Kindle Fire gets root access |
- Kindle Fire gets root access
- Too many cooks spoil the data warehouse broth
- Primus joins AGIMO panel
- BIND security update protects against serious server crash
- IBM pushes BlueGene/Q to 100 petaflops
- Oz cloud outfit wins angel backers
- Microsoft takes fight to Google over cloud apps defections
- Virtualisation: just a lot of extra software licences?
- Amazon's new Kindle Fire stripped naked
- Google 'obstructed' Senate hearing on copyright
- Facebook vows 'consequences' for extreme porn scammers
- Nekkid Tech: The Fab Four
- Huge potentially inhabited water lake found on Jupiter moon
- Sharon Stone greets returning US troops ... with a web vid
- Bethesda promises fix for Skyrim Xbox graphics glitch
- Cloud's new rules promise old-school satisfaction
- Politicians call for Modern Warfare 3 censure
- Boffins discover prehistoric moth's dayglo green warning
- Brandjacked Google+ page slings insults at Bank of America
- Star Wars 3D holo displays becomes a reality
- Just trolling: It's OK to poke fun at Christians, says ASA
- Boffins reckon Mars quite blustery actually
- Army raygun to boost power with starlight de-twinkling tech
- SCC11: LINPACK results released
- Facebook says it's winning against Justin Bieber smut onslaught
- Object storage suppliers: We want your big data
- BT, Fujitsu in final pole dance rehearsals
- IPhone overtakes BlackBerry in the corporate world
- Avere destroys NetApp benchmark after just 13 DAYS
- Equipping pre-teens with web mobes spreads beyond West
- Data Protection Directive revamp: UK looking sidelined?
- Mozilla stirs netizens against US anti-piracy law
- New iPhone and Android mobes secure enough for spooks
- Goldman Sachs slapped over iPad price-cut call
- DOOMSDAY 2012 MEGA VOLCANO 'UNLIKELY' - NASA
- Browser privacy at work: The BOFHs' guide
- Proposed US piracy legislation labelled draconian by Schmidt
- Jobs mulled building own mobile network for iPhones
- Chinese boffin uses panda poo for world's priciest cuppa
- Japanese telco to splurge £2bn a year on LTE
- Acer Aspire S3 Core i7 Ultrabook
- Gov justifies e-petitions as MPs mull upping debate threshold
- Stripper nicked for 'nicking knickers' with kids in tow
- US stealth bombers finally get nuke-nobbling super bomb
- Official: Facebook filth flood nowt to do with Fawkes virus
- Sunderland hires IBM to build cloud infrastructure
- Drama as Thai frogmen struggle to save world PC market
- Thai floods pour cold water on Dell's stiff growth
- <em>Reg</em> man the most-flamed recruiter in the UK?
- Too rude for the road: DVLA hot list of banned numberplates
| Posted: 16 Nov 2011 03:00 PM PST Bug, feature, or 'don't really care'?You'd have to think that Amazon doesn't really care whether people give themselves root access to its e-readers, since the Kindle Fire has been "rooted" two days post-launch.… |
| Too many cooks spoil the data warehouse broth Posted: 16 Nov 2011 03:00 PM PST Cut your staffing costsIn many organisations the costs of data warehousing are expressed on the balance sheet as the hardware, software and administration costs that support the operation.… |
| Posted: 16 Nov 2011 02:30 PM PST Selected for Melb data hosting digsPrimus Australia has secured a spot on the Federal Government's Data Centre Facilities Panel, offering services from its Melbourne based data hosting facilities.… |
| BIND security update protects against serious server crash Posted: 16 Nov 2011 02:17 PM PST Attacks may already be underwayThe Internet Systems Consortium is advising BIND users to update immediately to protect against a bug that may already be under attack to crash vulnerable servers.… |
| IBM pushes BlueGene/Q to 100 petaflops Posted: 16 Nov 2011 01:57 PM PST Weather boffins buy Power 775 super nodesSC11 If all things had gone well and as expected with the IBM "Blue Waters" contract with the National Center for Supercomputing Applications at the University of Illinois, the Power 775 supercomputer nodes and their homegrown networking infrastructure would have been the big event at the SC11 supercomputer conference in Seattle this week.… |
| Oz cloud outfit wins angel backers Posted: 16 Nov 2011 01:33 PM PST Baxter and Bell take on the cloudAustralia's burgeoning cloud investment has had another top-up with OrionVM getting angel dollars from two technology heavyweights. PIPE networks co-founder Stephen Baxter and micro-computing architect Gordon Bell have tipped in an undisclosed investment in the company and will providing mentoring guidance.… |
| Microsoft takes fight to Google over cloud apps defections Posted: 16 Nov 2011 12:27 PM PST Redmond strike team offering big bounties and moreMicrosoft is so riled up over Google Apps that it has a team called Google Compete offering major inducements to convince customers to stay with Office, according to defectors and the search company itself.… |
| Virtualisation: just a lot of extra software licences? Posted: 16 Nov 2011 11:31 AM PST Counting the costA colleague of mine recently remarked that x86 virtualisation makes no sense to any organisation that is cost conscious.… |
| Amazon's new Kindle Fire stripped naked Posted: 16 Nov 2011 11:03 AM PST Divining the entrails of the low-cost iPad competitorAmazon's Kindle Fire – arguably the most-anticipated fondleslab since Apple's iPad – was relaesed on Tuesday, and already the techno-haruspicationists at iFixit have torn one apart and examined its entrails.… |
| Google 'obstructed' Senate hearing on copyright Posted: 16 Nov 2011 11:01 AM PST See no evil, do no evilGoogle "obstructed" a bipartisan congressional committee into copyright, claimed Lamar Smith, the head of the House Judiciary Committee in hearings today.… |
| Facebook vows 'consequences' for extreme porn scammers Posted: 16 Nov 2011 10:52 AM PST Responsible parties already identifiedUpdated Facebook officials have tracked down the scammers responsible for deluging the social network with images depicting bestiality, self-mutilation and other depravity and is vowing to seek swift justice.… |
| Posted: 16 Nov 2011 10:23 AM PST Watching porn on an iPadPodcast So we used to run episodes of Infosmack, an enterprise storage podcast, on The Reg. But then the founders went their own ways - creative differences or something - and we went ours.… |
| Huge potentially inhabited water lake found on Jupiter moon Posted: 16 Nov 2011 10:00 AM PST Europa ice-cap now best known prospect for alien lifeIn major extra-terrestrial news, scientists have announced the first discovery of at least one huge body of liquid water beyond planet Earth, offering confirmation at last of a potential offworld habitat for alien life.… |
| Sharon Stone greets returning US troops ... with a web vid Posted: 16 Nov 2011 09:19 AM PST Not the most welcoming she's ever looked on screenA wave of frenzy failed to greet Hollywood star Sharon Stone when she officially welcomed home US troops from serving duty in Iraq and Afghanistan today - with a video posted on Facebook.… |
| Bethesda promises fix for Skyrim Xbox graphics glitch Posted: 16 Nov 2011 09:06 AM PST Multi-platform patches comingGames developer Bethesda insists it will address all reported bugs in Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim through a patch for all platforms.… |
| Cloud's new rules promise old-school satisfaction Posted: 16 Nov 2011 08:41 AM PST Common ground for IT groupsOpen... and Shut Cloud computing is big business, in part because companies are happy to shell out lots of cash to buy themselves time and development flexibility.… |
| Politicians call for Modern Warfare 3 censure Posted: 16 Nov 2011 08:36 AM PST Will no one think of the children (who shouldn't be playing it anyway)?Four MPs have tabled a motion calling of Parliament to express "deep concern" about how videogame Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 allows players to "engage in gratuitous acts of violence against members of the public".… |
| Boffins discover prehistoric moth's dayglo green warning Posted: 16 Nov 2011 08:19 AM PST You eat me, I'll kill you...Boffins have reconstructed how a 47-million-year-old moth fossil looked while alive: a psychedelically-coloured insect whose wings both camouflaged it and warned away predators.… |
| Brandjacked Google+ page slings insults at Bank of America Posted: 16 Nov 2011 08:01 AM PST Who really occupies identity street?America's biggest banking institution had its brand dragged through Web2.0rhea, after an imposter pretended to be the Bank of America on a newly-created and quickly deleted Google+ page.… |
| Star Wars 3D holo displays becomes a reality Posted: 16 Nov 2011 07:55 AM PST Obi-Wan Kenobi, you're my only hopeBoffins are one step closer to making R2-D2's holographic projector tech a reality, through a 3D display which makes images appear in mid-air with a rapidly moving laser beam.… |
| Just trolling: It's OK to poke fun at Christians, says ASA Posted: 16 Nov 2011 07:44 AM PST Film ad claimed monsters can smell God botherer bloodThe fact that trolls can smell Christian blood is well-known, the Advertising Standards Agency (ASA) has ruled, and a reference to it in a fake job advert used to promote a film was unlikely to cause widespread offence, it said today.… |
| Boffins reckon Mars quite blustery actually Posted: 16 Nov 2011 07:21 AM PST Shifting sand dunes caused by wind, not carbon dioxide frostA new geophysical study of Mars' sand dunes has claimed that the Red Planet may be a windy place after all, despite the evidence of previous experiments.… |
| Army raygun to boost power with starlight de-twinkling tech Posted: 16 Nov 2011 07:07 AM PST Cool astronomer tool to make laser blasts extra hotThe US Army, in the process of building an enormous raygun on a lorry, has decided that it will enhance its laser cannon of the future by the use of adaptive optics - a crafty technology employed in telescopes by astronomers to eliminate the effects of the atmosphere on starlight.… |
| SCC11: LINPACK results released Posted: 16 Nov 2011 06:52 AM PST Shocker in Seattle, Longshot comes throughThe results from the LINPACK portion of the Student Cluster Competition in Seattle have been released.… |
| Facebook says it's winning against Justin Bieber smut onslaught Posted: 16 Nov 2011 06:51 AM PST Scrubs punters' walls clean of bogus celeb pornFacebook said it is well on the way to cleaning up a noxious slurry of porn and pictures of dead animals left by a spam campaign that targeted users' walls this week.… |
| Object storage suppliers: We want your big data Posted: 16 Nov 2011 06:41 AM PST Claim to be fast and cheapAs the general big data trend gathers momentum, the various object storage suppliers are trumpeting their technology's advantages over file systems, saying they can store and protect vast volumes of data more efficiently and with faster access.… |
| BT, Fujitsu in final pole dance rehearsals Posted: 16 Nov 2011 06:31 AM PST Pair get ducts in a row for infrastructure sharingBT is still ironing out "points of detail" with Fujitsu over the national telco's pricing and product development plans to open up its duct and pole infrastructure (PIA).… |
| IPhone overtakes BlackBerry in the corporate world Posted: 16 Nov 2011 06:23 AM PST Mobile workers would be 'distraught' without handsetsMobile workers are giving up almost an hour every working day in sleep and exercise time, thanks to being able to work on the mobile devices which almost half of them had to pay for.… |
| Avere destroys NetApp benchmark after just 13 DAYS Posted: 16 Nov 2011 06:14 AM PST Rival plots SPECsfs2008 paybackWell, that didn't last long: just 13 days. Filer accelerator Avere has shown it has real teeth by sinking them into NetApp's ankles and pulling it off the top of the SPECsfs2008 NFS benchmark hill by achieving a new record SPECsfs2008 score.… |
| Equipping pre-teens with web mobes spreads beyond West Posted: 16 Nov 2011 06:01 AM PST Four in five eight-year-olds tote mobiles in CairoEgyptian parents are most eager to connect their children, with four out of five furnishing their eight-year-old children with mobiles, but the rest of the world isn't far behind.… |
| Data Protection Directive revamp: UK looking sidelined? Posted: 16 Nov 2011 05:49 AM PST Economic protectionism could mean more than privacyOpinion The EU Justice Commissioner Viviane Reding, Vice-President of the European Commission, and the German Federal Minister for Consumer Protection, Ilse Aigner, have come forward with a joint statement claiming that proposals to reform the 1995 Data Protection Directive will be published by the end of January 2012.… |
| Mozilla stirs netizens against US anti-piracy law Posted: 16 Nov 2011 05:41 AM PST Dancing cats take-down threatMozilla is rallying netizens to take action against the proposed Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA), otherwise known as the internet blacklist legislation.… |
| New iPhone and Android mobes secure enough for spooks Posted: 16 Nov 2011 05:32 AM PST Platforms to get some serious security packages to rival BlackBerryFeds and spooks will shortly be able to use iPads and Androids for government business, as new software aims to seal and protect leaky open Android and iPhone platforms.… |
| Goldman Sachs slapped over iPad price-cut call Posted: 16 Nov 2011 05:21 AM PST Investment banker talking 'absolute nonsense'Apple is unlikely to slash the price of its fondleslab this Christmas as margins are too low, despite a warning from Goldman Sachs that the premium is out of kilter with hard-pressed consumers and sales could suffer this Xmas.… |
| DOOMSDAY 2012 MEGA VOLCANO 'UNLIKELY' - NASA Posted: 16 Nov 2011 05:09 AM PST 'There's no way to be sure though'US space agency NASA, in its self-appointed role as 2012 apocalypse denier to the world, has issued another statement regarding a terrifying catastrophe which in its opinion will not befall the Earth and the human race.… |
| Browser privacy at work: The BOFHs' guide Posted: 16 Nov 2011 05:00 AM PST Surviving the fall of the Windows hegemonyPart 3 Enterprise browser usage is a messy subject. The enterprise is not what it once was; the days of the homogenous Windows empire are past. Not only are alternative operating systems like Apple's OS X gaining traction in the enterprise, but the desktop is no longer a browser administrator's only concern.… |
| Proposed US piracy legislation labelled draconian by Schmidt Posted: 16 Nov 2011 04:51 AM PST 'Laws hit our bottom line! And besides, it's censorship'...Google chairman Eric Schmidt has lambasted the US government's attempts to stop online piracy, saying the proposed new laws are "draconian".… |
| Jobs mulled building own mobile network for iPhones Posted: 16 Nov 2011 04:39 AM PST World's most famous control freak wanted to bypass telcosTelecoms execs will be shifting nervously in their seats today as news filters out of a near miss for their business models.… |
| Chinese boffin uses panda poo for world's priciest cuppa Posted: 16 Nov 2011 04:31 AM PST Mmm, a truly extinctive aroma....A Chinese biologist has collected five tons of panda crap which he plans to use to make cancer-fighting tea, which will sell at a cup-dropping $36,000 a pound.… |
| Japanese telco to splurge £2bn a year on LTE Posted: 16 Nov 2011 04:21 AM PST NTT Docomo to roll out network and mobiles by 2015Japan's largest mobile phone operator plans to spend a total of 880bn yen (£7.26bn) to rollout its LTE network and launch LTE-enabled phones.… |
| Acer Aspire S3 Core i7 Ultrabook Posted: 16 Nov 2011 04:16 AM PST First among equals?Review The Acer Aspire S3 is a major new entrant to the emerging market for 'ultraportables' – ultra-thin but powerful notebook PCs with reduced components to keep the space and weight to a minimum. It won't suit everyone, but if you like the idea of a portable Windows computer than can be carried in one hand or tucked under your armpit rather than lugged around in a shoulder bag, the S3 is a delight.… |
| Gov justifies e-petitions as MPs mull upping debate threshold Posted: 16 Nov 2011 04:11 AM PST 100,000 online votes too small a barrier to crossThe Coalition government's e-petitions website has been defended by the team working on the Cabinet Office's digital-by-default agenda, after politicos considered upping the 100,000-votes-to-get-it-debated-in-the-Commons threshold.… |
| Stripper nicked for 'nicking knickers' with kids in tow Posted: 16 Nov 2011 04:02 AM PST 'I can't believe this is happening ... again'A Florida stripper faces shoplifting and child cruelty charges after allegedly topping up her lingerie drawer for free with her kids in tow.… |
| US stealth bombers finally get nuke-nobbling super bomb Posted: 16 Nov 2011 03:51 AM PST 15-ton steel pencil ready to spike underground factoriesLong-delayed plans to equip American stealth bombers with super-heavy penetrator bombs – similar to those employed by British bombers against hardened Nazi targets in WWII – have finally been completed, offering the US a possibly timely option to destroy deeply buried nuclear weapons factories.… |
| Official: Facebook filth flood nowt to do with Fawkes virus Posted: 16 Nov 2011 03:41 AM PST Ordinary indecent criminalsFacebook has blamed a scam that tricks users into pasting rogue code into their browsers for the sudden torrent of filth in users' walls.… |
| Sunderland hires IBM to build cloud infrastructure Posted: 16 Nov 2011 03:29 AM PST Part of its 'economic masterplan' for digital dominationThe UK city of Sunderland is continuing its bid to be the most digitally connected in the country with a cloud computing platform for its city council.… |
| Drama as Thai frogmen struggle to save world PC market Posted: 16 Nov 2011 03:19 AM PST Elite navy divers sent in to salvage flood-hit disk fabsThe Thai government has dispatched a crack squad of navy divers in a bid to glean WD factory equipment currently lost below metres of flood water.… |
| Thai floods pour cold water on Dell's stiff growth Posted: 16 Nov 2011 03:09 AM PST Enterprise, beam us up!Dell practically wrote off any chances for meaningful top line growth this year, blaming the uncertain global economy and the disk drive drought crisis.… |
| <em>Reg</em> man the most-flamed recruiter in the UK? Posted: 16 Nov 2011 03:00 AM PST Dom Connor IS 'the unemployment problem', readers declareFoTW Last week's article by Dominic Connor on how some techies really, really need some help with their CVs hit a number of nerves.… |
| Too rude for the road: DVLA hot list of banned numberplates Posted: 16 Nov 2011 02:50 AM PST What idiot would buy PE12 VRT anyway?The Register has obtained a list of the rudest words you'll never see on car number plates: the official list of banned registration marks from the Drivers and Vehicles Licensing Authority (DVLA).… |
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