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- VMware sneak-peeks future 'disruptive' cloudy tech
- Apache squashes 'devastating' bug under attack
- VMware, Cisco stretch virtual LANs across the heavens
- Apple's iTunes Match music service goes beta
- World ostracizes firm that issued bogus Google credential
- Tony Sale, 'Colossus' crypto machine rebuilder, dies at 80
- £69 Pre 3 spied on HP UK website
- Pre-paid Chinese users still anonymous despite new law
- Elgato readies iPad 2 TV tuner dongle
- Sky makes iPad trolley for square-eyed shoppers
- We didn't leak names of US agents, insists WikiLeaks
- Schmidt bewails Blighty's boffin-v-luvvie culture clash
- What vegetables are best for growing in Spaaace?
- Commentard-triggered and Web-2.0 lawsuits on the rise
- Tablet wars set for Apple vs Amazon head-to-head
- Beyonce's belly: Most important thing ever, on Twitter
- DARPA wants a working manned starship for $500k
- Toshiba gen-three tablet set for IFA intro
- VMware reaches deeper into iPad, Android, desktop
- Ten... gaming headsets
- AT&T merger with T-mobile countdown restarted
- Windows 8 ribbon entangles Microsoft
- Virtualization is the new hardware, says virt kingpin
- Foxconn reports $17.6m 1st-half loss as robot legion grows
- Fake Facebook spam cannon fires double-shotted malware
- Next-gen Atom benchmarks show big boost for GPU
- Sony e-book reader line to get multi-touch screen
- Pirate Bay founders launch new cyberlocker
- Red Hat's Aeolus to 'out-Linux' Rackspace's cloud
- RAM prices set to hit 'free fall'
- Tribunal: ICO was wrong to bin angry man's FOI request
- Samsung outs Bada 2.0 smartphone trio
- NHS digital pens: The 'Total Solution'
- Paper Camera
- Google's anonymity ban defied by Thomas Jefferson
- Wikileaks shock: US watches tech news as well
- Facebook pays bounties of $40,000 in first 3 weeks
- Samsung will add cross-suits in Oz
- Aussie satellite company scores $US134m capacity deal
- Russian rocket flub threatens to empty ISS
| VMware sneak-peeks future 'disruptive' cloudy tech Posted: 30 Aug 2011 03:24 PM PDT Octopus reins in file sharers, AppBlast runs vanilla apps in browsersVMworld 2011 In a tech tease at the VMworld extravaganza in Las Vegas, VMware CTO Steve Herrod gave a sneak peek at two projects aimed at giving end users "universal cloud access".… |
| Apache squashes 'devastating' bug under attack Posted: 30 Aug 2011 01:57 PM PDT Byte range vuln exposed servers to crippling DoS exploitMaintainers of the open-source Apache webserver have fixed a severe weakness that attackers are exploiting to crash websites.… |
| VMware, Cisco stretch virtual LANs across the heavens Posted: 30 Aug 2011 01:04 PM PDT VXLAN virtualizes Layer 3 networksVMworld 2011 VMware and Cisco have teamed up with a quartet of fellow industry heavyweights to attack a vexing virtual-network configuration problem by proposing a solution that takes its inspiration from – of all places – cell phones.… |
| Apple's iTunes Match music service goes beta Posted: 30 Aug 2011 12:37 PM PDT Sorry, world+dog: US developers onlyApple's iTunes Match service – which, as its name implies, matches your music collection with tunes in Apple's iCloud – has gone beta to US developers.… |
| World ostracizes firm that issued bogus Google credential Posted: 30 Aug 2011 12:08 PM PDT DigiNotar says it was breached ... but little elseA counterfeit credential authenticating Gmail and other sensitive Google services was the result of a network intrusion suffered by DigiNotar, the parent company of the Netherlands-based certificate authority said in a press release that raised disturbing new questions about security on the internet.… |
| Tony Sale, 'Colossus' crypto machine rebuilder, dies at 80 Posted: 30 Aug 2011 08:44 AM PDT Bletchley Park founding father and top MI5 scientistObituary Tony Sale, the leader of the project to rebuild the code-breaking Colossus computer, has died at the age of 80.… |
| £69 Pre 3 spied on HP UK website Posted: 30 Aug 2011 08:07 AM PDT Company willing to discuss sales optionsHP's Pre 3 smartphone has made an appearance on the company's website priced at a mere £69 including VAT.… |
| Pre-paid Chinese users still anonymous despite new law Posted: 30 Aug 2011 07:56 AM PDT What countries permit you to have an ID-free phone?For the last 12 months it has been illegal to buy a mobile phone in China without presenting ID, but Chinese customers seem as reluctant to be identified as everyone else.… |
| Elgato readies iPad 2 TV tuner dongle Posted: 30 Aug 2011 07:45 AM PDT Freeview on the freewayTV tuner specialist Elgato has come up with a plug-on Freeview pick-up for the iPad 2.… |
| Sky makes iPad trolley for square-eyed shoppers Posted: 30 Aug 2011 07:29 AM PDT Supermarkets set for CHAOSNo, despite Sky's effulgent press release, you are not going to be able to watch Sky while you wheel a trolley round Sainsbury's - thank the beardy bloke up there - for some time, if ever.… |
| We didn't leak names of US agents, insists WikiLeaks Posted: 30 Aug 2011 07:16 AM PDT 'Drooling, senile and evil' big media is made of lies!WikiLeaks has sprung a "leak" that has reportedly resulted in the availability of unredacted copies of US diplomatic cables, according to German media outlets. WikiLeaks has admitted some sort of unspecified infosec problem while denying suggestions that its cache of US diplomatic cables has been exposed.… |
| Schmidt bewails Blighty's boffin-v-luvvie culture clash Posted: 30 Aug 2011 06:48 AM PDT You Limeys and your rubbish school IT coursesComment "The more one pleases generally, the less one pleases profoundly" – Stendahl… |
| What vegetables are best for growing in Spaaace? Posted: 30 Aug 2011 06:20 AM PDT Grim diet of turd-garden cabbage, spinach for Mars 'nautsIt's a question that must have vexed many space-loving gardeners over the years: Just what kinds of vegetables are most suitable for growing in space or at far-flung bases on alien worlds?… |
| Commentard-triggered and Web-2.0 lawsuits on the rise Posted: 30 Aug 2011 06:01 AM PDT Yow! Numbers double to, er, 16 in a yearThe number of online defamation cases brought to English and Welsh courts has more than doubled in the past year, a new report has said.… |
| Tablet wars set for Apple vs Amazon head-to-head Posted: 30 Aug 2011 05:46 AM PDT Content is king. Especially if it subsidises hardwareIf Amazon makes enough tablets and prices them right, the company will sell lots of the gadgets, according to Forrester Research's Sarah Rotman Epps.… |
| Beyonce's belly: Most important thing ever, on Twitter Posted: 30 Aug 2011 05:27 AM PDT Bootylicious popster's baby bump busts all recordsThe Twitterati were in a frenzy after Beyonce's big news last night, setting a new Tweets Per Second (TPS) record.… |
| DARPA wants a working manned starship for $500k Posted: 30 Aug 2011 05:26 AM PDT Mere seed money for mighty humanity-saving organisationBad-boy Pentagon boffinry bureau DARPA has now released the official solicitation for its "100 Year Starship" project, intended to get human beings making interstellar voyages within a century.… |
| Toshiba gen-three tablet set for IFA intro Posted: 30 Aug 2011 05:19 AM PDT Third time lucky with Excite?Third time lucky for Toshiba? Its Folio 100 Android tablet was a failure and its second attempt, the Thrive, didn't make it across the Atlantic to the UK and suffered sleep problems. So it's having another go, with a thinner model said to be shown at the IFA show later this week.… |
| VMware reaches deeper into iPad, Android, desktop Posted: 30 Aug 2011 05:00 AM PDT Nice View while watching the HorizonVMworld VMware is updating its View virtual desktop infrastructure stack as well as expanding coverage for its "Project Horizon" application manager – including a rebranding of its virtualization layer for Android mobile devices, formerly known as MVP and now known as Horizon Mobile.… |
| Posted: 30 Aug 2011 05:00 AM PDT Hear my playerProduct Round-up I wish I had my own flat, but I don't. Cue Slayer Reign in Blood thundering from upstairs. Six hours into a raid and my housemate comes home and turns the volume up on their shitty boombox above my head and I have completely lost any sense of immersion. Yes I could get into a 'speaker-off' with them but luckily I have some of the best headsets around to hook up and bring back my suspension of disbelief.… |
| AT&T merger with T-mobile countdown restarted Posted: 30 Aug 2011 04:38 AM PDT AT&T&T-mobile mobezilla now to birth next yearThe FCC has restarted the review process looking at the impact of AT&T's merger with T-Mobile USA, which should now complete in early December if nothing else goes wrong.… |
| Windows 8 ribbon entangles Microsoft Posted: 30 Aug 2011 04:28 AM PDT 'Aargh, this crazy UI is strangling meee', wail usersMicrosoft is tangled up in ribbons again. This time its plan to expand the Office 2007 look-and-feel in Windows 8 is putting its Windows group president on the defensive.… |
| Virtualization is the new hardware, says virt kingpin Posted: 30 Aug 2011 04:01 AM PDT 'I feel I can die now' - VMware chief MaritzVMworld Paul Maritz has been CEO at server virtualization juggernaut and cloud computing contender VMware for three years, and he has not forgotten – despite his long experience running divisions of Microsoft – that he got his first job at a mainframe company at the beginning of the minicomputer and PC revolutions. This was back in 1978, after he got his computer science degree.… |
| Foxconn reports $17.6m 1st-half loss as robot legion grows Posted: 30 Aug 2011 03:56 AM PDT Company that actually makes everything strugglesFoxconn International, which makes components for Apple, Motorola Mobility and Nokia products, has seen considerably reduced first-half losses this year, though its outlook is still uncertain.… |
| Fake Facebook spam cannon fires double-shotted malware Posted: 30 Aug 2011 03:51 AM PDT Duff Flash on top of Blackhole, both packed with ZeuSMalicious spam messages generated by the infamous Cutwail botnet are targeting Facebook users as potential banking Trojan victims.… |
| Next-gen Atom benchmarks show big boost for GPU Posted: 30 Aug 2011 03:42 AM PDT Not much change to the CPU's abilities, mindNetbooks based on Intel's upcoming 'Cedar Trail' Atom CPUs - the N2600 and N2800 - may not show a big processing performance leap over their predecessors, but they will sport smart graphics core.… |
| Sony e-book reader line to get multi-touch screen Posted: 30 Aug 2011 03:21 AM PDT PRS-T1 specs leakSony's next e-book reader has slipped out, courtesy of a Dutch retailer.… |
| Pirate Bay founders launch new cyberlocker Posted: 30 Aug 2011 03:05 AM PDT Yarr! Sue me againThe founders of The Pirate Bay have launched a Rapidshare knock-off called BayFiles. Anyone can upload material to the cyberlocker without creating an account. The site does not appear to be scanning for infringement.… |
| Red Hat's Aeolus to 'out-Linux' Rackspace's cloud Posted: 30 Aug 2011 02:43 AM PDT OpenStack with a Fedora twistRed Hat is leading a Fedora-like effort to succeed where OpenStack has struggled in building an open-source cloud founded on broad community input.… |
| RAM prices set to hit 'free fall' Posted: 30 Aug 2011 02:31 AM PDT Tablet love is cutting suppliers' throatsNot content with merely rolling downhill, the price of RAM is set to drop off a cliff as the PC market slows, according to IHS iSuppli.… |
| Tribunal: ICO was wrong to bin angry man's FOI request Posted: 30 Aug 2011 01:27 AM PDT Council tenant's request wasn't 'vexatious', so thereThe UK's freedom of information (FOI) law watchdog was wrong to rule that an FOI request was vexatious, the Information Rights Tribunal – formerly the Information Tribunal – has ruled.… |
| Samsung outs Bada 2.0 smartphone trio Posted: 30 Aug 2011 01:21 AM PDT Tidal wave of WavesHaving unveiled new Galaxy M, W and Y Android smartphones last week, the South Korean giant today updated its Wave line with similar suffixes.… |
| NHS digital pens: The 'Total Solution' Posted: 30 Aug 2011 01:00 AM PDT Will need special software to read doctors' handwritingAn NHS procurement organisation has tendered for the first framework contract for the supply of digital pen technology, making it available to the wider public sector.… |
| Posted: 30 Aug 2011 12:00 AM PDT Filter tipsAndroid App of the Week I'm not a big enthusiast of mobile phone photography. As long as the end result is in focus and the lighting doesn't make it look like it was taken on the surface of some distant planet orbiting a green sun, I'm happy. If I want better, I use a real camera.… |
| Google's anonymity ban defied by Thomas Jefferson Posted: 29 Aug 2011 10:00 PM PDT 'Twas commentards defeated the BritsOpen...and Shut The technology world loves to navel-gaze and think it's constantly breaking new ground, but as in the case of the recent debate over real names and anonymity on Google+, technology often plods over well-trodden ground.… |
| Wikileaks shock: US watches tech news as well Posted: 29 Aug 2011 05:30 PM PDT Turn on your irony detectorsIn yet another round of stunning revelations, leaked cables published on Wikileaks demonstrate clearly that US embassies assign staff to read newspapers and send digests back to America, and wherever possible, they toe the party line.… |
| Facebook pays bounties of $40,000 in first 3 weeks Posted: 29 Aug 2011 05:00 PM PDT $5,000 'for one really good report'A new Facebook program that pays cash rewards to people who report security bugs on the social networking site doled out more than $40,000 in its first three weeks.… |
| Samsung will add cross-suits in Oz Posted: 29 Aug 2011 04:45 PM PDT Court stalls fondleslab release againIn yesterday's directions hearing in the Federal Court in Sydney, the only new detail to emerge in the Apple-versus-Samsung international lawyers' progressive dinner is that Samsung will follow its international fightback strategy and file counter-suits against Apple.… |
| Aussie satellite company scores $US134m capacity deal Posted: 29 Aug 2011 04:11 PM PDT Second multi-million contract in a monthAustralian satellite communications company NewSat has secured a ten year $US134 million capacity agreement with Pakistani service provider 3A Technology for carriage on the yet to be launched Jabiru-1 satellite.… |
| Russian rocket flub threatens to empty ISS Posted: 29 Aug 2011 04:03 PM PDT Current residents must come down. New ones can't go upNASA has announced that there's a good chance that, come November, the International Space Station will be uninhabited for the first time in a decade, but the US space agency says not to worry. Much.… |
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