MSN China shoots for e-retail push to grow business

MSN China shoots for e-retail push to grow business


MSN China shoots for e-retail push to grow business

Posted: 23 May 2012 01:00 PM PDT

Bing and Windows Phone Marketplace tie-up on the cards

Microsoft is reportedly set to expand its MSN China business, with a push into the e-commerce space and increased integration with Windows Phone, whilst looking to grow the presence of its Bing search engine in the People's Republic.…

Armenia jails Bredolab botmaster for 4 years

Posted: 23 May 2012 12:03 PM PDT

First computer crime conviction in the former Soviet republic

A cybercrook who established a 30 million computer strong botnet has been jailed for four years in Armenia.…

HP started then spiked HP-UX on x86 project

Posted: 23 May 2012 11:01 AM PDT

Juicy Itanium trial document firehose opened

As part of the ongoing lawsuit about whether or not Oracle had committed itself to supporting its software on Hewlett-Packard's Itanium-based servers, the software giant did a core dump of very interesting documents that show what many of us suspected: that HP did indeed mull acquiring the Sparc/Solaris business and that HP did in fact have a skunkworks that was porting the HP-UX variant of Unix to the x86 processor from Itanium.…

Red Hat could cash in with open-source cloud juggling act

Posted: 23 May 2012 10:29 AM PDT

From Linux to big-data shifter

Open ... and Shut  The good open source lord giveth, and it taketh away, and no one knows this better than Red Hat.…

VMware sees Mirage, buys up company

Posted: 23 May 2012 10:21 AM PDT

Virty giant eats Wanova for VDI flavouring

Virtualization juggernaut VMware gobbled up four year old VDI vendor Wanova today, giving the virtualization juggernaut another weapon to fire at Citrix.…

Speaking in Tech: Leo Apotheker vs Meg Whitman

Posted: 23 May 2012 10:04 AM PDT

Money man Chris lynch talks to Greg and the gang about who did it better

Seagate poised to swallow LaCie, haul fattened bod into channel

Posted: 23 May 2012 09:23 AM PDT

Cali firm dives into deeper international waters

Spinning disk supremo Seagate has nailed down an agreement from Paris-based external drive products manufacturer LaCie to snap it up, and LaCie is up for it – though the trade union and regulatory stuff is still being worked out.…

CompSci eggheads to map Android malware genome

Posted: 23 May 2012 09:18 AM PDT

Aim for taxonomy of droid ills

Mobile security researchers are teaming up to share samples and data on malware targeting the Android platform.…

The most dangerous job in America: Keeping iPhones connected

Posted: 23 May 2012 09:01 AM PDT

AT&T blamed for deaths of cell-tower climbers

An investigation into the deaths of workers putting up cell towers has shown how US network operators distance themselves from those taking the risks, with AT&T's dash to provide iPhone connectivity allegedly killing more than most.…

Red Hat lures in JRuby power pair

Posted: 23 May 2012 08:42 AM PDT

Linux shop polishes cloud languages

Red Hat has lured two of the brains behind JRuby, Charles Nutter and Thomas Ebeno, who once worked at Sun Microsystems.…

Oracle gobbles upstart Facebook, Instagram biz tout

Posted: 23 May 2012 08:19 AM PDT

Social networking marketer Vitrue joins Larry's cloud

Oracle has snapped up social media marketing company Vitrue for an undisclosed sum.…

SAP hopes to embiggen its cloud with Ariba slurp

Posted: 23 May 2012 07:39 AM PDT

Still seeking a secure foothold in fast-growing market

Software giant SAP is hoping to beef up its cloud with an offer to slurp business commerce company Ariba for $4.3bn.…

'We've done nothing wrong' - Schmidt on Euro antitrust probe

Posted: 23 May 2012 07:17 AM PDT

Defiant Google supremo buttonholed by El Reg

Big Tent  Google chairman Eric Schmidt has declined to be drawn on possible incoming antitrust law infringement charges in Europe.…

Shoreditch a hub of 'exciting innovation', says science minister

Posted: 23 May 2012 07:07 AM PDT

David Willetts lays out economic recovery with data apps

Big Tent  Science minister David Willetts told a gathering at Google's Big Tent event this morning that future scientific research will rely heavily on the mining, slicing and dicing of data from the public sector.…

Wireless remote control inventor zaps out at 96

Posted: 23 May 2012 06:46 AM PDT

Eugene Polley took the knobs off technology

The man who took the knobs off the TV set and made a significant innovation in wireless technology, Eugene Polley, died yesterday in Illinois, aged 96.…

Open Data Institute pours golden £10m shower on upstarts

Posted: 23 May 2012 06:27 AM PDT

Taxpayer-funded teams to tackle public info dumps

The Open Data Institute has launched with a taxpayer-funded £10m pot to turn the government's public information dumps into something tangible. Or that's the promise.…

Nvidia Kai to enable cut-price Android tablets for all

Posted: 23 May 2012 06:25 AM PDT

Quad-core and a whole lot more?

Nvidia has let slip 'Kai', the quad-core ARM-architecture system-on-a-chip it hopes will get powerful tablets into World+Dog's hands for $199 (£127) a pop.…

MPs wrestle slippery bureaucrats in intellectual property Jell-O

Posted: 23 May 2012 06:19 AM PDT

'Evidence base weak' for IP, says UK's IP top cop

Analysis  The all-party group of MPs looking into the UK's looming obliteration of copyright rounded on their quarry yesterday - and it turned out to be an enthralling battle of wits.…

Boffins cram binary data into living cells' DNA

Posted: 23 May 2012 06:01 AM PDT

Biological non-volatile storage survives reproduction

Pic  In a move that could have appeared in a Michael Crichton novel, Stanford University brainiacs have written and read a binary digit encoded in a DNA cell sequence which survives cell reproduction - a non-volatile genetic bit.…

Facebook IPO plunge sparks tidal wave of lawsuits

Posted: 23 May 2012 05:44 AM PDT

Shares plummet, investors sue everyone, regulators pull out their probes

Investors in Facebook's IPO are not taking the stock's drubbing lying down and have launched lawsuits against the social network, its underwriters and NASDAQ, while regulators probe the way the debut was handled.…

MASSIVE Chinese web cannons blast 123-reg offline

Posted: 23 May 2012 05:36 AM PDT

UK's largest hosting biz titsup in DDoS outrage

A "massive" distributed-denial-of-service attack emanating from China has taken down 123-reg, the UK net biz that hosts 1.4 million websites.…

Volvo claims V40 is first car with an airbag for pedestrians

Posted: 23 May 2012 05:27 AM PDT

Protection for head-in-clouds texters

Volvo has devised an automobile airbag for pedestrians.…

Apple design chief Jony Ive knighted - but not by the Queen

Posted: 23 May 2012 05:12 AM PDT

Steve Jobs' 'spiritual partner' honoured

Apple's VP of Industrial Design Jonathan Ive was knighted today by the Princess Royal at Buckingham Palace.…

Sky Movies monopoly probe scrapped as rivals turn up

Posted: 23 May 2012 05:01 AM PDT

Competition Commission U-turns at sight of LoveFilm, Netflix

The Competition Commission has called off the attack dogs against Sky's movie business, for now. The regulator has revised its views following the entry of Amazon's LoveFilm and Netflix into the pay-movie market.…

Jailed Facebook hack Brit targeted Justin Bieber's girlfriend

Posted: 23 May 2012 04:39 AM PDT

Selena Gomez 'told' fans her boyfriend 'sucks' in attack

A British man jailed for a year after hacking into a private Facebook account targeted Justin Bieber's actress-turned-singer girlfriend, it has emerged.…

Everything Everywhere activates top-secret erections

Posted: 23 May 2012 04:18 AM PDT

Orange and T-Mobile finally complete network love-in

Customers of Orange and T-Mobile are now using one network, with handsets switching seamlessly to the nearest cell tower, though the company still refuses to say exactly where those cell towers are.…

Google warns against ISPs hard on web filth

Posted: 23 May 2012 04:07 AM PDT

Meanwhile, Mail columnist visits p0rn site. Gasp

Big Tent  Google may not be willing to comment on how much money it makes from pornography online, but the search giant's UK public policy head Sarah Hunter has unsurprisingly urged caution when it comes to ISPs filtering content over their networks.…

Return to Castle Wolfenstein

Posted: 23 May 2012 04:00 AM PDT

Ex the Axis

Antique Code Show  As a nipper during the 1970s and early 80s, there can't be a war movie I haven't seen, either at the cinema or on telly on a rain Sunday afternoon. You can surely say the same of Grey Matter Interactive, because its Return to Castle Wolfenstein lets you play pretty much every famous war film scene.…

Lenovo's on fire - and this time in a good way

Posted: 23 May 2012 03:41 AM PDT

Closing in on HP yet making loss in emerging markets

Lenovo set its sights on emerging and "PC+" markets as it seeks to build on what it describes as a record year.…

Serco close to flogging UK defence nuke tech biz

Posted: 23 May 2012 03:18 AM PDT

Amec admires Technical Consulting Services wing

IT outsourcing monster Serco is locked in talks with engineering consultancy and project management services outfit Amec to sell its Technical Consulting Services biz.…

Why on Earth is Microsoft moving to Euro pricing now?

Posted: 23 May 2012 03:02 AM PDT

Time to take a sniff at the coffee, perhaps

Analysis  I find it quite amusing that a company would decide to have uniform pricing right across a continent in a currency that looks like it might not survive the phasing in period of the new pricing regime. But that's what Microsoft seems to be doing.…

UK.gov energy policy: You can't please all the people much of the time

Posted: 23 May 2012 02:43 AM PDT

'Lights kept on' - but at a price

Comment  Try and please everyone, and you can end up pleasing no one. The government's new draft Energy Bill risks just this.…

Apple tops tablet, mobile computer markets in Q1

Posted: 23 May 2012 02:27 AM PDT

Lagging in laptops, mind

The usual caveat applies: these numbers only work if you factor in tablet sales. Do, says market watcher DisplaySearch, and Apple is once more the world's top-selling maker of mobile computers.…

Greedy LOHAN draining away mankind's vital fluid ... allegedly

Posted: 23 May 2012 02:17 AM PDT

Irresponsible globe embulgement - is it really an issue?

We at El Reg's Special Projects Bureau have, over the last few months, been challenged by various readers as to why we're using helium to lift our audacious LOHAN spaceplane towards its stratospheric date with destiny.…

Wyse ties with Rise in cloudy client clinch

Posted: 23 May 2012 02:01 AM PDT

Dell and FastHosts by another name

Wyse Technology has struck a deal to push cloud services through the UK channel along with hosted services provider Rise.…

TfL delays wave-and-pay tickets until 2013

Posted: 23 May 2012 01:36 AM PDT

Wants more time to make kit 'more robust'

Transport for London's (TfL's) plan to introduce contactless ticketing across the whole of its network is likely to happen in 2013, and will not be completed by the end of 2012 as previously announced by the authority.…

Alcatel-Lucent tinkers with Telstra's enterprise network

Posted: 23 May 2012 01:23 AM PDT

Vanquishes Juniper to add 'smarts' for cloudy products

Telstra is revamping the network smarts of its enterprise IP offerings in an Asia Pacific-first roll out of the Alcatel –Lucent supplied Application Assured Networking (AAN) service.…

Chuck Exchange mailboxes into the cloud... sysadmin style

Posted: 23 May 2012 01:01 AM PDT

UC certificates, MX records and how to make a teeny bit of extra dosh

Sysadmin blog  How do we migrate Exchange mailboxes into the cloud? A customer of mine has recently approached me with a request to move his mail hosting into the cloud, and it had to include BlackBerry support. After some discussion of the options available, a hosted exchange solution was deemed best, with Microsoft's own Office 365 emerging the winner.…

Dole Office staff snooped into private data 992 times in 10 months

Posted: 23 May 2012 12:27 AM PDT

And that's just the times they were caught...

Staff at the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) were disciplined a total of 992 times for unlawfully or inappropriately accessing individuals' social security records between April 2011 and January this year.…

EMC's hunt for Joe Tucci replacement continues

Posted: 23 May 2012 12:02 AM PDT

Will they have to drag him back like last time?

EMC's CEO succession looks to be in trouble with no clear internal successor to Joe Tucci who is just months away from retirement. Could EMC look outside the company for its next CEO?…

Ten... Mi-Fi HSPA 3G wireless mini-routers

Posted: 22 May 2012 11:00 PM PDT

DIY hotspots

2011 sets new record for counterfeit electronics

Posted: 22 May 2012 10:31 PM PDT

IHS iSuppli says most counterfeits come from Asia, at a rate of one every 15 seconds

Asian countries led by China are responsible for the vast majority of reports of counterfeit electronics parts, which have reached 12 million over the past five years in a potentially lethal development for the global supply chain, according to analyst IHS iSuppli.…

Huawei enterprise to be 100% channel 'in 3-5 years

Posted: 22 May 2012 09:28 PM PDT

Seeks partners to marry comms, apps

Huawei's year-old enterprise division wants to put all of its business through the channel in three to five years, according to Jeff Hwong, the company's regional sales director for Southern Pacific Enterprise Business.…

Indian SMBs facing advanced attack threats

Posted: 22 May 2012 09:10 PM PDT

Symantec warns of lack of security know-how

India's growing urban population is under concerted cyber attack as criminals increasingly focus advanced targeted techniques on small- and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) and look to exploit piecemeal security and low levels of awareness, according to the latest report from Symantec.…

Facebook underwriters accused of hiding forecast

Posted: 22 May 2012 09:09 PM PDT

Revenue numbers revised on the quiet, says Reuters

Reuters is airing accusations which, if true, would cast the Facebook IPO process in a very poor light indeed. The news service claims that underwriters Morgan Stanley cut its revenue forecasts for The Social NetworkTM but withheld the information from all but a privileged few.…

Canary Islands host long-distance quantum teleportation

Posted: 22 May 2012 05:20 PM PDT

Spooky action between La Palma and Tenerife, with space the next stop

The Canary Islands of La Palma and Tenerife have been briefly connected by a quantum teleportation system that sets a new distance record for the spooky communications technique.…

Windows XP update fails in infinite .NET patch loop

Posted: 22 May 2012 05:00 PM PDT

UPDATE: MSFT slow to publicise fix for faulty patch

Microsoft has issued guidance on how to fix problems created by its last bunch of patches.…

NSW gov backs mobile apps

Posted: 22 May 2012 04:59 PM PDT

Seven projects for govt get cash

The NSW government has awarded grants to seven mobile consortiums under the Collaborative Solutions program for Mobile Government. The government will provide around AUD$1 million to help the consortiums develop new mobile solutions for the public sector after a competitive pitch.…

Apple, RIM didn’t infringe Kodak patents

Posted: 22 May 2012 04:30 PM PDT

Smartphone vendors rehearse grave dance

Kodak's hopes to parlay its patent portfolio into a get-out-of-Chapter-11 card have been dealt a blow, with a ruling that Apple and RIM haven't infringed its digital image preview patents.…

Boffins track birds ... from Spaaaaaaaace

Posted: 22 May 2012 04:15 PM PDT

Endangered, not-so-angry, birds capture big data

An elite group of black Carnaby's cockatoos has been fitted with satellite tracking devices in an Australian first bird data collection measure.…

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