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- Blistering chip pumps 1.5 Gbps down wireless channel
- Browser plugin brings strong crypto to Google webmail
- Gordon the supercomputer is intense about data
- Amcom buys L7 for $AU15m
- Vocus buys capacity on Asian cable
- Rooting Kindle Fire bricks videos
- China overtakes US as world’s biggest smartphone market
- Yahoo! Microsoft! merger! back! on! after! NDA! signed!
- Apple one-day-only sale plans for Macs, iPads leaked to web
- iPhone 4S is for failures who work in coffee shops - Samsung
- Nokia Siemens Networks chucks 17,000 people overboard
- ScaleMP takes self in hand, pumps its offering even bigger
- Netflix shares fall on profit warning
- Apple telly may sport Sharp screen tech
- First bite as Apple fishes for iPad games subscriptions
- Google machine-guns unpopular social products
- US quakes before MENACING TURKEYS, snow globes
- BT Engage IT's big cheese shown the door
- GiffGaff blames O2 gaffe for mobile outage
- Groupon stock dives below IPO value as Black Friday nears
- Huge PDP-11 in a lorry: How I drove computers into schools
- OpenStack is overstretched
- ISS 'nauts need not fear head-on space junk smashup
- Boffin's wall of BEES shields farms from stampeding elephants
- Samsung pledges Galaxy Nexus audio glitch fix
- Pro-game MP rewrites Modern Warfare censure motion
- Titan = supersized science
- WD cleared to gobble Hitachi GST
- RIP mice and keyboards: Kinect for PCs incoming
- Climategate 2.0: Fresh trove of embarrassing emails
- Ethernet reaches for the hyper-scale cloud
- Gov IT boss is latest senior Cabinet Office bigwig to quit
- Sony delays 3D PlayStation telly in Europe
- Nekkid Tech: Kindle on Fire
- Saints Row: The Third
- Adventures in mineral oil cooling
- Red Hat serves up red-hot Ceylon sauce
- Murdoch junior QUITS board of <cite>Sun</cite> publisher
- Google gives up on saving world from cheap coal energy
- Calling all resellers, distributors and integrators
- Stripper name game exposes sensitive privates on Tumblr
- Radiation TERROR on Scottish beach! Except it's quite safe
- <strong>[<abbr title="Not Safe For Work">NSFW</abbr>]</strong> Erotica 2011 stands firm against rise of the sex machines
- Steve Jobs had 'personal moral failures', was no role model
- Apple stalks execs in the cloud
- Hubble snaps mystery green death nebula in NGC 1846
- <i>Dragonriders of Pern</i> author Anne McCaffrey dies
- Man nearly faints with relief as cops drop chopper charge
- Councils 'fessed up to just 55 of 1,035 data loss shockers
- Asus Eee Pad Slider SL101
| Blistering chip pumps 1.5 Gbps down wireless channel Posted: 23 Nov 2011 03:30 PM PST Mass production in three years says RohmJapanese semiconductor group Rohm, working with Osaka University researchers, has showed off a prototype chip it says can pump an impressive 1.5 Gbps down a wireless channel using carrier frequencies in the Terahertz range.… |
| Browser plugin brings strong crypto to Google webmail Posted: 23 Nov 2011 03:16 PM PST (Some restrictions apply)Software developers have released a JavaScript implementation of the OpenPGP encryption message format that allows users to encrypt and decrypt communications within web-based mail services.… |
| Gordon the supercomputer is intense about data Posted: 23 Nov 2011 03:00 PM PST 300TB of flash = Big Data, fastSC11 According to San Diego Supercomputing Center chief Mike Norman, his brainchild 'Gordon' is the world's first data intensive supercomputer.… |
| Posted: 23 Nov 2011 02:30 PM PST More cloud services in the mixAmcom Telecommunications has taken over Perth based IT integrator L7 Solutions for $AU15 million.… |
| Vocus buys capacity on Asian cable Posted: 23 Nov 2011 02:00 PM PST Takes direct data route on SeaMeWe-3Deep pocketed, dark fibre, data centre operator Vocus Communications is investing in international cable capacity and establishing a Point of Presence (PoP) in Singapore.… |
| Rooting Kindle Fire bricks videos Posted: 23 Nov 2011 01:38 PM PST Sting in the tail for fondleslab tinkerersKindle Fire users may have to damp their enthusiasm for rooting their devices: unless they're prepared to chase up some other fixes and put up with some inconvenience, rooting the device kills video access.… |
| China overtakes US as world’s biggest smartphone market Posted: 23 Nov 2011 01:14 PM PST Nokia faces do or die in Middle KingdomThe number of smartphones sold in China has outpaced that in the US for the first time, according to analyst house Strategy Analytics.… |
| Yahoo! Microsoft! merger! back! on! after! NDA! signed! Posted: 23 Nov 2011 11:43 AM PST Yang's final humiliation as Redmond offers peanutsA merger between Microsoft and Yahoo! could be back on the cards, after Redmond reportedly signed a non-disclosure agreement as a prelude to serious talks about their future together.… |
| Apple one-day-only sale plans for Macs, iPads leaked to web Posted: 23 Nov 2011 10:34 AM PST iPhone discounts a no showApple plans to offer modest discounts on Macs, iPads, and iPods for one day only on Friday, according to the 9to5Mac website, which said a trusted tipster leaked the details of its day-after-Thanksgiving sales.… |
| iPhone 4S is for failures who work in coffee shops - Samsung Posted: 23 Nov 2011 10:27 AM PST Barista barb could hit home in new ad campaignNot content with the trans-continental patent lawsuits, Samsung have struck another blow at Apple. This time somewhere it might hurt - its branding.… |
| Nokia Siemens Networks chucks 17,000 people overboard Posted: 23 Nov 2011 10:02 AM PST Lightening ship ahead of IPOAiling telco kit manufacturer Nokia Siemens Networks (NSN) is to slash 17,000 jobs worldwide by the end of 2013 as it eyes up an IPO.… |
| ScaleMP takes self in hand, pumps its offering even bigger Posted: 23 Nov 2011 09:28 AM PST Fixes together cluster ark-ships with network glueWith server nodes getting more cores and fatter main memories, you might be thinking that the need for larger symmetric multiprocessing (SMP) servers, whether they are physical, like the ones sold by the major system makers, or virtual, like those created using the vSMP hypervisor and interconnect from ScaleMP, would be diminishing in popularity. Not so.… |
| Netflix shares fall on profit warning Posted: 23 Nov 2011 09:02 AM PST Movie rental firm will make a loss if it can't recover from Qwikster debacleNetflix shares dropped 5.4 per cent in New York trading yesterday after the movie rental firm announced it had raised $400m from existing investors, but warned that it might not do too well next year.… |
| Apple telly may sport Sharp screen tech Posted: 23 Nov 2011 08:42 AM PST Who cares? It's more fun watching the CE biz squirmDoes it really matter if Sharp is, as one analyst claims, re-equipping one of its LCD production lines to punch out Apple-branded tellies?… |
| First bite as Apple fishes for iPad games subscriptions Posted: 23 Nov 2011 08:41 AM PST Big Fish swallows small monthly subsThe first subscription game service for the iPad has been approved by Apple, allowing iPad owners to pay $7 a month for access to games from Big Fish.… |
| Google machine-guns unpopular social products Posted: 23 Nov 2011 08:31 AM PST Sad, lonely web efforts not 'beautiful' enough to liveIdentity-hoarder Google has killed various social products that failed to capture the interweb's hive brain in the way it clearly thinks Google+ has done.… |
| US quakes before MENACING TURKEYS, snow globes Posted: 23 Nov 2011 08:21 AM PST Border control operatives hunt down anomalous piesAmericans have been advised to head for the bunkers as Department of Homeland Security quakes before the latest threat existential threat to the union: Thanksgiving.… |
| BT Engage IT's big cheese shown the door Posted: 23 Nov 2011 08:11 AM PST COO 'will exit amid planned redundancies'The chief operating officer at BT Engage IT has been handed his pink slip as part of the planned redundancies at the reseller giant, The Reg understands.… |
| GiffGaff blames O2 gaffe for mobile outage Posted: 23 Nov 2011 08:04 AM PST People's network loses its peopleGiffGaff is failing in its mission to be "the people's network" after denying connectivity to a significant number of people over the last couple of days – but apparently it's all O2's fault.… |
| Groupon stock dives below IPO value as Black Friday nears Posted: 23 Nov 2011 07:56 AM PST Traders offering bargains on bargain-offer paperGroupon's shares are now trading at around $17.50, $3 less than its IPO price of $20, after tumbling 28 per cent in the last day and a bit.… |
| Huge PDP-11 in a lorry: How I drove computers into schools Posted: 23 Nov 2011 07:42 AM PST Mobile technology, the mainframe wayThis Old Box Computers in classrooms are so common today, we may forget this was once inconceivably difficult. Computers were very expensive and so large they needed a huge truck to transport them. Nearly 35 years ago, I worked on an ambitious but ill-fated project to bring a minicomputer to rural Iowa schools, a classroom on wheels.… |
| Posted: 23 Nov 2011 07:30 AM PST Too many targetsOpinion I'm back again at my daily job after a week travelling between San Francisco and Silicon Valley. It's clear that the hot topics there are cloud and flash storage; in fact the first meeting I had last week in Silicon Valley was with OpenStack.… |
| ISS 'nauts need not fear head-on space junk smashup Posted: 23 Nov 2011 07:22 AM PST NASA rules that debris is no threat to the space stationCrew on the International Space Station will no longer have to hide from a possible collision with some space debris, after NASA flight controllers decided it posed no threat to the station.… |
| Boffin's wall of BEES shields farms from stampeding elephants Posted: 23 Nov 2011 07:15 AM PST Biologist earns gong after beasts buzz offA British researcher who studied elephants' fear of being stung by bees has been given a gong for developing a fence of beehives to reduce clashes between humans and the mighty mammals.… |
| Samsung pledges Galaxy Nexus audio glitch fix Posted: 23 Nov 2011 07:10 AM PST Bug plaguing Android 4 phone to be squashed soonSamsung has developed a fix for the spontaneous volume reduction bug that has hit early buyers of its Galaxy Nexus Android 4.0 smartphone.… |
| Pro-game MP rewrites Modern Warfare censure motion Posted: 23 Nov 2011 07:06 AM PST Call of Duty gets Parliamentary praiseThe House of Commons has changed its opinion that Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 mimics the London bombings, amending an Early Day Motion that proposed the BBFC take further precautions when allowing a game to be sold.… |
| Posted: 23 Nov 2011 07:00 AM PST The computer ( not the Saturn moon)SC11 We spent some time at the Oak Ridge booth at SC11 in Seattle talking with Jack Wells. He's looking forward to the newest addition to the Oak Ridge supercomputer family, the Titan.… |
| WD cleared to gobble Hitachi GST Posted: 23 Nov 2011 06:53 AM PST Complicated Brussels nod isn't a simple go for itThe EU has said Western Digital can buy the Hitachi GST disk drive business but only if it sells off some 3.5-inch drive production capacity to an EU-approved buyer.… |
| RIP mice and keyboards: Kinect for PCs incoming Posted: 23 Nov 2011 06:46 AM PST And gaming gear gets up close and personalMicrosoft's XBox Kinect is getting in your face in 2012 with a "near mode" for close-up interaction – and is getting hardware-ready for Windows PCs.… |
| Climategate 2.0: Fresh trove of embarrassing emails Posted: 23 Nov 2011 06:36 AM PST 'All our models are wrong', writes JonesAnalysis There was always an element of tragedy in the first "Climategate" emails, as scientists were under pressure to tell a story that the physical evidence couldn't support – and that the scientists were reluctant to acknowledge in public. The new email archive, already dubbed "Climategate 2.0", is much larger than the first, and provides an abundance of context for those earlier changes.… |
| Ethernet reaches for the hyper-scale cloud Posted: 23 Nov 2011 06:30 AM PST To infinity and beyondWhat if the largest Ethernet networks we see today are just precursors, initial steps on the path to what's been called hyper-scale cloud networking?… |
| Gov IT boss is latest senior Cabinet Office bigwig to quit Posted: 23 Nov 2011 06:24 AM PST Second in a month - who will implement IT strategy now?The Cabinet Office is a second senior man down just one month after the department published an ambitious action plan detailing deadlines for when it hopes to implement the IT strategy it announced in March this year.… |
| Sony delays 3D PlayStation telly in Europe Posted: 23 Nov 2011 06:18 AM PST Brit gamers must wait longer for dual-view tellySony's 3D PlayStation telly has been delayed in Europe, with a release date now expected some time in 2012.… |
| Posted: 23 Nov 2011 06:15 AM PST Bezos backlashPodcast Last weekend Greg Knieremen took to The Reg to express his dismay at Amazon's lack of Google loving with the Kindle Fire. He was torched by the readers (see the comments on the story).… |
| Posted: 23 Nov 2011 06:06 AM PST Extreme - and then someReview You shouldn't laugh at Saints Row: The Third. I mean, what's funny about bludgeoning an old lady to death with a three-foot-long purple dildo? Or kidnapping a gimp-wearing BDSM fetishist and forcing him to to pull your chariot in gladiatorial Pony Play?… |
| Adventures in mineral oil cooling Posted: 23 Nov 2011 06:00 AM PST Longhorns oiled and batteredLet's say that you and your pals need to build a high performance cluster to run a number of HPC apps. It has to be fast. Damned fast. Fast enough to beat the very best student-built systems from seven other universities.… |
| Red Hat serves up red-hot Ceylon sauce Posted: 23 Nov 2011 05:49 AM PST Java heir exposes its inner gitRed Hat has broadened access to Ceylon, its JVM-based programming language intended to overcome the limitations of Java.… |
| Murdoch junior QUITS board of <cite>Sun</cite> publisher Posted: 23 Nov 2011 05:39 AM PST Quietly resigned from News International's sister bizJames Murdoch has sensationally resigned from News Group Newspapers' board of directors, thereby seemingly turning his back on News International's remaining British publications: The Sun, The Times and the Sunday Times.… |
| Google gives up on saving world from cheap coal energy Posted: 23 Nov 2011 05:32 AM PST 'Others can do it better'. No sh*t, text-ads SherlockGoogle has announced that it's abandoning its plans to save the planet by making renewable energy cheaper than coal.… |
| Calling all resellers, distributors and integrators Posted: 23 Nov 2011 05:29 AM PST Are IT vendors helping out in this difficult economic climate?Tech Panel It's been tough these last few years. The economy has been stagnant, inflation's been going up and access to credit has been going down, hitting cash flow and the ability to invest.… |
| Stripper name game exposes sensitive privates on Tumblr Posted: 23 Nov 2011 05:27 AM PST Bragging about Smartie Longbone is no laughing matterAn online game that invites surfers to disclose potentially sensitive information has returned in a slightly different guise, two years after its first appearance.… |
| Radiation TERROR on Scottish beach! Except it's quite safe Posted: 23 Nov 2011 05:12 AM PST Gordon Brown wants MoD to clear up minuscule hazardA Scottish beach has been cordoned off as a "contaminated land" by environmental-protection authorities following discovery of "radioactive particles" there, thought to result from Ministry of Defence activities in the past. Former UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown has seen fit to write to the Defence secretary, urging the MoD to act. Surely this is a very serious business?… |
| Posted: 23 Nov 2011 05:00 AM PST Old-school tools hit of leather and vibes bashNSFW It may not have been overtaken by machines just yet, but reports of the demise of Erotica may be just a bit premature.… |
| Steve Jobs had 'personal moral failures', was no role model Posted: 23 Nov 2011 04:53 AM PST Prof lambasts bearded fondle-slab biz titanAfter Britain's Chief Rabbi criticised the consumerism of the late Great High Priest of Apple, a professor of applied ethics at Hofstra University has joined the crew of Jobs-knockers, saying that we shouldn't venerate the Apple CEO because of his well-documented bad behaviour.… |
| Apple stalks execs in the cloud Posted: 23 Nov 2011 04:41 AM PST Sign up to iCloud, write you own job descriptionApple is said to be shopping for senior industry execs with cloud experience as it faces up to the possibility that consumers might not want their content tied solely to its hardware platforms.… |
| Hubble snaps mystery green death nebula in NGC 1846 Posted: 23 Nov 2011 04:35 AM PST Curious case of dwarf galaxy's possible member lossNASA's Hubble Space Telescope has captured an image of the death of a star in a nearby dwarf galaxy.… |
| <i>Dragonriders of Pern</i> author Anne McCaffrey dies Posted: 23 Nov 2011 04:32 AM PST Pioneering fantasy writer was 85Author of the Dragonrider series of books, Anne McCaffrey, died on Monday aged 85, having authored a huge number of books that straddled the border between science fiction and fantasy.… |
| Man nearly faints with relief as cops drop chopper charge Posted: 23 Nov 2011 04:24 AM PST Scary fake tool had panicked womanOhio police have dropped charges against a man they claimed had induced panic amongst the citizenry of Akron by brandishing a large red chopper in a bar.… |
| Councils 'fessed up to just 55 of 1,035 data loss shockers Posted: 23 Nov 2011 04:12 AM PST Watchdog kept in the dark by town halls, wants new powersThe scale of data-handling gaffes at local authorities has been revealed by a new report that uncovered 1,035 incidents where confidential information about British citizens was lost.… |
| Posted: 23 Nov 2011 04:00 AM PST Android tab with pop-out keyboard? WTF?!?Review I first laid hands on the Asus Eee Pad Slider back in March and now, after eight long months, it has finally made it onto the shelves of Blighty's gadget wallahs. Has it been worth the wait though?… |
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