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- Verizon boosts 'selected' US backbones to 100G
- Microsoft: IE9 not yet 'broadly' available
- Mobile ads wither in January
- Harvey Norman warms to e-tail
- Vote compass unmasks Canadian political opinion
- Microsoft cofounder Allen unloads on Gates
- VMware corks hypervisor security hole
- Carrier-sold iPad 2 Sim locks snag unwary buyers
- Google gets biennial privacy audit after Buzz blunder
- Gartner raises 2011 IT spending prognostications
- Cloud music lockers: who fricking cares?
- Stop sexing up IT and give Civil Servants Macs, says gov tech boss
- Oracle and the Attack of the Killer Stack
- Comodo admits 2 more resellers pwned in SSL cert hack
- Tesla Motors sues BBC for defamation
- German Green extracts tracking info from mobile operator
- Cisco fleshes out FCoE offering
- Messenger delivers first Mercury orbital snap
- Cisco dispenses Nexus rack switch for speed freaks
- Three UK finally turns a profit
- Crysis 2
- FBI asks for help to crack mystery code in 12-year-old murder case
- The workload challenge
- Corporate hospitality is OK, says new Bribery Act guidance
- Irish cop child abuse image plan attracts data protection ire
- Dell, Rackspace, and Equinix float free OpenStack test cloud
- Human heart could power an iPod
- BBC explains hour-long website outage
- Five ways your customers say they are unhappy
- NASA systems dangerously at risk from cyberattack
- Nokia: Keep codin' for Symbian and Qt!
- Game stocks shops with Tesco 3DS consoles
- Berlusconi calls George Clooney to his defence
- Coalition to float prototype for single government web domain
- Gemalto launches NFC software - world sees hardware
- Jesus Phone brings the DEAD back to LIFE
- George Lucas 'very happy' with 3D <i>Phantom Menace</i>
- BP loses personal details on spill victims
- Permabit looks to Linux dedupers
- Watch amazed as we turn data into Visualisation
- Air NZ safety vid provokes terror in the skies
- Network failure closed hospitals to ambulance admissions
- Twittering NASA 'naut's Moon snap honoured
- Dixons whacked by profit warning
- Data centres gripped by power struggle
- Bowers and Wilkins Zeppelin Air speakers
- Nokia deal to 'rocket Windows Phone 7 past iPhone'
- Labour MP debuts fondleslab-assisted Parliament oratory
- Firefox fans get IE-happy AJAX testing tools
- Apple's 'App Store trademark': A farce of Jobsian proportions
| Verizon boosts 'selected' US backbones to 100G Posted: 30 Mar 2011 12:32 PM PDT Drops E, bE, b/s, b/sec overhead from its GigabitVerizon has announced that it will be the first service provider to pump "selected segments" of its US long-haul backbone to 100 Gigabit Ethernet speeds, using Juniper Networks routers and Ciena coherent optical-processing gear.… |
| Microsoft: IE9 not yet 'broadly' available Posted: 30 Mar 2011 12:29 PM PDT Have ye heard o' the interwebs, laddie?With Internet Explorer 9 having lost the early download PR war to Firefox 4.0, Microsoft now claims the numbers are unimportant and that it's the "long game" that counts.… |
| Posted: 30 Mar 2011 11:37 AM PDT iPhone still the best betAustralian smartphone adoption is booming, yet the mobile ad market took a serious dive in January. According to a report from global ad network InMobi, Australian mobile ad impressions dropped by 18% in January compared to October 2010.… |
| Posted: 30 Mar 2011 11:36 AM PDT Worries about digital pennies- still not making much senseAustralian retail Luddite Gerry Harvey has reversed his anti e-tailing stance conceding that he will launch an online retail store.… Free Webcast: The workload challenge - Integrating the mainframe into today's IT |
| Vote compass unmasks Canadian political opinion Posted: 30 Mar 2011 11:00 AM PDT Testing, testingCanada is gearing up for another federal election and The CBC – Canada's state-owned broadcaster – has released an online tool to help the undecided.… |
| Microsoft cofounder Allen unloads on Gates Posted: 30 Mar 2011 10:56 AM PDT In money as in code: unforgivingSt. Bill Gates, latter-day savior of philanthropy, has been recast as an alpha geek in a memoir penned by fellow Microsoft cofounder Paul Allen.… |
| VMware corks hypervisor security hole Posted: 30 Mar 2011 10:21 AM PDT ESXi, ESX, and vCenter not affectedServer and PC virtualization juggernaut VMware has issued a patch for the Workstation hypervisor that plugs a privilege-escalation hole on machines that use Linux as the host environment for the hypervisor.… |
| Carrier-sold iPad 2 Sim locks snag unwary buyers Posted: 30 Mar 2011 08:59 AM PDT Caveat bites emptorBuying an iPad 2 from a network operator - or one of its third-party resellers - comes at a price beyond the cost of the data contract and the hardware, it seems: the 'magical... again' gadgets are Sim-locked.… |
| Google gets biennial privacy audit after Buzz blunder Posted: 30 Mar 2011 08:35 AM PDT Mountain View Chocolate Factory in settlement with FTCGoogle has agreed with the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to undergo regular privacy audits for the next 20 years, after bolting its ill-conceived Buzz social network on to Gmail in early 2010 without first seeking the consent of its users.… |
| Gartner raises 2011 IT spending prognostications Posted: 30 Mar 2011 08:26 AM PDT Falling US dollar, fondleslabs save the day!The wizards at market researcher Gartner have spent the past few weeks polishing their crystal balls, and now think the IT spending environment will be a bit better than they had originally expected.… |
| Cloud music lockers: who fricking cares? Posted: 30 Mar 2011 08:22 AM PDT Amazon launches solution looking for a problemI have seen amazing music services that never launched because of music company collywobbles. No one would call Amazon's Cloud Drive locker, launched yesterday, an amazing music service. Or even a quite good one. To be honest, it barely deserves to be called a "service" – it's really more of an afterthought.… Free Webcast: The workload challenge - Integrating the mainframe into today's IT |
| Stop sexing up IT and give Civil Servants Macs, says gov tech boss Posted: 30 Mar 2011 08:06 AM PDT
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| Oracle and the Attack of the Killer Stack Posted: 30 Mar 2011 07:50 AM PDT The gravitational pull of convergenceComment Oracle will have to look more like HP and HP will have to look more like Oracle.… |
| Comodo admits 2 more resellers pwned in SSL cert hack Posted: 30 Mar 2011 07:27 AM PDT How deep does the rabbit hole go?Comodo has admitted a further two registration authorities tied to the digital certificates firm were hit by a high-profile forged digital certificate attack earlier this month.… |
| Tesla Motors sues BBC for defamation Posted: 30 Mar 2011 07:06 AM PDT Petrolhead pundit sparks electric stormTesla Motors has filed libel a suit against the BBC, accusing Top Gear of defamation.… |
| German Green extracts tracking info from mobile operator Posted: 30 Mar 2011 06:58 AM PDT Makes map of own movementsA German Green Party member has successfully extracted the tracking information stored by his mobile operator, and created a map that shows his every movement over a six month period.… |
| Cisco fleshes out FCoE offering Posted: 30 Mar 2011 06:08 AM PDT End-to-end across the fabricCisco has fleshed out is Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) offering with an end-to-end-capability from servers to storage arrays and back again via Nexus and MDS9500 switches.… Free Webcast: The workload challenge - Integrating the mainframe into today's IT |
| Messenger delivers first Mercury orbital snap Posted: 30 Mar 2011 06:06 AM PDT NASA team 'thrilled' with spacecraft's performanceNASA's Messenger has returned the first photograph taken by a spacecraft circling Mercury, a tad under two weeks after it went into orbit around the solar system's innermost planet.… |
| Cisco dispenses Nexus rack switch for speed freaks Posted: 30 Mar 2011 06:04 AM PDT FCoE all around, and a 'Westmere-EX' server previewThe product update drum keeps beating out its time at Cisco Systems, with new Nexus converged switches coming out the factory door. Cisco, which fancies itself a server maker these days, is also getting the jump on its peers in talking about the servers it plans to put in the field using Intel's future "Westmere-EX" Xeon E7 high-end processors.… |
| Three UK finally turns a profit Posted: 30 Mar 2011 05:59 AM PDT Eight years on, with a little help from its friendsThree UK has finally turned a profit in the UK in its eighth year of operation – with some help from a network-sharing agreement with Everything Everywhere, after parent company Hutchison Whampoa reported its annual results.… |
| Posted: 30 Mar 2011 05:39 AM PDT Shoots onto consolesReview Where Crysis shifted the paradigm of photorealism for a lucky monster-rig owning few – while power slamming the nail into the coffin of my creaking 9800 Pro – Crysis 2 is a far more forgiving beast.… |
| FBI asks for help to crack mystery code in 12-year-old murder case Posted: 30 Mar 2011 05:20 AM PDT Cryptoanalysts ask those with mad code-breaking skillz to help decipher notesFBI experts are seeking the help of the public to make sense of two encrypted notes found on a murder victim that have stumped detectives for years.… |
| Posted: 30 Mar 2011 05:12 AM PDT Integrating the mainframe into today's ITBroadcast The mainframe was there first, but is it the dinosaur that many people assume?… Free Webcast: The workload challenge - Integrating the mainframe into today's IT |
| Corporate hospitality is OK, says new Bribery Act guidance Posted: 30 Mar 2011 05:09 AM PDT *pop*The Bribery Act will not lead to a large number of prosecutions and will not outlaw corporate hospitality, the Government has said in long-awaited guidance on last year's Bribery Act.… |
| Irish cop child abuse image plan attracts data protection ire Posted: 30 Mar 2011 05:07 AM PDT Maimed, stark and misshapen...An initiative to combat child abuse images by the Irish Police has fallen foul of the Data Protection Commissioner.… |
| Dell, Rackspace, and Equinix float free OpenStack test cloud Posted: 30 Mar 2011 05:00 AM PDT No charge for heavenly tire kickingDell, Rackspace and Equinix have teamed up to offer you a few free dates with OpenStack, the nine-month-old open source "infrastructure cloud" platform. If you decide to tie the knot, you can then pay the trio to help with that too.… |
| Human heart could power an iPod Posted: 30 Mar 2011 04:41 AM PDT Pump up the volumeScientists have developed the first commercially viable nanogenerator, which could pave the way for the human heart to become a charger for our electrical gizmos.… |
| BBC explains hour-long website outage Posted: 30 Mar 2011 04:33 AM PDT Aggregation and routes had a little lie-down, manThe BBC's entire web estate fell offline last night for around an hour, following what the Corporation described as "a major network incident".… |
| Five ways your customers say they are unhappy Posted: 30 Mar 2011 04:30 AM PDT 'R' is for relationshipIn some sectors – mobile networks or car insurance, for example – customer churn is a way of life. Most businesses like to hang onto their customers, but sometimes, although wooed with expensive marketing campaigns and introductory discounts, customers don't leave a note on the kitchen table or phone for a tearful it's-not-you-it's-me conversation: they just leave.… Free Webcast: The workload challenge - Integrating the mainframe into today's IT |
| NASA systems dangerously at risk from cyberattack Posted: 30 Mar 2011 04:00 AM PDT Network security is not rocket scienceAn official audit of NASA's network has concluded that the space agency faces a high risk of cyberattack.… |
| Nokia: Keep codin' for Symbian and Qt! Posted: 30 Mar 2011 04:00 AM PDT Why leave a sinking ship?Is Nokia wobbling over its commitment to Windows? Or just stringing along the Symbian and Qt faithful?… |
| Game stocks shops with Tesco 3DS consoles Posted: 30 Mar 2011 03:23 AM PDT Pre-owned, never pwnedAs pre-owned 3DS consoles line the shelves of Game, customers could be forgiven for thinking Nintendo gamers were unsatisfied with their purchase.… |
| Berlusconi calls George Clooney to his defence Posted: 30 Mar 2011 03:17 AM PDT Sex trial witness request 'odd', admits Hollywood starSilvio Berlusconi has named George Clooney as a defence witness in his forthcoming trial for sleeping with an under-aged prostitute, Reuters reports.… |
| Coalition to float prototype for single government web domain Posted: 30 Mar 2011 03:17 AM PDT Fate of Directgov in doubtUK.gov is once again fiddling with the idea that a single government web domain will save cash and improve its shoddy IT strategy record.… |
| Gemalto launches NFC software - world sees hardware Posted: 30 Mar 2011 03:11 AM PDT Blogosphere getting over-excited againGemalto's new software platform can handle NFC payments on the SIM and is approved for MasterCard's PayPass - but that's less than half the NFC story no matter what you read elsewhere.… Free Webcast: The workload challenge - Integrating the mainframe into today's IT |
| Jesus Phone brings the DEAD back to LIFE Posted: 30 Mar 2011 03:10 AM PDT Get me an iPhone and 20cc of adrenaline, stat!When doctors are attempting to save the life of someone who has suffered a heart attack, they do a better job if they use a free iPhone app developed to brief them through procedures and drug dosages, according to a recent trial.… |
| George Lucas 'very happy' with 3D <i>Phantom Menace</i> Posted: 30 Mar 2011 02:57 AM PDT So far so good, reckons Star Wars supremoGeorge Lucas has announced his satisfaction with the efforts to date to convert The Phantom Menace to 3D.… |
| BP loses personal details on spill victims Posted: 30 Mar 2011 02:55 AM PDT Leaky leaks from lost laptopInfamously leaky oil company BP has lost a laptop containing personal information, social security numbers and other details on 13,000 people claiming compensation for the Gulf of Mexico oil spill.… |
| Permabit looks to Linux dedupers Posted: 30 Mar 2011 02:54 AM PDT Mainstream OEMs signed up or shut offOEM deduplication software supplier Permabit has built an Albireo version for Linux vendors to use, as the mainstream storage OEM market for its technology is saturated.… |
| Watch amazed as we turn data into Visualisation Posted: 30 Mar 2011 02:33 AM PDT See your data, make better decisionsBroadcast Today at 15:00BST we'll be in our studio exploring the visualisation techniques available and looking at how they should be applied in your business - from basic applications to highly sophisticated mapping techniques that can revolutionise the understanding of your business. You can watch it right here.… Free Webcast: The workload challenge - Integrating the mainframe into today's IT |
| Air NZ safety vid provokes terror in the skies Posted: 30 Mar 2011 02:23 AM PDT 'You're a giraffe!' wails prancing fitness guruThose of you of a nervous disposition are advised to put your head between your hands, lean forward and brace yourselves on the seat in front of you, because Air New Zealand has decided that naked cabin crew simply weren't getting the attention of the self-loading cargo:… |
| Network failure closed hospitals to ambulance admissions Posted: 30 Mar 2011 02:03 AM PDT UCLH launches investigation after a network glitchUniversity College London hospitals trust (UCLH) has launched an investigation after a network glitch led to the closure of A&E to blue light traffic. The problem also led to cancellations of operations.… |
| Twittering NASA 'naut's Moon snap honoured Posted: 30 Mar 2011 01:50 AM PDT Shorty Award for Doug WheelockNASA astronaut Doug Wheelock has been honoured for his contribution to the Twitterverse with a Shorty Award for the "best Real-Time Photo of the Year".… |
| Dixons whacked by profit warning Posted: 30 Mar 2011 12:59 AM PDT Blames the miserable British consumerDixons shares took a tumble this morning after the UK's favourite electrical retailer warned markets it was unlikely to hit profit targets for the year.… |
| Data centres gripped by power struggle Posted: 30 Mar 2011 12:57 AM PDT Waste not, want not,Data centre efficiency is a constant struggle. Choosing the right system for your required tasks is one challenge. Upgrade cycles cause power and heat issues. Existing techniques are continually refined. Combined with emerging technologies, optimal efficiency is a moving target.… |
| Bowers and Wilkins Zeppelin Air speakers Posted: 29 Mar 2011 11:00 PM PDT iPod dock with AirPlay for high flyersReview From a company whose flagship speakers will set you back £18k, but at least you get two of them, B&W's first iPod dock was met with high expectations when it was released back in 2008. Indeed, the Zeppelin quickly established itself as the model to beat in terms of distinctive styling and sound quality. The latest model is called the Zeppelin Air, as it includes Apple's AirPlay streaming technology, but it's also had a ground-up refit, with new electronics and speakers throughout.… |
| Nokia deal to 'rocket Windows Phone 7 past iPhone' Posted: 29 Mar 2011 10:00 PM PDT Dart thrower sees 50% smartphone sales surgeBy 2015, Windows Phone 7 will power 37 per cent more smartphones than Apple's iPhone, according to the prognosticators at International Data Corporation (IDC).… Free Webcast: The workload challenge - Integrating the mainframe into today's IT |
| Labour MP debuts fondleslab-assisted Parliament oratory Posted: 29 Mar 2011 09:59 PM PDT Twitter Tsar upgraded to iPad PrincessLabour MP and doyenne of all things digital Kerry McCarthy inadvertently made history Monday evening by becoming the first British politician to read a speech from an iPad in Parliament.… |
| Firefox fans get IE-happy AJAX testing tools Posted: 29 Mar 2011 09:00 PM PDT Microsoft is not the only browser makerJavaScript coders targeting Firefox can now test their apps with free tools that started life serving the developers on Microsoft's once mighty Internet Explorer.… |
| Apple's 'App Store trademark': A farce of Jobsian proportions Posted: 29 Mar 2011 04:18 PM PDT Only Microsoft can save usMicrosoft has once again stood up to Apple's epically ridiculous attempt to trademark the term "app store", filing another request that the US Patent and Trademark Office deny Apple's trademark application in full.… |
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