Juniper disappointed by skittish service providers |
- Juniper disappointed by skittish service providers
- Google asks YouTube commenters to stand up and be counted
- Apple misses earnings targets, Street reacts
- Pano does browser-thin virty desktops
- Facebook's Zuckerberg awarded privacy patent
- Apple seeks whopping $2.525bn Samsung patent payout
- Cray bags $21m Cascade super deal down under
- US Justice Dept rejects criticisms of ebook settlements
- Santander's banking website craps out
- Russian cargoship fluffs Space Station docking test
- Months later, Gamigo hacker takes dozy dump, exposes 8 million
- Storage top dog EMC shows off swollen Q2 profits
- Sharp mulls mass layoffs amid $1.28bn loss fears
- Cisco's $5bn telly encryption biz gobble wins EU blessing
- Apple wins EU-wide Samsung Galaxy Tab 7.7 ban
- EC probes 13 resellers over global optical disc drive CARTEL
- Sony delays micro-PS3 and colours current crop
- Postgres-on-steroids wields bare metal in Oracle, IBM skirmish
- Three punters' data use doubles
- Dell uncloaks trio of muscular mobile workstations
- LOHAN acquires mighty igniter arsenal
- Home Secretary to decide on McKinnon extradition by October
- Toshiba slices chip production by a third
- Virgin Media staves off cable punter seepage
- Brooks, Coulson to be CHARGED over phone-hacking
- Ofcom saves piece of 4G spectrum pie for '4th operator'
- Blizzard faces court battle for 'misleading Diablo III fans'
- X-IO builds million-dollar brick tower for Big Data players
- The Higgs boson search continues ... into ANOTHER dimension
- Non-volatile memory: It's nothing to SNIA at – NetApp
- UK Border Agency to create 'national allegations database'
- From virtualisation to private cloud
- 4G? Pah! Boffins charge up the dial to 5G data EXTREME-band kit
- Osborne accused of derailing UK.gov's green dream
- UK.gov warned: Halt exports of spyware to brutal regimes
- O2 attempts to muscle in on voucher biz with SME freebie scheme
- HTC disses Dr Dre by diluting Beats deal
- France: Forcing Google to police YouTube is a non-non
- Android 4.1 Jelly Bean review
- Foxconn plans massive plant in Indonesia
- GPS-equipped sheep prove herd mentality exists
- Vodafone Oz pulls claim of Android 4.1 emergency call problems
- Hong Kong IT pros gloomy about the future
- Anonymous hits Australia
- Sally Ride, trailblazing Shuttle astronaut, dies at 61
- Vodafone drops 178k customers in 6 months
- VMware: More revenue now from services than software
- ‘Printed boat’ places second in novelty race
- Australians receive SMS death threats
- Time for Victoria to adapt, says Climate Commission
| Juniper disappointed by skittish service providers Posted: 24 Jul 2012 03:14 PM PDT Gets in bed with Riverbed for optimizationSwitch and router maker Juniper Networks, like rival Cisco Systems, has been adversely impacted by the skittish economy and has now been rattled by VMware's $1.26bn acquisition of network virtualizer Nicira. The conversation will quickly shift from what Juniper is doing to get an edge on Cisco to what it is going to do to blunt the attack by VMware.… |
| Google asks YouTube commenters to stand up and be counted Posted: 24 Jul 2012 02:44 PM PDT New option asks for user's IDGoogle has altered the comments system on YouTube to encourage those who wish to share their views to step up and identify themselves.… |
| Apple misses earnings targets, Street reacts Posted: 24 Jul 2012 02:12 PM PDT iPad sales up, but iPhone sales slip big-timeApple has released its earnings report for the third quarter of its 2012 fiscal year, and its numbers have come in well below most Wall Street moneymen's projections – largely, it seems, on a steep quarter-to-quarter drop in iPhone sales.… |
| Pano does browser-thin virty desktops Posted: 24 Jul 2012 12:56 PM PDT Chrome is the only thing you need in a SaaS-y worldFor some end users, giving them a PC is like giving them a sports car when all they really need is a bike and a helmet – a fact of life that Pano Logic, a maker of desktop virtualization tools, aims to capitalize on.… |
| Facebook's Zuckerberg awarded privacy patent Posted: 24 Jul 2012 12:18 PM PDT No one can summarize your settings like he canMark Zuckerberg cares about your Facebook privacy settings. He cares about them so much, in fact, that he's patented a method of finding out what they are.… |
| Apple seeks whopping $2.525bn Samsung patent payout Posted: 24 Jul 2012 11:19 AM PDT Could start tablet tax on anyone using rounded rectanglesIt looks as though scheduled talks between Apple and Samsung CEOs to discuss damages for patent infringement were doomed to failure from the start, as court filings show Apple is demanding $2.525bn in costs and penalties for the use of its fondleslab and smartphone designs.… |
| Cray bags $21m Cascade super deal down under Posted: 24 Jul 2012 10:37 AM PDT Xeon, Xeon Phi hybrid to do radio astronomySupercomputer maker Cray has bagged a $21m contract to supply the Perth, Australia, Pawsey Centre for supercomputing which will be used to run simulations for geology, life sciences, and nanotechnology research, as well as support radio-astronomy workloads that are the organization's main work.… |
| US Justice Dept rejects criticisms of ebook settlements Posted: 24 Jul 2012 09:32 AM PDT Apple and hundreds of other complainants are wrongThe US Department of Justice has hit back at criticisms of its ebook case against Apple and five major publishers, saying its critics either don't understand or are just looking out for themselves.… |
| Santander's banking website craps out Posted: 24 Jul 2012 09:26 AM PDT Did it melt in Blighty's soaring temperatures?Santander's banking website has been up and down today like a demented frog, forcing punters to hotfoot it to bricks-and-mortar branches.… |
| Russian cargoship fluffs Space Station docking test Posted: 24 Jul 2012 09:04 AM PDT Performance anxiety for new automated systemRussian cargoship Progress M-15M has failed to couple with the International Space Station in a test of its new automated docking system.… |
| Months later, Gamigo hacker takes dozy dump, exposes 8 million Posted: 24 Jul 2012 08:37 AM PDT Slow post-breach leak for login credentials fileMore than eight million email addresses, usernames and password hashes from German gaming website Gamigo have been dumped online, months after the site was hacked.… |
| Storage top dog EMC shows off swollen Q2 profits Posted: 24 Jul 2012 08:22 AM PDT But full-year outlook remains the sameNetworked storage appears to have given EMC a boost, after the storage giant declared another solid set of results, with revenues and profit in its second 2012 quarter increasing on both an annual and a sequential basis. There was no visible sign of any wider economic issues restricting the company's performance.… |
| Sharp mulls mass layoffs amid $1.28bn loss fears Posted: 24 Jul 2012 08:03 AM PDT Price-fix settlement kicks LCD biz while it's downSharp may consider laying off thousands of workers and flogging some of its Tokyo offices as losses swell.… |
| Cisco's $5bn telly encryption biz gobble wins EU blessing Posted: 24 Jul 2012 07:44 AM PDT NDS acquisition approved after competition probeNetworking giant Cisco's $5bn takeover of pay-TV software maker NDS was approved by Brussels' competition officials today.… |
| Apple wins EU-wide Samsung Galaxy Tab 7.7 ban Posted: 24 Jul 2012 07:16 AM PDT Not ALL German courts are loving Cupertino though...A German court sided with Apple today and agreed that Samsung's Galaxy Tab 7.7 infringes iPad design patents, granting Cupertino permission to push for a European Union-wide ban.… |
| EC probes 13 resellers over global optical disc drive CARTEL Posted: 24 Jul 2012 06:56 AM PDT Fingered for bid-riggingThirteen optical disc drive resellers are being investigated by the EU on its suspicions that the firms may have broken antitrust laws and artificially suppressed the price they paid for the drives.… |
| Sony delays micro-PS3 and colours current crop Posted: 24 Jul 2012 06:45 AM PDT Hue what?Sony has its hands full with PlayStation this week, discussing its top-loading PS3 release and unveiling three 'limited edition' PlayStation 3s, now available in current design with red, silver and white casing.… |
| Postgres-on-steroids wields bare metal in Oracle, IBM skirmish Posted: 24 Jul 2012 06:26 AM PDT TransLattice's database doesn't need no stinkin' OSDistributed database provider TransLattice is taking the fight to Oracle and IBM: it's breaking its TransLattice Elastic Database, or TED, free of its database appliances and selling it on bare metal or virtual machine instances.… |
| Three punters' data use doubles Posted: 24 Jul 2012 06:15 AM PDT Most rock through a gigMobile customers now consume double the amount of data than they did last year, says Three.… |
| Dell uncloaks trio of muscular mobile workstations Posted: 24 Jul 2012 06:00 AM PDT Two no-nonsense workhorses and one 'shiny object'Dell has introduced a trio of new Precision Mobile Workstations, with the 17-inch top-of-the-line models offering such goodies as Intel Core i7 Extreme processors, 32GB of 1866MHz RAM, Nvidia 3D Vision Pro technology, a raft of graphics-chippery choices hooked up via third-generation PCIe x16, and four storage bays that support RAID 0, 1, and 5.… |
| LOHAN acquires mighty igniter arsenal Posted: 24 Jul 2012 05:47 AM PDT |
| Home Secretary to decide on McKinnon extradition by October Posted: 24 Jul 2012 05:28 AM PDT Scots sysadmin waits to hear if he'll face NASA hacking charges in the USThe UK Home Secretary is due to decide by mid-October whether or not to order Gary McKinnon's extradition to the US, a hearing at the High Court heard on Tuesday.… |
| Toshiba slices chip production by a third Posted: 24 Jul 2012 05:02 AM PDT Japanese NAND warrior shrinks with falling pricesToshiba, the world's second-biggest NAND chip-maker, has announced a 30 per cent cut in flash memory chip production today to respond to market oversupply, declining prices and losses at the firm.… |
| Virgin Media staves off cable punter seepage Posted: 24 Jul 2012 04:47 AM PDT 14,700 subscribers fled, sales still above £1bn in Q2Virgin Media told the City this morning that it lost 14,700 cable punters during its second quarter ended 30 June.… |
| Brooks, Coulson to be CHARGED over phone-hacking Posted: 24 Jul 2012 04:27 AM PDT Eight suspects face 'realistic prospect of conviction', says CPSRupert Murdoch's one-time right-hand woman Rebekah Brooks, and Prime Minister David Cameron's ex-spin chief Andy Coulson, face "a realistic prospect of conviction" of alleged phone-hacking offences, the Crown Prosecution Service said this morning.… |
| Ofcom saves piece of 4G spectrum pie for '4th operator' Posted: 24 Jul 2012 03:55 AM PDT Three could disturb Big 3's threesome when auction starts at end of 2012UK regulator Ofcom said today that the spectrum auction for 4G services would start on time at the end of this year, although actual bidding won't start until early in 2013, and it's holding back a chunk of the spectrum from the big three operators.… |
| Blizzard faces court battle for 'misleading Diablo III fans' Posted: 24 Jul 2012 03:45 AM PDT Think outside the game's box, demands German watchdogBlizzard faces a court showdown unless it agrees to change its Diablo III packaging to better reflect the role-playing game's online requirements.… |
| X-IO builds million-dollar brick tower for Big Data players Posted: 24 Jul 2012 03:31 AM PDT ISE Station X: 10-enclosure stack rack for cloudy punters, data centresX-IO aiming for the serious data-swillers with its latest piece of kit: the ISE Station X. It's 10 ISE enclosures stacked in a rack, all ready to rock and roll.… |
| The Higgs boson search continues ... into ANOTHER dimension Posted: 24 Jul 2012 03:02 AM PDT CERN physicist drills into mirror universe theorySpecial report Now that all the fanfare over the sighting of a Higgs-like boson in the Large Hadron Collider has died down, CERN scientists have a few burning questions about the spotted particle.… |
| Non-volatile memory: It's nothing to SNIA at – NetApp Posted: 24 Jul 2012 02:42 AM PDT 'Storage class memory' could soon outclass NAND FlashA non-volatile memory technical workgroup has been set up by the Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA) and NetApp's canned quote on the move sheds a bit more light on the Sunnyvale storage giant's flash thinking. From the wording, it would seem that the storage firm is preparing for its arrays to move fast data storage into external solid state cards and boxes.… |
| UK Border Agency to create 'national allegations database' Posted: 24 Jul 2012 02:24 AM PDT What could POSSIBLY go wrong?The home affairs committee has welcomed plans by the UK Border Agency (UKBA) to create a National Allegations Database to manage information provided by the public on possible immigration violations.… |
| From virtualisation to private cloud Posted: 24 Jul 2012 02:09 AM PDT Small steps to big resultsThere is an assumption, which has been repeated over and over, that private cloud naturally follows on from virtualisation activities. As such it has almost become accepted as inevitable, particularly amongst the IT vendors, that the way to improve IT effectiveness, agility and efficiency is to implement a private cloud. To top it off, the discussion is often airbrushed to make it seem like it's a no-brainer and that it is all smooth sailing.… |
| 4G? Pah! Boffins charge up the dial to 5G data EXTREME-band kit Posted: 24 Jul 2012 01:44 AM PDT The wide open bands where a man can breathe freeA project headed by New York University has scored $2m to fund research into 80GHz radio, as a potential home for 5G in the spectrum land rush up the dial.… |
| Osborne accused of derailing UK.gov's green dream Posted: 24 Jul 2012 01:17 AM PDT Energy law 'will only work if Treasury stumps up cash'The UK Treasury is accused of dropping an oil slick in the way of the government's Energy Bill, a draft law to lower carbon use and make Blighty more energy efficient.… |
| UK.gov warned: Halt exports of spyware to brutal regimes Posted: 24 Jul 2012 01:02 AM PDT Or see Privacy International in courtThe grubby practice of allowing UK-stamped surveillance tech to be shipped to brutal regimes could land the British government in court to answer allegations of aiding human rights breaches.… |
| O2 attempts to muscle in on voucher biz with SME freebie scheme Posted: 24 Jul 2012 12:27 AM PDT You get ads, we get the simple joy of being your friendsO2 is opening its Priority Moments service to any business with an O2 phone, letting one-man-bands offer vouchers to O2 customers just like the big boys can.… |
| HTC disses Dr Dre by diluting Beats deal Posted: 24 Jul 2012 12:03 AM PDT Reduces investment in hip hop headset houseTaiwanese handset maker HTC has pulled around half of its stake in Beats Electronics, the audio kit maker co-founded by US hip hop star Dr Dre, less than a year after buying a 51 per cent majority share in the company.… |
| France: Forcing Google to police YouTube is a non-non Posted: 24 Jul 2012 12:02 AM PDT No need to hunt down re-posted copyrighted stuffGoogle does not have to proactively remove copyright infringing content that has been re-posted on YouTube because such a measure would breach EU law, France's highest court has ruled.… |
| Posted: 24 Jul 2012 12:00 AM PDT Google's mobile upgrade chewed overOnly eight months have passed since I took a shufti at Ice Cream Sandwich, back then it was the new version 4.0 of the Android operating system for mobile devices. A few days ago, my |
| Foxconn plans massive plant in Indonesia Posted: 23 Jul 2012 11:52 PM PDT Apple ODM set to expand outside of ChinaControversial hardware maker Foxconn looks set to expand its manufacturing empire outside of China by getting down to work on a 1,000 hectare site in Indonesia, which the government there hopes will be the first of a $10bn investment in the country.… |
| GPS-equipped sheep prove herd mentality exists Posted: 23 Jul 2012 11:48 PM PDT Woolly thinking helps tight-knit groups of animals to surviveBritish Boffins from Cambridge, University College London and The Royal Veterinary College have used an Australian farm to research flocking behaviour in herd animals and feel they have validated theories about how herds of animals protect themselves from predators.… |
| Vodafone Oz pulls claim of Android 4.1 emergency call problems Posted: 23 Jul 2012 11:25 PM PDT Blog post down, eyebrows upA blog post from Vodafone Australia alleging a bug in the latest version of Android has been pulled, casting doubt on its claims that emergency calls may not work on the new Jelly Bean edition of Google's mobile OS.… |
| Hong Kong IT pros gloomy about the future Posted: 23 Jul 2012 10:53 PM PDT Asia still worth a punt for wannabe-expatsIT pros in Hong Kong are the least optimistic about their job prospects of all professionals, as Asia's financial services hub struggles to adapt to continued global economic instability, according to a leading recruiter.… |
| Posted: 23 Jul 2012 10:33 PM PDT State government web sites defaced and taken down over data retention policyPeople operating under the name "Anonymous" claim to have defaced several websites in the Australian state of Queensland, in protest against draft Australian policies on data retention.… |
| Sally Ride, trailblazing Shuttle astronaut, dies at 61 Posted: 23 Jul 2012 06:23 PM PDT First American woman in spaceSally Ride, the first female American in space, has died at the age of 61 after a 17-month battle with pancreatic cancer.… |
| Vodafone drops 178k customers in 6 months Posted: 23 Jul 2012 05:39 PM PDT Hard to shake the Vodafail sagaThe Vodafone Hutchison Australia (VHA) union continues to be plagued by customer leakage, after the company's recent results saw it admit 178,000 users abandoned the carrier in the last six months.… |
| VMware: More revenue now from services than software Posted: 23 Jul 2012 05:12 PM PDT Profits dip, but past license sales rake in cash for servicesServer virtualization juggernaut VMware wasn't resting on its hypervisor laurels in the second quarter, but it certainly did benefit on the uptake and renewal of services on already installed sales to meet its revenue growth targets.… |
| ‘Printed boat’ places second in novelty race Posted: 23 Jul 2012 04:59 PM PDT Getting serious with 3D printingA student club from the University of Washington has not only used 3D printing to build a boat – it's taken the boat to second place in the university's annual Milk Carton Derby at Seattle's Green Lake.… |
| Australians receive SMS death threats Posted: 23 Jul 2012 04:43 PM PDT Police point out hitmen are not actually chasing you, ergo cannot be bought offHundreds of Australians have received unsolicited TXT messages in which their imminent demise is predicted, along with an offer to avoid a hitman's gunsights if they fork over some hard-earned.… |
| Time for Victoria to adapt, says Climate Commission Posted: 23 Jul 2012 04:05 PM PDT Urges state to bite the bullet on solarClimate change is already affecting rainfall in the Australian state of Victoria, according to Australia's Climate Commission which is therefore advocating a range of mitigation and adaptation measures. Among the suggestions contained in the Climate Commission's report, Victorian climate impacts and opportunities is the suggestion that the state could already supply all of its energy needs with solar energy.… |
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