Big Blue set to become Somewhat Smaller Blue Exclusive  IBM has started a 45-day consultation on letting up to 270 people go from its UK and Ireland operations.…
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Slow and steady really does win the race Backup software supplier Veeam is quietly doing extraordinary things; it's growing its backup business while touting their latest software as a means to continue growing its market share.…
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Pocket ballocket to go ballistic - but where? We're absolutely delighted to announce that our Low Orbit Helium Assisted Navigator (LOHAN) spaceplane mission is cleared for blastoff on 14 September.…
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The OS with three different memory modes chalks up another anniversary This week marks the 23rd birthday of Windows 3.0, which came into this world on May 22nd, 1990, and gave the world improved colour graphics and the infamous File Manager.…
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Local access still matters Microsoft has released a new SkyDrive Pro client that offers users of Office 365 and SharePoint the chance to store files locally. The application is the heir to the My Site feature from previous incarnations of Office 365.…
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Toolbar tie-up with supermarket yields 50 cents a month Yahoo!'s Australian outpost, a joint venture with the Seven Television Network dubbed Yahoo!7, has teamed with a local supermarket chain in a scheme that pays punters to use its search engine.…
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Is AMD (finally) getting it's groove back? AMD is showing off its latest round of APUs – accelerated processing units that combine compute and graphics cores on the same slice o' silicon – that it hopes will be reinforcements in its battle for the consumer market against its main competitor, Intel, especially at the low-power end of the market.…
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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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Man on - in the middle, claims club Provider Ticket Zone is continuing a joint investigation with Brentford Football Club after it emerged that card details used to buy tickets for the League One playoff final last weekend were subsequently used for fraudulent purchases.…
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The Android handset that's PC can be yours When is a phone PC? When it's a Fairphone, the smartphone “that puts social values first” and has a rather politically-correct (PC) attitude.…
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'Kill chains' are long and attack-stopping weak links are many AUSCERT 2013  First the good news: for all the known vulnerabilities that exist in the SCADA world, exploiting them in a way that can actually “shut down a power plant” is harder than most people (particularly including media) realise.…
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A long time ago in a galaxy far, far, away VIDEO  The European Space Agency's Herschel Space Observatory has beamed home pictures of two galaxies inexorably moving towards each other and boffins offered simulations of what happens next.…
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NASA dials up dollars to invent 3D printing for astronaut food A small company in Austin, Texas, has received a $US125,000 grant from NASA to develop 3D printed food for astronauts.…
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Stricter security testing, sanctions and legal counterhacking needed China is responsible up to 80 per cent of US intellectual property theft, which a government report has estimated accounts for $300bn in lost exports, roughly the equivalent of the current American trade balance with Asia.…
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Mega-patent from Megaupload baron Kim Dotcom has claimed the invention of two-factor authentication, and says he has the patent to prove it.…
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Report finds utilities vulnerable, threatened The US electricity grid is under near constant attack from malware and cyber-criminals, yet most utility companies implement only the barest minimum of security standards, according to a new report released by Congressmen Ed Markey (D-MA) and Henry Waxman (D-CA).…
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$US1k per day extra penalty - each Lawyers ordered to pay more than $US81,000 in the Prenda Law copyright trolling smackdown are now racking up new liabilities at the rate of $US1,000 a day.…
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Competition is fierce in servers and PCs, thanks to Dell If you were expecting for HP to being good news to the IT industry when it reported its financial results for the fiscal second quarter, you are no doubt sorely disappointed. Well, unless you consider that in terms of profit declines it could have been a lot worse.…
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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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Now please lock out the Syrians! Twitter has joined the growing number of companies offering two-factor authentication to prevent logins being stolen – a fate several high-profile users of its service have suffered recently.…
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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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Vid downloads blocked, but ads still not possible Microsoft has issued an update to its YouTube app for Windows Phone 8 that addresses some of Google's concerns over the earlier version, but not all of them.…
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MOOCs to be as transformative as 'BOOCs' During an interview at the Ethernet Innovation Summit in Mountain View, California, Ethernet inventor Robert Metcalfe was asked what surprises were on the horizon due to the ever more pervasive advance of the internet.…
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Almost nobody using Windows Store apps, survey finds For all Microsoft's hype about The Interface Formerly Known As Metro (TIFKAM), more than half of all Windows 8 users ignore the new Start Screen and treat the OS as if it were Windows 7, according to a study by PC management firm Soluto.…
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Hacks accused of hacking, are researchers next? An investigation into a security slip that left the identity information for over 170,000 users of a US federal government program publicly available online has led to accusations of hacking and legal threats.…
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