AMD gooses low-power Fusion chips |
- AMD gooses low-power Fusion chips
- Skype bug could expose users to malicious code attack
- Skitch gets stitched by Evernote
- Poulson Itaniums hit 'Replay' for reliability
- PHP users warned to stay away from latest update
- NetApp Flash Cache for no cash
- Coders breathe Android into dead HP fondleslab
- IBM's BlueGene/Q super chip grows 18th core
- Ultra-cheap HP TouchPads to hit UK at 6pm
- German authorities park tanks on Facebook's lawn
- Anonymous/LulzSec chick-lit MP kid threat pooh-poohed
- Celebrity Google+rs do need steenkin' badges
- WikiLeaks admits insider deleted loads of its data
- Marriage makes women get fat, divorce does same to men
- Windows Phone may be cheaper than Android - Inq boss
- Rebel hackers seize Libyan domain name registry
- Afghan coppers trained with Playmobil
- How to get a firm grip of applications performance
- Bundled music newbie Boinc aims for year-end launch
- Here lies <code>/^v.+b$/i</code>
- Neato Robotics XV-15 vacuum cleaner
- iPhone 5 to include Japanese earthquake warning system
- Google unleashes Street View upon Amazon
- National web-2.0 dogturd photo scheme goes live
- Cookie respawning, history sniffing case dropped
- LOHAN rival to inflate bulging orbs with hydrogen
- Detective on phone-hacking probe team is arrested
- Osun MushRoom Green Zero USB charger
- Hotboxer Xiotech drops the 'tech', goes all-caps
- Skype gulps group app as it is swallowed by Microsoft
- Networks, handset makers vie for mobile dominance
- Sage stuffed in Mind Your Own Business bid
- LG lights up smartphone for the sunshine
- UK, German Android-ers can buy apps on phone bills
- Cabinet Office shuns open-source in IT-tracking deal
- TVOnics to add BBC iPlayer to DVRs
- Sony Ericsson outs social music smartphone
- Slow broadband blackspots mostly in south, not north
- Big pharma discredited by Twitter drug-pushing: Official
- Former Insight veep Akkerman rocks up at Rackspace
- Sneaky tracking code (finally) purged from Microsoft sites
- Oracle's SPARC T4 chip: Will you pay Larry's premium?
- Sulphur-loving microbes might be oldest life
- Telecom NZ invokes wrath of frisky rugby fans
- Pacific Fibre adds Voda NZ as anchor tenant
- Harvey Norman drops HP’s TouchPad
| AMD gooses low-power Fusion chips Posted: 22 Aug 2011 03:31 PM PDT |
| Skype bug could expose users to malicious code attack Posted: 22 Aug 2011 03:28 PM PDT Injection bug in current Windows versionThe latest version of Skype for Windows contains a security vulnerability that allows attackers to inject potentially dangerous code into a user's phone session, a German security researcher has reported.… |
| Skitch gets stitched by Evernote Posted: 22 Aug 2011 03:19 PM PDT Another Aussie digital start-up heads to the ValleyAustralian digital imaging app developer, Skitch, has been snapped up by Mountain View start-up Evernote.… |
| Poulson Itaniums hit 'Replay' for reliability Posted: 22 Aug 2011 01:37 PM PDT New instructions, better HyperThreadingHot Chips The future eight-core "Poulson" Itanium is not just a process-shrink of the current four-core "Tukwila" Itanium 9300. Intel has been working to add new features to Poulson to make it useful running enterprise workloads – and to do so more reliably.… |
| PHP users warned to stay away from latest update Posted: 22 Aug 2011 01:26 PM PDT 5.3.7 marred by serious crypto bugMaintainers of the PHP scripting language are urging users to avoid an update released last week that introduces a serious bug affecting some cryptographic functions.… |
| NetApp Flash Cache for no cash Posted: 22 Aug 2011 11:45 AM PDT FAS 6000s onlyRumour central has NetApp offering free Flash Cache on its high-end FAS6000 arrays.… |
| Coders breathe Android into dead HP fondleslab Posted: 22 Aug 2011 10:36 AM PDT Resuscitation by Google dessertsIf you bought an HP TouchPad, you bought a tablet whose operating system has, shall we say, an uncertain future. But a group of independent developers is working to give your purchase a new lease on software life.… |
| IBM's BlueGene/Q super chip grows 18th core Posted: 22 Aug 2011 10:00 AM PDT It's nice to have a spareHot Chips The mystery surrounding the number of cores in the 64-bit Power processor that will be at the heart of the 20 petaflops "Sequoia" BlueGene/Q supercomputer has been finally cleared up.… |
| Ultra-cheap HP TouchPads to hit UK at 6pm Posted: 22 Aug 2011 09:14 AM PDT Put it on the slateIn the wake of HP's decision to axe the WebOS platform, the price of the HP TouchPad has been falling quicker than Cristiano Ronaldo in the opposition's penalty box.… |
| German authorities park tanks on Facebook's lawn Posted: 22 Aug 2011 08:22 AM PDT Wir verlangen ein Abneigungsknopf … weibchenFacebook has once again been criticised by a data protection authority in Germany for siphoning off information about the country's citizens to servers based in the US.… |
| Anonymous/LulzSec chick-lit MP kid threat pooh-poohed Posted: 22 Aug 2011 08:07 AM PDT Hacktivists would never use email; too nerdy for violenceChick-lit authoress and politician Louise Mensch, somewhat famed for being fired from EMI due to "inappropriate dress" and copping to possible drug use and bad dancing in her salad days, says that hacktivists from Anonymous and/or LulzSec have threatened her children by email.… |
| Celebrity Google+rs do need steenkin' badges Posted: 22 Aug 2011 07:56 AM PDT Choc Factory ID police erase 'Creepy Eric Schmidt'Google has begun loading "verification badges" onto profiles created in its online estate, in a move to flush out imposters and solidify its ID-linking plans.… |
| WikiLeaks admits insider deleted loads of its data Posted: 22 Aug 2011 07:19 AM PDT We do have more than one source, honest. Well, we didWikiLeaks has explained the non-appearance of Bank of America data it frequently promised to publish: a defector took the only copies with him when he left the organisation and has now deleted the files.… |
| Marriage makes women get fat, divorce does same to men Posted: 22 Aug 2011 06:57 AM PDT Lonely swingbellies scoff chips once wife departsModern-day feminists will tell you that marriage is good for men and bad for women, and now they have the research to back it up.… |
| Windows Phone may be cheaper than Android - Inq boss Posted: 22 Aug 2011 06:40 AM PDT Free operating systems not unlike lunches, apparentlyGoogle's proposed acquisition of Motorola has obliged one operator to look more closely at Windows Mobile. So says Inq boss Frank Meehan, who runs the Hutchison-owned handset company. He has a very interesting reason, which might surprise some of you.… |
| Rebel hackers seize Libyan domain name registry Posted: 22 Aug 2011 06:24 AM PDT Also much of meatspace capitalAs fighting rages around Colonel Gaddafi's compound in Tripoli, hackers have taken the fight online to the country's domain name registry nic.ly.… |
| Afghan coppers trained with Playmobil Posted: 22 Aug 2011 06:24 AM PDT Lego Taliban daren't mess with tiny no-nonsense lawmenIn case you ever wondered just what kind of preparation Afghan police recruits get in order to prepare them to face the Taliban, rest assured they're offered the very latest in high-tech training technology.… |
| How to get a firm grip of applications performance Posted: 22 Aug 2011 06:00 AM PDT Monitoring for good behaviourWhen applications go wrong, they can either stop working or slow to a crawl. The problem for IT managers is keeping track of when this happens and why, and preferably preventing it altogether. How can they do this?… |
| Bundled music newbie Boinc aims for year-end launch Posted: 22 Aug 2011 05:42 AM PDT Remains to be seen if Beyond Oblivion actually isThe disaster that was Nokia's Comes With Music hasn't deterred entrepreneurs from having another go at bundling music access with hardware. Beyond Oblivion has raised a huge amount of cash to do much the same thing – and told the FT it will launch by the year end. The service will be called Boinc, continuing the tradition of misspelled names. (cf: Rdio).… |
| Here lies <code>/^v.+b$/i</code> Posted: 22 Aug 2011 05:20 AM PDT Which programming language to use on one's headstone? |
| Neato Robotics XV-15 vacuum cleaner Posted: 22 Aug 2011 05:06 AM PDT Another sucker joins the robot warsReview Robot vacuum cleaners are becoming increasingly popular, with a few companies joining Roomba in the market over the last couple of years. Neato is the latest to offer a product in the UK, with the XV-15 which boasts laser mapping, and a powerful vacuum – some of the other models are careful to describe themselves as cleaners rather than vacuums, but Neato's not so reticent.… |
| iPhone 5 to include Japanese earthquake warning system Posted: 22 Aug 2011 04:57 AM PDT Jesus Phone savesThe Japanese version of iOS 5, Apple's latest mobile OS, will let you know if an earthquake is coming a good minute or two before it hits.… |
| Google unleashes Street View upon Amazon Posted: 22 Aug 2011 04:38 AM PDT River, not webshop. Spy cars also to slurp IsraelGoogle's Street View is heading down the Amazon to capture pictures of "some of the most remote and biodiverse areas in the world", according to its official blog.… |
| National web-2.0 dogturd photo scheme goes live Posted: 22 Aug 2011 04:31 AM PDT UK to collect mighty archive of poo snapsOrange's latest wheeze is to get customers photographing dog shit, and other street clutter, for forwarding to local authorities – in the hope they can afford to do something about it.… |
| Cookie respawning, history sniffing case dropped Posted: 22 Aug 2011 04:19 AM PDT Ad network didn't cause enough harm, says US judgeA computer user who alleged that an advertising network breached US privacy laws did not prove she had suffered sufficient damages for those charges to be further examined, a US court has ruled.… |
| LOHAN rival to inflate bulging orbs with hydrogen Posted: 22 Aug 2011 03:58 AM PDT Trifling explosion hazard outweighed by greater buoyancyWe at the El Reg Special Projects Bureau are well aware that some of you are less than impressed with the choice of lifting gas for our Low Orbit Helium Assisted Navigator (LOHAN) project.… |
| Detective on phone-hacking probe team is arrested Posted: 22 Aug 2011 03:43 AM PDT Dick cuffed after messy leaksA police officer working on Scotland Yard's investigation into alleged phone-hacking at the now-defunct Sunday tabloid the News of the World was arrested by cops from the anti-corruption unit of the Metropolitan police late last week.… |
| Osun MushRoom Green Zero USB charger Posted: 22 Aug 2011 03:30 AM PDT Cute carbon cutterGeek Treat of the Week Leaving your gadgets plugged in and charging has two drawbacks. One, you continue to draw juice when you don't need it, to the general detriment of life on Earth. Second, it hardly helps with battery life.… |
| Hotboxer Xiotech drops the 'tech', goes all-caps Posted: 22 Aug 2011 03:26 AM PDT No need to SHOUTXiotech is dropping the "tech" to become just XIO and it has souped up its Hybrid ISE box.… |
| Skype gulps group app as it is swallowed by Microsoft Posted: 22 Aug 2011 03:14 AM PDT Redmond's in-house 'We're In' may in fact not be any moreAnother Microsoft me-too Web 2.0 project looks to be headed for the chop with Skype's proposed purchase of a mobile messaging start-up.… |
| Networks, handset makers vie for mobile dominance Posted: 22 Aug 2011 03:01 AM PDT Who's left standing following the WebOS train crash?WebOS is all but dead, and died without apparently leaving a gap for its competitors to fill, but the bloodbath of mobile platforms isn't over despite the clearing field.… |
| Sage stuffed in Mind Your Own Business bid Posted: 22 Aug 2011 02:42 AM PDT Geordies scuppered by share pricesGeordie small biz provider Sage has been beaten in the battle over Australian accounts provider MYOB even though it was offering more for the firm.… |
| LG lights up smartphone for the sunshine Posted: 22 Aug 2011 02:38 AM PDT LG has brought a sun-friendly Android smartphone out into the light.… |
| UK, German Android-ers can buy apps on phone bills Posted: 22 Aug 2011 02:19 AM PDT Vodafone is the first domino to fallVodafone will be the first operator in Europe to add the cost of apps to the phone bill, signing up with Google Marketplace to offer the service in the UK and Germany.… |
| Cabinet Office shuns open-source in IT-tracking deal Posted: 22 Aug 2011 01:58 AM PDT Maude's dept applies locks to 'level playing field' gateThe Cabinet Office and its IT underlings have exhaustively championed the need for more OSS across government since the ConDem Coalition was cobbled together in May 2010. Nonetheless Francis Maude's department has just snubbed open source players by awarding a contract to a proprietary software provider to help establish how much money the government spends on technology.… |
| TVOnics to add BBC iPlayer to DVRs Posted: 22 Aug 2011 01:48 AM PDT Catching upTVOnics will add BBC iPlayer to its Freeview HD set-top boxes on Friday.… |
| Sony Ericsson outs social music smartphone Posted: 22 Aug 2011 01:34 AM PDT Walkman + Facebook + AndroidSony Ericsson is to mix music and social networking in a new smartphone.… |
| Slow broadband blackspots mostly in south, not north Posted: 22 Aug 2011 01:26 AM PDT Contention ratio an issue, possibly?Online tests from uswitch.com have found more "internet blackspots" in the south of England than in the north and found the quickest internet access in the UK is in Leamington Spa with download speeds of 18.665Mb/s.… |
| Big pharma discredited by Twitter drug-pushing: Official Posted: 22 Aug 2011 01:01 AM PDT Not supposed to punt prescription stuff to the publicA pharmaceutical company's use of Twitter to promote medicines discredited the industry, a regulatory body has ruled.… |
| Former Insight veep Akkerman rocks up at Rackspace Posted: 22 Aug 2011 12:36 AM PDT Channel warhorse gallops into the cloudFormer Insight veep of sales Olaf Akkerman is expected to join Rackspace as enterprise sales director, according to sources close to the matter.… |
| Sneaky tracking code (finally) purged from Microsoft sites Posted: 21 Aug 2011 09:15 PM PDT 'Supercookies' eluded user privacy choicesMicrosoft has deleted code on its MSN website that secretly logged visitors' browsing histories across multiple web properties, even when the users deleted browser cookies to elude tracking.… |
| Oracle's SPARC T4 chip: Will you pay Larry's premium? Posted: 21 Aug 2011 09:12 PM PDT Oomph for one thread. Or manyHot Chips The SPARC T4 processor that Oracle expects to ship before the end of December for its entry-level and mid-range server platforms is probably the most important chip that either Sun or Oracle has put into the field since the dual-core UltraSPARC-IV+ "Panther" arrived in October 2004.… |
| Sulphur-loving microbes might be oldest life Posted: 21 Aug 2011 06:00 PM PDT Life at Marble Bar close to life on MarsA microbial bacterial fossil find is being hailed as proof that life existed in the oxygen-free environment of Earth, 3.4 billion years ago.… |
| Telecom NZ invokes wrath of frisky rugby fans Posted: 21 Aug 2011 05:01 PM PDT No sex please, we're All Blacks supportersTelecom New Zealand's annual results announcement on Friday were overshadowed by a "torrid" marketing gaff.… |
| Pacific Fibre adds Voda NZ as anchor tenant Posted: 21 Aug 2011 03:48 PM PDT Inches closer to viabilityVodafone New Zealand has announced that it will be an anchor tenant of the Pacific Fibre cable planned for construction in 2013 and launch in 2014.… |
| Harvey Norman drops HP’s TouchPad Posted: 21 Aug 2011 03:47 PM PDT Four days after Aussie launchHP's TouchPad tablet has been erased from the Australian market following the decision by retailer Harvey Norman, the exclusive local distributor of the device, to pull it from shelves.… |
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