Telstra hauls in wholesale IPv6

Telstra hauls in wholesale IPv6


Telstra hauls in wholesale IPv6

Posted: 05 Sep 2011 03:30 PM PDT

Australia gears up for next gen IP address explosion

Aussie telco Telstra has opened the gates to IPv6, offering enterprise, government and wholesale customers access to the next generation of internet addresses.…

Google in freetard-friendly copyright infringement update

Posted: 05 Sep 2011 10:00 AM PDT

Choc Factory wishes content biz Happy Labor Day... And Nyah!

The Friday before a public holiday is traditionally a great time to bury bad news. Google chose the Labor Day Lull to give the world an update on its copyright infringement measures. Funny, that.…

Dell channel boss heads to HDS

Posted: 05 Sep 2011 09:13 AM PDT

Paul Harrison set to take on old paymaster

Dell UK channel boss Paul Harrison is set to leave at the end of the week to join Hitachi Data Systems, The Register can reveal.…

HP plucks webOS team out of departing PC division

Posted: 05 Sep 2011 08:58 AM PDT

Hardware bods still have 'For Sale' on foreheads

HP evidently sees a brighter future for its webOS platform after moving the team into the Office of Strategy and Technology (OS&T) as it figures out what to do with the software.…

Nearing iPhone 5 launch prompts operator action

Posted: 05 Sep 2011 08:23 AM PDT

Vouchers from T-Mobile

World+Dog is gearing up for the iPhone 5.…

IT services market down by 40 per cent, says Ovum

Posted: 05 Sep 2011 07:58 AM PDT

Mighty mega-deals of old now well-nigh extinct

Disappearing mega-deals saw the global IT services market slump to an eight-year low in the second quarter, according to Ovum.…

How are we going to do search on our own disks now?

Posted: 05 Sep 2011 07:11 AM PDT

Stuff your cloud, we want proper desktop search

Regular readers will know my occasional whinges about the sad state of the market for email clients – these generate hundreds of emails and comments. But there is another product category that is looking decidedly shabby these days. It is one which every so often becomes fashionable for a few weeks, and then goes on to suffer years of neglect.…

Ex US internal-security overlord bigs up cyber menace

Posted: 05 Sep 2011 06:45 AM PDT

Chertoff fears 'dangerous intrusions'

Cyberattacks are the top threat to future national security, according to the former head of the US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Michael Chertoff.…

Diplomats questioned Microsoft deal with Tunisian regime

Posted: 05 Sep 2011 06:27 AM PDT

Local Microsoftie feared to meet Bill Gates empty handed

Microsoft sold software and training to the armed forces of Tunisia's repressive former regime six years ago, a leaked WikiLeaks cable has revealed. The deal alarmed even the normally flag-waving trade patriots in the US government, according to the cable.…

Hurry up with webcams in courts, says Sky News boss

Posted: 05 Sep 2011 06:07 AM PDT

Media chief feels justice system needs more credibility

Streaming trials on the internet will help people have confidence in the British justice system, Sky News boss John Ryley claimed in an open letter to the Justice Secretary today.…

Spamhaus victorious after 5-year fight with mass mailer

Posted: 05 Sep 2011 05:38 AM PDT

Long road leads to dead end, in a minefield, up a creek

Spamhaus has finally prevailed in a long-running US court action against it by e360 Insight, a firm it blacklisted for spamming.…

Sweden rolls out invisible infrared tank

Posted: 05 Sep 2011 05:13 AM PDT

Pixellated thermal armour cloak conceals or disguises

Engineers in Sweden have announced the development of a prototype tank which is covered in "pixels" that enable it to disappear from thermal images – or to disguise itself as something else.…

HP Pre 3 webOS smartphone

Posted: 05 Sep 2011 05:04 AM PDT

Palmed off

Review  So it's come to this. After a potentially brand-saving buyout by HP and the launch of a well-received – at least critically, if not commercially – operating system with webOS, Palm is finally on the way out.…

MPs to grill ex-<cite>NotW</cite> editor as Met cuffs another man

Posted: 05 Sep 2011 05:01 AM PDT

Phone-hack scandal holds up young Murdoch's $6m bonus

Scotland Yard brought the total number of arrests so far in its ongoing phone hacking allegations investigation at the now-defunct News of the World to 16 last Friday.…

'Missing heat' climate paper: Journal editor resigns

Posted: 05 Sep 2011 04:41 AM PDT

Reviewers of Spencer paper all sceptics, says Wagner

Wolfgang Wagner, the editor of new open access science journal Remote Sensing has resigned, re-opening the debate about the politicisation of science publishing.…

London bus timings mobile beta site spotted

Posted: 05 Sep 2011 04:21 AM PDT

Next bus is in 5 minutes. It has 3 annoying youths on board

Londoners will soon be able to use their phones to check when the next bus is coming, thanks to a new feed of data opened up by Transport For London and available on a mobile-optimised website. The Live Bus Departures Countdown service will be useful for passengers lingering, fretful and uninformed, at the 17,000 London bus stops without road-side countdown tickers.…

China mulls further social-network controls

Posted: 05 Sep 2011 03:58 AM PDT

Communists worried about the astroturf menace

Communist Party officials in Beijing have flagged up concerns about the growth of micro-blogging websites in China.…

Freeview to get fifth HD channel

Posted: 05 Sep 2011 03:57 AM PDT

Gentlemen, start your bids

Britain is to get a fifth HD channel on Freeview, regulator Ofcom confirmed today, you lucky, luck people.…

Amazon's cloudy vid-tablet breaks cover: Not an iClone

Posted: 05 Sep 2011 03:44 AM PDT

Early fondlings suggest serious Apple slab rival

Early reports are emerging on the new Android-based Amazon Kindle, and the indications are that the bookstore has done well in forking Google's baby into its own likeness.…

IDC numbers show chink in NetApp wall

Posted: 05 Sep 2011 03:27 AM PDT

Time for a peer into the crystal ball

IDC's second quarter disk storage revenue numbers show NetApp and Dell both losing ground.…

Low blow: Phishers target student loan applicants

Posted: 05 Sep 2011 03:14 AM PDT

Sadly victims may not notice grammatical error

Phishers are targeting UK student loan applicants in a new scam campaign.…

Zalman ZM-VE200 portable virtual Rom drive

Posted: 05 Sep 2011 03:00 AM PDT

It's an external HDD! It's an optical drive! It's ISO heaven!

Geek Treat of the Week  Zalman's external hard drive case is a bit different from most. Yes, it works like a standard drive case - slip in a 2.5in hard drive or SSD, and hook up the extra storage to your computer over USB 2.0 or eSata - the ZM-VE200 supports both.…

Galaxy Tab 7.7 pulled from IFA after new Apple moves

Posted: 05 Sep 2011 02:48 AM PDT

'Apple makes iPads; does it make movies?' - Sony chief

IFA 2011  Barely one day after the IFA consumer electronics show in Berlin opened its doors to the general public, Samsung had to pull its unreleased Galaxy Tab 7.7 from its booth, including all posters and promotional materials.…

Facebook deletes hacked Pages, destroying years of work

Posted: 05 Sep 2011 02:26 AM PDT

'Why won't it do what it says on the help page?'

Businesses and individuals using Facebook Pages are getting booted off their fanpage with no way back on, and it's costing some of them money.…

OCZ plays its joker in the hybrid drive card game

Posted: 05 Sep 2011 01:57 AM PDT

Death pill to cure the hourglass or whirly wait cursor?

OCZ has put its hybrid drive cards on the table in the shape of the RevoDrive Hybrid, with 1TB of spinning disk and 100GB of flash, gambling that punters will go for that combination of flash speed and disk capacity at a 45¢/GB price.…

Orange juggles broadband price plans

Posted: 05 Sep 2011 01:52 AM PDT

Claims UK's cheapest rate - with caveats

Orange has tweaked its set of broadband packages, claiming the move makes it the cheapest ISP in the UK.…

Nobody has any idea about new pension thing happening

Posted: 05 Sep 2011 01:26 AM PDT

Bet you don't either: Click on this and learn

More than half of workers are "totally unaware" that they will be auto-enrolled into a pension plan when changes to the law come into force next year, according to a survey.…

Sony schedules UK e-book store opening

Posted: 05 Sep 2011 01:24 AM PDT

Ready for new e-readers, tablets

Sony is to open its own e-book shop in the UK.…

Google does a mean spring clean

Posted: 05 Sep 2011 01:01 AM PDT

Kills the questioning Aardvark

Google has taken the broom to ten of its experimental services as part a self described "fail fall spring-clean".…

London Olympics journey planner crash effort launched

Posted: 05 Sep 2011 12:58 AM PDT

Routeware wanted ASAP to stop lorries clogging up Games

Transport for London (TfL) is running a high-speed procurement of a freight journey planner for the Olympic Games, with a tender in the Official Journal of the European Union, marked as an accelerated procedure and deemed "time-critical".…

DNS hijack hits The Register: All well

Posted: 04 Sep 2011 11:51 PM PDT

NetNames statement

Update  On early Sunday evening, UK time, The DNS records of many websites, including those of The Register and The Telegraph, were hijacked and redirected to a third party webpage controlled by Turkish hackers.…

Teen tags disintegrating comet

Posted: 04 Sep 2011 09:56 PM PDT

Work experience win for amateur astronomer

It started as a work experience project, and ended with congratulations from the International Astronomical Society: an 18-year-old Cardiff high school student has discovered an unusual fragmenting comet.…

Four depart in Internode reorganization

Posted: 04 Sep 2011 09:29 PM PDT

Management shuffle sparks sale speculation

High-profile challenger ISP Internode has made four managers redundant, in a move that has sparked online speculation that the company might be looking for a buyer.…

Infomedia buys UK rival for $AU4.8m

Posted: 04 Sep 2011 09:28 PM PDT

Automotive software specialists merge

ASX listed automotive software developer, Infomedia, has snapped up UK based Different Aspect Software for $AU4.8 million (£3,174,000).…

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