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- Craig Wireless splashes $US5.5m on Woosh
- Hackers break SSL encryption used by millions of sites
- Microsoft 'paid over £1m to silence UK exec over sexism'
- Apple makes a hash of password security (again)
- IBM pitches overclocked Xeons to Wall Street
- Netflix: How to completely screw up
- Microsoft's high-risk Windows 8 .NET switch
- Fox turns LightSquared political
- NASA: Beam me up some power, Scotty
- Japan's biggest defence contractor hit by hackers
- Dell: HP's PC exit is an opportunity, not a death knell
- Blighty's Android fans get British English voice control
- NASA releases asteroid flyby video from Dawn probe
- Avere menaces NetApp with accelerators
- Online gamers strike major blow in battle against AIDS
- Go Daddy mass hack points surfers towards malware
- Lanci's Lenovo move 'negative' for Acer – Morgan Stanley
- Google grasps German Groupon-a-like
- The amazing shipping container: How it changed the world
- Apple MacBook Air 11in Core i5 notebook
- Qualcomm showing signs of turning soft with age
- Gaps in the apps mean shops miss out on sales
- Royal rugby star bar snog CCTV upload - bouncer in court
- Pirate party hauls in Berlin state election booty
- Give me 10 gig Ethernet now!
- Drupal's Torvalds figure gets life-sucking Android app
- Chinese bloke gets eel lodged up todger
- Angry Birds theme park takes off in China
- Oracle rushes out emergency Apache DoS patch
- Google now a serious rival to Microsoft in cloud email
- Samsung preps anti-iPhone 5 lawsuit before it's even out
- M-Audio Keystation Mini 32
- Verity's secret shame revealed
- Intel: You may already be using Xeon E5 without knowing it
- New Intel 710: The numbers don't look good
- Google reveals 'leap smear' NTP technique
- Buckinghamshire council seeks managed ICT deal
- Anobit brings out second generation of Genesis SSD
- Diminutive robot to attempt Iron Man Triathalon
- 3D printing for artificial blood vessels
- iiNet publishes fibre broadband plans
- Revolving tweets as Twitter’s chief scientist exits
| Craig Wireless splashes $US5.5m on Woosh Posted: 19 Sep 2011 03:24 PM PDT Buys Kiwi ISPNew Zealand wireless ISP, Woosh, has been snapped up by Californian headquartered telecommunications company Craig Wireless Systems for $US5.5m.… |
| Hackers break SSL encryption used by millions of sites Posted: 19 Sep 2011 02:10 PM PDT Beware of BEAST decrypting secret PayPal cookiesResearchers have discovered a serious weakness in virtually all websites protected by the secure sockets layer protocol that allows attackers to silently decrypt data that's passing between a webserver and an end-user browser.… |
| Microsoft 'paid over £1m to silence UK exec over sexism' Posted: 19 Sep 2011 12:59 PM PDT Claims of papering over the glass ceilingMicrosoft has been accused of paying a senior executive over a million pounds in a settlement to silence claims that she was passed over for promotion to the head of Redmond's UK operations.… |
| Apple makes a hash of password security (again) Posted: 19 Sep 2011 12:32 PM PDT Shadow boxingApple has dropped a couple of monumental password security clangers with the release on OS X Lion, according to security blogger Patrick Dunstan.… |
| IBM pitches overclocked Xeons to Wall Street Posted: 19 Sep 2011 10:55 AM PDT Hot server for hedge fundsBig Blue has joined the ranks of server makers that are pitching servers using over-clocked processors to latency-sensitive financial services companies.… |
| Netflix: How to completely screw up Posted: 19 Sep 2011 10:29 AM PDT DVDs-by-email success story is losing customers...As recently as June, Netflix looked like one of the biggest consumer success stories in digital media. The company was already synonymous with DVDs-by-email, an idea imitated worldwide, and was bundling on-demand TV and movie streaming at an incredibly low price. By May, Netflix traffic had overtaken Bittorrent volumes in the USA. accounting for a quarter of US IP packets. After years of prattle, somebody had persuaded the mass market to pay for video on demand over the internet.… |
| Microsoft's high-risk Windows 8 .NET switch Posted: 19 Sep 2011 09:05 AM PDT Revenge of COM, or something like itMicrosoft spooked .NET developers earlier this year by emphasising HTML and JavaScript as the programming platform for Windows 8. Any questions were met with the answer: "Wait until BUILD." Well, BUILD took place last week, so what is happening with .NET and Windows?… |
| Fox turns LightSquared political Posted: 19 Sep 2011 08:41 AM PDT GOP angered by billionaire's ties to DemocratsWannabe network operator LightSquared is under attack from Republicans who have asked for an investigation into whether the White House pressured its Air Force Space Commander into changing his testimony on possible GPS interference caused by LightSquared's activities.… |
| NASA: Beam me up some power, Scotty Posted: 19 Sep 2011 08:04 AM PDT Space boffins want to drive future craft by RAYGUNNASA boffins are looking into making a science-fiction staple - the idea of transmitting power to spacecraft using lasers or microwaves - into reality.… |
| Japan's biggest defence contractor hit by hackers Posted: 19 Sep 2011 07:42 AM PDT Submarine plant, missile factory among targetsJapan's biggest defence contractor, Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, has become the victim of a malware-based hack attack.… |
| Dell: HP's PC exit is an opportunity, not a death knell Posted: 19 Sep 2011 07:22 AM PDT Without hardware, there can be no software or servicesThey don't want to buy out Hewlett Packard's PC business, but Dell are going to keep making and selling computers - Michael Dell told FT.com yesterday. Mr Dell sees HP's surprise exit from the field as an opportunity for Dell rather than a harbinger of doom for the industry.… |
| Blighty's Android fans get British English voice control Posted: 19 Sep 2011 07:03 AM PDT Rind and rind the rindabiteGoogle has revealed that Voice Actions, the series of spoken commands that allows users to control their Android phone just by talking to it, now supports good ol' British English.… |
| NASA releases asteroid flyby video from Dawn probe Posted: 19 Sep 2011 06:58 AM PDT Clanger homeworld boasts Everest-beating space mountainNASA has released a new video showing Vesta, giant queen of the asteroid belt, in unprecedented detail.… |
| Avere menaces NetApp with accelerators Posted: 19 Sep 2011 06:42 AM PDT Promises satisfaction without short-strokingAvere says it is capturing business that would have gone to NetApp because its clustered accelerators cost less than NetApp storage upgrades, and run faster.… |
| Online gamers strike major blow in battle against AIDS Posted: 19 Sep 2011 06:19 AM PDT Distributed human-brain cluster cracks protein conundrumA bunch of gamers have untangled the structure of a key protein in the virus that causes AIDS, a mystery that has left scientists stumped for decades.… |
| Go Daddy mass hack points surfers towards malware Posted: 19 Sep 2011 05:58 AM PDT Password-snaffling miscreants hijack 445 sitesHundreds of Go Daddy sites were compromised to point towards a site hosting malware last weekend.… |
| Lanci's Lenovo move 'negative' for Acer – Morgan Stanley Posted: 19 Sep 2011 05:45 AM PDT Former CEO's shift to rival may damage Taiwanese giantLenovo's appointment of PC industry big hitter Gianfranco Lanci will heap further pressure on his former employer Acer, according to Morgan Stanley.… |
| Google grasps German Groupon-a-like Posted: 19 Sep 2011 05:29 AM PDT After failing to buy up actual GrouponGoogle has acquired coupon site, DailyDeal.de, according to a statement on the German company's website.… |
| The amazing shipping container: How it changed the world Posted: 19 Sep 2011 05:14 AM PDT The other reason everything says 'Made In China'Keith Tantlinger has just died. He's someone you almost certainly haven't heard of and someone who – along with Malcolm McLean (no, not McLaren) – changed our world to the extent that it would have been almost unrecognisable to our forefathers. They also – if you want to squint at it – made the European Union redundant six months before it even started.… |
| Apple MacBook Air 11in Core i5 notebook Posted: 19 Sep 2011 05:00 AM PDT Small wonder?Review For years this particular Mac user preferred to carry around an X-Series ThinkPad, despite having a house full of Apple laptops. That's because Apple could offer nothing with comparable size and weight. It was worth putting up with Windows or Ubuntu to gain the convenience of a smaller lighter machine.… |
| Qualcomm showing signs of turning soft with age Posted: 19 Sep 2011 04:50 AM PDT New hardware hard to see at annual show'n'tellAnalysis There's more to learn from the absences at Qualcomm's annual showcase than from what's actually on the shelves, with colour screens and wireless charging pushed out by social networking and augmented reality.… |
| Gaps in the apps mean shops miss out on sales Posted: 19 Sep 2011 04:41 AM PDT UK retailers losing millions because of poor integrationUK shops in every industry are missing out on millions of pounds in additional sales because they don't have online services, or the ones they do have aren't good enough to close out sales, according to a new study.… |
| Royal rugby star bar snog CCTV upload - bouncer in court Posted: 19 Sep 2011 04:28 AM PDT 'You did something wrong to your nation'A man has appeared in court after allegedly uploading CCTV footage that apparently showed England rugby star Mike Tindall being kissed by a blonde woman.… |
| Pirate party hauls in Berlin state election booty Posted: 19 Sep 2011 04:14 AM PDT Angela's party came second. |
| Posted: 19 Sep 2011 04:01 AM PDT This back up is so backed upData storage demands within the enterprise grow every year. Managing this data is a challenge for organisations of all sizes, writes Trevor Pott.… |
| Drupal's Torvalds figure gets life-sucking Android app Posted: 19 Sep 2011 03:50 AM PDT How you know you've arrived in the tech world"Is this for real?" the Torvalds of Drupal tweeted this weekend, before continuing: "Dries Buytaert Android App". Yes, Dries, it is real.… |
| Chinese bloke gets eel lodged up todger Posted: 19 Sep 2011 03:39 AM PDT Anguilline exfoliation treatment ends in 'severe pain'A Chinese man who slid into a spa tub full of eels to enjoy some rejuvenating piscine exfoliation ended up in hospital with one of the slippery customers lodged firmly up his todger.… |
| Angry Birds theme park takes off in China Posted: 19 Sep 2011 03:34 AM PDT Grand scale gamingAn Angry Birds theme park has opened in China where punters can literally catapult cuddly squawkers at green pig balloons scattered among delicately built toy castles.… |
| Oracle rushes out emergency Apache DoS patch Posted: 19 Sep 2011 03:29 AM PDT Sysadmins shouldn't hang about with this one...Oracle broke with tradition with the publication of an unscheduled security update last weekend.… |
| Google now a serious rival to Microsoft in cloud email Posted: 19 Sep 2011 03:20 AM PDT Small players to be squashed as giant fatboys wrestleGmail is emerging as a threat to the big boys in the enterprise email industry, despite holding just one per cent of the market and Google's refusal to tweak its service to suit individual customers. The Chocolate Factory also faces a bitter battle with Microsoft in the email cloud space - a war that could trample over other providers, an analyst has warned.… |
| Samsung preps anti-iPhone 5 lawsuit before it's even out Posted: 19 Sep 2011 03:11 AM PDT 'They will only escape us by removing phone capability'Samsung will try to get the iPhone 5 banned in Korea by using a patent lawsuit to block the phone, a source has told the Korean Times.… |
| Posted: 19 Sep 2011 03:00 AM PDT iPad savvy MIDI controllerGeek Treat of the Week It always pays to read the fine print, especially when it's to be found on the bottom of a box, while on the top the label says, 'Works with iPad'. Such is the case with M-Audio's Keystation Mini 32, a really rather good portable keyboard controller for mobile musos and the classroom.… |
| Verity's secret shame revealed Posted: 19 Sep 2011 02:41 AM PDT Password techniques and retrospective DaleksStob I defrosted my ideas box, and found several morsels which wouldn't make a whole meal in themselves, but nonetheless needed eating.… |
| Intel: You may already be using Xeon E5 without knowing it Posted: 19 Sep 2011 02:14 AM PDT In service with secret users: The rest of us must waitIDF 2011 Do you know why Intel hasn't launched the Sandy Bridge-EP Xeon E5 processor for two-socket servers? Neither do we, but after attending Intel Developer Forum last week, we have some pretty good guesses.… |
| New Intel 710: The numbers don't look good Posted: 19 Sep 2011 01:58 AM PDT Apparent stinker from ChipzillaIntel's delayed 710 SSD, its X25-E replacement, has arrived at last, after having been initially outed back in July.… |
| Google reveals 'leap smear' NTP technique Posted: 19 Sep 2011 01:30 AM PDT Copes with problems of living on spinning space boulderGoogle has to lie to computers in order not to upset them with the vagaries of earthly time.… |
| Buckinghamshire council seeks managed ICT deal Posted: 19 Sep 2011 12:59 AM PDT £100m pork cloud in the offingBuckinghamshire County Council has invited tenders for a wide range of managed ICT services which will be underpinned by the Public Services Network (PSN).… |
| Anobit brings out second generation of Genesis SSD Posted: 19 Sep 2011 12:30 AM PDT Well it's not Genesis any more then, is it?Anobit's second-generation Genesis solid-state drive has pretty much double the performance of its first-gen sibling.… |
| Diminutive robot to attempt Iron Man Triathalon Posted: 19 Sep 2011 12:02 AM PDT Plastic Man Triathlon in this caseA 20-inch robot powered by just three rechargeable batteries will take on the gruelling Iron Man triathlon course. Because it can.… |
| 3D printing for artificial blood vessels Posted: 18 Sep 2011 05:30 PM PDT Igor! Fire the laser!In Pay the Printer, Philip K Dick imagined a species called "Printers" who could organically create perfect copies of complex objects. In this world, the increasingly-popular 3D printer can't create a car, but its ability to produce simple 3D objects is being used to create blood vessels.… |
| iiNet publishes fibre broadband plans Posted: 18 Sep 2011 04:21 PM PDT 'OMG it's not cheap enough!'iiNet has announced its National Broadband Network service prices. The number-two ISP has published the prices on its Website, with the entry-level 12/1 Mbps, 40 Gbyte service costs $AU49.95 per month; with the top-speed, maximum allowance 100/40 Mbps Terabyte downloads service costing $AU99.95.… |
| Revolving tweets as Twitter’s chief scientist exits Posted: 18 Sep 2011 04:00 PM PDT Two board members followTwitter's chief scientist Abdur Chowdhury has left the microblogging empire. Chowdhury confirmed his exit in a tweet with a Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy salute.… |
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