Telstra’s filter supplier also blocks for Qatar, Yemen, UAE |
- Telstra’s filter supplier also blocks for Qatar, Yemen, UAE
- Cliqr control freaks apps across many clouds
- Red Hat shifts PaaS cloud into production gear
- Acer bigwig sees gloomy future for Ultrabooks in Europe
- Nokia details 808 Pureview release
- Russian K-force operatives cuff suspected Carberp trojan bank raider
- Microsoft: no plans to make own phones
- Anxiety grips HP as new EMEA chief comes aboard from Nokia
- Chess algorithm written by Alan Turing goes up against Kasparov
- Wheezing <i>Guardian</i> flogs radio biz for quick cash
- MI5 boss: Cyber spies, web-enabled crooks threaten UK economy
- US trade body to 'revisit' Motorola's sole patent win over Apple
- 'Inexperienced' RBS tech operative's blunder led to banking meltdown
- Apple will only reinstate mute kids' app if makers win patent case
- Facebook replaces non-Facebook mail addresses on Timeline
- FolderSync
- Microsoft's Surface plan means the world belongs to Android now
- Ford touts tech to bottle up traffic jams
- Ofcom: Here come the UK online copyright rules ... in 2015. Maybe
- DDR 4 sets the pace for fast memory
- Sheryl Sandberg finally adds woman's touch to Facebook board
- TechRadar shuts down forums after user database hacked
- Even Apples sometimes have worms in them, admits Cupertino
- Tape so does not suck, insists EMC
- Google orders spontaneous support for Parliamentary motion
- Apple, Penguin, Macmillan to face feds in court - next year
- Bonking for money to be built into the next iPhone
- Cabinet Office pilots sales website for small IT suppliers
- Lithe British youngsters prioritise fun over privacy and security
- Net publishing happens in the server AND the eyeball, says EU Bot
- Group launches to promote iOS for business
- NetApp: Steenkin' benchmarks – we're quicker than 3PAR
- Report: EMC walks away with dedupe appliance market
- Low-cost Aakash tablet scheme is back on track
- Western Digital My Book Thunderbolt Duo
- NEC escapes after 10 BILLION YEN tax conundrum
- Enterprises clueless about network usage: IBM
- T-Platforms to roll out itsy-bitsy HPC cluster
- Boffins demo 2.5 Tbps OAM-modulated light signal
- Stephen Hawking to demonstrate speech via brain scan
- Users still slack about passwords: Trustwave
| Telstra’s filter supplier also blocks for Qatar, Yemen, UAE Posted: 26 Jun 2012 02:48 PM PDT The company you keepNetsweeper, the Internet filtering supplier linked to Telstra's voluntary filter trial is also a supplier to the Yemen, the UAE and Qatar.… |
| Cliqr control freaks apps across many clouds Posted: 26 Jun 2012 01:58 PM PDT Google I Owe – and Foundation Capital, tooMoving applications between clouds is arguably not much easier than moving them from physical machines, and there are very good (if disappointed) economic reasons for that.… |
| Red Hat shifts PaaS cloud into production gear Posted: 26 Jun 2012 10:02 AM PDT OpenShift morphs into FreeShift, MegaShift, and PetaShiftRed Hat is hosting its JBoss World and Red Hat Summit events side-by-side in Boston this week, where it kicked off the festivities by revealing its plans to commercialize its OpenShift platform cloud, which had thus far been in beta and relegated mostly to Java developers looking for a place to let their code roam on Shadowman's nickel.…
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| Acer bigwig sees gloomy future for Ultrabooks in Europe Posted: 26 Jun 2012 08:52 AM PDT These people just aren't ready to take a 13-incherAcer has downgraded sales forecasts for Ultrabooks as the relatively hefty price tag and smaller screen size continues to limit adoption in Europe.… |
| Nokia details 808 Pureview release Posted: 26 Jun 2012 08:15 AM PDT 41Mp camera-phone Blighty boundNokia has said the 808 Pureview - its Symbian-running smartphone with a stupendous 41Mp snapper - will hit shop shelves in the UK later this week.… |
| Russian K-force operatives cuff suspected Carberp trojan bank raider Posted: 26 Jun 2012 08:01 AM PDT Nobody steals from the Rodina, citizenRussian police have arrested a 22-year-old man suspected of running a bank fraud network that infected six million machines, raking in an estimated 150 million roubles ($4.5m or £2.9m) in ill-gotten gains in the process.… |
| Microsoft: no plans to make own phones Posted: 26 Jun 2012 07:00 AM PDT Happy with Nokia and co.Microsoft has categorically denied it plans to enter the smartphone hardware business. It remains satisfied, it insisted, with its current manufacturing partners.… |
| Anxiety grips HP as new EMEA chief comes aboard from Nokia Posted: 26 Jun 2012 06:52 AM PDT Atmos was much worse at my old jobHP could not find an internal candidate to lead the Technology Consulting business across EMEA, so it has raided Nokia Siemens Networks (NSN) and made off with Eric Pradier.… |
| Chess algorithm written by Alan Turing goes up against Kasparov Posted: 26 Jun 2012 06:24 AM PDT Performs exactly the way a real human wouldChess grandmaster Garry Kasparov has played one of the first computer chess programs ever created, written over 60 years ago by Alan Turing.… |
| Wheezing <i>Guardian</i> flogs radio biz for quick cash Posted: 26 Jun 2012 05:58 AM PDT Rumoured spelling errors on paperwork could delay dealThe Guardian newspaper may not actually be published on paper for very much longer – but the sale of the parent group's radio stations to Global Radio may buy it a little more time.…
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| MI5 boss: Cyber spies, web-enabled crooks threaten UK economy Posted: 26 Jun 2012 05:19 AM PDT Security Service head warns of organised hacker perilThe Director General of MI5 said that both business and government was on the front line of cyber attacks – and that assaults by both criminal hackers and foreign governments had reached an industrial scale.… |
| US trade body to 'revisit' Motorola's sole patent win over Apple Posted: 26 Jun 2012 05:06 AM PDT Commission must eye initial ruling, decide whether to BAN iPHONE in USAThe US International Trade Commission has said that it will be revisiting an initial ruling made in April that Apple had infringed on one of Motorola Mobility's patents.… |
| 'Inexperienced' RBS tech operative's blunder led to banking meltdown Posted: 26 Jun 2012 04:56 AM PDT Hyderabad job ad shows outsourcing in CA-7 teamExclusive A serious error committed by an "inexperienced operative" caused the IT meltdown which crippled the RBS banks last week, a source familiar with the matter has told The Register. Job adverts show that at least some of the team responsible for the blunder were recruited earlier this year in India following IT job cuts at RBS in the UK.… |
| Apple will only reinstate mute kids' app if makers win patent case Posted: 26 Jun 2012 04:33 AM PDT Cupertino: 'We ALWAYS pull apps from Store during legal battles'Apple will not choke off sales of an iPad application that helps disabled children talk from its App Store if the speech therapists behind the app win the patents case that has been brought against them, The Register understands.… |
| Facebook replaces non-Facebook mail addresses on Timeline Posted: 26 Jun 2012 04:10 AM PDT We're big in mail the way Google+ is big in social! BitchOver the weekend Mark Zuckerberg's recently floated company began quietly displaying @Facebook email addresses on all of its users' Timelines.…
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| Posted: 26 Jun 2012 04:00 AM PDT Combining cloudsAndroid App of the Week When Microsoft recently offered users 25GB of free SkyDrive storage it highlighted the lack of a good Android app to take advantage of it. Enter FolderSync, which lets you synchronise your Android folders with SkyDrive and just about every other cloud storage supplier.… |
| Microsoft's Surface plan means the world belongs to Android now Posted: 26 Jun 2012 03:50 AM PDT Not everybody's a fanboi or a MicrotardOpen ... and Shut Microsoft roared onto the mobile scene last week with the unveiling of its Surface tablet, but Acer is probably right to question why Microsoft would fight premium iPads with a premium Surface.… |
| Ford touts tech to bottle up traffic jams Posted: 26 Jun 2012 03:44 AM PDT Caveat: requires perfectly marked, cyclist-free roadsFord today promised to help motorists keep moving through heavy traffic, but the caveats it's applying to its prototype mean we won't be jam free for quite some time.… |
| Ofcom: Here come the UK online copyright rules ... in 2015. Maybe Posted: 26 Jun 2012 03:40 AM PDT Bloke who nicked your stuff might be unmasked thenOfcom has finally published a draft obligations code that specifies how the UK's largest ISPs should respond to copyright infringement notifications for a one-year monitoring period. The Code is part of proposals passed in 2010 as the Digital Economy Act. The DEA, however, has run into several difficulties since its passing, including a judicial review challenge from ISPs BT and TalkTalk and a curious bureaucratic malaise. Ofcom first published its consultation into the Code in May 2010.… |
| DDR 4 sets the pace for fast memory Posted: 26 Jun 2012 03:00 AM PDT Ramping up the RamExtreme Hardware Reducing the size of chips has benefits beyond those seen in CPUs and GPUs. One other key component to gain an advantage is memory.… |
| Sheryl Sandberg finally adds woman's touch to Facebook board Posted: 26 Jun 2012 02:51 AM PDT She makes us get bigger ... bitchMark Zuckerberg's right-hand woman, Sheryl Sandberg, has joined Facebook's no-longer-male-only board of directors.… |
| TechRadar shuts down forums after user database hacked Posted: 26 Jun 2012 02:43 AM PDT Emails, DoBs and passwords stolen from UK tech siteRegistered users of TechRadar have had personal details including their email addresses and dates of birth stolen in a breach of the UK consumer tech website's database.… |
| Even Apples sometimes have worms in them, admits Cupertino Posted: 26 Jun 2012 02:22 AM PDT Sinful humans can drag down even angelic MacsMac computers can be buggy, Apple has finally admitted. Two days ago the firm quietly pulled the claim that the iOS PCs are immune to viruses from its website. The purveyor of shinier-more-expensive desktops has replaced its former claim with the more cautious statement that Macs are "built to be safe".…
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| Tape so does not suck, insists EMC Posted: 26 Jun 2012 02:00 AM PDT It totally rocks, like Engelbert HumperdinckBlocks and Files Does EMC still think tape sucks? Nah, that is so last year – at least, if the storage giant's tech conference at the beginning of this month is anything to go by.… |
| Google orders spontaneous support for Parliamentary motion Posted: 26 Jun 2012 01:44 AM PDT We need other people's stuff to run ads byExclusive Google's influence on the UK copyright agenda is a little clearer today, thanks to an email seen by The Register. The email is a rallying cry to 'independent' copyright activists.… |
| Apple, Penguin, Macmillan to face feds in court - next year Posted: 26 Jun 2012 01:31 AM PDT G-men want more time to probe Fruitbook affairApple and book publishers are facing a trial next year over the allegations they colluded on ebook prices to squeeze Amazon out of the market.… |
| Bonking for money to be built into the next iPhone Posted: 26 Jun 2012 01:14 AM PDT Just rub it against the sweet spot to get what you wantDismantling code allegedly from the next iPhone 9-to-5 Mac has discovered Near Field Communications embedded in the hardware, paving the way for Apple Commerce come 2013.… |
| Cabinet Office pilots sales website for small IT suppliers Posted: 26 Jun 2012 12:58 AM PDT Pops open tiny bunghole for SME access to porkbarrelThe Cabinet Office is piloting a website intended to be an "interactive forum" to help small businesses communicate with government and find out about ways to sell to the public sector.…
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| Lithe British youngsters prioritise fun over privacy and security Posted: 26 Jun 2012 12:39 AM PDT Merrily allow themselves to be slurped and probedSilver surfers are more switched on about security than youngsters, even though the 18-25 age group are generally considered a more tech-savvy generation.… |
| Net publishing happens in the server AND the eyeball, says EU Bot Posted: 26 Jun 2012 12:19 AM PDT Ambiguity rips up the very fabric of time and spaceOnline publishing of information takes place both in the location from where the information is served and the location where it is read, an advisor to Europe's highest court has said.… |
| Group launches to promote iOS for business Posted: 26 Jun 2012 12:15 AM PDT All aboard the Apple love trainCorporate fanbois rejoice – a new consortium has been launched in Japan designed to spur the adoption of iOS in enterprise environments.… |
| NetApp: Steenkin' benchmarks – we're quicker than 3PAR Posted: 26 Jun 2012 12:00 AM PDT Unless it is your goal just to run benchmarks of coursePlaying the latency card, NetApp says it has a faster array than 3PAR – despite having a lower SPC-1 benchmark score.… |
| Report: EMC walks away with dedupe appliance market Posted: 25 Jun 2012 11:29 PM PDT Pathetic rivals handed it the world on a, erm, platterWhen it comes to the disk-based backup appliance market, there is EMC and IBM and then there is everyone else.…
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| Low-cost Aakash tablet scheme is back on track Posted: 25 Jun 2012 11:12 PM PDT Smarter, better, faster, strongerA new version of the ultra low-cost Aakash tablet built by British firm DataWind has been announced by the Indian Institute of Technology-Bombay (IIT-B), with deliveries to over 100,000 students and teachers nationwide expected from July.… |
| Western Digital My Book Thunderbolt Duo Posted: 25 Jun 2012 11:00 PM PDT A Mac's best friend?Review It's over a year since Apple began shipping Macs fitted with next-generation high bandwidth Thunderbolt ports, and they're now in the hands of millions of punters. But with Thunderbolt peripherals still few on the ground, they're all dressed up with nowhere to go.… |
| NEC escapes after 10 BILLION YEN tax conundrum Posted: 25 Jun 2012 08:53 PM PDT Tokyo taxman accuses firm of hiding incomeAiling Japanese computing giant NEC has been accused by domestic tax authorities of avoiding tax to the tune of over 10 billion yen (£80.2m), although it managed to escape punishment due to its poor financial health.… |
| Enterprises clueless about network usage: IBM Posted: 25 Jun 2012 08:52 PM PDT Social media, apps create security time-bombsThe average Australian business is in the dark when it comes to what is happening on its networks due to the rise of hand held devices, social media and apps crowding the enterprise environment, according to IBM security experts.… |
| T-Platforms to roll out itsy-bitsy HPC cluster Posted: 25 Jun 2012 04:41 PM PDT A cute li'l Windows HPC Server on castersIf you are looking for a desktop supercomputer cluster that can use X86 or a mix of X86 and GPU coprocessors to run simulations, then Russian supercomputer maker T-Platforms has a machine for you. Or rather, it will by this fall.… |
| Boffins demo 2.5 Tbps OAM-modulated light signal Posted: 25 Jun 2012 04:00 PM PDT 'Twisted wave' trick works with lightBack in March, a group of Italian and Swedish radio researchers demonstrated that a characteristic of radio waves called orbital angular momentum (OAM) can be used as a multiplexing technique, vastly increasing the theoretical capacity of wireless transmissions.…
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| Stephen Hawking to demonstrate speech via brain scan Posted: 25 Jun 2012 03:31 PM PDT The Hawk to talk via iBrain hacked headspaceNext month Professor Stephen Hawking will provide details of how a brain-scanning headcap will enable him to communicate more easily.… |
| Users still slack about passwords: Trustwave Posted: 25 Jun 2012 03:31 PM PDT eHarmony analysis shows people just don't careTrustwave's SpiderLabs has completed an analysis of the passwords dumped on the Internet in this month's eHarmony breach, and reached the depressing conclusion that too few people really seem to care about password strength.… |
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