Dr Who shoves BitTorrent in the Tardis

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• Dr Who shoves BitTorrent in the Tardis
• Firefox 15 offers fewer leaks, more frags
• UKNova drops torrents after threats from FACT
• Lexmark dumps inkjet arm, sacks 1,700
• VMware sees multi-device future on Horizon
• Watchdog probes rules for naughty mobe fondling on flights
• Nokia, Moto, Sony phone wing of Foxconn is soaked in red
• Didn't know THAT could go in THERE: EMC dedupes server flash
• IBM embiggens iron with System zEnterprise EC12 mainframe
• Bluetooth 4 pulls on pair of profiles, hits the track
• 1 MILLION accounts leaked in megahack on banks, websites
• Why the Apple-Samsung verdict is GOOD for YOU, your KIDS and TECH
• Queen of WorldPay cash-machine scam sent down for 2.5 years
• VMware: Our monster will eat servers, belch clouds, excrete profit
• Official: Google's brazen domination of Earth nearly complete
• Apple demands a quickie, aims its torpedo at 8 Samsung mobes
• LG first to flaunt quad-core Qualcomm smartie
• Mars rover harangues empty landscape with loudhailer
• UK ISPs crippled by undersea cable snap
• VMware to penetrate OpenStack cloud
• Samsung Galaxy Note 10.1 Android tablet review
• RIP Neil Armstrong: The reluctant American hero
• Troubled! Yahoo! tries! to! keep! staff! sweet! with! free! nosh!
• MasterCard beds Everything Everywhere for exclusive pay-by-bonk
• Middlesbrough culinary giants battle for parmo supremacy
• Hong Kong beauties stiffed by hackers' enormous poll attack
• Facebook's new app bazaar 'violates' punters' privacy – lobbyists
• Windows 8 Storage Spaces: Can you trust it with your delicates?
• Violin thrusts vSphere into flash arrays, turns them into servers
• Police beg for e-forensics team to probe crims' iPads, mobiles
• Visual Studio 2012: 50 Shades of Grey by Microsoft
• Pay TV giant Hulu becomes victim of its own success
• Ten... netbooks
• Arctic ice shrinks to ‘smallest in satellite era’ - NASA
• Open source author pulls code after GPL abuse
• Shenzhen wage hike causes supply chain jitters
• Telstra to extend reach of 4G network
• Cloud 'destroys time' and fracking is great innovation
• Disable Java NOW, users told, as 0-day exploit hits web

Dr Who shoves BitTorrent in the Tardis Posted: 28 Aug 2012 02:30 PM PDT New series to stream in Oz minutes after first Beeb broadacast The Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) will stream the new series of Dr Who mere seconds after it finishes airing in the UK, in an effort to stop avid fans downloading the show.…

Firefox 15 offers fewer leaks, more frags Posted: 28 Aug 2012 01:51 PM PDT Improved WebGL support for in-browser 3D gaming Another month, another Firefox update. But although Mozilla's breakneck release pace can be bewildering for some users, new Firefox versions continue to bring performance, stability, and security improvements – and in the case of the newly released Firefox 15, some nice goodies for gamers.…

UKNova drops torrents after threats from FACT Posted: 28 Aug 2012 01:13 PM PDT Pressure group claims another scalp UKNova, a torrent indexing site for British TV and radio, has announced it is shutting up shop after threats of legal action from the Federation Against Copyright Theft (FACT).…

Lexmark dumps inkjet arm, sacks 1,700 Posted: 28 Aug 2012 11:44 AM PDT Estimates savings of $95m per year Lexmark is to shut down its inkjet printing manufacturing and research operations, although it will continue to support and supply existing hardware and is keeping its laser printing division.…

VMware sees multi-device future on Horizon Posted: 28 Aug 2012 11:12 AM PDT Declares Post-PC era not happening, talks up 'UI virtualisation' VMworld 2012  VMware has inched its vision of mobile computing forward, releasing an Alpha of a new product called the Horizon Suite that it hopes will make it easier to share apps and data among many devices.…

Watchdog probes rules for naughty mobe fondling on flights Posted: 28 Aug 2012 10:04 AM PDT Whipping out gizmos on takeoff and landing revisited US regulators are going to look into the rules that stop passengers using their "interfering" electronic gizmos on aeroplanes.…

Nokia, Moto, Sony phone wing of Foxconn is soaked in red Posted: 28 Aug 2012 09:02 AM PDT Half-year loss sparks hunt for better customers Shares in Foxconn International Holdings slumped nearly 8 per cent today after the kitmaker reported a whopping loss for the first half of the year.…

Didn't know THAT could go in THERE: EMC dedupes server flash Posted: 28 Aug 2012 08:28 AM PDT VFCache working with vMotion EMC is adding to its server flash cache arsenal by adding deduplication to its VFCache product, thus enabling it to hold more data, as well as adding a larger capacity card, and making VFCache interoperable with vMotion. According to EMC, this is the first time deduplication has been used in server flash caches.…

IBM embiggens iron with System zEnterprise EC12 mainframe Posted: 28 Aug 2012 08:01 AM PDT Five score 5.5GHz engines wrapped in a funky new chassis Hot Chips  The systems business is largely dominated by x86-based machinery these days, but Big Blue's mainframe unit is hanging in there after five decades and is still a bit of a mint.…

Bluetooth 4 pulls on pair of profiles, hits the track Posted: 28 Aug 2012 07:33 AM PDT Standard still has a long way to run Two new Bluetooth profiles will measure how fast the user is running or peddling, creating interoperability, but are also aimed at proving that the standard isn't slowing down.…

1 MILLION accounts leaked in megahack on banks, websites Posted: 28 Aug 2012 07:01 AM PDT On my (shell) command, unleash hell! Hacker collective Team GhostShell leaked a cache of more than one million user account records from 100 websites over the weekend.…

Why the Apple-Samsung verdict is GOOD for YOU, your KIDS and TECH Posted: 28 Aug 2012 06:43 AM PDT Think we'll be richer without patents? Think again Analysis  Relax, everyone. While the patent system is far from perfect, a remarkably common-sense jury decision last week in the Apple-Samsung trial has clarified that patents are the "lifeblood of business", as inventor James Dyson calls it.…

Queen of WorldPay cash-machine scam sent down for 2.5 years Posted: 28 Aug 2012 06:24 AM PDT Hi-tech Fagin herded money mules A Nigerian woman has been jailed for two-and-a-half years in the US after she was found responsible for playing a key role in the infamous $9m WorldPay payment card scam back in 2008.…

VMware: Our monster will eat servers, belch clouds, excrete profit Posted: 28 Aug 2012 06:03 AM PDT Grow or die like a minicomputer VMworld 2012  The scribbled Monster VM logo that server virtualization and cloudy wannabe VMware started using last year as a joke may be the most appropriate and honest emblem that any IT vendor has pulled from its cosmic ether.…

Official: Google's brazen domination of Earth nearly complete Posted: 28 Aug 2012 05:41 AM PDT TLDs, gotta catch 'em all The word "google" is the top domain name on the internet, in terms of registrations, according to new research.…

Apple demands a quickie, aims its torpedo at 8 Samsung mobes Posted: 28 Aug 2012 05:17 AM PDT Judge Koh urged: Wham, ban, thank you ma'am Apple is seeking quick bans on eight of Samsung's phones after beating the South Korean firm to a bloody pulp in its US patent super-trial. Yet legal experts are unsure the verdict can hold up.…

LG first to flaunt quad-core Qualcomm smartie Posted: 28 Aug 2012 05:01 AM PDT Optimus G adopts Snapdragon LG today officially unveiled the Optimus G, the first 4G smartphone to utilise a Qualcomm quad-core Snapdragon S4 Pro processor.…

Mars rover harangues empty landscape with loudhailer Posted: 28 Aug 2012 04:51 AM PDT 'Gooooood morning Mars! General Charlie Bolden here' Audio  Curiosity, the nuclear-powered laser raygun rover recently landed on the surface of Mars by NASA, has begun shouting propaganda messages from Earth at the apparently empty desert which it is currently patrolling.…

UK ISPs crippled by undersea cable snap Posted: 28 Aug 2012 04:39 AM PDT Many quickly re-routed but slowcoaches O2, Be slapped Updated  A major internet routing outage struck UK telcos over the bank holiday weekend - knackering access to the World of Warcraft website*, the BBC, Amazon, Facebook and other sites for more than 24 hours.…

VMware to penetrate OpenStack cloud Posted: 28 Aug 2012 04:18 AM PDT Gold-level competition NASA and Rackspace spun up OpenStack as an open-source alternative to VMware for spinning up clouds two years ago. Now VMWare has applied to become a full OpenStack member with a decision to be taken at the OpenStack group's first full board of directors' meeting today.…

Samsung Galaxy Note 10.1 Android tablet review Posted: 28 Aug 2012 04:14 AM PDT Stylus over substance? Remember your first touchscreen? If it was a personal organiser or satnav, chances are it used a pressure-sensitive, resistive screen. If it was a Palm, you probably had a stylus to pick out letters onscreen. The arrival of capacitive screens that responded to human touch certainly made an impression and now account for nearly all smartphone and tablet touchscreens. What was the point of stylus now?…

RIP Neil Armstrong: The reluctant American hero Posted: 28 Aug 2012 03:56 AM PDT Tributes to the first man to walk on Moon Obituary  Neil Armstrong, the first man to walk on the moon, died aged 82 on Saturday after complications from heart surgery.…

Troubled! Yahoo! tries! to! keep! staff! sweet! with! free! nosh! Posted: 28 Aug 2012 03:42 AM PDT CEO du jour also bags ex-Amazon exec Yahoo!'s shiny new CEO Marissa Mayer has nabbed a former Amazon exec for the job of chief marketing officer at the ailing web firm.…

MasterCard beds Everything Everywhere for exclusive pay-by-bonk Posted: 28 Aug 2012 03:21 AM PDT Friends with benefits MasterCard has signed an exclusive deal to develop a pay-by-wave platform for Everything Everywhere over the next half decade – hopefully one with greater impact than the existing QuickTap service.…

Middlesbrough culinary giants battle for parmo supremacy Posted: 28 Aug 2012 02:59 AM PDT Local takeaway crowned post-pub nosh king Middlesbrough culinary giants went head-to-head over the weekend in the World Parmo Competition - a battle to identify just who serves the ultimate local contribution to haute cuisine.…

Hong Kong beauties stiffed by hackers' enormous poll attack Posted: 28 Aug 2012 02:42 AM PDT Miss HK wannabes 'hosed in web flood' Fans of simpering scantily clad vixens are furious after the online voting system to pick the next Miss Hong Kong was demolished by hackers, allegedly. The winner of the much-hyped beauty pageant, held on Sunday, was instead decided by a panel of judges.…

Facebook's new app bazaar 'violates' punters' privacy – lobbyists Posted: 28 Aug 2012 02:19 AM PDT Sort it out or we'll see you in a German court... bitches Facebook stands accused by a consumer lobby group of breaching Germany's privacy laws with the recent launch of its App Center.…

Windows 8 Storage Spaces: Can you trust it with your delicates? Posted: 28 Aug 2012 02:03 AM PDT 'Horrible write speeds', 'vanishing storage'... but it IS early in the RC I have been watching a few Storage Spaces discussion threads on Microsoft's support forums with interest. Storage Spaces is a new way to manage disk storage in Windows 8 and Server 2012. It allows you to create a pool from two or more drives, create virtual drives on them with an option for RAID-like resilience, and add or remove physical drives as needed when drives fail or more storage is needed.…

Violin thrusts vSphere into flash arrays, turns them into servers Posted: 28 Aug 2012 01:42 AM PDT VMware OEM deal Flash array vendor Violin Memory is turning is all-flash arrays into virtualised servers by embedding vSphere in them.…

Police beg for e-forensics team to probe crims' iPads, mobiles Posted: 28 Aug 2012 01:18 AM PDT Wanna star in CSI: ICT? The National Police Improvement Agency (NPIA) said it wants an e-forensics project, aimed at speeding up the examination of ICT used by criminals, to be available to all forces from September.…

Visual Studio 2012: 50 Shades of Grey by Microsoft Posted: 28 Aug 2012 12:57 AM PDT It's a good thing looks aren't that important, right? Review  Microsoft offended thousands in April with a preview of its next Visual Studio, a John-Major-inspired, grey affair intended to take Microsoft's all-encompassing IDE loser to the look of Windows 8.…

Pay TV giant Hulu becomes victim of its own success Posted: 28 Aug 2012 12:35 AM PDT Latest rumour of CEO's departure heralds end of stormy honeymoon The latest rumour of Hulu CEO Jason Kilar's imminent departure sounds like a good old silly season story designed to fill the void of empty news pages while people are on vacation. But the fact Hulu has been attracting such rumours while other big hitters in pay TV never seem to get them, itself provides a clue to a story of declining fortunes for the operator.…

Ten... netbooks Posted: 28 Aug 2012 12:00 AM PDT Small, cheap computers for scholars Product Roundup  Tablets may have taken the wind out of the netbook's sales, and prompted some manufacturers, Dell and Sony among them, to stop selling them, but if you're looking for a small and, crucially, cheap personal computer for the kids, for offspring heading off to college, or just for emailing while travelling, a netbook is well worth considering.…

Arctic ice shrinks to ‘smallest in satellite era’ - NASA Posted: 27 Aug 2012 11:33 PM PDT And summer at the North Pole is not yet over NASA has tossed its coin into the "shrinking Arctice sea ice" kitty with images showing that on August 26, "sea ice dipped to its smallest extent ever recorded in more than three decades of satellite measurements".…

Open source author pulls code after GPL abuse Posted: 27 Aug 2012 09:20 PM PDT Mayan EDMS code pinchers named and shamed Robert Rosario, the developer behind the open source document management tool Mayan EDMS, has pulled the development code of the software from public repositories he says it's being pinched by folks who use it in ways not allowed by the GNU Public Licence.…

Shenzhen wage hike causes supply chain jitters Posted: 27 Aug 2012 09:00 PM PDT Local gov may raise minimum wage for sweatshop toilers Chinese tech hub and boom town Shenzhen is set to increase the minimum wage of workers there by 13.3 per cent in early 2013, causing a few sweaty palms in the technology supply chain.…

Telstra to extend reach of 4G network Posted: 27 Aug 2012 08:53 PM PDT Clickity click says big T, as it plans to reach 66% of Australia Telstra has outlined plans to extend the reach of its 4G network, revealing today it will bathe "approximately two-thirds" 66% of Australia's population in fast wireless in the next ten months.…

Cloud 'destroys time' and fracking is great innovation Posted: 27 Aug 2012 07:00 PM PDT CEO thought bubbles from Dell, Gelsinger, Maritz, Georgens, and Tucci VMworld 2012  Dell supremo Michael Dell, EMC CEO Joe Tucci, NetApp opposite number Tom Georgens, soon-to-be VMware CEO Pat Gelsinger and his prececessor Paul Maritz have held court on a CEO-only panel at VMworld, largely reciting the same old stuff about how important it is for CIOs to simplify IT so that sysadmins can be unshackled from management duties and freed to innovate.…

Disable Java NOW, users told, as 0-day exploit hits web Posted: 27 Aug 2012 04:42 PM PDT All operating systems, browsers vulnerable A new browser-based exploit for a Java vulnerability that allows attackers to execute arbitrary code on client systems has been spotted in the wild – and because of Oracle's Java patch schedule, it may be some time before a fix becomes widely available.…

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