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- Google mum on AdSense payments failure fix
- Feds back down from legalizing government lies
- CIA 'Open Source Center' monitors Facebook, Twitter
- German web site offers custom cow killing
- Manufacturers testing wider cars for swingbellies
- Siri gets over her huff, returns useful as ever
- Profiteers cash in on Steve Jobs' signature glasses
- Boffinry summit names 3 new elements
- Watchdog urged to probe Microsoft's cloud claims... again
- Hackers mistake French rugby site for German stock exchange
- Disk-over-Ethernet startup trousers another $50m
- HSBC UK systems major outage
- Acer to murder Gateway brand
- Modern Warfare 3 flogged on eBay for a grand
- Linux Foundation: Will it be your friend or foe?
- Music biz presses BT to block The Pirate Bay
- Groupon shares soar, adds $2.7bn in two hours
- EU: Check out our huge JavaScript appendage
- Gov reduces e-petitions to public spleen-venting exercise
- UK.gov digital boss defends ID assurance scheme
- Scale-out virgin Fujitsu pushes out high-performing tool
- Massive PC shortages to hit this Xmas
- Vatican mulls God particle, calls for appointment of antichrist
- The Beeb is broken
- LinkedIn whips out begging cap, asks for $500m
- Whinging Brits reflect on epic Oz road trip
- EU to quiz Apple and Samsung on Frand deals
- Alien city lights could be detected across interstellar space
- Are we in the middle of a PATENT BUBBLE?
- The Great Smartphone OS Shoot-out
- Phone-hack scandal: Bloke cuffed in cop bung probe
- Martian simnauts emerge from spaceship outside Moscow
- Pay-by-mobe app spells doom for impulse buyers
- PlayStation Network downloads limited to two devices
- Pass the remote control: vPro eases systems management
- Samsung Galaxy Note and Nexus rooted
- China outraged by US cyberspying fingering
- Groupon snatches a great deal ... on itself
- Duke Nukem Forever dev slams unfair reviews
- <i>El Reg</i> premieres <i>PARIS: The Motion Picture</i>
- Nokia CEO talks up Windows 8 tablet 'opportunity'
- 'OH WOW. OH WOW. OH WOW'
- Facebook denies malware risk from message bug
- Kids! You get back in front of that Xbox <i>right now</i>
- Amazon rethinks Kindle Fire 2 screen size
- Belkin Chef Stand and Stylus for tablets
- Cyberspace conference: All talk and no action
- Ofcom proposes new rules on advertising deals
- Peat bogs will not cause runaway global warming
- Square pushes pay-by-facial recognition
| Google mum on AdSense payments failure fix Posted: 04 Nov 2011 03:19 PM PDT Web publishers facing tough time aheadSome web publishers are facing financial stress as Google's AdSense platform has been withholding payments for advertising, in some cases since the September fees were due.… |
| Feds back down from legalizing government lies Posted: 04 Nov 2011 01:28 PM PDT Freedom of information act rescued by powerful RepublicanThe US Department of Justice has dropped a controversial proposed ruling that would have allowed them to say that records don't exist when, in fact, they do – a response that in the vernacular might simply be called lying.… |
| CIA 'Open Source Center' monitors Facebook, Twitter Posted: 04 Nov 2011 12:29 PM PDT And anything else that anyone can contribute to openlyThe CIA has opened the kimono on its Virginia-based Open Source Center, where a team known as the "vengeful librarians" pore over Facebook, Twitter, internet chat rooms, and any other overseas forum that anyone can access and contribute to openly, the Associated Press reports.… |
| German web site offers custom cow killing Posted: 04 Nov 2011 11:28 AM PDT Abattoir or field killed, sir?A German web site is offering beef buyers a variety of options on how they would like their ruminant reduced to ribs.… |
| Manufacturers testing wider cars for swingbellies Posted: 04 Nov 2011 11:27 AM PDT Broad in the beam? Get a BeemerLuxury car makers BMW and Porsche are trialling extra wide cars in order to cater for the growing backsides of their customers.… |
| Siri gets over her huff, returns useful as ever Posted: 04 Nov 2011 11:02 AM PDT OK, I will open the pod-bay doorsApple's vocal mistress Siri had a brief time-out yesterday when the cloud-based service dispersed, leaving iPhone users to prod their screens like everyone else.… |
| Profiteers cash in on Steve Jobs' signature glasses Posted: 04 Nov 2011 10:59 AM PDT Saintly relics fly off store shelvesIn the latest example of the tsunami of adulation that has followed Steve Jobs' untimely death – and the latest reminder that there's a dollar to be made from every tragedy – the eyeglasses worn by the Apple cofounder on the cover of Walter Isaacson's biography are flying off store shelves.… |
| Boffinry summit names 3 new elements Posted: 04 Nov 2011 10:31 AM PDT Ununnilium, unununium and ununbium get official monikersBoffinry chiefs meeting in London are chuffed to announce the official naming of three new elements on the periodic table.… |
| Watchdog urged to probe Microsoft's cloud claims... again Posted: 04 Nov 2011 10:01 AM PDT Why don't you have another crack at it, ASA?The Advertising Standards Authority has been asked to reopen an investigation into Microsoft's boasts of 99.9 per cent uptime for its cloud services.… |
| Hackers mistake French rugby site for German stock exchange Posted: 04 Nov 2011 09:44 AM PDT Fans tackled by 'young, spotty Teuton' gangHacktivists mistakenly attacked a French rugby fansite instead of their intended target, the German stock exchange.… |
| Disk-over-Ethernet startup trousers another $50m Posted: 04 Nov 2011 09:31 AM PDT VCs pump more dosh into CoraidA year after snagging $25m in venture capital funding Coraid has gone back to the cash well and scooped up another $50m. The VCs think Coraid is going places.… |
| Posted: 04 Nov 2011 09:22 AM PDT Customers can't use cards, online banking or ATMsAn outage in HSBC systems has taken down their online banking services and affected the functioning of their cards at both ATMs and points-of-sale.… |
| Posted: 04 Nov 2011 09:14 AM PDT Kit re-badged as Acer Business in new yearAcer is to kill off the Gateway branding on all its server and storage kit from Q1 2012, partially purging its multi-brand strategy.… |
| Modern Warfare 3 flogged on eBay for a grand Posted: 04 Nov 2011 09:06 AM PDT Get rich and try dyingCopies of Activision's forthcoming FPS Modern Warfare 3 have been selling on eBay for staggering prices, with one auction ending yesterday at $1725.… |
| Linux Foundation: Will it be your friend or foe? Posted: 04 Nov 2011 09:02 AM PDT Stepping on toes in pursuit of gloryOpen ... And Shut The more the Linux Foundation broadens its mandate beyond its core mission of "fostering the growth of Linux", the more it risks stepping on the toes of its most ardent supporters.… |
| Music biz presses BT to block The Pirate Bay Posted: 04 Nov 2011 08:42 AM PDT Chuck it in the Newzbin2, er, pleaseBT has been asked by music industry outfit BPI to voluntarily block BitTorrent tracker website The Pirate Bay.… |
| Groupon shares soar, adds $2.7bn in two hours Posted: 04 Nov 2011 08:26 AM PDT Price shoots up faster than bosses' champers corkGroupon's share price shot up almost 40 per cent in its first two hours of trading today.… |
| EU: Check out our huge JavaScript appendage Posted: 04 Nov 2011 08:19 AM PDT Views sought on version 1 of €10m extensionThe EU's effort to extend JavaScript has hit version 1, and is asking for community comments on the effort to create (another) set of extensions to take JavaScript into the mainstream.… |
| Gov reduces e-petitions to public spleen-venting exercise Posted: 04 Nov 2011 08:03 AM PDT Just a way of gauging public's moodMPs don't have time to debate the public's e-petitions, a senior minister said yesterday in Parliament, adding nonetheless that it was a nice way for people to express what they was interested in.… |
| UK.gov digital boss defends ID assurance scheme Posted: 04 Nov 2011 07:45 AM PDT 'Days of different logins for every site are numbered'The Cabinet Office's newly installed digital captain has robustly defended the department's plans to beef up an identity assurance scheme with the help of banks and internet companies.… |
| Scale-out virgin Fujitsu pushes out high-performing tool Posted: 04 Nov 2011 07:29 AM PDT Terabyte per second throughput: Out-scales SONASSNW Europe The scale-out file computing world has a new player: Fujitsu. The company has just pushed out its FEFS product in Japan.… |
| Massive PC shortages to hit this Xmas Posted: 04 Nov 2011 07:13 AM PDT Flooded disk drive fabs flush Santa's sackPC shortages will likely dampen retail sales this Christmas as a result of the shortfall in hard drive production caused by killer flooding in Thailand.… |
| Vatican mulls God particle, calls for appointment of antichrist Posted: 04 Nov 2011 06:58 AM PDT US bloggers spot apocalyptical ruseThe Vatican hosted a conference of physicists and other boffins this week amid claims that its recent musings on the financial crisis constitute a call for the appointment of the long-awaited antichrist.… |
| Posted: 04 Nov 2011 06:51 AM PDT 'Technical difficulties' for outage-hit AuntieThe BBC homepage is on an outage at the moment, with visitors greeted with a stripped down version of the normal site.… |
| LinkedIn whips out begging cap, asks for $500m Posted: 04 Nov 2011 06:43 AM PDT Please, sir, can I have some more?LinkedIn is looking for a few million dollars more from the market so it can increase its capital and its public float.… |
| Whinging Brits reflect on epic Oz road trip Posted: 04 Nov 2011 06:29 AM PDT El Reg hacks versus the mighty OutbackEl Reg's Special Projects Bureau has just about recovered from its epic Oz roadtrip in pursuit of the World Solar Challenge competitors, and we though we'd share a few thoughts on our Outback odyssey.… |
| EU to quiz Apple and Samsung on Frand deals Posted: 04 Nov 2011 06:14 AM PDT Some discrimination is more reasonable than other kindsThe EU is chasing up Samsung, and Apple, for details of the Frand licensing dispute, so make sure everyone is playing in a fair, reasonable and non-discriminatory (FRAND) fashion.… |
| Alien city lights could be detected across interstellar space Posted: 04 Nov 2011 06:08 AM PDT ET hiveplexes easier to pick up than their TV signalsTop boffins in the US say that it should be possible to detect alien civilisations on planets orbiting other stars by looking for the light of their cities standing out at night.… |
| Are we in the middle of a PATENT BUBBLE? Posted: 04 Nov 2011 05:58 AM PDT Fallout from the IP wars could mutate your smartphoneAnalysis For some time, the only reason the word 'patent' meant anything to the average Joe was if they happened to know that Albert Einstein was a patent clerk before he became a rock star physicist.… |
| The Great Smartphone OS Shoot-out Posted: 04 Nov 2011 05:48 AM PDT Android vs iOS vs Windows Phone vs BlackBerryReview If you want a smartphone - and, let's face it, most people do these days - you have four choices, all of which have recently been updated.… |
| Phone-hack scandal: Bloke cuffed in cop bung probe Posted: 04 Nov 2011 05:43 AM PDT 48-year-old held by Operation Elveden squadA 48-year-old man was arrested at an address outside London this morning by Scotland Yard officers in connection with allegations of "inappropriate payments to police".… |
| Martian simnauts emerge from spaceship outside Moscow Posted: 04 Nov 2011 05:33 AM PDT 520-day red planet odyssey complete at lastSix men who have spent the last 520 days sealed up inside a mock spacecraft outside Moscow simulating a mission to Mars have finally completed their task and emerged once more.… |
| Pay-by-mobe app spells doom for impulse buyers Posted: 04 Nov 2011 05:14 AM PDT So many ways to instantly pay, so little moneySimply Tap, the Dunstone-backed mobile payments system, is now live in the UK, allowing shoppers to buy a phone using their, er, phone in Carphone Warehouse stores.… |
| PlayStation Network downloads limited to two devices Posted: 04 Nov 2011 05:03 AM PDT Activation restraintsSony announced today that future games purchased on the PlayStation Network will only be granted activation on two devices at any one time - down from the current number of five.… |
| Pass the remote control: vPro eases systems management Posted: 04 Nov 2011 05:03 AM PDT Power at your fingertipsDesktop management is big money. It's a critical topic for any size business seeking to optimise its IT. The right combination of software and hardware results in very impressive desktop management capabilities.… |
| Samsung Galaxy Note and Nexus rooted Posted: 04 Nov 2011 04:59 AM PDT Gain more control of your Android kitSamsung's 5.3in smartphone-cum-tablet, the Galaxy Note, has been rooted. So has its Android 4.0-based Galaxy Nexus handset.… |
| China outraged by US cyberspying fingering Posted: 04 Nov 2011 04:46 AM PDT 'Well, I never!' – indignant Chinese officialChina is none too impressed with being fingered by the US as a major source of cyber espionage.… |
| Groupon snatches a great deal ... on itself Posted: 04 Nov 2011 04:29 AM PDT Coupon site shares jump $2, valued at $13bn in IPOGroupon's IPO has gone better than expected, with shares selling $2 above the expected top price, valuing the company at almost $13bn.… |
| Duke Nukem Forever dev slams unfair reviews Posted: 04 Nov 2011 04:13 AM PDT Panned game up there with Half-Life, apparentlyDeveloper Gearbox this week said Duke Nukem Forever was reviewed unfairly, with co-founder Brian Martel comparing the Duke's return to the classic Half-Life.… |
| <i>El Reg</i> premieres <i>PARIS: The Motion Picture</i> Posted: 04 Nov 2011 04:03 AM PDT Hot commemorative vid marks spaceplane anniversaryLast week marked the anniversary of our Paper Aircraft Released Into Space (PARIS) triumph, and we decided to mark the occasion by offering our beloved readers a short commemorative video of the audacious spaceplane project.… |
| Nokia CEO talks up Windows 8 tablet 'opportunity' Posted: 04 Nov 2011 03:58 AM PDT Fresh fondleslab in the works?Is Nokia reconsidering the release of a tablet? Comments from CEO Stephen Elop suggest the Finnish phone giant might well be.… |
| Posted: 04 Nov 2011 03:42 AM PDT Plus: Nude woman in a dead horseQuotW Given that the week started with Halloween, it was perhaps appropriate that the weird and wonderful was prevalent. In honour of All Hallow's Eve, a tech geek transformed his fruity fondleslabs into an, erm, interesting costume. A Berkeley boffin argued that because of Einstein's most famous equation E=MC², ebook readers get heavier every time you add a book (microscopically of course) and boffins over at CERN were busily trying to figure out if Einstein was wrong about that whole speed of light thing.… |
| Facebook denies malware risk from message bug Posted: 04 Nov 2011 03:32 AM PDT Fixes security bypass flaw anywayFacebook has fixed a flaw that may have allowed users to attach executables to messages sent to other punters on the social network.… |
| Kids! You get back in front of that Xbox <i>right now</i> Posted: 04 Nov 2011 03:16 AM PDT Playing videogames makes kids more creativePositive news for gamers, and their parents. Hours in front of the glowing box hammering zombies as a youngster can make you more creative.… |
| Amazon rethinks Kindle Fire 2 screen size Posted: 04 Nov 2011 03:02 AM PDT Bigger? Smaller? Who knows - do them allAmazon has yet to release the Kindle Fire, its 7in Android-based tablet e-book reader, but it's already being claimed that the firm has chnaged its mind about the Fire 2.… |
| Belkin Chef Stand and Stylus for tablets Posted: 04 Nov 2011 03:00 AM PDT Keep your screen clean when you cookAccessory of the Week I've been experimenting with Jamie Oliver's Recipes app recently, and it occurred to me that an iPad stand would come in handy when I'm fondling his dumplings in the kitchen - they go very well with his beef and Guinness stew.… |
| Cyberspace conference: All talk and no action Posted: 04 Nov 2011 02:50 AM PDT Let's talk about the possibility of talking about what to doLCC comment On the first day of the London Conference on Cyberspace (LCC), an optimistic delegate stood up and prefaced his question to the panel with congratulations on the first steps in what he was sure would become known as "The London Cyber Process".… |
| Ofcom proposes new rules on advertising deals Posted: 04 Nov 2011 02:32 AM PDT Only due discrimination will be kosher. Take heed!Ofcom said it was laying out the proposed new rules as required of it under the UK's Communications Act. Under the Act, Ofcom must set out a code of practice that sets standards on "the content of programmes to be included in television and radio services" that ensure that "there is no undue discrimination between advertisers who seek to have advertisements included in television and radio services".… |
| Peat bogs will not cause runaway global warming Posted: 04 Nov 2011 02:12 AM PDT Trials debunk positive feedback fearsOK, so the world has warmed up a bit since 1950. This is terrible, because it means that the huge amounts of carbon stored in peat bogs will now start to be emitted into the atmosphere, which will cause more warming, which will release more peaty carbon and so on until all the Earth is a baking lifeless hell.… |
| Square pushes pay-by-facial recognition Posted: 04 Nov 2011 02:04 AM PDT For when NFC is just too secureWeb 2.0 darling Square is promising to make everyone a regular by promoting pay-by-face: just smile and ask to have your purchase put onto your bill with no authentication required.… |
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