Adobe InMarket out of market |
- Adobe InMarket out of market
- Tilera routs Intel, AMD in Facebook bakeoff
- CA, Unisys bring “private cloud” partnership to Oz
- Amcom palms $AU9m to float uni to the cloud
- Google launches Go runtime for App Engine
- Head fed cyberspook resigns abruptly
- Attack on 'Cyberbullying' critic prompts raid by armed cops
- Microsoft kicks SUSE another $100m
- Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Kobo bow to Apple sales edict
- Mellanox deep-discounts speedy new Ethernet kit
- Facebook iPad app cloaked within iPhone version
- Microsoft hit with lawsuit in Kinect tech spat
- LOHAN: She's low orbit and helium assisted
- Anonymous hacks Italy's critical-national-IT protection
- End-to-end service assurance
- Two 'fake Apple stores' shut in China over trading permits
- Amateur claims crack of final Zodiac Killer cipher
- Hungry bidders pick up Comet's blood trail
- Google grabs facial-recognition 'ware firm
- RIM workforce decimated: 2,000 jobs slashed
- Apple Mac OS X 10.7 Lion Part Two
- Winklevoss twins' new Facebook lawsuit rejected by judge
- Grenade-gasm autogun gets Raoul Moat Taser shells
- Survey results: Cloud descends on IT
- Ex-China Mobile exec gets suspended sentence of death
- Mega-colossal space raincloud found at moist black hole
- Ofcom in screeching U-turn on BSkyB, begins probe
- Chinese lecturer demands his students acquire iPads
- Win a week-long test drive of the 2011 Ford Focus
- Dixons store to sell Samsung 10in tablet early
- Apple recalls 1TB Seagate HDDs
- Moonpig gobbled by PhotoBox
- Western Digital edges ahead of Seagate
- Mobee Magic Charger
- Apple seeds Mac OS X 10.7.2
- Dixons to set up concession in Harrods
- Survey scams exploit Winehouse's death, Oslo massacre
- Nokia punts NFC touch-data biz cards at £11 each
- Beeb to fund ad-mungous Local TV for local people
- Virgin Tweets a sorry for TiVo series link snafu
- Nominet pilots .co.uk domain security pump-up
- OCZ samples twin-core ARM SSD controller
- Microsoft previews 'Juneau' SQL Server tools
- Want to be more secure? Don’t be stupid
- Cheap as chips: The future of PC virtualisation
- Higgs Boson hiding place narrows
- ZTE starts US$15.5m VC fund
- For Australian small biz, NBN retail prices look fabulous
- Oz regulator punctures Foxtel takeover bid
| Posted: 25 Jul 2011 05:30 PM PDT AirMarketplace also suffocatesIf anybody had the reach and brand needed to carve out a place in apps markets in competition with Apple and Google, Adobe would have looked like a good candidate. Instead, it's abandoning the field of battle, announcing that it will close down both the Air Marketplace and InMarket. Instead, the company says it will help developers publish to multiple platforms and application markets.… |
| Tilera routs Intel, AMD in Facebook bakeoff Posted: 25 Jul 2011 04:28 PM PDT Social Memcached marketingFacebook may not think of itself as a social marketing company, but for upstart server-chip maker Tilera, the social media giant's internal Memcached bakeoff pitting Xeon and Opteron machines against Tilera boxes is a marketing windfall, indeed.… |
| CA, Unisys bring “private cloud” partnership to Oz Posted: 25 Jul 2011 04:00 PM PDT Cloud crowd more crowdedUnisys and CA, which earlier this year announced that they would offer joint cloud services in North America, are planning a rollout in Australia.… |
| Amcom palms $AU9m to float uni to the cloud Posted: 25 Jul 2011 03:34 PM PDT Western Oz University deal for Perth data centreAmcom Telecommunications has secured a Au$9m deal to provide hosted cloud services to The University of Western Australia.… |
| Google launches Go runtime for App Engine Posted: 25 Jul 2011 03:22 PM PDT It's a Go for SDK 1.5.2Google has released a Go runtime for Google App Engine, adding that homegrown platform-as-a-service specialist programming language to the Python and Java runtimes already available.… |
| Head fed cyberspook resigns abruptly Posted: 25 Jul 2011 02:19 PM PDT US-CERT director gives no reason for departureThe head of a group that helps the federal government ward off computer attacks abruptly resigned Friday, amid a spate of high-profile assaults hitting government agencies and contractors.… |
| Attack on 'Cyberbullying' critic prompts raid by armed cops Posted: 25 Jul 2011 12:28 PM PDT Hoax emergency call came from spoofed numberThe home of a prominent critic of online bullying was raided by heavily armed police officers after someone phoned in a call falsely claiming that a man who had killed four people was inside, holding three others hostage.… |
| Microsoft kicks SUSE another $100m Posted: 25 Jul 2011 11:57 AM PDT Keeping Red Hat out of Windows shopsThe SUSE division of Attachmate has managed to talk Microsoft into shelling out another chunk of change – $100m – to help prop up SUSE Linux Enterprise Server, the Linux distro formerly controlled by Novell, and to help drive Red Hat's rival distro from Windows shops.… |
| Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Kobo bow to Apple sales edict Posted: 25 Jul 2011 11:30 AM PDT Wall Street Journal, Google knuckle under as wellBooksellers Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and Kobo have removed links to their web-based stores from their apps for the iPhone and iPad, and the Google Books app has vanished completely.… |
| Mellanox deep-discounts speedy new Ethernet kit Posted: 25 Jul 2011 10:46 AM PDT A half-off deal for bleeding-edge serversMellanox Technologies wants customers to try its new 10GE/40GE switches and converged protocol adapters, but it can't just give hardware away like software vendors can. But what it can do is give beta testers a bundle at a steep discount designed to catch the attention of early adopters impatient for the new kit.… |
| Facebook iPad app cloaked within iPhone version Posted: 25 Jul 2011 09:20 AM PDT If you just can't wait to fondle your slabFacebook's iPhone client is concealing an iPad application, and a rather good one by all accounts, easily revealed by changing a setting or two while waiting for the official launch.… |
| Microsoft hit with lawsuit in Kinect tech spat Posted: 25 Jul 2011 08:45 AM PDT Legal process in motionMicrosoft is facing legal action over its gaming hardware after an intellectual property owner claimed to own all rights to tech that tracks players' movement and enables gaming without a controller.… |
| LOHAN: She's low orbit and helium assisted Posted: 25 Jul 2011 08:08 AM PDT Spaceplane mission backronym sortedIt's official: The El Reg Special Projects Bureau's audacious rocket-powered spaceplane project will henceforth be known as the "Low Orbit Helium Assisted Navigator", following our reader poll to nail the LOHAN backronym matter once and for all.… |
| Anonymous hacks Italy's critical-national-IT protection Posted: 25 Jul 2011 07:36 AM PDT Evidently the protection isn't criticalHacktivists have posted "secret documents" stolen from an Italian cybercrime unit.… |
| Posted: 25 Jul 2011 07:24 AM PDT Pipe dream or realistic goal?Reg Research It may not always seem like it, but wherever IT is responsible for providing applications or communications to end-users, it takes on the mantle of being a service provider.… |
| Two 'fake Apple stores' shut in China over trading permits Posted: 25 Jul 2011 06:50 AM PDT Problem with local gov, nothing to do with AppleSeveral fake Apple Stores in China have been shuttered as they did not possess the requisite local business licences they needed to trade.… |
| Amateur claims crack of final Zodiac Killer cipher Posted: 25 Jul 2011 06:07 AM PDT Serial murderer's crypto-proclam broken 40+ years on?An amateur codebreaker claims to have deciphering the final encrypted message of the infamous Zodiac killer. However there's no general agreement that the answer is correct.… |
| Hungry bidders pick up Comet's blood trail Posted: 25 Jul 2011 05:47 AM PDT 'Sometimes we hunt the same ground'Restructuring specialists and private equity investors are among the suitors bidding to acquire flagging UK retailer Comet.… |
| Google grabs facial-recognition 'ware firm Posted: 25 Jul 2011 05:33 AM PDT Presumably such kit no longer creeps Schmidt outGoogle has bought a facial recognition company called pittpatt.… |
| RIM workforce decimated: 2,000 jobs slashed Posted: 25 Jul 2011 05:22 AM PDT 'These redundancies will eliminate redundancies'RIM is to cut more than 2,000 jobs around the world as part of the cost-reduction strategy it announced last month. The layoffs will leave around 17,000 employed by the company.… |
| Apple Mac OS X 10.7 Lion Part Two Posted: 25 Jul 2011 05:17 AM PDT The cat scan continuesReview You find me in better spirits compared to my anxious state during last week's experimentation with OS X Lion. A weekend of sanity makes quite a difference. That is, sanity achieved through the cathartic process of a clean instal.… |
| Winklevoss twins' new Facebook lawsuit rejected by judge Posted: 25 Jul 2011 05:10 AM PDT Oarsmen may have to survive for life on just $65mA judge threw out a second lawsuit filed by the Winklevoss twins late last week, with the Olympic rowers failing to plump up an earlier $65m settlement with the social network and its founder Mark Zuckerberg.… |
| Grenade-gasm autogun gets Raoul Moat Taser shells Posted: 25 Jul 2011 04:47 AM PDT Electric stun rockets on auto: You know you want thisMetal Storm, the Australian weapons firm famous for its "million rounds a minute" superimposed-projectile technology, has partnered with Taser International to produce an electroshock stun version of its rapid-firing multishot grenade-launcher design.… |
| Survey results: Cloud descends on IT Posted: 25 Jul 2011 04:26 AM PDT Complementary commentaryReg Research How many times do we hear from pundits and marketing people that cloud computing will change "everything".… |
| Ex-China Mobile exec gets suspended sentence of death Posted: 25 Jul 2011 04:18 AM PDT That'll learn him, say bribery-busting beaksThe former deputy general manager of China's largest mobile carrier China Mobile – Zhang Chunjiang – has been sentenced to death with a two-year suspension after he was found guilty of taking bribes.… |
| Mega-colossal space raincloud found at moist black hole Posted: 25 Jul 2011 04:00 AM PDT Soggy quasar's eternal downpour worse than Brit summerA cloud of water vapour surrounding a quasar 12 billion light-years away has been spotted by two independent research groups, putting a huge mass of water in the very early universe.… |
| Ofcom in screeching U-turn on BSkyB, begins probe Posted: 25 Jul 2011 03:41 AM PDT Wait 'til the cops are done? No, that would be sillyOfcom has reversed its decision not to wade into the News Corp and BSkyB row, following public and parliamentary pressure over phone-hacking allegations swamping Rupert Murdoch's media empire.… |
| Chinese lecturer demands his students acquire iPads Posted: 25 Jul 2011 03:32 AM PDT Slab-fondling kids forced to wear suits, makeup in classA Chinese lecturer has raised a storm by demanding students get an iPad, and that anyone unable to raise the funds over the summer shouldn't bother studying the financial industry.… |
| Win a week-long test drive of the 2011 Ford Focus Posted: 25 Jul 2011 03:28 AM PDT Your chance to drive the car that's packed with techCompetition Reg Hardware and Ford have teamed up to bring three lucky readers the chance to take part in a week-long test drive of the 2011 Ford Focus.… |
| Dixons store to sell Samsung 10in tablet early Posted: 25 Jul 2011 03:22 AM PDT Only place to get the Wi-Fi only versionWant a Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 a day before it launches? Then pop down to PC World on London's Tottenham Court Road on 3 August.… |
| Apple recalls 1TB Seagate HDDs Posted: 25 Jul 2011 03:07 AM PDT May fail, apparentlyApple is recalling a "very small number" of Seagate-made internal 1TB hard drives fitted in 21.5in and 27in iMacs sold earlier this year.… |
| Posted: 25 Jul 2011 03:07 AM PDT Dotcom veteran emblobbed by fellow remote-printer bizOnline greeting card maker Moonpig.com is merging with photo printer PhotoBox.… |
| Western Digital edges ahead of Seagate Posted: 25 Jul 2011 03:02 AM PDT Seagoing computers counteract rare-earth headwindsWestern Digital, encountering the same adverse headwinds as Seagate, has emerged ahead.… |
| Posted: 25 Jul 2011 03:00 AM PDT Wireless power for your wireless mouseGeek Treat of the Week Anyone who uses a wireless mouse has been there: the moment when you push or prod it and nothing happens - the battery has died.… |
| Posted: 25 Jul 2011 02:52 AM PDT Lion update emergesIf Mac OS X 10.7 - aka Lion - is giving your Mac a mauling, a big-fixing update may be just around the corner.… |
| Dixons to set up concession in Harrods Posted: 25 Jul 2011 02:51 AM PDT Ladies who lunch, oil sheikhs ... they all need batteriesDixons Retail will try to flog PCs and other consumer goodies to tourists and local toffs when it opens a concession in Harrods early next year.… |
| Survey scams exploit Winehouse's death, Oslo massacre Posted: 25 Jul 2011 02:45 AM PDT Crack-smoking and security-cam footage doesn't existOnline scumbags wasted little time in latching onto the untimely death of singer Amy Winehouse as a lure for survey scams on Facebook.… |
| Nokia punts NFC touch-data biz cards at £11 each Posted: 25 Jul 2011 02:23 AM PDT A better business than selling phones?Nokia has set up an NFC Hub to sell NFC to businesses, both figuratively and literally, offering everything you need to wirelessly enable your PR material.… |
| Beeb to fund ad-mungous Local TV for local people Posted: 25 Jul 2011 01:59 AM PDT White space plans from the Ministry of FunJeremy Hunt, Secretary of State for Fun Stuff, has proposed filling white space spectrum with Local TV, and the BBC will chip in £40m to help make it viable.… |
| Virgin Tweets a sorry for TiVo series link snafu Posted: 25 Jul 2011 01:54 AM PDT DVR = Don't Video Repeatedly?Virgin Media left serial linkers hanging this weekend after a glitch centred on its highly promoted TiVo-based DVR borked the box's ability to auto-record entire series of programmes.… |
| Nominet pilots .co.uk domain security pump-up Posted: 25 Jul 2011 01:21 AM PDT Lays an egg, hopes chicken will ensueDot-UK registry Nominet has started piloting a free service designed to help UK businesses boost the security of their websites' domains.… |
| OCZ samples twin-core ARM SSD controller Posted: 25 Jul 2011 12:56 AM PDT Do you need a bit of TLC?OCZ is sampling a new flash controller that gives a picture of future solid state drives.… |
| Microsoft previews 'Juneau' SQL Server tools Posted: 24 Jul 2011 09:00 PM PDT Tasty Visual Studio upgrade or 'One step forward, two steps back'?Microsoft has released a third preview of SQL Server 2011, codenamed "Denali" and including the "Juneau" toolset.… |
| Want to be more secure? Don’t be stupid Posted: 24 Jul 2011 06:30 PM PDT Oz spooks outline unsurprising risk mitigation strategiesThe best way to defend against most network vulnerabilities is to deal with the simplest attack vectors, according to Australia's Defence Signals Directorate (DSD).… |
| Cheap as chips: The future of PC virtualisation Posted: 24 Jul 2011 06:00 PM PDT Playing catch-upA brief history of virtualisation VMware was founded in 1998, and until the launch of its eponymous product the next year, the PC's x86 architecture had been considered to be impossible to fully virtualise.… |
| Higgs Boson hiding place narrows Posted: 24 Jul 2011 05:30 PM PDT Masses of new evidence, apparentlyThe particle physicist's game of "hot, warm, cold" in search of the Higgs Boson seems to be getting a little warmer with preliminary results announced by physicists at the Large Hadron Collider late last week.… |
| Posted: 24 Jul 2011 04:55 PM PDT In-house crowdsourcing for cashChinese vendor ZTE has set up a US$15.5m venture capital fund targeting the IP smarts of its own employees.… |
| For Australian small biz, NBN retail prices look fabulous Posted: 24 Jul 2011 03:47 PM PDT Lower cost, higher upload speeds: what's to complain about?When Internode announced tariffs for its National Broadbad Network (NBN) services last week, it triggered an outbreak of mass stenography among Australian journalists. Rather than try to understand the pricing for themselves, they opened the microphones and let practically anybody draw practically any conclusion about the tariff sheet without challenge.… |
| Oz regulator punctures Foxtel takeover bid Posted: 24 Jul 2011 03:46 PM PDT If it looks like a monopoly and quacks like a monopoly...Foxtel's ambition to create a subscription TV monopoly with the $1.9bn takeover of rival Austar has been significantly dampened by the competition regulator.… |
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