Teradata gets partly cloudy with big data |
- Teradata gets partly cloudy with big data
- Apple sued for every touchscreen device by Flatworld prof
- Facebook prospectus shows jump in users, fall in profits
- Dell fuels up Precision workstations with Xeon E5s
- Intel lets loose with 3rd gen Ivy Bridge tri-gate chips
- Courier mishap sends woman's corpse to shopping club
- Microsoft and Facebook in $1bn pass the IP parcel play
- Chinese web tat bazaar takes profit hit, 'invests in quality'
- VC Horowitz: 'Why we only made $78m on $1bn Instagram sale'
- EMC 'poised' to gobble flashy upstart Xtremio
- LightSquared pays off $56m debt with Brit biz Inmarsat
- DARPA overjoyed that its hypersonic glider came apart, blew up
- Solaris shops bunged cash to upgrade old duffers
- Facebook beds silent-bonking mobe coupon biz Tagtile
- Enterprise apps to bring bespoke BACK FROM THE DEAD
- Amazon Kindle Touch touches down early
- How to wrestle storage in virtual server bear pits
- Security bug stalls new dot-word TLD land grab AGAIN
- Getting rich off iPhone apps is b*llocks, say UK devs
- Telegraph website falls over in outage riddle
- PC World, Currys, Dixons websites all go titsup
- Reader experts thrash LOHAN's mighty rod
- Ofcom probes Sky News over Canoe man email hacks
- Microsoft mulls backside display for mobiles
- Lovefilm, Netflix 'no competitive constraint' on Sky Movies
- Martha Lane Fox hits caps lock, yells at small biz websites
- Microsoft lobs out first Skype for Windows Phone
- Adonit Jot Flip precision tablet stylus
- IBM fires Power-powered Penguins at x86's weak spots
- CSC axes another 640 UK IT workers
- Adobe Cloud offers leg up over Creative Suite's price wall
- LG 3D phone revamp hits Europe
- Taxan touts tablet for bathing beauties
- HP, Microsoft hop into bed for VS3 private cloud kit romp
- From the Department of WTF: New USB tampon flash drive
- Asus: Ice Cream Sandwich Transformer Pad out in May
- Happy 30th Birthday, Sinclair ZX Spectrum
- Plumbers of the interwebs vow to kill IP hijacking
- EU-US name-swap deal actually gives passengers MORE privacy
- Turing's rapid Nazi Enigma code-breaking secret revealed
- Online criminal records checks to save Surrey council £300k
- Woman cuffed for smuggling iPhones in beer bottles
- Sony and Nokia still a hit with Asian consumers
- Vodafone agrees to Cable and Wireless buy
- China hits back at US cyber snooping allegations
- Google Street View comes to Israel
- Megaupload case near collapse: report
- Microsoft automates Office 365 installs
- US okays release of bird flu research
- Higher ground: plants seeking colder temperatures
| Teradata gets partly cloudy with big data Posted: 23 Apr 2012 03:09 PM PDT Forges SAS in-memory analytics beastCapacity planning on data warehouses is every bit as much of a nightmare as it is for other kinds of servers and their workloads. That's why Teradata is taking a page out of the cloudy infrastructure sales manual and offering customers the ability to buy capacity on their data warehouse appliances on a utility basis.… |
| Apple sued for every touchscreen device by Flatworld prof Posted: 23 Apr 2012 02:24 PM PDT Finger-based tech man makes massive money grabA Pennsylvania professor is gunning for a slice of all of Apple's touch-based product revenues, after claiming they infringe a patent for a museum screen technology he developed 15 years ago.…
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| Facebook prospectus shows jump in users, fall in profits Posted: 23 Apr 2012 02:00 PM PDT SEC requirements are a bitchFacebook's latest pre-IPO filing shows the social network giant ramped up to 901 million users, who produce 3.2 billion likes and comments a day.… |
| Dell fuels up Precision workstations with Xeon E5s Posted: 23 Apr 2012 12:34 PM PDT Ivy Bridge rocketsled to launch next monthIntel has got its Xeon E5 processors out the door for boxes with one or two sockets and is getting ready to start the "Ivy Bridge" generation of desktop processors, and so it's no surprise Dell is revamping its Precision workstation lineup.… |
| Intel lets loose with 3rd gen Ivy Bridge tri-gate chips Posted: 23 Apr 2012 12:10 PM PDT Claims massive OEM push for Core i5 and i7 systemsIntel has released its first chips using tri-gate memory technology with the Core i5 and i7 series, dubbed Ivy Bridge, which it claims puts it years ahead of "the competition" – the chip giant's traditional name for AMD.… |
| Courier mishap sends woman's corpse to shopping club Posted: 23 Apr 2012 11:52 AM PDT Box marked perishableA mix-up at a freight forwarding firm meant a dead woman's torso was diverted from a research facility in Florida and shipped to a wholesale shopping club in Massachusetts instead.… |
| Microsoft and Facebook in $1bn pass the IP parcel play Posted: 23 Apr 2012 11:16 AM PDT Old vet and new media upstart bond - looks like troubleMicrosoft and Facebook concluded a significant round of pass the patent parcel today as the soon-to-IPO social network gained rights to a bundle of IP formerly belonging to AOL.…
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| Chinese web tat bazaar takes profit hit, 'invests in quality' Posted: 23 Apr 2012 11:02 AM PDT Alibaba admits 25% profit droop in Q1 resultsChinese e-commerce biz Alibaba (1688.HK) has taken a hammering in the last three months as profits fell 25 per cent compared to the same period last year.… |
| VC Horowitz: 'Why we only made $78m on $1bn Instagram sale' Posted: 23 Apr 2012 10:36 AM PDT Duo banked return that was 312 times their $250k stakeNetscape co-founder Marc Andreessen's high-tech venture fund Andreessen Horowitz has made out handsomely on Facebook's $1bn purchase of Instagram.… |
| EMC 'poised' to gobble flashy upstart Xtremio Posted: 23 Apr 2012 10:02 AM PDT |
| LightSquared pays off $56m debt with Brit biz Inmarsat Posted: 23 Apr 2012 09:01 AM PDT What could possibly be up mobile broadband wannabe's sleeve?Troubled wannabe mobile broadband operator LightSquared has settled with its only significant debtor Inmarsat, although it still lacks any plan to pay back its own investors.… |
| DARPA overjoyed that its hypersonic glider came apart, blew up Posted: 23 Apr 2012 08:33 AM PDT REAL inventors and scientists cause explosionsMaverick Pentagon crazytech agency DARPA has awarded itself a firm pat on the back after a detailed examination of its second HTV-2 test flight last year, in which the high-tech Mach 20 glider was destroyed 9 minutes into the trial and crashed into the Pacific.…
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| Solaris shops bunged cash to upgrade old duffers Posted: 23 Apr 2012 08:03 AM PDT Oracle spring cleans Sparc baseIf you have an old Sparc-based system from Sun Microsystems or Fujitsu in production, Oracle wants to pay you some cash to trade in that old box for more modern Sparc Enterprise T or M gear.… |
| Facebook beds silent-bonking mobe coupon biz Tagtile Posted: 23 Apr 2012 07:29 AM PDT App-gobbling spree continues with NFC upstartWhile the world was watching the Instagram deal, Facebook was also buying up a rather more innovative startup which hopes to provide all the profitable bits of NFC without the fluff.… |
| Enterprise apps to bring bespoke BACK FROM THE DEAD Posted: 23 Apr 2012 07:02 AM PDT Yo SME sysadmins, break out your Hammer pants, it's the '90s again...Sysadmin blog The '90s saw a boom in the development and acceptance of Commercial Off-The-Shelf (COTS) software. Ever since, various analysts and pundits have predicted the marginalisation of custom software development. In the SME space, it has been hard to argue; the past two decades have seen COTS software dominate. But with the emergence of Platform as a Service (PaaS), I am seeing this change.… |
| Amazon Kindle Touch touches down early Posted: 23 Apr 2012 07:00 AM PDT Reader revivalAmazon's Kindle Touch has gone on sale a week ahead of schedule, with the second of the company's latest-gen Kindles now available from select retailers.… |
| How to wrestle storage in virtual server bear pits Posted: 23 Apr 2012 06:28 AM PDT Training server admins into server-and-storage adminsDeep Dive Server virtualisation is no longer just a topic for server admins; it also affects the management of storage and networking equipment. And the introduction of server virtualisation means that all of a sudden server operations people have to learn how to deal with storage.… |
| Security bug stalls new dot-word TLD land grab AGAIN Posted: 23 Apr 2012 06:01 AM PDT ICANN's domain explosion backfires, fizzles outDomain name overlord ICANN has been forced to delay its new top-level domain (TLD) expansion by another week as its techies attempt to analyse the fallout of an embarrassing security vulnerability.…
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| Getting rich off iPhone apps is b*llocks, say UK devs Posted: 23 Apr 2012 05:46 AM PDT MPs told sales can't cover costs while Apple coins itAlmost no apps cover their development costs and software services only make money in "extremely unusual" cases, some proper engineers have told MPs.… |
| Telegraph website falls over in outage riddle Posted: 23 Apr 2012 05:36 AM PDT Breaking newsUpdated The website for UK daily newspaper The Telegraph has gone titsup today, and had been out for about an hour at the time of writing.… |
| PC World, Currys, Dixons websites all go titsup Posted: 23 Apr 2012 05:18 AM PDT Not enough fibreThe websites of Dixons Retail Group electronics stores have gone down today - knocking over Currys, PC World and Dixons.co.uk.… |
| Reader experts thrash LOHAN's mighty rod Posted: 23 Apr 2012 05:18 AM PDT Why not a launch rail for the Vulture 2 spaceplane?There's some lively debate going on down at the Reg forums LOHAN mosh pit regarding whether using a metal rod launch system for our Vulture 2 spaceplane really is the way to go.… |
| Ofcom probes Sky News over Canoe man email hacks Posted: 23 Apr 2012 05:01 AM PDT Watchdog mulls public interest defenceBroadcaster Sky News is being investigated by Ofcom over its admission that it hacked into emails for a story in 2008.…
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| Microsoft mulls backside display for mobiles Posted: 23 Apr 2012 04:46 AM PDT Rear guard actionMicrosoft has considered mobiles with multiple screens. A recently granted patent shows plans for an additional low-power display on the rear of our devices.… |
| Lovefilm, Netflix 'no competitive constraint' on Sky Movies Posted: 23 Apr 2012 04:44 AM PDT Ofcom: satellite broadcaster has more powerSky has too much money and subscribers to be threatened by the likes of Lovefilm and Netflix, the telecoms and media watchdog Ofcom has said.… |
| Martha Lane Fox hits caps lock, yells at small biz websites Posted: 23 Apr 2012 04:41 AM PDT UK web champ thinks Blighty can do better onlineMartha Lane Fox, known affectionately as the "Government Digital Champion", has announced (another) initiative to get Brits online: "an exciting vision" called Go ON UK.… |
| Microsoft lobs out first Skype for Windows Phone Posted: 23 Apr 2012 04:18 AM PDT Now does straight-up video callsMicrosoft has delivered the first version of Skype for Windows Phone.… |
| Adonit Jot Flip precision tablet stylus Posted: 23 Apr 2012 04:00 AM PDT A fine lineGeek Treat of the Week "If you see a stylus, they blew it," Steve Jobs famously said. He was referring to the fact that the iPad's multi-touch display and UI is designed to be used with fingers rather than an input device and that, in his view, a stylus is superfluous.… |
| IBM fires Power-powered Penguins at x86's weak spots Posted: 23 Apr 2012 03:42 AM PDT Linux-only servers to gobble piece of a $10bn pieBig Blue has not made any huge proclamations to date, but it is not exactly a secret that the people in charge of IBM's Systems and Software Group want the Power7 processor and its follow-ons to grab a larger share of the systems racket.… |
| CSC axes another 640 UK IT workers Posted: 23 Apr 2012 03:17 AM PDT NHS computer bungle biz slashes Blighty workforce by over 1,000Bungling IT services firm CSC is to lay off a further 640 IT workers in the UK on top of the 500 bods it is shaving from its NHS account.…
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| Adobe Cloud offers leg up over Creative Suite's price wall Posted: 23 Apr 2012 03:02 AM PDT Monthly subscription for casual turtleneck typesAdobe has launched its mighty Creative Suite in to the cloud, potentially giving designers and illustrators a slightly more affordable way to access its reassuringly expensive tools.… |
| LG 3D phone revamp hits Europe Posted: 23 Apr 2012 02:58 AM PDT Guess what, it's lighter, slimmer...LG continued to push glasses-free 3D tech onto European punters - but not Brits, apparently - today with the Optimus 3D Max, a slimmer, enhanced version of the company's first-gen 3D smartphone.… |
| Taxan touts tablet for bathing beauties Posted: 23 Apr 2012 02:51 AM PDT Shower and tell?Thanks to Japan's Kaga Hightech Co., better known for its Taxan brand, we can now enjoy our tablets in the bath. Step forward the Méopad Aqua, a 7in, 1-024 x 600 fondleslab with all the usual accoutrements and an unusual one: it's waterproof.… |
| HP, Microsoft hop into bed for VS3 private cloud kit romp Posted: 23 Apr 2012 02:39 AM PDT For the sysadmin who needs 6,000 VMs, statSystem integrators had better polish up their resumes, because every IT vendor wants to sell preconfigured systems with servers, storage, networking, and management software – all pre-integrated and ready to have software poured onto their virtual machines to start doing real work in hours.… |
| From the Department of WTF: New USB tampon flash drive Posted: 23 Apr 2012 02:23 AM PDT Thieves will probably give it a missThere's not much to say about this one. It's a flash drive... and it looks like a tampon.… |
| Asus: Ice Cream Sandwich Transformer Pad out in May Posted: 23 Apr 2012 02:02 AM PDT Dixons exclusive for tablet-cum-laptopAsus UK has confirmed that the Transformer Pad TF300T - farewell, Eee branding… - will be out over here late next month, though not on widespread availability until the end of June.… |
| Happy 30th Birthday, Sinclair ZX Spectrum Posted: 23 Apr 2012 01:39 AM PDT The story of an historic micro |
| Plumbers of the interwebs vow to kill IP hijacking Posted: 23 Apr 2012 01:31 AM PDT Task force to send 'Rover' out to wild web galaxyThe Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) aims to strengthen the basic protocols of the internet, with a way to stop route, or IP, hijacking. IETF experts say the proposed fix is simpler to implement than previous suggestions.…
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| EU-US name-swap deal actually gives passengers MORE privacy Posted: 23 Apr 2012 01:04 AM PDT Better than interim deal ... but still keeps your data for 5 yearsThe European Parliament has approved a controversial new agreement allowing the EU to exchange airline passenger information with the US, it has announced.… |
| Turing's rapid Nazi Enigma code-breaking secret revealed Posted: 23 Apr 2012 12:26 AM PDT Maths homework kept in GCHQ vault for 70 yearsBlighty's communications eavesdropping nerve centre GCHQ has issued two papers written by superboffin Alan Turing on the maths behind code-breaking.… |
| Online criminal records checks to save Surrey council £300k Posted: 23 Apr 2012 12:02 AM PDT Will slash CRB process from 6 weeks to a few daysSurrey county council has launched a new system to conduct Criminal Records Bureau (CRB) checks in an effort to cut costs and improve efficiency.… |
| Woman cuffed for smuggling iPhones in beer bottles Posted: 22 Apr 2012 11:58 PM PDT Empties packed fruity contrabandA Chinese woman has been stopped at the border after trying to smuggle more than 200 iPhone 4S devices from Hong Kong into the Apple-mad nation hidden inside empty beer bottles.… |
| Sony and Nokia still a hit with Asian consumers Posted: 22 Apr 2012 11:58 PM PDT At last some good news for the under-fire duoNokia and Sony remain two of the most powerful brands in Asia despite high profile problems affecting both companies which have sent their market share, revenues and global reputation plummeting in recent months, according to a new piece of research.…
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| Vodafone agrees to Cable and Wireless buy Posted: 22 Apr 2012 11:51 PM PDT £1bn deal to boost UK enterprise business, cut costs elsewhereAfter many weeks of negotiations, Vodafone Europe has agreed to acquire Cable and Wireless Worldwide (CWW) for a sum that values the latter company at £1,044m, or £0.38 per share.… |
| China hits back at US cyber snooping allegations Posted: 22 Apr 2012 11:51 PM PDT Satellite exports to China will be tightenedThe war of words between the US and China escalated at the weekend after the People's Republic vigorously denied allegations from the Pentagon that its rapid rise as a space superpower has been made possible in part thanks to "successful spying".… |
| Google Street View comes to Israel Posted: 22 Apr 2012 07:45 PM PDT Security officials insist only public areas snappedGoogle has launched its Street View product in Israel, after what the Jerusalem Post describes as "meetings with Israeli security officials" that ensured "Street View only shows public areas."… |
| Megaupload case near collapse: report Posted: 22 Apr 2012 07:00 PM PDT Farce piled upon farceAn American district court judge has cast doubt over the whole Megaupload trial, telling the FBI the criminal charges against Kim Dotcom may never make it to trial.… |
| Microsoft automates Office 365 installs Posted: 22 Apr 2012 06:30 PM PDT Deployment Toolkit 2012 released, helps Windows 7, 8 rollouts tooMicrosoft has updated its automated software development tools to the new Microsoft Deployment Toolkit (MDT) 2012, and in a sign it wants to push its cloudy productivity has added the ability to automate Office 365 deployments.…
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| US okays release of bird flu research Posted: 22 Apr 2012 06:00 PM PDT Ferret-killer research deemed to have public health benefitsUS authorities have recommended that two controversial papers describing a genetically-engineerd form of the H5N1 virus, commonly known as bird flu, can be published.… |
| Higher ground: plants seeking colder temperatures Posted: 22 Apr 2012 05:10 PM PDT Flowers take up mountaineeringA study conducted by the University of Vienna and published in Science has found that all across Europe, plants are moving to higher altitudes.… |
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