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- Billionaire Zuckerberg kills to eat
- Linguists use sounds to bypass Skype crypto
- Google Web Store quietly purged of nosy apps
- Disk vendors should get properly on the SSD pot
- Upstart MapR unveils 'next generation' Hadoop
- Google Wallet teams with Citi, MasterCard
- RIM PlayBook strikes back at Jobsian internet dream
- Modern Warfare 3 prompts hand-wringing, chiming cash tills
- Don't let your networks speak to strangers
- Drink 8 bottles of wine, you'll be unharmed if hit by Mike Tyson
- Intel to extend data centre tyranny into mobile, says CFO
- $8.5bn Skype goes titsup again - including website
- Napster wonderboy: Music labels are a goldmine
- Fourth Euro star truck christened <i>Albert Einstein</i>
- Tablet marketgasm? Don't make us laugh, say Intel chiefs
- Google Wallet phone-pay is coming - but how will it work?
- Ten... DAB kitchen radios
- Almost entire EU now violating Brussels cookie privacy law
- Bletchley Park completes epic Tunny machine
- Humanity frees cattle, buffalo from cloven-hoofed plague
- How to... change sleep-screen pics on your Kindle
- Virtual desktops mean virtual applications
- Zuckerberg 'snuggles up to Spotify'
- Ballmer: Time up for 'stuck in the past' Microsoft CEO?
- Roboprobe spacecraft off to grope asteroid
- Online tools to 'end the scandal of empty homes'
- Microsoft shareholder calls for Ballmer's head
- High Performance Computing for the masses? Oh yes!
- New Mac scareware variant installs <i>without</i> password
- Reindeer can see in ultraviolet, say boffins
- Twitter vs Beeb in superinjunction nark shindy
- Ofcom awards fastest 3G mobe-data crown to O2
- NASA 'deep space' ship: Humans beyond orbit by 2020?
- IBM unbuttons its DCS3700 NetApp-based box
- Yanks officially recognise the word 'boffin'
- Next-gen Atom CPU price halved to push netbooks
- NetApp gloats over storming fourth quarter
- Danish embassy issues MARMITE WAFFLE
- Tablets choke disk drive market growth
- FileMaker Bento
- HTC Wildfire S Android smartphone
- Forecast calls for Citrix cloud front
- Twitter (officially) buys TweetDeck
- Brightcove launches apps in the cloud
- 35m Google Profiles dumped into private database
- iOS 4 hardware encryption cracked
- Citrix preps own version of OpenStack
| Billionaire Zuckerberg kills to eat Posted: 26 May 2011 02:45 PM PDT I just knifed a goat...bitchFacebook's billionaire boy genius, Mark Zuckerberg, is a confessed killer – and he's proud of it.… |
| Linguists use sounds to bypass Skype crypto Posted: 26 May 2011 02:43 PM PDT And you thought grammar was useless…Decryption is difficult and computationally expensive. So what if, instead of decrypting the content of a message, you found a correlation between the encrypted data and its meaning – without having to crack the code itself?… |
| Google Web Store quietly purged of nosy apps Posted: 26 May 2011 01:10 PM PDT Super Mario could see 'every page that you visit'Google's Chrome Web Store has quietly been purged of at least two games after a blogger revealed that the Flash-based browser extensions had unfettered access to all website data, browsing history, and bookmarks stored on users' computers.… |
| Disk vendors should get properly on the SSD pot Posted: 26 May 2011 12:00 PM PDT Flash is the futureWhat should HDD vendors do, given that disk drive market growth is slowing because customers are buying tablets instead of notebooks and netbooks with disk drives inside?… |
| Upstart MapR unveils 'next generation' Hadoop Posted: 26 May 2011 11:18 AM PDT Stuffed elephant gets major surgerySilicon Valley startup MapR has unveiled what it calls the "next generation" of Hadoop, revealing that this revamp of the open source distributed number-crunching platform drives the Hadoop appliance recently announced by EMC.… |
| Google Wallet teams with Citi, MasterCard Posted: 26 May 2011 10:44 AM PDT Android credit card arrives 'this summer'Google has announced its NFC-enabled Google Wallet app and introduced its first banking partner: the world's largest financial services company, Citigroup.… |
| RIM PlayBook strikes back at Jobsian internet dream Posted: 26 May 2011 09:54 AM PDT Professional grade? No. Flash? Ah-ah!Review "Amateur hour is over," reads the RIM PlayBook ad inside the Office Max shop around the corner from The Register's San Francisco bureau. As I walk by, looking for a printer cartridge, RIM tells me that its new PlayBook is the world's first "professional-grade" tablet.… |
| Modern Warfare 3 prompts hand-wringing, chiming cash tills Posted: 26 May 2011 08:26 AM PDT Firing on all frontsActivision's next best seller, Modern Warfare 3, has barely been announced, yet already the hype machine is in full throttle. A series of short MW3 teasers released this week, gave fans their first look at what to expect from the game - and immediately caused outrage.… |
| Don't let your networks speak to strangers Posted: 26 May 2011 08:00 AM PDT Devices are invading the workplaceDesktop Run a scan over any company network and you will probably be surprised by what has been connected to it. Staff can be very creative, plugging in everything from printers to tablet devices to departmental servers and network-attached storage devices.… |
| Drink 8 bottles of wine, you'll be unharmed if hit by Mike Tyson Posted: 26 May 2011 07:55 AM PDT True medical fact: Trials with boxers underwayTop boffins in Texas believe they will soon provide solid proof of an astonishingly useful biological fact: that if you drink eight bottles of red wine you can be punched in the head by a professional heavyweight boxer and it will do you no harm at all.… |
| Intel to extend data centre tyranny into mobile, says CFO Posted: 26 May 2011 07:15 AM PDT War on ARM won't be over by Xmas, admits Chipzilla mogulIntel's CFO has rubbished ARM's prospects of making a serious dent in the data centre, arguing that whatever the chip IP developer is aiming at, Intel will be well ahead. At the same time, Stacy Smith insists that Intel will soon be eating into ARM's position in the mobile arena, despite the recent flight of its anchor partner in that market.… |
| $8.5bn Skype goes titsup again - including website Posted: 26 May 2011 06:51 AM PDT Truly, Microsoft has the golden touchSkype went titsup on Thursday, days after the announcement of a deal to buy the VoIP outfit by Microsoft.… |
| Napster wonderboy: Music labels are a goldmine Posted: 26 May 2011 06:44 AM PDT Do not adjust your set - Sean Parker hearts record bizEnjoying some new celebrity after being played by Justin Timberlake in the Facebook movie The Social Network, Napster and Facebook luminary Sean Parker says he wants to buy a major record company.… |
| Fourth Euro star truck christened <i>Albert Einstein</i> Posted: 26 May 2011 06:32 AM PDT Space station robot delivery van honours physics legendThe European Space Agency's next Automated Transfer Vehicle (ATV) to roll off the production line will be called Albert Einstein.… |
| Tablet marketgasm? Don't make us laugh, say Intel chiefs Posted: 26 May 2011 06:15 AM PDT 'I don't believe in this fondleslab bear,' insists SmithIntel execs poured cold water on overheated predictions for tablet sales today, pointing out to investors that notebook shipments still massively outnumber fondleslabs, and there is little prospect of that changing.… |
| Google Wallet phone-pay is coming - but how will it work? Posted: 26 May 2011 05:54 AM PDT Chocolate Factory cloudbank, or e-walletAnalysis In six hours Google Wallet will be announced, but we don't know if Google wants to get into payments itself, or just plans to make money from someone else's service.… |
| Posted: 26 May 2011 05:49 AM PDT For what we are about to receive...Product Round-up A kitchen is incomplete without a radio. Like a garden without a blade of grass, a song without emotion, or a footballer without a super-injuction, there are many without, but it just isn't the same. And even though dates for the proposed digital switchover haven't been set in stone, there's no harm in being prepared. Indeed, as Radio Ga Ga becomes Lady GaGa, it's surely time to upgrade from that grease-gunged FM box.… |
| Almost entire EU now violating Brussels cookie privacy law Posted: 26 May 2011 05:36 AM PDT Steelie Neelie threatens 'necessary measures'The deadline for the implementation of a European privacy law on cookies passed with a whimper at midnight last night, after just two Member States issued a full notification to Brussels.… |
| Bletchley Park completes epic Tunny machine Posted: 26 May 2011 05:31 AM PDT Glorious pipe-smoking boffinry recreated from old telco kitA new exhibit opens today at Bletchley Park that illustrates the entire World War II codebreaking process from signal intercept to final decrypt by Tunny machines.… |
| Humanity frees cattle, buffalo from cloven-hoofed plague Posted: 26 May 2011 05:09 AM PDT Rinderpest, the first animal disease to be eradicatedThe Office International des Epizooties (OIE) has announced that rinderpest, aka cattle plague, has been wiped out.… |
| How to... change sleep-screen pics on your Kindle Posted: 26 May 2011 05:00 AM PDT E-book reader enhancementI recently bought myself a Kindle, which is providing sterling service as an e-book reader for my daily trips in and out of Vulture Central.… |
| Virtual desktops mean virtual applications Posted: 26 May 2011 05:00 AM PDT You can't have one without the otherVirtualising the client is not just about the desktop. It is also about application virtualisation.… |
| Zuckerberg 'snuggles up to Spotify' Posted: 26 May 2011 04:51 AM PDT Bubblicious? Or a SpottiFace iMode goldmine?Comment Facebook users can already use Spotify's streaming music service to share playlists and songs, but a new partnership will bring much deeper integration, predicts a report in Forbes. Neither company would comment.… |
| Ballmer: Time up for 'stuck in the past' Microsoft CEO? Posted: 26 May 2011 04:39 AM PDT Skype was not the answerAnalysis A billionaire hedge fund manager is calling for Microsoft's chief executive Steve Ballmer's head. Could it be that the irascible Redmond kingpin's reign is finally drawing to a close?… |
| Roboprobe spacecraft off to grope asteroid Posted: 26 May 2011 04:30 AM PDT |
| Online tools to 'end the scandal of empty homes' Posted: 26 May 2011 04:17 AM PDT Squatters-dream map only available to councilsThe Communities and Local Government (CLG) department has launched two new online toolkits to help tackle the problem of empty homes in England.… |
| Microsoft shareholder calls for Ballmer's head Posted: 26 May 2011 04:05 AM PDT Biz-lord's 'misstatement' on Windows 8 not helpfulMicrosoft, in an extraordinary move earlier this week, described its CEO's comments about Windows 8 as a "misstatement".… |
| High Performance Computing for the masses? Oh yes! Posted: 26 May 2011 04:00 AM PDT New applications, new sectors, new opportunitiesBroadcast It's time to start thinking creatively about HPC: can it be standardised and commoditised? Can it be applied to more of your compute-intensive problems? Can virtualisation and the cloud create a flexible, scalable HPC environment that we can all use?… |
| New Mac scareware variant installs <i>without</i> password Posted: 26 May 2011 03:56 AM PDT Welcome to the world, fanboisScammers have developed a strain of Mac scareware that avoids the need to trick a mark into entering an administrative password.… |
| Reindeer can see in ultraviolet, say boffins Posted: 26 May 2011 03:41 AM PDT Very useful for not eating the yellow snow, apparentlyReindeer can see much further into the ultraviolet than humans can, according to new research. This is thought to offer the antler-sporting capreolines several important arctic survival abilities.… |
| Twitter vs Beeb in superinjunction nark shindy Posted: 26 May 2011 03:25 AM PDT Auntie fingers Twits for stating basic legal factsA Twitter exec has defended the company's stance on fighting for its users' rights, after a report on the BBC yesterday suggested that the micro-blogging site would turn over the details of people who break privacy injunctions to UK courts.… |
| Ofcom awards fastest 3G mobe-data crown to O2 Posted: 26 May 2011 03:15 AM PDT Says coverage is more important: but doesn't measure itOfcom's report on mobile broadband shows O2 has the UK's fastest 3G network, and Orange the slowest, but highlights that coverage matters a lot more than speed.… |
| NASA 'deep space' ship: Humans beyond orbit by 2020? Posted: 26 May 2011 03:00 AM PDT Just maybe – if Elon Musk can do what he saysAnalysis NASA has declared that its pork-tastic Orion moonship – whose primary mission disappeared with President Obama's decision that there will be no manned US return to the Moon – is now to be a "deep space transportation system", suggesting that the agency plans to send it on missions beyond Earth orbit.… |
| IBM unbuttons its DCS3700 NetApp-based box Posted: 26 May 2011 02:38 AM PDT Big Blue hard equipment can pump mighty streamsIBM has put its big data array on the table, the DCS3700, OEMed from NetApp and based on the Engenio E5400 box.… |
| Yanks officially recognise the word 'boffin' Posted: 26 May 2011 02:19 AM PDT Merriam-Webster's fave Brit word list cites El Reg usageWe're delighted to report that the word "boffins" has achieved the international recognition it so richly deserves, securing a spot on the Merriam-Webster "Top 10 Favorite British Words" list.… |
| Next-gen Atom CPU price halved to push netbooks Posted: 26 May 2011 02:09 AM PDT Intel to take fight to tablets?Netbooks may become rather cheaper next September, when Intel introduces the next generation of Atom processor for mini laptops at prices well below what it's charging for the current one.… |
| NetApp gloats over storming fourth quarter Posted: 26 May 2011 01:54 AM PDT Wall Streeters relish a pleasurable beatingWith a storming fourth quarter and year NetApp's 2011 fiscal year revenues grew 30 per cent as the company revelled in its server virtualisation storage business.… |
| Danish embassy issues MARMITE WAFFLE Posted: 26 May 2011 01:31 AM PDT 'Scrape my spread off my cold dead fingers' - expatFollowing yesterday's news that the Danish authorities had deprived Brit expats of their favourite yeast-based nourishment, the country's London embassy has seen fit to clarify the position vis-à-vis Marmite.… |
| Tablets choke disk drive market growth Posted: 26 May 2011 01:05 AM PDT NAND gobblers snatch lunch off spinning plattersDisk drive market growth is slowing as consumers buy flash tablets instead of notebooks and netbooks with spinning drives inside.… |
| Posted: 26 May 2011 01:00 AM PDT 21st Century card indexiOS App of the Week When the leeches at NatWest recently decided to increase my home insurance premiums yet again, I decided it was time to take my business elsewhere. It was Bento that helped me to carry out an inventory of my home and belongings for my new insurance policy.… |
| HTC Wildfire S Android smartphone Posted: 25 May 2011 11:00 PM PDT For the cost conscious callerReview With HTC churning out a different handset for seemingly every demographic, the original Wildfire was 'the weeny one'. The recent Wildfire S updates the concept with improved screen and processor, the latest (almost) Android 2.3 Gingerbread, plus GPS, Wi-Fi and 3G, at half the price of a high-end handset.… |
| Forecast calls for Citrix cloud front Posted: 25 May 2011 09:13 PM PDT When it rains in IT land, it poursCitrix Systems wants to cover your back door and your front door.… |
| Twitter (officially) buys TweetDeck Posted: 25 May 2011 08:00 PM PDT Microblog app survives, at least for nowAfter days of rumours, Twitter has announced that it is buying the popular feed organizer, TweetDeck, for US$40 million.… |
| Brightcove launches apps in the cloud Posted: 25 May 2011 07:30 PM PDT One app, many platformsCloud based video distribution provider Brightcove is moving into the app market for mobile, web, social media and connected TV.… |
| 35m Google Profiles dumped into private database Posted: 25 May 2011 04:33 PM PDT Easy as pieProving that information posted online is indelible and trivial to mine, an academic researcher has dumped names, email addresses and biographical information made available in 35 million Google Profiles into a massive database that took just one month to assemble.… |
| iOS 4 hardware encryption cracked Posted: 25 May 2011 03:25 PM PDT 'We don't want this to fall into the wrong hands'Russian security outfit ElcomSoft is shipping a toolset that cracks open the hardware encryption protecting iOS4-based iPhones – but it's only for spooks and law enforcement.… |
| Citrix preps own version of OpenStack Posted: 25 May 2011 03:18 PM PDT Mounting Project OlympusCitrix has announced that it will offer its own version of OpenStack, the open source "infrastructure cloud" platform originally created by NASA and Rackspace.… |
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