Beer pitcher inspires Apple's future iPhone |
- Beer pitcher inspires Apple's future iPhone
- Google gives in: Schmidt to face US antitrust grilling
- Feds seize kit from Apple Store spyware artist
- Dell's faulty PC legal woes worsen (again)
- Java cloud spins Jenkins Eclipse tool
- MS to launch R2-D2 Xbox 360 and Kinect
- Dev's iPhone cable melts after iOS 5 upgrade
- Atlantis blasts off on last shuttle mission
- Oracle resellers: 'Give us our cash and make it snappy'
- Canuck ultralight pilot drops in on strip club
- London could face cuts for not sharing services
- Baidu rejigs business units, operations boss quits
- SNIA Archiving for data protection in the modern data centre
- Unemployment rate inches up in the US
- HP may replace 3PAR hardware
- Schmidt preaches 'deep integration' desire with Facebook, Twitter
- The Infosmack on: Designing for VMware
- Portuguese hackers strike back at Moody's downgrade
- Samsung BD-D8900 Blu-ray player and DVR combo
- Parmo v poutine: The ultimate post-pub nosh deathmatch
- Whiptail cracks on: VCs pump it full of flash cash
- Moles say Mac OS X Lion to bound in next week
- NHS told: freeze all Microsoft spend
- Doom guy: tablets, phones to be gaming platforms of the future
- Coulson arrested
- Will <cite>News of the Screws</cite> reappear as Sunday.co.uk?
- M-Edge e-Luminator Touch
- PM promises change as police interview ex-spokesman
- OCZ fails to kill off Blue Screen Of Death issue
- Press body looks at its naughty bits as hacking scandal grinds on
- Sony to can MiniDisc Walkman
- Solitary critical Windows update to star in modest Patch Tuesday
- UK Channel insolvency rates soar to nine-year high
- FOIA requests climb to levels last seen when Act came in
- Nintendo lumbered with lawsuit in 3DS patent row
- HTC ChaCha Qwerty Android smartphone
- iiNet stiffens backbone with 100Gig Ethernet
- eBay boosts mobile payments with Zong acquisition
- Quiet, astronomers at work
- Facebook dev rules tweaked after US antitrust complaint
- Facebook video chat 'leaks' music plans
- Optus busted for dodgy broadband ads
- Microsoft does collaboration with interwebs Word
- Apple slices iPhone and iPad ad rates 'by 70%'
| Beer pitcher inspires Apple's future iPhone Posted: 08 Jul 2011 04:37 PM PDT Data you can pourOne day, if Apple follows through on work embodied in a recent patent application, you'll be able to "pour" data from your iPhone onto an iPad lying on a table below it.… |
| Google gives in: Schmidt to face US antitrust grilling Posted: 08 Jul 2011 04:35 PM PDT Half relents, sends one of top twoGoogle has agreed to have Eric Schmidt answer US politicians' concerns that the company is running an anticompetitive search and ads monopoly.… |
| Feds seize kit from Apple Store spyware artist Posted: 08 Jul 2011 01:57 PM PDT Stealth face cams win Secret Service visitAn artist who surreptitiously installed a video art installation on computers in two New York Apple Stores says that four US Secret Service agents awakened him on Thursday morning, produced a search warrant, then confiscated his couputers and other kit.… |
| Dell's faulty PC legal woes worsen (again) Posted: 08 Jul 2011 11:19 AM PDT Ailing Optiplex? Lawyers feel your painThe ongoing legal imbroglio over Dell's allegedly defective Optiplex computers took another turn this week when a proposed class-action lawsuit broadened its scope.… |
| Java cloud spins Jenkins Eclipse tool Posted: 08 Jul 2011 10:07 AM PDT Back at you, OracleThe Hudson open-source project that Oracle recently surrendered to Eclipse is getting a little more community competition.… |
| MS to launch R2-D2 Xbox 360 and Kinect Posted: 08 Jul 2011 09:12 AM PDT Pushing buttons for Star Wars fansMicrosoft knows that avid fans will buy anything with the beloved Star Wars branding, which is probably why it plans to launch a limited-edition R2-D2 themed Xbox 360 console and Kinect sensor, to coincide with the launch of Kinect Star Wars this November.… |
| Dev's iPhone cable melts after iOS 5 upgrade Posted: 08 Jul 2011 09:01 AM PDT 'I am the Lord of Hellfire, and I bring you...'An iDevice software developer has claimed his iPhone 4's USB cable "caught fire" after he installed iOS 5 on the device.… |
| Atlantis blasts off on last shuttle mission Posted: 08 Jul 2011 08:40 AM PDT It's The Final Countdown, nah nah naah naaaaah....Space shuttle Atlantis blasted off from Kennedy Space Center at 15:30 GMT today on its STS-135 mission to the International Space Station.… |
| Oracle resellers: 'Give us our cash and make it snappy' Posted: 08 Jul 2011 08:37 AM PDT Oracle playing scrooge with rebatesOracle resellers are praying for quicker turnaround times for rebate payments under the revamped model, as many are struggling with cash-flow issues.… |
| Canuck ultralight pilot drops in on strip club Posted: 08 Jul 2011 08:11 AM PDT Lands in parking lot for a flying visitA Canadian microlight pilot is set to go down in aviation history after landing in the parking lot of a strip joint in Carignan, southeast of Montreal, popping in for a quick break and then flying off.… |
| London could face cuts for not sharing services Posted: 08 Jul 2011 07:53 AM PDT City has so far made just £1.2m savings out of £300m annual target...The London Assembly's budget and performance committee has been told that police, fire and transport authorities that do not share back office services may have their budgets cut.… |
| Baidu rejigs business units, operations boss quits Posted: 08 Jul 2011 07:37 AM PDT Biggest Chinese search engine rotates execsChina's number one search engine is restructuring its business operations and has let go of its senior veep Shen Haoyu for "personal reasons".… |
| SNIA Archiving for data protection in the modern data centre Posted: 08 Jul 2011 07:33 AM PDT Don't put all your eggs in one basketDeep dive El Reg has teamed up with the Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA) for a series of deep dive articles. Each month, the SNIA will deliver a comprehensive introduction to basic storage networking concepts. This month the SNIA examines archiving in today's data centres.… |
| Unemployment rate inches up in the US Posted: 08 Jul 2011 07:28 AM PDT IT sector hangs out Help Wanted signEconomists were not expecting for the US economy to create a lot of jobs in June, but they did reckon north of 100,000 workers, net of layoffs, would be added to the labor pool last month. They guessed wrong. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the US economy only added 18,000 jobs, less than one-tenth the amount needed to just keep up with population growth and the lowest number of jobs added to the economy in the past nine months.… |
| Posted: 08 Jul 2011 06:51 AM PDT Rumour mill grinds out another oneUpdated El Reg is hearing that HP will replace its flagship 3PAR T- and F-Class storage arrays with new, more powerful hardware next quarter.… |
| Schmidt preaches 'deep integration' desire with Facebook, Twitter Posted: 08 Jul 2011 06:19 AM PDT As Google+ ambitions come into viewGoogle chairman Eric Schmidt reckons that Mountain View's decision to keep invites to its latest social network to a minimum is already starting to pay off for the company.… |
| The Infosmack on: Designing for VMware Posted: 08 Jul 2011 05:08 AM PDT Deep divePodcast This week we have another Infosmack Deep Dive, with hosts Nigel Poulton and Chris Evans.… |
| Portuguese hackers strike back at Moody's downgrade Posted: 08 Jul 2011 05:03 AM PDT Sub prime dishonourPortuguese hackers responded to a negative assessment of the country's ability to repay loans by defacing the website of credit reference agency Moody's.… |
| Samsung BD-D8900 Blu-ray player and DVR combo Posted: 08 Jul 2011 05:00 AM PDT Perfect combination?Review On the face of it, Samsung's BD-D8900 seems to be the ideal convergence product that will allow you to get rid of the stack of boxes that hide under your TV. Not only does this deck act as a 3D-compatible Blu-ray player, but it also has an integrated twin tuner Freeview HD DVR, along with support for Samsung's Smart Hub internet platform. As well as all this, you can use it to play back a range of media formats, either locally from its USB port or across a network with a PC or Nas drive.… |
| Parmo v poutine: The ultimate post-pub nosh deathmatch Posted: 08 Jul 2011 04:57 AM PDT Middlesbrough battles Canada for supersaturated supremacyIt's Friday, and since we have no doubt you lot will be rolling out of your local hostelry later having partaken of a few liveners, you might want to consider just what mouthwatering treat will best cap off your night on the town.… |
| Whiptail cracks on: VCs pump it full of flash cash Posted: 08 Jul 2011 04:24 AM PDT Plans to demolish disk arraysComment Two venture capital firms have pumped A-round initial funding cash into flash array start-up Whiptail. What's got them so fired up?… |
| Moles say Mac OS X Lion to bound in next week Posted: 08 Jul 2011 04:07 AM PDT Updated MacBook Airs too?Mac OS X 10.7 Lion will go on sale next Thursday, 14 July, it has been claimed.… |
| NHS told: freeze all Microsoft spend Posted: 08 Jul 2011 03:53 AM PDT Coalition re-centralises purchasingThe Cabinet Office is halting all but emergency purchases of Microsoft software in the NHS as it negotiates a pan-government procurement deal with the software giant.… |
| Doom guy: tablets, phones to be gaming platforms of the future Posted: 08 Jul 2011 03:39 AM PDT Mobile kit will soon be more powerful than consoles, says Carmackid Software's John Carmack has talked up the future of mobile gaming and why tablets, smartphones and cloud-gaming services such as OnLive will become the dominant gaming platforms.… |
| Posted: 08 Jul 2011 03:33 AM PDT PM's spokesman, and another man, banged upUpdated The former official spokesman for Prime Minister David Cameron – and the former editor of the the News of the World – has been arrested.… |
| Will <cite>News of the Screws</cite> reappear as Sunday.co.uk? Posted: 08 Jul 2011 03:02 AM PDT Is mysterious Sun On Sunday domain name a red herring?As the hacking scandal at the News of the World continued to unravel this week, an individual mysteriously registered the domain name sunonsunday.co.uk on 5 July.… |
| Posted: 08 Jul 2011 03:00 AM PDT Lights up e-books. Lights up books tooAccessory of the Week The Kindle may have a screen that works well in bright light, but the quid pro quo is poor visibility in the dark. No backlight, you see.… |
| PM promises change as police interview ex-spokesman Posted: 08 Jul 2011 02:54 AM PDT Email hack on dead UK soldier revealedAndy Coulson, the former editor of the News of the World and Prime Minister's former official spokesman, is being interviewed by the Metropolitan Police about allegations that – despite his earlier denial – he knew about phone-hacking at the paper during his tenure.… |
| OCZ fails to kill off Blue Screen Of Death issue Posted: 08 Jul 2011 02:21 AM PDT SandForce-powered SSDs still failingDespite firmware upgrades, some OCZ Agility and Vertex SSD users are still suffering Blue Screen of Death episodes.… |
| Press body looks at its naughty bits as hacking scandal grinds on Posted: 08 Jul 2011 02:15 AM PDT PCC to review journos' code, backtracks on prior report clearing NotWThe Press Complaints Commission (PCC) is to review the rules that govern press behaviour in the UK to maintain public confidence in newspapers in the wake of the News of the World phone hacking scandal, it has said.… |
| Posted: 08 Jul 2011 01:56 AM PDT 19-year-old player no longer has legsWhile the news will prompt an uncomprehending look from 99 per cent of Brits, the few remaining fans of Sony's MiniDisc format will mourn the MD Walkman's passing when production ceases in September.… |
| Solitary critical Windows update to star in modest Patch Tuesday Posted: 08 Jul 2011 01:49 AM PDT Four squareMicrosoft is to issue four bulletins next Tuesday – one of which is critical – as part of the July edition of its Patch Tuesday update cycle.… |
| UK Channel insolvency rates soar to nine-year high Posted: 08 Jul 2011 01:26 AM PDT Trying to make a hardware living? You're 'dead'Insolvency rates in the UK channel are at the highest level seen since the dotcom bubble burst, official figures have confirmed.… |
| FOIA requests climb to levels last seen when Act came in Posted: 08 Jul 2011 01:00 AM PDT But a quarter get knocked backThe public asked for the release of more information from public bodies at the start of this year than at any time since the immediate aftermath of the enactment of freedom of information (FOI) laws, the government has said.… |
| Nintendo lumbered with lawsuit in 3DS patent row Posted: 08 Jul 2011 12:28 AM PDT Going glasses-free is costlyNintendo has been struck with a lawsuit by an intellectual property owner which claims to hold the rights to viewing glasses-free stereoscopic images.… |
| HTC ChaCha Qwerty Android smartphone Posted: 07 Jul 2011 11:00 PM PDT Facebook favourite?Review If there is such a condition as telephonic incontinence then HTC is clearly a sufferer, as it churns out a handset for just about every conceivable demographic. With the ChaCha, the company is focusing on text warriors with a hard Qwerty keyboard and some social networking tweaks.… |
| iiNet stiffens backbone with 100Gig Ethernet Posted: 07 Jul 2011 07:30 PM PDT Win for JuniperiiNet is gearing up for Australia's National Broadband Network (NBN) with Juniper's first Asia-Pac 100 Gbps Ethernet deployment to beef up backbone capacity. .… |
| eBay boosts mobile payments with Zong acquisition Posted: 07 Jul 2011 07:00 PM PDT PayPal in your pocket for US$240 millionMobile payments outfit Zong is to be assimilated into the PayPal world, following the announcement that eBay is handing over US$240 million in cash to acquire the company.… |
| Posted: 07 Jul 2011 06:30 PM PDT Aus government cuts radio silence deal for SKAAustralia's miners, usually famous for their shoulder-chipped sense of entitlement, have agreed to assist Australia's bid for the international Square Kilometer Array project by not deploying new radio systems close to the proposed site.… |
| Facebook dev rules tweaked after US antitrust complaint Posted: 07 Jul 2011 06:05 PM PDT Real beef over virtual goodsFacebook has updated its developer terms of service following an antitrust complaint to the Federal Trade Commission.… |
| Facebook video chat 'leaks' music plans Posted: 07 Jul 2011 06:00 PM PDT Blogger spots hints in video calling appFacebook's Skype-based video calling app released this week seems to be ready to link up with a yet-to-be-announced music service, according to blogger Jeff Rose.… |
| Optus busted for dodgy broadband ads Posted: 07 Jul 2011 06:00 PM PDT ACCC fines telco A$5.26m for 'misleading' unlimited claimsOptus has been ordered to pay A$5.26m for misleading advertising in the largest civil penalty dished out by the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission.… |
| Microsoft does collaboration with interwebs Word Posted: 07 Jul 2011 05:21 PM PDT Another step closer to the desktopMicrosoft has taken another tiny step towards a web-based version of Word that duplicates what you get on the desktop.… |
| Apple slices iPhone and iPad ad rates 'by 70%' Posted: 07 Jul 2011 05:05 PM PDT Jobs bows to Google effectApple has sliced rates for its iAd mobile advertising platform by as much as 70 per cent as big name clients depart for rival ad platforms, according to a report citing two people with knowledge of the matter.… |
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