TalkTalk has been investigated by the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) after a customer complained about how the company advertised its broadband speeds. The customer approached the watchdog after viewing a speed checking service on TalkTalk's site. After he entered his postcode, he was told: "Your estimated speed 3.8 Meg Your estimated speed range is between 2.1 and 5.3meg ...".He challenged whether the ad was misleading, because he was a TalkTalk customer and had been informed that the maximum speed available to him was less than 2.1 Mbit/s.TalkTalk claimed that it was…
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Sony and Panasonic to team up on OLED
TechEye - Latest Hardware headlines15 May 2012 | 4:34 amSony and Panasonic are wining and dining each other's executives with the aim of developing the technology to mass produce next-generation OLED televisions. The pair want to compete with South Korean rivals in the technology which will kill off current LCD TVs. According to Reuters, the cunning plan will take on a similar alliance between Samsung and LG to sell 55-inch OLED televisions, which can be as slim as 4 millimetres, consume less power and offer sharper images. Sony and Panasonic have to share organic light emitting diode (OLED) technologies to take on Samsung and LG. Kyoko Ishii,… -
Apple's Siri fixed to lie about 'best phone ever'
TechEye - Latest Mobile headlines16 May 2012 | 5:21 amWhile Apple is unreasonably slow in issuing security patches which imprison its users into botnets, it has been jolly quick at saving itself from an embarrassing fault in Siri. Last week it was discovered that if you asked Siri what the best phone ever is, it would tell you that it was the Nokia Lumia 900. Siri was taking information from Wolfram Alpha, which had determined that the Lumia 900 was the best smartphone by looking at customer reviews. Now, it is nothing but the truth and the sort of thing that Apple users need to be continuously reminded of. But it was a bit of an own goal for… -
Chinese break teleportation record
TechEye - Latest Science headlines16 May 2012 | 2:32 amChinese researchers have managed to pair particles over a distance of 97km. According to the Sydney Morning Herald, it is not quite the same thing as a Dalek transmat but it is getting closer to similar technology. It is more what the boffins call "quantum entanglement", whereby two particles act as one system despite being separate. In other words the photon transmits its quantum state to another photon, which becomes a clone of the original. The Chinese were not really interested in getting a human from a spaceship to the surface of a planet either. What they are looking for is something… -
'G20 geek' found not guilty
TechEye - Latest Security headlines16 May 2012 | 5:05 amThe insecurity expert who was arrested for allegedly plotting to bomb the 2010 summit of world leaders in downtown Toronto has walked free from court after two years behind bars. Byron Sonne, the so-called "G20 geek", lost his marriage when his wife Kristen Peterson ended the couple's eight-year marriage while Sonne was in jail. Sonne is a hacker who was a big name in the cyber security industry. He was arrested on June 22, 2010, as the first high-profile detention of the chaotic G20 weekend. According to the Star, he was charged with mischief, weapons possession and intimidating…
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ASA barks at TalkTalk
16 May 2012 | 5:35 amTalkTalk has been investigated by the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) after a customer complained about how the company advertised its broadband speeds. The customer approached the watchdog after viewing a speed checking service on TalkTalk's site. After he entered his postcode, he was told: "Your estimated speed 3.8 Meg Your estimated speed range is between 2.1 and 5.3meg ...".He challenged whether the ad was misleading, because he was a TalkTalk customer and had been informed that the maximum speed available to him was less than 2.1 Mbit/s.TalkTalk claimed that it was… -
Apple's Siri fixed to lie about 'best phone ever'
16 May 2012 | 5:21 amWhile Apple is unreasonably slow in issuing security patches which imprison its users into botnets, it has been jolly quick at saving itself from an embarrassing fault in Siri. Last week it was discovered that if you asked Siri what the best phone ever is, it would tell you that it was the Nokia Lumia 900. Siri was taking information from Wolfram Alpha, which had determined that the Lumia 900 was the best smartphone by looking at customer reviews. Now, it is nothing but the truth and the sort of thing that Apple users need to be continuously reminded of. But it was a bit of an own goal for… -
'G20 geek' found not guilty
16 May 2012 | 5:05 amThe insecurity expert who was arrested for allegedly plotting to bomb the 2010 summit of world leaders in downtown Toronto has walked free from court after two years behind bars. Byron Sonne, the so-called "G20 geek", lost his marriage when his wife Kristen Peterson ended the couple's eight-year marriage while Sonne was in jail. Sonne is a hacker who was a big name in the cyber security industry. He was arrested on June 22, 2010, as the first high-profile detention of the chaotic G20 weekend. According to the Star, he was charged with mischief, weapons possession and intimidating… -
Canada shelves C-30 cyber snooping law
16 May 2012 | 4:45 amThe Canadian internet surveillance legislation, Bill C-30, is as dead in the water as a freshly clubbed harp seal. The bill, which was sponsored by Public Safety Minister Vic Toews, aimed to force ISPs to hand over any data that police wanted. It was famous for Toews telling the world and its dog that if they did not back it, they supported child pornographers. Federal and provincial privacy commissioners strongly objected to the bill as an unjustified violation of privacy rights. It appears that it was Toews' child pornographers comment which killed the bill as it showed the law to be just… -
HTC suffers another blow
16 May 2012 | 4:33 amSmartphone maker HTC is seeing two of its phones blocked by US Customs. The Taiwanese company has not been doing very well lately and needs to turn around sales in what used to be its largest market. Sadly, it looks like Apple is using its narrow victory against HTC in a patent lawsuit in December to keep the company out of the market. HTC said in a statement that the US availability of the HTC One X and HTC EVO 4G LTE has been delayed due to a US Customs review of shipments that is required after an International Trade Commission exclusion order. The ruling said that HTC phones with the…
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Sony and Panasonic to team up on OLED
15 May 2012 | 4:34 amSony and Panasonic are wining and dining each other's executives with the aim of developing the technology to mass produce next-generation OLED televisions. The pair want to compete with South Korean rivals in the technology which will kill off current LCD TVs. According to Reuters, the cunning plan will take on a similar alliance between Samsung and LG to sell 55-inch OLED televisions, which can be as slim as 4 millimetres, consume less power and offer sharper images. Sony and Panasonic have to share organic light emitting diode (OLED) technologies to take on Samsung and LG. Kyoko Ishii,… -
Lenovo unleashes new servers, workstations
14 May 2012 | 10:29 amLenovo has announced a line of servers in its ThinkServer family aimed at enabling customers to deploy cloud and virtualisation services. Built for managing complex workloads, the release of its RD530 and RD 630 rack servers will provide a reduction in power of 160 percent compared to previous server offerings. Available direct from Lenovo or through its business partners from mid June, the RD 530 and RD 630 will cost $2,399 and $2,699 respectively. The two-socket rack servers will be come with Intel Xeon processors, holding up to eight cores per processor. This means achieving up to… -
Kodak had nuke weapons capability
14 May 2012 | 10:10 amBuried among the paperwork of Kodak's bankruptcy assets was the somewhat strange information that the company had its own nuclear reactor and was capable of making weapons grade uranium. While the photocopying company was going down the loo, it turns out it could have made a fortune flogging enriched uranium to a rogue state or two. Fortunately for humanity the idea did not appear to have entered the Kodak accountants' heads. Six years ago, according to Gizmodo, they had a nuclear reactor in a basement in Rochester loaded with 3.5 pounds of enriched uranium. The thing was no one seemed to… -
Woz backs Apple Aussie price revolt
14 May 2012 | 3:18 amApple founder and Dancing Queen Steve 'Woz' Wozniak has given his backing to those Australians who think they are being overcharged for Jobs' Mob gear. Dancing with Stars expert Woz said that Aussies should not have to pay more for technology goods that cost much less in the United States. Talking on ABC Radio, Woz said that some of the problems might be because of Australia's import tax and protectionist regime. He said he was surprised when he found out his car cost three times more in Australia than what he paid for it in the US. Woz was also stunned that Apple's iPhone was so expensive in… -
Huawei gunning for the Cisco kid
14 May 2012 | 3:16 amHuawei has been talking up its new enterprise unit which it claims will give market leaders Cisco a real Chinese burn. Huawei announced its first US distribution agreement with IT distributor Synnex that will allow it to expand its presence in the US enterprise market It is also launching new products that compete with Cisco's telepresence offerings and network switches. According to Reuters, the company has told its enterprise unit that it has to make $15 billion worldwide in revenue by 2015. In the few months that the department has been open it has made more than $7 billion worldwide and…
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Apple's Siri fixed to lie about 'best phone ever'
16 May 2012 | 5:21 amWhile Apple is unreasonably slow in issuing security patches which imprison its users into botnets, it has been jolly quick at saving itself from an embarrassing fault in Siri. Last week it was discovered that if you asked Siri what the best phone ever is, it would tell you that it was the Nokia Lumia 900. Siri was taking information from Wolfram Alpha, which had determined that the Lumia 900 was the best smartphone by looking at customer reviews. Now, it is nothing but the truth and the sort of thing that Apple users need to be continuously reminded of. But it was a bit of an own goal for… -
HTC suffers another blow
16 May 2012 | 4:33 amSmartphone maker HTC is seeing two of its phones blocked by US Customs. The Taiwanese company has not been doing very well lately and needs to turn around sales in what used to be its largest market. Sadly, it looks like Apple is using its narrow victory against HTC in a patent lawsuit in December to keep the company out of the market. HTC said in a statement that the US availability of the HTC One X and HTC EVO 4G LTE has been delayed due to a US Customs review of shipments that is required after an International Trade Commission exclusion order. The ruling said that HTC phones with the… -
Apple gets another chance to troll Samsung
15 May 2012 | 4:59 amThe US appeals court has given Apple another crack at slapping an immediate injunction against Samsung. After Apple CEO Steve Jobs became convinced that Samsung stole his idea for a tablet, he decided to destroy the competition in a patent troll campaign. However, Apple did not have much luck with this after a local judge refused to give it an immediate injuction to ban the sale of Samsung's product. According to Reuters, the District court said that Apple failed to show that it was likely to succeed on the merits of the case. Apple has appealed and now the U.S. Court of Appeals for the… -
Apple agrees to stop lying to customers
14 May 2012 | 3:32 amAfter weeks, Jobs' Mob has finally agreed to bow down to Aussie regulators and stop calling its iPad 4G down under and in the UK. Watchdogs in the UK and Australia growled at Apple for calling its iPad 4G when it did not work on any 4G systems available in those countries. True the tablet could handle 4G, but only in the US, which is a pretty long way to go to download your Coldplay collection at the high speeds that 4G offers. What is surprising is that it has taken Apple that long to realise that you can't sell a product which does not do what it says in the tin. It look some pretty serious… -
EU vows end to "bill shock" with roaming charge cap ruling
10 May 2012 | 12:18 pmMeasures that could put an end to “bill shock” have been voted in by the EU, with caps on mobile and data costs alongside greater freedom to change operators when travelling abroad. Currently smartphone and tablet users are liable to receive bills after returning from holiday which they are often paying off long after their tan fades. Business user too are often left with hefty charges for using data roaming and making calls abroad, with no caps currently in place on the amount operators can charge. However, as of 1 July 2012 the cost of using data services will now be…
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TechEye - Latest Science headlines
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Chinese break teleportation record
16 May 2012 | 2:32 amChinese researchers have managed to pair particles over a distance of 97km. According to the Sydney Morning Herald, it is not quite the same thing as a Dalek transmat but it is getting closer to similar technology. It is more what the boffins call "quantum entanglement", whereby two particles act as one system despite being separate. In other words the photon transmits its quantum state to another photon, which becomes a clone of the original. The Chinese were not really interested in getting a human from a spaceship to the surface of a planet either. What they are looking for is something… -
Scientists turn a virus into electricity
14 May 2012 | 5:20 amScientists at the US Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory have come up with a way to generate power using harmless everyday viruses. The researchers have been working with a virus called M13 bacteriophage to convert mechanical energy into electricity, which they say one day could power gadgets such as smartphones from everyday movements such as walking. They have been testing their work through a specially developed generator that produces enough current to operate a small liquid-crystal display.It works by tapping a finger on a postage stamp-sized electrode… -
Researchers run the internet on xylophones
14 May 2012 | 4:43 amA University of California graduate researcher has transmitted internet packets by playing them on xylophones. It is not practical for every day use, but there is proof that the idea works. Stuart Geiger, a graduate student the Berkeley's School of Information told the Association for Computing Machinery's Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, which was held in Austin, Texas, that his experiment gave him an appreciation for how the internet was designed. He told IDG you could really take anything and put it anywhere. Geiger's network protocol, IP over Xylophone Players (IpoXP),… -
Software defines metaphors like s*** off a shovel
10 May 2012 | 3:50 amResearchers in the US have been developing software which can track a metaphor to its lair, tag it, and then follow it in its natural habitat for the rest of its life. Dubbed the Autonomous Dynamic Analysis of Metaphor and Analogy, or ADAMA, the researchers want to build a software system that can automatically analyse metaphorical speech in five different languages. The US Army Research Laboratory is analysing a mountain of online data thanks to a $1.4 million contract to the team conducting the research. The research has a shadow side. It has been financed by the US Intelligence Advanced… -
Diamonds offer key to storage forever
7 May 2012 | 4:24 amEngineers working at John Hopkins University are using diamonds to change the properties of an alloy used in phase-change memory. The move could lead to the development of higher capacity storage systems that retain data more quickly and last longer than current media. It also means that your computer might start getting a taste for the finer things in life. According to the online edition of Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, the changes to phase-change memory could be a lot cheaper thanks to an inexpensive alloy that's composed of germanium, arsenic and tellurium. The study's…
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'G20 geek' found not guilty
16 May 2012 | 5:05 amThe insecurity expert who was arrested for allegedly plotting to bomb the 2010 summit of world leaders in downtown Toronto has walked free from court after two years behind bars. Byron Sonne, the so-called "G20 geek", lost his marriage when his wife Kristen Peterson ended the couple's eight-year marriage while Sonne was in jail. Sonne is a hacker who was a big name in the cyber security industry. He was arrested on June 22, 2010, as the first high-profile detention of the chaotic G20 weekend. According to the Star, he was charged with mischief, weapons possession and intimidating… -
Canada shelves C-30 cyber snooping law
16 May 2012 | 4:45 amThe Canadian internet surveillance legislation, Bill C-30, is as dead in the water as a freshly clubbed harp seal. The bill, which was sponsored by Public Safety Minister Vic Toews, aimed to force ISPs to hand over any data that police wanted. It was famous for Toews telling the world and its dog that if they did not back it, they supported child pornographers. Federal and provincial privacy commissioners strongly objected to the bill as an unjustified violation of privacy rights. It appears that it was Toews' child pornographers comment which killed the bill as it showed the law to be just… -
American paranoia moves online
16 May 2012 | 4:26 amThe Land of the Free has found a new fear which is fast replacing terrorism and its number one bugbear. The US is good at collective fear. It was founded by those who feared Catholics, whipped up by a fear of witches, then a fear of paying tea tax. Later on there was a fear of communists, then terrorists. Now a security study by Unisys said that more Americans want the presidential candidates to focus on protecting the government and the electrical grid against hackers than fighting terrorist groups. The good thing about a fear of hackers is that you do not have to suffer from extreme… -
Hammond has EMP nightmares
16 May 2012 | 2:34 amWhile the UK is gripped by a recession which is largely caused by this government's austerity measures what keeps defence Secretary Phillip Hammond up at night are the terrors of Electro-Magnetic Pulse (EMP) weapons. Talking to an insecurity conference in London yesterday, Hammond fears that somehow someone is going to develop an EMP weapon, which produces a surge of electromagnetic radiation and knock out the country's electronics. The response to these weapons has to go beyond conventional military means, Hammond warned. We think he means prayer. He thinks that if EMP is weaponised, the… -
Web censorship hurts legit sites
15 May 2012 | 8:14 amThe Open Rights Group (ORG) and the LSE Media Policy Project have published a report that lists legitimate sites that have been blocked using censorship technology. The report's author, Open Rights Group member Peter Bradwell, warned that internet censorship on mobile networks has lead to overblocking and could cause some sites major problems if similar measures are forced upon fixed-line broadband ISP subscribers. Bradwell's report highlights 10 examples of incorrectly blocked sites between 1st January and 31st March 2012. He said that mobile networks in the UK are more likely to suffer from…
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Ballmer is world's worse CEO - report
16 May 2012 | 2:27 amThe shy and retiring Microsoft CEO Steve "There's a kind of hush" Ballmer has been named one of the world's worst CEOs by the business rag Forbes. Forbes hack Adam Hartung said that Ballmer was the " worst CEO of a large publicly traded American company today". Given that there were a fair few that resulted in plunging the world in recession, we would have thought Steve would have had a little more competition from the banks and financial markets. But according to Hartung, Ballmer singlehandedly steered Microsoft out of some of the fastest growing and most lucrative tech markets and in the… -
Indian IT infrastructure market set for steady growth
15 May 2012 | 8:04 amThe Indian IT infrastructure market will rise by 10.3 percent this year.According to Gartner, the industry made up of servers, storage and networking equipment, will reach $2.05 billion in 2012, and rise further by 2016 where it's predicted to reach $3.01 billion.According to the analyst house, the reason behind the growth is down to an increasing role technology is playing in the enterprise - and IT’s closer alignment with business.Gartner believes that soon, a time will come when IT strategy merges in with business strategy. Gartner predicts that revenue growth will be primarily… -
Lightsquared files for bankruptcy
15 May 2012 | 4:41 amAfter its plan to deliver high-speed wireless to as many as 260 million people were stuffed up by regulators, Lightsquared has filed for bankruptcy. LightSquared has assets of $4.48 billion and debt of $2.29 billion so it might still survive in one form or another. Creditors have requested that the company's backer, Philip Falcone, step aside although it looks like he and the current management team will remain with the company. Some reports suggest that the bankruptcy is all a cunning plan to give LightSquared sufficient breathing room to continue working through the regulatory process. -
Facebook jacks up IPO target
15 May 2012 | 4:37 amSocial networking site Facebook thinks that it can make piles more money out of its IPO. Facebook has raised the price range on its initial public offering to $34 to $38 a share. This is on the back of strong demand for the shares which are already oversubscribed. When the deal goes through, it means that Facebook will be worth more than $100 billion. The company originally aimed for $28 to $35 a share but it is starting to look like the shares are hopelessly oversubscribed by those who think the company will be worth a bomb. It will be Silicon Valley's largest ever IPO that eclipses… -
Infineon CEO resigns due to ill-health
14 May 2012 | 7:35 amInfineon’s CEO Peter Bauer has announced his resignation due to ongoing health problems. Bauer has been suffering from bone disease osteoporosis for several years and has suffered numerous fractures to his vertebrae. His situation has worsened, according to an announcement by the German chip maker, and he has taken the decision to resign. In a statement from Bauer, he said that the decision to resign was “very difficult”, but he felt that he could no longer give his role at the helm of the organisation the due attention. Bauer had been the CEO of Infineon since…
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ASA barks at TalkTalk
16 May 2012 | 5:35 amTalkTalk has been investigated by the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) after a customer complained about how the company advertised its broadband speeds. The customer approached the watchdog after viewing a speed checking service on TalkTalk's site. After he entered his postcode, he was told: "Your estimated speed 3.8 Meg Your estimated speed range is between 2.1 and 5.3meg ...".He challenged whether the ad was misleading, because he was a TalkTalk customer and had been informed that the maximum speed available to him was less than 2.1 Mbit/s.TalkTalk claimed that it was… -
Advertising in Facebook is pointless
16 May 2012 | 3:01 amFacebook's future was looking less secure after one of its key advertisers walked away from the site. General Motors has decided Facebook's ads had little impact on consumers and it would be better off doing something else with the $40 million it spends. Desperate Housewife in the 4.30 at Derby would seem to be a safer bet. Facebook, which is about to have a huge IPO, needs the announcement by GM like a hole in the head. GM is the third-largest advertiser in the United States, and is starting to show some doubts about whether advertising on Facebook works better than traditional… -
Xfactor web abuse leads to troll law lobbying
15 May 2012 | 7:57 amLegal PR firm Byfield Consultancy is supporting a high profile web abuse case as part of a campaign to bring in new laws against internet trolls. Byfield told PR Week it wants to see stronger police powers against online abuse and is working with solicitors Bains Cohen to handle a pro-bono brief on behalf of Nicola Brookes. Brookes suffered from abuse after leaving a supportive comment on the Facebook site of The X Factor contestant Frankie Cocozza which seemed to get a little out of hand. A day after her post, she received 100 abusive comments. Apparently 'trolls' had set up a fake… -
Pirate Pay hopes to kill Pirate Bay
14 May 2012 | 6:38 amA Russian based outfit "Pirate Pay" claims to have come up with some software which can kill off the distribution of copyrighted works on BitTorrent. Its first test project, which was carried out with Walt Disney Studios and Sony Pictures, successfully stopped tens of thousands of downloads. According to TorrentFreak, the software attacks BitTorrent swarms, making it impossible for people to share files. Apparently the company was building a traffic management system for ISPs when they worked out that it could stop BitTorrent traffic if needed. Pirate Pay CEO Andrei Klimenko said that… -
Facebook considers charging to highlight posts
11 May 2012 | 6:38 amSocial networking site Facebook is considering charging users who want their more important posts highlighted. According to Stuff.co.nz the system is being tested with users being charged $2 to "highlight" important posts so they are more visible. A man in Whangarei, New Zealand said he was given the option of paying to highlight status updates and picture posts with a yellow background when he logged on to his Facebook page. He thought it was a scam and contacted the press. When members of the Whangarei press contacted Facebook its spokeswoman Mia Garlick confirmed it was a new…
