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- Oz lawmakers mull Facebook parental snoop rules
- Groupon: Scoopon’s catch of the day
- Microsoft surprises Street with double-digit growth
- Clouds and server refresh pump up Intel
- 19,000 papers leaked to protest 'war against knowledge'
- Adobe releases lengthy list of Apple Lion woes
- Apple paid $2.6bn of $4.5bn Nortel patent grab
- Gamer claims complete console collection
- Fake Apple stores story could be a fake
- WD launches twin-platter 1TB monster
- 'NATO RESTRICTED': The lowest possible classification
- LulzSec says it will partner with media on Murdoch emails
- SaaS for speedy relief of licence headaches
- Nokia posts massive loss, blames 'ambiguity'
- Alcatel Lucent ponders offload of enterprise unit
- 'There's too much climate change denial on the BBC'
- Fujitsu installs Windows 7... on a phone
- TalkTalk drags arse in Ofcom ISP survey
- Your mom, girlf, boyf: Spying on your phone and email
- Shale gas frees Europe from addiction to Putin's Pipe
- Vodafone Smart Android smartphone
- Virtualisation soaks up corporate IT love
- Seagate beats Street, but outlook's bleak
- Mobile coverage comes to embattled Misurata
- Hubble detects new Plutonian moon
- My Translator Pro UK
- Rupert Murdoch was never Keyser Soze
- GE boosts micro-holo storage to Blu-ray speed
- Acer makes play for the cloud with iGware acquisition
- Ghost of 'ACS:Law' threatens alleged Greek filesharers
- End of an era: <i>Atlantis</i> hits the tarmac
- Biggest ever jump in web, non-store retail sales for June
- Google turns off sidelined Labs section altogether
- HMRC strops its chopper, eyes £235m IT slash plan
- The greatest tech show on Earth
- Superman beats up cybersquatter
- Mounties charge Canadian IT guy over botnet scam
- MS bashes BlackBerry in tablet fight
- 'God Bless America': <i>Atlantis</i> prepares to return home
- Euro beaks to rule if TVCatchup.com is legal
- iPhones look good enough to eat
- World o' Flash: <i>El Reg</i> roundup report
- Nasuni puts its cloud storage balls on the line
- AGs mull fate of hard-core gaming in Oz
- Intel CEO: 'Ultrabooks' will be 'wholistic' success
- Air Conflicts: Secret Wars
- Major overhaul makes OS X Lion king of security
- Mellanox revenues spike thanks to Voltaire
- Go ahead and spy on customers, says judge
- Boxing boomers bounced building in Seoul
| Oz lawmakers mull Facebook parental snoop rules Posted: 21 Jul 2011 03:14 PM PDT Could social networks go 'R18+'?The big story about the meeting of Australian attorneys-general happening today (July 22) is that they're going to reconsider Australia's classification system, and might revisit the question of R18+ game classifications. However, it has emerged that the nation's lawmakers will also consider the vexed question of privacy on social networks like Facebook.… |
| Groupon: Scoopon’s catch of the day Posted: 21 Jul 2011 03:13 PM PDT Quarter of a million settles squatting, trademark lawsuitAustralia's Scoopon founders and group buying millionaires, Gabby and Hezi Leibovich, have settled a prolonged legal battle with group buying giant Groupon.… |
| Microsoft surprises Street with double-digit growth Posted: 21 Jul 2011 02:31 PM PDT Windows downturn masked by Office and giddy game gainsAmid mumblings and grumblings that it had lost its mojo, Microsoft surprised Wall Street by reporting revenues and earning for its fourth fiscal 2011 quarter that exceeded the moneymen's expectations.… |
| Clouds and server refresh pump up Intel Posted: 21 Jul 2011 01:46 PM PDT Data Center Group carries its weightThe server business went great guns again for chip giant Intel in the second quarter, with its Data Center Group raking in $2.44bn in revenues, up 15.2 per cent from the year ago period.… |
| 19,000 papers leaked to protest 'war against knowledge' Posted: 21 Jul 2011 01:26 PM PDT Prosecution of Reddit founder citedA critic of academic publishers has uploaded 19,000 scientific papers to the internet to protest the prosecution of a prominent programmer and activist accused of hacking into a college computer system and downloading almost 5 million scholarly documents from an archive service.… |
| Adobe releases lengthy list of Apple Lion woes Posted: 21 Jul 2011 12:22 PM PDT 19 apps with foul-ups from fatal to decidedly annoyingOne day after Apple's Mac OS X Lion was released into the wild, Steve Jobs' bête noire, Adobe, has released an extensive list of wounds that the big cat has clawed into its products.… |
| Apple paid $2.6bn of $4.5bn Nortel patent grab Posted: 21 Jul 2011 10:26 AM PDT Worth it to give Google's 'pi' a poke in the eye?Apple has revealed that it paid somewhere in the neighborhood of $2.6bn for its share of the recent Nortel patent-acquisition deal.… |
| Gamer claims complete console collection Posted: 21 Jul 2011 09:10 AM PDT Largest selection ever?Collectors take things to extreme measures, such is the nature of their interest. Videogame enthusiasts have a similar mentality. Therefore, imagine what happens when the two combine.… |
| Fake Apple stores story could be a fake Posted: 21 Jul 2011 08:44 AM PDT Unfair aspersions cast on good resellers of Kunming?Some stories are so unusual, you immediately wonder if they're too good to be true. On Tuesday, a Western NGO in China posted a remarkable tale, reporting that ingenious Chinese retailers in a medium-sized provincial city called Kunming had cloned an Apple Retail Store, faithfully reproducing the staff T-shirts, furniture, display material, and name tags.… |
| WD launches twin-platter 1TB monster Posted: 21 Jul 2011 08:02 AM PDT Scorpio big BlueWD has announced it is shipping its Scorpio Blue 1TB capacity hard drive for notebooks. This Advanced Format spinning disk spins at 5,400rpm, has an 8MB cache and a 3Gbit/s SATA interface. WD claims it is the highest capacity 2.5-inch hard drive available for mainstream notebook use.… |
| 'NATO RESTRICTED': The lowest possible classification Posted: 21 Jul 2011 07:47 AM PDT Anonymous/LulzSec will have to do better than thisComment So the hacktivist collective Anonymous, parts of which have recently tangled with News International title The Sun and may have looted an explosive trove of emails from Rupert Murdoch's media empire, also say they have a big stash of classified material stolen from NATO. As evidence they have released two documents marked "NATO RESTRICTED".… |
| LulzSec says it will partner with media on Murdoch emails Posted: 21 Jul 2011 07:06 AM PDT Inspired by Assange™?LulzSec has abandoned plans to release a cache of News International emails it claimed to have acquired during a redirection attack on The Sun website earlier this week. Instead the group says it plans to release select batches of the emails via a "partnership" with select media outlets, an approach akin to that applied by WikiLeaks to its controversial US diplomatic cable and war log releases last year.… |
| SaaS for speedy relief of licence headaches Posted: 21 Jul 2011 07:00 AM PDT It's simpler than you thinkManaging software licensing has to be one of the least fun aspects of an IT professional's life. For one thing, it is medically proven* that there is no better means of inducing a headache than trying to read the whole of a software licence.… |
| Nokia posts massive loss, blames 'ambiguity' Posted: 21 Jul 2011 06:29 AM PDT Horrific train crash at former world leaderNokia posted a large operating loss of €487m today, only its second quarterly loss in 19 years. And without the royalty settlement with Apple it would have been much worse: the settlement gifted Nokia a one-time bonus of €430m.… |
| Alcatel Lucent ponders offload of enterprise unit Posted: 21 Jul 2011 06:02 AM PDT Cut this tentacle off, we could sell it for moneyAlcatel Lucent has confirmed it is investigating the best way forward for its enterprise biz, which could include offloading it to a third party.… |
| 'There's too much climate change denial on the BBC' Posted: 21 Jul 2011 05:43 AM PDT Dr Steven Jones' amazing claim - but Auntie agrees"He's a little bit too eager to bend over backwards to be politically respectable," is how Richard Dawkins describes the celebrated snail biologist and broadcaster Dr Steven Jones.… |
| Fujitsu installs Windows 7... on a phone Posted: 21 Jul 2011 05:31 AM PDT Ctrl-Alt-DelboyHere's Fujitsu's latest phone that - wait for it - runs Windows 7. No, not Windows Phone 7, but the complete Microsoft PC platform.… |
| TalkTalk drags arse in Ofcom ISP survey Posted: 21 Jul 2011 05:29 AM PDT DeafDeaf, more like, say customersTalkTalk may be earning plaudits in Whitehall for being the first major UK ISP to implement network-level anti-malware blockers on its service, but the company's customers aren't so easy to please.… |
| Your mom, girlf, boyf: Spying on your phone and email Posted: 21 Jul 2011 05:26 AM PDT If you don't call them that you're probably safeThree in five parents snoop on their teenager's email and calling habits, but teenagers themselves are almost as guilty of checking out the communications history of their partners.… |
| Shale gas frees Europe from addiction to Putin's Pipe Posted: 21 Jul 2011 05:02 AM PDT Vlad won't be able to turn the heating off any moreShale gas extraction in Western Europe will dramatically change the geopolitical landscape, according to a report by a think-tank backed by the US Department of Energy. The Baker Institute estimates that with shale as little as 13 per cent of Europe's gas imports will come from Russia by 2040, compared to 27 per cent today.… |
| Vodafone Smart Android smartphone Posted: 21 Jul 2011 05:00 AM PDT Budget Googlephone, anyone?Review You can argue all you want about the merits of the various mobile operating systems but it's undoubtedly Android that has put smartphones into the hands of the impecunious masses and in numbers that would have been inconceivable just eighteen months ago.… |
| Virtualisation soaks up corporate IT love Posted: 21 Jul 2011 05:00 AM PDT Getting the Big Boys excitedA brief history of virtualisation Virtualisation is the in-thing in corporate IT. You'd think it was some kind of shiny new concept that had never been done before, a panacea for all computing ills. Everyone seems to be doing it.… |
| Seagate beats Street, but outlook's bleak Posted: 21 Jul 2011 04:41 AM PDT Q4 results signal end of Golden Platter eraSeagate's 4th quarter results beat expectations, but profits are substantially down and cost pressures rising. It beat the Street but the outlook is bleak.… |
| Mobile coverage comes to embattled Misurata Posted: 21 Jul 2011 04:14 AM PDT 'We are experiencing an outage due to rocket attacks'The chaps behind rough telephone network Free Libyana are now up and running in recently-retaken Misurata, bringing much-needed mobile connectivity to Libya's third-largest city. The engineers arrived by fishing boat, having endured a 30-hour ride from Malta.… |
| Hubble detects new Plutonian moon Posted: 21 Jul 2011 04:02 AM PDT Small fourth companion for faraway icy dwarf-worldA Hubble Space Telescope search for possible rings around Pluto has turned up a diminutive fourth moon orbiting the dwarf planet.… |
| Posted: 21 Jul 2011 04:00 AM PDT Dove the pub, s'il vous please?iOS App of the Week The holiday season is upon us, and a good phrase book can be a very useful addition to your collection of apps when you're travelling abroad. Of course, most language apps tend to focus on one specific language, so I was tempted by My Translator Pro as it can translate typed-in phrases into more than 50 different languages and is currently on offer for a mere 69p.… |
| Rupert Murdoch was never Keyser Soze Posted: 21 Jul 2011 03:48 AM PDT Childish media and creepy politicians created this mythComment If children didn't believe in Santa, thousands of grown men wouldn't dress up in fur-trimmed red jumpsuits, put on false beards, and give children unwanted gifts in tents every year. Perhaps some would, but they'd probably be arrested.… |
| GE boosts micro-holo storage to Blu-ray speed Posted: 21 Jul 2011 03:43 AM PDT 500GB recordable compact disc as step closerBoffins at GE have come up with a material that might one day be used to record 20 Blu-rays' worth of data on a single disc at the same speed that data is recorded on BD-Rs today.… |
| Acer makes play for the cloud with iGware acquisition Posted: 21 Jul 2011 03:43 AM PDT Internally troubled Taiwanese giant belches up $320mAcer is making a play to build out its own cloud infrastructure after forking out $320m for US firm iGware.… |
| Ghost of 'ACS:Law' threatens alleged Greek filesharers Posted: 21 Jul 2011 03:25 AM PDT 'Likely to be imposter' posing as bankrupt pirate-takerControversial law firm ACS:Law – or someone posing as the firm – has returned with threats to sue alleged filesharers, this time outside the UK.… |
| End of an era: <i>Atlantis</i> hits the tarmac Posted: 21 Jul 2011 03:11 AM PDT Last of the shuttles makes last ever landingUpdated The US's space shuttle programme wrapped today at 09:57 GMT, as Atlantis touched down at Kennedy Space Center.… |
| Biggest ever jump in web, non-store retail sales for June Posted: 21 Jul 2011 03:08 AM PDT Tumbleweeds in the high street, roaring trade elsewhereThe Office for National Statistics said non-store retailing jumped 24.4 per cent in June – the biggest such leap it has ever recorded.… |
| Google turns off sidelined Labs section altogether Posted: 21 Jul 2011 02:48 AM PDT 'We're+ prioritizing+ our+ product+ efforts+'. +++!It has been nine years since Google debuted its experimental website where it dumped prototype products for netizens to play with. But the company has now announced the end-of-the-line for its Labs project.… |
| HMRC strops its chopper, eyes £235m IT slash plan Posted: 21 Jul 2011 02:39 AM PDT Plans to collect more taxes, cut own costs as it does soHM Revenue and Customs is aiming to save £235m from changes to IT services as part of plans to cut its running costs by some 25 per cent over the next four years, says a report by the National Audit Office.… |
| The greatest tech show on Earth Posted: 21 Jul 2011 02:36 AM PDT We attend Campus Party ValenciaI was invited to the Campus Party in Spain last week. After being told it's the biggest tech show on the planet, I could hardly turn the offer down. And, following some manic days at the show, I have to agree: there's nothing quite like it.… |
| Superman beats up cybersquatter Posted: 21 Jul 2011 02:20 AM PDT Man Of Steel takes back his web addressDC Comics has grabbed the cybersquatted domain name manofsteel.com, just a month before shooting is due to start on the next reboot of the Superman movie franchise.… |
| Mounties charge Canadian IT guy over botnet scam Posted: 21 Jul 2011 02:00 AM PDT Worldwide keylogger empire allegedCanadian police have arrested a man accused of planting key-logging malware on hundreds of computers across the world.… |
| MS bashes BlackBerry in tablet fight Posted: 21 Jul 2011 01:45 AM PDT PlayBook less popular than Windows tabsMicrosoft saw more tablets ship with one of its operating systems during Q2 than RIM shipped BlackBerry PlayBooks.… |
| 'God Bless America': <i>Atlantis</i> prepares to return home Posted: 21 Jul 2011 01:41 AM PDT Patriotic wake-up call on last day of shuttle programmeThe cargo bay doors on space shuttle Atlantis have been closed ahead of a planned return to Kennedy Space Center this morning.… |
| Euro beaks to rule if TVCatchup.com is legal Posted: 21 Jul 2011 01:30 AM PDT Is free-to-air free as air? Or notThe UK High Court is to ask the European Court of Justice (ECJ) if streaming live TV programmes over the internet is an act subject to copyright laws after provisionally ruling that it is.… |
| iPhones look good enough to eat Posted: 21 Jul 2011 01:28 AM PDT Culinary case collectionBefore you ask, this is not an iPhone being used to fry a full English. It is in fact one of the fugliest mobile cases I've ever seen.… |
| World o' Flash: <i>El Reg</i> roundup report Posted: 21 Jul 2011 01:00 AM PDT A-aah! Saviour of the universeAnalysis There is a flash furore going on, with flash announcements coming in at a furious rate, both product announcements and flash foundry expansion. Here's a round-up of what's going on.… |
| Nasuni puts its cloud storage balls on the line Posted: 21 Jul 2011 12:30 AM PDT 100 per cent uptime guaranteeNasuni is offering a 100 per cent uptime guarantee for data access through its cloud filer gateway appliance.… |
| AGs mull fate of hard-core gaming in Oz Posted: 20 Jul 2011 11:09 PM PDT Canberra could be R18+ gamer havenAustralia's gaming industry may be rewarded with a more sophisticated classification system following a meeting with state and territory attorneys-generals today in Adelaide.… |
| Intel CEO: 'Ultrabooks' will be 'wholistic' success Posted: 20 Jul 2011 11:00 PM PDT Earlier slimline efforts? 'Trial runs'Intel CEO Paul Otellini says that the failed CULV (consumer ultra-low voltage) laptops of a few years back were merely a "trial run" for the Next Big Thing™ – ultrabooks.… |
| Posted: 20 Jul 2011 11:00 PM PDT Wing menReview In recent years aerial combat games have been in free fall. The genre stalled after the seminal Il-2 Sturmovick and has struggled to pull out of a seemingly irrecoverable nosedive. But, contrary to their dubious quality, the continuing popularity of the Ace Combat and Hawx series proves interest remains sky high for the genre.… |
| Major overhaul makes OS X Lion king of security Posted: 20 Jul 2011 10:00 PM PDT Windows 7, Ubuntu meet their matchWith Wednesday's release of Mac OS X Lion, Apple has definitively leapfrogged its rivals by offering an operating system with state-of-the-art security protections that make it more resistant to malware exploits and other hack attacks, two researchers say.… |
| Mellanox revenues spike thanks to Voltaire Posted: 20 Jul 2011 06:05 PM PDT SwitchX and Sandy Bridge profit boost on tapExpanding out from InfiniBand to Ethernet switches through its acquisition of Voltaire last November is paying off on the top line for switch and server converged networking adapter maker Mellanox Technologies, but it's hurting the bottom line in the short-term.… |
| Go ahead and spy on customers, says judge Posted: 20 Jul 2011 05:30 PM PDT Spyware okay on rental computers, for nowA lawsuit aiming to stop rental company Aaron's in the US from installing spyware on its machines – whose capability includes taking images of users with a PC's webcam – has hit a setback, with a judge refusing to grant a preliminary injunction against the practise.… |
| Boxing boomers bounced building in Seoul Posted: 20 Jul 2011 04:03 PM PDT Panic! at the health clubMiddle-aged fitness fanatics don't mix with skyscrapers, according to the "tentative" conclusions of an investigation into the strange shaking that brought about the evacuation of the 39-story Techno Mart in northeastern Seoul on July 5.… |
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