| British student designs bamboo smartphone |
Fri, 03 Feb 2012 16:37:00 GMT
Source: Techworld.com News |
A student from Middlesex University has designed a smartphone made from bamboo, which he plans to release in the UK and Europe later this year. |
| SENTRY dual-mode 3G M2M asset tracking can span regions |
Fri, 03 Feb 2012 16:24:00 GMT
Source: Techworld.com News |
Enterprises can track assets all over the world using one M2M (machine-to-machine) device with both CDMA and GSM radios, announced on Thursday by Sprint and partner OnAsset Intelligence. |
| Ninja Blocks integrates your household items with web services |
Fri, 03 Feb 2012 15:30:00 GMT
Source: Techworld.com News |
While an air freshener that only releases its smell when you get a mention on social media sites can seem cool, perhaps you want something a little more straightforward to keep in you control, without having to reach for your cellphone, or computer, or even get out of your chair. |
| Qualcomm to showcase blending of LTE and 3G networks |
Fri, 03 Feb 2012 15:28:00 GMT
Source: Techworld.com News |
Qualcomm has revealed a key step in enabling voice calls over LTE handsets. Working with Ericsson, the chipmaker says it recently completed the first voice call handover between LTE and 3G networks, and will showcase the achievement later this month at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. |
| Android isn't as fragmented as you think |
Fri, 03 Feb 2012 15:17:00 GMT
Source: Techworld.com News |
Fragmentation is often held up as one of Android's biggest problems, posing all kinds of challenges for developers and users alike. |
| Apple patches 51 bugs in Mac OS X Lion and Snow Leopard |
Fri, 03 Feb 2012 14:45:00 GMT
Source: Techworld.com News |
Apple on Tuesday patched 51 vulnerabilities in Mac OS X, most of them critical, in 2012's first security update. |
| DNSChanger has infected half of Fortune 500 firms |
Fri, 03 Feb 2012 14:32:00 GMT
Source: Techworld.com News |
Half of all Fortune 500 companies and major US government agencies own computers infected with the "DNSChanger" malware that redirects users to fake websites and puts organisations at risk of information theft, a security company warned yesterday. |
| Microsoft researchers discover malicious cookie scheme |
Fri, 03 Feb 2012 13:09:00 GMT
Source: Techworld.com News |
Microsoft researchers checking how easy it is to identify users by analysing commonly collected web-log data incidentally discovered a cookie-forwarding scheme that can be used to aid session hijacking. |
| BT to offer FTTP 'on demand' service by 2013 |
Fri, 03 Feb 2012 12:03:00 GMT
Source: Techworld.com News |
BT claims it could soon be able to offer customers broadband speeds of up to 300Mbps, following successful trials of fibre-to-the-premise technology in St Agnes, Cornwall |
| New Ice IX banking Trojan enables fraudsters to hijack phone calls |
Fri, 03 Feb 2012 11:30:00 GMT
Source: Techworld.com News |
New variants of the Ice IX online banking Trojan program are tricking victims into exposing their telephone account numbers so that fraudsters can divert post-transaction verification phone calls made by banks to phone numbers under their control, researchers from security vendor Trusteer warned. |
| Facebook suffers outage a day after IPO filing |
Fri, 03 Feb 2012 11:15:00 GMT
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Social networkers resorted to Twitter during and following a brief Facebook outage on Thursday, a day after the company filed for its initial public offering. |
| HP takes giant step into OpenFlow networking |
Fri, 03 Feb 2012 10:52:00 GMT
Source: Techworld.com News |
HP is taking its first leap into OpenFlow-enabled network equipment, supporting the standard on 16 of its Ethernet switch products as it attempts to gain a foothold in a market likely to receive significant attention from competitors. |
| Google fined £415,000 for making Google Maps free |
Fri, 03 Feb 2012 10:16:00 GMT
Source: Techworld.com News |
Google has been ordered to pay a fine and damages to a French mapping company after a court ruled that the search giant was guilty of unfair competition and "undercutting competitors" by making its Google Maps program free. |
| AMD calls end to core growth on server chips |
Fri, 03 Feb 2012 09:09:00 GMT
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Advanced Micro Devices has put the brakes on adding more cores to its server chips, stopping at 16, the company said Thursday during a financial analyst day. |
| AMD calls end ot core growth on server chips |
Fri, 03 Feb 2012 09:09:00 GMT
Source: Techworld.com News |
Advanced Micro Devices has put the brakes on adding more cores to its server chips, stopping at 16, the company said Thursday during a financial analyst day. |
| EMC launches Isilon NAS with Hadoop integration |
Fri, 03 Feb 2012 08:47:00 GMT
Source: Techworld.com News |
EMC has launched its latest Isilon Network Attached Storage (NAS) offering, introducing native support for the open source analytics platform Hadoop, based on Apache. |
| VeriSign admits it was hacked in 2010 but managers not told |
Thu, 02 Feb 2012 18:48:00 GMT
Source: Techworld.com News |
Internet giant VeriSign suffered a series of data breaches in 2010 and even now senior executives are not sure exactly what was compromised, the company has admitted in a filing made to the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). |
| O2 offers free landline and broadband services for SMBs |
Thu, 02 Feb 2012 18:00:00 GMT
Source: Techworld.com News |
Mobile operator O2 has launched a new service for small and medium businesses in the UK, offering a free landline and high speed broadband access for up to six months, when they sign up for a 24 month contract |
| Bogus Facebook accounts always female, new study finds |
Thu, 02 Feb 2012 17:37:00 GMT
Source: Techworld.com News |
Bogus Facebook profiles used to spread malware are overwhelmingly created to appear female, have an unusually high number of ‘friends’ and often claim to be bisexual, a study of the phenomenon has found. |
| Bogus Facebook accounts easy to spot, new study finds |
Thu, 02 Feb 2012 17:37:00 GMT
Source: Techworld.com News |
Bogus Facebook profiles used to spread malware are overwhelmingly created to appear female, have an unusually high number of ‘friends’ and often claim to be bisexual, a study of the phenomenon has found. |
| Apple FileVault 2 encryption cracked by forensic software |
Thu, 02 Feb 2012 16:53:00 GMT
Source: Techworld.com News |
The encryption keys for Apple’s FileVault 2 full-disk encryption used with OS X Lion can be recovered “in minutes” from memory, password-cracking outfit Passware has announced. |
| UK broadband speeds up 22 percent: Ofcom |
Thu, 02 Feb 2012 16:03:00 GMT
Source: Techworld.com News |
The UK's average broadband speed is 7.6Mbps, says Ofcom. |
| ST Micro to improve smartphone cameras with 40W LED flash |
Thu, 02 Feb 2012 15:00:00 GMT
Source: Techworld.com News |
STMicroelectronics hopes to make blurry low-light images from smartphone cameras a thing of the past with a new chip designed to boost light output from LED-based flashes. |
| Plusnet broadband slows after dodgy maintenance upgrade |
Thu, 02 Feb 2012 14:54:00 GMT
Source: Techworld.com News |
Customers of large UK ISP PlusNet have experienced a morning of disruption after a maintenance upgrade slowed web browsing to a crawl for many. |
| ARM targets servers and smartphones with first 64-bit processors |
Thu, 02 Feb 2012 14:33:00 GMT
Source: Techworld.com News |
ARM will announce its first 64-bit processors later this year for servers and high-end smartphones, and is also taking steps to build up software support for the processor designs, said CEO Warren East earlier this week. |