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Swiss watchmakers rubbish Apple’s designs
Use your phone on the Tube
Snowden did not seem too worried about snooping
Data centre readies for nukes
Broadwell will be Intel’s red-headed stepchild
Doom for hacked printer
UK biggest public sector IT spender
Toshiba releases 20 megapixel sensor
Big Data gets very big indeed
Microsoft coughs $2.5 billion for Mojang

Swiss watchmakers rubbish Apple’s designs

Posted: 16 Sep 2014 02:44 AM PDT

The Swiss watchmakers, who Apple believes it will put out of business, have mocked Jobs' Mob's poor design efforts.

Luxury giant LVMH’s watch guru and industry legend Jean-Claude Biver told AFP that he expected a bit more from Apple and he was a bit disappointed. more»

Use your phone on the Tube

Posted: 16 Sep 2014 02:20 AM PDT

tube EE said that you can now use your smartphone to travel on the London Underground.

Last month, EE introduced its "Cash on Tap" service for Transport for London (TFL) buses. Now, it says, that service is compatible with the Underground, trans, DLR Overground and National Rail services that accept Oyster. more»

Snowden did not seem too worried about snooping

Posted: 16 Sep 2014 02:18 AM PDT

snowden The NSA has poured cold water on the central plank of Edward Snowden's statements that he was worried about overwhelming government spying and could not make anyone listen.

Snowden said that he had complained to his fellow workers about the snooping programmes but had to take action when no one listened. more»

Data centre readies for nukes

Posted: 16 Sep 2014 02:04 AM PDT

atom Just in case you thought that the fear of a nuclear attack was so 1980s it was not worth worrying about, a US data centre is advertising that it can survive a nuclear event.

The centre in Boyers, is a 2,000-sq.-ft. more»

Broadwell will be Intel’s red-headed stepchild

Posted: 16 Sep 2014 02:03 AM PDT

Rupert-Grint-Ron-Weasley-Harry-Potter-Ginger Broadwell is set to be the chip that Intel does not want to talk about as it enters next year with two chip line-ups.

Intel says that both Broadwell and Skylake will be in the shops in the same year, something the chip maker has managed to avoid doing before, with very good reason. more»

Doom for hacked printer

Posted: 16 Sep 2014 02:02 AM PDT

doom_sprite_wallpaper_by_bobspfhorever78-d6lij4o In what has to be the best proof of concept hacking of a printer, Context Information Security analyst Michael Jordon managed to get a Canon Pixma printer to run the game Doom.

Jordon said that Canon Pixma wireless printers have a web interface that shows information about the printer, for example the ink levels, which allows for test pages to be printed and for the firmware to be checked for updates. more»

UK biggest public sector IT spender

Posted: 16 Sep 2014 01:38 AM PDT

ukflag While the UK is the biggest IT public spender, growth is very slow.

That's according to a report from IDC, which surveyed western European spending in the IT sector.

The big five western European countries – the UK, Germany, France, Spain and Italy - represent over 75 percent of the $53 billion spent on hardware, software and IT services by the different government. more»

Toshiba releases 20 megapixel sensor

Posted: 15 Sep 2014 08:03 AM PDT

Toshiba image The chip division of Japanese giant Toshiba said it has started making fast 20 megapixel CMOS image sensors aimed at the high end smartphone market. Samples went out last month and full production will start in February next year.

That type of censor will give a smartphone the kind of capabilities more associated with high end and expensive digital cameras. more»

Big Data gets very big indeed

Posted: 15 Sep 2014 07:15 AM PDT

server-racks Revenues for Big Data technology and services will be worth $41.5 billion by 2018 and is growing now at a 26.4 percent compound annual growth rate (CAGR).