Telstra offers separation proposal |
- Telstra offers separation proposal
- NextDC raises AU$50m for growth
- World o' data centers burns less juice than expected
- Hackers dump secret info for thousands of cops
- Googlenet runs on '900,000 servers'
- Are you slaving away on the wrong projects?
- Paying for software
- Sneaky Trojan exploits e-commerce flaws
- iPhone 5 now set for October launch
- Amazon hunts for a few good startups
- 'Topiary' suspect bailed
- Scotland Yard probes <cite>News of the World</cite> computer hacking claims
- Doom dude says violent games lower aggression
- Samsung-Apple Wars: Galaxy blocked Down Under
- HP to axe sales staff found pilfering dealers
- T-Mobile rolls out contract-PAYG combo
- Skype/Facebook integration spawns hijack risk
- Who needs a million NFC tags?
- Nokia N9 joins next month's mobile match
- Former UK.gov CIO takes top security job at Huawei
- Network quality of service: making the switch
- Mackie Onyx Blackjack USB audio interface
- Diary of a not-spot: Breaking the BT barrier
- Telecity in talks to acquires Data Electronics Group
- Cabinet Office ends website test
- Button brushes off 'car accident' website defacement to claim GP win
- Fanboys find way to NFC an iPhone
- PlayStation Vita release leaked
- Schmaltz-powered Chrome overtakes morally superior Firefox
- Acer turns to trains for imports
- <i>Dawn</i> creeps closer to Clanger homeworld Vesta
- Thousands of gb.com sites go dark
- iPad maker to replace 1 million staff with robots
- OCZ unsheathes Talos flash talons
- Police charge Scottish teen over Soca attack
- Adobe outs un-Flash web animation tool
- PLCs a prison vulnerability: researchers
- DIDO: snake oil or wireless salvation?
| Telstra offers separation proposal Posted: 01 Aug 2011 03:30 PM PDT Public prices, Chinese walls and ring fencesAustralia's incumbent carrier, Telstra, has submitted its proposed structural separation and migration plans to competition regulator, the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC), ahead of the rollout of the country's National Broadband Network (NBN).… |
| NextDC raises AU$50m for growth Posted: 01 Aug 2011 03:05 PM PDT Investors dig datacentresThe cloud business is continuing drive investment in Australia, with nascent data centre operator NextDC raising Au$50m to ramp up its planned expansion plans here and in New Zealand.… |
| World o' data centers burns less juice than expected Posted: 01 Aug 2011 01:30 PM PDT Great Recession power dietThanks to a poor economy, the more aggressive use of virtualization, and the rise of more efficient iron, the world's data centers are consuming less energy than expected, according to a new report from one prominent Stanford University researcher.… |
| Hackers dump secret info for thousands of cops Posted: 01 Aug 2011 12:53 PM PDT String of embarrassing attacks continuesHackers said they posted the names, addresses, and other personal information of 7,000 law enforcement officers that were stolen from a training academy website they compromised.… |
| Googlenet runs on '900,000 servers' Posted: 01 Aug 2011 12:23 PM PDT Spanner in the worksGoogle's worldwide data center network spans about 900,000 servers, according to an estimate based on new information the company has deigned to share about its power use.… |
| Are you slaving away on the wrong projects? Posted: 01 Aug 2011 08:58 AM PDT Get your priorities straightOne of the hardest decisions that the IT department faces was highlighted in a very lively Regcast a few months ago.… |
| Posted: 01 Aug 2011 08:56 AM PDT Readers spill the beans on licensing and cloud commercialsReader Study How many times have you heard cloud computing justified on the grounds of flexibility? Well, as it turns out, this is largely garbage, at least in relation to Software as a Service (SaaS) commercials. It seems that when it comes to hosted apps, 12 months contracts and the 'ratchet' principle apply. Flexible, sure, but only to increase the amount of money you give to your cloud provider, not to reduce your commitment.… |
| Sneaky Trojan exploits e-commerce flaws Posted: 01 Aug 2011 08:55 AM PDT Cache-probing, cookie-touching, self-deleting malwareMore details have emerged of an e-commerce software flaw linked to the theft of credit card information from numerous websites.… |
| iPhone 5 now set for October launch Posted: 01 Aug 2011 08:16 AM PDT Rumour discredits rumoursWith such an influx of rumours over the iPhone 5's projected release this September, we've practically accepted it as fact. Apparently, we're all wrong though, as the company actually plans to launch its next-gen iPhone in October.… |
| Amazon hunts for a few good startups Posted: 01 Aug 2011 08:08 AM PDT Winner takes $100,000 in currency, cloud capacityThe Amazon Web Services cloud computing arm of retailing giant Amazon.com has launched its fifth annual Start-Up Challenge contest, with the top prize being $100,000 in AWS credits and cash.… |
| Posted: 01 Aug 2011 08:00 AM PDT Stays on the mainlandThe Scottish teenager accused of involvement in LulzSec and Anonymous attacks has been freed on bail.… |
| Scotland Yard probes <cite>News of the World</cite> computer hacking claims Posted: 01 Aug 2011 07:58 AM PDT Considers 'breach of privacy' allegationsPolice are investigating allegations of computer hacking at the now-defunct News of the World tabloid in a separate probe from Scotland's Yard current Operation Weeting into phone-hacking claims.… |
| Doom dude says violent games lower aggression Posted: 01 Aug 2011 07:49 AM PDT Anger managementLegendary id Software developer John Carmack reckons videogames have a positive impact on society and reduce aggression. Needless to say, it's a view that flies in the face of typical reports on games with violent themes.… |
| Samsung-Apple Wars: Galaxy blocked Down Under Posted: 01 Aug 2011 07:17 AM PDT Another shot fired in the mobile patent warsApple's copycat tablet war with Samsung has found a new theatre, it is hitting the Australian courts.… |
| HP to axe sales staff found pilfering dealers Posted: 01 Aug 2011 06:32 AM PDT Rules change on 1 NovemberHP is taking a hard line on direct sales staff at its Technology Services Group (TSG) in the US - it will sack anyone caught nicking deals from resellers.… |
| T-Mobile rolls out contract-PAYG combo Posted: 01 Aug 2011 06:30 AM PDT Paying for timeT-Mobile has refreshed its You Fix plan, which combines monthly mobile contracts with Pay as You Go in a service that lets users top up when their agreed minutes and messages are kaput.… |
| Skype/Facebook integration spawns hijack risk Posted: 01 Aug 2011 05:48 AM PDT Don't talk to strangers...A bug involving the method Skype uses to integrate with Facebook creates a possible account-hijack risk, security watchers warn.… |
| Posted: 01 Aug 2011 05:31 AM PDT Someone has bought them, but what for?Someone is planning a big slash into the Near Field market, bundling more than a million NFC tags with handsets over the next six months, according to tag supplier Identive.… |
| Nokia N9 joins next month's mobile match Posted: 01 Aug 2011 05:13 AM PDT Meego ahead anywayIt looks like Nokia's venture into the Meego market will come to fruition next month, after Orange Switzerland let slip the Nokia N9 release date as 15 September.… |
| Former UK.gov CIO takes top security job at Huawei Posted: 01 Aug 2011 05:05 AM PDT John Suffolk in surprise move to company whose alleged ties are feared by USUpdate Erstwhile government CIO John Suffolk has landed a high-ranking security role at Chinese-giant Huawei.… |
| Network quality of service: making the switch Posted: 01 Aug 2011 05:00 AM PDT Trevor Pott scales upBy cloud computing standards, the networks I oversee are small. The largest network under my care has 250 physical servers; my 9-5 has less than 50. Most networks I oversee have fewer than five servers and all of these networks have far fewer switches than systems.… |
| Mackie Onyx Blackjack USB audio interface Posted: 01 Aug 2011 04:30 AM PDT Solid senderGeek Treat of the Week In the early 1990s, the Mackie name became synonymous with project studio recording consoles that, while not the most sophisticated, offered a good deal of routing flexibility and mounting options. The CR1604 was the breakthrough product for the company – a mixer that is still in production in various guises. The idea behind this and other Mackie products was to deliver low noise mic pre-amps, so that even though the mixer might be basic, the signal wouldn't suffer.… |
| Diary of a not-spot: Breaking the BT barrier Posted: 01 Aug 2011 04:10 AM PDT Life with broadband, but without BTFriday, 29 July 2011 will forever be the day I stopped paying BT any money at all, with a personal microwave link now supplying all the connections anyone could need without touching the copper in the ground.… |
| Telecity in talks to acquires Data Electronics Group Posted: 01 Aug 2011 04:01 AM PDT One wannabe cloud biz chats up anotherData centre provider TelecityGroup has confirmed it is chatting up Data Electronics Group (DEG) and that those flirtations could lead to an acquisition, reported to be valued at roughly £100m.… |
| Cabinet Office ends website test Posted: 01 Aug 2011 04:00 AM PDT We built it...they didn't comeA Cabinet Office test of a single website for British government information ended on Friday.… |
| Button brushes off 'car accident' website defacement to claim GP win Posted: 01 Aug 2011 03:16 AM PDT #getsomefriendsF1 Driver Jenson Button brushed off an attack on his website late on Saturday night that falsely claimed he had been seriously injured in a car crash, and went on to win the Hungarian Grand Prix on Sunday.… |
| Fanboys find way to NFC an iPhone Posted: 01 Aug 2011 03:14 AM PDT Anything Android can do...iPhone 4 users have discovered they can slip a Bank of America NFC card under the covers of an iPhone, sharing the NFC goodness previously restricted to the competition.… |
| PlayStation Vita release leaked Posted: 01 Aug 2011 03:05 AM PDT Blockbuster roster reveals allSony's next handheld gaming platform, the PlayStation Vita, could be on shelves as early as October, after release dates were spotted on a Blockbuster flier.… |
| Schmaltz-powered Chrome overtakes morally superior Firefox Posted: 01 Aug 2011 02:50 AM PDT Google's TV blitz pays offChrome overtook Firefox as Britain's second most popular browser in July, with almost one in four users preferring the Google product.… |
| Acer turns to trains for imports Posted: 01 Aug 2011 02:41 AM PDT All aboard the Silk Road ExpressPC vendors may be finally bowing to pressure to build more flexibility into the supply chain amid reports that Acer is to start shipping PCs by train. Forty carriers are already en route to Europe.… |
| <i>Dawn</i> creeps closer to Clanger homeworld Vesta Posted: 01 Aug 2011 02:02 AM PDT |
| Thousands of gb.com sites go dark Posted: 01 Aug 2011 01:51 AM PDT Domain fight claims UK small biz victimsThousands of UK small businesses woke up this weekend to find that their websites had become collateral damage in a legal fight between a domain name company and its founder.… |
| iPad maker to replace 1 million staff with robots Posted: 01 Aug 2011 01:35 AM PDT Foxconn to get automated in next 3 yearsThe world's biggest computer components vendor plans to replace nearly its entire factory workforce with robots by 2014.… |
| OCZ unsheathes Talos flash talons Posted: 01 Aug 2011 01:27 AM PDT Another flash drive clawing into HDD businessOCZ's Talos flash drive is set to claw into the enterprise hard drive business.… |
| Police charge Scottish teen over Soca attack Posted: 01 Aug 2011 01:08 AM PDT Hearing todayUK police have charged an 18-year-old with hacking the Serious Organised Crime Agency's (Soca) website as part of an ongoing investigation into the infamous LulzSec and Anonymous hacktivist crews.… |
| Adobe outs un-Flash web animation tool Posted: 31 Jul 2011 10:30 PM PDT HTML5 on the EdgeAdobe has released an early incarnation of its new un-Flash web design tool, Adobe Edge.… |
| PLCs a prison vulnerability: researchers Posted: 31 Jul 2011 07:28 PM PDT Now there's a jailbreakHard on the heels of warnings that critical systems in America are vulnerable to Stuxnet-style attacks, a group of security researchers says SCADA systems and PLCs make prisons vulnerable to computer-based attacks.… |
| DIDO: snake oil or wireless salvation? Posted: 31 Jul 2011 05:53 PM PDT Parsing the Perlman paperAccording to Steve Perlman, his new wireless technology, DIDO, opens up a brave new world of wireless data that promises infinite and endless capacity for everybody. That's got some people excited (so excited that they can do no more than repeat his claims verbatim), while others have suggested that snake oil may be on sale...… |
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