Technology News
iPhone worm hjacks ING customers
Updated The second worm to infect jailbroken iPhone users reportedly targets customers of Dutch online bank ING Direct.…
We're going for optimised workload delivery...
Workshop Who wouldn’t want IT to be delivered in a more dynamic, flexible, agile, [insert your least detested buzzword here] way? Optimal configurations for server and desktop workload delivery have been discussed, and indeed, attempted, for many years. So how close are we to really nailing this?…
Lenovo IdeaPad S10-2
Review Lenovo’s new IdeaPad S10-2 is an update of the S10e. The hardware is conventional netbook fare with a dual-core Atom processor and a 10.1in screen all dressed up in a smart chassis that makes it look like a baby ThinkPad. There have been a number of updates for this model, such as an increase in the frontside bus speed for the Atom processor to 800MHz and DDR 2 Ram that runs at 667MHz rather than 533MHz.…
Credit crunch? It won't be over by Christmas
The impact of the recession on British businesses may well be permanent, and will certainly last until well into the next decade, the UK's union for bosses has declared.…
Google to anoint Android, Chrome OS love (eventually)
Google has confessed that its Chrome OS and Android projects are likely to come together at some stage down the line as the firm continues to tinker with its operating system vision of the future.…
Microsoft's IE 9, Silverlight 4 and the whiff of lock-in
Radio Reg Basking in the afterglow of the recently released Windows 7, Microsoft has rallied the faithful to share the love at its annual Professional Developers' Conference in Los Angeles, California.…
GPS alarm seems alarmingly useless
The Freedom Personal Safety is a GPS device that's supposed to alert loved ones that you're in trouble, but actually seems about as trustworthy as the only other man in the train carriage who appears to have moved a seat closer to you every time you look.…
MIT boffins invent robot clam-grapnel
MIT boffins are pleased to annouce that they have at last perfected a long-sought-after technology - that of the robot clam. It seems that metal shellfish able to dig themselves into the seabed will make excellent anchors for somewhat larger droid submarines.…
Coprocessors ride again
The idea that hybrid computing is becoming a mainstream technology was one of the major threads running through SC09 last week. Convey Computer, founded in 2006, has a different take on how to best implement hybrid architectures, to deliver better performance and to simplify use.…
Palm Pre update inbound
The Pre smartphone will be refreshed with an updated webOS “within the next few days”, manufacturer Palm has promised.…
Games 'permit' virtual war crimes
Microsoft stands tall over Xbox Live lawsuit threat
The possibility of class-action lawsuit arising from the ban of roughly 1m gamers from Xbox Live doesn’t worry Microsoft, because the firm believes it is in the right.…
Fusion-io whips out fast gov-grade ioDrive
Fusion-io has put eight of its ioDrives on a single PCIe card to produce 800,000 IOPS and 6GB/sec bandwidth.…
New hacker peril for older IE versions
Internet Explorer users are at risk from a newly discovered and unpatched vulnerability in older versions of Microsoft's browser.…
Looking back at packaged application rigidity and lock-in
Workshop When packaged applications first appeared on the scene a quarter of a century ago, it was normal for them to be very proprietary in nature.…
Dell details smartphone spec
Dell has come clean on the full specifications of its Mini 3i smartphone, and it doesn't impress.…
O/S bloat: What's the cure?
Comment It is becoming increasingly obvious that a virtual server wastes great chunks of its memory occupied by the operating system wrappers around the applications in the virtual machines (VM) running in the physical server. If each VM occupies 50MB, and 20MB of that is the Windows O/S, then around 40 per cent of the servers's DRAM holds repetitive and relatively useless code.…
Phil Schiller Defends App Store Approval Process
eBay blames success for failure
eBay suffered an embarrassing failure on Saturday as no one was able to search on the site - not a good thing at the start of Christmas shopping season.…
