Monday 30 September 2013

Microsoft follows Amazon in gaining critical US gov certification

Redmond zooms onto FedRAMP, but where's Google?


Microsoft has gained a US federal government certification that makes it easier for agencies to buy cloud services from Redmond.…






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Facebook sharpens ad-shifting tool: Soon users will eat creepily SPECIFIC ad-gloop

Just an algorithm tweak and you're all mine ... bitch


Facebook is refining its algorithm to better serve up tailored advertising to its userbase in yet another move to satisfy its actual customers: advertisers.…




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Microsoft to kill Select Agreement rebates, rain cash on cloud deals

UK enterprise partners to lose 'hundreds of thousands' of pounds – sources


From tomorrow, Microsoft will put a bullet in Select Agreement rebates handed to UK business partners as part of a wider shake-up of the overall fees structure.…






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Sauber's Sirotkin makes F1® debut in Sochi

The Russian driver hoping to race for Sauber next season has made his Formula One debut on home soil. Sergey Sirotkin drove an F1 car for the first time over the weekend as he and the team got their first taste of the new Sochi circuit that will host the inaugural Russian Grand Prix next October. The show run saw Sirotkin blast the 2012 Sauber C31 along the 700 metres of tarmac that are already finished, giving the 18-year-old a sample of what lies ahead of him next year

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Nokia demonstrates: White Space ploy can get more 4G handsets into same spectrum

Hurray! for someone: Boo! for people who own spectrum


Nokia has successfully demonstrated a 4G LTE network which can hop aside when someone else wants the frequency, opening up the possibilities for dynamically-shared radio spectrum.…




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Friday 27 September 2013

French data cops to Google: RIGHT, you had your chance. PUNISHMENT is yours

Prepare yourself for fines, snarls CNIL


Google has declined to make required changes to its privacy policy, France's privacy watchdog said today. The French data cops added that they will slap the ad giant with sanctions.…






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New Jersey, Austria, Russia, Mexico added to 2014 calendar

Formula One racing's governing body, the FIA, has published the calendar for the 2014 world championship following a meeting of its World Motor Sport Council in Croatia on Friday. It features four additions to the 2013 schedule - New Jersey, Austria, Russia and Mexico - with three Grands Prix - Korea, New Jersey and Mexico - listed as provisional

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EMC snaps up ex Symantec veep to rule new HPC skunkworks

And hybrid cloud storage gateways - which EMC don't (yet?) do


EMC has recruited an ex-Symantec exec to lord it over its Emerging Technology Products division. His product brief includes "hybrid Cloud Gateways and High Performance Computing storage" which is fine ... except EMC hasn't got any such products.…






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Korea preview quotes - McLaren on Yeongam

Round 14 of the 2013 FIA Formula One World Championship sees the paddock leave the bright lights of Singapore behind for the rural beauty of Yeongam, home of the much-lauded Korea International Circuit. Those involved in the 2013 Formula 1 Korean Grand Prix discuss their prospects for the coming weekend

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Reg readers! You've got 100 MILLION QUID - what would you BLOW it on?

Because Ofcom wants to know what to do with its lolly


Telecoms regulator Ofcom is drawing up its plans for 2014/15, and is looking for suggestions about how it might direct its considerable resources during the period.…


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TalkTalk's commercial director WalkWalks away from telco

Veteran David Goldie exits ISP after 14 years


TalkTalk's outspoken commercial director David Goldie has resigned from the company's board after 14 years helping the business grow.…




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Broadcom fries up '5G' Wi-Fi chips to chuck in your connected car

Supports 802.11ac and Bluetooth LE


Broadcom's latest chippery supports 802.11ac and Bluetooth LE too – which the company reckons is good enough to warrant calling it "5G" and snatching a chunk of the automotive market.…




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Online bookies must keep punters' cash in separate account

But Gambling Commish rules won't save bettors if firms go belly-up


Licensing conditions proposed by the Gambling Commission may not adequately protect customers against the risk of losing their money or credits if gambling operators become insolvent, an expert has warned.…






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Amazon adds free Oracle analytics tool to cloud

'Oh, Microsoft has Oracle now? LOOK AT THIS!'


Just two days after Microsoft made Oracle's technology available on its Windows Azure cloud, Amazon has added a sophisticated diagnostic tech to its own Oracle database service.…


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Microsoft defends Azure with two-factor auth security

Like Amazon, but it costs money


Microsoft's multi-factor authentication service has gone into general availability, doubling prices and giving enterprises a service-level agreement.…






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Thursday 26 September 2013

15% of Americans still holding off from this newfangled interweb thing

The old, the dumb, the poor


The latest data from the Pew Research Center's Internet & American Life Project has found that there is still a sizable percentage of Americans who really don't get this internet thing, with 15 per cent never going online and another 9 per cent only doing so at work.…




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Caterham restructure technical department

Following last weekend's confirmation that the team will use Renault's new V6 power train next season, Caterham have announced a restructuring of their technical department designed to help them prepare for the challenges posed by the 2014 regulation changes. Jody Egginton, currently Caterham's operations director, is promoted to deputy technical director

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Ericsson adds Dot to the office mobe coverage map

No more hanging out in the stairwell to get a signal


Ericsson has launched a palm-sized mobile phone base station called Dot, which camps on the office LAN to provide cellular coverage throughout your building and is managed by a radio stack in the basement.…




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Tata showcase next-generation video distribution

Tata Communications, a leading provider of A New World of Communications, has successfully showcased the next generation of capability for video distribution by relaying content from the 2013 FORMULA 1 SINGTEL SINGAPORE GRAND PRIX directly to Formula One Management's Biggin Hill headquarters in the UK. The live video feed was sent using Tata Communications' Video Connect service on its wholly-owned fibre network

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MPs 'disturb' BT and 'disappoint' Whitehall over claims broadband rollout not competitive

PAC tells DCMS: Control costs, reel in 'quasi-monopolistic' telco


Whitehall has insisted that its delayed multi-million pound broadband deployment project represents good value for taxpayers, even as a brutal Parliamentary report published today attacks the government for failing to rein in BT.…




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Boffins: Internet transit a vulnerability

Mirror, mirror on the port, is this something I can rort?


If you think of an Internet exchange, you probably think of infrastructure that's well-protected, well-managed, and hard to compromise. The reality, however, might be different. According to research by Stanford University's Daniel Kharitonov, working with TraceVector's Oscar Ibatullin, there are enough vulnerabilities in routers and the like that the Internet exchange makes a target that's both attractive and exploitable.…




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Brocade virtual fabric tells multi-tenant story

Claims better networking, easier moves


One of the irritations of the world of virtualisation is that it's quite easy to end up with a relatively small number of physical devices hosting address counts that run ahead of Ethernet's constraints on things like how many MAC addresses can exist in a LAN (or VLAN).…




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Apple Maps directed drivers ONTO Alaskan airport taxiway

You'd think someone would notice the onrushing 737 ...


It's easy to blame Apple Maps: but why on earth did an airport have a highway-adjoining access road that didn't have anyone on the gate?…


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A Tapestry of network complexity

Open source network scoring tool set for release


Forget drawing network maps or sending your network management software on an epic tour of auto-discovery: a group getting ready to launch an open-source “network complexity scoring” tool says it's all about the endpoint.…




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Wednesday 25 September 2013

T-Mobile US exec mulls merger with rival Sprint

Only a larger company can take on Verizon, AT&T, moneyman says


The chief finance officer of US wireless carrier T-Mobile says further consolidation in the US mobile industry is inevitable and that a merger with Sprint would make a lot of sense.…




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EasyJet wanted to throw me off flight for tweet diss, warns cyber-law buff

Departure queue brouhaha sparked after delays grumble on Twitter


A web-law tutor says EasyJet threatened to stop him boarding a flight because he posted a tweet criticising the bargain-basement airline.…




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Dragons' Den star's biz Outsourcery sends yet more millions up in smoke

Telly moneybags went into the cloud and still nobody's making any profit


Cloud service provider Outsourcery has released its half-year financials while talking up its business potential, quietly avoiding the fact that it has little to boast about in terms of actual performance.…






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Google tenticle slips over YouTube comments: Now YOUR MUM is at the top

Ad giant tries to polish the cesspit of the internet


Google's mission creep into more aspects of our online lives continued apace on Tuesday, after the company confirmed that it was tailoring YouTube comments to be more "relevant" to its users.…




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Highways Agency tracks Brits' every move by their mobes: THE TRUTH

We better go back to just scanning everyone's number-plate, then?


The Highways Agency, tasked with looking after England's motorways, buys data on Brits' whereabouts from mobile phone networks.…




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How long will the next NBN Co board last?

Zero tolerance for delays means new board members are headed for a hot seat


Wanted: NBN Co board members. Essential: telecommunications network rollout experience; ability to conduct a thorough review of the current NBN rollout; conduct weekly performance reviews of network rollout without interruption to operations. Desirable: willing to be dismissed at short notice.…




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Google says it's sorry for Monday's hours-long Gmail delays

Dual networking outage won't happen again, honest


Google apologized on Tuesday for a networking glitch that prevented emails from reaching many Gmail users' accounts for as much as two hours or even longer.…




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Tuesday 24 September 2013

Facebook Frankenphoto morgue will store cold, dead selfies FOREVER

Thought you'd escaped that hilarious hairdo from six years ago? Fat chance


The term “cold storage” has something of the morgue about it. Dead bodies in refrigerated cabinets, what an image. Facebook is backing the use of a photo morgue, the use of cold storage for old pix.…






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QLogic: Trying to squeeze MORE from Oracle RACs? Piece of cache

Upstart punts its FabricCache tech for transactions-per-minute boost


Wanna give your Oracle real application cluster setup a fivefold transactions-per-minute boost? Just add a flash-cached host bus adapter between the Oracle gear and its SAN, says QLogic... preferably its own.…






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Tegile: Flashness in front, hardness at the back – and now new software to run it

EMEA VP brags about thumping the competition


Mutant array maker Tegile has revved its software to get a more than 60 per cent speed increase. It says array IOPS have shot up from 200K to 360K with its latest release and brags it is trampling over its main rival in "customer bake-offs".…


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Report says PRISM snooped on India's space, nuclear programs

New Snowden doc details extensive NSA surveillance of 'ally' India


NSA spooks risk alienating yet another US ally after new documents released by whistleblower Edward Snowden apparently revealed extensive surveillance of Indian domestic politics as well as the country’s nuclear and space programs.…




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'I shot the sheriff': Turnbull asked for NBN Co board scalps

Promises 'NBN weekly progress report'


New communications minister Malcolm Turnbull has told a Sydney press conference that the government specifically requested the resignation of the NBN Co board, “to give the government complete flexibility in remaking the board in light of the policy agenda.”…




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Kiwi cable signs TE SubCom for build

Hawaiki a step closer to reality


A proposed submarine cable for New Zealand has signed TE SubCom as its build contractor.…


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Monday 23 September 2013

CloudBees straddles firewall with VPN connection

Java cloud makes Jenkins work harder with secure connectivity


Cloud startup CloudBees has launched a technology that lets customers of the developer-oriented cloud connect their sensitive on-premises resources to the company's cloud via VPN.…






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EE still has fastest, fattest 4G pipe in London's M25 ring

Root Metrics unfurls crowd-sourced 4G coverage map


Root Metrics has compiled a map of 4G deployments in London which includes a whopping 11,000 crowd-sourced data points and concludes that within the M25*, EE still has the fastest, and broadest, network in town.…




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Twerking 'ell! Google BUMPs and grinds way to another app slurp

Chip off the old Flock to push creepy sharing sky high


Google has bought mobile app maker Bump – the outfit behind photo-sharing tech Flock – for an undisclosed sum.…




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Mobile broadband 'fastest growing technology in history' says ITU

Spectrum ... depleting ... fast ... can't ... send ... at ... desired ... speed


Mobile networks are fast outrunning fixed broadband in terms of growth, according to the International Telecommunications Union (ITU), and that's going to put pressure on wireless spectrum's ability to cope.…




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ENTIRE NBN BOARD offers to walk the plank: report

Directors take nuclear option so Turnbull can do likewise


The chair of NBN Co, Siobhan McKenna, has tendered her resignation to the new communications minister Malcolm Turnbull, along with those of the organisation's entire board, according to Fairfax Media.…




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Sunday 22 September 2013

FIA post-race press conference - Singapore

1 - Sebastian Vettel (Red Bull Racing); 2 - Fernando Alonso (Ferrari); 3 - Kimi Raikkonen (Lotus) Podium Interview (conducted by Martin Brundle) Q: Sebastian, it looked pretty easy from where we were sitting. How did it look from your carbon fibre seat? Sebastian Vettel: Obviously the start was quite hairy. Quite difficult with Nico having a good start

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Alonso lift earns Webber Korea grid penalty

Ferrari's Fernando Alonso and Red Bull's Mark Webber have both been given reprimands following the 2013 Formula 1 Singtel Singapore Grand Prix after Alonso gave Webber a lift back to the pits on the sidepod of his car after the end of the race. Webber's RB9 expired on the final lap and as Alonso stopped to pick him up, the two Mercedes cars

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Race - selected team and driver quotes

Sebastian Vettel completes a hat trick of wins at Singapore, storming to victory over Ferrari's Fernando Alonso and third place Kimi Raikkonen for Lotus. We hear from the German, as well as the other drivers and senior team personnel, about Sunday's action from Marina Bay

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Race - peerless Vettel wins tense Singapore round

Sebastian Vettel controlled Sunday's 2013 Formula 1 Singtel Singapore Grand Prix from start to finish for Red Bull, as Ferrari's Fernando Alonso and Lotus's Kimi Raikkonen came through the pack to complete the podium. Behind them, however, there was tension aplenty as a mid-race safety-period - prompted by a crash for Toro Rosso's Daniel Ricciardo - mixed up the order.

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Caterham confirm Renault engines until 2016

Caterham will continue using Renault power next season when Formula One racing moves to a new 1.6-litre, V6 engine formula, the team confirmed on Sunday as they announced a three-year extension to their current supply agreement with the French manufacturer. From 2014, Caterham's cars will be equipped with the Energy F1, Renault's new cutting edge powerplant

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Saturday 21 September 2013

FIA post-qualifying press conference - Singapore

Drivers: 1 - Sebastian Vettel (Red Bull Racing); 2 - Nico Rosberg (Mercedes); 3 - Romain Grosjean (Lotus). Q: Sebastian, biting your nails at the end there. You took the decision not to go out and do a final run. Does it sit comfortably with you, being a gambler? Sebastian Vettel: Yeah. It's a weird feeling

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Qualifying - selected team and driver quotes

Red Bull's Sebastian Vettel claims the 41st pole of his career under the lights of the Marina Bay Street Circuit; Mercedes' Nico Rosberg misses out by under a tenth of a second; Romain Grosjean for Lotus is third fastest; and Red Bull's Mark Webber just couldn't challenge for the front row. All 22 drivers and senior team personnel report back on Saturday's action

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Qualifying - Vettel eases to Singapore pole

So confident was Sebastian Vettel in the lap time from his first Q3 run in Singapore qualifying, he didn't even bother leaving the Red Bull garage for a second. His confidence was well placed. As the reigning champion watched on, his rivals scrapped over P2 and it was Mercedes' Nico Rosberg who came closest to usurping the German, ultimately missing out on pole by less than a tenth of a second

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iOS 7 issue #3

I'm rather disapointed that iOS 7 on my iPad3 occasionally slows down a little which is really noticeable if you happen to be typing at the time.

Final practice - Vettel edges Grosjean at Marina Bay

Red Bull's form looked far less commanding on Saturday afternoon in Singapore, as Sebastian Vettel led final practice by less than two-tenths of a second from the Lotus of Romain Grosjean. Mercedes' Nico Rosberg finished the hour in third, half a second adrift of Vettel, with Mark Webber fourth in the second Red Bull and Lewis Hamilton fifth in the second Mercedes

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Friday 20 September 2013

FIA Friday press conference - Singapore

Team representatives - Franz Tost (Toro Rosso), Bob Fearnley (Force India), Tony Fernandes (Caterham), Claire Williams (Williams), Eric Boullier (Lotus). Q: Let's start with today's two practice sessions. Bob, if I could turn to you first. Progress made or was it a bit of a struggle for the team? Bob Fearnley: It was a little bit of a struggle

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CloudSigma lashes cloud to colocation partners

It's hybrid cloud, ma'am, but not as you know it


European infrastructure-as-a-service provider CloudSigma has followed in the steps of Amazon and Microsoft to offer a direct connection between private servers in colocation facilities and its cloud.…






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Friday practice - selected team and driver quotes

Red Bull's Sebastian Vettel reports back on setting the quickest time of the day following Friday practice at the Marina Bay Street Circuit in Singapore. Team mate Mark Webber wants to bring the fight to Vettel; both Mercedes drivers explain their reasonable days; and Lotus's Romain Grosjean describes his frustration at spending more time in the garage than on track. All 22 drivers and senior team personnel report back on Friday's action

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Practice Two - Red Bull take control in Singapore

Red Bull stamped their authority on the 2013 Formula 1 Singtel Singapore Grand Prix weekend on Friday evening, as Sebastian Vettel and Mark Webber dominated second practice. Neither Mercedes was able to get within a second of Vettel's best time, with Nico Rosberg finishing third ahead of team mate Lewis Hamilton.

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Latest Snowden reveal: It was GCHQ that hacked Belgian telco giant

Cheltenham-in-the-middle attack against roaming smartphone convos


Leaked documents provide evidence that GCHQ planted malware in the systems of Belgacom, the largest telecommunications company in Belgium.…




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Ex-BT boss gets £9 MILLION bye-bye bundle, as he moves to key gov post

Lord Livingston given 2.6 million company shares


BT's former boss Ian Livingston just received an extremely generous leaving present from the telecoms giant – 2.6 million shares in the company worth about £8.9m.…




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Practice One - Hamilton stakes his Singapore claim

Mercedes were expecting to be fast around Marina Bay and Lewis Hamilton did not disappoint on Friday evening, as he led the way in opening practice for the 2013 Formula 1 Singtel Singapore Grand Prix. Hamilton was over three-tenths quicker than the Red Bulls of Mark Webber and Sebastian Vettel, with Mercedes team mate Nico Rosberg fourth fastest, ahead of the Lotus cars of Kimi Raikkonen and Romain Grosjean

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Axe falls: Virgin Media plans to kill 600 management jobs

Parent Liberty Global says telco can only grow with layoffs


Virgin Media is shedding up to 600 management jobs in the wake of Liberty Global's takeover of the British telco.…




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Google tries putting an NFC ring on it: Bonking will keep you SAFE

Stick that thar fob int' device and behold the treasures within


Google has started testing NFC keyrings from one-time-pad makers Yubico, with a view to offering them to ordinary punters next summer as a secure way of accessing the Google cloud.…


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Google smacks Surface with free Quickoffice for Android, iOS

Chocolate Factory retaliates before MS Office lands on mobile platforms


Google has reduced the price of its Quickoffice tool to nothing on Android and iOS, a move Microsoft won't appreciate.…






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Thursday 19 September 2013

Red Hat and dotCloud team up on time-saving Linux container tech

First they conquered the seven seas, now containers be forcin' VMs to walk the plank


Red Hat is working with startup dotCloud to co-develop new Linux container technology to make it easier to migrate applications from one cloud to another.…






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iOS 7 issue #2

It takes an age to select and then set a wallpaper. At least several seconds from 'clicking' to it actually happening. What the heck...

Rotten Apple iOS 7 fury: Glitchy audio or is today's music really that bad?

Avast, me Cupertino treasure sank overboard before crew could stow it


Fanbois and developers have hit out at Apple after the launch of iOS 7 was dogged by problems.…






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FIA Thursday press conference - Singapore

Drivers - Adrian Sutil (Force India), Nico Hulkenberg (Sauber), Valtteri Bottas (Williams), Sergio Perez (McLaren), Kimi Raikkonen (Ferrari), Nico Rosberg (Mercedes). Q: I'll start with Kimi if I may. Congratulations on the move for next season. First time we've seen you since the announcement. If we'd have said to you at the start of the season that you'd be a confirmed Ferrari driver by September

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Is it just me, or does anyone else think the look of iOS 7 is a backwards step?

Whilst I like the new features in iOS 7 (I'm using it on an iPad) I really don't like the look of the thing. My first impression was that it looked like a cheap imitation of an Apple OS.

I'll wait and see if it grows on me...

Oracle halves cost of ExaLogic middleware platform

How much would you expect to pay for this quality elastic platform?


Oracle has halved the cost of its Exalogic Elastic Cloud Software (EECS), an offering it says is “the unique set of software components, tools, and documentation required to make the Exalogic Elastic Cloud Hardware functional and usable as a platform for Oracle's Fusion Middleware and business applications.”…


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Wednesday 18 September 2013

Pirelli reveal tyre allocations for Korea, Japan and India

Formula One racing's official tyre suppliers Pirelli have announced the tyre compounds that will be used at the forthcoming Grands Prix in Korea, Japan and India. For Korea, the medium and supersoft tyres

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FIA press conference schedule - Singapore

Among those facing the media at Marina Bay on Thursday will be the Ferrari-bound Kimi Raikkonen and the man who has been tipped by many to replace him at Lotus, Sauber's Nico Hulkenberg. Meanwhile, Friday's press session includes the man who could decide Hulkenberg's fate, Lotus team principal Eric Boullier. The line-ups in full

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TPG floats fibre cherry-pick

Wants to connect half-a-million to basement broadband


Second-tier ISP TPG is eyeing the big league, announcing a plan to use its fibre network to connect a 100 Mbps fibre-to-the-building service to high-density apartments around Australia.…




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Tuesday 17 September 2013

Joyent turns cloud into a Riverbed content-delivery network

Overlay tech lets admins make Joyent DCs links in global CDN chain


Midsize cloud Joyent has partnered with network appliance vendor Riverbed to create a "Content Delivery Cloud" to give developers on a budget a way to push data closer to users and reduce load times.…






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China's corruption crackdown killing off Unix

EMC chaps say big projects look suspicious in current political climate


China's crackdown on Bo Xilai and other scandal-hit Communist Party outcasts may be making Unix systems less attractive behind the Great Firewall.…






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Speaking in Tech: Stay a virgin at VMworld – wear a rubber unicorn head

Plus: 'Software-defined bull****? I think that's called legacy'






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Peak Apple: Has ANYONE ordered a new iPhone 5C?

Cupertino idiot-tax operation's silence is deafening on early doors sales numbers


Apple has failed to disclose the sales figures for its new iPhone for the first time since 2009, sending fanbois and investors into a spiral of doubt and fear.…




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Ghastly! Yahoo! Groups! gripes! grip! grumpy! gremlin! grumblers!

Thanks a lot for the feedback, but Neo is The One, says web giant


Thousands of Yahoo! users are clogging up the site's customer feedback forums with complaints about its makeover of Groups, an online discussion board system. Some are upset the redecoration job has locked out the blind and disabled folk.…




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Mid East undersea fibre telco hacked: US, UK spooks in spotlight

Belgacom infiltrated for past 'two years', cables run through Syria and other hot spots


Belgian telco Belgacom - which operates vital undersea communications cables - says its internal network was compromised, possibly by foreign spooks.…




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Telstra scrambles to fix voice

Business services borked


Telstra is scrambling to overcome an outage that ABC Radio is reporting has affected “tens of thousands” of business voice services nationwide.…


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KVM kings unveil 'cloud operating system'

Apps 'running like a bat out of hell' on Cloudius-Systems' tech


Virtualization sucks, because it makes it difficult for an application to get the most out of its underlying infrastructure. And so a startup staffed by the originators of the KVM hypervisor wants to change that with an ambitious open source project called OSv.…






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iiNet getting ready for 802.11ac

Celeno tapped as silicon supplier


While there might be political controversy surrounding the question of how much broadband is enough, iiNet is preparing for a near-term future in which consumer kit has to cope with multiple high-definition TV streams being distributed around a single household.…




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Monday 16 September 2013

Box spreads platform over enterprises

Adds metadata, image technology to doc sharing platform


Cloudy document-sharing service Box wants its customers to slather its offering across as much of their data as possible, so the company has upgraded its technology to better embrace mobile devices and enterprise file management.…






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Box morphs into Google Docs competitor

Some operational transfer here, some node.js there, WAIT A SECOND


Document management startup Box has added a collaborative document editing technology to its product suite, taking on Microsoft's Office 365, Google Docs, and others.…






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ISPs set to install network-level smut filters despite Lib Dem opposition

Junior coalition partner rejects 'illiberal' filth-blockers, but so what?


UK telcos are continuing to work towards flicking the switch on network-level filters that will allow subscribers to block "harmful" content by the end of this year.…




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Apple named in criminal lawsuit over Premier League–streaming app

Enraged Thai telly tycoons claiming $3m damages from Cupertino and hapless dev


Apple has been summoned to court in Thailand for approving an app which streams UK Premier League football games to an iPhone, in breach of the exclusive contract signed by local telly firm Cable Thai Holding.…




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Sloppy call data gets Telstra an ACMA wrist-slap

Double-billing on international roaming


Telstra is on notice that its data roaming billing isn't up to scratch, courtesy the Australian Communications and Media Authority.…




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Ninefold preps new infrastructure to help roll out Rails

Oz cloud co expands into Europe and North America


On the back of its newly-launched Rails Cloud infrastructure offering, Australian elastic public cloud outfit Ninefold has reconfirmed its ongoing expansion plans, with new presences planned for California, the US east coast and Ireland by July 2014.…






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Friday 13 September 2013

Amazon cloud goes down in North Virginia

Oldest data center beset by YET ANOTHER cloudopocalypse


Amazon's mammoth compute cloud experienced problems on Friday, disrupting the constellation of sites that depend on it, such as Heroku and Flickr.…


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Singapore preview quotes - Marussia on Marina Bay

Round 13 of the 2013 FIA Formula One World Championship sees the paddock leave Europe behind for the floodlights of Singapore's spectacular Marina Bay Street Circuit and the first of seven flyaway races that will culminate in the season finale in Brazil in late November. Those involved in the 2013 Formula 1 Singtel Singapore Grand Prix discuss their prospects for the coming weekend

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Amazon spits out offline DynamoDB tester

Even disconnected devs can now crank the Dynamo


Amazon has released a tool to let developers test apps that use the DynamoDB API, and to do so offline.…






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Thursday 12 September 2013

Google swaps out MySQL, moves to MariaDB

'They're moving it all,' says MariaDB Foundation headman


Google is migrating its MySQL systems over to MariaDB, allowing the search company to get away from the Oracle-backed open source database.…






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Steelie Neelie calls for TOTAL BAN on mobe roaming charges

Drops plan to cap charges, goes for the jugular instead


The European Commission is planning to scrap all roaming charges across the Continent as part of its efforts to turn the telecoms market into a single market across all EU countries.…




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Track modifications to lower lap times in Singapore

Race organisers in Singapore have modified the Marina Bay Street Circuit's layout ahead of the forthcoming 2013 Formula 1 Singtel Singapore Grand Prix. The chicane at Turn 10, known as 'Singapore Sling', has been removed and replaced by a single-apex left-hand bend

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Ferrari: Alonso and Raikkonen will help each other

Ferrari team principal Stefano Domenicali has dismissed suggestions that 'having two cockerels in the same hen house' could prove problematic next year when Kimi Raikkonen joins Fernando Alonso at the Italian squad. Raikkonen's signing gives Ferrari the strongest driver line-up on the 2014 grid and marks the first time the team have fielded two world champions since 1953. It also means Alonso will no longer enjoy being the Scuderia's de facto number one

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You thought NFC tags were Not For Consumers? Well, they're in Maplins

If anyone knows what they're for, it's High Street Geek Dad


High street retailer Maplin will be stocking NFC tags, surely demonstrating that the technology is mainstream even if no one is quite sure what it's for.…




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Lotus not bitter about Raikkonen departure

Lotus team principal Eric Boullier says there is no ill feeling about Kimi Raikkonen's decision to leave the team and join Ferrari. Raikkonen, who returned to Formula One racing with Lotus in 2012 after two years out of the sport, ended speculation about his future on Wednesday by signing a two-year deal to partner Fernando Alonso at the Italian squad

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One more thing ... Beijing green lights iPhone in China

Lucrative tie-up would give Cupertino access to over 700m subscribers


Apple's infamously stage-managed launch events have been upstaged by China's government, which let it be known the fruity phone company has been granted a license to operate its new iPhone 5S and 5C models on China Mobile’s forthcoming 4G network after its Beijing launch yesterday.…




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Wednesday 11 September 2013

Googorola now shipping 100,000 Moto X phones a week... from TEXAS

Home-grown factory churning out flagship mobes at a steady rate


Motorola is now shipping 100,000 of its flagship Moto X phones a week from its factory near Dallas, Texas.…




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Before you buy your BLINGED-UP iPhone: Apple has actually released TEN

What's your Band Plan, man? Depends where you live


Apple might have launched two new iPhone models on Tuesday, but it launched 10 different variants as Cupertino struggles to cope with the hugely fragmented 4G market.…




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Alonso, Domenicali pay tribute to departing Massa

Fernando Alonso and Ferrari team principal Stefano Domenicali have paid tribute to Felipe Massa, who will depart the Scuderia at the end of the season to be replaced by Kimi Raikkonen. The 32-year-old Brazilian has raced for Ferrari for eight seasons, notching up 11 wins and helping the Italian team to constructors' titles in 2007 and 2008

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Raikkonen to partner Alonso at Ferrari in 2014

Kimi Raikkonen will leave Lotus and make a sensational return to Ferrari in 2014, it was confirmed on Wednesday. It follows Tuesday's news that Felipe Massa will exit the Italian team at the end of the year. Raikkonen - who previously drove for Ferrari between 2007 and 2009, winning nine races and the 2007 drivers' title - has signed a two-year deal with the Scuderia, ending intense speculation about his future

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Virgin Media gives TiVo users access to Netflix

Set-top boxes will get Netflix app for access to on-demand service


Virgin Media is planning to let Netflix subscribers watch the video-on-demand service through their set-top TiVo boxes.…




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Microsoft opens Azure boffinry giveaway

Windows Azure for Research doles out heavenly compute and storage


After several informal schemes, Microsoft has forged an initiative to give academic researchers free access to the Windows Azure cloud.…






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Tuesday 10 September 2013

Massa to leave Ferrari at the end of 2013

Felipe Massa has revealed that he is leaving Ferrari at the end of the 2013 season. The Brazilian, who has raced for the Scuderia since 2006, announced the news on Tuesday evening via his official Twitter account, saying that he hopes to remain in the sport with another team in 2014

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Should Nominet ban .uk domains that use paedo and crim-friendly words?

Censorship or sense? Speak your brains NOW amid domain shakeup plan


Nominet - currently pushing its plan to let people shell out for .uk web domains without the .co, .org and other second-level labels - now wants to know if certain words should be banned from any .uk registrations.…




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IBM: Closed clouds are dead meat

Proprietary tech will be 'out-innovated by the world'


After adopting OpenStack and embracing the Cloud Foundry platform-as-a-service, IBM has become convinced that clouds are destined to be made of open source software.…


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Monday 9 September 2013

No public cloud is good enough for business fumes Gartner

Amazon, Microsoft, Rackspace all fail to deliver key features


No public cloud fits the stringent criteria required for "enterprise" use, according to the soothsayers at Gartner, though Amazon is far ahead of the competition.…






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Telstra's Thodey is NBN kingmaker after Oz election

The shape of yesterday things to come is about to be revealed


With Saturday's emphatic election result putting almost certain to put Malcolm Turnbull into the communications ministry, the business of rejigging the National Broadband Network is about to begin in earnest.…




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Ofcom set to fatten up London's White Space TV spectrum

Gogglebox enthusiasts rejoice - unless you're near Wembley


Next year Londoners will get access to 72MHz of unlicensed radio spectrum, all in the prime sub-1GHz band, as Ofcom prepares to open the TV airwaves to anyone with a database handy.…


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Which? demands ban on £1.50-per-min help, complaint hotlines

Consumer group reckons it should be cheaper to call banks and public bodies


Consumer campaigners at Which? are calling for a ban on costly helpline and customer call-lines.…




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Sunday 8 September 2013

Di Resta handed reprimand for first-lap shunt

Force India's Paul di Resta has been handed a reprimand by the stewards for crashing into the back of Romain Grosjean's Lotus on the first lap of the Formula 1 Gran Premio d'Italia 2013 at Monza on Sunday afternoon. Whilst Grosjean survived the incident to finish the race in eighth place, Di Resta was forced out on the spot with severe damage

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FIA post-race press conference - Italy

He may have only crossed the line 5.4 seconds ahead of Ferrari's Fernando Alonso, but Red Bull's Sebastian Vettel was a comfortable winner at Monza on Sunday. After the race Vettel, Alonso and third-placed finisher Mark Webber spoke to the media in the official FIA press conference

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Race - selected team and driver quotes

A dry race in Italy on Sunday played into the hands of polesitter Sebastian Vettel and his Red Bull team who showed complete dominance easing to victory. Ferrari's Fernando Alonso was second and the other Red Bull of Mark Webber third. We hear from the German, as well as the other drivers and senior team personnel, about Sunday's action at Monza

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Race - brilliant Vettel eases to victory in Italy

Sebastian Vettel survived a number of minor issues to take his sixth win of the season in the Formula 1 Gran Premio d'Italia 2013 at Monza on Sunday afternoon. The Red Bull driver was rarely challenged in the 53 lap race, but behind him there were countless entertaining battles, not least between Ferrari's Fernando Alonso and Vettel's team mate Mark Webber, who finished in second and third respectively

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Saturday 7 September 2013

FIA post-qualifying press conference - Italy

Red Bull's Sebastian Vettel cruised to pole position in Italy on Saturday. After climbing out of the car, he joined team mate Mark Webber and third-placed qualifier Nico Hulkenberg of Sauber in the official FIA press conference

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Sutil handed three-place grid penalty for impeding Hamilton

Force India's Adrian Sutil has been handed a three-place grid penalty for impeding Mercedes driver Lewis Hamilton during the second part of qualifying for Sunday's Formula 1 Gran Premio d'Italia 2013 at Monza. The German got in Hamilton's way at the final corner - the Parabolica - as the Briton was completing a timed lap. The penalty means that Sutil will drop from 14th to 17th on the starting grid, whilst Hamilton remains 12th having been knocked out of qualifying after Q2.

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Qualifying - selected team and driver quotes

Red Bull's Sebastian Vettel reports back on setting the quickest time of the weekend in Monza; team mate Mark Webber on how he is hopeful of a good result on Sunday after qualifying on the front row; Sauber's Nico Hulkenberg's shock at taking 3rd position; both McLaren drivers on getting in to the top ten; and Mercedes' Lewis Hamilton on his disappointment of qualifying in 12th. All 22 drivers and senior team personnel report back on Saturday's action

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Qualifying - Vettel leads commanding Red Bull 1-2 in Italy

Sebastian Vettel cruised to his fourth pole position of the season with a dominant performance in qualifying in Italy on Saturday afternoon. The German lapped Monza 0.213s quicker than Red Bull team mate Mark Webber, with Sauber's Nico Hulkenberg taking a superb third position. The Ferraris of Felipe Massa and Fernando Alonso were fourth and fifth respectively

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Final practice - Alonso closes in on Vettel at Monza

Red Bull's Sebastian Vettel again led the way in Saturday morning's final practice session at Monza, but with a reduced advantage of just 0.283s over Ferrari's Fernando Alonso. Mark Webber was third in the sister Red Bull, ahead of Mercedes' Lewis Hamilton, McLaren's Sergio Perez and Toro Rosso's Daniel Ricciardo

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Oracle spins-up public sector 'Cloud'

Follows in Amazon's footsteps to claim Uncle Sam's dosh


Oracle has fired up its big red branding machine and coated some of its software-as-a-service products with a cloud label as it tries to create a suite of tech for public-sector organizations.…






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Friday 6 September 2013

FIA Friday press conference - Italy

Team Representatives - Graeme Lowdon (Marussia), Monisha Kaltenborn (Sauber), Ross Brawn (Mercedes), Martin Whitmarsh (McLaren), Stefano Domenicali (Ferrari), Christian Horner (Red Bull Racing). Q: Stefano, as it's your home race, I'll start with you if I might. First of all, we've had two practice sessions today

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Bristol boffins announce QUANTUM CLOUD

The smoking gun in recent lab cat disappearance?


Ever wanted to fiddle with a quantum computer, but don't have the sort of connections to get you inside a lab? If so, the boffins at Bristol University have just the thing for you: a "quantum cloud"!…






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Friday practice - selected team and driver quotes

With three hours of track time on Friday, the drivers had plenty of time to get used to the low-drag set-ups required for the high-speed Monza circuit. At the end of the day it was Red Bull's Sebastian Vettel who emerged with the fastest time. He, along with all the other drivers and important team personnel, report back on an action-packed day in Italy

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Practice Two - Dominant Vettel surges ahead at Monza

Sebastian Vettel laid down an impressive marker for the rest of the weekend with a dominant performance in a scrappy second practice session for the Formula 1 Gran Premio d'Italia 2013 at Monza on Friday afternoon. With numerous cars sliding off the road around him, the Red Bull driver set a best time some 0.623s faster than that of his team mate Mark Webber, who finished in second place

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Practice One - Hamilton edges ahead in Italy

Lewis Hamilton topped the timesheets by just 0.035s as first practice for the Formula 1 Gran Premio d'Italia 2013 got underway at Monza on Friday morning. In an incredibly close session the Mercedes driver had the edge over Ferrari's Fernando Alonso in second and team mate Nico Rosberg in third. Championship leader Sebastian Vettel was fourth quickest for Red Bull, but just 0.188s back from Hamilton

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BT doles out measly 2GB to customers in Dropbox-alike BT Cloud

I'll just upload 1 or 2 video fi... oh, maybe not


BT Cloud, the telco's own Dropbox-a-like offering, was launched in February. But BT has only just gotten around to telling its BT broadband customers about it.…


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Facebook postpones privacy putsch: report

Give us a week while we listen to your whining … bitch


Facebook will wait a little while before adopting changes to its privacy policy flagged last month.…




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Chasing pack about to sink teeth into AWS: Gartner

Google, Microsoft and one more 'very dangerous competitor' are closing fast


Amazon Web Services' position as the leading infrastructure-as-a-service provider is under threat, as competitors target markets the organisation has to date ignored, according to Gartner research veep Lydia Leong.…






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Salesforce invents a telephone book for corporate data

Rebrands Chatterbox as Files


Salesforce has previewed a technology that makes Benioff's customer-loving cloud the central point for file discovery within an organization.…






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Thursday 5 September 2013

FIA Thursday press conference - Italy

Drivers - Max Chilton (Marussia), Daniel Ricciardo (Toro Rosso), Jenson Button (McLaren), Felipe Massa (Ferrari), Mark Webber (Red Bull Racing), Fernando Alonso (Ferrari). Q: Let's start with the man of the moment, who I don't expect has stopped smiling since the announcement was made a few days ago that he is going to be joining Red Bull Racing next year

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Italy preview - can anyone beat the bulls?

If there's one phrase to sum up Red Bull's state heading into the 12th round of the 2013 FIA Formula One World Championship, the Formula 1 Gran Premio d'Italia 2013, it's 'ready to take on all-comers'. Few come to Monza expecting the reigning world champions not to be the pacesetters, though the team have only managed one podium finish at the high-speed circuit since 2005

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Cassandra trundles into 2.0 release

Facebook's database steps into expected future


The Apache Software Foundation has announced the 2.0 release of the Cassandra database, bringing with it new features for querying and transactions.…






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Wednesday 4 September 2013

Amazon hits back at Microsoft with Redis ElastiCache

Bezos & Co enlist Memcached's younger, smarter brother in cloud war


Amazon has broadened its set of services for storing frequently accessed data, just one day after Microsoft announced a competing product.…


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Rotten routers caused Intermedia service crash, says CEO

Wanna qualify for SLA creditors, got 72 hours


The service blackout at third-party Microsoft Exchange hosting biz Intermedia was caused by glitches in core routing kit, the CEO has confirmed.…






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Ofcom launches idiot's guide to traffic-shaping

'Streaming video is like driving a heavy lorry. But you're a car'


UK net regulator Ofcom has published an idiots' guide to traffic shaping to try to encourage people to see how wonderful it is ahead of the inevitable battle over net neutrality.…




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FIA press conference schedule - Italy

Among those facing the media at Monza on Thursday will be Red Bull's Mark Webber and the driver who this week was confirmed as his replacement for 2014, Toro Rosso's Daniel Ricciardo. Meanwhile, Friday's press session includes the men in charge of the top three teams in the standings. The line-ups in full

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Three used cheap deal to lure me into buying expensive slab, chap tells ASA

Toothless advertising watchdog shows mobe network its best frowny face


UK mobile network Three has been rapped for touting a tablet computer that customers couldn't actually buy – and then, having got the interested punters on the phone, flogging them a more expensive slab instead.…




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ICANN destroys Google's dotless domain dream

Internet names overlord finishes new global top level domain checking process


Google's dream of “dotless domains”, already on the receiving end of a firm ”no” from the Internet Architecture Board (IAB), has been killed off by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN).…




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China, India the key to Micr-okia's fate says IDC

Low-budget Lumia, Asha overhaul needed but lack of apps still a problem


The mega-markets of China and India, and more broadly the rest of the Asia Pacific region, will be key to Microsoft’s success in the handset space with its newly acquired Nokia assets, according to analyst IDC.…




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Cisco pours cash into log management startup

Loggly gets multi-million dollar dosh infusion


A remotely hosted log management company has garnered $10.5m in filthy valley lucre from Cisco, Data Collective Venture Capital, and others.…






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Deloitte research says NBN a winner for households

Productivity, telework the big pluses, says government-commissioned study


As Australia races towards a federal election likely to kill off the country's current model for a national broadband network, the (probably) outgoing government has released a report saying the annual value of the network to households will be in the order of $AU3,800.…




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Microsoft soars above Amazon with cloud cache

Farms cash with cache that smacks down AWS ElasticCache


Microsoft has launched a new Azure technology to give developers a dedicated storage layer for frequently accessed information, and its pricing and features trump similar tech fielded by cloud incumbent Amazon Web Services.…






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Tuesday 3 September 2013

Rackspace cracks wallet on cloud 'developer discount'

If you pay them, they will come


Rackspace has is seasoning new developer accounts with cloud credits as the Texan company tries to lure punters into its bit barns.…






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Intermedia's Exchange hive goes titsup ... and no one's answering calls

Customers lose their cool as MS Exchange host goes down


Intermedia, the world's largest third-party provider of hosted Microsoft Exchange services, today delivered a masterclass in how to mismanage customers' expectations when cloud services crash.…


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McLaren confident of a return to form in 2014

McLaren's sporting director Sam Michael is confident that the team have the wherewithal to return to race-winning form next season after a disappointing 2013 campaign so far. The Woking-based squad are currently fifth in the constructors' standings having failed to score a podium finish. If they fail to pick one up in the remaining eight races it will be their first trophy-free season since 1980

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Toro Rosso in no rush to appoint Ricciardo replacement

Toro Rosso team principal Franz Tost has said that the team are in no rush to appoint a 2014 replacement for Daniel Ricciardo following the news that the Australian will move to sister team Red Bull next season. With Jean-Eric Vergne expected to be retained by Toro Rosso for a third season in 2014, Tost indicated that, given the team's success with Ricciardo, another racer from Red Bull's young driver programme could fill the vacant seat alongside the Frenchman

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Vodafone, can you get a signal at the top of your $130bn Verizon cash pile?

Verizon Wireless stake mega-deal sealed - now what to do with all that dosh


Verizon will buy out its UK partner Vodafone from their US joint-venture Verizon Wireless for $130bn, as expected.…




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Monday 2 September 2013

Telstra, Moto in lead for $AU450-plus wireless contract

Public safety upgrade ahead of the G20


Telstra and Motorola have been named as the preferred tenderers for a major refresh of the Queensland Government's public safety networks.…


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Ricciardo to partner Vettel at Red Bull in 2014

Red Bull have ended speculation over who will replace Mark Webber at the team next season by announcing Daniel Ricciardo as Sebastian Vettel's 2014 team mate. Ricciardo will move up from sister team Toro Rosso, just as Vettel did. The 24-year-old Australian, who has 42 Grand Prix entries to his name, was one of at least three drivers under consideration by Red Bull after compatriot Webber confirmed his plans to retire from Formula One racing earlier this year

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Calado becomes Force India third driver

Force India have signed GP2 race winner James Calado as their third driver. Calado will make his official debut with the team at Monza this Friday in opening practice for the Formula 1 Gran Premio d'Italia 2013. The 24-year-old Briton finished fifth in last year's GP2 championship and lies fifth in the 2013 standings, having taken his first win of the season at Spa-Francorchamps last weekend

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Claire Williams becomes F1 in Schools™ patron

F1 in Schools, the leading global educational initiative, has welcomed Claire Williams, deputy team principal and commercial director of the Williams team, to its roster of high-profile patrons from the Formula One community. Williams joins a long list of famous F1 names, including Sauber's Monisha Kaltenborn, McLaren's Martin Whitmarsh, Red Bull Racing's Adrian Newey, Mercedes' Ross Brawn and Ferrari's Rob Smedley

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Nokia drives cars into the clouds: Hear HERE, you're here, hear?

Google Maps killer gets behind the wheel


Nokia will assault car manufacturers next week, using the International Motor Show to launch HERE Auto, an updated platform intended to carve Nokia a home in the dashboard.…




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Level 3 starts round 2 of layoffs: 60 UK workers to lose jobs

Internet backbone provider plans to axe 700 workers worldwide


Major internet network operator Level 3 Communications will be axing 60 people in the UK – amounting to five per cent of its British workforce. Altogether, 700 L3 workers are being axed worldwide.…




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McLaren celebrate their 50th birthday

McLaren marked their 50th anniversary on Monday with a celebratory event at their UK headquarters. Staff witnessed the historic running of a number of iconic McLaren cars, driven by - among others - the team's current drivers, Jenson Button and Sergio Perez. Bruce McLaren Motor Racing Limited was formally incorporated on September 2, 1963, when the 26-year-old New Zealander mustered together a small crew of committed individuals to design, build and race cars bearing his name

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