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- Ex-Google engineer dubs Goofrastructure 'truly obsolete'
- Appro wins 6 petaflops contract from DOE nuke labs
- US bill would make concealing data breaches a crime
- Researcher slows PC sales growth prediction
- Apple: First cult to lead world in semiconductor spending
- Greek police nab Pentagon hacking carding suspect
- Dell flashes roadmap, keeps product futures in its pants
- UK watchdog looking into Facebook face-tech row
- Pirate-bothering ACS:Law lawyer goes bankrupt
- Explosion at Intel's 'Fab 32' Arizona chip plant
- Porridge for Ofcom IT boss in £500k software fraud
- Pixmania users report scam-spam bombardment
- Microsoft BPOS encourages jacuzzi use at Wise Group
- FARTING DEATH CAMELS MUST DIE to save the world!
- Everything Everywhere goes all over the High Street
- UK gov to bust fraudulent IT suppliers
- Maximum fine raised to £2m for telcos that don't cough up network data
- Top telly tech fails to drive new set sales
- Hybrid vigour boosts Cloud formation
- 'Leccy price hike: Greens to blame as well as energy biz
- Hannspree Hannspad 10.1in Android tablet
- Java update tackles multiple critical flaws
- Apple 'spaceship' awaits landing clearance in Cupertino
- Nintendo coughs to using Xbox, PS3 footage at Wii U event
- Win8: A beginner's guide to FondleWindows
- May's terror review reveals state of unknowns
- iOS 5 system files finger next-gen iPad, iPhone
- Whitebox tablet sales surge smacks down iPad
- Sony hack reveals password security is even worse than feared
- Most gamers are middle-aged adults: FACT
- RAF Eurofighter Typhoons 'beaten by Pakistani F-16s'
- Breaking wave 'big as the USA' spied on Sun's surface
- Facebook: 'We should've been more clear' on face-scanning tech
- Google: We ARE Big Culture
- 'Backward' resellers impede cloud progress. Yeah, right
- Google offers tunnel through Kazakh border
- Has Steve Jobs killed the consumer hard disk industry?
- Get your network ready for World IPv6 Day
- Sony shuts down site to investigate possible hack
- iTunes Match is iPiracy, claims loopy Oz industry troll
- Computers locking up kids in NSW
- Hackers jailbreak iOS 5 in under 24 hours
- <strike>Microsoft</strike> iCOMP extends anti-Google push to Australia
- Apple iCloud: Steve Jobs' own private internet
- HP plugs CloudSystem into Amazon and other heavens
| Ex-Google engineer dubs Goofrastructure 'truly obsolete' Posted: 08 Jun 2011 11:53 AM PDT MapReduce and BigTable as 'ancient, creaking dinosaurs'A former Google engineer who worked on a library at the heart of "nearly every Java server at Google" has dubbed the company's much-ballyhooed backend software "well and truly obsolete".… |
| Appro wins 6 petaflops contract from DOE nuke labs Posted: 08 Jun 2011 11:41 AM PDT Largest deal in company historyNiche supercomputer supplier Appro International has bagged the largest deal in its history, having won a massive contract from the US Department of Energy to supply up to 6 petaflops of raw computing power to three of its nuke labs for the next several years.… |
| US bill would make concealing data breaches a crime Posted: 08 Jun 2011 11:39 AM PDT Senator Sisyphus tries againUS-based companies would be required to report data breaches that threaten consumer privacy and could face stiff penalties for concealing them under federal legislation that was introduced in the Senate on Tuesday.… |
| Researcher slows PC sales growth prediction Posted: 08 Jun 2011 09:39 AM PDT Consumers tighten beltsMarket watcher Gartner has reduced its forecast for the degree of growth it expects the global PC market to experience this year - largely thanks to a slowdown in consumer spending.… |
| Apple: First cult to lead world in semiconductor spending Posted: 08 Jun 2011 09:19 AM PDT The power of positive mind controlApple has become the world's largest OEM buyer of seminconductors, leaving both Hewlett-Packard and Samsung in the dust, according to industry research outfit IHS iSuppli.… |
| Greek police nab Pentagon hacking carding suspect Posted: 08 Jun 2011 09:14 AM PDT nsplitter collar-fingerGreek police have arrested an 18-year-old suspected of hacking into systems run by Interpol, the FBI, and the Pentagon.… |
| Dell flashes roadmap, keeps product futures in its pants Posted: 08 Jun 2011 08:52 AM PDT Open event dons cloak of secrecyDell Storage Forum Dell's Storage Forum in Orlando is packed with 900 attendees, full of happy channel partners pleased with the Compellent integration process, enticed by the Fluid Data marketing idea. And yet there is a lack of pizazz, and no flat-out fantastic ideas.… |
| UK watchdog looking into Facebook face-tech row Posted: 08 Jun 2011 08:47 AM PDT Matter for national authorities, says BrusselsBlighty's data regulator the Information Commissioners Office is talking to Facebook about the "privacy implications" of its facial recognition technology, The Register has learned.… |
| Pirate-bothering ACS:Law lawyer goes bankrupt Posted: 08 Jun 2011 08:25 AM PDT Crossley gets the Black SpotAndrew Crossley, the man/lawyer behind file-sharer-botherers ACS:Law, has been declared bankrupt.… |
| Explosion at Intel's 'Fab 32' Arizona chip plant Posted: 08 Jun 2011 07:56 AM PDT Humans hurt, robo factory keeps on fabbin'A small explosion injured seven people yesterday afternoon at Intel's wafer-baking factory in Chandler, Arizona.… |
| Porridge for Ofcom IT boss in £500k software fraud Posted: 08 Jun 2011 07:37 AM PDT Two-and-a-half years up the river for naughty sailorJurgen Whitehouse, IT services boss at Ofcom, was sentenced to two-and-a-half years in prison yesterday for defrauding the telecoms regulator out of more than half-a-million quid.… |
| Pixmania users report scam-spam bombardment Posted: 08 Jun 2011 07:20 AM PDT Retailer either hacked or sold us out, say Reg readersSeveral Reg readers have complained to us about receiving spam emails directed at addresses they had exclusively supplied to Pixmania, the online consumer electronics retailer Pixmania.… |
| Microsoft BPOS encourages jacuzzi use at Wise Group Posted: 08 Jun 2011 07:00 AM PDT Get back to workVideo Glasgow-based Wise Group has worked for a generation in Scotland to help get jobs for ex-offenders and the long-term unemployed.… |
| FARTING DEATH CAMELS MUST DIE to save the world! Posted: 08 Jun 2011 06:30 AM PDT Carbon plan to unleash kill-choppers against dromedariesAn Adelaide-based entrepreneur has hit upon a novel method of fighting global warming: he intends to exterminate Australia's vast population of feral camels by means of gunfire from helicopters and jeeps, so preventing the beasts from unleashing a deadly planet-wrecking miasma of greenhouse gas from their rumbling guts.… |
| Everything Everywhere goes all over the High Street Posted: 08 Jun 2011 06:28 AM PDT 30 new shops, proper phones to play with, etcOrange and T-Mobile's joint sales tentacle Everything Everywhere is opening 30 new shops in the UK.… |
| UK gov to bust fraudulent IT suppliers Posted: 08 Jun 2011 06:25 AM PDT Scams cost taxpayers £2.4bn in 2011The Coalition has concocted a four-pronged strategy to cut the £2.4bn problem stemming from public sector procurement fraud.… |
| Maximum fine raised to £2m for telcos that don't cough up network data Posted: 08 Jun 2011 06:11 AM PDT Ofcom lays down the lawOfcom can fine telecoms companies up to £2m for failing to hand over information about their networks, the media regulator has said.… |
| Top telly tech fails to drive new set sales Posted: 08 Jun 2011 05:38 AM PDT Vendors promoting the wrong features, says studyThe technologies telly makers are promoting in a bid to persuade punters to replace existing TVs are failing to excite consumers.… |
| Hybrid vigour boosts Cloud formation Posted: 08 Jun 2011 05:36 AM PDT Head in the cloud, feet on the groundCloud computing was always going to be about hybrid models, as we have already discussed (Cloud says No). This was brought up some three years ago by our colleagues at Freeform Dynamics.… |
| 'Leccy price hike: Greens to blame as well as energy biz Posted: 08 Jun 2011 05:16 AM PDT Who's paying for your neighbour's solar panels? You areAnalysis UK consumers seem set to suffer a vicious round of electricity price rises in the near future: and for the first time the energy suppliers are not only blaming the gas market but openly pointing the finger at steadily escalating government green policies whose effect is to drive up utility bills.… |
| Hannspree Hannspad 10.1in Android tablet Posted: 08 Jun 2011 05:00 AM PDT Finger flickin' goodReview Hannspree is primarily known for its somewhat gimmicky range of TVs and monitors – if you ever need a TV embedded in the stomach of a cuddly toy then Hannspree has just the thing for you. Its move into the tablet PC market was therefore rather unexpected. However the new Hannspad actually turns out to be quite a pleasant surprise.… |
| Java update tackles multiple critical flaws Posted: 08 Jun 2011 04:48 AM PDT Users should consider disabling browser plugins, says security firmOracle has released a cross-platform update for Java that addresses 17 vulnerabilities in the ubiquitous software platform.… |
| Apple 'spaceship' awaits landing clearance in Cupertino Posted: 08 Jun 2011 04:46 AM PDT Jobs warns councillors: 'We wouldn't want anyone to get hurt'Apple boss Steve Jobs has pitched Cupertino's City Council with plans to build a new company campus on the land it recently bought from Hewlett-Packard.… |
| Nintendo coughs to using Xbox, PS3 footage at Wii U event Posted: 08 Jun 2011 04:35 AM PDT E3 presentation shows rival consoles at workAll that glistens is not necessarily Nintendo, it seems, after news has broken that gameplay footage shown during its Wii U announcement was actually from Xbox 360 and PS3 games, rather than clips rendered by the new hardware.… |
| Win8: A beginner's guide to FondleWindows Posted: 08 Jun 2011 04:22 AM PDT Tiles for fat fingers, drag 'n' snap, but no meta-widget ambitions...Microsoft has unveiled the biggest design changes to Windows in the past 15 years, and probably the biggest redesign in its 26-year life. There are also implications for Windows developers – many of you will soon be obliged to learn the Ways of the Script Kiddie. These are huge changes and you should have a look yourself.… |
| May's terror review reveals state of unknowns Posted: 08 Jun 2011 04:10 AM PDT al-Qaeda really is in the libraryHome Secretary Theresa May has revealed the results of Lord Carlile's review of Prevent, the anti-terror program.… |
| iOS 5 system files finger next-gen iPad, iPhone Posted: 08 Jun 2011 03:41 AM PDT Fanboys fantasise about new kit in the FallApple's developer-only pre-release version of iOS 5 contains tantalising references to future iPhones and iPads.… |
| Whitebox tablet sales surge smacks down iPad Posted: 08 Jun 2011 03:26 AM PDT Price-conscious users vote with their feetApple's stranglehold on the worldwide tablet market has loosened slightly, with whitebox or non-branded vendors taking over as the fastest-growing segment during the first quarter, according to research from beancounters at DisplaySearch.… |
| Sony hack reveals password security is even worse than feared Posted: 08 Jun 2011 03:07 AM PDT Most conformed to very predictable patternsAn analysis of password re-use from data spilled via the Sony and Gawker hack reveals that consumer password security is even more lax than we might have feared.… |
| Most gamers are middle-aged adults: FACT Posted: 08 Jun 2011 03:02 AM PDT Us lot, basicallyKids love videogames, it goes without saying. However, according to a new study, there are more adults out there playing them, with the average gamer today almost 40 years old.… |
| RAF Eurofighter Typhoons 'beaten by Pakistani F-16s' Posted: 08 Jun 2011 03:00 AM PDT Three-nil, apparently. Brit flyboys 'shocked'Pakistani pilots flying modernised versions of the 1970s-vintage F-16 Falcon fighter have beaten the RAF's brand-new Eurofighter Typhoon superfighters during air combat exercises in Turkey, according to a Pakistani officer.… |
| Breaking wave 'big as the USA' spied on Sun's surface Posted: 08 Jun 2011 02:40 AM PDT Gnarly plasma rip suited to the Silver Surfer himselfNASA boffins, staring into the Sun with a new space telescope, say they have detected unthinkably enormous waves rolling across the star's hot surface - as if a gigantic breaker of the sort beloved by surfers were scaled up to the size of the United States.… |
| Facebook: 'We should've been more clear' on face-scanning tech Posted: 08 Jun 2011 02:07 AM PDT Tries to downplay stealth roll-outFacebook has tried to prevent yet another privacy row engulfing the social network by admitting it "should have been more clear" about the roll-out of its facial recognition technology.… |
| Posted: 08 Jun 2011 02:05 AM PDT We come in peace. Shoot to killWorld Copyright Summit Google offered a vision of itself as the greatest cultural philanthropist in the world yesterday – a sort of Medici family for the 21st century. Everywhere Google went, it was bringing high culture to the masses.… |
| 'Backward' resellers impede cloud progress. Yeah, right Posted: 08 Jun 2011 02:01 AM PDT Borked delivery models |
| Google offers tunnel through Kazakh border Posted: 08 Jun 2011 01:46 AM PDT Slower but betterGoogle has rejected demands from the Kazakhstan government that all local search requests should go through servers located in the country.… |
| Has Steve Jobs killed the consumer hard disk industry? Posted: 08 Jun 2011 01:02 AM PDT HDD troika face lengthy opera-style demiseComment Has Apple prophet Steve Jobs just foretold the end of the desktop hard drive?… |
| Get your network ready for World IPv6 Day Posted: 08 Jun 2011 12:00 AM PDT Survey the lie of the LANHands On Today is World IPv6 Day, so you might be wondering just how easy it is to run IPv6 on your own home network. The answer is that it's surprisingly simple, and even if you can't yet get IPv6 connectivity from your internet provider, it's still possible to connect your PC – or indeed your whole network – to the IPv6 internet.… |
| Sony shuts down site to investigate possible hack Posted: 07 Jun 2011 09:00 PM PDT Additional 'Sownage' investigatedSony has temporarily shuttered yet another website following reports it may have suffered an attack by hackers.… |
| iTunes Match is iPiracy, claims loopy Oz industry troll Posted: 07 Jun 2011 06:00 PM PDT It's like money-laundering!You can't make this stuff up: the new Apple iTunes Match service has been described as "legitimizing piracy" by an Australian lawyer.… |
| Computers locking up kids in NSW Posted: 07 Jun 2011 04:50 PM PDT COPS can't get anything rightA class action to be launched today in the NSW Supreme Court will accuse NSW Police of arresting and locking up teenagers due to a computer glitch.… |
| Hackers jailbreak iOS 5 in under 24 hours Posted: 07 Jun 2011 04:01 PM PDT Like clockworkLike clockwork, hackers said they've removed the digital locks in the latest version of Apple's iOS so it will run applications not officially sanctioned by the company.… |
| <strike>Microsoft</strike> iCOMP extends anti-Google push to Australia Posted: 07 Jun 2011 03:52 PM PDT Calls for regulator inquiry into searchAn online retailer lobby launched by Microsoft and Burson-Marsteller in Europe in 2007 to oppose the Google-DoubleClick merger has planted its flag in the Australian retail market.… |
| Apple iCloud: Steve Jobs' own private internet Posted: 07 Jun 2011 03:51 PM PDT It's like Google. Minus the webJust before the launch of its long-rumored GDrive – a service for storing all your desktop files on the web – Google killed the thing. "Files are so 1990. ... I don't think we need files anymore," Google's Sundar Pichai told colleague Bradley Horowitz, according to the new book In the Plex. "You just want to get information into the cloud. When people use our Google Docs, there are no more files. You just start editing in the cloud, and there's never a file."… |
| HP plugs CloudSystem into Amazon and other heavens Posted: 07 Jun 2011 03:45 PM PDT Where blades go to dieHewlett-Packard is expanding its CloudSystem private cloud platform beyond the corporate firewall to service providers itching to make some dough on this cloud computing razzmatazz.… |
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