Tech News June 26, 2012
Boffins demo 2.5 Tbps OAM-modulated light signal ‘Twisted wave’ trick works with light
Back in March, a group of Italian and Swedish radio researchers demonstrated that a characteristic of radio waves called orbital angular momentum (OAM) can be used as a multiplexing technique, vastly increasing the theoretical capacity of wireless transmissions.…
UK net-biz cleanup squad plans to establish international operations IWF says battle against vile imagery needs to go global
The Internet Watch Foundation has made improvement of international co-operation a key objective in the next phase of its fight against the online distribution of child abuse content.…
Mensch pal Bozier defends Menshn security, dubs critics ‘snippy geeks’ ‘Your SQL is like what my 4-yr-old would write’
The launch of a Twitter-like messaging service …
Tech News June 23, 2012
ITU denies plans for global internet power-grab Details sticky WC-IT plans for online rewiring
The ITU has finalized its proposals for rewriting the regulations governing internet traffic, which will be decided at the World Conference on International Telecommunications (WC-IT) being held in Dubai this December.…
Apple’s iPhone 5 connector said to be a control freak 30-pin? Nope. Micro-USB? Nope. Power grab? Yup
Rumors that the iPhone’s familiar 30-pin connector will be replaced in the iPhone 5 with a Micro-USB port have riled the fanbois universe, inciting charges of planned obsolecense and worse. New reports, however, point not to a standard Micro-USB port, but a new – and proprietary – Apple port.…
ICANN anoints new internet kingpin Meet the new boss, not like the old …
Tech News June 13, 2012
Buffalo drops 802.11ac ’5G Wi-Fi’ router into Blighty 1.3Gb/s wireless, anyone?
Buffalo’s next-gen Wi-Fi router is now available to buy in the UK, though only from two retailers.…
Fate of dot-word bids decided by ICANN archery shoot-out That $185,000 gTLD application rests on MILLISECOND timing
Who should own .web? Will the internet get a .porn address? What does Google plan to do with 50 new top-level domains? Why is ICANN putting companies through an online “archery game” that requires millisecond timing?…
Tech News June 12, 2012
ZTE and Huawei execs get ten years for bribery Sentenced in their absence by Algerian court
Huawei and ZTE suffered a PR blow this week after it emerged that executives from the company had been convicted of bribery offences in Algeria and sentenced in their absence to ten years each in jail.…
Apple inserts sharp stick into Google’s eye, introduces iOS 6 New features to embarrass Mountain View ‘dairy product’ developer
If you’re harboring any doubts about bad blood bubbling between Apple and Google, Cupertino’s iOS headman Scott Forstall dispelled them on Monday when introducing the next version of Apple’s mobile operating system, iOS 6.…
Lamborghini drives Androids towards wealthy pockets Richer gear
Lamborghini has upped the gears with its own range …
Tech News June 9, 2012
Americans stand against UN internet-tax plan Can’t find any reds, so socialists will have to do
Comment The idea of taxing internet traffic has got the twitterverse into a tizzy. Apparently socialists monsters want pay for their carriage, and the UN has cooked up a secret plan to get the money.…
Stanley Black & Decker picks up Wi-Fi tracking tools Putting real-time locations under the knife
Stanley’s healthcare division has scooped up Wi-Fi tracking leader AeroScout, with a view to pushing the technology into hospitals – for use where RFID isn’t good enough.…
At last! The Wi-Fi chip that’ll beam video from mobe to telly Stick two antennas up at your router
Marvell’s latest Avastar chipset and TI’s next-generation silicon will stream …
Tech News June 8, 2012
Samsung ‘to launch Galaxy S III in US’, snubs Apple’s ban bid Pre-sale numbers have Cupertino worried
Samsung has said that its Galaxy S III smartphone will launch in the US, despite Apple’s attempts to get it banned.…
NASDAQ offers $40m to Facebook IPOcalypse investors Cash apology after gremlins hit trading
NASDAQ has offered Facebook investors a $40m apology pot for technical glitches that messed up the public sale of the social network’s shares – much to the annoyance of rival exchanges.…
O2, Be Broadband axe Pirate Bay access Blockade to appear overnight
Telefonica, which owns the O2 brand and fixed-line provider Be Broadband, is implementing a High Court order to block conventional web access to file-sharing search engine The Pirate Bay.…
Tech News June 7, 2012
Kiwi telcos hungry for consolidation Driven by fear of ultrafast broadband initiative
A desperate need for consolidation in the New Zealand market is being driven by the government’s national broadband network initiatives and could see accelerated exits and/or acquisitions according to analysts Ovum.…
Google Maps adds aircraft, tricycles and skiers to cover all bases Touts a billion monthly users ahead of WWDC
Google has been singing the praises of its mapping projects, outlining plans for a fleet of aircraft to provide 3D city modeling, offline storage of detailed maps, using StreetView on skis and snowmobiles and the mapping national museums and monuments with backpack 360 degree cameras.…
PEER 1 gobbles up UK managed-hosting biz for £25m NetBenefit’s parent becomes its customer
Global hosting firm …
Tech News June 6, 2012
Ericsson predicts over nine billion mobile subscriptions by 2017 Over three billion smartphones in circulation
Ericsson has published its latest mobile traffic report and is predicting the number of mobile subscriptions in 2017 will top nine billion, with the bulk of the growth coming in Asia and the Far East.…
Facebook testing “announce important post” feature UPDATE: Facebook confirms Reg reader’s “make sure friends see this” find
Facebook has confirmed it is trialling a feature that would allow users to shove posts into friends’ faces make sure their posts are seen by all their friends.…
Tech News June 5, 2012
June 6 is World Ipv6 Launch Day You may be the one per cent already using new network protocol
June 6th may seem like any other day to you, but a group of network operators, kit-makers and websites have determined it will become “World IPv6 launch day”.…
Asia needs US$1.1 trillion telco spend this decade to stay digital Alcatel-Lucent sees NBNs everywhere
Asia has been warned that it will need to invest USD $1.1 trillion in telecom infrastructure by the end of the decade in order to compete in the digital economy by Alcatel-Lucent Asia Pacific president Rajeev Singh-Molares.…
Tech News June 4, 2012
China overestimates 3G numbers by HALF Domestic 3G/landline hybrid counted as pure 3G by mistake
The Chinese government has been forced into an embarrassing u-turn after admitting that previously estimated figures for 3G subscriptions in the country were double what they should have been.…
Samsung set to roll with betting apps Oz startup Two Way pushes bookies into tellies
Australian interactive TV application developer Two Way is set to deploy its betting application across Samsung’s range of internet-enabled TVs, smartphones, tablets, Blu-ray players and home theatre systems.…
Facebook open sources production code “Folly” trove full of high performance widgets hits GitHub
Facebook has released Folly, a collection of what it describes as “reusable C++ library artifacts developed and used at Facebook.”…