EA sues Zynga over ripping off Sims Social

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• EA sues Zynga over ripping off Sims Social
• Microsoft tightens grip on OEM Windows 8 licensing
• Daily Mail group in screeching U-turn on parody tweet persecution
• NASA hands out $millions to wannabe spaceship builders
• LinkedIn shows webtastic social media firms how it's done
• UK 4G auction: No word on what will be flogged, or what it costs
• Ridable giant robo-bug creeps, crawls toward reality
• US will fight ITU members for internet domination
• RBS: June's tech enormo-cock-up cost us £125m
• BOYLE and BONG: The secret story of my OLYMPIC TRIUMPH
• M-Tech Data: Grey import battle with Oracle has ruined us
• Microsoft dumps Metro from Windows 8
• Experts stroke beards over LOHAN's vacuity
• HP hangs axe over 268 UK staffers ahead of mass cull
• SAP to bung Oracle at least $306m in software piracy row
• Post-pub nosh deathmatch: Bauernfrühstück v bacon sarnie
• Meet the company that wants to destroy Twitter. It's Twitter
• Does Box really need $284m in VC cash?
• Tablet tech is really a Psion of the times
• UK judges quietly declare text chat can be obscene
• Samsung tells Apple: Quit your 'frivolous' whining over court doc leak
• UK physical game sales hit rock bottom
• Opera updated following unexplained Outlook.com lockout
• Apple plans extended iPad display through 'Smart Covers'
• 'Sending timing data over cell network - what could go wrong?'
• How one bad algorithm cost traders $440m
• Greenland ice sheet not going anywhere in a hurry, say boffins
• Anonymous hunts down Voldemort for hacking hungry kids' charity
• Apple 'wanted to stuff Twitter with dollars' to fill iTunes with twits
• Storing punters' till receipts? UK.gov wants you to hand it over
• HDS to flaunt young HUS array for money
• Jobless yoofs! Get on your bike, er, mobe, and look for work
• Nikon D4 DSLR review
• Airline leaves customer on hold for 15 hours
• HP and Dell to 'unveil Windows RT slabs in October'
• Researchers reveal radical RAID rethink
• China's smartphone shipments jump 199 PER CENT!
• Bomb sniffing “electric nose” turns cancer detector
• Sharp to cull 5,000 as losses exceed £1 BILLION
• Netflix lets free simian software for cloud chaos
• Microsoft unleashes Windows attack tool
• Valve: Games run FASTER on Linux than Windows
• Motorola’s next Razr ‘leaks’ online
• Software bug flattens NYSE trader
• Ice Cream Sandwich still a no-show for most Android users
• Telstra aces LTE market

EA sues Zynga over ripping off Sims Social Posted: 03 Aug 2012 01:27 PM PDT Claims to represent designers everywhere Electronic Arts has launched a legal crusade against troubled online games company Zynga, claiming that The Ville is a direct rip-off of the game Sims Social by EA subsidiary Maxis.…

Microsoft tightens grip on OEM Windows 8 licensing Posted: 03 Aug 2012 12:36 PM PDT Factories will report directly to Redmond A series of slides leaked online reveal information about Microsoft's new OEM Activation process for Windows 8, which is designed to make it more difficult to activate illegal copies of Redmond's latest OS.…

Daily Mail group in screeching U-turn on parody tweet persecution Posted: 03 Aug 2012 12:04 PM PDT Oh, we weren't that bothered, really The Daily Mail group has dropped its legal action against a Twitter user who sent up one of its executives - just three days after news barons attempted to slap four criminal charges on the twit.…

NASA hands out $millions to wannabe spaceship builders Posted: 03 Aug 2012 11:27 AM PDT Outsourced space podules and minishuttle score moolah NASA has stuck its hands far into its pockets of the third development round of the Commercial Crew programme, giving hundreds of millions to SpaceX, Boeing and Sierra Nevada Corporation.…

LinkedIn shows webtastic social media firms how it's done Posted: 03 Aug 2012 09:02 AM PDT Actual profits LinkedIn stuck its tongue out at all its social media rivals with better-than-expected revenue and a tidy profit for the second quarter.…

UK 4G auction: No word on what will be flogged, or what it costs Posted: 03 Aug 2012 08:02 AM PDT So we're all ready to go then? Last week the Ofcom announced details of the upcoming 4G spectrum auction, only the regulator still can't say how much spectrum is on sale, what it will cost, or the annual rent due afterwards.…

Ridable giant robo-bug creeps, crawls toward reality Posted: 03 Aug 2012 07:58 AM PDT Mech-insect could be yours - for 300 grand If you have long-term ambitions to pilot a giant six-legged mech walker, then pledge your support for Project Hexapod and its two-ton robo-bug, Stompy.…

US will fight ITU members for internet domination Posted: 03 Aug 2012 07:32 AM PDT Really, Russia, it's just better if we handle it The US has made it clear that it won't be letting control of the internet slip out of ICANN's hands anytime soon.…

RBS: June's tech enormo-cock-up cost us £125m Posted: 03 Aug 2012 07:02 AM PDT Hardly any of which went to any actual fixing of stuff RBS's software upgrade blunder in June has cost the banking group £125m so far this year, with further costs expected. The bulk of that money was spent on compensating customers, with the cost of the actual technical fix "unlikely to cost a meaningful amount", according to group finance director Bruce Van Saun.…

BOYLE and BONG: The secret story of my OLYMPIC TRIUMPH Posted: 03 Aug 2012 06:26 AM PDT Getting social with Sir Timothy - picture exclusive ¡Bong!  "People like me sound like a lot of big cannons" - Mao Tse-Tung…

M-Tech Data: Grey import battle with Oracle has ruined us Posted: 03 Aug 2012 06:04 AM PDT Manchester-based firm shuts up shop after being 'crippled' by legal costs M-Tech Data's boss has claimed the "crippling" legal bill for its spat with Oracle over allegations of parallel importing left management with no option but to shut up shop.…

Microsoft dumps Metro from Windows 8 Posted: 03 Aug 2012 05:42 AM PDT Sadly, just the name. Someone else says they own it Microsoft has dropped "Metro", the name given to the squaretastic user interface for Windows 8 and Windows Phone, claiming it was just a code name all along.…

Experts stroke beards over LOHAN's vacuity Posted: 03 Aug 2012 05:29 AM PDT Readers raise the pressure in hypobaric test chamber Last weekend, we finally got LOHAN to breathe fire when we successfully fired a solid rocket motor at an simulated altitude of 76,500ft (23,300m).…

HP hangs axe over 268 UK staffers ahead of mass cull Posted: 03 Aug 2012 05:19 AM PDT Govt warned of upcoming cut, say insiders HP wants to make nearly 300 UK staff redundant before its mass lay-off programme even kicks in, company insiders have claimed.…

SAP to bung Oracle at least $306m in software piracy row Posted: 03 Aug 2012 05:04 AM PDT But Larry's eyes are still on a $1.3bn prize German software giant SAP has agreed to hand over $306m in damages to Oracle in the TomorrowNow copyright infringement case in order to avoid a new trial.…

Post-pub nosh deathmatch: Bauernfrühstück v bacon sarnie Posted: 03 Aug 2012 04:44 AM PDT 1966 revisited - with added pork As long-term Reg readers are aware, it's been scientifically proven that bacon has almost miraculous powers to cure the effects of a night on the sauce.…

Meet the company that wants to destroy Twitter. It's Twitter Posted: 03 Aug 2012 04:33 AM PDT Can we build a better FaceTwittle? For years I've marvelled at Twitter, the most commercially and technically clueless company to ever strike it big. Twitter is now hugely popular and millions of people love to use it. They use it in very creative ways. Twitter's success, in retrospect, now looks blindingly obvious. But Twitter has been uniquely inept at taking advantage of its popularity.…

Does Box really need $284m in VC cash? Posted: 03 Aug 2012 04:14 AM PDT Look to Red Hat's model – it's better to make money than raise it Open ... and Shut  Once upon a time Joe Kraus dreamed that future start-ups would be 30 times cheaper to build. Clearly he hadn't talked to Aaron Levie, chief executive of enterprise collaboration company Box, which just raised $125m on a reported $1.2bn valuation. Box is playing a high-stakes poker game which will end in complete victory. Or dismal failure.…

Tablet tech is really a Psion of the times Posted: 03 Aug 2012 04:09 AM PDT And now, the world's most expensive netbook Something for the Weekend, Sir  Excitedly but carefully, I tore open the tough cardboard packing and slid out my latest purchase: an iPad keyboard.…

UK judges quietly declare text chat can be obscene Posted: 03 Aug 2012 04:03 AM PDT Fantasy 1-2-1 talk could land you in jail You could be committing a criminal offence next time you discuss your deepest fantasies with someone online. Alarmist? Only slightly.…

Samsung tells Apple: Quit your 'frivolous' whining over court doc leak Posted: 03 Aug 2012 03:51 AM PDT iPhone rival brands demand for trial win 'extreme' Apple's attempt to score an easy win over Samsung in their smartphone patent trial, thus punishing its rival for leaking court evidence, has been branded "extreme" by the South Korean giant.…

UK physical game sales hit rock bottom Posted: 03 Aug 2012 03:22 AM PDT Retail in need of therapy? The UK games market hit an all time low last week. Retailers took in just £8.4m from software sales.…

Opera updated following unexplained Outlook.com lockout Posted: 03 Aug 2012 03:17 AM PDT Microsoft's Gmail-alike opened for browser's fans Update  Opera Software is working on a fix to ensure Microsoft's Hotmail successor Outlook.com works in its browser.…

Apple plans extended iPad display through 'Smart Covers' Posted: 03 Aug 2012 03:08 AM PDT Peripheral vision Apple envisions iPad cases with flexible displays that expand functionality into the tablet's protective sleeve, recently publicised patent applications reveal.…

'Sending timing data over cell network - what could go wrong?' Posted: 03 Aug 2012 02:46 AM PDT Plus: 'What's the point in having a trial?' Quotw  This was the week when Microsoft buffed and polished its ancient spam-handy Hotmail service into the new Outlook.com, just seven years after Google gave us Gmail.…

How one bad algorithm cost traders $440m Posted: 03 Aug 2012 02:32 AM PDT A look at the worst software testing day ever Knight Capital, a firm that specialises in executing trades for retail brokers, took $440m in cash losses Wednesday due to a faulty test of new trading software. This morning reports were calling it a trading "glitch", which isn't nearly as accurate as the term I'd use: "f**king disaster".…

Greenland ice sheet not going anywhere in a hurry, say boffins Posted: 03 Aug 2012 02:16 AM PDT Danish prof: You can stop work on that ark for now Doom-laden predictions that the seas are set to rise by a metre or more this century due to the melting of the Greenland ice sheet are well off the mark, a team of scientists has announced in a new study of the matter.…

Anonymous hunts down Voldemort for hacking hungry kids' charity Posted: 03 Aug 2012 02:03 AM PDT He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named named, outed to cops A Harry Potter fan's attempt to impress hacktivist collective Anonymous by defacing a charity's website has backfired and his alleged identity handed over to cops.…

Apple 'wanted to stuff Twitter with dollars' to fill iTunes with twits Posted: 03 Aug 2012 01:42 AM PDT Tweet biz refused to take Cupertino's coin - rumour Apple wanted to integrate Twitter into iTunes, according some people "familiar" with negotiations between the two companies.…

Storing punters' till receipts? UK.gov wants you to hand it over Posted: 03 Aug 2012 01:19 AM PDT Businesses may have to cough up transaction records Businesses that electronically store personal data about consumers may be required to make some of that information available to those individuals "in a machine readable format" if plans under consideration by the government are followed through.…

HDS to flaunt young HUS array for money Posted: 03 Aug 2012 01:02 AM PDT Needs to stop sequential sliding of revenues HDS quarterly revenues are slipping down and need the recently launched Hitachi Unified Storage array to ramp sales and reverse the slide.…

Jobless yoofs! Get on your bike, er, mobe, and look for work Posted: 03 Aug 2012 12:29 AM PDT Tap tap-screen app, it only cost £125,000 Reading Borough Council is to develop an app to help young people find jobs.…

Nikon D4 DSLR review Posted: 03 Aug 2012 12:00 AM PDT Full-frame flagship finesse If you thought the Nikon D3s was the ultimate DSLR for photojournalism, sport and low light photography, then think again. The Nikon D4 is not only the D3's obvious upgrade and replacement but also Nikon's attempt to redefine, yet again, professional imaging standards.…

Airline leaves customer on hold for 15 hours Posted: 02 Aug 2012 11:30 PM PDT Your call is irrelevant to us, please hold all night Australian airline Qantas has denied claims it left a customer on hold … for 15 hours 40 minutes and one second.…

HP and Dell to 'unveil Windows RT slabs in October' Posted: 02 Aug 2012 11:29 PM PDT Windows-on-ARM tablets aplenty on the horizon HP and Dell will both release tablets based on the forthcoming ARM-powered Windows RT operating system after it's launched in October, according to the latest rumours swirling from the supply chain in Asia.…

Researchers reveal radical RAID rethink Posted: 02 Aug 2012 11:27 PM PDT "Pipelined erasure coding" helps storage to scale at speed Singaporean researchers have proposed a new way to protect the integrity of data in distributed storage systems and say their "RapidRAID" system offers top protection while consuming fewer network, computing and storage array resources than other approaches.…

China's smartphone shipments jump 199 PER CENT! Posted: 02 Aug 2012 09:51 PM PDT HTC comes good in post-PC nation China's bid to for world domination in all things mobile took another step in the last quarter as smartphone shipments leapt 199 per cent from the same period last year and now account for more than a quarter of the global total, according to Canalys.…

Bomb sniffing “electric nose” turns cancer detector Posted: 02 Aug 2012 09:28 PM PDT Boffins tweak CyraNose to detect malignant, asbestos-related cancers Researchers at the University of New South Wales have used a device called the CyraNose 3200 to sniff out malignant mesothelioma, a nasty form of cancer often caused by exposure to asbestos.…

Sharp to cull 5,000 as losses exceed £1 BILLION Posted: 02 Aug 2012 09:02 PM PDT Electronics giant on the ropes Japanese electronics giant Sharp has become the latest tech firm to announce swingeing job cuts, with 5,000 employees set to be culled in a bid to slash costs after it revealed losses in the last quarter of £1.1bn.…

Netflix lets free simian software for cloud chaos Posted: 02 Aug 2012 05:47 PM PDT Angry ape kills virtual machines at random Streaming video provider Netflix has released Chaos Monkey, its homegrown tool that's designed to boost the resilience of cloud-based applications in the bluntest way possible: by knocking them down.…

Microsoft unleashes Windows attack tool Posted: 02 Aug 2012 05:20 PM PDT Attack Surface Analyzer explains what apps do to your beautiful Windows installation Developers, developers …. *&^%%!!# developers who break Windows!…

Valve: Games run FASTER on Linux than Windows Posted: 02 Aug 2012 04:26 PM PDT It's because Direct3D is slow Not only has Valve Software successfully ported the first-person shooter game Left 4 Dead 2 to Linux, but it actually runs faster on the open source OS than on Windows.…

Motorola’s next Razr ‘leaks’ online Posted: 02 Aug 2012 03:37 PM PDT New legal strategy: ugly won't get you sued? Yet another round of Motorola Droid Razr HD prototype-leak rumours has been kicked off by a post to the XDA forums, picked up by Android Headlines.…

Software bug flattens NYSE trader Posted: 02 Aug 2012 03:35 PM PDT Plunged into $US440 MILLION loss An algorithmic trading software bug is being blamed for a day of wild swings at the New York Stock Exchange – and has resulted in the trader placing the dodgy orders reporting a $US440 million pre-tax loss.…

Ice Cream Sandwich still a no-show for most Android users Posted: 02 Aug 2012 03:19 PM PDT Platform fragmentation coming along nicely Google's unofficial codename for Android 4.0 is "Ice Cream Sandwich" (ICS), but it may as well have called it Godot, as the latest market figures yet again demonstrate.…

Telstra aces LTE market Posted: 02 Aug 2012 03:15 PM PDT Morgan Stanley predicts Big T has 500k 4G customers already Telstra has nailed first mover advantage in the LTE market, with a new report forecasting that the carrier will reveal it has captured in excess of 500,000 subscribers in its full year results next week.…

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