Parallel politics: Gerry Harvey, imports and taxes |
- Parallel politics: Gerry Harvey, imports and taxes
- ACMA sets the bar too low for broadcasters claims APF
- Moscow State taps T-Platforms to build 10 petaflops super
- Press Council slaps Rupert for Oz NBN coverage
- Gerry turncoat Harvey gives gamers a deal
- Seagate backup biz deletes name, restores EVault brand
- New chippery on parade at ISSCC
- Lumia sales fail to set world alight
- Apache confirms new OpenOffice build by 2012
- 2012 CES will be Microsoft’s last hurrah
- Latest <i>El Reg</i> project: Rise of the Robot Sheep
- Cops arrest cop in alleged corrupt cop-bung probe
- Pluto's blushing complexion riddle solved by boffins
- Petaflops beater: Nvidia chief talks exascale
- Auld Reekie folk 'spend most on tech prezzies'
- Clever patching keeps the system serviceable
- Console accessories
- Steve Jobs gets posthumous Grammy AND a bronze statue
- Yahoo! shares! leap! on! asset! sale! gossip!
- Smut baron buy-up of Vatican.xxx rumour exploded
- Tablet LCDs: seven-inchers outsell 9.7in panels
- Deep-fried planets discovery offers hope for Earth’s future
- Ofcom's Local TV dream: No smut, an hour of news, endless ads
- Hasbro sues Asus over Transformer Prime moniker
- Facebook scams now spread by dodgy browser plug-ins
- Android Trojan spams tribute to Arab Spring martyr
- EU to push through more roaming caps in 2012
- Gov unveils plans to make tax-funded research freely accessible
- Dole office sticks ID services tender in EU journal, quickly pulls out
- Motorola Pro+ Qwerty Android smartphone
- Internode falls to iiNet acquisition temptation
- AMD claims 'world's fastest GPU' title
| Parallel politics: Gerry Harvey, imports and taxes Posted: 22 Dec 2011 03:00 PM PST Oligopoly screwing oligopoly redux ends 2011There's a curious symmetry about how 2011 is ending: once again, retailer Gerry Harvey is complaining about GST inequities for online shopping, just as he was at the beginning of the year. Once again, Harvey is distracting attention away from vendor price-setting, just as he was at the beginning of the year.… |
| ACMA sets the bar too low for broadcasters claims APF Posted: 22 Dec 2011 02:30 PM PST Australian Privacy Foundation calls for a regulator with a backboneThe Australian Communications and Media Authority has been slammed as a toothless tiger for setting the bar too low in protecting consumer privacy.… |
| Moscow State taps T-Platforms to build 10 petaflops super Posted: 22 Dec 2011 02:13 PM PST A ceepie-geepie once againIn what rings as almost an echo of Cold War-era scientific competition, Moscow State University is putting together a supercomputer it hopes will take it back up the international rankings.… |
| Press Council slaps Rupert for Oz NBN coverage Posted: 22 Dec 2011 01:30 PM PST Daily Telegraph pitching porkies? Surely notIt's taken the best part of half a year, but Australia's lame-duck press self-regulator, the Australian Press Council, has given News Limited outlet the Daily Telegraph a wet slap over aspects of its NBN coverage.…
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| Gerry turncoat Harvey gives gamers a deal Posted: 22 Dec 2011 01:00 PM PST Launches discount, offshore GST-free online gaming siteThe CEO of Australian retailer Harvey Norman, Gerry Harvey has unleashed his fickle ways on the gaming industry, launching an offshore discount gaming site just days before Christmas.… |
| Seagate backup biz deletes name, restores EVault brand Posted: 22 Dec 2011 09:01 AM PST i365 goes back to the futureSeagate's cloud backup biz, i365, has renamed itself EVault, the name it was called when Seagate bought it five years ago.… |
| New chippery on parade at ISSCC Posted: 22 Dec 2011 08:02 AM PST CPU and memory makers strut their stuffThe new year in IT always begins around now, when the IEEE puts out the advance program for the International Solid State Circuits Conference, which takes place in San Francisco in February. This time around, it runs from February 19 through 23, and while there are not a large number of server-class processors coming out, there are some very interesting system-on-chip and memory technologies that chip makers will be showing off at the upcoming 2012 event.… |
| Lumia sales fail to set world alight Posted: 22 Dec 2011 07:31 AM PST Outsold almost 100 times by Galaxy S IINokia's Lumia handset is barely shifting at all, according to figures from consumer price-comparison site Mobiles Please, though it still manages to be the best selling Windows Phone.… |
| Apache confirms new OpenOffice build by 2012 Posted: 22 Dec 2011 07:03 AM PST Warns developers that it's still the daddyThe Apache Software Foundation has confirmed that a new build of the OpenOffice suite will be out next year, and has warned rogue developers that it - and only it - can use the trademark for the software.…
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| 2012 CES will be Microsoft’s last hurrah Posted: 22 Dec 2011 06:33 AM PST Did it jump or was it pushed?Microsoft has said that Steve Ballmer's opening keynote for the Consumer Electronic Show (CES) in January will be the last time a Redmond head takes the stage, and it won't be having an exhibition stand at the show after 2012 either.… |
| Latest <i>El Reg</i> project: Rise of the Robot Sheep Posted: 22 Dec 2011 06:02 AM PST Autonomous, spinning blades, made in a shed - what could go wrong?After seven years of faithful service, my lawn-clipping droid Mowbot has had to be retired... and a replacement is hard to obtain. Rather than face an ever-growing lawn, I've decided it's time to unlock the inventing shed and seek some reader advice.… |
| Cops arrest cop in alleged corrupt cop-bung probe Posted: 22 Dec 2011 05:41 AM PST First officer cuffed in Op Elveden investigationA 52-year-old female police officer was the first cop to be arrested yesterday morning in connection with allegations of receiving illegal payments from journalists.… |
| Pluto's blushing complexion riddle solved by boffins Posted: 22 Dec 2011 05:24 AM PST Hubble spectrograph shines light on dwarf planet's colouringBoffins using the new Cosmic Origins Spectrograph (COS) on the Hubble telescope have figured out what makes Pluto the colour it is.… |
| Petaflops beater: Nvidia chief talks exascale Posted: 22 Dec 2011 05:04 AM PST Programming for parallel processes"Power is now the limiter of every computing platform, from cellphones to PCs and even data centres," said NVIDIA chief executive Jen-Hsun Huang, speaking at the company's GPU Technology Conference in Beijing last week. There was much talk there about the path to exascale, a form of supercomputing that can execute 1018 flop/s (Floating Point Operations per Second).…
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| Auld Reekie folk 'spend most on tech prezzies' Posted: 22 Dec 2011 04:47 AM PST Greasy poll puts Southamptoners at the bottomToday's piece of blatant puffery masquerading as market research comes from Geek Squad the embarrassingly named in-store tech support oppos for Carphone Warehouse.… |
| Clever patching keeps the system serviceable Posted: 22 Dec 2011 04:24 AM PST Beware awkward joinsIt was the kind of day most systems administrators would like to forget. A customer of Canadian security consultant David Lewis, founder of the Liquidmatrix Security Digest, had decided to roll out a software patch to a Symantec product.… |
| Posted: 22 Dec 2011 04:01 AM PST Game liberationXmas Gift Guide With last year's release of Xbox 360 Kinect and PlayStation Move, traditional console add-ons have been pushed out of the limelight. However when searching for the ideal Crimbo presents, the customary line-up of videogame hardware is always a laudable choice. Especially when shopping for yourself.… |
| Steve Jobs gets posthumous Grammy AND a bronze statue Posted: 22 Dec 2011 03:42 AM PST Who knew the iSaint was part of the Staines massive?Steve Jobs, who died in October this year, has been posthumously handed a Grammy award.… |
| Yahoo! shares! leap! on! asset! sale! gossip! Posted: 22 Dec 2011 03:20 AM PST Plan to flog Alibaba and Yahoo! Japan stakes pleases investorsShares in Yahoo! got a bump yesterday on rumours that the company is considering getting rid of most of its Alibaba stake and all its stake in Yahoo! Japan.… |
| Smut baron buy-up of Vatican.xxx rumour exploded Posted: 22 Dec 2011 02:59 AM PST Priestly pr0n purveyance blocked by registry, won't be soldThe domain name vatican.xxx was not "registered by a mystery buyer" as has been widely reported this week.… |
| Tablet LCDs: seven-inchers outsell 9.7in panels Posted: 22 Dec 2011 02:49 AM PST Kindle Fire burning iPad? Or iPad 3 in motion?Shipments of 7in LCD screens surpassed those of 9.7in panels in November, it has been claimed.… |
| Deep-fried planets discovery offers hope for Earth’s future Posted: 22 Dec 2011 02:38 AM PST Our world may actually survive flame-grilling by dying sunEarth may survive longer than we expect - scientists have stumbled across two deep-fried planets orbiting the glowing embers of a dying star.…
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| Ofcom's Local TV dream: No smut, an hour of news, endless ads Posted: 22 Dec 2011 02:22 AM PST Still, sounds more thrilling than some of the proper channelsOfcom is consulting on how to award Local TV licences, and has some suggestions about how the national broadcaster, and the channels, might make ends meet.… |
| Hasbro sues Asus over Transformer Prime moniker Posted: 22 Dec 2011 02:04 AM PST Tablet ambitions held at Bay?Toy maker Hasbro is suing computer manufacturer Asus for daring - allegedly - to name an Android tablet after one of its biggest money spinners.… |
| Facebook scams now spread by dodgy browser plug-ins Posted: 22 Dec 2011 02:01 AM PST Cybercrooks deploy new weapon to pollute profilesCon men have developed a new approach towards spreading scams on Facebook.… |
| Android Trojan spams tribute to Arab Spring martyr Posted: 22 Dec 2011 01:41 AM PST At least it doesn't completely pwn your phoneHacktivists have released a manipulated version of a popular Android app to commemorate a Tunisian man whose suicide triggered anti-government protests in his country a year ago.… |
| EU to push through more roaming caps in 2012 Posted: 22 Dec 2011 01:22 AM PST Competition ain't being competitive enoughOperators should brace themselves for more caps on European roaming, as the European parliament is planning more pricing restrictions when the current legislation expires.… |
| Gov unveils plans to make tax-funded research freely accessible Posted: 22 Dec 2011 01:01 AM PST Vast vats of info goodnessAll publicly-funded research data should be made freely accessible to benefit business and society, the government has said.…
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| Dole office sticks ID services tender in EU journal, quickly pulls out Posted: 22 Dec 2011 12:02 AM PST We'll try again next year ...The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has cancelled its tender for identity assurance services, claiming it had not followed the relevant procedures for the procurement.… |
| Motorola Pro+ Qwerty Android smartphone Posted: 21 Dec 2011 11:00 PM PST The best of both worlds?Review Motorola's been keeping its hand in with an interesting variety of Android handsets of late. The Pro+ is clearly designed for business rather than fun, which is fine, but next to the top-end, revitalised Motorola Razr, it's not in the same league.… |
| Internode falls to iiNet acquisition temptation Posted: 21 Dec 2011 09:30 PM PST Another one bites the dustPopular Adelaide-headquartered national ISP Internode, a pioneer in Australia's ADSL2+ market and vocal critic of National Broadband Network price strategies, is to be acquired by number two broadband provider iiNet.… |
| AMD claims 'world's fastest GPU' title Posted: 21 Dec 2011 09:01 PM PST Radeon HD 7970 sports all-new 'Graphics Core Next' chipAMD has unveiled its first graphics card based on its Graphics Core Next architecture, which The Reg told you about in excruciating detail this summer. According to AMD, the card – the Radeon HD 7970 – is also the only GPU to be built using a 28-nanometer process.… |
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