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- Red Hat guns for VMware with RHEV 3.0
- Australia, US agree to space junk talks
- Atlassian get top G'day gong
- Chocolate Factory moves into the fridge
- Facebook ANZ boss unfriends gig
- Two PROTECT IP sponsors drop support for their own bill
- LightSquared accuses government of ‘rigged’ interference tests
- The Register to publish other sites' blacked-out content in SOPA protest
- Nexenta scores another $21m
- Cisco boasts of 10,000th server customer
- Xio shells data centre citadels with barrels of disks
- Peeking up the skirt of Microsoft's hardy ReFS
- Alleged Muscovite cybercrime daddy hauled in to face US court
- Mars attacks! Morocco pelted with rocks from the Red Planet
- Apple wants to OWN YOUR VERY SOLE
- Clearwire and China Mobile link up for 4G time-div trials
- George Lucas: 'No more Star Wars'
- Symantec 'fesses up: 'Code theft worse than we thought'
- WTF is... 802.11ac?
- Windows 8 hardware rules 'derail user-friendly Linux'
- Alienware takes aim at consoles with mini PC
- Homeless Intel science compo whiz off to see Obama
- Trevor explores Microsoft virtual training
- Ten.. laptop accessories
- Google boots out OpenStreetMap-nobbling contractors
- Samsung denies sniffing around RIM
- Virgin Media broadband goes titsup for 3 hours
- Russian boffins: US radar didn't fry Phobos-Grunt
- A preview of SOPA: Web shut down before my eyes
- Government launches hydrogen motoring task force
- Five Koobface botnet suspects named by New York Times
- Dizzy: the Ultimate Cartoon Adventure Part Deux
- Phages: The powerful new bio-ammo in superbug war
- NHS trust to digitise millions of patient records
- New stealthy botnet Trojan holds Facebook users hostage
- Fans goad Valve for Half-Life 3 gen
- German ISP doesn't have to block foreign 'illegal' betting sites
- Netgear ReadyNas Duo v2 network storage
- Another trans-Tasman link underway
- Plan hatched to view Milky Way's black hole heart
| Red Hat guns for VMware with RHEV 3.0 Posted: 18 Jan 2012 03:35 PM PST Linux virtualization – that's Shadowman's home turfRed Hat has built a $1bn company, more or less, predicated on the idea that open source Linux is cheaper than Windows or Unix and that open source Java application servers are cheaper than commercial alternatives like WebLogic and WebSphere.… |
| Australia, US agree to space junk talks Posted: 18 Jan 2012 03:30 PM PST America adds 'national security' caveatsAustralia and America have decided that Europe's moves against the half-a-million items of space junk might be a good thing.… |
| Posted: 18 Jan 2012 03:00 PM PST Praised for 10 years of uber innovationAustralian softwar darlings Atlassian has been recognised by the Australian government for its achievements, securing a G'Day USA Excellence in Innovation Award.…
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| Chocolate Factory moves into the fridge Posted: 18 Jan 2012 02:30 PM PST Chill no evilIt's hard to decide which is worse: the breathtaking triviality of the patent, or the idea that Google doesn't just want to see your fridge, it wants to track changes of ownership.… |
| Facebook ANZ boss unfriends gig Posted: 18 Jan 2012 01:43 PM PST Exits but set to stay in AustraliaFacebook downunder is without a leader following the announcement that after less than three years in the country, Facebook Australia and New Zealand leader Paul Borrud will leave the house of Zuckerberg next month.… |
| Two PROTECT IP sponsors drop support for their own bill Posted: 18 Jan 2012 12:46 PM PST Politicians scatter in the face of public ireTwo of the co-sponsors of the PROTECT IP anti-piracy bill currently working its way through Congress have dropped support for the legislation.… |
| LightSquared accuses government of ‘rigged’ interference tests Posted: 18 Jan 2012 12:45 PM PST Company claims collusion with the GPS industryLightSquared has issued a public protest over the results of GPS interference testing by the US government of its planned LTE mobile network, claiming the tests have been "rigged" to fail.… |
| The Register to publish other sites' blacked-out content in SOPA protest Posted: 18 Jan 2012 09:27 AM PST Vulture Central in selfless bid to save the internetUpdated As many Register readers will be aware, websites across the internet have pledged to black out all or part of their content as a protest against the proposed US Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA).…
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| Posted: 18 Jan 2012 09:07 AM PST Will use to grow until ... IPO?Privately held startup and ZFS zealot Nexenta has snagged $21m in a C funding round and, as the self-proclaimed fastest-growing growing company in enterprise storage, is ready to power on to IPO-land and Croesus-level riches for its backers – or so they wish.… |
| Cisco boasts of 10,000th server customer Posted: 18 Jan 2012 08:31 AM PST $1.1bn in iron a year, and snowballingThe jury is still out as to whether Cisco Systems' foray into servers hasn't done more harm than good to its overall business, but one thing seems certain: the business is growing. Cisco's iron is competing and the Unified Computing System blade and rack servers cannot be called a failure.… |
| Xio shells data centre citadels with barrels of disks Posted: 18 Jan 2012 08:08 AM PST Growing Hyper ISE biz eyes up global dominationXio, under fresh new executive management, is renewing its assault on computer data centres, convinced that this time, with a better, more focused business structure, it can breach the big data centre citadel walls it has been assaulting time after time.… |
| Peeking up the skirt of Microsoft's hardy ReFS Posted: 18 Jan 2012 07:32 AM PST Getting under the skin of Windows 8's new server filesystemAs reported this past fortnight, Microsoft's new Storage Spaces for Windows 8 is only half the story; the operating system builder is also throwing in a new Resilient File System (ReFS) while retaining most NTFS features and semantics.… |
| Alleged Muscovite cybercrime daddy hauled in to face US court Posted: 18 Jan 2012 06:56 AM PST Feds allege père et fils duo scooped $100ks using malwareA suspected Russian cyber-crook has arrived in the US to face charges of security fraud, computer hacking and ID theft following his deportation from Switzerland.… |
| Mars attacks! Morocco pelted with rocks from the Red Planet Posted: 18 Jan 2012 06:19 AM PST Ochre space bonanza worth ten times its weight in goldExcited boffins have confirmed that a meteorite shower over Morocco last July dumped about 7kg of Martian rocks on our planet.… |
| Apple wants to OWN YOUR VERY SOLE Posted: 18 Jan 2012 05:57 AM PST Patented location-garb, shoes points out nearest bogsClothes that track your every move could fill Apple fanbois' wardrobes after the fruity tech titan patented new wearable technology. The designs, approved yesterday, describe "smart garments" with embedded sensors and a two-way communications link to an external database.… |
| Clearwire and China Mobile link up for 4G time-div trials Posted: 18 Jan 2012 05:39 AM PST I don't want to pair up, I want to have one after anotherAs part of the Global TD-LTE Initiative US-based Clearwire and China Mobile are joining forces to test time-divisioned networks in both countries, though we'll likely see the technology in the UK too.… |
| George Lucas: 'No more Star Wars' Posted: 18 Jan 2012 05:22 AM PST Director calls quits on blockbustersGeorge Lucas has announced his retirement from the movie business.… |
| Symantec 'fesses up: 'Code theft worse than we thought' Posted: 18 Jan 2012 05:21 AM PST pcAnywhere users - batten down the hatchesSymantec has backtracked on its previous assurances about a recent source code theft, admitting its network was breached and code for a larger number of products than previously thought was swiped.… |
| Posted: 18 Jan 2012 05:02 AM PST Kit makers beam in next-gen Wi-FiWireless networks are never fast enough, but for the moment at least they are generally quicker at shifting packets of data than the broadband connections they're typically linked to.… |
| Windows 8 hardware rules 'derail user-friendly Linux' Posted: 18 Jan 2012 04:46 AM PST Installing OS will be a pain for newbies, says Red Hat blokeThe question of whether Secure Boot technology in UEFI firmware could exclude Linux from PCs running Windows 8 has taken a fresh twist.…
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| Alienware takes aim at consoles with mini PC Posted: 18 Jan 2012 04:37 AM PST Desktop 360Alienware joined the mini PC biz this week, revealing a powerful games machine roughly the same size as an Xbox.… |
| Homeless Intel science compo whiz off to see Obama Posted: 18 Jan 2012 04:34 AM PST Teen semifinalist gets invite to State of the Union addressIntel science competition semifinalist Samantha Garvey has been invited to attend US President Barack Obama's State of the Union address.… |
| Trevor explores Microsoft virtual training Posted: 18 Jan 2012 04:32 AM PST Designs, UI and information overload?I've spent quite a bit of time recently exploring Microsoft Virtual Academy (MVA). Putting aside the site's content, I think that the website design itself is worth a discussion.… |
| Posted: 18 Jan 2012 04:02 AM PST Gadgets to goProduct round-up Those of you with laptops will undoubtedly agree that even with all convenience of portable computing, there remain compromises aplenty. Yet add a gadget here and there and mobile working can be improved tremendously.… |
| Google boots out OpenStreetMap-nobbling contractors Posted: 18 Jan 2012 04:01 AM PST Don't be evil on our networkGoogle says it has kicked two unnamed contractors off its projects after OpenStreetMap alleged that someone working for the company had vandalised the free map service.… |
| Samsung denies sniffing around RIM Posted: 18 Jan 2012 03:41 AM PST Blog's BlackBerry biz buyout blab sparked share spikeA blog which reported Samsung was looking to buy RIM triggered a jump in the Canadian company's shares, before Samsung had the chance to deny it was interested in the company.… |
| Virgin Media broadband goes titsup for 3 hours Posted: 18 Jan 2012 03:19 AM PST Routing gear fingered for nationwide outageVirgin Media was hit by a major broadband service blackout early last night that affected an unspecified number of the telco's five million customers.… |
| Russian boffins: US radar didn't fry Phobos-Grunt Posted: 18 Jan 2012 03:02 AM PST Megawatt ray-gun not to blame for Martian probe fiascoRussian boffins have pooh-poohed the theory that duff Martian moon probe Phobos-Grunt failed to leave Earth's orbit because it had been knackered by US radar.…
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| A preview of SOPA: Web shut down before my eyes Posted: 18 Jan 2012 02:41 AM PST Hated anti-piracy laws will hit everyoneSysadmin blog On Saturday, 7 January, a Canadian DNS host named EasyDNS winked out of existence. This was a preview of what SOPA promises to be like.… |
| Government launches hydrogen motoring task force Posted: 18 Jan 2012 02:26 AM PST Can Britain be ready for 2014 h-car rollout?The UK government hopes Britons could be motoring in Hydrogen-powered cars as early as 2014, Business Minister Mark Prisk said today.… |
| Five Koobface botnet suspects named by New York Times Posted: 18 Jan 2012 02:25 AM PST Trojan coins millions for its masters, say researchersFive suspected masterminds behind the infamous Koobface botnet have been unmasked in a move abetted by Facebook to put the heat on cyber-crimelords.… |
| Dizzy: the Ultimate Cartoon Adventure Part Deux Posted: 18 Jan 2012 02:00 AM PST The agony and the eggstacyAntique Code Show For my money, one of the greatest games ever made for the Amstrad CPC was Fantasy World Dizzy. At age seven, I was positively ravenous for my fix of Dizzy's latest adventures, and my brimming fervour to play it was good training wheels for the likes of Sonic 2 and Street Fighter II: Special Champion Edition.… |
| Phages: The powerful new bio-ammo in superbug war Posted: 18 Jan 2012 01:32 AM PST Keep calm and carry on researchThey're the most abundant form of life on Earth – they have astonishing properties – and we know bugger-all about them.… |
| NHS trust to digitise millions of patient records Posted: 18 Jan 2012 01:04 AM PST IT director boasts: We're paper-lightThe Heart of England NHS foundation trust has signed a five-year deal to digitise its patient records.… |
| New stealthy botnet Trojan holds Facebook users hostage Posted: 18 Jan 2012 12:29 AM PST Victims must pay $25 to get back into stalkerbaseA new strain of cybercrime Trojan is targeting Facebook users by taking over their machines and shaking them down for cash.…
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| Fans goad Valve for Half-Life 3 gen Posted: 18 Jan 2012 12:14 AM PST Let us be FreemanFans of Valve's groundbreaking FPS franchise, Half-Life, have taken to the net en masse to voice their frustration regarding a lack of information on the series' next installment, Half-Life 3.… |
| German ISP doesn't have to block foreign 'illegal' betting sites Posted: 18 Jan 2012 12:02 AM PST Court: Deutsche Telekom not on the hook for site's contentA German internet service provider (ISP) does not have to block its customers from accessing foreign betting websites even if they are considered illegal in the country, according to reports.… |
| Netgear ReadyNas Duo v2 network storage Posted: 17 Jan 2012 11:00 PM PST ARM twist tacticsReview Netgear's ReadyNas Duo v2 appears to be identical to its predecessor from the outside, yet it actually represents a rather radical shift in hardware design for the company. This dual bay ReadyNas model does away with the Infrant Technologies IT3107 SPARC processor featured on earlier models and replaces it with a 1.6GHz ARM CPU in the form of a Marvell 88F6282.… |
| Another trans-Tasman link underway Posted: 17 Jan 2012 08:51 PM PST Huawei jumps on board OptikorThe ditch between Australia and New Zealand is getting a lot more hectic with moves for another trans-Tasman cable link underway.… |
| Plan hatched to view Milky Way's black hole heart Posted: 17 Jan 2012 04:56 PM PST Stargazers to test if Einstein was rightA conference being held this week in Arizona will lay the groundwork for an attempt to visualize the supermassive black hole that resides at the heart of our galaxy.… |
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