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- Mozilla plays down threat from bypass in phishy URL alert
- SGI previews Q4 financials
- Verizon demos 1Gbps over existing fiber network
- IBM completes Power7 server arsenal
- New US swarmsats will scatter to avoid space-war strikes
- Intel and Micron expose 3-bit flash
- Apple fans drool over Liquidmetal widget
- HP slurps up security software firm
- Local councils will carry on splurging on IT
- Best Buy slaps 'God Squad' priest with cease-and-desist order
- Americans demand Twitter-watching police
- Spurs soothsayer predicts Young Boys thrashing on Twitter
- iPad hits Asus Eee PC sales
- Storage big three to define HDD way ahead
- Ikea forecasts fluffy, fully teched kitchen of the future
- BT mulls upping apprentice numbers
- Pink Floyd wipe albums from web
- Microsoft goes double bubble with server beta releases
- Electric mass-driver catapults to beat Royal Navy cuts?
- Google seeks UK privacy lobbyist
- Hacked Axl Rose Twitter account spreads false tour news
- America's top model fights off 'pervert' at Star Wars convention
- WiMAX forum touts version 2. Again
- Microsoft's volume licensing site goes titsup - again
- STEC's magic MLC sauce
- Vodafone tunes Wi-Fi hotspot dongle
- Oracle dumping HPC: Genius or foolhardy?
- Symantec knits VMware safety net
- Network Solutions pulls widget that tainted up to 5m websites
- India puts threatened BlackBerry ban on paper
- Nokia intros keypad, touchscreen combo candybar
- Cynicism, grumpiness cause heart attacks, strokes
- Paris jub-flash mugger busted
- Dell, 3PAR and legal parasites
- Alleged bad Appler pleads not guilty
- MS lists Windows Phone 7 gaming launch line-up
- Disney sued for spying on kids with 'zombie cookies'
- Acer Liquid E Android smartphone
- iPod meltdown strands Tokyo commuters
- Fujifilm readies revamped 'true' 3D camera
- MS to Kinect up UK in November
- Chair maker punts $6,000 iPad recliner
- DARPA funds Mr Spock on a Chip
- US fanbois await freedom from Big Phone
- Google dubs Oracle suit 'attack on Java community'
- Canonical reveals next Ubuntu's touchy side
- Android app secretly uploads GPS data, warns Symantec
Mozilla plays down threat from bypass in phishy URL alert Posted: 17 Aug 2010 12:10 PM PDT User confusion unlikelyMozilla developers have downplayed the severity of a security feature in Firefox that often fails to warn users when they've encountered obfuscated URLs that might lead to malicious websites.… |
Posted: 17 Aug 2010 11:46 AM PDT On Intel's team in DARPA's HPC challengeSupercomputer maker Silicon Graphics is implementing a new revenue-accounting method in the fourth quarter, and the changes to the way it keeps its books have forced it to push out its financial results for two more weeks. SGI had been expected to report its numbers after Wall Street closed Tuesday.… Free On-Demand Webcast - Virtualizing the Hard Stuff |
Verizon demos 1Gbps over existing fiber network Posted: 17 Aug 2010 11:24 AM PDT Another poke in the eye for AT&TVerizon has conducted a demo in which it pumped nearly a gigabit per second to a remote customer over its existing fiber infrastructure.… |
IBM completes Power7 server arsenal Posted: 17 Aug 2010 09:39 AM PDT Shooting low and highThe roll-out of the Power7-based rack, blade, and tower servers finishes up today with the debut of five Power Systems machines. Big Blue is launching four itty bitty boxes and one behemoth.… |
New US swarmsats will scatter to avoid space-war strikes Posted: 17 Aug 2010 09:01 AM PDT F6 Bomb-burst manoeuvre will avoid actual bomb burstsThe USA's new "fractionated" swarm satellites - in which groups of small wirelessly-linked modules in orbit will replace today's large spacecraft - will be able to scatter to avoid enemy attacks and then reform into operational clusters.… |
Intel and Micron expose 3-bit flash Posted: 17 Aug 2010 08:57 AM PDT Targets SD with MLCNo sooner has a leaked Intel flash roadmap shown enterprise-grade multi-level cell (MLC) flash than Intel and Micron announce they are sampling 3-bit MLC product.… |
Apple fans drool over Liquidmetal widget Posted: 17 Aug 2010 08:29 AM PDT Amazing material put to mundane useIt should come as no surprise that Apple fanboys are moistened by their favourite vendor's use of novel materials, and you can understand that excitement when a device uses a clever new compound in its construction.… |
HP slurps up security software firm Posted: 17 Aug 2010 08:19 AM PDT Fortify strengthens securityHP has bought Fortify Software, strengthening its application security software portfolio.… Free On-Demand Webcast - Virtualizing the Hard Stuff |
Local councils will carry on splurging on IT Posted: 17 Aug 2010 08:17 AM PDT Outsourcing by local.gov to growDespite the recession Kable believes UK local government ICT budgets will rise to nearly £4bn by 2016.… |
Best Buy slaps 'God Squad' priest with cease-and-desist order Posted: 17 Aug 2010 07:24 AM PDT ...father, son, and holy |
Americans demand Twitter-watching police Posted: 17 Aug 2010 07:15 AM PDT But almost half assume they don'tAmericans expect their emergency services to respond to postings on their web sites and Twittered messages, but more than half would give them a call just to make sure.… |
Spurs soothsayer predicts Young Boys thrashing on Twitter Posted: 17 Aug 2010 07:01 AM PDT Unofficial tweet caught offsideSpurs has apologised over a misguided update to the club's Twitter account that predicted the North London club would thrash Euro opponents Young Boys on Tuesday night.… |
Posted: 17 Aug 2010 06:02 AM PDT Netbook popularity plungesStill not convinced that Apple's iPad is eating into sales of netbooks? Just ask netbook supremo Asus.… |
Storage big three to define HDD way ahead Posted: 17 Aug 2010 05:40 AM PDT Suppliers can't go it aloneComment Is the future of hard disk drive (HDD) technology bit-patterning or heat-assist?… Free On-Demand Webcast - Virtualizing the Hard Stuff |
Ikea forecasts fluffy, fully teched kitchen of the future Posted: 17 Aug 2010 05:26 AM PDT Fish'n'chipboardThirty years from now, your kitchen will be "almost alive" and "respond actively" to your culinary needs "like only a mother could".… |
BT mulls upping apprentice numbers Posted: 17 Aug 2010 05:12 AM PDT More popular than universityBT is considering increasing the number of apprentices it employs after receiving over 100 applications for each place.… |
Pink Floyd wipe albums from web Posted: 17 Aug 2010 05:09 AM PDT Wish you weren't hereLong-playing records by Pink Floyd have vanished from the iTunes and Amazon stores, the result of a dispute with record label EMI.… |
Microsoft goes double bubble with server beta releases Posted: 17 Aug 2010 05:03 AM PDT One for the cloud, and one for homeMicrosoft slung out a brace of server betas yesterday for its home and cloud biz customers.… |
Electric mass-driver catapults to beat Royal Navy cuts? Posted: 17 Aug 2010 04:53 AM PDT New tech could save Blighty's carrier forceHints are emerging that the Royal Navy's new aircraft carriers may be equipped with innovative electromagnetic catapults in order to operate cheaper aircraft as part of the ongoing, behind-closed-doors UK defence and security review/cuts process.… |
Google seeks UK privacy lobbyist Posted: 17 Aug 2010 04:30 AM PDT Large Californian, 12, WLTM flexible London lawyerAre you a privacy lawyer? Would you take pride in working for a company with "a real soul"? Is your brain impervious to cognitive dissonance? Could you grow a brass neck?… Free On-Demand Webcast - Virtualizing the Hard Stuff |
Hacked Axl Rose Twitter account spreads false tour news Posted: 17 Aug 2010 04:23 AM PDT GNR frontman relaxed about hackAxl Rose's Twitter account was hacked on Sunday to spread false rumours that Guns N' Roses was cancelling an upcoming European tour.… |
America's top model fights off 'pervert' at Star Wars convention Posted: 17 Aug 2010 04:14 AM PDT Imperial Stormtroopers and Sith Lords subdue non-fanAmerica's ex next top model Adrianne Curry has taken to the social networks to detail her alleged molestation at a Star Wars convention in Miami over the weekend.… |
WiMAX forum touts version 2. Again Posted: 17 Aug 2010 04:09 AM PDT If we build it someone will come. Won't they?The WiMAX forum has again announced that its version 2 specification will be available later this year, as it seems no-one was listening last time around.… |
Microsoft's volume licensing site goes titsup - again Posted: 17 Aug 2010 03:50 AM PDT Weekend 'update' spirals into bloody MondayMicrosoft's volume licensing site once again went titsup on Friday and was out for several days with very little explanation from the software vendor about what had gone wrong.… |
Posted: 17 Aug 2010 03:42 AM PDT No details released thoughSTEC, IBM and EMC's favourite enterprise flash drive supplier, says it has cracked the multi-level cell (MLC) flash conundrum, making it a viable enterprise choice by dealing with its poor write endurance and reliability.… |
Vodafone tunes Wi-Fi hotspot dongle Posted: 17 Aug 2010 03:33 AM PDT Share your 3G connectionIt's got a Micro SDHC slot and the ability to share an HSDPA 3G connection with up to five devices over 802.11b/g Wi-Fi - yes, it's Vodafone's Wi-Fi R201 mobile hotspot.… Free On-Demand Webcast - Virtualizing the Hard Stuff |
Oracle dumping HPC: Genius or foolhardy? Posted: 17 Aug 2010 03:15 AM PDT What are the long-term costs?Blog Quietly - very quietly – Oracle has been dropping out of the HPC market. We're finally seeing some outward reaction to the company's internal moves with news stories (The Reg here and HPCwire here) discussing Oracle's retreat from HPC. No comments from Oracle either confirm or deny the move, of course.… |
Symantec knits VMware safety net Posted: 17 Aug 2010 03:05 AM PDT Virtualise biz-crit apps with confidenceSymantec says you will be able to virtualise the most critical business applications with confidence because it's providing the necessary safety net, Application HA. It's also sorted the virtual desktop image provisioning and storage problem with VirtualStore.… |
Network Solutions pulls widget that tainted up to 5m websites Posted: 17 Aug 2010 02:34 AM PDT Parked domains borked by long running security failNetwork Solutions has admitted that a software widget designed to help small business to build websites was contaminated with malware.… |
India puts threatened BlackBerry ban on paper Posted: 17 Aug 2010 02:30 AM PDT RIM promises to explain how hard things areRIM will be talking to the Indian government this week - trying to explain just how difficult it is to intercept encrypted communications, while promising to do just that.… |
Nokia intros keypad, touchscreen combo candybar Posted: 17 Aug 2010 02:24 AM PDT X3 revampedNokia has revamped its X3 sliderphone as... a candybar.… Free On-Demand Webcast - Virtualizing the Hard Stuff |
Cynicism, grumpiness cause heart attacks, strokes Posted: 17 Aug 2010 02:02 AM PDT Old Git syndrome 'may not be confined to Italy'Irascible, grumpy cynics have a significantly higher risk of suffering heart attacks and strokes compared to mellow, amiable, trusting people, according to a new study.… |
Posted: 17 Aug 2010 01:27 AM PDT Cashpoint breast bandit makes final withdrawalPolice have busted the Paris jub-flash mugger who, along with an accomplice, earlier this month relieved a man of €300 after distracting him with her chesticles.… |
Dell, 3PAR and legal parasites Posted: 17 Aug 2010 01:22 AM PDT Hard to stomach lawyersThe simple clarity and straightforwardness of the 3PAR and Dell deal is being muddied by the activities of US law firms that are as beneficial in many people's eyes as an HIV infection.… |
Alleged bad Appler pleads not guilty Posted: 17 Aug 2010 01:21 AM PDT Suppliers cough to consultancy feesPaul Shim Devine, a 37-year old Apple manager, has pleaded not guilty to wire fraud and conspiracy charges related to accusations that he took a series of bribes from suppliers to help them win work from the computer and phone maker.… |
MS lists Windows Phone 7 gaming launch line-up Posted: 17 Aug 2010 12:41 AM PDT Xbox Live on the goMicrosoft has listed the Xbox Live games that will run on Windows Phone 7 handsets when the smartphone platform launches later this year. Among them, some well known titles.… Free On-Demand Webcast - Virtualizing the Hard Stuff |
Disney sued for spying on kids with 'zombie cookies' Posted: 17 Aug 2010 12:02 AM PDT Snooping with 'little available redress for users'Walt Disney's internet subsidiary and several of its partners have been sued for allegedly using cookies based on Adobe's Flash Player to track highly personal information about their users, many of whom were minors.… |
Acer Liquid E Android smartphone Posted: 17 Aug 2010 12:02 AM PDT Dripping with features?Review Acer has been a bit of a late starter in the smartphone game but has been working hard to catch up and gain a similar reputation to what it has with computers – decent quality machines that deliver the specs without excessive prices.… |
iPod meltdown strands Tokyo commuters Posted: 16 Aug 2010 11:02 PM PDT 'Truly regrettable' Apple responseApple's iPod flame-out woes continue. The latest victims: Tokyo commuters.… |
Fujifilm readies revamped 'true' 3D camera Posted: 16 Aug 2010 11:02 PM PDT Dual sensor, lens compactFujifilm has taken the wraps off its latest two-lens, two-sensor 3D-capable compact camera.… |
MS to Kinect up UK in November Posted: 16 Aug 2010 10:47 PM PDT Motion control and moreMicrosoft's Kinect will come to Blighty on 10 November, the Xbox maker revealed this morning.… |
Chair maker punts $6,000 iPad recliner Posted: 16 Aug 2010 10:02 PM PDT The Lazyfanboi™What might an obscenely rich, profoundly indolent fanboi choose as the ultimate iPad accessory? Might we suggest the six-thousand dollar Elite Home Theater Seating iPad Chair?… |
DARPA funds Mr Spock on a Chip Posted: 16 Aug 2010 09:02 PM PDT Lyric's probability processorThe US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency financed the basic research necessary to create a processor that thinks in terms of probabilities instead of the certainties of ones and zeros. And now Lyric Semiconductor, the spin-off from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology where the work was done, is going to spend the next couple of years building a commercial probability processor called the GP5.… |
US fanbois await freedom from Big Phone Posted: 16 Aug 2010 05:28 PM PDT Over a third on holdIf, as is rumored, Verizon will end AT&T's exclusive US hold on Apple's iPhone beginning in January, it may mean big trouble for Big Phone.… Free On-Demand Webcast - Virtualizing the Hard Stuff |
Google dubs Oracle suit 'attack on Java community' Posted: 16 Aug 2010 03:01 PM PDT Java daddy backs, er, MicrosoftGoogle has called Oracle's Android lawsuit an attack not only on Google but also on the open-source Java community.… |
Canonical reveals next Ubuntu's touchy side Posted: 16 Aug 2010 02:31 PM PDT Meerkat's gesture APIs and engine releasedTouchy tablets are hogging the headlines and giving Steve Ballmer sleepless nights, but Linux netbooks are the focus of Canonical's latest push.… |
Android app secretly uploads GPS data, warns Symantec Posted: 16 Aug 2010 02:30 PM PDT Like a Tapsnake in the grassResearchers from anti-virus provider Symantec have outted a gaming application in Google's Android Market that tracks users' whereabouts so they can be secretly monitored in real-time.… |
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