Tech News December 29, 2012
Dish seeks more time to oppose Sprint – Softbank deal While racking up $1.5bn in Christmas debt
Dish has asked the US regulator for more time to oppose Softbank’s takeover of Sprint. Meanwhile it’s stacking up the cash to fund its own network plans – which remain shrouded in mystery.…
Tech News December 22, 2012
iPhone tops US market, but trounced by Android in world+dog UK smartphoners prefer Android, but not as much as their EU brethren
Apple’s iPhone now accounts for over half of US smartphone sales, but in the UK and the rest of Europe – and the rest of the world, for that matter – Android phones still hold a healthy lead.…
‘Shake to charge’, similar crapps foul up Amazon Android store Thrown out of Google Play, now back in another bazaar
Security researchers have sniffed out dodgy apps floating around the Amazon App Store for Android-powered devices.…
BT ordered to pay £95m to rivals it overcharged for FIVE years Backhaul rates unjustified, rules Ofcom
BT overcharged its rivals £95m between 2006 and …
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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Tech News December 8, 2012
US text-to-911 emergency SMS to go live by 2014 Top four carriers to start rollout next year
“Omg hlp nd a dr” may soon become a familiar phrase to emergency operators in the US, thanks to a plan to enable text messaging to the 911 emergency telephone number from anywhere in the country by 2014.…
I’ve got the ‘fastest growing THINGY ever’, boasts Google+ chief You could be in Plus and not even know it
Google veep Vic Gundotra has described Google+ as “the fastest-growing network thingy ever.” He claimed that 135 million people were now actively using it, while 500 million users have been signed up to the site.…
Tech News December 7, 2012
T-Mobile USA inks deal with Apple, will offer iPhone in 2013 Last holdout among the Big Four US carriers
Fourth-ranked US wireless carrier T-Mobile has announced a new partnership with Apple, which should allow it to begin offering the iPhone on its network sometime next year.…
Dutch army digs in on spare spectrum rest of Europe could use Needs bands no one else uses to talk to itself
Early next year Ofcom is planning another consultation on two bands around 900MHz with a view to opening them up for unlicensed use, having established that only the Dutch care about them.…
Qualcomm aims its latest chips squarely at China Enter the low cost, high volume Snapdragon…
US chip giant Qualcomm has taken the …
Tech News 24/02/2012
GreenBytes goes on SME flash array gig Flash solidarity
ZFS-using disk array storage supplier GreenBytes has set out on a flash project with its Solidarity flash array offering faster than disk performance at lower than disk cost for small and medium business.…
Roku 2 XS IPTV player Smarten up your TV viewing
Review In the US, Roku has ridden to prominence on the back of services like Netflix and Hulu, and the phenomenon of ‘cord cutting’, where people discontinue pay TV services in favour of, well, paid IPTV services. That’s perhaps not surprising when their entry level box costs less than £40 including tax for US customers.…
TNZ braves the demerger with strong profits While Stephen Fry gets throttles
The freshly de-merged Telecom New …
Tech News 15/02/2012
Child abuse files stolen from council worker in PUB – £100k fine Another council coughs £80k for HAND-DELIVERING kid’s info to neighbour
The UK’s data protection watchdog has fined two English council bodies a total of £180,000 after finding they had failed to keep “highly sensitive information” about children secure.…
Intel 520 240GB SSD Sandforce inside
Review The rumour mill was working overtime throughout 2011 with suggestions that Intel was considering forsaking the Marvell controllers it had used for its previous generation of consumer SSDs, the 510 series. The story went that the company was jumping into bed with another third party controller manufacturer, namely Sandforce, for the next generation of its solid state drives.…
Heartland Institute documents leaked Koch-up …
Anonymous says attack put CIA website offline
Hackers have claimed responsibility for making the CIA website inaccessible on Friday – the latest attack on a US federal agency.
A Twitter post on a feed used by hackers’ collective Anonymous said “CIA Tango down”, a phrase used by the US Special Forces after killing an enemy.
Anonymous said in another tweet that just because it reported a hack, that did not mean it carried out the attack.
This would not be the first time the CIA website has been put offline.
In June 2011, a group affiliated with Anonymous, Lulz Security, temporarily brought down the agency’s homepage.
The CIA site remained offline on Friday evening after several hours, and a spokeswoman said the agency was looking into the reports.
Hackers usually target such websites through …
Tech News 11/02/2012
Ten… Valentine’s Day gifts for her All present and correct
Product round-up It’s that time of year again, when chocolate manufacturers rub their hands with joy and florists dream of blooming profits. Yes, Valentine’s Day is just around the corner.…
Germany stalls over ACTA treaty ratification Passes the buck to European Parliament
Germany has become the latest, and more economically important, nation to place a hold on ratification of the controversial ACTA treaty.…
US and EU regulators will give Googorola the nod soon Google gobbling Motorola reportedly good to go
Google’s planned purchase of Motorola Mobility looks likely to get clearance from US and EU authorities, possibly as early as next week, according to sources within the investigation.…
Tech News 04/02/2012
Eight… HD camera smartphones Sharp shooters for parties and protests
Product round-up You know that really annoying person who is videoing the gig with their camera phone to stick on Facebook when they get home? That’s me. These days my TV is HD and my games console is HD, so it only makes sense that my phone – the device I use the most, day in and day out – should be HD too. Luckily, HD on smartphones is becoming more commonplace and so rather than judge these handsets on their mobile merits, this round-up focuses on their HD video camera performance.…
Zuckerberg’s 2011 personal income tax bill: $1.5 billion That’s ‘billion’, with a ‘b’
If all goes according to plan, Facebook founder, chairman, and CEO …