Microsoft cites 'security' for TechNet suspension |
- Microsoft cites 'security' for TechNet suspension
- Apple 'strangleholds' worldwide battery output
- Feds declare victory over notorious Coreflood botnet
- IBM fattens up Netezza data warehouses
- Google apps split with Google File System
- America demands definition of fourth generation
- Microsoft commits to Windows makeover for Node.js
- Man admits writing script that slurped celebrity iPad data
- Three flavours of client-side virtualisation
- Google to receive US antitrust subpoenas 'in days'
- DRM-free music dream haunts Apple's app-store lock-in
- Red Hat enlists another 65 names in war on VMware
- King K super: does it refute hybrid HPC model?
- Apple closes book on iPhone-look jotter
- Nokia's Windows phone outed on video
- Fridge-sized war raygun for US bombers gets $40m
- Wi-Fi operators promise globo roaming standard
- Dutch pass net neut law
- Europe-wide ecommerce laws ahoy!
- BT wary of rights holders' site-blocking proposal
- Coalition axes Central Office of Information, 400 jobs
- Microsoft BPOS biz-cloud hit by another outage
- Sega celebrates two decades of Sonic the Hedgehog
- Harry Potter Web-2.0 'Pottermore' offering unveiled
- Make sure your data finds a safe harbour
- Virgin Media blames Activision for <cite>Call of Duty</cite> lag problems
- Aussie web host sells up after devastating hack
- Travelodge hacked, investigating
- Speed is the essence of WAR
- Ten... festival survival gadgets
- Apple pulls 'intifada' app
- Zerto offering hypervisor-level replication
- Schmidt sees NFC terminals everywhere
- Women's gaydar (for men) improves when ovulating
- Three strikes, throttling coming to US surfers
- Unlock the secrets of data encryption
- UK census data is safe
- Indians appoint Huawei as technical spycatcher
- Phone hack police make new arrest
- Winklevoss twins drop Facebook settlement appeal
- Quick Office
- Dixons reports huge losses of £224m
- Feds crack multi-million scareware ring
- Plods roll out new Police National Database
- Faking reviews? You should fret about more than illegality
- VMware taps Google ethos with Cloud Foundry
- Tritton AX Pro 5.1-channel gaming headphones
- Oracle's Android claims slashed by US patent authorities
- Man infects college PCs to steal huge database
- ANU plasma thruster gets research boost
| Microsoft cites 'security' for TechNet suspension Posted: 23 Jun 2011 03:15 PM PDT When did you last abuse your subscription?Confused about why your subscription to Microsoft's TechNet has been suspended? So is Microsoft, judging by the experience of one Reg reader.… |
| Apple 'strangleholds' worldwide battery output Posted: 23 Jun 2011 03:00 PM PDT Ultrathin revolution starved for powerUltrathin notebooks may be all the rage these days, but there's one big barrier standing in the way of their seemingly unstoppable march to market dominance: Apple has a stranglehold on the batteries needed to power them.… |
| Feds declare victory over notorious Coreflood botnet Posted: 23 Jun 2011 02:09 PM PDT Unprecedented take-down gets resultsFederal authorities say they have crippled a notorious botnet that penetrated some of the world's most sensitive organizations, thanks to an unprecedented take-down strategy that used a government-run server that communicated directly with infected PCs.… |
| IBM fattens up Netezza data warehouses Posted: 23 Jun 2011 01:52 PM PDT Fresh TwinFinsSometimes the big data is bigger than you would like, and you need to hold onto it longer than you otherwise would for regulatory or business reasons. There's nothing worse than waiting to get a moldy gob of data back off tape, and it is even worse (and less likely to be successful) on a very large bucket of said musty data.… |
| Google apps split with Google File System Posted: 23 Jun 2011 01:41 PM PDT Closed source Hadoop jilted for 'Colossus'Google has moved "most" of its online services off the Google File System that has underpinned its famously distributed back-end infrastructure for a good ten years, according to Google senior vice president of operations Urs Hölzle.… |
| America demands definition of fourth generation Posted: 23 Jun 2011 01:40 PM PDT I did not have a 4G connection with that womanA bill before the US congress will require mobile operators to state which technology they're providing, and how fast it is, as well as formally defining what's meant by "4G".… |
| Microsoft commits to Windows makeover for Node.js Posted: 23 Jun 2011 12:27 PM PDT Embraces open source dev darlingMicrosoft is helping refine Node.js for use on Windows and its Azure cloud.… |
| Man admits writing script that slurped celebrity iPad data Posted: 23 Jun 2011 12:10 PM PDT Goatse troll first to fallA San Francisco man has admitted writing the code that plucked personal data of 120,000 early iPad adopters from servers AT&T had left wide open to the attack.… |
| Three flavours of client-side virtualisation Posted: 23 Jun 2011 12:00 PM PDT Set your operating systems freeTalk about virtualisation often centres on virtually hosted desktops, in which the entire desktop is run on a back-end server. But this is by no means the only way to operate.… |
| Google to receive US antitrust subpoenas 'in days' Posted: 23 Jun 2011 11:52 AM PDT 'Wide-ranging' FTC probe imminent, says reportThe US Federal Trade Commission is on the verge of serving Google with civil subpoenas as part of a "wide-ranging" antitrust investigation into the company's search and ad practices, according to a report citing people familiar with the matter.… |
| DRM-free music dream haunts Apple's app-store lock-in Posted: 23 Jun 2011 11:23 AM PDT Choice? There's no app for thatOpen...and Shut As much as we hate the wireless carriers, we may end up hating the app store vendors even more. Why? Because they create app-level lock-in that inhibits consumers' ability to move to alternative platforms.… |
| Red Hat enlists another 65 names in war on VMware Posted: 23 Jun 2011 10:00 AM PDT Cloud lining polishedRed Hat has rolled out an updated version of Red Hat Enterprise MRG, an infrastructure platform that provides an application messaging service, a kernel that dovetails with Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) to improve the speed of low-latency applications, and a scheduler designed specifically for distributed workloads and so-called "cloud computing".… |
| King K super: does it refute hybrid HPC model? Posted: 23 Jun 2011 10:00 AM PDT GPUs are still GPU-rifficISC'11 It's been an eventful International Supercomputing Conference (ISC'11) in Hamburg. The Japanese sprang their K Computer on an unsuspecting HPC world, throwing down 8.126 Pflops on the table and raising the high-water performance mark by a factor of three.… |
| Apple closes book on iPhone-look jotter Posted: 23 Jun 2011 09:13 AM PDT Branded paper pushes envelopeApple has flexed its legal muscles and forced a company selling iPhone-esque notepads to cease trading.… |
| Nokia's Windows phone outed on video Posted: 23 Jun 2011 08:18 AM PDT Mango crushNokia revealed its first Windows Mobile handset this week, giving a select crowd a glimpse of the Mango phone in action.… |
| Fridge-sized war raygun for US bombers gets $40m Posted: 23 Jun 2011 08:07 AM PDT Pew pew pew pew pew pew WARNING OVERHEAT WARNING Aw jeezA long-running US military project aimed at producing a "refrigerator sized" laser raygun capable of being mounted on US combat aircraft has received further funding of just under $40m.… |
| Wi-Fi operators promise globo roaming standard Posted: 23 Jun 2011 08:04 AM PDT An alliance of alliancesThe Wi-Fi Alliance has allied with the Wireless Broadband Alliance to sort out some standards for Wi-Fi roaming, taking its queue from the mobile industry, which does it so well.… |
| Posted: 23 Jun 2011 07:34 AM PDT Cloggies clobber cookies, tooThe Dutch have passed a law prohibiting internet providers from slowing down traffic unless it's to ease congestion, preserve security or block spam.… |
| Europe-wide ecommerce laws ahoy! Posted: 23 Jun 2011 07:16 AM PDT Better for business and consumersAny European citizen buying from any website within Europe will be protected by the same consumer rights on prices, delivery and returns.… |
| BT wary of rights holders' site-blocking proposal Posted: 23 Jun 2011 06:44 AM PDT Go fly a kitemarkThe confidential series of digital economy meetings chaired by Culture secretary Ed Vaizey are a bit less confidential after the leak of a proposal put together by copyright holders. Vaizey wants internet companies and copyright groups to thrash out their differences.… |
| Coalition axes Central Office of Information, 400 jobs Posted: 23 Jun 2011 06:22 AM PDT Keep Britain Tidy, Aids Monolith people shown the doorThe coalition government is to close the Central Office of Information with the loss of 400 jobs.… |
| Microsoft BPOS biz-cloud hit by another outage Posted: 23 Jun 2011 06:22 AM PDT Corporate BOFHs in America and London left fumingMicrosoft cloud execs are crossing their fingers that Office 365, the pending successor to the Business Productivity Online Suite, is a safer bet for customers following yet another crash in North America.… |
| Sega celebrates two decades of Sonic the Hedgehog Posted: 23 Jun 2011 06:20 AM PDT Spiky mascot blows out the candlesSonic the Hedgehog is twenty years old today, raise your glasses and salute.… |
| Harry Potter Web-2.0 'Pottermore' offering unveiled Posted: 23 Jun 2011 06:02 AM PDT Hogwarts themed interactive gamebookface from SonyThe child wizard is going online, come October, in what author JK Rowling promises will be a collaborative creation experience, not just an online game with social media attached.… |
| Make sure your data finds a safe harbour Posted: 23 Jun 2011 06:00 AM PDT Danger in international watersThe drive to buy local is very much in vogue, even though the note of nationalism in the Buy British slogan may not sit comfortably with some.… |
| Virgin Media blames Activision for <cite>Call of Duty</cite> lag problems Posted: 23 Jun 2011 05:43 AM PDT 'Rubbish scores... dead before I get the game on screen!'Virgin Media has blamed coders of the popular Xbox Live game Call of Duty: Black Ops for slow connection issues that are hampering its service.… |
| Aussie web host sells up after devastating hack Posted: 23 Jun 2011 05:29 AM PDT Industry rallies following crippling online strikeDistressed domain hosting outfit Distribute.IT and its offshoot Click n Go have been acquired by larger competitor the Netregistry Group after a systematic hack attack brought down the company's operations.… |
| Travelodge hacked, investigating Posted: 23 Jun 2011 05:13 AM PDT Hotel chain's customers aggrievedTravelodge is investigating its IT systems to discover how customer email addresses have gone astray.… |
| Posted: 23 Jun 2011 05:00 AM PDT Data location, location, locationWAR on the cloud, Part 4 In part 3 I tested some different semi-cloudy solutions for mirrors of my site and I am in the process of replacing one dedicated WebVisions Linux machine with two virtual private system (VPS)es in separate AsiaPac countries, for less money in total. Ker-ching!… |
| Ten... festival survival gadgets Posted: 23 Jun 2011 05:00 AM PDT Happy campingProduct Round-up With Beyonce's bouncy appearance at Glastonbury just days away, the festival season is well and truly underway and unless you sell wellies, you're probably praying for sunny skies. It can't hurt to be prepared for the worst, though.… |
| Posted: 23 Jun 2011 04:51 AM PDT Developer guidelines to the rescueApple has removed an Arabic 'intifada' app from its iTunes store in response to a complaint from the Israeli government.… |
| Zerto offering hypervisor-level replication Posted: 23 Jun 2011 04:47 AM PDT Just another ESX service from the Brothers KedemThe brothers who founded replication start-up Kashya – sold to EMC in 2006 – aim to replicate their replication success with Zerto, a start-up integrating replication into VMware's hypervisor.… |
| Schmidt sees NFC terminals everywhere Posted: 23 Jun 2011 04:19 AM PDT But Google won't be paying for themEric Schmidt reckons a third of shops will be NFC enabled in 2012, but Google won't pay for the terminals – that's up to the credit card companies.… |
| Women's gaydar (for men) improves when ovulating Posted: 23 Jun 2011 04:08 AM PDT Red-hot 'mating prime materials' inflame sorority girlsTrick-cyclists in Canada have found that women become much better at telling whether a man is gay – based merely on looking at a photo of his face – when they are ovulating and fertile. In the course of determining this, the psychology profs revealed that they possess highly effective scientifically-verified texts, the mere reading of which sends nubile young sorority girls into a mating frenzy.… |
| Three strikes, throttling coming to US surfers Posted: 23 Jun 2011 04:00 AM PDT Oh, really?ISPs and media industries have agreed on a range of countermeasures to tackle copyright infringement, according to a CNET report.… |
| Unlock the secrets of data encryption Posted: 23 Jun 2011 03:58 AM PDT Be safe rather than sorryEncrypting your backup data always sounds like a good idea. It protects data and appears to be cost-free. So what's not to like?… |
| Posted: 23 Jun 2011 03:56 AM PDT Nobody knows you're a JediThe Office for National Statistics has confirmed that UK census data collected in March is safe and has not been hacked.… |
| Indians appoint Huawei as technical spycatcher Posted: 23 Jun 2011 03:23 AM PDT No one else wanted the gigHuawei will help set up a research centre in Bangalore dedicated to checking out foreign kit for covert listening technologies, something Huawei obviously knows nothing about.… |
| Phone hack police make new arrest Posted: 23 Jun 2011 03:20 AM PDT Non-journo nabbedMetropolitan police officers working for Operating Weeting have arrested a woman in West Yorkshire.… |
| Winklevoss twins drop Facebook settlement appeal Posted: 23 Jun 2011 03:19 AM PDT Lengthy legal dispute draws to a closeCameron and Tyler Winklevoss have decided not to appeal against a ruling upholding the twin brothers' $65m settlement with Facebook, after a long-running dispute with the company's founder Mark Zuckerberg.… |
| Posted: 23 Jun 2011 03:00 AM PDT Take your work awayiOS App of the Week DataViz' Documents To Go is perhaps the most popular office suite for the iPhone and iPad. I don't, count Apple's Pages, Numbers and Keynote as a 'suite' as you have to buy each one separately.… |
| Dixons reports huge losses of £224m Posted: 23 Jun 2011 02:20 AM PDT One-off charges and consumer meltdown batter PC-peddlerDixons Retail this morning reported whopping losses of £224m for fiscal 2011, after absorbing one-off charges for shutting up shop in Spain and goodwill write-downs of its Greek and online operations.… |
| Feds crack multi-million scareware ring Posted: 23 Jun 2011 02:20 AM PDT Multinational gang face 20 yearsThe Department of Justice and the FBI have cracked an international scareware ring believed to have scammed over $72m (£45m).… |
| Plods roll out new Police National Database Posted: 23 Jun 2011 02:17 AM PDT 'You'd be amazed how crap our IT was until now'The National Policing Improvement Agency, in charge of central British police databases, has announced the rollout of the new Police National Database, an intelligence-sharing tool designed to let coppers access information across force boundaries – a thing which was very difficult to do until now.… |
| Faking reviews? You should fret about more than illegality Posted: 23 Jun 2011 01:53 AM PDT Fibbing risks f***ing your reputationOpinion A recent newspaper investigation uncovered evidence that companies are paying agencies to create false online reviews for their services. But what those companies may not realise is that this is illegal and could ruin their businesses.… |
| VMware taps Google ethos with Cloud Foundry Posted: 23 Jun 2011 12:52 AM PDT One admin for every thousand machinesStructure Two years ago, VMware boss Paul Maritz recruited a pair of Google infrastructure engineers to help build what would become Cloud Foundry, the company's open source answer to "platform clouds" such as Google App Engine and Microsoft Azure. At one point, Maritz asked the pair – Derek Collison and Mark Lucovsky – how many admins Google needed to oversee its more than a million physical servers, and they estimated the ratio was about one admin for every 1,000 machines.… |
| Tritton AX Pro 5.1-channel gaming headphones Posted: 22 Jun 2011 11:00 PM PDT Four speakers per cup, anyone?Review Gaming headset outfit Tritton may not be a household name, but you can expect its profile to grow in the UK now that Mad Catz is handling the brand. The peripherals giant picked up the specialist headphone maker a year ago, pledging to bring this distinctive marque to a wider audience.… |
| Oracle's Android claims slashed by US patent authorities Posted: 22 Jun 2011 10:08 PM PDT Prior art citedOracle's broad legal front against Google has been whittled back further, this time by the US patent and trademark authorities, according to Groklaw.… |
| Man infects college PCs to steal huge database Posted: 22 Jun 2011 09:24 PM PDT Uni president targeted in brazen attackA former college student has admitted taking part in a criminal scheme that used malware to steal and sell large databases of faculty and alumni, change grades, and siphon funds from other students' accounts.… |
| ANU plasma thruster gets research boost Posted: 22 Jun 2011 07:30 PM PDT Hopefully to Europe, and beyondPlasma drives are much-beloved of both science fiction and real -world space research, for good reason: they have a good thrust-to-fuel ratio. Now, more than ten years' work by Australian National University physicists will get a research boost on its way to space via a European satellite.… |
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