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- Iran draws veil over secure internet access
- Comet sheds 450 jobs in biz survival struggle
- IBM: We do server flash already...
- Barack Obama: Bland, predictable and cheesy ... on Spotify
- New patent will give iPhone screen <i>interactive 3D</i>
- HP shares database smarts with EnterpriseDB
- RIM's apps revolution swings on Blackberry 10
- <i>Space: 1999</i> returning to TV?
- Analyst: no 7in tablet at iPad 3 launch
- Why Amazon, eBay and Google are building bricks-and-mortar stores
- Music fans not welcome in RIAA-backed .music
- Microsoft to send users 4 critical patches on Valentine's Day
- Overclockers UK swallowed by private equity firm Afinum
- Acer limps into 2012 with declining January sales
- Penang fraud gang 'ringleader' snared by Taiwan police
- Pseudo masochism is fuelling ACTA witch-hunt
- Intel pays peanuts to settle NY antitrust suit
- March release for Samsung Galaxy S II Android 4.0 update
- EU competition chief threatens patent war smackdown
- Google guns for Apple TV
- Apple crushes rivals under its heel in Euro fondleslab sales
- US federal court fast-forwards case on Google privacy policy
- Virtual Nazi-code-cracking Colossus in fundraising appeal
- Google pushes your buttons in its top strip bar - AGAIN
- IT guy answers daughter's Facebook rant by shooting her laptop
- Pentax Q compact system camera
- 'These working conditions are appalling, especially for Apple'
- LOHAN lifts skirt on 3D printed parts
- Tesla X e-SUV to sport monster touchscreen on the dash
- Google Wallet falls open after casual hack
- Phones 4U intros Jump plan to speed smartphone upgrades
- IT crowd sorts out the Mars Science Lab
- Indian ministers quit in parliament smut flick scandal
- Blushing HTC too coy to admit sales figures
- Roku rocks media streamers into UK
- Nevex stuffs software into TMS flash for 'world's fastest cache'
- HTC Ice Cream Sandwich updates slip to late March
- Malware devs embrace open-source
- Secondhand MP3 shop can keep trading during EMI trial
- Tech! Tech! Teeeeech! Women want gadgets for Valentine's
- Met thumbed through Oyster card data up to 22,000 times in 4 years
- UK.gov: We really are going to start buying open-source from SMEs
- Red Hat fires Gluster thruster from Amazon's cluster
- LG DM2350D 23in passive 3D monitor and TV combo
- Oracle tucks R stats language into database
- Sinofsky shows off Windows 8 on ARM and Office15
Iran draws veil over secure internet access Posted: 10 Feb 2012 11:45 AM PST Tor needs help to beat censorshipThe Tor Project is reporting Iran has blocked access to nearly all SSL/TLS traffic within its borders and is calling for help to break the embargo.… |
Comet sheds 450 jobs in biz survival struggle Posted: 10 Feb 2012 11:05 AM PST In-house repairs going outLaid-up retailer Comet plans to axe 450 engineering and support workers, slashing costs and safeguarding "the long-term viability of the business", it said.… |
IBM: We do server flash already... Posted: 10 Feb 2012 10:42 AM PST We just didn't tell many people about itWith all this EMC Lightning kerfuffle and Dell, HDS and NetApp joining in – with HP pointedly saying "No comment" like we really believe it's not playing too – there's a Big Blue elephant we're not hearing or seeing. Don't worry, IBM definitely has skin in this game – and it's called eXFlash.… |
Barack Obama: Bland, predictable and cheesy ... on Spotify Posted: 10 Feb 2012 10:20 AM PST |
New patent will give iPhone screen <i>interactive 3D</i> Posted: 10 Feb 2012 09:58 AM PST Apple's three-dimensional UI will make |
HP shares database smarts with EnterpriseDB Posted: 10 Feb 2012 09:55 AM PST Postgres Plus goes cloudyEnterpriseDB is trying to pump up the PostgreSQL database to do battle with Oracle 11g and, to a lesser extent, IBM's DB2 and Microsoft's SQL. So the database upstart is upgrading its Postgres Plus Advanced Server 9.1 - and kicking it onto Amazon's EC2 compute cloud to peddle it alongside Amazon's own Relational Database Service.… |
RIM's apps revolution swings on Blackberry 10 Posted: 10 Feb 2012 09:29 AM PST Software choice alone won't beat Android and iOSBlackBerry Devcon Europe "I'm a Java developer. What can I do to bring my apps over to BlackBerry 10?" asks an attendee at BlackBerry Devcon Europe in Amsterdam this week. The answer comes back: "Rewrite your code."… |
<i>Space: 1999</i> returning to TV? Posted: 10 Feb 2012 08:58 AM PST Eagles and staple guns reloadedThey've been rebooted, re-imagined and uncut, but now Space 1999 is getting its own on-screen revival next to sci-fi classics Battlestar Galactica, Star Trek and Star Wars.… |
Analyst: no 7in tablet at iPad 3 launch Posted: 10 Feb 2012 08:32 AM PST Coming later in the yearApple is going to release a 7in iPad - but not next month when it unwraps the iPad 3.… |
Why Amazon, eBay and Google are building bricks-and-mortar stores Posted: 10 Feb 2012 08:31 AM PST Offline profits hell beckons net denizensOpen ... and Shut Even as offline retailers and other traditional "brick-and-mortar" businesses struggle to build their businesses online, some of technology's biggest online denizens are looking for ways to go offline. Google is the latest, reportedly opening a store in Dublin, Ireland, to sell branded merchandise, but it's just the latest in a group that includes eBay and even Amazon.… |
Music fans not welcome in RIAA-backed .music Posted: 10 Feb 2012 08:18 AM PST Piracy prohibited in proposed industry-only domainThe Recording Industry Association of America and other music industry groups are backing a proposal for a highly regulated ".music" top-level domain.… |
Microsoft to send users 4 critical patches on Valentine's Day Posted: 10 Feb 2012 08:06 AM PST Sealed with an XSSMicrosoft plans to publish nine updates next Tuesday – four of which are critical – as part of a Valentine's Day edition of its Patch Tuesday update cycle.… |
Overclockers UK swallowed by private equity firm Afinum Posted: 10 Feb 2012 07:45 AM PST VC owner of component distributor Caseking gets acquisitiveGerman private equity firm Afinum - owners of distributor Caseking - has swallowed specialist components etailer Overclockers UK for an undisclosed sum.… |
Acer limps into 2012 with declining January sales Posted: 10 Feb 2012 07:18 AM PST Planned 2012 revival faltersAcer has not made the positive start to the year that it was banking on after confirming a double-digit decline year-on-year in sales for January.… |
Penang fraud gang 'ringleader' snared by Taiwan police Posted: 10 Feb 2012 07:02 AM PST Gang man Huang banged upThe suspected ringleader of an internet and telephone fraud gang based in Penang, Malaysia, has been nabbed by police after being lured to Taiwan by his former gang-mates, it has emerged.… |
Pseudo masochism is fuelling ACTA witch-hunt Posted: 10 Feb 2012 06:34 AM PST Hated anti-counterfeiting treaty's myths explodedAnalysis A mob that's filled with self-righteous fury isn't very discriminating.… |
Intel pays peanuts to settle NY antitrust suit Posted: 10 Feb 2012 06:01 AM PST |
March release for Samsung Galaxy S II Android 4.0 update Posted: 10 Feb 2012 05:52 AM PST Ice Cream Sarnie inboundSamsung said in November 2011 that Android 4.0 - aka Ice Cream Sandwich - will be coming to its Galaxy S II smartphone some time in 2012. It has yet to narrow that window, but industry leak merchant Eldar Murtazin has now said ICS will hit the S II in March.… |
EU competition chief threatens patent war smackdown Posted: 10 Feb 2012 05:43 AM PST Tough-talking Almunia will take mobile giants to taskEuropean anti-competition chief Joaquin Almunia has warned that the EU won't stand for any messing about with technology standards-related patents.… |
Posted: 10 Feb 2012 05:26 AM PST Real-world device testing beginsGoogle is working on an in-home entertainment gadget able to stream content from the internet - or, at least, it's testing such a device in employees' homes.… |
Apple crushes rivals under its heel in Euro fondleslab sales Posted: 10 Feb 2012 05:19 AM PST iPad domination grew in Q4Apple saw off attempts by rivals to eat into its fondleslab market share and actually tightened its iron grip on the market across Western Europe in over the Christmas quarter.… |
US federal court fast-forwards case on Google privacy policy Posted: 10 Feb 2012 05:02 AM PST Imminent Chocolate Factory tweak speeds up lawsuit reviewA lawsuit brought against the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) over its inaction regarding Google's imminent changes to its terms of service was expedited yesterday.… |
Virtual Nazi-code-cracking Colossus in fundraising appeal Posted: 10 Feb 2012 04:43 AM PST Sponsor pixels for new £150k exhibition at Bletchley ParkThe National Museum of Computing (TNMOC) has turned to a tried-and-tested fundraising method to establish a home for the rebuilt Colossus computer at Bletchley Park.… |
Google pushes your buttons in its top strip bar - AGAIN Posted: 10 Feb 2012 04:27 AM PST |
IT guy answers daughter's Facebook rant by shooting her laptop Posted: 10 Feb 2012 04:13 AM PST 'You can have a new one when you buy one'Vid An angry American IT pro has responded to a rude Facebook post from his daughter by riddling her laptop with a fusillade of bullets and posting video of the shooting on YouTube.… |
Pentax Q compact system camera Posted: 10 Feb 2012 04:00 AM PST The cutest camera in the world?Review When it come to compact system cameras, Pentax has form, if your memory goes back far enough. Like the Auto110 SLR film camera of old, the Pentax Q is laughably small, but in a good way. It's a happy laugh – like a friendly chuckle at the burblings of a new-born. Its design is achingly cute – especially the white version I received for review – while build quality is impressively and surprisingly high.… |
'These working conditions are appalling, especially for Apple' Posted: 10 Feb 2012 03:56 AM PST Plus: Your new project sounds exactly like TEDQuotw This was the week when it was claimed that whatever else Apple, Google, Facebook and the rest of them might be up to, they were also giving Americans jobs.… |
LOHAN lifts skirt on 3D printed parts Posted: 10 Feb 2012 03:39 AM PST Our Vulture 2 spaceplane to get the laser sintering treatmentVideo There are champagne corks popping today at Special Project Bureau headquarters as we announce we've cut a deal to have our Vulture 2 aircraft hewn from living nylon.… |
Tesla X e-SUV to sport monster touchscreen on the dash Posted: 10 Feb 2012 03:35 AM PST Gull-wing doors? 85kWh battery? Pah!Car writers are focusing on the Tesla X's gull-wing doors, but it's the electric SUV's touchscreen-tastic dashboard that does it for us.… |
Google Wallet falls open after casual hack Posted: 10 Feb 2012 03:21 AM PST Crack the PIN? No, just hit resetTurns out it's not necessary to decrypt the PIN, or even hack into Google's Wallet, just ask the phone nicely and it will let anyone root though its innards.… |
Phones 4U intros Jump plan to speed smartphone upgrades Posted: 10 Feb 2012 03:10 AM PST Separates phone cost from airtime packagePhones 4U has come up with a new phone package it claims makes it easier to change handsets.… |
IT crowd sorts out the Mars Science Lab Posted: 10 Feb 2012 03:07 AM PST |
Indian ministers quit in parliament smut flick scandal Posted: 10 Feb 2012 02:44 AM PST 'It wasn't porn, it was a real-life rape' claims oneThree former ministers in the Indian state of Karnataka have until Monday to explain themselves to the Speaker of the local assembly after they were allegedly caught watching porn on a mobile phone during a debate in the House.… |
Blushing HTC too coy to admit sales figures Posted: 10 Feb 2012 02:22 AM PST You'll just have to guess from now onJust days after releasing disappointing Q1 estimates that could point to a difficult year ahead, Taiwanese Android handset make HTC has decided not to reveal future sales figures for its smartphones.… |
Roku rocks media streamers into UK Posted: 10 Feb 2012 02:07 AM PST BBC iPlayer on boardRoku has released its compact media streaming set-top boxes in the UK. With it comes BBC iPlayer support.… |
Nevex stuffs software into TMS flash for 'world's fastest cache' Posted: 10 Feb 2012 02:02 AM PST CacheWorks twinned with RamSan server flash storageNevex, the Canadian supplier of flash and DRAM caching software for Windows, is working with Texas Memory Systems to super-charge its RamSan PCIe flash acceleration of app I/O.… |
HTC Ice Cream Sandwich updates slip to late March Posted: 10 Feb 2012 01:43 AM PST And an even longer wait for some handsetsHTC smartphone owners: you should be getting Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich updates at the end of next month - if you have an unlocked Sensation or Sensation XE.… |
Malware devs embrace open-source Posted: 10 Feb 2012 01:42 AM PST Blackhatters desperate for props from pals, says security firmCybercrooks have embraced the open-source model in the development of banking Trojans following the release of source code for the infamous ZeuS cybercrime toolkit last year.… |
Secondhand MP3 shop can keep trading during EMI trial Posted: 10 Feb 2012 01:22 AM PST |
Tech! Tech! Teeeeech! Women want gadgets for Valentine's Posted: 10 Feb 2012 01:15 AM PST Girls more gizmo hungry than everForget roses and Roses: buy your other half - if female - some tech for Valentine's Day, now just four days away.… |
Met thumbed through Oyster card data up to 22,000 times in 4 years Posted: 10 Feb 2012 01:01 AM PST Requests for info on passengers' movements up 15%The Metropolitan police has requested Oyster card data relating to citizens and other personal information from Transport for London (TfL) more than 22,000 times since 2008, according to figures published by the capital's transport authority.… |
UK.gov: We really are going to start buying open-source from SMEs Posted: 10 Feb 2012 12:32 AM PST Groundhog Day again already?Intellect 2012 Open source and open standards are the direction for UK government IT, the civil servant leading the government's technology change agenda has said.… |
Red Hat fires Gluster thruster from Amazon's cluster Posted: 10 Feb 2012 12:02 AM PST Storage done virtuallyRed Hat is providing a Virtual Storage Appliance using Amazon cloud storage and claiming enterprise, scale-out NAS capability.… |
LG DM2350D 23in passive 3D monitor and TV combo Posted: 09 Feb 2012 11:00 PM PST Gaming desktop telly, anyone?Review The DM2350D is the first 3D combination monitor/TV released by LG. Sharing the same passive FPR 3D panel technology as its Cinema 3D TV siblings, it's presumably aimed at wannabe 3D PC gamers and those looking for a jack of all trades screen that's easy to accommodate in student digs or wherever.… |
Oracle tucks R stats language into database Posted: 09 Feb 2012 05:59 PM PST R-acle 11g, Quant EditionRelational database juggernaut Oracle has embedded the R programming language used by more than 2 million statisticians and quants the world over into its 11g relational database. Call it R-acle 11g, Quant Edition.… |
Sinofsky shows off Windows 8 on ARM and Office15 Posted: 09 Feb 2012 05:46 PM PST Microsoft aims for separate but equalWindows boss Stephen Sinofsky has ended months of speculation with the first (fairly) detailed drilldown into Windows 8 on ARM (WOA) platform, and says it should be ready for a simultaneous launch with its x86/64 counterpart.… |
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