Mobile gains fail to offset Optus profit dip |
- Mobile gains fail to offset Optus profit dip
- We buy online punters: Sportsbet
- Google+ succumbs to Facebook game envy
- Telstra pumps up mobile war chest
- Video CAPTCHAs target cyberbaddies
- Kabam! Facebook gamers fume after script deletes fake stuff
- Smartphone images can hijack BlackBerry servers
- iPhone 4 prototype journo off the hook
- Spear phishers renew attack on feds' Gmail
- Cloudera rallies tech troops behind Hadoop
- New DVD discs claim 1,000 year life
- Titan Unveiled
- Carbonite IPO raises over $62 million
- Intel dangles $300m bait in 'ultrabook' partner hunt
- 3DS discount sparks retail price war
- Apple patent disputes Xoom towards Motorola
- Samsung Galaxy Fit Android smartphone
- Amazon web outage not caused by lightning
- Grow up, Google: You're threatening IT growth
- Cops tweet about cuffed twits who incited violence via Twitter
- Indie labels launch post-riot emergency fund
- Fujifilm puts augmented reality in the frame
- Anonymous and TeaMp0isoN promise songs but no Facebook hack
- HTC sinks $309m into audio tech from Dr Dre
- Ten... Desktop USB 3.0 HDDs
- David Cameron turns water cannons on social networks
- Cisco lifts axe again, chops nearly one in five execs
- $25 toy radio used to knock out feds
- Pacific island mints <i>Star Wars</i> coinage
- Cabinet Office allocates £1.6m for single government domain
- Love lure malware turns up at Android marketplace
- Samsung and STEC flash their sizzling SSDs
- MySpace vanishes $254m from News Corp coffers
- Network switches look different in the cloud
- OnLive streams towards Blighty
- Nexsan plays catchup with flash-cached storage controller
- Geeks Guide<sub><small>2</small></sub>... Badass Lego Guns
- Amazon paints the Kindle cloudy
- Will the looters 'loose' their benefits?
- Kelway gunning to break £320m sales barrier
- Google told to delete people from search results
- British Library 19th Century Books
- Q: Why do defenders keep losing to smaller cyberwarriors?
- LinkedIn pulls Facebook-style stunt
- Deakin Uni promises safe three-wheeler
- Google Chromebooks molt, grow fresh browser
- NSW buckles: R18+ game rating clear for take-off
- VMware lets Rabbit loose on open source code cloud
- Kogan plugs 'cheap stuff' bug
| Mobile gains fail to offset Optus profit dip Posted: 11 Aug 2011 04:00 PM PDT Readies for competitionMobile competition is set to intensify in the year ahead with renewed network investment and significant discounting across the market, claimed Optus chief executive, Paul O'Sullivan.… |
| We buy online punters: Sportsbet Posted: 11 Aug 2011 03:50 PM PDT Commissions under attack in Australian inquiryIllegal bookmakers have always relied on "referral marketing", but it's now emerged that recruitment commissions cost Australian online betting agency Sportsbet as much as $AU4 million each year.… |
| Google+ succumbs to Facebook game envy Posted: 11 Aug 2011 03:36 PM PDT Invaded by Zombies, Angry Birds, and Bubble 2.0 posterchildGoogle has launched a gaming platform atop its Google+ social networking service, predictably expanding its efforts to turn itself into Facebook.… |
| Telstra pumps up mobile war chest Posted: 11 Aug 2011 03:34 PM PDT Tidies up VHA messTelstra has swept up the fragmenting mobile market taking on a record 1.66 million new mobile users during the year, pushing mobile revenue growth by 10.7 percent to $AU8.1 billion.… |
| Video CAPTCHAs target cyberbaddies Posted: 11 Aug 2011 03:31 PM PDT Animated Turing testsNuCaptcha has extended its video-based CAPTCHA service that it claims will make things easier for users while making life more difficult for spammers and other cyber-baddies.… |
| Kabam! Facebook gamers fume after script deletes fake stuff Posted: 11 Aug 2011 02:21 PM PDT Anatomy of a social snafuOn August 4, Kabam turned up in The Los Angeles Times, lauded as a small social gaming company "quietly gaining momentum" in an arena dominated by giants like Zynga, Electronic Arts, and Disney. But that same day, engineers pushed out an update to one of its massively multiplayer Facebook games that would challenge the tiny startup's ability to cope with its own success.… |
| Smartphone images can hijack BlackBerry servers Posted: 11 Aug 2011 12:57 PM PDT RIM squashes high-severity bugResearch in Motion has squashed a nasty bug in its BlackBerry server software that allowed it to be commandeered when handset users received messages containing booby-trapped images.… |
| iPhone 4 prototype journo off the hook Posted: 11 Aug 2011 12:53 PM PDT Curtain comes down on Der Ring des GizmodophonelungenThe saga of the Gizmodophone – the iPhone 4 prototype found in a bar and exposed on the web – is nearing its end: prosecutors have decided that Gizmodo's Jason Chen won't be charged with wrongdoing in the long-running phone follies.… |
| Spear phishers renew attack on feds' Gmail Posted: 11 Aug 2011 11:51 AM PDT Gov officials (still) stalkedA targeted campaign to collect Gmail passwords from senior US government officials and military personnel is showing no signs of letting up more than two months after Google first warned it had already snared hundreds of victims.… |
| Cloudera rallies tech troops behind Hadoop Posted: 11 Aug 2011 10:58 AM PDT Stuffed elephants get certifiedCloudera – the all-star Silicon Valley startup that first commercialized Hadoop – has announced a partner program designed to further push the open source distributed number-crunching platform into the enterprise.… |
| New DVD discs claim 1,000 year life Posted: 11 Aug 2011 10:52 AM PDT Archive your holiday snaps 'til 3011The recording surface of Millenniata's M-DISC is virtually indestructible. The company claims that its DVD drive–readable discs will last for ... wait for it ... 1,000 years.… |
| Posted: 11 Aug 2011 10:15 AM PDT 10-20 Petaflops in 2012?The "Fastest Supercomputer" title may move 6,940 miles (11,167km) eastward in 2012 from Kobe, Japan to a small Tennessee town.… |
| Carbonite IPO raises over $62 million Posted: 11 Aug 2011 10:10 AM PDT Cloud backup bucks the bucking marketCloud IT–anything is sexy, and cloud backup–service company Carbonite has proved it by raising $62.5m in a market that's supposed to be hostile to IPOs right now.… |
| Intel dangles $300m bait in 'ultrabook' partner hunt Posted: 11 Aug 2011 09:57 AM PDT Svelte laptops for Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa, FestivusIntel's investment arm has created a $300m fund to support the adoption of the slim, always-on, always-connected laptop platform it calls the ultrabook – or now, with the protection of the US Patent and Trademark office, the Ultrabook™.… |
| 3DS discount sparks retail price war Posted: 11 Aug 2011 09:10 AM PDT Supermarket cheapThe Nintendo 3DS price war kicked off today in anticipation of tomorrow's global trade price reduction, with the handheld now being offered as low as £115.… |
| Apple patent disputes Xoom towards Motorola Posted: 11 Aug 2011 08:47 AM PDT Slates the competitionMotorola could be next on the chopping board for Apple, after the Cupertino giant filed complaint against Moto's Xoom tablet design.… |
| Samsung Galaxy Fit Android smartphone Posted: 11 Aug 2011 08:37 AM PDT Cheap talker, sharp shooterReview Full marks to Samsung's marketing folk for the Galaxy Fit's go-getting name, but it's actually a fairly low-end Android smart phone with an outdated OS, low resolution screen and less than speedy processor. That said, it has a few good points too, including a surprisingly good 5Mp camera.… |
| Amazon web outage not caused by lightning Posted: 11 Aug 2011 08:19 AM PDT Energy supplier questions web firm claimsDublin-based energy supplier ESB Networks has dismissed Amazon's claim that a bolt of lightning caused the chain of events that led to its web outage last weekend.… |
| Grow up, Google: You're threatening IT growth Posted: 11 Aug 2011 08:13 AM PDT The Montessori School of screwing-up-your-IP-strategyComment Google's stroppy-teenager ethos to intellectual property has been noted here before. But the company's truculent and immature approach is having really serious consequences on its home turf. Google now poses a serious threat to the future of the most explosive new sector in IT hardware: the consumer tablet. And if Google doesn't grow up – fast – Apple will be handed a lucrative monopoly for years to come.… |
| Cops tweet about cuffed twits who incited violence via Twitter Posted: 11 Aug 2011 08:08 AM PDT Police and thieves in the social network streetsAs the Prime Minister condemned social networks for being "used for ill" this morning, police forces across the country sent a steady stream of tweets confirming arrests connected with inciting violence via the likes of Twitter and Facebook.… |
| Indie labels launch post-riot emergency fund Posted: 11 Aug 2011 06:46 AM PDT Dig deepIndie trade association AIM and distributor PIAS have created an emergency fund to help small record labels devastated by the loss of stock. An act of arson during the London riots on Sunday night destroyed the stock of over 150 small labels.… |
| Fujifilm puts augmented reality in the frame Posted: 11 Aug 2011 05:49 AM PDT Points to where the action isGPS tagging has been a widely adopted feature in digital cameras, but now Fujifilm has pushed the boat out further by including an Augmented Reality function.… |
| Anonymous and TeaMp0isoN promise songs but no Facebook hack Posted: 11 Aug 2011 05:48 AM PDT Factions forming within hack groupPolitically motivated hacking crew TeaMp0isoN has teamed up with Anonymous in an attempt to storm the music charts.… |
| HTC sinks $309m into audio tech from Dr Dre Posted: 11 Aug 2011 05:27 AM PDT Can you hear me now?Handset maker HTC is buying a majority share of upmarket audio kit manufacturer Beats Electronics, promising to incorporate the Dr Dre-backed technology into handsets by the end of the year.… |
| Posted: 11 Aug 2011 05:11 AM PDT SuperSpeed storehousesProduct Round-up Despite somewhat lacklustre adoption of the interface in the last 18 months, USB 3.0 is starting to gain a foothold in the consumer market as availability increases and prices fall down to more reasonable levels.… |
| David Cameron turns water cannons on social networks Posted: 11 Aug 2011 05:03 AM PDT PM shoots Web2.0 messenger, but what about the Sky 'copter, Dave?David Cameron picked on social networks in Parliament this morning, when he told MPs – who were forced to cut short their holidays following four nights of looting, arson and violence in England – that he was considering such tech being barred when used by baddies.… |
| Cisco lifts axe again, chops nearly one in five execs Posted: 11 Aug 2011 05:01 AM PDT Under fire networking Goliath clarifies changesCisco has given marching orders to nearly one in five of its senior execs included in its massive cost-cutting drive and now plans to hand 1,200 contract workers their pink slips too.… |
| $25 toy radio used to knock out feds Posted: 11 Aug 2011 04:22 AM PDT Thousand dollar radio can track them tooResearchers looking at the security of the US Project 25 radio network, used by federal agents and local police, have discovered that it's easily jammed, and almost as easily compromised.… |
| Pacific island mints <i>Star Wars</i> coinage Posted: 11 Aug 2011 04:20 AM PDT 'Tell Jabba I've got his money...'The Pacific island of Niue is hoping to drum up some cash from Star Wars fans by issuing two sets of coins commemorating the sci-fi franchise.… |
| Cabinet Office allocates £1.6m for single government domain Posted: 11 Aug 2011 03:49 AM PDT Alpha.gov.uk team nervously awaits 2012 sign-offThe Cabinet Office is spending a further £1.6m on a single government domain that has yet to be signed off by the government.… |
| Love lure malware turns up at Android marketplace Posted: 11 Aug 2011 03:45 AM PDT History repeatingAndroid Trojan writers are trying more tricks to fool the unwary into downloading rogue applications with a new set of rogue applications.… |
| Samsung and STEC flash their sizzling SSDs Posted: 11 Aug 2011 03:25 AM PDT Storage action remains flashyThe summer weather may be crap, but Samsung and STEC are sizzling: they have both announced new solid state drives at the Flash Memory Summit.… |
| MySpace vanishes $254m from News Corp coffers Posted: 11 Aug 2011 03:09 AM PDT Sale of has-been social network undervalues stockTelevision and film continue to be News Corp's core area of sales growth, even as other aspects of Rupert Murdoch's empire – including recently-sold MySpace and scandal-ridden News International – unsurprisingly had a bumpy Q4.… |
| Network switches look different in the cloud Posted: 11 Aug 2011 03:01 AM PDT Adapting to changing patternsWorkshop Cloud computing takes more than just a philosophical shift. It requires new skills, processes and architectures.… |
| OnLive streams towards Blighty Posted: 11 Aug 2011 02:45 AM PDT Gaming cloud cover in autumnCloud-gaming service OnLive has finally announced its official UK opening, with a launch set for this September's Eurogamer Expo.… |
| Nexsan plays catchup with flash-cached storage controller Posted: 11 Aug 2011 02:30 AM PDT E5000 with added flash stashNexsan has introduced an E5000 NAS storage array family with two tiers of solid state controller storage to boost performance, following in the footsteps of NetApp, with its Flash Cache, and Oracle.… |
| Geeks Guide<sub><small>2</small></sub>... Badass Lego Guns Posted: 11 Aug 2011 02:20 AM PDT Save 40% at Reg BooksGG2 |
| Amazon paints the Kindle cloudy Posted: 11 Aug 2011 02:18 AM PDT Proving Steve Jobs right?Amazon has created a web-based Kindle app that does everything the desktop version can do, letting Chromebook users read on the plane but also bypassing Apple's cut on the iPad.… |
| Will the looters 'loose' their benefits? Posted: 11 Aug 2011 02:07 AM PDT World waits, government website failsThe coalition government's e-petitions website is having a bit of a fail again today.… |
| Kelway gunning to break £320m sales barrier Posted: 11 Aug 2011 01:07 AM PDT Bumper year for IT supplierKelway is forecasting sales of £320m for the current fiscal year at the end of next March as it edges closer to the half year point.… |
| Google told to delete people from search results Posted: 11 Aug 2011 01:00 AM PDT 90 complaints, including victim of domestic violenceThe Spanish government has ordered Google to delete information about 90 individuals from its search engine indexes, according to media reports.… |
| British Library 19th Century Books Posted: 10 Aug 2011 11:00 PM PDT Padding through the archivesiOS App of the Week The British Library already has a 'Treasures' app that is a kind of 'greatest hits' romp through the Library's archives. However, this new iPad-only app specifically focuses on books and documents from the 19th century – the era of Dickens and the great Victorian explorers and travel writers.… |
| Q: Why do defenders keep losing to smaller cyberwarriors? Posted: 10 Aug 2011 09:00 PM PDT A: 'Ant smarts' not 'asymmetry'Forget everything you've read on The Reg or anywhere else about wars that target computer networks, power grids and other essential electronic infrastructure because it's loaded with fallacies, a prominent security consultant said Wednesday.… |
| LinkedIn pulls Facebook-style stunt Posted: 10 Aug 2011 07:00 PM PDT Privacy invasion by defaultLinkedIn has become the latest social networking site to decide that new features can be added and switched on by default, and users don't have to be notified.… |
| Deakin Uni promises safe three-wheeler Posted: 10 Aug 2011 06:00 PM PDT Not your Reliant RobinFans of Mr Bean are familiar with the set-piece gag of the three-wheeler Reliant Robin falling over. A group of Deakin University boffins believe they've solved the problem, and are looking for manufacturing partners to put a safe motorcycle-car crossover into production.… |
| Google Chromebooks molt, grow fresh browser Posted: 10 Aug 2011 05:21 PM PDT Two month olds get new lease on lifeGoogle has released a new version of Chrome OS – the browser-based operating system that first arrived less than two months ago – offering VPN hooks, 802.1x secure Wi-Fi , and what the company claims is a 32 per cent faster resume time.… |
| NSW buckles: R18+ game rating clear for take-off Posted: 10 Aug 2011 05:01 PM PDT Not before timeAfter abstaining from voting at a meeting of Australia's attorneys-general over whether the country should introduce an R18+ rating for computer games, the government of NSW has decided to support the move.… |
| VMware lets Rabbit loose on open source code cloud Posted: 10 Aug 2011 03:50 PM PDT Cloud Foundry gets the messagingVMware has plugged the open source RabbitMQ messaging system into Cloud Foundry, the "platform-as-a-service" it introduced in beta form earlier this year.… |
| Posted: 10 Aug 2011 03:30 PM PDT Customers get hugTechnology e-tailer Kogan has pledged to honour hundreds of hugely discounted orders that were placed while a bug afflicted its Website.… |
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