Peeping Tom Mac spyware suspect cuffed |
- Peeping Tom Mac spyware suspect cuffed
- Feds seize $15m from scareware monger's Swiss account
- Intel invests in 'personal robot' future
- A peek inside Apple's iCloud data center
- Microsoft loses Supreme patent fight over Word
- Apple backs down (a bit) on iOS subscription rules
- Win an HP TouchPad!
- World IPv6 Day fails to kill the internet
- Storage DEATHMATCH: Permabit v Isilon
- Cornish cow plucked from jaws of death by Navy chopper
- BioWare blows brains with intro cinematics for <i>Star Wars</i> MMO
- Nokia CTO replaced by Professor of Karma
- HP WebOS tablet to ship early July
- IBM to commercialize its Big Blue chip-design cluster tools
- Dell's dedupe story still unfolding
- Cloud: today, tomorrow, not yet
- Cybercrime figures 'as true as sexual-conquest scores'
- Two new Ofcom board members appointed
- BP world energy review: Chinese coal drives up CO<sub><small>2</small></sub>
- HTC does the ChaCha with Three and Vodafone
- London Ambulance Service downed by upgrade cockup
- British music collects 10 per cent more royalties
- Netherlands first European nation to adopt net neutrality
- Hunted: The Demon's Forge
- MP claims <i>NotW</i> sleuths targeted royals, politicians, Blair
- Boris-Bike firm penalised by £5m over system hiccups
- Sony Ericsson reveals handsets for TwitBookers
- Apple purges drunk-driving apps
- Dell: 10in Android dual-core tablet for China, not West
- HP assigns $2bn of finance in CIO cloud investment prod
- Sony restores online VoD shop Qriocity
- Unique imagery of Shuttle docked to ISS released
- EQu
- Another Groupon ad complaint upheld
- PlayStation Vita priced up for UK punters
- Creators: EU cares about turnips more than copyright
- Cloud tuning: getting the network up to speed
- Blu-ray sales to overtake DVD... next year
- Psychology graduates remain poor for life, study shows
- Amsterdam internet hub gets ready for 4G mobile VoIP
- Mind the GAP: Alert system saves lives
- Citibank hack lifted 200,000 names, emails, acct numbers
- Violin scoops $40m, eyes global domination
- Whitehall fraud pilots save £12m
- Oracle whips out private cloud with blades
- HTC Flyer 7in Android tablet
- Judge rules against firm that lost $345k to bank trojan
- Is Microsoft's Javascript chief killing his .NET creation?
- Apple bars WinXP users from iCloud
- EMC forges secret VMAXe arrray
| Peeping Tom Mac spyware suspect cuffed Posted: 09 Jun 2011 03:27 PM PDT Sleazy does itA PC repair technician has been charged with planting spyware on the machines of clients as part of a ruse designed to capture pictures of them in various states of undress.… |
| Feds seize $15m from scareware monger's Swiss account Posted: 09 Jun 2011 02:01 PM PDT Fugitive accused of bilking millions with fake SymantecFederal authorities have seized $15 million from a fugitive accused of bilking millions of people in scareware and counterfeit antivirus software scams.… |
| Intel invests in 'personal robot' future Posted: 09 Jun 2011 01:17 PM PDT Today, healthcare. Tomorrow, perambulating laptopsIntel Capital has made its first-ever investment in robotics, becoming the lead investor in a $13m funding round for Aldebaran Robotics, a Paris-based designer of humanoid robots.… |
| A peek inside Apple's iCloud data center Posted: 09 Jun 2011 12:36 PM PDT Teradata gear, maybe HP and NetAppAt the very end of his keynote address at Apple's WorldWide Developer Conference this week in San Francisco, Apple CEO Steve Jobs flashed up some photos of the exterior and interior of the new $1bn data center the company has built in Maiden, North Carolina to support its new iCloud storage cloud.… |
| Microsoft loses Supreme patent fight over Word Posted: 09 Jun 2011 12:35 PM PDT Have-it-both-ways defense failsAmerica's top court has rejected Microsoft's appeal against a ruling that Microsoft Word infringed on patents owned by a tiny Canadian software maker..… |
| Apple backs down (a bit) on iOS subscription rules Posted: 09 Jun 2011 12:11 PM PDT Thanks to Android. And the Financial TimesApple has backed down from its requirement that content and subscription providers who offer their wares through the Jobsian App Store must charge the same or less for that content when it's offered from a provider's own website.… |
| Posted: 09 Jun 2011 10:33 AM PDT One Reg reader just bagged fine HP kit – now it's your turnPromo This February, The Register ran an exclusive competition in which our readers had the opportunity to win an HP Slate.… |
| World IPv6 Day fails to kill the internet Posted: 09 Jun 2011 08:47 AM PDT Publicity stunt over, now the work beginsWorld IPv6 Day was the non-event everybody hoped it would be.… |
| Storage DEATHMATCH: Permabit v Isilon Posted: 09 Jun 2011 08:23 AM PDT 'Respectfully disagree with everything you say'Opinions Permabit has taken issue with our Isilon and a question of Big Data story, insisting that its Albireo deduplication technology can be applied to scale-out file data storage, and deliver a tenfold reduction in storage costs with no performance penalty.… |
| Cornish cow plucked from jaws of death by Navy chopper Posted: 09 Jun 2011 08:00 AM PDT 'A Mooooving experience', says rapier-witted chiefA Cornish cow, trapped on steep cliffs near Port Isaac, was hoisted to safety recently slung beneath a Royal Navy rescue helicopter.… |
| BioWare blows brains with intro cinematics for <i>Star Wars</i> MMO Posted: 09 Jun 2011 07:46 AM PDT Old Republic gets CG makeoverBioWare has bowled over E3 with a taste of its highly-anticipated MMO Star Wars: The Old Republic.… |
| Nokia CTO replaced by Professor of Karma Posted: 09 Jun 2011 07:38 AM PDT It's deja vu, all over againRich Green is no longer Nokia's Chief Technology Officer, and is taking a leave of absence from the troubled Finnish company. The company has confirmed that Henry Tirri, a distinguished academic and research fellow at Nokia Research, will step into his shoes. Nokia said Green was on leave for personal reasons.… |
| HP WebOS tablet to ship early July Posted: 09 Jun 2011 07:23 AM PDT TouchPad inboundHP's WebOS-based tablet - the TouchPad, as it's officially known - hits Blighty's shores early next month following its 1 July arrival in the US.… |
| IBM to commercialize its Big Blue chip-design cluster tools Posted: 09 Jun 2011 07:17 AM PDT You'll be able to provision a cluster 'in minutes'IBM is getting set to commercialize the management software behind the chip design cluster used by more than 3,000 engineers to create its homegrown server processors.… |
| Dell's dedupe story still unfolding Posted: 09 Jun 2011 06:58 AM PDT Ocarina rocket scientists look to crack the blockComment Dell's spreading of Ocarina dedupe goodness across its storage platforms has to overcome several obstacles, none of which are show-stoppers.… |
| Cloud: today, tomorrow, not yet Posted: 09 Jun 2011 06:49 AM PDT Assessing how your business moves apps into the cloudBroadcast Cloud isn't all or nothing: you can move the services and apps you want to move at the right time for your business. But which apps, and when?… |
| Cybercrime figures 'as true as sexual-conquest scores' Posted: 09 Jun 2011 06:38 AM PDT I've slept with many ladies, and caught lots of virusesMicrosoft researchers have rubbished figures from cyber-crime surveys, deeming them subject to the types of distortions that have long bedevilled sex surveys.… |
| Two new Ofcom board members appointed Posted: 09 Jun 2011 06:19 AM PDT There is nothin' like a dameThe government's culture secretary Jeremy Hunt has appointed two non-executive members to Ofcom's board.… |
| BP world energy review: Chinese coal drives up CO<sub><small>2</small></sub> Posted: 09 Jun 2011 05:57 AM PDT EU's emissions cuts paltry in comparisonLast year saw the highest surge in energy demand for almost 40 years, according to BP's 60th annual review* of energy. Despite record renewable energy production – with hydroelectric energy use rising 6.5 per cent – fossil fuel consumption surged to the highest level ever.… |
| HTC does the ChaCha with Three and Vodafone Posted: 09 Jun 2011 05:56 AM PDT Improved and contractedThe HTC ChaCha has danced its way onto the UK telco scene, with Vodafone and Three now offering the handset on monthly plans.… |
| London Ambulance Service downed by upgrade cockup Posted: 09 Jun 2011 05:43 AM PDT 999 operators driven back to pen and paperOperators at the London Ambulance Service (LAS) were forced to use pen and paper when fielding emergency 999 calls yesterday, after a computer system upgrade went horribly wrong.… |
| British music collects 10 per cent more royalties Posted: 09 Jun 2011 05:26 AM PDT Blighty rakes it in from NZ, JamaicaBritish musicians saw a 10.7 per cent increase from the public performance of recorded music last year despite the recession.… |
| Netherlands first European nation to adopt net neutrality Posted: 09 Jun 2011 05:13 AM PDT Telcos wail as revenues snatched from pawsThe Dutch Parliament yesterday agreed to make the Netherlands the first nation in Europe to officially put net neutrality principles into law. The law will force ISPs and telecom operators to ensure access to all types of content, services or applications available on the network.… |
| Posted: 09 Jun 2011 05:00 AM PDT Take a bowReview Let's get one thing straight, Hunted: The Demon's Forge is not an RPG.… |
| MP claims <i>NotW</i> sleuths targeted royals, politicians, Blair Posted: 09 Jun 2011 04:54 AM PDT Kate Middleton's privacy penetrated, claims paperPrivate detectives working for the News of the World targeted Tony Blair, the royal family and senior politicians, including a former Home Secretary, an MP claimed in the House of Commons Wednesday.… |
| Boris-Bike firm penalised by £5m over system hiccups Posted: 09 Jun 2011 04:43 AM PDT London rentacycle project not having smooth rideTransport for London is witholding £5m in payments to Serco, the company behind the capital's bike rental scheme.… |
| Sony Ericsson reveals handsets for TwitBookers Posted: 09 Jun 2011 04:32 AM PDT Walkman, Tweet manSony Ericsson has unveiled a pair of handsets today, the Mix Walkman and txt pro, both aimed at social networkers.… |
| Apple purges drunk-driving apps Posted: 09 Jun 2011 04:28 AM PDT Speeding still OK, apparentlyApple has changed the T&C for its iTunes app store to specifically exclude applications that warn of approaching police check-points.… |
| Dell: 10in Android dual-core tablet for China, not West Posted: 09 Jun 2011 04:26 AM PDT So we'll get the quad-core model, yes?Dell has confirmed it is developing 10in Windows and Android tablets - and that it plans to use them to conquer China.… |
| HP assigns $2bn of finance in CIO cloud investment prod Posted: 09 Jun 2011 04:19 AM PDT Let us take care of raising the cashHewlett-Packard's financial services arm has set aside $2bn (£1.2bn) for customers to buy its cloud technologies.… |
| Sony restores online VoD shop Qriocity Posted: 09 Jun 2011 03:57 AM PDT Normal service resumed?Sony will reactivate its Qriocity video- and music-on-demand services today following their post PSN-hack 20 April shutdown.… |
| Unique imagery of Shuttle docked to ISS released Posted: 09 Jun 2011 03:57 AM PDT First and last chance to seeVid+Pic There's been something of a wait for it, but unique imagery showing the International Space Station with a Space Shuttle docked has now been released.… |
| Posted: 09 Jun 2011 03:44 AM PDT Pump up the volumeiOS App of the Week There are dozens of equalisers, visualisers and similar audio apps available for iOS devices, but I have to tip my hat to Reg reader Danny Mann for bringing EQu to my attention, as it's one of the best audio apps I've seen of late.… |
| Another Groupon ad complaint upheld Posted: 09 Jun 2011 03:36 AM PDT Backlash: Eyelash slash trashedOnline voucher service Groupon has been whacked with yet another Advertising Standards Authority judgement.… |
| PlayStation Vita priced up for UK punters Posted: 09 Jun 2011 03:29 AM PDT Predictably poor exchange ratesPrices are up for the PlayStation Vita, with Amazon UK now accepting advance orders.… |
| Creators: EU cares about turnips more than copyright Posted: 09 Jun 2011 03:14 AM PDT Brussels sprouts more ideasWorld Copyright Summit If someone had given me a pound in Brussels this week for every time I heard the phrase "we don't want to make the same mistakes as the music industry", I'd be a richer man. Not by much, but enough for a round of drinks.… |
| Cloud tuning: getting the network up to speed Posted: 09 Jun 2011 03:00 AM PDT Get out of the slow laneMany problems in IT can be put down to the simple but flawed assumption that resources are infinite.… |
| Blu-ray sales to overtake DVD... next year Posted: 09 Jun 2011 02:38 AM PDT Packaged media on last legs?Blu-ray Disc sales will finally surpass those of DVDs next year.… |
| Psychology graduates remain poor for life, study shows Posted: 09 Jun 2011 02:37 AM PDT It's not a science, it's a liberal artA study in America has found that taking a degree in Psychology condemns you to a lifetime of being lower paid than those who study proper sciences, and lower paid than the average among university graduates.… |
| Amsterdam internet hub gets ready for 4G mobile VoIP Posted: 09 Jun 2011 02:19 AM PDT AMS-IX now offering guaranteed IP linksThe Amsterdam Internet Exchange will soon offer Service Level Agreements (SLAs) across its infrastructure - providing the guaranteed bandwidth needed if IP is going to conquer the world.… |
| Mind the GAP: Alert system saves lives Posted: 09 Jun 2011 02:10 AM PDT Azure to the rescueCase study Some time in the not-too-distant future, a brave, if chilly, soul will send the following tweet: "on #K2 summit. v tired. awesome view. cu @ basecamp". You will have the UK firm Active Web Solutions (AWS) to thank for it.… |
| Citibank hack lifted 200,000 names, emails, acct numbers Posted: 09 Jun 2011 01:58 AM PDT US card holders' personals revealedCitigroup has admitted that hackers could have grabbed thousands of account details for its credit card customers.… |
| Violin scoops $40m, eyes global domination Posted: 09 Jun 2011 01:30 AM PDT They'll all be very sorry at Fusion-io, thinks BasileComment Violin Memory, the flash array start-up, has snagged $40m in C-round funding, just three months after a $35m B-round, signalling an acceleration of its development activities: it's going to add more flash strings to its bow.… |
| Whitehall fraud pilots save £12m Posted: 09 Jun 2011 01:01 AM PDT Just £20,988m to go. This yearThe Cabinet Office says data-matching has helped its anti-fraud initiatives to stem huge losses from government funds.… |
| Oracle whips out private cloud with blades Posted: 08 Jun 2011 11:00 PM PDT No Sparc. Just IntelEverybody wants to sell preconfigured virtualized servers with integrated management. Otherwise known a private infrastructure cloud. Now Oracle does too, only it calls them Oracle Optimized Solution for Enterprise Cloud Infrastructure. Presumably, this is not meant to be abbreviated to OOSFECI.… |
| Posted: 08 Jun 2011 11:00 PM PDT Palm pilot?Review The arrival of a tablet from HTC, the company that has run the furthest and fastest since picking up the Android ball was always going to be something of a Big Deal but in some ways the new Flyer is a surprisingly odd fish.… |
| Judge rules against firm that lost $345k to bank trojan Posted: 08 Jun 2011 10:00 PM PDT Victim failed to secure account credentialsA federal magistrate judge has ruled against a small business that lost $345,000 in an online bank heist, arguing that the theft largely resulted from its own failure to secure its account credentials, according to published news reports.… |
| Is Microsoft's Javascript chief killing his .NET creation? Posted: 08 Jun 2011 09:00 PM PDT From PC to internet runtimeComment A recent discussion with a friend about the origins of Microsoft's .NET runtime prompted a little research. How did it come about?… |
| Apple bars WinXP users from iCloud Posted: 08 Jun 2011 08:00 PM PDT The past has no future on our internetMicrosoft isn't the only company denying equal online footing to Windows XP users.… |
| EMC forges secret VMAXe arrray Posted: 08 Jun 2011 05:23 PM PDT Little Big ManEMC's VMAXe box – an affordable and self-tuning entry-level VMAX, providing tier one storage features – has been stealthily released inside EMC, with a public unveiling planned for mid-July. Today, we had a peek behind the curtain.… |
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