Optus and NICTA look for Android apps |
- Optus and NICTA look for Android apps
- Broadcom breaks piggy bank for $3.7bn NetLogic buy
- Apple's new Lion beta bakes in iCloud
- MongoDB 2.0 debuts with shrunken indexes
- HTC mulls mobile OS buy – but won’t be rushed
- GlobalSign says 'isolated' webserver was hacked
- French officials: 'Don't worry about fatal nuclear explosion'
- PostgreSQL revs to 9.1, aims for enterprise
- LightSquared offers low-power olive branch to GPS
- Linux.com pwned in fresh round of cyber break-ins
- Team HP: Cloud Police
- HP shelves plans to offshore DWP support roles
- Sparc T4 chips: Oracle makes stealthy spec change
- 'Amazon Tax' California decision pushed back a year
- HP to bring 6,000 more TouchPads to UK - for staff only
- Leader of Cisco counterfeit ring jailed for 60 months
- Unlikely contender tops rankings in Nokia ringtone quest
- Glow-in-the-dark kittens to help produce cure for AIDS
- Crooks rent out TDSS/TDL-4 botnet to the clueless
- Fujitsu Stylistic Q550 Windows 7 tablet
- Four terabytes (but five platters)
- Hacker defaces Irish Catholic paper: 'Gotta love false hope'
- Laptop batteries made of jelly invented
- Man City boss quits over cancer email
- Two Larrys to go head-to-head in Google-Oracle case
- <i>Guardian</i> pratfall swaps homepage for US insurance firm
- Consumerisation of IT: What do the end users think?
- Mapping the threat environment
- LOHAN eyes hardcore partner's impressive girth
- Netflix: Not interested in cloud 'heavy lifting'
- MS inadvertently offers early peep at September patches
- Logitech Touch Lapdesk N600
- Dole-office civil servants allowed Twitter but no Facebook
- BT trying for fibre 'monopoly', claims TalkTalk chief
- HP to refund full-price Touchpad and Pre3 buyers
- Rubbing an iPhone on your face won't cure acne - FTC
- BT channel overlord ponders still-bigger empire
- Printable mini-display tech draws power from NFC devices
- Coraid delivers flash-in-an-Ethernet-box
- Google Native Client: The web of the future - or the past?
- Righthaven may have to file for bankruptcy
- More job losses on the way as Tata picks up Telstra back office
- Cancellation technique doubles wireless throughput
- Asia Pac app-gasm to hit five billion this year
- Google Ventures invests in friend finder app
- Industry pitches piracy research ahead of Attorney General meeting
- Telstra's branding plans leaked to <i>El Reg</i>
| Optus and NICTA look for Android apps Posted: 12 Sep 2011 03:00 PM PDT Tapping student brains trustOptus has partnered with innovation hub NICTA in an open call for undergraduate mobile app developers.… |
| Broadcom breaks piggy bank for $3.7bn NetLogic buy Posted: 12 Sep 2011 01:54 PM PDT Get a grip on MIPS chipIt's crunch time in the networking and communications chip biz, with Broadcom whipping out $3.7bn to acquire chip maker NetLogic Microsystems to fill a hole in its line.… |
| Apple's new Lion beta bakes in iCloud Posted: 12 Sep 2011 12:43 PM PDT Reg crosses fingers for bugs fixesApple's iCloud has floated a bit closer with the release of a new beta of Mac OS X Lion version 10.7.2 that integrates the cloudy services package into the OS itself.… |
| MongoDB 2.0 debuts with shrunken indexes Posted: 12 Sep 2011 11:58 AM PDT '25% smaller, 25% faster'The MongoDB community and its 10gen overseers have released version 2.0 of the distributed "NoSQL" database, saying the new incarnation improves concurrency while reducing the size and boosting the speed of indexes.… |
| HTC mulls mobile OS buy – but won’t be rushed Posted: 12 Sep 2011 11:45 AM PDT Android outfit eyes |
| GlobalSign says 'isolated' webserver was hacked Posted: 12 Sep 2011 10:54 AM PDT Crypto key system appears safeWeb authentication authority GlobalSign, which voluntarily suspended operations last week while it investigated claims its security was breached, said it has uncovered evidence that one of its servers has been compromised.… |
| French officials: 'Don't worry about fatal nuclear explosion' Posted: 12 Sep 2011 10:48 AM PDT Radiation leak danger 'very, very low'After one person was killed and four injured in an explosion at a French nuclear waste-processing plant, the French government rushed to reassure a citizenry increasingly edgy about nuclear safety.… |
| PostgreSQL revs to 9.1, aims for enterprise Posted: 12 Sep 2011 10:38 AM PDT The elephant in the data centerThe drumbeat of improvements keep coming from the PostgreSQL community that hopes to make that database an enterprise-class alternative to the MySQL and 11g databases controlled by Oracle, the three DB2 databases sold by IBM, and the SQL Server database from Microsoft.… |
| LightSquared offers low-power olive branch to GPS Posted: 12 Sep 2011 09:02 AM PDT But in a few years we'll turn the knob up againLightSquared, the firm which so upset GPS users with their 4G-at-satellite-frequencies plan, has offered to reduce the interference by dialling back the transmission power and clear an exclusive band for precision GPS.… |
| Linux.com pwned in fresh round of cyber break-ins Posted: 12 Sep 2011 08:27 AM PDT Penguin brigade in a flap after latest compromiseJust a month after kernel.org - the nerve centre of Linux kernel development - fell victim to a malware attack, the Penguinista community is reeling from another bout of security breaches.… |
| Posted: 12 Sep 2011 07:56 AM PDT Globocorp wants to plug backdoorsWhen HP announced it was exploring options for its PC business, the company said it'd move into the more profitable arena of enterprise solutions. From a speech given at HP's yearly Security conference yesterday, the titan is eyeing up cloud security as a big growth area.… |
| HP shelves plans to offshore DWP support roles Posted: 12 Sep 2011 07:38 AM PDT Dole queues to be slightly shorter than expectedHP has abandoned plans to offshore the jobs of IT support staff working on the Adams 2 contract for the Department of Work and Pensions.… |
| Sparc T4 chips: Oracle makes stealthy spec change Posted: 12 Sep 2011 07:26 AM PDT Hmm <beard stroke> - what could this mean?Oracle is putting its money where its mouth is on the single-threaded performance of the future Sparc T4 processors. Or more precisely, it is putting Sparc customers' money where its mouth is.… |
| 'Amazon Tax' California decision pushed back a year Posted: 12 Sep 2011 07:01 AM PDT Webshopping giant hopes feds will step inAmazon's bosses have their fingers crossed in hope that the US government will come round to their way of thinking on sales tax for online retailers after winning a year's reprieve from legislators in California.… |
| HP to bring 6,000 more TouchPads to UK - for staff only Posted: 12 Sep 2011 06:45 AM PDT See this? You can't have it! Ahahahaha!HP is shipping a final batch of 6,000 HP Touchpads to the UK but only employees will be able to nab them, The Register can confirm.… |
| Leader of Cisco counterfeit ring jailed for 60 months Posted: 12 Sep 2011 06:37 AM PDT Shut up behind real bars thoughThe US ringleader of a China-based counterfeit ring that flogged fake Cisco kit stateside has been sent down for 60 months, the Department of Justice (DoJ) has confirmed.… |
| Unlikely contender tops rankings in Nokia ringtone quest Posted: 12 Sep 2011 06:20 AM PDT If possible, even more annoying than the originalMany of those entering the competition to create Nokia's next ringtone have pulled out all the stops, but the current front-runner has limited himself to the one marked Vox Humana.… |
| Glow-in-the-dark kittens to help produce cure for AIDS Posted: 12 Sep 2011 06:05 AM PDT Can't your cat liven up parties or fight killer diseases?Glow-in-the-dark kittens are science's latest weapon in the war against HIV. The cats, bred at the Mayo Clinic in Minnesota, are resistant to feline AIDS, glow unearthly green under UV light and are an important step towards disrupting the mechanism by which HIV destroys the human immune system.… |
| Crooks rent out TDSS/TDL-4 botnet to the clueless Posted: 12 Sep 2011 06:03 AM PDT Mercenary zombies for hire to dumbed-down Baron SamedisCybercrooks have set up a web store that offers rented access to compromised machines on the TDSS/TDL-4 botnet.… |
| Fujitsu Stylistic Q550 Windows 7 tablet Posted: 12 Sep 2011 05:09 AM PDT Oak Trail Atom-powered fondleslab, anyone?Review Fujitsu is pitching its latest Windows 7 tablet directly at the enterprise and business markets. That's a wise move because Windows in its current form is never going to hold a candle to iOS and Android Honeycomb in terms of consumer usability. It also means Fujitsu can load the Q550 down with tricks and treats and not worry too much about the impact on the price.… |
| Four terabytes (but five platters) Posted: 12 Sep 2011 05:02 AM PDT Five goes into fourHard drive vendors are having a tough time in getting 4-platter, 4TB drives to market.… |
| Hacker defaces Irish Catholic paper: 'Gotta love false hope' Posted: 12 Sep 2011 04:43 AM PDT 'Continue believing in your false religion'A security breach has left several sites including the Irish Catholic defaced.… |
| Laptop batteries made of jelly invented Posted: 12 Sep 2011 04:41 AM PDT Wibble-wobble wibble-wobble 'leccy on a plateJelly could be the answer to the problem of cheaper batteries for electronics, according to some boffins over at Leeds University.… |
| Man City boss quits over cancer email Posted: 12 Sep 2011 04:28 AM PDT It was teh haxorz! Well ...Manchester City chief executive Garry Cook has resigned over allegations he sent an offensive email that made light of a cancer sufferer's plight.… |
| Two Larrys to go head-to-head in Google-Oracle case Posted: 12 Sep 2011 04:14 AM PDT Page vs Ellison in Larry-tastic Java wrestleIt's on: Ellison versus Page. The top executives of Oracle and Google have been ordered to get in a room together and try to resolve their multi-billion-dollar Java patent clash like grown-ups, face to face.… |
| <i>Guardian</i> pratfall swaps homepage for US insurance firm Posted: 12 Sep 2011 04:07 AM PDT Proud sub-editing tradition spreads to website teamThe Guardian accidentally directed readers of its site to an American life insurance website this morning for about an hour - a mistake first spotted at about 10am.… |
| Consumerisation of IT: What do the end users think? Posted: 12 Sep 2011 04:00 AM PDT The big bad IT departmentSurvey We're hearing lots of stories about the 'consumerisation' of IT – in other words giving users freedom to choose the equipment and online services they need to do their jobs well – and this is the topic of our latest Reg Reader survey.… |
| Mapping the threat environment Posted: 12 Sep 2011 03:57 AM PDT Evolution of the BotnetInterview The threat landscape has changed considerably in the last few years, as the focus expands from network worms to advanced persistent threats. Danny Bradbury speaks to Raj Semani, EMEA CTO at McAfee, to explore how things have changed since botnets first came into being, and Melissa spread across the world.… |
| LOHAN eyes hardcore partner's impressive girth Posted: 12 Sep 2011 03:44 AM PDT Vulture 2 spaceplane needs thrust you can trustThe dust has settled on our recent trip to International Rocket Week (IRW) and the dramatic launch of the Negligible Altitude Obstreperous Model Initiative (NAOMI) rocket, so it's time to reveal just what the assembled experts thought would be the best power plant for the Vulture 2 spaceplane.… |
| Netflix: Not interested in cloud 'heavy lifting' Posted: 12 Sep 2011 03:26 AM PDT Amazon gets them up in the sky, we bring the rainIf you're thinking that you might be able to sell Netflix an alternative cloud to Amazon Web Services, or better still, convince the online TV show and movie distributor to go back to building its own infrastructure using an open source cloud stack such as OpenStack in the hopes of saving money, just forget it.… |
| MS inadvertently offers early peep at September patches Posted: 12 Sep 2011 03:13 AM PDT Kimono hastily snatched closed again 'til TuesdayMicrosoft inadvertently published details of the patches it plans to publish on Tuesday following a slip-up by its security gnomes last week.… |
| Posted: 12 Sep 2011 03:00 AM PDT Thigh saverGeek Treat of the Week OK, so if you're having trouble balancing your notebook on your knees, sitting the machine on a large book or a serving tray is free, but Logitech's Touch Lapdesk N600 is rather better.… |
| Dole-office civil servants allowed Twitter but no Facebook Posted: 12 Sep 2011 02:57 AM PDT The fine line between tools and timewastingTwitter is fine for civil servants at the Department for Work and Pensions but Facebook is strictly banned, the Minister for Employment Chris Grayling ruled in a response to a written question by Lib Dem MP Jo Swinson.… |
| BT trying for fibre 'monopoly', claims TalkTalk chief Posted: 12 Sep 2011 02:49 AM PDT Telcos want to get their hands on BT's poleTalkTalk's commercial boss David Goldie has claimed that BT is trying to regain "the monopoly position that it lost many years ago" courtesy of its provision of fibre optic broadband.… |
| HP to refund full-price Touchpad and Pre3 buyers Posted: 12 Sep 2011 02:22 AM PDT Fondle-fancying employees left slablessHP is coughing up cash for cheesed-off customers that bought its Touchpad or Pre3 at the full price before they were heavily discounted en route to the gadget graveyard.… |
| Rubbing an iPhone on your face won't cure acne - FTC Posted: 12 Sep 2011 01:54 AM PDT Playing whack-a-mole with snake-oil appsThe Federal Trade Commission has fined two developers who claimed their mobile apps could cure acne with flashing colour, but there's still plenty of snake-oil on sale.… |
| BT channel overlord ponders still-bigger empire Posted: 12 Sep 2011 01:29 AM PDT Dissatisfied with diet of organically grown customersThe CEO of BT's newly integrated reseller firm is aiming to build a £1bn operation in the next three to five years, but said he does not expect organic growth alone to help it get there – acquisitions may be on the cards.… |
| Printable mini-display tech draws power from NFC devices Posted: 12 Sep 2011 12:57 AM PDT Really cool solution seeks problem to solveCambridge-based PragmatIC has produced an NFC-enabled label with a build-in screen picking up power from the device reading the tag, surely worth £600,000 of anyone's money.… |
| Coraid delivers flash-in-an-Ethernet-box Posted: 12 Sep 2011 12:30 AM PDT MLCing it for all they're worthYou can now use Coraid's simpler-than-iSCSI Ethernet protocol with a networked flash storage array.… |
| Google Native Client: The web of the future - or the past? Posted: 11 Sep 2011 07:20 PM PDT This time, it's Mozilla v GoogleChad Austin believes in Google's Native Client because he believes in the web.… |
| Righthaven may have to file for bankruptcy Posted: 11 Sep 2011 06:00 PM PDT And MediaNews won't renew its contractRighthaven's woes continue to mount: after last week denying that its business model was in trouble, the litigation outsourcing outfit has asked a judge to stay an order granting legal fees to one of its targets.… |
| More job losses on the way as Tata picks up Telstra back office Posted: 11 Sep 2011 05:01 PM PDT Hundreds to go in offshoring frenzyIn a multi-year, $US50 million deal, Indian giant Tata Consultancy Services is to expand its footprint in Telstra's back office processing.… |
| Cancellation technique doubles wireless throughput Posted: 11 Sep 2011 04:31 PM PDT Full duplex, one frequency, no troubleResearchers at Rice University have pulled a neat trick of noise cancellation which they say could double the throughput of wireless systems, by allowing full-duplex communications using a single frequency.… |
| Asia Pac app-gasm to hit five billion this year Posted: 11 Sep 2011 04:30 PM PDT Ovum names Android as the leaderMobile phone app downloads are forecast to reach 14 billion in the Asia Pacific by 2016 with revenues of $US2.2 billion, according to the latest research from Ovum.… |
| Google Ventures invests in friend finder app Posted: 11 Sep 2011 04:00 PM PDT Little Sir Echoecho, I want to stalk my friendsGoogle's investment arm, Google Ventures, has contributed to a round of seed funding for location-based, mobile friend finder app Echoecho. The investment was part of a $US750,000 funding round that included investors UK-based venture firm PROfounders Capital and a select group of angel investors.… |
| Industry pitches piracy research ahead of Attorney General meeting Posted: 11 Sep 2011 03:38 PM PDT Lobbying paper points the bone at Aussies, againSixty percent of Australians don't use downloading or streaming sites, but that's not the way the latest research into piracy activity in this country is being spun.… |
| Telstra's branding plans leaked to <i>El Reg</i> Posted: 11 Sep 2011 03:26 PM PDT Wants us to like itWhat do you do if you're the most-attacked name in the least-liked industry? Pitch a new campaign. In an internal e-mail that went out to staff last week, The Register has learned that Telstra wants to position itself as "Australia's best loved brand."… |
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