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- Aussie carbon tax in actually-makes-sense shocker
- Apple flings patent lawsuit at HTC (again)
- EMC boss: There can be only one
- Monolithic supers nab power efficiency crown
- Cisco needs to slash 5,000 jobs, says analyst
- HPC storage purchasing exposed!
- Unix still data center darling, says survey
- Hunt refers News Corp/BSkyB bid to Competition Commish
- Android up, Symbian down
- Sweaties decode ultimate mystery of chips
- Hitchhiking snails scoffed, pooped out alive by birds
- Before 'the cloud' was cool: Virtualising the un-virtualisable
- Adaptec adds DRAM cache to entry-level RAID
- Novell jobs slashed by stepmother Attachmate
- GOLDENBALLSUP! Beckham website defaced
- Chambers of Commerce say UK recovery is weak
- Samsung RF711 17.3in Core i7 laptop
- MS security centre search poisoned with infectious smut
- Wikileaks loses briefly-open Icelandic payment channel
- Game gears up for Mac OS X Lion release with... Panther
- Researcher ups fondleslab forecast
- Yahoo! reads! your! emails!
- Google+ disk space cockup creates notification spam-storm
- Culture sec consults Ofcom, OFT on BSkyB merger
- Cambridge IT guy 'was the Spanish Guy Fawkes', say cops
- HTC says smartphone bootloader unlock software out next month
- How scareware scumbags avoid getting flagged by banks
- Burg 5 watch phone
- Apple said to have 3G-enabled iPod in pipeline
- So, LOHAN: What's it to be?
- How to virtualise critical apps
- News International grabs SunOnSunday.co.uk domain
- Intel 320 SSD bug causes forum despair
- <i>Atlantis</i> hooks up with ISS
- Diary of a cameraman at the last shuttle launch
- Cleaning up the Bitcoin act
- PeopleBrowsr lands in UK
| Aussie carbon tax in actually-makes-sense shocker Posted: 11 Jul 2011 03:00 PM PDT Taxing CO2 without hitting the less-well-offComment So Oz has finally announced the details of its carbon tax plan, and actually, compared to the normal dogs' dinners that come out of the political process, it's not all that bad. Must be something to do with the way that the Green Party only gets to influence it rather than actually write it.… |
| Apple flings patent lawsuit at HTC (again) Posted: 11 Jul 2011 12:40 PM PDT Déjà vu all over again. But with new targetsApple has ratcheted up its attack on Taiwanese smartphone manufacturer HTC, filing a second patent-infringement complaint that, if successful, could bar HTC products from being imported into the US.… |
| EMC boss: There can be only one Posted: 11 Jul 2011 11:00 AM PDT Rounded experience, financial flair, or product dash?The EMC succession is out in the open now, with Tucci talking to the Wall Street business media and financial analysts opining about the merits of Pat "Product" Gelsinger or David "Greenback" Goulden.… |
| Monolithic supers nab power efficiency crown Posted: 11 Jul 2011 10:58 AM PDT But ceepee-geepees threaten green revolutionOld-school monolithic, massively parallel supercomputers based on Power and Sparc processors hold their own in flops-per-watt comparisons against the new hotness: hybrid machines that combine x64 processors and GPU coprocessors.… |
| Cisco needs to slash 5,000 jobs, says analyst Posted: 11 Jul 2011 10:00 AM PDT Shake-up looms as global channel boss waves goodbyeCisco may fire up to 5,000 staff this August under a restructuring plan, according to analyst Brian Marshall at Gleacher and Co.… |
| HPC storage purchasing exposed! Posted: 11 Jul 2011 09:10 AM PDT Blow by blow, byte by byte accountIn a recent HPCwire report, Nicole Hemsoth discloses the back story behind a major storage purchase by Utah's Center for HPC (CHPC).… |
| Unix still data center darling, says survey Posted: 11 Jul 2011 09:09 AM PDT Linux? FuggedaboutitUpdated Unix systems may not be all the rage that they were two decades ago, but in nearly eight out of 10 data centers based on them, their use is either holding steady or increasing.… |
| Hunt refers News Corp/BSkyB bid to Competition Commish Posted: 11 Jul 2011 08:58 AM PDT Corpse of NotW fails to stop vast controversy snowballNews Corp's planned bid to merge with BSkyB will be referred to the Competition Commission, the culture secretary Jeremy Hunt confirmed in the House of Commons this afternoon.… |
| Posted: 11 Jul 2011 08:14 AM PDT Smartphone OS shares shuffledAndroid is the clear winner in the market for smartphone operating systems, showing big year-on-year jumps across Western Europe and in the US.… |
| Sweaties decode ultimate mystery of chips Posted: 11 Jul 2011 08:02 AM PDT Development cycle for new types expected to halveScottish boffins have decoded the full genome for the humble potato, opening the door for a new world of Scottish cuisine.… |
| Hitchhiking snails scoffed, pooped out alive by birds Posted: 11 Jul 2011 07:41 AM PDT Gastro-pod birdshit paratroopers conquer new territoriesScientists have discovered that certain species of Japanese snail can not only survive being eaten and then excreted by birds, they actually benefit from the process in many cases by finding themselves deposited in new uncropped habitats.… |
| Before 'the cloud' was cool: Virtualising the un-virtualisable Posted: 11 Jul 2011 06:36 AM PDT A brief history of virtualisationBuzzwords often have very short lifetimes in IT. Today it's cloud computing, but there would be no infinitely scalable cloud without the previous "big new thing": virtualisation. We take it for granted now, but it's worth remembering that it is still quite a new and relatively immature technology, with a long way to go.… |
| Adaptec adds DRAM cache to entry-level RAID Posted: 11 Jul 2011 06:03 AM PDT It's like performance-enhancing drugs. Kind ofDRAM-caching boosts entry-level Adaptec RAID controller performance past software RAID and cache-less host bus adapters.… |
| Novell jobs slashed by stepmother Attachmate Posted: 11 Jul 2011 05:46 AM PDT 'We are grateful' to our ex-employeesNovell's new owners Attachmate have swung the axe far and wide, with massive staff cuts right across the organisation.… |
| GOLDENBALLSUP! Beckham website defaced Posted: 11 Jul 2011 05:36 AM PDT Lulz seekers bend parrot-sickener past web goaliesDavid Beckham's website was hacked and defaced on Sunday in an attack timed to coincide with the birth of his first daughter.… |
| Chambers of Commerce say UK recovery is weak Posted: 11 Jul 2011 05:30 AM PDT Manufacturing confidence high, but growth 'too slow'The UK's economic recovery remains weak and the Coalition has failed to tackle the underlying reasons.… |
| Samsung RF711 17.3in Core i7 laptop Posted: 11 Jul 2011 05:05 AM PDT Sandy Bridge heavyweightReview It's not unusual for desktop replacements to have a bit of heft, but Samsung's RF711 positively throws caution to the wind. Tipping the scales at an obese 2.9kg and measuring 416mm across (almost one-and-a-half feet), it's only a laptop in the sense that the screen folds down to cover the keyboard when you've finished using it. In short, it looks like a prop from The Borrowers – use it on your lap and you can expect to lose circulation to your feet.… |
| MS security centre search poisoned with infectious smut Posted: 11 Jul 2011 04:49 AM PDT Chapeau-noir SEOs seed results with seedinessMicrosoft has disabled the search results on its Security Centre after malware-spreaders abused the function to promote shady pornographic websites serving Trojans as well as cheap thrills.… |
| Wikileaks loses briefly-open Icelandic payment channel Posted: 11 Jul 2011 04:35 AM PDT Back to Bitcoin, banks and brown envelopes for Assange™So WikiLeaks and Julian Assange™ have been frustrated again: on the money front that is. They're back to cash, Bitcoin and bank transfers as a method of receiving donations.… |
| Game gears up for Mac OS X Lion release with... Panther Posted: 11 Jul 2011 04:31 AM PDT Eight-year-old OS yours for £100Looking forward to Lion, but think it's too advanced an operating system for you? Pop over to Game's shop in Swindon's Regent Street, which is still flogging copies of Mac OS X 10.3 circa 2003.… |
| Researcher ups fondleslab forecast Posted: 11 Jul 2011 04:06 AM PDT Don't let the traditionally weak Q1 get you downDon't write off the tablet, just because retailers ordered fewer of them in the first three months of 2011 than they did in the final three months of 2010.… |
| Posted: 11 Jul 2011 04:05 AM PDT And it's your job to warn all your matesYahoo! is being criticised for the new Ts & Cs for its webmail service, which give it the right to scan your emails as well as making you responsible for telling anyone who might be emailing you, but the ICO has no problem with the changes.… |
| Google+ disk space cockup creates notification spam-storm Posted: 11 Jul 2011 03:35 AM PDT 'Yikes', squeals global data centre gigantocorpGoogle+ blitzed early adopters of the social networking service with spammy notifications over the weekend following a technical glitch. The Chocolate Factory said the problem was due to the service having run out of disk space.… |
| Culture sec consults Ofcom, OFT on BSkyB merger Posted: 11 Jul 2011 03:29 AM PDT Miliband the Younger calls for Commons vote on Murdoch bidUpdated Culture secretary Jeremy Hunt is writing to Ofcom and the Office of Fair Trading today to seek advice from the regulators over the proposed merger of television broadcaster BSkyB with Rupert Murdoch's News Corp empire.… |
| Cambridge IT guy 'was the Spanish Guy Fawkes', say cops Posted: 11 Jul 2011 03:06 AM PDT Techie allegedly plotted to blow up kingA Cambridge IT worker known locally as "Cyril" was actually a wanted terrorist who plotted to kill the King of Spain, according to police.… |
| HTC says smartphone bootloader unlock software out next month Posted: 11 Jul 2011 03:02 AM PDT SensationalHTC will begin releasing unlocked version of its Android smartphones' bootloader code next month.… |
| How scareware scumbags avoid getting flagged by banks Posted: 11 Jul 2011 03:00 AM PDT White hats infiltrate, monitor three networksA study of cybercrime economics shows that peddlers of rogue antivirus scams rely on legitimate banks to run their businesses, carefully ensuring that the volume of chargebacks they incur stay just on the right side of being flagged-up as obviously fraudulent.… |
| Posted: 11 Jul 2011 03:00 AM PDT Tick-tock, ring-ringGeek Treat of the Week Considering I grew up with Inspector Gadget, Knight Rider and Warren Beatty's portrayal of Dick Tracy, it's unsurprising that I've always craved a watch that doubles up as a phone. A 'photch' perhaps?… |
| Apple said to have 3G-enabled iPod in pipeline Posted: 11 Jul 2011 02:42 AM PDT Cutting voice ties with carriers?Apple may be gearing up to release a version of the iPod Touch - aka the iPad Nano - with 3G cellular connectivity built-in.… |
| Posted: 11 Jul 2011 02:15 AM PDT Low Orbital High Altitude Norks? Ballockets to thatThe El Reg Special Projects Bureau team is greatly obliged to all of you who chipped in with suggestions as to just what our audacious rocket-powered spaceplane project should be called.… |
| How to virtualise critical apps Posted: 11 Jul 2011 02:07 AM PDT Time to get your hands dirtyBroadcast Tomorrow, 12th of July, at 15:00BST we have a team of experts in our studio to talk about how and why you would virtualise your mission critical apps.… |
| News International grabs SunOnSunday.co.uk domain Posted: 11 Jul 2011 01:59 AM PDT Switcheroo after unknown individual registered urlNews International bought the sunonsunday.co.uk and thesunonsunday.co.uk domain names late last week, after they had originally been grabbed by unknown individuals as the phone-hacking scandal engulfed the News of the World Sunday tabloid.… |
| Intel 320 SSD bug causes forum despair Posted: 11 Jul 2011 01:39 AM PDT 'Intel doesn't include firmware failures in the MTBF!'Users are reporting that Intel 320 SSDs are dying, and power cycle limitations appear to be at fault. The company had not issued a fix at time of writing.… |
| <i>Atlantis</i> hooks up with ISS Posted: 11 Jul 2011 01:28 AM PDT Smooth mating of final shuttle to visit stationSpace shuttle Atlantis docked with the International Space Station at 15:07 GMT yesterday, on its final visit to the orbiting outpost as the US prepares to wrap the shuttle programme.… |
| Diary of a cameraman at the last shuttle launch Posted: 10 Jul 2011 10:28 PM PDT Blinded by the sightPhotos Gordon Laing is the editor of CameraLabs.com, where an extended version of this story originally appeared.… |
| Posted: 10 Jul 2011 04:55 PM PDT Camp BX live with high-sec trading platformThe story so far is that a little-known hacker hobby currency called Bitcoin suddenly came to the notice of the press, then to the notice of regulators, and finally to the notice of hackers.… |
| Posted: 10 Jul 2011 04:00 PM PDT Jodee Rich goes global new offices in NYC, San Fran and LondonPeopleBrowsr, the social media analytics company forged by former One.Tel founder Jodee Rich, has officially launched in the UK, appointing ex pat Australian telco executive Andrew Grill as CEO.… |
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