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- More big boxen for boffins
- Kiwi devs look to export 3D urban-planning tech
- Illicit Bitcoin miners steal resources from infected Macs
- China fires up homegrown petaflops super
- Olympus gets government grilling after firing nosy Brit boss
- Dozens of chemical firms hit in espionage hack attack
- Ultrabook sales 'falling short of targets'
- China to take women to heaven and back
- China responds to satellite hack charge: 'Nuh-<i>uh</i>!'
- Another reason to jail-break your iPhone 4: You can get Siri
- Microsoft confirms Kinect SDK for business in 2012
- Open-sourcers suggest Linux secure boot block workarounds
- LightSquared pulls out all the stops to get FCC approval
- Sony may break up with Samsung
- Gloves off in NYSE: Red Hat trading tech face-off
- Samsung reveals Ice Cream Sarnie updates for 2012
- Biz bosses are catching fondleslab fever, says distie
- Instituto Tecnológico de Costa Rica
- Argentina stakes online claim on Falklands
- National University of Defense Technology, China
- Apple confirmed as buyer of 3D mapping firm
- BBC iPlayer to require TV licence
- National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan
- Steve Jobs' last words: 'OH WOW. OH WOW. OH WOW.'
- From Frogger to fluid dynamics
- Farewell then, Sony Ericsson
- Desperate RIM in 'buy two PlayBooks, get one free' offer
- Is your network taking on a life of its own?
- Google signs Deepak Chopra and Madonna in TV blitzkrieg
- Public transport 'is bad for commuters' health'
- Check Point scoffs security dashboard firm
- University students chase cluster victory
- Two iPads put a hole through man's <s>wallet</s> stomach
- ASUS: 'We run out of hard disks at the end of the month'
- Adventures in Tech: Taking the plunge into IPv6
- HTC foretells 2012 move to 4G in US, 'advanced markets'
- Don't let Halloween malware haunt your PC
- Top GCHQ spook warns of 'disturbing' levels of cyber-raids
- Scotland Yard trackers operate fake mobile base stations
- Zombify Me
- Minecraft upstages Portal 2 in arty game prize
- Solar power boom 'unsustainable', says Gov
- Building cloud-optimised networks
- Anonymous threatens Mexican drug cartel
- Motorola Mobility to sack 800 ahead of Google gobble
- 'Ghost hunter' set to become Tory Euro-MP
- Android 'stands on Microsoft's shoulders', says MS lawyer
- Nokia celebrates milestone with nostalgic exhibition
- BT hires another battalion of troops to speed fibre rollout
- Canonical: Mobile OEMs are going to love our Linux
| Posted: 31 Oct 2011 03:00 PM PDT CSIRO seeks more metalThe Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation – CSIRO to you and I – has gone to market for an upgrade to a 64-processor system in Canberra.… |
| Kiwi devs look to export 3D urban-planning tech Posted: 31 Oct 2011 02:37 PM PDT Get first round of fundingNew Zealand-based 3D visualisation company Nextspace has secured a round of VC funding to assist in the export of its interactive Visual City technology.… |
| Illicit Bitcoin miners steal resources from infected Macs Posted: 31 Oct 2011 02:24 PM PDT Passwords, browsing history also harvestedSecurity researchers have identified malware that hijacks the resources of infected Macs to illegally mint the digital currency known as Bitcoin.… |
| China fires up homegrown petaflops super Posted: 31 Oct 2011 02:15 PM PDT The Sunway Bluelight specialThe Chinese government has booted up the first of three homegrown, petaflops-class massively parallel supercomputers based on indigenous technology.… |
| Olympus gets government grilling after firing nosy Brit boss Posted: 31 Oct 2011 01:00 PM PDT Japanese prime minister cites multimillion dollar 'irregularities'The Japanese prime minister has called for clarification from Olympus' board of directors over hundreds of millions of dollars in fees paid out during recent takeovers – deals the company's short-lived British CEO claims he was fired for investigating.… |
| Dozens of chemical firms hit in espionage hack attack Posted: 31 Oct 2011 12:58 PM PDT Defense contractors, Fortune 100 companies, tooDozens of companies in the defense and chemical industries have been targeted in an industrial espionage campaign that steals confidential data from computers infected with malware, researchers from Symantec said.… |
| Ultrabook sales 'falling short of targets' Posted: 31 Oct 2011 12:46 PM PDT 'Never buy version 1.0' rule in playThose slim, svelte, sexy ultrabooks that Intel has been flogging may be having a hard time finding buyers due to their relatively high prices.… |
| China to take women to heaven and back Posted: 31 Oct 2011 12:01 PM PDT Manned 2012 spaceships could have two female taikonautsChina is considering sending two female astronauts into space on its first manned missions to its space lab module next year.… |
| China responds to satellite hack charge: 'Nuh-<i>uh</i>!' Posted: 31 Oct 2011 11:42 AM PDT 'We oppose all hacking'Surprising no one, the Chinese government has denied that it had anything to do with the hacking of two US satellites in 2007 and 2008.… |
| Another reason to jail-break your iPhone 4: You can get Siri Posted: 31 Oct 2011 11:29 AM PDT Fiddly, but possibleApple withheld Siri from iPhone 4 as a straightforward ploy to get people to fork out another £499 for its new iPhone. But there's no reason Siri can't run on the 4 – and you can get it on there by jail-breaking your phone.… |
| Microsoft confirms Kinect SDK for business in 2012 Posted: 31 Oct 2011 11:21 AM PDT Let a thousand RSI lawsuits bloomMicrosoft has confirmed it will release a full commercial SDK for the Kinect in early 2012, and it's hoping that the technology will cross the chasm from gaming into the business world.… |
| Open-sourcers suggest Linux secure boot block workarounds Posted: 31 Oct 2011 11:01 AM PDT If the boot fits ...The Linux Foundation has published a how-to guide for PC makers on implementing UEFI's Secure Boot functionality without preventing the post-sale installation of Linux on Windows 8 machines.… |
| LightSquared pulls out all the stops to get FCC approval Posted: 31 Oct 2011 10:40 AM PDT Financial shenanigans, conflicts of interest and a technical solution?LightSquared is fighting with every weapon at its disposal to win the war of public perception, and get FCC approval for its controversial network before the cash runs out.… |
| Sony may break up with Samsung Posted: 31 Oct 2011 10:20 AM PDT Japanese firm considers ending LCD joint ventureSony is considering breaking up its joint venture with Samsung on LCD panels so it can cut its costs, according to a number of reports.… |
| Gloves off in NYSE: Red Hat trading tech face-off Posted: 31 Oct 2011 10:01 AM PDT OpenMAMA pitted against AMQP in finance system battleIt was a bit perplexing when two weeks ago, apropos of nothing, commercial Linux distributor Red Hat affirmed its commitment to the Advanced Message Queuing Protocol (AMQP) messaging integration software that is at the heart of its Enterprise MRG-Messaging variant of the Linux stack it sells. Now we know why.… |
| Samsung reveals Ice Cream Sarnie updates for 2012 Posted: 31 Oct 2011 09:43 AM PDT Galaxies that get a sliceSamsung Italy has let slip which Galaxy phones and tablets it plans to provide with with Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich updates, all due next year.… |
| Biz bosses are catching fondleslab fever, says distie Posted: 31 Oct 2011 09:40 AM PDT Not just for watching cat videos, thenBiz customers are slowly falling for the charms of the fondleslab and finally calling on resellers to provide them, the boss of Ingram Micro reckons.… |
| Instituto Tecnológico de Costa Rica Posted: 31 Oct 2011 09:25 AM PDT Rainforest Eagles attack clusteringSCC Team Profile: Lending a tropical air to the SC11 Student Cluster Challenge are the Rainforest Eagles from Costa Rica's Instituto Tecnológico de Costa Rica (ITCR-ITS). This is the first team from central America, and at latitude 10° north, the southernmost team to date. So if you wagered that Taiwan, at 25° north, would be the competitor closest to the Equator – you lose. ITCR is also the first team from an isthmus – but I'm not aware of any active betting on this issue.… |
| Argentina stakes online claim on Falklands Posted: 31 Oct 2011 09:19 AM PDT Territorial dispute spills over into cyberspaceArgentina has complained about the continued existence of the Falkland Islands' top-level internet address .fk, according to a local internet users society and other sources.… |
| National University of Defense Technology, China Posted: 31 Oct 2011 09:04 AM PDT Team Tianhe looks for Seattle glorySCC Team Profile China's National University of Defense Technology (NUDT) is the same organization that brought to life the 2.56 PetaFLOP Tianhe-1A supercomputer. This system, with more than 14,000 Intel Westmere processors (186,368 cores) and 7,168 NVIDIA Tesla GPUs, shocked the world when it came out of nowhere to take the top slot on the Top500 list in November 2010.… |
| Apple confirmed as buyer of 3D mapping firm Posted: 31 Oct 2011 09:01 AM PDT Plotting split from Google Mapping services?Apple has been confirmed as the the buyer of 3D maps company C3 technologies, which was sold over the summer to a undeclared company.… |
| BBC iPlayer to require TV licence Posted: 31 Oct 2011 08:57 AM PDT The cost of catch-upWatching BBC iPlayer may soon be illegal if you do not possess a TV licence if proposals under consideration by the government become law.… |
| National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan Posted: 31 Oct 2011 08:39 AM PDT 2010 Champion returns to defend crownSCC team profile Student Cluster Competition time is fast approaching. Below is our first competitor profile and check out our introduction here.… |
| Steve Jobs' last words: 'OH WOW. OH WOW. OH WOW.' Posted: 31 Oct 2011 08:29 AM PDT He looked at partner and kids 'and then beyond them'A eulogy for Steve Jobs written and delivered by his sister was published over the weekend. It reveals many personal details of the techbiz titan's life, among them his last words as he lay dying with his family around him.… |
| From Frogger to fluid dynamics Posted: 31 Oct 2011 08:00 AM PDT Exhibits run the gamutSC11 We're closing in on SC11, the annual HPC love fest that kicks off this year in Seattle on November 12th. The SC (stands for Super Computing) events are different from every other industry gathering.… |
| Posted: 31 Oct 2011 07:57 AM PDT The Reg looks back over a rollercoaster decadeIt promised to bring together the best of Swedish design and Japanese consumer electronics marketing, and at times, it did. But after 10 years and one month, Sony has pulled the plug on its mobile phone venture with Ericsson.… |
| Desperate RIM in 'buy two PlayBooks, get one free' offer Posted: 31 Oct 2011 07:38 AM PDT Plus leather slab-sleeve for unloved strokerRIM has resorted to giving away its little-fondled BlackBerry PlayBook as part of a promo to drive sales to biz customers stateside.… |
| Is your network taking on a life of its own? Posted: 31 Oct 2011 07:20 AM PDT Meet the complexity challengeNetworking has always been something of a dark art, but you would have thought it would get easier as technologies mature. In fact, technology, along with users' expectations of it, is making the network manager's jobs more difficult than ever.… |
| Google signs Deepak Chopra and Madonna in TV blitzkrieg Posted: 31 Oct 2011 07:19 AM PDT We're not attacking the telly biz! Oh wait, no, we areTwo months ago Google chairman Eric Schmidt assured TV industry executives that Google was complementary to them, not a competitor. All the Chocolate Factory wanted to do, he said, was help.… |
| Public transport 'is bad for commuters' health' Posted: 31 Oct 2011 06:58 AM PDT Long car journeys better for you than short ones, tooSwedish researchers have carried out a survey which, they say, reveals that commuting by public transport or by car damages people's health compared to making the journey to work by foot or bicycle. Curiously, the research also appeared to show that a long commute by car led to better health than a short drive in.… |
| Check Point scoffs security dashboard firm Posted: 31 Oct 2011 06:42 AM PDT Will add bells and whistles in a GRC/SIEM stylieCheck Point has acquired governance, risk management and compliance (GRC) firm Dynasec. Financial terms of the deal, announced Monday, were undisclosed.… |
| University students chase cluster victory Posted: 31 Oct 2011 06:34 AM PDT Throw down showdown in SeattleThe field is set. Eight student teams have been selected to compete in the ultimate computer sports event of our time – the Supercomputing 2011 (SC11) Student Cluster Challenge, aka the SCC… aka Cluster for Glory… aka Clusterbowl, Cluster Cup, and Cluster-geddon.… |
| Two iPads put a hole through man's <s>wallet</s> stomach Posted: 31 Oct 2011 06:25 AM PDT Halloween fancy dress fans, eat your heart outAs technology evolves, so does the potential for increasingly scary and horrific looks this Halloween. Check this guy out for a prime example.… |
| ASUS: 'We run out of hard disks at the end of the month' Posted: 31 Oct 2011 06:18 AM PDT Good job we make all those Flash-based netbooksASUS managed a slight increase in profit for the third quarter of this year, despite the global slowdown in PC sales.… |
| Adventures in Tech: Taking the plunge into IPv6 Posted: 31 Oct 2011 06:00 AM PDT Our intrepid reporter does it, but you'll still have toPart 1 The threat from the fast-dwindling supply of mainstream "IPv4" Internet addresses for new users is a bit like Y2K creeping up on us all over again. Almost no one can see beyond the cost of code review, systems change, hardware upgrades and general upheaval into the brave fairly-old world of IPv6 - but putting it off forever isn't really an option either. And like Y2K, if it's handled well, no one will ever notice or thank us "IT professionals" for it: we'll be accused of make-work, scare-mongering and overcharging. What's not to like?… |
| HTC foretells 2012 move to 4G in US, 'advanced markets' Posted: 31 Oct 2011 05:43 AM PDT Sees massive bulgening in smartphone sales to mainlandHTC sold almost twice as many smartphones in the third quarter of this year than it did in the same period last year, according to its quarterly results.… |
| Don't let Halloween malware haunt your PC Posted: 31 Oct 2011 05:29 AM PDT Trick or tweetHalloween celebrations on Monday are likely to be haunted by rampant malware infections and an onslaught of internet scams, security watchers warn.… |
| Top GCHQ spook warns of 'disturbing' levels of cyber-raids Posted: 31 Oct 2011 05:16 AM PDT All of Blighty subject to continual slurpingWith a crunch conference on government cyber-security starting tomorrow, the director of government spook den GCHQ, Iain Lobban, said Britain had faced a "disturbing" number of digital attacks in recent months.… |
| Scotland Yard trackers operate fake mobile base stations Posted: 31 Oct 2011 05:06 AM PDT Reports say cops are running secret air wing tooLondon's Metropolitan Police are using fake base stations to intercept mobile-phone calls, not to mention running a covert air wing, according to reports over the weekend.… |
| Posted: 31 Oct 2011 05:00 AM PDT 'Tis the season to be scaryHorror App of the Week Sitting round waiting for the new season of The Walking Dead to start can get boring. You see, I like zombies and anything to do with zombies, so the Zombify Me app for iPhone is a no-brainer… see what I did there?… |
| Minecraft upstages Portal 2 in arty game prize Posted: 31 Oct 2011 04:50 AM PDT Block heads?Who would have guessed that Minecraft is a work of cultural and artistic significance? Thank goodness we have the judges behind the inaugural GameCity Prize to tell us.… |
| Solar power boom 'unsustainable', says Gov Posted: 31 Oct 2011 04:47 AM PDT Massive payouts to rooftop panel owners to be slashedThe Great British Solar Power rush may soon come to a dramatic halt: the amount knocked off 'leccy bills for solar-powered homes will be slashed. Energy minister Greg Barker confirmed today that if cuts to the feed-in tariff (FiT) aren't made, his budget will simply run out.… |
| Building cloud-optimised networks Posted: 31 Oct 2011 04:45 AM PDT Combining fabric infrastructure, operational nous, and service delivery modelsExpert Clinic Three experts look at building cloud-optimised networks from the operational point of view, a fabric-based infrastructure point of view, and a service delivery model point of view.… |
| Anonymous threatens Mexican drug cartel Posted: 31 Oct 2011 04:36 AM PDT Hacktivists wade into bloody narco warsThe Mexican branch of Anonymous have threatened to expose members of Los Zetas unless the drug cartel releases a kidnapped member of the hacking collective.… |
| Motorola Mobility to sack 800 ahead of Google gobble Posted: 31 Oct 2011 04:27 AM PDT No in-office laundry or massages for youMotorola Mobility Holdings is firing some 800 staff ahead of being swallowed by search engine supertanker Google.… |
| 'Ghost hunter' set to become Tory Euro-MP Posted: 31 Oct 2011 04:19 AM PDT 'Investigator of the unexplained' headed for BrusselsAn expert on the paranormal, who bills himself online as "the GhostHunter", is set to become one of Britain's members of the European Parliament, according to reports.… |
| Android 'stands on Microsoft's shoulders', says MS lawyer Posted: 31 Oct 2011 04:13 AM PDT And there is only a modest charge for doing soA top Microsoft legal eagle has moaned that Android smartphones and the like are profiting from cash that his bosses have invested in research and development.… |
| Nokia celebrates milestone with nostalgic exhibition Posted: 31 Oct 2011 04:05 AM PDT Built from bricksTo celebrate the 19th anniversary of the release of the Nokia's classic handset, the 1011 - the world's first commercially available GSM digital phone - the Finnish phone giant is holding an exhibition showcasing the various designs that made the company such a driving force during the mobile market's boom years.… |
| BT hires another battalion of troops to speed fibre rollout Posted: 31 Oct 2011 03:57 AM PDT Ex-military types to blow two-thirds of Blighty 'by 2014'BT has brushed aside the possibility that it could be hampered by any number of problems that might delay its plan to push "superfast" broadband to two thirds of the UK come |
| Canonical: Mobile OEMs are going to love our Linux Posted: 31 Oct 2011 03:43 AM PDT Umbongo will be useful bargaining tool - ShuttleworthUbuntu, the free and user-friendly Mac-a-like flavour of Linux, will be targeted at mobile phones, tablets and smart TVs.… |
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