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- Cisco backs down on cloud control of routers
- Informatica caught flat-footed by revenue shortfall
- Mozilla Foundation and EFF join hunt for Syrian open source developer
- Gamers bereft as Xbox Live takes a dive
- IT pulls its job creation weight in June in the US
- Phone-raiding Trojan slips past Apple’s App Store censors
- Watch out for the GIGANTIC ALIEN JELLYFISH, warns space boffin
- Dell seeks Linux fans to try cut-price Ubuntu Ultrabook
- Wish you were here? NASA rover beams postcard from Mars
- Post-pub nosh deathmatch: Haggis pakora v huevos rancheros
- 'Amazon plans iPhone-killing Android mobe' – report
- Ex-Alibaba GM cuffed as bribery scandal resurfaces
- Apple 'fesses up: We broke App Store downloads
- NatWest seeks volunteers to bonk with their iPhones
- Microsoft's XML 0-day fix expected in July Patch Tuesday
- Behind every great athlete is a nervous network engineer
- Two-horse! race! to! seize! Yahoo! poisoned! chalice!
- Forget Ultrabooks and Win 8 - only fondleslabs can save us now
- Mega French operator SFR prepares to slash another €500m in costs
- Door creaks and girl farts: computing in the real world
- <i>The Archers</i> INVADE Guernsey, rebrand it Borchester
- Samsung: World LOVES our chips 'n' mobes – expect a record quarter
- China reveals new strategy of stockpiling rare earths
- Seagate fscks up: Disk drive sales fall short by $500m
- Tech biz today is WORSE than dot-com bubble days
- BT to patrol MoD's cyber borders for another 7 years
- My dad found the Higgs boson! Reminiscences of a CERN kid
- Shuttleworth: Why Windows 8 made us ditch GPL Linux loader
- Dell's partners fear divorce after firm beds new squeeze
- Panasonic Eluga DL1 waterproof Android
- UK is first class for train Wi-Fi in Europe
- Libya's new rulers fire up Gaddafi's surveillance tech
- Suppliers race to bag first G-Cloud accredited platform
- Private cloud outfit chooses X-IO ISE instead of forklift SAN upgrade
- HP patents teleprompter-esque transparent screen tech
- Huawai teams with Aussie investors to launch APAC cable
- Microsoft lobs licensing liposuction at Server 2012
- Texas Higgs hunters mourn the particle that got away
- Google denies Redmond report of a spamming Android botnet
- Rutherford Appleton Lab fires up ceepie-geepie hybrid
| Cisco backs down on cloud control of routers Posted: 06 Jul 2012 01:52 PM PDT Full reverse-ferret over Linksys 'upgrade'Cisco has completed its climb-down over who gets to control Linksys routers, it or the people who bought them.… |
| Informatica caught flat-footed by revenue shortfall Posted: 06 Jul 2012 11:39 AM PDT Blames stingy Europeans, skittish AmericansJune was not a particularly fun month for data-integration software specialist Informatica, which has just put out preliminary financial figures for its second quarter ended last week.… |
| Mozilla Foundation and EFF join hunt for Syrian open source developer Posted: 06 Jul 2012 11:03 AM PDT One of our developers is missingThe open source community and human rights organizations have joined forces to find a software developer who has been missing for months following the recent civil unrest in Syria.… |
| Gamers bereft as Xbox Live takes a dive Posted: 06 Jul 2012 10:45 AM PDT Microsoft working on itUpdated Microsoft's Xbox Live service is down, apparently across the world, and Redmond is trying to sort out the problems so gamers can get their Friday fix.…
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| IT pulls its job creation weight in June in the US Posted: 06 Jul 2012 10:01 AM PDT Be nice if somebody else took some of the weightA lot of things might be sizzling or even on fire right now in the United States, but job creation is not one of them.… |
| Phone-raiding Trojan slips past Apple’s App Store censors Posted: 06 Jul 2012 08:58 AM PDT Find And Call is actually Slurp, Stalk And SpamA mobile Trojan that secretly sends the phone's whereabouts and its address book to spammers has slipped into Apple's App Store and Google's Play marketplace.… |
| Watch out for the GIGANTIC ALIEN JELLYFISH, warns space boffin Posted: 06 Jul 2012 08:26 AM PDT Floating horror blobominations roam ice-moon skiesA British satellite expert reckons aliens will be enormous bewildering monsters ideal for depicting on telly science shows, the very sort of programme the government adviser is happy to front.… |
| Dell seeks Linux fans to try cut-price Ubuntu Ultrabook Posted: 06 Jul 2012 08:10 AM PDT 'Help us build dev device of choice'Dell is tempting Linux developers with the promise of a cut-price XPS 13 Ultrabook running Ubuntu 12.04 LTS.… |
| Wish you were here? NASA rover beams postcard from Mars Posted: 06 Jul 2012 08:05 AM PDT 'Great views, lovely long walk, see you soon! Opportunity xoxo'Pic Mars rover Opportunity has sent back this panoramic holiday snap of the Martian winter.… |
| Post-pub nosh deathmatch: Haggis pakora v huevos rancheros Posted: 06 Jul 2012 07:31 AM PDT Braveheart battles Pancho VillaIt's been more than a month on the salads and with our necks in the fruit bowl for the Special Projects Bureau's elite post-pub nosh deathmatch team, following the mealy pudding v migas clash of titans.…
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| 'Amazon plans iPhone-killing Android mobe' – report Posted: 06 Jul 2012 07:02 AM PDT Might use mega-Chinese contractor Foxconn for the buildIt was only a matter of time before rumours started circulating that Amazon wanted to build a smartphone, since every tech firm worth their salt these days has to be rumoured to be taking on either the iPhone or the iPad.… |
| Ex-Alibaba GM cuffed as bribery scandal resurfaces Posted: 06 Jul 2012 06:03 AM PDT E-commerce giant booted him out in MarchA former general manager at one of e-commerce giant Alibaba's web businesses has been arrested by Chinese police on suspicion of bribery, as the scandal-hit firm struggles to move on from long-standing allegations of corruption.… |
| Apple 'fesses up: We broke App Store downloads Posted: 06 Jul 2012 05:37 AM PDT Now, get back to lining our pocketsAn Apple App Store server spat out broken copies of several high-profile titles this week, the iPad maker has admitted.… |
| NatWest seeks volunteers to bonk with their iPhones Posted: 06 Jul 2012 05:19 AM PDT Hurry, only 1,000 NFC payment cases up for grabsNatWest is asking volunteers to test its pay-by-bonk service on their iPhones, and is looking for 1,000 of its customers willing to wrap their iPhone in an iCarte case with embedded NFC.… |
| Microsoft's XML 0-day fix expected in July Patch Tuesday Posted: 06 Jul 2012 05:01 AM PDT Hack attack smackMicrosoft is planning to release nine bulletins, three critical, as part of the July edition of its Patch Tuesday monthly update cycle.…
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| Behind every great athlete is a nervous network engineer Posted: 06 Jul 2012 04:57 AM PDT A short history of Olympics communicationsLondon Olympics Had there been a functioning mobile network in Greece in 490BC, the messenger Pheidippides wouldn't have had to run from Marathon to Athens, only to breathe his last as he delivered news of victory over the Persians.… |
| Two-horse! race! to! seize! Yahoo! poisoned! chalice! Posted: 06 Jul 2012 04:47 AM PDT Stand-in boss Levinsohn versus Hulu head KilarYahoo! is expected to make interim CEO Ross Levinsohn's role permanent or snag Hulu.com boss Jason Kilar as its new chief executive.… |
| Forget Ultrabooks and Win 8 - only fondleslabs can save us now Posted: 06 Jul 2012 04:31 AM PDT Western Europe PC space a busted flush, says ContextOnly the fondleslab can save the flatlining PC market this year, as sales of traditional platforms continue to flatline – and nothing on the horizon suggests a buying frenzy is likely in the second half of the year.… |
| Mega French operator SFR prepares to slash another €500m in costs Posted: 06 Jul 2012 04:16 AM PDT Heads will roll with Catbert in charge...French operator SFR plans to cut costs by at least €500m (£398.5m) next year, according to union sources, and that's in addition to the €450m in cuts already in process.… |
| Door creaks and girl farts: computing in the real world Posted: 06 Jul 2012 04:02 AM PDT Stop designing for spaceshipsSomething for the weekend, Sir? A few weeks ago I dissed the expensive new Apple MacBook Pro for trading a downgraded component spec in return for a pretty display and solid-state memory. In passing, I gave an example of this downgrade: the lack of a CD drive.… |
| <i>The Archers</i> INVADE Guernsey, rebrand it Borchester Posted: 06 Jul 2012 03:47 AM PDT Gov website falls to BBC soap opera incursionOffshore tax haven Guernsey briefly rebranded itself as the metropolitan area of "Borchester" in a cock-up with the island state's website.…
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| Samsung: World LOVES our chips 'n' mobes – expect a record quarter Posted: 06 Jul 2012 03:32 AM PDT But investors unimpressed by soaring smartphone salesSamsung is expecting to announce yet another quarter of record profits at the end of this month, no doubt driven by its Galaxy smartphone sales.… |
| China reveals new strategy of stockpiling rare earths Posted: 06 Jul 2012 03:14 AM PDT We don't need no steenkin' WTOTech supply chain jitters are set to resurface after it emerged that China has begun the strategic stockpiling of rare earth minerals.… |
| Seagate fscks up: Disk drive sales fall short by $500m Posted: 06 Jul 2012 02:46 AM PDT Quality slip and flood-proof competitors fingeredSeagate will miss its fourth quarter's sales target as its competitors recover faster than expected from floods that knackered hard drive supplies.… |
| Tech biz today is WORSE than dot-com bubble days Posted: 06 Jul 2012 02:32 AM PDT Floating firms like it's 1999Open ... and Shut Tech industry titans are fond of reminding us just how different 2012 is than the irrationally exuberant days of the dot-come bubble and crash, and they're right. According to some data, today is even worse.…
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| BT to patrol MoD's cyber borders for another 7 years Posted: 06 Jul 2012 02:17 AM PDT Seeing off bedroom hackers and gov spooks... but how much will it cost?The UK's Ministry of Defence will rely on BT to defend its electronic borders for another seven years, the company has announced, extending its existing arrangement.… |
| My dad found the Higgs boson! Reminiscences of a CERN kid Posted: 06 Jul 2012 02:00 AM PDT Hold it buddy - US atom bureau pass, but born in Iran?When your Dad's a bus driver or a bank manager life must be simple. Bring-your-kids-to-work day involves things like garages and spreadsheets: when I was little it meant trying not to step in front of a particle beam.… |
| Shuttleworth: Why Windows 8 made us ditch GPL Linux loader Posted: 06 Jul 2012 01:41 AM PDT Ubuntu supremo fears security keys could fall into wrong handsUbuntu daddy Mark Shuttleworth has defended Canonical's decision to play ball with Microsoft's Windows 8 security policy that could stop "unauthorised" Linux builds from booting on new PCs and tablets.… |
| Dell's partners fear divorce after firm beds new squeeze Posted: 06 Jul 2012 01:17 AM PDT Quest acquisition could upset CommVault and Symantec dealsCommVault and Symantec will be getting the jitters now that Dell is buying Quest, having acquired AppAssure and its continuous data protection technology just a few months back. Now it looks like the hardware giant is plumping up its portfolio of software with its latest acquisition... which might make its partnerships with the software firms redundant.… |
| Panasonic Eluga DL1 waterproof Android Posted: 06 Jul 2012 01:00 AM PDT Dunked in beer and still talkingReview Over the course of the last decade Panasonic all but vanished from the European consumer mobile phone market but it's back with a bang with the Eluga - an acronym of 'elegant user-oriented gateway'. Or at least back with a loud thump - the bang is really the Eluga Power, a 5in 720p Qualcomm Krait-powered beast due later this year.… |
| UK is first class for train Wi-Fi in Europe Posted: 06 Jul 2012 12:46 AM PDT Commuting sucks time, not productivity... OK, it just sucksOn-train wireless internet connectivity is growing fast in Europe - but even faster in the UK, which now has more than 2,000 Wi-Fi equipped carriages.…
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| Libya's new rulers fire up Gaddafi's surveillance tech Posted: 06 Jul 2012 12:28 AM PDT Snooped-upon become snoopers, snoop on former snoopersLibya's transitional government has quietly reactivated the surveillance technology it inherited from the Gaddafi regime, the Wall Street Journal reports.… |
| Suppliers race to bag first G-Cloud accredited platform Posted: 06 Jul 2012 12:14 AM PDT Mine's bigger than yoursThe race is on in the channel to pocket the first G-Cloud pan-government accreditation for infrastructure- and software-as-a-service platforms.… |
| Private cloud outfit chooses X-IO ISE instead of forklift SAN upgrade Posted: 06 Jul 2012 12:04 AM PDT Damn things aren't even getting warmPrivate cloud outfit RTW Hosting, facing a costly filer forklift upgrade to remedy pressing performance problems, has spent a million dollars on X-IO's sealed ISE storage canisters and says it got itself a twenty-fold improvement in virtual machine deployment speed.… |
| HP patents teleprompter-esque transparent screen tech Posted: 05 Jul 2012 11:31 PM PDT Slat-tastic gear will mean you can never trust a windowHP has bagged a US patent on its way of making a see-through screen, which will let users see stuff onscreen as well as whatever's behind it.… |
| Huawai teams with Aussie investors to launch APAC cable Posted: 05 Jul 2012 09:08 PM PDT Quest Telecom set to be Asia's latest submarine cable guysQuest Telecom, the Hong Kong based subsidiary of Australian diversified investment outfit Quest Investments, has signed an MoU with Huawei Marine Networks to develop and launch integrated submarine optic cable systems throughout the Asia Pacific.… |
| Microsoft lobs licensing liposuction at Server 2012 Posted: 05 Jul 2012 05:41 PM PDT Slims down to four builds, sheds Home and Small Business ServerMicrosoft has unveiled licensing terms for its upcoming Windows Server 2012, slimming down to four versions and ending the Home and Small Business Server options.…
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| Texas Higgs hunters mourn the particle that got away Posted: 05 Jul 2012 04:56 PM PDT The Superconducting Super Collider that never wasNow that the elusive Higgs boson has, for all intents and purposes, been goosed into existence, the scientific world is popping champagne corks, lifting pints, and otherwise celebrating CERN's apparent success.… |
| Google denies Redmond report of a spamming Android botnet Posted: 05 Jul 2012 04:07 PM PDT 'Show us the evidence,' says Chocolate FactoryGoogle is disputing claims from a Microsoft researcher that a functioning botnet is operating on Android phones and spamming out Viagra and penny stock adverts to unsuspecting punters.… |
| Rutherford Appleton Lab fires up ceepie-geepie hybrid Posted: 05 Jul 2012 03:31 PM PDT Southampton gets Iridis 3 cluster upgradeA consortium of universities in Oxfordshire and the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory has finished building two new supercomputer clusters for academic and corporate researchers to let their codes loose upon.… |
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