Budget funds online services trials |
- Budget funds online services trials
- Oz candidate menaces Facebook users
- Apache releases new OpenOffice build, promises faster upgrades
- Microsoft, Motorola legal bickering sparks judicial disgust
- Google's self-driving car snags first-ever license in Nevada
- Secret's out: Small 15K disk drive market is 'growing'
- VeriFone takes on Square with cheaper iPhone-friendly kit
- Dell puts Sputnik open-source laptop on launch pad
- Solar quiet spell like the one now looming cooled climate in the past
- CCS to dish out Tony Sale award for computer restoration
- The Pirate Bay cries foul over Pirate Bay copycats
- Samsung, Qualcomm team up to take on Wireless Consortium
- Avaya poaches Huawei veep Culmer to run UK ops
- Apple Store moped raider suspect to face trial in October
- AMD girds its engineering cloud for X86 battle
- Micron chucks down $2.5bn lifeline to Elpida
- Java jury finds Google guilty of infringement: Now what?
- Zombie PCs exploit hookup site in 4Square-for-malware scam
- Investors queue for chance to glance at Zuck's FACE
- Apple 'iTV' looks like Cinema Display, says Throat
- Exercises to keep your data centre on its toes
- NHS's chances of getting world's best IT: 80% ... maybe*
- Now India snaps on gloves, bends Google over for antitrust probe
- Planet systems with 'hot Jupiters' PULVERISE innocent strays
- National Rail Enquiries
- Yahoo! chief! says! sorry! for! CV! snafu!
- 2,000 dot-word bids rocket ICANN onto $350m cash pile
- Microsoft scrapes Windows Azure name off cloudy kit
- Boffins baking big-data single chip architecture
- Cheap MacBook Airs for all!
- Finally, it’s the year of <strike>Linux on the desktop</strike> IPv6!
- TSMC zaps 3.1GHz ARM processor with 28nm shrink ray
- Skynet emerges in Greenwich, monitoring hearts to light switches
- Old-school Mars rover water findings confirmed
- Microsoft delays license price hike for current SPLA users
- WH Smiths tills insist shop sells The Queen's Knickers only
- UK's big-spender councils shovel IT workers into a skip
- Boffins embiggen data storage space with 'phase-shifting' material
- Intel Ivy Bridge Core i7-3770K quad-core CPU
- WTF is... Intel's Ivy Bridge
- Chrome beats IE for a weekend
- Hong Kong turns factories into datacentres to fuel cloud growth
- Apple and Proview in talks to end IPAD dispute
- Lenovo targets mobile market with new R&D centre
- US Judge says IP addresses don't identify pirates
- Intelligence a genetic mistake
- Groupon CEO plans to 'reinvent local commerce ecosystem'
- VCs back P2P game booster
- IEEE commits Wi-Fi refresh to standard
| Budget funds online services trials Posted: 08 May 2012 03:47 PM PDT Australia finds cash for MOBILE MUSEUM ROBOTS, data mining, e-health, OLPCsAustralia will conduct a trial of government service delivery via video conference, after A$6.2m was allocated to the Department of Human Services (DHS) for a trial of "high definition video conferencing access to DHS specialist services, such as social workers and financial information officers, from a customer's home, a DHS customer service centre or from a third party organisation." The trial is intended to "explore the potential of the new technology to provide services to all Australians, regardless of their geographical location.… |
| Oz candidate menaces Facebook users Posted: 08 May 2012 03:00 PM PDT Ex-soldier's ballistic response to satirical articleA Facebook satire in Tasmania has turned into a cyber-bullying row involving a local political hopeful.… |
| Apache releases new OpenOffice build, promises faster upgrades Posted: 08 May 2012 02:47 PM PDT New graphics focus and more to come from IBM additionsThe Apache Software Foundation (ASF) has released an updated version of the OpenOffice free software suite, with enhanced graphics and better encryption support.… |
| Microsoft, Motorola legal bickering sparks judicial disgust Posted: 08 May 2012 12:54 PM PDT 'Arbitrary, arrogant, and based on hubris'If you are sick to death of the persistent patent pettifoggery puking its way through the global justice system, take a moment to pity the poor judges who have to endure being slathered by legal excrescences as part of their daily routine.… |
| Google's self-driving car snags first-ever license in Nevada Posted: 08 May 2012 11:38 AM PDT Gambling state lets Google spin its wheelsThe Nevada Department of Motor Vehicles has issued the first license plates that will allow Google's autonomous cars onto public highways.… |
| Secret's out: Small 15K disk drive market is 'growing' Posted: 08 May 2012 10:02 AM PDT Not just flash and trashThe market for small and fast disk drives is actually growing – rather than shrinking, as flash array vendors are enthusiastically implying.… |
| VeriFone takes on Square with cheaper iPhone-friendly kit Posted: 08 May 2012 09:43 AM PDT But is it hip to be triangular?Payment-terminal giant VeriFone is finally taking the fight to upstart Square, with its own iPhone-friendly card reader and lower transaction fees along with a cloud-based control panel and promises not to treat every customer as a potential criminal.… |
| Dell puts Sputnik open-source laptop on launch pad Posted: 08 May 2012 09:22 AM PDT Drivers engaged, set course for Planet GithubDell is building a laptop loaded with open-source software ideal for developers.… |
| Solar quiet spell like the one now looming cooled climate in the past Posted: 08 May 2012 08:58 AM PDT Vast fireball as big as a million Earths does affect usGerman researchers say they have found solid evidence that a past "solar minimum" period of prolonged low solar activity – of the sort which some hefty physicists believe will commence within a few years – significantly cooled the climate. The research flies counter to theories offered by carbon-alarmist climate scientists, who contend that a solar minimum this century would have little effect.… |
| CCS to dish out Tony Sale award for computer restoration Posted: 08 May 2012 08:37 AM PDT Crypto-machine rebuilder honoured with new annual prizeRenowned Colossus-rebuilder Tony Sale has inspired a new international award for computer conservation, which will be handed out for the first time this year.… |
| The Pirate Bay cries foul over Pirate Bay copycats Posted: 08 May 2012 08:19 AM PDT Leeching proxies face leechers' wrathBeware of unauthorised copies of The Pirate Bay, comes a warning from, er… The Pirate Bay. The Swedish site notorious for indexing unauthorised copies of music, films and books has found itself being copied, and it doesn't like it one bit.… |
| Samsung, Qualcomm team up to take on Wireless Consortium Posted: 08 May 2012 08:01 AM PDT SIII's wireless charging part of WiPower relaunchSamsung is the promised power behind Qualcomm's relaunch of WiPower, with wireless charging coming for the SIII and the partners forming a new alliance around the technology in the hope of supplanting the nascent Qi standard and its Wireless Consortium backers.… |
| Avaya poaches Huawei veep Culmer to run UK ops Posted: 08 May 2012 07:41 AM PDT Exec fires parting shot at bureaucratic Chinese giantAvaya UK has poached Huawei Enterprise veep Simon Culmer to replace managing director Andrew Shepperd less than 10 months into his tenure, The Register can reveal.… |
| Apple Store moped raider suspect to face trial in October Posted: 08 May 2012 07:17 AM PDT Bloke denies involvement in iPad grab caperA man accused of perpetrating a smash-and-grab raid at the Apple Store in London's Covent Garden will stand trial in October, Met Police have confirmed.… |
| AMD girds its engineering cloud for X86 battle Posted: 08 May 2012 07:01 AM PDT No Intel Inside – and whitebox Solaris workstationsThe battle for the X86 market may end up in the desktop, laptops, and servers of the world, but it begins in giant compute grids that engineers use to simulate, test, and increasingly to design the future processors we all will crave if they do their work right.… |
| Micron chucks down $2.5bn lifeline to Elpida Posted: 08 May 2012 06:28 AM PDT If bid succeeds, embiggened firm will be number 2 in DRAM industryMicron is bidding $2.5bn for worn-out and failing DRAMurai starveling Elpida after SK Hynix and Toshiba walked away.… |
| Java jury finds Google guilty of infringement: Now what? Posted: 08 May 2012 05:57 AM PDT All eyes on Judge Alsup as big questions remain unansweredAnalysis No judge has tried harder than Judge Alsup, presiding over the Oracle-versus-Google case, to persuade two warring parties not to go to court. But he hadn't counted for the egos of the two billionaire Larrys.… |
| Zombie PCs exploit hookup site in 4Square-for-malware scam Posted: 08 May 2012 05:38 AM PDT Ill-used 'adult' dating site riddled with infectionSecurity researchers have discovered a strain of malware that uses the geolocation service offered by an adult dating website as an easy way to determine the location of infected machines.… |
| Investors queue for chance to glance at Zuck's FACE Posted: 08 May 2012 05:23 AM PDT But scrutinising the BOOK might yet throw up some furballsMark Zuckerberg told investors yesterday that he wouldn't hesitate to splurge another $1bn on a Web2.0 app.… |
| Apple 'iTV' looks like Cinema Display, says Throat Posted: 08 May 2012 05:10 AM PDT But with Siri and a webcamThis, according to a mole who claims to have seen one in action, is what Apple's new TV looks like:… |
| Exercises to keep your data centre on its toes Posted: 08 May 2012 05:00 AM PDT Flatten the structure to stay nimbleGiven the size of networks today, networking should be open to promote interoperability, affordability and competition among suppliers to provide the best products.… |
| NHS's chances of getting world's best IT: 80% ... maybe* Posted: 08 May 2012 04:44 AM PDT *Assuming its CIO meant 8 in 10, not 8 in 100The NHS has possibly an 80 per cent chance of having the world's best IT in healthcare in 10 years, its CIO Katie Davis told the 2012 Health Informatics Congress.… |
| Now India snaps on gloves, bends Google over for antitrust probe Posted: 08 May 2012 04:28 AM PDT 'Competition is a click away' ad giant retortsGoogle is undergoing an antitrust investigation in India, the Competition Commission (CCI) in that country confirmed on Monday.… |
| Planet systems with 'hot Jupiters' PULVERISE innocent strays Posted: 08 May 2012 04:14 AM PDT Should help boffins narrow search for Earthlike second homeHot Jupiter planet systems aren't harbouring any Earthlike worlds because they're too busy systematically decimating any planets that pop up.… |
| Posted: 08 May 2012 04:00 AM PDT The train now arriving on Platform 3...Android App of the Week I should use local trains more often, but there are several reasons why I don't. One is I've no idea where most of my local stations are, let alone the ones dotted further afield around Manchester. Secondly, I can't be bothered picking up timetables.… |
| Yahoo! chief! says! sorry! for! CV! snafu! Posted: 08 May 2012 03:44 AM PDT Thompson says will cooperate with board's reviewYahoo!'s CEO Scott Thompson has issued an emailed apology for his gilded CV to employees at the company, as the board decides what it's going to do about his misstated education.… |
| 2,000 dot-word bids rocket ICANN onto $350m cash pile Posted: 08 May 2012 03:31 AM PDT gTLD explosion four times bigger than expectedThe upcoming expansion of the internet's domain name system could see more than 2,000 new top-level domains come into existence, according to policy overseer ICANN.… |
| Microsoft scrapes Windows Azure name off cloudy kit Posted: 08 May 2012 03:16 AM PDT Marketing blues or something more?Windows Azure is the latest brand name to be scratched off Microsoft's labels.… |
| Boffins baking big-data single chip architecture Posted: 08 May 2012 03:00 AM PDT Graphene, electrons and the end of 'conventional silicon electronics'Some use software – caching, in-memory transactions or BigTable-style algorithms to cluster and control groups of servers. For others, the answer lies in the hardware: packing more cores into chips or making the transistors faster. Both schools are looking for ways to make applications, computers and servers capable of processing big volumes of data without cramping up.… |
| Posted: 08 May 2012 02:44 AM PDT Apple pondering 25 per cent price cut, apparentlyApple's cheapest MacBook Air will currently set you back $999 or£849, depending on where you buy it. Wait until August, and it could cost you just $799/£640.… |
| Finally, it’s the year of <strike>Linux on the desktop</strike> IPv6! Posted: 08 May 2012 02:42 AM PDT Are you following protocol?Sysadmin blog One month from now, World IPv6 Launch Day with be upon us. Numerous online services will be enabling IPv6 and leaving it on. AAAA records will be published, and those of us with IPv6 enabled systems will start to use IPv6 preferentially to IPv4. But what does this all mean?… |
| TSMC zaps 3.1GHz ARM processor with 28nm shrink ray Posted: 08 May 2012 02:21 AM PDT Dual-core Cortex-A9 turbocharged for microserversIf you thought there was pressure on chip foundry Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Corp (TSMC) up until now - with Nvidia and AMD leaning on the fab to crank out more GPUs and in the case of AMD, more hybrid CPU-GPUs - wait until the army of designers and sellers catch wind of its 28nm Cortex-A9 ARM RISC processors.… |
| Skynet emerges in Greenwich, monitoring hearts to light switches Posted: 08 May 2012 01:58 AM PDT 'City operating system' controls environment with sensor matrixLondon's Greenwich Peninsula will become the testbed for new software promising to create the smart cities of the future.… |
| Old-school Mars rover water findings confirmed Posted: 08 May 2012 01:39 AM PDT Veteran machine to resume work as summer approachesOld-school Mars rover Opportunity has found "clear evidence" of water in the first four months of tootling around the rim of the Endeavour Crater.… |
| Microsoft delays license price hike for current SPLA users Posted: 08 May 2012 01:18 AM PDT 'Our customers expect consistency'Microsoft has given customers locked into existing contracts for the Service Provider Licensing Agreement (SPLA) a six month grace period before they feel the brunt of its licensing price hike.… |
| WH Smiths tills insist shop sells The Queen's Knickers only Posted: 08 May 2012 12:58 AM PDT It was a cockup by us NOT hackers, insists firmWH Smiths tills would only dispense receipts for 'The Queen's Knickers' for several hours yesterday, after a technical mistake in the tills screwed up receipt printing in the chain's outlets across the country.… |
| UK's big-spender councils shovel IT workers into a skip Posted: 08 May 2012 12:32 AM PDT West Sussex County Council axes 9-in-10 techiesA number of the UK's largest councils have significantly cut their IT workforce in recent years, according to local government figures.… |
| Boffins embiggen data storage space with 'phase-shifting' material Posted: 08 May 2012 12:02 AM PDT 'Works 100 times faster' than current flashA team of researchers has found a way of manipulating Phase-Change Memory (PCM) – a material with special properties – so that it can transform into various states at once, allowing the boffins to create multi-level PCM cells. If all goes well, this should pave the way for development of the next generation of data storage media.… |
| Intel Ivy Bridge Core i7-3770K quad-core CPU Posted: 07 May 2012 11:04 PM PDT The generation game |
| Posted: 07 May 2012 11:02 PM PDT Inside Core i's third generation |
| Posted: 07 May 2012 10:56 PM PDT Google creeps up on leisure time browsing crownFresh from knocking off Microsoft's Internet Explorer as the web's most-used browser for a single day in March, Google's Chrome browser has now claimed more users than Redmond's HTML-cruncher for a whole weekend.… |
| Hong Kong turns factories into datacentres to fuel cloud growth Posted: 07 May 2012 10:44 PM PDT SAR aims to beat Singapore as leading Asian digital hubAn innovative approach to datacentre development is helping to see off Hong Kong's competitors and establish it as the number one cloud computing hub in Asia, according to the government CIO, Daniel Lai.… |
| Apple and Proview in talks to end IPAD dispute Posted: 07 May 2012 07:45 PM PDT Report suggests "big gap" between parties over settlement amountAfter several months, a few false dawns and lots of waiting, the trademark stand-off between Apple and Proview over the use of the IPAD name in China may finally be nearing an end, according to new reports which claim settlement talks have begun.… |
| Lenovo targets mobile market with new R&D centre Posted: 07 May 2012 06:34 PM PDT Smartphones and tablets on the way from the Chinese giantChinese computing giant Lenovo is set for big expansion into the mobile space after breaking ground on a new facility in the central province of Wuhan. Thew new facility will be the company's source for new tablets and smartphones.… |
| US Judge says IP addresses don't identify pirates Posted: 07 May 2012 06:03 PM PDT "Abusive litigation" by copyright trolls criticisedA US judge has labelled an attempt to sue internet subscribers whose accounts were used to download four pornographic films "abusive litigation" and also criticised legal arguments that an IP address is a valid way to identify an individual online.… |
| Intelligence a genetic mistake Posted: 07 May 2012 04:30 PM PDT Badly copied genome boosted brains, kindaIt's not quite the "key to intelligence", but a study published in the journal Cell at least offers a hint to how human brains changed post-hominid: a miscopied gene that seems to let the brain form more connections, faster.… |
| Groupon CEO plans to 'reinvent local commerce ecosystem' Posted: 07 May 2012 04:11 PM PDT Moving beyond digital coupon clippingIn an open letter to shareholders Groupon CEO Andrew Mason has outlined plans to take the firm into local ecommerce services with a series of products designed to expand beyond its core business.… |
| Posted: 07 May 2012 03:59 PM PDT Tech from Oz think-tank may also help large-scale data exchangeAn advanced peer-to-peer networking technology, Scalify, developed over four years at National ICT Australia (NICTA) has secured $2million in VC funding as it ramps up its commercialisation.… |
| IEEE commits Wi-Fi refresh to standard Posted: 07 May 2012 03:07 PM PDT Rubber-stamp applied to 3.6 GHz kit, mesh, et alWi-Fi standards have received a refresh that formalizes various technologies developed in the last four years under the IEEE's standards processes.… |
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