Security still slack in WA government agencies |
- Security still slack in WA government agencies
- Google claims Chrome is the world's most popular browser
- Berkeley Lab to air-cool Cray Cascade super
- Red Hat snaps up open source SOAer FuseSource
- Obama is best Pres 'to beat alien invasion'
- London cops order Julian Assange to turn himself in
- News Corp proposes divorce, Murdoch will look after TV biz
- Techies evac'd as raging wildfire menaces $100m Colorado data centre
- Viviane Reding says imitate US and form FEDERAL EUROPE
- Multimillion-pound hoard of 50BC GOLD PIECES found in Jersey
- Ministers consult public on 'opt in for smut' plans
- FileMaker Bento 4
- SImply nobody is rushing to beat the Microsoft licencing price hike
- Maude to gov IT suppliers: If you are rubbish you will be binned
- Panasonic chief says no to low-cost OLED TVs
- UK.gov: Some Open Data are more open than others
- Unilever revamps IT for agility
- Brit global warming skeptics now outnumber believers
- BT Vision beats rivals to honour of being worst UK Pay-TV
- Seattle: we built this city, we built this city in Ram'n'Rom
- D-Link DHP-1565 802.11n router with integrated powerline
- Menage á tablet: Apple vs Amazon vs Google
- Google Chrome update plugs score of security bugs
- Half the team at the heart of the RBS disaster WERE in India
- BT to fibre up another 98 exchanges, puffs 'FTTP on demand' offer
- FalconStor settles with feds for $6m
- Sysadmins: Your best tale of woe wins a PRIZE
- Brits get to fondle Google Nexus 7 slab in just a fortnight
- Darwin alarmed by six-legged mutant cane toad
- Price Waterhouse Cooper: Only mobile comms can SAVE HUMANITY
- Ubuntu Shuttleworth: Space nerd, penguin, millionaire - live on <i>The Reg</i>
- Gov ICT strategy for system upgrades needs a system upgrade
- Exotic proto-mineral 'panguite' from before the planets found in meteor
- Fujitsu raises UK minimum wage to £14k
- No need to comply with data laws if it's too difficult - EU ministers
- Microsoft to open UK retail store early next year
- Mighty ROBOT achieves total SUPREMACY over feeble humans
- AMD and Intel mainstream desktop CPUs
- Breaking: Megaupload seizures illegal says NZ High Court
- WIPO signs new treaty for cross platform performers
- 'Evil' hacker gets two and a half years in the slammer
- US nuke lab goes back for BlueGene/Q seconds
- Red Hat Storage Server NAS takes on Lustre, NetApp
- Australia goes cold on ACTA
| Security still slack in WA government agencies Posted: 28 Jun 2012 02:53 PM PDT Auditor General highlights payment security concernsWhile not as utterly hopeless as last year, IT security is still troublesome in Western Australia's government agencies.…
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| Google claims Chrome is the world's most popular browser Posted: 28 Jun 2012 12:53 PM PDT Apple targeted with Chrome and Drive builds for iOSGoogle I/O Google has been shouting the praises of its newly patched Chrome on the second day of its I/O developer conference, and is claiming that Chrome is undoubtedly the world's most popular browser.… |
| Berkeley Lab to air-cool Cray Cascade super Posted: 28 Jun 2012 12:50 PM PDT 2 petaflops, 6 petabytes for a mere $40mLawrence Berkeley National Lab, which runs the big and unclassified science projects for the US Department of Energy, is sticking with Cray for its next-generation supercomputer, tentatively called NERSC-7.… |
| Red Hat snaps up open source SOAer FuseSource Posted: 28 Jun 2012 09:38 AM PDT Shadowman gets the message on integrationRed Hat Summit A bunch of open-source Apache projects relating to application integration and messaging protocols have found what will very likely be their final commercial home, as Red Hat has just bought the FuseSource subsidiary of Progress Software.… |
| Obama is best Pres 'to beat alien invasion' Posted: 28 Jun 2012 09:25 AM PDT But Americans would rather leave it to BatmanTwo-thirds of Americans reckon Barack Obama would be better than his Republican presidential rival, Mitt Romney, at defending the Land of the Free when Mars attacks.… |
| London cops order Julian Assange to turn himself in Posted: 28 Jun 2012 09:02 AM PDT Erratic leaker too busy boning up on Ecuadorian anthemWikiLeaker-in-chief Julian Assange was served with an extradition notice by the Metropolitan police this morning.… |
| News Corp proposes divorce, Murdoch will look after TV biz Posted: 28 Jun 2012 08:49 AM PDT Doesn't he love his red-topped kids anymore?News Corp has confirmed the heavily rumoured plan to split Rupert Murdoch's empire in two, with the company's publishing wing parting ways with the broadcasting and entertainment division. It also means Murdoch is further distancing himself from his beloved newspaper biz.…
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| Techies evac'd as raging wildfire menaces $100m Colorado data centre Posted: 28 Jun 2012 08:37 AM PDT Thousands flee as flames eat into cityA massive HP data centre in Colorado Springs is in danger of being destroyed by a wildfire raging near by.… |
| Viviane Reding says imitate US and form FEDERAL EUROPE Posted: 28 Jun 2012 07:53 AM PDT Stand by for the War Against The SouthViviane Reding, VP of the European Commission, has published an open letter calling for a Federal Europe, modelled on the USA, claiming the only way out of the financial crisis is consolidation of all the participating countries into a single administration.… |
| Multimillion-pound hoard of 50BC GOLD PIECES found in Jersey Posted: 28 Jun 2012 07:28 AM PDT Iron Age was a golden era for someoneTwo tenacious metal-detector enthusiasts have unearthed a record hoard of Iron Age coins in a field in Jersey.… |
| Ministers consult public on 'opt in for smut' plans Posted: 28 Jun 2012 07:01 AM PDT Just tick here, sir, in the 'I am a pervert' boxImagine a future where you are demanded to declare to your ISP that you wish to view pornography online?… |
| Posted: 28 Jun 2012 06:00 AM PDT Make your tablet productiveiOS App of the Week When the iPad was first launched it was very much considered to be a device for content consumption, rather than a proper computer that could be used for work. Apps like Bento show that the iPad is, in fact, a very practical work tool.… |
| SImply nobody is rushing to beat the Microsoft licencing price hike Posted: 28 Jun 2012 05:53 AM PDT Redmond sets up barrel, customers refuse to bend overThe expected hordes of customers gathering to renew Microsoft volume licensing agreements before the planned price hike next month failed to show up, say a bunch of reseller sources.…
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| Maude to gov IT suppliers: If you are rubbish you will be binned Posted: 28 Jun 2012 05:29 AM PDT Speaking of rubbish, those public sector buying frameworks...Cabinet Office Minister Francis Maude will today warn some of the largest IT suppliers to government they may find themselves in the metaphorical public sector waste bin if their performance is rubbish.… |
| Panasonic chief says no to low-cost OLED TVs Posted: 28 Jun 2012 05:08 AM PDT LCD prices? Not for yearsCheap-ish OLED TVs? Don't make me laugh.… |
| UK.gov: Some Open Data are more open than others Posted: 28 Jun 2012 04:59 AM PDT Greatest Living Briton's star ratings will show you whichThe government's long-awaited Open Data white paper, published this morning, introduces standards for "higher data usability", according to the minister in charge.… |
| Unilever revamps IT for agility Posted: 28 Jun 2012 04:44 AM PDT And tells us how it's getting onOn the 11th of July at 10:30am we're broadcasting live with Garry Meaburn, the operations effectiveness and tooling manager at Unilever, dishing out practical tips on how to build a dynamic IT operation using private cloud principles. Garry's currently a good way through this sizable project.… |
| Brit global warming skeptics now outnumber believers Posted: 28 Jun 2012 04:29 AM PDT Nothing like a taste of climate policy to put you offFewer Britons than ever support the proposition that global warming is caused by human-driven CO2 emissions, according to the latest survey.… |
| BT Vision beats rivals to honour of being worst UK Pay-TV Posted: 28 Jun 2012 04:13 AM PDT TalkTalk grip on worst-broadband place remains firmBT Vision is the most complained about pay TV service in the UK, regulator Ofcom said, receiving nearly four times as many whinges in the first quarter of this year as Virgin Media and nine times as many as Sky.…
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| Seattle: we built this city, we built this city in Ram'n'Rom Posted: 28 Jun 2012 04:07 AM PDT Washington PCOld circuit boards clutter up landfill across the world, but with creativity and a little time on your hands, you could turn discarded computer parts into miniature cities instead. Check out this Ram-packed replica of Seattle's skyline.… |
| D-Link DHP-1565 802.11n router with integrated powerline Posted: 28 Jun 2012 04:00 AM PDT One box, three networking technologiesReview Running network traffic over the data-unfriendly environment of mains wiring is a trick Reg Hardware has been enthusing about for some years now. Only once in that time has anyone integrated it into another product.… |
| Menage á tablet: Apple vs Amazon vs Google Posted: 28 Jun 2012 03:50 AM PDT The three-way fight for the 7in form-factorAnalysis The new tablet battleground is the seven-incher. The biggest names in the business are lining up to fight it out for dominance: Google, Amazon and Apple.… |
| Google Chrome update plugs score of security bugs Posted: 28 Jun 2012 03:44 AM PDT It's version 20 'cos it closes that many vulnsGoogle has updated its Chrome browser to address 20 vulnerabilities, none of which are deemed critical.… |
| Half the team at the heart of the RBS disaster WERE in India Posted: 28 Jun 2012 03:36 AM PDT Chiefs warned repeatedly on quality of offshored workExclusive Cost-cutting RBS management had halved the team within which the banking group's recent data disaster happened, sources have told The Register. The sacked British employees were replaced by staff in India, and there had been concerns about the quality of the work done in India for a lengthy period prior to last week's catastrophe.… |
| BT to fibre up another 98 exchanges, puffs 'FTTP on demand' offer Posted: 28 Jun 2012 03:16 AM PDT You have to demand to pay some of the installation billEarlier this week, BT announced the company's latest phased rollout of its fibre optic-cabling technology in the UK. Blighty's national telco has said that BT's Openreach engineers will be upgrading another 98 exchanges. However, the national telco declined to tell The Register the exact split between fibre-to-the-cabinet (FTTC) and fibre-to-the-premises (FTTP) technology.… |
| FalconStor settles with feds for $6m Posted: 28 Jun 2012 03:01 AM PDT We'll be good boys from now on. Extra good for 18 monthsFalconStor has settled a two lawsuits regarding alleged improper customer payments by coughing up $5.8 million and signing up to a deferred prosecution agreement.… |
| Sysadmins: Your best tale of woe wins a PRIZE Posted: 28 Jun 2012 02:46 AM PDT Hey users, it's Sysadmin Day next month. We want cakeCompetition I'd like to share with you the plight of a good friend of mine. He's a systems administrator for a mid-sized American accounting firm. His story isn't particularly remarkable, but all the more important because of it.…
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| Brits get to fondle Google Nexus 7 slab in just a fortnight Posted: 28 Jun 2012 02:32 AM PDT Apples are not the only fruitNow that Google is in tablets, it's clearly hoping to make its mark quickly, lining its Nexus 7 tablet up for shipping in the UK in two to three weeks.… |
| Darwin alarmed by six-legged mutant cane toad Posted: 28 Jun 2012 02:23 AM PDT Beast sprouts extra legs in Oz's Northern TerritoryAnyone who doubts that the cane toad will ultimately gain supremacy over Australia is directed to the Northern Territory News, which has a chilling story on a hexaped mutant Bufo marinus captured south of Darwin.… |
| Price Waterhouse Cooper: Only mobile comms can SAVE HUMANITY Posted: 28 Jun 2012 02:13 AM PDT Cables will take too long, we'll all be deadFuture of Wireless Speaking at the recent Cambridge Wireless conference Price Waterhouse Cooper's Director of Product Management issued a stark warning - unless governments invest massively in mobile telephony we're all going to starve to death.… |
| Ubuntu Shuttleworth: Space nerd, penguin, millionaire - live on <i>The Reg</i> Posted: 28 Jun 2012 02:00 AM PDT Any plans for an action figure, Mark?Live chat Just as the internet was becoming reality for most of us, Mark Shuttleworth sold his first technology venture - the second largest provider of digital certification, Thawte - to VeriSign for $575m. It was 1999 and he was 26 years old.… |
| Gov ICT strategy for system upgrades needs a system upgrade Posted: 28 Jun 2012 01:44 AM PDT Menace of PIECEMEAL STRANDS must be ENDEDThe Institute for Government (IfG) has urged the government to "broaden out" its ICT strategy to demonstrate more clearly how to turn the strategy from a collection of technical strands into a "clear articulation of how it will help citizens".…
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| Exotic proto-mineral 'panguite' from before the planets found in meteor Posted: 28 Jun 2012 01:29 AM PDT Used to be all fields round here. Of space rocksBoffins have discovered a primitive mineral in an ancient meteorite that pre-dates the formation of planets.… |
| Fujitsu raises UK minimum wage to £14k Posted: 28 Jun 2012 01:13 AM PDT Union temporarily happy, but sees trouble aheadFujitsu has agreed to up its minimum wage for its British workers following sustained pressure from union Unite.… |
| No need to comply with data laws if it's too difficult - EU ministers Posted: 28 Jun 2012 12:54 AM PDT If you don't know data is personal, maybe it isn't?Organisations will not have to abide by data protection laws if it would be too difficult, time-consuming and use up too many important resources to check whether information they hold is personally identifiable, the EU's Council of Ministers has proposed.… |
| Microsoft to open UK retail store early next year Posted: 28 Jun 2012 12:30 AM PDT Springtime for Ballmer and RedmondyMicrosoft is laying the foundations to open up a retail store in the UK with a launch date marked for early next Spring.… |
| Mighty ROBOT achieves total SUPREMACY over feeble humans Posted: 28 Jun 2012 12:17 AM PDT At rock-paper-scissors, today. Tomorrow ...No matter how many John-Wayne-inspired moments you've had in front of the mirror, you're not as quick on the draw as the Janken robot.… |
| AMD and Intel mainstream desktop CPUs Posted: 27 Jun 2012 11:00 PM PDT Cheap as chips?Review It's fair to say that Intel has the very high end desktop processor market pretty much to itself, however, it's a different story in the lower end of the food chain. Although Intel – through the sheer number of different processors it offers – seems to have it all its own way, AMD does make a good fight of it at a number of price points. Indeed, the sheer number of affordable CPU's to choose from presents the consumer with a bewildering choice.… |
| Breaking: Megaupload seizures illegal says NZ High Court Posted: 27 Jun 2012 10:50 PM PDT Case in disarrayAmerica's case against Megaupload boss Kim Dotcom is looking increasingly shambolic, with a New Zealand High Court judge finding that the property seizures in January raid were illegal.…
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| WIPO signs new treaty for cross platform performers Posted: 27 Jun 2012 09:45 PM PDT ISOC welcomes recognition of the interwebsA new treaty for the rights of audiovisual performers has been finalised by the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) after 12 years of negotiations.… |
| 'Evil' hacker gets two and a half years in the slammer Posted: 27 Jun 2012 06:12 PM PDT cyber crime motivated by ego and unemploymentAustralia's most notorious country town, truck driving, cyber criminal David 'Evil' Cecil has been handed a two-and-a-half year prison sentence after being arrested nearly a year ago.… |
| US nuke lab goes back for BlueGene/Q seconds Posted: 27 Jun 2012 05:49 PM PDT A Vulcan rated at 5 petaflopsLawrence Livermore National Laboratory, one of the big nuke labs funded by the US Department of Energy, does a lot of super-secret classified nuclear weapons design and management work but it also lets the scientific community play with its biggest machines during shakedown phases and keeps around some iron that they can use on a regular basis.… |
| Red Hat Storage Server NAS takes on Lustre, NetApp Posted: 27 Jun 2012 04:27 PM PDT A veritable Gluster, fsckRed Hat Summit Red Hat has a server operating system, middleware, virtualization, and a cloud fabric – and now it has production-grade, scale-out clustered network-attached storage now that it is shipping its Storage Server 2.0 software.… |
| Posted: 27 Jun 2012 03:30 PM PDT This dead cat won't even bounce properlyAnother bit of flesh dropped off the decaying zombie that is ACTA, with the Australian parliamentary Treaties Committee recommending that ratification be deferred - partly because of its near-collapse in Europe.…
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