every star is sacred, it's like the pop biz, etc

Astronomers at the Max Planck institute have successfully glimpsed one of the oldest galaxies known to man, finally discovering how far away the primordial cluster is and explaining why it produces so many stars.…

Dell Cloud descends on Europe (by way of Slough)

Posted: 14 Jun 2012 09:17 AM PDT

US and Canada first

Dell opens a data centre in Slough next month, to support the delivery of cloudy services to Europe.…

RIPE reverse DNS broken for much of day

Posted: 14 Jun 2012 09:08 AM PDT

Dutch titsup kit off, wobbly, in and out

Reverse DNS services for subscribers to RIPE - the Regional Internet Registry for Europe, the Middle East and parts of Central Asia - were disrupted yesterday for over three hours.…

Nokia's Great Software Cleansing scrubs off everything since the '90s

Posted: 14 Jun 2012 08:55 AM PDT

The type of cleansing you do in a bath full of BLOOD

Nokia took an axe to much of its non-Windows software capacity today, leaving all but a core team working on S40, company insiders say. Among the 10,000 casualties officially announced are teams working on Meltemi, Qt and QML. The team imported via the Smarterphone acquisition will work on S40, we understand.…

Amazon offers cut-price support to make sure your Cloud stays up

Posted: 14 Jun 2012 08:13 AM PDT

Various levels of certainty it won't rain on your parade

Cloud gorilla Amazon Web Services has revamped its technical support services for its various heavenly compute and storage infrastructure while at the same time tweaking the packaging of those support services.…

Supreme Court dismisses Assange bid to reopen extradition case

Posted: 14 Jun 2012 06:56 AM PDT

WikiLeaker-in-chief to feel UK boot to arse in two weeks

Supreme Court judges have rejected Julian Assange's bid to get his extradition case reopened, which means the 40-year-old WikiLeaks founder will be sent packing from Blighty in a fortnight's time.…

Clouds gathering on horizon for software devs, say wise men

Posted: 14 Jun 2012 06:27 AM PDT

'There are things to be done. I don't know what they are'

The software industry will dissolve into a soup of micro-detailed web services delivered over the cloud by 2022, with IT departments reduced to "guiding" users to prevent them from leaking their companies' crown jewels onto the net.…

GiffGaff in data spaff, goodybag gaffe: ICO says its 'avin a laff

Posted: 14 Jun 2012 06:22 AM PDT

Three embarrassments = a rather ramshackle impression

The people's network operator, GiffGaff, has leaked customer details to other customers and fouled up its goodybag topup scheme. Those who complained were surprised to find that GiffGaff isn't registered with the Information Commissioner's Office.…

WD beams in 802.11n Wi-Fi stations

Posted: 14 Jun 2012 05:54 AM PDT

Time Capsule clone too

Hard drive maker WD is extending its reach in home networking. Already a provider of powerline Ethernet kit, it's now going to offer wireless routers, including one with on-board storage.…

HBO 'sorry' for skewering Dubya

Posted: 14 Jun 2012 05:53 AM PDT

From Game of Thrones to Blame of Thrones

HBO has been forced to issue an apology after Game of Thrones' creators admitted a decapitated head - spotted in a scene at the end of the first series of the fantasy show - was actually a replica of ex-president George W Bush. Oops.…

Slippery £4bn supplier deadline flies through UK.gov's fingers AGAIN

Posted: 14 Jun 2012 05:50 AM PDT

Who'll pick up the soap in the public sector showers?

The folks at Government Procurement Services certainly seem to like to play it fast and loose with deadlines; there has been yet another slip in the schedule for the forthcoming £4bn IT Hardware & Services framework.…

BPM: From back office to front office and beyond

Posted: 14 Jun 2012 05:47 AM PDT

You have the question? We have some answers

Live event  Are you tough enough to take on Business Process Management (BPM) and win? Someone has to. It has never been more important to handle workflow efficiently.…

Start to finish: Building a cloudy service in two weeks

Posted: 14 Jun 2012 05:44 AM PDT

Trevor dons overalls for Microsoft private cloud project

Feature  Wading through Microsoft's private cloud offerings has been a bit of a slog for me. My background is mostly VMWare and my experience of providing web services is largely Lamp-based.…

Wraps come off UK super-snooper draft plans

Posted: 14 Jun 2012 05:37 AM PDT

Attempt to log everyone who cares foiled by duff website

Legislation relating to communications data will be yanked out of the existing Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act (RIPA) and brought under a new regulatory framework if the Home Office's plans to step up the monitoring of internet traffic passes through Parliament.…

Microsoft's $1bn Yammer gobble gabble blabbed by insiders

Posted: 14 Jun 2012 05:29 AM PDT

Talks underway on biznet buy, 'tis whispered

Microsoft is reportedly in talks to snap up enterprise social network Yammer for over $1bn.…

Carphone Warehouse clings to buoyant fondleslab, avoids submerging

Posted: 14 Jun 2012 04:59 AM PDT

Margins sure to be better in China than Europe, right?

Lower handset subsidies and a lack of choice in the low end caused high-street business to drop more than 5 per cent in Europe according to Carphone Warehouse, though the retailer still managed to maintain profits within its own predictions.…

HP and SAP: What we need is a MASHED UP cloud

Posted: 14 Jun 2012 04:48 AM PDT

'We've moved away from doing it cheaper' (Thank god)

CCWF2012  The next step in cloud computing is to mash up all the different clouds hanging about with traditional IT systems to give one big mixed-up cloud, SAP and HP both insist.…

Office 365 in moving pictures

Posted: 14 Jun 2012 04:45 AM PDT

Man the whiteboards

Site news  Check this out, a short whiteboard-style animation by our art guy Andy, for an Office 365 campaign we are running with Microsoft.…

£CHING: ICANN bags $357m from 1,930 dot-word domains

Posted: 14 Jun 2012 04:39 AM PDT

Selling dot-sizzle, not dot-sausage

Companies have rushed to file for top level domain names including .wang, .ketchup and .dog. A total of 1,930 applications for the new top level domains were filed, ICANN revealed yesterday as it published the list of applications. The name registry company will have scooped in $357m from the name sale, after charging $185,000 per application.…

Another investor pulls out of Habbo Hotel after grooming claims

Posted: 14 Jun 2012 04:31 AM PDT

'Focused on safety of our users': Shurely not all of them

Investors are pulling out of Finnish social networking firm Sulake and its teen-aimed website Habbo Hotel after revelations that Habbo was hosting illicit content.…

Cameron: A nod's not as good as a wink to a Murdoch blind bat

Posted: 14 Jun 2012 04:12 AM PDT

Some of my best friends are journos, admits PM

Prime Minister David Cameron has dismissed as "nonsense" claims that suggest a "nod and wink" arrangement had been struck between his Conservative Party and Rupert Murdoch's British newspaper business News International.…

Over 40 Magnifier

Posted: 14 Jun 2012 04:00 AM PDT

The eyes have it

iOS App of the Week  I almost decided not to review Over 40 Magnifier, simply because of its rather insulting name. I may be over 40 but my eyeballs haven't given up the ghost just yet. Nonetheless, this simple little app has still proven to be very useful and has taken up permanent residence on my iPhone.…

Home Office spunks another £12.8m on face recog tech

Posted: 14 Jun 2012 03:43 AM PDT

Before £8m spent on IRIS has a chance to hit bottom of bin

The Home Office is offering £12.8m for new facial recognition technology according to a tender notice from Home Office Procurement published on 12 June.…

Apple iMac refresh due Real Soon Now

Posted: 14 Jun 2012 03:36 AM PDT

Benchmark listing suggests debut is near

Online benchmark result sites have revealed the imminent arrival of new Macs before. Witness the appearance of the new MacBook Pro in Primate Labs' Geekbench site in May - a month before Apple announced the machine.…

Cisco + OpenFlow + OpenStack = ONE software-defined network

Posted: 14 Jun 2012 03:27 AM PDT

We're open to the max

Cisco Live 2012  Everybody is talking about OpenFlow, the "Quantum" networking abstraction project that is part of the OpenStack cloud controller, and software-defined networks in general. A lot of the talk has been about removing the hegemony of Cisco Systems in switching and routing. Now it is Cisco's turn to talk, the company's top brass declared at its annual customer event in San Diego.…

Stephen Fry's Pushnote goes titsup

Posted: 14 Jun 2012 03:20 AM PDT

Shleb tech guru comes a cropper

Pushnote, the startup backed by Stephen Fry that attracted a wave of publicity from his endorsement last year, has gone titsup.…

Orange: The way to a customer's heart is, well, slicing into the body

Posted: 14 Jun 2012 02:58 AM PDT

Wirelessly slurping your ticker via home broadband

Orange's Healthcare arm has signed up to provide data management to users of implanted cardiac monitors made by device manufacturer Sorin: which is one way to ensure your broadband customers don't churn.…

Reborn UK internet super-snooper charter to be unveiled today

Posted: 14 Jun 2012 02:39 AM PDT

New ministers: Same spooks, same cops, same plans

Home Secretary Theresa May confirmed this morning that under existing UK laws her department receives half a million requests to intercept communications data in the country every year. Later today, the Home Office will unveil its plans to greatly increase the amount of internet communications information kept on file in the UK, which will grant the police, spooks and the taxman - among others - the power to access such comms information.…

Got no idea what Hadoop is, but think you need it? You're not alone

Posted: 14 Jun 2012 02:27 AM PDT

It won't happen without Appening

Open ... and Shut  Hadoop is quickly becoming essential infrastructure for enterprises hoping to glean insights from the massive quantities of data they collect. The problem is that relatively few enterprises have the necessary competence to make effective use of the still-complex open-source project. While Hadoop vendors like Cloudera, Hortonworks, EMC, and MapR are doing their parts to simplify Hadoop, the real breakthrough for Hadoop may come from the applications that run on it, and not improvements to the infrastructure, according to Cloudera CEO Mike Olson.…

Foundering Nokia pushes 10,000 bods, 3 veeps overboard

Posted: 14 Jun 2012 02:15 AM PDT

Google, Apple peer through periscope torpedo sights

Nokia will shed another 10,000 staff by the end of next year, and has shuffled its VP pack in the ongoing struggle to make money against increasing competition.…

McAfee enlists 2e2 for BYOD security blitz

Posted: 14 Jun 2012 02:11 AM PDT

Cloud service for telcos

2e2, the big UK reseller, won a tasty cloud gig this week, to supply McAfee Enterprise Mobility Manager (EMM) as a hosted service to telcos and managed service providers.…

Computacenter to hire 700 new bods to meet bulging service needs

Posted: 14 Jun 2012 01:54 AM PDT

Painful Euro plunge could impact its bottom, however

Computacenter (CC) is splashing £7m on hiring hundreds of personnel and investing in systems to underpin faster than expected growth in services, the London-based reseller giant confirmed this morning.…

Tim Cook reveals 'great' update for Mac Pro

Posted: 14 Jun 2012 01:53 AM PDT

Apple bobbing ahead

Apple CEO Tim Cook has revealed the Mac Pro range will be updated in 2013 with "something really great".…

New Opera 12 hooks web apps to 3D graphics acceleration

Posted: 14 Jun 2012 01:42 AM PDT

Screaming themes may mean screaming users

A new version of Opera's desktop browser rolls out today, six weeks after the public beta.…

You can break EU cookie rules ... if your site breaks without cookies

Posted: 14 Jun 2012 01:27 AM PDT

It's the way the cookie crumbles when you split hairs

Website operators can only take advantage of an exemption from new cookie laws if site users specifically request a service or function and that service would not work without the serving of the cookie, EU data protection regulators have warned.…

G-Cloud boss hopes sexy cloud expos will warm up gov bods

Posted: 14 Jun 2012 01:14 AM PDT

Denise McDonagh: Buy camps will 'propagate' G-Cloud

The G-Cloud programme is being developed to help the wider public sector transition to cloud services, according to Denise McDonagh.…

EU's 2020 CO2 target 'will add a year to economic slump'

Posted: 14 Jun 2012 12:58 AM PDT

Emission cuts are 'too much too soon'

The EU's effort to cut carbon dioxide emissions by 20 per cent is twice as costly as it needs to be, and is likely to impact growth across the continent, according to a new study by a leading environmental economist.…

Girl Geek Dinner lady: The IT Crowd is putting schoolgirls off tech

Posted: 14 Jun 2012 12:38 AM PDT

Real girls don't think Googling Google breaks the internet

Sexism in The IT Crowd and other TV shows that chronicle of life in the tech industry is preventing women from considering a career in IT, said Sarah Lamb of women-in-tech-group Girl Geek Dinners.…

Hurry up, EU: CERN boffins need clouds to hunt Higgs boson

Posted: 14 Jun 2012 12:18 AM PDT

Some of the LHC data has already gone cloudy

CCWF2012  Physics boffinry centre extraordinaire CERN would love to be processing its reams of research data in the cloud, if only Europe would hurry up with a regulatory framework.…

Samsung Galaxy S Advance mid-range Android

Posted: 14 Jun 2012 12:00 AM PDT

HTC thrasher?

Review  Things sometimes change fast. Take the HMS Lord Nelson, a fine battleship when laid down in 1905 but almost instantly rendered obsolete by HMS Dreadnought, laid down just a few months later.…

Salesforce.com signs up Twitter firehose

Posted: 13 Jun 2012 11:07 PM PDT

You whinge, salesforce customers pounce

Salesforce.com has inked a new deal with Twitter to hook up the micro-blog's "firehose" of all public tweets to its social media monitoring tool Radian6.…

Vodafone unfurls booster brolly for mobes

Posted: 13 Jun 2012 09:19 PM PDT

Music festival-goers gain antenna and solar charger in handy, eye-poking, form

Vodafone UK will unfurl a "booster brolly" at summer music festivals, to give concert-goers a chance to charge their phones and shout at absent friends even at events staged in muddy fields where reception is thin.…

Australia 'should not be scared' of NBN cost

Posted: 13 Jun 2012 08:57 PM PDT

Broadband to account for AUD$1trillion of activity by 2050

Australia should not be afraid of the NBN's price tag, but should be scared enough to build the network, according to Phil Ruthven, founder and chairman of research company IBISWworld.…

CIOs must do more with mobile

Posted: 13 Jun 2012 08:13 PM PDT

Too many thinking inside the box, says IDC

Mobile analysts have urged Asia Pac IT managers to keep an open mind ro BYOD and other new technologies with the potential to transform the business.…

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