SUSE Linux and Canonical invade <del>Windows</del> Azure |
- SUSE Linux and Canonical invade <del>Windows</del> Azure
- US Navy uncloaks stealthy underwater solar cells
- Samsung slams down $1.9bn for mobile chip fab
- LinkedIn users buried in spam after database leak
- MPAA sympathetic to returning legitimate Megaupload files
- Bradley Manning in court as lawyers wrestle over secret docs
- Samsung plunges $500k into Linux Foundation
- Bill Gates' used car sells for $80,000
- HTC torches forecasts as stock tsunami floods skint Europe
- Samsung 'to launch Galaxy S III in US', snubs Apple's ban bid
- 10m years ago there was less CO2 - but the Earth was WARMER
- New London Bus API arrived at approximately ... 15.00
- Microsoft 'hardens' Windows Update from Flame penetration
- Space shuttle Enterprise makes final voyage – to New York
- Hackers, bloggers 'bunged cash to spin for Iran 2.0'
- Molyneux chisels away at social experiment
- 1,000 Foxconn iPad workers trash dorms in riot against guards
- Windows 8: Not even Microsoft thinks businesses will use it
- Touchscreens to get finger friendly
- Ambulance-chasing resellers will die on life support
- NASDAQ offers $40m to Facebook IPOcalypse investors
- Intel phone boss: 'Multi-core detrimental to Android mobes'
- HMRC Tax Calc
- O2, Be Broadband axe Pirate Bay access
- 'iPhone 5 case' sparks supplier fondle frenzy
- Microsoft takes on the private cloud
- Code glitch floored <i>Reg</i> reader altimeter
- LinkedIn admits site hack, adds pinch of salt to passwords
- Vodafone and O2 to merge mobile networks
- Facebook techie strokes STEC's hot data flash drive
- We'll pull the plug on info-leak smart meters, warns UK.gov
- Android Academy cashes in on tests for well-off devs
- Gov not using 6 MILLION of its software licences
- Vint Cerf: 'COMMUNISTS want to seize the INTERNET'
- HP gets smart on storage with workload-aware caching
- Apple taunts Proview with new store plans
- AMD and Nvidia extreme GPUs workout
- Dating site eHarmony plays data-breach me-too
- Dinosaurs on a diet shed tonnes
- Salary packager plans cloud boomerang
- HDD oligopoly to keep post-flood prices high till 2014
- AMD crashes Windows 8 tablet party with ultrathin hybrid
- How to put "Stuxnet author" on your CV
- Oracle's big cloud announcement, again
- Cable cut didn’t send Oz Transit of Venus feed dark
- TiVo takes on Cisco in patent knock down
- Plasma drive starts with pee
- Kiwi telcos hungry for consolidation
- Microsoft backsteps Azure from platform to infrastructure cloud
| SUSE Linux and Canonical invade <del>Windows</del> Azure Posted: 07 Jun 2012 02:48 PM PDT What about a Linux platform cloud, Microsoft?There's more to Microsoft's announcement that it will support Linux on its new Azure infrastructure cloud than sleeping with the enemy. While Red Hat Enterprise Linux is conspicuously absent from the list of supported Linuxes, the fact remains that Red Hat doesn't exactly need any help from Microsoft, and that SUSE Linux and Canonical, the companies behind their respective Enterprise Server 11 and Ubuntu 12.04 LTS Linux releases, need all the help they can get as they try to take on Shadowman.… |
| US Navy uncloaks stealthy underwater solar cells Posted: 07 Jun 2012 12:35 PM PDT Energy capture up to nine meters downScientists at the US Navy Research Laboratory (NRL) are developing solar cells that can work effectively up to nine meters underwater, powering marine systems for long periods of time.…
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| Samsung slams down $1.9bn for mobile chip fab Posted: 07 Jun 2012 11:32 AM PDT Names top chip-head CEOMemory and processor chip maker Samsung Electronics is plunking down 2.25 trillion Korean won (about $1.9bn) to beef up its chip-making capacity, and rumors are doing the rounds that it has tapped the head of its semiconductor ops to be the new CEO of the company.… |
| LinkedIn users buried in spam after database leak Posted: 07 Jun 2012 11:04 AM PDT Hackers go phishing with their new baitLinkedIn users are being bombarded by spam emails after the social network was hacked and hashed passwords of users dumped online.… |
| MPAA sympathetic to returning legitimate Megaupload files Posted: 07 Jun 2012 10:52 AM PDT Court documents reveal conciliatory toneThe Motion Picture Ass. of America has indicated it wouldn't oppose users of the now-defunct Megaupload file-sharing service retrieving their data – if it isn't pirated.… |
| Bradley Manning in court as lawyers wrestle over secret docs Posted: 07 Jun 2012 10:27 AM PDT Pre-trial hearing for soldier accused of WikiLeaks dumpBradley Manning, the US soldier charged with leaking confidential government and military documents to whistleblowing platform WikiLeaks, returned to court yesterday for the first day of a pretrial hearing as lawyers argued over what documents were relevant to his case.… |
| Samsung plunges $500k into Linux Foundation Posted: 07 Jun 2012 10:06 AM PDT P-p-p-picks up a different penguin in Apple struggleSamsung has opened a new front in the mobile wars against Apple by upping its investment in Linux and its mobile software. Samsung will plough half a million dollars into the Linux Foundation and get a seat on the not-for-profit's board of directors by becoming a Platinum member of the Foundation, it has been announced.…
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| Bill Gates' used car sells for $80,000 Posted: 07 Jun 2012 09:49 AM PDT Billionaire philanthopist's old Porsche 911 tops auction estimatesProving that the pixie dust of fame can enhance the value of most anything, a 33-year-old Porsche 911 Turbo once owned by Bill Gates was sold at auction for far above its estimated value.… |
| HTC torches forecasts as stock tsunami floods skint Europe Posted: 07 Jun 2012 09:28 AM PDT Eurozone meltdown as smartphones pile up in Q2HTC has slashed its Q2 top and bottom line estimates as it clears the glut of stock in the supply chain and acknowledges weakened demand in Europe.… |
| Samsung 'to launch Galaxy S III in US', snubs Apple's ban bid Posted: 07 Jun 2012 09:01 AM PDT Pre-sale numbers have Cupertino worriedSamsung has said that its Galaxy S III smartphone will launch in the US, despite Apple's attempts to get it banned.… |
| 10m years ago there was less CO2 - but the Earth was WARMER Posted: 07 Jun 2012 08:32 AM PDT Warmth and carbon 'decoupled': 'A surprising finding'Scientists are puzzled today by the discovery that millions of years ago levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere were lower - and yet, temperatures were higher than today's.… |
| New London Bus API arrived at approximately ... 15.00 Posted: 07 Jun 2012 07:56 AM PDT TfL's bus ticker reveals how late you'll beThis afternoon, Transport for London opened up an API to share the data normally displayed in bus shelters with one and all, so expect a deluge of route-planning apps just in time for the Olympics.… |
| Microsoft 'hardens' Windows Update from Flame penetration Posted: 07 Jun 2012 07:29 AM PDT How the hot malware burned a new hole in Redmond's backsideMicrosoft has "hardened" its Windows Update system after researchers discovered the Flame virus can infect PCs by offering itself as an update masquerading as official Microsoft software.…
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| Space shuttle Enterprise makes final voyage – to New York Posted: 07 Jun 2012 07:05 AM PDT Final destination: Intrepid Sea, Air and Space MusuemCrowds of locals and tourists turned out yesterday to see space shuttle Enterprise come to her final rest at her floating museum home.… |
| Hackers, bloggers 'bunged cash to spin for Iran 2.0' Posted: 07 Jun 2012 06:38 AM PDT Put in a good tweet for us, says Revolutionary GuardCyCon 2012 The Iranian government is investing heavily in hacking expertise and online propaganda in order to promote its way of life under the country's post-Islamic Revolution regime - as well as using its new resources to tighten up control and surveillance of its citizens.… |
| Molyneux chisels away at social experiment Posted: 07 Jun 2012 06:25 AM PDT Curiosity is the name of the gamePeter Molyneux's new studio 22Cans is ready to launch its first game, Curiosity, an app that looks at how social media is used to spread information, apparently.… |
| 1,000 Foxconn iPad workers trash dorms in riot against guards Posted: 07 Jun 2012 06:11 AM PDT Nothing to do with us, says just-slap-an-Apple-sticker-on-it giantA riot broke out at a Foxconn workers' dormitory in Chengdu after hundreds of workers got involved in a clash with security guards, according to reports from Chinese human rights website Molihua [English version in the Want China Times here].… |
| Windows 8: Not even Microsoft thinks businesses will use it Posted: 07 Jun 2012 05:29 AM PDT An entire enterprise cycle binned in Metro madnessAnalysis Like Thelma and Louise, executives at Microsoft's Windows division have no doubts about which direction they want to point the car. It's pedal to the floor, and over the cliff as fast as they can drive.… |
| Touchscreens to get finger friendly Posted: 07 Jun 2012 05:15 AM PDT Haptic humping points the wayHaptic technologies are so advanced these days that we will soon |
| Ambulance-chasing resellers will die on life support Posted: 07 Jun 2012 05:02 AM PDT Trend Micro's Tim Ayling on value versus fast bucksIn challenging economic times it's fair to say that every company's primary job is to stay afloat. Even in the information security industry, which was shielded better than most from the worst effects of the global recession, the survival instinct is still clearly visible.… |
| NASDAQ offers $40m to Facebook IPOcalypse investors Posted: 07 Jun 2012 04:43 AM PDT Cash apology after gremlins hit tradingNASDAQ has offered Facebook investors a $40m apology pot for technical glitches that messed up the public sale of the social network's shares - much to the annoyance of rival exchanges.…
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| Intel phone boss: 'Multi-core detrimental to Android mobes' Posted: 07 Jun 2012 04:18 AM PDT But if you want Windows 8, you need to be rolling in cashIntel's head of mobile has dissed handset-makers that have already adopted multi-core processor architectures, saying that most implementations so far are actually "detrimental".… |
| Posted: 07 Jun 2012 04:00 AM PDT The money programiOS App of the Week The Inland Revenue's latest on-line tax calculator fell flat on its face when it was launched last week – swamped, no doubt, by starving millionaires desperate to know how much their 5 per cent tax cut was worth.… |
| O2, Be Broadband axe Pirate Bay access Posted: 07 Jun 2012 03:46 AM PDT Blockade to appear overnightTelefonica, which owns the O2 brand and fixed-line provider Be Broadband, is implementing a High Court order to block conventional web access to file-sharing search engine The Pirate Bay.… |
| 'iPhone 5 case' sparks supplier fondle frenzy Posted: 07 Jun 2012 03:45 AM PDT Rumour with a viewWhispers surrounding Apple's next iPhone show no sign of slowing, with the prospect of a 4in display model gaining traction following video of a supposed iPhone 5 backcover that surfaced on the web this week.… |
| Microsoft takes on the private cloud Posted: 07 Jun 2012 03:30 AM PDT Trevor Pott's take on MicrosoftFeature To many, private cloud is simply virtualisation plus management. But there is more to it than that.… |
| Code glitch floored <i>Reg</i> reader altimeter Posted: 07 Jun 2012 03:21 AM PDT LOHAN barometric kit off for reprogrammingReader Neil Barnes says he's nailed the reason his barometric altimeter failed the Rocketry Experimental High Altitude Barosimulator (REHAB) test last week, and is poised to reprogram the device for another pop in our shed-built hypobaric chamber.… |
| LinkedIn admits site hack, adds pinch of salt to passwords Posted: 07 Jun 2012 03:03 AM PDT Biz network says it has upped securityLinkedIn has confirmed that the list of 6.5 million user passwords leaked yesterday is genuine.…
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| Vodafone and O2 to merge mobile networks Posted: 07 Jun 2012 02:44 AM PDT And then there were twoO2 and Vodafone will pool their mobile phone masts and antennas to slash costs and reduce the number of physical networks in Blighty to two.… |
| Facebook techie strokes STEC's hot data flash drive Posted: 07 Jun 2012 02:22 AM PDT That's a Like for server-side cachesSSD supplier STEC has built software to bump hot data on disks into server flash caches to get I/O-bound apps running faster.… |
| We'll pull the plug on info-leak smart meters, warns UK.gov Posted: 07 Jun 2012 02:04 AM PDT Lose customer data and lose your licenceThe government plans to place a specific obligation for data security on the suppliers of smart meters as part of its conditions for granting licences to install the technology and use it to monitor customers' energy supplies, it has confirmed.… |
| Android Academy cashes in on tests for well-off devs Posted: 07 Jun 2012 01:32 AM PDT Remember the Symbian Academy? Thought not.Developer portal The Android Academy has started issuing certificates to those who know their Nexus-6 from their Max 404, and are prepared to pay £150 to prove it.… |
| Gov not using 6 MILLION of its software licences Posted: 07 Jun 2012 01:02 AM PDT Plans 'dynamic' transfer after premature PIN pushThe government's recent end of first year ICT strategy report revealed that in the 12 months from April 2011 to April 2012, the total number of software licences held in the government's assets and services register was 18.4 million. But the total number used was around 12 million, suggesting that 6 million software licences are currently not being used.…
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| Vint Cerf: 'COMMUNISTS want to seize the INTERNET' Posted: 07 Jun 2012 12:32 AM PDT Actually 'meritocratic democracy' is the True WayComment No less a figure than Vint Cerf has been addressing the US Congress on why the UN can't be allowed to control the internet, whipping up sentiment against a supposed takeover bid and at the same time advocating something at least as controversial.… |
| HP gets smart on storage with workload-aware caching Posted: 07 Jun 2012 12:01 AM PDT Gen 8 ProLiants caching 3PAR arraysHP says its Gen 8 ProLiant servers use real-time analysis to build "the future of converged storage". But what does it mean? Gen 8 ProLiant servers include workload-aware intelligent caching for virtualised and non-virtualised environments. The server's Smart Storage analyses different types of workload data and dynamically changes to optimise system performance and efficiency.… |
| Apple taunts Proview with new store plans Posted: 06 Jun 2012 11:30 PM PDT Job ads point to Shenzhen and Chengdu storesApple looks set to inflame its already tense relationship with IPAD trademark rival Proview by opening a retail store in its home town of Shenzhen, as well as a separate outlet in the western city of Chengdu.… |
| AMD and Nvidia extreme GPUs workout Posted: 06 Jun 2012 11:00 PM PDT Visual feast |
| Dating site eHarmony plays data-breach me-too Posted: 06 Jun 2012 10:51 PM PDT 'Security of our users is important'Along with the LinkedIn password dump, dating site eHarmony has confirmed that some of its users' passwords have also been published online, possibly by the same attacker as that obtained the LinkedIn data.… |
| Dinosaurs on a diet shed tonnes Posted: 06 Jun 2012 10:41 PM PDT Boffins revise sauropod weight estimates downwardsDinosaurs were probably skinnier and lighter than previously imagined, according to a new paper in Biology Letters.…
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| Salary packager plans cloud boomerang Posted: 06 Jun 2012 09:45 PM PDT Hosted CRM to go on-premises, then off to cloudAm Australian company has just deployed hosted CRM but plans to bring it back on-premises, before sending it back out to the cloud in future.… |
| HDD oligopoly to keep post-flood prices high till 2014 Posted: 06 Jun 2012 09:32 PM PDT Surging demand and vendor lock-in delays return to 2011Hard disk drive prices are unlikely to return to pre-flood levels until 2014 despite rising production levels, thanks to surging demand, vendor lock-in and a market dominated by just two suppliers, according to analysts.… |
| AMD crashes Windows 8 tablet party with ultrathin hybrid Posted: 06 Jun 2012 08:43 PM PDT Trinity-based not-quite-ultrabooks could sell for US$500AMD struggled to make itself heard above all the Intel Ivy Bridge noise at Computex this week, but did manage to introduce new E-Series APUs for the budget notebook and desktop market and show off a solitary Windows 8 tablet hybrid prototype running its new Trinity architecture.… |
| How to put "Stuxnet author" on your CV Posted: 06 Jun 2012 06:43 PM PDT "Malware is a legitimate occupation," suggests analystWith Stuxnet outed as a government-sponsored project by none other that one B. Obama of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, the world has concrete evidence that states commission the coding of malware.… |
| Oracle's big cloud announcement, again Posted: 06 Jun 2012 05:59 PM PDT Digs at SAP and Workday, better SLAs for tech supportIf you didn't have much to do this afternoon and tuned into the much-pumped Oracle cloud announcement, you probably were left scratching your head about an hour and a half later if you stuck around (as El Reg is paid to do), wondering what, exactly, Oracle announced and why it took so long to do it.…
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| Cable cut didn’t send Oz Transit of Venus feed dark Posted: 06 Jun 2012 05:45 PM PDT Network config, not backhoe mayhemAs the world readied to spent hours cyber-slacking to watch the Transit of Venus yesterday, a careless backhoe was being accused of sending NASA's Alice Springs feed offline.… |
| TiVo takes on Cisco in patent knock down Posted: 06 Jun 2012 04:53 PM PDT DVR battles keep lawyers in businessCisco's woes in consumer-land have taken a new twist, with TiVo alleging the networking giant's DVR set-top boxes, supplied to telcos, infringe TiVo's patents.… |
| Posted: 06 Jun 2012 04:35 PM PDT ANU gets funding for space drive test facilityThe Australian National University is preparing to build a plasma drive test facility on the back of an $AU4 million funding injection (No, I'm not going to explain the headline yet).… |
| Kiwi telcos hungry for consolidation Posted: 06 Jun 2012 04:13 PM PDT Driven by fear of ultrafast broadband initiativeA desperate need for consolidation in the New Zealand market is being driven by the government's national broadband network initiatives and could see accelerated exits and/or acquisitions according to analysts Ovum.… |
| Microsoft backsteps Azure from platform to infrastructure cloud Posted: 06 Jun 2012 04:10 PM PDT Embracing Linux VMs 'cause it can't deny themMicrosoft got so excited about its upcoming enhancements to the Windows Azure cloud, due to be divulged in detail tomorrow, that it jumped the gun on its own announcement, perhaps to try to steal a little thunder from cloudy announcements from Oracle and Red Hat.…
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