Skype slurping software threatens IP exposure |
- Skype slurping software threatens IP exposure
- New standard test of Big Data bang per system buck rolls out
- Permabit flashes enterprise SDK at mystery partner
- Are Valley VCs playing hide-the-money?
- BlackBerry 10 developer kit aims to unleash application tsunami
- RIM takes BlackBerry 10 out for a spin, forgets to bring phone
- LG: We're not walking away from Windows Phone
- Microsoft storage boffins serve up smoking 2012 NFS server
- HTC peeves punters with One X woes
- Biennial boner blights Beemer biker
- Sega squirts urinal game console onto shop shelves
- Hard-up Europe snubs slabs as US, Asia snap up gear
- Zuckerberg: Now share your organs with Facebook friends
- Google, PayPal protest against Brits' pay-by-bonk threesome
- Ten-year .co.uk domain names now available
- Google Street View Wi-Fi data slurper named
- Groupon appoints ace financial duo to its board
- Phone-hack saga: Murdoch 'not fit' to run News Corp, blast MPs
- Fujitsu inks £50m deal to lay 'gigabit' cable for telco CityFibre
- Boffins bone up on rover skills as Curiosity speeds to Mars
- Now on Freeview HD: Olympic arts channel that's tough to watch
- Want to be a better marksman? Play shooting games
- Gov IT supermarket G-Cloud will cost £4.93m says Maude
- Micro Anvika shutters stores, axes staff in fight for life
- Textgram
- Intel bakes palm-sized Core i5 NUC to rival Raspberry Pi
- Microsoft hikes volume prices by more than a third
- Samsung unwraps 17in Ivy Bridge beast
- UK ad watchdog probes Apple iPad '4G' boasts
- America, China go ape for tablets
- VCs pour $80m into Violin, hope for shower of gold later
- Nympho hauled to loon-cooler after serial bonkathon brutality
- Dell fending off EMC's maintenance push
- Ultimate simulator to streak into living rooms next month
- iTunes fanbois outraged by Apple's sex-life quiz probe
- EMC's Project Thunder stuffs Lightning in a box
- Met seeks new £200m command-and-control system
- Blighty's IP framework one of world's worst for consumers
- Dell XPS 13 Ultrabook
- Terrorists 'build secure VoIP over GPRS network'
- Dell's rapier-thin PowerEdge M420 to render Hobbits?
- Internode pollinates on iiNet DSLAM gear
- Jury mulls verdict in Oracle-v-Google Java spat
- Astronomers provide new estimate for neutrino mass
- RuggedCom will block industrial control backdoor
- Nvidia: What would you do with a petaflops super?
- Moore's Law has ten years to run, predicts physicist
- UK Ministry of Defence eyes GPS patent payoff
- Australia 'needs' powers to ensure net neutrality
| Skype slurping software threatens IP exposure Posted: 01 May 2012 03:02 PM PDT It's a P2P problem says Redmond subsidiaryCode posted online that can skim the last known IP address of users is being checked out by Skype as a possible security flaw.… |
| New standard test of Big Data bang per system buck rolls out Posted: 01 May 2012 02:31 PM PDT A sim so good you could use it instead of Oracle or SAP?There's a new big data benchmark in town: TPC-DS.… |
| Permabit flashes enterprise SDK at mystery partner Posted: 01 May 2012 12:28 PM PDT |
| Are Valley VCs playing hide-the-money? Posted: 01 May 2012 11:29 AM PDT How dot-com bubbles burst in hard timesOpen... and Shut Nick Bilton has written a hard-hitting expose of an alleged trend in venture capital, accusing venture capitalists of encouraging portfolio companies to forgo sales to allow them to fabricate inflated valuations based on hype and a prayer. The only problem with the article is that it doesn't appear to be true.… |
| BlackBerry 10 developer kit aims to unleash application tsunami Posted: 01 May 2012 11:09 AM PDT Last chance saloon for Canucks to counteract Apple, AndroidRIM has marked the start of its BlackBerry World conference by announcing the release of the developer kit for the much-delayed BlackBerry 10 operating system and handing out crippled prototype handsets that should go on sale by the end of the year.… |
| RIM takes BlackBerry 10 out for a spin, forgets to bring phone Posted: 01 May 2012 10:38 AM PDT Mobile biz has one last throw of the diceVideo RIM's latest CEO has been showing off what its next OS, BlackBerry 10, will do, although without any hardware it's hard to be impressed by a touchscreen keyboard.… |
| LG: We're not walking away from Windows Phone Posted: 01 May 2012 09:32 AM PDT More of a mosey, or perhaps a strollLG is denying it has lost interest in Windows Phone following reports in the Korea Herald which claimed an "insignificant" number of Microsoft-bearing handsets had been sold.… |
| Microsoft storage boffins serve up smoking 2012 NFS server Posted: 01 May 2012 09:03 AM PDT Lustrous clusters, bakeathons and the bleeding-edgeSysadmin blog Developed by Sun, NFS version 2 was published as an IETF standard. Sun guarded NFS development for nearly two decades before handing protocol guardianship over the ITEF for version 4. This openness fueled adoption by the major UNIX vendors, even though most had their own competing protocols.… |
| HTC peeves punters with One X woes Posted: 01 May 2012 08:56 AM PDT Buyers blast bugsHTC's new flagship smartphone, the One X, is apparently dogged by issues, with annoyed customers venting their frustration over faults from burning smells to flickering screens.… |
| Biennial boner blights Beemer biker Posted: 01 May 2012 08:31 AM PDT Bloke sues over priapism-inducing BMW saddleA California man is suing BMW and custom motorbike saddle maker Corbin-Pacific for an epic stiffie which he insists was caused by a "ridge-like" seat fitted to his wheels.… |
| Sega squirts urinal game console onto shop shelves Posted: 01 May 2012 08:21 AM PDT One for Pee-C gamers?Sega's videogame business hit a 'new flow' this week when the firm pushed its urinal games terminal, the Toylet, out into retail in Japan.… |
| Hard-up Europe snubs slabs as US, Asia snap up gear Posted: 01 May 2012 08:02 AM PDT Amazon loosens Apple's grip on tablet salesAlmost one in five personal computers shipped globally in the opening three months of 2012 were tablets, market stats from bean counter Canalys reveals.… |
| Zuckerberg: Now share your organs with Facebook friends Posted: 01 May 2012 07:29 AM PDT Like this to get my kidneyFacebook is about "connecting and sharing" - especially now it can help you donate your internal organs, Mark Zuckerberg announced today.… |
| Google, PayPal protest against Brits' pay-by-bonk threesome Posted: 01 May 2012 07:02 AM PDT Why should UK telcos have a monopoly when we could?Google and PayPal have reportedly been whispering to the EU that allowing the UK operators to band together and promote NFC payments would be anticompetitive and shouldn't be allowed.… |
| Ten-year .co.uk domain names now available Posted: 01 May 2012 06:28 AM PDT Gives you a really long time to forget your loginsFrom today it is possible to register or renew .co.uk domain names in annual blocks of up to 10 years at a time, following policy changes at .uk registry manager Nominet.… |
| Google Street View Wi-Fi data slurper named Posted: 01 May 2012 06:02 AM PDT Unmasked 'rogue engineer' worked on wardriving appThe 'Engineer Doe', who designed Google's Street View Wi-Fi software to collect personal data, has been named by an American newspaper.… |
| Groupon appoints ace financial duo to its board Posted: 01 May 2012 05:43 AM PDT Daily deals site needs folks who can do sumsGroupon has added two financial experts to its board in a bid to do its accounting right, although investors don't seem too cheered yet.… |
| Phone-hack saga: Murdoch 'not fit' to run News Corp, blast MPs Posted: 01 May 2012 05:27 AM PDT Media baron roasted for 'wilful blindness'Rupert Murdoch is "not fit" to run a multinational corporation after demonstrating "wilful blindness" in his handling of the phone-hacking affair, which killed off his company's 168-year-old Sunday tabloid News of the World, MPs concluded today.… |
| Fujitsu inks £50m deal to lay 'gigabit' cable for telco CityFibre Posted: 01 May 2012 05:18 AM PDT Privately-funded FTTP for Blighty's citiesFujitsu has inked an engineering deal worth £50m with CityFibre Holdings to roll out cabling on behalf of the telco.… |
| Boffins bone up on rover skills as Curiosity speeds to Mars Posted: 01 May 2012 05:01 AM PDT 100-day countdown to touchdownThere are now fewer than a hundred days until the Mars rover Curiosity tries to touch down on the surface of the Red Planet - and boffins at the Jet Propulsion Lab are polishing up their remote driving skills.… |
| Now on Freeview HD: Olympic arts channel that's tough to watch Posted: 01 May 2012 04:42 AM PDT And tough to argue why anyone would want to watchFreeview HD got a new channel this morning, which will be filled with events from the Cultural Olympiad as well as the occasional Hitchcock film and the usual arts nonsense.… |
| Want to be a better marksman? Play shooting games Posted: 01 May 2012 04:32 AM PDT Resident Evil 4 really is good training for the apocalypseGamers who play shooting games have improved accuracy when firing a weapon in real life, a new study has found. They're also more likely to aim for the head, apparently.… |
| Gov IT supermarket G-Cloud will cost £4.93m says Maude Posted: 01 May 2012 04:23 AM PDT £340m to be saved - but won't say how or whereThe British government has published numbers on the cost of G-Cloud and Cloudstore and the savings the public sector ICT procurement framework is expected to make.… |
| Micro Anvika shutters stores, axes staff in fight for life Posted: 01 May 2012 04:13 AM PDT Troubled retail biz gets green light for rescue bidTroubled Tottenham Court Road retailer Micro Anvika's short-term future is looking more secure after suppliers gave its proposed rescue package the thumbs up.… |
| Posted: 01 May 2012 04:00 AM PDT The Post-it note de nos jours?Android App of the Week Textgram is another app designed to differentiate your digital self from the masses, in this case by letting you send graphically enhanced missives as MMS messages, or as pictures to your social network.… |
| Intel bakes palm-sized Core i5 NUC to rival Raspberry Pi Posted: 01 May 2012 03:42 AM PDT A $35 ARM board has Chipzilla rattled or amused?Pictures and details of a stripped-back ultra-compact desktop computer from Intel have hit the web.… |
| Microsoft hikes volume prices by more than a third Posted: 01 May 2012 03:22 AM PDT Redmond's Euro vision sends UK channel scramblingMicrosoft will ramp up the cost of volume licensing by as much as a third from the start of July when it aligns list prices across Europe to the Euro currency.… |
| Samsung unwraps 17in Ivy Bridge beast Posted: 01 May 2012 03:12 AM PDT Chuck out your desktopApple may be considering an end to the production of 17in desktop-replacement laptops, but Samsung isn't. It just announced the 17.3in Series 7 Chronos 17.… |
| UK ad watchdog probes Apple iPad '4G' boasts Posted: 01 May 2012 03:02 AM PDT Furious fanbois further flummoxed by fondleslab's 4G foibleThe UK's advertising watchdog is taking another look at Apple's "4G" claims for its new iPad after receiving fresh complaints.… |
| America, China go ape for tablets Posted: 01 May 2012 02:44 AM PDT Impecunious Europeans less so, says researcherCount tablets as personal computers and already fondleslabs account for almost a fifth of the world PC market.… |
| VCs pour $80m into Violin, hope for shower of gold later Posted: 01 May 2012 02:41 AM PDT Flashy upstart poised for floatVenture capitalists have been fighting to get a slice of hot flash startup Violin Memory, which announced a $50m D-round of funding in March. That turned into an $80m injection because GE Capital and other VCs wanted a piece of the action. Why this VC frenzy?… |
| Nympho hauled to loon-cooler after serial bonkathon brutality Posted: 01 May 2012 02:18 AM PDT 'I can't walk. Please help me', sobbed second victimA Munich nymphomaniac is languishing in hospital under psychiatric observation after two men suffered extended sexual ordeals at the hands of the rampant temptress.… |
| Dell fending off EMC's maintenance push Posted: 01 May 2012 02:01 AM PDT Will wheel ex-partner's kit into new solutions centres if askedCustomers who bought EMC kit from Dell before the pair dissolved their relationship are not flooding back to the storage specialist for their support needs, according to Steve Schuckenbrock, President of Dell's services operation.… |
| Ultimate simulator to streak into living rooms next month Posted: 01 May 2012 01:53 AM PDT IMAX for gamersAvid fans of simulators may want to save their wages - and then some - for the TL1 Racing Flight and FPS Simulator, which shoots into (large) living rooms this June.… |
| iTunes fanbois outraged by Apple's sex-life quiz probe Posted: 01 May 2012 01:33 AM PDT Haven't they suffered enough?Apple iTunes users are peeved at being made to answer a three-part questionnaire about their cars and where they had their first kiss as part of a compulsory security regime.… |
| EMC's Project Thunder stuffs Lightning in a box Posted: 01 May 2012 01:01 AM PDT Collected flashEMC's Project Thunder is boxing up VFCache PCIe flash cards and networking it to servers.… |
| Met seeks new £200m command-and-control system Posted: 01 May 2012 12:28 AM PDT 9-year deal for kit, services... and wave goodbye to the old gearThe Metropolitan police is seeking a deal to implement a new command-and-control system.… |
| Blighty's IP framework one of world's worst for consumers Posted: 01 May 2012 12:02 AM PDT Report: 'Anti-consumer bias continues to pervade IP legislation'A "panel of IP experts" devised a list of 49 criteria that consumer groups in 30 countries used to assess how best the IP frameworks in those nations serve consumers. Consumers International (CI), which is a global campaign group for consumers with members including Which? and Consumer Focus in the UK, published (8-page / 1.36MB PDF) how the countries were rated in a new "watchlist".… |
| Posted: 30 Apr 2012 11:00 PM PDT Airs and gracesReview Having been in the hardware reviewing game for more years than I care to mention - cue the violins - I have looked at a huge number of notebooks claiming to be both thin and light.… |
| Terrorists 'build secure VoIP over GPRS network' Posted: 30 Apr 2012 10:52 PM PDT Secret comms channel eludes Indian spooksTerror group Lashkar-e-Taiba has developed its own VoIP network that connects its members over GPRS networks, according to the Times of India.… |
| Dell's rapier-thin PowerEdge M420 to render Hobbits? Posted: 30 Apr 2012 08:55 PM PDT Launch in three weeks at same time as low power eight-core Xeon E5Dell has disclosed a few more details of the rapier-thin PowerEdge M420 server we spotted back in February.… |
| Internode pollinates on iiNet DSLAM gear Posted: 30 Apr 2012 08:18 PM PDT Rolls out services wide with parental supportiiNet-owned ISP Internode is leveraging its parent's infrastructure investment and offering ADSL2+ services across an additional 240 exchanges through Australia. The residential service, Easy Broadband, will now be carried across the iiNet network which more than doubles the number of exchanges that can deliver Internode Easy Broadband services from 208 to 450.… |
| Jury mulls verdict in Oracle-v-Google Java spat Posted: 30 Apr 2012 05:37 PM PDT Phase one of trial nears completionThe jury in the copyright trial between Oracle and Google over the use of Java in Android has retired to consider its verdict after closing arguments from both sides.… |
| Astronomers provide new estimate for neutrino mass Posted: 30 Apr 2012 05:19 PM PDT WiggleZ in the space-time continuumThe WiggleZ sky survey, which last year announced that its map of 240,000 galaxies provided strong evidence for "dark energy", has now formed the basis for a new estimate of neutrino mass.… |
| RuggedCom will block industrial control backdoor Posted: 30 Apr 2012 04:30 PM PDT Races to fix years-old vulnerabilityA year after it was first discovered, a backdoor in industrial networking kit from Canadian RuggedCom is to be fixed – sometime soon.… |
| Nvidia: What would you do with a petaflops super? Posted: 30 Apr 2012 04:07 PM PDT One freebie Kepler GPU down, 999 to goNvidia is being a tease, but your good idea could land you with a Telsa GPU coprocessor based on the future "Kepler" GPU chip.… |
| Moore's Law has ten years to run, predicts physicist Posted: 30 Apr 2012 04:00 PM PDT Silicon reaching the end of the roadRenowned theoretical physicist Michio Kaku has predicted Moore's Law will run out of steam within the next ten years as silicon designs run up against the laws of physics.… |
| UK Ministry of Defence eyes GPS patent payoff Posted: 30 Apr 2012 04:00 PM PDT US cries foul over inventor's 'insider' statusA British patent is causing jitter in the GPS community, as the Ministry of Defence looking to satellite navigation vendors for royalties.… |
| Australia 'needs' powers to ensure net neutrality Posted: 30 Apr 2012 03:30 PM PDT Review suggests new regulatory body, structural separation for broadcastersAustralia needs to change media policy for the digital age, because current arrangements "have outlived their purpose" and "now run the risk of inhibiting the evolution of communications and media services".… |
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