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- 'Iranian' attackers forge Google's Gmail credentials
- Rackspace accused of 'controlling' open source cloud project
- The Brangelina of Big Data: Cassandra mates with Hadoop
- Radioactive Tokyo tapwater HARMS BABIES ... if drunk for a year
- LightSquared inks deal with Best Buy
- Grid storage - crafted for SMBs
- ZeuS cybercrime cookbook on sale in underground forums
- Mac OS X daddy quits Apple
- Channel VAT loophole shrunk, not shut
- Project managers do it with diagrams
- Ellison drops iceberg in front of HP's unsinkable Itanic
- Digesting the Budget: First-belch reactions
- Paramount buries <i>Dune</i> remake
- Synology DS411slim Nas box
- Nvidia rushes to ARMs
- Windows Phone 7 gets cut'n'paste, other tweaks in update
- Let’s get commercial
- Capitalism killed the Martians, suggests Hugo Chavez
- The human factor: Get the users on board first
- Channel Islands VAT loophole shut, petrol prices cut
- RUSTOCK TAKEDOWN: How the world's worst botnet was KO'd
- Budget Day: First dump from Osborne
- Nokia C7 'Astound' in US debut - all ready for touchless payment
- Out of shape? Not had sex for years? Watch out
- Nanotech nerds assemble überfast-charge battery
- Viewsonic 3DV5 HD 3D camera
- LSE media studies lecturers call for end to copyright enforcement
- Tribunal rules Digifone paid bung for Irish GSM licence
- What it takes to get your desktop back up and running
- New movie gives Yuri Gagarin's view of historic 1961 mission
- Wi-Fi body wants hotspots to override 3G
- Fake Japan blackout alerts cloak Flash malware
- Facebook tells privacy advocates not to 'shoot the messenger'
- Samsung dismisses too few tablets sold claim
- BT, TalkTalk in court seeking axe for Digital Economy Act
- LG backs wireless charging for smartphones
- Brian May stands up for Welsh badgers
- Osborne promises 'Budget for growth'
- PaaS potential and practicality
- South West Trains puts squeeze on commuters
- 4G: What does the auction mean for the incumbents?
- iStunt 2 on the iPhone 4
- Facebook traffic mysteriously passes through Chinese ISP
- Intel's Atom chip chief goes mobile
- Media luvvin' tech analysts contract patent fever
- Japanese quake shakes semiconductor biz
- Googlebooks pact rejected by federal judge
- Facebook snaps up Snaptu
- Interview: Unisys on the cybercrime treaty
- Judgment stalls Google book settlement
| 'Iranian' attackers forge Google's Gmail credentials Posted: 23 Mar 2011 01:12 PM PDT Skype, Microsoft, Yahoo, Mozilla also targetedExtremely sophisticated hackers, possibly from the Iranian government or another state-sponsored actor, broke into the servers of a web authentication authority and counterfeited certificates for Google mail and six other sensitive addresses, the CEO of Comodo said.… |
| Rackspace accused of 'controlling' open source cloud project Posted: 23 Mar 2011 12:34 PM PDT Top OpenStacker: 'If you love something, set it free'Rackspace's chief OpenStacker has quit the company, saying the 'Linux-of-the-cloud' initiative is not functioning properly as a community project and that it deserves full independence from Rackspace.… |
| The Brangelina of Big Data: Cassandra mates with Hadoop Posted: 23 Mar 2011 10:00 AM PDT Open source celebrity supercoupleThink of it as the Brangelina of Big Data.… |
| Radioactive Tokyo tapwater HARMS BABIES ... if drunk for a year Posted: 23 Mar 2011 09:49 AM PDT Iodine isotope will all be gone in weeks, thoughThe Japanese government has announced that radioactive iodine from the damaged Fukushima Daiichi nuclear powerplant has been found in tapwater, and that infants should not drink it. However there is little reason for concern once the facts are understood.… |
| LightSquared inks deal with Best Buy Posted: 23 Mar 2011 09:45 AM PDT Leap and Open Range too: just like a real customer listAudacious wannabe network wholesaler LightSquared has inked a deal with Best Buy to provide connectivity for the retailer's MVNO offering, with testing to start early next year.… |
| Grid storage - crafted for SMBs Posted: 23 Mar 2011 09:41 AM PDT Diddly griddly box slices as it stripesSmall and medium businesses generally want reliable, cheap and simple to use storage; not pushing-the-envelope stuff like grid storage. Gridstore hopes to turn that situation around with its $499 1TB filer box which can grow by adding more boxes.… |
| ZeuS cybercrime cookbook on sale in underground forums Posted: 23 Mar 2011 09:32 AM PDT Lets non-coders produce trojans, other burglar toolsCybercrooks are offering what purports to be source code for the infamous ZeuS cybercrime toolkit though underground forums.… |
| Posted: 23 Mar 2011 09:24 AM PDT So long and thanks for all the catsBertrand Serlet, Apple's senior vice president of Mac software engineering and the man who played a lead role in the development of Mac OS X, is leaving the company.… |
| Channel VAT loophole shrunk, not shut Posted: 23 Mar 2011 08:21 AM PDT 'Big boys' junk will still slip through' - SMEsBudget '11 George Osborne is cutting the value of goods which can be sold without VAT, but he is not ending the system which allows retailers with warehouses in the Channel Islands to ship goods VAT-free to the UK.… |
| Project managers do it with diagrams Posted: 23 Mar 2011 08:09 AM PDT When a picture says a thousand wordsWorkshop Project managers usually opt for Microsoft Project, OmniGroup's OmniPlan or one of many other specialist software products, but some also make use of the ready-made templates included in diagramming software.… |
| Ellison drops iceberg in front of HP's unsinkable Itanic Posted: 23 Mar 2011 07:59 AM PDT Oracle users rush for the lifeboatsOracle has announced that it has stopped development for all its software on Intel's high-end Itanium server processor.… |
| Digesting the Budget: First-belch reactions Posted: 23 Mar 2011 07:52 AM PDT Clarke snoozes, Miliband in ribtickling iPod insultBudget '11 Responding to George Osborne's Budget, Labour leader Ed Miliband said growth is down, employment is down and living standards are falling.… |
| Paramount buries <i>Dune</i> remake Posted: 23 Mar 2011 07:45 AM PDT Worm-riding, sweat-drinking spice war epic on holdThe planned Paramount Pictures movie adaptation of Frank Herbert's Dune has been cancelled.… |
| Posted: 23 Mar 2011 07:44 AM PDT The little big storeReview As technology progresses further into the twenty-first century, the most obvious trend is the miniaturisation of just about everything. While these changes have taken most aspects of new technology by storm, conventional storage however, has been left wanting.… |
| Posted: 23 Mar 2011 07:39 AM PDT Seismic ShiftsNvidia's Analyst Day at its Santa Clara, CA headquarters on March 8 gave me new insight into the company and how it see the markets.… |
| Windows Phone 7 gets cut'n'paste, other tweaks in update Posted: 23 Mar 2011 07:27 AM PDT Back to the WinMo 6 future for RedmondVid Windows Phone 7 users can finally cut and paste text, thanks to the "NoDo" update which is gradually being rolled out now.… |
| Posted: 23 Mar 2011 07:15 AM PDT Making the business case for open softwareWorkshop IT people already know the benefits of open source software. A fair number of them run Linux at home (not least, according to one chief technical officer, so they can deny all knowledge of recent editions of Windows to friends and family wanting off-duty technical support), and persuading them to use it at work is not a hard sell. These are the people Mark Shuttleworth, founder of Ubuntu's commercial champion Canonical, describes as "insightful visionaries".… |
| Capitalism killed the Martians, suggests Hugo Chavez Posted: 23 Mar 2011 07:15 AM PDT Red Planet was insufficiently red, evidentlyVenezuelan supremo Hugo Chavez has provocatively suggested that Martian civilisation may have been wiped out by the arrival of capitalism.… |
| The human factor: Get the users on board first Posted: 23 Mar 2011 07:13 AM PDT Provisioning – more about people than machinesWorkshop The ability to provision financial systems quickly, securely and effectively to users in different offices with different needs drives the perception of the IT department.… |
| Channel Islands VAT loophole shut, petrol prices cut Posted: 23 Mar 2011 06:52 AM PDT Dump 2 from OsborneBudget '11 Osborne said he was accepting Lord Hutton's pension recommendations as the basis for future discussion to reform complex rules and taxation.… |
| RUSTOCK TAKEDOWN: How the world's worst botnet was KO'd Posted: 23 Mar 2011 06:48 AM PDT Redmond posse sends bot-herd cowboys a-runnin'Analysis The unidentified criminals behind the infamous Rustock botnet were paying at least $10,000 a month for US-based command and control servers prior to a successful takedown operation last week.… |
| Budget Day: First dump from Osborne Posted: 23 Mar 2011 06:27 AM PDT Says will support R&D in small firmsBudget '11 Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne told the House of Commons that today's Budget was about reforming the UK economy and helping families deal with rising living costs.… |
| Nokia C7 'Astound' in US debut - all ready for touchless payment Posted: 23 Mar 2011 06:04 AM PDT OK, |
| Out of shape? Not had sex for years? Watch out Posted: 23 Mar 2011 05:57 AM PDT When you finally do get lucky you might DIEBad news today for idle crisp-scoffing lardos who seldom get much attention from the opposite/desired sex: when you finally do achieve some boudoir action, there is a measurable chance that the excitement will kill you.… |
| Nanotech nerds assemble überfast-charge battery Posted: 23 Mar 2011 05:25 AM PDT Two minutes and you're good to goThree researchers have come up with a technique they claim will allow laptop and smartphone batteries to be recharged in two minutes.… |
| Posted: 23 Mar 2011 05:15 AM PDT Stereoscopic stills and video on the cheapReview If Christmas or even the World Cup had you taking the plunge an investing in a 3D TV, then you're probably a bit weary of watching Avatar now and if you haven't got any kids, Alice in Wonderland may have been entertaining once, but…… |
| LSE media studies lecturers call for end to copyright enforcement Posted: 23 Mar 2011 05:15 AM PDT Power to the Freetards!The music business should provide "user-friendly, hassle-free solutions to enable users to download music legally at a reasonable price" says a new report from a media studies department at London's LSE.… |
| Tribunal rules Digifone paid bung for Irish GSM licence Posted: 23 Mar 2011 05:02 AM PDT 'Pretending that Ireland is a functional state'An investigation into payments made to two Irish politicians has, for the last four years, focused on the GSM licence awarded in 1996, resulting in a decision that improper payments were made.… |
| What it takes to get your desktop back up and running Posted: 23 Mar 2011 05:00 AM PDT Recovery and provisioningDesktop Machines fail. Hardware has a lifespan, and hard disks have a shorter life than most. Heads crash, bearings wear out, and motors fail – and data gets lost. The resulting downtime is lost productivity, information workers away from their data and their applications.… |
| New movie gives Yuri Gagarin's view of historic 1961 mission Posted: 23 Mar 2011 04:39 AM PDT 50 yrs of human spaceflight celebrated with ISS footageA documentary filmmaker will celebrate the forthcoming 50th anniversary of Yuri Gagarin's historic first space flight by giving viewers the chance to experience what the cosmonaut saw from his Vostok 1 capsule.… |
| Wi-Fi body wants hotspots to override 3G Posted: 23 Mar 2011 04:33 AM PDT Data auto re-route tech in developmentThe Wi-Fi Alliance has proposed to develop a standard that would allow mobile gadgets to automatically log on to public wireless hotspots.… |
| Fake Japan blackout alerts cloak Flash malware Posted: 23 Mar 2011 04:17 AM PDT Scumbags continue to batten on human miseryScumbags are taking advantage of the desperate situation in Japan by distributing malware that poses as information about a rolling electricity blackout programme.… |
| Facebook tells privacy advocates not to 'shoot the messenger' Posted: 23 Mar 2011 04:01 AM PDT You have no right to be forgotten, argues big ITFacebook insisted yesterday that it is heavily focused on tightening privacy controls for its users, even if information posted on its platform is re-published elsewhere by people accessing the site.… |
| Samsung dismisses too few tablets sold claim Posted: 23 Mar 2011 03:53 AM PDT New models more important than the seven-incherHow well is Samsung's Android tablet line actually selling? Not so good, it has been claimed.… |
| BT, TalkTalk in court seeking axe for Digital Economy Act Posted: 23 Mar 2011 03:38 AM PDT Don't care to rat out lucrative customersTwo of the UK's largest internet service providers are appearing in the High Court later today to try to overturn the government's Digital Economy Act.… |
| LG backs wireless charging for smartphones Posted: 23 Mar 2011 03:36 AM PDT What about phone support, LG?LG has given its thumbs-up to wireless charging.… |
| Brian May stands up for Welsh badgers Posted: 23 Mar 2011 03:17 AM PDT Cull plan 'inhuman vandalism', declares Queen strummerQueen guitarist Brian May has mobilised against a proposed cull of badgers in Wales, something he describes as an "inhuman act of vandalism".… |
| Osborne promises 'Budget for growth' Posted: 23 Mar 2011 02:45 AM PDT Tax break: 25m can now fill up their cars. Once. HalfwayChancellor George Osborne is promising this afternoon's Budget will be a strategy for growth when set against big cuts in public spending, which seem likely to push the UK in the opposite direction.… |
| PaaS potential and practicality Posted: 23 Mar 2011 02:10 AM PDT This is a hype-free zoneBroadcast If you were to draw a systems-stack view of cloud services, 'Platform as a Service' (PaaS) is the layer between 'Infrastructure as a Service' (IaaS) and 'Software as a Service' (SaaS). Of all the 'C word' offerings, it is arguably the least well understood.… |
| South West Trains puts squeeze on commuters Posted: 23 Mar 2011 02:03 AM PDT 'Evidence shows people prefer to travel with their elbows'South West Trains stands accused of attempting to provide more seating on its service between London and Portsmouth by simply reducing the width of seats to such a degree that they're suitable only for commuters without elbows.… |
| 4G: What does the auction mean for the incumbents? Posted: 23 Mar 2011 01:30 AM PDT New generation, same four facesComment The UK's 4G auctions won't shake up the country's mobile industry, but there's enough there to annoy the incumbents equally - and perhaps make space for a local player or two.… |
| Posted: 23 Mar 2011 12:00 AM PDT Cunning stuntsiGamer That's it, hands, you deserve a break. You've worked tirelessly these past few weeks and proved your mettle.… |
| Facebook traffic mysteriously passes through Chinese ISP Posted: 22 Mar 2011 08:44 PM PDT Routing cockup most likely explanationFor a short time on Tuesday, internet traffic sent between Facebook and subscribers to AT&T's internet service passed through hardware belonging to the state-owned China Telecom before reaching its final destination, a security researcher said.… |
| Intel's Atom chip chief goes mobile Posted: 22 Mar 2011 08:00 PM PDT 'Pursuing other interests'Anand Chandrasekher, senior vice president and general manager of Intel's Ultra Mobility Group, has left the company.… |
| Media luvvin' tech analysts contract patent fever Posted: 22 Mar 2011 05:03 PM PDT Nielsen and ComScore unleash lawyersNumber crunchers Nielsen and ComSore have gotten too close to the tech sector. They've hit each other with patent-infringement claims.… |
| Japanese quake shakes semiconductor biz Posted: 22 Mar 2011 02:50 PM PDT Boards and chip packages hit tooChip makers and the computer and electronic suppliers that depend on them are only now beginning to sort out the effect that the earthquake and tsunami disaster in Japan will have on their businesses.… |
| Googlebooks pact rejected by federal judge Posted: 22 Mar 2011 02:25 PM PDT 'De facto monopoly' fearedA federal judge has rejected an amended version of Google's $125 million book-scanning settlement with American authors and publishers, a deal that threatened to rewrite American copyright law and give Google exclusive rights to so-called orphaned works.… |
| Posted: 22 Mar 2011 02:16 PM PDT Gets democratic with mobile appsFacebook is acquiring Israeli mobile app start-up Snaptu for an undisclosed sum. Snaptu develops smartphone-like mobile applications for the masses who do not have high end handsets.… |
| Interview: Unisys on the cybercrime treaty Posted: 22 Mar 2011 02:10 PM PDT Why Australia should sign upAustralia is working through the long process of acceding to the European Convention on Cybercrime. It's a process that causes significant angst. Privacy advocates are concerned at the convention's intrusive nature; ISPs worry about how much data they'd have to carry.… |
| Judgment stalls Google book settlement Posted: 22 Mar 2011 01:47 PM PDT Judge declines to reward mass unauthorised scanningThe 2008 settlement between the Authors' Guild and Association of American Publishers and Google is in limbo for a while, after a New York District Court judge rejected it as "going too far".… |
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