Voda Oz to trial NBN Services

Voda Oz to trial NBN Services

Voda Oz to trial NBN Services

Posted: 19 Dec 2011 03:00 PM PST

Maybe fixed networks will work better…

Vodafone Australia has announced its first trial customer connections on Australia's National Broadband Network (NBN), hooking up households in Armidale.…

Plastic semiconductor makes solar cells more efficient

Posted: 19 Dec 2011 02:30 PM PST

Qantum 'dark state' helps capture wasted energy

It sounds paradoxical, but reducing the amount of energy captured in a solar cell can make it more efficient, according to University of Texas researchers.…

IT'S OFFICIAL: AT&T, T-Mobile deal is dead

Posted: 19 Dec 2011 02:18 PM PST

Big Phone's colossal $4bn cockup concludes

AT&T's planned $39bn acquisition of T-Mobile USA from Deutsche Telekom is dead – and it's costing AT&T $4bn to kill it.…

Channel Seven cleared by ACMA for use of RIP Facebook pics

Posted: 19 Dec 2011 02:00 PM PST

If you die make sure your privacy settings are on high

The Seven Network has been cleared of violating privacy provisions of the television code, after the network broadcast pictures and messages sourced from a memorial Facebook tribute page for a murdered woman.…

Oracle gooses Studio compilers for Solaris, Linux

Posted: 19 Dec 2011 12:53 PM PST

Puts on Tuxedo 11g for enterprise apps

Having cranking Solaris Unix up to 11, software giant Oracle has now revved up a new companion set of compilers that work with the new operating system as well as the current Oracle Linux clone of Red Hat's Enterprise Linux.…

Virgin Oz plans onboard WiFi rollout

Posted: 19 Dec 2011 12:33 PM PST

DIY content streaming on your gadgets

Virgin Australia passengers could soon enjoy the wonders of airborne WiFi under a joint development project with Lufthansa Systems.…

Android gets 'flashy', 'social' holiday treats

Posted: 19 Dec 2011 12:18 PM PST

Adobe gifts Flash 11.1 as promised, dev goodies unwrapped as well

The final major update of Adobe's Flash Player for mobile devices, version 11.1, has appeared for Android 4.0, aka Ice Cream Sandwich (ICS).…

Saudi prince buys $300m sliver of Twitter

Posted: 19 Dec 2011 10:36 AM PST

Tiny-revenue microblogger really worth $10bn?

A Saudi prince whose investment company claims to have a fondness for free speech has plopped $300m into the coffers of Twitter, the 140-characters-at-a-time social networking service widely touted as an enabler of this year's Arab Spring.…

Fusion-io board gets ex-HP hotshot

Posted: 19 Dec 2011 09:21 AM PST

IT giant's old chief technology officer

Shane Robison, the ex-HP chief technology officer, has joined the board of server flash seller Fusion-io.…

OpenText lures new CEO from SGI

Posted: 19 Dec 2011 08:51 AM PST

Barrenechea back to software

Supercomputer maker Silicon Graphics has lost its president and CEO, Mark Barrenechea – a longtime executive with a specialty in the software business – to enterprise content management software provider OpenText.…

US gov split over new domain explosion

Posted: 19 Dec 2011 08:33 AM PST

NTIA is on ICANN's side for once ...

ICANN is receiving mixed messages from the US government over its plans to dramatically expand the number of top-level domains available on the internet.…

iPad scammers pwn Lady Gaga's Facebook page

Posted: 19 Dec 2011 08:03 AM PST

We're plastic but we'll still have fun...

Fraudsters have hit gold after they managed to successfully plant an iPad-themed scam on the Facebook fan page of Lady Gaga.…

Parody is illegal, say barmy bureaucrats

Posted: 19 Dec 2011 07:32 AM PST

Our prisons are full of oppressed satirists, apparently

The IPO chose Office Party Friday last week to unveil 15 more proposals on intellectual property reform. This is traditionally the most alcoholic workday of the year - and ministers might need another stiff drink as they digest the surprises that ideologically fanatical bureaucrats have been preparing for them. Among the proposals is the suggestion to make copyright opt-in, which means the UK will be breaching European and international law, and the strange notion that parody and satire are illegal in the UK.…

Benchmarks are $%#&@!!

Posted: 19 Dec 2011 07:00 AM PST

Secrets and solutions from a reformed benchmarketer

At SC11 I ran into Henry Newman, CEO of HPC consulting firm Instrumental Inc. After exchanging the usual pleasantries and deeply offensive personal insults, we got to talking about some of the recently released benchmark results – and how irrelevant most of them are to the real world.…

Creepy photo-tagging tech slotted into Google+

Posted: 19 Dec 2011 06:36 AM PST

'Find my face' feature lands

Eric Schmidt may have been creeped out by the idea of using huge facial databases to identify individuals online, but that hasn't stopped Google from debuting its own version of the technology.…

A Short History of Virtualisation, now on Kindle

Posted: 19 Dec 2011 06:15 AM PST

Share a little time, and money, with El Reg

If you've ever wondered what time-sharing, multics and Unix have to do with today's hypervisor technologies, or why you should consider the global environment when planning your virtual machine strategy, then you'll want to read The Register's A Short History of Virtualisation, on Kindle.…

Samsung hauls Apple into court over emoticon patent :-(

Posted: 19 Dec 2011 06:02 AM PST

Now the big guns are coming out in smartphone war

Samsung has opened a new offensive in its ongoing patent dispute with smartphone arch-rival Apple.…

AT&T gives up on T-Mobile pre-merge purge

Posted: 19 Dec 2011 05:49 AM PST

Telco mulled flogging assets to save deal

Talks to sell off some of AT&T's assets to make its merger with T-Mobile USA seem a little less anticompetitive have reportedly stalled.…

Comet Lovejoy survives brush with fiery solar death

Posted: 19 Dec 2011 05:28 AM PST

Space rock improbably flies through the heat of the Sun

Suicidal comet Lovejoy has survived its brush with death in the furnace of the Sun, emerging from behind the star in one (smaller) piece.…

Bah, humbug! Virgin Media censors Charles D**kens

Posted: 19 Dec 2011 05:07 AM PST

EPG in ginormous Hitchc**k-up!

Some Virgin Media telly customers attempting to tune in to various programmes over the weekend were greeted with ludicrous censoring of well-known names, such as Charles D**kens and Jarvis C**ker.…

The Best of <em>El Reg</em> 2011 now on Kindle

Posted: 19 Dec 2011 04:45 AM PST

Vulture picks over remains of 2011 to make enormous twizzler

Worried about spending the Festive period picking over the remains of finger buffets or over bred, under cooked turkeys?…

Ailing HMV sees tech sales' bright spot among dire music biz

Posted: 19 Dec 2011 04:22 AM PST

Behold, His Master's Voice Fondleslab

Struggling music retailer HMV has reported that its technology sales jumped 42 per cent, after it refitted more than half of its stores to focus on punting fondleslabs.…

Cops seek clues to $1.7m tablet snatch

Posted: 19 Dec 2011 04:12 AM PST

22 pallets of BlackBerry PlayBooks lifted

Thieves made away with $1.7m worth of RIM BlackBerry PlayBook tablets last week in Chesterfield, Indiana.…

Laptop bags: netbooks and tablets

Posted: 19 Dec 2011 04:00 AM PST

Small screen carriers

Xmas Gift Guide  Fed up of lugging your laptop around in a tatty old backpack? Fancy something a little more stylish? Feel your other half ought to carry a pack that's more chic? Here are five of the best laptop bags for tablets, netbooks and Ultrabooks that Reg Hardware saw during 2011.…

Blast at Apple gear factory hurts 61

Posted: 19 Dec 2011 03:44 AM PST

Workers hospitalised after Shanghai plant explosion

An explosion at an Apple supplier's factory injured 61 workers and put 23 of them in hospital.…

Belkin LiveAction Camera Grip

Posted: 19 Dec 2011 03:33 AM PST

Get a grip….

Geek Treat of the Week  Hats off to Belkin for coming up with some really neat iOS-oriented gadgets just lately. Following on from its kitchen stands for the iPad, it has now come up with some handy little photographic accessories for the iPhone. The first one to arrive is the LiveAction Camera Grip, with an external microphone and remote control unit on the way as well.…

Sony creates paper battery

Posted: 19 Dec 2011 03:07 AM PST

Pulp friction

Sony boffins have built a battery out of paper.…

BT's gift to Google: A patent war over ads and Android

Posted: 19 Dec 2011 03:01 AM PST

Music, Maps, Adwords and mobile OS land Google in court

It's open season now. BT is the latest company to sue Google, alleging patent infringement, but this latest barrage extends beyond Google's Android software - it touches to other Google services too. These include maps, music, social networking and its advertising services, including Adwords, claims BT.…

Zombie Microsoft antitrust case shuffles to retrial

Posted: 19 Dec 2011 02:21 AM PST

Jury 'hopelessly' deadlocked

Novell's reanimated antitrust case against Microsoft's Word is reported to have hit "hopeless" deadlock, with Novell pushing for a fresh trial.…

Vote for the year's best games

Posted: 19 Dec 2011 01:54 AM PST

State of play

Reg 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.…

Oracle, Cisco crow new database flash dash record

Posted: 19 Dec 2011 01:47 AM PST

Best 2-CPU server result ever - with Violin's chips

Oracle claims a world-record TPC-C result with its database running on a Cisco server and not an Exadata system, although doesn't mention that two Violin memory flash arrays were needed.…

Whitehall: Govt-related private email, texts <i>will</i> be uncloaked

Posted: 19 Dec 2011 01:23 AM PST

Civil servants told messages can targeted by Freedom of Info requests

Messages in private email accounts, text messages and other messaging systems can be disclosed under freedom of information (FOI) laws if they relate to public business, the FOI regulator has confirmed.…

Somerset buses bin paper tickets, sniff journey-logging chips

Posted: 19 Dec 2011 01:02 AM PST

The future is smartcard bus passes

Somerset county council is to introduce smartcard electronic ticket reading machines for bus passengers with free passes issued by the authority.…

Shoppers love fondling iPads to fill out sex health survey

Posted: 19 Dec 2011 12:06 AM PST

'Rate my NHS' poll suddenly popular when shiny tech appears

A survey conducted using iPads has helped an NHS cluster reach out more people in quicker time for their views on local health services.…

ACCC flags shift in regulation

Posted: 18 Dec 2011 03:30 PM PST

Future of ADSL still matters while Oz waits for NBN

The ACCC has re-opened the long-standing debate about wholesale ADSL regulation, issuing a discussion paper as the precursor to an inquiry as to whether the sector needs greater regulation.…

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