Cupertino to ban permissionless address book copying

Cupertino to ban permissionless address book copying


Cupertino to ban permissionless address book copying

Posted: 15 Feb 2012 02:30 PM PST

A lesson in faking sincerity

Apple – arguably a villain in the "Path copies your address book" brouhaha – has, under pressure from US lawmakers, decided to require that apps prompt users before accessing their address book data.…

BlueGene/Q heads for Melbourne

Posted: 15 Feb 2012 02:00 PM PST

Live sciences get Big Blue green boost

Victoria's troubled VLSCI at the University of Melbourne has announced that IBM is to supply an 836-teraflops BlueGene/Q supercomputer for the research centre by June this year.…

Internet simulcasts don’t need extra royalties

Posted: 15 Feb 2012 01:30 PM PST

Oz labels lose case against radio stations

Musicians and record labels will probably be joining the queue behind sports codes and mobile carriers to demand more rights-holder-friendly copyright laws, after losing an internet radio case in the Federal Court yesterday.…

Cisco complains to the EU about Microsoft/Skype deal

Posted: 15 Feb 2012 12:47 PM PST

Wants assurances Redmond won't lock down video

Cisco has issued a formal complaint to the General Court of the European Union over Microsoft's acquisition of Skype, saying it needs assurances that Redmond will play fair on standards.…

Linux talent shortage drives up salaries

Posted: 15 Feb 2012 12:06 PM PST

Pick your perquisites, Penguin people

It pays to be a Linux expert, and if you have any needs that are not being met by your employer and you have Linux skills, now might be a good time to start making some demands.…

Twitter mobile apps storing address books for 18 months

Posted: 15 Feb 2012 11:13 AM PST

Tim Cook quizzed by Congress on privacy

Twitter has become the latest in a growing list of companies caught storing user's data without making it explicit.…

Nekkid Tech: Big data divas, Whitney and how to OWN the cloud

Posted: 15 Feb 2012 11:03 AM PST

Look into my eyes, take me to the clouds above

Podcast  Last week's Nekkid Tech was all about the future of tape as a storage medium and back-up software lock-ins.…

Apple seeks permission to kick Kodak's corpse

Posted: 15 Feb 2012 10:56 AM PST

Asks court to allow patent claim against dying photo icon

Apple has asked the New York branch of the US Bankruptcy Court for permission to sue what's left of Kodak, the once-mighty film firm, for patent infringment.…

Femtocell Forum grows big – rebrands as Small

Posted: 15 Feb 2012 10:09 AM PST

That's just over a smidge larger

The Femtocell Forum has changed its name to the Small Cell Forum, reflecting how the tech is migrating upwards, but also how femtos haven't yet set the world alight.…

Critical IE update dominates Valentine’s Patch Tuesday

Posted: 15 Feb 2012 09:27 AM PST

Explorer patch the only one giving sysadmins the fear

The Valentine's Day edition of Patch Tuesday brought nine security bulletins that collectively address 21 software vulnerabilities.…

HD bandwidth limits BBC Olympics 3D coverage

Posted: 15 Feb 2012 09:22 AM PST

Highlights show, two ceremonies, one race

The BBC has revealed what parts of next summer Olympic Games it plans to beam into homes in glorious 3D-o-Vision.…

'Linux for cloud' floats anti-Amazon cloud taster

Posted: 15 Feb 2012 09:05 AM PST

Dev, test, now b*gger off!

Updated  How does a cloud project solve a problem like Amazon? The once genteel etailer of toasters, books and CDs has now become a byword for "cloud".…

SanDisk snaps up PCIe cacher

Posted: 15 Feb 2012 08:39 AM PST

FlashSoft is now SanDisk's IP

Solid state storage supplier SanDisk has bought a PCIe caching software supplier, FlashSoft, equipping it to compete with other caching PCIe flash suppliers such as EMC (VFCache), Fusion-io (directCache and ioTurbine), OCZ (SANRAD), and TMS (Nevex).…

Mobile chiefs warned: Ditch unlimited tariffs... or else

Posted: 15 Feb 2012 08:18 AM PST

Regulators ready to pounce, says Ovum

Analysts have warned Asia Pacific mobile operators that they risk alienating customers and incurring the wrath of regulators if they don't ditch unlimited data tariffs and focus more on quality of service.…

Google tightens its Wallet after PIN reset goof

Posted: 15 Feb 2012 08:04 AM PST

Now only proper hackers can steal punters' dosh

Google has started provisioning electronic wallets again having fixed the more trivial security flaw in its product - though determined hackers will still get in.…

Acer's proud Wang: We're on the rise at last

Posted: 15 Feb 2012 07:28 AM PST

Return to profit in Q4 can't stave off £142m loss in 2011

Acer returned to profit in the fourth quarter, albeit marginally, but the recovery came too late in the year to prevent it from posting very significant losses for the whole of 2011.…

Boy burned in Nintendo sensor substitution

Posted: 15 Feb 2012 07:10 AM PST

Candle in the Wii

Firefighters today warned gamers not to simulate the Nintendo Wii's sensor bar with candles after an eight-year-old boy set himself on fire doing just that.…

Shareholders! attempt! Yahoo! coup!

Posted: 15 Feb 2012 07:02 AM PST

Investor tries to muscle onto board amid Asian talks snag

Troublemaking Yahoo! shareholder Daniel Loeb, head of hedge fund Third Point, has filed with the SEC to appoint himself - and three other directors nominated by him - to the board of the beleaguered web firm.…

Sony 'fesses to Whitney Houston price hike 'error'

Posted: 15 Feb 2012 06:32 AM PST

Albums mistakenly made more expensive hours after diva's death

Sony Music has finally issued a statement on hiking the price of tragic pop songstress Whitney Houston's albums after her death, apologising for the "error" in the iTunes listing.…

Hey Commentards! This pre-populated 'reply to' is for you

Posted: 15 Feb 2012 06:10 AM PST

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We took our time to remove this niggle, but you should like this little update:…

Life at Googleplex REVEALED in hot pics

Posted: 15 Feb 2012 06:04 AM PST

Or slightly hinted at anyway

Ever wondered what it would be like to work in the bosom of a warm, cuddly company for which making money is incidental to saving/taking over the world? A place so magical and mysterious that it has been nicknamed The Chocolate Factory after Roald Dahl's immortal creation?…

HP chiefs bet big at Vegas on cloud payday

Posted: 15 Feb 2012 05:43 AM PST

Resell ours or build your own, says biz

Cloud computing is forecast to balloon to an $143bn industry by 2013, according to HP's internal analysis, and the tech company wants to put a framework in place for resellers to help it swipe a slice of the action. And now HP is taking the show to Vegas, dishing out a bunch of cloud-related channel programmes at the invite-only Global Partner Conference (GPC) in gambling capital.…

FCC hangs up on 4G broadband biz LightSquared

Posted: 15 Feb 2012 05:26 AM PST

Let the legal shenanigans begin

The US regulator has issued a statement saying it plans to suspend the waiver under which LightSquared was planning to build its national 4G network, putting the kibosh on the whole plan.…

Bonkers MS security update flags Google.com as malign

Posted: 15 Feb 2012 05:14 AM PST

Don't be evil silly

A dodgy update to Microsoft's anti-virus software on Tuesday meant users of the software were wrongly warned that Google's homepage was infected with the infamous Blackhole Exploit Kit.…

500 Brit techies at risk over NHS IT fiasco

Posted: 15 Feb 2012 05:02 AM PST

Contractor CSC cuts staff after UK ditches duff patient record system

Up to 500 IT workers could lose their jobs over CSC's botched computer system for the NHS, which is costing everyone involved with the fiasco dearly.…

HP Pavilion dm1-4125ea 11.6in netbook

Posted: 15 Feb 2012 05:00 AM PST

AMD's Atom smasher

Review  Now that everyone and their dog has or wants a smartphone or tablet, the recent drop in netbook sales can hardly be a surprise. Yet does this mean there is no space for a small, cheap laptop? Of course not and HP's recently refreshed Pavilion dm1 is a fine example of why I hope the breed never dies.…

Mobile networks told to sniff punters' privates for profit

Posted: 15 Feb 2012 04:38 AM PST

How else to make money once everyone has a smartphone?

Mobile network operators will have to be more cavalier in their approach to customer data if they're going to be able to make money once mobile penetration becomes ubiquitous.…

Disk fab output pumping up, prices 'to stay high and dry'

Posted: 15 Feb 2012 04:18 AM PST

Flood-hit makers to meet hard drive demand by mid-2012 - analyst

Demand for hard disk drives will outstrip supply until at least the middle of 2012, analysts at IHS reckon, as a result of the deadly Thai factory floods that dented drive production.…

Motorola 'Intel inside' Android 4.0 phone spied on web

Posted: 15 Feb 2012 04:14 AM PST

Hello Medfield

Details of Motorola's first Android 4.0 smartphone have leaked online, with the device also the company's first handset to sport Intel's 'Medfield' Atom platform.…

Proview fears fanbois will derail iPad export ban bid

Posted: 15 Feb 2012 04:02 AM PST

Chinese love Apple gear too much, warn customs officials

Chinese firm Proview has admitted it might be tough to get a ban on iPads in China, despite the ruling that the name infringes on their trademark, because the local customs authorities are unlikely to get involved.…

Whistleblower: Decade-long Nortel hack 'traced to China'

Posted: 15 Feb 2012 03:41 AM PST

They had access to everything

Nortel was the victim of a years-long network security breach that allowed hackers to extract its trade secrets, according to a veteran of the bankrupt Canadian telco systems biz.…

UK cops cuff suspect after RnBXclusive takedown

Posted: 15 Feb 2012 03:16 AM PST

Anti-crime-gang squad seizes music site, starts asking questions

Blighty's Serious Organised Crime Agency (SOCA) has arrested an individual in connection with the closure of UK music exchange site rnbxclusive.com, an agency spokesperson told The Reg.…

Apple's Chinese labourers get 1.6 per cent of iPad loot - report

Posted: 15 Feb 2012 03:02 AM PST

Foxconn staff get only $8 of tablet's $499 price tag

As Apple desperately tries to repaint itself as a caring company when it comes to workers' rights, news has emerged that employees in its suppliers' Chinese factories get just $8 of the $499 sale price of each iPad 2.…

Changing room spy cam sparks privacy tsar blast

Posted: 15 Feb 2012 02:39 AM PST

Hong Kong biz barons told snooping on staff is bad, mmkay

Hong Kong privacy tsar Allan Chiang has been forced to clarify to bosses that it's not OK to spy on their employees, after property company Hong Yip was found to have installed spy cameras in one of its buildings to monitor staff.…

HP iSCSI slogger usurped by younger flashy model

Posted: 15 Feb 2012 02:21 AM PST

6.4TB P4900 for just $199k

HP has announced an all-flash version of its LeftHand Networks P4000 iSCSI storage array, the P4900…

Leisure Suit Larry in the Land of the Lounge Lizards

Posted: 15 Feb 2012 02:00 AM PST

Thanks for the mammaries

Europeans turn backs on Ultrabooks

Posted: 15 Feb 2012 01:42 AM PST

Cheap 15-inchers or pricey Macs, s'il vous plait

Europeans don't want Ultrabooks - and their lack of interest in the platform will hit Intel's platform market share forecast where it hurts.…

Blighty's gov to spunk up to £2.9b on crim-stalking tech

Posted: 15 Feb 2012 01:32 AM PST

Six-year deal touted for software and gear by Ministry of Justice

The Ministry of Justice (MoJ) is looking to spend up to £2.9bn on electronic monitoring technology.…

Microsoft code not the security sieve sysadmins should be worried about

Posted: 15 Feb 2012 01:03 AM PST

Study finds hackers aren't hitting the apps your biz thinks they are

The gap between software patched by IT departments and the applications cyber-criminals actually target is leaving organisations at a greater risk of attack.…

Child abuse files stolen from council worker in PUB - £100k fine

Posted: 15 Feb 2012 12:04 AM PST

Another council coughs £80k for HAND-DELIVERING kid's info to neighbour

The UK's data protection watchdog has fined two English council bodies a total of £180,000 after finding they had failed to keep "highly sensitive information" about children secure.…

Intel 520 240GB SSD

Posted: 14 Feb 2012 11:00 PM PST

Sandforce inside

Review  The rumour mill was working overtime throughout 2011 with suggestions that Intel was considering forsaking the Marvell controllers it had used for its previous generation of consumer SSDs, the 510 series. The story went that the company was jumping into bed with another third party controller manufacturer, namely Sandforce, for the next generation of its solid state drives.…

Heartland Institute documents leaked

Posted: 14 Feb 2012 07:38 PM PST

Koch-up or konspiracy?

Gifted amateurs and interested activists the world over are poring over documents published on the Desmog blog and elsewhere, which appear to detail the US think-tank the Heartland Institute's budget and anti-climate-change strategy.…

Mobile internet devices to outnumber humans this year

Posted: 14 Feb 2012 05:12 PM PST

Skynet's plans proceeding well

The number of mobile devices will outstrip the global population in 2012, according to Cisco's latest Global Mobile Data Traffic Forecast.…

Alcatel-Lucent opens up Aladdin's cave of patents

Posted: 14 Feb 2012 03:45 PM PST

Signs up with RPX licencing cabal

Alcatel-Lucent has joined an international patent licencing syndicate RPX Corp which will open up its portfolio of 29,000 issued patents and expects to reap a handsome fiscal return.…

Apple CEO defends fixes to suppliers' working conditions

Posted: 14 Feb 2012 03:42 PM PST

Underage labor 'abhorrent', overtime abuse 'endemic'

CEO Tim Cook wants you to know – really wants you to know – that despite what you may have heard, Apple takes working conditions at its Asian contract manufacturers quite seriously and is working to improve them.…

Japanese robot mirrors master’s movements

Posted: 14 Feb 2012 03:30 PM PST

Do dat crazy Avatar dance

The Avatar headlines were inevitable, weren't they? Japanese researchers have unveiled a master-slave robot that moves in synch with kit worn by the robot's controllers.…

Qld council gets crafty with mobile data mining

Posted: 14 Feb 2012 03:15 PM PST

Logan's mobility run

South East Queensland's Logan City Council has implemented a mobile strategy that assists the local council in data collection and deployment of business services.…

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