PayPal dispute ends in violin destruction |
- PayPal dispute ends in violin destruction
- Study finds piracy withering against legal alternatives
- Quickflix bolstered by streaming
- Civil society NGOs under threat, says Access
- New CEO Rometty tweaks IBM exec lineup
- Lunar mineral turns up in Oz
- Mobile carriers face big ticket spectrum costs
- Judge sets date for Google v Oracle showdown
- Apache lets fly Hadoop 1.0 data muncher
- Android Market tops 400,000 apps, climbing fast
- Google grabs yet more patents from IBM war chest
- Brits got Kindles for Christmas
- IBM buys Green Hat for virty dev tools
- China Telecom piggybacks EE to create UK network
- At least 10 days till hot Phobos-Grunt chunks rain down
- Nokia posts car-to-phone comms app
- Analysts: Samsung will show us the MONEY on Friday
- Videogame piracy figures show decline
- Yahoo! bags! CEO! from! PayPal!
- Pastebin on the mend after DDoS battering
- Samsung Ultrabook specced up by retailer
- Ubuntu hoists skirt, flashes 'concept' gadget at CES
- Samsung confirms refreshed Galaxy Ace for UK
- Apple shoots for Premier League soccer streaming rights
- Nokia Ace to launch from $100m mountain of ad cash
- Germans increase office efficiency with 'cloud ceiling'
- Virtual sanity: How to get a grip on your home PCs
- Anonymous hunts neo-Nazis with WikiLeaks-style site
- Dizzy: the Ultimate Cartoon Adventure
- EMC Isilon stiffens penetration into NAS arena
- Comet 'sold 94,000 pirate Windows CDs', claims Microsoft
- Exotic Russian rock CAME FROM OUTER SPACE
- Weak Sony PS Vita sales prompt price-cuts
- Asus promises to open Prime bootloader
- Xio sends its new Admiral Nelson into storage offensive
- UK space agency to boldly send techies ... behind a desk
- Cops get 3D laser scanners for motorway crash sites
- PCIe flashers bash storage networks
- Saudi hackers plaster 14,000 credit card privates on web
- HTC Sensation XL
- US military's non-lethal weapon plans revealed
- Space soldiers save satellite from FLAMING DEATH
- Chip sales sag says semiconductor seller survey
| PayPal dispute ends in violin destruction Posted: 04 Jan 2012 03:00 PM PST T&C hell, or a warning about how to buy old instruments?Like just about every collectable, violins are subject to fakery and claims of fakery – something that a seller complains has led to the destruction of what the seller claims was a $US2,500 instrument in a PayPal dispute.… |
| Study finds piracy withering against legal alternatives Posted: 04 Jan 2012 02:50 PM PST People just aren't prepared to be screwedA study has found that people are perfectly prepared to pay for online content, provided that the alternatives aren't too harsh.… |
| Quickflix bolstered by streaming Posted: 04 Jan 2012 02:30 PM PST Gaining digital groundQuickflix's move to digital streaming in December has sparked 10 percent of its subscribers to choose streaming as part of their package.… |
| Civil society NGOs under threat, says Access Posted: 04 Jan 2012 02:00 PM PST A call for helpAttacks on the freedom-of-speech community worldwide seemed to grow in 2011, according to umbrella organization Access.… |
| New CEO Rometty tweaks IBM exec lineup Posted: 04 Jan 2012 01:52 PM PST Kern retires, looks for CEO position elsewhereGinni Rometty was tapped to be IBM's president and CEO last October and took the reins from Sam Palmisano, still the company's chairman, on January 1.… |
| Posted: 04 Jan 2012 01:33 PM PST Tranquillityite spotted in WA rocksUntil now, the mineral tranquillityite – consisting of iron, zirconium, yttrium, titanium, silicon and oxygen, and almost completely useless – has only been observed in rocks brought back from the glory days of the moon landings. Now, a team of scientists in Western Australia has found it for the first time in Earthbound samples.… |
| Mobile carriers face big ticket spectrum costs Posted: 04 Jan 2012 01:31 PM PST 800 Mhz set to make the govt a motzaAustralian mobile carriers are turning activist in the lead up to the Federal Government's final determination on the pricing for retaining their 800MHz mobile licences.… |
| Judge sets date for Google v Oracle showdown Posted: 04 Jan 2012 12:41 PM PST Springtime for Ellison in CaliforniaA pretrial order from the California courts has set the dates for the forthcoming trial between Oracle and Google over the rights and wrongs of Java's intellectual property rights.… |
| Apache lets fly Hadoop 1.0 data muncher Posted: 04 Jan 2012 11:33 AM PST This ain't no DumboThe Hadoop project at the Apache Software Foundation is beating its chest for delivering the v1.0 version of the open source MapReduce data analysis tool, its Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS), and other related code.… |
| Android Market tops 400,000 apps, climbing fast Posted: 04 Jan 2012 10:27 AM PST Fart App Index™ parity with iOS unclearGoogle's Android Market now has over 400,000 apps, and the pace of new code additions is accelerating.… |
| Google grabs yet more patents from IBM war chest Posted: 04 Jan 2012 09:33 AM PST Instant message take-back IP among new lawsuit ammoGoogle continues to fill up its sack of patents, once again with the help of IBM, bagging scores of patents from the tech titan.… |
| Brits got Kindles for Christmas Posted: 04 Jan 2012 09:06 AM PST More e-book readers given as prezzies than tabletsAsk punters what they got for Christmas and a rather large number of them say they got a Kindle.… |
| IBM buys Green Hat for virty dev tools Posted: 04 Jan 2012 09:01 AM PST Red Hat would complete the setSetting up systems to do software testing is almost as annoying as setting up systems to run in production, or maybe it is more annoying because of the multiple scenarios you have to test before you throw the code over the wall into the data center. That is why IBM has bought Green Hat, which is neither a cuckold (in China wearing a green hat is idiomatic for being made one) nor a galero (much as a red hat designates a cardinal, this wide-brimmed hat designates a bishop), but rather an Anglo-American software company that makes software testing tools that do some things that Big Blue's Rational toolbox does not.… |
| China Telecom piggybacks EE to create UK network Posted: 04 Jan 2012 08:25 AM PST Service for Chinese speakers in Blighty to launch 2012China Telecom is following through on its promise to launch a UK network in 2012, piggybacking on Everything Everywhere's network for the 400,000 Chinese speakers in the UK.… |
| At least 10 days till hot Phobos-Grunt chunks rain down Posted: 04 Jan 2012 08:02 AM PST Earliest estimate for fallout from doomed Russian Mars probe 'may change'Any fragments of the doomed Russian Mars probe Phobos-Grunt that don't burn up in the fiery explosion of its fuel tanks hitting the atmosphere are likely to fall to Earth on 15 January.… |
| Nokia posts car-to-phone comms app Posted: 04 Jan 2012 07:19 AM PST MirrorLink debuts on Symbian BelleThe Connected Car Consortium's MirrorLink technology - it allows an compatible in-car entertainment system to show what's on your phone's screen and control the handset over Wi-Fi, Bluetooth or USB - is now available to folk with Symbian Belle devices.… |
| Analysts: Samsung will show us the MONEY on Friday Posted: 04 Jan 2012 07:02 AM PST Q4 take expected to rise to $4.1bn on smartphone salesSamsung will be announcing a healthy profit in its quarterly results, according to market-watchers, who reckon the Korean electronics giant has powered through the period with strong smartphone sales.… |
| Videogame piracy figures show decline Posted: 04 Jan 2012 06:56 AM PST 2011 torrent abuse exposedVideogame piracy may be in decline, according to a study investigating which games were illegally downloaded the most last year.… |
| Yahoo! bags! CEO! from! PayPal! Posted: 04 Jan 2012 06:34 AM PST Ex-prez drafted in to steer web biz to gloryAs rumoured all over the web this morning, PayPal president Scott Thompson has been snapped up by Yahoo! for the role of chief executive. Yahoo!'s acting CEO Tim Morse has returned to his job as chief financial officer.… |
| Pastebin on the mend after DDoS battering Posted: 04 Jan 2012 06:14 AM PST Were hacktivists the real target?Popular text file sharing service Pastebin.com has returned online following a denial of service attack on Tuesday.… |
| Samsung Ultrabook specced up by retailer Posted: 04 Jan 2012 05:48 AM PST CES premiere?Samsung's upcoming Ultrabook, the Series 5 line member NP530U3B-A01, has been specced up on a US retail site ahead of its formal launch - which will presumably take place next week at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES).… |
| Ubuntu hoists skirt, flashes 'concept' gadget at CES Posted: 04 Jan 2012 05:42 AM PST Desktop Linux goes TV - or tablet?Ubuntu shop Canonical has promised to make a splash at the annual gadget jamboree, the Consumer Electronics Show, in Las Vegas, Nevada, next week.… |
| Samsung confirms refreshed Galaxy Ace for UK Posted: 04 Jan 2012 05:34 AM PST Power upSamsung has given its Galaxy Ace handset a facelift, unveiling its beefed-up successor, the Samsung Galaxy Ace Plus, and saying the smartphone will come to Blighty.… |
| Apple shoots for Premier League soccer streaming rights Posted: 04 Jan 2012 05:30 AM PST iTunes 1, Sky 0?Apple will push for further global domination by taking on Sky, the BBC and multimedia rival Google in the billion-pound fight for the rights to transmit Premier League football.… |
| Nokia Ace to launch from $100m mountain of ad cash Posted: 04 Jan 2012 05:21 AM PST Microsoft and co bet big on new WinPhoneMicrosoft and its partners will start spending money like water in the next three months, following the launch of the Nokia Ace, according to sources cited by Betanews.… |
| Germans increase office efficiency with 'cloud ceiling' Posted: 04 Jan 2012 05:02 AM PST Worker output boosted by illusion of open sky overheadSo you thought you had deployed every form of office technology that could possibly increase the productivity of your company's cripplingly expensive salaried employees? You were wrong. Remorseless German boffins have discovered a way to make office workers still more efficient using - quite literally in this case - cloud technology.… |
| Virtual sanity: How to get a grip on your home PCs Posted: 04 Jan 2012 04:41 AM PST Set up once, use again and again anywhereSysadmin blog Virtualisation can have a role in the home computing environment. Personal computers are kind of crap at migrating (or duplicating) your settings, applications and data from one system to another. Virtualisation can remove some of this grief.… |
| Anonymous hunts neo-Nazis with WikiLeaks-style site Posted: 04 Jan 2012 04:23 AM PST Loads of alleged donors, right-wing players to send those pizzas toMembers of Anonymous have re-doubled their offensive against German neo-Nazis.… |
| Dizzy: the Ultimate Cartoon Adventure Posted: 04 Jan 2012 04:00 AM PST Eggsemplary gamingAntique Code Show Resident Evil is considered a classic by many. But did you know that the design of the first three games was popularised ten years prior by a little eggy wegg?… |
| EMC Isilon stiffens penetration into NAS arena Posted: 04 Jan 2012 03:51 AM PST Waggles rising revenues at rival NetAppEMC is making great progress attacking the scale-out NAS market with Isilon and trying to cap NetApp's growth there.… |
| Comet 'sold 94,000 pirate Windows CDs', claims Microsoft Posted: 04 Jan 2012 03:21 AM PST Redmond sues retail chain over counterfeit disc allegationsUpdated Microsoft has accused high-street retailer Comet of pirating 94,000 Windows Vista and Windows XP recovery CDs and selling them to consumers.… |
| Exotic Russian rock CAME FROM OUTER SPACE Posted: 04 Jan 2012 03:02 AM PST Alien quasicrystal find sheds light on solar system birthAtom-bothering boffins have proved that a crystal previously only found in labs also occurs naturally - in outer space.… |
| Weak Sony PS Vita sales prompt price-cuts Posted: 04 Jan 2012 02:52 AM PST 3DS sets an exampleSony's PlayStation Vita experienced a rapid decline in sales during its second week on Japanese shelves, prompting suggestions the company may have to reduce the console's price.… |
| Asus promises to open Prime bootloader Posted: 04 Jan 2012 02:33 AM PST Blames current encryption on Google and DRMAsus has pledged to release a tool that will unlock the bootloader built into its Eee Pad Transformer Prime tablet, possibly from 12 January, the date on which it will be pushing out the gadget's Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich update.… |
| Xio sends its new Admiral Nelson into storage offensive Posted: 04 Jan 2012 02:33 AM PST Now drive biz says it's part-owned by SeagateXio's new CEO John Beletic has moved quickly to put his stamp on the company by appointing a new marketing boss - Richard Nelson.… |
| UK space agency to boldly send techies ... behind a desk Posted: 04 Jan 2012 02:02 AM PST Blighty advertises for boffins, IT workers and admin staffThe UK space agency has launched a 'jobs feed' on its website to keep Brits up to date with all the career opportunities relating to exploration above and beyond Earth's skies.… |
| Cops get 3D laser scanners for motorway crash sites Posted: 04 Jan 2012 01:29 AM PST £2.7m from DfT for new tech will help tackle closures after smash-upsThe Department for Transport (DfT) has awarded 27 police forces across England £2.7m worth of funding for the implementation of 3D laser scanning technology.… |
| PCIe flashers bash storage networks Posted: 04 Jan 2012 01:02 AM PST They slow you down, manBlocks & Files A sea change in storage industry thinking is occurring: storage networks are now seen as slowing down access to data. The PCIe flash DAS hare beats SAN and NAS tortoises every day of the week.… |
| Saudi hackers plaster 14,000 credit card privates on web Posted: 04 Jan 2012 12:03 AM PST Raid on Israeli sites exposes up to 400,000 puntersA Saudi Arabian hacking group claims it has leaked information on up to 400,000 Israelis, including names, addresses and credit card details.… |
| Posted: 03 Jan 2012 11:00 PM PST Beats drums up another AndroidReview Following on the Sensation XE, HTC's other Beats Audio-enabled handset is certainly bigger, but it comes out looking the weaker of the two in almost every criteria except size.… |
| US military's non-lethal weapon plans revealed Posted: 03 Jan 2012 05:52 PM PST Laser aircraft disruption, sonic scuba repeller, blinders, moreDetails of the US military's wish-list for non-lethal devices have been published online and show some interesting new technologies, as well as some more familiar ones that are to be beefed up.… |
| Space soldiers save satellite from FLAMING DEATH Posted: 03 Jan 2012 05:41 PM PST The little engine that could rescues $2bn military birdThe US Air Force Space Command's 14-month effort to save a $2bn military communications satellite overcame failed thrusters, threatened explosion, space debris, and destructive radiation, thanks in great measure to tiny thrusters with a mere 0.05 pounds of oomph.… |
| Chip sales sag says semiconductor seller survey Posted: 03 Jan 2012 03:32 PM PST 2011 semi flat, 2012 semi hopefulThanks to the flooding in Thailand and other macroeconomic issues, chip sales fell by 3.1 per cent last November to $25.13bn, according to statistics from the Semiconductor Industry Association. Those figures are a three-month moving average running from September through November, compared to sales from the same period on 2010 – which was a pretty good time for the chip biz.… |
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