Henri Nouwen has a highly reviewed book about this painting and the parable behind it. I haven't yet read the book, but it seems to be about moving from being the prodigal son, to being the elder brother, to being the welcoming father.
7 Temmuz 2012 Cumartesi
Rembrandt's painting "The return of the prodigal son"
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You gotta love Rembrandt's painting, "The return of the prodigal son". That's the elder brother peeking around the column in the background.
Henri Nouwen has a highly reviewed book about this painting and the parable behind it. I haven't yet read the book, but it seems to be about moving from being the prodigal son, to being the elder brother, to being the welcoming father.
Henri Nouwen has a highly reviewed book about this painting and the parable behind it. I haven't yet read the book, but it seems to be about moving from being the prodigal son, to being the elder brother, to being the welcoming father.
5 Temmuz 2012 Perşembe
Blackhole exploit kit got upgraded
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- Blackhole exploit kit got upgraded
- Fake "Tax Refund" emails targeting UK citizens
- Firewall management, IPv6 and you
- Fake Red Cross emails link to private PayPal account
- Malicious emails target Uyghur activists, deliver backdoors
- ISACA issues COBIT 5 for Information Security
- Microsoft SQL Server 2012 T-SQL Fundamentals
- Week in review: Investigating Android permissions, a new malware detection method, and a drastic decline in online vulnerabilities
| Blackhole exploit kit got upgraded Posted: 02 Jul 2012 07:34 AM PDT Phoenix and Blackhole are the most popular and widely used exploit kits because their creators are always tinkering with them and pushing out update and improved attack capabilities. Blackhole's au... |
| Fake "Tax Refund" emails targeting UK citizens Posted: 02 Jul 2012 06:50 AM PDT The UK tax season came to an end in April, and notifications about tax returns have begun slowly trickling down to the country's citizens. But unfortunately among those legitimate messages there are a... |
| Firewall management, IPv6 and you Posted: 02 Jul 2012 06:47 AM PDT Created 30 years ago, IPv4 has a 32-bit addressing scheme and can support approximately 4.3 billion devices connected directly to the Internet. Well aware that IPv4 addresses would eventually run out,... |
| Fake Red Cross emails link to private PayPal account Posted: 02 Jul 2012 06:18 AM PDT A rather generic but well-crafted fake American Red Cross email has recently been hitting inboxes around the world and asking recipients for donations: As the offered link can be seen leading to ... |
| Malicious emails target Uyghur activists, deliver backdoors Posted: 02 Jul 2012 04:40 AM PDT Highly targeted emails carrying a backdoor Trojan are currently directed at Uyghur activists, warn Kaspersky Lab and Alien Vault researchers. The former spotted emails obviously targeting Mac users... |
| ISACA issues COBIT 5 for Information Security Posted: 02 Jul 2012 01:03 AM PDT ISACA released COBIT 5 for Information Security, which builds on the COBIT 5 framework to provide practical guidance for those interested in security at all levels of an enterprise. ISACA's COBIT 5 fr... |
| Microsoft SQL Server 2012 T-SQL Fundamentals Posted: 01 Jul 2012 09:30 PM PDT Get started with the fundamentals of Transact-SQL and learn how to write efficient and powerful database queries. With this hands-on guide, you'll gain a solid understanding of T-SQL and good programm... |
| Week in review: Investigating Android permissions, a new malware detection method, and a drastic decline in online vulnerabilities Posted: 01 Jul 2012 09:00 PM PDT Here's an overview of some of last week's most interesting news, interviews, videos and articles: App retrieving contactless credit card details pulled from Google Play The Near Field Communicat... |
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- Chocolate Factory ditches the bits in the bottom of the box
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- Bad generator and bugs take out Amazon cloud
- Intel comes out swinging against $1.3bn European fine
- EU rejects Oracle secondhand software licence grab
- 'That new Google button was our idea', claims lawsuit
- iPhone spontaneously combusts on CCTV
- Twitter: This year so far we have ratted out 948 users to the US govt
- Dying Kodak doesn't have to leave its jewels to Apple, says court
- VMware snatches cloud-furtling biz from the very jaws of Dell
- Tablets to outship laptops in 2016 SHOCK
- Chinese toothpaste biz wants £50k from Apple over 'Snow Leopard'
- Google+ takes on a location element as it pushes deeper into iPhone
- Capita publicity to show only UK staff - some of whom are being let go
- So, that vast IT disaster you may have caused? Come in, sit down
- Analyst fears iPhone 5 power pack to prompt launch postponement
- Brit anti-terror hotline hacker teen pleads guilty
- What is the Nokia Secret Plan if Windows 8 isn't Windows gr8?
- ITC denies Apple an emergency ban on ALL HTC PHONES
- CANNIBAL! Apple's 7.85in iPad will EAT 9.7in iPad sales
- US federal boffins insist that mermaids DON'T exist
- Microsoft takes a $6.2bn bath with aQuantive web ads write-down
- Apple's UK smartphone lead shrinks
- ICANN's overlordship of the internet confirmed again by US gov
- Samsung fails to get Galaxy Tab ban in US lifted pending appeal
- Puny US particle punisher finds strong evidence for God particle
- Google Chrome serves up only emptiness, for many users
- Forget internet fridges and Big Data. Where's my internet fish tank?
- NHS trust spunks £67m on e-patient records, Twitter, Facebook
- ISP CAN cut off pirates with 'three strike' rule, says Irish beak
- Indian navy computers stormed by malware-ridden USBs
- Brummie popstrels crowdsource their visual appearance
- RBS customers still suffering tech issues at Virgin One Account
- Ofcom: PhonepayPlus to regulate PayForIt but not operator billing
- Doctors must be trained to avoid web blab blunders, says group
- 'Young people don't want to become like us', say IT pros
- LG 55LM960V 55in Smart TV
- NEC Australia buys local ICT biz
- China's internet wunderkind in the dock over alleged fraud
- Telstra invests in IPscape
- Microsoft names Zeus ringleaders and notifies FBI
- Microsoft sets the price for a Windows 8 upgrade at $40
- Mozilla's 'Boot to Gecko' morphs into Firefox OS
- Fermilab scientists give their data one last squeeze
| Chocolate Factory ditches the bits in the bottom of the box Posted: 03 Jul 2012 03:21 PM PDT Spring cleaning time againThe sun is setting on another bunch of unloved, forgotten, or obsolete Google servifes in the Chocolate Factory's rolling sweep of stuff that doesn't warrant even minimal support.… |
| Take a look at atom’s shadow Posted: 03 Jul 2012 02:34 PM PDT Griffith University boffins 'see' ytterbiumThis image is special, according to Griffith University: it's the first time anyone's captured the shadow of a single ytterbium atom, at optical wavelengths (images of single atoms are much easier to capture using scanning electron microscopes).… |
| RIM boss denies cratering Canucks are in 'a death spiral' Posted: 03 Jul 2012 01:42 PM PDT If only Apple and Google would get their boots off his throatRIM CEO Thorsten Heins has insisted that the troubled phone maker is not in "a death spiral" and will emerge successfully from its current travails.… |
| Activists unite, declare 'Internet Freedom' Posted: 03 Jul 2012 01:09 PM PDT Cue the endless debateAnticipating the American Independence Day on July 4, a group of organizations and individuals have banded together in support of a manifesto they're calling the Declaration of Internet Freedom.… |
| Bad generator and bugs take out Amazon cloud Posted: 03 Jul 2012 12:52 PM PDT From failover to falloverAmazon Web Services battened down the hatches and called in extra troops ahead of the vicious thunderstorms that ripped through the Ohio valley and across Virginia and Maryland on Friday night.… |
| Intel comes out swinging against $1.3bn European fine Posted: 03 Jul 2012 12:43 PM PDT Derides evidence as 'profoundly inadequate'Intel is petitioning the EU's General Court to overthrow the massive fine imposed upon it by the European Commission back in 2009, saying that the case against it was fatally flawed from the get-go.… |
| EU rejects Oracle secondhand software licence grab Posted: 03 Jul 2012 12:05 PM PDT Oracle internet argument rejectedAn attempt by Oracle to stop the sale of secondhand licences on software downloaded over the internet was rejected today by the community's highest court.… |
| 'That new Google button was our idea', claims lawsuit Posted: 03 Jul 2012 10:04 AM PDT Most people looking at our site were in Mountain ViewGoogle has reportedly been slapped with a lawsuit from a New York-based startup that claimed a video sharing feature added to YouTube and Google+ was similar to the one it pitched to the company in 2011.… |
| iPhone spontaneously combusts on CCTV Posted: 03 Jul 2012 09:36 AM PDT Apple takes the heatWe all know iPhones are hot property - as their owners generally tell you. However, when one blows up in your pocket, you know its probably time to stop bragging.… |
| Twitter: This year so far we have ratted out 948 users to the US govt Posted: 03 Jul 2012 09:18 AM PDT They are so sinister compared to us who know you allThe US government demands more data from Twitter than any other nation, the micro-blogging website has revealed.… |
| Dying Kodak doesn't have to leave its jewels to Apple, says court Posted: 03 Jul 2012 09:03 AM PDT Attempt to clear out grandma's sideboard stymiedFailed camera biz Eastman Kodak says it has been given permission by the bankruptcy court to sell patents that Apple claims it owns.… |
| VMware snatches cloud-furtling biz from the very jaws of Dell Posted: 03 Jul 2012 08:45 AM PDT When you need to flip down that non-standard hypervisorIt looks like Dell was too distracted with its acquisition of Quest Software in the past several months to notice VMware sniffing around one of its key software partners. The server virtualization juggernaut and cloud plumbing wannabe has snapped up DynamicOps, a maker of management software for clouds and virtual desktop infrastructure.… |
| Tablets to outship laptops in 2016 SHOCK Posted: 03 Jul 2012 07:49 AM PDT Ultrabooks encouraging sales - but not enough to beat the 'padsMore tablet market bullishness, this time from research company NPD DisplaySearch. World+Dog will buy more tablets than notebooks from 2016 onwards.… |
| Chinese toothpaste biz wants £50k from Apple over 'Snow Leopard' Posted: 03 Jul 2012 07:48 AM PDT We will xue your bao offApple may have finally settled its long-running IPAD beef with Proview, but the shiny toy maker is heading for yet another trademark showdown with a Chinese firm, this time over the Snow Leopard name.… |
| Google+ takes on a location element as it pushes deeper into iPhone Posted: 03 Jul 2012 07:02 AM PDT Choc Factory keen to keep a tentacle touching the fanboiGoogle has pushed its social network Google Plus deeper into the iPhone and given it a location element, launching the Google + Local app yesterday. Google is wriggling itself into more crevices on the iPhone before the axe falls on Google Maps in September, when Apple will introduce their own maps app in iOS 6.… |
| Capita publicity to show only UK staff - some of whom are being let go Posted: 03 Jul 2012 05:57 AM PDT Indian office won't feature in marketing brochureCapita IT Services is forging ahead with immortalising redundancy-threatened UK staff in a series of publicity photos. But there is one department the company isn't sending a lensman along to: its service desk in India.… |
| So, that vast IT disaster you may have caused? Come in, sit down Posted: 03 Jul 2012 05:00 AM PDT You won't be forced to dig your own graveThe RBS computer fiasco gives me an excuse to write about a sideline I have in interrogating IT professionals who are suspected of doing bad things.… |
| Analyst fears iPhone 5 power pack to prompt launch postponement Posted: 03 Jul 2012 04:46 AM PDT Battery production troubles allegedApple's handset battery supplier is struggling to produce the high volume of units required for an iPhone 5 launch, moles claim. The issue could see the smartphone's debut delayed.… |
| Brit anti-terror hotline hacker teen pleads guilty Posted: 03 Jul 2012 04:27 AM PDT TeaMp0isoN lad also snaffled Blair contact list off GMailA teenage computer crook faces prison after admitting hacking offences, including breaking into former British Prime Minister Tony Blair's electronic address and phone book.… |
| What is the Nokia Secret Plan if Windows 8 isn't Windows gr8? Posted: 03 Jul 2012 03:58 AM PDT So secret, even Elop doesn't know about itNokia's new chairman says the company has an alternative strategy prepared, in case Microsoft's new version of Windows Phone doesn't live up to expectations. Except he won't say what it is.… |
| ITC denies Apple an emergency ban on ALL HTC PHONES Posted: 03 Jul 2012 03:44 AM PDT Just one letter separates ITC and HTC. Coincidence?US regulator the International Trade Commission has denied Apple's attempt to get an emergency ban on all HTC mobes.… |
| CANNIBAL! Apple's 7.85in iPad will EAT 9.7in iPad sales Posted: 03 Jul 2012 03:39 AM PDT But not enough to prevent Cupertino beanfeast, says analystApple's much-rumoured 'iPad Mini' will eat into sales of the larger model, but it's still going to lead to a massive increase in sales of the platform - if Apple releases such a gadget at all.… |
| US federal boffins insist that mermaids DON'T exist Posted: 03 Jul 2012 03:32 AM PDT Aha! They must have something to hide!The US's National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has been obliged to issue a statement clarifying that "no evidence of aquatic humanoids has ever been found", in the face of a tidal wave of citizens calling to demand the truth about mermaids.… |
| Microsoft takes a $6.2bn bath with aQuantive web ads write-down Posted: 03 Jul 2012 03:21 AM PDT Theres no baby in this horribly expensive waterMicrosoft has taken a $6.2bn hit by writing down the value of aQuantive - the mega acquisition Steve Ballmer boasted would transform his company into an online advertising biz.… |
| Apple's UK smartphone lead shrinks Posted: 03 Jul 2012 03:07 AM PDT Samsung marketing cash, iPhone 5 rumours take their tollWhile Apple's iPhone 4S is still the UK's most popular smartphone, accounting for one in five of all those sold last month - sales are slipping.… |
| ICANN's overlordship of the internet confirmed again by US gov Posted: 03 Jul 2012 03:02 AM PDT The king is, erm, still alive. Long live the king!ICANN has had its powers over internet domain names, IP addresses and protocol numbers renewed by the US Department of Commerce.… |
| Samsung fails to get Galaxy Tab ban in US lifted pending appeal Posted: 03 Jul 2012 02:44 AM PDT Fruitsters favourite in fondleslab fisticuffsSamsung has been denied a stay on the preliminary injunction against the Galaxy Tab 10.1 in the US.… |
| Puny US particle punisher finds strong evidence for God particle Posted: 03 Jul 2012 02:30 AM PDT Attempt to mow LHC's grass ahead of Thursday's Big RevealThe US particle collider Tevatron has jumped in just ahead of the Large Hadron Collider's results announcement this week to say that their machine has found the "strongest indication to date" of the God particle.… |
| Google Chrome serves up only emptiness, for many users Posted: 03 Jul 2012 02:13 AM PDT Attempt to show people the true value of the web?The latest version of Google's Chrome web browser is firing duds by serving up blank search results pages.… |
| Forget internet fridges and Big Data. Where's my internet fish tank? Posted: 03 Jul 2012 02:00 AM PDT Trevor means an actual tank with fish, hereSysadmin blog The Cloud is a great new way to store and access data, and Big Data is all about leafing through this stuff so you can figure out how to "target your audience" more accurately, almost always with advertising. These are the buzzwords of the now. Lost in all the hype is why we advertise stuff in the first place: we have something to sell that we believe others wish to buy.… |
| NHS trust spunks £67m on e-patient records, Twitter, Facebook Posted: 03 Jul 2012 01:44 AM PDT Dear @Patient3312 don't forget your enema is today lolWest Hertfordshire Hospitals NHS trust is planning to invest £67m in an information management and technology (IM&T) strategy over the next five years.… |
| ISP CAN cut off pirates with 'three strike' rule, says Irish beak Posted: 03 Jul 2012 01:29 AM PDT Arrgh! Me pipe's been slashed off, ye scurvy law-dogsFour music record companies have won a court order in Ireland overturning a ban placed on an anti-piracy policy operated by the country's largest internet service provider (ISP).… |
| Indian navy computers stormed by malware-ridden USBs Posted: 03 Jul 2012 01:24 AM PDT China suspected of cyber skulduggeryThe Indian navy has been left licking its wounds after suspected Chinese hackers managed to lift classified data from maximum security, non-internet connected PCs via malware hidden on USB drives.… |
| Brummie popstrels crowdsource their visual appearance Posted: 03 Jul 2012 01:14 AM PDT You've heard of designed by committee? Next levelA pop group that doesn't know what it should look like has asked the Hive Mind™ for help.… |
| RBS customers still suffering tech issues at Virgin One Account Posted: 03 Jul 2012 12:39 AM PDT Statement's all wrong, but the balance is right, honestCustomers of the Virgin One Account's online bank service may be shocked to see that they have paid all their bills twice this month. But they shouldn't worry say RBS group - owners of the One Account brand - bank balances are still correct and the transactions are just showing up duplicate on online statements.… |
| Ofcom: PhonepayPlus to regulate PayForIt but not operator billing Posted: 03 Jul 2012 12:19 AM PDT Maybe later when it gets renamed OpCashRakePayments made using the mobile PayForIt platform will henceforth be regulated by PhonepayPlus, but only a little bit, the governing regulator has decided.… |
| Doctors must be trained to avoid web blab blunders, says group Posted: 03 Jul 2012 12:01 AM PDT Put down the smartphone, stethoscope boyA stray tweet could bring the whole medical profession into disrepute, a body that advises doctors on legal and ethical issues has warned.… |
| 'Young people don't want to become like us', say IT pros Posted: 02 Jul 2012 11:30 PM PDT But we're actually straight from the fridge, daddioA third of IT professionals say their jobs appear geeky and boring, according to a study into why tech careers are not particularly popular with da yoof.… |
| LG 55LM960V 55in Smart TV Posted: 02 Jul 2012 11:00 PM PDT Olympic champion?Review The 55-inch LM960V is nothing if not formidable. LG has packed its new flagship LED with every digital doodah it can muster, and at £2,700, has priced it uncharacteristically high. This, the brand is clearly saying, is a telly to challenge the best there is – it's worth paying through the nose for. In some ways, it's right.… |
| NEC Australia buys local ICT biz Posted: 02 Jul 2012 10:15 PM PDT Gets some govt tractionNEC Australia has significantly bolstered up its local ICT presence after completing the acquisition of local IT solutions provider CSG's Technology Solutions business.… |
| China's internet wunderkind in the dock over alleged fraud Posted: 02 Jul 2012 10:00 PM PDT Hacktivist group Anonymous says it exaggerated user numbersChinese internet darling Qihoo 360 Technology has been accused by the research arm of hacktivist group Anonymous of deliberately overstating the volume of traffic to its site in order to attract advertisers, allegations which if true could see it kicked off the New York Stock Exchange.… |
| Telstra invests in IPscape Posted: 02 Jul 2012 09:38 PM PDT Shiff keeps start-ups in businessTelstra's Applications & Ventures GMD Deena Shiff is rolling out the acquisitions, revealing that the carrier has taken a stake in Australian contact centre application start up IPscape.… |
| Microsoft names Zeus ringleaders and notifies FBI Posted: 02 Jul 2012 06:32 PM PDT The Feds can find them in a UK jailMicrosoft has named two individuals who it says are the leaders behind the Zeus botnet and has passed on its dossier on them to the FBI.… |
| Microsoft sets the price for a Windows 8 upgrade at $40 Posted: 02 Jul 2012 05:30 PM PDT Offer extends through January 2013For all those customers who can't wait to enjoy Windows 8's Metro UI, Microsoft has announced pricing and availability of an upgrade package for users of previous versions of Windows.… |
| Mozilla's 'Boot to Gecko' morphs into Firefox OS Posted: 02 Jul 2012 04:07 PM PDT Debut of new mobile OS: Brazil 2013Mozilla has announced details of its forthcoming mobile OS built on web technologies, henceforth to be known as Firefox OS and aimed at the "billions of users" who will soon flood the shallow end of the feature pool.… |
| Fermilab scientists give their data one last squeeze Posted: 02 Jul 2012 04:00 PM PDT Tevatron tantalizes ahead of CERN's big dayJust ahead of this week's scheduled press conference by CERN, at which LHC researchers are due to announce the result of their latest data analysis, Fermilab scientists have put a narrower value on the possible Higgs Boson mass.… |
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- Facebook API bug deletes contact info on users' phones
- SMS Trojan masquerades as Firefox for Android
- Malicious "Windows Live alert" email targets users
- Bootable USB flash drive for secure remote working
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- Half of enterprise networks will be obsolete within five years
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- Security appliance market continues to grow
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| Microsoft names alleged Zeus bot herders Posted: 03 Jul 2012 10:04 AM PDT When Microsoft disrupted two of the most harmful botnets using Zeus malware in March, they also filed a lawsuit at the federal district court in New York against the bot herders who, at the time, were... |
| Facebook API bug deletes contact info on users' phones Posted: 03 Jul 2012 07:59 AM PDT If you thought that Facebook's recent unannounced change of its users' email address tied with their account to Facebook ones was bad, you'll be livid if you check your mobile phone contacts and disco... |
| SMS Trojan masquerades as Firefox for Android Posted: 03 Jul 2012 04:04 AM PDT Android users who have a preference for Russian third-party online Android markets should be on the lookout for a malware posing as the Firefox browser. The developers of this SMS Trojan are obviou... |
| Malicious "Windows Live alert" email targets users Posted: 03 Jul 2012 04:01 AM PDT Windows Live account owners are currently being targeted with an email purportedly coming from the Hotmail Security Team, threatening them with an account suspension due to having exceeded their sendi... |
| Bootable USB flash drive for secure remote working Posted: 03 Jul 2012 02:49 AM PDT Cryptzone released AppGate MOVE (My Own Virtual Environment), a USB flash drive that provides a portable way to access information and applications securely from any computer. As the secure bootable U... |
| Monitoring the quality of SSL support Posted: 03 Jul 2012 02:00 AM PDT Ivan Ristic, Director of Engineering at Qualys, talks about SSL Pulse - a continuous and global dashboard for monitoring the quality of SSL support across the top one million web sites. SSL Pulse i... |
| Half of enterprise networks will be obsolete within five years Posted: 03 Jul 2012 01:07 AM PDT Technology trends such as BYOD, video and virtualization are rapidly consuming network capacity and capabilities, and 45 percent of the enterprise networks assessed during 2011 will be obsolete within... |
| RIPS: Free PHP security scanner Posted: 03 Jul 2012 12:27 AM PDT RIPS finds vulnerabilities in PHP applications using static code analysis. By tokenizing and parsing all source code files RIPS is able to transform PHP source code into a program model and to detect ... |
| Security appliance market continues to grow Posted: 02 Jul 2012 11:15 PM PDT According to IDC, both factory revenue and unit shipments grew in the first quarter of 2012 marking the eighth consecutive quarter of year-over-year growth. Worldwide factory revenue was up 9.7% year ... |
| Samsung samples first 16GB DDR4 modules Posted: 02 Jul 2012 10:18 PM PDT Samsung has begun sampling the industry's first 16GB DDR4, registered dual inline memory modules (RDIMMs), designed for use in enterprise server systems. Using 30nm-class process technology, Sams... |
| Mastering Windows Network Forensics and Investigation Posted: 02 Jul 2012 09:03 PM PDT Internet crime is seemingly ever on the rise, making the need for a comprehensive resource on how to investigate these crimes even more dire. This professional-level book - aimed at law enforceme... |
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- Cisco, Fusion-io's blade lovechild in EMC flash face-off
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- YouView launches with pricey premium DVR
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- Amazon buys 4-person 3D mapping startup, claims report
- Will Android, HTML5 tempt tabloid tablet tyrant Rupert Murdoch?
- Security boffins brew devilish Android rootkit
- Big Data megaslurp 'to save UK.gov £30 BILLION pa', raves thinktank
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- Pretty returns to telco land with Mahindra Satyam
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| Facebook signs on for Malaysia cable Posted: 04 Jul 2012 02:54 PM PDT Putting the social into a new networkFacebook has emerged as an investor in the Asia Pacific Gateway submarine cable project, being built to link eight countries in the region.… |
| Japan Anonymous aims to fight download law by picking up litter Posted: 04 Jul 2012 01:02 PM PDT Japanonymous aligns itself against nuclear power, tooJapan has set up a task force to battle Anonymous and potential cyber-espionage attacks.… |
| Facebook: Our phone app DID seize your email Posted: 04 Jul 2012 10:59 AM PDT Blame the bug... bitchFacebook has admitted its mobile app altered phones' contacts books to use @facebook.com addresses.… |
| Bill Gates: iPad is OK, but what Apple really needs is a SURFACE Posted: 04 Jul 2012 10:02 AM PDT Still has his old knack for brandingBill Gates foresees a future without PCs or tablets - where there are only "Surface-like devices" - he told PBS chat show host Charlie Rose last night.… |
| Ten... alien invasions Posted: 04 Jul 2012 09:28 AM PDT Take me as your leaderSci-fi round-up Earlier this week, alien hunters donned their tinfoil hats for World UFO day and with Yanks celebrating Independence Day today, the topic of extra-terrestrial takeover lingers in the air. The public has even been debating who would be best equipped to tackle an alien invasion.… |
| Euro Parliament kills ACTA treaty before court can look at it Posted: 04 Jul 2012 09:26 AM PDT Intellectual property is theft, says BrusselsAs widely expected, the hapless Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) treaty has been rejected by the European Parliament.… |
| New UK network touts FREE* mobile broadband Posted: 04 Jul 2012 09:01 AM PDT * After you've watched these advertsThe UK's latest mobile operator Samba won't charge punters for its wireless broadband. Instead it will ask customers to watch adverts in exchange for network access.… |
| New gov.uk site hits beta, flashes SINGLE typeface to punters Posted: 04 Jul 2012 08:28 AM PDT Designer: People want to get in, get what they want, get out. QuicklyThe government has released the beta version of its new digital portal – Gov.UK – with a search-focused homepage and a batch of fresh content.… |
| Boffins pull off room-temp quantum computing with home-grown gems Posted: 04 Jul 2012 08:02 AM PDT Diamond test gives hope to luke-warm server strokersOne of the very many reasons there won't be quantum computing any time soon is that the quantum bits (qubits) need to be at absolute zero - not very practical for the average server room, much less the lowly desktop.… |
| HTC bags UK win in patent war with Apple Posted: 04 Jul 2012 06:58 AM PDT No infringement... plus 3 patents lobbed by Cupertino ruled invalidA UK court has decided that not only did HTC not infringe on four patents Apple brought against it, but three of them are invalid.… |
| 41 London tube station platforms now WIRED for Wi-Fi Posted: 04 Jul 2012 06:01 AM PDT HELLO, HELLO. I'm on the UndergroundVirgin Media has now installed Wi-Fi kit in more than 40 London Underground stations as it continues to connect its fibre backhaul network to around half of the capital's tube stations – although the service will only be available at platform-level.… |
| Samsung fails to stall Galaxy Nexus sales ban Posted: 04 Jul 2012 05:27 AM PDT Google pulls mobe from Play store, works on fixSamsung's bad luck in the US courts continues after Judge Lucy Koh refused to delay a ban on its Galaxy Nexus smartphones.… |
| Apple to build freakish headgear with peripheral vision Posted: 04 Jul 2012 05:01 AM PDT Files patent to fill fanbois' fields of vision with shiniesApple has filed a patent – number 8,212,859 – for the treatment of peripheral areas in a head-mounted visual display... iGlasses anyone?… |
| Cisco, Fusion-io's blade lovechild in EMC flash face-off Posted: 04 Jul 2012 04:45 AM PDT Will VBlock partner be forced to line a rival's pockets?Blocks and Files Will VCE ship Vblocks - its virtual machine battery farms - with Fusion-io flash cards inside instead of EMC's VFCache memory rival?… |
| EC competition concerns stall UK's superfast broadband plans Posted: 04 Jul 2012 04:34 AM PDT Scrutiny of BT and Fujitsu deals 'will not delay rollout', insists govCompetition officials in Europe have stalled the UK government's plans to lay superfast fibre optic networks for 90 per cent of homes and businesses in the country by 2015.… |
| YouView launches with pricey premium DVR Posted: 04 Jul 2012 04:22 AM PDT No low-cost option. No unique content. No chance?YouView's long-awaited - no longer eagerly so, perhaps - set-top box will arrive in the shop's of Britain's best-known electrical retailers "by the end of the month", but you'll have to pony up £300 for one.… |
| BBC telly boss George Entwistle nabs director general post Posted: 04 Jul 2012 04:14 AM PDT Ofcom's Ed Richards sent back to his spreadsheetsGeorge Entwistle, a BBC insider since 1989, was today appointed the corporation's new director general and will replace Mark Thompson.… |
| Speaking in Tech: Apple, Oracle and Google SUCK at cloud Posted: 04 Jul 2012 04:03 AM PDT Plus: Does VMware's acquisition of DynamicOps change the game? |
| Google Maps takes shelter from the British summer Posted: 04 Jul 2012 03:47 AM PDT Indoor mapping comes to BlightyGoogle has extended its indoor mapping, launched in America last November, to the UK, providing guidance around any property the owners care to share.… |
| Can you judge a man by his Twitter followers? Posted: 04 Jul 2012 03:32 AM PDT The enemy of my enemy is my Facebook friendSysadmin blog Is following someone on Twitter (or friending them on Facebook) an endorsement of that person? Social networking isn't going away, and increased corporate awareness of it means that systems administrators need to be prepared to answer these sorts of murky questions.… |
| Who runs UK? 'Tories, Lib Dems and Google' says Labour Posted: 04 Jul 2012 03:17 AM PDT Harman: Number 10 can't stand up to web giantLabour's deputy leader Harriet Harman has slammed Google's extraordinary influence over the UK's ruling Conservative-Liberal Democrat coalition government.… |
| US defence biz fined for busting China arms embargo Posted: 04 Jul 2012 03:02 AM PDT No need for cyber-spying - just buy the damn softwareA top US defence contractor has been fined $75m (£47.8m) for flogging software to China that was a vital component in the country's first attack helicopter.… |
| CERN catches a glimpse of Higgs-like boson Posted: 04 Jul 2012 02:44 AM PDT Answer to life, the universe and everything coming soonCERN boffins have finally hit paydirt with the Large Hadron Collider, finding a particle that is pretty much almost certainly the long sought-after Higgs boson.… |
| Micron 'fesses up: Yes, we plan to eat limping DRAMurai warrior Posted: 04 Jul 2012 02:29 AM PDT Signs 'definitive sponsor agreement to acquire and support Elpida'After months of speculation and rumours, Micron's acquisition of Elpida has finally been announced. The firm has now signalled its intention to buy Elpida for 200 billion yen ($2.5bn, £1.6bn).… |
| Tosh handed $87 MILLION fine in LCD price fixing case Posted: 04 Jul 2012 02:13 AM PDT Japanese electronics firm vows to fight verdictJapanese electronics giant Toshiba has come out fighting after becoming the latest big name to be found guilty of a widespread price-fixing racket relating to liquid crystal display (LCD) panels sold in the US.… |
| Mexican election loser and Anonymous say vote was 'fraudulent' Posted: 04 Jul 2012 01:58 AM PDT Nameless chaps say bad things found on server they hackedMexico's defeated leftist presidential candidate has claimed his country's election was "fraudulent", a claim supported by the local chapter of Anonymous.… |
| Amazon buys 4-person 3D mapping startup, claims report Posted: 04 Jul 2012 01:44 AM PDT Accidentally hit 'buy with one click'?Amazon have marked a sharp change in corporate direction by buying up 3D mapping start-up UpNext yesterday for an undisclosed sum.… |
| Will Android, HTML5 tempt tabloid tablet tyrant Rupert Murdoch? Posted: 04 Jul 2012 01:30 AM PDT Wants his balls back from over Apple's garden wallAnalysis Rupert Murdoch has split News International in two, separating publishing (including his British phone-hacking-accused newspapers) from broadcasting and entertainment (everything else).… |
| Security boffins brew devilish Android rootkit Posted: 04 Jul 2012 01:13 AM PDT Experimental vileware turns your mobe into a TRAITORComputer scientists have identified a weakness in the Android mobile operating system that allows users to be tricked into silently installing hidden malware.… |
| Big Data megaslurp 'to save UK.gov £30 BILLION pa', raves thinktank Posted: 04 Jul 2012 12:58 AM PDT Gov should be more like FaceGooglezon! <wipes foam>Politicians should use their own expectations of privacy to judge how far the government should go when digging through databases and marrying up disparate information on individual citizens.… |
| Border Agency comes out with another e-Borders deadline Posted: 04 Jul 2012 12:38 AM PDT Pop it in the diary so you can have a laugh in 2014The UK government has defended its under-fire Border Agency after MPs blasted the e-Borders passenger-scrutinising system as broken and its £9m iris scanners a waste of money.… |
| GPS spoofing countermeasures: Your smartphone already has them Posted: 04 Jul 2012 12:19 AM PDT BAE Systems gets to where Google was in 2007-oddAnalysis There's suddenly a lot of panic about GPS satellite navigation spoofing, and BAE Systems among others would like to sell the military some tech to resist it. But in fact, most modern smartphones already have strong countermeasures against this sort of thing.… |
| Orange San Diego Intel-based Android phone Posted: 04 Jul 2012 12:00 AM PDT First Atom-powered smart talkerReview If you own a smartphone then you are almost certainly using an ARM CPU. That's good for ARM and its licensees but bad for Intel, as it wants a piece of the vast mobile chip market. Cue the San Diego, a retail version of Intel's own Gigabyte-built smartphone reference platform built around a hyper-threading 1.6GHz Z2460 Atom processor.… |
| DDoS blackmailers busted in cross-border swoop Posted: 03 Jul 2012 10:24 PM PDT Cyber hoodlums targeted gold and silver tradersChinese and Hong Kong cops are hailing another success in their cross-border cyber policing efforts with the scalp of a high profile DDoS blackmail gang which targeted gold, silver and securities traders in the former British colony.… |
| Pretty returns to telco land with Mahindra Satyam Posted: 03 Jul 2012 10:21 PM PDT Lands chairman role, set to drive A/Pac expansionIndia's IT outsourcing giant Mahindra Satyam has resurrected former high profile Telstra and Optus executive Ted Pretty, placing him in the chairman's role for its newly fleshed out Australia and New Zealand operations.… |
| Judge: Twitter offers free speech, American style Posted: 03 Jul 2012 06:24 PM PDT Just don't expect privacy, tooA New York judge has ruled that Twitter offers freedom of speech in the grand tradition of American liberty – but that won't help you when the police come knocking to take a peek at your posting history.… |
| Full Tilt Poker boss arrested over $430m 'Ponzi scheme' Posted: 03 Jul 2012 06:06 PM PDT Hands himself in to authorities over missed paymentsThe CEO of Full Tilt Poker has handed himself in to American authorities to face charges of running a Ponzi scheme against its users.… |
| IBM snuggles up BigInsights Hadoop with Cloudera Posted: 03 Jul 2012 03:30 PM PDT Who says Blue elephants can't dance?Like all of the other Hadoop disties, Big Blue is upgrading its big data muncher to the most recent Apache modules and integrating it with its own add-ons. And with its InfoSphere BigInsights Enterprise Edition V1.4, IBM is also doing something else interesting: It is letting customers slide in the Cloudera CDH distribution and slide out its own variant of the core Apache Hadoop stack.… |
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| Researchers develop Android clickjacking rootkit Posted: 04 Jul 2012 07:43 AM PDT A group of researchers from North Carolina State University have managed to create a proof-of-concept rootkit for the Android OS that is able to hijack the clicks made by the phone owners and use them... |
| European Parliament rejects ACTA Posted: 04 Jul 2012 06:34 AM PDT Following recent recommendations by a number of European committees, the infamous Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement has been shot down today by the European Parliament in Strasbourg. With 478 m... |
| Cisco backpedals on forced use of its Connect Cloud Posted: 04 Jul 2012 05:47 AM PDT With a move that angered many of its customers, Cisco has pushed out an automatic firmware update for its EA4500, EA3500 and EA2700 Linksys routers and has effectively forced their owners to sign up t... |
| Citadel crimeware kit to be pulled off the open market Posted: 04 Jul 2012 04:39 AM PDT The developers of the Citadel malware - a banking Trojan that is based on Zeus Trojan's source code and whose creators have adopted a Software-as-a-Service approach when it comes to the modifications ... |
| Security tips to stay safe this summer Posted: 04 Jul 2012 12:18 AM PDT PandaLabs published its security tips for consumers to stay safe this summer and avoid falling victim to computer fraud. During the summer, people (especially children) have more spare time on their h... |
| Utility bill scam steals personal information Posted: 04 Jul 2012 12:17 AM PDT The President of the United States is not going to pay your utility bill. Atmos Energy is warning customers about the latest version of a scam that promises federal stimulus money for utility bills... |
| 8,000+ mobile devices left at top U.S. airports Posted: 03 Jul 2012 10:26 PM PDT Credant Technologies announced the results of their survey of top airports in the United States. In the last year, travelers left behind 8,016 mobile devices at seven of the largest airports in t... |
| Securing apps and avoiding an explosive breach Posted: 03 Jul 2012 10:25 PM PDT Recent research from Veracode shows that 84 percent of web applications from American public companies are at risk of being hacked, despite more stringent compliance requirements set by the SEC. Ve... |
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- Ethiopia: we are not jailing Skype users
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- Tsinghua, NUDT flatten rivals in ISC cluster smackdown
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- War On Standby: Do the figures actually stack up?
- Android Jelly Bean won't get Flash Player
- BMW, Toyota to build fuel cells for sports cars
- Just how do you build the perfect Olympic stadium?
- Dimming the lights on smart(arse) TV
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- Apple patent may foretell an end to iPhone autocorrect Tourette's
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- Vodafone to let you roam in Europe at UK prices
- <i>Reg</i> hack attempts gutsiest expenses claim EVER
- Join the gov consultation on net porn ... and have your identity revealed
- Nexus 7 and Surface: A bonanza for landfill miners
- Teleconferencing 'shifts hundreds of NHS bed-blockers out the door'
- 'Backing out of a failed update really ought to be a trivial matter...'
- PS3 fans buy more digital content than Xbox buffs do
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| Texan team paints batteries onto beer steins Posted: 29 Jun 2012 02:55 PM PDT Flexible future power storage in the offingResearchers in Texas have discovered a way to break down the components of a battery into liquid form and paint power cells onto everyday objects.… |
| Apple hardware fixer Bob Mansfield retires from Cupertino Posted: 29 Jun 2012 12:58 PM PDT Walks away from fortune in share optionsBob Mansfield, Apple's senior vice president of hardware engineering, has announced his retirement from the company after 13 years in situ, and it seems he's also walking away from ten of millions in unclaimed share options.… |
| Mac-based Trojan targets Uyghur activists Posted: 29 Jun 2012 09:27 AM PDT Human rights attacked onlineSecurity researchers have intercepted a Mac-based Trojan attack targeting Uyghur human rights activists.… |
| Two weeks 'til the internet disappears, for 58 Fortune 500 companies Posted: 29 Jun 2012 08:52 AM PDT Stand by for 4 per cent of the US gov to go dark, tooEven though the DNSChanger safety net deadline expires in just two weeks, 12 per cent of Fortune 500 firms still have at least one infected machine on their network, according to a new survey.… |
| Jaw-jaw no more-more as calls fall down tally of phone tasks Posted: 29 Jun 2012 08:48 AM PDT Talk to people on it? Don't make me laughYou think phones are for making calls? No longer, if a poll conducted by O2 is anything to go by. Talking to people is not even in the top three activities folk spend most time doing on their handsets.… |
| Capita ITS asks to-be-axed staffers to pose for marketing pic Posted: 29 Jun 2012 08:41 AM PDT Want to present realistic image of companyCapita IT Services staff waiting to hear if they have a future at the integrator-cum-reseller have been invited to attend a photo shoot to be used in marketing material.… |
| Gov IT buying body: Mega hardware gig to save £6.5m in 2013 Posted: 29 Jun 2012 08:37 AM PDT Margins driven to the bone, claims GPSThe forthcoming mega IT Hardware & Services public sector framework is expected to yield savings of £6.5m this year, according to Government Procurement Services (GPS).… |
| IBM chiefs order pay freeze at US services tentacle Posted: 29 Jun 2012 08:29 AM PDT Big Blue shivers - rumours that even bosses will be hitUpdate The employees at the Global Technology Services unit of Big Blue got some unwelcome but probably not unexpected news that there would not be a broad-based salary increase at the unit this year. There are also reports that IBM has frozen salaries of higher-level executives across the company, which the company has not confirmed.… |
| Behold: Today marks Year Five of the iPhone Era Posted: 29 Jun 2012 08:00 AM PDT Fire. The Wheel. Steam engines. Just trinketsApple has been credited with the first smartphone, with creating the mobile application business and pioneering touch interfacing. None of these things are true: but actually the launch of the iPhone, five years ago, was a much bigger revolution than that.… |
| Stratfor settles class-action over Anon megahack with freebies Posted: 29 Jun 2012 07:31 AM PDT You want fries with that bucket-o-geopolitical-intel?Stratfor has agreed to forgo $1.75m in income to settle a class action lawsuit arising from a high-profile hack by hacktivist group Anonymous against the global intelligence firm's systems last December.… |
| Mad fan-fitted mouse keeps mitts moisture-free Posted: 29 Jun 2012 07:23 AM PDT Play for hours, no sweatSuffer from excessively sweaty palms when you're gaming on your PC? Accessory maker Thermaltake has a - rather bizarre, IMHO - answer: a mouse with its own tiny clip-on fan.… |
| Berkshire bigboy 2e2 in the pink - apart from crushing debt burden Posted: 29 Jun 2012 07:14 AM PDT Amphibious workforce gets its feet wetIntegrator 2e2 recorded steep losses in calendar 2011 caused by crippling interest repayments, discontinued operations and restructuring costs, but despite all this, healthy progress was made in the underlying operations.… |
| Ethiopia: we are not jailing Skype users Posted: 29 Jun 2012 07:02 AM PDT Western media 'mistaken'The Ethiopian government has refuted reports that anyone caught using Skype in the country will go to jail. It insists the claims publicised by western media are completely groundless.… |
| HPC cloud belches from top UK universities Posted: 29 Jun 2012 07:02 AM PDT Rent yourself a rack at the (tera)FLOPhouseAt last, one can rent tens of thousands of cores-worth of HPC teraFLOPS on demand from an HPC cloud.… |
| Apple's Mountain Lion to offer automatic security updates Posted: 29 Jun 2012 06:27 AM PDT Crikey - now there's a thoughtApple is building in automatic update checking into the next version of Mac OS X – Mountain Lion.… |
| Do you work in IT at RBS? Or at the next place to get hit ...? Posted: 29 Jun 2012 06:15 AM PDT Here's a handy guide to riding out the stormThose nice people at RBS have provided me with a worked example for how you can best get through fan-hitting situations without having to take up minicab driving or going to work in local government.… |
| Gouged by cloud - but it's <i>so</i> convenient Posted: 29 Jun 2012 06:00 AM PDT Last to know, first to payOpen ... and Shut Most everyone believes that cloud computing is taking off in a big way. Finding agreement on why it's booming is a bit more problematic. The issue becomes particularly nettlesome for private cloud adoption, which is either heavily driven by public cloud cost management... or the exact opposite, depending on whom you ask.… |
| Chrome hits iPhone and iPad, storms to top of download chart Posted: 29 Jun 2012 05:43 AM PDT Google slips new tentacle into fanbois' walled gardenGoogle's new Chrome browser for iOS has stormed the iTunes download charts - hitting the top spot for free apps worldwide. Announced at a dev meeting yesterday, the mobile browser was quietly released in Apple's App Store on 26 June.… |
| Tsinghua, NUDT flatten rivals in ISC cluster smackdown Posted: 29 Jun 2012 05:29 AM PDT Teraflop barrier busted across the boardISC 2012 The 2012 ISC Student Cluster Challenge ended last week, and it's high time we take a look at the winners, the awards and some of the results.… |
| Ultrabook demand soars Stateside Posted: 29 Jun 2012 05:08 AM PDT But they're still a tiny percentage of the marketThat Ultrabooks have grabbed almost 11 per cent of the $700-and-up Windows notebook market in the US during the first five months of the year sounds impressive, until you realise how small that market segment is.… |
| War On Standby: Do the figures actually stack up? Posted: 29 Jun 2012 05:00 AM PDT Will you stop turning the TV off at the wallAnalysis The War On Standby rumbles on: this week, courtesy of the UK government and "third sector" quangocracy, we heard yet again that gadgets left on standby suck vast, planet-wrecking, expensive amounts of energy from our electricity sockets.… |
| Android Jelly Bean won't get Flash Player Posted: 29 Jun 2012 04:38 AM PDT Never mind, there's lots of HTML5 |
| BMW, Toyota to build fuel cells for sports cars Posted: 29 Jun 2012 04:19 AM PDT Next-gen e-car tech partnership struckBMW and Toyota are to work together on the development of fuel cell and electric powertrains, the two automotive giants said today.… |
| Just how do you build the perfect Olympic stadium? Posted: 29 Jun 2012 04:15 AM PDT What have the Romans ever done for us....London Olympics On 27 July, London will be transformed as the biggest celebration of sports in the world kicks off in the newly built Olympic Stadium in Stratford.… |
| Dimming the lights on smart(arse) TV Posted: 29 Jun 2012 04:00 AM PDT When consumer devices go bzzztSomething for the weekend, Sir? "The TV has stopped working."… |
| Governments probe domain land-snatch: many.gTLDs.suck Posted: 29 Jun 2012 03:48 AM PDT Patagonia? You mean that's a place?Governments have started to put ICANN's massive top-level domain name expansion under scrutiny, after the revelation of 1,930 applications for new naming suffixes two weeks ago.… |
| Apple patent may foretell an end to iPhone autocorrect Tourette's Posted: 29 Jun 2012 03:31 AM PDT Intriguing new special asshole filingAn Apple patent application just published by the US Patent Office shows that the masterminds of Cupertino have figured out (or hope to figure out) a cunning way to work out what words you're going to tap into your little Jesus mobe before you type it.… |
| Open-source password keeper to get 'minor' weekend security fix Posted: 29 Jun 2012 03:14 AM PDT You'd need to make several dumbass moves to get bittenThe developer of KeePass, the popular open-source password management utility, has promised an update this weekend following the discovery of a "minor" security bug in the tool.… |
| B&O Beoplay A3 Posted: 29 Jun 2012 03:00 AM PDT iPad entertainment centreAccessory of the Week Stick an iPad in B&O's Beoplay A3, take a step or two back and look at it square on. It looks like a mini B&O TV. Put it down on a kitchen worktop or office shelf and you have a video player or jukebox capable of producing rich, full-bodied audio which does iPad far more justice than its own tiny speaker.… |
| First lady taikonaut and pals plunge into the dirt after space mating Posted: 29 Jun 2012 02:43 AM PDT Smack down after withdrawing from Heavenly PalaceThe three taikonauts aboard Shenzhou-9 have returned safely to Earth, touching down in northern China's Inner Mongolia autonomous region as planned.… |
| Vodafone to let you roam in Europe at UK prices Posted: 29 Jun 2012 02:41 AM PDT Plus, of course, a small daily considerationNew European Commission-imposed EU mobile data roaming price regulations kick in on Sunday, and Vodafone has announced a modification of its European roaming package.… |
| <i>Reg</i> hack attempts gutsiest expenses claim EVER Posted: 29 Jun 2012 02:28 AM PDT Napkin hieroglyphs leave top beancounter ROFLing in tearsWe're certain that plenty of Reg readers have at one time or another been given short shrift by the company finance department for presenting a dodgy receipt as part of an expenses claim.… |
| Join the gov consultation on net porn ... and have your identity revealed Posted: 29 Jun 2012 02:14 AM PDT Tick 'confidential' if you like: it means simply nothingA parental internet controls consultation document released by the Department for Education yesterday is currently exposing the email addresses, unencrypted passwords and sensitive answers of members of the public who fill in the associated form.… |
| Nexus 7 and Surface: A bonanza for landfill miners Posted: 29 Jun 2012 01:56 AM PDT The fish aren't going to get on the bicyclesComment It would be charitable (that is, untrue) to call the consumer electronics strategies of Microsoft and Google coherent today. But what they lack in coherence they make up for in er, … sheer recklessness. That's OK, then.… |
| Teleconferencing 'shifts hundreds of NHS bed-blockers out the door' Posted: 29 Jun 2012 01:47 AM PDT Virtual meeting re-ablement triumph saves £150mThe Whittington hospital NHS trust is speeding its discharge rates and saving about £150,000 a year by using teleconferencing, according to Jar O'Brien, team leader for Islington's community rehabilitation services.… |
| 'Backing out of a failed update really ought to be a trivial matter...' Posted: 29 Jun 2012 01:30 AM PDT Plus: 'I'm not panicking AT ALL about Surface. No'QuotW This was the week when there was an almighty tech disaster at RBS and Natwest that froze millions out of their bank accounts. Stories abounded of houses lost because sales hadn't gone through, people stuck in prison because their bail hadn't been paid and legions of folks just plain old p***ed off because they couldn't put their hands on their own money.… |
| PS3 fans buy more digital content than Xbox buffs do Posted: 29 Jun 2012 01:22 AM PDT Sony supporters splash outBritish PS3 owners are more willing to splash the cash on digital content than their Xbox 360 counterparts, it has been claimed.… |
| UK spectrum row: What we need is more national disasters Posted: 29 Jun 2012 01:14 AM PDT Only that way will there be proper emergency commsFuture of Wireless The problem with UK radio spectrum policy, apparently, is that we have too much competition and not enough proper disasters, which means our emergency services won't get enough radio spectrum until people start dying.… |
| The Open Rights Group gets rights wrong again Posted: 29 Jun 2012 01:00 AM PDT Defender of parody is becoming a self-parodyOpinion When Open Rights Group executive director Jim Killock opens his mouth, his foot soon disappears inside. The UK's leading digital rights advocate has just demonstrated still more difficulty understanding the "rights" the group campaigns about.… |
| DataCore orchestra tunes up for the Ninth SANsymphony Posted: 29 Jun 2012 12:38 AM PDT Thats SANsymphony, not sans symphonyDataCore has pushed out its ninth SANsymphony release, which is orchestrated for the cloud, large data centre deployments, and storage-as-a-service.… |
| Free tool inspects all your personal 'ware automatically Posted: 29 Jun 2012 12:17 AM PDT Can't tell your wife you're doing updates any moreSecunia has taken the wraps off a new version of its consumer patch management tool, Secunia Personal Software Inspector (PSI) version 3.0.… |
| Lego Batman 2: DC Super Heroes Posted: 29 Jun 2012 12:00 AM PDT Gotham brickyReview The only Batman I have ever cared about is the cynical desperate anti-hero of Frank Miller's The Dark Night Returns but Lego Batman 2: DC Super Heroes may have just changed my mind.… |
| Pigment powered gadgets Posted: 28 Jun 2012 08:32 PM PDT Queensland Uni trailblazers in melanin infused electronicsThe natural pigment, melanin, which endows humans and animals eye, skin and hair colour is set to be the driving force behind a new generation of bio-powered gadgets.… |
| RIM delays BlackBerry 10 launch, bins 5000 bods Posted: 28 Jun 2012 04:59 PM PDT What's that smell? Yes, it's deathRIM has reported disastrous quarterly results and is delaying the launch of the new BlackBerry 10 operating system until next year. The company will also shed 5,000 staff.… |
| Nextgen connects data centres for cloud boom Posted: 28 Jun 2012 03:55 PM PDT Australia loves big, fat dataThe rise of cloud based services and data centre proliferation has prompted Nextgen Networks to launch a premium grade transmission service connecting nominated data centres in mainland capital cities.… |
| Ex-NASA group plans private, crowd-funded asteroid hunter Posted: 28 Jun 2012 03:34 PM PDT Sentinel sparks space hypegasmA group of former astronauts, astronomers, engineers, and the ubiquitous Tim O'Reilly (presumably for the publishing rights) are getting together to try and punt a privately-funded space telescope to scan for dangerous asteroids.… |
| Dixons and Best Buy start selling Google Chromebooks Posted: 28 Jun 2012 03:13 PM PDT Whether people will buy them is another issueGoogle I/O Google is trying to get its Chromebook into the mainstream and is starting to push it in retail stores, signing up Best Buy in the US and Dixons in the UK to distribute the ChromeOS systems.… |
| Google downshifts App Engine to infrastructure cloud Posted: 28 Jun 2012 03:11 PM PDT Half the cost of the competitionGoogle I/O Microsoft just downshifted its Azure platform cloud so it could support raw virtual machines and any old applications companies want to cram into them, and now Google has followed suit with Compute Engine.… |
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