Fairfax 'hacking' allegations blow up

Fairfax 'hacking' allegations blow up


Fairfax 'hacking' allegations blow up

Posted: 14 Dec 2011 04:07 PM PST

Police raid The Age

Australia's own "hacking scandal", in which Fairfax's Melbourne masthead The Age is accused of illegally accessing an ALP member database, has blown up spectacularly with an Australian Federal Police raid on the newspaper's offices.…

Yahoo!, newspaper in Singapore spat

Posted: 14 Dec 2011 03:00 PM PST

Content claim and counter-claim

Yahoo! has slammed allegations made by Asian publisher Singapore Press Holdings (SPH) that it reproduced SPH content without permission and profited from advertising.…

Aussie group buying platform goes shopping in HK

Posted: 14 Dec 2011 02:30 PM PST

Spreets tech smarts go global

Dealised, the Australian developed technology platform behind group buyer Spreets, has made its first international acquisition with the purchase of Hong Kong start-up, Lokaly Network Limited.…

Comm Bank in four hour network wipeout

Posted: 14 Dec 2011 02:00 PM PST

Late night shoppers forced to tweet anger

Commonwealth Bank customers suffered a four hour outage during pre-Christmas shopping on Wednesday evening, reporting incorrect balances and sparking customer meltdowns on Facebook.…

Ericsson's Erikkson heading Down Under

Posted: 14 Dec 2011 01:30 PM PST

Hakan Eriksson takes the big chair in Oz

Ericsson Australia has been an international executive coup, with global Chief Technology Officer, Hakan Eriksson, taking the role of Head of Ericsson in Australia, New Zealand and Fiji, effective February 1, 2012.…

Newfangled graphics engine for browsers fosters data theft

Posted: 14 Dec 2011 01:28 PM PST

The shady truth behind CSS shaders

Software developers at Google, Apple, Adobe, and elsewhere are grappling with the security risks posed by an emerging graphics technology, which in its current form could expose millions of web users' sensitive data to attackers.…

Wikipedia simplifies article editing for world+dog

Posted: 14 Dec 2011 10:52 AM PST

New visual editor invites unwashed masses into the Wikifold

Wikipedia is developing an easy-to-use visual editor to make it easier to muck up emend, revise, and polish pages of "the encyclopedia that anyone can edit".…

Microsoft gives up on proprietary 2D barcode, accepts NFC

Posted: 14 Dec 2011 10:21 AM PST

MS Tag maintained as a 'curiosity'

Microsoft is embracing wireless web bookmarking by allowing its Tag app to pick up URLs using NFC - as well reading industry-standard QR codes and Redmond's own barcode standard, also called Tag.…

Facebook 'HipHop VM' juices PHP speed pill

Posted: 14 Dec 2011 09:43 AM PST

Aim to bust engineers out of edit-reload-debug dungeon

Facebook hopes to shave seconds off of its PHP web pages loads and juice its servers' performance with an execution engine for the C++ code transformer it cooked up last year.…

Nekkid Tech: Where are the new enterprise bibles?

Posted: 14 Dec 2011 09:24 AM PST

Listen online for offline knowledge

Podcast  The previous Nekkid Tech outing quizzed HP storage bigwig David Scott and discussed changes at the tech titan.…

Forecasting logon storms with desktop virtualisation

Posted: 14 Dec 2011 09:12 AM PST

Planning for bad weather

You the Expert  For an IT manager, desktop virtualization is no bad thing, if only because it limits how badly a user can mess up his or her own settings. So if you are thinking that you could slim down your desktop hardware requirements and maybe keep track of everyone's software upgrades more simply are there any downsides consequences it would pay to be aware of?…

Google promises 0.001 of revenue to free the slaves

Posted: 14 Dec 2011 08:51 AM PST

'More slaves today than at any time in history'

Google is on course to smash the £30bn annual revenue barrier by the end of this year, so - in time-honoured fashion with it be Christmas 'n' all - the company has plonked just over 0.1 per cent of this cash on the philanthropic pile.…

US decision Apple's request for HTC ban delayed again

Posted: 14 Dec 2011 08:26 AM PST

Are these fake Jesus mobes, or some other saviour device?

The US International Trade Commission's decision on stopping HTC products from entering the country has been delayed for a second time.…

UN, IMF join opposition to ICANN top-level domain plans

Posted: 14 Dec 2011 07:53 AM PST

Sod the economy, cybersquatting is the true threat

Intergovernmental organisations (IGOs) like the United Nations and the International Monetary Fund have joined the ranks of the opposition to ICANN's proposed expansion of domain names.…

York CompSci student pleads guilty to Facebook hack

Posted: 14 Dec 2011 07:28 AM PST

Social network wet pants in fear of industrial espionage

A computer enthusiast from York has admitted hacking into Facebook.…

iPhone users get iJustHadAShag bedpost-notch boast app

Posted: 14 Dec 2011 06:57 AM PST

'I'm just in the middle of someone'

iOS users who fondle more than a slab now have an app to help them report the fact instantly, without having to compose the previously-requisite 140-character double entendre.…

No BEAST fix from Microsoft in December patch batch

Posted: 14 Dec 2011 06:26 AM PST

Google, Adobe join Redmond in festive fix barrage

Microsoft released 13 security bulletins addressing 19 vulnerabilities overnight, as part of a bumper final Patch Tuesday of the year.…

Woz's key to success: Burn the tie, wear T-shirts to work

Posted: 14 Dec 2011 06:01 AM PST

Megastar geek mauls Singapore in pro-hippy polemic

Singapore is far too straight-laced, says Apple co-founder and engineering hero Steve Wozniak, and employers should let their workers wear T-shirts.…

Paul Allen latest plan: Space rockets on MEGA PLANE

Posted: 14 Dec 2011 05:28 AM PST

This one's definitely not made of spruce, though

Billionaire Microsoft co-founder Paul G Allen has set foot down a path trailblazed generations ago by another eccentric business kingpin: he intends to build the biggest aircraft ever flown. However unlike Howard Hughes' monster "Spruce Goose" 1940s flying boat, Allen's plan appears at least feasible and he has some big names on board.…

Microsoft adds iPhones to SkyDrive party guest list

Posted: 14 Dec 2011 05:02 AM PST

Come on in, we're all friends in the cloud

Microsoft's cloud has partially descended on the iPhone with SkyDrive now available for Apple's super-soaraway mobile.…

Fans lose grace with Star Wars MMO

Posted: 14 Dec 2011 04:53 AM PST

Access code worrier

Star Wars: The Old Republic fans are getting hot under the collar after it emerged that they may not be able to continue playing the game with pre-release "Early Access" code once the title hits shop shelves.…

HDS unwraps 'data ingestor'

Posted: 14 Dec 2011 04:47 AM PST

Cloud info gobbler functions like data bee swarm

Hitachi Data Systems has revved its cloud object storage on-ramp, the file data-gulping HDI, to share data, restore old versions of files, and continuously migrate new files into a Hitachi-based cloud.…

Amateur balloonists conquer Atlantic

Posted: 14 Dec 2011 04:42 AM PST

Mighty globe flies from Silicon Valley to the Mediterranean

A group of US balloonists have achieved the first amateur transatlantic meteorological balloon crossing, with an epic three-day flight from California to the Mediterranean.…

Apple's founding contracts sold for $1.59 MILLION

Posted: 14 Dec 2011 04:23 AM PST

Paperwork signed by Jobs and Woz auctioned off

Apple's founding documents have sold for ten times their estimated price at a Sotheby's auction, fetching $1.59 million.…

2011's Best... HD TVs

Posted: 14 Dec 2011 04:00 AM PST

New telly for Chrimble? Here are our faves

Xmas Gift Guide  If there's one thing we're not short of for this annual review, it's good TVs. Large and small, thin and thinner, the things are legion.…

Apple TV tops connected set-top box chart

Posted: 14 Dec 2011 03:49 AM PST

More owners than its rivals. They buy more content too

And the most popular net-connected set-top box is… the Apple TV.…

Hot Xmas treat for WinPho punters - Office doc sharing

Posted: 14 Dec 2011 03:22 AM PST

Just what you've always wanted - a mobile Lync client

Microsoft's communications platform Lync has gone mobile with a Windows Phone client, but we're still waiting for the promised iPhone and Android clients billed as "coming soon".…

Brits turned off by Smart TVs

Posted: 14 Dec 2011 02:45 AM PST

More than half of UK punters don't want one

Brits may not be as keen on internet-connected tellies as previously thought. A new survey conducted by pollster YouGov shows we own fewer Smart TVs than folk in other major European economies do.…

OCZ wheels out lower octane SSD for Sunday drives

Posted: 14 Dec 2011 02:42 AM PST

The only petrol that's cheap as chips

OCZ has a new SSD product and brand, Petrol, which uses cheaper asynchronous NAND than last month's Octane with its synchronous NAND.…

<i>I have you now!</i> Top 10 Star Wars Xmas presents

Posted: 14 Dec 2011 02:21 AM PST

From Millennium Falcon manual to USB sticks

With the shops jammed and checkout lines up the wazoo, it would be forgivable to buy Star Wars: The Complete Saga on Blu-ray from Amazon for The Wars fan in your life, and think "job done".…

The Dark Meadow

Posted: 14 Dec 2011 02:00 AM PST

Pan's people

iGamer  I've just been to see the Guillermo del Toro produced cinematic update of Don't be Afraid of the Dark and it was all shades of Pan's Labyrinth, dark basements and flesh-eating homunculi. The Dark Meadow steals this striking vision and mélanges together mechanisms of FPS combat, role-playing and exploration.…

Laptop display pixel counts to quadruple in 2012

Posted: 14 Dec 2011 01:50 AM PST

2880 x 1800 panel on your MacBook, anyone?

Buy one of Apple's next MacBook Pro notebooks and you'll get yourself a - glossy, no doubt - 2880 x 1800 resolution display.…

UK is biggest nation of web shopaholics - Euro poll

Posted: 14 Dec 2011 01:38 AM PST

Ofcom survey also prods flagging fibre uptake

UK shoppers order more stuff online than their European neighbours - and worry the least about how their personal data is used on social networking sites even though seven out of ten Brits admit having concerns about privacy.…

'NHS bosses must master Twitter, Facebook to halt staff antics'

Posted: 14 Dec 2011 01:22 AM PST

Top adviser hits out at 'social media refuseniks'

The author of recent guidance on using social media for nurses and midwives says NHS managers should be able to actively respond to issues around how their staff use social media.…

Hitachi GST enters itty-bitty server disk fray against Seagate

Posted: 14 Dec 2011 01:03 AM PST

New 2.5in Ultrastar level pegs with Savvio

Hitachi GST has announced a 900GB small form-factor drive, thus catching up with Seagate's Savvio.…

Enterprise flash: The good, the bad and the cloudy

Posted: 14 Dec 2011 12:31 AM PST

Which tech will win the NAND shoot-out?

As flash tech firms face up to each other like gunslingers in a Wild West shoot-out, El Reg presents these suppliers or supplier groups developing NAND products for, hopefully, appreciative customers.…

Acer TravelMate Timeline X TM8481T 14in Core i5 notebook

Posted: 13 Dec 2011 11:00 PM PST

Endurance over performance?

Review  As the name might suggest, Acer's TravelMate family of notebooks are aimed at the mobile users, with an eye on business bods after something a little more stylish than the standard issue grey slab. A new addition to the range is the Timeline X TM8481T with just a couple of variants at present.…

NBN Co awards transit tender to Visionstream

Posted: 13 Dec 2011 07:59 PM PST

While Primus is set to offer calls

Network service provider, Visionstream, has secured a $AU19 million contract to supply NBN Co's first stage transit network.…

Dead trees not dying out

Posted: 13 Dec 2011 06:02 PM PST

Oz printing industry experiences tiny contraction over three years

Fondleslabs, Facebook and smartphones may be marketers' toys de jour, but the first wave of digital toys and associated marketing didn't make a dent in the amount of business for Australia's printing industry, according to new data from the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS).…

SCADA vuln imperils critical infrastructure, feds warn

Posted: 13 Dec 2011 05:06 PM PST

Secret accounts open control systems to attack

An electronic device used to control machinery in water plants and other industrial facilities contains serious weaknesses that allow attackers to take it over remotely, the US agency that safeguards the nation's critical infrastructure has warned.…

CERN: 'New physics starts now'

Posted: 13 Dec 2011 05:04 PM PST

Next, get busy in the TeV range

Analysis  If people still wore as many hats as formerly, CERN would have seen plenty of caps in the air when the latest Higgs boson results were announced.…

Feds propose 50-state ban on mobile use while driving

Posted: 13 Dec 2011 04:48 PM PST

Handheld, hands-free, texting, browsing – it's all deadly

The US National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) has called for a nationwide ban on driving while using what it calls "personal electronic devices" – PEDs – by which they mean mobile phones and, to a lesser extent, fondleslabs.…

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