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Dotcom resists password grab
The Register | 22 May 2012, 2:34 am
Demands ‘judicial process’
And so it winds on further: in the latest installment to the Aotearoan legal battle, Kim Dotcom’s lawyer that he will only hand over his passwords as part of a “proper judicial process”.…
3D TV fails to excite, gestures interfaces to flop: Analyst
The Register | 22 May 2012, 2:29 am
Apple, Sony, to pounce as connectivity craze catches
3D television is not exciting global TV buyers, says analyst firm NPD.…
NextIO bags some more cash for virty server I/O push
The Register | 22 May 2012, 1:21 am
Mystery strategic investor pumps in US$12.3m
There are plenty of ways to skin the server virtualization cat, and NextIO's means of doing so is to create a PCI-Express switch that links server nodes to each other and to Ethernet network, Fibre Channel SAN, and external peripherals such as flash drives or GPU coprocessors that are housed in an external chassis. Trying to convince data centers to converge their networks at the PCI-Express peripheral bus instead of in the Ethernet or Fibre Channel network takes a bit of work, and money. And that is why NextIO is happy to be getting $12.3m in Series F funding.…
Defend your phone against loose networks? There’s an app for that
The Register | 22 May 2012, 12:17 am
Researchers unveil ‘middlebox detection’ software
A group of researchers from the University of Michigan has released an Android app designed to defend against a common firewall vulnerability which they say commonly exposes smartphones on cellular networks.…
Australia rocks to Spotify
The Register | 21 May 2012, 11:52 pm
Would you like ads with that track?
Swedish digital music streamer Spotify is ready for downloading in the Australian market.…
Microsoft launches its own social network
The Register | 21 May 2012, 11:46 pm
Redmond content for new so.cl service to to co-exist with Facebook, Google
On the off chance that you have spare moment left in your life after checking Facebook, Twitter, MySpace, LinkedIn, Google+, Pinterest, Instagram, your email and your SMS inbox, Microsoft has launched its very own social network, so.cl. The site's name is pronounced "social".…
Cloaked light detector sees without being seen
The Register | 21 May 2012, 11:00 pm
Invisible pixels a small, but large, step forward
Physicists at the University of Pennsylvania and Stanford University have created a nearly-invisible photodetector, by exploiting the different ways that silicon and gold scatter light.…
IBM to park mainframes on the cloud
The Register | 21 May 2012, 10:28 pm
Rolls out SmartCloud Enterprise+ for public consumption
IBM is gussying up its SmartCloud public cloud to make it more useful for enterprise-class customers, in the hope it can lure them away from Amazon Web Services, Hewlett-Packard, Dell and others. Big Blue is also promising to put its System z mainframes on its cloud.…
Mindspeed gets China Mobile femto gig
The Register | 21 May 2012, 9:01 pm
Must rig out support for political legacy, though
Mindspeed, sugar daddy to the UK-based Picochip, will be setting up a development lab with China Mobile to deploy cells using TD-LTE tech, but also supporting TD-SCDMA – as politics, rather than technology, demands.…
Oracle juices homegrown Xen to match own-brand Linux
The Register | 21 May 2012, 7:43 pm
One Ellisonized kernel to bind them all
System maker Oracle has upgraded its version of the Xen server virtualization hypervisor with its own variant of the Linux kernel to bring it in synch with its Enterprise Linux server operating system distro.…
