Insulin pump maker ignores diabetic's hack warnings |
- Insulin pump maker ignores diabetic's hack warnings
- VMware's vSphere 5 hits the streets
- Mobile operators: US quake proves we need more spectrum
- AMD's new CEO bobs, weaves, says 'big' and 'fast' are good
- Firm at heart of biggest oil spill spews toxic web attack
- 'Apple is not going to change,' new boss says
- Greyhound spatters Nashville with semen
- Keep calm and carry on networking, says UK.gov
- AMD finally manages to snare a CEO: Lenovo man Read
- UK cops charge alleged Anonymous hacker
- US Marines not allowed to fart in Afghanistan
- Post-Jobs run on overpriced Apple shares fails to occur
- That UK.gov Firefox cookie leakage snafu explained
- Paintball round pops Bulgarian airbag
- US judge: Warrant required to access mobile location data
- China Mobile becomes world's biggest mobe operator
- Blackberry BBM adds social music cloud
- Samsung refuses to buy HP's PC business
- French letter shock: Tax us more, demand rich people
- Cambridge Audio Sonata NP30 hi-fi streamer
- Brit men descend from mammoth hunters, not farmers
- Home Office faces £500m demand in e-Borders sacking
- Social networks likely to snub Home Office in riot confab
- Seven Dwarfs password gag declared Fringe's best
- Microsoft unveils file-move changes in Windows 8
- CERN: 'Climate models will need to be substantially revised'
- Samsung's iOS rival gets multitasking and HTML5
- Virgin Media preps firmware update for glitchy SuperHub
- Boffins cobble up phone-powering footwear
- Woman in strop strip for Bermuda airport customs
- Server sales still growing strong
- Sony Ericsson signals inbound Android 2.3.4
- The Torvalds of Drupal pledges HTML5 mobile love
- Acer insists fondleslab 'fever' is fading
- Ofcom pilots paid-for voting and compo rules for broadcasters
- Nokia pitches cheapest voicephones yet
- Scotland seeks £100m IT hardware deal
- Autodesk Fluid FX
- PHP lands on VMware's Cloud Foundry
- Apple after Steve Jobs is still Steve Jobs' Apple
| Insulin pump maker ignores diabetic's hack warnings Posted: 25 Aug 2011 02:45 PM PDT Medtronic device susceptible to wireless tamperingThe maker of an insulin pump that's susceptible to wireless hacking was identified for the first time on Thursday by a diabetic researcher who said the company repeatedly ignored his warnings.… |
| VMware's vSphere 5 hits the streets Posted: 25 Aug 2011 01:53 PM PDT 'Up to four times more powerful'VWware has announced that the hypervisor core of its Cloud Infrastructure Suite, vSphere 5, is now generally available.… |
| Mobile operators: US quake proves we need more spectrum Posted: 25 Aug 2011 12:22 PM PDT But 'no networks failed ...'Operator body CTIA reckons that Tuesday's earthquake proves US operators need more radio spectrum – and quickly – despite the fact that much of the owned bandwidth lies unused.… |
| AMD's new CEO bobs, weaves, says 'big' and 'fast' are good Posted: 25 Aug 2011 12:18 PM PDT Read reveals little in first day on the jobRory Read spent his first morning as CEO of AMD – of any company, for that matter – performing a very CEO-like duty: dodging and deflecting questions about the company he now leads.… |
| Firm at heart of biggest oil spill spews toxic web attack Posted: 25 Aug 2011 12:14 PM PDT Transocean's deepwater.com hosts malware exploitsTransocean, the offshore drilling contractor at the center of the world's biggest marine oil spill in the history of petroleum production, has been caught spewing a virtual sort of toxic sludge, according to a report released Thursday.… |
| 'Apple is not going to change,' new boss says Posted: 25 Aug 2011 10:46 AM PDT In case you thought otherwiseLest fans worried otherwise, Apple's new CEO is assuring world+dog that the company won't lose its mojo under his leadership. In an email sent early Thursday and leaked to reporters in record time, Tim Cook told employees Apple would be the same juggernaut it was under the watch of outgoing CEO Steve Jobs and echoed the oft-repeated sentiment that Cupertino's best days lie ahead.… |
| Greyhound spatters Nashville with semen Posted: 25 Aug 2011 09:01 AM PDT Emergency cleanup as considerable ½-litre wad splurgedA Greyhound bus caused a bit of a rumpus in Nashville earlier this week when it lost its considerable load of bull semen.… |
| Keep calm and carry on networking, says UK.gov Posted: 25 Aug 2011 08:58 AM PDT Tweeting while London burns is OKFacebook, Twitter and Blackberry representatives met with Home Secretary Theresa May at lunchtime to have what ended up being a somewhat lighter discussion than expected about social networks used in relation to criminal activity.… |
| AMD finally manages to snare a CEO: Lenovo man Read Posted: 25 Aug 2011 08:50 AM PDT Here's your crown, sceptre, orb ... chaliceAMD has announced that its new CEO will be Rory P Read, who was most recently president and COO at Lenovo Group.… |
| UK cops charge alleged Anonymous hacker Posted: 25 Aug 2011 08:23 AM PDT Say he fired Low Orbit Ion Cannon at Wikileaks enemiesA man has been charged by police investigating web attacks allegedly carried out by hacking collective Anonymous against firms deemed to have acted against the whistleblower website Wikileaks.… |
| US Marines not allowed to fart in Afghanistan Posted: 25 Aug 2011 08:00 AM PDT Jarhead trouser-coughs 'could upset the locals'US Marines fighting in Afghanistan have been banned from farting in order to avoid upsetting the local population, it has been reported.… |
| Post-Jobs run on overpriced Apple shares fails to occur Posted: 25 Aug 2011 07:41 AM PDT Markets more worried what'll happen to US gov, franklyThe departure of Steve Jobs as boss of Apple was expected to result in a mass sell-off of the overpriced vendor's shares this morning, but the news has been overshadowed by larger events.… |
| That UK.gov Firefox cookie leakage snafu explained Posted: 25 Aug 2011 07:34 AM PDT Cockup, not conspiracyIf you've used the latest version of Firefox to visit a UK government website in the last few weeks, you may have noticed something unusual in the browser address bar.… |
| Paintball round pops Bulgarian airbag Posted: 25 Aug 2011 06:58 AM PDT 26-year-old in jub implant rupture shockerA UK paintballing outfit has been obliged to ask participants if they're packing Bulgarian airbags before they take to the battlefield, after a 26-year-old combatant's Bulgarian airbag was burst by a paintball round.… |
| US judge: Warrant required to access mobile location data Posted: 25 Aug 2011 06:37 AM PDT 'We're getting too close to Orwell's 1984 Oceania'The US government should have to obtain a warrant before mobile phone providers have to hand over multiple geolocation data records about customers, a US judge has said.… |
| China Mobile becomes world's biggest mobe operator Posted: 25 Aug 2011 06:18 AM PDT Didn't need any iPhone deal eitherChina Mobile's half-year profits topped $9.6bn, making it the largest mobile operator in the world by customers and profits, and six times bigger than the nearest local competition.… |
| Blackberry BBM adds social music cloud Posted: 25 Aug 2011 05:57 AM PDT An interface that even riot youths can use has to be goodRIM is adding a music service option to its Blackberry phones.… |
| Samsung refuses to buy HP's PC business Posted: 25 Aug 2011 05:41 AM PDT Wealthy minnow refuses to swallow bloated whaleSamsung made it clear today that it is not interested in buying HP's PC business, despite market rumours to the contrary.… |
| French letter shock: Tax us more, demand rich people Posted: 25 Aug 2011 05:21 AM PDT Well not specifically us, or we could just send a chequeComment So rich French people have written a letter demanding that they be taxed more. The text (fortunately in English) is here.… |
| Cambridge Audio Sonata NP30 hi-fi streamer Posted: 25 Aug 2011 05:00 AM PDT Hi-res, networked musical boxReview Sound quality isn't always the first consideration in the world of digital music, where songs tend to be compressed for convenience, rather fidelity. That's where Brit hi-fi brand Cambridge Audio hopes to make its mark with the NP30 (Network Player 30), which offers better-than-CD hi-res 24-bit audio playback for music files and Internet radio over your home network.… |
| Brit men descend from mammoth hunters, not farmers Posted: 25 Aug 2011 04:58 AM PDT 'Of course it mammoth, woman. Ate rest on way back'Today's British man could be descended from exciting, live-life-on-the-edge hunter-gatherers rather than migrating farmers as previously thought, according to a new gene study.… |
| Home Office faces £500m demand in e-Borders sacking Posted: 25 Aug 2011 04:48 AM PDT US defence contractor still wants payingRaytheon and the Home Office are in talks as the department tries to stop the company suing for unfair breach of contract over its sacking from the e-borders programme last year.… |
| Social networks likely to snub Home Office in riot confab Posted: 25 Aug 2011 04:27 AM PDT Twitter may be irritating, but it doesn't cause lootingThe Home Secretary is expected to face fierce opposition from popular social network outfits today when she will ask them to consider restricting access to individuals in the aftermath of unrest in England earlier this month.… |
| Seven Dwarfs password gag declared Fringe's best Posted: 25 Aug 2011 04:19 AM PDT 'I knew my joke was the funniest joke of all the other jokes'Comedian Nick Helm has secured the Funniest Joke of the Fringe 2011 title, after entertaining the Edinburgh crowds with this rib-tickler: "I needed a password with eight characters so I picked Snow White and the Seven Dwarves."*… |
| Microsoft unveils file-move changes in Windows 8 Posted: 25 Aug 2011 04:01 AM PDT Aims to fix comical download/copy 'time to go' estimatesMicrosoft has been throwing out crumbs on forthcoming features for Windows 8, but dodged serving up the main course.… |
| CERN: 'Climate models will need to be substantially revised' Posted: 25 Aug 2011 03:42 AM PDT New atomsmasher research into cloud formationCERN's 8,000 scientists may not be able to find the hypothetical Higgs boson, but they have made an important contribution to climate physics, prompting climate models to be revised.… |
| Samsung's iOS rival gets multitasking and HTML5 Posted: 25 Aug 2011 03:27 AM PDT Things can only get BadaSamsung has launched the next version of its own mobile platform Bada, bringing multitasking, HTML5 and a new advertising engine to Bada developers.… |
| Virgin Media preps firmware update for glitchy SuperHub Posted: 25 Aug 2011 03:19 AM PDT Promises 'modem mode', calls for beta testersVirgin Media plans to release yet another firmware update for its oft-criticised SuperHub modem/router combi kit in the next few weeks.… |
| Boffins cobble up phone-powering footwear Posted: 25 Aug 2011 03:03 AM PDT Walk to stop your gadgets running downResearch published by the University of Wisconsin describes a way of generating sufficient electrical energy from human movement to power mobile gadgets.… |
| Woman in strop strip for Bermuda airport customs Posted: 25 Aug 2011 02:58 AM PDT 'You want to see me naked, do it right fu*king here.'A 36-year-old woman faced with a customs search at Bermuda's LF Wade International Airport rather brilliantly responded by instantly shedding her clothes and telling officers: "If you want to see me naked, you can do it right fucking here."… |
| Server sales still growing strong Posted: 25 Aug 2011 02:27 AM PDT Maybe there's something to all this cloud talkServer sales in the second quarter of 2011 grew 17.9 per cent in revenue terms to $13.2bn, reckons IDC.… |
| Sony Ericsson signals inbound Android 2.3.4 Posted: 25 Aug 2011 02:03 AM PDT Firmware upgrades ahoy!Sony Ericsson will release an Android 2.3.4 update in October. Its first smartphone to ship with the new release will follow later in Q4.… |
| The Torvalds of Drupal pledges HTML5 mobile love Posted: 25 Aug 2011 02:00 AM PDT So many coders, only one DriesDrupalCon London One of the primary building blocks of yesterday's web is limbering up to become a mover and shaker in mobile – but it might just spend longer in training than you'd like.… |
| Acer insists fondleslab 'fever' is fading Posted: 25 Aug 2011 01:37 AM PDT It would say that, wouldn't it?Acer has once again claimed that punters are turning back to notebooks, tempted by the likes of Windows 8 and the ultra-skinny machines chip maker Intel calls "ultrabooks".… |
| Ofcom pilots paid-for voting and compo rules for broadcasters Posted: 25 Aug 2011 01:30 AM PDT Now you can pay online to kick Sally off Big BrotherOfcom has launched a one-year pilot during which broadcasters can make on-air references to any website where the audience can access paid-for applications in order to participate in voting or competitions. Previously, paid compo entries and voting could only lawfully take place on the phone.… |
| Nokia pitches cheapest voicephones yet Posted: 25 Aug 2011 01:04 AM PDT Fancy a two-Simmer for £22?Voice-centric handset for 17 quid, anyone? That's what Nokia's offering in the form of the 100, a €20 handset pitched as its cheapest yet.… |
| Scotland seeks £100m IT hardware deal Posted: 25 Aug 2011 01:00 AM PDT Framework for public sectorScottish Procurement has published a tender for IT hardware and associated services, worth between £80m and £100m.… |
| Posted: 25 Aug 2011 01:00 AM PDT Send your pictures round the blendiOS App of the Week A very long time ago, graphics guru Kai Krause - a name sure to make any Mac user over a certain ago go all misty eyed and nostalgic - created an app - or 'program', as we called them then - named Goo. It allowed you to morph and distort photos in various, vaguely amusing ways.… |
| PHP lands on VMware's Cloud Foundry Posted: 24 Aug 2011 09:56 PM PDT Open source code cloud multipliesPHP has come to VMware's Cloud Foundry project, an effort to create a standard open source platform for building "developer clouds".… |
| Apple after Steve Jobs is still Steve Jobs' Apple Posted: 24 Aug 2011 08:00 PM PDT |
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