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- Google's Native Client goes live in Chrome
- Intel demos ultra low-juice chippery
- Oracle slates 'extreme' system kickoff
- Oracle offers commercial extensions to MySQL
- Facebook plugs developer site into Heroku code cloud
- Irishman's coke-packed abdomen poses for police
- Yahoo, Microsoft's Bing display toxic ads
- HP sued by investor over PC and TouchPad antics
- Fujitsu gov workers strike Monday: Unite on, PCS off
- Mozilla co-founder quits Firefox veep role
- RIM share price nosedives following stinky numbers
- Valve pushes Portal freebie
- 'Leaked' FBI Anonymous/LulzSec psych profile is bogus
- VMware juices Roo for big Java clouds
- Celebrating the 55th anniversary of the hard disk
- Smut domain scores big bucks for not handling smut
- Former Acer CEO heads to Lenovo as a consultant
- Big Apple fake Apple stores agree to rat out suppliers
- Spanish feds mend website clobbered by Anonymous
- Nigerians panic over killer calls
- Resistance 3
- Firm claims it can put NFC tap-cash tech in a SIM card
- Poskett signs up to lead Huawei UK enterprise channel
- Canon perks up Powershot pair
- First Google Plus API released to developers
- Flattening Ethernet
- Nokia dumps Dragon in major UK channel revamp
- Schoolkids learn coding at GCSE level in curriculum trial
- Blue Screen of Death gets makeover for Windows 8
- Judge gives Google more time for digital library talks
- LOHAN deluged with <i>Reg</i> readers' interjections in REHAB
- Scosche BoomCan mini travel speaker
- Microsoft merges Windows 8 with Xbox Live
- PayPal's 'delightful' intrusion into meatspace: You wish
- App lets NFC BlackBerrys open electronic locks
- Privacy watchdog publishes e-privacy laws compliance guidance
- Newzbin2 pirates prepare to sink BT web block
- ICO slates local authorities on data protection compliance
- Dell XPS 15z 15.6in Core i5 notebook
- Sixty-seven WIMPs spotted in the wild, maybe
- Windows 8: Half million previews downloaded in 24 hours
- Google shamed by Apple in race to HTML5
- How gizmo maker's hack outflanked copyright trolls
- RIM profits nearly sliced in half
- After hack nightmare, Sony bars lawsuits with new TOS
- Oz-US ANZUS treaty adds infowar co-operation
- Optus gets first licence to penetrate 700MHz band
- Aussie rules on cloud PVR test laws
| Google's Native Client goes live in Chrome Posted: 16 Sep 2011 02:00 PM PDT The C++ code Mozilla never wants on webGoogle has officially launched Native Client – a means of securely running C and C++ code inside a browser – as part of a new stable version of its Chrome browser that activates this rather controversial sandboxing technology.… |
| Intel demos ultra low-juice chippery Posted: 16 Sep 2011 01:58 PM PDT Pentium rises from the dustbin of historyIDF 2011 Intel labs has created a prototype processor that achieves a high level of energy efficiency by running at voltages barely above those those required to light up its transistors.… |
| Oracle slates 'extreme' system kickoff Posted: 16 Sep 2011 01:53 PM PDT Ellison vows to 'change the dynamics of the datacenter'Oracle has scheduled a systems announcement ahead of its early October OpenWorld conference, and has just released a patch for its Solaris 10 operating system ahead of the expected launch of the long-awaited Solaris 11.… |
| Oracle offers commercial extensions to MySQL Posted: 16 Sep 2011 12:49 PM PDT 'It's not the apocalypse'Oracle has released three new commercial extensions for MySQL, provoking fears that the company might be trying to take the project too far from its open source roots.… |
| Facebook plugs developer site into Heroku code cloud Posted: 16 Sep 2011 11:55 AM PDT Sky-high app host debuts PHP, PythonFacebook has plugged its developer site into Heroku, giving coders direct access to a "platform cloud" where they can deploy, host, and readily scale their Facebook applications.… |
| Irishman's coke-packed abdomen poses for police Posted: 16 Sep 2011 11:54 AM PDT Impressive scan of São Paulo narcomule's light lunchBrazilian cops have released an impressive scan of the abdomen of an Irish chap who attempted to board a plane in São Paulo earlier this week packing 830g of cocaine.… |
| Yahoo, Microsoft's Bing display toxic ads Posted: 16 Sep 2011 11:44 AM PDT These aren't the downloads you're looking forSearch engines from Microsoft and Yahoo! Have once again been caught displaying ads that direct users to malicious content, some that infects them with malware that's hard to detect and get rid of, researchers said.… |
| HP sued by investor over PC and TouchPad antics Posted: 16 Sep 2011 08:57 AM PDT Didn't reveal shares were bumwad from Bank of ToylandHP is facing legal action brought about by a disgruntled shareholder who claims the tech titan hid plans to review ownership of the PC biz and flush the TouchPad down the toilet [causing it to suddenly catch fire - ed].… |
| Fujitsu gov workers strike Monday: Unite on, PCS off Posted: 16 Sep 2011 08:55 AM PDT PCS: 'Solidarity to Unite, but we're all right thanks'Unionised Fujitsu workers have called off their strike set for Monday after bosses at the firm "doubled" the pot of money available for pay rises with an additional £500,000 brought to the negotiating table.… |
| Mozilla co-founder quits Firefox veep role Posted: 16 Sep 2011 08:41 AM PDT 'You were like a brick through a window' says, er, a mateA longtime Mozilla Corporation VP has quit the open source outfit he co-founded in 1998.… |
| RIM share price nosedives following stinky numbers Posted: 16 Sep 2011 08:24 AM PDT PlayBook suffers fruity fondleslab smackdownResearch In Motion's share price crashed quite spectacularly in the first hour and a half that the market was open in New York, dropping 20 per cent off its price.… |
| Posted: 16 Sep 2011 08:15 AM PDT Doors open for game giveawayValve is making the original Portal available for free this weekend on Steam.… |
| 'Leaked' FBI Anonymous/LulzSec psych profile is bogus Posted: 16 Sep 2011 07:58 AM PDT Feds say Anons wrote it: 'narcissism' comment may be trueSupposed psychological profiles of senior members of hacking horde Anonymous are almost certainly a work of fiction.… |
| VMware juices Roo for big Java clouds Posted: 16 Sep 2011 07:27 AM PDT Hypervisor hammering in the Cloud FoundryVMware's SpringSource unit has released Java tooling making it faster and easier to build big clouds using its parent's Cloud Foundry project.… |
| Celebrating the 55th anniversary of the hard disk Posted: 16 Sep 2011 07:00 AM PDT The platters of Big Blue spawn that changed the worldAll anniversaries are special, and so is this one. It's particularly special because a billion or more people have been and are being affected by it every day. They switch on their PCs and take advantage of Intel processors and Microsoft's Windows, or Mac OS, thinking nothing of it. But before these, and providing a foundation for them, came spinning disks, rotating hard disk drives, the electro-mechanical phenomenon that the world of computing has depended on for decades: 55 years to be precise.… |
| Smut domain scores big bucks for not handling smut Posted: 16 Sep 2011 06:38 AM PDT If you exist, there might be porn of youThousands of companies, far more than expected, are handing over hundreds of dollars each to block their brands in the new .xxx internet domain.… |
| Former Acer CEO heads to Lenovo as a consultant Posted: 16 Sep 2011 06:25 AM PDT Lanci knows how to handle big GermansFormer Acer CEO Gianfranco Lanci is joining Lenovo as a consultant to help steer the firm's consumer biz worldwide, particularly the integration of recently-acquired German PC maker Medion.… |
| Big Apple fake Apple stores agree to rat out suppliers Posted: 16 Sep 2011 05:44 AM PDT Yes it's made in China, that doesn't mean it's genuineA New York gadget shop called Apple Story has agreed to change its name, hand over any counterfeit stock bearing Apple logos or slogans and name its dodgy suppliers as part of a settlement with the fruity tech giant.… |
| Spanish feds mend website clobbered by Anonymous Posted: 16 Sep 2011 05:29 AM PDT Prime ministerial bodyguards outed by hacktivistasSpanish national police have reactivated their website following attacks by hacking supergroup Anonymous.… |
| Nigerians panic over killer calls Posted: 16 Sep 2011 05:19 AM PDT Unlucky numbersThe Nigerian public has been reassured by authorities that answering a phone call cannot cause death, after widespread rumours raised concern.… |
| Posted: 16 Sep 2011 05:00 AM PDT Hostile virusReview It's hard to know whether to blame its own over-bearing derivation or the over-saturation of FPS games in general: either way, Resistance 3 is an anticlimatic end to a series that has struggled to rise above mediocrity.… |
| Firm claims it can put NFC tap-cash tech in a SIM card Posted: 16 Sep 2011 04:43 AM PDT And that it will still work buried in a phone's gutsSK Telecom has announced that it will launch an NFC-capable SIM card next month, achieving something hitherto considered impossible while skipping over the need for technical explanation.… |
| Poskett signs up to lead Huawei UK enterprise channel Posted: 16 Sep 2011 04:29 AM PDT Enter(prise) the DragonFormer long-serving HP reseller and distie boss Dave Poskett is heading up the UK enterprise channel for Chinese network infrastructure vendor Huawei.… |
| Posted: 16 Sep 2011 04:20 AM PDT CMOS in, CCD outCanon has unveiled two additions to its Powershot cameras range, both powered by the latest Digic 5 image processor which enhances colour, reduces noise and increases white balance accuracy.… |
| First Google Plus API released to developers Posted: 16 Sep 2011 04:10 AM PDT 'People.get' lets you trawl the public shoalsCoders can now get their hands on a single Google+ API (application programming interface).… |
| Posted: 16 Sep 2011 04:00 AM PDT Moving back to Layer 2Expert Clinic Ethernet needs to become a lean, mean networking machine, and the way to do that, we're told, is to flatten the fabric, avoid layer the processing and keep as much as possible down in Layer 2. Is this real? What does it mean for performance, network management and open Ethernet standards?… |
| Nokia dumps Dragon in major UK channel revamp Posted: 16 Sep 2011 03:57 AM PDT Rumours aswirl of attempts to lock down distributorsNokia has terminated its distribution contract with specialist comms disties 20:20 and Data Select in a revamp of its UK channel.… |
| Schoolkids learn coding at GCSE level in curriculum trial Posted: 16 Sep 2011 03:43 AM PDT 'Basic skill for 21st century human beings' - WillettsTeenagers could be taught to write their own software programs at GCSE as part of a major overhaul of the UK schools' IT curriculum.… |
| Blue Screen of Death gets makeover for Windows 8 Posted: 16 Sep 2011 03:30 AM PDT Please turn me off then on again :(Windows 8 doesn't just put Microsoft's operating system on finger-friendly tablets, it also gives the notorious Blue Screen of Death (BSOD) a touchy makeover.… |
| Judge gives Google more time for digital library talks Posted: 16 Sep 2011 03:24 AM PDT Web giant's plan to make orphans work for it delayedGoogle and American authors and publishers have been given an extra nine months to come up with a solution to the ongoing legal dispute over the web giant's proposed digital library.… |
| LOHAN deluged with <i>Reg</i> readers' interjections in REHAB Posted: 16 Sep 2011 03:11 AM PDT Revised hypobaric chamber plan for your delectationThe Special Project Bureau's elite Hypobaric Evaluation And Design (HEAD) team has spent the last couple of days contemplating your suggestions as to how we might get LOHAN to suck more more effectively.… |
| Scosche BoomCan mini travel speaker Posted: 16 Sep 2011 03:00 AM PDT Tubular belle?Accessory of the Week There is no shortage of small speakers for phones and music players, but few deliver much in the way of welly, or even sound quality.… |
| Microsoft merges Windows 8 with Xbox Live Posted: 16 Sep 2011 02:44 AM PDT Mental multiplayerMicrosoft has demonstrated how the forthcoming Windows 8 will communicate with the Xbox platform, in its first showing of how the company aims to bring "everything you know and love on Xbox 360 and Xbox Live to Windows."… |
| PayPal's 'delightful' intrusion into meatspace: You wish Posted: 16 Sep 2011 02:32 AM PDT It's not like this stuff hasn't been triedComment PayPal reckons its mobile payment system will take us into a new way of managing our money, and PayPal into the real world of real things, but disrupting world banking ain't that easy.… |
| App lets NFC BlackBerrys open electronic locks Posted: 16 Sep 2011 02:14 AM PDT Now you can lose phone, wallet and keys in one goHID Global, makers of electronic locks for everything from server keyboards to student halls, has created an app that allows NFC-equipped BlackBerrys to be used instead of ID cards.… |
| Privacy watchdog publishes e-privacy laws compliance guidance Posted: 16 Sep 2011 01:58 AM PDT No help for biz on getting users to accept their nasty cookiesThe Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) has gathered its guidance on electronic privacy laws in one place.… |
| Newzbin2 pirates prepare to sink BT web block Posted: 16 Sep 2011 01:28 AM PDT App weighs anchor to scuttle censoring landlubbersPirate site Newzbin2 has cooked up a software client that it says will help UK users defeat a block on the site that is due to be enforced in October.… |
| ICO slates local authorities on data protection compliance Posted: 16 Sep 2011 01:01 AM PDT Graham: You've been 'very bad'. Bend overThe Information Commissioner has called for the commencement of the custodial element of the section 55 offences and expressly criticised data protection compliance by local authorities as being "very bad".… |
| Dell XPS 15z 15.6in Core i5 notebook Posted: 15 Sep 2011 11:00 PM PDT How to clone a MacBook...Review When the 15z was announced there was no small amount of fanfare, not least due to Dell's interesting claim that this was the thinnest 15in laptop in existence. In no time at all, it had been pointed out that the accompanying asterisk needed to be the size of an actual star, since the machine the 15z was aping, the Apple MacBook Pro, was actually thinner by a disastrous 0.02in.… |
| Sixty-seven WIMPs spotted in the wild, maybe Posted: 15 Sep 2011 10:54 PM PDT Dark matter has slim evidence, cautious optimismIt's not quite enough evidence to constitute a discovery, but scientists working on the CRESST experiment think they may have spotted Weakly Interacting Massive Particles (WIMPs).… |
| Windows 8: Half million previews downloaded in 24 hours Posted: 15 Sep 2011 10:00 PM PDT Ballmer chuffed with Windows for FondleslabsHalf a million previews of Windows 8 have been downloaded by developers since the software became available on Tuesday, Microsoft has announced.… |
| Google shamed by Apple in race to HTML5 Posted: 15 Sep 2011 09:23 PM PDT Now that's embarrassingOpen...and Shut If ever there were a company made to beat Apple in mobile, it's Google.… |
| How gizmo maker's hack outflanked copyright trolls Posted: 15 Sep 2011 09:00 PM PDT Chumby NeTV: A triumph for mankindWhen the master encryption key locking down millions of Blu-ray players and set-top boxes was mysteriously leaked last year, Hollywood moguls worried their precious high-definition movies would face a new flurry of piracy.… |
| RIM profits nearly sliced in half Posted: 15 Sep 2011 08:00 PM PDT Blackberry maker circles the drainResearch in Motion's shares have fallen sharply after the Blackberry maker reported that profits were down 47 per cent for its second quarter of the fiscal year.… |
| After hack nightmare, Sony bars lawsuits with new TOS Posted: 15 Sep 2011 05:52 PM PDT Class actions verbotenAfter getting the pants sued off it for security breaches that exposed personal information connected to more than 100 million online accounts, Sony is requiring subscribers to waive their right to wage class-action lawsuits for almost any reason.… |
| Oz-US ANZUS treaty adds infowar co-operation Posted: 15 Sep 2011 04:30 PM PDT Physical warfare is so last yearAs their long-standing ANZUS treaty reaches its sixtieth birthday, Australia and America have decided to extend their co-operation into the virtual space.… |
| Optus gets first licence to penetrate 700MHz band Posted: 15 Sep 2011 04:00 PM PDT Hooks up with Huawei for LTE trialOptus has became the first Australian carrier to be awarded a licence to trial LTE services in the 700MHz spectrum band, a former analogue TV frequency.… |
| Aussie rules on cloud PVR test laws Posted: 15 Sep 2011 03:30 PM PDT Optus defends as Telstra goes on the offensiveA service launched by Optus in July is going to be the first high-profile test for the legality of cloud-style PVR services in Australia.… |
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