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- Infosmack gets down and dirty with blades and racks
- Microsoft: 'You can get your data onto Azure for free!'
- Want to keep Android apps from spying on you?
- Cloud no cure for IT department haters
- UK man charged with attack that shut down SOCA site
- Amazon marries MapReduce with VM auctions
- RIM cuts PlayBook sales forecast, report says
- Apple's next iPhone planned for September, says report
- Malicious software downloads invade WordPress
- Judge lets Apple keep secrets from Samsung
- VMware moves vSphere 5.0 to launch pad
- Blade servers 101
- ITIL struggles to catch up with private cloud
- Server admin kit spans heaven and data center
- Top500 founders talk big
- Xen virt-wizards jump ship from Citrix to start 'Bromium'
- Dealers' outrage at Microsoft Office 365 cloud-sales plans
- Booze for wrinklies: Good or bad?
- US plan to hold EU passenger data for 15 yrs 'unlawful'
- Flying Keymouse II takes to the air
- Tape lives! Quantum books library deal with HP
- BBC iPlayer graces BT's Vision
- Post Office going tap-cash in 2012
- Eclipse splashes Indigo release for Java devs
- 'Four million Amazon Tablets' ready for autumn - report
- Apple's new Final Cut Pro X 'not actually for pros'
- UK taxpayer 'fleeced' in spectrum selloff windfall
- Your NFC tap-pay phone: Soon a movie or train ticket too
- Child of Eden
- OCZ, SanDisk in flash scrap
- Sony Ericsson announces trio of talkers
- ESA to launch suborbital test spaceplane in 2013
- MeeGo and the Great Betrayal Myths of tech history
- Endeavour commander Mark Kelly quits NASA
- NHS IT boss walks out and steps back
- Name and shame fat cat bureaucrats, Number 10 told
- Netizens mobilise to recover precious stolen guitar
- Bluetooth goes 3D with Apple
- Comet in bad way after big losses
- OCZ Vertex bashes users with Blue Screen of Death
- Norwegian diplomats brush up on black metal
- Cybercops close to domain conduct deal
- Ministry of Justice signs for info security service
- Alleged LulzSec hacker still inside
- Euro space truck consigned to flaming death
- SMEs get hit harder in a market crisis, say biz profs
- Firing back at LulzSec
- Nokia E6 smartphone
- The real reason most source is closed? Open is hard
- Apple's cloud chief floats away
| Infosmack gets down and dirty with blades and racks Posted: 22 Jun 2011 02:11 PM PDT Deep dive into server technologiesThis is the first Infosmack Deep Dive podcast, hosted by Nigel Poulton, the infrastructure inquisitor, with co-host Rick Vanover and guests Kevin Houston and Bob Plankers.… |
| Microsoft: 'You can get your data onto Azure for free!' Posted: 22 Jun 2011 01:47 PM PDT Getting it off? Not freeStructure Microsoft has announced that beginning on July 1, all data transfers onto its Microsoft Azure cloud will be free.… |
| Want to keep Android apps from spying on you? Posted: 22 Jun 2011 01:44 PM PDT WhisperCore to the rescue (some restrictions apply)A security researcher has released an Android app that allows users to control precisely what information they share with other programs installed on their smartphones.… |
| Cloud no cure for IT department haters Posted: 22 Jun 2011 12:50 PM PDT Go ahead, install Salesforce. PleaseIt's a seeming truism that everyone hates IT. Indeed, while IT departments have long looked to open source as a way to skirt the formal purchasing and legal processes that slow down software acquisition, marketing and other departments now look to the cloud/SaaS as a way to evade IT for much the same reason.… |
| UK man charged with attack that shut down SOCA site Posted: 22 Jun 2011 12:23 PM PDT Investigation of Ryan Cleary continuesUK officials have formally accused a 19-year-old man of involvement in Monday's attack on the website of the British Serious Organised Crime Agency and two previous web-based assaults directed at the music industry.… |
| Amazon marries MapReduce with VM auctions Posted: 22 Jun 2011 11:27 AM PDT Bid for Big Data crunchesStructure Amazon has announced that you can now use its data-crunching Elastic MapReduce service in tandem with EC2 Spot Instances, unused EC2 virtual machines that company puts up for open auction. Spot instance prices fluctuate according to supply and demand, but these VMs can typically be used for less than the standard instance price.… |
| RIM cuts PlayBook sales forecast, report says Posted: 22 Jun 2011 11:09 AM PDT Summer sales boost on improved modelsBlackBerry maker RIM is reported to have slashed its sales forecast for the PlayBook by well over one million units a week after it launched in the UK.… |
| Apple's next iPhone planned for September, says report Posted: 22 Jun 2011 10:56 AM PDT Faster processor and better cameraApple's next iPhone is coming in September and will blur the lines with the run-away iPad but beat it in other areas.… |
| Malicious software downloads invade WordPress Posted: 22 Jun 2011 10:37 AM PDT Mandatory password reset enforcedWordPress is requiring all account holders on the WordPress.org website to change their passwords following the discovery that hackers contaminated it with malicious software.… |
| Judge lets Apple keep secrets from Samsung Posted: 22 Jun 2011 09:41 AM PDT You show me yours...The I sue you, you sue me spat between Apple and Samsung took a turn in the iPhone maker's favour this week.… |
| VMware moves vSphere 5.0 to launch pad Posted: 22 Jun 2011 09:26 AM PDT 'Next step forward in cloud infrastructure'The virtual cat is out of the physical bag. Server virtualization juggernaut VMware has sent out invitations to a big shindig it is hosting in San Francisco on July 12, which is almost certainly going to be the launch of its ESXi 5.0 hypervisor and related vSphere 5.0 virtualization management stack and vCloud extensions.… |
| Posted: 22 Jun 2011 09:17 AM PDT The pluses and minusesHow are blade servers different from their rack-mounted counterparts?… |
| ITIL struggles to catch up with private cloud Posted: 22 Jun 2011 08:57 AM PDT Framework needs to keep fitData centres run on the back of good operational processes that are repeatable and trusted. IT management best practices have sometimes been criticised as being monolithic and failing to keep up with change.… |
| Server admin kit spans heaven and data center Posted: 22 Jun 2011 08:00 AM PDT Bladelogic man goes to ScalextremesScalextreme – the Silicon Valley startup cofounded by the principle architect of Bladelogic – has announced that its browser-based server admin service can now launch virtual machines directly into the heavens.… |
| Posted: 22 Jun 2011 08:00 AM PDT K Computer Tops Competition by 3xAs many of you know by now, there's a new computer at the tippy top of the just-published Top500 list. I found out a bit earlier than most, via a webcast I was recording at 3:00 a.m. my local time on Sunday.… |
| Xen virt-wizards jump ship from Citrix to start 'Bromium' Posted: 22 Jun 2011 07:57 AM PDT Agnostic hypervisors to finally deliver IT security?The co-founders of the open source Xen server hypervisor project at Cambridge University who commercialized it as XenSource and sold it for $500m to Citrix Systems in September 2007 have left Citrix to do their fourth startup, called Bromium.… |
| Dealers' outrage at Microsoft Office 365 cloud-sales plans Posted: 22 Jun 2011 07:45 AM PDT 'We lose control of the client'Microsoft is days away from lifting the covers from Office 365, but top channel brass have yet to assuage reseller anxiety over the client engagement model that they fear paves the way to a massive hike in direct sales.… |
| Booze for wrinklies: Good or bad? Posted: 22 Jun 2011 07:36 AM PDT Pseudo-boffins wrangle over old-timers' drinkingUK trick-cyclists and American "exercise psychologists" took up diametrically opposed views today on the issue of whether old people should be allowed to drink booze.… |
| US plan to hold EU passenger data for 15 yrs 'unlawful' Posted: 22 Jun 2011 07:20 AM PDT Database likely to be used against non-serious crimesA reported plan to allow the US to retain the personal details of inbound EU air passengers for 15 years would be unlawful, lawyers for the European Commission have said, according to a newspaper report.… |
| Flying Keymouse II takes to the air Posted: 22 Jun 2011 06:34 AM PDT Pointing not wavingTech gadgets company Brando is making moves with the Wireless Flying Keymouse II that it announced today.… |
| Tape lives! Quantum books library deal with HP Posted: 22 Jun 2011 06:32 AM PDT HP to OEM midsize, 8 petabyte data fridgeTape lives - Quantum has won HP as an OEM for its high-end Scalar i6000 tape library.… |
| BBC iPlayer graces BT's Vision Posted: 22 Jun 2011 06:28 AM PDT Content subscribers?BT Vision has expanded its range of on-demand content by bringing BBC iPlayer to the platform.… |
| Post Office going tap-cash in 2012 Posted: 22 Jun 2011 06:07 AM PDT Jingle of tills gradually falls silent across the landThe UK's network of 12,000 Post Offices will start accepting contactless payment cards and thus NFC phones by October next year, making it the largest retailer to yet do so.… |
| Eclipse splashes Indigo release for Java devs Posted: 22 Jun 2011 06:00 AM PDT The e4 future, however, is still on holdThe Eclipse Foundation has released Eclipse Indigo, a beefy brace of projects that executive director Mike Milinkovich tells The Reg is the biggest release for Java developers "in quite a few years."… |
| 'Four million Amazon Tablets' ready for autumn - report Posted: 22 Jun 2011 05:48 AM PDT Kindle fondle slab blabThe Amazon Tablet rumours will not die - the latest from Taiwan is that the books'n'everything-seller is aiming to have 4 million units ready for autumn.… |
| Apple's new Final Cut Pro X 'not actually for pros' Posted: 22 Jun 2011 05:38 AM PDT 'Rebuilt from ground up' application has fans tooApple released a completely overhauled version of its Final Cut Pro software yesterday, much to the chagrin of some of its users.… |
| UK taxpayer 'fleeced' in spectrum selloff windfall Posted: 22 Jun 2011 05:34 AM PDT MP Watson gets stuck into the auctionBritish taxpayers are bailing out Europe again. This time, it isn't aid to the basket-case Euro economies of Greece or Ireland, says MP Tom Watson, but a spectrum windfall that the taxpayer should pocket... only won't.… |
| Your NFC tap-pay phone: Soon a movie or train ticket too Posted: 22 Jun 2011 05:29 AM PDT What else is in wallets apart from cash? No, not condomsAnalysis The three largest UK network operators have banded together to create a standard platform for NFC applications and a standard way for operators to make money out of the technology.… |
| Posted: 22 Jun 2011 05:00 AM PDT OmmmmmReview "Save Eden. Save Lumi." The precluding order of an introduction which summarises Child of Eden's essentially superfluous plot. I could tell you that the general gist is that we're hundreds of years into the future, Lumi – the fist human born in space – is long dead, and the internet has evolved into something approaching The Matrix.… |
| Posted: 22 Jun 2011 04:56 AM PDT Anything you can do I can do betterOCZ and SanDisk, two enterprise flash drive suppliers, have announced competing products, with SanDisk boasting an HP OEM deal and seemingly better IOPS performance.… |
| Sony Ericsson announces trio of talkers Posted: 22 Jun 2011 04:48 AM PDT Two new Androids on the waySony Ericsson has announced three new handsets in Singapore today, the Ray, Active and Txt. The Ray and the Active have the distinction of being additions to the Xperia range and run Android 2.3 Gingerbread. The Txt, as its name suggests, is a messaging phone featuring a Qwerty keypad.… |
| ESA to launch suborbital test spaceplane in 2013 Posted: 22 Jun 2011 04:47 AM PDT Lifting-body robo ship to come down 'as if from orbit'The European* Space Agency (ESA) has announced that it will launch an unmanned suborbital mission in 2013 designed to test various technologies which could be used in future on vehicles able to re-enter Earth's atmosphere from orbit and make a landing carrying cargo or personnel.… |
| MeeGo and the Great Betrayal Myths of tech history Posted: 22 Jun 2011 04:41 AM PDT Twitter fanbois demand resurrection of burned-out platformNokia's first MeeGo phone is amazing - why did they chuck MeeGo away?… |
| Endeavour commander Mark Kelly quits NASA Posted: 22 Jun 2011 04:13 AM PDT 'Not an easy decision', admits veteran astronautMark Kelly, the veteran combat pilot and astronaut, has announced he's retiring from the US Navy and quitting NASA on 1 October.… |
| NHS IT boss walks out and steps back Posted: 22 Jun 2011 04:10 AM PDT Sick of itChristine Connelly, chief information officer for health, has resigned ahead of a shakeup of the department.… |
| Name and shame fat cat bureaucrats, Number 10 told Posted: 22 Jun 2011 04:07 AM PDT Show me the moggyThe Information Commissioner's Office has told the Cabinet Office to release salary details on 24 people earning more than £150,000 a year who refused to have their details released.… |
| Netizens mobilise to recover precious stolen guitar Posted: 22 Jun 2011 03:51 AM PDT Have you seen this vintage Gibson Les Paul?The internet has mobilised to help one rather upset Canadian recover his stolen pride and joy - a vintage 1953 Gibson Les Paul.… |
| Posted: 22 Jun 2011 03:49 AM PDT We hope you'll like our new directionApple has joined the board of the Bluetooth SIG, signing up for a standard that's looking away from high speed networking to exploit 3D TV and the Wellness industry instead.… |
| Comet in bad way after big losses Posted: 22 Jun 2011 03:26 AM PDT Retail giant to close or sell stores, cuts HQ headcountComet is consolidating warehouses, service centres, shedding jobs at HQ and setting plans in motion to close or flog a load of stores after reporting substantial losses today.… |
| OCZ Vertex bashes users with Blue Screen of Death Posted: 22 Jun 2011 03:23 AM PDT Ain't no thingOCZ forum users are up in arms about their high-performance Vertex 3 flash drives causing Windows PCs to go into a blue-screen-of-death (BSOD) state, and further angered by OCZ's unconcerned response.… |
| Norwegian diplomats brush up on black metal Posted: 22 Jun 2011 02:49 AM PDT Exporting local culture to the worldWannabe Norwegian diplomats are to be trained in the dark arts of black metal - the local flavour of heavy metal which might be described as KISS with added Satanism, murder, suicide, church burnings and National Socialism.… |
| Cybercops close to domain conduct deal Posted: 22 Jun 2011 02:37 AM PDT Useless guidelines for harmless registrarsLaw enforcement agencies and domain name registrars are nearing agreement on ways to start to clean up the domain name industry and mutually help prevent cybercrime.… |
| Ministry of Justice signs for info security service Posted: 22 Jun 2011 02:31 AM PDT BAE Systems Detica on boardThe Ministry of Justice (MoJ) has signed a contract with BAE Systems Detica for a managed service covering its information security.… |
| Alleged LulzSec hacker still inside Posted: 22 Jun 2011 02:27 AM PDT Questioning continuesThe Metropolitan Police are still holding a 19-year-old man on suspicion of involvement with the LulzSec group of hackers.… |
| Euro space truck consigned to flaming death Posted: 22 Jun 2011 02:17 AM PDT Johannes Kepler burns up over PacificThe European Space Agency yesterday sent its space truck Johannes Kepler to a fiery death over the South Pacific in a perfectly-executed "destructive re-entry" at the end of the spacecraft's four-month mission to the International Space Station.… |
| SMEs get hit harder in a market crisis, say biz profs Posted: 22 Jun 2011 01:51 AM PDT Panicking money-men see big firms as saferSMEs, especially riskier R&D-led ones, get even harder than one would expect by market crises, according to a new analysis by biz professors.… |
| Posted: 21 Jun 2011 11:25 PM PDT Hack or hoax?It appears that LulzSec is the latest target of hacking.… |
| Posted: 21 Jun 2011 11:00 PM PDT Back in business?Review Touchscreen phones are where both manufacturers and punters are spending now, and all other categories are seeing rapid declines in market share. But if the most important applications you use involve phone calls and messaging, all of the new, whizzy devices fall short. None do voice particularly well, or messaging comprehensively. Few will make it through a demanding day.… |
| The real reason most source is closed? Open is hard Posted: 21 Jun 2011 10:00 PM PDT We have the desire. But not the meansOpen...and Shut As much as 95 percent of the world's software is written for internal, enterprise use, rather than by vendors for sale, a point famously made by Eric Raymond in The Cathedral and the Bazaar. Much of this software, in turn, has no proprietary value for the enterprises that develop it. So why isn't the world deluged with enterprise-written open-source software? Why do so many CIOs gladly use open source but not contribute to it?… |
| Apple's cloud chief floats away Posted: 21 Jun 2011 09:00 PM PDT 'I've looked at clouds from both sides now'Apple's senior product manager for its soon-to-launch iCloud service, John Herbold, has bailed from the Cupertinian mothership for a VP position at HealthTeacher, a health-curriculum developer for K-12 teachers.… |
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