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4th November 2012 Archive

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  • Apple's poisonous Touch silently kills the GNOMEs of Linux Forest

    Analysis Penguin Ewoks slaughtered in the woods

    If a major Linux desktop falls in the forest and no one is around to use it, does it make a sound? That's a question the GNOME project would do well to contemplate. The once mighty Linux desktop has stumbled and looks like it might be poised to come crashing down after the release of GNOME 3. Here's the problem: the radical …

    Operating Systems 4 Nov 08:00

  • Kim Dotcom offers free internet with own submarine cable

    Revives collapsed Pacific Fibre plan for New Zealand to USA link

    Kim Dotcom has told the world he wants to get into the submarine cable business. Dotcom’s plan is to revive a company called Pacific Fibre that, as we reported last August, wanted to build a USA-to-New Zealand cable, but sank for lack of funds. New Zealand has few submarine cables connections to the world, which keeps the …

    Networks 4 Nov 09:27

  • How IT bosses turned the tables on our cushy consultancy gigs

    I wasn't laid off, I was freelancing from the beach, honest

    I think I’ve been through enough economic cycles in my life to say that the nature of employment, at least in the financial-tech industry that I’m most familiar with, has changed fundamentally in the last few years. If you’re a technology worker and your job suddenly seems unusually precarious, that’s because it is: fear of …

    Jobs 4 Nov 11:57

  • Atlassian junks nine years of user forums

    Sparks up UI with gamified Q&A

    Atlassian has cast the concept of user Forums to the “IT history books” overhauling its nine year old system to a gamification based, community curated Q&A site, Atlassian Answers. Answers was launched last year as a successor to Atlassian Forums. The two ran concurrently for a time, but the Forums are now history. Atlassian …

    Software 4 Nov 21:56

  • IT ran its Melbourne Cup well before race day

    Tabcorp and Sportsbet share their Cup Day tips on how to prepare for workload surges

    The first Tuesday in November is a special day for Australians, as 'The race that stops a nation', the Melbourne Cup, makes a once-a-year flutter all-but-compulsory. The workload faced by betting agencies therefore soars on the day, as punters flock to betting shops and hit the web to back their preferred beasts. For Tabcorp …

    Management 4 Nov 22:32

  • Tiny Ubi Android machine pre-orders open

    Wall-wart computer talks the talk

    A Canadian company has announced that it’s taking pre-orders for a voice-activated Android computer funded on Kickstarter. If Unified Computer Intelligence has succeeded in getting what it wanted out of its Ubi, the wall outlet plug-in computer will take instructions – including (for example) “how many teaspoons per ounce?” – …

    Hardware 4 Nov 22:37

  • Files aren’t property, says US government

    New twist in Megaupload case a threat to all clouds, claims EFF

    While serial self-publicist Kim Dotcom was re-igniting the submarine cable debate in New Zealand, the Electronic Frontiers Foundation's (EFF's) case trying to recover files on behalf of a former Megaupload user Kyle Goodwin took a new twist. The EFF has been in court trying to gain access to the servers seized by the Feds last …

    Cloud 4 Nov 23:36