Ballmer welcomes Yammer to the Microsoft family

Ballmer welcomes Yammer to the Microsoft family


Ballmer welcomes Yammer to the Microsoft family

Posted: 25 Jun 2012 02:35 PM PDT

Anyone seen Mommy Dearest?

Analysis  Microsoft has finally tied the knot with enterprise social networker Yammer, and in a press call following the announcement, Steve Ballmer laid out the future for Redmond's newest recruit.…

US East, West Coasts face fast-rising sea levels

Posted: 25 Jun 2012 02:33 PM PDT

Wet times ahead for Oracle, Facebook; cool times for UK

Two new reports indicate that sea-level rise will put the hurt on both the East and West coasts of the US, and that if one of the West Coast's all-to-familiar major earthquakes should occur, things could get mighty dicey mighty fast.…

Cisco, Citrix link arms for VDI partner push

Posted: 25 Jun 2012 12:43 PM PDT

Virty desktops are like ERP in the 1990s

Citrix Systems and Cisco Systems may be arch enemies in the online meeting racket, with their respective GoTo and WebEx online collaboration services, but they do agree on one thing: virtual desktop infrastructure is such a big market, and such a messy and complex sale, that the two of them have to cooperate to realize the potential revenue streams that can come to both companies if they don't mess this opportunity up. And they have both come to the conclusion that they are going to need more robust channel players, too.…

Dell still on a <del>Quest</del> quest for software?

Posted: 25 Jun 2012 12:31 PM PDT

Someone is trying to outbid equity firm – again

It looks like someone – very likely Dell, if all the rumors are right – still wants to get its greedy mitts on the software bits being sold by Quest Software, a company that has collected a hodge-podge of tools aimed at data centers over the past decade, and that in March received a $2bn takeover offer from private equity firm Insight Venture Partners.…

Microsoft buys Yammer in $1.2bn cash deal

Posted: 25 Jun 2012 11:32 AM PDT

Redmond looks for social networking skills

The rumors were true: Microsoft has acquired business social networking firm Yammer in a 1.2bn cash deal announced on Monday.…

Dash for Flash: Seagate in NAND cash splash

Posted: 25 Jun 2012 10:03 AM PDT

Will WD join in sudden barge into controller boudoir?

You can't even afford to blink in the flash storage business without something big happening. Now Seagate's gone and invested in DensBits, the start-up that aims to make cheap slow NAND perform as well as fast flash.…

Taiwanese weathermen pick Fujitsu PrimeHPC super

Posted: 25 Jun 2012 09:32 AM PDT

No commie iron for us

UK net-biz cleanup squad plans to establish international operations

Posted: 25 Jun 2012 08:57 AM PDT

IWF says battle against vile imagery needs to go global

The Internet Watch Foundation has made improvement of international co-operation a key objective in the next phase of its fight against the online distribution of child abuse content.…

Resistive Ram cache to make Flash fly, say boffins

Posted: 25 Jun 2012 08:46 AM PDT

Wham, bam, thank you, RRam

SSDs appeal to ordinary computer users because of their speed and silence. Data centre folk appreciate those qualities too, but also like the SSD's very low power consumption. Energy is no small cost for a data centre, where there can be tens of thousands of drives all slurping electricity at once.…

LulzSec suspects plead guilty to DDoS attacks

Posted: 25 Jun 2012 08:41 AM PDT

Pelted police, spooks, corps with digital refuse

Two LulzSec hacking suspects have admitted launching hacking attacks against the CIA and the UK's Serious Organised Crime Agency.…

UK regulators eye up Facebook's $1bn Instagram bid

Posted: 25 Jun 2012 08:02 AM PDT

Should just one man control such AWESOME POWER?

Facebook's bid to buy photo-sharing app Instagram for $1bn will be probed by the UK's Office of Fair Trading, according to the watchdog, which invited informal submissions of comment on Friday.…

Mensch pal Bozier defends Menshn security, dubs critics 'snippy geeks'

Posted: 25 Jun 2012 05:49 AM PDT

'Your SQL is like what my 4-yr-old would write'

The launch of a Twitter-like messaging service co-founded by UK politician Louise Mensch on Sunday has been accompanied by a huge security flap.…

Boffins program peripheral visions for ultra TV immersion

Posted: 25 Jun 2012 05:05 AM PDT

Viewers 'feel' explosions

Scientists have improved the immersive experience of watching telly, with projectors which extend our views into peripheral vision territory.…

Google brings HD sneezing pandas to UK: But why?

Posted: 25 Jun 2012 05:00 AM PDT

Gets out lipstick and wrestles the porker one more time

Analysis  Google's TV venture has been an expensive flop so far – and proved catastrophic for partner Logitech. But can new, flashier hardware and a better delivery path make a difference? We'll be able to find out when the service is launched in the UK on 16 July.…

Google Nexus 7 price, details confirmed in pre-I/O leak

Posted: 25 Jun 2012 04:39 AM PDT

Jelly Bean 'iPad Mini', anyone?

All the details you've read about Google's Nexus 7 are true - if an allegedly leaked training document is genuine.…

RBS collapse details revealed: Arrow points to defective part

Posted: 25 Jun 2012 04:38 AM PDT

Software that caused cockup apparently run from India

Exclusive  The tech problems at the RBS banking group that left millions of people unable to access money for four days last week were caused by a failure in a piece of batch scheduling software, sources have told The Register.…

Private Cloud and IT Service Delivery

Posted: 25 Jun 2012 04:30 AM PDT

Reg Readers spill the beans on IT budgets and more

Report  IT budgets under pressure, 'doing more for less' – we're all familiar with the headlines. And of course vendors are always at the ready with solutions that address those very pain points. 'Spend to save' is the accompanying mantra. But what's actually happening in the real world? Is the IT budget situation as dire as it's proclaimed to be? What's the relationship like between business and IT these days? What technologies are being deployed to improve IT service delivery? And does 'cloud' have a role to play?…

Stonehenge WASN'T built by ALIENS - Boffins' shock claim

Posted: 25 Jun 2012 04:14 AM PDT

Actually symbol of complex farm-subsidy deal

Bone-digging boffins claim to have discovered the true purpose of Stonehenge - to mark the unification of feisty fighting farming communities who decided to lay down their battle-hoes and make peace.…

Belkin takes on Slingbox with TV-to-net streamer box

Posted: 25 Jun 2012 04:02 AM PDT

Smartphone users pay extra

Accessory maker Belkin is taking on Slingbox. Its @TV, which is set to go on sale next month, pulls in content from set-top boxes and other media players and streams it out over the internet to a dedicated playback app.…

Huawei Ascend G300 budget Android

Posted: 25 Jun 2012 04:00 AM PDT

The best low-cost smartie you can buy?

Review  As an example of how much the budget smartphone has come on over the last 12 months you need look no further than Huawei's G300, which at £100 pre-paid is Vodafone's latest entry-level Android smartphone.…

China is racing past US, rest of world - and into the Cloud

Posted: 25 Jun 2012 03:30 AM PDT

EMC bigwig's amazing claim

China has finally stepped out from the shadow of the United States and is leading the world at the cutting edge of cloud computing deployments, according to EMC.…

RIM 'pondering sell-off of hardware biz' to focus on messaging

Posted: 25 Jun 2012 03:20 AM PDT

Sunday Times what-if session spills onto the paper

Troubled BlackBerry maker RIM could be getting out of the hardware business, with the Sunday Times reporting a plan to cut RIM in two and flog off the hardware division to focus on messaging and device management.…

RBS IT cockup: This sort of thing can destroy a bank, normally

Posted: 25 Jun 2012 03:00 AM PDT

But in this case the taxpayers just get hit again

Analysis  The thing you have to remember about banking is that it's a confidence trick. As with all such things, once the confidence is gone the trick no longer works. That's what should be worrying the executives at NatWest and RBS over the shambles in their computer systems this week.…

Chinese 'nauts couple successfully without help of machines

Posted: 25 Jun 2012 02:45 AM PDT

Shenzhou-9 'swiftly' pulls out from Heaven, then back in

The three Chinese astronauts currently residing in the Heavenly Palace have managed to successfully dock their ship with the Tiangong-1 manually, the first time China has tried such a thing.…

Sony outs Google TV set-top box

Posted: 25 Jun 2012 02:28 AM PDT

Android for your telly

Update  Sony's Google TV-based set-top box will go on sale next month.…

Blighty laid bare as historic aerial snaps archive goes online

Posted: 25 Jun 2012 02:27 AM PDT

Who will find the first sunbathing lovely of the 1930s?

Today sees the launch of Britain From Above - a seriously impressive archive of 16,000 aerial views of Blighty taken between 1919 to 1953.…

Estonian labs chief says working for Microsoft hasn't changed Skype

Posted: 25 Jun 2012 02:15 AM PDT

Users 'good' for security 'unless there's a court order'

Interview  Skype plans to retain its own proprietary P2P protocol even though closer alignment between Windows Live Messenger and the VoIP outfit, at least on some level, is likely in future.…

Screen idols: higher resolution means better laptops

Posted: 25 Jun 2012 02:00 AM PDT

Got a fast CPU - where's my ultra-high res display?

Extreme Hardware  Intel's latest Ivy Bridge chipset, currently being deployed by every laptop manufacturer on new machines, is capable of supporting resolutions of up to 4096 pixels horizontally, using integrated graphics.…

Acer big cheese: Microsoft Surface sales will be 'superficial'

Posted: 25 Jun 2012 01:44 AM PDT

Redmond bite will inflict only minor wound on us

Apple slapped with 75 lawsuits by staff of titsup French computer biz

Posted: 25 Jun 2012 01:28 AM PDT

Give us our Jobs back, say Fruit of Fury protesters

Apple was sued 75 times on Tuesday as former employees of reseller eBizcuss filed individual suits against the iPhone-maker in Paris.…

Drobo brings RAID, battery backup to the desktop - and the hand

Posted: 25 Jun 2012 01:14 AM PDT

Kit so simple, even a Mac fanboi could use it

Drobo has re-invented its desktop storage products, giving them a dose of Thunderbolt connectivity, SSD and 2.5-inch drive support, as well as introducing a portable Drobo mini.…

Fujitsu bigwig: Microsoft's doing us a favour with Surface either way

Posted: 25 Jun 2012 01:01 AM PDT

'I'm not panicking at all', says slablet CTO

Last week's launch of Microsoft's Surface product is a good thing for tablet veteran Fujitsu, even if it only shows the battle is actually between Android and iOS.…

Why the Windows Phone 8 digi-wallet is different to the others

Posted: 25 Jun 2012 12:38 AM PDT

Plays nicely with others, unlike Apple and Google

Analysis  Windows Phone 8 will have an electronic wallet, but one which spans the functionality of Google Wallet and Apple's Passbook, and plays nicely with the network operators too.…

Antarctic ice shelves not melting at all, new field data show

Posted: 25 Jun 2012 12:19 AM PDT

Crafty boffins got elephant seals to survey for them

Twenty-year-old models which have suggested serious ice loss in the eastern Antarctic have been compared with reality for the first time - and found to be wrong, so much so that it now appears that no ice is being lost at all.…

'We've got $6m and we will use it to REVOLUTIONISE storage'

Posted: 25 Jun 2012 12:00 AM PDT

Startup company's amazing claim

Nimbus, Solidfire and Pure Storage better look out: there's a new flash kid on the storage block.…

Overland Storage takes market hit on ITC's initial patents ruling

Posted: 24 Jun 2012 11:34 PM PDT

OK we're falling ... have we got a bungee on or not?

Updated  Overland Storage has lost the initial determination of a trade violation case it was hoping to win and its shares have dived off a cliff. Is this a bungee jump with a bounce back, or a one way street?…

MediaTek gobbles up MStar, next stop CHINA

Posted: 24 Jun 2012 11:15 PM PDT

Taiwanese chip firms have their eyes on the prize

Taiwanese chip giant MediaTek is set to snap up its smaller rival MStar after the two agreed a $3.8bn (£2.4bn) deal which they hope will boost their chances in the digital TV and smartphone market and create the world's fourth largest chip design company.…

The Beatles Yellow Submarine restored

Posted: 24 Jun 2012 11:00 PM PDT

At last, the Blue Meanies on Blu-ray

Review  Long absent from video stores, The Beatles' trippy 1968 animation Yellow Submarine has been painstakingly restored for its Blu-ray debut. With the original elements in a perilous state of decay, the movie has been meticulously cleaned and repaired frame by frame. The soundtrack has also had a 5.1 DTS HD Master Audio makeover.…

India unblocks the interwebs after protests

Posted: 24 Jun 2012 10:27 PM PDT

Access returns to file-sharing sites

An Indian court has finally seen sense and toned down a controversial anti-piracy ruling which blocked access to a large number of legitimate sites in the country.…

US govt asks Huawei and ZTE for more answers

Posted: 24 Jun 2012 06:04 PM PDT

Dumping allegations added to security questions

US House of Representatives Intelligence Committee chair, congressman Mike Rogers, has turned yet another blowtorch onto Chinese vendors Huawei and ZTE, alleging that the Chinese government is subsidizing the price of kit they sell in America.…

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