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- Numbers don't lie: Apple's ascent eviscerates Microsoft
- Judge: Patent litigants behave like animals
- Storage company bribed bankers to win fat contracts - Feds
- Calxeda ramping up ARM server boards
- Computer error triggers mass rocket launch
- DNSchanger shutdown may kick 300,000 offline Monday
- Russia's 'Silicon Valley' dumps a million bucks into US cloud biz
- Global players wolfing down chips again after crap Q1
- Spring father Rod Johnson pushes eject, pops out of VMware
- California clears way for Steve Jobs' 'private Apple spaceship'
- BA staff to google for snaps, dirt on biz-class passengers
- Google makes Opera bloggers an offer they can't refuse: Use Chrome
- Trekkie pays £45,000 for rusty shuttle
- Used software firms win small victory in shrinking on-premises world
- Ex-France Telecom CEO probed over staff suicide spate
- YouView: The long march to... er, where exactly?
- BT broadband packs up again - second big outage in a fortnight
- BT upset at Ofcom's wholesale leased-line price cap plan
- Rifle-waving Yank's premature detonation ruins city's big bang
- Samsung Chromebox
- 'Apple is corrupting App Store downloads', warn angry devs
- Startup pitches £64 hackable Android console
- Disappearing space dust belt baffles boffins
- Did your iPhone 'just stop working' - or did you drop it in your BEER?
- 'Ed must go' – pundits round on Ofcom chief after failed Beeb DG bid
- Europe's prang-phone-in-every-car to cost €5m per life saved
- Big media little iPad stories suggest Apple is cranking up the spin cycle
- Total bankers: Twitter and LinkedIn's cynical API play
- The touchscreens that push back, thanks to Brit hi-fi boffinry
- 'Amazon can't do what we do': Twitter-miner's BYO data centre heresy
- China trains its cannons on digital pirates
- UK's chief procurement officer quits for COO post at recruitment firm
- Telstra re-stocks shelves with phones from alleged sweatshop
- Now Apple faces Siri court room showdown
- Bank Trojan crooks trouser £800k from 30,000 Brits
- NextDC stumps up $133m for 'bulletproof' data centre
- Joe Biden vs Kim Dotcom - Megaupload thriller
- Apostrophe’s cause problem’s in e-health system’s
- Crafty cuttlefish mimics male and female – at the same time
| Numbers don't lie: Apple's ascent eviscerates Microsoft Posted: 05 Jul 2012 02:24 PM PDT How the mighty have fallen – and how swiftlyComment Microsoft Windows once enjoyed a seemingly insurmountable dominance over operating systems offered by Apple, but new market share number-crunching shows Apple's inexorable rise blasting gaping holes in Redmond's once-impregnable battlements.… |
| Judge: Patent litigants behave like animals Posted: 05 Jul 2012 01:09 PM PDT And they breed almost as fast, as wellThe outspoken judge who threw out Apple's patent suit against Motorola Mobility has called into question the entire US patent system, comparing patent litigants to violent beasts.…
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| Storage company bribed bankers to win fat contracts - Feds Posted: 05 Jul 2012 01:07 PM PDT FalconStor grafted hard to win bank IT chiefs' favourFalconStor bribed banking executives with gambling, golf, stock and gifts to get $12.2m of business. That's what led to the founder's ousting, fines and a deferred prosecution agreement.… |
| Calxeda ramping up ARM server boards Posted: 05 Jul 2012 01:01 PM PDT Benchmarks against x86 iron need some workCalxeda, the ARM server-chip upstart that HP tapped for its "Redstone" hyperscale servers last November, is getting ready to ramp up production on the server cards that use its quad-core EnergyCore ARM processors, and is making waves with benchmarks while promising to do a better job with comparative testing against x86 architectures.… |
| Computer error triggers mass rocket launch Posted: 05 Jul 2012 12:25 PM PDT Rise of the machines thwarted ... for nowAmericans love their fireworks on Independence Day, but it is possible to have too much of a good thing. That's what spectators got on July 4 in San Diego, California, when an errant computer triggered every rocket in the city's annual display to launch at once.… |
| DNSchanger shutdown may kick 300,000 offline Monday Posted: 05 Jul 2012 12:13 PM PDT FBI: Killing that connection in order to save itAn estimated 300,000 computer connections are going to get scrambled when the FBI turns off the command and control servers for the DNSChanger botnet on Monday.… |
| Russia's 'Silicon Valley' dumps a million bucks into US cloud biz Posted: 05 Jul 2012 12:06 PM PDT Moscow suburb welcomes American Java houseRussian government-backed technology fund the Skolkovo Foundation has pumped $1m into a private American cloud company - Jelastic - which means the Palo Alto start-up will open a secondary office in Russia's Silicon Valley – Skolkovo Innovation Park in the Moscow suburb of Skolkovo.…
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| Global players wolfing down chips again after crap Q1 Posted: 05 Jul 2012 11:03 AM PDT Analysts chipper about future salesThe chip market is growing again after slumping a bit in the past several months, holding out hope for semis that the growth rate in the second half of the year will be sufficient for the industry to eke out some increases for the full year. It all hangs on whether the global economy and the insatiable desire of consumers for electronics both hold out.… |
| Spring father Rod Johnson pushes eject, pops out of VMware Posted: 05 Jul 2012 10:34 AM PDT SpringSource executive migrationSpring Framework creator Rod Johnson has left VMware, where he headed up the virtualisation giant's open-source Java and middleware efforts.… |
| California clears way for Steve Jobs' 'private Apple spaceship' Posted: 05 Jul 2012 10:02 AM PDT Council rushes through giant glass doughnut campusApple's giant glass doughnut with apricot groves will be fast-tracked through the planning system, Cupertino City Council announced, smoothing the approval process for its 3 million square foot (278,709m2) Campus 2 building.… |
| BA staff to google for snaps, dirt on biz-class passengers Posted: 05 Jul 2012 09:29 AM PDT Airline denies building secret dossiers on VIPsBritish Airways has denied "compiling secretive data" about its business-class passengers after launching its "Know Me" programme to personalise customers' travel plans.… |
| Google makes Opera bloggers an offer they can't refuse: Use Chrome Posted: 05 Jul 2012 08:20 AM PDT Nice browser you got there, shame if something happened to itGoogle is warning Opera web browser users they must switch to Chrome in order to use Blogger.com, the search giant's blog-hosting service. No technical incompatibilities have been found to justify the alarm.…
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| Trekkie pays £45,000 for rusty shuttle Posted: 05 Jul 2012 08:11 AM PDT Captain's flogA dilapidated shuttlecraft prop used in the original Star Trek series has sold at auction for $70,000 (£45,000). Some Trekkies have far too much cash in their hands.… |
| Used software firms win small victory in shrinking on-premises world Posted: 05 Jul 2012 07:44 AM PDT US next battleground as vendors flee to the cloudSoftware-makers were caught off guard by a July judgment by the Court of Justice of the European Union on the UsedSoft GmbH v Oracle International Corp case.… |
| Ex-France Telecom CEO probed over staff suicide spate Posted: 05 Jul 2012 07:02 AM PDT Supremo quizzed in court after union cried foulFormer France Telecom chief executive Didier Lombard is under investigation following a spate of staff suicides at his firm in 2008 and 2009.… |
| YouView: The long march to... er, where exactly? Posted: 05 Jul 2012 06:34 AM PDT Newsflash! Content is still kingWhen YouView was conceived at the BBC in 2007 as "the iPlayer in hardware" it caused huge convulsions across the TV industry. Sky and Virgin grumbled about anticompetitive practices.… |
| BT broadband packs up again - second big outage in a fortnight Posted: 05 Jul 2012 05:50 AM PDT 'We're really sorry', sniffs enormous telcoUpdated BT has once again suffered what appears to be a major network outage affecting what the company described as "multiple areas".… |
| BT upset at Ofcom's wholesale leased-line price cap plan Posted: 05 Jul 2012 05:02 AM PDT Watchdog hopes it'll drive down costs for telco's rivalsBT is worried about Ofcom's plans to tighten its control of the national telco's wholesale Ethernet services prices outside of London.…
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| Rifle-waving Yank's premature detonation ruins city's big bang Posted: 05 Jul 2012 04:32 AM PDT Ricochet sparks 1am fireworks blast, wrecks rusty wrecksAn early morning rifle test ended rather badly yesterday when a rogue shot detonated $80,000 of fireworks set aside for Fourth of July celebrations.… |
| Posted: 05 Jul 2012 04:21 AM PDT Terminal decisionsReview Moan, moan, moan: that's how I suspected this review would come across as I pondered on my initial impressions of Samsung's Chromebox – its Mac Mini-styled desktop computer that runs Google's Chrome OS. You know, the online operating system that turns your computer into paperweight when there's no internet connection. And then I paused for a moment – this is a Samsung product, but my heavy sighs and mutterings have little to do with the hardware.… |
| 'Apple is corrupting App Store downloads', warn angry devs Posted: 05 Jul 2012 04:17 AM PDT Contents may unsettle in transitApple's App Store is apparently damaging the contents of applications as they're downloading, leaving developers flooded with complaints about errors they can't fix.… |
| Startup pitches £64 hackable Android console Posted: 05 Jul 2012 04:00 AM PDT Free games for allHigh-profile backers have pledged support for a $99 (£64) "built to be hacked" Android-based games console which promises all titles will be free to play and welcomes any developer to the party.… |
| Disappearing space dust belt baffles boffins Posted: 05 Jul 2012 03:47 AM PDT Did star spit out planet after inhaling galatic powder?Boffins were bewildered when a star's dust belt mysteriously disappeared, but they now think that the vanishing fragments could have used up in some superfast planet formation.… |
| Did your iPhone 'just stop working' - or did you drop it in your BEER? Posted: 05 Jul 2012 03:16 AM PDT No more lying at the Genius Bar - Apple patents water detectionApple was awarded patents on 21 of its design and engineering applications yesterday - including one for a head-mounted immersive visual display.… |
| 'Ed must go' – pundits round on Ofcom chief after failed Beeb DG bid Posted: 05 Jul 2012 03:01 AM PDT Fair and balanced? Bit tricky that one, nowComment For months Ofcom chief Ed Richards was the bookies' favourite to run the BBC, but he hasn't got the job he craved. As decision day approached, the prospect of Richards running the BBC sent the Daily Mail newspaper, which had campaigned hard against him, into near meltdown.…
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| Europe's prang-phone-in-every-car to cost €5m per life saved Posted: 05 Jul 2012 02:41 AM PDT MEPs demand eCall kit that dials 999 automaticallyMembers of the European Parliament are backing calls for a mandatory eCall scheme, forcing every car sold in Europe to be fitted with an embedded mobile communications device to save an estimated 2,500 lives.… |
| Big media little iPad stories suggest Apple is cranking up the spin cycle Posted: 05 Jul 2012 02:08 AM PDT Officially sanctioned leaks?The latest 'iPad Mini' rumours don't tell us anything more about the putative device than we knew already - what's telling is where the rumours are being reported.… |
| Total bankers: Twitter and LinkedIn's cynical API play Posted: 05 Jul 2012 02:02 AM PDT Not doing evil pays betterOpen ... and Shut In tech today, it has become a truism that "if you're not paying for it, you're the product". Somehow we have applied this wisdom to consumers without recognising that the same principle applies to enterprises and their developers. Recently, however, Netflix and LinkedIn have reminded us just how precarious it is to build on someone else's platform - or API.… |
| The touchscreens that push back, thanks to Brit hi-fi boffinry Posted: 05 Jul 2012 01:27 AM PDT NXT's rise, fall and rise from helicopters to fondleslabsYou'd be forgiven for never having heard of flat loudspeaker designer NXT. Mission, Quad, Wharfedale and Cyrus are the brands it all but destroyed before ending up as one of the UK's smallest listed companies, though one with aspirations to rise again.… |
| 'Amazon can't do what we do': Twitter-miner's BYO data centre heresy Posted: 05 Jul 2012 01:02 AM PDT DataSift strains with HadoopSometimes floating on somebody else's cloud isn't enough. Sometimes you just have to float alone – no matter how young you are. DataSift, the five-year-old big data company mining billions of tweets and Wikipedia edits, reckons it's just one year away from building its own data centre.… |
| China trains its cannons on digital pirates Posted: 05 Jul 2012 12:40 AM PDT Raises two fingers to Europe's ACTA rulingThe Chinese government has announced a tough four month crackdown targeting online piracy in the country, just as European netizens celebrate their Parliament's rejection of the controversial ACTA treaty.…
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| UK's chief procurement officer quits for COO post at recruitment firm Posted: 05 Jul 2012 12:30 AM PDT John Collington's off to slash spending in the private sectorThe government's chief procurement officer John Collington has resigned to leave for a post in the private sector.… |
| Telstra re-stocks shelves with phones from alleged sweatshop Posted: 05 Jul 2012 12:25 AM PDT Telco happy after week-long investigation into VTechAussie telecoms giant Telstra has decided to start selling equipment made by controversial Chinese manufacturer VTech again, barely a week after suspending sales in the wake of a report detailing serious labour and human rights violations.… |
| Now Apple faces Siri court room showdown Posted: 05 Jul 2012 12:09 AM PDT Patent dispute could cost more than Proview pay-outApple's protracted iPad trademark battle with Proview appears to have opened the floodgates to further legal attacks in China, with Siri now being targeted in a law suit which could cost Cupertino in excess of $60 million to resolve.… |
| Bank Trojan crooks trouser £800k from 30,000 Brits Posted: 04 Jul 2012 11:58 PM PDT How the crims outran anti-virus sniffer dogsAnalysis Trustwave SpiderLabs has revealed how criminals stole more than £800,000 (€1m) from UK bank accounts using the Zeus Windows PC malware.… |
| NextDC stumps up $133m for 'bulletproof' data centre Posted: 04 Jul 2012 08:30 PM PDT Telcos flock to Melb high security, green facilityASX listed data centre purveyor NextDC has ploughed $AU130m ($133m) into a new Melbourne based facility, M1, pitched as the city's largest.…
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| Joe Biden vs Kim Dotcom - Megaupload thriller Posted: 04 Jul 2012 08:05 PM PDT Dotcom's West Wing White House frenemy cabalThe antipodes' most notorious online file sharer, Kim Dotcom, has vented his wrath at the White House claiming, that Vice-President Joe Biden instigated the raids on and shutdown of his Megaupload business.… |
| Apostrophe’s cause problem’s in e-health system’s Posted: 04 Jul 2012 04:00 PM PDT Record stupidity in Australian PCEHR rolloutAustralia's bug-ridden PCEHR – personally-controlled electronic health record – has run into another first glitch, with its registration site reportedly rejecting names containing non-alphanumeric characters.… |
| Crafty cuttlefish mimics male and female – at the same time Posted: 04 Jul 2012 03:29 PM PDT Too sexy for my body, on the right side onlyMale cuttlefish try to avoid fighting other males over mating rights, and new research from Macquarie University in Sydney has revealed the trick one species can play to look harmless: it can imitate male and female simultaneously.… |
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