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- Oracle drops OpenOffice on Apache, shuns forkers
- NYSE Euronext fluffs financial cloud
- Marathon Facebook scam targets Mac, Windows users
- Google Apps end love for Firefox 3.5, IE7, and Safari 3
- Google rolls its Facebook mimic onto rest of web
- Mac trojan evades Apple's brand new security fix
- Yahoo! downs! mail! servers! for! essential! <i>and</i> extensive! work!
- Acer writes off $150m as audit finds 'abnormalities'
- Police ROBOT attacks and BURNS DOWN HOUSE
- Second defence contractor targeted in RSA SecurID-based hack
- Earth receives picture postcard of Milky Way
- Google open sources $68.2m realtime comm platform
- What is UltraViolet™ and why should you care?
- Nokia betas some DLNA love
- Twitter bags internet advertising outfit
- Barnsley clamps down on foul-mouthed fu*king locals
- Wave of Trojans breaks over Android
- IBM guns down Neon's mainframe accelerator in Texas
- Biodegradable products are often worse for the planet
- Space shuttle Endeavour: 'An incredible ship'
- Stealth-cam software snaps laptop looter
- Privacy group wins $500k from Google Buzz settlement
- Acer Iconia Tab A500 10in Android tablet
- Mesh Computers goes titsup
- Acer tweaks tablet with MeeGo move
- Engineering students design tent for camping on Mars
- Google's Eric Schmidt 'screwed up' over social network FAIL
- FCC demands AT&T prove spectrum scarcity claims
- Notorious Russian spammer 'admits child abuse'
- Speck ToughSkin iPhone 4 case
- Verity Stob and the super subjunction
- Boeing reveals partners for MoD logistics
- <i>El Reg</i> pays by phone – mmmm, free cookies!
- Canadian prof: Wikipedia makes kids study harder
- Tru unveils iPad local rate data-pricing for UK, US and Oz
- 3D printer produces working house keys
- EMC and NetApp on a roll
- Seagate, WD should put a gun to Brussels' head
- Space shuttle Endeavour's long journey is over
- Logitech Z906 5.1 surround speakers kit
- IPO finally begins peer review pilot to test patent applications
- Server makers wrap iron around Nvidia GPUs
- US Supremes add 'willful blindness' to patent law
- Australia launches digital blueprint
- Twitpic T&Cs spark teacup storm
- Apple nemesis sues iOS, Mac, and Android devs
- HP issues annual exploding battery recall
- Germany’s rights-holders hit freetards hard
- Danes ban busty babes, Oz okays for teens
| Oracle drops OpenOffice on Apache, shuns forkers Posted: 01 Jun 2011 02:55 PM PDT LibreOffice re-unification rejectedOracle is shunting OpenOffice onto the Apache Software Foundation, sidelining the original OpenOffice community that forked of the project as LibreOffice last year.… |
| NYSE Euronext fluffs financial cloud Posted: 01 Jun 2011 02:23 PM PDT Amazon for hedge fundsNYSE Technologies – the research, development, and IT operations arm of the NYSE Euronext exchanges in New York and London – has fluffed up a cloud specifically for trading firms.… |
| Marathon Facebook scam targets Mac, Windows users Posted: 01 Jun 2011 02:11 PM PDT Social network slow to kill equal opportunity attackFacebook users have been under a sustained attack that attempts to install malware on their Mac- or Windows-based machines by luring them to salacious videos.… |
| Google Apps end love for Firefox 3.5, IE7, and Safari 3 Posted: 01 Jun 2011 12:48 PM PDT Only newest (and next to newest) browsersBeginning August 1, Google's online Apps suite will only support the current stable version of Chrome, Firefox, Safari, and Internet Explorer and the previous major release of each of these browsers.… |
| Google rolls its Facebook mimic onto rest of web Posted: 01 Jun 2011 12:14 PM PDT Zuckerberg envy extendedGoogle has rolled its Facebook-mimicking "+1" button onto third-party websites.… |
| Mac trojan evades Apple's brand new security fix Posted: 01 Jun 2011 09:53 AM PDT Welcome to the mass market, CupertinoJust hours after Apple updated a security update to protect Mac users against a rash of scareware attacks, a new variant began circulating that completely bypasses the malware-blocking measure.… |
| Yahoo! downs! mail! servers! for! essential! <i>and</i> extensive! work! Posted: 01 Jun 2011 09:01 AM PDT Some users frozen out of inboxes due to 'scheduled maintenance'Yahoo! has bewildered some of its email users by freezing them out of their accounts for what it has described as "scheduled maintenance" to the system.… |
| Acer writes off $150m as audit finds 'abnormalities' Posted: 01 Jun 2011 08:33 AM PDT EMEA warehouses bulging with kitAcer CEO and Chairman JT Wang has relinquished his remuneration package including bonuses from 2010 after the firm unearthed "abnormalities" in channel inventory across EMEA that will cost it US $150m (£91m) to write off.… |
| Police ROBOT attacks and BURNS DOWN HOUSE Posted: 01 Jun 2011 08:32 AM PDT Fugitive tracked by heat sensors escapes in conflagA mobile home in Tennessee was left a smoking ruin last month after it was attacked by a heavily armed police robot firing advanced triple-warhead gas grenades.… |
| Second defence contractor targeted in RSA SecurID-based hack Posted: 01 Jun 2011 08:20 AM PDT L-3 Communications also blames token-based attack...Defence giant L-3 Communications has become the second victim of an attempted hack attack that relied on the RSA SecurID hack that took place earlier this year.… |
| Earth receives picture postcard of Milky Way Posted: 01 Jun 2011 07:57 AM PDT Spiral galaxy bears uncanny resemblance to our own homeAstronomers at the European Southern Observatory (ESO) have agreeably given we Earthlings a pretty good idea of what our Milky Way galaxy would look like, were we looking at it from the depths of intergalactic space.… |
| Google open sources $68.2m realtime comm platform Posted: 01 Jun 2011 07:46 AM PDT Audio and video chatter inside the browserGoogle has open sourced a framework for realtime video and audio inside the browser. Known as WebRTC, the framework is based on technology the company acquired with its $68.2 million purchase of Global IP Solutions (GIPS) last year.… |
| What is UltraViolet™ and why should you care? Posted: 01 Jun 2011 07:33 AM PDT Tesco buys into Hollywood's masterplanUltraViolet is the most important media service you've probably never heard of – a grand plan for Hollywood to get everything right that the music business has got wrong.… |
| Posted: 01 Jun 2011 07:18 AM PDT Throw it up onto the big screenUsers of Nokia's Symbian handsets can now get some DLNA action. With Nokia Play To, from the company's BetaLabs, they can throw content onto the TV screen like everyone else.… |
| Twitter bags internet advertising outfit Posted: 01 Jun 2011 07:07 AM PDT Micro-blogging site buys AdGrok, tightens loose screwsTwitter is trying to unlock its advertising conundrum with the buyout of an internet ad company for an undisclosed sum.… |
| Barnsley clamps down on foul-mouthed fu*king locals Posted: 01 Jun 2011 06:40 AM PDT On-the-spot fines for verbal miscreantsThe good burghers of Barnsley had better watch their mouths for the next month, because anyone caught effing and blinding in an intimidatory fashion could be slapped with an 80 quid on-the-spot fine.… |
| Wave of Trojans breaks over Android Posted: 01 Jun 2011 06:24 AM PDT Fake security updates and other Windows malware-style trickeryFraudsters have cranked up production of malware targeting Android devices with with a rash of Trojans, many of which apply tricks long used against Windows PCs.… |
| IBM guns down Neon's mainframe accelerator in Texas Posted: 01 Jun 2011 06:06 AM PDT SET zPrime SHUTDOWNThe hired legal guns were blazing, and when the smoke cleared, the US District Court for the Western District of Texas, located in Austin, granted a permanent injunction in favor of IBM in a long-running lawsuit Neon Enterprise Software, killing the controversial zPrime mainframe acceleration program.… |
| Biodegradable products are often worse for the planet Posted: 01 Jun 2011 05:55 AM PDT Maybe choose a plastic cup, not a cardboard oneStateside boffins say that, contrary to popular perception, it would often be better for the planet if people avoided using biodegradable products compliant with the recommended US government guidelines.… |
| Space shuttle Endeavour: 'An incredible ship' Posted: 01 Jun 2011 05:23 AM PDT 25 missions and 122 million miles for 'amazing vehicle'Space shuttle Endeavour flew into retirement yesterday when it touched down at Kennedy Space Center at the end of its 25th and final flight.… |
| Stealth-cam software snaps laptop looter Posted: 01 Jun 2011 05:15 AM PDT What a mugA laptop thief has been busted after a security application activated the computer's built-in camera, snapped shots of the crook and sent them back to the original owner.… |
| Privacy group wins $500k from Google Buzz settlement Posted: 01 Jun 2011 05:11 AM PDT That's a whole lotta wholesome, EPIC beansThe Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) is to be awarded $500,000 in a class action settlement over Google's Buzz social network.… |
| Acer Iconia Tab A500 10in Android tablet Posted: 01 Jun 2011 05:00 AM PDT Well-connected Honeycomb fondleslabReview PC manufacturers clearly haven't been reading the script. They were supposed to over-hype their forthcoming Android 3.0 tablets as iPad-killers (check!), miss their initial launch dates (check!) and then let us all down by delivering a hunk of poorly designed, obsolete tat (er…).… |
| Posted: 01 Jun 2011 04:55 AM PDT Chill wind blows up North CircularComponents distribution minnow PC Peripherals has snapped up the brand of MESH Computers – along with certain assets – after the recession and the market shift to tablets forced the traditional system builder to call in the administrators.… |
| Acer tweaks tablet with MeeGo move Posted: 01 Jun 2011 04:46 AM PDT Mobile Linux fondleslab joins Iconia ranksAcer has revealed the first product in its forthcoming M Series - a 10in tablet that runs on MeeGo, the mobile-centric version of Linux.… |
| Engineering students design tent for camping on Mars Posted: 01 Jun 2011 04:41 AM PDT Meteor and radiation proof, less need to drink own urineStudent engineers in the States say they've built the perfect tent for camping on Mars. The inflatable habitat podule is apparently radiation-proof and tough enough that pesky meteors simply bounce off it: and it features a lightweight Sabatier reactor capable of producing water from the Martian atmosphere.… |
| Google's Eric Schmidt 'screwed up' over social network FAIL Posted: 01 Jun 2011 04:12 AM PDT Facebook do evil, we don't do evil, but we know evil. Ergo, we're evil, right?Google's Eric Schmidt has shouldered the blame for the company's lack of effort in nailing a successful social networking strategy to compete with rival Facebook.… |
| FCC demands AT&T prove spectrum scarcity claims Posted: 01 Jun 2011 04:06 AM PDT Emperor's clothes looking a little sheerThe US regulator has asked AT&T to provide documented proof of the forthcoming spectrum crunch, given that shortage justifies provides much of the justification for its merger with T-Mobile.… |
| Notorious Russian spammer 'admits child abuse' Posted: 01 Jun 2011 04:03 AM PDT Used basement of his St Petersburg office as 'dungeon', say copsA notorious Russian spammer faces a long prison sentence after he admitted to sexually abusing underage girls.… |
| Posted: 01 Jun 2011 04:00 AM PDT True gripTxt Take Daily Product reviews in 140 characters...… |
| Verity Stob and the super subjunction Posted: 01 Jun 2011 03:28 AM PDT Excuse me, Miss, but your pronouns need upgradingStob Just downloaded the beta version of English V3.31, and I have to say I am very excited about it. This is definitely going to be a feather in the cap of Anglophones everywhere, and way better than the notorious V2.99 release of French (or the 'deux point neufty-neuf' as it has become known). There's a ton of new features to talk about, so let me dive in right away with some toothsome details.… |
| Boeing reveals partners for MoD logistics Posted: 01 Jun 2011 03:18 AM PDT Seven companies join defence business in military IT programmeBoeing Defence has announced that seven IT companies will share in its contract with the Ministry of Defence (MoD) as delivery partner for the Logistics Network Enabled Capability (LNEC).… |
| <i>El Reg</i> pays by phone – mmmm, free cookies! Posted: 01 Jun 2011 03:15 AM PDT Slow tap dance for UK's first contactless paymentsThe UK's first pay-by-phone retail service launched last week, but based on our experience we won't be dumping our coins and notes any day soon.… |
| Canadian prof: Wikipedia makes kids study harder Posted: 01 Jun 2011 03:06 AM PDT Provided you use it as an exam, not an info sourceA Canadian English prof says that the use of Wikipedia, in defiance of accepted wisdom, makes students produce better work.… |
| Tru unveils iPad local rate data-pricing for UK, US and Oz Posted: 01 Jun 2011 02:33 AM PDT 'Local anywhere' outfit does fondleslabsMulti-country "local anywhere" mobile operator Tru is launching a £20-a-month iPad bundle that currently provides local rate broadband in the UK, US and Australia. A similar package will be available in the US "shortly", according to the company, which also intends to add Spain, Hong Kong and the Netherlands to its roster of countries in Q3 of this year, with a further 20 in 2012.… |
| 3D printer produces working house keys Posted: 01 Jun 2011 02:29 AM PDT Bolt from the blueprint3D printing tools have been used to roll out working house keys, meaning trips to the hardware store could soon be replaced by a straightforward PC set-up.… |
| Posted: 01 Jun 2011 02:08 AM PDT Storage pure plays kicking assPure play storage suppliers EMC and NetApp are outpacing the server and storage system players Dell, HP and IBM, with Compellent, 3PAR, Storwize and XIV the main catch-up bets for the three followers.… |
| Seagate, WD should put a gun to Brussels' head Posted: 01 Jun 2011 01:06 AM PDT How can the EC meddle in acquisitions beyond its borders?Opinion What if the European Commission's competition authority finds against Seagate and Western Digital in its acquisition investigations? Could it ban their products from Europe?… |
| Space shuttle Endeavour's long journey is over Posted: 01 Jun 2011 12:20 AM PDT Touches down at end of final missionSpace shuttle Endeavour touched down at 06:34 GMT today, at the end of its final mission.… |
| Logitech Z906 5.1 surround speakers kit Posted: 31 May 2011 11:00 PM PDT A blast for PCs and consolesReview Thinking of upgrading your PC's speakers or just want a low cost surround sound set up for use with a TV and games console? Then Logitech might have what you're after with the Z906, the follow up to the company's popular Z-5500 system.… |
| IPO finally begins peer review pilot to test patent applications Posted: 31 May 2011 11:00 PM PDT Getting experts to wade in on invention claimsThe UK's Intellectual Property Office (IPO) is finally opening its patent process up to a collaborative internet project, after four long years of chin-stroking.… |
| Server makers wrap iron around Nvidia GPUs Posted: 31 May 2011 09:00 PM PDT How many Teslas can you screw into a chassis?Supercomputer buyers don't want to spend months building hybrid CPU-GPU clusters. They want to buy them pre-integrated and ready to start flopping within a matter… |
| US Supremes add 'willful blindness' to patent law Posted: 31 May 2011 08:28 PM PDT Deep fryer leads to higher standard of proofIn a case supported by HP, eBay, Red Hat, Yahoo!, and General Motors, the US Supreme Court has issued a ruling that may make it more difficult for a company to be sued for inducing another company to infringe a patent.… |
| Australia launches digital blueprint Posted: 31 May 2011 05:30 PM PDT 'NBN the only solution'Australia is gunning to be ranked in the top five OECD countries by 2020 for broadband connections to the home and for the number of businesses using online opportunities as part of the Government's freshly launched National Digital Economy Strategy.… |
| Twitpic T&Cs spark teacup storm Posted: 31 May 2011 05:07 PM PDT Your pics are our pics: so what's new?Twitpic has sparked outrage among the Twitter user community by changing its terms and conditions.… |
| Apple nemesis sues iOS, Mac, and Android devs Posted: 31 May 2011 04:42 PM PDT Lodsys in freak $1,000 wager with Jobsian codersLodsys – the patent holder already pressuring various iOS and Android app developers to turn over licensing fees – has now sued seven small developers in the patent-friendly Eastern District of Texas, and in truly bizarre fashion it has told targeted iOS developers that if its patent claims are wrong, it will pay them $1,000 apiece.… |
| HP issues annual exploding battery recall Posted: 31 May 2011 04:41 PM PDT If you checked yours before, check it againHP came thiiis close to getting out of the month without its traditional May laptop-battery recall – but it didn't quite make it.… |
| Germany’s rights-holders hit freetards hard Posted: 31 May 2011 04:33 PM PDT ISPs hand over 300k addresses each monthWhile other countries debate how to go after freetards, Germany's ISPs are handing over user data for 300,000 accounts per month, according to an announcement by that country's ISP association, Eco.… |
| Danes ban busty babes, Oz okays for teens Posted: 31 May 2011 04:00 PM PDT Between titillation and kiddie pornAustralia's gaming rating confusion has been highlighted yet again with the revelation that a Nintendo game, withdrawn from sale in Sweden, Denmark and Norway due to child pornography concerns, is on sale in Australia with a PG rating.… |
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