WD pushes out super-slim shock-resistant Ultrabook drive

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• WD pushes out super-slim shock-resistant Ultrabook drive
• US sues Apple, publishers over ebook pricing strategy
• Judge: Checking Facebook at work is not a crime
• Citrix chomps Podio for cloudy workspaces
• SGI storage gets a head transplant
• 170m people 'upgrade' to Google+, but how many stick around?
• How Apple revived publisher-set pricing and got sued for it
• Apple trails behind world+Microsoft in 'Flashback' malware debacle
• BT fattens fibre customer pipes for free - with a contract extension
• Malware-infected flash cards shipped out with HP switches
• Hands on with the Huawei Ascend G300 low-cost Android phone
• Employers' group: New comp sci GCSE driven by vendor agenda
• Leisure Suit Larry set for second coming
• Nokia shares fall as it drops first quarter forecast
• Spotify adds web button: Just push... Play
• MPs: Border Agency's own staff don't trust airport-scanner tech
• iPad to reign unchallenged as KING of FONDLESLABS
• DoJ could start Apple ebook price-fixing lawsuit this week
• Nokia drops Lumia 900 price to $0 in response to bug outrage
• Dream:ON iPhone app-maker seeks sleepy fanbois for testing
• Vintage alien tech crash-lands in field
• Samsung sales-floor rejig leads to layoffs in B2B push
• AOL investor: $1bn Microsoft patent deal not good enough
• Hardware hacker knocks up own Google AR glasses
• Speaking in Tech: Is Instagram really worth $1 BILLION?
• Jazz Jackrabbit
• Yahoo! pleads! for! ad! juice! as! products! guru! exits!
• Microsoft seals up Windows zero-day flaw in April Patch Tuesday
• Kelway gulps down Microsoft reseller, plots march on Europe
• DARPA boffins seek Terminator-style disaster-zone rescue robot
• New ZeuS-based Trojan leeches cash from cloud-based payrolls
• Amount of ice in Bering Sea reaches all-time record
• Too small to fail: Obama signs Nontrepreneurs Act
• LOHAN lifts lid on revised mission summary
• NHS farms out £125m deal for hardware, medical tech
• 'As seen on TV' claims can't be made about unbranded props
• Android spanking iOS in world's BIGGEST mobile market
• Crowdfunding, startup fever, come to Indonesia
• The Hardware Hacker's Guide to Home Automation
• MS Office coming for Symbian
• Trojans target pro-Tibet organisations
• Chinese app stores host malicious apps
• IBM gets flexible with converged Power, x86 system
• Wavii aims to transform news delivery with social data
• Julian Assange™ telemovie coming to Oz TV
• NBNCo sets up contact centre on the Gold Coast
• Massive organ blown with Kinect
• SpaceX taps Texas for 'commercial Cape Canaveral' site
• Unexpected nanotube heat transfer suggests new way to cool processors
• Matt Groening reveals location of Simpsons' Springfield

WD pushes out super-slim shock-resistant Ultrabook drive Posted: 11 Apr 2012 11:01 AM PDT Single platter Western Digital has crafted up a slim half-terabyte single platter drive that uses the least power of all Ultrabook disk drive on the market. WD says it is also the most shock-resistant Ultrabook drive yet.…

US sues Apple, publishers over ebook pricing strategy Posted: 11 Apr 2012 10:38 AM PDT Alleges conspiracy to fix prices and stick it to Amazon The US Department of Justice has filed a lawsuit against Apple and five major publishers, alleging a conspiracy to fix the prices of ebooks.…

Judge: Checking Facebook at work is not a crime Posted: 11 Apr 2012 10:17 AM PDT 'Sometimes we use computers for ... play' Checking your personal email on a work computer is not a federal crime, a judge in San Francisco has ruled (PDF), despite the US government trying to argue otherwise.…

Citrix chomps Podio for cloudy workspaces Posted: 11 Apr 2012 10:01 AM PDT GoTo heavenly project management The mad rush to grab cloudy startups that make interesting apps continues, and this morning Citrix Systems has snacked on a little Danish. Specifically, Copenhagen-based Podio, a maker of malleable workspaces for online collaboration and project management.…

SGI storage gets a head transplant Posted: 11 Apr 2012 09:37 AM PDT ZFS-based Nexenta NAS head SGI has stuck a Nexenta NAS head on the modular version of its InfiniteStorage product line and extended the halfway house of a departmental filer it pushed out in January.…

170m people 'upgrade' to Google+, but how many stick around? Posted: 11 Apr 2012 09:17 AM PDT Major UI revamp leaves us with more questions than answers Google is still struggling to answer, publically at least, that thorny question of just how many people are actually engaged with its social network, which arrived around 10 months ago. But no matter!…

How Apple revived publisher-set pricing and got sued for it Posted: 11 Apr 2012 09:09 AM PDT But DRM got off, scot-free Comment  In the beginning there was the Net Book Agreement. The NBA, a gentleman's accord 'twixt publishers and retailers, ensured that prices set by the makers of books were respected by the sellers of the same.…

Apple trails behind world+Microsoft in 'Flashback' malware debacle Posted: 11 Apr 2012 08:56 AM PDT Finally pulls head from sand, pledges patch Apple went out of its way to make life difficult for the Russian security firm that first alerted the world to the spread of the now infamous Flashback Trojan on Mac computers, it has emerged. However the fruitbite-branded firm has now pledged to resolve the problem, well after security firms - and Microsoft - had acted.…

BT fattens fibre customer pipes for free - with a contract extension Posted: 11 Apr 2012 08:42 AM PDT Requires commitment before coming across BT broadband customers who subscribe to the company's Infinity 2 package will see their fibre download speeds nearly double from tomorrow, the national telco has promised.…

Malware-infected flash cards shipped out with HP switches Posted: 11 Apr 2012 08:26 AM PDT Vendor fields ProCurveBall HP has sent out a warning to customers after the vendor found out it had inadvertently been shipping virus-laden compact flash cards with its networking kit.…

Hands on with the Huawei Ascend G300 low-cost Android phone Posted: 11 Apr 2012 08:07 AM PDT Budget blower packs a punch First look  Huawei continues its push into the UK market this week with the Ascend G300, an affordable smartphone with admirable specs given its entry-level status. Ahead of its Blighty launch this Friday, I was given a sneak preview of the device.…

Employers' group: New comp sci GCSE driven by vendor agenda Posted: 11 Apr 2012 08:02 AM PDT Prepare 'em for life, not Microsoft MCSE Employers have criticised the government's computer science GCSE work for having a vendor agenda which means that it may fail to deliver business-ready IT graduates.…

Leisure Suit Larry set for second coming Posted: 11 Apr 2012 07:40 AM PDT Antique code growth Leisure Suit Larry could be set for a humorous return through a Kickstarter campaign that has already rounded up the original development team and seeks the remaining funding to get the title the green light.…

Nokia shares fall as it drops first quarter forecast Posted: 11 Apr 2012 06:57 AM PDT Finnish phone firm didn't get off to a good start this year... Nokia shares dropped over 16 per cent on the Helsinki Stock exchange today after it cut its profit forecast for the first quarter.…

Spotify adds web button: Just push... Play Posted: 11 Apr 2012 06:32 AM PDT Like SoundCloud, but with added ColdPlay Spotify is launching a web widget that allows instant access to songs in its catalogue. As with SoundCloud, anyone can embed the Play button in their pages, from garden-shed bloggers to established web publishers. Only Spotify subscribers will be able to hear the song, however.…

MPs: Border Agency's own staff don't trust airport-scanner tech Posted: 11 Apr 2012 06:02 AM PDT Bioscanning e-Gates and £9.1m IRIS cash splurge were big mistakes – report The UK Border Agency's own staff don't trust the million pound bioscanning e-Gates installed at nine British airports, and in some cases actively discourage passengers from using them, said a damning report published today by the House of Commons Home Affairs Committee.…

iPad to reign unchallenged as KING of FONDLESLABS Posted: 11 Apr 2012 05:47 AM PDT Moses would have used Apple tablets Global shipments of fondleslabs are predicted to nearly double to 119 million in 2012 but Apple's dominance is unlikely to be challenged, Gartner box counters claim.…

DoJ could start Apple ebook price-fixing lawsuit this week Posted: 11 Apr 2012 05:37 AM PDT US Justice Dept gears up to throw sueball Updated  The US Department of Justice is getting ready to launch a lawsuit against Apple over alleged ebook price-fixing, according to whispering sources.…

Nokia drops Lumia 900 price to $0 in response to bug outrage Posted: 11 Apr 2012 05:29 AM PDT Hey, no mobile data - it's a feature not a <arrgh> Nokia is hoping an emergency rebate program will mollify American consumers who rushed out and bought the company's new flagship Windows phone - only to get bitten by a serious wireless data bug. The Lumia 900 is Nokia's big comeback phone - and also Microsoft's biggest ever shot at the mainstream US market.…

Dream:ON iPhone app-maker seeks sleepy fanbois for testing Posted: 11 Apr 2012 05:18 AM PDT You won't feel a thing... A psychologist is asking iPhone owners to sleep with their iPhones on the bed in a test to see if sounds can influence dreams.…

Vintage alien tech crash-lands in field Posted: 11 Apr 2012 05:01 AM PDT Reg reader in Staffordshire Nazca lines shocker It's widely accepted among those with a penchant for banging on about Atlantis, the pyramids and the bloody Mayan calendar that the Nazca Lines in Peru represent a vast alien spaceport hewn from the living desert by beings so advanced that the human mind would explode if it were obliged to absorb even a millionth part of their incredible knowledge.…

Samsung sales-floor rejig leads to layoffs in B2B push Posted: 11 Apr 2012 04:47 AM PDT Names Graham Long veep of corporate and channel sales Samsung has crowned Graham Long as the UK veep of corporate and IT sales following a restructure of the division to help its push into B2B.…

AOL investor: $1bn Microsoft patent deal not good enough Posted: 11 Apr 2012 04:28 AM PDT Selling IP to Redmond – good. Not giving us the cash – bad A major shareholder in AOL wants to shake up the firm's board, saying its billion-dollar patent deal with Microsoft wasn't good enough.…

Hardware hacker knocks up own Google AR glasses Posted: 11 Apr 2012 04:20 AM PDT Smashing Project Glass attempt Google may have a pair of augmented reality goggles in the works but without an ETA, hardware hackers are already growing inpatient. One AR enthusiast has refused to wait and put together his own impressive DIY version of the hi-tech specs.…

Speaking in Tech: Is Instagram really worth $1 BILLION? Posted: 11 Apr 2012 04:14 AM PDT Bubble 2.0 ready to burst, plus: Cloud wars, sucky mobe apps

Jazz Jackrabbit Posted: 11 Apr 2012 04:00 AM PDT Easter Bunny? Antique Code Show  What with Easter's inextricable link with bunnies, it seemed in order to revisit an old lop eared friend. Jazz Jackrabbit is a side scrolling platform game and one I consider to be DOS shareware gaming at its finest. Who would have thought our friend Jazz would come from the same stable as a Gears of War Nemacyst?…

Yahoo! pleads! for! ad! juice! as! products! guru! exits! Posted: 11 Apr 2012 03:43 AM PDT CEO tells staff it's time for YET ANOTHER makeover Yahoo!'s latest broom, Scott Thompson, is trying to fix the company's ailing business by giving the Purple Palace yet another revamp.…

Microsoft seals up Windows zero-day flaw in April Patch Tuesday Posted: 11 Apr 2012 03:28 AM PDT Kill Bit for every MS boy and girl Microsoft released six bulletins on Tuesday to fix a total of 11 vulnerabilities, one of which has become the target of active attacks against unpatched applications.…

Kelway gulps down Microsoft reseller, plots march on Europe Posted: 11 Apr 2012 03:13 AM PDT Irish BSS embiggens swollen belly of serial UK acquirer Serial acquirer Kelway has swallowed Irish corporate and public sector reseller Business & Scientific Services (BSS) Ltd for an undisclosed sum, bagging Microsoft top-tier certification in the process.…

DARPA boffins seek Terminator-style disaster-zone rescue robot Posted: 11 Apr 2012 02:57 AM PDT Car-driving, tool-using tsunami-surviving android needed The Pentagon's brash boffinry bureau DARPA is offering millions in research funding to any robot-builders who can come up with a machine capable of dealing with disasters like nuclear meltdowns and tsunamis.…

New ZeuS-based Trojan leeches cash from cloud-based payrolls Posted: 11 Apr 2012 02:39 AM PDT Adds phishing mules to employee roster Cybercrooks have forged a ZeuS-based Trojan that targets cloud-based payroll service providers.…

Amount of ice in Bering Sea reaches all-time record Posted: 11 Apr 2012 02:18 AM PDT Hippies get it wrong again The amount of floating ice in the Arctic's Bering Sea - which had long been expected to retreat disastrously by climate-Cassandra organisations such as Greenpeace - reached all-time record high levels last month, according to US researchers monitoring the area using satellites.…

Too small to fail: Obama signs Nontrepreneurs Act Posted: 11 Apr 2012 01:59 AM PDT Accountability, disclosure rules relaxed for webtastic startups A new Act just signed into law by President Obama that relaxes accountability requirements for internet startups has been called a 'licence for fraud'. The Jumpstart Our Business Startups Act (JOBS) Act (HR.3606) is backed by AOL co-founder Steve Case (himself no stranger to fraud allegations) and other titans of Silicon Valley – and supported by Google – all of whom argue that the new law is vital for job creation.…

LOHAN lifts lid on revised mission summary Posted: 11 Apr 2012 01:32 AM PDT Where we are with our audacious spaceplane plan Over the past few months, our Low Orbit Helium Assisted Navigator (LOHAN) spaceplane mission has been evolving with the help of you, our beloved reader experts.…

NHS farms out £125m deal for hardware, medical tech Posted: 11 Apr 2012 01:03 AM PDT Health service sets out tender for X-ray kit, laptops and more A framework for the supply and maintenance of NHS IT hardware and services with an estimated value of between £45m and £125m is being set up by NHS Commercial Procurement Collaborative and NHS Shared Business Services.…

'As seen on TV' claims can't be made about unbranded props Posted: 11 Apr 2012 12:02 AM PDT Ad body: Cannot refer to appearance in paid-for ad either... Companies cannot claim that the product they are advertising is '... as seen on TV ' or '... as seen in' certain publications if those products merely featured as unbranded props in programmes or in paid-for ads in those mediums, an ad body has said.…

Android spanking iOS in world's BIGGEST mobile market Posted: 10 Apr 2012 11:37 PM PDT Google OS wins up to 70 per cent of China's mobile market Android is absolutely creaming iOS in the world's biggest mobile phone market, according to new stats from Beijing-based Analysys International, which estimate the Google platform now accounts for nearly 70 per cent of Chinese smartphones.…

Crowdfunding, startup fever, come to Indonesia Posted: 10 Apr 2012 11:24 PM PDT Kickstarter clones sprout, hope for better payment technologies Indonesia's technology sector is adopting familiar models to foster growing businesses.…

The Hardware Hacker's Guide to Home Automation Posted: 10 Apr 2012 11:00 PM PDT Doctorin' the house

MS Office coming for Symbian Posted: 10 Apr 2012 10:31 PM PDT Dying platform gets more productive The Microsoft/Nokia tie-up just got weirder, if that's possible, with the launch of Office for Symbian, developed by Microsoft.…

Trojans target pro-Tibet organisations Posted: 10 Apr 2012 10:10 PM PDT Gh0st RAT implicated again in attacks targeting Mac and Windows systems Security experts are warning of yet another targeted malware campaign using socially engineered emails to infiltrate pro-Tibet organisations in a bid to covertly nab sensitive files.…

Chinese app stores host malicious apps Posted: 10 Apr 2012 09:39 PM PDT Government scolds carriers for poor security efforts The Chinese authorities have voiced concerns after uncovering security vulnerabilities in the application stores run by mobile operators China Mobile and China Telecom.…

IBM gets flexible with converged Power, x86 system Posted: 10 Apr 2012 09:22 PM PDT Cloudy server, storage, networking, and software mashup The details are a bit sketchy, but IBM is launching its first fully converged systems since it bought itself some clever storage and networking companies a few years back.…

Wavii aims to transform news delivery with social data Posted: 10 Apr 2012 09:01 PM PDT Machine learning used to guess headlines of interest A Seattle-based startup is looking to give computer users a personalized news feed based on their social-networking preferences.…

Julian Assange™ telemovie coming to Oz TV Posted: 10 Apr 2012 07:00 PM PDT Portrait of the artist as a young hacker The early hacker activist life of Julian Assange is set to be immortalised in a television drama for Australia's Network Ten.…

NBNCo sets up contact centre on the Gold Coast Posted: 10 Apr 2012 06:36 PM PDT 130 new jobs for GC Australia's soon-to-be-biggest broadband network, NBNCo, has selected the Gold Coast as its customer service centre hub, creating around 130 new jobs.…

Massive organ blown with Kinect Posted: 10 Apr 2012 05:49 PM PDT Melbourne Town Hall's instrument gets hands-free performance Composer and creative developer Chris Vik has used Microsoft's Kinect tools to play the pipe organ in the Melbourne Town Hall.…

SpaceX taps Texas for 'commercial Cape Canaveral' site Posted: 10 Apr 2012 05:19 PM PDT Hang in there for the tedious environmental review, Mr. Musk More details have emerged about one of the sites that Space Exploration Technologies – better known as SpaceX – is considering for what founder Elon Musk has referred to as "a commercial Cape Canaveral."…

Unexpected nanotube heat transfer suggests new way to cool processors Posted: 10 Apr 2012 05:01 PM PDT Spooky action at a (small) distance A strange phenomenon observed at the University of Maryland could pave the way to new techniques for cooling electronics: when researchers passed a current through carbon nanotubes, they didn't heat up – but other nearby objects did.…

Matt Groening reveals location of Simpsons' Springfield Posted: 10 Apr 2012 04:50 PM PDT Mmmmmmmm ... actual place Simpsons creator Matt Groening has revealed the location of Springfield, the setting for The Simpsons.…

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