Sims outlines Oz network regulation again |
- Sims outlines Oz network regulation again
- Hulu still flirting with suitors despite Yahoo! pull out
- Genetics and technology make Columbus Day a fraud
- Your organization’s security depends on everyone
- iPhone 4S pre-orders obliterate sales records
- AT&T asks Apple to signal iPhone 4S is a 4G phone
- NetApp's STEALTH launch of ONTAP 8.1
- Google shoots Dart at JavaScript
- Laptop shoots spike into owner's hand
- Virus infects killer US air drone fleet
- Would you trust a dot-bank site more than a dot-com?
- Stallman: Jobs exerted 'malign influence' on computing
- BlackBerry BBM, email downed in epic FAIL
- iPhone 4S pay-monthly tariffs compared
- Netflix cans Qwikster
- Motorola punts Android into the enterprise
- Think 2014 if you're waiting for 4G in the UK
- <i>Steve Jobs: The Movie</i> in the works
- Cornish villagers treated to 4G trial
- Android Marketplace blocked by Great Firewall of China
- Huawei bolsters UK Advisory Board
- Hero Ordnance Surveyors dodge bullets, tweet as they map
- Email and compliance: How not to blow the storage budget?
- Toshiba Qosmio X770 17.3in 3D gaming notebook
- Zombie browser with evil past returns from the grave
- German hackers snare wiretap Trojan, accuse gov of writing it...
- Boffins fear killer gamma death blasts from space
- Orange and T-Mobile join hands with 3G coverage
- The effects of Consumerisation results
- Could! Yahoo! be! sold! to! private! buyers?
- RIM touches BlackBerrys together to swap content
- US rocketeer thunders to 121,000ft
- E-book maker speeds E Ink Pearl tech
- BT and F1 legend punt miracle diet in Twitter hijack
- Olloclip three-in-one lens
- Samsung sets back smartphone launch for Steve J
- HP UK sales hit by PC biz uncertainty
- Biker gang plunders Covent Garden Apple Store
- Citrix pushes the pedal on NetScaler appliance metal
- Twitter update: @regsecurity – <i>The Reg</i> bags imposter
- HP and Hynix to produce the memristor goods by 2013
- Brit boffins' bendy bamboo bike breakthrough
- Scientists break card that secures homes, offices, transit
- The life and times of Steven Paul Jobs, Part Two
- Can network architectures break the speed limit?
- Napster boys are back with Airtime
- Behind iVEC’s ‘big science’ supercomputer
- Oz employment site suffers script kiddie attack
- HPC 2.0: The monster mash-up
- Public/private Aus social networking site launches
| Sims outlines Oz network regulation again Posted: 10 Oct 2011 03:00 PM PDT Calming the debateAs the ACCC, under the hand of new chair Rod Sims, settles down to the work of sifting through submissions about NBN wholesale access, there's probably a sense of relief at the welcome distraction provided by the Economist Intelligence Unit.… |
| Hulu still flirting with suitors despite Yahoo! pull out Posted: 10 Oct 2011 02:42 PM PDT Premature exit as Yang considers own futureYahoo! is believed to have pulled out of negotiations to acquire Hulu, leaving Dish, Google and Amazon all still vying for the asset.… |
| Genetics and technology make Columbus Day a fraud Posted: 10 Oct 2011 01:13 PM PDT But who cares, it's a day offMonday's Columbus Day holiday may celebrate the first time a European "discovered" the Americas, but there's an increasing amount of technical and genetic evidence that shows the Genoese navigator was very late to the party.… |
| Your organization’s security depends on everyone Posted: 10 Oct 2011 11:46 AM PDT Big and small security fundamentalsLive Broadcast Social networks, local admins, unpatched software, missing USBs: the causes of security problems in your business are often not just the big stuff that tries to get inside the firewall, it's the little problems that are already on the inside.… |
| iPhone 4S pre-orders obliterate sales records Posted: 10 Oct 2011 10:29 AM PDT 24 hours, one million shiny-shiny seekersOver one million seekers of the latest shiny-shiny surrendered their credit card info to Apple on the first day of iPhone 4S pre-order availability, securing their place in line for the latest iteration of the überpopular smartphone.… |
| AT&T asks Apple to signal iPhone 4S is a 4G phone Posted: 10 Oct 2011 09:13 AM PDT LTE isn't 4G, and HSPA+ certainly ain'tUS carrier AT&T wants Apple's iPhone 4S to show "4G" in the handset's status bar when the gadget connects to its HSPA+ network.… |
| NetApp's STEALTH launch of ONTAP 8.1 Posted: 10 Oct 2011 09:01 AM PDT Could already be on a server near you...If you were expecting NetApp to launch Data ONTAP 8.1 with a splash, forget it. The software is shipping already; no fuss, no muss, no splash, no bash, no nothing.… |
| Google shoots Dart at JavaScript Posted: 10 Oct 2011 08:51 AM PDT It's really not a JavaScript killer, insists authorGoogle has previewed what could be a JavaScript killer while denying the new language is designed to rid the internet of JavaScript.… |
| Laptop shoots spike into owner's hand Posted: 10 Oct 2011 08:40 AM PDT DVD drive part springs into actionWatching DVDs may be bad for your health - specially if the drive on your laptop decides to shoot you.… |
| Virus infects killer US air drone fleet Posted: 10 Oct 2011 08:39 AM PDT Key-logger just won't go awayComputers controlling the US Air Force's killer Predator and Reaper drones have been infected by a key-logging virus, according to a mole who spoke to Wired. And the malware is not going away despite serious efforts to nuke it.… |
| Would you trust a dot-bank site more than a dot-com? Posted: 10 Oct 2011 08:19 AM PDT Top-level domain for verified banks only proposedWould an exclusive internet address for banks help prevent phishing and identity theft?… |
| Stallman: Jobs exerted 'malign influence' on computing Posted: 10 Oct 2011 08:06 AM PDT Misfiring bearded firebrand should stick to softwareAnalysis Veteran free software firebrand Richard Stallman has upset the apple cart by speaking out against the international canonisation of Steve Jobs… |
| BlackBerry BBM, email downed in epic FAIL Posted: 10 Oct 2011 07:40 AM PDT Online service outage in Europe, Middle East and AfricaBlackBerry users in Europe, the Middle East and Africa have been cut off from their online services because of a major fault at Research in Motion (RIM) in Canada.… |
| iPhone 4S pay-monthly tariffs compared Posted: 10 Oct 2011 07:23 AM PDT How low will they go?Apple's latest smartphone, the iPhone 4S, goes on sale in Blighty at the end of the week. All the UK's major networks will offer it. So which of them have the best deals?… |
| Posted: 10 Oct 2011 07:14 AM PDT DVD rentals pulled back into streaming bizNetflix has canned Qwikster and will be bringing in the spun-off DVD rental operation back into the company's main business.… |
| Motorola punts Android into the enterprise Posted: 10 Oct 2011 06:58 AM PDT £1,000 fondleslab for shopkeepers, not shoppersMotorola Solutions, the bit of Motorola that makes money and wasn't bought by Google, has nonetheless launched an Android tablet – but one aimed at retailers, not retail.… |
| Think 2014 if you're waiting for 4G in the UK Posted: 10 Oct 2011 06:41 AM PDT Ofcom juggles warring operatorsComment The UK is trialling 4G technology, while the rest of the world is deploying it, because our regulator hasn't the resources to mediate between operators bleating about the injustice of it all.… |
| <i>Steve Jobs: The Movie</i> in the works Posted: 10 Oct 2011 06:21 AM PDT Sony Pictures bags $1m rights to biopic iMovieAfter tributes from world leaders and spontaneous commemorations at Apple stores, Steve Jobs is to be honoured as only America knows how – with a Hollywood biopic.… |
| Cornish villagers treated to 4G trial Posted: 10 Oct 2011 06:01 AM PDT Telcos agree to test tech togetherThe collaborative trial of 4G networking tech has kicked off in Cornwall, with the intention of providing internet access to 200 people around St Newlyn East, half of them mobile.… |
| Android Marketplace blocked by Great Firewall of China Posted: 10 Oct 2011 05:44 AM PDT Dalai Lama ding-dongChina appears to have tightened up its Great Firewall, interfering with Google services in what appears to be a reprisal against the Chocolate Factory playing politics.… |
| Huawei bolsters UK Advisory Board Posted: 10 Oct 2011 05:29 AM PDT The baroness, the web seller and the TfL directorHuawei has filled out the ranks of its UK Advisory Board with a peer, an IT industry veteran and a non-exec with a finger in quite a few pies.… |
| Hero Ordnance Surveyors dodge bullets, tweet as they map Posted: 10 Oct 2011 05:15 AM PDT Just a mappin' and a-fussin' and a tweetin' and a 'cussin...Surveyors for Ordnance Survey maps have taken to Twitter to help the public understand what they are doing, with a Twittermap of the UK plotting their thoughts and observations as they roam the country, looking at roads and measuring things. The OS Mastermap receives 5,000 changes every day, as houses are taken down, roads are built or streets are renamed.… |
| Email and compliance: How not to blow the storage budget? Posted: 10 Oct 2011 05:01 AM PDT Commentards, we need your inputCompliance. Was there ever a word to strike such terror into the heart of the average techie? (OK, "Audit". But don't blame us, we didn't want to say it…)… |
| Toshiba Qosmio X770 17.3in 3D gaming notebook Posted: 10 Oct 2011 05:00 AM PDT Fully loadedReview When Toshiba UK announced the launch of the Qosmio X770 3D – a new gaming laptop with stereoscopic 3D graphics and a 17.3in HD screen, I immediately thought: could this be an Alienware killer? Toshiba has been said to lag behind other manufacturers when it comes to high-end gaming laptops, but after spending time with the X770 I would suggest that's no longer the case.… |
| Zombie browser with evil past returns from the grave Posted: 10 Oct 2011 04:46 AM PDT Regular and 'adult' versions promise to keep viruses from 'breeding'A rogue browser package has re-appeared online years after security researchers thought it was gone for good.… |
| German hackers snare wiretap Trojan, accuse gov of writing it... Posted: 10 Oct 2011 04:29 AM PDT Who would admit to writing crappy code anyway?German hackers have captured and analysed a cyber-sleuth Trojan which they claim may have been used by police to tap Skype calls and IM chats of criminal or terrorist suspects.… |
| Boffins fear killer gamma death blasts from space Posted: 10 Oct 2011 04:14 AM PDT Short, hard and hot eruptions lead to unhappy ending...Boffins have discovered that short hard bursts of radiation in space caused by colliding stars could be as dangerous to the world's atmosphere as longer, high-energy ones.… |
| Orange and T-Mobile join hands with 3G coverage Posted: 10 Oct 2011 04:01 AM PDT Everything Everywhere getting thereOrange and T-Mobile have extended their joint reach by making it possible for their respective customer bases to use 3G signals from both networks.… |
| The effects of Consumerisation results Posted: 10 Oct 2011 04:00 AM PDT The readers speakReg Research The results of our mega-survey on consumerisation are in. It was a big sucker, and all those who completed it should be congratulated for their stamina and commitment. And your efforts really are appreciated, because we learned a lot.… |
| Could! Yahoo! be! sold! to! private! buyers? Posted: 10 Oct 2011 03:44 AM PDT Rumours of firm leaving public market to recover in peaceYahoo! co-founder and former CEO Jerry Yang wants to take the ailing web company out of the stock market in a deal with private equity firms, if the latest speculation on the firm's future is to be believed.… |
| RIM touches BlackBerrys together to swap content Posted: 10 Oct 2011 03:30 AM PDT Rubbing off on one anotherResearch in Motion has brought its community of BlackBerry users closer together with a new system for connecting one another's smartphones and sharing multimedia content.… |
| US rocketeer thunders to 121,000ft Posted: 10 Oct 2011 03:29 AM PDT Mighty thruster vies for altitude prizeA US rocketeer's mighty thruster has thundered to 121,000ft above Nevada, in the process returning some seriously impressive footage.… |
| E-book maker speeds E Ink Pearl tech Posted: 10 Oct 2011 03:28 AM PDT Bookeen unveils High Speed Ink SystemFrench e-book reader maker Bookeen, seemingly unfazed by Amazon's new Kindles, has announced the first of "a new generation of electronic books" with a new display tech.… |
| BT and F1 legend punt miracle diet in Twitter hijack Posted: 10 Oct 2011 03:16 AM PDT The return of the Acai Berry scamBT Business and former F1 driver Nigel Mansell both fell victim to a Twitter hijack punting a well-known diet pill spam scam.… |
| Posted: 10 Oct 2011 03:00 AM PDT Optical expaaaaaaansion for the iPhoneGeek Treat of the Week So Apple's surprise non-announcement last week still made your original iPhone 4 feel a bit less special? Well, before you ditch and switch, maybe this is the alternative: bling up!… |
| Samsung sets back smartphone launch for Steve J Posted: 10 Oct 2011 02:56 AM PDT Wrong time to praise a new Jesus Phone rival, apparentlySamsung has claimed it did indeed decide to delay the announcement of its next Googlephone, dubbed the Nexus Prime, out of respect for the late Steve Jobs.… |
| HP UK sales hit by PC biz uncertainty Posted: 10 Oct 2011 02:50 AM PDT Leo's legacy lingersDemand for HP PCs waned in the UK following the disastrous decision to make public its strategic review of the Personal Systems Group, analyst figures reveal.… |
| Biker gang plunders Covent Garden Apple Store Posted: 10 Oct 2011 02:41 AM PDT Two held over digital scrumpingGrieving Apple Store staff arrived to work this morning to find their Covent Garden shop had been plundered overnight by a biker gang.… |
| Citrix pushes the pedal on NetScaler appliance metal Posted: 10 Oct 2011 02:24 AM PDT 2,048-bit SSL coprocessor nitroCitrix Systems made a lot of noise by acquiring XenSource a few years back for a half billion bucks, but it still makes a lot of money from its NetScaler line of web application acceleration appliances. These include physical implementations (MPX), virtual ones (VPX) running inside of virtual machines, and the high-end ones for service providers (SDX).… |
| Twitter update: @regsecurity – <i>The Reg</i> bags imposter Posted: 10 Oct 2011 02:02 AM PDT It's ours, all ours ...After a flurry of activity, we have gained control of @elreg, a Twitter fan feed with about 5,000 followers. Thank you, Adam Wood, for looking after that for us. We have also gained @theregister and @regsecurity after filing trademark abuse reports with Twitter. Thank you, Twitter.… |
| HP and Hynix to produce the memristor goods by 2013 Posted: 10 Oct 2011 01:29 AM PDT 18 months to go, babyAn HP/Hynix memristor product should be here in 18 months – and PCM, MRAM and RRAM are all memristor-type technologies...… |
| Brit boffins' bendy bamboo bike breakthrough Posted: 10 Oct 2011 12:57 AM PDT Velocipede survives Alps trip, goes on salePhoto update The first UK-built bamboo bike has been shown off at the Cycle Show in Birmingham.… |
| Scientists break card that secures homes, offices, transit Posted: 09 Oct 2011 10:00 PM PDT Does hack of Mifare DESFire Smartcard affect NASA, too?Scientists have circumvented the encryption used to protect a smartcard that's widely used to restrict access in corporate and government buildings, and to process payments in public transit systems, a feat that makes it possible to clone perfect replicas of the digital keys and steal or modify their contents.… |
| The life and times of Steven Paul Jobs, Part Two Posted: 09 Oct 2011 07:04 PM PDT Empire-building inspirational visionary, or megalomaniacal swine?Before Steve Jobs introduced the iMac on May 6, 1998, his life – as we detailed earlier – had been a roller-coaster of ups and downs. After the iMac shipped on August 15 of that same year, however, he and the company he led traded that carnival ride for a rocket.… |
| Can network architectures break the speed limit? Posted: 09 Oct 2011 06:00 PM PDT Bandwidth is never enoughHow much bandwidth is enough? The answer is almost always: how much do you have and what will it cost?… |
| Napster boys are back with Airtime Posted: 09 Oct 2011 05:39 PM PDT Backed by the Valley's VC eliteThe dynamic digital duo from Napster, Sean Parker and Shawn Fanning, are back with a new social video platform called Airtime. Neither will detail what Airtime does – although it was formerly known as Supyo – but some commentators have tipped it will be a less sleazy version of Chatroulette.… |
| Behind iVEC’s ‘big science’ supercomputer Posted: 09 Oct 2011 05:01 PM PDT Putting Australia's West on the mapEach of its 96 nodes has two six-core Intel Xeon X5650s, one NVIDIA Tesla C2050 GPU, and 48 GB of RAM, but the SGI "Fornax" supercomputer opened late September as part of Western Australia's Pawsey Centre project is still a test bed in some ways.… |
| Oz employment site suffers script kiddie attack Posted: 09 Oct 2011 04:30 PM PDT The usual outcome: user details on PastebinA group with the Twitter handle @BlackHatGhosts says it is behind breaking into the systems of Australian educational sector employment site Unijobs, posting the usernames and passwords of around 600 users on Pastebin.… |
| Posted: 09 Oct 2011 04:00 PM PDT It's storage size and speed that counts...Blog When Big Data gets big, data centers should get nervous Part 3… |
| Public/private Aus social networking site launches Posted: 09 Oct 2011 03:30 PM PDT Family HQ gets Microsoft approvalMicrosoft is using a fledgling Gold Coast based social media site targeting families as the poster-child for its Azure software platform.… |
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