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Submission + - windfarms paid to not generate electricity (bbc.co.uk) 1

Submitted by doperative on Sunday May 01, 2011 @11:46AM

doperative writes: Six Scottish windfarms were paid up to £300,000 to stop producing energy, it has emerged. The turbines, at a range of sites across Scotland, were stopped because the grid network could not absorb all the energy they generated.

Submission + - Android Conunrum: Tablets Tank, Smartphones Surge (infoworld.com)

Submitted by

GMGruman

on Friday April 29, 2011 @11:14AM

GMGruman writes: "Android smartphones have overpowered the iPhone in market share, yet Android tablets barely register in sales versus the iPad. Android tablets are as competitive in most respects against the iPad as Android smartphones are against the iPhone. So why the difference in success? Galen Gruman examines five theories for the gap, and concludes the reason is that Android tablets' real competitor is in fact not the iPad."

Submission + - Hackers Tried To Sell Credit Card Data To Sony (ibtimes.com)

Submitted by RedEaredSlider on Friday April 29, 2011 @10:28AM

RedEaredSlider writes: Several media outlets reported today that the PSN hackers have begun advertising their exploits on online forums. Looking to sell the information, which also includes customer names, passwords, and addresses, the hackers have priced the credit card database at $100,000 for 2.2 million credit card numbers, or about 4.5 cents for each one. There is even some evidence the hackers tried selling the credit card numbers back to Sony, though a company spokesperson denies it.

Submission + - Can Open Source Hardware Feed The World? (itworld.com)

Submitted by

jfruhlinger

on Monday April 18, 2011 @10:26AM

jfruhlinger writes: "When it comes to food scarcity in the developing world, one of the major problems is production capacity: land that could be arable using modern techniques goes underutilized because locals don't have the abbility to build or buy equipment. A group calling itself Open Source Eclology is trying to solve that problem. They've developed a set of open source hardware specs for 50 different industrial machines, which they're calling the Global Village Construction Set."

Submission + - First Look: Office 365 Beta (infoworld.com)

Submitted by

snydeq

on Monday April 18, 2011 @10:25AM

snydeq writes: "InfoWorld's Woody Leonhard provides an in-depth preview of Office 365 Beta, Microsoft's hosted server application suite. The offering includes cloud-based versions of Exchange, SharePoint, and Lync, as well as Office Web Apps, stripped-down versions of Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and OneNote. 'A few pitfalls notwithstanding, the beta itself seems quite stable,' Leonhard writes. 'Microsoft has done a remarkable job of making Admin functions accessible to people with no Exchange, SharePoint, or Lync experience' — a proposition that has some wondering whether the service is a threat to IT."

Submission + - Microsoft releases bugged Powerpoint Patch (technet.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 18, 2011 @10:06AM

An anonymous reader writes: Don't know how many are affected by this but last week's Powerpoint patch makes it impossible to open existing presentations. While some might consider disabling Powerpoint to be some sort of divine providence, you may want to avoid the patch until Microsoft has a fixed version.

Submission + - Open Source Programming Tools on the Rise (infoworld.com)

Submitted by

snydeq

on Monday April 18, 2011 @10:02AM

snydeq writes: "InfoWorld's Peter Wayner takes a look at 13 open source development projects making waves in the enterprise. From Git to Hadoop to build management tools, 'even in the deepest corners of proprietary stacks, open source tools can be found, often dominating. The reason is clear: Open source licenses are designed to allow users to revise, fix, and extend their code. The barber or cop may not be familiar enough with code to contribute, but programmers sure know how to fiddle with their tools. The result is a fertile ecology of ideas and source code, fed by the enthusiasm of application developers who know how to "scratch an itch".'"

Submission + - F1 computing kit: 1,500 cores, Linux & SSDs (pcpro.co.uk)

Submitted by

Barence

on Monday April 18, 2011 @09:11AM

Barence writes: "PC Pro has taken a peek behind the scenes at the Lotus Formula 1 garage — and the computing technology used to power the team. It's server farm comprises of 1,500 cores in a room full of blade servers, connected to 96TB of iSCSI storage. Currently, the farm is running on Linux, because that OS is apparently what best supports the number-crunching engine for the computational fluid dynamics (CFD) software. Meanwhile, all the laptops in the pit are now running on SSDs, because of the increased risk of disk failure caused by the high vibration levels experienced near a running F1 car."

Submission + - Update: Wind power firm sees no evidence of hack (networkworld.com)

Submitted by alphadogg on Monday April 18, 2011 @07:42AM

alphadogg writes: One day after a hacker posted screen shots and data to a hacking mailing list, saying he had broken into a New Mexico wind turbine facility, the company that runs the turbines says it has seen no evidence of a computer intrusion. The hacker, who calls himself Bigr R, made the claims Saturday, posting screenshots of the facility's management interface, screenshots of an FTP server and project management system, as well as Web server info and configuration data from a Cisco router.

Submission + - Final Report: Pan-European Cyber Security Exercise (net-security.org)

Submitted by Orome1 on Monday April 18, 2011 @06:46AM

Orome1 writes: The EU's cyber security agency, ENISA, has issued its final report on the first Pan-European cyber security exercise for public bodies, Cyber Europe 2010. The exercise was conducted on the 4th of November, 2010. Its objective was to trigger communication and collaboration between countries in the event of large-scale cyber-attacks. Over 70 experts from the participating public bodies worked together to counter over 300 simulated hacking attacks aimed at paralyzing the Internet and critical online services across Europe. During the exercise, a simulated loss of Internet connectivity between the countries took place, requiring cross-border cooperation to avoid a (simulated) total network crash.

Submission + - Enterprise-friendly Cell Phones Lose Market Share (techtarget.com)

Submitted by

rsmiller510

on Monday April 04, 2011 @07:49AM

rsmiller510 writes: "Android and iPhone continue to make significant market share gains, as RIM and Microsoft continue to bleed market share. IT seems to have stopped buying cell phones and is letting end users decide. From a support perspective, that means IT has to be prepared to deal with iOS and Android, and probably sooner than later."

Submission + - RIAA/MPAA: the greatest threat to tech innovation (hbr.org)

Submitted by TAGmclaren on Monday April 04, 2011 @02:18AM

TAGmclaren writes: The Harvard Business Review is running an article stating that it's not India or China that are the greatest threat to technological innovation happening in America. Rather, it's the "big content" players, particularly the movie and music industry. From the article: "the Big Content players do not understand technology, and never have. Rather than see it as an opportunity to reach new audiences, technology has always been a threat to them. Example after example abounds of this attitude; whether it was the VCR which was "to the American film producer and the American public as the Boston strangler is to the woman home alone" as famed movie industry lobbyist Jack Valenti put it at a congressional hearing, or MP3 technology, which they tried to sue out of existence."

Submission + - Change in AT&T Terms of Service (att.net)

Submitted by

Covalent

on Wednesday March 30, 2011 @07:40AM

Covalent writes: "The new AT&T TOS was released today and it includes new language regarding "network management". In short, AT&T now reserves the right to cap your bandwidth and throttle your connection for whatever reason it sees fit, so long as it is "reasonable". It also includes new language regarding copyright infringement: "AT&T and Yahoo! assume no responsibility, and you assume all risks, regarding the determination of whether material is in the public domain, or may otherwise be used by you for such purposes."

Wanna guess if AT&T will turn over your information if subpoenaed?"

Submission + - Microsoft begins distributing Windows 8 to OEMs (winrumors.com)

Submitted by siliconbits on Wednesday March 30, 2011 @07:25AM

siliconbits writes: Microsoft has begun to distribute early copies of Windows 8 to key OEM partners, WinRumors has learned. The software giant is distributing build 7971.0.110324-1900 via the company’s Connect external testing system. Key OEMs, including HP, are now able to access the Milestone 3 build from Connect. The program is advertised as Windows 8 and Server vNext Pre-Release Program, on Microsoft’s connect site and requires a special invite code, according to one poster at the My Digital Life forums.

Submission + - iPad Security

Submitted by

hunan3

on Tuesday March 29, 2011 @11:44AM

hunan3 writes: "My iPad was recently stolen. I had it protected with a 4-digit PIN, and didn't have any critical data that wan't encrypted within my 1Password database on the device. I initiated a remote-wipe of the device, but it hasn't come back online since then and therefore hasn't been wiped. Other victims in the same building reported similar experience — the thief evidently turned the devices off immediately.

My question is this: assuming the thief is unable to guess my PIN (which I stipulate is not a 100% safe assumption), what possible exposure do I face? Are there rootkits or other tools available that would give him access via USB to the data on the device? As I said, I don't really have any critical data in clear text, but I'm curious as to what his options might be.

Also: I know the police made an arrest in the case, so in the (still unlikely) event that they recover the stolen goods can anyone recommend a way for me to verify that none of the data on the device has been accessed or compromised?"

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