Security fail for Apple as hacker cracks iOS in-app purchasing |
- Security fail for Apple as hacker cracks iOS in-app purchasing
- Apple rejoins EPEAT green tech cert program
- Microsoft to announce new Office version on Monday
- Nasuni takes aim to kill off your ROBOadmin
- US county named 'area of outstanding natural stupidity'
- <i>Reg</i> hack bumps into <i>Cockfighter</i>
- Lenovo: Hey just relax, Gartner – we can flog this stuff
- NVIDIA Developer Zone, user forums plundered in hack attack
- Computer-hack probe cops cuff suspect in Cardiff
- Metro, that ribbon, shared mailboxes: Has Microsoft lost the plot?
- Small ISPs to Steelie Neelie: 'You've turned your back on us'
- Fake sarnie shop's big fake Likes leave Facebook looking flaky
- Oracle UK boss ousted to channel after 'sales slump'
- Ex-EMC admin bod 'embezzled $220k on limos, hols, surgery'
- Oiling the big wheels that keep the Paralympics moving
- Native Americans arrived to find natives already there, fossil poo shows
- Tablets, copycats and Weird Al Yankovic
- O2 outage outrage blamed on new Ericsson database
- Google boss Larry Page debugged, voice still not fixed
- Google makes money on Nexus 7... just
- Seize your moment, Microsoft: iPad is RUBBISH for enterprise
- How to fix the broken internet economy: START HERE
- 'O2 customers could try switching their phones off and on again'
- Another Microsoft Windows Phone exec legs it to Amazon
- UK's web super-snoop powers could be extended to councils
- Hams: We're good in a disaster – UK Radio Society boss
- Phishers use less strident subject lines to deliver new cunning attacks
- London's Lambeth council vows: We'll share ALL the data we have
- RIM boss accuses China of IP theft risk
- Apple, Google and Amazon sneakier than BANKERS and OIL FIRMS
- Gambling site's 'no strings attached' offer had strings attached
- Sigma SD1 Merill 46Mp DSLR
- Apple pulls China Japan war game amid diplomatic tensions
- FBI investigates ZTE cover-up allegations
- WikiWin: Icelandic court orders Visa to process WikiLeaks $$$
- 'Extreme' solar storm speeding straight towards Earth
- Christians get God-optimized 'Edifi' Android fondleslab
- Digg, deep in the hole, sells self for $500K
- Kiwi pooches turn into ROACH MUNCHING DOPE FIENDS
- Online retail drives card fraud in Oz
| Security fail for Apple as hacker cracks iOS in-app purchasing Posted: 13 Jul 2012 02:07 PM PDT Developers could be seriously out of pocketA Russian hacker claims to have found a way to crack the in-app purchasing mechanism used in iOS so that users can get free content in a variety of applications.… |
| Apple rejoins EPEAT green tech cert program Posted: 13 Jul 2012 02:01 PM PDT Says the standards weren't strict enough for itMere days after the City of San Francisco announced that it would ban departmental purchases of Apple products over environmental concerns, Cupertino has reversed its decision to withdraw from the Electronic Product Environmental Assessment Tool (EPEAT) green standards program.… |
| Microsoft to announce new Office version on Monday Posted: 13 Jul 2012 12:18 PM PDT Promises 'most transformational' release everMicrosoft CEO Steve Ballmer is widely expected to announce details of the next version of the Microsoft Office productivity suite on Monday USA Today reports, giving the public its first glimpse of a product that has so far remained shrouded in secrecy.… |
| Nasuni takes aim to kill off your ROBOadmin Posted: 13 Jul 2012 10:13 AM PDT Dead or alive, you're coming into the cloud with meNasuni has fulfilled its promise to add unified storage to its existing NAS cloud storage product. The tech is managed from a central site and branch offices no longer need an admin.… |
| US county named 'area of outstanding natural stupidity' Posted: 13 Jul 2012 09:08 AM PDT Vulture Central honours trigger-happy KitsapWe recently promised to name Washington's Kitsap County 'an area of outstanding natural stupidity' (AOONS) if it could reach a critical mass of firearms-related idiocy.… |
| <i>Reg</i> hack bumps into <i>Cockfighter</i> Posted: 13 Jul 2012 08:32 AM PDT Surprise encounter in Spanish petrol stationIt's Friday, so we need no excuse to bring you the slightly strange tale of how this hack unexpectedly bumped into Cockfighter in a Spanish petrol station.… |
| Lenovo: Hey just relax, Gartner – we can flog this stuff Posted: 13 Jul 2012 08:01 AM PDT 'We won't repeat Acer's 2011 mistakes'Lenovo needs to keep a close eye on inventory levels in the channel or risk heading down the same road to ruin that destroyed Acer's 2011, temporarily derailing its plans to become top dog in the PC arena.… |
| NVIDIA Developer Zone, user forums plundered in hack attack Posted: 13 Jul 2012 07:36 AM PDT Yarr! These passwords be salty but the rest be plainGraphics processor biz NVIDIA has contacted users of its discussion forums and Developer Zone to warn that its servers have been hacked.… |
| Computer-hack probe cops cuff suspect in Cardiff Posted: 13 Jul 2012 07:03 AM PDT Sixth arrest under Operation TuletaScotland Yard officers investigating the hacking of computers have arrested a 55-year-old man in Cardiff.… |
| Metro, that ribbon, shared mailboxes: Has Microsoft lost the plot? Posted: 13 Jul 2012 06:28 AM PDT More money for the same functionalitySysadmin blog In a previous piece on Office 365, I discussed how difficult it was to enable public folders. The reality is that Office 365 doesn't support public folders in the traditional sense. Instead, to achieve a similar functionality to the most common use for public folders – a storage point for group emails – Microsoft have offered "shared mailboxes".… |
| Small ISPs to Steelie Neelie: 'You've turned your back on us' Posted: 13 Jul 2012 06:03 AM PDT Euro commish changes tune over telco copper price spankingBrussels' vice-president Neelie 'Steelie' Kroes has confirmed that telco incumbents in Europe will not be reprimanded for using copper pricing as a barrier to rolling out fibre networks.… |
| Fake sarnie shop's big fake Likes leave Facebook looking flaky Posted: 13 Jul 2012 05:44 AM PDT Lies, damn Likes and statisticsA fake business set up on Facebook by the BBC's Rory Cellan-Jones received thousands of fake endorsements – and Facebook doesn't seem to care.… |
| Oracle UK boss ousted to channel after 'sales slump' Posted: 13 Jul 2012 05:23 AM PDT Callaghan job swap amid claims of missed targetsOracle UK and Ireland boss Dave Callaghan has been switched out of his role amid claims that the Blighty wing missed its sales target by about ten per cent.… |
| Ex-EMC admin bod 'embezzled $220k on limos, hols, surgery' Posted: 13 Jul 2012 05:11 AM PDT HQ worker charged over expenses claimsAn EMC Hopkinton HQ admin assistant has been charged with stealing $220,000 from the storage and virtualisation vendor, the District Attorney for the Middlesex District of Massachusetts has confirmed. She denies any wrongdoing.… |
| Oiling the big wheels that keep the Paralympics moving Posted: 13 Jul 2012 04:42 AM PDT Bladerunner techs and wheelchair wizards gear upThe Olympic Games: just saying it conjures up images of top athletes straining for the finishing line, the crowd roaring during the 100 metres final, the heartbreak of a relay team dropping their baton, the sudden spurt in public expertise on sports such as shooting or three-day eventing as the medal tally highlights their national importance.… |
| Native Americans arrived to find natives already there, fossil poo shows Posted: 13 Jul 2012 04:23 AM PDT Ancient darts also found in possible prehistoric pubThe ancient people who have long been thought to be the first humans to colonise North America were actually johnny-come-latelies, according to scientists who have comprehesively analysed the ancient fossilised poo of their predecessor Americans.… |
| Tablets, copycats and Weird Al Yankovic Posted: 13 Jul 2012 04:10 AM PDT Samsung does a Ratner by proxySomething for the weekend, Sir? "They are not as cool." With these five words, Judge Colin Birss became Samsung's friend and tormentor in one. He had just found in the company's favour in its defence against Apple but ruined the moment for Samsung by hinting that the Galaxy Tab was, well, a bit crap compared to an iPad.… |
| O2 outage outrage blamed on new Ericsson database Posted: 13 Jul 2012 04:04 AM PDT Single point of access became single point of failureO2 has fixed its poorly mobile network, so now everyone can start asking what went wrong and what the company is going to do about it.… |
| Google boss Larry Page debugged, voice still not fixed Posted: 13 Jul 2012 03:43 AM PDT Softly spoken super-nerd now EVEN QUIETERGoogle's CEO Larry Page is back at work after being laid low for a few weeks by an undisclosed illness or bug that caused him to lose his voice.… |
| Google makes money on Nexus 7... just Posted: 13 Jul 2012 03:34 AM PDT Cash for FlashGoogle will not, it seems, be selling its low-cost Nexus 7 Android tablet at a loss, but it's making less money out of the hardware than Amazon is with the Kindle Fire.… |
| Seize your moment, Microsoft: iPad is RUBBISH for enterprise Posted: 13 Jul 2012 03:22 AM PDT Redmond's shortcomings could become assets in the post-PC eraOpen ... and Shut Apple has given us much with its pleasing-on-the-eye iPad. But what it hasn't given us is a serious replacement for the lowly laptop or desktop. As much as magazines like MacWorld may hype it as "The New Business Machine", the reality is that the iPad is only enterprise-ready in iFantasyLand.… |
| How to fix the broken internet economy: START HERE Posted: 13 Jul 2012 03:06 AM PDT Tech and copyright – it's time to work togetherSpecial report How can we begin to unpick the tangled mess that the technology and creative industries have created?… |
| 'O2 customers could try switching their phones off and on again' Posted: 13 Jul 2012 02:42 AM PDT Plus: MacBook Pros leak hazardous goo all over the placeQuotw This was the week when O2's network went titsup, leaving thousands of its users and GiffGaff mobile customers without the ability to make calls, write emoticon-laden texts or use 3G. Yes, that's right, they were CUT OFF FROM THE INTERNET. So, they were understandably peeved.… |
| Another Microsoft Windows Phone exec legs it to Amazon Posted: 13 Jul 2012 02:21 AM PDT Is a Kindle-like phone in the works?Another Microsoft Windows Phone executive has jumped ship for Amazon.… |
| UK's web super-snoop powers could be extended to councils Posted: 13 Jul 2012 02:03 AM PDT 'We don't know what we don't know yet'The UK Border Agency (UKBA), local councils and other bodies have until the end of next week to justify their right to access citizens' communications records.… |
| Hams: We're good in a disaster – UK Radio Society boss Posted: 13 Jul 2012 01:37 AM PDT Bearded radio fans also NASA's go-to guys for controlling Mars roversThey look unassuming, but these quiet types murmuring strings of numbers and letters into their transceivers are manning back-up comms for the world, the communication system most likely to survive an apocalyptic event.… |
| Phishers use less strident subject lines to deliver new cunning attacks Posted: 13 Jul 2012 01:22 AM PDT 'SECURITY ALERT' wasn't: 'Statement available' isThe use of exploit kits is allowing phishing fraudsters to develop scams that only rely on tricking prospective marks into clicking a link, rather than submitting all their details to a bogus website.… |
| London's Lambeth council vows: We'll share ALL the data we have Posted: 13 Jul 2012 01:02 AM PDT Not yours of course...Lambeth council has announced plans to publish all the information it holds online for residents to use.… |
| RIM boss accuses China of IP theft risk Posted: 13 Jul 2012 12:31 AM PDT We're steering clear of PRC, says HeinsRIM CEO Thorsten Heins has reignited the debate over whether China is a safe place to do business, after claiming this week that the BlackBerry-maker does not have any manufacturing bases in the country due to security concerns.… |
| Apple, Google and Amazon sneakier than BANKERS and OIL FIRMS Posted: 13 Jul 2012 12:28 AM PDT Transparency survey fail for web starsInternet superstars score far lower than banks or oil companies on a measure of corporate governance released this week by an NGO funded by the UK.… |
| Gambling site's 'no strings attached' offer had strings attached Posted: 13 Jul 2012 12:03 AM PDT 888.com's 'free bet' ad was misleading – ASAThe UK's advertising watchdog has banned an online betting advert for free bets because the company behind it did not make clear that users needed to accumulate certain winnings before the money could be withdrawn.… |
| Posted: 13 Jul 2012 12:00 AM PDT Cut-price, hi-res hot shotReview The Sigma SD1 might not be a household name but some of you will certainly be familiar with it. Launched at Photokina in 2010, the SD1 was the first and only DSLR to show off a sensor based on an entirely new technology. Albeit akin to an APS-C format, the SD1's Foveon sensor was capable of capturing three times as much colour information than its rivals and consequently clocked up a 46Mp count.… |
| Apple pulls China Japan war game amid diplomatic tensions Posted: 12 Jul 2012 09:45 PM PDT Chinese censors let Apple do the hard workApple has done its bit to defuse rapidly escalating tensions between China and Japan, by pulling an inflammatory iOS game in which the player is tasked with defending a disputed set of islands in the East China Sea from the invading Japanese.… |
| FBI investigates ZTE cover-up allegations Posted: 12 Jul 2012 09:15 PM PDT Report claims ZTE sold illegal tech to IranThe FBI has opened a criminal investigation into allegations that Chinese telecoms kit maker ZTE flouted United States laws by selling technology from US firms to Iran and then deliberately covering its tracks once the media caught wind.… |
| WikiWin: Icelandic court orders Visa to process WikiLeaks $$$ Posted: 12 Jul 2012 05:45 PM PDT Financial ban lifted in Assange victoryWikiLeaks could be seeing an influx of funds after an Icelandic court ruled that Valitor, the local agent for Visa, broke the law when it stopped taking donations for the website.… |
| 'Extreme' solar storm speeding straight towards Earth Posted: 12 Jul 2012 05:25 PM PDT Things could get interesting on SaturdayOn Thursday at 5:53pm in London – 12:53pm in New York – the sun let loose with a hefty solar flare, resulting in a coronal mass ejection (CME) headed straight towards Earth that will likely arrive on Saturday at 10:20 UT, give or take about seven hours.… |
| Christians get God-optimized 'Edifi' Android fondleslab Posted: 12 Jul 2012 05:20 PM PDT Holiest tablet since Moses was gifted by a burning bushThe tablet market is getting increasingly competitive these days, but an American company believes its offering may have a unique selling point: it's a fondleslab for the faithful.… |
| Digg, deep in the hole, sells self for $500K Posted: 12 Jul 2012 05:19 PM PDT All that's left is to shovel in the dirt and plant the daisySocial news- and link-sharing site Digg has sold itself to New York technology incubator Betaworks for the paltry sum of $500,000.… |
| Kiwi pooches turn into ROACH MUNCHING DOPE FIENDS Posted: 12 Jul 2012 04:00 PM PDT Red-eye, munchies, freezing to deathNew Zealanders are being warned against letting the family dog at leftover whacky-baccy, with vets reporting a rash of hash-whacked pooches copping hypothermia and needing drip-treatment to survive.… |
| Online retail drives card fraud in Oz Posted: 12 Jul 2012 03:30 PM PDT Reach for the cheque-bookOK, so nobody uses cheques any more: as a result, fraud based on the venerable paper slip with a signature is now well-and-truly eclipsed by online credit card fraud, according to the Australian Payments Clearing Association.… |
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