AT&T's megablunder payout revealed |
- AT&T's megablunder payout revealed
- NewSat seeks $AU36m to get into orbit
- X-Men Origins: Wolverine pirate caged
- Alcatel-Lucent's Malaysian slap over
- AMD speed-bumps, unlocks chips for desktop, notebook
- IBM: 'Your PC will read your mind by 2016'
- Chip sales flat in 2011, will grow (a wee bit) in 2012
- Software bug fingered as cause of Aussie A330 plunge
- HP woos IT shops with leasing deals
- Tempt tech talent without Googlesque mega perks
- Apple gobbles iPhone, iPad flash chip baker
- Anti-piracy laws will smash internet, US constitution - legal eagles
- Google needs a very thorough frisking, say antitrust senators
- HP also jacking up disk prices in Thai flood wake
- Seagate sucks hard disk biz from Samsung
- Deutsche Telekom: 'FCC, DoJ didn't give AT&T deal a chance'
- TalkTalk, 3UK scratched off Ofcom's Xmas card list
- Mobiles forced to send premium-rate texts in new attack
- BT, Scotland Yard form copper theft crackdown supersquad
- 2011's Best... compact cameras
- Three more 'nauts prepare for space station housewarming
- EMC hikes drive prices, blames Thai flood tragedy
- Five firms to create HD-centric DRM for SD cards
- LOHAN fires up sizzling thruster
- Netflix UK to stream BBC shows
- Shareholders rage over Imation's incredible 88% plunge
- Five... friendly, free Android apps
- Sky follows BT in blocking Newzbin2
- Public bodies told: Swapping data feels good, but you must be <i>careful</i>
- Atari and Square Enix cough to exposing users' privates
- CA handles La Perla's substantial assets
- Nissan Leaf battery powered electric car
- Apple wins skirmish in HTC-Google patent war
- Red Hat grabs gobs o' green in Q3
| AT&T's megablunder payout revealed Posted: 20 Dec 2011 03:02 PM PST Cash? Here's $3bn. Spectrum? Bunches. Roaming? Sure!Details of AT&T's "we screwed the pooch" payout to Deutsche Telekom over the failed T-Mobile USA acquisition have emerged, and right ... about ... now ... AT&T chairman and CEO Randall Stephenson should be barricading himself in his corner office as pitchfork-brandishing shareholders demand his head on a platter.… |
| NewSat seeks $AU36m to get into orbit Posted: 20 Dec 2011 03:00 PM PST Suppliers turn in the pressureAustralian satellite communications company NewSat is raising $AU36 million to help accelerate its pending satellite launch, pay suppliers and strengthen its balance sheet.… |
| X-Men Origins: Wolverine pirate caged Posted: 20 Dec 2011 02:30 PM PST How much for a movie that isn't a howler?A Bronx man found guilty of uploading a copy of X-Men Origins: Wolverine to a file-sharing service has been sentenced to a year in federal prison and another year of supervised release.… |
| Alcatel-Lucent's Malaysian slap over Posted: 20 Dec 2011 01:54 PM PST Carriers lift suspension on vendor activitiesMalaysian operators Axiata Group and Telekom Malaysia have lifted a year-long operating suspension on Alcatel-Lucent.… |
| AMD speed-bumps, unlocks chips for desktop, notebook Posted: 20 Dec 2011 12:55 PM PST 'APUs' also get home-video stabilization techAMD has speed-bumped its A-Series APUs for desktops and notebooks, added an update to its AMD Steady Video tech, and for the first time made a pair of its CPU-GPU mashups overclockable.… |
| IBM: 'Your PC will read your mind by 2016' Posted: 20 Dec 2011 11:57 AM PST Predicts the passing of passwords, junking of junk mail, more...IBM has released its annual predictions for the future of technology, and this year's batch includes biometric security, replacing mice with brain sensors, and an end to the "digital divide" between those online and off.… |
| Chip sales flat in 2011, will grow (a wee bit) in 2012 Posted: 20 Dec 2011 11:29 AM PST Weighed down by disk shortages, economic jittersThe prognosticators at Gartner have ranked the chip makers of the world by 2011 revenue and are calling the market for 2012, with a reasonably upbeat forecast for next year's chip sales, but – paradoxically – a dreadful forecast for companies that make the gear to bake the chips.… |
| Software bug fingered as cause of Aussie A330 plunge Posted: 20 Dec 2011 10:02 AM PST The problem was fixed by turning the unit off and then on againThe final report into the 2008 Qantas flight QF72, which unexpectedly dived twice during a routine flight, has blamed a combination of software and hardware errors for the incident.… |
| HP woos IT shops with leasing deals Posted: 20 Dec 2011 09:11 AM PST Looking to boost fiscal Q1 salesHewlett-Packard has a new CEO in Meg Whitman, but it has the same fiscal year that ends in October and the same mis-match between its own quarters and those of the bulk of the companies in the world who buy its IT wares. Its major buyers all end their fiscal years in December. What's an IT vendor to do to bump up revenues? Provide generous financing and buy some time as well as pump up hardware sales.… |
| Tempt tech talent without Googlesque mega perks Posted: 20 Dec 2011 08:32 AM PST Think global, hire localOpen ... and Shut Forget Silicon Valley's talent shortage. The real tech talent wars are being waged beyond the spiritual home of high-tech - and everyone is losing. In fact, the greatest threat to the adoption of industry-changing technologies like Hadoop and Node.js may well be the dearth of talent capable of deploying them effectively.… |
| Apple gobbles iPhone, iPad flash chip baker Posted: 20 Dec 2011 08:02 AM PST |
| Anti-piracy laws will smash internet, US constitution - legal eagles Posted: 20 Dec 2011 07:32 AM PST Three wise profs warn of looming DNS disasterLegal experts are warning that the proposed PROTECT IP and the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) legislation, currently working their way through Congress, will damage the world's DNS system, cripple attempts to get better online security and violate free speech rights in the US constitution.… |
| Google needs a very thorough frisking, say antitrust senators Posted: 20 Dec 2011 07:01 AM PST FTC told search biz's dominance raises questionsThe Federal Trade Commission has been urged by two concerned US lawmakers to investigate Google's search business practices more thoroughly.… |
| HP also jacking up disk prices in Thai flood wake Posted: 20 Dec 2011 06:34 AM PST It beat EMC to the hikeWe thought EMC was the first major enterprise supplier to raise disk drive prices after the Thailand floods. Not so. HP sent out a letter - pictured here - last month saying it was being forced to increase prices as a result of the hard drive shortage caused by the deadly floods in Thailand. Many of the country's disk assembling factories were inundated or destroyed by the rising waters, forcing up prices as the number of drives shipped in the last quarter fell well below expected targets.… |
| Seagate sucks hard disk biz from Samsung Posted: 20 Dec 2011 06:01 AM PST Loved-up pair's pillow talk turns to enterprise storageIt's done: Seagate has completed the transaction to acquire Samsung's hard disk drive business. Now it has to do the grunt work of integrating the two product lines.… |
| Deutsche Telekom: 'FCC, DoJ didn't give AT&T deal a chance' Posted: 20 Dec 2011 05:38 AM PST Tried to flog T-Mobile USA and all it got was this lousy $3bn chequeDeutsche Telekom, parent of T-Mobile USA, has hit out at US regulators over the collapse of its merger deal with AT&T in the US.… |
| TalkTalk, 3UK scratched off Ofcom's Xmas card list Posted: 20 Dec 2011 05:21 AM PST Telcos are most complained about everIt's official: TalkTalk and 3UK had more complaints than any other Blighty-based telcos since communications' regulator Ofcom started publishing its league table displaying the good, the bad and the downright ugly.… |
| Mobiles forced to send premium-rate texts in new attack Posted: 20 Dec 2011 05:02 AM PST Hacker hijacks SMS error message flawCybercrooks may be able to force mobiles to send premium-rate SMS messages or prevent them from receiving messages due to security weaknesses in mobile telecoms standards.… |
| BT, Scotland Yard form copper theft crackdown supersquad Posted: 20 Dec 2011 04:18 AM PST A lot of fibre is mangled by metal pilferers, you knowBT is working with Scotland Yard in an effort to crack down on metal theft, which the Met said costs taxpayers £700m per year - not to mention the misery when power and telecoms cabling is nicked.… |
| 2011's Best... compact cameras Posted: 20 Dec 2011 04:00 AM PST Hot shotsXmas Gift Guide 2011 was the year when compact system cameras (CSC) really began to hit their stride. Late to this year's party were the Nikon 1 J1 and V1 models, but we're still waiting to on Canon to show its hand in this arena. More to the point, Canon has yet to deliver a successor to its revered PowerShot G12 which is showing its age now. A PowerShot Gx is rumoured, but we'll not be seeing it this year, for sure.… |
| Three more 'nauts prepare for space station housewarming Posted: 20 Dec 2011 03:42 AM PST Crew blasts off tomorrow in time for weightless XmasThe second half of the International Space Station's Expedition 30 crew is getting ready to blast off tomorrow to dock with the station in time for Christmas.… |
| EMC hikes drive prices, blames Thai flood tragedy Posted: 20 Dec 2011 03:22 AM PST Others big storage array and server suppliers may followEl Reg has been sent a copy of a letter from EMC to its Velocity channel partners saying disk drive prices will rise 5 to 15 per cent from 1 January, 2012.… |
| Five firms to create HD-centric DRM for SD cards Posted: 20 Dec 2011 03:07 AM PST Format shifting without resort to the torrents?Panasonic, Samsung, SanDisk, Sony and Toshiba are to develop a better DRM for memory cards.… |
| LOHAN fires up sizzling thruster Posted: 20 Dec 2011 03:01 AM PST First test of Vulture 2 powerplantVideo Things are moving apace at the Low Orbit Helium Assisted Navigator (LOHAN) headquarters, and last weekend we did a first test firing of the proposed powerplanet for the Vulture 2 spaceplane.… |
| Netflix UK to stream BBC shows Posted: 20 Dec 2011 02:44 AM PST Doctor Who, Top Gear, Fawlty Towers and moreNetflix's UK content roster continues to grow. Today it said it had licensed a stack of BBC shows including Doctor Who and Top Gear.… |
| Shareholders rage over Imation's incredible 88% plunge Posted: 20 Dec 2011 02:25 AM PST How the leading disc and flash maker came a cropperHow do you build a $226m company? Start with a $2bn one. This joke could apply to Imation, which could go the way of Kodak and turn shareholder value into dross, because its management, facing declining sales of old technology, is late to respond and now buying bum companies with crappy prospects.… |
| Five... friendly, free Android apps Posted: 20 Dec 2011 02:00 AM PST Simple utilities you shouldn't be withoutAndroid App of the Week Each too simple to warrant a full App of the Week write-up, these five dinky free programs caught my eye over during the past 12 months and have since taken up permanent residence on my Desire HD.… |
| Sky follows BT in blocking Newzbin2 Posted: 20 Dec 2011 01:42 AM PST ISP blocked access last week after UK court orderThe internet service provider Sky cut off access to Newzbin2 last week following a court order. It is the second UK ISP to block Newzbin2 after a High Court ruling earlier this year forced BT to deploy filtering technology to prevent its customers accessing the site.… |
| Public bodies told: Swapping data feels good, but you must be <i>careful</i> Posted: 20 Dec 2011 01:22 AM PST Eurim gives cautious welcome to EU plansSharing data on public services could have serious consequences unless the material has been valued, maintained and protected and the original reasons for its collection have been taken into account, the Information Society Alliance (Eurim), has warned.… |
| Atari and Square Enix cough to exposing users' privates Posted: 20 Dec 2011 12:59 AM PST Gaming security still suxAtari has apologised to gamers following a security breach that exposed their names and email addresses, leaving users at heightened risk of spam as a result.… |
| CA handles La Perla's substantial assets Posted: 20 Dec 2011 12:01 AM PST ARCserve backing up bra serversLuxury Italian undies biz La Perla is protecting its data assets from a tits-up by using CA's ARCserve backup software.… |
| Nissan Leaf battery powered electric car Posted: 19 Dec 2011 11:00 PM PST Yes, you can live with an e-car. We haveReview Spending a couple of hours at the wheel of a new car at a press event is all well and good, but to really get under a vehicle's skin you need to live with the thing on a day-to-day basis. This is especially true of one with an alternative drive train.… |
| Apple wins skirmish in HTC-Google patent war Posted: 19 Dec 2011 05:09 PM PST One part of one patent bans import of Android phones (maybe)The US International Trade Commission has handed Apple a victory in its patent dispute with Android-phonemaker HTC, banning the Taiwanese company's infringing phones from importation into the US. The full impact of the victory's implications, however, remains to be seen.… |
| Red Hat grabs gobs o' green in Q3 Posted: 19 Dec 2011 03:44 PM PST Ho-ho-hopen sourceLinux operating system and middleware software distributor Red Hat continues to power through its fiscal quarters, even while the European economy is choppy and several key industries – government and financial services being two important ones – are under pressure.… |
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