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- Gongs ring in Oz tech sector
- IBM demos new nanotech
- Nikon compact, only $AU100k
- Digislide slips into administration
- UK probes Snickers over 'celebrity' Twitter adverts
- Mellanox shrugs off Intel's InfiniBand buy
- <strong>[<abbr title="Not Safe For Work">NSFW</abbr>]</strong> iPad Fleshlight lets fanbois express their love
- Intel bags $120m patent hoard from RealNetworks
- NEC slashes 10,000 jobs – blames Thai floods, smartphone slump
- Google emails Virgin Media subscribers ... about privacy
- Rhapsody nabs Napster UK
- Google exec questions Reding's 'Right to be forgotten' pledge
- New Earth-observing satellite snaps 'blue marble' shot
- Blackhole crimeware kit drives web threat spike
- WD's MyBook takes a Thunderbolt to the chest
- Apple dishes out cheap, tasty Macs 'n slabs to staff
- Korean boffins make e-books more like real ones
- Big biz BlackBerry refuseniks adopt Apple over Android
- Small pile of cash, dying platform: 2011 is bad news for Nokia
- FetchTV owner looks for buyer
- Russian supply ship heads for ISS, space garbage crashes into Pacific
- Archos 35 Smart Home Phone
- EMC moves into LSI WarpDrive
- Nintendo cuts full-year forecast – by BILLIONS
- Symantec's profits up in calm third quarter
- Flag-waving Lego Canuck soars to 80,000ft
- TVCatchup
- Apple and Google ramp up proxy war
- Ten exabytes wedged into a rather large box by Cleversafe
- Billions of net-ready boxes in homes by 2016
- Google Maps to dish out disaster alerts
- Foxconn tooling up for iPhone 5
- Boffins one step closer to invisible shed
- Apple loses ground to Android in tablet biz
- BBC's images of murdered infant did not breach privacy, copyright
- Apple takes smartphone lead
- Microsoft's magic bullet for Azure: Red Hat Linux
- 1 euro in every 7 spent on a Visa card
- DWP's Work Programme IT already broken at launch
- Netflix vs Lovefilm
- Red Hat juices speed freak MRG Linux
- Scientists shift electron orbits for atomic storage and quantum computing
- Citrix rides the virty desktop wave
| Posted: 26 Jan 2012 02:30 PM PST Geeks make the Order of AustraliaThe father of 802.11a wireless chipsets, Dr David Skellern, is one of a bunch of tech-sector luminaries to be gonged in the Australia Day honours list.… |
| Posted: 26 Jan 2012 02:00 PM PST Carbon nanotube, graphene research boost transistors' futureSomehow, we still manage to inch-out the limits of Moore's Law: in a double-whammy to end the week, IBM has demonstrated the smallest carbon nanotube transistor, and has claimed the world's fastest graphene transistor.… |
| Posted: 26 Jan 2012 01:45 PM PST Deal too good to missWe're all familiar with the syndrome: someone forgets to fill in the price field in a database, and all of a sudden, an online store is offering products at zero dollars.… |
| Digislide slips into administration Posted: 26 Jan 2012 01:38 PM PST ASX listed projector start-up hits the wallAward winning digital technology start-up Digislide has been plunged into administration after collapsing in a mountain of debt and irate shareholders.… |
| UK probes Snickers over 'celebrity' Twitter adverts Posted: 26 Jan 2012 01:05 PM PST Rio Ferdinand and Jordan fingered for promo tweetsThe UK's Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) is to investigate a promotional campaign by confectionary giant Mars, which hired B-list celebrities to push its Snickers candy bars.… |
| Mellanox shrugs off Intel's InfiniBand buy Posted: 26 Jan 2012 12:37 PM PST Turns in good Q4, will grow in 2012 despite price cutsHaving bought rival Voltaire, Mellanox Technologies has pretty much ruled the InfiniBand adapter and switching roost for the past several years. But this week Intel shelled out $125m to acquire the InfiniBand chip, adapter, and switch businesses from QLogic, and the big question now is: what does this mean for Mellanox?… |
| Posted: 26 Jan 2012 11:56 AM PST Coming soon: Fondleslab f**kingNSFW A conceptual design for a new iPad case would let Apple fanbois get very personal indeed with their favorite fondleslab.… |
| Intel bags $120m patent hoard from RealNetworks Posted: 26 Jan 2012 11:05 AM PST 190 patents, 170 applications, and 'next-generation' video codecIn the latest maneuver of the tech industry's ongoing patent wars, Intel has struck a $120m deal with RealNetworks to purchase 190 patents and 170 patent applications, along with what both companies define as "next-generation video codec software".… |
| NEC slashes 10,000 jobs – blames Thai floods, smartphone slump Posted: 26 Jan 2012 09:26 AM PST Japanese IT giant a victim of Apple's successNEC is set to slash 10,000 jobs including 3,000 unlucky employees from its workforce outside of Japan, after its revised forecast revealed the Japanese electronics giant would make a year end net loss of ¥100bn (£820m).… |
| Google emails Virgin Media subscribers ... about privacy Posted: 26 Jan 2012 08:57 AM PST Infuriated customers want to know how the Goog got their addressesFuming Virgin Media customers have taken to the telco's forum to complain that their email addresses have been used by Google, instead of being kept private.… |
| Posted: 26 Jan 2012 08:31 AM PST Rubber brandNapster UK has a new owner: Rhapsody, the company that killed the service off in the States.… |
| Google exec questions Reding's 'Right to be forgotten' pledge Posted: 26 Jan 2012 08:26 AM PST Says certain aspects of article 17 are 'unworkable'CPDP Google's privacy policy counsel in Brussels has questioned certain parts of European Commissioner Viviane Reding's freshly tabled draft bill on data protection law within the EU.… |
| New Earth-observing satellite snaps 'blue marble' shot Posted: 26 Jan 2012 07:55 AM PST Three-month-old Suomi NPP captures hi-res Earth picThe newly renamed Suomi NPP satellite has snapped a hi-res composite of the Earth from a number of swaths over the surface taken on 4 January.… |
| Blackhole crimeware kit drives web threat spike Posted: 26 Jan 2012 07:27 AM PST Report: Conficker also still causing mayhemFake anti-virus scams are on the wane but drive-by-download threats have rocketed over the past year thanks to the hugely popular Blackhole crimeware kit, while Conficker remains prolific some three years after its release, according to Sophos.… |
| WD's MyBook takes a Thunderbolt to the chest Posted: 26 Jan 2012 07:02 AM PST 2-drive external storage system for mega-fast read/writesWD has announced its new Thunderbolt-bolstered MyBook, telling us that we can soon eyeball the super speeded-up gear at a demo at the Macworld/iWorld show.… |
| Apple dishes out cheap, tasty Macs 'n slabs to staff Posted: 26 Jan 2012 06:47 AM PST Employees sink teeth into hefty $500 Macbook discountsAs if the joy of working for Apple wasn't reward enough, all Apple employees will now get a $500 discount off Macs and $250 off iPads.… |
| Korean boffins make e-books more like real ones Posted: 26 Jan 2012 06:17 AM PST Paperback swiperKorean researchers have developed an app which makes reading e-books more like flicking through the pages of the real thing.… |
| Big biz BlackBerry refuseniks adopt Apple over Android Posted: 26 Jan 2012 05:39 AM PST Enterprise iPhone activations dwarf rivalsSmartphone owners working for big business are activating far more iOS devices than they are Android ones - at least those who employed by firms using Good Technology's corporate email system are.… |
| Small pile of cash, dying platform: 2011 is bad news for Nokia Posted: 26 Jan 2012 05:32 AM PST Sales, profits, margins, all spiralling downNokia's results for 2011 show the company has shipped a million Lumia handsets and has cash in the bank, but other than that there's nothing good to report.… |
| Posted: 26 Jan 2012 05:04 AM PST Video-on-demand, set-top box biz up for sale |
| Russian supply ship heads for ISS, space garbage crashes into Pacific Posted: 26 Jan 2012 04:58 AM PST Vittles, manoeuvring fuel up: Rubbish bins downA Russian "Progress" supply ship has successfully lifted off bound for the International Space Station orbiting the Earth, even as another departed the station crammed with rubbish destined for fiery destruction during re-entry above the Pacific.… |
| Posted: 26 Jan 2012 04:30 AM PST Skype savvy Android DECT setReview The last Android-based home phone that landed on my desk came from iDect – that's Binatone to the rest of us. Frankly, I was less than impressed by it's lack of integration with Gmail contacts. Now, Archos is out to crack the same nut with its 35 Smart Home Phone which adds quite a few refinements.… |
| Posted: 26 Jan 2012 04:18 AM PST Mister Sulu, stand by to make your manoeuvres ...LSI WarpDrive solid state drives will be used by EMC in its Project Lightning server flash product.… |
| Nintendo cuts full-year forecast – by BILLIONS Posted: 26 Jan 2012 04:03 AM PST Super Mario-maker hopes Wii U release can help it power-upThe mighty yen and weak sales have combined to take a whack out of Nintendo, forcing the Japanese gaming firm to forecast an even bigger full-year loss.… |
| Symantec's profits up in calm third quarter Posted: 26 Jan 2012 03:46 AM PST Growth in security and compliance keeps ship steadyCEO Enrique Salem stands crisp and smart on the poop deck of the good ship Symantec, looking back at a straight course and ahead to more growth. It's a pretty unexciting third quarter story really.… |
| Flag-waving Lego Canuck soars to 80,000ft Posted: 26 Jan 2012 03:29 AM PST Canadian teens stake claim on upper atmosphereA couple of Canadian teenagers have staked their country's claim on the upper atmosphere by sending a flag-waving Legonaut to 80,000ft (24,384m).… |
| Posted: 26 Jan 2012 03:27 AM PST Live telly beamed to your iDevice |
| Apple and Google ramp up proxy war Posted: 26 Jan 2012 03:14 AM PST Motorola flings another 6 patent suits at the Fruity OneApple and Google might not be facing each other across a courtroom, but they're fighting just the same, with the Chocolate Factory wielding Motorola against the fondleslab-maker.… |
| Ten exabytes wedged into a rather large box by Cleversafe Posted: 26 Jan 2012 03:02 AM PST But with 4,500,000 drives, it's gonna cost yaIt must surely be some sort of landmark? Object storage supplier Cleversafe now has a 10-exabyte system customers can buy.… |
| Billions of net-ready boxes in homes by 2016 Posted: 26 Jan 2012 03:02 AM PST Will anyone still watch broadcast TV? |
| Google Maps to dish out disaster alerts Posted: 26 Jan 2012 02:39 AM PST Nearest McDonalds is... oh, there's an earthquake comi-... aaaahGoogle tried to claw back the moral high ground on Wednesday by adding a new emergency alert service to its popular mapping tool, designed to give the public up-to-the-minute information on serious weather, public safety and earthquake-related events.… |
| Foxconn tooling up for iPhone 5 Posted: 26 Jan 2012 02:29 AM PST Bigger body, bigger screen, says factory insiderTaiwanese contract manufacturer Foxconn is preparing its production lines for the iPhone 5, a company mole has claimed.… |
| Boffins one step closer to invisible shed Posted: 26 Jan 2012 02:20 AM PST Successfully cloak 3D object from microwavesInvisibility-investigating boffins have managed for the first time to cloak a three-dimensional object in free space – but only from microwaves.… |
| Apple loses ground to Android in tablet biz Posted: 26 Jan 2012 02:16 AM PST But sells so many iPads it needn't careApple may have topped the US smartphone chart in Q4 2011, thanks to the iPhone 4S, but it needs a revamped iPad if it's to reverse the trend in the tablet market.… |
| BBC's images of murdered infant did not breach privacy, copyright Posted: 26 Jan 2012 02:02 AM PST Court rules: Happier times snaps from trial were in public interestCopyright and privacy law do not prevent the BBC from publishing images of a murdered child, a Scottish criminal appeals court has ruled.… |
| Posted: 26 Jan 2012 01:51 AM PST Top of the US chart in Q4Apple topped the US smartphone chart in the final three months of 2011, pushing past all its Android rivals. Well, just - and it's losing ground in the tablet arena.… |
| Microsoft's magic bullet for Azure: Red Hat Linux Posted: 26 Jan 2012 01:32 AM PST Cloud biz falls short of $80m revenue targetAnalysis If Microsoft loves money, and it does, then making Linux publicly available on its proprietary Azure cloud can't come soon enough.… |
| 1 euro in every 7 spent on a Visa card Posted: 26 Jan 2012 12:58 AM PST Digital wallet coming this yearVisa will be launching a digital wallet this year, and expects to see half of Europe's transactions being done on a mobile phone by 2020, but plastic cards are looking good too, according to Visa Europe's Annual Report.… |
| DWP's Work Programme IT already broken at launch Posted: 26 Jan 2012 12:02 AM PST National Audit Office: Functionality still not availableThe IT underpinning the Department for Work and Pensions' (DWP) Work Programme was not fully functional when the scheme was launched and some of its key functionality is still not available, according to a National Audit Office (NAO) report.… |
| Posted: 25 Jan 2012 11:00 PM PST Streaming giants go head to head |
| Red Hat juices speed freak MRG Linux Posted: 25 Jan 2012 05:05 PM PST Shadowman gets the messageRed Hat updated its core Enterprise Linux operating system stack to 6.2 in December and its Enterprise Virtualization commercial-grade KVM server hypervisor to 3.0 last week. Now Shadowman has polished up a new release of a special stack of Linux and systems software called MRG aimed at hard-core messaging, real-time, and high performance computing workloads where generic Linux just don't cut it.… |
| Scientists shift electron orbits for atomic storage and quantum computing Posted: 25 Jan 2012 04:51 PM PST Jupiter's orbital mechanics inspires mesoscopic physicistsScientists have found a way to stabilize and regulate the orbit of electrons in an atom, after drawing inspiration from the orbit of asteroids around Jupiter.… |
| Citrix rides the virty desktop wave Posted: 25 Jan 2012 04:34 PM PST Thanks for Windows 7, Microsoft – can I have another?The maturation of desktop virtualization was coincidentally, and fortunately in the case of the Wednesday's financial results from Citrix Systems, timed more or less with the launch of Windows 7 desktops two years ago. The results show Citrix has been steadily capitalizing on its $500m acquisition of XenSource and others.… |
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