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- Facebook signs on for Malaysia cable
- Japan Anonymous aims to fight download law by picking up litter
- Facebook: Our phone app DID seize your email
- Bill Gates: iPad is OK, but what Apple really needs is a SURFACE
- Ten... alien invasions
- Euro Parliament kills ACTA treaty before court can look at it
- New UK network touts FREE* mobile broadband
- New gov.uk site hits beta, flashes SINGLE typeface to punters
- Boffins pull off room-temp quantum computing with home-grown gems
- HTC bags UK win in patent war with Apple
- 41 London tube station platforms now WIRED for Wi-Fi
- Samsung fails to stall Galaxy Nexus sales ban
- Apple to build freakish headgear with peripheral vision
- Cisco, Fusion-io's blade lovechild in EMC flash face-off
- EC competition concerns stall UK's superfast broadband plans
- YouView launches with pricey premium DVR
- BBC telly boss George Entwistle nabs director general post
- Speaking in Tech: Apple, Oracle and Google SUCK at cloud
- Google Maps takes shelter from the British summer
- Can you judge a man by his Twitter followers?
- Who runs UK? 'Tories, Lib Dems and Google' says Labour
- US defence biz fined for busting China arms embargo
- CERN catches a glimpse of Higgs-like boson
- Micron 'fesses up: Yes, we plan to eat limping DRAMurai warrior
- Tosh handed $87 MILLION fine in LCD price fixing case
- Mexican election loser and Anonymous say vote was 'fraudulent'
- Amazon buys 4-person 3D mapping startup, claims report
- Will Android, HTML5 tempt tabloid tablet tyrant Rupert Murdoch?
- Security boffins brew devilish Android rootkit
- Big Data megaslurp 'to save UK.gov £30 BILLION pa', raves thinktank
- Border Agency comes out with another e-Borders deadline
- GPS spoofing countermeasures: Your smartphone already has them
- Orange San Diego Intel-based Android phone
- DDoS blackmailers busted in cross-border swoop
- Pretty returns to telco land with Mahindra Satyam
- Judge: Twitter offers free speech, American style
- Full Tilt Poker boss arrested over $430m 'Ponzi scheme'
- IBM snuggles up BigInsights Hadoop with Cloudera
| Facebook signs on for Malaysia cable Posted: 04 Jul 2012 02:54 PM PDT Putting the social into a new networkFacebook has emerged as an investor in the Asia Pacific Gateway submarine cable project, being built to link eight countries in the region.… |
| Japan Anonymous aims to fight download law by picking up litter Posted: 04 Jul 2012 01:02 PM PDT Japanonymous aligns itself against nuclear power, tooJapan has set up a task force to battle Anonymous and potential cyber-espionage attacks.…
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| Facebook: Our phone app DID seize your email Posted: 04 Jul 2012 10:59 AM PDT Blame the bug... bitchFacebook has admitted its mobile app altered phones' contacts books to use @facebook.com addresses.… |
| Bill Gates: iPad is OK, but what Apple really needs is a SURFACE Posted: 04 Jul 2012 10:02 AM PDT Still has his old knack for brandingBill Gates foresees a future without PCs or tablets - where there are only "Surface-like devices" - he told PBS chat show host Charlie Rose last night.… |
| Posted: 04 Jul 2012 09:28 AM PDT Take me as your leaderSci-fi round-up Earlier this week, alien hunters donned their tinfoil hats for World UFO day and with Yanks celebrating Independence Day today, the topic of extra-terrestrial takeover lingers in the air. The public has even been debating who would be best equipped to tackle an alien invasion.… |
| Euro Parliament kills ACTA treaty before court can look at it Posted: 04 Jul 2012 09:26 AM PDT Intellectual property is theft, says BrusselsAs widely expected, the hapless Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) treaty has been rejected by the European Parliament.… |
| New UK network touts FREE* mobile broadband Posted: 04 Jul 2012 09:01 AM PDT * After you've watched these advertsThe UK's latest mobile operator Samba won't charge punters for its wireless broadband. Instead it will ask customers to watch adverts in exchange for network access.… |
| New gov.uk site hits beta, flashes SINGLE typeface to punters Posted: 04 Jul 2012 08:28 AM PDT Designer: People want to get in, get what they want, get out. QuicklyThe government has released the beta version of its new digital portal – Gov.UK – with a search-focused homepage and a batch of fresh content.…
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| Boffins pull off room-temp quantum computing with home-grown gems Posted: 04 Jul 2012 08:02 AM PDT Diamond test gives hope to luke-warm server strokersOne of the very many reasons there won't be quantum computing any time soon is that the quantum bits (qubits) need to be at absolute zero - not very practical for the average server room, much less the lowly desktop.… |
| HTC bags UK win in patent war with Apple Posted: 04 Jul 2012 06:58 AM PDT No infringement... plus 3 patents lobbed by Cupertino ruled invalidA UK court has decided that not only did HTC not infringe on four patents Apple brought against it, but three of them are invalid.… |
| 41 London tube station platforms now WIRED for Wi-Fi Posted: 04 Jul 2012 06:01 AM PDT HELLO, HELLO. I'm on the UndergroundVirgin Media has now installed Wi-Fi kit in more than 40 London Underground stations as it continues to connect its fibre backhaul network to around half of the capital's tube stations – although the service will only be available at platform-level.… |
| Samsung fails to stall Galaxy Nexus sales ban Posted: 04 Jul 2012 05:27 AM PDT Google pulls mobe from Play store, works on fixSamsung's bad luck in the US courts continues after Judge Lucy Koh refused to delay a ban on its Galaxy Nexus smartphones.… |
| Apple to build freakish headgear with peripheral vision Posted: 04 Jul 2012 05:01 AM PDT Files patent to fill fanbois' fields of vision with shiniesApple has filed a patent – number 8,212,859 – for the treatment of peripheral areas in a head-mounted visual display... iGlasses anyone?…
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| Cisco, Fusion-io's blade lovechild in EMC flash face-off Posted: 04 Jul 2012 04:45 AM PDT Will VBlock partner be forced to line a rival's pockets?Blocks and Files Will VCE ship Vblocks - its virtual machine battery farms - with Fusion-io flash cards inside instead of EMC's VFCache memory rival?… |
| EC competition concerns stall UK's superfast broadband plans Posted: 04 Jul 2012 04:34 AM PDT Scrutiny of BT and Fujitsu deals 'will not delay rollout', insists govCompetition officials in Europe have stalled the UK government's plans to lay superfast fibre optic networks for 90 per cent of homes and businesses in the country by 2015.… |
| YouView launches with pricey premium DVR Posted: 04 Jul 2012 04:22 AM PDT No low-cost option. No unique content. No chance?YouView's long-awaited - no longer eagerly so, perhaps - set-top box will arrive in the shop's of Britain's best-known electrical retailers "by the end of the month", but you'll have to pony up £300 for one.… |
| BBC telly boss George Entwistle nabs director general post Posted: 04 Jul 2012 04:14 AM PDT Ofcom's Ed Richards sent back to his spreadsheetsGeorge Entwistle, a BBC insider since 1989, was today appointed the corporation's new director general and will replace Mark Thompson.… |
| Speaking in Tech: Apple, Oracle and Google SUCK at cloud Posted: 04 Jul 2012 04:03 AM PDT Plus: Does VMware's acquisition of DynamicOps change the game? |
| Google Maps takes shelter from the British summer Posted: 04 Jul 2012 03:47 AM PDT Indoor mapping comes to BlightyGoogle has extended its indoor mapping, launched in America last November, to the UK, providing guidance around any property the owners care to share.…
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| Can you judge a man by his Twitter followers? Posted: 04 Jul 2012 03:32 AM PDT The enemy of my enemy is my Facebook friendSysadmin blog Is following someone on Twitter (or friending them on Facebook) an endorsement of that person? Social networking isn't going away, and increased corporate awareness of it means that systems administrators need to be prepared to answer these sorts of murky questions.… |
| Who runs UK? 'Tories, Lib Dems and Google' says Labour Posted: 04 Jul 2012 03:17 AM PDT Harman: Number 10 can't stand up to web giantLabour's deputy leader Harriet Harman has slammed Google's extraordinary influence over the UK's ruling Conservative-Liberal Democrat coalition government.… |
| US defence biz fined for busting China arms embargo Posted: 04 Jul 2012 03:02 AM PDT No need for cyber-spying - just buy the damn softwareA top US defence contractor has been fined $75m (£47.8m) for flogging software to China that was a vital component in the country's first attack helicopter.… |
| CERN catches a glimpse of Higgs-like boson Posted: 04 Jul 2012 02:44 AM PDT Answer to life, the universe and everything coming soonCERN boffins have finally hit paydirt with the Large Hadron Collider, finding a particle that is pretty much almost certainly the long sought-after Higgs boson.… |
| Micron 'fesses up: Yes, we plan to eat limping DRAMurai warrior Posted: 04 Jul 2012 02:29 AM PDT Signs 'definitive sponsor agreement to acquire and support Elpida'After months of speculation and rumours, Micron's acquisition of Elpida has finally been announced. The firm has now signalled its intention to buy Elpida for 200 billion yen ($2.5bn, £1.6bn).…
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| Tosh handed $87 MILLION fine in LCD price fixing case Posted: 04 Jul 2012 02:13 AM PDT Japanese electronics firm vows to fight verdictJapanese electronics giant Toshiba has come out fighting after becoming the latest big name to be found guilty of a widespread price-fixing racket relating to liquid crystal display (LCD) panels sold in the US.… |
| Mexican election loser and Anonymous say vote was 'fraudulent' Posted: 04 Jul 2012 01:58 AM PDT Nameless chaps say bad things found on server they hackedMexico's defeated leftist presidential candidate has claimed his country's election was "fraudulent", a claim supported by the local chapter of Anonymous.… |
| Amazon buys 4-person 3D mapping startup, claims report Posted: 04 Jul 2012 01:44 AM PDT Accidentally hit 'buy with one click'?Amazon have marked a sharp change in corporate direction by buying up 3D mapping start-up UpNext yesterday for an undisclosed sum.… |
| Will Android, HTML5 tempt tabloid tablet tyrant Rupert Murdoch? Posted: 04 Jul 2012 01:30 AM PDT Wants his balls back from over Apple's garden wallAnalysis Rupert Murdoch has split News International in two, separating publishing (including his British phone-hacking-accused newspapers) from broadcasting and entertainment (everything else).… |
| Security boffins brew devilish Android rootkit Posted: 04 Jul 2012 01:13 AM PDT Experimental vileware turns your mobe into a TRAITORComputer scientists have identified a weakness in the Android mobile operating system that allows users to be tricked into silently installing hidden malware.…
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| Big Data megaslurp 'to save UK.gov £30 BILLION pa', raves thinktank Posted: 04 Jul 2012 12:58 AM PDT Gov should be more like FaceGooglezon! <wipes foam>Politicians should use their own expectations of privacy to judge how far the government should go when digging through databases and marrying up disparate information on individual citizens.… |
| Border Agency comes out with another e-Borders deadline Posted: 04 Jul 2012 12:38 AM PDT Pop it in the diary so you can have a laugh in 2014The UK government has defended its under-fire Border Agency after MPs blasted the e-Borders passenger-scrutinising system as broken and its £9m iris scanners a waste of money.… |
| GPS spoofing countermeasures: Your smartphone already has them Posted: 04 Jul 2012 12:19 AM PDT BAE Systems gets to where Google was in 2007-oddAnalysis There's suddenly a lot of panic about GPS satellite navigation spoofing, and BAE Systems among others would like to sell the military some tech to resist it. But in fact, most modern smartphones already have strong countermeasures against this sort of thing.… |
| Orange San Diego Intel-based Android phone Posted: 04 Jul 2012 12:00 AM PDT First Atom-powered smart talkerReview If you own a smartphone then you are almost certainly using an ARM CPU. That's good for ARM and its licensees but bad for Intel, as it wants a piece of the vast mobile chip market. Cue the San Diego, a retail version of Intel's own Gigabyte-built smartphone reference platform built around a hyper-threading 1.6GHz Z2460 Atom processor.… |
| DDoS blackmailers busted in cross-border swoop Posted: 03 Jul 2012 10:24 PM PDT Cyber hoodlums targeted gold and silver tradersChinese and Hong Kong cops are hailing another success in their cross-border cyber policing efforts with the scalp of a high profile DDoS blackmail gang which targeted gold, silver and securities traders in the former British colony.… |
| Pretty returns to telco land with Mahindra Satyam Posted: 03 Jul 2012 10:21 PM PDT Lands chairman role, set to drive A/Pac expansionIndia's IT outsourcing giant Mahindra Satyam has resurrected former high profile Telstra and Optus executive Ted Pretty, placing him in the chairman's role for its newly fleshed out Australia and New Zealand operations.…
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| Judge: Twitter offers free speech, American style Posted: 03 Jul 2012 06:24 PM PDT Just don't expect privacy, tooA New York judge has ruled that Twitter offers freedom of speech in the grand tradition of American liberty – but that won't help you when the police come knocking to take a peek at your posting history.… |
| Full Tilt Poker boss arrested over $430m 'Ponzi scheme' Posted: 03 Jul 2012 06:06 PM PDT Hands himself in to authorities over missed paymentsThe CEO of Full Tilt Poker has handed himself in to American authorities to face charges of running a Ponzi scheme against its users.… |
| IBM snuggles up BigInsights Hadoop with Cloudera Posted: 03 Jul 2012 03:30 PM PDT Who says Blue elephants can't dance?Like all of the other Hadoop disties, Big Blue is upgrading its big data muncher to the most recent Apache modules and integrating it with its own add-ons. And with its InfoSphere BigInsights Enterprise Edition V1.4, IBM is also doing something else interesting: It is letting customers slide in the Cloudera CDH distribution and slide out its own variant of the core Apache Hadoop stack.… |
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