Oz domain regs running at 60k per month

Oz domain regs running at 60k per month


Oz domain regs running at 60k per month

Posted: 17 Jan 2012 03:30 PM PST

Deloitte forgets history

Deloitte Access Economics has announced an 'explosion' in Australian domain registrations compared to ten years ago, in a report released today.…

Microsoft aims at VMware with System Center 2012

Posted: 17 Jan 2012 02:56 PM PST

Offers future-proofing with unlimited VMs

Microsoft is taking the fight to VMware with a new release candidate of Systems Center 2012 which includes a new pricing structure and eight management tools that run on a unified interface. Ever humble, Microsoft is billing it as the future of private cloud systems.…

Data centers to cut LAN cord?

Posted: 17 Jan 2012 02:38 PM PST

60GHz wireless links ease east-west traffic jams

People are using cell phones and killing their landlines. We have wireless networks in the home to connect our myriad devices. And maybe wireless is coming to the data center, as well.…

Microsoftie takes over HP's strategy

Posted: 17 Jan 2012 02:24 PM PST

Veghte to keep Meg & Co 'on top'

Bill Veghte, the former Microsoft hotshot that was brought in to run HP's small but important software business back in May 2010, has been named the company's chief strategy officer.…

Yahoo! cofounder! Jerry! Yang! quits!

Posted: 17 Jan 2012 02:16 PM PST

End of an era for internet portal

In a surprise announcement, Yahoo! cofounder Jerry Yang has said that he's stepping down from all positions in the company, and from the board of directors of Alibaba, effective immediately.…

Google to join Wednesday's anti-SOPA protest

Posted: 17 Jan 2012 02:06 PM PST

No blackout, though other website shutdowns multiply

Google will join Wednesday's anti-SOPA and anti–PROTECT IP Act (aka PIPA) protest by noting its opposition to the bills on its home page.…

NEC claims terabit-plus record with 10,000 km hop

Posted: 17 Jan 2012 02:00 PM PST

High capacity for oceanic links

NEC has demonstrated a single fibre link – with no repeaters – running at 1.5 terabits per second over 10,000 km. The company says this is the first time that a single laser source has sent a terabit channel over such a distance.…

Southern Cross Cable offers discount bandwidth

Posted: 17 Jan 2012 01:30 PM PST

Beefs up network for NBN and UFB action

The Southern Cross Cable network has increased capacity and dropped its prices by 44 percent to keep up with competitive projects.…

Nissan unveils 'self-healing' iPhone case

Posted: 17 Jan 2012 12:43 PM PST

Magic auto paint vanquishes scratched shiny-shiny

Japanese automaker Nissan's European arm is migrating the company's "pioneering self-healing paint" to the world of pocketable shiny-shiny, introducing an iPhone case that removes its own scratches with nary a buff nor a polish.…

Rumoured 'GarageBand for e-books' to bulldoze textbook biz

Posted: 17 Jan 2012 10:34 AM PST

Apple hype machine powers up for Thursday

A new app from Apple will emerge this week allowing users to create their own books - and steamroller the textbook industry - according to moles claiming to be close to the fruity tech titan.…

ScaleXtreme makes cloud hopping easier

Posted: 17 Jan 2012 10:11 AM PST

Xpert system, Xpress freebie take on the big boys

Cloudy toolmaker ScaleXtreme has rolled out an easier-to-use update to its Xpert server-admin tool in its continuing effort to take on the big initials of systems management: IBM, HP, BMC, and CA.…

Boffins quarrel over ridding world of leap seconds

Posted: 17 Jan 2012 10:02 AM PST

What should set the time - atomic watches or the sunrise?

The measurement and regulation of time could start to change this week if an ITU meeting in Geneva, Switzerland, gives the nod.…

Cloudy servers shoot to the stratosphere

Posted: 17 Jan 2012 09:34 AM PST

Rise of the ODMs

Building out cloudy server and storage services as well as support the gazillion of apps running on iOS and Android devices has the cloudy server business absolutely exploding, say the box-counters at market researcher iSuppli.…

Enterprise IT's power shift threatens server-huggers

Posted: 17 Jan 2012 09:02 AM PST

Users get what they need, not what you want

Open ... and Shut  It's not that the role of enterprise IT is dying. It's just that it's changing so much that it may soon be virtually unrecognisable from its golden age of installing servers and managing data centres.…

Women pick the family's mobile tech - and pay for it too

Posted: 17 Jan 2012 08:33 AM PST

Sit down chaps, it's nothing for you to worry your little heads about

American women are increasingly selecting their families' mobile tech, and paying the bills too, according to the latest figures from US wireless trade body CTIA.…

HP hawks huge 132in 'tablet'

Posted: 17 Jan 2012 08:24 AM PST

Monster multi-touch fondle... wall

HP unveiled a behemoth this week, catering for the BFGs of the world with a 132in multi-touch display.…

Amazon blows $95m on Chinese warehouse

Posted: 17 Jan 2012 08:01 AM PST

Parks more gift-laden tanks on China's lawn

Amazon is reportedly pumping $95m (£61m) into an e-commerce distribution centre in the Chinese city of Nanning, Guangxi Province.…

Nekkid Tech: Why Amazon is the crack dealer of cloud

Posted: 17 Jan 2012 07:29 AM PST

Funk soul brother

Podcast  Greg Knieriemen and trusty sidekick Ed Saipetch have posted another Nekkid Tech classic. This week they chat to Mark Twomey (aka "StorageZilla") and "disruptive tech diva" Christina Weil.…

Samsung to raise $1bn in US bonds for Texas plant

Posted: 17 Jan 2012 07:02 AM PST

Punts MeeGo carcass into Bada fold

Samsung is planning to raise a billion dollars to fund US expansion, and will be pushing Tizen onto Americans as a Bada-compatible platform, with Intel's help.…

McDonald's punters offered sex in exchange for Chicken McNuggets

Posted: 17 Jan 2012 06:42 AM PST

Drive-thru strumpet cuffed for fast food indecent proposal

A Los Angeles woman earned herself a cuffing for allegedly offering McDonald's drive-thru punters "sexual favours" in return for Chicken McNuggets.…

White House shelves SOPA... now what?

Posted: 17 Jan 2012 06:23 AM PST

We can ditch the laws when the Valley's snotty web teens grow up

Analysis  I am going to propose something that may sound radical, but really isn't. Legislation like SOPA ideally isn't necessary in an ideal world, and this idea comes about through voluntary agreeement. The Stop Online Piracy Act was proposed because of a tragic impasse, a lack of agreement between two powerful and deeply entrenched sides. Although one side has moral force on its side, being 'right' doesn't mean it's going to 'win'. Like a classic game theory tragedy, both sides are losing.…

Motorola strengthens Defy+ with JCB logo

Posted: 17 Jan 2012 06:09 AM PST

Do ya dig it?

Motorola's Defy+ handset is already touted as a tough-as-nails smartphone, embracing the elements and surviving tumbles from great heights. However, for those who need to turn things up to 11, the company has teamed with digger maker JCB to launch an even more rugged version of the beefy blower.…

Fresh Apple lawsuits target 15 Samsung gadgets

Posted: 17 Jan 2012 06:02 AM PST

Design ethos nicked, allegedly

Apple is having another go at Samsung, telling a German court that it thinks ten of the South Korean giant's phones ape its established design language.…

Porno cyber-squatter landed in Branson pickle

Posted: 17 Jan 2012 06:01 AM PST

Richardbranson.xxx is Virgin on ridiculous, complains Sir

Virgin Group founder Sir Richard Branson has filed a cybersquatting complaint over the domain name richardbranson.xxx.…

Work from home, find a new hobby, buy a fountain - UK.gov

Posted: 17 Jan 2012 05:43 AM PST

New advice site saves your boss cash while you stay in bed

Anywhere Working, the government-backed initiative to get us chipping in towards the cost of offices, now has a working website hub portal and advice on picking the perfect fountain.…

NSA constructs hardened Android, unleashes it on world

Posted: 17 Jan 2012 05:23 AM PST

Vicious apps squashed by super-spook mobile OS

The US Defense Department's The National Security Agency (NSA) has released a security-hardened version of Google's mobile OS, Android.…

Woz praises Android, blasts iPhone limitations

Posted: 17 Jan 2012 04:59 AM PST

Apple co-founder speaks out

Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak has underlined his love for Android handsets, stating his gripes with the iPhone and why in many ways he prefers Google's OS.…

Google accused of vandalising OpenStreetMap

Posted: 17 Jan 2012 04:57 AM PST

But OSM admin dismisses claim as 'mountain out of tiny pimples'

Google has once again been accused of underhand business tactics, this time by OpenStreetMap. The not-for-profit organisation published a light-on-detail blog post alleging that Mountain View was "moving and abusing" the mapping outfit's data.…

Microsoft raises 'state of the art' son of NTFS

Posted: 17 Jan 2012 04:46 AM PST

Will join forces with Storage Spaces in Windows 8

Microsoft has unveiled a "state of the art" file system for the next 10 years that builds on NTFS.…

RIM readies 7in, 10in BlackBerry tablets for 2012

Posted: 17 Jan 2012 04:31 AM PST

Second time lucky?

RIM seems unwilling to give up on tablets, if what's claimed to be a leaked roadmap is correct.…

Apple offers cash for old kit

Posted: 17 Jan 2012 04:14 AM PST

iDevices, Macs, PCs even

Apple has begun paying punters for any of its old products they own but no longer want.…

Darwin's lost fossils found down the back of a cupboard

Posted: 17 Jan 2012 04:11 AM PST

Always in the last place you'd look - a vault in Surrey

Fossils collected by a young Charles Darwin have been discovered in a gloomy corner of a British Geological Survey vault.…

RIM BlackBerry Bold 9790

Posted: 17 Jan 2012 04:03 AM PST

Touch and type slimline smartie

Review  A recent rash of BlackBerry 7 handsets sees RIM's Bold 9790 sitting in the middle of the range and with a tempting feature set for BBM fans. For starters, the manufacturer's classic Qwerty keyboard is paired up with a touchscreen.…

Japanese boffins fear virus nicked spacecraft blueprints

Posted: 17 Jan 2012 04:03 AM PST

Tokyo, we have a problem

Japanese space engineers have admitted one of their computers has been infected by a Trojan that may have leaked sensitive data, including system login information, to hackers.…

Xmas actually <i>accelerates</i> Dixons sales drop

Posted: 17 Jan 2012 03:43 AM PST

Hardware sellers record 5% quarterly fall in sales

Dixons are facing a grim new year as it was revealed that the Christmas season actually accelerated their decline in sales. Takings across Dixons stores and the Currys and PC World outlets run by the company fell by 5 per cent compared to the quarter before, reveal figures published today.…

Iraq demands return of Saddam Hussein's arse

Posted: 17 Jan 2012 03:31 AM PST

Ex-SAS bloke in bronze rump rumpus

The Iraqi government is demanding the return of a piece of Saddam Hussein's tyrannical arse "liberated" by a former SAS soldier during the fall of the dictator's regime in 2003.…

Apple will not kill iPad 2 at iPad 3 debut

Posted: 17 Jan 2012 03:23 AM PST

LCD orders suggest 25m old iPads to ship this year

Apple is ordering fewer 9.7in, 1024 x 768 IPS LCD panels but it hasn't cut out the part entirely. That suggests it does indeed plan to continue selling the iPad 2 after the LTE-equipped iPad 3 has gone on sale in March.…

Sony goes SuperSpeed with MicroVault Mach

Posted: 17 Jan 2012 03:23 AM PST

USB 3.0 Flash drives ahoy!

Sony has upgraded its MicroVault line of USB Flash drives to USB 3.0.…

Zombie Olympics ticket resale site resurrected TODAY

Posted: 17 Jan 2012 03:14 AM PST

Oh, you want to buy a pass? Wait until April

London 2012 organisers are finally, albeit partially, reanimating their swamped ticket resale website.…

Clouds must be transparent

Posted: 17 Jan 2012 03:00 AM PST

Customers want to see what they're paying for

Deep Dive  Public cloud computing won't be successful unless its providers make the full breadth of services transparent and accountable. Customers must be able to see what they are getting and know it has been delivered.…

Steve Jobs action figure kicks the bucket

Posted: 17 Jan 2012 02:51 AM PST

GI Jobs KIA

The Steve Jobs action figure project has been killed, although this time there was no "Oh Wow" moment, and the move was hardly a shocker.…

Symantec gobbles email warehouse LiveOffice

Posted: 17 Jan 2012 02:41 AM PST

Cloudy archiving for just $115m

Symantec has gone and bought itself a cloud archiver, LiveOffice, for $115m, and is now integrating its archival storage and eDiscovering offerings more closely.…

AMD readies answer to Intel's Ultrabook

Posted: 17 Jan 2012 02:33 AM PST

'Ultrathin' PC, anyone?

How powerful is the Ultrabook brand? AMD is betting it is less important to punters - and laptop vendors - than price. The chip maker is to launch a platform for skinny machines in Q2.…

GAME: Our website wasn't hacked!

Posted: 17 Jan 2012 02:18 AM PST

Leaked account login details are bogus, says chain

Video games purveyor GAME says it has not been hacked after reports yesterday claimed that the retail biz had suffered a security breach.…

WikiHow

Posted: 17 Jan 2012 02:00 AM PST

The RTFM guide to life

Android App of the Week  All you techies, spare a thought for the dumb-as-a-bag-of-spanners portion of humanity who don't know how to use, maintain or get the most from the gadgets they already own.…

First ever private rocket to space station in launch delay

Posted: 17 Jan 2012 01:51 AM PST

'We'll go when we're good and ready', say Musk rocketeers

SpaceX, the private rocket firm helmed and in large part bankrolled by famous nerdwealth biz kingpin Elon Musk, has announced that its first attempt to send one of its Dragon capsules to the International Space Station will be further delayed.…

OCZ refunds punter for dud drive shortly after <i>El Reg</i> steps in

Posted: 17 Jan 2012 01:31 AM PST

Pure coincidence

OCZ promises to refund purchasers of failed solid-state drives, but at least in one case it seemed unable to do so - until Vulture Central poked its beak in.…

Olympics volunteers urged not to blab online

Posted: 17 Jan 2012 01:02 AM PST

A journo might be reading, fear organisers

Volunteers at this year's Olympics should not "get involved in detailed discussion about the games online", according to guildelines issued by organisers, a report says.…

Taxman two months late on cyber-crimefighters deadline

Posted: 17 Jan 2012 12:04 AM PST

HMRC still wants our dosh on time though

HMRC has missed a key deadline to create teams of cyber crime investigators and launch initiatives to counter the increased threat of web attacks on the authority's systems and customers.…

Motorola Xoom 2 Media Edition Android tablet

Posted: 16 Jan 2012 11:00 PM PST

Size of relief

Review  Like Goldilocks with porridge, I've yet to find a tablet size that I think is just right. Seven inch models are too small, 10.1 inchers too big. The iPad with its 9.7in screen should do the trick but it's just too square for me – physically and metaphorically.…

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