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  • The secret is in the planning when you migrate to the cloud

    A moving experience

    So you have decided that private cloud is the way to go. You have calculated the capacity requirements, done the architectural design, decided whether any equipment and software can be repurposed. You have ordered and received the additional kit, built the racks and organised the air conditioning, screwed in the servers, …

    Cloud Business 20 Jun 00:00

  • Mellanox FDR InfiniBand pushes PCI-Express 3.0 to the limits

    ISC 2012 10GE, 40GE can't keep up with IB

    If you want to try to choke a PCI-Express 3.0 peripheral slot, you have to bring a fire hose. And that is precisely what InfiniBand and Ethernet switch and adapter card maker Mellanox Technology has done with a new Connect-IB server adapter. Mellanox was on hand at the International Super Computing event in Hamburg, Germany …

    HPC 20 Jun 00:25

  • Australia sanguine on Assange-to-Ecuador, would fight US extradition

    Reasons for Ecuadorian escapade emerge

    Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard says Julian Assange’s decision to seek political asylum in Ecuador is a matter for Assange and not something Australia needs to comment on. “Mr Assange’s choices are a matter for Mr Assange,” Gillard told a press conference at the G20 meeting in Mexico. “His decisions are for him to make …

    Law 20 Jun 00:41

  • Australian 4G spectrum sale to kick off in April 2013

    700MHz and 2.5 GHz up for grabs

    Australia will reap its Digital Dividend in April 2013, after Minister for Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy, Senator Stephen Conroy, that month as the time when a spectrum auction will be conducted. "The date has been decided on the expert advice of the Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA)," …

    Wireless 20 Jun 02:08

  • Phishing up, malware down, says Google

    Big scary security numbers revealed, fresh from Chocolate Factory

    Google has revealed a new analysis of five years’ worth of data gathered by its Safe Browsing service. The analysis, as any discussion of online security seems obliged to, includes lots of Scary Big NumbersTM, such as the 9500 malware-infected sites the Chocolate Factory says it finds every day or the 12-14 million warnings it …

    Security 20 Jun 02:46

  • Post-quake Japan warms to foreign tie-ups

    BT sees huge opportunities in land of the rising sun

    The massive earthquake and tsunami which struck north-east Japan in 2011 has had an unintended impact on corporate strategy which could give foreign tech firms unprecedented opportunities to grow their business in the country, according to BT. Haruno Yoshida, president of BT Japan, told The Reg at the firm's Asia Pacific …

    Business 20 Jun 03:45

  • Hongers and Singers top for tablets

    Asian cities show peerless penetration

    Tech-mad Hong Kong and Singapore have the highest percentage of tablet and smartphone users in the world, according to a sweeping new global study from telcoms equipment vendor Ericsson. The Swedish firm interviewed 47,500 internet users aged between 16 and 60 in 58 countries in the first quarter of the year, Chinese news …

    Telecoms 20 Jun 05:07

  • Sony Xperia P mid-range Android

    Review Smart enough for the money?

    Little brother to the Xperia S, the Xperia P is the second Sony Ericsson handset to arrive in the UK. The company's flagship S model prompted a slightly lukewarm response when launched but the Xperia S sets its sights lower as a mid-range handset on a par with the Samsung Galaxy S Advance and HTC One V. Middleweight fighter: …

    reghardware 20 Jun 06:00

  • Japanese boffins plumb darknet for cyber attack alerts

    DAEDALUS system monitors unused IP addresses

    Japanese boffins at the National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT) have been showing off a new real-time alert system designed to help security teams spot and visualise cyber attacks more effectively. The DAEDALUS (Direct Alert Environment for Darknet And Livenet Unified Security) system has been in …

    Security 20 Jun 06:11

  • When buying an air ticket on your mobe - what makes you give up?

    If you were Chinese, you would know

    Thirty-four per cent of Chinese flyers have booked a ticket on a mobile phone in the last year, compared to 6 per cent globally, but that's ramping up as customers expect to manage all their transactions on the move. WorldPay, which spends most of its time processing electronic payments of all kinds, has been talking to …

    Cloud Business 20 Jun 06:29

  • EU boffins ponder robot copters that carry people but no pilots

    The problem's not flying cars, it's flying drivers

    Automation is supposed to make life easier: allowing us to loll around eating doughnuts while the machine does its thing. But when the machine stops working, humans have to throw their half-eaten baked goods to one side and deal with the screw-up. And while that's one thing on a factory production line, it's another when you're …

    Science 20 Jun 07:00

  • SolidFire gets out all-Flash carton of thin provisions

    No need to boil an ocean to make a Cloud any more

    All-flash array startup Solidfire has doubled the capacity of its array but left performance untouched. Last November the company introduced its SF3010, a 3TB array using ten 300GB Intel 320 SSDs. It uses deduplication, compression and thin provisioning, scaling from five to 100 nodes and with an effective capacity range of 60 …

    Channel Register 20 Jun 07:19

  • You want the Cloud? You can't have proper copyright, then

    And you so do want the Cloud. Apparently

    UK law makers and the judiciary should take note of new research that has claimed that a narrow reading of copyright law exceptions can result in an erosion of investment in new technologies, an expert has said. Harvard Business School Professor Josh Lerner has published a new report (32-page/300KB PDF) that claims that …

    Cloud Business 20 Jun 07:39

  • Serco ate our IT supplier: Now what? – London boroughs

    Council peeps get second set of corporate badges

    IT services relationships at the London tri-borough group of Westminster, Hammersmith and Fulham and Kensington and Chelsea are likely to become more complex following the acquisition of Westminster's IT supplier Vertex by Serco. Serco said the acquisition last week, for £55m, brings it additional skills and capabilities to …

    Government 20 Jun 07:58

  • Sun dying on its arse behind the Oracle walls

    Analysis Lipsticked schweinhund looking poorly

    Playing with the annual revenue numbers Oracle has just released indicates Sun HW-related revenues fell by $1.4 billion from 2011 to 2012. We'd better explain our reasoning. Oracle hardware products and support revenues were $6.944 billion in its fiscal 2011. They were $6.302 billion in fiscal 2012, a fall of $642 million. …

    Servers 20 Jun 08:14

  • Daisy Group plans to keep buying up biz, despite hole in purse

    Made big losses for third consecutive year

    Acquisition-hungry business comms provider Daisy Group plans to continue hoovering up firms despite posting significant operating losses for the third consecutive year. Sales for the 12 months ended 31 March 2012 were up 31 per cent to £348.6m, including a chunk of revenues from the businesses it acquired over the past year: …

    Channel Register 20 Jun 08:21

  • EMC confesses burning Lustre lust

    Offers all comers plenty of five-nine action

    ISC 2012 no-show EMC launched a high-performance computing version of its generic mid-range VNX array today. The VNX HPC Appliance series is a pre-configured hardware and software appliance and marks EMC's first real thrust into the HPC market. This followed a claim in November last year when it announced a performance density …

    Storage 20 Jun 08:45

  • Does the existence of Facebook really merit a rewrite of data law?

    Comment EU digital enlightenment types mesmerised by Zuck

    The British government is keen for more public data and private transactions with taxpayers to be pushed online at precisely the same time as the Home Secretary demands more powers for security services to effectively snoop on communications traffic with the help of telcos and social networks. Add to that the fact that spooks …

    Law 20 Jun 08:58

  • Holographic storage: We're going to do it this time. No, really

    'Hey, it's no slower than watching a vid on CNN'

    Holo-disc start-up hVault, which slurped the blueprints for InPhase Technologies' holographic storage technology, has vowed to breathe life into the technology, with product promised for next year. Of course, we've already passed the spring of 2012, when hVault originally said it would be shipping the kit. We hear noises from …

    Infrastructure 20 Jun 09:14

  • Vendors have second stab at smart TV standard

    Set to die screening?

    Major TV manufacturers are making another stab at persuading their competitors to jointly develop and support a standard platform for smart TV apps. LG and TP Vision today announced the formation of the Smart TV Alliance, a re-branded version of the partnership announced by LG, Philips and Sharp back in September 2011 at the …

    reghardware 20 Jun 09:37

  • CIOs should fear the IP police ... have your get-out-of-jail files ready

    Opinion Let's hope nobody wins this, it's disaster either way

    The powers that be in the copyright world continually push for ever-stricter copyright with longer terms. They seek to externalise the cost of enforcement onto society at large. Society at large, on the other hand, wants easier, quicker access to content with fewer restrictions. Regular businesses can easily be caught in the …

    CIO 20 Jun 09:41

  • Reloaded Doom 3 shoots onto shelves this autumn

    Big F**kin' Game?

    iD Software's Doom 3 is to be rereleased as an "enhanced version" this autumn, bringing the classic first-person shooter to PS3 "for the first time", and once again to the Xbox 360 and PC. Dubbed the Doom 3 BFG Edition, the game comes bundled with two previously released expansion packs, Resurrection of Evil and The Lost …

    reghardware 20 Jun 09:45

  • Brit telco flagship BT joins blockade of Pirate Bay

    ISP battle squadrons unlikely to end raiding, however

    BT has glued shut conventional access to The Pirate Bay in the UK, which means all the major ISPs in Blighty have now complied with a High Court judge's order to block thepiratebay.se from their networks. Virgin Media was the first to comply with the order and O2-owner Telefonica, TalkTalk, Everything Everywhere and BSkyB all …

    Cloud Business 20 Jun 09:57

  • Ex-Soviet space gunboats to be FOUND ON MOON

    Just £150m to join 2015 lunar invasion in 1970s ship

    Isle of Man based space tourism firm Excalibur Almaz has said that it will be ready to rocket the rich to the Moon by 2015. The company told a space tourism conference that it was planning the first test flight of its fleet of second-hand ex Soviet capsules and space stations in 2014 and would be ready to send a well-off …

    Space 20 Jun 10:22

  • 'Unbreakable' Samsung Galaxy Note II to take on iPhone 5

    Harder, better, faster, stronger

    Samsung will launch a Galaxy Note successor with an "unbreakable" screen this autumn. The Korean giant is said to be readying its Galaxy Note II for a release this October in a bid to directly compete with Apple's next big smartphone offering, local site MK Business News reports. According to industry sources, the Note II …

    reghardware 20 Jun 10:34

  • ASA: Rooney tweet was advert, not written expression of his thoughts

    Obviously nobody thought it could be, argues Nike

    Nike UK has been slapped for slipping a marketing tweet into Wayne Rooney's Twitter account without clearly marking it as an advert. In the ruling today, The Advertising Standards Agency banned Nike from doing it again. Followers of Wayne Rooney might have mistaken his tweet about Nike in January as a genuine expression of the …

    Media 20 Jun 10:38

  • AWS adds Australian edge location

    No word on local data centre as CloudFront and Route 53 gain Sydney address

    Amazon Web Services (AWS) has added an Australian edge location, as foreshadowed* by The Register last week. In an email to customers sent at 6:27PM Wednesday, Sydney time, the company said: We are excited to announce the launch of our newest edge location in Sydney, Australia to serve end users of Amazon CloudFront and …

    Cloud 20 Jun 10:41

  • 'BPM: From Back Office to Front Office and Beyond'

    Live event You have the questions, we have some answers

    On June 29 at 11:00 BST/ 12:00 CEST, we are broadcasting a live discussion on the intricacies of BPM. Business Process Management as never been more tricky: different types of information, acquired in different locations, for different business needs, need to be integrated into the process. You want flexibility and agility: …

    Site News 20 Jun 10:45

  • Kodak says Apple patent moves prevent any end to its misery

    Cupertino 'using its substantial cash position to delay'

    Bankrupt photography veteran Eastman Kodak is suing Apple in the US, claiming the fruity firm is trying to interfere with its plans to sell its patent portfolio. Flogging off its intellectual property is a major part of the company's bankruptcy restructuring but it can't go ahead while Apple is claiming that some of Kodak's …

    Law 20 Jun 10:48

  • Speedball 2 Brutal Deluxe

    Antique Code Show Foul play

    I know it’s not 2095 yet but with Boris back in power and the Olympics imminent, I am preparing myself to witness London fall into terminal decline due to sports related overspending and aggressive austerity measures. Indeed, I can envisage an appetite for a Rollerball-style games event; entertaining the galleries of corporate …

    reghardware 20 Jun 11:00

  • William Shatner confirms Devon town actually prostitute free

    'Sex for value' still happening, claims TJ Hooker

    William Shatner has apologised to the burghers of Ilfracombe for claiming, on national TV, that the Devon seaside town is a hotbed of prostitution. However, Shatner undermined the earnestness of his apology by insisting someone must be having sex in the resort for "something of value", the Daily Mail reports. The erstwhile …

    Bootnotes 20 Jun 11:15

  • Assange's Ecuador asylum bid has violated £200k UK bail, say cops

    Celeb chums rinsed of cash by diplomatic sofa stay

    WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange™ – who is currently holed up in the Ecuadorian Embassy in London - has breached his UK bail conditions, Scotland Yard confirmed this morning. As we reported yesterday, the 40-year-old Australian is seeking political asylum in Ecuador, after his attempts to appeal against extradition to Sweden …

    Crime 20 Jun 11:29

  • Chick-lit naughty girl MP Mensch starts own web-jabber service

    Politishn's 'menshn' reaps exploshn of derishn

    You read it here first, courtesy of our top Shoreditch-'til-I-die columnist Steve Bong: Tory chick-lit MP Louise Mensch - a serial user of Twitter - has now launched her own chatroom-cum-microblogging service. Menshn.com - pronounced "Mention" - is intended for political debate. To begin with it's only available in America and …

    Government 20 Jun 11:44

  • Flame was scout ahead of Stuxnet attack on Iran nukes - US spooks

    Israel blamed for cyberweapons' escape into the wild

    Flame was created by the US and Israel in order to collect intelligence on Iranian computer networks as part of the same covert operation that spawned Stuxnet. Anonymous US officials told the Washington Post that Flame was created as part of of the secret programme codenamed Olympic Games. Flame was designed as a means to map …

    Government 20 Jun 11:58

  • Microsoft Surface: Join the Windows 8 teardown

    Live chat Good enough to touch? Readers had their say, LIVE, at 2pm

    PC makers’ slipups have forced Microsoft into designing its Surface tablet, but can a software company succeed where the HPs and Dells of the world have failed... can it become more like Apple? Sure, the computer makers have slipped up badly on tablets. They are also in the dock for cramming PCs with crapware and selling you …

    PCs & Chips 20 Jun 12:10

  • Magirus claims 'head start' from EMC on VSPEX private cloud

    Have a feel of this healthy pipe, mid-market told

    EMC is promoting Magirus as the go-to distributor for VSPEX after it certified 14 configurations that can be assembled at its Euro facility. The converged infrastructure – a pure channel play aimed at mid-market users – is "more flexible" than VCE's Vblock or Net App's Flex Pod, said Philippe Fossé, EMC veep for EMEA channels …

    Channel Register 20 Jun 12:15

  • LCD TV shipments slip for FIRST TIME EVER

    Industry in crisis?

    TV makers are desperate for the Next Big Thing. It's not hard to see why: even LCD TV sales are now falling. Year-on-year LCD shipments fell for the first time ever during Q1, market watcher NPD DisplaySearch said today. It was a small dip - down just three per cent - but symptomatic of an industry in decline. Other …

    reghardware 20 Jun 12:24

  • World+Dog goes ape for smartphone cases, add-ons

    $20bn industry? Madness!

    Sales of smartphone accessories will generate a staggering $20bn (£13bn) this year, a figure set to rise to $38bn (£24bn) by 2017. Those are encouraging numbers for accessory makers such as Griffin Technology, which opened its first standalone store this month. Smartphone owners spend an average of $56.18 (£35.65) on …

    reghardware 20 Jun 12:30

  • IT pro or manager? Go East, young man. But don't expect servants

    Analysis Plenty of scope, but cushy ex-pat days are done

    Ambitious Britishers have long looked abroad to make their fortunes, and the rise of China and its satellites is drawing a new generation ready to swap family ties and predictable working hours for a slice of the new Wild East. But while the booming Asian economy is generating a raft of new job opportunities for senior IT …

    Jobs 20 Jun 13:00

  • Mcafee gets fierce about resellers (but in a good way)

    'We play nicely with all partners'

    To Marbella, for sun, sea and the McAfee EMEA partner summit. We saw little in way of breaking news from the conference: McAfee is squirrelling away the big announcements for its annual Focus security shindig in Las Vegas in October. And we have little to write about life at McAfee under Intel, which bought the company for $6 …

    Channel Register 20 Jun 13:26

  • ISC cluster smackdown: Students whip out their tools

    HPC blog White Intel bread with GPU sprinkles

    The final system configurations for the ISC 2012 Student Cluster Challenge have been locked down and can now be revealed. For the ISC inaugural event, we’re seeing a lot of sameness but a few key differences. On the "sameness" side, every team is sporting various flavours of Intel Sandy Bridge processors, with speeds ranging …

    HPC 20 Jun 13:27

  • ISC Klusterkamph: Meet the home squad, Team KIT

    We take a peek at German students' packages

    Germany's cluster-competition entry, team KIT, is defending their home turf at the ISC 2012 Student Cluster Challenge this week in Hamburg. We spent a few minutes chatting with them as the competition was beginning. They were all smiles, but it was clear that they are serious about winning the competition. This is the first …

    HPC 20 Jun 13:47

  • Student HPC whizzkids in unusual competition start

    HPC blog Brief bit of shirt-lifting before mental engagement

    The ISC Student Cluster Challenge kicked off last night in a unique manner. Rather than a simple shouted “Go!” or a loud tone sent over a bullhorn, the organisers confronted the university teams with a physical challenge, along the lines of the old Le Mans auto races. Each team had to run across the show floor to gather up six …

    HPC 20 Jun 13:58

  • US veterans Stony Brook face cluster compo crunch

    HPC blog Seawolves: Our software just doesn't stack up...

    The Stony Brook Seawolves are one of two US teams competing in the ISC 2012 Student Cluster Challenge in Hamburg this week. This isn’t the first time the school has participated in a contest like this, but it’s probably their longest road trip in terms of distance and culture (although NYC to Portland, Oregon is a close second …

    HPC 20 Jun 14:20

  • Win! a Samsung 830 SSD

    Competition Speedy storage could be yours

    Don't forget, folks, you still have a chance to win one of Samsung's rather desirable 830 SSDs in Reg Hardware's latest competition. Very desirable We were rather taken by the Samsung 830 - we reviewed it here - which is not only capacious but also comes bundled with some powerful and very useful utilities. Not convinced? …

    reghardware 20 Jun 14:28

  • Meet China's cluster Pop Idol winners, Team Tsinghua

    HPC blog First of two ultra-competitive national teams

    China universities have gone student cluster crazy over the past year. When China was allotted two team slots at the ISC 2012 Student Cluster Competition, more than 300 universities expressed interest in participating. Thirty schools submitted proposals, forcing the country to have a play-in round to select which two teams …

    HPC 20 Jun 14:30

  • What do we know about GPUs? Tianhe-1A lives at our school

    HPC blog China's NUDT team brings hybrid power to Hamburg

    China’s NUDT (National University of Defense Technology) was the first Chinese team to compete at a Student Cluster Competition, making the trek to SC in Seattle in 2010. They came very close to winning the whole competition, finishing a very close second to Taiwan’s Tsinghua University. They also survived a gruelling intra- …

    HPC 20 Jun 14:40

  • Team America, take two: Meet Colorado's cluster kids

    HPC blog Hardened SC veterans need a dose of good luck

    The other US-based team in the 2012 ISC Student Cluster Challenge is the University of Colorado, whose members hail from Boulder. Colorado is by far the most experienced team in the ISC version of this competition, having sent teams to all six SC cluster competitions. In fact, I recognised several of their current Hamburg team …

    HPC 20 Jun 14:50

  • Speaking in Tech: NASA dumps OpenStack... for Amazon cloud

    Podcast Sorry guys, the Feds cut our budget

    Host Greg Knieriemen and his trusty sidekicks – storage and virtualisation Hoosier Ed Saipetch and new media strategist Sarah Vela – are back from the Dell Storage Forum with a piping-hot new podcast crammed with all the latest happenings in enterprise tech. This week they discuss... Dell Storage Forum recap Microsoft …

    Platform 20 Jun 14:52

  • Ten... pieces of tat for Apple fanboys

    Product round-up Obsessive, or what?

    Apple fans are known to take their obsession to extremes. While that often means queuing outside the Apple store for days ahead of a new product release, some push the boat out further with accessories, clothes, and even tattoos. Because telling someone you have an iPhone is never enough. Now that Apple fans have a place to …

    reghardware 20 Jun 15:00

  • Mounties, flics, cops snap on bracelets after Québec hacktivism

    Allô, allô, allô - qu'est-ce que tout cela est, eh?

    Six alleged hacktivists have been arrested in Canada following a series of attacks on Quebec government websites. Neither the identity of the suspect nor information on the site they targeted or why have been released by tight-lipped Canadian authorities. Five police forces - including the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, the …

    Enterprise Security 20 Jun 15:02

  • Adobe feeling drained by new model, but hopes things will improve

    No going back to boxy bust'n'boom

    Adobe's second quarter net income eased on poor European demand as well as its move to take Creative Suite into the cloud. Net income eased 2.4 per cent to $223.8m from $229.4m in the same quarter of last year. Adobe also said that it was cutting its revenue growth estimate for the full year, blaming the economic crisis in …

    SaaS 20 Jun 15:26

  • Syrian rebels targeted using commercial Skype trojan

    It's already encrypted, EFF warns dissidents

    Syrian activists are coming under attack from a new Trojan, based on a commercial spyware application. Targeted attacks surreptitiously install the BlackShades Trojan onto compromised machines, an advisory by the EFF and Citizen Lab warns. The Trojan is been distributed in via compromised Skype accounts of Syrian activists in …

    Malware 20 Jun 15:59

  • HP rolls up virty desktop system bundles for SMBs

    Switch and router refresh for small fries

    HP has refreshed its server lineup with the myriad Xeon E5 processors in its ProLiant Gen8 machines, so small and medium businesses now have lots of options from which to choose. But these days, SMBs are not just interested in buying raw iron. Sometimes they want to plunk in a new stack, appliance style, that solves a specific …

    Virtualization 20 Jun 16:32

  • Storage company promises INFINITE IMMORTALITY

    Your data shall be like unto the gods themselves

    NetApp has announced a major minor release of its data ONTAP storage operating system, promising data immortality and infinity. Data ONTAP is NetApp's operating system for its FAS arrays and provides a unified file (NFS, pNFS and CIFS/SMB) and block (iSCSI, FCoE and Fibre Channel) storage array architecture. NetApp customers …

    Storage 20 Jun 17:07

  • Microsoft's uncloaks Phone 8 developer preview

    One Windows kernel to rule them all

    Microsoft held its developer preview of the Windows Phone 8 operating system on Wednesday, and revealed that it is shifting the platform to share core kernel features with Windows 8 for better integration. At the rollout event in San Francisco, corporate vice president of the Windows Phone program Joe Belfiore said that …

    Mobile 20 Jun 17:59

  • Foxconn daddy: 'Don't buy Galaxy S III, wait for iPhone 5'

    No love lost for 'snitching' Samsung

    Samsung's highly anticipated Android-based Galaxy S III smartphone may be basking in attention that it's receiving during its official launch on Wednesday, but there's at least one top tech exec who's snubbing it. Terry Gou, the "pugnacious" chairman of Hon Hai, the parent company of iPhone and iPad maker Foxconn, advises that …

    Mobile 20 Jun 18:13

  • No cookie-cutter laws for Australia

    EU cookies Directive not entirely ignored down Canberra way

    The European Union's directive that website operators must not use cookies to gather visitors' personal information won't be adopted in Australia, but the idea behind the directive may yet be offered as advice to local businesses and government agencies. The Reg asked The Australian Government Information Office (AGIMO), The …

    Law 20 Jun 20:00

  • Bromium twists chip virty circuits to secure PCs and servers

    Trust nothing, protect the Byzantine general kernel

    Bromium, the security startup launched a year ago by the techies behind the open source Xen server virtualization hypervisor, are lifting the veil a bit on the software that they are cooking up, while at the same time announcing a big new bag of cash to pay for the ongoing development of what the company is calling a microvisor …

    Security 20 Jun 20:46

  • Pegatron named as Microsoft Surface fondleslab foundry

    Low margins may annoy Redmond's partners

    Taiwanese electronics manufacturer Pegatron has been awarded the contract to build Microsoft's Surface tablet, and sources suggest Redmond's got a twin strategy for tablets. According to DigiTimes, Pegatron will be building both the Intel and ARM versions of the fondleslab, with the Ivy Bridge-powered slab going for around $ …

    Mobile 20 Jun 22:57

  • NBN Co preps revised access undertaking

    New agreement expected by year-end

    NBN Co, the company building Australia’s National Broadband Network, will revisit the rules and pricing for access to its network in response to feedback from access seekers. The decision, which has been approved by the ACCC, means formal regulatory approval of the Special Access Undertaking (SAU), originally due in September …

    Policy 20 Jun 23:21

  • Red Hat hits the top and bottom numbers in fiscal Q1

    Billings look a bit weak

    Everybody seems to be a bit jumpy about the global economy these days, and Red Hat will be giving Wall Street a case of the jitters when the market opens on Thursday even though it exceeded its revenue and profit targets in its first quarter of fiscal 2013. In the period ending May 31, Red Hat's support contract subscriptions …

    Financial News 20 Jun 23:25

  • Consumer Affairs Victoria drops App Store malware claim

    Chatting to Apple to clarify things, so page comes down for now

    Consumer Affairs Victoria (CAV) has taken down a page on which it alleged Apple's App Store contains "counterfeit or 'cloned' apps" that "look like real apps but don't have the same kind of security as those made by established software programmers" and "can expose personal data to malware or predatory, virus-like software.” …

    Security 20 Jun 23:44