Global warming helps Arctic algae suck CO<sub>2</sub> |
- Global warming helps Arctic algae suck CO<sub>2</sub>
- Rats with GPS backpacks prepare to sniff out landmines
- Americans stand against UN internet-tax plan
- US Navy buys Linux to guide drone fleet
- Stanley Black & Decker picks up Wi-Fi tracking tools
- NetApp leapfrogs IBM in storage race for second place
- EU lurches behind copyright free-for-all landgrab
- HP still NOT porting HP-UX to x86?
- Revamped Azure cloud uses OCZ SSDs
- Logitech slashes 450 jobs
- Mr Sulu causes DDoS panic after posting link on Facebook
- Barnes & Noble files official complaint over ebook settlements
- At last! The Wi-Fi chip that'll beam video from mobe to telly
- Buffalo bundles USB 3.0 AND Thunderbolt in single drive
- Pint-size gizmo shoots X-RAY LASER for first time
- Samsung's projector phone beamed up to Blighty
- E3 2012: Prepare to have your buttons pushed
- Rogue kebab provokes Carlisle post-pub car deathmatch
- Olympus confirms rumoured job losses in restructuring
- EU gives Google till July to offer fix for search dominance
- Raspberry Pi safe and warm in TINY Lego fortress
- Psst, want to make a killing? Flog clouds to small biz. Trust me
- 16GB BlackBerry PlayBook flushed away by RIM
- Average selling price of tablets drops 21% in three months
- Moto-Apple patent gripe almost thrown out the door
- 'Unnamed' HP biz unit developing mystery object storage product
- Euro 2012: England is semi-final probability
- AMD palms PCs with LiveBox miniature desktop
- EMEA server sales downed by financial meltdown in Q1
- Hands on with Nintendo's Wii U
- Best Buy founder flees troubled tech supermarket
- Germany reveals secret techie soldier unit, new cyberweapons
- HBO wants royal price for Iron Throne
- Prime Minister faces grilling at Leveson Inquiry
- Focus groups are for mugs
- LinkedIn dials 911 on password mega-leak hackers
- Facebook tears wraps off its own app store
- Google adds 'nuclear' AdWords to 'explosive' AdMob
- Apple iPad sales drop by DOUBLE DIGITS in Europe
- Twitter bird reborn to the sound of whalesong
- Gov exposes 8,000 GPs so punters can pick one
- Sepaton tarts up DeltaStor: Now hooks up with ANYONE
- Hauppauge MyTV 2Go
- You know what Google needs? Another Street View data-slurp probe
- GCHQ to encrypt your tweets with Enigma - for science
- Xsigo pushes server fabric pill for cable and adaptor bloat
- Watchdog relieves iPhone 5 scammers of £10k
- China a lover, not a fighter ... IN SPAAAAAACE
- HP Z1 quad-core Xeon 27in PC
- HTC locked out of Windows 8 tablet party
| Global warming helps Arctic algae suck CO<sub>2</sub> Posted: 08 Jun 2012 01:36 PM PDT Massive phytoplankton bloom solves missing carbon mysteryThere's good news for folks worried that atmospheric CO2 levels in the Arctic have passed 400ppm for the first time: a vast CO2-sucking phytoplankton bloom has been discovered beneath Arctic ice – and it may thank global warming for its presence.… |
| Rats with GPS backpacks prepare to sniff out landmines Posted: 08 Jun 2012 01:29 PM PDT Parachuting rodent Skinner squad training to deployScientists in the US have developed a novel system for detecting landmines by training rats equipped with GPS and wireless rucksacks to sniff out explosives and map them for destruction.… |
| Americans stand against UN internet-tax plan Posted: 08 Jun 2012 12:25 PM PDT Can't find any reds, so socialists will have to doComment The idea of taxing internet traffic has got the twitterverse into a tizzy. Apparently socialists monsters want pay for their carriage, and the UN has cooked up a secret plan to get the money.… |
| US Navy buys Linux to guide drone fleet Posted: 08 Jun 2012 11:40 AM PDT Ground control to Uncle LinusThe US Navy has signed off on a $27,883,883 contract from military contractor Raytheon to install Linux ground control software for its fleet of vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) drones.… |
| Stanley Black & Decker picks up Wi-Fi tracking tools Posted: 08 Jun 2012 10:03 AM PDT Putting real-time locations under the knifeStanley's healthcare division has scooped up Wi-Fi tracking leader AeroScout, with a view to pushing the technology into hospitals – for use where RFID isn't good enough.… |
| NetApp leapfrogs IBM in storage race for second place Posted: 08 Jun 2012 09:41 AM PDT EMC retains top slotNetApp overtook IBM in IDC's latest quarterly storage tracker, reversing several quarters of market share decline… |
| EU lurches behind copyright free-for-all landgrab Posted: 08 Jun 2012 09:32 AM PDT Using a picture without paying for it? That won't be a problemThe European Parliament has agreed to bless draft proposals on orphan works that are similar to a compulsory purchase order with minimal compensation.… |
| HP still NOT porting HP-UX to x86? Posted: 08 Jun 2012 09:21 AM PDT Plus: the defunct 'Kinetic' server strategy for Itanium-Xeon hybridsThe Oracle and Hewlett-Packard lawsuit over the fate of Oracle's software support for Itanium processors, and therefore HP's HP-UX Unix variant, is under way in the Santa Clara County courts. New HP CEO Meg Whitman is making the rounds in the press and making her case to HP customers and partners at the Discover 2012 shindig in Las Vegas this week – and so there was lots of talk about the past plans and current plans for HP's Integrity and Superdome lines of servers.… |
| Revamped Azure cloud uses OCZ SSDs Posted: 08 Jun 2012 09:18 AM PDT Cloudy offering goes solidMicrosoft is taking the fight to Amazon, cutting Azure cloud storage transaction prices by 90 per cent.… |
| Posted: 08 Jun 2012 09:03 AM PDT Peripherals maker 'saddened' by cost cutting programmePC peripherals maker Logitech is axing 450 jobs to help it slash some $80m (£51.9m) from annual overheads.… |
| Mr Sulu causes DDoS panic after posting link on Facebook Posted: 08 Jun 2012 08:51 AM PDT ISP can't believe George Takei has so many fansStar Trek hero George Takei unleashed such a wave of interest after posting a link on his Facebook page – to a website which was selling a 'Takei T-shirt' – that the site's ISP assumed that the traffic was a DDoS attack and took the site down for several hours.… |
| Barnes & Noble files official complaint over ebook settlements Posted: 08 Jun 2012 08:46 AM PDT Won't somebody please think of the American public?Barnes & Noble has lodged a complaint over the ebook settlement proposed by the Department of Justice, claiming that it will be bad news for booksellers and the American public.… |
| At last! The Wi-Fi chip that'll beam video from mobe to telly Posted: 08 Jun 2012 08:45 AM PDT Stick two antennas up at your routerMarvell's latest Avastar chipset and TI's next-generation silicon will stream video to a TV, projector or similar over Wi-Fi Direct while maintaining a separate wireless network connection. But why?… |
| Buffalo bundles USB 3.0 AND Thunderbolt in single drive Posted: 08 Jun 2012 08:34 AM PDT Speedy storage |
| Pint-size gizmo shoots X-RAY LASER for first time Posted: 08 Jun 2012 08:25 AM PDT Boffins spew rainbow of radiation from table-top techIt was thought that it would take an atomic bomb to produce enough power to generate an X-ray laser, but a team of boffins have fired one from a table-top box of tricks.… |
| Samsung's projector phone beamed up to Blighty Posted: 08 Jun 2012 08:13 AM PDT Hit the wallSamsung's Galaxy Beam - the smartphone with a built-in projector - is set to hit UK shelves this month after retailers revealed its expected release date.… |
| E3 2012: Prepare to have your buttons pushed Posted: 08 Jun 2012 08:13 AM PDT Shoot 'em, zap 'em, hack 'em, RULE THEM!Show Roundup With current-gen consoles entering their twilight years and most next-gen consoles still merely dots in the distance, you'd expect 2012's Electronic Entertainment Expo in LA to be a fairly quiet show in comparison to last year. Fortunately, this wasn't the case and there was plenty to keep gaming's fanbois drooling.… |
| Rogue kebab provokes Carlisle post-pub car deathmatch Posted: 08 Jun 2012 07:58 AM PDT Booze + dropped doner = prangA Carlisle building labourer has been relieved of his driving licence for 27 months after a drunken kebab retrieval manoeuvre ended with him piling his car into a stationary vehicle.… |
| Olympus confirms rumoured job losses in restructuring Posted: 08 Jun 2012 07:56 AM PDT Camera firm will axe 2,700 and close factoriesScandal-hit camera firm Olympus has announced a five-year plan to turn itself around, including axing 2,700 workers and merging or getting rid of some of its 30 factories.… |
| EU gives Google till July to offer fix for search dominance Posted: 08 Jun 2012 07:36 AM PDT Antitrust chief - 'Remedies better be good, or else'The EU's antitrust head honcho has said that Google has until early July to tell him how it's going to change itself enough to sort out its dominant position in the marketplace.… |
| Raspberry Pi safe and warm in TINY Lego fortress Posted: 08 Jun 2012 07:18 AM PDT Block and loadWhile punters have been crafting their own homemade Raspberry Pi cases since the miniature Linux box was first revealed, one inventive youngster has now shown how Lego can be a perfect fit too.… |
| Psst, want to make a killing? Flog clouds to small biz. Trust me Posted: 08 Jun 2012 07:14 AM PDT Enterprise-grade tech at non-enterprise pricesAnalysis Unless you've been living in a supplies cupboard for the past year, you'll know that the buzzword de jour is cloud computing. It seems everywhere you look, somebody is promoting or trying to sell a cloud solution.… |
| 16GB BlackBerry PlayBook flushed away by RIM Posted: 08 Jun 2012 06:55 AM PDT Disties and retailers flogging last dregsAiling Canadian device maker Research In Motion (RIM) is killing off its entry-level BlackBerry PlayBook.… |
| Average selling price of tablets drops 21% in three months Posted: 08 Jun 2012 06:41 AM PDT Report: Slabs for the masses as ASP drops to £250The average price of a tablet computer dropped 21 per cent in the first three months of 2012 - making $386 (£250) the average amount that customers pay for a slab.… |
| Moto-Apple patent gripe almost thrown out the door Posted: 08 Jun 2012 06:18 AM PDT US judge 'tentatively' dismisses IP lawsuitA US judge has finally gotten as sick of patent cases as the rest of the world and all but thrown out an Apple v Motorola Mobility lawsuit.… |
| 'Unnamed' HP biz unit developing mystery object storage product Posted: 08 Jun 2012 06:02 AM PDT Secret's in the COS service sourceHP is developing an object storage product, basing it on technology used in its Cloud Object Storage service.… |
| Euro 2012: England is semi-final probability Posted: 08 Jun 2012 05:42 AM PDT Stats-cruncher lifts nation's hopesEuro 2012 stats Ahead of the first ball being kicked at the Euro 2012 tournament, England is the third-ranked team and has a 68 per cent chance of getting out of the group stage according to the UK's top academic soccer statistician.… |
| AMD palms PCs with LiveBox miniature desktop Posted: 08 Jun 2012 05:25 AM PDT Size of reliefAMD is making a splash at Computex this week with its own mini PC setup, the AMD LiveBox.… |
| EMEA server sales downed by financial meltdown in Q1 Posted: 08 Jun 2012 05:19 AM PDT Not even the cloud can save us nowEuropean server sales slumped in opening three months of the year due to the economic meltdown, but HP managed to knock IBM off the top spot as its rate of decline was slower.… |
| Hands on with Nintendo's Wii U Posted: 08 Jun 2012 05:06 AM PDT Give it to Mii...First look It's been widely discussed, dissected and generally accepted that E3 2011 was something of a misstep for Nintendo; last year's unveiling of Wii U was met by much scratching of heads as press and public alike tried to fathom what we might expect from the gaming firm's Mario Wii U console.… |
| Best Buy founder flees troubled tech supermarket Posted: 08 Jun 2012 04:43 AM PDT Richard Schulze cashes in his microchipsRichard Schulze, the man who built tech megastore chain Best Buy out of an audio store he set up in Minnesota in 1966, has exited the company abruptly - causing the shares to take a hit.… |
| Germany reveals secret techie soldier unit, new cyberweapons Posted: 08 Jun 2012 04:29 AM PDT We have ways of making you pwnedCyCon 2012 Germany has confirmed that its military maintains an operational cyberwarfare unit with offensive capabilities.… |
| HBO wants royal price for Iron Throne Posted: 08 Jun 2012 04:20 AM PDT $30k for Game of Thrones replica chairAre you a Game of Thrones fan who dreams of marching an army to Kings Landing to take the Iron Throne? Dream no more.… |
| Prime Minister faces grilling at Leveson Inquiry Posted: 08 Jun 2012 04:14 AM PDT Osborne and Clegg will also be quizzed on closeness to news organsPrime Minister David Cameron will appear at the Leveson Inquiry next week.… |
| Posted: 08 Jun 2012 04:02 AM PDT Unfortunately your product doesn't workSomething for the Weekend, Sir? Journalists can be a contrary lot and IT journalists are no exception. Whatever we get asked to test and review, we're never really happy with it. But that's OK because the manufacturers and their PR companies, and often the readers too, are never happy with what we write either.… |
| LinkedIn dials 911 on password mega-leak hackers Posted: 08 Jun 2012 03:58 AM PDT Biz network still silent on spate of spamLinkedIn has turned to the FBI for help after 6.5 million of its users' passwords were dumped online by hackers.… |
| Facebook tears wraps off its own app store Posted: 08 Jun 2012 03:44 AM PDT Give us your cash... bitchFacebook has continued its quest to keep punters glued to the social network by opening an app store that mimics Apple's iPhone software supermarket.… |
| Google adds 'nuclear' AdWords to 'explosive' AdMob Posted: 08 Jun 2012 03:28 AM PDT Mobile advertising goes BANG!Ad giant Google has opened up its AdWords system to mobile devices by slotting the network into its AdMob mobile app advertising platform.… |
| Apple iPad sales drop by DOUBLE DIGITS in Europe Posted: 08 Jun 2012 03:14 AM PDT SHOCK, HORROR: tablet heavyweight downed in AprilApple fondleslab sales tumbled after the buying frenzy around its third generation iPad died down, Context numbers reveal.… |
| Twitter bird reborn to the sound of whalesong Posted: 08 Jun 2012 03:02 AM PDT Trending now: #freedom, #hope, #inanebanterLogoWatch Just when we all thought the interwebs had put the worst excesses of trendy Strategy Boutiques behind them, Twitter has proved there are still some who prefer to do their rebrandings to the sound of whalesong while sitting in the lotus position and enveloped in a thick joss-stick fug.… |
| Gov exposes 8,000 GPs so punters can pick one Posted: 08 Jun 2012 02:38 AM PDT Wait 0 minutes for a nasty doc, or 3 hours for a nice one?Data on more than 8,000 GP practices in England has been published in an effort to help patients choose the best GP surgery and to drive up standards.… |
| Sepaton tarts up DeltaStor: Now hooks up with ANYONE Posted: 08 Jun 2012 02:17 AM PDT Dedupes heterogeneous databases backupsSepaton has updated its software to back up and reduplicate DB2, Oracle and other databases, thus leap-frogging Data Domain, which is Oracle-bound.… |
| Posted: 08 Jun 2012 02:00 AM PDT Freeview on the moveAccessory of the Week There's no shortage of TV tuners for either Macs or PCs. But Hauppauge's MyTV 2Go is different in that it allows you to connect to it over Wi-Fi from an iPhone or an iPad, as well as a computer.… |
| You know what Google needs? Another Street View data-slurp probe Posted: 08 Jun 2012 01:33 AM PDT London's man in Europe wants UK to launch an inquiryA UK inquiry should be held to determine whether Google knew that its Street View cars were collecting personal data over unsecure Wi-Fi networks for use in other projects, a politician has said.… |
| GCHQ to encrypt your tweets with Enigma - for science Posted: 08 Jun 2012 01:01 AM PDT Now you can make even less sense on TwitterThe Enigma code, once used by the Nazis to send secret military commands, will be used by visitors to the Cheltenham Science Fair next week to send tweets.… |
| Xsigo pushes server fabric pill for cable and adaptor bloat Posted: 08 Jun 2012 12:29 AM PDT Wants to get data centres hooked on cabling clutter cleanupVenture capital-funded startup Xsigo is looking to its latest Data Centre Fabric (DCF) version to become its killer product. The kit is aimed at bloated data centres, where it will remove network cable and adapter sprawl and channel I/O to servers running any of five hypervisors across a 56gig InfiniBand link.… |
| Watchdog relieves iPhone 5 scammers of £10k Posted: 08 Jun 2012 12:01 AM PDT Dodgy adverts earns fine from premium-rate line regulatorA British company who offered "iPhone 5s" to punters has been slapped with a £10,000 fine by regulator PhonePayPlus, which ruled that the adverts for the non-existent phone were misleading.… |
| China a lover, not a fighter ... IN SPAAAAAACE Posted: 07 Jun 2012 11:20 PM PDT PRC wants 'sustainable common development' up thereChina has invited other countries to help it build its first fully-formed space station, in a bid to promote a more inclusive approach to the development of outer space.… |
| Posted: 07 Jun 2012 11:00 PM PDT All in one workstation, anyone? |
| HTC locked out of Windows 8 tablet party Posted: 07 Jun 2012 09:50 PM PDT If your name's not down you're not getting inHTC has been declined an invitation to the Windows 8 party after Microsoft apparently refused its tablet development team access to the forthcoming operating system, in yet another body blow to the ailing hardware firm.… |
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