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- UK crime-busters knock hiphop site off the Internet
- Canonical takes the Ubuntu Server pulse
- Damn it, where’s our NBN scandal?
- LibreOffice debugs and buffs up to v.3.5
- ACCC pins ADSL wholesale price
- Chip boffins demo 22-nanometer maskless wafer-baking
- OCZ out-flashes EMC's Lightning
- Cloudy bigshots eclipse open source
- EMC Greenplum Hadoop elephant straddles Cisco iron
- Scroogle: Dear Google, we're not bots, we're HUMAN
- Mozilla throws 'freedom' at Microsoft, Google, Apple tanks
- Nimbula stretches Director to VMware ESXi clouds
- Shakira attacked by seal who mistook BlackBerry for a 'fish'
- HELLISH LOVE INFERNO TO SWEEP LONDON
- Teen hacker claims smut site hack: 'I didn’t do it for money'
- Pope's PR says Vatican in grip of WikiLeaks-style scandal
- China clamps down on foreign telly on its channels
- Lego builds Lord of the Rings collection
- Hong Kong operators fudge unlimited tariff conundrum
- Shuttleworth remixes Ubuntu... for biz users
- Black Ops has best videogame ending ever
- HP gives sysadmins a little mobility
- Twitter finally grabs wheel, drives all twits into HTTPS
- SPRAY-ON antennas waved about at Google's techfest
- Samsung boss sued by his brother over stock inheritance
- MySpace no longer crying a river with 1 MILLION new punters
- The <em>El Reg</em> book library - now on ePub
- <strong>[<abbr title="Not Safe For Work">NSFW</abbr>]</strong> 21st Century Sex: the shape of things to come
- Cryptome.org hacked to dish out malware
- Now Proview seeks ban on ALL iPads coming out of China
- 5,000 Virgin Media workers unchained to slog away remotely
- Microsoft mulls touchscreen controller for next-gen Xbox
- Veteran launches storage torpedo among competing startups
- iPad spanks Galaxy Tab in its own backyard
- Microsoft probes IE8 dll AWOL hell
- <strong>[<abbr title="Not Safe For Work">NSFW</abbr>]</strong> SexInfo 101
- Tesco offers broadband for LESS THAN THE PRICE OF A PINT
- Trustwave to escape 'death penalty' for SSL skeleton key
- Debian, Ubuntu patching up rocky romance
- Sepaton plans to crush mid-range boxes
- FIVE more councils say soz for exposing people's privates
- Prada Phone by LG 3.0
- HP previews ProLiant Gen8 servers
- Mars, Europe losers in Obama's 2013 NASA budget
- EU, US sign off on Googorola merger
- Broadcom boasts directional antennas for 802.11ac Wi-Fi
- Rackspace breaks billion buck barrier in 2011
| UK crime-busters knock hiphop site off the Internet Posted: 14 Feb 2012 02:55 PM PST SOCA occupies, accuses RnB XclusiveThe UK's Serious Organised Crime Agency (SOCA) has moved on a popular hip-hop news and track-exchange site, RnB Xclusive, and is threatening those trying to access the site with criminal investigation.… |
| Canonical takes the Ubuntu Server pulse Posted: 14 Feb 2012 02:31 PM PST Lovin' those Long Term Support releasesCommercial Linux distributor Canonical has released its third annual survey of the Ubuntu Server installed base to show what is going on out there among the Shuttleworth faithful. The survey comes just as Canonical is getting ready to put its next big server release into the field in April.… |
| Damn it, where’s our NBN scandal? Posted: 14 Feb 2012 02:00 PM PST Another night in Senate estimates…In a simmering scandal that's showing every sign of completely failing to fester as a good scandal should, it has emerged that NBN Co CEO Mike Quigley's legal bills associated with the "Alcatel affair" amounted to almost nothing.… |
| LibreOffice debugs and buffs up to v.3.5 Posted: 14 Feb 2012 01:38 PM PST Dancing on the grave of OpenOfficeThe Document Foundation (TDF) has announced the release of LibreOffice 3.5, which it modestly describes as "the best free office suite ever."… |
| ACCC pins ADSL wholesale price Posted: 14 Feb 2012 01:15 PM PST Seeks input on final declarationThe ACCC has settled another piece of unfinished business in the broadband market, announcing yesterday that it has issued a "service declaration" for Telstra's wholesale ADSL service.…
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| Chip boffins demo 22-nanometer maskless wafer-baking Posted: 14 Feb 2012 12:47 PM PST A possible savior when Moore's Law hits the light wallAn international consortium of chip boffins has demonstrated a maskless wafer-baking technology that they say "meets the industry requirement" for next-generation 14- and 10-nanometer process nodes.… |
| OCZ out-flashes EMC's Lightning Posted: 14 Feb 2012 11:08 AM PST 16TB of caching vMotioning flashOCZ has announced a 16-terrabyte server flash-card whopper that supports vMotion and – spec-wise – tosses EMC's puny 300GB Lightning card out of the pram.… |
| Cloudy bigshots eclipse open source Posted: 14 Feb 2012 10:32 AM PST Cloud computing and mobile hog the limelightOpen... and Shut Open source seems to have waned in importance over the past few years as cloud computing and mobile have taken centre stage.… |
| EMC Greenplum Hadoop elephant straddles Cisco iron Posted: 14 Feb 2012 09:58 AM PST Cah. Took them long enoughWell, that took long enough. Cisco Systems and the Greenplum big data unit of server partner EMC have finally gotten together and put the Greenplum wares on Cisco's Unified Computing System servers.… |
| Scroogle: Dear Google, we're not bots, we're HUMAN Posted: 14 Feb 2012 09:34 AM PST With every Choc Factory privacy policy season, die die die!A not-for-profit search engine that serves up a privacy-friendly version of Google has been out of action for much of today.…
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| Mozilla throws 'freedom' at Microsoft, Google, Apple tanks Posted: 14 Feb 2012 09:04 AM PST All the web's a platform, and the lock-down merchants merely playersThe Mozilla Foundation is coming to the rescue of Tim Berners-Lee's sanity.… |
| Nimbula stretches Director to VMware ESXi clouds Posted: 14 Feb 2012 08:38 AM PST Hyper-V when enough customers askThus far, Amazon's EC2 compute cloud is the standard for virty server infrastructure running on what amounts to a public utility. But there are two problems with it: you can't run your own EC2, and Amazon doesn't support VMware's ESXi hypervisor, which is the hypervisor of choice for x86 servers in corporate data centers. But that's OK. Nimbula is perfectly happy to clone EC2 for you.… |
| Shakira attacked by seal who mistook BlackBerry for a 'fish' Posted: 14 Feb 2012 08:19 AM PST Shiny mobe tempted sea lion out to lunchLatin pop singer Shakira was "paralysed with fear" after a seal lunged for her BlackBerry, she recounted on Facebook.… |
| HELLISH LOVE INFERNO TO SWEEP LONDON Posted: 14 Feb 2012 08:01 AM PST Don't leave things lit and unattended while half-lit and, er, well-tended...The London Fire Brigade have taken it upon themselves to warn the romantically inclined that a Valentine's date could end with death in a burning hell blaze.… |
| Teen hacker claims smut site hack: 'I didn’t do it for money' Posted: 14 Feb 2012 07:29 AM PST Hardcore group 'fesses up to breach as youth uploads 'members privates'A teenage hacker claims to have broken into the Brazzers, the hardcore porn portal, before making off with hundreds of thousands of user login details.…
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| Pope's PR says Vatican in grip of WikiLeaks-style scandal Posted: 14 Feb 2012 06:54 AM PST Leaky cardinals allege assassination plots, banking misdeedsThe Pope's top PR man has declared that the Vatican is in the midst of its own "WikiLeaks" scandal after a flurry of confidential Papal documents were fed to the media by apparently disgruntled cardinals.… |
| China clamps down on foreign telly on its channels Posted: 14 Feb 2012 06:31 AM PST Just in case The Big Bang Theory sparks revolutionFirst it blocked the web, now it's going after TV. China has introduced tough new restrictions on channels broadcasting foreign-made telly and warned regulators to step up fines for any companies breaking the rules.… |
| Lego builds Lord of the Rings collection Posted: 14 Feb 2012 06:03 AM PST Another brick in the Deeping WallLego has confirmed it will bring Frodo and co. to its block party this year, with a Lego Lord of the Rings collection set to launch this summer. A Lego The Hobbit range is also earmarked for late 2012 to coincide with the film's cinema release.… |
| Hong Kong operators fudge unlimited tariff conundrum Posted: 14 Feb 2012 06:02 AM PST They're unlimited, but not too unlimited...Hong Kong mobile operators reacted to the introduction of new regulations on data tariffs on Monday by introducing a 5GB cap on fair usage and threatening to de-prioritise users who go over that limit.… |
| Shuttleworth remixes Ubuntu... for biz users Posted: 14 Feb 2012 05:41 AM PST No offense to RHEL, m'kay?Inspired by the tweaks of Ubuntu-using IT departments, Canonical has released a Business Desktop Remix of Ubuntu.… |
| Black Ops has best videogame ending ever Posted: 14 Feb 2012 05:25 AM PST Got your Guinness goggles on?Guinness World Records has confirmed Call of Duty: Black Ops has the greatest game conclusion of all time, after over 13,000 gamers cast their votes in favour of 2010's best-selling FPS.… |
| HP gives sysadmins a little mobility Posted: 14 Feb 2012 05:23 AM PST iOS and Android clients on the wayHP is embracing mobility with apps to allow sysadmins to receive alerts, manage systems and even shut down servers, all from the comfort of their booth seats at the pub.…
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| Twitter finally grabs wheel, drives all twits into HTTPS Posted: 14 Feb 2012 05:04 AM PST Cafe Wi-Fi tweeting protected from sniffing hackersTwitter has finally bedded down secure browsing on its site for all users after previously offering HTTPS as an optional feature.… |
| SPRAY-ON antennas waved about at Google's techfest Posted: 14 Feb 2012 04:43 AM PST Turning the world into an aerialPresenting at the new Google-backed talk fest "Solve for X", ChamTech Operations showed their nano tech-based antenna in a spray can, turning trees into antennas and connecting submarines by radio.… |
| Samsung boss sued by his brother over stock inheritance Posted: 14 Feb 2012 04:34 AM PST Kun-hee accused of pilfering shares after father's deathSamsung Electronics chairman Lee Kun-hee is being sued by his brother over stocks inherited from their father, the Samsung Group founder Lee Byung-chull.… |
| MySpace no longer crying a river with 1 MILLION new punters Posted: 14 Feb 2012 04:13 AM PST Facebook love-in, new music player boosts usage post-MurdochMySpace may have been dumped by media tycoon Rupert Murdoch but today its star investor - aged pop prince-turned-actor Justin Timberlake - has something to smile about: the site has gained 1 million users since December.… |
| The <em>El Reg</em> book library - now on ePub Posted: 14 Feb 2012 04:01 AM PST No Kindle? No problemYou asked for it, now you're going to get it.…
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| Posted: 14 Feb 2012 04:00 AM PST Are bits and bytes changing what we do with our bits and bobs? |
| Cryptome.org hacked to dish out malware Posted: 14 Feb 2012 03:47 AM PST Compromised whistle-blowing HQ begins site rebuildCybercrooks have planted malicious scripts on top of whistle-blowing nerve centre Cryptome.org.… |
| Now Proview seeks ban on ALL iPads coming out of China Posted: 14 Feb 2012 03:27 AM PST No love with Apple after trademark row escalatesChinese monitor biz Proview, which says it owns the iPad trademark, now hopes to block the import and export of Apple's trendy tablets in the country.… |
| 5,000 Virgin Media workers unchained to slog away remotely Posted: 14 Feb 2012 03:14 AM PST Fingers crossed those net connections stay upThousands of Virgin Media employees will soon be able to work from |
| Microsoft mulls touchscreen controller for next-gen Xbox Posted: 14 Feb 2012 02:59 AM PST Tablets turnedMicrosoft appears set to follow Nintendo and equip its next-gen games console with a touchscreen-equipped controller, along the lines of the one that will ship with the Wii U.… |
| Veteran launches storage torpedo among competing startups Posted: 14 Feb 2012 02:57 AM PST LeftHand founder turns right with Starboard SystemsThe founder and CEO of the second most successful iSCSI array startup, LeftHand Networks1, is trying to do it again. He's chairing the board of another iSCSI startup: Starboard Storage, which is joining the hybrid SSD-HDD array party today. What's wacky about this is that ex-colleagues of his at LeftHand have also started up NexGen Storage, which is trying to pull off the same same trick. Starboard is aiming at the SME market, claiming it has optimised both for performance and cost per GB.… |
| iPad spanks Galaxy Tab in its own backyard Posted: 14 Feb 2012 02:38 AM PST South Korean slab fondlers opt for Apple over homegrown SamsungThere was some welcome news for Apple in Asia this week after new figures revealed that the iPad is absolutely trouncing its rivals in the South Korean market, notably local hero Samsung and its Galaxy Tab device.… |
| Microsoft probes IE8 dll AWOL hell Posted: 14 Feb 2012 02:18 AM PST Windows XP PCs browserlessMicrosoft has said it is investigating a niggling problem with an Internet Explorer 8 update that's disabling a number of Windows XP machines.… |
| <strong>[<abbr title="Not Safe For Work">NSFW</abbr>]</strong> SexInfo 101 Posted: 14 Feb 2012 02:00 AM PST Bend me, shape me, anyway you want me |
| Tesco offers broadband for LESS THAN THE PRICE OF A PINT Posted: 14 Feb 2012 01:46 AM PST Read the small printTesco is offering broadband for a mere £2.50 a month. It sounds like a good deal, but catches abound.… |
| Trustwave to escape 'death penalty' for SSL skeleton key Posted: 14 Feb 2012 01:28 AM PST Moz likely to spare certificate-confession biz same fate as DigiNotarAnalysis Trustwave's admission that it issued a digital "skeleton key" that allowed an unnamed private biz to spy on SSL-encrypted connections within its corporate network has sparked a fiery debate about trust on the internet.… |
| Debian, Ubuntu patching up rocky romance Posted: 14 Feb 2012 01:01 AM PST Deb supremo speaks as devs link arms in ARMFOSDEM The recent FOSDEM was great this year, and Belgium still had beer left before, during and after. Still lots of people, though with an extra building open – it was a little less crowded. There were over 400 sessions on themes from Mozilla, Java, cross-distro and embedded to Ada and law.…
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| Sepaton plans to crush mid-range boxes Posted: 14 Feb 2012 12:26 AM PST 'Kill the rabbit...'Sepaton, the large enterprise deduping storage vendor, reckons its big boxes can replace lots of those pesky, seemingly continuously accumulating Data Domain mid-range boxes with a single system that does the job properly.… |
| FIVE more councils say soz for exposing people's privates Posted: 14 Feb 2012 12:06 AM PST 'Disclosing details about someone's social housing status can be upsetting'The Information Commissioner's Office has found that five local authorities have breached the Data Protection Act by failing to protect personal information about citizens.… |
| Posted: 13 Feb 2012 11:00 PM PST Diallers are a girl's best friend?Review Why is black and white classier than colour? And should we want our phones, with their increasingly glorious screens, to mute their rainbow hues? It's the arrival of LG's third collaboration with Prada that's raised these questions – a handset that favours an interface dressed mostly in black and white.… |
| HP previews ProLiant Gen8 servers Posted: 13 Feb 2012 05:44 PM PST Project Voyager launches Xeon E5sYou can look at HP's new ProLiant Gen8 servers, but you can't touch. At the company's Global Partner Conference in Las Vegas this week, HP previewed some of the forthcoming machines' capabilities, but – much to the chagrin of hardware enthusiasts – didn't talk about the processors, system boards, and other "slots and watts" stats of the Gen8 iron.… |
| Mars, Europe losers in Obama's 2013 NASA budget Posted: 13 Feb 2012 05:13 PM PST Winners: Hubble's successor, high-flying humansPresident Obama has revealed his proposed 2013 budget, and buried inside the $3.8-trillion wish list – along with tax credits for students, tax increases for the wealthy, cuts to the military, and other Republican bait – is $17.7bn for NASA that brings good news to some and bad news to others.… |
| EU, US sign off on Googorola merger Posted: 13 Feb 2012 05:09 PM PST Now the real fun and games beginAs expected, EU competition authorities and the US Department of Justice (DoJ) have cleared Google's proposed $12.5bn merger with Motorola Mobility.… |
| Broadcom boasts directional antennas for 802.11ac Wi-Fi Posted: 13 Feb 2012 03:38 PM PST Coverage focusing part of new chipperyBroadcom has provided more details on the 802.11ac Wi-Fi chips it will bring to production in the second half of this year.…
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| Rackspace breaks billion buck barrier in 2011 Posted: 13 Feb 2012 03:29 PM PST Cloudy block storage, database, and firewall in the worksIt took twelve years, but Rackspace Hosting has chalked up its first billion-dollar year – and it's hoping to get to $2bn in a lot less time, planning some new cloudy services to help make that happen.… |
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