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- RMIT serves up video tagging at <strike>Olympics</strike> London sportfest
- AMD poaches Keller from Apple's mobile chip team
- Outlook.com launch a gold rush for jokers, spammers
- Microsoft RTMs final Windows 8 and Server 2012 code
- Speaking in Tech: We grill EMC's Mr VMWare
- Lenovo: 'Us, buy Nokia? Surely you jest'
- Commtouch gulps down Icelandic anti-virus pioneer FRISK
- Lenovo iPad-smiting Windows 8 slate slips out
- Apple iPad fondlers are about to enter a THIRD DIMENSION
- M.R. James, master of the ghost story, was born 150 years ago
- If Hotmail was a person it could have kids now. But it would be a crime
- SHEEP NEED TWITTER, insist my noble Lords
- Smutty books strip Harry Potter of Amazon crown
- Hulu, Apple TV deal sparks fanboi Glee glee
- Google falls for Web2.0 smoke signals from Wildfire
- Higgs boson chasers: Now only 1-in-300 MILLION chance we're wrong
- Wintel takes kicking from Apple, market share at all-time low
- Microsoft: MED-V won't help you escape WinXP end-of-life
- Dropbox blames staffer's password reuse for spam flood breach
- Slim debut sales for fatter Nintendo 3DS
- Murdoch's fondleslab epaper axes 50 staff
- Beak explodes at Samsung's evidence leak in Apple patent spat
- Now French watchdog wants to look at Google's slurped Wi-Fi data
- RBS must realise it's just an IT biz with a banking licence
- Rackspace wolfs down own OpenStack dog food
- Lords call for the end of TV transmissions
- Systemax files $2.2m losses as US shoppers stay home
- Linux lessons for Hadoop doubters
- LOHAN breathes fire in REHAB
- Blighty's coolest mapper will flog its stuff to global buyers
- BT charged rivals 'unjustified' prices to use network – Appeals Court
- ROBOTS battle bunker-buster bank blast blaggers
- The Dragon 32 is 30
- Bribery claims call Chinese labour audits into question
- Submarine cable plan sinks without trace
- EMC, Lenovo, in servers alliance
- Apple foe Proview laughs off debts, ressurrects business
- New version of Chrome can WATCH and LISTEN
- Metronode opens eco-friendly data centre for Victoria
- Nexus Q preorders halted, price dropped to $0
- FDA clears edible medical sensor for human consumption
- Qubits turn into time travellers
- Tracking Android phones is easy, says researcher
- Zynga managers fingered in insider trading lawsuit
| RMIT serves up video tagging at <strike>Olympics</strike> London sportfest Posted: 01 Aug 2012 03:22 PM PDT Aus badminton team gets help with data swingThe Australian Olympic badminton team has been perfecting its moves using a video tagging and tracking platform developed by RMIT University.… |
| AMD poaches Keller from Apple's mobile chip team Posted: 01 Aug 2012 02:45 PM PDT A call to ARMs?Jim Keller, formerly director of the platform architecture group at Apple, has become the newest recruit to AMD as part of CEO Rory Read's recent talent buying spree.… |
| Outlook.com launch a gold rush for jokers, spammers Posted: 01 Aug 2012 02:36 PM PDT 'One million people' could be wrongAnalysis Microsoft's servers have been going bonkers processing account requests for its newly launched Outlook.com webmail service, but there's plenty of evidence to suggest that Redmond's Gmail competitor may be less of a breakout success than it would have us believe.… |
| Microsoft RTMs final Windows 8 and Server 2012 code Posted: 01 Aug 2012 10:37 AM PDT Shuts the gate on final changesMicrosoft has confirmed that Windows 8 and Server 2012 have gone RTM and the final code is now in the hands of OEMs, ready to be tested and installed onto new systems.… |
| Speaking in Tech: We grill EMC's Mr VMWare Posted: 01 Aug 2012 10:05 AM PDT Virtual geek Chad Sakac talks SDNs, Oracle's Xsigo, CloudFoundry and more... |
| Lenovo: 'Us, buy Nokia? Surely you jest' Posted: 01 Aug 2012 09:22 AM PDT Flushes flap about Finnish phone firm feast as fictionLenovo's EMEA chief Gianfranco Lanci has laughed off suggestions that the Chinese computer giant would buy out flailing phone-maker Nokia, dismissing the idea as a "joke".… |
| Commtouch gulps down Icelandic anti-virus pioneer FRISK Posted: 01 Aug 2012 09:03 AM PDT The fresh minty taste of white-label security solutionsFRISK, one of the early pioneers in anti-virus technology, has been acquired by Commtouch. Terms of the deal, announced Wednesday, were undisclosed.… |
| Lenovo iPad-smiting Windows 8 slate slips out Posted: 01 Aug 2012 08:36 AM PDT Pen is to be used, not fingersYou'd never have guessed this, but Lenovo will be shipping a ThinkPad-branded tablet running Windows 8 when Microsoft's next major OS release comes out. Still, we do no have details.… |
| Apple iPad fondlers are about to enter a THIRD DIMENSION Posted: 01 Aug 2012 08:01 AM PDT A dimension not only of sight and sound but of KinectApple has designed three-dimensional touch technology so iPad fanbois can "pull" virtual 3D objects off the tablet screen.… |
| M.R. James, master of the ghost story, was born 150 years ago Posted: 01 Aug 2012 07:26 AM PDT Oh whistle and I'll scare you to bits, my ladBritish writer of ghost stories - and arguably one of the genre's finest storytellers - MR James, was born 150 years ago today.… |
| If Hotmail was a person it could have kids now. But it would be a crime Posted: 01 Aug 2012 07:23 AM PDT Vast spam archive was only used for signups, shurelySketch It's a slow day on the tech-news desk in the temporary Olympic capital of the world, London. But, with proper IT news being in short supply, more than one starving blogger has been forced to resort to writing a "my first pony" story about Hotmail, now that it's turning into Outlook.com.… |
| SHEEP NEED TWITTER, insist my noble Lords Posted: 01 Aug 2012 07:02 AM PDT Taxpayers should cough to get one's country place onlineAnalysis A House of Lords committee this week declared that British taxpayers must foot the bill for an internet that nobody wants - unless perhaps they have a second home in the country.… |
| Smutty books strip Harry Potter of Amazon crown Posted: 01 Aug 2012 06:42 AM PDT Readers no longer seeking a crafty wand?EL James' over-hyped bonkbuster trilogy, Fifty Shades of Grey, has become the best-selling book ever on Amazon UK, stealing the title from JK Rowling's seven-novel Harry Potter collection.… |
| Hulu, Apple TV deal sparks fanboi Glee glee Posted: 01 Aug 2012 06:02 AM PDT If you're into that sort of thingApple TV won't get a wall-sized Siri-controlled LCD screen that punters predicted a few months ago, but the little black box will get some telly from Hulu.… |
| Google falls for Web2.0 smoke signals from Wildfire Posted: 01 Aug 2012 05:28 AM PDT Snaps up start-up to dunk brands in even more social gooGoogle has bought Web2.0 marketing startup Wildfire for an undisclosed sum.… |
| Higgs boson chasers: Now only 1-in-300 MILLION chance we're wrong Posted: 01 Aug 2012 05:02 AM PDT Yup, we're feeling lucky, say boffins in new findingsCERN boffins are growing in confidence that the particle they spotted in the latest data from their Large Hadron Collider is indeed a Higgs boson.… |
| Wintel takes kicking from Apple, market share at all-time low Posted: 01 Aug 2012 04:44 AM PDT iPad whacks life out of PC founding fathersWintel's grip on the PC market has dropped to an all-time low due to the encroachment of Apple's seemingly unbeatable iPad.… |
| Microsoft: MED-V won't help you escape WinXP end-of-life Posted: 01 Aug 2012 04:32 AM PDT No extensions, no mercy... just migrate alreadySlipping Windows XP inside Microsoft's Enterprise Desktop Virtualization (MED-V) to get around the PC operating system's end-of-life date won't work.… |
| Dropbox blames staffer's password reuse for spam flood breach Posted: 01 Aug 2012 04:03 AM PDT Stolen login led to hackers striking goldWeb attic Dropbox has admitted spammers got hold of its users' email addresses after an employee reused his or her work password on a website that was subsequently hacked.… |
| Slim debut sales for fatter Nintendo 3DS Posted: 01 Aug 2012 03:50 AM PDT Fewer than 10k XLs sold, hints market watcherThe 3DS XL was picked up by less than 10,000 UK punters following its British debut this past Saturday, underlining the decline handheld consoles have experienced over the years.… |
| Murdoch's fondleslab epaper axes 50 staff Posted: 01 Aug 2012 03:48 AM PDT First app-only news publication The Daily downsizesRupert Murdoch's News Corp has announced that its tableted news publication The Daily will be axing 50 staff members in cost-cutting moves.… |
| Beak explodes at Samsung's evidence leak in Apple patent spat Posted: 01 Aug 2012 03:32 AM PDT Jury nobbling fears over banned slidesSamsung has enraged the US judge overseeing its patent battle with Apple with its leak to reporters of evidence she had previously banned from court.… |
| Now French watchdog wants to look at Google's slurped Wi-Fi data Posted: 01 Aug 2012 03:16 AM PDT CNIL follows ICO in demanding to inspect info before it is destroyedGoogle has been ordered by France's Commission Nationale de l'Informatique et des Libertés (CNIL) to hand over payload data retained on the company's system that its Street View spycars slurped from unsecured Wi-Fi networks.… |
| RBS must realise it's just an IT biz with a banking licence Posted: 01 Aug 2012 03:02 AM PDT Top prof drills into what it'll take to prevent another bank technology fiascoAnalysis Banks need to start thinking of themselves as IT companies, said Professor David Chan of City University London.… |
| Rackspace wolfs down own OpenStack dog food Posted: 01 Aug 2012 02:43 AM PDT Just nibbling on it beforeRackspace Hosting, the service provider that helped launch the open source OpenStack cloud controller along with NASA's Ames Research Center two years ago, has finally become its own OpenStack Fanatic. Rackspace has now gone live with the Nova compute cloud controller and other elements of OpenStack behind its production Cloud Servers infrastructure cloud.… |
| Lords call for the end of TV transmissions Posted: 01 Aug 2012 02:28 AM PDT Stream it over the net instead, says upper houseThe UK House of Lords has recommended ending broadcast television and re-allocating for mobile data usage the spectrum currently used to transmit digital TV signals.… |
| Systemax files $2.2m losses as US shoppers stay home Posted: 01 Aug 2012 02:18 AM PDT Bullish outing in Europe can't save reseller giant's Q2 profit marginsSystemax was hit by Q2 losses as continued strong trading in its business-to-business operation in Europe was more than offset by US shoppers' reluctance to part with cash, the reseller giant confirmed late last night.… |
| Linux lessons for Hadoop doubters Posted: 01 Aug 2012 02:02 AM PDT Before IBM there was LinusOpen ... and Shut While Hadoop is all the rage in the technology media today, it has barely scratched the surface of enterprise adoption. In fact, if anything, we are still only on the first few steps of the Big Data marathon, a race that Hadoop seems set to win despite its many shortcomings.… |
| Posted: 01 Aug 2012 01:32 AM PDT Hypobaric rocket motor test an explosive success – finallyVid We're delighted – and somewhat relieved – to announce that last weekend we finally persuaded a solid rocket motor to fire at a simulated altitude of 76,500ft (23,300m).… |
| Blighty's coolest mapper will flog its stuff to global buyers Posted: 01 Aug 2012 01:02 AM PDT Ordnance Survey to take geographic data skills overseasOrdnance Survey (OS) is launching an international service intended to make its expertise about data collection and maintenance, product development and geospatial data management available to overseas governments.… |
| BT charged rivals 'unjustified' prices to use network – Appeals Court Posted: 01 Aug 2012 12:38 AM PDT Competitors claimed the telco overcharged them, 'distorted' the marketThe prices that BT charged rivals to access parts of its network to provide services to their subscribers were not justified, the Court of Appeal has ruled.… |
| ROBOTS battle bunker-buster bank blast blaggers Posted: 01 Aug 2012 12:19 AM PDT Down-under bomb robbers in Perth ATM explosion rampageAussies in the city of Perth have been left shaken by a wave of potentially deadly "bunker-buster" style terror explosions at ATMs as a crew of blaggers blast the machines open to rinse them of cash. Local cops, rattled by the devastating outrage rampage, have deployed police robots to battle the menace.… |
| Posted: 01 Aug 2012 12:00 AM PDT Fire starterFeature The Dragon 32, arguably the best-known and most-successful of the UK's early 1980s home computer also-rans, was introduced 30 years ago this month.… |
| Bribery claims call Chinese labour audits into question Posted: 31 Jul 2012 11:29 PM PDT China Labor Watch tells Congress of "severe flaws"Labour rights groups have warned a US Congressional hearing that severe flaws in the auditing process of technology production facilities in China threaten to undermine the efforts of big name tech brands to ensure their kit is produced in legal and humane conditions.… |
| Submarine cable plan sinks without trace Posted: 31 Jul 2012 10:40 PM PDT Pacific Fibre folds as funders fleePacific Fibre, a company formed to build a submarine cable linking the USA, New Zealand and Australia, has called it a day after failing to find the funds it needed to build the project.… |
| EMC, Lenovo, in servers alliance Posted: 31 Jul 2012 09:53 PM PDT Iomega cut loose, Lenovo servers to power EMC arraysEMC and Lenovo have announced a partnership that will see the pair create "a server technology development program that will accelerate and extend Lenovo's capabilities in the x86 industry-standard server segment. These servers will be brought to market by Lenovo and embedded into selected EMC storage systems over time."… |
| Apple foe Proview laughs off debts, ressurrects business Posted: 31 Jul 2012 08:56 PM PDT IPAD trademark combatant wants to sell bio-energyApple's Chinese IPAD trademark nemesis Proview is set to kick start yet another business venture, having managed to attract over 100 million yuan (£10m) in funding to launch an LED lighting and bio-energy firm.… |
| New version of Chrome can WATCH and LISTEN Posted: 31 Jul 2012 06:13 PM PDT Google shows off new API by sending your face to London Science MuseumGoogle now has technology that could allow ads that offer classes to correct your posture, thanks to features in a new stable version of its Chrome browser.… |
| Metronode opens eco-friendly data centre for Victoria Posted: 31 Jul 2012 05:30 PM PDT Time to shut down old school bit barnsLeighton's data centre subsidiary Metronode has opened its second wholesale data centre in Melbourne.… |
| Nexus Q preorders halted, price dropped to $0 Posted: 31 Jul 2012 05:14 PM PDT Google admits it's ballsGoogle has stopped taking orders for its spherical Nexus Q streaming-media player, but customers who have already preordered the device will still be getting theirs, albeit at a much lower price: free.… |
| FDA clears edible medical sensor for human consumption Posted: 31 Jul 2012 05:07 PM PDT System in a pill communicates via skin patchThe US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has officially cleared edible computers to be used in medical applications for monitoring patient health.… |
| Qubits turn into time travellers Posted: 31 Jul 2012 04:30 PM PDT Think of it as a quantum TardisA group of scientists from Spain's Institute of Fundamental Physics has made the world just that little bit more weird, proposing a form of quantum entanglement that spans not just space, but time.… |
| Tracking Android phones is easy, says researcher Posted: 31 Jul 2012 04:08 PM PDT Assisted-GPS a boon for surveillanceTo save time, battery life and processor cycles, smartphones don't rely on "pure" GPS to fix their locations – they get help from location data in the mobile network. Research presented at Black Hat in Las Vegas last week cautions users that this represents a serious security vulnerability.… |
| Zynga managers fingered in insider trading lawsuit Posted: 31 Jul 2012 03:02 PM PDT Pincus accused of shafting investorsA class action lawsuit has been filed on behalf of investors over alleged insider dealing by the senior management team at Zynga.… |
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