Byte Into It 2st Feb 2007 « Byte Into It – Computing and new technology

Mike Bantick, Andrew Fish and Ed Borland talking about the week's IT and Tech news.This week a special interview with Edward Fong Managing Director of Ubisoft, Psystar vs Apple, Telecommunication Interception Bill, Microsoft Security Intelligence Report, Rupert Murdock vs the Internet, Telstra, Games and more...For show links and news check out the new […]

Byte Into It - 11 November 2009 November 12, 2009

Phil Wales, Georgia Webster and the Fake Andrew Fish talking about the week's IT and Tech news (computing, new technology and headphones)This week the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) and copyright, Rupert Murdoch vs the Internet, online journalism, community television digital forum, Brizzly, general social media jibber jabber, digital tattoo […]

Byte Into It - 04 November 2009 November 5, 2009

Mike Bantick, Sarah Stokely and Byron Scullin talking about the week's IT and Tech news.This week an Interview with Scotty Iseri, the creator of Scotty Got an Office Job, Secret copyright treaty leaks, NBN Summit, AFACT vs iiNet, Droid, Kristen Boschma, Apple news, Games and more...For show links and news check out the new Byte Into It blog at http://by […]

Byte Into It - 28 October 2009 October 28, 2009

Phil Wales and Mike Bantick talking about the week's IT and Tech news.Telstra, White House switching to open source, Google, Syntax DemoParty 2009, Google social search, Google Wave role playing, Netflix, Byte Into It webcast, eReaders, Borderlands and more...For show links and news check out the new Byte Into It blog at http://byteintoitlinks.blogspot. […]

Digg Technology

Schiller's spin on App Store issues ignores real complaints November 24, 2009

Apple SVP Phil Schiller is back in the press attempting to defend Apple's need to act as gatekeeper for the iPhone App Store. However, his comments seem more like spin and less like actual improvement.

Google Partners with Canonical for Chrome OS November 24, 2009

Rather than seeing Google's Chrome operating system as competing with Linux desktop distributions, Canonical is working with Google to make the OS.

Polar Printer Reimagines the Way Magnets Works (With Video!) November 24, 2009

A team of engineers in Alabama unveils an invention that reimagines the way magnets work, and that could change the way we do everything from closing the fridge to building frictionless gears.

Firefox outfoxes recession, Mozilla sees increased revenue November 24, 2009

Mozilla has published its audited financial statements from 2008. The organization has reported $78.6 million in revenue, a five-percent increase from the previous year.

Why It's Gotten Straight Stupid to Buy a Mac Pro November 24, 2009

Never before has it been so apparent that a power tower—pretty much the laziest design in the computer industry—is being sold by a design-centric company with neither design nor power.

New Apple ads to Verizon: Can Droid do this? November 24, 2009

It seems that Apple doesn't respect Verizon's Droid phone quite as much as it does Microsoft's PCs. But two new ad spots, launching Monday evening, come as close as Apple has done thus far to directly attack the allegedly do-it-all robotphone.

15 best free Windows Mobile apps November 24, 2009

15 best free Windows Mobile apps Great apps for Twitter, Facebook, RSS feeds and more

Chrome OS And The Microsoft Squeeze November 24, 2009

Now that we've all actually seen Chrome OS, the immediate reaction that most are jumping to is that it won't be killing Windows anytime soon...

Wikipedia Launch Among The Greatest Moments In Net History November 24, 2009

Election of President Barack Obama also on the list

Apple hits back at Verizon in new iPhone ads (video) November 24, 2009

Now look, we're not saying we know for sure that Apple thinks Verizon's latest round of merciless attack ads on its device and US carrier are worth responding to, but these latest iPhone spots would certainly suggest it.

The Register

Fasthosts in day-long email FAIL

You say 'intermittent.' I say 'You're rubbish!' Customers of Fasthosts - the UK-based webhost - have been without both POP and web-based email for much of the day, complaining that such outages have become, shall we say, far too prevalent in recent months.… Case Study: WhatsUp keeps Legoland turnstyles ringing

Dodgy wheel thwarts Mars rover rescue

Sand trap 3: NASA 0 NASA's attempts to rescue its stuck rover Spirit from a Martian sand trap has hit another snag in the form of a dawdling wheel.… The power of collaboration within unified communications

MS unleashes legal attack dogs to lick up COFEE spill

Cryptonomicon Microsoft unleashed its legal attack dogs to remove its leaked forensics tool from a respected security site, it has emerged.… Case Study: WhatsUp keeps Legoland turnstyles ringing

Sony Ericsson suspends Satio sales

Pulls phone over software glitches Sony Ericsson has withdrawn its new 12Mp cameraphone, Satio, from sale after only a few weeks of UK availability.…

Google herds coders into Chrome extensions gallery

Hang 'em high Google is corralling developers into uploading their Chrome browser extensions to a new gallery that hasn’t been opened up to testers yet.… The power of collaboration within unified communications

Dragon Age: Origins game in gay sex scene shock

Help me become somebody's elf* A secret scene in the fantasy game Dragon Age: Origins shows a male character getting down to some hot same-sex action with an elf, The Telegraph titters today.… Case Study: WhatsUp keeps Legoland turnstyles ringing

Emblaze demos Else handset

Not a smartphone, a 'mobile apps device', apparently If you are bored of the same old smartphones, then an Israeli design firm claims to have designed a handset that offers something Else.… What is your recession sales strategy?

Orchestration and the server environment

Just pie in the sky? Workshop Few words in the IT industry’s vocabulary are more grandiose than ‘orchestration’, evoking images of symphonic movements, rows of groomed musicians and wild-haired, baton-pointing conductors. Just how the term came to be used for the allocation of server resources must leave IT managers more than a little flummoxed, however.… W […]

Twitter finds its voice

For the really, really, lazy blogger A new service offers to post voice files to Twitter, enabling those who can't even type 140 characters to contribute to their valuable insight to the blogosphere.… Case Study: WhatsUp keeps Legoland turnstyles ringing

eBay offers compo for search failure

Tech firm behaves like a proper company eBay is offering customers hit by the failure of its search engine last weekend the chance to relist items, rather than sell them at lower prices. They are also offering discount vouchers to buyers who are disappointed to have lost out.… The power of collaboration within unified communications

Digg – Linux/Unix

Google Partners with Canonical for Chrome OS November 24, 2009

Rather than seeing Google's Chrome operating system as competing with Linux desktop distributions, Canonical is working with Google to make the OS.

OMG! UBUNTU!: Docky Gains Panel Mode, Network Docklet & More November 23, 2009

Docky gained a sleek new panel mode and a network manager docklet in an update to users of the Docky PPA yesterday.

Chromium OS Source released November 19, 2009

I noticed that the source released happened during the webcast, so go get it now!Getting and building:http://sites.google.com/a/chromium.org/dev/chromium-os/building-chromium-os

Speaking UNIX: 10 great tools for any UNIX system November 19, 2009

The universe of UNIX® tools changes constantly. Here are 10 tools—some you may have overlooked and some new—to tinker with.

The Google Phone Is Very Real. And It's Coming Soon November 18, 2009

The debate over Droid v. iPhone rages on, but lots more Android surprises are on the way. Get ready for the Google Phone. It’s no longer a myth, it’s real.Like the iPhone for Apple, this phone will be Google’s pure vision of what a phone should be.

20 Essential Tips Every Ubuntu User Should Know November 18, 2009

We've compiled a list of the 20 most important skills that every Ubuntu user should have. These tips, ranging from basic GUI manipulation to advanced system recovery, are essential to your Ubuntu computing experience.

PDC09 - Microsoft to Open Source the .NET Micro Framework November 17, 2009

Peter Galli reporting form PDC09 - Today, at the Microsoft Professional Developer Conference (PDC) here in Los Angeles, we announced not only the release of version 4.0 of the.NET Micro Framework, but also that we are open sourcing the product and making it available under the Apache 2.0 license...

Google Could Double Web Speeds With SPDY Protocol November 16, 2009

Slowly but surely, we're getting an idea of what Google's Chrome OS will look like. We know that it will be Linux-based and that the primary interface will likely be the Chrome browser. Still, the search giant was not content to simply turn a Web browser into an operating system.

Linux Contractor Fired for Using Firefox/Linux November 16, 2009

This is a complicated story but one that must be told. I'm not sure there is anything that can be done about it except rage at the moon...

Lenovo returns to the Linux desktop November 14, 2009

Lenovo will soon be shipping an ARM Snapdragon-based netbook using Linux.

Arstechnica Law and Disorder

"Godfather of Spam" goes to prison for four years November 24, 2009

Alan Ralsky, the so-called "Godfather of spam" was yesterday sentenced by a federal judge in Detroit to spend the next 51 months of his life in prison for wire fraud, mail fraud, and violations of the CAN-SPAM act. Not content simply to move boxes of pills or to sign people up for new mortgages, Ralsky's operation instead pulled in millions of […]

nate@arstechnica.com (Nate Anderson)

Libraries dying for bandwidth—where's the fiber (and cash)? November 24, 2009

Most of America's libraries make it a part of their mission to offer Internet access to anyone in the community, but a severe bandwidth crunch is hobbling those efforts. That's one of the conclusions reached by the American Library Association, which says that 59.6 percent of American libraries "report their connectivity speed is inadequate so […]

nate@arstechnica.com (Nate Anderson)

UK hack reveals climate science's ugly side, little more November 23, 2009

Late last week, a collection of e-mails and documents began appearing on a variety of websites, purportedly a selection of a much larger cache of material obtained when hackers gained entry to the UK's Climatic Research Unit. All indications are that the documents are legitimate, and they reveal the scientists behind them as fully human: snarky, dismiss […]

jtimmer@arstechnica.com (John Timmer)

God did it, why can't we? UN ponders 'Net "10 commandments" November 23, 2009

Write a new 10 Commandments of the Internet, Peter proposed, and draft them on a tablet PC on Mount Sinai. The "Peter" in question was Internet historian Ian Peter, and the place was the UN-backed Internet Governance Forum 2009 held last week in Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt, a few kilometers from Mount Sinai. Peter's model for his proposed commandme […]

nate@arstechnica.com (Nate Anderson)

Microsoft responds to call for Bing boycott over China censorship November 23, 2009

With the launch of Bing in June 2009, Microsoft's search engine is being scrutinized a lot more than it has in its past incarnations. For example, we noted that at launch, Bing was blocking search queries pertaining to sexual content in about 20 percent of the regions it was officially supporting. Also at launch, The New York Times wrote about how Bing […]

emil.protalinski@arstechnica.com (Emil Protalinski)

UK "Pirate Finder General" law innocuous now, could get ugly November 23, 2009

The Queen announced on Wednesday that her government would deliver Internet piracy legislation; today it arrived in the form of the massive Digital Economy bill meant to modernize the UK's approach to everything from copyrights to broadband to video game ratings to domain names. The bill contains no sanctions against suspected P2P file-swappers, but it […]

nate@arstechnica.com (Nate Anderson)

Week in tech: good karma for koalas, not so good for pirates November 21, 2009

Ubuntu 9.10, codenamed Karmic Koala, was officially released last month. In a comprehensive review, Ars takes you under the surface for an in-depth look at the new features and major architectural changes. The wiki crops up in many companies' internal discussions about process improvements and efficient collaboration, but it is often shot down because s […]

eric@arstechnica.com (Eric Bangeman)

Shocker: Ars, Hollywood agree on need for ACTA openness November 20, 2009

MPAA head Dan Glickman sent a letter yesterday to both Senator Patrick Leahy (D-VT) and to US Trade Representative Ron Kirk in which he called for a serious US push to pass the secretive Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement. That's certainly expected—ACTA contains a host of goodies for Hollywood and the recording industry—but what came as a s […]

nate@arstechnica.com (Nate Anderson)

Computerized medicine: good for quality, but not costs November 20, 2009

Electronic medical records and the general digitization of medical data and practices are promoted as a way to slow the rapidly inflating costs in the US healthcare system. The push for expanded medical IT has come from the top, with President Obama extolling its virtues and his administration making funding for EMR deployments part of its stimulus package. […]

jtimmer@arstechnica.com (John Timmer)

Arrests made in massive, $390/hour Video Relay Service scam November 20, 2009

Dealing with some technology is challenging enough for the hearing-impaired without scammers taking advantage of federal dollars meant to help them. That's exactly what has happened with the Federal Communications Commission's Video Relay Service (VRS), however, and 26 people were arrested Thursday for scheming to steal "tens of millions of do […]

jacqui@arstechnica.com (Jacqui Cheng)

Ars Technica – Apple

The counter-punch: a review of Parallels Desktop 5 November 24, 2009

I'm virtually exhausted. After last week's review of VMWare Fusion 3 and this week's review of Parallels Desktop 5, it's been a weird couple of weeks. I'm having this recurring virtualization nightmare where a penguin wants to share something with me but can't. Then Windows Aero calls to me in a fuzzy voice like that teacher fro […]

daveg@arstechnica.com (Dave Girard)

Schiller's spin on App Store issues ignores real complaints November 24, 2009

Phil Schiller, Apple's senior vice president of worldwide marketing, has made another attempt to address numerous complaints about the precarious iPhone App Store approval process that have circulated in the media recently. Schiller's point of view is that the approval process is valuable to developers and consumers, and that Apple is trying to […]

chris.foresman@arstechnica.com (Chris Foresman)

Poll Technica: Mac deals to be had this week; you going? November 23, 2009

If you live in the US, this week kicks off the beginning of the holiday season with Thanksgiving on Thursday and the inevitable day-after-Thanksgiving sales that happen on Friday (we hesitate to call it "Black Friday" this year, since it seems that everyone will probably still be in the red). As usual, Mac fans will be able to get discounts on mach […]

jacqui@arstechnica.com (Jacqui Cheng)

Apple Magic Mouse drivers arrive for Windows November 23, 2009

So you spent $70 on the Apple Magic Mouse and then you realized it would only work with your Mac. Never fear! Apple last month posted Bluetooth Update 1.0 for Windows, which improves the performance of the Apple Bluetooth devices when running Windows XP and Windows Vista on a Mac computer using Boot Camp. Inside are the goods you need: Magic Mouse drivers fo […]

emil.protalinski@arstechnica.com (Emil Protalinski)

Latest jailbroken iPhone worm tries filching bank passwords November 23, 2009

The second malicious worm to attack jailbroken iPhones has been spotted in the wild, and is the first to directly target users' bank accounts. Called iBotnet.A by security research firm Intego, the worm tries to steal account logins from customers of popular online banking service ING Direct. Though it only affects iPhones that have been jailbroken by t […]

jacqui@arstechnica.com (Jacqui Cheng)

Week in Apple: Developers leaving iPhone, Psystar screwed November 21, 2009

What would a week in Apple be if it didn't involve some developer drama, Google, and Psystar? That's all included in this week's top Apple news, as well as a few major software tidbits and rumors about Apple building more first-party iPhone games. Read on: Respected developers begin fleeing from App Store platform: Continued issues with the Ap […]

jacqui@arstechnica.com (Jacqui Cheng)

Hacked Darwin kernel available for 10.6.2 on Atom netbooks November 21, 2009

First the 10.6.2 update to Snow Leopard wasn't compatible with Intel Atom processors. Then it was. Then it wasn't again when it was finally released to the masses. Fortunately for the netbook-loving Mac OS X fans out there, the OSx86 scene is only too happy to offer a patched version of mach_kernel to enable booting 10.6.2 on netbooks once more. Th […]

chris.foresman@arstechnica.com (Chris Foresman)

Students get discounts on Exchange-compatible Office for Mac November 20, 2009

College isn't cheap these days, even if you're attending public university. In that case, pretty much any discount offered to students is welcome. Microsoft's Mac Business Unit has just announced that it's offering a special discount on the full Office 2008 Business Edition for US college students, offering them a 70 percent discount off […]

chris.foresman@arstechnica.com (Chris Foresman)

After long wait, Camino 2.0 finally hits the streets November 19, 2009

Camino—the Gecko-based browser with native Cocoa interface and more seamless Mac OS X integration—has finally landed an official 2.0 release. The browser uses a much newer version of Mozilla's Gecko rendering engine (the same one used in Firefox) along with updated tabs and improved security features. However, Camino still lags Firefox in su […]

chris.foresman@arstechnica.com (Chris Foresman)

1Password 3.0 now shipping, comes with cross platform tool November 19, 2009

After less than a month of public beta testing, Agile Web Solutions has announced that 1Password 3.0 is now final and available for purchase. Not only is the Snow Leopard-ified version of the software rife with all the same new features we discussed in October, it also comes with a new tool called 1PasswordAnywhere that allows you to access your encrypted ke […]

jacqui@arstechnica.com (Jacqui Cheng)

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