LTE vs broadcasters: let the spectrum wars begin |
- LTE vs broadcasters: let the spectrum wars begin
- Adobe patches critical bugs in Flash and Reader
- Google's HTTP Archive merges with Internet Archive
- T-Platforms CPU-GPU hybrid hits 1.3 petaflops at Moscow State
- Duke Nukem flack eats words over threat to reviewers
- LexisNexis open sources Hadoop challenger
- NHS trust issues nurse jub flash alert
- Rogue software consultant's vast stash of DIY explosives
- Next-gen Xbox to debut at next year's E3
- IBM slashes prices on Opteron 6100 racker
- Hitachi keen to be cloud content king
- Groupon hug from small businesses? Not so much
- Best Buy gives big boxes the boot
- Go Daddy sued over email alerts
- Europe flashes report card on data protection
- HTC U-turns over Desire Android 2.3 update
- Cloud 'not ready for public sector market'
- Creditsafe suspends website in wake of drive-by download attack
- Nokia nukes online store in UK
- 'A SHARK attacked my ROBOT', gasps ex-Sun exec
- Ofcom ready to hold up hands on 4G auction
- Peugeot 508 Active e-HDI micro-hybrid
- Wii U has 50 per cent more power than rivals
- LulzSec hacks EVE Online as rampage goes on
- Microsoft integrates OAuth 2.0 in play for Facebook goodness
- MoD plans 'name and shame' crackdown on crap projects
- What does mission critical mean, anyway?
- IRIS gets close up and SaaS-y with accountants
- Profit-free Pandora floats, valued at $2.6bn
- <i>New York Times</i> takes on Apple-baiting troll
- High Performance Computing for you?
- Steer clear of the desktop virtualisation bootstorm
- Apple pulls app after dev publishes users' PINs
- Acer slashes tablet forecast, banks on notebooks
- EU ministers back centralisation of population databases
- IE, Excel fixes star in bumper Patch Tuesday
- Dell app servers getting flashy
- 8m health records go walkabout
- Xyratex offers Lustre clusters
- Asus Eee Pad Transformer Android tablet
- ARM exec: Open standards will make us all rich
- States consider saner 'sexting' penalties for teens
- Lenovo chases SMBs with Xeon E3 towers
- Microsoft+HTML: The antidote to iOS and Android
- 'Harmony' for open source contributors on horizon
| LTE vs broadcasters: let the spectrum wars begin Posted: 15 Jun 2011 03:26 PM PDT ACMA scratches head over 4G interferenceAs mobile carriers prepare to upgrade to 4G/LTE networks, Australia's free to air broadcasters and Foxtel are bracing for potentially significant and costly interference to their transmissions.… |
| Adobe patches critical bugs in Flash and Reader Posted: 15 Jun 2011 02:08 PM PDT Second emergency Flash patch in 9 daysAdobe has rolled out updates for its widely used Reader PDF viewer and Flash animation programs that fix flaws, some that hackers have been exploiting to hijack end user computers.… |
| Google's HTTP Archive merges with Internet Archive Posted: 15 Jun 2011 12:42 PM PDT One records pages. The other records speedVelocity The HTTP Archive – a fledgling effort to record the performance of sites across the interwebs – has merged with the Internet Archive, whose Wayback Machine has long kept a similar record of internet content.… |
| T-Platforms CPU-GPU hybrid hits 1.3 petaflops at Moscow State Posted: 15 Jun 2011 12:11 PM PDT Russian super maker invades AmerikaMoscow State University has moved into the upper echelons of the HPC field with an upgrade to its top-end supercomputer and moved to hybrid CPU-GPU blade servers from indigenous supercomputer maker T-Platforms.… |
| Duke Nukem flack eats words over threat to reviewers Posted: 15 Jun 2011 10:06 AM PDT Grovelling apology follows 'no praise, no games' TweetThe PR team behind the US launch of Duke Nukem Forever has apologised for threatening to blacklist publications who have the eagerly anticipated title bad write-ups.… |
| LexisNexis open sources Hadoop challenger Posted: 15 Jun 2011 09:00 AM PDT Behold! Thor and RoxieA super-computer architecture that crunches big data for banks, police, and spooks will soon be open sourced as a super-fast alternative to the Googlesque Hadoop.… |
| NHS trust issues nurse jub flash alert Posted: 15 Jun 2011 08:57 AM PDT You're not Babs Windsor, so put 'em awayEast and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust has decided that its patients do not subscribe to the Sid James school of healthcare and has ordered Babs Windsors to keep their nursely chesticles firmly under wraps.… |
| Rogue software consultant's vast stash of DIY explosives Posted: 15 Jun 2011 08:55 AM PDT Bomb squad forced to blow up likeable bank robber's houseA software consultant in California has been sentenced to 30 years in federal prison after he embarked on a spree of armed bank robberies and amassed a huge stockpile of homemade explosives at his home, residues from which blew up and injured a local gardener and necessitated the total destruction of the building on grounds of safety.… |
| Next-gen Xbox to debut at next year's E3 Posted: 15 Jun 2011 08:20 AM PDT Games already in development, apparentlyMicrosoft is a year away from major announcements concerning the Xbox 360's successor, it has been claimed.… |
| IBM slashes prices on Opteron 6100 racker Posted: 15 Jun 2011 08:19 AM PDT Freebie CPUs and a server discountIBM was late to the Opteron 6100 party last year, behind rivals Hewlett-Packard, Dell, and Acer. But Big Blue did put a compact machine in the field crammed with lots of cores, and it does want to sell them.… |
| Hitachi keen to be cloud content king Posted: 15 Jun 2011 08:03 AM PDT Fluff as far as the eye can seeComment Hitachi Data Systems is planning to provide a sophisticated content storage cloud infrastructure with end-to-end deduplication and local file servers accessing a content core having both archive and data discovery functions.… |
| Groupon hug from small businesses? Not so much Posted: 15 Jun 2011 07:44 AM PDT Daily deal sites lack loyalty from bar owners, barbers and cooksDaily deal sites such as Groupon are just a fad with little individual staying power, a new study has claimed.… |
| Best Buy gives big boxes the boot Posted: 15 Jun 2011 07:20 AM PDT Small is beautifulBest Buy has put its "big box" strategy under review worldwide, with management braced for considerable shrinkage.… |
| Go Daddy sued over email alerts Posted: 15 Jun 2011 06:52 AM PDT Tubby patent troll wants secondsGo Daddy has been sued for allegedly infringing two patents when it sends email alerts to customers whose domain names and web hosting accounts are about to expire.… |
| Europe flashes report card on data protection Posted: 15 Jun 2011 06:34 AM PDT The good, the bad and the uglyThe European Data Protection Supervisor has had a busy year - with a wider remit to cover all EU institutions as well as helping to write a new legal framework for data protection across the European Union.… |
| HTC U-turns over Desire Android 2.3 update Posted: 15 Jun 2011 06:13 AM PDT Smartphone WILL get Gingerbread after allHTC has hastily backtracked on yesterday's announcement that Desire owners won't get Gingerbread, announcing today that the Android 2.3 update will go ahead after all.… |
| Cloud 'not ready for public sector market' Posted: 15 Jun 2011 06:11 AM PDT Still presents a risk for public services, warns local government IT chiefChris Pope, director of transformation at Merton council, told the Guardian's SmartGov Live event in London that he was "nervous" about adopting cloud computing and being infrastructure free.… |
| Creditsafe suspends website in wake of drive-by download attack Posted: 15 Jun 2011 05:20 AM PDT Precautionary disconnectUK credit reference and credit recovery agency creditsafe.co.uk took its site offline on Tuesday, as a precaution, following a hacking attack. The site remains offline at the time of writing on Wednesday afternoon.… |
| Nokia nukes online store in UK Posted: 15 Jun 2011 05:13 AM PDT Direct sales all but FinnishNokia's UK online store is set to shut, following recent closures in France, Spain and the Netherlands.… |
| 'A SHARK attacked my ROBOT', gasps ex-Sun exec Posted: 15 Jun 2011 05:11 AM PDT Tin fish limps home after deep-sea gobblement attemptA robot from a startup company helmed by a former Sun Microsystems executive was attacked by a shark in the Gulf of Mexico recently, according to reports.… |
| Ofcom ready to hold up hands on 4G auction Posted: 15 Jun 2011 05:05 AM PDT Speed > fairnessOfcom will do anything to avoid seeing the 4G auctions scheduled for next year mired in legal battles, including negotiating terms on the whole process - but deciding to whom it should surrender will be tough.… |
| Peugeot 508 Active e-HDI micro-hybrid Posted: 15 Jun 2011 05:00 AM PDT No, it's not an e-car for very small people...Review Peugeot has been criticised for losing the plot with its small and medium cars over the last decade, but that shouldn't obscure the fact that it has made some fine D-segment motors in the same period, including the 406 and 407.… |
| Wii U has 50 per cent more power than rivals Posted: 15 Jun 2011 04:40 AM PDT Nintendo wants the entire market, and moreAfter Nintendo revealed the Wii U at this year's E3, a continuous stream of rumours and further details have emerged. Microsoft, Sony and Nintendo are all now battling for a piece of consumers' lives, evolving their respective hardware into home entertainment hubs, rather than simply gaming systems.… |
| LulzSec hacks EVE Online as rampage goes on Posted: 15 Jun 2011 04:26 AM PDT Pwn party shows no sign of flaggingUpdated Prolific hacker pranksters LulzSec took out sci-fi game EVE Online on Tuesday as part of a run of attacks apparently perpetrated purely for the lulz.… |
| Microsoft integrates OAuth 2.0 in play for Facebook goodness Posted: 15 Jun 2011 04:08 AM PDT Single sign-on trend hooks up Windows Live dev platformMicrosoft has suckered up to Facebook's social graph API with the implementation of OAuth 2.0 on its Windows Live developer platform.… |
| MoD plans 'name and shame' crackdown on crap projects Posted: 15 Jun 2011 04:03 AM PDT If they don't buck up... we'll name them again!UK Defence secretary Liam Fox has pledged to crack down hard on poorly performing defence procurement projects, by "naming and shaming" them on a quarterly published list.… |
| What does mission critical mean, anyway? Posted: 15 Jun 2011 04:00 AM PDT Trevor talks non-stopVideo Since when did 'five nines' really mean anything?… |
| IRIS gets close up and SaaS-y with accountants Posted: 15 Jun 2011 03:28 AM PDT Will the beancounters bite?Video IRIS Software and Services produces packaged apps that half the UK's accountants use. But continually updating them as regulations change is a pain - so why not provide its software as a service? That's the plan that Accountancy Division CEO Phill Robinson explains to The Reg.… |
| Profit-free Pandora floats, valued at $2.6bn Posted: 15 Jun 2011 03:14 AM PDT Is there a music bubble?That's nice: the profit-free streaming music service Pandora has successfully gone public, raising $235m in the process.… |
| <i>New York Times</i> takes on Apple-baiting troll Posted: 15 Jun 2011 03:05 AM PDT LodSys patent makes infringers of us allMobile-developer-bothering patent hoard LodSys is under attack from the New York Times and OpinionLabs, with the latter alleging that LodSys threatened its customers and should pay restitution.… |
| High Performance Computing for you? Posted: 15 Jun 2011 03:01 AM PDT New apps, new opps, new startVideo Last week The Register's Tim Phillips packed the studio with a series of experts on the area of HPC to talk about what HPC means today.… |
| Steer clear of the desktop virtualisation bootstorm Posted: 15 Jun 2011 03:01 AM PDT Prepare to form an orderly queueIt is every IT administrator's worst nightmare.… |
| Apple pulls app after dev publishes users' PINs Posted: 15 Jun 2011 02:47 AM PDT Too many folk use too-easy-to-guess passcodesIs your phone PIN '1234'? If you're an iPhone owner, there's a good chance that it is. In fact, there's a good chance it's your PIN whatever handset you use.… |
| Acer slashes tablet forecast, banks on notebooks Posted: 15 Jun 2011 02:38 AM PDT Game of executive musical chairs ongoing tooAcer today cut its 2011 tablet PC shipment forecasts by 60 per cent, but predicted a gradual recovery in its traditional notebook stomping ground.… |
| EU ministers back centralisation of population databases Posted: 15 Jun 2011 02:33 AM PDT Just the one agency dearA single agency will be in charge of three EU population-tracking databases under plans approved by EU ministers.… |
| IE, Excel fixes star in bumper Patch Tuesday Posted: 15 Jun 2011 02:30 AM PDT More from the hamster wheel of patching painInternet Explorer and Excel security updates are the most pressing patching priorities from the bumper crop of 16 bulletins issued as part of Microsoft's June Patch Tuesday updates.… |
| Dell app servers getting flashy Posted: 15 Jun 2011 02:23 AM PDT NetApp watch outDell Storage Forum Dell is looking at putting flash in application servers. It will be seen as another tier of storage by EqualLogic and Compellent arrays.… |
| 8m health records go walkabout Posted: 15 Jun 2011 02:11 AM PDT Unencrypted, password-free blackmailer's starter kitA London health authority has admitted losing a laptop which contains 8.6 million health records.… |
| Xyratex offers Lustre clusters Posted: 15 Jun 2011 01:00 AM PDT HPC here we comeOEM disk subsystem supplier Xyratex, facing lost sales due to NetApp buying Engenio, is to supply complete, factory-configured Lustre cluster systems to its OEM channel for HPC customers.… |
| Asus Eee Pad Transformer Android tablet Posted: 14 Jun 2011 11:00 PM PDT Tabtop computing at its best?Review Billed as the year of the fondleslab, 2011 has so far failed to deliver on the hype. With sales of Motorola's Xoom sluggish at best, the BlackBerry Playbook too idiosyncratic for most and the Samsung Galaxy 10.1 tantalisingly conspicuous by its absence, Asus looks to steal a march on the competition with its Eee Pad Transformer TF101.… |
| ARM exec: Open standards will make us all rich Posted: 14 Jun 2011 09:20 PM PDT ARM and AMD sittin' in a tree, heterogeneous-ilyFusion Summit ARM has joined forcing with AMD to promote what they call "heterogeneous computing".… |
| States consider saner 'sexting' penalties for teens Posted: 14 Jun 2011 09:00 PM PDT Glaring hypocrisy in post Weiner-gate eraLawmakers in 21 states have considered bills this year that would lessen penalties for teen sexting, in which teenagers send or receive pictures of themselves in various states of undress, according to the Associated Press.… |
| Lenovo chases SMBs with Xeon E3 towers Posted: 14 Jun 2011 07:35 PM PDT One socket to meServer maker Lenovo is one of the first vendors out the door with entry tower servers aimed at small and medium businesses based on Intel's "Sandy Bridge-DT" Xeon E3-1200 processors.… |
| Microsoft+HTML: The antidote to iOS and Android Posted: 14 Jun 2011 07:11 PM PDT Powerful tools will ruleOpen...and Shut For a comparatively brief period of time, hardware companies like Nokia and telco operators like AT&T ruled the mobile roost. But as they're now learning – and not doubt stewing over – software is increasingly king in mobile, just like it is on the desktop. The winning strategy in this software-centric world is one that puts software developers first.… |
| 'Harmony' for open source contributors on horizon Posted: 14 Jun 2011 04:49 PM PDT Just don't mention the Canonical bitA controversial push to establish clear-cut rules for contributing to open source projects is nearing completion.… |
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