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- Shoppers a boon for Oz Post
- BREAKTHROUGH: Feisty startup slashes chip power by 50%
- HP's David Scott - After the Honeymoon
- Yahoo! invests in New York uber studio
- Google hands Britain’s eTown award to Scunthorpe
- Server business stalls in EMEA
- Apple nabs HP PSG reseller boss
- Dell pulls Streak 7 from US online store
- Man fights felony hacking charge for accessing wife's email
- HP readies fresh WebOS update
- Even brilliant sysadmins need help plugging holes
- ASA upholds customer complaint against eBuyer
- Early 2012 date for UK Kindle Fire debut
- New species of dinosaur discovered... in museum
- Gadget-hackers post how-to on BlackBerry PlayBook jailbreak
- SSDs choked by crummy disk interfaces
- God particle may be within our grasp
- British athlete puts self on eBay
- Acer CEO: No more 'cheap and unprofitable' products
- Brit balloonist reclaims UK altitude record
- Facebook finally rolls out Timeline feature... but only in NZ
- Netflix snubs 'Tech City' for Luxembourg
- Alec Baldwin kicked off plane for playing with his phone
- New Turing petition calls for criminal pardon
- Groupon still on ASA naughty step with more complaints upheld
- Current Comet owner hit with half year loss
- Secrets of the asteroid belt: Vesta actually more like a planet
- 2011's best... Cars
- ICO smacks Welsh council with record £130k fine
- Thieves plunder apartment for Facebook booty
- RIM gives up on BBX name after court order
- Oz rail company sold USB keys from lost property in auction
- IMFT exposes its incredible shrinking NAND
- Patent tax break takes effect in April 2013
- Rainbow Islands
- UK.gov uses Experian data to sniff out fraudsters
- Row over Korean election DDoS attack heats up
- Solar winds are blowing away the Moon's topsoil - NASA
- Texas Memory Systems gets some enterprise street cred
- Headmaster freezes schoolkids for Gaia
- OWC 6G Mercury Aura Pro Express SSD
- Fruit Ninja dev takes Sydney studio
- Microsoft seeks to woo developers with Windows 8 store
- Oracle whips out Solaris 11 system lasher
| Posted: 07 Dec 2011 02:30 PM PST E-tailing could be the postmasters best friendAustralia Post has punctured the myth that Internet imports are killing Australian business, telling a conference that most 'net purchases in this country are from local e-tailers.… |
| BREAKTHROUGH: Feisty startup slashes chip power by 50% Posted: 07 Dec 2011 02:29 PM PST SuVolta to Intel: 'The future is the $10 chip, not the $200 chip'An impressively staffed startup by the name of SuVolta has teamed up with Japanese heavyweight Fujitsu Semiconductor to create a new chip-baking technique that promises low-power, inexpensive chips created in a highly scalable process and manufactured using equipment that's already ready in chip foundries.… |
| HP's David Scott - After the Honeymoon Posted: 07 Dec 2011 02:15 PM PST Nekkid Tech at HP DiscoverLast week Nigel hooked up with former podcasting washup deadbeat ass kissing loser old friend and Infosmack legend Greg Knieriemen at HP Discover in Vienna.… |
| Yahoo! invests in New York uber studio Posted: 07 Dec 2011 01:30 PM PST Content creation hub set for March launchYahoo! is building a production studio in Manhattan in a bid to ramp up in-house content development for distribution across its global platform.… |
| Google hands Britain’s eTown award to Scunthorpe Posted: 07 Dec 2011 12:37 PM PST Well there's nowt else to do in ScunnyGoogle has awarded Scunthorpe the title of Britain's eTown, the UK locale that saw the strongest growth in AdWords use over the last year.… |
| Server business stalls in EMEA Posted: 07 Dec 2011 11:30 AM PST Western Europe hits new lowServer sellers in Europe, the Middle East, and Africa didn't have as much fun as their counterparts in North America and Asia in the third quarter, according to statistics compiled by the box counters at IDC.… |
| Apple nabs HP PSG reseller boss Posted: 07 Dec 2011 10:54 AM PST Channel assault on UK corporatesApple has poached HP PSG channel sales director Trevor Evans to mastermind its assault on the UK corporate market, The Register can reveal.… |
| Dell pulls Streak 7 from US online store Posted: 07 Dec 2011 10:03 AM PST Insists still committed to tabletsDell has stressed it is not abandoning the fondleslab market despite deciding to pull the Streak 7 from its online store stateside.… |
| Man fights felony hacking charge for accessing wife's email Posted: 07 Dec 2011 09:42 AM PST Gmail showed her having extramarital affairA Michigan appeals court is trying to decide whether the state's anti hacking law should be invoked against a man who broke into his wife's Gmail account to see if she was having an affair.… |
| Posted: 07 Dec 2011 09:09 AM PST CEO's verdict on OS' future due next weekHP CEP Meg Whitman is expected to announce the fate of WebOS next week. If the claimed imminent release of version 3.0.5 of the tablet'n'phone operating system is correct, the omens for the OS may be good.… |
| Even brilliant sysadmins need help plugging holes Posted: 07 Dec 2011 09:05 AM PST External audits fix issues you didn't know were thereSysadmin blog While we must never allow ourselves to fall into the habit of thinking that security is somebody else's problem, the time has come to accept that external help is required.… |
| ASA upholds customer complaint against eBuyer Posted: 07 Dec 2011 08:43 AM PST Watchdog: Negative comments are also 'useful'The Advertising Standards Agency has rapped eBuyer over a Wi-Fi internet radio promo that it concluded misled consumers.… |
| Early 2012 date for UK Kindle Fire debut Posted: 07 Dec 2011 08:35 AM PST No joy from Santa, thenAmazon will release the Kindle Fire over here in the UK during January 2012, it has been claimed.… |
| New species of dinosaur discovered... in museum Posted: 07 Dec 2011 08:27 AM PST 100-year-old fossil of horny Canadian beastBone-bothering boffins have discovered an entirely new species of horned dinosaur, despite having parts of its skull for the last hundred years.… |
| Gadget-hackers post how-to on BlackBerry PlayBook jailbreak Posted: 07 Dec 2011 08:04 AM PST Roots you, sirGadget enthusiasts have produced a detailed guide on how to jailbreak BlackBerry PlayBook tablets.… |
| SSDs choked by crummy disk interfaces Posted: 07 Dec 2011 07:43 AM PST Gotta be PCIe and not SAS or SATAA flash device that can put out 100,000 IOPS shouldn't be crippled by a disk interface geared to dealing with the 200 or so IOPS delivered by individual slow hard disk drives.… |
| God particle may be within our grasp Posted: 07 Dec 2011 07:22 AM PST Rumours of Higgs sightings precede latest results seminarPhysicists working on the Large Hadron Collider will be announcing their latest batch of results at a seminar next week.… |
| British athlete puts self on eBay Posted: 07 Dec 2011 07:04 AM PST Sprinter uses auction to get sponsors for London OlympicsA British sprinter has put himself on sale on eBay to try to get the sponsorship he needs to run in the London 2012 Olympics.… |
| Acer CEO: No more 'cheap and unprofitable' products Posted: 07 Dec 2011 06:43 AM PST Sets sights on ultrabooks...Acer is plotting a return to profits that partly rests on the success of the ultrabook after revealing it is close to completing its operational and management overhaul.… |
| Brit balloonist reclaims UK altitude record Posted: 07 Dec 2011 06:22 AM PST Hits 40,986 metres, then invades BelgiumA proud Brit enthusiast has reclaimed the UK altitude record for a helium-filled meteorological balloon - hitting 40,986m just a few months after Oz student Mark Jessop's globe soared to 40,575m above East Anglia.… |
| Facebook finally rolls out Timeline feature... but only in NZ Posted: 07 Dec 2011 06:02 AM PST Kiwis first to SHARE their story with the WORLDKiwis are the guinea pigs for Facebook's Timeline feature, which the company announced in September with a lot of fanfare, but is now cautiously rolling out to users of the site.… |
| Netflix snubs 'Tech City' for Luxembourg Posted: 07 Dec 2011 05:39 AM PST Media2.0sluts mournIn another blow to star of the Coalition's "digital economy" strategy, Netflix has decided to base its European HQ in Luxembourg, not "TechCity". Although Netflix is using the UK to spearhead its UK expansion - launching its video-on-demand streaming service here first next year - it will instead be "joining the many internet companies that have found it a great place to do business" in Luxembourg, CFO David Wells said on Monday.… |
| Alec Baldwin kicked off plane for playing with his phone Posted: 07 Dec 2011 05:18 AM PST Hollywood star - glued to word game - gets marching ordersAlec Baldwin claimed he was booted off a plane at Los Angeles international airport yesterday, after a flight attendant complained about him playing with a game on his mobile phone.… |
| New Turing petition calls for criminal pardon Posted: 07 Dec 2011 05:04 AM PST Originator of original government apology petition describes move as a 'mistake'A petition for the UK government to pardon computer pioneer Alan Turing for his criminal conviction for homosexuality has attracted more than 6,000 signatures.… |
| Groupon still on ASA naughty step with more complaints upheld Posted: 07 Dec 2011 04:47 AM PST Too many boobs in e-coupon site's basketGroupon has yet again been busted by the Advertising Standards Authority for misleading customers with separate promotions on its website.… |
| Current Comet owner hit with half year loss Posted: 07 Dec 2011 04:33 AM PST Kesa looks forward to offloading ailing retailerKesa Electricals, the for-the-moment owner of UK retailer Comet, has announced a loss for the first six months of the fiscal year, as consumer appetite for big electronics flags.… |
| Secrets of the asteroid belt: Vesta actually more like a planet Posted: 07 Dec 2011 04:16 AM PST NASA spacecraft finds complex rock formationsNew images of the asteroid Vesta captured by NASA's Dawn spacecraft indicate it's more like a planet than a dead rock.… |
| Posted: 07 Dec 2011 04:00 AM PST PetrolheadonismRound up Sky-high petrol prices and environmental concerns are leading to a revolution inside the average car. Across the board, we are seeing increases in power and reductions in emissions and consumption that even a decade ago would have been called fanciful.… |
| ICO smacks Welsh council with record £130k fine Posted: 07 Dec 2011 03:47 AM PST Vulnerable child's data sent to same stranger who received the last breach...Data privacy watchdogs have fined Powys County Council £130,000, the highest fine the ICO has ever levied, for failing to protect the personal data of vulnerable young people.… |
| Thieves plunder apartment for Facebook booty Posted: 07 Dec 2011 03:32 AM PST Don't flash your wares online, advises Sao Paulo copSão Paulo police are warning of the perils of flashing your wealth on Facebook after a teenager's snaps of his electronic equipment and foreign holidays on the social network prompted thieves to rob his family's apartment.… |
| RIM gives up on BBX name after court order Posted: 07 Dec 2011 03:16 AM PST BBX trademark already belonged to US software companyA US court has granted a temporary restraining order banning Research in Motion from using the name BBX for its new operating system.… |
| Oz rail company sold USB keys from lost property in auction Posted: 07 Dec 2011 03:01 AM PST All your brollies, data sticks and lost scarves are belong to us...Someone in RailCorp will be nursing a bruised ego after selling a pile of USB keys lost on trains in the authority's regular lost property auction.… |
| IMFT exposes its incredible shrinking NAND Posted: 07 Dec 2011 02:41 AM PST Nand shrinks: 20nm and countingNAND shrinks sounds like a way of describing flash psychoanalysts who sort out NAND neuroses as flash dies go a bit haywire. It actually refers to the shrinking process geometry size of cells in NAND manufacturing.… |
| Patent tax break takes effect in April 2013 Posted: 07 Dec 2011 02:17 AM PST 'Patent Box' is strong incentive for UK companies to develop IPA 10 per cent corporation tax rate will apply to profits from companies' worldwide trading activities which are attributable to qualifying patents, the Treasury confirmed in draft Finance Bill 2012 legislation published today, establishing the 'Patent Box' tax regime.… |
| Posted: 07 Dec 2011 02:00 AM PST Cutesy-cutesyAntique Code Show I know you played this. Admit it, darn you! Or at least you coveted it from afar as I did, watching my little sister Chloe play it and waiting till she fell asleep to sneak into her room to worship it's vivid iridescent rays - or as close as you can get with just 4096 colors!… |
| UK.gov uses Experian data to sniff out fraudsters Posted: 07 Dec 2011 01:41 AM PST HMRC and DWP ink deal with agency to detect tax and benefits cheatsHM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) and the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) have signed a deal with credit reference agency Experian to use its data to detect fraud and error in the tax credits and benefits systems.… |
| Row over Korean election DDoS attack heats up Posted: 07 Dec 2011 01:23 AM PST Ruling party staffer accused of disrupting Seoul mayoral by-electionA political scandal is brewing in Korea over alleged denial of service attacks against the National Election Commission (NEC) website.… |
| Solar winds are blowing away the Moon's topsoil - NASA Posted: 07 Dec 2011 01:00 AM PST Plasma storms 'sandblast' decatonnes of lunar dirt into spaceSolar winds and plasma storms are "sandblasting" the Moon, according to top NASA boffins, causing large amounts of lunar surface material to be blown off into space.… |
| Texas Memory Systems gets some enterprise street cred Posted: 07 Dec 2011 12:33 AM PST High availability flash array here at lastTexas Memory Systems (TMS) is getting some enterprise cred – by introducing a high-availability, shared-access RamSan flash array.… |
| Headmaster freezes schoolkids for Gaia Posted: 07 Dec 2011 12:02 AM PST Earth Goddess requires sacrificesPagan gods traditionally required human sacrifices – preferably of children – and a West Country academy school appears to be leading the way. To give pupils a lesson in "sustainability" they'll never forget, headmaster Rob Benzie of Ansford Academy in Castle Cary, Somerset, ordered a "No Power Day ... as an experiment to see if we can lower our carbon footprint".… |
| OWC 6G Mercury Aura Pro Express SSD Posted: 06 Dec 2011 11:00 PM PST Speedier solid-state storage for your MacBook AirReview Macs were never made to be messed with. Apple has softened its approach to aftermarket upgrades in recent years, a little, making it easy to switch out both the memory and hard drive in most MacBooks made in the past couple of years. But the MacBook Air is still a bit of an upgrader's island - you can't even bump up the Ram as it's soldered to the logic board.… |
| Fruit Ninja dev takes Sydney studio Posted: 06 Dec 2011 08:04 PM PST Stoner maintains NSW gov digital hub focusSeven digital media projects have been awarded $AU3 million in funding from the NSW government to help bolster the state's digital gaming sector.… |
| Microsoft seeks to woo developers with Windows 8 store Posted: 06 Dec 2011 06:06 PM PST Goes live in February, suggesting 2012 OS launchMicrosoft is looking to woo application developers to its Windows 8 software store with more flexible licensing than usual, and a purported larger user base.… |
| Oracle whips out Solaris 11 system lasher Posted: 06 Dec 2011 04:27 PM PST Say farewell to some Cluster 3.3 featuresOracle has duly announced the high availability clustering companion to the new Solaris 11 operating system, and as you might expect from a company that is pitching its own SPARC-based "engineered system" stacks, a whole bunch of third-party software and hardware that was supported with the prior Solaris Cluster 3.3 code has not made it into the 4.0 release.… |
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