Amazon cloud rival adds object storage service |
- Amazon cloud rival adds object storage service
- Slip of a lad to play James Bond's Q
- Beware the software security scare silly season
- Tablets need permanent Black Friday price slash to triumph
- Flinging Facebook insults at Thai monarchy earns fat jail terms
- Huge mob swarms phone launch – but it's a BLACKBERRY
- NASA's nuclear laser tank will hunt down any life on Mars
- Office 15 beta ready for fondling by early 2012
- Falklands, Cardiff lie beneath track of rogue Phobos-Grunt
- Penguin e-books back in libraries – but no new titles
- Scareware slingers stumped by Google secure search
- Judge tosses Netflix, Walmart conspiracy claim
- Disk drive prices swell 5% every DAY in floods aftermath
- Climategate: A symptom of driving science off a cliff
- Boffins find new 2012 glyph on 'secret' Mayan brick
- Need for Speed: The Run
- Ubuntu tells dumped CouchDB: It's not you, it's me
- Cruel new punishment for hackers: Twitter, Facebook bans
- Max Mosley sues Google to block 'orgy' vid searches
- Anonymous: 'We hacked cybercop's email'
- London Fire Brigade issues voracious tambourine warning
- How Apple beat IBM in Steve Jobs' first retail war
- 'That is the best tattoo of James May on a leg I have ever seen'
- Shock claim: Playing Elder Scrolls WILL MAKE YOU GAY
- AT&T poised to kick T-Mobile USA out of bed
- Demon Currys iPad showered kids with HARD-CORE smut
- Bone boffins find remains of ancient tuna dinner
- Samsung to 'exit netbooks'
- Will Mars rover Curiosity be the last of its nuclear kind?
- Olympus PEN Mini E-PM1
- Wonder tonic keeps mobiles pumping web for longer
- Bloke claims ex swiped his sperm to make twins
- Punters even more dissatisfied by Virgin Media's package
- Europe: warning, these Angry Birds CAN KILL KIDS
- Cheap-as-chips kit smashes Intel's HD video encryption
- Global warming much less serious than thought - new science
- It's the <i>ALL NEW</i> FUTURISTIC WEAPONS Black Friday Roundup!
- ALL US pro basketball to be played by topless strippers
- ISP outcry halts cybercops' automatic .UK takedown plan
- Hot pixelated Mac action to stuff fanbois' Xmas stockings
- LOHAN fondles substantial concrete buttocks
- Cabinet Secretary: Freedom of Info law stifles policy confabs
- Rockstar physicist Cox: Neutrinos won't help us cheat time
- Our roving reporter snaps Tenerife sex dangle
- Shock: Council dumps data wad - doesn't break any laws
- Ex-NASA space shuttle to touch down on aircraft carrier
- Amazon Kindle Fire
- Oz ISPs propose copyright enforcement trial
- Microsoft to Aussie gov: Privacy rules stifle e-Health
| Amazon cloud rival adds object storage service Posted: 25 Nov 2011 11:32 AM PST Joyent: Expect petabytes and petabytes of storageAmazon cloud competitor Joyent is going to add an object storage service which will be a good testbed to see if the cloud could be an object storage launch ramp.… |
| Slip of a lad to play James Bond's Q Posted: 25 Nov 2011 10:29 AM PST Youthful gadgetmeister joins Skyfall castBrit thesp Ben Whishaw will play Q in forthcoming Bond outing Skyfall, the BBC reports.… |
| Beware the software security scare silly season Posted: 25 Nov 2011 09:31 AM PST Don't let touts cloud your judgementOpen ... and Shut The software risk silly season is upon us again. Every so often a big trend washes over the industry, and soon afterwards well-intentioned people start telling us why we should be afraid to dip our toes into the water. Or perhaps they are not so well-intentioned...… |
| Tablets need permanent Black Friday price slash to triumph Posted: 25 Nov 2011 09:02 AM PST Fondleslab costs must tumble, says analystPunters could be tempted to buy a non-Apple fondleslabs, but only if prices tumble – and that could be about to happen, say analysts.… |
| Flinging Facebook insults at Thai monarchy earns fat jail terms Posted: 25 Nov 2011 08:47 AM PST Bhummer! Ministry asks social network to delete rude commentsFacebook users in Thailand, who take to the site to grumble about the Thai monarchy, have been warned that tough lese majeste laws will be brought against them.… |
| Huge mob swarms phone launch – but it's a BLACKBERRY Posted: 25 Nov 2011 08:37 AM PST Punters fainted - and not at the priceThe global launch of a new smartphone brought a huge mob of thousands of desperate punters to the doors of a shopping centre on Thursday night - ahead of Friday's grand unveiling. By the time staff unlocked the doors there was a 3,000-strong crowd, a huge crush surged forward and several people fainted.… |
| NASA's nuclear laser tank will hunt down any life on Mars Posted: 25 Nov 2011 08:15 AM PST Seriously though: How excellent if there was someWhile tales of UFOs and alien abductions are still being greeted with snorts of derision, NASA really is searching the skies for signs of extraterrestrial life, though it's not little green (or grey) men the agency is looking for, it's signs of life - most probably not above the microbial level - on Mars.… |
| Office 15 beta ready for fondling by early 2012 Posted: 25 Nov 2011 08:03 AM PST Touch it and you'll break it - but that's the pointMicrosoft will spin out its first test build of Office 15 in January next year.… |
| Falklands, Cardiff lie beneath track of rogue Phobos-Grunt Posted: 25 Nov 2011 07:44 AM PST 'Debris will probably hit remote unpopulated area' - UKSAThe UK space agency has warned that Russia and Kazakhstan will be responsible for any damage resulting from the probe Phobos-Grunt plummeting to Earth, and outlined in detail those locations at risk: that is, most of the inhabited world apart from remote northern and southern regions.… |
| Penguin e-books back in libraries – but no new titles Posted: 25 Nov 2011 07:32 AM PST Publisher in talks with Amazon, OverdrivePenguin's e-books have been put back on the virtual shelves of America's libraries, a week after they were yanked for unexplained "security" reasons.… |
| Scareware slingers stumped by Google secure search Posted: 25 Nov 2011 07:16 AM PST Scam sites can't game search resultsGoogle made secure search the default option for logged in users last month – primarily for privacy protection reasons. But the move has had the beneficial side-effect of making life for difficult for fraudsters seeking to manipulate search engine rankings in order to promote scam sites, according to security researchers.… |
| Judge tosses Netflix, Walmart conspiracy claim Posted: 25 Nov 2011 07:02 AM PST Firms did not partner to control DVD rentals and salesNetflix and Walmart did not conspire to dominate the DVD-by-post market, a US judge has ruled.… |
| Disk drive prices swell 5% every DAY in floods aftermath Posted: 25 Nov 2011 06:51 AM PST Dealers accused of profiteering from Thai disasterPrice comparison site Idealo.co.uk has revealed that disk drive prices were rising by more than 5 per cent a day in the aftermath of the crisis in Thailand that sent supply chains into a tailspin.… |
| Climategate: A symptom of driving science off a cliff Posted: 25 Nov 2011 06:41 AM PST You just couldn't make it upAnalysis I got some pushback from readers on the more skeptical side of the climate issue for describing Climategate as 'a tragedy'. There was clear evidence of cynicism and dishonesty, they argue - doesn't this let them off the hook? Not at all. But we need the bigger picture. Let's try this as a thought exercise.… |
| Boffins find new 2012 glyph on 'secret' Mayan brick Posted: 25 Nov 2011 06:13 AM PST Cryptic 1300-yr-old inscription ≠ doomsday, they insistThe Mexican archaeology institute says that a second possible reference has been found to a date in December 2012 as the end of a 5,200-year Mayan calendar cycle after which "the cosmos is regenerated". Reportedly the glyph in question is carved into the back of a brick found in ancient temple ruins - suggesting that it was a hidden secret, not meant to be seen.… |
| Posted: 25 Nov 2011 06:01 AM PST Step on itReview Releasing a driving game into an already congested market is a risky endeavour for any developer. So it follows that releasing two within six months could be considered careless. But to release three within a year, as EA has now done, seems at best illogical and, at worst, pure cannibalistic folly.… |
| Ubuntu tells dumped CouchDB: It's not you, it's me Posted: 25 Nov 2011 05:52 AM PST Cloud storage dalliance is overNoSQL contender CouchDB's been dropped by Ubuntu's ambitious cloud synchronisation service.… |
| Cruel new punishment for hackers: Twitter, Facebook bans Posted: 25 Nov 2011 05:43 AM PST UK's cyber-sentencing proposals revealedFraudsters and hackers could soon get slapped with social media bans as the government plans to encourage judges to dish out online punishments for online crime. The online tagging system is one of several recommendations announced today in the 2011 Cyber Security Strategy.… |
| Max Mosley sues Google to block 'orgy' vid searches Posted: 25 Nov 2011 05:32 AM PST Ex-F1 boss declares search bots 'dangerous'Max Mosley is suing Google after it snubbed requests from the ex-Formula One boss to pull content about his sex life from the company's search engine results.… |
| Anonymous: 'We hacked cybercop's email' Posted: 25 Nov 2011 05:22 AM PST Forensic 'secrets' in F*ckFBIFriday dumpThe Anonymous hacking collective's AntiSec group has launched a fresh assault on law enforcement agencies with the release of what they claim are personal emails stolen from a Californian cybercrime investigator.… |
| London Fire Brigade issues voracious tambourine warning Posted: 25 Nov 2011 05:11 AM PST 'You wouldn't believe the incidents we're called to'The London Fire Brigade is asking the public to be a bit more careful around letterboxes, shredders and tambourines as it issues a breakdown of 417 incidents where it was obliged to "release people, or body parts, which had become trapped in objects or machinery".… |
| How Apple beat IBM in Steve Jobs' first retail war Posted: 25 Nov 2011 05:00 AM PST A Christmas, PoS taleThe Golden Age of Computer Sales surely must have been Christmas 1984. The Macintosh had just been released, Compaq and IBM offered powerful new CPUs, but the real action was a massive Christmas sales battle between the Apple//c and the IBM PCjr. I remember it well, I was working at ComputerLand in Los Angeles, and I was at the very center of the battle.… |
| 'That is the best tattoo of James May on a leg I have ever seen' Posted: 25 Nov 2011 04:53 AM PST Plus: 'Buffy' - vampire slayer or Facebook smartphone?Quotw This was the week when Apple's plans for a Black Friday sale on pretty much everything except its iPhone were leaked to the web and speaking of iPhones, rumours were once more circulating about the elusive number 5 and how well-endowed it will be.… |
| Shock claim: Playing Elder Scrolls WILL MAKE YOU GAY Posted: 25 Nov 2011 04:47 AM PST Skyrim jobs for allMany of you will take to the pad this weekend, bashing away at fantasies, wiggling the necromancer, whacking demons and enjoying all else that Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim has to offer.… |
| AT&T poised to kick T-Mobile USA out of bed Posted: 25 Nov 2011 04:38 AM PST Proposed merger on the rocks as firms give up on FCC for nowAT&T and Deutsche Telekom have given the first signal that they might give up on the marriage proposal for T-Mobile USA after heavy opposition from the US government.… |
| Demon Currys iPad showered kids with HARD-CORE smut Posted: 25 Nov 2011 04:32 AM PST Bosses very, very sorry after shop web filter failDixons Retail has issued a grovelling apology after a demon fondleslab possessed with porn beamed smut directly into the eyes of children at a Currys store in Surrey.… |
| Bone boffins find remains of ancient tuna dinner Posted: 25 Nov 2011 04:23 AM PST Humans were 'trolling' the deep seas 42,000 years ago, says profBone-bothering boffins have discovered that Man's taste for tuna sarnies may have developed a lot earlier than previously thought.… |
| Posted: 25 Nov 2011 04:18 AM PST Ultrabook focus, apparentlyThat's it for netbooks then - so far as Samsung is concerned.… |
| Will Mars rover Curiosity be the last of its nuclear kind? Posted: 25 Nov 2011 04:11 AM PST Politicos bicker over peanuts for plutonium productionWhen the Mars rover Curiosity takes off tomorrow, it'll be packing a plutonium battery to power its myriad scientific instruments, but it could be one of the last to do so if NASA's next budget doesn't get approved.… |
| Posted: 25 Nov 2011 04:00 AM PST The cheapest Micro Four Thirds camera money can buyReview The Olympus PEN Mini is a no-fuss, interchangeable lens camera created for the casual photographer that wants the respectable image quality of a Micro Four Thirds system at the price and size of a compact.… |
| Wonder tonic keeps mobiles pumping web for longer Posted: 25 Nov 2011 03:53 AM PST Battery-draining surfing offloaded by proxyFinnish boffins have developed a proxy to reduce the power required for mobile web access by up to 74 per cent, taking that consumption of power into the cloud instead.… |
| Bloke claims ex swiped his sperm to make twins Posted: 25 Nov 2011 03:43 AM PST 'She would take the condom and run out of the room'A Texas man claims his ex-girlfriend stole his sperm to inseminate herself three months after they broke up.… |
| Punters even more dissatisfied by Virgin Media's package Posted: 25 Nov 2011 03:32 AM PST Not our fault rivals have 'upped their game', says VMOfcom survey Ofcom's latest customer satisfaction report is out and it doesn't look good for Virgin Media, which languished at the bottom of two lists representing its core business.… |
| Europe: warning, these Angry Birds CAN KILL KIDS Posted: 25 Nov 2011 03:22 AM PST Rip-off plushies trigger alertThe Europan Commission has issued a stern warning: some Angry Birds could kill a child.… |
| Cheap-as-chips kit smashes Intel's HD video encryption Posted: 25 Nov 2011 03:17 AM PST German boffins crack HDCP with $200 gearGerman boffins have pulled off a successful attack on HDCP copy protection – using cheap hardware and a lot of clever coding.… |
| Global warming much less serious than thought - new science Posted: 25 Nov 2011 03:07 AM PST We're looking at just a couple of degrees with double CO2Climate scientists funded by the US government have announced new research in which they have established that the various doomsday global warming scenarios are in fact extremely unlikely to occur, and that the scenarios considered likeliest - and used for planning by the world's governments - are overly pessimistic.… |
| It's the <i>ALL NEW</i> FUTURISTIC WEAPONS Black Friday Roundup! Posted: 25 Nov 2011 03:00 AM PST Suitcase assassin drone, electric stun rockets and moreIt's Thanksgiving again, the time of year when denizens of our former American colonies - alas, still in a distressingly successful and prolonged state of rebellion against their rightful sovereign - like to assemble as families and fortify themselves for a punishing day of shopping by scoffing a mountain of tuck while watching men in protective equipment running into one another on TV.… |
| ALL US pro basketball to be played by topless strippers Posted: 25 Nov 2011 02:46 AM PST As NBA lockout continues, NYC team names its ball-handlerA former NBA superstar was been tugged in by a bunch of hoop-shooting strippers as their head coach ahead of the launch of a basketball league comprised entirely of topless dancers.… |
| ISP outcry halts cybercops' automatic .UK takedown plan Posted: 25 Nov 2011 02:32 AM PST Telcos troubled by domain cut-offs without court ordersPlans to allow Blighty cops to "switch off" websites used by criminals have been delayed following pressure from internet firms and campaigners, who claimed such a move would hamper freedom of expression online.… |
| Hot pixelated Mac action to stuff fanbois' Xmas stockings Posted: 25 Nov 2011 02:22 AM PST Icon artist Susan Kare publishes coffee table bookThe woman behind the Mac icons that once decorated the desktop of every Apple computer around the world has published a book of her pixel art designs.… |
| LOHAN fondles substantial concrete buttocks Posted: 25 Nov 2011 01:46 AM PST 'J-Lo' structure to protect El Reg rocket test operativesWe're obliged to the many readers who offered to suggestions as to how to put together a home-made vacuum pump for our forthcoming Rocketry Experimental High Altitude Barosimulator (REHAB) test.… |
| Cabinet Secretary: Freedom of Info law stifles policy confabs Posted: 25 Nov 2011 01:31 AM PST I can't advise ministers in private, huffs Sir GusSir Gus O'Donnell told a committee of MPs on Wednesday that FOI laws had a "very negative impact on the freedom of policy discussions".… |
| Rockstar physicist Cox: Neutrinos won't help us cheat time Posted: 25 Nov 2011 01:17 AM PST Don't fire up the faster-than-light DeLorean. Boo!Fire up the DeLorean and grab the almanac, time travel is here... or maybe not.… |
| Our roving reporter snaps Tenerife sex dangle Posted: 25 Nov 2011 01:01 AM PST Randy Brit tourist caught hanging from stairsOur shock report earlier this week into the middle-aged Brit tourist who ended up dangling naked from the stairs of a Tenerife apartment block after a sex-based mishap prompted several readers to admit they were having trouble picturing just what a naked middle-aged Brit tourist dangling from the stairs of a Tenerife apartment block looks like.… |
| Shock: Council dumps data wad - doesn't break any laws Posted: 25 Nov 2011 12:33 AM PST Everything you wanted to know about Surrey, but were afraid to searchSurrey county council has launched a website which brings together a wide range of information on the area.… |
| Ex-NASA space shuttle to touch down on aircraft carrier Posted: 25 Nov 2011 12:01 AM PST Enterprise to make Intrepid landing in 2012In a move sure to delight aerospace fans everywhere, it has been announced that one of NASA's retired space shuttles will make a landing in the harbour of New York City next year – onto the deck of an aircraft carrier.… |
| Posted: 24 Nov 2011 11:00 PM PST Content consumption kitReview You might think it odd for a UK-based publication to review a product only available in the US, but such is Amazon's global reach that it's only a matter of time before the Kindle Fire is officially released over here.… |
| Oz ISPs propose copyright enforcement trial Posted: 24 Nov 2011 07:01 PM PST Easing the gorilla out of the kitchenAustralia's Communications Alliance has released a discussion paper covering a proposed scheme for dealing with copyright infringement on the Internet.… |
| Microsoft to Aussie gov: Privacy rules stifle e-Health Posted: 24 Nov 2011 04:01 PM PST Shows the WTO pistol in the drawerMicrosoft has told the Australian government that its focus on storing electronic health records within Australia's borders "could have a detrimental effect" on security.… |
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