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Feb 4 2012
10:03pm
Tame the gas monster with sensors, suckers and a spiffy new fan
More performance-tuning for your home and office Part 3 I'm pleased to say that what with the relatively warm 2011 and our conservation efforts we had the lowest consumption of electricity and gas at home of any year yet, a bit over 1,500kWh ('units'... more
Feb 4 2012
7:00pm
Eight... HD camera smartphones
Sharp shooters for parties and protests Product round-up You know that really annoying person who is videoing the gig with their camera phone to stick on Facebook when they get home? That's me. These days my TV is HD and my games console is HD, so it... more
Feb 4 2012
12:06pm
Zuckerberg's 2012 personal income tax bill: $1.5 billion
That's 'billion', with a 'b' If all goes according to plan, Facebook founder, chairman, and CEO Mark Zuckerberg's share of the profit in his company's upcoming initial public offering will result in him facing a tax bill of around $1.5bn for 2012.…... more
Feb 4 2012
9:46am
Study links dimwits to conservative ideology
US, UK research: Thick kids more likely to become bigots British and American children who are less intelligent are more likely to grow up to be conservative and/or bigots, according to new research published in Physiological Science.…... more
Feb 4 2012
9:29am
Micron CEO Appleton dies in plane crash
Expert pilot, experimental aircraft Steven Appleton, the long-time CEO at memory chip maker Micron Technology, died this morning in a crash of an experimental plane in the company's hometown of Boise, Idaho. He was 51 years old and one of the younges... more
Feb 4 2012
8:58am
Opinion poll: Anti-regulatory 'hype' unwarranted
Rival small-business boosters, Obama foes disagree One advocacy group has published a survey it says proves that US small-business owners aren't unduly concerned with government regulations. Another group says that the first group's opinion poll is tainted by bogosity.…... more
Feb 4 2012
7:03am
Facebook post-IPO: Free not fee will make Zuck a buck
Dam friction-less sharing and the company is toast Open ... and Shut No sooner did Facebook file its S-1 in preparation for an IPO than speculation kicked into high gear on how Facebook could possibly sustain its $75bn to $100bn valuation. After all,... more
Feb 4 2012
6:11am
European revolt over ACTA treaty gains ground
Poles stall, Slovenian ambassador calls for protests The Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) treaty, signed by most European countries last week, may not be a done deal after all, as governments across the continent face a storm of protest.…... more
Feb 4 2012
6:01am
US adds more jobs than expected in January
Lots of IT workers get pink slips The US economy added 243,000 net new jobs in January and the unemployment rate has ticked down two-tenths of a point, according to statistics released by the Bureau of Labor Statistics.…... more
Feb 4 2012
5:30am
Apple iPhones, iPad back in German online store
Take 'em down, put 'em back – a busy morning for Apple IT A German court has suspended the injunction that required Apple to remove its iPhone 4 and 3Gs, and iPad Wi-Fi + 3G from its online store in that country.…... more
Feb 4 2012
5:28am
Biz urged to blast DNSChanger Trojans before safety net comes down
8 March cutoff following Operation Ghost Click Half of all Fortune 500 companies still contain computers infected with the DNSChanger Trojan, weeks after a FBI-led takedown operations targeting the botnet's command-and-control infrastructure.…... more
Feb 4 2012
5:07am
Dead gamer sat unnoticed for nine hours in net cafe
Stiff competition A Taiwanese gamer sat dead in a chair at an Internet cafe for up to nine hours before fellow players noticed the poor guy had popped his clogs.…... more
Feb 4 2012
5:02am
Mother charged with selling fake Facebook stock
Bogus shares also allegedly given out as Christmas presents A Wisconsin woman has been charged over claims she tried to sell $1m worth of Facebook shares that she didn't own.…... more
Feb 4 2012
4:29am
Steve Jobs sighted in Taiwan flogging Android tablets
Rumours of PlayBook Elvis discounted In the cut-throat tablet market, a Taiwanese company has found one way to make its product stand out: paying an actor to dress up as Steve Jobs and make tasteless jokes about how he's dead.…... more
Feb 4 2012
4:11am
Anonymous hackers leak Scotland Yard-FBI conference call
Were you talking about us? Members of Anonymous have released an intercept of a conference call between investigators at the FBI and Scotland Yard during which operations against hacktivist group were discussed.…... more
Feb 4 2012
4:03am
IBM snatches back SPC-1 benchmark crown
SVC does the business IBM's SAN Volume Controller has done the benchmark business, again, and passed the half million SPC-1 IOPS mark using Storwize V7000 storage.…... more
Feb 4 2012
3:19am
US tweet deportation: Chilling behind-the-scenes photos
The shock truth of what really went down at LAX The story earlier this week on the deportation from the US of A of two Brits who ill-advisedly tweeted they were off to "destroy America" left a few readers pretty shaken up at the way the Department of... more
Feb 4 2012
3:07am
Gun controlled lamp hits the spotlight
Taking the pistol One Taiwanese manufacturer took aim at traditional light switches this week and unveiled a lamp that can be turned on and off with the shot of a gun-shaped remote.…... more
Feb 4 2012
3:04am
Sysadmins: Don't get in your own way
Be prepared to try new and irritating things Sysadmin blog I remember the first time I saw these automated supermarket tills. They intrigued me. Yet I was also afraid of the things. I was afraid that despite all of my knowledge and training I wouldn'... more
Feb 4 2012
2:56am
ARM rains on x86 as smartphones outship PCs
Netbooks cop a hiding Netbooks are so yesterday's technology. Shipments of the small, not-so-cheap computers plunged during 2011 by 25 per cent, figures from market watcher Canalys show.…... more