AMD smacked by channel slump in Q2 |
- AMD smacked by channel slump in Q2
- Global IT spending wrapped in caution tape
- Perceptive Pixel buy to make Microsoft more touchy-feely
- Facebook shuts down face recognition APIs after all
- UK judge hands Samsung win for being 'not as cool' as iPad
- UN deploys ITU to seek FRAND patent peace treaty
- Finland beefs up HPC oomph with Cray 'Cascade' super
- LSI lures IT vendors with Nytro blast for flash storage
- Apple cracks down on black market in iOS beta passes
- Lookout mulls flagging privacy-invading phone apps as adware
- ISPs step in to supply DNSChanger safety net
- US networks: Political donations by text? Rlly nt a gud idea
- HP's faster-than-flash memristor at least TWO years away
- OpenFlow takes networks in a different direction
- In the red corner: TV star and prof in Beijing blogger brawl
- Microsoft sets October date for Windows 8 release
- Live long and prosper: Spaceflight 'slows ageing process'
- DARPA aiming for Mach-20 hypersonic rocketplane 'by 2016'
- British Gas bets you'll pay £150 for heating remote control
- Facebook! and! Yahoo! kiss! and! make! up! with! tasty! ad! juice!
- Schools IT biz RM back in black after caning from UK gov
- BlackBerry App World hits 3bn downloads, 27bn more to go
- Sony, Samsung trade body to push HbbTV to Brits
- Twitter tool's tweet tweaks leaked to twits
- CSC bundles NHS IT fiasco staff out the door
- Google plants rainbow flag in anti-gay countries
- Ghost In the Shell: Stand Alone Complex: Solid State Society on Blu-ray
- Microsoft quietly bangs Bing's big bucks drum
- Boston flexes its own ARM server muscle
- Ex-Nokia staffers team up to revive MeeGo
- LOHAN finally checks into REHAB
- Emulex coughs up $58m in Broadcom fibre optic patents clash
- NASA was WRONG on arsenic-gobbling aliens, claim boffins
- Burnt Samsung Galaxy S III singed by external source, probe reveals
- 'Biologically accurate' robot legs walk like an Egyptian
- Cypress waggles ANOTHER unwanted take-over bid at Ramtron
- Welcome, friend, to Metroland
- US ponders fibre link to Guantanamo
- Olympus MEG4.0 smart glasses will photoshop the REAL WORLD
- Chinese boffins build nuclear-powered deep-sea station
- Analysts hail Burma's untapped IT goldmine
- SMART's new SSD wrings extra juice from MLC flash
- Comcast makes up with Boxee after cable encryption spat
- Android Trojan leaves 100,000 users out of pocket
- Japanese boffins demo EV on-the-move charging
| AMD smacked by channel slump in Q2 Posted: 09 Jul 2012 02:52 PM PDT Nearly 10 per cent dropThe bean counters at AMD have done a first pass on the company's second quarter, and it is not looking so good.… |
| Global IT spending wrapped in caution tape Posted: 09 Jul 2012 01:58 PM PDT Hazmat suits not required like in the Great RecessionWhat's black and yellow and stings? Nope, not a bee: the global IT spending budget, tightly wrapped in crime-scene caution tape – that's the continuing prognosis from the economists and IT market watchers at Gartner.… |
| Perceptive Pixel buy to make Microsoft more touchy-feely Posted: 09 Jul 2012 12:44 PM PDT As with Yammer, Redmond is buying friendsWPC 2012 At the end of the opening keynote at its Worldwide Partners Conference in Toronto Microsoft announced yet another purchase: touchable display creator Perceptive Pixel.…
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| Facebook shuts down face recognition APIs after all Posted: 09 Jul 2012 12:24 PM PDT Never mind what we said three weeks agoLess than a month after it was acquired by Facebook, face-recognition startup Face.com is shutting down its developer APIs and killing off its iOS app, in a dramatic about-face from earlier statements by its founder.… |
| UK judge hands Samsung win for being 'not as cool' as iPad Posted: 09 Jul 2012 12:05 PM PDT Apple's 'understated and extreme simplicity' works against itA UK judge has handed Samsung a victory in its court battle with Apple over design similarities between its Galaxy Tab line and the Cupertinian iPad – but for a reason sure to rankle the Korean manufacturer's design department.… |
| UN deploys ITU to seek FRAND patent peace treaty Posted: 09 Jul 2012 11:54 AM PDT Takes time off from world-domination plansThe International Telecommunications Union – the communications arm of the United Nations – has convened a round-table meeting to talk about patents, why they aren't working and what might be done to solve this.… |
| Finland beefs up HPC oomph with Cray 'Cascade' super Posted: 09 Jul 2012 11:11 AM PDT Stuffs old paper warehouse with gobs o' flops and bushels o' bytesFinland's main academic supercomputing center, the IT Center for Science (CSC), has been embiggening its number-crunching and data storage capacity throughout 2012, and is at it again this week with the acquisition of a future "Cascade" supercomputer from Cray.… |
| LSI lures IT vendors with Nytro blast for flash storage Posted: 09 Jul 2012 11:06 AM PDT Mega EMC deal not enough... we want moreLSI appears to be making a determined push into flash storage. But is this a smart business move by a company that flitted about somewhat when it came to flogging various storage technologies?…
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| Apple cracks down on black market in iOS beta passes Posted: 09 Jul 2012 10:33 AM PDT Psst, activate your UDID with us, bitchezApple has forced several sites selling access to beta versions of its iOS operating system to shut down after filing DMCA requests with their hosters.… |
| Lookout mulls flagging privacy-invading phone apps as adware Posted: 09 Jul 2012 09:52 AM PDT Free virus detector considers crackdown on freebiesLookout Mobile Security has taken steps towards classifying privacy-eroding phone apps as malign and ripe for removal from devices by its antivirus software.… |
| ISPs step in to supply DNSChanger safety net Posted: 09 Jul 2012 09:40 AM PDT Not going dark, after allThe DNSChanger Working Group's replacement DNS servers were taken offline as scheduled on Monday, 9 July.… |
| US networks: Political donations by text? Rlly nt a gud idea Posted: 09 Jul 2012 09:04 AM PDT We'll be on the hook for profiteering, moan operatorsAmerican cellular networks are unhappy with a Federal Election Commission decision to permit political donations by text message, despite the fact that such a facility could change politics entirely.… |
| HP's faster-than-flash memristor at least TWO years away Posted: 09 Jul 2012 08:38 AM PDT Plus: Storage boffins discuss photonic chip commsKavli Foundation Roundtable HP memristor-meister Stan Williams has revealed a product launch delay – saying commercial kit would be available by 2014 at the earliest – and said processor chips would eventually use nanoscale light networking.…
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| OpenFlow takes networks in a different direction Posted: 09 Jul 2012 08:32 AM PDT An easier routeAs network topologies and data access patterns have evolved, load profiles can change so quickly that a completely new approach to networking is required. That approach is OpenFlow.… |
| In the red corner: TV star and prof in Beijing blogger brawl Posted: 09 Jul 2012 08:13 AM PDT Molybdenum copper plant row boils over into real lifeTwo prominent Chinese micro-bloggers decided to settle their differences offline on Friday, after a Sina Weibo spat between a female regional TV presenter and a pro-government academic ended up in fisticuffs in a Beijing park.… |
| Microsoft sets October date for Windows 8 release Posted: 09 Jul 2012 07:50 AM PDT Gotta wait until 2013 for Intel's Win 8 Surface tabletsWPC 2012 Microsoft has set the date for the release of Windows 8: the operating system will be released to manufacturers in August ahead of a general release at the end of October.… |
| Live long and prosper: Spaceflight 'slows ageing process' Posted: 09 Jul 2012 07:17 AM PDT Lifespan boost for tiny astronautsMicroscopic worms live longer in space, scientists have revealed in research that has implications for human ageing.… |
| DARPA aiming for Mach-20 hypersonic rocketplane 'by 2016' Posted: 09 Jul 2012 07:01 AM PDT Blazing hot booming sky-spear 'is the new Stealth'Pentagon wild-card warboffin agency DARPA has plunged back into the hypersonics fray with a vengeance, announcing plans to build a "recoverable" rocket plane capable of Mach 20 speeds within four years.…
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| British Gas bets you'll pay £150 for heating remote control Posted: 09 Jul 2012 06:27 AM PDT The killer app for home automation?Following a trial run in the homes of 10,000 of its customers, British Gas has now launched its home-automation play: the Remote Heating Control, which will set you back £150. But for kit-provider AlertMe, the RHC could be more Trojan Horse than money-saving tech.… |
| Facebook! and! Yahoo! kiss! and! make! up! with! tasty! ad! juice! Posted: 09 Jul 2012 06:02 AM PDT Time to bury that patent lawsuit... bitchFacebook and Yahoo! are friends again after their lawyers cobbled together a settlement in their shouting match over patents.… |
| Schools IT biz RM back in black after caning from UK gov Posted: 09 Jul 2012 05:45 AM PDT Mega-cuts taught supplier a lesson it won't forgetRM is back in the black following the recent cost-cutting activity that saw it offload multiple business units and axe 17 per cent of its workforce.… |
| BlackBerry App World hits 3bn downloads, 27bn more to go Posted: 09 Jul 2012 05:24 AM PDT Not quite up to Apple's App Store, but hey-hoBlackBerry's app store – BlackBerry App World – has notched up 3 billion downloads, parent company RIM boasted in a upbeat developers' blog post.… |
| Sony, Samsung trade body to push HbbTV to Brits Posted: 09 Jul 2012 05:20 AM PDT Up yours, YouViewUK trade association Intellect, which represents electronics companies and broadcast technology firms, has detailed how it believes the HbbTV standard should be implemented alongside Freeview - effectively sticking two fingers up at YouView, which launched last week.… |
| Twitter tool's tweet tweaks leaked to twits Posted: 09 Jul 2012 05:03 AM PDT New iPhone app curates, tries not to crashApple's App Store has accidentally whipped the covers off the new Twitter app for iPhone and revealed its features.…
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| CSC bundles NHS IT fiasco staff out the door Posted: 09 Jul 2012 04:43 AM PDT Now to decide the fate of 640 staffers in round twoCSC has binned about 100 workers involved in the disastrous National Programme for IT in the first wave of planned redundancies – with another 200 heads leaving voluntarily, company insiders have claimed.… |
| Google plants rainbow flag in anti-gay countries Posted: 09 Jul 2012 04:22 AM PDT Ads giant wants homophobic nations to 'legalise love'Longtime gay rights campaigner Google has kicked off a new effort to "legalise love" in countries that criminalise homosexuality.… |
| Ghost In the Shell: Stand Alone Complex: Solid State Society on Blu-ray Posted: 09 Jul 2012 04:00 AM PDT Section 9 regroups for one more caseReview First released in its native Japan in 2006, GITS:SAC:Solid State Society (to contract its convoluted full title) was not created for cinemas but as a feature-length original video animation (OVA) destined for TV broadcast and DVD sales.… |
| Microsoft quietly bangs Bing's big bucks drum Posted: 09 Jul 2012 03:42 AM PDT Startups paid to bet on Redmond's loss-makerMicrosoft has created an angel investment fund for startups using its Bing.com search and ads platform.… |
| Boston flexes its own ARM server muscle Posted: 09 Jul 2012 03:26 AM PDT Green 'green' tech from Brit IT bizPics UK IT supplier Boston is not waiting for ARM-powered servers to take off before jumping into the racket - instead it's getting out there on the bleeding edge and will within weeks start shipping the first of its "Viridis" energy-efficient servers.… |
| Ex-Nokia staffers team up to revive MeeGo Posted: 09 Jul 2012 03:20 AM PDT Jolla on a rolla?A number of former Nokia employees have banded together to maintain the MeeGo smartphone OS and even release new hardware running the software.… |
| LOHAN finally checks into REHAB Posted: 09 Jul 2012 03:09 AM PDT First hypobaric rocket motor test todayWe're pleased to announce that today sees the first of our Rocketry Experimental High Altitude Barosimulator (REHAB) experiments, meaning we'll finally find out if solid rocket motors will fire under simulated high-altitude conditions.… |
| Emulex coughs up $58m in Broadcom fibre optic patents clash Posted: 09 Jul 2012 02:44 AM PDT Don't put that chequebook away just yetEmulex is paying Broadcom $58m to partially settle patent infringement claims.…
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| NASA was WRONG on arsenic-gobbling aliens, claim boffins Posted: 09 Jul 2012 02:30 AM PDT Weird Earth bacteria need their six a dayScientists in Switzerland have blown apart the theory that some bacteria can live off arsenic, disproving a controversial 2010 study by NASA.… |
| Burnt Samsung Galaxy S III singed by external source, probe reveals Posted: 09 Jul 2012 02:10 AM PDT Microwave to dry it out, it seemsPictures showing a heat-damaged Samsung Galaxy S III smartphone were seemingly the result of a bonkers bid to dry out a wet handset by heating it in a microwave oven.… |
| 'Biologically accurate' robot legs walk like an Egyptian Posted: 09 Jul 2012 01:58 AM PDT Or anyone else for that matterVid US boffins have come up with a pair of robotic legs that they reckon are the first to walk in a biologically accurate (if somewhat jerky) manner.… |
| Cypress waggles ANOTHER unwanted take-over bid at Ramtron Posted: 09 Jul 2012 01:45 AM PDT I know we're fabless but which part of no don't you understand?Non-volatile RAM chipper Ramtron has received a second unwanted take-over bid from serial acquiring chip vendor Cyprus Semiconductor.… |
| Posted: 09 Jul 2012 01:33 AM PDT You BetjemanStob When I saw that my editor had written 'Metro isn't the problem: catapulting into Metro land (and back again) is', I said: 'There's an idea - I could do try out the Betj pastiche macro in my HTML editor'. And scurried out the door before anybody thought to stop me.… |
| US ponders fibre link to Guantanamo Posted: 09 Jul 2012 01:14 AM PDT Residents to get better broadband than usThe US is pricing up a $40m fibre-optic cable connecting Guantanamo Bay to the US mainland, providing broadband connectivity to the place where 169 inmates still languish.…
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| Olympus MEG4.0 smart glasses will photoshop the REAL WORLD Posted: 09 Jul 2012 01:02 AM PDT Camera firm's Google Glass competitor has GPS, smartphone linkupJapanese camera and optics company Olympus is developing a set of smart glasses along the lines of Google's Project Glass which, besides its other more useful functions, will allow users to view the real world with a brighter, friendlier glow.… |
| Chinese boffins build nuclear-powered deep-sea station Posted: 09 Jul 2012 12:45 AM PDT Underwater mining plans a step closerNot content with ambitious plans to dominate space exploration over the coming decades, China is also looking to master the ocean with the development of a deep-sea station which could be its first step towards large-scale underwater mining.… |
| Analysts hail Burma's untapped IT goldmine Posted: 09 Jul 2012 12:38 AM PDT Tech firms will be queuing up for Asia's 'unpolished gem'Forget China, Burma could be the next big growth market for IT investors as long as the country continues its political and social reforms, according to IDC.… |
| SMART's new SSD wrings extra juice from MLC flash Posted: 09 Jul 2012 12:19 AM PDT 89,000 write cycles ... are you sure that's not SLC?SMART has introduced a solid state drive that can do 50 full drive writes a day for five years using consumer-grade MLC flash; that's 89,000 P/E cycles and a 50X jump up from the raw NAND rate.… |
| Comcast makes up with Boxee after cable encryption spat Posted: 09 Jul 2012 12:01 AM PDT Cable TV + internet boxes sector keeps swellingThe proliferation of third-party aggregation devices to combine cable TV with internet content in the home is set to continue in the US following a landmark deal between Comcast and Boxee.…
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| Android Trojan leaves 100,000 users out of pocket Posted: 08 Jul 2012 11:14 PM PDT MMarketPay buys content from China Mobile's app storeSecurity researchers are warning of yet another Android malware outbreak which has spread to nine app stores and infected 100,000 with code designed to covertly purchase apps and content from China Mobile's Mobile Market.… |
| Japanese boffins demo EV on-the-move charging Posted: 08 Jul 2012 04:01 PM PDT Except it's low-powered and inefficientElectric vehicles have two problems: to make them "zero emission", they need to be recharged from "clean" sources; and range remains a challenge. A Japanese proposal would, if it worked, address the second – but probably exacerbate the first.… |
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