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Feb 8 2012
8:01pm
Heathrow facial recognition tech stalled by borders fiasco
Airport's scanner rollout to miss Olympics target Heathrow airport may now not get facial recognition technology at all five of its terminals in time for the Olympics as planned, according to the Financial Times.…... more
Feb 8 2012
7:31pm
Move over cybercrims, DDoS now protesters' weapon of choice
Attackers swap rifles for machine guns with laser sights Ideological hacktivism has replaced cybercrime as the main motivatation behind DDoS attacks, according to a study by Arbor Networks.…... more
Feb 8 2012
7:03pm
Apple won't rule out all singing, all dancing iBooks on Kindle
But they must be free. And will need an Android app Apple has come under fire for keeping all products of its new interactive book-making tool within its walled garden. According to a tough End User License Agreement, any iBooks created by the iBooks... more
Feb 8 2012
6:00pm
Ten... Freesat TV receivers
Orbital options for the digital switchover Product round-up Whether you’ve cut the cord and churned away from Sky, or need to survive the digital switch-over without recourse to Pay-TV or aerial, it’s worth considering Freesat. The gratis satelli... more
Feb 8 2012
2:31pm
Australian sports get busy with copyright special pleading
Chewing on the government's ear Australia’s sports administrators, usually busy trying to steal each others’ audiences, have discovered the spirit of cooperation in the face of the Optus TV Now Federal Court decision.…... more
Feb 8 2012
12:30pm
SGI to restructure (again) after fiscal Q2 loss
Blame Europe, Xeon E5 product transitions It is becoming more apparent why supercomputer and server maker Silicon Graphics' former president and CEO Mark Barrenechea decided to exit stage left back in December. While the company was growing gear sale... more
Feb 8 2012
12:15pm
'App Economy' has created 466,000 US jobs
Thanks to Apple, Google, Facebook... Although Apple may be facing mounting criticism for outsourcing its manufacturing beyond US shores, creating 700,000 jobs in China and elsewhere, one tech-industry advocacy group claims that Apple, the Android eco... more
Feb 8 2012
11:51am
Laser boffins blast bits onto hard drive at 200Gb/sec
Superheating drives forego magnetic write heads A team of scientists have published a new way of using heat to store data magnetically, which could increase the speed of hard drives over a hundredfold.…... more
Feb 8 2012
11:03am
Hong Kongers protest over end to all-you-can-eat tariffs
SmarTone on the receiving end of user fury Hong Kong dwellers have staged a mini-protest outside one of the stores of SmarTone against the cellco's response to new rules from the local regulator which will force all network operators to scrap unlimited data tariffs.…... more
Feb 8 2012
10:24am
New Fedora boss pushes for the clouds
Robyn Bergeron takes the reins Red Hat has appointed former Fedora program manager Robyn Bergeron to that distro's next project leader – and she has plans to make the operating system more focused on cloud services.…... more
Feb 8 2012
10:15am
Koala food may power US Defence force
US Navy bigwig boosting biofuel in Queensland visit Koalas might soon face a food shortage if the US Department of Defence pursues its interest in Australian research for the creation of biofuels from local flora.…... more
Feb 8 2012
9:45am
Global digirati head to Sydney
LBI and ZINFI Tech set up shop New South Wales has attracted two more international digital developers to its burgeoning “Silicon Valley” styled digital economy.…... more
Feb 8 2012
9:02am
Will Apple set up shop in Walmart warehouses?
Sets sights on middle America The contrast between Apple's prestige city-centre stores and the Sam's Club warehouse chain – where budget goods are sold straight from the pallet – is sharp. But that's where Apple wants to set up mini stores to sell its gadgets.…... more
Feb 8 2012
8:54am
VMware crafts mega-controller for public clouds
Easier provisioning for service providers, resellers If VMware wants service providers to dump Xen and KVM hypervisors, it has to make the job of using the VMware stack easier than the hodgepodge of usually hand-crafted tools that service providers e... more
Feb 8 2012
8:19am
Spacemen urge NASA to build nuke ship for Mars trip
Nuclear rocket engines rise from the dead Mars has given nuclear spacecraft engines a new lease on life, with nuke ships being named as a top priority – along with electrical propulsion – in a new report that recommends what NASA should focus on in coming years.…... more
Feb 8 2012
8:09am
Stratus ruggedizes VMware clouds
Fault tolerant appliance for vCenter control freak Clouds have a single point of failure, and Stratus Technologies thinks it can make it some dough fixing it.…... more
Feb 8 2012
7:03am
HP readies next-gen servers for launch
Looks like Xeon E5 boxes Server juggernaut Hewlett-Packard is hosting a shindig in Las Vegas next week with the bigwigs in its server unit, and the speculation is that the company will preview its forthcoming ProLiant G8 servers sporting Intel's "San... more
Feb 8 2012
6:33am
Google adds Chrome finish to Android
Ice Cream Sandwich users only, sadly Google has announced a beta version of its increasingly popular Chrome browser for Android users, but only if you’re on the most current build, version 4.0, dubbed Ice Cream Sandwich.…... more
Feb 8 2012
6:29am
NetApp slaps down Lightning with multi-card flash flush
Supports vMotion and DRS NetApp is developing a server flash storage offering that will include beefy NetApp steak and not just EMC Lightning sizzle, according to insiders in the company.…... more
Feb 8 2012
6:01am
Rambus drops $35m for Unity Semiconductor
Cash for CMOX Rambus is spending $35m (£22.13m) in cash to buy Unity Semiconductor and get into the post-NAND memory business.…... more