Nutter bans Apple purchases over environmental fudging |
- Nutter bans Apple purchases over environmental fudging
- Megaupload's founder downloads on Hollywood
- Racketeering suit filed over smut-piracy charges
- DarkComet creator kills Trojan tool after Syrian police abuse
- Intel pops $4.1bn to save Moore's Law from repeal
- Aluratek, Coby license Microsoft patents for Android
- VMware weaves Oracle databases into vFabric Data Director
- Anonymous vows to wipe web clean of child abuse scum
- Cabinet Office names bean counter as chief buyer
- Microsoft to lob out Windows Server 2012 by September
- Finnish boffins don tinfoil hats, admit Northern Lights are noisy
- Cut'n'paste UK launch for cut-price Motorola Android
- Sharp bungs Dell and pals $198m to silence TFT price-fix spat
- Bondholders: US firm's 'rescue' offer for Elpida is CHEAP
- Phishers jailed for lifting over £300k from student loan applicants
- LCD to have killed all* other TV technologies by 2016
- WD: HDD prices won't fall to pre-flood levels until 2013
- RIM: Maybe we can't flog BlackBerrys, but would you like a jet?
- Beyond MapReduce: Hadoop hangs on
- Ballmer plays down sales impact of Surface
- Google fattens up Android devs with Jelly Bean sauce
- Climate was HOTTER in Roman, medieval times than now: Study
- Salesforce goes titsup, causes CRM outages worldwide
- Quantum just can't seal the deals, slides deeper into red
- Level 3's UPS burnout sends websites down in flames
- Google expected to cough measly $22.5m for Safari privacy gaffe
- Google Nexus 7 Android tablet
- 50 years in SPAAAAACE: Telstar celebrates half-century since launch
- How to screw LIBOR and alienate people
- EMC unveils new Networker tool, thrusts it into clouds
- Atos IT workers threaten strike during Olympics over 'living wage'
- Gov: How can renewable power peddlers take on UK's Big 6?
- Cerner questions Epic win for Cambridge patient records
- KIT drives off with memory win: 1-bit-per-MOLECULE storage
- Being a skinny is much more unhealthy than being fat – new study
- Museum of Computing recognised as PROPER MUSEUM
- Apple boss Cook may have stumped up $60m IPAD pay-out
- Chinese smartphone shipments outstripping feature phones
- Anonymous hack hands WikiLeaks TWO MILLION Syrian emails
- ACTA can't get its act together
- Pandora plays beta beats downunder
- Apple unveils tightened Mountain Lion requirements
- Facebook App Center goes global
- US law enforcement phone snooping on the rise
- Is the Higgs boson an imposter?
- Microsoft lures resellers with Office 365 perks and payments
- Magnetic cells put biologists in a spin
- Cyberoam pushes fix for SSL vuln
| Nutter bans Apple purchases over environmental fudging Posted: 10 Jul 2012 03:01 PM PDT San Francisco government says Apple not green enoughThe city authorities of San Francisco have banned departmental purchases of Apple hardware after Cupertino dropped out of the Electronic Product Environmental Assessment Tool (EPEAT) green-standards scheme.… |
| Megaupload's founder downloads on Hollywood Posted: 10 Jul 2012 02:42 PM PDT Extradition hearing delayed till MarchNew Zealand's Megaupload founder Kim Dotcom has dodged extradition to America until at least March 2013, following a New Zealand court's decision to delay the hearing.… |
| Racketeering suit filed over smut-piracy charges Posted: 10 Jul 2012 01:21 PM PDT Woman fights back against grumble-flicker's 'extortion'A Kentucky woman has started a class action suit against five pornography vendors after harassment over claims that she was downloading their content over BitTorrent.… |
| DarkComet creator kills Trojan tool after Syrian police abuse Posted: 10 Jul 2012 12:21 PM PDT RAT's all folksThe developer of DarkComet has quit further development of the controversial remote-access Trojan after it emerged that the technology was being used against Syrian dissidents.… |
| Intel pops $4.1bn to save Moore's Law from repeal Posted: 10 Jul 2012 12:13 PM PDT 'Shoots first' in deal with wafer-baker equipment-maker ASMLIntel will invest $4.1bn in ASML, widely regarded as the world's leading semiconductor-lithography equipment manufacturer, in an effort to keep Moore's Law alive and kicking for the foreseeable future.… |
| Aluratek, Coby license Microsoft patents for Android Posted: 10 Jul 2012 12:02 PM PDT Device makers join majority of Android vendors in paying tribute to RedmondTwo more makers of Android-powered devices have signed patent-licensing agreements with Microsoft, proving yet again that Windows Phone doesn't need to match Android's sales for Microsoft to eat part of its lunch.… |
| VMware weaves Oracle databases into vFabric Data Director Posted: 10 Jul 2012 09:34 AM PDT Leisure Suite LarryWhen VMware tuned the open-source PostgreSQL 9 database for its ESXi 5.0 hypervisor in the vFabric Spring Java framework, it knew it had to do more to make a convincing production database.… |
| Anonymous vows to wipe web clean of child abuse scum Posted: 10 Jul 2012 09:10 AM PDT 'For the good of mankind, and for our own enjoyment'Sections of Anonymous have once again turned their ire towards online sites frequented by child abusers.… |
| Cabinet Office names bean counter as chief buyer Posted: 10 Jul 2012 09:08 AM PDT Former Accenture man Crothers as chief procurement officerThe Cabinet Office has anointed a bean counter to the role of Chief Procurement Officer, it confirmed today.… |
| Microsoft to lob out Windows Server 2012 by September Posted: 10 Jul 2012 08:58 AM PDT VMware v Redmond: Now it's personalWPC 2012 Microsoft is releasing Windows Server 2012 a month ahead of Windows 8 and will be aggressively promoting it against virtualisation rival VMware.… |
| Finnish boffins don tinfoil hats, admit Northern Lights are noisy Posted: 10 Jul 2012 08:33 AM PDT Aurora borealis makes a 'clapping sound', claim researchersCranks who claimed that the aurora borealis makes a noise when it lights up the Northern sky have been proven right by science.… |
| Cut'n'paste UK launch for cut-price Motorola Android Posted: 10 Jul 2012 08:17 AM PDT Company 'droids speak identical linesMotorola's Motosmart budget Android is coming to Blighty, courtesy of T-Mobile, which will be offering the cut-price smartphone for £100 on PAYG.… |
| Sharp bungs Dell and pals $198m to silence TFT price-fix spat Posted: 10 Jul 2012 08:01 AM PDT That'll be one amazing expenses claimSharp has agreed to fork out $198.5m to make the TFT monitor price-fixing lawsuits go away.… |
| Bondholders: US firm's 'rescue' offer for Elpida is CHEAP Posted: 10 Jul 2012 07:32 AM PDT Micron's not paying enough ... see you in courtA group of Elpida Memory bondholders is trying to block the sale of the bankrupt DRAMurai to Micron because they claim the US firm isn't paying enough.… |
| Phishers jailed for lifting over £300k from student loan applicants Posted: 10 Jul 2012 07:25 AM PDT Met: Fraudsters' email scam pulled in bank detailsA UK-based phishing fraudster who netted an estimated £300K by targeting students was jailed for three-and-a-half years on Friday, London's Metropolitan Police confirmed.… |
| LCD to have killed all* other TV technologies by 2016 Posted: 10 Jul 2012 07:12 AM PDT *OLED excepted (if it's accepted)Bye-bye, plasma. Farewell, reverse projection. By 2016, the TV market will be a two-horse technology race: LED-backlit LCD and OLED.… |
| WD: HDD prices won't fall to pre-flood levels until 2013 Posted: 10 Jul 2012 07:02 AM PDT Biz, consumers still footing bill after Thai production went underwaterHard disk drive pricing may not tumble to pre-flooding levels until next year as consumers and businesses continue to foot the bill for reparation work, WD has claimed.… |
| RIM: Maybe we can't flog BlackBerrys, but would you like a jet? Posted: 10 Jul 2012 06:18 AM PDT Embattled execs may have to share just one planeBeleaguered mobile firm Research in Motion is really scraping the bottom of the barrel, and is looking to sell one of its two corporate jets to try to save some money.… |
| Beyond MapReduce: Hadoop hangs on Posted: 10 Jul 2012 06:03 AM PDT Tooling upOpen ... and Shut Hadoop is all the rage in enterprise computing, and has become the poster child for the big-data movement. But just as the enterprise consolidates around Hadoop, the web world, including Google – which originated the technology ideas behind Hadoop – is moving on to real-time, ad-hoc analytics that batch-oriented Hadoop can't match.… |
| Ballmer plays down sales impact of Surface Posted: 10 Jul 2012 05:29 AM PDT 'Just a design point ... may sell a few million'Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer has downplayed the impact of Redmond's "iPad-killer" – aka the Surface tablet – as he wrapped a comforting arm around PC OEMS that may feel a little unnerved by the move.… |
| Google fattens up Android devs with Jelly Bean sauce Posted: 10 Jul 2012 05:03 AM PDT Mmm.. butteryGoogle will release the latest official build of its Android mobile operating system, version 4.1, to developers today. The web giant will parcel up the source code, codenamed Jelly Bean, ahead of the rollout later this month.… |
| Climate was HOTTER in Roman, medieval times than now: Study Posted: 10 Jul 2012 04:44 AM PDT IPCC has got it all wrong, say boffinsAmericans sweltering in the recent record-breaking heatwave may not believe it - but it seems that our ancestors suffered through much hotter summers in times gone by, several of them within the last 2,000 years.… |
| Salesforce goes titsup, causes CRM outages worldwide Posted: 10 Jul 2012 04:28 AM PDT Seven instances go down, knocking customers offlineCRM services have been disrupted for companies all over the world after seven of Salesforce's instances went down.… |
| Quantum just can't seal the deals, slides deeper into red Posted: 10 Jul 2012 04:17 AM PDT Hard drive biz hits another bad blockStorage purveyor Quantum has blamed a weak Europe, and a failure to close large deals, for an estimated $19m loss in its quarter ended June 30.… |
| Level 3's UPS burnout sends websites down in flames Posted: 10 Jul 2012 03:58 AM PDT London data centre hit by 3.35am scorcherUK sysadmins woke up to a headache this morning after a major power cut at Level 3's data centre in Braham Street, East London, lasted for approximately five hours.… |
| Google expected to cough measly $22.5m for Safari privacy gaffe Posted: 10 Jul 2012 03:39 AM PDT Report: Choc Factory close to settling with FTC over fanboi-tracking blunderGoogle is reportedly set to cough up a piddly penalty payment of $22.5m to the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to settle its sneaky bypassing of the default privacy settings of Apple's Safari browser.… |
| Posted: 10 Jul 2012 03:21 AM PDT Stonkingly good seven incherReview Amazon may have done more that most to get Android onto tablets, but Google's Nexus 7 tablet, built by Asus, isn't so much a shot across the bows as a full torpedo attack on Jeff Bezos' ambitions in the fondleslab market.… |
| 50 years in SPAAAAACE: Telstar celebrates half-century since launch Posted: 10 Jul 2012 03:18 AM PDT World's first active comms satellite stopped bouncing signals in'63Vid On 10 July 1962, the privately-owned Telstar 1 was blasted into orbit on the back of NASA's Thor-Delta rocket, and despite only working for a year it proved that commercial satellite communications was possible.… |
| How to screw LIBOR and alienate people Posted: 10 Jul 2012 03:02 AM PDT Dominic Connor presents another tutorial in Rogue TradingThe |
| EMC unveils new Networker tool, thrusts it into clouds Posted: 10 Jul 2012 02:36 AM PDT Faster and more scalableEMC has caught on to the cloud computing trend across most of its product lines, and now it has cloudified its Networker backup product, adding multi-tenancy, three times more scalability, and better performance.… |
| Atos IT workers threaten strike during Olympics over 'living wage' Posted: 10 Jul 2012 02:19 AM PDT Union: Games sponsor 'makes millions on the backs of its low-paid staff'Atos IT workers are threatening to strike over pay in industrial action that could hit the London Olympics.… |
| Gov: How can renewable power peddlers take on UK's Big 6? Posted: 10 Jul 2012 02:04 AM PDT Seeks views on access to electricity market for little green energy firmsThe government is seeking views on how it can reduce the barriers to entry in the electricity market for smaller renewable energy generators. The call for evidence follows reports that these companies are finding it harder to obtain guarantees that companies will purchase their power.… |
| Cerner questions Epic win for Cambridge patient records Posted: 10 Jul 2012 01:42 AM PDT Short-listed supplier queries NHS trust over procurement processPatient record supplier Cerner has written to Cambridge University Hospitals foundation trust over its recent award of a major software tender to Epic, Government Computing understands.… |
| KIT drives off with memory win: 1-bit-per-MOLECULE storage Posted: 10 Jul 2012 01:17 AM PDT Does with 51 atoms what a hard disc does with 3 millionWhile its students may not have managed a win in the cluster compo smackdown last month, the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) scored a resounding victory for storage technology when its researchers managed to read and write a bit of information from a single molecule.… |
| Being a skinny is much more unhealthy than being fat – new study Posted: 10 Jul 2012 01:00 AM PDT Maybe you can't be too rich – but you can be too thinYet another study has shown that the so-called "obesity" epidemic sweeping the wealthy nations of the world has been massively over-hyped, as new results show that is is far more dangerous to be assessed as "underweight" than it is to be assessed even as "severely obese" - let alone merely "obese" or "overweight".… |
| Museum of Computing recognised as PROPER MUSEUM Posted: 10 Jul 2012 12:29 AM PDT So IT really is old fashioned and boring nowThe Museum of Computing has been awarded full accreditation with the Arts Council of England, which means it is now officially a brilliant curator of all things tech.… |
| Apple boss Cook may have stumped up $60m IPAD pay-out Posted: 09 Jul 2012 11:30 PM PDT Proview claims Cook wanted to take responsibilityApple's IPAD trademark opponent Proview has suggested that CEO Tim Cook may have personally stepped in to fund the $60 million settlement fee paid to the failed monitor company last month.… |
| Chinese smartphone shipments outstripping feature phones Posted: 09 Jul 2012 11:15 PM PDT All aboard the mobile internetChina is celebrating another technology milestone after claiming that smartphone shipments in the world's biggest mobile market have now exceeded feature phone shipments, although analysts have their doubts.… |
| Anonymous hack hands WikiLeaks TWO MILLION Syrian emails Posted: 09 Jul 2012 10:56 PM PDT Hacktivists and whistle-blowers turn ire on Assad regimeHacktivist group Anonymous is claiming responsibility for an attack on the computer systems of the Syrian government and its evil overlord Bashar Assad thanks to which over two million emails ended up in the hands of whistle-blowing site WikiLeaks.… |
| ACTA can't get its act together Posted: 09 Jul 2012 07:45 PM PDT Colder feet for Aussies and KiwisThe Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) is losing its international momentum following the European Parliament's rejection of the global treaty, which many member states claim is flawed.… |
| Pandora plays beta beats downunder Posted: 09 Jul 2012 07:30 PM PDT The box re-opens for mobile music warsAfter months of speculation and a dress rehearsal back in 2007, one of the original online music streamers, Pandora, has re-emerged in Australia.… |
| Apple unveils tightened Mountain Lion requirements Posted: 09 Jul 2012 05:50 PM PDT Learn if your Mac can tame Cupertino's next big catApple has released the System Requirements for its upcoming new version of OS X, Mountain Lion, and as is usually the case with any operating system release, not all Macs need apply – even some that qualified for the Mac's current operating system, Lion.… |
| Facebook App Center goes global Posted: 09 Jul 2012 05:28 PM PDT Translating the apps will be the hard partJust over a month since it debuted its App Center store in the US, Facebook is rolling out the service to global markets. Predominantly English-speaking countries will come first, with localized stores for other languages to launch in the next few weeks.… |
| US law enforcement phone snooping on the rise Posted: 09 Jul 2012 04:34 PM PDT John Law made 1.3 million rat-on requests in 2011An inquiry by Congressional Representative Edward Markey (D-Mass) has revealed that the number of requests wireless carriers receive from US law enforcement for information about their customers has increased steadily, but just how often the police use mobile phones to track individuals' whereabouts remains unclear.… |
| Is the Higgs boson an imposter? Posted: 09 Jul 2012 04:33 PM PDT Signature could be forged, suggest Argonne boffinsA group of Argonne National Laboratory researchers has suggested that last week's CERN data, fanfared to the world as the discovery of the elusive Higgs-Boson, might actually point to even more exotic creatures.… |
| Microsoft lures resellers with Office 365 perks and payments Posted: 09 Jul 2012 04:21 PM PDT Bigger rewards and single-point billingWPC 2012 Microsoft is rejiggering its commercial platform to woo resellers with bigger discounts and finder's fees, as well as adding a simplified billing system for Office 365 that some resellers have been awaiting for years… |
| Magnetic cells put biologists in a spin Posted: 09 Jul 2012 04:15 PM PDT Trout's nose might hold secret to homing senseScientists have long believed that some kind of magnetic sense lies behind some animals' navigation ability, which in the case of some fish and birds seems to operate without the need for obvious landmarks. Now, a German researcher believes he has tagged individual cells that respond to magnetic fields.… |
| Cyberoam pushes fix for SSL vuln Posted: 09 Jul 2012 03:49 PM PDT Users' snooped packets safe againDeep packet inspection company Cyberoam has issued a hotfix to its devices, after earlier asserting that its technology "followed industry best practices for SSL bridging".… |
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