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- Pentagon develops 'Plan X' for next-gen online combat
- VMware desktop virt refresh lets you run Windows 8 everywhere
- LulzSec sneak Sabu buys six more months of freedom
- Rovio sticks some Martian action into Angry Birds Space
- McAfee splats bug that knocked punters offline
- Microsoft's new retro-flavoured logo channels Channel 4
- Train crash knocks out fibre cables, delays 9/11 hearing
- Red hot chilli peppers floor Bristol shoplifter
- Tech conferences: Not just here for the FREE BEER
- Red alert! Google assembles crack team to AVOID privacy gaffes
- SCC handed top-level clearance to flog secure cloudy kit on G-Cloud
- We're raising generations of MUTANT KIDS, says Icelandic study
- Capita's IT Services top dog legs it after just 6 months
- Password hints easily snaffled from Windows PCs
- OFT makes special exemption for bumpkins' wayleave charges
- Nokia, Samsung and pals team up to map malls, stations
- Sony pushes patent for interactive TV ads
- Study: If your antivirus doesn't sniff 'new' malware in 6 days, it never will
- AT&T defends FaceTime price gouge
- Citi rubbishes Nasdaq compensation offer for Facebook IPOcalypse
- LOHAN sets clock ticking for explosive climax
- LG making thin screens possibly FOR THE NEW iPHONE
- Facebook, Instagram nuptials get US watchdog blessing
- Ice core shows Antarctic Peninsula warming is nothing unusual
- Sony Mobile moves out of Swedish lovenest after break-up
- Titanic storage wrestlers grapple in summer frenzy
- Investor pulls out of Facebook, pumps cash into pork-printing joint
- MoD to become <i>even more</i> top-heavy as a result of personnel cuts
- Not in China? No shrunken IBM Storwize array for you
- Hunt vows: 'UK will have fastest broadband in Europe by 2015'
- REVEALED: Everything Everywhere new 4G logo ... a SNAIL?
- ICO to probe Essex council over data leak
- Samsung Galaxy Beam Android projector phone review
- China to probe black holes, search for aliens
- Hong Kong, not China keeping Syria online
- Driving a car? There's an app for that
- Samsung strides onto the catwalk
- Australia threatens telcos with mobile roaming price laws
- Want a Windows 8 Start Button? Open source to the rescue!
- Lawyers: We'll pillory porn pirates who don't pay up
- ATO casts loving eyes over cybercrime intercept powers
- Aussie mobile SAP house acquired by Kony
- Clarke tags new RuggedCom vuln
- HP posts $8.9bn loss on slow sales, charges in Q3
| Pentagon develops 'Plan X' for next-gen online combat Posted: 23 Aug 2012 01:53 PM PDT 'Battle units' to defend global networksThe Pentagon is asking for submissions for its next generation of online defenses with a workshop organized by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to develop the tools to protect US networks.… |
| VMware desktop virt refresh lets you run Windows 8 everywhere Posted: 23 Aug 2012 01:02 PM PDT Run Windows 8 inside Windows 8, hey, why notJust days ahead of its annual VMworld conference in San Francisco, VMware has announced new versions of its consumer desktop virtualization solutions for Windows and Mac OS X, both with improved support for Windows 8.… |
| LulzSec sneak Sabu buys six more months of freedom Posted: 23 Aug 2012 10:57 AM PDT Federal grass gets more time in pastureHector Xavier Monsegur, aka Subu, who allegedly led and then sold out the LulzSec hacking group, has bought himself another six months of freedom from the big house.… |
| Rovio sticks some Martian action into Angry Birds Space Posted: 23 Aug 2012 09:59 AM PDT Plonks Curiosity where no rover has gone before...For possibly no other reason than it hasn't had any other fantastic ideas lately, Rovio Entertainment has updated its Angry Birds Space app to include the Martian terrain.… |
| McAfee splats bug that knocked punters offline Posted: 23 Aug 2012 09:29 AM PDT The internet? Oh no, far too dangerous for you to go aloneAntivirus maker McAfee has fixed a problem that cut off punters' internet connections earlier this week.… |
| Microsoft's new retro-flavoured logo channels Channel 4 Posted: 23 Aug 2012 09:11 AM PDT Metro is dead, long live the Metro-inspired rebrandLogo watch Microsoft has redrawn its corporate logo for the first time since the 1980s in a move likely to have the web boiling over its significance.… |
| Train crash knocks out fibre cables, delays 9/11 hearing Posted: 23 Aug 2012 08:27 AM PDT Maryland derailment sliced communication lines to US naval base in CubaA 9/11 pretrial hearing at Guantanamo Bay was postponed on Wednesday after a coal-train crash that killed two women in Baltimore, Maryland, disrupted internet connections to the 45-square-mile US naval base in Cuba. The whole thing was later altogether abandoned due to a tropical storm.… |
| Red hot chilli peppers floor Bristol shoplifter Posted: 23 Aug 2012 08:04 AM PDT Unwisely scoffs booty, collapses, vomits, cops a cuffingA Bristol shoplifter got a shock lesson in the awesome power of the Scotch Bonnet after ill-advisedly deciding to scoff a handful of the napalm peppers he'd swiped from a store, before attempting to leg it from the scene.… |
| Tech conferences: Not just here for the FREE BEER Posted: 23 Aug 2012 07:39 AM PDT It's all about the social networking... |
| Red alert! Google assembles crack team to AVOID privacy gaffes Posted: 23 Aug 2012 07:02 AM PDT Just how can we stop our dastardly behaviour attracting the Feds?Google has answered the beeping red telephone, pressed the red button and assembled a "red team" as it's known in security parlance - all after seeing red over the US Federal Trade Commission's small-change fine for tracking Safari users.… |
| SCC handed top-level clearance to flog secure cloudy kit on G-Cloud Posted: 23 Aug 2012 06:27 AM PDT First supplier to get pan-government security ratingReseller and integrator SCC has been cleared to sell secure cloud services across all government departments through G-Cloud.… |
| We're raising generations of MUTANT KIDS, says Icelandic study Posted: 23 Aug 2012 06:03 AM PDT Trend to later dadhood drives evolution of X-men. Sort ofThe trend for women to have children with older chaps than of yore is causing many more mutations among children, according to a study of the genetics of Icelandic families. There's no call to panic regarding the new generations of mutant kids, however: they shouldn't be unduly prone to either troublesome superpowers nor more humdrum and unpleasant conditions such as autism.… |
| Capita's IT Services top dog legs it after just 6 months Posted: 23 Aug 2012 06:02 AM PDT Jogs out door left open by biz boss after mega redundancy programmeCapita IT Services boss Mark Quartermaine is leaving the company just six months after he landed the job. He follows operations director Russ Hewitt, who quit the firm a month ago.… |
| Password hints easily snaffled from Windows PCs Posted: 23 Aug 2012 05:43 AM PDT Psst, you might want to encrypt thatPunters' password hints are easily extracted from the latest Microsoft Windows machines, security researchers have discovered.… |
| OFT makes special exemption for bumpkins' wayleave charges Posted: 23 Aug 2012 05:24 AM PDT Milking the cows of |
| Nokia, Samsung and pals team up to map malls, stations Posted: 23 Aug 2012 05:07 AM PDT Alliance aims to develop standard for mobile floor plansNokia and Samsung have teamed up to try to standardise the technology used to for indoor location services.… |
| Sony pushes patent for interactive TV ads Posted: 23 Aug 2012 04:53 AM PDT Makes a play for commercial gamingSony has aspirations for television commercials with interactive network games, recently published patents reveal.… |
| Study: If your antivirus doesn't sniff 'new' malware in 6 days, it never will Posted: 23 Aug 2012 04:46 AM PDT But opposing researcher smacks down the findingMainstream antivirus software only has small window for detecting and blocking attacks, according to a controversial new study.… |
| AT&T defends FaceTime price gouge Posted: 23 Aug 2012 04:28 AM PDT Apple aren't our competition, so we're free to nobble themAT&T has been busy defending its decision to ban FaceTime video chat from its 3G and 4G networks, unless punters shell out additional cash, to the sound of an incensed blogosphere screaming "net neutrality".… |
| Citi rubbishes Nasdaq compensation offer for Facebook IPOcalypse Posted: 23 Aug 2012 04:14 AM PDT 'Give us ALL our money back, not just a few million'Citigroup has let the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) know that it is not happy with the Nasdaq stock exchange's offer of $62m compensation for the Facebook IPOcalypse.… |
| LOHAN sets clock ticking for explosive climax Posted: 23 Aug 2012 04:01 AM PDT Just what our mission control board will do, and when...Work is proceeding apace on our Low Orbit Helium Assisted Navigator (LOHAN) "Swift" control board, as recently unveiled to an astounded world.… |
| LG making thin screens possibly FOR THE NEW iPHONE Posted: 23 Aug 2012 03:44 AM PDT New touchscreens churned out for mysterious 'customer'LG Display has fuelled rumours of the imminent arrival of the iPhone 5 as its CEO announced the production on a new, thinner display.… |
| Facebook, Instagram nuptials get US watchdog blessing Posted: 23 Aug 2012 03:28 AM PDT Show me your ring in a share-reliant sling... bitchFacebook's proposed $1bn buyout of photo filter Instagram has been cleared by the US Federal Trade Commission.… |
| Ice core shows Antarctic Peninsula warming is nothing unusual Posted: 23 Aug 2012 03:16 AM PDT Press release flatly contradicts what boffins saidNew ice core data from the Antarctic Peninsula has revealed that temperatures in the region during the past 10,000 years have often been higher than they are today, and that warming of the sort seen there recently has also occurred in the pre-industrial past.… |
| Sony Mobile moves out of Swedish lovenest after break-up Posted: 23 Aug 2012 02:58 AM PDT Heads back home after Ericsson split, leaves 1,000 redundancies in its wakeSony Mobile is moving its headquarters from Sweden to Tokyo, where parent group Sony Corporation is headquartered, and laying off 1,000 people as it reshapes the company it took total control of back in February.… |
| Titanic storage wrestlers grapple in summer frenzy Posted: 23 Aug 2012 02:39 AM PDT Keep up at the back thereThis week is turning out to be a massive raft of storage news. Ready for the deluge? Here we go:… |
| Investor pulls out of Facebook, pumps cash into pork-printing joint Posted: 23 Aug 2012 02:15 AM PDT As you doNews that maverick venture capitalist Peter Thiel dumped 20 million Facebook shares – about $400m worth – last week was accompanied by an announcement about a small investment he made around the same time: in a printable meat company. Looks like biotech company Modern Meadow's ambition to print out a "pork sheet" is more interesting to investors than Facebook's mission to get everyone liking photos. Was there ever any doubt?… |
| MoD to become <i>even more</i> top-heavy as a result of personnel cuts Posted: 23 Aug 2012 02:02 AM PDT Top brass to shrink by 3% (or less) in 20% bloodbathThe UK's Ministry of Defence is a famously top-heavy organisation: the navy has at least one admiral for every warship it possesses, the RAF has an air-marshal or two for every fighting squadron and the army has approximately 10 times as many generals as it could possibly need to command itself in combat. And that's not even to mention the ministry's swarming civil-service grandees, more numerous than the uniformed top brass of any of the services.… |
| Not in China? No shrunken IBM Storwize array for you Posted: 23 Aug 2012 01:41 AM PDT Covert move by Big BlueIBM has stealthily released a smaller version of its StorWize V7000, the V3500, restricting its sale to Taiwan, mainland China, Hong Kong and the Chinese territory of Macau. Big Blue hasn't explained why the handy little V3500 won't ship outside of PROC and ROC*.… |
| Hunt vows: 'UK will have fastest broadband in Europe by 2015' Posted: 23 Aug 2012 01:18 AM PDT Did I say best? I meant fastest - it's the same thing, right?The government's pledge to provide countrywide broadband access by 2015 has received another boost from the Culture Secretary, who has promised the "fastest broadband of any major European country".… |
| REVEALED: Everything Everywhere new 4G logo ... a SNAIL? Posted: 23 Aug 2012 01:02 AM PDT Here's a tip: Needs more go-faster stripesEverything Everywhere has chosen a surprising design to accompany the launch of its 4G next-gen mobile broadband in Britain, we've discovered.… |
| ICO to probe Essex council over data leak Posted: 23 Aug 2012 12:25 AM PDT Service users told their information 'has been compromised'The Information Commissioner's Office is making enquiries into a leak of data possibly involving the details up to 400 users of services provided by Essex county council. The council said that all affected residents had been informed. It has not yet been confirmed that the leak amounts to an offence under the Data Protection Act.… |
| Samsung Galaxy Beam Android projector phone review Posted: 23 Aug 2012 12:00 AM PDT Putting on a displaySamsung's first Galaxy Beam, the GT-i8520, was a tremendously thick, heavy and expensive handset that very few bought. Having had a rethink, the company is now trying the whole smartphone-with-a-projector idea again with the GT-i8530. Essentially, this handset amounts to a Galaxy Advance S with a Digital Light Processing projector shoved in one end.… |
| China to probe black holes, search for aliens Posted: 22 Aug 2012 11:45 PM PDT Look out space, the Chinese are coming...China will ramp up its space exploration plans from 2014, with shiny new kit to probe black holes, study dark matter and search for signs of alien life, according to one of the country's top astro-boffins.… |
| Hong Kong, not China keeping Syria online Posted: 22 Aug 2012 11:20 PM PDT PCCW carries lion's share of traffic to war-torn landHong Kong telecoms giant PCCW (sometimes known as Pacific Century CyberWorks) is all-but-single-handedly keeping Syria online as US sanctions and probable infrastructure issues hit the war-torn country.… |
| Driving a car? There's an app for that Posted: 22 Aug 2012 10:55 PM PDT Griffith University researchers build Android-piloted carResearchers at Australia's Griffith University have built an electric car that can be driven, without human intervention, by software runing on an Android smartphone.… |
| Samsung strides onto the catwalk Posted: 22 Aug 2012 09:15 PM PDT Phone-y fashion outlets will hit China in 2014Never a company to take its foot of the accelerator, Samsung has decided to follow-up its success as the leading smartphone vendor in the world's largest mobile market by launching a range of fashion outlets in China.… |
| Australia threatens telcos with mobile roaming price laws Posted: 22 Aug 2012 07:50 PM PDT Roaming profit margins fall from 1000% to 300% but governments want moreAustralia and New Zealand are considering legislation to prevent mobile carriers gouging customers when they use their phones overseas.… |
| Want a Windows 8 Start Button? Open source to the rescue! Posted: 22 Aug 2012 06:23 PM PDT 'Classic Shell' can banish Interface Formerly Known As MetroWindows 8 users need not do without a Start button, thanks to an open source application titled Classic Shell that can banish the Interface Formerly Known As Metro (TIFKAM).… |
| Lawyers: We'll pillory porn pirates who don't pay up Posted: 22 Aug 2012 05:38 PM PDT Priests, police will be among first namedA law firm from the southern German town of Regensburg has threatened to reveal the names of internet users whom it claims illegally distributed pornography over file-sharing networks – unless, that is, the accused pony up some cash.… |
| ATO casts loving eyes over cybercrime intercept powers Posted: 22 Aug 2012 05:14 PM PDT I want what she's having…Hot on the heels of the passage of Australia's Cybercrime Amendment Bill – which expands Australia's interception regime in an effort to bring it into line with European practices – the Australian Tax Office is reportedly looking for more interception powers as well.… |
| Aussie mobile SAP house acquired by Kony Posted: 22 Aug 2012 04:31 PM PDT Sky Technologies gets global pushAustralian mobile enterprise SAP solution provider Sky Technologies has been snapped up by US based mobile enterprise player, Kony Solutions.… |
| Clarke tags new RuggedCom vuln Posted: 22 Aug 2012 04:07 PM PDT Hard-coded RSA key provides new backdoorJustin Clark, who back in April pinged industrial control vendor RuggedCom over a backdoor that existed in control systems based on its ROS operating system, has turned up a second vulnerability in the form of a hard-coded RSA key.… |
| HP posts $8.9bn loss on slow sales, charges in Q3 Posted: 22 Aug 2012 03:27 PM PDT Revenues down in nearly every divisionAs expected, Hewlett Packard's earnings slumped in the three months ending in July, causing the PC maker to post a third-quarter loss of $8.9bn, or $4.49 per share, which was in line with the high end of analyst estimates.… |
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