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- Netherlands jumps off ACTA train
- Megaupload founder gets uncuffed
- RedSleeve does RHEL-ish clone for ARM
- Who needs Spotify? Samsung launches Music Hub
- Apple confirms WWDC keynote for June 11
- 10gen bags another $42m for MongoDB roadmap
- Microsoft forbids class actions in new Windows licence
- Al Gore pumps $12m into cheapo TLC flash upstart
- Amazon shops for mobile ad slinger to gobble – report
- Dell ARMs up for hyperscale servers
- Lenovo plans clip-on physical keyboard for tablets
- The Private Cloud outlook
- Speaking in Tech: How to grill an American VC
- Germany's KIT drives hot-shot boffins to Klusterkampf
- Super-powerful Flame worm could take YEARS to dissect
- Ex-Computacenter bigwig O'Hara now Colt big gun
- Japan to get Android phone with built-in radiation dosimeter
- The more science you know, the less worried you are about climate
- Hey! Put down that Cat6 and plug the cloud app gap instead
- Why Zuck will go soft for Facebook Phone - and rebrand Android
- Who will fill legal RIM job after latest exec exit?
- Ofcom king Ed Richards seeks BBC throne
- Bloke with spanners attacks LOHAN's dodgy plumbing
- Samsung snafu grounds blue Galaxy S III
- BBC report urges Halo troops to end bloodshed in Syria
- Virgin Media flushes pipes clogged by piles of Spotify fans
- Microsoft invades Iraq, installs first distributor
- Dole office to roll out digital benefits to north-west – 6 months early
- The stage is set: Prepare for Hamburg cluster carnage
- Hard disk drive prices quick to rise, slow to fall
- Sheer weight of Brits' interest knackers new tax tool
- Google now gets 250k copyright takedown requests EACH WEEK
- Are you handcuffed to the rails of your disk array's sinking ship?
- Chinese rocket parts land on village
- Vauxhall Ampera hybrid e-car
- Shanghai cops set for online 'crime' crackdown
- Google Apps win ISO 27001 certification
- CBA tussles with NFC security
- Foxconn receives Apple smart TV order - report
- Researchers find backdoor in milspec silicon
- NSW gov orders two new green data centres
- Internode founder exits exec role amid reshuffles
- Bye! Bye! Yahoo! Livestand!
- ACCC set to okay Optus HFC exit
| Netherlands jumps off ACTA train Posted: 29 May 2012 03:15 PM PDT Also: new leaks detail 'EC failures' in negotiationACTA's European disintegration continues, with the Dutch house of representatives rejecting the treaty.… |
| Megaupload founder gets uncuffed Posted: 29 May 2012 02:47 PM PDT Allowed to record album and wait at home for extraditionNotorious Megaupload.com kingpin Kim Dotcom has been relieved of his electronic monitoring cuffs and is returning to graze in his NZ$30 million mansionette rental in suburban Auckland.… |
| RedSleeve does RHEL-ish clone for ARM Posted: 29 May 2012 01:12 PM PDT Put 'er there, Linux palIf you are tired of waiting for Red Hat to do an official port of its Enterprise Linux commercial distribution to the ARM architecture, well then Red Sleeve Linux has just what you are looking for.… |
| Who needs Spotify? Samsung launches Music Hub Posted: 29 May 2012 01:03 PM PDT Not down with OTTSamsung is giving its music service a major overhaul. While the new global No 1 phone manufacturer also has the hottest handset brand after Apple – in the shape of the Galaxy - its own music offerings have been a bit of an afterthought.… |
| Apple confirms WWDC keynote for June 11 Posted: 29 May 2012 12:49 PM PDT Steve's long shadow hangs over showApple has confirmed the schedule for this year's Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC), with a 10 am keynote on June 11 where 5,000 developers will gather for the first conference since the passing of Steve Jobs.…
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| 10gen bags another $42m for MongoDB roadmap Posted: 29 May 2012 11:04 AM PDT NoSQL, plenty 'o cash10gen, the commercial entity behind the open source MongoDB NoSQL data store, has just had its coffers stuffed with cash so it can rev up the software engineers and accelerate its product roadmap.… |
| Microsoft forbids class actions in new Windows licence Posted: 29 May 2012 11:01 AM PDT You're on your own nowMicrosoft will make it harder for customers to club together with lawyers to file lawsuits against its products.… |
| Al Gore pumps $12m into cheapo TLC flash upstart Posted: 29 May 2012 09:04 AM PDT Greenbacks for GreenbytesGreenBytes announced a good but unexceptional Solidarity all-flash array in February. It has now morphed it into what we believe may be the first enterprise TLC flash array on the market. And it has an astounding price/performance: a single VM instance costs $12.… |
| Amazon shops for mobile ad slinger to gobble – report Posted: 29 May 2012 08:29 AM PDT Customers who viewed AdMob also looked at JumptapAmazon is apparently scoping out mobile ad companies with a view to boosting the ad revenue from its Kindle Fire as well as pushing adverts into its web properties.… |
| Dell ARMs up for hyperscale servers Posted: 29 May 2012 08:01 AM PDT But are they dangerous to anyone except HP?Look out Intel. Here comes another ARM box to the microserver party.…
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| Lenovo plans clip-on physical keyboard for tablets Posted: 29 May 2012 07:32 AM PDT True to typeTablet owners have so far had to opt for keyboard docks to take their typing physical. However, that may be about to change after recently published Lenovo patents revealed an interesting clip-on.… |
| Posted: 29 May 2012 07:25 AM PDT Visual snapshot of Reg hive mindWe set the designer's beret to a jaunty angle and told him to tell us a little visual story, based on the information you shared with us in this report, based on reader research about private cloud.… |
| Speaking in Tech: How to grill an American VC Posted: 29 May 2012 07:04 AM PDT Biz bigwig Chris Lynch on how venture firms view Big Data investments |
| Germany's KIT drives hot-shot boffins to Klusterkampf Posted: 29 May 2012 06:36 AM PDT Carries hopes of a continent into cluster compoISC 2012 Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) in Karlsruhe, Germany is the lone European entry in the ISC'12 Student Cluster Competition. As such, they're carrying a huge weight on their solid Teutonic shoulders. KIT, as Team Germany, is charged with defending home-country student clustering honour against powerhouse teams from China and the US.… |
| Super-powerful Flame worm could take YEARS to dissect Posted: 29 May 2012 06:11 AM PDT But it shares same scripting tech as Angry BirdsAnalysis The exceptionally complex Flame malware, this week found on numerous systems across the Middle East and beyond, is likely to take months if not years to analyse.… |
| Ex-Computacenter bigwig O'Hara now Colt big gun Posted: 29 May 2012 05:41 AM PDT Rolls into town as veep of services and solutionsFormer Computacenter big hitter Julie O'Hara has been lured to Colt as veep for services and solutions.… |
| Japan to get Android phone with built-in radiation dosimeter Posted: 29 May 2012 05:23 AM PDT 'Think of your children and buy my phone', says CEOJapan's third network operator, Softbank, has outfitted its latest mass-market handset with a radiation dosimeter, proving that the inscrutable Japanese are just as vulnerable to fear-driven advertising as the rest of us.…
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| The more science you know, the less worried you are about climate Posted: 29 May 2012 05:04 AM PDT 'Abandon focus on sound science', say trick-cyclistsA US government-funded survey has found that Americans with higher levels of scientific and mathematical knowledge are more sceptical regarding the dangers of climate change than their more poorly educated fellow citizens.… |
| Posted: 29 May 2012 05:02 AM PDT Read it later. Literally.Android App of the Week Read It Later was one of the better Android apps for archiving web content to read at a later date and it has just been given a full makeover, a new name and a welcome price reduction. It'll now cost you absolutely nothing.… |
| Hey! Put down that Cat6 and plug the cloud app gap instead Posted: 29 May 2012 04:42 AM PDT Channel MSPs should bone up on new skills ... or elseCloud computing isn't the future; services are the future – and vendors are increasingly talking about "managed services" opportunities in the cloud.… |
| Why Zuck will go soft for Facebook Phone - and rebrand Android Posted: 29 May 2012 04:19 AM PDT Do some actual electronic engineering? UnlikeAnalysis Facebook's attempt to recruit smartphone engineers is being taken as proof that the boy Zuck is chasing mobile hardware again - but this ignores the cheaper and faster alternative of installing a Facebook OS onto existing devices.… |
| Who will fill legal RIM job after latest exec exit? Posted: 29 May 2012 04:01 AM PDT Chief brief Karima Bawa retires amid mass exodusRIM's has confirmed that its top legal eagle Karima Bawa is to join the ranks of other senior figures that have left the beleaguered mobile player.… |
| Ofcom king Ed Richards seeks BBC throne Posted: 29 May 2012 03:41 AM PDT From regulator to regulated in one easy moveOfcom's chief executive Ed Richards has applied for the job of BBC director general, so he will have to be excluded from conversations related to the national broadcaster from here on in.… |
| Bloke with spanners attacks LOHAN's dodgy plumbing Posted: 29 May 2012 03:24 AM PDT REHAB vacuum pump tubery-pokeryThe epic task of getting our Rocketry Experimental High Altitude Barosimulator (REHAB) experiment ready to test solid rocket motors at low temperature and pressure continued over the weekend with the deployment of some proper garden shed toolage: spanners and pipe-cutters.… |
| Samsung snafu grounds blue Galaxy S III Posted: 29 May 2012 03:21 AM PDT CAD file mismatch mayhemSamsung confirmed the Galaxy S III Pebble Blue version has been delayed as it has to meet the "highest internal quality standards", although factory-line sources claim a company blunder is to blame.… |
| BBC report urges Halo troops to end bloodshed in Syria Posted: 29 May 2012 03:11 AM PDT United Nations Space Command criticised for al-Assad soft touchVid The BBC has apologised after criticising a fictional space empire from the 22nd century for not intervening against ongoing atrocities in Syria.…
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| Virgin Media flushes pipes clogged by piles of Spotify fans Posted: 29 May 2012 02:49 AM PDT Capacity to be beefed up after music streams flood tubesExclusive Virgin Media has been forced to reconfigure routing of its network traffic after some of the telco's customers complained that Spotify kept jamming, The Register has learned.… |
| Microsoft invades Iraq, installs first distributor Posted: 29 May 2012 02:21 AM PDT Windows into BaghdadMicrosoft is officially open for business in Iraq, reportedly opening its first local distributor.… |
| Dole office to roll out digital benefits to north-west – 6 months early Posted: 29 May 2012 01:59 AM PDT Greater Manchester and Cheshire testing ground for universal creditThe government has announced plans to launch universal credit six months ahead of the national rollout in October 2013.… |
| The stage is set: Prepare for Hamburg cluster carnage Posted: 29 May 2012 01:41 AM PDT Sprints, mystery apps and less amps in student contestISC 2012 Now that China has settled on its two entrants to the ISC'12 Student Cluster Challenge (I'm dubbing it iSCC for short), it's time to get a feel for the number-cruncher design competition and what the entrants will face.… |
| Hard disk drive prices quick to rise, slow to fall Posted: 29 May 2012 01:19 AM PDT ASPs remain 58 per cent above pre-flood levelsThe cost of hard disk drives remained reassuringly expensive in the opening four months of this year despite product availability improving.… |
| Sheer weight of Brits' interest knackers new tax tool Posted: 29 May 2012 12:56 AM PDT HMRC web calculator flooded by 400,000 puntersHundreds of thousands of Brits were so keen to check what the government does with their tax that they crashed a new online expenditure calculator.…
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| Google now gets 250k copyright takedown requests EACH WEEK Posted: 29 May 2012 12:32 AM PDT More than all requests made during 2009, Choc Factory saysGoogle now regularly receives more copyright 'notice and takedown' requests from rights-holders in a week than it did during the entirety of 2009, the company has said.… |
| Are you handcuffed to the rails of your disk array's sinking ship? Posted: 29 May 2012 12:02 AM PDT How your data could end up tied down to a supplierBlocks and Files Are your storage arrays now so big, you can't easily migrate your data off them? If so, you've handcuffed yourself to your supplier, open interfaces or not.… |
| Chinese rocket parts land on village Posted: 28 May 2012 11:28 PM PDT 30kg piece of wreckage takes out power lines, shocks localsResidents of a remote Chinese village became unwitting participants in China's much-vaunted space program over the weekend when debris from a recently launched carrier rocket took out a 10 kilovolt (kv) power line and damaged several houses.… |
| Posted: 28 May 2012 11:00 PM PDT The electric car comes of age?First Look Only the most ardent electric-vehicle advocate would argue that the current state of battery technology and absence of recharging infrastructure isn't an impediment to the widespread adoption of the e-car.… |
| Shanghai cops set for online 'crime' crackdown Posted: 28 May 2012 10:19 PM PDT Only 800,000 sites to keep an eye on, officerShanghai police will start a hi-tech crime team tasked with monitoring all of the web sites registered in the city, as China's law enforcers look to combat an apparent spike in domestic online crime.… |
| Google Apps win ISO 27001 certification Posted: 28 May 2012 10:05 PM PDT FISMA fisticuffs forgotten?Google has proudly told the world its online productivity suite, Google Apps, has gained the ISO's good cloudkeeping seal of security approval, in the form of the ISO 27001 security certification.…
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| Posted: 28 May 2012 09:24 PM PDT Launching Kaching on Android in six weeksThe Commonwealth Bank's four-year, AUD$1.1 billion technology upgrade is starting to yield results, but the bank claims NFC tech industry standardisation is holding back progress.… |
| Foxconn receives Apple smart TV order - report Posted: 28 May 2012 09:09 PM PDT Shenzhen factory set for trial runThe Apple 'iTV' rumour mill has gone into overdrive after the latest reports from China suggesting that Foxconn's Shenzhen plant has received orders from Cupertino to build the much-hyped sets on a trial run.… |
| Researchers find backdoor in milspec silicon Posted: 28 May 2012 08:02 PM PDT Claim world's first finding of secret features in chipsA pair of security researchers claim to have found a back door in a commercial field-programmable gate array (FPGA) marketed as a secure tool for military applications.… |
| NSW gov orders two new green data centres Posted: 28 May 2012 04:10 PM PDT Metronode creates 250 jobsLeighton Contractors' data centre specialist subsidiary, Metronode, has secured a AUS$182m contract with the New South Wales Government for the creation of two new data centres.… |
| Internode founder exits exec role amid reshuffles Posted: 28 May 2012 03:41 PM PDT Gets seat on the iiNet boardThe executive team of South Australian ISP Internode has been reshuffled following iiNet's AUD$105 million acquisition of the indie carrier.…
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| Posted: 28 May 2012 03:14 PM PDT Mobile 'personal media' relevance app irrelevantYahoo! Livestand has become a casualty of the Scott Thompson CV row, with new boss Ross Levinsohn killing off the company's iPad "personal magazine" app.… |
| ACCC set to okay Optus HFC exit Posted: 28 May 2012 03:09 PM PDT Monopoly concerns outweighed by consumer benefits, apparentlyOptus will exit the HFC business and pocket $AU800 million, if yesterday's proposed determination from the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission stands.… |
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