VMware still shines in a Facebook world |
- VMware still shines in a Facebook world
- White House issues privacy warning on CISPA-style laws
- HDS to launch unified storage systems
- Microsoft retunes Intune for full Android, iOS app integration
- Techie stages 'strip down' protest at TSA 'harassment'
- Caringo greases up CAStor product, slips out VM versions
- Sergey Brin REALLY ADMIRES Apple, Facebook
- Morphlabs forges OpenStack cloud rack
- NHS IT fiasco workers threaten lunch-hour revolt over job cuts
- Spy tech exports from Europe face tighter scrutiny
- PR mag: Let promoters edit clients' Wikipedia entries
- Sony whips out new optical mass storage format
- Reg readers tell us why implementing change is so hard
- RIP Ceefax: Digital switchover kills off last teletext service
- Phone-hack saga: Prosecutors mull charges for 11 suspects
- Unemployed offered money to watch grass grow
- Unlock the business value of your information
- Oakley: 'smart' sunglasses ready to shine
- Berners-Lee: Net snoop law tosses human rights into the shredder
- NAO: Gov open data policy disorganised and costly
- PLANET-SWAP shock: Stars grabbed dirtballs from other clusters
- US judge orders Apple, Samsung CEOs to get a room
- Public sector IT buyers 'hogtied by mess of red tape'
- Rare! Yahoo! revenue! growth! spotted! in! Q1!
- BT's 'unbeatable' Infinity broadband ads banned by ASA
- Hunters 2
- Zuckerberg blew $1bn on Instagram 'without telling Facebook board'
- JCB builds Android blower for brickies
- Vodafone fights India's retrospective tax grab
- Wasteland sequel given $3m green light
- O2 declares 4G trial success... with 1000 users
- 10x power boost for Freeview as London analogue signal cut
- Gmail goes titsup for 30 MILLION PUNTERS
- Microsoft, Intel reportedly partner to crush Apple
- Tunbridge Wells' car park bonking offered new NFC logo
- Microsoft bigs up open source, then stuffs it under the sofa
- Chinese and US military square off for cyber war games
- Compulsory coding in schools: The new Nerd Tourism
- Tosh UK rewards competition hopefuls by exposing their privates
- Quantum brandishes LTFS tool for cheap-as-chips tape
- Indonesian ID card will deduct fines from bank accounts
- French perfume house bottles 'Eau de new MacBook'
- Singapore most 'liveable' Asian city for ex-pat IT pros
- Ten... smartphone survival accessories
- Notebook makers hit hard in pre-Ivy Bridge lull
- Google updates Chrome for Android
- Amazon Web services revamps partner program
- Oracle considered entering smartphone market
- Twitter poses patent non-aggression treaty to unblock industry
- Prince of Persia author releases 1980s source code
| VMware still shines in a Facebook world Posted: 18 Apr 2012 03:17 PM PDT Executive shuffle as CFO departs for WorkdayIt's tough for VMware to compete for mindshare in a world where Facebook is getting ready to go public and social media is so much more graspable for the masses compared to the virtual infrastructure that VMware sells.… |
| White House issues privacy warning on CISPA-style laws Posted: 18 Apr 2012 01:49 PM PDT Even Berners-Lee and the EFF weigh inThe White House has struck a pro-privacy stance on online security legislation such as the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act (CISPA), which comes up for vote in the US House of Representatives next week.… |
| HDS to launch unified storage systems Posted: 18 Apr 2012 12:02 PM PDT HUS replaces AMSHitachi Data Systems is replacing its mid-range AMS storage arrays with a new HDS Unified Storage (HUS) array.… |
| Microsoft retunes Intune for full Android, iOS app integration Posted: 18 Apr 2012 11:28 AM PDT But did spirit of Steve Jobs scotches iPhone demo?Microsoft has been showing off updates to Intune and System Center Config Manager which allow BYOD users to download and manage company-approved iOS and Android applications or run them via VDI.…
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| Techie stages 'strip down' protest at TSA 'harassment' Posted: 18 Apr 2012 11:21 AM PDT Naked but unstressed man does 'something with internet'An Oregon man who "does something with the internet" stripped stark naked at Portland airport on Tuesday in a protest at TSA screening policies.… |
| Caringo greases up CAStor product, slips out VM versions Posted: 18 Apr 2012 10:32 AM PDT File access to objectsObject storage startup Caringo has introduced virtual machine editions of its CAStor object storage product along with standard file protocol access to CAStor, broaching the question whether object storage will just become file storage under another name.… |
| Sergey Brin REALLY ADMIRES Apple, Facebook Posted: 18 Apr 2012 10:01 AM PDT But net's biggest gatekeeper not a fan of other gatekeepers...Open is a word so overused and abused that it is now impossible not to switch off when yet another tech titan or politico comes along with their very own interpretation of what the term should actually mean.… |
| Morphlabs forges OpenStack cloud rack Posted: 18 Apr 2012 09:44 AM PDT Ready to run virty machinesMorphlabs has been moving into physical hardware over the past two years and is now rolling out a converged system called mCloud Rack Enterprise. The system welds together Dell cloudy servers packed with solid state storage, Nexenta storage software, Arista Networks switches, and the new "Essex" commercial-grade OpenStack cloud fabric into a ready-to-go "cloud in a box".… |
| NHS IT fiasco workers threaten lunch-hour revolt over job cuts Posted: 18 Apr 2012 09:17 AM PDT Union to form picnic line over CSC redundanciesIT bods working on the car-crash NHS patient records project will stage a protest during Thursday lunchtime over compulsory redundancies at their employer, CSC.…
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| Spy tech exports from Europe face tighter scrutiny Posted: 18 Apr 2012 08:58 AM PDT Strasbourg mulls new rules on surveillance software by 2013The EU could soon introduce rules to monitor the deployment of internet censorship technology in autocratic regimes including China and Saudi Arabia.… |
| PR mag: Let promoters edit clients' Wikipedia entries Posted: 18 Apr 2012 08:34 AM PDT Public relations bods found 'errors' there, natch...PRs feel that they are excluded from making edits to Wikipedia even when they are trying to correct factual errors, a survey by the journal of the Public Relations Society of America has found.… |
| Sony whips out new optical mass storage format Posted: 18 Apr 2012 08:02 AM PDT Hirai's bid for glory looks a lot like Blu-ray...Sony has seen commercial optical data archiving systems fail one after the other: from Blu-ray to DVD and HD DVD. But the firm is either learning from its mistakes or readying itself to make new ones as it launches yet another new proprietary optical disk archiving product and format.… |
| Reg readers tell us why implementing change is so hard Posted: 18 Apr 2012 08:00 AM PDT Unravelling symptom and causeReg Research Readers have provided some great feedback during our latest workshop on a topic that has turned out to be close to many of your hearts – how best to manage an increasingly virtualised IT infrastructure. As part of the exercise, we ran one of our famous Freeform Dynamics polls so you could tell us how things currently stand in your organisation, and the results are in.… |
| RIP Ceefax: Digital switchover kills off last teletext service Posted: 18 Apr 2012 07:27 AM PDT How are we going to impress Americans now?Over a decade ago the majority of UK holidays were booked by TV, but today London lost Ceefax – and by the end of the year teletext as we know it will disappear entirely.…
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| Phone-hack saga: Prosecutors mull charges for 11 suspects Posted: 18 Apr 2012 06:59 AM PDT Four hacks, one cop and six citizens on CPS dartboard so far...Four journalists and one cop have been pinpointed by the UK's Crown Prosecution Service over alleged offences relating to phone hacking, it emerged today.… |
| Unemployed offered money to watch grass grow Posted: 18 Apr 2012 06:47 AM PDT Indolent 'Automatic Lawnmower Supervisor' soughtThose among you who believe it's your human right to be paid to "read, tweet, surf the internet, check your email and sunbathe" should get your lazy arses into this job, which is offering hard cash to someone to do just that.… |
| Unlock the business value of your information Posted: 18 Apr 2012 06:30 AM PDT Information management initiatives that work for youOn demand What are the benefits and costs involved in unlocking the business value of the information held within your organisation? In Jon Collins and a panel of experts set out to explore this question in a lovely little Regcast.… |
| Oakley: 'smart' sunglasses ready to shine Posted: 18 Apr 2012 06:18 AM PDT Shade us the waySunglasses manufacturer Oakley reckons the time is ripe for 'smart glasses', and has revealed its own R&D efforts in specs technology, which could see it compete with Google's Project Glass in the not-too-distant future.… |
| Berners-Lee: Net snoop law tosses human rights into the shredder Posted: 18 Apr 2012 06:01 AM PDT Web grandfather slams UK.gov's online surveillance planSir Tim Berners-Lee has warned the Tory-led Coalition not to push through a bill to legislate plans to massively increase surveillance of the internet.… |
| NAO: Gov open data policy disorganised and costly Posted: 18 Apr 2012 05:38 AM PDT Calls for cost-benefit analysisThe government's open-data policy has no proven benefits and could actually be costing taxpayers more than it's worth.…
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| PLANET-SWAP shock: Stars grabbed dirtballs from other clusters Posted: 18 Apr 2012 05:19 AM PDT Galaxy was young then, explain boffinsSpace boffins have suggested that billions of stars in our galaxy have captured roaming rogue planets as they tootle through the cosmos.… |
| US judge orders Apple, Samsung CEOs to get a room Posted: 18 Apr 2012 05:02 AM PDT Patent battle ideally needs to end before heat death of universeA US court has sent Apple and Samsung CEOs into settlement talks to sort out their patent disputes or at least limit the number of wrangles.… |
| Public sector IT buyers 'hogtied by mess of red tape' Posted: 18 Apr 2012 04:44 AM PDT Purchasing rules overlap sparks channel handwringingBlighty's public sector IT bean counters face a bewildering mess of overlapping tech purchasing bureaucracy, channel sources have warned.… |
| Rare! Yahoo! revenue! growth! spotted! in! Q1! Posted: 18 Apr 2012 04:27 AM PDT It's alive! It's alive!Yahoo! has reported a slight uptick in revenue and income in the first quarter of this year - the first time it's had any sales growth in the last three years.… |
| BT's 'unbeatable' Infinity broadband ads banned by ASA Posted: 18 Apr 2012 04:13 AM PDT Not to Infinity and beyond, actuallyBT has been collared by Blighty's advertising regulator, the ASA, which upheld four complaints brought against the telco giant.…
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| Posted: 18 Apr 2012 04:00 AM PDT Stand-up fight - or another bug hunt?iGamer Turn-based tactical role-playing games seem ideally suited to touchscreens. Their top-down or isometric graphics go easy on mobile processors, their measured, methodical gameplay never asks too much of limited control inputs and, perhaps most importantly, their short challenge and reward cycles provide instant dopamine gratification during short train commutes and sneaky five-minute bog breaks.… |
| Zuckerberg blew $1bn on Instagram 'without telling Facebook board' Posted: 18 Apr 2012 03:44 AM PDT No bankers or lawyers in sofa-based deal, says reportFacebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg left his board out of the loop as he personally hammered out a $1bn deal with Instagram for its colour-changing photo software in three days of negotiations in his house in Palo Alto, culminating in the deal on Sunday 8 April, a report in the Wall Street Journal claims.… |
| JCB builds Android blower for brickies Posted: 18 Apr 2012 03:38 AM PDT Construction gets toughJCB has dabbled with mobile phones before, generally offering rugged handsets with limited capabilities. But with the world cementing interest in smartphones, the company has finally chiselled its first Android blower, the Toughphone Pro-Smart.… |
| Vodafone fights India's retrospective tax grab Posted: 18 Apr 2012 03:32 AM PDT Law change may force telco to cough upVodafone is asking for international arbitration on its claim that the Indian government's attempt to retrospectively apply changes in tax law is illegal.… |
| Wasteland sequel given $3m green light Posted: 18 Apr 2012 03:20 AM PDT Classic RPG follow-up Kickstarted into actionPlans to bring back the post-apocalyptic RPG Wasteland will go ahead after a Kickstarter project mustered more than enough funds to give the project the green light.… |
| O2 declares 4G trial success... with 1000 users Posted: 18 Apr 2012 03:13 AM PDT Rhetoric ramp-up ahead of Ofcom auctionLondon is switching off analogue TV today, so O2 is crowing about how marvellously its 4G trials have gone, despite the two things being at opposite ends of the spectrum.… |
| 10x power boost for Freeview as London analogue signal cut Posted: 18 Apr 2012 03:00 AM PDT Retune your tellyLondon's analogue TV signal was silenced at midnight yesterday, paving the way for 4G mobile data networks in the nation's capital.… |
| Gmail goes titsup for 30 MILLION PUNTERS Posted: 18 Apr 2012 02:58 AM PDT POP3, IMAP users can engage smugmodeGoogle admitted that an outage last night to its Gmail service affected around 10 per cent of its userbase - in other words, around 30 million people were unable to access their email online.… |
| Microsoft, Intel reportedly partner to crush Apple Posted: 18 Apr 2012 02:39 AM PDT Want iPad market share to plunge below 50% next yearWe don't need "industry sources" to tell us Intel and Microsoft are actively encouraging computer makers to offer Windows 8 tablets - or that there will be a host of these machines announced before the year is up.… |
| Tunbridge Wells' car park bonking offered new NFC logo Posted: 18 Apr 2012 02:39 AM PDT N-Marks the spotThe NFC Forum is hoping a more laid-back approach to licensing will encourage use of its N-Mark logo, but those deploying NFC are still playing fast and loose with branding.…
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| Microsoft bigs up open source, then stuffs it under the sofa Posted: 18 Apr 2012 02:19 AM PDT Big Blue got it right, why can't Redmond?Open ... and Shut Microsoft's new Open Technologies subsidiary may be many things, but one thing it's not is "further demonstration of Microsoft's long-term commitment to interoperability, greater openness, and to working with open source communities", as Microsoft has positioned it.… |
| Chinese and US military square off for cyber war games Posted: 18 Apr 2012 01:58 AM PDT Tensions mount as APT attacks continueThe United States and Chinese military have been locking horns in secret cyber warfare exercises designed to help prevent the outbreak of real war between the two.… |
| Compulsory coding in schools: The new Nerd Tourism Posted: 18 Apr 2012 01:32 AM PDT Chattering classes go mad for gap-year angle bracketsComment The writer Toby Young tells a story about how the modern 100m race is run in primary schools. At the starting pistol, everyone runs like mad. At the 50m point, the fastest children stop and wait for the heavier kids to catch up. Then all the youngsters walk across the finishing line together, holding hands.… |
| Tosh UK rewards competition hopefuls by exposing their privates Posted: 18 Apr 2012 01:03 AM PDT ICO slaps wrist after URL twiddling leaked personal infoToshiba Information Systems UK breached the Data Protection Act, the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) has ruled.… |
| Quantum brandishes LTFS tool for cheap-as-chips tape Posted: 18 Apr 2012 12:31 AM PDT Low-cost storage for media typesQuantum has launched an LTFS tape file system appliance and hopes to popularise low-cost, high-capacity tape use for accessing large video files.…
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| Indonesian ID card will deduct fines from bank accounts Posted: 18 Apr 2012 12:05 AM PDT Police plan to merge data with national identity databaseIndonesians are being asked to adopt two identity cards, both of which will store their personal details in government-controlled databases, after the nation's National Police Criminal Investigation Division announce a sign-up drive for the Indonesia Automatic Fingerprint Identification System (INAFIS).… |
| French perfume house bottles 'Eau de new MacBook' Posted: 18 Apr 2012 12:02 AM PDT Whoever smelt it dealt itThe scent of an unopened MacBook has been captured by a French perfume house which claims to have created a fragrance reminiscent of that accompanying the unboxing of an Apple gadget.… |
| Singapore most 'liveable' Asian city for ex-pat IT pros Posted: 17 Apr 2012 11:33 PM PDT Hong Kong needs to clean up its act.Ex-pat IT professionals looking for a better quality of life abroad could do worse than try Singapore, the Japanese city of Kobe or Hong Kong – the top three most liveable cities in Asia according to new research from HR information provider ECA International.… |
| Ten... smartphone survival accessories Posted: 17 Apr 2012 11:00 PM PDT Protect and deployProduct round-up As the weather starts to improve and the knobbly knees of British sun seekers start gracing the public eye, weekends away untangling guy-ropes and blowing up inflatable mattresses draws close. But the organic world of planet Earth is no safe place for a man of modern comfort, and taking a survival kit with you specifically for your gadgets isn't such a bad idea.… |
| Notebook makers hit hard in pre-Ivy Bridge lull Posted: 17 Apr 2012 09:40 PM PDT April is the cruellest month ... for ODMsTaiwanese ODMs which produce notebooks for some of the world's biggest brands including Acer, Dell, HP and Lenovo are set to see shipments fall by up to 20 per cent in April as the transition to Intel's much anticipated Ivy Bridge platform takes hold.… |
| Google updates Chrome for Android Posted: 17 Apr 2012 08:33 PM PDT More languages, no flash, still in betaGoogle has upgraded Chrome for Android. The browser is now available in 31 languages, all of which lack Flash support.…
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| Amazon Web services revamps partner program Posted: 17 Apr 2012 08:02 PM PDT New Partner Network offers tech and sales support for cloudy companionsAmazon Web Services' has built a new base camp on its route into the heart of enterprise IT, in the form of a new Partner Network the company says provides "technical information and sales and marketing support they need to accelerate their business on AWS."… |
| Oracle considered entering smartphone market Posted: 17 Apr 2012 06:59 PM PDT "Project Java Phone" kicked off in 2009, also thought of buying RIM, PalmOracle CEO Larry Ellison has told the US Federal Court that his company assembled a team to contemplate entering the smartphone market, as he wanted to compete with Apple and Androind. The team formed in 2009, as Oracle was in the process of acquiring Sun.… |
| Twitter poses patent non-aggression treaty to unblock industry Posted: 17 Apr 2012 05:43 PM PDT No first-use patent pledge to stem legal madnessTwitter is trying a new tactic to slow or stop the increasing use of legal action over patents as a tactic in the technology industry.… |
| Prince of Persia author releases 1980s source code Posted: 17 Apr 2012 05:25 PM PDT Lucky find a glimpse into game historyRetro games fans will be heading over to Github, where Jordan Mechner has posted the source code to his original classic, Prince of Persia.… |
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