Does your smartphone run Carrier IQ? Find out here |
- Does your smartphone run Carrier IQ? Find out here
- Cudo still dealing daily to Kiwis
- Copyright Act could defang infringement notices: iiNet
- Chrome passes Firefox in global browser share
- Adobe takes on Efficient Frontiers
- Apple files avatar automation, emotion patents
- Boffin's bot spots red light jumpers before they kill
- US Senator demands answers from Carrier IQ
- IBM, Micron tag team on 3D memory breakthrough
- AT&T hits back: 'T-Mobile USA merger will be great, actually'
- More than $60bn spunked on cyber-security in 2011
- Toads predict earthquakes: Official
- Lord British: games consoles 'fundamentally doomed'
- Ranting Iranian TV fined £100k for shoddy interview
- ICO 'too scared' to clobber press for data breaches
- Assange: 'iPhone, BlackBerry, Gmail users - you're all screwed'
- Smartphone-shot movie guns for cinema release
- Parallels bags Microsoft .NET brainiac to float clouds
- Zynga lowers valuation to a bargain $10bn
- Alibaba! and! friends! offer! to! swallow! Yahoo! whole!
- Geek seeks cash for Top Trumps-style CPU game
- Vodafone Android app babysits lazy parents' kids
- Northern Ireland's top cops 'hacked by <i>NotW</i>' - new claim
- iPhone 4S owners love Siri, hate the battery life
- Clandestine US 'space warplane' extends orbital mission
- Nokia is past its best-by date, warns analyst
- Lovefilm dumps Flash, BLINDS Linux fans with Silverlight
- Tesco: buy a DVD, get the download free
- Apple: Siri isn't anti-abortion
- HTC Sensation XE
- Samsung, Google release Galaxy Nexus bug fix
- Christmas gamma burst stupendo-explosion DEATHMATCH
- Kepler spots Earth-sized exoplanet ideal for barbecues
- Official: Lenovo adopts Windows Phone
- Crack GCHQ's code and become the next James Bond
- Skyrim update makes dragons FLY BACKWARDS
- National Air Traffic Services lands desktop virtualisation
- Inside the shadow world of commercialised spook spyware
- BUSTED TWO: Carrier IQ monitor-ware on iPhones too?
- STEC thrusts fat solid disk with godlike stamina
- 08 Wizard
- Printed-out dissolving bones, teeth work well in rats
- Fuel taxes don't hurt the world's poor - they don't have cars
- DWP cuts spending with top IT supplier HP by 4%
- Technology v support: Amazon's premium challenge
- Letting GPUs run free
- Viewsonic PLED W500 portable projector
- Barnes & Noble hires Microsoft’s legal nemesis
- Duqu attackers: master coders, Linux rookies
- Ciena picks up AAPT network build
| Does your smartphone run Carrier IQ? Find out here Posted: 01 Dec 2011 02:56 PM PST Apple, AT&T, Sprint confirm; Nokia, RIM, Verizon denyThe roster of confirmed smartphone manufacturers and network providers using the controversial Carrier IQ tracking software has grown to include Apple, AT&T, Sprint, HTC, and Samsung. Verizon, Nokia, and Research in Motion, meanwhile, have denied reports saying they employ it.… |
| Cudo still dealing daily to Kiwis Posted: 01 Dec 2011 02:30 PM PST Not ready to pull out of NZ yetAustralian group buying site Cudo has poured cold water on claims that its operation across the Tasman is in peril.… |
| Copyright Act could defang infringement notices: iiNet Posted: 01 Dec 2011 02:00 PM PST Day two of the 'iiTrial' in the High CourtYesterday's proceedings in the ongoing "iiTrial" High Court appeal turned up an interesting problem in the copyright holders' wish to turn ISPs into their enforcers: a savvy and funded user group could use Australia's copyright law to prevent ISPs from issuing notices against them.… |
| Chrome passes Firefox in global browser share Posted: 01 Dec 2011 01:41 PM PST Google has gaggle of South American fansThe latest data from internet-monitoring firm StatCounter shows that Chrome overtook Firefox in November as the world's second-favorite web browser. Number one? Still Internet Explorer.… |
| Adobe takes on Efficient Frontiers Posted: 01 Dec 2011 01:37 PM PST Suits up for Google battleAdobe is building up its anti-Google fire power with the inclusion of advertising services outfit Efficient Frontier into its armoury.… |
| Apple files avatar automation, emotion patents Posted: 01 Dec 2011 12:46 PM PST Choose your preferred facial expression for 'FOAD'Apple has applied for a pair of patents that describe creating digital avatars based on photos of a user's face, and then embuing those avatars with changeable elements that users can choose to express different emotions.… |
| Boffin's bot spots red light jumpers before they kill Posted: 01 Dec 2011 11:44 AM PST Predictive code warns of moron motoristsA team at MIT has developed a computer algorithm that claims to predict which cars will run a red light at traffic intersections.… |
| US Senator demands answers from Carrier IQ Posted: 01 Dec 2011 10:15 AM PST Al Franken calls smartphone tracker on the carpetSenator and former late-night funnyman Al Franken has called on Carrier IQ to explain why its diagnostic software, buried in the bowels of 141 million smartphones, isn't a massive violation of US wiretap laws.… |
| IBM, Micron tag team on 3D memory breakthrough Posted: 01 Dec 2011 10:06 AM PST Vertical DRAM juices bandwidth, efficiencyThe Hybrid Memory Cube consortium formed by Samsung Electronics and Micron Technology this October is leveraging IBM Microelectronics' 3D wafer-baking expertise to get HMC memory to market in two years.… |
| AT&T hits back: 'T-Mobile USA merger will be great, actually' Posted: 01 Dec 2011 09:16 AM PST FCC's condemnation of proposed union not fair, says telcoAT&T have hit back at a staff analysis from the FCC slamming its proposed merger with T-Mobile USA, saying the regulator "cherry-picked" facts to support its views.… |
| More than $60bn spunked on cyber-security in 2011 Posted: 01 Dec 2011 08:42 AM PST Investors, defence contractors, tech firms frolic in cash bathGlobal cyber-security spending is on track to exceed $60bn for 2011, according to a study by management consultants PwC.… |
| Toads predict earthquakes: Official Posted: 01 Dec 2011 08:18 AM PST React to positive airborne ions, boffins explainScientists believe they have a plausible explanation for Italian toads' apparent ability to sense the imminent earthquake that struck the city of L'Aquila on 6 April 2009.… |
| Lord British: games consoles 'fundamentally doomed' Posted: 01 Dec 2011 08:10 AM PST Shock claim from respected developerThe creator of the popular Ultima RPG series has forecast that the games console is heading for extinction.… |
| Ranting Iranian TV fined £100k for shoddy interview Posted: 01 Dec 2011 08:02 AM PST Ofcom repeats threat to revoke 'news' channel's licenceDespite ranting for months that it was going to be pulled off the air, Press TV has actually been hit with a fine of £100,000 for shoddy reporting, as expected.… |
| ICO 'too scared' to clobber press for data breaches Posted: 01 Dec 2011 07:42 AM PST Ex-employee: 'I was told media too big for a teeny watchdog'A senior investigator for the Information Commissioner's Office has told the Leveson inquiry he was warned off pursuing the press for data breaches by his bosses.… |
| Assange: 'iPhone, BlackBerry, Gmail users - you're all screwed' Posted: 01 Dec 2011 07:24 AM PST Whistle blown on mass surveillance industrySurveillance companies can use your iPhone to take photos of you and your surroundings without your knowledge, said a representative from the Bureau of Investigative Journalism at a panel chaired by Julian Assange™ today.… |
| Smartphone-shot movie guns for cinema release Posted: 01 Dec 2011 07:05 AM PST Used a Nokia, so gimme the OscarThe majority of films shot on cameraphones end up in YouTube's vaults, lost forever among grainy videos of gigs and scenes of animals doing stupid things. However, if amateur filmmakers took things more seriously, their footage could end up in cinemas across the country.… |
| Parallels bags Microsoft .NET brainiac to float clouds Posted: 01 Dec 2011 06:39 AM PST Mac love not the only fruit worth pickingParallels, the virtualization shop putting Windows desktop apps on Macs, has dipped into Microsoft's brain bank for a new chief technology officer.… |
| Zynga lowers valuation to a bargain $10bn Posted: 01 Dec 2011 06:19 AM PST Virtual bumpkin game maker braces for rocky marketSocial network gaming firm Zynga may seek a lower price than expected for shares in its initial public offering, valuing the company at $10bn.… |
| Alibaba! and! friends! offer! to! swallow! Yahoo! whole! Posted: 01 Dec 2011 06:01 AM PST Group mulls bid of $25bn for the entire companyChina's Alibaba Group is mulling over a total slurp of Yahoo! for about $25bn, along with private equity partners and Japanese mobile carrier Softbank.… |
| Geek seeks cash for Top Trumps-style CPU game Posted: 01 Dec 2011 05:54 AM PST Ha! My Z80A beats your 6502Nowadays, Top Trumps packs are filled with licensed brand tat, but readers keen to re-live the days when TT's decks were full of real stuff, like supercars, jet fighters, locomotives, missiles and such, will be able to do so with a new tech-inspired set, if one Harry Mylonadis gets his way.… |
| Vodafone Android app babysits lazy parents' kids Posted: 01 Dec 2011 05:46 AM PST Won't someone think of the children ... oh, they didVodafone has launched an app to help middle-class parents who've equipped their offspring with Android handsets to control what their ankle-biters see and hear.… |
| Northern Ireland's top cops 'hacked by <i>NotW</i>' - new claim Posted: 01 Dec 2011 05:32 AM PST NI minister's PC also an alleged targetSenior police officers and a Cabinet minister may have been targeted for computer hacking by unscrupulous journalists at News International.… |
| iPhone 4S owners love Siri, hate the battery life Posted: 01 Dec 2011 05:21 AM PST Apps, iCloud - we've heard of 'emApple, do more with Siri but for feck's sake sort out the iPhone 4S' battery life.… |
| Clandestine US 'space warplane' extends orbital mission Posted: 01 Dec 2011 05:16 AM PST Black budget robot carries on its unknown taskThe second of the US Air Force's mysteriously-missioned X-37B spaceplanes is going to continue its clandestine operations in orbit past its intended nine months.… |
| Nokia is past its best-by date, warns analyst Posted: 01 Dec 2011 05:02 AM PST Standard & Poor's: Glory days unlikely to returnNokia shareholders hoping for the golden days to return are waiting in vain, a gloomy prognosis from analyst research from Standard & Poor's concludes. 'Nokia glory days are unlikely to return,' say the analysts.… |
| Lovefilm dumps Flash, BLINDS Linux fans with Silverlight Posted: 01 Dec 2011 04:44 AM PST Tough love when it comes to streaming movies onlineLovefilm has sensationally ditched Flash in favour of Microsoft's Silverlight technology, in a move that snubs Linux users and appeases film studios.… |
| Tesco: buy a DVD, get the download free Posted: 01 Dec 2011 04:31 AM PST No such thing as a free launchBuy a DVD or Blu-ray Disc from Tesco tomorrow, and it will give you free access to the downloadable version hosted by Tesco-owned online movie service Blinkbox.… |
| Apple: Siri isn't anti-abortion Posted: 01 Dec 2011 04:26 AM PST Voice command app accused of hiding clinicsApple is not using its voice search app Siri to save unborn foetuses, a spokeswoman told the New York Times yesterday, flatly denying rumours that the service had a political agenda.… |
| Posted: 01 Dec 2011 04:00 AM PST Android smartphone with Beats Audio bass boosterHTC's original Sensation hit the ground running in the spring, bringing with it a dual-core processor - the first time HTC had used one - and one of the firm's best ever cameras. This new version beefs up the processor and adds Beats Audio technology to improve the sound.… |
| Samsung, Google release Galaxy Nexus bug fix Posted: 01 Dec 2011 03:48 AM PST Update to sort audio drop-outsThe official fix for the Samsung Galaxy Nexus' annoying spontaneous volume drop bug is being beamed out to owners of the Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich smartphone.… |
| Christmas gamma burst stupendo-explosion DEATHMATCH Posted: 01 Dec 2011 03:46 AM PST Festive 2010 burst was fit to herald Gamma Ray JesusDramatic news from the world of astro-boffinry today as two theories go head to head in the quest to explain a cosmic explosion of unparallelled power sighted in the skies last Christmas.… |
| Kepler spots Earth-sized exoplanet ideal for barbecues Posted: 01 Dec 2011 03:43 AM PST Scorching hot world's year is less than three days, tooThe Kepler mission has turned up yet another catch for the exoplanet zoo: a planet with an orbit a little over one-tenth that of our Mercury, that zips around its star in 2.8 Earth days.… |
| Official: Lenovo adopts Windows Phone Posted: 01 Dec 2011 03:40 AM PST MS OS handsets out in 2012Lenovo has confirmed rumours that it plans to enter the Windows Phone business, with handsets due in the latter half of next year.… |
| Crack GCHQ's code and become the next James Bond Posted: 01 Dec 2011 03:23 AM PST Signals snoopers' challenge to wannabe spooksGCHQ has launched a code-breaker challenge as part of its attempts to unearth fresh talent from unconventional sources.… |
| Skyrim update makes dragons FLY BACKWARDS Posted: 01 Dec 2011 03:17 AM PST Magic mishaps, other glitches introduced by bug-fixThe highly anticipated The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim update rolled out this week and while it has fixed a number of known bugs, players are still reporting major setbacks with the game.… |
| National Air Traffic Services lands desktop virtualisation Posted: 01 Dec 2011 03:11 AM PST Head of IS swoops in to explain howInterview You think you have a stressful job? Try Gavin Walker. He's the man in charge of the tech and comms infrastructure (Head of Information Solutions) at NATS, the artist formerly know as National Air Traffic Service Control Services. Yes, the people who know where all the planes are over the Atlantic and the UK.… |
| Inside the shadow world of commercialised spook spyware Posted: 01 Dec 2011 02:52 AM PST 'We'll penetrate commsats, undersea cables, Skype ...'Exclusive Western and Chinese high-tech companies are competing aggressively to sell, install and manage intrusive and dangerous internet surveillance and communications control equipment for the world's most brutal regimes, a six-month investigation has found.… |
| BUSTED TWO: Carrier IQ monitor-ware on iPhones too? Posted: 01 Dec 2011 02:32 AM PST Chpwn finds agent in /usr/binBlogger and iPhone hacker Chpwn believes that the controversial Carrier IQ software isn't confined to Android devices.… |
| STEC thrusts fat solid disk with godlike stamina Posted: 01 Dec 2011 02:17 AM PST Enterprise SSD can keep it up for longerSTEC has launched a super long-life SSD capable of having 33PB written to it over a five-year period.… |
| Posted: 01 Dec 2011 02:00 AM PST Cut the cost of premium-rate callsiOS App of the Week I'd heard about apps and programs that could be used to look up alternatives to premium-rate 08 numbers, but had never really bothered with them before as – apart from my bank – I didn't really think that I made all that many calls to premium numbers.… |
| Printed-out dissolving bones, teeth work well in rats Posted: 01 Dec 2011 01:37 AM PST Ready for slotting into people in a decade, seeminglyScientists have developed a way to make bones and teeth using an inkjet printer. The printed bones are doing well in rats and rabbits and the engineering team at the Washington State University predict that their bony print-outs could be in mainstream use in human medicine in as little as 10 years.… |
| Fuel taxes don't hurt the world's poor - they don't have cars Posted: 01 Dec 2011 01:19 AM PST Only bad for poor people in rich countriesPeople with lots of cash in their pockets are much harder hit by a hike in petrol taxes then those living in poorer countries, a professor of environmental economics and his team of international researchers have argued.… |
| DWP cuts spending with top IT supplier HP by 4% Posted: 01 Dec 2011 01:01 AM PST Supplier only netted paltry £629.4mThe Department for Work and Pensions has cut spending in 2010-11 with HP and BT, but increased it with Atos Origin.… |
| Technology v support: Amazon's premium challenge Posted: 01 Dec 2011 12:31 AM PST Good enough is the bottom lineIn order to compete in the public cloud with the Amazon juggernaut, rivals like Rackspace and Alcatel-Lucent are turning to value-added services to try to turn commoditised cloud computing into premium offerings.… |
| Posted: 01 Dec 2011 12:02 AM PST No single system silo = big step forwardBlog One of the most interesting things I saw at SC11 was a joint Mellanox and University of Valencia demonstration of rCUDA over Infiniband. With rCUDA, applications can access a GPU (or multiple GPUs) on any other node in the cluster. It makes GPUs a sharable resource and is a big step towards making them as virtualisable (I don't think that's a word, but going to go with it anyway) as any other compute resource.… |
| Viewsonic PLED W500 portable projector Posted: 30 Nov 2011 11:00 PM PST Travelling lightReview Some pieces of kit take a long time to review. Particularly if they're very nice pieces of kit that you're reluctant to return to the PR agency. The Viewsonic PLED-W500 is just such a piece of kit.… |
| Barnes & Noble hires Microsoft’s legal nemesis Posted: 30 Nov 2011 06:12 PM PST Patent fight! Will David Boies slap Redmond yet again?Barnes & Noble has hired David Boies to join its legal team in a fight with Microsoft at the US International Trade Commission over alleged Android patent infringements.… |
| Duqu attackers: master coders, Linux rookies Posted: 30 Nov 2011 06:01 PM PST Amateur goofs doom global wipe of C&C serversThe Duqu malware that targeted industrial manufacturers around the world may have been spawned by a well-funded team of competent coders, but their command of Linux led to some highly amateur mistakes.… |
| Ciena picks up AAPT network build Posted: 30 Nov 2011 04:16 PM PST Ethernet business services in the pipelineTNZ-owned AAPT has announced that it will be deploying kit from Ciena to support an upgrade to its carrier Ethernet services.… |
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