Researchers pitch switch to electronic prescriptions

Researchers pitch switch to electronic prescriptions

Researchers pitch switch to electronic prescriptions

Posted: 01 Feb 2012 03:00 PM PST

Medicos' handwriting a killer

Sydney health researchers are calling for the rapid implementation of electronic prescriptions in the country's hospitals, to try and cut the rate of errors resulting from doctors' poor handwriting.…

Telstra joins global video cabal

Posted: 01 Feb 2012 02:30 PM PST

Biz vid services set to boom

Telstra has teamed with eight other international carriers to form the Global Meeting Alliance, a group that aims to support the commercial interests of business video services.…

Facebook files for IPO, seeks $5bn

Posted: 01 Feb 2012 02:27 PM PST

Management rule by 'The Hacker Way'

As expected, Facebook has announced the terms of its initial public offering and is looking to raise $5bn.…

Optus trumps Telstra in war for digital PVR freedom

Posted: 01 Feb 2012 02:21 PM PST

Football codes' case crashes, burns

Optus has vanquished Telstra and its claims on a multi million dollar rights deal for the online broadcasting of National Rugby League (NRL) and Australian Football League (AFL) footage.…

Fairfax bunkers down after alleged hack

Posted: 01 Feb 2012 01:41 PM PST

Privacy Commissioner wakes up

Two Fairfax sites remain offline this morning after they were apparently compromised, with the possible loss of credit card information.…

Japan takes second shot at extraterrestrial sampling with Hayabusa 2

Posted: 01 Feb 2012 01:00 PM PST

Damp asteroid 1999 JU3 may hold clues to Earth's life

The Japanese space agency (JAXA) has confirmed a new mission to collect samples from an asteroid and return them safely to earth, and has set the target as 1999 JU3 - one of the damper asteroids in range.…

Oracle reels off one exabyte in tape storage

Posted: 01 Feb 2012 11:04 AM PST

Object storage a rival? Not even close. At least, not yet

Oracle has been boasting about its dominance in tape, saying it has now shipped more than an exabyte's worth of media for StorageTek T10000C tape drives in the nine months after its release – a faster ramp than for any other StorageTek product.…

Seagate slam-dunks flood-hit rivals with triple-profit Q2

Posted: 01 Feb 2012 10:03 AM PST

Ships 47 million disk drives as others sink

Seagate, the world's numero uno disk drive manufacturer, notched up a brilliant second 2012 quarter with revenues and profits soaring up above flood-diminished rival WD.…

Ex-Apple engineer emits Zevo ZFS for Mac OS

Posted: 01 Feb 2012 09:43 AM PST

Ten's Complement for Mac OS X

An ex-Apple engineer's startup has produced Zevo: ZFS for Mac OS.…

Portland Jedi jailed for lightsabre rampage

Posted: 01 Feb 2012 09:19 AM PST

Also banned from Toys R Us

The Portland man who defeated a police Taser with a Jedi lightsabre has been jailed for 45 days.…

Microsoft ad campaign savages Google over privacy

Posted: 01 Feb 2012 09:04 AM PST

'We are not like them, and hey, why not try IE?'

Microsoft is launching a three-day advertising campaign in the US, offering itself as the privacy-respecting alternative to Google.…

Court defies Apple demand to ban Samsung tablet

Posted: 01 Feb 2012 09:01 AM PST

Prior art to invalidate Apple patent

The Munich Regional Court has chucked out an Apple request to impose a ban on the sale of Samsung's Galaxy Tab 10.1N tablet and on the South Korean giant's Galaxy Nexus smartphone.…

Kinect for Windows ships with SDK 1.0

Posted: 01 Feb 2012 08:45 AM PST

PC movement

Microsoft started shipping Kinect for Windows hardware today alongside version 1.0 of the official Kinect for Windows SDK, expanding the company's motion-control operation from Xbox 360 gaming to desktop computing.…

Drink diet pop all the time? Look forward to VASCULAR DEATH

Posted: 01 Feb 2012 08:31 AM PST

New study reveals fatal consequences of mock-swill habit

News today calculated to disgruntle many a Reg reader – and some Reg hacks – as it has been revealed by boffinry that the daily glugging down of "diet" soft drinks increases the risk of "vascular events such as stroke, heart attack, and vascular death".…

MasterCard joins Visa in pushing PINs into America

Posted: 01 Feb 2012 08:02 AM PST

13 months and counting

MasterCard has published its roadmap for getting Americans to use chip-and-PIN cards in stores, following Visa's lead in proposing to replace swipe cards by April 2013.…

<em>The Register</em> Comments Guidelines, 2012

Posted: 01 Feb 2012 07:42 AM PST

New world, nearly new rules

The Register operates a hybrid moderation policy. Here's how it works.…

TripAdvisor: OK, not all our reviews are trustworthy or real

Posted: 01 Feb 2012 07:42 AM PST

ASA raps largest travel site for ... not telling the truth on the interwebs

Online travel review site TripAdvisor has been forced to admit that not all of the reviews posted on its site are trustworthy or real.…

OFFICIAL: Smart meters won't be compulsory

Posted: 01 Feb 2012 07:19 AM PST

No offence to refuse in Blighty

Vid  So-called 'smart meters' will not be mandatory, the energy minister has confirmed. The pledge was made by Charles Hendry last Thursday, and confirmed to us by the Department of Energy and Climate Change today.…

Cosmic rays blamed for Phobos-Grunt fiasco

Posted: 01 Feb 2012 07:02 AM PST

Space probe apparently not built to fly in space

Russian space boffins have come up with a new reason to explain why duff Martian probe Phobos-Grunt fell out of the sky - cosmic rays.…

Fraud baron forced henchmen into S&M orgies to prove loyalty – cops

Posted: 01 Feb 2012 06:43 AM PST

Card cloner's 'bizarre initiation tests' to weed out undercover Feds

A US card cloner forced would-be gang members to take part in group sex sessions as part of an initiation ceremony designed to weed out undercover cops, according to a detective.…

Cabinet Office moves step closer to killing Directgov

Posted: 01 Feb 2012 06:19 AM PST

Test drive new Gov.uk beta build today

A beta build of the Cabinet Office's single domain website project has now been opened up for public scrutiny.…

EFF helps MegaUpload users claw legit stuff back from Feds

Posted: 01 Feb 2012 05:56 AM PST

Freedom fighters's MegaRetrieval to snatch back family snaps

The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), a self-proclaimed people's champion in the battlefield of digital rights, has waded into the controversy around the MegaUpload site, hoping to help legit users of the site to recover their 'lawful' content.…

Swedish Supreme Court chucks out Pirate Bay appeal bid

Posted: 01 Feb 2012 05:52 AM PST

Legal ship sails, slammer time for four MIA founders

The four founders behind The Pirate Bay saw their final attempt to appeal against an earlier ruling rejected in Sweden's Supreme Court today.…

Romanian cops cuff suspected serial hacker TinKode

Posted: 01 Feb 2012 05:41 AM PST

Alleged Royal Navy, Pentagon invader gets keelhauled

Romanian police have arrested a man suspected of breaking into the websites of NASA and the Pentagon in a series of high-profile hack attacks.…

Groupon's pants 'Weight Loss HOTPANTS' ad banned

Posted: 01 Feb 2012 05:18 AM PST

Watchdog sweats over site's track record

Groupon has got into fresh trouble with the Advertising Standards Agency (ASA), this time over pants.…

Nokia signals NFC for future Lumia handsets

Posted: 01 Feb 2012 05:16 AM PST

Tap makes an app

Nokia has announced it will include NFC tech in next-gen Windows Phone handsets and hinted at a connector-free future for pairing smartphones with other devices.…

Hands off our brand, Wi-Fi body warns 'white space' tech firms

Posted: 01 Feb 2012 05:08 AM PST

TV spectrum networking != 802.11

Don't call wireless networks that operate at frequencies formerly reserved for TV transmissions "Wi-Fi", the owner of the brand has warned.…

Cisco Nexus ports stretched to take 40GE and 100GE loads

Posted: 01 Feb 2012 05:00 AM PST

Catalyst campus switches bumped up to 40GE

If you want 10 Gigabit Ethernet to take off on servers, then you need fat backbones on the campuses and in the data centers to absorb the increase in traffic. And so Cisco Systems is ramping up the bandwidth on its Nexus 7000 series of end-of-row converged Ethernet switches as well as on its Catalyst 6500 campus switches.…

Airbrushed Rachel Weisz gets watchdog hot under the collar

Posted: 01 Feb 2012 04:42 AM PST

ASA snarls at L'Oreal's age-defying Photoshop treatment

The Advertising Standards Authority has ordered skincare outfit L'Oreal to lay off the Photoshop, after it ran a magazine ad showing Rachel Weisz in improbably good form as a result of slapping on Revitalist Repair 10.…

Berkeley boffins crack brain wave code

Posted: 01 Feb 2012 04:21 AM PST

Electrical signals used to recreate sound heard by test subjects

Scientists have reconstructed the words people hear by using a computer algorithm to decode electrical signals in the brain.…

Nikon stretches Coolpix focal-range beyond belief

Posted: 01 Feb 2012 04:20 AM PST

Za za zoom

Nikon clicked into focus today with the launch of the Coolpix P510, a bridge camera that boasts a whopping 42x optical zoom.…

40,000 Apple fanbois demand ethical iPhone 5

Posted: 01 Feb 2012 04:11 AM PST

But we do care a lot, claims CEO

Favourite aggregator of anti-corporate campaigns, SumOfUs, has started a petition calling for an "ethical" iPhone 5, and has already garnered more than 40,000 signatures.…

Kia Rio 1.1 CRDi EcoDynamics

Posted: 01 Feb 2012 04:00 AM PST

Very clean, very green three-pot diesel

Review  A Kia? Reviewed by Reg Hardware? No, we've not taken leave of our senses, because the new Rio EcoDynamics is being pitched as the most fuel-efficient and least-polluting car - when it comes to CO2, anyway - you can buy without an electric motor poking its nose into the drive train.…

Sony confirms 'tough-minded' Hirai as new CEO, president

Posted: 01 Feb 2012 03:44 AM PST

Ex-PlayStation exec grabs reins as Stringer rises to board chairman

Sony has announced that a new president and CEO will take over from Howard Stringer on 1 April, while Stringer becomes chairman of the board.…

Serial killer PYTHONS stalk Florida's Everglades

Posted: 01 Feb 2012 03:33 AM PST

Rapacious reptiles scoff mammal population

Pesky pythons are wiping out mammals and birds – some of which are protected species – in Florida's Everglades National Park, according to a new study.…

LG 3D TV ads misled buyers, judges watchdog

Posted: 01 Feb 2012 03:24 AM PST

Passive 3D can't be 1080p 'full HD'

LG has had is knuckles rapped by the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) following a complaint made about its 3D TVs by consumers arch-rival telly maker Samsung.…

Zuck plots carefully considered Facebook IPO

Posted: 01 Feb 2012 03:23 AM PST

Silence, bitch... This $100bn valuation is serious business

Mark Zuckerberg seems to want Facebook's public debut to be as dull as his bluey-grey t-shirts. The dominant social network is widely expected to file regulatory documents with the US Securities and Exchange Commission later today. But the company's CEO is reportedly hoping to play down the whole affair.…

RIM restyles next-generation BlackBerry

Posted: 01 Feb 2012 03:04 AM PST

London calling

Research in Motion's upcoming BlackBerry 10 handset, the London, has been been spotted ahead of release, this time with a different look from the last time it was said to have leaked out.…

Reading Reding: Pouring water on DP draft bill

Posted: 01 Feb 2012 03:00 AM PST

Just how workable is the Euro commissioner's proposal?

Analysis  It's been a busy few days for the future of data protection at a European level. However, the celebrations and commiserations are well and truly over for policy wonks, internet businesses and watchdogs who have all been eagerly poring over the Justice Commissioner's freshly-tabled draft Data Protection (DP) bill. Now the real work begins.…

Samsung says no to MWC Galaxy S III launch

Posted: 01 Feb 2012 02:52 AM PST

No Barcelona debut for next-gen blower

Samsung is emailing World+Dog to say that it won't be announcing the Galaxy S III at the Mobile World Congress (MWC) industry shindig later this month.…

Ofcom needs you... to carve up 37GHz of spectrum

Posted: 01 Feb 2012 02:41 AM PST

That's a lot of bandwidth - how do we handle it?

Ofcom has launched a public consultation on the management of 37GHz of radio spectrum, looking for better ways to manage licensing of fixed wireless links.…

Expert to finger air steward commentards who 'harassed' pilot

Posted: 01 Feb 2012 02:18 AM PST

Probe into airline staff forum 'will not breach privacy rights'

A trade union has been ordered to let an independent expert examine its computer database to try to identify anonymous users of a forum it operated who allegedly defamed and harassed an airline pilot.…

Bill Gates' ass slams into iPhone

Posted: 01 Feb 2012 02:07 AM PST

Donkey.bas remuled

Bill Gates' best-known attempt at a videogame is now available on the… er… iPhone.…

System Shock

Posted: 01 Feb 2012 02:00 AM PST

Sci-fi showdown

Antique Code Show  We've come along way since Looking Glass Technologies released System Shock in 1994, which earned it the distinction of being first first-person game with an engine able to render sloping walls. Before then, gaming environments were limited to verticals and horizontals.…

Gov's 'open data' strategy: It'll cost too much and won't work

Posted: 01 Feb 2012 01:24 AM PST

Report: Public sector may struggle to support Cabinet plan

The Cabinet Office has revealed "concern" over whether the public sector's IT is up to the job of supporting more transparency, from responses to last year's open data consultation.…

Trojan smuggles out nicked blueprints as Windows Update data

Posted: 01 Feb 2012 01:04 AM PST

Malware backdoors government-targeted kit 'using Adobe 0-days'

Security watchers have uncovered a new highly targeted email-borne attack that uses a supposed conference invitation as a lure - and disguises extracted data as Microsoft Update traffic.…

Whitehall hopes to shave 'conservative' £100m off PC bill

Posted: 01 Feb 2012 12:02 AM PST

HMRC man eyes NHS and local government

The government expects to cut at least £100m off its annual personal computing bill under an HMRC led standardisation program.…

Nokia Lumia 710

Posted: 31 Jan 2012 11:00 PM PST

The Finn blue line

Review  Late last year, I reviewed the Nokia Lumia 800 – and I've just spent a week with the 710, its cheap and cheerful sibling, as my main phone. I actually preferred using this budget model to the much-hyped 800.…

Mozilla releases Firefox 10, adds developer tools

Posted: 31 Jan 2012 05:31 PM PST

Better add-on support, Mac Java crash fixed

Mozilla has released version 10 of its Firefox browser as part of its accelerated six-week build cycle, and has also included a pack of developer tools aimed at simplifying life for website operators.…

Saudi oil minister praises renewable energy

Posted: 31 Jan 2012 05:18 PM PST

Global warming 'among humanity's most pressing concerns'

A call to acknowledge concerns over global warming (aka climate change aka climate disruption aka pseudoscientific fraud) has come from a most unlikely source: Saudi Arabia's oil minister.…

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