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- Curtin Uni inks instrument contract for WA radiotelescope
- OpenBSD 5.0 reveals <i>MAD</i>-themed release
- Adobe buys Auditude
- AT&T to offer first LTE phones this Sunday
- Critical Windows zero-day bug exploited by Duqu
- Bill Gates strangled Microsoft's 'tablet for creatives'
- Samsung demands iPhone 4S source code in Aussie row
- Chinese orbital docking starts long march to space station
- Biden: The internet ain't broke, let's not fix it
- Activision banned me from Call of Duty gig, says exotic performer
- Asian countries now dominate global spam deluge
- The Silicon Valley mirror-tocracy
- Native Gmail app coming to iPhone, iPad?
- Open Rights Group denies Netflix is coming to the UK
- HP Project Moonshot hurls ARM servers into the heavens
- Calxeda hurls EnergyCore ARM at server chip Goliaths
- Cameron loves net freedom – as long as no one's rioting
- Chip sales shrink a bit in September
- Miley Cyrus hacker let off with probation
- Battlefield 3 is EA's fastest selling videogame. Ever
- Nokia sets release date for Lumia 800
- Hyperscale networks need holistic management
- Yahoo! beds! down! with! cookie! sniffing! Interclick!
- Facebook, Twitter just tools in Arab Spring
- Google explains 'why' ads target a user's Gmail
- £2.8m bank Trojan slurp ringleaders jailed
- Cops should help us slay trolls, says Facebook wonk
- French nuke biz slapped in mystery cyberattack
- Why can't civil servants keep a grip on their BlackBerrys?
- Netflix, Amazon ink video streaming deals with Disney
- Lovely ‘leccy car breaks out of Oz
- The data boom and bust cycle
- Ofcom tarts up telco report with pretty coverage maps
- Battlefield 3
- How websites use your browser to sell you for cash
- Activists tell gov to shove its net censorship plans
- Hague: Web risks turning into city of ghettos
- Blogger freaks after airport lackey fondles checked-in vibrator
- ITU showcases protoboffins, hands them £6k each
- Flooded fabs to ship 48m fewer disks in Q4
- Seagate flings twirling terabyte platters at world
- HTC Sensation XL hip-hops onto UK shelves
- Archiving and the cloud
- Canada founded on 'relentless pursuit of beaver'
- Fasthosts downed by dicky Dell switch
- Half of Britain now owns a smartphone
- Don't lose sleep over cloud crypto hole, says Amazon
- Too many states are crushing net rights, says Foreign Sec
- Android voice assistant shootout
- Darth Vader mounts defence of doomed empire
| Curtin Uni inks instrument contract for WA radiotelescope Posted: 01 Nov 2011 03:00 PM PDT Poseidon Scientific to build kit for Murchison arrayCurtin University has awarded a $AU1.3 million contract to Fremantle-based Poseidon Scientific Instruments to supply electronics packages for the Murchison Wide-field Array telescope.… |
| OpenBSD 5.0 reveals <i>MAD</i>-themed release Posted: 01 Nov 2011 02:58 PM PDT What hath Alfred E. Neuman wrought?The OpenBSD Foundation has released version 5.0 of the popular operating system and has made it available for download – or for purchase via CD if you want the bonus party pack.… |
| Posted: 01 Nov 2011 02:27 PM PDT Acquisition strategy increasingly GooglesqueAdobe continues to spend up expanding its advertising business with the acquisition of Auditude, an online video ad management platform.… |
| AT&T to offer first LTE phones this Sunday Posted: 01 Nov 2011 02:04 PM PDT HTC and Samsung get the nodAT&T has announced that the first two phones for its nascent LTE network – the HTC Vivid and the verbosely monikered Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket – will be available this Sunday, November 6.… |
| Critical Windows zero-day bug exploited by Duqu Posted: 01 Nov 2011 01:15 PM PDT Trojan used booby-trapped Word file to spreadThe Duqu malware used to steal sensitive data from manufacturers of industrial systems exploits at least one previously unknown vulnerability in the kernel of Microsoft Windows, Hungarian researchers said.… |
| Bill Gates strangled Microsoft's 'tablet for creatives' Posted: 01 Nov 2011 01:10 PM PDT Windows, Office cannibalization concerns killed the CourierNew details have emerged about who, why, and how Microsoft killed off its Courier dual-display tablet 18 months ago. The simple answers: Bill Gates, Windows, and abruptly.… |
| Samsung demands iPhone 4S source code in Aussie row Posted: 01 Nov 2011 01:05 PM PDT Yes, but what has France to say?Samsung is demanding the source code of the iPhone 4S firmware, while Apple wants copies of Samsung's contract with Qualcomm and both companies are looking to France in their Australian case.… |
| Chinese orbital docking starts long march to space station Posted: 01 Nov 2011 11:43 AM PDT US commie hunt jumpstarted taikonaut takeoffChina has successfully launched an unmanned capsule into orbit and is beginning to maneuver it into place for the nation's first orbital docking.… |
| Biden: The internet ain't broke, let's not fix it Posted: 01 Nov 2011 11:29 AM PDT US rejects calls for 'national barriers on information'LCC US Vice President Joe Biden has made it clear that America is not interested in the sort of global internet rules that China and Russia have been calling for.… |
| Activision banned me from Call of Duty gig, says exotic performer Posted: 01 Nov 2011 11:25 AM PDT 'She appears in WHAT kind of films?!?!'Dutch adult entertainment star and - apparently - avid gamer Kim Holland was uninvited from a VIP Call of Duty bash after Activision discovered what she does for a living.… |
| Asian countries now dominate global spam deluge Posted: 01 Nov 2011 10:58 AM PDT Dirty Dozen rankings acquire eastern flavourAsian countries collectively relayed more than half (50.1 per cent) of the world's spam last quarter.… |
| The Silicon Valley mirror-tocracy Posted: 01 Nov 2011 10:41 AM PDT Are these startups relevant to anyone outside the bubble?Open ... And Shut In the latest round of Silicon Valley navel-gazing, CNN's recent airing of Black in America gets technology prophet and pundit Michael Arrington on the record as not "know[ing] a single black entrepreneur."… |
| Native Gmail app coming to iPhone, iPad? Posted: 01 Nov 2011 10:27 AM PDT Android advantage may soon be underminedThe word on the street is that a Gmail app for iOS is about to hit Apple's App Store. If true, not only would iPhone and iPad Gmailers benefit, but Android device makers would lose one of their advantages over Apple's iDevices.… |
| Open Rights Group denies Netflix is coming to the UK Posted: 01 Nov 2011 10:21 AM PDT Company itself begs to differ with Citizen JimParliament's Business Select Committee heard some interesting news today, as they mulled the Hargreaves Report's recommendations. Executive director of the Open Rights Group Jim Killock told MPs that the UK's copyright laws were deterring investors and new businesses. Alas, he could have picked a better example.… |
| HP Project Moonshot hurls ARM servers into the heavens Posted: 01 Nov 2011 10:01 AM PDT Redstone clusters launch Calxeda chipsHewlett-Packard might have been wrestling with a lot of issues as CEOs and their strategies come and go, but the company's server gurus know a potentially explosive business opportunity when they see it.… |
| Calxeda hurls EnergyCore ARM at server chip Goliaths Posted: 01 Nov 2011 09:45 AM PDT Another David takes aim at Xeon, OpteronCalxeda, formerly known as Smooth-Stone in reference to the river rock that the mythical David used in his sling to slay Goliath, doesn't think the server racket can wait for the 64-bit ARMv8 architecture (announced late last week) to be designed and tested in the next few years.… |
| Cameron loves net freedom – as long as no one's rioting Posted: 01 Nov 2011 09:29 AM PDT 'Gov doesn't own, run or shape the internet'LCC UK Prime Minister David Cameron has insisted that government "doesn't own the internet, run the internet or shape the internet", despite having said that he was considering shutting down social media during the London riots.… |
| Chip sales shrink a bit in September Posted: 01 Nov 2011 09:14 AM PDT Japan recovering, Thailand an unknownThe semiconductor supply chain is bracing for impacts from the flooding in Thailand, but sales were good through the end of September, according to statistics compiled by the Semiconductor Industry Association. Global semiconductor sales hit $25.8bn, up 2.7 per cent sequentially from August. That's the positive spin. The negative spin is that on a year-on-year basis, the SIA reckons that chip sales slipped 1.7 per cent.… |
| Miley Cyrus hacker let off with probation Posted: 01 Nov 2011 09:03 AM PDT TrainReq spared after ratting out former hacking cohortsJosh Holly, the self-confessed Miley Cyrus hacker, has avoided jail for unrelated computer crimes, receiving three years' probation at a sentencing hearing on Monday.… |
| Battlefield 3 is EA's fastest selling videogame. Ever Posted: 01 Nov 2011 08:52 AM PDT Server issues continue, thoughBattlefield 3 has become the fastest-selling videogame in EA's history, with ten million units leaving the publisher's distribution centres since last week's release. Half of those were picked up by gamers in the space of a few days.… |
| Nokia sets release date for Lumia 800 Posted: 01 Nov 2011 08:46 AM PDT Mango here we comeNokia's Lumia 800 has been given an official launch date here the UK, with punters able to pick one up from 16 November.… |
| Hyperscale networks need holistic management Posted: 01 Nov 2011 08:44 AM PDT End-to-end services for virtual machinesIf large-scale storage networks were managed in the same way as city road traffic systems the result would be catastrophic, with traffic jams, delayed delivery and lost messages. Network Fabric management, unlike road traffic management systems, has both real-time traffic management and an end-to-end view to find faults fast and fix them.… |
| Yahoo! beds! down! with! cookie! sniffing! Interclick! Posted: 01 Nov 2011 08:33 AM PDT Smell my cheese, er, moneyYahoo! is buying advertising network Interclick, which is best known in these pages, at least, for winning a lawsuit brought against its cookie respawning and history sniffing techniques.… |
| Facebook, Twitter just tools in Arab Spring Posted: 01 Nov 2011 08:18 AM PDT Yemeni activist: We quite like radio and SMS, actuallyLCC Twitter and Facebook didn't start the revolutions in the Middle East, but they did accelerate them, according to Yemeni activist Atiaf Alwazir.… |
| Google explains 'why' ads target a user's Gmail Posted: 01 Nov 2011 07:42 AM PDT How our bots drill into your ONLINE BRAINGoogle has begun telling users of its Gmail service exactly why it is serving up specific ads that creepily refer to the content detailed in individual email correspondence.… |
| £2.8m bank Trojan slurp ringleaders jailed Posted: 01 Nov 2011 07:29 AM PDT Scotland Yard, Feds nab malware-armed raidersThe two ringleaders of a gang that siphoned more than £2.8m from bank accounts were jailed on Monday following an investigation by the Met's Central E-Crime Unit (PCeU).… |
| Cops should help us slay trolls, says Facebook wonk Posted: 01 Nov 2011 07:16 AM PDT But wait, there's a real crime happening over thereLCC Police forces need to be better equipped to deal cybercrime and online misbehaviour, a couple of web grandees have declared.… |
| French nuke biz slapped in mystery cyberattack Posted: 01 Nov 2011 07:01 AM PDT Blame |
| Why can't civil servants keep a grip on their BlackBerrys? Posted: 01 Nov 2011 06:46 AM PDT MPs told mandarins let RIM kit slipButter-fingered civil servants are continuing to hurl away their personal tech devices, figures released to the House of Commons yesterday show, with BlackBerrys particularly prone to going walkies.… |
| Netflix, Amazon ink video streaming deals with Disney Posted: 01 Nov 2011 06:34 AM PDT Interwebulator Walt beams up 'money for old rope' lineNetflix and Amazon have extended existing content deals with Walt Disney Company in a clear sign that the meeja world wants online video streaming to become big business Stateside and, presumably, beyond.… |
| Lovely ‘leccy car breaks out of Oz Posted: 01 Nov 2011 06:28 AM PDT Move over Tesla?It's the kind of thing that a conference organiser dreams about: a product launch that goes around the world. That's what last week's Electric Vehicle Conference in Brisbane got when a local collaboration launched an Australian-built e-sportster.… |
| Posted: 01 Nov 2011 06:24 AM PDT Don't buy more, manage it betterBroadcast More data more often than not means more disks. It was ever thus - but in these cash-strapped times, just buying more kit is no longer an option. But is it really that easy to stop the growth/spend cycle and make what you've already got work harder? Could you solve everything by throwing a bit of elastic cloud storage into the mix, or does that just move the problem?… |
| Ofcom tarts up telco report with pretty coverage maps Posted: 01 Nov 2011 06:12 AM PDT All show, but where's the detail?Ofcom has published the first of its triennial reports on the UK's communications infrastructure, but more importantly there are pretty maps too.… |
| Posted: 01 Nov 2011 06:03 AM PDT Bangers and crashReview Even the staunchest opponent of all things games would have been hard pushed to avoid the determined advertising campaign waged on us by EA of late. TV spots, billboards, websites, magazines, sides of buses, newspapers, even logos on tanks in one recent London stunt, all liberally displaying brand Battlefield.… |
| How websites use your browser to sell you for cash Posted: 01 Nov 2011 06:00 AM PDT We (reluctantly) tell you how to avoid being productPart 1 It has been a year since I have talked about securing browsers against privacy invasion. In that time, things have got worse, not better. In addition to the threat of malware and malicious scripts, we have the frightening new evercookie.… |
| Activists tell gov to shove its net censorship plans Posted: 01 Nov 2011 05:52 AM PDT Hands off our smut and private partsLCC As various bods gather in London for a conference on cyber-security, leading online rights campaigners have penned a letter to Foreign Secretary William Hague urging the government to maintain freedom and privacy while promoting security.… |
| Hague: Web risks turning into city of ghettos Posted: 01 Nov 2011 05:41 AM PDT UK seeks net protection pact from biz and govtsLCC The UK seems to be hoping for some sort of lasting agreement from its gathering of governments and businesses at the London Conference on Cyberspace (LCC).… |
| Blogger freaks after airport lackey fondles checked-in vibrator Posted: 01 Nov 2011 05:31 AM PDT TSA forced to perform 'removal action' on employeeAir travellers in the US can rest easy that they can happily pack sex toys in their luggage after the Transportation Safety Administration began a "removal" action on an errant employee.… |
| ITU showcases protoboffins, hands them £6k each Posted: 01 Nov 2011 05:22 AM PDT 'Children are the youth of tomorrow'*ITU Telecom World The ITU's Youth Challenge flew 45 young people to Geneva to pitch their innovative ideas, with six of them pocketing around £6,000 each to develop those ideas into products.… |
| Flooded fabs to ship 48m fewer disks in Q4 Posted: 01 Nov 2011 05:11 AM PDT Camera and car makers also capsizedDisk drive shipments are set to plummet by nearly 28 per cent in Q4 – 48 million fewer units than a year ago – in the wake of the devastating flooding in Thailand, says beancounter iSuppli.… |
| Seagate flings twirling terabyte platters at world Posted: 01 Nov 2011 05:01 AM PDT Floods won't halt Barracuda refresh, we're toldAll change on the Barracuda front: despite the disastrous floods in Thailand, Seagate will ship its terabyte-per-platter Barracuda desktop drives this month. At the same time it's phasing out its slower rotating Barracuda Green drives and says it will transition the Barracuda XT to hybrid flash and hard disk technology.… |
| HTC Sensation XL hip-hops onto UK shelves Posted: 01 Nov 2011 04:54 AM PDT Big Beats for BlightyHTC's supersize Sensation has landed in Three stores across the UK today.… |
| Posted: 01 Nov 2011 04:53 AM PDT SNIA works up some best practicesDeep dive Cloud is everywhere. Every day we read news about new cloud applications and new cloud providers. But will it really solve all our problems?… |
| Canada founded on 'relentless pursuit of beaver' Posted: 01 Nov 2011 04:44 AM PDT Determined pioneers pursued warm and furry preyA Canadian politician has rather deliciously insisted that vast tracts of his nation were opened by "the relentless pursuit of beaver", an agreeable concept that for some reason conjures an image of Silvio Berlusconi furiously paddling a kayak through white water rapids in pursuit of a fleeing supermodel.… |
| Fasthosts downed by dicky Dell switch Posted: 01 Nov 2011 04:37 AM PDT UK website hosting cluster rocked by outageA number of websites were taken offline yesterday, and remained down this morning, after a load of servers run by Gloucester-based hosters Fasthosts fell over. Services on the hosting side are back up now, but the outage provoked angry responses.… |
| Half of Britain now owns a smartphone Posted: 01 Nov 2011 04:33 AM PDT Android in the hands of a quarter of the populationAlmost half of the UK population now owns a smartphone, and Google's OS, Android, is leading the race.… |
| Don't lose sleep over cloud crypto hole, says Amazon Posted: 01 Nov 2011 04:21 AM PDT Virtually insignificantAmazon has played down the significance of a recently discovered vulnerability affecting its flagship Amazon Web Services cloud computing platform.… |
| Too many states are crushing net rights, says Foreign Sec Posted: 01 Nov 2011 04:12 AM PDT Hague not vague on need for uncensored webLCC Too many countries are interfering in their citizens' right to internet freedom, the Foreign Secretary told the London Conference on Cyberspace (LCC).… |
| Android voice assistant shootout Posted: 01 Nov 2011 04:00 AM PDT Battle of the Siri substitutesAndroid App of the Week Special In the absence of anything shiny, the hoi polloi and the media focused on Siri as the The Big Idea at the iPhone 4S launch. Android has supported basic voice commands for ages, but there are now a number of Siri-wannabes in the Market. But are they of any use other than as a bit of mild amusement?… |
| Darth Vader mounts defence of doomed empire Posted: 01 Nov 2011 03:43 AM PDT 'We shall double our efforts,' gasp worried Dixons staffDixons Retail is turning to the dark side this Christmas by hiring jackbooted camp war mongerer Darth Vader to star in a marketing campaign.… |
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