Apple Stores getting petitions on ethical conduct for breakfast
250,000 signatures for fair treatment of iWorkers
Breakfast at Apple retail outlets in Washington, DC, New York, San Francisco, London, Sydney, and Bangalore will come with a side order of protest on Thursday morning, as “concerned Apple customers” will be dropping off 250,000-signature petitions calling out Apple on supplier working practices.…
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Robot surgery gets virtual at Euro Space Agency
CAMDASS augmented reality for astronaut patch-up
The European Space Agency is showing off an augmented-reality kit which it says will ultimately pave the way for diagnosis and even surgery for astronauts.…
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Thodey chimes in on TV Now decision
Telcos 'need clarity'
Telstra CEO David Thodey has told journalists and analysts that the telecommunications industry “needs clarity” following the Federal Court decision which clearly and simply said “Optus TV Now is legal”.…
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Huawei gets more UFB kiwi action
Rolls out that fibre for New Zealand
Huawei has secured another key government win in New Zealand to provide fibre services to the Christchurch UFB with Enable Services Limited.…
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Loral set to build NBN Co satellites
Turnbull doesn't like it, again
NBN Co has awarded Space Systems/Loral an $AU620 million contract to build, deliver and deploy two next-generation Ka-band satellites to cover regional Australia.…
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Cisco stabilizes switching and routing in Q2
Raises dividend, remains cautious
Networking - and some would say data center bellwether - Cisco Systems turned in a better-than-expected fiscal Q2 ended in January, with revenues up 10.8 per cent to $11.53bn and net income up a very good 43.5 per cent to $2.18bn.…
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iRobot Warrior-bot goes on sale this Spring
For the geek who has everything
iRobot has confirmed it’s ready to start manufacture and sale of its Warrior 710 robot early this year.…
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Eolas claims royalties for browser apps and plug-ins
Berners-Lee warns of disaster for internet
Eolas Technologies has begun its trial against Adobe over two patents that, it claims, gives it the rights to embedded browser applications and plug-in and AJAX (asynchronous JavaScript and XML) web development techniques.…
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US Navy preps railgun for tests
Bedding down BAE Systems prototype
The US Navy’s Office of Naval Research is preparing to test a prototype railgun delivered by BAE Systems under a $US21 million contract signed in 2010.…
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Solarflare turns network adapters into servers
When a CPU just isn't fast enough
Solarflare, a maker of 10 Gigabit Ethernet server adapter cards for performance-obsessed companies like stock exchanges, hedge funds, and supercomputer centers, is turning its network interface cards into servers, more or less.…
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Telcos to shape up under new code
Comms Alliance lays down the law
Australian carriers, voice services and ISPs will be forced to take their obligations to the rights of consumers seriously under a new revised consumer code from industry group, the Communications Alliance.…
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Path runs screaming from privacy snafu
We meant to copy your address book but we didn’t think you’d mind
After sparking an outcry – and arguably putting itself on the wrong side of privacy laws outside America – ex-Facebooker and now CEO of Path, Dave Morin, has blogged an apology.…
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Toshiba may be getting excess WD disk biz
Rumour mill spits out Tosh as buyer
We are hearing that Toshiba is buying Western Digital's "excess" 3.5-inch disk drive business, clearing the way to the completion of the WD's acquisition of Hitachi GST .…
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Sir Paul McBeatle to offer free iTunes concert
B.Y.O. Bottom, should you desire a kiss
Sir Paul McCartney, late of Wings, will celebrate the release of his latest album with a live concert streamed over Apple's iTunes this Thursday at 7pm, Pacific Time.…
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Nekkid Tech: The Great Backup Industry SMACKDOWN
Plus, adopt a needy cloud
Podcast Last week, Greg Knieriemen turned the heat up on Marc Farley, StorageIO's Greg Schulz and the legendary StorageZilla.…
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Chrome to weed out dodgy website SSL certificates by itself
Ditched online checks like 'seat belt that snaps when you crash'
Google will drop online checks for revoked website encryption certificates in future versions of its Chrome browser after it decided that the process no longer offers any tangible benefits.…
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Ancient cave girl genome could crack Man's genetic puzzle
Boffins pore over 500GB of data plastered online
Nearly 500GB of data from the DNA of an ancient girl has been published for the first time. The genetic information - made available for wider analysis by intrigued boffins - was extracted from her finger bone and tooth, which were unearthed in the Denisova Cave in Siberia in 2008.…
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Sony posts PlayStation firmware patch
Bye-bye, PSN; hello, SEN
Sony's latest PlayStation firmware - version 4.10 - is now available for download, with the Sony Entertainment Network ready for PS3s from here on.…
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Apple's Hong Kong store rolls out iPhone 'reservation' system
Yes, sir, but have you booked an appointment?
Apple has been forced to restrict iPhone sales in its Hong Kong store to discourage the recent epidemic of scalpers.…
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Cray puts super stake in the big data ground
Crunch this
Big data may or may not pan out for the users, but it is a bit of a boom for IT vendors, who are scrambling to prove their data analytics chops and go for the easiest money in the market these days. And to that end, supercomputer maker Cray is setting up a dedicated division to chase big data biz.…
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