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- 22,000 freetards escape Hurt Locker piracy suit
- Oracle rolls its own NoSQL and Hadoop
- Adobe announces Creative Cloud, acquires PhoneGap
- 'iPhone 4 to be free' when new iPhones ship
- BridgeSTOR in rash NAS cash splash
- Oracle: Java 8 will be revolution, not evolution
- Bank of America website disrupted for 4th day in a row
- October 14 declared 'Steve Jobs Day'
- Better Business Bureau offers rogue script browser peril
- Verizon in court to block net neutrality ruling
- Amazon fans order three Fires for every E Ink Kindle
- Would you sue to keep your guilty ABBA habit a secret?
- Samsung reveals release for 5in tablet
- 'There'll be nothing left of IBM once I'm done,' says Ellison
- Yahoo! and! ABC! ink! news! pact!
- O2 best placed to scoop new iPhone sales dosh
- Google OUTBID on g.co.uk at auction
- London gets first new Google Chromebookshop
- Major BT exchange titsup in power outage
- HPC and its growing reach
- Steelie Neelie calls for copper price cuts to drive fibre
- Crazy square barcodes can point your phone to MALWARE
- EC to vet Euro broadband performance
- Alibaba! wants! to! be! Yahoo! purple! prince!
- Cisco veep slags off HP's PC biz wobble
- Apple TV owners lost legal movie playback this weekend
- Ecclesiastical judge tells church: Let there be Wi-Fi
- Belgian buckaneers invade Rockall
- Digital TV body adds HbbTV to UK standard
- Best skiing in space is on Saturnian ice moon Enceladus
- Open Document Format updated to fix spreadsheets
- iPhones 'excellent for doing experiments on their owners'
- AMD Llano vs Intel Sandy Bridge
- ICO consultation: What should public bodies disclose?
- Ease data traffic jams with some network improvements
- Vodafone dishes out free unlimited data
- Super Mario jumps on domain squatter
- Osborne proffers £150m for mobile not spots
- ThumbsUp Black Diamond glow-globe iPhone dock
- iTunes beta, Vodafone flag up iPhone 4S
- Microsoft's Rosalyn invites VB to Windows 8 party
- HTC Android handsets spew private data to ANY app
- Violent videogames reduce crime
- Fibre up, broadband up, IPTV up in Europe
- UK punters happy to pay £3 to top up e-wallets
- Anonymous Twitter alternative developed for rioters
- Dozens of firms vie for £1bn crim tagging contracts
- Citrix stretches XenServer 6.0 to cover bigger iron
- Adobe: crashing 100 million machines not an option
- Ellison brandishes 'speed of thought' Exalytics appliance
| 22,000 freetards escape Hurt Locker piracy suit Posted: 03 Oct 2011 02:30 PM PDT Voltage still hopes to zap hundreds more downloadersThe world's largest P2P legal imbroglio has been downgraded, with 90 per cent of the file sharers caught up in the Hurt Locker downloading case dismissed.… |
| Oracle rolls its own NoSQL and Hadoop Posted: 03 Oct 2011 01:22 PM PDT A supremely confident Ellison mounts the Big Data elephantOpenWorld There's no shortage of ego at Oracle, as evidenced by the effusion of confidence behind the company's OpenWorld announcement of the not-so-humbly named Big Data Appliance.… |
| Adobe announces Creative Cloud, acquires PhoneGap Posted: 03 Oct 2011 12:56 PM PDT HTML 5, but little Flash at Adobe's creative confabMAX 2011 Adobe is aquiring Nitobi, creators and sponsors of the open source PhoneGap project that lets you build cross-platform mobile apps using HTML technologies, and has announced a suite of cloud services named, unsurprisingly, Creative Cloud.… |
| 'iPhone 4 to be free' when new iPhones ship Posted: 03 Oct 2011 12:18 PM PDT iPhone 4S and 5 to be dual-mode. Other changes leakedUpon Tuesday's rollout of the iPhone 4S and iPhone 5, the existing iPhone 4 will be offered for the low, low price of nothing at all when purchased with a presumably two-year contract.… |
| BridgeSTOR in rash NAS cash splash Posted: 03 Oct 2011 12:00 PM PDT 35 per cent dedupe storage saving or your money backBridgeSTOR has a dedupe card for Windows NAS boxes that will provide a 35 per cent storage saving – or your money cheerfully refunded.… |
| Oracle: Java 8 will be revolution, not evolution Posted: 03 Oct 2011 11:20 AM PDT JavaFX 2.0 released, Java 9 detailedJavaOne Mark Reinhold, chief architect for Java at Oracle, gave details on developments in Java 8 and beyond, and announced the release of JavaFX 2.0 during his turn on the keynote stage at the JavaOne conference in San Francisco.… |
| Bank of America website disrupted for 4th day in a row Posted: 03 Oct 2011 11:03 AM PDT Hacking and DoS ruled out as causesBank of America's website continued to suffer sporadic outages on Monday, marking the fourth day that some customers have been unable to use its online services to check balances and pay bills.… |
| October 14 declared 'Steve Jobs Day' Posted: 03 Oct 2011 11:01 AM PDT Rumors buzz over Jobsian bow at Tuesday's iPhone roll-outAs rumors spread that Apple's cofounder and former CEO might show up at Tuesday's "Let's talk iPhone" event, a group of clever fanbois has proclaimed next Friday, October 14, as "Steve Jobs Day", and has asked the world to celebrate "a day to honor the man himself and say thank you."… |
| Better Business Bureau offers rogue script browser peril Posted: 03 Oct 2011 10:58 AM PDT Oops! Scam warning service left eggfacedRogue scripts on the scam advice website Better Business Bureau have sparked security concerns.… |
| Verizon in court to block net neutrality ruling Posted: 03 Oct 2011 10:02 AM PDT 'The feds aren't the boss of us'Verizon Communications has filed an appeal in a US court to block the Federal Communications Commission's new net neutrality rules.… |
| Amazon fans order three Fires for every E Ink Kindle Posted: 03 Oct 2011 09:09 AM PDT First-day tablet orders estimated at 95kKindle buyers want the Fire, Amazon's new colour tablet, more than they want the online retailers revamped E Ink reader, buyer data suggests.… |
| Would you sue to keep your guilty ABBA habit a secret? Posted: 03 Oct 2011 09:03 AM PDT Pandora let world see our bathroom singalongs, say usersMusic services that divulge your guiltiest music pleasures to the world may be breaking US state law. Michigan's Video Rental Privacy Act has been cited in a new class action lawsuit against Pandora, claiming $5,000 damages per person. The lawsuit says that by making playlists and histories public and searchable by Google, privacy was violated.… |
| Samsung reveals release for 5in tablet Posted: 03 Oct 2011 08:42 AM PDT Time to take NoteSamsung today announced its 5in tablet-phone thingamajig, the Galaxy Note, is heading to the UK in November.… |
| 'There'll be nothing left of IBM once I'm done,' says Ellison Posted: 03 Oct 2011 08:40 AM PDT Promises a terrific licking for 'Mister Blue'Oracle has pulled the rug out from under |
| Yahoo! and! ABC! ink! news! pact! Posted: 03 Oct 2011 08:26 AM PDT Online-first blobbening to create vast eyeball mountainYahoo! and ABC have announced a news partnership that they hope will bag them 100 million US users a month.… |
| O2 best placed to scoop new iPhone sales dosh Posted: 03 Oct 2011 08:03 AM PDT Still has fruit-stroker legion from old exclusive dealO2 will be quids in when the next iPhone is beamed down to mere mortals, a spectacle that's strongly rumoured to be happening tomorrow.… |
| Google OUTBID on g.co.uk at auction Posted: 03 Oct 2011 07:27 AM PDT Speculator mows Chocolate Factory's grassGoogle may have spent an estimated $1.5m on the Colombian domain name g.co earlier this year, but it was outbid on g.co.uk in a recent auction by a domain investor.… |
| London gets first new Google Chromebookshop Posted: 03 Oct 2011 06:56 AM PDT We offer only one thing: Total Googly dominanceBrit geeks have snapped up Samsung-made Chromebooks from Google's new 'store' on London's Tottenham Court Road in a sign that the Chocolate Factory's attempt to clone Apple Stores' razzle-dazzle is paying dividends.… |
| Major BT exchange titsup in power outage Posted: 03 Oct 2011 06:53 AM PDT Customers advised to turn it off then on againBT was hit by a big power failure this morning at one of its major exchanges in the Midlands.… |
| Posted: 03 Oct 2011 06:42 AM PDT The Register talks HPC with IntelEl Reg's Tim Phillips talks High Performance Computing with Gordon Graylish who is the VP and GM for enterprise solutions sales.… |
| Steelie Neelie calls for copper price cuts to drive fibre Posted: 03 Oct 2011 06:31 AM PDT Dutch berated for doing net neut rules without askingThe EU's top digital eurocrat has called on large telcos to stop using copper pricing as a barrier to deploying fibre networks.… |
| Crazy square barcodes can point your phone to MALWARE Posted: 03 Oct 2011 06:26 AM PDT Help, help, I'm under attagRussian VXers have begun using obnoxious barcode-on-steroids QR codes as a launchpad for mobile malware.… |
| EC to vet Euro broadband performance Posted: 03 Oct 2011 06:15 AM PDT Volunteer testers requiredThe European Commission is set to launch an investigation into broadband performance in a bid to bring greater transparency to the true speed and reliability of interweb services.… |
| Alibaba! wants! to! be! Yahoo! purple! prince! Posted: 03 Oct 2011 05:58 AM PDT Would acquire a third of itself as part of the packageThe boss of Alibaba, which is part owned by Yahoo!, wants to be handed the keys to the Purple Palace.… |
| Cisco veep slags off HP's PC biz wobble Posted: 03 Oct 2011 05:36 AM PDT Predicts doom for rival in not-so-secret documentCisco quietly sat on the sidelines during the summer as a series of gaffes by a hapless senior executive team forced down HP's share price by a fifth.… |
| Apple TV owners lost legal movie playback this weekend Posted: 03 Oct 2011 05:28 AM PDT DRM server snafu deprives fanboys of filmsUnconcerned about the insidious impact of Digital Rights Management? You may want to think again when you hear about the many Apple TV owners who found they couldn't play legitimately acquired movies this weekend.… |
| Ecclesiastical judge tells church: Let there be Wi-Fi Posted: 03 Oct 2011 05:13 AM PDT Tinfoilers hamper case against by failure to showMessages to Norfolk's churches won't just be heaven sent in future, they'll also be wireless broadband signals after a judge ruled against objectors' Wi-Fi health fears.… |
| Belgian buckaneers invade Rockall Posted: 03 Oct 2011 05:05 AM PDT Radio hamburglars reprise epic Vulturine featA group of Belgian radio hams landed on the sacred islet of Rockall over the weekend, following an evidently rough crossing to the world's remotest outcrop.… |
| Digital TV body adds HbbTV to UK standard Posted: 03 Oct 2011 05:01 AM PDT Boost for Connected TV makersThe UK's digital TV specifications guardian, the Digital TV Group, has formally incorporated HbbTV into its 'D-Book' digital telly standard.… |
| Best skiing in space is on Saturnian ice moon Enceladus Posted: 03 Oct 2011 04:58 AM PDT Perfect powder, shame about the low gravityAnyone who'd like to ski in space should head for Saturn's icy moon Enceladus, according to boffins who've discovered that the superfine ice crystals coating the moon's surface would be perfect powder for skiing.… |
| Open Document Format updated to fix spreadsheets Posted: 03 Oct 2011 04:39 AM PDT Check out the cross-product formula syntax on this babyA major change to the Open Document Foundation (ODF) spec to improve spreadsheet functionality has been ratified by standards chiefs.… |
| iPhones 'excellent for doing experiments on their owners' Posted: 03 Oct 2011 04:18 AM PDT Trick-cyclists plan mass fanboi brain probesFears among Reg readers that iPhones will be used to conduct psychological experiments on Apple worshipping owners will surely intensify this morning thanks to a pronouncement by brain boffins.… |
| AMD Llano vs Intel Sandy Bridge Posted: 03 Oct 2011 04:00 AM PDT Which is the best notebook buy?Review At first glance, AMD's 'Llano' CPU and Intel's 'Sandy Bridge' second-generation Core i platform look like blood brothers. They combine the CPU, a GPU and a memory controller all on a single 32nm die.… |
| ICO consultation: What should public bodies disclose? Posted: 03 Oct 2011 03:44 AM PDT Graham's office to push out code of practice by the end of the yearThe UK's data protection and Freedom of Information watchdog has launched a new consultation with a view to changing its guidance on what information public sector organisations should be forced to disclose and how.… |
| Ease data traffic jams with some network improvements Posted: 03 Oct 2011 03:30 AM PDT Keeping up with bigger drivesAutoroutes, inter-states, autostrada, motorways and autobahns: they all arose out of the same realisation. Roads had become bottlenecks and traffic was coming to a standstill. The fix was to divide roads into two, limit access and add more lanes.… |
| Vodafone dishes out free unlimited data Posted: 03 Oct 2011 03:23 AM PDT Three-month see-what-you-need periodFolk after a fresh handset might like to consider Vodafone, which is offering new and upgrading mobile customers truly unlimited data for a three-month period.… |
| Super Mario jumps on domain squatter Posted: 03 Oct 2011 03:14 AM PDT Lackadaisical Nintendo finally says 'it's-a me!'Nintendo has take control of the domain name SuperMario.com – fifteen years after it was first registered by a third party.… |
| Osborne proffers £150m for mobile not spots Posted: 03 Oct 2011 03:08 AM PDT Of your money, of course, not hisChancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne has promised £150m to provide better mobile coverage in the UK, 'cos that's just what we need to stimulate the economy.… |
| ThumbsUp Black Diamond glow-globe iPhone dock Posted: 03 Oct 2011 03:00 AM PDT Psychodelic geodesicGeek Treat of the Week Yes, it's expensive and totally pointless, but the Black Diamond "ambience dock" is strangely compelling. It's fascinating to watch – a bit like those Mathmos lava lamps that now seem to have acquired a rather ironic retro chic.… |
| iTunes beta, Vodafone flag up iPhone 4S Posted: 03 Oct 2011 02:46 AM PDT 8GB iPhone 4 makes a pre-release appearance tooEvidence is building that Apple will indeed announce the iPhone 4S tomorrow.… |
| Microsoft's Rosalyn invites VB to Windows 8 party Posted: 03 Oct 2011 02:44 AM PDT C# in disguise?At Microsoft's recent BUILD conference, technical fellow and C# creator Anders Hejlsberg presented a session on the future of C# and Visual Basic. Visual Basic? There were few VB developers evident at BUILD and it seems to be in decline among professionals. Nevertheless, Microsoft is keeping the two in parity: read on for why the difference between them is becoming smaller.… |
| HTC Android handsets spew private data to ANY app Posted: 03 Oct 2011 02:23 AM PDT Mystery data logger opens backdoor for slurpingA data logger pushed out by HTC to Android handsets has opened up a vulnerability allowing any app with internet permissions to access private customer information.… |
| Violent videogames reduce crime Posted: 03 Oct 2011 02:19 AM PDT Anti-gaming tests are flawed, says reportWhile there's no end of detractors claiming that violent videogames cause aggressive, often criminal behaviour, some refreshing research has now insisted that the opposite is true.… |
| Fibre up, broadband up, IPTV up in Europe Posted: 03 Oct 2011 02:02 AM PDT Fibre-to-home numbers up 43 per centBroadband World Forum Numbers announced at the Broadband World Forum point to a continued rise in fibre deployments, with the dual conclusions that Lithuania and Norway are the most fibred up countries and that both Hungary and the Ukraine are joining the world's leading 'fibre to the home' (FTTH) economies, with a sudden burst of pace.… |
| UK punters happy to pay £3 to top up e-wallets Posted: 03 Oct 2011 01:33 AM PDT We never knew you were so keenA survey of UK attitudes to mobile payments reckons that £3 a time is the sweet spot for topping up wallets, with 65 per cent of you looking forward to pay-by-tap.… |
| Anonymous Twitter alternative developed for rioters Posted: 03 Oct 2011 01:03 AM PDT Favoured by anti-Wall Street protesters, apparentlyAfter discovering that BBM and their Twittery playthings fed straight into the hands of the cops, smartphone-toting revolutionaries have taken up a new type of instant messaging – Vibe.… |
| Dozens of firms vie for £1bn crim tagging contracts Posted: 03 Oct 2011 12:44 AM PDT Keeping tabs on 20,000+ offendersMinisters are preparing for a massive expansion in electronic tagging of offenders, with private security companies being invited to bid for more than £1bn worth of contracts in October, reports the Guardian.… |
| Citrix stretches XenServer 6.0 to cover bigger iron Posted: 02 Oct 2011 10:25 PM PDT Chubbier VMs for heftier appsCitrix Systems doesn't make a lot of noise about server virtualization these days, now that the two founders of the Xen project have left to start Bromium. But the company, and the open source Xen project that it sponsors, continues to hammer out code to make Xen a credible alternative to VMware's ESXi, Microsoft's Hyper-V, and Red Hat's KVM.… |
| Adobe: crashing 100 million machines not an option Posted: 02 Oct 2011 10:00 PM PDT Zero-day vulns get 6,000 man-hours of testingThe vast majority of time Adobe spends patching zero-day vulnerabilities in its ubiquitous Reader and Flash Player applications is devoted to making sure the fixes won't cause catastrophic crashes on end-user machines, the company's security chief said.… |
| Ellison brandishes 'speed of thought' Exalytics appliance Posted: 02 Oct 2011 08:59 PM PDT Eat my digital dust, HP Autonomy and IBM SmartiesOpenWorld Larry Ellison is serious about hardware because he is serious about software. Mostly, however, he's serious about making money – which is why Ellison's OpenWorld keynote surprise in San Francisco on Sunday was a whole new machine: the Exalytics in-memory appliance.… |
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