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- Clooney fingered for Steve Jobs role in Hollywood biopic
- Microsoft seeks patent on employee spy system
- Second water utility reportedly hit by hack attack
- Motorola welcomes Google slurp with open arms
- Google's Brin and wife plop half-million into Wikipedia's hat
- Quest Software hangs toolmaker VKernel on its utility belt
- Making connections: The world according to Intel
- Cryptocard gobbles tasty, dead number puzzle startup
- Sparc M4 chips etched by Oracle, not Fujitsu
- Moon goodness: Far side of Luna in full colour
- Some go gracefully in the Channel - and some go messily
- <strong>[<abbr title="Not Safe For Work">NSFW</abbr>]</strong> Narcissistic, greedy: What Wikipedia says about its appeal
- Microsoft's Hadoop-hugging SQL Server 2012 gets closer
- Men busted 'for touting Facebook and Twitter shares'
- DARPA boffins develop unfeasibly light metal fluff-structure
- HELL ON EARTH: The Great Dying
- Flash array start-up SolidFire begins the hard sell
- HP welcomes activist investor onto board
- Punctured Google+ leaks bored users
- Hypersonic missile successfully hits Ronald Reagan
- Jaguar to Titan? Not so bad…
- Size doesn't matter to database thrusting Clustrix
- Pakistan bans rude text messages
- Mobile operators warned on 'unlimited' data gouging
- Busted Russian Mars probe could go to Moon instead
- Afghan elders refuse to be labelled pimps by number 39
- <i>Reg</i> readers say: Having the right info is key to productivity
- Overland struggles to keep its head above water
- IBM in the software era: Big Blue man gives HP a seminar
- Brussels: Water cannot be sold as remedy for dehydration
- Assassin's Creed: Revelations
- Surprise Royal Society prize win by wave-watching author
- Shock result: UK's largest city best place to get IT job
- Does tech suffer blurred vision on 3D future?
- Free the people from office chains and commuting pain!
- Update knackers hundreds of Zendesk helpdesks
- Ghanaian she-devil chews off bloke's 'nad sack
- Samsung v iPhone 4S French entrenchment: 'TOTAL WAR'
- Woomera: Ghosts of Britain's space past
- Mysterious sat-pic China desert markings - EXPLAINED
- Reg reader seeks living room Myth advice - can you help?
- Microsoft investors' love for Ballmer wanes
- Nikon 1 J1 interchangeable lens compact camera
- Tech productivity tactics
- Neutrinos <i>still</i> FASTER THAN LIGHT in second test
- Dell disk drive prices soar as rivals hold firm
- Irish website promises you'll never miss a funeral again
- Greener Arctic may be down to lemming poo, not climate
- UK cops: 'We thwarted Royal Wedding web attack plot'
- Silicon Valley web giants face 10-year tech exit
| Clooney fingered for Steve Jobs role in Hollywood biopic Posted: 18 Nov 2011 03:10 PM PST Former ER partners battle for sacred turtleneckHollywood heartthrob George Clooney has been named as a lead contender for the role of Steve Jobs in the inevitable cash-in movie, planned to start filming next year.… |
| Microsoft seeks patent on employee spy system Posted: 18 Nov 2011 02:04 PM PST HR software from hellMicrosoft has filed a patent for a system that monitors the behavior of employees via computers, phone calls, and physical gestures, and alerts human resources if anyone is behaving outside of preferred norms.… |
| Second water utility reportedly hit by hack attack Posted: 18 Nov 2011 01:26 PM PST Proof-of-concept intrusionImages posted online suggest that hackers may have gained unauthorized access to computers controlling a second water treatment facility, a claim that raises additional concerns about of the security of the US's critical infrastructure.… |
| Motorola welcomes Google slurp with open arms Posted: 18 Nov 2011 12:31 PM PST 99 out of 100 shareholders choose GoogleMotorola shareholders have voted overwhelmingly to accept Google's $12.5bn bid to buy the company's mobile phone arm, and any patents it may happen to have lying around.… |
| Google's Brin and wife plop half-million into Wikipedia's hat Posted: 18 Nov 2011 12:25 PM PST It's pledge-drive time, and Sergey's feeling flushThe Wikimedia Foundation, the non-profit publisher of Wikipedia and its affiliate sites, has received a $500,000 grant from the Brin Wojcicki Foundation, a philanthropic organization set up by Google cofounder Sergey Brin and his wife Anne Wojcicki, cofounder of "personal genetic information" website 23andMe.… |
| Quest Software hangs toolmaker VKernel on its utility belt Posted: 18 Nov 2011 11:30 AM PST On a quest for virtualization dominationIn what has to be the shortest press release in the history of IT, Quest Software announced that it had acquired VKernel, which peddles a capacity management, optimization, and chargeback system for VMware ESXi and Microsoft Hyper-V hypervisors.… |
| Making connections: The world according to Intel Posted: 18 Nov 2011 10:18 AM PST Evolution explainedWith the year winding down, I'd like to pull out a crystal ball and peer in. It is not my crystal ball I want to examine here but rather Intel's.… |
| Cryptocard gobbles tasty, dead number puzzle startup Posted: 18 Nov 2011 10:02 AM PST Cloud token option to fatten offeringsCryptocard has acquired the patents and intellectual property of GrIDsure, a UK pattern-based authentication start-up that became insolvent earlier this month. Term of the deal, announced Friday, were undisclosed.… |
| Sparc M4 chips etched by Oracle, not Fujitsu Posted: 18 Nov 2011 09:22 AM PST Sunset for Sparc64 in SMP servers?Exclusive The relationship between Oracle, acquirer of the Sun Microsystems server business, and Fujitsu, licenser of the Sparc instruction set and maker of its own Sparc iron – you can't even call it clone iron since Sun and then Oracle have been selling the Sparc Enterprise M systems for years – has been particularly inscrutable for the past two years. But Oracle has inadvertently cleared up one of the mysteries of its future Sparc processor roadmap.… |
| Moon goodness: Far side of Luna in full colour Posted: 18 Nov 2011 09:00 AM PST Rear of our rounded companion in all her gloryIf you enjoy scanning your eyes over the magnificent curves and craters of our planet's closest companion, then you'll probably love this lush high res stereo image of the far side of the Moon recently uploaded to the net by a team at the Arizona State University.… |
| Some go gracefully in the Channel - and some go messily Posted: 18 Nov 2011 08:58 AM PST Some don't pick up revolver left tactfully on the deskLiquidators of defunct reseller Skye IT have confirmed to El Reg that the firm ran up massive debts of £1.9m.… |
| Posted: 18 Nov 2011 08:38 AM PST Or rather what Reg readers have made the site sayNSFW It's time for the annual Wikipedia fundraising drive. But for once it's providing hours of fun for bored office workers - thanks to an unfortunate juxtaposition.… |
| Microsoft's Hadoop-hugging SQL Server 2012 gets closer Posted: 18 Nov 2011 08:26 AM PST Just the barber in today's virty cloud worldMicrosoft's delivered a near-final version of the Hadoop-friendly next version of its database.… |
| Men busted 'for touting Facebook and Twitter shares' Posted: 18 Nov 2011 08:17 AM PST Groupon, Bloom Energy etc: These guys owned it allThe US Securities and Exchange Commission has closed down an investment scam that was touting pre-IPO shares in Facebook, Twitter, Zynga and Groupon.… |
| DARPA boffins develop unfeasibly light metal fluff-structure Posted: 18 Nov 2011 08:13 AM PST Nano-nickel wonder stuff bar can rest atop a dandelionBoffins at California's HRL Laboratories have developed what they claim is the world's lightest material, a nickel structure that is a hundred times lighter than styrofoam.… |
| HELL ON EARTH: The Great Dying Posted: 18 Nov 2011 08:04 AM PST Volcanos almost wiped out life on Earth 250m years agoArchaeologists looking at soil in China have seen traces of a time when the earth burned, sulphur filled the air and three quarters of living creatures died.… |
| Flash array start-up SolidFire begins the hard sell Posted: 18 Nov 2011 07:59 AM PST 'Virtualising performance'... with IOPS to spareFlash array startup SolidFire says it virtualises performance. What does it mean?… |
| HP welcomes activist investor onto board Posted: 18 Nov 2011 07:36 AM PST Better to have him inside the tent, pissing, um, everywhereHP has found a seat on the board for activist stakeholder Ralph Whitworth, co-founder at Relational Investors which should buy his silence - in public at least - for a couple of years while CEO Meg Whitman steadies the ship.… |
| Punctured Google+ leaks bored users Posted: 18 Nov 2011 07:16 AM PST Numbers falling like Page's teardrops in the rainGoogle+ is struggling to retain interest from users who sign-up to the social network.… |
| Hypersonic missile successfully hits Ronald Reagan Posted: 18 Nov 2011 07:10 AM PST Mach 8 glider warhead covers 2,400 miles in 20-odd minsThe US Army - yes, Army - has announced a successful test flight by a prototype hypersonic missile. The Advanced Hypersonic Weapon (AHW) demonstrator took off from the island of Kauai on a three-stage rocket booster at 1:30 AM local time yesterday, and splashed down close to its target coordinates some 2,400 miles away at the Ronald Reagan Ballistic Missile Defense Test Site on Kwajalein Atoll.… |
| Posted: 18 Nov 2011 07:00 AM PST Keptacular MetamorphisAt SC11 I had the opportunity to talk to some of the people responsible for the biggest computer upgrade known to man. Oak Ridge National Labs is upgrading its current Cray XT5 'Jaguar' system to a Cray XT6 system that will be known as 'Titan'.… |
| Size doesn't matter to database thrusting Clustrix Posted: 18 Nov 2011 06:44 AM PST Easily pleased, quickly doneClustrix clustered server nodes loaded with Intel SSDs chew through parallelised database queries in a flash.… |
| Pakistan bans rude text messages Posted: 18 Nov 2011 06:32 AM PST 'Fondleslab' is offensive apparentlyText messaging has long been derided for diminished linguistic skills and increased profanity, especially among yoof.… |
| Mobile operators warned on 'unlimited' data gouging Posted: 18 Nov 2011 06:29 AM PST We meant the bill, not how many bytes you can haveA UK watchdog has urged mobile operators to obey the spirit of rules on data billing, not the letter, if they don't want greater restrictions imposed.… |
| Busted Russian Mars probe could go to Moon instead Posted: 18 Nov 2011 06:22 AM PST Phobos-Grunt to become Lunok-Grunt instead?Lost Russian probe Phobos-Grunt could give up its trek to Mars and instead head to the Moon if communication isn't established in the next few days.… |
| Afghan elders refuse to be labelled pimps by number 39 Posted: 18 Nov 2011 06:19 AM PST Have no truck with concept of pimping their rides eitherPlans to extend the London 39 bus route from Putney Bridge Station to Kabul are reportedly on hold after the number of shame caused a bit of a rumpus at a gathering of Afghan elders.… |
| <i>Reg</i> readers say: Having the right info is key to productivity Posted: 18 Nov 2011 06:08 AM PST Anyone here work in Financial Services? Help us outEnsuring that people have the information they need when they need it is the single most important element when it comes to productivity in the workplace. At least, that's what you guys told us when we conducted a survey on end user productivity earlier this year.… |
| Overland struggles to keep its head above water Posted: 18 Nov 2011 06:01 AM PST Praying for patent suit to inflate its dinghyIt sure isn't a snap as Overland reported quarterly results that still show hopes of a long-awaited recovery are unsatisfied. One swallow doesn't make a summer but it sure would be nice to see a swallow, any swallow.… |
| IBM in the software era: Big Blue man gives HP a seminar Posted: 18 Nov 2011 05:51 AM PST From atop vast pile of cashEuro recessionary scares aside, success for IBM is increasingly coming from software.… |
| Brussels: Water cannot be sold as remedy for dehydration Posted: 18 Nov 2011 05:40 AM PST May not be essential to life, eitherBrussels prompted a flood of abuse this week by apparently banning bottled water vendors from promoting their products as a counter to dehydration.… |
| Posted: 18 Nov 2011 05:31 AM PST Organised climbReview It might just be me, but as Ezio Auditore effortlessly scales yet another tower, it's hard to shake the feeling we've been here before. I know it's the continuation of a story arc, and I know that the game's engine – as already rolled out in last year's Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood – is already adequate enough in its animation and capacity for the dramatic, but this is the equivalent of the yearly football game update.… |
| Surprise Royal Society prize win by wave-watching author Posted: 18 Nov 2011 05:21 AM PST All kinds of waves from Mexican to seasideBritish designer and author Gavin Pretor-Pinney has won the 2011 Royal Society Winton Prize for Science Books for his popular science entry The Wavewatcher's Companion.… |
| Shock result: UK's largest city best place to get IT job Posted: 18 Nov 2011 05:11 AM PST Tech employment site releases interactive map of IT sector salariesIn a stunning turn of events, it has transpired that the best place in the UK to get a developer job is London, and that Londoners get the best money too, so if you dream of pulling off a C++ coding job in Newquay then change your dream now, though I'm sure it's a nice place to live.… |
| Does tech suffer blurred vision on 3D future? Posted: 18 Nov 2011 05:00 AM PST Death of field...Part 1 With the advent (again) of 3D, the movie industry has over the past couple of years turned big-time to IT for support. Over the same period the TV manufacturers have been looking to 3D to boost sales that started flagging once the first craze for HD has passed. So how are the effects of the current 3D phase showing up on the IT industry's bottom lines?… |
| Free the people from office chains and commuting pain! Posted: 18 Nov 2011 04:51 AM PST Give the Transport minister an easy life. And buy our stuff!Norman Baker, the UK's Transport Minister, has outlined a consortium dedicated to getting more people working away from the office, for the good of the economy, and the planet.… |
| Update knackers hundreds of Zendesk helpdesks Posted: 18 Nov 2011 04:43 AM PST Fix blunder Twitter chunder 'great confusion' followedThe boss at cloud-based online helpdesk software provider Zendesk has apologised for a brief outage last night that suspended 360 client accounts.… |
| Ghanaian she-devil chews off bloke's 'nad sack Posted: 18 Nov 2011 04:39 AM PST Jeans no protection from sharp-toothed furyA 31-year-old Ghanaian woman is unsurprisingly languishing in jail after chewing off a chap's scrotum.… |
| Samsung v iPhone 4S French entrenchment: 'TOTAL WAR' Posted: 18 Nov 2011 04:28 AM PST 'They won't leave us alone', sob Apple lawyers to judgeApple's lawyers have accused Samsung of waging all-out patent war in the latest battleground for the world-spanning dispute between the two firms.… |
| Woomera: Ghosts of Britain's space past Posted: 18 Nov 2011 04:21 AM PST El Reg treads the Prohibited AreaDuring our recent Oz roadtrip in pursuit of the World Solar Challenge, El Reg's Special Projects Bureau made a lightning visit to Woomera, where Britain's space programme was played out and, ultimately, laid to rest.… |
| Mysterious sat-pic China desert markings - EXPLAINED Posted: 18 Nov 2011 04:09 AM PST NASA expert enlightens puzzled Google Earth fansThe grids of white lines in China's Gobi desert that have got the world's conspiracy theorists in a lather for a week, are actually calibration targets used to help China's spy satellites, says a NASA researcher.… |
| Reg reader seeks living room Myth advice - can you help? Posted: 18 Nov 2011 04:07 AM PST Care from the communityReader Assistance We received the following plea for assistance from Reg Hardware reader Ian Bonham this morning:… |
| Microsoft investors' love for Ballmer wanes Posted: 18 Nov 2011 04:01 AM PST Chief chair chucker gets to stay, thoughUnder-fire Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer got the backing of shareholders in the annual board election but his popularity has waned slightly.… |
| Nikon 1 J1 interchangeable lens compact camera Posted: 18 Nov 2011 04:00 AM PST Late to the party and making a sceneReview Somewhat late to the game, Nikon has finally released its Nikon 1 range of compact, mirrorless cameras which use a new CX-format sensor and a range of interchangeable lenses.… |
| Posted: 18 Nov 2011 03:53 AM PST Home improvements for the perfect flexible workerBroadcast It's clear that there are fundamental changes happening in the way people, and businesses, want to work. The relentless pace of technology developments has given us ever better and more connected notebooks, and now smartphones and tablets. This means we can work wherever and whenever it suits.… |
| Neutrinos <i>still</i> FASTER THAN LIGHT in second test Posted: 18 Nov 2011 03:46 AM PST Take that, EinsteinThe boffins who sent sub-atomic particles on a faster-than-light journey into the past have done another successful experiment that confirms the results.… |
| Dell disk drive prices soar as rivals hold firm Posted: 18 Nov 2011 03:44 AM PST BTO model and minimal inventory holding to blame, says analystDell enterprise disk drive prices have soared by up to 35 per cent in the two weeks following the events in Thailand.… |
| Irish website promises you'll never miss a funeral again Posted: 18 Nov 2011 03:35 AM PST All the deaths you want, plus interactive mappingIrish netizens and their country's diaspora need never miss an important demise in their homeland again, after the launch of DeathIreland.com.… |
| Greener Arctic may be down to lemming poo, not climate Posted: 18 Nov 2011 03:26 AM PST Swarming sex-mad rodents fertilise grassesRecent satellite observations showing "greening" of some Arctic regions - until now put down to global warming permitting plants to grow more easily in the frozen north - may in fact be explained by large numbers of lemmings defecating on the affected areas, so fertilising green plants.… |
| UK cops: 'We thwarted Royal Wedding web attack plot' Posted: 18 Nov 2011 03:25 AM PST Kid cuffed in DDoS probeUK cybercops have claimed credit for preventing attempts to blast the official Royal Wedding website offline in April, following the arrest of a teenager suspected of masterminding the attack.… |
| Silicon Valley web giants face 10-year tech exit Posted: 18 Nov 2011 03:21 AM PST Why Google, Facebook and Twitter are risky betsOpen ... And Shut Silicon Valley companies continue to get outsized valuations, cast as high-growth tech companies. But while Twitter, Facebook, Google, Groupon, and other so-called tech bellwethers continue to grow, it's increasingly difficult to tell them apart from their kissing cousins in the media, advertising, and retail businesses.… |
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