| Wikileaked cable: AFACT was MPAA’s cat’s-paw Posted: 31 Aug 2011 03:11 PM PDT Pope turns out to be Catholic A second cable discussing the "world+dog vs. iiNet" court case has emerged on Wikileaks, confirming the widespread suspicion in Australia that Hollywood was behind both the action and the choice of target.… 
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| IBM borgs UK 'big data' outfit Posted: 31 Aug 2011 02:47 PM PDT Big Blue echoes HP (The New Big Blue) IBM is to acquire the Cambridge, UK-based "big data" analytics outfit i2, echoing HP's $11bn purchase of Autonomy Corp. earlier this month.… |
| Sydney NFC newbie gets tapped by investors Posted: 31 Aug 2011 02:35 PM PDT Tapit gets VC interest in record time Sydney based NFC start-up Tapit Media has secured its first round of seed funding from VC group Sydney Angels.… |
| DoJ files antitrust suit to block AT&T's T-Mobile buy Posted: 31 Aug 2011 12:32 PM PDT Deal will 'substantially lessen competition' The US Department of Justice has filed an antitrust lawsuit to block AT&T's proposed acquisition of fellow wireless carrier T-Mobile USA.… |
| Mozilla addons site targeted in same attack that hit Google Posted: 31 Aug 2011 11:34 AM PDT Counterfeiters mint SSL cert for addons.mozilla.org The secure webpage hosting addons for Mozilla Firefox was targeted in the same attack that minted a fraudulent authentication credential for Google websites, the maker of the open-source browser said.… |
| Google rolls out offline Gmail (for Chrome only) Posted: 31 Aug 2011 11:25 AM PDT Offline Docs and Calendar imminent Google has released a new version of Gmail that operates without an internet connection, and it plans to offer similar offline versions of Google Docs and Google Calendar over the coming week. But these tools will only work in tandem with Google's own Chrome browser.… 
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| Oracle's Africa dealings under FBI, SEC, DoJ investigation Posted: 31 Aug 2011 08:52 AM PDT Ellison's firm up to its neck in the alphabet soup Oracle is reported to be under investigation by the US authorities for breaking federal anti-bribery laws in Africa.… |
| Nokia's Ovi wunderkind is off ... to Nokia-backed Vision+ Posted: 31 Aug 2011 08:20 AM PDT Ojanperä brings unbeatable track record - of disasters One of Nokia's high flyers is leaving the company – but will still be spending Nokia's money. Tero Ojanperä, an executive vice president, member of the core Leadership Team (and, don't forget, UN Young Global Leader) will head up a Nokia-backed investment fund called Vision+.… |
| WikiLeaks weathers DDoS assault Posted: 31 Aug 2011 07:34 AM PDT Continues to spaff secret diplo cables, beg for Bitcoin WikiLeaks' website slowed to a crawl on Tuesday night following an apparent denial of service attack.… |
| Microsoft brings Hadoop option to SQL Server Posted: 31 Aug 2011 06:35 AM PDT Open-source crunchware SQOOPs to conquer Microsoft customers running SQL Server are getting a taste of really big data processing through an injection of Hadoop.… |
| Last ever batch of TouchPads isn't coming to Blighty Posted: 31 Aug 2011 06:19 AM PDT No cheap slabs to fondle for Limeys, Yur'peens Brits hoping for a cheap fondle won't get one from HP, as the final production run of the TouchPad will be bound for North America only.…
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| MySociety marshals griping commuters to fix UK transport Posted: 31 Aug 2011 05:58 AM PDT 'We'd have done climate change, but even Obama can't sort that' Commuters who like to complain have a new outlet with the launch of FixMyTransport.com, a website that gets your grievance to the right person.… |
| DARPA software to trawl Bin Laden laptops, thumb drives Posted: 31 Aug 2011 05:44 AM PDT Mil-spook gear to deal with haul from Special Ops raids Famous Pentagon mad-scientist bureau DARPA says it would like some miracle software to help hard-pressed US spooks and military intelligence officers trawl through the massive troves of imagery retrieved from gadgetry seized in the ongoing massive campaign of special-forces raids across southwest Asia.… |
| Don't buy your iPad in a McDonald's car park Posted: 31 Aug 2011 05:24 AM PDT South Carolina fangirl finds herself fondling wood A young woman in South Carolina has had her dream of buying a brand-new shiny iPad in the car park of a McDonald's crushed by two swindlers, who left her with a wooden dud.… |
| Firefox offers glimpse of new tablet version Posted: 31 Aug 2011 04:57 AM PDT Slab-size Fennec looking worthy of a good fondle The chaps at Mozilla are showing off how well Firefox will work on a tablet computer, with new interface elements aping Honeycomb – but still no launch schedule.… |
| Quarter of NHS data collection to go in red-tape slash plan Posted: 31 Aug 2011 04:19 AM PDT They make a desert, and call it rationalised The UK's Department of Health hopes to save millions by cutting data collection and red tape across the NHS.… 
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| Sony to ship VR-style 3D headset in November Posted: 31 Aug 2011 04:10 AM PDT |
| Finding the black-spots in service delivery Posted: 31 Aug 2011 03:58 AM PDT And what to do when you clock them On Demand Earlier this month we ran live Regcast called 'Watermelon metrics...''. Reg broadcast editor Tim Phillips was joined by Freeform Dynamics analyst Andy Buss and CA Technologies' Patrick Ancipink.… |
| Father of Java abandons Google for floating robot cloud Posted: 31 Aug 2011 03:57 AM PDT Fun times ahoy, cries newly nautical Gosling Father of Java James Gosling has quit Google and turned his back on tier-one tech companies altogether by joining a California start-up which makes unmanned ocean-going robots.… |
| New UK 'leccy meters remotely run via Voda 2G Posted: 31 Aug 2011 03:43 AM PDT Also have ZigBee for total control of your home British Gas is to deploy meters with embedded mobile phones, and Zigbee networking, to ensure we know how much electricity we're using, and they do too.… |
| Graphene photocells could mean hyper-speed internet Posted: 31 Aug 2011 03:27 AM PDT Not merely broadband but grossly-obese-band now possible The latest study of miracle material graphene shows it could be used to provide a much higher speed internet.… |
| Toshiba launches thick Thrive tablet in Europe Posted: 31 Aug 2011 03:17 AM PDT Skinny Excite set for the States alone? Toshiba will not be introducing its third-generation Android tablet at this week's IFA consumer electronics show, confounding reports and the hopes fondleslab fans.… |
| Outbound space probe looks back at tiny Earth and Moon Posted: 31 Aug 2011 03:14 AM PDT Space snap puts things in perspective Pic NASA's space probe Juno, outward bound for Jupiter, has sent pack a pic of the Earth-Moon system from 6 million miles away.… 
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| Sid Meier's Civilisation Posted: 31 Aug 2011 03:00 AM PDT Just one more turn? Antique Code Show I remember 1991 starting on a sombre note, with my sister and I sitting in a bar doing shots under an Apocalypse Now poster waiting for the start of World War III, as we watched US bombers strafe Iraq. The end of civilisation? Well, not quite.… |
| Mobee mods Magic Trackpad into virtual keyboard Posted: 31 Aug 2011 02:35 AM PDT Customise your unwanted Apple input device So you bought an Apple Magic Trackpad at launch, but you've found you never use it - yes, we're thinking of you, Bob. Now it doesn't have to gather dust.… |
| NHS diabetic gizmo will text for help if wearer is in danger Posted: 31 Aug 2011 02:27 AM PDT hlp Im havN a lo bl%d sugA @ack Scientists from Swansea University are collaborating with a consortium of Welsh technology companies to develop a blood glucose-monitoring sensor that can transmit readings to the mobile phones of NHS staff.… |
| Motorola pops Pro+ Posted: 31 Aug 2011 02:18 AM PDT A smartphone that won't let you sleep? Here's a handset that'll keep you awake: Motorola's new Pro+.… |
| Trev's Big Adventure in Virtualisation Posted: 31 Aug 2011 02:11 AM PDT Desktop and Server project challenge Video Trevor Pott, our adventurous sysadmin guest, never does things by halves. When a client asked him to virtualize its desktop and server infrastructure all in one go, he jumped at the chance. Danny Bradbury interviews him day by day as he grapples with missing equipment, application issues, and backup woes.… |
| Smartphone net access rockets Posted: 31 Aug 2011 02:02 AM PDT Brits take to mobile internet like never before Almost half of the UK's internet users - 45 per cent of them - accessed the net using a mobile phone in the past 12 months, the Office of National Statistics (ONS) said today.… |
| CA inks £45m Tesco IT deal Posted: 31 Aug 2011 01:58 AM PDT Taming the heterogeneous infrastructure. Mmm Supermarket behemoth Tesco has announced that US-based CA Technologies will take care of its IT network across the whole group.… |
| Tyneside police website defaced, used to serve phish Posted: 31 Aug 2011 01:57 AM PDT Tunisian conflict spills over into Newcastle Northumbria Police Authority woke up to a host of security problems after the August bank holiday weekend.…
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| Apple ejects FT app from iTunes Posted: 31 Aug 2011 01:30 AM PDT 30 per cent of your subs revenue belong to us Apple has formally booted the Financial Times newspaper app out of the iTunes store for the newspaper's refusal to hand over 30 per cent of subscription revenues to the Mac maker.… |
| Samsung outs MacBook Pro lookalike laptop Posted: 31 Aug 2011 01:07 AM PDT Apple legal team rubs hands in anticipation Samsung, oh how you must love to tempt Apple lawyers. Launched this morning: the Series 7 Chronos notebook, a 15.6in machine wrapped in aluminium. With a black caclulator-style keyboard. And a black lid hinge.… |
| Renault Scenic Bose Edition 1.6 130dCi Posted: 31 Aug 2011 12:00 AM PDT |
| Couple can sue service that monitored their net sex Posted: 30 Aug 2011 11:00 PM PDT Laptop tracking firm may have violated wiretap law A federal judge is allowing a lawsuit to proceed against a laptop-tracking service that surreptitiously intercepted explicit images from a public school teacher during an investigation of a stolen computer.… |
| Subscribe to our hardware, says Brocade Posted: 30 Aug 2011 10:48 PM PDT Install now, buy by the port later Hoping to use its elbows against Cisco's hold on the data centre market, Brocade has decided on a pitch to the bean-counters: switches that you pay for according to the ports you're using.… |
| Telstra unites and rebrands digital media ad assets Posted: 30 Aug 2011 09:00 PM PDT Aims to get a deep TAN Telstra has merged its media advertising assets, Sensis Digital Media, Telstra Classifieds and BigPond Advertising into a newly created group branded the Telstra Advertising Network (TAN).…
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| IBM opens Power8 kimono (a little bit more) Posted: 30 Aug 2011 09:00 PM PDT Wafer baked in 22 nanometers Last May El Reg gave you the little information we were able to gather on the impending Power7+ and future Power8 processor designs and their possible announcement dates in Power Systems machines.… |
| Biofuel boffins pimp panda poo Posted: 30 Aug 2011 06:00 PM PDT Breaking down the tough stuff Pandas are famous for a restricted and difficult diet: the bamboo they favour takes a lot of digesting to yield enough energy to keep them going.… |
| Aus regulator seeks tweaks to Telstra NBN plan Posted: 30 Aug 2011 05:30 PM PDT Separation anxiety Australia's competition regulator has pushed a pawn in the telco regulation chess match, soliciting industry comment on Telstra's first draft of its structural separation regime.… |
| One last production run for TouchPad Posted: 30 Aug 2011 05:01 PM PDT Fondleslab's final fling HP swears this is it: the end, the final, never-to-be-repeated, absolutely the last time: but there will be just one more production run of TouchPads for punters that missed out on cheap-as-chips deals when it killed off the unloved fondleslab.… |
| Apple's cloudy music streamer won't stream music Posted: 30 Aug 2011 03:56 PM PDT 'Listen while you download' – with restrictions Apple's long-awaited iCloud music-streaming service won't actually stream your iTunes music collection. Instead, it will download tunes to your device, though you'll be able to listen to them while they are being downloaded.… |
| Did Google certificate forgers hit hundreds more sites? Posted: 30 Aug 2011 03:51 PM PDT |
| Accenture and Telstra open cloud lab Posted: 30 Aug 2011 03:50 PM PDT Making the cloud work for Australia Fresh from securing a multi-million dollar national government e-health contract, Accenture, along with Telstra, has invested in a new Product Innovation Lab in Melbourne to develop cloud-computing solutions for customers in Australia and New Zealand.… |
