Friday 24th October 2008 | Posted in Networking, Comms, Wireless & Mobile | No Comments »
Wireless Groundhog Day
To the surprise of no one, engineers representing America's incumbent wireless carriers and broadband internet providers have attacked the FCC's plan to grace the country with a free "third pipe."…
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Thursday 23rd October 2008 | Posted in Networking, Comms, Wireless & Mobile | No Comments »
Cusses out ARM core
Intel has started calling the iPhone a flawed browsing experience. The chip giant attributes this to Apple's choice of an ARM core to power its moderately successful mobile phone.…
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Thursday 23rd October 2008 | Posted in Hardware | No Comments »
Bechtolsheim still chief architect, says 'boss'
When we woke up this morning, we were confronted with a flurry of stories about Andy Bechtolsheim leaving Sun to become chairman and chief development officer at a startup called Arista Networks. This seemed like bad news for Sun, but the company would like you to know it isn't entirely true.…
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Thursday 23rd October 2008 | Posted in Software & Applications | No Comments »
No SLA for grownups
Amazon has launched a beta version of its Elastic Compute Cloud running Windows, while taking early steps to make EC2 appealing to business users.…
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Thursday 23rd October 2008 | Posted in Security | No Comments »
'Critical' bug squashed
Updated Microsoft has released an emergency security update for a broad swath of its users that patches a critical security hole that is already being exploited in the wild.…
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Thursday 23rd October 2008 | Posted in Security | No Comments »
Search engine self-flagellation
Google has castigated itself for being an intermediary for malware.…
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Thursday 23rd October 2008 | Posted in Networking, Comms, Wireless & Mobile | No Comments »
Cusses out the ARM core
Intel has started calling the iPhone a flawed browsing experience. The chip giant attributes this to Apple's choice of an ARM core to power its moderately successful mobile phone.…
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Thursday 23rd October 2008 | Posted in Networking, Comms, Wireless & Mobile | No Comments »
O2, Be Broadband network slowed
Workmen in London's Docklands sliced through a major fibre optic trunk yesterday, forcing businesses and ISPs nationwide to reroute internet traffic.…
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Thursday 23rd October 2008 | Posted in Security | No Comments »
Critical flaw clocked
Microsoft is about to issue an emergency security update to plug a vulnerability which could allow an internet worm to be spread via a computer without the user doing anything.…
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Thursday 23rd October 2008 | Posted in Security | No Comments »
Hit keyboard with fists, gain access
Much was made of how easy it was for a hacker to reset Sarah Palin's webmail account password and gain illicit access to emails, but resetting passwords for Verified by Visa - which supposedly makes online transactions more secure - is arguably even easier.…
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