Tech News December 1, 2012
No more fun and games for Zynga as Facebook cuts apron strings Mummy, you’re such a bitch … bitch
Zynga can no longer cream off users from Facebook, after Mark Zuckerberg‘s company revised a lucrative deal the games outfit once had with the network.…
Tech News November 30, 2012
Japanese ultrasonic speakers fire out digital info rays ‘SteganoSonic’ system can transmit sound or data
Japanese boffins at Tokyo’s Keio university have been showing off new transmission technology which uses ultrasonic waves to send digital information in highly directional bursts.…
Chinese buyers falling out of love with iPhones Shunning Samsung, too, in favour of local brands like Xioami
Google famously failed to make a big dent in China and now it looks like Apple may be about to hit the Great Wall too, after new analysis of local sentiment found the fruity company out of favour with local consumers.…
Voda fails again: network melts in Melbourne heatwave ‘Try turning it off and turning it back on again’
Vodafone is once again apologising to …
Tech News November 29, 2012
Half of us have old phones STUFFED in our drawers Other half are presumably just glad to see you
Fifty-five per cent of Brits have an old handset or two lying about the place, as despite the charities happy to recycle them we’re surprisingly reluctant to let them go.…
Microsoft claims Windows Phone sales up 300% App store bursting at the seams, too – or is it?
Speaking at the company’s annual shareholders meeting on Wednesday, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer waxed enthusiastic about Windows Phone 8, claiming sales were off to “a great start.”…
Inquiry ordered after phone exchange blaze Fire at Telstra’s Warnambool exchange disrupted telecoms, earns government ire
The Australian government has launched an inquiry into the communications collapse that ensued …
Tech News November 28, 2012
Microsoft ‘fesses up to Windows Phone 8 reboot bug Patch coming in December
Windows Phone 8 users frustrated by their handsets’ tendency to randomly reboot will soon be offered relief, after Redmond ‘fessed up to the existence of a problem and promised a patch.…
Your brain, the Internet and the Universe Could there be a ‘universal law’ for network growth?
Correlation does not imply causation. However, some correlations are at least fascinating, and here’s one that’s getting a lot of attention: the apparent structural similarity between the growth of the universe, that of the human brain, and complex artificial networks like the Internet or Twitter.…
Melbourne IT looks to offload business units Tough times for SME services
Battling disappointing trading results, Australian …
Tech News November 27, 2012
Network giants want software-defined network standards Virtual networks coming to mobile and metro networks … and beyond!
Software-defined networking (SDN), the concept that’s so hot VMware spent $US1.05 billion buying market leader Nicira, is on the way to becoming a standard for telecommunications networks.…
GE study pimps ‘industrial Internet’ How’s that SCADA security going, gentlemen?
General Electric thinks that as much as $US15 billion could be added to global industrial output, merely by connecting global industrial operations to the Internet.…
Phone with Facebook hardware button lobbed out by Nokia Press this for instant adverts and jabber
Nokia’s latest Series 40 blower, a dual-SIM model aimed at developing markets, has a Facebook button, the first device from the Finns to feature such an innovation.…
Tech News November 25, 2012
The ‘subversive adult Disneyland’ where iPods track your every move El Reg visits the Museum of Old and New Art, where IT budgets are boundless
David Walsh invented what he calls “a money mine”, and when he decided to spend some of its contents on an art gallery, he gave his IT team more than four years to provide the best visitor experience of any museum in the world.…
Why ‘slow light’ might just save the Internet Photonics lights a path to a high-speed, low-energy, Internet
If we want to keep expanding the performance and the reach of the Internet, we need an inflection point: otherwise, its electricity consumption will become catastrophic.…
Tech News November 24, 2012
European Parliament votes to fight ITU internet power grab Hey you, get off of my cloud
The European Parliament has passed a resolution protesting plans by the International Telecommunications Union to seize regulatory control of the internet.…
Huawei hawks hundred quid handset hupdate Will the Android-based Ascend G330 be the new king of budget blowers?
Huawei’s refreshed sub-£100 Android phone, the Ascend G330, will be available in the UK from early December, the manufacturer said today.…
Ofcom: White Space. We’re bloody serious this time. ONE YEAR Could this be the future of ALL radio spectrum? Eh?
Ofcom has laid out the rules regarding White Space devices, kicking off a consultation process which could see devices on the shelves around the end of next year.…
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Tech News November 23, 2012
Apps-for-feature-phones leader BiNu scores more cash $US4.3m to enter markets where feature phones still rule
Australian developed mobile platform biNu, which aims to give all mobiles access to smartphone apps, has secured a fresh round of VC funding to further expand into emerging markets.…
Lenovo set for Chinese smartphone crown in 2013 Next stop the WORLD…
Chinese PC giant Lenovo is set to oust Samsung as the top smartphone manufacturer in the People’s Republic by next year, thanks to success at the mid-to-low end of the market, according to Gartner.…
Hexing MAC address reveals Wifi passwords Researcher says Belkin boxen at risk of simple substitution attack
The default WPA2-PSK passphrase used in some Belkin routers simply replaces a character of the device’s MAC address …
Tech News November 22, 2012
Pakistan bans ‘immoral’ late night mobe deals Whatever you’re talking about late at night, Pakistan doesn’t want to hear it
Pakistan’s Telecommunication Authority (PTA) has banned mobile packages offering cheap late night calls after deeming that they go against the country’s “values”.…
AT&T randomly letting some customers use FaceTime on cellular Hurray, fanboi visagerie all over my slabber jabber
AT&T customers on tiered data plans with LTE devices can already use Apple’s FaceTime over mobile connections, but now the operator is spreading the love just in time for the holidays.…
Samsung brews half-asleep OCTO CORE phone brain MONSTER Set to burst upon a terrified world late in 2013
Samsung will tear the wraps off an eight-core ARM processor in February although half of the …
Tech News November 21, 2012
Facebook starts going encrypted by default in North America Only WE are allowed to spy on you … bitch
Facebook is finally deploying secure browsing for its 1-billion-strong userbase over the coming weeks.…
Brussels blesses British BDUK broadband boost blurt £530m cash prizes cleared for largely one-horse races
Maria Miller’s mercy dash to Brussels earlier this month appears to have paid off, after the European Commission confirmed today that it had cleared £530m in state aid investment for broadband deployment in the UK – along with what appear to be limp-wristed concessions.…
Microsoft’s OWN tests on Kin ‘social phone’ foretold its doom ‘Kin hell, is it ‘cos I didn’t touch it enough? – tester
Videos purporting to show Microsoft’s internal testing of …