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- Vodafone turns to AWS for cricket app
Lessons from Big Brother power live streaming app, lead to cloud CMS at Vodafone Oz
Vodafone Hutchison Australia (VHA) “never elegantly and cost-effectively” solved the problem of delivering online content to phone-wielding hordes during its long association with the Australian incarnation of Big Brother. But the company has nailed a cricket-streaming app first time, thanks to cloud services from Amazon Web Services.…
- Dish Networks locks horns with broadcasters over ad skipping
Auto Hop has content industry hopping mad
In the latest episode of the US ad-skipping saga, Dish Networks is facing the wrath of broadcasters such as NBC and Fox, but winning praise from customers and no doubt causing a little churn among competitors. That at least is the intention of the Dish PVR ad skipping feature called Auto Hop, with the company gambling that the gain in subscription revenue will make the pain of having to defend a possibly protracted case against it from broadcasters worthwhile.…
- SpaceX Dragon chokes at the last second
Computer said no: New attempt expected on Tuesday
The Falcon 9 rocket from private space company SpaceX, intended to launch this morning and send a Dragon capsule loaded with supplies to the International Space Station, has failed to take off. The rocket's computer aborted the launch automatically at almost the final possible moment, when its engines had already ignited but the vehicle had not yet been released from the pad.…
- Ten... Qwerty mobiles
Pushy types
Product round-up As the speedy texter generation grows longer in the Bluetooth and touchscreen technologies improve, the range of Qwerty phones on offer gets smaller by the day. But for many, they wouldn't use anything else. Indeed, for RIM, Qwerty keys have been the hallmark of it BlackBerry handsets.…
- Microsoft to devs: Don't ruin Win 8 launch with crap code
Unofficial APIs are the new fruit of temptation
Microsoft has urged developers to only use approved Windows 8 software interfaces to avoid spoiling the launch of its new operating system with dodgy code.…
- Apache OpenOffice security fixes emerge
Under new management: First revamp passes one million downloads
Details have emerged about the security fixes that came bundled with Apache OpenOffice 3.4.0, the latest version of the open-source productivity suite.…
- day's trade
Round and round she goes, where she stops....
Facebook's shares debuted on the Nasdaq today at $42 and immediately skidded downwards to the original IPO price of $38.…
- What's on the cards at EMC's casino royale next week?
EMC World is not enough - time to live and let Flash die
What news will be revealed to the 13,000 people attending EMC World in Las Vegas next Monday?…
- Call of Duty hacker jailed after meatspace burglary
18 months' porridge for banking malware-spreader
A Brit who distributed a Trojan horse that posed as a patch for popular shoot-em-up game Call of Duty has been jailed for 18 months.…
- Next UK gov CloudStore lumbers online
Digital Dunkirk spirit
The second incarnation of CloudStore has floated, but don’t get too excited.…
- Does Britain really need a space port?
Plus: Sky TV accounts for most of UK's 'space sector'
Analysis Everyone knows about Britain's soaraway space sector. It turns over £8bn a year – the same sort of money as the remaining automotive industry – it employs tens of thousands of people, and it's growing faster than the Chinese economy. And, famously, it has done all this without any significant government help.…
- HP pumps cash into EVA range capacity boost
May refresh time unaffected by 3PAR buy
It's May and an time for HP to refresh its evergreen EVA storage line. HP said it would keep investing in the EVA when it bought 3PAR and has kept its promise, with two new models being announced, with larger drive support and better management SW.…
- RIM-Moto sketch THIRD nanoSIM design as peace offering
Duo dump Nokia to end SIM war with Apple - report
RIM and Motorola reportedly hope to break the deadlock over the design of future SIM cards by offering a blueprint that'll either appease every party or alienate all sides equally.…
- Ethernet sales slump punches Brocade in the wallet
Business not so good
Ethernet sales slumped a bit and caused Brocade's second 2012 quarter results to stumble.…
- ICO on new Cookie Law: 'Don't expect torrent of enforcement action'
Plans to wait for user complaints as the law comes into effect
Amid criticism that hardly any UK government websites comply with the new EU-mandated "Cookie Law" that comes into force on 27 May, the ICO has announced that it will be sending out some letters, and then waiting for people to complain.…
- UK.gov: ICT in schools ain't dead, it's just resting
And there'll be tech contracts for the kids when they grow up, honest
The UK government denied today that it was dropping IT entirely from the national curriculum while adding that tech contracts would be more bite-sized and flexible at some point soon.…
- UK prosecutions for hacking appear to be be dropping
But plenty of caveats apply
The number of prosecutions under the UK's computer hacking laws may have declined over recent years, according to the latest available government figures.…
- Big Issue sellers could soon be flogging QR Codes
Homeless move into digital downloads
Glasgow-based INSP, which represents magazines distributed by the homeless, is planning to go digital - assuming it can raise enough cash to pay for some trials.…
- Apple scrubs dirty iCloud data centre with second solar wash
2012 clean date stated
Apple is flying the green flag on the North Carolina data centre that will power iCloud – the very same one that was slammed by Greenpeace for being dirty.…
- Iran threatens to chuck sueball at Google over missing gulf
State unhappy that 'Persian Gulf' name is gone
Iran's Foreign Ministry has threatened to take legal action against Google because the web firm removed the name Persian Gulf from its Maps and left the stretch of water nameless.…
- trigger triggers serious head-scratching
Just how do we fire that LOHAN rocket motor?
It's fair to say that the question of just how we fire the Low Orbit Helium Assisted Navigator (LOHAN) Vulture 2 spaceplane rocket motor is a touch thorny.…
- GM snatchback of $10m Facebook ad cash = amateur move
When a sell is more than a sale
Open ... and Shut Talk about bad timing. Right before Wall Street set up to open the curtain on Facebook's $100bn IPO, General Motors (GM), which spends $40m on its Facebook presence, announced that it's pulling the plug on Facebook advertising. The reason? Advertising on Facebook apparently hasn't worked.…
- Shoreditch's sparkle smokescreen leaves BBC journo 'tech-struck'
Why is Auntie (literally, this time) in bed with Google?
Analysis“I haven’t felt so good having spoken to a businessman for ten minutes in about 25 years. That’s not normally how I feel! So thanks very much!” And thanks to you, BBC presenter Fi Glover, for sharing the feel-good factor with us.…
- Facebook's Eduardo Saverin: I'm not a tax-dodger
Meanwhile, US senators try to get him banned from the US
Facebook co-founder Eduardo Saverin has insisted that he will pay taxes in the US and his decision to change his citizenship to Singapore had nothing to do with the country's more hospitable tax environment.…
- The Register is rocking on Windows Phone 7
App of the week?
We’re gradually updating our mobile app efforts. First out of the gate is this beauty for Windows Phone 7.…
- Can SMEs score those big gov contracts?
Public sector doesn't make it easy for smaller suppliers
The UK public sector spends £230bn on goods and services a year, roughly 15 per cent of the UK economy and £1 for every £7 spent in Britain. The procurement of these goods and services is a massively complex undertaking, fraught with inefficiency accumulated over successive governments.…
- Hands on with the Motorola Razr Maxx
Marathon runner
First look In the time since Motorola's Razr was launched in 2011, rivals have released powerhouse handsets that make the Razr feel more Bic than Wilkinson Sword.…
- 'Facebook ads are very boring and not very imaginative'
Plus: 'IT boys, hiss it through your teeth – Shut up, bitch!'
Quotw This was the week when investor interest hit ever higher feverish pitches as (not sure if you heard about this or not) Facebook prepares to go public.…
- Amazon drops planned 8.9in Kindle Fire for 10.1in job
Oi vapour
Amazon, it has been claimed, will be dropping a version of the Kindle Fire it might, maybe, put into production in favour of a different model that it could, possibly make in the future.…
- Senator probes NASA airfield deal for Google's jets
Is space agency giving Larry a break on government's jet fuel?
A US senator has asked NASA (PDF) to cough up five years of data about Larry Page and Sergey Brin's personal jets – in the latest flare-up in the rumbling controversy over whether NASA is cutting Google bosses a soft deal by storing their private airplanes in a government-funded research airport.…
