Lumpy nanoparticles improve thin film solar cells |
- Lumpy nanoparticles improve thin film solar cells
- Reflection lets astronomers trick time
- Rackspace snaps up SharePoint911
- Apple files patent for simplified iPhone media sharing
- Canadians revolt over draconian internet privacy bill
- DNS flaw reanimates slain evil sites as ghost domains
- Big data elephant mates with RainStor
- Johns Hopkins and VMware forge medical records mega-cloud
- Gagging order on G-Cloud suppliers dropped this Sunday
- New Mac OS X: Mountain Lion roars at unauthorised apps
- Is LinkedIn preparing for a China push?
- SmarTone in the dock again after tariff U-turn
- Ex-Vodafone exec promises shake-up at Cable & Wireless Worldwide
- UK's supercomputers rev up to hit 800 teraflops
- Former Sun CEO Jonathan Schwartz shows his caring side
- Satnav blunders blamed for £200m damages
- Microsoft licensing hike sparks UK piracy, bankruptcy fears
- Opera buys a pair... of mobile ads networks
- Google befriends Microsoft with WinDroid tablets
- O2 lures phone app devs to Silicon Roundabout all-nighter
- Bung a tenner to a mate's mobile number with new Barclays app
- BBC labels child 'recovering alcoholic' in tech slip-up
- Digital music subs up as CD sales fall
- 'Predictably random' public keys can be cracked - crypto boffins
- British Library seeks taxpayer-funded Wikipedia-fiddler
- Social networks can't be forced to filter content, rules top EU court
- Symantec sues rivals in backup patents spat
- Official: Sony and Ericsson are divorced
- The Darkness II
- LightSquared scrabbles to save itself after FCC stops LTE plan
- Chinese regulators still reviewing Googorola slurp
- Reptile boffins spot world's smallest chameleon
- Swiss space-cleaning bot grabs flying junk, hurls itself into furnace
- Paper PCs design rolled out
- More Chinese shopkeepers hide their iPad stock
- Microsoft spoons news to punters with Facebook, Twitter-slurp
- Cost-slashing T Systems asks UK staff to pack their bags
- NHS Direct
- SanDisk thrusts SSD into the client OEM battlefield
- Sensitive council data sent to hundreds via PERSONAL EMAIL
- Euro data protection: Great for punters, not for biz - MoJ wonk
- Archos 35 Home Connect
- Apple bitten as builder goes titsup
- Dwarf galaxy yields up middle-sized black hole
- Microsoft CFO bullish in Windows convergence and comms plans
- Nvidia suffers as TSMC's 28nm ramp steeper than expected
| Lumpy nanoparticles improve thin film solar cells Posted: 16 Feb 2012 02:30 PM PST Swinburne and Suntech claim efficiency winA team at Swinburne University in Melbourne is claiming a breakthrough in the efficiency of nanoplasmonic solar cells.…
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| Reflection lets astronomers trick time Posted: 16 Feb 2012 01:30 PM PST Twenty-first century observation captures nineteenth-century star blastWhen a star system called Eta Carinae went on a weight-loss program in the 19th Century, it did so in spectacular style: in its 20-year "great eruption", it was the second-brightest star in the sky, shed ten solar masses, and left echoes of light that have just been detected.… |
| Rackspace snaps up SharePoint911 Posted: 16 Feb 2012 01:27 PM PST Fanatical Microsoft collaborationManaged hosting and cloud computing provider Rackspace Hosting has hired a bunch of techies with expertise in a particular software stack, this time focusing on Microsoft's SharePoint web content and document collaboration tools.… |
| Apple files patent for simplified iPhone media sharing Posted: 16 Feb 2012 12:16 PM PST Send stuff while you're on a call, and get Google's goatApple has filed a patent application for a system that would use a binding protocol to make it easier to transfer media simultanously with a phone call.… |
| Canadians revolt over draconian internet privacy bill Posted: 16 Feb 2012 12:16 PM PST Conservatives claim opponents are 'siding with pedophiles'Canadian politicians are scurrying for cover after a public outcry over a proposed bill that would force internet service providers to monitor users and hand over their details to the police without a warrant.… |
| DNS flaw reanimates slain evil sites as ghost domains Posted: 16 Feb 2012 11:01 AM PST Life after death trick could be exploited by cyber-crooksAnalysis Cyber-crooks may be able to keep malicious domains operating for longer - even after they are revoked - by manipulating the web's Domain Name System (DNS).…
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| Big data elephant mates with RainStor Posted: 16 Feb 2012 10:38 AM PST RainStor Hadoops its storageRainStor, the deduping database supplier, is bringing its analytics engine and enterprise database to Hadoop, rather than bringing Hadoop data to its engine.… |
| Johns Hopkins and VMware forge medical records mega-cloud Posted: 16 Feb 2012 09:59 AM PST The tech is ready this timeMedical and IT researchers at Johns Hopkins University, healthcare application software supplier Harris Corp, and virtualization juggernaut VMware have teamed up to create a medical imaging cloud that they hope will become the central, secure repository for US citizens and the doctors who care for them.… |
| Gagging order on G-Cloud suppliers dropped this Sunday Posted: 16 Feb 2012 09:37 AM PST We're dying to know UK.gov's preferred tech-touting titansIT and comms suppliers can finally confirm on Sunday their involvement in the long-awaited government G-Cloud framework - Blighty's new way of selecting the firms that will sell tech kit to the public sector.… |
| New Mac OS X: Mountain Lion roars at unauthorised apps Posted: 16 Feb 2012 09:28 AM PST Apple-approved software welcome, desktop is the new fondleslabApple released a developer preview of Mountain Lion today before the new operating system is let out of its cage in the summer.… |
| Is LinkedIn preparing for a China push? Posted: 16 Feb 2012 09:19 AM PST Founder Reid Hoffman has been doing his homeworkSelf-styled professional social networking site LinkedIn is planning to make a move in the Chinese market, if rumours are to be believed, as it seeks to further its plans for worldwide domination.… |
| SmarTone in the dock again after tariff U-turn Posted: 16 Feb 2012 09:02 AM PST Mobile biz confuses customersUnder fire Hong Kong mobile operator SmarTone has come in for criticism yet again over its handling of new regulations introduced on Monday which were designed to encourage greater transparency for users.…
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| Ex-Vodafone exec promises shake-up at Cable & Wireless Worldwide Posted: 16 Feb 2012 08:43 AM PST New chief unveils plans to fix ailing carrierCable & Wireless Worldwide (CWW) issued a bullish interim statement to the City this morning from its new CEO Gavin Darby.… |
| UK's supercomputers rev up to hit 800 teraflops Posted: 16 Feb 2012 08:18 AM PST HECToR and BlueGene/Q to help look at climate data, sniff out Higgs bosonThe UK's supercomputing programme in Edinburgh enters its third stage this week, ramping up its capability to 800 million million million million calculations per second.… |
| Former Sun CEO Jonathan Schwartz shows his caring side Posted: 16 Feb 2012 07:59 AM PST Subscription social media site for caregiversThe controversial pony-tailed ex-boss of Sun, Jonathan Schwartz, has started up a subscription-based social media site for carers.… |
| Satnav blunders blamed for £200m damages Posted: 16 Feb 2012 07:45 AM PST Driven to despairSatnavs caused more than £200m worth of vehicle damage in the last year and with over three quarters of users misled, our digital roadmap advisors are literally driving us up the wall.… |
| Microsoft licensing hike sparks UK piracy, bankruptcy fears Posted: 16 Feb 2012 07:38 AM PST Switch to euro prices will smash Blighty's biz, warns resellerReseller NCI Technologies has urged Microsoft to shelve the planned pricing overhaul that could see UK customers paying between 20 to 35 per cent more for volume licences.… |
| Opera buys a pair... of mobile ads networks Posted: 16 Feb 2012 07:19 AM PST All serving, everywhereOpera Software has snapped up two ad-serving networks to clean up on mobile devices.… |
| Google befriends Microsoft with WinDroid tablets Posted: 16 Feb 2012 07:09 AM PST Dual-OS to better the iOne?Google will launch Android 5.0 - codenamed Jellybean - as early as Q3 2012, to coincide with the launch of Microsoft's Windows 8 and offer dual-OS designs for tablet computers.… |
| O2 lures phone app devs to Silicon Roundabout all-nighter Posted: 16 Feb 2012 07:04 AM PST Free grub at 36-hour NFC contestO2 is hosting an hack-a-thon weekend, on 24 March, when the operator will provide food, drink and expert assistance to anyone prepared to spend 36 hours coding an wireless NFC application.…
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| Bung a tenner to a mate's mobile number with new Barclays app Posted: 16 Feb 2012 06:38 AM PST Just like PayPal but with phone numbersPingIt is Barclays' answer to PayPal and its ilk, linking payments to a mobile-phone number instead of an email address but providing a banking brand to back them up.… |
| BBC labels child 'recovering alcoholic' in tech slip-up Posted: 16 Feb 2012 06:18 AM PST 'Teething problems' with software in SalfordA glitch on BBC News that accidentally labelled a child as a recovering alcoholic is a symptom of endemic problems with the Salford Media City's software, The Reg has been told by a BEEB insider, though BBC dismisses the mistake as a "teething problem".… |
| Digital music subs up as CD sales fall Posted: 16 Feb 2012 06:01 AM PST Recorded music stubbornly aliveUK record company revenues should be at record levels, given the phenomenal export success of the domestic music industry – but income declined slightly by 3.4 per cent last year. Once again, the increase in digital revenue failed to make up for the decline in CD sales, which were down by 14 per cent.… |
| 'Predictably random' public keys can be cracked - crypto boffins Posted: 16 Feb 2012 05:38 AM PST Battling researchers argue over whether you should panicAnalysis Cryptography researchers have discovered flaws in the key generation that underpins the security of important cryptography protocols, including SSL.… |
| British Library seeks taxpayer-funded Wikipedia-fiddler Posted: 16 Feb 2012 05:23 AM PST We're all in this wiki togetherAlthough some parts of the public sector are facing savage cuts, Big Culture is still throwing taxpayers' money away on fashionable gimmicks. The British Library, which boasts a £137m budget, is even appointing a full-time wiki-fiddler at the public's expense.…
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| Social networks can't be forced to filter content, rules top EU court Posted: 16 Feb 2012 04:47 AM PST Another blow for rights' group SabamSocial network operators cannot be forced to filter out content such as copyrighted music, the European Union's highest court ruled today.… |
| Symantec sues rivals in backup patents spat Posted: 16 Feb 2012 04:35 AM PST Sales ban and damages bid against Acronis and VeeamIt's war: big backup beast Symantec is suing upstart competitors Acronis and Veeam, accusing them of infringing its patents and getting a free ride using Symantec technology. It wants jury trials, cessation of infringing product sales and damages.… |
| Official: Sony and Ericsson are divorced Posted: 16 Feb 2012 04:14 AM PST Sony smartphone biz trumpeted as ink dries on break-up dealThe divorce papers have been officially signed for Sony Ericsson, giving Japanese entertainment biz Sony its very own phone-making unit and Swedish company Ericsson some lovely cash.… |
| Posted: 16 Feb 2012 04:00 AM PST Shadow peopleReview On paper, there's very little to like about The Darkness II. Take your character Jackie Estacado, for starters. Even before taking into account the unspeakable evil to which he is host, few gaming protagonists are as monstrously unsympathetic as the contract killer turned mob boss.… |
| LightSquared scrabbles to save itself after FCC stops LTE plan Posted: 16 Feb 2012 03:57 AM PST Freetards abandon ship amid military spectrum swap bidLightSquared is reportedly trying to swap radio spectrum with the US military in an attempt to salvage its business model after the FCC pulled the rug from under the mobile broadband biz - but its customers are already abandoning it.… |
| Chinese regulators still reviewing Googorola slurp Posted: 16 Feb 2012 03:44 AM PST Officials giving no hint of whether approval will be forthcomingChina's Ministry of Commerce said this morning that its antitrust bureau is still looking into Google's bid to slurp Motorola Mobility.…
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| Reptile boffins spot world's smallest chameleon Posted: 16 Feb 2012 03:28 AM PST Elusive micro-reptile was hiding under a leaf pileGerman boffins have discovered the world's smallest chameleon in Madagascar while picking through leaf litter.… |
| Swiss space-cleaning bot grabs flying junk, hurls itself into furnace Posted: 16 Feb 2012 03:14 AM PST Spacekeeper satellite to disintegrate in atmosphereThe US and Russia may be working on Mars missions, but the galactic ambitions of the Swiss are far more modest: they want to tidy up the Earth's atmosphere. The clock-and-choc-making country today announced plans for a rubbish-grabbing space bot.… |
| Posted: 16 Feb 2012 03:01 AM PST Pipe reamsA materials manufacturer has produced a paper-based compound which may soon find its way onto hardware factory lines, with recyclable PCs mooted as one possible target.… |
| More Chinese shopkeepers hide their iPad stock Posted: 16 Feb 2012 02:57 AM PST Fondleslabs tucked away ahead of trademark appeal outcomeMore shops in China have been told to pull iPads from their shelves in the wake of the ruling that the fondleslab infringes on a trademark owned by Proview International Holding.… |
| Microsoft spoons news to punters with Facebook, Twitter-slurp Posted: 16 Feb 2012 02:35 AM PST msnNOW pushes out trending topicsMicrosoft is trying to make its online estate stickier by creating a new site that pulls in updates from Web2.0 outfits such as Facebook, Twitter as well as its own Bing search engine.… |
| Cost-slashing T Systems asks UK staff to pack their bags Posted: 16 Feb 2012 02:17 AM PST Deutsche Telekom arm wants to save £3m, says sourceT Systems UK is testing the appetite for voluntary redundancy among its workforce as part of a cost-cutting drive.… |
| Posted: 16 Feb 2012 02:00 AM PST Cock-a-leaky? |
| SanDisk thrusts SSD into the client OEM battlefield Posted: 16 Feb 2012 01:29 AM PST Taking on Hitachi, Intel, Plextor and the gangSanDisk has dived into the client OEM flash drive jungle with its latest X100 SSD.…
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| Sensitive council data sent to hundreds via PERSONAL EMAIL Posted: 16 Feb 2012 01:03 AM PST ICO fines Cheshire East £80k for data breachCheshire East council has been fined £80,000 by the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) for failing to have adequate security measures in place when emailing personal information.… |
| Euro data protection: Great for punters, not for biz - MoJ wonk Posted: 16 Feb 2012 12:01 AM PST Whitehall man seeks views on 'disproportionate' draft lawComment A colleague of mine went to a lecture on the European Commission's proposed Data Protection Regulation last week*. One of the speakers was John Bowman, Head of International Data Protection and Policy at the UK's Ministry of Justice. His opening question to the floor was: "How many of you here represent consumer groups?"… |
| Posted: 15 Feb 2012 11:00 PM PST Net savvy Android clock radio, anyone?Review After having built a DECT home phone around the Android operating system doing the same for the humble bedside clock-radio probably seemed like a logical move for Archos so here we have the 35 Home Connect.… |
| Apple bitten as builder goes titsup Posted: 15 Feb 2012 05:36 PM PST 800-square-meter Brisvegas emporium imperilledApple's plans to open its first mega retail store in Brisbane have been derailed by the collapse of building and construction firm Kell & Rigby.… |
| Dwarf galaxy yields up middle-sized black hole Posted: 15 Feb 2012 05:02 PM PST HLX-1 reveals a violent historyAstronomers using the Hubble Space Telescope to confirm X-ray observations first published in 2009 have turned up the first observational evidence of mid-sized black holes.… |
| Microsoft CFO bullish in Windows convergence and comms plans Posted: 15 Feb 2012 04:14 PM PST Klein predicts double digit-growth at Goldman Sachs briefingMicrosoft's CFO Peter Klein took to the stage at the Goldman Sachs Technology & Internet Conference on Wednesday to outline where Redmond is headed in the next 3 to 5 years – and it's all going to be about cross-platform.…
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| Nvidia suffers as TSMC's 28nm ramp steeper than expected Posted: 15 Feb 2012 04:08 PM PST Profits under pressure this yearGPU and system-on-chip maker Nvidia says that the ongoing shortages of disk drives that have stalled the PC industry took a chunk out of its fourth quarter business, as did a steeper than expected ramp to 28 nanometer processes at chip foundry partner Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Corp.… |
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