Red Hat's Oracle shot: The Unbreakable Database?

Red Hat's Oracle shot: The Unbreakable Database?


Red Hat's Oracle shot: The Unbreakable Database?

Posted: 10 Jun 2011 12:58 PM PDT

JBoss part II

Open...and Shut  Red Hat has always been joined at the hip to the success of the database market. What's surprising is that it has yet to launch its own database product. Perhaps that should change.…

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Duke Nukem Forever rocks up on shelves

Posted: 10 Jun 2011 10:59 AM PDT

It's party time

Somebody pinch me, I must be dreaming. 14 years since production first commenced, Duke Nukem Forever has finally gone on sale. It was immediately hit by stonkingly bad reviews, though. D'oh!…

LTE iPhone 5 coming this fall?

Posted: 10 Jun 2011 10:24 AM PDT

Don't hold your 4G breath

If you're jonesing for a 4G LTE iPhone 5, you may only have to wait until this fall – and move to the United Arab Emirates. Or not.…

Go Daddy to sell .xxx domains

Posted: 10 Jun 2011 08:59 AM PDT

Jumps on bandwagon straight to hell

Go Daddy, the largest seller of internet domain names, has become the latest registrar to sign up to sell .xxx addresses.…

IBM demos graphene circuits

Posted: 10 Jun 2011 08:48 AM PDT

Future neuron for the other carbon-based life form?

Researchers at IBM are showing off a high-speed switching circuit based on graphene.…

Two fined for mobile data breaches

Posted: 10 Jun 2011 08:10 AM PDT

£73,000 in fines and costs

Two ex-T-Mobile staff have to pay £73,700 in fines and confiscation orders after being found guilty of breaking the Data Protection Act.…

Codemasters pulls website after hackers pwn customer database

Posted: 10 Jun 2011 08:02 AM PDT

Game over

Games developer Codemasters has taken its website offline and advised users to change their passwords in the aftermath of a hack attack last week.…

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IPv6 on Mobile? Only if it's free

Posted: 10 Jun 2011 07:14 AM PDT

Billing and filtering prevent IPng going mobile

The UK's first trial of mobile IPv6 is suffering technical delays as the operator struggles to make it work, though that's still impressive when the competition can't work out why they should even bother.…

Cloud iTunes DESTROYS music business FOREVER!

Posted: 10 Jun 2011 07:05 AM PDT

Says man. We disagree...

More hysterical shrieking reaches us about Apple's new music feature, I'm afraid.…

Mission critical computing for the masses

Posted: 10 Jun 2011 06:25 AM PDT

Everyone benefits from networking advances

The provisioning highly-available IT service, once the sole province of large enterprises, is today available to everyone.…

E3 2011: the showstoppers

Posted: 10 Jun 2011 06:17 AM PDT

Games! Games! And, thrice, games!

Show Roundup  2011's Electronic Entertainment Expo in LA set the world alight with inklings of a new console war and more titles on display than a brimful bookshop.…

Sophos says sorry over Google Analytics false alarm

Posted: 10 Jun 2011 06:16 AM PDT

No harm done

Updated  Sophos has apologised after its security screening technology went awry and began falsely warning users when they visited websites running Google Analytics.…

<em>Reg</em> hack cast adrift as Illuminati Online goes off-line

Posted: 10 Jun 2011 06:10 AM PDT

The end of an era that really died a decade ago

Self-Indulgent Comment  For nearly 20 years I've paid, monthly, for an email account, but next month the domain shuts down and while I feel I should care it seems email isn't as important as it used to be.…

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4G auctions - illegal and immoral?

Posted: 10 Jun 2011 05:51 AM PDT

Consultation responses a mixed bag

Both O2 and BT contend that Ofcom's 4G auction proposals amount to illegal subsidy of their competitors, but all the other network operators are curiously silent on the whole thing.…

Phishers LAMP web hosts

Posted: 10 Jun 2011 05:26 AM PDT

Sites pwned repeatedly, survey finds

Phishers compromise LAMP-based websites for days at a time and hit the same victims over and over again, according to an Anti-Phishing Working Group survey.…

Cabinet Office talks to Facebook & co about new ID system

Posted: 10 Jun 2011 05:23 AM PDT

Online access to public services could be via social networks

Exclusive  Facebook and other social networks could be used by British citizens to sign into public services online, The Register has learned.…

Where do all the Free Schools go?

Posted: 10 Jun 2011 05:22 AM PDT

Cloud app renders pin-stickers obsolete

Video  Education Secretary Michael Gove faces many obstacles (and many opponents) to his plan to let parents, charities and educational experts open and manage new Free Schools in their local areas.…

Red Faction: Armageddon

Posted: 10 Jun 2011 05:00 AM PDT

Appetite for destruction

Review  Red Faction: Guerrilla released in 2009 was a sandbox full of C-4. Volition and its clever Geo-Mod technology gave me the world and the tools to destroy it. Yet with Red Faction: Armageddon, Volition has clasped the reins of this chaotic monster and decided, mistakenly perhaps, that it needs some steering.…

Apple wades in to defend developers

Posted: 10 Jun 2011 04:41 AM PDT

Swings lawyers at Lodsys

Apple is wading into the patent row between Lodsys and seven Apple application developers.…

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Is a Fusion-io bubble building up?

Posted: 10 Jun 2011 04:29 AM PDT

Bubbling away nicely

Comment  Did you ever! Fusion-io shares opened at $25, $6 above the $19 IPO price and valuing the company at $1.9bn. Is this a flash bubble?…

HP refuses to resurrect global partner <strike>piss-up</strike> conference

Posted: 10 Jun 2011 03:59 AM PDT

Why fly to the US when you can get boozed briefed locally

HP has confirmed will not be running a global partner knees-up for the third year running much to chagrin of some in the UK channel who are keen to get a run down of top level strategy, particularly in light of Leo Apotheker's succession to disgraced former CEO Mark Hurd.…

Dragon scoops Expansys into his Marlow den

Posted: 10 Jun 2011 03:34 AM PDT

Staff leap overboard as company goes south

Etailer Expansys has relocated offices from Manchester to Marlow, but unsurprisingly the majority of the staff refused to make the daily 286-mile round trip.…

VDI is not the only fruit

Posted: 10 Jun 2011 03:20 AM PDT

Trevor talks VDI

Video  Thinking about virtualising your desktop? Virtual desktop infrastructure isn't the only option, says Trevor Pott, arch-sysadmin and El Reg contributor. In this podcast with Danny Bradbury, he discusses the alternatives to VDI, such as application virtualisation.…

Midlands council laughs at zombie-apocalypse threat

Posted: 10 Jun 2011 03:18 AM PDT

Are you prepared for invasion of the undead?

Leicester City Council has been forced to admit that it lacks a comprehensive emergency plan should the Midlands city be hit by zombie attack.…

Facebook plonks Sofa in Web2.0 lounge

Posted: 10 Jun 2011 02:59 AM PDT

Couch potato by Dutch design

Facebook bought Netherlands start-up Sofa for an undisclosed sum yesterday.…

Spanish police cuff three Anonymous hack suspects

Posted: 10 Jun 2011 02:49 AM PDT

Cell capture

Updated  Spanish national police have arrested three suspected members of the infamous Anonymous hacking crew.…

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NAO calls for new ambulance data systems

Posted: 10 Jun 2011 02:45 AM PDT

Targets mean multiple call-outs

Ambulance services need to develop data systems and procedures quickly, so organisations can collect and share information to measure performance, according to the National Audit Office (NAO).…

Can cloud save the NHS?

Posted: 10 Jun 2011 02:30 AM PDT

Public sector looks for gentler cuts

As the scope of cuts to the UK public sector becomes clearer, the holy grail becomes finding places where money can be saved with no impact on frontline services.…

Nokia takes the Facebook wall physical with NFC

Posted: 10 Jun 2011 02:24 AM PDT

While Barclaycard reminds us it exists

Nokia's latest research video shows us how high-speed NFC could make physical walls as interactive as their Facebook equivalents, while Barclaycard has tweaked its TV advertising to include Orange.…

MS lines up bumper Patch Tuesday

Posted: 10 Jun 2011 02:09 AM PDT

Apatcholypse Now

Microsoft is preparing a bumper Patch Tuesday for next week, with 16 security bulletins that collectively address 34 vulnerabilities.…

Lanarkshire wristslap after vulnerable adults' data lost

Posted: 10 Jun 2011 02:00 AM PDT

ICO handbags council for losing handbag

A local authority has signed an undertaking to improve the security of the personal data it holds after information about six vulnerable home support clients was stolen from a worker, the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) has said.…

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Lulz warns NHS of sick security

Posted: 10 Jun 2011 01:45 AM PDT

No waiting list for admin passwords

LulzSec, the security collective which claimed credit for hacking Sony, has taken to Twitter to warn the NHS that it stumbled across several admin passwords.…

Pollster: Performance has little to do with pay, bureaucracy

Posted: 10 Jun 2011 01:28 AM PDT

30% of public-sector bods have no idea what they're doing

Good engagement and more autonomy for staff, and a willingness to accept "controlled risk" are the characteristics that make for a successful organisation, according to the head of a major polling company.…

Council fined for randomly emailing personal data

Posted: 10 Jun 2011 01:01 AM PDT

£120k slap for slipshod Surrey

Surrey County Council has been fined £120,000 by the Information Commissioner's Office for breaking the Data Protection Act.…

Xiotech unscabbards go-faster flash-mungous ISE blade

Posted: 10 Jun 2011 12:28 AM PDT

Deadliest swordsman in all of Colorado Springs

Six months after it was announced, Xiotech's go-faster flash-enhanced ISE storage blade is here, and ready to rock and roll.…

Nikon Coolpix P300 compact camera

Posted: 09 Jun 2011 11:00 PM PDT

Manual dexterity

Review  Nikon's endeavour to rein in Canon's success in the compacts market has seen the Coolpix P7000 released as a direct competitor to the Canon PowerShot G12. By introducing the P300, Nikon's first pocket-sized advanced compact, the company seems keen to cast a shadow over the Canon PowerShot S95.…

Intel teaches machines to build own device drivers

Posted: 09 Jun 2011 10:00 PM PDT

Game theory versus clumsy coders

Intel Labs is working to automate the tedious and error-prone process of writing device drivers and porting them to different operating systems.…

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RSA appoints security chief amid blistering criticism

Posted: 09 Jun 2011 09:00 PM PDT

Welcome, Mr. Schwartz, and good luck

RSA has appointed its first chief security officer, three months after a data theft on its network contributed to the hack of the world's biggest defense contractor, and possibly other important customers.…

Sex-rating social pages take off in Queensland

Posted: 09 Jun 2011 06:00 PM PDT

A plague of rats in the north

A plague of geographically based Facebook "sex-rating" pages is spreading in north-east Australia, rating locals on their sexual pedigree.…

Fairfax looks for bids on auction site

Posted: 09 Jun 2011 05:01 PM PDT

Old media might sell new media to save old media

Fairfax Media is considering offloading New Zealands's biggest online auction site Trade Me and has embarked on a wider strategic review of its group assets.…

Google borgs display ad optimizer for $400m

Posted: 09 Jun 2011 04:32 PM PDT

Bring on the regulators

Google has agreed to acquire international online-advertising outfit AdMeld for $400m, according to a report citing "multiple sources". An ad-related deal of this size will almost certainly bring more antitrust scrutiny onto the company.…

Australian banks start replacing RSA tokens

Posted: 09 Jun 2011 04:00 PM PDT

Singing from the same song-sheet

The ongoing fallout in Australia from the RSA security hack continues, with both Westpac and ANZ Bank announcing they will replace customers' tokens. Another of Australia's "big four", the Commonwealth Bank, is yet to decide its course of action, while there's been no word yet from the National Australia Bank.…

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