File sharing arrests move to Germany |
- File sharing arrests move to Germany
- Australia to make health research open access
- <i>News of the World</i> hacker named after court block lifted
- Researchers propose ‘overclock’ scheme for mobiles
- Microsoft denies report of Office coming to iPad
- Aussies learn to love downloading
- Megaupload honcho sprung from slammer (for now)
- An iPad in every pot, says Anna Bligh
- Kiwi open sourcers invade Aus
- Teradata grabs Hortonworks by trunk
- ScaleXtreme adds patch management to cloudy utility belt
- Apache releases first upgrade to HTTP Server in six years
- Apple slaps mega-solar panel field on new ENORMO data centre
- Sugar-daddy love runs out for hard-up Valley firms
- Experts: RSA weak keys flaw restricted to network devices
- Climate scientist admits lying to obtain 'Denialgate' docs
- Ubuntu for Android: Penguins peck at Nokia's core problem
- Scroogle unplugged for good this time
- Google gobbles kaput search robot Cuil's patents
- Mobile telcos bleed $13.9bn as IM apps chomp on SMS
- Mellanox: Just jump straight to 40GE networks
- SaaS brings software to the masses
- LOHAN's flying truss: One orb or two?
- BlackBerry PlayBook OS gets RIM spit 'n' polish
- Russian search biz grabs Twitter's fire hose, sprays everywhere
- PlayStation Vita price dips below £200
- Flash DOOMED to drive itself off a cliff - boffins
- Bogus Pokemon evolves into iTunes smash hit
- Dell Latitude E6220 12.5in Core i7 notebook
- Met Office wants better supercomputer to predict EXTREME weather
- Home Sec splits Border Agency after passport checks fiasco
- Rovio launches Angry Birds into space
- China Telecom ramps up iPhone 4S fanboi fever
- RIM's backdoor sniffed by BBM-snooping Indian spooks
- Sony Xperia U slips out ahead of launch
- Blighty's first IT wholesaler swaps Henry for Henry
- Smart telly trends make Apple 'iTV' a certainty
- AppAware
- Zerowait feeds hungry NetApp punters tasty NASAGNA
- CRACK made by quakes FOUND ON MOON
- Proview wins new Chinese IPAD ruling as Apple threatens to sue
- Virgin boss victorious in .xxx Branson pickle
- British Medical Association calls for long, slow rollout of NHS 111
- SMS compo firms fined £200k for typosquatting, misleading punters
- Motorola Motoluxe Android smartphone
- Nasa rocketeers probe aurora borealis solar interference
- Optus snaps up Vivid for 4G build
- Digital Realty gets real in Victoria
| File sharing arrests move to Germany Posted: 21 Feb 2012 03:34 PM PST Skyload.net gone, operators arrestedGerman-language news sites and blogs are reporting that file locker site Skyload.net has been shut down and its operators arrested.… |
| Australia to make health research open access Posted: 21 Feb 2012 03:30 PM PST What the public funds, the public gets to useWhile America seriously considers the insane Research Works Act (banning the open publication of publicly-funded research), Australia is moving in the other direction. Its National Health and Medical Research Council has announced that all funded research will be made available to the public starting July.… |
| <i>News of the World</i> hacker named after court block lifted Posted: 21 Feb 2012 03:26 PM PST Murdoch editor Andy Coulson fingered as key contactA man accused of hacking into the computers of a former British Army intelligence officer on behalf of a News of the World editor has been named as Philip Campbell Smith, also a former British Army intelligence officer.… |
| Researchers propose ‘overclock’ scheme for mobiles Posted: 21 Feb 2012 03:00 PM PST Processing at a sprint to overcome tech limitationsIt's getting increasingly difficult to pack enough processing power into mobile phone form factors, so US researchers are proposing a new scheme: seriously over-spec the processors, but only use their power when it's needed.… |
| Microsoft denies report of Office coming to iPad Posted: 21 Feb 2012 02:31 PM PST 'Inaccurate rumors and speculation,' says RedmondMicrosoft has denied a report which claims to have photographic evidence that Redmond has developed a version of Office to run on the iPad.… |
| Aussies learn to love downloading Posted: 21 Feb 2012 02:30 PM PST Need more legit content sharing optionsABC's iView has emerged as the leading site for legal on demand video downloads, followed by iTunes, Foxtel and on demand BigPond TV, according to new research from Ericsson.… |
| Megaupload honcho sprung from slammer (for now) Posted: 21 Feb 2012 02:20 PM PST NZ court hears 'new evidence', bails bossBreaking Reports are emerging from the Land of the Long White Cloud that Kim Dotcom (formerly Kim Schmitz) has been sprung from prison after being granted bail.… |
| An iPad in every pot, says Anna Bligh Posted: 21 Feb 2012 02:00 PM PST Queensland election campaign jumps the sharkQueensland's apparently-outgoing premier Anna Bligh has launched an IT auction to replace the law-and-order auctions more familiar to voters in Australian state elections.… |
| Posted: 21 Feb 2012 01:30 PM PST SilverStripe open HQ in VictoriaNew Zealand open source digital media company SilverStripe is ramping up its presence in Australia, selecting Victoria as its Australian headquarters and hiring 50 new staff.… |
| Teradata grabs Hortonworks by trunk Posted: 21 Feb 2012 12:25 PM PST An elephant line from Hadoop to data warehouseTeradata doesn't want to be an elephant, it wants to ride them.… |
| ScaleXtreme adds patch management to cloudy utility belt Posted: 21 Feb 2012 12:04 PM PST Not quite as many tools as BatmanScaleXtreme, the upstart cloud-based systems management tool maker that is taking on heavyweights like IBM, CA, HP, and BMC, is adding patch management to its utility belt.… |
| Apache releases first upgrade to HTTP Server in six years Posted: 21 Feb 2012 11:51 AM PST Popular open source platform gets fasterThe Apache Software Foundation has issued the first upgrade to its popular HTTP server platform in six years.… |
| Apple slaps mega-solar panel field on new ENORMO data centre Posted: 21 Feb 2012 11:32 AM PST Won't do much to satisfy Greenpeace though ...Apple has dropped a few more details about its huge new data centre in Maiden, North Carolina in an update to its environmental policy published yesterday.… |
| Sugar-daddy love runs out for hard-up Valley firms Posted: 21 Feb 2012 10:32 AM PST Losing the way from A to BOpen ... and Shut For many startups, getting Series A funding isn't the problem. The problem is using that cash to clear the increasingly high hurdles investors are imposing on early stage startups for the Series B round.… |
| Experts: RSA weak keys flaw restricted to network devices Posted: 21 Feb 2012 10:03 AM PST Primal fearAnalysis Flaws in the way some of EMC's RSA security division encryption keys are generated are down to a weakness in generating random numbers that's restricted to network devices rather than digital certificates on websites, according to both RSA and cryptographic researchers.… |
| Climate scientist admits lying to obtain 'Denialgate' docs Posted: 21 Feb 2012 09:27 AM PST Gleick cops to social-engineering of rightwing thinktankA prominent climate scientist, well known for his outspoken condemnation of climate scepticism, has admitted that he was the individual who recently leaked internal documents from rightwing think tank the Heartland Institute. Peter Gleick said he obtained the documents by using "someone else's name" in "a serious lapse of my own and professional judgment and ethics".… |
| Ubuntu for Android: Penguins peck at Nokia's core problem Posted: 21 Feb 2012 09:01 AM PST Canonical waves Google phones at Windows waverersMWC Nokia chief executive Stephen Elop might be remembered as the Thomas Watson of our time, based on his remark you don't need quad-core processors for smartphones.… |
| Scroogle unplugged for good this time Posted: 21 Feb 2012 08:31 AM PST Not-for-profit search engine shuttered by creatorScroogle - a not-for-profit search engine that offered users something of a pro-privacy antidote to Google - has been killed off by its creator.… |
| Google gobbles kaput search robot Cuil's patents Posted: 21 Feb 2012 08:03 AM PST Cool your boots with quantum pornPatents for a crappy, short-lived muffin-, strawberry- and porn-fuelled search engine created by three ex-Googlers have been scooped up by the Chocolate Factory.… |
| Mobile telcos bleed $13.9bn as IM apps chomp on SMS Posted: 21 Feb 2012 07:36 AM PST The cash cow is dying - slowlyIndustry analysts at Ovum reckon mobile network operators lost more than $13bn in 2011 as SMS finally gets replaced - a staggering estimate backed by stats from Allot.… |
| Mellanox: Just jump straight to 40GE networks Posted: 21 Feb 2012 07:08 AM PST Unless you really want only 10GENetwork adapter and switch maker Mellanox Technologies is riding the wave of upgrades to 10 Gigabit Ethernet switches and is excited about boosting sales of 10GE adapter cards when Intel launches its "Sandy Bridge-EP" Xeon E5 processors sometime this quarter. But Mellanox CEO and chairman Eyal Waldman has his eye on a bigger prize: peddling 40GE switches and network interface cards.… |
| SaaS brings software to the masses Posted: 21 Feb 2012 06:47 AM PST Collaborative tools for SMEsUnless you've been living in a cave even less well equipped for the modern age than Fred Flintstone's, you will have noticed the buzz about something called cloud computing. It comes with a menagerie of buzzwords: software as a service (SaaS), platform as a service (PaaS), infrastructure on demand, hosted apps … We could go on.… |
| LOHAN's flying truss: One orb or two? Posted: 21 Feb 2012 06:34 AM PST Readers shoot down twin-balloon planThe roll-out yesterday of our Low Orbit Helium Assisted Navigator (LOHAN) fantastical flying truss prompted a flurry of comments from readers unimpressed with our twin-globe proposal.… |
| BlackBerry PlayBook OS gets RIM spit 'n' polish Posted: 21 Feb 2012 05:57 AM PST Fondleslab's future hangs by a |
| Russian search biz grabs Twitter's fire hose, sprays everywhere Posted: 21 Feb 2012 05:39 AM PST Yandex inks deal to include tweets in resultsRussian search engine Yandex has laid hands on Twitter's firehouse, adding its stream of data to its search results.… |
| PlayStation Vita price dips below £200 Posted: 21 Feb 2012 05:27 AM PST Commerce combat commencesWith Sony's PlayStation Vita set to touchdown on UK shelves at midnight, supermarket mogul Asda has become the first outlet to offer the console for less than £200. Let the price wars begin.… |
| Flash DOOMED to drive itself off a cliff - boffins Posted: 21 Feb 2012 05:09 AM PST NAND to hit endurance, reliability limitsMicrosoft and University of California San Diego researchers have said flash has a bleak future because smaller and more densely packed circuits on the chips' silicon will make it too slow and unreliable. Enterprise flash cost/bit will stagnate and the cutting edge that is flash will become a blunted blade.… |
| Bogus Pokemon evolves into iTunes smash hit Posted: 21 Feb 2012 04:43 AM PST Got to catch at least some of 'emAn obviously infringing Pokemon iOS port briefly found its way to number two in the iTunes paid app chart, in the USA, despite having nothing to do with Nintendo and garnering buckets of negative reviews.… |
| Dell Latitude E6220 12.5in Core i7 notebook Posted: 21 Feb 2012 04:33 AM PST Quietly powerfulReview Dell's Latitude E6220 is a typical workhorse, designed to be solid, dependable and ever so slightly boring. However, Dell is aiming this compact model more at small businesses rather than large organisations. And the increasing numbers of people who, like myself, are self-employed. A touch of style and being just 1in thin and with a 12.5in display are the giveaways here.… |
| Met Office wants better supercomputer to predict EXTREME weather Posted: 21 Feb 2012 04:24 AM PST Says its bad rep is down to 'non-expert' reportingThe UK's Met Office needs bigger and better supercomputers if it is to confidently and accurately predict the weather and give emergency services a longer lead time for extreme weather conditions, a government group said today.… |
| Home Sec splits Border Agency after passport checks fiasco Posted: 21 Feb 2012 04:01 AM PST May: Secure ID suspension lacked 'ministerial consent'Blighty's Border Force is to be divorced from the UKBA following a series of embarrassing passport check gaffes last summer, the Home Secretary Theresa May told MPs yesterday.… |
| Rovio launches Angry Birds into space Posted: 21 Feb 2012 03:50 AM PST Pigs might flyAngry Birds has covered the Earth several times over, so Rovio has taken the next logical step in its development and sent the franchise into space.… |
| China Telecom ramps up iPhone 4S fanboi fever Posted: 21 Feb 2012 03:43 AM PST State-run biz to punt shiny mobiles in MarchState-run mobile operator China Telecom has finally won the right to sell one of the most sought-after smartphones in the country, Apple's iPhone 4S, from 9 March.… |
| RIM's backdoor sniffed by BBM-snooping Indian spooks Posted: 21 Feb 2012 03:29 AM PST BlackBerry biz pushes BES access headache to operatorsResearch In Motion is finally set to offer the Indian authorities a permanent system for access to its consumer-focused messaging services with the installation of new Mumbai-based servers.… |
| Sony Xperia U slips out ahead of launch Posted: 21 Feb 2012 03:17 AM PST Smartphone sees a shrinkSony is set to launch a shrunken version of its Xperia S handset at MWC 2012, after images of the Xperia U leaked online.… |
| Blighty's first IT wholesaler swaps Henry for Henry Posted: 21 Feb 2012 03:12 AM PST Northamber MD retires, accounts back in the redVeteran distributor Northamber's long- |
| Smart telly trends make Apple 'iTV' a certainty Posted: 21 Feb 2012 03:05 AM PST Cupertino would be mad not toIt's no longer a question of whether Apple will produce a TV - the so-called 'iTV' - but when. That's the clear conclusion to be drawn from an analysis of TV technology trends provided by DisplaySearch, a market watcher, at Panasonic's 2012 Convention today.… |
| Posted: 21 Feb 2012 03:00 AM PST The app for apps, apparentlyAndroid App of the Week Developed mobile ecosystems are all well and good but a marketplace with over a third of a million apps raises one significant problem – how to discover new and worthwhile stuff.… |
| Zerowait feeds hungry NetApp punters tasty NASAGNA Posted: 21 Feb 2012 02:41 AM PST 'Don't buy new filers - spice up your old ones'NetApp support outfit Zerowait says its customers should not bother to buy new NetApp filers, when it can accelerate the old ones with its caching appliance.… |
| CRACK made by quakes FOUND ON MOON Posted: 21 Feb 2012 02:23 AM PST Paparazzo probe's pic hints at smoking hot insidesNASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) has snapped shots showing that the Moon's crust has been stretched and pulled fairly recently to form tiny valleys on its surfaces.… |
| Proview wins new Chinese IPAD ruling as Apple threatens to sue Posted: 21 Feb 2012 02:02 AM PST Tech titan wants monitor minnow to zip itApple's ongoing tussle with failed monitor biz Proview took another turn this week when another Chinese court declared that shops in the country should stop selling iPads.… |
| Virgin boss victorious in .xxx Branson pickle Posted: 21 Feb 2012 01:35 AM PST Cyber-squatter owns diddly-squat in domain rulingSir Richard Branson has wrestled a .xxx domain off a cybersquatter in a challenge over richardbranson.xxx.… |
| British Medical Association calls for long, slow rollout of NHS 111 Posted: 21 Feb 2012 01:04 AM PST It's not an emergency, man...The British Medical Association (BMA) has written to health secretary Andrew Lansley over concerns about the implementation of the NHS 111 24-hour non-emergency phone service.… |
| SMS compo firms fined £200k for typosquatting, misleading punters Posted: 21 Feb 2012 12:03 AM PST Used misspellings of popular sites to lure competition entrantsPhonepayPlus said R&D Media Europe (R&D) and Unavalley BV (Unavalley) misled consumers into entering the competitions through the practice of typosquatting and that those consumers were then charged for receiving text messages in connection with the competitions being run.… |
| Motorola Motoluxe Android smartphone Posted: 20 Feb 2012 11:00 PM PST Talked up?Review Don't be confused by the name: it may be seem classy and good-looking but this is a mid-range handset, not a deluxe one. It's also quite distinctive, which is good at a time when Android handsets are numerous and often me-too copies or unimaginative derivatives.… |
| Nasa rocketeers probe aurora borealis solar interference Posted: 20 Feb 2012 05:30 PM PST Sky shot seeks clues to GPS woesA NASA-funded team has shot a sensor package, dubbed the Magnetosphere-Ionosphere Coupling in the Alfvén resonator (MICA), into the heart of a form of aurora borealis to seek clues that could minimize electronic interference from solar storms.… |
| Optus snaps up Vivid for 4G build Posted: 20 Feb 2012 03:45 PM PST Huawei in box seatOptus has swooped on the assets of 4G wireless operator Vividwireless for $AU230 million and use the spectrum as a cornerstone of its own 4G network build out.… |
| Digital Realty gets real in Victoria Posted: 20 Feb 2012 03:33 PM PST More data centres for usDigital Realty has unveiled plans to invest in two new data centres in Melbourne's west, ramping up its existing presence in Australia.… |
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