Wikileaked cable: AFACT was MPAA’s cat’s-paw

Wikileaked cable: AFACT was MPAA’s cat’s-paw


Wikileaked cable: AFACT was MPAA’s cat’s-paw

Posted: 31 Aug 2011 03:11 PM PDT

Pope turns out to be Catholic

A second cable discussing the "world+dog vs. iiNet" court case has emerged on Wikileaks, confirming the widespread suspicion in Australia that Hollywood was behind both the action and the choice of target.…

IBM borgs UK 'big data' outfit

Posted: 31 Aug 2011 02:47 PM PDT

Big Blue echoes HP (The New Big Blue)

IBM is to acquire the Cambridge, UK-based "big data" analytics outfit i2, echoing HP's $11bn purchase of Autonomy Corp. earlier this month.…

Sydney NFC newbie gets tapped by investors

Posted: 31 Aug 2011 02:35 PM PDT

Tapit gets VC interest in record time

Sydney based NFC start-up Tapit Media has secured its first round of seed funding from VC group Sydney Angels.…

DoJ files antitrust suit to block AT&T's T-Mobile buy

Posted: 31 Aug 2011 12:32 PM PDT

Deal will 'substantially lessen competition'

The US Department of Justice has filed an antitrust lawsuit to block AT&T's proposed acquisition of fellow wireless carrier T-Mobile USA.…

Mozilla addons site targeted in same attack that hit Google

Posted: 31 Aug 2011 11:34 AM PDT

Counterfeiters mint SSL cert for addons.mozilla.org

The secure webpage hosting addons for Mozilla Firefox was targeted in the same attack that minted a fraudulent authentication credential for Google websites, the maker of the open-source browser said.…

Google rolls out offline Gmail (for Chrome only)

Posted: 31 Aug 2011 11:25 AM PDT

Offline Docs and Calendar imminent

Google has released a new version of Gmail that operates without an internet connection, and it plans to offer similar offline versions of Google Docs and Google Calendar over the coming week. But these tools will only work in tandem with Google's own Chrome browser.…

Oracle's Africa dealings under FBI, SEC, DoJ investigation

Posted: 31 Aug 2011 08:52 AM PDT

Ellison's firm up to its neck in the alphabet soup

Oracle is reported to be under investigation by the US authorities for breaking federal anti-bribery laws in Africa.…

Nokia's Ovi wunderkind is off ... to Nokia-backed Vision+

Posted: 31 Aug 2011 08:20 AM PDT

Ojanperä brings unbeatable track record - of disasters

One of Nokia's high flyers is leaving the company – but will still be spending Nokia's money. Tero Ojanperä, an executive vice president, member of the core Leadership Team (and, don't forget, UN Young Global Leader) will head up a Nokia-backed investment fund called Vision+.…

WikiLeaks weathers DDoS assault

Posted: 31 Aug 2011 07:34 AM PDT

Continues to spaff secret diplo cables, beg for Bitcoin

WikiLeaks' website slowed to a crawl on Tuesday night following an apparent denial of service attack.…

Microsoft brings Hadoop option to SQL Server

Posted: 31 Aug 2011 06:35 AM PDT

Open-source crunchware SQOOPs to conquer

Microsoft customers running SQL Server are getting a taste of really big data processing through an injection of Hadoop.…

Last ever batch of TouchPads isn't coming to Blighty

Posted: 31 Aug 2011 06:19 AM PDT

No cheap slabs to fondle for Limeys, Yur'peens

Brits hoping for a cheap fondle won't get one from HP, as the final production run of the TouchPad will be bound for North America only.…

MySociety marshals griping commuters to fix UK transport

Posted: 31 Aug 2011 05:58 AM PDT

'We'd have done climate change, but even Obama can't sort that'

Commuters who like to complain have a new outlet with the launch of FixMyTransport.com, a website that gets your grievance to the right person.…

DARPA software to trawl Bin Laden laptops, thumb drives

Posted: 31 Aug 2011 05:44 AM PDT

Mil-spook gear to deal with haul from Special Ops raids

Famous Pentagon mad-scientist bureau DARPA says it would like some miracle software to help hard-pressed US spooks and military intelligence officers trawl through the massive troves of imagery retrieved from gadgetry seized in the ongoing massive campaign of special-forces raids across southwest Asia.…

Don't buy your iPad in a McDonald's car park

Posted: 31 Aug 2011 05:24 AM PDT

South Carolina fangirl finds herself fondling wood

A young woman in South Carolina has had her dream of buying a brand-new shiny iPad in the car park of a McDonald's crushed by two swindlers, who left her with a wooden dud.…

Firefox offers glimpse of new tablet version

Posted: 31 Aug 2011 04:57 AM PDT

Slab-size Fennec looking worthy of a good fondle

The chaps at Mozilla are showing off how well Firefox will work on a tablet computer, with new interface elements aping Honeycomb – but still no launch schedule.…

Quarter of NHS data collection to go in red-tape slash plan

Posted: 31 Aug 2011 04:19 AM PDT

They make a desert, and call it rationalised

The UK's Department of Health hopes to save millions by cutting data collection and red tape across the NHS.…

Sony to ship VR-style 3D headset in November

Posted: 31 Aug 2011 04:10 AM PDT

Japan first

The 3D headset Sony showed off at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas this past January will finally go on sale in November - though only in Japan.…

Finding the black-spots in service delivery

Posted: 31 Aug 2011 03:58 AM PDT

And what to do when you clock them

On Demand  Earlier this month we ran live Regcast called 'Watermelon metrics...''. Reg broadcast editor Tim Phillips was joined by Freeform Dynamics analyst Andy Buss and CA Technologies' Patrick Ancipink.…

Father of Java abandons Google for floating robot cloud

Posted: 31 Aug 2011 03:57 AM PDT

Fun times ahoy, cries newly nautical Gosling

Father of Java James Gosling has quit Google and turned his back on tier-one tech companies altogether by joining a California start-up which makes unmanned ocean-going robots.…

New UK 'leccy meters remotely run via Voda 2G

Posted: 31 Aug 2011 03:43 AM PDT

Also have ZigBee for total control of your home

British Gas is to deploy meters with embedded mobile phones, and Zigbee networking, to ensure we know how much electricity we're using, and they do too.…

Graphene photocells could mean hyper-speed internet

Posted: 31 Aug 2011 03:27 AM PDT

Not merely broadband but grossly-obese-band now possible

The latest study of miracle material graphene shows it could be used to provide a much higher speed internet.…

Toshiba launches thick Thrive tablet in Europe

Posted: 31 Aug 2011 03:17 AM PDT

Skinny Excite set for the States alone?

Toshiba will not be introducing its third-generation Android tablet at this week's IFA consumer electronics show, confounding reports and the hopes fondleslab fans.…

Outbound space probe looks back at tiny Earth and Moon

Posted: 31 Aug 2011 03:14 AM PDT

Space snap puts things in perspective

Pic  NASA's space probe Juno, outward bound for Jupiter, has sent pack a pic of the Earth-Moon system from 6 million miles away.…

Sid Meier's Civilisation

Posted: 31 Aug 2011 03:00 AM PDT

Just one more turn?

Antique Code Show  I remember 1991 starting on a sombre note, with my sister and I sitting in a bar doing shots under an Apocalypse Now poster waiting for the start of World War III, as we watched US bombers strafe Iraq. The end of civilisation? Well, not quite.…

Mobee mods Magic Trackpad into virtual keyboard

Posted: 31 Aug 2011 02:35 AM PDT

Customise your unwanted Apple input device

So you bought an Apple Magic Trackpad at launch, but you've found you never use it - yes, we're thinking of you, Bob. Now it doesn't have to gather dust.…

NHS diabetic gizmo will text for help if wearer is in danger

Posted: 31 Aug 2011 02:27 AM PDT

hlp Im havN a lo bl%d sugA @ack

Scientists from Swansea University are collaborating with a consortium of Welsh technology companies to develop a blood glucose-monitoring sensor that can transmit readings to the mobile phones of NHS staff.…

Motorola pops Pro+

Posted: 31 Aug 2011 02:18 AM PDT

A smartphone that won't let you sleep?

Here's a handset that'll keep you awake: Motorola's new Pro+.…

Trev's Big Adventure in Virtualisation

Posted: 31 Aug 2011 02:11 AM PDT

Desktop and Server project challenge

Video  Trevor Pott, our adventurous sysadmin guest, never does things by halves. When a client asked him to virtualize its desktop and server infrastructure all in one go, he jumped at the chance. Danny Bradbury interviews him day by day as he grapples with missing equipment, application issues, and backup woes.…

Smartphone net access rockets

Posted: 31 Aug 2011 02:02 AM PDT

Brits take to mobile internet like never before

Almost half of the UK's internet users - 45 per cent of them - accessed the net using a mobile phone in the past 12 months, the Office of National Statistics (ONS) said today.…

CA inks £45m Tesco IT deal

Posted: 31 Aug 2011 01:58 AM PDT

Taming the heterogeneous infrastructure. Mmm

Supermarket behemoth Tesco has announced that US-based CA Technologies will take care of its IT network across the whole group.…

Tyneside police website defaced, used to serve phish

Posted: 31 Aug 2011 01:57 AM PDT

Tunisian conflict spills over into Newcastle

Northumbria Police Authority woke up to a host of security problems after the August bank holiday weekend.…

Apple ejects FT app from iTunes

Posted: 31 Aug 2011 01:30 AM PDT

30 per cent of your subs revenue belong to us

Apple has formally booted the Financial Times newspaper app out of the iTunes store for the newspaper's refusal to hand over 30 per cent of subscription revenues to the Mac maker.…

Samsung outs MacBook Pro lookalike laptop

Posted: 31 Aug 2011 01:07 AM PDT

Apple legal team rubs hands in anticipation

Samsung, oh how you must love to tempt Apple lawyers. Launched this morning: the Series 7 Chronos notebook, a 15.6in machine wrapped in aluminium. With a black caclulator-style keyboard. And a black lid hinge.…

Renault Scenic Bose Edition 1.6 130dCi

Posted: 31 Aug 2011 12:00 AM PDT

A boombox on wheels?

Review  Many years ago, a family friend who at the time flew for the United States Air Force gave me a personal tour around a Fairchild A10 Thunderbolt and said: "Y'know, Al, she ain't a plane she's more a gun with wings."…

Couple can sue service that monitored their net sex

Posted: 30 Aug 2011 11:00 PM PDT

Laptop tracking firm may have violated wiretap law

A federal judge is allowing a lawsuit to proceed against a laptop-tracking service that surreptitiously intercepted explicit images from a public school teacher during an investigation of a stolen computer.…

Subscribe to our hardware, says Brocade

Posted: 30 Aug 2011 10:48 PM PDT

Install now, buy by the port later

Hoping to use its elbows against Cisco's hold on the data centre market, Brocade has decided on a pitch to the bean-counters: switches that you pay for according to the ports you're using.…

Telstra unites and rebrands digital media ad assets

Posted: 30 Aug 2011 09:00 PM PDT

Aims to get a deep TAN

Telstra has merged its media advertising assets, Sensis Digital Media, Telstra Classifieds and BigPond Advertising into a newly created group branded the Telstra Advertising Network (TAN).…

IBM opens Power8 kimono (a little bit more)

Posted: 30 Aug 2011 09:00 PM PDT

Wafer baked in 22 nanometers

Last May El Reg gave you the little information we were able to gather on the impending Power7+ and future Power8 processor designs and their possible announcement dates in Power Systems machines.…

Biofuel boffins pimp panda poo

Posted: 30 Aug 2011 06:00 PM PDT

Breaking down the tough stuff

Pandas are famous for a restricted and difficult diet: the bamboo they favour takes a lot of digesting to yield enough energy to keep them going.…

Aus regulator seeks tweaks to Telstra NBN plan

Posted: 30 Aug 2011 05:30 PM PDT

Separation anxiety

Australia's competition regulator has pushed a pawn in the telco regulation chess match, soliciting industry comment on Telstra's first draft of its structural separation regime.…

One last production run for TouchPad

Posted: 30 Aug 2011 05:01 PM PDT

Fondleslab's final fling

HP swears this is it: the end, the final, never-to-be-repeated, absolutely the last time: but there will be just one more production run of TouchPads for punters that missed out on cheap-as-chips deals when it killed off the unloved fondleslab.…

Apple's cloudy music streamer won't stream music

Posted: 30 Aug 2011 03:56 PM PDT

'Listen while you download' – with restrictions

Apple's long-awaited iCloud music-streaming service won't actually stream your iTunes music collection. Instead, it will download tunes to your device, though you'll be able to listen to them while they are being downloaded.…

Did Google certificate forgers hit hundreds more sites?

Posted: 30 Aug 2011 03:51 PM PDT

Google Chrome blacklists 247 credentials

The hack attack that minted a fraudulent authentication credential for Google.com may have affected hundreds of other websites, a review of source code for Google's Chromium browser suggests.…

Accenture and Telstra open cloud lab

Posted: 30 Aug 2011 03:50 PM PDT

Making the cloud work for Australia

Fresh from securing a multi-million dollar national government e-health contract, Accenture, along with Telstra, has invested in a new Product Innovation Lab in Melbourne to develop cloud-computing solutions for customers in Australia and New Zealand.…

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