Friday 31 May 2013

FIA requests Ferrari tyre test information

Formula One racing's governing body, the FIA, has requested information from Ferrari as well as Mercedes as it looks into the latter's alleged rule contravention in participating in a Pirelli tyre test using a 2013 car. Both Ferrari and Red Bull lodged a protest against Mercedes at last weekend's Monaco Grand Prix

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AWS peers into soul of Load Balancers for DNS failover

Route 53 DNS service gets much-requested feature


Amazon Web Services now lets users apply automated DNS failover policies to data fronted by load balancers rather than just IPs.…






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You need to get serious about 4G coverage, Ministry of Fun told

One database to rule them all?


The Ministry of Fun should set up a national planning database, allowing network operators to instantly check zoning restrictions if it's serious about promoting 4G technology.…




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Pirelli: tyre tests did not favour any team

Formula One racing's official tyre suppliers Pirelli have responded to speculation about of its recent tyre test with Mercedes, saying that it did not favour any team. Their response follows a protest in Monaco by Red Bull and Ferrari questioning the legality of running such a test with a 2013 car under the current Formula One regulations

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Harry Potter's 'Marauder’s Map' created by Carnegie Mellon researchers



In the Harry Potter world, the Marauders Map allowed its user to see, in real-time, the location of every individual in Hogwarts. Now, by combining CCTV footage with an algorithm that uses facial recognition, colour recognition and location tracking tools, scientists have managed to create a real-life "Marauders Map".


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Wired.co.uk Podcast 126: Mammoth squirts blood, Oculus Rift tested

Wired podcast

Listen this week to hear about the mammoth that squirted blood when hit with a pick axe, what the best VR gaming headset ever is like to wear, and the rest of the week's best Wired news.


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El Reg drills into Office365: Mass email migration

Hands-on with Trevor


Spinning up a new instance of Office 365 to provide email for a brand new domain is easy; migrating email from other domains is not.…






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Why we can't send humans to Mars yet, and how we'll fix that



There’s nothing technologically impossible about a manned Mars mission. It's just a matter of developing the necessary tools

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Ex-YouTube man builds graphics card for entire internet



At Google, Chris Zacharias spent his "20 percent time" building a new version of YouTube just for places with slow internet connections. It was called Feather, and the basic idea was to build a YouTube page that contained no more than 100 kilobytes of data, so that it could quickly load on machines in developing countries and other places where internet pipes were painfully narrow.


In the end, Feather worked well enough, bringing YouTube to many places that had never used the world's most popular video site. But building the machine was far more difficult than it should have been, mainly because Zacharias didn't have an easy way of shrinking the still thumbnail images that represented each YouTube video. These still images -- the pictures you see before you hit "play" on a YouTube video -- had been created for relatively fast internet connections, so they were quite large. In building Feather, Zacharias wanted to shrink them down to something smaller, but that was an almost impossible task. This was 2010, and YouTube already spanned billions of videos.


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A Bluetooth door lock that puts the kettle on? NOW we're in the future

If you don't mind wiring your bolts to the internet


Another electronic door lock that can be operated wirelessly has launched. Wait, come back: this time it looks cool and promises to, one day, control your kettle, lights and other stuff connected to the future's Internet of Things.…




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Heroku publishes API for its platform cloud

Amazon piggybacker wants kids of its own


Heroku has released the public beta of a platform API to help its developers build apps and services that sit on top of its PaaS, which in turn sits on Amazon Web Services.…






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Thursday 30 May 2013

Amazon cloud threatens ENTIRE IT ECOSYSTEM – report

Cannibal cloud gnaws on trad IT slingers' fat margins


The moneymen have finally looked up from beneath their golden canopies and noticed, hovering above them, a cloud named Amazon that is putting traditional IT companies in the shade.…






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Canada preview quotes - FP1 outing for Caterham's Alex Rossi

Round seven of the championship sees the paddock crossing the Atlantic to Montreal's Isle Notre-Dame and the Circuit Gilles-Villeneuve for the Formula 1 Grand Prix du Canada 2013. Lewis Hamilton took victory for McLaren last season, but can he do the same for Mercedes this year? Those involved discuss their prospects for the race

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Here's your first look at Windows 8.1: the start button is back



Windows 8.1 is getting real improvements over Windows 8, some of which will please longtime users who found the shift from Windows 7 jarring or uncomfortable. And yet it also goes even farther in the new direction Microsoft is taking.


The update, which Microsoft is showing off in a preview on 30 May, remains touch-forward, while making more concessions to keyboard and mouse users. It's designed to work better on smaller screens, and large desktop displays as well. It makes much greater use of features like Search and SkyDrive, and tries even harder to be a truly internet-driven platform. But it also makes getting to your installed apps easier, and swapping from the desktop to the Start screen a more grounded experience. The Start button is back (sort of) but there's no Start Menu.


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EMC inks deal to take Brit F1 racer Lotus to the clouds

Storage bods get a crack at Grands Prix glory


EMC is providing skads of storage to Formula One wannabee winner Lotus for a chance at Grands Prix glory.…






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Japanese SoftBank's $20bn Sprint gobble clears US security hurdle

Rival Dish warns of biz's 'significant ties to China'


American authorities have apparently said Uncle Sam's national security will not be jeopardised by Japanese giant SoftBank's proposed takeover of US telco Sprint - clearing the way for the $20bn acquisition.…




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Study: killing used games could be profitable, or suicide



If the marketplace of used videogames were to disappear, game publishers would see their profits decline -- unless they massively lowered game prices.


Those are the results of a recent study conducted by marketing professors Masakazu Ishihara of the New York University Stern School of Business and Andrew Ching of the University of Toronto's Rotman School of Management. Titled "Dynamic Demand for New and Used Durable Goods without Physical Depreciation: The Case of Japanese Video Games," the paper uses data collected from the Japanese gaming market to simulate the effect that the removal of used videogames would have on consumer behaviour and the resultant sales of new products.


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Williams move to Mercedes power for 2014

Williams will use Mercedes engines from 2014 onwards after announcing a long-term deal with the German manufacturer on Thursday. The British team's deal coincides with the introduction of new, 1.6-litre V6 turbo engine regulations next season

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Hey, O2 punters: Kiss goodbye to 4 MEELLION Openzone hotspots

Mobe network pulls out of BT's Wi-Fi network, goes it alone


O2 customers will be kicked off BT Openzone, the UK-wide public Wi-Fi network, from 1 July.…




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Google whips the sheet off new Gmail interface

Everything Google can be in your face when you mail


You've got mail … and Google+ notifications, Android updates and group buying offers.…






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Wednesday 29 May 2013

Revised tyres to be tested but not raced in Canada

Formula One racing's official tyre suppliers Pirelli have announced that they will be providing revised specification tyres in Friday's free practice sessions only in Canada, not for the whole Grand Prix weekend as had been expected. Updated tyres are instead set to make their race debut in next month's British Grand Prix

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AWS taps social networks for identity verification

Log in with Amazon, Facebook, Google, to your cloudy app


Amazon Web Services makes most of its money out of its infrastructure services, but that isn't stopping Bezos & Co from trying to broaden the remit of their cloud.…






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Facebook bows to pressure, vows to rid itself of sexist hate speech

Week-long campaign hits Zuck where it hurts - its ads


A coalition of women's groups has succeeded in persuading Facebook to review how it moderates its users so that hate speech and posts promoting violence against women can be kept off the site.…




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F1® drivers and their dogs

Mercedes' Lewis Hamilton caused a stir by bringing his pet bulldog Roscoe to Monaco, but he's far from the first Formula One driver to appreciate the company of a canine. Seven-time world champion Michael Schumacher used to bring his faithful friend Shiva with him to many tracks, whilst Kimi Raikkonen's Alsatian made several appearances in the paddock during the 2005 season

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Speaking in Tech: 'It's the democratisation of the Internet GONE MAD'

Movie-streaming services suck, come read comics instead






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Rihanna to headline Sunday concert in Singapore

Organisers of the 2013 Formula 1 Singapore Grand Prix have announced that singing superstar Rihanna will headline their spectacular race day concert at the Marina Bay Street Circuit on Sunday, September 22. The Barbados-born singer, who has sold over 41 million albums and 150 million digital tracks worldwide, will perform at Singapore's biggest outdoor stage as part of her much raved about '2013 Diamonds World Tour'

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Robot butler predicts the future, pours your beer



Have you ever dreamed of owning a personal robot servant to pour your beers for you? The idea is now one step closer to reality.


Researchers at Cornell University have programmed a robot that can predict what you're about to do and offer up a helping hand. Using a Microsoft Kinect sensor, the robot watches your body movements. Then, it accesses a video database of about 120 household activities -- ranging from putting food in the microwave, eating, brushing teeth, making cereal, and yes, pouring booze -- to predict what your actions will be a few seconds into the future. The robot can then make a decision about what you're likely to do next, and what it can do to assist you in that task.


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Microsoft loads botnet-crushing data into Azure

C-TIP gives ISPs near-realtime access to MARS data


Microsoft is plugging its security intelligence systems into Azure so that service providers and local authorities can get near-realtime information on botnets and malware detected by Redmond.…






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Revealed: Google's plan to float BLIMP NETWORK over Africa, Asia

Relax, they're providing 'net access to rural punters


Google is poised to flood Africa with uncontrolled connectivity via TV White Space frequencies, according the Wall Street Journal, though other wireless technologies will contribute to the mix.…




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Australian government launches cloud strategy

'The agenda that puts the internet at the centre of our economy' drones Minister


Australia's minister for Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy has launched the country's first national cloud computing strategy – and has hooked the success of cloud computing in this country to the success and continued rollout of the government's fibre-based National Broadband Network.…






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Tuesday 28 May 2013

Electroceuticals: swapping drugs for devices



Bioelectronics is the field of developing medicines that use electrical impulses to modulate the body's neural circuits as an alternative to drug-based interventions. How far away are we from having these very targeted "electroceuticals"?


Twenty years ago, neurosurgeon and researcher Kevin Tracey was studying whether an experimental molecule called CNI-1493 could limit damage to the brain after a stroke. His team was injecting the molecule into the brains of rats during a stroke to see how successfully it prevented swelling -- an immune system response -- of the brain.


To Tracey's surprise the drug not only prevented swelling locally, but it shut down the immune response in the whole body. The drug was having an impact on the vagus nerve -- a long, thin nerve that snakes its way from the brain through the abdomen. Stimulating the vagus nerve seemed to reduce the production of cytokines -- immune system mediators -- and block inflammation.


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Startup of the Week: Teddle

Teddle

Teddle is a London company that links consumers with independent cleaners. Cleaners pay Teddle to find them a regular customer, and the website acts as a payment gateway so that all payments are electronic. The company was founded in 2012 by three management consultants from Accenture, and relaunched in January 2013 with a focus on the cleaning market. Wired.co.uk spoke to founder Alex Depledge.


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Ferrari confirm suspension failure caused Massa crash

Ferrari confirmed on Tuesday that the violent crash suffered by Felipe Massa on lap 29 of Sunday's race in Monaco was caused by suspension failure. Having carried out an initial investigation based on telemetry data, the team studied components from Massa's car back at their Maranello base on Monday before reaching their conclusion

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Kobayshi enjoys first F1® test with Ferrari

Former Toyota and Sauber driver Kamui Kobayashi was back behind the wheel of a Formula One car on Monday when he drove a 2010 Ferrari at the Scuderia's Fiorano test track. The test was in preparation for the Moscow City Racing event in Russia on July 21 in which Kobayashi will demonstrate a Ferrari F10 on the streets of the Russian capital in front on several thousand fans

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Tennis pro serves up pic of bad French Open line call

Racket-smashing made obsolete by smartphones and Twitter


Tennis professional Sergiy Stakhovsky http://www.sergiy-stakhovsky.com/en/ has taken a smartphone onto the court at the French Open to photograph the spot where a ball landed, in order to produce evidence an umpire made the wrong call.…




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China's 'human flesh search' hunts down teen vandal

Angry online mob identifies shameful defacer of 3,000 year-old Egyptian relic


The full ire of China's army of online vigilantes known as the "human flesh search engine" was last week focused on a 15 year-old boy who vandalised a priceless 3,000 year-old Egyptian relic.…




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Monday 27 May 2013

Lenovo planning US smartphone push as PC sales stall

Winning over the Yanks will take some doing for Chinese giant


Lenovo is set to take aim at the US smartphone market within a year.…




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Clearwire to pull Huawei from network

Chinese vendor caught in takeover crossfire


US mobile carrier Clearwire is getting ready to draw-down the Huawei kit in its network, in an apparent response to the never-ending story that the vendor is a threat to US national security.…




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Sunday 26 May 2013

Perez and Raikkonen blame each other for collision

McLaren's Sergio Perez and Lotus's Kimi Raikkonen have blamed each other for the clash that ruined both of their races in Monaco on Sunday. Perez sustained damage to his MP4-28's brake ducts and Raikkonen's E21 picked up a puncture

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Stewards refer Mercedes tyre test protest to FIA

Monaco Grand Prix stewards are to write a report to the FIA regarding Mercedes' recent Pirelli tyre test. It follows Sunday's protest from Red Bull and Ferrari questioning the legality of running such a test with a 2013 car under current Formula One regulations. The sport's governing body may then bring the matter before the International Tribunal

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FIA post-race press conference - Monaco

Nico Rosberg claimed a sublime victory in an incident-packed race in Monaco on Sunday. After the race he joined second-placed Sebastian Vettel and third-placed Mark Webber to discuss a fantastic afternoon of racing in the Principality

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Grosjean given Canada grid penalty for Ricciardo clash

Lotus's Romain Grosjean has been given a 10-place grid penalty to be served at the next race in Canada following his clash with Toro Rosso's Daniel Ricciardo in Sunday's race in Monaco. The French driver ran into the back of Ricciardo's car on the approach to the chicane on lap 62 while the duo battled over 13th place. Ricciardo retired immediately with damage, whilst Grosjean limped on for a lap before parking his Lotus

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Race - selected team and driver quotes

Ferrari's Felipe Massa on his very early exit; Williams' Pastor Maldonado and Max Chilton on their dramatic collision; Lewis Hamilton on his frustrating ride to fourth in the Mercedes; and Mercedes' Nico Rosberg on matching father Keke's Monaco win 30 years later. All the drivers and senior team personnel report back on Sunday's action…

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Race - brilliant Rosberg wins amid Monaco drama

Mercedes' Nico Rosberg claimed a superb lights-to-flag victory in a crash-strewn race in Monaco on Sunday that featured two safety cars and an extended red-flag period. Rosberg, whose father Keke won in the Principality 30 years ago, held off the challenge of the Red Bulls of Sebastian Vettel and Mark Webber, with Lewis Hamilton fourth in the other Mercedes

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Red Bull protest over Mercedes' Pirelli tyre test

Mercedes became the subject of controversy in the Monaco paddock on Sunday morning after it emerged they conducted a 1000-kilometre tyre test with Pirelli in Spain last week. Red Bull have lodged a protest with the stewards over the issue. In-season testing is banned under the Formula One regulations, but Pirelli say their contract with the FIA as the sport's official tyre supplier

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Chilton set for late gearbox penalty

Max Chilton is expected to start his first Monaco Grand Prix from the back of the grid on Sunday afternoon after Marussia decided to change the gearbox on his car ahead of the race. Chilton had qualified in 20th position, but the fresh gearbox will almost certainly mean a five-place grid penalty, dropping him onto the back row with Ferrari's Felipe Massa

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Toro Rosso to use Renault engines from 2014

Carlos Ghosn, chairman and CEO of Renault, confirmed in Monaco on Sunday that Renault will supply V6 turbo engines and energy recovery systems to Toro Rosso from 2014 onwards. The move will bring to a close Toro Rosso's seven-year engine partnership with Ferrari at the end of this season. “We are very pleased to have reached an agreement to use Renault power units from the 2014 season onwards, when the new regulations will present interesting challenges,” said Toro Rosso team principal Franz Tost. “It is particularly important that we have managed to finalize our plans early, so that we can be as well prepared as possible for next year.

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Coalition to reject EU renewable energy targets

Judith Gap Wind Farm

The British government is preparing to oppose attempts to update the EU's renewable energy target, calling it "inflexible and unnecessary", and opting instead to pledge deep emissions cuts


The climate and energy secretary, Ed Davey, is expected to announce on 27 May: "There are a variety of options to decarbonise any country's economy. In the UK, our approach is technology neutral and our reforms will rely on the market and competition to determine the low carbon electricity mix. We will therefore oppose a renewable energy target at an EU level as inflexible and unnecessary."


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Saturday 25 May 2013

FIA post-qualifying press conference - Monaco

Drivers: 1 - Nico Rosberg (Mercedes); 2 - Lewis Hamilton (Mercedes); 3 - Sebastian Vettel (Red Bull Racing). Q: Nico, I guess in some ways the result that many people had expected - but it was not straightforward in the way it was achieved today, given the conditions. Nico Rosberg: Oh, definitely, yeah

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Qualifying - selected team and driver quotes

Ferrari's Felipe Massa on missing out on Q1 after his Practice Three crash; Marussia's Jules Bianchi on his early exit; Caterham's Giedo van der Garde on fighting it out in Q2 for the first time; Toro Rosso's Jean-Eric Vergne on making it through to the top-ten shootout; and Nico Rosberg on claiming his third consecutive pole. All 22 drivers and senior team personnel report back on Saturday's action…

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Qualifying - Rosberg claims pole in showery Monaco

Monaco is always about qualifying, and on Saturday afternoon fans enjoyed a real humdinger of a session all the way through as Mercedes' Nico Rosberg and Lewis Hamilton beat the Red Bulls of Sebastian Vettel and Mark Webber to sew up the front of the grid. But it was close… In the end Rosberg just shaded his team mate for the second race in succession, to take Mercedes' fourth consecutive pole position, with 1m 13.876s to 1m 13.967s. Vettel's effort to make the front row just failed, with 1m 13.980s, as Webber's best was 1m 14.181s.

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Anamanaguchi shoots pizza into space

Space Pizza

Chiptune giants Anamanaguchi have used the first chunk of the money from their successful Kickstarter campaign to send a slice of pizza into space.


The band, which is crowdfunding an attempt to make their recently-recorded Endless Fantasy record "more than just an album", launched the slice of pizza on a weather balloon to the upper reaches of the Earth's atmosphere. "Literally the first thing we did with your funding was send a slice of NYC pizza to outer space," they said in an update.


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Massa set for gearbox penalty after practice crash

Felipe Massa is set to drop five places on the grid in Monaco after Ferrari elected to change the gearbox on his car following his accident in final practice on Saturday morning. Massa lost control on the approach to Ste Devote, crashing into the left-hand guard rail

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Facebook phone launch postponed in Europe

HTC First

Following poor customer feedback and disappointing sales in the US, networks in Europe have delayed the launch of the HTC-built "Facebook phone".


Mark Zuckerberg said he hoped that the HTC First, which runs custom software designed by Facebook to put the social network at the centre of everything you do, would "change the relationship" people have with their phones.


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Final practice - Rosberg fastest again in Monaco

Nico Rosberg sent an ominous warning to his rivals by once again topping the times in the final practice session for the Formula 1 Grand Prix de Monaco 2013 on Saturday morning. The Mercedes driver clocked a best time of 1m 14.378 in a session that was marred by several big crashes involving Ferrari's Felipe Massa, Force India's Adrian Sutil and Lotus's Romain Grosjean

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Friday 24 May 2013

SAP shuffles execs to chase cloud success

Former SuccessFactors CEO says Auf Wiedersehen


It is time for musical chairs at SAP, and the desire to ramp-up products that run on the cloud and sell more of them is calling the tune to which the executives are dancing.…






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Mallya yacht party the toast of Monaco

If you hold a party at the start of the Monaco Grand Prix weekend it had better be good. Force India's Vijay Mallya knows that - he's been doing it for years and every time it gets better. Thursday evening's event was again high on the 'wow' factor, as a full moon over Monte Carlo greeted the great and the good as they were welcomed aboard

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Wired.co.uk Podcast 125: Nymphomaniac, Xbox One, Eric Schmidt on privacy

Wired podcast

This week we discuss Lars von Trier's use of pornographic body doubles, Eric Schmidt's views on privacy in the UK, the new Xbox One console and the rest of the week in Wired news.


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Daft tweet by Speaker Bercow's loquacious wife DID libel lord

Why is Sally feeling so very sorry? *innocent face*


Sally Bercow, the wife of Commons Speaker John Bercow, libelled a peer in her infamous "innocent face" tweet, a judge ruled today.…




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Woolwich beheading sparks call to REVIVE UK Snoopers' Charter

What? You don't agree? What are you, a terrorist?


Nick Clegg has been warned that his opposition to the controversial Communications Data Bill could leave Britain "at risk" after a soldier was beheaded in Woolwich, London.…




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Meet the man who sold a month-old app to Dropbox for £66m

Mailbox CEO and co-founder Gentry Underwood, now at Dropbox

Wired sat down with Mailbox CEO and co-founder Gentry Underwood to ask about his app's incredibly rapid success and its future within Dropbox.

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Internet advertising giant (Google) 'mulls' map app Waze gobble

Gonna offer anything less than $1bn? No Waze, Jose


Ad giant Google is also considering snapping up mapping software firm Waze, which could spark a bidding war with Facebook over the business.…






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United States Grand Prix wins prestigious sports award

The 2012 Formula 1 United States Grand Prix at Austin's Circuit of The Americas has won the coveted 'Sports Event of the Year' award at the 2013 SportsBusiness Journal/Daily Business awards in New York. The race, which attracted 265,000 fans to the brand new $400million Texan venue last November, beat off competition from the 2012 Ryder Cup, the 2012 Stanley Cup Finals and 2012 U.S. Olympic Swimming Trials to scoop the award

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Speakers announced for Wired Money's Startup Pitch Room



Details of another exciting session has been announced for Wired Money on 1 July. The new talents of tomorrow will be making their case in the Startup Pitch Room.


Emerging and established entrepreneurs will be presenting their ideas in a quickfire pitch-a-thon. It's going to be a sneak peak of the latest disruptive technologies and trends to threaten incumbents and democratise finance.


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SoftBank gives Washington veto over Sprint board job

The things you do to stop spooks worrying about Huawei


Japanese company SoftBank, currently wrapping a deal to buy 70 per cent of US mobile carrier Sprint, has taken the unusual step of giving the US government veto power over one member to be elected to the board of its acquisition target.…




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Thursday 23 May 2013

Internet2 superfast boffin network peers with Azure cloud

Microsoft waives data egress rates for US researchers


Ultra-fast US academic network Internet2 is going to peer with Microsoft's cloud to give researchers from over 200 institutions high-speed reliable access to Azure at a discounted rate.…






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FIA Thursday press conference - Monaco

Team representatives - Christian Horner (Red Bull Racing), Paul Hembery (Pirelli), Gerard Lopez (Lotus), Robert Fearnley (Force India), Franz Tost (Toro Rosso), Alain Prost (Renault Sport). Q: Alain, it's been a while since we last saw you in an FIA press conference, welcome

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Orange customer clobbered with SIX FIGURE phone bill

If your handset's overheating, check your data connection


EE's Orange arm managed to bill a customer £163,000 for a month's data use, thanks to a dodgy handset which was pinging the internet every 20 minutes.…




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Thursday practice - selected team and driver quotes

Local resident Nico Rosberg knows Monte Carlo very well and on Thursday he took the top practice honours, despite some strong competition from Mercedes team mate Lewis Hamilton and the Ferraris of Fernando Alonso and Felipe Massa. The drivers and senior team personnel report back on the opening day at Monte Carlo…

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Practice Two - Rosberg heads Mercedes 1-2 in Monaco

Nico Rosberg continued his domination of Monaco practice on Thursday afternoon, ending the second session 0.318s clear of Mercedes team mate Lewis Hamilton. The German, who also topped the times in the morning session, lapped in 1m 14.759s, with Hamilton's 1m 15.077s just pipping Fernando Alonso's 1m 15.196s for Ferrari

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Virgin Media slides fat 10Gbps pipes into Murdoch's BSkyB

I wanna be your backhaul man


The business wing of Virgin Media has revealed more details about a £49m deal to beef up BSkyB's broadband network.…




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George Soros pumps £50m into fibre-gobbling ISP Hyperoptic

Wants to sign up 500k UK homes by 2018


Hyperoptic - a relatively new player in the UK's ISP market - confirmed today that it had received a massive cash injection of £50m from investors to help the company expand its fibre-to-the-home business.…




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Practice One - Rosberg and Mercedes on top in Monaco

Monaco resident Nico Rosberg ruled Thursday morning's opening free practice session on the streets of Monte Carlo, pipping Ferrari's Fernando Alonso by just 0.087s as one second covered the first eight cars. The German lapped his Mercedes in 1m 16.195s, which resisted the Spaniard's best effort of 1m 16.282s. Right at the end Romain Grosjean pushed himself up to third on 1m 16.380s for Lotus

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Social network bins Beijing's banned buzzwords

Japan's 'Line' scares international users by complying with Chinese law


Japanese Whatsapp-like service Line has come under uncomfortable scrutiny by international users after appearing to prepare self-censorship capabilities for its Chinese service Lian wo.…




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Microsoft floats Azure cloud into China

Redmond meets Red Dragon via 21Vianet


Microsoft is bringing its Azure cloud to China, although the management of the data center will be done by a local firm.…






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IiNet offloads fibre network to NBN Co

Exits Canberra FTTP market


In a bit of a game of pass-the-parcel, the fibre-to-the-home network assets that iiNet bought when it acquired TransACT Communications last year has been passed on to NBN Co for a minimum of $AU9 million.…




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Wednesday 22 May 2013

FIA Wednesday press conference - Monaco

Drivers - Jenson Button (McLaren), Adrian Sutil (Force India), Jules Bianchi (Marussia), Nico Hulkenberg (Sauber), Romain Grosjean (Lotus), Lewis Hamilton (Mercedes). Q: A question to you all. Round six of a 19-race season coming up, the same points are up for grabs as any other Grand Prix

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Juniper, Seagate stuff cash down Cloudscaling's OpenStack trousers

Randy Bias's biz bags $10m in new round


The founders at Cloudscaling - one of the myriad companies trying to become the "Linux of the cloud" by enhancing and commercializingthe OpenStack cloud control freak - have just landed a second wad of cash from investors.…






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Pre-race Thursday to be 'Open House' in Canada

Organisers of next month's Formula 1 Grand Prix du Canada 2013 in Montreal have announced that an 'Open House Day' will take place on Thursday, June 6 at the Circuit Gilles-Villeneuve. The free initiative will allow fans to spend up to four hours exploring the pit lane, witnessing F1 cars being worked on, and speaking to team members. Visitors will also get the chance to take an up-close look at the unique trophies

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iZettle wants to 'fundamentally change the process of becoming a customer'

Jacob de Geer

Jacob de Geer is CEO of iZettle.com, a social payments company. Its first service includes a smartphone/tablet app and a mini chip-card reader that lets anyone -- such as small businesses and merchants -- take secure card payments on the go. Jacob is due to speak at Wired Money on July 1, 2013.


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Look out, world! Dragons' Den ace HAS DISCOVERED THE CLOUD

Outsourcery loses £10m then floats on AIM for £34m


The wait is almost over for any Brit wanting to take a punt on a homegrown cloud services firms: the UK-based Outsourcery is poised to list on the Alternative Investment Market (AIM)* this Friday.…






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Xbox One: Everything you need to know, from always-on to Gamerscores

Xbox One

When it comes to the Xbox One, we had just as many questions as any of our readers. Fortunately, we've also got answers.


Below is Wired.co.uk's guide to the facts, peppered with answers to questions we've been asked by readers -- and each other.


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FIA press conference schedule - Monaco

Wednesday's driver press session in Monte Carlo features two men who each have one Monaco Grand Prix win to their name. Interestingly, one man in Thursday's conference - for team personnel - has four. The line-ups in full

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Garden fertilised by Twitter output wins Gold at Chelsea

Larger than the hashtag of my aunt


A garden conceived by an alliance of trick-cyclists, architects and professors of "social computing" - and enabled by the wondrous power of Twitter - has won a gold medal at the Chelsea Flower Show.…






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Tuesday 21 May 2013

VMware public cloud aims at ESXi customers, not AWS

And the prices will reflect that, don't doubt it


A few months back, when VMware let the cat out of the bag that it would be building its own public cloud, it said that it had 480,000 customers with an estimated 36 million virtual machines running in their data centers. On Tuesday it officially launched the the Hybrid Cloud Service at its Palo Alto headquarters and explained how it's all going to work.…






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New 'Xbox One' console announced



Microsoft has pressed start on the next generation of its gaming platform with the announcement of the Xbox One.


The all-black rectangular console is minimalist in its aesthetic, with chiseled edges, and is much larger than the current Xbox 360. It includes a redesigned controller based on the layout of the original and features a new Kinect sensor, all of which will come as standard with the Xbox One package.


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McLaren: Perez a good team player

McLaren team principal Martin Whitmarsh has praised the attitude of Sergio 'Checo' Perez in the wake of the team's disappointing start to 2013. The 23-year-old joined the Woking-based team from Sauber ahead of the season, but with the MP4-28 so far failing to live up expectations, Perez and team mate Jenson Button have been unable to fight for race wins

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Six things you should know before you roll out Office 365

It's all in the planning


Let’s discuss some of the reasons for embarking on an Office 365 project.…






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Your hot peer-on-peer code wrestling could net $800k from Samsung

App beauty contest encourages gizmos to hook up


Samsung's annual round of carrot-on-a-stick waving at developers has been extended this year with an additional $800,000 to push the electronics giant's peer-to-peer networking.…




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Yahoo's past big buys tell a story of mediocrity and failure



Yahoo's narrative arc as a company can be defined by its acquisitions, which taken together also serve as one take on the history of the web itself. In the Yahoo version of that history, founders and backers of overvalued companies enjoy huge exits while the buyer tends to learn too late that its exuberance was irrational. Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer will soon find out whether her company's $1.1 billion (£720 million) purchase of Tumblr becomes the latest chapter in a saga littered with mediocrity and failure.


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Flickr shows new signs of life with slick redesign



Flickr wants to remind you that it's a photo site.


"Everything that we've done in this new redesign has been about putting the photo front and centre," says Flickr VP Brett Wayn.


For a photo site, Flickr looked like it was designed in 1997. That has now ended with a site redesign that removes all that icky whitespace and meta-data that only your photographer cousin cares about and creates a giant mosaic of colour. Or shades of grey if your photos are all artsy and dramatic.


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VMware taps ex-Ciscoer as channel chief

The channel is the key to Virtzilla's impending vCloud Hybrid Service


Just ahead of the formal launch of VMware's "Project Zephyr" vCloud Hybrid Service public cloud on Tuesday, the company has appointed a new channel chief. And the timing is not accidental, with VMware's channel being a key component of its hybrid cloud strategy.…






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Monday 20 May 2013

Azure hops into Australia

Redmond promises a 'major region' real soon now


Microsoft has announced "the planned expansion of a new Windows Azure major region for Australia"…






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Dell JUNKS public cloud in favor of partner tech

"Freedom from lock-in' through product cancellation


Dell is discontinuing its infrastructure-as-a-service cloud and instead dealing tech to partners as it looks to make some money in the cut-throat world of cloud computing.…






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Millions of users' data hacked in Yahoo Japan security breach



Another day, another major corporation's data nicked by unknown hackers.


The usernames of 22 million users may have been stolen from Yahoo Japan on 16 May in a hack that was only prevented by cutting internet access to the company's servers.


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Give porno danger classes to Brit kids as young as FIVE - parents

Sex ed must cover web smut, families tell heads


Schoolteachers should warn British children as young as five about the "dangers" of finding pornography online, say families.…




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Lowe to join Mercedes next month

Mercedes have reached agreement with McLaren for Paddy Lowe to join the team on June 3, 2013. Lowe, replaced by Tim Goss as McLaren's technical director in February, had been expected to remain with the Woking squad until the end of the year. He will now strengthen Mercedes' line-up in the role of executive director (technical) and will work closely with team principal, Ross Brawn, executive director (business), Toto Wolff, and the team's senior technical management

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Massa thrills Polish fans with Warsaw demo run

Ferrari's Felipe Massa brought the Polish capital of Warsaw to a standstill on Saturday as he drove a Formula One car through the city streets as part of a promotional event for team sponsor Shell. Over 30,000 fans turned out to witness Massa demonstrate the power and performance of a 2009 Ferrari F60

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Pakistan signs up for China's GPS rival

Doesn't want no steenking US military tech


China’s home-grown sat-nav system Beidou (BDS) is expected to add yet another customer after Pakistan signed up to host ground stations for the service.…




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Optus outlines its 4G future

Canberra first for TD-LTE rollout


Optus is hoping to shed its bridesmaid status, unveiling plans for a major rollout across four frequency bands, announcing its first TD-LTE deployment, and adding a bunch of cities and regional centres to its rollout.…




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Sunday 19 May 2013

Seattle plans 'food forest'

Food Forest

The city of Seattle is planning to create a 'food forest', where anyone can go and harvest fruits and vegetables for free.


The Beacon Hill neighbourhood will be home to the 28,000 square metre park, which will be planted with all sorts of edible plants, from trees to root vegetables. Among the plants available will be apples, herbs, walnuts, and even more exotic species like pineapples and guava.


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Forested Arctic likely by middle of century

Arctic

Two independent groups of climatologists have predicted that the Arctic will become ice-free and covered in trees by the middle of the century.


As the planet's ecosystems begin to adjust to rising global temperatures, many changes are expected to occur in the distribution of plant and animal species. However, the warming isn't evenly distributed across the globe - the poles are expected to bear the brunt of the temperature rise, with the Arctic predicted by studies to warm about 8C.


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Saturday 18 May 2013

Lunar explosion may have been visible from Earth

Lunar Impact

Nasa has revealed that a meteorite impact on the Moon on 17 March caused a large enough explosion that it may have been visible to those looking up at the time.


The impact is the brightest that's been seen in the eight years that Nasa has been monitoring lunar collisions. In that time, more than 300 rocks have smashed into the Moon's surface, but the 17 March impact was many orders of magnitude brighter than any previously seen.


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Friday 17 May 2013

Adobe's Creative Cloud fails at being a cloud

Sync feature suspended by Adobe FOR TWO WEEKS


The file-syncing part of Adobe's new Creative Cloud family of technologies has been intermittently broken for a week, taking the "cloud" part out of Adobe's "Creative Cloud" redesign of its products. Now Adobe is suspending it "for the next couple of weeks" to make updates.…






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How to look good on Facebook



Looking good online is more than just knowing your angles. Edson Tandoc and his colleagues at the Missouri School of Journalism led a study on attractiveness in Facebook profiles and found that what a person included in a profile photo (besides themselves) influenced strangers' opinions of that person.


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MP to Google: 'you do do evil' when it comes to tax



Pressure is mounting on web giants Amazon and Google as a series of whistleblowers have put a question mark over their UK tax arrangements.


Both companies have been accused of disguising the full extent of their UK-based activities in order to avoid paying tax.


At a Public Accounts Committee hearing on 16 May, chairperson Margaret Hodges accused Google of "deliberately manipulating the reality of their business" and claimed to have whistleblower evidence that UK Google staff had sold advertising and invoiced UK-based customers.


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Wired.co.uk Podcast 124: Mars One explained, eating insects, holo-babies

Wired podcast

This week we explore the truth behind the Mars One project, learn about hologram babies, why eating insects is brilliant if you're the UN and the rest of the week in Wired news.


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IT bloke publishes comprehensive maps of CALL CENTRE menu HELL

Seven year mission in the touch-tone catacombs


Most people can't bear to use automated call centre phone lines for even a few minutes. But one former IT manager has spent seven years on the phone in a bid to produce a map of Britain's phone menus.…




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Monaco preview quotes - Mercedes on Monte Carlo

Round six of the championship sees the paddock arrive in Monte Carlo for arguably the most famous event on the calendar, the Formula 1 Grand Prix de Monaco 2013. So how are the teams preparing for the unique challenge that is the Principality's streets? Those involved discuss their prospects for the race

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Specialized to make cycling less of a drag with bespoke wind tunnel



For years, bicycle makers have squeezed more speed and efficiency out of their products by shaving weight to the minimums set by cycling's ruling bodies. But to really improve a bike, whether it's for riding in the peloton or the park, you have to reduce aerodynamic drag.


Victories in this constant fight are measured in fractions of a second saved per kilometre. Tiny improvements to be sure, but they add up quickly during a 40-kilometre time trial or a 200-kilometre stage of, say, the AMGEN Tour of California. But you don't have to be Bert Grabsch or Sylvain Chavanel to benefit from this. Aerodynamics is, at the bottom line, about making it easier to go further or faster while riding more efficiently and comfortably.


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Thursday 16 May 2013

Amazon slashes DynamoDB cost to counter Google Datastore

'Datastore? Cute. Here's a 4X price reduction on big reads.'


Amazon has overhauled its DynamoDB NoSQL datastore following Google's unveiling of a price-competitive service.…






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Google's I/O keynote: 5 things you should know



In case you managed to miss the Google I/O keynote speech on Wednesday, Wired.co.uk have picked out a selection of highlights. Read on for our guide to the key announcements from the tech titan's developer conference.


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Biz email slinger Mimecast tumbles over

'Makes me look a tool for recommending them' sniffs bloke


Mimecast, which touts webmail for businesses, has toppled over in Blighty, leaving its customers unable to send or receive emails.…




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'Momentous year' for TalkTalk as it surges from 3rd place to, er, 4th

This is 'fundamentally better', insists Harding


TalkTalk has reported a slight fall in revenue and pre-tax profit for the full financial year.…




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Honda to make 2015 return with McLaren

McLaren have confirmed a multi-year technology partnership with Honda, reviving one of the most famous technical associations in Formula One history. From the start of 2015, McLaren's cars will be powered by Honda engines and energy recovery systems, renewing a relationship between the two companies that won four drivers' and four constructors' championships between 1988 and 1992

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Telly apocalypse foretold for 4G arrival fails to hit London: Brighton next

Good frequency fences make good neighbours, seemingly


Freeview-watching Londoners are safe from 4G interference, with trials failing to elicit even a single complaint - thanks to the capital's comprehensive coverage and its use of a Freeview band well clear of invading 4G signals.…




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TUANZ: don't risk mobile competition

New Zealand plots spectrum future


New Zealand has kicked off the consultation period for its planned 700 MHz spectrum auction, to take place in 2013.…




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Australia downloads a limping 13 Mbps, says Ookla

Looking under the data, it's not so simple


There are, it seems, 44 countries in the world with better broadband download speeds than Australia, according to the latest Netindex release by Ookla.…




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Wednesday 15 May 2013

Google platform cloud now takes PHP apps

Google closes gap with cloud competitors


Google is adding PHP to Google App Engine as the company tries to appeal to developers of the widely-used language.…






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Murdoch hate sparks mass bitchin', rapid evacuation from O2, BE

1 in 3 polled punters will quit ISP gobbled by Sky


Boycotting Rupert Murdoch-owned stuff - such as the media baron's newspapers - is nothing new.…




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Euro trade chief snaps on glove, goes it alone in Huawei, ZTE probe

But first, he'll have a little word with China


European Union trade chief Karel De Gucht will investigate allegations that Chinese telecoms hardware makers are undermining their Euro rivals.…




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Rid your shopping basket of unethical products with Buycott app



Campaigners and people of principle rejoice. Ethical consumerism just got a little bit easier.


A new app, Buycott, now puts a world of ethical information at your disposal about the products you're buying, and the track record of the companies that make them. To find out whether your coffee is made by a company that supports gay marriage, simply scan the barcode and Buycott will put you in the know.


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Study: cheap electromagnetic headset remotely diagnoses brain trauma



A headset that sends and receives electromagnetic signals has been used to accurately identify oedemas and haematomas in brain trauma patients, possibly paving the way for fast and cheap diagnosis in rural areas.


A small trial was carried out of the Volumetric Electromagnetic Phase Shift Spectroscopy (VEPS) headset in a military hospital in Mexico, and was successful in picking up differences in the structure of the brain caused by the presence of excess fluid or blood (an oedema in the brain causes swelling due to excessive fluid flooding the tissue, while brain haematomas can occur in different pockets of the brain when blood accumulates there).


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Oi, Google! Stop LIBELLING us Germans, fix your autocomplete

Wie möchten Sie es, Herr Adman?


Google has been ordered by a German court to block defamatory words appearing in its search engine's autocomplete function.…






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BitTorrent study challenges videogame piracy misconceptions



A large-scale analysis of BItTorrent file-sharing of videogames has shown that the number of illicit digital copies is not as high as reported by industry trade organisations.


Anders Drachen from the Department of Communication and Psychology at Aalborg University and the PLAIT Lab at Northeastern University as well as Robert Veitch from the Department of IT Management at Copenhagen Business School analysed a the filesharing of some 173 computer games over a three-month period between 2010 and 2011.


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Speaking in Tech: All our stuff's on Amazon's cloud... what if it goes titsup?

Should private firms be grilled on biz viability for the 'public interest'...






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Saudi telecom sought US researcher's help in spying on mobile users



A prominent computer security researcher says he recently rejected a request by a Saudi telecommunications company to help it spy on mobile customers using social networking accounts such as Twitter.


The security researcher, who goes by the name Moxie Marlinspike and who recently left Twitter where he worked on that company's security team, said he was contacted via email in early May by an employee of Mobily, a mobile phone operator in Saudi Arabia, seeking his help with a surveillance project the company was developing.


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LogMeIn dives into cloudy things with ARM support

Get aboard the IoT bandwagon for £60 or less


LogMeIn has relaunched its cloudy-thing management, now called Xively and available with a sixty-quid ARM development board for those hoping to kick start the Internet of Things.…






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BlackBerry and Apple pie this summer. Or BBM-onna-Droid

Hey, rivals, have our loyal fans! No, wait


BlackBerry's hugely popular social-network-in-hardware BlackBerry Messenger (BBM) will be available on iPhone and Android for free from this summer.…




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Tuesday 14 May 2013

Video services chug half of US net capacity

Amazon cloud serves up biggest, Google second biggest, Microsoft...?


Video services Netflix and YouTube consume nearly half of US internet capacity at peak times, demonstrating the massive scale of Amazon and Google's infrastructure clouds, but causing us to ask 'whither Microsoft?'…




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Engine Yard plugs PHP into its platform-as-a-service

Halves weakling instance prices, intros Riak support


Oracle-backed Engine Yard has added support for PHP apps to its platform cloud as the company tries to maintain feature parity against bigger companies with better infrastructure.…






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Pirelli to introduce revised tyres from Canada onwards

Formula One racing's official tyre suppliers Pirelli have announced that they will be providing tyres with a revised construction from the Canadian Grand Prix onwards. The Italian company said after last weekend's race in Spain that they would make changes to reduce the number of pit stops per race ahead of the British Grand Prix, but they have now decided to introduce revised rubber a race earlier in Montreal

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CIA ups stake in database-as-a-service firm

Cloudant trousers $12m, opens San Francisco office


The CIA has maintained its influence over Cloudant by upping its investment in the database-as-a-service firm.…






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India to battle Maoists with more mobiles

Tower-building project will boost coverage in leftist-controlled regions


The Indian government is looking to build nearly 3,000 mobile towers in areas across the country without coverage, in a Rs. 30 billion (£358m) bid to tackle left wing extremism.…




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Monday 13 May 2013

Oracle and SAP ARE big software, but for how long?

Choked by the cloud, or death by a 1,000 cuts


When Oracle announced disappointing third-quarter results in March 2013, executives at the company were quick to blame poor sales execution for a two per cent decline in new software licences and cloud software subscriptions.…






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Office 365 under the hood

What's the score, Trevor?


Microsoft's cloudy services offering have had an overhaul. Office 365 is faster, stronger, smarter, better and more like Tikfam (the interface formerly known as Metro), or Modern User as it is now called, than ever before. This is a major upgrade in usability and administer ability.…






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Discover the life of a Martian gardener with AstroGardening



With Nasa looking forward to manned missions to Mars within a couple of decades, thoughts are turning to how astronauts there might sustain themselves.


Ferrying food supplies from Earth will be enormously expensive and if colonies are developed then their residents will probably need to become as self-sufficient as possible.


By: Paul Sutherland, Sen.com, Edited by: Kadhim Shubber


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Ancient thumb-driven whirly-wheel smartmobe UI ported to Android

Fandroids, come see what the future might have been


The mobile interface designed to kill the iPhone has finally launched, but as an Android freebie rather than aboard the revolutionary handset we were promised in 2009.…




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Løvefïlm signs hit beards’n’berserkers series Vikings

Will Amazon streaming service rune the day?


British and German fans of horned helmets, dragonships, bloodeagles, forked beards and berserker frenzies will need to avail themselves of a LOVEFiLM LoveFilm subscription if they want to catch the History channel’s popular new historical potboiler, Vikings.…






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UK superfast broadband crew: EC competition bods are holding us up

Why must they hassle us over BT monopoly?


The UK is accusing the European Commission of holding up its superfast broadband programme with pesky concerns about free market competition.…




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