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- IE, Windows server bugs likely to be exploited soon
- SuperVisor: One hypervisor to virtualize them all
- Apple blocks sale of Samsung's Android fondleslab across EU
- Citigroup hit with <i>another</i> data leak
- Xpress yourself: Quark sold to M&A outfit
- BlackBerry blog hacked with riot-related threats
- PS3 controller makes move on Android games
- Dunkin' Donuts waitress offers additional dunkin'
- Reusable e-paper rolled out
- Hackers claim to have cracked Norway mass-murderer's email
- Foreign Office trials emergency text service
- BlackBerry Messenger archives open for inspection
- Tottenham MP calls for BlackBerry Messenging suspension
- Hitachi GST flash stash speed dash
- French mobile femtocells vulnerable to rogue base station hack
- Skytap adds orchestration to dev/test cloud
- Peaches Geldof explains Kubrick's <i>2001</i>
- Sony confirms investigation into warehouse blaze is underway
- Motorola Xoom gets Android 3.1
- Magellan Explorist 710 hiking GPS
- Sky wins TV riot battle
- Italian boffins to robo-grapple space junk
- Microsoft UK and axed exec in legal smackdown
- Prime Minister recalls holidaying MPs after London riots
- Dell's first global conference: Where are the EMEA partners?
- Anobit doubles flash stash
- LOHAN team buried under ballockets
- Bankers plot telco bypass for payments
- RunPee
- Groupon sees surge in subscribers, scrubs contentious fiscal metric
- Fake Firefox update bundles Trojan add-on
- Videogames caused riots says plod
- Blackberry QNX phone details leaked
- ISP-operated servers alter search results, researchers claim
- Should your business be app in the cloud?
- Sony distribution centre engulfed by fire
- NBN Co offers start-up rebates for providers
- Windows Phone dev GM splits with Microsoft
- Police Federation reiterates demand for 700 MHz spectrum
- Facebook password reset coming to phone near you
- ABC shaves tech crew
- Adaptive Computing spins up Moab 6.1 control freak
| IE, Windows server bugs likely to be exploited soon Posted: 09 Aug 2011 01:17 PM PDT Yes, it's Microsoft Patch Tuesday againMicrosoft has released 13 updates that patch security holes in a wide range of its software offerings, including vulnerabilities rated critical in its Internet Explorer browser and Windows server operating systems.… |
| SuperVisor: One hypervisor to virtualize them all Posted: 09 Aug 2011 12:13 PM PDT HotLink assumes controlAnd now it's time for the supervisor.… |
| Apple blocks sale of Samsung's Android fondleslab across EU Posted: 09 Aug 2011 11:58 AM PDT Dutch dodge Jobsian crackdownApple has won a preliminary injunction blocking the sale of Samsung's Android-based Galaxy Tab fondleslab across almost all of the European Union.… |
| Citigroup hit with <i>another</i> data leak Posted: 09 Aug 2011 10:26 AM PDT Personal info for 92,000 customers exposedCitigroup's Japanese credit card unit said personal information for more than 92,000 of its customers was illegally sold to a third party.… |
| Xpress yourself: Quark sold to M&A outfit Posted: 09 Aug 2011 08:48 AM PDT Desktop publishing: It's the future! Insert fondleslab here...Desktop publishing software maker Quark has been acquired by Platinum Equity for an undisclosed sum.… |
| BlackBerry blog hacked with riot-related threats Posted: 09 Aug 2011 08:41 AM PDT We know where you live, says hacking crewRIM's corporate blog has been defaced with threats as part of a protest against the BlackBerry maker's plans to hand over information on London rioters to the police.… |
| PS3 controller makes move on Android games Posted: 09 Aug 2011 08:40 AM PDT Dualshock axis actionAndroid gamers can now benefit from using a PlayStation 3 control pad on many of their favourite mobile games and apps.… |
| Dunkin' Donuts waitress offers additional dunkin' Posted: 09 Aug 2011 08:35 AM PDT 'Extra sugar' on the menu at New Jersey eateryA 29-year-old Dunkin' Donuts night shift waitress has been cuffed for offering clients a bit of additional dunkin', according to New Jersey's Daily Record.… |
| Posted: 09 Aug 2011 08:20 AM PDT Held without chargeGreen-tastic boffs have created rewritable e-paper with a 300dpi resolution that needs no power to be viewed.… |
| Hackers claim to have cracked Norway mass-murderer's email Posted: 09 Aug 2011 08:07 AM PDT Breivik's rantings handed to journo, cops, says 'Noria' crewA hacking group claims to have broken into two email accounts maintained by Norwegian mass murderer Anders Behring Breivik, the far-right extremist who killed more than 70 people in attacks that shocked the world last month.… |
| Foreign Office trials emergency text service Posted: 09 Aug 2011 07:57 AM PDT No warnings for London riots thoughWithout a trace of irony, the UK foreign office has today launched a text-alert service for overseas travellers, warning them of potential unrest so they can hurry home to the safety of the UK.… |
| BlackBerry Messenger archives open for inspection Posted: 09 Aug 2011 07:36 AM PDT RIPA, DPA, ICO – none of them will prevent police fishingMessages passing through the BlackBerry Messenger system are almost certainly already under examination by the police, who need neither warrants nor ministerial permission to search them for evidence.… |
| Tottenham MP calls for BlackBerry Messenging suspension Posted: 09 Aug 2011 07:23 AM PDT Twitter campaign to shut down rivalTottenham MP David Lammy has called on RIM to shut down its BlackBerry Messenger service overnight, to prevent rioters using the closed network to coordinate gatherings.… |
| Hitachi GST flash stash speed dash Posted: 09 Aug 2011 07:17 AM PDT SSD flash price slashWhat a turn up for the books: Hitachi GST has just introduced a multi-level cell SSD that's faster – not slower – than its single level cell product. It's also cheaper, but that's expected.… |
| French mobile femtocells vulnerable to rogue base station hack Posted: 09 Aug 2011 07:08 AM PDT Rogue 3G booster roosterSecurity researchers have detailed further flaws in the femtocell base station technology supplied by mobile carriers to consumers and small businesses as a means to improve 3G mobile connectivity in buildings by taking advantage of existing broadband connections.… |
| Skytap adds orchestration to dev/test cloud Posted: 09 Aug 2011 06:32 AM PDT Hubbing and spokingSkytap, the lab automation cloud maker funded in part by Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, is adding features to its eponymous tool to make it more useful for companies wrestling with deploying applications on public and private clouds.… |
| Peaches Geldof explains Kubrick's <i>2001</i> Posted: 09 Aug 2011 06:13 AM PDT It's about 'the esoteric great architect Other', tweet revealsPeaches Geldof is taking a bit of a shoeing down at Twitter for cracking one of the great conundrums of our time in 140 characters or less – just WTF Stanley Kubrick's 2001 is all about.… |
| Sony confirms investigation into warehouse blaze is underway Posted: 09 Aug 2011 06:10 AM PDT Facility unsafe as fire continues to 'smoulder'Sony has confirmed that the huge blaze at its Digital Audio Disc Corporation (DADC) distribution centre in Enfield, north London, last night is being investigated by police.… |
| Motorola Xoom gets Android 3.1 Posted: 09 Aug 2011 06:04 AM PDT UK update awakens SD slotMotorola has released a UK Android 3.1 update for the Motorola Xoom, activating long-awaited features for early adopters.… |
| Magellan Explorist 710 hiking GPS Posted: 09 Aug 2011 05:33 AM PDT Head for the hillsReview The Explorist 710 is top of the line in Magellan's new x10 series of multi-purpose GPS devices and offers preloaded topographical maps, turn-by-turn navigation, geocaching, tracking and a host of other features in one handy robust unit.… |
| Posted: 09 Aug 2011 05:26 AM PDT Going Live...For years Private Eye has been making fun of 24-hour rolling news, and its pointless obsession with Going Live! It documented how this crept into scheduled bulletins – reporters standing pointlessly in front of empty buildings or roundabouts, where nothing at all was happening. The internet seemed to make rolling 24-hour news almost completely redundant. But now we can see, it all depends how you do it.… |
| Italian boffins to robo-grapple space junk Posted: 09 Aug 2011 05:22 AM PDT Cunning satellite plan to de-orbit rocket debrisItalian scientists have devised what they reckon is a viable plan to deal with the menace of large chucks of space debris: a robotic satellite which will grapple the junk, attach a propellant kit and dispatch it to a fiery death in the Earth's upper atmosphere.… |
| Microsoft UK and axed exec in legal smackdown Posted: 09 Aug 2011 05:17 AM PDT Ex-board member....Microsoft's former UK enterprise partner director and board member Simon Negus is suing the software giant for wrongful dismissal months after it slapped a writ on him to repay part of a bonus and holiday money.… |
| Prime Minister recalls holidaying MPs after London riots Posted: 09 Aug 2011 04:51 AM PDT 16,000 police will patrol streets tonight as retailers count cost of looting, firesPrime Minister David Cameron has recalled Parliament after three nights of rioting, looting and arson on London's streets.… |
| Dell's first global conference: Where are the EMEA partners? Posted: 09 Aug 2011 04:36 AM PDT Is there a channel outside of the US anyway?Dell is staging its first worldwide conference but is inviting only a handful of resellers from EMEA and is not banking on many of them turning up anyway.… |
| Posted: 09 Aug 2011 04:33 AM PDT Has shipped 20 million controllersIsraeli flash controller startup Anobit has doubled the capacity of its MSP controller and shipped 20 million of the little devils so far.… |
| LOHAN team buried under ballockets Posted: 09 Aug 2011 04:07 AM PDT Click here for a shedload of Reg reader spaceplane launch conceptsWe sort of knew we'd rue the day we asked you lot for your suggestions as to how exactly to launch our Low Orbit Helium Assisted Navigator (LOHAN) spaceplane, and so it turned out to be, as were were buried under a veritable bucketload of ballockets.… |
| Bankers plot telco bypass for payments Posted: 09 Aug 2011 03:47 AM PDT Tight margins not to be shared with operatorsThe Payments Council has been explaining its plans for a mobile payment platform: one that doesn't leave a cut for the network operators but keeps the revenue for the bankers.… |
| Posted: 09 Aug 2011 03:30 AM PDT Golden moments of cinemaAndroid App of the Week Not an app dedicated to the vicissitudes of India's currency or an equivalent of Grindr for fans of watersports. No, RunPee is an app designed to tell when the best time is to dash out of a cinema auditorium and take a quick tinkle, without missing too much of the action.… |
| Groupon sees surge in subscribers, scrubs contentious fiscal metric Posted: 09 Aug 2011 03:08 AM PDT Could rejig affect $25bn valuation?Daily deals website Groupon is reportedly set to jack in a controversial accounting metric that it previously considered to be a good way to measure how well the company was performing.… |
| Fake Firefox update bundles Trojan add-on Posted: 09 Aug 2011 03:06 AM PDT Spam emails try basic ruse in attempt to fool the cluelessScammers are attempting to trick Firefox users into downloading backdoored software via spam emails that supposedly advertise an "update" to the open-source browser.… |
| Videogames caused riots says plod Posted: 09 Aug 2011 02:43 AM PDT GTA London reloadedBlimey, things were heating up in London last night. To hide away from riots indoors and play your favourite videogames won't help, though. In fact according to one policeman, it's part of the problem.… |
| Blackberry QNX phone details leaked Posted: 09 Aug 2011 02:27 AM PDT But underpowered if true ...Images and specifications for the first Blackberry running QNX have surfaced, but if these are accurate then the Blackberry Colt is underpowered, incompatible and doomed from the start.… |
| ISP-operated servers alter search results, researchers claim Posted: 09 Aug 2011 02:15 AM PDT Search engine redirects give stealthy love to advertisersSearch engine requests are being altered to redirect users to specific websites in a "stealthy" system that benefits advertisers, US researchers have claimed.… |
| Should your business be app in the cloud? Posted: 09 Aug 2011 02:07 AM PDT Reg reader joins us, speaks from experienceOn Demand On June 23rd Reg Broadcast Editor Tim Phillips was joined by Reg reader James Greenman, Group IT Director at Care UK, to talk about where, when and why cloud might make sense for your business apps.… |
| Sony distribution centre engulfed by fire Posted: 09 Aug 2011 01:20 AM PDT London warehouse may have been set alight by riotersSony Corp's compact discs and DVDs warehouse in Enfield, north London, was on fire throughout the night.… |
| NBN Co offers start-up rebates for providers Posted: 08 Aug 2011 09:36 PM PDT Responds to entry cost concernsNBN Co, the company building Australia's National Broadband Network, has responded to concerns that its services price small ISPs out of the market, announcing tariff rebates for capacity charges during the start-up phase.… |
| Windows Phone dev GM splits with Microsoft Posted: 08 Aug 2011 05:19 PM PDT 'Remember, every time you use Google, a puppy dies'Charlie Kindel – the general manager of the Windows Phone Developer Ecosystem and a 21-year Microsoft veteran – is leaving the company for a mystery startup. But he still forbids his kids to use Google.… |
| Police Federation reiterates demand for 700 MHz spectrum Posted: 08 Aug 2011 05:01 PM PDT Emergency services vs. carriers battle drags onThe Police Federation of Australia has renewed calls for dedicated mobile broadband spectrum for Australia's public safety agencies, dismissing the telecommunications industry's suggestion that carrier services could meet their needs.… |
| Facebook password reset coming to phone near you Posted: 08 Aug 2011 04:21 PM PDT At some point in the futureFacebook said it plans to add a new security feature that will allow mobile device users to reset their password so they can regain access to their accounts.… |
| Posted: 08 Aug 2011 04:00 PM PDT 20% of staff set to goRampant rationalization hitting Australia public broadcaster, the ABC, has extended to the technical ranks.… |
| Adaptive Computing spins up Moab 6.1 control freak Posted: 08 Aug 2011 03:59 PM PDT Company 'fired up' about 'explosive growth'Adaptive Computing – formerly known as Cluster Resources – thinks it's now in the IT sweet spot. As virtualized cloudy infrastructure becomes the norm in the data center, the company says, outfits encounter the same kind of complex job scheduling issues that supercomputer clusters have had for decades on physical infrastructure, and it's there to help solve these problems.… |
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