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- Yahoo! ejects Hadoop engineers atop open source dream
- Microserver chip performance smackdown
- Google Apps v Microsoft Office 365: Rumble in the enterprise
- Groupon India publishes 300,000 user passwords
- Oracle Solaris 11 to abandon elderly servers
- Google activates half million Androids a day
- Produce purveyors create edible iPhone
- ISS crew man the lifeboat
- Mastercard blitzed again in further DDoS attack
- Renault pledges Fluence ZE will be UK's cheapest e-car
- Teenager tries to trade virginity for iPhone
- MS advises drastic measures to fight hellish Trojan
- Umbrella-wielding Steve Ballmer gets cloudy with Office 365
- Tablets for work: time for a clean slate?
- Punters to spend $2.1 trillion on e-tat this year
- ICO orders release of (mostly useless) weather station data
- Gambling companies must be extra careful with personal data
- LightSquared faces challenge from the House
- <i>El Reg</i> talks chips with Intel server strategist
- Acer slides 16GB Iconia Tab A500 onto UK shelves
- Actor Simon Pegg warns over banking Trojan Twitter hack
- FEAR 3
- Smartphone security gets better: Blanket bans no longer inevitable
- Blow to the head makes people feel good about religion
- Brewer bashes Beeb over anti-beer bias
- MySpace sacks more
- Kim Cameron returns to Microsoft as indie ID expert
- The Network is the Problem: Barriers to cloud adoption
- Cable & Wireless boss falls on sword
- Drunken bust-up woman sprays cops with breast milk
- Eco investors demand (even) more sweeteners for low carbon energy
- Royal Mail tells The Register how it's using private cloud
- Proper scientists: Old folk should drink MORE, not less
- Visa pushing NFC operator bypass on French
- Cloud storage survey FAIL: May have to, er, back up
- Time to lower the data centre’s temperature
- McAfee to wipe mess off .xxx pr0n sites
- Office 365: Can Microsoft replace Microsoft?
- Sony goes slim with the Vaio Z laptop
- French search engine seeks multi-million euro damages from Google
- Freedoms Bill: Gov may U-turn on personal data and DNA retention
- Mole maintains iPad 3, iPhone 5 out this year
- SEC investigates disgraced Systemax exec
- US Navy invents 'Zero-Power Autonomous' ocean probe
- Apple quietly Trims MacBook Air SSDs
- Lightbox Photos
- Music on plastic discs still popular, apparently
- Apple's MobileMe has a wobble
- Liam Maxwell appointed to advise on gov ICT
- Oracle to overhaul reseller rebates
| Yahoo! ejects Hadoop engineers atop open source dream Posted: 28 Jun 2011 02:41 PM PDT Hortonworks hears a Big Data revolutionYahoo! is spinning off its core Hadoop engineering team, creating a new independent company that will seek to rapidly expand the scope of the open source distributed number-crunching platform and ultimately bring it to a much wider audience. In growing the Hadoop "ecosystem" through increased work on the core Apache-based open source project, the company hopes to eventually make its money by providing training and support for the platform.… |
| Microserver chip performance smackdown Posted: 28 Jun 2011 01:29 PM PDT Tilera v Atom v ARM, with worried Xeon watchingThere's been a lot of talk about how well future servers based on Atom, ARM, Tilera, and other processors might compete against workhorse Xeon or Opteron servers. What there hasn't been a lot of is benchmark data that shows how those so-called microserver processors stack up – until now.… |
| Google Apps v Microsoft Office 365: Rumble in the enterprise Posted: 28 Jun 2011 12:00 PM PDT To web or kinda sorta to webReview Microsoft's Office 365 has come out of beta. But does it have what it takes to counter Google Apps?… |
| Groupon India publishes 300,000 user passwords Posted: 28 Jun 2011 11:58 AM PDT Stored in the clear, indexed by GoogleGroupon subsidiary Sosasta.com accidentally published a database containing the email addresses and clear-text passwords of 300,000 users and the cache was indexed by Google.… |
| Oracle Solaris 11 to abandon elderly servers Posted: 28 Jun 2011 11:11 AM PDT Sun sets on UltraSparc I through IV+Oracle is putting the finishing spit and polish on its impending Solaris 11 Unix operating system, but if you're hoping to plunk it on some vintage iron – or even some machines that are really not so old at all – you're going to be disappointed.… |
| Google activates half million Androids a day Posted: 28 Jun 2011 10:05 AM PDT Little credit to tablets, presumablyActivations of Android-based devices now exceed half a million per day, and are growing by 4.4 per cent each week.… |
| Produce purveyors create edible iPhone Posted: 28 Jun 2011 09:48 AM PDT Fruit cocktail combines to make an AppleThe world is getting rather fruity over September's reported release of the iPhone 5, yet nobody has gone quite as far as these guys.… |
| Posted: 28 Jun 2011 08:44 AM PDT Space junk prompts retreat to Soyuz capsuleThe crew of the International Space Station were obliged to take refuge in the docked Russian Soyuz capsule this afternoon, as space junk passed within 250 metres of the orbiting outpost.… |
| Mastercard blitzed again in further DDoS attack Posted: 28 Jun 2011 08:39 AM PDT History repeatingMasterCard's website became difficult to reach on Tuesday following the launch of an apparent denial of service attack.… |
| Renault pledges Fluence ZE will be UK's cheapest e-car Posted: 28 Jun 2011 08:36 AM PDT 'Ullo, Jean, got a new motor?Renault has price up its Fluence ZE to claim the EV will be the cheapest e-car in the UK when it arrives next year.… |
| Teenager tries to trade virginity for iPhone Posted: 28 Jun 2011 08:19 AM PDT My cherry for your AppleReplace 'Dairylea' with 'iPhone' and the cheese-spread's slogan would be an accurate insight into the current state of youthful consumerism: kids will literally do anything for Apple kit.… |
| MS advises drastic measures to fight hellish Trojan Posted: 28 Jun 2011 08:04 AM PDT Kill it with fire!Microsoft is advising users to reinstall Windows if they happen to be unfortunate enough to get hit by a particularly vicious rootkit.… |
| Umbrella-wielding Steve Ballmer gets cloudy with Office 365 Posted: 28 Jun 2011 07:42 AM PDT Microsoft boss prepares for webby downpourPrepackaged software giant Microsoft uncorked its latest online business productivity service, dubbed Office 365, today.… |
| Tablets for work: time for a clean slate? Posted: 28 Jun 2011 07:38 AM PDT They're coming anywayThere's a revolution going on in the enterprise, driven - usually - by the Apple iPad. Tablets are becoming increasingly visible at work but are they business tools or toys? Can they bring benefits to the business or are they just a security hole?… |
| Punters to spend $2.1 trillion on e-tat this year Posted: 28 Jun 2011 07:36 AM PDT Way more money spent on digital plumbing than what's piped throughWorld+Dog will spend $2.1 trillion (£1.3 trillion) on digital information and entertainment products and services this year, and the crazy part is most of that money will be spent on connectivity.… |
| ICO orders release of (mostly useless) weather station data Posted: 28 Jun 2011 07:13 AM PDT CRU cuts of weather datasets released into the wildThe Information Commissioner's Office has ordered the University of East Anglia to release a portion of a weather dataset. The University's Climatic Research Unit had shared the data with Georgia Tech but refused to release it more widely. A leading Oxford physicist, Professor Jonathan Jones, made the successful request, which the ICO has now published.… |
| Gambling companies must be extra careful with personal data Posted: 28 Jun 2011 06:52 AM PDT Protect punters' info while palming their cashOpinion Companies have to protect the personal data they collect in proportion to its sensitivity, and gambling companies must be particularly attentive to information security.… |
| LightSquared faces challenge from the House Posted: 28 Jun 2011 06:23 AM PDT Yet another hurdle to be jumpedTwo US Representatives have tabled an amendment which will stop box 'o frogs wireless plan LightSquared from ever building its network, at least until it can prove a negative.… |
| <i>El Reg</i> talks chips with Intel server strategist Posted: 28 Jun 2011 06:19 AM PDT 2nd generationVideo Watch Video … |
| Acer slides 16GB Iconia Tab A500 onto UK shelves Posted: 28 Jun 2011 06:14 AM PDT Dual-core fondleslab flutters inAcer has stocked retailer's shelves with a 16GB version of its Iconia Tab A500, available now to UK punters from £350.… |
| Actor Simon Pegg warns over banking Trojan Twitter hack Posted: 28 Jun 2011 06:12 AM PDT Malware that can 'shrink iPads' not altogether funnyZombie movie star Simon Pegg was obliged to warn his followers after his Twitter feed was hacked to post links to malware.… |
| Posted: 28 Jun 2011 06:00 AM PDT Fright or flight?Review If you've not followed developments in the FEAR franchise of late then you might be left somewhat puzzled by FEAR 3's initial goings-on – the game plunging the player into a set-up which is never particularly embellished or explained. Waking in a prison, series protagonist 'Point Man' must not only put up with his rather mundane moniker, but also once more set out in pursuit of his apparitional mother Alma – she being the root of all evil, cause for the end of days and so forth.… |
| Smartphone security gets better: Blanket bans no longer inevitable Posted: 28 Jun 2011 05:50 AM PDT King Canute approach to iOS and Android no longer a runner, says SymantecBuilt-in mobile device security is better than that of PCs, but still insufficient, according to Symantec. A new whitepaper from the net security giant, entitled A Window into Mobile Device Security: Examining the security approaches employed in Apple's iOS and Google's Android, looks at the security strategies behind Apple's iOS and Google's Android.… |
| Blow to the head makes people feel good about religion Posted: 28 Jun 2011 05:37 AM PDT Brain damage, satisfaction and 'higher power' linkedPsychologists in the US report that people who have suffered a serious blow to the head and who have "a sense of connection to a higher power" tend to report feelings of much greater life satisfaction.… |
| Brewer bashes Beeb over anti-beer bias Posted: 28 Jun 2011 05:24 AM PDT Wine whiners want trad telly tippleA Cumbria brewer has levelled serious charges against the BBC that it is deliberately ignoring beer in favour of imported plonk.… |
| Posted: 28 Jun 2011 05:19 AM PDT More bad news for Murdoch's web grabThe social network everyone used before they found Facebook is expected to sack another 150 staff tomorrow.… |
| Kim Cameron returns to Microsoft as indie ID expert Posted: 28 Jun 2011 05:06 AM PDT Keeping his hand in Redmond's cryptography pondMicrosoft's erstwhile chief architect of identity Kim Cameron has resurfaced as an independent adviser to... Microsoft.… |
| The Network is the Problem: Barriers to cloud adoption Posted: 28 Jun 2011 05:00 AM PDT Survey resultsReg Research How can cloud computing be a sensible option when it makes you so dependent on the network, and often even the public internet? If the comms slow down, the user experience takes a dive. Lose the link completely, and you're stuffed.… |
| Cable & Wireless boss falls on sword Posted: 28 Jun 2011 04:57 AM PDT Third profit warning and outCable & Wireless head honcho Jim Marsh has quit following the telco's third profit warning in the last year.… |
| Drunken bust-up woman sprays cops with breast milk Posted: 28 Jun 2011 04:42 AM PDT Ohio jub juice bandit faces substantial rack of chargesAn Ohio woman is facing a substantial rack of charges after allegedly getting drunk at a wedding reception, assaulting her husband and then spraying cops with breast milk.… |
| Eco investors demand (even) more sweeteners for low carbon energy Posted: 28 Jun 2011 04:35 AM PDT Help us to help you save GaiaWhen Nye Bevan created Britain's National Health Service in 1948 he faced resistance from private consultants – and famously had to "stuff their mouths with gold" to win them over. But at least there was a universal-payer health care system at the end of it. Renewable energy today is a commercial basket case*, and potential investors need yet more more public money if they're to support it, according to a new report.… |
| Royal Mail tells The Register how it's using private cloud Posted: 28 Jun 2011 04:30 AM PDT Back by public demand: this time it's virtualBroadcast Holmes and Watson. Kirk and Spock. The Chuckle Brothers. And now, Steel and Knaresborough.… |
| Proper scientists: Old folk should drink MORE, not less Posted: 28 Jun 2011 04:19 AM PDT UK trick-cyclists' wrinkly booze crackdown slammedSerious international researchers into the health effects of alcohol have uncompromisingly slammed a recent call by British trick-cyclists for severe restrictions on drinking by elderly people.… |
| Visa pushing NFC operator bypass on French Posted: 28 Jun 2011 04:15 AM PDT iPhone gets proximity payments in FranceVisa is planning trials of microSD-based NFC chips in Nice, working with French bank Groupe BPCE to put payments into the pockets of punters without reference to the network operators.… |
| Cloud storage survey FAIL: May have to, er, back up Posted: 28 Jun 2011 04:09 AM PDT Doh! Own numbers show local disk costs plummetingComment The self-seeking company-commissioned survey is anathema to all right-thinking people. This is especially so when journos simply repeat its assertions without examining it for bias and agenda.… |
| Time to lower the data centre’s temperature Posted: 28 Jun 2011 04:01 AM PDT Keep cool with the latest in serversAt first glance the data centre power and cooling equation seems straightforward. More processing power calls for more energy, resulting in a need for costly cooling measures.… |
| McAfee to wipe mess off .xxx pr0n sites Posted: 28 Jun 2011 04:00 AM PDT Free virus scan bundled with new domainsICM Registry, which plans to start selling .xxx domain names later this year, has inked a deal with McAfee to provide a free daily security scan for every website at a .xxx address.… |
| Office 365: Can Microsoft replace Microsoft? Posted: 28 Jun 2011 04:00 AM PDT The desktop roadblockWhen it comes to selling new versions of Office, Microsoft's toughest competitor isn't IBM or Google. It's Microsoft.… |
| Sony goes slim with the Vaio Z laptop Posted: 28 Jun 2011 03:49 AM PDT Gains Media Dock add-on for desktop powerSony has dressed up its latest supermodel laptop and when it comes to the catwalk of consumer electronics, there are no moral complications in supporting the ultra-skinny.… |
| French search engine seeks multi-million euro damages from Google Posted: 28 Jun 2011 03:34 AM PDT 1plusV pleads with Mountain View to end 'suffocation' of marketA French search engine is demanding damages of €295m from Google, in a legal spat over Mountain View's dominance of the market.… |
| Freedoms Bill: Gov may U-turn on personal data and DNA retention Posted: 28 Jun 2011 03:31 AM PDT Law and order: Coalition's intentFollowing last week's U-turn on prison sentencing, I think there is a possibility that the government could change its approach to the retention of personal data on the DNA database. Ministers are clearly worried that they are being labelled as "soft on law and order", especially by the tabloid press.… |
| Mole maintains iPad 3, iPhone 5 out this year Posted: 28 Jun 2011 03:27 AM PDT Busy September for Apple?Evidence continues to dribble in that Apple is planning to launch not only the iPhone 5 but also a new iPad this year.… |
| SEC investigates disgraced Systemax exec Posted: 28 Jun 2011 03:17 AM PDT Former reseller bigwig Fiorentino under spotlightThe SEC has launched an investigation into the reasons behind the departure of shamed Systemax exec Gilbert Fiorentino, the company has confirmed.… |
| US Navy invents 'Zero-Power Autonomous' ocean probe Posted: 28 Jun 2011 03:03 AM PDT Crafty bacterio-buoyancy underwater podule triumphUS Navy and Marine Corps boffins are chuffed with themselves today, after inventing a crafty underwater probe podule which can be dropped into the sea, sink to a pre-programmed depth, remain there for weeks or months and then at some point rise to the surface again - all without using any electrical power.… |
| Apple quietly Trims MacBook Air SSDs Posted: 28 Jun 2011 03:02 AM PDT Drive performance boost from 10.6.8Owners of second-gen MacBook Airs have gained much-requested Trim support for the SSDs in their skinny computers thanks to Apple's latest OS X update.… |
| Posted: 28 Jun 2011 03:00 AM PDT Snap your statusAndroid App of the Week Socialising your mobile photography is all the rage these days, a picture presumably being worth at least 140 alphanumeric characters, and this is where Lightbox shines, as a simple way to share your pictures with your social network.… |
| Music on plastic discs still popular, apparently Posted: 28 Jun 2011 02:45 AM PDT What's a CD?Every year the story's the same – but every year it is stranger to report. People continue to buy pre-packaged plastic music discs – most containing as little as one album – despite the rise in digital album sales, the cheaper option of listening on demand, and the risk-free option of downloading entire discographies in one go. Barmy, but true.… |
| Posted: 28 Jun 2011 02:20 AM PDT Users hunt for mail server, answersMobileMe users are having trouble finding their mail server this morning, though as ever with Apple the scale of the problem remains obscure.… |
| Liam Maxwell appointed to advise on gov ICT Posted: 28 Jun 2011 02:19 AM PDT Conservative advisor takes Cabinet Office position for 11 monthsLiam Maxwell has been appointed as an advisor to the Efficiency and Reform Group and the government chief information officer on new ideas for the government's use of technology.… |
| Oracle to overhaul reseller rebates Posted: 28 Jun 2011 02:00 AM PDT Channel boss Althoff set to explain all in a con callOracle has scheduled a conference call with its stoic reseller base to outline an overhaul of the compensation structure to win over the more disillusioned element in its channel, namely former Sun Microsystems dealers.… |
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