Microsoft hires hippy to lecture resellers on being nice to the world |
- Microsoft hires hippy to lecture resellers on being nice to the world
- Google pushing Jelly Bean updates to Android devices
- DOE doles out cash to AMD, Whamcloud for exascale research
- The Great TLC flash cash-slash: Coming soon to tablets, Ultrabooks
- Kindle Fire adds APIs for cloudy gaming features
- Microsoft promises resellers bumper 2013 with total line-up refresh
- Oil the wheels of virtualisation with 802.1Qbg
- IBM lets fly single-socket Power7 Penguin server
- Hadoop's little buddy Nutch 2.0 gulps down web's big data
- Formspring springs a leak: 28 MILLION passwords reset after raid
- O2, GiffGaff network goes titsup for unlucky punters
- All-in-one PCs: bright star of the desktop biz, says analyst
- Speaking in Tech: Will big biz swallow the seven-inch tablet?
- Microsoft drags 9 resellers to court in fresh piracy blitz
- Chemical giant foils infected USB stick espionage bid
- UK's brazen copyright land grab sneaked into Enterprise Bill
- UK.gov to clear way for Britain's first SPACEPORT
- US mulls outlawing rival product bans using standards patents
- Microsoft tightens squeeze on TechNet parasites
- Can neighbours grab your sensitive package, asks Post Office
- LOHAN fizzles forlornly in REHAB
- Android games console scheme nets $2.5m
- 'Proud' RIM supremo survives shareholder showdown
- Dixons: Brits to get iPad Mini, Kindle Fire for Xmas
- Minister of Fun bends Ofcom's ear on Freeview-4G knockout
- iPad Mini maquette spied on web
- Fujitsu QUITS bid for superfast broadband gov funds
- MS squashes 0day bug in July Patch Tuesday
- IBM database strategy chief on DB2: Devs are people too
- Ebuyer on the naughty step for fondleslab promo cock-up
- Fusion-io server strokers show off 2.6TB RAM extension
- Retina MacBook Pro nukes Apple's green credentials
- Top spook: ISP black boxes NOT key to UK's web-snoop plan
- New electronic labels squeal to spare you from food poisoning
- Watch out, Apple: HTC ruling could hurt your patent income
- Multi-platform exploit sniffs your OS, penetrates your back door
- WTF is... WiGig
- ICO: Nearly HALF all FOI complaints are about local councils
- Gaping 'open data' loophole could leave your privates on display
- China's censors move to stamp out sex and violence online
- Apple's new iPad set for July 20 China launch
- Zeebox lands in Aus with a click from Ten
- Oracle acquisition gets Larry more Involver(ed) with Facebook
- Stealthy Big Switch plugs into OpenStack clouds
- Smartphone-wielding Obamaniacs trounce Romney in poll
- Geek darling GitHub nabs $100m investment
- Oz asteroid-hunt at risk as NASA cuts funding
- Quanta taps Mellanox for snappy interconnects
- Websense boosts defenses against spear-phishing, data theft
| Microsoft hires hippy to lecture resellers on being nice to the world Posted: 11 Jul 2012 01:24 PM PDT Deepak Chopra touts new age cures for world problemsThe third day's keynote at the Worldwide Partners Conference is always a tough act. The night before is generally a time to party, and no one in the IT community parties harder than resellers. So 9am is not a good time for them to show Microsoft some love.… |
| Google pushing Jelly Bean updates to Android devices Posted: 11 Jul 2012 01:21 PM PDT Or one device, anyway, with three more to comeGoogle is pushing out the Android 4.1 "Jelly Bean" upgrade on Wednesday, but only to customers who have the unlocked version of the Samsung-built Galaxy Nexus mobile.… |
| DOE doles out cash to AMD, Whamcloud for exascale research Posted: 11 Jul 2012 01:10 PM PDT Pushing compute, memory, and I/O to the limitsThe US Department of Energy used its massive budget to push supercomputers to gigaflops, teraflops, and petaflops in the prior three decades and it is being tasked to put the pedal to the exaflops metal before the end of this decade.… |
| The Great TLC flash cash-slash: Coming soon to tablets, Ultrabooks Posted: 11 Jul 2012 12:13 PM PDT Super-dense storage tech moves towards 20K cyclesSMART recently announced that its controller technology, the Guardian Technology Platform, could get MLC flash to do 50 full drive writes/day for five years. Now SMART's president has said 1Xnm TLC could be driven to 15,000 to 20,000 PE cycles using SMART's Guardian controller technology, representing a 30X - 40X increase – implying 10-11 FULL DRIVE WRITES a day for five years...… |
| Kindle Fire adds APIs for cloudy gaming features Posted: 11 Jul 2012 11:49 AM PDT Preparing for global war with Google, Apple this ChristmasAmazon has beefed up gaming on its Android-based Kindle Fire platform, in hopes that adding cloudy goodness will help bolster the device in the upcoming fondleslab wars.… |
| Microsoft promises resellers bumper 2013 with total line-up refresh Posted: 11 Jul 2012 11:28 AM PDT $12bn up for grabs by April 2014WPC 2012 Microsoft closed down its Worldwide Partners Conference in Toronto with a promise that the coming year will provide the best year yet for its resellers, with a complete refresh of its ecosystem to restore Redmond's future.… |
| Oil the wheels of virtualisation with 802.1Qbg Posted: 11 Jul 2012 11:18 AM PDT The magic of protocols |
| IBM lets fly single-socket Power7 Penguin server Posted: 11 Jul 2012 10:01 AM PDT Yellow stripe, big price cut, Linux onlyBig Blue has launched a third Power-powered Penguin box and pitched it against x86 server rivals.… |
| Hadoop's little buddy Nutch 2.0 gulps down web's big data Posted: 11 Jul 2012 09:32 AM PDT Apache projects unitedHadoop daddy Doug Cutting's Nutch, the open-source web-search engine written in Java, has been updated to crawl through piles of big data on the web.… |
| Formspring springs a leak: 28 MILLION passwords reset after raid Posted: 11 Jul 2012 08:55 AM PDT At least OUR hashes were salted, says CEOFormspring has told its 28 million users to change their passwords following the discovery of a security breach.… |
| O2, GiffGaff network goes titsup for unlucky punters Posted: 11 Jul 2012 08:41 AM PDT Some phones working, others down in outage lotteryParts of the O2 network have fallen over leaving punters unable to make calls, send texts or surf the web from their gadgets.… |
| All-in-one PCs: bright star of the desktop biz, says analyst Posted: 11 Jul 2012 08:37 AM PDT Saving the market - or re-arranging Titanic deckchairs?World+Dog will buy - or, rather, the planet's PC makers will produce and ship - some 16.4m all-in-one computers.… |
| Speaking in Tech: Will big biz swallow the seven-inch tablet? Posted: 11 Jul 2012 08:29 AM PDT Plus: The 'death' of social media |
| Microsoft drags 9 resellers to court in fresh piracy blitz Posted: 11 Jul 2012 08:04 AM PDT New PCs 'sold with illegal copies of Windows'Microsoft has its sights trained on another bunch of Chinese software pirates, this time pitting its formidable resources against nine resellers it said installed illegal copies of Windows onto PCs they sold.… |
| Chemical giant foils infected USB stick espionage bid Posted: 11 Jul 2012 07:27 AM PDT Malware-laden drive falls into the right handsAn attempt to infiltrate the corporate systems of Dutch chemical giant DSM by leaving malware-riddled USB sticks in the corporation's car park has failed.… |
| UK's brazen copyright land grab sneaked into Enterprise Bill Posted: 11 Jul 2012 07:03 AM PDT Committee 'ordered to rubber-stamp' rights shakeupAnalysis A huge expansion of bureaucratic power over UK copyright has been smuggled quietly into draft legislation – giving civil servants the ability to sweep away copyright protection by statutory instrument rather than primary legislation.… |
| UK.gov to clear way for Britain's first SPACEPORT Posted: 11 Jul 2012 06:29 AM PDT Science minister dreams of skies filled with spaceplanesThe UK government is trying to open up the skies to revolutionary new spaceplanes and other such craft like Reaction Engines' Skylon.… |
| US mulls outlawing rival product bans using standards patents Posted: 11 Jul 2012 06:02 AM PDT Congress probes essential designs used to win injunctionsThe US Congress is holding a hearing today to consider whether companies that own standards-essential patents (SEP) should be allowed to use them to get sales and import bans on their rivals' products.… |
| Microsoft tightens squeeze on TechNet parasites Posted: 11 Jul 2012 05:44 AM PDT Oi cheapskates, just buy the bloody softwareMicrosoft is restricting the software available on IT-pro hangout TechNet to thwart illegal use of its gear.… |
| Can neighbours grab your sensitive package, asks Post Office Posted: 11 Jul 2012 05:21 AM PDT By Christmas you'll know if next-door trusts youThe Post Office has asked for permission to drop parcels and recorded delivery letters with a neighbour, so Ofcom wants to know if you're OK with that.… |
| LOHAN fizzles forlornly in REHAB Posted: 11 Jul 2012 05:04 AM PDT Rocket motors feel the lack of pressureIt's been a lively couple of days down at the Special Projects Bureau, with the first of our Rocketry Experimental High Altitude Barosimulator (REHAB) experiments, designed to determine whether solid propellant rocket motors will fire under simulated high altitude conditions.… |
| Android games console scheme nets $2.5m Posted: 11 Jul 2012 04:46 AM PDT Free to play, sort ofOuya, the tablet-spec games console being pitched at Android hackers, has netted pledges of almost $2.5m in its first round of funding, organised through Kickstarter.… |
| 'Proud' RIM supremo survives shareholder showdown Posted: 11 Jul 2012 04:43 AM PDT Board reelected, stock tumblesResearch in Motion faced some seriously ticked off shareholders at its annual general meeting yesterday, who received little in the way of comfort from the BlackBerry-maker's board.… |
| Dixons: Brits to get iPad Mini, Kindle Fire for Xmas Posted: 11 Jul 2012 04:19 AM PDT Crystal balls up?Our generous gift of the oxygen of publicity today goes out to Dixons, which this morning forecast that Brits will be able to buy not only Amazon's Kindle Fire but also a "mystery" Apple product by Christmas.… |
| Minister of Fun bends Ofcom's ear on Freeview-4G knockout Posted: 11 Jul 2012 04:19 AM PDT Open letter backs watchdog on operator bribesCulture minister Ed Vaizey has published an open letter to Ofcom broadly supporting the regulator's efforts to mitigate disruption to Freeview by next-gen mobile broadband.… |
| iPad Mini maquette spied on web Posted: 11 Jul 2012 04:04 AM PDT Sculptured slabWhat's claimed to be an engineering mock-up of the upcoming 'iPad Mini' has appeared on the web.… |
| Fujitsu QUITS bid for superfast broadband gov funds Posted: 11 Jul 2012 03:56 AM PDT BT left as sole provider, but hey - who needs competition?Fujitsu has walked away from bidding for a slice of the £530m Broadband Delivery UK (BDUK) pie that the government set aside to improve the country's broadband network.… |
| MS squashes 0day bug in July Patch Tuesday Posted: 11 Jul 2012 03:38 AM PDT Patches under-attack XML Core Services flaw in Flame-proof updateMicrosoft has patched an under-attack zero-day vulnerability in XML Core Services as part of the July edition of Patch Tuesday.… |
| IBM database strategy chief on DB2: Devs are people too Posted: 11 Jul 2012 03:19 AM PDT Big Blue looks beyond DBAs for input on featuresDevelopers are exerting greater influence on new versions of IBM's DB2 database, according to one of Big Blue's information management strategy chiefs.… |
| Ebuyer on the naughty step for fondleslab promo cock-up Posted: 11 Jul 2012 03:03 AM PDT ASA told 'it was the new guy's fault'Ebuyer has been rapped for a "misleading" tablet promotion and ordered not to repeat similar claims of cost savings in future.… |
| Fusion-io server strokers show off 2.6TB RAM extension Posted: 11 Jul 2012 02:31 AM PDT Is that a PCIe card in your socket or are you just pleased to see me?Fusion-io and Princeton University boffins have used a PCIe flash drive to virtually extend a server's main memory into the terabytes.… |
| Retina MacBook Pro nukes Apple's green credentials Posted: 11 Jul 2012 02:16 AM PDT Eco body urges hippies to return Foxconn-marketer's gearThe tightly packed new Apple MacBook Pro prevents the laptop from meeting requirements laid down by eco-friendly technology catalogue EPEAT.… |
| Top spook: ISP black boxes NOT key to UK's web-snoop plan Posted: 11 Jul 2012 01:55 AM PDT We fully expect Google, Facebook and Twitter to hand over your dataGovernment-funded black boxes that monitor the UK's internet traffic are not "the cornerstone" of the Home Office's web super-snoop plan, a top spook has told MPs and peers.… |
| New electronic labels squeal to spare you from food poisoning Posted: 11 Jul 2012 01:39 AM PDT No more nights on the porcelain thronePackaging giant Bemis and Norway's ThinFilm will print sticky labels capable of monitoring and remembering the conditions in which their attached goods have been stored.… |
| Watch out, Apple: HTC ruling could hurt your patent income Posted: 11 Jul 2012 01:19 AM PDT You might want to reconsider chasing patents that dissolve in court – expertApple may review its patent licensing and enforcement strategy in light of a ruling by the UK's High Court last week, an expert has said.… |
| Multi-platform exploit sniffs your OS, penetrates your back door Posted: 11 Jul 2012 01:02 AM PDT Offers tasty applet to fanbois, beardies, Win users alikeCybercrooks have begun deploying a web exploit which detects whether the victim is running Windows, Mac OS or Linux before firing an appropriate Trojan.… |
| Posted: 11 Jul 2012 12:30 AM PDT Wireless wonder to soup up networks, kill USB, HDMI cables?Feature It's now more than two years since the Wireless Gigabit Alliance (WGA) released the first full version of its 7Gb/s would-be next-gen Wi-Fi technology. There's been some activity in the intervening 26 months, including the first big multi-vendor interoperability test, but the second of these "plugfests" has only now taken place.… |
| ICO: Nearly HALF all FOI complaints are about local councils Posted: 11 Jul 2012 12:04 AM PDT Even central gov's hefty heap can't competeThe Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) received 1,922 freedom of information complaints about local authorities in 2011-12, accounting for 43 per cent of the total number of complaints, according to the watchdog's latest annual report.… |
| Gaping 'open data' loophole could leave your privates on display Posted: 10 Jul 2012 11:32 PM PDT Gov's white paper calls open season on enforced subject access*Comment The government has just published its ideas for allowing general access to data, which includes the intention to grant individuals online access to their own personal data. In general, I support this measure but sadly, the Open Data White Paper (PDF) has not even considered that it has widened the privacy problems associated with "enforced subject access"*.… |
| China's censors move to stamp out sex and violence online Posted: 10 Jul 2012 09:02 PM PDT Save the children from the Grass Mud Horse!China's shadowy army of government censors have turned their attention to online video with strict new guidelines set to further curb freedom of expression on the internet.… |
| Apple's new iPad set for July 20 China launch Posted: 10 Jul 2012 08:30 PM PDT Scalpers prick up their earsScalpers take note: Apple's long-awaited shiny new iPad will finally launch in mainland China as of 20 July.… |
| Zeebox lands in Aus with a click from Ten Posted: 10 Jul 2012 07:43 PM PDT Second screen dollars set to roll inIPTV guru Anthony Rose has officially launched his new social TV platform zeebox in Australia in a joint-venture with Network Ten. Australia is the third market destination for zeebox after launching in it's HQ of the UK last year and most recently in the US.… |
| Oracle acquisition gets Larry more Involver(ed) with Facebook Posted: 10 Jul 2012 05:31 PM PDT Bags tools to help marketeers become your BFFsOracle is about to gain millions of fans – by buying software that powers Facebook fan pages. On Tuesday the database giant announced it would acquire Involver, a social-media software company, for an undisclosed sum.… |
| Stealthy Big Switch plugs into OpenStack clouds Posted: 10 Jul 2012 04:50 PM PDT Floodlight OpenFlow control-freaks virty networksBig Switch Networks is not even out of stealth mode and has not yet revealed its aspirations and products for software defined networks – SDNs, in modern parlance – and yet the company is nonetheless contributing to the open source efforts to build more flexible and virtual network infrastructure and hoping to build awareness ahead of its eventual launch.… |
| Smartphone-wielding Obamaniacs trounce Romney in poll Posted: 10 Jul 2012 04:22 PM PDT If only iPhone and Android users could vote, November 6 would be a routWith the US presidential election less than four months away, it's high time for the opening of the Silly Season™ of polls and surveys – such as the one released by mobile marketing and advertising firm Velti, which claims that if only iPhone and Android-device owners could vote, Barack Obama would trounce Mitt Romney in a landslide.… |
| Geek darling GitHub nabs $100m investment Posted: 10 Jul 2012 04:21 PM PDT Wants to become the Facebook for software developersSoftware developers aren't always known as the most social of creatures, but the venture capital firm of Andreessen Horowitz is betting big that the social networking craze will be a cash cow even among hardcore geeks.… |
| Oz asteroid-hunt at risk as NASA cuts funding Posted: 10 Jul 2012 04:18 PM PDT ANU offers only interim fix: reportA near-Earth object search described as the Southern Hemisphere's only asteroid survey is under threat because of NASA funding cuts, according to The Canberra Times.… |
| Quanta taps Mellanox for snappy interconnects Posted: 10 Jul 2012 04:13 PM PDT Storming America with whitebox serversQuanta QCT, the server and storage manufacturing arm of $37bn Taiwanese giant Quanta Computer, is teaming up with Mellanox Technologies to weave its network gadgetry into its various wares as it takes on the whitebox incumbents here in the United States.… |
| Websense boosts defenses against spear-phishing, data theft Posted: 10 Jul 2012 03:54 PM PDT Also improves email securityWebsense has added a slew of new defenses with the launched of Triton v7.7, which it says are designed to prevent the advanced data-theft attacks that have emerged as spear-phishing becomes more sophisticated.… |
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