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Are broadcasters ready to play?
Periodic and breathless speculation about when Hulu is going to jump into the Australian market has re-emerged, for the umpteenth time since 2009.
Networks
26 02:00
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Technique evades forensics investigations
Computer scientists have developed software that hides sensitive data on hard drive, without the use of encryption, by controlling the precise disk locations containing the file's data fragments.
Security
26 02:25
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Server 'battle royale' on the horizon
Who do you believe? Oracle, when it says that Intel will eventually replace the Itanium processor with Xeons, or Intel and its Itanium co-developer HP, when they say there are two more generations of Itaniums coming, and that those processors will be supported for at least a decade.
Servers
26 05:00
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Make yourself understood to Johnny Foreigner
Google’s increasingly powerful translation tools are starting to make the Babel Fish a technical possibility and Communicate is the latest app to make use of them to offer real-time speech translation.
Phones
26 06:00
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Chip turns InfiniBand, Ethernet, and Fibre Channel triple play
Servers have been virtualized, storage has been virtualized, and now it's the network's turn, thanks to Mellanox Technologies, a maker of chips and switches running the InfiniBand and Ethernet protocols.
Data Networking
26 06:00
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The names are AppCentral
AppCentral – a startup based in San Francisco – has released a new incarnation of its platform for operating private mobile app stores within the enterprise. Version 2.0 of the platform can be used with both Apple iOS and Google Android devices.
Mobile
26 07:00
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Googasm falling
Developer interest in Android phones and tablets is on the wane – at least a bit – according to a new study.
Developer
26 07:00
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iPad rival and a palmtop too
Sony has come clean with its tablet plans: it will launch a pair of of them, but it's waiting until the autumn to do so. Previously, it pointed to a summer release.
Tablets
26 08:46
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New caretaking role for the ecosystem
Microsoft has expanded its vulnerability disclosure program to include security bulletins about third-party Windows software as well as its own applications.
Security
26 10:00
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'Why is everything here completely pointless?', asks Mike Teevee
Yahoo! has bought television 'check-in' startup IntoNow for an undisclosed sum.
Mobile
26 10:03
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My pants? They must have been taken
A Californian man staged a dirty protest in a police cell after he was arrested half-naked in a cemetery.
Bootnotes
26 10:06
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Made for sharing
I must confess that I do have have an extraordinary fondness for network attached storage. And when terms like ‘home media’ and ‘cloud edition’ appear on the box, then it certainly gets my attention.
Hardware
26 10:14
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iPhone banky box is go. Bothered?
Square is now in the Apple stores, both physical and virtual, putting the banking revolution in a plastic cube in front of a lot more eyes than its competitors.
Phones
26 10:39
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Software maker drags the Catz in to replace him
Software maker Oracle has let go of its chief finance officer, Jeff Epstein, without revealing why the exec had resigned from the company.
Financial News
26 10:47
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Old-school gizmo gladhandling to cure the bank holiday bores
Many men are facing a dilemma in the coming days. Thanks to the Royals, a great, great, yawning maw of consecutive weekly Bank Holidays looms large. With enforced downtime, this means a stark choice: either face the family, or retreat to the Garden Shed. To help you make this choice, here are some suggestions.
Vintage
26 11:16
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Express your interest
Orange has the UK exclusive on Motorola's netbook-powering Atrix Android smartphone, the US phone maker has confirmed.
Phones
26 11:35
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Dirty dozen go wild in the aisles without self-scanning
Canny Kiwis were given a Good Friday bonus when a computer system automatically opened a supermarket to all comers.
Bootnotes
26 11:52
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Madam, I'm AtomSphere
Boomi – the Pennsylvania-based startup acquired by Dell last year – has released a new version of its flagship AtomSphere service, a so-called "integration cloud" that lets businesses connect various back-end applications running in their own data centers as well as those in the proverbial data-center heavens.
Software
26 12:00
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Hi-tech hatchback
With Ford’s consumer research showing that drivers regard its cars as fun to drive and reliable to own but not particularly hi-tech, it’s playing the technology card heavily with the third-generation Focus. The new car comes loaded with sort of driver assistance kit that just a few years ago would only have been found on a high-end Mercedes.
Science
26 12:00
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AYCE on PAYG
Network operator Three has added the iPhone 4 to the list of pay-as-you-go smartphones it offers with "all-you-can-eat" mobile broadband.
Mobile
26 12:09
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Not a single call to snitch on shifty mappers
China's new hotline for reporting of dodgy cartographers has remained silent, with not a single call since being switched on last week.
Government
26 12:14
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Pesky PCs put paid to print purists
The death of the mechanical typewriter is upon us, after Godrej & Boyce recently confirmed that the firm's remaining inventory at its production plant in Shirwal, near Pune, had significantly dwindled to just 500 machines.
Hardware
26 12:24
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Er, where is EMC?
Pillar has announced a sparkling SPC-1 benchmark, bettering IBM's Storwize V7000. Oddly EMC is not present in SPC-1 results and NetApp's results are 2008 vintage. What's going on?
Storage
26 12:27
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Another nail in the coffin of the combat jet
In news which will send a cold chill down the necks of fast-jet pilots and air forces around the world, it has been announced that an unmanned "Predator" drone has destroyed a heavy Libyan surface-to-air missile in Tripoli on Sunday.
Government
26 12:40
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Chitty Chitty Bang Bang up for grabs
She may not be full of gizmos like Bond's DB5, nor does she talk like Knight Rider's KITT, yet Chitty Chitty Bang Bang remains one of the most loveable motors in the history of cinema. Which is why collectors will be chuffed to know she's going under the hammer next month.
Hardware
26 12:42
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New hardware required?
Since Windows 7 stabilised its service packs big organisations are moving into upgrade mode.
Enterprise Tech
26 13:09
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ERP vendor set for extensive integration with Infor
Veteran ERP vendor Lawson software is being swallowed by acquisitive VC house Golden Gate Capital, the firms announced this morning.
Financial News
26 13:39
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Android grabs lion's share of installed base, recent purchases
Android is now the most popular smartphone operating system in the US, on the basis of the number of folk using it, at least.
Phones
26 13:47
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Mmmm.. Little Chef
If satnav instructions from Darth Vader were beginning to tire, why not opt for some Homer Simpson instead?
Science
26 14:39
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Chocolate Factory targets world's biggest fungus
Google has chosen Oregon as its initial theatre of operations for its long-awaited response to Groupon.
Media
26 15:01
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Will hit 100 Gigabits this year
The race to sell 40 Gigabit Ethernet switches for data center backbones and high-speed networks has begun, and Force10 Networks is getting out there early to stake its claims.
Data Networking
26 15:26
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Gee, Brain, what do you want to do tonight?
Oh Hello. Tune into some podcast magic from the Infosmack team, with hosts Greg Knieriemen and Marc Farley with the Diva of Disruptive Technologies, Christina Weil.
The Channel
26 15:41
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Artist Punishment unknown
China's most popular search engine has had its wrist slapped by Beijing officials for allegedly providing illegal music downloads via its MP3 service.
Media
26 15:45
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Shuttle Endeavour mission 'may find antimatter worlds'
Allied international boffins are exceedingly chuffed this week to announce a recordbreaking reverse-alchemy triumph: gold has been turned into extra hefty nega-helium antimatter by using an enormously powerful atom smasher.
Science
26 15:54
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Drosophila melanogastic cockup
An algorithmically induced pricing spiral drove up the price for a popular biology reference work on Amazon.com to an astronomical $23.7m.
Media
26 17:20
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More financial – not computer – engineering
IBM, the original IT darling of the New York Stock Exchange, has once again boosted its cash dividend and piled up billions more cash to run down to the exchange to buy back its own shares.
Financial News
26 17:27
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With no funds in coffers, ET searchers let go
The SETI Institute has put its renowned Allen Telescope Array into hibernation because it doesn't have the money to run the giant cluster of radio dishes that search the heavens for extraterrestrial life.
Science
26 17:46
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'Torrent successor' Dropship drop-kicked
Dropbox – the San Francisco startup that offers a free service for sharing files over the net – has suppressed a fledgling open source project that lets anyone use the service outside of its control, saying the project exposed Dropbox's proprietary protocol and could be used for piracy.
Media
26 18:04
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Open source floats
NASA's Nebula project – an Amazon-like "infrastructure cloud" for use within the federal government – is now being used across nine NASA centers, including the agency's Jet Propulsion Laboratory and its headquarters in Washington.
Cloud
26 19:04
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The risks of open wireless and the sleuths who use it
A man recently found a swarm of armed federal agents descending on his Buffalo, New York, home after a neighbor accessed his open Wi-Fi network and used it to download child pornography.
Security
26 20:32
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Post mortem wait
Amazon says that about 0.07 per cent of the EBS storage volumes in the East Region of its infrastructure cloud are not "fully recoverable" following the extended outage that hit the service last Thursday.
Cloud
26 20:47
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Don't pay for what you already don't pay for...
Vodafone has offered beleaguered Australian customers 12 hours of free text messaging as compensation for a network outage over Easter, the latest in a series of service outages.
Mobile
26 20:53
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Poorly secured system to remain offline
Sony is warning its millions of PlayStation Network (PSN) users to watch out for identity-theft scams after hackers breached its security and plundered the user names, passwords, addresses, birth dates, and other information used to register accounts.
Security
26 21:53
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Where phishing victims’ money goes
The FBI has issued an alert warning that money obtained by phishing is being transferred to trade companies in China.
Security
26 22:13
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Quotes Steve Jobs in defense
Amazon is fighting back against an Apple lawsuit that charged the mega-etailer with using the term "App Store" without proper Cupertinian consent.
Media
26 22:35
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Value trumps virtue
Although people often contribute to charities because "it's the right thing to do," they rarely give to businesses on this basis. That's why it's strange to see industries turn to "guilt trips as business models," as GigaOm's Matthew Ingram terms newspapers' recent business-model experiments.
Business
26 23:36
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Blades, storage, GPUs selling well, but systems slow
Business was not as smooth as it could have been in the third quarter of fiscal 2011 for Super Micro, a supplier of both motherboards and complete systems, and a bellwether of sorts for the server racket.
Financial News
26 23:57
