Chilly paradox: melting Arctic leads to snowy winters |
- Chilly paradox: melting Arctic leads to snowy winters
- Foxtel and Austar set to play nice with IPTV guys
- Microbee flies again
- Oz channel takes another hit as receiver moves in on WOW
- IBM carbon probe views electron movement in molecule
- Qualys pushes out cloud-based tech for website protection
- US lawyers float Facebook Credits antitrust suit
- Intel smartphones coming to the UK, France, China, India
- 41-megapixel MONSTER mobe shutters Nokia knockers
- 10GigE jetpacks strapped on EqualLogic underlings
- Dell flashes enhanced 12G racks of PowerEdge gear
- Fujitsu saddles up its own Hadoop distro
- Crap mobile networks shamed by Carrier IQ API
- It's game over for pinball pioneer
- ITU supremo offers top tips on thwarting next Arab Spring
- Cloud Store: Next wave of services due by April
- Handbags at dawn: Hermes loses Chinese trademark battle
- Fallen DRAMurai warrior Elpida files for bankruptcy protection
- ZeuS Trojan embraces P2P – becomes even more sneaky and sticky
- Asus peddles three-in-one smartphone, tablet, netbook
- Blighty's taxman offers smartphone levy refund
- Mozilla backs Facebook's mobile web standards push
- Child abuse suspect won't be forced to decrypt hard drive
- IBM and Huawei hook up to start Chinese takeaway
- Samsung punts smartphone with built-in projector
- Kaminario array slips on protection but won't go down on you
- Asus outs 1920 x 1280 Android ICS tablet
- Hubble snaps exploding star's near-fatal weight-loss bid
- ServiceKey protests innocence in Oracle 'grey market' spat
- Molesworth and the New Latin
- Sony pauses for breath, coughs up two more Xperia mobes
- Playboy, Virgin Galactic tout zero-grav nookie in spaaaaace!
- Viewsonic risks Apple backlash with Android Phone 4S
- Facebook denies poaching your text messages on Android
- Microsoft Tangos into cheap smartphones
- Sony PlayStation Vita
- Ten... PlayStation Vita launch games
- Vodafone: Do you take Visa?
- Panasonic invests smartphone with Eluga Power
- Secret high-security Chinese shipments point to iPad 3 exports
- HTC stimulates Sense with snap-happy One series
- Navigation app CoPilot Live goes freemium next month
- Samsung selects UK as first to get next-gen tablet
- Great Firewall springs a leak: Chinese flood Obama's Google+ page
- Samsung stretches 5in Galaxy Note phonetab to 10in
- Sony brings Samsung and NXP into the FeliCa fold
- Ford intros tech'd-up B-Max mini-MPV
- Sony Xperia converts flash motors into fancy remotes
- Jabra Halo 2 Bluetooth headset
- Orange treats NFC phone fans to free feed
| Chilly paradox: melting Arctic leads to snowy winters Posted: 27 Feb 2012 03:00 PM PST That missing iceberg is 12" deep on your drivewayGeorgia Tech has lobbed a small grenade of paradox into the climate change debate, with a study suggesting a correlation between melting Arctic pack ice and snowy winters in the Northern Hemisphere.… |
| Foxtel and Austar set to play nice with IPTV guys Posted: 27 Feb 2012 02:30 PM PST Content for ACCC green light deal underwayAustralian subscription TV incumbents Foxtel and Austar are set to offer selected exclusive content to ISPs in a bid to smooth the path to a green light for their $AU1.9 billion merger.… |
| Posted: 27 Feb 2012 02:00 PM PST Oz Z80: Back with extra LinuxAustralia's answer to the ZX Spectrum and BBC Micro, the Microbee, is back.… |
| Oz channel takes another hit as receiver moves in on WOW Posted: 27 Feb 2012 01:30 PM PST Weak sales, property debts take their tollAnother of Australia's struggling bricks-and-mortar gadget retailers is in trouble, with the WOW Audio Visual Superstores chain put up for sale by receivers Ferrier Hodgson.… |
| IBM carbon probe views electron movement in molecule Posted: 27 Feb 2012 12:21 PM PST Scanning technique vital for molecular computingIBM researchers in Switzerland have seen the movement of charge within a molecule for the first time, using a microscope tipped with a single carbon atom.… |
| Qualys pushes out cloud-based tech for website protection Posted: 27 Feb 2012 10:46 AM PST Plans to beat off SQL injections, DDoSing ... and SaaS rivalsSecurity software-as-a-service specialist Qualys has branched out from vulnerability assessment and policy compliance for corporate networks with a cloud-based website protection service.… |
| US lawyers float Facebook Credits antitrust suit Posted: 27 Feb 2012 10:31 AM PST Got nothing to lose? Step forwardExclusive US attorneys are trying to drum up interest in a potential case against Facebook, claiming its Credits virtual currency is breaking US antitrust law.… |
| Intel smartphones coming to the UK, France, China, India Posted: 27 Feb 2012 10:17 AM PST New high-end, low-end chips at 'twice Moore's Law'MWC 2012 Intel has announced three new partners that will soon offer smartphones based on Chipzilla's handset reference platform, and has provided more detail about its mobile-chip roadmap.… |
| 41-megapixel MONSTER mobe shutters Nokia knockers Posted: 27 Feb 2012 10:17 AM PST Hands on with improbable Symbian heavyweightMWC 2012 Nokia's PureView 808, unveiled today in Barcelona, boasts a 41-megapixel camera - a spec that trumps rivals' 8- and 12-MP sensors spectacularly. Naturally your humble hack had a play with one on the Nokia stand.… |
| 10GigE jetpacks strapped on EqualLogic underlings Posted: 27 Feb 2012 09:46 AM PST Plucky Dell arrays gets faster chips and portsDell has added 10Gbps Ethernet cards to two of its 1GigE EqualLogic iSCSI arrays, bumped up their controllers and built in greater Linux and Windows host integration.… |
| Dell flashes enhanced 12G racks of PowerEdge gear Posted: 27 Feb 2012 09:36 AM PST Plus tower and cloud packages unveiledTo say that the x86 server makers are a little anxious for Intel to launch the "Sandy Bridge-EP" processors and get the Xeon E5 transition under way is a bit of an understatement. They are positively champing at the bit.… |
| Fujitsu saddles up its own Hadoop distro Posted: 27 Feb 2012 09:29 AM PST Forget HDFSJapanese IT conglomerate Fujitsu is throwing its own elephant into the ring with a mashup of Fujitsu software with components of the Apache Hadoop big data muncher, which it says is better than just using the open-source code all by its lonesome.… |
| Crap mobile networks shamed by Carrier IQ API Posted: 27 Feb 2012 09:17 AM PST Snoopware biz begs for forgiveness by dishing telco dirtMWC 2012 Caught-out cellphone snoopster Carrier IQ has decided to come clean, hoping that punters will be prepared to have their phone's behaviour logged if they get to see the data too.… |
| It's game over for pinball pioneer Posted: 27 Feb 2012 09:14 AM PST Tilts after 100 yearsSteve Kordek, the man widely dubbed as the Godfather of Pinball, has fired his last steely sphere at the ripe age of 100.… |
| ITU supremo offers top tips on thwarting next Arab Spring Posted: 27 Feb 2012 08:58 AM PST Give the people what they want - better telecomsMWC 2012 The International Telecommunication Union's general secretary reckons the Arab Spring spate of revolutions is pretty much over, except possibly in Syria, and to keep it that way we need better-connected countries.… |
| Cloud Store: Next wave of services due by April Posted: 27 Feb 2012 08:44 AM PST Public sector organisations to 'rate' suppliersG-Cloud bigwig Chris Chant has confirmed the second wave of Cloud Store services will go live in April and that public sector customers will finally be able to rate suppliers, helping to shore up the flaky accreditation process.… |
| Handbags at dawn: Hermes loses Chinese trademark battle Posted: 27 Feb 2012 08:37 AM PST Fashion giant not impressed with Trademark Appeal BoardSacré bleu! Apple isn't the only big name brand facing a trademark KO in China at the moment, after French fashion giant Hermes lost a key legal battle with China's Trademark Appeal Board.… |
| Fallen DRAMurai warrior Elpida files for bankruptcy protection Posted: 27 Feb 2012 08:16 AM PST Japanese chipmaker finds itself in a $5.6bn holeJapanese chipmaker Elpida Memory filed for bankruptcy protection today after failing to find anyone willing to save it.… |
| ZeuS Trojan embraces P2P – becomes even more sneaky and sticky Posted: 27 Feb 2012 08:04 AM PST Even a headshot to a zombie network may no longer kill off botnetsNew variants of the Zeusbot/SpyEye cybercrime toolkit are moving away from reliance on command-and-control (C&C) servers towards a peer-to-peer architecture.… |
| Asus peddles three-in-one smartphone, tablet, netbook Posted: 27 Feb 2012 07:58 AM PST ICS glosses Padfone's dual-core downgrade |
| Blighty's taxman offers smartphone levy refund Posted: 27 Feb 2012 07:37 AM PST HMRC catches up with today's techHer Majesty's Revenue and Customs officials have decided that smartphones are phones, not PDAs, so anyone paying tax on one can now claim it back.… |
| Mozilla backs Facebook's mobile web standards push Posted: 27 Feb 2012 07:19 AM PST Smartphone browsers and in-app spending should be simplerMWC 2012 Open-web-loving Mozilla is backing Facebook's move to bring together smartphone-makers, carriers and developers to sort out standards for mobile internet and mobile app payments.… |
| Child abuse suspect won't be forced to decrypt hard drive Posted: 27 Feb 2012 07:04 AM PST US appeals court rules it would violate his 5th Amendment rightsA federal appeals court has ruled it improper to compel a child pornography suspect to decrypt his hard drive because such an act would violate his Fifth Amendment rights.… |
| IBM and Huawei hook up to start Chinese takeaway Posted: 27 Feb 2012 06:41 AM PST Two billion armpits can't be ignoredMWC 2012 IBM's enterprise consultancy, IBM Global Business Service, has joined up with Huawei to create enterprise solutions, initially for Chinese companies but with global aspirations.… |
| Samsung punts smartphone with built-in projector Posted: 27 Feb 2012 06:19 AM PST Beam me up, Sammy |
| Kaminario array slips on protection but won't go down on you Posted: 27 Feb 2012 06:18 AM PST K2 flash box now highly available for enterprisesKaminario has added enterprise disk drive array-like protection and availability features to K2, its solid state SAN storage boxes. You won't need to take one of those machines down, ever.… |
| Asus outs 1920 x 1280 Android ICS tablet Posted: 27 Feb 2012 06:04 AM PST iPad 3 challenger |
| Hubble snaps exploding star's near-fatal weight-loss bid Posted: 27 Feb 2012 05:58 AM PST Eta Carinae on the fast track to supernovaPic NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has captured a stunning shot of the Eta Carinae system's largest star suffering a near-death experience before it goes supernova in the near future.… |
| ServiceKey protests innocence in Oracle 'grey market' spat Posted: 27 Feb 2012 05:38 AM PST We're a victim as well, says bossServiceKey - one of two channel defendants named in an Oracle lawsuit last week - says it has been wrongly caught up in the litigation.… |
| Posted: 27 Feb 2012 05:19 AM PST 'Why must we lurn about computa sciense sur? Why?'Verity Stob 'In his speech [...] the Education Secretary Michael Gove appeared to accept in its entirety the argument that ICT had become little more than training in office skills and something far more rigorous was required [...] While Alex Hope's slogan "coding is the new Latin" did not appeal to some, it must have appealed to the classicist in Michael Gove' - Rory Cellan-Jones, BBC website… |
| Sony pauses for breath, coughs up two more Xperia mobes Posted: 27 Feb 2012 05:01 AM PST But will need more than Hollywood magic to kickstart Android lineMWC 2012 Two new Android phones – and one re-announced one – are not the real story from Sony, however hard it tries to make it so. When Sony and Ericsson hooked up there was a pause as the two companies tried to make the strange marriage work. But while the parting of ways seems completely harmonious, there are clearly some things to sort out.… |
| Playboy, Virgin Galactic tout zero-grav nookie in spaaaaace! Posted: 27 Feb 2012 04:44 AM PST Printed food served by frisky jetpack bunniesQuality journalism bastion Playboy has teamed up with boffins at Virgin Galactic to create the one thing missing in the universe - a Playboy Club in space.… |
| Viewsonic risks Apple backlash with Android Phone 4S Posted: 27 Feb 2012 04:33 AM PST Two Sims better than one |
| Facebook denies poaching your text messages on Android Posted: 27 Feb 2012 04:28 AM PST Newspaper fingers FB and YouTube App permsFacebook has dismissed allegations in The Sunday Times that the web giant's Android app can hoover text messages from phones as "creative conspiracy theorising".… |
| Microsoft Tangos into cheap smartphones Posted: 27 Feb 2012 04:14 AM PST Windows Phone Skype beta releasedMWC 2012 Microsoft is targeting the global market for smartphones outside the high end with its next Windows Phone, while promising most existing apps will continue to work with less hardware.… |
| Posted: 27 Feb 2012 04:01 AM PST Pushing the right buttons |
| Ten... PlayStation Vita launch games Posted: 27 Feb 2012 04:00 AM PST Port and portability |
| Posted: 27 Feb 2012 03:47 AM PST Global brands adopt global paymentsMWC 2012 Vodafone and Visa have joined forces to push an international payment brand, using NFC for pay-by-bonk functionality and a Visa prepaid card to carry the credit.… |
| Panasonic invests smartphone with Eluga Power Posted: 27 Feb 2012 03:38 AM PST Second handset outing in as many weeks |
| Secret high-security Chinese shipments point to iPad 3 exports Posted: 27 Feb 2012 03:34 AM PST Apple stays mum over cargo flights from Foxconn townFresh paperwork uncovered in China points to an early March launch for the long-awaited Apple iPad 3 - and apparently batches are already shipping to the US from assembly plants in the People's Republic.… |
| HTC stimulates Sense with snap-happy One series Posted: 27 Feb 2012 03:12 AM PST Click your Ice Cream Sandwich |
| Navigation app CoPilot Live goes freemium next month Posted: 27 Feb 2012 03:12 AM PST But loves Google MapsMWC 2012 Premier navigation app CoPilot will go freemium next month, with a cut-down version designed to convince users to throw away their dedicated satnav and buy in for 20 quid.… |
| Samsung selects UK as first to get next-gen tablet Posted: 27 Feb 2012 03:08 AM PST Tab 2 (7.0) and (10.1) here next month |
| Great Firewall springs a leak: Chinese flood Obama's Google+ page Posted: 27 Feb 2012 03:01 AM PST Free speech? In China?China's infamous tool of internet censorship the Great Firewall appeared to fail last week, allowing hundreds of web users in the People's Republic to access and post comments on US president Barack Obama's Google+ page.… |
| Samsung stretches 5in Galaxy Note phonetab to 10in Posted: 27 Feb 2012 02:57 AM PST Tablet with a stylus, anyone? |
| Sony brings Samsung and NXP into the FeliCa fold Posted: 27 Feb 2012 02:42 AM PST NFC-F: It'll bonk just about anythingMWC 2012 Japan's FeliCa system will soon boast NFC alongside the existing proximity system, using chips from Samsung and NXP to provide pay-by-bonk for Japanese abroad and gaijin alike.… |
| Ford intros tech'd-up B-Max mini-MPV Posted: 27 Feb 2012 02:31 AM PST Sync voice-controlled in-car comms, hi-fi kit on board |
| Sony Xperia converts flash motors into fancy remotes Posted: 27 Feb 2012 02:22 AM PST Wire your phone into the Jag dashboard via VNCMWC 2012 Sony will pre-load RealVNC's server onto all its Xperia handsets in 2012, enabling cars to control phones and customer support to reach out and touch you right on the screen.… |
| Jabra Halo 2 Bluetooth headset Posted: 27 Feb 2012 02:00 AM PST 'Phones for you? |
| Orange treats NFC phone fans to free feed Posted: 27 Feb 2012 01:55 AM PST Play games, get fatter |
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