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- Skype: Nearly half of adults don't install software updates
- Cisco to axe 1,300 (more) employees worldwide
- Oracle readies Exalogic 2.0 'engineered systems'
- Buzz: iPhone 5 arrives September 21, demand 'unprecedented'
- Oracle lowers the flag on Fortress language project
- Next-gen Enyo 2.0 framework rises from ruins of Web OS
- Iranian nuke plants rocked in midnight 'heavy metal blast'
- ARM grabs TSMC's 3D FinFETs for future 64-bit PC brains
- Amazon.com hacking suspect 'cuffed in Cyprus
- Amazon to bash down Google, Apple with SIX new tablets - report
- Google suspends 16GB Nexus 7 orders
- Greenbytes crunches up ex-Apple man's Zevo ZFS
- Self-pwned: Black Hat says soz for phishing attack scare
- ITC was wrong: Apple, RIM owe us $1bn for that patent – Kodak
- EMC's creepy challenge: Give Big Data a 'human face'
- Amazon erects 'digital hub' near Silicon Roundabout
- Nokia woos networks with 'exclusive Windows 8 mobe deals'
- Samsung flogs 10 million Galaxy S IIIs in 7 weeks
- Google plucks Gmail app maker Sparrow from the sky
- Marvell marvels at WiGig, licenses Wilocity silicon
- Canon debuts EOS M compact system camera
- Brit holidaymakers forced to surf in the sea, not online
- Facebook, Last.fm and pals to reach deep into Ubuntu
- Why DOES Google lobby so much?
- Nike+ Fuelband activity monitor review
- JELLYFISH bio-bot built with rat cells to mend broken hearts
- Rupert Murdoch legs it from British newspaper boards
- Scottish cloud abacus gobbled by control freak RightScale
- Techie accused of snooping wife's email cleared of wrongdoing
- Is running IT for the Olympics the worst job in the world?
- Gov must act on 'innocent' web-browsing copyright timebomb
- Capita inks another local council deal, pockets £154m
- Fear not, Linux admins: There are TOOLS to help you
- Huawei and ZTE scrap for mid-range UK market share
- Cisco blends server with a twist of flash, tastes benchmark glory
- China's broadband population is SHRINKING
- Now IPAD victor Proview is sued by its OWN law firm
- Coles signs up for Office 365
- USB charges up to 100 watts
- Windows 8 'bad' for desktop users - Gartner's one-word review
- HTML 5 gets forked up
- Japanese publisher, staff arrested over backup software offer
- Kim Dotcom mounts freedom campaign
- ABS gets AUD$2.1m to report online sales
- Smart meter hack framework goes open-source
| Skype: Nearly half of adults don't install software updates Posted: 23 Jul 2012 03:02 PM PDT They're too worried about security to upgrade securityA new survey commissioned by Skype reveals that 40 per cent of adults do not always update their software when prompted to do so, and that 25 per cent skip software updates because they think they offer no real benefit.… |
| Cisco to axe 1,300 (more) employees worldwide Posted: 23 Jul 2012 02:53 PM PDT Why? 'To drive simplicity, speed of decisions and agility'Networking megacorp and server wannabe Cisco Systems plans to lay off 1,300 workers – about 2 per cent of its global workforce.… |
| Oracle readies Exalogic 2.0 'engineered systems' Posted: 23 Jul 2012 01:53 PM PDT Renames x86 boxes, but still has some gaps to fillSoftware giant Oracle is not so much in the server business as it is in the stack business, and it has made no pretense about it whatsoever. In fact, the company has gone out of its way to remind Wall Street and customers alike that it has no desire to be in the volume x86 server business, but rather bought Sun Microsystems two and a half years ago (yes, it has been that long since the $7.4bn deal closed) to create what it calls "engineered systems" – and there's a new one in the Exalogic family, designed to run middleware, coming out this week.… |
| Buzz: iPhone 5 arrives September 21, demand 'unprecedented' Posted: 23 Jul 2012 12:44 PM PDT New connector? Check. Larger display? Well, sort of...Apple's highly anticipated iPhone 5 – or whatever the marketeers at Cupertino choose to call it – will be released on September 21, according to the iPhone rumor du jour. In addition, a new survey shows the pent-up demand for it to be "unprecedented."… |
| Oracle lowers the flag on Fortress language project Posted: 23 Jul 2012 12:43 PM PDT The latest ex-Sun effort to be felled by Larry's axeOracle is shuttering the long-running Fortress programming language research project, in the database giant's latest move to divest itself of the less-profitable pieces of Sun Microsystems' software portfolio.… |
| Next-gen Enyo 2.0 framework rises from ruins of Web OS Posted: 23 Jul 2012 11:02 AM PDT Stable cross-platform release for open-source toolkitDevs at HP's Enyo project – the framework that once powered the applications on HP's discarded WebOS TouchPad tablet – have just released a stable version of the second major iteration, Enyo 2.0.… |
| Iranian nuke plants rocked in midnight 'heavy metal blast' Posted: 23 Jul 2012 10:02 AM PDT Boffins suffer AC-DC problems as virus defences ramped upIran's military will establish a cyber-defence headquarters, the country's official news agency IRNA reports - just in time to sort out an alleged heavy-metal infection at its nuclear labs.… |
| ARM grabs TSMC's 3D FinFETs for future 64-bit PC brains Posted: 23 Jul 2012 09:32 AM PDT Will it be a RISCy move for the v8 family?ARM says its 64-bit ARMv8 processor architecture is a real contender for servers and PCs. But without an appropriate process from major fab partners to etch the chips, the design doesn't matter all that much.… |
| Amazon.com hacking suspect 'cuffed in Cyprus Posted: 23 Jul 2012 09:03 AM PDT DoJ seeks extraditionA Russian man suspected to be connected to a series of denial-of-service attacks against Amazon.com that took place in 2008 has been arrested in Cyprus.… |
| Amazon to bash down Google, Apple with SIX new tablets - report Posted: 23 Jul 2012 08:42 AM PDT All sorts of sizes to fight off Galaxy, iPad and new kid Windows 8 RTUndeterred by the stumbling of Kindle Fire, Amazon is reported to be preparing even more tablets.… |
| Google suspends 16GB Nexus 7 orders Posted: 23 Jul 2012 08:18 AM PDT Punters swallow too many tabletsGoogle suspended orders of its 16GB Nexus 7 tablet this week, after underestimating demand for the 7in Jelly Bean slate.… |
| Greenbytes crunches up ex-Apple man's Zevo ZFS Posted: 23 Jul 2012 08:02 AM PDT Flash array vendor gets Tens ComplementNetworked flash array vendor Greenbytes has bought Zevo ZFS for Mac from developer Tens Complement, and gained itself a new chairman, storage industry veteran Stephen O'Donnell.… |
| Self-pwned: Black Hat says soz for phishing attack scare Posted: 23 Jul 2012 07:31 AM PDT Looked like phish, smelled like phish, but was just a cock-upBlack Hat conference Organisers of the annual Black Hat conference have apologised after an estimated 7,500 conference delegates received a suspicious email yesterday resembling a phishing attack.… |
| ITC was wrong: Apple, RIM owe us $1bn for that patent – Kodak Posted: 23 Jul 2012 07:01 AM PDT Bankrupt biz insists mobe makers used its designsBankrupt camera firm Kodak is going to appeal a US regulator's decision that neither Apple nor RIM had infringed on one of its patents.… |
| EMC's creepy challenge: Give Big Data a 'human face' Posted: 23 Jul 2012 06:29 AM PDT A |
| Amazon erects 'digital hub' near Silicon Roundabout Posted: 23 Jul 2012 06:02 AM PDT Mega media centre draws staffers from Pushbutton, LoveFilmAmazon is opening a new eight-storey office in London just west of Shoreditch's Silicon Roundabout to house design teams, software devs and engineers from its July 2011 acquisition Pushbutton and its video-on-demand subsidiary LoveFilm.… |
| Nokia woos networks with 'exclusive Windows 8 mobe deals' Posted: 23 Jul 2012 05:46 AM PDT Microsoft's Finnish friend chases iPhone effect - reportNokia is keeping schtum amid claims it hopes to sign exclusive deals with European mobile operators for its planned Windows Phone 8 smartphones.… |
| Samsung flogs 10 million Galaxy S IIIs in 7 weeks Posted: 23 Jul 2012 05:28 AM PDT Not quite keeping up with the iPhone 4SSamsung has sold more than 10 million of its flagship Galaxy S III phones worldwide in seven weeks, according to Shin Jong-kyun, the company's mobile tech top dog.… |
| Google plucks Gmail app maker Sparrow from the sky Posted: 23 Jul 2012 05:19 AM PDT You are the wind beneath my wi... Arrgh!Google has bought email application maker Sparrow for an undisclosed sum.… |
| Marvell marvels at WiGig, licenses Wilocity silicon Posted: 23 Jul 2012 05:03 AM PDT Love at 60GHzChip maker Marvell has licensed WiGig silicon designer Wilocity's 60GHz tech for future high-speed wireless networking and cable-killing kit.… |
| Canon debuts EOS M compact system camera Posted: 23 Jul 2012 04:59 AM PDT Better late than neverSeemingly bowing to peer pressure, Canon has finally unveiled its own compact system camera, the EOS M. A mirrorless interchangeable-lens snapper that features its new EF-M lens mount and an 18Mp APS-C CMOS sensor.… |
| Brit holidaymakers forced to surf in the sea, not online Posted: 23 Jul 2012 04:39 AM PDT Three international roaming goes titsupHolidaymakers hoping to surreptitiously surf the net from the beach with their Three mobiles were stranded when an outage killed their signal.… |
| Facebook, Last.fm and pals to reach deep into Ubuntu Posted: 23 Jul 2012 04:24 AM PDT Zillions of browser tabs banished by 'web apps'Websites will be able to hook into the Ubuntu desktop in the Linux distro's next release - allowing, for example, users to receive "new message" pings from webmail services.… |
| Why DOES Google lobby so much? Posted: 23 Jul 2012 04:03 AM PDT No, no, Brits, this is how a web-friendly country should be runSpecial report Last month we reported how Google was astroturfing British politics by chivvying "citizen groups" to show spontaneous support for policies that benefit Google. Here's another example.… |
| Nike+ Fuelband activity monitor review Posted: 23 Jul 2012 04:00 AM PDT Wrist action for your inner OlympianI'm on a roll. Well, a streak, actually. That's what Nike calls it when you hit your activity target for three days on the trot. The Nike+ FuelBand aims to get you fitter by scrutinising what you do.… |
| JELLYFISH bio-bot built with rat cells to mend broken hearts Posted: 23 Jul 2012 03:42 AM PDT We can rebuild him... we have the technologyBoffins have fashioned an artificial bio-engineered jellyfish from rat cells that could one day fix up badly damaged human heart tissue.… |
| Rupert Murdoch legs it from British newspaper boards Posted: 23 Jul 2012 03:25 AM PDT Reaches for remote controlRupert Murdoch has quit the boards of his once beloved British newspaper business, paving the way for the tycoon's News Corp empire to be split in two.… |
| Scottish cloud abacus gobbled by control freak RightScale Posted: 23 Jul 2012 03:02 AM PDT Need a job in Scotland?If you think keeping track of the technical differences between cloud systems is hard, try figuring out what compute, storage, and network capacity on various platforms can cost. It's enough to give you migraine, which is why cloud control freak RightScale, which spans multiple public and private systems, has acquired small Scottish startup ShopForCloud.… |
| Techie accused of snooping wife's email cleared of wrongdoing Posted: 23 Jul 2012 02:36 AM PDT His ex had been checking his texts, court hearsA computer technician accused of hacking into his wife's webmail account to search for evidence of an affair has been cleared of all wrongdoing.… |
| Is running IT for the Olympics the worst job in the world? Posted: 23 Jul 2012 02:03 AM PDT The results will be in in AugustIt's going to be the Worst Tech Job in the world ... or the best. It all depends on how the Olympics IT works this summer.… |
| Gov must act on 'innocent' web-browsing copyright timebomb Posted: 23 Jul 2012 01:32 AM PDT Media monitoring biz: The time to legislate is nowThe government should legislate rather than wait for the UK or the European courts to rule on whether internet users have to pay to browse websites, a UK media monitoring business has said.… |
| Capita inks another local council deal, pockets £154m Posted: 23 Jul 2012 01:01 AM PDT West Sussex County hands firm telecommunications, pensions admin contractWest Sussex County council has awarded Capita a 10-year deal for the outsourcing of various support services, including telecommunications and pension fund administration, worth £154m.… |
| Fear not, Linux admins: There are TOOLS to help you Posted: 23 Jul 2012 12:33 AM PDT No, we don't mean the PFY down the hallSysadmin blog Most Linux distributions have a significant focus on security. This does not mean they are necessarily ready for production out of the box. Tools like SELinux, excellent firewall options, and robust access controls can make Linux exceptionally secure. Despite this, actually deploying a Linux system into production still requires that the systems administrator have some idea what they are doing.… |
| Huawei and ZTE scrap for mid-range UK market share Posted: 23 Jul 2012 12:11 AM PDT Chinese Ice Cream fightChinese mobile manufacturers Huawei and ZTE each announced the UK rollout of their respective mid-range handsets last week, the Ascend P1 and the Grand X.… |
| Cisco blends server with a twist of flash, tastes benchmark glory Posted: 23 Jul 2012 12:03 AM PDT 2-socket win with Violin memory for the extra kickA server's job is to run applications as fast as it can, and it looks like flash memory is becoming an essential ingredient in the race for speed. Server-maker Cisco has just bagged a VMmark benchmark for doing just that – in its case using networked Violin Memory flash storage – paving the way to all performance-focused servers getting a flash kick.… |
| China's broadband population is SHRINKING Posted: 22 Jul 2012 10:56 PM PDT More get their mobiles out to get onlineChina's internet population reached a whopping 530 million over the past six months, but its broadband subscriber base actually shrank as mobile became the most popular way for users to get online for the first time.… |
| Now IPAD victor Proview is sued by its OWN law firm Posted: 22 Jul 2012 09:56 PM PDT Monitor biz still hasn't paid its lawyers their feesProview, the tech firm which recently forced Apple to part with $60 million to use the IPAD trademark in China, is now being sued by its own law firm after failing to pay its fees for the case.… |
| Posted: 22 Jul 2012 09:29 PM PDT Down, down, staff administration costs are down, for 100,000 staffInsistently non-rapacious supermarket chain Coles has become the latest company to sign off on a press release declaring it has adopted Microsoft's cloudy productivity suite Office 365.… |
| Posted: 22 Jul 2012 08:33 PM PDT One cable to rule them all while avoiding e-wasteThe USB Promoter Group has a new ambition: using the ubiquitous connectivity standard to power your laptop while |
| Windows 8 'bad' for desktop users - Gartner's one-word review Posted: 22 Jul 2012 06:51 PM PDT Enterprise users laugh at nice-to-touch, frustrating-to-click-on OSAnalyst firm Gartner has chosen just one word to describe Windows 8 for desktop users: "Bad".… |
| Posted: 22 Jul 2012 05:58 PM PDT Judean People's Front and People's Front of Judea go their own waySplitters! That's the cry which may well be echoing out across the web in coming days, as the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) and Web Hypertext Application Technology Working Group (WHATWG) have decided to pursue their common agenda of a marvellous new standard for the web by doing things differently.… |
| Japanese publisher, staff arrested over backup software offer Posted: 22 Jul 2012 05:40 PM PDT Copyright protection gets insaneThose software-laden DVDs that adorn the covers of newsstand computer magazines can get you into serious trouble in Japan, where four staff at a book publisher have been arrested because of naught software included in the popular 'onserts'.… |
| Kim Dotcom mounts freedom campaign Posted: 22 Jul 2012 04:59 PM PDT Raps against Obama, rallies against HollywoodMegaupload founder and Hollywood's most wanted, Kim Dotcom has taken his fight against the US authorities to new social and viral levels launching an anti-Obama campaign on his personal website.… |
| ABS gets AUD$2.1m to report online sales Posted: 22 Jul 2012 04:30 PM PDT Govt finally takes etail seriouslyAustralia's federal government will shell out AUD$2.1 million over four years to ensure that online retail spending is tracked accurately.… |
| Smart meter hack framework goes open-source Posted: 22 Jul 2012 03:57 PM PDT SecureState posts 'Metasploit-like' codeSecurity outfit SecureState's smart meter hacking framework, Termineter, has gone live over at Google Code.… |
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