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- Fantasy cabal sells off novel-as-app platform
- China's home grown mobile platforms drive smartphone growth
- How zombie LulzSec exposed privates' love lives with PHP hack
- Bigger, longer deals dangled at G-Cloud 2.0 launch
- Unions urge under-fire HP workers to 'resist' job cuts
- Top Facebook exec begs students: 'Click on an ad or two'
- Google to bring Raspberry Pi to Bash Street
- Mars rover Opportunity spots WALL-E in crater ramble
- EMC denies big server biz plans ... but IS building servers
- Fake Angry Birds app makers fined £50k for shock cash suck
- Moshi Monsters pushed onto pint-sized kiddies' mobes
- Sysadmins: Chucked your Exchange servers up? Let's enable SSO
- NetApp streaks ahead, avoids trip-up by bum flash leg
- Met cops get new pocket-sized fingerprint scanners
- Pipex 'silence' condemned punters' emails to spam blackhole
- New smart meter tells Brits exactly what they already know
- SpaceX does what it HASN'T done before: Dragon in close ISS flyby
- Reg readers love Private Cloud (true)
- Attack of the clones: Researcher pwns SecureID token system
- Zombies, Run!
- Toshiba swaps skinny Android tablet's CPU
- Google quizzed AGAIN by French data watchdog
- Biz law reform: Bad news for lawyers, good news for hippies
- LG pitches £7k 55in OLED TV, again
- Minority Report-style swishery demoed with cheap webcam
- LOHAN sucks 27 inches
- Yahoo! leaks! private! key! in! Axis! Chrome! debut!
- World+Dog to demand ever larger tablet-phones
- Converged system threesome show off new Vblocks
- Rival mobile networks hang up on EE's 4G call
- Cable to stimulate stiff growth in entrepreneurs' trousers
- IT firms drown as rising tide buoys rest of UK plc
- Special Projects Burro pops his hooves
- Brocade shakes up sales leaders after earnings slump
- Samsung outsources notebooks to Taiwan - report
- Russian satellite beams home 121-megapixel pics of Earth
- WTF is... Li-Fi?
- 'Six-eyed' robot to tour National Museum of Australia
- Obama orders gov app deluge
- China turns on the sprinklers with ambitious rain-making plans
- HP takes a big profit haircut, too
- Boffins develop nanoscale vacuum tube running at .46 THz
- Insect vision a template for computer ‘sight’
- BigPond GameArena hacked, 35,000 passwords reset
- Google in the clear on Oracle patents
- HP cuts 27,000 workers
| Fantasy cabal sells off novel-as-app platform Posted: 24 May 2012 02:30 PM PDT Neal Stephenson's Subutai splits into content and publishing software companiesSubutai Corporation, the brainchild of Neal Stephenson, has sold its Personal Ubiquitous Literature Platform (PULP) to a company called Brainstem Media. Brainstem is founded and run by the PULP's developers.…
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| China's home grown mobile platforms drive smartphone growth Posted: 24 May 2012 01:00 PM PDT Xiaomi's Android-based MIUI hailed as Apple rivalThe trend among domestic Chinese mobile players to build their own, highly localised, operating systems based on Android, is set to drive additional revenue and push smartphone adoption to a tipping point in 2013, but many efforts are likely to be short-lived, according to IDC.… |
| How zombie LulzSec exposed privates' love lives with PHP hack Posted: 24 May 2012 09:28 AM PDT Single soldiers site swallowed surprise loadA dating website for US soldiers was hacked and its database leaked after it blindly trusted user-submitted files, according to an analysis by security firm Imperva. The report highlights the danger of handling documents uploaded to web apps.… |
| Bigger, longer deals dangled at G-Cloud 2.0 launch Posted: 24 May 2012 08:59 AM PDT UK.gov buffs incentives in revamped tech bazaarThe UK government has launched the second version of G-Cloud, its tech shopping catalogue for the public sector, with reworked conditions to entice suppliers.… |
| Unions urge under-fire HP workers to 'resist' job cuts Posted: 24 May 2012 08:33 AM PDT Attempts to protect 1,600 UK staff ... not including LynchUnite and the Public Services Commercial (PCS) unions will form a tag team to "use every means possible" to safeguard the jobs of 1,600 HP UK employees under risk of redundancy.… |
| Top Facebook exec begs students: 'Click on an ad or two' Posted: 24 May 2012 08:25 AM PDT Keep Zuck's shareholders happy... pleaseNow that Facebook is being scrutinised by its new-found shareholders, it really needs people to start clicking on its ads.… |
| Google to bring Raspberry Pi to Bash Street Posted: 24 May 2012 07:53 AM PDT Computers for kidsGoogle is to indirectly equip 102 UK schools with Raspberry Pi devices.… |
| Mars rover Opportunity spots WALL-E in crater ramble Posted: 24 May 2012 07:50 AM PDT Me and my shadowPic NASA's Mars rover Opportunity snapped a dramatic photo of itself roaming around the planet's Endeavour Crater today.… |
| EMC denies big server biz plans ... but IS building servers Posted: 24 May 2012 07:28 AM PDT Embedded ones, true, but what's wrong with off-the-shelf hardness?EMC has always maintained that it is not is in the server business, but now it is developing servers – albeit to go into its arrays and run application software inside VM containers.… |
| Fake Angry Birds app makers fined £50k for shock cash suck Posted: 24 May 2012 07:01 AM PDT Making money-grabbing malware is too easy on Android, say expertsA firm that disguised Android malware as Angry Birds games has been fined £50,000 ($78,300) by UK premium-rate service regulator PhonepayPlus.… |
| Moshi Monsters pushed onto pint-sized kiddies' mobes Posted: 24 May 2012 06:33 AM PDT Under-10s' social network spreadsMonstro city, the social network frequented by all the coolest kids in the playground, is going mobile and has signed a deal with Gree to deploy at least two games on that platform.… |
| Sysadmins: Chucked your Exchange servers up? Let's enable SSO Posted: 24 May 2012 06:02 AM PDT Keeping things simple for the users...Sysadmin blog My previous article focused on migrating Exchange into Microsoft's cloud, but there is more to Office 365 than just Exchange. Single Sign On (SSO) between Office 365 and your local Microsoft domain can be a bit tricky. A proper implementation has high minimum requirements, and there are very good arguments against cutting corners.…
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| NetApp streaks ahead, avoids trip-up by bum flash leg Posted: 24 May 2012 05:42 AM PDT Don't want to be an all-flash also-ranNetApp is a veritable money machine these days, and is currently clocking in growing fourth quarter and annual results, but a blip may have appeared on the horizon as it searches for a way to bolster its flash offering. The tech giant has signalled it is going to both partner up to expand on flash technology and work on a few in-house flashy developments.… |
| Met cops get new pocket-sized fingerprint scanners Posted: 24 May 2012 05:22 AM PDT Mobile print-takers identify perps in secondsMet bobbies will soon be able to scan suspects' fingerprints on the street and pull up their records in seconds using internet-connected handheld gadgets.… |
| Pipex 'silence' condemned punters' emails to spam blackhole Posted: 24 May 2012 05:03 AM PDT ISP blocked for a week after 'ignoring' complaintsAnalysis Pipex subscribers struggled to send emails for several days after antivirus biz Trend Micro declared the ISP's network a source of spam.… |
| New smart meter tells Brits exactly what they already know Posted: 24 May 2012 04:48 AM PDT Live 'leccy stats from the cloud to save 'millions'We're all going to be much richer thanks to British Gas, which will push kit from Cambridge startup AlertMe into 10,000 homes this summer. The rollout will reach the rest of the energy giant's ten million customers in the autumn.… |
| SpaceX does what it HASN'T done before: Dragon in close ISS flyby Posted: 24 May 2012 04:35 AM PDT Station 'nauts see light on but no one home on capsuleIt's another moment of truth for upstart space startup SpaceX as once again the company attempts to do something that has only ever been accomplished to date by major government space agencies: docking one spacecraft to another in orbit and transferring cargo.…
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| Reg readers love Private Cloud (true) Posted: 24 May 2012 04:30 AM PDT Playing the SLA long gameWhen IT is your day job it is easy to lose sight of why you are doing it. Alright, it's to pay the bills, fund your next holiday, buy nice stuff and so on.… |
| Attack of the clones: Researcher pwns SecureID token system Posted: 24 May 2012 04:13 AM PDT But RSA claims it would only work on rootkit-compromised gearAnalysis RSA Security has downplayed the significance of an attack that offers a potential way to clone its SecurID software tokens.… |
| Posted: 24 May 2012 04:00 AM PDT Exercise motivate-urgh, urghiOS App of the Week There are dozens of apps aimed at joggers that can plot a route for you, and measure your speed, progress and calories burned. Yet none of them deal with the fundamental fact that jogging is the most boring form of exercise known to humanity.… |
| Toshiba swaps skinny Android tablet's CPU Posted: 24 May 2012 03:56 AM PDT OMAP out, Tegra 3 inToshiba has taken its very thin AT200 tablet, ripped out the 1.2GHz Texas Instruments OMAP 4430 CPU and flung in an Nvidia Tegra 3 penta-core processor instead.… |
| Google quizzed AGAIN by French data watchdog Posted: 24 May 2012 03:44 AM PDT CNIL unhappy with previous answers on privacyFrench data regulator Commission Nationale de l'Informatique (CNIL) has demanded more answers from Google over its handling of the data of its users.… |
| Biz law reform: Bad news for lawyers, good news for hippies Posted: 24 May 2012 03:33 AM PDT Eco-tech funds in, tribunals out in draft billVince Cable presented his new Enterprise and Regulatory Reform Bill to Parliament on Wednesday afternoon, promising more action on competition, streamlined employment tribunals and a £3bn Green Bank that will funnel cash into eco-friendly energy and tech industries.… |
| LG pitches £7k 55in OLED TV, again Posted: 24 May 2012 03:29 AM PDT Thin telly requires fat walletLG showed off its 55in OLED TV at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in January, and despite demo'ing the device again this week, this time over here, it's still vague about the release date.… |
| Minority Report-style swishery demoed with cheap webcam Posted: 24 May 2012 03:14 AM PDT You'll be sorry if you flip it off, thoughHPC blog New tech at GTC12 lets punters pretend to be Tom Cruise in Minority Report: opening windows, moving them, closing them, and essentially acting like a cool, futuristic cop.…
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| Posted: 24 May 2012 03:02 AM PDT Mounting excitement down in REHABThe epic saga of our shed-built hypobaric chamber – the Rocketry Experimental High Altitude Barosimulator (REHAB) experiment – continues today with the news that we've just laid our hands on a proper vacuum pump which allows LOHAN to suck an impressive 27 inches.… |
| Yahoo! leaks! private! key! in! Axis! Chrome! debut! Posted: 24 May 2012 02:39 AM PDT Extension launch scuppered by certificate blunderYahoo! today released its Axis extension for Chrome – and accidentally leaked its private security key that could allow anyone to create malicious plugins masquerading as official Yahoo! software.… |
| World+Dog to demand ever larger tablet-phones Posted: 24 May 2012 02:34 AM PDT Screen-inflation nationWe're not speaking to people on our phones, these days, we're mostly browsing the web. And that, says market watcher ABI Research, is driving demand for devices that lie in the grey area between smartphones and tablets.… |
| Converged system threesome show off new Vblocks Posted: 24 May 2012 02:21 AM PDT New additions to federate and protect as trio adopt VPLEXVCE, the VMware/Cisco/EMC converged system threesome, has introduced two new Vblocks and adopted VPLEX to federate Vblocks.… |
| Rival mobile networks hang up on EE's 4G call Posted: 24 May 2012 02:06 AM PDT All we wanted was a monopolyVodafone and Telefonica have laid out their arguments against EE's request to be allowed a monopoly on 4G telephony, and very damning they are too, but the public seems more supportive and Three's filing isn't public yet.… |
| Cable to stimulate stiff growth in entrepreneurs' trousers Posted: 24 May 2012 01:33 AM PDT UK.gov to pour £200m into pockets of small bizUnder-fire UK business secretary Vince Cable has launched the government's new £200m "GrowthAccelerator" programme to help small businesses with the potential to do well to actually do well.…
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| IT firms drown as rising tide buoys rest of UK plc Posted: 24 May 2012 01:01 AM PDT Techy Brit biz collapse rate leaps a thirdThe number of British business failures eased back in April, however IT firms bucked the trend with insolvencies up by a third compared to last year.… |
| Special Projects Burro pops his hooves Posted: 24 May 2012 12:32 AM PDT Mysterious demise of El Reg's asinine mascotIt's with heavy hearts that we announce today the death of Aladdin – our Special Projects Burro.… |
| Brocade shakes up sales leaders after earnings slump Posted: 24 May 2012 12:02 AM PDT New cards, same old faces?Brocade has printed out a whole bunch of new business cards for its sales and marketing department, just a week after releasing Q2 results that showed sales falling year on year.… |
| Samsung outsources notebooks to Taiwan - report Posted: 23 May 2012 11:06 PM PDT Compal set to be the lucky ODMKorean electronics giant Samsung has reportedly begun outsourcing notebook production for the first time, with Taiwanese ODM Compal Electronics the lucky manufacturer and shipments to begin as early as June.… |
| Russian satellite beams home 121-megapixel pics of Earth Posted: 23 May 2012 11:03 PM PDT Blue marble looking good from height of 36,000kmRussia's ELECTRO-L weather satellite has used its 121-megapixel sensors to send home the highest-resolution set of space pics yet.… |
| Posted: 23 May 2012 11:00 PM PDT Optical data transfer's new leading light? |
| 'Six-eyed' robot to tour National Museum of Australia Posted: 23 May 2012 10:09 PM PDT Wi-Fi-guided bot will test NBN scenarios, augment reality for virtual visitorsThe National Museum of Australia will trial a mobile robot as a way of facilitating more student visitors to the institution. Around 90,000 students visit the museum each year, but Australia has more than four million students across all tiers of education. Most are at least 300 km from the Museum's Canberra home.…
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| Posted: 23 May 2012 09:53 PM PDT Developers cheer as every US government agency to release two mobile apps inside a yearThe US government has amplified its focus on getting the machinations of White House effectively digital with a strong push on mobile technology.… |
| China turns on the sprinklers with ambitious rain-making plans Posted: 23 May 2012 09:48 PM PDT Points rocket launchers, guns at the sky, unleashes "weather army"China is to step up its use of cloud-seeding technology to open the heavens more frequently than ever before, in a bid to prevent drought and make the weather more predictable.… |
| HP takes a big profit haircut, too Posted: 23 May 2012 08:52 PM PDT Blame printers, servers, and servicesThis is taking "industry standard" a little too far perhaps. Dell's revenues got a haircut and its profits swooned in its most recent quarter, and Hewlett-Packard followed suit in its second fiscal quarter with profits falling a lot faster than its revenues dropped. The difference, of course, is that HP is a considerably larger company and just laid off 27,000 workers.… |
| Boffins develop nanoscale vacuum tube running at .46 THz Posted: 23 May 2012 06:37 PM PDT Power hungry but radiation resistant relic could make comeback … in spaaaaceResearchers from NASA and Korea's National Nanofab Center have cooked up nanoscale vacuum tubes, potentially bringing some of the earliest electronic devices back into the mainstream of technology.… |
| Insect vision a template for computer ‘sight’ Posted: 23 May 2012 04:05 PM PDT Can you see what bees see?Computers aren't yet good at making complex, ad-hoc decisions from visual inputs. However, the discovery at Melbourne's RMIT that bees' brains are big enough to do so could set the direction for future computer vision research.… |
| BigPond GameArena hacked, 35,000 passwords reset Posted: 23 May 2012 04:02 PM PDT Quick disclosure from TelstraTelstra has taken the unusual – in Australia – step of proactively announcing that a service has been compromised.…
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| Google in the clear on Oracle patents Posted: 23 May 2012 03:57 PM PDT API copyright decision still to comeGoogle has successfully defended Android against Oracle's patent infringement claim, leaving whether its API breaches copyright as the only question still in play between the two companies.… |
| Posted: 23 May 2012 03:51 PM PDT Autonomy's Mike Lynch among thousands departingAs rumored last week, IT giant Hewlett-Packard is slashing its employee count worldwide to squeeze more profits from its revenue stream. The job cuts are not as deep as some had been expecting, but are still going to be tough on the company.… |
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