Tech News December 20, 2012
Japanese firm lifts lid on Android-controlled toilet iOS fanbois must cross their legs and wait
Vid Japan has been at the cutting edge of toilet design for decades and has one of the highest rates of smartphone penetration on the planet, so it’s perhaps fitting that it has now combined the two by introducing a hi-tech Android-powered loo which enables hands-free toilet action.…
Yahoo! China! kills! music! search! service! Plans to sink pirates’ deep links
Yahoo! China has finally decided to follow the lead of rival Google and shut its online music service, ostensibly as part of an overall strategy change but in a move which will also remove a service known for deep linking to pirated content.…
Tech News December 19, 2012
Report: US telcos cashing in on data caps and poor competition Internet development hurt by artificial scarcity
The increasing use of data-capping and high data charges on US networks is less about easing network congestion or funding investment and more about increasing profits, according to a new analysis by the non-partisan New America Foundation think tank.…
Samsung drops six European anti-Apple injunction requests Legal maneuvers circle $346bn pie
Samsung has withdrawn its request for injunctions to ban sales of Apple’s iDevices in six European countries.…
Facebook: ‘No merit’ to claim we broke German privacy law You don’t like our real-names rule? Tough cookies, bitch
Facebook has hit back at a watchdog that claimed the website broke German law by requiring users to reveal …
Tech News December 18, 2012
DARPA planning 100 Gbps wireless Seeks interest in development and demonstrations
DARPA (the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency) has decided that the 200-276 Mbps wireless technology currently used for military communications, known as the Common Data Link, is not going to live forever, and is inviting companies to submit proposals to boost battlefield wireless to an impressive-if-achieved 100 Gbps.…
Sorry, Apple – China’s just not that into your iPhone 5 Still, 2 million sales in 3 days nothing to sneer at
Apple sold 2 million iPhone 5s in the three days in China after the device went on official sale on Friday. It’s a sales figure that is solid, but will not see buyers in the east Asian country replacing Apple’s lucrative markets of Europe …
Tech News December 15, 2012
Dutch script kiddie pwns 20,000 Twitter profiles How much do you have in common with the other lusers?
A Dutch teenager successfully hijacked 20,000 Twitter profiles to post a message dissing their owners for being slack with security.…
UK.gov backs away from ISP level filtering plan to protect kids Parents, keeping your broadband clean is up to you
The government has decided to stop short of forcing telcos to filter websites at a network level, after discovering that there wasn’t a major “appetite” for such a system among parents who want to prevent their kids from accessing supposedly inappropriate material online.…
UN telecoms talks FOUNDER as US, UK, Canada and Aussies quit Let’s not talk about the internet – but we had to
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