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- Google Linux servers hit with $5m patent infringement verdict
- Google to sell subscriptions to Chrome OS notebooks?
- Japanese gov makes Fukushima evac zone compulsory
- Son of Kaspersky Lab's CEO 'kidnapped'
- Amazon cloud sinks, smothers Web 2.0 darlings
- Skype plugs Android privacy flaw
- Robotic waiter service uses Kinect to see
- Nokia market share dips below 30% in Q1
- Multimillionaire's private space ship 'can land on Mars'
- Microsoft inks Nokia deal with phones set to fly in 2012
- Dell refreshes Alienware laptops
- TalkTalk claims wooden spoon for highest level of broadband gripes
- Eight... spatial soundbars
- ICO makes school stand in corner over data theft
- What now for the anti-piracy law?
- Animal lovers stamp on goldfish racing
- Lasers set to replace spark plugs in car engines
- Government agrees terms with cloud supplier
- Obama to pop down to Endeavour launch
- PSN gaming network outage sparks DDoS rumours
- Hubble celebrates 21st with gorgeous galactic 'rose' snap
- Royal wedding scareware scams arise as Big Day looms
- Watchdog sniffs Rihanna's 'gently thrusting buttocks'
- ICT classes in school should be binned – IT biz body
- Social networks must police kids' profiles, says EC
- World's Biggest Pac-Man keeps growing
- Cops refuse to say if they secretly snarf cellphone data
- ForeverMap 2.1
- Microsoft online app melodrama wins federal certification
- Ubuntu seeks Android-packin' Windows deserters
- Ubuntu Server 11.04: Fully baked in 7 days
- IPv4 addresses priced at $4 on new trading site
- eBay buys mobile ad outfit Where
- Lady Gaga helps ease the Vodafail pain
- Internet child porn investigators net South Aust MP
- Mozilla slips SpiderMonkey into Dev Platform of the Future™
- Engineer who sued Cisco arrested for hacking it
- ARM's Intel challenger set for 2012 release
- Apple stuns Wall Street with 95% earnings surge
- Facebook, HP, and OpenStack join Linux patent shield
| Google Linux servers hit with $5m patent infringement verdict Posted: 21 Apr 2011 12:02 PM PDT 'Information highway now toll road,' howls GoogleA jury has found that in using Linux on its back-end servers, Google has infringed a patent held by a small Texas-based company and must pay $5m in damages.… |
| Google to sell subscriptions to Chrome OS notebooks? Posted: 21 Apr 2011 09:57 AM PDT $10 to $20 a month for web happy hardwareGoogle will sell Chrome OS notebooks and accompanying software services for a $10 to $20 monthly subscription fee, according to a report citing a "reliable source".… |
| Japanese gov makes Fukushima evac zone compulsory Posted: 21 Apr 2011 08:32 AM PDT It's more radioactive in Madras: no evac thereJapanese authorities have elected to make a recommended evacuation zone around the damaged Fukushima Daiichi nuclear powerplant compulsory and ordered residents of some communities beyond the zone to evacuate, despite the fact that radiation levels beyond the plant fence are dropping steadily and are nowhere such as to cause health concerns.… Free Webcast: Making the decision on hosted apps - What's the risk and reward? |
| Son of Kaspersky Lab's CEO 'kidnapped' Posted: 21 Apr 2011 07:52 AM PDT Held for €3m ransom, says unconfirmed reportThe 20-year-old son of Kaspersky Lab's CEO has reportedly gone missing, with kidnappers said to be demanding €3m for his release.… |
| Amazon cloud sinks, smothers Web 2.0 darlings Posted: 21 Apr 2011 07:49 AM PDT Haven't Reddit!Whole swathes of Web 2.0 disappeared to the dark side of the cloud today, as an outage at one of Amazon's EC2 data centres torpedoed the likes of Quora and Reddit.… |
| Skype plugs Android privacy flaw Posted: 21 Apr 2011 07:44 AM PDT Less paranoiaSkype has plugged a privacy flaw in the Android version of its VoIP telephony software.… |
| Robotic waiter service uses Kinect to see Posted: 21 Apr 2011 06:29 AM PDT Customise your droidWe've already seen Microsoft's Xbox Kinect used as the eyes for a robot, but here it is again, in a device offered commercially.… |
| Nokia market share dips below 30% in Q1 Posted: 21 Apr 2011 05:28 AM PDT Revenues up, pre-tax profit downNokia's global mobile phone market share significantly fell below 30 per cent for the first time in 10 years during the company's first quarter, when it announced a new pact with Microsoft.… |
| Multimillionaire's private space ship 'can land on Mars' Posted: 21 Apr 2011 04:59 AM PDT Elon Musk's amazing claim for 'Dragon' capsuleFamous upstart startup rocket company SpaceX, bankrolled and helmed by renowned internet nerdwealth hecamillionaire Elon Musk, has once again sent its goalposts racing ahead of its rapidly-advancing corporate reality.… Free Webcast: Making the decision on hosted apps - What's the risk and reward? |
| Microsoft inks Nokia deal with phones set to fly in 2012 Posted: 21 Apr 2011 04:33 AM PDT Once and future ringThe marriage between Microsoft and Nokia was today splashed in ink with the two companies signing a definitive deal for their 10-week-old strategic union.… |
| Dell refreshes Alienware laptops Posted: 21 Apr 2011 04:31 AM PDT Sandy Bridge upgradeDell has boosted its Alienware line-up with some fresh gaming-centric laptops, the M11x, M14x and M18x.… |
| TalkTalk claims wooden spoon for highest level of broadband gripes Posted: 21 Apr 2011 04:04 AM PDT Three UK scores most complaints to watchdog in mobile marketCommunications watchdog Ofcom placed TalkTalk at the the top of the list of companies it had received complaints about from UK broadband and landline customers between October 2010 and February this year.… |
| Posted: 21 Apr 2011 04:00 AM PDT Sonic boomProduct Round-up TV's have been getting thinner and thinner over the last few years, with some of today's LED sets almost impossibly slim. Although picture quality has been improving, the tight amount of space available in these slim-line chassis means that they tend to house tiny speakers that produce audio that's got less bottom end than most size zero models.… |
| ICO makes school stand in corner over data theft Posted: 21 Apr 2011 03:58 AM PDT 1/10 for encryption - see meThe ICO has given an Oldham school a stern telling-off after an unencrypted laptop with pupils' details was stolen from a teachers' car.… |
| What now for the anti-piracy law? Posted: 21 Apr 2011 03:30 AM PDT ISPs 'hoist with their own petard' says judgeAnalysis BT and TalkTalk threw the kitchen sink, legally speaking, at the Digital Economy Act and made very little stick.… |
| Animal lovers stamp on goldfish racing Posted: 21 Apr 2011 03:25 AM PDT Washington bar cancels piscine derbyA bar in Washington state has been obliged to cancel its weekly goldfish racing event following complaints from less-than-impressed animal lovers.… Free Webcast: Making the decision on hosted apps - What's the risk and reward? |
| Lasers set to replace spark plugs in car engines Posted: 21 Apr 2011 03:15 AM PDT Squeeze, |
| Government agrees terms with cloud supplier Posted: 21 Apr 2011 02:30 AM PDT Company claims agreement fulfills agenda for 'gov as a single customer'A cloud computing service provider has claimed an agreement with a central government working group to make it the first supplier in the field to deal with government as a single customer.… |
| Obama to pop down to Endeavour launch Posted: 21 Apr 2011 02:11 AM PDT Shuttle's last mission gets presidential send-offBarack Obama will pop down to Kennedy Space Center for next week's launch of space shuttle Endeavour, Reuters reports.… |
| PSN gaming network outage sparks DDoS rumours Posted: 21 Apr 2011 01:57 AM PDT PS3 modder counterstrike to blame?Outage of the PlayStation network today sparked unconfirmed rumours that the downtime may be down to a denial of service attack.… |
| Hubble celebrates 21st with gorgeous galactic 'rose' snap Posted: 21 Apr 2011 01:44 AM PDT Photogenic Andromedan pairing 'Arp 273' caught on scopeNASA is celebrating the forthcoming 21st anniversary of the Hubble Space Telescope's launch with a fetching snap of a galactic "rose".… Free Webcast: Making the decision on hosted apps - What's the risk and reward? |
| Royal wedding scareware scams arise as Big Day looms Posted: 21 Apr 2011 01:31 AM PDT Orf with their headsSpyware scammers have unsurprisingly latched onto the upcoming royal wedding as a theme for rogue anti-virus scams.… |
| Watchdog sniffs Rihanna's 'gently thrusting buttocks' Posted: 21 Apr 2011 01:12 AM PDT X Factor cleared of punting filth to kiddiesITV will not face action from TV watchdog Ofcom over X Factor performances by Rihanna and Christina Aguilera, despite the Daily Mail's insistence that the pair punted filth to wide-eyed kiddies.… |
| ICT classes in school should be binned – IT biz body Posted: 21 Apr 2011 01:10 AM PDT Stop pretending basic knowledge is a specialist subjectSchools should stop teaching ICT lessons in their current form as the subject is failing both pupils and employers, according to trade bod Intellect.… |
| Social networks must police kids' profiles, says EC Posted: 21 Apr 2011 12:18 AM PDT Facebook and friends asked to play net nannySocial network sites must ensure that children's profiles are visible only to the child's friends and cannot be found on a search engine, the European Commission has said.… |
| World's Biggest Pac-Man keeps growing Posted: 21 Apr 2011 12:16 AM PDT Customise levels and play for yearsWant to relive those magic pill-munching days of dark rooms and repetitive electronic music? Then have a bash at The World's Biggest Pac-Man, an online version of the popular game that experiences continuous growth through user contributions.… |
| Cops refuse to say if they secretly snarf cellphone data Posted: 20 Apr 2011 11:00 PM PDT 'Enormous risk' from mobile snoop devicesThe American Civil Liberties Union has called on Michigan State Police to account for several pieces mobile hardware in its possession that can quickly download cellphone data without the owner's knowledge.… Free Webcast: Making the decision on hosted apps - What's the risk and reward? |
| Posted: 20 Apr 2011 11:00 PM PDT A route worth taking?iOS App of the Week It's holiday time! But we've all heard horror stories about people coming back from holiday and getting hit with a huge bill for using their smartphone outside the UK.… |
| Microsoft online app melodrama wins federal certification Posted: 20 Apr 2011 09:15 PM PDT Feds underline Redmondian Google envyMicrosoft's BPOS-Federal suite of online business applications has been certified for use by the US government. Which highlights the fact that it wasn't certified earlier.… |
| Ubuntu seeks Android-packin' Windows deserters Posted: 20 Apr 2011 09:01 PM PDT A little tech knowledge goes a long wayIf you're packing an Android smartphone, not an iPhone, then you're the kind of free tech spirit that Canonical wants for Ubuntu Linux – version 11.04, to be precise.… |
| Ubuntu Server 11.04: Fully baked in 7 days Posted: 20 Apr 2011 09:01 PM PDT Mmm, this Narwhal is nattyIf you have nothing better to do next Thursday after stuffing yourself full of Easter lamb or ham on Sunday, you might want to wander over to Canonical, get a slice of "Natty Narwhal", and chew on a bit of Ubuntu Server 11.04.… |
| IPv4 addresses priced at $4 on new trading site Posted: 20 Apr 2011 08:00 PM PDT But is it legal?IPv4 address trading – long predicted by authorities such as APNIC (Asia Pacific Network Information Centre) chief scientist Geoff Huston – has arriving with a vengeance. Now there's even a site devoted to it: Tradeipv4.com, registered at the end of March by a German Python developer Martin von Loewis.… |
| eBay buys mobile ad outfit Where Posted: 20 Apr 2011 07:00 PM PDT Jumps on 'shop local' bandwagoneBay – famous for letting people buy stuff for auction from anywhere in the world, to anywhere in the world – has joined the "hyper-local" goldrush and bought Boston-based Where Inc. for an undisclosed sum.… Free Webcast: Making the decision on hosted apps - What's the risk and reward? |
| Lady Gaga helps ease the Vodafail pain Posted: 20 Apr 2011 07:00 PM PDT Parody vid goes viralThe customer backlash over Vodafone and 3's extensive network outage issues has given rise to dedicated blogs, Facebook pages, websites, and now – wait for it – a Lady Gaga music video parody.… |
| Internet child porn investigators net South Aust MP Posted: 20 Apr 2011 06:00 PM PDT 'Operation decimate' nabs pollieA South Australian state Labor MP has been arrested and charged for using the Internet to access child exploitation material, in an ongoing police operation called Operation Decimate*.… |
| Mozilla slips SpiderMonkey into Dev Platform of the Future™ Posted: 20 Apr 2011 04:33 PM PDT Climbs on servers, aims war cry at GoogleMozilla is building its own version of Node.js – the increasingly popular open source platform for coding server-side applications with JavaScript – moving Node from Google's V8 JavaScript engine to its own SpiderMonkey engine.… |
| Engineer who sued Cisco arrested for hacking it Posted: 20 Apr 2011 04:28 PM PDT Collusion between Cisco and prosecutors allegedA former Cisco engineer was arrested for allegedly hacking into the company's network 18 months after he waged a civil lawsuit accusing Cisco of monopolizing the business of servicing and maintaining its networking gear, according to a report citing a Canadian arrest warrant issue in the case.… |
| ARM's Intel challenger set for 2012 release Posted: 20 Apr 2011 02:14 PM PDT Tablets, smartphones, PCs, servers...ARM Holdings' high-performance, low-power Cortex-A15 processor design will appear in products in late 2012 or early 2013, when it will begin to muscle in on territory long dominated by Intel's x86 architecture.… |
| Apple stuns Wall Street with 95% earnings surge Posted: 20 Apr 2011 02:05 PM PDT 'We're firing on all cylinders,' says JobsApple blew past the Wall Street moneymen's predictions for its financial performance in the second quarter of its fiscal year 2011, posting record Q2 revenue of $24.67bn along with record Q2 net profit of $5.99bn.… Free Webcast: Making the decision on hosted apps - What's the risk and reward? |
| Facebook, HP, and OpenStack join Linux patent shield Posted: 20 Apr 2011 02:01 PM PDT The same shield that didn't protect Android from OracleFacebook, HP, and the OpenStack project have joined the Open Invention Network (OIN), a consortium of organizations intent on protecting Linux and related open-source software from legal attack.… |
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