| Judge kneecaps Oracle's $1.3bn triumph over SAP Posted: 01 Sep 2011 02:40 PM PDT Industrial espionage award 'grossly excessive' A federal judge has tossed out a November jury award would have seen SAP pay $1.3 billion to arch-rival Oracle for theft of its intellectual property.… |
| Apple girds loins for 'obscene iPad sales surge' Posted: 01 Sep 2011 12:10 PM PDT Foxconn ships '20 million' fondleslabs If you need any further proof that the iPad will continue to dominate the tablet market, here's a bit of news that should remove all doubt: Foxconn, the Chinese supplier of Apple's fabulously successful fondleslab, will ship 20 million iPad 2s this quarter.… |
| Apple blasted for toxic waste spewed by iDevice suppliers Posted: 01 Sep 2011 09:45 AM PDT 'It's not easy being green,' Cupertino replies Apple has come under blistering criticism after Chinese environmentalists accused Cupertino's Chinese partners of discharging toxic metals when manufacturing iPhones, iPads, and other must-have products.… |
| 'Anon member' claims credit for WikiLeaks takedown Posted: 01 Sep 2011 09:42 AM PDT Friend turns foe A Twitter user who claims affiliation to the infamous Anonymous hacktivist collective has claimed responsibility for launching denial of service attacks that floored WikiLeaks on Tuesday night.… 
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| Samsung unveils 20Mp EVIL shooter Posted: 01 Sep 2011 09:21 AM PDT APS-C mirrorless marvel? IFA 2011 At IFA today, Samsung upped the ante on the EVIL (electronic viewfinder, interchangeable lenses) marketplace by introducing the NX200, sporting a 20.3Mp APS-C CMOS sensor. Besides being a stills shooter capable with RAW support, the NX200 captures video at full HD 1080p at 30fps with stereo audio.… |
| VCE goes for Zaphod Beeblebrox management style Posted: 01 Sep 2011 09:01 AM PDT Cisco/EMC hoopy froods know where their towels are Two heads are better than one: Cisco and EMC's VCE joint-venture is moving forward with a chairman and a president, but no CEO.… |
| Big Blue's math shows Algorithmics worth $387m Posted: 01 Sep 2011 08:58 AM PDT Risky business IBM has embiggened its Software Group for the second time this week with the $387m acquisition of Algorithmics. The company is a specialist in risk analytics software, which it will cram into its ever-bulging quiver full of business analytics arrows.… |
| First Ultrabooks surface at IFA Posted: 01 Sep 2011 08:52 AM PDT Intel specs 'em - Toshiba, Lenovo announce 'em IFA 2011 While Toshiba was announcing the Portégé Z830 - a 18mm-thick 13.3in notebook matched to Intel's Ultrabook spec - Lenovo was taking the wraps off the IdeaPad U300s - also an Ultrabook.… |
| Google App Engine exits preview and ups prices Posted: 01 Sep 2011 08:47 AM PDT GAE is all grown up, with bigger costs but better service Google App Engine is taking off its training wheels and charging real money from the second half of September.… |
| TMS adds software services to RamSans Posted: 01 Sep 2011 08:27 AM PDT Bulkening should make chunks-o-Flash easier to digest We have heard from a reliable TMS source that the company is working on a "software services solution".… |
| Toshiba: Europeans to get specs-less 3D TV by year's end Posted: 01 Sep 2011 08:23 AM PDT 55in, 3840 x 2160 telly inbound IFA 2011 Toshiba's specs-less 3D TV, the 55ZL2, will be out in Europe by the end of the year.… |
| Toshiba outs 'world's thinnest, lightest' tablet Posted: 01 Sep 2011 08:11 AM PDT Exite engages IFA 2011 Sneaky Toshiba. A day after saying its thick Thrive tablet is coming to Europe as the AT100, it unveiled a 7.7mm fondleslab, the AT200 - set to ship in the States as the Excite.… |
| Lawsuit alleges that Windows Phone 7 tracks users Posted: 01 Sep 2011 08:05 AM PDT Camera app fingered in claims Microsoft is facing a lawsuit that claims it tracks the location of its smartphone users, even if they ask not to be followed.… 
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| Twitter to serve unsolicited ads in Facebook style Posted: 01 Sep 2011 07:58 AM PDT Crystal stream of news to be controllably polluted Twitter is to start pushing adverts from companies which Twitter users are not following into their tweet streams, but only ones it has decided they will be interested in: so that's OK then.… |
| All WikiLeaks' secret US cables are on BitTorrent in full Posted: 01 Sep 2011 07:38 AM PDT And the Guardian has published the crypto password Wikileaks has accused a Guardian journalist of negligently publishing the passphrase for a database of unredacted secret US diplomatic cables in a book. The encrypted database is available on BitTorrent.… |
| You like Flash, you like cache: Put 'em together to form ... Posted: 01 Sep 2011 07:10 AM PDT Fusion produces Cheesy Peas style ioCache Wasting no time in following the trend, Fusion-io has integrated recently-acquired ioTurbine flash caching software with its hardware to create ... ioCache.… |
| Microsoft delivers 'copy Apple' Windows 8 message Posted: 01 Sep 2011 06:29 AM PDT Sinofsky admits 'balancing act' to avoid fondle fumble With Windows 8, Microsoft is joining Apple and Linux-shop Canonical in trying to make its signature operating system mouse-free and more touchable for use on devices like tablets.… |
| Sharp shows off 8K4K hi-res prototype telly Posted: 01 Sep 2011 06:07 AM PDT Putting on a display IFA 2011 At IFA, Berlin Sharp set about wowing its press audience with a European premiere of it Super Hi-Vision 8K4K, 85in LCD TV, developed in collaboration with Japanese broadcaster NHK.… |
| LG backs Sharp, Philips TV apps would-be standard Posted: 01 Sep 2011 06:00 AM PDT Write one app, deploy on multiple tellies IFA 2011 LG has joined an initiative established by Philips and Sharp to create a standard platform for television apps.… |
| TomTom fights falling satnav sales with iPad app Posted: 01 Sep 2011 05:57 AM PDT Tiny, crippled nav-only fondleslabs not selling well TomTom has released an app for Apple's iPad as sales of its flagship personal navigation devices (PNDs) continue to fall.… 
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| Openwave sues: Asks for halt on iPad, iPhone, BlackBerry Posted: 01 Sep 2011 05:38 AM PDT Long-abrew patent stormcloud finally rains down Mobile pioneer Openwave has launched action against Apple and RIM, claiming patent infringements and asking for a ban on US imports of Apple and RIM's infringing kit as well as the traditional damages.… |
| Samsung outs 5in Galaxy Note as new smartphone concept Posted: 01 Sep 2011 05:21 AM PDT Revamping the PDA? IFA 2011 We now know what the Samsung Galaxy Note - the product name leaked last week alongside the Galaxy Tab 7.7 - actually is. It's a "new type of smartphone", apparently.… |
| Rugby World Cup reporters swap identities in login glitch Posted: 01 Sep 2011 05:19 AM PDT Rugger buggers' buggy buggerup The Rugby World Cup has hit a security snag just over a week before the eagerly awaited tournament kicks off in New Zealand.… |
| Crystal Video wireless HDMI kit Posted: 01 Sep 2011 05:00 AM PDT 5GHz WHDI video streaming made easy, ish Review WHDI really can send HD video across a house at 1080p resolution and without compression. But for the same money you could get a pair of Blu-ray players, so you've got to really care about streaming that content.… |
| UK to make White Space devices legal Posted: 01 Sep 2011 04:41 AM PDT Can anyone can make them practical? The feedback from Ofcom's consultation on White Space has convinced the regulator to push ahead of Europe and get deployments by 2013 – if the technology can be shown to work.… |
| IBM builds biggest-ever disk for secret customer Posted: 01 Sep 2011 04:32 AM PDT 120 PB monster 'for simulation'. Nuke labs? Analysis Flash may be one cutting edge of storage action, but big data is causing developments at the other side of the storage pond, with IBM developing a 120 petabyte 200,000-disk array.… |
| Vivendi ponders EMI buy, as its games biz rivals music Posted: 01 Sep 2011 04:17 AM PDT Activision Blizzard snapping at Universal's heels The world's biggest record company, Vivendi-owned Universal Music, is looking at EMI – but is non-committal about an acquisition.…
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| Prototype iPhone 5 lost in bar, right on schedule Posted: 01 Sep 2011 04:01 AM PDT Time for the annual Jesus-mobe-left-in-pub story already? Apple has to wonder if it's really hiring the cream of the crop when another of its employees manages to leave a another prototype iPhone in a bar.… |
| Deciphering the secrets of network encryption Posted: 01 Sep 2011 04:00 AM PDT Focus on all-round security Modern data centres are pools of shared resources and segmenting the data in them has become a requirement as much for regulatory as for security reasons. It is no longer enough simply to provide access and expect individual users to take care of security themselves.… |
| Tricky Xbox 360 hack claimed to work 1 try in 4 Posted: 01 Sep 2011 03:42 AM PDT New slim Redmond console pwned like a bitch Hackers reckon they have come up with a way to circumvent the security of Xbox 360 gaming consoles via an attack that allows them to inject unsigned code into the heart of the system.… |
| Samsung's Galaxy Tab 7.7 gets aired Posted: 01 Sep 2011 03:36 AM PDT The film buff's fondleslab? IFA 2011 At IFA in Berlin today, Samsung unveiled its Galaxy Tab 7.7 Android tablet and, with its 1280 x 800-pixel touchscreen, claimed a world's first for display resolution on a 7.7in tablet.… |
| Apple Store newspaper headlock may be slipping Posted: 01 Sep 2011 03:26 AM PDT No need to put up with Jobsian gouging, even in iOS Comment There was praise aplenty last week when Steve Jobs stepped aside as Apple CEO. Jobs was lauded as the saviour of newspapers and the man who halted the "inevitable" trend towards unpaid or low-paid production of free digital media. But like the Marshall Plan aid, the Jobs Plan aid came at a very high price.… |
| UK-US corporate world slams 'dot-brand' domain plans Posted: 01 Sep 2011 03:13 AM PDT The Man lawyers up, gets in ICANN's grille Lobby groups representing a majority of US advertisers and online media companies have demanded that domain name overseer ICANN slam the brakes on its controversial new generic top-level domains programme.…
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| TextGrabber Posted: 01 Sep 2011 03:00 AM PDT OCR on your iPhone iOS App of the Week I often use the camera on my iPhone to take quick snapshots of telephone numbers and other bits of information that I see when I'm out and about during the day. When I get home, I have to write the info down somewhere, or maybe enter it into my contacts or some other app on the iPhone.… |
| US judge tells Levi's to take its Euro problems to Europe Posted: 01 Sep 2011 02:37 AM PDT Gardening-trouser giant in row with online trader A US court has said that it did not have a duty to rule whether an online trader had breached EU trademark laws.… |
| Ford unwraps Evos cloud-connected concept car Posted: 01 Sep 2011 02:26 AM PDT Nice tech, nicer looks IFA 2011 Now, we're not sure we entirely approve of a cloud-connected car capable of resetting your alarm clock - also net linked - because a colleague has delayed a meeting, but that's the vision Ford pitched today at IFA.… |
| The real reason Google bought Motorola Posted: 01 Sep 2011 02:18 AM PDT Patents are nice, but lovely tax losses are worth more Analysis I think we all know that Google's pretty good at, um, obeying tax laws to the letter. For example, they've paid an entire £8m in UK corporation tax on revenues of some £6bn from 2004 to 2010.… |
| Haiti study: Mass mobile phone tracking can be laudable Posted: 01 Sep 2011 02:01 AM PDT You'll wish the gov had huge snoop powers - in a quake A new study uses the movements of mobile phones during the Haiti earthquake, and cholera epidemic, to accurately show where people went during the disasters, and where help should be delivered.… |
| Sony Ericsson launches Xperia Arc S Posted: 01 Sep 2011 01:49 AM PDT Its fastest Android smartie yet IFA 2011 Sony has given its Xperia Android smartphones range a boost with the Arc S, it's fastest model yet featuring a 1.4GHz CPU.… |
| UBS tells IT contractors: Take a 10% pay cut ... or 100% Posted: 01 Sep 2011 01:28 AM PDT Gnomes of Zurich still sharing their pain generously UK contract IT staff at Swiss bank UBS have been given the choice of taking a 10 per cent pay cut or receiving four weeks' notice.… |
| Sony drives DAB+ motoring Posted: 01 Sep 2011 01:21 AM PDT Tunes up in-car entertainment IFA 2011 Sony has announced its first DAB+ car radio that's due to hit the road early next year. The CDX-DAB700U is touted as a CD receiver with DAB/DAB+/DMB-R support as well as FM/AM reception.… |
| Scotland Yard cancels £20m IT tender Posted: 01 Sep 2011 12:56 AM PDT Plodware deal shifted onto different bureaucro-mechanism The Metropolitan Police Authority has cancelled its tender for a new custody and case-preparation system in favour of using a framework run by the Government Procurement Service.… 
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| Sony Android tablets in-bound Posted: 01 Sep 2011 12:48 AM PDT Android 3.1 now; 3.2 in November IFA 2011 Sony will bring its Android tablet and would-be iPad beater, the 9.4in, 1280x800 Tablet S, to Europe this month.… |
| Samsung Tocco Icon budget mobile Posted: 01 Sep 2011 12:00 AM PDT Vocal style Review While smartphones grab the headlines and an ever-increasing slice of the market, cheap 'n' cheerful feature phones that focus on the basic job of communicating have had to raise their game. Indeed, the Tocco Icon builds on Samsung's Tocco Lite, upgrading the touch screen from resistive to capacitive and adding Wi-Fi.… |
| Antitrust nemesis accuses Google of 'WMD program' Posted: 31 Aug 2011 06:24 PM PDT Algorithm update 'targets vertical search rivals' Foundem – the UK-based vertical search engine that sparked antitrust investigations into Google on both sides of the Atlantic – has accused the web giant of demoting vertical search competitors with the latest major update to its famous search algorithms, an update officially aimed at reducing "webspam".… |
| Oz teachers lugging obsolete lappies Posted: 31 Aug 2011 05:01 PM PDT Victorian departmental lease terms under attack A change to government policy in Victoria will see teachers saddled with old and discontinued laptops under a four-year lease that they have to pay for out of their own pockets.… |
| Google+ is an identity service, Schmidt says Posted: 31 Aug 2011 04:00 PM PDT Weed out evil Hoping, perhaps, to bring the curtain down on the so-called 'nym wars', Google chairman Eric Schmidt has discussed the advertising giant's identity policies in a Q&A at the MediaGuardian Edinburgh International TV Festival.… |
| Kernel.org Linux repository rooted in hack attack Posted: 31 Aug 2011 03:35 PM PDT Rootkit not detected for 17 days Updated Multiple servers used to maintain and distribute the Linux operating system were infected with malware that gained root access, modified system software, and logged passwords and transactions of the people who used them, the official Linux Kernel Organization has confirmed.… |
