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- RIM taps Microsoft Bing for phone and tablet search
- Sony says data for 25 million more customers stolen
- Skyhook routes around Google to MapQuest
- The Great Amazon Crash of 2011
- Vatican blogger meeting says no to copyright, yes to lifting content
- Boffins develop liquid crystal solid-state raygun turret
- Ubisoft to turn games into movies, TV shows
- Government slashes consultancy spending
- Insurance firm pushes out iPhone app that rates driving ability
- Seagate's terabyte platters make it the densest of the lot
- Apple refreshes iMac with Thunderbolt, Sandy Bridge
- HP to show off next gen EVA on the Vegas Strip
- Gamer goes 3DS gaga with AR card tattoo
- Robot pirate invented in USA: 'Yarr-2 D-2'?
- Osama malware scams spread to Facebook
- DARPA says surveillance vid-search tool is ready for use
- Honda Jazz Hybrid
- Intel leaks show a flashy future
- Private investors pile into data centres
- Ohio cops taze naked marathoneer
- North Korea blamed for bank hack
- Microsoft to release Windows thin PC in late June
- RIM warns investors, greets developers
- Hybrid clouds: You know they make sense
- RIM makes Bold move with OS 7
- CEOP accused of misleading public over site security fail
- US acts on telco 'Ponzi scheme'
- Sikorsky, US Army claim whisper-flapcopter test success
- Google taps Ingenico for retail terminal expansion
- Archos 32 Android media player
- 4oD plods onto iPad
- Google faces another privacy probe
- OCZ joins PCIe flash fray
- Hacker pwns police cruiser and lives to tell tale
- Go SMS Pro
- Storage duopoly to transform industry?
- Japanese boffins build internet kissing machine
- Fujitsu A/NZ tosses dollars at clouds
- Telstra cozies up to small end of town
- Nirvanix storage cloud spills executive blood
- Russian search giant Yandex blows whistle on whistle-blower
- Assange: Facebook a ‘spying machine’
- DIY crimekit brings advanced malware to Mac OSX
- Microsoft drafts .NET chief to lead Azure cloud war
- Google intros video chat on Android
- Stolen smart-meter SIM leads to outrageous 3G bill
- Pure Storage to dethrone 'evil' hard disk
- Small Oz carriers get license fee cut
| RIM taps Microsoft Bing for phone and tablet search Posted: 03 May 2011 01:07 PM PDT IE10 in the wings?Microsoft's Bing has been crowned the default search and maps provider for Research in Motion's smartphones as well as the Playbook, RIM's answer to the Jobsian iPad.… Free Webcast: Making the decision on hosted apps - What's the risk and reward? |
| Sony says data for 25 million more customers stolen Posted: 03 May 2011 11:41 AM PDT Bleeding continues with Sony Online Entertainment hackSony warned that personally identifiable information for an additional 25 million customers was exposed after discovering a massive security breach extended to its online computer games service.… |
| Skyhook routes around Google to MapQuest Posted: 03 May 2011 10:47 AM PDT Location pioneer finds Android waySkyhook – the location services outfit that was booted from both Google's Android mobile OS and Apple's iOS – continues to work its way back onto phones through third-party applications.… |
| The Great Amazon Crash of 2011 Posted: 03 May 2011 08:39 AM PDT So what has Infosmack got say about this?Podcast And welcome to Infosmack 97, a lovely podcast show in which hosts Greg Knieriemen and Marc Farley with the Diva of Disruptive Technologies Christina Weil discuss that Amazon Outage, the first really big Cloud crash since ever.… |
| Vatican blogger meeting says no to copyright, yes to lifting content Posted: 03 May 2011 08:31 AM PDT Consider the lilies of the field...Speakers at a bloggers conference at the Vatican this week gave themselves an indulgence, saying it is OK to lift content from "old media" and that copyright was old hat.… |
| Boffins develop liquid crystal solid-state raygun turret Posted: 03 May 2011 08:15 AM PDT Points laser beam with no need to shift laserOK, so you've done it. You've finally built a high-energy laser which can put out a megawatt-range beam, and it doesn't emit toxic corrosive exhaust or melt itself in operation or weigh a prohibitive amount. Now to revolutionise warfare, right?… Free Webcast: Making the decision on hosted apps - What's the risk and reward? |
| Ubisoft to turn games into movies, TV shows Posted: 03 May 2011 08:08 AM PDT Publisher to green light own adaptionsVideogames publisher Ubisoft is to launch a film company to adapt its games into motion pictures.… |
| Government slashes consultancy spending Posted: 03 May 2011 07:07 AM PDT Consultants: Public sector gave us 15% less dosh in 2010, but we don't mind...Public sector spending on consultants fell sharply last year, according to a report from the Management Consultancies Association (MCA).… |
| Insurance firm pushes out iPhone app that rates driving ability Posted: 03 May 2011 06:42 AM PDT No impact on premiums… yetState Farm insurance has released an iPhone application to rate driving ability, using data from the phone's accelerometer and GPS, then spouting advice on how to be a better driver.… |
| Seagate's terabyte platters make it the densest of the lot Posted: 03 May 2011 06:31 AM PDT Seagate has bust the terabyte platter barrierIt's done it; Seagate has achieved a 625Gbit/in2 areal density enabling it to produce 3TB Barracuda drives on just three platters instead of the current five.… |
| Apple refreshes iMac with Thunderbolt, Sandy Bridge Posted: 03 May 2011 06:07 AM PDT AMD GPUs tooApple has indeed taken the wraps off updated iMacs, as anticipated by rumour and a temporary Apple Store closure this morning.… |
| HP to show off next gen EVA on the Vegas Strip Posted: 03 May 2011 06:05 AM PDT Viva Las Vegas: Fifth generation becomes P6000EVA lives on: fulfilling promises made at 3PAR acquisition time, HP has confirmed a next-generation EVA array is coming, with an early access program available and more details due at its Las Vegas HP Discover event in June.… |
| Gamer goes 3DS gaga with AR card tattoo Posted: 03 May 2011 05:48 AM PDT Indelible realityNintendo's AR cards, which trigger the augmented reality functions on the 3DS, have had their fare share of custom implementations. We've seen the design reprinted on t-shirts, drawn on blackboards, even scaled up to the size of a tennis court.… |
| Robot pirate invented in USA: 'Yarr-2 D-2'? Posted: 03 May 2011 05:34 AM PDT 'Marsupial' shot-bot has one eye, clambers up ships' sidesAn American firm has developed a cunning, beercan-sized robot which can be shot out of a gun, stick to the side of a ship magnetically, and then climb up the ship's side in the fashion of a pirate with a knife or cutlass between his teeth.… |
| Osama malware scams spread to Facebook Posted: 03 May 2011 05:29 AM PDT Twitter news breaker hackedNews of Osama bin Laden's assassination may have appeared on Twitter before the official confirmation but surfers following up supposed offers of live kill footage from Facebook or email will almost certainly end up hitting malware.… Free Webcast: Making the decision on hosted apps - What's the risk and reward? |
| DARPA says surveillance vid-search tool is ready for use Posted: 03 May 2011 05:01 AM PDT To roll out across 'multiple military programmes'US military warboffins claim that they have found one of the internet's holiest grails – that of true, tagless searchable-video technology.… |
| Posted: 03 May 2011 05:00 AM PDT Third time a charm for Honda hybrid?Review In the last ten years, Honda has shifted over 3.5m examples of its Jazz hatchback, and now the evergreen runabout so beloved by the over-60s is getting hybrid power. Presumably, Honda, like Toyota with its Auris Hybrid, thinks a familiar exterior will prevent hybrid-fright among it's more conservative customers.… |
| Intel leaks show a flashy future Posted: 03 May 2011 04:49 AM PDT Six of the best – plus an extra two for good measureHere's a lovely leaked Intel SSD roadmap – thank you engadget – showing six 25nm products coming plus two more 34nm single-level cell speedsters by the end of the year.… |
| Private investors pile into data centres Posted: 03 May 2011 04:43 AM PDT There goes the neighbourhoodPrivate investment firm Matterhorn Capital is spending £250m to build two new data centres in the south-east of England.… |
| Ohio cops taze naked marathoneer Posted: 03 May 2011 04:28 AM PDT 'It was cold... I wasn't exactly proud of what I was showing'A 35-year-old Ohio man pleaded not guilty to "public indecency and obstructing official business" yesterday, after being tazed over the weekend after attempting to run a marathon while naked.… |
| North Korea blamed for bank hack Posted: 03 May 2011 04:11 AM PDT Hackers not so lonelySouth Korean prosecutors have accused North Korea of a recent hack attack on a bank which caused a three-day systems outage and deleted details of some customers' credit cards.… Free Webcast: Making the decision on hosted apps - What's the risk and reward? |
| Microsoft to release Windows thin PC in late June Posted: 03 May 2011 04:09 AM PDT Final test build landsMicrosoft has pushed out a final test build of its Windows Thin PC (WinTPC).… |
| RIM warns investors, greets developers Posted: 03 May 2011 04:08 AM PDT Blames slowed development cycleLast week RIM slipped out a profit warning to investors, letting them know that its previous forecasts were on the optimistic side and delays in device launches were hurting.… |
| Hybrid clouds: You know they make sense Posted: 03 May 2011 04:00 AM PDT Let's embrace diversityCloud If you are wondering why hybrid clouds are the future, look no further than last week's massive crash in Amazon's Virginia data centre, where its EC2 cloud and related storage clouds are hosted.… |
| Posted: 03 May 2011 03:46 AM PDT Updated smartphone, operating systemResearch in Motion has unveiled two additions to its range of Blackberry Bold smartphones, the 9900 and 9930.… |
| CEOP accused of misleading public over site security fail Posted: 03 May 2011 03:39 AM PDT User who discovered the flaw says agency 'whitewashed' insecurity incidentThe person who discovered that the child abuse reporting mechanism on the website of the Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre was insecure has reacted with anger to suggestions from the agency that the flaw had only affected surfers visiting the site from either Facebook or Google.… |
| US acts on telco 'Ponzi scheme' Posted: 03 May 2011 03:38 AM PDT Chinese whispers at China VoiceThe Securities and Exchange Commission has frozen the assets of China Voice Holding Corp on suspicion that it is no more than a Ponzi scheme.… Free Webcast: Making the decision on hosted apps - What's the risk and reward? |
| Sikorsky, US Army claim whisper-flapcopter test success Posted: 03 May 2011 03:21 AM PDT A chopper in every garage at last?A wind-tunnel test programme aimed at producing new, hi-tech rotor blades for helicopters has finished. The trials, which used blades fitted with trailing-edge flaps like those seen on aeroplane wings, reportedly offer the prospect of much-enhanced copters in future – in particular, the long-heralded "whisper mode" for covert (or domestic) urban operations may be on the horizon.… |
| Google taps Ingenico for retail terminal expansion Posted: 03 May 2011 03:02 AM PDT 'Google? That'll do nicely sir'NFC kit manufacturer Ingenico has confirmed it is developing retail terminals for Google, but the search giant won't be running its own banking service just yet.… |
| Archos 32 Android media player Posted: 03 May 2011 03:00 AM PDT Pint-sized PMP with potentialReview Archos is calling the 32 an Android tablet, but I have trouble convincing myself that anything with a 3.2in screen is really a tablet so it makes far more sense to review it as a touchscreen media player.… |
| Posted: 03 May 2011 02:51 AM PDT Xbox Live too?If you're an iPad owner that uses on-demand video services, then you'll be pleased to know Channel 4 has launched a 4oD iPad app. There is also talk of the service coming to Xbox Live.… |
| Google faces another privacy probe Posted: 03 May 2011 02:13 AM PDT South Korean cops raid offices looking for mobile advertising wrongnessSouth Korean investigators raided Google's Seoul offices this morning as part of a probe into the search and advertising giant's privacy policies.… |
| Posted: 03 May 2011 02:06 AM PDT Compression boosts I/O numbersOCZ has joined in the PCIe flash market, the one led by Fusion-io, with card controllers that compress data and boost I/O to 1GB/sec speeds.… |
| Hacker pwns police cruiser and lives to tell tale Posted: 02 May 2011 11:00 PM PDT The dark side of 'situational awareness'As a penetration tester hired to pierce the digital fortresses of Fortune 1000 casinos, banks and energy companies, Kevin Finisterre has hacked electronic cash boxes, geologic-survey equipment, and on more than one occasion, a client's heating, ventilation, and air-conditioning system.… Free Webcast: Making the decision on hosted apps - What's the risk and reward? |
| Posted: 02 May 2011 11:00 PM PDT Spice up your text lifeAndroid App of the Week A giant leap forward from the stock Android SMS client, Go SMS Pro is the latest offering from the Go development team, the folk behind Go Launcher EX and Go Weather.… |
| Storage duopoly to transform industry? Posted: 02 May 2011 10:00 PM PDT Hybridisation could goose I/O densityComment The after-effects of the Western Digital and Seagate embiggening could be to slow down technology development in the hard-disk drive industry. Why spend development money when you don't need to?… |
| Japanese boffins build internet kissing machine Posted: 02 May 2011 09:00 PM PDT Tongue twisting lip locks over IPResearches in Japan are hard at work developing an internet-enabled kissing simulator that will allow lovers – or perfect strangers – to reach out and buss someone.… |
| Fujitsu A/NZ tosses dollars at clouds Posted: 02 May 2011 08:54 PM PDT New CEO confirms new DCs in Sydney, MelbourneFujitsu has reaffirmed its commitment to the Australian data center sector despite growing competition among providers.… |
| Telstra cozies up to small end of town Posted: 02 May 2011 08:53 PM PDT Invests $600m prepping SMB servicesTelstra is investing AUD$600 million over the next five years to upgrade its network for the delivery of advanced business services.… |
| Nirvanix storage cloud spills executive blood Posted: 02 May 2011 08:00 PM PDT Vice presidential putsch pushComment Nirvanix lost a few executives when its incoming CEO stripped out unwanted VPs and SVPs, and brought in his own team.… Free Webcast: Making the decision on hosted apps - What's the risk and reward? |
| Russian search giant Yandex blows whistle on whistle-blower Posted: 02 May 2011 07:00 PM PDT You don't say 'no' to the |
| Assange: Facebook a ‘spying machine’ Posted: 02 May 2011 06:00 PM PDT And media starts wars, says WikiLeaks founderJulian Assange, Wikileaks founder, media tart and controversialist, has leveled his hyperbole gun at Facebook, calling it "the most appalling spying machine that has ever been invented."… |
| DIY crimekit brings advanced malware to Mac OSX Posted: 02 May 2011 05:43 PM PDT Next stop: iPad and Linux usersA crimeware kit discovered over the weekend promises to bring a flood of advanced malware that steals passwords and other sensitive data from computers running Mac OS X.… |
| Microsoft drafts .NET chief to lead Azure cloud war Posted: 02 May 2011 05:39 PM PDT Can red polo shirted strongman woo developers?.NET fan favorite Scott Guthrie has been elevated in a Microsoft reorg intended to "sharpen its focus" and win greater support among developers for the company's push into the cloud.… |
| Google intros video chat on Android Posted: 02 May 2011 04:25 PM PDT Face time over cellularBrace yourself for a new round of 3G service bill-shock horror stories: Google has announced Android support for video chat and voice chat using Google Talk.… Free Webcast: Making the decision on hosted apps - What's the risk and reward? |
| Stolen smart-meter SIM leads to outrageous 3G bill Posted: 02 May 2011 04:24 PM PDT Tasmanian woman downloads herself into the slammerSkeptics who think 3G data services can't be used for volume downloads, think again: a Tasmanian woman has been jailed for racking up a bill of nearly A$200,000 on a SIM stolen from an electricity smart-meter.… |
| Pure Storage to dethrone 'evil' hard disk Posted: 02 May 2011 03:54 PM PDT 'Long live flash!'Comment The problems with networked storage is the hard drive. It's evil – nothing can be done to fix its primary latency and seek problems except by giving up on them and going flash. That's Pure Storage's preferred option, and it's betting the farm on it.… |
| Small Oz carriers get license fee cut Posted: 02 May 2011 03:19 PM PDT Conroy tosses bone to increasingly bolshie industrySenator Stephen Conroy, Australia's minister for Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy, has moved to placate an industry increasingly dissatisfied with his handling of the country's National Broadband Network with cheaper carrier licenses.… |
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