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- Google teaches Microsoft's IE9 to love open video codec
- iPad 2, A5 chip, and Smart Cover strip-searched
- Assange ambushes Australian Prime Minister on live TV
- EA coughs to <i>Dragon Age II</i> user ban 'mistake'
- Google splits Google Apps suite in two
- MS flicks the LightSwitch for Silverlight on Azure
- London's Olympic clock claps out
- F-Secure Mac security scanner bug bins benign files
- Buy two tablets, stop a laptop from being shipped
- Google wires up for wireless payments
- Three ponders big squeeze: City, duopoly, Ofcom have little sympathy
- Avere extends FXT box for virtual stuffing
- Seagate extends enterprise disk and SSD lines
- Ubisoft reveals rock game with REAL guitars
- Amazon tweaks virtual private clouds
- Measuring loyalty 101: know what your customers bought
- Ten scatological jokes about storage
- Defence talks to forge EU cyberwar strategy
- EU copyright database could help reform the laws on orphan works
- The stick, the carrot and the desktop virt project
- Network mapping: you know it makes sense
- HP will grow future on clouds and analytics
- Disney torpedoes <i>Yellow Submarine</i>
- Facebook poaches Google exec to go on M&A hunt
- WTF is... cloud gaming?
- The 64-bit question
- Russian republic in sex bomb alert
- DWP ditches Fujitsu and reappoints HP
- Facebook preps Groupon-like service
- Fukushima update: No chance cooling fuel can breach vessels
- Asus Eee Pad Slider
- Can telephony and IT work together?
- European parliament loves the Tobin tax
- Microsoft calls time on Zune media player hardware
- Ofcom stamps out mobile termination fees
- Bogus BBC Fukushima radiation texts panic the Philippines
- BT Openreach's founding father quits job
- Avon and Somerset police launch online crime tracker
- At the sharp end
- Renault security boss arrested as spying claims fall apart
- TorrentFreak seeking copyright report’s mysterious author
- Black Ops is the best selling videogame EVER
- Catch Notes
- Microsoft releases IE9 for chip happy Windows world
- Data-mining technique outs authors of anonymous email
- HP promises App Store and Microsoft love in webOS world
- Apple handcuffs 'open' web apps on iPhone home screen
- Moko buys US mobile outfit
- Ex-Pipe boss rolls out data centre vision
- Adobe promises emergency patch for Flash, Reader bugs
| Google teaches Microsoft's IE9 to love open video codec Posted: 15 Mar 2011 12:48 PM PDT Another Google IEGoogle has released its plug-in for adding the open source and royalty-free VP8 video codec to Microsoft's Internet Explorer 9 browser. IE9 – which made its official debut on Monday – uses the royalty-encumbered H.264 codec, and Microsoft has made it clear that it has no intention of including VP8 on its own.… |
| iPad 2, A5 chip, and Smart Cover strip-searched Posted: 15 Mar 2011 12:44 PM PDT Samsung processor and 31 magnetsApple's iPad 2, launched last Friday, has already been subjected to teardowns by the intrepid vivisectionists at iFixit, UBM TechInsights, and Chipworks, who have discovered details of its A5 processor and other chips, a trio of "massive" battery cells, and a total of 31 magnets providing the sticktuitiveness of the tablet's Smart Cover: 10 in the iPad 2 and 21 in the cover itself.… |
| Assange ambushes Australian Prime Minister on live TV Posted: 15 Mar 2011 11:41 AM PDT Asks if she should be tried for treasonAustralian Prime Minister Julia Gillard denied supplying information about WikiLeaks staff to the US government after founder Julian Assange confronted her on live television and suggested she be tried for treason.… |
| EA coughs to <i>Dragon Age II</i> user ban 'mistake' Posted: 15 Mar 2011 10:49 AM PDT Restoration comedyEA has responded to the Bioware forum user banned from installing Dragon Age II - by apologising for the "mistake" and reinstating the account.… |
| Google splits Google Apps suite in two Posted: 15 Mar 2011 10:28 AM PDT Get new stuff now. Or get it when you're good and readyGoogle has separated its Google Apps suite into two separate "release tracks": one that provides access to the latest tools as soon as they're ready, and a second that releases new tools on a regular weekly schedule.… |
| MS flicks the LightSwitch for Silverlight on Azure Posted: 15 Mar 2011 09:47 AM PDT VisualStudio expansion gets second betaMicrosoft is inviting partners to jump on the second beta of a Visual Studio developer tool that lets you deploy your Silverlight applications to Microsoft's Azure cloud.… |
| London's Olympic clock claps out Posted: 15 Mar 2011 09:19 AM PDT Marathon countdown ends after less than a dayThe London Olympics countdown clock has clapped out after less than a day, the BBC reports.… |
| F-Secure Mac security scanner bug bins benign files Posted: 15 Mar 2011 08:58 AM PDT Whoops! Hope that wasn't a system fileF-Secure has apologised about a bug in its consumer-focused Mac security software that left surfers fighting against their own browsers as clean files were wrongly classified as malign.… |
| Buy two tablets, stop a laptop from being shipped Posted: 15 Mar 2011 08:54 AM PDT Big biz to go ape for fondleslabsConsumers are keen on tablets, but big business is positively bonkers for them, if market watcher Canalys is to be believed.… |
| Google wires up for wireless payments Posted: 15 Mar 2011 08:53 AM PDT NFC hits NY & SF in alphabet soupGoogle is planning to hand shopkeepers thousands of NFC-capable terminals in New York and San Francisco, to encourage proximity payments using their Nexus S handset.… |
| Three ponders big squeeze: City, duopoly, Ofcom have little sympathy Posted: 15 Mar 2011 08:39 AM PDT And then there were ... 3UK punters face higher prices from an oligopoly of three mobile providers unless Ofcom rethinks its spectrum policy, Three UK's CEO Kevin Russell said at a policy debate in London today.… |
| Avere extends FXT box for virtual stuffing Posted: 15 Mar 2011 08:29 AM PDT Virtualises filers, adds global name spaceAvere has extended is its FXT multi-tiered filer accelerator box to aggregate filers together inside a single global name space.… |
| Seagate extends enterprise disk and SSD lines Posted: 15 Mar 2011 08:14 AM PDT Three in one: Pulsar, Savvio and ConstellationSeagate has extended its enterprise disk and solid state storage products in a comprehensive announcement following hard on the heels of Western Digital buying Hitachi GST.… |
| Ubisoft reveals rock game with REAL guitars Posted: 15 Mar 2011 08:13 AM PDT Plucking brilliantUbisoft has announced a guitar-based game that uses a real six-string rather than a button-bashing imitation.… |
| Amazon tweaks virtual private clouds Posted: 15 Mar 2011 08:05 AM PDT Public and private subnetsAmazon Web Services has cut the encrypted cord on its Virtual Private Cloud.… |
| Measuring loyalty 101: know what your customers bought Posted: 15 Mar 2011 07:49 AM PDT What, when, how muchWorkshop Predicting customer behaviour is an essential part of answering the vital question: will the business grow or shrink, swim or sink?… |
| Ten scatological jokes about storage Posted: 15 Mar 2011 07:36 AM PDT InfoSmack Time!And so today we kick off with Infosmack Episode 90, the world's best podcast about enterprise tech bar none.… |
| Defence talks to forge EU cyberwar strategy Posted: 15 Mar 2011 07:14 AM PDT What are we defending against exactly?European defence ministers met last week to develop NATO's future cyber defence strategy, defence minister Nick Harvey told Parliament on Monday.… |
| EU copyright database could help reform the laws on orphan works Posted: 15 Mar 2011 07:11 AM PDT Steely Neelie wants pan-European searchable legal copyright databaseA project designed to identify the copyright status of European works will be extended to cover multimedia material and could become a vital tool in the reform of the law surrounding orphan works, European commissioner Neelie Kroes has said.… |
| The stick, the carrot and the desktop virt project Posted: 15 Mar 2011 07:07 AM PDT Winning hearts and mindsThe world would be a better place if it weren't for all the users. Even the best laid technological plans can go awry when computer-hugging individuals decide that they don't want to abandon their conventional systems or ways of working.… |
| Network mapping: you know it makes sense Posted: 15 Mar 2011 06:57 AM PDT Diagramming tools to the rescueWorkshop Keeping track of your network infrastructure is crucial to maintaining control, because you can't expect to manage it without an understanding of what you have And since a picture is worth a thousand words, keeping a live map of the network makes it easier to see what's going on when faults are detected or when change planning is underway.… |
| HP will grow future on clouds and analytics Posted: 15 Mar 2011 06:48 AM PDT Apotheker ain't gonna buy legacy softwareComment Let's talk about the money first because if the corporate strategy laid out yesterday by Hewlett-Packard's new president and chief executive officer, Leo Apotheker, doesn't pan out, neither will the ever-increasing dividends that are supposed to get Wall Street all fired up.… |
| Disney torpedoes <i>Yellow Submarine</i> Posted: 15 Mar 2011 06:21 AM PDT Robert Zemekis 3D remake of 1968 classic cannedDisney Studios has torpedoed Robert Zemekis's planned 3D remake of Yellow Submarine, according to the Hollywood Reporter.… |
| Facebook poaches Google exec to go on M&A hunt Posted: 15 Mar 2011 06:15 AM PDT Engineer that, Mountain View!Google's corporate development director has reportedly been scooped up by Facebook, in a move to help the social network beef up its mergers and acquisitions portfolio.… |
| Posted: 15 Mar 2011 06:11 AM PDT Look, ma, no console!It's 3am, you can't sleep so you switch on the television. Amid the inevitable reruns and chatline ads, an advert comes on for the latest videogame. Inspired to try it out, you switch over, grab a control pad and immediately start to play. No download, no trips to Blockbuster, no waiting for the postman to arrive with a game from LoveFilm. You didn't even need to fire up your console.… |
| Posted: 15 Mar 2011 06:10 AM PDT Maybe the future of the desktop, but should you care yet?Desktop Strategy There's no question: 64-bit computing is here to stay - and it seems set to be the future of computing. But is it an essential element of your next desktop refresh cycle? Chances are it will be.… |
| Russian republic in sex bomb alert Posted: 15 Mar 2011 06:04 AM PDT Petrozavodsk plastic pecker palaverPolice in the Russian republic of Karelia were obliged to evacuate and cordon off a post office in the capital Petrozavodsk yesterday after staff reported a "suspicious parcel".… |
| DWP ditches Fujitsu and reappoints HP Posted: 15 Mar 2011 05:48 AM PDT U-turns on multi-million pound desktop dealThe Department for Work and Pensions has ripped up its multi-million pound desktop support contract with Fujitsu before the company even started work.… |
| Facebook preps Groupon-like service Posted: 15 Mar 2011 05:41 AM PDT Let the coupon clone wars beginFacebook plans to test a Groupon-like service on its social network to link its users up to local discounts.… |
| Fukushima update: No chance cooling fuel can breach vessels Posted: 15 Mar 2011 05:25 AM PDT Still nothing to get in a flap aboutThe story of the three quake- and tsunami-hit reactors at Japan's Fukushima plant continues, with indications that one of the three worst-hit reactors has sustained further damage. A fire also broke out at another reactor, shut down at the time of the quake and not previously thought to be a problem, but this has now been put out. None of this suggests that the reactors' crucial containment vessels could be breached, however.… |
| Posted: 15 Mar 2011 05:24 AM PDT Tablet meets netbook - becomes smartbookHands On The smartbook is the great 'might have been' of mobile computing. Something thin and light, with solid-state storage, a keyboard, a day-long battery life and the ARM CPU that makes such a quality possible, and a price in keeping with the Small, Cheap Computer ethic.… |
| Can telephony and IT work together? Posted: 15 Mar 2011 05:03 AM PDT West Yorkshire Fire Service says 'yesBroadcast Over the years, fragmentation has crept upon organisations leaving communications across the company out of tune with the requirements of the business.… |
| European parliament loves the Tobin tax Posted: 15 Mar 2011 04:51 AM PDT But if it becomes law, it's us plebs who'll be payingSometimes it seems the Gods themselves are trying to screw us over. At other times it is our own politicians who attempt to to fubar the world all on their lonesome. This seems to be the case with the European Parliament's recent decision to try and impose the Tobin Tax upon us all.… |
| Microsoft calls time on Zune media player hardware Posted: 15 Mar 2011 04:35 AM PDT Even Nokia wouldn't want itMicrosoft is to pull the plug on its Zune line of media players, it has been claimed. The software giant won't be introducing any new models, insists an insider.… |
| Ofcom stamps out mobile termination fees Posted: 15 Mar 2011 04:30 AM PDT Down to a ha'penny by 2014Ofcom has confirmed its plan to cut mobile termination rates, though not as quickly as some would like.… |
| Bogus BBC Fukushima radiation texts panic the Philippines Posted: 15 Mar 2011 03:34 AM PDT Thanks for thatHoax BBC text messages are claiming that radiation from the stricken Fukushima nuclear power plant has begun spreading in the Philippines.… |
| BT Openreach's founding father quits job Posted: 15 Mar 2011 03:29 AM PDT Steve Robertson out as Olivia Garfield takes on CEO roleBT Openreach's boss Steve Robertson is leaving, after six years heading up BT's network access business.… |
| Avon and Somerset police launch online crime tracker Posted: 15 Mar 2011 03:27 AM PDT Site allows victims of crime to follow the progress of investigationsThe Avon and Somerset police service has launched an online crime tracker to provide the public with access to information extracted from its systems.… |
| Posted: 15 Mar 2011 03:23 AM PDT How far should CRM customisation go?Workshop Deploying a software application can be a balancing act between making the system work for the business and changing the business to fit the system.… |
| Renault security boss arrested as spying claims fall apart Posted: 15 Mar 2011 02:55 AM PDT J'accuse. PasRenault has apologised to the three senior executives from its electric vehicle division who were sacked and accused of spying for China.… |
| TorrentFreak seeking copyright report’s mysterious author Posted: 15 Mar 2011 01:48 AM PDT Who is Sphere Analysis?A report that pump-primes the idea that Australia is a nation of inveterate pirates is starting to unravel, with a report on TorrentFreak questioning the bona fides of the report's author.… |
| Black Ops is the best selling videogame EVER Posted: 15 Mar 2011 01:37 AM PDT Battlefield devs bitch-slap ActivisionThis week, Call of Duty: Black Ops became the best-selling game of all time - in the US at least - selling 13.7m units across all platforms in the five months since release.… |
| Posted: 15 Mar 2011 12:00 AM PDT Your thoughts on all your devicesAndroid App of the Week Trying to keep your spur-of-the-moment scribbles and jottings synchronised twixt phone and computer can be hard enough, and with third-device tablets hoving into view the problem is only going to get worse.… |
| Microsoft releases IE9 for chip happy Windows world Posted: 14 Mar 2011 11:40 PM PDT Windows XP not includedMicrosoft made IE9 available for download on Monday evening at corporate hippie fest South By South West in Austin, Texas, where it boasted that IE9 relies on Windows more than any other browser out there.… |
| Data-mining technique outs authors of anonymous email Posted: 14 Mar 2011 09:00 PM PDT Unmasking trolls, one 'write-print' at a timeEngineers and computer scientists say they have devised a novel method for identifying authors of anonymous emails that's reliable enough to be used in courts of law.… |
| HP promises App Store and Microsoft love in webOS world Posted: 14 Mar 2011 06:57 PM PDT 'Our software is a thing of magic'Hewlett-Packard has unveiled an imaginative cloud strategy apparently founded on the imaginative powers of its marketing people.… |
| Apple handcuffs 'open' web apps on iPhone home screen Posted: 14 Mar 2011 06:26 PM PDT Three bugs? Or three-headed App Store conspiracy?Exclusive Apple's iOS mobile operating system runs web applications at significantly slower speeds when they're launched from the iPhone or iPad home screen in "full-screen mode" as opposed to in the Apple Safari browser, and at the same time, the operating system hampers the performance of these apps in other ways, according to tests from multiple developers and The Register.… |
| Posted: 14 Mar 2011 03:45 PM PDT Looks for Nasdaq listingThe international ambitions of Australian mobile social networking service provider MOKO.mobi have ramped up with the acquisition of US based Cellfish Media for USD$5.5m.… |
| Ex-Pipe boss rolls out data centre vision Posted: 14 Mar 2011 03:41 PM PDT Ted Pretty jumps on boardNascent national data centre operator NextDC has secured a site for its Sydney hub with plans to open the centre in Q3 2012. The new "green" data centre will be located 12km north-west of Sydney CBD but the company says it is looking at opening an additional Sydney site in a strategic location due to customer demand.… |
| Adobe promises emergency patch for Flash, Reader bugs Posted: 14 Mar 2011 01:49 PM PDT Limited attacks under wayAdobe Systems plans to release emergency patches for its Flash and Reader applications after learning a critical vulnerability is being exploited to install malware on vulnerable machines.… |
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