BAE proposes GPS-less location

BAE proposes GPS-less location


BAE proposes GPS-less location

Posted: 02 Jul 2012 02:59 PM PDT

Beat the jammers and spoofs

Whether or not Iran used GPS spoofing to down a US drone last year, there's no doubt that GPS spoofing is both real and easier than the military would like. Now, BAE Systems is proposing a positioning technology that works without GPS.…

Web stat WTF: iOS beats Android 3 to 1, iOS and Android tied

Posted: 02 Jul 2012 01:28 PM PDT

Welcome to Schrödinger's web analytics

Apple's iOS devices account for 65 per cent of mobile web traffic versus Android's 20 per cent, or the two operating systems are neck-and-neck at about a quarter of all mobile web traffic apiece.…

Apple faces Italian shutdown over warranty skulduggery

Posted: 02 Jul 2012 01:19 PM PDT

No dolce vita for Cupertino

Apple is facing a shutdown of its Italian operations by competition authorities over repeated flouting of that country's consumer-protection laws.…

More revelers amp up hybrid memory cube party

Posted: 02 Jul 2012 11:38 AM PDT

ARM, HP (and more) join Micron, Samsung, Microsoft (and more)

A bunch more IT vendors have picked up shiny new Hybrid Memory Cube sledgehammers and are working with Micron Technology and Samsung Electronics to smash the memory barrier.…

Google makes 'proposal' to Europe on antitrust concerns

Posted: 02 Jul 2012 11:23 AM PDT

Brussels examining missive from Eric Schmidt

Google has submitted what it described as a "proposal" to antitrust officials in Brussels that the search giant said addresses the "abuse of dominance" claims outlined by competition commissioner Joaquin Almunia in May this year.…

Facebook phone app attempts to seize ALL YOUR MAIL

Posted: 02 Jul 2012 10:32 AM PDT

Gonna slurp you good... bitch

Facebook has found an innovative way to encourage use of its email service: reach into users' mobile phone address books and change the email addresses stored against each contact to their Facebook email account.…

Google nixes extra wireless attachments to its new Kansas fibres

Posted: 02 Jul 2012 10:00 AM PDT

That pipe isn't fat enough to interest us

Google has rejected overtures from a Kansas non-profit to integrate their wireless solution for the digitally challenged, saying that it didn't fit into their licensing model.…

Microsoft runs price-hike Lite promo for Open Value licenses

Posted: 02 Jul 2012 08:56 AM PDT

Here, rub this cream in, it'll hurt less

Microsoft distributor Westcoast is trying to "ease the pain" for customers facing a price hike on Open Value Volume (OVV) licenses by pushing out a three-month promo.…

Baltic cyber bank burglars cop hefty porridge spell

Posted: 02 Jul 2012 08:53 AM PDT

London bust means hard time for plunderers

A trio of cybercrooks that used malware to carry out electronic banking fraud have been jailed.…

UK.gov proposes massive copyright land snatch

Posted: 02 Jul 2012 08:05 AM PDT

Your lunch? I sold it for 2p. Hey, here's your ½p

Analysis  Photographers, illustrators and authors will be amongst those to lose their digital rights under radical new proposals published by the Government today. New legislation is proposed that would effectively introduce a compulsory purchase order, but without compensation, across an unlimited range of creative works, for commercial use.…

Misery ending? UK reseller insolvencies may have bottomed out

Posted: 02 Jul 2012 07:49 AM PDT

Dead firms were soft and weak, only the hard survive

Insolvency rates in the UK channel were back to pre-recession levels in Q2, according to official stats from credit reference agency Graydon UK.…

Dell finally nabs Quest for $2.4bn

Posted: 02 Jul 2012 07:34 AM PDT

Swallows Toad in the whole

Updated  After a minor bidding war with Insight Venture Partners, Michael Dell has prevailed with a bag of cash stuffed with $2.4bn (£1.5bn) to take over Quest Software - a peddler of a hodge-podge of systems, database, performance and access management tools as well as data archiving software.…

Fujitsu phones to guide the blind through homes

Posted: 02 Jul 2012 06:42 AM PDT

Golden receivers

Fujitsu has helped develop an indoor support system that utilises impulse radio ultrawideband (UWB) tech to guide blind and partially sighted people around their homes.…

Leap second bug cripples Linux servers at airlines, Reddit, LinkedIn

Posted: 02 Jul 2012 06:34 AM PDT

Not a good time to be Australian

The leap second inserted at the weekend crippled Linux-powered servers running one of the world's largest airline reservation systems - delaying and cancelling flights.…

YouView recommends radio hams' pet peeve

Posted: 02 Jul 2012 06:24 AM PDT

IPTV outfit's set-top box to prompt powerline usage surge?

Radio hams with a downer on powerline Ethernet are set to be even more upset by the debut of YouView. The IPTV platform is recommending the networking-over-the-mains technology.…

Users enraged by Cisco's cloudy 'upgrade' to Linksys routers

Posted: 02 Jul 2012 06:12 AM PDT

Demand right to furtle own boxes in privacy

Cisco was forced into reverse ferret mode late last week, after it automatically updated some of its Linksys routers in such a way as to make use of its Cloud-based management console obligatory.…

Micron's Elpida buy is GO for $2.5bn - and then there were three

Posted: 02 Jul 2012 06:02 AM PDT

Any DRAM you like. Provided you like Samsung, Hynix or Micron

Confirming previous reports, Micron is spending $2.5 billion to buy bankrupt and debt-ridden Japanese DRAM manufacturer Elpida and so double its DRAM market share to 24 per cent, second only to Samsung.…

LinkedIn inked out: Twitter cuts off jabberhose to suits

Posted: 02 Jul 2012 05:32 AM PDT

Yoink! #SoLongSuckers

Twitter has tightened the screws on its application programming interface (API), cutting dead syndication with LinkedIn and promising a more "consistent" network for its users.…

Overland patent broadside: Targeted firms vow to fight

Posted: 02 Jul 2012 04:58 AM PDT

Let's get ready to grumble

Quantum and other vendors being sued by Overland Storage for allegedly infringing its patents are in more of a mood to fight than settle.…

Avnet gobbles Magirus, aiming to deliver swollen offerings

Posted: 02 Jul 2012 04:44 AM PDT

Frenzied engorgement among the disties today

Avnet Inc is consuming pan-European distributor Magirus Group for an undisclosed sum.…

Samsung asks for US Galaxy Nexus ban to be lifted pending appeal

Posted: 02 Jul 2012 04:42 AM PDT

Korean blower 'will damage us IRREPARABLY' snivels Apple

Samsung has filed an appeal against the US ban on the Galaxy Nexus phone that will take the Google mobe off the market for nearly two years.…

Plans for special police-run ICT firm to firm up this month

Posted: 02 Jul 2012 04:00 AM PDT

Plods to use pork truncheon to beat savings out of market

Home Office Minister Theresa May is set to finally add some colour to the plans she sketched out last year over the creation of a police ICT company, the department has confirmed.…

Microsoft gets its hypervisor war face on, squares up to VMware

Posted: 02 Jul 2012 03:44 AM PDT

File tanks rumble out of Redmond, headed for NFS lawn

Microsoft has enlisted X-IO and others as its proxies alongside Hyper-V and SMB in a war against VMware and NFS.…

Sozzled Americans nagged by talking urinal cake

Posted: 02 Jul 2012 03:30 AM PDT

'Don't drink and drive, and please wash your hands'

Michigan males intent on celebrating the Fourth of July holiday with a few liveners are advised that when the time comes to send the booze back to the brewers, it'll be the urinal, rather than the beer, that's doing the talking.…

Sony grabs cloud-gaming group Gaikai

Posted: 02 Jul 2012 03:29 AM PDT

New stream of PlayStation business?

Sony has acquired cloud-gaming company Gaikai for $380m (£240m) with a view to using the streaming service set to strengthen its online offering.…

Apple lobs pocket change to Proview, ending Chinese IPAD name row

Posted: 02 Jul 2012 03:16 AM PDT

$60m? Hardly worth opening our wallet to get it out

Apple has forked out $60m to settle the row over the name IPAD with Chinese firm Proview Technology.…

Microsoft silently kills silent, automatic Skype install via Updates

Posted: 02 Jul 2012 02:58 AM PDT

Skype me! What? I think you'll find you do have it

Microsoft has pulled the plug on a Windows update that snuck Skype onto business PCs.…

Trio of 'nauts plonk down after six-month space station stint

Posted: 02 Jul 2012 02:41 AM PDT

That's enough recycled urine for anyone

Vid  Three International Space Station crew members have returned to Earth after more than six months aboard the orbiting platform.…

Squabbling EU heads force Council to split patent court in 3

Posted: 02 Jul 2012 02:29 AM PDT

Pouting politicians dig their heels in on unified system

The UK, France and Germany have removed the last obstacle to the formation of a unified European patent system by divvying up the court between them.…

Apple makes Cocoa with Porridge

Posted: 02 Jul 2012 02:20 AM PDT

Mac OS X dev data pays homage to infamous jailbird

Never let it be said: Apple employees have no sense of humour.…

Bluetooth gizmo lets you take card payments via smartphone

Posted: 02 Jul 2012 02:14 AM PDT

Square-a-like swipe or type offering for cashless Blighty

Retailers who've been waiting for Square to jump the pond can now sign up with startup mPowa, and start using a Bluetooth reader capable of processing Chip 'n PIN cards.…

Ingram Micro crams BrightPoint down gullet for $840m

Posted: 02 Jul 2012 02:03 AM PDT

Broadline bigboy wolfs wireless widgetry wares

Broadline behemoth Ingram Micro has coughed $840m (£535.7m) for specialist wireless device and services distie BrightPoint, the companies confirmed this morning.…

Naked Scarlett Johansson pic snatch 'is worth 6 years' porridge'

Posted: 02 Jul 2012 01:44 AM PDT

Prosecutors want crackdown on saucy sleb webmail plunder

Prosecutors have called for tough penalties and mid-level fines against the self-confessed Scarlett Johansson nude photo hacker.…

One day soon, maybe: Mobile health apps that are actually useful

Posted: 02 Jul 2012 01:29 AM PDT

'You are medically dead. Inform contact?'

Future of Wireless  You don't have to stick sensors inside people to see what's killing them - but just how much can you find out with nothing more than a breath of air and a teardrop or two?…

Google Drives its pot-o-cloud onto the iPhone, tangles with Dropbox

Posted: 02 Jul 2012 01:15 AM PDT

Never mind the quality, sort out the width

Google's iPhone/iPad G Drive app tries to take on Dropbox. It does its basic job reaosnably well, despite a crappy captcha.…

The Grundy NewBrain is 30

Posted: 02 Jul 2012 01:00 AM PDT

The revolutionary product that came too late

Feature  The NewBrain was launched 30 years ago this month, but its arrival, in July 1982, was a long time coming. The genesis of the computer that might have been the BBC Micro - that might, even, have been Sinclair's first home computer - goes back more than four years to 1978.…

Microsoft: Don't overclock Windows 8 unless you like our new BSOD

Posted: 02 Jul 2012 12:39 AM PDT

Redmond boffins burn up CPUs so you don't have to

Microsoft's Blue Screen of Death is the curse of Windows. Not just its appearance, mid way through some serious game play or spreadsheeting, but the messages themselves - digital monologues on the existence of a problem, its possible causes and how you can fix it.…

Overland Storage looses off fusillade of patent suits into tape crowds

Posted: 02 Jul 2012 12:18 AM PDT

Cartridge cases everywhere - it's spray-and-pray day

On-the-ropes tape, disk protection and NAS vendor Overland Storage is suing seven tape product vendors for patent busting, including SpectraLogic.…

Google.eggfaced: Chocolate Factory spaffs cash in dot-word bungle

Posted: 01 Jul 2012 11:59 PM PDT

Subsidiary Oompa-Loompas failed to RTFM

Google may have applied to ICANN for 101 new generic top-level domains, but at least three of the applications are doomed to fail because somebody forgot to read the manual.…

Gah! EU data protection will STIFLE business, moans gov.UK

Posted: 01 Jul 2012 10:44 PM PDT

Yargh, I'm wrapped up in actual red tape here

The European Commission has not calculated the full costs to businesses of changes to the EU data protection regime, the Government has said.…

Sussex bobbies get undisclosed tablets in networked-copper trials

Posted: 01 Jul 2012 10:29 PM PDT

Fondleplods eager to get mitts on slabs

Sussex Police is to issue neighbourhood officers with tablet devices on a trial basis from 2 July, as part of a mobile policing project.…

Australia's Copyright Act gets digital upgrade

Posted: 01 Jul 2012 07:38 PM PDT

ALRC hands down terms of ref

The Australian Law Reform Commission has released the final terms of reference of its review of copyright.…

Qantas gets rocked by Amadeus

Posted: 01 Jul 2012 05:57 PM PDT

Time leaping blamed for airline mayhem

Airlines Qantas and Virgin Australia went into temporary meltdown on Sunday morning (EST) when the Amadeus ALTEA platform which they both use was affected by unspecified technical issues.…

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