Oz cybercrime laws in need of repair |
- Oz cybercrime laws in need of repair
- NetComm bags NBN device deal
- Compellent swoops in, saves Dell storage
- Microsoft, McDonald's absolved of tracking cookie abuse
- HP murders webOS tablets, phones
- Canonical ARMs Ubuntu for microserver wars
- Nimbula 'cloud operating system' spans data centers
- UK man faces five charges for repeated Facebook hacks
- HP to 'spinoff PC biz'
- DARPA shells out $21m for IBM cat brain chip
- Oxford adds woot! to dictionary
- Snap said to show iPhone 5s being stacked by bunnies
- HP confirms faster, paler TouchPad tablet
- Computacenter guru outlines new Colt not-a-cloud plan
- Australian bank to run trial with human teller in ATM
- Lenovo chiefs chortle over decision to buy IBM's PC biz
- Free Ride: Disney, Fela Kuti and Google's war on copyright
- Fort Knox military cops disgusted with solar patrol carts
- iPad sales shove Apple to top of mobile computing tree
- Symbian Anna makes her debut
- Data centre networking - the view from your seat
- Outsourcer says rivals faked stolen database offer
- Op Weeting plods cuff 13th hack in phone-hack probe
- Gerard Depardieu takes piss on plane, gets tossed off
- Sage leads bidding for Mind Your Own Business
- Skype brings per-minute Wi-Fi to iPad and iPhone
- White Space: The Next Big Thing in networks
- TalkTalk, Tiscali fined £3m in bogus billing smackdown
- LOHAN seeks mighty thruster for trip to heaven and back
- Amazon Kindle Cloud Reader
- UCAS website collapses - on results day
- NetApp misses revenue goal
- Office 365 and Dynamics CRM Online users suffer outages
- World+Dog to get keen on consoles next year
- Community Linux support for Penguin phones floated
- iPhone users richer, brainier, more tasteful than Android-ers
- Intel pushes back next-gen Atom release
- Southwest One made overpayments of £4.6m
- A first glance into Nutanix storage
- Samsung offers eco-econo green DRAM
- David May, parallel processing pioneer
- Better ATM skimming through thermal imaging
- Red Hat: Where recessions are good news
- Google+ bans real name under ‘Real Names’ policy
- Amcom grows profits with cloud demand
| Oz cybercrime laws in need of repair Posted: 18 Aug 2011 04:30 PM PDT Sent back under warrantyAn Australian Senate committee has recommended that law enforcement authorities should only hand information to agencies from other countries if those countries have privacy protection that matches our own.… |
| Posted: 18 Aug 2011 03:28 PM PDT Ericsson shares the A$1.1bn loveAustralian datacomms vendor NetComm has secured an NBN Co device supply contract via core NBN wireless vendor Ericsson.… |
| Compellent swoops in, saves Dell storage Posted: 18 Aug 2011 02:51 PM PDT Nearly doubled revenueDell's fiscal 2012 second quarter storage revenues, shrunk by lost EMC business, would have shown no growth or even a loss but for booming Compellent sales.… |
| Microsoft, McDonald's absolved of tracking cookie abuse Posted: 18 Aug 2011 02:50 PM PDT Redmond and Ronald victoriousA judge has gutted a lawsuit that accused companies including Microsoft, McDonald's, and advertising network Interclick of fraud for the use of code that tracked the browsing history of website visitors, even when they took pains to keep that information private.… |
| HP murders webOS tablets, phones Posted: 18 Aug 2011 12:49 PM PDT Confirms PC biz spinoff 'discussion'HP has announced that it will discontinue its webOS TouchPad and webOS phones, just weeks after the arrival of the TouchPad and a little more than a year after the company acquired the webOS mobile operating system from Palm in a $1.2bn purchase.… |
| Canonical ARMs Ubuntu for microserver wars Posted: 18 Aug 2011 12:19 PM PDT Oneric Ocelot runs un-x86Canonical is suiting up for the coming microserver wars, confirming that Ubuntu Server 11.10 will run on ARM chips.… |
| Nimbula 'cloud operating system' spans data centers Posted: 18 Aug 2011 11:46 AM PDT Ex-Amazon man transcends geographyNimbula – the build-your-own-cloud outfit founded by Amazon's former vice president of engineering – has announced a new release of its Director platform, saying it will allow businesses to run a unified "infrastructure cloud" across geographically separate data centers.… |
| UK man faces five charges for repeated Facebook hacks Posted: 18 Aug 2011 10:37 AM PDT Phabricator penetratedA 25-year-old UK man has been charged with five counts of illegal hacking for repeatedly penetrating the security defenses of Facebook.… |
| Posted: 18 Aug 2011 10:01 AM PDT $10bn Autonomy buy rumoredHewlett-Packard is planning to spinoff its PC business, according to Bloomberg.… |
| DARPA shells out $21m for IBM cat brain chip Posted: 18 Aug 2011 09:27 AM PDT Here, Skynet SkynetThe US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency is moving ahead with IBM in the third leg of its Synapse cat brain chip. That leaves one more leg, a tail, and nine lives to go.… |
| Oxford adds woot! to dictionary Posted: 18 Aug 2011 08:39 AM PDT Hello? 1994 wants its word backToday marks the launch of the centenary edition of the Concise Oxford English Dictionary, first compiled by the Fowler brothers in 1911: an event traditionally marked by a press release including words added for the first time.… |
| Snap said to show iPhone 5s being stacked by bunnies Posted: 18 Aug 2011 08:19 AM PDT Panels on paradeAre these handsets behind placed in palettes by workers in cleanroom clothing - aka bunny suits - actually iPhone 5s?… |
| HP confirms faster, paler TouchPad tablet Posted: 18 Aug 2011 08:00 AM PDT 64GB Wi-Fi model out in two weeksHP may not be selling quite as many TouchPad tablets as it might want to, but it's certainly not for want of trying. Hot on the heels of last month's launch comes a new, 64GB model.… |
| Computacenter guru outlines new Colt not-a-cloud plan Posted: 18 Aug 2011 07:33 AM PDT How do you draw a 'delivery platform' on a whiteboard?Computacenter's former storage boss Matthew Yeager is set to join LSE-listed Colt from next month as chief technologist.… |
| Australian bank to run trial with human teller in ATM Posted: 18 Aug 2011 06:41 AM PDT Video link, not dwarf or brain in jarAustralian banks may soon be rolling out new video-enabled ATMs which allow consumers to video-chat "live" with remote bank tellers.… |
| Lenovo chiefs chortle over decision to buy IBM's PC biz Posted: 18 Aug 2011 06:27 AM PDT Fat numbers from reorg'd Big Blue boxesIBM may think it was a grand plan to exit the PC game by flogging its biz to Lenovo, but the Chinese vendor does not concur, as its Q1 sales rises show.… |
| Free Ride: Disney, Fela Kuti and Google's war on copyright Posted: 18 Aug 2011 05:59 AM PDT Lawrence Lessig's work 'isn't worthy of a Harvard prof'Interview Wars over creators' rights are pretty old – much older than copyright law. In one of the first "copyfights", in 561AD, about 3,000 people died, writes Robert Levine in his new book Free Ride. St Colmcille and St Finnian clashed over the right to make copies of the Bible, with the King castigating Colmcille for his "fancy new ideas about people's property".… |
| Fort Knox military cops disgusted with solar patrol carts Posted: 18 Aug 2011 05:26 AM PDT Sluggish 'leccy buggies unpopular with bullion base plodsUS military police stationed at Fort Knox, home among other things to the United States Bullion Depository, are reportedly none too pleased at having to patrol in rather feeble solar-powered electric golf carts in line with Pentagon efforts to be more environmentally friendly.… |
| iPad sales shove Apple to top of mobile computing tree Posted: 18 Aug 2011 05:24 AM PDT Jobs mob looks down on HP, Dell et alYou can see why Apple thinks the iPad is "magical" - the fondleslab has again mysteriously lifted the company's share of the mobile computer market above even HP and Dell.… |
| Posted: 18 Aug 2011 05:24 AM PDT Younger, prettier sister still not allowed out in publicOwners of the latest Nokia phones can now update to Symbian Anna, assuming their operators permit it, but having caught a glimpse of her younger sister they might not be impressed.… |
| Data centre networking - the view from your seat Posted: 18 Aug 2011 05:00 AM PDT Are you coping with service demands?Reg Tech Panel Data centre networks provide the infrastructure that allows business services to function. They let users get on with their jobs while allowing systems to be protected according to need.… |
| Outsourcer says rivals faked stolen database offer Posted: 18 Aug 2011 04:41 AM PDT 'Envious competitor in lame attempt to hurt us'eBay-style outsourcing site PeoplePerHour says a rival firm faked emails which claimed to be offering the company's customer database for sale.… |
| Op Weeting plods cuff 13th hack in phone-hack probe Posted: 18 Aug 2011 04:32 AM PDT Reportedly former NotW showbiz bin-riflerThe Metropolitan police have arrested another man as part of its ongoing investigation into alleged phone-hacking at axed Sunday tabloid News of the World.… |
| Gerard Depardieu takes piss on plane, gets tossed off Posted: 18 Aug 2011 04:23 AM PDT 'Je veux pisser', thunders bottle spatter mishap thespGerard Depardieu was kicked off a flight to Dublin, after the French actor responded to the call of nature by peeing into a bottle and reportedly overspilling an unsteady flow of piss into the aisle.… |
| Sage leads bidding for Mind Your Own Business Posted: 18 Aug 2011 04:01 AM PDT Geordie move into Antipodes looking goodSage has been declared preferred bidder for Aussie small biz and accounts firm MYOB.… |
| Skype brings per-minute Wi-Fi to iPad and iPhone Posted: 18 Aug 2011 03:36 AM PDT Who here remembers mobile dial-up? Great daysiPhone and iPad users can now be charged by the minute for Wi-Fi access, thanks to the expanded Skype Access service which now includes fondle-slabs and Jesus mobes as well as computers.… |
| White Space: The Next Big Thing in networks Posted: 18 Aug 2011 03:25 AM PDT Among the mystery pub antennas of the Silicon FensAnalysis The white spaces are filling up around Cambridge, so El Reg went up to the Fens to talk to the companies responsible about what white space is for ... and why they're sticking their masts on pubs.… |
| TalkTalk, Tiscali fined £3m in bogus billing smackdown Posted: 18 Aug 2011 03:19 AM PDT Telcos set bailiffs on people who owed them nothingTalkTalk and Tiscali have been hit with a big fine from Ofcom, after wrongly billing tens of thousands of customers for services they never received.… |
| LOHAN seeks mighty thruster for trip to heaven and back Posted: 18 Aug 2011 03:00 AM PDT Special Projects to attend International Rocket WeekOur Low Orbit Helium Assisted Navigator (LOHAN) project is beginning to gain momentum, and we reckon it's about time we looked into the explosive matter of the Vulture 2 rocket motor.… |
| Posted: 18 Aug 2011 03:00 AM PDT Retailer breaks out of the App Store. HurrahiOS App of the Week Looks like there's trouble a-brewing in the cosy iOS ecosystem. Amazon has just rewritten its Kindle app as an HTML 5 'web app' in order to circumvent the restrictions of the App Store – not to mention the 30 per cent cut that Apple skims off the top of every sale.… |
| UCAS website collapses - on results day Posted: 18 Aug 2011 02:31 AM PDT Who could have predicted such massive traffic? Er ...'A' level students looking to find a university place through the UCAS website had better get on the phone instead - the organisation has shut down its own website.… |
| Posted: 18 Aug 2011 02:28 AM PDT 'We're in unprecedented waters right now'NetApp made a reduced profit in its first fiscal 2012 quarter, reflecting a sudden US sales drop-off attributed to public sector and financial services buying slowdowns.… |
| Office 365 and Dynamics CRM Online users suffer outages Posted: 18 Aug 2011 02:08 AM PDT 'They should call it Office 364, really'Microsoft Office 365 and Dynamics CRM Online customers stateside suffered a major outage yesterday for more than five hours.… |
| World+Dog to get keen on consoles next year Posted: 18 Aug 2011 02:06 AM PDT PS3 to host 'most active' fanbase by 2015Consumer spending on games consoles and software will begin to bounce back next year - after a slide of a few percentage points between 2010 and 2011 - thanks, in part, to the Wii U.… |
| Community Linux support for Penguin phones floated Posted: 18 Aug 2011 02:03 AM PDT 'Let's all pick one kernel and stick with it for a bit'Plans are afoot to establish a long-term support system for new versions of the Linux kernel to help slide the penguin into more smartphones.… |
| iPhone users richer, brainier, more tasteful than Android-ers Posted: 18 Aug 2011 01:28 AM PDT Connoisseurs of fine wine, gourmets, lovers etc etcA massive survey of smartphone users purports to show that iPhone users are sushi-eating leaders, while anyone touting an Android handset prefers steak and following others.… |
| Intel pushes back next-gen Atom release Posted: 18 Aug 2011 01:04 AM PDT Cedar Trail trialsIntel has allegedly knocked back the release of its next-gen netbook and nettop chippery, from September to November.… |
| Southwest One made overpayments of £4.6m Posted: 18 Aug 2011 12:58 AM PDT Glitch had staff chucking cheques out of town hall windowsA software glitch has led Somerset county council to make overpayments of £3.7m, the authority has confirmed.… |
| A first glance into Nutanix storage Posted: 18 Aug 2011 12:52 AM PDT Once over lightlyWhat can we expect from the Nutanix Complete Cluster in a storage sense? Here's an instant review of what the documentation tells us.… |
| Samsung offers eco-econo green DRAM Posted: 18 Aug 2011 12:34 AM PDT It's like making a computer out of rainbowsUsing through-silicon vias, Samsung is stacking its memory chips higher and reducing energy consumption.… |
| David May, parallel processing pioneer Posted: 18 Aug 2011 12:00 AM PDT We salute the architect of the TransputerUnsung Heroes of Tech "It's very distressing - I'm watching almost with disbelief. The Americans cannot get it out of their heads that if you're trying to build machines with lots of processors, you don't assume that they all share a common memory. The world doesn't have a common database. We pass messages to one another."… |
| Better ATM skimming through thermal imaging Posted: 17 Aug 2011 10:00 PM PDT Technique automates PIN theftSecurity researchers have found that thermal cameras can be combined with computer algorithms to automate the process of stealing payment card data processed by automatic teller machines.… |
| Red Hat: Where recessions are good news Posted: 17 Aug 2011 09:00 PM PDT Economic downturn antidoteOpen...and Shut While Silicon Valley is still bubbling like it's 1999, tech investor Mark Suster thinks the flailing job market and imploding stock market is a warning to entrepreneurs: raise what money you can as fast as you can, because life is about to get much harder, even for web companies.… |
| Google+ bans real name under ‘Real Names’ policy Posted: 17 Aug 2011 06:00 PM PDT Don't be |
| Amcom grows profits with cloud demand Posted: 17 Aug 2011 04:30 PM PDT Insert 'silver lining' pun here...Perth based fibre-optic carrier Amcom Telecommunications has boosted annual profits by 31 percent, forecasting similar growth for the year ahead bolstered by cloud services.… |
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