NBN downstream wholesale arrives, courtesy of Nextgen |
- NBN downstream wholesale arrives, courtesy of Nextgen
- IBM: Palmisano mulls Big Blue line of succession
- Google Instant Pages: Search sites rendered <i>before</i> you click
- Citigroup hack exploited easy-to-detect web flaw
- Malware abusing Windows Autorun plummets
- World's biggest ad agency keelhauls 2000 'pirate' sites
- AMD promises 10 teraflop notebooks by 2020
- Earth may be headed into a mini Ice Age within a decade
- No Gingerbread snack for Desire owners, says HTC
- A sysadmin's top ten tales of woe
- European Council: Creating hacking tools should be criminal across EU
- VMware eats Digital Fuel
- Commons hit by rash of laptop thefts
- Quantum pounces on Pancetera
- Careless tweets cost lives, warns MoD
- Video vigilantes in trouble again
- Yorks PC maker goes titsup owing £1m+
- Cambridge startup launches world's first white space radio
- Facebook value hits $100bn, to go public in Q1 2012
- Stand by for <i>more</i> big, windfarm-driven 'leccy price rises
- Facebook hurls insults, punctuation at growth slump report
- EA: early Battlefield 3 buyers will gain no advantage
- Duke Nukem Forever
- VMware unfurls fresh Spring Java 'vFabric'
- NFC pioneer packs in proximity payments
- BT earmarks 66 more exchanges for fibre-to-the-cabinet upgrade
- Quantum recruits sales heavy hitter
- Carphone Warehouse considers retailing future
- Creationists are infiltrating US geology circles
- Guy spills on girl in weird Huawei tablet teaser
- Anonymous vows to attack Federal Reserve
- Neal's Yard Remedies its supply chain
- ARM server hero Calxeda lines up software super friends
- Cable & Wireless in talks to acquire 2e2
- Wassup with systems and service management?
- Dolphin Browser HD
- BT ramps up fibre-optic roll-out plan
- <i>Dam Busters</i> dog dubbed 'Digger'
- LulzSec hacks US Senate
- Businesses believe tribunal system favours employees
- Samsung pips rivals with 1TB internal 2.5-inch drive
- Metro Bank in schoolboy email error snafu
- Microsoft squeaks on Google Nortel sale
- Nokia and Apple bury patent beef
- Big data can be deduplicated
- Teen sells Perl cloud startup to ActiveState
- Patrick Byrne: 'See, I told you America's economy was busted'
- Intel 510 250GB Sata 3 SSD
- Intel, AMD in HP notebook smackdown
- Xeround reinvents MySQL atop Amazon cloud
| NBN downstream wholesale arrives, courtesy of Nextgen Posted: 14 Jun 2011 04:05 PM PDT Entry-level for smaller ISPsOne of the criticisms of Australia's National Broadband Network – a case prosecuted by Internode founder Simon Hackett, among others – is that product suites offered by NBN Co don't suit smaller ISPs.… |
| IBM: Palmisano mulls Big Blue line of succession Posted: 14 Jun 2011 03:30 PM PDT We have a plan. AlmostIt's no coincidence. As IBM celebrates its 100th anniversary, the Wall Street Journal is running a vague story about IBM president, CEO, and chairman Sam Palmisano "seeking advice" on how to handle the transition to a new set of executives. IBM's age has got Wall Street thinking about how old Palmisano is – and who will be running the company when he steps down.… |
| Google Instant Pages: Search sites rendered <i>before</i> you click Posted: 14 Jun 2011 02:47 PM PDT Webmasters, beware fake trafficGoogle has unveiled several new desktop and mobile search tools, including a Chrome service known as Instant Pages that attempts to accelerate your searches by rendering pages before you actually click on them.… |
| Citigroup hack exploited easy-to-detect web flaw Posted: 14 Jun 2011 02:25 PM PDT Brute force attack exposes 200,000 accountsHackers who stole bank account details for 200,000 Citigroup customers infiltrated the company's system by exploiting a garden-variety security hole in the company's website for credit card users, according to a report citing an unnamed security investigator.… |
| Malware abusing Windows Autorun plummets Posted: 14 Jun 2011 12:06 PM PDT You'll never guess whyMicrosoft saw a sharp drop in malware infections that exploit a widely abused Windows Autorun feature almost immediately after it was automatically disabled in earlier versions of the operating system.… |
| World's biggest ad agency keelhauls 2000 'pirate' sites Posted: 14 Jun 2011 11:54 AM PDT No, not GoogleAdvertising giant GroupM will stop buying advertising space on more than 2,000 global sites said to offer pirated or unlicensed content.… |
| AMD promises 10 teraflop notebooks by 2020 Posted: 14 Jun 2011 11:31 AM PDT Demos next year's Trinity and talks elephantsFusion Summit A few hours after announcing its new A-series "Llano" APUs (accelerated processing units), AMD demoed its next-generation "Trinity" processor and promised 10-teraflop notebooks by 2020.… |
| Earth may be headed into a mini Ice Age within a decade Posted: 14 Jun 2011 10:00 AM PDT Physicists say sunspot cycle is 'going into hibernation'What may be the science story of the century is breaking this evening, as heavyweight US solar physicists announce that the Sun appears to be headed into a lengthy spell of low activity, which could mean that the Earth – far from facing a global warming problem – is actually headed into a mini Ice Age.… |
| No Gingerbread snack for Desire owners, says HTC Posted: 14 Jun 2011 08:47 AM PDT We didn't put enough Ram in, admits manufacturerHTC today told Desire smartphone users they won't be getting a Gingerbread update after all because it didn't put enough memory in its handsets. Oops.… |
| A sysadmin's top ten tales of woe Posted: 14 Jun 2011 08:30 AM PDT The IT troubles I have seenGet enough people of any profession in one room and the conversation drifts inexorably towards horror stories. Everyone loves a good "…and then it all went horribly sideways" yarn, and we all have more than one.… |
| European Council: Creating hacking tools should be criminal across EU Posted: 14 Jun 2011 08:11 AM PDT Ministers want Europe-wide legal net for cybercrookeryThe making of hacking tools and computer viruses should be a criminal act across Europe, EU ministers have said.… |
| Posted: 14 Jun 2011 08:01 AM PDT Will p*ss fire and put the heat on IT budgetsServer virtualization juggernaut and cloud plumbing supply provider VMware has acquired Digital Fuel Technologies, a company that has created online applications for doing IT costing, budgeting, planning, showback and chargeback. Digital Fuel has also built systems for implementing service level agreements for IT infrastructure and tracking key metrics to give IT managers performance anxiety.… |
| Commons hit by rash of laptop thefts Posted: 14 Jun 2011 07:52 AM PDT One politico also has charm stolenThe House of Commons' perennial theft problem has become increasingly high tech, with sporadic thefts of computers in recent years turning into a veritable run on laptops, according to the latest figures.… |
| Posted: 14 Jun 2011 07:27 AM PDT Go go for VM backup to DXiQuantum is buying virtual machine backup specialist Pancetera for a measly $12m.… |
| Careless tweets cost lives, warns MoD Posted: 14 Jun 2011 07:21 AM PDT Vid campaign against the perils of social networkingThe Ministry of Defence has knocked together a couple of videos warning just how a careless tweet or unguarded Facebook comment could end up with someone on the wrong end of an AK-47.… |
| Video vigilantes in trouble again Posted: 14 Jun 2011 06:53 AM PDT CCTV leaks leads to ICO slapVideo vigilante service Internet Eyes is in trouble with data protection regulators again.… |
| Yorks PC maker goes titsup owing £1m+ Posted: 14 Jun 2011 06:48 AM PDT Little chance of payout as PC maker faceplantsWest Yorkshire-based Cube Enterprises has gone under owing more than £1.2m to trade and expense creditors, the Reg has learned.… |
| Cambridge startup launches world's first white space radio Posted: 14 Jun 2011 06:26 AM PDT 16Mb/s, 10km range, battery-powered and licence-free... just not legalNeul, the Cambridge startup staffed by some of the UK's top radio boffins, has started manufacturing a white space radio, despite the fact that there isn't a single country where such a thing would be legal to use.… |
| Facebook value hits $100bn, to go public in Q1 2012 Posted: 14 Jun 2011 06:03 AM PDT Waiting for the burp... bitchFacebook's valuation grew even larger yesterday, after a CNBC report suggested that share-watchers on Wall Street expected to see the company's planned IPO pop the $100bn mark.… |
| Stand by for <i>more</i> big, windfarm-driven 'leccy price rises Posted: 14 Jun 2011 06:02 AM PDT Think it's bad now? Just wait, says GridAnalysis The National Grid has released a report into the way things are headed for the UK's electricity supplies in the coming decade, and it's not good news for anyone who finds their 'leccy bill to be a noticeable expense.… |
| Facebook hurls insults, punctuation at growth slump report Posted: 14 Jun 2011 05:18 AM PDT 'People... wrong. Every. Single. Time!'... bitchFacebook flacks are up in arms about a report that pointed to usage growth slumping in the company's more mature markets such as the US, where six million people recently switched off from the world's largest social network.… |
| EA: early Battlefield 3 buyers will gain no advantage Posted: 14 Jun 2011 05:02 AM PDT Bye-bye boycott?EA has denied claims that gamers who pre-order Battlefield 3 will gain an advantage in play over those who don't.… |
| Posted: 14 Jun 2011 05:00 AM PDT What were we waiting for, Christmas?Review In a game bursting with 1980s macho-movie quotes and in-jokes, one line resonates far beyond Duke Nukem Forever's puerile script. Besieged by an alien invasion, the President of the United States ignores calls to beg the eponymous meathead to save the planet, lamenting, "Duke, you're a relic from a different era."… |
| VMware unfurls fresh Spring Java 'vFabric' Posted: 14 Jun 2011 05:00 AM PDT Priced by the VMVMware has unveiled a new version of its vFabric platform, a collection of software tools for building, deploying, and running SpringSource Java applications atop VMware hypervisors.… |
| NFC pioneer packs in proximity payments Posted: 14 Jun 2011 04:35 AM PDT Bling Nation failed in bring in the blingHaving failed to find a business model that worked, the pioneering proximity payment company Bling Nation has stopped processing payments – although it claims the move is temporary while it finds a workable business model.… |
| BT earmarks 66 more exchanges for fibre-to-the-cabinet upgrade Posted: 14 Jun 2011 04:27 AM PDT Bucket and spade requiredBT's Openreach wholesale division announced this morning the next 66 exchanges that it plans to upgrade as part of its fibre-to-the-cabinet (FTTC) broadband rollout.… |
| Quantum recruits sales heavy hitter Posted: 14 Jun 2011 04:05 AM PDT Marketing splits from salesQuantum has recruited a heavy-hitting sales VP to cope better with the complex deals and extended sales cycles it is seeing.… |
| Carphone Warehouse considers retailing future Posted: 14 Jun 2011 04:00 AM PDT Big yellow boxes slipping into the redDespite good results from its US expansion, and turning a French loss into a profit, annual figures from Carphone Warehouse show its ambitious plan to change European retailing is consuming a good deal more cash than anticipated.… |
| Creationists are infiltrating US geology circles Posted: 14 Jun 2011 03:35 AM PDT Grand Canyon? Caused by Noah's Flood, thatCreationists are infiltrating US geology circles in an attempt to push the theory that the Earth is no more than 10,000 years old and that recognised geological phenomena which appear to contradict this idea can be accounted for by Noah's Flood and similar Bible stories.… |
| Guy spills on girl in weird Huawei tablet teaser Posted: 14 Jun 2011 03:33 AM PDT Gadget users exchange fluidsChinese comms kit maker Huawei has posted a "sneak peek" video of its MediaTab tablet - and rather a curiosity it is too. The video, not the tablet.… |
| Anonymous vows to attack Federal Reserve Posted: 14 Jun 2011 03:32 AM PDT Blames bankers for impoverishing millionsInfamous hacktivist collective Anonymous has served notice that it intends to attack the websites of the Federal Reserve.… |
| Neal's Yard Remedies its supply chain Posted: 14 Jun 2011 03:30 AM PDT With IT department of one |
| ARM server hero Calxeda lines up software super friends Posted: 14 Jun 2011 03:00 AM PDT Preparing to battle The AtomWith Intel's top brass bad-mouthing ARM-based servers, upstart server chip maker Calxeda can't let Intel do all the talking. It has to put together an ecosystem of hardware and software partners who believe there's a place for a low-power, 32-bit ARM-based server platform in the data center.… |
| Cable & Wireless in talks to acquire 2e2 Posted: 14 Jun 2011 03:00 AM PDT Private equity backers holding out for £450mCable & Wireless Worldwide has opened acquisition talks with systems integrator 2e2, according to industry insiders.… |
| Wassup with systems and service management? Posted: 14 Jun 2011 03:00 AM PDT You tell usReader poll "Do more with less" springs to mind when describing the conflicting demands placed on IT: new devices, more services with better performance, not to mention making it all nice and secure too. And, oh, we want all that at a lower price please.… |
| Posted: 14 Jun 2011 03:00 AM PDT The Dan Marino of mobile web browsersAndroid App of the Week There's not much wrong with the stock Android web browser but if you fancy something a bit more capable you might want to consider Dolphin HD as an alternative.… |
| BT ramps up fibre-optic roll-out plan Posted: 14 Jun 2011 02:43 AM PDT 5m homes with potential access by JuneBT Openreach is to connect a further 66 exchanges - together feeding almost 1m houses and office premises - to its fibre-optic network between now and the end of 2012.… |
| <i>Dam Busters</i> dog dubbed 'Digger' Posted: 14 Jun 2011 02:36 AM PDT Guy Gibson's mutt rebranded for the US movie marketScriptwriter Stephen Fry has announced he's successfully tackled the thorny problem of just what to call Guy Gibson's dog in Peter Jackson's upcoming remake of The Dam Busters.… |
| Posted: 14 Jun 2011 02:26 AM PDT Bethesda also bashed in latest attackHacker tricksters LulzSec is baiting US lawmakers with its latest attack on the US Senate.… |
| Businesses believe tribunal system favours employees Posted: 14 Jun 2011 02:19 AM PDT 81% of companies said claimants had 'tried it on'Almost all employers think the current Employment Tribunal system favours employees over businesses, a new survey has found.… |
| Samsung pips rivals with 1TB internal 2.5-inch drive Posted: 14 Jun 2011 02:07 AM PDT Top of the leapfrog leagueSamsung is the first disk drive vendor to launch a 1TB, internal, 2-platter, 2.5-inch hard drive, leap-frogging the other four HDD suppliers.… |
| Metro Bank in schoolboy email error snafu Posted: 14 Jun 2011 01:50 AM PDT bcc fail for stripling bankMetro Bank, the newly established UK retail bank, has irked its customers with a schoolboy email error.… |
| Microsoft squeaks on Google Nortel sale Posted: 14 Jun 2011 01:49 AM PDT Sold company should honour old agreementsMicrosoft is worried that any sale of Nortel's patents could endanger the worldwide agreements it had with the company.… |
| Nokia and Apple bury patent beef Posted: 14 Jun 2011 01:48 AM PDT You drop your lawyers and I'll drop mineNokia and Apple have settled their patent dispute, with Cupertino handing over an undisclosed lump sum and agreeing to ongoing royalties.… |
| Posted: 14 Jun 2011 12:47 AM PDT Isilon view disputedOpinion Ronaldo Yamashita, an ESG analyst in Brazil, took exception to the Isilon view that big data is not compressible and sent El Reg his reasoning why he thinks this is the case.… |
| Teen sells Perl cloud startup to ActiveState Posted: 13 Jun 2011 11:56 PM PDT Mojolicious PhenonaMeet Daniil Kulchenko. He was an HTML programmer at age six. He was a freelance Linux systems administrator at 11. And at 15, he founded his first business: Phenona, a platform-as-a-service for building and hosting Perl applications.… |
| Patrick Byrne: 'See, I told you America's economy was busted' Posted: 13 Jun 2011 11:13 PM PDT The battle beyond naked shortsOverstock.com CEO Patrick Byrne has declared another victory in his six-year fight to expose fundamental flaws in the American financial markets.… |
| Posted: 13 Jun 2011 11:00 PM PDT Performance benefitsReview Having recently covered Crucial's new M4 SSD, it seemed only natural to go further in-depth with it's Intel counterpart, the 510 series. Both of these drives feature Marvell's 88SS9174 controller, with the Intel drive using the BKK2 revision, and a SATA 6Gb/s interface.… |
| Intel, AMD in HP notebook smackdown Posted: 13 Jun 2011 10:00 PM PDT Which is faster? 'You tell me' says AMDIn early May, HP released a flurry of updated, redesigned Intel-based business notebooks. Now, AMD – Intel's microprocessor rival – will power these machines as well.… |
| Xeround reinvents MySQL atop Amazon cloud Posted: 13 Jun 2011 07:43 PM PDT NoSQL. Without the NoUpstart database maker Xeround has taken the wraps off the 1.0 release of its flagship product, but you can't install it in your local data center. It's only available as a service, from public clouds like Amazon's EC2.… |
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