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- ChinaNet bestows free Wi-Fi upon lucky Android few
- HBGary's nemesis is a '16 year-old schoolgirl'
- Prof debuts miniature laser diode for fast networking
- Nintendo 3DS smashes advance order record
- WD outs 6TB monster drive
- <cite>New York Times</cite> tucks skirt behind stilted paywall
- Intel buys Silicon Hive for SoC smarts
- IBM tunes up Java for z196 mainframes
- Seeing the answer
- Pervasive encryption: Just say yes
- New cheap gas, not nature, is nuclear's biggest worry
- Google copyright purge leaves Android developers exposed
- Fukushima on Thursday: Prospects starting to look good
- Police, Google and Facebook warned on data protection
- Dell Inspiron Duo netbook-tablet hybrid
- Accolades and anguish at the Baftas
- Broadband minister asks ISPs to better 'regulate' industry
- Boffins build copper-crunching laptop cooler
- Child abuse cop slams ICANN
- Spam levels plummet as Rustock botnet taken down... for now
- Video in the workplace
- Spectrum-guzzling operators will TAKE TV off THE AIR
- Texas bank robber asked for ID
- Visa goes all P2P in US
- Asus to take fight to tablets with cheap Google netbook
- UK cyclists hit by fraud after online purchase at website
- A cacophony of clients
- Altec Lansing inMotion Air wireless speaker
- Police just rubber-stamping US data slurp
- Judge mulls 'wasted costs' as ACS:Law cases close
- The more you know about your customers ...
- Overland gets $15m tide-us-over cash
- Visualisation into action
- Apple iMovie 1.2
- US CIOs: IT hires on the rise
- Java daddy: 'Aggressively stupid' won't work for Oracle
- MS embraces/shuns Google's open video codec
- Phishers dodge fraud protections in Firefox, Chrome
- Alcatel-Lucent touts bit-blazing 100Gbps for Kiwi NBN
- Sony wins subpoena for PS3 hacker's PayPal records
- GaleForce blows into the cloud
- Skyhook vows to take Google suit to bitter end
| ChinaNet bestows free Wi-Fi upon lucky Android few Posted: 17 Mar 2011 10:04 AM PDT Shanghai phone booths get souped upChinaNet, the ISP brand of China Telecom, has launched a public Wi-Fi service in 500 of its Shanghai telephone booths, and while most users will have to pay Android handsets get in for free.… |
| HBGary's nemesis is a '16 year-old schoolgirl' Posted: 17 Mar 2011 09:53 AM PDT Tales of mystery and imaginationForbes has bagged an interview with the "teenage girl" who supposedly played a key role in hacking security firm HBGary on behalf of Anonymous.… |
| Prof debuts miniature laser diode for fast networking Posted: 17 Mar 2011 09:37 AM PDT And even faster hair removalMiniature laser diodes emitting intense single wavelength light could speed data networking.… |
| Nintendo 3DS smashes advance order record Posted: 17 Mar 2011 09:24 AM PDT Unusually high demand, claims Amazon - but won't say how manyNintendo 3DS has become the most pre-ordered console on Amazon, beating the likes of PS3 and Wii, the online retailer has claimed.… |
| Posted: 17 Mar 2011 09:23 AM PDT External HDD gets Raid treatmentWestern Digital has upgraded its two-disk My Book Studio II external hard drive to a whopping 6TB of capacity.… |
| <cite>New York Times</cite> tucks skirt behind stilted paywall Posted: 17 Mar 2011 09:12 AM PDT Gray Lady asks regular readers to cough up $15 a monthRegular readers of the online version of the New York Times will be asked to pay for a monthly subscription to the newspaper after perusing 20 articles on the site for free.… |
| Intel buys Silicon Hive for SoC smarts Posted: 17 Mar 2011 09:01 AM PDT Phillips Electronics spinout caughtIntel continues to build up its capabilities in software in general and in parallel processing in particular, as it announced today it has acquired Silicon Hive.… |
| IBM tunes up Java for z196 mainframes Posted: 17 Mar 2011 08:45 AM PDT 64-bit and 31-bit JVMsSoftware almost always lags behind the hardware it runs on. This week, IBM tuned up its Java virtual machines and software development kits for its System z mainframe line to take advantage of new instructions in the new zEnterprise 196 mainframes.… |
| Posted: 17 Mar 2011 07:30 AM PDT Diagramming boosts your (business) intelligenceWorkshop Business intelligence (BI) is a many-headed beast that has spawned a thousand different analytical applications in areas such as financials, key performance indicators, supply chain and so on.… |
| Pervasive encryption: Just say yes Posted: 17 Mar 2011 07:30 AM PDT Never mind the performance penaltyIn my day job as a sysadmin for a small business, and in my moonlighting as a freelance tech consultant, I get to do a lot of thinking about security.… |
| New cheap gas, not nature, is nuclear's biggest worry Posted: 17 Mar 2011 07:27 AM PDT Nuke CEO says nuclear reactors just aren't economicalNew nuclear reactors just aren't economical, says the CEO of the largest nuclear operator in the United States. Exelon's CEO John Rowe says that the economics of cheap gas makes a nuclear renaissance unforeseeable for the next few years – and had done so before the quake prompted regulators to politicians to review their policies.… |
| Google copyright purge leaves Android developers exposed Posted: 17 Mar 2011 06:56 AM PDT Could be forced to hand over source codeGoogle's attempt to purge copyright from header files has put mobile developers at risk of being forced to reveal their own source code, according to legal experts.… |
| Fukushima on Thursday: Prospects starting to look good Posted: 17 Mar 2011 06:48 AM PDT 'Worst probably over' says Australian profThe story of the quake- and tsunami-stricken Fukushima Daiichi nuclear powerplant continues to unfold, with reports suggesting that the situation with respect to the three damaged reactors at the plant may soon be stabilised without serious consequences. The focus of attention has now moved to problems at a pool used to keep spent fuel rods cool. There remain no indications that anyone has yet suffered any radiation health effects, and the prospect is growing that this will remain the case.… |
| Police, Google and Facebook warned on data protection Posted: 17 Mar 2011 06:02 AM PDT Reding details plans for stronger privacy rightsEuropean Justice Commissioner Viviane Reding said citizens have the right to proper data protection, and the "right to be forgotten", and deserve national regulators which will enforce the rules.… |
| Dell Inspiron Duo netbook-tablet hybrid Posted: 17 Mar 2011 06:00 AM PDT Flip your lidReview Devices that try to reconcile the essentially irreconcilable often come a cropper. As the Good Book says, "Because thou art lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will spue thee out of my mouth." Trying to combine the best of the netbook with the best of the tablet is what Dell's new Inspiron Duo is all about, but does it work as either, let alone both?… |
| Accolades and anguish at the Baftas Posted: 17 Mar 2011 05:58 AM PDT Games get gongsHeavy Rain was a critical success at last night's British Academy of Film and Television Videogames Awards, scooping three gongs amid the roar of much applause.… |
| Broadband minister asks ISPs to better 'regulate' industry Posted: 17 Mar 2011 05:56 AM PDT UK.gov enlists Sir Tim Berners-Lee to make noises about 'open web'Communications minister Ed Vaizey is calling on ISPs to beef up their commitments to providing UK customers with information about how they manage online traffic.… |
| Boffins build copper-crunching laptop cooler Posted: 17 Mar 2011 05:33 AM PDT Kettle chips?General Electric nanotech scientists have have come up with a heat-conducting system that's more than twice as efficient as copper yet has a quarter of the metal's weight.… |
| Posted: 17 Mar 2011 05:18 AM PDT 'Accurate Whois is a joke. It just doesn't happen,' says Interpol kid protectorOne of Interpol's top child porn cops has launched a blistering attack on the domain name industry and the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) for not doing enough to help law enforcement tackle child abuse imagery online.… |
| Spam levels plummet as Rustock botnet taken down... for now Posted: 17 Mar 2011 05:12 AM PDT 815,000 zombies with no master...Spam volumes shrank on Wednesday after the prolific Rustock botnet fell silent, reportedly as a result of a takedown action.… |
| Posted: 17 Mar 2011 05:00 AM PDT Watching you, watching meOn Demand Last week in our central London studio, The Register's Tim Phillips discussed the value of videoconferencing with some experts to see if it's a technology that has come of age at last.… |
| Spectrum-guzzling operators will TAKE TV off THE AIR Posted: 17 Mar 2011 04:44 AM PDT The scramble for more radio spectrumOfcom has threatened to put the spectrum used by broadcast TV on the block.… |
| Texas bank robber asked for ID Posted: 17 Mar 2011 04:27 AM PDT Sure, here's my Wells Fargo debit cardA Texas master criminal's attempt to rob a Dallas bank ended badly after the teller requested two forms of ID before handing over cash.… |
| Posted: 17 Mar 2011 04:21 AM PDT Pay anyone, anywhereAmericans with Visa cards will soon be able to transfer money to any other Visa account worldwide, just by entering the amount, the recipient's card number and an email address.… |
| Asus to take fight to tablets with cheap Google netbook Posted: 17 Mar 2011 04:16 AM PDT Chrome-plated?Eee PC maker Asus will launch a dirt-cheap netbook this summer in a bid the eke out out market share before the tablets take it all.… |
| UK cyclists hit by fraud after online purchase at website Posted: 17 Mar 2011 04:09 AM PDT Caught in the middle of a chain reactionUpdated A suspected security breach at popular UK-based biking site chainreactioncycles.com has been linked by victims to multiple instances of fraud.… |
| Posted: 17 Mar 2011 04:00 AM PDT Virtual desktops can run on tablets and phones - but should they?DV There was a time when technology was only sexy for a narrow subset of people. These were the folks, like me, who spent their weekends programming sprites in 68000 assembly language. Then, consumerisation happened, and the world was never the same again. Suddenly, everyone was a geek, and the IT department was in serious trouble.… |
| Altec Lansing inMotion Air wireless speaker Posted: 17 Mar 2011 04:00 AM PDT Dock-free zoneReview Altec Lansing's inMotion range of portable speakers has been popular with iPod and iPhone owners for many years. However, the inMotion Air turns out to be a break with tradition – in fact, it's not specifically designed for the iPod at all.… |
| Police just rubber-stamping US data slurp Posted: 17 Mar 2011 03:42 AM PDT Failing to follow the lawMembers of the European Parliament have condemned the first six months of data sharing with US terror spooks as an abject failure of data protection.… |
| Judge mulls 'wasted costs' as ACS:Law cases close Posted: 17 Mar 2011 03:41 AM PDT 'Out of norm conduct' could mean payout for anti-piracy lawyersA London court yesterday officially closed the book on allegations of illegal file-sharing brought by ACS:Law against 26 defendants.… |
| The more you know about your customers ... Posted: 17 Mar 2011 03:00 AM PDT Those walking wallets have namesWorkshop Once you have measured customer purchases using the RFM (recency, frequency, money) formula, the question is how do you drive loyalty with the information you hold.… |
| Overland gets $15m tide-us-over cash Posted: 17 Mar 2011 02:54 AM PDT Is this the last fundraising exercise?Overland Storage is raising $15.4m to tide it over before new product sales lift revenues.… |
| Posted: 17 Mar 2011 01:50 AM PDT See your data, make better decisionsWebcast There's a whole lot of data chugging around your organisation and most of you won't be making the best use of it. That's a picture that can only worsen as more information gets digitised and your business creates more data.… |
| Posted: 17 Mar 2011 12:00 AM PDT Shoot happensiOS App of the Week I've been having a lot of fun playing with Apple's new GarageBand app, but it's the updated iMovie that will really benefit from the new camera and improved graphics power of the iPad 2.… |
| Posted: 16 Mar 2011 09:30 PM PDT Nowhere close to lawyer hiresRobert Half Technology, the IT unit of the eponymous headhunter, says that CIOs are more optimistic about the prospects of hiring more people and doing more IT projects than you might otherwise think.… |
| Java daddy: 'Aggressively stupid' won't work for Oracle Posted: 16 Mar 2011 09:13 PM PDT Gosling says self interest rulesOracle has got no choice but to get it right on Java, according to Java founder James Gosling, who has voiced some support for the database giant's proposed changes.… |
| MS embraces/shuns Google's open video codec Posted: 16 Mar 2011 08:45 PM PDT Redmond lawyers redefine 'the open web'Microsoft has teamed with the Google-backed WebM project to announce software that allows Internet Explorer 9 and other Windows applications to render video using WebM, the web-media format that Google open sourced under a royalty-free license last year.… |
| Phishers dodge fraud protections in Firefox, Chrome Posted: 16 Mar 2011 08:00 PM PDT Outmaneuver blacklistsA recent round of phishing attacks targeting customers of Bank of America and PayPal circumvent fraud protections built in to the Mozilla Firefox and Google Chrome browsers by attaching an HTML file to the spam email.… |
| Alcatel-Lucent touts bit-blazing 100Gbps for Kiwi NBN Posted: 16 Mar 2011 06:07 PM PDT Phantastically Phast Phrench PhotonicsFrench telco vendor Alcatel-Lucent is sending in the big guns – its 100Gbps metro networking – to New Zealand, as the competition to supply the government's Ultra-Fast Broadband Initiative heats up.… |
| Sony wins subpoena for PS3 hacker's PayPal records Posted: 16 Mar 2011 04:53 PM PDT Noose slowly tightens around GeoHotA federal judge in San Francisco has given Sony permission to subpoena the PayPal records of George Hotz, the hacker being sued for jailbreaking the company's PlayStation 3 game console.… |
| GaleForce blows into the cloud Posted: 16 Mar 2011 02:51 PM PDT Fluffs servers, storage, networkingIt seems like everyone who ever sold a system or network management tool is now repositioning themselves as a controller of clouds. Gale Technologies, which you probably never heard of because it hasn't been marketing itself for very long, is coming to clouds from the network side and expanding out into controlling all physical and virtual resources, including provisioning of servers, storage, networking, operating systems, and applications.… |
| Skyhook vows to take Google suit to bitter end Posted: 16 Mar 2011 02:40 PM PDT One way or another, says boss, we'll get on every Android phoneThe CEO of Skyhook Wireless has vowed to take the company's lawsuits against Google to the bitter end and – "one way or another" – get its location services onto every Android phone.… |
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