SATELLITE SMACKDOWN: Turnbull vs. Quigley |
- SATELLITE SMACKDOWN: Turnbull vs. Quigley
- IBM ringing up retail system biz sale to Toshiba?
- 'Not guilty' plea in Utah cop site hacking case
- Moody's downgrades Nokia to near-junk status
- VMware buys up benchmarketeer tools
- Pirates not to blame for Big Media's sales plunge
- EA confirms Crysis 3 release
- Peeling back the skins on IBM's Flex System iron
- Fanboys frolic on recyled rumours of Q3 iPad Mini debut
- Google's top female cheese nominated to serve on Walmart board
- Apple fights off ebook suit with anti-Amazon defence
- EU boots UK phone cash bonk threesome out of bed
- RIP wind power: Minister blows away plans for more turbines
- Rackspace eats own OpenStack heavenly dog food
- Gov: New G-Cloud chief is no 'part-timer'
- Local gov buying group inks £50m software framework
- Bulletproof iPhone case set to survive shootouts
- Hacker jailed for 32 months for attack on abortion-provider site
- MI5 stinks up website with dead SSL certificate
- Apple can't agree with Australian regulator on iPad 4G
- Himalayan glaciers actually GAINING ice, space scans show
- How far can you shift the shape of cloud software?
- BT blows fibre into 'multiple biz units' for first time
- Apple TV third-generation (2012)
- Lesser-spotted Raspberry Pi FINALLY dished up
- How EMC stuffs channel cakeholes with VSPEX recipes
- HP ships hack-friendly all-in-one
- Larry vs Larry: Oracle and Google in courtroom smackdown
- Google fined for stalling Street View cars' Wi-Fi slurp probe
- Samsung S III to enter Galaxy next month
- ISPs should get 'up to' full fee for 'up to' broadband
- UK.gov: Firms can't fondle your smart meter privates...
- If Google's only taking a COPY of your personality, why worry?
- Is Dropbox good enough to be called 'good enough'?
- NHS trust loses personal data of 600 maternity patients, kids
- Android Trojan distracts Japanese with anime and porn
- Google's Brin admits he under-estimated Chinese censorship
- Telstra says it could work with Libs NBN FTTN policy
- Intel shows Apple how to win a trademark dispute in China
- AWS bids for cloudy SharePoint
- NBN essential for faster mobility: Vodafone
- Cloudy QR code bike theft stopper gets Police thumbs up
- Oz parliament may investigate tech price discrimination
- Yet another OSX/Java Trojan spotted in the wild
- ANU puts quantum random numbers online
| SATELLITE SMACKDOWN: Turnbull vs. Quigley Posted: 16 Apr 2012 02:59 PM PDT We replay their NBN Joint Committee brawlAt about 3:30 PM yesterday, during a Public Hearing of the Joint Committee on the National Broadband Network, several NBNCo staffers suddenly became quite agitated.… |
| IBM ringing up retail system biz sale to Toshiba? Posted: 16 Apr 2012 02:46 PM PDT Checking out of point-of-sale marketIs IBM fixing to sell its point of sale hardware and software business to Japanese conglomerate and sometime IT partner Toshiba?… |
| 'Not guilty' plea in Utah cop site hacking case Posted: 16 Apr 2012 02:44 PM PDT Police twitter feed doesn't wait for court hearingAn Ohio man pleaded not guilty today to charges that he hacked into a pair of police websites in Salt Lake City, Utah in January.… |
| Moody's downgrades Nokia to near-junk status Posted: 16 Apr 2012 12:34 PM PDT Finns failing at high and low end of marketRatings agency Moody's has lowered its debt rating for Nokia to near junk status, and warned that the company is facing even tougher times ahead.… |
| VMware buys up benchmarketeer tools Posted: 16 Apr 2012 10:03 AM PDT Helping you to help us help ourselvesServer virtualization juggernaut VMware doesn't just want to own the lion's share of the cloudy infrastructure inside data centers. It wants to convince all data centers to virtualize all workloads, and use the best virtualization tools available to do so. But to do that, the company has to prove that real-world workloads in your shop can be virtualized and not adversely impact performance, and so VMware has snapped up "certain assets" of a small company called InfoTech Health Check – a provider of online benchmarking tools – for an undisclosed sum.… |
| Pirates not to blame for Big Media's sales plunge Posted: 16 Apr 2012 09:32 AM PDT Evil empire caught in logic loop ... arrrrrrSysadmin blog The RIAA and MPAA would have you believe that piracy is responsible for their decline in sales. This is all of course blame to be laid at the feet of computers, the internet and the generic "digital boogyman." Even without getting deep into the flawed math in play, there are other reasons for the middling returns on investment Big Content is seeing.… |
| Posted: 16 Apr 2012 09:09 AM PDT Bow to the NanosuitElectronic Arts officially confirmed Crysis 3 today and revealed the "sandbox shooter" will explode onto shop shelves in spring 2013.… |
| Peeling back the skins on IBM's Flex System iron Posted: 16 Apr 2012 08:28 AM PDT More Power – and x86 – to youAnalysis IBM announced the PureSystems converged systems last week, mashing up servers, storage, networking, and systems software into a ball of self-managing cloudiness. What the launch did not talk a lot about is the underlying Flex System hardware which is at the heart of the PureFlex and PureApplication machines.… |
| Fanboys frolic on recyled rumours of Q3 iPad Mini debut Posted: 16 Apr 2012 08:11 AM PDT Tech speculation will eat itselfTake care with fresh claims that Apple will have an 'iPad Mini' out in Q3: they seem to be simply repeating a similar claim made back in March.… |
| Google's top female cheese nominated to serve on Walmart board Posted: 16 Apr 2012 07:58 AM PDT Marissa Mayer maps way to world's largest retailerGoogle veteran Marissa Mayer has been nominated to serve on the board of the world's biggest retailer Walmart.… |
| Apple fights off ebook suit with anti-Amazon defence Posted: 16 Apr 2012 07:31 AM PDT Win or lose, the US gov will loseApple is a liberator, not an oppressor – that's according to Apple, at least. The Mac-maker turned device-and-content shop has dismissed the US government's decision to prosecute on the grounds that it rigged ebook prices by claiming the iBookstore has freed consumers and publishers from the tyranny of Amazon.… |
| EU boots UK phone cash bonk threesome out of bed Posted: 16 Apr 2012 07:01 AM PDT Telco trio must wait until August for NFC green-light decisionThe EU thinks O2, Vodafone and Everything Everywhere's combined approach to pushing pay-by-wave phones could stifle competition - so the triumvirate will have to wait another three months to find out if they'll be allowed to team up.… |
| RIP wind power: Minister blows away plans for more turbines Posted: 16 Apr 2012 06:28 AM PDT Everyone off the gravy trainIt looks as though the wind energy boom is over. UK energy minister Greg Barker has hinted at a significant change in government strategy - cutting subsidies for the deployment and operation of environmentalists' favoured technologies.… |
| Rackspace eats own OpenStack heavenly dog food Posted: 16 Apr 2012 06:03 AM PDT Betas cloudy database, block storage, virtual networksRackspace Hosting, one of the contenders in the fight to take on Amazon's eponymous Web Services division as the dominant public cloud, is finally confident enough in the OpenStack wares to start its internal rollout of the software underpinning its Cloud Servers, Cloud Files, and other services.… |
| Gov: New G-Cloud chief is no 'part-timer' Posted: 16 Apr 2012 05:47 AM PDT Rain will fall as planned, Whitehall saysThe government's promised G-Cloud is on track, despite in-coming director Denise McDonagh having to juggle her new role with her existing job as Home Office head of IT.… |
| Local gov buying group inks £50m software framework Posted: 16 Apr 2012 05:34 AM PDT Twelve resellers bag place on Pro5 agreementThe Pro5 buying consortium has confirmed that 12 suppliers have made it onto the next generation software and services framework agreement. The framework is worth tens of millions over a 36-month period.… |
| Bulletproof iPhone case set to survive shootouts Posted: 16 Apr 2012 05:33 AM PDT Protected in iRaq?We've seen some odd smartphone cases over our time, but this bullet-proof beast, heavy enough to crush a chap's toes, is a fine contender for the crown.… |
| Hacker jailed for 32 months for attack on abortion-provider site Posted: 16 Apr 2012 05:29 AM PDT Judge: No excuse for targeting the vulnerableA self-identified member of Anonymous was jailed for two years and eight months on Friday over a hacking attack against Britain's biggest abortion provider in March.… |
| MI5 stinks up website with dead SSL certificate Posted: 16 Apr 2012 05:16 AM PDT Secret policeman's balls-upBlighty's intelligence agency MI5 forgot to replace the expired digital certificate for its website over the weekend.… |
| Apple can't agree with Australian regulator on iPad 4G Posted: 16 Apr 2012 04:58 AM PDT Case against Cupertino continues after talks failApple's talks with Australia's competition authority today over the little advertising snafu where Cupertino wrongly announced that 4G would work in the country have failed to come to any resolution.… |
| Himalayan glaciers actually GAINING ice, space scans show Posted: 16 Apr 2012 04:44 AM PDT An inconvenient truthA new study of survey data gleaned from space has shown a vast region of Himalayan glaciers is actually gaining ice steadily, mystifying climate scientists who had thought the planet's "third pole" to be melting.… |
| How far can you shift the shape of cloud software? Posted: 16 Apr 2012 04:30 AM PDT Tweak and ye shall findDeep in the bowels of the EU academics, businesspeople and bureaucrats are putting the finishing touches to a set of specifications that could change the way we handle software as a service (SaaS).… |
| BT blows fibre into 'multiple biz units' for first time Posted: 16 Apr 2012 04:23 AM PDT Hopes FTTP tech will help grow Acorn HouseBT's biz wing has completed what it claimed to be the first fibre-to-the-premises (FTTP) install to multiple buildings in the UK.… |
| Apple TV third-generation (2012) Posted: 16 Apr 2012 04:00 AM PDT Set-top stop-gap for the 'iTV'?Review Well, at least we can get the hardware over and done with quickly. The latest Apple TV looks exactly like the old one, and it's innards aren't really any different either.… |
| Lesser-spotted Raspberry Pi FINALLY dished up Posted: 16 Apr 2012 03:46 AM PDT Cheap-as-chips ARM computer hits doormatsThe credit card-sized ARM-powered Raspberry Pi is finally shipping, at £30, allowing thousands of middle-aged dads to achieve their adolescent dreams of computing nirvana.… |
| How EMC stuffs channel cakeholes with VSPEX recipes Posted: 16 Apr 2012 03:28 AM PDT Storage biz fattens up SMB cloudsAnalysis No server maker of any appreciable size – now including the famously direct Dell – has been able to sell machines without the help of the reseller channel. Ironically, EMC is not even a server maker, but its aspirations in the IT sector make it just as dependent on the channel as rivals Hewlett-Packard, Dell, and IBM.… |
| HP ships hack-friendly all-in-one Posted: 16 Apr 2012 03:26 AM PDT Crack open the Z1 and tinker to your heart's contentHP has begun shipping its easy-to-upgrade all-in-one desktop PC, the Z1, worldwide, the computer giant said today.… |
| Larry vs Larry: Oracle and Google in courtroom smackdown Posted: 16 Apr 2012 03:14 AM PDT Ellison's Java suit against Choc Factory goes to trialOne of the big patent cases in tech will finally come to trial this week, as Oracle takes on Google in court over its use of Java software in its Android operating system.… |
| Google fined for stalling Street View cars' Wi-Fi slurp probe Posted: 16 Apr 2012 03:01 AM PDT Must pay pocket change for gobbling unencrypted packetsGoogle has been fined $25,000 by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) for impeding its investigation of the search giant's Street View cars, which inadvertently collected payload data including emails and passwords from unencrypted Wi-Fi networks.… |
| Samsung S III to enter Galaxy next month Posted: 16 Apr 2012 02:50 AM PDT Prepare for take offSamsung's next flagship smartphone, the Galaxy S III, appears set for launch early next month, with the company now inviting folk to "come meet the next Galaxy" at a London event on 3 May.… |
| ISPs should get 'up to' full fee for 'up to' broadband Posted: 16 Apr 2012 02:38 AM PDT Wispa's campaign against Ofcom turns shoutyAnyone promised broadband speeds of "up to" an amount should be free to pay a monthly fee of "up to" what's asked, according to the firebrand lobbying consultancy wispa Limited.… |
| UK.gov: Firms can't fondle your smart meter privates... Posted: 16 Apr 2012 02:21 AM PDT ...Unless you want them toThird-party companies will not be able to access data recorded in consumers' smart meters unless consumers choose to let them see it, the Government has said.… |
| If Google's only taking a COPY of your personality, why worry? Posted: 16 Apr 2012 01:33 AM PDT Privacy, property and permissionsMailbag My tale about how digital privacy needs to be protected by strong property rights caused heated discussion here and over the web - I'll summarise the best points here. The idea that you ultimately own your data is pretty fundamental to creating effective privacy legislation. If you're the sovereign "owner" of your data, then everyone from the spooks to Facebook must come to you and seek your permission - and justify using it. But if you don't "own" anything, then you have nothing to assert. If you don't "own" your data, then you are the product.… |
| Is Dropbox good enough to be called 'good enough'? Posted: 16 Apr 2012 12:30 AM PDT Our man wanders lonely as a personal CloudBlocks and Files Dropbox is popular for syncing and sharing files across smartphones, tablets, notebooks and desktop PCs. I use it myself in my all-Apple computing universe of iMac, MacBook Air, iPad and iPhone, and I use it in preference to Apple's iCloud.… |
| NHS trust loses personal data of 600 maternity patients, kids Posted: 16 Apr 2012 12:04 AM PDT Hands up whether patients' info should be encrypted. Anyone?South London healthcare trust has admitted to losing two unencrypted memory sticks containing sensitive personal data about patients.… |
| Android Trojan distracts Japanese with anime and porn Posted: 15 Apr 2012 10:36 PM PDT Video trailers mask data pilfering malwareSecurity experts are warning of yet more malicious applications found on Google's official online apps market Play, this time designed to steal personal data in the background while promising to show trailers for Japanese anime, video games and porn.… |
| Google's Brin admits he under-estimated Chinese censorship Posted: 15 Apr 2012 09:44 PM PDT They've managed to put genie back in the bottleGoogle co-founder Sergey Brin has admitted he was wrong to question China's long-term ability to restrict the free flow of information online, as the Communist Party's crack down on internet rumours following suggestions of a failed coup continues.… |
| Telstra says it could work with Libs NBN FTTN policy Posted: 15 Apr 2012 09:20 PM PDT Turnbull fierce on home networking costsTelstra could work to implement a policy change to the federal opposition's current alternative NBN plan, a fibre-to-the-node network, representatives of the carrier today told a public hearing of the Joint Committee on the National Broadband Network.… |
| Intel shows Apple how to win a trademark dispute in China Posted: 15 Apr 2012 08:44 PM PDT Shenzhen-based Inteljet ordered to fork out £20,000Chip giant Intel has shown Apple how to deal with an irksome trademark dispute in China by claiming a legal victory over Shenzhen-based printing peripherals firm Inteljet over the weekend.… |
| AWS bids for cloudy SharePoint Posted: 15 Apr 2012 06:51 PM PDT Own experiences translated into how-to guideAmazon Web Services wants your SharePoint rig in its cloud and has released a white paper telling you how to do it, fast, with Windows Server 2008 R2 and SQL Server 2008.… |
| NBN essential for faster mobility: Vodafone Posted: 15 Apr 2012 05:59 PM PDT Confident Huawei meets trust requirementsVodafone Hutchison Australia (VHA) believes the NBN's fibre to the premises is essential if mobile networks are to meet mobile device owners' expectations.… |
| Cloudy QR code bike theft stopper gets Police thumbs up Posted: 15 Apr 2012 04:41 PM PDT Victoria Police will need BYOD QR code reader to make it workPolice in Victoria have started recommending a cloud-and-QR-code-driven product that aims to make retrieval of stolen bicycles easier. The product is called MyBikeRego, the eponymous creation of an Australian startup. The product offers buyers – who stump up $30 a year – three QR codes to affix to their bicycle. That QR code is tied to an individual profile that stores details about the bicycle, and its owner, in the cloud.… |
| Oz parliament may investigate tech price discrimination Posted: 15 Apr 2012 04:11 PM PDT Gouging to go under microscope?Australians should get ready for a publicity assault by rent-seeking vendors, with reports emerging that the Australian government is likely to launch an inquiry into price gouging, otherwise known as price discrimination.… |
| Yet another OSX/Java Trojan spotted in the wild Posted: 15 Apr 2012 04:10 PM PDT Kaspersky Labs tags MS Word as the vectorHard on the heels of the Flashback Trojan, Kaspersky Labs is warning of a new OSX threat, which it's dubbed Backdoor.OSX.SabPub.a.… |
| ANU puts quantum random numbers online Posted: 15 Apr 2012 03:00 PM PDT Your quantum device on a USB keyLast year, Oxford university demonstrated the use of quantum fluctuations to generate random numbers. Now, the Australian National University has gone a step further – putting its quantum-generated random numbers online.… |
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