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- Linux Foundation merges MeeGo into Tizen
- AMD misses Q3 revenue targets
- Fixed broadband rules downloads, mobile rules new services
- US tops the class in IT competitiveness
- Diebold e-voting hack allows remote tampering
- OnStar backs down over GPS tracking of ex-customers
- Reebok used 'very fit woman' in buttock-related deception
- Electro-plaster points China Unicom mobes at 3G
- Airbus parks supercomputers in containers
- HP networking boss leaves after less than a year
- Apple to execute touch-less iPods
- Microsoft to skim Samsung Android takings
- French gov trousers hefty wad in 4G spectrum sale
- Amazon intros $199 movie Kindle
- Windows Marketplace goes webby
- PCIe flash performance: Your mileage may vary
- Amazon revamps E Ink Kindle line
- Pierre Cardin reckons it can out-bling the iPad
- Larry Page sees 'tragic' future for Google
- Hackers disguise malware as emailed docs from smart printers
- Open-source hardware group puts out vid system-on-a-chip
- Hands on with MS Virt for VMware pros
- WTF is... HbbTV?
- UKChatterbox urges password change following hack attack
- Schoolteachers can't teach our kids to code, say engineers
- Virgin Media goes cloudy for biz punters
- Carphone Warehouse whipped for cheap Jesus mobe ads
- Mozilla forces Firefox 7 on memory diet
- Google plants self on Silicon Roundabout
- Huawei gets tough with Discovery Channel handset
- Chocolate weighed in Schwarzeneggers: Official
- Gutsy golf-club granny collars crim in Flying Squad bust
- Veggies tricked into dating meat-gobbling escorts
- Leave nothing behind when migrating virtual machines
- Poll: Porn-watching, net-savvy kids are a myth
- Toshiba outs 7in Android 3.2 tablet
- US lawmakers call for FTC probe of supercookies
- Nokia rolls out N9 across Europe, avoids UK
- The Secret of Monkey Island
- Big data and the cloud
- ICO: Uni workers' personal webmail may be pried open
- LibDems call for gov 'IT skills' office
- Woman nabbed for 'senseless' stiletto ATM attack
- Java, Adobe vulns blamed for Windows malware mayhem
- Renault Wind Gordini roadster
- Microsoft staff savage Ballmer at company confab
- iiNet gets cloudy with voice
- Mobile messaging comes to Oihoo 360
- On its first birthday, LibreOffice has reason to celebrate
- Facebook cookies 'fixed' as Oz privacy bureaucrats investigate
| Linux Foundation merges MeeGo into Tizen Posted: 28 Sep 2011 03:37 PM PDT Linux OS always the bridesmaidThe Linux Foundation has officially put MeeGo on the back burner and is working towards a new open source OS called Tizen, which will have a greater emphasis on HTML5 support.… |
| Posted: 28 Sep 2011 03:36 PM PDT Lays the blame on GlobalFoundries wafer bakerStruggling x86 and graphics chip maker Advanced Micro Devices put out its preliminary financial results for the third quarter of fiscal 2011 after Wall Street closed today, and the numbers were not good.… |
| Fixed broadband rules downloads, mobile rules new services Posted: 28 Sep 2011 03:30 PM PDT Nuggets in new Oz broadband statsThe Australian Bureau of Statistics' Internet Activity Survey is one of the country's easiest sources of regular copy for tech writers: it's published every six months on a predictable schedule, and merely reciting the data points is good for a couple of hundred words.… |
| US tops the class in IT competitiveness Posted: 28 Sep 2011 01:52 PM PDT Blowing the curve, apparentlyThe United States may be messed up in a lot of ways, but it is still the most competitive country in the IT sector, according to an index put together by the Business Software Alliance and The Economist's Intelligence Unit.… |
| Diebold e-voting hack allows remote tampering Posted: 28 Sep 2011 01:22 PM PDT $11 microprocessor-in-middle attack is 'significant'Computer scientists have demonstrated a hack that uses off-the-shelf hardware to tamper with electronic voting machines that millions of Americans will use to cast ballots in the 2012 presidential elections.… |
| OnStar backs down over GPS tracking of ex-customers Posted: 28 Sep 2011 12:20 PM PDT Slams brakes after consumer revoltOnStar has backed down from a proposed change in its terms and conditions that would have seen the vehicle info system collecting car monitoring data on former customers.… |
| Reebok used 'very fit woman' in buttock-related deception Posted: 28 Sep 2011 10:28 AM PDT Sporting gear group agrees $25m settlement over arse-exercising shoe claimsReebok has to fork over $25m to the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) for talking out its arse about its butt-toning footwear.… |
| Electro-plaster points China Unicom mobes at 3G Posted: 28 Sep 2011 09:54 AM PDT Cunning 2G upgrade is a sticky businessChina Unicom has created a roaming agreement to offload 2G customers, achieved using a carefully placed sticker instead of mucking about with contracts and signed deals.… |
| Airbus parks supercomputers in containers Posted: 28 Sep 2011 09:32 AM PDT Two PODs in an HPCAirbus is one of the first industrial HPC customers in the world to plunk its most recent supercomputers into containerized data centers.… |
| HP networking boss leaves after less than a year Posted: 28 Sep 2011 08:54 AM PDT First Brick, now Bonnett ...HP UK and Ireland networking boss Barry Bonnett is leaving the role after less than a year in charge, The Register can reveal.… |
| Apple to execute touch-less iPods Posted: 28 Sep 2011 08:50 AM PDT Ten years is long enough?The iPod will be ten years old next month, but despite that, the much-loved music player is facing extinction.… |
| Microsoft to skim Samsung Android takings Posted: 28 Sep 2011 08:42 AM PDT Royalties deal for each Google device soldSamsung, one of the industry's biggest Android device makers, will pay Microsoft a royalty for every handset it ships running Google's operating system.… |
| French gov trousers hefty wad in 4G spectrum sale Posted: 28 Sep 2011 08:26 AM PDT Liberté, egalité, aviditéFrance's 2.6GHz auction has raised a shade under €1bn in an auction apparently designed to wring revenue out of existing operators rather than spurring innovation or competition.… |
| Amazon intros $199 movie Kindle Posted: 28 Sep 2011 08:07 AM PDT And a giant web proxy: is there anything it doesn't now know?Amazon has refreshed its entire range of Kindle tablets, adding a seven inch $199 colour Android model, a keyboard-less 4GB Touch model at $99 and a non-touchscreen 2GB $79 version. It also took an aggressive step into TV and movie delivery, bundling free streaming with the new Kindle Fire and a taster for Amazon's Prime movie delivery store.… |
| Windows Marketplace goes webby Posted: 28 Sep 2011 07:57 AM PDT For that Mac-using-WP7-owning demographicWindows Phone users, happily getting their Mango update, can now buy apps using a website as well as the Windows-only Zune client.… |
| PCIe flash performance: Your mileage may vary Posted: 28 Sep 2011 07:46 AM PDT Researchers say TMS tops Fusion-io and ViridentA Swiss supercomputing centre has found TMS PCIe flash delivers its advertised goods while Fusion-io and Virident do not.… |
| Amazon revamps E Ink Kindle line Posted: 28 Sep 2011 07:31 AM PDT $99 Kindle Touch, $79 Kindle touchlessUpdated It's official: the Amazon Kindle Fire will debut at $199 (£130), sport a 7in colour screen and run a customised version of Android with its own UI.… |
| Pierre Cardin reckons it can out-bling the iPad Posted: 28 Sep 2011 07:21 AM PDT Because what Apple lacks is style and brand value!Fashion label Pierre Cardin has joined world+dog in trying to muscle in on the fondleslab phenomenon.… |
| Larry Page sees 'tragic' future for Google Posted: 28 Sep 2011 07:00 AM PDT Chocolate Factory père et fils fear the biggeningA story in which any number of Mae West quotations can be applied: "I speak two languages, Body and |
| Hackers disguise malware as emailed docs from smart printers Posted: 28 Sep 2011 06:39 AM PDT Clever ruse to catch out office workersHackers have developed a new ruse designed to trick recipients into opening malicious email messages that come loaded with malware.… |
| Open-source hardware group puts out vid system-on-a-chip Posted: 28 Sep 2011 06:22 AM PDT Pretty visuals, no copyrighted hardwareA radical tech coalition has produced an open-sourced music visualiser that modifies input video rather than generating patterns - and interestingly the box includes a system-on-a-chip that could one day compete with ARM. If just 80 units sell, the "Milkymist" will have already paid its way.… |
| Hands on with MS Virt for VMware pros Posted: 28 Sep 2011 06:01 AM PDT MVA tests Trevor. Or is it the other way around?For my second go at Microsoft Virtual Academy, I decided to pick a topic I am actually interested in. I chose the Microsoft Virtualization for VMware Professionals – VDI track.… |
| Posted: 28 Sep 2011 06:00 AM PDT Net connectivity for your telly done properlyConnected TV is all the rage. Every major brand has its own IPTV platform, such as Panasonic's VieraConnect or Samsung's Smart TV, offering a mix of catch-up services and additional content like movie trailers and YouTube access.… |
| UKChatterbox urges password change following hack attack Posted: 28 Sep 2011 05:51 AM PDT All change pleasePopular IRC service UKChatterbox is advising users to change their passwords following a series of hacks which culminated in an attack that may have compromised user details.… |
| Schoolteachers can't teach our kids to code, say engineers Posted: 28 Sep 2011 05:39 AM PDT Laudable plans doomed by ignorant corduroysICT teachers will need extra training to teach the new IT curriculum that science minister David Willetts announced this month, says the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET).… |
| Virgin Media goes cloudy for biz punters Posted: 28 Sep 2011 05:27 AM PDT Bring me sunshine, bring me RAINVirgin Media plans to launch a range of cloud-based services for its business customers.… |
| Carphone Warehouse whipped for cheap Jesus mobe ads Posted: 28 Sep 2011 05:19 AM PDT ASA: The important stuff was in the fine printCarphone Warehouse has been smacked down by the Advertising Standards Authority for claiming that it had the lowest price in the country on the iPhone 4.… |
| Mozilla forces Firefox 7 on memory diet Posted: 28 Sep 2011 05:09 AM PDT Project MemShrink paybackFirefox 7 has been released with a promise from Mozilla its browser is less of a memory hog.… |
| Google plants self on Silicon Roundabout Posted: 28 Sep 2011 05:03 AM PDT Media2.0websluts rejoice!Google is set to plonk itself on the doorstep of the Silicon Roundabout next year, after the company signed a lease for a seven-floor building intended to be used as a base for start-ups and coders.… |
| Huawei gets tough with Discovery Channel handset Posted: 28 Sep 2011 04:48 AM PDT HELLO? I'M ON SAFARIHuawei ventured further into the rugged terrain of mobile phones this week, unveiling a toughened handset stamped with Discovery Channel branding.… |
| Chocolate weighed in Schwarzeneggers: Official Posted: 28 Sep 2011 04:42 AM PDT World's largest candy bar = 51 ArniesRegular readers will be aware that a couple of years back we at El Reg established a set of standards designed to supersede the wholly inadequate imperial and metric measurements which had for so long battled for international supremacy.… |
| Gutsy golf-club granny collars crim in Flying Squad bust Posted: 28 Sep 2011 04:29 AM PDT Tackles robbers who sent SWAT cop to hospitalA middle-aged heroine was hailed by Scotland Yard today for her part in helping the Flying Squad arrest a gang of violent crooks who were attempting a robbery at her golf club.… |
| Veggies tricked into dating meat-gobbling escorts Posted: 28 Sep 2011 04:14 AM PDT Watchdog bitchslap for VeggieDates.comVegetarians looking online for lovers who have the same dietary preferences as they do were misled by dating site VeggieDates.com, the Advertising Standards Authority ruled today.… |
| Leave nothing behind when migrating virtual machines Posted: 28 Sep 2011 04:00 AM PDT Ensuring a smooth moveWe migrate virtual machines (VMs) for all sorts of reasons: to load balance our physical hosts, say, or to offload a server so it can be taken offline for maintenance, or because the original host has failed. But in every case we want no interruption to the VM's operation, or at least as little interruption as possible.… |
| Poll: Porn-watching, net-savvy kids are a myth Posted: 28 Sep 2011 03:42 AM PDT Cyberbullying grief highlighted insteadParents who think their tearaway hacking kiddies are seeing all sorts of things they shouldn't online are buying into some of the top myths about children on the web, according to a new report.… |
| Toshiba outs 7in Android 3.2 tablet Posted: 28 Sep 2011 03:24 AM PDT Quick, before Amazon grabs all the headlines!Toshiba has taken the wraps off a 7in version of its Thrive tablet.… |
| US lawmakers call for FTC probe of supercookies Posted: 28 Sep 2011 03:16 AM PDT Hundreds of sites caught employee secret snoop techTwo US lawmakers have called on the Federal Trade Commission to investigate the use of "supercookies" that secretly log web visitors' browsing histories across multiple sites, even when the users delete browser cookies to elude tracking.… |
| Nokia rolls out N9 across Europe, avoids UK Posted: 28 Sep 2011 03:03 AM PDT MeeGo no-go for BritsNokia has reiterated the fact that its new MeeGo-based handset, the N9, will not be heading to the UK anytime soon, despite its European roll-out this week.… |
| Posted: 28 Sep 2011 03:00 AM PDT I rate piratesAntique Code Show The Secret of Monkey Island ignites the urge to buckle swashes in everyone and 20 years on from its debut everyone I know still loves this game.… |
| Posted: 28 Sep 2011 02:21 AM PDT Where scalability and elasticity really matterBroadcast Peter Elleby is the IT Director at natural search specialists Hydra. It's a company that, in layman's terms, tells its client how well they perform on the web and how to improve that performance. In order to do this it's got to crunch and parse huge volumes of unstructured data. As a start-up that would have meant a significant hardware investment, so they turned to the Cloud to give them scalable data crunching on the fly.… |
| ICO: Uni workers' personal webmail may be pried open Posted: 28 Sep 2011 01:52 AM PDT E-missives may be requested if related to public businessUniversity workers must release information from personal webmail accounts on request if it is related to public business, the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) has said.… |
| LibDems call for gov 'IT skills' office Posted: 28 Sep 2011 01:31 AM PDT Policy paper suggests senior civil servants don't 'get' ITThe Liberal Democrats have said the government should set up a new office to promote IT skills throughout Whitehall, in an effort to fill the "skills gap" in the sector.… |
| Woman nabbed for 'senseless' stiletto ATM attack Posted: 28 Sep 2011 01:01 AM PDT Cash rage case caught on CCTVA 39-year-old woman was cautioned by police after she unleashed what officers described as a "senseless" attack on an ATM.… |
| Java, Adobe vulns blamed for Windows malware mayhem Posted: 28 Sep 2011 12:31 AM PDT Five products hit in 99.8% of hacksFailure to patch third-party applications has become the main reason that Windows machines get infected with malware.… |
| Posted: 28 Sep 2011 12:00 AM PDT Feel the air in your hairReview Thumbing its nose at yet another grim British summer, Renault has added a Gordini model to its Wind roadster line-up and so given us all an excuse to put on our best French accent, pretend to be Maurice Trintignant and ponder why Renault didn't name it Le Vent and dodge the inevitable flatulence jokes.… |
| Microsoft staff savage Ballmer at company confab Posted: 27 Sep 2011 11:00 PM PDT Claims of staff walkouts and tanking moraleDuring Microsoft's annual full staff meeting, employees unmistakably expressed their displeasure about how the company is being run.… |
| Posted: 27 Sep 2011 06:30 PM PDT Targets SME customersAlthough iiNet has offered various SME services for some time, it's predominantly seen as a consumer brand. With its latest launch, the country's second-largest ISP now hopes to give itself a strong position in the business services market as well.… |
| Mobile messaging comes to Oihoo 360 Posted: 27 Sep 2011 06:00 PM PDT Kouxin goes live in ChinaChinese ISP Qihoo 360 has launched a mobile messaging service on Android, iOS and Symbian smartphones.… |
| On its first birthday, LibreOffice has reason to celebrate Posted: 27 Sep 2011 05:50 PM PDT Happy code day to you…The Document Foundation, which produces the LibreOffice open source office-software suite, is celebrating the first anniversary of the code's release.… |
| Facebook cookies 'fixed' as Oz privacy bureaucrats investigate Posted: 27 Sep 2011 05:33 PM PDT Updated: Facebook confirms revisions in placeWhile Facebook flip-flops over whether or not its track-after-logout cookies were or were not benign, the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner is reportedly taking a look at whether or not the cookies breached privacy laws.… |
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