Duqu targeted each victim with unique files and servers |
- Duqu targeted each victim with unique files and servers
- Logitech CEO: Google TV a 'gigantic mistake'
- Fingerprint scanner can detect drugs in sweat
- Yelp update ridicules Republican (ex)-hopeful Rick Perry
- iOS upgrade swells iPhone battery-suckage grief
- Deep-sea squid go from transparent to dark as fast as a Kindle
- Crooks lured investors with fake watchdog site
- Ringtones still netting $2.1bn for music biz
- Stats king SAS surfs the analytics wave
- Student cluster compo SMACKDOWN: Texas holds at 2-1
- Latest Call of Duty day-one sales hit $400m
- Feargal Sharkey moves on from UK music org
- Fully assured
- Adobe's future is controlling what you watch, not delivering it
- Apple offers unlocked iPhone 4S online in the US
- Boozed-up ball-biting mum spared jail
- Gobble! some! Yahoo! now! – slurp! the! rest! later!
- Business Cloud Summit countdown
- First scientific paper filed from Spaaaace published today
- World's only twin jet-engine bike drives onto eBay
- Google buys brace of start-ups to out-Facebook Facebook
- Universal closes in on EMI. Lawsuits to follow?
- The Adventures of Tintin: the Game
- Sperm donors nicer than average, Swede study finds
- Apple patents a SIM you can't remove
- Nokia's future phone sees red when you do
- EDF security bosses guilty of hacking Greenpeace
- Chicken fillets: The affordable alternative to Bulgarian Airbags
- How to make clouds and influence accountants
- Fondleslabs homing in on desktops in biz sales
- Is Financial services IT in a mess?
- Fanboi called 911 repeatedly because iPhone didn't work
- Sony develops 'new kind of television'
- Sony Ericsson Live with Walkman
- Asda tempts technophobes with cheap PCs and broadband
- Valve admits forum hack exposed gamers' privates
- WebOS developer? 'Grab a slab, while stocks last'
- Fusion boffins crack shreddy eddy plasma puzzle
- World's first biz computer was British – and sold teacakes
- Hamburg loses rag with Facebook, threatens to sue
- Angry Birds to hit shop shelves this month
- Eleven - if you will - rocktastic music movies
- Were Lavasoft's buyers once on its hit list?
- SAP, EMC and VMware in 3-way cloud orgy
- Now Russians can't even contact their busted Mars probe
- Tech sugar daddies shovel millions into Hadoop war
- European boffins on voyage of discovery to the Earth's core
- Apple posts 'battery fix' iOS update
- Randy dwarf galaxies are making billions of baby stars
- Logitech Wireless Touchpad
| Duqu targeted each victim with unique files and servers Posted: 11 Nov 2011 01:48 PM PST Well-financed developers had sense of humorThe creators of the Duqu malware that penetrated industrial manufacturers in at least eight countries tailored each attack with exploit files, control servers, and booby-trapped Microsoft Word documents that were different for each victim, according to research published on Friday.… |
| Logitech CEO: Google TV a 'gigantic mistake' Posted: 11 Nov 2011 01:26 PM PST End of the line for connected-TV RevueThe CEO of Logitech has slammed Google's TV service and has said his company will not develop hardware for the platform in the future.… |
| Fingerprint scanner can detect drugs in sweat Posted: 11 Nov 2011 11:30 AM PST It knows if you've been bad or goodA prototype fingerprint scanner has been developed that can detect the presence of opiates, cannabis, or cocaine in the sweat on a user's fingertip.… |
| Yelp update ridicules Republican (ex)-hopeful Rick Perry Posted: 11 Nov 2011 11:26 AM PST Two out of three ain't badYelp has released an update for its iPhone app, and in doing so snuck in a not-too-subtle dig at Republican presidential hopeful Rick Perry.… |
| iOS upgrade swells iPhone battery-suckage grief Posted: 11 Nov 2011 10:22 AM PST 'It gets WORST :('If you've experienced runaway battery suckage on your brand-spanking-new iPhone 4S, you won't be alone if you're still cursing your Cupertian smartphone after updating to Apple's supposed battery-fixing iOS 5.0.1.… |
| Deep-sea squid go from transparent to dark as fast as a Kindle Posted: 11 Nov 2011 10:21 AM PST Amazing, living e-ink displays of the oceanUS-based scientists have left the tech world flabbergasted today with the discovery that living e-ink displays – very bit as responsive as those found in a Kindle or similar e-reader – have been found swimming about deep beneath the Pacific Ocean.… |
| Crooks lured investors with fake watchdog site Posted: 11 Nov 2011 10:03 AM PST Bogus promises to extract cash from bankrupt bizThe North American Securities Administrators Association (NASAA) has closed down a website that was using its content to dupe investors.… |
| Ringtones still netting $2.1bn for music biz Posted: 11 Nov 2011 09:32 AM PST Bigger than subs, small than salesGartner's latest figures on the digital music industry show that downloads are growing, but while subscriptions are minimal, ring and ring-back tones are still netting $2.1bn, to general surprise.… |
| Stats king SAS surfs the analytics wave Posted: 11 Nov 2011 09:16 AM PST But can number-crunching software grandad stay on the surfboard?Blog One obvious beneficiary of the rush to embrace enterprise analytics and "Big Data" is the SAS Institute Inc (or just plain SAS – rhymes with "pass"), the granddaddy of statistical analysis software. But it can be argued that SAS doesn't really need the analytics boom; they've been doing quite nicely up until now without it, mining their profitable niche for all it's worth.… |
| Student cluster compo SMACKDOWN: Texas holds at 2-1 Posted: 11 Nov 2011 09:01 AM PST Taiwan 7-1, Colorado moves upSC11 Another few days of betting gives us a better view of how bettors handicap the SC11 Student Cluster Competition (SCC). So what do we see?… |
| Latest Call of Duty day-one sales hit $400m Posted: 11 Nov 2011 08:51 AM PST 6.5m copies soldActivision's Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 has rung up sales totalling $400m (£250m) during the game's first day on sale.… |
| Feargal Sharkey moves on from UK music org Posted: 11 Nov 2011 08:39 AM PST What'll he do next for his Teenage Kicks?Feargal Sharkey is to step down as chief executive of UK Music, the umbrella trade organisation for music in the UK, after three years in the job. The organisation, previously known as British Music Rights, represents live music and musicians, publishing and record companies.… |
| Posted: 11 Nov 2011 08:34 AM PST Service assurance: a workshop in one documentReport If you were following our service assurance workshop and wanted a summary, or if you wanted to follow it but didn't have the time and then all the articles piled up and you panicked, we've got an early Christmas present. Our round-up takes all the essential points of the articles in the workshop, plus the best of your feedback, and distils them into a single document.… |
| Adobe's future is controlling what you watch, not delivering it Posted: 11 Nov 2011 08:23 AM PST Streaming video is so 20th centuryAnalysis Adobe's decision to stop developing mobile Flash shouldn't surprise: Adobe can see there's more money in preventing people watching stuff than enabling them to do so.… |
| Apple offers unlocked iPhone 4S online in the US Posted: 11 Nov 2011 08:14 AM PST No carrier tie-inApple has begun selling unlocked iPhones through its US online shop.… |
| Boozed-up ball-biting mum spared jail Posted: 11 Nov 2011 08:01 AM PST Drinking marathon ended with lover's scrotum perforatedA woman who admitted biting a hole in her boyfriend's scrotum was spared a stretch in prison by Newcastle Crown Court on Friday.… |
| Gobble! some! Yahoo! now! – slurp! the! rest! later! Posted: 11 Nov 2011 07:41 AM PST Investors mull taste testMore rumours that private equity might be the route for Yahoo!'s buyout surfaced today: a report suggests firms including KKR and TPG Capital are thinking of buying a little slice of Yahoo! in order to slurp the whole thing later.… |
| Business Cloud Summit countdown Posted: 11 Nov 2011 07:22 AM PST 20 free Reg reader passes up for grabsEvent On December 5, London's annual Business Cloud Summit kicks off with a Technology and Developer stream helmed by The Register's own Tim Phillips. Better still, we've persuaded the organisers to give away 20 free conference passes*. The first 20 of you heading across to http://www.businesscloudsummit.com/ and entering the code 'REG01' when placing your order will be in the running for these freebies up for grabs.… |
| First scientific paper filed from Spaaaace published today Posted: 11 Nov 2011 07:03 AM PST Plasma boffinry only possible under zero gravityHard-working astro-boffins have filed a scientific paper from space. Published today in the journal Europhysics Letters, it is believed to be the first article in an earthly publication ever to have been submitted from outside the planet.… |
| World's only twin jet-engine bike drives onto eBay Posted: 11 Nov 2011 06:47 AM PST Pulsejet-powered cycle under the hammerA motorbike powered by a pair of pulsejets popped up for auction on eBay this week.… |
| Google buys brace of start-ups to out-Facebook Facebook Posted: 11 Nov 2011 06:41 AM PST Slurping from the Chocolate Factory milkshakeGoogle may want to insist that it is not interested in building a social network, but that didn't stop the company from buying a pair of start-ups yesterday that just so happened to be covered in social goo.… |
| Universal closes in on EMI. Lawsuits to follow? Posted: 11 Nov 2011 06:22 AM PST Merde!Updated The world's largest record company, Universal Music, is set to swallow Britain's biggest - EMI – according to reports in the financial press. The most recent rumour sees EMI going two ways: with the profitable music publishing division heading to Sony for $2.2bn, while UMG picks up the recordings for $1.9bn.… |
| The Adventures of Tintin: the Game Posted: 11 Nov 2011 06:00 AM PST Quiffly does itReview Until I was five, my dad worked at Cern and we lived in the Jura Mountains across the France-Switzerland border. At weekends my mum would take us to Jouets Weber, the largest toyshop in Geneva. It stocked a large number of Tintin books, which my mum translated to me at bedtime.… |
| Sperm donors nicer than average, Swede study finds Posted: 11 Nov 2011 05:53 AM PST Independent and NOT shy, researchers discoverSwedish sperm donors are more stable and mature and have better social skills than the country's manhood at large, researchers have found.… |
| Apple patents a SIM you can't remove Posted: 11 Nov 2011 05:42 AM PST Only Cupertino can piss off operators that muchApple has been awarded a US patent on an embedded SIM capable of switching between mobile network operators under command from Cupertino, assuming the operators comply.… |
| Nokia's future phone sees red when you do Posted: 11 Nov 2011 05:31 AM PST Mood-aware mobe will ensure your teen never answers your callsAh, the future! Once the province of sci-fi on our tellies and authors like Jules Verne, but now also frequently the subject of videos from top tech companies.… |
| EDF security bosses guilty of hacking Greenpeace Posted: 11 Nov 2011 05:24 AM PST French nuke biz fined £1.3m for cyber-spyingFrench nuclear giants EDF have been fined €1.5m (£1.28m) by a Paris court for hiring spooks to hack computers and gather info on eco group Greenpeace.… |
| Chicken fillets: The affordable alternative to Bulgarian Airbags Posted: 11 Nov 2011 05:12 AM PST Bra padding saves car crash Scot's lifeWomen wanting the protection of Bulgarian airbags in a car crash situation, but wary about going under the knife will be reassured that a couple of pairs of chicken fillets makes an ample substitute.… |
| How to make clouds and influence accountants Posted: 11 Nov 2011 05:02 AM PST Slipping in between the beancounters and the CEO's PR birdThe cloud might mean that the corporate accountant becomes your new best buddy. Appalling thought, I know, but beancounters aren't all that bad: they can do sums even if they can't do algebra, which puts them a step ahead of the marketing department. Of course, this time of year, when bonuses are being decided, is a great time of year to go and explain to said corporate beancounter why you're about to become his best buddy.… |
| Fondleslabs homing in on desktops in biz sales Posted: 11 Nov 2011 04:54 AM PST iPad blows rivals out of UK market
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| Is Financial services IT in a mess? Posted: 11 Nov 2011 04:52 AM PST A reality checkTech Panel Whether it's insurance or banking, those working in financial services keep coming in for a lot of stick. Over the years, many organisations have spent shed loads of money on IT, yet customers still complain about bad service, broken processes and the fact that nothing seems to be joined up. This brings the state of IT into sharp focus.… |
| Fanboi called 911 repeatedly because iPhone didn't work Posted: 11 Nov 2011 04:42 AM PST Drunken Jesus mobe stroker cuffed by deputiesA bloke in the US has been arrested after repeatedly calling the emergency number 911 to complain that his iPhone wasn't working.… |
| Sony develops 'new kind of television' Posted: 11 Nov 2011 04:35 AM PST Cracking the boxSony plans to revive its fortunes in the TV market by launching a new type of telly that it hopes will compete with - of all companies - Apple in the future goggle-box marketplace.… |
| Sony Ericsson Live with Walkman Posted: 11 Nov 2011 04:33 AM PST Toe-tapping talkerReview Sony Ericsson is still producing standalone Walkman devices, but the natural home for the oldest portable music player brand these days is on a phone. The Live With Walkman delivers the latest version of the music player in an Android phone with a 5Mp camera and a nippy 1GHz processor.… |
| Asda tempts technophobes with cheap PCs and broadband Posted: 11 Nov 2011 04:31 AM PST Stack 'em high and they will come, maybeAsda is trying to drag its price conscious Luddite punters into an internet world this Christmas by chopping the price of its notebooks and mobile broadband.… |
| Valve admits forum hack exposed gamers' privates Posted: 11 Nov 2011 04:24 AM PST Punters steamed about sensitive data leakSteam, the online platform of video game firm Valve Corporation, has admitted that customer personal details including encrypted credit card information might have been exposed by a hack attack last weekend.… |
| WebOS developer? 'Grab a slab, while stocks last' Posted: 11 Nov 2011 04:11 AM PST Plus: Apple is terribly rude for ousting hacker from iOS dev programmeQuotW This was the week when HP continued to act erratically and desperately in the marketplace by offering WebOS developers a cheap deal on the final stocks in the channel of its WebOS Touchpad, which you can get "while stocks last". Although why anyone would want a discontinued fondleslab running a soon-to-be-defunct platform is unclear.… |
| Fusion boffins crack shreddy eddy plasma puzzle Posted: 11 Nov 2011 03:52 AM PST Progress made on solving all humanity's problemsPhysicists in the US are patting themselves on the back today as they prepare to announce that they've got a grip on a knotty problem troubling anyone designing working nuclear fusion powerplants - which could solve pretty much all of the human race's problems, but have proved very difficult to actually achieve.… |
| World's first biz computer was British – and sold teacakes Posted: 11 Nov 2011 03:41 AM PST 60th anniversary of the LEO is todayPictures Forget BlackBerry and Bill Gates: the first business computer in the world was British and was used to help sort the logistics for bakery distribution.… |
| Hamburg loses rag with Facebook, threatens to sue Posted: 11 Nov 2011 03:23 AM PST CURRENT Euro data protection law unlikely to agreeHamburg's data protection authority has reportedly given up continuing its dialogue with Facebook and is preparing to sue the company over its use of facial recognition technology.… |
| Angry Birds to hit shop shelves this month Posted: 11 Nov 2011 03:15 AM PST Rovio flings wings to retailAngry Birds continues on its course toward global domination today when developer Rovio announced the game will be coming to retail later this year.… |
| Eleven - if you will - rocktastic music movies Posted: 11 Nov 2011 03:11 AM PST We go to 11 to celebrate Nigel Tufnel DayRound-up 11 November 2011 - 11/11/11 - is Nigel Tufnel Day, a day to celebrate pushing the envelope as far as it can possibly be pushed - and then pushing it one step beyond that.… |
| Were Lavasoft's buyers once on its hit list? Posted: 11 Nov 2011 03:03 AM PST Shining a light on Solaria acquisitionAnti-spyware company Lavasoft AB is now owned by a set of online entrepreneurs who have been linked with misleading websites.… |
| SAP, EMC and VMware in 3-way cloud orgy Posted: 11 Nov 2011 02:51 AM PST I want your appliance in my VMAXSAP, EMC and VMware have signed a three-way deal about a converged EMC-SAP stack running an in-memory analytic database leading to the possibility of SAP HANA running inside VMAX arrays.… |
| Now Russians can't even contact their busted Mars probe Posted: 11 Nov 2011 02:41 AM PST In space, no one can hear youAttempts to contact the lost Russian spaceship Phobos-Grunt have so far been unsuccessful, a source in the space industry said.… |
| Tech sugar daddies shovel millions into Hadoop war Posted: 11 Nov 2011 02:31 AM PST Who will flash the most cloud cash?Open ... And Shut There was once an idyllic time when people like Joe Kraus described an entrepreneur's dream of starting robust companies on a shoestring budget, powered by open-source software and cloud infrastructure. Apparently Cloudera and Hortonworks didn't get the memo. Both Hadoop competitors recently raised mountains of cash at sky-high valuations, fuelled by open-source software and cloud infrastructure. And now Cloudera investor Ping Li has declared that his firm, Accel, is prepared to dump $100m more into Hadoop's meta-market, Big Data.… |
| European boffins on voyage of discovery to the Earth's core Posted: 11 Nov 2011 02:22 AM PST Incredibly powerful laser diamond probe declared readyTop European scientists say they are ready to commence an exciting voyage of discovery - to plumb the very depths of the Earth's core, and find out the mechanism by which the planet's magnetic poles disappear or reverse themselves. A titanically powerful machine employing nuclear atom-smasher technology, diamond "anvils" and outrageously powerful laser beams has been readied in France at the foothills of the Alps, and was declared officially ready to go yesterday.… |
| Apple posts 'battery fix' iOS update Posted: 11 Nov 2011 02:14 AM PST 5.0.1 out over the airApple last night rolled out iOS 5.0.1, promising that the update flattens bugs that have caused iPhone 4S owners to suffer from rapidly depleting battery syndrome.… |
| Randy dwarf galaxies are making billions of baby stars Posted: 11 Nov 2011 02:11 AM PST Hubble pervs over distant prolific systemsThe Hubble telescope has picked out distant dwarf galaxies that are churning out stars at an enormous rate compared to the Milky Way.… |
| Posted: 11 Nov 2011 02:00 AM PST Apple-style multi-touch on a PC, anyone?Accessory of the Week Most Wintel laptops now support a limited range of multi-touch gestures on their trackpads, such as the two-finger swipe to scroll up or down through long documents and web pages. However, Logitech's new Wireless Touchpad is the first device that I've come across that attempts to offer PC users the same range of multi-touch features provided by Apple's Magic Trackpad or its MacBook trackpads.… |
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