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Hung up on Italy, Spain, Portugal and Greece

Vodafone is rolling in cash thanks to a healthy year in the US and stability in the UK, Germany and the Netherlands. However the telco is still only drawing 14.5 per cent of its £43bn service revenue from mobile data, despite the fact that it represents the majority of traffic carried.?

Avamar, VPLEX, Atmos, Isilon gear and more

EMC has dubbed its EMC World in Las Vegas a megalaunch with some 42 product announcements.?

Whatever NXT

Sony's latest Android smartphone, the Xperia U, hit retail today, completing the first trio of handsets in the company's NXT collection.?

Commish tells gov websites to learn as they go and share what they discover

The Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) wants public sector bodies that have made their websites comply with EU cookie regulations to share their knowledge with others.?

eBay sales claimed

An SAP executive is reported to have been charged with stealing LEGO from shops using the assistance of home-made bar codes before allegedly selling the kits online.?

'No idea why, but our new Pingit app is working!'

The Barclays online banking website has been offline since about 8am BST this morning for reasons unknown.?

Asian and South American popularity pushes it to glory

Google's Chrome browser has overtaken Internet Explorer to become the world's most popular browser.?

Popular app gets Ice Cream Sarnie treatment

Android App of the Week As a long-time user of Catch Notes it was going to take something quite impressive to get me to jump ship to arch-rival Evernote but a recent update and integration with the latest versions of HTC's Sense have persuaded me to do so.?

Real-time compute, storage and network stats mashup

EMC is mashing up operational data reporting from its products to build dashboards integrating customer spreadsheet and database information to provide charge back and resource usage in an IT-as-a-service scenario. This bridging between EMC operational data and customer data leads to the mashup's moniker: DataBridge.?

Another giant step for Elon Musk's space programme

Pic History is just days away from being made as SpaceX' Dragon cargoship finally blasted off successfully on its Falcon 9 rocket this morning on its way to a rendezvous with the International Space Station.?

I feel the need, the need for... reliability

EMC's coming "Mavericks" Isilon software update aims to help it play nicely in the enterprise IT zone while keeping its scale-out NAS top gun title.?

US needs to "change its mind-set", says PRC

China has been forced to strongly deny claims made in a new Pentagon report that it is the world?s number one cyber spy and represents a growing threat to US economic security.?

Job ad for 'monitoring editor' points to web crackdown

Eagle-eyed users of China?s popular Twitter clone Sina Weibo have spotted an unusual job ad for the company, posted on its site on Monday ? internet censor.?

Formerly 'uneconomic' costs suddenly affordable for article scraper

The fees that businesses will have to pay news aggregators of newspapers' online content for their services have been set after a Copyright Tribunal determined the terms were "reasonable".?

Wants to retaliate first before crooks crack iOS

Eugene Kaspersky is ?a little bit disappointed ? Apple won?t let us? develop antivirus software for iOS devices, as he feels it is only a matter of time before criminals target the operating system.?

Bare bones computing

Review No review is ever written in isolation, absent from context. Usually, you can guess the reviewer's bias within a few paragraphs, and compensate accordingly. He hates LCD display quality, she dislikes proprietary software, they yearn for the days of full bandwidth vinyl. You get the idea.?

Kim Young-ha is worried, but stats tell a different story

Samsung?s head honcho in China is reportedly worried that domestic spending on technology products in the People?s Republic is slowing down, fears which if realised could have a significant knock-on effect for the global economy.?

Megaupload founder demands ?judicial process?

And so it winds on further: in the latest installment to the Aotearoan legal battle, Kim Dotcom?s lawyer that he will only hand over his passwords as part of a ?proper judicial process?.?

Apple, Sony, to pounce as connectivity craze catches

3D television is not exciting global TV buyers, says analyst firm NPD.?

Mystery strategic investor pumps in US$12.3m

There are plenty of ways to skin the server virtualization cat, and NextIO's means of doing so is to create a PCI-Express switch that links server nodes to each other and to Ethernet network, Fibre Channel SAN, and external peripherals such as flash drives or GPU coprocessors that are housed in an external chassis. Trying to convince data centers to converge their networks at the PCI-Express peripheral bus instead of in the Ethernet or Fibre Channel network takes a bit of work, and money. And that is why NextIO is happy to be getting $12.3m in Series F funding.?

Researchers unveil ?middlebox detection? software

A group of researchers from the University of Michigan has released an Android app designed to defend against a common firewall vulnerability which they say commonly exposes smartphones on cellular networks.?

Would you like ads with that track?

Swedish digital music streamer Spotify is ready for downloading in the Australian market.?

Redmond content for new service to co-exist with Facebook, Google

On the off chance that you have spare moment left in your life after checking Facebook, Twitter, MySpace, LinkedIn, Google+, Pinterest, Instagram, your email and your SMS inbox, Microsoft has launched its very own social network, so.cl. The site's name is pronounced "social".?

Invisible pixels a small, but large, step forward

Physicists at the University of Pennsylvania and Stanford University have created a nearly-invisible photodetector, by exploiting the different ways that silicon and gold scatter light.?

Rolls out SmartCloud Enterprise+ for public consumption

IBM is gussying up its SmartCloud public cloud to make it more useful for enterprise-class customers, in the hope it can lure them away from Amazon Web Services, Hewlett-Packard, Dell and others. Big Blue is also promising to put its System z mainframes on its cloud.?

Must rig out support for political legacy, though

Mindspeed, sugar daddy to the UK-based Picochip, will be setting up a development lab with China Mobile to deploy cells using TD-LTE tech, but also supporting TD-SCDMA ? as politics, rather than technology, demands.?

One Ellisonized kernel to bind them all

System maker Oracle has upgraded its version of the Xen server virtualization hypervisor with its own variant of the Linux kernel to bring it in synch with its Enterprise Linux server operating system distro.?

Dial R for Root

Chinese handset manufacturer ZTE has confirmed the presence of a backdoor in one of its Android smartphones.?

Country exit keeps hitting sales, but profit creeps up

Tech Data Corporation, the IT distie giant and parent of Computer 2000 and Azlan in the UK, has seen net income rise to $51.7m in the first quarter of the year, despite a fall in revenue.?

Never liked Windows 7 anyway

Microsoft must really love Windows 8, or hate its legacy install base.?

Happy to have a chat about 'concerns'

Google remains at loggerheads with anti-competition officials in Brussels, who today went public for the first time with concerns about the search giant's "abuses of dominance".?

If at first you don't succeed...

The nation?s medical records are going online by 2015 as part of a consumerisation of the NHS under a digital strategy unveiled today.?

Mirror, mirror on the wall, who is the fattest of them all?

The IT universe is seeing a massive collision taking place as the worlds of high-performance computing, big data and warehousing intermingle. IBM is pushing its General Parallel File System (GPFS) further to broaden its footprint in this space, with the 3.5 release adding big data and async replication features as well as customer metadata and more performance.?

You comment, we respond

HPC blog My article about NVIDIA?s new VGX virtualised GPU being a potential holy grail for task- and power-user desktop virtualisation inspired reader comments that are well worth addressing. They also brought out a few details that I didn?t cover in the article. First, let?s address a few of the specific comments.?

CPU assisted wheelies, anyone?

Audi has revealed what it believes to be the future of e-bikes: the Wörthersee, a electric bicycle that features smartphone connectivity and a built-in computer system.?

Data held onto even if you're cleared in court

Analysis The mobile device data extraction system that has just been rolled out by the Metropolitan Police is designed to provide an easier way to slurp evidence from the mobile phones of suspects brought into custody. But some argue that the move is likely to change how crimes are investigated while it raises several data retention and privacy concerns in the process.?

Consolidation or construction

A general assumption is often made that private cloud is the next logical step after virtualisation. But is this really the case??

The IPO whodunnit continues

Analysis There?s an elephant in the room as Parliament?s informal inquiry into intellectual property policy rolls on. In the foreground, there?s the role of the officials who are supposed to support it. In the background, there?s something more troubling.?

'Humbled' chief promises fix for temperamental public debut system

Nasdaq OMX chief Robert Greifeld has said he is "humbly embarrassed" by the technical glitch that held up Facebook's IPO on Friday.?

Kepler takes Knights Corner?

GPU Technology Conference Intel and NVIDIA are battling for the hearts and minds of developers in massively parallel computing.?

Stock stumbles after mega-hyped debut

Updated Facebook's stock tumbled below its initial public offering valuation to $37.46 per share in pre-trading figures on Wall Street this morning.?

Quite a lot, it seems

How much would your iPhone be worth to you if the only music it could play had been bought on the device itself, from Apple? If your answer is "a lot less" or "not very much", then you're not alone. New empirical research has attempted to measure how much we value the ability to copy our music across formats and devices ? and it's a significant sum.?

Almunia urges Schmidt to offer quick fix or face possible 'abuse' charges

Google has been given the chance to settle an antitrust investigation of the company's business practices in Europe, competition officials in Brussels confirmed today.?

UCL breakthrough after team toyed with LEDs

Cheaper memristors could result from an accidental discovery at University College London.?

Patients' privates sent to wrong address for months

The taxpayer-backed NHS has suffered another fine from the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) for outing patients' private information to the wrong people.?

Kindle deal to fire up bookseller's bottom line

UK bookshop chain Waterstones will start stocking Amazon's Kindle ereaders in an attempt to revamp its stores for the digital age.?

Telco sweats it in the Hothouse

Subscribers to T-Mobile's Hothouse - a focus group-like mailing list - got an added benefit this morning: the email addresses of everyone else on the list. The gaffe was swiftly followed by an apology and a request to delete the offending information.?

Drive up the M5 and Travelmate

Acer has revealed a pair of Ivy Bridgers through a new addition to its TravelMate laptop range and another Aspire M-series Ultrabook with dedicated graphics and an optical drive.?

AirPlay exemplar

Geek Treat of the Week There are AirPlay speakers and there are AirPlay speakers. This unit from Danish hi-fi gods Bang & Olufsen is eye-wateringly expensive but has plenty of features, including a built-in re-chargeable battery which, B&O says, will give you eight hours play time on one charge.?

Say cheese

While the the Raspberry Pi foundation continues to struggle to meet the demand for its £16 Linux machine, it has already revealed improvements. The latest: a prototype camera add-on.?