Apple Stores getting petitions on ethical conduct for breakfast
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.…
Robot surgery gets virtual at Euro Space Agency
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.…
Thodey chimes in on TV Now decision
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”.…
Huawei gets more UFB kiwi action
Huawei has secured another key government win in New Zealand to provide fibre services to the Christchurch UFB with Enable Services Limited.…
Loral set to build NBN Co satellites
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.…
Cisco stabilizes switching and routing in Q2
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.…
iRobot Warrior-bot goes on sale this Spring
iRobot has confirmed it’s ready to start manufacture and sale of its Warrior 710 robot early this year.…
Salesforce.com shakes up Standard support plan features
Google ships Chrome 17, touts more malware alerts and page pre-loads
Eolas claims royalties for browser apps and plug-ins
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.…
Spammers impersonate well-known developers to publish rogue apps on Android Market
US Navy preps railgun for tests
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.…
Solarflare turns network adapters into servers
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.…
Telcos to shape up under new code
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.…
Path runs screaming from privacy snafu
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.…
Airvana sues Ericsson over femtocell technology
Toshiba may be getting excess WD disk biz
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 .…
Sir Paul McBeatle to offer free iTunes concert
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.…
Google Chrome will no longer check for revoked SSL certificates online
Nekkid Tech: The Great Backup Industry SMACKDOWN
Podcast Last week, Greg Knieriemen turned the heat up on Marc Farley, StorageIO's Greg Schulz and the legendary StorageZilla.…
