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- Dell borgs CIT financing partnerships in Canada, Europe
- Feds move to uninstall bot that hit banks, airports, cops
- Friendster wipes data slate clean
- Barnes & Noble answers Microsoft's anti-Android suit
- Amazon fine print limits potential credits for cloud outage
- Duke celebrates royal nuptials with pugnacious portrait
- CenturyLink borgs Savvis for $3.2bn
- Apple breaks location-storing silence
- Supermarkets trounce telcos on mobile services
- MIT Media Lab appoints college drop-out, socialite
- OCZ shares trashed by short seller's research note
- VMware takes a new direction
- Apple confirms white iPhone 4 on sale tomorrow
- Sky in surprise duct-and-pole-sharing trial with BT
- Acer Iconia Tab W500 Windows 7 tablet
- Free and subdomain hosting lets phishing sites live longer
- China sets out space-station plan, asks public to name it
- Vote now for the best sci-fi film never made
- Cops hunt man who befouled drugstore's cough drop stash
- US Senate weighs in on phone tracking
- Save the planet: Stop the Greens
- Nintendo blames puzzled public for 3DS sales shortfall
- Love Bug malware-inspired film gets big screen premiere
- Memo gives full details of Nokia staff cull and closures
- Accounting software gets better at languages
- ARM jingling with cash as its chips get everywhere
- Silver Lake and SMART Modular: The Privening
- Toshiba readies über-thin 7in touchscreen
- London Olympics ticket grab ends with website wobbles
- Sony shows MacBook Air-like Vaio notebook
- Sky to show FA Cup match in 3D
- MySpace bids expected this week
- Council forks out £160m: The last of the schools deal cash
- Teens who spend time online not dorks after all – study
- Smartfish Whirl Laser Mouse
- Sony hack revives Oz disclosure debate
- Google moves to extract more from Apps
- Windows phones send user location to Microsoft
- VMware inhales SlideRocket for its cloudy presentationware
- Super Micro preps hopes for 'Sandy Bridge' Xeons
- Note to Mozilla: Guilt is not a business model
- Amazon refudiates Apple 'app store' trademark suit
- Feds finger China in wire fraud
- User data stolen in Sony PlayStation Network hack attack
- Freebie SMS day for suffering Vodafone customers
- Amazon: Some data won't be recovered after cloud outage
- Cops raid man whose Wi-Fi was used to download child porn
| Dell borgs CIT financing partnerships in Canada, Europe Posted: 27 Apr 2011 01:11 PM PDT Dude, you're going to get a Dell ... bankerBeing an IT giant, as Dell wants to be, means controlling your own leasing and financing arm. And so Dell is taking control of the financing arms that it ran in conjunction with CIT Group in Canada, and of Dell-related assets for CIT Group's operations in Europe.… Free Webcast: Making the decision on hosted apps - What's the risk and reward? |
| Feds move to uninstall bot that hit banks, airports, cops Posted: 27 Apr 2011 12:57 PM PDT Drainage of Coreflood continuesThe notorious Coreflood botnet has penetrated a veritable who's who of sensitive organizations, including banks, state and local governments, airports, defense contractors, and a police department, an FBI agent said in sworn testimony.… |
| Friendster wipes data slate clean Posted: 27 Apr 2011 12:33 PM PDT Rebirth or slow friendless death?Social networking pioneer Friendster has been suspiciously quiet since being acquired by Malaysia's MOL Global in 2009 for around US$40 million, but users will at least be paying attention on May 31 when their data will be erased.… |
| Barnes & Noble answers Microsoft's anti-Android suit Posted: 27 Apr 2011 12:08 PM PDT Cites 'exorbitant' fees, 'absurd' restrictionsBookseller and Nook e-reader vendor Barnes & Noble has lashed out at Microsoft in response to Redmond's recent lawsuit against the company and its Nook manufacturing partners Foxconn and Inventec.… |
| Amazon fine print limits potential credits for cloud outage Posted: 27 Apr 2011 11:36 AM PDT Rackspace CTO talks EC2 failureAmazon's EC2 contract promises its infrastructure cloud will provide 99.95 per cent "uptime" over the course of a year. But that doesn't mean the company will dish out credits in the wake of the outage that affected some users for as many as four days, if not more.… |
| Duke celebrates royal nuptials with pugnacious portrait Posted: 27 Apr 2011 08:41 AM PDT Hail to the King - and not the next but oneWith the royal wedding round the corner, it's only fitting that the Duke dress in suitable attire and pose for a portrait, right?… |
| CenturyLink borgs Savvis for $3.2bn Posted: 27 Apr 2011 08:13 AM PDT Rural telco morphs to cloudy IT providerCenturyLink, which only a few years back was a rural telephone service provider, is now one of the major players in cloud computing thanks to its $3.2bn acquisition of Savvis.… Free Webcast: Making the decision on hosted apps - What's the risk and reward? |
| Apple breaks location-storing silence Posted: 27 Apr 2011 07:15 AM PDT Admits underestimating stupidity of its users*Apple has clarified that it does not store location data on handsets, and that it does, and that it's going to stop soon... only it isn't... and it's nothing to worry about anyway.… |
| Supermarkets trounce telcos on mobile services Posted: 27 Apr 2011 07:07 AM PDT Happy shoppersSupermarkets have taken over the grocery industry, DVD rental services and even the car insurance business, so it should come as little surprise they now dominate the mobile phone market too. In fact, supermarkets offer a better mobile phone service than the more established telcos, it seems.… |
| MIT Media Lab appoints college drop-out, socialite Posted: 27 Apr 2011 06:46 AM PDT Can you learn physics by intuition?Now that's what I call "convergence".… |
| OCZ shares trashed by short seller's research note Posted: 27 Apr 2011 06:31 AM PDT I did bad stuff, but I also built a company with no venture capital, says CEO...OCZ stock went into freefall last week after serious allegations were published about its technology and its chief executive.… |
| Posted: 27 Apr 2011 06:19 AM PDT Promises PPT presentations everywhere...Comment VMware is buying SlideRocket, a service that offers presentations-as-a-service, cloud-style. Your slide deck is held on VMware servers and you can edit it or play it from a variety of internet-accessing devices, from smartphones and tablets to laptops and desktops.… |
| Apple confirms white iPhone 4 on sale tomorrow Posted: 27 Apr 2011 05:48 AM PDT Fanboys all a-quiverIt's official: the white iPhone will be with us tomorrow, Apple said today.… |
| Sky in surprise duct-and-pole-sharing trial with BT Posted: 27 Apr 2011 05:46 AM PDT 'Price only indicative', so watch this spaceSky has become the first major ISP to sign up to a duct-and-pole-sharing trial with telecoms giant BT.… Free Webcast: Making the decision on hosted apps - What's the risk and reward? |
| Acer Iconia Tab W500 Windows 7 tablet Posted: 27 Apr 2011 05:00 AM PDT Function-before-form fondleslabReview Aimed squarely at those of us who simply don't see the point of Android or iOS, Acer's Iconia Tab W500 is a Windows 7 Home Premium slate complete with decent graphics, a handy detachable keyboard, a sizeable chunk of storage and a realistic, if not cheap, price tag of £520.… |
| Free and subdomain hosting lets phishing sites live longer Posted: 27 Apr 2011 04:59 AM PDT Chinese now cop flak as well as PayPal, Western banksA growing numbers of phishers are using free domains and subdomain to register net fraud sites, a move that seem to have allowed phishing sites to stay online longer.… |
| China sets out space-station plan, asks public to name it Posted: 27 Apr 2011 04:40 AM PDT Orbital heavenly palace to get ISS-style robo supply podsThe People's Republic of China will go it alone to assemble a small manned space station in orbit this decade, according to plans announced by officials yesterday.… |
| Vote now for the best sci-fi film never made Posted: 27 Apr 2011 04:39 AM PDT 50 classics vie for cinematic gloryReader poll Well, the time has come to vote for the best sci-fi movie never made from the list of 50 heavyweight contenders nominated by you, our beloved readers.… |
| Cops hunt man who befouled drugstore's cough drop stash Posted: 27 Apr 2011 04:35 AM PDT P*ss artist leaves foul taste in cops' mouthsFlorida police are hunting a man who took a slash over a drugstore's stock of cough drops before trying, unsuccessfully, to get a prescription filled.… |
| US Senate weighs in on phone tracking Posted: 27 Apr 2011 04:29 AM PDT Stern letters dispatchedThe House Energy and Commerce Committee has asked the bigger phone platforms to explain their policy on tracking customers, ahead of hearings on the subject scheduled for 10 May.… Free Webcast: Making the decision on hosted apps - What's the risk and reward? |
| Save the planet: Stop the Greens Posted: 27 Apr 2011 04:23 AM PDT Climate change is a serious problem, but the solutions are a jokeComment I find myself in an uncomfortable position over this climate change thing. I've no problem with the existence of man-made climate change, no problem with the idea that we ought to do something about it. But what we are actually trying to do about it seems bonkers, counter-productive even. So how did we get into this mess?… |
| Nintendo blames puzzled public for 3DS sales shortfall Posted: 27 Apr 2011 03:43 AM PDT Punters not getting it, apparentlyNintendo has cited public confusion as the reason why 3DS sales fell short of its expectations.… |
| Love Bug malware-inspired film gets big screen premiere Posted: 27 Apr 2011 03:21 AM PDT Boy meets girl, boy loses girl, boy writes virus ...A film inspired by the infamous Love Bug computer worm is due to premiere on Friday.… |
| Memo gives full details of Nokia staff cull and closures Posted: 27 Apr 2011 03:17 AM PDT 7,000 axed, many closures in ElopocalypseExclusive Nokia announced the largest cuts in the company's history today, with significant cuts in the UK and globally.… |
| Accounting software gets better at languages Posted: 27 Apr 2011 03:00 AM PDT Found in translationWorkshop Businesses have become accustomed to software products like MS Office which can be switched between languages (although Word's US English can be stickier than a handful of superglue when you want to select another language).… |
| ARM jingling with cash as its chips get everywhere Posted: 27 Apr 2011 02:58 AM PDT Fondle-slabs, jabber-slablets, TVs - just not computersCambridge-based ARM holdings is celebrating a fine start to 2011, with more money coming in from more markets as its chip designs continue to fill everything that is not a desktop computer.… Free Webcast: Making the decision on hosted apps - What's the risk and reward? |
| Silver Lake and SMART Modular: The Privening Posted: 27 Apr 2011 02:39 AM PDT Hefty Flash'n'RAM firm to vanish off stock marketPublicly-owned RAM and SSD supplier SMART Modular is turning to private ownership via a $645m deal with Silver Lake.… |
| Toshiba readies über-thin 7in touchscreen Posted: 27 Apr 2011 02:31 AM PDT Tap tech integrated into LCDSeven-inch tablets may soon become rather thinner than they currently are. Toshiba has taken the wraps off a 7in, 1024 x 600 touchscreen that's a mere millimetre thick.… |
| London Olympics ticket grab ends with website wobbles Posted: 27 Apr 2011 02:21 AM PDT 'Darling, what's this £926 on my Visa card?'Organisers of the London 2012 Olympic Games were forced to extend their ticket application deadline by an hour last night, after last-minute demand from wannabe customers led to delays online.… |
| Sony shows MacBook Air-like Vaio notebook Posted: 27 Apr 2011 02:13 AM PDT Eee Pad Slider-style netbook-cum-tablet tooSony's announcement that it is bringing a pair of Android 3.0 tablets to market this autumn was accompanied - quietly, on the side - by a sneak peek at how it envisages its next slimline notebooks and netbooks will look.… |
| Sky to show FA Cup match in 3D Posted: 27 Apr 2011 01:48 AM PDT Man C, Man C, Man C vs Stoke, Stoke, StokeSky will broadcast this year's FA Cup final, between Manchester City and Stoke City, live in 3D on 14 May - without ad breaks to spoil the effect, apparently.… |
| MySpace bids expected this week Posted: 27 Apr 2011 01:39 AM PDT Six line up for knackered social networkRupert Murdoch is hoping for bids this week for his undead social network MySpace.… |
| Council forks out £160m: The last of the schools deal cash Posted: 27 Apr 2011 01:38 AM PDT Last BSF dosh doled out to construction and ICT supplierA north-west council has awarded one of the last contracts under the BSF school building programme. The contract includes ICT services.… |
| Teens who spend time online not dorks after all – study Posted: 27 Apr 2011 01:32 AM PDT Get more sex, drink more. Don't wear seatbelts eitherNews today which upsets the stereotype of teenagers who spend a lot of time online or otherwise fooling with computers: rather than being lonely dorks with poor social skills who seldom leave their bedrooms, such kids are in fact more likely to get squiffy, have sex and even to take drugs than their less tech-savvy peers.… Free Webcast: Making the decision on hosted apps - What's the risk and reward? |
| Posted: 26 Apr 2011 11:00 PM PDT Rocking rodentReview Smartfish reckons our mice, and other peripherals, don't have enough life of their own, so it has successfully produced a mouse that wobbles in the interests of reducing RSI.… |
| Sony hack revives Oz disclosure debate Posted: 26 Apr 2011 09:11 PM PDT Calls for disclosure laws and security guidelinesThe Sony PlayStation network breach has revived Australia's dormant security disclosure debate.… |
| Google moves to extract more from Apps Posted: 26 Apr 2011 09:00 PM PDT Free isn't foreverHard on the heels of its disappointing earnings announcement. Google will no longer offer free Google Apps to businesses with more than 10 users.… |
| Windows phones send user location to Microsoft Posted: 26 Apr 2011 05:19 PM PDT All there in the fine printAdd Microsoft Windows Phone 7 to the list of mobile operating systems that silently transmit the precise physical location of the device back to a central database.… |
| VMware inhales SlideRocket for its cloudy presentationware Posted: 26 Apr 2011 05:04 PM PDT Next, a heavenly word processor and spreadsheet?Server-virtualization juggernaut and cloudy-infrastructure wannabe VMware has snapped up another component that it believes will lead it to cloud domination: SlideRocket.… |
| Super Micro preps hopes for 'Sandy Bridge' Xeons Posted: 26 Apr 2011 04:57 PM PDT Blades, storage, GPUs selling well, but systems slowBusiness was not as smooth as it could have been in the third quarter of fiscal 2011 for Super Micro, a supplier of both motherboards and complete systems, and a bellwether of sorts for the server racket.… Free Webcast: Making the decision on hosted apps - What's the risk and reward? |
| Note to Mozilla: Guilt is not a business model Posted: 26 Apr 2011 04:36 PM PDT Value trumps virtueOpen...and Shut Although people often contribute to charities because "it's the right thing to do," they rarely give to businesses on this basis. That's why it's strange to see industries turn to "guilt trips as business models," as GigaOm's Matthew Ingram terms newspapers' recent business-model experiments.… |
| Amazon refudiates Apple 'app store' trademark suit Posted: 26 Apr 2011 03:35 PM PDT Quotes Steve Jobs in defenseAmazon is fighting back against an Apple lawsuit that charged the mega-etailer with using the term "App Store" without proper Cupertinian consent.… |
| Feds finger China in wire fraud Posted: 26 Apr 2011 03:13 PM PDT Where phishing victims' money goesThe FBI has issued an alert warning that money obtained by phishing is being transferred to trade companies in China.… |
| User data stolen in Sony PlayStation Network hack attack Posted: 26 Apr 2011 02:53 PM PDT Poorly secured system to remain offlineSony is warning its millions of PlayStation Network (PSN) users to watch out for identity-theft scams after hackers breached its security and plundered the user names, passwords, addresses, birth dates, and other information used to register accounts.… |
| Freebie SMS day for suffering Vodafone customers Posted: 26 Apr 2011 01:53 PM PDT Don't pay for what you already don't pay for...Vodafone has offered beleaguered Australian customers 12 hours of free text messaging as compensation for a network outage over Easter, the latest in a series of service outages.… Free Webcast: Making the decision on hosted apps - What's the risk and reward? |
| Amazon: Some data won't be recovered after cloud outage Posted: 26 Apr 2011 01:47 PM PDT Post mortem waitAmazon says that about 0.07 per cent of the EBS storage volumes in the East Region of its infrastructure cloud are not "fully recoverable" following the extended outage that hit the service last Thursday.… |
| Cops raid man whose Wi-Fi was used to download child porn Posted: 26 Apr 2011 01:32 PM PDT The risks of open wireless and the sleuths who use itA man recently found a swarm of armed federal agents descending on his Buffalo, New York, home after a neighbor accessed his open Wi-Fi network and used it to download child pornography.… |
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