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- Microsoft muzzles IE chief's 'native HTML' nonsense
- ARM daddy simulates human brain with million-chip super
- Oracle coughs up Java 7 release candidate
- SAP locks down co-CEOs
- <cite>News of the World</cite> TO CLOSE
- Virgin gives early adopters benefit of recent price cut
- Windows security begins at the desktop
- Apple fails to get US 'App Store' trademark injunction
- Google: Go public on Profiles or we'll delete you
- Apple App Store passes 15bn download mark
- Universal Music passwords exposed by Anonymous hack
- Going Critical
- OCZ sets up its flash stall in the enterprise bazaar
- Lenovo ThinkPad Edge E420s 14in Core i5 laptop
- Virgin and Spotify: A step forward for digital music
- Home Office to review future of Sprint ii framework
- 'Transparent' PM dishes up more public datasets
- HuffPo goes UK: But shills and pols writing for free isn't new
- Feds cuff programmer in alleged trading-ware theft
- LG dooms then un-dooms portable games consoles
- <i>El Reg</i> to unleash rocket-powered spaceplane
- Sony pains pre-owned game punters with PSN Pass
- Only jailbroken iPhones, iPads can be safe from latest vuln
- New Tosh R&D centres to look into advanced disk tech
- Rustock zombies halved as clean-up efforts continue
- ANONYMOUS: Behind the mask, inside the Hivemind
- Splashtop Remote Desktop
- iPad 2 to gain double-res display - but not until 2012
- Internet fraud laundryman gets two years in cooler
- Zuck brushes aside dull 750m Facebook sign-ups metric
- Gov coughs extra £81m for firefighter command & control
- Culture Minister Vaizey on Google, freetards and website-blocking
- Nice try, Amazon: 'One-click' payment too obvious to patent
- Orange puts budget smartphones on the map
- ICO: Volunteer to be audited by us, we might not bust you
- WTO: China being naughty over rare-earth exports
- Bug-Byte Manic Miner
- Deep inside AMD's master plan to topple Intel
- ESA unveils billion pixel camera that will map the Milky Way
- Kazaa founder Bermeister returns, with key cloud patents
- Google and Microsoft sued over interwebs street maps
- Spotify trumpets move to US (and little else)
- Boffins build nanowire lasers from nappy-rash cream
- Aus group buying technology gets SingTel funding
| Microsoft muzzles IE chief's 'native HTML' nonsense Posted: 07 Jul 2011 02:11 PM PDT Balderdash bug report closedMicrosoft has abandoned its nonsensical effort to recast HTML as a native Windows technology. We can once again applaud the company's long overdue embrace of the latest web standards.… |
| ARM daddy simulates human brain with million-chip super Posted: 07 Jul 2011 01:25 PM PDT RISC chip choice is a no-brainerWhile everyone in the IT racket is trying to figure out how many Intel Xeon and Atom chips can be replaced by ARM processors, Steve Furber, the main designer of the 32-bit ARM RISC processor at Acorn in the 1980s and now the ICL professor of engineering at the University of Manchester, is asking a different question, and that is: how many neurons can an ARM chip simulate?… |
| Oracle coughs up Java 7 release candidate Posted: 07 Jul 2011 10:12 AM PDT A non-revolution five years in the makingOracle has published the first release candidate for JDK 7, the long-awaited next version of Java set to officially debut on July 28.… |
| Posted: 07 Jul 2011 10:10 AM PDT Two prongs until 2017Germany application software giant SAP has locked in its current co-CEOs to run the company for the next six years, making a commitment to the long-term strategy and tag-team management of the company.… |
| <cite>News of the World</cite> TO CLOSE Posted: 07 Jul 2011 08:57 AM PDT So long and thanks for all the titsThis Sunday's News of the World will be the last ever.… |
| Virgin gives early adopters benefit of recent price cut Posted: 07 Jul 2011 08:21 AM PDT First TiVo owners get £50 refundIn a rare moment of magnanimity - for the consumer electronics boz - Virgin Media is apparently compensating early adopters for a subsequent price cut.… |
| Windows security begins at the desktop Posted: 07 Jul 2011 08:00 AM PDT Beware malware and careless usersThe risks of desktop computing are now well known. They stem from the growth in financially motivated malware, which aims to steal from the user or from the user's employer.… |
| Apple fails to get US 'App Store' trademark injunction Posted: 07 Jul 2011 07:51 AM PDT Judge backs Amazon against fruitbite cargo cultApple's claim that it owns the trademark "app store" has been dismissed by a US court.… |
| Google: Go public on Profiles or we'll delete you Posted: 07 Jul 2011 07:47 AM PDT Want to use our stuff? Have to let us use yoursComment Google's efforts to get more Web2.0-social online have had an interesting but not altogether surprising side-effect: Profiles will no longer be hidden from view as of the end of this month.… |
| Apple App Store passes 15bn download mark Posted: 07 Jul 2011 07:29 AM PDT 75 for every fondleslab, Jesus mobe or iPod TouchApple says that it has passed the 15 billion download mark at its App Store for iOS devices.… |
| Universal Music passwords exposed by Anonymous hack Posted: 07 Jul 2011 06:40 AM PDT AntiSec strikes againUniversal Music websites suffered a breach that exposed the usernames and passwords of fans of bands who had signed up for updates on their favourite musicians.… |
| Posted: 07 Jul 2011 06:22 AM PDT The how and why of virtualising core business applicationsRegcast The first wave of virtualisation projects are done and dusted, with many applications consolidated and running (reasonably) well. But in a lot of cases the business is still looking for more - faster response times, better availability, quickfire provisioning and on-demand capacity.… |
| OCZ sets up its flash stall in the enterprise bazaar Posted: 07 Jul 2011 06:08 AM PDT Soon to plonk down brace of new offeringsOCZ is taking on Fusion-io in the enterprise flash array market and adding a flash-disk drive hybrid to its range for workstation use. This SSD company is powering up into the enterprise from its consumer flash beginnings.… |
| Lenovo ThinkPad Edge E420s 14in Core i5 laptop Posted: 07 Jul 2011 05:45 AM PDT Suits more than suitsReview I have always been a fan of ThinkPads, ever since my father brought home a beaten 560e featuring a 150MHz Pentium which was rejected from the corporate pool due to travel abuse. Even though half of its 1GB disk was bad sectors I ran it well into this century and with all the cheap tat that is flooding the market these days, I've not used anything that felt quite the same.… |
| Virgin and Spotify: A step forward for digital music Posted: 07 Jul 2011 05:20 AM PDT But most of the work has yet to be doneAnalysis Two years ago I wondered if the ISP and music industries were even worth saving – given that they'd contributed so much to consumer unhappiness, a lack of innovation and anything resembling entrepreneurship.… |
| Home Office to review future of Sprint ii framework Posted: 07 Jul 2011 04:57 AM PDT Gov will reassess deal after launch of police ICT firmThe Home Office will review the controversial Sprint ii procurement framework once the newly created police ICT company is up and running next spring, giving hope to many suppliers that blue light business will be back in their future.… |
| 'Transparent' PM dishes up more public datasets Posted: 07 Jul 2011 04:45 AM PDT And sprinkles more cash on London's Silicon RoundaboutThe Cabinet Office's digital-by-default mantra got a boost today, with the government promising to publish various datasets on the National Health Service, schools, criminal courts and transport online.… |
| HuffPo goes UK: But shills and pols writing for free isn't new Posted: 07 Jul 2011 04:38 AM PDT 'I once got 800 words in the Sport as a 50ish Spanish lady'So HuffPo UK has launched and, my word, it is the future of journalism, isn't it? New, fresh faces telling us about the world in new and interesting ways...… |
| Feds cuff programmer in alleged trading-ware theft Posted: 07 Jul 2011 04:16 AM PDT Say Chinese-born Chicago coder had flight bookedChunlai Yang, a 49-year old Chinese-born American, has been charged with stealing proprietary software code.… |
| LG dooms then un-dooms portable games consoles Posted: 07 Jul 2011 04:14 AM PDT Optimistic OptimusThe head of LG's mobile phone division no longer thinks there's no future for handheld games consoles, it seems.… |
| <i>El Reg</i> to unleash rocket-powered spaceplane Posted: 07 Jul 2011 04:00 AM PDT Gutsy 'rockoon' launch for Vulture 2, daughter of PARISThe El Reg Special Projects Bureau (SPB) is pleased to announce we've finally come up with what we reckon is a worthy successor to our Paper Aircraft Released Into Space (PARIS) project.… |
| Sony pains pre-owned game punters with PSN Pass Posted: 07 Jul 2011 03:43 AM PDT Net profitsSony has officially announced the PSN Pass, a network tollbooth for "premium" online services.… |
| Only jailbroken iPhones, iPads can be safe from latest vuln Posted: 07 Jul 2011 03:43 AM PDT iUsers with unmeddled tech must wait for Apple patchThe latest jailbreak for iPhones, published on Wednesday, exploits a zero-day bug in iOS that only users of jailbroken devices will be able to fix, security experts warn.… |
| New Tosh R&D centres to look into advanced disk tech Posted: 07 Jul 2011 03:32 AM PDT HAMRing more data into the platterToshiba is setting up development centres in Ome, Tokyo, to research advanced disk drive technology and hopefully increase disk drive capacities.… |
| Rustock zombies halved as clean-up efforts continue Posted: 07 Jul 2011 03:18 AM PDT Leaderless undead remotely brain-shot from RedmondThe zombie machines which formerly powered the infamous Rustock botnet are down to half their original number, according to Microsoft.… |
| ANONYMOUS: Behind the mask, inside the Hivemind Posted: 07 Jul 2011 03:00 AM PDT Where and who are the Anons? Everywhere and everyoneOn a frigidly cold morning in early 2008, two dozen complete strangers arranged to meet for the first time. They had travelled from all over the metro area, some taking over two hours to reach their destination. Coffee and doughnuts were sacrificed to the ritual of placing online handles to faces. The first meeting of the Edmonton chapter of Project Chanology had officially begun.… |
| Posted: 07 Jul 2011 03:00 AM PDT Control your computer from your Fondleslab or phoneiOS App of the Week I've tried a number of 'remote desktop' apps that allow you to control a Mac or a PC from an iPhone or iPad, but their performance over a wireless network has always been too sluggish for them to be of much practical use.… |
| iPad 2 to gain double-res display - but not until 2012 Posted: 07 Jul 2011 02:50 AM PDT Analysts forecast tweaked, not new, fondleslabAnother day, another iPad 3 rumour, this time that while the gadget will indeed sport a display with a higher resolution than the iPad 2 has, other specs will not change.… |
| Internet fraud laundryman gets two years in cooler Posted: 07 Jul 2011 02:49 AM PDT Handed over suitcase with £470,000 to man in car parkAn internet fraudster was sentenced to two years prison yesterday for his part in a gang which pocketed hundreds of thousands of pounds from various web-based scams.… |
| Zuck brushes aside dull 750m Facebook sign-ups metric Posted: 07 Jul 2011 02:35 AM PDT It's all about sharing ... bitchFacebook's stalkerbase grew by one-third in the past year, boss Mark Zuckerberg confirmed yesterday as he announced a video chat deal with Skype.… |
| Gov coughs extra £81m for firefighter command & control Posted: 07 Jul 2011 02:30 AM PDT 'Need is as great as it was before the huge cockup'The government has said it is to invest £81m in fire and rescue authorities in England to "improve the resilience, efficiency and technology in their control services" following a damning report into FiReControl by the National Audit office.… |
| Culture Minister Vaizey on Google, freetards and website-blocking Posted: 07 Jul 2011 02:19 AM PDT 'There is no conspiracy'Culture Minister Ed Vaizey shed some light on the murkier corners of the Digital Economy Act in a speech yesterday. He swung out at "music industry armchair critics" and BT, shed some light on industry web-blocking discussions, and gave an indication on what's to come.… |
| Nice try, Amazon: 'One-click' payment too obvious to patent Posted: 07 Jul 2011 02:00 AM PDT EU Patent Office rules on clickery-pokery lawyery try-onA payment system devised by online retail giant Amazon is too obvious to patent, the European Patent Office (EPO) has ruled.… |
| Orange puts budget smartphones on the map Posted: 07 Jul 2011 01:57 AM PDT Now in stock... holmWhile Samsung has been busy unveiling handsets in Sweden, Orange has revealed a budget Android smartphone named after its capital city, as well a couple of others also named after places in Europe.… |
| ICO: Volunteer to be audited by us, we might not bust you Posted: 07 Jul 2011 01:30 AM PDT 'No, don't do that', says a lawyerThe Information Commissioner's Office said more companies should offer themselves up for voluntary audits.… |
| WTO: China being naughty over rare-earth exports Posted: 07 Jul 2011 01:00 AM PDT Trying to lure more factories from overseasChina's a naughty boy then according to the World Trade Organisation: they have just lost a case about their restrictions on the exports of raw materials. This has implications for every tecchie's favourite metals, the rare earths.… |
| Posted: 06 Jul 2011 11:00 PM PDT Dig for victoryAntique Code Show For me, 1983 was all about Flashdance but getting Manic Miner for my ZX Spectrum on Christmas morning was almost as good as some burgundy legwarmers.… |
| Deep inside AMD's master plan to topple Intel Posted: 06 Jul 2011 10:00 PM PDT Back to the top on a radical GPUAMD's new graphics architecture isn't merely about painting prettier pictures. It's about changing the way computers compute.… |
| ESA unveils billion pixel camera that will map the Milky Way Posted: 06 Jul 2011 06:30 PM PDT That's not a camera: this is the cameraThe European Space Agency has announced the completion of the camera that's to be used in its Gaia mission: a billion-pixel mosaic comprising 106 individual CCDs in a 0.5x1 meter array.… |
| Kazaa founder Bermeister returns, with key cloud patents Posted: 06 Jul 2011 05:30 PM PDT Eyes content, music business in fee-festBrilliant Digital Entertainment subsidiary Kinetech has its eyes on the digital music industry, announcing that it has been granted three US patents covering content discovery and rights enforcement.… |
| Google and Microsoft sued over interwebs street maps Posted: 06 Jul 2011 05:09 PM PDT Patent attacks Street View. And Street View knockoffA tiny Louisiana-based company has accused Microsoft, Google, and AOL of infringing on its 3D imaging patents in their various street mapping efforts.… |
| Spotify trumpets move to US (and little else) Posted: 06 Jul 2011 04:44 PM PDT European invasionUK-based music-streaming service Spotify has just announced that it's coming to the US.… |
| Boffins build nanowire lasers from nappy-rash cream Posted: 06 Jul 2011 04:21 PM PDT Spread here for ultraviolet diodesA new breakthrough in zinc oxide–based semiconductor nanowire lasers may support applications that range from killing viruses to stuffing more stuff on a DVD.… |
| Aus group buying technology gets SingTel funding Posted: 06 Jul 2011 04:00 PM PDT Dealised set to go global with digital brains trust boardThe technology platform behind Australian group-buying player Spreets has secured AU$5m in funding led by SingTel Group's corporate venture capital, SingTel Innov8.… |
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