Antibody transistor grabs gold |
- Antibody transistor grabs gold
- Election hacked, drunken robot elected to school board
- Paper plane world record disputed
- EMC cranks Greenplum database to 4.2
- Motorola unfazed by Apple photo-patent win
- Sub-orbital rocket searches for first galaxies
- Tubular cells: Georgia Tech demos nano-scale solar fab
- Premium mobile services face tougher laws
- Atlassian seeks geeks in Europe
- Cray gets graphic with big data
- Windows Server 8 beta ready for download
- Azure's storage cloud was never at stake, insists storage cloud biz
- MWC: Inscrutable slogans, Google toys and the invisible Apple
- Sacks of cash chucked at upstart dressed to the nines
- G-Cloud bigwig says soz for Cloud Store outage
- Indiana Jones flicks out on Blu-ray this Fall
- Fujitsu array brags of quick thrust, modest cost
- Blighty's Post Office computer system goes titsup
- Mobile whizzes tout gadgets that touch you, save your life
- ICO slaps Durham Uni for exposing staff, students' privates
- App cuts waiting out of call centre queues
- China churns out homemade aircraft for global travel DOMINATION
- Chancer punts cig pack case for Raspberry Pi
- Moles say Sony will kill Cell CPU for PlayStation 4
- Feds crack suspect's encrypted drive, avoid Constitution meltdown
- Google rolls out privacy policy, snubs Euro outcry
- Auto-correct cock-up sends schools into lockdown
- Stolen NASA laptop had Space Station control codes
- Ethics profs fret over cyborg brains, mind-controlled missiles
- Bytes, Nettitude sales bods busted in IT invoice bung scam
- Steve Jobs' death clears way for '7.85-inch iPad prototype'
- Motorola Defy Mini rugged Android smartphone
- Tick-like banking Trojan drills into Firefox, sucks out info
- Facebook blamed for getting Thai teens up the duff
- Microsoft's free flight sim hits the clouds
- ISP Be admits crippling iPlayer demand burst its pipes
- Sony exec: quad-core CPUs bad for today's phones
- Tata flirts with Cable & Wireless Worldwide buyout
- GIANT blood-guzzling Jurassic fleas ambushed dino prey
- Beat Sneak Bandit
- Watchdog hits out at malware racking up premium-rate charges
- Dot-brand explosion will shell-shock lazy coders - ICANN
- Risky child-support plans rely too much on new IT system – NAO
- Ten... top iOS games
- Data.gov.au loses dedicated staff
- Firm Dick sales excite buyers
- Oz Square Kilometre Array bid picks DataDirect for storage
- US shuts down Canadian gambling site with Verisign's help
- Neat nanoparticles could bring 10TB disks
- NASA snaps show Arctic melt
| Antibody transistor grabs gold Posted: 01 Mar 2012 03:30 PM PST Immune system response self-assembles electronic connectionThe immune system response in which antibodies bind to specific molecules they recognize has been exploited to create a self-assembling protein-based transistor.… |
| Election hacked, drunken robot elected to school board Posted: 01 Mar 2012 03:11 PM PST Experts warn e-voting systems decades away from securityRSA 2012 Security experts have warned that electronic voting systems are decades away from being secure, and to prove it a team from the University of Michigan successfully got the foul-mouthed, drunken Futurama robot Bender elected to head of a school board.… |
| Paper plane world record disputed Posted: 01 Mar 2012 03:03 PM PST Soar heads say A4 flew six metres feet past old record.An "unpure" paper dart has all-but claimed the world record for the longest paper airplane flight.… |
| EMC cranks Greenplum database to 4.2 Posted: 01 Mar 2012 03:01 PM PST Goosing Hadoop links and warehouse backupsBig data is not just a problem because it is big, but because it keeps swelling. That goes as much for traditional data warehouses as it does for more modern Hadoop MapReduce data munchers. And with the latest update of its eponymous database, the Greenplum division of IT conglomerate EMC has made some tweaks to its homegrown database to make wrestling with big data a bit easier.… |
| Motorola unfazed by Apple photo-patent win Posted: 01 Mar 2012 02:37 PM PST 'We expect no impact' from latest German court lossMotorola Mobility (MMI) lost another round in its ongoing patent war with Apple when a German court ruled in Cupertino's favor in a photo-management patent case – but they're putting their best face on the setback.… |
| Sub-orbital rocket searches for first galaxies Posted: 01 Mar 2012 02:37 PM PST CIBER experiment to shed new light on first lightThe universe's very first galaxies may be a little closer by the weekend, thanks to a planned March 2nd (US time) launch of a sub-orbital Black Brant IX rocket bearing the Cosmic Infrared Background ExpeRiment (CIBER)that hopes to figure out which light comes from the earliest stars.… |
| Tubular cells: Georgia Tech demos nano-scale solar fab Posted: 01 Mar 2012 02:30 PM PST Solyndra dream lives on in miniatureThe idea that got Solyndra into so much trouble – that a tube-shaped solar cell could be more efficient than a traditional flat design – didn't disappear when its highest-profile manufacturer collapsed. It remains a strong focus of research efforts.… |
| Premium mobile services face tougher laws Posted: 01 Mar 2012 02:00 PM PST Heavy-breathers must declare their costsPremium mobile service providers are again under surveillance by the communications regulator over getting away with misleading practices.… |
| Atlassian seeks geeks in Europe Posted: 01 Mar 2012 01:01 PM PST 'We're hiring, let's meet in the pub'Atlassian, Australia's current darling-of-the-VCs, has orchestrated a European recruitment drive it says is designed to snare fifteen developers in fifteen days.… |
| Cray gets graphic with big data Posted: 01 Mar 2012 12:17 PM PST ThreadStorm appliance cries 'Urika!'Supercomputer maker Cray has released an exotic appliance to help deep-pockets organizations find the relationships hidden in the torrent of information now being collected about, well, everything and everyone.… |
| Windows Server 8 beta ready for download Posted: 01 Mar 2012 11:32 AM PST Code rewritten for virtualizationMicrosoft has released the beta build of its forthcoming Windows 8 Server operating system, a day after making its "Consumer Preview" of the Windows 8 client-side code available on Wednesday.… |
| Azure's storage cloud was never at stake, insists storage cloud biz Posted: 01 Mar 2012 11:01 AM PST It's the compute side that went titsupMicrosoft Azure's processing of bits in the cloud fouled up yesterday, but its storage of bits in the cloud was unaffected.… |
| MWC: Inscrutable slogans, Google toys and the invisible Apple Posted: 01 Mar 2012 10:06 AM PST 'Claw grab' game + humbled, eager Nokia = A real treatMWC 2012 I go to Mobile World Congress every year and come home bemused. A few observations to explain.… |
| Sacks of cash chucked at upstart dressed to the nines Posted: 01 Mar 2012 09:03 AM PST Object storage biz Amplidata banks $8m investmentObject storage startup Amplidata has grabbed $8m of funding to help stack up the products that it claims virtually eliminate data loss. Competitor Caringo, meanwhile, agrees that you don't need tape for archive storage, having integrated its CAStor product as back-end storage for Symantec's Enterprise Vault.… |
| G-Cloud bigwig says soz for Cloud Store outage Posted: 01 Mar 2012 08:26 AM PST Azure crash downed gov e-catalogue for 2 hoursThe G-Cloud governor has apologised to public sector customers for the Cloud Store outage yesterday but pointed out that downtime is not confined to an off-premise delivery model.… |
| Indiana Jones flicks out on Blu-ray this Fall Posted: 01 Mar 2012 08:16 AM PST Dum-da-da-dum-dum. Dum-da-da-dum-dum. Dum-de-dada, dum-de-dum, etc, etc.With Star Wars' Blu-ray and 3D conversions out of the way, Lucasfilm has turned to George's other creation: the Indiana Jones movies.… |
| Fujitsu array brags of quick thrust, modest cost Posted: 01 Mar 2012 08:02 AM PST Eternus DX80 S2 tops the benchmark chartFujitsu claims its Eternus DX80 S2 array is the SPC-1 golden child, with the best price-performance ratios in the mid-range dual controller storage arrays sector. There is no formal mid-range definition though.… |
| Blighty's Post Office computer system goes titsup Posted: 01 Mar 2012 07:48 AM PST Enough to make you go postalUpdated The Post Office's computer system has crashed, crippling services at branches nationwide, Royal Mail has admitted. It is understood that all of the UK's 11,800 post offices are affected.… |
| Mobile whizzes tout gadgets that touch you, save your life Posted: 01 Mar 2012 07:31 AM PST Innovation hidden in the small standsMWC 2012 A search around the MWC in Barcelona for something more interesting revealed a phone which can perform an ECG, a headset you operate by shaking it about like a loon, and a touchscreen that touches you back.… |
| ICO slaps Durham Uni for exposing staff, students' privates Posted: 01 Mar 2012 07:02 AM PST Training manual... on how to stalk that first-yearDurham University leaked the personal details of 177 staff and students in a training manual that turned out to reveal more than how to take out a library book. The university has just been given a slap on the wrist by the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) and has promised to reform its data protection policies.… |
| App cuts waiting out of call centre queues Posted: 01 Mar 2012 06:44 AM PST No charge, apparentlyA free app that takes away the frustration of being kept on hold during phone calls to corporations has launched in the UK, saving mobile users a pretty penny in the process, its developer claims.… |
| China churns out homemade aircraft for global travel DOMINATION Posted: 01 Mar 2012 06:32 AM PST Look out Boeing and Airbus, there's a new kid in townChina is ramping up its plans for domination of international civil airspace with recent deals to flog its home-grown aircraft set to cause a few sweaty palms at Boeing and Airbus.… |
| Chancer punts cig pack case for Raspberry Pi Posted: 01 Mar 2012 06:19 AM PST Holey smokesWith the Linux-based Raspberry Pi now available for purchase, punters have started to push their own home-made chassis for the case-less computer. But one opportunist is touting this customised cigarette box.… |
| Moles say Sony will kill Cell CPU for PlayStation 4 Posted: 01 Mar 2012 06:08 AM PST AMD Fusion the chosen successor?Sony's PlayStation 4 will not use the PS3's Cell processor, it has been claimed, because the current chipset and rumoured next-gen variants are too complex for developers to work with quickly.… |
| Feds crack suspect's encrypted drive, avoid Constitution meltdown Posted: 01 Mar 2012 06:01 AM PST Digital age plays havoc with 5th AmendmentInvestigators have cracked the encryption key for a laptop drive owned by a Colorado woman accused of real-estate fraud - rendering a judge's controversial order to make her hand over the passphrase or stand in contempt of court irrelevant.… |
| Google rolls out privacy policy, snubs Euro outcry Posted: 01 Mar 2012 05:39 AM PST Ex-FTC bigwig slams 'arrogant' Choc FactoryGoogle has defended its decision to combine around 60 of its privacy policies into one simplified document that makes it clear that users of the company's products and services will be more uniformly tracked by the Chocolate Factory.… |
| Auto-correct cock-up sends schools into lockdown Posted: 01 Mar 2012 05:30 AM PST 'Gunman' on the wayAuto-correct is known to be the cause of many a hilarious text misunderstanding, but when one student sent a message to say they were "gunna be" at school and the word became "gunman", you can imagine the chaos it would cause. Particularly in America.… |
| Stolen NASA laptop had Space Station control codes Posted: 01 Mar 2012 05:21 AM PST And no encryption for supervillains to crackA NASA laptop stolen last year had not been encrypted, despite containing codes used to control and command the International Space Station, the agency's inspector general told a US House committee.… |
| Ethics profs fret over cyborg brains, mind-controlled missiles Posted: 01 Mar 2012 05:03 AM PST Why can't boffins be allowed to BUILD KILLER ROBOTS?A British ethics group has started a consultation on the morality of messing about in the human brain in ways that could result in thought-controlled weaponry and super-human capabilities.… |
| Bytes, Nettitude sales bods busted in IT invoice bung scam Posted: 01 Mar 2012 04:38 AM PST Bent procurement chief 'corrupted them', says lawyerFormer sales staff at resellers Bytes Software Services and Nettitude have been sentenced for their part in a scam involving an IT procurement director who created bogus invoices and hiked prices in return for cash bungs or "sweeteners" totalling more than £50k.… |
| Steve Jobs' death clears way for '7.85-inch iPad prototype' Posted: 01 Mar 2012 04:16 AM PST Apple's Kindle-killer rumoured for Q3 2012Sample screens for a seven-inch Apple iPad have been delivered for testing, according to Taiwanese manufacturing bible Digitimes. That means that production lines could start knocking out baby fondleslabs as early as June.… |
| Motorola Defy Mini rugged Android smartphone Posted: 01 Mar 2012 04:00 AM PST Lifeproof caller gets smaller |
| Tick-like banking Trojan drills into Firefox, sucks out info Posted: 01 Mar 2012 03:44 AM PST Neloweg spreading across UK, NetherlandsA new banking Trojan is spreading in the UK and the Netherlands, Symantec warns.… |
| Facebook blamed for getting Thai teens up the duff Posted: 01 Mar 2012 03:19 AM PST Kids should be kicking balls insteadFacebook now has another social ill to add to the growing list of reprehensible things it has been blamed for: unwanted teenage pregnancies.… |
| Microsoft's free flight sim hits the clouds Posted: 01 Mar 2012 03:08 AM PST Wing wing situation?Microsoft's latest flight simulator officially took off this week, with aircraft enthusiasts and anyone else who wants to take to the skies able to download and play the game free of charge.… |
| ISP Be admits crippling iPlayer demand burst its pipes Posted: 01 Mar 2012 03:01 AM PST Capacity overload caused 'weeks of packet loss'ISP Be Broadband has admitted demand for iPlayer jammed its punters' net connections - leaving parts of the web unusable and subscribers fuming.… |
| Sony exec: quad-core CPUs bad for today's phones Posted: 01 Mar 2012 02:50 AM PST Chips are battery hogs, and apps don't need 'emSony has said quad-core processors are not appropriate for smartphones - they're too great a drain on the battery, and apps just don't need them yet.… |
| Tata flirts with Cable & Wireless Worldwide buyout Posted: 01 Mar 2012 02:38 AM PST Suitors line up for troubled carrierIndian company Tata Communications confirmed this morning that it was considering a cash offer to acquire troubled telco Cable & Wireless Worldwide.… |
| GIANT blood-guzzling Jurassic fleas ambushed dino prey Posted: 01 Mar 2012 02:24 AM PST Boffins uncover critters armed with piercing strawsHollywood producers will be on high alert for the next Jurassic Park blockbuster script after boffins found fossils of giant prehistoric fleas. The monster bloodsuckers were thought to have used ruggedised straw-like mouths to prey on dinosaurs.… |
| Posted: 01 Mar 2012 02:01 AM PST Clock rockiGamer Tap your finger to the beat. On the face of it, Beat Sneak Bandit's mechanic doesn't promise compulsive gaming. But developer Simogo squeezes more innovation from this single-finger iOS puzzler than many console and computer games manage by tying your hands in knots.… |
| Watchdog hits out at malware racking up premium-rate charges Posted: 01 Mar 2012 01:33 AM PST Regulator horrified permission isn't being soughtThe premium rate phone regulator says it might disregard evidence of consumer consent from paid-for mobile applications if those apps turn out to contain malicious code.… |
| Dot-brand explosion will shell-shock lazy coders - ICANN Posted: 01 Mar 2012 01:01 AM PST Devs urged to swot up on parsing new domain extensionsMillions of internet users face being locked out of popular websites unless software developers pay attention to the forthcoming explosion in new top-level domain names.… |
| Risky child-support plans rely too much on new IT system – NAO Posted: 01 Mar 2012 12:02 AM PST Cost cuts hinge on delayed, overbudget mega-IT overhaulPlans by the Child Maintenance and Enforcement Commission to cut spending are risky and rely too much on the introduction of a new IT system, according to a report from the National Audit Office (NAO).… |
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| Data.gov.au loses dedicated staff Posted: 29 Feb 2012 08:13 PM PST Former staffer says Gov 2.0 losing momentumOne of the key elements of Australia's Gov 2.0 effort, the data.gov.au website, no longer has dedicated staff and is now a "mature capability" that is part of the Australian Government Information Management Office's IAGIMO's) "business as usual" efforts.… |
| Posted: 29 Feb 2012 06:45 PM PST Woolies stroking queue of purchasers for soft-core business"A number of potential purchasers have expressed interest" in acquiring Dick Smith from Woolworths, according to half-year results released today.… |
| Oz Square Kilometre Array bid picks DataDirect for storage Posted: 29 Feb 2012 06:11 PM PST Boffins pick Big Data specialists for exabyte-a-day arrayAustralia's International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research (ICRAR) has signed an agreement with DataDirect Networks to "develop the extraordinary new data storage capability" needed to cope with the Square Kilometre Array's (SKA's) expected exabyte-per-day output.… |
| US shuts down Canadian gambling site with Verisign's help Posted: 29 Feb 2012 05:43 PM PST Got a .com URL? US law appliesThe Department of Homeland Security has seized a domain name registered outside of the US, by individuals who are not American citizens, and who registered with a Canadian registrar.… |
| Neat nanoparticles could bring 10TB disks Posted: 29 Feb 2012 05:37 PM PST 5D DVD researchers spurned by Samsung try againOne of the Australian researchers behind a 2009 Nature paper outlining how optical media could reach 1.6 terabytes says Samsung has decided not to commercialise the technology, but has also published a new paper outlining how 12cm shinies could hit ten terabytes.… |
| Posted: 29 Feb 2012 03:59 PM PST Oldest ice disappears fasterNASA's latest study into Arctic sea ice concludes that the oldest, thickest ice is disappearing faster than the thinner ice at the edges of the Arctic Ocean.… |
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