| Intel: optical Thunderbolt to strike in Q4 Posted: 12 Sep 2012 03:08 PM PDT Cheaper cables too IDF 2012 Cheaper and longer Thunderbolt wires will be coming later this year, Intel has forecast. The extra length will arrive on the back of optical cables.… |
| Optus first Oz carrier to confirm iPhone 5 Posted: 12 Sep 2012 02:22 PM PDT Prices? Fanbois don't care Optus has become the first Australian carrier to confirm that it will offer the iPhone 5 to punters, but hasn't said a word about what it will charge antipodean fanbois for the privilege.… |
| Intel's Windows 8 tablet Atom chip yields up its secrets Posted: 12 Sep 2012 02:19 PM PDT Inside Clover Trail IDF 2012 Intel has begun to reveal what's inside the next generation of tablet- and smartphone-specific Atom processors, codenamed respectively Clover Trail and Clover Trail Plus.… |
| New iPod nano and touch: Lightning strikes again Posted: 12 Sep 2012 01:27 PM PDT Video returns to the nano, the A5 chip comes to the touch It must be tough to be an iPod engineer and have to wait though an hour of iPhone love before your creations are even mentioned at an Apple product-rollout event.… |
| Intel shows off SeaCliff Trail SDN-enabled switch Posted: 12 Sep 2012 12:19 PM PDT Hardware, software, your brand not included IDF 2012 Intel wants to dominate the networking and storage arenas, each worth about $25bn a year in sales, just as much as it ever wanted to dominate the server racket, which accounts for around $50bn a year in sales. And if its goal is to double the revenues of its Data Center and Connected Systems group to $20bn by 2016 – as general manager Diane Bryant reiterated in her presentation at Intel Developer Forum yesterday then it is going to have to get a much bigger piece of the merchant silicon and software racket relating to switches.… |
| iPhone 5: skinny li'l fella with better display, camera, software Posted: 12 Sep 2012 11:43 AM PDT No surprises – and no NFC – but a thoroughgoing upgrade Rumor has it that an Eritrean goat-herder with the unlikely name of "Bob" was unaware of the fact that Apple would unveil its iPhone 5 on Wednesday.… |
| Amazon creates exchange for reserved cloud capacity Posted: 12 Sep 2012 09:52 AM PDT Gentlemen, start your speculation engines Amazon has announced a new program that aims to save you from your own stupidity. Well, maybe not your stupidity, but what about that other sysadmin, the one who makes you roll your eyes from time to time? You know the guy.… |
| Australian tabloid decides to fight trolls ... with trolls Posted: 12 Sep 2012 09:46 AM PDT A tale of twisted trollumnists Australian tabloid newspaper The Daily Telegraph has started a campaign to "Stop the trolls".… |
| Speaking in Tech: In the cloud biz? Cut through the waffle and listen up Posted: 12 Sep 2012 09:32 AM PDT Experts discuss real world issues in the enterprise |
| '£100m For Sale' sign plonked outside Northgate MS - sources Posted: 12 Sep 2012 08:58 AM PDT Integrator enlists Jefferies to find a buyer Northgate Managed Services (NMS) is up for sale and investment banking biz Jefferies International is doing the hawking, claim sources close to the company.… |
| Boffin named Jubb to fire whopping hybrid thruster Posted: 12 Sep 2012 08:28 AM PDT A potent mix of Bloodhound, handlebar 'tache and polybutadiene A magnificently handlebar 'tached boffin is is poised to carry out the most potent rocket test firing in Britain for two decades, when he presses the big red button on the hybrid thruster for the Bloodhound SuperSonic Car.… |
| Nimble Storage bags ex-NetApp man for Asian push Posted: 12 Sep 2012 07:59 AM PDT Confirms appointment of Peter O'Connor Nimble Storage has appointed NetApp's former Australian and APAC leader Peter O'Connor as its vice president for Asia Pacific and selected Sydney for its Asia-Pacific headquarters.… |
| New guide: Bake your own Raspberry Pi Lego-crust cluster Posted: 12 Sep 2012 07:26 AM PDT 'And here's one we made earlier!' Pics Scientists at the University of Southampton have built a "supercomputer" from Raspberry Pis lashed together to form a colourful data-cruncher.… |
| BT wins £33m Surrey council superfast broadband deal Posted: 12 Sep 2012 07:02 AM PDT Fujitsu declares 'status unchanged' on bids for BDUK cash despite UK.gov ban BT has won more government funds to unfurl faster fibre-optic broadband cabling - this time in Surrey, after it beat two other rivals to the £33m contract.… |
| The iPHONE 5 UNDERMINES western DEMOCRACY: 5 reasons why Posted: 12 Sep 2012 06:34 AM PDT Owning one will be the badge of an utter fool Comment Thinking of buying a new iPhone 5 after it gets announced later today? Don't. Owning it will mark you out as an easily-led simpleton - and worse, the purchase will undermine western democracy.… |
| Sony focuses on full-frame snappers with tasty tech Posted: 12 Sep 2012 06:06 AM PDT Flagship Alpha gets SLT treatment Sony snapped into action today with a wide range of camera launches including a fresh NEX, a snazzy full-frame compact and apparently the world's first full-frame SLT with a dual AF system.… |
| Microsoft leads from behind on Windows 8 Posted: 12 Sep 2012 05:41 AM PDT Slow burn on The Road Ahead TechEd Australia While attending Microsoft's TechEd Australia this week, I've been reminded of the fact that in 2001 I worked for a PR company that did Microsoft's work in Australia. I therefore worked on the periphery of the team that launched Windows XP.… |
| Spidercloud spins biz-wide webs for Mindspeed mini-masts Posted: 12 Sep 2012 05:17 AM PDT Smart arachnids weave small cells into private networks Enterprise-level private cellular networks will be as easy to fit as Wi-Fi. That's according to femtocell-leader Mindspeed, which has impregnated its chips with Spidercloud's wizardry to make small cells work better together.… |
| Analysts: Shamoon oil biz malware flingers were 'amateurs' Posted: 12 Sep 2012 05:01 AM PDT Programming errors ahoy.... Fresh analysis of the Shamoon malware has concluded that its authors are more likely to be "skilled amateurs" rather than elite cyber-spies.… |
| Facebook wunderkind admits share price Zuck-up on stage Posted: 12 Sep 2012 04:46 AM PDT I like being underestimated ... bitch In his first big interview since taking Facebook onto Wall Street with all the savoir-faire of a tramp in a dirty Santa outfit, internet billionaire Mark Zuckerberg has confessed that his company must do better. He added that performance of the free-content ad firm's stock "has obviously been disappointing".… |
| Haynes Build Your Own Computer book review Posted: 12 Sep 2012 04:21 AM PDT Manual upgrade As a journalist, engineer and car nut enthusiast, I can easily find myself spending hours upon hours poring over technical documents and workshop manuals, among them tomes published by Haynes. This time, however, I'm looking at something less mechanical and more digital: the latest in Haynes' Build Your Own Computer series, written by Kyle MacRae and Gary Marshall.… |
| Everything Everywhere's 4G: Why I'm sitting this one out Posted: 12 Sep 2012 04:18 AM PDT Can't get 3G working, can't lug a briefcase of batteries with me Comment According to phone network Everything Everywhere, super-fast mobile broadband 4G is "the communications equivalent of the change the jet engine made over steam".… |
| Apple's iCloud goes titsup, email evaporates for unlucky 1% Posted: 12 Sep 2012 04:01 AM PDT Shifting behind the curtains at Cupertino pre-iPhone 5 Apple's iCloud online storage service has been on the blink for 15 hours according to its status page. Fanbois relying on Cupertino's idiot-tax outfit to provide their email have been unable to send or access messages for more than half a day.… |
| Google whips away card, leaves just clouds in your Wallet Posted: 12 Sep 2012 03:37 AM PDT No more pre-paid credit as Mountain View exits the banking business Google is pulling its pre-paid credit card, citing the success of its cloudy alternative and admitting that when in comes to bonking payments no one wants to bank with the Chocolate Factory.… |
| LOHAN straps on satellite comms capability Posted: 12 Sep 2012 03:16 AM PDT Iridium two-way chat for spaceplane mission We're sure readers will offer the traditional El Reg welcome today to Rock Seven, which has climbed aboard the British space programme by providing an Iridium satellite comms capability for our Low Orbit Helium Assisted Navigator (LOHAN) mission.… |
| Google sneaks in back door, slips YouTube onto iPhone 5 Posted: 12 Sep 2012 02:59 AM PDT All iOS devices are invited to the ball Google has released its own YouTube app for the iPhone and iPad, preempting Apple's decision not to support Google's dancing cat collection on its new iDevice, and updating what has been a lamentable experience.… |
| Dreaded redback spider's NEMESIS: Forgotten Captain Cook wasps Posted: 12 Sep 2012 02:37 AM PDT Aussie lad rediscovers hard-as-nails killer insect A species of Australian wasp discovered by Captain Cook but forgotten until modern times has turned out to be officially as hard as nails, as it makes a habit of eating the dreaded down-under redback spider ALIVE.… |
| Swedish cops contain fermented herring menace Posted: 12 Sep 2012 02:19 AM PDT 'Gas leak' nothing more than a storm in a surströmming Swedish cops who rushed last Saturday to a block of flats in Stockholm after concerned residents alerted emergency services of a possible gas leak, found that the tremendous whiff was actually down to fermented herring.… |
| Dutch unleash intelligent robot bins: No ID, no rubbish Posted: 12 Sep 2012 02:04 AM PDT Saving money, carbon... the world The Netherlands is rolling out intelligent bins that demand ID before accepting rubbish, and let the truck know when they need to be emptied, pointing towards the day when we'll all have to pay for the stuff we throw away.… |
| Windows 8: Life in a post .NET world – speak your brains Posted: 12 Sep 2012 01:37 AM PDT 13.00 GMT, 14 September: Get it in the diary Live Chat Back in 2000, when Bill Gates launched .NET, he likened the shift to the dramatic move from MS-DOS to Windows, as it ushered in an era of distributed computing – for Windows.… |
| ICO sets cookie-law flouters deadline - to open an HTML editor Posted: 12 Sep 2012 01:18 AM PDT 'C'mon guys, make some sort of effort... please?' The Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) has set some website operators a deadline to begin efforts to comply with UK regulations that set out rules for the use of cookies.… |
| Ultimate bacon sarnie scrap starts to sizzle Posted: 12 Sep 2012 01:00 AM PDT Controversy guaranteed in pinnacle of pork perfection challenge Our challenge to readers to provide proof of the ultimate bacon sarnie looks set to provoke even more controversy than the matter of the zenith of sliced pork/bread assemblages has already caused.… |
| NICTA micro-kernel trailblazers slurped by US defense giant Posted: 12 Sep 2012 12:45 AM PDT General Dynamics buys OK Labs for "provably secure" kernel US aerospace and defence company General Dynamics has swooped on Australian virtualisation software developer Open Kernel Labs.… |
| Online dole queue tech 'not grounded in reality', say councils Posted: 12 Sep 2012 12:33 AM PDT UK.gov best revise 'agile' universal credit system The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) needs to revise its 'agile' approach to developing ICT systems for universal credit to avoid additional costs, the Local Government Association (LGA) says.… |
| The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time Posted: 12 Sep 2012 12:00 AM PDT Cucco Gank Antique Code Show I didn't play The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time when it was first released in the late 1990s because I was too busy on my SEGA playing Sonic. However, I do remember that I always used to think the name Zelda referred to the main character. It wasn't until I watched The Legend of Neil that I realised the hero's name was Link and Zelda was the name of the cutesy pie peroxide princess.… |
| Microsoft preparing for diskless Windows 8 PCs Posted: 11 Sep 2012 11:58 PM PDT But Windows RT can't be installed wirelessly Microsoft has imagined future computers that don't include onboard disks, but do boot from external USB 3.0 devices, and has prepared Windows 8 so that it can install and operate in such environments.… |
| Anonymous doxes Cambodia after Pirate Bay arrest Posted: 11 Sep 2012 10:53 PM PDT Secrets from Kyrgyzstan and Ukraine released to show Cambodia what's what Hacktivist group Anonymous has been up to its old tricks again, this time claiming to have hacked and uploaded a heap of sensitive Cambodian government documents in retaliation for the arrest and extradition back to Sweden of The Pirate Bay (TPB) co-founder Gottfrid Svartholm Warg.… |
| Information <i>is</i> the UI in Windows 8, says design guru Posted: 11 Sep 2012 10:45 PM PDT How to make sense of the desktop formerly-known-as-Metro The interface formerly known as Metro (TIFKAM) makes the information applications present their user interface, and developers need to realise that and stop polluting software with the kind of buttons and icons elements they've grown up with.… |
| Fujitsu boffins to help build uni exam-beating bot Posted: 11 Sep 2012 10:17 PM PDT Japanese high school students rejoice! Workers at IT giant Fujitsu will try to make every stressed-out Japanese student's dream come true by building a robot capable of passing one the country's most taxing university entrance exams.… |
| Labour groups booted out of China's tech boom town Posted: 11 Sep 2012 08:52 PM PDT Workers' woe as Shenzhen NGOs trashed Non-governmental organisations (NGOs) in China's technology boom town of Shenzhen are up in arms after a sustained and co-ordinated campaign by local authorities forced more than ten to shutter their doors.… |
| Intel debuts 'Haswell' chippery: from tablets to servers Posted: 11 Sep 2012 06:53 PM PDT One core to rule them all IDF 2012 Intel has unveiled details of its new "Haswell" microarchitecture, and promises that it will deliver greatly improved compute and graphics performance, drastically lower power requirements, and developer-friendly improvements when chips based on it appear next year, branded as Intel 4th Generation Core Processors.… |
| HTML5 still floundering in 'chicken and egg' era, says Intel Posted: 11 Sep 2012 06:26 PM PDT If it's not a PC or a smartphone, it's the Wild West IDF 2012 The new HTML5 APIs may have triggered an arms race among desktop browser vendors to see who could deliver the best performance and standards compliance, but when it comes to anything but a traditional PC, developers should be prepared for serious challenges – or so says an Intel rep.… |
| Intel to etch 22nm Xeons and Atoms in 2013 Posted: 11 Sep 2012 06:16 PM PDT A Sandy Bridge-EX too far, Poulson Itanium looming IDF 2012 The details are still a bit sketchy, but Intel is committed to get the rest of the "Ivy Bridge" family of Xeon processors out the door next year, is getting ready to roll out new Itanium and Atom processors for servers this year, and is working on future Xeon E3 and Atom processors for microservers next year, too.… |
| iPhone 5 to boost US GDP says JP Morgan Posted: 11 Sep 2012 06:08 PM PDT .33% bounce predicted from 8 million Q4 sales The imminent release of the iPhone 5 could add 0.33% to growth of the USA's gross domestic product, according to JPMorgan Chase Bank's Michael Feroli.… |
| Microsoft throws open Windows Store to all developers Posted: 11 Sep 2012 05:55 PM PDT Let a thousand not-Metro apps bloom Microsoft has fully opened its Windows Store doors to all developers ahead of the October 26 launch of its new operating system, after a beta program that began in February.… |
| Woz to visit Oz Posted: 11 Sep 2012 04:41 PM PDT Wearing his Chief Scientist hat Apple founder and geek legend Steve Wozniak will soon visit Australia.… |
| Reviewers say ‘yes’ to Higgs boson data Posted: 11 Sep 2012 04:36 PM PDT Close to rubber-stamping the discovery Two months ago, CERN set the physics world a-fire with its Higgs boson announcement: the particle exists, they said, we've seen it, and it has a mass of between 122 and 131 GeV.… |
| More cloudy goodness in NeCTAR funding round Posted: 11 Sep 2012 04:29 PM PDT Cloud clusters countrywide The University of Tasmania is among the latest institutions to get cloud funding, announcing that it's won two projects worth more than $AU2 million under the federal government's NeCTAR program.… |
| NASA reports first sighting of dry ice Martian snowfalls Posted: 11 Sep 2012 03:33 PM PDT Carbon-dioxide flakes form and fall Scientists using the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter have found definitive proof that flurries of carbon-dioxide snow are falling on the Martian South Pole.… |
| Content convenience squeezes freetards: Swinburne Uni Posted: 11 Sep 2012 03:30 PM PDT Auntie's Dr Who experiment shows the way The success of the ABC's decision to offer an iView stream of the new Dr Who in step with its broadcast in the UK suggests how content owners could squeeze out P2P – and it comes at a time when new research suggests that P2P usage is already starting to decline in Australia.… |
