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May 15, 2012
16:00
Cheques not checking out just yet

Electronic payments surge in Oz, but don't bounce paper rivals
Electronic payments surging, but cheques not about to bounce Electronic payments are replacing the humble cheque, but not so fast that the descendants of the promisory note are irrelevant or should be hustled towards a hastened retirement.…
16:29
Greenpeace targets Apple with 10-foot Pod stunt

Fanbois drool over prospect of iOS-based home
Silicon Valley cops arrested two Greenpeace activists who sealed themselves into a huge (i)Pod outside Apple HQ today, but chose not to cuff another bunch of activists who were dressed as giant iPhones.…
17:01
Baidu touts mobe with 100GB web drive

$158 cloud-backed smartphone from 'China's Google'
Baidu, the company which dominates China's search business as Google dominates elsewhere, has launched a smartphone using the company's cloud platform to reduce the price and keep the users loyal.…
17:57
New Apple patent may spell trouble for Android

Threat level hinges on lawyers' cunning
The US Patent and Trademark Office has handed Apple's legal team what may turn out to be a powerful weapon in their ongoing battles against anyone with the temerity to launch products competitive with the iPhone and iPad: a patent on soft keyboards that modify their keys with the tap of an on-screen button.…
20:11
Button batteries BURN KIDS FROM INSIDE

Where’s that dead CMOS battery you replaced last week?
The next time you replace a button battery, do take care to dispose of it thoughtfully lest your kids swallow it and end up subjecting their innards to a damaging electrical current.…
20:52
Casablanca to screen for free on Facebook

Not the beginning of a beautiful friendship outside the USA
Seventy year-old flick Casablanca is set to get a free outing in a new medium: Facebook.…
21:04
South Australia plans digital evidence review

Laws mentioning “telegram and telegraph” may not cover Internet adequately
Law reform advocates in South Australia are leading a push to have the rules of evidence reviewed to take new computer and communications technology into account.…
22:11
Graphics shocker: Nvidia virtualizes Kepler GPUs

VGX revs virty desktops, fluffs gamy clouds, changes everything
GTC 2012 You game-console makers who still want to be in the hardware business, look out. You console makers who don't want to be in the hardware business (this might mean you, Microsoft), you can all breathe a sigh of relief: after a five-year effort, Nvidia is adding graphics virtualization to its latest "Kepler" line of GPUs.…
23:55
Apple places massive DRAM order at Elpida plant - report

Memory-hungry fondleslabs and iPhones the culprits
Apple has taken a punt on bankrupt Japanese DRAM manufacturer Elpida, placing orders for a whopping 50 per cent of the firm’s production of chips at its Hiroshima facility, according to Digitimes.…
May 16, 2012
1:22
China steps up crack down on hi-tech exam cheats

No, you may not take that tablet into the exam hall...
The Chinese ministry of education has been forced to update its rules prohibiting cheating in college entrance exams to take account of the increasingly ingenious hi-tech methods used by desperate students and their parents to succeed in the hugely important exams.…
1:31
Stuxnet ≠ cyberwar, says US Army Cyber Command officer

AusCERT: What is cyberwar anyway?
While “cyber^* operations” are becoming an increasing focus of both government and private research, legal frameworks are failing to keep pace, the US Army Cyber Command operational attorney Robert Clark has told the AusCERT security conference in Queensland.…
1:34
Telstra denies IPTV shift

Ellis review results hold staff in suspense
Telstra has strongly rejected claims that the company will move away from the IPTV market, in a response to The Register's report last Monday that it was reviewing its IPTV strategy and considering moving its 300,000+ T-Box customers to Foxtel.…
1:50
75,000 Raspberry Pi baked before August

Distie says Arduino sales 'overtaken in an instant'
RS Components, one of two distributors for the Raspberry Pi, says the 75,000 of the tiny computers are burbling through the manufacturing supply chain and will be ready for release “in July to August”.…
2:00
Nokia Lumia 900 WinPho 7 smartphone

Bigger and better?
Review So you’re trying to revive the fortunes of what was, until a few weeks ago, the biggest mobile phone manufacturer on the planet. You’ve launched a handset or two with a new operating system and they’ve gone down quite well. So what next? How about taking one of those handsets and releasing a near-identical one, different only in size and capabilities. Bigger and better, you know?…
2:47
Microsoft touts 400 per cent Asia growth for Office 365

SMBs make the leap online but Google benefiting too
Microsoft is trumpeting impressive 400 per cent growth in adoption of its Office 365 online productivity suite by Asian SMBs over the past three quarters, although analysts pointed out that Google is still taking business from Redmond worldwide.…
3:07
IT bungle left dole office unable to check benefits for months

Tech delay hit DWP's Work Programme
Late delivery of IT to support the Work Programme left it without a system to carry out automated checks on whether people - who had been placed into work by the programme's 18 prime contractors - had stopped claiming benefits.…
3:31
One in two punters don't mind cookie-spewing stalking ads

Survey: Do not track, or do if you want
Nearly half of UK internet users are happy for advertisers to track their online activity in order to deliver more targeted ads, according to new survey figures.…
4:02
Hitachi GST releases skinny spinner

Slim slow slider
Western Digital's latest acquisition, Hitachi GST, has released a skinny single platter drive for consumer electronics devices.…
4:19
Only global poverty can save the planet, insists WWF - and the ESA!

Windfarms for all, but without using steel or concrete
Analysis Extremist green campaigning group WWF - endorsed by no less a body than the European Space Agency - has stated that economic growth should be abandoned, that citizens of the world's wealthy nations should prepare for poverty and that all the human race's energy should be produced as renewable electricity within 38 years from now.…
4:38
O2 dips toe into Groupon's pond with tat discounts

Polls punters for special offer ideas
Taking a leaf out of Groupon's book, O2 is asking its "Priority Moments" customers which firms it would like O2 to negotiate deals with, tapping the social networks to discover that most O2 users like Nandos regardless of their demographic.…
5:01
Facebook starting to go big in Brazil. Hmm ...

Plus: Monaco and Iceland have more accounts than people
Facebook's user base is plateauing across Europe and the US and the site has seen losses as well as gains in the developing world, the latest statistics from Social Analytics firm Socialbaked show.…
5:21
Google+ dying on its arse – shock new poll

Bet-the-company wager goes south
Google has bet the company on Google+, but it’s dying on its arse. A study by traffic analysts RJ Metrics suggests that public engagement with the social network is weak, and failing to gather momentum.…
5:41
EMC rounds up rival arrays, beats 'em into submission

You will work with each other
EMC VMAX arrays will team up competing drive arrays with a new version of the VMAX Enginuity OS.…
5:47
Sony outs 1080p skinny laptops

Vaio Z revamped
More updated Vaio laptops from Sony, this time the Z series - the latter the original Ultrabook, introduced before the MacBook Air and long before Intel coined the term.…
6:01
ASA tuts at TalkTalk over broadband speed estimator

Tool can stay, but ISP must add warning about potential inaccuracy
TalkTalk got rapped on the knuckles by the Advertising Standards Authority today after it upheld a complaint that its broadband speed checker was rather overestimating the actual speed of web surfing.…
6:07
Carphone Warehouse touts cut-price iPads

Catch: they're last year's model
Carphone Warehouse still has plenty of iPad 2s in its stock cupboard and has just knocked up to £50 off the price to shift them.…
6:14
The Incredible 4PB Hulk: EMC monsterises VMAX

Last big primary data array push before flash tsunami
EMC has gained top datacentre dog bragging rights with a coming 4 petabyte VMAX 40K storage array, storing 60 per cent more than HDS's biggest VSP array and 74 per cent more than IBM's DS8000. This is possibly one of the last massive primary data arrays before flash takes over the primary data storage universe*.…
6:28
Dell feeds Xeon E5s to hungry new PowerEdge beasts

Cheaper duos and quads, so we hear
Dell has added nine new Xeon E5-powered boxes to its PowerEdge 12G lineup as it chases the booming market for quad-socket machines in Asia.…
6:47
HTC phones held up at US ports after Apple patent ban

Stocks low as customs search boxes for illicit gear
US sales of two new HTC smartphones have been held up at customs over the company's patent battle with Apple.…
7:00
Lost Winds 2: Winter of the Melodias

Blow job?
iGamer With his Chibi proportions and boyish looks, Toku cuts an extremely familiar figure, as do most of the things around him: talking animals, impish sprites and elemental deities. So pervasive is Nintendo's influence throughout Winter of the Melodias, in fact, that neither the land of Mistralis nor its diminutive hero would seem out of place in a Mario or Zelda game.…

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