Oracle forges Xeon E5 racks and blades

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• Oracle forges Xeon E5 racks and blades
• Woz warns that patent palaver will stifle startups
• Shuttle Discovery to buzz Washington DC at 1,500 feet
• Citrix kicks down door, breaks up OpenStack cloud party
• Big Four US carriers vow to switch off stolen smartphones
• Sharp bags partners for LCD biz, forecasts bigger loss for 2011
• Lenovo readies Yoga Ultrabook-cum-tablet for Blighty
• Nationwide Building Society website goes on the blink
• Toshiba prices up 13in monster tablet
• EMC VSPEX storage torpedo could sink FlexPods
• UK retailers start taking Nokia Lumia 900 orders
• Mega-star HD 10180 could have more planets than the Sun
• Iran's plan to UNPLUG the INTERWEBS back from the dead
• Cisco and NetApp to fling cheaper mini FlexPods at small biz bods
• Microsoft-Accenture venture to fluff Azure clouds
• What's happening in data management today?
• Google answers less than half of watchdog's privacy tweak questions
• Learn everything you need to know about System Center 2012
• TED
• US ecosystems basically unaffected by global warming, studies show
• Anonymous plans DDoS attack on GCHQ in snoop law protest
• Renault Twizy budget e-car
• Whisky IN SPAAAAACE: Zero-G Scotch is matured aboard the ISS
• RIM: BlackBerry sales to US gov still on the rise
• Sony 2011 losses are TWICE as bad as expected
• Toshiba to demo vid streaming without any work by the CPU
• Councils get online arsenal to battle billion-pound bloodsuckers
• Forensic snoops: It doesn't take a Genius to break into an iPhone
• TITANIC 'UNLIKELY' TO SINK AGAIN, says prof - apparently
• Facebook's facial recog bots can't eat your face without your say-so
• Amplidata smashes the object pedal against the metal
• India gobbling up chips to the tune of £5.8 BILLION
• Ten... Living Room Gadget Treats
• China sets up association to handle rare earth disputes
• HotLink's SuperVisor hooks deeper into VMware
• HP opens up public cloud beta in May
• HTC struggling as profits drop 70 per cent
• Foxtel gets foxed by ACCC
• Culture jammers connect Lego clones with 3D printer files
• Dark matter hits you once a minute
• Halfbrick links with GetJar
• US government service improves after virus takes out email
• CSIRO patent-trolls ALL OF AMERICA!
• Intel introduces 'Ivy Bridge'–ready chipsets
• Chinese military contractor hits back at hacktivist Hardcore Charlie
• Iran preps Internet cutoff
• Twitter open sources MySQL enhancements
• China's Internet Society backs online censorship
• Commodore founder Jack Tramiel dies at 83
• FBI frets about dumb security in smart meters

Oracle forges Xeon E5 racks and blades Posted: 10 Apr 2012 12:54 PM PDT Larry don't need no stinkin' microservers Oracle has launched five new servers – three rackables and two blades – based on Intel's new Xeon E5-2600 two-socket server processors.…

Woz warns that patent palaver will stifle startups Posted: 10 Apr 2012 11:50 AM PDT Still unsure about Tim Cook's reign Apple cofounder and number-one fanboi Steve Wozniak has warned that the current land rush for patents is going to stifle innovation and could cripple the next generation of startups.…

Shuttle Discovery to buzz Washington DC at 1,500 feet Posted: 10 Apr 2012 10:50 AM PDT Farewell flyover scheduled for next Tuesday Stateside Reg readers in our nation's capital will be treated to a farewell flyover of the Space Shuttle Discovery between 10am and 11am on Tuesday, April 17.…

Citrix kicks down door, breaks up OpenStack cloud party Posted: 10 Apr 2012 10:01 AM PDT CloudStack's anti-Amazon, Rackspace-free Apache play Open ... and Shut  Two years ago, Rackspace went after Amazon in a big way, launching an open-source cloud initiative called OpenStack. Since that time, more than 150 companies have signed up to the anti-Amazon party. Last week, however, one big participant decided to leave OpenStack to create an after-party that by many accounts fixes a slew of problems inherent in OpenStack's design-by-committee approach.…

Big Four US carriers vow to switch off stolen smartphones Posted: 10 Apr 2012 09:28 AM PDT Operators team up with FCC to draw up stolen smartmobe blacklist In order to combat rising cases of phone theft, America's Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is planning to create a national database of stolen smartphones with the goal of ensuring that the mobes never work again.…

Sharp bags partners for LCD biz, forecasts bigger loss for 2011 Posted: 10 Apr 2012 09:02 AM PDT May be handing over control of loss-making display plant Sharp has found two new partners to help with its LCD factory as it forecasts an annual loss of ¥380bn ($4.7bn, £2.97bn).…

Lenovo readies Yoga Ultrabook-cum-tablet for Blighty Posted: 10 Apr 2012 08:34 AM PDT Windows 8 wonder priced up

Nationwide Building Society website goes on the blink Posted: 10 Apr 2012 08:27 AM PDT Customers suffering intermittent access Customers of the UK's Nationwide Building Society have suffered intermittent service to the bank's website since this morning, and the access problems are ongoing.…

Toshiba prices up 13in monster tablet Posted: 10 Apr 2012 08:11 AM PDT Fresh 7- and 10-inchers too

EMC VSPEX storage torpedo could sink FlexPods Posted: 10 Apr 2012 08:04 AM PDT Top-secret kit rumoured to be aiming to unseat Cisco offering Comment  The consensus among storage insiders is that NetApp and Cisco's FlexPods are in EMC's sights with its coming VSPEX validated bundle of bits.…

UK retailers start taking Nokia Lumia 900 orders Posted: 10 Apr 2012 07:34 AM PDT Windows of opportunity

Mega-star HD 10180 could have more planets than the Sun Posted: 10 Apr 2012 07:27 AM PDT Rock star just 127 light years away has bigger entourage, says boffin Headline-hogging HD10180, the Sun-like star that fired the imaginations of alien-lovers everywhere back in 2010, may be the biggest planetary system ever detected.…

Iran's plan to UNPLUG the INTERWEBS back from the dead Posted: 10 Apr 2012 07:01 AM PDT But web free of smut (and dissent) is probably just a pipe dream Analysis  Iran's plans to unplug consumers from the internet – replacing the network with an insular walled-garden intranet restricted to the Islamic republic – are unlikely to come to anything.…

Cisco and NetApp to fling cheaper mini FlexPods at small biz bods Posted: 10 Apr 2012 06:27 AM PDT Bolt-N-buy blockening Cisco and NetApp are broadening the market for their FlexPod converged server-storage-networking-and-software systems with an entry-level system designed for 500 to 1,000 users.…

Microsoft-Accenture venture to fluff Azure clouds Posted: 10 Apr 2012 06:03 AM PDT Hope finally floats for Redmond Microsoft's Windows Azure cloud is leaking out of Redmond through a joint venture with Accenture.…

What's happening in data management today? Posted: 10 Apr 2012 05:40 AM PDT Never mind the data buzzwords Live broadcast  On April 19th at 12:30 BST, our host Jon Collins will be joined by a band of experts to discuss the current state of data management, and how new approaches work with old principles to solve the business problems of today.…

Google answers less than half of watchdog's privacy tweak questions Posted: 10 Apr 2012 05:17 AM PDT What was that? We didn't hear you... Google only partially responded to French data protection regulator CNIL late last Thursday about the company's controversial privacy policy tweak in March.…

Learn everything you need to know about System Center 2012 Posted: 10 Apr 2012 05:00 AM PDT Relax with the MVA videos Among Windows systems administrators System Center 2012 is arguably the most hotly anticipated software release in nearly a decade.…

TED Posted: 10 Apr 2012 04:49 AM PDT Mental giants toss their orbs... on vid Android App of the Week  TED - or Technology, Entertainment and Design - is a series of conferences run by a private not-for-profit organisation called the Sapling Foundation. In its own words, it was formed to disseminate "ideas worth spreading".…

US ecosystems basically unaffected by global warming, studies show Posted: 10 Apr 2012 04:37 AM PDT Streams fail to dry up as expected at test sites Scientists monitoring water flow in streams at test sites across the USA have found, unexpectedly, that the global warming seen in the late 20th century had basically no effect on most of the ecosystems they studied.…

Anonymous plans DDoS attack on GCHQ in snoop law protest Posted: 10 Apr 2012 04:22 AM PDT Hacktivists hard at work as Home Office site staggers back online Analysis  The Home Office website is back online following a weekend of disruptive denial-of-service attacks by Anonymous.…

Renault Twizy budget e-car Posted: 10 Apr 2012 03:48 AM PDT Get your knickers in a Twizy First Look  Some vehicles are more suited to certain geographical locales than others. Case in point: Renault's new two-seater electric runabout may not make much sense in central Manchester on a cold, dark, drizzly December evening.…

Whisky IN SPAAAAACE: Zero-G Scotch is matured aboard the ISS Posted: 10 Apr 2012 03:41 AM PDT Up, up and Islay – how space research benefits humanity A Scottish whisky distillery has sent its malt where no whisky has been before – into orbit above the Earth.…

RIM: BlackBerry sales to US gov still on the rise Posted: 10 Apr 2012 03:00 AM PDT We're still best at being boring The White House and American government departments are still buying BlackBerrys, RIM's senior VP of security told Bloomberg, claiming that RIM had increased its share in the federal contract market.…

Sony 2011 losses are TWICE as bad as expected Posted: 10 Apr 2012 02:39 AM PDT US gov squeezing its assets firmly Sony has more than doubled its forecast for losses in fiscal 2011 to ¥520bn ($6.4bn, £4bn) after figuring out it will owe an extra ¥300bn ($3.69bn, £2.32bn) in taxes in the fourth quarter.…

Toshiba to demo vid streaming without any work by the CPU Posted: 10 Apr 2012 02:13 AM PDT Mighty card 'can replace two dedicated servers' Toshiba's NPEngine hardware directly streams video from SSDs to IP networks without using host server CPU cycles or memory.…

Councils get online arsenal to battle billion-pound bloodsuckers Posted: 10 Apr 2012 01:51 AM PDT All hands to repel freeloaders Local authorities will be able to use a set of online products to help them fight housing tenancy, council tax and blue badge parking frauds, under new government guidelines.…

Forensic snoops: It doesn't take a Genius to break into an iPhone Posted: 10 Apr 2012 01:22 AM PDT Cop tools easily bypass 4-digit passcodes Analysis  Forensic tools against smartphones allow basic 4-digit phone passcodes to be bypassed in minutes.…

TITANIC 'UNLIKELY' TO SINK AGAIN, says prof - apparently Posted: 10 Apr 2012 01:00 AM PDT Science PRs plumb new depths as centenary approaches Amazing news on the science wires this morning as - by an amazing coincidence, just ahead of the centenary of the tragedy ocean collision plunge sinking of famous real-life blockbuster movie ocean liner Titanic - we read the headline: Titanic Disaster 'Unlikely to Happen Again'!…

Facebook's facial recog bots can't eat your face without your say-so Posted: 10 Apr 2012 12:36 AM PDT EU watchdog: Software must obtain consent to process your image Social networking sites need to obtain users' "informed consent" before suggesting to other users that those individuals feature in photos that they are uploading to the site, an EU privacy watchdog has said.…

Amplidata smashes the object pedal against the metal Posted: 10 Apr 2012 12:03 AM PDT Feel those IOPS blow your girlfriend's headscarf off Amplidata has pushed the accelerator pedal to the floor with its AmpliStor XT object storage system. It's increased throughput, raised the IOPS rate and dropped latency, saying these things make its product better suited to big unstructured data applications.…

India gobbling up chips to the tune of £5.8 BILLION Posted: 09 Apr 2012 11:33 PM PDT Mobile, LCD TV and PC production fuelling demand India's semiconductor consumption is set to grow 20 per cent this year to reach revenue of over $9bn – the fastest growing market in the world thanks to an explosion in mobile phone, LCD TV and PC production.…

Ten... Living Room Gadget Treats Posted: 09 Apr 2012 11:00 PM PDT For laddies who lounge

China sets up association to handle rare earth disputes Posted: 09 Apr 2012 10:25 PM PDT Minerals have become a big deal to tech industry The Chinese government has set up a new association for companies in the rare earth industry which will be tasked with promoting development and handling international trade disputes in the increasingly fractious sector.…

HotLink's SuperVisor hooks deeper into VMware Posted: 09 Apr 2012 09:01 PM PDT vCenter bosses around Xen, KVM, and Hyper-V HotLink, the startup that came out of stealth last year with a kind of über-visor for managing incompatible hypervisors all from the same console, is beefing up its integration with VMware's vCenter management console.…

HP opens up public cloud beta in May Posted: 09 Apr 2012 09:01 PM PDT Cooks up block storage, database clouds Contrary to earlier reports, HP is not yet ready to launch its first public cloud, and it is not rolling the HP Cloud Services in May as HP execs had hinted last month. What HP is doing, however, is talking a bit more about its public cloud – including new block storage and database services – and telling everyone that it is opening it up for a public beta next month.…

HTC struggling as profits drop 70 per cent Posted: 09 Apr 2012 08:59 PM PDT Taiwanese handset maker crosses fingers for One series HTC's fortunes took another turn for the worse on Friday after the Taiwanese handset giant revealed that first quarter net profits dipped a massive 70 per cent from the same period last year, as the firm continues to struggle against the likes of Samsung and Apple.…

Foxtel gets foxed by ACCC Posted: 09 Apr 2012 08:58 PM PDT Green light for Austar merger, red light for IPTV Foxtel's ambitious IPTV plans have been significantly thwarted following the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission's conditions which will allow Foxtel's AUS$1.9 billion takeover of pay- TV operative Austar to go ahead.…

Culture jammers connect Lego clones with 3D printer files Posted: 09 Apr 2012 07:40 PM PDT "Reverse engineering as a civic activity" Sy-Lab and The Free Art and Technology (F.A.T.) Lab, a self-described "organization dedicated to enriching the public domain through the research and development of creative technologies and media", have released a set of 3D printer files that will "enable complete interoperability between ten popular children's construction toys."…

Dark matter hits you once a minute Posted: 09 Apr 2012 06:58 PM PDT We all get whacked by WIMPs Weakly Interacting Massive Particles (WIMPS) hit you about once a minute, according to a new paper titled Dark Matter collisions with the Human Body.…

Halfbrick links with GetJar Posted: 09 Apr 2012 06:38 PM PDT Fruit Ninjas get virtual dosh Australian gaming developer Halfbrick is working on strategies to monetize its hit games such as Fruit Ninja with indie app store GetJar.…

US government service improves after virus takes out email Posted: 09 Apr 2012 06:08 PM PDT Customers enjoy return to human contact after malware attack A virus attack which hit the US Economic Development Administration (EDA) was so severe the agency pulled the plug on its email systems. Twelve weeks later the agency is yet to fully restore email and has only a rudimentary web site in place.…

CSIRO patent-trolls ALL OF AMERICA! Posted: 09 Apr 2012 06:00 PM PDT Evil Aussie tax on Wi-Fi With a skillful combination of nationalistic dog-whistling and misinformation, Ars Technica has created a storm of outrage against Australia with the claim that the country's CSIRO has patent-trolled its way into American WiFi users' pockets.…

Intel introduces 'Ivy Bridge'–ready chipsets Posted: 09 Apr 2012 05:17 PM PDT Four USB 3.0 ports, no waiting Intel has announced that its new 7-series "mainstream" chipset family is now available and being used by OEMs in mobile and desktop systems for the current 2nd Generation Core processors today, and will be ready to support the "Ivy Bridge" 3rd Generation Core processors when they appear later this quarter.…

Chinese military contractor hits back at hacktivist Hardcore Charlie Posted: 09 Apr 2012 05:02 PM PDT Allegations the firm was hacked are "groundless" A Chinese military contractor has strongly denied recent allegations that it was hacked by the Anonymous-affiliated 'Hardcore Charlie', but the hacktivist has responded by leaking more documents including US military data which he claims the firm has shared with Vietnam, Ukraine and Russia.…

Iran preps Internet cutoff Posted: 09 Apr 2012 04:45 PM PDT Updated: AFP casts doubt on August date Iran has moved to protect its citizens' privacy against American Imperialist Data Harvesters*; unfortunately for Iranians, the plan involves taking the whole country off the Internet.…

Twitter open sources MySQL enhancements Posted: 09 Apr 2012 04:40 PM PDT Go get the code at GitHub Go get the code at GitHub Twitter has open sourced numerous tweaks it has made to MySQL, stating in a blog post that the open source database "is the persistent storage technology behind most Twitter data: the interest graph, timelines, user data and the Tweets themselves."…

China's Internet Society backs online censorship Posted: 09 Apr 2012 04:15 PM PDT Web firms must police content to prevent rumors, says NGO Non-governmental organisation the Internet Society has decided to wade into the murky waters of Chinese online censorship by calling on firms to increase scrutiny of the content on their sites, as the fall out from recent coup rumours continues.…

Commodore founder Jack Tramiel dies at 83 Posted: 09 Apr 2012 04:04 PM PDT Auschwitz survivor who built best-selling PC Obituary  The founder of Commodore, one of the driving forces in the early history of the personal computers, has died at the age of 83.…

FBI frets about dumb security in smart meters Posted: 09 Apr 2012 04:00 PM PDT Lax security costs utilities plenty The FBI is seeing increasing hacks on electricity smart meters, with most attacks designed to let consumers get power without paying for it.…

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