ESPN buys Aussie tipping site |
- ESPN buys Aussie tipping site
- Oz bomb hoax breakthrough: arrest in America
- Googorola versus the Android ecosystem
- Xsigo automagically floats cloud east and west
- Innocent passengers targeted to protest subway agency
- 'Major' C++ revision receives standards blessing
- Has Google wasted $12bn on a dud patent poker-chip?
- Apple Mac Mini 2011
- TwitPic founder attempts to pull rug from under Twitter
- InMage dumps CEO
- Virgin Media flogs off UKTV stake for £339m
- People don't want tablets, they want iPads
- Adobe automates website design for arty Luddites
- Google SHOCK! Snaps up Motorola phone biz for $12.5bn
- Microsoft loses grip on slippery Mango
- Google plus Google Plus: You give us info, we sell it!
- Dynamic Languages Conference: it's an Edinburgh thing
- Audio Technica ANC7b noise-cancelling headphones
- Lawyer touts new legal time-bomb for Android
- HP to bring next WebOS blower to Blighty
- Galaxy Tab still legal in the Netherlands
- Wikipedia: It's not for girls
- Samsung's lovely illegal tablet: Why no one wants to know
- Orange signals mobile broadband tariff tweaks
- Firefox 6 silently released ahead of official unwrap date
- FLASH: The Disruptening
- Apple ups iPhone production 'by 12%'
- A-level results accidentally put on interwebs a week early
- Nvidia enlists Cray CTO for Tesla GPU assault
- How expensive are Australian NBN services?
- Curved light drives boffin one-upmanship
- AFACT vs iiNet round 3
- Credit card cabal collared
| Posted: 15 Aug 2011 03:30 PM PDT Footy platform goes globalGlobal sports broadcasting network ESPN has acquired Australian online and mobile football community site footytips.com.au.… |
| Oz bomb hoax breakthrough: arrest in America Posted: 15 Aug 2011 03:04 PM PDT Louisville not far enough away for accused Pulver attackerNSW Police are about to apply to extradite a 52-year-old Australian arrested in Louisville, Kentucky, over the Madeleine Pulver bomb hoax.… |
| Googorola versus the Android ecosystem Posted: 15 Aug 2011 02:14 PM PDT The war Google won't admitWhen announcing its planned acquisition of Motorola Mobility, Google went out of its way to reassure existing Android device manufacturers that it wasn't cutting their legs out from under them.… |
| Xsigo automagically floats cloud east and west Posted: 15 Aug 2011 12:58 PM PDT Not just north and southXsigo Systems, which for years has been trying to carve a niche for itself in the virtualized network and server rackets, is taking another crack at it with a version of its VP family of I/O Directors, tweaked to provide direct and movable links between virtual machines on clustered servers.… |
| Innocent passengers targeted to protest subway agency Posted: 15 Aug 2011 11:34 AM PDT Anonymous punishes THE PEOPLE to protect themHacktivists protested recent controversial actions taken by a San Francisco regional subway authority by publishing sensitive information for more than 2,000 of passengers who had nothing to do with its agency's management.… |
| 'Major' C++ revision receives standards blessing Posted: 15 Aug 2011 10:20 AM PDT Mind your languageChanges to the standard behind of one of the world's most popular programming languages have been approved by standards chiefs.… |
| Has Google wasted $12bn on a dud patent poker-chip? Posted: 15 Aug 2011 08:17 AM PDT Larry Page's Moto bluff fails to convinceAnalysis It's all about patents, says Google co-founder and CEO Larry Page. Google insists that it bought Motorola to shore up its Android platform, which is caught in a litigious pincer movement from old buddies Steve Jobs and Larry Ellison. Microsoft is merely egging them on the sidelines as the manbags fly, shouting: "Fight!"… |
| Posted: 15 Aug 2011 06:55 AM PDT Style over substance?Review Last year's Mac Mini was a bit of a let-down. Sure, it got a nice redesign, with a gleaming metallic, low-profile chassis and a new HDMI port that seemed like a belated attempt to try and repurpose the Mini as a media centre system. However, the hardware inside it was actually downgraded, which meant that you were paying almost £650 for a low-spec desktop Mac that didn't even include a mouse and keyboard, let alone a monitor.… |
| TwitPic founder attempts to pull rug from under Twitter Posted: 15 Aug 2011 06:32 AM PDT Revenge rug-tug bid against colossus probably doomedThe creator of Twitpic, the photo-sharing system sitting atop Twitter, has launched his own Twitter clone.… |
| Posted: 15 Aug 2011 06:04 AM PDT Co-founder takes overInMage, a startup selling disk-based recovery software, has elevated co-founder and chairman Kumar Malavalli to its CEO position, dispensing with long-term CEO John Ferraro.… |
| Virgin Media flogs off UKTV stake for £339m Posted: 15 Aug 2011 05:59 AM PDT Dave gobbled by Food NetworkVirgin Media isn't in the TV content business anymore. Today the cable operator confirmed it has a buyer for its share of the UKTV company, for £239m plus £100m to buy up outstanding debt and equity. The buyer is US company Scripps Networks Interactive, responsible for the Food Network.… |
| People don't want tablets, they want iPads Posted: 15 Aug 2011 05:29 AM PDT Mountain of unsold fondle-slabs piles up, prices slashedThe phenomenal sales success of Apple's iPad shows no sign of abating, but sales for all other tablets competitors are stagnating and channel inventories are building.… |
| Adobe automates website design for arty Luddites Posted: 15 Aug 2011 05:23 AM PDT Like crayons, hate keyboards?Adobe is looking for beta testers for its web design software, which it claims removes the need for coding.… |
| Google SHOCK! Snaps up Motorola phone biz for $12.5bn Posted: 15 Aug 2011 05:21 AM PDT Are you a Droid handset maker? You wereGoogle has made its largest-ever acquisition, and biggest corporate gamble, by splashing out $12.5bn for Motorola's phone division, Motorola Mobility. The deal puts Google into the hardware business in a serious way – and into direct competition with licensees of its Android operating system, who woke up this morning thinking they were Google's business partners.… |
| Microsoft loses grip on slippery Mango Posted: 15 Aug 2011 05:13 AM PDT Windows Phone 7.5: Slurp this leak at your phone riskThe next version of Microsoft's Windows Phone operating system has arrived early for those willing to risk a slapdown by Redmond.… |
| Google plus Google Plus: You give us info, we sell it! Posted: 15 Aug 2011 04:54 AM PDT 'Oh, my mouth is watering', murmurs Choc Factory execGoogle has bolted posts created in its invite-only social network Google+ into its search estate.… |
| Dynamic Languages Conference: it's an Edinburgh thing Posted: 15 Aug 2011 04:52 AM PDT Stallman speaks at free one-dayerOn Friday August 26, The Dynamic Languages Conference, a free one-day event, rolls into Edinburgh. Reg developer Marco Fontani is a co-organiser, so the gig is bound to marvellous.… |
| Audio Technica ANC7b noise-cancelling headphones Posted: 15 Aug 2011 04:34 AM PDT Journey into soundGeek Treat of the Week You don't have to be a geek to have a fondness for a gadget that just 'works'. Perhaps a mobile phone that does bugger all than manage calls but gets a signal wherever you are. How about a simple pair of headphones? From a technical standpoint, perhaps not so simple in the case of Audio Technica's ATH-ANC7b cans. However, just one switch activates the QuietPoint noise-cancelling signal processing, and the roaring silence is upon you. Yup, that's it.… |
| Lawyer touts new legal time-bomb for Android Posted: 15 Aug 2011 04:17 AM PDT Phones and slab makers in peril, says 'totally bogus' attorneyEvery manufacturer using Android is in breach of the GPL, according to IP attorney Edward Naughton, though his last accusations didn't exactly run Android out of town.… |
| HP to bring next WebOS blower to Blighty Posted: 15 Aug 2011 04:15 AM PDT Pre 3 coming to OrangeHP's anticipated WebOS smartphone - the Pre 3 - has appeared on the Orange site, suggesting an official launch is on the cards soon.… |
| Galaxy Tab still legal in the Netherlands Posted: 15 Aug 2011 04:06 AM PDT Keen to fondle a new slab? Bless the open-minded DutchWhile Samsung is seeking to overturn a preliminary injunction that prohibits it from shipping its hotly anticipated Galaxy Tab 10.1 in Europe, a court in The Hague decided not to impose an immediate sales ban in the Netherlands until it reaches a decision on 15 September.… |
| Posted: 15 Aug 2011 03:31 AM PDT Woeful Sex and the City coverage, lady nerditors bulliedTime-rich computer scientists in America say they have conclusive proof that online encyclopedia/graffiti archive Wikipedia is biased against women. Hardly any of the site's legions of volunteer editors are female, and the few who are get picked on by the male majority: as a result Wikipedia fails to provide quality in-depth information on subjects of interest to women – such as "friendship bracelets or Sex and the City".… |
| Samsung's lovely illegal tablet: Why no one wants to know Posted: 15 Aug 2011 03:28 AM PDT Even without injunctions, it's a hard sellAnalysis Quite unexpectedly I found myself in possession of some very hot, illegal property last week. Not a looted plasma TV but rather the Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1, which thanks to legal injunctions is disappearing from channels all over Europe. Vodafone is the latest to cancel its orders.… |
| Orange signals mobile broadband tariff tweaks Posted: 15 Aug 2011 02:59 AM PDT Box of MiFi tricks up its sleeveNetwork giant Orange has refreshed its mobile broadband plans while touting a new Wi-Fi device for those on the move.… |
| Firefox 6 silently released ahead of official unwrap date Posted: 15 Aug 2011 02:23 AM PDT Mozilla FTP server cares naught for release scheduleUpdated Mozilla isn't officially breaking the seal on Firefox 6 until tomorrow, but the code for the latest iteration of its popular open source browser is already available online.… |
| Posted: 15 Aug 2011 02:12 AM PDT Who will tame this mighty beast and ride it into town?Comment We have had a flash of insight: all the storage array vendors are going to have to face up to all-flash arrays and do something about the technology – buy, partner or build. Denial is not a strategy.… |
| Apple ups iPhone production 'by 12%' Posted: 15 Aug 2011 02:05 AM PDT 56 million units to be churned out in H2 2011If you believe the whispers coming out of Taiwain and China, Apple is expecting to shift 56 million iPhones of one type or another during the last six months of 2011.… |
| A-level results accidentally put on interwebs a week early Posted: 15 Aug 2011 01:58 AM PDT Schoolboy errorEdexcel was testing its online 'A' level results service over the weekend when it left a web server live and accidentally released grades a week early.… |
| Nvidia enlists Cray CTO for Tesla GPU assault Posted: 14 Aug 2011 07:07 PM PDT HPC biz all lumpyIf Advanced Micro Devices was thinking it had a shot of delivering GPU coprocessors to supercomputer maker Cray - which already uses its Opteron chips in its HPC clusters - the odds just went down. Former Cray chief technology officer Steve Scott, who spent 19 years designing machines and interconnects, has just been tapped as the new CTO for Nvidia's Tesla GPU coprocessor products for workstations and servers.… |
| How expensive are Australian NBN services? Posted: 14 Aug 2011 06:00 PM PDT Depends on how you measure itOne of the things people like to toss into the broadband debate is to grab a price that's cheaper than what Australia's National Broadband Network seems to offer, and complain about it.… |
| Curved light drives boffin one-upmanship Posted: 14 Aug 2011 05:30 PM PDT Get bentFor four years, scientists have been on an international race to exploit a property of a peculiar kind of light called an "Airy beam". Now, not one, but two groups of researchers are laying claim to the prize.… |
| Posted: 14 Aug 2011 04:30 PM PDT This time piracy wars hit the High CourtAFACT, the Australian Federation Against Copyright Theft, has re-booted its war with ISP iiNet after getting clearance to appeal its case to the High Court.… |
| Posted: 14 Aug 2011 04:01 PM PDT NSW cops sweep up skim scammersNSW Police has arrested five men responsible for what it describes as an international credit card fraud operation.… |
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