Australia to issue passports for males, females and... X |
- Australia to issue passports for males, females and... X
- Microsoft: No Windows 8 ARM support for x86 apps
- Intel shows linear scaling with MIC coprocessor
- PCI recast for supercomputing future
- Canonical woos developers with Ubuntu app prep portal
- Scientists discover Tattooine-style world 200 lightyears off
- Gartner karate chops 2011 chip forecast
- Microsoft bans all plugins from touchable IE10
- NASA unveils its chosen Shuttle successor
- PC World throws in free Bravia telly with Sony fondleslabs
- BT Tower becomes giant lightsabre tonight
- Calyx gives up reselling, axes jobs
- Google crams arsenal with 1,000 IBM patents
- MPs probe social networks' position following riots
- Facebook IPO slated for September 2012
- PayPal to move into the shop - without cards <i>or</i> NFC
- Comet can't sell anything, including itself
- Acer restructure continues as another honcho heads out
- Boundaries Commission slammed over mega map dump
- Ballmer: Windows Phone <i>can</i> win third place in mobile!
- Hunt: Online file-sharing is a 'direct assault on freedoms'
- Feds probe naked Scarlett Johansson outrage
- LOHAN checks into REHAB
- Android Tablet Firefox betas ready for trial fondling
- Place your data centre in a handy container
- Dyson spouts hot air
- Groupon IPO back on the cards
- Powermat crafts wireless Duracell Bunny boiler
- Hunt blasts progress on BT infrastructure-share plans
- Network interface cards are coming up trumps
- Kick! Bostock! out! too! demands! Yahoo! shareholder!
- QLogic warms to flash
- Bike Hub
- <i>Newsnight</i> presenter pwned by snarky hack
- Did Bahraini activists closet anti-gay bus baron?
- Security firms: Android malware set to skyrocket
- Science, engineering PhDs to drop by a third
- Google offers opt-out from Wi-Fi router location database
- Coraid mates with Caringo, producing cheap objects
- Storage array update breaks up data and app conflicts
- Joyent arms cloud for death match with Amazon
- Star Wars: The Complete Saga Blu-ray disc set
- Microsoft demos creepy car stalking system
- VMware links Workstation 8 hypervisor to ESXi
- Facebook's Open Compute friends ODCA IT union
- Professors slam Oz HFC wholesale shutdown
- Deep inside Intel's 'Ivy Bridge' chip
- Microsoft previews new Visual Studio, .NET
- Intel laptop boss to make Ultrabooks context savvy
- Kiwi rugby rats warned to keep eye on the hacker ball
| Australia to issue passports for males, females and... X Posted: 15 Sep 2011 03:05 PM PDT X marks the spot in anti-discrimination effortAustralians will be allowed to mark X as their gender on passports in a move to help curb discrimination against transgendered and intersex people.… |
| Microsoft: No Windows 8 ARM support for x86 apps Posted: 15 Sep 2011 02:01 PM PDT Linguistic jujitsu over ARM's second class statusDespite prior hints – and a Redmond developer conference that was all about app compatibility – Microsoft's Steven Sinofsky has said that software for Windows 8 on ARM will definitely not run on x86 systems.… |
| Intel shows linear scaling with MIC coprocessor Posted: 15 Sep 2011 02:00 PM PDT Army of Pentiums march in lockstepIDF 2011 The chip world is moving from multicore to many-core, says Intel chief technology office Justin Rattner. In certain circles, such talk makes sense – a many-core chip includes many more cores than a multicore chip – and according to Rattner, the transition to a many-core world won't be as difficult as expected.… |
| PCI recast for supercomputing future Posted: 15 Sep 2011 01:05 PM PDT Double speed or more by 2015The next generation of the PCI interconnect standard will be aimed squarely at high-performance computing, and it will be developed using a different scheme than were previous generations.… |
| Canonical woos developers with Ubuntu app prep portal Posted: 15 Sep 2011 12:20 PM PDT How to get your software soldCanonical has set up a site to help developers package and sell the code they produce. The site is designed to help to popularize the operating system, encourage new popular apps, and create more commission revenue for the open source organization.… |
| Scientists discover Tattooine-style world 200 lightyears off Posted: 15 Sep 2011 11:00 AM PDT Two suns, yes. Captive princesses in gold bikinis, unlikelyScientists have discovered a planet that orbits two suns, like Luke Skywalker's home planet Tatooine in Star Wars. Two hundred light-years away from Earth, gaseous Kepler-16b is similar to Saturn in both size and mass and – like the desert planet that nurtured the young Skywalker – enjoys a double sunset.… |
| Gartner karate chops 2011 chip forecast Posted: 15 Sep 2011 10:56 AM PDT $299bn sales at best, say crystal ballWith demand for PCs cooling and chip inventories piling high, the prognosticators at Gartner now predict that chip sales will fall slightly this year.… |
| Microsoft bans all plugins from touchable IE10 Posted: 15 Sep 2011 10:27 AM PDT Joins Jobsian jihad against FlashWindows 8 will include a version of Internet Explorer 10 that uses Microsoft's "Metro" touch interface, and this new-age browser will not allow plugins – at all. The move is yet another blow to Adobe Flash, which is famously banned from Apple's iPhone and iPad.… |
| NASA unveils its chosen Shuttle successor Posted: 15 Sep 2011 09:47 AM PDT Basically a big shuttle which you throw away each timeNASA has announced plans for a massive rocket based on recycled space shuttle technology, intended to launch manned missions beyond Earth orbit in decades to come.… |
| PC World throws in free Bravia telly with Sony fondleslabs Posted: 15 Sep 2011 08:55 AM PDT Currys favour?Early-bird customers who purchase the Sony Tablet S when it is launched this Friday will be given a free Sony Bravia TV.… |
| BT Tower becomes giant lightsabre tonight Posted: 15 Sep 2011 08:00 AM PDT Star Wars hype in full forceFox Home Entertainment has celebrated the release of Star Wars: The Complete Saga Blu-ray disc set, by holding events all week, climaxing with a party tonight in London that'll see the BT Tower become a giant lightsabre.… |
| Calyx gives up reselling, axes jobs Posted: 15 Sep 2011 07:29 AM PDT Channel biz evaporates to form cloudCalyx has disbanded its reselling team with the loss of some jobs as it pins future growth ambitions on managed services and cloud computing.… |
| Google crams arsenal with 1,000 IBM patents Posted: 15 Sep 2011 07:04 AM PDT Readies ream team against, er, Microsoft-Apple axisGoogle has added to its ammo dump in the patent hostilities, buying over a thousand more of IBM's patents.… |
| MPs probe social networks' position following riots Posted: 15 Sep 2011 06:40 AM PDT Shut down Twitter, how would the cops find the riots?Policy wonks from Twitter, Facebook and BlackBerry faced MPs on the Home Affairs committee today who were carrying out a postmortem of the disorder across England last month.… |
| Facebook IPO slated for September 2012 Posted: 15 Sep 2011 06:27 AM PDT Staff won't get to cash out till then ... bitchFacebook is planning its much-publicised IPO for late 2012, so employees can concentrate on product developments for now.… |
| PayPal to move into the shop - without cards <i>or</i> NFC Posted: 15 Sep 2011 05:56 AM PDT Skip the queues, scan barcodes with your phonePayPal is consigning the shop till to the dustbin in a way that could completely wipe Visa and MasterCard out of the shopping equation.… |
| Comet can't sell anything, including itself Posted: 15 Sep 2011 05:46 AM PDT Fate of troubled retailer to be decided by XmasKesa Electricals has vowed to determine the future ownership of UK subsidiary Comet before Christmas, having failed so far to flog the business to interested parties.… |
| Acer restructure continues as another honcho heads out Posted: 15 Sep 2011 05:24 AM PDT Semmy Levit 'will pursue personal goals' - leaked memoRestructuring at Acer continues with another high level director exiting the business in the wake of its inventory woes and declining sales.… |
| Boundaries Commission slammed over mega map dump Posted: 15 Sep 2011 05:12 AM PDT FIVE HUNDRED PDFs 'optimise clarity', say bureaucratsThe Boundary Commission for England (BCE) has defended its decision to release more than 500 PDF maps of proposed Parliamentary constituencies, stating that they believe they provided "an appropriate level of detail".… |
| Ballmer: Windows Phone <i>can</i> win third place in mobile! Posted: 15 Sep 2011 04:58 AM PDT Going all-out for |
| Hunt: Online file-sharing is a 'direct assault on freedoms' Posted: 15 Sep 2011 04:42 AM PDT 'It's privatisation of justice' howls KillockSearch engines and internet service providers (ISPs) could be forced to make it harder for users to access copyright infringing content online under new UK communications laws, the Culture Secretary has said.… |
| Feds probe naked Scarlett Johansson outrage Posted: 15 Sep 2011 04:26 AM PDT Celebs break elementary rules of nude self-portraitureThe FBI is probing hack attacks on celebs after nude photos of Scarlett Johansson were leaked onto the web last night.… |
| Posted: 15 Sep 2011 04:25 AM PDT Hypobaric chamber celebutard backronym sortedFollowing an emergency all-night sitting of the Special Projects Bureau Celebrity Backronym Perusal Soviet (the agreeably palindromic SPBCBPS, as it's known at Vulture Central), we can announce that our Low Orbit Helium Assisted Navigator (LOHAN) hypobaric rocket motor test chamber will henceforth be known as the Rocketry Experimental High Altitude Barosimulator, or REHAB.… |
| Android Tablet Firefox betas ready for trial fondling Posted: 15 Sep 2011 04:12 AM PDT Grab a slab, stroke a Fennec - at your own riskAndroid tablets can now play with a beta version of mobile Firefox, complete with desktop synchronisation, proper tabbed browsing and all the other UI goodies promised.… |
| Place your data centre in a handy container Posted: 15 Sep 2011 04:00 AM PDT The future is modularData centres are a big capital expense. A 10,000 sq ft data centre designed to last 15 or 20 years costs about $33m, so you have to think about it a lot more carefully than you do about buying a server or a piece of software.… |
| Posted: 15 Sep 2011 03:58 AM PDT Trading blowsDyson unveiled another household appliance with a space-age twist this week, tweaking its range of Air Multipliers to include a heating element.… |
| Posted: 15 Sep 2011 03:44 AM PDT Have we got a deal for you! Coupons for GrouponGroupon's IPO is back on track for late October or early November after a short-lived delay earlier this month.… |
| Powermat crafts wireless Duracell Bunny boiler Posted: 15 Sep 2011 03:27 AM PDT Saves interminable plugging and unplugging like a SLAVEProcter & Gamble, owner of the Duracell brand, has announced a joint venture with induction-charging effort Powermat, with P&G having the controlling interest in the new Duracell Powermat.… |
| Hunt blasts progress on BT infrastructure-share plans Posted: 15 Sep 2011 03:26 AM PDT 'You'll let anyone use your pole or answer to me'Jeremy Hunt is fed up with BT's slow response to pressure from communications watchdog Ofcom and ISP rivals over the telco giant's pole and duct pricing plans that are expected to be revealed later this month.… |
| Network interface cards are coming up trumps Posted: 15 Sep 2011 03:13 AM PDT How to pick out the acesNetwork interface cards (NICs) are often overlooked in server design. Their sheer ubiquity, combined with the ability to deal with most networking problems in software, can make them a component whose exact specifications are ignored.… |
| Kick! Bostock! out! too! demands! Yahoo! shareholder! Posted: 15 Sep 2011 03:12 AM PDT 'Value destroyer' put the phone down on me, goddammit!Outspoken hedge fund manager Daniel Loeb has discharged another strongly-worded letter to Yahoo! co-founder Jerry Yang and the board, urging changes at the top to bring the company back from the brink.… |
| Posted: 15 Sep 2011 03:11 AM PDT Cash from cache?QLogic, one of the two main suppliers of storage networking adapters, is thinking of applying its expertise to building PCIe flash cards, according to Stifel Nicolaus analyst Aaron Rakers.… |
| Posted: 15 Sep 2011 03:00 AM PDT Bespoke cycle route planneriOS App of the Week Following my inaugural experience with one of London's 'Boris bikes' I considered reviewing the slick Barclays Bikes app – the bank is the main sponsor of the cycle scheme in the capital. Yet apart from being too London-centric I didn't want to find myself saying anything complimentary about the banking industry. So I checked out a few other apps before settling on Bike Hub.… |
| <i>Newsnight</i> presenter pwned by snarky hack Posted: 15 Sep 2011 02:59 AM PDT Three Royal Television Society nominations - ouchNothing like hacking the official profile of a BBC presenter and filling it with snide comments about how he's crap at maths, for a quick laugh.… |
| Did Bahraini activists closet anti-gay bus baron? Posted: 15 Sep 2011 02:38 AM PDT Controversial knight pays the price of freedomA theory has emerged as to just how the personal website of controversial bus millionaire Brian Souter came to be stuffed deep into Google's closet of invisibility. It appears that the (probably inadvertent) culprits may have been a group of Bahraini freedom fighters.… |
| Security firms: Android malware set to skyrocket Posted: 15 Sep 2011 02:19 AM PDT Droid isn't the new Windows yet, but ...Android malware threats could increase by a factor of 60 over the next six months, according to Romanian security pros.… |
| Science, engineering PhDs to drop by a third Posted: 15 Sep 2011 02:01 AM PDT Sadly other things were inside the ring-fence with themThe number of government-funded science and engineering PhDs will be reduced by a third by 2013 as cuts eat into scientific research.… |
| Google offers opt-out from Wi-Fi router location database Posted: 15 Sep 2011 01:27 AM PDT Never offered an opt-in, thoughGoogle has given the owners of Wi-Fi routers around the world the right to opt out of a registry that the search giant uses to locate mobile phone users.… |
| Coraid mates with Caringo, producing cheap objects Posted: 15 Sep 2011 01:10 AM PDT Quite simply the simplest in the worldCaringo is mating its technology with that of Coraid. The object is to pair its object storage system with Coraid arrays, accessible by AoE, said to be the simplest storage network in the world.… |
| Storage array update breaks up data and app conflicts Posted: 15 Sep 2011 12:32 AM PDT 'He's not worth it' cries Oracle-blessed softwareOracle has released new Pillar Axiom software with better management, replication and physically separated domains of data.… |
| Joyent arms cloud for death match with Amazon Posted: 15 Sep 2011 12:00 AM PDT Son of Solaris hypervisor locked and loadedA month after open-sourcing what it calls "the first major hypervisor" to arrive in half a decade, cloud computing pioneer Joyent has added this hypervisor to its flagship service, allowing Linux and Windows applications onto the Joyent Cloud for the first time.… |
| Star Wars: The Complete Saga Blu-ray disc set Posted: 14 Sep 2011 11:00 PM PDT Buy it, you willReview Cards on the table: I'm not a Star Wars obsessive. I have precious little interest in the prequel trilogy. Indeed, I prefer the high velocity chutzpah of the Clone Wars animated series. And I don't own any Hayden Christensen action figures either, although there may be a Slave Leia in my sock drawer.… |
| Microsoft demos creepy car stalking system Posted: 14 Sep 2011 10:34 PM PDT Family micromanagementBUILD Windows Phone 7.5 and Azure are letting one Microsoft director stalk his kids while they're on the road.… |
| VMware links Workstation 8 hypervisor to ESXi Posted: 14 Sep 2011 10:07 PM PDT Fusion 4 for Macs LionizedVMware has spruced up its two virtualization hypervisors for client computers: Workstation 8 for x64 PCs and Fusion 4 for x64 machines with an Apple brand on them.… |
| Facebook's Open Compute friends ODCA IT union Posted: 14 Sep 2011 05:52 PM PDT What do you need a tier one server maker for?IDF 2011 What do you get when you cross a consortium of big data center customers and IT suppliers (the Open Data Center Alliance started by Intel last October) with an open source server and data center design project started by a hyperscale Web company (the Open Compute Project founded by Facebook)?… |
| Professors slam Oz HFC wholesale shutdown Posted: 14 Sep 2011 05:30 PM PDT National Broadband Network should avoid creating new monopolyTwo regular contributors to Australia's industry regulation debates have penned a paper slamming the proposed "Telstra-NBN" deal.… |
| Deep inside Intel's 'Ivy Bridge' chip Posted: 14 Sep 2011 05:24 PM PDT A really small Sandy Bridge. And moreIDF 2011 Intel's next-generation "Ivy Bridge" chips will include a host of improvements, including integrated graphics that the company claims will narrow the lead now held by AMD's Fusion APUs.… |
| Microsoft previews new Visual Studio, .NET Posted: 14 Sep 2011 05:16 PM PDT Floats fresh Azure SDKBUILD Microsoft has given MSDN subscribers access to a preview version of Visual Studio 11 and a new version of .NET as well as developer version of its upcoming Windows 8 operating system.… |
| Intel laptop boss to make Ultrabooks context savvy Posted: 14 Sep 2011 04:38 PM PDT Optional sensor tech to become mandatoryIDF 2011 Pundits have been talking about building GPS and other sensors into notebooks for some years. Now it may actually happen. Optional for the moment, Intel is planning to mandate the addition of a variety of sensors into its Ultrabook spec.… |
| Kiwi rugby rats warned to keep eye on the hacker ball Posted: 14 Sep 2011 04:30 PM PDT When PBXs go bad...New Zealand business owners gripped by Rugby World Cup fever have been warned to keep an eye on their PBXs during festivities.… |
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