Texan team paints batteries onto beer steins |
- Texan team paints batteries onto beer steins
- Apple hardware fixer Bob Mansfield retires from Cupertino
- Mac-based Trojan targets Uyghur activists
- Two weeks 'til the internet disappears, for 58 Fortune 500 companies
- Jaw-jaw no more-more as calls fall down tally of phone tasks
- Capita ITS asks to-be-axed staffers to pose for marketing pic
- Gov IT buying body: Mega hardware gig to save £6.5m in 2013
- IBM chiefs order pay freeze at US services tentacle
- Behold: Today marks Year Five of the iPhone Era
- Stratfor settles class-action over Anon megahack with freebies
- Mad fan-fitted mouse keeps mitts moisture-free
- Berkshire bigboy 2e2 in the pink - apart from crushing debt burden
- Ethiopia: we are not jailing Skype users
- HPC cloud belches from top UK universities
- Apple's Mountain Lion to offer automatic security updates
- Do you work in IT at RBS? Or at the next place to get hit ...?
- Gouged by cloud - but it's <i>so</i> convenient
- Chrome hits iPhone and iPad, storms to top of download chart
- Tsinghua, NUDT flatten rivals in ISC cluster smackdown
- Ultrabook demand soars Stateside
- War On Standby: Do the figures actually stack up?
- Android Jelly Bean won't get Flash Player
- BMW, Toyota to build fuel cells for sports cars
- Just how do you build the perfect Olympic stadium?
- Dimming the lights on smart(arse) TV
- Governments probe domain land-snatch: many.gTLDs.suck
- Apple patent may foretell an end to iPhone autocorrect Tourette's
- Open-source password keeper to get 'minor' weekend security fix
- B&O Beoplay A3
- First lady taikonaut and pals plunge into the dirt after space mating
- Vodafone to let you roam in Europe at UK prices
- <i>Reg</i> hack attempts gutsiest expenses claim EVER
- Join the gov consultation on net porn ... and have your identity revealed
- Nexus 7 and Surface: A bonanza for landfill miners
- Teleconferencing 'shifts hundreds of NHS bed-blockers out the door'
- 'Backing out of a failed update really ought to be a trivial matter...'
- PS3 fans buy more digital content than Xbox buffs do
- UK spectrum row: What we need is more national disasters
- The Open Rights Group gets rights wrong again
- DataCore orchestra tunes up for the Ninth SANsymphony
- Free tool inspects all your personal 'ware automatically
- Lego Batman 2: DC Super Heroes
- Pigment powered gadgets
- RIM delays BlackBerry 10 launch, bins 5000 bods
- Nextgen connects data centres for cloud boom
- Ex-NASA group plans private, crowd-funded asteroid hunter
- Dixons and Best Buy start selling Google Chromebooks
- Google downshifts App Engine to infrastructure cloud
| Texan team paints batteries onto beer steins Posted: 29 Jun 2012 02:55 PM PDT Flexible future power storage in the offingResearchers in Texas have discovered a way to break down the components of a battery into liquid form and paint power cells onto everyday objects.… |
| Apple hardware fixer Bob Mansfield retires from Cupertino Posted: 29 Jun 2012 12:58 PM PDT Walks away from fortune in share optionsBob Mansfield, Apple's senior vice president of hardware engineering, has announced his retirement from the company after 13 years in situ, and it seems he's also walking away from ten of millions in unclaimed share options.…
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| Mac-based Trojan targets Uyghur activists Posted: 29 Jun 2012 09:27 AM PDT Human rights attacked onlineSecurity researchers have intercepted a Mac-based Trojan attack targeting Uyghur human rights activists.… |
| Two weeks 'til the internet disappears, for 58 Fortune 500 companies Posted: 29 Jun 2012 08:52 AM PDT Stand by for 4 per cent of the US gov to go dark, tooEven though the DNSChanger safety net deadline expires in just two weeks, 12 per cent of Fortune 500 firms still have at least one infected machine on their network, according to a new survey.… |
| Jaw-jaw no more-more as calls fall down tally of phone tasks Posted: 29 Jun 2012 08:48 AM PDT Talk to people on it? Don't make me laughYou think phones are for making calls? No longer, if a poll conducted by O2 is anything to go by. Talking to people is not even in the top three activities folk spend most time doing on their handsets.… |
| Capita ITS asks to-be-axed staffers to pose for marketing pic Posted: 29 Jun 2012 08:41 AM PDT Want to present realistic image of companyCapita IT Services staff waiting to hear if they have a future at the integrator-cum-reseller have been invited to attend a photo shoot to be used in marketing material.… |
| Gov IT buying body: Mega hardware gig to save £6.5m in 2013 Posted: 29 Jun 2012 08:37 AM PDT Margins driven to the bone, claims GPSThe forthcoming mega IT Hardware & Services public sector framework is expected to yield savings of £6.5m this year, according to Government Procurement Services (GPS).… |
| IBM chiefs order pay freeze at US services tentacle Posted: 29 Jun 2012 08:29 AM PDT Big Blue shivers - rumours that even bosses will be hitUpdate The employees at the Global Technology Services unit of Big Blue got some unwelcome but probably not unexpected news that there would not be a broad-based salary increase at the unit this year. There are also reports that IBM has frozen salaries of higher-level executives across the company, which the company has not confirmed.… |
| Behold: Today marks Year Five of the iPhone Era Posted: 29 Jun 2012 08:00 AM PDT Fire. The Wheel. Steam engines. Just trinketsApple has been credited with the first smartphone, with creating the mobile application business and pioneering touch interfacing. None of these things are true: but actually the launch of the iPhone, five years ago, was a much bigger revolution than that.… |
| Stratfor settles class-action over Anon megahack with freebies Posted: 29 Jun 2012 07:31 AM PDT You want fries with that bucket-o-geopolitical-intel?Stratfor has agreed to forgo $1.75m in income to settle a class action lawsuit arising from a high-profile hack by hacktivist group Anonymous against the global intelligence firm's systems last December.…
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| Mad fan-fitted mouse keeps mitts moisture-free Posted: 29 Jun 2012 07:23 AM PDT Play for hours, no sweatSuffer from excessively sweaty palms when you're gaming on your PC? Accessory maker Thermaltake has a - rather bizarre, IMHO - answer: a mouse with its own tiny clip-on fan.… |
| Berkshire bigboy 2e2 in the pink - apart from crushing debt burden Posted: 29 Jun 2012 07:14 AM PDT Amphibious workforce gets its feet wetIntegrator 2e2 recorded steep losses in calendar 2011 caused by crippling interest repayments, discontinued operations and restructuring costs, but despite all this, healthy progress was made in the underlying operations.… |
| Ethiopia: we are not jailing Skype users Posted: 29 Jun 2012 07:02 AM PDT Western media 'mistaken'The Ethiopian government has refuted reports that anyone caught using Skype in the country will go to jail. It insists the claims publicised by western media are completely groundless.… |
| HPC cloud belches from top UK universities Posted: 29 Jun 2012 07:02 AM PDT Rent yourself a rack at the (tera)FLOPhouseAt last, one can rent tens of thousands of cores-worth of HPC teraFLOPS on demand from an HPC cloud.… |
| Apple's Mountain Lion to offer automatic security updates Posted: 29 Jun 2012 06:27 AM PDT Crikey - now there's a thoughtApple is building in automatic update checking into the next version of Mac OS X – Mountain Lion.… |
| Do you work in IT at RBS? Or at the next place to get hit ...? Posted: 29 Jun 2012 06:15 AM PDT Here's a handy guide to riding out the stormThose nice people at RBS have provided me with a worked example for how you can best get through fan-hitting situations without having to take up minicab driving or going to work in local government.… |
| Gouged by cloud - but it's <i>so</i> convenient Posted: 29 Jun 2012 06:00 AM PDT Last to know, first to payOpen ... and Shut Most everyone believes that cloud computing is taking off in a big way. Finding agreement on why it's booming is a bit more problematic. The issue becomes particularly nettlesome for private cloud adoption, which is either heavily driven by public cloud cost management... or the exact opposite, depending on whom you ask.… |
| Chrome hits iPhone and iPad, storms to top of download chart Posted: 29 Jun 2012 05:43 AM PDT Google slips new tentacle into fanbois' walled gardenGoogle's new Chrome browser for iOS has stormed the iTunes download charts - hitting the top spot for free apps worldwide. Announced at a dev meeting yesterday, the mobile browser was quietly released in Apple's App Store on 26 June.…
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| Tsinghua, NUDT flatten rivals in ISC cluster smackdown Posted: 29 Jun 2012 05:29 AM PDT Teraflop barrier busted across the boardISC 2012 The 2012 ISC Student Cluster Challenge ended last week, and it's high time we take a look at the winners, the awards and some of the results.… |
| Ultrabook demand soars Stateside Posted: 29 Jun 2012 05:08 AM PDT But they're still a tiny percentage of the marketThat Ultrabooks have grabbed almost 11 per cent of the $700-and-up Windows notebook market in the US during the first five months of the year sounds impressive, until you realise how small that market segment is.… |
| War On Standby: Do the figures actually stack up? Posted: 29 Jun 2012 05:00 AM PDT Will you stop turning the TV off at the wallAnalysis The War On Standby rumbles on: this week, courtesy of the UK government and "third sector" quangocracy, we heard yet again that gadgets left on standby suck vast, planet-wrecking, expensive amounts of energy from our electricity sockets.… |
| Android Jelly Bean won't get Flash Player Posted: 29 Jun 2012 04:38 AM PDT Never mind, there's lots of HTML5 |
| BMW, Toyota to build fuel cells for sports cars Posted: 29 Jun 2012 04:19 AM PDT Next-gen e-car tech partnership struckBMW and Toyota are to work together on the development of fuel cell and electric powertrains, the two automotive giants said today.… |
| Just how do you build the perfect Olympic stadium? Posted: 29 Jun 2012 04:15 AM PDT What have the Romans ever done for us....London Olympics On 27 July, London will be transformed as the biggest celebration of sports in the world kicks off in the newly built Olympic Stadium in Stratford.… |
| Dimming the lights on smart(arse) TV Posted: 29 Jun 2012 04:00 AM PDT When consumer devices go bzzztSomething for the weekend, Sir? "The TV has stopped working."… |
| Governments probe domain land-snatch: many.gTLDs.suck Posted: 29 Jun 2012 03:48 AM PDT Patagonia? You mean that's a place?Governments have started to put ICANN's massive top-level domain name expansion under scrutiny, after the revelation of 1,930 applications for new naming suffixes two weeks ago.…
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| Apple patent may foretell an end to iPhone autocorrect Tourette's Posted: 29 Jun 2012 03:31 AM PDT Intriguing new special asshole filingAn Apple patent application just published by the US Patent Office shows that the masterminds of Cupertino have figured out (or hope to figure out) a cunning way to work out what words you're going to tap into your little Jesus mobe before you type it.… |
| Open-source password keeper to get 'minor' weekend security fix Posted: 29 Jun 2012 03:14 AM PDT You'd need to make several dumbass moves to get bittenThe developer of KeePass, the popular open-source password management utility, has promised an update this weekend following the discovery of a "minor" security bug in the tool.… |
| Posted: 29 Jun 2012 03:00 AM PDT iPad entertainment centreAccessory of the Week Stick an iPad in B&O's Beoplay A3, take a step or two back and look at it square on. It looks like a mini B&O TV. Put it down on a kitchen worktop or office shelf and you have a video player or jukebox capable of producing rich, full-bodied audio which does iPad far more justice than its own tiny speaker.… |
| First lady taikonaut and pals plunge into the dirt after space mating Posted: 29 Jun 2012 02:43 AM PDT Smack down after withdrawing from Heavenly PalaceThe three taikonauts aboard Shenzhou-9 have returned safely to Earth, touching down in northern China's Inner Mongolia autonomous region as planned.… |
| Vodafone to let you roam in Europe at UK prices Posted: 29 Jun 2012 02:41 AM PDT Plus, of course, a small daily considerationNew European Commission-imposed EU mobile data roaming price regulations kick in on Sunday, and Vodafone has announced a modification of its European roaming package.… |
| <i>Reg</i> hack attempts gutsiest expenses claim EVER Posted: 29 Jun 2012 02:28 AM PDT Napkin hieroglyphs leave top beancounter ROFLing in tearsWe're certain that plenty of Reg readers have at one time or another been given short shrift by the company finance department for presenting a dodgy receipt as part of an expenses claim.… |
| Join the gov consultation on net porn ... and have your identity revealed Posted: 29 Jun 2012 02:14 AM PDT Tick 'confidential' if you like: it means simply nothingA parental internet controls consultation document released by the Department for Education yesterday is currently exposing the email addresses, unencrypted passwords and sensitive answers of members of the public who fill in the associated form.…
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| Nexus 7 and Surface: A bonanza for landfill miners Posted: 29 Jun 2012 01:56 AM PDT The fish aren't going to get on the bicyclesComment It would be charitable (that is, untrue) to call the consumer electronics strategies of Microsoft and Google coherent today. But what they lack in coherence they make up for in er, … sheer recklessness. That's OK, then.… |
| Teleconferencing 'shifts hundreds of NHS bed-blockers out the door' Posted: 29 Jun 2012 01:47 AM PDT Virtual meeting re-ablement triumph saves £150mThe Whittington hospital NHS trust is speeding its discharge rates and saving about £150,000 a year by using teleconferencing, according to Jar O'Brien, team leader for Islington's community rehabilitation services.… |
| 'Backing out of a failed update really ought to be a trivial matter...' Posted: 29 Jun 2012 01:30 AM PDT Plus: 'I'm not panicking AT ALL about Surface. No'QuotW This was the week when there was an almighty tech disaster at RBS and Natwest that froze millions out of their bank accounts. Stories abounded of houses lost because sales hadn't gone through, people stuck in prison because their bail hadn't been paid and legions of folks just plain old p***ed off because they couldn't put their hands on their own money.… |
| PS3 fans buy more digital content than Xbox buffs do Posted: 29 Jun 2012 01:22 AM PDT Sony supporters splash outBritish PS3 owners are more willing to splash the cash on digital content than their Xbox 360 counterparts, it has been claimed.… |
| UK spectrum row: What we need is more national disasters Posted: 29 Jun 2012 01:14 AM PDT Only that way will there be proper emergency commsFuture of Wireless The problem with UK radio spectrum policy, apparently, is that we have too much competition and not enough proper disasters, which means our emergency services won't get enough radio spectrum until people start dying.…
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| The Open Rights Group gets rights wrong again Posted: 29 Jun 2012 01:00 AM PDT Defender of parody is becoming a self-parodyOpinion When Open Rights Group executive director Jim Killock opens his mouth, his foot soon disappears inside. The UK's leading digital rights advocate has just demonstrated still more difficulty understanding the "rights" the group campaigns about.… |
| DataCore orchestra tunes up for the Ninth SANsymphony Posted: 29 Jun 2012 12:38 AM PDT Thats SANsymphony, not sans symphonyDataCore has pushed out its ninth SANsymphony release, which is orchestrated for the cloud, large data centre deployments, and storage-as-a-service.… |
| Free tool inspects all your personal 'ware automatically Posted: 29 Jun 2012 12:17 AM PDT Can't tell your wife you're doing updates any moreSecunia has taken the wraps off a new version of its consumer patch management tool, Secunia Personal Software Inspector (PSI) version 3.0.… |
| Lego Batman 2: DC Super Heroes Posted: 29 Jun 2012 12:00 AM PDT Gotham brickyReview The only Batman I have ever cared about is the cynical desperate anti-hero of Frank Miller's The Dark Night Returns but Lego Batman 2: DC Super Heroes may have just changed my mind.… |
| Posted: 28 Jun 2012 08:32 PM PDT Queensland Uni trailblazers in melanin infused electronicsThe natural pigment, melanin, which endows humans and animals eye, skin and hair colour is set to be the driving force behind a new generation of bio-powered gadgets.… |
| RIM delays BlackBerry 10 launch, bins 5000 bods Posted: 28 Jun 2012 04:59 PM PDT What's that smell? Yes, it's deathRIM has reported disastrous quarterly results and is delaying the launch of the new BlackBerry 10 operating system until next year. The company will also shed 5,000 staff.…
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| Nextgen connects data centres for cloud boom Posted: 28 Jun 2012 03:55 PM PDT Australia loves big, fat dataThe rise of cloud based services and data centre proliferation has prompted Nextgen Networks to launch a premium grade transmission service connecting nominated data centres in mainland capital cities.… |
| Ex-NASA group plans private, crowd-funded asteroid hunter Posted: 28 Jun 2012 03:34 PM PDT Sentinel sparks space hypegasmA group of former astronauts, astronomers, engineers, and the ubiquitous Tim O'Reilly (presumably for the publishing rights) are getting together to try and punt a privately-funded space telescope to scan for dangerous asteroids.… |
| Dixons and Best Buy start selling Google Chromebooks Posted: 28 Jun 2012 03:13 PM PDT Whether people will buy them is another issueGoogle I/O Google is trying to get its Chromebook into the mainstream and is starting to push it in retail stores, signing up Best Buy in the US and Dixons in the UK to distribute the ChromeOS systems.… |
| Google downshifts App Engine to infrastructure cloud Posted: 28 Jun 2012 03:11 PM PDT Half the cost of the competitionGoogle I/O Microsoft just downshifted its Azure platform cloud so it could support raw virtual machines and any old applications companies want to cram into them, and now Google has followed suit with Compute Engine.… |
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