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- Two million-degree matter from SLAC laser
- HP outlines schedule for full WebOS open source release
- O2 apologizes for 'unintended' number-leak cockup
- Fusion-io revenues flash upwards
- Intel issues dividend, Apple sits on $97.6bn
- Nekkid Tech: Pricey frocks, Duran Duran and VMware power users
- Tucci to hang around another year as EMC earnings soar
- Super Micro awaits the Xeon E5 launch
- Amazon bridges enterprise IT with cloud backup
- Why O2 shared your mobile number with the world
- Nvidia hit by GPU slump, too
- EE and BT get LTE extension
- Quad-core Samsung Galaxy S III set for April launch
- pcAnywhere let anyone anywhere inject code into PCs
- OpIreland hackers spank gov sites as 'Irish SOPA' nears
- Telly makers aim to put OLED in your lounge in 2012
- Dell fluffs up fatter Microsoft private clouds
- Try a 'shroom before ruling on chill pills, boffin tells gov
- Pwn2Own 2012 touts bigger prizes, drops mobile hacks
- Apple's soaraway growth is Google's pain - and here's why
- The Pirate Bay torrents printable 3D objects
- Google plays the long game with ChromeOS
- O2 3G stops giving punters' mobile numbers to websites
- Microsoft to cash in chips on virtual currency
- Groupon banned from selling SNAKE OIL
- EU commissioner unleashes draft data protection bill
- Lego readies kit for Minecraft lovers
- Acer unleashes account managers on corporate customers
- Paramount opens Cloud-based movie shop
- iPad users 'risk shoulder pain', say US gov, Microsoft boffins
- Punters to pick up cheap laptops not Ultrabooks
- Reding's 'right to be forgotten' bill polarises Euro biz world
- Toshiba Qosmio DX730 PC TV combo
- Loyal NASA rover Opportunity enters 9th year of Mars boffinry
- Pope praises Twitter and your 'profound' tweets
- O2 leaks 3G users' mobile numbers to every website visited
- Super-powered 'frankenmalware' strains detected in the wild
- Acer bids to raise prices after levelling inventory mountain
- Megaupload master loses Call of Duty crown
- London Underground Wi-Fi pusher to be announced in spring
- Scalextric restarts space race with Star Wars craft
- New Euro IP law promises artists torpedoes to sink pirates
- Nokia exec praises Brazilian...
- Google finally admits it wants to OWN YOU
- Infinity Blade II
- Dr Who phone game puts Daleks in your living room
- Facebook 'contributes' €15.3bn to EU economy... bitch
- Outside-the-box thinking literally can't be done inside a box, say profs
- Judges probe minister's role in McKinnon extradition saga
- Orange Tahiti 7in Android tablet
| Two million-degree matter from SLAC laser Posted: 25 Jan 2012 01:06 PM PST PICOSECOND PULSE OF DOOM!From "wow, that's cold" we now get to meet a "wow, that's hot" laser application, courtesy of the US Department of Energy's SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory: its X-ray laser has created and probed matter as hot as the Sun's corona.…
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| HP outlines schedule for full WebOS open source release Posted: 25 Jan 2012 12:35 PM PST Full development system out by SeptemberHP has announced the schedule for the open sourcing of WebOS tools and source code, and said it will be continuing to push development hard to build a truly open platform.… |
| O2 apologizes for 'unintended' number-leak cockup Posted: 25 Jan 2012 11:04 AM PST Will cooperate with Information Commissioner's probeO2 has issued a public apology for leaking the phone numbers of some 3G customers in header information sent to website managers.… |
| Fusion-io revenues flash upwards Posted: 25 Jan 2012 11:02 AM PST Market punishes Fusion for margin fallServer flash array vendor Fusion-io saw stonking quarterly revenues but disappointed with a loss despite unexpected higher sales. Did it under-price its ioDrive 2 products?… |
| Intel issues dividend, Apple sits on $97.6bn Posted: 25 Jan 2012 10:52 AM PST |
| Nekkid Tech: Pricey frocks, Duran Duran and VMware power users Posted: 25 Jan 2012 10:33 AM PST Live from New England VMUGPodcast Greg Knieriemen fought through a 1,000-strong crowd at the New England Area VMware User Group (VMUG) to bring El Reg readers a piping hot dose of Nekkid Tech.…
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| Tucci to hang around another year as EMC earnings soar Posted: 25 Jan 2012 10:01 AM PST Record-breaking dosh, but info intelligence not so cleverEMC recorded record revenues and profits for the full year and final quarter of 2011, although Information Intelligence results didn't look so clever.… |
| Super Micro awaits the Xeon E5 launch Posted: 25 Jan 2012 09:43 AM PST Disk shortage bites box shipmentsThe shortages of disk drives due to flooding in Thailand continues to take its toll on IT suppliers, with motherboard and whitebox system maker Super Micro joining the club of companies adversely impacted by the shortages.… |
| Amazon bridges enterprise IT with cloud backup Posted: 25 Jan 2012 09:32 AM PST Official at last: book-seller goes corporateAmazon has become an official supplier of enterprise IT by turning its cloudy Simple Storage Service (S3) into a back-up option for earth-bound data.… |
| Why O2 shared your mobile number with the world Posted: 25 Jan 2012 09:14 AM PST And why they'll probably do similar againO2 has been sharing customers' phone numbers with every website they visited, but O2 isn't the only offender - it's just the one that slipped up and got caught.… |
| Posted: 25 Jan 2012 08:59 AM PST Tegra 2 stepped on by Tegra 3Microprocessor and GPU maker Advanced Micro Devices said yesterday that its financial results had been whacked by an unexpected downturn in discrete graphics processor sales in the fourth quarter, and Nvidia now says it had the same problem.… |
| Posted: 25 Jan 2012 08:43 AM PST 180 lowenek Kernewek* won't have to give up their broadbandOfcom has granted BT and Everything Everywhere an extension to their test licence for cohabited LTE spectrum until the end of 2012, much to the relief of the trialists.…
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| Quad-core Samsung Galaxy S III set for April launch Posted: 25 Jan 2012 08:37 AM PST Rumour with a viewThe unannounced Samsung Galaxy S III will hit shelves in April with some meaty specs, including a quad-core processor and a 12Mp camera, it has been alleged.… |
| pcAnywhere let anyone anywhere inject code into PCs Posted: 25 Jan 2012 08:29 AM PST Symantec plugs holes in desktop remote-control toolSymantec is urging users to patch pcAnywhere, its remote control application, following the discovery of a brace of serious security flaws.… |
| OpIreland hackers spank gov sites as 'Irish SOPA' nears Posted: 25 Jan 2012 08:18 AM PST Angry hacktivists land on Irish shoresAnonymous took out several key Irish government websites last night and promised more disruption to come in retaliation for new SOPA-like legislation which it claimed would make it easier for copyright-holders to block access to file sharing and other sites in the country.… |
| Telly makers aim to put OLED in your lounge in 2012 Posted: 25 Jan 2012 08:12 AM PST Another five years to wait for the tech to mature? |
| Dell fluffs up fatter Microsoft private clouds Posted: 25 Jan 2012 07:58 AM PST More huffing and puffing later this yearDell is hedging its bets in the private cloud war that is ranging between VMware and Microsoft and has crafted two different versions of its vStart prefabbed clouds: one to run the vSphere stack (and thus ending with a "v") and another the Hyper-V-Systems Center stack (and thus ending with an "m"). Dell is today rolling out the largest Microsoft vStarts and promising to build even larger machines later this year to support both stacks.… |
| Try a 'shroom before ruling on chill pills, boffin tells gov Posted: 25 Jan 2012 07:27 AM PST Ministers 'irrational' on depression-busting hallucinogenThe government may never be able to "think rationally" about the therapeutic properties of hallucinogenic drugs, says Professor David Nutt. The top boffin was speaking on the publication of two new studies that show the anti-depressant qualities of magic mushrooms.… |
| Pwn2Own 2012 touts bigger prizes, drops mobile hacks Posted: 25 Jan 2012 07:02 AM PST Make $60,000 with a few carefully injected bytesOrganisers of security conference CanSecWest have changed the rules for the next outing of its Pwn2Own computer hacking contest.…
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| Apple's soaraway growth is Google's pain - and here's why Posted: 25 Jan 2012 06:48 AM PST |
| The Pirate Bay torrents printable 3D objects Posted: 25 Jan 2012 06:44 AM PST Yarr! Getting physical with small plastic modelsTremble, thing-makers, because The Pirate Bay has started to share the source files for physical objects.… |
| Google plays the long game with ChromeOS Posted: 25 Jan 2012 06:17 AM PST First the kids, then the commercial sectorGoogle is betting that slow and steady will prove a winning strategy for its ChromeOS platform, and is reporting some successes for the system in the education sector.… |
| O2 3G stops giving punters' mobile numbers to websites Posted: 25 Jan 2012 05:53 AM PST HTTP header blooper stamped out within hours after outcryAfter a flurry of complaints, O2 engineers appear to have shut off the proxy server quirk that leaked to websites the phone numbers of punters browsing the net on 3G connections.… |
| Microsoft to cash in chips on virtual currency Posted: 25 Jan 2012 05:47 AM PST Points breakMicrosoft will call time on its virtual currency, Microsoft Points, with a switch to real money on the cards later this year, it has been claimed.… |
| Groupon banned from selling SNAKE OIL Posted: 25 Jan 2012 05:29 AM PST Site unable to 'substantiate' serpent serum claims - ASAGroupon has been rapped for selling snake oil after the Advertising Standards Agency (ASA) ruled that the online deals giant couldn't substantiate their claims about the reptile juice.…
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| EU commissioner unleashes draft data protection bill Posted: 25 Jan 2012 05:18 AM PST Fines for fumbling punters' privates 'not watered down', Reding insistsEuropean Commission vice-president Viviane Reding was forced into a defensive corner today, after putting forward her proposed rewrite of the EU's 17-year-old data protection law.… |
| Lego readies kit for Minecraft lovers Posted: 25 Jan 2012 05:09 AM PST Block partyLego has given the green light to a set of the famous building bricks based on the world of the cult cyber-block game Minecraft.… |
| Acer unleashes account managers on corporate customers Posted: 25 Jan 2012 05:03 AM PST Uses Olympics gloss to burnish biz credentialsAcer will capitalise on its Olympics prominence this year by ratcheting up its SMB channel and setting an end-user sales team on the UK's biggest companies.… |
| Paramount opens Cloud-based movie shop Posted: 25 Jan 2012 04:51 AM PST PayPal support good news for non-US viewers |
| iPad users 'risk shoulder pain', say US gov, Microsoft boffins Posted: 25 Jan 2012 04:47 AM PST Too much time fondling your slab will leave you stiffBoffins employed by the US Department of Environmental Health and Microsoft (among others) say that users of tablet computing devices – an area almost completely dominated at the moment by Apple's iPad, selling in unbelievable numbers – run a more serious risk of "neck and shoulder discomfort" compared to people using normal desktop kit.… |
| Punters to pick up cheap laptops not Ultrabooks Posted: 25 Jan 2012 04:23 AM PST Consumers too price-wary for skinny tech, says analystUltrabooks are still too darn pricey for punters, with the new skinny laptops' average selling price during Q4 2011 63 per cent higher than that of regular notebooks.… |
| Reding's 'right to be forgotten' bill polarises Euro biz world Posted: 25 Jan 2012 04:11 AM PST Rewriting data protection law in internet ageEU Justice Commissioner Viviane Reding will imminently table a draft bill that will – if passed in Parliament – require internet firms to be upfront about the user data they hold.… |
| Toshiba Qosmio DX730 PC TV combo Posted: 25 Jan 2012 04:00 AM PST Touchscreen desktop entertainer |
| Loyal NASA rover Opportunity enters 9th year of Mars boffinry Posted: 25 Jan 2012 04:00 AM PST Plucky robot to sniff Endeavour's rimNASA's exploration rover Opportunity entered its historic ninth year of service on Mars today, having already driven over 21 miles and helped boffins make groundbreaking scientific discoveries on the unforgiving world.… |
| Pope praises Twitter and your 'profound' tweets Posted: 25 Jan 2012 03:48 AM PST Lol! Pontiff tries to get down with the kids, smh!!Pope Benedict XVI has given a tentative thumbs-up to micro-blogging sites such as Twitter, but explained to his followers that they may reap more spiritual reward by just piping down a bit online.…
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| O2 leaks 3G users' mobile numbers to every website visited Posted: 25 Jan 2012 03:32 AM PST Telco launches probeUpdated O2 UK is dishing out its customers' mobile numbers like free sweeties to every website they visit over a 3G connection.… |
| Super-powered 'frankenmalware' strains detected in the wild Posted: 25 Jan 2012 03:17 AM PST Virus-worm crossbreeds will trash systems faster than ever beforeViruses are accidentally infecting worms on victims' computers, creating super-powered strains of hybrid software nasties.… |
| Acer bids to raise prices after levelling inventory mountain Posted: 25 Jan 2012 03:06 AM PST 'Back to the old ways of working,' says UK bossAcer has said it expects ASPs to continue to climb this year as the market shifts to ultrabooks – even as the vendor finally levels the inventory mountain that bedevilled it last year.… |
| Megaupload master loses Call of Duty crown Posted: 25 Jan 2012 02:52 AM PST Dotcom bubble burstBeing held in custody is bad enough for anyone accused of a crime, but when it means you'll lose the number one position on the Call of Duty ranking boards, it's really gonna hurt.… |
| London Underground Wi-Fi pusher to be announced in spring Posted: 25 Jan 2012 02:49 AM PST Tube's wireless delivered in time for 2012 OlympicsTransport for London (TfL) is in the final stages of the tender process for the supply of Wi-Fi to up to 120 of its underground stations.… |
| Scalextric restarts space race with Star Wars craft Posted: 25 Jan 2012 02:41 AM PST X-Wings race TIE FightersToy Fair 2012 Hornby is at the London Toy Fair 2012 this week putting the Force into slot racing classic Scalextric with a series of Star Wars race kits.… |
| New Euro IP law promises artists torpedoes to sink pirates Posted: 25 Jan 2012 02:34 AM PST Commissioner wants to stop biz making cash off others' slogA revised EU anti-piracy laws will provide content creators with "solid legal certainty" when developing new ways for consumers to legitimately access their works, an EU Commissioner working on the legislation has said.… |
| Nokia exec praises Brazilian... Posted: 25 Jan 2012 02:19 AM PST ...for purchase of 1.5 millionth S40 handsetNokia has shipped 1.5bn Series 40 handsets, the milestone unit being snatched up by a Brazilian lass, 21-year-old Mayara Rodrigues.… |
| Google finally admits it wants to OWN YOU Posted: 25 Jan 2012 02:14 AM PST Big changes to Terms of Service due in MarchMountain View's Chocolate Factory is putting its vast userbase on notice of major changes to its privacy policies.… |
| Posted: 25 Jan 2012 02:00 AM PST In need of a quick slash?iGamer I liked the original Infinity Blade when it arrived just over a year ago, but it seemed to fall short of classic status due to the repetitive nature of the combat, the rigidly linear exploration and threadbare fantasy storyline.… |
| Dr Who phone game puts Daleks in your living room Posted: 25 Jan 2012 01:43 AM PST Augmented exterminationToy Fair 2012 Robotics toy tycoon WowWee is down at the Toy Fair 2012 in London this week with its range of smartphone games based on the notion of augmented-reality.… |
| Facebook 'contributes' €15.3bn to EU economy... bitch Posted: 25 Jan 2012 01:27 AM PST Tells small biz world to join social network armyThe UK economy might be down in the dumps, but there is a ray of sunshine from an unlikely source: Mark Zuckerberg's Facebook has supposedly helped to contribute £2.2bn to the country's GDP in 2011.… |
| Outside-the-box thinking literally can't be done inside a box, say profs Posted: 25 Jan 2012 01:02 AM PST Trick cyclists in fridge-carton tomfoolishnessTime-rich trick cyclists in Singapore and America have determined to their own satisfaction that it is actually much more difficult to think outside the box if you are, in reality, inside a large box at the time.… |
| Judges probe minister's role in McKinnon extradition saga Posted: 25 Jan 2012 12:02 AM PST Pentagon hacker's medical files ignoredThe long-running case of Gary McKinnon returns to court on Friday.… |
| Orange Tahiti 7in Android tablet Posted: 24 Jan 2012 11:00 PM PST Freshly squeezed fondleslab, anyone? |
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