Ceglia fined for failing to show evidence of Facebook ownership

Ceglia fined for failing to show evidence of Facebook ownership


Ceglia fined for failing to show evidence of Facebook ownership

Posted: 11 Jan 2012 02:43 PM PST

How long will this farce continue?

Paul Ceglia has been fined $5,000 for failing to produce the evidence that he is the owner of half - or 84 per cent as he first claimed - of Facebook.…

Australia should head-hunt Michael Gove

Posted: 11 Jan 2012 02:30 PM PST

At least for long enough to rewrite computer education

Comment  Over in Blighty, there's an outbreak of sanity that puts at risk years of work by the computer industry to place itself at the centre of the education budget.…

Woolworths goes Door Busting for daily deals

Posted: 11 Jan 2012 02:00 PM PST

Soft launches with little razzle

Woolworths is the latest Australian retailer to enter the deal-of-the-day online fray, quietly launching "Door Buster" over the holiday period.…

The US patent yeast batch continues to swell

Posted: 11 Jan 2012 02:00 PM PST

Pity it makes lawsuits, not alcohol

Once again, for the 19th year in a row in fact, IBM is the king of new US patents awarded in a year and talk will now turn to the utility and futility of patents.…

Microsoft execs warn of PC sales drop in crucial Q4

Posted: 11 Jan 2012 01:59 PM PST

Blames Thai floods for stagnation

Senior Microsoft executives are warning that PC sales in the last quarter will be lower than expected, saying the effects of the floods in Thailand are having a lingering impact.…

Alca-Lu seizes Aus resource sector

Posted: 11 Jan 2012 11:31 AM PST

Scores biggest global project to date with Bechtel

After conquering Australia's biggest telecommunications project de jour, the NBN, Alcatel-Lucent has taken on the lucrative resource sector with gusto securing a construction contract with partner Bechtel for the $AU29 billion Wheatstone Project in remote Western Australia.…

Mozilla deploys Firefox safety net for corporate mindreaders

Posted: 11 Jan 2012 11:03 AM PST

Security fixes applied to as-yet-undisclosed older builds

Mozilla has pledged to update old versions of Firefox with security fixes, granting enterprises extra time to test and deploy major upgrades of the browser safe in the knowledge that vulnerabilities in existing installations will be patched.…

Dutch clog up The Pirate Bay (again)

Posted: 11 Jan 2012 10:31 AM PST

This time, we mean it

A Dutch court has ordered two popular ISPs to block access to The Pirate Bay, or face fines of €10,000 a day. The case was brought by Dutch anti-piracy coalition BREIN.…

Billions of potentially populated planets in the galaxy

Posted: 11 Jan 2012 10:27 AM PST

Loads of Earthlike worlds in the habitable zone around stars

There are billions of habitable planets in the Milky Way where aliens could be having their tea right now, according to a new six-year study.…

Super Micro server biz whacked by disk shortages

Posted: 11 Jan 2012 10:02 AM PST

And maybe the Xeon E5 delay, too?

Motherboard and whitebox server-maker Super Micro has warned Wall Street that its second quarter of fiscal 2012 ended in December is not going to be as rosy as it expected.…

SGI books $90m in ICE X super orders

Posted: 11 Jan 2012 09:57 AM PST

Exiting CEO stays on board of directors

Supercomputer maker Silicon Graphics just lost its president and CEO, Mark Barrenechea, to enterprise content management software supplier OpenText, and therefore it needs to talk up the business while its board looks for a replacement.…

Spammers hit mobes with QR code junkmail jump pads

Posted: 11 Jan 2012 09:32 AM PST

Ultimate URL obfuscator

Security researchers have spotted spam emails that point at URLs featuring embedded Quick Response codes (QR codes).…

Griffin plugs Midi for iPad musos

Posted: 11 Jan 2012 09:15 AM PST

Worth of note

Virgin Media to push out nimble new broadband speeds

Posted: 11 Jan 2012 08:58 AM PST

Telco to burn £110m on shoving 120Mbps through fibre

Virgin Media is planning to whip its broadband into a wild gallop in a £110m upgrade that will produce a top speed of 120Mbps.…

EE eyes up £400m payday at spectrum auction

Posted: 11 Jan 2012 08:32 AM PST

Everything Everywhere starts ball rolling through gritted teeth

Everything Everywhere has started consulting on how best to auction off the 30MHz of bandwidth it's required to give up, with a view to turning it into £400m in cash some time next month.…

Big stars give birth to little stars in new WISE pic

Posted: 11 Jan 2012 08:01 AM PST

Telescope provides evidence for secondary star formation

NASA's WISE space telescope has stitched together a panoramic view of the Milky Way where stars are born.…

Parrot puts on headphone gesture gadgetry

Posted: 11 Jan 2012 07:33 AM PST

Moves with the music

NASA's ageing black hole-stalking probe switched off

Posted: 11 Jan 2012 07:11 AM PST

X-ray-sniffing RXTE detected spacetime warping

Astronomers are marking the decommissioning of a satellite that has spent 16 years peering into black holes and neutron stars.…

Nekkid Tech: Barman, a pint of storage beer for my friend ...

Posted: 11 Jan 2012 07:04 AM PST

Live from London

Podcast  Nekkid Tech's 14th episode comes to you live from one of London's most venerated pubs, where locals have been swilling down pints through the reign of 14 monarchs.…

DIY virtual machines: Rigging up at home

Posted: 11 Jan 2012 06:33 AM PST

Set-ups for the time-rich and the rich-rich ...

Sysadmin blog  A brief look at virtual machines for home use resulted in several requests for system specifications and configuration details. It seems some of you would like to take a go at replicating my setup.…

T-Mobile 'fesses up to secure email ban gaffe

Posted: 11 Jan 2012 05:59 AM PST

Wild spam-hunting robots killed off SMTP connections

T-Mobile was caught blocking the secure transmission of emails earlier this month, and VPNs too, but the operator claims the former was a mistake while the latter is a legacy from a bygone era.…

Kids should be making software, not just using it - Gove

Posted: 11 Jan 2012 05:42 AM PST

Education Secretary orders IT curriculum overhaul

Education Secretary Michael Gove today proposed killing off Blighty's ICT curriculum in September to give it a thorough reboot.…

Polaroid develops Android camera combo

Posted: 11 Jan 2012 05:30 AM PST

Snaps and apps

GAGA prepares to munch some organic rug

Posted: 11 Jan 2012 05:21 AM PST

El Reg's robot lawnmower gets a name, and a sidekick

Following lengthy deliberations, our expert panel has agreed that our advanced robotic lawnmower shall henceforth be known as the Genuinely Autonomous Garden Assistant – or GAGA – and it gets a sidekick too.…

Bond Blu-ray box set marks 50 years on film

Posted: 11 Jan 2012 05:07 AM PST

Worth every Moneypenny

Churlish HSBC drops atomic-scale accuracy

Posted: 11 Jan 2012 05:02 AM PST

Your nearest tentacle now to within 1 mile

International banking monolith HSBC has rather churlishly reprogrammed its magnificent "Find your nearest branch" service so that customers are no longer given the distance to their closest tentacle to within a couple of quarks.…

ICANN snubs critics, opens domain extension floodgates

Posted: 11 Jan 2012 04:46 AM PST

Buy .whatever-you-want for just $185,000

Global domain name overseer ICANN has shrugged off intense criticism from big brands and parts of the US government, and will tonight start allowing companies to apply for new top-level domain names.…

RIM demos PlayBook OS2

Posted: 11 Jan 2012 04:34 AM PST

Finally, native email... a month from now

CES 2012  PlayBook owners should be getting native email next month, but as RIM's tablet gains independence it's also shifting away from the infrastructure which has served RIM so well.…

Apple accused of extortion by rival tablet biz

Posted: 11 Jan 2012 04:16 AM PST

And we're not talking iPhone prices

Tablet maker Nuevas Tecnologías y Energías Catalá, the company behind one of Apple's rare court defeats, is now taking the fruity tech titan to court for extortion.…

Dell dithers over fresh fondleslabs

Posted: 11 Jan 2012 04:03 AM PST

iPad effect delays development

Pure Highway 300Di in-car digital radio kit

Posted: 11 Jan 2012 04:00 AM PST

Beep-beep, yeah!

Data deluge, data desert or both?

Posted: 11 Jan 2012 03:50 AM PST

Information management in financial services

Reg research  Staying in business and keeping out of jail has dominated the financial services management agenda for the past few years and rightly so. IT has playing a crucial role in supporting those aims, helping organisations achieve regulatory compliance, in particular when it comes to the relevance, accuracy and timeliness of data delivered to the business.…

Google attacks Twitter's search bias claim

Posted: 11 Jan 2012 03:34 AM PST

Search Plus Your World a 'bad day for the net', says tweet biz

Google has come out fighting after Twitter claimed that changes to its search engine nobble results to favour Google+, damaging the internet.…

Nokia's nightmare: There's no room for a third ecosystem

Posted: 11 Jan 2012 03:24 AM PST

Why the mobile-maker faces a gruelling battle

Analysis  Humiliatingly, Nokia was forced to deny rumours last week that it was planning to break up and sell its crown jewels to Microsoft. Normally a company can remain impervious to Twitter-born gossip, particularly from a known antagonist.…

Suicidal Foxconn workers talked down from factory roof

Posted: 11 Jan 2012 03:11 AM PST

Staff threatened to jump in protest at Xbox plant

Scores of workers at the Foxconn factory in Wuhan, China, threatened mass suicide during a protest last week.…

Dell sprays hot fluid data across storage products

Posted: 11 Jan 2012 03:03 AM PST

Delivers 4 from Texas – Backup, SharePoint and SAN storage get the focus

Dell's fluid data is travelling faster and further, with its first Data Domain replacement box, a SharePoint object storage system, and more capable Compellent SANs that better support VMware and have faster network links.…

Dell debuts shrunken Ultrabook

Posted: 11 Jan 2012 02:58 AM PST

13in screen in an 11in chassis?

Media Player and BEAST fix star in Patch Tuesday update

Posted: 11 Jan 2012 02:57 AM PST

Roll up, roll up ... and upgrade already, chaps!

The first Patch Tuesday of 2012 rolled around with seven bulletins, including a postponed bulletin from December 2011 that plugs the BEAST SSL security flaw.…

Doomsday Clock ticks one minute closer to annihilation

Posted: 11 Jan 2012 02:31 AM PST

Nuke treaty feud brings humanity closer to destruction - boffins

The boffins who run the Doomsday Clock – an estimate of how close humanity is to annihilation by climate change or nuclear war - have just moved the minute hand one minute closer to midnight.…

Ex-Acer chief grasps reins of Lenovo's EMEA biz

Posted: 11 Jan 2012 02:22 AM PST

Gianfranco Lanci rides again

Gianfranco Lanci, who quit Acer after a series of boardroom wrangles nine months ago, has been picked up by rival computer company Lenovo to head up their operations in Europe, the Middle East and Africa.…

Groupon, Deutsche Telekom to cake EU in coupons

Posted: 11 Jan 2012 02:02 AM PST

Mobiles hooked up to daily deals drip

Daily deals site Groupon has signed a partnership agreement with Deutsche Telekom to push out coupon deals to mobile users in multiple European countries.…

OnLive

Posted: 11 Jan 2012 02:00 AM PST

Cloud gaming on your tablet and phone

Using phone-tracking tech? 'Fess up now, urges expert

Posted: 11 Jan 2012 01:29 AM PST

Shopping centres, stadiums among orgs sniffing YOUR whereabouts

The public should be informed when a building or facility operator uses systems to track the location and movements of mobile phones, a data privacy expert has said.…

GiffGaff boots freetards off mobile network

Posted: 11 Jan 2012 01:04 AM PST

Punters sick of top 1pc slurping third of all traffic

People-powered mobile phone network GiffGaff is debating how best to curb excessive data use, while kicking off a few customers considered to be really taking the biscuit.…

Patients to access NHS records via web by 2015

Posted: 11 Jan 2012 12:01 AM PST

What could possibly go wrong?

The Department of Health will develop a plan to allow patients to access their electronic medical records online by the end of this Parliament. This emerged after Andrew Lansley, the health secretary, confirmed he had accepted all of the recommendations (PDF) of the NHS Future Forum.…

X-Dream Rocker wireless gaming chair

Posted: 10 Jan 2012 11:00 PM PST

Are you sitting comfortably?

Lenovo to ship first Intel smartphone – in China only

Posted: 10 Jan 2012 07:35 PM PST

Motorola not far behind

CES 2012  The first Intel-based smartphone has been unveiled, but don't go looking for it at AT&T, Vodafone, Verizon, or Orange. When the Lenovo 800K ships in the second quarter of this year, you'll have to get yours from China Unicom.…

Intel caught faking CES ultrabook gaming demo

Posted: 10 Jan 2012 04:36 PM PST

Control panel gives the game away

CES 2012  Intel has been caught faking a demo at its press conference during the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas.…

French regulators investigate Oracle over Itanium pullout

Posted: 10 Jan 2012 04:06 PM PST

HP complains, Larry proclaims

The Autorité de la concurrence, the French national competition authority, has opened up an investigation into Oracle's decision to stop software development for future versions of Intel's Itanium processor family.…

Kinect plus tablet control insane skateboard

Posted: 10 Jan 2012 04:01 PM PST

A BEHEMOTH for the 21st century

What do you get when you combine a Kinect, a Samsung tablet and an electric skateboard? Well: it's really cool, even if the rider looks a bit silly.…

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