Yahoo! revenues! continue! to! decline!

Yahoo! revenues! continue! to! decline!


Yahoo! revenues! continue! to! decline!

Posted: 24 Jan 2012 03:08 PM PST

New CEO faces a mountain to climb

Yahoo! has released disappointing results for its fourth quarter, with earnings down 5 per cent and revenues falling a further 13 points.…

Whacked moon rocks yield up their secrets

Posted: 24 Jan 2012 03:00 PM PST

What happens when you shock zircon

Since NASA is trying to find the moon rock samples it once cheerfully scattered around the world, here's a hint: some of it is over at Curtin University in Western Australia.…

No bail for Kim Dotcom

Posted: 24 Jan 2012 02:42 PM PST

Come back in a month

Kim Dotcom has been denied bail in a New Zealand court, and remanded in custody until February 22. The reserved decision by district court judge David McNaughton has now been released.…

APN gets friendly with Pollenizer

Posted: 24 Jan 2012 02:30 PM PST

When old media and new media collide

Australasian print and radio media company APN News & Media has secured a deal with leading Australian digital start up incubator Pollenizer.…

Oz stalls e-health trials

Posted: 24 Jan 2012 02:00 PM PST

Pilot catches bugs in specs

Australia's e-health implementation has stalled because of cross-version software incompatibilities, it emerged yesterday.…

Apple tops estimates with earnings leap of 118 per cent

Posted: 24 Jan 2012 01:57 PM PST

Wall Street moneymen looking a wee bit silly

Apple blew past even the most optimistic Wall Street earnings estimates for the first quarter of its fiscal 2012, posting revenues of $46.33bn, resulting in a quarterly net profit of $13.06bn, or $13.87 per share.…

Nokia busted for dodgy SMS to customers

Posted: 24 Jan 2012 01:19 PM PST

Spam Act breach draws $AU55k wrist-slap

Nokia has fallen foul of the Australian Communications and Media Authority, incurring a $AU55,000 fine following consumer complaints over its SMS marketing practices.…

Anonymous explodes MegaUpload clone 'scam'

Posted: 24 Jan 2012 01:06 PM PST

AnonyUpload is nothing to do with us, sir

A supposedly "Anonymous-built" alternative to MegaUpload has been discredited by members of the hacktivist collective.…

Node.js sees Windows compatibility as key to success

Posted: 24 Jan 2012 01:05 PM PST

Avoiding the mistakes of Ruby on Rails

The creator of Node.js says he wants to avoid the mistakes of other development environments, and support cross-platform systems as much as possible.…

AT&T starts dishing out $1bn in radio frequencies

Posted: 24 Jan 2012 12:04 PM PST

Spectrum today, cash tomorrow

AT&T has asked the FCC to approve the transfer of a billion dollars' worth of radio spectrum to T-Mobile USA, to accompany the $3bn it will be handing to Deutsche Telecom.…

US govt security advice site trashed by hackers

Posted: 24 Jan 2012 11:06 AM PST

Hacktivist campaign against SOPA, PIPA and ACTA continues

Anonymous and LulzSec members have hacked US government security web site OnGuard Online and defaced it, forcing it offline, in retaliation for the recent MegaUpload takedown and the controversial Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA), the groups have announced.…

Antivirus startup Dasient flocks off to Twitter

Posted: 24 Jan 2012 10:27 AM PST

Bought-up securo biz and social site make tweet love

Twitter has acquired anti-malware startup Dasient. Financial terms of the deal, announced Monday, were undisclosed.…

Ultrabooks will devour notebook biz by 2016 - report

Posted: 24 Jan 2012 10:04 AM PST

MacBook Air threatened as Intel slimbooks get cheaper

All notebooks will look like Ultrabooks in five years' time as vendors find cheaper ways of offering the shiny Intel-based machines, according to a new report. The report's author also speculated that this move could force Apple to ditch its MacBook Air and look for a new form factor to invent.…

HUD's up! Ubuntu creates menu-free GUI

Posted: 24 Jan 2012 09:32 AM PST

No drop-downs in the future

Canonical has unveiled HUD, which it has billed as the "menu of the future" for its next Linux desktop.…

IBM and NEC tag team on OpenFlow networking

Posted: 24 Jan 2012 09:20 AM PST

Control freaking network configs from servers

IBM and NEC are joining forces to promote switches and controllers based on the OpenFlow protocol to their joint customers.…

Facebook sheds light on Nokia's Lumia sales

Posted: 24 Jan 2012 09:03 AM PST

App stats show gap between the platform and the sales train

Despite pushing half-second "break flashes" onto Channel 5 viewers – in contravention of Ofcom rules – Facebook figures seem to show the Lumia isn't selling as well as Nokia might have hoped.…

Microsoft fingers alleged Kelihos botnet kingpin

Posted: 24 Jan 2012 08:39 AM PST

Suspected coder once worked for Russian antivirus biz

Microsoft has filed a lawsuit against a Russian national who allegedly created and operated the Kelihos botnet, prior to a takedown operation in September 2011.…

Micron, Elpida, Nanya lust for a DRAM hot threesome

Posted: 24 Jan 2012 08:22 AM PST

Merge mulled to take on rampant South Korean rivals

The boys from Boise are on a roll after buying the ashes of Virtensys last week - now Idaho-based Micron is chatting up struggling Japanese memory maker Elpida and Taiwan's Nanya to form a 3-way merger.…

Facebook to shove Timeline in EVERYONE'S face soon

Posted: 24 Jan 2012 08:04 AM PST

Tick tock, bitch

Facebook is now pushing its Timeline feature to all of its users, after carrying out a slow reveal of the dominant social network's makeover to those people happy to upgrade to the new look.…

Is France's 'three strikes' anti-piracy banhammer working?

Posted: 24 Jan 2012 07:42 AM PST

IFPI says yes. We look at the file-sharer numbers

The global trade group for the record industry IFPI says France's 'graduated response' scheme HADOPI is helping win the war against piracy.…

Ultrabooks won't smash tablets, says analyst

Posted: 24 Jan 2012 07:31 AM PST

Fondleslabs to be a bigger seller for years

Ultrabooks will not outsell tablets, the next five years at least, though the new skinny laptop category will experience unit-shipment growth three times as fast as the tablet.…

Apple's Dutch Galaxy Tab ban shot down by The Hague

Posted: 24 Jan 2012 07:24 AM PST

Trendy tech titan takes a hit as patent war reaches The Netherlands

The Dutch have found themselves on the front line of the long-running international patent battle between Apple and Samsung: an appeals court in The Hague has rejected Apple's design-related gripes against Samsung's Galaxy Tab tablet, snubbing its request for a ban on the sale of the iPad rival in The Netherlands.…

Sage 'satisfied' as squeezed small biz still puts out

Posted: 24 Jan 2012 07:04 AM PST

UK software giant keeps numbers up despite 'challenging environment'

Sage the British software juggernaut said that its trading results had held up since 1 October, despite the strain on its core customer base in small businesses.…

Hacktivists hammer Polish govt for backing ACTA

Posted: 24 Jan 2012 06:33 AM PST

Support for SOPA's big brother sparks hackers' wrath

Hacktivists at Anonymous have turned their ire at least partially away from SOPA in the US and towards governments pushing its bigger brother, ACTA.…

WD soaks up $2bn in Thai flood aftermath

Posted: 24 Jan 2012 06:03 AM PST

Coyne still faces HGST deal approval

Western Digital and its supply chain have pulled out all the stops and delivered a decent profit in the last quarter of 2011, the one in which some of its Thailand plants were inundated by deadly flooding.…

Inspiration Works intros Android tablet for toddlers

Posted: 24 Jan 2012 05:50 AM PST

Skates out, slates in

Toy Fair 2012  Here at the Toy Fair 2012, the fact technology dominates kids' entertainment is clear as day. Inspiration Works aims to capitalise on this trend with a tablet specifically targeted towards nippers.…

Assange™ to present own TV show

Posted: 24 Jan 2012 05:41 AM PST

Dubs self 'revolutionary figure', 'pioneer for justice'

Famous WikiLeaks frontman Julian Assange says he will soon be presenting an unnamed weekly TV show via unspecified channels to a vast global audience.…

Google+ lets in nicknames, slams door on plebs' pseudonyms

Posted: 24 Jan 2012 05:28 AM PST

Please, do tell the nice ad giant even more about yourself

Google has very slightly tweaked its naming policy for Google+ by allowing nicknames to be displayed alongside an individual's real identity on the social network.…

Pay attention, 007: Wi-Fi cufflinks perfect for a spy

Posted: 24 Jan 2012 05:19 AM PST

Gadget includes 2GB USB drive too

Brookstone, the up-market US gifts-you-know-you-absolutely-can't-resist retailer, has come up with another winner: Wi-Fi routing silver cufflinks with an on-board USB stick.…

Top RIM jobs shake-up: Heads roll... but not very far

Posted: 24 Jan 2012 05:02 AM PST

Heins spills beans on BlackBerry rescue plan

Comment  Jim Balsillie and Mike Lazaridis have stepped down as co-CEOs at RIM, but sacrificial lambs have to be sacrificed, not kept knocking around while things continue as usual.…

HP pays $425,000 to settle blazing battery claim

Posted: 24 Jan 2012 04:44 AM PST

Denies it knowingly sold dangerous kit

HP has coughed up $425,000 to lay to rest allegations made by the US Consumer Product Safety Commission that it sold lithium ion laptop batteries it knew were dangerous.…

Starship <i>Voyager</i> dumped into skip

Posted: 24 Jan 2012 04:38 AM PST

Tearful Trekkie dismantles intergalactic flat

One Trekkie's dream of boldly going where no interior designer has gone before appears to be over – thanks to his estranged wife, who has decided his starship Voyager-themed flat isn't entirely suitable for the terrestrial housing market.…

Watchdog bites Nokia over Lumia 800 TV 'flash ads'

Posted: 24 Jan 2012 04:27 AM PST

Channel 5 sponsorship crossed the line

UK communications regulator Ofcom has slapped the wrists of Nokia and Channel 5 for failing to make it sufficiently clear to viewers that the TV company had taken the Finnish phone giant's sponsorship Euro, part of Nokia's Lumia 800 Windows Phone handset promo programme.…

Microsoft names SQL Server 2012 launch date

Posted: 24 Jan 2012 04:19 AM PST

Price increases likely

Microsoft's SQL Server 2012 will be officially launched on 7 March and likely come with a higher list price than older versions of the relational database.…

Sony SVR-HDT1000 Freeview+ HD DVR

Posted: 24 Jan 2012 04:10 AM PST

No-nonsense telly recorder with HDD archiving

Information management in financial services

Posted: 24 Jan 2012 04:00 AM PST

Déjà vu all over again?

Involved in information management? Then join us on January 25 at 11:00 GMT, when we discuss the findings from the latest Reg research and offer tips and techniques on good information practice.…

Telly makers failing to turn punters on to smart TV

Posted: 24 Jan 2012 03:43 AM PST

Games consoles to be most popular IPTV platform?

Facebook, MySpace, Twitter expose Google's 'evil'

Posted: 24 Jan 2012 03:41 AM PST

App fingers 'search results bias'

A gang of engineers from Facebook, MySpace and Twitter has released a new bookmarklet designed to expose how Google's People & Pages service favours the ad giant's own Google+ results at the expense of the rest of the web.…

Juror jailed for looking up rape defendant on Google

Posted: 24 Jan 2012 03:21 AM PST

Lecturer ignored judge's ban on web search

A juror who used Google to search for a defendant in a rape case in Luton was jailed for six months yesterday for contempt of court.…

Dinosaurs were super mums, nest find proves

Posted: 24 Jan 2012 03:09 AM PST

Cold-blooded reptiles showed caring side - bone boffins

They may have been cold-blooded, but it turns out dinosaurs were caring parents – arranging their eggs neatly and letting their scaly offspring stay in the nest until they had at least doubled in size.…

HP pitches 10in netbook at business

Posted: 24 Jan 2012 02:47 AM PST

No Windows Starter for the suits

HP clearly thinks there's still mileage in the netbook - many of its rivals don't - at the very least as a business device. It has launched a new model, the Mini 1104, to prove it.…

Shatner faces final frontier as Priceline.com spokesman

Posted: 24 Jan 2012 02:42 AM PST

Hammy actor ends lucrative ad run

Priceline.com has decided to milk the last dregs from an increasingly portly franchise by roasting spokesman William Shatner in a fiery death.…

GM Volt e-car battery safe, say feds

Posted: 24 Jan 2012 02:30 AM PST

No design flaws in cooling system

General Motors' Chevy Volt e-car does not sport a defective design, the US' National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has judged.…

Ofcom to borrow cup o' spectrum for Olympics

Posted: 24 Jan 2012 02:22 AM PST

Using less than a third the engineers Beijing had

Ofcom is laying the groundwork for the London Olympics, outlining plans to borrow radio spectrum, but will be running the event with a fraction of the engineering resource of its Chinese predecessor.…

FilmOn

Posted: 24 Jan 2012 02:00 AM PST

UK telly - and more - from the net to your phone

CW lets slip Nokia Lumia 900 UK launch date

Posted: 24 Jan 2012 01:56 AM PST

Big-screen WinPho boy will be LTE-less

Nokia's Lumia 900, the Windows Phone 7.5 handset that's literally the bigger sibling of the Lumia 800, will be out here in June, Carphone Warehouse has seemingly let slip.…

How to tell if your biz will do a Kodak

Posted: 24 Jan 2012 01:29 AM PST

Learn to recognise failure - and move on

Blocks and Files  Disruptive or enhancing innovation? Kodak's descent into Chapter 11 hell is a tolling bell for all successful storage suppliers facing innovative technology from competitors. King Canute didn't reinvent himself: can you?…

HP palms £316m in DWP desktop deal

Posted: 24 Jan 2012 01:02 AM PST

History repeats itself

The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has awarded a significant desktop management contract to HP under the Desktop 21 framework agreement.…

Councils tout £1.2bn for IT whizkid to grab their backend

Posted: 24 Jan 2012 12:31 AM PST

Outsourced IT includes crim record checks and payroll

A one-billion-pound contract is up for grabs as three London councils hunt for IT hotshots to streamline their back-office systems - handling everything from criminal record checks and financial accounts to the payroll and psychometric testing.…

Campaign launched to teach consumers about ad-stalking

Posted: 24 Jan 2012 12:01 AM PST

Ad body produces guide to online behavioural advertising

An organisation representing US marketing bodies has launched a new advertising campaign to raise consumer awareness of online behavioural advertising (OBA).…

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