NASA brainstorms with John Q Public for 2018 Mars mission |
- NASA brainstorms with John Q Public for 2018 Mars mission
- Balsillie planned to bust open BlackBerry network before leaving
- Starck brewing 'fairly, if not very, revolutionary' Apple THING
- FBI track alleged Anon from unsanitised busty babe pic
- Gartner snips 2011 IT spending forecast – again
- Thais trample over Chinese to snatch Asia's e-shopping crown
- Cloud WAR! Open season on Amazon for cloudy rivals
- It's all in the wrist: E-ink smartwatch Pebble bags $2m
- CAPITALISM without PROFITS - Welcome to the Instagram Era!
- Microsoft UK boss Frazer takes slow boat to China HQ
- Ultrabook price vice prised open by flash-disk half-breeds
- Apple finally deploys Mac Flashback Trojan terminator
- Daisy Group blows £28m on VoIP blower biz
- Google boss points to low-end tablet for fight with Amazon
- MIT's mind-reading Mosh pits itself against SSH daemons
- Texas judge lets Apple duel patent sabre-rattler Lodsys
- Printers SMASHED to bits in Office Space copycat revenge vid
- Euro climate probe Envisat silenced, boffins baffled
- Fate of punters' Megaupload files to be thrashed out in court
- So what's the worst movie NEVER made?
- Kinect gives Skyrim fans something to shout about
- Two teens cuffed after Blighty's anti-terror hotline hacked
- Laptop computers are crap
- Star sacrifices 2,000 comets a DAY to cloak twin planets in dust
- Valve seeks geek to design 'platform hardware'
- ICANN: Privates leaked in top-level domain land grab blunder
- Australia OKs iOS for classified comms
- Sharp starts punching out IGZO LCDs for retina screens
- Intel penetrates PCIe flash biz with long-lasting hardness
- 'Selling your citizens to foreigner is not acceptable!'
- Pasce Minirig micro speaker
- Appeals court cracks open Google AdWords v Rosetta Stone case
- Hitachi spins up 'leccy fan motor sans rare earths
- 'Real time' PAYE pilot goes live at HMRC
- ICANN flubs new domain deadline after site snafu
- New fake anti-virus shakes down frightened file-sharers
- Chinese whispers point to Huawei bid for Motorola
- Life on Mars found – in 1976
- Soup up your home network
- India orders 7.5 million Microsoft cloud services
- Vevo comes to Australia
- ICANN top shelf domain rush derailed by tech glitch
- Map of Tasmania to be redrawn
| NASA brainstorms with John Q Public for 2018 Mars mission Posted: 13 Apr 2012 02:28 PM PDT If the money's in the pot, that isNASA is asking for ideas from the general public for probes and tools to send to Mars in 2018, as part of its longer term plan to have humans visit the Red Planet in decades to come.… |
| Balsillie planned to bust open BlackBerry network before leaving Posted: 13 Apr 2012 01:16 PM PDT Board rejected scheme to focus on new handsetsOusted RIM co-CEO Jim Balsillie spent his last few months at the helm developing a radical strategy to transform the fortunes of the trouble Canadian company by opening up its network to provide basic data plans to non-smartphone users.… |
| Starck brewing 'fairly, if not very, revolutionary' Apple THING Posted: 13 Apr 2012 11:04 AM PDT 'I regularly visit Steve Jobs' wife,' adds FrenchmanGallic product design hotshot Philippe Starck says he's working on a "fairly, if not very, revolutionary" project with Apple that will be out in time for Christmas.…
|
| FBI track alleged Anon from unsanitised busty babe pic Posted: 13 Apr 2012 10:26 AM PDT Body of evidenceAn alleged member of Anonymous has been tracked down after he posted a picture of his scantily clad girlfriend in an image bragging about his hacking exploits.… |
| Gartner snips 2011 IT spending forecast – again Posted: 13 Apr 2012 10:03 AM PDT A little more off the top, and some off the bottomThe prognosticators at market research firm Gartner are polishing their crystal balls again and have gazed into 2012 to see what the IT spending picture looks like, and it's a bit worse than they expected only a few months ago. And thus they have taken a little more off the top of their IT spending projections for the current year, after doing so a bunch of times already.… |
| Thais trample over Chinese to snatch Asia's e-shopping crown Posted: 13 Apr 2012 09:32 AM PDT Mobile driving growth in emerging marketsThailand has emerged as the surprise leader in online shopping in Asia thanks to its strength in the mobile space although it is China which will run away with the global e-commerce crown by 2015, according to two new reports out this week.… |
| Cloud WAR! Open season on Amazon for cloudy rivals Posted: 13 Apr 2012 09:04 AM PDT From tire-kicking to tire-buyingOpen... and Shut The industry's most promising cloud platforms have one thing in common: none of them are winning. At least, not if we equate "winning" with "lots of users" and "lots of revenue" or, more simply put, with "displacing Amazon Web Services."… |
| It's all in the wrist: E-ink smartwatch Pebble bags $2m Posted: 13 Apr 2012 08:33 AM PDT Upstart wanted just $100k, clocked much moreA group of people who designed an e-ink watch and were looking for $100,000 to fund its production raised that in a couple of hours – and they're now well on their way to having $2m to spend.…
|
| CAPITALISM without PROFITS - Welcome to the Instagram Era! Posted: 13 Apr 2012 08:15 AM PDT Let's put Fraud Laws on the scrapheap - where they belong¡Bong! Doubters, shut your mouths now - and nail them shut. Two great pieces of news from the US have validated Silicon Roundabout as the pulsating heart of a new British economy. And a whole new way of doing capitalism.… |
| Microsoft UK boss Frazer takes slow boat to China HQ Posted: 13 Apr 2012 08:02 AM PDT Picks up office keys from Michel van der BelMicrosoft UK boss Gordon Frazier is heading east to the COO office in the Greater China Region (GCR), swapping roles with Michel van der Bel.… |
| Ultrabook price vice prised open by flash-disk half-breeds Posted: 13 Apr 2012 07:32 AM PDT Analyst: Pressure on performance and cost will spark hybrid demandHybrid disk drives are on their way to becoming a fixture in computing: Seagate has had design wins at Dell and other OEMs.… |
| Apple finally deploys Mac Flashback Trojan terminator Posted: 13 Apr 2012 07:01 AM PDT Zombie OS X bot army drops to 270,000 strongApple has released a tool that removes the infamous Flashback Trojan from infected Macs.… |
| Daisy Group blows £28m on VoIP blower biz Posted: 13 Apr 2012 06:39 AM PDT Lose a COO, gain Worldwide Group HoldingsAcquisitive business communications provider Daisy Group has coughed £28m to acquire audio-conferencing and call-handling player Worldwide Group Holdings (WGH).… |
| Google boss points to low-end tablet for fight with Amazon Posted: 13 Apr 2012 06:35 AM PDT Fire it upGoogle has hinted that it's rumoured forthcoming tablet will compete with Amazon's Kindle Fire rather than high-end slates such as Apple's iPad 3.… |
| MIT's mind-reading Mosh pits itself against SSH daemons Posted: 13 Apr 2012 06:17 AM PDT No! I meant rm * not rm .*Researchers at MIT have refined the Secure Shell network protocol and boasted their replacement system overcomes some of SSH's more annoying drawbacks.… |
| Texas judge lets Apple duel patent sabre-rattler Lodsys Posted: 13 Apr 2012 06:01 AM PDT Foxconn-rebrander lifts sword to defend iOS devsA Texas judge has decided Apple will be allowed into the trenches to fight patent-holding firm Lodsys, on behalf of iOS developers, almost a year after Cupertino made the request.…
|
| Printers SMASHED to bits in Office Space copycat revenge vid Posted: 13 Apr 2012 05:38 AM PDT Volunteers queue to get own back on irksome techVid Of all the devices making our working lives harder, printers take top billing. Never mind computers that crash mid-PowerPoint or smartphones that inexplicably can't find the network – these, at least, are complicated, multi-function devices with a lot going on.… |
| Euro climate probe Envisat silenced, boffins baffled Posted: 13 Apr 2012 05:16 AM PDT ESA loses contact with ageing space workhorseEngineers at the European Space Agency have lost contact with their environment-studying satellite Envisat, which stopped sending data five days ago.… |
| Fate of punters' Megaupload files to be thrashed out in court Posted: 13 Apr 2012 05:02 AM PDT 25PB of data could head to The Great Recycling Bin In The SkyA court in the US could decide today whether or not to dump the files of Megaupload users, seized in the case against founder Kim Dotcom.… |
| So what's the worst movie NEVER made? Posted: 13 Apr 2012 04:41 AM PDT Reader pitches invited for imaginary cinematic outragesCompetition Our hunt for the worst movie ever proved highly popular with you, our beloved cinema-going readers, and the list of nominees makes such chilling reading that we began to wonder if it would be possible to shoot a film so atrocious that it would prompt audiences to run screaming from the cinema vowing never again to badmouth Battlefield Earth.… |
| Kinect gives Skyrim fans something to shout about Posted: 13 Apr 2012 04:35 AM PDT Dragons, talk to meThe Elder Scrolls V is set to support Microsoft's Kinect for Xbox 360, meaning Dragonborn fans can take control of their Skyrim experience through voice and gesture control.… |
| Two teens cuffed after Blighty's anti-terror hotline hacked Posted: 13 Apr 2012 04:12 AM PDT Officials' private chats recorded, bunged on YouTubeTwo teenagers have been arrested after hackers attacked Scotland Yard's anti-terror hotline, eavesdropped on a conversation between officials and uploaded a recording to the internet.…
|
| Posted: 13 Apr 2012 04:00 AM PDT Time to flush them awaySomething for the Weekend, Sir? Occasionally, the crumbs scavenged by the Dabbs clan are supplemented with purchases from a local food emporium, the expenditure being partly funded by product reviews that I submit to El Reg.… |
| Star sacrifices 2,000 comets a DAY to cloak twin planets in dust Posted: 13 Apr 2012 03:38 AM PDT Ice cloud hid worlds from boffins - until nowPic Astroboffins using a new multinational observatory have spotted evidence of two planets orbiting nearby star Fomalhaut – which is just 25 light years away and cloaked in a comet graveyard.… |
| Valve seeks geek to design 'platform hardware' Posted: 13 Apr 2012 03:30 AM PDT New kit on the boxValve has hinted it is building its own hardware platform, possibly to tie in with its Steam online games service, after reaching out for an experienced electronics engineer to help with the project.… |
| ICANN: Privates leaked in top-level domain land grab blunder Posted: 13 Apr 2012 03:17 AM PDT gTLD applications viewable by rival web biz baronsICANN has revealed that it took down its top-level domain application system yesterday after discovering a potentially serious data leakage vulnerability.… |
| Australia OKs iOS for classified comms Posted: 13 Apr 2012 03:00 AM PDT Spooks get guide on 'hardening' iPhones, iPadsAustralia's Defence Signals Directorate, an agency charged with collecting signals intelligence and educating the rest of the government about security, has green-lit Apple's iOS for use in "classified Australian government communications".… |
| Sharp starts punching out IGZO LCDs for retina screens Posted: 13 Apr 2012 02:44 AM PDT Apple 'iTV' contender?They came too late for the iPad 3, but Sharp has now begun producing ultra-high resolution LCD panels based on its IGZO technology.… |
| Intel penetrates PCIe flash biz with long-lasting hardness Posted: 13 Apr 2012 02:42 AM PDT Duracell-Bunny-styled SSD 910 goes on... and onA little while after its competitors, Intel has come up with its own PCIe flash card, the SSD 910. It is not a speed king, but boy, does it last: five years at 10 full writes a day.… |
| 'Selling your citizens to foreigner is not acceptable!' Posted: 13 Apr 2012 02:23 AM PDT Plus: 'This will be the most significant iPhone upgrade'QuotW This was the week when flagging Finnish phone firm Nokia had a few fumbles.…
|
| Posted: 13 Apr 2012 02:00 AM PDT Powerhouse |
| Appeals court cracks open Google AdWords v Rosetta Stone case Posted: 13 Apr 2012 01:41 AM PDT Second look at whether keyword ad policy infringed trademark rightsGoogle may be liable for direct and contributory trade mark infringement as well as trade mark dilution because of the way it allowed a language learning software company's trademarks to be bought as "keyword advertising" terms by others, a US court has ruled.… |
| Hitachi spins up 'leccy fan motor sans rare earths Posted: 13 Apr 2012 01:15 AM PDT Where's your monopoly now, China?Japanese electronics giant Hitachi has unveiled what it claims to be a highly efficient mid-sized electric motor built without using the rare earth minerals which have become essential to the production of much of modern technology.… |
| 'Real time' PAYE pilot goes live at HMRC Posted: 13 Apr 2012 01:02 AM PDT 10 employers volunteer to take part in the trialHMRC has launched a pilot of Real Time Information (RTI) for PAYE.… |
| ICANN flubs new domain deadline after site snafu Posted: 13 Apr 2012 12:40 AM PDT 'Unusual behaviour' blamed in gTLD hiccupICANN has extended the deadline for companies to apply for new generic top-level domains after "unusual behaviour" forced it to shut down its online application system.… |
| New fake anti-virus shakes down frightened file-sharers Posted: 13 Apr 2012 12:27 AM PDT Scareware brands Windows Registry Editor a smut 'tool', punts 'safe' torrentsSecurity researchers have discovered a strain of fake anti-virus software that tries to intimidate supposed file-sharers into paying for worthless software.…
|
| Chinese whispers point to Huawei bid for Motorola Posted: 13 Apr 2012 12:14 AM PDT Google could take the patents and runHuawei remained tight lipped today on rumours that the Chinese handset giant is set to sign a deal for ailing mobile biz Motorola just eight months after Google splashed $12.5bn on acquiring the firm.… |
| Posted: 13 Apr 2012 12:05 AM PDT Re-analysis of Viking data suggests microbes took the baitThe USA's Viking mission found life on Mars, says a new paper that has re-analysed data collected by the two probes.… |
| Posted: 13 Apr 2012 12:00 AM PDT Tips for tuning a modern LAN |
| India orders 7.5 million Microsoft cloud services Posted: 12 Apr 2012 07:27 PM PDT Technical education colleges adopt Live@Edu, Office 365The All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) has just handed Microsoft it's biggest order for cloudy wares, in the form of a deal that will see seven million students and half a million staff hook up to the Redmond cloud.… |
| Posted: 12 Apr 2012 06:43 PM PDT MCM takes the local reignsThe joint venture music video service devised by Sony Music Entertainment and Universal Music Group, Vevo, has entered the Australian market in partnership with local player MCM Media.… |
| ICANN top shelf domain rush derailed by tech glitch Posted: 12 Apr 2012 05:39 PM PDT Not too late to register your dot brandThe closing submission to register for ICANN's elite and pricey brand-centric generic top level domains (gTLDs ) has been extended, due to a software snafu.…
|
| Posted: 12 Apr 2012 03:27 PM PDT State government kicks off Spatial Information Foundations projectTasmania will spend $AU3m to refresh the technological framework that underpins the State's Land Information System (LIST).… |
| You are subscribed to email updates from The Register To stop receiving these emails, you may unsubscribe now. | Email delivery powered by Google |
| Google Inc., 20 West Kinzie, Chicago IL USA 60610 | |
0 comments:
Post a Comment