Oz national broadcaster goes open with archives |
- Oz national broadcaster goes open with archives
- TSA bars security guru from perv scanner testimony
- HP gives huge chunk of storage business to channel
- Microsoft censors Pirate Bay links from IM
- Feds issue final 'Do Not Track' privacy recommendations
- Opscode gets more venture dough for its Chef
- Overland tugs parachute cord as storage biz hurtles earthwards
- Intel comfortably conquers chip market in 2011
- Smoked by Android: Microsoft coughs up free laptop
- Game closes 277 stores
- Microsoft set to launch Xbox Lite in 2013
- CD: The indestructible music format that REFUSES TO DIE
- Ofcom puts UK VoD regulator up for review
- Angry Birds Space flings 10 MILLION downloads in 3 days
- Tripleton touts telephone for double-ohs
- Microsoft SQL Server medusa turned into cloud pussy cat
- RIM pushes BlackBerry 10 kit out to thousands of devs on 1 May
- Cabinet Office unveils Public Services Network suppliers list
- Microsoft stamps on HTTP 2.0's pedal, races to mobileville
- UK.gov gives nod to .scot
- Brazilian cops hunt pillaging 'gang of blondes'
- Game CEO steps down
- Google asked to bin autocomplete results for Japanese man's name
- OAP sues Apple for $1m after walking into store's glass door
- DDN delivers pint-sized big data boxes
- Dot Pharmacy: New web weapon in war on duff drug peddlers
- Phones4U Samsung banner doesn't flag Galaxy S III launch
- Don't let the cloud obscure your software's performance
- Barclaycard pay-by-bonk fraud risk exposes Amazon's security
- Pioneer SC-LX85 9.2 AV receiver with AirPlay
- Baidu! boss! says! no! to! Yahoo! gobble!
- Americans resort to padlocking their dumb meters
- Nokia, Microsoft bung student mobe devs £7.5m to 'ideate'
- Microsoft takes down ZeuS botnets
- The future of the fondleslab belongs to the Fire
- ISS 'nauts take to the escape pods in Russian sat-prang debris peril
- Giant paper plane thunders across Arizona sky
- Elgato Thunderbolt SSD
- Court shuts down site that circumvents Pirate Bay blocks
- Paedophiles ‘disguise’ child abuse pages as legit websites
- London fire brigade outsources 999 control centre to Capita
- Australia Post launches inbox and cloud storage for all
- CSC's selfless offer to new QLD government
- Safety cert green light points to April iPad launch in China
- Russia trashes wounded comms satellite
- Election poll shot down by DDoS-ers
- Samsung joins Telstra's 4G handset party
- Sir Isaac Newton's life rendered as KML
- Primus getsB2B approval on NBN
- E-tax may return to Mac OS
| Oz national broadcaster goes open with archives Posted: 26 Mar 2012 03:06 PM PDT Releases historical snippets under CC licenseWhile national digital archiving strategies in Australia move slowly, some agencies are taking things into their own hands. The latest is the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, which has put slabs of archival material under a Wikimedia license.… |
| TSA bars security guru from perv scanner testimony Posted: 26 Mar 2012 02:03 PM PDT Last minute excuse blocks Bruce SchneierSecurity expert Bruce Schneier was been banned at the last minute from testifying in front of congress on the efficacy – or otherwise – of the US Transportation Security Administration's (TSA) much-maligned perv scanners.… |
| HP gives huge chunk of storage business to channel Posted: 26 Mar 2012 01:17 PM PDT New customer storage goes indirectHP is giving a huge chunk of its storage business to the channel with a couple of 100 Percent sales initiatives.… |
| Microsoft censors Pirate Bay links from IM Posted: 26 Mar 2012 12:57 PM PDT Malware blamed – but other torrent links still allowedMicrosoft has confirmed that users of its instant messaging app will not be able to send each other links to popular torrent site The Pirate Bay, citing malware fears.… |
| Feds issue final 'Do Not Track' privacy recommendations Posted: 26 Mar 2012 12:09 PM PDT Welcome online protections or 'Big Brother' overreach?The US Federal Trade Commission has issued its final report on the "best practices" companies should put in place regarding the collection of consumer information.… |
| Opscode gets more venture dough for its Chef Posted: 26 Mar 2012 11:39 AM PDT Cooking up cloudy treats for 'insatiable and unending' capacity hungerOpscode, the maker of the open source Chef tool that the company says can help system administrators "rule the cloud", has lured more big backers as momentum builds for that tool's open source, hosted, and licensed versions.… |
| Overland tugs parachute cord as storage biz hurtles earthwards Posted: 26 Mar 2012 10:28 AM PDT Bosses tout $5.8m of stock in recovery bidOverland Storage hopes to raise $5.8m from a stock offering and may use the cash for working capital - raising questions over its ability to fund its operations from sales until the biz recovers.… |
| Intel comfortably conquers chip market in 2011 Posted: 26 Mar 2012 10:01 AM PDT All your transistors are belong to usThe chip heads at market watcher IHS iSuppli have tallied the sales figures for the world's semiconductor makers for 2011, and guess what? Intel won while just about everybody else, with a few notable exceptions, lost some ground.… |
| Smoked by Android: Microsoft coughs up free laptop Posted: 26 Mar 2012 09:27 AM PDT Widget-waggling blogger stokedAn Android user who reckons he beat Microsoft's speed challenge fair and square will be getting his free laptop and phone after Microsoft's PCGuy stepped into the fray.… |
| Posted: 26 Mar 2012 09:13 AM PDT Reward Cards, pre-orders, trade-ins suspendedHigh street retailer Game's administrators started the company shakedown in frantic fashion today, announcing the immediate closure of 277 stores in the UK and Ireland, and suspension of refunds and exchanges, store credit and the company's Reward card scheme.… |
| Microsoft set to launch Xbox Lite in 2013 Posted: 26 Mar 2012 09:07 AM PDT 360 sees a shrinkMicrosoft plans to cash in further on its current-gen console tech through the launch of the Xbox Lite, a smaller, inexpensive version of the 360, it has been claimed.… |
| CD: The indestructible music format that REFUSES TO DIE Posted: 26 Mar 2012 08:59 AM PDT Annual number crunching shows vinyl rebound tooThis is almost getting boring to report each year - but here we are again. Twelve years after sales peaked the music CD format is stubbornly refusing to die. You can shutter the dedicated record shops, hide the CDs behind fondleslabs and video games in the megastores, offer the public instant access to cheaper legal alternatives - but still people go on buying CDs.… |
| Ofcom puts UK VoD regulator up for review Posted: 26 Mar 2012 08:31 AM PDT 2 years on, the scrutiniser will be scrutinisedVideo on Demand regulator ATVOD has completed its two-year run, and Ofcom wants to know if people think the regulatory split is working, and if it's going to work in future.… |
| Angry Birds Space flings 10 MILLION downloads in 3 days Posted: 26 Mar 2012 08:01 AM PDT Fanbois and fandroids flock to zero-grav gameThe latest outing of Angry Birds - this time in spaaaace - has been downloaded 10 million times since it launched three days ago. The catapult-pinging galactic avian game was unveiled amid huge publicity on Friday. Rovio announced the expectation-smashing numbers on its Twitter feed this morning.… |
| Tripleton touts telephone for double-ohs Posted: 26 Mar 2012 07:39 AM PDT Enigma unhackable, maker claimsYou'd think M16's top agents would carry the most feature-packed smartphones on the market, but folk with a true sense of security should apparently opt for Tripleton's new handset, the Enigma E2. It claims the phone is hackproof.… |
| Microsoft SQL Server medusa turned into cloud pussy cat Posted: 26 Mar 2012 07:39 AM PDT Upstart startup virtualises sprawling database beastCompanies running many instances of SQL Server can try startup DH2i's DxConsole to virtualise the database's processes.… |
| RIM pushes BlackBerry 10 kit out to thousands of devs on 1 May Posted: 26 Mar 2012 07:19 AM PDT Freebies for app-makers at BlackBerry WorldAttendees travelling to Orlando for BlackBerry World will get their hands on alpha-release hardware as RIM seeks to seed the developer community ahead of a commercial launch.… |
| Cabinet Office unveils Public Services Network suppliers list Posted: 26 Mar 2012 07:01 AM PDT 12 firms ink deals worth up to £3bn to build gov infrastructureThe Cabinet Office has confirmed that 12 out of 16 bidders made it onto the Public Services Network (PSN) framework.… |
| Microsoft stamps on HTTP 2.0's pedal, races to mobileville Posted: 26 Mar 2012 06:32 AM PDT Web titans pile aboard as protocol shifts up a gearThe HTTP protocol - one of the web's foundation specifications - is getting a speed and security revamp.… |
| Posted: 26 Mar 2012 05:59 AM PDT Ye can take oor lives but ye'll nivver take our gTLDomWhile the Coalition government may oppose Scottish independence, it has nevertheless given the go-ahead to a Scottish move for independence on the internet.… |
| Brazilian cops hunt pillaging 'gang of blondes' Posted: 26 Mar 2012 05:41 AM PDT Sao Paulo express kidnapping she-devil cuffedPic Brazilian cops have cuffed two members of the so-called "gang of blondes" - a pack of she-devils who allegedly carried out up to 50 express kidnappings in Sao Paulo between 2011 and 2012.… |
| Posted: 26 Mar 2012 05:28 AM PDT Insert coin to continueHigh street retailer Game formally entered administration this morning. The first casualty of the move: CEO Ian Shepherd resigned from his role.… |
| Google asked to bin autocomplete results for Japanese man's name Posted: 26 Mar 2012 05:19 AM PDT Global search giant defies court order in cyber-defamation caseGoogle has refused to co-operate with a Japanese court order to suspend autocomplete searches for a man's name. The court made the ruling against Google after the man complained that autocomplete search suggestions for his name were defaming him, by linking him with crimes he did not commit.… |
| OAP sues Apple for $1m after walking into store's glass door Posted: 26 Mar 2012 05:04 AM PDT Pane-full face plantAn octogenarian is to take Apple to court after a visit to one of the computer company's glass-fronted stores put her nose out of joint - literally.… |
| DDN delivers pint-sized big data boxes Posted: 26 Mar 2012 04:58 AM PDT They can grow you know ...DataDirect Networks (DDN) is offering its big data array technology in small data arrays that can grow to become big ones, and come at a lower price point.… |
| Dot Pharmacy: New web weapon in war on duff drug peddlers Posted: 26 Mar 2012 04:46 AM PDT gTLD bid to tackle bogus treatment bizAn American trade group wants to create top-level domain name .pharmacy to stem the sale of bogus medicines online.… |
| Phones4U Samsung banner doesn't flag Galaxy S III launch Posted: 26 Mar 2012 04:31 AM PDT Store opening date, not next-gen smartphone launchSamsung fanboys will be disappointed to learn that banners spied at Phones 4U's flagship store in London's Oxford Street - one of which teases with a 30 March date - bears no relation to the release of the eagerly anticipated Galaxy S III smartphone.… |
| Don't let the cloud obscure your software's performance Posted: 26 Mar 2012 04:30 AM PDT Keeping an eye on SaaSSoftware as a service (SaaS) can be a great cost saver for companies willing to abandon their own hardware and software, but what happens if productivity leaves the building too?… |
| Barclaycard pay-by-bonk fraud risk exposes Amazon's security Posted: 26 Mar 2012 04:13 AM PDT NFC cards savaged in privates' slurp probeChannel 4 News has found out that pay-by-wave phones are compatible with pay-by-wave cards, and wants something done about it, but it's web bazaar Amazon that's lacking basic security.… |
| Pioneer SC-LX85 9.2 AV receiver with AirPlay Posted: 26 Mar 2012 04:00 AM PDT An amp for all seasonsReview The Pioneer SC-LX85 is AV receiver royalty. It lords it over the rest of the brand's home cinema range, resplendent in the latest audio visual finery. Priced at £2K, this is red carpet home cinema.… |
| Baidu! boss! says! no! to! Yahoo! gobble! Posted: 26 Mar 2012 03:46 AM PDT Chinese search giant has eyes on Apple's iOSBaidu.com boss Robin Li has said the Chinese search giant will not buy troubled web biz Yahoo!… |
| Americans resort to padlocking their dumb meters Posted: 26 Mar 2012 03:29 AM PDT We don't like smart meters round hereCampaigners across America are resorting to padlocks and metal cages to protect their 'leccy meters, convinced that the smart versions will damage their health.… |
| Nokia, Microsoft bung student mobe devs £7.5m to 'ideate' Posted: 26 Mar 2012 03:14 AM PDT Cash pot lure to find the next RovioNokia and Microsoft are pumping €9m (£7.5m) into a university to promote app development and startups that'll feed their mobile tech alliance.… |
| Microsoft takes down ZeuS botnets Posted: 26 Mar 2012 03:03 AM PDT Disrupted ... but not dismantledA Microsoft-led operation resulted in the takedown of key servers associated with the infamous ZeuS and SpyEye banking Trojan botnets on Friday.… |
| The future of the fondleslab belongs to the Fire Posted: 26 Mar 2012 02:41 AM PDT Well, devices the same size, price as the Amazon Kindle tabWell over half the of the tablet market will be comprised of cheap tablets by 2016, it has been forecast.… |
| ISS 'nauts take to the escape pods in Russian sat-prang debris peril Posted: 26 Mar 2012 02:23 AM PDT Conspiracy-theory space wreckage passes close to station'Nauts crewing the International Space Station were forced to take to the escape capsules over the weekend, as a chunk of wreckage from a mysterious satellite collision in 2009 hurtled towards the orbiting outpost.… |
| Giant paper plane thunders across Arizona sky Posted: 26 Mar 2012 02:18 AM PDT 45ft beast nudges 100mphAn Arizona aircraft museum reckons it has taken the record for the launch of the biggest ever paper plane: a 45ft (13.7m) long monster which glided to Earth last week from a height of 2,703ft (824m).… |
| Posted: 26 Mar 2012 02:02 AM PDT Solid-state speed merchantGeek Treat of the Week This Elgato drive combines a solid-state drive with Intel's lightning-fast (sorry) Thunderbolt connector. Inside its charcoal metal enclosure is a 3Gbps Sata SSD, 120GB in this case, made by SanDisk.… |
| Court shuts down site that circumvents Pirate Bay blocks Posted: 26 Mar 2012 02:01 AM PDT Dutch anti-piracy group wins copyright ruling against proxy operatorA Dutch anti-piracy group has won a court order forcing the operator of a proxy website to shut the site down after it was used to circumvent blocks to illegal file-sharing site The Pirate Bay.… |
| Paedophiles ‘disguise’ child abuse pages as legit websites Posted: 26 Mar 2012 01:47 AM PDT Report: Hidden paths lead to vile vids and picsChild abusers are latching onto new methods to distribute paedophilic material online, according to an annual report by the Internet Watch Foundation.… |
| London fire brigade outsources 999 control centre to Capita Posted: 26 Mar 2012 01:01 AM PDT First brigade in the country to contract out emergency callsThe London fire brigade is to outsource its 999 control centre to Capita.… |
| Australia Post launches inbox and cloud storage for all Posted: 25 Mar 2012 11:56 PM PDT Also plans superstores to make parcel collection easierAustralia Post has announced it will create a "Digital MailBox" for every Australian, as of April 2012.… |
| CSC's selfless offer to new QLD government Posted: 25 Mar 2012 10:21 PM PDT Welcomes new administration by hanging out "For Hire" signCSC has marked the election of a new government in the Australian state of Queensland by selflessly offering to do some work for it. Preferably in the healthcare sector.… |
| Safety cert green light points to April iPad launch in China Posted: 25 Mar 2012 10:00 PM PDT Unless Proview gets its way before then...Apple is counting down to an official launch in China by April after regulators gave the new iPad Wi-Fi model the green light, although the 4G model is still years away.… |
| Russia trashes wounded comms satellite Posted: 25 Mar 2012 09:45 PM PDT Rescue plans ignoredDespite being the subject of numerous rescue plans, Russia's failed Express-AM4 satellite has been nudged into the atmosphere for a fiery end.… |
| Election poll shot down by DDoS-ers Posted: 25 Mar 2012 09:21 PM PDT Civic referendum hit by MILLION clicks-per-second anti-democracy typesTwo local men have been arrested after an online referendum organised by Hong Kong university to poll citizens on their choice of chief executive was disabled in an apparent denial of service attack.… |
| Samsung joins Telstra's 4G handset party Posted: 25 Mar 2012 07:51 PM PDT Announcement hints GALAXY S II 4G benefits from extended 4G networkTelstra now has two 4G-capable handsets competing for your telephonic pleasure and may have signalled the expansion or enhancement of its 4G network..… |
| Sir Isaac Newton's life rendered as KML Posted: 25 Mar 2012 05:18 PM PDT Italian boffins suggest "georeferenced" lives of notable peopleForget biographies in conventional books. Forget e-books too, while you're at it. A pair of Italian boffins have mashed up the idea of "Georeferences" and an ancient Roman form of travel guide called itineraria to create Keyhole Markup Language (KML) tours of a notable person's life.… |
| Primus getsB2B approval on NBN Posted: 25 Mar 2012 04:06 PM PDT First RSP certifiedNBN Co has given Primus Australia the green light to be the network's first retail service provider with B2B interoperability certification.… |
| Posted: 25 Mar 2012 04:00 PM PDT Capgemini asked to investigate feasibility of porting Delphi codeAustralia's Mac OS users may once again have native access to the Australian Taxation office's (ATO's) e-tax app, after the agency asked Capgemini to rummage through code for the Windows version to see if a Mac port is possible.… |
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