Monday, May 2, 2011

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Posted: 02 May 2011 12:35 PM PDT

Apple and Time bury half a hatchet

Apple and Time Inc., have inked a pact that allows subscribers of hard-copy rags published by the largest magazine flogger in the US to freely download digital copies of those same issues onto their Cupertinian fondleslabs.…

Microsoft maps WinPhone 7 path for iPhone coders

Posted: 02 May 2011 12:15 PM PDT

Eyes up Android

Microsoft is again reaching out to iPhone application developers, this time trying to siphon off some of the Jobisian magic juice for Windows Phone 7.…

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Mozilla answers Google's Crankshaft with IonMonkey

Posted: 02 May 2011 11:35 AM PDT

Another simian joins Firefox JavaScript engine

Mozilla is developing a new JIT compiler for SpiderMonkey – the Firefox JavaScript engine – aiming to provide a new set of JavaScript optimizations. Known as IonMonkey, this will be SpiderMonkey's third JIT, but Mozilla hopes to consolidate all its optimization work on the new platform.…

Canada's internet future at stake in Monday election

Posted: 02 May 2011 11:29 AM PDT

Conservatives v The Open Interwebs

The future of the Internet is at stake in Monday's Canadian election.…

Cisco rolls out data center pods

Posted: 02 May 2011 09:49 AM PDT

Wheels not included

Server wannabee Cisco Systems is now a containerized data center wannabe too.…

Pakistani IT admin leaks bin Laden raid on Twitter

Posted: 02 May 2011 09:33 AM PDT

Twitterati learn of raid before bin Laden

Before Osama bin Laden knew that a squadron of US Navy Seals was approaching his compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan, their approach had been tweeted to the world by a 33-year-old IT admin, Sohaib Athar.…

Sony closes PC games site over security 'concern'

Posted: 02 May 2011 09:31 AM PDT

Station.com suddenly unreachable

Sony shut down its website for online PC games on Monday, almost two weeks after it closed the PlayStation Network following a criminal intrusion that stole personally identifiable information from 77 million account holders.…

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Welcome your <strike>robot</strike> overlairds, robots

Posted: 02 May 2011 01:00 AM PDT

Nine years of silicon servitude in Scotland

Silicon servitude In 2002 we got our first domestic robot, a basic Roomba which is long dead now, but since then our household robots have kept the place tidy, and the children in line.…

Arcam FMJ BDP100 Blu-ray Disc player

Posted: 02 May 2011 12:00 AM PDT

Very metal

Review If you're an Arcam aficionado, there must have been times when you thought the arrival of a Blu-ray Disc player would never come. The brand's original strategy, to support both HD DVD and BD with a universal player, was shunted off the road when the HD format war came to an abrupt end.…

Tiscali wants Scality's ring

Posted: 01 May 2011 11:00 PM PDT

Needs some cloudy loving ...

Struggling Italian ISP Tiscali has called on Scality and its RING product to build a cloud storage service.…

Skype sex cadets charged for misusing telco services

Posted: 01 May 2011 10:38 PM PDT

Aussie Defence Force clueless on social media

Police in Australia have finally worked out how to charge two Australian Defence Force Academy cadets at the center of the 'Skype sex scandal'.…

Space shuttle Endeavour launch delayed until at least May 8

Posted: 01 May 2011 09:10 PM PDT

No power to heaters

NASA has once again delayed the final launch of the space shuttle Endeavour, as it works to correct the electrical problem that postponed Friday's original launch attempt.…

HP forges 32-socket Itanium iron

Posted: 01 May 2011 08:00 PM PDT

Beyond Superdome

What's going on with Hewlett-Packard's Itanium-based Integrity server lineup? It has been over a year since HP got its first machines using Intel's "Tukwila" quad-core Itanium 9300 processors into Integrity machines, and the company has still not delivered machines spanning 32 and 64 sockets. This is the kind of big iron that key HP-UX accounts need.…

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Is iPhone data collection legal?

Posted: 01 May 2011 05:51 PM PDT

Musing on the IOS / Android / Windows Phone debate

According to Gizmodo (and many others), it's "no big" deal that Google, Microsoft and Apple are collecting location data from mobile devices.…

Wikileaks: Canadian piracy arrests were favor to movie biz man

Posted: 01 May 2011 04:06 PM PDT

TorrentFreak blames 'cammer' overdose death on harassment

A report on TorrentFreak has linked the overdose death of a Canadian "cammer" (someone who records movies in cinemas on Webcams) to his arrest by the Mounties, even though his activities weren't a crime in that country.…

Sony: 'PSN attacker exploited known vulnerability'

Posted: 01 May 2011 03:37 PM PDT

Preps network for service restart

Sony is getting ready to return to service some PlayStation Network offerings, amid ongoing analysis to try and identify the source of the April attack on its San Diego data centre hosted in an AT&T network facility.…

Stalled by a LAN switch

Posted: 01 May 2011 03:22 PM PDT

How two failed capacitors stranded Sydney rail commuters

The rail signaling failure which crippled Sydney on April 12 (some commuters reported trips of more than three hours) was caused by a failing LAN switch and software that couldn't cope, an engineering report has found.…

Aussie crowdsourcers get A$35m

Posted: 01 May 2011 03:13 PM PDT

Ex-Flickr and eBay execs tip in

Multi-millionaire and founder of Flickr, Stewart Butterfield is part of a gaggle of high profile investors that have poured US$35 million into Australian crowdsourcing design website 99designs.…

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