Wednesday, December 24, 2014

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Daft patent war averted

Posted: 24 Dec 2014 02:01 AM PST

3fe8db8858c39f54433f183e26cf400f94346c028d4ae31c8ec349fc12868e98What was shaping up to be the daftest and most expensive patent war in history has been averted.

Apple and Microsoft had teamed up to form a super patent troll called the Rockstar Consortium in a bid to take out Android. more»

A British telco hacked my browser

Posted: 24 Dec 2014 02:00 AM PST

wargames-hackerTop British telcos are hijacking their customers' browsers to make sure that David Cameron's anti-porn filter rules are enforced.

BT, Sky, and Virgin Media are struggling to get customers to say yes or no to the controversial adult content blocks, because unlike David Cameron, the majority of customers are happy with being able to see what they like. more»

Samsung begins production of 8Gb LPDDR4 memory

Posted: 24 Dec 2014 01:58 AM PST

samsung-hqSamsung has begun volume production of its 8Gb LPDDR4 memory chips, with expected commercial shipments in 2015.

Moving to a new memory standard should significantly reduce the memory subsystem’s power consumption and will provide significant boosts to clock-speed.

Samsung claiming that its LPDDR4 can hit 3.2GHz, if the wind is behind it and it is going downhill. more»

Ireland to hand over stored emails to USA

Posted: 24 Dec 2014 01:58 AM PST

irelandThe Irish government told the Americans that it is OK for them to use a treaty to ask it to turn over emails stored in Irish servers.

Microsoft is appealing a search warrant in the US for private email communications located in the company's facility in Dublin, arguing that US law does not allow the government to issue search warrants to obtain customer data stored overseas. more»

Watchdog gives TripAdvisor poor review

Posted: 24 Dec 2014 01:49 AM PST

The AnubiItalian antitrust watchdogs have been snuffling the rump of the travel advice site Trip Advisor and are unhappy with what they smelled.

The regulator complained that people reading TripAdvisor Italy were unable to distinguish between genuine and fake reviews posted on the site. more»

Manufacturers despair of Microsoft

Posted: 24 Dec 2014 12:49 AM PST

Microsoft campusA company based in Seattle that is launching an operating system next year is not getting a positive vote from hardware companies desperate to sell more kit.

Microsoft is introducing an operating system next year called Windows 10 that is already delayed and will be free of charge to anyone who has made the mistake of instaling or buying Windows 8.1. more»

MIT invents new web programming language

Posted: 24 Dec 2014 12:40 AM PST

nand-chipsComputer scientists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) think their invention might make life a lot easier if you're developing web pages.

They've just gone and invented a programming language called Ur/Web that they claim will let developers write web apps as self contained program. more»

Putin gets Facebook page blocked

Posted: 23 Dec 2014 06:35 AM PST

Vladimir Putin - Wikimedia CommonsA page on Facebook has been pulled in Russia after a state comms regulator asked the social networking corporation to pull it down.

The pages were promoting a rally to be held on January 15th supporting an opposition politician called Alexey Navalney. more»

Tablets, ultrabooks get cheaper and cheaper

Posted: 23 Dec 2014 06:21 AM PST

tablet-womanAverage selling prices (ASPs) of Intel based ultrabooks and tablets fell by close to eight percent this year in all markets worldwide.

ABI Research said that household income needed to buy either a tablet or ultrabook fell by 30 percent during the year, giving access to many new households. more»

Saudi to spend $37 billion on IT

Posted: 23 Dec 2014 06:14 AM PST

Flag of Saudi ArabiaIncreased adoption of the hybrid cloud model by Saudia Arabian enterprises and organisations mean spend in the country on services and IT will hit $36.95 billion next year.

IDC said that of that spend, IT services will represent the biggest chunk as chief information officers (CIOs) begin to look to hybrid cloud systems. more»

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