SAP snaps up Kiwi software company |
- SAP snaps up Kiwi software company
- Apple seeks product security boss after iPhone loss
- DigiNotar hacker says he stole huge GlobalSign cache
- IBM, 3M glue chips into silicon skyscrapers
- Ex-Microsoft accountant jailed for $1.1m Redmond theft
- Skype: Microsoft's $8.5 billion identity tool
- AMD ships 'Interlagos' Opteron 6200 chips
- Sun rises over .xxx smut domain
- Seagate pulls out the biggest hard one in the industry
- Revenues double at Facebook, says source
- How Apple's Lion won't let you trash documents
- Much of the human race made up of thieves, says BSA
- HP opens 'private' Cloud beta party for limited numbers
- Court bans man called Peter from calling himself Peter
- Why modern music sounds rubbish
- South Africa joins the call for BlackBerry messaging keys
- Cyber crime now bigger than the drugs trade
- OFT boss: 'Google is fantastic and should be applauded'
- Dell in bid to woo rattled HP PC sales partners
- New trojan masquerades as Microsoft enforcement-ware
- Search visionary retires from Microsoft's Bing battles
- Groupon backs away from scheduled IPO
- HP pops out all-in-one biz boxes
- Seagate GoFlex Satellite 500GB wireless hard drive
- Nvidia boss: Windows 8 will run Windows Phone 7 apps
- Most organisations just not ready for Cloud: Computacenter
- Most bosses monitor or block social-network use at work
- GlobalSign stops issuing SSL certs, probes hacker claims
- Dixons predicts Olympics will boost sales
- appToyz appBlaster
- Would you be seen dead with a shopping computer?
- Phone-hack plods arrest another man in pre-dawn raid
- Christ appears in phone advert, secular authorities act
- iCloud Communications ditches Apple lawsuit
- Battery deal points to thinner, lighter iPad 3
- Shareholder demands RIM sell itself or spin off patents
- Getting the data centre running on your terms
- E-cars: unaffordable until 2030 (or later)
- Does Cameron dare ditch poor-bashing green energy?
- Gov pops lid on mighty £2bn PSN procurement barrel
- Acas publishes first social media guide
- UK slashes red tape in apprenticeships scheme
- HP Pavilion dv7 17.3in Llano notebook
- Hitachi GST ships terabyte platter-spinners
- Twitter users charged with terrorism for false tweets
- Server sales up, but Great Recession lingers
- Can clouds ever be fully secure?
- Digital Realty Trust adds Melbourne
- Korean antitrust agency raids Google over Android
- On-chip photonics snares Eureka prize
| SAP snaps up Kiwi software company Posted: 07 Sep 2011 03:31 PM PDT Right Hemisphere's 3D adds depth to SAP softwareNew Zealand-based 3D visualisation software company Right Hemisphere is being acquired by SAP for an undisclosed sum.… |
| Apple seeks product security boss after iPhone loss Posted: 07 Sep 2011 01:51 PM PDT Horse, meet stable doorApple is advertising for a new head of product security, following the second loss of an iPhone prototype.… |
| DigiNotar hacker says he stole huge GlobalSign cache Posted: 07 Sep 2011 01:48 PM PDT The man behind attack that minted 500 certsAn internet user with proven ties to the DigiNotar hack claims he stole email, customer data and other sensitive data from two competing web authentication authority that will be released publicly soon.… |
| IBM, 3M glue chips into silicon skyscrapers Posted: 07 Sep 2011 11:31 AM PDT Build tower of PowerIBM and adhesive maker 3M are teaming up to cook up the packaging goo that will be needed to stack up chips into 3D arrays.… |
| Ex-Microsoft accountant jailed for $1.1m Redmond theft Posted: 07 Sep 2011 11:08 AM PDT Stole to 'expose flaws in system'A former Microsoft accountant has been sentenced to two years in prison and ordered to repay over a million dollars after pleading guilty to theft and money laundering.… |
| Skype: Microsoft's $8.5 billion identity tool Posted: 07 Sep 2011 10:26 AM PDT With VoIP on the sideOpen...and Shut In 2005, eBay bought Skype for $2.6 billion to bring voice communications to the online auction site, claiming the combination would "revolutionise the ease with which people can communicate through the internet." Four years later, eBay sold Skype for $2.75 billion because no one wanted to talk to the other party in a transaction.… |
| AMD ships 'Interlagos' Opteron 6200 chips Posted: 07 Sep 2011 09:44 AM PDT Ramp to Q4 servers underwayLet the next battle in the x64 server wars begin.… |
| Sun rises over .xxx smut domain Posted: 07 Sep 2011 09:37 AM PDT Morning glory period for owner-operatorsBusinesses in the adult entertainment industry – and outside of it – from today have the opportunity to register or block .xxx domain names that match their trademarks.… |
| Seagate pulls out the biggest hard one in the industry Posted: 07 Sep 2011 09:28 AM PDT Mighty 4TB fatness plonked down on deskHot on the heels of Hitachi's terabyte platter drives comes Seagate's 4TB GoFlex Desk external drive, a terabyte fatter than the previous version.… |
| Revenues double at Facebook, says source Posted: 07 Sep 2011 09:25 AM PDT That's $1.6bn in the first half of the year... bitchFacebook's first half revenue has nearly doubled to $1.6bn, despite the advent of new rivals like Google+.… |
| How Apple's Lion won't let you trash documents Posted: 07 Sep 2011 09:02 AM PDT The operating system for the nanny state?Comment Apple's Mac OS X 10.7 is branded Lion. The Lion may be king of the jungle, but from where we sit, it's the king of bungles.… |
| Much of the human race made up of thieves, says BSA Posted: 07 Sep 2011 08:31 AM PDT You wouldn't nick stuff out of shops, would you? Er...Almost a half of all PCs in operation worldwide use pirated software, according to the Business Software Alliance (BSA).… |
| HP opens 'private' Cloud beta party for limited numbers Posted: 07 Sep 2011 08:22 AM PDT Velvet rope briefly unhookedHewlett Packard is inviting developers to a private beta party for its HP Cloud Services from today.… |
| Court bans man called Peter from calling himself Peter Posted: 07 Sep 2011 08:16 AM PDT Because he is accused of being AnonymousA man called Peter has been banned from using the name "Peter" on the internet as a bail condition after being charged today with unauthorised use of a computer.… |
| Why modern music sounds rubbish Posted: 07 Sep 2011 08:01 AM PDT The Loudness Wars, illustratedA few year ago Bob Dylan echoed a complaint that many of you share with me from time to time: music sounds rubbish. Dylan hates recording these days, because the outcome is too loud and it's too bright. As he said:… |
| South Africa joins the call for BlackBerry messaging keys Posted: 07 Sep 2011 07:44 AM PDT Miscreants don't care for the secure email, seeminglySouth Africa has joined the call for access to the BlackBerry Messaging service, quoting the usual security concerns and pointing out that the UK plans much the same thing.… |
| Cyber crime now bigger than the drugs trade Posted: 07 Sep 2011 07:17 AM PDT Says cyber security firmThe global cost of cybercrime is greater than the combined effect on the global economy of trafficking in marijuana, heroin and cocaine, which is estimated at $388bn, a new headline-grabbing study reported.… |
| OFT boss: 'Google is fantastic and should be applauded' Posted: 07 Sep 2011 07:08 AM PDT When watchdogs lose their teethWhat happens when competition watchdogs lose their teeth – and roll over to have their tummies tickled? Via the influential chair of the Commons Culture Media and Sport Select Committee, John Whittingdale MP, comes a very interesting story today. Whittingdale relates a conversation with John Fingleton, the head of the Office of Fair Trading. The MP asked if the agency had looked at the question of Google's power in the marketplace.… |
| Dell in bid to woo rattled HP PC sales partners Posted: 07 Sep 2011 06:32 AM PDT 'We'll still be here', insists direct-sales mammothDell has accused archrival HP of unsettling channel partners by revealing its intention to spin out the PC biz, claiming it is a "stable" alternative for resellers.… |
| New trojan masquerades as Microsoft enforcement-ware Posted: 07 Sep 2011 05:58 AM PDT Threatens to destroy everything and sue the remainsMalware-makers have created a strain of ransomware Trojan which masquerades as a Microsoft utility.… |
| Search visionary retires from Microsoft's Bing battles Posted: 07 Sep 2011 05:47 AM PDT 'Last day at Microsoft. I'm one of the angels again!'Updated One of the search brains hired by Microsoft through its $100m acquisition of Powerset to help build Bing against Google has become the latest executive to leave the company.… |
| Groupon backs away from scheduled IPO Posted: 07 Sep 2011 05:27 AM PDT We sell other people's stuff discounted, not oursGroupon may be having second thoughts about when, and if, it should go public, joining the growing list of new web companies unsure of their steps in the market.… |
| HP pops out all-in-one biz boxes Posted: 07 Sep 2011 05:13 AM PDT Touchscreen for corporate show-offsHP has announced a pair of all-in-one PCs – one with a touchscreen display – that it hopes will remove any remaining barriers that prevent that unibody form and point-and-flick interface from finding a home on the business desktop.… |
| Seagate GoFlex Satellite 500GB wireless hard drive Posted: 07 Sep 2011 05:00 AM PDT Buckets of content storage for your fondleslabReview Tablets being generally pricey, buyers tend to opt for the least expensive, lower capacity models. It has to be said, 16GB isn't a paucity, especially if you're happy juggling files back and forth.… |
| Nvidia boss: Windows 8 will run Windows Phone 7 apps Posted: 07 Sep 2011 04:44 AM PDT Welcome to the world after IntelNvidia has been outlining a future that sees a Qualcomm/Nvidia duopoly providing processors for every computing platform, which will share apps as well as chips.… |
| Most organisations just not ready for Cloud: Computacenter Posted: 07 Sep 2011 04:39 AM PDT Despite 'Cloudwash' just 28% will migrate loads this yearThe majority of organisations do not have the infrastructure backbone to move wholesale to the cloud, according to a report by Computacenter.… |
| Most bosses monitor or block social-network use at work Posted: 07 Sep 2011 04:29 AM PDT Didn't get where they are today fooling about on Web 2.0Viruses, loss of confidential data and fear of employees tooling around doing sweet FA on Twitter are the top reasons that employers give for putting the brakes on social media in the workplace. And it's stopping them benefiting from new collaborative technologies, says ClearSwift Research.… |
| GlobalSign stops issuing SSL certs, probes hacker claims Posted: 07 Sep 2011 04:12 AM PDT Better to do it and not need to than vice versaGlobalSign has suspended the publication of SSL certificates as a precaution in the wake of unverified claims by a hacker linked to attacks on Comodo and DigiNotar.… |
| Dixons predicts Olympics will boost sales Posted: 07 Sep 2011 03:59 AM PDT Beach volleyball in 3D ought to shift some telliesDixons Retail has reported a sharp drop in sales, particularly in the UK and Ireland, but it still feels like it's doing well and the market seems to agree.… |
| Posted: 07 Sep 2011 03:46 AM PDT Gunning for controliGamer Gaming peripherals have a bad reputation, and not without good reason. From the sublime Steel Battalion controller to every ridiculous Wii peripheral, these plastic appendages have one thing in common: they make gamers look sublimely ridiculous.… |
| Would you be seen dead with a shopping computer? Posted: 07 Sep 2011 03:43 AM PDT Like buying and carrying Bezos' cash register for himAnalysis Amazon's first tablet, according to reports, is designed entirely around getting stuff from Amazon. The first hands-on (no pix) report indicates that it's a fork of Android, heavily customised to run a colour Kindle app – and provide access to Amazon's other services. Like the eInk Kindle, the all-colour Kindle tablet will be a shopping application in hardware.… |
| Phone-hack plods arrest another man in pre-dawn raid Posted: 07 Sep 2011 03:29 AM PDT Scotland Yard dicks up early and out of office this timeScotland Yard officers investigating alleged phone-hacking at the now defunct tabloid the News of the World arrested a 35-year-old man in an early morning pounce on his home today (7 September).… |
| Christ appears in phone advert, secular authorities act Posted: 07 Sep 2011 03:22 AM PDT Outrage as Saviour depicted endorsing non-Jesus mobePhones4u has managed to offend Christians with a cartoon Jesus offering a thumbs up, apparently endorsing its range of Samsung handsets rather than the more-traditionally messianic iPhone.… |
| iCloud Communications ditches Apple lawsuit Posted: 07 Sep 2011 03:14 AM PDT Whatever could have made them do that?A trademark lawsuit filed against Apple in June has reportedly been dropped by iCloud Communications LLC, which had originally claimed "irreparable injury" to its cloud computing business.… |
| Battery deal points to thinner, lighter iPad 3 Posted: 07 Sep 2011 03:01 AM PDT Keeping ahead of the competitionApple's upcoming iPad 3 - now expected in February 2012, or thereabouts - may be rather thinner than the current model.… |
| Shareholder demands RIM sell itself or spin off patents Posted: 07 Sep 2011 02:55 AM PDT 'Seize the |
| Getting the data centre running on your terms Posted: 07 Sep 2011 02:33 AM PDT Four practical management tasks to help you take controlIn the real world, you need to manage hundreds of apps, multiple operating systems, many classes of service. And now they're asking for cloud, too.… |
| E-cars: unaffordable until 2030 (or later) Posted: 07 Sep 2011 02:26 AM PDT Big subsidies needed, even with double-price petrolIt'll take at least 20 years for electric cars to become an economic alternative to the gas-guzzling variety, according to a new study.… |
| Does Cameron dare ditch poor-bashing green energy? Posted: 07 Sep 2011 01:55 AM PDT Let them eat windmillsAnalysis No 10 has a dilemma: it is committed to an unpopular renewable energy policy that punishes the poor, British industry, and will keep inflation high. But is it edging nervously away from the policy, or merely pretending to?… |
| Gov pops lid on mighty £2bn PSN procurement barrel Posted: 07 Sep 2011 01:26 AM PDT Networking the networks. With a frameworkThe Government Procurement Service is setting up a pan-government framework for Public Services Network (PSN) and associated communications equipment and services.… |
| Acas publishes first social media guide Posted: 07 Sep 2011 12:58 AM PDT UK workplace rulebook to save heartache and cashAcas has published a new guide to social networking in the workplace, which it says is the first in the UK. The employment body said the guide is aimed at helping businesses, staff and trade unions agree on how to handle employment issues related to the internet, blogs and social media websites such as Twitter and Facebook.… |
| UK slashes red tape in apprenticeships scheme Posted: 07 Sep 2011 12:34 AM PDT 'Key industries' include BT, Phones4U - and McDonaldsCompanies such as BT, Phones4U and McDonalds could benefit from a new streamlined apprenticeship scheme which will let them get young workers into their offices with less paperwork.… |
| HP Pavilion dv7 17.3in Llano notebook Posted: 06 Sep 2011 11:00 PM PDT AMD's Sandy Bridge alternative?Review Heave the 3kg HP dv7 from its enormous box and you can't help but have your hopes raised: this is a notebook that gives the impression of high-end consumer tech promise. The brushed silver back has a refined air to it and Apple stylee, the HP logo lights up using the screen's LED lamps. Appearances aside, there are tech treats within as this machine has AMD's Sandy Bridge competitor, Llano, a 32nm chip with an integrated GPU.… |
| Hitachi GST ships terabyte platter-spinners Posted: 06 Sep 2011 11:00 PM PDT Faster to market than SeagateHitachi GST is now shipping internal fit, terabyte-per-platter drives. Back in May Seagate announced it would ship a terabyte-per-platter Barracuda by the mid-year point, but production problems are still delaying this bumper Barracuda bundle.… |
| Twitter users charged with terrorism for false tweets Posted: 06 Sep 2011 10:00 PM PDT Mass panic over erroneous kidnap claimsMexican prosecutors are pursuing terrorism and sabotage charges against two Twitter users who falsely reported an armed attack by drug gangs was in progress at a local elementary school.… |
| Server sales up, but Great Recession lingers Posted: 06 Sep 2011 10:00 PM PDT Europe buys like it's 2005Analysis Server spending was solid in the second quarter, according the box counters at IDC and Gartner, with both shipments and revenues growing in the wake of the Great Recession. But don't jump to the wrong conclusion. While server shipments are up where they belong, revenues have yet to recover to their pre-recession levels.… |
| Can clouds ever be fully secure? Posted: 06 Sep 2011 07:00 PM PDT Cloud Security Alliance talks to El RegInterview Computerised clouds are often similar to their water vapour-based counterparts; they're amorphous in the middle, and often fluffy around the edges. That can spell problems for IT departments when securing their private clouds, and for public cloud providers when locking down theirs.… |
| Digital Realty Trust adds Melbourne Posted: 06 Sep 2011 06:30 PM PDT More cloud dollars for AustraliaDigital Realty Trust, which recently set up shop in Australia launching work on a Sydney data centre, has added a Melbourne site to its holdings.… |
| Korean antitrust agency raids Google over Android Posted: 06 Sep 2011 05:34 PM PDT Claims top dog eats competitionSouth Korean regulators have reportedly raided the local offices of Google as part of an ongoing investigation into claimed anti-competitive practices by the search giant.… |
| On-chip photonics snares Eureka prize Posted: 06 Sep 2011 05:30 PM PDT Oz science's night of nightsExcuse me for focusing on those parts of Australia's Eureka Prize that I'm more familiar with: there are 26 individual prizes covering pretty much every discipline.… |
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