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- Bio-boffins create world's first digital STD
- Microsoft promises Metro developers 'fame and fortune'
- Judge frees nude TSA protester, citing free speech rights
- AMD pins its server hopes on SeaMicro technology - maybe in APUs
- 'Sacrifice another goat!: iCloud is Apple's biggest failure before Google
- SanDisk: Yargh, nobody does SD-cards bundled with phones anymore
- Google shakes up Android Jelly Bean to fend off malware meanies
- Top plods reconsidering mega deals with Olympo-blunder firm G4S
- IBM plans to axe staff in UK, Ireland despite hefty profits
- BT Engage IT overlord Thornhill slips off
- Samsung SMACKDOWN: US appeals court keeps ban on Galaxy Tab
- Up the ZIL LANE to the Beach Volleyball changing rooms with BONG!
- Iran: If the Madi cyber-strike was us it would've been another Stuxnet
- Has Nokia bottomed out? <i>El Reg</i> drills into the detail
- Climategate cops: We'll NEVER solve email leak hack riddle
- Google urged to rethink mobile in crunch EU antitrust talks
- RBS IT cock-up: After the crash, what now?
- Dutch payment-by-bonkers bonk payments on the head
- 'Google can do whatever it wants with the data once it gets it'
- CentOS penguins maul Oracle's Linux migration pitch
- Apple boots privacy name-and-shame app Clueful from store
- Darth Vader is a pansy
- LG readies bonkers big telly for sale
- CEO of fallen flash sweetheart STEC charged with insider trading
- Watch out Fibre Channel: 12 gig SAS has arrived
- Google impervious to world's cash drain, Moto's lameness
- Where there's brass, silver and gold ... there's also muck
- Readers fret over LOHAN's chilly bits
- Russians in audacious stratobeer mission
- View 21 readies content-flinging Freeview DVR
- Austrians drool over 15th-century jub buckets
- Why British TV drama is crap – and why this matters to tech firms
- Microsoft: Azure now holds FOUR TREELLION objects
- Watching Olympics at work? How to avoid a £1k telly-tax fine
- Lazy password reuse opens Brits to crooks' penetration
- BP hires Deutsche Telekom to send email up in smoke
- BT bags MASSIVE £425m broadband rollout deal in Wales
- Pentax K-01 16Mp APS-C hybrid camera review
- Even China can't halt PC sales decline
- Lenovo CEO Yang doles out US$3m bonus to staff
- Indonesia in pre-Ramadan web porn blitz
- BIG BOOBS banished from Linux kernel
- Atlassian heading for the exit?
- Optus HFC network gobbled by NBN Co for AU$800m
- Ocean-seeding experiment re-ignites geo-engineering debate
- AWS says disk is to cloud as tape is to disk
- New! Yahoo! CEO! Mayer! awarded! mucho! mazuma!
- Microsoft posts first-ever quarterly loss
- Super Micro misses target in June quarter
- Microsoft hires former Hillary Clinton adviser as top strategist
| Bio-boffins create world's first digital STD Posted: 20 Jul 2012 02:58 PM PDT Without the unpleasant burning sensationA bacterium that in humans can cause genital pain, itching, and a burning sensation while urinating has become the subject of the first-ever complete software simulation of an entire organism, the New York Times reports.… |
| Microsoft promises Metro developers 'fame and fortune' Posted: 20 Jul 2012 11:50 AM PDT What, this stuff doesn't sell itself?With the official launch of Windows 8 just a few months away, Microsoft has kicked off a new incentive program that promises developers "fame and fortune" if they build Metro-style apps for the new OS.… |
| Judge frees nude TSA protester, citing free speech rights Posted: 20 Jul 2012 10:44 AM PDT Oregonian 'genitalia' law trumped by First AmendmentThe techie who stripped naked to protest invasive airport security, saying he was sick and tired of being harassed by Transportation Security Administration screeners, has been cleared of all charges.… |
| AMD pins its server hopes on SeaMicro technology - maybe in APUs Posted: 20 Jul 2012 09:58 AM PDT Trying to dance between Chipzilla's pounding reptile feetThe bad news for Advanced Micro Devices in the second quarter is that server processor sales did not save its financial cookies as they did for archrival Intel. The good news is that AMD doesn't appear to be losing market share or money on server chips and has a new engineering team focusing on longer-term plans to try to give Intel some grief with Opterons and Fusion APUs in the data center while keeping an eye on the ARM collective.… |
| 'Sacrifice another goat!: iCloud is Apple's biggest failure before Google Posted: 20 Jul 2012 09:32 AM PDT 'Cloud in, not device out' the best policyOpen ... and Shut For a company that prides itself on craftsmanship and a beautiful user experience, Apple's cloud services continue to be more than a blemish on the company's reputation. They are a serious black hole.… |
| SanDisk: Yargh, nobody does SD-cards bundled with phones anymore Posted: 20 Jul 2012 08:54 AM PDT Damn you, with your capacious embedded blower storageWe thought the flash storage market was booming, but even so SanDisk came within a whisker of making a loss in its second quarter as revenues of $1.03 billion tumbled 25 per cent annually and 14 per cent compared to the first quarter.… |
| Google shakes up Android Jelly Bean to fend off malware meanies Posted: 20 Jul 2012 08:50 AM PDT ASLR shuffles 4.1's pack... and properly this timeAndroid Jelly Bean 4.1 promises to be more secure than previous versions of the Google's mobile OS.… |
| Top plods reconsidering mega deals with Olympo-blunder firm G4S Posted: 20 Jul 2012 08:23 AM PDT Support staff may be spared move to vast rentacop outfitCambridgeshire police are reviewing a potential contract with troubled Olympic security provider G4S. The deal on the table would see G4S take over back-office functions inclusing ICT for three forces - Cambridgeshire, Hertfordshire and Bedfordshire - and would result in 1,191 staff being rehired by G4S, according to the Cambridge News.… |
| IBM plans to axe staff in UK, Ireland despite hefty profits Posted: 20 Jul 2012 08:06 AM PDT Big Blue bottom line means 'workforce remix'Exclusive IBM is planning a round of redundancies in the UK and Ireland despite healthy growth in profits in the second quarter.… |
| BT Engage IT overlord Thornhill slips off Posted: 20 Jul 2012 07:58 AM PDT After 24 years... leaving to 'pursue other opportunities'BT Engage IT CEO John Thornhill is leaving the organisation after less than a year in the role, The Channel can reveal.… |
| Samsung SMACKDOWN: US appeals court keeps ban on Galaxy Tab Posted: 20 Jul 2012 07:26 AM PDT Not listening to that Limey judge, nossireeA US appeals court has denied Samsung's second try at holding up a ban on its Galaxy Tab 10.1 in the country.… |
| Up the ZIL LANE to the Beach Volleyball changing rooms with BONG! Posted: 20 Jul 2012 06:57 AM PDT Our social-webpreneur columnist gets his OLYMPIC on¡Bong! "Young workers, peasants and soldiers learn while they work, and so adequate attention should also be paid to their work and study as well as to their recreation, rest and sleep" |
| Iran: If the Madi cyber-strike was us it would've been another Stuxnet Posted: 20 Jul 2012 06:50 AM PDT 'Cos we're as good as US/Israel! Analysts dividedAnalysis Iranian state media has angrily rejected suggestions that the Madi cyber espionage campaign is anything to do with the Islamic Republic.… |
| Has Nokia bottomed out? <i>El Reg</i> drills into the detail Posted: 20 Jul 2012 06:28 AM PDT Is that light at the end of the tunnel or an oncoming train?Analysis When a company is in crisis, it wants to tell the world that it's still got oodles of cash and is jolly busy putting things right. This is true even if you're Europe's biggest technology company - right, Nokia?… |
| Climategate cops: We'll NEVER solve email leak hack riddle Posted: 20 Jul 2012 06:03 AM PDT Probe axed after inside job ruled outDetectives have shelved an investigation into the high-profile hacking of computers at the University of East Anglia's Climatic Research Unit (CRU).… |
| Google urged to rethink mobile in crunch EU antitrust talks Posted: 20 Jul 2012 05:38 AM PDT Just one more thing...Brussels' antitrust watchdog is reportedly trying to strong-arm Google into making sweeping changes to its mobile services.… |
| RBS IT cock-up: After the crash, what now? Posted: 20 Jul 2012 05:17 AM PDT Join fellow Reg readers for an after-hours chatLive chat One month ago a rookie IT mistake crippled the banking network of the RBS Group.… |
| Dutch payment-by-bonkers bonk payments on the head Posted: 20 Jul 2012 05:02 AM PDT Phone networks flee incoming Google, Apple NFC onslaughtThe Dutch mobile operator-banking consortium, formed to create a level-playing field for pay-by-wave NFC technology, has broken up.… |
| 'Google can do whatever it wants with the data once it gets it' Posted: 20 Jul 2012 04:47 AM PDT Plus: 'We forgot to give browser choice to 28 million PCs – sorry!'Quotw This was the week that wasn't so great for Apple, what with former CEO's Steve Jobs' words coming back to haunt Cupertino again, a bad time in the UK courts and an iOS hack attack.… |
| CentOS penguins maul Oracle's Linux migration pitch Posted: 20 Jul 2012 04:34 AM PDT Don't trust Ellison, won't pay supportHaving tried, and failed, to kill Red Hat Linux with Unbreakable Linux, Oracle is now sneaking up on CentOS.… |
| Apple boots privacy name-and-shame app Clueful from store Posted: 20 Jul 2012 04:16 AM PDT iPhone fans denied right to know what's fondling their dataApple has pulled from its App Store a utility that revealed how the software installed on iPhones is fondling punters' data.… |
| Posted: 20 Jul 2012 04:00 AM PDT Wearing black doesn't make you coolSomething for the weekend, Sir? American country music doesn't appeal to me, but Johnny Cash atoned for its worst sins. Whitney Houston's foghorn cover of Dolly Parton's funeral-favourite I will always love you could finally be forgiven when Cash returned the favour with his version of Depeche Mode's Personal Jesus.… |
| LG readies bonkers big telly for sale Posted: 20 Jul 2012 03:47 AM PDT 84in ultra-high def monster, anyone?Want an 84in (2.1m), 4K x 2K TV? Fly to South Korea next month and join the back of the line.… |
| CEO of fallen flash sweetheart STEC charged with insider trading Posted: 20 Jul 2012 03:46 AM PDT SEC alleges boss made $134m in 'fraudulent' dealUS financial watchdog SEC has charged STEC CEO Manouch Moshayedi with insider trading. The agency alleged the flash guru exploited confidential information to make some money in a secondary offering of STEC shares.… |
| Watch out Fibre Channel: 12 gig SAS has arrived Posted: 20 Jul 2012 03:33 AM PDT LSI and Xyratex team up to penetrate cloudy customersXyratex is plotting to build a drive array with doubled SAS interface speed using LSI 12Gbit/s SAS gear.… |
| Google impervious to world's cash drain, Moto's lameness Posted: 20 Jul 2012 03:17 AM PDT Page feeling lucky with 2.8 BEEELLION dollar Q2 profitDespite the West's failure to adequately emerge from the global economic quagmire, Google is still raking in piles of cash as its second-quarter results show.… |
| Where there's brass, silver and gold ... there's also muck Posted: 20 Jul 2012 03:03 AM PDT The great Olympics clean-up challenge"Danny Boyle wants to give the impression of 'British countryside' at the opening of the Olympic Games, but he appears to have missed out a few items," writes Ann McLachlan of South Lanarkshire in the letters page of the Daily Express.… |
| Readers fret over LOHAN's chilly bits Posted: 20 Jul 2012 02:47 AM PDT Will igniter batteries clap out at -60°C?As the ongoing saga of our Low Orbit Helium Assisted Navigator (LOHAN) rocket motor igniter continues, readers have been expressing concerns that the igniter batteries are going to suffer from the extreme cold at altitude.… |
| Russians in audacious stratobeer mission Posted: 20 Jul 2012 02:32 AM PDT Czech ale in 70,000ft shock claimVid A crack Russian team has made its pitch for High Altitude Ballooning (HAB) glory by claiming to have sent a couple of beers cans into the stratosphere.… |
| View 21 readies content-flinging Freeview DVR Posted: 20 Jul 2012 02:32 AM PDT Tablet visionFirst look Harvard International, the company behind the iLuv and Goodmans gadget brands, revealed its latest venture this week: View 21, which will launch a Freeview DVR with on-board IPTV apps and mobile integration next month.… |
| Austrians drool over 15th-century jub buckets Posted: 20 Jul 2012 02:13 AM PDT Earliest known bra unearthed in East TyrolA team from the Institute of Archaeologies at the University of Innsbruck reckons it's unearthed the earliest known bra - a pair of 15th-century linen jub buckets which turned up in a castle in East Tyrol.… |
| Why British TV drama is crap – and why this matters to tech firms Posted: 20 Jul 2012 02:03 AM PDT Platforms, platforms everywhere. And nothing to watchAnalysis It has been years since a contemporary BBC drama caused an office discussion round here. The best American imports such as The Wire and Breaking Bad are all regular conversation pieces but I can't remember a British one being interesting enough even to worth a mention. And you'll know why. They're glossy, expensive and dreadful.… |
| Microsoft: Azure now holds FOUR TREELLION objects Posted: 20 Jul 2012 01:39 AM PDT Whup-ass can opened, drained, crumpled to size of peaA trillion here and a trillion there; pretty soon you're talking about real storage.… |
| Watching Olympics at work? How to avoid a £1k telly-tax fine Posted: 20 Jul 2012 01:19 AM PDT Hint: You'll need a laptopWatching the Olympics at work may annoy the boss, but not as much as the £1,000 fine the company could get if doesn't have a TV licence.… |
| Lazy password reuse opens Brits to crooks' penetration Posted: 20 Jul 2012 01:04 AM PDT With 26 to remember, some punters think up just 5The average Brit maintains 26 online accounts but only uses five different passwords to keep them secure.… |
| BP hires Deutsche Telekom to send email up in smoke Posted: 20 Jul 2012 12:37 AM PDT Staff messages to float up into private cloudBP Oil will push 100,000 staff mailboxes into the cloud after the fuel giant signed a deal with Deutsche Telekom's T-Systems division to reorganise its internal communications.… |
| BT bags MASSIVE £425m broadband rollout deal in Wales Posted: 20 Jul 2012 12:15 AM PDT Company gobbles all the fibre, nobody else gets a look-inBT has unsurprisingly won hefty government funds to roll out a faster broadband network to Wales.… |
| Pentax K-01 16Mp APS-C hybrid camera review Posted: 20 Jul 2012 12:00 AM PDT Mirrorless maverick for grown-up lensesMirrorless camera sizes seem to be ever-reducing, yet the company that brought us the tiny Pentax Q, has now produced its antithesis. The Pentax K-01 is a big, rubber-clad, brick-shaped monster – a 16Mp APS-C interchangeable lens camera which rather defies categorisation.… |
| Even China can't halt PC sales decline Posted: 19 Jul 2012 11:24 PM PDT IDC blames economic woes in the West after APAC PC numbers fallThe powerhouse of the global PC market, the Asia Pacific region, has finally succumbed to economic volatility in other regions with Q2 shipments set to decline, according to analysts.… |
| Lenovo CEO Yang doles out US$3m bonus to staff Posted: 19 Jul 2012 09:27 PM PDT Production line workers, receptionists, call centre workers and others score CEO cashIn an almost unheard of act of selflessness and generosity from a CEO, Lenovo boss Yang Yuanqing has decided to distribute $3 million (£1.9m) from his annual bonus to junior members of staff working at the Chinese PC giant.… |
| Indonesia in pre-Ramadan web porn blitz Posted: 19 Jul 2012 08:59 PM PDT Another government comes down hard on smutIndonesia's government has decided to come down hard on internet porn, blocking access to at least one million smutty sites ahead of the Muslim fasting month of Ramadan.… |
| BIG BOOBS banished from Linux kernel Posted: 19 Jul 2012 08:20 PM PDT Microsoft apologises as storm in D-cup resurfacesMicrosoft has 'fessed up to inserting the hexadecimal string "0xB16B00B5" in the Linux kernel.… |
| Atlassian heading for the exit? Posted: 19 Jul 2012 07:47 PM PDT New Board members have extensive experience selling software companies to the big boysAtlassian has appointed Doug Burgum, a software entrepreneur and former head of Microsoft's Business Solutions Group, as its Chairman in a move viewed as taking the Australian software darling into the global tech major league.… |
| Optus HFC network gobbled by NBN Co for AU$800m Posted: 19 Jul 2012 06:59 PM PDT "Black day indeed for the ACCC and competition in Australia" says TurnbullSingTel Optus will hand over its 400,000 HFC network customers to NBN Co and decommission parts of the network following the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission's final approval of the AU$800 million HFC asset deal.… |
| Ocean-seeding experiment re-ignites geo-engineering debate Posted: 19 Jul 2012 06:00 PM PDT Destroy the planet to save it…German researchers have re-ignited debate over geo-engineering by saying that "seeding" oceans with iron is an effective way to lock up CO2.… |
| AWS says disk is to cloud as tape is to disk Posted: 19 Jul 2012 05:52 PM PDT Spruiks flash-powered cloud services with backhander for spinning rustAmazon Web Services (AWS) says magnetic disks cannot handle modern NoSQL-powered applications, which have such high throughputs and generate such weirdly bursty traffic that spinning rust looks and feels as slow and awkward as tape.… |
| New! Yahoo! CEO! Mayer! awarded! mucho! mazuma! Posted: 19 Jul 2012 05:41 PM PDT Near-$60m compensation package for ex-Googler and current mommy-to-beYahoo!'s new CEO Marissa Mayer will be handsomely rewarded for taking the reins at that troubled company – she's been granted an annual base salary of $1m, and can earn up to another $2m in bonus money during her first year.… |
| Microsoft posts first-ever quarterly loss Posted: 19 Jul 2012 05:38 PM PDT It was the Online Services Division's fault, honestAs was widely expected, Microsoft announced a loss of $0.06 per share for the fourth quarter, ended in June, which marks the first time the software giant has posted a quarterly loss in the 26 years it has been a public company.… |
| Super Micro misses target in June quarter Posted: 19 Jul 2012 04:06 PM PDT A Sandy Bridge too farMotherboard and whitebox server maker Super Micro pre-announced its financial results for its fourth quarter of fiscal 2012 ending in June, and it looks like it's not going to make its numbers.… |
| Microsoft hires former Hillary Clinton adviser as top strategist Posted: 19 Jul 2012 04:01 PM PDT His mission: Put lipstick on BingMicrosoft is a company that divides opinion, which may explain why it has hired Mark Penn, a political strategist and pollster who served as senior strategist for Hillary Clinton's 2008 presidential campaign, as its new corporate VP for strategic and special projects.… |
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