Parallel import argument turns toxic in Oz |
- Parallel import argument turns toxic in Oz
- Attachmate checks into Melbourne for regional HQ
- Oz Post taps telco luminary for new strategy
- Cracked emails again deployed against climate researchers
- Engineers seek funds for world’s largest Tesla coil
- Google mail crypto tweak makes eavesdropping harder
- Amazon set to build Aus data centre
- HP to forge x86 Integrity and Superdome servers
- Apple sucks porn domain names from Israelis
- Convirture revs up cloudy control freak
- Groupon offer burns cupcake baker’s profits
- Despite Android lead, iOS devs slurp scads more mazuma
- Cray takes Oak Ridge super to Titan
- US broadcasters team up to make Facebook for TV
- Pure Storage attacks EMC heartland
- Samsung strokes big bulb that'll keep going for decades
- Nuclear power will let NASA Mars rover beat 1970s Soviet record
- EU: Apple-Samsung row could be stifling competition
- Microsoft pockets VideoSurf to create big search waves
- Penguin pulls its eBooks off library shelves
- MS and Samsung tout interactive table
- 'Nervous' London bankers run mock cyberattack exercise
- Cutting-edge Mirasol display finally comes to e-reader
- World population's appetite TO DOUBLE by 2050, boffin warns
- Council <i>not</i> fined after 7,200 sensitive files dumped in skip
- Samsung jumps into bed with Google TV
- SCC11: final results banquet, winners feted
- The top five spam subjects sullying inboxes
- Got a few minutes to help LOHAN suck?
- Cyber-cop Trojan used iTunes flaw to spy on crims
- The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword
- Solar-powered data centre won't get IBM very far...
- Russian Mars probe heads into space WITHOUT ENGINES
- Acer eyes 'untapped' rural China as West snaps purse shut
- Poll: One in six interrupt bonking to answer mobile
- Russian diplomat caught driving while 15 TIMES over booze limit
- Facebook phone rises from the dead, again
- When geeks turn Green: Performance tune your energy bills
- Netflix raises $400m to steady its global expansion
- Superhero oil-burping algae will save the world
- Gates: Novell are sore losers, Word trounced WordPerfect
- Ten... Monster tellies
- UK nuclear: Walking into darkness with eyes screwed shut
- Market watcher ayes claim iPad 3 to sport 1536 x 2048 screen
- Hideous orchid that just wants a one-night stand found
- Nimble Storage gets a little clustered
- No Xbox Live hack say insiders
- Facebook 'shrinks' six degrees of separation theory
- Amazon's Android-friendly Kindle Fire splutters
- Boffins one step closer to <i>Terminator</i> vision
| Parallel import argument turns toxic in Oz Posted: 22 Nov 2011 03:00 PM PST Canon, Nikon in JB HiFi hissy fitVendors vs consumers With retailers in Australia getting shafted by vendors and consumers alike, it's hardly surprising that the "Iron Curtain" of channel control is starting to fall.… |
| Attachmate checks into Melbourne for regional HQ Posted: 22 Nov 2011 02:30 PM PST Hires 40 ground staffThe Attachmate Group, the new owner of Novell, has selected South Yarra in Melbourne as it Asia Pacific headquarters.… |
| Oz Post taps telco luminary for new strategy Posted: 22 Nov 2011 02:00 PM PST Your mobile's in the mailWhen Australia Post tapped former banker Ahmed Fahour as its CEO, speculation ran riot that the government-owned enterprise would head into retail banking. Now, it's added a high-profile telco executive to its ranks, with Optus' current head of regulatory affairs, Maha Krishnapillai, to join Aus Post in January.… |
| Cracked emails again deployed against climate researchers Posted: 22 Nov 2011 01:45 PM PST Taking the whip to the dead Climategate horseMore University of East Anglia emails from the "Climategate" era have been posted online ahead of the upcoming Durban climate talks.… |
| Engineers seek funds for world’s largest Tesla coil Posted: 22 Nov 2011 01:31 PM PST Ten stories of electromagnetic goodnessA team of engineers is seeking $348,000 in funding on Kickstarter to build the world's largest Tesla coils, capable of spitting artificial lightning for hundreds of feet.… |
| Google mail crypto tweak makes eavesdropping harder Posted: 22 Nov 2011 01:31 PM PST 'Forward secrecy' protects data for the long termGoogle engineers have enhanced the encryption offered in Gmail, Google Docs, and other services to protect users against retroactive attacks that allow hackers to decrypt communications months or years after they were sent.… |
| Amazon set to build Aus data centre Posted: 22 Nov 2011 01:30 PM PST Hiring staff but still quiet on plansAmazon is ramping up its activity down under, confirming that it is investing in an Australian data centre via a job advertisement.… |
| HP to forge x86 Integrity and Superdome servers Posted: 22 Nov 2011 01:11 PM PST HP-UX Unix not making the x86 OdysseyHP will forge Integrity and Superdome machines based on Intel's Xeon processors in addition to the Itanium machines it currently is selling, and plans to upgrade through at least two more processor generations.… |
| Apple sucks porn domain names from Israelis Posted: 22 Nov 2011 12:22 PM PST 'iphonexxxforce.com' forced to come cleanApple has succeeded in prying loose a gaggle of iPhone-related domain names that were being used by a porn purveyor to redirect to its digital rumpy-pumpy wares.… |
| Convirture revs up cloudy control freak Posted: 22 Nov 2011 11:52 AM PST Spanning more OSes and cloudsConvirture is revving up its ConVirt family of server virtualization and cloud management tools to the 3.0.1 level, supporting more operating systems and public clouds, and also including a free trial of its Enterprise Cloud edition.… |
| Groupon offer burns cupcake baker’s profits Posted: 22 Nov 2011 10:58 AM PST Be careful what you wish forA British baker has seen her entire annual profits wiped out after a Groupon deal went horribly awry.… |
| Despite Android lead, iOS devs slurp scads more mazuma Posted: 22 Nov 2011 10:46 AM PST iPhone, iPad devs laughing all the way to the bankIf you're a developer who wants the largest target market for your smartphone and tablet apps, write for Android devices. But if you want to make money, write for the iPhone and iPad.… |
| Cray takes Oak Ridge super to Titan Posted: 22 Nov 2011 10:00 AM PST Biggest computer upgrade – everPeg Williams, Cray SVP of High Performance Computing, is working on the biggest computer upgrade in history – transforming the 200-cabinet, 42,000-processor Oak Ridge Jaguar supercomputer into its new Titan form.… |
| US broadcasters team up to make Facebook for TV Posted: 22 Nov 2011 09:21 AM PST Hey, TV is like orgasms - not something you do soloSomething big is cooking in portable TV in the US. It's possibly the equivalent of a Hulu (in that it is owned by content owners), but from a group of broadcasters who have already identified themselves as being behind the ATSC M/H Mobile DTV services: but this time the subject is both social TV and over the top (OTT) content.… |
| Pure Storage attacks EMC heartland Posted: 22 Nov 2011 09:01 AM PST Taking the fight to Fibre ChannelNo VC is going to fund a start-up intent on attacking EMC's SAN array heartland with a disk drive array - who would be that foolish - but a flash array which outperforms VMAX/VNX and costs less? Now you're talking - if it's for real.… |
| Samsung strokes big bulb that'll keep going for decades Posted: 22 Nov 2011 08:39 AM PST Hopes it doesn't go down like a LED balloonWhile we're waiting for flexible, flat, multi-cavity plasma array light bulbs to hit the market, Samsung has started selling advanced LED bulbs in the US that could last years.… |
| Nuclear power will let NASA Mars rover beat 1970s Soviet record Posted: 22 Nov 2011 08:22 AM PST The throbbing plutonium heart of CuriosityEveryone knows the famous NASA Mars rovers "Spirit" and "Opportunity": but not everyone knows that for all their renowned longevity they do not hold the record for robot rover distance rolled on an extraterrestrial body.… |
| EU: Apple-Samsung row could be stifling competition Posted: 22 Nov 2011 08:19 AM PST Standardisation, IP could be TOOLS OF EVILThe EU has said it is concerned about the Great Patent Wars being a cover for unfair competition practices by IT firms.… |
| Microsoft pockets VideoSurf to create big search waves Posted: 22 Nov 2011 08:09 AM PST Hell, forget the metadata lets SCAN insteadMicrosoft has bought San Mateo, California-based VideoSurf for an undisclosed sum.… |
| Penguin pulls its eBooks off library shelves Posted: 22 Nov 2011 08:01 AM PST Fed up with Amazon giving away its stuff for freeUpdated A new "security concern" has forced US publisher Penguin to stop making electronic editions of its new books available to American libraries. Penguin has also banned the libraries from loaning existing Penguin eBooks on their shelves to Kindle owners.… |
| MS and Samsung tout interactive table Posted: 22 Nov 2011 07:49 AM PST Surface paradise?Microsoft announced this week that the Surface 2.0 table it built with Samsung is now available to order, with an expected delivery date of next year.… |
| 'Nervous' London bankers run mock cyberattack exercise Posted: 22 Nov 2011 07:46 AM PST Banks test resilience of financial system as Occupy protestors mass outsideLondon banks are taking part in a simulated cyberattack exercise on Tuesday designed to test the resilience of the UK's financial service industry to a collapse of telecoms systems and Olympics-related transport disruption.… |
| Cutting-edge Mirasol display finally comes to e-reader Posted: 22 Nov 2011 07:29 AM PST South Korean 'Fire' touts next-gen screen techThe much-awaited Mirasol display has made its debut in an South Korean e-reader, offering the colour of LCD combined with the clarity, and power consumption, of electronic ink.… |
| World population's appetite TO DOUBLE by 2050, boffin warns Posted: 22 Nov 2011 07:20 AM PST Change farming attitude to help poor nations or face catastropheIn just 40 years from now, global food demand could double with potentially devastating consequences for planet Earth, a top eco professor has warned.… |
| Council <i>not</i> fined after 7,200 sensitive files dumped in skip Posted: 22 Nov 2011 07:14 AM PST SHOCK! Unencrypted records left on PCSouthwark council breached the Data Protection Act after it left an unencrypted computer and papers containing sensitive information on 7,200 people in one of its buildings when it was vacated, which were then disposed of by the building's new tenant, the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) has said.… |
| Samsung jumps into bed with Google TV Posted: 22 Nov 2011 07:01 AM PST Telly service needs a lot of lovin' right nowSouth Korean electronics giant Samsung is next in line to jump into the sack with Google on its TV services, ignoring the lacklustre uptake.… |
| SCC11: final results banquet, winners feted Posted: 22 Nov 2011 06:53 AM PST Smelly cheese consumedThe official results of the 2011 Student Cluster Competition were revealed at the lavish SC11 Awards Gala, a luncheon held at the Seattle Sheraton. I was a little put out that I wasn't invited for the lunch, but felt better after I got a good whiff of it.… |
| The top five spam subjects sullying inboxes Posted: 22 Nov 2011 06:46 AM PST FW: Re: Your malware ARTICLE 123508 is enclosedSecurity biz Websense has drawn up a list of the five most common spam subject lines.… |
| Got a few minutes to help LOHAN suck? Posted: 22 Nov 2011 06:28 AM PST Home-made vacuum pumps... bright ideas invitedAs we recently reported, El Reg's Low Orbit Helium Assisted Navigator (LOHAN) team has taken delivery of an AeroTech RC 32/60-100NS rocket motor – the proposed power plant for our Vulture 2 spaceplane.… |
| Cyber-cop Trojan used iTunes flaw to spy on crims Posted: 22 Nov 2011 06:14 AM PST Gamekeeper turned poacherA law enforcement Trojan takes advantage of the same recently patched iTunes flaw also used by Ghost Click botnet, according to a demo at a recent German trade show.… |
| The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword Posted: 22 Nov 2011 06:01 AM PST Gripping LinkReview Look who it is. Just when you thought that the dust-gathering ornament you used to call a Nintendo games console was in permanent retirement, back it bounds. Why? Because there's a new Legend of Zelda in town - a game most will have played before in one guise or another, and one that Nintendo always finds a way to freshen up.… |
| Solar-powered data centre won't get IBM very far... Posted: 22 Nov 2011 05:58 AM PST Big blue bombastIBM is rolling out a solar-powered data centre in India that will, it says, be one of the first data centres that don't need the electricity grid – but 80 per cent of the time the sun isn't shining brightly enough.… |
| Russian Mars probe heads into space WITHOUT ENGINES Posted: 22 Nov 2011 05:47 AM PST Boffins baffled by rising orbit of Phobos-GruntBoffins from the Russian space agency are baffled by the odd behaviour of the Phobos-Grunt probe, which seems to be flying all on its own without the aid of its non-firing engines.… |
| Acer eyes 'untapped' rural China as West snaps purse shut Posted: 22 Nov 2011 05:39 AM PST PC-maker plans to make cash by penetrating farmers' marketWorld number four PC-maker Acer is focusing on the folk still buying computers and hoping to grow its China sales by 20 to 25 per cent next year.… |
| Poll: One in six interrupt bonking to answer mobile Posted: 22 Nov 2011 05:28 AM PST I'm never too busy for youA dodgy survey of surveys by online pawnbrokers CashGenerator.co.uk has compiled a list of bad phone habits that are stopping the world's smartphone owners sleeping, socialising and having sex.… |
| Russian diplomat caught driving while 15 TIMES over booze limit Posted: 22 Nov 2011 05:19 AM PST Blood supply was boozier than a glass of claretA Russian diplomat was an epic 15 times over the drink-driving limit when he was collared by Polish cops on Sunday.… |
| Facebook phone rises from the dead, again Posted: 22 Nov 2011 05:11 AM PST 'Hey, I've died twice'Facebook is working on a phone, and has called it "Buffy" in tribute to the impossibly-hard-to-kill vampire slayer of the same name, but don't expect to see it until 2014.… |
| When geeks turn Green: Performance tune your energy bills Posted: 22 Nov 2011 05:00 AM PST How to stick up a fat two to the Big Six...Part 2 A few years ago I suddenly saw my energy bills as another performance metric that I could tweak just like optimising Lehman Brothers' derivatives calculations that I was nominally paid squillions to do.… |
| Netflix raises $400m to steady its global expansion Posted: 22 Nov 2011 04:55 AM PST Movie rental firm taps investors for extra cash as it moves into EuropeVideo rental firm Netflix, soon to be hitting the UK shores, has raised $400m in fresh capital from long-time investors to try to boost the firm after a tough few months.… |
| Superhero oil-burping algae will save the world Posted: 22 Nov 2011 04:49 AM PST No more war, no more tree-hugging hippies lecturing you"Rely on the sun and the other eco-friendly things that Mother Earth has given us. We need to stop being dependent on the corrupting effect that is oil now!" – HuffPost Super User "ProgressivePicon86"… |
| Gates: Novell are sore losers, Word trounced WordPerfect Posted: 22 Nov 2011 04:37 AM PST Microsoft supremo testifies at antitrust hearingHard work and the competition's ineptitude saw Microsoft Word thump WordPerfect, Bill Gates told a US court hearing the $1bn anti-competition case brought by Novell.… |
| Posted: 22 Nov 2011 04:29 AM PST The big picture showProduct Round-up Back in the day you had to resort to a cabinet-sized rear projection TV if you wanted to watch Dallas on anything larger than a 37in CRT. Thankfully times have changed. Technically advanced, visually stunning super-screens are now the order of the day from every major brand. You need only oust some living room essentials – sofa, coffee table, partner and cat – to make room for one. It's a sacrifice well worth making, so bring on the mega-TV monsters…… |
| UK nuclear: Walking into darkness with eyes screwed shut Posted: 22 Nov 2011 04:17 AM PST 'Watching brief' will be difficult when lights go outComment So the House of Lords Science and Technology committee has reported on the state of the UK's nuclear industry and government plans for carrying it forward: and, as anyone who follows these matters would expect, the noble lords have reported on a situation of total, shambolic chaos.… |
| Market watcher ayes claim iPad 3 to sport 1536 x 2048 screen Posted: 22 Nov 2011 04:07 AM PST More dots before your eyesAnother analyst has claimed Apple's iPad display makers have started punching out 2048 x 1536 panels for the tablet's next incarnation.… |
| Hideous orchid that just wants a one-night stand found Posted: 22 Nov 2011 04:07 AM PST One to definitely regret in the morningA flower that only opens in the hours of darkness has been found in the primeval forest of the New Britain Island in Papua New Guinea.… |
| Nimble Storage gets a little clustered Posted: 22 Nov 2011 03:58 AM PST Scale-out comingFlash-enhanced iSCSI array startup Nimble Storage is going to add scale-out clustering to its boxes.… |
| No Xbox Live hack say insiders Posted: 22 Nov 2011 03:52 AM PST But gamers losing money to phishing scamsMicrosoft sources have denied a claim that Xbox Live has been hacked, stating instead that gamers said to have had up to £100 lifted from their accounts were victims of phishing scams.… |
| Facebook 'shrinks' six degrees of separation theory Posted: 22 Nov 2011 03:49 AM PST Define friendship... bitchResearchers at Facebook and the University of Milan reckon that the degrees of separation between any two people in the world have been reduced to 4.7 from social psychologist Stanley Milgram's "small world experiment" of six back in the '60s.… |
| Amazon's Android-friendly Kindle Fire splutters Posted: 22 Nov 2011 03:39 AM PST Acclaim comes cheapOpen ... And Shut Amazon's new Kindle Fire is almost certain to be a financial success for Amazon, and may finally make a name for Google's Android in tablets. If only the success and acclaim were deserved.… |
| Boffins one step closer to <i>Terminator</i> vision Posted: 22 Nov 2011 03:29 AM PST I want your clothes, your boots and your computerised contact lensesBoffins have come a step closer to creating a Terminator-style field of vision with contact lenses that give hands-free info updates.… |
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