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- BAE proposes GPS-less location
- Web stat WTF: iOS beats Android 3 to 1, iOS and Android tied
- Apple faces Italian shutdown over warranty skulduggery
- More revelers amp up hybrid memory cube party
- Google makes 'proposal' to Europe on antitrust concerns
- Facebook phone app attempts to seize ALL YOUR MAIL
- Google nixes extra wireless attachments to its new Kansas fibres
- Microsoft runs price-hike Lite promo for Open Value licenses
- Baltic cyber bank burglars cop hefty porridge spell
- UK.gov proposes massive copyright land snatch
- Misery ending? UK reseller insolvencies may have bottomed out
- Dell finally nabs Quest for $2.4bn
- Fujitsu phones to guide the blind through homes
- Leap second bug cripples Linux servers at airlines, Reddit, LinkedIn
- YouView recommends radio hams' pet peeve
- Users enraged by Cisco's cloudy 'upgrade' to Linksys routers
- Micron's Elpida buy is GO for $2.5bn - and then there were three
- LinkedIn inked out: Twitter cuts off jabberhose to suits
- Overland patent broadside: Targeted firms vow to fight
- Avnet gobbles Magirus, aiming to deliver swollen offerings
- Samsung asks for US Galaxy Nexus ban to be lifted pending appeal
- Plans for special police-run ICT firm to firm up this month
- Microsoft gets its hypervisor war face on, squares up to VMware
- Sozzled Americans nagged by talking urinal cake
- Sony grabs cloud-gaming group Gaikai
- Apple lobs pocket change to Proview, ending Chinese IPAD name row
- Microsoft silently kills silent, automatic Skype install via Updates
- Trio of 'nauts plonk down after six-month space station stint
- Squabbling EU heads force Council to split patent court in 3
- Apple makes Cocoa with Porridge
- Bluetooth gizmo lets you take card payments via smartphone
- Ingram Micro crams BrightPoint down gullet for $840m
- Naked Scarlett Johansson pic snatch 'is worth 6 years' porridge'
- One day soon, maybe: Mobile health apps that are actually useful
- Google Drives its pot-o-cloud onto the iPhone, tangles with Dropbox
- The Grundy NewBrain is 30
- Microsoft: Don't overclock Windows 8 unless you like our new BSOD
- Overland Storage looses off fusillade of patent suits into tape crowds
- Google.eggfaced: Chocolate Factory spaffs cash in dot-word bungle
- Gah! EU data protection will STIFLE business, moans gov.UK
- Sussex bobbies get undisclosed tablets in networked-copper trials
- Australia's Copyright Act gets digital upgrade
- Qantas gets rocked by Amadeus
| BAE proposes GPS-less location Posted: 02 Jul 2012 02:59 PM PDT Beat the jammers and spoofsWhether or not Iran used GPS spoofing to down a US drone last year, there's no doubt that GPS spoofing is both real and easier than the military would like. Now, BAE Systems is proposing a positioning technology that works without GPS.… |
| Web stat WTF: iOS beats Android 3 to 1, iOS and Android tied Posted: 02 Jul 2012 01:28 PM PDT Welcome to Schrödinger's web analyticsApple's iOS devices account for 65 per cent of mobile web traffic versus Android's 20 per cent, or the two operating systems are neck-and-neck at about a quarter of all mobile web traffic apiece.… |
| Apple faces Italian shutdown over warranty skulduggery Posted: 02 Jul 2012 01:19 PM PDT No dolce vita for CupertinoApple is facing a shutdown of its Italian operations by competition authorities over repeated flouting of that country's consumer-protection laws.…
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| More revelers amp up hybrid memory cube party Posted: 02 Jul 2012 11:38 AM PDT ARM, HP (and more) join Micron, Samsung, Microsoft (and more)A bunch more IT vendors have picked up shiny new Hybrid Memory Cube sledgehammers and are working with Micron Technology and Samsung Electronics to smash the memory barrier.… |
| Google makes 'proposal' to Europe on antitrust concerns Posted: 02 Jul 2012 11:23 AM PDT Brussels examining missive from Eric SchmidtGoogle has submitted what it described as a "proposal" to antitrust officials in Brussels that the search giant said addresses the "abuse of dominance" claims outlined by competition commissioner Joaquin Almunia in May this year.… |
| Facebook phone app attempts to seize ALL YOUR MAIL Posted: 02 Jul 2012 10:32 AM PDT Gonna slurp you good... bitchFacebook has found an innovative way to encourage use of its email service: reach into users' mobile phone address books and change the email addresses stored against each contact to their Facebook email account.… |
| Google nixes extra wireless attachments to its new Kansas fibres Posted: 02 Jul 2012 10:00 AM PDT That pipe isn't fat enough to interest usGoogle has rejected overtures from a Kansas non-profit to integrate their wireless solution for the digitally challenged, saying that it didn't fit into their licensing model.… |
| Microsoft runs price-hike Lite promo for Open Value licenses Posted: 02 Jul 2012 08:56 AM PDT Here, rub this cream in, it'll hurt lessMicrosoft distributor Westcoast is trying to "ease the pain" for customers facing a price hike on Open Value Volume (OVV) licenses by pushing out a three-month promo.… |
| Baltic cyber bank burglars cop hefty porridge spell Posted: 02 Jul 2012 08:53 AM PDT London bust means hard time for plunderersA trio of cybercrooks that used malware to carry out electronic banking fraud have been jailed.…
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| UK.gov proposes massive copyright land snatch Posted: 02 Jul 2012 08:05 AM PDT Your lunch? I sold it for 2p. Hey, here's your ½pAnalysis Photographers, illustrators and authors will be amongst those to lose their digital rights under radical new proposals published by the Government today. New legislation is proposed that would effectively introduce a compulsory purchase order, but without compensation, across an unlimited range of creative works, for commercial use.… |
| Misery ending? UK reseller insolvencies may have bottomed out Posted: 02 Jul 2012 07:49 AM PDT Dead firms were soft and weak, only the hard surviveInsolvency rates in the UK channel were back to pre-recession levels in Q2, according to official stats from credit reference agency Graydon UK.… |
| Dell finally nabs Quest for $2.4bn Posted: 02 Jul 2012 07:34 AM PDT Swallows Toad in the wholeUpdated After a minor bidding war with Insight Venture Partners, Michael Dell has prevailed with a bag of cash stuffed with $2.4bn (£1.5bn) to take over Quest Software - a peddler of a hodge-podge of systems, database, performance and access management tools as well as data archiving software.… |
| Fujitsu phones to guide the blind through homes Posted: 02 Jul 2012 06:42 AM PDT Golden receiversFujitsu has helped develop an indoor support system that utilises impulse radio ultrawideband (UWB) tech to guide blind and partially sighted people around their homes.… |
| Leap second bug cripples Linux servers at airlines, Reddit, LinkedIn Posted: 02 Jul 2012 06:34 AM PDT Not a good time to be AustralianThe leap second inserted at the weekend crippled Linux-powered servers running one of the world's largest airline reservation systems - delaying and cancelling flights.… |
| YouView recommends radio hams' pet peeve Posted: 02 Jul 2012 06:24 AM PDT IPTV outfit's set-top box to prompt powerline usage surge?Radio hams with a downer on powerline Ethernet are set to be even more upset by the debut of YouView. The IPTV platform is recommending the networking-over-the-mains technology.… |
| Users enraged by Cisco's cloudy 'upgrade' to Linksys routers Posted: 02 Jul 2012 06:12 AM PDT Demand right to furtle own boxes in privacyCisco was forced into reverse ferret mode late last week, after it automatically updated some of its Linksys routers in such a way as to make use of its Cloud-based management console obligatory.…
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| Micron's Elpida buy is GO for $2.5bn - and then there were three Posted: 02 Jul 2012 06:02 AM PDT Any DRAM you like. Provided you like Samsung, Hynix or MicronConfirming previous reports, Micron is spending $2.5 billion to buy bankrupt and debt-ridden Japanese DRAM manufacturer Elpida and so double its DRAM market share to 24 per cent, second only to Samsung.… |
| LinkedIn inked out: Twitter cuts off jabberhose to suits Posted: 02 Jul 2012 05:32 AM PDT Yoink! #SoLongSuckersTwitter has tightened the screws on its application programming interface (API), cutting dead syndication with LinkedIn and promising a more "consistent" network for its users.… |
| Overland patent broadside: Targeted firms vow to fight Posted: 02 Jul 2012 04:58 AM PDT Let's get ready to grumbleQuantum and other vendors being sued by Overland Storage for allegedly infringing its patents are in more of a mood to fight than settle.… |
| Avnet gobbles Magirus, aiming to deliver swollen offerings Posted: 02 Jul 2012 04:44 AM PDT Frenzied engorgement among the disties todayAvnet Inc is consuming pan-European distributor Magirus Group for an undisclosed sum.… |
| Samsung asks for US Galaxy Nexus ban to be lifted pending appeal Posted: 02 Jul 2012 04:42 AM PDT Korean blower 'will damage us IRREPARABLY' snivels AppleSamsung has filed an appeal against the US ban on the Galaxy Nexus phone that will take the Google mobe off the market for nearly two years.… |
| Plans for special police-run ICT firm to firm up this month Posted: 02 Jul 2012 04:00 AM PDT Plods to use pork truncheon to beat savings out of marketHome Office Minister Theresa May is set to finally add some colour to the plans she sketched out last year over the creation of a police ICT company, the department has confirmed.…
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| Microsoft gets its hypervisor war face on, squares up to VMware Posted: 02 Jul 2012 03:44 AM PDT File tanks rumble out of Redmond, headed for NFS lawnMicrosoft has enlisted X-IO and others as its proxies alongside Hyper-V and SMB in a war against VMware and NFS.… |
| Sozzled Americans nagged by talking urinal cake Posted: 02 Jul 2012 03:30 AM PDT 'Don't drink and drive, and please wash your hands'Michigan males intent on celebrating the Fourth of July holiday with a few liveners are advised that when the time comes to send the booze back to the brewers, it'll be the urinal, rather than the beer, that's doing the talking.… |
| Sony grabs cloud-gaming group Gaikai Posted: 02 Jul 2012 03:29 AM PDT New stream of PlayStation business?Sony has acquired cloud-gaming company Gaikai for $380m (£240m) with a view to using the streaming service set to strengthen its online offering.… |
| Apple lobs pocket change to Proview, ending Chinese IPAD name row Posted: 02 Jul 2012 03:16 AM PDT $60m? Hardly worth opening our wallet to get it outApple has forked out $60m to settle the row over the name IPAD with Chinese firm Proview Technology.… |
| Microsoft silently kills silent, automatic Skype install via Updates Posted: 02 Jul 2012 02:58 AM PDT Skype me! What? I think you'll find you do have itMicrosoft has pulled the plug on a Windows update that snuck Skype onto business PCs.… |
| Trio of 'nauts plonk down after six-month space station stint Posted: 02 Jul 2012 02:41 AM PDT That's enough recycled urine for anyoneVid Three International Space Station crew members have returned to Earth after more than six months aboard the orbiting platform.…
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| Squabbling EU heads force Council to split patent court in 3 Posted: 02 Jul 2012 02:29 AM PDT Pouting politicians dig their heels in on unified systemThe UK, France and Germany have removed the last obstacle to the formation of a unified European patent system by divvying up the court between them.… |
| Apple makes Cocoa with Porridge Posted: 02 Jul 2012 02:20 AM PDT Mac OS X dev data pays homage to infamous jailbirdNever let it be said: Apple employees have no sense of humour.… |
| Bluetooth gizmo lets you take card payments via smartphone Posted: 02 Jul 2012 02:14 AM PDT Square-a-like swipe or type offering for cashless BlightyRetailers who've been waiting for Square to jump the pond can now sign up with startup mPowa, and start using a Bluetooth reader capable of processing Chip 'n PIN cards.… |
| Ingram Micro crams BrightPoint down gullet for $840m Posted: 02 Jul 2012 02:03 AM PDT Broadline bigboy wolfs wireless widgetry waresBroadline behemoth Ingram Micro has coughed $840m (£535.7m) for specialist wireless device and services distie BrightPoint, the companies confirmed this morning.… |
| Naked Scarlett Johansson pic snatch 'is worth 6 years' porridge' Posted: 02 Jul 2012 01:44 AM PDT Prosecutors want crackdown on saucy sleb webmail plunderProsecutors have called for tough penalties and mid-level fines against the self-confessed Scarlett Johansson nude photo hacker.… |
| One day soon, maybe: Mobile health apps that are actually useful Posted: 02 Jul 2012 01:29 AM PDT 'You are medically dead. Inform contact?'Future of Wireless You don't have to stick sensors inside people to see what's killing them - but just how much can you find out with nothing more than a breath of air and a teardrop or two?… |
| Google Drives its pot-o-cloud onto the iPhone, tangles with Dropbox Posted: 02 Jul 2012 01:15 AM PDT Never mind the quality, sort out the widthGoogle's iPhone/iPad G Drive app tries to take on Dropbox. It does its basic job reaosnably well, despite a crappy captcha.…
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| Posted: 02 Jul 2012 01:00 AM PDT The revolutionary product that came too lateFeature The NewBrain was launched 30 years ago this month, but its arrival, in July 1982, was a long time coming. The genesis of the computer that might have been the BBC Micro - that might, even, have been Sinclair's first home computer - goes back more than four years to 1978.… |
| Microsoft: Don't overclock Windows 8 unless you like our new BSOD Posted: 02 Jul 2012 12:39 AM PDT Redmond boffins burn up CPUs so you don't have toMicrosoft's Blue Screen of Death is the curse of Windows. Not just its appearance, mid way through some serious game play or spreadsheeting, but the messages themselves - digital monologues on the existence of a problem, its possible causes and how you can fix it.… |
| Overland Storage looses off fusillade of patent suits into tape crowds Posted: 02 Jul 2012 12:18 AM PDT Cartridge cases everywhere - it's spray-and-pray dayOn-the-ropes tape, disk protection and NAS vendor Overland Storage is suing seven tape product vendors for patent busting, including SpectraLogic.… |
| Google.eggfaced: Chocolate Factory spaffs cash in dot-word bungle Posted: 01 Jul 2012 11:59 PM PDT Subsidiary Oompa-Loompas failed to RTFMGoogle may have applied to ICANN for 101 new generic top-level domains, but at least three of the applications are doomed to fail because somebody forgot to read the manual.… |
| Gah! EU data protection will STIFLE business, moans gov.UK Posted: 01 Jul 2012 10:44 PM PDT Yargh, I'm wrapped up in actual red tape hereThe European Commission has not calculated the full costs to businesses of changes to the EU data protection regime, the Government has said.… |
| Sussex bobbies get undisclosed tablets in networked-copper trials Posted: 01 Jul 2012 10:29 PM PDT Fondleplods eager to get mitts on slabsSussex Police is to issue neighbourhood officers with tablet devices on a trial basis from 2 July, as part of a mobile policing project.…
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| Australia's Copyright Act gets digital upgrade Posted: 01 Jul 2012 07:38 PM PDT ALRC hands down terms of refThe Australian Law Reform Commission has released the final terms of reference of its review of copyright.… |
| Posted: 01 Jul 2012 05:57 PM PDT Time leaping blamed for airline mayhemAirlines Qantas and Virgin Australia went into temporary meltdown on Sunday morning (EST) when the Amadeus ALTEA platform which they both use was affected by unspecified technical issues.… |
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