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- Mozilla dumps iOS, pulls Firefox Home from iTunes Store
- Supercomputing takes a slight pause in Q2
- Obama platform: 'Open' internet, strong IP protection
- Apple confirms 'surprise' September 12 event
- Microsoft claims Windows Server 2012 is 'first cloud OS'
- Fujitsu to embiggen iron bigtime with Sparc64-X
- 'Google's crap for business' - CIOs give ad giant dose of reality
- Samsung Galaxy Note 2 hands-on review
- Android dev smacked with £50k fine over premium rate SMS scam
- Nvidia coder primes Optimus for Linux
- Report: Nokia to join Qi party with wireless-charging Lumia 920
- WiReD surgically removes damaged neurotrash 'expert'
- Sony: Our Xperia S tab COPIED Samsung's slab ... on price
- Samsung puts Plod on trail of AWOL OLEDs
- iPhone 5 wait drives record Samsung smartphone sales
- Cambodia set to boot out Pirate Bay co-founder
- Valve reiterates games hardware gambit
- Eco-nomics: Was Stern 'wrong for the right reasons' ... or just wrong?
- BBC dishes out fanboi-only telly downloads ahead of ITV plans
- Orange enables Samsung Galaxy SIII bonking
- Iomega: SOHO punters will pay hard cash for our cheap boxes
- Broadband minister Hunt LOSES portfolio, takes on national health
- New deals for Virgin Sim punters
- 'Picture of Dorian Gray' borrowed in 1934 is finally returned
- Hackers leak '1 MILLION records' on Apple fanbois from FEDS
- Internet Explorer needs fresh dev infusion for a full recovery
- Oracle in new bid to wring cash out of SAP in piracy spat
- Tablets keep UK IT's head above water
- GridIron crams fat Hadoop ready-meal boxes into data centres
- 'Nutjob' serves half-baked Raspberry PI scam
- Freesat eyes YouView USP for next-gen UI
- Oracle hurls Sparc T5 gladiators into big-iron arena
- New NHS chieftains put docs' software bill on their tab
- Torvalds bellows: 'The GNOME PEOPLE are in TOTAL DENIAL'
- Ulster Bank waves £100 at punters pummelled by RBS IT fiasco
- Ofcom begged to protect minicab, other small-biz's radio spectrum
- Organic food offers basically no health benefit, boffins find
- Australia won't back away from data retention plan
- Nokia Asha 311 budget smartphone review
- Acer to launch Windows Phone 8 smartphone in 2013
- China mutates plants ... IN SPAAAAAACE
- China and Japan stick it to floods, quakes and tsunamis
- 'Immortal cancer' found in Australia
- A second opinion on sucky second quarter server sales
- Global warming GOOD for biodiversity, say boffins
- Sci-Fi fans blow stacks at copybot attacks
- Sun daddy: 'Machines will replace 80 per cent of doctors'
- Optus turns on 4G, but has no phones until Sept 20
- Baidu launches mobile browser, tosses currency into clouds
| Mozilla dumps iOS, pulls Firefox Home from iTunes Store Posted: 04 Sep 2012 02:42 PM PDT Open source browser still shut out by Apple policiesTwo years after launching Firefox Home in the iTunes App Store, the Mozilla Foundation has decided to cease development of the app, in a move that appears to further distance Mozilla from Apple and the iOS platform, which have never welcomed it.… |
| Supercomputing takes a slight pause in Q2 Posted: 04 Sep 2012 02:34 PM PDT Big systems drive HPC salesWith all of the relatively cheap computing power available today, and with the expanding focus from traditional supercomputers to clusters that can run simulations or big data workloads, you'd think that the HPC market would be growing like gangbusters. Not so.… |
| Obama platform: 'Open' internet, strong IP protection Posted: 04 Sep 2012 01:54 PM PDT Democrats duck specific net neutrality pledgeThe Democratic Party has published its platform for the coming election with a nod to net neutrality rules, support for tougher IP protection, and a commitment to get 98 per cent of the population onto wireless broadband.… |
| Apple confirms 'surprise' September 12 event Posted: 04 Sep 2012 11:35 AM PDT iPhone 5 announcement likely, iPad Mini less soConfirming what pomaceous-minded cognoscenti have been claiming for months, Apple has sent out press invites to a special event in San Francisco on September 12, which looks in all likelihood to be the announcement for the long-anticipated iPhone 5.… |
| Microsoft claims Windows Server 2012 is 'first cloud OS' Posted: 04 Sep 2012 10:35 AM PDT At my signal, unleash codeMicrosoft has formally launched its Windows Server 2012 operating system, which Satya Nadella, president of Redmond's Servers and Tools Business, is dubbing the company's first "cloud OS."… |
| Fujitsu to embiggen iron bigtime with Sparc64-X Posted: 04 Sep 2012 10:16 AM PDT So is this the Sparc M4 on Oracle's roadmaps?Hot Chips While Fujitsu has made some very respectable Sparc64 chips aimed at the supercomputing market, it has been a long time since the Japanese chip and server maker has put out a new Sparc64 processor that went into general purpose servers.… |
| 'Google's crap for business' - CIOs give ad giant dose of reality Posted: 04 Sep 2012 09:02 AM PDT UK tech chiefs snub Choc Factory's paltry packageUK CIOs don't consider Google a valuable enterprise supplier, according to a new survey.… |
| Samsung Galaxy Note 2 hands-on review Posted: 04 Sep 2012 08:42 AM PDT The pen is mightier than the word?IFA 2012 Samsung's big idea, well, big phone actually, has not only spawned the 10in Galaxy Note but, at IFA, the company announced the Galaxy Note II successor to its original 5in |
| Android dev smacked with £50k fine over premium rate SMS scam Posted: 04 Sep 2012 08:34 AM PDT PhonepayPlus: You'll have to refund punters too...UK regulator PhonepayPlus has fined a Russian firm £50,000 after it was found guilty of peddling a deceptive Android application that signed unwitting victims up to a premium-rate text service.… |
| Nvidia coder primes Optimus for Linux Posted: 04 Sep 2012 08:09 AM PDT Nvidia's Optimus GPU switching technology may be coming to Linux.… |
| Report: Nokia to join Qi party with wireless-charging Lumia 920 Posted: 04 Sep 2012 07:25 AM PDT Watch out, WiPower...Nokia's next phones will have wireless charging, claims The Verge, and the Finns are joining the Qi camp in the increasingly polarised battle for over wireless standards.… |
| WiReD surgically removes damaged neurotrash 'expert' Posted: 04 Sep 2012 06:53 AM PDT Jonah and the wailGlossy lifestyle magazine WiReD will sever its relationship with pop neuroscience journalist and author Jonah Lehrer, the author of Imagine: How Creativity Works.… |
| Sony: Our Xperia S tab COPIED Samsung's slab ... on price Posted: 04 Sep 2012 06:21 AM PDT New gear not destined for the bargain bin - yetSony has said it won't compete on price as it prepares another attempt to invade the tablet computer market.… |
| Samsung puts Plod on trail of AWOL OLEDs Posted: 04 Sep 2012 06:05 AM PDT Pricey TVs vanish on road to IFAHave you seen two über-expensive Samsung OLED TVs? If so, the South Korean giant would very much like to have them back.… |
| iPhone 5 wait drives record Samsung smartphone sales Posted: 04 Sep 2012 05:48 AM PDT Nokia knocked back tooSamsung steamed ahead of Apple during Q2 to end the quarter with more than double its rival's share of the Western European smartphone market, in marked contrast to the situation in the US.… |
| Cambodia set to boot out Pirate Bay co-founder Posted: 04 Sep 2012 05:47 AM PDT Responds to international warrantA co-founder of The Pirate Bay website is to be deported from Cambodia, police have confirmed.… |
| Valve reiterates games hardware gambit Posted: 04 Sep 2012 05:42 AM PDT Controller rollerValve has once more underlined its desire to enter the hardware market, "jumping in" to deal with a "lack of innovation" in the space.… |
| Eco-nomics: Was Stern 'wrong for the right reasons' ... or just wrong? Posted: 04 Sep 2012 05:38 AM PDT Perhaps greens just aren't the good guysAnalysis "Why should we sacrifice 10 per cent of our income today to make Bill Gates better off?" asked an MP. "As the world's [second] richest man, he doesn't need our sacrifice."… |
| BBC dishes out fanboi-only telly downloads ahead of ITV plans Posted: 04 Sep 2012 05:23 AM PDT Fandroids will have to wait for Doctor Who offlineThe BBC's mobile iPlayer app will now let users download content for watching later – provided they have an Apple device of course.… |
| Orange enables Samsung Galaxy SIII bonking Posted: 04 Sep 2012 05:01 AM PDT The future is Mastercard, but we'll take Visa tooOrange and Barclaycard have revived their QuickTap pay-by-bonk platform with support for the Samsung Galaxy SIII, despite EE's commitment to create a new platform in cooperation with Mastercard.… |
| Iomega: SOHO punters will pay hard cash for our cheap boxes Posted: 04 Sep 2012 04:43 AM PDT EMC storage biz unit shows off non-enterprise figuresNetworked storage is not just for enterprise buyers. The wee consumer arm of storage-and-networking giant EMC says that small office and home office (SOHO) and small and medium business customers have bought more than a million of its StorCenter networked storage boxes.… |
| Broadband minister Hunt LOSES portfolio, takes on national health Posted: 04 Sep 2012 04:25 AM PDT Forget about download speed, just try not to kill themJeremy Hunt, who is the minister responsible for the government's ambitious faster broadband roll out, has been shifted out of the department for media, culture and sport into a new cabinet role as Health Secretary.… |
| New deals for Virgin Sim punters Posted: 04 Sep 2012 04:18 AM PDT Unlimited data, apparentlyVirgin has updated its Sim-only offerings, pitching "truly unlimited data and texts" no matter what you pay each month.… |
| 'Picture of Dorian Gray' borrowed in 1934 is finally returned Posted: 04 Sep 2012 04:15 AM PDT Intriguing case of immortality work lost for generationsA rare book telling the story of a young man who sells his soul in a bargain whereby he stops ageing has been returned to a library after having been taken out in 1934.… |
| Hackers leak '1 MILLION records' on Apple fanbois from FEDS Posted: 04 Sep 2012 03:58 AM PDT FBI laptop with data on 12m iThings 'pwned via Java hole'Hackers have dumped online the unique identification codes for one million Apple iPhones and iPads allegedly lifted from an FBI agent's laptop. The leak, if genuine, proves Feds are walking around with data on at least 12 million iOS devices.… |
| Internet Explorer needs fresh dev infusion for a full recovery Posted: 04 Sep 2012 03:38 AM PDT Drip bag of unsavvy users won't help IE get healthyOpen ... and Shut Despite years of pressure from government antitrust actions and open-source upstarts like Mozilla Firefox and Google Chrome, Microsoft's Internet Explorer (IE) browser still commands more than 50 per cent of the global desktop browser market. While Microsoft remains an obvious choice for many consumers, there's some indication that Microsoft's venerable browser may be in trouble with a potentially more important demographic: developers.… |
| Oracle in new bid to wring cash out of SAP in piracy spat Posted: 04 Sep 2012 03:18 AM PDT Cheers for the $426m offer, but we were thinking $1.3bnOracle has started its attempt to wring more than $306m in damages from SAP in their drawn-out TomorrowNow copyright infringement lawsuit.… |
| Tablets keep UK IT's head above water Posted: 04 Sep 2012 03:09 AM PDT Floating on a fondleslab (or two)UK IT is currently stumbling along a rather rocky road. But for the tablet, times would be rather tougher, market watcher GfK reckons.… |
| GridIron crams fat Hadoop ready-meal boxes into data centres Posted: 04 Sep 2012 03:02 AM PDT Would you |
| 'Nutjob' serves half-baked Raspberry PI scam Posted: 04 Sep 2012 02:38 AM PDT Budget-priced board too expensive for 'BA applied math student and journo'Some people will go to any lengths to get a Raspberry PI, except pay the $35 price tag.… |
| Freesat eyes YouView USP for next-gen UI Posted: 04 Sep 2012 02:28 AM PDT VoD and live content combined into one EPGFree-to-air satellite broadcasting platform Freesat is to YouView-ise its set-top boxes, based around a new UI that will debut in next-generation kit later this month.… |
| Oracle hurls Sparc T5 gladiators into big-iron arena Posted: 04 Sep 2012 02:12 AM PDT At my interrupt signal, unleash hellHot Chips Oracle's Sparc processor server biz may be bleeding revenue, but the company is still working on very innovative chips. Its Sparc T series, and the Sparc T5 systems that will launch later this year (very likely at the OpenWorld trade show at the end of September) suggest the company is growing its multithreaded processors in terms of cores and sockets and pushing up into the big iron space.… |
| New NHS chieftains put docs' software bill on their tab Posted: 04 Sep 2012 01:39 AM PDT We'll pay for it, but you lot can install itThe NHS Commissioning Board will continue to pump cash into the GP Systems of Choice (GPSoC) scheme, which funds approved clinical software for doctors - adding to the list of erstwhile National Programme for IT projects that it will maintain centrally.… |
| Torvalds bellows: 'The GNOME PEOPLE are in TOTAL DENIAL' Posted: 04 Sep 2012 01:17 AM PDT At last, somebody says something on Google+Linux kernel big daddy Linus Torvalds and fellow developer Alan Cox have lashed out at claims that the culture surrounding the operating system's core prevented it from conquering the consumer PC market.… |
| Ulster Bank waves £100 at punters pummelled by RBS IT fiasco Posted: 04 Sep 2012 12:58 AM PDT Very generous compo, we think you'll findSmall businesses and personal customers that were affected by IT problems experienced by Ulster Bank can claim up to £100 in expenses incurred as a result of the problems under plans outlined by the bank.… |
| Ofcom begged to protect minicab, other small-biz's radio spectrum Posted: 04 Sep 2012 12:37 AM PDT You did it for the luvviesThe Federation of Communication Services, trade body to the UK's private radio operators, is calling for Ofcom to step away from the free market when it comes to spectrum regulation.… |
| Organic food offers basically no health benefit, boffins find Posted: 04 Sep 2012 12:18 AM PDT Does offer prospect of grub grown in human excrementUS medical scientists reviewing the state of knowledge on organic food have come to the conclusion that the pricey old-school grub offers no appreciable health benefits. However consumers may still wish to buy it for the purpose of promoting organic farming methods.… |
| Australia won't back away from data retention plan Posted: 04 Sep 2012 12:02 AM PDT Anonymous restive as A-G restates case for government data troveAustralia's Attorney-General Nicola Roxon has re-stated the case for a European-style data retention regime, arguing that there's no point bringing a knife to a gun fight when it comes to protecting Australia's interests.… |
| Nokia Asha 311 budget smartphone review Posted: 04 Sep 2012 12:00 AM PDT Social climberNokia's smartphone sales may be in the toilet at the moment but it still flogs a fair number of handsets under the Asha brand of feature phones. Newest to the ranks is the Asha 311 which looks and behaves a bit like a smartphone but has a far lower purchase price – around £100 unlocked and SIM-free.… |
| Acer to launch Windows Phone 8 smartphone in 2013 Posted: 03 Sep 2012 11:20 PM PDT Six devices planned, based on Qualcomm and MediaTek chipsAcer has confirmed to The Reg that it plans to launch six new handsets next year including a Windows Phone 8 device.… |
| China mutates plants ... IN SPAAAAAACE Posted: 03 Sep 2012 09:31 PM PDT Astro-capsicum on sale nowChinese botanical boffins have produced more than 120 new varieties of fruit and veg over the past quarter of a century by mutating regular plant seeds in space.… |
| China and Japan stick it to floods, quakes and tsunamis Posted: 03 Sep 2012 08:41 PM PDT Nations nail pre-and post-disaster techJapanese and China will both use technology to prevent mass loss of life caused by natural disasters.… |
| 'Immortal cancer' found in Australia Posted: 03 Sep 2012 06:53 PM PDT Only attacks Tasmanian Devil but may help target human cancersScientists investigating a cancer that is killing off the world's largest carnivorous marsupial, the Tasmanian Devil, have found that the disease is effectively immortal.… |
| A second opinion on sucky second quarter server sales Posted: 03 Sep 2012 06:10 PM PDT Sucks to be non-Xeon, Q4 uptick on the wayGlobal server sales remained in the doldrums during the year's second quarter, says new data from Gartner whose bean counters have found revenues off 2.9 per cent to $12.86bn against a slight 1.4 per cent shipment rise to 2.37 million boxes shipped out to customers between April and June.… |
| Global warming GOOD for biodiversity, say boffins Posted: 03 Sep 2012 04:57 PM PDT You only need to wait … a couple of million yearsA study led by the University of York reveals that geologically warm periods are a biodiversity plus – but only on long time-scales.… |
| Sci-Fi fans blow stacks at copybot attacks Posted: 03 Sep 2012 04:35 PM PDT Huge Hugo streaming snafuUstream has rained on the science fiction world's big event, with its copyright enforcement bots unplugging the Hugo awards for showing winners' clips.… |
| Sun daddy: 'Machines will replace 80 per cent of doctors' Posted: 03 Sep 2012 04:18 PM PDT In Khosla's future, healthcare will be served up by entrepreneurs, not docsAccording to Sun Microsystems cofounder and serial entrepreneur Vinod Khosla, 80 per cent of doctors could be replaced by machines – computing devices backed by imense data sets.… |
| Optus turns on 4G, but has no phones until Sept 20 Posted: 03 Sep 2012 04:16 PM PDT Sydney, Newcastle and Perth have wireless broadband today, Galaxy S III 4G soonOptus has decided its 4G network is ready for action, flicking the switch to turn it on in Sydney, Perth and Newcastle as of today. Melbourne's turn comes on September 15th.… |
| Baidu launches mobile browser, tosses currency into clouds Posted: 03 Sep 2012 03:49 PM PDT Hopes for 80 per cent penetration by year-endChina's search-and-plenty-more giant Baidu has flagged a $US1.6 billion cloud investment. The investment, announced with a minimum of detail by CFO Li Xinzhe, will go towards building data centres and hiring staff.… |
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