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- Google offers I/O tickets to atone for Code Jam snafu
- Apple claims Aussie 3G is so good it's 4G
- Workers' comp covers sex-related injuries, judge rules
- Sandisk's revs circle drain as mobile flash demand drops
- Anonymous crashes Formula One site over Bahrain protests
- Oracle pops cork as cut-price ZFS array creams NetApp rival
- Ubuntu signs HP as heavy-metal support act
- Oracle v Google round-up: The show so far
- Nokia's older mobes infringe IPCom patent – court
- 'I'm no visionary': Torvalds up for $1.3m life-changing gong
- Qualcomm runs out of chips as punters wolf down SnapDragons
- Hamburg court: Google must police YouTube content
- Ten... mad materials made into tech
- Behind Facebook's $1bn Instagram antitrust dodge
- Nanodot memory smashes RAM, sets new speed record
- Public IT supplier frameworks aren't baffling – gov organ
- 2,500 copycat hack attempts on abortion provider site – report
- Home Office 'technologically clueless' on web super-snoop law
- Mellanox rides the Xeon E5 wave
- Rapidshare tells world+dog: Stop PIRACY now!
- Biologists create synthetic DNA capable of EVOLUTION
- Analyst: 'revolutionary, compelling' iPhone 5 out in October
- No more 'rip-off' IT disasters – UK.gov will be too busy tweeting
- What kind of LOSER sits in front of a PC...
- Everything Everywhere begs Blighty to back 4G push
- Nvidia: phone GPUs to outplay current consoles by 2014
- New tech revolution: Small biz begins to lock out industry giants
- Apple, Google and Intel to face angry ex-IT workers in court
- 'Searching staff emails would be time-consuming'
- Microsoft seeks Skype for Xbox engineering gang
- <i>Battlefield Earth</i> ruled worst film EVER
- NetApp dips a toe into Flash Pool
- iKlip Studio
- Norwich FC scores own goal in net kit leak
- Top UK.gov CIOs dealt string of pay cuts and freezes
- Channel bites Apple's hand off for any old iPads in Q1
- Three questions Fusion-io's rivals face after flash API bombshell
- Killers laugh in face of death penalty threat, say US experts
- Stray SMS leads to aborted landing
- Just NINE per cent of Asia Pac operators have commercial 4G
- Intel to ship 30 MILLION Ultrabooks in 2012 - report
- Lytro light field camera
- ISPs facing global clamp down on piracy
- Microsoft CRM to go browser and mobile OS agnostic
- How iiNet beat Big Content
- Curtin Uni app comp goes national
- iiNet wins High Court trial
- FBI seizes Mixmaster servers
- Oracle v Google: Lindholm takes the stand in Java trial
- Kiwi three strikes law closes on first victims
| Google offers I/O tickets to atone for Code Jam snafu Posted: 20 Apr 2012 01:40 PM PDT Developers get happy endingGoogle has decided on its "least unfair" solution to its mistakes in the Code Jam tournament to win tickets to its I/O conference: everyone will be a winner.… |
| Apple claims Aussie 3G is so good it's 4G Posted: 20 Apr 2012 12:43 PM PDT Novel defence for Australian iPad 4G connection claimsApple has hit back at claims it misled Australian buyers of "the new iPad" with the unusual defense that Australia's 3G networks are so fast they are in fact 4G in all but name.…
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| Workers' comp covers sex-related injuries, judge rules Posted: 20 Apr 2012 12:31 PM PDT Peace of mind while on the job AND on the jobInjuries sustained while having sex on a work trip are covered by workers' compensation, an Australian federal judge has ruled.… |
| Sandisk's revs circle drain as mobile flash demand drops Posted: 20 Apr 2012 11:02 AM PDT Heads for a second quarter lossWe thought flash demand was booming, but flash supplier Sandisk's quarterly revenue has dropped to its lowest point in seven quarters after price drops and demand falls. It expects the next quarter to be even worse.… |
| Anonymous crashes Formula One site over Bahrain protests Posted: 20 Apr 2012 10:38 AM PDT Nervy petrolheads face three days of protestsHackers claiming to be from Anonymous have taken down the official Formula One website as protests grow over this weekend's controversial Grand Prix in the Kingdom of Bahrain.… |
| Oracle pops cork as cut-price ZFS array creams NetApp rival Posted: 20 Apr 2012 10:33 AM PDT Plenty more bang for your bucks in SPECsfs2008 benchmarkAn Oracle ZFS 7420 storage array provides 40 per cent more performance than a NetApp FAS6240 at a $700,000 lower price point.… |
| Ubuntu signs HP as heavy-metal support act Posted: 20 Apr 2012 10:01 AM PDT Pair enter pact for x86, ARMed Linux cloud tourCanonical's cloudy ambitions and Metal-as-a-Service vision for Ubuntu have landed the muscular backing of Hewlett-Packard.…
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| Oracle v Google round-up: The show so far Posted: 20 Apr 2012 09:24 AM PDT What's going on here? Who's winning?After years of waiting for the contenders to open fire, the Oracle-Google shooting match is now on, and the bullets are pretty expensive. The opening salvos have landed, so let's take stock.… |
| Nokia's older mobes infringe IPCom patent – court Posted: 20 Apr 2012 08:59 AM PDT Firm: New ones are fine so we don't careNokia has lost a patent dispute with intellectual property firm IPCom in the Mannheim regional court in Germany.… |
| 'I'm no visionary': Torvalds up for $1.3m life-changing gong Posted: 20 Apr 2012 08:27 AM PDT Anyone who's used the Linux supremo's Git tool certainly agreesOpen-source poster child Linus Torvalds, who kickstarted development of the Linux operating system kernel, has been nominated for the €1m Millennium Technology Prize - but says he's "no visionary" and is surprised Linux has been so successful.… |
| Qualcomm runs out of chips as punters wolf down SnapDragons Posted: 20 Apr 2012 08:01 AM PDT Can't make 'em fast enough for smartphone boomQualcomm can't make its Snapdragon chips fast enough, forcing some companies to consider alternatives while waiting for supplies of the 28nm powerhouse.… |
| Hamburg court: Google must police YouTube content Posted: 20 Apr 2012 07:32 AM PDT GEMA notches up another copyright victoryGerman composers and music publishers' society GEMA has notched a copyright victory in its long-running dispute with Google. A Hamburg court ruled that The Chocolate Factory is responsible for what it publishes, and may need to install filters on uploaded video material.…
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| Ten... mad materials made into tech Posted: 20 Apr 2012 07:27 AM PDT Substance abuse?Whether they're attempting to increase durability, lower production costs or simply impress with aesthetics, manufacturers are always looking for new materials to build their tech with.… |
| Behind Facebook's $1bn Instagram antitrust dodge Posted: 20 Apr 2012 07:03 AM PDT A free pass for Zuck, not MicrosoftOpen ... and Shut Apparently it's wrong to dominate the market for free search and free web browsers, but it's perfectly fine to dominate the market for photo sharing. That seems to be the lesson from the curious silence from antitrust authorities on Facebook's proposed $1bn acquisition of Instagram.… |
| Nanodot memory smashes RAM, sets new speed record Posted: 20 Apr 2012 06:28 AM PDT Electro-optics boffins on a chargeBoffins in Taiwan and the University of California predict that nanoscale CMOS memory could soon be on its way after research showed nanodot memory operating 10 to 100 times faster than current RAM. The electro-optics researchers also emphasised that they had used materials that are compatible with mainstream integrated circuit technologies...… |
| Public IT supplier frameworks aren't baffling – gov organ Posted: 20 Apr 2012 06:00 AM PDT 'No confusion' over trio of overlapping deals... say procurement peepsGovernment Procurement Services (GPS) has defended the matrix of monolithic public sector IT purchasing frameworks, claiming purse-holders will figure out where to spend taxpayers' cash.… |
| 2,500 copycat hack attempts on abortion provider site – report Posted: 20 Apr 2012 05:38 AM PDT BPAS under siege following hacker's arrestFive weeks after a man was cuffed by police for swiping around 10,000 records of women who registered with British Pregnancy Advisory Service (BPAS), the site remains under sustained hack attempts, the BBC reports.… |
| Home Office 'technologically clueless' on web super-snoop law Posted: 20 Apr 2012 05:19 AM PDT Ex-top cop, net experts trash real-time UK packet sniffScrambling for Safety 2012 Computer experts, politicos, civil liberty campaigners and even a retired top cop universally agreed yesterday that the Home Office's real-time mass internet surveillance plan demonstrated just how "clueless" Theresa May's govt department is on implementing such a system.… |
| Mellanox rides the Xeon E5 wave Posted: 20 Apr 2012 05:01 AM PDT Big supers bump up network gear salesSwitch and server adapter card maker Mellanox Technologies is surfing on two upgrade waves: Its own shift to faster InfiniBand and Ethernet products and Intel's launch of the Xeon E5-2600 processors, which came out in early March.…
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| Rapidshare tells world+dog: Stop PIRACY now! Posted: 20 Apr 2012 04:46 AM PDT Cyberlocker says it's on the straight and narrowRapidshare wants to lose its notoriety as a haven for copyright infringement – and become a legitimate cloud service. The cyberlocker's chief lawyer Daniel Raimer has written a four-page "anti-piracy manifesto" and hopes this will head off stronger laws that will make legitimate takedowns of infringing websites easier.… |
| Biologists create synthetic DNA capable of EVOLUTION Posted: 20 Apr 2012 04:29 AM PDT Morph-happy bio-soup strainedSynthetic DNA and RNA has been shown to be capable of evolving in the lab, carrying hereditary traits with it.… |
| Analyst: 'revolutionary, compelling' iPhone 5 out in October Posted: 20 Apr 2012 04:21 AM PDT Waiting for QualcommApple's iPhone 5 will be out in October and sport a "revolutionary" industrial design. That, plus 4G LTE connectivity courtesy of 28nm Qualcomm chippery, will make the handset a "compelling upgrade".… |
| No more 'rip-off' IT disasters – UK.gov will be too busy tweeting Posted: 20 Apr 2012 04:14 AM PDT RT @SirHumphrey_Appleby A courageous move, ministerBlighty's government has promised that its new "digital by default" campaign will put a stop to billion-pound IT catastrophes that have dogged the public sector for years.… |
| What kind of LOSER sits in front of a PC... Posted: 20 Apr 2012 04:00 AM PDT ...to read a book?Something for the Weekend, Sir? I have just wasted half a day at the London Book Fair, hoping to discover some new e-book readers with a view to reviewing them for El Reg.… |
| Everything Everywhere begs Blighty to back 4G push Posted: 20 Apr 2012 03:46 AM PDT Grassroots campaign spotted in greenhouseExclusive Everything Everywhere is planning a "grassroots" lobbying campaign for 4G infrastructure, but sadly 4G Britain hasn't the space to say who's funding it, or who stands to gain most from its success.… |
| Nvidia: phone GPUs to outplay current consoles by 2014 Posted: 20 Apr 2012 03:34 AM PDT End of gaming as we know it?The smartphone killed the PDA, the MP3 player and the PMP - will it kill the games console next?… |
| New tech revolution: Small biz begins to lock out industry giants Posted: 20 Apr 2012 03:32 AM PDT VDI, BYOD, SaaS and cloud salad could free us all from vendor lock-inSysadmin blog Software as a Service (SaaS) combined with Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI)-style technologies promise to free us from vendor lock-in once and for all. The consumerisation of IT, Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) and hybrid cloud-based applications are additional marketing buzzwords relevant to this discussion.…
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| Apple, Google and Intel to face angry ex-IT workers in court Posted: 20 Apr 2012 03:13 AM PDT Class action suit over no-poaching rules goes aheadA US judge has ruled that Apple, Google, Intel and other firms have to face their former employees in court in an antitrust lawsuit that alleges the firms conspired to keep wages down by stifling competition.… |
| 'Searching staff emails would be time-consuming' Posted: 20 Apr 2012 03:02 AM PDT Plus: 'You got it all wrong, I LOVE Facebook and Apple'Quotw This was the week when the details of Facebook's acquisition of revenueless app firm Instagram – for $1bn – emerged.… |
| Microsoft seeks Skype for Xbox engineering gang Posted: 20 Apr 2012 02:53 AM PDT Talking tilesMicrosoft's plans to bring Skype to the Xbox appear well underway, if job postings for positions in a new "Skype Xbox Engineering Team" are anything to go by.… |
| <i>Battlefield Earth</i> ruled worst film EVER Posted: 20 Apr 2012 02:38 AM PDT Sci-fi cobblers cops Reg reader shoeingIt's official: Battlefield Earth is the worst film ever according to our beloved moviegoing readers.… |
| NetApp dips a toe into Flash Pool Posted: 20 Apr 2012 02:17 AM PDT New NAND stuff at SunnyvaleNetApp has revealed plans to enhance its flash offerings and offer a single tier, flash cached array design with a sexy new name. Remember Hybrid Aggregates? They have become Flash Pools.… |
| Posted: 20 Apr 2012 02:00 AM PDT The ideal tablet stand for musos?Accessory of the Week The hackneyed old cliché about the iPad being a consumption device was long blown out of the water. The Apple tablet is used by creative professionals for a variety of tasks, but one group who who have been drawn to it more than most are musicians.… |
| Norwich FC scores own goal in net kit leak Posted: 20 Apr 2012 01:55 AM PDT Fans cry foul over bully boy tacticsNorwich City FC has apologised for its thuggish response to a teenage fan who grabbed pictures of the the football team's new strip from its own website.…
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| Top UK.gov CIOs dealt string of pay cuts and freezes Posted: 20 Apr 2012 01:32 AM PDT Purses and wallets tightened over past four yearsA number of major Whitehall departments have slashed their CIO salaries since 2008, according to central government figures.… |
| Channel bites Apple's hand off for any old iPads in Q1 Posted: 20 Apr 2012 01:01 AM PDT Euro sales via indie disties soared by 42%Apple sales via independent distributors across Western Europe soared 42 per cent in Q1, figures from channel analyst Context reveal.… |
| Three questions Fusion-io's rivals face after flash API bombshell Posted: 20 Apr 2012 12:29 AM PDT Apps bypassing OS and disk to store hot data - chaos or breakthrough?Happy days are coming for the denizens of data centre technology areas. Applications are going to get such an incredible speed boost that they will become jet-propelled, turbo-charged, super-charged. The average app will virtually be able to stop doing disk I/O ever again... well, for most things.… |
| Killers laugh in face of death penalty threat, say US experts Posted: 20 Apr 2012 12:03 AM PDT Expensive executions fail as a deterrentResearchers have concluded there's no concrete evidence that the death penalty has any effect on homicide rates in the United States.… |
| Stray SMS leads to aborted landing Posted: 20 Apr 2012 12:00 AM PDT This is your Captain textingOn May 27th, 2010, as an A310 flying from Darwin to Singapore descended to just 500 feet above terra firma, crew noticed the craft was not ready to land.… |
| Just NINE per cent of Asia Pac operators have commercial 4G Posted: 19 Apr 2012 11:45 PM PDT Must try harder...Asia Pacific mobile operators have caught up their rivals in North America and Europe but only nine per cent have commercial 4G LTE networks up and running, according to new research from analyst ABI Research.…
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| Intel to ship 30 MILLION Ultrabooks in 2012 - report Posted: 19 Apr 2012 11:18 PM PDT Chipzilla's target is 40 per cent of consumer notebooks by end of yearIntel has reportedly estimated that Ultrabook shipments will not exceed 30 million in 2012, a figure which could be some way lower than the one bandied about by CEO Paul Otellini, who predicted that 40 per cent of consumer notebooks would be Ultrabooks by the end of the year.… |
| Posted: 19 Apr 2012 11:00 PM PDT Shoot first, focus laterReview Since before the days of Fox Talbot, cameras have worked like the human eye. A lens focuses an image on a plane, be it a retina, silver halide or electronic sensors. The Lytro is different… |
| ISPs facing global clamp down on piracy Posted: 19 Apr 2012 09:09 PM PDT Service providers told to up their game in spite of court win for Oz ISPAussie ISP iiNET might have won the battle in a High Court ruling today but the war internationally is swinging in the favour of the copyright holders, with service providers facing increasing pressure to act on notifications of infringement, according to one legal expert.… |
| Microsoft CRM to go browser and mobile OS agnostic Posted: 19 Apr 2012 08:52 PM PDT Chrome, Firefox welcomed, native iOS, Android and WP7 clients comingJust weeks after Microsoft revealed SharePoint is now, and will forever be, more friendly to browsers other than Internet Explorer, the company has revealed that another of its enterprise applications will soon play nicely with others.… |
| Posted: 19 Apr 2012 07:55 PM PDT Lawyers explain the crucial bits of the caseThe High Court's decision to dismiss Big Content's appeal of the Federal Court's decision absolving iiNet of copyright infringement relies, in part, on inadequacies in Australia's Copyright Act that may need to be dealt with by Australia's Parliament.… |
| Curtin Uni app comp goes national Posted: 19 Apr 2012 05:15 PM PDT oZAPP prize open in AugustWestern Australia's Curtin University has launched a national app competition that follows on from a successful local competition held last year.…
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| Posted: 19 Apr 2012 05:09 PM PDT AFACT says decision exposes 'failure of copyright law'Updated Big Content has lost its appeal against the Federal Court's decision that iiNet did not infringe copyright when it ignored allegations of theft by its customers sent to it by the Australian Federation Against Copyright Theft (AFACT).… |
| Posted: 19 Apr 2012 04:40 PM PDT Pittsburgh Uni threat investigation heating upNon-profit Riseup claims the FBI has seized a Mixmaster server from a colo shared by Riseup Networks in New York City.… |
| Oracle v Google: Lindholm takes the stand in Java trial Posted: 19 Apr 2012 04:36 PM PDT Insists 'smoking email' has been misinterpretedThe Google engineer who wrote a contentious email that Oracle is hinging part of its Java patent case on has said that his words are being misconstrued.… |
| Kiwi three strikes law closes on first victims Posted: 19 Apr 2012 04:15 PM PDT Telstra Clear and Vodafone issue enforcementsNew Zealand's controversial 'three strikes' copyright crackdown law may be eliciting its first hefty fines from downloading culprits, since being introduced in September last year.… |
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