'Indestructible' rootkit enslaves 4.5m PCs in 3 months |
- 'Indestructible' rootkit enslaves 4.5m PCs in 3 months
- IBM preps mini-mainframe for launch
- Middle man: Dell expands on growth plans
- MapR unleashes two 'next-generation' Hadoop distros
- Intel plans Oak Trail successors for Windows 8 arrival
- Oracle: Google owes $2.6bn damages
- Key internet address server sees spike in traffic
- Infosmack goes cloudwalking in China
- Deduping the digital universe
- Tag Heuer readies €4700 Froyo phone
- Microsoft confirms departure of ID, access boss
- Samsung runs to the ITC to seek Apple ban
- OpenOffice.org site goes offline, Oracle declines to comment
- Dwarfish two-legged dino 'was greatest head-butter ever'
- Vodafone hikes PAYG call costs
- Sony says virtual reality is virtually a reality
- Anonymous smites Orlando after charity arrests
- Cloud 'will spur server sales'
- Apigee beefs API service for payment card transactions
- Chinese gov demands less news in internet channels
- Sony bomby-batteries pre-fingered
- Scientists print out solar cells using inkjet tech
- Boffin hacks Wi-Fi to double mobile gadget battery life
- Canada buys Obama's reject Brit choppers for spare parts
- Oracle buying Ellison-backed Pillar Data
- Budget airlines warned over 'hidden' debit card charges
- 90% of visitors declined ICO website's opt-out cookie
- Police body defends controversial procurement deal
- Cloudera promises 'Google-like' Big Data dream in minutes
- London Olympics shop in Union Jack outrage
- EC chips in a third for €22.3m splurge on photonic networking
- DotGovLabs opens to public
- Keenan on CRU, open data and the Royal Society
- Connectivity: the weakest link in cloud computing?
- Shadows of the Damned
- Ads watchdog bites Virgin Media over 'con' claims
- Facebook claimant gets new lawyer
- Microsoft patent points to Skype snooping
- Virgin teases with TiVo iPad app snap
- Does it pay to be bad? Silver Lake's Skype sale fine print
- Atlantis go for 8 July blast-off
- StorSimple stares down EMC and NetApp
- Nokia 'thinnest smartphone ever' slips out
- Oracle woos dealers with cash to stem sliding server sales
- Smut lure powers Tumblr phish scam
- Lenovo ThinkPad pad emerges
- Bloke ordered to remove offensive numberplate
- OverDrive
- Replication 101: How to make quick copies of your data
- When hybrid clouds are a mixed blessing
| 'Indestructible' rootkit enslaves 4.5m PCs in 3 months Posted: 29 Jun 2011 02:54 PM PDT Latest TDSS embraces p2p, antivirusOne of the world's stealthiest pieces of malware infected more than 4.5 million PCs in just three months, making it possible for its authors to force keyloggers, adware, and other malicious programs on the compromised machines at any time.… |
| IBM preps mini-mainframe for launch Posted: 29 Jun 2011 02:39 PM PDT The System z upgrade cycle continuesThe word on the street is that Big Blue is getting set to launch the so-called Business Class iteration of its System z mainframe, a midrange-class machine to complement last year's System z196 Enterprise 196 server. The announcement is set for some time in July, most likely in the first week after the 4th of July holiday in the United States.… |
| Middle man: Dell expands on growth plans Posted: 29 Jun 2011 02:01 PM PDT Smart phones and tablets for bizMichael Dell is not been spending the same amount of time contemplating his navel as he did a few years back, immediately before the tech company that bears his name hit a rough patch and he returned to straighten things out.… |
| MapR unleashes two 'next-generation' Hadoop distros Posted: 29 Jun 2011 12:31 PM PDT Well, one next-generation, and one free semi-nextMapR Technologies – a Silicon Valley startup that spent the last two years revamping Hadoop for use in the enterprise – has unveiled two new ditributions of the distributed number-crunching platform.… |
| Intel plans Oak Trail successors for Windows 8 arrival Posted: 29 Jun 2011 12:22 PM PDT "One-two chip-software punch" reportedMicrosoft may have given up on Intel monogamy, but Chipzilla reckons it will have new Atom chips ready in time for Windows 8 tablets next year.… |
| Oracle: Google owes $2.6bn damages Posted: 29 Jun 2011 11:22 AM PDT Android number nailedOracle wants $2.6bn in damages from Google in its case against Android, which Larry Ellison's company claims infringes Java patents it owns.… |
| Key internet address server sees spike in traffic Posted: 29 Jun 2011 11:08 AM PDT K-root down, but not (yet) outTraffic hitting a key internet address look-up server in Europe has spiked over the past 24 hours, reaching loads that are four times higher than normal.… |
| Infosmack goes cloudwalking in China Posted: 29 Jun 2011 11:00 AM PDT Ringside interviewThis marks the beginning of another new Infosmack podcast, the Infosmack Ringside podcast, hosted by Marc Farley.… |
| Posted: 29 Jun 2011 10:00 AM PDT The great wall of iPadsThe EMC-sponsored IDC digital universe study (pdf) is masterful marketing, as great as Gartner's Magic Quadrant.… |
| Tag Heuer readies €4700 Froyo phone Posted: 29 Jun 2011 09:26 AM PDT Ferrari price, Vauxhall specWould you pay €4700 (£4222) for a smartphone running Android 2.2 Froyo?… |
| Microsoft confirms departure of ID, access boss Posted: 29 Jun 2011 09:08 AM PDT Conrad Bayer becomes latest victim in big shake-upExclusive Microsoft's general manager for its troubled identity and access unit has left the company, The Register has learned.… |
| Samsung runs to the ITC to seek Apple ban Posted: 29 Jun 2011 09:04 AM PDT What, a litigation route left unexplored?Samsung has filed a complaint with the US International Trade Commission seeking to ban the import of Apple handsets which it claims are in breach of its patents.… |
| OpenOffice.org site goes offline, Oracle declines to comment Posted: 29 Jun 2011 08:50 AM PDT OpenJDK portal also out of action...Two URLs including the OpenOffice.org domain owned by software giant Oracle are currently displaying error messages, but the Larry Ellison-run company is declining to explain why the sites are down.… |
| Dwarfish two-legged dino 'was greatest head-butter ever' Posted: 29 Jun 2011 08:39 AM PDT Glasgow not yet built at the timeA bipedal dinosaur about the size of a German shepherd has been crowned the all-time headbutt champion of the world by Canadian boffins.… |
| Vodafone hikes PAYG call costs Posted: 29 Jun 2011 08:31 AM PDT Inflation nationVodafone has left its Pay As You Go customers with a sour taste in their mouths after increasing the cost of calls by up to £1.50 a minute.… |
| Sony says virtual reality is virtually a reality Posted: 29 Jun 2011 08:19 AM PDT 'Got the power to do it,' says execAmid the reshuffle of company positions, Sony has talked up the future of gaming. Don't worry, though, it's not another PS4 or Vita story, but the Holy Grail of home entertainment, virtual reality.… |
| Anonymous smites Orlando after charity arrests Posted: 29 Jun 2011 08:14 AM PDT Two fingers to Florida over homeless beefHacktivist group Anonymous has taken to the streets in the Disney World resort town of Orlando, central Florida as part of a protest against the arrests of people supplying food to the homeless.… |
| Cloud 'will spur server sales' Posted: 29 Jun 2011 08:01 AM PDT Boxes worth $9.4bn by 2015, says analystInvestments in private and public clouds will spur worldwide server sales over the next four years to the tune of $9.4bn (£5.8bn), according to IDC.… |
| Apigee beefs API service for payment card transactions Posted: 29 Jun 2011 08:00 AM PDT PCI for APIApigee – a Silicon Valley startup offering various tools for managing and using APIs across the interwebs – has announced a new online service for providing financial-transaction APIs that comply with the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI-DSS).… |
| Chinese gov demands less news in internet channels Posted: 29 Jun 2011 07:38 AM PDT Seeks to achieve what western media does effortlesslyThe Chinese regulator has tightened guidelines for video services that get too close to reporting news, resulting in at least one service replacing its news channel with the more-usual internet inanity.… |
| Sony bomby-batteries pre-fingered Posted: 29 Jun 2011 07:19 AM PDT Market stitch-up mucho?The US Department of Justice is considering a full-blown investigation into Sony's rechargeable batteries.… |
| Scientists print out solar cells using inkjet tech Posted: 29 Jun 2011 06:51 AM PDT Sheet hotWhile 3D printers spew out house keys, ladies' swimwear and even compete with Gordon Ramsay in the kitchen department, the lowly inkjet has effectively been shoved aside. There's still some life in the old boy yet, though, after scientists used one to print solar cells.… |
| Boffin hacks Wi-Fi to double mobile gadget battery life Posted: 29 Jun 2011 06:40 AM PDT Saving your beaconWant to significantly boost your smartphone's battery life? US Duke University researcher Justin Manweiler reckons he's worked out how.… |
| Canada buys Obama's reject Brit choppers for spare parts Posted: 29 Jun 2011 06:35 AM PDT Lesson for the Royal Navy and RAF?Canada has snapped up a rejected fleet of US presidential helicopters, intending to break up the choppers for spare parts to keep its own search-and-rescue aircraft flying. The British forces may wish they had struck such a deal, as they too operate the "Merlin" copter in large numbers - and they too have severe difficulties in getting parts.… |
| Oracle buying Ellison-backed Pillar Data Posted: 29 Jun 2011 06:28 AM PDT Fills SAN hole in storage line-upOracle is buying CEO Larry Ellison's privately-funded Pillar Data Systems storage company.… |
| Budget airlines warned over 'hidden' debit card charges Posted: 29 Jun 2011 06:25 AM PDT Surprise surcharge shockerUK consumer watchdogs are threatening enforcement action against airlines and other travel firms over allegedly misleading debit and credit card surcharging practices.… |
| 90% of visitors declined ICO website's opt-out cookie Posted: 29 Jun 2011 06:10 AM PDT Oh sir... it's only wafer thin... Just the one, sir...As we know, no one is on time in implementing the EU's cookies directive. Well, two countries managed to get their laws in place in time, the other 25 didn't bother.… |
| Police body defends controversial procurement deal Posted: 29 Jun 2011 05:45 AM PDT Sprint ii framework predicted to save £18m over three yearsThe National Policing Improvement Agency has defended its decision to force the Met in England and Wales to procure IT kit exclusively from the Sprint ii framework, citing cost savings in the two months since it was implemented.… |
| Cloudera promises 'Google-like' Big Data dream in minutes Posted: 29 Jun 2011 05:35 AM PDT Hadoop shop automates so you don't have toUpdated Cloudera has delivered a "substantial" update to its open source Hadoop distribution.… |
| London Olympics shop in Union Jack outrage Posted: 29 Jun 2011 05:32 AM PDT Rebrands British standard, heads likely to rollWe suspect that whoever is responsible for outsourcing this particular London Olympics commemorative keyring to a Chinese manufacturer may shortly be dancing the Tyburn jig, once Her Maj Liz II gets wind of just what has happened to the Union Jack*:… |
| EC chips in a third for €22.3m splurge on photonic networking Posted: 29 Jun 2011 05:30 AM PDT I see the light, and the light is fastThe European Commission is spending €7.43m on developing technologies for better fibre networking, with five member countries stumping up twice that for local funding.… |
| Posted: 29 Jun 2011 05:27 AM PDT 'Skunkworks' team crowdsources digital solutions to public service problemsA development hub set up to find innovative digital solutions to public service problems has been made open to the public.… |
| Keenan on CRU, open data and the Royal Society Posted: 29 Jun 2011 05:25 AM PDT UEA fired at feet - Royal Society replicated the experimentDoug Keenan, the statistician whose work highlighted severe flaws in the work of the Climatic Research Unit at East Anglia, has welcomed the Sunshine order to open up the station records.… |
| Connectivity: the weakest link in cloud computing? Posted: 29 Jun 2011 05:00 AM PDT You give your viewReg Research Cloud computing makes you so dependent on the network, and often even the public internet. So how can it be a sensible option?… |
| Posted: 29 Jun 2011 05:00 AM PDT Resident devilReview The old saying goes that if you go to hell, you'll be far too busy shaking hands with friends to care. Well, not in Shadows of the Damned's hell, you won't. Your finger's never off the trigger long enough to shake with fear, let alone shake hands with anyone.… |
| Ads watchdog bites Virgin Media over 'con' claims Posted: 29 Jun 2011 04:53 AM PDT Dirty denigrationThe Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) has upheld eight out of eight complaints brought by BT and Sky against rival service provider Virgin Media's 'Stop the Broadband Con' ad campaign.… |
| Facebook claimant gets new lawyer Posted: 29 Jun 2011 04:51 AM PDT All change for alleged half-ownerPaul Ceglia, the man who claims half-ownership of Facebook, has got a new law firm after big name law firm DLA Piper withdrew from the case.… |
| Microsoft patent points to Skype snooping Posted: 29 Jun 2011 04:41 AM PDT Just what the government orderedA new Microsoft patent points towards Skype becoming equipped for lawful interception, which could be important as the service grows up to challenge traditional telcos.… |
| Virgin teases with TiVo iPad app snap Posted: 29 Jun 2011 04:22 AM PDT Keeping mum on the detailsVirgin Media has revealed it's working on an iPad app that'll tap into its TiVo-designed DVR, Media TV.… |
| Does it pay to be bad? Silver Lake's Skype sale fine print Posted: 29 Jun 2011 04:16 AM PDT Don't be |
| Atlantis go for 8 July blast-off Posted: 29 Jun 2011 04:12 AM PDT Green light for 'incredibly important' last shuttle missionSpace shuttle Atlantis will blast off to the International Space Station on Friday, 8 July at 15:26 GMT, NASA has confirmed.… |
| StorSimple stares down EMC and NetApp Posted: 29 Jun 2011 04:09 AM PDT Disruption afootComment StorSimple's cloud front-end appliance technology is a massive disruptive threat to mainstream enterprise storage array providers.… |
| Nokia 'thinnest smartphone ever' slips out Posted: 29 Jun 2011 04:04 AM PDT Symbian Belle not the end?While Nokia's impetus is clearly with Windows Phones, the company insists Symbian is far from kaput, a sentiment supported by the seeming leak of several fresh Symbian smartphones, with one described as the thinnest of its kind ever.… |
| Oracle woos dealers with cash to stem sliding server sales Posted: 29 Jun 2011 04:02 AM PDT Forget about IBM and HP, Oracle loves youOracle is trying to stage a partner love-in by clarifying its policy on direct selling and setting in motion plans to pay resellers rebates for the first time in its history, but partners warn the devil will be in the implementation.… |
| Smut lure powers Tumblr phish scam Posted: 29 Jun 2011 03:54 AM PDT Thousands hookedSecurity watchers are warning about a massive phishing attack against Tumblr users.… |
| Posted: 29 Jun 2011 03:39 AM PDT Fondleslab folio comboLenovo President Rory Read said earlier this month that the company is working on an Android-based ThinkPad tablet, and the gadget has now had its first outing, in Brazil.… |
| Bloke ordered to remove offensive numberplate Posted: 29 Jun 2011 03:36 AM PDT Telecoms boss says 'BO11 LUX' to DVLAA Chesterfield telecoms boss has told the DVLA to naff off after the agency accidentally sold him the entertaining numberplate "BO11 LUX", then ordered him to remove it from his car.… |
| Posted: 29 Jun 2011 03:00 AM PDT E-library lending comes to the Walled GardeniOS App of the Week Apple's iBooks Store is as slick – and expensive – as you'd expect any Apple product to be, but it's not the only source of digital books for the iPhone and iPad.… |
| Replication 101: How to make quick copies of your data Posted: 29 Jun 2011 03:00 AM PDT Best to keep a spare setIn art, a replicas does not have the same value as an original. But in computing, replicas are as perfect as the original if done fast enough.… |
| When hybrid clouds are a mixed blessing Posted: 29 Jun 2011 03:00 AM PDT Aiming for the best of both worldsCloud computing is a perfect fit for some, while others prefer the flexibility, security and certainty of in-house applications.… |
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