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- HP: 'Yes, we're keeping the PC biz'
- iPad 2 sales kick off in dead of night
- Oz PC shipments still growing: IDC
- HP gets data centre fever in NZ
- Townsville gets smart city dollars
- Super Micro uncloaks dense Westmere-EX server
- eBay douses PHP ecommerce shop in money love
- NASA aims for space tests of Mars-in-a-month plasma drive
- Apple security update leaves iPhone 3G users unprotected
- HPC student cluster WAR begins
- PlayStation update couples console to cloud and disconnects hackers
- Tablet hype brings e-book readers a more merry Xmas
- Connecticut suspect's 'half-ro' haircut wows web
- Why Nokia failed: 'Wasted 2,000 man years' on UIs that didn't work
- Direct action group defaces Vodafone in tax avoidance protest
- No toys to throw from the PRAM
- Firefox bloke blasts Microsoft IE 9 hardware acceleration claims
- VeriFone ramps up the fear factor
- Spooks' secret TEMPEST-busting tech reinvented by US student
- BT vs Sky vs Virgin
- Router-rooting malware pwns Linux-based network devices
- Lady Gaga puts the squeeze on breast milk ice cream
- Retailer warns anti-pirate 3DS firmware imminent
- Chicken Little report: Sat-nav dependency spells DISASTER!
- Microsoft Kinect faster seller than iPad, says Guinness
- Microsoft cut 'n' pastes Office market boss into undisclosed role
- Illinois scrubs death penalty
- Mobile Trojan mimics Android clean-up tool
- The desktop lifecycle: How long is it anyway?
- Chickens show empathy: Official
- Google squeezes thumbnails into mobile search
- No more WAFL waffle: NetApp changes tactics
- SHOCK research reveals Wi-Fi not as nippy as Ethernet
- Ofcom says no to automatically renewed contract badness
- Fight Night Champion
- Tearful NASA salutes space shuttle Discovery
- Amazon beefs up cloud management console
- Ofcom steams ahead with Crown rights, prepares to sell family jewels
- Growing your web server farm to cope with fluctuating demand
- Computacenter celebrates 30th birthday with strong results
- Are SPEC file benchmarks broken?
- PictureBox Player 1.0.1
- Whitehall to puff punters: 'Hide your fags'
- IBM rides 'third supercycle of growth'
- Making sport of browser security, hackers topple IE, Safari
- Mozilla delivers first Firefox 4 release candidate
- Apple frees iOS 4.3 two days before iPad 2 Arrival™
- Ingenious NetApp buys Engenio
- Oz governments find new use for censorship
- HP lays cuckoo egg in Microsoft nest
| HP: 'Yes, we're keeping the PC biz' Posted: 10 Mar 2011 12:32 PM PST Sell-off rumor squashed like bugThe Commercial Times, a Chinese business newspaper based in Taipei, Taiwan, is in hot water with Hewlett-Packard this morning after reporting that the company was considering selling off its notebook PC business.… |
| iPad 2 sales kick off in dead of night Posted: 10 Mar 2011 12:29 PM PST Erects 'popup store' in TexasYesterday, iOS 4.3. Tomorrow, iPad 2. And if you're planning a trip to Austin, Texas, to catch Bad Brains at the annual South by Southwest mega-fest, Apple will provide a "popup store" just for your iPad-purchasing pleasure.… |
| Oz PC shipments still growing: IDC Posted: 10 Mar 2011 12:24 PM PST Not all retailing is a dead duckIn spite of a disappointing Christmas season – one which saw gloomy predictions from most retailers – IDC says Australia's PC shipments grew strongly in 2010.… |
| HP gets data centre fever in NZ Posted: 10 Mar 2011 12:23 PM PST Rolls out plans for third data hubHewlett Packard is constructing a NZ$60 million data centre in Auckland New Zealand as part of the vendor's billion dollar global rollout programme for HP data centres… |
| Townsville gets smart city dollars Posted: 10 Mar 2011 12:22 PM PST IBM invests in a data driven make-overTownsville in North Queensland is evolving into a digital hub after being selected by IBM as one of 24 international cities to receive a Smarter Cities Challenge Grant. The grants provide cities with access to IBM's top experts to analyse and recommend ways to improve the economic and social viability of the city.… |
| Super Micro uncloaks dense Westmere-EX server Posted: 10 Mar 2011 10:13 AM PST 64 cores, 4 GPUs, and 2TB memory in a 5U rackerSuper Micro, the motherboard and whitebox server maker that is soon going to break through $1bn in sales, wants a bigger piece of the high-end server action. That's why the company has bent some metal into a dense eight-way server design based on Intel's forthcoming Westmere-EX Xeon processors.… |
| eBay douses PHP ecommerce shop in money love Posted: 10 Mar 2011 09:45 AM PST $22.5m and a 49% stake - our final bid!Auction giant eBay's emerged as the stealth investor in tiny PHP shopping engine specialist Magento.… |
| NASA aims for space tests of Mars-in-a-month plasma drive Posted: 10 Mar 2011 09:14 AM PST 270hp Star Wars-esque blue glow engine for the ISS?NASA will work with a firm started by a former astronaut to build a spaceworthy plasma drive capable of revolutionising travel beyond Earth orbit. However it appears that the space tests may not take place aboard the International Space Station (ISS) as had been planned.… |
| Apple security update leaves iPhone 3G users unprotected Posted: 10 Mar 2011 08:10 AM PST Security FAILApple is leaving some of its older mobile devices unprotected with its latest patch batch.… |
| HPC student cluster WAR begins Posted: 10 Mar 2011 08:00 AM PST Let slip the dogs of clusteringSC11 The ultimate competition for student techies has begun.… |
| PlayStation update couples console to cloud and disconnects hackers Posted: 10 Mar 2011 07:35 AM PST But for how long?Sony has released a PlayStation firmware update today which not only gives customers cloud space, but attempts to plug all penetrable gaps and make hackers rethink their approach.… |
| Tablet hype brings e-book readers a more merry Xmas Posted: 10 Mar 2011 07:26 AM PST Sales up - but 2011 will be the tablet's yearE-book readers appear to have sold better during 2010 than some analysts anticipated, if new numbers from market watcher IDC are anything to go by.… |
| Connecticut suspect's 'half-ro' haircut wows web Posted: 10 Mar 2011 07:18 AM PST Quite a head of hair, police mugshot showsThe police photo of a Connecticut stabbing suspect has shown why it is a really bad idea to flee the scene of an afro braiding before your hair has been fully been brought under control.… |
| Why Nokia failed: 'Wasted 2,000 man years' on UIs that didn't work Posted: 10 Mar 2011 06:29 AM PST For want of a nail, the Kingdom was lost?When Nokia CEO Stephen Elop announced that Nokia was abandoning its development of its own smartphone platforms and APIs, and betting the farm on somebody else's, many people asked why it was necessary.… |
| Direct action group defaces Vodafone in tax avoidance protest Posted: 10 Mar 2011 06:01 AM PST UK Uncut scampers all over websiteAnti-cuts group UK Uncut has hijacked a Vodafone website as part of a protest against alleged tax avoidance by the mobile phone giant.… |
| No toys to throw from the PRAM Posted: 10 Mar 2011 05:53 AM PST Phase-change memory could be going nowhere slowlyComment Phase-change memory (PCM or Phase-change RAM - PRAM) seems to be changing its phase, from promising-newcomer-technology to fading-candidate-going-nowhere.… |
| Firefox bloke blasts Microsoft IE 9 hardware acceleration claims Posted: 10 Mar 2011 05:18 AM PST So much browser war-mongering, so little timeA New Zealand-based Mozilla programmer has spanked Microsoft's marketeers for making what he believes to be misleading claims about Internet Explorer 9's hardware acceleration credentials.… |
| VeriFone ramps up the fear factor Posted: 10 Mar 2011 05:16 AM PST Apparently it's far from hip to be SquarePayment processor VeriFone has launched a blistering attack on newcomer Square, claiming Square's hardware opens the way for criminals to skim cards – without noting that such skimming is already commonplace.… |
| Spooks' secret TEMPEST-busting tech reinvented by US student Posted: 10 Mar 2011 05:01 AM PST Young boffin blows gaff on mystery BAE submarine kitA mysterious secret technology, apparently in use by the British intelligence services in an undisclosed role, has been reinvented by a graduate student in America. Full details of the working principles are now available.… |
| Posted: 10 Mar 2011 05:00 AM PST Top pay-telly providers go head to headGroup Test When the final old-style analogue broadcasts cease in 2012 the default way of receiving TV will be Freeview. For years there have been alternatives for those willing to pay more, and you can end up with as many channels as Lady Gaga has costumes. Like those outfits, you might think: is it necessary to have so many?… |
| Router-rooting malware pwns Linux-based network devices Posted: 10 Mar 2011 04:46 AM PST Bad for your ELFSecurity researchers have discovered a rare strain of router-rooting malware that targets network devices running either Linux or Unix.… |
| Lady Gaga puts the squeeze on breast milk ice cream Posted: 10 Mar 2011 04:39 AM PST Objects to creamy 'Baby Gaga' blendThe Covent Garden ice cream parlour which recently got busted by Westminster council health operatives over its creamy blend of human mam milk, vanilla pods and lemon zest, now faces a far more serious threat to its jub juice concoction: Lady Gaga.… |
| Retailer warns anti-pirate 3DS firmware imminent Posted: 10 Mar 2011 04:37 AM PST Update said to brick consoles running iffy game copiesHackers beware: Nintendo's next-gen handheld, the 3DS, is out of bounds.… |
| Chicken Little report: Sat-nav dependency spells DISASTER! Posted: 10 Mar 2011 04:15 AM PST Quango pushes 1940s tech as backup for GPSAnalysis A heavyweight UK tech body has just issued a report claiming that growing dependence on satellite navigation systems poses serious economic and safety risks to society. There's some truth in the report, but unfortunately it verges on scaremongering at times and appears to have been unduly influenced by organisations which can't be regarded as impartial.… |
| Microsoft Kinect faster seller than iPad, says Guinness Posted: 10 Mar 2011 04:06 AM PST 10m shipments break recordMicrosoft is celebrating a motion-controlled milestone: it has sold 10m Kinect accessories and a further 10m Kinect-able games on top of that.… |
| Microsoft cut 'n' pastes Office market boss into undisclosed role Posted: 10 Mar 2011 04:03 AM PST Chris Capossela does truffle shuffle at RedmondMicrosoft has shunted Chris Capossela, who had been the company's marketing head of Office and other business software, over to a yet-to-be-announced "leadership role".… |
| Posted: 10 Mar 2011 04:01 AM PST Governor makes 'most difficult' decisionThe governor of Illinois yesterday officially abolished the death penalty in the state, more than 10 years after executions there were halted amid fears innocent people could be condemned to die.… |
| Mobile Trojan mimics Android clean-up tool Posted: 10 Mar 2011 03:58 AM PST Sneaky VXers spread infected version of security updateMalware makers have released a Trojan version of an Android clean-up tool released by Google earlier this week.… |
| The desktop lifecycle: How long is it anyway? Posted: 10 Mar 2011 03:55 AM PST You wanna roll, or you wanna forkliftDesktop Strategy It's a recession so do you look to squeeze an extra year out of the desktop. How and is it wise to do this? How long is the lifecycle anyway?… |
| Chickens show empathy: Official Posted: 10 Mar 2011 03:18 AM PST Chilling chick torture experiment proves hens hurt tooA crack team from the University of Bristol has demonstrated that chickens show empathy – or at least hens do when their chicks are being tortured with puffed air.… |
| Google squeezes thumbnails into mobile search Posted: 10 Mar 2011 03:16 AM PST Reading search results is so 20th CenturyMobile searchers can now get thumbnails of their Google search results, generating even more traffic for the sake of enabling browse-by-picture.… |
| No more WAFL waffle: NetApp changes tactics Posted: 10 Mar 2011 03:11 AM PST From unified to diversified storageComment: It's the end of one-size-fits-all WAFL waffle: NetApp HQ at Sunnyvale enters a new era today, in which it sells diversified storage systems. WAFL is no longer the defining factor.… |
| SHOCK research reveals Wi-Fi not as nippy as Ethernet Posted: 10 Mar 2011 03:04 AM PST Shout at your hardware, not your ISP, advises studyYou'd never guess this. Connect to the internet in your home over a wireless connection and you won't get the same data throughput as you do if you connect using Ethernet.… |
| Ofcom says no to automatically renewed contract badness Posted: 10 Mar 2011 02:40 AM PST Telcos banned from rollover contracts with leaving penaltiesTelecoms firms will be banned from automatically signing customers up to renewed contracts with minimum contract periods, telecoms regulator has said. It said that 15 per cent of home phone users are tied into such contracts.… |
| Posted: 10 Mar 2011 02:30 AM PST Smack my mitts upReview Team sport titles get repackaged each year with marginal improvements, justified through noticeable kit and squad differences. However, as fast-paced as boxing may be, the sport itself moves very slowly. So even though Fight Night Champion arrives almost two years since the series' last release, apart from David Haye's climb to the top, little has changed in the boxing world.… |
| Tearful NASA salutes space shuttle Discovery Posted: 10 Mar 2011 02:18 AM PST Journey's end for venerable spacecraftThe long and distinguished career of space shuttle Discovery ended yesterday at 16:57 GMT when the venerable vehicle touched down at Kennedy Space Center at the end of its final flight.… |
| Amazon beefs up cloud management console Posted: 10 Mar 2011 02:08 AM PST Scale up, scale down? You decideAmazon has plonked a few more features into the EC2 tab of its AWS management console, in an effort it claimed would make the system easier to use and, at the same time, much gutsier.… |
| Ofcom steams ahead with Crown rights, prepares to sell family jewels Posted: 10 Mar 2011 02:07 AM PST Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the LawOfcom is to start providing Recognised Spectrum Access permissions to Crown bodies that previously just used frequencies by common agreement – so they can start selling them off, obviously.… |
| Growing your web server farm to cope with fluctuating demand Posted: 10 Mar 2011 02:06 AM PST Peaks and TroughsDatacentre Thanks to support for multi-core processors and terabytes of memory, servers have never been more scaleable. When it comes to hosting web sites and applications, however, server farms based on relatively modest hardware still dominate because they make dealing with fluctuations in demand easier.… |
| Computacenter celebrates 30th birthday with strong results Posted: 10 Mar 2011 01:51 AM PST Revs and profits upComputacenter grew sales by 10.7 per cent in 2010 to £2.68bn and managed to increase adjusted profits by 21.8 per cent to £66.1m.… |
| Are SPEC file benchmarks broken? Posted: 10 Mar 2011 12:45 AM PST Flash versus diskComment Recent EMC SPEC filer benchmarks have annihilated competing systems. EMC has used virtually all-flash systems to dramatically up its benchmark game, leaving disk-based rivals in the dust. Are the SPEC filer benchmarks now so unrealistic as to be worthless?… |
| Posted: 09 Mar 2011 11:00 PM PST Films for a fiver a monthiOS App of the Week I'm a big fan of LoveFilm, and use it to rent DVDs through the post and to watch films online. Unfortunately, like many other video-on-demand services, LoveFilm uses Flash to deliver video, which means that it won't work with the the iPad, iPhone or iPod Touch.… |
| Whitehall to puff punters: 'Hide your fags' Posted: 09 Mar 2011 09:00 PM PST Shield innocent ankle-bitersDeath-dealing coffin nails will have to be kept out of sight of impressionable Englishpersons, beginning with large retailers in April 2012 and then in small shops beginning in 2015.… |
| IBM rides 'third supercycle of growth' Posted: 09 Mar 2011 08:00 PM PST Big Blue predicts big profits through 2015IBM hosted its annual investor briefing yesterday at the TJ Watson Research Center in Yorktown Heights, New York, which will probably go down in history as the place where the Watson question-answer machine (it is not a supercomputer, at least not yet) was built and whipped humanity's ass at Jeopardy!.… |
| Making sport of browser security, hackers topple IE, Safari Posted: 09 Mar 2011 07:59 PM PST Once againContestants in a high-stakes hacking contest had no trouble toppling the Apple Safari and Microsoft Internet Explorer browsers, proving for a fifth year in a row that no software or application is safe from people with the expertise and motivation to exploit them.… |
| Mozilla delivers first Firefox 4 release candidate Posted: 09 Mar 2011 05:11 PM PST 8 months and 8,000 bugs later...Mozilla has announced the first Firefox 4 release candidate, after eight months of beta testing on the latest version of its open source browser.… |
| Apple frees iOS 4.3 two days before iPad 2 Arrival™ Posted: 09 Mar 2011 04:54 PM PST Wants $4.99 for XcodeFirst Look Apple has released the free iOS 4.3 update for the iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch, goosing Safari's JavaScript performance, adding a handful of new features (not available on all models), and providing a flurry of security updates, all two days before it's set to appear on the iPad 2.… |
| Posted: 09 Mar 2011 02:52 PM PST Boss gets sweet revenge on ex-employerNetApp is buying LSI's Engenio storage business. In other words, NetApp CEO Tom Georgens is buying the business he used to run.… |
| Oz governments find new use for censorship Posted: 09 Mar 2011 02:39 PM PST Kill off naughty stuff? There's an app for that…Australia's government has once again exhibited its enthusiasm for censorship, with the Minister for Home Affairs Brendan O'Connor reportedly considering setting the country's content classifiers onto Apple's App Store and Google's Android Marketplace.… |
| HP lays cuckoo egg in Microsoft nest Posted: 09 Mar 2011 02:09 PM PST webOS among the WindowsAnalysis Microsoft's biggest partner has laid a cuckoo's egg in the nest. Next year, every Hewlett-Packard Windows PC will ship with the Linux-based webOS as well.… |
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