Microsoft to open 32 pop-up retail stores for the holidays

Microsoft to open 32 pop-up retail stores for the holidays


Microsoft to open 32 pop-up retail stores for the holidays

Posted: 10 Sep 2012 02:57 PM PDT

Take that, Apple Store

Whenever Apple opens a new retail store, it's a major event with fanbois lining up to be the first to grace its stone tile floors. By comparison, Microsoft's foray into the retail market will be a quiet affair – almost tentative – beginning with 32 pop-up stores to open in the US and Canada for the holiday season.…

GoDaddy stopped by massive DDoS attack

Posted: 10 Sep 2012 02:43 PM PDT

Millions of sites may be affected – not by Anonymous, it appears

A lone hacker has claimed responsibility for an ongoing denial-of-service attack that may have knocked out as many as millions of websites hosted by popular domain registrar GoDaddy.…

Dolby sets Digital Plus to shine in UltraViolet

Posted: 10 Sep 2012 02:12 PM PDT

Online movie tech gets sonic boon

Cloud-based movie library UltraViolet is to gain Dolby Digital Plus sound technology, the audio specialist said today.…

Valve puts Steam on the TV

Posted: 10 Sep 2012 01:45 PM PDT

Big Picture UI turns a PC into a console

Valve will today update its Steam software to add a new, secondary UI for TV-connected Macs and PCs.…

Coding may not make national curriculum

Posted: 10 Sep 2012 01:30 PM PDT

Ministerial decision coming in August, but Ministers currently oblivious

Software development may not be taught in Australia's high schools, as it is not a core part of the nation's new national "Technologies" curriculum.…

Google declares success for Kansas City gigabit broadband

Posted: 10 Sep 2012 12:36 PM PDT

80% buy into Fiberhood fold

After an intensive six-week registration drive, Google is reporting 180 out of a possible 202 districts of Kansas City have signed up for its 1Gb/s fiber network project.…

Vesa to enable backlight arrays on laptops, tablets

Posted: 10 Sep 2012 11:23 AM PDT

DisplayPort updated to preserve power

Display standards body Vesa has announced a new version of its Embedded DisplayPort (eDP) specification that paves the way for laptop screens and tablet panels with TV-like array backlighting.…

Windows 8 to grab iPad market share wrested back from Android

Posted: 10 Sep 2012 11:16 AM PDT

Google, watch out for MS not Apple, says analyst

Windows 8 will dent Apple's dominance of the tablet market, but it's biggest impact will be to hold Android's growth back.…

Intel hints at weaving network fabric into Xeons, Atoms

Posted: 10 Sep 2012 11:00 AM PDT

Time for controllers and processors to share the bed

IDF 2012  If it wasn't immediately obvious to you, Intel thinks the future of the systems business is weaving interconnection fabrics onto server processors - thus consolidating yet another component of the data center onto the processor and bringing to bear Chipzilla's wafer etching process advantages on that unified chip. And, if Intel plays its cards right, giving it a sustainable advantage to keep arch-nemesis Advanced Micro Devices and up-and-coming rivals in the ARM collective.…

King Coyne snaps chains, escapes Western Digital

Posted: 10 Sep 2012 10:44 AM PDT

Hitachi GST's top man replaces departing CEO

Under CEO John Coyne, Western Digital bought Hitachi GST and has become the world's number-one disk drive manufacturer. Now, leaving on a high note, Coyne is going to transfer the reins to HGST's ex-boss man Steve Milligan.…

NEC speeds up Gemini FT chipset, adds in Xeon E5s

Posted: 10 Sep 2012 10:29 AM PDT

Fault tolerance, cheaper ESXi trumps VMware HA

Pics  Whenever Stratus Technologies touts a new fault-tolerant ftServer - as it did earlier today - partner Japanese server-maker NEC follows suit. After all, Stratus is just reselling the NEC boxes with its own pricing, packaging, and add-on software. With the new Express5800/R320c fault tolerant boxes, NEC is adding the latest Xeon E5-2600 processors from Intel and goosing up the bandwidth of its Gemini lockstepping chip, which synchronizes every clock cycle and every bit of memory and I/O across two mirrored physical systems.…

HTC's 4G patent beef could get iPhone 5 BANNED in US

Posted: 10 Sep 2012 10:14 AM PDT

Judge tells Apple: 'I have to be pretty darn certain a US patent is invalid'

Apple may be banned from importing its new iPhone into the United States if the International Trade Commission in Washington DC finds that Cupertino has violated an HTC patent for connecting to the 4G network.…

Riverbed sucks in more data for cloud gateway deluge

Posted: 10 Sep 2012 09:59 AM PDT

Four times bigger gut too

Riverbed has quadrupled the amount of data its Whitewater appliance can store in the cloud, and is gulping it in faster.…

HP preps designer desktops for Windows 8

Posted: 10 Sep 2012 09:57 AM PDT

Claims world's slimmest all-in-one PC

HP has announced the world's thinnest all-in-one desktop PC and remains prepared for Windows 8 with the addition a touchscreen model too.…

Stratus girds fault-tolerant servers with Xeon E5s

Posted: 10 Sep 2012 09:37 AM PDT

Virtualization that won't go down on you

When it comes to hardware-based fault-tolerant computing on x86 iron, there's really only two games in town: NEC and Stratus Technologies. For the past several generations of machines, these two companies have partnered, with Stratus essentially taking NEC's iron and weaving in its own system tools, packaging and pricing.…

Infosys gobbles Lodestone for £218m

Posted: 10 Sep 2012 09:16 AM PDT

Indian outsourcer sups SAP sap

Indian outsourcer Infosys has coughed CHF330 (£218m) in cash for SAP consultancy Lodestone.…

Everything Everywhere 'to stuff Santa's sack' with 4G Lumia 920s

Posted: 10 Sep 2012 09:01 AM PDT

Crimbo window opens for high-speed mobe monopoly

Industry sources expect mobile network Everything Everywhere to tie up an exclusive deal with Nokia's new flagship Lumia 920 phone - providing EE can make a volume commitment to the fallen Finnish giant.…

Foxconn: We're not FORCING interns to make iPhone 5

Posted: 10 Sep 2012 08:39 AM PDT

They are making it of their own free will

The production line turning out iPhone 5s at Foxconn will be manned by willing interns only, said the Chinese company in a statement, rebutting stories last week that the new mobe was being pieced together by conscripted work experience kids.…

HP throws an extra 2,000 staff onto chopping block

Posted: 10 Sep 2012 08:01 AM PDT

29,000 bods at risk of redundancy, morale problematic

HP has added an extra two thousand workers to its mass redundancy programme, it confirmed today.…

Microsoft to comply with Brussels over browser choice gaffe

Posted: 10 Sep 2012 07:26 AM PDT

Steve Ballmer recognises how VERY SERIOUS it is

Microsoft has reportedly agreed to comply with any sanctions laid down by competition officials in Brussels, who are currently probing the software giant's allegedly mistaken banishment of a "browser choice" screen, which would have allowed European customers to pick which browser they wanted to run on their Windows-based machines.…

Open IPTV joins HbbTV in connected telly love-in

Posted: 10 Sep 2012 07:03 AM PDT

A spec-test shared is a spec-test halved

The Open IPTV Forum and the HbbTV Consortium will be sharing the connected television device-testing burden, with a view towards reducing the cost and increasing the speed of getting both standards integrated as widely as possible.…

Mars probably never wet enough for life, nuclear bomb crater indicates

Posted: 10 Sep 2012 06:38 AM PDT

Spoilsport boffins: Theorised aliens have feet of clay

Spoilsport French scientists probing unusual clay deposits discovered in an old nuclear bomb crater say they have found that the planet Mars has never been - as previous researchers have hoped/suggested - wet enough to support Earth-style life.…

Apache man disables Internet Explorer 10 privacy setting

Posted: 10 Sep 2012 06:33 AM PDT

Fielding: Windows 8's web window is 'standards abuse'

Apache HTTP daddy Roy Fielding has patched his popular server, telling it to ignore user privacy web settings in Internet Explorer 10.…

Broadband minister's fibre cabinet gripe snub sparks revolt

Posted: 10 Sep 2012 05:59 AM PDT

Not in our backyard leafy historic streets

City of Westminster councillors are outraged by the new broadband minister's decision to cut red tape and hasten the arrival of on-street fibre-optic cable cabinets.…

German Pirate party punters 'don't pay their membership fees'

Posted: 10 Sep 2012 05:43 AM PDT

Yarrwohl!

The Pirate Party of Germany (Piratenpartei) achieved breakthrough success capturing the protest vote last autumn - but its appeal may be starting to wane. The anti-copyright party won 8.9 per cent of the Berlin vote and has been attempting to build a national party organisation. However, Der Spiegel reports that "almost half of the party's members have yet to pay their annual membership fee."…

Amazon: Pay more for Kindle Fire, smoke ads from slabs

Posted: 10 Sep 2012 05:18 AM PDT

Freedom to read in commercial-free land comes at a cost

Amazon, in a surprise U-turn, has decided to start selling a more expensive version of its Kindle Fire model that will not stalk its customers with ads.…

Nokia flagellates self further to quell fake cam ad Twitterstorm

Posted: 10 Sep 2012 05:02 AM PDT

Ethics? Isn't that somewhere north of London?

Pic  Nokia continues its efforts to defuse the Twitterstorm around its "fake" mobile phone camera ad. The handset maker had uploaded a YouTube video to illustrate the new image stabilisation technology in its Lumia 920, which was announced last week - but the advert was a simulation of the tech using a professional camera rig, and this was not disclosed to anyone watching.…

Top dog EMC crushes whimpering rivals in storage pack

Posted: 10 Sep 2012 04:44 AM PDT

Is server storage cramping array sales?

IDC's Storage Tracker bloodhounds have tracked the vendors across the market in the second quarter and rated them, and it looks like not a lot has changed in the hierarchy of the storage pack. EMC's market share is rising, again. Most everybody else is down, again.…

Virus lab blogger collared by blundering copyright cop bot

Posted: 10 Sep 2012 04:32 AM PDT

Malware authors have rights too, says French legal droid

A malware researcher's website was nobbled last week by an automated bot that accused her of breaching copyright law.…

HP hires Youngjohns to head up Autonomy

Posted: 10 Sep 2012 04:13 AM PDT

Tries to counter cool winds blowing through HP's software biz

HP has filled the Mike Lynch-shaped hole at the top of its Autonomy business with another Brit, Robert Youngjohns, the boss of Microsoft's North America empire.…

Dragon Naturally Speaking Premium 12 voice recognition software review

Posted: 10 Sep 2012 04:00 AM PDT

Give your PC a hearing aid

Speech recognition has been a technology coming of age for an age. It got a shot in the arm recently with the launch of the iPhone 4S, where the S stands for Siri, the speech recognition company Apple bought. Siri may be trendy, but the most mature technology is on the PC and comes from the company Nuance bought.…

Lovefilm Germany goes titsup for a FORTNIGHT

Posted: 10 Sep 2012 03:46 AM PDT

Amazon-owned Dummkopf locks out movie fans

Lovefilm Germany's backend has been down for 14 days, leaving subscribers unable to access their accounts to rent films or use the video streaming service.…

Health minister warns ISPs: Block suicide websites or face regulation

Posted: 10 Sep 2012 03:32 AM PDT

Norman Lamb calls on 'proper controls' to protect kids

Telcos face being regulated by the government if they fail to block websites offering advice on suicide, the health minister Norman Lamb has warned.…

Sysadmins: Your favourite tool's now ready for, er, fondling

Posted: 10 Sep 2012 03:17 AM PDT

The spice(works) must (re)flow

Spiceworks, the system-administrator's toolkit which thinks its a social network, now comes in a fondleslab-optimised flavour for BOFHs who like to oversee their empires from the pub.…

Quanta leaps out in front with Centerton Atom microserver

Posted: 10 Sep 2012 03:01 AM PDT

Trying to get the jump on HP Gemini boxes

Quanta QCT is revving up an Atom-based microserver using the future "Centerton" processor from Intel at this week's Intel Developer Forum, and the company hopes it can get some interest in the boxes for webby workloads ahead of their shipment later this year.…

Google Aurora hackers AT LARGE, launch 0-day bazookas

Posted: 10 Sep 2012 02:46 AM PDT

Security snoopers back? They never left

Security researchers have traced a continuing run of zero-day attacks to the hackers who infamously hit Google and other hi-tech firms three years ago.…

Oracle hits reboot on Itanium software development

Posted: 10 Sep 2012 02:33 AM PDT

Back to HP-UX business

Software giant and systems player Oracle has restarted software development for Itanium-based machines. That sound you hear is a sigh of relief from HP-UX system customers the world over and from Hewlett-Packard, whose Integrity and Superdome servers fell off a cliff, in terms of sales, after Oracle pulled the plug on Itanium development 18 months ago.…

HP tempts EVA punters with low-end 3PAR array honeypot

Posted: 10 Sep 2012 02:14 AM PDT

EVA replacement gives them a 50% boost

HP is building a low-end 3PAR array with data migration software to convert the EVA customer base to a 3PAR customer base.…

US job market sneezing, blowing nose: Will we catch cold too?

Posted: 10 Sep 2012 02:01 AM PDT

Consultancy up, manufacturing down. Talk, don't do

The way the US economy is adding jobs each month – or rather, not adding a sufficiently large number of new workers – Mitt Romney will be six months into his second term or Hillary Clinton will be a half-year into her first term before the unemployment rate comes back down to levels before the Great Recession hit in December 2007.…

EMC's big kahuna Tucci threatens to cling on until 2015

Posted: 10 Sep 2012 01:32 AM PDT

Who will prise the CEO from his desk?

Joe Tucci, the chairman and CEO of EMC, is staying on at least until 2015, dashing the hopes of company execs who have their eyes on the top job.…

Was Russia Today hacked - or did it just forget to renew rt.com?

Posted: 10 Sep 2012 01:01 AM PDT

State-owned web pravda bunked off for days

The website of government-owned news service Russia Today suffered intermittent downtime for two days in what some suspect is a hack.…

Pasty munchers scoff at £300m council deal with comms kingpins

Posted: 10 Sep 2012 12:35 AM PDT

BT and CSC in bid to reduce Cornish costs by £5m a year

Cornwall Council says it remains committed to a £300m strategic partnership proposal with either BT or CSC that it insists will help it protect frontline services and reduce costs by at least £5m a year.…

Germany leads global enterprise social push

Posted: 10 Sep 2012 12:15 AM PDT

It's all in the process, Mein Herr

German firms were hailed as the surprise global leaders in social business, according to a panel of industry experts who emphasised the importance of process, measurement and cultural fit in enterprise social programs.…

Apple chatting up labels for Fanboi Radio: Pandora, boxed?

Posted: 10 Sep 2012 12:02 AM PDT

Hmm, there's a thing, let's own it ALL

Apple top brass have been chatting up music execs in efforts to get their backing - and tunes - for an Apple branded radio station, says the Wall Street Journal, also confirmed by the New York Times.…

China pushes green PCs to punters

Posted: 09 Sep 2012 10:48 PM PDT

Meanwhile APEC agrees green tech import cut

It's been a good few days for the green tech brigade as China announced a whopping 14bn yuan (£1.4bn) subsidy to encourage households to purchase energy-saving electrical appliances including PCs, while members of the APEC bloc agreed to slash import duties on over 50 green technologies.…

Fanboi beats 'e-trespassing' rap after using GPS to find stolen iPad

Posted: 09 Sep 2012 10:40 PM PDT

'Find my fondleslab' to track thief is legal, court rules

An Australian magistrate has ruled that an iPad owner acted lawfully when he used Apple's Find my iPad app to locate his stolen fondleslab in a private home.…

Curiosity clears things up

Posted: 09 Sep 2012 09:02 PM PDT

Removes dust cover to produce sharpest images to date

Curiosity has dusted off the Mars Hand Lens Imager (MAHLI) to take new snaps of the red planet's surface.…

Taobao shoots pirates on Hollywood's orders

Posted: 09 Sep 2012 08:44 PM PDT

China's eBay signs deal to hunt down dodgy content

Digital piracy just got another kicking after China's largest e-commerce marketplace Taobao struck a deal with the Motion Picture Association (MPA) designed to cut the number of copyright infringing goods sold on the site.…

Oz cinema chain to stream new releases

Posted: 09 Sep 2012 07:48 PM PDT

If you can't beat them, stream them

Australian cinema chain Hoyts will launch its own video-on-demand streaming service in the first quarter of the New Year. Hoyts Stream, as the new venture will be called, will support multi-device access and offer consumers a pay-as-you-go model for new release as well as classic movies and TV content.…

Office 365 turns Lotus eater

Posted: 09 Sep 2012 07:17 PM PDT

Microsoft licenses migration tool

Microsoft has licensed Lotus-to-anything migration software from Binary Tree, and plans to use its partner's wares to lure Lotus customers away from IBM and into the cloud.…

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