<strong>[<abbr title="Not Safe For Work">NSFW</abbr>]</strong> Cable employee admits replacing Superbowl feed with porn |
- <strong>[<abbr title="Not Safe For Work">NSFW</abbr>]</strong> Cable employee admits replacing Superbowl feed with porn
- Cloud buyers keeping storage sales strong
- Massive study concludes: 'Global warming is real'
- Meteor shower falls from Halley’s Comet on Saturday
- World's stealthiest rootkit gets a makeover
- Buy a $1m storage brute, get a free iPad app
- Zuckerberg's HTML5 Trojan horse play
- Groupon IPO seeks $11.4bn valuation
- Thai floods flush storage channel clean
- Dowler family bags £2m payout over phone-hacking saga
- Chinese giant halts rare earth shipments to hike prices
- Netbook shipments slump in face of tablet rise
- Feds: Cyberpunks spied on Nasdaq directors
- <i>Reg</i> hack desperately seeks deeply frustrated pensioner
- Boffins crack e-commerce encryption
- Gov: DAB must battle on, despite being old and rubbish
- Toshiba demos monster hi-res tablet display
- Jobs: 'I'll spend my dying breath destroying Android'
- Get out there and take some risks, says Woz
- Privacy blunders by UK biz soar, websites least trusted
- Quote of the Week: 'Phone bills shouldn't cost more than the rent'
- Smartphone black market fuels knife robberies
- <i>Reg</i> hacks confront <i>really</i> wide Oz load terror
- Web block would 'spark arms race' against pirates
- Batman: Arkham City
- Big Dane study finds <i>no</i> mobe cancer link
- Reshaping data centre networks
- Hackers crack PlayStation 3 hardware, again
- US radio evangelist: Apocalypse now
- Judge: <i>Top Gear</i> did not libel Tesla
- Google+ slips into bed with Reader
- Crowd-pleasing study in capitalism conspiracy controversy
- Samsung Galaxy Nexus comes up short on sub-pixels
- <abbr title="Bastard Operator from Hell">BOFH</abbr>: Hordes unleashed... by a RAM upgrade
- Channel vet to steer Ingram Micro's enterprise biz
- Intel Ivy Bridge set for Spring 2012 debut
- HP's chief techie departs, will not be replaced
- LG LSM-100 Mouse Scanner
- RIM's BBX has all the logic PlayBook should have had
- Watchdog mauls Euro database of 'pirates'
- Android grabs quarter of tablet market
- WD: Thai flooding should speed EU decision on Hitachi
- Apple's iPod: ten years old
- Skype lets hackers track your BitTorrent downloads
- Printable transistors usher in 'internet of things'
- Seek may float Chinese asset
- Microsoft betting on ultrabooks to boost Windows growth
- Numara crafts SaaS offerings, preps Oz hosting
- Deep inside ARM's new Intel killer
- Kiwi software developer makes Deloitte fast 500
| Posted: 21 Oct 2011 03:09 PM PDT We interrupt this dramatic touchdown for this lewd clipNSFW An Arizona man has admitted he was the one who interrupted the 2009 Superbowl broadcast to thousands of cable subscribers and replaced it with footage from an X-rated porno flick, according to published news reports.… |
| Cloud buyers keeping storage sales strong Posted: 21 Oct 2011 02:57 PM PDT Boom times for hardware and software salesAnalyst house IDC is predicting demand for public and private cloud architectures will means strong growth for storage sales.… |
| Massive study concludes: 'Global warming is real' Posted: 21 Oct 2011 02:43 PM PDT Climate skeptics dealt 'clear and rigorous' blowA massively thorough study – funded in part by a pair of US oil billionaire who are opponents of climate-disruption remediation – has come to the conclusion that the earth is, indeed, warming.… |
| Meteor shower falls from Halley’s Comet on Saturday Posted: 21 Oct 2011 11:42 AM PDT Watchers checking for Moon explosionsProfessional and amateur astronomers will have their eyes on the skies this weekend, watching for the annual Orionids meteor show as our planet passes through the tail of Halley's Comet.… |
| World's stealthiest rootkit gets a makeover Posted: 21 Oct 2011 11:41 AM PDT Now, TDL4 harder than ever to eradicateOne of the world's more advanced pieces of malware has just gotten a makeover that could make it even more resistant to takedown efforts, security researchers said.… |
| Buy a $1m storage brute, get a free iPad app Posted: 21 Oct 2011 10:04 AM PDT IBM talks up XIV benchmarks, cloud filesIBM released so many system and storage announcements this week that it was difficult to zoom in on the most interesting ones: there were 55 in all. We'll focus on the high-end array and cloud file storage items in this convoy of news.… |
| Zuckerberg's HTML5 Trojan horse play Posted: 21 Oct 2011 09:35 AM PDT Facebook penetrates Apple/Google territoryOpen ... And Shut Apple has become the world's most valuable company by filling us with childish wonder at (and ravenous lust to buy) its Jesus phone, but Facebook seems sure to surpass Apple's $350bn-plus market cap by providing the social fabric for all internet traffic. But first the social giant needs to figure out mobile. And fast.… |
| Groupon IPO seeks $11.4bn valuation Posted: 21 Oct 2011 09:14 AM PDT Price range of $16 to $18 a share confirmedGroupon confirmed in a regulatory filing today that it is seeking an IPO of around $11.4bn, significantly lower than the $25bn IPO the e-coupon site was pursuing in June this year.… |
| Thai floods flush storage channel clean Posted: 21 Oct 2011 08:59 AM PDT Disties hit the brakes, stores raise pricesDistribution giant Computer 2000 has put disk drives on manual allocation to spread supply among its customer base while other distributors have completely frozen sales while they review the impact of the flooding in Thailand.… |
| Dowler family bags £2m payout over phone-hacking saga Posted: 21 Oct 2011 08:42 AM PDT Murdoch hopes settlement 'underscores' his 'regret'News Corp has agreed to cough up £2m to the family of Milly Dowler after individuals working for the now-defunct Sunday tabloid the News of the World were found to have hacked into the murdered schoolgirl's phone.… |
| Chinese giant halts rare earth shipments to hike prices Posted: 21 Oct 2011 08:32 AM PDT This is the stuff mobiles, lasers, magnets, cars are made ofChina's largest rare-earth producer, the state-owned Baotou Iron and Steel Group, is stopping rare earth shipments for a month in an attempt to drive up prices.… |
| Netbook shipments slump in face of tablet rise Posted: 21 Oct 2011 08:27 AM PDT Bullish forecasts reversedTablets outshipped netbooks in Q2 2011.… |
| Feds: Cyberpunks spied on Nasdaq directors Posted: 21 Oct 2011 08:04 AM PDT Nasdaq hackers' malware plot confirmedThe same hackers who cracked into Nasdaq's computer systems last year apparently planted malware that allowed them to spy on publicly traded companies.… |
| <i>Reg</i> hack desperately seeks deeply frustrated pensioner Posted: 21 Oct 2011 07:54 AM PDT You never call, you never write...We enjoyed your letter of the 9th. And would love to chat further. Discretion assured. ®… |
| Boffins crack e-commerce encryption Posted: 21 Oct 2011 07:29 AM PDT Poked XML-based service coughs secretsGerman computer scientists have cracked components of an encryption system used to securely exchange data between e-commerce and banking systems.… |
| Gov: DAB must battle on, despite being old and rubbish Posted: 21 Oct 2011 07:04 AM PDT While BBC agrees to pay for digital albatrossBritons' digital albatross, DAB radio, might be antique and sound terrible, the culture minister said this week, admitting the 2015 switchover date looked "ambitious". It's the first time a politician of ministerial level has acknowledged issues with DAB. But there's no changing course, he said.… |
| Toshiba demos monster hi-res tablet display Posted: 21 Oct 2011 07:03 AM PDT Packin' in the pixelsToshiba has raised the bar for LCD quality, revealing a 6.1in panel with a pixel density of 498 pixels per inch.… |
| Jobs: 'I'll spend my dying breath destroying Android' Posted: 21 Oct 2011 06:26 AM PDT Threatened $40bn war over rival mobe OS, slated GoogleNever one to pussyfoot around his deep hatred for rivals and traitors, Steve Jobs chucked some choice epithets at Google boss Eric Schmidt and his products after the Apple-Google rift opened in 2007.… |
| Get out there and take some risks, says Woz Posted: 21 Oct 2011 06:02 AM PDT The wizard of Wozniak wishes you luckIP Expo Steve Wozniak gave a pitch at IP Expo yesterday in which he spoke about the early days at Apple, taking risks in technology, and Fusion-io, his latest gig.… |
| Privacy blunders by UK biz soar, websites least trusted Posted: 21 Oct 2011 05:41 AM PDT Surprise! Public confidence in data protection declinesData security breaches within the private sector are rapidly increasing, the UK's Information Commissioner warned today.… |
| Quote of the Week: 'Phone bills shouldn't cost more than the rent' Posted: 21 Oct 2011 05:29 AM PDT |
| Smartphone black market fuels knife robberies Posted: 21 Oct 2011 05:14 AM PDT Top cop slaps punters without a mobe passcodeThe Association of Chief Police Officers (ACPO) reckons demand for smartphones on the black market has in part fuelled a rise in knife robberies.… |
| <i>Reg</i> hacks confront <i>really</i> wide Oz load terror Posted: 21 Oct 2011 05:00 AM PDT Down Under's Stuart Highway: The shocking, lane-swallowing truthDuring our coverage this week of the World Solar Challenge, live from Down Under's Stuart Highway from Darwin to Adelaide, some of you weren't too impressed with our account of meeting a big truck bearing an improbably large mining vehicle – some kind of monster Tonka Toy with wheels the size of a two-storey house.… |
| Web block would 'spark arms race' against pirates Posted: 21 Oct 2011 04:43 AM PDT ISPs tear into file share ban efforts"Communications systems are inherently designed to deliver communication," stated Mita Mitra, BT's Internet Policy overseer, yesterday while debating one of the most controversial aspects of the 2010 Digital Economy Act: that BT and other ISPs should be responsible for blocking websites that infringe copyright.… |
| Posted: 21 Oct 2011 04:40 AM PDT The best superhero game. Ever.Review Hung upside down over a vat of acid or strapped to a conveyor belt inching towards a blast furnace, Batman could always rely on technology to help him pull off an unlikely escape. That is if he... could... just... reach... his... utility belt, of course.… |
| Big Dane study finds <i>no</i> mobe cancer link Posted: 21 Oct 2011 04:29 AM PDT Tumour doomsayers barking up wrong treeA Danish study has found there is no increased risk of brain cancer from mobile phone usage.… |
| Reshaping data centre networks Posted: 21 Oct 2011 04:11 AM PDT Managing weak linksOn-demand We think a lot about the network that connects the client to the server room, but maybe not enough about the network inside the data centre.… |
| Hackers crack PlayStation 3 hardware, again Posted: 21 Oct 2011 04:05 AM PDT Jailbreak jinxSony's hacking headaches continued today with claims that a new PlayStation jailbreak USB dongle is about to flood the market.… |
| US radio evangelist: Apocalypse now Posted: 21 Oct 2011 04:02 AM PDT And publishes weekend listening schedule...Reg readers are advised to get their earthly affairs in order today as the long-predicted Rapture should sweep the good sheep up to heaven sometime after lunch.… |
| Judge: <i>Top Gear</i> did not libel Tesla Posted: 21 Oct 2011 03:59 AM PDT Tesla grrrrsBBC merchandise cash cow Top Gear did not libel e-car maker Tesla, the English High Court ruled this week.… |
| Google+ slips into bed with Reader Posted: 21 Oct 2011 03:42 AM PDT Lonely heart web slurper needs some lovin'Google is overhauling its neglected web and news aggregating tool Reader, unsurprisingly to bring it more into line with the company's newfound love for all things social.… |
| Crowd-pleasing study in capitalism conspiracy controversy Posted: 21 Oct 2011 03:32 AM PDT Boffins reckon banks ruled a lot of the worldIn what many took to be fodder for the capitalism-is-a-conspiracy theorists, boffins have claimed that about 150 companies, mostly banks, are controlling the majority of the economic power.… |
| Samsung Galaxy Nexus comes up short on sub-pixels Posted: 21 Oct 2011 03:26 AM PDT Don't smile, it's PenTileBad news, folks. The sexy looking Samsung Galaxy Nexus, the world's first Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich smartphone, has an inferior OLED display.… |
| <abbr title="Bastard Operator from Hell">BOFH</abbr>: Hordes unleashed... by a RAM upgrade Posted: 21 Oct 2011 03:14 AM PDT Fault #45113: Company Corrie email list is downEpisode 16 |
| Channel vet to steer Ingram Micro's enterprise biz Posted: 21 Oct 2011 03:02 AM PDT Jon Bunyard to replace outgoing Cathi LowChannel veteran Jon Bunyard is to head up Ingram Micro's enterprise business unit from the end of the month after current incumbent Cathi Low steps down.… |
| Intel Ivy Bridge set for Spring 2012 debut Posted: 21 Oct 2011 02:42 AM PDT Skinny CPUs for skinny laptops'Ivy Bridge', Intel's next generation of processor technology, will be unveiled toward the end of Q1 2012 rather than the early part of the year.… |
| HP's chief techie departs, will not be replaced Posted: 21 Oct 2011 02:32 AM PDT Robison rides off into the sunsetHP's chief technical officer, Shane Robison, is out.… |
| Posted: 21 Oct 2011 02:00 AM PDT Page-grabbing pointer pusherAccessory of the Week Building a document scanner into a mouse is one of those odd notions that seems daft at first but makes sense when you actually think about it.… |
| RIM's BBX has all the logic PlayBook should have had Posted: 21 Oct 2011 01:31 AM PDT BBX converges BlackBerry and QNX, and beefs up enterprise featuresRIM is a frustrating company right now. The massive outages that affected BlackBerry email users on three continents last week may have been a miracle of bad timing, just after the iPhone launch, but they were only the most publicised of a string of more avoidable mistakes which are leaving users and developers at the end of their tether.… |
| Watchdog mauls Euro database of 'pirates' Posted: 21 Oct 2011 01:00 AM PDT Who can peek at the naughty list?The European Commission must explain in more detail the specifics of the operation of a database it plans to create that will hold personal data on suspected intellectual property (IP) rights infringers, an EU data protection watchdog has said.… |
| Android grabs quarter of tablet market Posted: 21 Oct 2011 12:02 AM PDT Sorry, RIM, almost all of the rest is Apple'sWorld tablet sales hot up during Q3, it was revealed today. Shipments almost quadrupled year on year, from 4.4m units in Q3 2010 to 16.7m tablets in Q3 2011.… |
| WD: Thai flooding should speed EU decision on Hitachi Posted: 21 Oct 2011 12:00 AM PDT Deal good for everyone, says disk drive giantWD believes the flooding in Thailand puts greater impetus on the European Competition Commission to green-light its proposed acquisition of Hitachi Global Storage Technologies.… |
| Posted: 20 Oct 2011 11:00 PM PDT The gadget that changed the music industryApple's iconic iPod digital music player will be ten years old on Sunday.… |
| Skype lets hackers track your BitTorrent downloads Posted: 20 Oct 2011 10:11 PM PDT Internet stalking courtesy of P2PScientists have devised a stealthy and low-cost way to track the internet protocol addresses of tens of thousands of Skype users, and link the information to their online activities such as the sharing of specific files over BitTorrent.… |
| Printable transistors usher in 'internet of things' Posted: 20 Oct 2011 09:01 PM PDT Billions of systems, printed dirt cheapUpdated Thinfilm, a Norwegian developer of printable memory, has co-announced with California's Xerox PARC a development that takes a big step towards the day when every manufactured object will report in to the internet.… |
| Posted: 20 Oct 2011 07:41 PM PDT Recruitment really does payThe Bassat brothers, founders of online recruitment giant Seek, may be extending their midas touch with another IPO.… |
| Microsoft betting on ultrabooks to boost Windows growth Posted: 20 Oct 2011 06:05 PM PDT Company also praying for tax holidayMicrosoft has some interesting areas in which it hopes to profit in the future, and in a call with reporters and analysts after announcing its most recent financial results, Redmondian execs gave strong hints as to what's worrying it now.… |
| Numara crafts SaaS offerings, preps Oz hosting Posted: 20 Oct 2011 05:30 PM PDT Targets a channel that's 'under pressure'Having bedded down its acquisition of local partner Salamander Services, Numara Software is now looking at how to put forward cloud-based services suitable for its channel model.… |
| Deep inside ARM's new Intel killer Posted: 20 Oct 2011 04:12 PM PDT big.LITTLE bad news for ChipzillaARM has swung a one-two punch at Intel's plans to muscle in on the smartphone and tablet space that's currently dominated by the plucky chip designers from Cambridge.… |
| Kiwi software developer makes Deloitte fast 500 Posted: 20 Oct 2011 04:00 PM PDT Diligent takes tablets to the global boardroomNew Zealand tablet software developer Diligent Board Member Services has earned a ranking on Deloitte's Technology Fast 500 list of US technology businesses.… |
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