| Schlockmeister Troma's back catalog hits YouTube Posted: 31 Aug 2012 01:33 PM PDT Toxic Avenger, Surf Nazis Must Die, and other works of cinematic genius now online Legendary B-grade film studio Troma has taken its back catalog of schlock, horror, and violence to YouTube.… |
| NASA funds sexy, stealthy, sideways supersonic flying wing Posted: 31 Aug 2012 01:20 PM PDT With just one small problem ... NASA has awarded $100,000 in funding for a unique four-pointed flying wing that rotates mid-flight to transition between super and subsonic flight, thus increasing efficiency and eliminating sonic booms.… |
| Symantec crowdsources buzzword bingo to name product Posted: 31 Aug 2012 11:57 AM PDT Global Intelligent Integrated Automated Critical Business Recovery, anyone? Symantec has taken to Twitter to offer you the chance to name its next disaster-recovery product, erecting a Surveygizmo quiz to find a name for the software.… |
| Here we go again: Critical flaw found in just-patched Java Posted: 31 Aug 2012 11:45 AM PDT Emergency fix rushed out half-baked Security Explorations, the Polish security startup that discovered the Java SE 7 vulnerabilities that have been the targets of recent web-based exploits, has spotted a new flaw that affects the patched version of Java released this Thursday.… |
| Flash firm boss smacks back at SEC's insider trading charges Posted: 31 Aug 2012 10:02 AM PDT It ain't me guv gov STEC boss Manouche Moshayedi has issued a detailed rebuttal of the SEC's indictment that charged him with insider trading, saying that the SEC is plain wrong.… |
| Ethernet switch sales sizzle Posted: 31 Aug 2012 09:42 AM PDT Everybody needs – and is buying – bigger pipes The server market may have stalled a bit as Intel, AMD, IBM, Oracle, and Fujitsu work through various stages of processor transitions, but the Ethernet switch market is going gangbusters.… |
| Pret-a-porter: LG boffins' bendy battery can be worn as PANTS Posted: 31 Aug 2012 09:36 AM PDT But keep that fire extinguisher close You can shrink them, make them skinny, or make them swallow more charges – but unless you're a Maker Faire type, you can't actually wear a battery. Until now.… |
| 3,000 Guild Wars 2 gamers banned for flogging stolen loot Posted: 31 Aug 2012 09:02 AM PDT Black-marketers get the black spot Developers of the hit Guild Wars 2 online role-playing game have banned thousands of players who cheated the system to trouser weapons at a fraction of their normal cost.… |
| Chemical biz 'Nitro' hackers use Java to coat PCs in poison ivy Posted: 31 Aug 2012 08:31 AM PDT Chinese spying crew is back in business The crew behind last year's "Nitro" industrial espionage attacks are among hackers exploiting the two potent Java security vulnerabilities patched this week.… |
| Computacenter profit hit by start-up costs in Germany Posted: 31 Aug 2012 08:07 AM PDT 'Growing pains impacted our bottom', groans chairman Computacenter's shift towards IT services instead of products has started to pay off, giving revenues a boost, but first half results were still hit by the costs of catering to its new contracts.… |
| Apple drones reject American drone-strike tracker app Posted: 31 Aug 2012 08:04 AM PDT Is it useful to know when robot flyers kill someone? Apple has repeatedly rejected an app which pushes notifications onto iPhones every time an American robot flyer makes a strike.… |
| Amazon flings open doors to Android Appstore in Europe Posted: 31 Aug 2012 07:27 AM PDT At what point does choice turn into fragmentation? Amazon's Android Appstore is now open for business in Europe, providing a branded alternative to Google Play, and a free app every day, in preparation for the forthcoming Kindle Fire.… |
| Sony slims down 3D headset, cooks up eye candy Posted: 31 Aug 2012 07:02 AM PDT Also updates NEX snappers and projector tech IFA 2012 Sony's roaring IFA presence this week continues with an update to its 3D headset and further developments in the imaging domain.… |
| Catapults, subsidies, and benefits: Bongonomics explained Posted: 31 Aug 2012 06:26 AM PDT Our VC's on FIRE at Burning Man and the Paralytic Games ¡Bong! "Investigation may be likened to the long months of pregnancy, and solving a problem to the day of birth. To investigate a problem is, indeed, to solve it"
- Mao Tse Tung from Oppose Book Worship (1930)… |
| Archos pushes out 7-inch GamePad, slaps on dual thumbsticks Posted: 31 Aug 2012 05:59 AM PDT Droid-tab gets Vita-esque makeover IFA 2012 Archos threw its hat into the videogames domain at IFA this week, introducing a 7in slate with dual thumbsticks and dedicated gaming buttons.… |
| Sharp's slim screen factory 'flogged to death' by Apple Posted: 31 Aug 2012 05:43 AM PDT Plant can't build enough working parts for Cupertino idiot-tax giant Sharp's production line of screens – purportedly for Apple's next-generation iPhone – is reportedly running behind schedule.… |
| HTC hawks fresh Desire for market boost Posted: 31 Aug 2012 05:30 AM PDT X marks the spot IFA 2012 HTC launched the Desire X at IFA this week and simplified its product range by bringing an end to its low-end Wildfire lineup.… |
| Facebook shoves your face in Microsoft's Bing thing Posted: 31 Aug 2012 05:17 AM PDT Please visit our search engine... bitches Microsoft has inked yet another search deal with Facebook that this time allows users to find photos in Bing that were uploaded to the world's biggest social network.… |
| Hipsters hacking on PostgreSQL Posted: 31 Aug 2012 05:03 AM PDT Relational cred from SoMa to Shoreditch Open ... and Shut With the rise of NoSQL, it's easy to assume that old-school relational databases are simply living out their dinosaur dreams for legacy applications. But a funny thing happened on the way to the SQL cemetery: PostgreSQL became cool again. Yes, PostegreSQL.… |
| Hertfordshire plod passwords leaked by pro-Assange data burglar Posted: 31 Aug 2012 04:46 AM PDT Database raid by lackadaisical protestor A UK police website has been hacked, exposing usernames, unencrypted passwords and other sensitive login details for more than 90 serving officers.… |
| Capita Group snaps up travel agent for biz types Expotel Posted: 31 Aug 2012 04:29 AM PDT Outsourcer will book events and travel for firms like BP Business process outsourcing group Capita, daddy to Capita IT Services, has slurped business travel booking agent Expotel Group for £16m.… |
| Cheer up, Samsung: Tokyo judge bins Apple's sync patent claim Posted: 31 Aug 2012 04:13 AM PDT South Koreans didn't nick music transfer idea A Tokyo court took a few minutes today to rule that Samsung's Galaxy gear does not infringe an Apple software patent. It hands the South Korean giant a small win after its $1bn thrashing by Apple in an epic US mobile phone patent trial that concluded last week.… |
| Safer conjugal rights via electronic skin Posted: 31 Aug 2012 04:00 AM PDT I just want to touch Something for the Weekend, Sir? My wife is radioactive.… |
| 'This lawsuit is not about patents or money, it's about values' Posted: 31 Aug 2012 03:43 AM PDT Plus: 'A mind-numblingly inept display' Quotw This was the week when analysts, pundits, beancounters and opinion-holders of all stripes got to have their say on the Apple v Samsung patent verdict going the fruity firm's way.… |
| So, just what <i>is</i> the ultimate bacon sarnie? Posted: 31 Aug 2012 03:29 AM PDT If you think you know, prove it It's fair to say that the question of just what makes the ultimate bacon sandwich has proved somewhat controversial with hungry Reg Readers.… |
| VMware bounced from the OpenStack party Posted: 31 Aug 2012 03:16 AM PDT What do you mean we're not on the list? VMware's admission to the OpenStack open-source cloud party has been kicked back.… |
| Hands on with LG's 21:9 monitors Posted: 31 Aug 2012 03:00 AM PDT Widescreen viewing for business or pleasure IFA 2012 With so many telly boxes out there, it seems likely an on-board tuner on the TV itself will become a thing of the past in the not too distant. Perhaps LG's EA93 21:9 aspect monitor, announced at IFA, offers a clue to the shape of things to come.… |
| Philips databases pillaged and leaked SECOND time in a month Posted: 31 Aug 2012 02:47 AM PDT Anonymous piles into electronics giant Electronics giant Philips has been hacked for the second time in a month and its databases raided.… |
| LOHAN rolls out racy rocketry round-up Posted: 31 Aug 2012 02:31 AM PDT Progress to date on our audacious spaceplane mission In response to requests from several Reg readers who've been following the progress of our Low Orbit Helium Assisted Navigator (LOHAN) ballocket mission, we've put together a round-up of just where we're at with the various aspects of the project.… |
| A load of Tosh: External hard drives the new 'personal clouds' Posted: 31 Aug 2012 02:17 AM PDT New STOR.E Cloud 3.5in disk is a NAS disguised as a bandwagon Calling an external hard drive on a desk at home "a personal cloud" is a bit of a stretch - but that is exactly what Toshiba is doing with its latest 3.5in disk product, the STORE.E CLOUD.… |
| Hands on with the HP Envy X2 Posted: 31 Aug 2012 02:00 AM PDT Windows 8 tablet-keyboard combo fingered IFA 2012 The tablet plus keyboard combo looks set to be a prominent vehicle in getting Windows 8 into the hands of punters. Along with the new OS comes a slightly different form factor too with 11.6in keyblets from Samsung – its Ativ Smart PCs play this game with Core i5 and Atom CPU options – and HP has its own Atom-powered Envy X2 waiting in the wings until October.… |
| Windows Phone 8: Microsoft quite literally can't lose Posted: 31 Aug 2012 01:44 AM PDT If it bombs, Ballmer is no worse off than he is now Should Microsoft's mobile operating system Windows Phone 8 bomb, the effect on the software giant's sales would be negligible - but the same could not be said for its prestige.… |
| Mellanox rips covers off virt-SAN beast, claims Fibre Channel vanquish Posted: 31 Aug 2012 01:28 AM PDT Preparing a whuppening for VNX ass, one might think InfiniBand vendor Mellanox has demonstrated a Fibre Channel-beating virtual SAN appliance at VMworld, claiming it's six times faster than FC SANs.… |
| O2 looses legal torpedo at Everything Everywhere 4G monopoly Posted: 31 Aug 2012 01:14 AM PDT Let us have something somewhere, pleads spurned telco Mobile phone operator O2 will appeal against Ofcom's decision to allow a rival firm to launch superfast broadband services later this year using its existing network capabilities, according to media reports.… |
| Windows Phone 8: What Nokia and Microsoft MUST do Posted: 31 Aug 2012 01:00 AM PDT You - Ballmer, Elop - yes you. Pay attention Analysis Next week, we're expected to get a sneak preview of Nokia devices based on Windows Phone 8 at a special publicity event in New York. Here's a view on what Microsoft and Nokia need to deliver - based on something a bit unusual: the user experience.… |
| Readers: Choose the <i>proper</i> new name for Everything Everywhere Posted: 31 Aug 2012 12:38 AM PDT Nothing anywhere, something somewhere, Omnipulant ... Everything Everywhere is looking for a new name, and El Reg readers haven't been backwards in coming forwards with suggestions so we present a poll from which you can pick the best.… |
| NFC tap-to-pay kit spreads its wings at IFA: Now used for audio Posted: 31 Aug 2012 12:19 AM PDT It's not just good for bonking NFC is finally sneaking into a range of hardware, with Sony and Nokia emphasising the audio-pairing capabilities while everyone else is just sticks it in there for laughs.… |
| Counter-Strike: Global Offensive Posted: 31 Aug 2012 12:00 AM PDT Gang bang Review Take a good close look at your favourite multiplayer first-person shooter and chances are it owes much of its weapon balancing, map structure and pacing to Counter-Strike. A tactical, team-based Half-Life mod which first saw light of day in 1999 – having itself been influenced by the brilliant but glitchier Action Quake 2 – which was subsequently honed to perfection as various updates were applied.… |
| Velociraptor drives get Thunderbolt boost Posted: 30 Aug 2012 11:29 PM PDT VD and daisy-chaining go together, says WD Western Digital's speeding disk dinosaurs, its Velociraptors, have been given a dose of Thunderbolt.… |
| Now even China's PC market is shrinking Posted: 30 Aug 2012 11:00 PM PDT Record PC sales declines across Asia and Gartner says Windows 8 won't turn things around Just when you thought the outlook for the PC industry couldn't get any more gloomy, shipments in APAC declined in the last quarter by 2.6 per cent from the previous year. Even China stopped buying PCs, posting its first ever year-on-year loss of 5.4 per cent, according to Gartner.… |
| Build your own robot soccer world cup winner Posted: 30 Aug 2012 10:07 PM PDT Brainware, CAD files, all online and open source The Robot soccer World Cup's Humanoid League, Kid Size division, can only be won by the toughest and smartest autonomous mechanical anthropomorphs .… |
| Yikes. Supervolcano found under Hong Kong Posted: 30 Aug 2012 09:24 PM PDT Krakatau a mere firecracker compared to thankfully-dormant discovery Hong Kong geologists have revealed for the first time the full extent of an ancient supervolcano with a diameter of 18km sitting beneath the former British colony.… |
| China's net addiction staff told to stop the beatings Posted: 30 Aug 2012 09:20 PM PDT Hey! Teachers! Leave them kids alone China's much-feared internet addiction treatment centres are set to become a little less grim for inmates after it was revealed that any instructors found to be using physical violence would be stripped of their job.… |
| BYOD turns sysadmins into heroes Posted: 30 Aug 2012 06:00 PM PDT Intel China's IT boss on consumerisation Bring Your Own Device programs can help to keep staff happy and turn IT bods into "heroes" but the hard RoI from spikes in productivity is unproven, according to Intel's IT manager for China.… |
| Publishers pony up $69m in ebook price-fixing settlement Posted: 30 Aug 2012 05:58 PM PDT Pennies from heaven the DoJ for you and me Three of the publishers accused along with Apple of price fixing in the ebook market have agreed to settle the case for a total of $69m, in a move that could mean a (very small) windfall for consumers in 49 US states and the District of Columbia.… |
| Australian 'scope to help Europe's galaxy-mapping satellite Posted: 30 Aug 2012 05:15 PM PDT Zadko telescope ready for earth-saving duty spotting low flying rocks Australia's Zadko telescope will be pressed into service assisting The European Space Agency's Gaia satellite.… |
| Huawei picks Android for new tablets and smartphones Posted: 30 Aug 2012 05:06 PM PDT Asks users to second its Emotion IFA 2012 Huawei is betting on Android with its launch of four new smartphones and two tablets all running Google's OS, albeit with a customizable interface dubbed "Emotion" that the Chinese networking giant is opening up for customer's suggestions.… |
| Oracle rallies PaaS providers to float cloud interop spec Posted: 30 Aug 2012 04:35 PM PDT Aims to help customers swap platforms more easily A consortium of seven technology vendors, including enterprise software heavyweights Oracle and Red Hat, have teamed up to produce an industry standard that they say will make it easier for customers to manage applications deployed in platform-as-a-service (PaaS) environments.… |
| ANU scientists in a record-breaking tangle Posted: 30 Aug 2012 04:16 PM PDT Eight entangled modes from one laser A group of ANU researchers says it's taken a step towards usable quantum communications with a setup that creates eight entangled modes from a single beam, doubling the world's previous record.… |
