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- Google squashes Google Analytics bug
- Hackers breach website for SF transit agency police
- TelstraClear slams new kiwi download laws
- Ubuntu erects stairway to VMware code cloud
- Google Apache mod speeds into outside world
- Android app logs keystrokes using phone movements
- Nintendo aims to fill stockings with Wii slim
- COMET WILL DEFINITELY NOT HIT EARTH – NASA
- Dog fight game bitten with pro-PETA virus
- Red Hat beta revs KVM hypervisor to 3.0
- Piles of unshiftable HP fondle-slabs choke Best Buy
- 2nd-hand Popemobile, also used by Neil Armstrong, for sale
- Explaining the Chocolate Factory's Patent Panic
- Scotland Yard Four cleared - on phone-hacking
- ICANN chief Beckstrom says he will go in July 2012
- Museum gets free NFC phone-tap exhibit cards from Nokia
- Amazon deploys true-blue US gov cloud for secret arms data
- Sony prices up PlayStation telly for UK
- Range Rover Evoque Si4
- Facebook flashplodder to appeal against 4-yr cooler stint
- UK sales rankings: HP, Dell up, Acer down, Apple at No. 4
- Sony ballyhoos budget PSP
- iPHONE 5 SHOCK! US Apple store 4G kit-fit snapped
- Scottish gov moans over broadband cash handout
- Angry S Koreans mass-sue Apple over iPhone tracking
- German tap-to-pay telco allies don't need no stinkin' banks
- Facebook wannabe rioters cop large helpings of porridge
- Sony slashes PlayStation 3 prices
- Profit-disaster CEO at Blue Coat: I'll get my coat
- US robochopper cargo skyhook gets another $47m
- Three touts 21.1Mb/s mobile broadband dongle
- Startup reveals own dominance in flash data caching
- App developer slurped kids' data without consent
- Dob in suspect blingy neighbours on Facebook, say cops
- id Software Wolfenstein 3D
- Box o' Flashy virtual machines offered
- Google's Android Dev Kit for Dummies™ sent home
- IT admin cops to crippling ex-employer's network
- Chic USB drive leads double life as personal vibrator
- Dell retools for the midmarket
- iiNet nears million-customer mark
- Australia Institute: we’re all mindless sheep
- Popular Android modder takes job with Samsung Mobile
| Google squashes Google Analytics bug Posted: 17 Aug 2011 03:51 PM PDT Traffic report snafu nipped in budGoogle has released a fix for Google Analytics that corrects a traffic reporting bug introduced by an update to the service last week.… |
| Hackers breach website for SF transit agency police Posted: 17 Aug 2011 03:29 PM PDT Data for 102 cops aired to protest BARTHackers breached the website belonging to a police union and posted sensitive personal information for more than 100 officers who work for a San Francisco regional transit authority.… |
| TelstraClear slams new kiwi download laws Posted: 17 Aug 2011 03:23 PM PDT CEO calls on government to break content monopoliesThe chief executive of TelstraClear, Allan Freeth, has lashed out against the pending introduction of new file sharing laws in New Zealand, which come into effect September 1.… |
| Ubuntu erects stairway to VMware code cloud Posted: 17 Aug 2011 02:44 PM PDT vOpenSourcenessUbuntu 11.10 will ship with both the client and server components of Cloud Foundry, the "platform cloud" VMware open sourced this spring.… |
| Google Apache mod speeds into outside world Posted: 17 Aug 2011 11:58 AM PDT Fastsoft on GooroidsThough Google is loath to open source the foundations of its massive online infrastructure, it does share code for tools at the edge of its network, tools designed to accelerate the actual delivery of web stuff. Mountain View doesn't want Facebook rebuilding the Googlenet. But it is intent on accelerating the web as a whole. Ultimately, this juices the Google bottom line.… |
| Android app logs keystrokes using phone movements Posted: 17 Aug 2011 11:50 AM PDT Touchscreen side-channel hackComputer scientists have developed an Android app that logs keystrokes using a smartphone's sensors to measure the locations a user taps on the touch screen.… |
| Nintendo aims to fill stockings with Wii slim Posted: 17 Aug 2011 09:11 AM PDT Size mattersThe Nintendo Wii is set for a revamp this Christmas, with an all-new streamlined design.… |
| COMET WILL DEFINITELY NOT HIT EARTH – NASA Posted: 17 Aug 2011 08:50 AM PDT Aaiee! We're all going to die!OMFG Rather worryingly, US space agency NASA has out of the blue issued a strident denial that an approaching comet poses any threat to planet Earth.… |
| Dog fight game bitten with pro-PETA virus Posted: 17 Aug 2011 08:17 AM PDT Dog and bone TrojanSupporters of the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) organisation may have embraced new measures in the fight for animal rights, allegedly releasing a malware-infected version of a dog-fighting app PETA wants banned.… |
| Red Hat beta revs KVM hypervisor to 3.0 Posted: 17 Aug 2011 08:09 AM PDT Like invasion from space: First we land, then we expandCommercial Linux distributor Red Hat is kicking out the first beta of its Enterprise Virtualization 3.0 hypervisors for servers and desktops. This brings the free-standing hypervisor up to par with the KVM hypervisor that was embedded in the company's Enterprise Linux 6.1 distro for servers , which came out in May.… |
| Piles of unshiftable HP fondle-slabs choke Best Buy Posted: 17 Aug 2011 07:27 AM PDT Staff can't get about in stores as 'OuchPads' stack upCrates of HP fondleslabs are mounting up stateside at Best Buy as it emerged the retailer has shifted less than one-tenth of its 270,000 strong unit order.… |
| 2nd-hand Popemobile, also used by Neil Armstrong, for sale Posted: 17 Aug 2011 06:53 AM PDT Pontiff-tastic bubbletop limo carried many Apollo 'nautsA remarkable car which was used by Pope Paul VI during visits to New York and Bogotá and which carried Apollo moon astronauts including Neil Armstrong is to go on sale later this week.… |
| Explaining the Chocolate Factory's Patent Panic Posted: 17 Aug 2011 06:41 AM PDT Grabbing a target and holding it over their heartAnalysis Debate rages on about whether Google's acquisition of Motorola Mobility is good for Android, or an expensive mistake for Google, made in a moment of irrational panic. Our columnist Matt Asay thinks it "spells iPhone doom", and he's not alone. John C Dvorak thinks it's "pure genius". This supposes that Google performed a cost-benefit analysis and calculated that the cost of not buying Motorola's phone and set-top box division was greater than $12.5bn.… |
| Scotland Yard Four cleared - on phone-hacking Posted: 17 Aug 2011 06:00 AM PDT Cop watchdog removes teeth from top plods' shins for nowErstwhile Met Police commissioner Sir Paul Stephenson and his one-time colleagues – John Yates, Andy Hayman and Peter Clarke – have all been cleared of misconduct during an inquiry by the cop watchdog into the phone-hacking scandal at News International.… |
| ICANN chief Beckstrom says he will go in July 2012 Posted: 17 Aug 2011 05:32 AM PDT Confirming decision apparently not made by himRod Beckstrom, the president and CEO of domain name industry overseer ICANN, has announced that he will leave the job when his contract expires in July next year.… |
| Museum gets free NFC phone-tap exhibit cards from Nokia Posted: 17 Aug 2011 05:28 AM PDT Look, better than ordinary cards! In some way!The Museum Of London has gone NFC, with tags beside the exhibits providing links to more information as Nokia continues trying to convince us that NFC is something we really want.… |
| Amazon deploys true-blue US gov cloud for secret arms data Posted: 17 Aug 2011 05:23 AM PDT West Coast ITAR bank: New can of whup for Azure's assAmazon is upping the pressure on both Microsoft and Google in the battle to scoop up cash-strapped government customers into the cloud.… |
| Sony prices up PlayStation telly for UK Posted: 17 Aug 2011 05:15 AM PDT One screen, multiple picturesSony has put a price to its PlayStation TV and confirmed it will come to Blighty this autumn.… |
| Posted: 17 Aug 2011 05:00 AM PDT Land Rover techs up the SUVFirst Look By the time the Range Rover Evoque is launched in September, Land Rover expects to be producing one every seven seconds from its Halewood factory, which should leave you in no doubt as to how important Range Rover views its first step into true mainstream motoring.… |
| Facebook flashplodder to appeal against 4-yr cooler stint Posted: 17 Aug 2011 04:57 AM PDT Crap rural lootin' event was attended only by policeOne of the men sentenced to four years in jail for attempting to incite disorder on Facebook is to appeal against the decision.… |
| UK sales rankings: HP, Dell up, Acer down, Apple at No. 4 Posted: 17 Aug 2011 04:41 AM PDT Acer disaster drags Blighty down below French, GermansAcer has been knocked further down the rankings of the shrinking UK PC market as it continued to juggle efforts to clear inventory overload with sluggish consumer demand.… |
| Posted: 17 Aug 2011 04:36 AM PDT Redesigned and repricedWhile the PS Vita lingers on the horizon, Sony is readying a refreshed PlayStation Portable - model E-1000 - for a penny short of £100.… |
| iPHONE 5 SHOCK! US Apple store 4G kit-fit snapped Posted: 17 Aug 2011 04:14 AM PDT 'Sure it works sir, reception's great here in the shop'A photograph of LTE equipment being fitted in a US Apple store has reinvigorated rumours that the next iPhone will come with 4G technology built in, for AT&T at least.… |
| Scottish gov moans over broadband cash handout Posted: 17 Aug 2011 04:09 AM PDT Gie us mair bawbees, oor internet's aye puggledThe Scottish government isn't happy about the trifling amount of cash UK.gov's culture secretary splashed on the rollout of broadband in that country yesterday.… |
| Angry S Koreans mass-sue Apple over iPhone tracking Posted: 17 Aug 2011 03:50 AM PDT You must pay each of us one meellion won! <cough> £568Apple is facing legal action from thousands of iPhone users for tracking their movements via their phones' location – and it has already been forced to make one payment on the same issue.… |
| German tap-to-pay telco allies don't need no stinkin' banks Posted: 17 Aug 2011 03:38 AM PDT Slapdash slapcash plan requires all new bonk-banker kitThe German arms of Telefonica and Vodafone, along with Deutsche Telekom, have signed an agreement to take their virtual mpass payment platform physical, without the help of the banks.… |
| Facebook wannabe rioters cop large helpings of porridge Posted: 17 Aug 2011 03:12 AM PDT Flashplod rather than flashmob: only cops showed upTwo men have been banged up for four years apiece, after unsuccessfully inciting violent disorder on Facebook.… |
| Sony slashes PlayStation 3 prices Posted: 17 Aug 2011 03:01 AM PDT Console cost cutterSony today cut the cost of the PlayStation 3, saving precious gaming pennies in the build up to the Chrimble season.… |
| Profit-disaster CEO at Blue Coat: I'll get my coat Posted: 17 Aug 2011 02:42 AM PDT Mine's the one with the pink slip in the pocketBlue Coat boss Michael Borman has fallen on his sword following declining sales and profits in fiscal first quarter 2012.… |
| US robochopper cargo skyhook gets another $47m Posted: 17 Aug 2011 02:22 AM PDT Crewless mesh-copter creeps closer to the front lineThe US Army and Marines' ongoing effort to get unmanned robot supply helicopters into service continues, with a further $47m contract award announced yesterday.… |
| Three touts 21.1Mb/s mobile broadband dongle Posted: 17 Aug 2011 02:20 AM PDT MiFi upgraded to HSPA+, 802.11nThree has begun pitching a new 802.11n Wi-Fi enabled mobile broadband dongle, this one with HSPA+ technology on board capable of delivering download speeds of up to 21.1Mb/s.… |
| Startup reveals own dominance in flash data caching Posted: 17 Aug 2011 01:54 AM PDT Also announces secret amount of funding raisedVeloBit is a software startup with unique caching software algorithms technology that appears to be better than that of any of its rivals.… |
| App developer slurped kids' data without consent Posted: 17 Aug 2011 01:27 AM PDT 50,000 Apple Store downloads, $50,000 fineA mobile applications developer will be fined $50,000 for allegedly collecting and disclosing children's personal information without parental consent, the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has said.… |
| Dob in suspect blingy neighbours on Facebook, say cops Posted: 17 Aug 2011 12:58 AM PDT Where did they get all those tellies?Lothian and Borders police has launched a new initiative that allows the public to report suspected criminals, anonymously if they wish, "using facebook or via Bluetooth" or using the Crimestoppers website.… |
| Posted: 17 Aug 2011 12:00 AM PDT Glourious BasterdAntique Code Show With the EDL taking the opportunity to whip up support after the latest riots, it seems a fitting time to resurrect the memory of shooting fascists. Indeed, it must be heartwarming for id Software to know it invented the gaming genre that is now outselling porn: Wolfenstein 3D was the definitive first-person shooter.… |
| Box o' Flashy virtual machines offered Posted: 17 Aug 2011 12:00 AM PDT Pump my DataStartup Astute Networks stores VMware virtual machines on its dedicated ViSX G3 flash SAN – leaving bulk data to be stored on standard drive arrays.… |
| Google's Android Dev Kit for Dummies™ sent home Posted: 16 Aug 2011 09:51 PM PDT App Inventor returns with makerGoogle and MIT have built a new home for App Inventor, the Android-programming-kit-for-non-programmers that was just jettisoned from the Mountain View mothership.… |
| IT admin cops to crippling ex-employer's network Posted: 16 Aug 2011 09:00 PM PDT Cold revenge served hereA Georgia IT administrator has pleaded guilty to crippling the computer system of a Japanese pharmaceutical company's US subsidiary several months after his employment there ended.… |
| Chic USB drive leads double life as personal vibrator Posted: 16 Aug 2011 08:24 PM PDT Très élégant, oui, mais très puissantA San Francisco design firm has produced one of the most provocative human-machine interfaces we've seen in some time: a USB drive that doubles as a personal vibrator.… |
| Dell retools for the midmarket Posted: 16 Aug 2011 05:12 PM PDT (Slightly) less revenue. But more profitConsumers and governments in the United States and Europe are crimping their spending, but businesses of all sizes are still refreshing their servers, storage, and PCs. As a result, Dell was able to come close to meeting Wall Street's revenue expectations in its second quarter.… |
| iiNet nears million-customer mark Posted: 16 Aug 2011 05:01 PM PDT Profit up, ARPU up, churn downEven in the relatively flat fixed broadband market, it seems there's still room for growth: iiNet, the ISP claiming Australia's number two position in DSL services, managed to add more than 48,000 new customers in the 2010 financial year, taking total services to 960,000 at the end of the year.… |
| Australia Institute: we’re all mindless sheep Posted: 16 Aug 2011 04:00 PM PDT What, there's a second page of search results?Search dominates how we shop on the Web, Google dominates search, big names dominate Google results, and most people don't bother looking beyond the first page of search results.… |
| Popular Android modder takes job with Samsung Mobile Posted: 16 Aug 2011 03:52 PM PDT Cyanogen to make Android 'more awesome'The creator of one of the most popular Android modification kits has taken a job as a software engineer with Samsung's mobile device unit.… |
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