Thomson joins vid-streamers' rush for MPEG-DASH |
| Thomson joins vid-streamers' rush for MPEG-DASH Posted: 09 Sep 2012 03:03 AM PDT Web vid spec has Microsoft on board, but Apple's still hanging backNow that the web vid spec MPEG DASH has been published and interoperability testing is well underway, vendors are starting to put their cards on the table with serious deployments. One of the first to build DASH into products is Thomson Video Networks, which is now supporting it in its ViBE VS7000 multi-screen video platform, with the help of multi-media software company VisualOn. The DASH support is built into VisualOn's multi-media player that Thomson now incorporates into ViBE for cross-platform audio and video playback on target devices.… |
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GNOME hacker: Culture isn't holding desktop Linux back |
| GNOME hacker: Culture isn't holding desktop Linux back Posted: 11 Sep 2012 02:13 PM PDT 'There is no single simple issue to fix'Open source bigwigs like Alan Cox, Miguel De Icaza, and Linus Torvalds can bicker all they want, says GNOME hacker Michael Meeks, but changing developer culture won't do a thing to attract more consumers to the Linux desktop.… |
| Thomas-Rasset faces $220,000 file-sharing bill after losing appeal Posted: 11 Sep 2012 01:46 PM PDT Court rules $9,250 per track is constitutionally fairNearly five years after being found guilty of file-sharing in the media industry's first jury trial on the issue, Minnesotan mother of four Jammie Thomas-Rasset is back where she started after the appeals court upheld the original verdict.… |
| Intel to turn Ultrabooks, all-in-one desktops into giant tablets Posted: 11 Sep 2012 12:49 PM PDT Can't beat 'em, join 'emIDF 2012 Intel wants to turn laptops and even desktops into tablets in order to reverse the decline in the personal computer market. To that end, it unwrapped two form-factors it will be promoting to get tablet-hungry consumers back buying PCs.… |
| Intel demos next-generation voice and gesture interfaces Posted: 11 Sep 2012 12:25 PM PDT Offers a million bucks for the best 'perceptual computing' ideaIDF 2012 Intel wants computers to be as smart as humans in how they understand voices and gestures – and it's offering $1m to the best idea that can help achieve that goal.… |
| Touch tech firms tap Intel for factory cash Posted: 11 Sep 2012 12:18 PM PDT Chip giant to keep Win8 touch bandwagon rollingIDF 2012 Intel has been pumping money into the touchscreen component business in order to encourage the production of panels of 13in and up to make sure there are enough of them for vendors to build all the touch-enabled Windows 8 notebooks Intel hopes World+Dog will want.… |
| iPhone to account for half of US economy by 2030 - projection Posted: 11 Sep 2012 12:07 PM PDT America to get rich selling Foxconn gizmos to itself!Strange, terrible, yet curiously inevitable news today - the day before iPhone 5 day. Analysis based on figures from hefty Wall Street brains appears to show that the Jesus Phone is set to account for a large chunk - perhaps the majority - of US economic activity within a matter of decades.… |
| Microsoft betas System Center service pack for unified control Posted: 11 Sep 2012 11:33 AM PDT SP1 beta increases InTune integrationRedmond's been talking about how System Center will be at the heart of its reboot of the Windows franchise for months now, and now it has released the beta of its first service pack.… |
| Day-long outage 'not a hack,' claims GoDaddy Posted: 11 Sep 2012 10:53 AM PDT Just a little router trouble, that's allDomain registrar GoDaddy has commented on the daylong DNS outage that downed many of its customers' websites on Monday, saying that not only was a hacker not responsible, but that the service interruption wasn't the result of a DDoS attack at all.… |
| Al-Jazeera's mobe news feed hijacked by pro-Assad hacktivists Posted: 11 Sep 2012 10:24 AM PDT More breaking news on the conflict in SyriaPro-Syrian government hacktivists have cracked the mobile update service of al-Jazeera, the Qatar-based satellite news network.… |
| UK.gov blacklists Fujitsu from future contracts - report Posted: 11 Sep 2012 09:24 AM PDT Not good enough for government work. CuttingJapanese IT group Fujitsu is among several companies that have been "blacklisted" by the UK Government, claims the Financial Times.… |
| Pirate Bay co-founder named in probe into Logica, tax office hacks Posted: 11 Sep 2012 09:02 AM PDT Warg hauled back to Sweden for copyright cooler stintGottfrid Svartholm Warg, a co-founder of download haven The Pirate Bay, is back in Sweden - and now faces allegations of playing a role in an attack on the country's taxmen and IT consultancy biz Logica.… |
| Viewsonic 22in Android 'tablet' hands-on review Posted: 11 Sep 2012 08:28 AM PDT Passes the Google test and then someFirst look There was birthday cake aplenty at Viewsonic's 25th anniversary event in London today that also saw the introduction of three new products covering an innovative range of display options.… |
| Who'll save the 100 most endangered species? Microsoft, apparently Posted: 11 Sep 2012 08:06 AM PDT No, not Nokia engineers. Well, not this timeMicrosoft has pledged software and expertise in a battle to save the world's most endangered species - and we don't mean Nokia engineers.… |
| Zombie PC herders issue commands from Tor hideout Posted: 11 Sep 2012 07:42 AM PDT Bury command server deep in the onionSecurity researchers have discovered a botnet that uses the Tor anonymiser network to hide its command nodes.… |
| Google's Nexus 7 tabs 'can't perform' if flash RAM crammed Posted: 11 Sep 2012 07:18 AM PDT Fondling fandroids say slab needs hard resetReports are filtering in that some Google Nexus 7 tablets slow to a crawl once the memory starts filling up, and require a hard reset to bring them back to the admirable speed expected of Google's flagship hardware.… |
| There is life after the death of Microsoft’s Windows 8 Start button Posted: 11 Sep 2012 07:01 AM PDT Keep calm and download these handy toolsComment The disappearance of the Start button in Microsoft's new Windows has proved unsettling for users. "I want Start. Start I say," said an early tester in a post entitled "Worst 60 minutes in my entire life".… |
| Cable offers to shower UK biz in taxpayer gold to stimulate growth Posted: 11 Sep 2012 06:29 AM PDT Govt-backed bank may pump bioscience, tech sectorsBlighty's Business Secretary Vince Cable pulled back the curtains on his new biz investment bank this morning.… |
| Shuttleworth drops one million cluster bucks on Ceph upstart Posted: 11 Sep 2012 06:00 AM PDT Linux moneybags funds Um Bongo's cloudy file systemBillionaire Linux kingpin Mark Shuttleworth has injected $1m into storage startup Inktank to bring the team's distributed file system Ceph to cloud computing.… |
| Google skids car insurance comparison engine onto rivals' lawn Posted: 11 Sep 2012 05:42 AM PDT Now, Brits, tell us everything about your motorsGoogle is now offering to compare car insurance prices for Brits following the company's acquisition of BeatThatQuote.… |
| Backroom music streamer Omnifone palms first profit Posted: 11 Sep 2012 05:24 AM PDT Stuffs wallet with Sony and BlackBerry cashPrivately owned music services pioneer Omnifone boasted its first ever annual profit this morning. The company provides a platform for streaming services including that of Sony (Music Unlimited) and RIM (BBM Music) and operates in 28 markets. Omnifone was founded in 2003 and launched its first service, MusicStation, in 2007. It has notched up several firsts, including the first cloud streaming service and the first licensed scan-and-match service.… |
| Windows 8? Nah: Win Phone 8 should give Apple the fear Posted: 11 Sep 2012 05:01 AM PDT Tiled phone, not PC, could put Redmond on topOpen ... and Shut Windows Phone 8 might spell the beginning of a climb to relevance for a desktop vendor breaking out its latest PC operating system at almost the same time.… |
| Laugh all you want at 'the cloud' - it'll be worth '$100bn by 2016' Posted: 11 Sep 2012 04:44 AM PDT Public-facing services to coin it, predicts IDCSome $100bn will be slurped up by public IT cloud services by 2016, according to the crystal-ball gazers at IDC.… |
| Phone-hack saga: Prison officer cuffed in cop bung probe Posted: 11 Sep 2012 04:26 AM PDT Operation Elveden nets another suspectA 31-year-old prison officer was arrested at his home in Northampton this morning as part of Scotland Yard's investigation into alleged bungs to cops. The probe is related to the Met's ongoing phone-hacking inquiry.… |
| Profs: Massive use of wind turbines WON'T destroy the environment Posted: 11 Sep 2012 04:17 AM PDT Would destroy the economy, thoughWindy professors in the States have produced research in which they say that massive use of wind power would not, as had been thought, damage the planet's atmosphere and cause undesirable climate changes. They also argue that it would be "practical" to obtain half the energy required by the human race using wind turbines.… |
| Everything Everywhere swept away by its own 4G hype tsunami Posted: 11 Sep 2012 04:02 AM PDT EE rises to promise 16 cities next-gen mobe broadbandEverything Everywhere is no more: long live EE and 4G. The mobile operator now gets to watch its children, Orange and T-Mobile, starve to death as they're denied access to the 4G feast.… |
| More 'iPad Mini' tat pics leak ahead of Apple's big unzip Posted: 11 Sep 2012 03:43 AM PDT Rumour mill in overdrive for 7in tabletRumours that Apple will launch an "iPad mini" at its unveiling event tomorrow intensified today after more pictures of cases leaked online and retailers started advertising screen protectors for a 7in slab.… |
| What a card: Brit boffin Alan Turing stars in Monopoly tribute set Posted: 11 Sep 2012 03:14 AM PDT Bletchley Park flogs custom board in honour of code-breakerHe may not have made it onto the £10 banknote, but the face of WWII code-breaking hero Alan Turing now adorns the back of the silly money that's boxed into a new custom Monopoly set.… |
| So many devices, so little policy Posted: 11 Sep 2012 02:45 AM PDT So what are you waiting for?Live event Every one of your users has a computer at home, maybe a laptop, definitely a phone, and likes to log in from someone else's computer from time to time. They're carrying your data around, but often not your security policy.… |
| Acer racks up Xeon E5s, picks fight with US server bad boys Posted: 11 Sep 2012 02:44 AM PDT From little seeds giant |
| Blighty battles Oz for stratospheric supremacy Posted: 11 Sep 2012 02:28 AM PDT Amateur ballooning rivals meet for head-to-head showdownPics The friendly rivalry between Brit and Oz amateur High Altitude Ballooning (HAB) enthusiasts hit new heights over the weekend when the two nations went head-to-head in a stratospheric clash of high-altitude titans.… |
| Array biz Nimble: Quick, lob us $40m before storage giants wallop us Posted: 11 Sep 2012 01:58 AM PDT Hybrid racker needs VC cashHybrid flash and disk drive array start-up Nimble Storage has been given $40.7m in venture capital funding to boost sales, marketing and engineering.… |
| Gov IT bods must shield their budgets from gov's knife – Socitm Posted: 11 Sep 2012 01:42 AM PDT Increased use of council ICT services putting the squeeze on managersA report from the public sector IT directors' group Socitm has identified four ongoing priorities for ICT managers in the wake of continuing austerity.… |
| Want to avoid another cookie law mess? Talk to EU bods next time Posted: 11 Sep 2012 01:19 AM PDT 'Dear ICO, sue us ... We're sick of you and this ridiculous cookie law'UK businesses should actively involve themselves in the debate over changes to EU law if they want to avoid problems stemming from the way those laws are drafted, an expert has advised.… |
| WD to parade flash-disk mutant for Wall St moneybags this week Posted: 11 Sep 2012 01:02 AM PDT Thinner, 'extreme' capacities promisedWestern Digital will face investors on Thursday and tell them what the world's new number-one disk drive supplier is going to do to stay at the top.… |
| Apple's soon-to-be-slurped securo firm shrugs off crypto warning Posted: 11 Sep 2012 12:33 AM PDT Windows passwords exposure confusionAuthenTec, the security firm that's the target of an $356m acquisition by Apple, has denied reports that possible cryptographic weaknesses in its fingerprint scanner software pose a risk to the security of laptops.… |
| Ambitious Alibaba wants to take on Android Posted: 11 Sep 2012 12:30 AM PDT There's only one way to settle this...FIGHT!Not content with dominating the massive Chinese e-commerce market, local hero Alibaba now wants to chase Android into the sea by making its cloud-based Aliyun mobile operating system China's preferred smartphone OS.… |
| Microsoft urges devs to 'lead Windows 8 app land grab' Posted: 11 Sep 2012 12:11 AM PDT Give the people what they want - ASAPMicrosoft has urged developers to "lead the land grab" by developing Windows 8 apps ASAP.… |
| Archos 101 XS 10.1in Android tablet review Posted: 11 Sep 2012 12:00 AM PDT Magnetic keyblet combo, anyone?Archos has built a decent business making budget Android tablets, so I suspect the word 'merde' echoed loudly around the Igny HQ when Google pulled the rug asunder with its low Nexus 7 pricing. Archos hasn't given up though and has now released a new device pitched as a budget alternative to the Asus Transformer Pad.… |
| Samsung accused of sex discrimination in China plant Posted: 10 Sep 2012 10:47 PM PDT Electronics giant's woes continue as CLW turns the knifeSouth Korean electronics behemoth Samsung has been hit by fresh allegations of impropriety at one of its manufacturing plants in China, this time involving purported sexual discrimination in its hiring policy.… |
| Oz court to test AdWords' WHOLE BUSINESS MODEL Posted: 10 Sep 2012 10:05 PM PDT Regulator insists ad placements can misled and deceiveAustralia's High Court, from which no appeal is possible, will this week hear a case in which Google stands accused of intentionally deceiving and misleading consumers by automatically placing ads according to advertisers' requested keywords.… |
| iPad no flight risk says Federal Aviation Authority Posted: 10 Sep 2012 09:28 PM PDT American Airlines allowed to use in-cockpit fondleslabs "in all phases of flight"Being asked to switch off your electronic devices during the takeoff and landing phases of a flight now looks even more anachronistic, after American Airlines announced it has been given permission to let its pilots use iPads in the cockpit "in all phases of flight".… |
| UK's loyalty set for £1.2bn Huawei reward Posted: 10 Sep 2012 08:50 PM PDT There's a good boy...The UK economy is set to get a much needed boost on Tuesday when Chinese telecoms equipment maker Huawei announces an expected £1.2bn investment including hundreds of jobs.… |
| AMD previews Piledriver, Ivy Bridge SeaMicro microservers Posted: 10 Sep 2012 06:56 PM PDT Stretches Freedom interconnect fabric out to storageSeaMicro is not longer an independent company, but you would not have guessed that if you were dropped in from outer space to attend the launch of the new SM15000 microserver in San Francisco on Monday afternoon. Advanced Micro Devices may own SeaMicro, but the company went out of its way to support the latest "Ivy Bridge" Xeon E3-1200 v2 processor from rival Intel as well as its own forthcoming "Piledriver" Opteron processor as new compute nodes in a new SeaMicro chassis.… |
| McAfee: Emma Watson riskiest celebrity search Posted: 10 Sep 2012 05:50 PM PDT Malwaria activissimaIn McAfee's latest survey of the celebrity searches most likely to lead to malware infection, Emma Watson – perhaps best known as Hermione Granger in the Harry Potter films – has taken the top spot, knocking off model Heidi Klum from last year's most-likely-to-infect honors.… |
| Hacker uses Kindle as Raspberry Pi screen Posted: 10 Sep 2012 05:34 PM PDT DIY instructions await the brave or foolishA hacker named Gef has rigged up his Raspberry Pi to use a Kindle e-reader as its monitor.… |
| Firefox support extended to older Android mobiles Posted: 10 Sep 2012 05:22 PM PDT Experimental builds for phones with ARMv6 chipsThe Mozilla Foundation would like to see its Firefox browser running on more mobile phones. But since almost no handsets ship with Firefox pre-installed, that means getting the software onto more of the phones that are already out there – even if they use older hardware.… |
| Intel contextual awareness: 'We know what your wife is up to' Posted: 10 Sep 2012 04:38 PM PDT Knows when its best to call, text, or just leave her aloneIDF 2012 Intel Labs is working on a technology that uses what it calls "contextual awareness" to advise you of the best method to use when contacting others.… |
| Scientists provide a measure of uncertainty Posted: 10 Sep 2012 04:16 PM PDT What would Heisenberg's position be?A group of Canadian PhD researchers claim to have obtained information beyond the "Heisenberg limit" using a technique called "weak measurement".… |
| NZ software giants join patent bill protest Posted: 10 Sep 2012 03:45 PM PDT Petitioning against patent trollsUpdated: govt says "no" New Zealand's largest software exporters, Jade and Orion Healthcare, have lined up with the NZ Open Source Society, InternetNZ, and local industry lobby NZRise to ask the government to revise its proposed patent laws.… |
| E-publisher 'fesses up: 'Apple UDIDs were ours' Posted: 10 Sep 2012 03:14 PM PDT BlueToad clears FBI of device data collectionIt seems both Apple and the FBI were telling the truth: the Apple UDIDs published last week didn't come from either organization, with an American e-publisher posting a statement that the data was stolen from its systems.… |
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