Australian government gouged on PC prices |
- Australian government gouged on PC prices
- Fisker Automotive probes second flaming eco car
- Flash Player to vanish from Android store on Wednesday
- HP hardens switches to juggle myriad virty networks
- HP slips out ProLiant DL560 Gen8 four-socketeer
- Vodafone UK web titsup blamed on 'holiday maintenance'
- Burglar steals $60,000 of computers from Steve Jobs' home
- Dell sales heavyweight Bell defects to Code 42
- Hard-up Kodak stalls crown jewels sell-off to milk bidders
- SurfTheChannel Brit movie pirate gets 4 YEARS' PORRIDGE
- Can YOU crack the Gauss uber-virus encryption?
- Wannabe media barons outed in UK local telly bid list
- Sugar daddies dangle fat wad to woo chip biz Elpida from Micron
- Apple, Microsoft reveal their Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact
- Android spanks Apple iOS in sales as fanbois hold out for iPhone 5
- Brits obey mobile ads, says mobile ad biz
- Slowcoach HP finally lashes virtual SAN tech onto Hyper-V
- Saudi royals seek ban on .virgin, .sex, .catholic, .wtf and 159 MORE
- Apple granted patent for in-cell touchscreen display tech
- Hold onto your hats, world: Groupon actually made a PROFIT
- RIM: We can't flog phones, would you like our nuke plant OS instead?
- Unite workers at Capita ITS vote for strike action
- Windows 8: Download it and tell us YOUR first impressions
- BeBook outs Kindle-beating e-book reader
- Symantec, Violin in no-strings fling for flash array software
- The 'experts' who never see BBM will never understand RIM
- Arctic ICE PANIC sparked by half-baked sat data
- BBC gives itself a gold in 700Gbit-a-second Olympic vid sprint
- Wee biz sector risks wrath of UK data leak watchdog
- First, Google goggles - now the world gets self-censoring specs
- Asus Transformer Pad Infinity 64GB Android tablet review
- Hong Kong tycoon sues Google search for defamation
- Oz regulator says crowdfunding must obey financial rules
- Google gets the Baidu blues again after mapping losses
- Microsoft reveals Windows RT OEMs
- Tax proposal could change Aus hardware lifecycles
- Study shows half of all websites use jQuery
- Barnes & Noble cut Nook pricing in face of competition
- Boffins create 100,000 DPI image
- Network sniffing algorithm could have fingered 9/11 suspects
- Designer punked fanbois with asymmetric screw
- TransACT beefs up data centre for Dept of Finance
| Australian government gouged on PC prices Posted: 14 Aug 2012 02:55 PM PDT AGIMO says US, Singapore pay a lot less per-PCConsumers aren't the only buyers that suffer the infamous "Aussie tax" on IT: AGIMO has revealed that its desktop hardware purchases cost about double similar purchases by the US and Singaporean governments.… |
| Fisker Automotive probes second flaming eco car Posted: 14 Aug 2012 01:00 PM PDT Not only price tag that's too hot to handle for KarmaThe luxury sports sedan of the ecologically-minded, the Fisker Karma, is being investigated after another one went up in flames.… |
| Flash Player to vanish from Android store on Wednesday Posted: 14 Aug 2012 12:15 PM PDT Mobile users won't have Flash to kick around anymoreIf you really, really want to use the Flash Player plugin for Android and you haven't downloaded it already, you'd better move quickly. Tomorrow, August 15, is the day Adobe will pull it from the Google Play store.… |
| HP hardens switches to juggle myriad virty networks Posted: 14 Aug 2012 11:03 AM PDT Extends Layer 2 nets around the worldHewlett-Packard has tweaked the Comware operating system at the heart of its switches to make them more amenable to the clouds and to implement what is being called software-defined networking (SDN).… |
| HP slips out ProLiant DL560 Gen8 four-socketeer Posted: 14 Aug 2012 10:22 AM PDT Server for sale in the US and UKWhile Hewlett-Packard has not yet formally announced any ProLiant servers based on Intel's Xeon E5-4600 processors for four-socket boxes, we knew from SPEC CPU benchmark tests that a blade called the BL660c Gen8 is on the way. And now we know a DL560 Gen8 rack-mounted box is in the works, too, with the machine on sale in the US and UK even though HP has not cracked the champagne bottle on its chassis yet.… |
| Vodafone UK web titsup blamed on 'holiday maintenance' Posted: 14 Aug 2012 09:40 AM PDT Nothing to see here, it's AugustThe entire Vodafone.co.uk website was down for 60 minutes this afternoon and online account access was out of action for 24 hours - but the blackouts were due to planned maintenance, Voda said.… |
| Burglar steals $60,000 of computers from Steve Jobs' home Posted: 14 Aug 2012 09:26 AM PDT Not a fanboi-targeted job it seemsPolice have arrested a man accused of breaking into the former home of Apple icon Steve Jobs and stealing over $60,000 worth of "computer equipment and personal items."… |
| Dell sales heavyweight Bell defects to Code 42 Posted: 14 Aug 2012 09:08 AM PDT Cloud backup player lures bigwig to spend VC cash on expansionCode 42 is a Windows error code saying a device driver couldn't load. It's also a cloud backup firm founded in 2001, which landed $52.5 million funding in January and has just poached ex-Compellent sales boss Brian Bell from Dell.… |
| Hard-up Kodak stalls crown jewels sell-off to milk bidders Posted: 14 Aug 2012 08:41 AM PDT 1,100 patents going for a mere few billion dollarsKodak, the poor-as-a-church-mouse photo biz, has decided to keep its patent auction fundraiser going for a while as it chats up bidders.… |
| SurfTheChannel Brit movie pirate gets 4 YEARS' PORRIDGE Posted: 14 Aug 2012 08:19 AM PDT Landmark fraud prosecutionThe mastermind behind popular pirate site SurfTheChannel.com has been jailed for four years. A jury found Anton Vickerman guilty in June, but sentencing only took place today at Newcastle Crown Court.… |
| Can YOU crack the Gauss uber-virus encryption? Posted: 14 Aug 2012 07:48 AM PDT Appeal for help to break open hidden scrambled payloadAntivirus experts have called on cryptographers and other clever bods for help after admitting they are no closer to figuring out the main purpose of the newly discovered Gauss supervirus.… |
| Wannabe media barons outed in UK local telly bid list Posted: 14 Aug 2012 07:08 AM PDT Swansea and Plymouth, no homegrown TV for youOfcom has published the list of organisations bidding to run Local TV stations in the UK. The list of those who want to operate the actual broadcast equipment is much shorter.… |
| Sugar daddies dangle fat wad to woo chip biz Elpida from Micron Posted: 14 Aug 2012 06:38 AM PDT Ditch the Yanks, treat yourself with this $380m chequeA group of bondholders are offering ailing chip maker Elpida a loan of ¥30bn ($383m) to restructure instead of letting Micron take over.… |
| Apple, Microsoft reveal their Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact Posted: 14 Aug 2012 06:07 AM PDT Non-aggression treaty carves up phone patentsTestimony this week in the Apple-Samsung patent trial has thrown new light on the tech world's equivalent of the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact - the 1939 peace deal between Germany and the Soviets.… |
| Android spanks Apple iOS in sales as fanbois hold out for iPhone 5 Posted: 14 Aug 2012 05:48 AM PDT And jury out on Microkea struggle, says GartnerSamsung is riding the rising tide of Android-powered mobile phones as the world reels from recession and Apple fanbois hold out for the iPhone 5.… |
| Brits obey mobile ads, says mobile ad biz Posted: 14 Aug 2012 05:16 AM PDT Half the population admit their phone rules their walletNearly half of punters polled in a survey reckon mobile ads are influencing their purchasing decisions, and 63 per cent have bought stuff on their phones - says the company supplying the ads.… |
| Slowcoach HP finally lashes virtual SAN tech onto Hyper-V Posted: 14 Aug 2012 04:51 AM PDT Only two and a half years lateHP has ported its LeftHand Virtual Storage Appliance software to Hyper-V two and a half years after it said it would.… |
| Saudi royals seek ban on .virgin, .sex, .catholic, .wtf and 159 MORE Posted: 14 Aug 2012 04:32 AM PDT Complaints over dot-word web extensions flood inThe Kingdom of Saudi Arabia has objected to the proposed new top-level internet domains .virgin and .baby – applied for by Virgin Group and Johnson & Johnson respectively – on the grounds that they will encourage pornography.… |
| Apple granted patent for in-cell touchscreen display tech Posted: 14 Aug 2012 04:02 AM PDT IP win cements iPhone 5 screen 'leaks'Apple has been granted a US patent detailing in-cell LCD touchscreen tech of the kind already said to be implemented in the iPhone 5 to make it slimmer.… |
| Hold onto your hats, world: Groupon actually made a PROFIT Posted: 14 Aug 2012 04:00 AM PDT Shares plummet by a fifthVoucher bazaar Groupon managed to bag a profit for the first time ever in the second quarter of this year - but it wasn't enough to convince investors it's a good place to leave their money.… |
| RIM: We can't flog phones, would you like our nuke plant OS instead? Posted: 14 Aug 2012 03:28 AM PDT QNX licences up for grabs to anyone with a chequebookTroubled phone biz Research in Motion wants to license its new BlackBerry 10 operating system to anyone who can afford it in the hope of climbing out of its rut.… |
| Unite workers at Capita ITS vote for strike action Posted: 14 Aug 2012 02:57 AM PDT UK walk-out threat over job cuts, offshoringUpdate Unionised workers at Capita IT Services have threatened to down tools over plans to offshore service-desk jobs to India and force through compulsory redundancies.… |
| Windows 8: Download it and tell us YOUR first impressions Posted: 14 Aug 2012 02:44 AM PDT Join the Reg readers' debate: 20 August 20, 1pm BSTLive Chat Got any plans next weekend? Cancel them. Tell your partner to finally catch up with those old university friends, get a cat sitter in, and order a pizza.… |
| BeBook outs Kindle-beating e-book reader Posted: 14 Aug 2012 02:28 AM PDT Thinner, cheaper, more capaciousDoes half a millimetre matter? E-book reader maker BeBook believes it does. It's relying on that tiny, effectively unnoticeable difference to claim its new 8mm-thick Pure reader is the thinnest of its kind. Its nearest rival is the 8.5mm-thick Amazon Kindle 3, now called the Kindle Keyboard.… |
| Symantec, Violin in no-strings fling for flash array software Posted: 14 Aug 2012 02:22 AM PDT Slips on protection, dedupeViolin Memory has added data management software to its flash memory arrays by partnering with Symantec. It hopes this will pit the memory biz against rival deduping all-flash array startups.… |
| The 'experts' who never see BBM will never understand RIM Posted: 14 Aug 2012 02:01 AM PDT Middle-aged suits in social media failureAnalysis Written off by pundits and the markets, barely a day goes by without a fresh requiem for RIM. A recent example comes from Jean-Louis Gassee in Saving Private RIM.… |
| Arctic ICE PANIC sparked by half-baked sat data Posted: 14 Aug 2012 01:43 AM PDT Did someone just jump the gun?Listeners to Radio 4's Today programme - and this includes much of the political elite - will have been alarmed to be told that "the Arctic could be ice-free on a summer's day by the end of the decade".… |
| BBC gives itself a gold in 700Gbit-a-second Olympic vid sprint Posted: 14 Aug 2012 01:19 AM PDT Athletes did OK tooAlmost three million people watched the Olympics on a mobile phone while half a million ogled and fondled their slabs on Sunday, 5 August - the day Andrew Murray won gold, Usain Bolt ran 100m in 9.63 seconds and the BBC recorded peak video streaming to handheld gadgets.… |
| Wee biz sector risks wrath of UK data leak watchdog Posted: 14 Aug 2012 01:02 AM PDT Fines through the roof, ICO turns eye to private sectorBusinesses that fail to keep private data secure could be in trouble as the Information Commissioner's Office extends its beady eye beyond breaches in the public sector.… |
| First, Google goggles - now the world gets self-censoring specs Posted: 14 Aug 2012 12:29 AM PDT Sticky tape is surely a cheaper alternative?The Committee for Purity in the Camp is reportedly selling spectacles that deliberately blur vision, leading wearers not into temptation.… |
| Asus Transformer Pad Infinity 64GB Android tablet review Posted: 14 Aug 2012 12:00 AM PDT Full HD fondleslab, anyone?When it comes to tablets, it seems Asus is on a bit of a roll. In my estimation, its Transformer Pad is the best value 10-incher on the market and, lest we forget the company makes the altogether excellent Nexus 7 for Google. There is no sign of Asus resting on its laurels either, if its latest Transformer device is anything to go by.… |
| Hong Kong tycoon sues Google search for defamation Posted: 13 Aug 2012 11:04 PM PDT Alleged dodgy content links Yeung with organised crime groupsA Hong Kong tycoon is suing Google in the region's High Court after search results associated with his name apparently linked to defamatory content on the web.… |
| Oz regulator says crowdfunding must obey financial rules Posted: 13 Aug 2012 10:56 PM PDT Analyst says ASIC "risks destroying" crowdfundingKickstarter kicked Australia's financial services regulator, the Australian Securities and Investment Commission (ASIC), has run its eye over crowdfunding services and decided some effectively issue securities under Australian law.… |
| Google gets the Baidu blues again after mapping losses Posted: 13 Aug 2012 09:35 PM PDT Chinese rival set to overtake Google MapsGoogle looks like being beaten again in China, as Baidu leaps ahead in the mobile mapping space.… |
| Microsoft reveals Windows RT OEMs Posted: 13 Aug 2012 07:30 PM PDT Dell, Lenovo, Samsung and ASUS ARMed for tablets and "RT PCs"Microsoft reveals Windows RT PC partners Dell, Lenovo, Samsung and ASUS ARMed for "RT PCs" Microsoft has revealed the full roster of Windows RT PC OEMs, and detailed more about the future products' users interfaces.… |
| Tax proposal could change Aus hardware lifecycles Posted: 13 Aug 2012 05:42 PM PDT Cut to depreciation rates could change the game for hardware buysA new review Discussion Paper released yesterday by the Australian Taxation Office's Business Tax Working Group (BTWG) has the potential to change the way Australian IT departments manage their affairs.… |
| Study shows half of all websites use jQuery Posted: 13 Aug 2012 05:41 PM PDT JavaScript library handily beats all comersThe jQuery open source JavaScript development library is now running on 50 per cent of all websites, according to the latest data from web technology surveyor W3Techs.… |
| Barnes & Noble cut Nook pricing in face of competition Posted: 13 Aug 2012 05:38 PM PDT Tiny tablet price war should pass Apple byWith Google throwing its 7in Nexus fondleslab into the market at $199 and Amazon widely expected to launch a an update to its Kindle line soon, Barnes & Noble has cut the price on its Nook Color and Tablet lines.… |
| Boffins create 100,000 DPI image Posted: 13 Aug 2012 04:36 PM PDT Playboy centerfold at 50 micronsPerhaps the world's most famous repurposed centerfold, the Lena test image, is now the world's smallest test image courtesy of researchers in Singapore.… |
| Network sniffing algorithm could have fingered 9/11 suspects Posted: 13 Aug 2012 04:06 PM PDT Can spot who's talking about you on Facebook, tooA group of researchers has come up with a new algorithm that they say can be used to snoop information networks to trace rumor leaks, locate the source of disease epidemics, and even potentially stop terror attacks.… |
| Designer punked fanbois with asymmetric screw Posted: 13 Aug 2012 03:54 PM PDT Hoax screwed up the news, not the iPhone 5For a little while, the Apple press fell over itself to analyze the import of a screw that was reportedly going to lock customers and repairers out of the next iPhone forever. The source of the story has now 'fessed up that to the hoax that set the wires a-buzz.… |
| TransACT beefs up data centre for Dept of Finance Posted: 13 Aug 2012 03:49 PM PDT AGIMO panel brings in the dollarsThe Australian Department of Finance and Deregulation has amplified its data centre requirements signing a AUD$8.6 million deal with iiNet owned TransACT for the provision of data centre services.… |
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