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- Google erects master API for linking web apps
- Apple, Walmart, and you: Making money in mobile
- Acer founder: 'Tablets, ultrabooks just a fad'
- NASA's <i>Juno</i> roars off to Jupiter
- Facial recognition tech proves Randi AND Mark are the same Zuck
- HTC swallows cloud app biz Dashwire
- A mixed bag for IT jobs in July
- Cisco warns over warranty discs of EVIL
- Ray of hope for smartphone projectors
- Police procurement deal means cops pay more
- Kinect space saver on its way
- Spanish unfurl Benny 16 banana bog roll
- Finding the black-spots in service delivery
- Mr Bean prangs £650k McLaren
- LinkedIn smashes through dire economy with HUGE sales jump
- Ofcom bows to Google lobby
- Nikon D5100 16.2Mp DSLR
- Can you handle LOHAN's substantial globes?
- 12% of UK don't carry cash
- PlayStation phone prices plunge
- DOH! Housing contractor loses unencrypted stick down the pub
- Logica profits hit by misers in public sector
- E-petitions site: Death wish FAIL
- Murdoch accused of operating illegal US air force
- Microsoft vs Google patent ding dong gets stuck on repeat
- Stream vids to your laptop ON A PLANE ... but prepare to pay
- Fusion-io flash results explode
- Octovo Solis e-book reader lamp
- Directing Fibre Channel storage traffic over Ethernet
- Travelodge blames 'vindictive individual' for email database breach
- STEC stamps its mark on PCIe flash
- Insight blames public sector for sales dip
- End user productivity: is technology a help or a hindrance?
- Microsoft preps 13 updates for August Patch Tuesday
- ‘Pitstops’ can inhibit viruses
- Spamford Wallace charged for hacking 500,000 Facebookers
- Linus Torvalds dubs GNOME 3 'unholy mess'
- Martian water slides caught on camera (maybe)
- Rackspace: 'OpenStack opens doors, wallets'
- NBN Co gets heavy on social comms
| Google erects master API for linking web apps Posted: 05 Aug 2011 11:49 AM PDT Intent on Web IntentsGoogle is developing an über-API meant to facilitate interaction between web applications, and it plans to integrate the project – known as Web Intents – with its Chrome browser and Chrome OS browser-based operating system.… |
| Apple, Walmart, and you: Making money in mobile Posted: 05 Aug 2011 11:45 AM PDT Serving the goldfish generationOpen...and Shut Mobile is top-of-mind for every developer and every business, but it's not yet reaching stuffing-of-wallet for much of anyone.… |
| Acer founder: 'Tablets, ultrabooks just a fad' Posted: 05 Aug 2011 09:58 AM PDT Shh! Don't tell IntelThose tablets and razor-thin "ultrabooks" that are grabbing all the headlines these days are just passing fads, says the founder of PC-maker Acer.… |
| NASA's <i>Juno</i> roars off to Jupiter Posted: 05 Aug 2011 09:33 AM PDT Mighty rocket lifts gas giant missionNASA's Juno spacecraft blasted off this afternoon from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station at the beginning of its five-year journey to Jupiter.… |
| Facial recognition tech proves Randi AND Mark are the same Zuck Posted: 05 Aug 2011 08:33 AM PDT Facebook's photo-tagging service uncovers shocking truthWorld Exclusive After spending literally minutes researching photos of Facebook co-founder Mark Zuckerberg and his older "sister" Randi on the interwebs, The Register can exclusively reveal that the siblings are in fact ONE AND THE SAME person.… |
| HTC swallows cloud app biz Dashwire Posted: 05 Aug 2011 08:32 AM PDT Splashes $18.5m on deal in between patent battlesSmartphone maker HTC has taken time out from its long-running patent battle with Apple to bid $18.5m for US web-based application developer Dashwire.… |
| A mixed bag for IT jobs in July Posted: 05 Aug 2011 08:24 AM PDT US economy adds jobs, unemployment micro-ticks downThe US economy added more jobs than economists had projected in July and the Bureau of Labor Statistics said in its latest jobs report that it had also revised the number of net new people added to the workforce in May and June. This number was slightly higher than originally reported, the bureau said.… |
| Cisco warns over warranty discs of EVIL Posted: 05 Aug 2011 08:04 AM PDT Malicious suppository Easter Egg shenanigansNetworking giant Cisco has warned customers that a CD-ROM it supplied with its kit automatically took users to a site that was a known malware repository.… |
| Ray of hope for smartphone projectors Posted: 05 Aug 2011 07:26 AM PDT Grain of sand sets shining exampleA components manufacturer claims to have made the industry's smallest aspherical glass lens which has potential to kit-out smartphones with built-in projectors.… |
| Police procurement deal means cops pay more Posted: 05 Aug 2011 06:43 AM PDT Handcuffing cops to one supplier means higher pricesWest Midlands Police Authority has cast doubts on Home Office claims about the savings offered by the controversial Sprint ii IT procurement framework and plans to minimise its use.… |
| Posted: 05 Aug 2011 06:30 AM PDT Reverse Tardis effectThe problem with Xbox Kinect - aside from a decent range of top-drawer titles - is the inability to play without a large living room and yards of space.… |
| Spanish unfurl Benny 16 banana bog roll Posted: 05 Aug 2011 06:08 AM PDT Madrid to welcome Pope with open bowelsSpanish bog roll outfit Renova has come up with a novel way for locals to welcome Pope Benny 16 to Madrid later this month – a limited-editon arse paper combo in a fetching Vatican colour scheme.… |
| Finding the black-spots in service delivery Posted: 05 Aug 2011 06:04 AM PDT And what to do when you clock themRegcast IT nowadays is so complex that even the best systems, operated by the best people in the game, can have black-spots when you bring them together to deliver a service to your customers. You've no doubt experienced the problem. You're sitting in IT looking at your systems management dashboard admiring the green lights, whilst the phones are ringing and the directors are on your case because the services aren't meeting expectation.… |
| Posted: 05 Aug 2011 05:48 AM PDT Rowan Atkinson 'crawls from burning supercar'Blackadder star Rowan Atkinson narrowly "cheated death" last night after pranging his £650k McLaren F1, and crawling from the supercar's burning wreckage.… |
| LinkedIn smashes through dire economy with HUGE sales jump Posted: 05 Aug 2011 05:46 AM PDT Social-network-for-suits on fire. But forecast dampens numbersLinkedIn posted its first financial numbers on Thursday, after going public earlier this year, and surprised (almost) everyone by pinning a giddy revenue increase of 120 per cent on its Q2 results.… |
| Posted: 05 Aug 2011 05:10 AM PDT How Google owned our regulatorThe rubber-stamping of Ian Hargreaves "IP Review" and other news yesterday represents a lobbying triumph for Google, and shows the creative industries they need to learn some lessons.… |
| Posted: 05 Aug 2011 05:08 AM PDT Making an entryReview Sitting somewhere in the middle of entry-level scale, Nikon's D5100 represents a considerable leap from its predecessor the D5000 and can be seen in some respects as a smaller, cheaper-built D7000. From its bigger brother it inherits the 16.2 DX-sized CMOS sensor; the Expeed 2 processor with 14-bit Raw shooting, the extensive ISO range and the higher 920k screen resolution.… |
| Can you handle LOHAN's substantial globes? Posted: 05 Aug 2011 05:02 AM PDT We invite you to tackle spaceplane launch poserThe matter of our LOHAN's substantial globes has kicked off a right old debate among you, our beloved readers, as rival viewpoints on just how to launch the Vulture 2 aircraft from beneath helium-filled funbags battle for our attention.… |
| Posted: 05 Aug 2011 04:16 AM PDT One likes to emulate the royalty you knowTwo-thirds of you don't like using cash, and one in eight has stopped carrying it entirely, according to Barclays, which (unsurprisingly) reckon cards are the way of the future.… |
| PlayStation phone prices plunge Posted: 05 Aug 2011 04:15 AM PDT The Nintendo effect?Sony Ericsson's Xperia Play has followed in Nintendo's 3DS footprints, experiencing a dramatic drop in price with some online retailers lowering it by almost 50 per cent.… |
| DOH! Housing contractor loses unencrypted stick down the pub Posted: 05 Aug 2011 04:14 AM PDT Stick was stuffed with tenants' personalsA contractor who lost an unencrypted memory stick with confidential data during a visit down the pub has landed two London housing bodies in trouble with data privacy watchdogs.… |
| Logica profits hit by misers in public sector Posted: 05 Aug 2011 03:50 AM PDT Plan A: still hurtingLogica is continuing to shift its order book from the public sector toward the commercial markets following a tough first half-year that challenged margins and gave operating profits a pounding.… |
| E-petitions site: Death wish FAIL Posted: 05 Aug 2011 03:12 AM PDT Bloody liberals ruin everythingThe Coalition government's E-petitions website remains open for business today but has been flooded with wishy-washy anti-hanging advocates.… |
| Murdoch accused of operating illegal US air force Posted: 05 Aug 2011 03:09 AM PDT Microdrone black ops threaten democracyRupert Murdoch may soon have his front door kicked in by the US's Federal Aviation Administration, amid accusations that News Corporation has been operating an illegal air force.… |
| Microsoft vs Google patent ding dong gets stuck on repeat Posted: 05 Aug 2011 03:05 AM PDT Paranoid Android or a naughty, patent-herding Redmond? You decideMicrosoft and Google are still engaged in a war of words over what Mountain View has claimed is a "conspiracy" against its Android platform.… |
| Stream vids to your laptop ON A PLANE ... but prepare to pay Posted: 05 Aug 2011 03:03 AM PDT Bring your own screen alongAmerican Airlines is to start offering to stream video to passengers' own kit, as long as that kit is a laptop computer and the passenger doesn't mind paying for the experience.… |
| Fusion-io flash results explode Posted: 05 Aug 2011 03:00 AM PDT Buys IO Turbine on the back of 556% revenue surgeFusion-io's first quarterly results since its IPO show revenues exploding, and it is buying IO Turbine for virtual server caching software on the back of that.… |
| Octovo Solis e-book reader lamp Posted: 05 Aug 2011 03:00 AM PDT Strike a lightAccessory of the Week No question, the Octovo Solis is the snazziest clip-on e-book reader light I've seen, and possibly the one that's the most practical to use too.… |
| Directing Fibre Channel storage traffic over Ethernet Posted: 05 Aug 2011 02:19 AM PDT The benefits of convergenceFibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) has a hard act to follow. Fibre Channel storage fabrics accomplish an amazing feat, making shared storage arrays equivalent to direct-attached disk drives to the many servers accessing them.… |
| Travelodge blames 'vindictive individual' for email database breach Posted: 05 Aug 2011 02:08 AM PDT Hacker or disaffected worker mystery remainsTravelodge UK has confirmed that a customer database security breach was behind the recent run of spam emails to its customers.… |
| STEC stamps its mark on PCIe flash Posted: 05 Aug 2011 02:05 AM PDT Meet Kronos and Kronos TurboSTEC has introduced Kronos and Kronos Turbo, their dynamic PCIe server flash duo. Actually STEC is launching triplets as there is a Kronos Bi-Turbo – two Turbos ganged together – and there is also flash caching software.… |
| Insight blames public sector for sales dip Posted: 05 Aug 2011 02:01 AM PDT Saved by currency tailwind and mid-market pushA strong currency tailwind lifted Insight Enterprises's second quarter sales to growth in Europe as spending cuts in the public sector started to bite.… |
| End user productivity: is technology a help or a hindrance? Posted: 05 Aug 2011 01:54 AM PDT The need to look beyond ITReg Research Judging by the number of supporting technologies that are available, and the claims made for their efficacy, end user productivity issues have long been a thing of the past. But we all know that in real life, it isn't like that at all. The question remains, though: to what extent can technology help address productivity issues, and at what point does it start getting in the way?… |
| Microsoft preps 13 updates for August Patch Tuesday Posted: 05 Aug 2011 01:42 AM PDT Unloads baker's dozen after quiet JulyMicrosoft is fuelling up 13 bulletins for release next week, including an update that guards against critical flaws in Internet Explorer.… |
| ‘Pitstops’ can inhibit viruses Posted: 04 Aug 2011 06:00 PM PDT Boffins propose new idea for blocking HIV, cancerA compound dubbed the "pitstop" has been proposed as offering a new way to defend the body against invaders such as viruses and cancers.… |
| Spamford Wallace charged for hacking 500,000 Facebookers Posted: 04 Aug 2011 05:32 PM PDT Forbidden login at 10,000 feetOne of the first figures to plaster the internet with millions of spam messages before being driven underground has been criminally charged for hacking some 500,000 Facebook accounts, stealing their personal information, and sending 27 million unwanted advertisements.… |
| Linus Torvalds dubs GNOME 3 'unholy mess' Posted: 04 Aug 2011 05:27 PM PDT 'Head up the a*** behavior'Linux daddy Linus Torvalds has dropped GNOME 3 in favor of the Xfce graphical desktop interface, dubbing GNOME 3 an "unholy mess".… |
| Martian water slides caught on camera (maybe) Posted: 04 Aug 2011 04:19 PM PDT US spacecraft spies Red Planet flowsA US spacecraft orbiting Mars has provided tantalizing evidence of liquid water in the form of a series of images that show dark lines appearing to flow down steep ravines.… |
| Rackspace: 'OpenStack opens doors, wallets' Posted: 04 Aug 2011 04:13 PM PDT Quarterly sales and profits take to the cloudy skiesThe mania around cloud computing in general and OpenStack in particular helped puff up Rackspace Hosting's latest financial report.… |
| NBN Co gets heavy on social comms Posted: 04 Aug 2011 04:00 PM PDT Microsoft Oz PR head joins exodus to network builderNBN Co has opened the door to Microsoft recruits, having previously raided the talent cupboards of Telstra and vendors like Alcatel-Lucent.… |
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