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- Cisco enlists NCR in Middle East, Africa server push
- Broadcom uncloaks zippy '5G WiFi' chippery
- Hearst bets on digital
- UNSW researcher creates four-atom silicon wires
- Boffins demo time-warp cloaking device
- Etrade suffers DDOS festive treat
- Kodak heading to Chapter 11
- Vint Cerf: 'The internet is not a human right'
- Official: File-sharing is a religion... in Sweden
- Gartner chops 2012 IT spending forecast
- iOS 5's iMessage chops carrier SMS routing traffic
- B&N mulls spinning off Nook biz
- Nokia: There will be NO smartphone division selloff to Microsoft
- Cray's Q4 whacked by AMD's Opteron delays
- Apple coughs $5m for multitouch patents
- Ad slingers - obeying EU snoop code is NOT GOOD ENOUGH
- Dammit Ramnit! Worm slurps 45,000 Facebook passwords
- Govt tells science to budge up for arts at new hi-tech uni
- Gamers grumble over Steam outage
- SEC: 'Man tried to sell $500bn investments on LinkedIn'
- Siri bones up on Mandarin for iPhone 4S China launch
- Fast food firm fields Sith sandwich
- 'Mobiles bake men's balls' bog ad is cobblers - new ruling
- Xbox 720 to double-up as a DVR
- WHSmith Kobo Vox e-reader
- 2012: The year when smartphones become smart?
- Ultrabook, tablet shipments to surge
- Man convicted of murder gets retrial after virus eats transcripts
- Punters flocked to all-in-one desktops in 2011
- Amazon Kindle Fire browser hacked for your Android pleasure
- Boffins glue self-righting ROBO-VELOCIRAPTOR tail to car
- HP unveils touchscreenless all-in-one desktop PC
- US lawmakers claim Huawei sold censor tech to Iran
- Google tablet to tackle Kindle Fire not iPad
- Microsoft de-cloaks Windows 8 push-button lifesaver
- LG preps '14in screen in 13in chassis' Ultrabook
- Sleep Cycle
- Sites knocked offline by OpenDNS freeze on Google
- KIBOSH 'non lethal' sticky-bomb hits a car, fills it with gas
- Vomit virus drives punters to NHS Choices over Christmas
- Ferguson Hill FH009 home theatre system
- Quanta sues AMD over dodgy chips
| Cisco enlists NCR in Middle East, Africa server push Posted: 05 Jan 2012 03:01 PM PST The UCS caravan travels to the promised landHoping to get a bigger slice of the server racket in the Middle East and Africa – you know, the part of EMEA that is still showing some signs of life – Cisco Systems has tapped The Cash to peddle its Unified Computing System blade and rack servers.… |
| Broadcom uncloaks zippy '5G WiFi' chippery Posted: 05 Jan 2012 03:00 PM PST |
| Posted: 05 Jan 2012 02:30 PM PST Target: a million online subsHearst Magazines has committed to a target of gaining more than a million paid digital subscribers via iTunes, Zinio, Nook, Amazon and Next Issue Media.… |
| UNSW researcher creates four-atom silicon wires Posted: 05 Jan 2012 02:00 PM PST Quantum-scale lifeline for Moore's Law and Ohm's LawResearchers at the University of New South Wales have created what the uni thinks is the narrowest-ever silicon conducting wire.… |
| Boffins demo time-warp cloaking device Posted: 05 Jan 2012 01:40 PM PST New tool for hackersA team of scientists at Cornell University in the US has demonstrated a way to bend light in such a way that it effectively hides an event from happening – what they call a "spatio-temporal cloaking" scheme.… |
| Etrade suffers DDOS festive treat Posted: 05 Jan 2012 12:27 PM PST Gremlins shut down tradingANZ Bank-owned online broker ETrade, has been the target of a sustained malicious offshore generated cyber attack.… |
| Posted: 05 Jan 2012 12:11 PM PST Film dinosaur slain by digital demonAnalysis It's not what you'd call a Kodak moment: Eastman Kodak, the very image of film-based photography, is heading for the Chapter 11 knackers yard because its management, despite the most visible and public threat imaginable from digital photography, has failed to get Kodak out of the digital trap.… |
| Vint Cerf: 'The internet is not a human right' Posted: 05 Jan 2012 10:32 AM PST 'Get real,' says internet daddyVint Cerf is warning that people who insist that the internet is some sort of human or civil right are missing the point.… |
| Official: File-sharing is a religion... in Sweden Posted: 05 Jan 2012 09:32 AM PST Cop a load of KopimismSweden has acknowledged that online file-sharing can be deemed a religion, after campaigners fought to get their cause recognised for more than a year.… |
| Gartner chops 2012 IT spending forecast Posted: 05 Jan 2012 09:06 AM PST 2011 better than expectedThe spreadsheet wizards at Gartner have finished gazing into their crystal LCD monitors and have put out their first projection for global IT spending in 2012. The good news is that despite hard disk shortages and a PC and server slowdown, 2011 spending across hardware, software, and services was higher than expected. The bad news is that growth will be slowing in the coming year thanks to the Eurozone debt crisis and the ongoing shortages of hard drives.… |
| iOS 5's iMessage chops carrier SMS routing traffic Posted: 05 Jan 2012 08:36 AM PST User's data implies power shift to AppleApple's iMessage may be killing text messaging - or the text messaging revenues made by network operators, at least.… |
| B&N mulls spinning off Nook biz Posted: 05 Jan 2012 08:33 AM PST E-reader could also head across the pond to BlightyUS bookseller Barnes & Noble is considering spinning off its Nook e-reader business into a separate entity as it forecast a drop in full-year earnings.… |
| Nokia: There will be NO smartphone division selloff to Microsoft Posted: 05 Jan 2012 08:04 AM PST Buyout rumours just won't dieRumours that Nokia is about to sell its smartphone division to Microsoft and that CEO Stephen Elop will jump after closing the deal have been denied yet again by the Finnish phone-makers.… |
| Cray's Q4 whacked by AMD's Opteron delays Posted: 05 Jan 2012 07:44 AM PST Déjà vu all over againCray is going to miss its revenue targets for the fourth quarter, the company warned Wall Street this morning before the markets opened, and it has pointed its finger (without naming names) directly at its main processor supplier, Advanced Micro Devices, as the cause of the miss.… |
| Apple coughs $5m for multitouch patents Posted: 05 Jan 2012 07:28 AM PST Fights for years then pays out pocket changeFollowing more than 30 months of argument, Elan Microelectronics has announced that Apple will be paying it $5m for use of its multitouch patents.… |
| Ad slingers - obeying EU snoop code is NOT GOOD ENOUGH Posted: 05 Jan 2012 06:54 AM PST Industry rules at odds with cookie laws, say watchdogsWebsite operators that track internet users' online activity in order to serve targeted adverts do not automatically comply with EU privacy laws by following the industry code. This is according to a committee of all of the EU's national data protection regulators.… |
| Dammit Ramnit! Worm slurps 45,000 Facebook passwords Posted: 05 Jan 2012 06:33 AM PST Bank-raid malware is latest nasty to infect social networksA bank account-raiding worm has started spreading on Facebook, stealing login credentials as it creeps across the site, security researchers have revealed.… |
| Govt tells science to budge up for arts at new hi-tech uni Posted: 05 Jan 2012 06:12 AM PST UK minister does what that nice Mr Google suggestedScience and universities minister David Willetts wants to start a new technology university, pretty much following what Eric Schmidt said about mixing up the arts and sciences.… |
| Gamers grumble over Steam outage Posted: 05 Jan 2012 05:49 AM PST Play postponedSteam users are venting frustration at Valve after an outage stopped gamers from accessing their downloaded titles.… |
| SEC: 'Man tried to sell $500bn investments on LinkedIn' Posted: 05 Jan 2012 05:39 AM PST Investors on alert after unregistered broker chargedUS regulators have charged a financial advisor with trying to sell $500bn of fake securities on LinkedIn, amid warnings to investors and advisory firms about the risks of buying through social networks.… |
| Siri bones up on Mandarin for iPhone 4S China launch Posted: 05 Jan 2012 05:17 AM PST Apple and Nokia jockey in Chinese mobe marketThe Chinese will be able to buy an iPhone 4S from 13 January and should be able to speak to it too as Apple flings the shiny mobe into 90 countries.… |
| Fast food firm fields Sith sandwich Posted: 05 Jan 2012 05:11 AM PST Darths Vader and Maul to get themed burgersWith bellies still recovering from festive banquets, feasting your eyes on these Star Wars snacks could be enough to put you off food for life. But we've never been one to hold back on news to make you squirm.… |
| 'Mobiles bake men's balls' bog ad is cobblers - new ruling Posted: 05 Jan 2012 04:58 AM PST Watchdog tuts at anti-phone postersThe anti-phone brigade has been ticked off by the Advertising Standards Authority for running posters declaring that a phone in blokes' jeans could ruin their genes.… |
| Xbox 720 to double-up as a DVR Posted: 05 Jan 2012 04:44 AM PST Record spinThe Xbox 720 rumour mill has picked up again this year after patents surfaced which suggest Microsoft's next console may also operate as a digital video recorder, fusing telly, film and gaming into a single entertainment hub.… |
| Posted: 05 Jan 2012 04:29 AM PST Can't wait for the Kindle Fire?Review So you've been tempted by an e-book reader but the brouhaha surrounding the Amazon Kindle Fire launch in the States has confused you. A colour screen must be better, right? But will it ever come to the UK? If you really can't wait, rival e-book reader manufacturer has stolen a march on Amazon and released a gadget that looks just like the Fire.… |
| 2012: The year when smartphones become smart? Posted: 05 Jan 2012 04:23 AM PST Nice suit, shame there's no brain behind itToday's smartphones look the part, but behind the pretty face there's very little in the way of intelligence. However, in 2012 that might start to change as smartphones start to get really smart...… |
| Ultrabook, tablet shipments to surge Posted: 05 Jan 2012 03:48 AM PST Netbook, notebook to bear the costMarket watcher DisplaySearch has forecast Ultrabook shipments of around 180m units in 2017 with a steep upward curve through previous years.… |
| Man convicted of murder gets retrial after virus eats transcripts Posted: 05 Jan 2012 03:41 AM PST Refresh, restartA US man who had been convicted on a second-degree murder charge will get a new trial after a computer virus destroyed transcripts of court proceedings.… |
| Punters flocked to all-in-one desktops in 2011 Posted: 05 Jan 2012 03:26 AM PST Sales soar by 40%The all-in-one desktop PC market is booming, with world sales up 39 per cent during 2011.… |
| Amazon Kindle Fire browser hacked for your Android pleasure Posted: 05 Jan 2012 03:18 AM PST Everyone gets to be smooth as SilkHackers have managed to get Amazon's proxy-based Silk browser compiled into other Android versions, allowing anyone* to take advantage of the Amazon cloud.… |
| Boffins glue self-righting ROBO-VELOCIRAPTOR tail to car Posted: 05 Jan 2012 03:05 AM PST Leaping lizards inspire super stable search botsBiologists at the University of California in Berkeley have stuck an intelligent robotic tail on a toy car in an attempt to make clumsy droids of the future more stable.… |
| HP unveils touchscreenless all-in-one desktop PC Posted: 05 Jan 2012 02:58 AM PST Omni 27 can be wall mountedHP has taken the wraps off its first 27in all-in-one, dubbed the Omni 27.… |
| US lawmakers claim Huawei sold censor tech to Iran Posted: 05 Jan 2012 02:51 AM PST Six members of Congress want State Department investigationUS lawmakers are calling on the State Department to investigate whether or not Chinese tech firm Huawei has violated sanctions by supplying monitoring technology to Iran.… |
| Google tablet to tackle Kindle Fire not iPad Posted: 05 Jan 2012 02:37 AM PST Ad giant's seven-incher to cost $199?The latest scuttlebutt from Taiwan: Google's rumoured tablet will now take on Amazon's 7in Kindle Fire rather than attempt to loosen Apple's tight hold on the market.… |
| Microsoft de-cloaks Windows 8 push-button lifesaver Posted: 05 Jan 2012 02:33 AM PST Refresh or reset options for fraked PCsMicrosoft has revealed how the Windows 8 push-button reset feature should save dying PCs when it hits beta in the coming weeks and is delivered this year.… |
| LG preps '14in screen in 13in chassis' Ultrabook Posted: 05 Jan 2012 02:13 AM PST CES outing for glasses-free 3D laptop tooLG announced its Z330 Ultrabook early in December 2011. Today, it said it will be showing the MacBook Air-like machine off at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) - along with a second, unannounced Ultrabook.… |
| Posted: 05 Jan 2012 02:00 AM PST Here is the snoozeiOS App of the Week Perhaps it's a sign of the troubled times we live in but I've noticed a recent rash of gadgets and apps, such as the Jawbone Up, that are designed to monitor – and hopefully improve – your sleep patterns.… |
| Sites knocked offline by OpenDNS freeze on Google Posted: 05 Jan 2012 01:31 AM PST JavaScript-hosting server branded 'phishing' denInnocent websites were blocked and labelled phishers on Wednesday following an apparent conflict between OpenDNS and Google's Content Delivery Network (CDN).… |
| KIBOSH 'non lethal' sticky-bomb hits a car, fills it with gas Posted: 05 Jan 2012 01:04 AM PST US Special Ops: We didn't kill them, the crash didUS special operations troops will shortly be armed with a projectile which can be fired from a portable launcher to hit a car or boat some distance off, following which the pocket-size adhesive bomb will release one of several types of "non lethal" gas into the target's interior. The new weapon has been dubbed the "KIBOSH" by the secret super-troopers' procurement office.… |
| Vomit virus drives punters to NHS Choices over Christmas Posted: 05 Jan 2012 12:03 AM PST NHS Choices attracted 56% more users, many on their mobesThe Department of Health (DoH) has reported a 56 per cent increase in the number of people using NHS Choices in October to December 2011 compared to the same period last year.… |
| Ferguson Hill FH009 home theatre system Posted: 04 Jan 2012 11:00 PM PST Transparent horn speakers for your tellyReview If you've ever considered bolting a hulking great stereo system onto your TV, then make a beeline for Ferguson Hill. Its FH009 could be just thing you're looking for.… |
| Quanta sues AMD over dodgy chips Posted: 04 Jan 2012 05:16 PM PST Suit without merit AMD suggestsTaiwanese manufacturer Quanta has sued AMD, claiming that dodgy processors it used in NEC notebooks couldn't handle the heat.… |
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