Will litigants chase Oz smut-watchers? |
- Will litigants chase Oz smut-watchers?
- OPERA review serves up a feast for physics geeks
- Apple slips, moneymen pounce
- Stuxnet-derived malware found infecting SCADA makers
- Michael Dell declines to eat his Apple (humble) pie
- HP fortifies VirtualSystem arsenal
- Apple 'prepping smaller iPad'
- RIAA-led mob threatens innovation, Senator warns
- HP pushes out OS update for 'defunct' tablet
- Blow for McKinnon as extradition treaty ruled 'not biased'
- Gartner predicts global double-dip recession
- Intel pitches stalking smartphones
- Brits forced to join waiting list for iPhone 4S
- Never mind the flash cache: EMC is flush with cash
- Breathe life into your cyber security campaign
- Vodafone customers fume over iPhone 4S delays
- VMware ramps crusade to make sysadmins redundant
- Vodafone turns its back on '360
- Robot resolves Rubik's Cube in record time
- Team Philippines solar car in self-combustion drama
- The effect of a comms meltdown
- Fast SANs seek speedy networks
- COMPAREX swallows Indian firm IRIS
- Facebook flashplodders lose appeal against 4-yr jail stint
- Man 'drinks 2 pizzas' before skidding off road
- App Store groupthink is bad news for small devs
- Apple iOS 5.0 downloads drive all-time UK net traffic high
- Google leads shoppers into pay-by-wave future
- Hackers expose Citibank CEO's privates
- iPhone 4S: Our *hit list
- FSF takes Win 8 Secure Boot fight to OEMs
- Yahoo! tech! boss! quits!
- Paul Ceglia loses another lawyer in Facebook spat
- Sony BDP-SX1 portable Blu-ray player
- Connected TV watched in 42m homes
- Ingram slams 'soft' Euro retail market
- HTC's iPhone, iPad ban bid derailed by US judge
- DeLorean goes electric for 2013 roll-out
- VMware profits more than double in Q3
- Hundreds of Mr A N OTHERs discovered on payrolls
- Dell ditches EMC after 10 years
- Apple and Samsung discuss... CPU production deal
- US dating site has no 'goodwill' trademark rights in UK
- My Council Services
- Another piece of analytics puzzle snaps home
- Dorma using SaaS to be more efficient
- Nevex reverses cache rules to accelerate apps
- Scottish council leaks names, salaries, info of 900 people
- Nimble's iSCSI is more than a flash in the can
- Apple iPhone 4S
| Will litigants chase Oz smut-watchers? Posted: 18 Oct 2011 03:30 PM PDT Copyright trolls linked to adult content bizWhat started out looking like another industry strategy to hunt down BitTorrent users via their ISPs for mass lawsuit is turning into a PR problem for its proponents.… |
| OPERA review serves up a feast for physics geeks Posted: 18 Oct 2011 02:26 PM PDT Superluminal neutrinos and silly science writersLet's get the "big news" out of the way first: there's a lot of excitement due to one paper published on Arxiv.org, which asks whether the CERN OPERA experiment – the one that seemed to detect superluminal neutrinos – took into account the "satellite reference frame" in its calculations.… |
| Posted: 18 Oct 2011 02:04 PM PDT Quarterly financial results miss projectionsApple has released its financial results for its fourth fiscal quarter, and in doing so it handed conservative Wall Street progosticators a rare win: Cupertino failed to meet or exceed analysts expectations for the first time in many a moon.… |
| Stuxnet-derived malware found infecting SCADA makers Posted: 18 Oct 2011 12:53 PM PDT Duqu trojan in the wild since DecemberOrganizations involved in the making of systems that control oil pipelines and other critical infrastructure have been infected with malware directly derived from the Stuxnet worm that targeted Iran's nuclear program, security researchers said.… |
| Michael Dell declines to eat his Apple (humble) pie Posted: 18 Oct 2011 12:43 PM PDT 1997 'shut it down' advice explainedWeb 2.0 Summit On the day Apple releases its quarterly results, which are broadly expected to make it the most valuable company the world, Michael Dell attempted to explain his infamous comment that Apple should be shut down and sold off.… |
| HP fortifies VirtualSystem arsenal Posted: 18 Oct 2011 10:34 AM PDT 'vBlock killers' add Hyper-V, HP-UXHP is expanding its line of preconfigured, virtualization-ready VirtualSystem machines and offering financing and design and implementation services for the more fully fluffed up CloudSystems – which are VirtualSystems gussied up with cloudy management software and self-service portals.… |
| Posted: 18 Oct 2011 10:29 AM PDT Jobs said 'no seven-inchers', but rumor mill says otherwiseApple may be prepping a smaller, lower-cost iPad, perhaps as both a defensive parry to Amazon's $199 Kindle Fire and a less-pricey offering to cost-conscious emerging markets.… |
| RIAA-led mob threatens innovation, Senator warns Posted: 18 Oct 2011 10:24 AM PDT Content industry using 'cluster bomb' on tech sectorWeb 2.0 Summit Attempts by the content industry to pass legislation like the Protect IP Act are the greatest threat to technology innovation, a senior US Senator told delegates at the Web 2.0 summit in San Francisco.… |
| HP pushes out OS update for 'defunct' tablet Posted: 18 Oct 2011 10:11 AM PDT TouchPad gets WebOS 3.0.4HP has pushed out an WebOS update for its TouchPad, a tablet seemingly stuck twixt life and death.… |
| Blow for McKinnon as extradition treaty ruled 'not biased' Posted: 18 Oct 2011 10:00 AM PDT Mum fears Pentagon hacker's fate is sealedExtradition arrangements between the US and UK are not biased against British suspects, a judicial review of the controversial extradition treaty concluded on Tuesday.… |
| Gartner predicts global double-dip recession Posted: 18 Oct 2011 09:31 AM PDT But enterprises will continue to invest in ITAnalysts at Gartner are prophesying a global double-dip recession that will test the mettle of corporate CIOs and squeeze budgets, but predict that businesses will continue to invest in IT.… |
| Intel pitches stalking smartphones Posted: 18 Oct 2011 09:00 AM PDT Super-snoop mobes want to know your every moveERIC Intel CTO Justin Rattner wants your phone to follow your every move, know where you want to go and what you do when you get there and basically fling at you a non-stop stream of information relevant to what's going on in your life.… |
| Brits forced to join waiting list for iPhone 4S Posted: 18 Oct 2011 08:39 AM PDT Hurry while stocks la... oh, too lateBrits will have to reserve a iPhone 4S if they want to ensure they'll get hold of the slightly souped-up Jesus mobe within the next few days - but chances are they won't make the waiting list anyway.… |
| Never mind the flash cache: EMC is flush with cash Posted: 18 Oct 2011 08:20 AM PDT Storage biz slurped $5bn in Q3EMC damn near sold $5bn (£3.2bn) worth of hardware, software and services in 2011's third quarter and is on track for an almost $20bn (£12.7bn) revenue haul this financial year.… |
| Breathe life into your cyber security campaign Posted: 18 Oct 2011 08:00 AM PDT How to make users sit up and listenAh, another day, another government initiative designed to educate users about cyber risk.… |
| Vodafone customers fume over iPhone 4S delays Posted: 18 Oct 2011 07:40 AM PDT But I pre-ordered, wail fanboisUK iPhone lovers who chose to pre-order the iPhone 4S from Vodafone, so they could use the souped-up Jesus mobes before anyone else, have been left fuming as shops fill with stock while their promised iPhone packages have yet to arrive.… |
| VMware ramps crusade to make sysadmins redundant Posted: 18 Oct 2011 07:20 AM PDT Control freakery stretched to vFabric Java frameworks and moreHaving already made major revisions to its ESXi hypervisor, vSphere add-ons, and vCloud extensions in the 5.0 releases that came out over the summer, VMware isn't making any blockbuster announcements at VMworld Europe in Copenhagen this week – unless you count some management tools for infrastructure and platform clouds that will mesh with the other 5.0 software and make the VMware stack more complete and self-serving.… |
| Vodafone turns its back on '360 Posted: 18 Oct 2011 07:19 AM PDT Mobile brand does a 180Vodafone will be pulling the plug on its Vodafone 360 brand at the end of 2011, giving up on the dream of being a one-stop shop for customer services and identity aggregation.… |
| Robot resolves Rubik's Cube in record time Posted: 18 Oct 2011 07:07 AM PDT Welcome your Lego-made mastersRobots can beat humans at Jeopardy, fly our planes and even go to war for us, so they'll surely take over the world eventually. First thing's first, though - they'll have to beat our Rubik's Cube record. Oh wait, one just did.… |
| Team Philippines solar car in self-combustion drama Posted: 18 Oct 2011 07:06 AM PDT Bush not the only thing burning in Oz outbackWSC Day three of World Solar Challenge and the big news point was a solarcar catching fire at Tennant Creek, NT. The Register's eyewitness on the scene, Richard Flint, racing manager and driver of the Durham Uni team, reports:… |
| The effect of a comms meltdown Posted: 18 Oct 2011 07:00 AM PDT Just how bad is it?Reader Study What a week it's been for mobile communications and productivity! The meltdown of RIM's Blackberry infrastructure and difficulties getting the service back up and running show just how much we are becoming reliant on (or should that be addicted to?) our mobile gadgets and communications services.… |
| Fast SANs seek speedy networks Posted: 18 Oct 2011 07:00 AM PDT The race is onThe fastest storage area network (SAN) on the planet needs the fastest server-storage network links available. So what are they?… |
| COMPAREX swallows Indian firm IRIS Posted: 18 Oct 2011 06:45 AM PDT Microsoft LAR eyes Asian expansionMicrosoft large account reseller COMPAREX has acquired Indian software and IT services firm IRIS Unified Technologies for an undisclosed sum.… |
| Facebook flashplodders lose appeal against 4-yr jail stint Posted: 18 Oct 2011 06:29 AM PDT 'Abuse of modern technology for criminal purposes'Appeals brought by two young men nabbed for inciting violent disorder via Facebook during the England riots in August have been dismissed.… |
| Man 'drinks 2 pizzas' before skidding off road Posted: 18 Oct 2011 06:15 AM PDT Kentucky fried brainsA Kentucky man is facing drugs charges after driving into a ditch before telling officers he'd "drunk too much pizza" for lunch.… |
| App Store groupthink is bad news for small devs Posted: 18 Oct 2011 06:01 AM PDT 'Long tail' model debunkedOpen.. and Shut Two years ago The Register's Andrew Orlowski, writing for the New Statesman, poked crater-sized holes in the notion that "long tail" economics were good for musicians. In 2011, it's equally clear that the long tail* is bad business for app developers, brands, and, well, everyone. The internet has not diffused the ability to make money; it has concentrated it.… |
| Apple iOS 5.0 downloads drive all-time UK net traffic high Posted: 18 Oct 2011 05:46 AM PDT Data rate doubles to 80Gb/s peakBT said its UK internet infrastructure was pumping data at a rate of up to 80Gb/s more than usual on the night Apple released iOS 5.… |
| Google leads shoppers into pay-by-wave future Posted: 18 Oct 2011 05:40 AM PDT Cards, mobiles and soon 50,000 tills at Macy's at the readyMacy's is to join the growing list of American retailers who'll accept payment with the tap of the telephone, or card, but no one is talking about the latter these days.… |
| Hackers expose Citibank CEO's privates Posted: 18 Oct 2011 05:29 AM PDT Revenge strike against cuffing of Occupy Wall St protestersHacktivists have published a dossier of personal information on the head of Citigroup in retaliation for the cuffing of protesters at an Occupy Wall Street demo.… |
| Posted: 18 Oct 2011 05:14 AM PDT Hype swipe gripeApple's new phone, and OS, is out and positively reviewed by our colleagues at Reg Hardware, but we're also hearing about some less-popular features and omissions worthy of attention.… |
| FSF takes Win 8 Secure Boot fight to OEMs Posted: 18 Oct 2011 04:43 AM PDT Punters urged to bombard PC makersPC makers are being lobbied to install Windows 8 on machines in a way that will afford users the freedom to boot Linux or any other operating system.… |
| Posted: 18 Oct 2011 04:29 AM PDT Stata is Purple Palace's new in-house entrepreneurYet more corporate chess pieces have been moved at Yahoo!, which yesterday replaced its CTO Raymie Stata with Ash Munshi.… |
| Paul Ceglia loses another lawyer in Facebook spat Posted: 18 Oct 2011 04:14 AM PDT Alleged half-owner of social network WLTM loyal ambulance-chasersA firewood salesman who is locked in a legal spat with Facebook in a dispute over ownership of the dominant social network has lost another lawyer working on his case.… |
| Sony BDP-SX1 portable Blu-ray player Posted: 18 Oct 2011 04:00 AM PDT Take your discs out for a spinReview Just as DVD players inevitably shrank to become portable, so have the Blu-ray successors. Whether this actually makes difference to you depends on how many Blu-ray discs you have and how much you might want to watch them away from home.… |
| Connected TV watched in 42m homes Posted: 18 Oct 2011 03:50 AM PDT US, Euro punters mad for IPTVAcross the US and Europe, 42m homes are already accessing internet services through their TVs, market watcher Strategy Analytics reckons.… |
| Ingram slams 'soft' Euro retail market Posted: 18 Oct 2011 03:49 AM PDT Staff face axe as Q3 profits take a hitIngram Micro is forecasting modest fiscal Q3 growth aided by a currency tailwind on the back of weakened consumer demand in Europe and biz woes in Oz.… |
| HTC's iPhone, iPad ban bid derailed by US judge Posted: 18 Oct 2011 03:41 AM PDT Prelim decision rules no patents infringedLegal blows continue to rain down on Google's Android partners. In a preliminary ruling, the US International Trade Commission said Apple isn't infringing the patents of rival HTC Corporation.… |
| DeLorean goes electric for 2013 roll-out Posted: 18 Oct 2011 03:21 AM PDT Lightning not required for retro autoGreat Scott! Doc Brown's DeLorean has jumped back to the |
| VMware profits more than double in Q3 Posted: 18 Oct 2011 03:19 AM PDT Looks like Microsoft, slurps cash like MicrosoftServer virtualization and soon-to-be cloud juggernaut VMware continues to steamroll over its virtualization rivals and bankroll revenue growth and stunning profit growth this year.… |
| Hundreds of Mr A N OTHERs discovered on payrolls Posted: 18 Oct 2011 03:01 AM PDT Don't take it personally... your bosses aren'tIf you take a look at employers' PAYE paperwork, the UK's most popular surnames are getting a run for their money - by an army of Mr Unknowns and Mrs Dummys.… |
| Dell ditches EMC after 10 years Posted: 18 Oct 2011 02:38 AM PDT Will push own storage kit after ending relationshipDell has officially stopped reselling EMC kit and will instead push its own storage kit. Let battle be joined.… |
| Apple and Samsung discuss... CPU production deal Posted: 18 Oct 2011 02:27 AM PDT Korean spin suggests A6 producer not pickedSamsung and Apple may be suing each other left, right and centre, but that hasn't stopped them talking about chip production partnerships.… |
| US dating site has no 'goodwill' trademark rights in UK Posted: 18 Oct 2011 02:19 AM PDT No UK customers, no dispute, High Court rules...The High Court rejected claims made by US online dating company Plentyoffish Media that it was entitled to assert rights over UK-registered trademarks because it had high UK visitor numbers to its website.… |
| Posted: 18 Oct 2011 02:00 AM PDT Hello, I'd like to complain about...Android App of the Week My Council Services is an interesting little app designed to let people conveniently report issues with public services or the immediate environment to their local council.… |
| Another piece of analytics puzzle snaps home Posted: 18 Oct 2011 01:46 AM PDT IBM Buys PlatformBlog For the last couple of years, I've been yammering about how enterprise analytics (or Big Data, or Predictive Analytics) is going to be the next big thing in business and thus enterprise computing. The major vendors, including IBM, Oracle, HP, and Microsoft, are on board along with pioneers like SAS and Teradata. Everyone is busy building out their respective stories, often aided by purchasing specialized ISVs.… |
| Dorma using SaaS to be more efficient Posted: 18 Oct 2011 01:33 AM PDT Is it working?Broadcast SaaS might give you more availability, it might cut your capital costs, and it might give you a big empty server room in your basement where you can play ping pong after work, but will it make your business more efficient?… |
| Nevex reverses cache rules to accelerate apps Posted: 18 Oct 2011 01:29 AM PDT Tells the cache what to cacheCanadian startup Nevex has launched a product which speeds applications by two-tiered solid state caching, which can be faster than just flash caching.… |
| Scottish council leaks names, salaries, info of 900 people Posted: 18 Oct 2011 01:03 AM PDT Dumfries and Galloway's FoI accident was on its website for 2 MONTHS...Dumfries and Galloway council mistakenly disclosed personal information on about 900 current and former staff as part of a response to an enquiry made under the Freedom of Information Act.… |
| Nimble's iSCSI is more than a flash in the can Posted: 18 Oct 2011 12:33 AM PDT Disk drive array is revampedComment In a world of flash-based and tiered-storage startups, Nimble Storage has gone back in time and re-invented the single-tier iSCSI disk drive array. Sure it has a flash cache, but it's all about being a go-faster iSCSI array rather than being a flash play.… |
| Posted: 17 Oct 2011 11:00 PM PDT Enough of an upgrade?Review Apple's design language is easily recognisable: clear glass or plastic that's spray-painted from the inside, a frequent use of aluminium, stainless steel and any colour so long as it's white or black. But the new iPhone takes this familiarity further, by making the iPhone 4S almost identical to last year's iPhone 4.… |
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