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- RSA won't talk? Assume SecurID is broken
- Microsoft's Novell patent pals return to SuSE's homeland
- Google faces possible antitrust probes in two other states
- Oracle to HP: 'Liar, liar, pants on fire'
- Google open sources MapReduce compression
- Nokia launches new corporate font
- NASA's Stardust set to 'burn to depletion'
- Tintri flashes unique VMware storage credentials
- Timeless principles of sales
- BlackBerry bans drink-drive apps
- Five jailed for £140m VAT scam
- Hackers make off with TripAdvisor's membership list
- Microsoft spends $7.5m on IP addresses
- Securing the virtual desktop
- Duke Nukem Forever DELAYED
- Ten... on-ear headphones
- EU admits deep impact cyberattack in run-up to key summit
- BBC, British Library empires expand under Tory 'growth plan'
- Landlocked Bolivia seeks legal route to Pacific
- ProStor's InfiniVault sells slowly
- Apple bashes 'gay cure' app
- Ofcom gives shonky Sitefinder Google Maps boost
- Microsoft skills up IT pros for jobs in the cloud
- Visualisation into action
- HDS and its awfully good VMware integration
- iPhone 4 SURVIVES plunge from plane
- The curious incident of Oracle and HP-UX on Itanium
- Apple should grant TV makers licence to stream
- Help - my desktop in the cloud has evaporated!
- BAA promises to get its Heathrow act together
- Mobile Bing comes over all HTML5
- Quantum shoots down SpectraLogic product claims
- Dell opens Exanet-based R&D centre
- Russian jailed for 6 years for smutty billboard stunt
- Asda slashes Samsung tablet price
- Spurned nonagenarian lets rip with semi-automatic
- Government shells out £2m for ID card compo
- Slow Shutter Cam
- Apple Mac OS X: ten years old today
- Red Hat: The first $1-billion-a-year open source outfit (almost)
- iiNet against the world: final round draws near(ish)
- Intel and HP defend honor of Itanium
- Judge to music industry: 'Worth trillions? Forget it'
- Ex-Sun man hails Java renaissance under Ellison
- Yahoo! answers Google Instant with streaming <strike>web</strike> search
- Auditor to Oz PM&C: Don’t use Webmail for leaks
- IBM wants to relieve Aussie traffic pain
- Kiwi ultra-fast net gets retail suitors
| RSA won't talk? Assume SecurID is broken Posted: 24 Mar 2011 01:25 PM PDT No news is bad news for two-factor loginsComment It's been a week since RSA dropped a vaguely worded bombshell on 30,000 customers that the soundness of the SecurID system they used to secure their corporate and governmental networks was compromised after hackers stole confidential information concerning the two-factor authentication product.… |
| Microsoft's Novell patent pals return to SuSE's homeland Posted: 24 Mar 2011 01:00 PM PDT Back in businessThe Microsoft-led consortium of tech companies trying to hoover up nearly 1,000 of Novell's patents is back in business.… |
| Google faces possible antitrust probes in two other states Posted: 24 Mar 2011 12:05 PM PDT The EU and Texas. Maybe Ohio and WisconsinGoogle is facing a possible antitrust probe in the state of Ohio, and according to a report citing a person familiar with the matter, Wisconsin is weighing a Google antitrust probe of its own.… |
| Oracle to HP: 'Liar, liar, pants on fire' Posted: 24 Mar 2011 12:04 PM PDT Intel will kill Itantium, says Ellison and Co.The tit-for-tat Oracle and Itanium chip partners Intel and Hewlett-Packard rolls on.… |
| Google open sources MapReduce compression Posted: 24 Mar 2011 10:47 AM PDT In the name of speedGoogle has open sourced the compression library used across its backend infrastructure, including MapReduce, its distributed number-crunching platform, and BigTable, its distributed database.… |
| Nokia launches new corporate font Posted: 24 Mar 2011 10:14 AM PDT 'As little design as possible'Strategy Boutique Nokia hasn't got much in the way of exciting and desirable new phones to show you - alas, the old management really buggered things up. The first Windows Phone won't be here until 2012. But here's the next best thing: a new corporate font will be unveiled in trendy Hoxton, the spiritual home of the web2.0 mediaslut.… |
| NASA's Stardust set to 'burn to depletion' Posted: 24 Mar 2011 09:49 AM PDT Comet hunter's career ends with a |
| Tintri flashes unique VMware storage credentials Posted: 24 Mar 2011 09:19 AM PDT Talks virtual disks instead of files and LUNsIrish startup Tintri aims to put every other storage array vendor on the back foot with the first dedicated VMware storage appliance using VMware storage abstractions instead of generalised files and LUNs.… |
| Posted: 24 Mar 2011 08:00 AM PDT And how modern technology can optimise classic techniquesWorkshop When I first moved into software sales about 20 years ago, my then boss gave me a book to read called How I raised myself from failure to success in selling.… |
| BlackBerry bans drink-drive apps Posted: 24 Mar 2011 07:53 AM PDT But iPhone users keep boozingResponding to complaints from four US senators, RIM has expelled two applications that warn users when they're approaching a police checkpoint, though Apple has yet to do the same.… |
| Five jailed for £140m VAT scam Posted: 24 Mar 2011 07:38 AM PDT Nearly 40 years' chokey for revenue cheatsFive men have been jailed for their roles in a huge missing-trader fraud which netted £140m.… |
| Hackers make off with TripAdvisor's membership list Posted: 24 Mar 2011 07:35 AM PDT Can't recommend itTravel site TripAdvisor has warned subscribers to expect more spam following the theft of its member database.… |
| Microsoft spends $7.5m on IP addresses Posted: 24 Mar 2011 07:30 AM PDT Domain names positively cheapo by comparisonIt's official, IP addresses are now more expensive than domain names.… |
| Posted: 24 Mar 2011 07:02 AM PDT All in the planningSecuring the endpoint has always been a headache for IT administrators. The less managed those endpoints are, the worse the headache is. In a virtualised desktop environment, where those operating systems and applications are more managed, does the problem go away?… |
| Posted: 24 Mar 2011 06:41 AM PDT Here we go againHere's something that will make you chuckle: Duke Nukem Forever has been postponed… again. But only by a month, supposedly.… |
| Posted: 24 Mar 2011 06:00 AM PDT Kicking cansProduct Round-up Here we go again with another headphone roundup. This month we're looking at on-ear models, your everyday portable friends that cover the lugs and don't get coated in wax by sitting inside them.… |
| EU admits deep impact cyberattack in run-up to key summit Posted: 24 Mar 2011 05:34 AM PDT Internal docs suggest longer-term problemThe EU has admitted to having been hit by a deep, penetrating cyber-attack.… |
| BBC, British Library empires expand under Tory 'growth plan' Posted: 24 Mar 2011 05:30 AM PDT Eh?Every time Conservatives come to power, they promise to invigorate fusty old state institutions. They vow to set them free of the mediocre, the time-markers and the empire-builders they've acquired over the years, and renew them with competition and fresh thinking.… |
| Landlocked Bolivia seeks legal route to Pacific Posted: 24 Mar 2011 05:24 AM PDT Chileans unimpressed with sabre-rattling MoralesBolivian president Evo Morales has pledged that his landlocked nation will reclaim access to the sea, 132 years after it lost its coastline to Chile.… |
| ProStor's InfiniVault sells slowly Posted: 24 Mar 2011 05:10 AM PDT Less than one customer per channel partnerProStor has announced that just 200 customers have bought its multi-disk InfiniVault archive whereas there are 250,000 customers for the single slot RDX removable disk product.… |
| Posted: 24 Mar 2011 05:09 AM PDT Gays 1, fundies 0Apple appears to have bowed to pressure from gay rights groups, and withdrawn a controversial "gay cure" app sponsored by Exodus International, an evangelical Christian group claiming to be "the world's largest ministry to individuals and families impacted by homosexuality".… |
| Ofcom gives shonky Sitefinder Google Maps boost Posted: 24 Mar 2011 05:07 AM PDT T-Mobe and Orange still won't play, so inaccuracies multiplyOfcom has finally overhauled its Sitefinder database, overlaying the data on Google Maps and saving a fortune - though that data is getting less complete and more inaccurate every day.… |
| Microsoft skills up IT pros for jobs in the cloud Posted: 24 Mar 2011 05:00 AM PDT Cloud security guys kick off in UKYou can tell that cloud computing is huge by the number of certifications and training programmes and user groups setting out their stalls.… |
| Posted: 24 Mar 2011 05:00 AM PDT See your data, make better decisionsBroadcast 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 picture that can only worsen as more information gets digitised and your business creates more data.… |
| HDS and its awfully good VMware integration Posted: 24 Mar 2011 04:49 AM PDT Cloud a bit cloudy thoughI'm here sitting at the second Hitachi Data Systems (HDS) blogger's day with a bunch of other bloggers to hear about the company's vision and strategy.… |
| iPhone 4 SURVIVES plunge from plane Posted: 24 Mar 2011 04:44 AM PDT Geeeerrrronimo...The iPhone 4 is indestructible. There, I said it.… |
| The curious incident of Oracle and HP-UX on Itanium Posted: 24 Mar 2011 04:42 AM PDT What's next: Maybe a backlash?Comment When I saw the news on Wednesday morning, I thought I had picked the wrong week to give up sniffing glue. Or maybe Oracle did. Either way, Oracle's announcement that it is halting development on HP-UX/Itanium versions of its products touched off a firestorm of phone calls, emails and tweets that just won't let up.… |
| Apple should grant TV makers licence to stream Posted: 24 Mar 2011 04:05 AM PDT AirPlay video coming to your telly?Apple wants TV makers to build its AirPlay media-sharing protocol into their sets - if a claim that it's pondering licensing the technology is true.… |
| Help - my desktop in the cloud has evaporated! Posted: 24 Mar 2011 04:00 AM PDT You don't want to do it like thatDesktop If everything is in the cloud, desktop and apps, then what does support do for a living and what are the new set of challenges this presents?… |
| BAA promises to get its Heathrow act together Posted: 24 Mar 2011 03:54 AM PDT £50m investment to prevent further snow chaosHeathrow operator BAA has promised to spend £50m at the airport to prevent a repetition of last December's anarchy, which saw the "wrong amount of snow" stranding thousands of passengers.… |
| Mobile Bing comes over all HTML5 Posted: 24 Mar 2011 03:52 AM PDT iPhone owners get some Microsoft loveMicrosoft has revamped its mobile search offering, dropping location-based and iTunes app searching into HTML5 layouts.… |
| Quantum shoots down SpectraLogic product claims Posted: 24 Mar 2011 03:41 AM PDT Says it was first with integrated data integrity validationSpectraLogic recently claimed it is the first tape library vendor to have integrated data integrity validation. But competitor Quantum says it introduced this last year.… |
| Dell opens Exanet-based R&D centre Posted: 24 Mar 2011 03:28 AM PDT Wanting Israeli smartsDell has opened an Israeli research and development centre, based on its Exanet acquisition, to focus on developing storage technologies and cloud computing.… |
| Russian jailed for 6 years for smutty billboard stunt Posted: 24 Mar 2011 03:26 AM PDT Serious sentence for stoner sillinessA Russian man has been jailed for six years for putting smut on a streetside video billboard.… |
| Asda slashes Samsung tablet price Posted: 24 Mar 2011 03:04 AM PDT Discount 'droidWill Samsung clear the way for its new, much more svelte 8.9in and 10.1 Galaxy Tabs by selling off the original, 7in model cheap? If it won't, retailer Asda will.… |
| Spurned nonagenarian lets rip with semi-automatic Posted: 24 Mar 2011 02:51 AM PDT Hell hath no fury like a granny scornedA 92-year-old Florida woman refused a kiss by her 53-year-old neighbour responded by pumping four rounds from a semi-automatic pistol into his house.… |
| Government shells out £2m for ID card compo Posted: 24 Mar 2011 02:39 AM PDT Home Office details payouts to Thales and othersThe government has released details of how it is paying suppliers £2.253m to compensate them for the cancellation of contracts connected to the scrapped plans for identity card.… |
| Posted: 24 Mar 2011 02:00 AM PDT Slow-mo mojoiOS App of the Week I'm not the best photographer in the world, so I've tended to eye the many photographic apps for iDevices with wary suspicion.… |
| Apple Mac OS X: ten years old today Posted: 24 Mar 2011 12:00 AM PDT A decade of TenMac OS X is - formally - ten years old today.… |
| Red Hat: The first $1-billion-a-year open source outfit (almost) Posted: 23 Mar 2011 09:00 PM PDT 2011 is the yearThe money just keeps rolling in at Red Hat, and it looks like this year will be even better as the company is poised to become the first open source software company to break through the $1bn mark.… |
| iiNet against the world: final round draws near(ish) Posted: 23 Mar 2011 08:20 PM PDT Film studios seek leave to apeal [sic*]The Federal Court of Australia judges were wrong, according to AFACT, and it's off to the High Court for the movie studios and iiNet. In particular, the studios will seek leave to appeal their loss to the High Court.… |
| Intel and HP defend honor of Itanium Posted: 23 Mar 2011 08:00 PM PDT HP, it's time to buy EnterpriseDB. Before Larry doesIntel, the maker of the Itanium family of server processors, and Hewlett-Packard, the main customer for the chips, have fired back at an Oracle announcement late yesterday that it was stopping software development on the Itanium chip.… |
| Judge to music industry: 'Worth trillions? Forget it' Posted: 23 Mar 2011 07:54 PM PDT LimeWire's crime won't cost the EarthThe music industry is sticking to a self-valuation that has been rejected by various courts and has now been described as "absurd" by a New York judge.… |
| Ex-Sun man hails Java renaissance under Ellison Posted: 23 Mar 2011 04:17 PM PDT Oracle+IBM 'end Sun's dark ages'EclipseCon Java is entering a renaissance following a period of darkness under Sun Microsystems, according to Oracle and computing giant IBM.… |
| Yahoo! answers Google Instant with streaming <strike>web</strike> search Posted: 23 Mar 2011 04:14 PM PDT 'Google Instant was our idea. And we do it better. Really'Yahoo! has unveiled its answer to Google Instant, rolling out a "streaming" search service that it claims is significantly faster than the technology Google debuted last fall. Like Google Instant, it serves up search results as you type. But unlike Mountain View's service, it does not provide results from a relatively complete index of the web. It taps a separate and much smaller index of Yahoo!-curated data designed to serve up "answers not web links".… |
| Auditor to Oz PM&C: Don’t use Webmail for leaks Posted: 23 Mar 2011 03:26 PM PDT Security spooks slap sloppy civil servantsAustralian cloud computing chauvinists are prepping the "#GovDoesn'tGetIt" hashtag after the Australian National Audit Office (ANAO), with a bit of help from the spooks in the Defence Signals Directorate, identified services like Hotmail and Gmail as key vulnerabilities in government information security.… |
| IBM wants to relieve Aussie traffic pain Posted: 23 Mar 2011 03:26 PM PDT Big Blue to bust bottlenecksIBM is attempting to fix Australia's transport infrastructure woes investing in a Smart Transport Research Centre (STRC) based at Queensland University of Technology (QUT).… |
| Kiwi ultra-fast net gets retail suitors Posted: 23 Mar 2011 03:24 PM PDT But big guns play hard-to-getNew Zealand's NZ$1.5bn Ultra-Fast Broadband (UFB) network-in-waiting has attracted the interest of 13 telecommunications service providers according to Crown Fibre Holdings (CFH), the government agency managing the project.… |
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