iPhone 4 incapable of handling Siri, says chip chap
Cough up for 4$ or somehow stagger on without blabberware
Siri won't run on iPhone 4 because the phone's chip can't handle it, an analyst at the Linley Group has said. The news is a blow to iPhone 4-ers hoping for an upgrade to the voice-activated virtual assistant and is also a surprise to anyone familiar with the I-hacked-my-iPhone-4-to-run-Siri stories.… 
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UK gov rejects call to posthumously pardon Alan Turing
Wartime codebreaker's 'absurd' conviction must stand
The UK government has turned down a call to posthumously pardon Alan Turing.… |
Android dominates first-time smartphone buyer biz
Apple strong in upgrade arena
Punters picking their first smartphone are more likely to select an Android handset. When they come to upgrade, however, there's a good chance they'll defect to the opposition.… |
An NT-powered Windows Phone? Not so fast...
MS mulls partying like it's 1996....
Sources close to Microsoft have confirmed the veracity of last week's Windows Phone leaks – but say no decision has been taken to base the mobile platform on the Windows 8 kernel.… |
Google tells French watchdog 'non' on privacy tweak halt
'At no stage did any DPA suggest pause was necessary'
Google has rejected calls from the European Union's watchdog to delay imminent changes to the Chocolate Factory's privacy policy.… |
Printed jaw lets woman swallow again
Let's eat, Grandma
3D printing techniques have been taken to jaw-dropping heights after an 83-year-old woman was given a replacement mandible. She becomes the first patient ever to be fitted with a printed lower jaw.… |
Apple kicks China's most popular browser out of iTunes
Bans Qihoo apps from its store ...
Qihoo, maker of the most popular web browser in China, has had all of its products kicked out of iTunes, though it's far from clear which breach of the rules is responsible.… |
Apple tells authors: All your books iBook files are belong to us
But you can export them as PDFs if you want
In a legal rewrite pushed out Friday, Apple has made its iBooks publishing agreement sound slightly less evil by clarifying just what you can do with the content you create on its iBook Author software.…
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Ofcom proposes fall in BT Openreach charges to rivals
Just wait for that nice Brussels man to agree
Updated BT will be forced to cut the prices of the access charges it applies to the company's broadband and telephone lines when leasing them out to other providers, Ofcom said today.… |
Windows Phone 8 to get NFC, HD and Skype
Rumours confirmed, details emerge
Following a leaked video which showed Windows Phone top dog Joe Belfiore listing the features adorning the next version of Windows Phone, beta testers have come clean on what we should expect.… |
BTJunkie closes shooting gallery
'My life is officially ruined'
Popular torrent search engine BTJunkie – nothing to do with BT – is voluntarily closing, according to a notice posted on the site, without offering a reason. The site has indexed other torrent trackers since 2005, and was the fifth most popular Torrent site.… |
Schools IT supplier RM swings to full year loss after sales dive
We knew about gov budget cuts but we didn't really get it...
Ailing specialist education IT supplier RM has admitted it reacted too slowly to government budget cuts in schools after revealing massive losses in fiscal 2011 ended 30 November.… |
Job-seeking Marriott hacker gets 30 months' porridge
Nabbed and jailed after Secret Service sting
A job-seeking Hungarian hacker who tried to land work with Marriott by hacking into the hotel chain's network before "offering" to sort out the resulting mess has been found guilty of hacking and attempted extortion and jailed for 30 months.… |
Google and Facebook remove 'offensive' content from Indian sites
Internet firms comply with court order
Facebook and Google have removed content from Indian domain websites in response to a court order to get rid of "objectionable content".…
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Scientists weave battery into clothing
Uses jumper leads?
Scientists charged into the fashion industry this week, unveiling a flexible battery that can be woven into fabric and used to boost the juice of everyday gadgets.… |
Apple vs Amazon in ereader format smackdown
iBooks enlists kiddies on the EPUB3 front
Format wars are a mixed blessing for consumers. Whether it's Betamax versus VHS or Blu-Ray versus HD-DVD, the consumer ultimately wins because companies have to advance superior technologies. But problems arise if the format you backed loses the war - and your device becomes next year's expensive doorstop.… |
Analyst touts iPad 'transformer' after CEO confab
Dual dock ports, clip-on keyboard for laptop-like use?
Will the Apple iPad 3 be an 'homage' to the Asus Eee Pad Transformer Prime, complete with clever clip-on keyboard accessory? One financial analysts comments, posted after a meeting with Apple CEO Tim Cook, suggests it might be.… |
MPs rattle telcos to help kill extremist material online
ISPs once again asked to police interwebs
Update Internet service providers must do better at removing violent material from websites, a group of MPs thundered today.… |
Samsung Series 7 Chonos 15.6in Core i7 notebook
NOT a MacBook clone
Review Surely someone is having a laugh. Having read nothing but five-star reviews of this luxury notebook on other sources, I find myself surprised to be staring at a four-star product on my desk. Four stars is pretty good, you know, but that’s one less than five.… |
Amazon lures Microsoft WinPhone chief with Kindle
Etailer claims third Redmond scalp
Microsoft's man rallying developers and partners to buy into Windows Phone is reportedly jumping ship to help push Amazon's cross-platform Kindle push.… |
Apple TV surfaces on Best Buy
Spec leak - or fishing expedition?
US electronics retailer Best Buy has begun asking punters if they'd be interested coughing up $1499 for a 42in HD TV from Apple.… |
Micron grabs almost-retired COO for chief
Mark Durcan will take over as CEO after death of Steve Appleton
Chip-maker Micron Technology has named a new CEO following the death of Steve Appleton on Friday in a plane crash.… |
iOS 5 'crashes more apps' than Android
Is it an upgrade problem, or a user problem?
Recent data has shown that iOS apps crash more often than apps running on the Android platform.…
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IT budgets plunge in North America, Europe
Rise in the East and Latin America
If you were expecting for IT spending to go up this year and for new projects to get going – and perhaps to get a pay raise – the consensus is building that this is not going to happen. That's the bad news. The good news would seem to be that instead of being asked to do more with less, IT shops will be asked to do a lot more with a tiny bit more dough. But it's not that simple, so don't jump to conclusions.… |
EMC server flash rival slams VFCache
Fusion-io thinks Lightning misses target
EMC's VFCache server cache doesn't quite hit the mark. Although it validates server flash use, caching is not enough.… |
Twitter snaps up Google Asia exec
Service could be set for greater expansion in the region
Micro-blogging phenomenon Twitter is stepping up its efforts at international expansion and has pinched a senior Google executive in a clear sign the company could be looking to target Asia in the coming months.… |
PSN renamed Sony Entertainment Network
SEN-sible name change?
The PlayStation Network is to undergo a major rebranding this week when it is integrated into an all-new Sony Entertainment Network.… |
Boffins find prehistoric croc species with 'mate-attracting' skin helmet
'Shieldcrocs' mingled with dinosaurs
Bone-bothering US boffins have identified a new species of prehistoric crocodile, nicknamed "Shieldcroc" because of a flat ornamental skin shield on its ginormous head.… |
Motorola: refurb tablets shipped with former owners' data intact
Whoops
Motorola Mobility has admitted that some refurbished Xoom tablets were sent out to their new owners with previous users' data still present in the gadgets' memory banks.… |
Facebook's IPO unveils plans to invade China
Social network would love to tap that
Not content with almost total domination in Western markets, social networking behemoth Facebook could be planning an assault on China if it can just do a deal with the authorities there, its latest regulatory filing has revealed.…
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New dole system is 'digital by default', like it or not
Claimants who do not comply will be 'nudged' by 'back office' workers
Universal credit – the government's "new and improved" benefits system – will be the first major government service to be digital by default.… |
Doctors sick of anonymous-coward NHS feedback commentards
Welcome to the internet, doc
A leading GP has declared that the general public are too rude about doctors on the internet in a complaint that may amuse those of us more familiar with the culture of "Internet feedback".… |
Huawei-Symantec sneaks out of US back door
Has it been booted out?
Huawei-Symantec, the joint venture between Huawei and Symantec, has effectively stopped trading and is leaving the United States.… |
Hackers may be able to 'outwit' online banking security devices
Investigators probe malware threat to 2-factor authentication
Hackers may already able to use malware to outwit the latest generation of online banking security devices, security watchers warn.… |
MYSTERY as QLogic hurls InfiniBand from train
Reg storage desk baffled in the case of the fibre fracas
Comment Storage networking and InfiniBand supplier is giving up on InfiniBand and selling that business line to Intel for $125 million.… |
Indian court grabs back 122 GSM licences from operators
Firms devalue to the tune of $25bn
India's Supreme Court has ruled that the 2G licences awarded in 2008 were not fairly distributed, and has snatched 122 of them back from the operators who were using them.…
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EMC crashes the server flash party
Lightning strike with thunder to follow
The perfect server flash storm hitting storage arrays has generated EMC's well-signalled Lightning strike; VFCache has arrived, extending FAST technology from the array to the server. Project Thunder is following close behind, promising an EMC server-networked flash array.… |
CA wins copyright wrangle against ISI
Don't nick the source code kids
Computer Associates has won a protracted legal battle against Sydney based software company Independent Systems Integrators ( ISI).… |
TV giant HBO invests $AU10m in Quickflix
'Hug it out b***h' downunder
Ambitious Australian IPTV company Quickflix has secured an international investment coup with a $AU10 million cash infusion from Home Box Office (HBO).… |
Some coral reefs growing in a warming world
Cooler, marginal reefs don’t mind warmer water
While Austraia’s iconic Great Barrier Reef has been suffering bleaching and damage, the combined impact of warmer oceans agricultural runoff, a few thousand kilometers to the west, coral growth seems to be enjoying the changing climate.… |
Boffins embed electronics into fibres
Hope for cheaper telecoms kit
University of Southampton and Penn State researchers have demonstrated a technique to embed electronics into optical fibres, which if commercialised would enable simpler and cheaper telecommuniations kit.…
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Hollywood gathers to pick over Limewire’s corpse
Whip? Check. Dead horse? Check.
Movies studios are moving on the defunct Limewire, filing a complaint in a US Federal Court to take their cut from the company’s copyright infringments.… |
Can Sony's new supremo make the sacrifices to save his biz?
We drill into the uphill battle ex-Playstation boss Hirai faces
Comment When Faultline first began following Sony in 2003, it was worth $36 billion on the stock market. At the time Apple was worth $9.8 billion and it was about to launch the iTunes Music Store. We said that Sony should buy Apple and put Steve Jobs in charge.… |
Tame the gas monster with sensors, suckers and a spiffy new fan
More performance-tuning for your home and office
Part 3 I'm pleased to say that what with the relatively warm 2011 and our conservation efforts we had the lowest consumption of electricity and gas at home of any year yet, a bit over 1,500kWh ('units') of electricity and under 4,000kWh of gas. (A typical UK household is nearer 3,300kWh 'leccy and 18,000kWh gas.) With our solar PV exports we were just carbon-negative for power by my calculations.… |
Eight... HD camera smartphones
Sharp shooters for parties and protests
Product round-up You know that really annoying person who is videoing the gig with their camera phone to stick on Facebook when they get home? That's me. These days my TV is HD and my games console is HD, so it only makes sense that my phone – the device I use the most, day in and day out – should be HD too. Luckily, HD on smartphones is becoming more commonplace and so rather than judge these handsets on their mobile merits, this round-up focuses on their HD video camera performance.… |
Zuckerberg's 2012 personal income tax bill: $1.5 billion
That's 'billion', with a 'b'
If all goes according to plan, Facebook founder, chairman, and CEO Mark Zuckerberg's share of the profit in his company's upcoming initial public offering will result in him facing a tax bill of around $1.5bn for 2012.… |
Study links dimwits to conservative ideology
US, UK research: Thick kids more likely to become bigots
British and American children who are less intelligent are more likely to grow up to be conservative and/or bigots, according to new research published in Physiological Science.…
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Micron CEO Appleton dies in plane crash
Expert pilot, experimental aircraft
Steven Appleton, the long-time CEO at memory chip maker Micron Technology, died this morning in a crash of an experimental plane in the company's hometown of Boise, Idaho. He was 51 years old and one of the youngest CEOs and chairman in the Fortune 500.… |
Opinion poll: Anti-regulatory 'hype' unwarranted
Rival small-business boosters, Obama foes disagree
One advocacy group has published a survey it says proves that US small-business owners aren't unduly concerned with government regulations. Another group says that the first group's opinion poll is tainted by bogosity.… |
Facebook post-IPO: Free not fee will make Zuck a buck
Dam friction-less sharing and the company is toast
Open ... and Shut No sooner did Facebook file its S-1 in preparation for an IPO than speculation kicked into high gear on how Facebook could possibly sustain its $75bn to $100bn valuation. After all, despite its hugely impressive revenue and profit numbers, key components of its revenue model – like advertising revenue – are decelerating. So should we expect Facebook to impose a paywall on some or all of its users, as MyLife.com chief executive Jeff Tinsley suggests it could?… |