Google Maps adds aircraft, tricycles and skiers to cover all bases |
- Google Maps adds aircraft, tricycles and skiers to cover all bases
- Police called after Romney's email and Dropbox accounts cracked
- Egenera stretches control freak from blades to clouds
- Speaking in Tech: Don't be an IT costing fool
- Apple seeks resurrection of HTC importation ban
- Oracle tweaks LDom hypervisor homegrown Sparcs
- Leaked Apple inventory list hints at new non-iOS hardware
- Legendary sci-fi fantasy author Ray Bradbury exits planet Earth
- Russian hackers expose 6.5 MILLION 'LinkedIn passwords'
- Microsoft expands Xbox extras
- Given a beardie nerd the kiss of life? There's a medal for that
- Tape lives: LTO-6 rolls out – with more than TWICE the capacity
- Samsung Galaxy Tab 'a harmful drug', says Apple in ban bid fail
- UK websites: No one bothers with cookie law, why should we?
- PEER 1 gobbles up UK managed-hosting biz for £25m
- Acer touts Tegra 3 tablet
- <strong>[<abbr title="Not Safe For Work">NSFW</abbr>]</strong> Sean Parker launches Chatroulette killer: For why?
- Revolution Analytics paints R stats Azure blue
- New £4bn UK.gov IT shopping centre slips launch deadline
- PC-makers hope for Windows 8 hero to sweep up sales
- Sony awards PlayStation cert to HTC handsets
- Pet Shop Boy finally finds success with actual (virtual) shop
- Reseller kingpin: My rise from school disco boss to FTSE 250 biz
- Missed the Venus solar flyby? It's only 105 years to the next one
- Facebook tests parental-guidance tools in plan to pull in under-13s
- Nokia adds touch to budget blowers
- LOHAN seeks failsafe for explosive climax
- Toshiba widens Ultrabook range
- Marathon
- France's biggest Apple reseller sinks: 'Tech titan crushed us'
- Relax hackers! NATO has no cyber-attack plans - top brass
- Google Plus plus Meebo equals Google minus $100m
- Microsoft confirms UK.gov to dodge licensing hike... almost
- Flying Dutchman creates dead cat quadcopter
- Facebook's ONLY failure: Expectations management
- HULK DDoS-from-one-computer is easily thwarted, say security pros
- Telefonica grabs Jasper cloud to hook up British vending machines
- MoneySavingExpert.com founder flogs website for £87m
- NHS fights record £325k ICO fine after clap records appear on eBay
- OCZ: We will plug Lightning into your Thunderbolt
- Lawyer up on your way into the cloud
- China and US argue over smog tweets
- AMD and Intel extreme desktop CPU workout
- Intel partners prep 20 Clover Trail Windows 8 tablets
- Ericsson predicts over nine billion mobile subscriptions by 2017
- Microsoft crowd-sources next Win Phone apps using Android
- AWS introduces granular billing tool
- Weather, bushfire help, budgets in GovHack prize list
- Google to offer cyberwar defence advice to Gmail users
- HP puffs up virtual private clouds
| Google Maps adds aircraft, tricycles and skiers to cover all bases Posted: 06 Jun 2012 02:41 PM PDT Touts a billion monthly users ahead of WWDCGoogle has been singing the praises of its mapping projects, outlining plans for a fleet of aircraft to provide 3D city modeling, offline storage of detailed maps, using StreetView on skis and snowmobiles and the mapping national museums and monuments with backpack 360 degree cameras.… |
| Police called after Romney's email and Dropbox accounts cracked Posted: 06 Jun 2012 01:29 PM PDT Didn't learn lessons from Sarah PalinPolice are investigating a claimed cracking of presidential hopeful Mitt Romney's Hotmail and Dropbox accounts.… |
| Egenera stretches control freak from blades to clouds Posted: 06 Jun 2012 01:00 PM PDT Getting physical as well as virtualBlade server and virtualization upstart Egenera has been gradually transforming itself from a hardware vendor to a management tool maker, and with its latest round of software is leaping from virtualized blade servers to the clouds while at the same time extending the capacity of blade infrastructure it can manage.… |
| Speaking in Tech: Don't be an IT costing fool Posted: 06 Jun 2012 11:14 AM PDT The gang on chargebacks, Cisco, crappy Kindle sales and more... |
| Apple seeks resurrection of HTC importation ban Posted: 06 Jun 2012 10:46 AM PDT HTC: 'We fixed it.' Apple: 'No, you didn't'Again adhering to the Cupertinian creed that "the best defense is a good offense," Apple has filed its third complaint against Taiwanese smartphone-maker HTC at the US International Trade Commission (ITC), citing patent infringement and requesting a bar on a welter of HTC devices from being imported into the US.… |
| Oracle tweaks LDom hypervisor homegrown Sparcs Posted: 06 Jun 2012 10:23 AM PDT Gets agnostic about Sparc T generations – and maybe M4s, tooThe Logical Domain hypervisor for Sparc T series processors, known formally as Oracle VM Server for Sparc, is probably one of the best technologies created by the former Sun Microsystems for its homegrown servers. (Solaris and ZFS are two other key technologies.) Oracle has just kicked out a 2.2 release that makes LDoms more useful, and that is important in an increasingly virtual world.… |
| Leaked Apple inventory list hints at new non-iOS hardware Posted: 06 Jun 2012 09:51 AM PDT Stay of execution for Mac Pro towers rumouredSweat is pouring down fanbois' foreheads today: a leaked inventory list and a stock shortage have sparked rumours of a new Mac Pro emerging at Apple's World Wide Developers Conference.… |
| Legendary sci-fi fantasy author Ray Bradbury exits planet Earth Posted: 06 Jun 2012 09:43 AM PDT Author of influential post-WWII novel Fahrenheit 451 dies at 91Obituary Ray Bradbury, a master of fantasy fiction and author of the classic dystopian sci-fi novel Fahrenheit 451, has died at the age of 91.… |
| Russian hackers expose 6.5 MILLION 'LinkedIn passwords' Posted: 06 Jun 2012 09:26 AM PDT LinkedOut: Hashed details posted on Dropbox-alikeLinkedIn has said it is looking into a file that reportedly contains the mildly obscured passwords of around 6.5 million of its users.… |
| Posted: 06 Jun 2012 09:08 AM PDT Tuned-up hub with WinPho controlMicrosoft took to E3 this week to bolster its claims that its gaming console performs as a complete entertainment hub with the announcement of two products: Xbox SmartGlass and Xbox Music.… |
| Given a beardie nerd the kiss of life? There's a medal for that Posted: 06 Jun 2012 08:57 AM PDT Cattle prod-wielding BOFHs need not apply to first-aid awardsHave you ever resuscitated a Ruby developer? Heimlich manoeuvred a Hadoop hacker? Applied a tourniquet to a tester in QA? If you, or someone you know in the IT industry, has performed a feat of first aid at work, St John Ambulance would like to hear from you.… |
| Tape lives: LTO-6 rolls out – with more than TWICE the capacity Posted: 06 Jun 2012 08:27 AM PDT Scale-out, schmale-outLicensing specs for the sixth generation of LTO tapes should be ready in August, and make LTO-6 suitable for exabyte-level cloud archive needs.… |
| Samsung Galaxy Tab 'a harmful drug', says Apple in ban bid fail Posted: 06 Jun 2012 08:03 AM PDT Judge tells Microsoft mimic to get realA US court has once again denied Apple the chance to ban Samsung's Galaxy Tab 10.1 before the case has fully played out.… |
| UK websites: No one bothers with cookie law, why should we? Posted: 06 Jun 2012 07:41 AM PDT Fewer than 1 in 5 sites have complied so far – KPMGMany website operators have responded to the Information Commissioner's last-minute watered-down tweak to implementing the European Union's cookie law by doing absolutely nothing to show that they have complied with the legislation.… |
| PEER 1 gobbles up UK managed-hosting biz for £25m Posted: 06 Jun 2012 07:21 AM PDT NetBenefit's parent becomes its customerGlobal hosting firm PEER 1 Hosting has snapped up NetBenefit, a Brit-based hosting company, for £25m in cold hard cash.… |
| Posted: 06 Jun 2012 07:14 AM PDT Quad-core fondleslab for £130, anyone? |
| Posted: 06 Jun 2012 07:03 AM PDT Innovation... We've heard of itNSFW Celebrity billionaire tech investor Sean Parker thinks video chat is what the world needs most, and is putting his money where his mouth is.… |
| Revolution Analytics paints R stats Azure blue Posted: 06 Jun 2012 06:37 AM PDT Gooses performance, spans HPC clusters with 6.0 updateRevolution Analytics, aka "Red Hat for stats" – which commercialized the open source R programming language and statistical analysis tool – has now tweaked its R Enterprise stack and pushed out a 6.0 release.… |
| New £4bn UK.gov IT shopping centre slips launch deadline Posted: 06 Jun 2012 06:17 AM PDT We name who will (probably) be pumping tech into Blighty's public sectorExclusive Bosses have been told whether or not their businesses have provisionally made it onto a new list of approved IT suppliers for Blighty's public sector - and resellers feature heavily.… |
| PC-makers hope for Windows 8 hero to sweep up sales Posted: 06 Jun 2012 06:02 AM PDT Gotta be sure, and it's gotta be soon, and it's gotta be larger than life...In the current tight economic climate, manufacturers of PCs and laptops are eagerly looking forward to the arrival of Windows 8 to rescue their sales.… |
| Sony awards PlayStation cert to HTC handsets Posted: 06 Jun 2012 05:49 AM PDT Game of phonesSony announced at E3 this week that it will bring its PlayStation Mobile suite to HTC phones, including the recently-released HTC One X, One S and One V.… |
| Pet Shop Boy finally finds success with actual (virtual) shop Posted: 06 Jun 2012 05:37 AM PDT Vodafone shops around, spunks cash on muso's VouchercloudVodafone has splurged on a controlling interest in Groupon-tribute-act Vouchercloud, the spawn of the Pet Shop Boys' keyboardist Scott Davidson. Voda is now mulling over spunking a load more cash on Telstra's New Zealand operation.… |
| Reseller kingpin: My rise from school disco boss to FTSE 250 biz Posted: 06 Jun 2012 05:22 AM PDT Computacenter boss Norris on Essex, dyslexia and the Ford EscortPart One It's a chilly night in December 1978, and inside Zhivago's nightclub in Southend, a bunch of pubescent disco divas are getting down to the sounds of Earth, Wind and Fire, amid the clink of Tizer bottles and the rustle of terylene slacks.… |
| Missed the Venus solar flyby? It's only 105 years to the next one Posted: 06 Jun 2012 05:01 AM PDT Or you could just watch this hi-def NASA videoVid Stargazers and astronomers were out in force last night for the transit of Venus across the face of the Sun, an event that won't happen again for 105 years.… |
| Facebook tests parental-guidance tools in plan to pull in under-13s Posted: 06 Jun 2012 04:45 AM PDT Pre-teens a lucrative ad targetFacebook is testing ways to open its social network to kids under the current cut-off age of 13.… |
| Nokia adds touch to budget blowers Posted: 06 Jun 2012 04:37 AM PDT House of AshaNokia expanded its Asha range of budget S40 smartphones today with the 305, 306 and 311, the first three models in the series to feature touchscreen interfaces.… |
| LOHAN seeks failsafe for explosive climax Posted: 06 Jun 2012 04:27 AM PDT Mulls back-up system for Vulture 2 motor ignitionAs true patriots last weekend rolled out the bunting and unfurled a celebratory pint in honour of her Maj Queen Liz II's 60 years atop the throne of Merry Old Blighty™, we here at El Reg's Special Projects Bureau took a few moments from shouting "Gawd bless yer ma'am" to ponder matters of perhaps greater import, viz: just how to make sure rocket motors go pop at altitude.… |
| Toshiba widens Ultrabook range Posted: 06 Jun 2012 04:15 AM PDT Cinematic outingToshiba revealed its Ivy Bridge hand this week, with the spotlight on the Satellite U840W, an Ultrabook with a cinema-savvy, 21:9 aspect super widescreen display.… |
| Posted: 06 Jun 2012 04:00 AM PDT Halo's forerunnerAntique Code Show Back in the early- to mid-1990s, the Mac wasn't considered much cop as a games platform. Sure, it had a sexier GUI than Windows boxes, but they could drop out into DOS and dedicate their CPUs' few tens of megahertz to games. Not so the Mac.… |
| France's biggest Apple reseller sinks: 'Tech titan crushed us' Posted: 06 Jun 2012 03:46 AM PDT eBizcuss goes under as staff picket fruity firm's storesApple's largest authorised reseller in France – eBizcuss – has gone bust, closing all its outlets and firing its staff.… |
| Relax hackers! NATO has no cyber-attack plans - top brass Posted: 06 Jun 2012 03:34 AM PDT Internet warfare? Just think of the paperworkCyCon 2012 NATO does NOT need cyber-offensive capabilities, according to a senior military commander.… |
| Google Plus plus Meebo equals Google minus $100m Posted: 06 Jun 2012 03:14 AM PDT Gobbled up toolbar biz does the 'super jazzed' handsGoogle is set to acquire website widget maker Meebo for a reported price tag of $100m (£64.8m) in a clear move to drum up interest in Google+, the ad giant's flagging social network.… |
| Microsoft confirms UK.gov to dodge licensing hike... almost Posted: 06 Jun 2012 03:02 AM PDT Cabinet Office to pay 1% more, but biz to feel the squeezeMicrosoft has confirmed that under the forthcoming Public Sector Agreement (PSA12) government customers will pay just 1 per cent more for volume licences.… |
| Flying Dutchman creates dead cat quadcopter Posted: 06 Jun 2012 02:43 AM PDT 102 uses for a...Dutch artist Bart Jansen has taken the aviation world by storm by rolling out the world's first dead cat quadcopter – a remote-controlled flying feline dubbed the "Orvillecopter" in honour of Orville Wright.… |
| Facebook's ONLY failure: Expectations management Posted: 06 Jun 2012 02:21 AM PDT Bubble stock shockOpen ... and Shut As I type this, Facebook stock is trending toward a $26.84 per share price, valuing the company at $57bn, or roughly half the value Facebook held on its first day of trading two weeks ago. While the market plays a round of "You're to Blame!", Facebook is suffering from inflated expectations. Facebook's net profit margin and operating margin have both dropped since 2011, as expenses have mounted but revenues in its fast-growing mobile market have failed to keep pace. Its clear that Facebook isn't made of magical pixie dust.… |
| HULK DDoS-from-one-computer is easily thwarted, say security pros Posted: 06 Jun 2012 01:57 AM PDT Only small, unhardened servers need fearSecurity experts are downplaying the significance of a new denial-of-service (DoS) attack tool.… |
| Telefonica grabs Jasper cloud to hook up British vending machines Posted: 06 Jun 2012 01:38 AM PDT Machine talking to machine on 2G cell networksTelefonica has signed an exclusive deal with Jasper Wireless for use of its machine-to-machine cloud in the UK, hoping Jasper's kit will drive developers to a cellular solution.… |
| MoneySavingExpert.com founder flogs website for £87m Posted: 06 Jun 2012 01:19 AM PDT Evidently to someone who doesn't read the siteMoneySavingExpert.com - the advice website for people seeking decent insurance, credit cards and other money deals - is being sold for £87m to MoneySupermarket.com.… |
| NHS fights record £325k ICO fine after clap records appear on eBay Posted: 06 Jun 2012 01:01 AM PDT Gov fights itself over your moneyAn NHS Trust is disputing a record fine the Information Commissioner's Office has levelled on it for leaving tons of data on patients and staff on hard drives that were sold on eBay instead of being destroyed.… |
| OCZ: We will plug Lightning into your Thunderbolt Posted: 06 Jun 2012 12:02 AM PDT Barefoot hustler in fab grab confab, whispers chip chapHustling flash drive supplier OCZ is putting on a show at Computex in Taipei this week, including a Thunderbolt-connected external SSD called - wait for it - Lightning.… |
| Lawyer up on your way into the cloud Posted: 05 Jun 2012 11:39 PM PDT Asian IT directors advise getting legal brains to read the fine print before vaporising ITIT leaders have stressed the need for firms to carry out rigorous due diligence on cloud providers, warning that dishonest sales tactics, hidden extra costs, latency and governance issues could ruin key projects.… |
| China and US argue over smog tweets Posted: 05 Jun 2012 11:21 PM PDT Brownout in relations over @BeijingAir feedThe Chinese government wants the United States to can a popular Twitter feed set up by its Beijing embassy to monitor air pollution in the crowded capital, after launching an indirect attack claiming such readings were illegal.… |
| AMD and Intel extreme desktop CPU workout Posted: 05 Jun 2012 11:00 PM PDT Feel the burn |
| Intel partners prep 20 Clover Trail Windows 8 tablets Posted: 05 Jun 2012 10:11 PM PDT Mobile showdown with ARM looms...Forget Ivy Bridge and Ultrabooks, Intel already has its partners working on 20 new tablet designs based on its Clover Trail Atom chips, as the firm looks to take on rival ARM in its own back yard with a renewed mobile push.… |
| Ericsson predicts over nine billion mobile subscriptions by 2017 Posted: 05 Jun 2012 10:06 PM PDT Over three billion smartphones in circulationEricsson has published its latest mobile traffic report and is predicting the number of mobile subscriptions in 2017 will top nine billion, with the bulk of the growth coming in Asia and the Far East.… |
| Microsoft crowd-sources next Win Phone apps using Android Posted: 05 Jun 2012 06:45 PM PDT on{X} outsources dev to puntersThe world just got stranger: not only is Microsoft trying to write cool software again, it's decided that Android is the ideal beta platform, in spite of its bitter worldwide spat with Google over patents.… |
| AWS introduces granular billing tool Posted: 05 Jun 2012 06:40 PM PDT Drops bills in a bucket for drips of usage dataAmazon Web Services (AWS) has introduced a new billing tool, dubbed "Programmatic Access" that will offer multiple daily insights into how much you're spending in its cloudy corral.… |
| Weather, bushfire help, budgets in GovHack prize list Posted: 05 Jun 2012 06:11 PM PDT Big week for open data movementAn API for accessing historical weather data from ACORNSat, and another designed to help citizens monitor bushfires in their area, are among the prize-winners from last weekend's GovHack event in Canberra and Sydney.… |
| Google to offer cyberwar defence advice to Gmail users Posted: 05 Jun 2012 06:10 PM PDT 'State-sponsored attackers are targeting your account'Google is to warn Gmail customers if it thinks they're being targeted by "suspected state-sponsored attacks".… |
| HP puffs up virtual private clouds Posted: 05 Jun 2012 05:47 PM PDT Cloud bursts from CloudSystem private ironAs Amazon Web Services figured out nearly three years ago, companies don't want to buy virtual servers, they want to buy multi-tiered virtual private clouds consisting of a mix of servers, storage, networking, and other services that act like a real data center. Hewlett-Packard is playing catch up, like everyone else in the cloudy infrastructure racket, and at the Discover 2012 partner and customer event in Las Vegas has pre-announced virtual private cloud capability for its HP Cloud Services public cloud.… |
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