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'Egg freckles' redux
Google has released an iOS version of its free Translate app, and my first couple of hours of using it has shown it to be worth every penny.
Phones
09 03:40
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Social network = public forum
An ambulance company in Connecticut has agreed to settle a case that challenged its decision to fire an employee for posting comments on Facebook that referred to her boss as a “dick” and a “scumbag.”
Media
09 04:00
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Plan B: put the cloud at arm’s length
It turns out that Macquarie Telecom wasn’t just supporting its IntelliCenter services when it released research last year citing jurisdictional risk as a problem for cloud computing customers.
Cloud
09 04:42
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IP cross dressing licensing
The two companies that give the US Patent and Trademark Office the most headaches and paperwork - that would be IT giant IBM and consumer electronics and chip maker Samsung Electronics - have inked a patent cross-licensing deal.
Data Centre
09 05:00
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Nice of you to tell everyone
Systems software maker Novell has announced today a special deal for customers building clusters with its SUSE Linux Enterprise Server. If you cluster servers with the company's High Availability Extensions, you get those extensions for free.
HPC
09 06:00
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Let me entertain you
The Android tablets that have appeared lately seem to suffer an identity crisis, often unable to decide whether they’re simply big smartphones or genuine tablet-computing devices. Creative Labs has taken a different approach with its new Ziio, producing an ‘entertainment tablet’ that is essentially a larger version of its existing Zen portable media player.
Tablets
09 07:00
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Hi, low silver lining...
US identity fraud losses fell sharply last year, bucking a long-running trend.
Security
09 09:45
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You've been (de)duped ...
Networker blog author Preston de Guise has pointed out a simple and inescapable fact: deleting files on a deduplicated storage volume may not free up any space.
Storage
09 09:49
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End of the veteran managers
Before we get too excited about reports of a major shuffle among Microsoft's top ranks, let's remember one thing.
Operating Systems
09 09:58
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Union not happy with company transfers
CSC Denmark is facing angry union action over the company's use of temporary Indian workers paid a fraction of normal Danish wages.
The Channel
09 10:03
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Son of Fondleslab production pre-happening, says someone
The Wall Street Journal reckons production of the iPad 2 is already ramping up, concurring with the majority of rumours surrounding the device.
Tablets
09 10:04
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Block-level dedupe on way
In a webcast for financial analysts yesterday, EMC admitted it was racing to catch up with NetApp in storage for virtualised servers by adding primary block-level deduplication.
Storage
09 10:49
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Swedes buy UK mobile shell developer
Swedish conglomerate Teleca has bought UK mobile shell developer SurfKitchen, promising to keep it as an independent unit.
Mobile
09 10:59
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Soup or nuts?
It's open season in storage right now, but the door is starting to close. If you have something that works with filer or block access protocols then develop away. Servers can use it. The product can work with storage area networks (SANs) or filers and you are free to sell it to customers with servers that use SANS or filers.
Storage
09 11:00
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Redditch approves energy-saving scheme
Redditch Borough Council has agreed to proceed with its plan to use waste energy from a crematorium to heat a municipal swimming pool.
Bootnotes
09 11:00
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Universal power to the people
Been a long time coming, but yesterday the European Commission got its mitts on the first sample of a universal phone charger for member countries.
Phones
09 11:09
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'Unbelievably poor and sloppy coding'
Basic design flaws on a Labour party members forum exposed the email addresses of users to harvesting.
Security
09 11:21
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Bye then
Last month, the PC press reported big price cuts for the Dell Adamo, an ultra-thin Macbook Air lookalike.
Laptops
09 11:44
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F/OSS fundi gives LibreOffice the hard sell and Oracle the finger
Oracle. Hmm. Maybe not the favourite word in F/OSS right now ... Unlike Java/OpenJDK/etc – where Oracle has not (yet) dropped the ball – in the LibreOffice camp the cats have left the bags, coops have been vacated, and the code has forked right off ...
Applications
09 12:00
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ACS:Law ceases trading
A senior patent court judge has heavily criticised a law firm that pursued online file-sharers with threatening letters and then ditched its cases against 26 defendants.
Law
09 12:05
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But we're still hiring!
RealNetworks confirmed yesterday that it is to reduce its workforce by 10 per cent by axeing 130 jobs at the internet media company.
Financial News
09 12:12
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If you've been holding your breath, you can exhale now ...
YouView has confirmed that its set-top box won't now ship until early 2012. A roadmap agreed upon last year, after the start-up had received approval from the BBC Trust, envisaged boxes appearing on the market this spring. A second iteration was scheduled for 2012 ready for the Olympics - the traditional consumer upgrade season for home cinema. (Or "TV", as we used to call it).
Media
09 12:15
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Alleged victim 'traumatised'
A 54 year-old man is accused of underage sex with a young teenager, who he had "married" in the online fantasy game RuneScape.
Games
09 12:47
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Vulnerability broker had given software vendors 6 months to fix them ...
The Zero Day Initiative (ZDI) has discussed the existence of unpatched flaws in 22 software applications from vendors including Microsoft, CA, EMC, HP and IBM.
Security
09 12:48
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Felica father DoCoMo to hook up with South Korea's KT
Japan's DoCoMo is going to work with South Korea's KT to create a cross-border payment infrastructure, coming in from the cold to embrace and extend the NFC standard.
Mobile
09 12:50
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Space-saving and super swift
The Genesis S815 is the latest all-in-one (AIO) printer-scanner-copier-fax from Lexmark that brings a radically different form-factor to the product class.
Hardware
09 13:00
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Killjoys scratch handle off erection
Officials in Fort Wayne Indianna have balked at naming the city's latest civic building after its most successful mayor – Harry Baals.
Bootnotes
09 13:07
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Some jobs move too
Capgemini has won a £10.5m contract with Tube Lines – the engineering company behind London Underground.
The Channel
09 13:08
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Show this to your family next time you need to work all weekend
Lower costs are the basic attraction of all enterprise technologies, and virtualisation promises that in spades. In particular, it reduces hardware maintenance costs via what is now a fairly simple process of packaging physical servers up and hosting several of them on one large server.
Data Centre
09 13:25
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No look-in for The Italian Job in experts' top 100
A Time Out poll of 150 film movie industry experts has declared Nicolas Roeg's Don't Look Now the best British film ever.
Bootnotes
09 13:45
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Any color, so long as it's black
Walmart, America's biggest retailer, is to sell Verizon flavor iPhone 4s in 600 US stores from tomorrow.
Mobile
09 13:47
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Angry woman seeks solicitor
An 11-year-old boy has landed his mother in debt , after splashing more than £1000 on Xbox Live, without her knowledge.
Games
09 13:55
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Pale, smelly peril of underwater cocaine 'Love Boat'
US security officials are reportedly worried that a new generation of drug-smuggling submarines - able, unlike their predecessor semi-submersibles, to travel completely submerged beneath the waves - might be used to carry out terrorist operations.
Science
09 14:37
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Lang, tech, systems, clouds ... and Office politics
This was my first FOSDEM, in Brussels, and it was a goodie.
Developer
09 14:43
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Caveats abound
A security researcher has demonstrated how it might be possible to perform autorun-style attacks against weakly secured Linux PCs.
Security
09 14:44
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WAC expands ahead of Monday's launch
The Wireless Application Community won't be properly launched until Monday lunchtime, but Filipino operator SMART couldn't wait and has jumped the gun with the first WAC-compatible handset.
Mobile
09 14:54
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Don't pay online
GAME, the British retailer, is selling downloadable Xbox content over the counter in a six-month trial at 40 stores.
Games
09 14:57
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Does the Bluetooth pad push your buttons?
In response to our iOS game reviews, many readers highlight how on-screen controls for such titles are considerably impractical. Behold the iControlPad, which went on sale today and could be the solution we've all been waiting for.
Games
09 15:30
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Valentine's Day peace and luuurv initiative
An Alabama sex shop owner has decided to do her bit for peace and luuurv this Valentine's Day, and is offering customers the chance to trade "Guns for Toys".
Bootnotes
09 15:33
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Show us the money, Gideon
The Trades Union Congress and small business groups are doubtful that George Osborne has tamed the British banks or extracted a meaningful promise on business lending.
Small Biz
09 15:40
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MiniUSBs and common connectors are a sysadmin's best friend
It used to be that a large part of owning a cellphone, using it a lot, and being on the road involved hauling around a massive charging unit. When your plan expired, you got a new phone – and along with that came a new car charger, a new brick to plug in at home and a second one to be wrapped up in a ball and shoved in your briefcase or purse.
Servers
09 16:00
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Start your engines
Microsoft's first service pack for Windows 7 will, according to speculative reports, reach the company's MSDN and TechNet subscribers this time next week.
Software
09 16:05
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Bonuses for the head honchos
Two more executives are being shown the door at chip maker Advanced Micro Devices – but two others will be getting juicy bonuses.
Financial News
09 16:17
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Brown milk bonanza for any passing trickster
Someone has noticed that the Starbucks' iPhone application can be copied with a screen grab from a neglected handset, enabling the thief to gorge themselves on free coffee*.
Applications
09 16:29
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New server tools & cloud overlord promoted from within
Microsoft has found a replacement for Bob Muglia – the company's server and tools biz president who was pushed out by MS boss Steve Ballmer last month.
The Channel
09 16:59
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Friends with benefits
Software giant and server newbie Oracle and IT conglomerate and long-time Sparc partner Fujitsu said late Tuesday that they have extended their collaboration on Sparc platforms.
Servers
09 19:26
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Today, the TouchPad. Tomorrow, webOS desktops...
HP has unveiled a trio of new webOS devices, including a pint-sized smartphone known as the Veer, a beefier business phone dubbed the Pre3, and, yes, the first Palm tablet: the HP TouchPad.
Tablets
09 20:06
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Order restored to universe
Oracle has squashed a decade-old bug in its Java programming framework that allows attackers to bring down sensitive servers by feeding them numerical values with large numbers of decimal places.
Security
09 20:29
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Float more CPUs and storage!
Microsoft's promotion of Satya Nadella puts an engineer who's been championing – and coding – Bing against Google in charge of the company's earth-bound server and tools business.
Software
09 20:51
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'You sank my battleship' indeed
An official Sony Twitter account has leaked the PlayStation 3 master signing key at the heart of the company's legal offensive against a group of hackers being sued for showing how to jailbreak the popular game console.
Games
09 22:13
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Compared to what?
The headlines say all you need to know, surely? As reported all over the place, Australia’s NBN (National Broadband Network) has been rated as too expensive and relying too much on government support, according to the Economist Intelligence Unit.
Networks
09 22:19
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'We can copy. But you can't'
Google built a multi-billion-dollar advertising empire atop a service that does little more than copy information from other sources. And yet it chastises others when they do the copying.
Media
09 23:30
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We kiss Steve Jobs' photo every night...
Australia’s mobile market remains the key battleground for the country’s largest carriers, with both Telstra and Optus announcing growth in mobile subscriber numbers today.
Financial News
09 23:43
