Dell details plans for 'remixed' software strategy |
- Dell details plans for 'remixed' software strategy
- As promised, AMD posts disappointing financial results
- Apple iOS 6 beta limits number of apps per device
- Apple building 'tactical' data center with 'mantrap' doors
- OCZ shares jump as Seagate gobble speculation echoes
- Home Office doc 'not qualified' to assess McKinnon suicide risk
- Cisco kid arrives in VCE saddle after EMC/VMware kerfuffle
- Oracle tries to bust out of storage also-ran box
- Mellanox makes InfiniBand hay while the sun shines
- Mega spam-spewing Grum botnet finally KO'd
- Like clouds, like Big Data? You'll love our tape library – Oracle
- Google ordered to censor 'torrent', 'megaupload' and more words
- Barnes & Noble: You won't need a Nook to read our ebooks
- Nokia flogged 4m Lumias, still bled €826m this quarter
- Google HARVESTS African mobile numbers with Gmail SMS
- UK sysadmins pry open wallets for servers ... but not for long
- Google Nexus 7 shipping cock-up enrages fandroids
- Firefox 14 tabs no longer sneak a peek at users' privates
- Vodafone silences punters in mini-mast upgrade bungle
- Scotland Yard collars seventh computer-hack suspect
- Apple finally grabs apple.co.uk – after just 16 years
- Pure Stream takes on AirPlay
- Hubble spots ancient spiral galaxy that SHOULD NOT EXIST
- IT pro to storm Everest in Bletchley Park cash quest
- Judge: Apple must run ads saying Samsung DIDN'T copy the iPad
- Compare the Market loses .XXX smut-squat appeal
- Dell readies Linux Ultrabook for autumn release
- Hey, starving storage wannabes! Michael Dell wants to give you CASH
- WD game-centric set-top spied on web
- Java won the smartphone wars (and nobody noticed)
- Expert: EU Microsoft competition fine could reach $7bn
- UK.gov: Real time PAYE and new benefits systems WILL work
- Coraid peers over shoulder, pushes out another ZFS-based NAS head
- Fake Facebook photo tag ruse smears malware on PCs
- China lays out glorious eight-point infosec masterplan
- LG Optimus 4X HD quad-core Android phone review
- YouTube blurs faces to protect the innocent
- Internet Defense League to save the web from evil governments
- French credit card allows Wikileaks donations
- Humanity increasingly sitting on collective arse
- Chinese gov splurges £102 MILLION to replace pirated software
- Wired broadband adoption dips as wireless flies
- Oracle scales back plans for Java 8
- Dumpling squid do it WHENEVER THEY CAN, FOR HOURS ON END!
- Microsoft picks October 26 for Windows 8 launch
- Vendors responsible for ‘Aussie Tax’: Choice
- IBM juices profits in Q2 despite sales drop
- Kiwi judge steps aside from Dotcom extradition hearings
- Five mobile devices per person for 2040?
- Washington State to allow voter registration via Facebook
| Dell details plans for 'remixed' software strategy Posted: 19 Jul 2012 02:01 PM PDT Lots of hardware, software, service mash-upsDell has provided more details of its reinvigorated software strategy on Thursday, coming in the wake of its $2.4bn acquisition of Quest Software.… |
| As promised, AMD posts disappointing financial results Posted: 19 Jul 2012 01:55 PM PDT And don't get your hopes up for next quarter, eitherAMD has released its financial results for its second quarter 2012, and as they had warned earlier this month, revenues dipped by 11 per cent from the previous quarter, hitting $1.41bn.… |
| Apple iOS 6 beta limits number of apps per device Posted: 19 Jul 2012 01:22 PM PDT Don't worry, fanbois, it's a high number – a really high numberThe beta versions of Apple's iOS 6 limit the number of apps that you can have installed on your iPad, iPhone, or iPod touch – a limitation that didn't exist on iOS 4 or iOS 5.… |
| Apple building 'tactical' data center with 'mantrap' doors Posted: 19 Jul 2012 11:39 AM PDT Compact, high-security partner for ginormous North Carolina facilityApple has filed permit papers revealing that it plans to build a high-security "tactical" data center on the grounds of its humongous $1bn center in Maiden, North Carolina.… |
| OCZ shares jump as Seagate gobble speculation echoes Posted: 19 Jul 2012 10:31 AM PDT Will the big fellow slurp the flashy hustler?Reuters is reporting that flash products hustler OCZ may have received a buyout offer from Seagate and its shares are up a fifth.… |
| Home Office doc 'not qualified' to assess McKinnon suicide risk Posted: 19 Jul 2012 09:58 AM PDT Accused UFO hunting gov hacker still fighting extraditionComputer hacker Gary McKinnon has refused to be assessed for suicide risk by a Home Office appointed doctor, because the doctor chosen had no experience of patients with Aspergers, his mother Janis Sharp told BBC local radio today.… |
| Cisco kid arrives in VCE saddle after EMC/VMware kerfuffle Posted: 19 Jul 2012 09:27 AM PDT Git along, little converged infrastructure dogiesVCE has finally added a CEO to the top of its management stack after operating without one for almost a year.… |
| Oracle tries to bust out of storage also-ran box Posted: 19 Jul 2012 09:06 AM PDT Software giant: Basic storage kit? We do that tooOracle says it is seeing strong growth in its NAS, SAN and tape storage portfolio. Maybe a high-end Axiom array is coming but, even so, there's no sign Oracle is about to emerge from the IDC Storage Tracker's "Others" category.… |
| Mellanox makes InfiniBand hay while the sun shines Posted: 19 Jul 2012 08:38 AM PDT But can you hear the ground shake? Chipzilla's a-comin'If someone (that means you, Larry Ellison, and maybe you, Michael Dell, or maybe you, Ginni Rometty) was thinking about buying networking chip, switch, and adapter maker Mellanox Technologies, it is probably too late unless that certain someone wants to spend a whole lotta cash doing the deal.… |
| Mega spam-spewing Grum botnet finally KO'd Posted: 19 Jul 2012 08:15 AM PDT Zombies lingered until security bods shot 'em downSecurity researchers have dealt a knockout blow to Grum, one of the most prolific spam-distribution botnets.… |
| Like clouds, like Big Data? You'll love our tape library – Oracle Posted: 19 Jul 2012 08:04 AM PDT Vendor bets that growing biz punters will cough for the SL150There's life in mid-range tape libraries yet, and Oracle has a new one, an SL150 chugging down data at 10TB/hour, faster than the competing kit from Quantum and Spectra. It's aiming the new kit at medium-sized businesses that are finding that they need a more grown-up storage solution.… |
| Google ordered to censor 'torrent', 'megaupload' and more words Posted: 19 Jul 2012 07:32 AM PDT French Supreme Court bans pirate lingo from searchesThe French Supreme Court has ruled that Google should censor the words 'torrent', 'rapidshare' and 'megaupload' from its Instant and Autocomplete search services.… |
| Barnes & Noble: You won't need a Nook to read our ebooks Posted: 19 Jul 2012 07:02 AM PDT Boldly goes where Kindle went in 2010Bookseller Barnes & Noble has played catch-up with Kindle by launching a web version of its shop.… |
| Nokia flogged 4m Lumias, still bled €826m this quarter Posted: 19 Jul 2012 06:34 AM PDT Plenty of money left in the bank, for nowNokia managed to shift 4 million Lumia handsets in the second quarter of 2012, and while it didn't make money during the period, it isn't as broke as many had feared it would be.… |
| Google HARVESTS African mobile numbers with Gmail SMS Posted: 19 Jul 2012 06:02 AM PDT Welcome to Google+, we hope you... TXT FOR MOREGoogle has created a not-exactly-secure Gmail-over-text-message service for use on old mobiles in parts of Africa.… |
| UK sysadmins pry open wallets for servers ... but not for long Posted: 19 Jul 2012 05:43 AM PDT Expect purses to snap shut in Q2, says analystIDC reckons the UK server space staged a slight recovery in Q1 with spending and unit shipments rising by low single digits, but has warned that preliminary results suggest that Q2 will look weaker.… |
| Google Nexus 7 shipping cock-up enrages fandroids Posted: 19 Jul 2012 05:17 AM PDT 'My face will spontaneously combust if it doesn't arrive today'Google hasn't cloaked itself in greatness if the number of complaints from a legion of frustrated customers awaiting the arrival of the Nexus 7 is anything to go by.… |
| Firefox 14 tabs no longer sneak a peek at users' privates Posted: 19 Jul 2012 05:02 AM PDT Cache me if you canMozilla has plugged a privacy-related security hole in Firefox 13 and released a fixed version of its web browser. The flaw allowed the software's speed-dial-alike "new tab" feature to take snapshots of supposedly secure HTTPS sessions.… |
| Vodafone silences punters in mini-mast upgrade bungle Posted: 19 Jul 2012 04:42 AM PDT Have you tried turning it off and on again?Vodafone customers relying on Sure Signal boxes for mobile connectivity have been hit by an update that left them less connected than ever.… |
| Scotland Yard collars seventh computer-hack suspect Posted: 19 Jul 2012 04:25 AM PDT Met tight-lipped after latest Operation Tuleta swoopA seventh computer-hacking suspect was arrested this morning by detectives who are also probing separate allegations of voicemail interception at Rupert Murdoch's British newspapers.… |
| Apple finally grabs apple.co.uk – after just 16 years Posted: 19 Jul 2012 04:03 AM PDT Beret types make way for turtle-neck wearersApple has finally taken control of the internet domain name apple.co.uk, which has been in third-party hands since at least 1996.… |
| Posted: 19 Jul 2012 04:01 AM PDT Avoid the Apple taxPure's Sensia 200D Connect has been on its web site for a while, but now you can actually buy one. This latest incarnation of the company's touchscreen Wi-Fi radio is a significant revamp on the original Sensia and showcases Pure Stream, which enables ontent to play wirelessly from Android and iOS devices.… |
| Hubble spots ancient spiral galaxy that SHOULD NOT EXIST Posted: 19 Jul 2012 03:49 AM PDT Milky-Way-like shape 'should be space train wreck'Astronomers using the Hubble Space Telescope have spotted an ancient spiral galaxy that's so neat and tidy it shouldn't even exist.… |
| IT pro to storm Everest in Bletchley Park cash quest Posted: 19 Jul 2012 03:18 AM PDT She's tackled SharePoint, she can tackle ANYTHINGAn IT bod has vowed to clamber up Everest to raise £20k for Blighty's National Museum of Computing and Bletchley Park Trust - and she wants sponsorship and people to tackle the trek with her.… |
| Judge: Apple must run ads saying Samsung DIDN'T copy the iPad Posted: 19 Jul 2012 02:55 AM PDT What next? Macs aren't very good value for money?Apple must run a national ad campaign saying that Samsung did not copy them, a High Court judge ruled yesterday - according to this Bloomberg report and a draft court order seen by The Reg.… |
| Compare the Market loses .XXX smut-squat appeal Posted: 19 Jul 2012 02:44 AM PDT It's not that simples, is it?Meerkat-obsessed Compare the Market, which became the first company to lose a cybersquatting complaint over a .xxx domain name, has lost its appeal against the ruling.… |
| Dell readies Linux Ultrabook for autumn release Posted: 19 Jul 2012 02:40 AM PDT Windows 8 refuseniks form an orderly queueIf you're in the right neck of the woods, you'll be able to buy a Dell Ultrabook pre-loaded with Linux this coming autumn.… |
| Hey, starving storage wannabes! Michael Dell wants to give you CASH Posted: 19 Jul 2012 02:17 AM PDT $60m in the Fluid Data Storage Fund potDell Ventures, the Dell investment arm, has a hefty $60m pile of greenbacks to dish out to early-stage storage startups. The cash has been assigned to the Dell Fluid Data Storage Fund and the fund managers want to invest in five to 10 promising storage start-ups and assign $3m to $5m to each one for an equity position.… |
| WD game-centric set-top spied on web Posted: 19 Jul 2012 02:13 AM PDT FCC briefly spills beansIt's getting harder to call Western Digital a hard drive company. One of its next offerings, for instance, is a new WD TV set-top box, the Play.… |
| Java won the smartphone wars (and nobody noticed) Posted: 19 Jul 2012 02:02 AM PDT 'If my battery runs out I'll call you back on the landline'Haven't you noticed? Java, the red-headed stepchild of the phone world, has conquered the world by default. The platform written off just a few years ago as bloated, cumbersome and inefficient is now inescapable.… |
| Expert: EU Microsoft competition fine could reach $7bn Posted: 19 Jul 2012 01:44 AM PDT Oh go on, Brussels, give it to GreeceMicrosoft could face a fine of up to $7bn (£4.49bn) if EU competition regulators find that the company failed to comply with a "critical remedy" it agreed to implement in 2009 to alleviate concerns that it was acting anti-competitively, an expert has said.… |
| UK.gov: Real time PAYE and new benefits systems WILL work Posted: 19 Jul 2012 01:22 AM PDT Ministers: No reallyHMRC's real time information (RTI) project is "very much on track" to being a "successful government IT project", and universal credit is on time and on budget, exchequer secretary to the treasury David Gauke and welfare reform minister Lord Freud have said.… |
| Coraid peers over shoulder, pushes out another ZFS-based NAS head Posted: 19 Jul 2012 01:03 AM PDT Two years later, tries its luck with Oracle-based systemEthernet SAN storage supplier Coraid has announced its filer head, an Oracle ZFS-based product, two years after NetApp smacked it down for attempting the same thing with a Nexenta ZFS-based product. It has also beat off some pretty big competition to score Sony as a marquee user of its EtherDrive storage product.… |
| Fake Facebook photo tag ruse smears malware on PCs Posted: 19 Jul 2012 12:35 AM PDT Doon't be a foool, doon't click oon that linkSpam emails have attempted to trick Facebookers into visiting virus-stuffed web pages by claiming users have been tagged in photos.… |
| China lays out glorious eight-point infosec masterplan Posted: 19 Jul 2012 12:06 AM PDT Aims to protect the people and the nationThe Chinese government has released sweeping new information security guidelines designed to enable public and private bodies to protect themselves more effectively against new cyber threats.… |
| LG Optimus 4X HD quad-core Android phone review Posted: 19 Jul 2012 12:00 AM PDT Understated excellenceI was never much of a fan of LG's Android phones, they struck me as rather ordinary and frequently hampered by an unhealthy obsession with 3D. But suddenly and seemingly out of nowhere South Korea's other phone maker has delivered an absolute blinder. Between you and me, this may prove to be the best Android handset of 2012.… |
| YouTube blurs faces to protect the innocent Posted: 18 Jul 2012 10:57 PM PDT New feature designed to help anonymise activistsYouTube has launched a feature that blurs faces in videos uploaded to the site.… |
| Internet Defense League to save the web from evil governments Posted: 18 Jul 2012 10:20 PM PDT Holy global web censorship takedown, Batman!Not for profit rights group Fight for the Future will on Thursday launch the Internet Defense League, a new initiative designed to help internet stakeholders fight back whenever their rights are threatened by the man.… |
| French credit card allows Wikileaks donations Posted: 18 Jul 2012 09:28 PM PDT Assange hopes to raise EU$1m thanks to Carte BleueWikileaks is back in the donation-accepting business and hopes to raise EUR1 million thanks to French credit card system Carte Bleue.… |
| Humanity increasingly sitting on collective arse Posted: 18 Jul 2012 09:08 PM PDT Pre-Olympics study finds third of humans physically inactive, inc. 63% of BritsThe richer the nation in which you live, the greater the chance that you'll have a lifestyle that includes little physical activity. Nasty health problems are the likely result, but technology has the potential to address the issue.… |
| Chinese gov splurges £102 MILLION to replace pirated software Posted: 18 Jul 2012 08:53 PM PDT Microsoft rubs hands with glee...The Chinese government has put its money where its mouth is, spending around US$160 million (£102m) to replace pirated software in central and provincial government offices with the real thing.… |
| Wired broadband adoption dips as wireless flies Posted: 18 Jul 2012 07:28 PM PDT OECD data offers grim view of broadband's GDP-boosting prowessThe developed world has lost its appetite for terrestrial internet connections, but is hungry for vast increases in wireless connectivity, according to the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development's (OECD's) latest data on broadband adoption among its 34 members.… |
| Oracle scales back plans for Java 8 Posted: 18 Jul 2012 05:57 PM PDT Cuts out Jigsaw, aims for two-year release cycleOracle is moving to drop a major component from its upcoming Java 8 release, in an effort to get the flagging Java development process back on track.… |
| Dumpling squid do it WHENEVER THEY CAN, FOR HOURS ON END! Posted: 18 Jul 2012 05:15 PM PDT Need a bit of a rest afterwards, thoughPhysicists don't get all the fun: biology researchers from the University of Melbourne have discovered that a species of squid indulges in three-hour mating sessions, but at the cost of a "reduced ability to swim" for as much as 30 minutes afterwards.… |
| Microsoft picks October 26 for Windows 8 launch Posted: 18 Jul 2012 05:07 PM PDT 101 days left to develop an explanation for MetroMark October 26th down in your diary: that's the day Microsoft has chosen to release Windows 8 into the wild.… |
| Vendors responsible for ‘Aussie Tax’: Choice Posted: 18 Jul 2012 04:30 PM PDT Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 wins the gouge-festAustralian consumer group Choice has pointed the bone at vendors for the infamous "Aussie tax", in a submission to the Parliamentary Inquiry into IT Pricing.… |
| IBM juices profits in Q2 despite sales drop Posted: 18 Jul 2012 04:14 PM PDT Servers stall, currency flux erases $1bnBig Blue has once again demonstrated that it knows how to wring profits out of itself even as revenues across its many product lines have stalled in the wake, of or in anticipation of, product transitions.… |
| Kiwi judge steps aside from Dotcom extradition hearings Posted: 18 Jul 2012 04:02 PM PDT Calls the US the 'enemy', sparks outrage, quits caseThe New Zealand judge hearing America's Great Collapsing Extradition Case against Kim Dotcom has removed himself from the case, after telling a New Zealand forum "we have met the enemy, and he is the US".… |
| Five mobile devices per person for 2040? Posted: 18 Jul 2012 04:00 PM PDT ACMA reveals plans for 100 million more mobile numbersAustralia needs an extra 100 million phone numbers for mobile devices, says the Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA), which has taken the first step towards that goal by setting out plans for new numbers that start with "05". All Australian mobile numbers have, until now, started with "04".… |
| Washington State to allow voter registration via Facebook Posted: 18 Jul 2012 03:20 PM PDT All your friends will be at the pollsSocial networks are rife with online polls, but beginning as early as next week, residents of Washington State will have a new way to sign up for the real things, when Washington becomes the first US state to allow citizens to register to vote via Facebook.… |
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