Networking industry to collaborate on TERABIT Ethernet |
- Networking industry to collaborate on TERABIT Ethernet
- Silicon Valley comes to China to spur tech innovation
- Anonymous takes down UK government websites in Assange attack
- Internode's Hackett to fly new jet around the world
- Processor pioneer Victor Poor dies of cancer at 79
- Judge gives Google until Friday to dish on paid media
- Barnes & Noble Nooks bound for Blighty
- Don't download that app: US presidential candidates will STALK you with it
- Sacrebleu! Googleplex insists Bush is still le président américain
- Red-faced chip-fryer AMD pulls blog offline after hackers munch 32KB
- Cosmonauts step out for six-hour space walk around ISS
- Phone-flingers flock to Finland for World Championships
- Nimbus jiggles Gemini flash box, hits 1 million IOPS sweet spot
- White hat warns against iPhone SMS spoofing bug
- Google loads Moto Mobility cannon, fires patent shells at Apple
- HTC takes another punch to the wallet, loses $40m OnLive investment
- Facebook facepalm: US judge tosses out 'sponsored stories' deal
- Vulture Central logo pops up in prehistoric France
- EA kills Medal of Honour arms deal
- Python slithers up Amazon's Beanstalk
- Ivy Bridge for Ultrabooks
- Boffins pump hot, vivid fluid into squidgy robostarfish
- Zabulon Skipper: Butterfly harbinger of climate biodiversity DOOM?
- SMSZombie wraps self in nudie pics, slips into 500,000 Android devices
- All the sauce on Big Blue's hot chip: More on Power7+
- Apple accuses Samsung of abusing its 3G power
- Let them eat cache: EMC unleashes ass-kicking flash box
- IBM fuels up zNext mainframe for launch
- Dell pries open shrunken PowerVault, crams whole lotta disk inside
- PLT chair: UK Radio Society is 'living in a dream world'
- Brocade global sales boss exits, leaves soon-to-depart CEO to flog kit
- Hard-up fondlers rejoice: Tablet PC prices plummet
- Capita bungs staff £250 if they cheer up, smile for ad snaps
- Cloud-puffing Iomart goes south - to gobble Manc biz Melbourne
- Indian gov bans bulk texts as workers flee Bangalore
- Disney sitcom says open source is insecure
- China and Taiwan complete historic undersea cable
- Assange calls for help from … Quakers?
- Curiosity's laser turns Mars rocks to 'glowing plasma'
- Better onion anonymity possible: researcher
- IT helps Australian bank achieve carbon-neutrality
- Apple impasse sees China Mobile buy own speech tech
- NBN could cut $AU600m+ from telco maintenance bills
| Networking industry to collaborate on TERABIT Ethernet Posted: 20 Aug 2012 03:06 PM PDT Network traffic projected to increase tenfold by 2015Sensing mounting frustration that |
| Silicon Valley comes to China to spur tech innovation Posted: 20 Aug 2012 03:00 PM PDT Yeah, that's probably going to take a while...China's attempts to rebrand itself as a technology innovator received a boost last week when US lender Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) announced a joint venture with Shanghai Pudong Development Bank (SPDB) which will provide capital to budding tech entrepreneurs.… |
| Anonymous takes down UK government websites in Assange attack Posted: 20 Aug 2012 01:15 PM PDT He's not the messiah; he's a very naughty boyAnonymous is claiming to have begun shutting down UK government websites in protest of the treatment of Julian Assange.… |
| Internode's Hackett to fly new jet around the world Posted: 20 Aug 2012 01:00 PM PDT Agile by name, agile by natureiiNet Board member Simon Hackett has sunk some of the millions he scored by selling ISP Internode into a new plane that he intends to pilot around the planet.… |
| Processor pioneer Victor Poor dies of cancer at 79 Posted: 20 Aug 2012 12:19 PM PDT Modest designer of Intel's first integrated processorsObituary Victor Poor, whose death was announced this weekend, isn't one of the first names to come to mind among computing history, but he played a pivotal role in the development of Intel's early architectures that went on to dominate modern computing and is a legend in ham radio circles.… |
| Judge gives Google until Friday to dish on paid media Posted: 20 Aug 2012 12:09 PM PDT Tattletale Oracle gets pat on the headJudge William Alsup has said that Google "failed to comply" with his August 7 order to disclose any paid relationships with the media as part of its ongoing patent litigation with Oracle, and has given the search giant five days to resubmit.… |
| Barnes & Noble Nooks bound for Blighty Posted: 20 Aug 2012 09:12 AM PDT UK bookstore tooUS-based literature retailer Barnes & Noble today announced plans to bring its popular Nook range of eReaders to the UK market.… |
| Don't download that app: US presidential candidates will STALK you with it Posted: 20 Aug 2012 09:01 AM PDT Romney mobe application even requests permission to record audio ...Security researchers have uncovered privacy shortcomings in the mobile applications offered by both the Barack Obama and Mitt Romney presidential campaigns.… |
| Sacrebleu! Googleplex insists Bush is still le président américain Posted: 20 Aug 2012 08:33 AM PDT Google in, garbage outGoogle wonks beavering away at translating snippets of French into the English language might wish to take note of the following fact - their system thinks "le président américain" is "Bush".… |
| Red-faced chip-fryer AMD pulls blog offline after hackers munch 32KB Posted: 20 Aug 2012 08:02 AM PDT Lashings of r00tbeerAMD's blog was taken offline after a hacker broke into the chipmaker's site and lifted a small number of user credentials.… |
| Cosmonauts step out for six-hour space walk around ISS Posted: 20 Aug 2012 07:33 AM PDT Russian 'nauts will prep for Pirs module removalCosmonauts Gennady Padalka and Yuri Malenchenko have stepped outside the International Space Station for a six-and-a-half hour spacewalk.… |
| Phone-flingers flock to Finland for World Championships Posted: 20 Aug 2012 07:02 AM PDT Not Nokia staffers... we hopeNo, they weren't Nokia employees – we think – but on Saturday Finns gathered to hurl mobile phones into some concrete.… |
| Nimbus jiggles Gemini flash box, hits 1 million IOPS sweet spot Posted: 20 Aug 2012 06:32 AM PDT Ten-year warrantyNimbus Data has been in the all-flash array game for a while, so much so that it just pushed out a third-generation iteration of its Gemini flash array. The new Gemini hits that million IOPS performance level and also boasts a waranteed 10-year working life from consumer-grade flash along with the two high-availability controllers that give the product its name.… |
| White hat warns against iPhone SMS spoofing bug Posted: 20 Aug 2012 06:03 AM PDT Apple: It's not US, it's the technology...Security researchers have discovered an iPhone bug that allows for spoofed SMSes with bogus return addresses to be sent to fanbois.… |
| Google loads Moto Mobility cannon, fires patent shells at Apple Posted: 20 Aug 2012 05:42 AM PDT Siri, is this Mountain View's back-up plan?Google's Motorola Mobility has filed a fresh patent infringement case against Apple over features on its phones, including the iPhone's voice assistant, Siri.… |
| HTC takes another punch to the wallet, loses $40m OnLive investment Posted: 20 Aug 2012 05:18 AM PDT Cloudy gaming biz restructures, junks investmentsTaiwanese phone-maker HTC has just seen the $40m it shovelled into an internet gaming company go up in smoke.… |
| Facebook facepalm: US judge tosses out 'sponsored stories' deal Posted: 20 Aug 2012 04:59 AM PDT Suggests $20m settlement offer for faces-in-ads feature was 'plucked from thin air'Facebook's attempt to end litigation brought against it in the US over the launch of its unpopular "sponsored stories" feature has backfired with a judge throwing out the company's settlement offer late last week.… |
| Vulture Central logo pops up in prehistoric France Posted: 20 Aug 2012 04:46 AM PDT El Reg's vulturine origins traced back 10,000 yearsIt's with a certain amount of amazement that we're able to announce today that the origins of Vulture Central have been traced back 10,000 years to the eastern French Pyrenees.… |
| EA kills Medal of Honour arms deal Posted: 20 Aug 2012 04:25 AM PDT Charitable promo shot downEA has ceased the promotion of its charity fundraiser 'Project Honor', after public outcry over its decision to advocate the sale of actual weapons featured in the game Medal of Honour. All for a good cause, you understand, right?… |
| Python slithers up Amazon's Beanstalk Posted: 20 Aug 2012 04:14 AM PDT Deeper into youPython has become the newest language welcomed into the Amazon's cloud fold, through the Amazon Web Services' Elastic Beanstalk.… |
| Posted: 20 Aug 2012 04:00 AM PDT Inside Intel's premium portablesThe one thing missing at the launch of Intel's Ivy Bridge CPU technology was detail on the dual-core and lower powered chips for the mobile market segment, in particular, for its Ultrabook concept. The recent launch of the ULV (Ultra Low Voltage) and dual-core standard voltage mobile Ivy Bridge parts has revealed all, with the ULV parts being of particular interest to Ultrabook manufacturers.… |
| Boffins pump hot, vivid fluid into squidgy robostarfish Posted: 20 Aug 2012 03:51 AM PDT Thermo multicoloured spurts like camo gear for limbo champ octobotRoboboffins have come up with a way to disguise their soft-bodied, multi-limbed robostarfish, by using colour to camouflage its silicone body.… |
| Zabulon Skipper: Butterfly harbinger of climate biodiversity DOOM? Posted: 20 Aug 2012 03:36 AM PDT Haven't you guys heard of evolution, asks boffinA volley of studies into the likely effects of climate change on various animal species - and thus on biodiversity worldwide - have come out in the last few days. The headliner, examining butterflies in Massachusetts, seems to indicate that rising temperatures are having powerful ecological effects: but another pair of studies showed that other factors may be more powerful than warming, and yet another appears to indicate that dangers are being overblown.… |
| SMSZombie wraps self in nudie pics, slips into 500,000 Android devices Posted: 20 Aug 2012 03:29 AM PDT Trojan money-slurper aimed at China Mobile payment platformA strain of resilient Android Trojan has infected 500,000 devices, mainly in China.… |
| All the sauce on Big Blue's hot chip: More on Power7+ Posted: 20 Aug 2012 03:16 AM PDT Clock crank, cache bump ... and maybe on-chip memory compression tooThe Hot Chips 24 conference hosted by Stanford University is next week, and IBM, Oracle, Advanced Micro Devices, Fujitsu, and Intel are expected to talk tech relating to just-announced or impending processors. But Big Blue seems unable to contain its enthusiasm for the Power7+ chip that it will talk about alongside its next-generation zNext processors for its System z mainframes.… |
| Apple accuses Samsung of abusing its 3G power Posted: 20 Aug 2012 03:01 AM PDT Firm says Sammy wanted way too much cash for its patentsApple got in one last dig against Samsung in the US on Friday, claiming that the Korean tech giant abused its "monopoly power" gained by its ownership of wireless patents and demanded unreasonable royalties from Apple for its iDevices.… |
| Let them eat cache: EMC unleashes ass-kicking flash box Posted: 20 Aug 2012 02:34 AM PDT Taking on Pure Storage, WhipTail and other all-flash array vendorsSoon EMC will have all the latest in storage tech: server flash cache, server shared-flash cache, and its very own all-flash array.… |
| IBM fuels up zNext mainframe for launch Posted: 20 Aug 2012 02:16 AM PDT A little early – and just in time to boost Q4It looks like Big Blue is getting ready to launch its next-generation mainframe, appropriately enough nicknamed the zNext system, and that it will come to market a little bit earlier than expected.… |
| Dell pries open shrunken PowerVault, crams whole lotta disk inside Posted: 20 Aug 2012 02:03 AM PDT DR4000 gets Symantec OpenStorage APIIn between the deluge of flash-driven, cloud-driven, and virtualisation-driven storage news, humble drive arrays get new features too. Dell has announced that it has provided low-end PowerVault enclosures with more drives than before and boosted its DR4000 disk-to-disk backup array with better replication and Symantec backup software integration.… |
| PLT chair: UK Radio Society is 'living in a dream world' Posted: 20 Aug 2012 01:41 AM PDT UK hams face down EU over powerline networking kit standardThe chair of the EU committee on powerline networking has responded to the Radio Society's call to arms, claiming that every minute of filibustering pollutes the radio spectrum more.… |
| Brocade global sales boss exits, leaves soon-to-depart CEO to flog kit Posted: 20 Aug 2012 01:17 AM PDT It's not every day your boss fills in for youBrocade's global sales boss, Ian Whiting, left in June this year "to pursue other personal and professional interests". This move was slipped out under the radar as part of a Brocade 8-K filing on 4 June, with Whiting's departure date effectively 18 June. Brocade CEO Michael Klayko has been running sales since then – and himself has just said he wanted to resign as soon as a successor was found and in place.… |
| Hard-up fondlers rejoice: Tablet PC prices plummet Posted: 20 Aug 2012 01:01 AM PDT Analyst: 'If you aren't an iPad, you'd better be cheap'Good news for would-be tablet owners without a pile of cash to spend: prices have dived 13.6 per cent in the past year – if you don't count the iPad. Apple's tablet came down in price too, but only by 3.45 per cent.… |
| Capita bungs staff £250 if they cheer up, smile for ad snaps Posted: 20 Aug 2012 12:32 AM PDT PFYs asked to wash smelly Metallica T-shirtsStaff at Capita IT Services are being offered a bit of extra spending money by their employer in the form of a £250 voucher for those snapshots of real colleagues at work.… |
| Cloud-puffing Iomart goes south - to gobble Manc biz Melbourne Posted: 20 Aug 2012 12:04 AM PDT Data centre tentacles spread across BlightyUK biz Iomart is spreading its cloud south and bolstering biz services by buying up Manchester-based Melbourne Server Hosting, in an acquisition announced last week.… |
| Indian gov bans bulk texts as workers flee Bangalore Posted: 19 Aug 2012 11:48 PM PDT North-easterners panicked by rumours of violenceThe Indian government has been forced to ban the sending of bulk SMS text messages over concerns migrant workers from the nation's north-east will be targeted by Muslims.… |
| Disney sitcom says open source is insecure Posted: 19 Aug 2012 11:14 PM PDT Free software full of viruses, says pre-teen sysadminShake it Up, a Disney sitcom that screens on The Disney Channel around the world, has slipped in an insult to open source software.… |
| China and Taiwan complete historic undersea cable Posted: 19 Aug 2012 09:47 PM PDT Small cable is hugely significantChina and Taiwan have edged just a little bit closer with the completion of the first submarine telecoms cables between the two nations.… |
| Assange calls for help from … Quakers? Posted: 19 Aug 2012 08:58 PM PDT Peers out window, appeals for freedom, lectures worldJulian Assange has revealed himself to the world from the balcony of London's Ecuadorean embassy and made a statement that lays the blame for his predicament on the hypocrisy of the USA.… |
| Curiosity's laser turns Mars rocks to 'glowing plasma' Posted: 19 Aug 2012 08:14 PM PDT Watch out Martians, those million-watt jolts were just target practiceHumanity has unleashed its most awesome high-energy assault on extra-terrestrial geology to date, after the Curiosity rover zapped a martian rock with its Chemistry and Camera instrument (ChemCam) over the weekend.… |
| Better onion anonymity possible: researcher Posted: 19 Aug 2012 05:34 PM PDT Boost to reliability as wellOnion routing – which in spite of its DARPA genealogy are disliked by national security types – could be made more anonymous, according to a an Iranian researcher now working on a PhD at Concordia University in Montreal.… |
| IT helps Australian bank achieve carbon-neutrality Posted: 19 Aug 2012 05:09 PM PDT National Australia Bank has adopted tri-generation, private cloud, modular data centresNational Australia Bank (NAB), one of Australia's big four banks, has detailed how changes to its data centres helped the organisation to become carbon neutral in a white paper (PDF) issued by the Open Data Center Alliance.… |
| Apple impasse sees China Mobile buy own speech tech Posted: 19 Aug 2012 04:20 PM PDT How can we bring the iPhone to China's largest 3G carrier, Siri?China Mobile has made a defensive move against Apple's plans to launch a Chinese version of Siri by courting its own speech recognition investment.… |
| NBN could cut $AU600m+ from telco maintenance bills Posted: 19 Aug 2012 04:07 PM PDT BIS Shrapnel tags the cost of caring for copperProperty researcher BIS Shrapnel has shone a torch into one of the dark corners of the NBN debate: the cost of maintaining Australia's copper network.… |
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