Apple and Google in talks to end patent war? |
- Apple and Google in talks to end patent war?
- ACMA flags more ‘agile’ regulatory future
- Oracle rushes out patch for critical 0-day Java exploit
- Microsoft NZ exposes TechEd delegates' passwords
- UK: 'We're legally bound to arrest Mr Assange'
- Applied Micro's X-Gene server chip ARMed to the teeth
- Mystery virus attack blows Qatari gas giant RasGas offline
- Amazon: Time for a new Kindle Fire, this one's sold out
- Obama Q&A on Reddit briefly knackers entire site
- Attack of the Gigantic Tellies hits Berlin IFA
- Foxconn overlord seeks cheap Sharp stake to cope with Apple fanbois
- Robot rover Curiosity sets out on first long Mars trip
- Flash tart Astute goes fourth and multiples your data
- Windows 8 tablets unwrapped in Berlin: Dell goes keyless for ARM
- If you can't take the Samsung, get out of the kitchen
- Scotland Yard manacles another suspect in phone hack probe
- Brummie plod cuffed in Facebook troll hunt
- UK data-blurt cockups soared 1,000 PER CENT over last five years
- Samsung whips out Galaxy Note II, cam-phone with proper zoom lens
- NASA launches armoured storm probes to the Van Allen belts
- Yahoo! bureau! chief! sacked! for! Mitt Romney! racism! jibe!
- Love vSphere? You're going to have to love Flash too
- Facebook co-founder Moskovitz scrambles to offload his shares
- Why Java would still stink even if it weren't security swiss cheese
- Sony unwraps James Bond's new Droidphone
- Indian gov ponders restrictions on Chinese networking gear
- Mobe-maker flogs self-designed phones ... to your KIDS
- Super-critical Java zero-day exploits TWO bugs
- Amazon steps over Groupon's festering corpse to set up UK deals souk
- Samsung readies handheld releases for Windows 8
- Tosh flashifies disk in demo hybrid drive
- Radio arse tags solve modern-day TV musical chairs dilemma
- Quantum sends out cheap 'n' fast newbie to beat off Amazon's Glacier
- Apple Mac OS X Server for Mountain Lion review
- Philippines tech industries survive floods
- Chinese dissident grassed by Yahoo nears release
- 'iPhone 5' released by Chinese Apple copycat
- Oracle knew about critical Java flaws since April
- Harvard boffins build cyborg skin of flesh and nanowires
- AGIMO suspends govt supplier application process
- Customers dumping Samsung phones in wake of Apple suit
- WISE-watchers munch on hot DOGs
| Apple and Google in talks to end patent war? Posted: 30 Aug 2012 03:11 PM PDT Jobsian jihad could be over by ChristmasThe heads of Apple and Google are said to be in talks to try and find a solution to the current patent war over the Android operating system.… |
| ACMA flags more ‘agile’ regulatory future Posted: 30 Aug 2012 03:04 PM PDT Fleet feet needed in converged worldThe days of "black letter law" regulation are numbered, according to ACMA chairman and CEO Chris Chapman, with technology changing and converging faster than legislation can keep up.… |
| Oracle rushes out patch for critical 0-day Java exploit Posted: 30 Aug 2012 02:38 PM PDT 'Everything's fine now, please don't delete us'In an uncommon break with its thrice-annual security update schedule, Oracle has released a patch for three Java 7 security flaws that have recently been targeted by web-based exploits.… |
| Microsoft NZ exposes TechEd delegates' passwords Posted: 30 Aug 2012 02:02 PM PDT Registration emails included passwords as plaintextSoftware used by Microsoft's New Zealand outpost to register attendees for next week's TechEd conference has exposed delegates' passwords to unwelcome scrutiny.… |
| UK: 'We're legally bound to arrest Mr Assange' Posted: 30 Aug 2012 12:52 PM PDT Hague tells Ecuador not to spirit away the WikiLeakerThe UK's Foreign Secretary has refused to rule out storming the Ecuadorian embassy to arrest Julian Assange and pack him off to Sweden.… |
| Applied Micro's X-Gene server chip ARMed to the teeth Posted: 30 Aug 2012 11:31 AM PDT Ready to take a bite out of x86 servers and CiscoHot Chips An opportunity to define the future of server processing comes along once every decade or so, and Applied Micro Circuit, a company known for its networking chips and PowerPC-based embedded controllers, wants to move up into the big leagues to take on Intel, Advanced Micro Devices, and the handful of remaining etchers of RISC processors for the data center.… |
| Mystery virus attack blows Qatari gas giant RasGas offline Posted: 30 Aug 2012 09:52 AM PDT Stop the fuel pumps too? Ha ha ha! NoA mystery virus has infected the network of Qatar's natural gas pumper RasGas, prompting bosses to pull the plug on the biz's internet connection. Office systems have been unusable since the malware struck on 27 August, according to local reports.… |
| Amazon: Time for a new Kindle Fire, this one's sold out Posted: 30 Aug 2012 09:28 AM PDT People just love carrying our cash registers aroundAmazon says the Kindle Fire has completely sold out and production has ceased, paving the way for a successor to be launched at the company's event next week.… |
| Obama Q&A on Reddit briefly knackers entire site Posted: 30 Aug 2012 09:01 AM PDT You nerds like space stuff, right?US President Obama has his fingers crossed for another four years in the White House - and to bolster support for a second term, the Democrat took to Reddit.com for a cosy chat with left-leaning cat-worshipping netizens.… |
| Attack of the Gigantic Tellies hits Berlin IFA Posted: 30 Aug 2012 08:27 AM PDT Many now too large to fit in a normal houseIFA 2012 Television manufacturers bigged-up their products at IFA this week, adding additional inches to their respective boob tube offerings. Here's a run down of what to expect and where to focus those square-eyes in the future.… |
| Foxconn overlord seeks cheap Sharp stake to cope with Apple fanbois Posted: 30 Aug 2012 08:02 AM PDT Shuffling, moaning hordes clamour for more SCREENSFoxconn daddy Hon Hai wants a piece of Sharp so it can improve the moribund telly biz's production of Apple iPhone displays - but it will only do the deal if talks on how to boost Sharp's earnings pan out.… |
| Robot rover Curiosity sets out on first long Mars trip Posted: 30 Aug 2012 07:32 AM PDT Nuclear raygun tank on the prowlThe Mars-invading laser-toting nuclear-powered space truck Curiosity is off on a 400-metre jaunt to try out its life-hunting drill.… |
| Flash tart Astute goes fourth and multiples your data Posted: 30 Aug 2012 07:01 AM PDT Chequered history for solid-state RAID array makerStaff at storage biz Astute Networks are all smiles as they tout their fourth-generation all-flash array at VMworld 2012 - but behind-the-scenes, the company has had a chequered history.… |
| Windows 8 tablets unwrapped in Berlin: Dell goes keyless for ARM Posted: 30 Aug 2012 06:25 AM PDT Do these tanks have the grunt to park on Apple's lawn?Dell, Hewlett-Packard and Sony have hitched their skirts to reveal PCs running Windows 8, which will be on sale in October.… |
| If you can't take the Samsung, get out of the kitchen Posted: 30 Aug 2012 05:58 AM PDT Household chores to become 'inspirational experiences'IFA 2012 Samsung's IFA keynote was true to form, some might say. Although the company had "a different script" with its presentation style, it did seem to have |
| Scotland Yard manacles another suspect in phone hack probe Posted: 30 Aug 2012 05:35 AM PDT Man gets Weeting greeting at Saarf Landon nickA 60-year-old man was arrested this morning at his home in South West London on suspicion of conspiring to intercept communications relating to Scotland Yard's probe of alleged phone hacking.… |
| Brummie plod cuffed in Facebook troll hunt Posted: 30 Aug 2012 04:57 AM PDT Don't I know you, sunshine?A serving West Midlands police officer has been arrested after a woman was torn into by trolls on Facebook.… |
| UK data-blurt cockups soared 1,000 PER CENT over last five years Posted: 30 Aug 2012 04:44 AM PDT That was supposed to be a secret but it got outThe number of times Brits' sensitive data has been lost or leaked in the UK has risen 1,000 per cent over the past five years. Councils recorded the biggest increase in breaches of data protection law, according to figures obtained by a Freedom of Information Act request.… |
| Samsung whips out Galaxy Note II, cam-phone with proper zoom lens Posted: 30 Aug 2012 04:27 AM PDT YES! I AM TAKING A PICTURE!IFA 2012 After Samsung officially unveiled the Galaxy Note II at IFA this week, attentions turned to its all-new camera phone, a digital snapper with built-in 3G connectivity.… |
| NASA launches armoured storm probes to the Van Allen belts Posted: 30 Aug 2012 04:14 AM PDT Survey of vast radioactive particle-Sargasso doughnutsNASA has successfully launched two Radiation Belt Storm Probes into Earth's orbit to start a two-year mission to study the two giant donuts of plasma trapped in radiation surrounding the planet.… |
| Yahoo! bureau! chief! sacked! for! Mitt Romney! racism! jibe! Posted: 30 Aug 2012 03:48 AM PDT 'Black people drowning' shot deemed off-colourYahoo! News' Washington bureau chief has been sacked after he joked that Republican US presidential wannabe Mitt Romney was "happy to have a party with black people drowning".… |
| Love vSphere? You're going to have to love Flash too Posted: 30 Aug 2012 03:29 AM PDT Trevor Pott gets hands-on with vSphere's new web clientIf you're considering building your cloud infrastructure on the latest version of vSphere, you probably weren't banking on Adobe Flash being part of your set-up.… |
| Facebook co-founder Moskovitz scrambles to offload his shares Posted: 30 Aug 2012 03:15 AM PDT Bumwad from the bank of toylandFacebook co-founder Dustin Moskovitz has sold over 1.3 million of his shares in the social network over the last two weeks.… |
| Why Java would still stink even if it weren't security swiss cheese Posted: 30 Aug 2012 02:58 AM PDT Nuke it from orbit - it's the only way to be sureSysadmin blog Java is horrible and I hate it.… |
| Sony unwraps James Bond's new Droidphone Posted: 30 Aug 2012 02:44 AM PDT Also splashproof, wipe clean 'slab. Ideal for, er, mediaIFA 2012 Sony ushered in a fresh range of smartphones at IFA this week, as well as its first Xperia tablet.… |
| Indian gov ponders restrictions on Chinese networking gear Posted: 30 Aug 2012 02:31 AM PDT Lovely and cheap, but possibly communist and traitorousThe Indian government is set to become the latest global power to restrict the use of Chinese-built telecoms and internet infrastructure technology, in what could be another blow to the ambitions of Huawei and ZTE as they look to grow abroad.… |
| Mobe-maker flogs self-designed phones ... to your KIDS Posted: 30 Aug 2012 02:17 AM PDT Custom phones for custom peopleMVNO OwnFone is pitching a £55 handset which can only call up to 12 pre-programmed numbers, betting that the ability to create your own buttons and colour scheme will blind users to the price.… |
| Super-critical Java zero-day exploits TWO bugs Posted: 30 Aug 2012 01:59 AM PDT Write Once, Exploit EverywhereA potent Java security vulnerability that first appeared earlier this week actually leverages two zero-day flaws. The revelation comes as it emerged Oracle knew about the holes as early as April.… |
| Amazon steps over Groupon's festering corpse to set up UK deals souk Posted: 30 Aug 2012 01:42 AM PDT Shopping giant can't wait to tout tat vouchersAmazon has launched its daily deals bazaar in the UK, moving into a market that seems already oversubscribed with the likes of Groupon.… |
| Samsung readies handheld releases for Windows 8 Posted: 30 Aug 2012 01:22 AM PDT It's all touch and goIFA 2012 At the Mobile Unpacked event in Berlin last night, Samsung showed off its Windows 8 handheld devices that appear in its new Ativ range of computing products that all feature touchscreen functionality.… |
| Tosh flashifies disk in demo hybrid drive Posted: 30 Aug 2012 01:19 AM PDT Enjoys a Momentus momentToshiba has demonstrated a 1TB hybrid disk drive at the Flash Memory summit; that's 250GB bigger than Seagate's Momentus XT.… |
| Radio arse tags solve modern-day TV musical chairs dilemma Posted: 30 Aug 2012 01:01 AM PDT There's no such thing as over-engineeringVid Little electronic tags that broadcast data over the air turn up in the strangest of places. Now they've managed to end up sewn into the back of contestants' shorts in a TV version of childhood favourite, musical chairs.… |
| Quantum sends out cheap 'n' fast newbie to beat off Amazon's Glacier Posted: 30 Aug 2012 12:32 AM PDT Tape market facing global coolingQuantum is facing the Amazon onslaught head on with the debut of its cloudy Q-Cloud service – cloud-based backup, restore, and disaster recovery – at Amazon Glacier pricing: 1 cent per GB per month.… |
| Apple Mac OS X Server for Mountain Lion review Posted: 30 Aug 2012 12:00 AM PDT Playing god with a twenty-dollar appThe cost of Mountain Lion Server is a fraction of what Apple charged for its server software just a few years ago, especially if you look at the old 'unlimited client' editions of Mac OS X Server. Then, the software alone cost as much as a new Mac. Now, it costs as much as a Hollywood blockbuster on DVD, and it's far more useful.… |
| Philippines tech industries survive floods Posted: 29 Aug 2012 11:15 PM PDT Outsourcers unscathed after recent floodsTo the west of the Philippines' capital, Manila, lies Laguna De Bay, a colossal freshwater lake that has just become the site of what can loosely be called maritime services startups.… |
| Chinese dissident grassed by Yahoo nears release Posted: 29 Aug 2012 10:15 PM PDT Wang Xiaoning completes porridge on FridayA Chinese democracy advocate and journalist who was sent to jail for a decade after Yahoo! grassed him up to the authorities will be released this week.… |
| 'iPhone 5' released by Chinese Apple copycat Posted: 29 Aug 2012 09:26 PM PDT Goophone releases Android-based handset matching rumoured iPhone 5 lookFanbois in China who just can't wait to get their hands on the much-hyped upcoming iPhone 5 are in for a treat, as an Android-based version of the device modelled on the imminent handset's rumoured specs has made its way online.… |
| Oracle knew about critical Java flaws since April Posted: 29 Aug 2012 07:23 PM PDT Could have issued patches, but didn'tThe critical Java vulnerabilities that have security experts cautioning users to disable Java in their browsers are not new discoveries, a security firm claims. On the contrary, Oracle has known about them for months, and it has probably had a patch ready since before an exploit was discovered in the wild.… |
| Harvard boffins build cyborg skin of flesh and nanowires Posted: 29 Aug 2012 07:20 PM PDT Man and machine become oneHumanity has taken another step down the path of the Borg with the invention of the first flesh containing a functional nanowire sensor network that's biocompatible with the human body.… |
| AGIMO suspends govt supplier application process Posted: 29 Aug 2012 06:19 PM PDT Is anyone using Oz government's multi-use lists of approved suppliers?The Australian Government Information Management Office (AGIMO) has suspended its Multi Use Lists (MULs) for consultants and general ICT suppliers, possibly because no-one is using them.… |
| Customers dumping Samsung phones in wake of Apple suit Posted: 29 Aug 2012 05:44 PM PDT Prices of used kit plummet on sudden oversupplyApple CEO Tim Cook might be pleased with the verdict in his company's recent patent legislation against Samsung, but Samsung customers are definitely not, according to the market watchers at mobile phone trade-in firm Gazelle.… |
| WISE-watchers munch on hot DOGs Posted: 29 Aug 2012 05:20 PM PDT Millions of new black holes turned upThe latest data release from the Wide-Field Infrared Explorer has NASA almost as excited as a Mars landing, with the space agency trumpeting "millions" of new black holes, among other discoveries.… |
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