Legal
Troll hunter Rackspace turns Rotatable's bizarro patent to stone
News of the Weird: Screen-rotating technology declared unpatentable
23 Sep 00:06 | 43
23rd > September > 2014 Archive
Legal
Harper review says ACCC telco functions need new regulator
Also takes aim at trade pacts and the 'Australia tax'
23 Sep 00:58 |
Networks
Net Neutrality? Hold my coffee, I got this: FCC says it's still considering all options for Open Web
Not a deal done, nope. Still reading all those comments
23 Sep 00:59 | 16
Legal
Apple: Beats Music is safe with us. Just like your selfies in iCloud
The Beats goes on ... Cupertino hasn't forgotten about Dre, etc
23 Sep 01:29 | 23
Science
SpaceX breaks ground on first commercial spaceport in Texas
Musk gets another round of corporate welfare
23 Sep 02:09 | 29
On-Prem
Google grand fromage Eric Schmidt: Backing climate denier lobby a 'mistake'
Walk away slowly, don't look them in the eye
23 Sep 03:01 | 50
Software
MediaTek takes aim at Arduino with IoT wearables project
SoC, SDK, breadboards
23 Sep 04:02 | 1
Legal
Comms Alliance preps vectored VDSL2 connection rules
Getting ready for the brand-new, old-copper NBN
23 Sep 04:30 |
Security
Dyslexic, dyspraxic? No probs, says GCHQ
Unique minds set to code-breaking
23 Sep 05:02 | 32
Security
Game pirates 'donate' compute power to Bitcoin miners
Repack cracks foists Bitcoin miner hack
23 Sep 05:27 | 47
Personal Tech
Ab phab: Apple is Britain's coolest brand YET AGAIN
No sweetie, mummy wants the iPhone 6 plus plus plus
23 Sep 06:04 | 36
On-Prem
Giuliani's Call of Duty: defeat Noriega in epic boss battle
Video games case gets a bit more starpower
23 Sep 06:28 | 11
Video
Colias robots SWARMING out of the lab
Cheap academic bot for research and mayhem
23 Sep 07:02 | 3
Devops
80 PER CENT of app devs SUCK at securing your data, study finds
Ignore that, look at my shiny-shiny
23 Sep 07:33 | 23
Legal
Will Europe's ISPs unmask anonymous IP infringers?
Debate over monitoring user traffic for illegal file-sharing
23 Sep 08:02 | 30
Security
Apple slaps a passcode lock on iOS 8 devices, but cops can still inhale your iCloud
Don't congratulate yourselves too soon, Apple – securobod
23 Sep 08:35 | 17
Comment
Microsoft vs the long arm of US law: Straight outta Dublin
Hey you, get off of our cloud
23 Sep 09:01 | 61
Security
BLAM, BLAM, BLAM... nooooo! Hacker crew Lizard Squad spits DDoS venom at Call of Duty
JUST before you blasted 2 'copters with 1 rocket launcher
23 Sep 09:32 | 4
Science
US team claims PARIS paper plane launch crown
Vulture 1's Guinness World Record broken by 96,563ft paper dart release
23 Sep 10:01 | 42
Applications
Adobe swallows Aviary, hopes to stuff Creative Cloud into mobes
Firm will open up APIs to third parties with new Creative SDK
23 Sep 10:32 | 7
Channel
Phones 4u demise: 1,700 employees laid off with redundo package
'Limited interest in remaining 362 stores', says administrator PwC
23 Sep 10:58 | 23
On-Prem
Lotus Notes inventor Ozzie invents app to talk to people on your phone
Imagine that. Startup floats with voice collab app for Win iPhone
23 Sep 11:17 | 6
Software
MOST iPhone strokers SPURN iOS 8: iOS 7 'un-updatening' in 5...4...
Guess they don't like our battery-draining update?
23 Sep 11:37 | 78
Review + Vid
Apple iPhone 6 Plus: GORGEOUS FAT pixel density - but it's WASTED
Cupertino's fuller phablet stopgap solution?
23 Sep 11:56 | 97
Legal
EU dangles $6bn threat over Google in endless search abuse probe
Sanctions the 'logical next step', warns Brussels' antitrust boss
23 Sep 12:16 | 41
Storage
The object of the game: NetApp 'Amazon-izes' StorageGRID
Web-scale object storage with geo-distributed erasure coding
23 Sep 12:42 |
Security
Tripadvisor site coughs to card data breach for a potential 800k users
Viator: Veni, vidi, rapui
23 Sep 13:01 | 17
Legal
Swiss cops BAN MASKS at meeting of rebellious United Nations IP staff
WIPO chief accused of DNA theft, cosying up to NORKS
23 Sep 13:29 | 30
Science
SpaceX Dragon cargo truck flies 3D printer to ISS: Clawdown in 3, 2...
Craft berths at space station with supplies, experiments, toys
23 Sep 13:58 | 29
Channel
HP is giving away FREE* STORAGE to lucky server customers
And you don't even have to buy HP hardware. How about that?
23 Sep 14:28 | 6
SaaS
Can Marten Mickos make 'Linux for the cloud' work for HP?
The 'not-another-Unix play' play
23 Sep 15:02 | 2
Security
UK banks hook themselves up to real-time cop data feed
Not like the movies: Law enforcement is in on it...
23 Sep 15:34 | 10
PuppetConf 2014
Puppet-wearing devs: There's now an app (or two) for that
New tools aim to connect customers with IT automation utilities, services
23 Sep 15:58 | 2
Security
Apple's new iPhone 6 vulnerable to last year's TouchID fingerprint hack
But unsophisticated thieves need not attempt this trick
23 Sep 16:19 | 35
Channel
London slaps down Salesforce's bid to rename Heron Tower
US firm not 'dominant' enough for landmark skyscraper
23 Sep 16:57 | 21
Channel
Samsung abandons Chromebooks, laptops, PCs in Europe
Want a Sammy Chromebook? Live in Blighty? Forget it
23 Sep 18:02 | 19
Channel
New VDI recipe: Pinch of Cisco, spoon of VMware, mix with X-IO arrays
Add salt as required
23 Sep 18:31 |
Bootnotes
Emma Watson urges UN to back feminism – trolls threaten to leak her 'nude selfies'
Which rather proves her point
23 Sep 18:56 | 133
Channel
Le whoops! Microsoft France boss blows lid off 'Windows 9' event
Redmond's attempt at Applesque PR is going just as well as its Surface tablets
23 Sep 20:43 | 102
Software
'In... 15 feet... you will be HIT BY A TRAIN' Google patents the SPLAT-NAV
Alert system tips oblivious phone junkies to oncoming traffic
23 Sep 21:05 | 42
OSes
Canonical, Oracle go two on one against Red Hat in OpenStack bout
Each to support its own Linux on other's cloud stack
23 Sep 21:40 | 4
HPC Blog
Rookie southies S Korea and S Africa prep for cluster-wrestling match
Students get to grips with HPC apps
23 Sep 22:03 |
Personal Tech
My TIGHT PANTS made my HUGE iPHONE go all BENDY!
Twisty whoppers pop out of snug bottoms
23 Sep 22:28 | 153
Legal
FTC nails pin in Bitcoin mining rig maker Butterfly Labs
Claims biz took in as much as $50m for kit it never shipped
23 Sep 22:59 | 14
Biting the hand that feeds IT
