| Wake up, Linux hippies: No one 'morally obligated' to give back Posted: 31 May 2011 03:22 PM PDT Open source selflessness does not exist Open...and Shut For years, open-source advocates – including me – have demanded greater open-source contributions from the world's largest beneficiaries, from Google to Morgan Stanley and the US Department of Defense. Now Amazon is on the firing line for not giving back commensurate with the benefits it receives from various open-source communities, and the thinking behind the arguments are as wrong-headed as they ever were.… |
| Apple ships removal tool for Mac-menacing malware Posted: 31 May 2011 03:21 PM PDT MacDefender Defender hits the streets Apple has updated its Mac operating system to protect against a malicious application that has been hoodwinked untold numbers of users by masquerading as legitimate security software that warns they have serious infections on their machines.… |
| VMware eats Socialcast for collabware Posted: 31 May 2011 02:38 PM PDT Munches way up the stack Server and desktop virtualization juggernaut VMware continues to build out a stack of applications for the cloudy era. It has now snapped up Socialcast, a maker of enterprise-grade social networking tools, for an undisclosed sum.… |
| Twitter slaps 'follow' button on third-party sites Posted: 31 May 2011 01:55 PM PDT Follow Justin Bieber. Without leaving Justin Bieber Twitter has rolled out a "follow" button for third-party websites.… |
| Zencoder serves HTML5 video freedom in spades Posted: 31 May 2011 01:13 PM PDT Leg up for Video.JS and Google WebM Open video on the web is getting a boost, with a service that can shovel tens of thousands of files onto the net for consumption via the new open-source player Video.JS as well as Google's royalty free WebM codec.… Server Hosting Solutions |
| World Health Organization: Mobile phone cancer risk 'possible' Posted: 31 May 2011 12:48 PM PDT Not 'probable'. Not yet In a move that's sure to fan the flames of the ongoing debate about the safety of mobile phones, a panel of World Health Organization (WHO) experts has classified those ubiquitous handsets as "possibly carcinogenic to humans".… |
| Pentagon: Hack attacks can be act of war Posted: 31 May 2011 12:44 PM PDT Military response possible For the first time, the Pentagon has formally concluded that computer sabotage carried out by another nation can constitute an act of war that warrants a response of traditional military force, according to published media reports.… |
| Malware from Google Market menaces Android users Posted: 31 May 2011 11:01 AM PDT Security firms sniff out threat so Google doesn't have to Google has yanked more than two-dozen mobile apps from its Android Market after security researchers reported they were laced with malicious code that transferred user data to servers controlled by attackers.… |
| MIPS enters Android Honeycomb tablet race Posted: 31 May 2011 10:59 AM PDT ARM and Intel face potent Chinese competitor Amid all the brouhaha about the low power–chip tussle between Intel and ARM, another processor architecture has been quietly advancing into the same tablet and smartphone battleground: MIPS Technologies, which has announced a partnership with Beijing's Ingenic Semiconductor to port Android 3.0, aka Honeycomb, to the Chinese chipmaker's upcoming ultra–low power system-on-chip.… |
| Opera extends Speed Dial with Swordfish beta Posted: 31 May 2011 10:00 AM PDT Thumbnails evolve Opera has released a new beta of its desktop browser, adding "extensions" to the Speed Dial page that appears each time you open a new browser tab.… Server Hosting Solutions |
| Activision calls for duty with premium subscription Posted: 31 May 2011 09:16 AM PDT Profits set to shoot Activision has spilled the beans on its premium Call of Duty subscription today, a service that seeks to enrich multiplayer experience and unite the CoD community. Oh.. and make a shed-load more cash for the games giant, which is rubbing hands at the prospect of breaking sales records again when the next instalment in the game's franchise appears later this year.… |
| Nokia gives up predicting sales Posted: 31 May 2011 08:46 AM PDT Shares tumble on storm warning Nokia is predicting Q2 sales to be "substantially below" its previous estimates, and says it won't provide public targets anymore as the company tries to adjust to the new reality.… |
| MP headshot sex rating site: Gentlemen prefer Tories Posted: 31 May 2011 08:37 AM PDT Pearl necklace set dominates Members' rankings British politicians and politics fanciers, if no one else, are wildly excited today by the appearance of a website which asks viewers to decide which of two randomly-selected MPs they would prefer to have sex with, and then uses this information to rate the Members of each gender in order of attractiveness.… |
| Rumours confirmed: NetApp now supports tape storage Posted: 31 May 2011 08:18 AM PDT OEMing CommVault's Simpana NetApp is supporting tape storage through an OEM deal with CommVault for Simpana 9 and SnapProtect.… |
| Depressed Scottish file-sharing nurse gets 3 yrs probation Posted: 31 May 2011 08:13 AM PDT Enormous karaoke stash 'boosted self-esteem' Auxiliary nurse Anne Muir, 58, has become the first person to be convicted and sentenced for illegal filesharing in Scotland. The Ayr Sheriff's court has sentenced her to three years' probation after she admitted sharing a stash of more than 30,000 music files online.… |
| Dell boasts of cloudy server dominance Posted: 31 May 2011 07:54 AM PDT Whiteboxes on the rise Perhaps more than any other major server-maker, Dell has benefited from the rise of hyperscale data centers and the cloudy service providers which build them. The company is boasting that it not only rules the clouds in the United States, but also in China. The question is, can it hold out against whitebox suppliers which are getting better at custom engineering and bending metal?… Server Hosting Solutions |
| Filesharers spread Allied Telesis networking 'backdoor' info Posted: 31 May 2011 07:39 AM PDT No need for alarm over password-recovery feature, says networking firm "Backdoor passwords" for a range of Allied Telesis networking devices have been leaked online.… |
| Robot air fleet can launch mid-air from cargo plane's ramp Posted: 31 May 2011 06:49 AM PDT Hundreds of jet decoys can fly from Hercules 'birdcages' US manufacturers have carried out a flight test that might change the way air battles are fought. In future, rather than sexy jet fighters or massive bombers, the aircraft which crush an enemy dictator's air defences could be ordinary cargo haulers – each of which could launch a hundreds-strong armada of small robot planes into the fray.… |
| Official: Apple to float iCloud on 6 June Posted: 31 May 2011 06:44 AM PDT Bringing sexy back to online storage? Really? Apple's unwell CEO Steve Jobs will reveal details about the company's iCloud technology early next month.… |
| Infosmack 101 - Smack down Posted: 31 May 2011 06:30 AM PDT Quiz show time And on Infosmack this week is an enterprise tech quiz show we call "Smack Down".… |
| Apple sues teenager for white iPhone conversion kits Posted: 31 May 2011 06:19 AM PDT Lam to the slaughter Apple has thrown the book at a student who last year sold White iPhone 4 conversion kits to those sick of waiting for an official product to surface.… |
| Sony restores PlayStation Network in full Posted: 31 May 2011 05:40 AM PDT Back from the hack Sony has announced all PlayStation network functionality – including access to the PlayStation Store – will be fully restored by the end of the week.… |
| 'One size fits all' EU data law would undermine rights, says Clarke Posted: 31 May 2011 05:31 AM PDT Just too risky New European data protection law proposals risk compromising freedoms and security, UK Justice Secretary Ken Clarke has said. He said that he opposed a 'one size fits all' approach to European data protection law.… Server Hosting Solutions |
| Samsung Solid Immerse rugged phone Posted: 31 May 2011 05:20 AM PDT Plop and drop Review Phone manufacturers today are all too keen to tell us their phones aren't really phones at all, they're handheld computers with oodles of processing power and capability. Sometimes, however, a basic communications device is just what you need, especially if your life might depend on it.… |
| Government plans cyberweapons programme Posted: 31 May 2011 05:18 AM PDT Cabinet Office and GCHQ lead on developing offensive cyber capability Whitehall officials have revealed that work has begun on a range of offensive cyberweapons to add to its defensive capability.… |
| Multinationals out themselves as big Aaas fans Posted: 31 May 2011 04:48 AM PDT 60% more MNCs will 'migrate to the cloud' this year Comment The Artificial Intelligence guru Ray Kurzweil believes that technology, accelerating exponentially, is converging on a point some 20 years ahead when in a flash of universal illumination he calls "The Singularity". It will solve all the problems of mankind.… |
| Linux 3.0 all about 'steady plodding progress' Posted: 31 May 2011 04:32 AM PDT 20-year-old Sneaky Weasel comes into view Linus Torvalds has put penguins out of their misery by revealing that the next version number for the Linux kernel will be ***drumroll*** - 3.0.… |
| Stealth hovercraft armada poised to invade South Korea Posted: 31 May 2011 04:16 AM PDT Nork mud commandos get their skirts blown up North Korea is assembling a powerful fleet of hovercraft to menace the South's northwestern islands, according to the Seoul government.… |
| EU parks disk drive mergers ahead of competition probe Posted: 31 May 2011 04:15 AM PDT Concerns over pricing, innovation The European Commission has run up red flags over the competition implications of the disk drive industry's current game of musical takeovers.… |
| Twitter forced to hand over user details to English council Posted: 31 May 2011 03:25 AM PDT Tyneside councillors hang spank Mr Monkey Twitter has handed over users' details following a demand from a local council in North East England that took its complaint to California, forcing the micro-blogging site to comply with a US court order.… Server Hosting Solutions |
| eBay calls for cheap 4G networks Posted: 31 May 2011 03:21 AM PDT Tat bazaar turns operator lobbyist eBay wants 4G radio spectrum to be cheap, claiming that mobile commerce is a lost opportunity in the UK, but the shopping portal's motives aren't quite as altruistic as they appear to be.… |
| Ousted Egyptian prez fined £20m for net cut-off Posted: 31 May 2011 03:17 AM PDT BT engineers left quaking in boots Ousted Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak has been hit with a £20m fine for cutting off the internet during the popular revolt in the country earlier this year.… |
| Skype pushes gaming software down users throats Posted: 31 May 2011 02:45 AM PDT VoIP firm disables unintentional adware-style push Skype has further irked its users, already put out by an outage last week, by pushing a Windows add-on that installed itself on users' systems whether or not they gave it permission to install.… |
| Android Marketplace starts cleaning house Posted: 31 May 2011 02:29 AM PDT Console emulators first against the wall Google has been cleaning up the Android Marketplace, kicking out developers responsible for some of the most popular Android apps – without notice – and leaving customers scrabbling for an alternative.… |
| Daleks given a well-earned break Posted: 31 May 2011 02:09 AM PDT Off to put their feet up, says Steven Moffat Doctor Who exec producer Steven Moffat has announced the Daleks are taking a well-earned break, and will be spared yet another confrontation with their Time Lord arch enemy for the foreseeable future.… Server Hosting Solutions |
| CEOP announces 'record results' in child protection battle Posted: 31 May 2011 01:51 AM PDT 'Loving being under supervision', says new head Child protection net-cop quango the Child Exploitation and Online Protection (CEOP) centre has announced what it describes as "record results" in its fifth annual statistics.… |
| Hackers pwn PBS in revenge for WikiLeaks doco Posted: 31 May 2011 01:42 AM PDT Tupac and Biggie Smalls fake news LOLZ Hackers aligned with WikiLeaks broke into and defaced the website of US broadcaster PBS over the weekend shortly after it had aired a less than flattering documentary about the whistle-blowing site.… |
| Server flash cache deathmatch: Bring it Posted: 31 May 2011 01:07 AM PDT Grease up and grapple, contenders Comment Servers currently get flash caches as a branded supplier's retrofit or through special deals between a server supplier and an OEM source, like Fusion-io. This can't go on and server flash cache is going to become a standard fit item.… |
| Folder Organizer Posted: 31 May 2011 01:00 AM PDT Your UI, the way you want it Android App of the Week Bought an iPhone or Windows Phone 7 handset but don't like the UI? Tough tomato. Bought an Android phone but don't like the UI? Change it. And what better app to help you on your way than Folder Organizer, one of the most versatile, stable yet unobtrusive applications you will ever download.… |
| Ten... Core i5 laptops Posted: 30 May 2011 11:00 PM PDT Sandy Bridge computing on the go Product Round-up After a slight hiccough with its Cougar Point 6 chip-set, Intel's spiffy new Sandy Bridge Core i5 chips are finally starting to arrive in laptops from all the usual suspects. To herald their arrival Reg Hardware has donned its Phil Drabble cap and rounded up ten of the new breed, poked them with a benchmark stick or two and generally abused them to ensure they don't fall apart as soon as you get them out of the box.… |
| Aus govt gets cracking on cyber threats Posted: 30 May 2011 04:57 PM PDT Government listens, now that the big end of town is scared Australians might not have decent security disclosure laws or privacy protection, but the government has finally noticed that its agencies might need guidelines about secure storage of citizens' data.… |
| Personal jetpacks and solar-powered ships Posted: 30 May 2011 04:54 PM PDT Kiwis demonstrate how to save and waste fuel In a weekend of contradictions, New Zealanders have demonstrated technologies showing off the best and worst in fuel efficiency: a petrol powered personal jetpack joined the mile-high club, while a solar-powered ship made an unassisted trip from Monaco to Brisbane.… Server Hosting Solutions |
