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Google to double encryption key lengths for SSL certs by year's end
2048-bit keys will be the norm Google is about to start the first upgrade to its SSL certification system in recent memory, and will move to 2048-bit encryption keys by the end of 2013. The first tranche of changes is planned for August 1.… Read More | View Original Article
Facebook Home phone plans canned in the UK
Support for new devices put on ice as well The HTC First "Facebook phone" is not coming to the UK after its frigid reception in the US, and the social networking company is going back to work on the app after mass user apathy.… Read More | View Original Article
Joyent cuts prices on cloudy infrastructure
Aligns with AWS instances, and offers the same or lower prices Joyent, one of the upstart cloudy infrastructure providers that is taking a custom software stack to market to peddle virty server and storage, has done a major revamp of the way it carves up slices on its Joyent Compute Service cloud.… Read More | View Original Article
Yahoo! continues quest for youth with yet another acquisition
PlayerScale purchase gives foothold in gaming market Marissa Mayer has continued her acquisitions spree with the purchase of gaming software house PlayerScale for an undisclosed sum.… Read More | View Original Article
Internet2 superfast boffin network peers with Azure cloud
Microsoft waives data egress rates for US researchers Ultra-fast US academic network Internet2 is going to peer with Microsoft's cloud to give researchers from over 200 institutions high-speed reliable access to Azure at a discounted rate.… Read More | View Original Article
Google slashes App Engine NoSQL data storage prices by 25 per cent
Amazon cuts DynamoDB costs, and Google follows suit Amazon doesn't care much about profits and both Google and Microsoft have monopolies that give them deep pockets. And so it is no surprise that the three companies will be engaged in a cloud price war that will very likely leave a lot of smaller cloud providers dead by the side of the road in the coming years.… Read More | View Original Article
Orange customer clobbered with SIX FIGURE phone bill
If your handset's overheating, check your data connection EE's Orange arm managed to bill a customer £163,000 for a month's data use, thanks to a dodgy handset which was opening a data connection every 20 minutes.… Read More | View Original Article
Tipsters exposed after South Africa's national police force hacked
Whistleblowers, crime victims laid bare by 'Anon splinter group' The identities of more than 15,000 South Africans who reported crimes or provided tip-offs to the police have been exposed following an attack on a SAPS (South African Police Service) website.… Read More | View Original Article
Samsung flogs slim, flashy new model: Protection included
Server-level SSD gets endurance, capacity upgrade Samsung has upgraded its SM843 server-level SSD, doubling its capacity and tripling its endurance.… Read More | View Original Article
Another Chinese thing you can see from space: Lenovo's sales
'Lenovo', or 'what we call PCs now' PC maker Lenovo appears to drawing ever closer to its goal of seizing the global box-shifting crown from giant HP.… Read More | View Original Article
New York cop in alleged love-polyhedron email hack spree
Veteran plod 'blew $4k on romanta-rival logins' A New York detective allegedly hired hackers to spy on 19 fellow cops and at least 11 others - apparently in a bid to discover if any of them were sleeping with his ex.… Read More | View Original Article
Penguin pays $75m to settle ebook price-fixing case
Apple left to swing it out with DoJ Penguin has agreed to hand over $75m along with costs to sort out US antitrust allegations over ebook price fixing.… Read More | View Original Article
'Leccy car biz baron Elon Musk: Thanks for the $500m, taxpayers...
Tesla repays the Feds nine years early Electric car manufacturer Tesla has paid back a government loan of half a billion dollars almost a decade earlier than expected.… Read More | View Original Article
Apple cored: Samsung sells 10 million Galaxy S4 in a month
Beware of South Koreans bearing Android Samsung's Galaxy S4 has become the South Korean firm's fastest selling smartphone after shifting some 10 million units since its launch in April.… Read More | View Original Article
Brit spooks bugged Edward VIII's phones, records reveal
Plus Churchill and Stalin had a massive drinkathon in Moscow Intelligence files kept hidden for nearly 80 years have shown that the British government was bugging King Edward VIII's phones in the days leading up to his abdication.… Read More | View Original Article
