Telstra's scoops in-house YouTube contender |
- Telstra's scoops in-house YouTube contender
- Nvidia shows off Tesla K10 performance
- Facebook fesses up to Face.com face finder financing
- TSA screeners spooked by Apple's 'futuristic artifact'
- FunnyJunk lawyer doubles down on Oatmeal Operation Bear Love
- Intel, Google ink patent deals with InterDigital, Magnolia Broadband
- Intel slaps Xeon Phi brand on MIC coprocessors
- CAPTCHA-busting villains branch out from spam into ID theft
- Tech boffins: Spend gov money on catching cyber crooks, not on AV
- Crytek says future is free-to-play
- Google coughs up what it coughs up to govs - and what it suppresses
- 'Kindness of America' snapper shot himself in 'act of self-promotion'
- Dell spills its hot cache Fluid, hopes to beat off rivals
- Chinese 'nauts reach Heaven after 8-minute coupling
- Nokia after the purge: It's so unfair
- Facebook shells out $10m for using users faces in adverts
- Python wraps its coils around the enterprise
- Olympic Phone touch-payment details revealed
- Apple MacBook Air 11in 2012
- T-Mobile outs low-cost mobile data roaming bundles
- Steely Neelie: EU is crippled by its clueless tech-ignorant workforce
- BYOD: The great small biz security headache
- Microsoft next-gen Xbox details leak
- Can't watch Flash vids in Firefox? It's not just you
- IK Multimedia iRig Mix
- Lightsquared cremation postponed
- America's X-37B top-secret spaceplane returns to Earth
- IBM US nuke-lab beast 'Sequoia' is top of the flops (petaflops, that is)
- iOS was SO much more valuable to Google than Android - until Maps
- Health dept puts off NHS 111 helpline roll-out for 6 months
- Want to meddle with IP rights? Use the law, not amended regulations
- Habbo Hotel to 'unmute' chat so users can show they love it
- IBM: Our kit needs to be sold with '-as-a-Service' on the end now
- Korean telly factory power cut costs Samsung $30,000+ per second
- China goes Alt with root proposal
- Baidu eyes up UCWeb deal to spur mobile growth
- Linus Torvalds drops F-bomb on NVIDIA
- Mozilla plans multi-engine search results, native iOS browser
- Six in Tokyo slammer after Android smut scam
- Japan and Vietnam push on with rare earth mining plans
- 'Jogobot' lures lonely lardies
- Voyager ticks one box for interstellar arrival
- ITU to G20 leaders: Follow Australia's broadband policy
- Can your cloud balance supply and demand?
- Honeynet looks to trap USB malware
- Swinburne flicks switch on $AU3 million GPU
| Telstra's scoops in-house YouTube contender Posted: 18 Jun 2012 03:00 PM PDT Injects US$35m into OoyalaTelstra's Application and Ventures group, quietly created last year and headed by Deena Schiff, has made its first international play leading a US$35 million investment in video platform Ooyala.… |
| Nvidia shows off Tesla K10 performance Posted: 18 Jun 2012 02:14 PM PDT No single-precision flops anxiety hereISC 2012 The Top 500 supercomputer ranking is based on the performance of machines running the Linpack Fortran matrix math benchmark using double-precision floating point math, but a lot of applications will do just fine with single-precision math. And it is for these workloads, graphics chip maker and supercomputing upstart Nvidia says, that it designed the new Tesla K10 server coprocessors.… |
| Facebook fesses up to Face.com face finder financing Posted: 18 Jun 2012 01:20 PM PDT 'All your face are belong to us'Facebook has confirmed the acquisition of Israeli facial-recognition software vendor Face.com for an undisclosed sum.… |
| TSA screeners spooked by Apple's 'futuristic artifact' Posted: 18 Jun 2012 01:14 PM PDT Design Award winning developer snagged by suspicious scannersA glowing, cube-shaped Apple Design Award trophy prompted US Transportation Security Administration airport staffers to give one award winner special scrutiny when he tried to board a flight back to his Seattle digs.… |
| FunnyJunk lawyer doubles down on Oatmeal Operation Bear Love Posted: 18 Jun 2012 11:20 AM PDT Sues creator, charities, and hosting companyFunkyJunk lawyer Charles Carreon has filed his own personal suit against Matthew Inman, creator of the popular internet cartoon site The Oatmeal and the charities Inman is raising money for, after the abuse Carreon received since filing FunnyJunk's claim.… |
| Intel, Google ink patent deals with InterDigital, Magnolia Broadband Posted: 18 Jun 2012 11:17 AM PDT Massive haul and boutique buyBoth Intel and Google started the week in acquisitive modes, with the former announcing a massive $375m patent deal with InterDigital, and the latter acquiring over 50 patents from Magnolia Broadband for an unspecified amount.… |
| Intel slaps Xeon Phi brand on MIC coprocessors Posted: 18 Jun 2012 09:24 AM PDT Cray to plug them into future 'Cascade' supersISC 2012 The name "Many Integrated Core" doesn't roll off the tongue – and even Intel doesn't know whether to pronoun MIC as "mick" or "mike" – so with the future "Knights Corner" x86 coprocessors intended to thwart the coprocessor plans of Nvidia and its Tesla family, Chipzilla is settling on the brand name of Xeon Phi to peddle its variation on the energy-efficient coprocessor theme.… |
| CAPTCHA-busting villains branch out from spam into ID theft Posted: 18 Jun 2012 08:56 AM PDT 'CAPTCHA in the Rye' report delivers captcha and verseThe cybercrooks attempting to defeat CAPTCHAs are no longer just traditional junk-mailers who want to get around the test to send spam. In a recent study, security researchers have discovered that criminals are also using circumvention techniques in attacks that harvest financial or personal data.… |
| Tech boffins: Spend gov money on catching cyber crooks, not on AV Posted: 18 Jun 2012 08:02 AM PDT Cure is the best form of prevention, say Cambridge brainsThe UK government should be spending more on catching cybercriminals instead of splurging taxpayers' money on antivirus software, tech boffins have said.… |
| Crytek says future is free-to-play Posted: 18 Jun 2012 07:31 AM PDT Waves goodbye to retailCrytek has revealed plans to leave traditional retail behind, with the developer set to go all out free-to-play for future games releases.… |
| Google coughs up what it coughs up to govs - and what it suppresses Posted: 18 Jun 2012 06:58 AM PDT 'Governments are scary! Not us! Look!'Canada asked Google to remove a video of a Canadian flushing his passport down the toilet and the US police wanted a blog that defamed a cop in a "personal capacity" taken down.… |
| 'Kindness of America' snapper shot himself in 'act of self-promotion' Posted: 18 Jun 2012 06:32 AM PDT Hoped shot in the arm would give his book a ...The hitchhiking photographer who captured the hearts of a nation after being shot while researching "The Kindness of America", has admitted administering the lead supplement himself and making the rest of the tale up.… |
| Dell spills its hot cache Fluid, hopes to beat off rivals Posted: 18 Jun 2012 06:02 AM PDT Can its new weapon produce reliable shots of money?Dell recently lifted the lid on its "Hermes" project, named for the speedy chap from Greek mythology, at the Dell Storage Forum. The product, which Dell hopes will smack down EMC's VFCache, will carry writes between flash caches in a Dell cluster to make sure they all carry the same data. That's a big deal, so project "Hermes" has to be quick.… |
| Chinese 'nauts reach Heaven after 8-minute coupling Posted: 18 Jun 2012 05:14 AM PDT Three taikonauts safely aboard Tiangong-1 after spaceship dockingThree Chinese astronauts floated into the Tiangong-1 lab module just after 11am BST, after the first docking of a manned spacecraft this morning.… |
| Nokia after the purge: It's so unfair Posted: 18 Jun 2012 05:00 AM PDT What, we fire thousands and the shares go down?Analysis Last week Nokia did exactly what analysts have been begging it to do for years - it took an axe to the company's bureaucracy and purged the leadership. The latest 10,000 redundancies leave the company with its smallest workforce since 1998. Nokia's reward was a further 18 per cent fall in its share price. Thanks, markets.… |
| Facebook shells out $10m for using users faces in adverts Posted: 18 Jun 2012 04:43 AM PDT It's a Book of Faces, get used to it ... bitchFacebook has settled a suit that could have seen it compensating 150 million people in the United States.… |
| Python wraps its coils around the enterprise Posted: 18 Jun 2012 04:30 AM PDT Look out C++, the Years of the Snake are upon youOpen... and Shut The enterprise, long the stodgy bastion of mainframes, Oracle databases, and Windows servers, is starting to look a lot more like the consumer technology companies that eschew it.… |
| Olympic Phone touch-payment details revealed Posted: 18 Jun 2012 04:12 AM PDT Games to be a hotbed of bonking for moneySamsung's "Olympic" Galaxy S3 is being posted out to athletes and game officials next week, complete with pay-by-bonk functionality and a customised interface for those who need to know how great Samsung is.… |
| Posted: 18 Jun 2012 04:00 AM PDT For the love of Ivy BridgeReview The 11in MacBook Air took top spot in El Reg's recent round-up of the best Ultrabooks – even though, strictly speaking, it isn't actually an Ultrabook, according to Intel's proprietary definition of the term. This 2012 model doesn't tamper with the winning formula, but it does provide a respectable update that should keep it at the head of the pack.… |
| T-Mobile outs low-cost mobile data roaming bundles Posted: 18 Jun 2012 03:47 AM PDT Gets in before new EU price limits biteT-Mobile is the latest UK cellco to announce a revamp of imobile data roaming charges ahead of the introduction of Europe-wide billing rules on 1 July.… |
| Steely Neelie: EU is crippled by its clueless tech-ignorant workforce Posted: 18 Jun 2012 03:45 AM PDT Who will free us from this rabble of dunderheads?Half of Europe's workforce is too tech-challenged to fill all the extra ICT jobs that will be knocking around in the next few years, the European Commission has said.… |
| BYOD: The great small biz security headache Posted: 18 Jun 2012 03:30 AM PDT The great reseller opportunityAfter surveying more than 1600 IT professionals late last year, the analyst firm Freeform Dynamics concluded that the consumerisation of IT is a real thing, and it is not just down to those pesky young people and their shiny iPads.… |
| Microsoft next-gen Xbox details leak Posted: 18 Jun 2012 03:24 AM PDT Redmond rapidly requests removalAn allegedly leaked Microsoft presentation which details next-gen Xbox plans, has been removed at the request of the software company's lawyers, adding weight its authenticity.… |
| Can't watch Flash vids in Firefox? It's not just you Posted: 18 Jun 2012 03:13 AM PDT Mozilla, Adobe working on fix for Vista/Win7 problemThe latest update to Adobe's Flash has been crashing Mozilla Firefox users on Windows since last week, but the firms behind the products are still searching for a fix.… |
| Posted: 18 Jun 2012 03:00 AM PDT iDJGeek Treat of the Week The iRig Mix is the latest IK Multimedia accessory aimed at iPhone and iPad-toting musicians and DJs. It's a three-channel mixer that can be used to combine input from two iOS devices and either a microphone or guitar.… |
| Lightsquared cremation postponed Posted: 18 Jun 2012 02:48 AM PDT Corpse can keep walking about for another yearTroubled cellular disrupter LightSquared has apparently managed to extend its debt burden again, potentially keeping the company afloat until September next year.… |
| America's X-37B top-secret spaceplane returns to Earth Posted: 18 Jun 2012 02:27 AM PDT Hardly anybody knows what it did last summerSuper-secret spaceplane the X-37B landed back at Vandenberg Air Force Base on Saturday after 469 days of mysterious missions in space.… |
| IBM US nuke-lab beast 'Sequoia' is top of the flops (petaflops, that is) Posted: 18 Jun 2012 02:14 AM PDT Roaring monster chews up absurd amounts of LinpackISC 2012 For the second time in the past two years, a new supercomputer has taken the top ranking in the Top 500 list of supercomputers – and it does not use a hybrid CPU-GPU architecture. But the question everyone will be asking at the International Super Computing conference in Hamburg, Germany today is whether this is the last hurrah for such monolithic parallel machines and whether the move toward hybrid machines where GPUs or other kinds of coprocessors do most of the work is inevitable.… |
| iOS was SO much more valuable to Google than Android - until Maps Posted: 18 Jun 2012 01:40 AM PDT Apple cash hose dislodged from Choc Factory mawOpinion So what about this Apple Maps thing then? Isn't it just so wonderful that Cupertino wants to improve the fanboi experience and thus has decided to replicate a perfectly serviceable alternative from a competitor? Sorry, become a competitor to its previous supplier...… |
| Health dept puts off NHS 111 helpline roll-out for 6 months Posted: 18 Jun 2012 01:19 AM PDT Avenue for non-urgent problems not urgently neededThe government has extended the deadline for the roll-out of NHS 111 to make sure areas have enough time to plan for the service.… |
| Want to meddle with IP rights? Use the law, not amended regulations Posted: 18 Jun 2012 12:58 AM PDT You want loopholes, don't use loopholes to introduce 'emGovernment plans to change the law so that future reforms to the copyright framework can be made through regulations rather than primary legislation could create problems for businesses, an expert has said.… |
| Habbo Hotel to 'unmute' chat so users can show they love it Posted: 18 Jun 2012 12:39 AM PDT 'Many of the inappropriate adults are journos', says CEOUpdated Teen social network site Habbo Hotel is going to allow its users to chat again soon, as its parent company removes the restrictions imposed after allegations of inappropriate sexual content.… |
| IBM: Our kit needs to be sold with '-as-a-Service' on the end now Posted: 18 Jun 2012 12:21 AM PDT Woke up this mornin', 60k servers went up in a Cloud a smokeIBM is warning that mid-market customers are now spending as much with managed service providers as they are with the classic value-added reseller that deploys tech onsite.… |
| Korean telly factory power cut costs Samsung $30,000+ per second Posted: 18 Jun 2012 12:01 AM PDT Substation bloke whoopsie adds to troubled LCD div's woesSamsung Display has suffered a power outage at one of its LCD plants that could cost the firm tens of millions of dollars.… |
| China goes Alt with root proposal Posted: 17 Jun 2012 11:45 PM PDT Because the DNS doesn't scale … no, reallyChina Telecom has only our best interests at heart, which is why it's proposing that a Balkanised DNS system would save us from the disastrous effects of failure to scale.… |
| Baidu eyes up UCWeb deal to spur mobile growth Posted: 17 Jun 2012 11:25 PM PDT Search giant could swoop for stake in browser firmChinese search giant Baidu is set to take another important step towards expanding its mobile footprint in a tie-up with leading domestic mobile browsing player UCWeb.… |
| Linus Torvalds drops F-bomb on NVIDIA Posted: 17 Jun 2012 11:15 PM PDT NSFW Linux hero flips out, flips bird, over lack of supportLinus Torvalds has exhorted GPU-maker NVIDIA to indulge in sexual intercourse with itself, and angrily raised his middle finger to the company to re-enforce the suggestion.… |
| Mozilla plans multi-engine search results, native iOS browser Posted: 17 Jun 2012 10:21 PM PDT Proclaims intention to disrupt again, dares rivals to follow, may kill TrillianMozilla wants to resume its role as a disruptor in the browser world and has started work on a trio of projects it hopes can help it regain market share.… |
| Six in Tokyo slammer after Android smut scam Posted: 17 Jun 2012 09:57 PM PDT Malware was distributed through adult siteSix men including three IT executives have been arrested in Tokyo in connection with an Android malware scam which netted them over 20 million yen (£160,740).… |
| Japan and Vietnam push on with rare earth mining plans Posted: 17 Jun 2012 08:47 PM PDT Asian nations chip away at Chinese monopolyFears the global technology supply chain could be throttled by China's interest emerged over the weekend after Japan and Vietnam announced the inauguration of a rare earth technology centre in Hanoi, as the two countries look to accelerate their mining plans.… |
| 'Jogobot' lures lonely lardies Posted: 17 Jun 2012 08:18 PM PDT RMIT geeks create jogging drone stalkerThe lonely life of the lazy runner need not be desolate or uninspired ever again thanks to a new companion robot from RMIT's Exertion Games Lab, the Joggobot.… |
| Voyager ticks one box for interstellar arrival Posted: 17 Jun 2012 06:25 PM PDT "Very rapid escalation" in galactic rays hints at new region of SPAAAAAACEThe venerable Voyager 1 spacecraft seems to be a little closer to leaving our Sun's neighbourhood behind and entering interstellar space, says NASA.… |
| ITU to G20 leaders: Follow Australia's broadband policy Posted: 17 Jun 2012 05:16 PM PDT It might just heal crocked economiesWestern economies buffeted by the Great Recession and subsequent Euro-crises can accelerate out of their current fiscal fug if governments invest in a jolting dose of fast broadband, says the International Telecommunications Union (ITU).… |
| Can your cloud balance supply and demand? Posted: 17 Jun 2012 05:00 PM PDT The perfect matchPrivate cloud involves a multi-layered approach to architecting IT systems and delivering services to the business, making the most of virtualisation to provide a separation between the two.… |
| Honeynet looks to trap USB malware Posted: 17 Jun 2012 04:38 PM PDT Virtualized USB drive as honeypotThe Honeynet project has picked up research by a German student to trap malware designed to spread via USB keys.… |
| Swinburne flicks switch on $AU3 million GPU Posted: 17 Jun 2012 04:05 PM PDT 120 teraflop, 757-GPU gSTAR is astronomers' new toySwinburne University has brought a new 120 teraflop GPU-based supercomputer from SGI to help cope with astronomers' ever-increasing need for lots of computing power.… |
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