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- MySQL's growing NoSQL problem
- NetApp's Cloud Czar predicts the death of VMAX
- US mayor and son charged with hacking into opposition site
- Steve Jobs' death clears way for vibrating Apple tool
- Dell may fatten up software offering by swallowing Quest
- Hackers threaten fresh wave of anti-capitalist web rioting
- Tim Cook spurns $75m Apple divvy
- IBM bans Dropbox, Siri and rival cloud tech at work
- Microsoft corrects itself: 'We expect fewer people to use Windows 8'
- Absinthe 2 lifts iOS 5.1.1 gadgets over garden wall
- Man's car warns of AIR RAID OVER LONDON
- SpaceX joy as Space Station robo-arm grabs Dragon's tail
- Ten... Star Wars videogame classics
- Toshiba America says no to new netbooks
- Dell's past glories might be working against it
- Dragon starts final approach to International Space Station
- Fujitsu, TalkTalk bag Post Office contract spurned by BT
- Barclays Online Offline again
- 'We're public now, so could you please click on an ad or two'
- Passwords are for AES-holes
- Dixons keeps wolves from the revolving credit facility door
- How to keep your money safe if the euro implodes
- EU beaks to rule on Microsoft's $1.1bn fine appeal in June
- Vatican in pact with Microsoft to initiate world's youths into Office
- Ex-Lloyds bank digital security chief 'submitted £2.5m in false exes'
- Max Payne 3
- London picked as test bed for Skynet-like Intel tech
- Instagram-owner Facebook emits in-house camera app
- And the worst film NEVER made is...
- Crazy Texans dunk servers in DEEP FRYERS
- Big Blue flaunts scantily clad Xeon E3, E5 racks
- Aga cooks up phone-controlled 'iOven'
- Diablo III dev rolls 12d6, scores PC sales record
- Silicon Roundabout touts startup jobs for 'ninjas' this weekend
- Spring tech sales bloom as Brits grab tablets
- Belkin YourType Folio
- Facebookers trigger vote to choke Zuck's data suck
- Hefty Euro reseller: 'We laugh in the face of recession. Ha ha'
- Huawei mimics Nokia Siemens Networks marketing
- Mega 12ft interactive electro-whiteboard lures GTC12 punters
- NMap 6.0 arrives
- NHS axes HealthSpace: 'Just too difficult' to use
- Real Networks will refund $2m to grumpy punters
- Nokia and Symbian still number one in China
- Queensland Police warn of tax refund phishing
- HTC One V Android smartphone
- Police cuff hundreds in £7.3 MILLION phone scam
- Google's 7in tablet stalled for last-minute tweaks
- Sunshine nudges asteroid into odd orbit
- Singtel to build pan-Asian storage and compute cloud
| Posted: 25 May 2012 02:03 PM PDT Web application paybackOpen ... and Shut Just a few short years ago, MySQL was the undisputed king of the open-source database hill. But with the NoSQL market emerging at an 82 per cent compound annual growth rate (CAGR), it's looking like MySQL may get bulldozed by its NoSQL peers.…
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| NetApp's Cloud Czar predicts the death of VMAX Posted: 25 May 2012 12:04 PM PDT Tier 1 is old-school, says CTOBlocks and Files NetApp's CTO of cloud is predicting the death of EMC's VMAX and other tier 1 storage arrays. What will kick them off the data centre stage? Flash arrays and storage-class memory, apparently.… |
| US mayor and son charged with hacking into opposition site Posted: 25 May 2012 11:32 AM PDT We'd rather be fending off global cyberwar, sniff FedsA small town US mayor and his son have been arrested over allegations they hacked into a website calling for his recall.… |
| Steve Jobs' death clears way for vibrating Apple tool Posted: 25 May 2012 11:31 AM PDT Actually he was alive when patent was submitted, but still a surpriseSteve Jobs famously hated the idea of styluses on tablet computers. But, er, it looks like Apple is thinking about making one given the revelations from the US Patent Office yesterday.… |
| Dell may fatten up software offering by swallowing Quest Posted: 25 May 2012 11:02 AM PDT VC deal has only just been doneDell could be looking to buy Quest Software, according to reports.… |
| Hackers threaten fresh wave of anti-capitalist web rioting Posted: 25 May 2012 10:01 AM PDT Sticking it to The Man, man, but for lulz tooA new activist group is drumming up recruits for a cyberwar campaign against corporate giants due to launch on Friday, 25 May.…
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| Tim Cook spurns $75m Apple divvy Posted: 25 May 2012 09:24 AM PDT Can't be bothered carrying small changeAt a time when Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg is coming under flak for his personal gains from Facebook shares, Tim Cook has turned down a $75 million dividend on his Apple shares.… |
| IBM bans Dropbox, Siri and rival cloud tech at work Posted: 25 May 2012 09:01 AM PDT BYOD doesn't save cash, leaves Big Blue with security headacheIBM has banned employees from using Dropbox and Apple's iCloud at work as it claws back permission to use third-party cloud services. The rethink has also resulted in a edict against the iPhone 4S's Siri voice recognition technology at Big Blue.… |
| Microsoft corrects itself: 'We expect fewer people to use Windows 8' Posted: 25 May 2012 08:28 AM PDT El Reg drills into Ballmer's '500 million by 2013' figureMicrosoft doesn't really expect that 500 million "users" will have Windows 8 next year, but it's still juggling the numbers.… |
| Absinthe 2 lifts iOS 5.1.1 gadgets over garden wall Posted: 25 May 2012 08:15 AM PDT Tonight there's gonna be a jailbreakiDevice jailbreakers: you can now take almost all of Apple's iOS 5.1.1 gadgets out of the walled garden, thanks to hacking tool Absinthe 2.0, released today.… |
| Man's car warns of AIR RAID OVER LONDON Posted: 25 May 2012 08:01 AM PDT Reg reader narrowly escapes Kensington-Chiswick warzonePic Reg reader Graham Schofield was this morning offered perhaps the most sensational reason for being late to work we've ever seen: an air raid affecting the A4 in west London.… |
| SpaceX joy as Space Station robo-arm grabs Dragon's tail Posted: 25 May 2012 07:39 AM PDT Elon Musk's team makes history, astronaut has cheesy line readyElon Musk's SpaceX has just made history with the first ever commercial cargoship to be captured by the International Space Station's robotic arm.…
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| Ten... Star Wars videogame classics Posted: 25 May 2012 07:26 AM PDT 35 years, six movies, 120 gamesRound-up Star Wars - there was no 'A New Hope' or 'Episode IV' back then - shot onto cinema screens on 25 May 1977, which means the franchise celebrates its 35th birthday today.… |
| Toshiba America says no to new netbooks Posted: 25 May 2012 07:16 AM PDT Want a small laptop? Get an UltrabookAnother sure sign the netbook's day is done: Toshiba's US wing has confirmed it will no longer offer new versions of the laptop-lite machines.… |
| Dell's past glories might be working against it Posted: 25 May 2012 06:56 AM PDT To be like HP? Or not to be like HP? And what's with the silence on channel?Dell's Q1 earnings call this saw the one-time bete noire of traditional IT suppliers undershoot expectations, and admit that it was walking away from business where it couldn't compete and where it was having trouble closing "transactional" business.… |
| Dragon starts final approach to International Space Station Posted: 25 May 2012 06:48 AM PDT Rendezvous sensors need last-minute tweak, but SpaceX is a goThe SpaceX Dragon is still approaching the International Space Station and on course, with a few minor delays.… |
| Fujitsu, TalkTalk bag Post Office contract spurned by BT Posted: 25 May 2012 06:29 AM PDT Broadband platform manoeuvres for snail mail outfitFujitsu and its strategic partner TalkTalk have won a contract that could be worth £500m to supply a broadband network to the Post Office.… |
| Posted: 25 May 2012 05:58 AM PDT You can take it to the bank. In fact you'll have toBarclays Online banking has suffered its second weekday working-hours outage in a matter of days, offering only intermittent service for most of this morning according to Register readers and throwing a complete double-six at lunchtime today.… |
| 'We're public now, so could you please click on an ad or two' Posted: 25 May 2012 05:42 AM PDT Plus: 'Disaster for Apple!'Quotw This was the week when Facebook stocks took an early drubbing in the market before recovering somewhat to a more stable, albeit reduced, price.… |
| Posted: 25 May 2012 05:39 AM PDT Security is an illusionSomething for the Weekend, Sir? When did you reach burnout? For me, it was spring 2009. Looking back, I did well to last as long as I did but the constant pressure of coming up with something new, again and again, became too much.… |
| Dixons keeps wolves from the revolving credit facility door Posted: 25 May 2012 05:21 AM PDT Can bricks-and-mortar houses resist lupine halitosis forever?Dixons Retail has inked a £300m revolving credit facility with its financial backers that should ease the cash flow of Blighty's largest retailer.…
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| How to keep your money safe if the euro implodes Posted: 25 May 2012 05:01 AM PDT A Channel Reg cut-and-keep guide...This is your handy guide to surviving the coming disintegration of the euro. Umm, OK, the coming possible, maybe even likely, disintegration of the euro.… |
| EU beaks to rule on Microsoft's $1.1bn fine appeal in June Posted: 25 May 2012 04:49 AM PDT Redmond challenged record antitrust punishmentOn 27 June, Microsoft will find out whether its appeal against a record antitrust penalty has been successful in the EU's General Court.… |
| Vatican in pact with Microsoft to initiate world's youths into Office Posted: 25 May 2012 04:32 AM PDT None might buy or sell save with the Number of the Beast ... which is 365The Vatican has blessed Microsoft's cloud apps strategy in the shape of deal that could see Office 365 being rolled out to 43 million Catholic students worldwide.… |
| Ex-Lloyds bank digital security chief 'submitted £2.5m in false exes' Posted: 25 May 2012 04:16 AM PDT Head of Fraud, indeedA former Lloyds Banking Group head of digital banking fraud and security has been charged with defrauding her employer.… |
| Posted: 25 May 2012 04:00 AM PDT Time to killReview With a tip of the hat to director John Woo and The Matrix, Remedy Entertainment's Max Payne wowed the gaming world in 2001 with its unique slow-mo shooting action. And since Max Payne 2 appeared in 2003, I've been holding my breath in anticipation of the third in the series.… |
| London picked as test bed for Skynet-like Intel tech Posted: 25 May 2012 03:45 AM PDT New UK lab pledged to study citizens in real-timeLondon will be a guinea pig for future smart city technology after Intel pledged to spend a slice of £25m ($40m) on a new lab in the capital. The chipmaker will also plough millions into research centres dotted around Blighty.…
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| Instagram-owner Facebook emits in-house camera app Posted: 25 May 2012 03:28 AM PDT And yes, it has colour filtersFacebook has launched a new Instagram-like mobile camera app via Apple's iTunes store.… |
| And the worst film NEVER made is... Posted: 25 May 2012 03:18 AM PDT Drumroll, pleasePoll result Well, ladies and gentlemen, the time has come to announce the winner of our reader poll to select the worst film never made.… |
| Crazy Texans dunk servers in DEEP FRYERS Posted: 25 May 2012 03:06 AM PDT Will 2012 be the year of immersive mineral oil cooling?HPC blog | Vid I first met the Green Revolution guys back at SC09 in Portland, Oregon. As I roamed the exhibit hall, people kept telling me to check out "those guys with the deep fryers full of servers". At last I found them out in the lobby, which is the kids' table section of the show.… |
| Big Blue flaunts scantily clad Xeon E3, E5 racks Posted: 25 May 2012 02:44 AM PDT Disrobed servers give Dell an eyeful in 4-socket arenaPics Like all the other tier one server makers, IBM is ramping up shipments on the next wave of Xeon chips from Intel inside of its System x, BladeCenter, and Flex System machinery. Big Blue says the new machines will help fill in some gaps in its x86 system lineup, which previously had been exploited by rivals Hewlett-Packard and Dell.… |
| Aga cooks up phone-controlled 'iOven' Posted: 25 May 2012 02:33 AM PDT Stove jobsAga, oven maker by appointment to the rural chattering classes, has turned up the heat of technology on famously basic ranges to create the iTotal Control Oven, a stove equipped with a cellular modem to allow chefs to command their cooker remotely.… |
| Diablo III dev rolls 12d6, scores PC sales record Posted: 25 May 2012 02:25 AM PDT Trebles and Skillrunes all roundDiablo III has become the fastest selling PC game of all time, publisher Blizzard has claimed, after shifting 3.5m copies within 24 hours of release.… |
| Silicon Roundabout touts startup jobs for 'ninjas' this weekend Posted: 25 May 2012 02:22 AM PDT 800 tech roles from 100 companies... and FREE coffeeGot your own nunchuks? Spent a day learning HTML? Get down to Shoreditch's Silicon Roundabout this weekend and get yourself a job at a startup. A waged job.…
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| Spring tech sales bloom as Brits grab tablets Posted: 25 May 2012 02:13 AM PDT E-book readers, media streamers tooIt won't surprise anyone to learn that Brits are buying more tablets than ever before, but they're increasingly keen on e-book readers and set-top media players too.… |
| Posted: 25 May 2012 02:00 AM PDT Laptop conversion kitAccessory of the Week There's no shortage of iPad keyboard cases to choose from, but this one from Belkin, designed for the new iPad, has a neat trick up its sleeve: the keyboard is detachable, held in place by Velcro.… |
| Facebookers trigger vote to choke Zuck's data suck Posted: 25 May 2012 01:35 AM PDT 50,000 punters sound off on privacy policy rewriteFacebook may be forced to make changes to its data use policy after campaigners helped drive enough complaints about the company's own proposed amendments to trigger a user vote on the matter.… |
| Hefty Euro reseller: 'We laugh in the face of recession. Ha ha' Posted: 25 May 2012 12:58 AM PDT Specialist Computer Holdings sees sales and profits riseSpecialist Computer Holdings (SCH) tweaked the nose of the recession to record double-digit sales and profit rises in fiscal 2012 ended March.… |
| Huawei mimics Nokia Siemens Networks marketing Posted: 25 May 2012 12:37 AM PDT Plagiarism or total coincidence?Nokia Siemens Networks has pointed out close similarities between its marketing material and Huawei's.… |
| Mega 12ft interactive electro-whiteboard lures GTC12 punters Posted: 25 May 2012 12:27 AM PDT Uses crunchy Nvidia graphics cardsHPC blog While wandering the exhibit floor at GTC12, my attention was captured by what looked like a massive (12ft x 4ft, 3.66m x 1.22m) electronic whiteboard with fast-moving screens portraying information in lots of different forms. Each window was being created, resized, moved, then closed at high speed without lag or distracting video artifacts. The demonstrator was also able to handwrite callouts and notes without missing a beat. With the hook firmly set in my fish-like mouth, I had to find out more.… |
| Posted: 25 May 2012 12:15 AM PDT Fyodor's finest since 2009Popular open source network discovery and security auditing tool Nmap has reached version 6.0.… |
| NHS axes HealthSpace: 'Just too difficult' to use Posted: 25 May 2012 12:02 AM PDT Secure personal health record project canned from March 2013The Department of Health has confirmed that HealthSpace, NHS patients' personal health records organiser, will close by March 2013.…
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| Real Networks will refund $2m to grumpy punters Posted: 24 May 2012 11:42 PM PDT Fesses up to 'disappointing' customers with pre-clicked boxes for 'free' trialsReal Networks has agreed to hand over US$2.0m to satisfy disgruntled customers, who were railroaded into buying content thanks to pre-clicked boxes in web forms or "free" offers that nonetheless requested credit card details and did not make recurring costs plain.… |
| Nokia and Symbian still number one in China Posted: 24 May 2012 11:16 PM PDT Most users still on legacy platforms and feature phonesAndroid may have an insurmountable lead in the Chinese smartphone market, but when it comes to internet-connected mobiles Symbian and Nokia are still number one according to new stats from search giant Baidu.… |
| Queensland Police warn of tax refund phishing Posted: 24 May 2012 11:11 PM PDT Fake email mimics Australian Taxation Office formatsQueensland Police are warning residents of the Sunshine State about a new phishing scam that sees emails arrive in Australian Taxation Office (ATO) livery, complete with promise of a refund.… |
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| Police cuff hundreds in £7.3 MILLION phone scam Posted: 24 May 2012 08:48 PM PDT Two plane-loads of crooks flown to China, amid suspicions of high-level Police corruptionPolice across South East Asia have swooped on an international telephone fraud gang, arresting over 480 people in eight countries after an investigation lasting six months.… |
| Google's 7in tablet stalled for last-minute tweaks Posted: 24 May 2012 08:43 PM PDT Asus-built device now rumoured for July releaseGoogle fans eagerly awaiting the arrival of the Chocolate Factory's much-hyped 7in tablet are going to have to wait a little longer after reports suggested it wouldn't hit the stores until July.…
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| Sunshine nudges asteroid into odd orbit Posted: 24 May 2012 06:00 PM PDT NASA spots drift in 1999 RQ36New NASA measurements of the orbit of the half-kilometer asteroid 1999 RQ36 have given space science its most precise measurement of such space rocks' orbit – and revealed a 160km deviation from the orbit predicted by gravity.… |
| Singtel to build pan-Asian storage and compute cloud Posted: 24 May 2012 04:42 PM PDT VMware in the box seat in Oz, Singapore and Hong KongSingtel will federate its hosting facilities across Asia to create a single cloud for its customers.… |
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