Downunder gamers get closer to18+ rating |
- Downunder gamers get closer to18+ rating
- McKinnon's mum applauds Obama extradition stance
- MongoDB daddy: My baby beats Google BigTable
- MokaFive's VDI bares it all
- Unpatched IE bug exposes sensitive Facebook creds
- White Space competitors fight dirty
- Cookies law: Only two EU states implement full measures – so far
- Server virtualisation is not enough
- UK finally ratifies Cybercrime Convention during Obama visit
- Endeavour spacewalkers come face-to-face with VADER
- Nokia caters for kings with golden smartphone
- Timing attack threatens private keys on SSL servers
- Outland
- Software licensing, virtualisation and the cloud
- ASA smackdown for Yahoo! Thelma & Louise
- EU belatedly cancels funding for Symbian OS
- Netflix overtakes Bittorrent as traffic champ
- BT and EE join together for Cornish LTE
- Asus teases with MacBook Air-esque Eee PC
- French spooks have access to UK forces' travel data
- Zuckerberg: Give me your children
- Gadgets give granny disease to kids
- UK.gov 'falls short' of legal obligation to enforce EC cookies Directive
- Is the IT Dept failing users?
- Cabinet Office shakes up PSN
- Apple admits scareware problem, at last
- Vodafone touts low-tech phone for app-phobes
- Military set to lead on US domestic cyber-security
- BT's fibre-to-the-premises trials hit duct roadblock
- Brit expats aghast as Denmark bans Marmite
- Fusion-io backers to get rich(er)
- NASA kills comms with deceased Mars rover
- Oz paper in todger-based trivia quiz outrage
- Telecom NZ splits in two
- Virgin Media TV Powered by TiVo
- Samsung must cough up Android prototypes to Apple
- Bradley Manning accuser to meet with prosecutors
- Groundhog day: more Sony breaches
- CEO of Aussie Microsoft JV exits ahead of A$5bn float
- Intel floats hybrid cloud scheme for SMB apps
- Google preps mobile payments launch
- Server sales grow thanks to big boy boxes
- Researcher blasts Siemens for downplaying SCADA bug
| Downunder gamers get closer to18+ rating Posted: 25 May 2011 02:32 PM PDT More sex, drugs and violence pleaseAustralian gamers are poised to get access to hard core R18+ games like Mortal Kombat Reboot following the release of long anticipated draft guidelines from the government supporting the introduction of a new classification for computer games.… |
| McKinnon's mum applauds Obama extradition stance Posted: 25 May 2011 01:55 PM PDT Prez voices 'confidence' in UK legal systemThe mother and attorney for Gary McKinnon voiced optimism about the prospects of blocking the accused NASA hacker's extradition to the US after President Barack Obama said he would respect the UK legal process.… |
| MongoDB daddy: My baby beats Google BigTable Posted: 25 May 2011 12:41 PM PDT The web is built on objects. Not tablesAfter a decade as chief technology officer at DoubleClick – the internet ad giant he co-founded in 1995 – Dwight Merriman set out to build a "platform cloud" along the lines of Google App Engine or Microsoft Azure. But this was before people called them platform clouds, before anyone knew about App Engine or Azure.… |
| Posted: 25 May 2011 12:38 PM PDT VMware munch timeVirtual desktop infrastructure upstart MokaFive – which has the audacity to do VDI mostly on the client with only out-of-band management residing on central servers – has delivered its bare-metal hypervisor for its MokaFive Suite 3.0, augmenting hosted VDI that it has been selling for more than two years.… |
| Unpatched IE bug exposes sensitive Facebook creds Posted: 25 May 2011 11:30 AM PDT 'Cookiejacking' also threatens Gmail, TwitterA security researcher has devised an attack that remotely steals digital credentials used to access user accounts on Facebook and other websites by exploiting a flaw in Microsoft's Internet Explorer browser.… |
| White Space competitors fight dirty Posted: 25 May 2011 08:49 AM PDT Microsoft kicked our TV off the airMicrosoft and Spectrum Bridge, both competing to provide databases of available White Space radio frequencies, stand accused of demonstrating surprising incompetence in managing their own meagre spectrum use.… |
| Cookies law: Only two EU states implement full measures – so far Posted: 25 May 2011 08:28 AM PDT Brussels frets as just Denmark, Estonia complyA pattern is emerging that shows European Member States greeting Brussels with a collective thumbs-down on its cookies law.… |
| Server virtualisation is not enough Posted: 25 May 2011 08:27 AM PDT What needs to change to build a private cloud? |
| UK finally ratifies Cybercrime Convention during Obama visit Posted: 25 May 2011 07:19 AM PDT No Russia + No China = No pointPresident Obama and UK prime minister David Cameron agreed to work more closely on cybersecurity following a meeting between the two government leaders on Wednesday.… |
| Endeavour spacewalkers come face-to-face with VADER Posted: 25 May 2011 06:56 AM PDT US Air Force claims improbable backronym crownEndeavour mission specialists Drew Feustel and Mike Fincke today completed the third STS-134 mission spacewalk at the International Space Station.… |
| Nokia caters for kings with golden smartphone Posted: 25 May 2011 05:27 AM PDT Midas touchNokia has announced a gold-clad smartphone for spritely spenders, where image is everything and thirst is nothing.… |
| Timing attack threatens private keys on SSL servers Posted: 25 May 2011 05:07 AM PDT Elliptic-curve curveball crypto mobe method menaceSecurity researchers have discovered a "timing attack" that creates a possible mechanism for a hacker to extract the secret key of a TLS/SSL server that uses elliptic curve cryptography (ECC).… |
| Posted: 25 May 2011 05:00 AM PDT Dark mattersReview A quick check of the map confirms the hero's next objective – a mere two levels above him. What the map doesn't reveal are the obstacles standing between him and that adventure-progressing goal.… |
| Software licensing, virtualisation and the cloud Posted: 25 May 2011 05:00 AM PDT Survey time, folksTech Panel If you've got a few minutes to spare, let us know your thoughts on the software licensing models you use today and whether you believe they restrict your ability to serve your users. You can get started by clicking here.… |
| ASA smackdown for Yahoo! Thelma & Louise Posted: 25 May 2011 04:55 AM PDT Speedy driver-babe Yahooligans rouse (some) public ireThe UK's advertising regulator has slammed the brakes on a Yahoo! ad which is said encourage irresponsible driving.… |
| EU belatedly cancels funding for Symbian OS Posted: 25 May 2011 04:50 AM PDT All |
| Netflix overtakes Bittorrent as traffic champ Posted: 25 May 2011 04:30 AM PDT Copyright-holders should wake up and smell the coffeeIs solving the copyright "wars" really so difficult? New traffic research shows that Netflix has overtaken Bittorrent as America's favourite internet application, knocking http into third place. "P2P is here to stay," note the authors in Sandvine's Global Internet Report, Spring 2011 edition, which shows that demand for legal, paid-for stuff is the single biggest internet traffic trend.… |
| BT and EE join together for Cornish LTE Posted: 25 May 2011 04:26 AM PDT Mobile and fixed internet collide in the fourth generationBT and Everything Everywhere are working together to build a trial network in Cornwall, providing fixed and mobile internet access over the same network and via the same infrastructure.… |
| Asus teases with MacBook Air-esque Eee PC Posted: 25 May 2011 04:24 AM PDT Super skinny netbook inbound?Asus looks set to take the fight to Apple's 11in MacBook Air with an ultra-skinny Eee PC netbook, due to be announced next week at the Computex show in Taipei.… |
| French spooks have access to UK forces' travel data Posted: 25 May 2011 04:06 AM PDT Also Germans. And Yanks of courseContractors working for the Ministry of Defence hold personal information on hundreds of thousands of service personnel and other MoD employees on computer systems located abroad, it has been revealed.… |
| Zuckerberg: Give me your children Posted: 25 May 2011 03:40 AM PDT Give me the child before 7 and I will give the leads to advertisersMark Zuckerberg has revealed his determination to allow under-13s onto Facebook, whatever politicians, regulators and the rest of the grownups say.… |
| Gadgets give granny disease to kids Posted: 25 May 2011 03:23 AM PDT Arthritis strikes gaming youngstersYoungsters are increasingly suffering from arthritis-like pains due to their excessive use of games consoles and mobile phones, it has been claimed.… |
| UK.gov 'falls short' of legal obligation to enforce EC cookies Directive Posted: 25 May 2011 03:01 AM PDT Issues only 'partial notification' to BrusselsOn the eve of a new European Union directive on web cookies coming into force tomorrow, the UK government has issued only a "partial notification" to Brussels' officials on how it will implement the changes into UK law, The Register has learned.… |
| Posted: 25 May 2011 03:00 AM PDT Can it catch up with personal devices?Desktop The number of tools the enterprise can deploy to enhance productivity is huge. And even if the tools are generally simple to use, they are also mind-bogglingly complex under the skin.… |
| Posted: 25 May 2011 02:41 AM PDT New governance arrangements for Public Sector NetworkThe Cabinet Office has created a new governance regime for the Public Sector Network (PSN) as the next step in its development.… |
| Apple admits scareware problem, at last Posted: 25 May 2011 02:37 AM PDT Says up to 125,000 customers contacted it with 'malware-like' problemsApple has finally held its hands up and admitted that the MacDefender scareware package might be a problem, abandoning the line that support workers must on no account suggest to users that their machine might be infected with malware.… |
| Vodafone touts low-tech phone for app-phobes Posted: 25 May 2011 02:35 AM PDT Talk'n'text - and not much elseSay hello to the Vodafone Emporia RL1, a 60 quid handset designed solely for voice calls and texting - and none of that app nonsense.… |
| Military set to lead on US domestic cyber-security Posted: 25 May 2011 02:30 AM PDT NSA, Cyber Command have 'unparalleled expertise'The US military will play a leading role in defending homeland America from cyber attacks, and this will include providing cybersecurity to key infrastructure on US soil.… |
| BT's fibre-to-the-premises trials hit duct roadblock Posted: 25 May 2011 02:21 AM PDT Rollout pushed back as 7-hour job turns into 2-day hassle for some customersBT has been forced to delay the rollout of its fibre-to-the-premises (FTTP) technology, after roughly a quarter of its trials found engineers taking two days to blow cables into customers' homes.… |
| Brit expats aghast as Denmark bans Marmite Posted: 25 May 2011 02:09 AM PDT 'What am I supposed to put on my toast now?'Marmite-loving Brit expats living in Denmark have expressed their shock and dismay at the government's decision to ban the legendary yeast-based spread, on the grounds that it contains "too many vitamins".… |
| Fusion-io backers to get rich(er) Posted: 25 May 2011 01:53 AM PDT One BEEELLION dollars... On day one!Fusion-io could capitalise on the flash flood to become a billion dollar company on its first day as a public company.… |
| NASA kills comms with deceased Mars rover Posted: 25 May 2011 01:52 AM PDT Bids farewell to SpiritNASA will today end attempts to contact its Spirit Mars rover, killed by lack of sunlight during a "stressful" Martian winter.… |
| Oz paper in todger-based trivia quiz outrage Posted: 25 May 2011 01:15 AM PDT 'What is the official currency of Vietnam?'Oz's Canberra Times proved unusually entertaining last Wednesday when its 10-question "Trivia Quiz" offered readers the chance to brush up on their todger-related general knowledge.… |
| Posted: 24 May 2011 11:32 PM PDT Groundhog day as roll out starts on Kiwi broadband networkTelecom New Zealand will spin off its network operations, branded Chorus, into a separate listed company by year end.… |
| Virgin Media TV Powered by TiVo Posted: 24 May 2011 11:00 PM PDT Sky+ killer in the making?Review TiVo is synonymous with hard disk video recording, at least in its native US. To date, its profile was lower in the UK, though a few thousand models of the original UK model were sold about ten years ago, winning it a loyal if small fanbase.… |
| Samsung must cough up Android prototypes to Apple Posted: 24 May 2011 09:12 PM PDT The battle of rounded cornersA US federal judge has handed Apple a procedural victory in its legal spat with Samsung by ordering the Korean giant to provide Cupertino's legal team with product samples and packaging for two of its tablets and three of its phones.… |
| Bradley Manning accuser to meet with prosecutors Posted: 24 May 2011 09:00 PM PDT Lamo goes to WashingtonThe ex-hacker who reported WikiLeaker Bradley Manning to US authorities is scheduled to meet with military prosecutors next week, Wired.com reported Tuesday.… |
| Groundhog day: more Sony breaches Posted: 24 May 2011 06:30 PM PDT Barnstorming hackers continue diabolical mystery tourTalk of "isolated incidents" went by the board in the last couple of days, with Sony and Sony-affiliated sites compromised in Canada, Japan and Indonesia.… |
| CEO of Aussie Microsoft JV exits ahead of A$5bn float Posted: 24 May 2011 06:00 PM PDT Bean-counter wanted?The head of ninemsn, the JV between Microsoft and Nine Entertainment Co, Joe Pollard has abruptly left the company as Nine prepares for a strongly mooted A$5 billion float.… |
| Intel floats hybrid cloud scheme for SMB apps Posted: 24 May 2011 05:29 PM PDT Cloudwashes local server workloadsThere are 22 million small and medium businesses in the world, and the last thing that Intel wants them to do is say to hell with servers and move all their workloads and data to public clouds.… |
| Google preps mobile payments launch Posted: 24 May 2011 05:11 PM PDT Coming Thursday, it seemsReporters in New York are dusting off their outdoor clothes for a Google "partner event" which rumours day will be the venue for the launch of a mobile payments platform.… |
| Server sales grow thanks to big boy boxes Posted: 24 May 2011 05:00 PM PDT Mainframes and Unix machines catch the upgrade waveServer peddlers and their reseller partners the world over are breathing sighs of relief as their first-quarter bonus checks now seem safe and sound, according to a report by the box counters at IDC.… |
| Researcher blasts Siemens for downplaying SCADA bug Posted: 24 May 2011 04:06 PM PDT Threats 'affect every industrialized nation'A security researcher who voluntarily canceled a talk about critical holes in Siemens' industrial control systems has criticized the German company for downplaying the severity of his findings.… |
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