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- Feds shutter DNS malware scam that infected 4 million PCs
- Microsoft gets deeper undercover with the Nine Network
- Defiant Aussies continue to sell contraband Samsung slab
- University of NSW to open patent pool
- Oracle dubs Solaris 11 world's first cloud OS
- Branson backs Twitter co-founder's mobile biz
- Spanish firm brings 20MW solar ‘ranch’ online in Arizona
- Microsoft releases fix for Applocker bypass flaw
- Amazon's Kindle Fire burns iPad momentum
- SGI ramping up for big Xeon E5 server push
- Avnet Technology Solutions to shutter operations in Italy
- SEC slaps inside trader with record $93m fine
- Samsung to pump $34bn into its chip fab biz
- Toshiba knocks back super-skinny tablet release
- Adobe confirms mobile Flash Player's race is run
- Prepare for a growth spurt when you virtualise systems
- Mobe anti-virus biz Lookout eyes Euro telcos
- Wi-Fi hotspots to skyrocket over next five years
- Hackers link MP's aide to neo-Nazi site in member list leak
- Hitachi, LG admit fixing disc drive prices
- iPhones get multi-sim capabilities
- Veg rustlers hit with conditional discharge after roadside lineup
- Immigrants face £49k wage minimum to stay
- UK.gov deputy CIO quits Cabinet Office for EMC job
- How to get the best from your IOPS
- Chell clips Cant to top <i>Play School</i> presenter slot
- Cheap gas is a 'crisis' for Greens, but not for us
- Jobs neck and neck with 'angry people' for <i>Time</i> award
- Foreign Office loses dozens of PCs and smartphones
- Yahoo!, AOL, Microsoft strike ad pact
- Steam games forum down amid hack fears
- 'Puzzling structures on surface' of YU55 spaceball
- It's not the size of your pipe, it's the way you use it
- TV makers ready to test 3D specs' compatibility
- Nintendo adds Wii U support for second controller
- Barclays Capital cuts IT contractor rates by 10% ... again
- 'Angry Bird' netflinger projectile brings down drug ultralights
- Free uni opened for Tech City hipsters
- Russian probe engines crap out on way to Mars
- World of Warcraft subscriptions slip
- Calling all banks, insurers and IFAs - do you have an information gap?
- Marantz NR1602 AV receiver with AirPlay
- Threesome ends in arrest as wife struck by pair of TVs
- 'Indestructible' Moto Defy telly ad banned
- Paypal emits cash swap tap app for Android
- We need to talk about desktop virt
- Adobe axes 750 jobs to focus on HTML5, cloud
- Data retention, FOI and the storage budget
- Why GNOME refugees love Xfce
- Kesa shells out £50m to offload Comet
| Feds shutter DNS malware scam that infected 4 million PCs Posted: 09 Nov 2011 02:31 PM PST $14m scheme spoofed iTunes, Amazon and IRSFederal authorities have shut down an international conspiracy that forced more than four million computers to connect to fraudulent webpages when users tried to visit Netflix, the US Internal Revenue Service, Apple's iTunes and other services.… |
| Microsoft gets deeper undercover with the Nine Network Posted: 09 Nov 2011 02:30 PM PST Shades of spooks as JV renamed Mi9Microsoft has moved closer to its joint venture partner Nine Entertainment Co, launching a new overarching brand, Mi9, which tips in their aligned digital assets.… |
| Defiant Aussies continue to sell contraband Samsung slab Posted: 09 Nov 2011 02:01 PM PST Laugh gutturally at fruity threatsAn Australian retailer is defying Apple and the courts by continuing to sell Samsung's Galaxy Tab 10.1 to Aussies, despite the temporary injunction.… |
| University of NSW to open patent pool Posted: 09 Nov 2011 01:32 PM PST Uni Glasgow aluminus to drive intellectual property strategyThe University of New South Wales has decided to open a significant chunk of its patent pool to outsiders for free, in a strategy called Easy Access IP.… |
| Oracle dubs Solaris 11 world's first cloud OS Posted: 09 Nov 2011 01:31 PM PST 'Absolutely spanking' IBM and HPOracle has duly and at last announced the Solaris 11 Unix system, developed under the code-name "Nevada" at the former Sun Microsystems and representing the foundation of the future Sparc systems business that Oracle hopes to rebuild.… |
| Branson backs Twitter co-founder's mobile biz Posted: 09 Nov 2011 01:04 PM PST Stuffs cash into mobile payment startupTwitter co-founder Jack Dorsey's mobile payments startup Square continues to attract high-octane investors, this time welcoming Sir Richard Branson on board.… |
| Spanish firm brings 20MW solar ‘ranch’ online in Arizona Posted: 09 Nov 2011 01:01 PM PST Herding photons to green the desertA new 20MW solar 'ranch' has officially opened in the deserts of Arizona as part of a major push by Spanish firm Iberdrola Renewables into the US energy market.… |
| Microsoft releases fix for Applocker bypass flaw Posted: 09 Nov 2011 10:52 AM PST Windows vault easily opened with macrosMicrosoft has released a temporary fix for a flaw in its latest operating systems that allows untrusted users to bypass security measures preventing them from running unauthorized applications.… |
| Amazon's Kindle Fire burns iPad momentum Posted: 09 Nov 2011 10:50 AM PST 26% of Fire fans put off 'Pad purchasesA new survey indicates that Amazon's Kindle Fire tablet is causing some prospective iPad purchasers to think twice.… |
| SGI ramping up for big Xeon E5 server push Posted: 09 Nov 2011 10:47 AM PST NASA to push Pleiades super to 10 petaflopsLike everybody else in the server racket, Silicon Graphics is waiting somewhat patiently for Intel to get its "Sandy Bridge-EP" Xeon E5 processors out the door, so it can launch a whole new generation of machines. Or, in the case of SGI, several different generations.… |
| Avnet Technology Solutions to shutter operations in Italy Posted: 09 Nov 2011 10:05 AM PST Hits ejector button as local economy goes down burningAvnet Technology Solutions (TS) is shuttering operations in Italy due to an "unacceptable financial performance".… |
| SEC slaps inside trader with record $93m fine Posted: 09 Nov 2011 09:37 AM PST Bent tycoon traded dirty on IBM, IntelInsider trading does not pay, a judge in an American civil court declared, putting a record fine on Raj Rajaratnam, the businessman who was found guilty of insider trades using a network of tech insiders – including executives at IBM and Intel.… |
| Samsung to pump $34bn into its chip fab biz Posted: 09 Nov 2011 09:03 AM PST Silicon and screens for mobes, cams and fondleslabsSamsung Electronics is planning to invest 38 trillion won (£21.3bn, $33.9bn) in its business next year, up over a quarter from the around 30 trillion won it invested this year, industry sources told local media.… |
| Toshiba knocks back super-skinny tablet release Posted: 09 Nov 2011 08:58 AM PST Ice Cream Sarnie-inspired delay?Toshiba has knocked back the release of its skinnier-than-the-rest AT200 Android tablet to 2012.… |
| Adobe confirms mobile Flash Player's race is run Posted: 09 Nov 2011 08:22 AM PST HTML 5 is the futureIt's official: Adobe Flash Player is dead for mobile browsers… almost.… |
| Prepare for a growth spurt when you virtualise systems Posted: 09 Nov 2011 08:22 AM PST Adjusting the scaleVirtualising systems often means scaling them up. Sometimes, disparate networks of machines are consolidated together, creating a mega-portfolio of assets. This carries a special set of technical challenges, but let's not forget the managerial ones.… |
| Mobe anti-virus biz Lookout eyes Euro telcos Posted: 09 Nov 2011 08:01 AM PST Android, iOS good. BlackBerry and Windows out of luckLookout Mobile Security is going international with localised versions of its mobile security software and a partnership to pre-embed its technology in Android phones supplied by Telstra Australia, its first mobile telco partner outside the US.… |
| Wi-Fi hotspots to skyrocket over next five years Posted: 09 Nov 2011 07:41 AM PST And you reckon 2.4GHz is crowded now...Right now there are 1.3 million public Wi-Fi spots around the world, but Informa reckons that's going to jump to 5.8 million by 2015 with tablets and smartphones driving the deployments.… |
| Hackers link MP's aide to neo-Nazi site in member list leak Posted: 09 Nov 2011 07:22 AM PST Anonymous Finland attacks far-right groupThe parliamentary aide to a right-wing Finnish MP has offered to resign after the Anonymous hacking collective published what it said was a list of applications to join a local neo-Nazi party.… |
| Hitachi, LG admit fixing disc drive prices Posted: 09 Nov 2011 07:02 AM PST Joint venture HLDS hit with criminal chargesA Hitachi and LG optical disk-making joint venture has pleaded guilty to 14 counts of violating antitrust law and one count of wire fraud in the US.… |
| iPhones get multi-sim capabilities Posted: 09 Nov 2011 06:59 AM PST Case hardenedApple smartphone owners with a jailbroken handset can benefit from a new case that brings dual-Sim capabilities to the iPhone 4 and iPhone 4S.… |
| Veg rustlers hit with conditional discharge after roadside lineup Posted: 09 Nov 2011 06:51 AM PST Allotment holder spots marrow with distinctive stripeA pair of petty thieves were hit with a conditional discharge after pilfering a load of fruit and veg from allotments in Cambridgeshire.… |
| Immigrants face £49k wage minimum to stay Posted: 09 Nov 2011 06:43 AM PST Poorly paid super boffins welcome thoughOfficials checking immigrants' payslips to decide which skilled workers can settle in the UK may have to choose those with salaries of at least £49k.… |
| UK.gov deputy CIO quits Cabinet Office for EMC job Posted: 09 Nov 2011 06:32 AM PST Bill McCluggage puts self into storageBill McCluggage, the government's deputy CIO, is the latest in a series of senior civil servants who have quit their posts at the Cabinet Office in favour of a private sector job.… |
| How to get the best from your IOPS Posted: 09 Nov 2011 06:16 AM PST Network attached storage and Trevor PottThe number of inputs and outputs per second from your networked storage can dictate the success or failure of your whole architecture. Danny Bradbury interviews systems administrator Trevor Pott and finds out how networked storage can be configured to avoid bottlenecks and maximise performance.… |
| Chell clips Cant to top <i>Play School</i> presenter slot Posted: 09 Nov 2011 06:09 AM PST Cult telly stars chalk up kids show appearancesCan it be true? Yes it is: Brian Cant, the actor who for so many years was viewed as the Play School presenter par exellence did not chalk up the most appearances on the kids programme.… |
| Cheap gas is a 'crisis' for Greens, but not for us Posted: 09 Nov 2011 06:02 AM PST The League of HandicappersAnalysis Energy Minister Christopher Huhne has an opinion piece in the The Daily Telegraph today – and it's really an 800-word explanation of why we need a new Energy Minister. The subject of Huhne's essay is new, cheap gas.… |
| Jobs neck and neck with 'angry people' for <i>Time</i> award Posted: 09 Nov 2011 05:52 AM PST And declared worthy successor to Lenin in Bulgaria...Steve Jobs looks set to go head to head with "angry people" for Time magazine's Person of the Year, if a panel staged by the weekly news magazine yesterday is anything to go by.… |
| Foreign Office loses dozens of PCs and smartphones Posted: 09 Nov 2011 05:42 AM PST It's not like Bond to fumble his equipmentAfter other government departments revealed the number of electrical goods they'd left scattered around the pubs and train seats of the country, the Foreign Office has just coughed up the statistics on how many of its gadgets went missing last year.… |
| Yahoo!, AOL, Microsoft strike ad pact Posted: 09 Nov 2011 05:32 AM PST Three tribes go to war - against Google, FacebookYahoo!, AOL and Microsoft are all struggling to get the most out of their display ad business up against the likes of Google and Facebook. Unsurprisingly then, the three companies have inked advertising deals together.… |
| Steam games forum down amid hack fears Posted: 09 Nov 2011 05:22 AM PST Valve stays silent, users say they've been spammedComputer games outfit Valve has suspended its Steam user forums following unconfirmed reports of a security breach.… |
| 'Puzzling structures on surface' of YU55 spaceball Posted: 09 Nov 2011 05:12 AM PST NASA releases radar vid of speeding cosmic voyagerNASA boffins have released a short video clip of the huge dead-black spaceball YU55, roughly the size of a nuclear aircraft carrier, which barrelled past Earth inside the Moon's orbit last night. They say it shows "puzzling structures" on the surface of the mysterious cosmic spheroid.… |
| It's not the size of your pipe, it's the way you use it Posted: 09 Nov 2011 05:03 AM PST How to manhandle CDN bandwidth like a proWAR on the cloud 6 In part 5, I tuned my site's home/entry page to load faster than Google's, in part because page-load time and general responsiveness are important to retaining users and those "sticky eyeballs".… |
| TV makers ready to test 3D specs' compatibility Posted: 09 Nov 2011 04:55 AM PST All-sets active shutterSome of the world's biggest telly makers are about to begin to certify pairs of active-shutter 3D glasses that will work with their TVs.… |
| Nintendo adds Wii U support for second controller Posted: 09 Nov 2011 04:54 AM PST Tablet for twoNintendo will tweak its forthcoming Wii U console to support two tablet controllers after one wasn't deemed sufficient.… |
| Barclays Capital cuts IT contractor rates by 10% ... again Posted: 09 Nov 2011 04:52 AM PST All the cool investment banks are at itExclusive Barclays Capital has told IT contractors and temp staff that they have to accept a 10 per cent cut in their rates.… |
| 'Angry Bird' netflinger projectile brings down drug ultralights Posted: 09 Nov 2011 04:41 AM PST US airforce boffins battle robot smugglersUS air force boffins have developed a net-flinging weapon dubbed "Angry Bird", for the purpose of bringing down drug-smuggling ultralight aircraft crossing the Mexican border without using lethal force.… |
| Free uni opened for Tech City hipsters Posted: 09 Nov 2011 04:32 AM PST Startup upstarts go back to schoolA free university with hot-desking space for tech startup types is setting up shop in London, joining Google and TechHub in the cluster of technology companies around the East End.… |
| Russian probe engines crap out on way to Mars Posted: 09 Nov 2011 04:21 AM PST Phobos-Grunt stuck in orbit around EarthRussia's fourth attempt to reach Mars has run into trouble and is now stuck in orbit around Earth.… |
| World of Warcraft subscriptions slip Posted: 09 Nov 2011 04:17 AM PST Are MMO games running out of breath?Mass multiplayer online games appear to be in decline, with World of Warcraft subscriptions down ten per cent, titles like Star Trek Online adopting the free-to-play model and the kid-friendly Lego Universe shutting up shop completely.… |
| Calling all banks, insurers and IFAs - do you have an information gap? Posted: 09 Nov 2011 04:13 AM PST What's the state of today? How it likely to change?Tech Panel We have a new study awaiting your input. It's specific to Financial Services, so if you don't have any involvement in that industry then we thank you, and you can skip this one. We'll be in touch again soon.… |
| Marantz NR1602 AV receiver with AirPlay Posted: 09 Nov 2011 04:07 AM PST Slimline 7.1 sound masterReview With the NR1602, Marantz has nuked the traditional AV receiver. The old template of massive amplification is out. In its place is an emphasis on networking prowess and design. The result is arguably the most forward-thinking receiver we'll see all year.… |
| Threesome ends in arrest as wife struck by pair of TVs Posted: 09 Nov 2011 04:01 AM PST Husband 'freaks out' as troika takes sapphic turnA Miami man's attempt to conduct a threesome with his wife and another woman ended in a spell in the cells after he was accused of assaulting his spouse with a brace of TVs.… |
| 'Indestructible' Moto Defy telly ad banned Posted: 09 Nov 2011 03:51 AM PST ASA: "Your phone's tough, but not that tough"Motorola Mobility has been chastised by the Advertising Standards Authority for TV ads that showed the Motorola Defy getting thrown around the place without being damaged.… |
| Paypal emits cash swap tap app for Android Posted: 09 Nov 2011 03:44 AM PST Bung a mate a tenner wirelesslyPayPal has updated its Android client to allow person-to-person transactions by tapping phones together, but without the complexity everyone else is using.… |
| We need to talk about desktop virt Posted: 09 Nov 2011 03:35 AM PST Readers, we want youSometimes we are forced to acknowledge that there is a group of people even more knowledgeable and informed than even Register journalists: you, our beloved readers.… |
| Adobe axes 750 jobs to focus on HTML5, cloud Posted: 09 Nov 2011 03:27 AM PST No more love for Flash on mobilesAdobe has confirmed it is slashing 750 jobs across its enterprise licensing biz and focusing on HTML5 work as part of a restructure to pump up its digital media and marketing software.… |
| Data retention, FOI and the storage budget Posted: 09 Nov 2011 03:16 AM PST Managing the archiveYou the Expert We set you a challenge. How do you resolve the conflicting requirements of data retention rules, the Freedom of Information Act and managing a storage budget?… |
| Posted: 09 Nov 2011 03:00 AM PST Thunar rather than later...GNOME 3 has become something of a polarising moment for the popular Linux desktop. In chasing visions of tablets, touchscreens and the mythical "everyday user", the GNOME 3 Shell has left many Linux power users scratching their heads, wondering why the GNOME developers decided to fix a desktop that wasn't broken.… |
| Kesa shells out £50m to offload Comet Posted: 09 Nov 2011 02:54 AM PST Ailing UK retailer flogged to private equity bizKesa Electricals has coughed £50m to exit its loss-making UK retail arm Comet, with private equity firms Hailey Holdings and Hailey Acquisitions taking on the 248-strong chain.… |
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