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- Fusion motherboards beat AMD chips to market
- Hackers pierce network with jerry-rigged mouse
- US Supremes dump violent video game ban
- Microsoft nails second Android device maker
- Wildfire shuts down Los Alamos nuke lab
- Avast still focused on Windows, despite new Mac security app
- Carphone Warehouse makes Euro bill shock boob
- 600 tonne asteroid in low pass above Falkland Islands - TONIGHT
- Filer maker BlueArc refiles for IPO
- Oracle cranks Sun Fire servers with Xeon E7s
- German chemical giant depending on biscuit-based security
- Wiltshire Council on its Windows 7 roll-out
- Liverpool cops compulsively snooped footballer's record
- Side-lined suppliers beat on Police procurement deal
- Boffins take REMOTE CONTROL of HUMAN HAND
- Go Daddy on the block for $2.5bn
- MobileMe web app features shapeshift into Apple's iCloud
- Vatican launches second website in just 2000 years
- Russian payment processing boss held over DDoS-for-hire plot
- Groupon faces multitude of legal headaches in US
- Automation begins with keeping track of your assets
- Councils and police to publish speed camera data
- HTC to follow LG with 3D smartphone
- 'Robots can save America', says Obama
- You have to have standards – or do you?
- Opera boss walks off stage, citing musical differences
- Denmark gets its own NFC consortium
- Samsung NC110 matte-screen netbook
- Facebook elbows past Microsoft in UK
- Lego Star Wars to be celebrated in TV special
- PS3 hacker Hotz accepts job at Facebook
- US Spec-Ops offered camouflage for a specific site
- Cambridge gets a white (space) wash
- Google kills sickly health, energy projects
- SLAs keep demands for business applications under control
- Does Office 365 keep its promises?
- Acer Android 3.1 update leaks out early
- Court orders trader to repay customers after failure to deliver goods
- Travelodge still doesn't know who hacked it
- Four National Broadband Network myths
- Telstra goes hi def for voice
| Fusion motherboards beat AMD chips to market Posted: 27 Jun 2011 12:27 PM PDT Asus, MSI, Gigabyte leap on APU bandwagonAMD's desktop-bound A-Series Fusion APUs (accelerated processing units) haven't yet officially hit the streets, but that hasn't stopped manufacturers from punting motherboards intended for them.… |
| Hackers pierce network with jerry-rigged mouse Posted: 27 Jun 2011 11:06 AM PDT Mission Impossible meets LogitechWhen hackers from penetration testing firm Netragard were hired to pierce the firewall of a customer, they knew they had their work cut out. The client specifically ruled out the use of social networks, telephones, and other social-engineering vectors, and gaining unauthorized physical access to computers was also off limits.… |
| US Supremes dump violent video game ban Posted: 27 Jun 2011 10:29 AM PDT Urinating on virtual burning cops deemed free speechThe US Supreme Court has upheld a lower-court decision that blocked a California law which made the sale or rental of violent video games to minors an offense punishable by fines of up to $1,000.… |
| Microsoft nails second Android device maker Posted: 27 Jun 2011 09:53 AM PDT Patent dealingMicrosoft has nailed a second Android device maker to a patent licensing agreement.… |
| Wildfire shuts down Los Alamos nuke lab Posted: 27 Jun 2011 09:49 AM PDT Wind shifts on supercomputer behemothLos Alamos National Laboratory – one of the big nuke labs run by the US Department of Energy and a big supercomputing center – has been shut down by the Las Conchas fire that is burning on the outskirts of Santa Fe, New Mexico.… |
| Avast still focused on Windows, despite new Mac security app Posted: 27 Jun 2011 08:56 AM PDT Czech firm aims to checkmate VXersFree security software outfit Avast reckons unprotected Windows desktops still offer its greatest potential area for growth, despite its huge existing Windows user-base of 130 million active users.… |
| Carphone Warehouse makes Euro bill shock boob Posted: 27 Jun 2011 08:55 AM PDT 'Experts' in errorYou'd expect a major mobile phone seller to have a good understanding of the cost of using a smartphone when you travel abroad.… |
| 600 tonne asteroid in low pass above Falkland Islands - TONIGHT Posted: 27 Jun 2011 08:39 AM PDT Will be nearer Islanders, Brit garrison than Japan isAn asteroid the size of a bus and massing 600 tonnes is barrelling through space toward planet Earth at terrific speed as this report is written. Astronomers say there is no chance that the object, dubbed 2011 MD, will strike our planet but it will corner sharply through our gravitational field and descend to just 7,600 miles above the surface.… |
| Filer maker BlueArc refiles for IPO Posted: 27 Jun 2011 08:26 AM PDT One hundred meeellion dollars wantedFiler maker BlueArc has refiled for an IPO and wants to raise a hundred million bucks.… |
| Oracle cranks Sun Fire servers with Xeon E7s Posted: 27 Jun 2011 08:07 AM PDT Dense, in a good wayOracle is struggling a bit with its hardware business right now as it pares down the Sun server and storage business to be a less complex line with more profits. But don't get confused. The software giant and server maker is very much committed to have x64 gear in its lineup to prop up both Linux and Solaris workloads. Especially big, fat boxes for supporting Oracle databases or virtual server slices.… |
| German chemical giant depending on biscuit-based security Posted: 27 Jun 2011 07:36 AM PDT But El Reg testing recommends savoury over sweetManagers at Germ chem firm Evonik are putting their mobile phones into biscuit tins during important meetings, but testing by El Reg has revealed critical flaws in the Faraday-cage qualities of popular brands.… |
| Wiltshire Council on its Windows 7 roll-out Posted: 27 Jun 2011 07:27 AM PDT Case study Amalgamation of four separate authorities, 270 offices that needed to be reduced into four hubs and 70 outlying offices, and many constraints including a host of governmental regulations, were among the challenges facing Wiltshire Council as it planned to roll out Microsoft Windows 7, which was at the core of its workplace transformation programme.… |
| Liverpool cops compulsively snooped footballer's record Posted: 27 Jun 2011 07:02 AM PDT 200+ police peeks at Gerrard's fileMerseyside Police officers were caught illegally accessing the Police National Computer over 200 times in the last three years.… |
| Side-lined suppliers beat on Police procurement deal Posted: 27 Jun 2011 06:25 AM PDT Sprint ii: To buy or not to buyThe Home Office's ruling that police buy commodity hardware and software from a single supplier framework instead of a multi-reseller agreement continues to attract biting criticism from side-lined suppliers.… |
| Boffins take REMOTE CONTROL of HUMAN HAND Posted: 27 Jun 2011 06:14 AM PDT Science out on a limbNow that pacemakers are to be loaded with firewalls and bionic-man body parts are appearing on production lines, the concept of body hacking has become a spooky possibility. Researchers in Japan have begun to try to teach people how to play instruments by remotely controlling their hands.… |
| Go Daddy on the block for $2.5bn Posted: 27 Jun 2011 05:45 AM PDT Going once, going twice ...Domain names and web hosting provider Go Daddy is reportedly on the verge of being acquired by private investors for up to $2.5bn.… |
| MobileMe web app features shapeshift into Apple's iCloud Posted: 27 Jun 2011 05:41 AM PDT iWeb and others fail to make the cutApple confirmed late last week that various web apps currently locked into MobileMe will live on in the company's recently announced iCloud service.… |
| Vatican launches second website in just 2000 years Posted: 27 Jun 2011 05:36 AM PDT Cunning choice of launch date to avoid server outagesThe Vatican is to update its notoriously creaky comms operation this week, with a new easy to use and doctrinally sound news portal.… |
| Russian payment processing boss held over DDoS-for-hire plot Posted: 27 Jun 2011 05:32 AM PDT Purported pill-pusher pinchedThe co-founder of Russian payment processing firm ChronoPay was arrested last Thursday over allegations that he hired a hacker to run a denial of service attack against a business rival.… |
| Groupon faces multitude of legal headaches in US Posted: 27 Jun 2011 05:30 AM PDT Mo' money off, mo' problemsGroupon may have rather more legal woes than people generally think. The problem isn't particularly that it's doing anything wrong - it's that the major limitation on most innovation is the old way of doing things. In this case, that's the laws about the old ways of distributing and using coupons.… |
| Automation begins with keeping track of your assets Posted: 27 Jun 2011 05:29 AM PDT Knowledge is powerAutomating effectively requires you to know what is connected to your network and what patches it needs, and to be able to push patches on to the right device at the right time.… |
| Councils and police to publish speed camera data Posted: 27 Jun 2011 05:14 AM PDT DfT to set up central hub for guides to finding informationLocal authorities and police forces are to publish figures on the results of installing speed cameras.… |
| HTC to follow LG with 3D smartphone Posted: 27 Jun 2011 04:35 AM PDT All about EvoHTC has followed LG's lead by fitting its latest smartphone with a glasses-free 3D display.… |
| 'Robots can save America', says Obama Posted: 27 Jun 2011 04:33 AM PDT 'As C-in-C I can assure you the machines seem peaceful'President Obama has announced an ambitious plan to revitalise the economic health of the USA by deploying a mighty nationwide task force of robots.… |
| You have to have standards – or do you? Posted: 27 Jun 2011 04:18 AM PDT 1 livre of pate, half a pound of cheese and 200g salty biscuits pleasePart one Given that so much of the time and effort expended by you technical and computing types revolves around standards, just how important are they in the larger sense? And if they are important, who ought to be devising them, and should they be voluntary or imposed?… |
| Opera boss walks off stage, citing musical differences Posted: 27 Jun 2011 04:06 AM PDT Gives up job, keeps sharesJon S von Tetzchner is leaving Opera, the browser company he co-founded back in 1995 and headed until last year.… |
| Denmark gets its own NFC consortium Posted: 27 Jun 2011 04:04 AM PDT We can't let Google into our customers' pocketsThe four Danish network operators have banded together to create a standard NFC platform, and admitted that it is the threat from Google that has driven them to do so.… |
| Samsung NC110 matte-screen netbook Posted: 27 Jun 2011 04:00 AM PDT Innovation, we've heard of itReview Tight spots don't come much trickier than the one netbook makers find themselves in. Squeezed from above by prettier, more interesting tablets, netbooks such as Samsung's £350 N350 are barely appealing alternatives to Apple's glossy view of the future.… |
| Facebook elbows past Microsoft in UK Posted: 27 Jun 2011 03:51 AM PDT More visitors than everyone except GoogleFacebook crept past Microsoft in the UK for the first time last month, when it became more popular than every other site surfed in the country with the exception of web kingpin Google.… |
| Lego Star Wars to be celebrated in TV special Posted: 27 Jun 2011 03:45 AM PDT 'New and fun direction' for sci-fi seriesGeorge Lucas has picked up the building blocks again by readying a Lego Star Wars TV special, to broadcast sometime this autumn.… |
| PS3 hacker Hotz accepts job at Facebook Posted: 27 Jun 2011 03:44 AM PDT Status: Landed a surprise jobFacebook has reportedly hired George Hotz, the hacker best known for defeating the security measures of iPhones and PS3 consoles.… |
| US Spec-Ops offered camouflage for a specific site Posted: 27 Jun 2011 03:43 AM PDT Take a snap, print out uniform you need for the jobEverybody knows how obsessive the world's elite special-ops forces are about preparing for a task. Prior to the recent, headline-making raid in which Osama bin Laden was killed, US Navy SEALs built a complete mockup of the compound where he lived and spent weeks practicing attacks on it, for instance.… |
| Cambridge gets a white (space) wash Posted: 27 Jun 2011 03:00 AM PDT Industry gangs up to prove licence-free radioA consortium of Cambridge-based companies is to start testing white space radios in the UK, to see if they can coexist with each other, and everyone else.… |
| Google kills sickly health, energy projects Posted: 27 Jun 2011 02:37 AM PDT Doctor Evil won't see you nowGoogle is killing its Health and PowerMeter products due to a lack of interest from would-be customers.… |
| SLAs keep demands for business applications under control Posted: 27 Jun 2011 02:30 AM PDT Measure out the portionsIt is not uncommon for the IT department to find itself some way down the food chain. You know how it is: the business guys decide to implement their shiny new applications and the IT department somehow has to find the platforms to run it on.… |
| Does Office 365 keep its promises? Posted: 27 Jun 2011 02:22 AM PDT The verdict from people who knowBroadcast The end of June marks the launch of Microsoft's biggest cloud initiative so far: Office 365. Some of you will have been playing with the beta, some of you will have it scheduled for the future, and some of you will see it implemented over your dead bodies.… |
| Acer Android 3.1 update leaks out early Posted: 27 Jun 2011 02:11 AM PDT Honeycomb goodness for allAcer's Android 3.1 Honeycomb update for its 10in Iconia Tab A500 tablet has leaked out ahead of schedule.… |
| Court orders trader to repay customers after failure to deliver goods Posted: 27 Jun 2011 02:05 AM PDT Other users get refunds after shipments were months lateA court has ordered an online trader to refund consumers to whom he failed to deliver goods or pay refunds, the UK's consumer protection regulator the Office of Fair Trading (OFT) has said.… |
| Travelodge still doesn't know who hacked it Posted: 27 Jun 2011 01:51 AM PDT I knew that Mr and Mrs Smith were up to somethingTravelodge is still trying to find out who got into their customer database and snaffled names and email addresses.… |
| Four National Broadband Network myths Posted: 26 Jun 2011 05:07 PM PDT Fetching out the four-by-clueI believe in public debate, but I also believe in facts. In the ongoing row about Australia's National Broadband Network (NBN), facts are an early casualty. Some of the non-facts bandied about are to do with the NBN's technology, but instead, I'd like to deal with aspects of the political and business dealing that are widely misunderstood.… |
| Posted: 26 Jun 2011 04:00 PM PDT No more white noiseTelstra has become the first Australian carrier to deploy "high definition" voice calling on a mobile network.… |
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