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- TryStack pits ARM against Xeon in the cloud
- Intel accidentally outs 'Poulson' Itanium specs
- Speaking in Tech: Did Yahoo! suddenly get ... interesting?
- New lightest-ever material: Ideal power for electric car
- Gov: We want cheap police tablets and by God we'll get them
- Psst, UK software devs: Up for a Cyber Security Challenge?
- Sony: Walkman, meet Android
- Outage outrage: O2 dishes out 3 free days, £10 voucher
- Skyhook offers 'Always-On' background STALKING feature
- WinPho to eke out 4% of US smartphone biz
- Servers save Intel's Q2, and probably the year
- AT&T may charge fanbois for FaceTime vid chat, hints iOS 6
- Rest of world catching Eurozone plague, warns Datatec
- BSkyB punches Virgin Media in ads watchdog fist fight
- Firefox 14 encrypts Google search, but admen can still strip-search you
- Sage site outage knackers Blighty's payroll depts
- Bunging apps, files into virtual desktops ain't worth it - Gartner
- Dropbox brings in crack team to probe spam leakage
- Cumbria County Council: We'll sort our own ICT support, thanks
- Britain: A nation of txt addicts who prefer Twitter to phoning mum
- Raspberry Pi rolls out speed surge Raspbian OS
- Ice island snaps off Greenland: Just a fifth the size of 1962 whopper
- Devolo dLAN 500Mb/s powerline network adaptor review
- Gamer fails STAM roll, dies after 40-hour Diablo III stretch
- Nearly 2 MILLION US Facebook users quit social network
- Sony preps PS3 with old-school design
- Tape juggler gets BILLION FILE capacity
- Facebook cybersquatter stitched up by own Facebook account
- Yahoo! profits! derailed! by! restructuring! costs!
- Pyrotechnic boffin poised to light LOHAN's fire
- PayPal is bleeding market share and it's all eBay's fault
- Behind-the-scenes payment operation gets e-money capability
- McDonalds staff rough up prof with home-made techno-spectacles
- New police-run IT biz to take top cops out of the server room
- Surprise! BT pockets £70m North Yorkshire broadband rollout
- Olympic Security cock-up was down to that DARN software
- UK's tax-funded boffinry to be published FREE for all
- Backups? Use disk. Archives? Disk. Particle accelerators? Fine, tape
- Wikipedia failing to recruit any new admins
- Streetfighter 2: The World Warrior
- Drones, sub-hunting planes to attack cyber-Chinese army
- China risks mountain of unsold PCs
- ZTE claims it's hiring, not firing
- Alister Dias to take reins as EMC ANZ MD
- Gelsinger to take over as VMware CEO
- Intel CEO Otellini promises $699 ultrabooks by fall
- XBMC media player now running on Android, Nexus Q
- Grum botnet loses Dutch servers
- Top EMC execs play multi-cushion musical chairs
- Attacker pleads guilty to hatchet-job on ISP
| TryStack pits ARM against Xeon in the cloud Posted: 18 Jul 2012 01:46 PM PDT Take OpenStack out for a test driveIf you are dying to see how software running on a bona fide ARM server stacks up against a Xeon server, then TryStack.org has some time slices running the OpenStack cloudy fabric that have your name written all over them.… |
| Intel accidentally outs 'Poulson' Itanium specs Posted: 18 Jul 2012 10:25 AM PDT The Intertubes giveth and taketh awayThe webmeisters of the world have given once again, with Intel accidentally outing some of the feeds and speeds of the impending "Poulson" Itanium processors for midrange and high-end servers. Some of the data has already been taken down, and all of it will probably follow shortly.… |
| Speaking in Tech: Did Yahoo! suddenly get ... interesting? Posted: 18 Jul 2012 10:04 AM PDT Plus: Post-Katrina IT culture in New Orleans |
| New lightest-ever material: Ideal power for electric car Posted: 18 Jul 2012 09:32 AM PDT Pitch-black Aerographite could juice batteries of the future-ture-tureA light-absorbing midnight-black substance dubbed Aerographite has stolen the crown for the lightest material in the world, weighing just 0.2mg per cubic centimetre. And because of its special properties, it's a serious contender to build lithium-ion batteries small and light enough to power the electronic bikes and cars of the future.… |
| Gov: We want cheap police tablets and by God we'll get them Posted: 18 Jul 2012 09:19 AM PDT SCC pressurised to cut costs of fondling cop-slabsThe Minister for Policing and Justice is leaning on reseller-cum-integrator SCC to slash the cost of fondleslabs for cops by reducing the number of sub-contractors it works with under the pan-government Sprint ii framework.… |
| Psst, UK software devs: Up for a Cyber Security Challenge? Posted: 18 Jul 2012 09:02 AM PDT Future Stuxnet-style attack defenders wantedA new Cyber Security Challenge UK competition aimed at finding people to protect the country against future Stuxnet-style attacks was launched on Wednesday.… |
| Posted: 18 Jul 2012 08:36 AM PDT Jam sandwichSony has launched an Android-based Walkman, the F800, with which it hopes to topple the supremacy Apple's iPod Touch holds in the PMP market. Good luck.… |
| Outage outrage: O2 dishes out 3 free days, £10 voucher Posted: 18 Jul 2012 08:27 AM PDT Keeping the punters happyFollowing last week's O2 mobile network outage, the telco is giving contract customers three days of free connectivity in compensation. Pre-paid users will get an additional topup, and everyone gets £10 to spend in the O2 store.… |
| Skyhook offers 'Always-On' background STALKING feature Posted: 18 Jul 2012 08:02 AM PDT Pah, who needs more battery juice at 40,000 feet?!Location data provider Skyhook has debuted a new "Always-On" feature in version 4.6 of its mobile software development kit for coders.… |
| WinPho to eke out 4% of US smartphone biz Posted: 18 Jul 2012 07:48 AM PDT Windows 8 halo effect? What halo effect?Nokia, the Windows Phone 8 upgrade and all the promotional hoopla surrounding Windows 8 will have a very small effect on the take-up of Microsoft's mobile OS this year, market watcher Strategy Analytics has forecast.… |
| Servers save Intel's Q2, and probably the year Posted: 18 Jul 2012 07:24 AM PDT Xeon E5 push to 2012 timed perfectlyIntel was expected to start rolling out its "Sandy Bridge" Xeon E5 processors last fall, perhaps around September and then by the end of the year. And it is a good thing for Intel that this didn't happen.… |
| AT&T may charge fanbois for FaceTime vid chat, hints iOS 6 Posted: 18 Jul 2012 06:50 AM PDT Video calling on 3G? There's a bill for thatEarly adopters playing with iOS 6 fear users will have to beg AT&T to let them make FaceTime video calls over the cellular network.… |
| Rest of world catching Eurozone plague, warns Datatec Posted: 18 Jul 2012 06:48 AM PDT Bring out your dead, bring out your deadEconomic malaise in the Eurozone is spreading to the global stage, channel behemoth Datatec has warned.… |
| BSkyB punches Virgin Media in ads watchdog fist fight Posted: 18 Jul 2012 06:39 AM PDT ASA rules for Rupert's baby as accusations flyVirgin Media has lost its battle with BSkyB over a TV, newspaper and website ad that flogged "totally unlimited broadband", after VM claimed the commercials were misleading.… |
| Firefox 14 encrypts Google search, but admen can still strip-search you Posted: 18 Jul 2012 06:18 AM PDT Referrer strings go naked for marketeersMozilla has rolled out Firefox 14, which automatically encrypts web searches through Google, but the new release leaves an important back door open to advertisers.… |
| Sage site outage knackers Blighty's payroll depts Posted: 18 Jul 2012 06:13 AM PDT Reports of abacus sales soaring unfoundedBrit biz Sage left UK customers without critical software - including its Payroll suite - after toppling offline.… |
| Bunging apps, files into virtual desktops ain't worth it - Gartner Posted: 18 Jul 2012 05:39 AM PDT Server and network costs annihilate cash savingsThe financial arguments for turning PCs into glorified remote terminals just don't stack up, says a Gartner bod.… |
| Dropbox brings in crack team to probe spam leakage Posted: 18 Jul 2012 05:17 AM PDT Email accounts crammed with gambling site grossnessDropbox has begun investigating complaints that users are receiving spam to email addresses only associated with their accounts at the file-sharing service.… |
| Cumbria County Council: We'll sort our own ICT support, thanks Posted: 18 Jul 2012 05:03 AM PDT Fails to agree terms with third-party providersCumbria County Council has opted to run its ICT services in-house after failing to agree terms with a third-party provider.… |
| Britain: A nation of txt addicts who prefer Twitter to phoning mum Posted: 18 Jul 2012 04:44 AM PDT Don't bother calling, we're too busy 'turfing' - OfcomBrits are chatting online and spewing messages from phones more than ever as gossiping in voice calls declines for the first time.… |
| Raspberry Pi rolls out speed surge Raspbian OS Posted: 18 Jul 2012 04:29 AM PDT Floating point fruit-filled Linux distroThe Raspberry Pi team has posted its new, recommended Linux distro for its tiny, ARM-based computer.… |
| Ice island snaps off Greenland: Just a fifth the size of 1962 whopper Posted: 18 Jul 2012 04:19 AM PDT And half the size of last big one two years backA vast island of ice has broken off a glacier in Greenland: but it is just one-fifth the size of one which snapped off from Canada in 1962 and half the size of one seen in 2010.… |
| Devolo dLAN 500Mb/s powerline network adaptor review Posted: 18 Jul 2012 04:09 AM PDT Fast Ethernet through a three-pin plugDevolo's dLan 500 AVmini adaptors score highly for me for two reasons: they operate at powerline's highest speed grade, 500Mb/s, and they're compact.… |
| Gamer fails STAM roll, dies after 40-hour Diablo III stretch Posted: 18 Jul 2012 03:56 AM PDT Way to go, dudeA sleep-deprived gamer has died after playing Diablo III for 40 hours without a break, prompting advice from developer Blizzard about moderating one's gaming habits.… |
| Nearly 2 MILLION US Facebook users quit social network Posted: 18 Jul 2012 03:48 AM PDT Wall Street bitches... bitchShares in Facebook continued to slide on Tuesday, after an analyst claimed the dominant social network had seen a modest drop in its userbase.… |
| Sony preps PS3 with old-school design Posted: 18 Jul 2012 03:33 AM PDT Low-cost play?Sony is set to release a third design of its PlayStation 3 console, with a higher storage capacity and a top-loading disc tray.… |
| Tape juggler gets BILLION FILE capacity Posted: 18 Jul 2012 03:29 AM PDT 'Ingesting' petabytes and, ah, moving them outside itselfQuantum has raised its StorNext storage virtualisation software's game, adding support for up a billion files, automatic archiving onto tape and tiered tape storage. Meanwhile its share price has abruptly fallen to levels seen two years ago, as if all the recovery work since then has been worthless.… |
| Facebook cybersquatter stitched up by own Facebook account Posted: 18 Jul 2012 03:14 AM PDT Non one believed his 'generic dictionary word' defenceThe man who registered the domain name facebook.info has lost a cybersquatting case, after Facebook used his own eight-year-old Facebook account as evidence against him.… |
| Yahoo! profits! derailed! by! restructuring! costs! Posted: 18 Jul 2012 02:59 AM PDT New CEO silent on her plans as payouts hit Q2 incomeA hefty restructuring bill has pushed troubled web firm Yahoo!'s second quarter profit down 4 per cent.… |
| Pyrotechnic boffin poised to light LOHAN's fire Posted: 18 Jul 2012 02:44 AM PDT Reg reader expert brews up custom rocket motor igniterCometh the hour, cometh the man, as the old saying goes, and we're delighted to report that a Reg reader has stepped forward to resolve the thorny problem of just how to get our Low Orbit Helium Assisted Navigator (LOHAN) mighty thruster to fire at altitude.… |
| PayPal is bleeding market share and it's all eBay's fault Posted: 18 Jul 2012 02:30 AM PDT Hands up who knows what X.commerce is... yes, that's whyOpen ... and Shut Six years ago, PayPal could claim a 91 per cent market share in the US. Today it's struggling to claim long-term relevance in the surging online payments market, the market it helped to create.… |
| Behind-the-scenes payment operation gets e-money capability Posted: 18 Jul 2012 02:14 AM PDT Competition for WorldPay muscling up?Payment processor Ogone has bought up e-money operation Tunz, allowing it to expand into virtual currencies and make the world marketplace a little more real.… |
| McDonalds staff rough up prof with home-made techno-spectacles Posted: 18 Jul 2012 01:55 AM PDT Computer Vision pioneer suffers Mac AttackA man wearing computer-assisted spectacles was assaulted by staff in a Parisian McDonalds, who tried to pull the glasses off his head then threw him out of the restaurant, according to a blog post written by the victim.… |
| New police-run IT biz to take top cops out of the server room Posted: 18 Jul 2012 01:44 AM PDT Who will run tech guru outfit an unsolved mysteryThe Home Office has finally fleshed out the details of its Police ICT company, which aims to help forces improve their IT and get better value for money from contracts.… |
| Surprise! BT pockets £70m North Yorkshire broadband rollout Posted: 18 Jul 2012 01:27 AM PDT Is it still a race if there's only one horse?BT has been awarded a £70m contract from North Yorkshire county council just days after Fujitsu walked away from bidding for any government broadband funds in the UK.… |
| Olympic Security cock-up was down to that DARN software Posted: 18 Jul 2012 01:13 AM PDT Buck up Buckles, for *uck's sakeThe CEO of beleaguered security company G4S blamed his "scheduling system" as he explained his company's failure to adequately secure the Olympics. Facing MPs on the Home Affairs Select Committee yesterday, Nick Buckles said that the company took 100 per cent of the responsibility for the cock-up that has led to 3400 squaddies and an as yet unspecified number of police being pulled in to provide basic security cover for the Olympic Games.… |
| UK's tax-funded boffinry to be published FREE for all Posted: 18 Jul 2012 01:00 AM PDT You paid for it, now you can read it on the bogAnalysis Universities will be provided with funding to ensure that their academics' research papers are made more widely available, the government has said.… |
| Backups? Use disk. Archives? Disk. Particle accelerators? Fine, tape Posted: 18 Jul 2012 12:38 AM PDT Tape, the red-headed stepchild in the house of EMCWhat's EMC's attitude to tape? Who better to ask than William "BJ" Jenkins, the bigwig running the storage leviathan's backup and recovery systems business. So we did.… |
| Wikipedia failing to recruit any new admins Posted: 18 Jul 2012 12:18 AM PDT Fears that nerditor community may have heard of girlsThe number of people approved as full Wikipedia admins is falling faster than expected, according to a report from the Wikimedia conference by The Atlantic yesterday.… |
| Streetfighter 2: The World Warrior Posted: 18 Jul 2012 12:00 AM PDT 1990s beat masterAntique Code Show Yoga-fire! Had-uken! A-shab-dap-whoo-jit! In the early 1990s, such was common playground talk up and down the country, as children re-enacted their Streetfighter 2 fantasies, and dinner-ladies looked on in bewilderment.… |
| Drones, sub-hunting planes to attack cyber-Chinese army Posted: 17 Jul 2012 11:35 PM PDT Taiwan boots up virtual war gamesTaiwan has launched a five day computer-aided war simulation exercise designed to test the country's army, navy and air force against an attack from near neighbour China.… |
| China risks mountain of unsold PCs Posted: 17 Jul 2012 10:13 PM PDT Analyst warns of sales drop-offChina's domestic PC market is set to go from strength to strength in 2012 with shipments forecast to rise at three times the rate of the global market, although analysts warn there could be trouble ahead.… |
| ZTE claims it's hiring, not firing Posted: 17 Jul 2012 08:51 PM PDT Mobile giant says rumours are wide of the markChinese telecoms outfit ZTE has hit back at rumours suggesting it will respond to sliding market share and a scary balance sheet by shedding 12,000 staff. Instead, the company says, we can expect a graduate hiring spree.… |
| Alister Dias to take reins as EMC ANZ MD Posted: 17 Jul 2012 07:11 PM PDT Longtime ANZ President David Webster booted upstairs into APAC sales role as part of global reorgEMC's global reorg, which The Reg has reported here, will see Alister Dias take over as the storage-led company's new head for its Australian and New Zealand operations.… |
| Gelsinger to take over as VMware CEO Posted: 17 Jul 2012 05:56 PM PDT But don't count out the ol' Intel hand as eventual EMC CEOThe rumor mill was churning out chatter about succession changes at EMC and its virtualization minion, VMware, and this forced EMC's and VMware's hand and made them make their executive change announcements a week ahead of schedule.… |
| Intel CEO Otellini promises $699 ultrabooks by fall Posted: 17 Jul 2012 05:42 PM PDT 140 svelte laptops in the pipeline, 40 'touch-enabled'Despite relatively slow initial sales of the thin and light laptops that his company is making such a huge bet on, Intel headman Paul Otellini remains bullish on ultrabooks, and is confident that $699 versions of the svelte "reinvented PCs" will hit store shelves this fall.… |
| XBMC media player now running on Android, Nexus Q Posted: 17 Jul 2012 05:38 PM PDT But you'll need to build it yourself from scratchThe developers of the popular XBMC open source entertainment hub have released a preliminary version for Android, which means the software could soon be running on a wide range of smartphones and tablets – even Google's Nexus Q media device.… |
| Grum botnet loses Dutch servers Posted: 17 Jul 2012 04:00 PM PDT Still alive and spamming in Russia, PanamaISPs in Russia and Panama are continuing to host Grum botnet command-and-control servers, after Dutch authorities silenced C&Cs in their country.… |
| Top EMC execs play multi-cushion musical chairs Posted: 17 Jul 2012 03:46 PM PDT But who gets Gelsinger's old job?It's happened: three of EMC's top execs are playing musical chairs – but no one takes a chair away.… |
| Attacker pleads guilty to hatchet-job on ISP Posted: 17 Jul 2012 03:40 PM PDT Careful with that axe, Eugene…A South Australian man is awaiting sentencing after hacking an ISP's servers and threatening the owner with an axe.… |
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