20th February 2011 Archive

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UK set top maker set to gain from Latin America pay TV surge

Keeping up the Pace

Last year in Latin America pay TV growth overtook virtual the entire world, with the revenues from Pay TV in Latin America growing at about $1 billion a month, while the region added some 6.7 million new homes. And funnily enough it is a UK set top vendor, Pace, the number one in the world, which is best positioned to make hay …

Telecoms 20 Feb 2011, 08:00
Oracle looks for love at Java DevJam

FOSDEM 2011 Draft of OpenJDK bylaws draws mocking laughter ...

The Java* track at FOSDEM 2011 started off on the right foot by dealing with the state of the OpenJDK head on – both politically and technically – with a talk from Oracle's Mark Reinhold. There were quite a few speakers at Java DevJam and lots of Java tech over the two days, but this talk was needed to start to clear the air, …

Developer 20 Feb 2011, 10:00
Yahoo! exec drain continues

But Yahoo!7 still growing

The Seven Network and Yahoo!’s online-TV-brand-hybrid, Yahoo!7, has revealed that revenue for the 2010 calendar year grew 37.7 per cent to $A91.5m. Online ad demand has helped drive net profits to $A22m. Industry speculation suggests that the company is beefing up its executive team and is currently on the hunt for a chief …

Business 20 Feb 2011, 20:50
NBN will turn retail borderless, says Conroy

In case that hadn’t already happened

Communications Minister Stephen Conroy has urged Australian retailers to “get over” their online retailing issues, and embrace the government’s NBN (National Broadband Network) as their next great opportunity or risk Australia losing its international competitiveness in the global economy. His transformation from network …

Networks 20 Feb 2011, 20:51
Broadband guarantee helped, but did it help the right people?

Auditor slaps department

Up to $A1.4m in government subsidies under the contentious Australian Broadband Guarantee Program were misdirected into the wrong hands, according to a report from the Australian National Audit Office (ANAO). The ABG has been running since 2007 by the Department of Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy, ostensibly …

Networks 20 Feb 2011, 20:52
Swiss boffins go nuts for Cray supers

Cuckoo clocks, chocolate, and XMT-2 ops

Supercomputer maker Cray hasn't even finished building the next-generation of is massively multithreaded XMT supercomputer, and the Swiss National Supercomputing Centre (CSCS) in Manno, Switzerland already knows it wants one. The XMT-2 machine, as it is known outside of Cray at the moment, is expected to be launched sometime …

HPC 20 Feb 2011, 21:32
Intel sends 'Poulson' Itaniums to the shrink

ISSCC 'Designed with the future in mind'

Everyone else might have pretty much abandoned the Itanium processor, but Intel and Hewlett-Packard – who co-designed the 64-bit processor – remain firmly committed. That's mainly because HP has a captive audience of HP-UX, NonStop, and OpenVMS customers that spend billions of dollars a year on systems and therefore make it …

Servers 20 Feb 2011, 21:38
HBGary 'puppets' FAIL to convince

Leaked doc outlines dumb rep management strategy

It looks like we should all learn Homer Simpson’s sock-puppet phobia. If this blog post is accurate, then corporates aren’t just briefing social media teams to “manage” their reputation on services like Twitter. They’re creating armies of software-driven sock-puppets to gang up on bloggers and commenters to swamp negative …

Music and Media 20 Feb 2011, 21:51
Windsor slaps News for NBN 'scare campaign'

Country Oz luvz its fast Internetz

Federal independent MP Tony Windsor has delivered a serve to NewsCorp for what he’s labelled a “scare campaign” against the National Broadband Network (NBN). Speaking to rural newspaper The Land, Windsor said the Murdoch media giant “has to be reminded from time to time that they are not the government”. Last week, visiting …

Telecoms 20 Feb 2011, 22:50
Cobol cabal will take over ~~THE WORLD~~ Australia

Old skool is cool, Cobol h8ers

The old advice was “Go west, young man”... but it seems the new one should be “Learn Cobol, youngster”. That at least is the implication of a report from Australia on the languages and environments that are heavily used. The Sydney-based Object Consulting has released a paper detailing those languages which will no longer be …

Channel Register 20 Feb 2011, 23:00