Apple claims its 'innovation' creates 514,000 US jobs |
- Apple claims its 'innovation' creates 514,000 US jobs
- Wireless breakthrough: one frequency, multiple signals
- Secunia bets on open information for security growth
- Quantum eases file access for big data clients
- Hadron-colliding, volcano-tracking boffins pocket cloud freebie
- Linode hackers escape with $70K in daring bitcoin heist
- French buy over half a million NFC handsets from Orange
- Samsung worker confirms April launch for Galaxy S III
- Resellers could lose out in £4bn gov framework – vendors
- Apple to launch TV streaming service by Xmas
- Commentards, we salute the return of the long post
- Now Apple opens fire on EPAD trademark in China
- Blighty's fast mobe broadband in music wrecking probe
- Facebook looks for more credit with the banks
- The Modern Data Centre
- Bikini clad Princess Leia spied shakin' booty in Star Wars game
- Zynga branches out from Facebook to make new 'friends'
- Weeing Frenchman sues Google over Street View photo
- BBC iPlayer boss: smart TVs not sufficiently simple
- Manchester biz raided in text message spam clampdown
- <i>Top Gun 2</i>: It's happening - and the choice of star is stirring controversy
- <i>El Reg</i> appoints Special Projects Burro
- Online advertising isn't creepy <i>enough</i>
- £30m gov ID scheme to be steered by dole office
- Asteroid could SMASH INTO EARTH in 2040
- Mobile gaming: battle of the gadgets
- Hackers print tiny Linux box to net up your home
- Hefty mobile bills should be capped by punters, says Ofcom
- Anonymous web weapon backfires with hidden banking Trojan
- Archos touts Android tablets for toddlers
- Microsoft cleared in web filth court battle, wins $100 compo
- 'We don't know if Google is operating outside EU law'
- Apple: We never said Siri would actually work in the UK
- Intel cashes in its chips with Micron, bets on post-flash riches
- Windows 7 squeezed into Android tablets
- Windows 8: Sugar coating on Microsoft's hard-to-swallow tablet
- Belkin Power Pack 4000
- Ubuntu 12.04 hits beta, brings smooth Unity for marching masses
- Warner Bros boss moots 'disc-to-digital' scheme
- Been smacked by the ICO? Reveal your internal probes
- UK will share passenger data with US in Euro deal
- Becrypt disk crypto earns first Brit spook kitemark
- Lenovo ThinkPad Tablet
- Mutant bird flu won't slay ferrets, people
- Bromine bomb drops toxic mercury fallout
- Internet therapy speeds chronic fatigue recovery
- Oceans gaining ACID faster than last 300 MILLION YEARS
- FBI boss warns online threats will outpace terrorism
- Threatmetrix founder to fight 'muffin apocalypse'
| Apple claims its 'innovation' creates 514,000 US jobs Posted: 02 Mar 2012 02:50 PM PST Quoth Twain: 'Lies, damned lies, and statistics'Apple has launched a web page entitled "Creating jobs through innovation" that cites what it claims are statistics that show it's responsible for creating or supporting 514,000 jobs in the US.… |
| Wireless breakthrough: one frequency, multiple signals Posted: 02 Mar 2012 12:19 PM PST Italian team doubles-up on Guglielmo MarconiA team of Italian radio boffins – and one Swede – have one-upped their pioneering countryman Guglielmo Marconi by demonstrating a method of simultaneously transmitting multiple signals on the same frequency.… |
| Secunia bets on open information for security growth Posted: 02 Mar 2012 11:40 AM PST Opens free PSI 3.0 patch scanner for allRSA 2012 Danish vulnerability specialist developer Secunia has released the latest beta of its Personal Software Inspector (PSI), and says it is betting on an open approach to security information to grow the company.…
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| Quantum eases file access for big data clients Posted: 02 Mar 2012 10:04 AM PST Gateway appliances allow quick penetrationQuantum is making it easier for clients to access its big data-themed StorNext file system by adding scale-out gateway appliances to the mix.… |
| Hadron-colliding, volcano-tracking boffins pocket cloud freebie Posted: 02 Mar 2012 09:24 AM PST CERN, ESA and pals unwrap donated number cruncherEuro biz bosses have donated a cloud to top scientists at CERN, the European Space Agency (ESA) and the Cambridge-based European Molecular Biology Lab (EMBL) - to accelerate their boffinry breakthrough rate.… |
| Linode hackers escape with $70K in daring bitcoin heist Posted: 02 Mar 2012 09:05 AM PST Compromised servers ransacked for digital cashPopular web host Linode has been hacked by cyber-thieves who made off with a stash of bitcoins worth $71,000 (£44,736) in real money.… |
| French buy over half a million NFC handsets from Orange Posted: 02 Mar 2012 08:34 AM PST But payments won't wait for the technologyMWC Orange has convinced half a million people in France to buy NFC handsets, and Visa has been busy showing off Olympic payments, but O2 Money isn't going to wait that long.… |
| Samsung worker confirms April launch for Galaxy S III Posted: 02 Mar 2012 08:17 AM PST Quad-core Ice Cream Sarnie phone to debut in UK |
| Resellers could lose out in £4bn gov framework – vendors Posted: 02 Mar 2012 08:01 AM PST Little room for medium-tier biz in price-driven agreementThe ultra-aggressive pricing suppliers will need to bid so that they can win a place on the forthcoming public sector hardware and solutions mega framework may make it harder for resellers to get involved, vendors have warned.… |
| Apple to launch TV streaming service by Xmas Posted: 02 Mar 2012 07:55 AM PST But will it have anything to stream?Apple will launch a subscription-based TV streaming service whether it has content or not. Probably the latter, if whispers vaguely wafting this way from the direction of negotiations are to be believed.… |
| Commentards, we salute the return of the long post Posted: 02 Mar 2012 07:32 AM PST 10,000 characters. Surely that's enoughRecently, we limited the length of posts made by commentards to 2000 characters. We did this for no better reason than that the 2000 characters had always been our publicly announced limit, and we thought that we should do what we said on the tin.…
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| Now Apple opens fire on EPAD trademark in China Posted: 02 Mar 2012 07:28 AM PST Cupertino blasts laptop bag maker eboxApple has filed an official complaint over an application for the EPAD trademark by Guangzhou-based computer kit maker ebox.… |
| Blighty's fast mobe broadband in music wrecking probe Posted: 02 Mar 2012 06:58 AM PST Wireless kit blasted with LTE rays for a monthOn Monday Ofcom will run tests in Baldock to find out whether next-gen mobile broadband networks will knacker headphones and microphones, ruining Brits' enjoyment of music.… |
| Facebook looks for more credit with the banks Posted: 02 Mar 2012 06:39 AM PST Social network wants cash for bumper tax bill after IPOFacebook is planning to add a few extra bucks to its $2.5bn credit line to help cover the major tax bill for employee stocks when it goes public.… |
| Posted: 02 Mar 2012 06:25 AM PST Fire fighting the symptoms or treating the problem at its root?Tech Panel Managing the systems running in data centres and computer rooms is hard work, and that's before the conflicting demands of users, managers, regulators and health and safety inspectors are factored into account.… |
| Bikini clad Princess Leia spied shakin' booty in Star Wars game Posted: 02 Mar 2012 06:25 AM PST I see you, baby, shaking that asteroidWith Kinect Star Wars launching in just over a month's time, more of the title's features have started to appear online. Here's a titbit that caught our eye: a video showing a bikini-clad Princess Leia being forced to strut her terpsichorean stuff for Jabba the Hutt in a Dance Central-like mini game.… |
| Zynga branches out from Facebook to make new 'friends' Posted: 02 Mar 2012 06:17 AM PST Loosens rather than cuts apron strings from Sugar Daddy ZuckZynga may not exactly be integral to the survival of Facebook - which recently revealed it derived 12 per cent of its 2011 revenue from the online gaming outfit - but the fact that the company behind Words With Friends has built its own network might make IPO-ready Mark Zuckerberg a bit twitchy.…
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| Weeing Frenchman sues Google over Street View photo Posted: 02 Mar 2012 06:01 AM PST Peeing pic makes him a laughing stock in his villageA Frenchman is suing Google over a Street View photo that shows him peeing in his garden, which has made him the laughing stock of his village.… |
| BBC iPlayer boss: smart TVs not sufficiently simple Posted: 02 Mar 2012 05:55 AM PST IPTV UIs too complicated for viewersTelly makers have been told to simplify the smart TV experience if they want more punters to take the internet-connected tech on board.… |
| Manchester biz raided in text message spam clampdown Posted: 02 Mar 2012 05:36 AM PST Suspected ambulance-chasers 'sent thousands of txts'A clampdown on text spam has led to a police raid on offices in Urmston, Manchester, and the seizure of equipment by the Information Commissioner's Office.… |
| <i>Top Gun 2</i>: It's happening - and the choice of star is stirring controversy Posted: 02 Mar 2012 05:17 AM PST Not Tom Cruise - people are arguing about the planeThe occasionally rumoured Top Gun 2 movie - sequel to the seminal* '80s aerial action flick - is to go ahead. Reports have it that the project, known to have Tom Cruise aboard already, now has a scriptwriter: and more importantly, the real star, the jet fighter to be flown by Cruise, has been selected.… |
| <i>El Reg</i> appoints Special Projects Burro Posted: 02 Mar 2012 05:00 AM PST Hairy mascot for audacious spaceplane missionsVideo It's Friday, so we're sure you'll join us in raising a glass to Iberian beast of burden Aladdin - as of right now our official Special Projects Burro.… |
| Online advertising isn't creepy <i>enough</i> Posted: 02 Mar 2012 04:44 AM PST Go ahead and terrify me... with a properly targeted adOpen ... and Shut Privacy advocates endlessly worry that online advertising companies track your every move in order to serve you creepily well-targeted ads. They needn't bother. After all, when was the last time this hyper-invasive tracking of your online behavior actually resulted in you getting a deal on something you really wanted?…
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| £30m gov ID scheme to be steered by dole office Posted: 02 Mar 2012 04:28 AM PST DWP (once again) puts out notice to private sector playersIdentity assurance remains a hot topic at the Cabinet Office. And, despite a false start late last year, Whitehall is pushing ahead with its plans to offload ID-handling onto the private sector.… |
| Asteroid could SMASH INTO EARTH in 2040 Posted: 02 Mar 2012 04:14 AM PST UN boffins bang heads to knock rock off-courseTop space boffins are keeping a close eye on an asteroid that could collide with Earth in 2040. Orbiting rock 2011 AG5 is about 140 metres wide and could come close enough to spur on a crack team of drill-wielding heroes to save the world.… |
| Mobile gaming: battle of the gadgets Posted: 02 Mar 2012 04:00 AM PST One thing to rule them all? |
| Hackers print tiny Linux box to net up your home Posted: 02 Mar 2012 03:53 AM PST Ninja Block does for automation what Raspberry Pi does for codingThe Raspberry Pi is a tiny computer designed to get you writing programs. Here's a tiny computer designed to get things done in your home and out of it without writing a single line of code.… |
| Hefty mobile bills should be capped by punters, says Ofcom Posted: 02 Mar 2012 03:48 AM PST Latest brainwave to stamp out monthly heart attacksAnalysis Ofcom will push for greater EU regulation to tackle steep mobile bills, and voluntary application of that regulation outside the EU, but won't force operators to do anything unless they do nothing.… |
| Anonymous web weapon backfires with hidden banking Trojan Posted: 02 Mar 2012 03:37 AM PST Hacktivists tricked into installing malwareAnonymous supporters queuing up to participate in denial-of-service attacks are being tricked into installing ZeuS botnet clients.… |
| Archos touts Android tablets for toddlers Posted: 02 Mar 2012 03:28 AM PST Child Pad out soon |
| Microsoft cleared in web filth court battle, wins $100 compo Posted: 02 Mar 2012 03:23 AM PST Ruled not a social network - in your face Yahoo!Microsoft has been cleared of wrongdoing in a high-profile court case alleging it and scores of other web companies hosted "objectionable content" - and even managed to get the plaintiff fined by the judge.…
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| 'We don't know if Google is operating outside EU law' Posted: 02 Mar 2012 03:10 AM PST Plus: 'It's within our lifetime. It's going to happen'Quotw This was the week in which Mobile World Congress landed in Barcelona, producing reams of smartphone and fondleslab news, views and shiny gadgets - including waterproof mobes, which are of particular use to Brits since apparently nearly one in ten punters take their phone into the shower.… |
| Apple: We never said Siri would actually work in the UK Posted: 02 Mar 2012 02:54 AM PST Ad watchdog says punter's expectations too highThe Advertising Standards Agency (ASA) has quashed a complaint from a fanboi disappointed by Siri's lack of UK knowledge - and said the punter had above-average expectations compared with what it would expect from the "average Brit".… |
| Intel cashes in its chips with Micron, bets on post-flash riches Posted: 02 Mar 2012 02:38 AM PST Thanks for the memoriesIntel is flogging some its flash foundry capacity in its IMTF joint venture to Micron, its partner in their manufacturing love-in.… |
| Windows 7 squeezed into Android tablets Posted: 02 Mar 2012 02:37 AM PST Google out, MS in - virtuallyOnLive may be better known for its cloud gaming service, but the advantage of running a heap of virtual Windows PCs on a server farm somewhere is that you can run Windows desktops on them as well as games.… |
| Windows 8: Sugar coating on Microsoft's hard-to-swallow tablet Posted: 02 Mar 2012 02:17 AM PST Refreshing, delightful, puzzling, awkward, annoyingPreview review How do you bring legacy-encrusted Windows into the mobile era? Microsoft's solution is to take all that baggage and place it into a compartment labeled desktop, while reinventing the Windows user interface in a second compartment called Metro.… |
| Posted: 02 Mar 2012 02:00 AM PST Battery back-up |
| Ubuntu 12.04 hits beta, brings smooth Unity for marching masses Posted: 02 Mar 2012 01:46 AM PST But bugs still need a-snaffling for biz penguinsReview The beta for Ubuntu 12.04, or Precise Pangolin as Canonical's Mark Shuttleworth would have it, is upon us.…
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| Warner Bros boss moots 'disc-to-digital' scheme Posted: 02 Mar 2012 01:29 AM PST New files for oldWarner Bros wants you to trade in your DVDs for cloud-stored video files, the home entertainment's president has indicated - its latest method to persuade punters to buy rather than rent.… |
| Been smacked by the ICO? Reveal your internal probes Posted: 02 Mar 2012 01:02 AM PST Template FOI: Right, who left the laptop in the pub?If public authorities are subject to enforcement action by the Information Commissioner (eg, monetary penalty notice, undertaking, audit, enforcement notice etc), they should be prepared for internal reports into why the action was taken to become the target for Freedom of Information (FOI) requests.… |
| UK will share passenger data with US in Euro deal Posted: 02 Mar 2012 12:32 AM PST Home Office: 'Sensitive stuff will be filtered'The UK has opted in to the EU passenger name record (PNR) agreement with the United States, Home Office minister Damien Green has confirmed.… |
| Becrypt disk crypto earns first Brit spook kitemark Posted: 02 Mar 2012 12:04 AM PST Trusted ... up to a pointA full disk encryption product has become the first bit of kit to be certified by Brit spooks in their new Commercial Product Assurance scheme.… |
| Posted: 01 Mar 2012 11:00 PM PST The formal fondeslab |
| Mutant bird flu won't slay ferrets, people Posted: 01 Mar 2012 10:15 PM PST Breathe easy, say boffins, as publish-and-perish controversy ragesA mutated version of the bird flu virus(AKA H5N1) created in a lab cannot be transmitted aerially between ferrets and is unlikely to escape and threaten humans, says the scientist at the centre of an ethics controversy over the threat his research poses to public safety.… |
| Bromine bomb drops toxic mercury fallout Posted: 01 Mar 2012 08:57 PM PST Another reason to love old Arctic iceA "bromine explosion" in the Arctic back in 2008 has yielded a disturbing scientific analysis: the replacement of perennial sea-ice with younger seasonal ice could lead to mercury pollution in the Arctic.…
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| Internet therapy speeds chronic fatigue recovery Posted: 01 Mar 2012 07:07 PM PST Dutch FITNET program finds online cognitive therapy more effective helper for teensA Dutch experiment that offered kids aged 12-18 the chance to use online cognitive therapy tools to treat chronic fatigue has proved more effective than real world therapy sessions.… |
| Oceans gaining ACID faster than last 300 MILLION YEARS Posted: 01 Mar 2012 06:47 PM PST Atmospheric CO2 cast as the culprit (again)The world's oceans may be experiencing a rate of acidification unparalleled in the past 300 million years, according to a paper published on Thursday in the journal Science.… |
| FBI boss warns online threats will outpace terrorism Posted: 01 Mar 2012 04:59 PM PST Osama bin OnlineRSA 2012 The head of the FBI warns that the threat to the US from online attacks will shortly become greater than that posed by terrorists.… |
| Threatmetrix founder to fight 'muffin apocalypse' Posted: 01 Mar 2012 04:47 PM PST 'Post-search' play cuts out wireless retail marketing noiseSerial entrepreneur David Jones, who has chalked up hits with SurfControl and Threatmetrix, now plans to fight back against what he calls the "muffin apocalypse" - the blizzard of offers for freebies or cheap extra goodies beamed to opted-in smartphone owners when they go shopping.… |
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