• Diablo III

  Hell’s bells

  Review  Back in 1997, I worked in a youth centre and some fool gave me the keys to the place. So I would sneak in every night to continue a degrading tryst with Diablo I, cutting down waves of monsters in anticipation of a loot splurge. It was a while before I worked out the portal system – I used to moan about the amount of walking – until someone pointed out I was a noob. Luckily, in Diablo III, the portal is shown as a small blue vagina on the user interface, so there’s no risking sore feet now.…

• Hey big spender: China set to take Asian IT spending crown

  US safe as global leader … for now

  China’s ascent to the top of every conceivable tech rankings list is set to continue in 2013 when it becomes the biggest IT spender in Asia, leapfrogging ailing Japan as it prepares to fork out $173bn (£110bn) on tech kit, according to IDC.…

  

• Chinese 3G users top 150 MILLION but most still on 2G

  Operators launch HSPA+, cheap deals to snare more punters

  China may boast staggeringly large internet and mobile phone user numbers but the latest government figures show that the quality and speed of the services most are receiving still leave a lot to be desired.…

• Twitter signs up for Do Not Track

  Small print refreshed after data-ignoring pledge

  Twitter has signed up to the US Federal Trade Commission’s Do Not Track (DNT) initiative and now offers its users the chance to avoid having their data shared with third parties.…

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• Nokia Lumia 900 WinPho 7 smartphone

  Bigger and better?

  Review  So you’re trying to revive the fortunes of what was, until a few weeks ago, the biggest mobile phone manufacturer on the planet. You’ve launched a handset or two with a new operating system and they’ve gone down quite well. So what next? How about taking one of those handsets and releasing a near-identical one, different only in size and capabilities. Bigger and better, you know?…

• 75,000 Raspberry Pi baked before August

  Distie says Arduino sales “overtaken in an instant”

  RS Components, one of two distributors for the Raspberry Pi, says the 75,000 of the tiny computers are burbling through the manufacturing supply chain and will be ready for release “in July to August.”…

• Telstra denies IPTV shift

  Ellis review results hold staff in suspense

  Telstra has strongly rejected claims that the company will move away from the IPTV market, in a response to The Register‘s report last Monday that it was reviewing its IPTV strategy and considering moving its 300,000+ T-Box customers to Foxtel.…

• Stuxnet ≠ cyberwar, says US Army Cyber Command officer

  AusCERT: What is cyberwar anyway?

  While “cyber^* operations” are becoming an increasing focus of both government and private research, legal frameworks are failing to keep pace, the US Army Cyber Command operational attorney Robert Clark has told the AusCERT security conference in Queensland.…

info from http://www.theregister.co.uk

• Telstra to hand T-box customers to Foxtel

  Exec exodus continues as speculation downloads

  Telstra is expected to shut down its aggressive IPTV ambitions and hand over its 300,000 plus T-Box customers to Foxtel, once the merger of Foxtel and Austar is completed, sources close to the deal have told The Register.…

• Overclockers to fight for global supremacy

  Keep an eye on your servers as “Chimp challenge” hits Folding@home

  Overclocking enthusiasts around the world spent the weekend topping up their coolant tanks and tuning their rigs with unusual fervour, as they prepared to go into battle in the annual Chimp Challenge.…

• China begins work on world-beating MEGA power cables

  An 800kv line will have largest capacity on the planet

  China’s apparently unceasing efforts to lead the world in every conceivable field continued on Sunday after engineers in the western region of Xinjiang began construction of what is claimed will be the largest capacity power line on the planet.…

  

• How to simulate a light armoured vehicle

  Thales Australia reveals tech behind trainers for eight-wheeled monster

  The Australian Light Armoured Vehicle (ASLAV) is an eight-wheeled, 13,450-kilogram monster, which bristles with a grenade launcher, a pair of machine guns and a 25 millimetre M242 “Bushmaster” chain gun.…

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• Facebook co-founder renounces US citizenship pre-IPO

  Smart tax move for Eduardo Saverin

  Eduardo Saverin, a co-founder of Facebook, has abandoned his American citizenship ahead of the social networking company’s possibly oversubscribed IPO in May.…

• SpaceX and Bigelow sign deal for inflatable space stations in orbit

  Budget hotel mogul offering bubbles in space

  SpaceX has signed a partnership deal with Bigelow Aerospace (BA) to offer a taxi service to and from the inflatable habitats BA intends to put into orbit.…

• Egenera runs virty tools on IBM BladeCenters

  Control freak spans the Big Three in blades now

  Egenera, the virtualized server infrastructure pioneer, has certified its PAN Manager control freakery to run on IBM’s BladeCenter blade servers.…

• GTC 2012: Not your average vendo-loveathon

  Why I geek out for GTC

  HPC blog  One of my very favorite industry events is coming up next week: the NVIDIA-organised GPU Technology Conference, aka GTC 2012. I’ve been in the tech industry for almost 20 years; roughly half that time was spent working for The Man in vendor firms, and the other half at my own boutique industry analyst firm. Not surprisingly, I’ve been to a lot of vendor-sponsored conferences. I’ve helped organise some and have had speaking slots at quite a few, so I know the drill.…

  

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