Watch out Microsoft, IBM, Cisco, Dell, and HP. There's a new reassuringly dull certificate in town, and it's coming for your devs.…
The concentration of carbon dioxide in the Earth's atmosphere is about to rise above the 400 parts per million threshold for the first time in human history.
The milestone is not to be regarded as any kind of scientific "tipping point" for climate change, but it is an important psychological barrier -- at no time in the history of human civilisation has there been such a high concentration of carbon dioxide in the Earth's atmosphere.
By: Ian Steadman, Edited by: Olivia Solon
Twitter has responded to high profile news organisations such as the Associated Press and The Guardian having their Twitter accounts hacked by sending out a best practice advice email.
The email came via the social media site's partnerships team which manages Twitter's relationships with the media industry from a best practice perspective.
By: Philippa Warr, Edited by: Ian Steadman
BT has reached out to its prodigal child O2 and offered to help build it a flashy new 4G network - for a few hundred million quid.…
Open source NoSQL datastore specialist Basho has teamed up with SoftLayer to hoist the free and paid-for versions of Riak into the cloud.…
Virgin Galactic's suborbital space vehicle SpaceShipTwo had its first rocket-powered flight on 29 April, going supersonic during its 16 second engine burn. The flight is an important step forward towards commercial operations.
The spaceline's founder, Sir Richard Branson, was on the ground at Mojave to witness the test flight. "The first powered flight of Virgin Spaceship Enterprise was without any doubt, our single most important flight test to date. For the first time, we were able to prove the key components of the system, fully integrated and in flight. Today's supersonic success opens the way for a rapid expansion of the spaceship's powered flight envelope, with a very realistic goal of full space flight by the year's end. We saw history in the making today and I couldn't be more proud of everyone involved," said Branson.
By: Charles Black, Sen.com, Edited by: Kadhim Shubber
T-Mobile UK punters reckon they can avoid the mobile network's latest price rise - after the operator swelled its prices beyond inflation.…
Platform-as-a-service provider AppFog is evaporating its cloudy bridge to Rackspace due to poor customer demand, in yet another case of the fluffy industry coming to terms with hard business realities.…
GreenBytes' all-flash IO Offload Engine has been certified by Citrix as compatible with XenServer, clearing the way for it to accelerate the cloudy outsourcer's virtual desktops.…
Google will axe the Meebo website widget bar just one year after buying the company that built it.…
Amazon Web Services will not build you a private copy of its own cloudy infrastructure for your own use, and it believes, as its top brass reiterated again last week, that there is no such thing as a private cloud.…
WhatsApp, BlackBerry Messenger and other online chat apps handled more messages than telcos handled texts, says market research biz Informa.…
Astronomers have discovered an exotic double object, the most massive neutron star confirmed so far closely orbited by a white dwarf star, which confirms Albert Einstein's theory of general relativity.
An international team, using the European Southern Observatory's (ESO) Very Large Telescope, along with radio telescopes around the world, have found a tiny, but unusually heavy neutron star that spins 25 times each second, orbited every two and a half hours by a white dwarf star. The neutron star is a pulsar that is giving off radio waves that can be picked up on Earth by radio telescopes.
By: Jenny Winder, SEN.com, Edited by: Kadhim Shubber
Another North American TV network has discovered credit card numbers can be read using a phone, and whipped itself into a media frenzy due to its failure to understand how NFC works.…
White Space networking kit will get large-scale trials later this year, to see if multiple databases and radio protocols can be deployed without knocking TV off the air.…
Redditers in Australia – and others – got a giggle out of one of the better bits of brand-squat-spoofing to arise on the Interwebs in recent times.…
Cue a new round of fast-network scare-mongering from the world's content owners: a group of information theorists from the US, France and Finland believe that with a bit of tweaking, P2P networks can become even more efficient.…
In the nearly three weeks since Australia's opposition parties released their policy for a faster-and-cheaper-to-implement national broadband network (NBN) reliant on VDSL to bring 50Mbps connections to most homes and businesses, oceans of digital ink have been spilled analysing the plan.…
Online retailer Amazon is facing opposition from Brazil and Peru over its claim for the .amazon global top-level domain name (gTLD).
The two countries have lodged objections with the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (Icann), which is managing the expansion of the domain name system, over the website's claim.
By: Duncan Geere, Edited by: Nate Lanxon
There's only so much you should spent on commodity cloud services before you consider other options like getting a discount, moving back to your own servers, or to a private managed cloud, according to cloud providers and customers.…
T-Mobile USA's no-restriction contract turns out to have restrictions, and while they might seem obvious to some the state Attorney General in Washington feels they weren't obvious enough.…
This week we discuss a proposed block on porn over UK public Wi-Fi, advances in 3D-printing human organs and the rest of the week in Wired news.
By: Olivia Solon,
Dame Fiona Caldicott, who is scrutinising the government's plan to hand NHS patient records to private companies, today gave the proposals the thumbs-up - with a few caveats, naturally.…
Not far from Google's headquarters in Mountain View, California, there's a nondescript building that looks like it might be home to stealth startup. But if you walk in the front door, you won't find cubicles or computers. You'll find a secret bike shop where people like Robert Jimenez and Terry Mac twist wrenches and true tires all day long, rocking out to AC/DC and Pink Floyd. Then, if you slip into the back room, you'll see them: 1,300 green, blue, red and yellow Google Bikes, stacked Santa's workshop-style as far the eye can see.
This building is the nervous system for a remarkable campus-wide bike-sharing program that doubles as a mirror of the search giant's corporate culture.
By: Robert McMillan, Edited by: Kadhim Shubber
The Pirate Bay has found a new home in Iceland.…
NetApp has approached the University of Melbourne's Cloud Computing and Distributed Systems (CLOUDS) Laboratory, seeking collaboration around the Labs' research specialties in federated public clouds.…
Verizon is putting together a $100bn bid for Vodafone's stake in its wireless business, and is ready to take the offer public if a boardroom deal can't be agreed.…
Amazon will be the latest tech biz to release a set-top TV box later this year, according to the rumour mill, incorporating its video-on-demand services.…
Storage firm Fusion-io reported ugly results for its third fiscal 2013 quarter, with revenues down - albeit higher than analysts had expected - and a thumping loss.…
Virgin Media has apologised after charging a dead man £10 for being unable to pay his broadband bill.…
Tesco Direct may have accidentally poured cold water on whatever surprise launch spectacular Activision had planned for Call of Duty: Ghosts.
According to OPM, a listings page on Tesco's website briefly appeared giving the title a 30 December 2013 release date. Although the date seems unlikely as it would miss all the Christmas sales traffic an end-of-year release around November time would make sense.
By: Philippa Warr, Edited by: Olivia Solon
Brussels' competition chief Joaquin Almunia has given Google's rivals one month to test the ad giant's commitments to change how it runs its dominant search business in the European Union.…
Mystery storage startup Exablox has finally uncloaked its secret project - which turned out to be a simple scale-out filer managed through a cloud-based utility.…
It's time, if you're so inclined, to plunk down a reservation for a one-way ticket to Mars. The privately funded Mars One foundation recently opened up applications for astronauts to take a journey to the Red Planet in 2022/23. Return trips, the organisers said, just aren't feasible with the technology we have.
From a wide field of applicants, organisers said two women and two men will be selected to make the journey. The technology that takes them there has been tested before, and the potential for a worldwide audience will be there given four billion people will have the internet by then, said Mars One CEO Bas Lansdorp.
By: Elizabeth Howell, SEN.com, Edited by: Kadhim Shubber
Sam Parnia practices resuscitation medicine. In other words, he helps bring people back from the dead -- and some return with stories. Their tales could help save lives, and even challenge traditional scientific ideas about the nature of consciousness.
"The evidence we have so far is that human consciousness does not become annihilated," said Parnia, a doctor at Stony Brook University Hospital and director of the school's resuscitation research program. "It continues for a few hours after death, albeit in a hibernated state we cannot see from the outside."
Resuscitation medicine grew out of the mid-twentieth century discovery of CPR, the medical procedure by which hearts that have stopped beating are revived. Originally effective for a few minutes after cardiac arrest, advances in CPR have pushed that time to a half-hour or more.
By: Brandon Keim, Edited by: Kadhim Shubber
Rumours that O2 UK plans to outsource all its telephone support work have been dismissed as speculation by the mobile network operator. The cynical among us will note that's not the same as completely ruling it out.…
Time may be short for companies who make a living with internet-promoted premium phone numbers, as the UK regulator of such matters opens a second consultation aimed at denying them obscurity.…
Tablets have been outselling desktop and notebook PCs combined here in Blighty, and they could well be about to generate more revenue for their manufacturers too, data from GfK, a market watcher, suggests.…
O2 will be running 28 UK events titled Think Big School, pushing 3,000 youngsters through two days of training so they can learn to write code and pitch business ideas like a skinny-tie-and-sneakers-wearing Shoreditch type.…
Rackspace has broadened the capabilities of its cloud monitoring technology by letting admins put an agent on their servers to get a clearer idea of how apps are using hardware resources.…
Sprint has committed to keeping its 2G network operational beyond AT&T and Verizon, hoping to sign up some machines even if fleshy humans wander away.…
Pivotal wants to build and sell the systems that run Google, but though its ambition may be bold, its claims are as yet more visions than statements of fact.…
Shareholders in US mobile minnow MetroPCS have approved an improved offer from Deutsche Telekom's T-Mobile USA subsidiary after the Germans sweetened the terms of their offer.…
The next generation Xbox (Durango, Xbox 720 - whatever you're currently calling it) will be announced by Microsoft on 21 May.
The unveiling won't be an exclusive journalist-only event but follows Sony's Playstation 4 model of "reveal via global livestream then see you at E3!" The stream will be available on Xbox.com, Xbox LIVE and, if you're going to be in the US or Canada, on Spike TV.
By: Philippa Warr,
It is getting hard to see where Ubuntu Server ends and where the OpenStack cloud controller begins - and this is absolutely intentional on the part of Canonical, the corporate entity behind the Ubuntu distribution of the Linux operating system.…
General Electric is pouring $105m into Pivotal, a skunkworks cloud and big data company spun-out of VMware and EMC.…
Prime Minister David Cameron is once again crusading against online pornography after he admitted late last year that network-level smut filtering was a "crude system".…
Huawei sent out a clear signal to its competitors in the global enterprise IT market on Tuesday with predictions of stellar growth for the vendor’s smallest business group over the next five years to reach revenues of $10bn by 2017. But analysts are sceptical about its chances of becoming a genuinely disruptive alternative to the likes of industry veterans Cisco, HP and IBM.…
Amazon’s struck back at Microsoft camp over its "lowering" of its cloud computing prices by touting Amazon’s track record for saving money.…
Apple had an earnings call today, giving the low down on the company's performance for its second quarter of 2013. Overall, there weren't any big surprises -- but that doesn't mean it was all good news.
The Cupertino company beat analyst estimates on a number of fronts, including total revenue and iPhone and iPad sales. But profits fell for the first time in almost ten years.
Here's the breakdown in plain English.
By: Christina Bonnington, Edited by: Kadhim Shubber
Everything Everywhere put a brave spin on its latest 4G numbers today and insisted it was on course for its goal of 1 MEEEELION users by the end of the year.…
BitTorrent has opened the Alpha testing program for its new BitTorrent Sync tool to all.…
Amazon Web Services (AWS) Adam Selipsky has told an event in Sydney, Australia, that private clouds aren't really clouds.…
Australia's spectrum auction may have had a dark horse entry, with reports emerging that TPG has registered as a bidder.…
Akamai's State of the Internet report reveals a sharp slowdown in Australian Internet download speeds to the end of 2012.…
Say what you will about VMware, but it has been brilliant about extracting the most amount of profit possible out of what used to be a virtual monopoly on x86 server virtualization in the data center. But competition from Microsoft and various open source alternatives, particularly the OpenStack-KVM combo, is putting the squeeze on Virtzilla's profits.…
Chinese telecoms equipment maker Huawei has revised its enterprise sales projections downward after admitting that it has given up on plans to expand into the US market.…
The White House has backed a bill that would give US states the ability to demand sales tax from online retailers, while the Senate clears the law for formal voting.…
Twitter is well on its way to becoming an advertising giant after signing one of its biggest deals so far with media agency Starcom MediaVest Group (SMG).…
The Pirate Bay has opened its doors to public donations in the form of Bitcoins.
The BitTorrent site has hitherto been funded by other methods such as banner advertising but, as the digital currency makes it far harder to trace funding, Bitcoins are a viable option for those who want to support the site anonymously despite (or perhaps because of) its slightly problematic legal standing.
By: Philippa Warr, Edited by: Olivia Solon
There are few things more divisive than the act of Instagramming one's meal. Those who don't do it find it incredibly annoying; those that do do it are amazed that anyone could find it so offensive (even though it so very much is).
However, a Swedish food supplier has launched a service that makes practical use of Instagram, for those who want to recreate restaurant meals at home.
By: Ian Steadman, Edited by: Liat Clark
With Google's current homepage option, iGoogle, set to go the way of the dodo in November 2013, it looks increasingly likely that Google Now is being groomed as a replacement.
Google Now is an adaptive personal assistant-style app which is currently available for the company's Android operating system. It uses cards -- ways of dividing information into chunks depending on subject -- to display the information you are most likely to need at a given time using cues drawn from other Google services like the Calendar or Gmail.
By: Philippa Warr, Edited by: Olivia Solon
A work-in-progress build of the next BlackBerry OS, version 10.1, has leaked onto the interwebs.…
For those in the mood for deep wireless communication geekery, a group of Chinese researchers has released a proposed protocol for MAC layer behaviour of cognitive radio systems.…
Vodafone has said it's hoping that the rollout of the National Broadband Network will give it the chance to improve country mobile services.…
Last year, Atomic Labs, the creator of the Pion web analytics tool, changed its name to Cloudmeter, raised some money, and set above to make its analytics tool more broadly useful for enterprises. Pion has been transformed into a broader tool called Stream, which runs on premises, and Cloudmeter has cooked up an adjunct application performance management tool called Insight, which runs on the Amazon Web Services cloud.…
CA Technologies has hopped into API management via the acquisition of Layer 7 technologies as the company continues to reinvent itself for the software-as-a-service era.…
The world spends about twice as much dough on enterprise software as it does on data center hardware, and that software is also where a lot of the profit for the IT sector comes from. So when enterprise software revenues don't grow as fast as they have in prior years, it has ripple effects on the IT industry as a whole.…
When we're scouting round for Important Objects Which We Know Are Around Here Somewhere (if only we could just remember where) the brain activates specific regions to help with the search.
As a result, regions of the brain usually employed in other tasks -- recognition of unrelated objects or processing abstract thought -- are hijacked for the search mission.
By: Philippa Warr, Edited by: Ian Steadman
The cloud is at the same point in its history that proprietary minicomputers were at three decades ago.…
The Scottish National Gallery is considering a foray into beekeeping with hives positioned on its roof to generate honey.
The project has been proposed by Victor Contini, owner of the National Gallery's cafe, and would involve two beehives being placed on the roof of the gallery building. Honey produced on-site could then be sold to tourists or used in the cafe.
By: Philippa Warr, Edited by: Olivia Solon
Facebook is reportedly building a $1.5bn data centre in the US state of Iowa - but for now the company is remaining quiet about its plans.…
The Universe has steadily been opening up its secrets as more and more giant telescopes spring up like mushrooms around the world. Now approval has been given to build an optical observatory on Hawaii that, for a while, will be the largest on the planet.
The Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT) project won a permit for its construction from the Hawaiian Board of Land and Natural Resources. It means it can now become the latest large instrument to operate from the ideal location near the summit of Mauna Kea, an extinct volcano.
By: Paul Sutherland, Sen.com, Edited by: Kadhim Shubber
Culture Secretary Maria Miller insisted during parliamentary questioning that the government's £680m Broadband Delivery UK (BDUK) project will hit its target of bringing download speeds of at least 2Mbit/s to almost every Brit by 2015.…
Australia's broadband debate is beginning to take on elements of farce.…
Amazon's streaming service Lovefilm will pilot a range of comedies and children's shows online in new plans announced by the web retail giant.
A stable of fourteen different shows, including Alpha House and Zombieland, will be put to the public vote to decide whether they get made into full series.
By: Duncan Geere, Edited by: Olivia Solon
The repair of the Fukushima nuclear plant following Japan's 2011 earthquake and subsequent tsunami is making slow progressaccording to Japan's Nuclear Regulation Authority.
"The Fukushima Daiichi plant remains in an unstable condition, and there is concern that we cannot prevent another accident," said Shunichi Tanaka, the organisation's chairman.
By: Duncan Geere,
Cody Kretsinger, better known as Recursion, has been handed a year in prison and 1,000 hours of community service by a judge in LA after hacking Sony Pictures' website.
Kretsinger pleased guilty in April 2012 to conspiracy and unauthorised impairment of a protected computer after admitting his membership of the hacking group Lulzsec. The group's reign of digital terror was short-lived, but included many high-profile targets including the NHS, the CIA, PBS, the UK's Serious Organised Crime Agency, and Sony's PlayStation network.
By: Duncan Geere,
Amazon's streaming service Lovefilm will pilot a range of comedies and children's shows online in new plans announced by the web retail giant.
A stable of fourteen different shows, including Alpha House and Zombieland, will be put to the public vote to decide whether they get made into full series.
By: Duncan Geere,
The Girl Scouts of Greater Los Angeles have partnered with Women in Games International to launch a badge for designing videogames.
Young female game designers need to use E-line's Gamestar Mechanic software to earn the badge, which is compatible with the Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths (STEM) initiative.
By: Duncan Geere,
Google is using its giant pile of money to try and change how utility companies work, so that more businesses can buy their power from renewable sources.…
Choosing the small city of Provo, Utah as the next location to receive Google's high-speed fiber internet service must have been a no-brainer, as the online giant will reportedly pay just $1 to set up shop in the area.…
A leading UK privacy warrior has urged Apple to explain itself after the tech titan admitted Siri queries are kept on record for two years.…
Ants change jobs as they age, a study that followed the lives of individual ants has found.
The career progression was discovered by a team at the University of Lausanene in Switzerland who tagged and tracked every individual in six colonies of carpenter ants.
Young ants were more likely to be nurses, taking care of the queen ant and her young, while older ants were more likely to be foragers, gathering food for the colony. In the middle of their "careers" the ants were commonly cleaners.
By: Kadhim Shubber, Edited by: Ian Steadman
A number of EU countries aren't keen on backing the European Commission's bid for a formal investigation of Chinese telecoms manufacturers Huawei and ZTE, Sweden has said.…
This week the team discusses a bra designed to ward off rapists, an app designed to help Iclandic residents avoid marrying a relative, and Reddit's involvement in solving the Boston bombings.
By: Nate Lanxon,
Chinese telecoms kit maker ZTE says it has finally wound up its business dealings in Iran, bar existing customers, as the firm tries to move on following allegations it broke US sanctions by flogging spy technology to the Islamic republic.…
Ofcom has handed TalkTalk a £750,000 fine after the company made around 9,000 silent or abandoned calls during a 2011 telemarketing campaign.
Calls are deemed to be abandoned if the caller hangs up after the recipient has answered. Ofcom's regulations stipulate that these calls must include a recorded information message noting who called and how to opt out of future calls. Silent calls are similar but instead of hanging up when the person answers there is just silence.
By: Philippa Warr, Edited by: Kadhim Shubber
Nasa scientists have discovered an alien solar system that they believe has two planets that are completely submerged under water.
The worlds, dubbed super-Earths because they are rocky and larger than our own planet, are orbiting a star called Kepler-62 that lies 1,200 light-years away in the constellation of Lyra.
Both exist in the so-called habitable zone around their home star where water essential for life as we know it can exist as a liquid.
By: Paul Sutherland, Sen.com, Edited by: Kadhim Shubber
Yahoo!’s decision last month to axe home working prompted much debate. Common reactions ranged from outrage through incredulity to the sad shaking of heads over the fact that CEO Marissa Mayer is clearly out of touch with the modern world.…
Amazon Web Services now has over two trillion objects within its S3 storage cloud, just one year after Bezos & Co. smashed through the one-trillion ceiling.…
The four biggest US cell networks could face a government probe, following allegations that security updates for Android smartphones have been held back, leaving millions of Americans vulnerable to hackers.…
Department store, John Lewis, is aiming to capture a slice of the broadband market by giving away a six month broadband subscription when customers purchase connected devices.
The company deems "connected devices" to cover the 80 percent of their technology offering which either requires the internet to function or is internet-ready -- smart TVs, Kindles, wifi printers, tablets and so on.
By: Philippa Warr, Edited by: Olivia Solon
Twitter's much-heralded music app, Twitter Music, is finally open to the public.
The new service, which is only available on iPhone and web at the moment, mines the wealth of data from tweets to find and showcase trending tracks and emerging artists.
Users can stream music through the app by signing into Spotify and Rdio, and a #NowPlaying dashboard shows you the music that the people you follow have tweeted about. It also connects to iTunes but that will only play track previews. There are suggestions that service will also allow hook ups with YouTube, Soundcloud and Vevo.
By: Kadhim Shubber, Edited by: Olivia Solon
Mark Shuttleworth, the founder of the Ubuntu distribution of Linux, has wanted to turn his creation into a cloud platform for years, he said during his keynote at the OpenStack Summit in Portland, Oregon on Wednesday.…
Sony has announced a harness which allows dog owners to mount a camera on their pet and record the world from the canine point-of-view.
The dog harness (AKA-DM1) is part of a range of accessories for Sony's HDR-AS15 Action Cam and will be released in Japan on 26 April with a recommended retail price of 5,250 yen (around £35).
By: Philippa Warr, Edited by: Olivia Solon
Ofcom has once again fined telco TalkTalk, after the company swamped potential customers with silent calls. It now has to pay £750,000 for failing to comply with UK law.…
When social animals are separated from their colony and placed into isolation, their lifespan is reduced, a study finds.
In 1944, two French entomologists -- Pierre Paul Grasse and Remy Chauvin -- separated small groups of social insects (between 1 and 10 bees) from their colony to measure their respective life span. They found that groups of 10 individuals lived longer than groups of 1 or 2 individuals. This suggested that the lifespan of individuals may be affected by their interaction with the group to which they belong.
By: Olivia Solon, Edited by: Ian Steadman
The consortium of US retailers hoping to own pay-by-bonk have signed Gemalto to process their payments, revealing that on-screen bar codes lie at the centre of the scheme.…
T-Mobile UK can no longer describe its "Full Monty" mobile broadband tariff as "unlimited", thanks to a ruling by the advertising watchdog.…
Some 28,000 London suburbanites will have 40 days to fit their free 4G filters, before Freeview television frequencies are swamped with faked 4G networking signals in a mass test of the British public's ability to plug stuff in.…
One of the reasons for the rise of the Internet was that it was stupid: by throwing buckets of bandwidth at any problem, and attaching the intelligence to the network edge, it could ship bits around vastly cheaper than telco carrier networks.…
Virgin Media has tweaked its traffic-management policy -- that's the controversial one which deals with data usage thresholds and penalties for exceeding them -- to be "more flexible and responsive".
The changes apply to the brand's 30mb and over broadband tier and lead with the fact that the punitive speed reduction for exceeding usage could only apply for one hour and only in the direction of the issue. For example, going over your download limit would only affect your download speed.
By: Philippa Warr, Edited by: Liat Clark
Samsung staffers slated smartphone arch-rival HTC in fake online reviews - and now a Taiwanese watchdog is investigating.…
By creating nanosuits to protect insects while inside a vacuum, scientists can now study the living creatures using scanning electron microscopes (SEM).
Putting living organisms inside the high vacuum required by a SEM generally results in their swift death, however, by bombarding particular insects with electron beams or ionised plasma particles, biologists were able to create a polymer coating which prevented extreme dehydration while in the vacuum.
By: Philippa Warr, Edited by: Olivia Solon
The investigation of 15 April's deadly twin bombings in Boston will rely to an extraordinary extent on crowdsourced surveillance, provided by marathon spectators' mobile phone photos, Vine videos, and Instagram feeds.
Investigators in Boston, led by FBI special agent in charge Richard DesLauriers, want to see any and all imagery taken by anyone and everyone where the blasts occurred Monday. In an unusual move, the team of local, state and federal authorities investigating the crime openly called for spectators to provide any images or video they might have, all of which could potentially provide leads or evidence in the case.
"We'd like to review any type of media," to include "video [and] photographic evidence" of the attack that killed three and injured more than 150 people, Gene Marquez of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms said on 16 April.
By: Spencer Ackerman, Edited by: Kadhim Shubber
Cloudscaling, one of the upstarts trying to become the Red Hat of OpenStack, has unveiled OCS 2.5, the third major release of its Open Cloud System. While it prepares for the coming of "Grizzly" - the latest OpenStack release - Cloudscaling has also inked a deal with Juniper Networks to put Juniper's virtual networking software at the heart of the virtual private computing extensions that it is adding to OpenStack.…
Do you hate driving in the city? Do you fly into a rage when you can’t find a parking spot after spending hours in heavy traffic on the way to your destination?…
Vodafone engineers dispatched to fix a Southampton mobile mast found a nesting Peregrine falcon - a protected species which must be left alone until its eggs hatch - leaving local residents with limited mobile coverage.…
O2 hired circus performers this week to launch its new Refresh tariff, which it was forced to confirm ahead of schedule thanks to a media leak.…
Hot on the heels of the open source Xen hypervisor being moved over to the Linux Foundation as an official collaborative project, Citrix Systems, which has controlled the Xen community as well as the open source CloudStack cloud controller that is one of the viable alternatives to OpenStack, has scored the Terremark cloud subsidiary of telco giant Verizon as an enthusiastic backer of both Xen and CloudStack.…
Reg readers feel strongly about their smartphones. This much was clear when Freeform Dynamics analysed the results of a recent research study looking at Reg readers' habits and activity with respect to smartphones, tablets, TV viewing and electronic gaming (discussed in a previous article),…
Crooks claim they gained access to server hosting biz Linode's customer passwords and credit card details.…
What's the difference between Windows Azure and Amazon Web Services? Very little – or so says Microsoft, which has made a new commitment to match the web bazaar's pricing for basic cloud services.…
Ofcom have announced plans to make calls to 0800 numbers free of charge from all telephones, including mobiles.
The announcement comes as part of a wider drive by the telecoms watchdog to simplify and clarify the charges around 'non-geographic' phone numbers, meaning those that begin 08, 09 and 118.
By: Philippa Warr, Edited by: Ian Steadman
