Rosat dropped over the Bay of Bengal: DLR |
- Rosat dropped over the Bay of Bengal: DLR
- Apple plans big solar farm to clean dirty datacenter
- Hitachi unveils roadmap for cloudy offerings
- Avira anti-virus labels <i>itself</i> as spyware
- Pure challenges Spotify with cloud-based music service
- Process, not just product, will save your IT department
- Cloudy tech start-up Twilio jumps the pond
- Man builds smartphone dock into arm
- Swedish password hacking scandal widens
- A rapid first hands-on: Nokia’s Windows phones
- PC shortages 'inevitable' says Gartner
- Gelsinger pops lid on top-secret EMC Lightning code
- Job-seeking university bods panic over incriminating online info
- Tsunami Trojan: First Mac attack based on Linux crack
- Euro banks unhappy with proposed e-payment rules
- Binned PCs were stuffed with MoD and <i>Sun</i> staffers' privates
- Return of native: HTML5's enterprise battle
- BT gets 14 days to block Newzbin2
- WHSmith Kobo Touch wireless e-book reader
- SUSE previews OpenStack-SLES cloud
- Nokia to flood emerging markets with budget blowers
- Nokia's Brave New World is (almost) Finn-free
- ITU sees an internet full of developing youth
- Google report reveals YouTube takedown requests... by country
- Google cuts ribbon on Berlin research institute after ponying up €4.5m
- Nokia launches Windows Phone range
- HP hooks up with Calxeda to form server ARMy
- HP PC biz gets aggressive again
- PowerPivot: a new spin on understanding your business
- BioWare Baldur's Gate
- Worm wriggles through year-old flaw, builds zombie-net
- <i>Sunday Mirror</i> must face Kylie's ex-lover in France privacy case
- Corning launches can-stand-the-heat Lotus glass for phones
- UN wants two-thirds of the world online by 2015
- No BBM app for PlayBook soon, admits RIM
- Facebook 'bug' temporarily disappears some .co.uk links
- DVLA tosses Virgin Media £6.7m in 3-year phone deal
- Soundfreaq Soundstep Recharge
- Obama man: 'Global internet surveillance skyrocketing'
- US gov requests for Google user data grow 29%
- Amazon’s shares slashed as profits drop 73%
- German boffins BREAK LAWS OF THERMODYNAMICS!
- Apple gets patent for ‘unlock gesture’
- Monash Uni gets neuromancer lab for marketing boffins
- Krebs nabs ‘RSA attack’ list
- Google exec: 'Corporations ignore human rights'
| Rosat dropped over the Bay of Bengal: DLR Posted: 26 Oct 2011 02:30 PM PDT Unknown how much survived the burnDLR, the German space agency, has stated that Rosat, the scientific satellite that re-entered the atmosphere on October 23, made its re-entry over the Bay of Bengal.… |
| Apple plans big solar farm to clean dirty datacenter Posted: 26 Oct 2011 01:40 PM PDT Project Dolphin – how green can you get?Apple is planning to build a huge solar farm to augment the power supply of one of its dirtiest datacenter clusters.… |
| Hitachi unveils roadmap for cloudy offerings Posted: 26 Oct 2011 10:12 AM PDT Layers upon virtualised layersHitachi Data Systems (HDS) has come up with a cloud strategy roadmap featuring three cloud tiers, but with precious little product detail fleshing out the strategy.… |
| Avira anti-virus labels <i>itself</i> as spyware Posted: 26 Oct 2011 09:29 AM PDT Auto-immune confusionAvira anti-virus detected components of its own application as potentially malign on Wednesday following a dodgy signature update.… |
| Pure challenges Spotify with cloud-based music service Posted: 26 Oct 2011 09:14 AM PDT Get tuned inDAB radio specialist Pure has revealed its take on Spotify, launching a cloud-based music service for streaming tunes across a variety of platforms.… |
| Process, not just product, will save your IT department Posted: 26 Oct 2011 09:04 AM PDT RTFM is not enoughSo, you've bought your firewall. You've spent thousands on an intrusion prevention system, and you've got expensive data leak prevention software. Are you dead sure that your sensitive customer data hasn't been leaked?… |
| Cloudy tech start-up Twilio jumps the pond Posted: 26 Oct 2011 08:29 AM PDT US telephony API firm targets Europe from new UK officeCloud communications company Twilio launched its European expansion today with the release of its telephonic API to the UK and in beta for France, Portugal, Poland, Austria and Denmark.… |
| Man builds smartphone dock into arm Posted: 26 Oct 2011 08:27 AM PDT Bionic handsetYou'd think being born without a forearm would be limiting for a smartphone user.… |
| Swedish password hacking scandal widens Posted: 26 Oct 2011 08:01 AM PDT 210,000 login details dumped ...Sweden suffered its worst internet security breach in history, with over 210,000 login details across least 60 websites made public, including personal identity numbers of journalists, MPs and celebrities.… |
| A rapid first hands-on: Nokia’s Windows phones Posted: 26 Oct 2011 07:37 AM PDT Our man gets a grip on Elop's mangoesNokia World You are about to read what may be the shortest "hands-on" review you've ever read. But there is something quite surprising, I discovered, not appreciated until you compare both new Nokia models.… |
| PC shortages 'inevitable' says Gartner Posted: 26 Oct 2011 07:36 AM PDT Flooding in Thailand set to rock supply chainThe channel should be braced for some PC shortages in the run up to Christmas as disk drive production woes caused by the floods in Thailand take effect, Gartner has warned.… |
| Gelsinger pops lid on top-secret EMC Lightning code Posted: 26 Oct 2011 07:29 AM PDT Flash cards reveal some parts of mysterious projectEMC's Project Lightning code is being produced by a software team in Israel, using – El Reg thinks – Micron hardware.… |
| Job-seeking university bods panic over incriminating online info Posted: 26 Oct 2011 06:38 AM PDT Don't turn into a pumpkin at the Halloween BallNearly half of university students are fretting about their future job prospects due to concerns about what personal information about them is lurking on the interwebs.… |
| Tsunami Trojan: First Mac attack based on Linux crack Posted: 26 Oct 2011 06:19 AM PDT Slips in Mac OS X backdoor, phones homeMalware writers have derived a new Trojan for Mac OS X by porting an older Linux backdoor Trojan horse onto another platform.… |
| Euro banks unhappy with proposed e-payment rules Posted: 26 Oct 2011 06:01 AM PDT Tighter security and fewer fees would interfere with the 'business model'The European Payment Council has taken issue with a number of the European Commission's proposals to try to make direct debits and credit transfers across the continent easier and cheaper.… |
| Binned PCs were stuffed with MoD and <i>Sun</i> staffers' privates Posted: 26 Oct 2011 05:46 AM PDT Resold without wiping Rebekah Wade's naughty bitsUpdated Security researchers have found personal records of Sun newspaper and MoD staff on the hard drives of discarded or resold computers.… |
| Return of native: HTML5's enterprise battle Posted: 26 Oct 2011 05:29 AM PDT Following the Facebook playbookOpen ... And Shut Consumer smartphone apps may get all the press, not to mention $15bn in market size by 2013, but enterprise smartphone apps may well prove to be the bigger market.… |
| BT gets 14 days to block Newzbin2 Posted: 26 Oct 2011 05:14 AM PDT Web-blocking begins...Websites and IP addresses will become unreachable for the first time in the UK for copyright reasons. The High Court has ordered BT to block subscribers access to Newzbin 2, as well as any other sites or end points it uses. BT has 14 days to implement the measure, and must pay for it, too, a cost estimated at £5,000 initially.… |
| WHSmith Kobo Touch wireless e-book reader Posted: 26 Oct 2011 05:01 AM PDT Has the Kindle met its match?Review The joys of the e-book reader are considerable. You can carry a thousand books in your pocket and download more in a matter of seconds while you're sitting in the garden – assuming the Wi-Fi stretches or you have a 3G model. If there are words you don't recognise, you can look them up with one touch too. And in the case of dedicated readers like the Amazon Kindle and the Kobo, E Ink is as readable in bright sunlight as the printed page. Wonderful.… |
| SUSE previews OpenStack-SLES cloud Posted: 26 Oct 2011 05:00 AM PDT Waiting on Essex releaseCommercial Linux distributor SUSE, which was taken private by Attachmate back in April and split from former owner Novell, wants to do for OpenStack what it did for Linux. It is also what everybody else in the OpenStack cloud fabric camp seems to want to do: make some money selling support for OpenStack.… |
| Nokia to flood emerging markets with budget blowers Posted: 26 Oct 2011 04:49 AM PDT Brimful of AshaBefore unleashing its Windows Phone range on the world, Nokia first unveiled the Asha collection, a Series 40 line of low-end handsets.… |
| Nokia's Brave New World is (almost) Finn-free Posted: 26 Oct 2011 04:46 AM PDT Things are different around here, now...Nokia World What a difference a year makes. The only Finnish presence on stage during the 90-minute opening session of Nokia World this year was a dead architect. None of the five speakers was a Finn, and they said some very un-Nokian things. It's a sign of how much Nokia is changing under Stephen Elop.… |
| ITU sees an internet full of developing youth Posted: 26 Oct 2011 04:29 AM PDT Digital divide splits high-income and low-income countriesThe developing world, including China and India, now accounts for 62 per cent of the internet's population, and while China dominates, it is by no means a controlling interest in the connected world of 2011.… |
| Google report reveals YouTube takedown requests... by country Posted: 26 Oct 2011 04:14 AM PDT UK wants jihadists off, Germany nixes Nazis, US wants to hide cop brutalityThe UK government asked Google to take down 135 YouTube videos for reasons of national security in the first half of this year, states Google's biannual Transparency Report, released yesterday.… |
| Google cuts ribbon on Berlin research institute after ponying up €4.5m Posted: 26 Oct 2011 03:58 AM PDT It's not for Google, it's for EVERYONEA Google-funded internet research centre opened its doors in Germany yesterday.… |
| Nokia launches Windows Phone range Posted: 26 Oct 2011 03:47 AM PDT Free satnav and moreNokia officially launched its Windows Phone range today, kicking the line off with the Nokia Lumia 800, the device we've previously known as Sea Ray.… |
| HP hooks up with Calxeda to form server ARMy Posted: 26 Oct 2011 03:39 AM PDT I see no Atom shipsHP is partnering ARM-licensee Calxeda to build energy-efficient micro-servers for large data centres, the WSJ reports.… |
| HP PC biz gets aggressive again Posted: 26 Oct 2011 03:20 AM PDT Reseller rebates overhauled in SME and mid-market growth driveHP's Personal Systems Group is reverting back to a target-based rebate model for resellers after more than three years of operating a linear model as the tech titan eyes aggressive market share wins.… |
| PowerPivot: a new spin on understanding your business Posted: 26 Oct 2011 03:08 AM PDT Building relationshipsThe Catch 22 of business intelligence is that to understand your business, you have to deal with vendors who want to "understand your business", better known as "see how much we can charge you". You then have to hope that something you don't know might be really valuable.… |
| Posted: 26 Oct 2011 03:00 AM PDT Put down the diceAntique Code Show I remember one summer when my dad decided it would be great to go on holiday for two weeks in a stone farm house in Scotland, it rained and we spent the whole time playing Dungeons and Dragons.… |
| Worm wriggles through year-old flaw, builds zombie-net Posted: 26 Oct 2011 02:29 AM PDT 'More a business failure than a software security failure'A new worm doing the rounds is turning servers running older versions of the JBoss Application Server into botnet drones.… |
| <i>Sunday Mirror</i> must face Kylie's ex-lover in France privacy case Posted: 26 Oct 2011 02:01 AM PDT ECJ: Internet publishers liable wherever material is accessibleIndividuals can sue internet publishers in each country in which they believe their image has been harmed as a result of content posted online, the European Court of Justice (ECJ) has ruled.… |
| Corning launches can-stand-the-heat Lotus glass for phones Posted: 26 Oct 2011 01:43 AM PDT Sheet hotOne of the key brand names tossed around in relation to smartphone and tablets this year has been Corning's Gorilla Glass. Next year, it may be Lotus Glass.… |
| UN wants two-thirds of the world online by 2015 Posted: 26 Oct 2011 01:31 AM PDT Moon-on-a-stick request still pendingFreedom to communicate is a human right – as is having a broadband connection, the UN said today. The global organisation, usually hell-bent on achieving world peace, argued that it would be quite nice if 60 per cent of the world had access to the net by 2015.… |
| No BBM app for PlayBook soon, admits RIM Posted: 26 Oct 2011 01:02 AM PDT BlackBerry tablet OS 2.0 delayed tooRIM has delayed the release of the next major upgrade to its BlackBerry PlayBook's operating system - and won't be including BlackBerry Messenger (BBM) at launch.… |
| Facebook 'bug' temporarily disappears some .co.uk links Posted: 26 Oct 2011 01:01 AM PDT 'Spammy, unsafe' URLs mainly harboured by news outfits, it seems ... bitchStories posted on Facebook by venerable organs such as The Register were temporarily unavailable yesterday morning due to a "glitch" on the ubiquitous social network.… |
| DVLA tosses Virgin Media £6.7m in 3-year phone deal Posted: 26 Oct 2011 12:29 AM PDT Agency will use PSN-compliant network for call handlingThe Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency (DVLA) has signed a £6.7m, three-year deal with Virgin Media Business to provide its business phone lines, supported by a hosted call management system.… |
| Posted: 25 Oct 2011 11:00 PM PDT Android friendly compact speakerReview Audio dock maker Soundfreaq recently released an Android version of its iOS remote control app and is now busy promoting its Bluetooth-equipped Soundstep as something for 'droid-heads as well as iFans.… |
| Obama man: 'Global internet surveillance skyrocketing' Posted: 25 Oct 2011 05:33 PM PDT Think it's bad now? Just waitA top US government official believes that the internet is under fierce attack by authoritarian governments worldwide, and that the situation is rapidly deteriorating.… |
| US gov requests for Google user data grow 29% Posted: 25 Oct 2011 05:24 PM PDT 93-percent compliance rateThe US government has once again outdone its peers in requesting that Google turn over user data for use in criminal investigations, with almost 6,000 demands in the first half of 2011, a 29 per cent increase from the previous six months.… |
| Amazon’s shares slashed as profits drop 73% Posted: 25 Oct 2011 05:06 PM PDT Sales OK, but costs through the roofAmazon's share price dropped sharply after it reported overall profits have fallen 73 per cent year on year.… |
| German boffins BREAK LAWS OF THERMODYNAMICS! Posted: 25 Oct 2011 05:05 PM PDT Kelvin joins Einstein in has-been corner?As you probably know, heat is one of the enemies of electronics, and heat management is a major design constraint of microelectronics. Now, a German research group has demonstrated using waste heat to get electricity.… |
| Apple gets patent for ‘unlock gesture’ Posted: 25 Oct 2011 04:38 PM PDT Jobs slides back the granite slab for one more whack at AndroidA US Patent granted today (October 25) will send Google and Android phone makers around the world reaching for their lawyers.… |
| Monash Uni gets neuromancer lab for marketing boffins Posted: 25 Oct 2011 04:30 PM PDT Eye-trackers and thought readers, cyberpunk paradiseEye tracking and brain tracking simulation technologies feature in a new behavioural laboratory launched by Monash University to promote cross platform research.… |
| Posted: 25 Oct 2011 04:00 PM PDT Hundreds of networks hitWhen RSA's network security was breached earlier this year, the result wasn't only the replacement of its SecurID tokens all over the world.… |
| Google exec: 'Corporations ignore human rights' Posted: 25 Oct 2011 03:46 PM PDT Not his own, of courseGoogle's director of public policy doesn't think that companies are doing enough to promote human rights around the globe, and that cozying up to repressive governments is bad business.… |
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