Apple shares drop after Jobs resignation |
- Apple shares drop after Jobs resignation
- Diamonds are an astronomer’s best friend
- Steve Jobs resigns as Apple's CEO
- Vandal posts official's nude pic to protest cell shutdown
- Tech23 unearths tech innovators downunder
- Apple wins (another) Samsung Android injunction in EU
- 'Devastating' Apache bug leaves servers exposed
- Nervous Samsung seeks Android Plan F. Or G, H ....
- Dish eyes 4G LTE wireless network
- Google settles illegal drug ad probe for $500 million
- Misery at Acer: 'Breaking even this year is impossible'
- Russian <i>Progress</i> space truck crashes in Siberia
- appToyz appWheel
- Motorola pitches Qwerty smartphone at FaceTweeters
- ASA bitchslaps Motorola on 'most powerful' Atrix boast
- Amazon man to shoot his pocket rocket this afternoon
- How to stay out of big trouble from little devices
- comScore sued over 'sinister' data collection methods
- Just how will Apple restrict device-ID snooping in iOS 5?
- Open source cloud-builder respawn: Eucalyptus 3.0 looms
- NFC phone-tap app makes money!
- Chinese buying more PCs than Americans
- Room-temperature brown dwarf spied just 9 light-years off
- VMware turns shrink ray on open source dev cloud
- Nokia accidentally unveils OS it should have had in 2009
- Samsung gets alphabetical with its smartphones
- Facebook ditches Places - but embiggens location tracking
- Performance monitoring is Someone Else's Problem
- BBC crowdsourced mobile map: A bit quirky, but useful
- Agency sends contractors' day rates to 800 RBS staff
- Britain's iconic red phonebox turns 75
- US and Russia to give uranium to ANYONE
- AlertMe network power-meter kit: Suitable for techies?
- Secret list of celebrity .xxx domains removed from market
- Amphibious Nazi raccoons menace Sweden
- Logitech unwraps fold-away keyboard for iPad
- UK could have flooded world with iPods - Sir Humphrey
- LG to demo mouse with diddy doc scanner
- TMS buckles up first MLC flash product
- Misco reaps harvest of rage in Twitter Touchpad debacle
- VW Scirocco BlueMotion Technology TDI 140
- 99% of UK gov websites are breaking the law
- NetApp throws in free Flash Cache
- Kremlin green lights Siberia-Alaska tunnel
- Data for 43,000 at Yale winds up in Google search results
- Argentina: home of Bavarian lager
- Chinese PLA video shows cyber-attack software
- Juniper boosts Oz presence, waits for cash to rain from cloud
| Apple shares drop after Jobs resignation Posted: 24 Aug 2011 05:15 PM PDT Trading suspended before revealApple's share price has dropped over 5 per cent in after hours trading, following the news that Steve Jobs has resigned as CEO.… |
| Diamonds are an astronomer’s best friend Posted: 24 Aug 2011 05:14 PM PDT 4,000 light years to MidnightDr Who fans will remember the episode "Midnight", set on a diamond planet. That's what a team of astronomers from Australia, Germany, Italy, the UK and the USA believe they've found circling a star 4,000 light-years distant.… |
| Steve Jobs resigns as Apple's CEO Posted: 24 Aug 2011 03:55 PM PDT Tim Cook appointed as new bossSteve Jobs resigned as Apple's CEO and was replaced by Tim Cook, formerly COO of the iconic company Jobs cofounded 35 years ago.… |
| Vandal posts official's nude pic to protest cell shutdown Posted: 24 Aug 2011 03:38 PM PDT Below the belt blackmailOnline vandals protesting the recent shutdown of cellphone service at San Francisco subway stations posted a nude photo of the transit agency spokesman who took responsibility for the highly controversial move.… |
| Tech23 unearths tech innovators downunder Posted: 24 Aug 2011 02:48 PM PDT NSW govt shows support in dollars and senseAustralia's leading start-up showcase Tech23 has recognized five early-stage Australian technology companies to share in a pool of $150,000 in cash prizes.… |
| Apple wins (another) Samsung Android injunction in EU Posted: 24 Aug 2011 12:11 PM PDT Dutch court blocks phone trioA Dutch court has warmed the hearts of Apple's patent Nazis, issuing a preliminary injunction against the sale of three Samsung Android phones: the Galaxy S, the Galaxy S II, and the Ace.… |
| 'Devastating' Apache bug leaves servers exposed Posted: 24 Aug 2011 11:05 AM PDT Devs race to fix weakness disclosed in 2007Maintainers of the Apache webserver are racing to patch a severe weakness that allows an attacker to use a single PC to completely crash a system and was first diagnosed 54 months ago.… |
| Nervous Samsung seeks Android Plan F. Or G, H .... Posted: 24 Aug 2011 10:44 AM PDT Korean govt nudges chaebolsSamsung has changed its mind and may join an Korean consortium producing an open alternative to Android. The strategy shift has been prompted by Google's proposed acquisition of Motorola Mobility – and reflects the vertical integration structure whereby Google both licenses Android and competes with its licensees in handsets. This is according to Korea's Deputy Minister of the Knowledge Economy, Kim Jae-hong, cited here.… |
| Dish eyes 4G LTE wireless network Posted: 24 Aug 2011 10:43 AM PDT Anything LightSquared can do...Dish Networks is following LightSquared's lead in applying to the FCC to be relieved of its obligation to use satellite frequencies for satellite communications.… |
| Google settles illegal drug ad probe for $500 million Posted: 24 Aug 2011 10:11 AM PDT One of the largest forfeitures in US historyGoogle has agreed to pay $500 million to settle a US Department of Justice investigation into allegations that it allowed Canadian pharmacies to advertise on its US search engine, facilitating the illegal importation of controlled and non-controlled substances into the country.… |
| Misery at Acer: 'Breaking even this year is impossible' Posted: 24 Aug 2011 08:57 AM PDT Pile 'em high and, well, leave 'em there for nowAcer has announced its first-ever quarterly loss as a veritable vortex of inventory backlogs, internal reshuffling, sluggish PC demand and runaway iPad popularity chewed through its profits.… |
| Russian <i>Progress</i> space truck crashes in Siberia Posted: 24 Aug 2011 08:28 AM PDT ISS supplies lost, station not rationing air just yetThe Russians have lost a unmanned Progress supply vessel which blasted off at 13:00 GMT today from Baikonur Cosmodrome en route to the International Space Station.… |
| Posted: 24 Aug 2011 08:01 AM PDT Bum steer?iGamer "For fuck's sake, Mum. I asked for the appBlaster; not the fucking appWheel. You've totally fucked Christmas. No wonder dad's shacked up with that 26-year-old stunner. I fucking hate you!"… |
| Motorola pitches Qwerty smartphone at FaceTweeters Posted: 24 Aug 2011 07:39 AM PDT Fire off your updatesHere's the Motorola Fire, the "budget-friendly" Android 2.3 smartphone the company will be bringing to Blighty in the coming months.… |
| ASA bitchslaps Motorola on 'most powerful' Atrix boast Posted: 24 Aug 2011 07:27 AM PDT 'We meant it had the most powerful battery'The UK's Advertising Standards Agency has upheld complaints about the TV ad for Motorola's Atrix, which stated that the gadget was "the world's most powerful smartphone".… |
| Amazon man to shoot his pocket rocket this afternoon Posted: 24 Aug 2011 07:01 AM PDT Bezos' Blue Origin not expecting to beat 18,000 feetBlue Origin, the private space-rocket firm founded by Jeff Bezos of Amazon fame, is to conduct a rocket test this afternoon (Wednesday 24 August).… |
| How to stay out of big trouble from little devices Posted: 24 Aug 2011 06:30 AM PDT Beware the smartphone apocalypseHere's the tricky thing about mobile security: the perfect storm of smartphone threats is always just over the horizon. Every couple of years, the vendors are up in arms about it and predict handheld apocalypse.… |
| comScore sued over 'sinister' data collection methods Posted: 24 Aug 2011 06:28 AM PDT We make 'commercially viable efforts' not to slurp youData collection outfit comScore has rejected a lawsuit that alleges the company violates US privacy laws, by saying the claims are "without merit and full of factual inaccuracies".… |
| Just how will Apple restrict device-ID snooping in iOS 5? Posted: 24 Aug 2011 06:26 AM PDT 'You never really know what those guys are up to'Apple is planning to phase out unique device identifiers from iOS 5, according to documentation sent out to developers, possibly to stop people worrying about their privacy on iPhones and iPads.… |
| Open source cloud-builder respawn: Eucalyptus 3.0 looms Posted: 24 Aug 2011 06:00 AM PDT Mickos & Co craft 'hot spare' NASA-proof cloudwareMarten Mickos and Eucalyptus have pumped new life into their build-your-own–cloud platform, revamping its approach to open source while adding new code designed to protect users from catastrophic failures.… |
| NFC phone-tap app makes money! Posted: 24 Aug 2011 05:54 AM PDT By winning a competition for developersTouchanote is getting $50,000 of Evernote's VC cash as the winner of the company's developer competition, turning Touchanote into the most profitable NFC app ever.… |
| Chinese buying more PCs than Americans Posted: 24 Aug 2011 05:31 AM PDT Bitchslap for US probably temporary ... this yearChina bought more PCs than the US in the second quarter this year, making it the largest computer market in the world for the first time, according to market research firm IDC.… |
| Room-temperature brown dwarf spied just 9 light-years off Posted: 24 Aug 2011 05:21 AM PDT 'Like finding a secret house on your block'Scientists perusing data collected by NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) have spotted some really cool stars – brown dwarfs with an atmospheric temperature as low as an agreeable 25°C.… |
| VMware turns shrink ray on open source dev cloud Posted: 24 Aug 2011 05:00 AM PDT A really tiny Google mimic for your laptopVMware has created a really tiny version of its open source developer cloud.… |
| Nokia accidentally unveils OS it should have had in 2009 Posted: 24 Aug 2011 04:31 AM PDT Shy, lovely Symbian Belle debutante expectedNokia is expected to unveil the a major refresh of its Symbian OS today, bringing it bang up to date with competitive phones from two years ago. Owners of more recent Symbian^3 models should be able to update their handsets eventually.… |
| Samsung gets alphabetical with its smartphones Posted: 24 Aug 2011 04:30 AM PDT Handsets now Young, Magical, Wonder or RefinedSamsung has followed in Nokia's recent footsteps by launching fresh devices alongside a new labelling strategy which aims to organise its products into a more logical system.… |
| Facebook ditches Places - but embiggens location tracking Posted: 24 Aug 2011 04:17 AM PDT How many icons will appear on Zuck's global bitch-map?Facebook is abandoning its Places feature after just one year since it launched the function – at the same time, location settings within the social network are being ramped up.… |
| Performance monitoring is Someone Else's Problem Posted: 24 Aug 2011 04:00 AM PDT Tackling the culture of 'No'Douglas Adams obviously knew what makes an IT shop tick. In Life, the Universe, and Everything, he identified the Somebody Else's Problem (SEP) field, which renders some things not so much invisible as unnoticeable. For a while, the imminent collapse of the Greek economy was an SEP, until it became too big to ignore.… |
| BBC crowdsourced mobile map: A bit quirky, but useful Posted: 24 Aug 2011 03:43 AM PDT Best available, thanks to Ofcom and Everything EverywhereThe Beeb has released its long-expected crowdsourced map of UK mobile coverage.… |
| Agency sends contractors' day rates to 800 RBS staff Posted: 24 Aug 2011 03:28 AM PDT People's bank sacks inhouse, pays £2k/day to outhousersRecruitment agency Hays has committed a massive blunder at the Royal Bank of Scotland.… |
| Britain's iconic red phonebox turns 75 Posted: 24 Aug 2011 03:26 AM PDT Calls for a celebration?The most recognisable form of Britain's much-loved red telephone kiosk celebrates its 75th anniversary this year.… |
| US and Russia to give uranium to ANYONE Posted: 24 Aug 2011 03:14 AM PDT 'No, you really don't need your own enrichment plant'So the US is making more nuclear fuel. And they're willing to offer that fuel, alongside the Russians, to countries who cannot get nuclear fuel for political reasons. Recklessness carried to extremes, surely?… |
| AlertMe network power-meter kit: Suitable for techies? Posted: 24 Aug 2011 03:00 AM PDT Our man plugs in and gives it a spinReview Simply measuring and monitoring energy usage helps people conserve, and helps avoid unexpected high bills while 'leccy prices are rising as quickly as they are now. Consumption monitors save cash and the planet, which is why UK.gov is keen on getting smart meters in every home, although these are probably rather less polished than AlertMe's kit.… |
| Secret list of celebrity .xxx domains removed from market Posted: 24 Aug 2011 02:41 AM PDT Michelle Obama safe, Samantha Cameron must use protectionHundreds, possibly thousands of celebrities have had their names permanently banned from the new .xxx adults-only internet domain.… |
| Amphibious Nazi raccoons menace Sweden Posted: 24 Aug 2011 02:27 AM PDT Hermann Göring's furry stormtroopers poised to strikeSweden is bracing for an amphibious assault by a considerable force of raccoon dogs and raccoons, poised to cross the Öresund strait which separates the country from neighbouring Denmark.… |
| Logitech unwraps fold-away keyboard for iPad Posted: 24 Aug 2011 02:24 AM PDT Tuck meLogitech has introduced yet another keyboard for the iPad 2. In addition to its clip-on keyboard and its basic Bluetooth deck comes the Fold-up Keyboard into which the Qwerty layout splits then slides into a stand.… |
| UK could have flooded world with iPods - Sir Humphrey Posted: 24 Aug 2011 02:00 AM PDT Copyright law was/is the only obstacle. No, reallyAnalysis Britain could have invented the iPod – if it wasn't for a copyright law that everyone ignores. So says the UK government in a remarkable economic justification of the so-called "Google Review", the Review of IP and Growth led by Ian Hargreaves. The document was written for the government by civil servants at the IPO, part of the business department BIS.… |
| LG to demo mouse with diddy doc scanner Posted: 24 Aug 2011 01:27 AM PDT The mouse that |
| TMS buckles up first MLC flash product Posted: 24 Aug 2011 01:27 AM PDT Suffering from smeary stripe? This cleans up in strideNews from the flash front: TMS has a more affordable small flash SAN product that's higher capacity than the RamSan 710 speed rocket.… |
| Misco reaps harvest of rage in Twitter Touchpad debacle Posted: 24 Aug 2011 01:25 AM PDT 'You've pissed off the ppl. They don't forget.'Misco has earned the wrath of the Twitterati after it screwed up an HP Touchpad offer.… |
| VW Scirocco BlueMotion Technology TDI 140 Posted: 24 Aug 2011 01:15 AM PDT A green GT for the working manReview Style, practicality, economy and sporting performance - not necessarily aspects of the car makers' art you would expect to find all combined in a single model. But that's what you'll get with the arrival of a new generation of rather desirable but also extremely frugal diesel coupés from the likes of Renault and Volkswagen.… |
| 99% of UK gov websites are breaking the law Posted: 24 Aug 2011 12:58 AM PDT Most have no idea how much they are violatingMost public sector organisations do not ask internet users' consent to cookie tracking, a survey has said.… |
| NetApp throws in free Flash Cache Posted: 24 Aug 2011 12:24 AM PDT Lets you pile 'em low and buy 'em cheapNetApp is providing 512GB – not 512MB – of free Flash Cache on the FAS6240 and 6280 arrays and the V6240 and 6280 controllers.… |
| Kremlin green lights Siberia-Alaska tunnel Posted: 23 Aug 2011 10:39 PM PDT The hard part? Money and politics. Not engineeringIn a couple of decades, you may be able to board a train at London's St Pancras Station, chug through the Chunnel traveling east, and – eventually – end up at New York City's Grand Central Station, having never disembarked.… |
| Data for 43,000 at Yale winds up in Google search results Posted: 23 Aug 2011 10:38 PM PDT SNAFU discovered after FTP added to indexYale University has warned 43,000 people that their names and Social Security numbers were publicly accessible for 10 months to anyone with an internet connection.… |
| Argentina: home of Bavarian lager Posted: 23 Aug 2011 05:30 PM PDT It's in the DNABeer has been around for millennia, but lager is more recent, invented in Germany about 600 years ago. Its secret is a particular yeast, and now American scientists believe they've identified an ancestor of that yeast – in Argentina.… |
| Chinese PLA video shows cyber-attack software Posted: 23 Aug 2011 04:30 PM PDT How we kick the Falun GongIt's being called an accident, but it could also be a show of force: a piece of state propaganda from China shows an attack being launched against Falun Gong computers.… |
| Juniper boosts Oz presence, waits for cash to rain from cloud Posted: 23 Aug 2011 03:40 PM PDT Vendor gets ready for cloud-based boomJuniper Networks is boosting its presence in Australia as it readies for an anticipated boom in cloud and enterprise grade services.… |
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