Dell's Kace control freak ARMed for SMBs

Dell's Kace control freak ARMed for SMBs


Dell's Kace control freak ARMed for SMBs

Posted: 14 Jul 2011 02:27 PM PDT

Cover your Windows assets

The Kace systems management appliance division of Dell is going after the "S" part of the SMB space with a new asset management appliance called the M300.…

Boffins build JELL-O memory for your brain

Posted: 14 Jul 2011 02:11 PM PDT

Squishy memristor implants

A team of US researchers has fashioned a memory circuit that may provide an electronic bridge between man and machine.…

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Google revenues top $9bn in Page's maiden quarter

Posted: 14 Jul 2011 02:00 PM PDT

Larry 'super excited' with Google Facebook

Google revenues topped $9 billion during Larry Page's inaugural quarter in charge, a first for the Mountain View ad broker.…

Spotify launches unlimited free US service

Posted: 14 Jul 2011 01:18 PM PDT

Wait for a freebie invite. Or not

Spotify launched its US presence on Thursday, as it said it would just last week.…

Apple snuffs iPhone privacy complaint with Korean peanuts

Posted: 14 Jul 2011 10:32 AM PDT

Sueapple.co.kr

Updated  Apple has paid a South Korean user one million won to settle a complaint arising from unauthorized iPhone collection of that user's location information.…

IBM crams Lotus Symphony back into OpenOffice

Posted: 14 Jul 2011 10:25 AM PDT

Blows kisses at Oracle

IBM is contributing Lotus Symphony to the Apache Software Foundation, re-uniting this OpenOffice fork with the "official" version of the project.…

Adobe resuscitates 64-bit Flash for Linux

Posted: 14 Jul 2011 10:24 AM PDT

Penguins rejoice at prophesy fulfilled

Adobe has resuscitated Flash Player for 64-bit Linux, drawing cheers from penguins across the planet.…

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Griffin grounds phone-controlled copter until Xmas

Posted: 14 Jul 2011 09:20 AM PDT

Whup-whup-whup-whup-whup etc.

Here's Griffin Technology's top offering for Christmas: the Helo TC, a 12cm toy helicopter remote controlled using an iPhone for sure and maybe an Android handset too.…

Official: Murdochs to be grilled by phone-hack committee

Posted: 14 Jul 2011 09:13 AM PDT

As Scotland Yard arrests Murdoch man who worked for cops

News Corp chief Rupert Murdoch and his son James Murdoch have confirmed they will talk to MPs about the phone-hacking scandal that has engulfed the media empire.…

Voda: Femtocell phone-hacking vuln was fixed in 2010

Posted: 14 Jul 2011 09:02 AM PDT

News International scandal stirs interest in old backdoor

Vodafone said that claims of a vulnerability involving its femtotell base station technology relate to a flaw it fixed a year ago.…

Sony confirms e-reader update imminent

Posted: 14 Jul 2011 08:32 AM PDT

Reader line to get wireless comms at last?

Sony has regularly updated its e-book reader line - aka Reader - in the late summer/early autumn timeframe so it comes as no surprise to learn it'll be doing so again this year.…

XIV gets Infiniband and boosted CPUs

Posted: 14 Jul 2011 06:39 AM PDT

September release date for third-generation box

IBM has boosted the processors in its third generation XIV array and added InfiniBand for internal communications to make it go faster.…

Toshiba gets bit-patterning between its teeth

Posted: 14 Jul 2011 06:30 AM PDT

HAMR may come too

Comment  Bit-patterned media (BPM) is emerging as a key hard disk drive (HDD) technology focus for Toshiba.…

Murdochs won't talk to MPs over phone-hacking scandal

Posted: 14 Jul 2011 06:28 AM PDT

Rebekah Brooks will defend herself

News Corporation boss Rupert Murdoch has refused to appear before a committee of MPs who want to probe the media tycoon over phone-hacking allegations made against his sister company News International.…

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Lying Facebook app offers Google+ invites

Posted: 14 Jul 2011 06:01 AM PDT

Trendjackers spam your friends, slurp your data

Facebook scammers have latched onto the buzz around Google+, as the theme for a new scam that has already claimed thousands of fans victims.…

Microsoft plans to open 75 retail stores in US

Posted: 14 Jul 2011 05:40 AM PDT

Dude, let's camp outside for the Windows 8 launch

Microsoft is re-hatching its plan to accelerate retail store expansion in the US before turning its sights on the rest of the world.…

Scientists snap amazing technicolour dreamtoad

Posted: 14 Jul 2011 05:23 AM PDT

Lost, never-photographed rainbow batrachian rediscovered

Determined Malaysian scientists have pulled off a bit of a blinder in the search for lost amphibians, by getting the first snaps of the elusive Borneo rainbow toad.…

Yuri Gagarin, legendary 'naut, makes London debut

Posted: 14 Jul 2011 05:10 AM PDT

First orbital human joins Captain Cook on the Mall

A statue of Yuri Gagarin has been unveiled by the cosmonaut's daughter, Elena Gagarina, in London.…

Steelie Neelie: 'Help us form Brussels data breach policy'

Posted: 14 Jul 2011 04:56 AM PDT

'Please be proportionate' begs UK ICO

The European Commission is asking for feedback on practical rules to ensure that anyone in Europe who has their private data breached will be told.…

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Acer slips to 4th place as global PC sales edge up

Posted: 14 Jul 2011 04:28 AM PDT

Lenovo shoves onto podium alongside HP and Dell

Acer dropped out of the medal positions in the global PC arena, and was shunted into fourth spot as HP, Dell and Lenovo made more of the growth in professional products across emerging markets to offset weakened retail demand in mature IT economies.…

Official: Pastafarian strainer titfer is religious headgear

Posted: 14 Jul 2011 04:19 AM PDT

All hail his noodly appendages, say Austrians

Pastafarians worldwide are celebrating after a landmark Austrian decision in favour of the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster paved the way for its recognition as a full-fat religion.…

GCHQ losing its 'internet whizzes' to Microsoft, Google

Posted: 14 Jul 2011 04:12 AM PDT

'Mission Fantastic' tech-spooks lured away by triple pay

British spooks, who are increasingly being tasked with wading into the so-called cybersecurity threat, have been fretting about the dearth of internet experts at GCHQ because the intelligence agency can't compete for expertise with the likes of Microsoft and Google.…

MAJOR HACK: Voda femtocells open phones up to intercept

Posted: 14 Jul 2011 04:06 AM PDT

Pass within 50m of one, they own your phone - and your bill

Security researchers claim to have uncovered a serious security hole in Vodafone's mobile network.…

Files Connect

Posted: 14 Jul 2011 04:00 AM PDT

Fetch files for your fondleslab

iOS App of the Week  I use Dropbox to sync files between computers and mobile devices, but the problem with Dropbox is that you can only sync files and folders that you've already placed into the Dropbox folders on those devices.…

Spotify to launch invite-only service in US

Posted: 14 Jul 2011 03:58 AM PDT

Britney Spears is gagging for it

Spotify is following the current trend among Web2.0 companies to lure new customers in by offering online services on an invite-only basis with the launch of the music streaming site in the US later today.…

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Facebook begins to challenge Google in UK internet

Posted: 14 Jul 2011 03:42 AM PDT

Google up, but search down overall vs Web 2.0

Google has increased its dominance in the UK search sector, according to the latest numbers, but search itself – though growing in absolute terms – now accounts for a lower proportion of the traffic hitting websites than it formerly did as social networks make their presence felt.…

Blighty's rocketeers gather for ballistic love-in

Posted: 14 Jul 2011 03:27 AM PDT

'It's British, naturally string is involved'

Those of you with a penchant for things that go really fast with flames coming out of the back are directed to this weekend's Festival of Rocketry 2011 – Europe's "largest model and amateur rocketry event", which blasts off on Friday at Oxhill in Warwickshire.…

CIA's DARPA working on human-brain-mimicking tech

Posted: 14 Jul 2011 03:13 AM PDT

Company that built the first internet node hired

The company which built the first ever internet nodes back in the 1960s – and which gave the world the "@" symbol in email, among other things – has been hired by the US intelligence community to work on technology which could mimic "the brain's ability to make sense of large amounts of haphazard, partial information".…

Before the PC: IBM invents virtualisation

Posted: 14 Jul 2011 03:00 AM PDT

A brief history of virtualisation

Virtualisation is not a novelty. It's actually one of the last pieces of the design of 1960s computers to trickle down to the PC – and only by understanding where it came from and how it was and is used can you begin to see the shape of its future in its PC incarnation.…

Half of Virgin Media broadband ads are wrong, says ASA

Posted: 14 Jul 2011 02:43 AM PDT

ISP gets up to 'up to' tricks

Virgin Media has been taken to task by ad regulators over 10 separate adverts.…

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California Mrs cuffed in drugged-hubby todger slash case

Posted: 14 Jul 2011 02:27 AM PDT

Unhappy man's manhood macerated in garbage disposal

A California woman who may have been a tad unhappy about her impending divorce allegedly drugged her estranged hubby's dinner, tied him to a bed, cut off his todger with a 10-inch kitchen knife, and then disposed of the detached penis in the garbage grinder.…

Google muzzles political dissidents with YouTube ID tweaks

Posted: 14 Jul 2011 02:00 AM PDT

It's about silo wars not real ones here at Google+

As recently as February this year, Google allowed its users to sign up to its revenue-challenged video sharing website YouTube using a pseudonym.…

Brits lose out as iTunes prices jump

Posted: 14 Jul 2011 01:40 AM PDT

Aussies do well

Most stories covering Apple's international price rises have focused on the base price - up from 59p to 69p in the UK, a rise of 16 per cent or so - the increase is higher elsewhere.…

Most Adobe Reader installs are out of date

Posted: 14 Jul 2011 01:30 AM PDT

Patchy patching leaves pdf backdoors open to intrusion

Six out of every 10 users of Adobe Reader are running vulnerable versions of the ubiquitous PDF reader package, according to stats from freebie anti-virus scanner firm Avast.…

Stipe croons 'Man on the Moon' to <i>Atlantis</i> crew

Posted: 14 Jul 2011 01:14 AM PDT

Not that any of them ever will be

The crew of Space Shuttle Atlantis were this morning greeted by R.E.M's Michael Stipe, who delivered a vocal snippet of the band's Man on the Moon, followed by a quick message.…

Advice on offshoring issued to UK.gov IT bodies

Posted: 14 Jul 2011 01:00 AM PDT

No particular reason ...

Government bodies thinking of offshoring IT functions need to make careful plans to deal with the downsides, according to guidance published on the Cabinet Office website.…

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Sega forums still closed a month after mystery hack

Posted: 14 Jul 2011 12:43 AM PDT

Digital pillage leaves lasting damage

Sega's forum remains offline almost a month after its forums and other sites were hit by hacktivists.…

EMC intros the mini VMAX

Posted: 14 Jul 2011 12:30 AM PDT

For those who don't want their back-ends compromised

EMC has formally launched its down-sized VMAX, the VMAXe.…

Ten... wireless speakers

Posted: 14 Jul 2011 12:00 AM PDT

In the air tonight

Product Round-up  The iPod can take credit for creating an entirely new market for compact speaker systems, yet iPod sales are now starting to taper off as people move their music onto smartphones and tablets.…

Defragger salesman frags HP

Posted: 13 Jul 2011 11:30 PM PDT

'You need my stuff, don't listen to them,' shouts man

Defrag software supplier Diskeeper has denounced HP for failing to mention fragmentation issues.…

Microsoft COO: Our greatest enemy is old Windows

Posted: 13 Jul 2011 09:47 PM PDT

'Windows XP, Office 2003, IE6 - you know what? Dead'

WPC 2011  The cloud doesn't hurt Microsoft's business, but the company does suffer an image problem related to "old software", according to the company's chief operating officer.…

ISPs under a wholesale price squeeze, says Hackett

Posted: 13 Jul 2011 06:30 PM PDT

Internode forced to rejig plans

Internode founder Simon Hackett has accused "a powerful monopoly service provider" of engaging in a price squeeze that has forced the ISP to downgrade some of its plans.…

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NBN Co completes 4G spectrum spend

Posted: 13 Jul 2011 05:30 PM PDT

While ACMA is yet to resolve TV interference issues

NBN Co has secured spots of regional spectrum in Western Australia, the Northern Territory, South Australia, outback Queensland and far west New South Wales for AU$1.3m. The spectrum will bolster its high-speed wireless broadband services rollout.…

Amazon's anti-iPad arises 'in October'

Posted: 13 Jul 2011 05:02 PM PDT

The other Jobsian nemesis

Amazon will answer Apple's iPad before October, according to a report citing people familiar with the matter.…

NZ boffins take the plunge with submarine cable deal

Posted: 13 Jul 2011 05:01 PM PDT

Splash public cash on Pacific Fibre

New Zealand's newest international cable project, Pacific Fibre, has negotiated a revised contract from its first customer REANNZ for the supply of international capacity valued at NZ$91m.…

Berkeley Lab preps 100 Gbps prototype network

Posted: 13 Jul 2011 04:00 PM PDT

Level 3 and Ciena on board

Berkeley Lab is to start laying the foundations for a 100 Gbps academic research network, in a subcontract agreement with Internet2.…

vSphere 5.0 – up close and virtual

Posted: 13 Jul 2011 03:59 PM PDT

The Infosmack on flagship VMware product

Yesterday VMware boss Paul Maritz launched vSphere 5.0 to an expectant world.…

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PayPal teaches Androids to swap cash

Posted: 13 Jul 2011 03:41 PM PDT

Touch, vibrate, pay up

PayPal has unveiled an Android widget that lets you transfer money to a friend or colleague simply by tapping your phone to theirs.…

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