Google widens search net and takes on Siri with iOS app |
- Google widens search net and takes on Siri with iOS app
- Opscode adds services for Chef control freak
- eBay fires up OpenStack cloud with Nicira network virt
- Internet Archive serves up 1.4 million BitTorrent downloads
- Super Micro to Sandy Bridge buyers: Go forth and multiply our profit
- Hiccups in Apple's iCloud after yesterday's hack of hapless hack
- Video shows armed assault on Kim Dotcom family home
- HP writes down a whopping $8bn from EDS gobble
- Facebook pokes devs' wallets: Mobile app ad beta launches
- T-Mobile puts 'Full Monty' tariff on diet
- Brocade claims $112m win over rival A10 in tech blueprints spat
- LinkedIn tweaks API terms of use for itchy developers
- US Army's cloud-friendly iPad-ready intel kit DOESN'T even work
- Hacker-smasher: White hats join forces to build bot-beating weapon
- Court orders Twitter to unmask Dark Knight copycat killer wannabe
- Sharp cuts exFAT deal with Microsoft for Android mobes
- Now Curiosity rover beams back 3D snaps of Mars
- Apple patents shopping lists
- HP must throw its PC biz overboard to survive, says analyst
- Fallen flash drive star STEC's revenues circle drain
- Jimbo Wales: Wikipedia servers in UK? No way, not with YOUR libel law
- Thrillpower! Tharg releases <i>2000AD</i> iDevice app
- Apple pounces on Samsung doc as proof of 'slavish copy' claims
- Beer mats to tout tat to mobiles over wireless NFC
- Microsoft retracts staffer's 'new Xbox' comment
- Software disaster zone Knight Capital bags $400m lifeline
- NASA's $2.5bn Curiosity rover: An Apple PowerBook on wheels
- Speaking in Tech: Virtualisation, storage and flying balls
- Rivals routed by Apple, Google smartphone onslaught
- London NHS trusts: Let's BORG up our patient data
- Virgin Media punters stung in mobile data bill cock-up
- French minister: 3 strikes anti-piracy rule a 'waste of money'
- Intel 330 120GB SSD review
- Chinese tech players take aim at Apple's talking tech
- PSMA defends data quality after NBNCo criticism
- NBN price tag rises in new NBNCo new corporate plan
- Foldable NFC keyboard could tempt Android users
- Indian 2G auction turmoil as telcos revolt
- Google ordered to destroy Oz Street View data
- Mobile phone health rules need update, warns US watchdog
- Android app DRM quietly disabled due to bug
- ‘Cash for comment’ journos, bloggers under spotlight in Oracle-v-Google
- The policy that helped Anonymous hack AAPT
- IBM shoots higher and lower with x86 Flex Systems
- Microsoft offers alternative Lync-like web chat spec to W3C
- Facebook pulls race-hate page
- Rackspace profits from cloudy transitions
- NT Telehealth's high-definition medicarts are really CoTS
| Google widens search net and takes on Siri with iOS app Posted: 08 Aug 2012 03:01 PM PDT iOS speech search and adding Gmail resultsGoogle is moving closer to a planned search singularity with the extension of the Knowledge Graph system, a trial to allow personal Gmail search results to be included in generic web searches, and an iOS app that takes voice requests and tries to answer.… |
| Opscode adds services for Chef control freak Posted: 08 Aug 2012 03:00 PM PDT Maîtres des nuagesOpscode, the commercial entity behind the open source Chef configuration management tool for servers and their software, is getting into the services racket. Not just because it wants another revenue stream, but because customers need help getting up to speed on using Chef quickly.… |
| eBay fires up OpenStack cloud with Nicira network virt Posted: 08 Aug 2012 02:42 PM PDT Sitting next to a nervous VMware vCloudIf VMware needed another reason to justify its $1.26bn acquisition of network virtualization upstart Nicira, it need look no further than online auctioneer eBay.… |
| Internet Archive serves up 1.4 million BitTorrent downloads Posted: 08 Aug 2012 12:34 PM PDT Nearly a petabyte of public domain dataThe Internet Archive, a non-profit online library dedicated to the permanent preservation of information in digital form, has made nearly a petabyte of materials available via the controversial BitTorrent peer-to-peer file sharing protocol.… |
| Super Micro to Sandy Bridge buyers: Go forth and multiply our profit Posted: 08 Aug 2012 12:02 PM PDT Xeon E5 servers touted, disk burden shoulderedAfter nearly a year of foot-tapping by whitebox system and component maker Super Micro, it looks like its "Sandy Bridge" Xeon E5 server rollout is finally under way. All of the Xeon E5 processors have been launched by Intel, and therefore customers have begun buying either components or whole systems.… |
| Hiccups in Apple's iCloud after yesterday's hack of hapless hack Posted: 08 Aug 2012 11:33 AM PDT Apple users report app download freezeUsers of Apple's iTunes and other cloud services reported a number of hiccups in normal service this morning, a day after an iCloud account hack on hapless WiReD journo Matt Honan made headlines.… |
| Video shows armed assault on Kim Dotcom family home Posted: 08 Aug 2012 10:03 AM PDT Two helicopters, armed police and dogs used in arrestA New Zealand court has been shown footage of the 20 January dawn assault by police and the FBI on the home of Kim Dotcom, owner of the Megaupload file storage site.… |
| HP writes down a whopping $8bn from EDS gobble Posted: 08 Aug 2012 09:33 AM PDT Enterprise Services head rolls, Q3 profits boosted a few penniesHewlett-Packard has taken a fine-toothed comb to its Enterprise Services business and said it needs to write down $8bn in goodwill assets - presumably most of which come from its $13.9bn acquisition of services giant Electronic Data Systems back in May 2008.… |
| Facebook pokes devs' wallets: Mobile app ad beta launches Posted: 08 Aug 2012 09:02 AM PDT You will download Angry Birds... bitchDesperate to squeeze money from its mobile users, Facebook is trialling mobile-app advertising, auctioning news-feed slots to the mobile developer who bids highest.… |
| T-Mobile puts 'Full Monty' tariff on diet Posted: 08 Aug 2012 09:01 AM PDT End of tetherT-Mobile's Full Monty package has come under scrutiny again this week, after the Everything Everywhere subsidiary silently dropped tethering from the tariff's list of 'unlimited' features.… |
| Brocade claims $112m win over rival A10 in tech blueprints spat Posted: 08 Aug 2012 08:34 AM PDT Lee Chen comes out swinging after patents, copyright trialStorage networking biz Brocade claims to have won $112m in damages after taking rival A10 Networks to court alleging patent and copyright infringement. A10 has said it will appeal against the jury's verdict that it infringed some of Brocade's intellectual property.… |
| LinkedIn tweaks API terms of use for itchy developers Posted: 08 Aug 2012 08:08 AM PDT Hopes to ease coder anxiety by raising privacy eyebrowsSocial-networking-for-suits outfit LinkedIn has revamped its application programming interface (API) terms of use to allow developers to better exploit the website.… |
| US Army's cloud-friendly iPad-ready intel kit DOESN'T even work Posted: 08 Aug 2012 07:28 AM PDT Hey, at least it's buzzword-compliantThe US Army has deemed its key $2.3bn intelligence gathering system "not suitable, and not survivable".… |
| Hacker-smasher: White hats join forces to build bot-beating weapon Posted: 08 Aug 2012 07:02 AM PDT Collaboration is the name of the gameOpen ... and Shut In Hollywood, the good guys nearly always win. In information security, the bad guys ("black hats") often win, in large part because the bad guys know how to collaborate much better than the good guys ("white hats").… |
| Court orders Twitter to unmask Dark Knight copycat killer wannabe Posted: 08 Aug 2012 06:31 AM PDT Cops slap on subpoena after Tyson show threat tweetsTwitter has given cops details of a tweeter who threatened to go on a shooting rampage at a performance of ex-boxer Mike Tyson's one-man show.… |
| Sharp cuts exFAT deal with Microsoft for Android mobes Posted: 08 Aug 2012 06:01 AM PDT Licensed to swap files with your PCSharp has succumbed to the charms of a Microsoft licensing deal for the filing system exFAT.… |
| Now Curiosity rover beams back 3D snaps of Mars Posted: 08 Aug 2012 05:42 AM PDT Slap on the specs and feel like you're really therePics The Mars-trekking Curiosity rover has beamed back the first 3D image of the dusty terrain it's trundling across.… |
| Posted: 08 Aug 2012 05:21 AM PDT Yet another fantastic use for the cloudApple has been granted a patent on organising shopping lists, but not on shopping itself despite appearances.… |
| HP must throw its PC biz overboard to survive, says analyst Posted: 08 Aug 2012 05:01 AM PDT |
| Fallen flash drive star STEC's revenues circle drain Posted: 08 Aug 2012 04:41 AM PDT Flash boom bang: solid-state not so solid after allOne-time solid-state drive star STEC saw losses greater than its revenues in its second 2012 quarter. It's in a meat-grinder, facing class action lawsuits, an SEC insider trading case, and no uptick in demand as new products crawl oh-so-slowly through OEM qualification processes. Take a wrong turn or two in the flash business and you get screwed.… |
| Jimbo Wales: Wikipedia servers in UK? No way, not with YOUR libel law Posted: 08 Aug 2012 04:19 AM PDT Britain's silly rules cause too much friction, he tells LondonJimmy Wales has claimed that he couldn't have founded Wikipedia in the UK because the nation's libel law adds unpredictability and "friction" to hosting the world's largest unreliable collection of factoids.… |
| Thrillpower! Tharg releases <i>2000AD</i> iDevice app Posted: 08 Aug 2012 03:54 AM PDT Digital Progs on day-and-date releaseThere's a new 2000AD iPad app out right in time for the latest Programme's Wednesday publication date.… |
| Apple pounces on Samsung doc as proof of 'slavish copy' claims Posted: 08 Aug 2012 03:32 AM PDT Galaxy would be better if it was more like the iPhoneApple presented a massive 132-page internal Samsung document that showed the South Korean firm comparing every inch of the iPhone with its early Galaxy S phone in its patent ruckus yesterday.… |
| Beer mats to tout tat to mobiles over wireless NFC Posted: 08 Aug 2012 03:21 AM PDT Careful where you're spilling that pintA phone on a pub table may be threatened by more than puddles of ale as RapidNFC has signed a deal with Rutland Print to craft beer mats that beam web addresses to mobes over the air.… |
| Microsoft retracts staffer's 'new Xbox' comment Posted: 08 Aug 2012 03:19 AM PDT New features, old console, apparentlyMicrosoft has dismissed comment made by one of its executives this week, insisting references to a "new Xbox" were taken out of context.… |
| Software disaster zone Knight Capital bags $400m lifeline Posted: 08 Aug 2012 02:19 AM PDT What really happened when computers at trading firm went nutsI recently wrote about how a bad round of software testing lost Wall Street trading firm Knight Capital an estimated $440m – enough to almost put the company out of business.… |
| NASA's $2.5bn Curiosity rover: An Apple PowerBook on wheels Posted: 08 Aug 2012 02:09 AM PDT Science lab shares same brain as 1990s lap cookerPic It's a bit sturdier than the average Apple product, but the Curiosity rover that touched down on Mars on Monday is powered by the same processor family used in Apple's 1997 PowerBook G3 laptop.… |
| Speaking in Tech: Virtualisation, storage and flying balls Posted: 08 Aug 2012 01:42 AM PDT V is for, er, vOdgeball... |
| Rivals routed by Apple, Google smartphone onslaught Posted: 08 Aug 2012 01:31 AM PDT Farewell, Symbian, RIM?It's a two-horse race, no question. Apple and Google's grip on the world smartphone market tightened even further during Q2, with everyone else's combined share falling to 15 per cent from 34.3 per cent in the year-ago quarter.… |
| London NHS trusts: Let's BORG up our patient data Posted: 08 Aug 2012 01:18 AM PDT Academic merger vastness will be good for research – King's College and palsThree NHS foundation trusts have published proposals (PDF) to merge into a single organisation, with intentions including making better use of IT and creating shared platforms, such as a shared electronic patient record.… |
| Virgin Media punters stung in mobile data bill cock-up Posted: 08 Aug 2012 01:03 AM PDT Telco yet to 'fess up 'small error' to OfcomA number of Virgin Media customers were wrongly billed for mobile data usage last month due to a system error, The Register has learned.… |
| French minister: 3 strikes anti-piracy rule a 'waste of money' Posted: 08 Aug 2012 12:32 AM PDT Culture boss says controversial copyright protection regime isn't workingThe future of France's controversial "three strikes" copyright anti-infringement rule appears to have been called into question after the country's new culture minister branded the regime "expensive" and said that it had "not fulfilled its mission".… |
| Posted: 08 Aug 2012 12:00 AM PDT Mainstream makeover must-have?When Intel launched the SSD 520 series of drives it caused quite a kerfuffle. The company had abandoned using one of its own controllers or even a Marvell controller, as found in the 510 series. Instead, the ubiquitous LSI Sandforce SF-2281 controller was utilised but with Intel's own hand firmly in charge of the firmware.… |
| Chinese tech players take aim at Apple's talking tech Posted: 07 Aug 2012 11:49 PM PDT Can the Speech Industry Alliance of China hurt Apple, Siri?Siri beware - a handful of major Chinese telecoms operators, handset manufacturers and other tech firms have joined up to form the Speech Industry Alliance of China (SIAC), a new group which will look at exploiting the growing domestic appetite for speech-based applications.… |
| PSMA defends data quality after NBNCo criticism Posted: 07 Aug 2012 11:14 PM PDT Spatial data company says NBNCo ignored useful productsPSMA Australia Limited, a company that produces spatial information using government sources, has defended the quality of its products in the face of criticism from NBNCo CEO Mike Quigley.… |
| NBN price tag rises in new NBNCo new corporate plan Posted: 07 Aug 2012 10:57 PM PDT Conroy lashes "flat earther" critics of broadband planNBNCo has released its Corporate Plan (PDF)for 2012-2015, updating the projected costs and build speed for the project.… |
| Foldable NFC keyboard could tempt Android users Posted: 07 Aug 2012 10:19 PM PDT Japanese firm touts time-saving silicone peripheralJapanese electronics firm Elecom is claiming a world first with the launch of an NFC-enabled portable keyboard designed to work with Android smartphones – a gadget which could appeal to time-starved, fat fingered mobile workers.… |
| Indian 2G auction turmoil as telcos revolt Posted: 07 Aug 2012 10:13 PM PDT Foreign investors blame governmentAllegations of discrimination against foreign mobile operators, unfairly high start prices for spectrum bidders and yet more government delays have thrown India's 2G auctions into chaos once again over the past few days.… |
| Google ordered to destroy Oz Street View data Posted: 07 Aug 2012 08:43 PM PDT Privacy Commissioner demands seek, destroy, auditThe Australian Privacy Commission has followed the lead of its global counterparts demanding that Google Australia immediately destroys payload data which was siphoned by the SteetView wi-fi data sucking car squads.… |
| Mobile phone health rules need update, warns US watchdog Posted: 07 Aug 2012 05:58 PM PDT Radio emission standards may go up or downThe US Government Accountability Office (GAO) is urging legislators to update the health protection requirements required of mobile phone manufacturers, but indicated some emissions limits might be increased rather than reduced.… |
| Android app DRM quietly disabled due to bug Posted: 07 Aug 2012 05:50 PM PDT Copy protection crashed appsGoogle has temporarily deactivated a security feature designed to make it harder to make illicit copies of apps for the latest version of its Android mobile OS, owing to a bug that rendered the secured versions of some apps inoperable.… |
| ‘Cash for comment’ journos, bloggers under spotlight in Oracle-v-Google Posted: 07 Aug 2012 05:03 PM PDT Alsup demands disclosureAn unknown number of bloggers and hacks are feeling a little sweaty around the collar today, with a US judge ordering the disclosure of financial relationships that might have affected published articles and comment in the Oracle-versus-Google lawsuit.… |
| The policy that helped Anonymous hack AAPT Posted: 07 Aug 2012 04:30 PM PDT How vigilant is your host or public cloud provider?Anonymous' theft of data from a dormant AAPT server might not have been possible had the telco used a different host.… |
| IBM shoots higher and lower with x86 Flex Systems Posted: 07 Aug 2012 04:26 PM PDT Plus: Expansion node for GPUs, flash, and other goodiesBig Blue is adding two new compute nodes based on recent Xeon processors from Intel and a PCI expansion node that can be used to strap on GPUs, flash storage, and other system goosers as it continues to flesh out its Flex System modular servers - the basis of its PureSystems integrated server-storage-networking stacks and the PureApplication automated cloudy tools that ride on top of the stack. IBM .… |
| Microsoft offers alternative Lync-like web chat spec to W3C Posted: 07 Aug 2012 03:53 PM PDT Work by Google, Mozilla, Opera not good enough, it saysMicrosoft has submitted a proposed standard for real-time web communications to the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), in a move that could upset the apple cart for other browser vendors who have been working on their own such standard since early 2011.… |
| Posted: 07 Aug 2012 03:50 PM PDT Updated: Vilification continues, site not pulledFacebook, whose legendary misogyny means that breast-feeding images posted by mothers are considered taboo and pulled as soon as they're noticed, has managed to lurch into action and take down a race-hate page in Australia after a storm erupted on Twitter.… |
| Rackspace profits from cloudy transitions Posted: 07 Aug 2012 03:32 PM PDT The OpenStack effect, even before the code went liveRackspace Hosting, which co-founded the OpenStack cloud controller effort with NASA two years ago, was bragging last week that it had finally went live with OpenStack on the compute side.… |
| NT Telehealth's high-definition medicarts are really CoTS Posted: 07 Aug 2012 03:00 PM PDT Thanks for the meaningless NBN jargon, SenatorAustralia's Minister for Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy, Senator Stephen Conroy last week announced a telehealth initiative in the nation's Northern Territory.… |
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