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- Oracle VDI now mates with both Solaris and Linux
- Cray stuffs 46 mobile Intel chips into microserver
- Behind Microsoft's $15 Samsung Android royalty claim
- Facebook plugs Skype video calls into self
- Coder cracks iPad 2 jailbreak block
- Next iPhone to sport thinner, lighter casing, says paper
- Dodgy weather threatens <i>Atlantis</i> launch
- Virtualised desktops: provisioning done the MS way
- Lights go out at Telecity in London data outage
- Cameron backs public inquiry into <i>NotW</i> hacking claims
- Twitter hacker flings poo at PayPal
- BSkyB/News Corp merger: Wait for the cops, says Ofcom
- Volvo S60 DRIVe
- Mystery of David Attenborough's garden skull cracked
- <i>NOTW</i> hack-hackage: Inside the personal data press mess
- Google explains Gaia Theory: A butterfly flaps its wings …
- Tape and dedupe: So not happening
- Italian and Swiss cops cuff 15 Anonymous suspects
- Cryptographer Len Sassaman, RIP
- Virgin Media to integrate Spotify across multiple platforms
- iPhone 4, iPad mole faces 30 years' federal porridge
- New Yorkers battle giant blindness-causing plants
- Panasonic opens TV app developer programme
- Google dumps all 11+ million .co.cc sites from its results
- Ofcom maps state of UK broadband
- New company to lead UK police ICT procurement
- Security giants join forces to train cops on cybercrime
- UK gov chews over Amazon Book Depository engulfment
- Sunspot decline could mean decades of cold UK winters
- Apple users complain over MobileMe 'censorware'
- Servers: My place or yours?
- Flashy Intel flash specs leak
- Major Comet investor backs sale
- Philips 221TE2L 21.5in monitor and Freeview TV combo
- Telstra overhauls structure ... again
- The Web isn’t dead in Australia
- Sony signs development deal with Aussie audiophiles
- Microsoft publishes Wi-Fi data collection code
| Oracle VDI now mates with both Solaris and Linux Posted: 06 Jul 2011 02:01 PM PDT Kicks off iPad affairOracle has released an update to its Virtual Desktop Infrastructure, better known to one and all as VDI. Version 3.3 adds support for Oracle Linux, a tricked-out admin portal, and – at least according to Larry & Co. – improved performance.… |
| Cray stuffs 46 mobile Intel chips into microserver Posted: 06 Jul 2011 01:41 PM PDT Packed, racked, and ruggedizedThe Custom Engineering unit of supercomputer maker Cray and the bespoke ruggedized, military-grade system maker Extreme Engineering Solutions (X-ES) have joined forces to prototype a super-dense microserver based on Intel's mobile Core i7 processors.… |
| Behind Microsoft's $15 Samsung Android royalty claim Posted: 06 Jul 2011 12:28 PM PDT Redmond's win-win patent strategyMicrosoft is turning the screws on Google's phone and tablet partners, but what kind of win-win is Redmond really going for?… |
| Facebook plugs Skype video calls into self Posted: 06 Jul 2011 11:02 AM PDT Group text chat tooFacebook has unveiled a group chat tool, a new design for its overall chat interface, and, yes, a video calling service based on Skype.… |
| Coder cracks iPad 2 jailbreak block Posted: 06 Jul 2011 09:07 AM PDT Take your iDevice out of the Walled GardeniDevice owners, including folk with an iPad 2, can now jailbreak their phones'n'fondleslabs with a simple visit to a website.… |
| Next iPhone to sport thinner, lighter casing, says paper Posted: 06 Jul 2011 08:47 AM PDT Year-end sales target: 25m units, apparentlyThe Wall Street Journal has joined the Great iPhone 5 Rumour Fest, claiming the yet-to-be-announced gadget will be thinner and lighter than the current model.… |
| Dodgy weather threatens <i>Atlantis</i> launch Posted: 06 Jul 2011 08:08 AM PDT 30% chance Friday will see last ever shuttle liftoffThe weather forecast is not looking too bright for the launch of space shuttle Atlantis on Friday, with NASA predicting just a 30 per cent chance the venerable vehicle will get off the ground.… |
| Virtualised desktops: provisioning done the MS way Posted: 06 Jul 2011 08:06 AM PDT Two paths to IT happinessA virtualised desktop offers huge advantages, both to the user and to the IT department.… |
| Lights go out at Telecity in London data outage Posted: 06 Jul 2011 07:01 AM PDT Hosting? We've prepared the guest suite for Mr CockupAnyone relying on Telecity for hosting, backup or email services will know this already: a power failure at one of its London centres has left dozens of businesses offline.… |
| Cameron backs public inquiry into <i>NotW</i> hacking claims Posted: 06 Jul 2011 06:18 AM PDT 'It is absolutely disgusting, what has taken place'Prime Minister David Cameron has today backed calls for public inquiries into the "absolutely disgusting" phone hacking allegations against The News of the World.… |
| Twitter hacker flings poo at PayPal Posted: 06 Jul 2011 06:13 AM PDT Avatar hack payback after account freeze fracasAn angry user hacked into PayPal UK's Twitter account on Tuesday night and changed the e-commerce company's avatar photo to a heap of steaming crap.… |
| BSkyB/News Corp merger: Wait for the cops, says Ofcom Posted: 06 Jul 2011 05:45 AM PDT UK.gov watching police NotW hack probe 'closely'The UK's communications watchdog cannot intervene on the proposed merger of BSkyB with Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. until a police investigation into phone-tapping allegations at the News of the World has concluded.… |
| Posted: 06 Jul 2011 05:00 AM PDT Sprightly yet economicalReview Putting small capacity turbo-diesel engines in large cars seems to be becoming all the rage, so hard on the heels of Peugeot's 508 e-HDI comes Volvo's take on the concept, the S60 DRIVe.… |
| Mystery of David Attenborough's garden skull cracked Posted: 06 Jul 2011 04:44 AM PDT 1879 murder victim's lost head found in star's backyardCops in southwest London have identified a skull found in the Richmond garden of TV star Sir David Attenborough as that of an 1879 murder victim.… |
| <i>NOTW</i> hack-hackage: Inside the personal data press mess Posted: 06 Jul 2011 04:36 AM PDT Publish and be damned. Well, not damned exactlyComment In the middle of the Major years (back in the 1990s), David Mellor, then a Cabinet minister (whose fascination for female toes was discussed by the tabloids, in the "public interest" of course) famously said that the press were drinking at "the last chance saloon". Fifteen years of hard drinking later, the recent events into phone hacking shown that some journalists and editors were too drunk to notice.… |
| Google explains Gaia Theory: A butterfly flaps its wings … Posted: 06 Jul 2011 04:31 AM PDT Sarah Hunter strikes againGoogle's Sarah Hunter is utterly, completely our favourite policy lobbyist in the UK. She's a gift who can't stop giving. Lord Derry Irvine's god-daughter was on Blair's personal staff, and was formerly No.10 policy advisor for culture. She gave top media and telecoms people an education at a Westminster Forum conference today.… |
| Tape and dedupe: So not happening Posted: 06 Jul 2011 04:31 AM PDT Why not?Opinion Let's be provocative: the LTO Consortium has innovated in tape format capacity but elsewhere the tape world is moribund, mostly seeing tape as a cheap data tub with ever-increasing capacity. Where is the innovation we've seen in disk drive arrays?… |
| Italian and Swiss cops cuff 15 Anonymous suspects Posted: 06 Jul 2011 04:12 AM PDT Hacktivist suspects vanned – including 5 kidsFifteen suspected members of Anonymous have been arrested following a joint Italian-Swiss police investigation, AFP reports.… |
| Cryptographer Len Sassaman, RIP Posted: 06 Jul 2011 03:48 AM PDT CodeCon founder rememberedObituary Len Sassaman, a cryptographer and security researcher of high repute, has died aged 31. Sassaman maintained the Mixmaster remailer and he contributed to various other privacy projects, including OpenPGP. He also co-founded the annual CodeCon conference with Bram Cohen. He was security researcher and doctoral student at the Katholieke Universiteit in Leuven.… |
| Virgin Media to integrate Spotify across multiple platforms Posted: 06 Jul 2011 03:44 AM PDT Tunes up TVs, PCs and mobilesVirgin Media has done a deal with digital music supplier Spotify, announcing an agreement that makes Virgin the only provider offering the service across multiple platforms.… |
| iPhone 4, iPad mole faces 30 years' federal porridge Posted: 06 Jul 2011 03:26 AM PDT Insider leaked fondleslab secrets in trading scamA former Flextronics exec is facing up to 30 years in prison for leaking details of Apple's iPhone 4 development as part of an insider trading scam.… |
| New Yorkers battle giant blindness-causing plants Posted: 06 Jul 2011 03:19 AM PDT Botanical SWAT teams confront triffid-esque menaceAuthorities in New York State have warned residents to keep a sharp look-out for the giant hogweed – the alien invader from the Caucasus Mountains which has the power to cause "severe skin and eye irritation, painful blistering, permanent scarring and blindness".… |
| Panasonic opens TV app developer programme Posted: 06 Jul 2011 02:45 AM PDT Code for the goggle boxWant to write code for Panasonic's net-connected TVs? Now you can, thanks to the Japanase giant's opening of a developer portal tied to its Viera Connect IPTV front-end.… |
| Google dumps all 11+ million .co.cc sites from its results Posted: 06 Jul 2011 02:30 AM PDT Bigger than .org or .uk - but mostly spam and phishGoogle has removed over 11 million .co.cc websites from its search engine results pages on the basis that most of them are far too "spammy".… |
| Ofcom maps state of UK broadband Posted: 06 Jul 2011 02:04 AM PDT Where to move for the best speeds - and where to avoidAnd the award for the UK's fastest average broadband speed goes to... Edinburgh, named today as the nation's best location for broadband performance by Ofcom.… |
| New company to lead UK police ICT procurement Posted: 06 Jul 2011 02:02 AM PDT Top cops in charge of IT pros - bound to work wellA police ICT company, led by police chiefs and staffed by technology professionals, will be set up in spring 2012 to manage some of the £1.2bn the service currently spends on ICT each year, home secretary Theresa May has announced.… |
| Security giants join forces to train cops on cybercrime Posted: 06 Jul 2011 02:00 AM PDT Tech-savvy iPlods will be better able to fend off attacksNet security firms have lent their support to a new group that is seeking to provide cybercrime training for law enforcement officials as part of a wider fight against cybercrime.… |
| UK gov chews over Amazon Book Depository engulfment Posted: 06 Jul 2011 01:30 AM PDT Any issues here, does anyone think?The Office of Fair Trading (OFT) has invited members of the public to comment on Amazon's proposed acquisition of UK-based The Book Depository.… |
| Sunspot decline could mean decades of cold UK winters Posted: 06 Jul 2011 01:07 AM PDT Ice-skating on the Thames to make a comeback?British scientists have produced a new study suggesting that the Sun is coming to the end of a "grand solar maximum" – a long period of intense activity in the Sun – meaning that we in Blighty could be set for a long period of much colder winters, similar to those seen during the "little ice age" of the 17th and 18th centuries.… |
| Apple users complain over MobileMe 'censorware' Posted: 06 Jul 2011 01:00 AM PDT EU crisis emails null rooted by CupertinoApple has reportedly begun the filtering of outbound messages sent via its MobileMe service.… |
| Posted: 06 Jul 2011 01:00 AM PDT Home and Away fixturesIt's practically easier to have your DC in your basement, but strategically silly. If you don't need physical servers, it's time to decide if it's better to locate the virtual servers outside your building.… |
| Posted: 06 Jul 2011 12:33 AM PDT Uh oh, Powerpoint all over the floorSpecs of Intel's super flash SSD710 and 720 solid state drives have been leaked by Computerbase.de – and they look mighty meaty, matey.… |
| Major Comet investor backs sale Posted: 06 Jul 2011 12:30 AM PDT But only if the price is rightMajor Kesa Electricals' shareholder Knight Vinke will back the proposed sale of ailing retailer Comet providing it can be signed and sealed quickly with a decent return for investors.… |
| Philips 221TE2L 21.5in monitor and Freeview TV combo Posted: 05 Jul 2011 11:00 PM PDT Double vision?Review All modern TVs can function perfectly well as a computer monitor; however the same isn't true the other way round. To make a TV you'll of course need a tuner to pick up the transmitted signal, a decent remote control for all that armchair channel hopping and probably a few extra inputs for your Blu-ray player, games console and the like.… |
| Telstra overhauls structure ... again Posted: 05 Jul 2011 10:54 PM PDT Creates sexy new apps and digital investment armTelstra is unifying its troops in preparation for heightened competition brought by the National Broadband Network.… |
| The Web isn’t dead in Australia Posted: 05 Jul 2011 05:30 PM PDT Nuggets from ACMA's regular data dumpA meme from last year that the "Web is dead" doesn't seem to have stopped Australian 'net users, for whom that and e-mail remain the inescapable daily activity, according to a research paper published by the Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA).… |
| Sony signs development deal with Aussie audiophiles Posted: 05 Jul 2011 04:45 PM PDT Audio Pixels takes patents up to 11Sony has signed a joint development agreement with Australian audio technology company Audio Pixels Holdings.… |
| Microsoft publishes Wi-Fi data collection code Posted: 05 Jul 2011 03:35 PM PDT 'Look at us! We're not Google!'Microsoft has published code for the software that its roving vehicles use to collect wireless network information. The move is an apparent attempt to make Microsoft look good next to Google.… |
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