Amazon throws open doors to AWS apps marketplace

Amazon throws open doors to AWS apps marketplace


Amazon throws open doors to AWS apps marketplace

Posted: 19 Apr 2012 02:23 PM PDT

Want to be partner? Hand over your cash, now

One new service announced today at the AWS Summit in New York is a blatantly obvious one for an online retailer: an online marketplace to shop for, compare, buy, and install applications from third parties to run on the AWS cloud services.…

Microsoft revenues up as PC market recovers

Posted: 19 Apr 2012 02:00 PM PDT

Soft games sales sole black spot

Microsoft has reported strong financial for its latest quarter, with all divisions showing growth apart from its gaming division.…

Cray taps Microsoft parallel guru as CTO

Posted: 19 Apr 2012 01:39 PM PDT

FPGAs on the exascale roadmap?

Supercomputer maker Cray has been looking around for a new CTO since last August, and has now decided that the best candidate for the job was right there at the company, and has chosen William Blake for the role.…

Amazon to all data centers: Keep up, if you can

Posted: 19 Apr 2012 01:01 PM PDT

End is nigh for private server fleets

It's no secret that the utility computing offshoot of online retailer Amazon thinks that it can build a better data center for running Web applications than you can.…

Google I/O snafu greenlights crap code, angers devs

Posted: 19 Apr 2012 12:21 PM PDT

Will 100 ugly step programmers go to the ball?

There are red faces across Mountain View today after angry developers pointed out a flaw in the Chocolate Factory's Code Jam competition for tickets to the Google I/O conference in June.…

Samsung smacks Apple back with 8-patent knuckleduster

Posted: 19 Apr 2012 12:01 PM PDT

Keep your FRANDs close, keep your enemies closer... in court

Samsung has responded to Apple's California-filed patent suit with a fat bundle of its own patents, including a couple that fall under the much-discussed FRAND rules.…

EMC rides storage sales wave as cash keeps pouring in

Posted: 19 Apr 2012 11:02 AM PDT

Tucci's tower looking impregnable after strong Q1

It was another stonking quarter for EMC. The storage giant reported an impressive $5.09bn in sales for the first quarter of its fiscal 2012 year, with profits of $587m, up 23 per cent on a year ago – ker-ching!…

Tumblr CEO realises ads don't make him sick after all

Posted: 19 Apr 2012 10:08 AM PDT

Two years after renouncing all ads, Karp's stomach settles

Just two years after Tumblr founder and CEO David Karp said that advertising on sites like his made him physically sick, Karp has announced that Tumblr will start offering paid advertising.…

Metallic Glass iPhone 5 to battle pottery Samsung Galaxy S3

Posted: 19 Apr 2012 09:44 AM PDT

Rumours from Korean tech industry

The next iPhone will be cased in "Liquidmetal" says a Korean news outlet quoting "industry sources".…

Amazon, Salesforce 'expected to join UK.gov's G-Cloud 2.0'

Posted: 19 Apr 2012 09:28 AM PDT

Blighty reckons earlier legal fears ironed out

Amazon and Salesforce are odds-on to join the UK government's G-Cloud and start serving civil servants with hosted computing, storage and ERP from May.…

India's new Atom-powered Xolo X900 ISN'T Intel's first smartphone

Posted: 19 Apr 2012 09:06 AM PDT

Despite the hype, Lava's Android offering ain't Chipzilla's mobile debut

Intel is providing the Medfield Atom processor for the Xolo X900, an Android phone being launched in India - but despite the headlines it's a long way from the Intel's first smartphone.…

Apple throws free Snow Leopard bone at MobileMe punters

Posted: 19 Apr 2012 08:28 AM PDT

Hopes OS upgrade will get them hooked on iCloud

Apple is now giving away an OS upgrade to as a ploy to wean punters off its MobileMe service and onto its iCloud storage offering. Cupertino's older OSes do not support iCloud.…

eBay beats Q1 forecasts with PayPal mobe cash mountain

Posted: 19 Apr 2012 08:01 AM PDT

Money-swap site boosts its revenue by a third

eBay has seen its revenues and income rise in the first quarter this year, boosted by PayPal's moves in the mobile payments sector.…

Ebook price-fix trial showdown? Bring it on, say Apple and pals

Posted: 19 Apr 2012 07:33 AM PDT

Europe reckons fruity firm may settle

Apple wants to go to trial in the US over allegations of price-fixing in the ebook market, the company's lawyer said yesterday, but it may end up settling with the EU.…

Sony 3D PlayStation TV to hit UK at last

Posted: 19 Apr 2012 07:09 AM PDT

Dual-view gaming inbound

It has been a long time coming, but Sony's 3D PlayStation telly has finally touched down in the UK, wetting the mouths of multiplayer gamers keen to get hands on the set's SimulView tech.…

Irish national telco gets 100 days to escape €4bn debt hell

Posted: 19 Apr 2012 07:01 AM PDT

Eircom made a few corporates very rich, says judge

The Irish courts have stepped in to protect the country's largest telco from creditors after the firm careered €4bn into debt. A judge yesterday granted Eircom 100 days' grace to restructure its balance-sheet busting debts. This is the biggest such move in Irish corporate history.…

Fake Instagram app slings SMS Trojan onto Android gear

Posted: 19 Apr 2012 06:40 AM PDT

Russian site rather than irate Apple fanboi fingered

Virus lynchpins are distributing an Android Trojan under the guise of popular photo-sharing app Instagram.…

Nokia loses $1.7bn in Q1, sales chief falls overboard

Posted: 19 Apr 2012 06:21 AM PDT

That sales collapse in full

Nokia's sales chief Colin Giles will depart in a shake-up of the company's commercial operation, the mobe maker announced in its earnings call today. After he clears his desk in June, 20-year veteran Giles won't be replaced, with the four regional senior VPs now reporting directly to head of markets Niklaus Savander.…

Gemini outs trio of budget Android 4 tablets

Posted: 19 Apr 2012 06:05 AM PDT

Ice Cream Sarnie at sub-sub-iPad prices

China's Gemini Devices has brought its cheap Android 4 JoyTab tablets to Blighty.…

Cycle fires up 50,000-core HPC cluster on Amazon EC2

Posted: 19 Apr 2012 06:00 AM PDT

Looking for drugs in all the right places

Cycle Computing is at it again, pushing the envelope on setting up HPC clusters that ride atop Amazon's EC2 compute clusters. This time, Cycle Computing has been tapped by protein simulation software-maker Schrödinger and drug-hunter Nimbus Discovery, which is in hot pursuit of drugs to cure Non-Hodgkin's lymphoma and obesity.…

Mayor Boris' Chinese vote master stroke backfires on twit clone

Posted: 19 Apr 2012 05:42 AM PDT

Making as much sense on Weibo as he does in Blighty

Bouffant-topped bigwig Boris Johnson hopes to ingratiate himself with the capital's Chinese community by climbing aboard Twitter-clone Sina Weibo - although putting the same yattering on both is just silly.…

ISPs torch UK.gov's smut-blocking master plan

Posted: 19 Apr 2012 05:27 AM PDT

Network-level filters won't better protect kids – broadband firms

Telcos have clobbered an independent Parliamentary inquiry into online child safety by saying that its recommendations are unworkable.…

Cosmic ray source riddle mystery now even more mysterious

Posted: 19 Apr 2012 05:18 AM PDT

Eggheads stumped after killer gamma rays ruled out. Probably

Boffins are now even more puzzled about where high-energy cosmic rays come from after a new study showed that gamma ray bursts are probably not to blame.…

Microsoft tears the wraps off Windows 8 Enterprise

Posted: 19 Apr 2012 05:02 AM PDT

USB boot from your own device

Remember the enterprise? Despite what has become a fanatical focus on consumers to beat Apple with Windows 8 tablets and Windows phones, Microsoft does – just about.…

CompSci boffins tout file encryption for Google Docs

Posted: 19 Apr 2012 04:42 AM PDT

Plugin scrambles data en route to Chocolate Factory cloud

Computer scientists in Ireland have developed a technology for Google Docs that allows for the "real-time" encryption of data before it is uploaded to the Google servers.…

Huawei reveals Ascend P1 launch plans

Posted: 19 Apr 2012 04:34 AM PDT

Thinnest ICS handset yet?

Huawei has announced the availability of its forthcoming super-thin Android smartphone, the Ascend P1, which the company plans to roll out across Europe this summer.…

Barclaycard slaps pay-by-bonk plasters on mobes

Posted: 19 Apr 2012 04:21 AM PDT

And anything else that moves

Barclaycard has launched a proximity-payment token embedded in a sticker, ideally sized for affixing to the back of a mobile phone, as a stop gap until the handsets catch up.…

Propellerhead Figure

Posted: 19 Apr 2012 04:00 AM PDT

Finger-tapping music-making fun

iOS App of the Week  Propellerhead's ReBirth app brought some powerful sequencer tools to iOS last year, but made a fatal mistake by simply transplanting the complex interface of the original PC software onto the smaller screen of the iPhone and iPad.…

'Perfect storm' drives electronics stores to EXTINCTION

Posted: 19 Apr 2012 03:42 AM PDT

Supermarket and web rivals will eat retailers alive - analyst

The window of opportunity for traditional bricks-and-mortar consumer electronics retailers to catch up with web-based and supermarket rivals has closed and many more will go the way of the dinosaur.…

Punters want BBC iPlayer in TVs, not 3D

Posted: 19 Apr 2012 03:26 AM PDT

Consumers rank their favoured telly technologies

Brits want catch-up services from their tellies, not 3D, a survey carried out by Freeview has found.…

Fusion-io shoves OS aside, lets apps drill straight into flash

Posted: 19 Apr 2012 03:19 AM PDT

There's a party in the PCIe cache and your kernel isn't invited

Fusion-io is wooing programmers with a software development kit loaded with interfaces so apps can directly access a flash cache as a memory tier.…

TMS and DataCore peddle flashy support for virtual servers

Posted: 19 Apr 2012 03:03 AM PDT

Bundle supercharges virty environments

TMS flash arrays are being bundled with SANsymphony-V software from DataCore to provide fast flash-based SAN array support to virtualised servers.…

PlayStation Suite SDK beta opens today

Posted: 19 Apr 2012 02:55 AM PDT

Sony calls for content

Sony's PlayStation Suite software development kit has been launched in beta form, opening doors for developers to craft games for PlayStation-certified devices.…

Beefy Fedora could use a dash of miracle whip

Posted: 19 Apr 2012 02:41 AM PDT

Chunky between the buns, Btrfs-free

If you're called Beefy Miracle, you better pack a punch. And when the Fedora crew christened their next Linux desktop, that was certainly the plan.…

Hands on with the Nikon D3200 DSLR

Posted: 19 Apr 2012 02:38 AM PDT

Entry-level 24.2Mp shooter, anyone?

First look  The great and the good were out in force at Nikon's London press launch this week of its latest entry-level DSLR, the D3200. Boasting a new 24.2Mp DX format CMOS sensor, the camera also bags an Expeed 3 processor – the same imaging engine featured on the Nikon D4, the company's flagship shooter.…

Ex-army bloke, 2 other bods cuffed after News Corp tip-off

Posted: 19 Apr 2012 02:29 AM PDT

Dawn raid in Op Elveden bung probe

Three more suspects were arrested this morning by officers investigating allegations of illegal payments to police and public officials in relation to the phone hacking scandal at News International.…

Office 365: Win a 25 seat, 12 mth license

Posted: 19 Apr 2012 02:16 AM PDT

All from the cloud and with extra support

Compo  You've heard of Microsoft's Office 365 by now, with its cloud based delivery of office based classics. But have you tried it yet?…

Shale gas fracking ruled safe, but must stop at drop of a hat

Posted: 19 Apr 2012 02:02 AM PDT

Boffins' findings at odds with Dept of Climate Change

Is shale exploration in the UK on stop or go? On Monday the Department for Energy and Climate Change released a geological report into the impact of hydraulic fracturing, a key technique in releasing gas from shale rock deep beneath the Earth's surface. But, as befits the department with the schizophrenic identity, its findings are ambiguous.…

NetApp offers system check-up from iPads, smartphones

Posted: 19 Apr 2012 01:34 AM PDT

Support-call monitoring on IOS and Android

NetApp has endorsed tablet and smartphone access to its support system and users can now monitor support case status from their iPad, iPhone or Android phone.…

Met issues mug-shot gallery mobe app to finger wanted crooks

Posted: 19 Apr 2012 01:02 AM PDT

Curtain-twitchers tap CCTV trove

The Metropolitan Police is pushing a mug-shot gallery smartphone app so Londoners can help nab petty criminals across the capital.…

Trojan sneaks into hotel, slurps guests' credit card data

Posted: 19 Apr 2012 12:27 AM PDT

No reservation required

Cyberooks are selling malware through underground forums which they claim offers the ability to steal credit card information from a hotel point of sale (POS) applications.…

BYOD is a ticking time bomb for B2B resellers

Posted: 19 Apr 2012 12:18 AM PDT

Own kit boom means 'significant disruption'

The Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) trend among organisations will mean a £2bn sales boon for UK service providers within five years but will "significantly disrupt" the B2B hardware channel, says the analyst firm TechMarketView.…

HTC One S Android smartphone

Posted: 18 Apr 2012 11:00 PM PDT

Meet the bridesmaid

Review  Playing Tonto to the One X's Lone Ranger in HTC's new model line-up is the One S. I'll get to Silver, the One V, when it arrives in a few weeks. For now though, we can see if HTC's much vaunted One series makes sense from a technical, as well as a marketing perspective.…

Intel swoops for Korean face recog start-up - reports

Posted: 18 Apr 2012 09:55 PM PDT

In your FACE ARM!

Intel has reportedly swooped for Korean face recognition firm Olaworks in a 35 billion won (£19.3m) deal which could be useful for the chip giant in its continuing efforts to break into the smartphone space with its Medfield platform.…

Pakistanis revolt over Great Firewall plans

Posted: 18 Apr 2012 09:45 PM PDT

Censorship is illegal, claim activists

Several Pakistanis are taking their government to court in a bid to stop the 'illegal' blocking of sites for political purposes and to force the authorities to shelve current plans for a nation wide web filtering system similar to the so-called Great Firewall of China.…

Insatiable China to gobble up 84 MILLION PCs in 2012

Posted: 18 Apr 2012 09:12 PM PDT

Ultrabooks, Windows 8 and Ivy Bridge to fuel 13 per cent growth

China has cemented its position not only as the global leader in PC production but also an avid consumer, with sales set to surge 13 per cent in 2012 - more than twice the worldwide average.…

Australian IT imports rebound

Posted: 18 Apr 2012 08:50 PM PDT

Out of the doghouse but spending still sluggish

Australia's IT imports rebounded in March, reaching $AUD789m.…

NBNCo shoots down Turnbull's satellite argument

Posted: 18 Apr 2012 08:22 PM PDT

Quotes ITU to prove all's well

Refutes Turnbull's assertion of unusual risk NBNCo has moved to extinguish Malcolm Turnbull's argument, raised at a Public Hearing of the Joint Committee into the National Broadband Network, that its decision to commission satellites before securing an orbit for them represents an unconventional and risky practice.…

Mahindra Group seizes on Aus opportunities

Posted: 18 Apr 2012 08:21 PM PDT

Super sizes HQ in NSW

Australia's telecommunications, mining and financial services markets have proven to be a key lure for India's Mahindra Satyam and Tech Mahindra to significantly ramp up their local operations.…

Swiss, German physicists split the electron

Posted: 18 Apr 2012 05:01 PM PDT

Spin here, orbit there

An international research team has observed an electron being split into two "quasi particles", one carrying the original particle's spin, the other carrying its orbital movement.…

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