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27th March 2011 Archive

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  • The Bayeux Tapestry archiving model

    A thousand year archive

    In the town of Bayeux in northern France you can see the world's oldest information archive based on a long ribbon of material, a very early example of what was to become tape media. The 1000-year-old Bayeux Tapestry, actually an embroidery on a fine linen background, depicts a sequence of scenes telling the story of the …

    Storage 27 Mar 07:00

  • MS plans response to HP's webOS ... in 2013

    After Google, Motorola, and even Baidu

    Hewlett-Packard's recent presentation of its plans to place webOS at the heart of a broad cloud strategy highlighted a route that Microsoft, Google and Amazon will also take, in their different ways. Essential to HP's desire to offer an end-to-end cloud platform – giving it control of a vast range of web apps and devices – is …

    Operating Systems 27 Mar 10:00

  • Infernal affairs: NZ govt sites attacked

    Anonymous, or merely anonymous?

    Online hacktivists Anonymous have been accused of bringing down the New Zealand Government's Department of Internal Affairs last week – or perhaps they haven't. The main website has now been restored to service, with some other related sites also affected. The department described the outages as "very unusual" but has yet to …

    Security 27 Mar 21:53

  • Alcatel-Lucent sin-binned in Malaysia

    Banned for one year on bribe karma

    Australia's NBN Co has refused to comment on the woes of its key network provider Alcatel Lucent in Malaysia. The vendor has been banned from bidding on any new telecommunications contracts for a year by Telekom Malaysia and mobile operator Axiata. The exclusion stems from fallout over the Alcatel-Lucent's admission that it …

    Networks 27 Mar 21:58

  • The Weinsteins go geeky

    New gaming division for moviemakers

    Hollywood heavyweights Harvey and Bob Weinstein have spun out a new gaming division which will work with technology partners to develop and publish video games for mobile, social, and console platforms. The freshly launched TWC Games label will create games based on the properties of The Weinstein Company and Dimension Films. …

    Music and Media 27 Mar 21:59

  • Flipboard joins bubble brigade with US$200M valuation

    Revenue? We’ve heard of it

    Flipboard, a nifty app that assembles social media feeds into a nicely-presented iPad magazine, is on the funding hustings and looking to capitalise on the now-emerging tech bubble 2.0. According to Wall Street Journal blogger Kara Swisher, “sources close to” the fundraising effort – which could mean informed sources, wild …

    Financial News 27 Mar 22:41