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- Oracle rides AAPT into the cloud
- How to lose 375k customers the Vodafone Hutchinson way
- Boffins shine 800Mbps wireless network from flashlight
- Chrome 13: Google uncloaks search click prediction engine
- Zero day bug threatens many WordPress sites
- Swede cuffed for cooking nuclear reactor on kitchen stovetop
- Apple vanishes MySQL from Mac OS X Lion Server
- Malware attack spreads to 5 million pages (and counting)
- <i>Dawn</i> eyes Vesta's full-frontal charms
- Apple iCloud pricing revealed
- IT governance: a help or a hindrance for your projects?
- PC chip sales up, shipments flat in Q2
- Murdoch's PIE BOY jailed for six weeks
- Evil Android Trojan records your calls
- Moaning moose cows provoke punch-ups among bulls
- Guardian blames gov ad-spend cuts for revenue droop
- Nokia unveils budget Symbian smartie
- Virgin mulls handing out free Wi-Fi
- Sony Ericsson toying with tabletphone
- Toshiba launches thinner spinner
- Nokia ditches letters for all-number names
- Cops arrest man over phone-hacking, police corruption claims
- RFID drives the self-service pub
- <em>Sun</em> compo entrants' privates exposed in public
- PCTV NanoStick T2 USB TV tuner
- Serial Web2.0 investor pumps Twitter valuation to $8bn
- Capita coughs up £29m for financial services house
- London plods raid Wikipedia in counter-anarchist operation
- eBay backs Flash new boy for storage
- 'Work from home' spam scam floods Twitter
- TV goes home, even when mobile
- Skype arrives on fondleslab
- Dual File Manager XT
- Scareware scammers now phishing for punters
- HCL discloses 'email deletion' requests from News International
- Govt rubber-stamps Google Review, drops web-blocking
- Tablets will overtake consumer PCs, says Fujitsu CTO
- HTC sues Apple in the UK
- Here come the ex-Sunners at CumuLogic
- Isolated human genes can be patented, US court rules
- IRISnotes Executive 1.0 digital pen
- Good news: a meltdown would kill fewer than we thought
- iCloud.com goes live
- Google cuts deal for Dealmap
- Rural white space wireless standard signed off
- HP sics Spaniards on Larry Ellison
| Oracle rides AAPT into the cloud Posted: 02 Aug 2011 03:30 PM PDT Solaris-as-a-service for AustraliaAAPT has reportedly signed a deal with Oracle to launch an infrastructure-as-a-service offering based on the Solaris operating system.… |
| How to lose 375k customers the Vodafone Hutchinson way Posted: 02 Aug 2011 03:30 PM PDT When two companies don't make it rightIn what comes as no shock to industry or consumers, Vodafone has managed to hemorrhage 375,000 Australian customers in the first six months of the year.… |
| Boffins shine 800Mbps wireless network from flashlight Posted: 02 Aug 2011 01:14 PM PDT LEDs torch LAN recordGerman researchers have discovered how to fill a room with 800 megabits per second of wireless data using an inexpensive LED setup.… |
| Chrome 13: Google uncloaks search click prediction engine Posted: 02 Aug 2011 12:53 PM PDT 'We know what you want before you do'Google has released a new stable version of its Chrome browser, adding an "Instant Pages" service that attempts to accelerate your Google searches by rendering pages before you actually click on them.… |
| Zero day bug threatens many WordPress sites Posted: 02 Aug 2011 11:44 AM PDT TimThumb developer pwned by own creationAttackers are exploiting a widely used extension for the WordPress publishing platform to take control of vulnerable websites, one of the victims has warned.… |
| Swede cuffed for cooking nuclear reactor on kitchen stovetop Posted: 02 Aug 2011 11:35 AM PDT Add radioactive smoke detector innards. StirA Swedish man was arrested and briefly detained for attempting to build a nuclear reactor in his kitchen.… |
| Apple vanishes MySQL from Mac OS X Lion Server Posted: 02 Aug 2011 11:17 AM PDT Postgres fills Ellisonian black holeApple has removed MySQL from the latest version of Mac OS X server, replacing it with PostgreSQL.… |
| Malware attack spreads to 5 million pages (and counting) Posted: 02 Aug 2011 11:07 AM PDT Unpatched sites turn on visitorsAn attack that targets a popular online commerce application has infected almost 5 million webpages with scripts that attempt to install malware on their visitors' computers.… |
| <i>Dawn</i> eyes Vesta's full-frontal charms Posted: 02 Aug 2011 08:48 AM PDT Revealing snap of Clangers' asteroid homeworldNASA has released the first "full-frame" image of asteroid Vesta, an impressive view of the Clanger homeworld captured by the Dawn spacecraft on 24 July at a distance of roughly 3,200 miles (5,200 kilometres).… |
| Posted: 02 Aug 2011 08:15 AM PDT Brits set to pay 14 per cent more than the YanksApple has lifted the covers from its UK and US pricing model for the iCloud with a bunch of options for fanbois to suck up additional storage space.… |
| IT governance: a help or a hindrance for your projects? Posted: 02 Aug 2011 08:09 AM PDT How to balance freedom and controlFacebook has become a source of pithy quotes. One is doing the round in friends' status windows right now is: "Follow your heart, but take your brain along with you."… |
| PC chip sales up, shipments flat in Q2 Posted: 02 Aug 2011 07:59 AM PDT AMD climbs as Intel slipsShipments of microprocessors for netbook, notebook, desktop PCs and related x64-based servers and workstations flatlined in the second quarter as the economy stumbled a bit in the United States and Europe.… |
| Murdoch's PIE BOY jailed for six weeks Posted: 02 Aug 2011 07:52 AM PDT 'Jonnie Marbles' sentenced for attacking world's most powerful octogenarianA protester who attacked Rupert Murdoch last month at a parliamentary hearing into the phone-hacking scandal engulfing News Corp's sister company News International has been handed a six-week jail term this afternoon.… |
| Evil Android Trojan records your calls Posted: 02 Aug 2011 07:33 AM PDT Spy on the wireCriminals have increased the functionality of Android Trojans with a new strain that is capable of recording, and not just logging, conversations on compromised smartphones.… |
| Moaning moose cows provoke punch-ups among bulls Posted: 02 Aug 2011 07:19 AM PDT Alaskan wilderness just like Newcastle on a Friday nightResearchers from Idaho State University have proved that moose mating rituals follow a similar pattern to that displayed among humans in Newcastle pubs on a Friday night – that females moaning about sexual advances by inadequate males increases the chance of bloke-on-bloke violence.… |
| Guardian blames gov ad-spend cuts for revenue droop Posted: 02 Aug 2011 07:17 AM PDT Keep Calm and Carry On office didn't splash its usual £500m this year...The Guardian Media Group has blamed government advertising cuts for falling revenues. Income for the Guardian Media Group – which includes a share in Autotrader, Emap events and trade publications, and Smooth Radio – fell from £280m to £255.1m, but the media operation turned a slim profit. The Guardian newspaper operation saw revenue £22.8m lower than last year, at £198.2m, with losses of £38.3m, up slightly from £37.8m last year.… |
| Nokia unveils budget Symbian smartie Posted: 02 Aug 2011 07:15 AM PDT 1GHz handset?While Nokia has been playing the numbers game with its naming protocol, unveiling a new labelling system today, it has also found time to bring out a new smartphone to sit smack bang in the middle of it all.… |
| Virgin mulls handing out free Wi-Fi Posted: 02 Aug 2011 07:04 AM PDT You can have too much bandwidthVirgin Media is talking to local authorities about providing free metro Wi-Fi, using bandwidth that's lying fallow while all its domestic customers are at work.… |
| Sony Ericsson toying with tabletphone Posted: 02 Aug 2011 06:36 AM PDT 3D handset in sight, apparentlySony Ericsson is developing a glasses-free 3D handset, rumoured to integrate the tablet and smartphone into a 4.7in hybrid.… |
| Toshiba launches thinner spinner Posted: 02 Aug 2011 06:23 AM PDT 1TB standard notebook format driveSeagate's failure to capitalise on its start-of-year areal density advantages is being laid bare: Toshiba has followed Samsung and Western Digital by adding a 1TB, standard format notebook drive to its roster, leaving Seagate out in the cold.… |
| Nokia ditches letters for all-number names Posted: 02 Aug 2011 06:18 AM PDT All over again...In what must be the most significant announcement since it unveiled its new corporate font, Nokia has announced an all-new naming strategy. After exhaustive blue-sky brainstorming sessions in the saunas of the frozen North, Nokia has decided that product names are going to be numbers, just as they were for most of the company's successful years.… |
| Cops arrest man over phone-hacking, police corruption claims Posted: 02 Aug 2011 06:15 AM PDT 71-year-old cuffed this morningScotland Yard officers investigating phone-hacking and police corruption claims at News International arrested a 71-year-old man this morning.… |
| RFID drives the self-service pub Posted: 02 Aug 2011 06:02 AM PDT An application for wireless we can all appreciateThe Cheeky bar, in Georgia USA, now has a self-service bar known as the "wall of beer" where patrons can help themselves to a drink with the wave of a card.… |
| <em>Sun</em> compo entrants' privates exposed in public Posted: 02 Aug 2011 05:28 AM PDT Hacker posts Pastebin pastingSecurity lapses at News International have exposed the email addresses and other personal information of readers who entered competitions in The Sun, the UK's biggest selling daily newspaper.… |
| PCTV NanoStick T2 USB TV tuner Posted: 02 Aug 2011 05:16 AM PDT Freeview HD telly on the moveReview Ten years ago, investing in a PC TV tuner seemed a neat way of watching while you work – integrating the gogglebox with laptop or desktop duties. Today, the idea is more questionable given access to on-line video streaming and download services from the likes of YouTube and the BBC iPlayer respectively.… |
| Serial Web2.0 investor pumps Twitter valuation to $8bn Posted: 02 Aug 2011 04:52 AM PDT $57m per characterTwitter closed a "significant round of funding" yesterday, with lots of help from the Russian venture outfit that has already pumped large sums of cash into Facebook, Groupon et al.… |
| Capita coughs up £29m for financial services house Posted: 02 Aug 2011 04:37 AM PDT Offshorer looks offshore to dodge UK public sector turmoilCapita has splurged £29m on AIB International Financial Services, (AIBFS) as it continues to broaden its commercial base outside of the UK.… |
| London plods raid Wikipedia in counter-anarchist operation Posted: 02 Aug 2011 04:31 AM PDT Know your malodorous enemy, Project Griffin styleIt's half an hour on the naughty step today for London's Metropolitan and City Police's Project Griffin team for resorting to Wikipedia in the struggle to contain the anarchist menace.… |
| eBay backs Flash new boy for storage Posted: 02 Aug 2011 04:30 AM PDT Nimbus = smaller, cheaper, coolerOut of nowhere, Nimbus, an all-flash array supplier, has beaten incumbents NetApp and 3PAR at eBay, with 12 arrays and 100TB of flash installed to accelerate eBay's server virtualisation work.… |
| 'Work from home' spam scam floods Twitter Posted: 02 Aug 2011 04:16 AM PDT Be Your Own |
| TV goes home, even when mobile Posted: 02 Aug 2011 03:38 AM PDT Take one screen into the living room?Mobile video consumption is far from mobile, if the latest US survey is to be believed, with three-quarters of video consumption taking place within the home.… |
| Posted: 02 Aug 2011 03:28 AM PDT Shout into thisSkype has finally arrived on the iPad – after one false alarm. Now anybody can talk into a gigantic, oversized iPhone.… |
| Posted: 02 Aug 2011 03:22 AM PDT Get organisedAndroid App of the Week The Android Market is awash with good file managers, so a newcomer really has to cut the mustard to be worthy of recommendation. In this instance, I think the new Dual XT app slices the Coleman's to perfection.… |
| Scareware scammers now phishing for punters Posted: 02 Aug 2011 03:15 AM PDT Blocked credit card spam scamScareware scammers are targeting credit card users with a new run of spam emails falsely warning recipients that their plastic has been blocked.… |
| HCL discloses 'email deletion' requests from News International Posted: 02 Aug 2011 03:08 AM PDT Home Affairs Committee told: nothing to see hereNews International asked a leading Indian IT management outfit about the deletion of emails on nine separate occasions between April 2010 and July 2011.… |
| Govt rubber-stamps Google Review, drops web-blocking Posted: 02 Aug 2011 02:52 AM PDT Quango plays legislatorVince Cable is expected to announce that the government will endorse all the recommendations of the Hargreaves Review into intellectual property, the "Google Review" – tomorrow. The FT adds that Cable will also announce that regulator Ofcom has said Clauses 17 and 18 of the Digital Economy Act, dealing with website blocking, are unworkable.… |
| Tablets will overtake consumer PCs, says Fujitsu CTO Posted: 02 Aug 2011 02:27 AM PDT Customers want to consume content, not produce it...Content consumption rules for consumers and tablet sales will overtake consumer PC and notebook sales. That's the view of Dr Joseph Reger, Fujitsu's chief technology officer.… |
| Posted: 02 Aug 2011 02:16 AM PDT Warring smartphone vendors take fight to High CourtSmartphone maker HTC is taking rival Apple to court in the UK just weeks after losing a preliminary ruling over two patent violations in the US.… |
| Here come the ex-Sunners at CumuLogic Posted: 02 Aug 2011 01:56 AM PDT All things must PaaSA startup called CumuLogic, founded by a number of Java and cloud experts at the former Sun Microsystems, is fluffing up yet another platform as a service (PaaS) cloud, joining the ranks of VMware with Cloud Foundry, Red Hat with OpenShift, Microsoft with Azure, and others.… |
| Isolated human genes can be patented, US court rules Posted: 02 Aug 2011 01:45 AM PDT Good for DNA research, but could lead to overpriced diagnosticsIsolating genes from human DNA structures is patentable, the US Court of Appeals has ruled.… |
| IRISnotes Executive 1.0 digital pen Posted: 01 Aug 2011 11:00 PM PDT Knows your writesReview Composed of standard looking battery-powered pen and rechargeable receiver module, the IRISNotes Executive aims to relieve some of the tedium of transcribing handwritten notes by converting your scribblings into useable text and drawings.… |
| Good news: a meltdown would kill fewer than we thought Posted: 01 Aug 2011 06:00 PM PDT So this is it, we're |
| Posted: 01 Aug 2011 05:29 PM PDT Cloud storage prices also outedAhead of its official launch, Apple has lifted the lid on the beta of its iCloud service, with the www.iCloud.com website going live.… |
| Posted: 01 Aug 2011 04:52 PM PDT Can I get a discount for some Groupon envy treatment?Google has acquired Dealmap, a California-based startup that will fuel Mountain View's efforts to mimic Groupon.… |
| Rural white space wireless standard signed off Posted: 01 Aug 2011 04:30 PM PDT After seven years, 802.22 is officialNearly seven years after the IEEE's 802.22 working group was first formed, the 802.22 standard has been published.… |
| HP sics Spaniards on Larry Ellison Posted: 01 Aug 2011 03:54 PM PDT Itanic rescue missionHewlett-Packard's legal fight with Oracle over Intel's Itanium processor has now landed in Spain.… |
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