| Indonesia cleans up SMS Posted: 28 May 2012 12:30 PM PDT Telcos spammed one other to harm service Indonesia has changed its telecommunications laws to ensure that the nation's mobile carriers pay for SMS messages sent to rivals.… |
| Scan co-jacking nets crooks '€40k in IT gear' Posted: 28 May 2012 10:02 AM PDT Imposters lure recession-hit suppliers Crooks have masqueraded as buyers at web bazaar Scan to obtain goods from its suppliers by deception.… |
| Facebook needs Opera - to rescue it from dependence on Apple Posted: 28 May 2012 09:37 AM PDT Fat lady barely starting a preliminary gargle, though Analysis Facebook is reported to be interested in buying Scandinavian browser company Opera Software.… |
| Dual-dock prototype iPad eyed on eBay Posted: 28 May 2012 09:13 AM PDT Own a piece of history Some time back, an Apple was granted a patent which showed an iPad with two dock connectors, allowing the device to be docked in either landscape or portrait mode.… |
| Complex cyberwar tool 'Flame' found ALL OVER Middle East Posted: 28 May 2012 09:01 AM PDT 20 times larger than Stuxnet, two years old... and still active A new super-cyberweapon targeting countries like Iran and Israel that has been knocking around in computers for two years has been discovered by researchers.… 
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| Facebook phone tagged for 2013 release Posted: 28 May 2012 08:50 AM PDT Off the wall The Facebook hardware rumour mill is in full spin again this week after reports suggest the social network is preparing its own smartphone for 2013.… |
| UK High Court split over Twitter airport bomb joke Posted: 28 May 2012 08:29 AM PDT New hearing ordered to discuss fate of Paul Chambers after judges disagree A man who was convicted of posting a tasteless joke on Twitter about blowing up a UK airport is to have his case heard again.… |
| Hit upgrade on Symantec Backup Exec, and unleash Hell Posted: 28 May 2012 08:02 AM PDT Irate users jet into company HQ for facemail criticism Backup Exec 2012 users are screaming in frustration over the "improvements" pushed out this year.… |
| Steve Jobs' Atari memo, Apple I to go under the hammer Posted: 28 May 2012 07:28 AM PDT Bids for musings of 19-year-old pre-titan start at $10k Before Steve Jobs came up with the iPhone or even the Apple II, he designed paddles for ball-flipping games at Atari where the scruffy 19-year-old was employed to improve game design.… |
| Agriboffins' site downed by DDoS after GM protest Posted: 28 May 2012 07:27 AM PDT Hactivists may have been linked to Anonymous Agricultural research institute Rothamsted Research was pulled offline in a DDoS attack just hours after police stopped protestors destroying a GM crop trial at the facility.… |
| Renesas rumours: Semi seeks $1.3bn stimulus, stiffs 12,000 Posted: 28 May 2012 07:02 AM PDT Chip giant ducks mass redundancies claims Down-on-its-luck semiconductor biz Renesas Electronics announced today the first step of a rumoured restructuring plan that's believed to include 12,000 job cuts.…
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| Crazy Geckos: Nitot on Mozilla's post-Firefox mobile crusade Posted: 28 May 2012 06:33 AM PDT Open-source handset versus Android and Apple First came the BlackBerry, bringing the smartphones for suits perfected by RIM to consumers. Next came the iPhone, which quickly hoovered up 23 per cent of the market. But the iPhone came at a price: the freedom of users and coders. It is tightly controlled by Apple, as Adobe quickly found to its cost with Flash.… |
| Microsoft will fiddle with prices as euro burns, UK biz fears Posted: 28 May 2012 06:02 AM PDT Tumbling currency a nightmare for costing volume buying Microsoft's partners are braced for further changes in volume pricing this year as the euro flutters wildly in the economic storm.… |
| Student cluster warriors to face off on new battlefield: ISC Posted: 28 May 2012 05:39 AM PDT Nearly THIRTY Chinese universities entered heat HPC blog I've been following the annual SC Student Cluster Competition (SCC) for a few years now. It's a great programme that pits teams of university undergrads against each other in the quest to design, build, and benchmark their own clustered systems. In the process they learn a lot about HPC, get a lot of exposure to the industry, and generally have a great time.… |
| YouView reportedly set for 2500-home pre-Olympics trial Posted: 28 May 2012 05:15 AM PDT Soft launch to justify deadline met claims? YouView, would IPTV world's answer to Freeview, may get a soft launch into 2500 homes before the start of the Olympic Games.… |
| Facebook ninjas scale wall, pluck iPhone techies from Apple's garden Posted: 28 May 2012 05:03 AM PDT Social network boosts hardware skills as Zuck mulls Facebook phone Facebook has apparently hired in more than six iPhone and iPad engineers who could well be the social network's team for a Facebook smartphone, the The New York Times reports.… |
| Dell Windows 8 tablet, hybrid details leak Posted: 28 May 2012 04:49 AM PDT United slates Dell's tablet plans for 2012 have slipped out, revealing a chunky Windows 8 slate and a tablet-laptop hybrid also set to run with Microsoft's tile-centric OS.… |
| Phoenix restructure sends profits down in flames Posted: 28 May 2012 04:45 AM PDT Salesforce distracted by overhaul Phoenix IT Group saw its wings decisively clipped over the last year, as a wide-ranging restructure battered profits and helped knock sales off-course in an already tough market.… |
| Self-driving Volvos cover 200km of busy Spanish motorway Posted: 28 May 2012 04:33 AM PDT Real-world test for Project Sartre Three cars have successfully driven themselves by automatically following a lorry for 125 miles on a public motorway in the presence of other, normal road users.… |
| Cloud migration: The applications killing season Posted: 28 May 2012 04:30 AM PDT How to determine the business value of an app Moving applications to the cloud can help to tighten the efficiency of the IT department, but does that mean that every application should be moved?… |
| Space Station crew enter the Dragon Posted: 28 May 2012 04:12 AM PDT Pop the hatch, get blast of 'new car smell' Pic The crew of the International Space Station cracked open the hatch of the SpaceX Dragon cargoship to see what's inside - after the docked capsule was declared safe for them to step in.…
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| Sony KDL-55HX853 55in 3D LED TV Posted: 28 May 2012 04:00 AM PDT Flagship Bravia with the Olympics in mind Review The 55inch KDL-HX853 is currently the highest ranked of Sony's 2012 TVs. It heads up a new Spartan range from the brand intended to rebuild its TV fortunes. Interestingly, it doesn't come laden with features seemingly pulled at random from a brainstorming session down the local Karaoke; which means it's not competing directly with Samsung's massively-pimped ES8000 models, and as a consequence it's considerably cheaper, at around £1,800. It is, however, comparable on style and packs Hubble-grade image enhancement.… |
| Virgin Media wipes out websites with routing blackhole Posted: 28 May 2012 03:43 AM PDT 'Issues which may cause issues' leave network 'virtually unusable' for days Virgin Media customers have been struggling to access websites via the telco's network for the past four days, after routing errors crippled the service.… |
| '6,000 RIM jobs at risk' of a pink slip Posted: 28 May 2012 03:33 AM PDT Heins source claims layoffs as early as June BlackBerry maker Research In Motion is threatening to axe thousands of its workers, according to reports.… |
| LG shows off 'first' full HD LCD for smartphones Posted: 28 May 2012 03:31 AM PDT 5in, 440dpi screen, anyone? And the latest entry in the 'how many pixels can we cram into a phone display' stakes comes from LG which today announced a 5in in-plan switching (IPS) LCD with a 1920 x 1080 resolution.… |
| Free Windows 8 desktop app development is dead Posted: 28 May 2012 03:13 AM PDT Metro or bust with Visual Studio 2011 Express The next free version of Microsoft's Visual Studio programming suite won't build normal Windows desktop apps, it has emerged.… |
| EU set to smack Chinese telcos over state subsidies Posted: 28 May 2012 03:02 AM PDT Getting money off gov is not playing fair, kettle tells pot The European Trade Commission is all set to launch a massive case against Chinese firms Huawei and ZTE for allegedly dumping products on the EU market after allegedly benefiting from illegal state subsidies.… |
| Fusion-io stuffs workstation storage into bulging hand luggage Posted: 28 May 2012 02:41 AM PDT Dual-GPUs, 3GB/sec I/O and fits in overhead bin HPC blog Fusion-io nabbed prime real estate on the GTC 2012 exhibit floor – right inside the entryway. They took advantage of it by offering a hosted oxygen bar, complete with an oxygen bartender and a wide selection of coloured/flavoured airs. I got the lowdown on their offerings (it's hospital grade oxygen – something I insist upon) before talking to Vince Brisebois, industry manager for Fusion's high performance group and product manager for its new ioFX workstation SSD.… |
| Disk-flash storage mix biz chief on the SSD situation Posted: 28 May 2012 02:18 AM PDT A NexGen view of flash Interview EMC has confirmed a 3-layer enterprise flash cake composed of server cache, server-area Thunder array and SAN-attached Xtremio technology, but not a new design hybrid flash and disk drive array.…
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| Jabra Clipper Posted: 28 May 2012 02:00 AM PDT Discreet Bluetooth headset Geek Treat of the Week Jabra's Clipper is a two-piece Bluetooth headset designed to be attached to clothing or a bag.… |
| Why don't the best techies work in the channel? Posted: 28 May 2012 01:32 AM PDT 'Cos the channel doesn't want them I'm OK at Firewall One, but any number of people reading this are better, completing the tasks 10 times more quickly and screwing up 10 times less often.… |
| TalkTalk subsidiary's customer data placed on the web in IIS whoopsie Posted: 28 May 2012 01:01 AM PDT Called TalkTalk, not ListenListen Updated Greystone Telecom, adopted child of TalkTalk and provider of telecommunications to the business community, is unwittingly sharing customer and contract details with the world: but TalkTalk doesn't care.… |
| New Brit nano-satellite to use Xbox Kinect for docking in space Posted: 28 May 2012 12:29 AM PDT Consumer kit really is more powerful than trad space gear Boffins at Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd (SSTL) have come up with a second zany satellite in their STRaND line, which will use Xbox Kinect technology to hook up with another satellite in space.… |
| Ex-Nokia Siemens engineer admits eBaying nicked routers Posted: 28 May 2012 12:01 AM PDT Cash-strapped dad in court for Wi-Fi kit theft A hard-up ex-engineer at Nokia Siemens swiped wireless routers worth thousands of pounds from his employer to refurbish and flog on eBay.… |
| Foxconn to create workers' paradise? Posted: 27 May 2012 11:03 PM PDT Report suggests 144 per cent pay rise on the way Foxconn plans to double the minimum wage of its mainland China workers by 2013 as part of a renewed attempt to soften the image of the ultra-secretive company, says Taiwanese site Want Daily.… |
| Hands on with Nokia's 808 41Mp camphone Posted: 27 May 2012 11:00 PM PDT Lumia 610 too First look If a company needed some luck right now, then Nokia would certainly fit the bill. Having partnered with Microsoft to deliver a new range of smartphones based on Windows Phone 7, it consequently shares a platform with the likes of HTC and Samsung. Still, Nokia is thinking lucky because it reckons it can deliver services on WinPho7 that will give it the edge.… |
| Biz social networking set for take-off Posted: 27 May 2012 10:57 PM PDT Asia Pac leading the rush to work smarter The market for enterprise social media and Web 2.0 tools is growing by over 20 per cent a year and will top $126m (£80m) by 2017 as firms look for better ways to collaborate and manage content across Asia Pacific, according to a new report from Frost & Sullivan.…
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| China claims piracy at new low Posted: 27 May 2012 09:16 PM PDT Wait a minute, how low? The rate of software piracy in China dropped to just 38 per cent in 2011, according to new government-backed figures that are markedly different to those from the Business Software Alliance (BSA), which recently branded the country the world's worst offender.… |
| Acronis loses Australian General Manager Posted: 27 May 2012 09:09 PM PDT Interviews under way for replacement, steady as she goes etc. Backup software vendor Acronis has lost its General Manager for Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific.… |
| ITU adopts <i>two</i> ultra-high def TV specs Posted: 27 May 2012 07:27 PM PDT 4K and 8K both get UHDTV moniker The International Telecommunications Union (ITU) has "agreed a draft new Recommendation on the technical details for 'Ultra High Definition Television'," but has decided that both 3840x2160 tellies, and future 7680 x4320 screens, both get the name UHDTV.… |
| Bandwidth broker to light up dark nets Posted: 27 May 2012 07:03 PM PDT Mobsource adds "network as a service" to the "x-aas" lexicon A new global bandwidth exchange and trading platform targeting the growth in cloud based services and leveraging a global bandwidth glut has been launched by an Australian telecommunications executive.… |
| Trekkie wants to build USS Enterprise … in twenty years Posted: 27 May 2012 06:21 PM PDT Suggests open source design process to get spaceship boldly going A US Star Trek fan has launched an online project aimed at building a working replica of the USS Enterprise … in twenty years.…
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| 'Biocoal' fuels steam train comeback Posted: 27 May 2012 05:23 PM PDT Uni of Minnesota steampunks plot loco speed record Trainspotters who find the homogenized world of modern locos a bit dull could soon be celebrating the return of steam, if all goes well in a University of Minnesota study.… |
| Big Blue supers crunch kaon decay Posted: 27 May 2012 05:14 PM PDT Massive machines probe matter mystery Looking at the fundamental properties of matter can take some serious computing grunt.… |
| Short-lived backhaul declaration better, says Voda Posted: 27 May 2012 04:40 PM PDT 'Don't lock in long-term price', carrier tells ACCC Vodafone is warning the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) against setting backhaul service prices too far into the future, saying that an early review would be better for the industry than a long-term lock-in.… |
| YouTube takes on Instagram with 'Frontrow' Posted: 27 May 2012 04:37 PM PDT Global launch at Sydney Opera House's Vivid Festival YouTube has unleashed an app which takes it into Instagram territory, in the form of an Australian-devised app called Frontrow which has made its debut at the Vivid LIVE festival at the Sydney Opera House.… |
