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- Ubuntu 'Natty Narwhal' breaks the surface
- Japanese quake flattens Fujitsu's homeland sales
- Russian security start-up kits up 30,000 state bank ATMs, terminals
- Pads propel PC market growth
- Rackspace backtracks over toff-proof sign-up process
- Robot moon lander airship test enhanced by iPhone app
- Huawei smacks ZTE with patent and trademark lawsuits
- Atlantis promises to flush out VDI I/O bottlenecks
- <cite>Guardian</cite> shuts local blogs
- Sony brings Skype to Bravia HD TVs
- Apple bags iCloud.com domain for $4.5m, says report
- Revealed: Secret security plan should Kate leave Wills at the altar
- Alcatel gets free and easy with OpenPlug
- Panasonic pledges big job cuts
- The Sandy Bridge Hackintosh
- Desktop Virtualisation beyond VDI
- Beyoncé sued over aborted videogame deal
- Targeted phish frags XBox gamers
- Latvian hack's hack story leads to hack-hacking
- Departments reveal mobile device spending
- Nikon image authentication system cracked
- More than one way to build a cloud (and there always will be)
- Royal guests free to tweet and hang out with Facebook friends
- PayPal pushes eBay earnings
- Online PVR goes live in Australia
- Farewell, Novell
- Footy coming to mobiles next year
- PSN hack triggers lawsuit
- XSysInfo memory manager
- US Supremes deal death blow to class action lawsuits
- Open source Hadoop engineers may spin off from Yahoo!
- Yahoo! Finds! Buyer! For! Doomed! Delicious!
- YouTube to launch paid video-on-demand service
- PlayStation Network credit cards protected by encryption
- Middleware hotshot to bake biz-friendly apps
- Cisco aims network code at 'Linux kernel for the cloud'
- TomTom sorry for giving customer driving data to cops
- Citrix profits fluffed by XenDesktop, NetScaler
- Google Docs app lands on Android
| Ubuntu 'Natty Narwhal' breaks the surface Posted: 28 Apr 2011 10:10 AM PDT Canonical goes live with 11.04If you are looking for something to do before the Royal Wedding gets under way, Canonical has officially released Ubuntu "Natty Narwhal".… |
| Japanese quake flattens Fujitsu's homeland sales Posted: 28 Apr 2011 08:24 AM PDT Chip, system sales up thanks to Kei supercomputerJapanese IT conglomerate Fujitsu is one of several companies wrestling with supply issues in the wake of the Sendai earthquake and tsunami in March. The disaster had an impact on Fujitsu's fiscal 2010 year, which closed at the end of March, but the company ended the year as well as expected considering the issues it is facing.… |
| Russian security start-up kits up 30,000 state bank ATMs, terminals Posted: 28 Apr 2011 08:08 AM PDT Creating cash from chaosCash machine crime has created a new market for start-up Russian security firm SafenSoft.… |
| Posted: 28 Apr 2011 07:58 AM PDT Q1 shipments jump matched by tablet numbersWorld PC'n'pad shipments were up seven per cent during Q1 2011, market watcher Canalys said today. And, interestingly, seven per cent of the devices counted were tablets.… |
| Rackspace backtracks over toff-proof sign-up process Posted: 28 Apr 2011 07:08 AM PDT Royals, aristos excluded by double-barrel discriminationRackspace has been forced into a hasty about-turn after it emerged that it was discriminating against aristocrats, power couples and other bigwigs with a sign-up and billing process that refused to recognise double-barrelled surnames.… |
| Robot moon lander airship test enhanced by iPhone app Posted: 28 Apr 2011 06:46 AM PDT In Mountain View. Organised by a search guru, actually ...A Silicon Valley startup has announced that it is flight testing new NASA-funded robot moon lander technology aboard a rented airship with the aid of an iPhone app intended to exploit social networking. Unsurprisingly perhaps, the company's CTO is a search engine executive.… Free Webcast: Making the decision on hosted apps - What's the risk and reward? |
| Huawei smacks ZTE with patent and trademark lawsuits Posted: 28 Apr 2011 06:09 AM PDT Chinese whispers on foreign turfUpdated Huawei has launched patent and trademark litigation against ZTE in Germany, France and Hungary alleging that its competitor has been selling kit bearing Huawei's logo as well as using its technology.… |
| Atlantis promises to flush out VDI I/O bottlenecks Posted: 28 Apr 2011 05:50 AM PDT Says ILIO will stop your virtual desktop sinkingA company called Atlantis has come up with a new wheeze on how to deal with VDI-crippling I/O bottlenecks: detect and delete dud I/Os at the NTFS level.… |
| <cite>Guardian</cite> shuts local blogs Posted: 28 Apr 2011 04:38 AM PDT Future's not so local after allThe Grauniad is shutting three local news blogs and likely laying off the three reporters concerned.… |
| Sony brings Skype to Bravia HD TVs Posted: 28 Apr 2011 04:37 AM PDT Remote interestSony has released a firmware update for its Bravia televisions that adds Skype functionality as well as the ability to use smartphones and notebooks as remote control devices.… |
| Apple bags iCloud.com domain for $4.5m, says report Posted: 28 Apr 2011 04:18 AM PDT iRain down data centre sleet on youApple has reportedly bought the iCloud.com domain name for $4.5m.… |
| Revealed: Secret security plan should Kate leave Wills at the altar Posted: 28 Apr 2011 04:15 AM PDT 'Operation Pumpkin' prepped for royal runaway bride scenarioPolice and spooks in charge of security for tomorrow's royal wedding have planned for every possible eventuality - including that of Kate leaving Wills at the altar.… Free Webcast: Making the decision on hosted apps - What's the risk and reward? |
| Alcatel gets free and easy with OpenPlug Posted: 28 Apr 2011 04:11 AM PDT New parent less protective of dev platform revenue streamAlcatel Lucent has decided to hand out the developer version of OpenPlug free to drive more Adobe Flex development.… |
| Panasonic pledges big job cuts Posted: 28 Apr 2011 04:02 AM PDT 35,000 fewer staffConsumer electronics giant Panasonic is cutting 35,000 jobs in the next three years as it tries to reinvent itself and its corporate culture.… |
| Posted: 28 Apr 2011 04:00 AM PDT Run Mac OS X on Intel's new Core iMy challenge from Reg Hardware: build a PC, install Mac OS X on it, and explain how you can do it too.… |
| Desktop Virtualisation beyond VDI Posted: 28 Apr 2011 04:00 AM PDT Decisions, decisionsInterview Desktop virtualisation isn't just about the client, and it isn't all about VDI.… |
| Beyoncé sued over aborted videogame deal Posted: 28 Apr 2011 03:45 AM PDT Crazy in litigationBeyoncé has been branded a grinch after she decided not to endorse a dance videogame, driving the developer to sack dozens of coders in the week before Christmas.… |
| Targeted phish frags XBox gamers Posted: 28 Apr 2011 03:06 AM PDT Microsoft warns Modern Warfare 2 players not to eat the 'subtle' phishUpdated Microsoft has warned users of Xbox Live to be wary of targeted phishing scams that attempt to hoodwink users into handing over their gamer tags and passwords.… |
| Latvian hack's hack story leads to hack-hacking Posted: 28 Apr 2011 03:00 AM PDT 'Don't try jumping higher than your own...'An enraged Latvian hacker went batshit over an article criticising security at small, low-cost hosting companies and defaced the website of the news agency LETA.… Free Webcast: Making the decision on hosted apps - What's the risk and reward? |
| Departments reveal mobile device spending Posted: 28 Apr 2011 02:46 AM PDT Defence splurged £6.6m on 45,000 'devices' and data services in 2009-10The Department for Transport spent £1.5m on mobile telephones and related data services in the 2010-11 financial year. The department, which has seven executive agencies, disclosed that 7,757 officials were issued with mobile phones such as BlackBerrys and other 3G devices in that year.… |
| Nikon image authentication system cracked Posted: 28 Apr 2011 02:44 AM PDT So obviously PhotoshoppedRussian encryption specialist ElcomSoft has discovered flaws in Nikon's systems for ensuring that images have not been tampered with.… |
| More than one way to build a cloud (and there always will be) Posted: 28 Apr 2011 02:28 AM PDT Feel the fabricsThe open systems revolution of the late 1980s and early 1990s, which espoused interoperability between platforms, made the various Unix operating systems the world's most popular server platforms.… |
| Royal guests free to tweet and hang out with Facebook friends Posted: 28 Apr 2011 02:08 AM PDT Ain't no jammin' goin' onThe royal wedding won't be blanketed in a smog of radio-jamming despite reports to the contrary; such a measure is unnecessary and unworkable, not to mention illegal.… |
| Posted: 28 Apr 2011 02:03 AM PDT Sticking to its knittingeBay is celebrating a 20 per cent jump in profits in the last quarter, thanks mainly to its payment system PayPal.… Free Webcast: Making the decision on hosted apps - What's the risk and reward? |
| Online PVR goes live in Australia Posted: 28 Apr 2011 12:08 AM PDT Beem ends betaBeem.com.au – an online PVR service – has exited its "invitation-only" beta phase and launched services to the public.… |
| Posted: 28 Apr 2011 12:00 AM PDT $2.2bn Attachmate buy done and dustedThe sale of former local-area networking powerhouse Novell to Attachmate has been completed.… |
| Footy coming to mobiles next year Posted: 27 Apr 2011 11:49 PM PDT Telstra to broadcast Aussie rules on mobiles, T-Box, maybe even on broadbandThe Australian Football League has abandoned the usual sports strategy of trying to play different broadcast bidders against each other for rights deals, and instead has dealt with a consortium that includes all three major outlet streams: free-to-air TV, pay TV, and internet streaming.… |
| Posted: 27 Apr 2011 11:00 PM PDT Sony sued over data lossA gamer is suing Sony over the data breach in which the personal details of more than 70 million PlayStation Network and Qriocity users were stolen.… |
| Posted: 27 Apr 2011 11:00 PM PDT Peek under the iOS bonnet with this diagnostic appiOS App of the Week Android devices have a memory manager utility that can show you which apps and services are running in the background, and allow you to shut them down in order to free up some extra memory.… |
| US Supremes deal death blow to class action lawsuits Posted: 27 Apr 2011 09:42 PM PDT States' rights turned on their headThe US Supreme Court has granted a whopping victory to AT&T, the US Chamber of Commerce, and supportive corporations, by reversing previous court decisions that had prevented corporations from requiring individual arbitration of customers' complaint.… Free Webcast: Making the decision on hosted apps - What's the risk and reward? |
| Open source Hadoop engineers may spin off from Yahoo! Posted: 27 Apr 2011 09:38 PM PDT Hooligans could birth stuffed elephant startupYahoo! may spin off its Hadoop engineering division, creating a startup offering support and services around the open-source distributed number-crunching platform, according to a report citing people familiar with the matter.… |
| Yahoo! Finds! Buyer! For! Doomed! Delicious! Posted: 27 Apr 2011 09:00 PM PDT YouTube founders grab a tasty morselYouTube co-founders Chad Hurley and Steve Chen have found something to do with some of the $1.6 billion they made selling the service to Google, buying bookmarking service Delicious from Yahoo! Inc.… |
| YouTube to launch paid video-on-demand service Posted: 27 Apr 2011 09:00 PM PDT Studios on board, reports claimYouTube is reportedly poised to launch a paid streaming movie-on-demand service with the okay of a number of Hollywood studios.… |
| PlayStation Network credit cards protected by encryption Posted: 27 Apr 2011 06:10 PM PDT User passwords? Not so muchAll credit card information stored on Sony's PlayStation Network was encrypted, the company said one day after warning users their user names, passwords, birth dates and home addresses were stolen in a security breach.… |
| Middleware hotshot to bake biz-friendly apps Posted: 27 Apr 2011 05:48 PM PDT Magnet Systems exits stealth with big backersAlfred Chuang, who brought the TCP/IP stack to the original IBM PC, ran several software product development units at Sun Microsystems, and was one of the founders of middleware software maker BEA Systems, wants to take another crack at business software.… Free Webcast: Making the decision on hosted apps - What's the risk and reward? |
| Cisco aims network code at 'Linux kernel for the cloud' Posted: 27 Apr 2011 04:11 PM PDT Ex-Sun man goes OpenStackLew Tucker – Cisco's chief technology officer for cloud computing – says that the networking giant has joined the OpenStack project because "a lot" of its customers are running the open source platform and it hopes to "learn" from the project.… |
| TomTom sorry for giving customer driving data to cops Posted: 27 Apr 2011 04:02 PM PDT 'Anonymous' info used to set speed trapsNavigation device maker TomTom has apologized for supplying driving data collected from customers to police to use in catching speeding motorists.… |
| Citrix profits fluffed by XenDesktop, NetScaler Posted: 27 Apr 2011 03:25 PM PDT Q1 better than expected, 2011 targets raisedBusiness was better than expected at Citrix Systems in its first quarter of 2011, with revenues up 18.5 percent to $490.9m and net income rocketing up 54.9 per cent to $73.5m.… |
| Google Docs app lands on Android Posted: 27 Apr 2011 02:42 PM PDT Offline access not includedGoogle has released a new Google Docs application for its Android mobile operating system, hoping to facilitate both the editing and sharing of documents via its online word processing service.… |
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