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- Commbank shouts free beer, meals, to promote NFC payments
- Virgin Galactic announces test flight plans
- The problem with Telstra’s NBN plans
- M2 Telecoms buys some Time
- Optus fails to silence AFL boss
- Telstra gets ready for the split
- SUSE Linux moves to 3.0 kernel with SP2
- Apple's German win was really our victory, honest, says Motorola
- Fat margins squeeze Apple against Android
- Younger generation taking 'sledgehammer' to security
- Banking Trojan hijacks live chat to run real-time fraud
- Now Samsung supremo sued by sister in inheritance spat
- Disk shortages stall Q4 server sales (a bit)
- Nekkid Tech: Keep Austin weird
- Stratfor leak: US 'has secret indictment' of Julian Assange
- Hackers chop down UN eco-agency, release rare data into wild
- AppSense pushes out Dropbox encryption app for iOS
- Apple issues invitations to March 7 iPad roll-out
- Cisco CEO: Mobile cloud threat for service providers
- Hacking breach made us stronger says RSA
- Texas flash: TMS Ramsan-820 born in the USA
- Top Rambus attack dog Harold Hughes to retire
- O2 to balance work, life on smartphones
- Wii workouts unlikely to improve fitness
- Mobile net kingpins v the world: 'Why should we pay the 4G tab?'
- Cops cuff premium-rate SMS Android malware suspects
- Price-comparison site: OCZ reviews 'questionable'
- Apple tells Siri rival Evi: Get a facelift and you can stay
- Dell: 'Now they see they HAVE to consider working with us'
- Nicked sensitive Avnet server disks sparks ICO probe
- For those thinking Private Cloud
- Quantum computing IN OUR LIFETIME - IBM breakthrough
- Storage players pitch DRM tech for downloads
- Samsung admits Android tablet cash haul is disappointing
- Windows Phone armed with 'military-grade' email upgrade
- Yahoo! threatens! Facebook! with! patent! spanking!
- Microsoft 'fesses credit cards exposed by Indian store hack
- Telcos gang up to snatch in-app cash from Google, Apple
- Toyota, Samsung partner on car, phone connectivity
- Epic net outage in Africa as FOUR undersea cables chopped
- Bookeen Cybook Odyssey e-book reader
- China raked in £184bn from IT outsourcing in 2011
- Linux PC-in-a-stick to cost coders £139
- Bone-bothering boffins build GIANT penguin from fossils
- Cineworld flaunts '4D' movies
- Silicon Valley's assault on Mobile's Gated Kingdom
- Nokia opens e-books for WinPho mobiles
- Hungry Dell iron monsters FEAST on your puny apps
- Orange to impose overseas data cap to beat bill shock
- Reading this? You're probably planning to skill up on mobile in 2012
| Commbank shouts free beer, meals, to promote NFC payments Posted: 28 Feb 2012 03:30 PM PST Which bank slings punters a tenner or buys dinner for enduring lesson from "Kaching Kachampions"Australia's Commonwealth Bank is buying beer or paying punters ten Australian dollars to endure a brief lesson in its Kaching wireless payments app.… |
| Virgin Galactic announces test flight plans Posted: 28 Feb 2012 03:30 PM PST Can Branson get it up in 2012?Virgin Galactic has announced that it expects to go ex-atmospheric in a test flight this year.… |
| The problem with Telstra’s NBN plans Posted: 28 Feb 2012 03:00 PM PST Copper in the incumbent's saddlebagsRegulatory rules have helped put Telstra in the uncomfortable position of launching the most expensive National Broadband Network fibre-based plans in the Australian market.… |
| Posted: 28 Feb 2012 02:30 PM PST Hungrry for more acquisitionsM2 Telecommunications continues its acquisition drive, snapping up Time Telecom via subsidiary Southern Cross Telco for $AU18.5 million.… |
| Optus fails to silence AFL boss Posted: 28 Feb 2012 02:00 PM PST Joins long list of people who can't get Demetriou to shut upAfter winning the first round of its TV Now court case, Optus has had a minor loss when it asked an Australian court to stop Australian Football League boss Andrew Demetriou.… |
| Telstra gets ready for the split Posted: 28 Feb 2012 01:32 PM PST ACCC okays break-up plan; opposition finds shark and jumpsIn a landmark move, the Australian regulator has accepted Telstra's structural separation undertaking (SSU) to be implemented via the migration to the National Broadband Network.… |
| SUSE Linux moves to 3.0 kernel with SP2 Posted: 28 Feb 2012 01:05 PM PST Bread-and-butter file system goes mainstreamSUSE Linux, the commercial Linux distributor owned by software conglomerate Attachmate, is moving up to the Linux 3.0 kernel and also taking the btrfs file system mainstream alongside Linux container virtual private servers.… |
| Apple's German win was really our victory, honest, says Motorola Posted: 28 Feb 2012 12:49 PM PST 'Years of fruitless negotiation' ending?Motorola Mobility (MMI) says it has been 'vindicated' in Monday's ruling by a German appeals court, which permitted Apple to continue selling the iPhone and iPad in that country during Cupertino's appeal of a December legal victory in an Apple-MMI patent tussle.… |
| Fat margins squeeze Apple against Android Posted: 28 Feb 2012 12:07 PM PST iPhone subsidies can't beat 'free'Open ... and Shut There are a million ways to over-analyse iOS versus Android market share, but one thing is often overlooked: Apple's high-margin strategy depends upon buying customers through subsidies, and may not be able to keep pace with Android's low-cost model over time.… |
| Younger generation taking 'sledgehammer' to security Posted: 28 Feb 2012 12:02 PM PST Digital natives v digital immigrantsRSA 2012 The new generation of "digital natives" coming into the workplace is going to blow apart existing security practices, Symantec's CEO Enrique Salem warns.… |
| Banking Trojan hijacks live chat to run real-time fraud Posted: 28 Feb 2012 11:36 AM PST Simpler, faster, better... for crooksA new strain of financial malware is hijacking live chat sessions in a bid to hoodwink business banking customers into handing over their banking login credentials or into authorising fraudulent transactions.… |
| Now Samsung supremo sued by sister in inheritance spat Posted: 28 Feb 2012 11:03 AM PST Faces off with siblings over dad's sharesThe eldest sister of Samsung Electronics chairman Lee Kun-hee has joined that exec's brother in filing suit against him over an inheritance from their father.… |
| Disk shortages stall Q4 server sales (a bit) Posted: 28 Feb 2012 10:50 AM PST Tier one players slip – except DellConsidering the challenges that the server biz has faced in recent months, global server shipments have remained relatively healthy, with revenues impacted mostly by declining IBM mainframe sales.… |
| Nekkid Tech: Keep Austin weird Posted: 28 Feb 2012 10:39 AM PST AT&T passes the buck, Dell leaves PC brigade and techies headbang at SXSWPodcast This week Greg Knieriemen and trusty sidekick Ed Saipetch (@edasi) chat to Gina Minks (@gminks) and Nekkid Tech virgin and new media strategist Sarah Vela (@orchid8) about LTE networks; the SXSW tech, biz and music bash in Austin; and why Dell is so keen to branch out.… |
| Stratfor leak: US 'has secret indictment' of Julian Assange Posted: 28 Feb 2012 10:26 AM PST Email claims charges ready and waiting for himUS prosecutors have drawn up secret charges against WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, according to a leaked internal email extracted from private US intelligence firm Stratfor and obtained by the whistleblower site.… |
| Hackers chop down UN eco-agency, release rare data into wild Posted: 28 Feb 2012 10:17 AM PST Admin logins among files dumped after raidHacktivists claim to have raided the website of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and extracted sensitive internal information.… |
| AppSense pushes out Dropbox encryption app for iOS Posted: 28 Feb 2012 10:01 AM PST You left your iPad where..?Virtualisation software maker AppSense has moved into Apple kit with the release of its first iOS app ever – DataLocker – a security layer for Dropbox apps.… |
| Apple issues invitations to March 7 iPad roll-out Posted: 28 Feb 2012 10:01 AM PST 'We have something you really have to see'Apple has issued invitations for a March 7 event that will presumably – based on the iPad image that graces the email invite – introduce the oft-rumored iPad 3 with a "retina display", possibly with a resolution of 2048-by-1536 pixels.… |
| Cisco CEO: Mobile cloud threat for service providers Posted: 28 Feb 2012 09:32 AM PST Invest, preferably in CiscoMWC 2012 Network pitchman John Chambers has cautioned service providers that they risk being stranded by the mobile cloud.… |
| Hacking breach made us stronger says RSA Posted: 28 Feb 2012 09:27 AM PST Attack causes rethink on security skillsRSA 2012 RSA president Art Coviello has said the hacking attack that breached its servers ended up making the company stronger and more effective.… |
| Texas flash: TMS Ramsan-820 born in the USA Posted: 28 Feb 2012 09:02 AM PST Reassures US buyers it's keeping jobs onshoreTMS latest RamSan-820 is a high-availability box that the Texans say packs more terabytes into its 1U rack case than that of any other vendor.… |
| Top Rambus attack dog Harold Hughes to retire Posted: 28 Feb 2012 08:42 AM PST Lawyers' best friend goingRambus CEO Harold Hughes is stepping down - causing grief, devastation and woe in intellectual property lawyers' offices across the USA.… |
| O2 to balance work, life on smartphones Posted: 28 Feb 2012 08:21 AM PST Business and pleasure in one handset |
| Wii workouts unlikely to improve fitness Posted: 28 Feb 2012 08:19 AM PST Researchers suggest compensationTrying to keep your nippers in trim with a Nintendo Wii workout may be pointless. Research suggests motion-controlled videogame systems do very little to help kids fulfill their daily exercise requirements.… |
| Mobile net kingpins v the world: 'Why should we pay the 4G tab?' Posted: 28 Feb 2012 08:19 AM PST The data crunch is coming – and Apple makes the crunchiest phonesMWC 2012 Life's tough for a mobile operator. The regulators treat you like a cash cow and the over-the-top services are leeching all the money. And unless we get back to the good old days of the 1990s, they "won't be able to make the investments necessary for 4G".… |
| Cops cuff premium-rate SMS Android malware suspects Posted: 28 Feb 2012 08:02 AM PST French plod nab duo after 100k euros slurpedFrench police have arrested two men over an Android malware scam that netted an estimated €100,000, according to L'Informaticien.… |
| Price-comparison site: OCZ reviews 'questionable' Posted: 28 Feb 2012 07:32 AM PST Trip Advisor revisited?Austrian price comparison site Geizhals has flagged up reviews of OCZ's flash products on its site as suspicious.… |
| Apple tells Siri rival Evi: Get a facelift and you can stay Posted: 28 Feb 2012 07:03 AM PST Brit voice command app may not be axed from App StoreA British voice-recognition app that works like Siri may be allowed to stay in Apple's App Store, if it makes some changes, says a report in The Verge.… |
| Dell: 'Now they see they HAVE to consider working with us' Posted: 28 Feb 2012 06:43 AM PST Muhaha! Data centre dominance shall be oursDell is relying on its EMEA channel to take it into enterprise data centres as the big biz becomes a bigger and bigger focus for Round Rock.… |
| Nicked sensitive Avnet server disks sparks ICO probe Posted: 28 Feb 2012 06:31 AM PST Watchdog sniffs 'potential data breach' at distieThe Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) has confirmed it is investigating a potential data breach at Avnet Technology Solutions (TS) following the break-in prior to Christmas.… |
| For those thinking Private Cloud Posted: 28 Feb 2012 06:12 AM PST Here's your project check listLive today Our very own Tim Phillips is dragging some clever sorts from the industry and beyond into a studio to talk about building private clouds. They're remit is 'be helpful' and to give us a, 'check list for building a private cloud.' We're hoping by the time they're finished you'll have something of a weighty steer on what it takes to do a private cloud project.… |
| Quantum computing IN OUR LIFETIME - IBM breakthrough Posted: 28 Feb 2012 06:02 AM PST Big Blue boffins crack pesky unstable qubit puzzleIBM boffins reckon their research has catapulted quantum computing forward a few decades, making it possible within our lifetime.… |
| Storage players pitch DRM tech for downloads Posted: 28 Feb 2012 05:55 AM PST If World+Dog streams HD, who'll buy our hard drives then?Warner Bros. and 20th Century Fox have said they are working on yet another DRM technology for HD video, this time with the support of storage companies WD and SanDisk.… |
| Samsung admits Android tablet cash haul is disappointing Posted: 28 Feb 2012 05:42 AM PST 'We're not doing very well in fondleslab biz'Samsung has 'fessed up to something that the industry already knew: punters are still not falling for the charms of its fondleslabs.… |
| Windows Phone armed with 'military-grade' email upgrade Posted: 28 Feb 2012 05:28 AM PST Office invasion plannedMicrosoft is bullet-proofing email on Windows Phone in an effort to follow Apple and Google into the workplace.… |
| Yahoo! threatens! Facebook! with! patent! spanking! Posted: 28 Feb 2012 05:17 AM PST Pay up or see us in court! yells Yahoo!Like certain other tech companies that have failed to keep up with rivals' innovations, Yahoo! is resorting to a patent battle to top up its revenues.… |
| Microsoft 'fesses credit cards exposed by Indian store hack Posted: 28 Feb 2012 05:01 AM PST U-turn leaves punters in hot pickleMicrosoft India has warned customers of its online store that their financial details may have been compromised, backtracking on a previous statement to the contrary.… |
| Telcos gang up to snatch in-app cash from Google, Apple Posted: 28 Feb 2012 04:38 AM PST Nine operators draw up WAC API blueprintMWC 2012 Nine operators have implemented an in-application API for the Wholesale Applications Community, so AJAX apps will soon be able to empty your pockets just like the competition can.… |
| Toyota, Samsung partner on car, phone connectivity Posted: 28 Feb 2012 04:23 AM PST MirrorLink app, dashboard inbound |
| Epic net outage in Africa as FOUR undersea cables chopped Posted: 28 Feb 2012 04:19 AM PST Ship blunders allegedly to blameUnderwater data cables linking East Africa to the Middle East and Europe have been severed, bringing transfer rates to their knees in nine countries.… |
| Bookeen Cybook Odyssey e-book reader Posted: 28 Feb 2012 04:00 AM PST The one with the animated E Ink screen |
| China raked in £184bn from IT outsourcing in 2011 Posted: 28 Feb 2012 03:38 AM PST It was a very good year to be in software and servicesChina's software and IT outsourcing industry is booming, rising by a third in 2011 to reach a whopping 1.84 trillion yuan (£184.33bn), according to new government figures released by the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology.… |
| Linux PC-in-a-stick to cost coders £139 Posted: 28 Feb 2012 03:31 AM PST Cotton Candy orders now being taken |
| Bone-bothering boffins build GIANT penguin from fossils Posted: 28 Feb 2012 03:14 AM PST Tall, thin |
| Posted: 28 Feb 2012 03:03 AM PST You'll be shaking in your seats - literallyBritish cinema chain Cineworld has announced it will branch out beyond mere 3D offerings - 'Pah!' - into a fourth dimension, with vibrating seats (ahem) that synchronise their shaking to the action on screen.… |
| Silicon Valley's assault on Mobile's Gated Kingdom Posted: 28 Feb 2012 03:00 AM PST Barbarians at the IP gatewayPart one The Gated Kingdom guarded by the mobile industry is the last great frontier for Silicon Valley to crack.… |
| Nokia opens e-books for WinPho mobiles Posted: 28 Feb 2012 02:44 AM PST It's an Instapaper clone too |
| Hungry Dell iron monsters FEAST on your puny apps Posted: 28 Feb 2012 02:41 AM PST Compellent and arrays feed server flash beastDell is adding Micron-based Express Flash to its servers and will feed the server flash beast from Compellent arrays.… |
| Orange to impose overseas data cap to beat bill shock Posted: 28 Feb 2012 02:24 AM PST Pitches pre-pay bundles at roamers too |
| Reading this? You're probably planning to skill up on mobile in 2012 Posted: 28 Feb 2012 02:19 AM PST There's gold in them there mobile coding languagesHoary old coders are skilling up on mobile says a survey from CWJobs, revealing that 81 per cent of UK IT pros are planning to refresh their skill sets by sitting down and swotting up on some HTML5 in 2012.… |
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