Fake collar bomb victim back in lock down |
- Fake collar bomb victim back in lock down
- New York police launch Facebook perp watch unit
- Red Hat dev cloud welcomes Java EE 6
- Hack on Hong Kong Stock Exchange disrupts trading
- Trojan script gets stuck on superglue site
- London rioters should 'loose all benefits'
- Nokia snubs UK with N9
- Chinese government under cyber siege
- Apple injunction startles Samsung
- Lossless music goes High Street
- Hauppauge Colossus HD PCI card
- Who'd buy a fake battery?
- Amazon web services customers vent spleen
- Phone hacking arrest: Police cuff 61-year-old man
- Heavily-looted mobile phone barns issue 'safety first' missives to staff
- Nokia's software exits the US market
- Panasonic preps Pocket Server
- Ofcom checks up on mobile coverage
- Nintendo 3DS gets Cloud cover
- Facebook gets creative with mobile phone data harvesting app
- Watchdog washes hands of Lush hack
- Google kills off app maker
- Security watchers question supposed Facebook hack
- Essex cops slaps cuffs on social media riot crusaders
- iPad threatened by young pretenders
- Apple nudges out Exxon Mobil for top spot on Wall Street
- Indie fans urged to shop to help Sony-singed labels
- Falling axe strikes space shuttle workers
- Motorola hints at Microsoft deal
- Rootkit gangs fight for control of infected PCs
- Deduplication’s Role in Disaster Recovery
- Seagate's flash-disk hybrid crosses the chasm
- Local TV pioneers sought by Ministry of Fun
- US Air Force in a seriously stealthless state
- Glaswegian arrested for pro-riot Facebook posts
- Microsoft gives BPOS customers credit note for latest crash
- Five... freshly picked iOS gaming apps
- Hackers crack crypto for GPRS mobile networks
- Senetas gets UK foothold for crypto kit
- Google promises fix for jittery Usenet addicts
- MacTel data centre build slips
- SQL survives murder attempt by mutant stepchild
- Old Republic parallel imports okay, says BioWare
- Neurogaming set to be launched by Disney
| Fake collar bomb victim back in lock down Posted: 10 Aug 2011 03:00 PM PDT Police suspect further threats to IT millionaire's familyThe 18-year-old daughter of IT executive and multi-millionaire Bill Pulver is again being targeted by her mystery attacker.… |
| New York police launch Facebook perp watch unit Posted: 10 Aug 2011 02:12 PM PDT Take aim at Idiots 2.0The New York City police department has created a new juvenile justice unit intent on tracking people who discuss criminal activities on social networking sites such as Facebook, Twitter, and, um, MySpace.… |
| Red Hat dev cloud welcomes Java EE 6 Posted: 10 Aug 2011 12:09 PM PDT JBoss floated to 10,000 feetRed Hat has announced that its OpenShift developer cloud now handles Java Enterprise Edition 6, boasting that this is the first "platform-as-as-service" to do so.… |
| Hack on Hong Kong Stock Exchange disrupts trading Posted: 10 Aug 2011 10:31 AM PDT 'Malicious attack' keeps traders in darkHackers took down a website belonging to the Hong Kong stock Exchange, prompting Asia's third-largest securities exchange to suspend trading in the shares of London-based HSBC and six other companies.… |
| Trojan script gets stuck on superglue site Posted: 10 Aug 2011 09:03 AM PDT Sticky situation for malwareThe website of Super Glue became bunged up with a malicious script earlier this week as part of a tricky problem that was only resolved on Wednesday.… |
| London rioters should 'loose all benefits' Posted: 10 Aug 2011 08:42 AM PDT Angry e-petition demands serious, if misspelled, actionAmid angry calls for UK rioters to face plastic bullets, water cannon, the Army, a spell in the Army, jail or all of the above, comes this e-petition demanding that the feral youth of Britain be stripped of their state hand-outs.… |
| Posted: 10 Aug 2011 08:33 AM PDT No plans to bring contractual obligation phoneIt might well be the best phone the beleaguered company launches in 2011 - but Nokia won't be bringing its shiny new N9 to the UK.… |
| Chinese government under cyber siege Posted: 10 Aug 2011 08:31 AM PDT 'We're the victims not the perps'The Chinese government claims it came under almost 500,000 cyberattacks last year, most of which it said originated outside the country.… |
| Apple injunction startles Samsung Posted: 10 Aug 2011 08:16 AM PDT Settling the TabSamsung has responded to Apple's sudden legal request against the Galaxy Tab 10.1 with surprise, claiming the injunction came out of the blue and the company never had a chance to present its side of the argument.… |
| Lossless music goes High Street Posted: 10 Aug 2011 08:13 AM PDT Quality downloads for the massesBritish digital download store 7Digital is expanding the range of lossless music available for download. Albums will now be available in the industry standard FLAC format from artists such as Radiohead and Enya - in some cases cheaper than the MP3 equivalent.… |
| Hauppauge Colossus HD PCI card Posted: 10 Aug 2011 08:09 AM PDT TV and gaming capturedReview When I first looked at the box containing the Hauppauge Colossus I wasn't quite sure as to what its exact purpose was. I saw the words "HD Video Recorder," "PCI-Express," and "HDMI" thinking I could use it to record almost anything and then I noticed the asterisks.… |
| Posted: 10 Aug 2011 08:03 AM PDT Booze, tobacco and gadget fakes in police probeThe Intellectual Property Office's IP Crime Group issued its annual report yesterday, and it highlights some jaw-dropping rip-offs.… |
| Amazon web services customers vent spleen Posted: 10 Aug 2011 07:29 AM PDT Cloud giant says sorry for outage and resulting issuesVulnerabilities in Amazon's web services that were exposed after lightning hit power supplies at the weekend have led to stinging criticism from some customers.… |
| Phone hacking arrest: Police cuff 61-year-old man Posted: 10 Aug 2011 06:57 AM PDT Suspected of alleged interception of communicationsThe Metropolitan Police has arrested another person in connection with allegations of phone hacking.… |
| Heavily-looted mobile phone barns issue 'safety first' missives to staff Posted: 10 Aug 2011 06:51 AM PDT Carphone Warehouse, Phones4u urge caution as DC readies water cannonBritish mobile phone resellers are in turmoil after being repeatedly targeted by thugs during the past four days of rioting that began in London before spreading to other cities. Unsurprisingly those businesses are urging extreme caution among frontline staff.… |
| Nokia's software exits the US market Posted: 10 Aug 2011 06:41 AM PDT It's Windows Phone or bustNokia is to give up on its feature and low-end business in America, making the company a Windows Phone manufacturer as it makes one last pitch to become relevant in the USA.… |
| Posted: 10 Aug 2011 05:50 AM PDT I wandered wirelessly as a cloudPanasonic has unveiled a Wireless Pocket Server which lets users stream content to iOS devices, preserving precious storage space on these Apple gadgets as well as other Wi-Fi enabled gear.… |
| Ofcom checks up on mobile coverage Posted: 10 Aug 2011 05:31 AM PDT Smartphones = crap at making callsAccording to Ofcom's latest intervention in the sticky world of mobile phone operators, coverage checkers are generally fairly accurate but the regulator would like to see integrated mapping and point-of-sale checks.… |
| Posted: 10 Aug 2011 05:20 AM PDT Wi-Fi freebies nowFollowing a sudden 3DS price cut, Nintendo offered early adopters complimentary games as a loyalty reward. That generosity continues this week, after the company struck a deal with The Cloud to bring free Wi-Fi to all 3DS console owners.… |
| Facebook gets creative with mobile phone data harvesting app Posted: 10 Aug 2011 05:08 AM PDT Contact-tapping Messenger coming to Europe 'very soon'...Facebook wants to hook into mobile phone users who don't necessarily have a profile set up on the dominant social network.… |
| Watchdog washes hands of Lush hack Posted: 10 Aug 2011 04:57 AM PDT Soft soap for hippy soap sellerThe Information Commissioner's Office is facing criticism today for its failure to punish online retailer Lush for losing 5,000 customer debit and credit card details… |
| Posted: 10 Aug 2011 04:55 AM PDT Android click-to-program heading for open source?Google's App Inventor could be revived as an open source platform in order to let students click their way to Android applications without having to muck about learning stuff.… |
| Security watchers question supposed Facebook hack Posted: 10 Aug 2011 04:48 AM PDT Claims of new hacktivist target look like a hoaxReported plans by Anonymous to attack Facebook on 5 November appear to be an elaborate hoax by an unknown source.… |
| Essex cops slaps cuffs on social media riot crusaders Posted: 10 Aug 2011 04:23 AM PDT Fiendish Facebook users suspected of inciting violenceEager Essex fuzz have cuffed three locals lads suspected of using social media site Facebook to whip gangs of teenage marauders into a looting frenzy.… |
| iPad threatened by young pretenders Posted: 10 Aug 2011 04:10 AM PDT New wave of vendors to take on Apple where others failedHigh prices and a lack of content are stymieing growth of iPad wannabes in Europe but Chinese and Taiwanese vendors could mount a stiffer challenge, according to a report by tech research company Forrester.… |
| Apple nudges out Exxon Mobil for top spot on Wall Street Posted: 10 Aug 2011 03:59 AM PDT iSlick move in volatile trading marketApple briefly shunted Exxon Mobil into the No. 2 spot on the New York Stock Exchange yesterday to become the most valuable company in the US.… |
| Indie fans urged to shop to help Sony-singed labels Posted: 10 Aug 2011 03:51 AM PDT Small labels hit hard by Enfield arsonA call has gone out to fans to help revive the UK's indie music scene, devastated by the London riots. Many of Britain's smallest and most inventive labels suffered disproportionately in the Sony warehouse arson on Monday night.… |
| Falling axe strikes space shuttle workers Posted: 10 Aug 2011 03:32 AM PDT Services no longer requiredThis Friday, 515 employees of major space shuttle contractor United Space Alliance (USA) will be given their pink slips, and will join 1,550 former colleagues who were shown the door immediately after the landing of the shuttle Atlantis on 21 July.… |
| Motorola hints at Microsoft deal Posted: 10 Aug 2011 03:17 AM PDT Hello WinPhoMotorola is open to the idea of partnering with Microsoft to produce Windows Phone handsets, although only if the revised platform proves its longevity.… |
| Rootkit gangs fight for control of infected PCs Posted: 10 Aug 2011 02:53 AM PDT Malware that seeks and destroys other malwareA turf war is developing between rootkit-touting cybercrooks over control of infected PCs.… |
| Deduplication’s Role in Disaster Recovery Posted: 10 Aug 2011 02:35 AM PDT The SNIA speaksDeep dive El Reg has teamed up with the Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA) for a series of deep dive articles. Each month, the SNIA will deliver a comprehensive introduction to basic storage networking concepts. This month the SNIA examines how deduplication can help with disaster recovery arrangements.… |
| Seagate's flash-disk hybrid crosses the chasm Posted: 10 Aug 2011 02:31 AM PDT One million shippedA million units of Seagate's flash-disk hybrid drive, the Momentus XT, have shipped inside notebook computers, firmly establishing the viability of the format.… |
| Local TV pioneers sought by Ministry of Fun Posted: 10 Aug 2011 02:07 AM PDT 65 possibilities, 20 pioneersThe Ministry of Fun is looking for communities who want local TV, and has produced a map of 65 places that could be first to receive it - that is, if any locals want to argue their case.… |
| US Air Force in a seriously stealthless state Posted: 10 Aug 2011 01:43 AM PDT F-22s and F-35s groundedThe US Air Force has been left seriously short of stealth capacity following the grounding of its F-35 Lightning II Joint Strike Fighters (JSFs), while its F-22 Raptor fleet has been stuck on the tarmac since May.… |
| Glaswegian arrested for pro-riot Facebook posts Posted: 10 Aug 2011 01:32 AM PDT LOL!A Scottish teenager has been arrested for alleged incitement after posting pro-disorder statements on Facebook.… |
| Microsoft gives BPOS customers credit note for latest crash Posted: 10 Aug 2011 01:00 AM PDT Voucher for flakey service designed to appease clientsMicrosoft UK has vowed to provide BPOS customers with vouchers against future credits following seven hours of downtime at the weekend.… |
| Five... freshly picked iOS gaming apps Posted: 09 Aug 2011 11:00 PM PDT The latest from Apple's amusement arcadeiGamer If you've survived the sink estate uprising and still have a job after Global Financial Meltdown II, you might just enjoy one of the recent crop of iOS games on your commute to work.… |
| Hackers crack crypto for GPRS mobile networks Posted: 09 Aug 2011 09:00 PM PDT Your cellphone data interceptedA cryptographer has devised a way to monitor cellphone conversations by exploiting security weaknesses in the technology that forms the backbone used by most mobile operators.… |
| Senetas gets UK foothold for crypto kit Posted: 09 Aug 2011 05:30 PM PDT SELEX Elsag targeting gov.uk customersAustralian network crypto hardware developer Senetas has announced an agreement with SELEX Elsag to supply kit into UK government contracts.… |
| Google promises fix for jittery Usenet addicts Posted: 09 Aug 2011 05:18 PM PDT Newsgroups never die. They only fade away. And come back againUsenet diehards are complaining that Google is no longer mirroring the venerable internet discussion forums on its web-based Google Groups service, but the company has reassured them that this is merely a glitch that will soon be resolved.… |
| MacTel data centre build slips Posted: 09 Aug 2011 04:30 PM PDT $AU60 million facility to open in 2012Macquarie Telecom has pushed back the original opening date of its new AU$60 million data centre.… |
| SQL survives murder attempt by mutant stepchild Posted: 09 Aug 2011 04:23 PM PDT World says 'No' to NoSQLOpen...and Shut Silicon Valley likes nothing more than to fetish the Next Big Technology Trend, be it cloud or NoSQL or scripting languages. The problem is that the real world moves much more slowly, and has very different considerations fueling its technology decisions. Perhaps nowhere is this clearer than in the technology media's infatuation with NoSQL, even as the world plods along with SQL.… |
| Old Republic parallel imports okay, says BioWare Posted: 09 Aug 2011 03:22 PM PDT Sorry, can't help with the ping timesGamers in Australia have been reassured that they'll be able to log into Star Wars: The Old Republic server ahead of the game's official Australian ship date.… |
| Neurogaming set to be launched by Disney Posted: 09 Aug 2011 03:21 PM PDT 'Plug and play' gets very touchy-feelyCyberpunk futurist gaming fantasies are getting closer to commercial reality courtesy of Walt Disney's research labs.… |
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