| LinkedIn shuts down online tricks Posted: 30 Jul 2012 03:53 PM PDT Bans anti-sex trafficking site The long arm of the LinkedIn law has shut down and indefinitely banned a Singaporean anti-sex trafficking profile, claiming it violated user agreement terms.… |
| Hot nine-incher DVD player pulled by Dick Posted: 30 Jul 2012 03:47 PM PDT Fiery lap dances? No thanks! Retailer Dick Smith Electronics has recalled a nine-inch portable DVD player, pictured below, after the device's batteries were found represent "… a potential fire hazard."… |
| AGIMO hangs up on mobile phone panel Posted: 30 Jul 2012 03:22 PM PDT No value for money on handsets, accessories The Australian Government Information Management Office (AGIMO) has hung up on its own mobile phone procurement panel, declaring it didn't deliver value for money.… |
| Hobbyist builds working assault rifle using 3D printer Posted: 30 Jul 2012 02:07 PM PDT It hasn't blown to pieces yet Hobbyists have used 3D printers to make guitars, copy house keys, and bring robot dinosaurs to life, but a firearms enthusiast who goes by the handle "Have Blue" has taken this emerging technology into a new realm by assembling a working rifle from 3D-printed parts.… |
| Ubisoft assassinates Uplay flaw, denies DRM rootkit Posted: 30 Jul 2012 02:04 PM PDT Browser plugin allowed any file to execute A bit of holiday fun for Google security researcher Travis Ormandy left Ubisoft scrambling to fix a gaping flaw in its Uplay gaming application on Monday morning.… |
| Sophos dangles free Android antivirus to tempt BYOD-friendly biz Posted: 30 Jul 2012 01:04 PM PDT Fandroids, don't let your phone be pwned Sophos has crafted a freebie antivirus app dubbed Sophos Mobile Security for Android-powered devices.… |
| Oracle chugs down I/O virtualising Xsigo Posted: 30 Jul 2012 12:01 PM PDT Any server, any network, to any storage Oracle has bought data centre fabric virtualisation start-up Xsigo for who knows how many bucks.… |
| More reports that Apple plans iPhone 5 September surprise Posted: 30 Jul 2012 11:54 AM PDT Steve Jobs could reach 45rpm over iPad Mini With another report naming September as the likely release date of the iPhone 5 and iPad Mini, it now looks likely that Apple may be planning an earlier-than-normal release for its latest iOS kit.… |
| WikiLeaks punks <i>The New York Times</i> with op-ed hoax Posted: 30 Jul 2012 11:49 AM PDT Two columnists unwittingly spread fake editorial Early on Sunday, columnists Nick Bilton and Bill Keller of The New York Times both reposted Twitter links to an essay by Keller on the subject of WikiLeaks. There was just one problem: The linked essay wasn't actually Keller's, but an elaborate hoax designed to discredit both him and the newspaper.… |
| Flame worm's makers fail to collect Epic 0wnage award Posted: 30 Jul 2012 11:03 AM PDT State cyberespionage tool-makers shun Pwnie Award glory Black Hat Hackers and other delegates to Black Hat celebrated the best and worst of information security with the latest edition of the Pwnie Awards, the security geek equivalent of the Oscars.… |
| Netflix punters told of privacy change, get 3 months to object Posted: 30 Jul 2012 09:59 AM PDT Accept, and you opt in to class-action settlement Netflix is alerting customers to changes in its privacy policy under a proposed legal settlement that would put an end to a class action suit launched against the company last year.… |
| US flags from the 1970s SEEN ON MOON Posted: 30 Jul 2012 09:46 AM PDT Lunar probe confirms one blown down by Apollo liftoff A NASA probe craft in orbit around the moon has confirmed that most of the US flags planted on the lunar surface by the Apollo astronauts of yesteryear are still flying, despite some scientists' having theorised that their fragile materials would have failed to survive extremes of temperature and radiation over the decades.… |
| Forget 'climate convert' Muller: Here's the real warming blockbuster Posted: 30 Jul 2012 09:34 AM PDT Apply official WMO methods, warming shrinks massively If new techniques endorsed by the World Meteorological Organisation are applied to official figures, over half of the global warming reported by US land-based thermometers between 1979 and 2008 simply disappears, researchers have found.… |
| Bradley Manning's lawyers seek to show 'cruel treatment' Posted: 30 Jul 2012 08:59 AM PDT |
| Apple reverses resistible rise of Android Posted: 30 Jul 2012 08:14 AM PDT Regains ground from Google on home turf Android's share of the smartphone market is waning, at least in the US.… |
| 3PAR goes all-flash, shaves hefty wodge off price tag Posted: 30 Jul 2012 08:04 AM PDT All solid state, all the time.... HP has announced an all-flash version of its 3PAR P10000 single tier storage array delivering the same SPC-1 performance at 70 per cent less cost.… |
| Apple serves 3m Mountain Lions in four days Posted: 30 Jul 2012 07:38 AM PDT Install frenzy Three million copies of Mac OS X Mountain Lion have been downloaded in the four days following its release on Wednesday, 25 July, Apple said today.… |
| @UnSteveDorkland Twitter satirist faces 4 charges in US court Posted: 30 Jul 2012 07:02 AM PDT Daily Mail group heads to Cali to pin down exec parody The anonymous satirist behind spoof Twitter account @UnSteveDorkland faces four criminal charges in a Californian court for making fun of a Daily Mail group executive.… |
| BT Engage IT big boss goes on whistlestop tour of offices Posted: 30 Jul 2012 06:01 AM PDT Staff worried job cutting to continue under new regime BT Engage IT says its new chief exec has already done the rounds at the majority of its sites since taking control of the business a little more than a week ago.… |
| Big biz 'struggling' to dump Windows XP Posted: 30 Jul 2012 05:26 AM PDT Microsoft's bagged only easy Win 7 wins, says Browsium Windows 7 is running in just 20 per cent of large enterprises with the most difficult migrations yet to come.… |
| O2 dropped the ball in Olympic cycle race Twitter fiasco Posted: 30 Jul 2012 04:57 AM PDT Twits blamed for network's inadequacies O2's mobile network is to blame after a surge in tweets from spectators' smartphones scuppered the live reporting of an Olympic cycling road race.… |
| Scotland Yard's hacking probe: Cops arrest journalist Posted: 30 Jul 2012 04:42 AM PDT 'Gathering of data from stolen mobile phones' investigated Scotland Yard officers cuffed a 51-year-old man this morning on suspicion of handling stolen goods in relation to its investigation of alleged computer hacking.… |
| Samsung lets slip info on WinPho 8 Odyssey Posted: 30 Jul 2012 04:26 AM PDT Taps into multi-core Samsung has indadvertedly revealed in court documents its plans for a pair of Windows Phone 8 devices. The dual-core handsets - dubbed "Odyssey" and "Marco" - are both set to roll out with the mobile platform's release later this year.… |
| Google snaps bird's eye view of Olympic Village Posted: 30 Jul 2012 04:19 AM PDT Forget relying on realtime GPS data. Look at this pretty picture instead Twitter fanatics and texting-obsessed supporters of Team GB may have hampered the GPS units of competitors taking part in the Men's Olympic Cycling Road Race on Saturday, but no bother as Google has added a pretty picture of the London 2012 village to its Maps service.… |
| Apple refutes 'Sony Jony' iPhone prototypes Posted: 30 Jul 2012 04:13 AM PDT What about these blueprints, Sammy? Apple has cocked a snook at Samsung's claim that the iPhone's look was based on Sony designs by showing off a series of blueprints - all closer to the iPhone design - that predate the controversial 'Jony' sketches.… |
| Japanese fanboi builds FrankenPhone from 'bits of iPhone 5' Posted: 30 Jul 2012 04:04 AM PDT You have created a monster, and it will destroy you! A Japanese Apple fan has created a proto-iPhone 5 by fixing together parts of the screen and casing which he claims were sourced from the iPhone supply chain.… |
| Sony Xperia Go waterproof Android phone review Posted: 30 Jul 2012 04:02 AM PDT Another blower for beer baptism benchmarking The arrival of the Nexus 7 has given me cause to reconsider my next phone purchase. Do I need a 4.6in superphone now I have a 7in Tegra 3 tablet? Surely a small, rugged handset with good battery life, a decent dual-core CPU and plenty of storage for apps would make more sense. An outright purchase price of around £200 would be nice too. Sony seems to have read my mind with its new Xperia Go.… |
| Beeb stuffs $21tn into Olympic-sized swimming pools Posted: 30 Jul 2012 03:47 AM PDT Goes for gold with 'overwrought quantification metaphor' The BBC has agreebly calculated that the amount of wonga Brits have squirrelled away in offshore accounts would fill no less than 10,000 Olympic-sized swimming pools.… |
| Apple, Samsung begin battle for billions in US patent smackdown Posted: 30 Jul 2012 03:34 AM PDT Tech behemoths enter the ring for four-week bout Apple and Samsung's tit-for-tat patent posturing will finally come to a head in the US today, as jury selection starts on a trial that could kill a massive audience for Samsung stuff, and result in a win (or loss) of billions of dollars for either side.… |
| Million-plus IOPS: Kaminario smashes IBM in DRAM decimation Posted: 30 Jul 2012 03:16 AM PDT But apples-and-oranges storage test not the fairest of them all Solid state storage supplier Kaminario has grabbed the SPC-1 storage benchmark with the first million-plus IOPS score, a full 134 per cent faster than previous king-of-the-heap IBM.… |
| Skype hits back at angry wiretap reports: Rat finks? Not us Posted: 30 Jul 2012 03:02 AM PDT 'Supernodes' are not for spooks, they're to make service better for YOU Analysis Skype has hit back against a wave of stories speculating that the internet telephony outfit has made chat recordings, call logs and other user data more available to the authorities. In truth such assistance to law enforcement has been going on for at least five years, as Skype itself acknowledges.… |
| Boffins puzzled over impossibly fast ice avalanches on Saturn's moon Posted: 30 Jul 2012 02:33 AM PDT Is all that rubbing making ice rubble hot? Planetary boffins have spotted that Saturn's other moon, the walnut-shaped Iapetus, is home to spectacular ice avalanches that flow across the surface of the rock.… |
| Apple mulls over investment in Twitter Posted: 30 Jul 2012 02:18 AM PDT #SentFromMyiPhone @TimCook Apple has reportedly held talks with Twitter over the last few months in a move that could lead to a multi-million dollar strategic investment by Cupertino in the micro-blogging website.… |
| Military-grade IBM kit senses love, hate in Wimbo fans' tweets Posted: 30 Jul 2012 02:13 AM PDT 'Sentiment analysis' served at high speed Although Andy Murray lost to Roger Federer at Wimbledon this month, he managed to ace the pair's Twitter contest.… |
| Orange adjust data roaming prices Posted: 30 Jul 2012 01:40 AM PDT Day rate's better value than the bundles Orange has introduced new mobile broadband roaming prices that penalise bulk-buying.… |
| Cloudy punters can't rely on 'certified' CSPs for data protection Posted: 30 Jul 2012 01:37 AM PDT ICO: Certification of service providers is great, but it won't help you in court A new online platform that enables prospective users of cloud computing services to assess the security features of registered cloud providers is to be welcomed, the UK's data protection watchdog has said.… |
| What links Apple, Sun's ZFS and a tiny startup? Al Gore Posted: 30 Jul 2012 01:17 AM PDT Greenbytes open-sources ZEVO... But what does this mean for FANBOIS? Blocks and files GreenBytes, the flash array startup which uses ZFS, bought Mac ZFS developer Ten's Complement last week and is now going to make its ZEVO Community Edition ZFS software freely available from 15 September.… |
| UK's thirst for energy falls, yet prices rise: Now why is that? Posted: 30 Jul 2012 01:02 AM PDT We're using less and generating less too British politicians are depleting the nation's ability to produce the energy it needs, according to state statistics.… |
| ICO power to stop FOI dodgers 'some way off' Posted: 30 Jul 2012 12:29 AM PDT More time to investigate destruction of FOI data requires change in law Christopher Graham, the information commissioner, has said that implementation of the justice committee's recommendation for his office to have more time to prosecute people who destroy data requested under freedom of information (FOI) is "still some way off".… |
| Japanese giant sorry for Kobo launch balls-up Posted: 30 Jul 2012 12:00 AM PDT Rakuten bins negative reviews after technical glitch Japanese e-commerce giant Rakuten has been forced to apologise for a double balls-up after first allowing customers to use its Kobo e-reader before it was fully ready and then deleting hundreds of ensuing bad reviews posted to its site after the software failed.… |
| OLPC confirms tablet on the way Posted: 29 Jul 2012 11:18 PM PDT Swedish touch tech makes XO Touch a "next-level innovation machine" The One Laptop Per Child project may be about to issue a tender for graphic designers after deciding its next piece of hardware will be a hybrid laptop/tablet "next-level innovation machine."… |
| SAP, Huawei, sign mutual assistance pact Posted: 29 Jul 2012 10:46 PM PDT WORLD DOMINATION the plan for giant pair SAP has deepened its ties with China and found a new outlet in which to invest its growing wodge of cash, by naming mobile comms giant Huawei its first Global Technology Partner for the region.… |
| Job ad seeks 'mediocre' developers Posted: 29 Jul 2012 10:35 PM PDT Melbourne biz admits not every coder is a star, bans 'brogrammers' Are you just scraping by coding in Ruby? Are you not prepared to pull infinite all-nighters? Are you less than amazingly fast?… |
| Apple blacklisted by Chinese consumer watchdog Posted: 29 Jul 2012 09:41 PM PDT Support policies earn scorn as punters air grievances A Chinese consumer rights group has slammed Apple's after-sales service as unfair and placed it on an "integrity blacklist" after numerous complaints about maintenance and support.… |
| Namibia unveils whopper Cherenkov telescope Posted: 29 Jul 2012 06:50 PM PDT Capturing tiny atmospheric flashes to reveal distant galaxies Namibia expanded its role in the hunt for ancient, highly energetic galaxies this weekend past, when the southern African nation flicked the switch to fire up its HESS II telescope.… |
| CloudFlare condenses in Australia Posted: 29 Jul 2012 06:27 PM PDT Claims bandwidth prices are causing data drain San Francisco-based content delivery network aspirant CloudFlare has rolled out a data centre in Sydney as part of the first phase of a global rollout.… |
| U.S forces maintain fire against Megaupload Posted: 29 Jul 2012 06:02 PM PDT MPAA labels Dotcom as career crim (for piracy, not rapping) The United States government is holding firm against the pursuit of file sharing platform Megaupload and its founders stating that even if the indictment of the Megaupload corporation is dismissed, it will continue the indefinite freeze on its assets.… |
| South Korean crackers arrested Posted: 29 Jul 2012 04:30 PM PDT Yet another data leak at KT South Korean police say they have arrested two malicious hackers that obtained personal details of 8.7 million KT mobile customers and on-selling the data to telemarketing firms.… |
| IOC asks Olympic spectators to cut back TXTs and tweets Posted: 29 Jul 2012 03:59 PM PDT Network congestion blamed for Beeb's bike bungles The International Olympic Committee (IOC) has blamed spectators' twitchy thumbs for the infamously spotty television coverage of the Men's Olympic Cycling Road Race.… |
| Boffins nail oceanic carbon capture process Posted: 29 Jul 2012 03:32 PM PDT It's official: the Southern Ocean sucks The world's oceans are known to be carbon sinks, but the process that draws CO2 from the air down into the deep ocean hasn't been documented.… |
