LightSquared files for bankruptcy |
- LightSquared files for bankruptcy
- Buffalo ships world's first 1.3Gbps Wi-Fi hardware
- Nvidia launches Nsight CUDA dev tools into Eclipse
- Google shoves cybersquatter off 763 Googletastic domains
- Japanese operator to test quake-proof floating phone-mast BLIMPS
- Mp3Tunes files for bankruptcy
- Next-gen MacBook Pro, iMac make benchmark site debut
- EMC gobbled XtremeIO to Xterminate NetApp, says Xpert
- Intel goes wide and deep with Xeon E5 assault
- Intel woos microserver makers with Xeon E3-1200 v2 singlers
- Study shows SMB cloud security fears largely overstated
- Headbanger plays <i>Star Trek</i> theme on floppy drives
- Road deaths spark crackdown on jaywalking texter menace
- Adobe backs down, patches critical Photoshop CS5 hole
- What you should know about migrating to the cloud
- Antitrust probe looms over Windows RT 'browser ban'
- Foxconn chief: we're gearing up for Apple 'iTV'
- UK milk wastage = 20,000 cars = actually completely unimportant
- Hyundai Veloster coupé
- Cost-cutting Serco says UK economy improving
- SpaceX sets new blastoff date for Dragon: 19 May
- Stuck in a dull conference? You need Verity's survival guide
- Freecom Hard Drive Sq 2TB
- Behind the lens of NASA's self-adapting ISS space telescope
- Ofcom: Now's your chance to make Local TV for Local People
- Heathrow CIO pledges seamless future with £1.5bn collaborative system
- StorSimple, TwinStrata join in HP Cloud love-in
- Telstra to hand T-box customers to Foxtel
- Overclockers to fight for global supremacy
- China begins work on world-beating MEGA power cables
- How to simulate a light armoured vehicle
- China and India scoop 17% of venture capital cash
- Apple drops '4G' label from new iPad
- Atlassian, Zynga among San Francisco's best town bikes
- Lasers battle cattle farts!
- Iranian firms told not to use foreign email providers
- Yahoo! CEO! quits! after! CV! row!
| LightSquared files for bankruptcy Posted: 14 May 2012 02:43 PM PDT End of the line for 4G wannabe? Wanna bet?Just hours before the expiration of a deal designed to keep it from defaulting on its debt, 4G wannabe LightSquared announced on Monday that it was filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection.… |
| Buffalo ships world's first 1.3Gbps Wi-Fi hardware Posted: 14 May 2012 11:37 AM PDT Edges out Netgear in 802.11ac raceIf you've been jonesing for faster Wi-Fi performance – not that you have any client devices that can yet take advantage of next-generation wireless networking technology – your wait is over: Buffalo has begun shipping the industry's first 802.11ac router and bridge.… |
| Nvidia launches Nsight CUDA dev tools into Eclipse Posted: 14 May 2012 11:01 AM PDT Visual Studio tools get some polish, tooGTC 2012 Nvidia kicked off its GPU Technical Conference today by launching an updated version of its Nsight development platform that wraps around the CUDA compiler set and now interfaces with Eclipse-based integrated development environments.… |
| Google shoves cybersquatter off 763 Googletastic domains Posted: 14 May 2012 10:01 AM PDT 'Gay network' owner had splashed over £6k on namesGoogle has seized over 750 domain names from a cybersquatter who used them to drive traffic to a series of "gay interest" websites and now wants Google's trademark cancelled.… |
| Japanese operator to test quake-proof floating phone-mast BLIMPS Posted: 14 May 2012 09:29 AM PDT Now that's a cloud networkJapan's third-largest network operator will trial blimp-based cells that could be instantly deployed to 100 metres above the ground even if said terra firma is shaking uncontrollably or has disappeared under flood waters.…
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| Posted: 14 May 2012 09:02 AM PDT Also-ran run-inFor Michael Robertson, it's déjà vu all over again. The same flexible and somewhat optimistic interpretation of copyright law that sank his music service in the dot.com bubble has also sunk his current music service, over what was essentially the same idea. On Friday Robertson's cloud music locker – MP3Tunes – filed for bankruptcy protection, blaming music industry litigation.… |
| Next-gen MacBook Pro, iMac make benchmark site debut Posted: 14 May 2012 08:58 AM PDT Ivy Bridge chips, retina screens, USB 3.0 all a-boardFaster MacBook Pros have surfaced on the Geekbench benchmark collation site promising, if genuine, performance 17 per cent up on its predecessor.… |
| EMC gobbled XtremeIO to Xterminate NetApp, says Xpert Posted: 14 May 2012 08:34 AM PDT And Fusion-io 'a mosquito they could squash at any time'A financial analyst reckons EMC bought XtremIO to fend off the threat posed by NetApp.… |
| Intel goes wide and deep with Xeon E5 assault Posted: 14 May 2012 08:14 AM PDT Blunting AMD's advantagesIf you were planning on buying new servers in the coming weeks and months, Intel just gave you a whole lot of homework. And if you work at Advanced Micro Devices, you're getting some homework, too.… |
| Intel woos microserver makers with Xeon E3-1200 v2 singlers Posted: 14 May 2012 08:03 AM PDT Ivy Bridge better for baby boxesFor a company that had to be dragged to the microserver space – though not exactly kicking and perhaps muttering instead of screaming – Intel has certainly taken a shining to the market and is not about to give X86 rival Advanced Micro Devices and the army of ARM RISC server wannabes any chance of getting a toehold in this nascent but fast-growing part of the market. Particularly after AMD bought microserver poster child SeaMicro in February.… |
| Study shows SMB cloud security fears largely overstated Posted: 14 May 2012 07:32 AM PDT Blind test questions assumptions on cost and securityResearch into small businesses in the US and Asian markets has shown that there's an increasing mismatch between the theory and practice of cloud security.…
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| Headbanger plays <i>Star Trek</i> theme on floppy drives Posted: 14 May 2012 07:01 AM PDT Very heavy metalVid Storage is weird, wonderful and sometimes very odd. Did you know floppy disk drives can be used for something other than emergency boots of legacy kit or as cool antiques?… |
| Road deaths spark crackdown on jaywalking texter menace Posted: 14 May 2012 06:31 AM PDT lok b4 u cross or els!11Vid Cops in Fort Lee have fined 117 pedestrians in a fortnight for jaywalking while engrossed in their smartphone screens - after three people died by wandering into traffic.… |
| Adobe backs down, patches critical Photoshop CS5 hole Posted: 14 May 2012 05:59 AM PDT Paid upgrade fix row leaves a nasty tasteAdobe backed down on Friday and promised to release a fix for earlier versions of its Photoshop software after previously insisting users who wanted to safeguard themselves from a critical security vulnerability had to pay for an upgrade.… |
| What you should know about migrating to the cloud Posted: 14 May 2012 05:30 AM PDT Have a pleasant journeySmall businesses account for roughly half the UK economy. The technology requirements for a one-man band are wildly different from those of a 250-seat tech support service company, yet both fall under the SME banner.… |
| Antitrust probe looms over Windows RT 'browser ban' Posted: 14 May 2012 05:04 AM PDT Internet Explorer shenanigans: Hasn't Microsoft been down this road before?US politicians are reportedly poring over complaints by Mozilla that Microsoft will block access to rival browsers in Windows 8 on ARM, aka Windows RT.…
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| Foxconn chief: we're gearing up for Apple 'iTV' Posted: 14 May 2012 04:39 AM PDT Sharp investment explained?Foxconn chief Terry Gou reportedly reckons that Apple, one of the contract manufacturer's biggest customers, is indeed preparing the so-called 'iTV'.… |
| UK milk wastage = 20,000 cars = actually completely unimportant Posted: 14 May 2012 04:28 AM PDT For goodness' sake, can't headline writers count?A scientific paper written with the aim of highlighting nitrogen oxide (NOx) emissions has resulted in a crop of foolish headlines pointing out that the UK's waste of milk creates an environmental burden equivalent to having another 20,000 cars on the roads.… |
| Posted: 14 May 2012 04:00 AM PDT Welcome to the world of 2+1 motoringReview Tradition dictates that cars look the same from the left as the right. Not Hyundai's new hatchback coupé, though. It has a rear door on the passenger's side but not on the driver's. Clever idea or gimmick? More to the point, will it lure buyers away from the the obvious alternatives, the VW Scirocco and Vauxhall Astra GTC?… |
| Cost-cutting Serco says UK economy improving Posted: 14 May 2012 03:34 AM PDT ... but too late to save jobs of 500 soulsIT outsourcing behemoth Serco Group says the outlook for the UK economy is decidedly brighter as the nation feels its way through the economic gloom.… |
| SpaceX sets new blastoff date for Dragon: 19 May Posted: 14 May 2012 03:01 AM PDT Really this time, we thinkThe flight of the Falcon 9 has once more been rescheduled, with a new launch date of 19 May, as Elon Musk's SpaceX decided to tweak the software one more time.… |
| Stuck in a dull conference? You need Verity's survival guide Posted: 14 May 2012 02:19 AM PDT Getting your own back on technical seminar speakersStob The technical conference season is once more upon us. The speakers at these affairs spend a lot of time sharing their software design patterns and anti-patterns with us; as a regular attendee it seemed to me that we punters were overdue for revenge. Here is some of their own medicine.… |
| Posted: 14 May 2012 02:00 AM PDT DIY DVRGeek Treat of the Week Freecom's Hard Drive Sq is a SuperSpeed USB 3.0 hard drive which is clearly pitched at the growing number of us who have smart TVs and want to be able to record programmes without investing in a Freeview or Freesat DVR.… |
| Behind the lens of NASA's self-adapting ISS space telescope Posted: 14 May 2012 01:28 AM PDT A hunk of space glass this ain'tAnalysis Funding cutbacks and an arguably anti-science fiscal policy haven't stopped exciting new projects emerging from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, California.… |
| Ofcom: Now's your chance to make Local TV for Local People Posted: 14 May 2012 01:00 AM PDT Getcher applications in for White Space telly channelsOfcom has received 87 expressions of interest from groups interested in running Local TV channels, and three companies interested in broadcasting them, so has launched the beauty contest to see who gets to be the next Alan Partridge.…
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| Heathrow CIO pledges seamless future with £1.5bn collaborative system Posted: 14 May 2012 12:27 AM PDT Let's get this baby off the groundThe CIO of the world's busiest airport has announced that £1.5 billion will be sunk into improving real-time and decision-making software systems at Heathrow.… |
| StorSimple, TwinStrata join in HP Cloud love-in Posted: 14 May 2012 12:02 AM PDT .44 cloud magnum could blow your SAN head clean off - punkCloud storage gateway suppliers are cosy-ing up to HP with both StorSimple and TwinStrata emphasising their HP Cloud Storage creds.… |
| Telstra to hand T-box customers to Foxtel Posted: 13 May 2012 11:17 PM PDT Exec exodus continues as speculation downloadsTelstra is expected to shut down its aggressive IPTV ambitions and hand over its 300,000 plus T-Box customers to Foxtel, once the merger of Foxtel and Austar is completed, sources close to the deal have told The Register.… |
| Overclockers to fight for global supremacy Posted: 13 May 2012 10:57 PM PDT Keep an eye on your servers as 'Chimp challenge' hits Folding@homeOverclocking enthusiasts around the world spent the weekend topping up their coolant tanks and tuning their rigs with unusual fervour, as they prepared to go into battle in the annual Chimp Challenge.… |
| China begins work on world-beating MEGA power cables Posted: 13 May 2012 10:45 PM PDT An 800kv line will have largest capacity on the planetChina's apparently unceasing efforts to lead the world in every conceivable field continued on Sunday after engineers in the western region of Xinjiang began construction of what is claimed will be the largest capacity power line on the planet.…
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| How to simulate a light armoured vehicle Posted: 13 May 2012 09:17 PM PDT Thales Australia reveals tech behind trainers for eight-wheeled monsterThe Australian Light Armoured Vehicle (ASLAV) is an eight-wheeled, 13,450-kilogram monster, which bristles with a grenade launcher, a pair of machine guns and a 25 millimetre M242 "Bushmaster" chain gun.… |
| China and India scoop 17% of venture capital cash Posted: 13 May 2012 07:56 PM PDT USA still number one, but investors like startups in high-growth marketsDeals with Chinese and Indian web firms are helping to fill the pockets of Silicon Valley venture capitalists (VCs) with ever greater wodges of cash, with one quarter of the top 100 VCs now investing in the region, according to Forbes' Midas List 2012.… |
| Apple drops '4G' label from new iPad Posted: 13 May 2012 07:17 PM PDT Fondleslabs now link to 'fast mobile data networks'Apple has stopped using the term "4G" to describe the new iPad in the UK and Australia, after regulators took it to task for doing so because the device would not work with what carriers call 4G in both nations.… |
| Atlassian, Zynga among San Francisco's best town bikes Posted: 13 May 2012 06:56 PM PDT Free tune-ups, showers and bike parking win awards for code shopsAustralia's developer darling Atlassian, Zynga, AirBnB, Rackspace and less-techy corporate brethren Levi's and Veritable Vegetable have been recognised as the most bike-friendly employers in San Francisco.… |
| Posted: 13 May 2012 04:30 PM PDT In other news, cows with gunsIt's not exactly "cows with freakin' lasers!": the aptly-named Methane Research Cluster is to use lasers to measure the methane emissions from Australia's vast herd of ruminants.…
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| Iranian firms told not to use foreign email providers Posted: 13 May 2012 04:00 PM PDT Gmail, Yahoo! Mail, MSN et al face the chopIran has reportedly banned some domestic companies from using foreign email services and hosting providers, as its attempts to create an autonomous, nationwide intranet gather pace.… |
| Yahoo! CEO! quits! after! CV! row! Posted: 13 May 2012 03:52 PM PDT Third Point LLC claims Scott Thompson's scalp, wins board seatsScott Thompson has stepped down as Yahoo! CEO and has been replaced, for the time being at least, by Ross Levinsohn. Several directors, namely Patti Hart, VJ Joshi, Arthur Kern and Gary Wilson, have also left the company.… |
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