Funding deal saves Australian synchrotron |
- Funding deal saves Australian synchrotron
- Google offers Oracle slice of Android profits for patents
- Cisco snarfs ClearAccess for remote broadband apps
- Speaking in Tech: Enterprise... but with clothes on
- Sality botnet takedown plans posted online
- China passes the US in free iPad app downloads
- MIT's building-block dev kit goes NFC
- Nokia threatens to elbow Apple's rival nano-SIM off a cliff
- Plan ahead to make virtualisation work
- EU mobile biz barons agree to slash roaming charges
- Nimbus flashes flash cache cash at NetApp stars
- Egenera bags new OEM agreement with Fujitsu
- Europe to assemble crack cyber-intelligence nerve centre
- 100 EARTH-LIKE PLANETS orbit stars WITHIN 30 LIGHT-YEARS!
- Staggering Kelihos zombie army smacked down AGAIN
- No conclusions on EU's Google probe for weeks
- Sarkozy hails 'success' of Hadopi's pirate cops
- Dotcom hike will net MEEELLIONS of bucks for Verisign, ICANN
- UK public sector IT jobs rebound - for permies
- ONS: Growth forecast for Blighty worse than expected
- Republicans shoot down proposed ban on Facebook login boss-snoop
- Apple IP details tech for 'iTV' innards
- FTC, RockYou settle after 32 MILLION passwords pillaged
- Adobe reels in game coders with a quick free Flash
- What system builders need to know about solid state drives
- Terrifying TV chimera born from Sharp, Foxconn lords' fling
- 'Special relationship': Oracle bags UK.gov contract renewal
- Angry Birds Space
- UK copyright exchange man: Nontrepreneurs are just stingy
- FBI nabs AWOL soldier for stealing Paul Allen's debit card
- That latest student craze sweeping China: Supercomputing wars
- HTC One X priced up for UK punters
- Hasbro fails to win Asus Transformer Prime ban
- Whitehall's G-Cloud: Hype or hope?
- Amazon sets date for Kindle Touch UK touchdown
- Microsoft to upgrade Windows Kinect kit
- Who killed ITV Digital? Rupert Murdoch - but not the way you think
- 'Thermal cloak' designed, could solve major chip, spacecraft issues
- Oxford Uni chucks big brains at ivy-covered cybersecurity hub
- Scality shoves sparkling file system into its RING
- London wage slaves face hour of Cloud discharge a day - official
- China wants global ecommerce crown
- Actively cooled rocket primed for easy re-entry
- F1 team wins CAD copyright war, wakes up to £700k hangover
- Apple Oz offers refunds for confused 4G iPad owners
- Motorola Motoactv GPS fitness tracker
- Australia urges miners to become data miners
- ZTE winds down Iran biz after espionage claims
- Zuckerberg flies to Shanghai for Apple Store visit
- Google I/O conference sells out in 20 minutes
| Funding deal saves Australian synchrotron Posted: 28 Mar 2012 03:06 PM PDT A measly $AU100 million keeps the particles movingA funding package worth $AU100 million was announced yesterday to keep the Australian Synchrotron operational.… |
| Google offers Oracle slice of Android profits for patents Posted: 28 Mar 2012 02:12 PM PDT Small payment and 0.515% of revenues until 2018Google has proposed terms its on-going patent spat with Oracle over Java's contribution to Android by offering Ellison's crew a payment for past infractions and a miniscule slice of further revenues from the operating system, should Google be found to be in violation.… |
| Cisco snarfs ClearAccess for remote broadband apps Posted: 28 Mar 2012 11:03 AM PDT Making service provider playNetworking giant Cisco Systems has added another arrow to its quiver and is aiming at the service provider market with the acquisition of ClearAccess, a maker of what is called TR-069 software.… |
| Speaking in Tech: Enterprise... but with clothes on Posted: 28 Mar 2012 11:01 AM PDT Like to tap that IaaS? El Reg's consumer and biz tech-cast is baaaack |
| Sality botnet takedown plans posted online Posted: 28 Mar 2012 10:57 AM PDT Valid attack could seize infected machinesUpdated A self-describer "law-abiding citizen" has posted attack plans against the Sality botnet on the Full Disclosure security mailing list, along with a tongue-in-cheek warning not to enact them since that would be illegal.… |
| China passes the US in free iPad app downloads Posted: 28 Mar 2012 10:57 AM PDT Actually paying for them? That's another story...It's official: China has more cheapskate iPad fanbois than any other country on earth.… |
| MIT's building-block dev kit goes NFC Posted: 28 Mar 2012 10:27 AM PDT Wireless connectivity for idiotsMIT's App Inventor, the drag 'n' drop development kit spun out from the Googleplex, will be demonstrating its NFC credentials next week, with a new tool to be released soon afterwards.… |
| Nokia threatens to elbow Apple's rival nano-SIM off a cliff Posted: 28 Mar 2012 09:58 AM PDT Finns refuse to license vital patents in mobe tiffNokia will refuse to license its SIM patents if telecoms body ETSI approves Apple's alternative tiny design, upping the stakes in the battle for the next-generation itty-bitty SIM.… |
| Plan ahead to make virtualisation work Posted: 28 Mar 2012 09:44 AM PDT Head for a better lifeThe road to hell, they say, is paved with good intentions, and never more so than when it comes to virtualisation.… |
| EU mobile biz barons agree to slash roaming charges Posted: 28 Mar 2012 09:28 AM PDT Brussels strikes cheaper deal with operatorsMobile phone operators in Europe will be forced to cap prices for roaming charges when customers use their devices abroad, Brussels' officials confirmed today.… |
| Nimbus flashes flash cache cash at NetApp stars Posted: 28 Mar 2012 09:01 AM PDT Upstart biz woos bigwigs to boost sales'n'techShipping flash array vendor Nimbus Data has recruited three NetApp execs to strengthen its engineering and build out its sales reach - as competing flash array startups get ready to ship product.… |
| Egenera bags new OEM agreement with Fujitsu Posted: 28 Mar 2012 08:53 AM PDT Virty server control freakery for BX900 bladesBlade server and virtualization pioneer Egenera, which has transformed itself from a system-maker to a system management software vendor, has inked another reseller agreement with long-time partner Fujitsu, this time peddling its PAN Manager tools instead of the BladeFrame systems that put Egenera on the map more than a decade ago.… |
| Europe to assemble crack cyber-intelligence nerve centre Posted: 28 Mar 2012 08:37 AM PDT ... as MEPs propose fresh hacking lawsBrussels hopes to establish a European Cybercrime Centre within the continent's police agency Europol by the start of January.… |
| 100 EARTH-LIKE PLANETS orbit stars WITHIN 30 LIGHT-YEARS! Posted: 28 Mar 2012 07:58 AM PDT Billions more across the galaxy - stand by for aliensIn an announcement with massive consequences for the human race, astronomers say there are "probably about one hundred" planets within just 30 light-years of our solar system which could support life along Earthly lines. By their calculations, there are tens of billions of such worlds in our galaxy, suggesting that even if life is very rare it is bound to have arisen elsewhere.… |
| Staggering Kelihos zombie army smacked down AGAIN Posted: 28 Mar 2012 07:52 AM PDT Resurrected spam-spewing network sinkholed by security bodsA resurrected incarnation of the infamous Kelihos botnet has been taken out.… |
| No conclusions on EU's Google probe for weeks Posted: 28 Mar 2012 07:29 AM PDT Antitrust chief: 'We won't be rushed! Besides we're on hols'The European Commission's antitrust chief has said that the body won't be pressured into an early decision on its investigation into Google over web search dominance.… |
| Sarkozy hails 'success' of Hadopi's pirate cops Posted: 28 Mar 2012 07:02 AM PDT Soft stick approach to copyright infringement working?French President Nicolas Sarkozy has hailed the success of the Hadopi copyright police. In a new report, Hadopi says its "soft stick" of a graduated response regime is working, and has released some statistics to support its claim.… |
| Dotcom hike will net MEEELLIONS of bucks for Verisign, ICANN Posted: 28 Mar 2012 06:32 AM PDT Domain prices to soar by a third in draft dealThe cost of a .com domain name is expected to rise by at least 31 per cent over the next six years, due to new price-increasing powers granted to registry operator Verisign by industry overseer ICANN.… |
| UK public sector IT jobs rebound - for permies Posted: 28 Mar 2012 06:13 AM PDT Web devs feel the outsourcing squeezeA quick note on the UK tech jobs scene in February, sourced from Computer People. The recruitment firm's IT Monitor service reports 13,024 permanent IT vacancies advertised during the month - slightly up on January.… |
| ONS: Growth forecast for Blighty worse than expected Posted: 28 Mar 2012 05:58 AM PDT Stats-crunchers revise down final 2011 quarter numbers. OuchA week after the Chancellor of the Exchequer delivered his Budget statement to Parliament, the Office for National Statistics has confirmed that the British economy shrank more than expected in the last quarter of 2011.… |
| Republicans shoot down proposed ban on Facebook login boss-snoop Posted: 28 Mar 2012 05:39 AM PDT House legislation on jobseekers' rights breach shot downUS House representatives from the Republican party have shot down a Democrat effort to pass a law stopping companies from demanding access to jobseekers' and employees' Facebook accounts.… |
| Apple IP details tech for 'iTV' innards Posted: 28 Mar 2012 05:22 AM PDT Cupertino HD TV to get FFS, FFSApple was granted a further 19 US patents to its colossal archive of intellectual property this week, with the standout blueprint sure to be related to its rumoured 'iTV' product.… |
| FTC, RockYou settle after 32 MILLION passwords pillaged Posted: 28 Mar 2012 05:19 AM PDT We will, we will, fine youAn online gaming biz has been left with a $250,000 bill in a settlement with the US government over a hack that exposed 32 million email addresses and passwords.… |
| Adobe reels in game coders with a quick free Flash Posted: 28 Mar 2012 04:58 AM PDT Then taxes apps that bank more than $50kAdobe is allowing programmers to use "premium features" in Flash Player 11.2 for free to kickstart take up among games makers.… |
| What system builders need to know about solid state drives Posted: 28 Mar 2012 04:37 AM PDT Get the best from flash technologyIf you are building systems using solid state drives (SSDs), you need rock-solid reliability and performance – and you won't get it from consumer-grade flash.… |
| Terrifying TV chimera born from Sharp, Foxconn lords' fling Posted: 28 Mar 2012 04:25 AM PDT Hon Hai spunks billions into struggling LCD bizFoxconn owner Hon Hai Group has given limping Sharp a crutch by buying a stake in the Japanese electronics maker and pouring a few billion yen into its LCD business.… |
| 'Special relationship': Oracle bags UK.gov contract renewal Posted: 28 Mar 2012 04:13 AM PDT Cabinet Office sticks to big biz for Whitehall database – with some caveatsDatabase giant Oracle has bagged a renewed contract to supply its technology to Whitehall in a deal that the Cabinet Office claimed would save £75m for taxpayers by 2015.… |
| Posted: 28 Mar 2012 04:00 AM PDT High jinks in low geeiGamer Such was the original's stellar success it's no wonder resisting the pull of Angry Birds Space is proving more difficult than escaping an event horizon. Ask the ten million or so folk who've apparently downloaded it since last Friday, and they'll tell you. You simply can't mess with universal laws - you're going to get sucked in, no matter what.… |
| UK copyright exchange man: Nontrepreneurs are just stingy Posted: 28 Mar 2012 03:46 AM PDT Former Ofcom deputy chair is deaf to special pleadingMore can be done to streamline digital copyright licensing, says Richard Hooper, who has been appointed by the government to investigate it. However, in a sharp rebuke to the Shoreditch nontrepreneurs – and by implication the government – he said many of the whinges the study has so far heard from webtastic startups about the difficulties of licensing were unjustified – and many simply reflected their unwillingness to pay for stuff.… |
| FBI nabs AWOL soldier for stealing Paul Allen's debit card Posted: 28 Mar 2012 03:29 AM PDT Feds unseal charges alleging bank fraud against Microsoft biz baronAn alleged US Army deserter has been charged with stealing the identity of Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen to run a bank fraud scam.… |
| That latest student craze sweeping China: Supercomputing wars Posted: 28 Mar 2012 03:14 AM PDT Dozens of universities battle for cluster contest slotHPC blog In a Wall Street Journal article last Friday, a bit of light was shone on China's entry into the upper echelon of supercomputing nations over the past few years. In 2007 China had only 10 systems on the Top500 list. But like TV's George Jefferson adding dry cleaning stores, China has been movin' on up - it now has 74 of the top boxes.… |
| HTC One X priced up for UK punters Posted: 28 Mar 2012 03:12 AM PDT Tempted by the Tegra 3 talker?HTC's upcoming Tegra 3-based smartphone, the One X, was made available for pre-order this week as networks revealed their tariffs in a bid to pull in the punters.… |
| Hasbro fails to win Asus Transformer Prime ban Posted: 28 Mar 2012 03:09 AM PDT Tablet vs toy robot... FIGHTAsus' Eee Pad Transformer Prime tablet-cum-netbook has not ridden roughshod over toy giant Hasbro's intellectual property rights, a US court has suggested.… |
| Whitehall's G-Cloud: Hype or hope? Posted: 28 Mar 2012 03:01 AM PDT Big-swinging reform or buzzword bingo?Special report According to the British government, the cloud will make everything better. The UK gov is rolling out something called G-Cloud, which according to No 10 means faster and more flexible IT procurement based on a list of open systems and approved standards. The punchline for the British taxpayer is that services will be delivered faster, at a reduced and a competitive rate.… |
| Amazon sets date for Kindle Touch UK touchdown Posted: 28 Mar 2012 02:43 AM PDT Touchscreen kit arrives on 27 AprilThe Kindle Touch will be out in the UK from 27 April, and is available to pre-order on Amazon from today. At a cost of £109 (with free delivery), the Wi-Fi Kindle Touch has a multi-touch E Ink display – making it a step-up from the button-clicking vanilla Kindle.… |
| Microsoft to upgrade Windows Kinect kit Posted: 28 Mar 2012 02:22 AM PDT Suite spotMicrosoft announced a second Kinect for Windows release this week, adding more advanced skeletal tracking, localised speech recognition and a new video suite application.… |
| Who killed ITV Digital? Rupert Murdoch - but not the way you think Posted: 28 Mar 2012 02:18 AM PDT Snobbery and Tranmere Rovers dunnit, not smartcard piratesComment After 25 years of watching the Murdoch TV empire unfold, the battle plan to beat him should be fairly obvious. You buy the best content - the most popular sport and movies - and raise lots of capital, and make watching it easy. Then you dig in for a very long fight.… |
| 'Thermal cloak' designed, could solve major chip, spacecraft issues Posted: 28 Mar 2012 01:56 AM PDT Nuclear Mars cruisers, mega nano-electronics (... hmm)Top boffins in France have come up with a radical new take on the "cloaking" and invisible-shed physics breakthroughs of recent years. They have designed a technology which instead of bending microwaves or light can shield an object from heat - or concentrate heat upon it.… |
| Oxford Uni chucks big brains at ivy-covered cybersecurity hub Posted: 28 Mar 2012 01:29 AM PDT CompSci bods join academics at new money-spinnerOxford University boffins launched an interdisciplinary Cyber Security Centre on Monday. The new research hub aims to boost academic research into infosecurity.… |
| Scality shoves sparkling file system into its RING Posted: 28 Mar 2012 01:01 AM PDT Fourth major releaseScality has added a file system in the fourth major release of its object storage RING, and it is planning to add NFS heads down the road, the object storage company says.… |
| London wage slaves face hour of Cloud discharge a day - official Posted: 28 Mar 2012 12:32 AM PDT Free Wi-Fi rolled out on Overground platformsPassengers travelling on London Overground are to get free internet access after the body that runs the train network, London Overground Rail Operations Limited, signed a deal with The Cloud to roll out Wi-Fi at its stations.… |
| China wants global ecommerce crown Posted: 28 Mar 2012 12:05 AM PDT Gov to 'guide' industry to £1.4tr in sales by 2015China has revealed ambitious growth plans to lead the word in e-commerce, quadrupling web sales to reach 18 trillion (£1.4tr) by 2015, but laid out a strict new set of policy measures to get there.… |
| Actively cooled rocket primed for easy re-entry Posted: 28 Mar 2012 12:04 AM PDT German SHEFEX II mission trials new heat shield, sharp-edged designA German spacecraft featuring an angular design and active cooling of the heat shield looks set to launch in April.… |
| F1 team wins CAD copyright war, wakes up to £700k hangover Posted: 28 Mar 2012 12:04 AM PDT Court battle over blueprints used to build rival carsThe High Court said Aerolab had breached the confidence of team Force India and that team Caterham (previously Lotus) had infringed its rival's copyright. The judge rejected claims from Force India that Caterham/Lotus and its chief technical officer, Mike Gascoyne, were liable for breach of confidence. Gascoyne previously worked in the same role for Force India.… |
| Apple Oz offers refunds for confused 4G iPad owners Posted: 27 Mar 2012 11:17 PM PDT Box-besmirching stickers rejectedApple Australia will offer a refund to those who purchased the New iPad under the misapprehension it could hook up to 4G networks in Australia.… |
| Motorola Motoactv GPS fitness tracker Posted: 27 Mar 2012 11:00 PM PDT For the wandering weight watcherReview Motorola may be pitching its "world's first" GPS fitness tracker as the ultimate fusion between exercise and music, but I reserve that accolade for mosh pits. In fact, I'm more inclined to agree with Henry Ford who once said "Exercise is bunk. If you are healthy, you don't need it: if you are sick you should not take it."… |
| Australia urges miners to become data miners Posted: 27 Mar 2012 10:52 PM PDT New electromagnetic survey offers a chance to go deep with big dataAustralia is offering mining companies new data sources they can use to find mineral deposits that cannot be detected by prospecting on the surface of the earth.… |
| ZTE winds down Iran biz after espionage claims Posted: 27 Mar 2012 10:07 PM PDT Chinese telecoms equipment firm not touting for new businessChinese handset giant ZTE has been forced to clarify that it's no longer touting for new business in Iran, but remained vague about allegations that it sold the country's largest telecoms firm a nationwide internet and phone surveillance system.… |
| Zuckerberg flies to Shanghai for Apple Store visit Posted: 27 Mar 2012 10:04 PM PDT Facebook founder goes walkabout in ChinaChina is apparently the place to be this week as first Apple CEO Tim Cook and now Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg were spotted in the People's Republic.… |
| Google I/O conference sells out in 20 minutes Posted: 27 Mar 2012 05:10 PM PDT Profit-hungry scalpers flock to eBayTickets for Google's annual I/O developer conference have sold out in less than 20 minutes, and scalpers have already taken to eBay to cash in on the show's popularity.… |
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