Cisco drives epic Chinese surveillance network, says report |
- Cisco drives epic Chinese surveillance network, says report
- Chip makers thrive on tablets, e-readers, cars
- Verizon Wireless ends unlimited data plans
- Microsoft strategy chief quits Redmond
- Call of Duty given ultimate Star Wars makeover
- Facebook, Google, and the war to lock you in
- Anti-PowerPoint Party vows end to death by slides
- Facebook snuffs Chrome extension for uncaging 'friends' data
- EnterpriseDB comforts HP-UX shops with PostgreSQL
- Tablet fever cools as e-readers heat up
- Burnish your blacklists to patrol internet access
- Mexican narco attempts suitcase jailbreak
- HP poaches latest ESSN EMEA boss from Logica
- Apple orders millions of iPhone 5s for September release
- Transformers: Dark of the Moon
- Chinese coal blamed for global <strike>warming</strike> er... cooling
- Popular FTP package download tarball poisoned
- HP plan for faster, 64GB TouchPad leaks out
- Plans to move gov online 'lack cyber-security', say MPs
- DIY provisioning: the answer to your virtualisation dreams?
- <i>NotW</i> accused of hacking Milly Dowler's voicemail
- Sony quietly tests PlayStation Network revamp
- ALK CoPilot Live Premium HD
- Google shutters Realtime Search after Twitter deal expires
- Benefits of boozing outweigh harms, says survey
- Quantum says it's back and ready to join the storage fray
- <i>Atlantis</i> crew prepare for the 'Final Countdown'
- UK will obey barmy Euro unisex-insurance rules from 2013
- Local councils shed CIOs as cuts bite
- Apple MacBook Airs to get new, superfast 19nm Flash
- Nokia X7 Symbian Anna smartphone
- South Korea to throw away schoolbooks by 2015
- Amazon swallows UK online bookseller
- Ex-BigPond chief uploaded to Quickflix
- Operation Antisec lames out again
| Cisco drives epic Chinese surveillance network, says report Posted: 05 Jul 2011 03:06 PM PDT Half million Big Brother camsCisco and other western companies are reportedly working with the Chinese government to install a network of one half-million surveillance cameras in the rapidly growing commercial and industrial metropolis, Chongqing.… |
| Chip makers thrive on tablets, e-readers, cars Posted: 05 Jul 2011 02:23 PM PDT Semiconductor sales rise despite PC doldrumsThe PC market might be cooling a bit, but the world's appetite for tablets and e-readers and cars with all kinds of electronic gadgetry is helping prop up the semiconductor industry just the same.… |
| Verizon Wireless ends unlimited data plans Posted: 05 Jul 2011 02:09 PM PDT Just like AT&T. Only more expensiveVerizon Wireless – the largest wireless carrier in the US – will no longer offer unlimited data plans to new customers beginning on Thursday, July 7.… |
| Microsoft strategy chief quits Redmond Posted: 05 Jul 2011 01:01 PM PDT Facebook, Nokia, Sun, Novell. He sweet-talked them allMicrosoft's head of strategy is stepping down from the company.… |
| Call of Duty given ultimate Star Wars makeover Posted: 05 Jul 2011 12:36 PM PDT Modder warfareA group of modders have launched a Star Wars themed takeover for Call of Duty 4, giving gamers the chance to play Modern Warfare as an Imperial Stormtrooper or Rebel Alliance soldier.… |
| Facebook, Google, and the war to lock you in Posted: 05 Jul 2011 12:25 PM PDT Their Own Private InterwebsOpen...and Shut Facebook isn't necessarily the new Compuserve, and Google might not be angling to be the Hotel California of tech, but all of the big web giants seem intent on locking their users into experiencing a single-vendor web.… |
| Anti-PowerPoint Party vows end to death by slides Posted: 05 Jul 2011 12:23 PM PDT Brain turning to mush? There's an APPP for thatEverybody complains about PowerPoint presentations. But nobody does anything about them – until now.… |
| Facebook snuffs Chrome extension for uncaging 'friends' data Posted: 05 Jul 2011 10:35 AM PDT What your friends share with you is not yoursFacebook has blocked a Google Chrome extension that let you export information about your Facebook "friends" so that data can be shuttled into competing services.… |
| EnterpriseDB comforts HP-UX shops with PostgreSQL Posted: 05 Jul 2011 10:31 AM PDT Come on, HP. Buy the thing. Then buy Red HatEnterpriseDB – the entity that sells an extended version of the open source PostgreSQL database as well as commercial-grade support for that software – is sitting pretty.… |
| Tablet fever cools as e-readers heat up Posted: 05 Jul 2011 10:20 AM PDT Who says Americans don't read?The American passion for tablets is declining just as e-reader growth is accelerating.… |
| Burnish your blacklists to patrol internet access Posted: 05 Jul 2011 08:00 AM PDT Stop them at the gatesDesktop What makes PCs so popular is the range of software you can run on them. But, as always, with great power comes great responsibility. And one of the first decisions you need to make about your desktop estate is who you give the power to.… |
| Mexican narco attempts suitcase jailbreak Posted: 05 Jul 2011 06:33 AM PDT Visiting girlfriend pulled over improbable weight of 'underwear'A member of Mexico's Sinaloa drug cartel looks likely to be serving at least part of his 20-year jail sentence with his girlfriend, after she unsuccessfully attempted to smuggle him out of chokey in a suitcase.… |
| HP poaches latest ESSN EMEA boss from Logica Posted: 05 Jul 2011 06:32 AM PDT Pins hopes on Peter Ryan outlasting his predecessorHP has nabbed Logica's chief client director Peter Ryan to operate as EMEA senior veep of the enterprise, servers, storage and networking (EESN) biz group.… |
| Apple orders millions of iPhone 5s for September release Posted: 05 Jul 2011 05:45 AM PDT Insiders blabber againApple has allegedly ordered 15 million iPhone 5 handsets from its Taiwanese manufacturing partners with a view to start shipping the gadget in September.… |
| Transformers: Dark of the Moon Posted: 05 Jul 2011 05:00 AM PDT Robotic behaviourReview Last year's War for Cybertron salvaged Transformers from gaming's scrapyard. While still not fully realising the potential of the IP, High Moon Studios' game combined reverential treatment of the fiction with solid controls and decent gameplay to mark a high point for the franchise.… |
| Chinese coal blamed for global <strike>warming</strike> er... cooling Posted: 05 Jul 2011 04:51 AM PDT Economists ride into sulphurous cloud of aerosolsThe refusal of the global temperatures to rise as predicted has caused much angst among academics. "The fact is that we can't account for the lack of warming at the moment and it is a travesty that we can't," wrote one in 2009. Either the instruments were wrong, or the heat energy had gone missing somewhere.… |
| Popular FTP package download tarball poisoned Posted: 05 Jul 2011 04:23 AM PDT 'Someone having a few lulz', suggests authorA backdoor has been discovered in the source code of a widely used FTP package.… |
| HP plan for faster, 64GB TouchPad leaks out Posted: 05 Jul 2011 04:22 AM PDT Early adopter penalty?HP has only just announced its TouchPad tablet - which isn't even shipping in the UK yet - but it's already gearing up to release an upgraded version, it seems.… |
| Plans to move gov online 'lack cyber-security', say MPs Posted: 05 Jul 2011 04:18 AM PDT Cabinet Office warned not to deliver half-baked effortMPs have expressed serious concern about a lack of cyber-security plans detailed in the government's IT and communications strategy.… |
| DIY provisioning: the answer to your virtualisation dreams? Posted: 05 Jul 2011 04:00 AM PDT Take control of your destinyIf you have ever had to justify the deployment of a new server, you will know what an uphill struggle it can be to clear all kinds of technical and business hurdles.… |
| <i>NotW</i> accused of hacking Milly Dowler's voicemail Posted: 05 Jul 2011 03:55 AM PDT 'Heinous' and 'despicable', says family's lawyerPressure on the News of the World over phone-hacking allegations intensified still further on Tuesday after allegations surfaced that journalists at the paper intercepted the voicemail messages of murdered schoolgirl Milly Dowler.… |
| Sony quietly tests PlayStation Network revamp Posted: 05 Jul 2011 03:53 AM PDT Aesthetic supportSony is developing a PlayStation Network design upgrade that could transform the online environment into a more image-driven layout along the lines of Xbox Live and Steam, Reg Hardware has learned.… |
| Posted: 05 Jul 2011 03:00 AM PDT Get your motor runningAndroid App of the Week I've been using ALK's CoPilot 8 for Android since I reviewed it in these pages back in 2009. I liked it a lot then and still do. So when ALK announced a major upgrade, my ears pricked up.… |
| Google shutters Realtime Search after Twitter deal expires Posted: 05 Jul 2011 02:44 AM PDT Tweet firehose still spraying into Bing, YahooTwitter's deal with Google to include updates in Mountain View's search results ended on 2 July.… |
| Benefits of boozing outweigh harms, says survey Posted: 05 Jul 2011 02:32 AM PDT Aha! So that's why people do it so much!Trick-cyclists in Seattle have confirmed a poorly acknowledged reality: that for many people, the benefits of drinking – even heavy drinking, on occasion – outweigh the downsides.… |
| Quantum says it's back and ready to join the storage fray Posted: 05 Jul 2011 02:30 AM PDT 'The cloud is nothing new'Comment Quantum is heading towards big data and the cloud. It will produce its own big data arrays with StorNext software controlling them, and add cloud storage tiers for DXi and StorNext.… |
| <i>Atlantis</i> crew prepare for the 'Final Countdown' Posted: 05 Jul 2011 02:08 AM PDT End of an era for US manned spaceflightThe last crew of the orbiter Atlantis arrived at Kennedy Space Center yesterday ahead of the "Final Countdown" of the space shuttle programme.… |
| UK will obey barmy Euro unisex-insurance rules from 2013 Posted: 05 Jul 2011 02:00 AM PDT 'Goes against the grain of common sense'The UK Government is to abide by a European ruling on the use of gender in insurance, although it says the judgment goes against common sense.… |
| Local councils shed CIOs as cuts bite Posted: 05 Jul 2011 01:30 AM PDT Opportunity for outsourcers, but pickings may be slimMany local councils that jettisoned CIOs or senior decision-makers in the rush to cut costs lack a coherent IT strategy, according to a panel debate by Netgear.… |
| Apple MacBook Airs to get new, superfast 19nm Flash Posted: 05 Jul 2011 01:00 AM PDT Obvious implications for the iPadApple's revised MacBook Air notebook is set to get a speed boost by using very fast and very small new flash memory chips from Toshiba.… |
| Nokia X7 Symbian Anna smartphone Posted: 04 Jul 2011 11:00 PM PDT End of an era?Review When you buy a mobile, you know that you're likely to be stuck with it for the life of your contract. Good news: you'll get used to its quirks and differences. Bad news: you can only watch as gorgeous handsets are released for the next year or two.… |
| South Korea to throw away schoolbooks by 2015 Posted: 04 Jul 2011 06:00 PM PDT Teachers to be given 'digital training'The Korean government plans to digitise all school textbooks by 2015, and have students of all ages access "education content" via smartphones, tablet PCs and smart televisions.… |
| Amazon swallows UK online bookseller Posted: 04 Jul 2011 04:30 PM PDT The Book Depository assimilated by a Borg depositoryThe world of online book retailing is about to get that little bit less competitive, with Amazon announcing that it's reached agreement to buy UK seller The Book Depository.… |
| Ex-BigPond chief uploaded to Quickflix Posted: 04 Jul 2011 04:01 PM PDT As Quickflix picks up BigPond's DVD rental businessThe former head of Telstra Big Pond and Telstra Media, Justin Milne, will resurface as deputy chairman of Quickflix. Milne's appointment is expected to be announced today.… |
| Operation Antisec lames out again Posted: 04 Jul 2011 03:40 PM PDT Public data posted in Pirate Bay facepalmA Twitter account, some already-public data, some Apple survey server admin logins: the more people get on board the "Antisec" campaign, the more laughable their achievements become.… |
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