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Citrix releases open source cloud platform

2012-02-13T19:14:00.001-08:00

Citrix releases open source cloud platform

Citrix releases open source cloud platform
Kaspersky Lab unveils virtualization security solution
TicketWeb customers subjected to phishing after hack
Whitney Houston death video leads to scams
Best practices for online banking security
Tax payers unaware of identity theft risks
Mobile hacks to increase with SDR adoption
Storage migration without host and application downtime
Privacy pitfalls of online dating
Inside Cyber Warfare, 2nd Edition
Week in review: pcAnywhere code leaked, Trustwave revokes "MitM" certificate, and top reasons for IT layoffs in 2011

Citrix releases open source cloud platform

Posted: 13 Feb 2012 09:18 AM PST

Today Citrix announced the availability of Citrix CloudStack 3, the first release of the open source cloud platform under the Citrix brand. CloudStack is already the world's most successful platfor...

Kaspersky Lab unveils virtualization security solution

Posted: 13 Feb 2012 09:11 AM PST

Kaspersky Lab announced Kaspersky Security for Virtualization, focused on protecting evolving corporate IT infrastructures from malware and cybercriminals. The solution integrates with VMware vSh...

TicketWeb customers subjected to phishing after hack

Posted: 13 Feb 2012 08:00 AM PST

Customers of TicketWeb UK, the popular British website selling event tickets, are being warned not to fall for fake emails purporting to come from the service, asking them to update their application.

Whitney Houston death video leads to scams

Posted: 13 Feb 2012 07:17 AM PST

Cyber crooks often try to pique the users' interest with fake news of a celebrity death but, unfortunately, sometimes they don't have fake it. Pop diva Whitney Houston died on Saturday and scammers...

Best practices for online banking security

Posted: 13 Feb 2012 06:10 AM PST

There are two common misconceptions about online banking security which are holding financial institutions back from offering their customers the best services possible. Hilding Arrehed, Director...

Tax payers unaware of identity theft risks

Posted: 13 Feb 2012 06:04 AM PST

While consumers remain concerned about identity theft, there are some common misconceptions about the risk of preparing and submitting their tax documents, and many are engaging in risky behaviors onl...

Mobile hacks to increase with SDR adoption

Posted: 13 Feb 2012 05:48 AM PST

Digital Assurance warned that mobile communications operating over radio systems such as GSM, WiMax and DECT are likely to become more heavily targeted as Software Defined Radio (SDR) technology becom...

Storage migration without host and application downtime

Posted: 13 Feb 2012 05:43 AM PST

Hitachi introduced a nondisruptive migration service capability that migrates from Hitachi enterprise storage to Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform (VSP) and eliminates host and application downtime. ...

Privacy pitfalls of online dating

Posted: 13 Feb 2012 01:12 AM PST

It used to be that you were pretty much anonymous on the Internet if you chose to be, but those halcyon days are now gone, and you should think about whether it's safe to post something online many ti...

Inside Cyber Warfare, 2nd Edition

Posted: 12 Feb 2012 10:14 PM PST

When the Stuxnet computer worm damaged the Iranian nuclear program in 2010, the public got a small glimpse into modern cyber warfare - without truly realizing the scope of this global conflict. I...

Week in review: pcAnywhere code leaked, Trustwave revokes "MitM" certificate, and top reasons for IT layoffs in 2011

Posted: 12 Feb 2012 09:01 PM PST

Here's an overview of some of last week's most interesting news, articles and interviews: Compromised DreamHost-hosted websites lead to scams Hundreds of websites hosted by DreamHost have been c...

CERN boffins to lift LHC beam power

2012-02-13T15:12:00.001-08:00

CERN boffins to lift LHC beam power

CERN boffins to lift LHC beam power
Aus start-ups get in the Silicon Valley house
Apple tops Google in 'Reputation Quotient' survey
Iranians get some services back
Packer gets into cloud shopping
Apple sends independent inspectors into Foxconn factories
European Parliament prez slams ACTA 'in current form'
Cisco resells Citrix, VMware virty desktop wares
ScaleMP chases SGI customers with migration deal
Apple orders PC builder to 'choose sides' in laptop battle?
FCC turns auction upside down for $300m rural 3G broadband
NoSQL databases not just for the 'cool kids'
Vodafone admits giving C&W the eye
PlayBooks lapped up from RIM by distributors
Kung-fu tweeting Carl Douglas wins El Reg prize - with expert timing
Apple's secret outsource: 'Even more software to be made in India'
Windows 8 on ARM: Microsoft bets on Office 15 and IE10
TicketWeb coughs to email database hack
HP boss Whitman urged to get touchy-feely with resellers
The to-do list to make private cloud work
Anonymous reverse ferrets on CIA.gov takedown
Asus Transformer Prime tablet reboot fix fails to show
NexGen boss: If solid hardness isn't stuck into PCIe - forget it
Samsung shows third-gen Galaxy Tab
Pakistan blocks 13,000 grumble flick sites
Muscle pants give girls that skin-stripped look
Car crash model cushioned by 38KKK Bulgarian airbags
NASA plans manned Deep Space Moon outpost
Apple demands US ban on Samsung's Galaxy Nexus
ESA's first Vega rocket blasts off without a hitch
Megastar personalities are intellectual property in draft law
Microsoft India web store 'hacked by Chinese group'
Google locks Wallets – no new customers for now
Apple TV stock shortage sparks new gadget rumour fever
Sun hacks cuffed after being DOBBED IN by News Corp
Fondle my slab, baby: Inside the tactile world of Apple-fan iDating
Cable thieves wreak havoc for cops, BT punters
Cheap Ultrabooks? Not before 2013
Boffins claim breakthrough in hovering robothopter experiments
Ten... Valentine's Day gifts for him
CSC confirms $1.5bn NHS IT write-off
iPads seized from shelves by Chinese officials
The God Box: Searching for the holy grail array
TDK SD-700 High Fidelity headphones
Mobile customers still sprout in Aus

CERN boffins to lift LHC beam power

Posted: 13 Feb 2012 03:00 PM PST

Igor! More power!

CERN has announced that it's going to boost the beam energy of the Large Hadron Collider by 0.5 TeV this year in a bid to pull more data out of the micro-universe before the machine takes a break at the end of the year.…

Aus start-ups get in the Silicon Valley house

Posted: 13 Feb 2012 02:30 PM PST

Incubator for Aus entrepreneurs gets govt help

The NSW state government has put its weight behind a new Silicon Valley incubator targeting Australian startups that want to go global.…

Apple tops Google in 'Reputation Quotient' survey

Posted: 13 Feb 2012 02:19 PM PST

Tell Foxconn: Cupertino leads all US corps in 'Workplace Environment'

Apple may be facing brickbats for the working conditions at its Asian contract manufacturers, but a new survey puts Cook & Co. at the top of all US corporations in overall reputation, including perceived leadership in Workplace Environment.…

Iranians get some services back

Posted: 13 Feb 2012 02:00 PM PST

Censor's dead hand still felt on Facebook, Twitter

Iranians have a little more Internet access than a few days ago, but access is still highly restricted.…

Packer gets into cloud shopping

Posted: 13 Feb 2012 01:15 PM PST

Takes stake in e-commerce start-up

Brisbane e-commerce and cloud-based logistics start-up Temando Shipping has received a cash injection from James Packer's investment vehicle Ellerston Capital.…

Apple sends independent inspectors into Foxconn factories

Posted: 13 Feb 2012 12:03 PM PST

Fair Labor Association

Apple has begun to send independent inspectors into its Chinese factories, a release today states.…

European Parliament prez slams ACTA 'in current form'

Posted: 13 Feb 2012 11:36 AM PST

Politicians prevaricate as Europe protests

The recently elected president of the European Parliament, Martin Schulz, has criticized the current ACTA treaty, saying it provides little protection for the rights of individual users.…

Cisco resells Citrix, VMware virty desktop wares

Posted: 13 Feb 2012 11:07 AM PST

Could just buy Citrix or Red Hat outright

Cisco Systems came late to the physical and virtual server rackets and that means it has to partner to get virtual server slices out there in the data center. And it thinks virtual desktop infrastructure, or what it now calls Virtual Experience Infrastructure or VXI for short, is the killer app for its "California" Unified Computing System blade servers.…

ScaleMP chases SGI customers with migration deal

Posted: 13 Feb 2012 10:40 AM PST

vSMP 4.0 versus NUMAlink 5

The financial news out of Silicon Graphics last week - the company's profits falling even as revenues expand, and the contemplation of a reorganization in unprofitable European operations while looking for a new CEO – apparently has some customers looking for alternative shared-memory systems.…

Apple orders PC builder to 'choose sides' in laptop battle?

Posted: 13 Feb 2012 10:36 AM PST

Build ASUS Zenbook or MacBook Air – not both

Apple reportedly put pressure on a Taiwanese manufacturer of its popular MacBook Air, asking them to choose between building that Cupertinian laptop or the ASUS Zenbook.…

FCC turns auction upside down for $300m rural 3G broadband

Posted: 13 Feb 2012 10:04 AM PST

Build it cheap, and they will come

A US regulator is proposing a reverse auction to attain national broadband, providing $300m to the company that claims to be able to do the most with the cash pot.…

NoSQL databases not just for the 'cool kids'

Posted: 13 Feb 2012 09:27 AM PST

Relational DBMSes 'too rigid'

The companies peddling NoSQL databases, which are increasingly needed for web applications that have a scale that breaks relational databases, are drooling over the prospects of their products going mainstream this year.…

Vodafone admits giving C&W the eye

Posted: 13 Feb 2012 09:09 AM PST

Flashes wallet at prospective date

Vodafone has admitted eyeing up Cable & Wireless Worldwide, but says the relationship is still at the coy-glances stage with talks of a quick merger being premature.…

PlayBooks lapped up from RIM by distributors

Posted: 13 Feb 2012 08:35 AM PST

Q4 shipments up as discounts tweak interest

RIM UK PlayBook shipments took off in Q4 as price cuts finally convinced distributors to increase their orders.…

Kung-fu tweeting Carl Douglas wins El Reg prize - with expert timing

Posted: 13 Feb 2012 08:01 AM PST

Beardie computer scientist was fast as lightning

Mr Carl Douglas - the computer scientist from Blighty's Lincoln, not the Kung-fu Fighting pop star - was fast as lightning to become @regvulture's 10,000th follower on Twitter.…

Apple's secret outsource: 'Even more software to be made in India'

Posted: 13 Feb 2012 07:41 AM PST

Is Cupertino getting internal software from Bangalore?

A visit by Apple's CIO to India in January has resulted in some hefty software deals for two Bangalore-based firms, according to The Times of India.…

Windows 8 on ARM: Microsoft bets on Office 15 and IE10

Posted: 13 Feb 2012 07:18 AM PST

WOA: hardware saviour to software challenges?

Steve Ballmer wasn't kidding when he said Windows 8 could be Microsoft's "riskiest product bet."…

TicketWeb coughs to email database hack

Posted: 13 Feb 2012 07:02 AM PST

Punters get phishy mails sniffing for credit card info

Customers of UK ticketing agency TicketWeb, a subsidiary of TicketMaster, received phishing emails from the company over the weekend after its direct email marketing system was hacked.…

HP boss Whitman urged to get touchy-feely with resellers

Posted: 13 Feb 2012 06:41 AM PST

As Michael Dell whispers sweet nothings to big biz

HP CEO Meg Whitman, who will step out in front of a VIP audience at the invitation-only global partner knees-up in Las Vegas this week for the first since taking over at the vendor, should take a leaf out of Michael Dell's channel management notes.…

The to-do list to make private cloud work

Posted: 13 Feb 2012 06:32 AM PST

Unified infrastructure management

Broadcast Change is the hardest thing that IT has to do, but it's a fact of life. How you deal with fundamental change can have a massive impact on the overall performance of the business, on user satisfaction and on how IT is valued. This is particularly true when there are a whole bunch of complex systems in place. You've just got them working, or at least stopped people complaining too much. Suddenly there's a new big idea, and a new set of tools and change management processes to consider.…

Anonymous reverse ferrets on CIA.gov takedown

Posted: 13 Feb 2012 06:16 AM PST

'We blacked out website merely reported the outage'

Loosely connected hacking collective Anonymous claimed responsibility for making the CIA's website inaccessible on Friday - but later said it was just reporting the event.…

Asus Transformer Prime tablet reboot fix fails to show

Posted: 13 Feb 2012 06:08 AM PST

It is coming, insists company

Asus has apologised for the Eee Pad Transformer Prime tablet firmware update no-show and pledge to get the code out soon.…

NexGen boss: If solid hardness isn't stuck into PCIe - forget it

Posted: 13 Feb 2012 06:02 AM PST

Disk-flash storage mix biz chief argues his corner

Using flash memory, deduplication and predictable performance the iSCSI array has been reinvented by the founders of LeftHand Networks in the shape of NexGen Storage's n5.…

Samsung shows third-gen Galaxy Tab

Posted: 13 Feb 2012 05:44 AM PST

Ice Cream Sandwich tablet incoming

Samsung has outed the Galaxy Tab 2 (7.0), its parenthesis packing new tablet fresh for Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich.…

Pakistan blocks 13,000 grumble flick sites

Posted: 13 Feb 2012 05:39 AM PST

Ban system pledged after 'obscene' smut complaints soar

The Pakistani government has ramped up its web censorship regime, blocking access to 13,000 sites it deems "obscene" and hatching plans to filter content in a more systematic way in future.…

Muscle pants give girls that skin-stripped look

Posted: 13 Feb 2012 05:24 AM PST

Bad to the bone

Looking for a little something for the lady in your life ahead of V Day tomorrow? If she takes sci-tech in her stride - and as the SO of an El Reg reader, we'd hope she does - how about a pair of these anatomically oriented geeky strides?…

Car crash model cushioned by 38KKK Bulgarian airbags

Posted: 13 Feb 2012 05:19 AM PST

'I think my breasts saved my life'

A top-heavy model who wrapped her car round a tree is convinced her preposterous 38KKK Bulgarian airbags saved her from an appointment with the great cosmetic surgery clinic in the sky.…

NASA plans manned Deep Space Moon outpost

Posted: 13 Feb 2012 05:01 AM PST

Agency investigates way station for astronauts

NASA is looking at the possibility of parking a manned outpost beside the Moon as a way station for astronauts on their way to deep space missions.…

Apple demands US ban on Samsung's Galaxy Nexus

Posted: 13 Feb 2012 04:51 AM PST

Opens up new front in the patent wars

Apple is seeking a US ban on Samsung's Galaxy Nexus, the flagship phone for the newest iteration of Google's Android smartphone OS, in the latest battle of the ongoing patent wars.…

ESA's first Vega rocket blasts off without a hitch

Posted: 13 Feb 2012 04:31 AM PST

Europe's small-load launcher joins the big boys

Europe's first Vega launcher blasted off in South America today in a successful qualification flight that signals the rocket is ready for use.…

Megastar personalities are intellectual property in draft law

Posted: 13 Feb 2012 04:23 AM PST

Protecting the vacuous: Daft or ironic - you decide

The Guernsey Intellectual Property Office (IPO) has opened a public consultation on draft laws that would for the first time anywhere in the world allow celebrities to register their personality rights as a form of intellectual property. A sports law expert said the chance for enhanced legal certainty over their image and potential financial benefits could lure celebrities to register their rights on the island.…

Microsoft India web store 'hacked by Chinese group'

Posted: 13 Feb 2012 04:03 AM PST

Evil Shadow Team pounces, claims it uncovered passwords

Microsoft appears to have had its Indian web store broken into and user login credentials stolen by Chinese hackers.…

Google locks Wallets – no new customers for now

Posted: 13 Feb 2012 03:46 AM PST

Speed bump on the road to wireless payments

Google has suspended the provisioning of pre-paid cards into its electronic wallet, preventing the use of stolen cards but equally preventing new customers from signing up.…

Apple TV stock shortage sparks new gadget rumour fever

Posted: 13 Feb 2012 03:32 AM PST

Rumoured supply cuts may signal a launch

Apple is throttling back its supply of Apple TV boxes, says 9to5Mac, suggesting that Apple is discontinuing the old product line in advance of a big launch.…

Sun hacks cuffed after being DOBBED IN by News Corp

Posted: 13 Feb 2012 03:17 AM PST

MoD staffer, a copper, armed forces member held too

Scotland Yard released five Sun journalists on bail at the weekend after they arrested the hacks on suspicion of corruption and aiding and abetting misconduct in a public office.…

Fondle my slab, baby: Inside the tactile world of Apple-fan iDating

Posted: 13 Feb 2012 03:02 AM PST

'There are more boys than girls, but it's not a problem'

Even in the hearts of Apple fanbois, there's room to love another human being as well as machinery. But it's better if the human receiving that love also has an iPad, say those who are presumably experts in the matter.…

Cable thieves wreak havoc for cops, BT punters

Posted: 13 Feb 2012 02:39 AM PST

Biz customers in Hertfordshire hit by outage

BT customers in Hertfordshire suffered lengthy outages late last week, after the national telco's underground cabling in that area was apparently targeted by thieves.…

Cheap Ultrabooks? Not before 2013

Posted: 13 Feb 2012 02:23 AM PST

Laptop maker moles offer gloomy forecast

Hoping for Ultrabook prices to plummet before you take the plunge? You may have to wait a while. These skinny laptops won't hit the $599-699 (£379-442) band until 2013, notebook manufacturers reckon.…

Boffins claim breakthrough in hovering robothopter experiments

Posted: 13 Feb 2012 02:16 AM PST

Paper 'bugs' used subwoofer-powered wing flaps

Brainboxes in New York say they have made progress on one of the knottiest conundrums facing the technology of humankind today: that of constructing mechanical ornithopters able to fly – and specifically to hover – as well as insects can.…

Ten... Valentine's Day gifts for him

Posted: 13 Feb 2012 02:00 AM PST

Surprise, surprise!

CSC confirms $1.5bn NHS IT write-off

Posted: 13 Feb 2012 01:27 AM PST

Still in talks with gov ...

CSC has confirmed it is to write off almost $1.5bn as a result of its involvement in the National Programme for IT (NPfIT).…

iPads seized from shelves by Chinese officials

Posted: 13 Feb 2012 01:03 AM PST

China's G-men prowl stores after Apple loses Proview case

Officials have begun confiscating iPad devices from stores in China after a court ruled in December that Apple was guilty of infringing the trademark of Chinese monitor biz Proview.…

The God Box: Searching for the holy grail array

Posted: 13 Feb 2012 12:02 AM PST

Latency killing super spinner

It's so near we can almost smell it: the Holy Grail storage array combining server data location, solid state hardware speed, memory access speed virtualisation, and the capacity, sharability and protection capabilities of networked arrays. It's NAND, DAS, SAN and NAS combined; the God storage box – conceivable but not yet built.…

TDK SD-700 High Fidelity headphones

Posted: 12 Feb 2012 11:00 PM PST

Cans do

Geek Treat of the Week These headphones from TDK owe something of their design to Beats' Solo cans. The black TDKs aren't as stylish as the Solos but they exude class.…

Mobile customers still sprout in Aus

Posted: 12 Feb 2012 04:26 PM PST

Optus scores growth

Despite heated competition and with an ailing third competitor in Vodafone, Australia's dominant mobile carriers continue to cram customers onto their networks.…

Telstra gets mail with Microsoft

2012-02-12T15:30:00.001-08:00

Telstra gets mail with Microsoft

Telstra gets mail with Microsoft
NSW government accused of dodgy software cover-up
Shark versus shark in Barrier Reef DEATH MATCH
Attention tweeters: Your chance to win undying GLORY

Telstra gets mail with Microsoft

Posted: 12 Feb 2012 02:38 PM PST

Dumps BigPond platform

Telstra is to dump its current BigPond email platform and supplant it with Microsoft's Windows Live products.…

NSW government accused of dodgy software cover-up

Posted: 12 Feb 2012 02:00 PM PST

FirstNet: the First State's deadest duck

The buggy FirstNet emergency department software has become the subject of a political argument in NSW.…

Shark versus shark in Barrier Reef DEATH MATCH

Posted: 12 Feb 2012 01:29 PM PST

Down the hatch…

Researchers have known for ages that some shark species prey on other sharks if they get the chance, but now, researchers have caught happy snaps of the killer snack.…

Attention tweeters: Your chance to win undying GLORY

Posted: 12 Feb 2012 03:03 AM PST

10,000th follower to bag VERY SPECIAL prize!!!

Have you ever dreamed of having your name mentioned in the same breath as the titans of the tech world? Ever aspired to see yourself alluded to in the company of such colossi as dead cult idol Steve Jobs, chair-flinging pottymouth biz tyrant Ballmer, lovable shill dunderhead Stephen Fry – even the very BOFH himself?…

Ten... Valentine's Day gifts for her

2012-02-11T15:18:00.001-08:00

Ten... Valentine's Day gifts for her

Ten... Valentine's Day gifts for her
Germany stalls over ACTA treaty ratification
US and EU regulators will give Googorola the nod soon

Ten... Valentine's Day gifts for her

Posted: 11 Feb 2012 12:00 AM PST

All present and correct

Product round-up It's that time of year again, when chocolate manufacturers rub their hands with joy and florists dream of blooming profits. Yes, Valentine's Day is just around the corner.…

Germany stalls over ACTA treaty ratification

Posted: 10 Feb 2012 05:56 PM PST

Passes the buck to European Parliament

Germany has become the latest, and more economically important, nation to place a hold on ratification of the controversial ACTA treaty.…

US and EU regulators will give Googorola the nod soon

Posted: 10 Feb 2012 03:41 PM PST

Google gobbling Motorola reportedly good to go

Google's planned purchase of Motorola Mobility looks likely to get clearance from US and EU authorities, possibly as early as next week, according to sources within the investigation.…

Romney defeats Gingrich in US spam primaries

2012-02-10T19:27:00.001-08:00

Romney defeats Gingrich in US spam primaries

Romney defeats Gingrich in US spam primaries
Active mobile botnet enslaves thousands of Android devices
Free online privacy tool
MasterCard and Silver Tail Systems combat online fraud
Making Embedded Systems

Romney defeats Gingrich in US spam primaries

Posted: 09 Feb 2012 11:40 PM PST

Mitt Romney, the former Massachusetts governor who's leading polls in the race to become the Republican Party's nominee for the US presidency, is also the favorite politician of spammers touting knock...

Active mobile botnet enslaves thousands of Android devices

Posted: 09 Feb 2012 11:29 PM PST

A trojanized Android application for configuring phone settings has been enslaving the devices of the customers of China's two largest mobile carriers into a botnet numbering hundreds of thousands of ...

Free online privacy tool

Posted: 09 Feb 2012 11:27 PM PST

Abine released Do Not Track Plus (DNT+), a tool that makes it easy for anyone to see when they're being tracked online and stop being profiled by social networks, large advertisers, and data collectio...

MasterCard and Silver Tail Systems combat online fraud

Posted: 09 Feb 2012 11:15 PM PST

MasterCard and Silver Tail System announced a relationship that will enable merchants to differentiate fraudsters from legitimate consumers in real-time during the online shopping experience. By ...

Making Embedded Systems

Posted: 09 Feb 2012 10:21 PM PST

Embedded systems control many devices in common use today, from digital watches and iPods to traffic lights and the systems controlling nuclear power plants. Since inefficiency isn't tolerated, these ...

Iran draws veil over secure internet access

2012-02-10T15:13:00.001-08:00

Iran draws veil over secure internet access

Iran draws veil over secure internet access
Comet sheds 450 jobs in biz survival struggle
IBM: We do server flash already...
Barack Obama: Bland, predictable and cheesy ... on Spotify
New patent will give iPhone screen interactive 3D
HP shares database smarts with EnterpriseDB
RIM's apps revolution swings on Blackberry 10
Space: 1999 returning to TV?
Analyst: no 7in tablet at iPad 3 launch
Why Amazon, eBay and Google are building bricks-and-mortar stores
Music fans not welcome in RIAA-backed .music
Microsoft to send users 4 critical patches on Valentine's Day
Overclockers UK swallowed by private equity firm Afinum
Acer limps into 2012 with declining January sales
Penang fraud gang 'ringleader' snared by Taiwan police
Pseudo masochism is fuelling ACTA witch-hunt
Intel pays peanuts to settle NY antitrust suit
March release for Samsung Galaxy S II Android 4.0 update
EU competition chief threatens patent war smackdown
Google guns for Apple TV
Apple crushes rivals under its heel in Euro fondleslab sales
US federal court fast-forwards case on Google privacy policy
Virtual Nazi-code-cracking Colossus in fundraising appeal
Google pushes your buttons in its top strip bar - AGAIN
IT guy answers daughter's Facebook rant by shooting her laptop
Pentax Q compact system camera
'These working conditions are appalling, especially for Apple'
LOHAN lifts skirt on 3D printed parts
Tesla X e-SUV to sport monster touchscreen on the dash
Google Wallet falls open after casual hack
Phones 4U intros Jump plan to speed smartphone upgrades
IT crowd sorts out the Mars Science Lab
Indian ministers quit in parliament smut flick scandal
Blushing HTC too coy to admit sales figures
Roku rocks media streamers into UK
Nevex stuffs software into TMS flash for 'world's fastest cache'
HTC Ice Cream Sandwich updates slip to late March
Malware devs embrace open-source
Secondhand MP3 shop can keep trading during EMI trial
Tech! Tech! Teeeeech! Women want gadgets for Valentine's
Met thumbed through Oyster card data up to 22,000 times in 4 years
UK.gov: We really are going to start buying open-source from SMEs
Red Hat fires Gluster thruster from Amazon's cluster
LG DM2350D 23in passive 3D monitor and TV combo
Oracle tucks R stats language into database
Sinofsky shows off Windows 8 on ARM and Office15

Iran draws veil over secure internet access

Posted: 10 Feb 2012 11:45 AM PST

Tor needs help to beat censorship

The Tor Project is reporting Iran has blocked access to nearly all SSL/TLS traffic within its borders and is calling for help to break the embargo.…

Comet sheds 450 jobs in biz survival struggle

Posted: 10 Feb 2012 11:05 AM PST

In-house repairs going out

Laid-up retailer Comet plans to axe 450 engineering and support workers, slashing costs and safeguarding "the long-term viability of the business", it said.…

IBM: We do server flash already...

Posted: 10 Feb 2012 10:42 AM PST

We just didn't tell many people about it

With all this EMC Lightning kerfuffle and Dell, HDS and NetApp joining in – with HP pointedly saying "No comment" like we really believe it's not playing too – there's a Big Blue elephant we're not hearing or seeing. Don't worry, IBM definitely has skin in this game – and it's called eXFlash.…

Barack Obama: Bland, predictable and cheesy ... on Spotify

Posted: 10 Feb 2012 10:20 AM PST

U2, Wilco and ELO on Prez playlist

It turns out Barack Obama likes his music streamed from a certain Sweden-based music service. Not The Pirate Bay - Spotify.…

New patent will give iPhone screen interactive 3D

Posted: 10 Feb 2012 09:58 AM PST

Apple's three-dimensional UI will make cash objects sink into the abyss

iPhones of the future could have virtual 3D interfaces that will detect and respond to the movements of your eyes, revealed an Apple patent granted today.…

HP shares database smarts with EnterpriseDB

Posted: 10 Feb 2012 09:55 AM PST

Postgres Plus goes cloudy

EnterpriseDB is trying to pump up the PostgreSQL database to do battle with Oracle 11g and, to a lesser extent, IBM's DB2 and Microsoft's SQL. So the database upstart is upgrading its Postgres Plus Advanced Server 9.1 - and kicking it onto Amazon's EC2 compute cloud to peddle it alongside Amazon's own Relational Database Service.…

RIM's apps revolution swings on Blackberry 10

Posted: 10 Feb 2012 09:29 AM PST

Software choice alone won't beat Android and iOS

BlackBerry Devcon Europe "I'm a Java developer. What can I do to bring my apps over to BlackBerry 10?" asks an attendee at BlackBerry Devcon Europe in Amsterdam this week. The answer comes back: "Rewrite your code."…

Space: 1999 returning to TV?

Posted: 10 Feb 2012 08:58 AM PST

Eagles and staple guns reloaded

They've been rebooted, re-imagined and uncut, but now Space 1999 is getting its own on-screen revival next to sci-fi classics Battlestar Galactica, Star Trek and Star Wars.…

Analyst: no 7in tablet at iPad 3 launch

Posted: 10 Feb 2012 08:32 AM PST

Coming later in the year

Apple is going to release a 7in iPad - but not next month when it unwraps the iPad 3.…

Why Amazon, eBay and Google are building bricks-and-mortar stores

Posted: 10 Feb 2012 08:31 AM PST

Offline profits hell beckons net denizens

Open ... and Shut Even as offline retailers and other traditional "brick-and-mortar" businesses struggle to build their businesses online, some of technology's biggest online denizens are looking for ways to go offline. Google is the latest, reportedly opening a store in Dublin, Ireland, to sell branded merchandise, but it's just the latest in a group that includes eBay and even Amazon.…

Music fans not welcome in RIAA-backed .music

Posted: 10 Feb 2012 08:18 AM PST

Piracy prohibited in proposed industry-only domain

The Recording Industry Association of America and other music industry groups are backing a proposal for a highly regulated ".music" top-level domain.…

Microsoft to send users 4 critical patches on Valentine's Day

Posted: 10 Feb 2012 08:06 AM PST

Sealed with an XSS

Microsoft plans to publish nine updates next Tuesday – four of which are critical – as part of a Valentine's Day edition of its Patch Tuesday update cycle.…

Overclockers UK swallowed by private equity firm Afinum

Posted: 10 Feb 2012 07:45 AM PST

VC owner of component distributor Caseking gets acquisitive

German private equity firm Afinum - owners of distributor Caseking - has swallowed specialist components etailer Overclockers UK for an undisclosed sum.…

Acer limps into 2012 with declining January sales

Posted: 10 Feb 2012 07:18 AM PST

Planned 2012 revival falters

Acer has not made the positive start to the year that it was banking on after confirming a double-digit decline year-on-year in sales for January.…

Penang fraud gang 'ringleader' snared by Taiwan police

Posted: 10 Feb 2012 07:02 AM PST

Gang man Huang banged up

The suspected ringleader of an internet and telephone fraud gang based in Penang, Malaysia, has been nabbed by police after being lured to Taiwan by his former gang-mates, it has emerged.…

Pseudo masochism is fuelling ACTA witch-hunt

Posted: 10 Feb 2012 06:34 AM PST

Hated anti-counterfeiting treaty's myths exploded

Analysis A mob that's filled with self-righteous fury isn't very discriminating.…

Intel pays peanuts to settle NY antitrust suit

Posted: 10 Feb 2012 06:01 AM PST

Mere millions seal the deal after judge kneecaps state's case

Intel has agreed to fork over a mere $6.5m to settle an antitrust lawsuit by New York's attorney general.…

March release for Samsung Galaxy S II Android 4.0 update

Posted: 10 Feb 2012 05:52 AM PST

Ice Cream Sarnie inbound

Samsung said in November 2011 that Android 4.0 - aka Ice Cream Sandwich - will be coming to its Galaxy S II smartphone some time in 2012. It has yet to narrow that window, but industry leak merchant Eldar Murtazin has now said ICS will hit the S II in March.…

EU competition chief threatens patent war smackdown

Posted: 10 Feb 2012 05:43 AM PST

Tough-talking Almunia will take mobile giants to task

European anti-competition chief Joaquin Almunia has warned that the EU won't stand for any messing about with technology standards-related patents.…

Google guns for Apple TV

Posted: 10 Feb 2012 05:26 AM PST

Real-world device testing begins

Google is working on an in-home entertainment gadget able to stream content from the internet - or, at least, it's testing such a device in employees' homes.…

Apple crushes rivals under its heel in Euro fondleslab sales

Posted: 10 Feb 2012 05:19 AM PST

iPad domination grew in Q4

Apple saw off attempts by rivals to eat into its fondleslab market share and actually tightened its iron grip on the market across Western Europe in over the Christmas quarter.…

US federal court fast-forwards case on Google privacy policy

Posted: 10 Feb 2012 05:02 AM PST

Imminent Chocolate Factory tweak speeds up lawsuit review

A lawsuit brought against the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) over its inaction regarding Google's imminent changes to its terms of service was expedited yesterday.…

Virtual Nazi-code-cracking Colossus in fundraising appeal

Posted: 10 Feb 2012 04:43 AM PST

Sponsor pixels for new £150k exhibition at Bletchley Park

The National Museum of Computing (TNMOC) has turned to a tried-and-tested fundraising method to establish a home for the rebuilt Colossus computer at Bletchley Park.…

Google pushes your buttons in its top strip bar - AGAIN

Posted: 10 Feb 2012 04:27 AM PST

Back+ in+ black+

Google has once again rejigged its user account navigation bar, making it ever more slavish to the company's strange devotion to all things social within its silo.…

IT guy answers daughter's Facebook rant by shooting her laptop

Posted: 10 Feb 2012 04:13 AM PST

'You can have a new one when you buy one'

Vid An angry American IT pro has responded to a rude Facebook post from his daughter by riddling her laptop with a fusillade of bullets and posting video of the shooting on YouTube.…

Pentax Q compact system camera

Posted: 10 Feb 2012 04:00 AM PST

The cutest camera in the world?

Review When it come to compact system cameras, Pentax has form, if your memory goes back far enough. Like the Auto110 SLR film camera of old, the Pentax Q is laughably small, but in a good way. It's a happy laugh – like a friendly chuckle at the burblings of a new-born. Its design is achingly cute – especially the white version I received for review – while build quality is impressively and surprisingly high.…

'These working conditions are appalling, especially for Apple'

Posted: 10 Feb 2012 03:56 AM PST

Plus: Your new project sounds exactly like TED

Quotw This was the week when it was claimed that whatever else Apple, Google, Facebook and the rest of them might be up to, they were also giving Americans jobs.…

LOHAN lifts skirt on 3D printed parts

Posted: 10 Feb 2012 03:39 AM PST

Our Vulture 2 spaceplane to get the laser sintering treatment

Video There are champagne corks popping today at Special Project Bureau headquarters as we announce we've cut a deal to have our Vulture 2 aircraft hewn from living nylon.…

Tesla X e-SUV to sport monster touchscreen on the dash

Posted: 10 Feb 2012 03:35 AM PST

Gull-wing doors? 85kWh battery? Pah!

Car writers are focusing on the Tesla X's gull-wing doors, but it's the electric SUV's touchscreen-tastic dashboard that does it for us.…

Google Wallet falls open after casual hack

Posted: 10 Feb 2012 03:21 AM PST

Crack the PIN? No, just hit reset

Turns out it's not necessary to decrypt the PIN, or even hack into Google's Wallet, just ask the phone nicely and it will let anyone root though its innards.…

Phones 4U intros Jump plan to speed smartphone upgrades

Posted: 10 Feb 2012 03:10 AM PST

Separates phone cost from airtime package

Phones 4U has come up with a new phone package it claims makes it easier to change handsets.…

IT crowd sorts out the Mars Science Lab

Posted: 10 Feb 2012 03:07 AM PST

Boffins manage to fix spacecraft's computer problems

US space boffins have managed to sort out the computer problems on the Mars Science Laboratory, currently tootling through space with the spanking-new rover Curiosity on its way to the Red Planet.…

Indian ministers quit in parliament smut flick scandal

Posted: 10 Feb 2012 02:44 AM PST

'It wasn't porn, it was a real-life rape' claims one

Three former ministers in the Indian state of Karnataka have until Monday to explain themselves to the Speaker of the local assembly after they were allegedly caught watching porn on a mobile phone during a debate in the House.…

Blushing HTC too coy to admit sales figures

Posted: 10 Feb 2012 02:22 AM PST

You'll just have to guess from now on

Just days after releasing disappointing Q1 estimates that could point to a difficult year ahead, Taiwanese Android handset make HTC has decided not to reveal future sales figures for its smartphones.…

Roku rocks media streamers into UK

Posted: 10 Feb 2012 02:07 AM PST

BBC iPlayer on board

Roku has released its compact media streaming set-top boxes in the UK. With it comes BBC iPlayer support.…

Nevex stuffs software into TMS flash for 'world's fastest cache'

Posted: 10 Feb 2012 02:02 AM PST

CacheWorks twinned with RamSan server flash storage

Nevex, the Canadian supplier of flash and DRAM caching software for Windows, is working with Texas Memory Systems to super-charge its RamSan PCIe flash acceleration of app I/O.…

HTC Ice Cream Sandwich updates slip to late March

Posted: 10 Feb 2012 01:43 AM PST

And an even longer wait for some handsets

HTC smartphone owners: you should be getting Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich updates at the end of next month - if you have an unlocked Sensation or Sensation XE.…

Malware devs embrace open-source

Posted: 10 Feb 2012 01:42 AM PST

Blackhatters desperate for props from pals, says security firm

Cybercrooks have embraced the open-source model in the development of banking Trojans following the release of source code for the infamous ZeuS cybercrime toolkit last year.…

Secondhand MP3 shop can keep trading during EMI trial

Posted: 10 Feb 2012 01:22 AM PST

Redigi sued by music giant over copyright violations

Redigi has escaped a court injunction that would have prevented it trading throughout the duration of a court battle over alleged copyright infringement.…

Tech! Tech! Teeeeech! Women want gadgets for Valentine's

Posted: 10 Feb 2012 01:15 AM PST

Girls more gizmo hungry than ever

Forget roses and Roses: buy your other half - if female - some tech for Valentine's Day, now just four days away.…

Met thumbed through Oyster card data up to 22,000 times in 4 years

Posted: 10 Feb 2012 01:01 AM PST

Requests for info on passengers' movements up 15%

The Metropolitan police has requested Oyster card data relating to citizens and other personal information from Transport for London (TfL) more than 22,000 times since 2008, according to figures published by the capital's transport authority.…

UK.gov: We really are going to start buying open-source from SMEs

Posted: 10 Feb 2012 12:32 AM PST

Groundhog Day again already?

Intellect 2012 Open source and open standards are the direction for UK government IT, the civil servant leading the government's technology change agenda has said.…

Red Hat fires Gluster thruster from Amazon's cluster

Posted: 10 Feb 2012 12:02 AM PST

Storage done virtually

Red Hat is providing a Virtual Storage Appliance using Amazon cloud storage and claiming enterprise, scale-out NAS capability.…

LG DM2350D 23in passive 3D monitor and TV combo

Posted: 09 Feb 2012 11:00 PM PST

Gaming desktop telly, anyone?

Review The DM2350D is the first 3D combination monitor/TV released by LG. Sharing the same passive FPR 3D panel technology as its Cinema 3D TV siblings, it's presumably aimed at wannabe 3D PC gamers and those looking for a jack of all trades screen that's easy to accommodate in student digs or wherever.…

Oracle tucks R stats language into database

Posted: 09 Feb 2012 05:59 PM PST

R-acle 11g, Quant Edition

Relational database juggernaut Oracle has embedded the R programming language used by more than 2 million statisticians and quants the world over into its 11g relational database. Call it R-acle 11g, Quant Edition.…

Sinofsky shows off Windows 8 on ARM and Office15

Posted: 09 Feb 2012 05:46 PM PST

Microsoft aims for separate but equal

Windows boss Stephen Sinofsky has ended months of speculation with the first (fairly) detailed drilldown into Windows 8 on ARM (WOA) platform, and says it should be ready for a simultaneous launch with its x86/64 counterpart.…

Top reasons for IT layoffs in 2011

2012-02-09T19:30:00.001-08:00

Top reasons for IT layoffs in 2011

Top reasons for IT layoffs in 2011
The evolution of targeted attacks and exploit kits
Apple iWork passwords cracked
ISO 27001 benefits: How to obtain management support
Cybercriminals tailoring tactics for maximum appeal
Web app security scanner Netsparker 2.1 released
Building Resilient IP Networks
Faronics Anti-Virus 3.0 released

Top reasons for IT layoffs in 2011

Posted: 09 Feb 2012 05:28 AM PST

Based on the data obtained with the help of a data leakage control system, and an in-depth analysis of work time usage by staff, the specialists of Falcongaze analytical department conducted a large-s...

The evolution of targeted attacks and exploit kits

Posted: 09 Feb 2012 05:15 AM PST

There's been a significant growth in cybercrime, via sophisticated targeted attacks and social media scams, as well as a rise in malicious email attachments, despite a four-year low in spam volumes la...

Apple iWork passwords cracked

Posted: 09 Feb 2012 05:04 AM PST

ElcomSoft can now recover passwords protecting Apple iWork documents. This makes Distributed Password Recovery the first tool to recover passwords for Numbers, Pages and Keynote apps. "The recove...

ISO 27001 benefits: How to obtain management support

Posted: 09 Feb 2012 04:45 AM PST

As with any other project, if you do not ensure enough money and human resources, your ISO 27001 project will fail. Therefore, the only way to get those is to get your management buy-in. If you w...

Cybercriminals tailoring tactics for maximum appeal

Posted: 09 Feb 2012 04:44 AM PST

GFI Software released its report on the most prevalent threat detections encountered during January. Last month saw malware attacks targeting a wide range of potential victims, including gamers lookin...

Web app security scanner Netsparker 2.1 released

Posted: 08 Feb 2012 11:18 PM PST

Netsparker can crawl, attack and identify vulnerabilities in all custom web applications regardless of the platform and the technology it's built on, just like an actual attacker. It can identify...

Building Resilient IP Networks

Posted: 08 Feb 2012 10:30 PM PST

More companies are building networks with the intention of using them to conduct business. Because the network has become such a strategic business tool, its availability is of utmost importance to co...

Faronics Anti-Virus 3.0 released

Posted: 08 Feb 2012 09:21 PM PST

Faronics Anti-Virus 3.0 includes Process Protection to defend against attacks at the application level, as well as an IDS that has the ability to write rules for zero day threats and deploy the polici...

StreetView disappears Dutch office tower

2012-02-09T15:12:00.001-08:00

StreetView disappears Dutch office tower

StreetView disappears Dutch office tower
IBM does financing deals for Power, storage kit
Elon Musk helps AsiaSat with new regional satellites
Teradata surfs big data wave in Q4
Eolas falls at first hurdle in bid to tax browser apps
Coming to a continent near you: America
Hackett bookish after Internet sale
Oracle inhales Taleo for $1.9bn
FBI investigated Steve Jobs' reality distortion field, LSD use
What's in the box, Windows BOFH?
AON: Give us cash, we'll emit 10TB holographic cube
Googorola's desire for iPhone royalties will upset Apple cart
Kodak to kill off digital cameras
Hitachi GST pushes out boosted SSD
Appcelerator adds Titanium backend with Cocoafish buy
Google will swap you a box of crisps for your web privacy
Airport bomb Twitter joker in second fine appeal bid
Vodafone squirrels cash into Blighty nightly as Europe falters
What downturn? Lenovo stuffs pockets with 54% extra profit
Ofcom: Make it easier for punters to switch ISPs
Alibaba! suspends! shares! amid! Yahoo! stake! buzz!
Microsoft sets date for Windows 8 preview - at mobile shindig
How Zuck wields power over Facebook for a few hundred bucks
Ethernet standards for hyper-scale cloud networking
Ingram Micro CEO outlines growth plan as 2011 profits falter
Groupon loses $42.7m in Q4, shares tumble
UK cops set up new £30m bases to nail cybercrooks
New sat data shows Himalayan glaciers hardly melting at all
Google Wallet PIN security cracked in seconds
Royal astro-boffin to MPs: Stop thinking about headlines
Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning
iPad 3 shell shots spied on web
Google drive cloud to rain on Apple, Dropbox parade
Asus posts patch for Prime random reboot bug
Japan enlists foreign bloggers to revive tsunami-hit tourist biz
Life-size Portal gun to shoot onto shelves soon
Trustwave admits crafting SSL snooping certificate
HP hands in-house Android code to TouchPad tablet hackers
Now Siri brushes up on Russian, Japanese languages
Privacy warriors sue FTC over Google's policy tweak
Lenovo slates Ice Cream Sandwich for ThinkPad tablet
British Red Cross First Aid
MongoDB straps SQL to Google's MapReduce
Hackers claim to have penetrated Foxconn backdoor
Licked RIM has a lifeline: a social network in a box
IBM stuffs XIV array with flash tech
NHS hands out 3G slabs and phones to roving nurses
Asus UX21E Zenbook 11.6in Ultrabook
Apple Stores getting petitions on ethical conduct for breakfast
Robot surgery gets virtual at Euro Space Agency

StreetView disappears Dutch office tower

Posted: 09 Feb 2012 03:00 PM PST

Because it's Friday…

It's one of those wonderful discrepancies that happens when a site has to wait a year or so between visits from the Google StreetView photo-harvesters.…

IBM does financing deals for Power, storage kit

Posted: 09 Feb 2012 02:41 PM PST

Low or no interest rates

It's a new year and a new first quarter and a new and somewhat challenging economy in North America, and therefore IBM is offering financing deals in the United States and Canada.…

Elon Musk helps AsiaSat with new regional satellites

Posted: 09 Feb 2012 02:30 PM PST

Asia Pac enjoys a satellite bonanza

Hong Kong satellite operator AsiaSat and space launch company Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX) will launch two new communications satellites in 2014 servicing the Asia Pacific region.…

Teradata surfs big data wave in Q4

Posted: 09 Feb 2012 02:26 PM PST

Big data = big bucks

Data warehousing pioneer and big data playa Teradata has just turned in the best fourth quarter and full year in the company's 33 year history, thanks to the big data wave and a number of key acquisitions that the company that have moved it beyond its core data warehousing biz.…

Eolas falls at first hurdle in bid to tax browser apps

Posted: 09 Feb 2012 02:13 PM PST

Google grins at Adobe jury's verdict

A jury in Texas has ruled against Eolas Technologies in its patent battle to lay claim to the concept of in-browser applications and most plug-ins.…

Coming to a continent near you: America

Posted: 09 Feb 2012 02:00 PM PST

Also Asia, Europe and Africa

It's going to be a heck of a reunion: the Pangea supercontinent that broke up to create the atlas we know today will one day reform in the Northern hemisphere.…

Hackett bookish after Internet sale

Posted: 09 Feb 2012 01:06 PM PST

Aus tech entrprenuers back new publishing house

Internode founder Simon Hackett is behind the launch of Australia's newest cross-platform book publishing house, MidnightSun Publishing.…

Oracle inhales Taleo for $1.9bn

Posted: 09 Feb 2012 12:06 PM PST

Blows it onto the Fusion app cloud

Only two months ago, Taleo, the seller of online talent management software, was saying that it intended to remain independent despite the cloud software feeding frenzy. But today, Larry Ellison, CEO and co-founder of Oracle, made Taleo CEO Mike Gregoire an offer he couldn't refuse: $1.9bn.…

FBI investigated Steve Jobs' reality distortion field, LSD use

Posted: 09 Feb 2012 11:55 AM PST

Sex, drugs and bomb threats

Steve Jobs' drug use, court cases and personality flaws were all investigated by the FBI, as a file released on Thursday reveals.…

What's in the box, Windows BOFH?

Posted: 09 Feb 2012 11:03 AM PST

What lurks inside the Windows admin's toolkit...

Sysadmin blog Windows is a powerful and complex Operating System (OS). As with any modern OS, it comes equipped with numerous features, utilities, and applications. But Windows' default tools are not always the best widget for the job at hand.…

AON: Give us cash, we'll emit 10TB holographic cube

Posted: 09 Feb 2012 10:19 AM PST

They do it with mirrors

Access Optical Networks says it has developed a 1.2TB holographic storage cube that can transfer data at 155MB/sec and last longer than 50 years. Oh, and it's done using mirrors – but no smoke.…

Googorola's desire for iPhone royalties will upset Apple cart

Posted: 09 Feb 2012 09:37 AM PST

Moto patents at heart of latest fair licensing row

Analysis Google's outline of how it will use Motorola Mobility's intellectual property – should regulators allow the buyout – has sparked fierce debate as pundits worry about how the smartphone patent wars will pan out.…

Kodak to kill off digital cameras

Posted: 09 Feb 2012 09:16 AM PST

End in sight for snappers, camcorders

Kodak is knocking its line of budget digital cameras on the head, part of its plan to revive the fortunes of the troubled firm.…

Hitachi GST pushes out boosted SSD

Posted: 09 Feb 2012 09:04 AM PST

Intel's new NAND

Hitachi GST has birthed a boosted Ultrastar SSD using Intel's latest 25nm NAND. Intel launched its own 520 just a few days ago.…

Appcelerator adds Titanium backend with Cocoafish buy

Posted: 09 Feb 2012 08:29 AM PST

I like backends and I cannot lie

Mobile platform developer Appcelerator has completed its second purchase of the last year, snapping up Cocoafish to gets its APIs and server backend system.…

Google will swap you a box of crisps for your web privacy

Posted: 09 Feb 2012 08:02 AM PST

Or anything else from Amazon for $25 if you agree to be stalked

Google has revealed exactly how little cash it thinks a user who is willing to "sell" their data to the search giant is actually worth.…

Airport bomb Twitter joker in second fine appeal bid

Posted: 09 Feb 2012 07:43 AM PST

Judges deliberating whether or not to quash conviction

Paul Chambers, the Twitter joker turned misdemeanour conviction martyr, returned to court on Wednesday to launch a second appeal against a conviction over a "threatening message" to blow Doncaster's Robin Hood Airport "sky high".…

Vodafone squirrels cash into Blighty nightly as Europe falters

Posted: 09 Feb 2012 07:17 AM PST

Spain, Italy disappointing - Turkey, India a pleasant surprise

Vodafone's numbers for the tail-end of 2011 show the network doing pretty well, though it admitted husbanding cash back to the UK nightly just to be on the safe side.…

What downturn? Lenovo stuffs pockets with 54% extra profit

Posted: 09 Feb 2012 07:01 AM PST

World's number 2 PC maker buoyed by China performance

Lenovo Group is one of the few PC makers still in the pink, beating market expectations with a fat third-quarter net profit.…

Ofcom: Make it easier for punters to switch ISPs

Posted: 09 Feb 2012 06:41 AM PST

But could middleman plan jack up prices?

Broadband and landline customers could soon find it a lot simpler to ditch one telco in favour of another, after Ofcom published its proposals on cutting the hassle out of switching providers for punters in the UK.…

Alibaba! suspends! shares! amid! Yahoo! stake! buzz!

Posted: 09 Feb 2012 06:30 AM PST

Chinese biz counts readies to buy back web biz's share

Alibaba.com has suspended its shares on the Hong Kong market, pending news from its parent company Alibaba Group, which reportedly wants to buy back Yahoo!'s stake in the company.…

Microsoft sets date for Windows 8 preview - at mobile shindig

Posted: 09 Feb 2012 06:16 AM PST

Barcelona, it was the first time that we met

Microsoft will unveil Windows 8 at Mobile World Congress, says an invitation sent out today.…

How Zuck wields power over Facebook for a few hundred bucks

Posted: 09 Feb 2012 06:01 AM PST

CEO's voting rights and package exposed

Mark Zuckerberg's effortless swagger into the business world got an airing in public yesterday when Facebook filed more documents to the US Securities and Exchange Commission ahead of the company going public in a few months' time.…

Ethernet standards for hyper-scale cloud networking

Posted: 09 Feb 2012 05:45 AM PST

Always just over the horizon

What if the largest Ethernet networks we see today are just precursors, initial steps on the path to what's been called hyper-scale cloud networking?…

Ingram Micro CEO outlines growth plan as 2011 profits falter

Posted: 09 Feb 2012 05:33 AM PST

Weak Euro consumer biz and challenged Oz operation blamed

Ingram Micro's new chief exec has set out three strategic priorities as he gets to grips with the challenges facing the world's largest distributor and looks to bolster bottom line goodness.…

Groupon loses $42.7m in Q4, shares tumble

Posted: 09 Feb 2012 05:32 AM PST

Hang on to your coupons, we'll make a profit next quarter

Groupon (GRPN) has posted a net loss of $42.7m for the last three months of 2011, disappointing Wall Street's expectation that the coupon-pushers would make a small profit. Groupon stocks closed the day at $24.58 but in after-hours trading stocks tumbled 15 per cent to $20.75 – suggesting that Groupon shareholders might want to brace themselves for a rocky ride when Thursday trading opens in New York.…

UK cops set up new £30m bases to nail cybercrooks

Posted: 09 Feb 2012 05:22 AM PST

They're proper champion e-bobbies

The UK is to establish three regional policing e-crime hubs as part of efforts to boost the capability of British police to tackle the growing problem of cybercrime.…

New sat data shows Himalayan glaciers hardly melting at all

Posted: 09 Feb 2012 05:01 AM PST

Results 'really were a surprise', say climate profs

New scientific analysis of satellite gravity measurements has shown that ice is melting from glaciers around the world much less quickly than had been thought. The new research is important as worldwide glacier melt is thought to be one of the main factors which could drive rising sea levels in future.…

Google Wallet PIN security cracked in seconds

Posted: 09 Feb 2012 04:39 AM PST

Luckily no one important is using it

A researcher at website categoriser zvelo has discovered Google Wallet's PIN protection is open to a brute-force attack that takes seconds to complete. And Google is powerless to fix the problem, it seems.…

Royal astro-boffin to MPs: Stop thinking about headlines

Posted: 09 Feb 2012 04:17 AM PST

'Nuclear biz is screwed, chill out about carcinogens'

"In politics the urgent seems to trump the important," venerable astro-boffin Lord Martin Rees told a committee of MPs yesterday, saying that it there needed to be "bipartisan consensus on long-term issues" such as energy and the environment if Britain is to haul its sorry ass into the next century.…

Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning

Posted: 09 Feb 2012 04:00 AM PST

Hit and myth

Review Like a mage's potion, Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning is based on a tried and tested formula: the essence of Fable II, a dash of Oblivion, the gizzards of God of War. And let's not forget the vital binding agent, of course: a liberal dose of Tolkien's legendarium.…

iPad 3 shell shots spied on web

Posted: 09 Feb 2012 03:58 AM PST

Snaps point to bigger battery. Possibly

Snaps are circulating Apple and iPad fansites revealing that the upcoming iPad 3 will hold a larger battery than its predecessor… probably.…

Google drive cloud to rain on Apple, Dropbox parade

Posted: 09 Feb 2012 03:39 AM PST

Web giant has our email and docs, might as well hand over everything else

Never one to miss out on an up-and-coming tech trend, Google is all set to launch its very own cloud storage service, competing with the likes of Dropbox, Microsoft and Apple.…

Asus posts patch for Prime random reboot bug

Posted: 09 Feb 2012 03:28 AM PST

Tablet's auto-restart glitch fixed

Asus UK has posted a firmware update for its Android tablet, the Eee Pad Transformer Prime.…

Japan enlists foreign bloggers to revive tsunami-hit tourist biz

Posted: 09 Feb 2012 03:24 AM PST

Will 10 gaijin really make a difference?

The Japanese government is trying to get foreign bloggers to do PR for it by inviting them to earthquake- and tsunami-hit areas to write compassionately about the progress being made in reconstructing the ravaged north-east of the country.…

Life-size Portal gun to shoot onto shelves soon

Posted: 09 Feb 2012 03:07 AM PST

Hole in the wall

Despite the fact they generally sit on the mantlepiece as a decorative reminder of where one's interest lies, replica weapons are a big business and gaming enthusiasts are an eager audience to target.…

Trustwave admits crafting SSL snooping certificate

Posted: 09 Feb 2012 03:03 AM PST

Allowing bosses to spy on staff was wrong, says security biz

Certificate Authority Trustwave has revoked a digital certificate that allowed one of its clients to issue valid certificates for any server, thereby allowing one of its customers to intercept their employees' private email communication.…

HP hands in-house Android code to TouchPad tablet hackers

Posted: 09 Feb 2012 02:49 AM PST

Developed as a WebOS fall-back plan?

Top marks to HP for handing over an Android kernel it once coded for its TouchPad tablet to fondleslab hackers.…

Now Siri brushes up on Russian, Japanese languages

Posted: 09 Feb 2012 02:42 AM PST

Mandarin lessons going well too, says Apple dev mole

Apple is already testing Chinese, Japanese and Russian language support for its voice-activated personal assistant technology Siri - and will roll out the new functionality next month as its efforts to cosy up to customers in these lucrative markets gathers pace.…

Privacy warriors sue FTC over Google's policy tweak

Posted: 09 Feb 2012 02:24 AM PST

Failure to halt imminent changes makes EPIC angry

The Electronic Privacy Information Center is suing the US Federal Trade Commission for failing to take action against Google's plans to change its terms of service on 1 March.…

Lenovo slates Ice Cream Sandwich for ThinkPad tablet

Posted: 09 Feb 2012 02:12 AM PST

Unlock your fondleslab with your face

Lenovo will update its ThinkPad Android-based tablet to Ice Cream Sandwich in May, the PC giant said last night.…

British Red Cross First Aid

Posted: 09 Feb 2012 02:00 AM PST

In case of emergency, break out app...

iOS App of the Week The Red Cross was in the news recently when it issued new guidelines for performing CPR - Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation - and it has followed this up with a free First Aid app that's worth downloading in case of emergencies.…

MongoDB straps SQL to Google's MapReduce

Posted: 09 Feb 2012 01:37 AM PST

One toasting too many for NoSQL?

To NoSQLers he's the Devil who flames their work. Bring up his name while interviewing the CEO or founder of any NoSQL start-up, as I have, and the interviewee withers to a tight smile.…

Hackers claim to have penetrated Foxconn backdoor

Posted: 09 Feb 2012 01:17 AM PST

We don't care about iPhones or workers, only lulz

It had to happen eventually. Controversial hardware manufacturer Foxconn was reportedly hacked late on Wednesday and a heap of staff email log-ins and intranet credentials posted online which could allow third parties to lodge fraudulent orders.…

Licked RIM has a lifeline: a social network in a box

Posted: 09 Feb 2012 01:02 AM PST

Don't forget the secret power of BBM

Analysis RIM's fortunes have taken a catastrophic, Nokia-style nosedive in the past year - but it has a chance of pulling up. Admittedly, the odds are long, but this week the Canadian company began its fightback.…

IBM stuffs XIV array with flash tech

Posted: 09 Feb 2012 12:33 AM PST

Big Blue puts pedal to the metal

IBM has pressed the gas pedal to the floor with its third generation XIV array and given it up to 6TB of solid state drive cache storage.…

NHS hands out 3G slabs and phones to roving nurses

Posted: 09 Feb 2012 12:02 AM PST

Should help community care workers cut down on desk-time

The Northern Devon Healthcare NHS Trust is piloting mobile devices for its community care nurses and therapists to enable them to access files, capture data and update back office systems remotely.…

Asus UX21E Zenbook 11.6in Ultrabook

Posted: 08 Feb 2012 11:00 PM PST

Thin! Small! Mad! Gorgeous!

Review Having already reviewed the slightly larger Asus UX31E Zenbook for El Reg, and quite liking it, I whinged that sending me the UX21E model would be a waste of time. It wasn't, obviously, because you're reading this. I loved it. In fact, I preferred it.…

Apple Stores getting petitions on ethical conduct for breakfast

Posted: 08 Feb 2012 07:16 PM PST

250,000 signatures for fair treatment of iWorkers

Breakfast at Apple retail outlets in Washington, DC, New York, San Francisco, London, Sydney, and Bangalore will come with a side order of protest on Thursday morning, as "concerned Apple customers" will be dropping off 250,000-signature petitions calling out Apple on supplier working practices.…

Robot surgery gets virtual at Euro Space Agency

Posted: 08 Feb 2012 06:00 PM PST

CAMDASS augmented reality for astronaut patch-up

The European Space Agency is showing off an augmented-reality kit which it says will ultimately pave the way for diagnosis and even surgery for astronauts.…

Chrome to stop using online checks to spot revoked certificates

2012-02-08T19:06:00.001-08:00

Chrome to stop using online checks to spot revoked certificates

Chrome to stop using online checks to spot revoked certificates
Satellite telephony encryption cracked
Trustwave revokes "MitM" certificate, vows never to issue one again
More bogus ad-serving Android apps evade Google's Bouncer
How online communication connects generations
Security architecture for trusted execution environments
Improved data recovery from SSDs
Visibility and control of cloud services
Security for IT consumerization
Symantec releases Backup Exec 2012

Chrome to stop using online checks to spot revoked certificates

Posted: 08 Feb 2012 06:08 AM PST

Future versions of Google's Chrome browser will no longer use online revocation checks to verify whether the HTTPS site the user wants to visit possesses a valid certificate, shared Google researcher ...

Satellite telephony encryption cracked

Posted: 08 Feb 2012 05:25 AM PST

Satellite telephony was thought to be secure against eavesdropping. Researchers at the Horst Görtz Institute for IT-Security (HGI) at the Ruhr University Bochum (RUB) have cracked the encryption algor...

Trustwave revokes "MitM" certificate, vows never to issue one again

Posted: 08 Feb 2012 05:19 AM PST

Certificate authority Trustwave has revoked a subordinate root certificate it issued to a company that allowed it to intercept their employees' private email communication. "This single certificate...

More bogus ad-serving Android apps evade Google's Bouncer

Posted: 08 Feb 2012 03:32 AM PST

Users searching for games on the official Android Market have lately been heavily targeted by ad-pushing scammers. First it was the fake Temple Run app, and now a string of bogus copies of popular iPh...

How online communication connects generations

Posted: 08 Feb 2012 03:21 AM PST

AARP and Microsoft released "Connecting Generations," a research report that examines how people of all ages are using online communication and social networking to enhance their family relationships.

Security architecture for trusted execution environments

Posted: 08 Feb 2012 02:00 AM PST

Elliptic Technologies introduced the tVault Security Architecture - a technology that enables end-to-end security in connected devices. tVault provides robust security inside Trusted Execution Envi...

Improved data recovery from SSDs

Posted: 08 Feb 2012 12:18 AM PST

Data recovery from new types of data storage can be extremely time-consuming because of the need to research the algorithms used to originally store the data. Previously, recovery from SSDs, if possib...

Visibility and control of cloud services

Posted: 07 Feb 2012 11:30 PM PST

Fidelis Security Systems announced a new cloud security solution which provides necessary visibility and control to decrease risks associated with using SaaS. The solution is deployed at the enterpris...

Security for IT consumerization

Posted: 07 Feb 2012 11:00 PM PST

Lancope announced that its StealthWatch System extends network visibility to mobile devices for the security of bring-your-own-device (BYOD) environments. By analyzing mobile device information col...

Symantec releases Backup Exec 2012

Posted: 07 Feb 2012 10:30 PM PST

Symantec announced Backup Exec 2012 to help users eliminate complexity, perform backups in 100 percent virtualized environments and deliver instantaneous and cloud-based recovery through a single solu...

Eolas claims royalties for browser apps and plug-ins

2012-02-08T15:15:00.001-08:00

Eolas claims royalties for browser apps and plug-ins

Eolas claims royalties for browser apps and plug-ins
US Navy preps railgun for tests
Solarflare turns network adapters into servers
Telcos to shape up under new code
Path runs screaming from privacy snafu
Toshiba may be getting excess WD disk biz
Sir Paul McBeatle to offer free iTunes concert
Nekkid Tech: The Great Backup Industry SMACKDOWN
Chrome to weed out dodgy website SSL certificates by itself
Ancient cave girl genome could crack Man's genetic puzzle
Sony posts PlayStation firmware patch
Apple's Hong Kong store rolls out iPhone 'reservation' system
Cray puts super stake in the big data ground
New driver-snooping satnav could push down UK insurance premiums
Resellers: Microsoft price hike was 'demanded by Euro country bosses'
Quarter of Wolfram Alpha brainteasers come from Siri
Revealed: Apple's plea for fairness in mobile patent war
Mozilla explains user-tracking proposal for Firefox
Virident flasher claims Oracle database streak record
Indonesian train roof fare-dodgers given the brush off
Glad to be hybrid: Office 365 flits from cloud to cloud
Now HDS joins server flash party
LinkedIn offers MORE SECURE hobnobbing option
Marlinspike asks browser vendors to back SSL-validator
Nokia: No Belle download for Apple users
Android's Chrome finish comes too late for Flash coating
Halliburton latest biz to dump BlackBerry for iPhone
Yahoo! chairman! falls! on! his! sword!
Greenpeace releases meaningless 'Cool IT' rankings
Apple's new TV allegedly spotted... in Canadian office
Toshiba 14in USB LCD Mobile Monitor
Virgin Media finally turns an annual profit
Samsung reveals Tocco Lite 2 release details
Russians drill into buried 20 million-year-old Antarctic lake
Amazon 'rolling out a retail store in Seattle'
T-Mobile's Full Monty speed 'capped at 1Mb/s'
Huawei's super-skinny Ascend P1 S headed to China in March
HP may be going the server flash route
NFC leader Inside Secure to IPO this month
Nokia axes 4,000, shifts smartphone manufacturing East
Coke-snorting cop bots to replace sniffer dogs
Heathrow facial recognition tech stalled by borders fiasco
Move over cybercrims, DDoS now protesters' weapon of choice
Apple won't rule out all singing, all dancing iBooks on Kindle
Ten... Freesat TV receivers
Australian sports get busy with copyright special pleading
SGI to restructure (again) after fiscal Q2 loss
'App Economy' has created 466,000 US jobs
Laser boffins blast bits onto hard drive at 200Gb/sec
Hong Kongers protest over end to all-you-can-eat tariffs

Eolas claims royalties for browser apps and plug-ins

Posted: 08 Feb 2012 02:04 PM PST

Berners-Lee warns of disaster for internet

Eolas Technologies has begun its trial against Adobe over two patents that, it claims, gives it the rights to embedded browser applications and plug-in and AJAX (asynchronous JavaScript and XML) web development techniques.…

US Navy preps railgun for tests

Posted: 08 Feb 2012 02:00 PM PST

Bedding down BAE Systems prototype

The US Navy's Office of Naval Research is preparing to test a prototype railgun delivered by BAE Systems under a $US21 million contract signed in 2010.…

Solarflare turns network adapters into servers

Posted: 08 Feb 2012 01:51 PM PST

When a CPU just isn't fast enough

Solarflare, a maker of 10 Gigabit Ethernet server adapter cards for performance-obsessed companies like stock exchanges, hedge funds, and supercomputer centers, is turning its network interface cards into servers, more or less.…

Telcos to shape up under new code

Posted: 08 Feb 2012 01:30 PM PST

Comms Alliance lays down the law

Australian carriers, voice services and ISPs will be forced to take their obligations to the rights of consumers seriously under a new revised consumer code from industry group, the Communications Alliance.…

Path runs screaming from privacy snafu

Posted: 08 Feb 2012 01:10 PM PST

We meant to copy your address book but we didn't think you'd mind

After sparking an outcry – and arguably putting itself on the wrong side of privacy laws outside America – ex-Facebooker and now CEO of Path, Dave Morin, has blogged an apology.…

Toshiba may be getting excess WD disk biz

Posted: 08 Feb 2012 12:29 PM PST

Rumour mill spits out Tosh as buyer

We are hearing that Toshiba is buying Western Digital's "excess" 3.5-inch disk drive business, clearing the way to the completion of the WD's acquisition of Hitachi GST .…

Sir Paul McBeatle to offer free iTunes concert

Posted: 08 Feb 2012 10:56 AM PST

B.Y.O. Bottom, should you desire a kiss

Sir Paul McCartney, late of Wings, will celebrate the release of his latest album with a live concert streamed over Apple's iTunes this Thursday at 7pm, Pacific Time.…

Nekkid Tech: The Great Backup Industry SMACKDOWN

Posted: 08 Feb 2012 10:07 AM PST

Plus, adopt a needy cloud

Podcast Last week, Greg Knieriemen turned the heat up on Marc Farley, StorageIO's Greg Schulz and the legendary StorageZilla.…

Chrome to weed out dodgy website SSL certificates by itself

Posted: 08 Feb 2012 09:23 AM PST

Ditched online checks like 'seat belt that snaps when you crash'

Google will drop online checks for revoked website encryption certificates in future versions of its Chrome browser after it decided that the process no longer offers any tangible benefits.…

Ancient cave girl genome could crack Man's genetic puzzle

Posted: 08 Feb 2012 09:09 AM PST

Boffins pore over 500GB of data plastered online

Nearly 500GB of data from the DNA of an ancient girl has been published for the first time. The genetic information - made available for wider analysis by intrigued boffins - was extracted from her finger bone and tooth, which were unearthed in the Denisova Cave in Siberia in 2008.…

Sony posts PlayStation firmware patch

Posted: 08 Feb 2012 09:02 AM PST

Bye-bye, PSN; hello, SEN

Sony's latest PlayStation firmware - version 4.10 - is now available for download, with the Sony Entertainment Network ready for PS3s from here on.…

Apple's Hong Kong store rolls out iPhone 'reservation' system

Posted: 08 Feb 2012 08:56 AM PST

Yes, sir, but have you booked an appointment?

Apple has been forced to restrict iPhone sales in its Hong Kong store to discourage the recent epidemic of scalpers.…

Cray puts super stake in the big data ground

Posted: 08 Feb 2012 08:37 AM PST

Crunch this

Big data may or may not pan out for the users, but it is a bit of a boom for IT vendors, who are scrambling to prove their data analytics chops and go for the easiest money in the market these days. And to that end, supercomputer maker Cray is setting up a dedicated division to chase big data biz.…

New driver-snooping satnav could push down UK insurance premiums

Posted: 08 Feb 2012 08:18 AM PST

TomTom signs up with Motaquote to stuff spy in GPS box

The idea has been hovering in the ether for some time, but TomTom is the first satnav firm to sign on the dotted line and bring insurance to drivers through their GPS.…

Resellers: Microsoft price hike was 'demanded by Euro country bosses'

Posted: 08 Feb 2012 08:04 AM PST

Insiders say UK channel exploited weak pound to fuel deals on continent

Microsoft's planned overhaul of volume-licensing prices was in response to cries of frustration from its European country managers unhappy their UK counterpart were benefiting from the regional disparity to win biz on the continent, channel sources claim.…

Quarter of Wolfram Alpha brainteasers come from Siri

Posted: 08 Feb 2012 08:01 AM PST

Apple's smart-arse software relies on boffinry website

A quarter of traffic to the intelligent computational engine Wolfram Alpha comes from Siri, Stephen Wolfram said in a New York Times article.…

Revealed: Apple's plea for fairness in mobile patent war

Posted: 08 Feb 2012 07:31 AM PST

Letter to telecoms body begs for level playing field

In November Apple wrote to the European Telecommunications Standards Institute suggesting an overhaul of the whole FRAND system of licensing patents fairly and reasonably.…

Mozilla explains user-tracking proposal for Firefox

Posted: 08 Feb 2012 07:14 AM PST

Telemetry has no UUID, Metrics Data Ping might

In a story published yesterday your humble Reg writer wrongly confused Mozilla's Telemetry project with the open-source outfit's so-called Metrics Data Ping proposal. Mozilla has been in touch to clear things up.…

Virident flasher claims Oracle database streak record

Posted: 08 Feb 2012 07:01 AM PST

Solid disks thrust into willing 80-core NEC box

Exit Exadata, Fusion-io and Violin Memory - so to speak: the Oracle database random IO speed record has been smashed by an 80-core NEC server fitted with eight Virident flash drives.…

Indonesian train roof fare-dodgers given the brush off

Posted: 08 Feb 2012 06:39 AM PST

Foul-smelling brooms purge carriages of surfing commuters

Indonesian train operators have come up with yet another ingeniously cruel system designed to discourage fare-dodging commuters from blagging a free ride on the roof of their carriages - this time involving brooms covered in putrid gunk.…

Glad to be hybrid: Office 365 flits from cloud to cloud

Posted: 08 Feb 2012 06:30 AM PST

Public and private partnership

Interview "The hybrid cloud environment is a great place for Office 365," evangelises Simon May, appropriately enough a tech evangelist at Microsoft UK.…

Now HDS joins server flash party

Posted: 08 Feb 2012 06:17 AM PST

Still no comment from HP

Hitachi Data Systems intends to join the server flash storage party, throwing its NAND hat into the ring to speed application I/O and increase the virtual machine population.…

LinkedIn offers MORE SECURE hobnobbing option

Posted: 08 Feb 2012 06:02 AM PST

Social-network-for-suits finally gets some SSL love

LinkedIn is now gradually rolling out secure browsing for its social-networking-for-suits service.…

Marlinspike asks browser vendors to back SSL-validator

Posted: 08 Feb 2012 05:38 AM PST

'Convergence' open source dev needs vendors to balance the load

Analysis Moxie Marlinspike is encouraging browser developers to support an experimental project to shake up the security of website authentication by moving beyond blind faith in secure sockets layer (SSL) credentials.…

Nokia: No Belle download for Apple users

Posted: 08 Feb 2012 05:27 AM PST

Even if they have its own Mac OS X updater app

Nokia has told Mac-using owners of handsets capable of being upgraded to its Belle operating system they need to switch to a PC to apply the update themselves.…

Android's Chrome finish comes too late for Flash coating

Posted: 08 Feb 2012 05:17 AM PST

Adobe confirms Flashless browsing

Google may have got its Chrome browser running on Android, but Adobe is standing by its decision not to port Flash to any new mobile browsers, not even Chrome.…

Halliburton latest biz to dump BlackBerry for iPhone

Posted: 08 Feb 2012 04:58 AM PST

But our developers are raking it in, screams RIM

Citing better application support, oilfield services giant Halliburton will be handing out iPhones in future - despite RIM's claims that its app developers have never had it so good.…

Yahoo! chairman! falls! on! his! sword!

Posted: 08 Feb 2012 04:42 AM PST

Bostock and three directors quit ailing web biz to save it

Yahoo!'s chairman and three other board members are stepping down as the once-mighty web firm continues its drawn-out internal shake-up.…

Greenpeace releases meaningless 'Cool IT' rankings

Posted: 08 Feb 2012 04:25 AM PST

Hippies' 'leaderboard' apparently made using dartboard

Analysis International hippie* collective Greenpeace has issued a "Cool IT leaderboard" of apparently randomly selected major firms which it has assigned meaningless self-generated scores intended to indicate how eco-friendly the companies are.…

Apple's new TV allegedly spotted... in Canadian office

Posted: 08 Feb 2012 04:13 AM PST

Will be controlled by Siri, waving, unicorns

Prototypes of the hotly anticipated Apple TV are sitting in the offices of telcos in Canada, reports newspaper The Globe and Mail. The report adds that the new TVs will feature voice-control through Siri, gesture control and video chat.…

Toshiba 14in USB LCD Mobile Monitor

Posted: 08 Feb 2012 04:01 AM PST

Panel beater?

Review It sounds like a great idea: a 14in LCD monitor that connects using USB. Perfect for tablets, netbooks and mobile phones, right? Well no, because it doesn't work with them.…

Virgin Media finally turns an annual profit

Posted: 08 Feb 2012 03:47 AM PST

Only took five years since beardie rebrand

Virgin Media pulled in annual revenue that was just shy of £4bn, the company reported this morning.…

Samsung reveals Tocco Lite 2 release details

Posted: 08 Feb 2012 03:45 AM PST

Budget blower inbound

Samsung revealed it will launch the successor to its popular Tocco Lite handset this March, with the budget blower targeting the social network generation. No surprise there, then.…

Russians drill into buried 20 million-year-old Antarctic lake

Posted: 08 Feb 2012 03:33 AM PST

Will boffins find prehistoric life - or secret Nazi files?

Russian scientists have drilled through to a 20-million-year-old lake under Antarctica, which, depending on who you listen to, could harbour alien life forms, prehistoric microbes or Hitler's secret hideout.…

Amazon 'rolling out a retail store in Seattle'

Posted: 08 Feb 2012 03:14 AM PST

Apple Store-inspired Kindle-pushing boutique rumoured...

Amazon could be about to open a bricks-and-mortar store in Seattle aimed at selling the Kindle - according to rumours on blog goodereader.…

T-Mobile's Full Monty speed 'capped at 1Mb/s'

Posted: 08 Feb 2012 03:11 AM PST

Cellco denies, confirms cap

T-Mobile's unlimited tariff, The Full Monty, has come under scrutiny after reports surfaced that the cellco may have placed a speed limit of just 1Mb/s on the package.…

Huawei's super-skinny Ascend P1 S headed to China in March

Posted: 08 Feb 2012 02:59 AM PST

Home market gets first dibs on 0.26-inch 'iPhone-killer'

Chinese electronics giant Huawei could be set to launch what it claims to be the world's slimmest phone as early as next month, according to reports.…

HP may be going the server flash route

Posted: 08 Feb 2012 02:41 AM PST

Company won't confirm it, but the G8 looks pretty flashy

HP's new G8 servers will sport lots of flash, according to a knowledgeable HP fan.…

NFC leader Inside Secure to IPO this month

Posted: 08 Feb 2012 02:17 AM PST

It's no Facebook, but it does actually design stuff

Inside Secure has filed for an initial public offering, looking to raise almost €80m a day after it celebrated shipping 20 million chips, and signed up a major handset manufacturer.…

Nokia axes 4,000, shifts smartphone manufacturing East

Posted: 08 Feb 2012 01:59 AM PST

Factories hit in cost-cutting drive

Having reviewed operations at its manufacturing facilities in Hungary, Mexico and Finland, Nokia has decided to halt its assembly lines there. Smartphones will still be customised at the three sites, but the gear itself will be built in Asia.…

Coke-snorting cop bots to replace sniffer dogs

Posted: 08 Feb 2012 01:28 AM PST

Roboplod finds could count as evidence in court

Sniffer dogs can get tired, but fibre-optic sniffer robots don't have the same problem. And they are just as good at detecting cocaine, says Tong Sun, a professor of sensor engineering at City University London.…

Heathrow facial recognition tech stalled by borders fiasco

Posted: 08 Feb 2012 01:01 AM PST

Airport's scanner rollout to miss Olympics target

Heathrow airport may now not get facial recognition technology at all five of its terminals in time for the Olympics as planned, according to the Financial Times.…

Move over cybercrims, DDoS now protesters' weapon of choice

Posted: 08 Feb 2012 12:31 AM PST

Attackers swap rifles for machine guns with laser sights

Ideological hacktivism has replaced cybercrime as the main motivatation behind DDoS attacks, according to a study by Arbor Networks.…

Apple won't rule out all singing, all dancing iBooks on Kindle

Posted: 08 Feb 2012 12:03 AM PST

But they must be free. And will need an Android app

Apple has come under fire for keeping all products of its new interactive book-making tool within its walled garden. According to a tough End User License Agreement, any iBooks created by the iBooks Author software can only be sold through the iBookstore so Apple can help itself to a 30 per cent cut.…

Ten... Freesat TV receivers

Posted: 07 Feb 2012 11:00 PM PST

Orbital options for the digital switchover

Product round-up Whether you've cut the cord and churned away from Sky, or need to survive the digital switch-over without recourse to Pay-TV or aerial, it's worth considering Freesat. The gratis satellite TV service matches Freeview for SD channels, and offers a smattering of high-def plus the BBC iPlayer, hardware permitting. It's a good bet for both the cash-strapped and the locationally challenged.…

Australian sports get busy with copyright special pleading

Posted: 07 Feb 2012 07:31 PM PST

Chewing on the government's ear

Australia's sports administrators, usually busy trying to steal each others' audiences, have discovered the spirit of cooperation in the face of the Optus TV Now Federal Court decision.…

SGI to restructure (again) after fiscal Q2 loss

Posted: 07 Feb 2012 05:30 PM PST

Blame Europe, Xeon E5 product transitions

It is becoming more apparent why supercomputer and server maker Silicon Graphics' former president and CEO Mark Barrenechea decided to exit stage left back in December. While the company was growing gear sales, it was heading deeper into the red ink as old machines came off maintenance and new machines await their ramps this year.…

'App Economy' has created 466,000 US jobs

Posted: 07 Feb 2012 05:15 PM PST

Thanks to Apple, Google, Facebook...

Although Apple may be facing mounting criticism for outsourcing its manufacturing beyond US shores, creating 700,000 jobs in China and elsewhere, one tech-industry advocacy group claims that Apple, the Android ecosystem, Facebook, and lesser lights account for roughly 466,000 US jobs in what it calls the "App Economy".…

Laser boffins blast bits onto hard drive at 200Gb/sec

Posted: 07 Feb 2012 04:51 PM PST

Superheating drives forego magnetic write heads

A team of scientists have published a new way of using heat to store data magnetically, which could increase the speed of hard drives over a hundredfold.…

Hong Kongers protest over end to all-you-can-eat tariffs

Posted: 07 Feb 2012 04:03 PM PST

SmarTone on the receiving end of user fury

Hong Kong dwellers have staged a mini-protest outside one of the stores of SmarTone against the cellco's response to new rules from the local regulator which will force all network operators to scrap unlimited data tariffs.…

Event: Amphion Forum 2012

2012-02-07T19:03:00.001-08:00

Event: Amphion Forum 2012

Event: Amphion Forum 2012
Public beta of Flash Player sandbox for Firefox is out
pcAnywhere code allegedly leaked after failed extortion attempt
Wireless security and the enterprise
Fake Temple Run app found on Android Market
Convincing tax-themed spam leads to malware
F-Secure enters the content cloud
Mobile security experts converge on Munich for Amphion Forum
Doyenz partners with Symantec to power cloud-based recovery service
U.S. developing plan to regulate critical infrastructure company cyber defense
Planning for IPv6

Event: Amphion Forum 2012

Posted: 07 Feb 2012 02:14 PM PST

What happens when hackers hit the Internet of Things? Find out at The Amphion Forum. It's the only event focused on the security of the billions of devices that already outnumber PC's on the network b...

Public beta of Flash Player sandbox for Firefox is out

Posted: 07 Feb 2012 08:12 AM PST

A little over a year after the implementation of a Flash Player sandbox into Google Chrome, Adobe has announced the release of a public beta of its new Flash Player sandbox for the Firefox browser. ...

pcAnywhere code allegedly leaked after failed extortion attempt

Posted: 07 Feb 2012 07:41 AM PST

Late Monday evening a 1.2GB file named "Symantec's pcAnywhere Leaked Source Code" was posted on The Pirate Bay. The security firm has downloaded and is analyzing it, but has still to confirm whether i...

Wireless security and the enterprise

Posted: 07 Feb 2012 06:00 AM PST

Jesse Frankel is the head of the AirMagnet Intrusion Research Team. He has been working in various areas of wireless LAN technology and applications for more than 15 years. Currently he manages the Ai...

Fake Temple Run app found on Android Market

Posted: 07 Feb 2012 05:21 AM PST

Android users who were looking forward to playing the popular Temple Run game - currently available only for iOS devices - have probably thought that the happy day has arrived when they discovered the...

Convincing tax-themed spam leads to malware

Posted: 07 Feb 2012 04:20 AM PST

With the US tax season underway, users are constantly being targeted with tax-themed spam. The latest one to be spotted is an email purportedly coming from Inuit, a US company that makes QuickBooks...

F-Secure enters the content cloud

Posted: 07 Feb 2012 01:07 AM PST

F-Secure Content Anywhere synchronizes a user's content in the cloud, making it accessible on any device, anywhere and anytime of the day. Operators will be able to offer a safe personal cloud to thei...

Mobile security experts converge on Munich for Amphion Forum

Posted: 06 Feb 2012 11:46 PM PST

The Amphion Forum, launched in the United States last year by the same entrepreneur that founded the global RSA Conferences, has established itself as the hottest event for security professionals ridi...

Doyenz partners with Symantec to power cloud-based recovery service

Posted: 06 Feb 2012 11:00 PM PST

Doyenz announced that its cloud-based recovery technology was selected by Symantec to power the new Cloud DR Option available as part of Backup Exec 2012. The service enables customers to leverage Rec...

U.S. developing plan to regulate critical infrastructure company cyber defense

Posted: 06 Feb 2012 10:03 PM PST

A Senate plan to boost the US government's ability to regulate the security of companies responsible for critical industries is causing debate as to exactly how far its reach should be. With sophis...

Planning for IPv6

Posted: 06 Feb 2012 09:01 PM PST

With IPv4 network addresses close to depletion, moving to IPv6 is now business critical. This concise book helps you plan for IPv6 integration by providing a high-level overview of the technicaland n...

New Fedora boss pushes for the clouds

2012-02-07T15:30:00.001-08:00

New Fedora boss pushes for the clouds

New Fedora boss pushes for the clouds
Koala food may power US Defence force
Global digirati head to Sydney
Will Apple set up shop in Walmart warehouses?
VMware crafts mega-controller for public clouds
Spacemen urge NASA to build nuke ship for Mars trip
Stratus ruggedizes VMware clouds
HP readies next-gen servers for launch
Google adds Chrome finish to Android
NetApp slaps down Lightning with multi-card flash flush
Rambus drops $35m for Unity Semiconductor
Xeround's cloudy MySQL database goes freemium
6,300 wannabe astronauts flood NASA inbox
Chinese company demands $38m, 'apology' from Apple
Canonical kicks Kubuntu to the kerb
Cloud proves that OldSQL is still cool
TRENDnet home security cam flaw exposes thousands
Google's whack-a-mole Marketplace cleans house again
Apple eyes ISPs to sell 'iTV'
USER-TRACKING Firefox sparks Mozilla civil war
Channel body count hits dotcom implosion high
2020: A Press Odyssey – reporter licensing explained
Acer sues ex-boss Lanci for shacking up with Lenovo
Oracle demands retrial in SAP slurp spat
O2 quietly cans gratis Cloud Wi-Fi connectivity
Blighty's PC market fell to its knees in Q4
UK's digital policy seized by fanatical bureaucrats, say MPs
Raspberry Pi ship date slips
Google goggles with Terminator HUD 'coming soon'
UK.gov's mega-cloud VIP biz list kept under wraps
Conclusive PROOF of human activity causing glacier to VANISH
Hackers spunk 'pcAnywhere source' after negotiation breakdown
YouView will launch this Spring, says TalkTalk
Brazil sues Twitter over police checkpoint tweets
Nokia posts 'major' Sym... er... smartphone OS update
Mac OS X ARM port by Apple work experience kid revealed
ViewSonic V350 dual Sim Android smartphone
High Street chains vow to play fair on warranties
Toshiba releases 'world's thinnest' Android tablet
Has Microsoft finally killed off Windows 8 Start button?
Parliament ponders £400,000 iPads-for-MPs plan
Google unleashes 'Solve for X' confabs to save the world
TalkTalk loses 43,000 customers, chunk o' revenue in Q3
HTC wants a hug after glum Q1 estimates
Beware Freedom of Info law 'privacy folktale' - ICO chief
Chilli crab scoffing boffins build anti-cancer claw robot
Avast! Mobile Security
Mac demand helps Apple business bloom in Blighty
N Korea mobile phone subscribers top 1 million
Google-hosted blogs to be censored on country-by-country basis

New Fedora boss pushes for the clouds

Posted: 07 Feb 2012 03:24 PM PST

Robyn Bergeron takes the reins

Red Hat has appointed former Fedora program manager Robyn Bergeron to that distro's next project leader – and she has plans to make the operating system more focused on cloud services.…

Koala food may power US Defence force

Posted: 07 Feb 2012 03:15 PM PST

US Navy bigwig boosting biofuel in Queensland visit

Koalas might soon face a food shortage if the US Department of Defence pursues its interest in Australian research for the creation of biofuels from local flora.…

Global digirati head to Sydney

Posted: 07 Feb 2012 02:45 PM PST

LBI and ZINFI Tech set up shop

New South Wales has attracted two more international digital developers to its burgeoning "Silicon Valley" styled digital economy.…

Will Apple set up shop in Walmart warehouses?

Posted: 07 Feb 2012 02:02 PM PST

Sets sights on middle America

The contrast between Apple's prestige city-centre stores and the Sam's Club warehouse chain – where budget goods are sold straight from the pallet – is sharp. But that's where Apple wants to set up mini stores to sell its gadgets.…

VMware crafts mega-controller for public clouds

Posted: 07 Feb 2012 01:54 PM PST

Easier provisioning for service providers, resellers

If VMware wants service providers to dump Xen and KVM hypervisors, it has to make the job of using the VMware stack easier than the hodgepodge of usually hand-crafted tools that service providers employ and that, to a certain extent, give them their competitive advantage. Or, perhaps in some cases, a competitive disadvantage. So VMware has cooked up a special uber-controller aimed specifically at service providers, called vCloud Integration Manager.…

Spacemen urge NASA to build nuke ship for Mars trip

Posted: 07 Feb 2012 01:19 PM PST

Nuclear rocket engines rise from the dead

Mars has given nuclear spacecraft engines a new lease on life, with nuke ships being named as a top priority – along with electrical propulsion – in a new report that recommends what NASA should focus on in coming years.…

Stratus ruggedizes VMware clouds

Posted: 07 Feb 2012 01:09 PM PST

Fault tolerant appliance for vCenter control freak

Clouds have a single point of failure, and Stratus Technologies thinks it can make it some dough fixing it.…

HP readies next-gen servers for launch

Posted: 07 Feb 2012 12:03 PM PST

Looks like Xeon E5 boxes

Server juggernaut Hewlett-Packard is hosting a shindig in Las Vegas next week with the bigwigs in its server unit, and the speculation is that the company will preview its forthcoming ProLiant G8 servers sporting Intel's "Sandy Bridge-EP" Xeon E5 processors.…

Google adds Chrome finish to Android

Posted: 07 Feb 2012 11:33 AM PST

Ice Cream Sandwich users only, sadly

Google has announced a beta version of its increasingly popular Chrome browser for Android users, but only if you're on the most current build, version 4.0, dubbed Ice Cream Sandwich.…

NetApp slaps down Lightning with multi-card flash flush

Posted: 07 Feb 2012 11:29 AM PST

Supports vMotion and DRS

NetApp is developing a server flash storage offering that will include beefy NetApp steak and not just EMC Lightning sizzle, according to insiders in the company.…

Rambus drops $35m for Unity Semiconductor

Posted: 07 Feb 2012 11:01 AM PST

Cash for CMOX

Rambus is spending $35m (£22.13m) in cash to buy Unity Semiconductor and get into the post-NAND memory business.…

Xeround's cloudy MySQL database goes freemium

Posted: 07 Feb 2012 10:42 AM PST

Rejiggers pricing, puffs up on other clouds

Xeround, a startup with experience in making scalable database management systems for telcos and service providers, vaulted itself into the cloudy database business last June with the launch of its eponymous database service running atop Amazon's EC2 service. Now it is tweaking the product's packaging and pricing to make it more appealing to a larger number of customers.…

6,300 wannabe astronauts flood NASA inbox

Posted: 07 Feb 2012 10:30 AM PST

Second-highest number of applications since 1978

NASA has received the second-highest number of astronaut applications ever for the 21st astronaut class when more than 6,300 people signed up to be space invaders.…

Chinese company demands $38m, 'apology' from Apple

Posted: 07 Feb 2012 10:29 AM PST

Convoluted iPad trademark battle grinds on

A Chinese trademark-infringement case against Apple's right to use the name "iPad" that has been rumbling along since October 2010 has taken another turn: the Shenzhen company involved in the imbroglio now wants Cupertino to be levied a $38m fine – and it wants an apology.…

Canonical kicks Kubuntu to the kerb

Posted: 07 Feb 2012 10:03 AM PST

Axed KDE-based Linux distro was biz non-starter

Ubuntu shop Canonical has withdrawn support from development of the KDE-based Kubuntu Linux desktop after seven years for commercial reasons.…

Cloud proves that OldSQL is still cool

Posted: 07 Feb 2012 09:31 AM PST

Relational lives to fight on

Open... and Shut As the IT world scrambles pell mell into the cloud, veteran vendors like Oracle are having to figure out how to make money in an IT market that is increasingly turning its back on traditional software licensing. While Oracle has faced down challenges to its core database business before from open source, the cloud presents an even thornier problem. If the world wants NoSQL and its ilk, will Oracle be forced to capitulate?…

TRENDnet home security cam flaw exposes thousands

Posted: 07 Feb 2012 09:01 AM PST

Just when you thought you were alone in the bath

TRENDnet has acknowledged a flaw that meant that live feeds from its home security cameras were accessible online without needing a password.…

Google's whack-a-mole Marketplace cleans house again

Posted: 07 Feb 2012 08:44 AM PST

Rovio Mobile, not `Rovio MobiIe`

Google's reactive policy over content on the Android Marketplace saw dozens of applications popping up overnight with names close enough to the real thing to reel in a mark or two.…

Apple eyes ISPs to sell 'iTV'

Posted: 07 Feb 2012 08:40 AM PST

Canny marketing as World+Dog goes IPTV

Analysis What are we to make of the claims from moles within Canada's two key telcos that both companies have Apple HD TVs in their labs?…

USER-TRACKING Firefox sparks Mozilla civil war

Posted: 07 Feb 2012 08:19 AM PST

Devs spar over unique identifiers in MetricsDataPing code

Mozilla coders are arguing among themselves about the open-source outfit's Metrics Data Ping project, which was designed to monitor Firefox usage metrics. Several coders in the Mozilla camp have expressed concern about how some developers are proposing the project should collect data from users of the browser.…

Channel body count hits dotcom implosion high

Posted: 07 Feb 2012 08:01 AM PST

Reseller bloodbath in 2011

The channel body count in 2011 reached a high not seen since the dotcom bubble burst, stats from credit reference agency Graydon UK reveal.…

2020: A Press Odyssey – reporter licensing explained

Posted: 07 Feb 2012 07:39 AM PST

Daddy, who's Hugh Grant? Oh, you mean Lord Grant

Sketch It's 2020, and a schoolgirl is doing her homework.…

Acer sues ex-boss Lanci for shacking up with Lenovo

Posted: 07 Feb 2012 07:16 AM PST

Contract's non-compete clause in question

Acer has sued former president and CEO Gianfranco Lanci amid claims that he breached a non-compete clause by joining rival Lenovo.…

Oracle demands retrial in SAP slurp spat

Posted: 07 Feb 2012 07:02 AM PST

Snubs paltry $272m payout, wants full $1.3bn in damages

Oracle has filed for a retrial in its SAP spat over illegal file downloading, moaning that the reduced damages awarded just aren't enough.…

O2 quietly cans gratis Cloud Wi-Fi connectivity

Posted: 07 Feb 2012 06:54 AM PST

Own-brand hotspots offered instead

O2 has quietly dropped The Cloud from the list of Wi-Fi hotspot aggregators it grants its mobile customers free access to.…

Blighty's PC market fell to its knees in Q4

Posted: 07 Feb 2012 06:43 AM PST

Consumer and biz sales slide, Apple posts growth

The UK PC market shrank by nearly one fifth in the Christmas quarter, suffering the worst decline in half a decade.…

UK's digital policy seized by fanatical bureaucrats, say MPs

Posted: 07 Feb 2012 06:29 AM PST

'Hey... That's OUR job!'

Analysis The UK government's digital policy has been captured by ideological fanatics at the IPO, Parliament heard today.…

Raspberry Pi ship date slips

Posted: 07 Feb 2012 06:21 AM PST

Crystal trips

Raspberry Pi won't make it into buyers' hands before 20 February and perhaps not until the end of the month, the organisation behind the $25 microcomputer has admitted.…

Google goggles with Terminator HUD 'coming soon'

Posted: 07 Feb 2012 06:01 AM PST

8GB of flash, front-facing cam, voice recog and head-tilting nav

Google is actually working on twitch-responsive sci-fi-style head-up display glasses, according to a report by 9TO5Google. And the new tech apparently includes a cursor that responds to head movements.…

UK.gov's mega-cloud VIP biz list kept under wraps

Posted: 07 Feb 2012 05:41 AM PST

Suppliers find out if they're in the G-Cloud club

Scores of IT suppliers and consultancy firms have made it onto the G-Cloud framework, but government officials are keeping schtum about the names and numbers until a two-week cooling off period passes.…

Conclusive PROOF of human activity causing glacier to VANISH

Posted: 07 Feb 2012 05:17 AM PST

Captain Prat blagger cuffed with hot ice slung in cooler

Even the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has had to walk back on the idea that the world's glaciers will all be gone within decades due to human-caused carbon powered global warming: but news has now emerged showing that in at least one case human action has absolutely indisputably led to the disappearance of large chunks of glacier.…

Hackers spunk 'pcAnywhere source' after negotiation breakdown

Posted: 07 Feb 2012 05:01 AM PST

'Fed posing as Symantec worker' offered $50k to activists

Hacktivists affiliated with Anonymous uploaded what they claim is the source code of Symantec's pcAnywhere software early on Tuesday, following the breakdown of negotiations between the hacking group and "a federal agent posing as a Symantec employee".…

YouView will launch this Spring, says TalkTalk

Posted: 07 Feb 2012 05:01 AM PST

Consumer trials coming

ISP TalkTalk has reiterated its expectation that YouView, the would-be UK standard IPTV platform, will launch this coming Spring.…

Brazil sues Twitter over police checkpoint tweets

Posted: 07 Feb 2012 04:40 AM PST

Threatens $290k fine... daily

Twitter should be more proactive in blocking tweets about police checkpoints, according to the Brazilian Attorney, who reckons a daily fine of R$500,000 ($290,000) will get the company moving.…

Nokia posts 'major' Sym... er... smartphone OS update

Posted: 07 Feb 2012 04:33 AM PST

Belle, end of Symbian?

Nokia may be obsessed with Microsoft's Windows Phone OS, but that hasn't stopped it rolling out the latest version of its other OS, Belle, to a seven handsets.…

Mac OS X ARM port by Apple work experience kid revealed

Posted: 07 Feb 2012 04:21 AM PST

Project sparks non-Intel-powered MacBook rumour fever

A Dutch computer science student's homework has stirred the old rumour that Apple may ditch the Intel platform and power its Macbooks with ARM processors.…

ViewSonic V350 dual Sim Android smartphone

Posted: 07 Feb 2012 04:08 AM PST

For business and pleasure

Review Every now and again, a brand new product comes along that seems to hark back to days of yore, to a time when things were different. One of those things would be the steam-powered PC, another is the ViewSonic V350 – a smartphone that can work on two networks simultaneously.…

High Street chains vow to play fair on warranties

Posted: 07 Feb 2012 04:02 AM PST

Dixons, Comet and Argos pulled over by OFT

UK retailers have offered a number of concessions after the Office of Fair Trading had a word about their extended warranties on electrical goods.…

Toshiba releases 'world's thinnest' Android tablet

Posted: 07 Feb 2012 03:50 AM PST

Sales limited to a single retailer

Toshiba's 'world's thinnest, lightest' tablet, the AT200 - aka the Excite in the US - goes on sale over here next week.…

Has Microsoft finally killed off Windows 8 Start button?

Posted: 07 Feb 2012 03:44 AM PST

Era of Windows 95 finally over

Microsoft is reportedly killing the Start button in Windows, a staple of Redmond's PC operating system since the landmark Windows 95.…

Parliament ponders £400,000 iPads-for-MPs plan

Posted: 07 Feb 2012 03:35 AM PST

Representatives to get slated

Members of Parliament may soon be issued with an iPad each in a scheme that could cost the tax payer over £400,000.…

Google unleashes 'Solve for X' confabs to save the world

Posted: 07 Feb 2012 03:31 AM PST

Boffins gathered for new TED-like talks

Internet giant Google is once more trying to save the world, this time with its TED-rip-off "Solve for X" project.…

TalkTalk loses 43,000 customers, chunk o' revenue in Q3

Posted: 07 Feb 2012 03:19 AM PST

Better HomeSafe than sorry, telco insists

TalkTalk lost 43,000 broadband customers during the company's third quarter and reported that revenue in that area of the business had fallen year-on-year.…

HTC wants a hug after glum Q1 estimates

Posted: 07 Feb 2012 03:03 AM PST

Under-pressure biz seeks 'emotional connection' with punters

HTC could be in for a spot of bother in 2012 after its Q1 outlook missed analysts' estimates. Commentators suggest the firm may struggle to compete with Apple, Samsung and the wealth of handset manufacturers crowding this increasingly competitive space.…

Beware Freedom of Info law 'privacy folktale' - ICO chief

Posted: 07 Feb 2012 02:42 AM PST

Chicken Lickens in a flap as FOIA scrutinised

Is Blighty's Freedom of Information (FOI) law working?…

Chilli crab scoffing boffins build anti-cancer claw robot

Posted: 07 Feb 2012 02:22 AM PST

New stomach tumour busting gadget inspired by top Asian nosh

The fight against cancer reached a weird new level after Singapore's centuries-old chilli crab dish inspired boffins to build a tumour-removing robot.…

Avast! Mobile Security

Posted: 07 Feb 2012 02:00 AM PST

Prepare to repel boarders

Android App of the Week The security or lack thereof of the Android platform - real or imagined - is a common topic of conversation at the moment so it seems like a good time to take a look for a comprehensive security app. My preferred choice is Avast!.…

Mac demand helps Apple business bloom in Blighty

Posted: 07 Feb 2012 01:39 AM PST

Rival PC players slump

Apple was the only major computer maker to increase its shipments into the UK PC market during the final three months of 2011.…

N Korea mobile phone subscribers top 1 million

Posted: 07 Feb 2012 01:37 AM PST

No need to be ronery in hardline communist state

Axis of evil North Korea now has a whopping one million mobile phone users some four years after the technology was first introduced in the repressive state.…

Google-hosted blogs to be censored on country-by-country basis

Posted: 07 Feb 2012 01:18 AM PST

But you can work around it with a 'No Country Redirect'

Google will remove content posted on its blogging platform on a country-by-country basis after altering the way the service organises blog posts.…

Trojan rounds up and steals Word and Excel docs

2012-02-06T19:37:00.001-08:00

Trojan rounds up and steals Word and Excel docs

Trojan rounds up and steals Word and Excel docs
Hungarian sentenced for hacking, blackmailing Marriot
Update on the Kelihos botnet
The state of cyberwar in the U.S.
Quick response, quick risk?
Simple steps to ensure online safety
Smaller DDoS attacks can be deadlier than big ones
Windows privilege management with enterprise reporting capabilities
CRISC certification: Reacting to a radically changing IT landscape
Viral Facebook spam campaign delivers malware
Compromised DreamHost-hosted websites lead to scams
Week in review: Reactions to VeriSign hack, Anonymous leaks FBI conference call, and the new issue of (IN)SECURE Magazine

Trojan rounds up and steals Word and Excel docs

Posted: 06 Feb 2012 08:02 AM PST

Beware of bogus FedEx emails asking you to review a shipment notification - the attached Fedex_Invoice.exe is actually a downloader Trojan that opens you computer to other pieces of malware. In thi...

Hungarian sentenced for hacking, blackmailing Marriot

Posted: 06 Feb 2012 07:02 AM PST

Attila Nemeth, a 26-year-old Hungarian national who tried to blackmail Marriot International into giving him a job by stealing the company's internal documents and threatening to publish them has been...

Update on the Kelihos botnet

Posted: 06 Feb 2012 06:21 AM PST

Reports that the Kelihos botnet is back online and that its original operators are again trying to take over its reigns have been premature, says Microsoft. "Contrary to some reports, Kaspersky ...

The state of cyberwar in the U.S.

Posted: 06 Feb 2012 06:06 AM PST

As a country that is used to being dominant in the more traditional sense, the U.S. has been working to come to grips with a new sense of supremacy as a result of cyber threats, according to DiploNews...

Quick response, quick risk?

Posted: 06 Feb 2012 06:00 AM PST

You don't have to look far these days to spot a QR code. From their humble beginnings in labeling and tracking parts used in vehicle manufacturing, these blocky little barcodes-on-steroids are being ...

Simple steps to ensure online safety

Posted: 06 Feb 2012 05:58 AM PST

Resent research into internet use by teenagers conducted for GFI Software revealed that one in three parents do not know if Internet safety tips are being taught to their children, while nearly 25% of...

Smaller DDoS attacks can be deadlier than big ones

Posted: 06 Feb 2012 04:03 AM PST

Contrary to conventional thinking that large bandwidth cyber attacks wreak the most damage on enterprises, security experts at Radware instead found that bigger problems usually come in small packages...

Windows privilege management with enterprise reporting capabilities

Posted: 06 Feb 2012 03:34 AM PST

Avecto has unveiled the latest version of its Privilege Guard technology, developed to enable organizations to give all users the privileges they need to remain productive without impacting the securi...

CRISC certification: Reacting to a radically changing IT landscape

Posted: 06 Feb 2012 03:19 AM PST

The number of IT professionals seeking the CRISC (Certified in Risk and Information Systems Control) certification continues to rise rapidly. More than 16,000 professionals have earned the CRISC desig...

Viral Facebook spam campaign delivers malware

Posted: 05 Feb 2012 10:50 PM PST

If you spot a Facebook friend of yours worrying about and linking to news about the US attacking Iran and Saudi Arabia, curb your curiosity and don't follow the link if you don't want to get served wi...

Compromised DreamHost-hosted websites lead to scams

Posted: 05 Feb 2012 10:29 PM PST

Hundreds of websites hosted by DreamHost have been compromised and are used to redirect users to a Russian scam page, warns Zscaler. Whether or not this is the result of the recent compromise of on...

Week in review: Reactions to VeriSign hack, Anonymous leaks FBI conference call, and the new issue of (IN)SECURE Magazine

Posted: 05 Feb 2012 09:01 PM PST

Here's an overview of some of last week's most interesting news, podcasts, reviews and articles: The F-BOMB: A tiny $50 spying computer for DARPA As ShmooCon's visitors have witnessed on Friday ...

‘Oldest animals’ show up in Namibian dig

2012-02-06T15:14:00.001-08:00

‘Oldest animals’ show up in Namibian dig

‘Oldest animals’ show up in Namibian dig
VMTurbo control freak spans more clouds
The hole in the copy-proof fence
NewSat scores $US180m in new contract win
Boffins uncloak G-rated teledildonic breakthrough
Upgrade eliminates Atlantis from Google Earth
Shrunken Intel process boosts SSD performance
Symantec: 'NetBackup 7.5 speeds backup 100X'
Cisco recalls suicidal UCS blade servers
Resellers smack down Microsoft's 'single-digit' price rise claim
Anonymous releases law firm's emails about Haditha killings
Avast false alarm hits Steam's weekend gamers
iPhone 4 incapable of handling Siri, says chip chap
UK gov rejects call to posthumously pardon Alan Turing
Android dominates first-time smartphone buyer biz
An NT-powered Windows Phone? Not so fast...
Google tells French watchdog 'non' on privacy tweak halt
Printed jaw lets woman swallow again
Apple kicks China's most popular browser out of iTunes
Apple tells authors: All your <strike>books</strike> iBook files are belong to us
Ofcom proposes fall in BT Openreach charges to rivals
Windows Phone 8 to get NFC, HD and Skype
BTJunkie closes shooting gallery
Schools IT supplier RM swings to full year loss after sales dive
Job-seeking Marriott hacker gets 30 months' porridge
Google and Facebook remove 'offensive' content from Indian sites
Scientists weave battery into clothing
Apple vs Amazon in ereader format smackdown
Analyst touts iPad 'transformer' after CEO confab
MPs rattle telcos to help kill extremist material online
Samsung Series 7 Chonos 15.6in Core i7 notebook
Amazon lures Microsoft WinPhone chief with Kindle
Apple TV surfaces on Best Buy
Micron grabs almost-retired COO for chief
iOS 5 'crashes more apps' than Android
IT budgets plunge in North America, Europe
EMC server flash rival slams VFCache
Twitter snaps up Google Asia exec
PSN renamed Sony Entertainment Network
Boffins find prehistoric croc species with 'mate-attracting' skin helmet
Motorola: refurb tablets shipped with former owners' data intact
Facebook's IPO unveils plans to invade China
New dole system is 'digital by default', like it or not
Doctors sick of anonymous-coward NHS feedback commentards
Huawei-Symantec sneaks out of US back door
Hackers may be able to 'outwit' online banking security devices
MYSTERY as QLogic hurls InfiniBand from train
Indian court grabs back 122 GSM licences from operators
EMC crashes the server flash party
CA wins copyright wrangle against ISI

‘Oldest animals’ show up in Namibian dig

Posted: 06 Feb 2012 02:30 PM PST

Ancient sponge the grand-daddy of us all

For now, anyhow, the starting date for highly-organised life has gained a new record, with a dig in Namibia yielding up sponge fossils dated somewhere between 100 and 150 million years earlier than anything else yet found.…

VMTurbo control freak spans more clouds

Posted: 06 Feb 2012 02:02 PM PST

Allocating virty resources, free market–style

There are a lot of different ways to allocate resources in a world that has a scarcity of just about everything except wise guys. You can do command and control from the top down, as many governments have tried and many systems management tools do as well. Or you can take the free-market approach by creating pools of resources and hoards of potential buyers, and letting them compete for resources.…

The hole in the copy-proof fence

Posted: 06 Feb 2012 02:00 PM PST

The Optus TV Now decision

The value of live sports sponsorships isn't going to collapse overnight, regardless of the dire predictions made in the wake of last week's decision in the Optus TV Now case.…

NewSat scores $US180m in new contract win

Posted: 06 Feb 2012 01:39 PM PST

Aus satellite gets popular

Australian satellite operator NewSat has secured another contract, this time worth $US180 million, for capacity on its yet-to-be-launched Jabiru -1 satellite.…

Boffins uncloak G-rated teledildonic breakthrough

Posted: 06 Feb 2012 01:36 PM PST

Remotely kiss a cow, kiss a bunny, kiss your loneliness goodbye

A team of robot reseachers have developed a prototype of internet-based remote kissing devices that – for reasons unexplained – comes in two versions, one a cartoonish bunny, the other a cow.…

Upgrade eliminates Atlantis from Google Earth

Posted: 06 Feb 2012 11:34 AM PST

Data glitch explanation won't satisfy true believers

The latest update to Google Earth has resolved the software error that caused some to suspect the lost city of Atlantis had been found in the Atlantic Ocean.…

Shrunken Intel process boosts SSD performance

Posted: 06 Feb 2012 11:17 AM PST

The new 520 Series more than doubles 510's IOPS

Intel has announced a boosted follow-on to its 510 SSD: the 520 Series, with more than double the IOPS performance and a top-end model with almost twice the capacity.…

Symantec: 'NetBackup 7.5 speeds backup 100X'

Posted: 06 Feb 2012 11:03 AM PST

Cuts 25-hour chore down to 15 minutes

Symantec says backup is a multi-point product mess, with big data blowing backup-window timing out of the water, and so it has souped up both BackupExec and NetBackup to cover more backup and restore use cases. The sexy news – well, as sexy as backup news can be – is that the latest release of NetBackup is said to be 100 times faster, theoretically shrinking a 25-hour backup window to 15 minutes.…

Cisco recalls suicidal UCS blade servers

Posted: 06 Feb 2012 10:36 AM PST

Goodness gracious, great MOSFETs afire

Cisco Systems warns that its high-end B440 blades for its "California" Unified Computing System have a potentially disastrous defect that could result in one or more board failures, and emit a flash of light that could perhaps give system administrators heart attacks.…

Resellers smack down Microsoft's 'single-digit' price rise claim

Posted: 06 Feb 2012 10:18 AM PST

Channel sources: Volume licensing lift will be closer to 20 per cent

Microsoft says that a planned overhaul of volume licensing pricing due in the summer will be capped at single digit percentage rises.…

Anonymous releases law firm's emails about Haditha killings

Posted: 06 Feb 2012 09:58 AM PST

Hacked lawyers who defended Marine over Iraqi deaths

Anonymous has leaked a trove of emails relating to the deaths of 24 Iraqi civilians at Haditha after hacking into a law firm's systems.…

Avast false alarm hits Steam's weekend gamers

Posted: 06 Feb 2012 09:23 AM PST

'I am sworn to carry your burdens'

Freebie anti-virus scanner Avast falsely identified an executable associated with the popular Steam gaming platform as a Trojan on Sunday.…

iPhone 4 incapable of handling Siri, says chip chap

Posted: 06 Feb 2012 08:59 AM PST

Cough up for 4$ or somehow stagger on without blabberware

Siri won't run on iPhone 4 because the phone's chip can't handle it, an analyst at the Linley Group has said. The news is a blow to iPhone 4-ers hoping for an upgrade to the voice-activated virtual assistant and is also a surprise to anyone familiar with the I-hacked-my-iPhone-4-to-run-Siri stories.…

UK gov rejects call to posthumously pardon Alan Turing

Posted: 06 Feb 2012 08:23 AM PST

Wartime codebreaker's 'absurd' conviction must stand

The UK government has turned down a call to posthumously pardon Alan Turing.…

Android dominates first-time smartphone buyer biz

Posted: 06 Feb 2012 08:04 AM PST

Apple strong in upgrade arena

Punters picking their first smartphone are more likely to select an Android handset. When they come to upgrade, however, there's a good chance they'll defect to the opposition.…

An NT-powered Windows Phone? Not so fast...

Posted: 06 Feb 2012 07:57 AM PST

MS mulls partying like it's 1996....

Sources close to Microsoft have confirmed the veracity of last week's Windows Phone leaks – but say no decision has been taken to base the mobile platform on the Windows 8 kernel.…

Google tells French watchdog 'non' on privacy tweak halt

Posted: 06 Feb 2012 07:36 AM PST

'At no stage did any DPA suggest pause was necessary'

Google has rejected calls from the European Union's watchdog to delay imminent changes to the Chocolate Factory's privacy policy.…

Printed jaw lets woman swallow again

Posted: 06 Feb 2012 07:19 AM PST

Let's eat, Grandma

3D printing techniques have been taken to jaw-dropping heights after an 83-year-old woman was given a replacement mandible. She becomes the first patient ever to be fitted with a printed lower jaw.…

Apple kicks China's most popular browser out of iTunes

Posted: 06 Feb 2012 07:01 AM PST

Bans Qihoo apps from its store ...

Qihoo, maker of the most popular web browser in China, has had all of its products kicked out of iTunes, though it's far from clear which breach of the rules is responsible.…

Apple tells authors: All your <strike>books</strike> iBook files are belong to us

Posted: 06 Feb 2012 06:39 AM PST

But you can export them as PDFs if you want

In a legal rewrite pushed out Friday, Apple has made its iBooks publishing agreement sound slightly less evil by clarifying just what you can do with the content you create on its iBook Author software.…

Ofcom proposes fall in BT Openreach charges to rivals

Posted: 06 Feb 2012 06:18 AM PST

Just wait for that nice Brussels man to agree

Updated BT will be forced to cut the prices of the access charges it applies to the company's broadband and telephone lines when leasing them out to other providers, Ofcom said today.…

Windows Phone 8 to get NFC, HD and Skype

Posted: 06 Feb 2012 05:58 AM PST

Rumours confirmed, details emerge

Following a leaked video which showed Windows Phone top dog Joe Belfiore listing the features adorning the next version of Windows Phone, beta testers have come clean on what we should expect.…

BTJunkie closes shooting gallery

Posted: 06 Feb 2012 05:44 AM PST

'My life is officially ruined'

Popular torrent search engine BTJunkie – nothing to do with BT – is voluntarily closing, according to a notice posted on the site, without offering a reason. The site has indexed other torrent trackers since 2005, and was the fifth most popular Torrent site.…

Schools IT supplier RM swings to full year loss after sales dive

Posted: 06 Feb 2012 05:17 AM PST

We knew about gov budget cuts but we didn't really get it...

Ailing specialist education IT supplier RM has admitted it reacted too slowly to government budget cuts in schools after revealing massive losses in fiscal 2011 ended 30 November.…

Job-seeking Marriott hacker gets 30 months' porridge

Posted: 06 Feb 2012 05:03 AM PST

Nabbed and jailed after Secret Service sting

A job-seeking Hungarian hacker who tried to land work with Marriott by hacking into the hotel chain's network before "offering" to sort out the resulting mess has been found guilty of hacking and attempted extortion and jailed for 30 months.…

Google and Facebook remove 'offensive' content from Indian sites

Posted: 06 Feb 2012 04:47 AM PST

Internet firms comply with court order

Facebook and Google have removed content from Indian domain websites in response to a court order to get rid of "objectionable content".…

Scientists weave battery into clothing

Posted: 06 Feb 2012 04:41 AM PST

Uses jumper leads?

Scientists charged into the fashion industry this week, unveiling a flexible battery that can be woven into fabric and used to boost the juice of everyday gadgets.…

Apple vs Amazon in ereader format smackdown

Posted: 06 Feb 2012 04:34 AM PST

iBooks enlists kiddies on the EPUB3 front

Format wars are a mixed blessing for consumers. Whether it's Betamax versus VHS or Blu-Ray versus HD-DVD, the consumer ultimately wins because companies have to advance superior technologies. But problems arise if the format you backed loses the war - and your device becomes next year's expensive doorstop.…

Analyst touts iPad 'transformer' after CEO confab

Posted: 06 Feb 2012 04:19 AM PST

Dual dock ports, clip-on keyboard for laptop-like use?

Will the Apple iPad 3 be an 'homage' to the Asus Eee Pad Transformer Prime, complete with clever clip-on keyboard accessory? One financial analysts comments, posted after a meeting with Apple CEO Tim Cook, suggests it might be.…

MPs rattle telcos to help kill extremist material online

Posted: 06 Feb 2012 04:13 AM PST

ISPs once again asked to police interwebs

Update Internet service providers must do better at removing violent material from websites, a group of MPs thundered today.…

Samsung Series 7 Chonos 15.6in Core i7 notebook

Posted: 06 Feb 2012 04:00 AM PST

NOT a MacBook clone

Review Surely someone is having a laugh. Having read nothing but five-star reviews of this luxury notebook on other sources, I find myself surprised to be staring at a four-star product on my desk. Four stars is pretty good, you know, but that's one less than five.…

Amazon lures Microsoft WinPhone chief with Kindle

Posted: 06 Feb 2012 03:47 AM PST

Etailer claims third Redmond scalp

Microsoft's man rallying developers and partners to buy into Windows Phone is reportedly jumping ship to help push Amazon's cross-platform Kindle push.…

Apple TV surfaces on Best Buy

Posted: 06 Feb 2012 03:37 AM PST

Spec leak - or fishing expedition?

US electronics retailer Best Buy has begun asking punters if they'd be interested coughing up $1499 for a 42in HD TV from Apple.…

Micron grabs almost-retired COO for chief

Posted: 06 Feb 2012 03:35 AM PST

Mark Durcan will take over as CEO after death of Steve Appleton

Chip-maker Micron Technology has named a new CEO following the death of Steve Appleton on Friday in a plane crash.…

iOS 5 'crashes more apps' than Android

Posted: 06 Feb 2012 03:32 AM PST

Is it an upgrade problem, or a user problem?

Recent data has shown that iOS apps crash more often than apps running on the Android platform.…

IT budgets plunge in North America, Europe

Posted: 06 Feb 2012 03:14 AM PST

Rise in the East and Latin America

If you were expecting for IT spending to go up this year and for new projects to get going – and perhaps to get a pay raise – the consensus is building that this is not going to happen. That's the bad news. The good news would seem to be that instead of being asked to do more with less, IT shops will be asked to do a lot more with a tiny bit more dough. But it's not that simple, so don't jump to conclusions.…

EMC server flash rival slams VFCache

Posted: 06 Feb 2012 03:02 AM PST

Fusion-io thinks Lightning misses target

EMC's VFCache server cache doesn't quite hit the mark. Although it validates server flash use, caching is not enough.…

Twitter snaps up Google Asia exec

Posted: 06 Feb 2012 02:44 AM PST

Service could be set for greater expansion in the region

Micro-blogging phenomenon Twitter is stepping up its efforts at international expansion and has pinched a senior Google executive in a clear sign the company could be looking to target Asia in the coming months.…

PSN renamed Sony Entertainment Network

Posted: 06 Feb 2012 02:30 AM PST

SEN-sible name change?

The PlayStation Network is to undergo a major rebranding this week when it is integrated into an all-new Sony Entertainment Network.…

Boffins find prehistoric croc species with 'mate-attracting' skin helmet

Posted: 06 Feb 2012 02:17 AM PST

'Shieldcrocs' mingled with dinosaurs

Bone-bothering US boffins have identified a new species of prehistoric crocodile, nicknamed "Shieldcroc" because of a flat ornamental skin shield on its ginormous head.…

Motorola: refurb tablets shipped with former owners' data intact

Posted: 06 Feb 2012 02:05 AM PST

Whoops

Motorola Mobility has admitted that some refurbished Xoom tablets were sent out to their new owners with previous users' data still present in the gadgets' memory banks.…

Facebook's IPO unveils plans to invade China

Posted: 06 Feb 2012 01:58 AM PST

Social network would love to tap that

Not content with almost total domination in Western markets, social networking behemoth Facebook could be planning an assault on China if it can just do a deal with the authorities there, its latest regulatory filing has revealed.…

New dole system is 'digital by default', like it or not

Posted: 06 Feb 2012 01:39 AM PST

Claimants who do not comply will be 'nudged' by 'back office' workers

Universal credit – the government's "new and improved" benefits system – will be the first major government service to be digital by default.…

Doctors sick of anonymous-coward NHS feedback commentards

Posted: 06 Feb 2012 12:58 AM PST

Welcome to the internet, doc

A leading GP has declared that the general public are too rude about doctors on the internet in a complaint that may amuse those of us more familiar with the culture of "Internet feedback".…

Huawei-Symantec sneaks out of US back door

Posted: 06 Feb 2012 12:29 AM PST

Has it been booted out?

Huawei-Symantec, the joint venture between Huawei and Symantec, has effectively stopped trading and is leaving the United States.…

Hackers may be able to 'outwit' online banking security devices

Posted: 06 Feb 2012 12:01 AM PST

Investigators probe malware threat to 2-factor authentication

Hackers may already able to use malware to outwit the latest generation of online banking security devices, security watchers warn.…

MYSTERY as QLogic hurls InfiniBand from train

Posted: 05 Feb 2012 11:30 PM PST

Reg storage desk baffled in the case of the fibre fracas

Comment Storage networking and InfiniBand supplier is giving up on InfiniBand and selling that business line to Intel for $125 million.…

Indian court grabs back 122 GSM licences from operators

Posted: 05 Feb 2012 11:02 PM PST

Firms devalue to the tune of $25bn

India's Supreme Court has ruled that the 2G licences awarded in 2008 were not fairly distributed, and has snatched 122 of them back from the operators who were using them.…

EMC crashes the server flash party

Posted: 05 Feb 2012 09:01 PM PST

Lightning strike with thunder to follow

The perfect server flash storm hitting storage arrays has generated EMC's well-signalled Lightning strike; VFCache has arrived, extending FAST technology from the array to the server. Project Thunder is following close behind, promising an EMC server-networked flash array.…

CA wins copyright wrangle against ISI

Posted: 05 Feb 2012 07:00 PM PST

Don't nick the source code kids

Computer Associates has won a protracted legal battle against Sydney based software company Independent Systems Integrators ( ISI).…

Some coral reefs growing in a warming world

2012-02-05T15:05:00.001-08:00

Some coral reefs growing in a warming world

Some coral reefs growing in a warming world
Boffins embed electronics into fibres
Hollywood gathers to pick over Limewire’s corpse
Can Sony's new supremo make the sacrifices to save his biz?

Some coral reefs growing in a warming world

Posted: 05 Feb 2012 03:00 PM PST

Cooler, marginal reefs don't mind warmer water

While Austraia's iconic Great Barrier Reef has been suffering bleaching and damage, the combined impact of warmer oceans agricultural runoff, a few thousand kilometers to the west, coral growth seems to be enjoying the changing climate.…

Boffins embed electronics into fibres

Posted: 05 Feb 2012 02:30 PM PST

Hope for cheaper telecoms kit

University of Southampton and Penn State researchers have demonstrated a technique to embed electronics into optical fibres, which if commercialised would enable simpler and cheaper telecommuniations kit.…

Hollywood gathers to pick over Limewire’s corpse

Posted: 05 Feb 2012 01:49 PM PST

Whip? Check. Dead horse? Check.

Movies studios are moving on the defunct Limewire, filing a complaint in a US Federal Court to take their cut from the company's copyright infringments.…

Can Sony's new supremo make the sacrifices to save his biz?

Posted: 05 Feb 2012 04:30 AM PST

We drill into the uphill battle ex-Playstation boss Hirai faces

Comment When Faultline first began following Sony in 2003, it was worth $36 billion on the stock market. At the time Apple was worth $9.8 billion and it was about to launch the iTunes Music Store. We said that Sony should buy Apple and put Steve Jobs in charge.…

Tame the gas monster with sensors, suckers and a spiffy new fan

2012-02-04T15:24:00.001-08:00

Tame the gas monster with sensors, suckers and a spiffy new fan

Tame the gas monster with sensors, suckers and a spiffy new fan
Eight... HD camera smartphones
Zuckerberg's 2012 personal income tax bill: $1.5 billion

Tame the gas monster with sensors, suckers and a spiffy new fan

Posted: 04 Feb 2012 03:03 AM PST

More performance-tuning for your home and office

Part 3 I'm pleased to say that what with the relatively warm 2011 and our conservation efforts we had the lowest consumption of electricity and gas at home of any year yet, a bit over 1,500kWh ('units') of electricity and under 4,000kWh of gas. (A typical UK household is nearer 3,300kWh 'leccy and 18,000kWh gas.) With our solar PV exports we were just carbon-negative for power by my calculations.…

Eight... HD camera smartphones

Posted: 04 Feb 2012 12:00 AM PST

Sharp shooters for parties and protests

Product round-up You know that really annoying person who is videoing the gig with their camera phone to stick on Facebook when they get home? That's me. These days my TV is HD and my games console is HD, so it only makes sense that my phone – the device I use the most, day in and day out – should be HD too. Luckily, HD on smartphones is becoming more commonplace and so rather than judge these handsets on their mobile merits, this round-up focuses on their HD video camera performance.…

Zuckerberg's 2012 personal income tax bill: $1.5 billion

Posted: 03 Feb 2012 05:06 PM PST

That's 'billion', with a 'b'

If all goes according to plan, Facebook founder, chairman, and CEO Mark Zuckerberg's share of the profit in his company's upcoming initial public offering will result in him facing a tax bill of around $1.5bn for 2012.…

How to Use a Transfer Shovel

2012-02-04T01:08:00.001-08:00

How to Use a Transfer Shovel

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A transfer shovel is a bit different from a regular shovel that you may be familiar with. Use a transfer shovel with help from an expert with over two decades of experience working in Garden Centers in this free video clip.

Anonymous leaks FBI conference call on hacking investigations

2012-02-03T19:03:00.001-08:00

Anonymous leaks FBI conference call on hacking investigations

Anonymous leaks FBI conference call on hacking investigations
Server-side polymorphic Android apps
Attackers use fake friends to blend into Facebook
Kelihos botnet rises up again
Concerned about online privacy? FBI says you might be a terrorist
Google reveals it is already scanning Android apps for malware
VeriSign hack: Reactions from the security community
The fusion of hardware encryption, PIN access and USB 3.0
Netop updates remote support and management solution
Privacy and Big Data

Anonymous leaks FBI conference call on hacking investigations

Posted: 03 Feb 2012 09:28 AM PST

Anonymous resumed today its F**k FBI Friday campaign by publishing a 16-minute-long mp3 recoding of a confidential conference call between representatives of both law enforcement agencies. The subjec...

Server-side polymorphic Android apps

Posted: 03 Feb 2012 07:18 AM PST

Server-side polymorphism as a technique to serve unique malware versions that evade signature-based detection to Windows users is used by many malware peddlers on a regular basis, but Symantec resear...

Attackers use fake friends to blend into Facebook

Posted: 03 Feb 2012 06:32 AM PST

A new Barracuda Labs study provides an example of an increasing number of attackers move to social networks to carry out their wares. The study analyzes a random sampling of 2,884 active Facebook a...

Kelihos botnet rises up again

Posted: 03 Feb 2012 06:13 AM PST

Kelihos - the botnet whose operation was disrupted last September by Microsoft and Kaspersky Lab by shutting down its C&C servers and making its bots contact a sinkhole instead - is back and working. ...

Concerned about online privacy? FBI says you might be a terrorist

Posted: 03 Feb 2012 04:52 AM PST

Being concerned about your online privacy might be a sign that you're up to no good, says the FBI and the US Department of Justice, via a collection of 25 fliers to be distributed to people working at...

Google reveals it is already scanning Android apps for malware

Posted: 03 Feb 2012 03:38 AM PST

Even though most malicious Android apps are served from third-party app markets, cyber crooks occasionally manage to disseminate some via Google's official Android Market. Security experts have ...

VeriSign hack: Reactions from the security community

Posted: 03 Feb 2012 12:05 AM PST

VeriSign admitted it was hacked in 2010 and cannot identify what data was stolen. Below are comments on the situation that Help Net Security received from industry veterans. Jon Callas, CTO for E...

The fusion of hardware encryption, PIN access and USB 3.0

Posted: 02 Feb 2012 10:00 PM PST

Apricorn expanded their Aegis Secure Drives to the desktop environment with a new desktop edition, the Aegis Padlock DT. Sporting a spacious capacity of up to 3 TB with a Super Speed USB 3.0 inte...

Netop updates remote support and management solution

Posted: 02 Feb 2012 09:30 PM PST

Netop unveiled the latest version of its remote support product, Netop Remote Control 11. Now with a new secure tunnel option, customers can extend their support and management capabilities by re...

Privacy and Big Data

Posted: 02 Feb 2012 09:00 PM PST

Much of what constitutes Big Data is information about us. Through our online activities, we leave an easy-to-follow trail of digital footprints that reveal who we are, what we buy, where we go, and m...