Profit piranhas want a bite of HP |
- Profit piranhas want a bite of HP
- One per cent of world's web browsing happens on iPad
- One help desk API to unite them all
- Facebook game outfit Zynga files for $1bn IPO
- Google Go strikes back with C++ bake-off
- Blighty gets gold-dispensing ATM
- New anti-corruption offences come into force today
- Virtualisation lets the applications roll
- LightSquared admits it will knock out 200,000 sat-navs
- Auditor declares FiReControl a 'comprehensive failure'
- Phishers switch focus to targeted attacks, warns Cisco
- NetApp patents Hybrid Aggregates, sneers at PCIe
- Microsoft copies Google, kills home energy-meter project
- 'Dirty' Hari defends radical interview mashup technique
- Who'll keep taking Windows Tablets in the iPad era?
- Background checking in the palm of the hand
- DiData buys itself a hunk of cloud
- Akira Blu-ray remastered disc set
- Do we really want 100Gig Ethernet?
- Everything Everywhere IT staff get new boss, again
- Facebook promises 'awesome' launch next week
- <i>El Reg</i> cuts ribbon on new Special Projects Bureau
- <abbr title="Bastard Operator from Hell">BOFH</abbr>: Drunken Time Lord
- NHS bitchslapped by ICO on data security
- US judge greenlights case against Google Wi-Fi slurp
- Nokia begins mass Symbian Anna update
- 'Lion' Apple Mac OS X 10.7: Sneak Preview
- Brush up your virtualisation skills
- Amazon Kindle Lighted Leather Cover
- Magnificent Moon mountain sunrise caught on camera
- Apple to out-ship HP in 2012, say pundits
- Google left out of $4.5bn Nortel patent deal
- NHS goes for in-cloud security from Zscaler
- Twitter dealings with 3rd-party apps probed by FTC
- Apollo 14 'naut attempts to flog Moon camera for $80k
- Ten... pocket compact cameras
- Wallabies battle cattle farts
- NBN Co launches satellite services
- Insider says doom looms at RIM
| Profit piranhas want a bite of HP Posted: 01 Jul 2011 12:06 PM PDT Apotheker needs to walk on waterComment Private equity firms are circling HP, looking for a way to carve up the IT behemoth and make a few quick and easy bucks – just as they do every time a new CEO has trouble running the company.… |
| One per cent of world's web browsing happens on iPad Posted: 01 Jul 2011 11:28 AM PDT Jobsian fondleslab munches netThe iPad now accounts for over one per cent of worldwide web browsing – and in the US, that figure jumps to 2.1 per cent.… |
| One help desk API to unite them all Posted: 01 Jul 2011 11:00 AM PDT Down with the Software Tower of BabelOpen...and Shut Businesses everywhere have embraced open source as a way to increase innovation and drive down software acquisition costs. Unfortunately, open source doesn't solve an even bigger problem companies have: making their software/systems talk to each other. Whether you're Chevron or Sam's Truck Stop, at some point you're going to want two disparate systems to talk to each other.… |
| Facebook game outfit Zynga files for $1bn IPO Posted: 01 Jul 2011 10:52 AM PDT 60 million virtual world obsessivesZynga – the online gaming outfit behind the wildly popular Farmville – has filed for an IPO, seeking to raise as much as $1bn.… |
| Google Go strikes back with C++ bake-off Posted: 01 Jul 2011 08:58 AM PDT 'Benchmarks only as good as the programs they measure'In early June, Googler Robert Hundt published a paper comparing the performance of four programming languages: C++, Java, Scala, and a rather new addition to the world of systems programming, Google's own Go. Go is designed to provide the performance of a compiled language like C++ and the "feel" of a dynamic language like Python, but under Hundt's tests, its performance lagged well behind that of Java and Scala as well as C++.… |
| Blighty gets gold-dispensing ATM Posted: 01 Jul 2011 08:50 AM PDT Auric cornucopiaThe UK's first gold-dispensing ATM machine has been installed at Westfield shopping centre in London.… |
| New anti-corruption offences come into force today Posted: 01 Jul 2011 08:00 AM PDT No backdown in biz bung crackdownNew anti-corruption laws come into force today, giving companies more certainty over what constitutes bribery but placing greater obligations on companies to tackle corruption.… |
| Virtualisation lets the applications roll Posted: 01 Jul 2011 07:28 AM PDT Delivery made easyDesktop Virtualisation can ease desktop application deployment in a variety of ways.… |
| LightSquared admits it will knock out 200,000 sat-navs Posted: 01 Jul 2011 07:27 AM PDT Unholy row at FCC: GPS industry predicts rain of planesWireless broadband firm LightSquared has admitted that its original plan would have knocked out most GPS sat-nav kit, but argues that its new plan will only leave 200,000 users lost.… |
| Auditor declares FiReControl a 'comprehensive failure' Posted: 01 Jul 2011 07:11 AM PDT Years: 7, dosh spent: £469m, Systems delivered: ZEROThe project to create nine regional control centres for fire and rescue linked by a new IT system has been a comprehensive failure, according to the National Audit Office (NAO).… |
| Phishers switch focus to targeted attacks, warns Cisco Posted: 01 Jul 2011 06:43 AM PDT Looking for the higher-value victimCybercrims are switching tactics from traditional email-based mass security threats to lower volume targeted attacks, according to a report by Cisco Security Intelligence Operations.… |
| NetApp patents Hybrid Aggregates, sneers at PCIe Posted: 01 Jul 2011 06:21 AM PDT Flash cutlery alongside the platterNetApp has Hybrid Aggregate drives coming, with data moved automatically in real time between flash located next to the spinning disks. The company now says that this is a better technology than PCIe flash approaches.… |
| Microsoft copies Google, kills home energy-meter project Posted: 01 Jul 2011 05:58 AM PDT Anything you can't do, we can't do betterMicrosoft is retiring its free web-based household energy usage service, which means it won't leave its beta status and instead will be killed on 31 May 2012.… |
| 'Dirty' Hari defends radical interview mashup technique Posted: 01 Jul 2011 05:44 AM PDT Zelig and the Art of Tape Recorder MaintenanceComment Just last week I had the rare opportunity to catch up with Bill Gates. He's a busy man, of course, with the Foundation's medical research and investments consuming most of his time. Being so engaged with development issues, I wondered, did Gates have time to look at the spread of technology into developing countries? Gates said he did. There were concerns about the pace of technology transfer, I pointed out. Was the latest mobile innovation reaching the new markets fast enough?… |
| Who'll keep taking Windows Tablets in the iPad era? Posted: 01 Jul 2011 05:42 AM PDT BillG's 2001 proto-fondleslab that failedAndrew's Review Notes I have a lot of sympathy for people who steal their technology from the hearse, just as its driving through the gates of the great technology knackers' yard.… |
| Background checking in the palm of the hand Posted: 01 Jul 2011 05:38 AM PDT That hot babe in finance? Did 5 years in jail. Men's jailThe properly paranoid can now relax, BeenVerified is available for Android and iPhone platforms: so you can check out the history of anyone you meet instantly - if they're American, anyway.… |
| DiData buys itself a hunk of cloud Posted: 01 Jul 2011 05:17 AM PDT Everyone's at itDimension Data, the South African services giant, has bought a US-based enterprise cloud hosting and storage company called OpSource.… |
| Akira Blu-ray remastered disc set Posted: 01 Jul 2011 05:00 AM PDT Anime activist bikers get a retreadReview It's been hailed as the greatest anime ever. While I think you have to go some before you can top Pokémon 4Ever, (no seriously, I prefer My Neighbour Totoro) there's no denying Katsuhiro Otomo's Akira is a milestone of a movie.… |
| Do we really want 100Gig Ethernet? Posted: 01 Jul 2011 05:00 AM PDT When do we want it?Remember when Ethernet networks were invented? Probably not: it was over 30 years ago, after all, and you are probably too young.… |
| Everything Everywhere IT staff get new boss, again Posted: 01 Jul 2011 04:36 AM PDT Inhouse outsource resource in forceTwo hundred former Orange staffers employed by Everything Everywhere today start working for T-Systems instead, as the UK's biggest operator commences a seven-year outsourcing deal for its IT systems.… |
| Facebook promises 'awesome' launch next week Posted: 01 Jul 2011 04:23 AM PDT Boydroid Zuck brewing fondleslab offerings?Facebook could be launching long-awaited iPad and iPhone apps next week.… |
| <i>El Reg</i> cuts ribbon on new Special Projects Bureau Posted: 01 Jul 2011 04:00 AM PDT Black ops garden-shed boffinry to follow PARIS spaceplaneWe're delighted to inform our beloved readers that as of today, El Reg has a dedicated Special Projects Bureau, which will henceforth be Vulture Central's nerve centre of black ops and garden-shed boffinry.… |
| <abbr title="Bastard Operator from Hell">BOFH</abbr>: Drunken Time Lord Posted: 01 Jul 2011 03:38 AM PDT Glass lift, laxatives, untraceable banknotes ... oh myEpisode 9 |
| NHS bitchslapped by ICO on data security Posted: 01 Jul 2011 03:18 AM PDT Serial fax offenders must grip the f–– upThe Information Commissioner's Office is working with Connecting for Health to try to get the NHS to take data security seriously.… |
| US judge greenlights case against Google Wi-Fi slurp Posted: 01 Jul 2011 03:14 AM PDT 'We place a priority on privacy', chips in MicrosoftA request by Google to throw out a lawsuit that alleges the company violated US federal wiretap law has been rejected by a judge in San Francisco.… |
| Nokia begins mass Symbian Anna update Posted: 01 Jul 2011 03:13 AM PDT Old S60 handsets in line for handoutNokia has new firmware on speed-dial and is set to offer many of its current client base a free Symbian Anna update.… |
| 'Lion' Apple Mac OS X 10.7: Sneak Preview Posted: 01 Jul 2011 03:00 AM PDT El Reg lifts the new big cat's tail and has a pokeReview The first major update to Apple's Mac operating system in some five years is nearly ready, and what has been removed is as significant as its improvements. Mac OS X 10.7, known informally as Lion, continues the trend of removing "legacy" components and technologies from OS X with a zeal that would leave Microsoft quivering in terror.… |
| Brush up your virtualisation skills Posted: 01 Jul 2011 03:00 AM PDT The way to an employer's heartVirtualisation has expanded its remit since back in the 1960s, when only the white-coated acolytes tending the IBM mainframe in an air-conditioned hall needed to know anything about it.… |
| Amazon Kindle Lighted Leather Cover Posted: 01 Jul 2011 03:00 AM PDT Let there be lightAccessory of the Week Yes, it's expensive, but Amazon's top-of-the-line Kindle 3 leather-covered folio-style case isn't just an overpriced luxury item. It also has practical value, thanks to a built-in, slide-out LED lamp.… |
| Magnificent Moon mountain sunrise caught on camera Posted: 01 Jul 2011 02:45 AM PDT NASA orbiter snaps the moody peaks of TychoNASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) has captured a magnificent view (big version here) of sunrise over mountains in the centre of the Moon's Tycho crater:… |
| Apple to out-ship HP in 2012, say pundits Posted: 01 Jul 2011 02:36 AM PDT In mobile computers, at leastApple will next year out-ship HP - if only when it comes to mobile computers - it has been forecast.… |
| Google left out of $4.5bn Nortel patent deal Posted: 01 Jul 2011 02:34 AM PDT Android left nude as enemies shrug on extra IP armourApple, Microsoft, RIM, EMC, Ericsson and Sony all chipped in to buy the patents, which cover critical 4G and wireless broadband technologies, leaving Google empty handed.… |
| NHS goes for in-cloud security from Zscaler Posted: 01 Jul 2011 02:19 AM PDT Looking to throttle |
| Twitter dealings with 3rd-party apps probed by FTC Posted: 01 Jul 2011 01:59 AM PDT Walled gardeners under the microscopeThe Federal Trade Commission is investigating how Twitter deals with companies which make clients for people to access the service on smartphones and other devices.… |
| Apollo 14 'naut attempts to flog Moon camera for $80k Posted: 01 Jul 2011 01:11 AM PDT Oi, that's ours, protests NASAApollo 14 astronaut Edgar Mitchell is locked in a legal battle with the US government over just who owns a movie camera which flew with him to the Moon in 1971.… |
| Posted: 30 Jun 2011 11:00 PM PDT When a phonecam just won't doProduct Round-up When it comes to quick pics, the expedience of a phonecam can't be overestimated, yet the image quality expectations frequently are. With this in mind Reg Hardware has rounded up the smallest and cheapest compacts produced by all the usual suspects from the photography world.… |
| Posted: 30 Jun 2011 05:01 PM PDT Cork me kangaroo's bot, ScottThe Tammar Wallaby's digestive system is getting agricultural researchers excited, after researchers from Australia's science agency CSIRO found its gut generates far lower methane emissions than cattle.… |
| NBN Co launches satellite services Posted: 30 Jun 2011 04:30 PM PDT Rural Oz gets 6MbpsThe National Broadband Network company has started offering commercial services via its Interim Satellite Service designed for residents, small businesses and indigenous communities in rural Australia.… |
| Insider says doom looms at RIM Posted: 30 Jun 2011 03:50 PM PDT BlackBerry apps 'suck', dev tools '%&@!$#%'Times are tough at RIM, home of the fading BlackBerry. Sales are slipping, profits are evaporating, and now a high-level staffer has written to the company's co-presidents to inform them that "things have never been more chaotic," urging them to make "bold decisions" to right the ship – before it's too late.… |
…| You are subscribed to email updates from The Register To stop receiving these emails, you may unsubscribe now. | Email delivery powered by Google |
| Google Inc., 20 West Kinzie, Chicago IL USA 60610 | |
0 comments:
Post a Comment