Bullseye gets marked by STW |
- Bullseye gets marked by STW
- FOI request turns up Carrier IQ surprise
- Oracle and IBM fight for the heavy workload
- Martians lived underground, say Oz boffins
- Flight Centre settles $US14m legal battle with web supplier
- Cambridge puts Isaac Newton's notes online
- Kaspersky DLP spin-off buys German security firm
- Malicious apps infiltrate Google's Android Market
- Japan launches, orbits radar spy satellite
- Microsoft updates Azure with SDK and Hadoop preview
- Microsoft and Amazon soar above other Clouds
- Call of Duty is hottest selling entertainment product ever
- Royalty-free web vid spec sets sail with Apple's help
- EU stalls Googorola anti-competition probe
- Disk fab floods rinse $1bn off Intel's Q4 revenue
- BT fibre rollout reaches Scotland, Wales
- Fake anti-virus victims in line for slice of $8m payout pie
- Meet the boffin who gave GPUs a bigger bang for the Buck
- Brazil, China trample UK in virtualization gold rush
- Durban failed: Relax, everyone
- Desktop virt used to cope with Starbucks workforce security
- Google execs eye NASA's Hangar One to park their air fleet
- Amazon preps major update for Kindle Fire UI
- Microsoft beaten down 16pc on software sales to NHS
- Greenland 'lurched upward' in 2010 as 100bn tons of ice melted
- <strong>[<abbr title="Not Safe For Work">NSFW</abbr>]</strong> Churlish gadget cusses those who use it
- <cite>NotW</cite> didn't delete Milly Dowler 'false hope' voicemail
- Smarter Networking for a smarter data centre
- Web scam-busting trio thwarted by mystery DDoS rocket
- 2011's Best... Smartphones
- Sony ships 3G Android tablet
- O2 rents out latest iPhones to tease panting fanbois
- Chinese strike hits Hitachi GST ahead of WD buy
- Vote for the year's best computing kit
- Global BlackBerry web filter vow to block child abuse sites
- Elon Musk's private Dragon ship to dock with ISS in Feb
- Floods? What floods? Seagate to open new Thai disk fab
- iPad 3 out in March/April say part maker moles
- Philips Fidelio AS851 speaker
- Gov websites' value not at all clear despite trimming
- Concerns over plan to boost pharma by releasing NHS data
- Hitachi GST unzips to reveal hard internal 4TB whopper
- NAS door gives drag-n-drop access to linear tape vault
- REVEALED: People write things on Twitter, Media
- Dell XPS 14z 14in Core i5 notebook
| Posted: 12 Dec 2011 03:30 PM PST Takes 51 percent, stake moves into AsiaAustralian marketing giant STW has added digital services and technology provider Bullseye to its portfolio.… |
| FOI request turns up Carrier IQ surprise Posted: 12 Dec 2011 03:01 PM PST G-men slurping snooped smartphone data?The Carrier IQ scandal is a gift that just keeps giving: a US FOI report suggests that the FBI is using data captured by the creepy smartphone snooping app.… |
| Oracle and IBM fight for the heavy workload Posted: 12 Dec 2011 02:45 PM PST Seconds outIBM and Oracle agree about little these days, and they are coming at it from different angles, but both IT giants believe that some companies don't want general-purpose machines; they want machines tuned to run a specific stack of software for a particular kind of workload.… |
| Martians lived underground, say Oz boffins Posted: 12 Dec 2011 02:30 PM PST Water and energy available but not on the surfaceA group of Australian scientists have created a "whole of planet" model that suggests large parts of Mars are capable of supporting life – as long as it doesn't mind living underground.… |
| Flight Centre settles $US14m legal battle with web supplier Posted: 12 Dec 2011 01:54 PM PST Service tender leads to two-year stoushAustralian discount airline booker Flight Centre has settled a two year legal stoush against its former web services supplier Dublin-based Datalex.… |
| Cambridge puts Isaac Newton's notes online Posted: 12 Dec 2011 01:10 PM PST A free peek at the original |
| Kaspersky DLP spin-off buys German security firm Posted: 12 Dec 2011 12:24 PM PST Cynapspro purchase to target small, medium-sized firmsRussian data loss prevention firm InfoWatch has bought German software firm cynapspro.… |
| Malicious apps infiltrate Google's Android Market Posted: 12 Dec 2011 12:16 PM PST Bogus games purged after more than 10,000 downloadsGoogle security crews have tossed at least a dozen smartphone games out of the Android Market after discovering they contained secret code that caused owners to accrue expensive charges for text messages sent to premium numbers.… |
| Japan launches, orbits radar spy satellite Posted: 12 Dec 2011 12:12 PM PST Fingers crossed that this one can snoop NorksThe Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) has successfully put a radar satellite into orbit, ready to watch over its own shores and keep an eye on North Korea.… |
| Microsoft updates Azure with SDK and Hadoop preview Posted: 12 Dec 2011 10:54 AM PST SQL improvements and open source support includedMicrosoft has updated Azure in time for Christmas, with new tools for developers, reduced storage and operation costs for SQL, and Redmond's promised integration with Hadoop as a limited preview for those who've been not naughty but nice.… |
| Microsoft and Amazon soar above other Clouds Posted: 12 Dec 2011 10:03 AM PST If you can't say anything nice don't say anything - NasuniCloud gateway supplier Nasuni has ranked the clouds its gateway hooks up to and reckons six are good and ten are crap (our term).… |
| Call of Duty is hottest selling entertainment product ever Posted: 12 Dec 2011 09:01 AM PST Quicker to cash $1bn than AvatarCall of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 has exploded past James Cameron's 3D blockbuster, Avatar, to became the fastest entertainment offering of any kind to achieve $1bn in sales.… |
| Royalty-free web vid spec sets sail with Apple's help Posted: 12 Dec 2011 08:41 AM PST MPEG-DASH rides choppy seas of patents and bad networksA proposed standard to stream video online smoothly, regardless of network conditions, has been pushed forward with some rather unexpected patent-holder help.… |
| EU stalls Googorola anti-competition probe Posted: 12 Dec 2011 08:10 AM PST Rivals invited to have their say firstThe EU has temporarily suspended its probe into Google's planned buyout of Motorola Mobility because it wants more information, including comments from Google's competitors.… |
| Disk fab floods rinse $1bn off Intel's Q4 revenue Posted: 12 Dec 2011 07:42 AM PST Drive shortage chips away at CPU demandChip maker Intel has slashed its final quarter outlook, admitting it will fall short of the company's previous forecast due to a hard drive supply shortage - sparked by flooding in Thai disk factories.… |
| BT fibre rollout reaches Scotland, Wales Posted: 12 Dec 2011 07:21 AM PST 178 exchanges earmarkedBT's Openreach wing plans to deploy its fibre technology to a further 178 exchanges, the national telco confirmed today.… |
| Fake anti-virus victims in line for slice of $8m payout pie Posted: 12 Dec 2011 07:04 AM PST Scareware swindlers' ill-gotten gains shared out by FTCUS watchdogs plan to refund victims of scareware scams using seized assets from fake anti-virus peddler Innovative Marketing.… |
| Meet the boffin who gave GPUs a bigger bang for the Buck Posted: 12 Dec 2011 06:43 AM PST Kudos to CUDA's pioneer Ian BuckSC2011 One of the presentations I caught at SC11 was by GPU computing pioneer Ian Buck - which is a good name for a pioneer, I think.… |
| Brazil, China trample UK in virtualization gold rush Posted: 12 Dec 2011 06:18 AM PST Western clouds befouled by legacy systemsMexico, China and other rising economies are quicker at employing new technologies than the UK, meaning that Britain is lagging behind in the shift to server virtualisation, according to a survey by Dell and Intel.… |
| Durban failed: Relax, everyone Posted: 12 Dec 2011 05:57 AM PST Only agreement is to keep going to conferencesAnalysis The United Nations Organisation's COP17 climate conference has finished - and if you're a concerned energy user in IT manufacturing, an investor, or simply taxpayer, there shouldn't be anything the draft agreement to worry you. Not any more than you have to worry about already.… |
| Desktop virt used to cope with Starbucks workforce security Posted: 12 Dec 2011 05:38 AM PST CIOs fear users roaming in public with backdoors exposedThe trend for mobile working has fuelled demand for desktop virtualisation, says a survey by Citrix as employers want to know that their out-of-office workforce are on secure machines.… |
| Google execs eye NASA's Hangar One to park their air fleet Posted: 12 Dec 2011 05:18 AM PST Dirigible aircraft-carrier dock to house web-lord jetsGoogle's co-founders are on a mission to save NASA's Hangar One, which once housed the US Navy's airships at Moffett Field but has latterly been rented by the Chocolate Factory's top brass to provide a shelter for - among other things - a fighter jet.… |
| Amazon preps major update for Kindle Fire UI Posted: 12 Dec 2011 05:08 AM PST Software out over the air within two weeksAmazon will roll out a major update for its Kindle Fire firmware before Christmas, the online retail giant has promised.… |
| Microsoft beaten down 16pc on software sales to NHS Posted: 12 Dec 2011 04:57 AM PST UK.gov lifts ban after cost-cutting crunch talksThe UK's Cabinet Office has lifted the embargo on NHS Trusts buying Microsoft software after negotiating a double-digit discount on current pricing, according to sources familiar with the deal.… |
| Greenland 'lurched upward' in 2010 as 100bn tons of ice melted Posted: 12 Dec 2011 04:43 AM PST Maybe not time to panic just yet, thoughParts of southern Greenland apparently lurched upwards by as much as 20mm as glaciers melted and ran off into the sea during 2010, according to scientists. It's thought that as much as 100 billion tons more ice than usual may have vanished from the island's ice sheet that year.… |
| Posted: 12 Dec 2011 04:37 AM PST Periodic Table of Swearing on showNSFW Cult comic collective Modern Toss is holding an exhibition this week, showcasing its 2011 catalogue of work, which includes the outfit's mannerless machine, the Interactive Periodic Table of Swearing.… |
| <cite>NotW</cite> didn't delete Milly Dowler 'false hope' voicemail Posted: 12 Dec 2011 04:29 AM PST Messages removed automatically, say copsNew evidence has emerged that shows that the News of the World was not responsible for deleting voicemail messages on murder victim Milly Dowler's phone, a move that gave her family false hope that the schoolgirl might still be alive.… |
| Smarter Networking for a smarter data centre Posted: 12 Dec 2011 04:12 AM PST Your DC's weak link?On demand We think a lot about the network that connects the client to the server room, but maybe not enough about the network inside the data centre. At least, until now. Our Reg poll shows that the problems of network consolidation, distributed apps and all that spaghetti stuff sticking out the back of your servers is beginning to worry you.… |
| Web scam-busting trio thwarted by mystery DDoS rocket Posted: 12 Dec 2011 04:03 AM PST Backhanded compliment for fraud alert sitesUpdated A bunch of anti-scam sites were knocked offline last week by fierce and apparently well-organised distributed denial of service attacks.… |
| Posted: 12 Dec 2011 04:00 AM PST Your portable internet companionXmas Gift Guide The modern smartphone is the true Swiss Army knife of gadgets. Want to listen to music? Watch a video? Browse the web? Read a book? Keep up with your friends? Take a picture? Make a video? A smartphone can do all those things, with ever increasing competence.… |
| Posted: 12 Dec 2011 03:55 AM PST Wedge hardware connectivity upgradedThe 3G-enabled version of Sony's wedge-shaped Tablet S has surfaced at last.… |
| O2 rents out latest iPhones to tease panting fanbois Posted: 12 Dec 2011 03:44 AM PST Keep 'em coming back for more ... every 12 monthsO2 reckons it's the first UK operator to lease smartphones to small businesses, providing annual upgrades and free insurance, but no phone at the end of the day.… |
| Chinese strike hits Hitachi GST ahead of WD buy Posted: 12 Dec 2011 03:19 AM PST Workers down tools in contracts rowMore than 1,000 workers at a Hitachi GST-owned disk drive plant are striking over severance pay connected to the Western Digital acquisition.… |
| Vote for the year's best computing kit Posted: 12 Dec 2011 03:09 AM PST Choose 2011's best consumer IT items - and the worstReg Hardware Awards 2011 Ladies and gentlemen, the annual Reg Hardware Awards are here and, once again, we need your help finding the best - and the worst - consumer electronics and infotech products of 2011.… |
| Global BlackBerry web filter vow to block child abuse sites Posted: 12 Dec 2011 03:02 AM PST RIM proxy bypasses IWF list, telcos' firewallsRIM's proxy-style web delivery is bypassing mobile network operators' filters on internet filth, including the thoroughly illegal sites listed by the Internet Watch Foundation, much to the |
| Elon Musk's private Dragon ship to dock with ISS in Feb Posted: 12 Dec 2011 02:42 AM PST Then descend for splashdown, unlike European ATVsNASA has announced that - all being well - the first mission to the International Space Station by a privately built and operated spacecraft will lift off on February 7. The craft will be a Dragon capsule launched atop a Falcon 9 rocket, both made and handled by techbiz visionary Elon Musk's new company SpaceX.… |
| Floods? What floods? Seagate to open new Thai disk fab Posted: 12 Dec 2011 02:19 AM PST Pumps $33m to soak up drive demandDespite the devastating and deadly floods in Thailand, Seagate will spend $30m (£19.1m) to finish building a new disk read-write head plant in the south-east Asian nation.… |
| iPad 3 out in March/April say part maker moles Posted: 12 Dec 2011 02:00 AM PST Evidence pointing to production ramp-up?The next iPad will be out in three to four months' time after going into production in January. Component makers are already shipping parts.… |
| Posted: 12 Dec 2011 02:00 AM PST At last, a dock for your Android phoneGeek Treat of the Week Philips' Fidelio speakers for iOS - such as the DS9 - have gotten a big thumbs-up from us in the past, and now Philips has released a new range specifically designed for Android devices.… |
| Gov websites' value not at all clear despite trimming Posted: 12 Dec 2011 01:38 AM PST Beancounters unconvinced on greatness of cyber-WhitehallThe government has failed to routinely measure the benefits of its main portals - the Government Gateway, Directgov and Business.gov - which together have cost £90.3m over the past three years, says the National Audit Office (NAO).… |
| Concerns over plan to boost pharma by releasing NHS data Posted: 12 Dec 2011 01:17 AM PST Voices join chorus of disquietEarlier this week the Government announced proposals (40-page / 2.1MB PDF) to change the NHS Constitution so that information stored about patients would be automatically shared with life sciences researchers via a new anonymised database unless patients elect for their details not to be included.… |
| Hitachi GST unzips to reveal hard internal 4TB whopper Posted: 12 Dec 2011 01:03 AM PST On sale on Tokyo's streetsHitachi GST has a 4TB desktop disk drive on sale in Tokyo, although no product announcement has been made. This would be the world's first 4TB internal drive.… |
| NAS door gives drag-n-drop access to linear tape vault Posted: 12 Dec 2011 12:29 AM PST Head transplant for the tape monsterWith StrongBox Crossroads has built a NAS head for tape libraries that combines disk access speed with tape's low-cost and longevity, and can cut file storage costs by 90 per cent.… |
| REVEALED: People write things on Twitter, Media Posted: 12 Dec 2011 12:01 AM PST 'This is Bob Journo, reporting from up my own backside. It's dark'If a tree falls over and no-one tweets about it, will it get picked up by the mainstream media or not?… |
| Dell XPS 14z 14in Core i5 notebook Posted: 11 Dec 2011 11:00 PM PST Shiny, shinyReview Don't worry, the XPS 14z may be one of Dell's new "thin and powerful" range, but it doesn't fit into the superslim Ultrabook category so there's absolutely no need whatsoever for a gratuitous comparison with Apple's MacBook Air.… |
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