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- Oracle won't pull plug on Java SE 6 until 2013
- Red ink deeper at SGI as sales shrink
- Oooh-la-la! 'iPhone 5' bares all, strokes tiny nano-SIM in pics
- VMware snacks on Pattern Insight's log tool
- Luminex rips virtual tape from data centres, shoves it in the cloud
- Google pays just $22.5m to FTC over Safari tracking blunder
- BSkyB deals Ofcom a blow in battle over telly sports prices
- Suppliers underwhelmed by gov's G-Cloud services catalogue
- US judge gives RIM its $147m back in patent spat
- Gartner: UK PC market stayed on its knees in Q2
- Samsung to probe claims of underage workers, abuse at supplier
- Make life easier on campus with a simpler LAN
- LOHAN's fantastical flying truss sprouts tail
- Doctor Who gets one-off special to mark Time Lord's 50th year on telly
- Nokia straps Qt into ejector seat and hits the shiny red button
- Micron shows off bits: Sneak peak at new SSDs, flash cards
- Zynga COO quits: Game over for John Schappert
- Dragons' Den badboy's Expansys back in the black ... just
- Bucks muck chuck muck-up leaks 840 email addresses
- Mobile dinosaurs can gain (not just lose) from Over the Top rebellion
- Ouya Android games console to ship April 2013
- Samsung: We NEVER sniffed around RIM... or BlackBerry licence
- Deadly pussies kill more often than owners think
- Disaster strikes Doyenz disaster recovery cloud
- US and S Korea both claim first place on voice over LTE
- Snap suggests Apple out to 'screw' hardware hackers
- Fujitsu tosses VMware cloud-in-a-box at biz newbies
- Lincolnshire dangles ICT cash carrot over hungry suppliers
- Banking IT cowboys 'need whipping into shape by watchdog'
- How talent-spotting boffins help Team GB bag Olympic gold
- Party like it's 1999: CDE Unix desktop REBORN
- Amazon Kindle Touch Wi-Fi eBook reader review
- PayPal parts company with major China partner
- Apple, Amazon, close password door after horse bolts
- Tokyo Stock Exchange falters as IT problems return
- NetApp ANZ VP jumps ship
- DNA barcodes leap out of the lab
- Curiosity phones home through Amazon cloud
- SCO keeps dying, and dying, and dying
- Microsoft and NYPD install big data crime-fighting system
- High Schools putting kids off IT careers, deepening skills shortage
- Murdoch pitches battery for renewables
- Kaspersky spots Zeus for BlackBerry
- Valve opens Steam store to non-gaming software
| Oracle won't pull plug on Java SE 6 until 2013 Posted: 09 Aug 2012 12:54 PM PDT Aging platform gets one more reprieveOracle is extending the official end-of-life date for its aging Java SE 6 software development platform a second time as it struggles to get the Java language development process onto a consistent, two-year release schedule.… |
| Red ink deeper at SGI as sales shrink Posted: 09 Aug 2012 11:00 AM PDT Low margin deal hangoverJorge Titinger, who was tapped to be the CEO at server and supercomputer maker Silicon Graphics back in February, has his work cut out for him amind slowing sales and mounting losses.… |
| Oooh-la-la! 'iPhone 5' bares all, strokes tiny nano-SIM in pics Posted: 09 Aug 2012 10:02 AM PDT Size does matterApple's leaky supply chain has doled out pictures of the insides of what's claimed to be an iPhone 5, indicating that the forthcoming mobe will take nano-SIMs.… |
| VMware snacks on Pattern Insight's log tool Posted: 09 Aug 2012 09:42 AM PDT Analyze thisVMware has an insatiable appetite and billions of dollars in cash, so hardly a month goes by when it doesn't buy something. The server virtualization and soon-to-be network virtualization juggernaut – once it closes its $1.26bn acquisition of Nicira – has just snapped up the log analysis products of Pattern Insight – and taken on the people who develop and support them.… |
| Luminex rips virtual tape from data centres, shoves it in the cloud Posted: 09 Aug 2012 09:18 AM PDT Joins the buzzword party with cloudy storage biz NirvanixWhile EMC thinks the next move in storage is to rip the tape out of the mainframe and replace it with the virtual stuff, Luminex seems to be going one step further: by grabbing its virtual tape from the data centre and floating it up to the cloud.… |
| Google pays just $22.5m to FTC over Safari tracking blunder Posted: 09 Aug 2012 08:51 AM PDT More of a tickle than a drop and cough testAs expected, Google has agreed to pay the US Federal Trade Commission a paltry penalty of $22.5m for its sneaky bypassing of the default privacy settings of Apple's Safari browser.… |
| BSkyB deals Ofcom a blow in battle over telly sports prices Posted: 09 Aug 2012 08:26 AM PDT Wins right to appeal against meddling of its crown jewelsBSkyB has won a major victory in a five-year battle with the UK competition authorities over its crown jewels: its pay TV sports channels.… |
| Suppliers underwhelmed by gov's G-Cloud services catalogue Posted: 09 Aug 2012 08:03 AM PDT Applicants down, suppliers falling offThe number of tech companies lining up to join the government's G-Cloud service has dropped by nearly half with just over two weeks to go before new applications can be submitted.… |
| US judge gives RIM its $147m back in patent spat Posted: 09 Aug 2012 07:26 AM PDT Jury award overturned in Mformation caseBeleaguered Canadian mobile firm Research in Motion has managed to get a patent verdict against it overturned, saving the BlackBerry maker $147.2m.… |
| Gartner: UK PC market stayed on its knees in Q2 Posted: 09 Aug 2012 06:59 AM PDT Will 'solid growth' ever return?The UK PC market was lifeless in Q2 and apocalyptic beancounter Gartner is not sure the whether it can be fully revived ever again.… |
| Samsung to probe claims of underage workers, abuse at supplier Posted: 09 Aug 2012 06:27 AM PDT Investigators from S Korean firm arrive in China todaySamsung has said that it will probe allegations that one of its suppliers employs underage workers. The South Korean company's investigators are slated to arrive in China today.… |
| Make life easier on campus with a simpler LAN Posted: 09 Aug 2012 06:13 AM PDT Three layers into one will goThe campus LAN is probably the most common network in use today, but its customary trio of layers is coming under examination as the need to reduce costs, add wireless access and increase performance continues to grow.… |
| LOHAN's fantastical flying truss sprouts tail Posted: 09 Aug 2012 06:03 AM PDT Vulture 2 launch platform design shapes up nicelyThe Low Orbit Helium Assisted Navigator (LOHAN) team has been bogged down over the last few weeks in hypobaric rocket motor tests, but we've also been busy firming up the design for the Vulture 2 launch platform - our fantastical flying truss.… |
| Doctor Who gets one-off special to mark Time Lord's 50th year on telly Posted: 09 Aug 2012 05:43 AM PDT Mark Gatiss pens An Adventure in Space and TimeDoctor Who passes an important milestone in 2013 having - by then - been on British TV screens for 50 years.… |
| Nokia straps Qt into ejector seat and hits the shiny red button Posted: 09 Aug 2012 05:22 AM PDT App factory caught by new owner DigiaNokia's back-room clear out continues with the Qt platform being sold to Finnish firm Digia Oyj for an undisclosed sum. As part of the deal 125 engineers will swap employers.… |
| Micron shows off bits: Sneak peak at new SSDs, flash cards Posted: 09 Aug 2012 05:03 AM PDT Company webcast: You need a flash foundry to be a real playerYou need combined flash foundry product smarts and controller technology to succeed in the flash business, and Micron says it has both.… |
| Zynga COO quits: Game over for John Schappert Posted: 09 Aug 2012 04:41 AM PDT Bigwig legs it as Mafia Wars biz dwindlesZynga chief operating officer John Schappert has left the company as it struggles to recover from its poor financial performance and plummeting stock.… |
| Dragons' Den badboy's Expansys back in the black ... just Posted: 09 Aug 2012 04:18 AM PDT Networks and wireless op 'suffered' in UKWireless tech web retailer and provider of mobile networks Expansys is back in the black – but only just – as currency headwinds, weak UK consumer spending and restructuring took a toll.… |
| Bucks muck chuck muck-up leaks 840 email addresses Posted: 09 Aug 2012 04:01 AM PDT Council lets folks know how to get in touch with EVERYBODYAbout 800 people in Buckinghamshire had their email addresses leaked by their district council in an email about waste collection.… |
| Mobile dinosaurs can gain (not just lose) from Over the Top rebellion Posted: 09 Aug 2012 03:38 AM PDT Cash on table, but networks hedge bets with VoIP rivalsAs more people bypass their mobile operators to make voice calls and send messages, a new survey attempts to measure the potential losses and opportunities for WhatsApp, Skype and other so-called "Over the Top"* players.… |
| Ouya Android games console to ship April 2013 Posted: 09 Aug 2012 03:31 AM PDT But you can order it nowOuya, the 'play Android tablet games on a telly' gadget, will be shipping in April 2013, the company behind it having been pledged a whopping $8.6m in crowdsourced funding - more than nine times the amount it was seeking.… |
| Samsung: We NEVER sniffed around RIM... or BlackBerry licence Posted: 09 Aug 2012 03:20 AM PDT OS rental rumours denied after analyst causes stock flutterSamsung has once again slapped down rumours that were circulating about Samsung licensing RIM's next OS. Yesterday's prediction, which came in the form of a note to clients from a veteran analyst, pushed RIM's shares up 6 per cent. But Samsung was in touch with news agency Reuters first thing this morning to say it wasn't even considering such a deal.… |
| Deadly pussies kill more often than owners think Posted: 09 Aug 2012 03:02 AM PDT New study: Most of the time they just leave victims to dieHousecats should be kept inside more often to keep them from their daily killing sprees, a study shows.… |
| Disaster strikes Doyenz disaster recovery cloud Posted: 09 Aug 2012 02:48 AM PDT Plug pulled in the UK, says resellerDisaster has struck UK customers of the Doyenz rCloud disaster recovery service: it's apparently closing down.… |
| US and S Korea both claim first place on voice over LTE Posted: 09 Aug 2012 02:26 AM PDT Rival operators in race to nick VoLTE gloryNetwork operators from South Korea and the United States were both claiming victory on Wednesday after racing right down to the wire to become the first in the world to offer voice over LTE (VoLTE) services.… |
| Snap suggests Apple out to 'screw' hardware hackers Posted: 09 Aug 2012 02:08 AM PDT Flatblade, philips, pentalobe and now... WTF?!?!Apple is designing its own, entirely proprietary screw-head in a bid to prevent punters and repair shops getting inside its future iDevices.… |
| Fujitsu tosses VMware cloud-in-a-box at biz newbies Posted: 09 Aug 2012 02:02 AM PDT Skewered by a SKUEMEA private cloud wannabees can now enjoy servicing themselves with a single, ready-to-use, all-in-one Fujitsu private cloud product.… |
| Lincolnshire dangles ICT cash carrot over hungry suppliers Posted: 09 Aug 2012 01:38 AM PDT Who wants £150m in contracts?Lincolnshire county council is to launch a procurement exercise later this year to investigate the provision of various support services, including ICT systems.… |
| Banking IT cowboys 'need whipping into shape by watchdog' Posted: 09 Aug 2012 01:22 AM PDT It's not just dodgy bankers who need a slapThe technology underpinning the UK's financial services sector needs urgent investment if regulators are to be able to spot potential abuses and prevent future financial crises, an influential report has claimed.… |
| How talent-spotting boffins help Team GB bag Olympic gold Posted: 09 Aug 2012 01:03 AM PDT Amateurs plucked from obscurity, shoved into sporting historyFancy a trip to Rio in 2016? Getting on the British Olympics team might be one way of doing it.… |
| Party like it's 1999: CDE Unix desktop REBORN Posted: 09 Aug 2012 12:34 AM PDT Stirrings among Mars Curiosity screensThe original Unix desktop, the Common Desktop Environment or CDE, is back. Seven years after Sun replaced it with GNOME on Solaris, the Open Group's Common Desktop Environment has returned, now fully open-source and with a modern Linux port.… |
| Amazon Kindle Touch Wi-Fi eBook reader review Posted: 09 Aug 2012 12:00 AM PDT Wordy tappinghoodHaving so many unread books at home, the Amazon Kindle and its numerous variants never really captured my imagination. I just wasn't that fussed about e-Books and using them was a slow burn, starting with iBooks on my iPhone – I'm blessed with good eyesight – followed by musing over tomes on an iPad 2.… |
| PayPal parts company with major China partner Posted: 08 Aug 2012 11:14 PM PDT Payments giant on lookout for fresh bloodGlobal payments behemoth PayPal could be in for a spot of bother in Asia after a much heralded partnership with Chinese e-commerce platform DHGate.com, its biggest in the region, ended this week.… |
| Apple, Amazon, close password door after horse bolts Posted: 08 Aug 2012 10:31 PM PDT Australian bank dealt with this a decade ago, why can't tech titans?Comment Apple and Amazon have, in the wake of the grievous p0wnage inflicted on WiReD writer Mat Honan, changed their security procedures and no longer allow password changes to be made over the phone.… |
| Tokyo Stock Exchange falters as IT problems return Posted: 08 Aug 2012 10:16 PM PDT Sell! Sell! Sell!The Tokyo Stock Exchange (TSE) suffered its second major systems outage this year on Tuesday (August 7th), suspending derivatives trading for over an hour and striking another blow to the capital's reputation as a global financial centre.… |
| Posted: 08 Aug 2012 09:47 PM PDT Heading for nimbler vendor?Peter O'Connor, NetApp's Area Vice President for Australia, New Zealand and South East, has resigned from the company.… |
| DNA barcodes leap out of the lab Posted: 08 Aug 2012 07:33 PM PDT Spray-on evidence for the CSI generationThe South Australian government has backed the commercialisation plans of a locally developed DNA barcoding technology to be launched internationally as a security and authentication tool.… |
| Curiosity phones home through Amazon cloud Posted: 08 Aug 2012 06:21 PM PDT That's no rover … it's a cloud computer!Amazon Web Services (AWS) has outlined how its infrastructure was used to power mars.jpl.nasa.gov in order to "…deliver successfully engaging experiences of Mars to the public" without going titsup at peak traffic times.… |
| SCO keeps dying, and dying, and dying Posted: 08 Aug 2012 05:30 PM PDT This time it might be for good, thoughThe undead entity formerly known as SCO but lately doing business as The TSG Group – if you can call bleeding away cash on legal fees a business – has filed a motion in a Delaware court to convert its Chapter 11 bankruptcy case to Chapter 7, Groklaw reports.… |
| Microsoft and NYPD install big data crime-fighting system Posted: 08 Aug 2012 05:26 PM PDT Domain Awareness System watching Big AppleMicrosoft and the New York Police Department have teamed up to an information gathering system that is designed to identify and shut down criminal activity on the streets of the Big Apple.… |
| High Schools putting kids off IT careers, deepening skills shortage Posted: 08 Aug 2012 04:54 PM PDT ACS Foundation queries whether IT as a career should even be taughtHigh School teaching of IT as a career actually puts kids off pursuing careers in the field, according to John Ridge, Executive Director of the Australian Computer Society Foundation Trust Fund (ACSF).… |
| Murdoch pitches battery for renewables Posted: 08 Aug 2012 04:15 PM PDT Portable power with a pinch of saltMany proposals for storing energy from renewable installations like wind farms or large-scale solar energy involve high-temperature technologies like molten salt. Now, researchers from Murdoch University are talking up a more mundane wet-cell battery based on sodium ions.… |
| Kaspersky spots Zeus for BlackBerry Posted: 08 Aug 2012 03:48 PM PDT Malware authors express confidence in RIM's futureWhile most of the world is treating the once-mighty BlackBerry as an also-ran in the smartphone market, malware authors still think it's worth a crack – and have crafted a package designed to drop a Zeus malware variant on the device.… |
| Valve opens Steam store to non-gaming software Posted: 08 Aug 2012 03:31 PM PDT Challenges Apple, Microsoft with desktop app store bidGames maker Valve has announced that it will begin offering non-game software through its popular Steam online content delivery platform, expanding the role of the service from a gaming destination to a general-purpose app store for desktop computers.… |
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