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- Aussie e-com start-up buyster gets bought
- Georgia Parole Board blocks Amnesty email campaign
- Oracle 'engineers' SMB database appliance
- Adobe rushes out emergency fix for critical bug in Flash
- DataStax goes 'open core' with Facebook's Cassandra
- Police authority loves Sprint ii buying regime
- No more tiers for flatter networks
- RBS megahack maestro sells flats to pay fine
- Google preps Chrome fix to slay SSL-attacking BEAST
- Yahoo! apologizes for blocking Wall Street protest emails
- Rumor: HP giving Apotheker Das Boot
- Virtual and real worlds collide in gamers' minds
- Assange pens world's first unauthorised autobiography
- Booze giant's Facebook tie-up sparks ad concerns
- Boffins step closer to steam-powered Babbage computer
- Microsoft dumps Gold partner accused of scamming customers
- Adobe bets on Flash 11 to fend off HTML5 invasion
- Microsoft emits WinPhone seduction pack
- 1-in-3,200 chance* that a fiery satellite chunk will hit someone on Friday
- UK firm denies supplying spyware to Mubarak's secret police
- Amazon staff toiled in 100°F+ warehouse
- Capital gets trendy address: .London on its way
- GM OnStar cars will upload all data unless owners opt out
- Facebook 'personal' news feed gets algorithm rejig
- Apple to unveil white iPod Touch alongside iPhone 5
- Dinosaur-murdering space boulder family found innocent
- Kingston Technology HyperX 240GB SSD
- Microsoft cloud evaporated by one busted file
- Windows 8 secure boot would 'exclude' Linux
- Why Samsung won't open the Bada OS box
- BT bitchslapped for misleading 'Join now' Infinity ad
- Mathematicians slam UK.gov plans to fund statistics only
- Microsoft bumps up dividend by 25 per cent
- Sepaton recruits ex-Quantum CTO
- 'Angry Bird in the Sky' spotted by astronomers
- World's Smallest Camera gives big snappers the finger
- Self-planting plant discovered in Brazil
- HTC to bring souped-up Sense to handbag handset
- Blighty's slow-crawling broadband streets revealed
- BBC website ditches modules in facelift
- Why <i>do</i> these traders get billions to play with, unchecked?
- Samsung may try to block next iPhone in Europe too
- Will SaaS make you more efficient?
- O2 tries to one-up the Apple store with SMB lounge
- Hynix gets out tiny NAND cell
- Google Android Market fee favours big brands
- Nissan Micra DIG-S
- MySQL founder savages Oracle’s move to 'open core'
- Greenplum appliances swing both ways
- Zendesk adds Melbourne
| Aussie e-com start-up buyster gets bought Posted: 21 Sep 2011 03:55 PM PDT US e-tailer Wayfair in dotcom dealAustralian e-commerce start-up buyster.com.au has been snapped up by US home goods e-tailer Wayfair for an undisclosed sum.… |
| Georgia Parole Board blocks Amnesty email campaign Posted: 21 Sep 2011 02:46 PM PDT Servers hosed by 800 messages, it seemsThe Georgia Parole Board has decided that a mass email campaign counts as a denial of service campaign, and is consequently dropping traffic from Amnesty International New Zealand.… |
| Oracle 'engineers' SMB database appliance Posted: 21 Sep 2011 02:07 PM PDT 'Smaller, tighter package'Larry Ellison says that he doesn't care if the company's x64 server business goes to zero. But Oracle has once again launched a database appliance based on x64 servers.… |
| Adobe rushes out emergency fix for critical bug in Flash Posted: 21 Sep 2011 02:00 PM PDT 'Zero-day' attacks already underwayAdobe Systems has issued an emergency update for its ubiquitous Flash Player that fixes a critical security vulnerability that attackers are actively exploiting to hack end user machines.… |
| DataStax goes 'open core' with Facebook's Cassandra Posted: 21 Sep 2011 01:58 PM PDT NoSQL meets Hadoop meets the enterpriseDataStax – the outfit that commercialized the Cassandra distributed database originally open sourced by Facebook – will soon release two new software packages based on the "NoSQL" platform.… |
| Police authority loves Sprint ii buying regime Posted: 21 Sep 2011 11:34 AM PDT Too expensive? Did we say that?West Midlands Police Authority (WMPA) has retracted claims that the Sprint ii procurement agreement was more expensive than other options.… |
| No more tiers for flatter networks Posted: 21 Sep 2011 11:19 AM PDT Solving the east-west traffic problemThere is a disconnect between data centre networks and modern distributed applications, and it is not a broken wire. It is a broken networking model.… |
| RBS megahack maestro sells flats to pay fine Posted: 21 Sep 2011 11:00 AM PDT Crime and punishmentA high-profile cybercrook who masterminded the $9m RBS Worldpay ATM heist in 2008 has sold two of his St Petersburg flats to pay off his fines.… |
| Google preps Chrome fix to slay SSL-attacking BEAST Posted: 21 Sep 2011 10:36 AM PDT 20-line patch targets plaintext recovery exploitGoogle has prepared an update for its Chrome browser that protects users against an attack that decrypts data sent between browsers and many websites protected by the secure sockets layer protocol.… |
| Yahoo! apologizes for blocking Wall Street protest emails Posted: 21 Sep 2011 10:32 AM PDT Spam! mistake! not! censorship! says! Yahoo!Yahoo! has admitted that its email filters were blocking news of the ongoing occupation of Wall Street by activists, which is now in its fourth day.… |
| Rumor: HP giving Apotheker Das Boot Posted: 21 Sep 2011 09:59 AM PDT Former eBay CEO Whitman to step in?It looks like Leo Apotheker's tumultuous time at the helm of IT behemoth Hewlett-Packard could be drawing to a close.… |
| Virtual and real worlds collide in gamers' minds Posted: 21 Sep 2011 09:13 AM PDT Boss levels... with the boss?Some gamers are so absorbed by their virtual arenas, that even when they have come back to reality, they continue to act like they're in a videogame, new research suggests.… |
| Assange pens world's first unauthorised autobiography Posted: 21 Sep 2011 08:50 AM PDT WikiLeaks supremo's bid to censor self fails as book goes on saleJulian Assange's autobiography is released tomorrow – despite the objections of one Julian Assange.… |
| Booze giant's Facebook tie-up sparks ad concerns Posted: 21 Sep 2011 08:24 AM PDT Won't somebody please think of the children?Global alcohol retailer Diageo has announced that it is stepping up its multimillion dollar partnership with Facebook, leading to fears of booze adverts reaching young audiences.… |
| Boffins step closer to steam-powered Babbage computer Posted: 21 Sep 2011 08:04 AM PDT Analytical Engine designs digitised by Science Museum for steampunk projectA project to build British mathematician Charles Babbage's mechanical computer has won assistance from the Science Museum in London.… |
| Microsoft dumps Gold partner accused of scamming customers Posted: 21 Sep 2011 07:56 AM PDT Leave the badge on the table on your way outMicrosoft has removed Gold partner status from India-based support firm Comantra amid claims that the firm had been defrauding Redmond's UK customers.… |
| Adobe bets on Flash 11 to fend off HTML5 invasion Posted: 21 Sep 2011 07:41 AM PDT Hardware acceleration woos 3D game makersAdobe has announced the next version of its Flash Player, repositioning its media platform for a mobile world where it is being increasingly shunned.… |
| Microsoft emits WinPhone seduction pack Posted: 21 Sep 2011 07:21 AM PDT Calling those abandoning the good ship SymbianMicrosoft has provided a selection of guides showing how easy it can be to code for Windows Phone, including API maps and help with porting existing Qt applications.… |
| 1-in-3,200 chance* that a fiery satellite chunk will hit someone on Friday Posted: 21 Sep 2011 07:06 AM PDT Defunct climate probe to make dramatic re-entrySmall fiery pieces of what was once a climate-monitoring satellite will hurtle towards the Earth's surface this Friday.… |
| UK firm denies supplying spyware to Mubarak's secret police Posted: 21 Sep 2011 06:37 AM PDT RATs nest found in Egyptian spook HQA UK tech firm has denied supplying spyware technology to the former Egyptian government of Hosni Mubarak.… |
| Amazon staff toiled in 100°F+ warehouse Posted: 21 Sep 2011 06:18 AM PDT Temps stretchered out, local paper reportsLow-paid Amazon workers, many of whom were temporary agency contractors, sweated this summer in temperatures above 100°F (38°C) in a shipping warehouse, a US newspaper investigation has revealed. The internet giant laid on paramedics for staff at the Breinigsville, Pennsylvania "fulfillment center", with employees taken to hospital who couldn't "quickly cool off".… |
| Capital gets trendy address: .London on its way Posted: 21 Sep 2011 06:04 AM PDT But not in time for the Olympics ...London could soon get its very own top-level internet address, .london.… |
| GM OnStar cars will upload all data unless owners opt out Posted: 21 Sep 2011 05:58 AM PDT It's coming: Your car will rat you out to insurersCars fitted with OnStar's technology will be tracked even if the owners don't sign up to the service, in a change to the company's policy that will kick in come December.… |
| Facebook 'personal' news feed gets algorithm rejig Posted: 21 Sep 2011 05:38 AM PDT Angry faces say that this is not a Plus ... on TwitterFacebook has updated its News Feed function and upset some users who have taken to - IRONY ALERT! - Twitter to complain about it.… |
| Apple to unveil white iPod Touch alongside iPhone 5 Posted: 21 Sep 2011 05:22 AM PDT No 3G support?With the hype over the next-gen iPhone in full swing, all talk of an iPod Touch refresh has been pushed to the side. Well, no longer. According to insiders, the new iPod Touch will be reissued next month with a white body.… |
| Dinosaur-murdering space boulder family found innocent Posted: 21 Sep 2011 05:19 AM PDT NASA discovers alibi for the BaptistinasThe hunt for the asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs is back on, after a NASA mission indicated that the current suspected space rock is not the likely culprit.… |
| Kingston Technology HyperX 240GB SSD Posted: 21 Sep 2011 05:00 AM PDT May the SandForce be with youReview Following OCZ's great success with its SandForce SF2281-based Vertex 3 solid-state drive, it seems everyone is jumping on the SandForce bandwagon now. I recently tested Patriot Memory's Wildfire SSD from, and today I have the latest addition to Kingston Technology's HyperX product line.… |
| Microsoft cloud evaporated by one busted file Posted: 21 Sep 2011 04:31 AM PDT Services failed for hoursA corrupted file in Microsoft's DNS services brought down its cloud across the world, the software giant has revealed.… |
| Windows 8 secure boot would 'exclude' Linux Posted: 21 Sep 2011 04:20 AM PDT Microsoft wants firmware to only start authorised OSesComputer scientists warn that proposed changes in firmware specifications may make it impossible to run "unauthorised" operating systems such as Linux and FreeBSD on PCs.… |
| Why Samsung won't open the Bada OS box Posted: 21 Sep 2011 04:03 AM PDT Closed nature is its greatest strengthAnalysis The Wall Street Journal reckons Samsung is about to open-source its Bada OS, and then pitch it as a competitor to the increasingly patent-laden Android – but fails to properly explain why the South Korean giant would make such a move.… |
| BT bitchslapped for misleading 'Join now' Infinity ad Posted: 21 Sep 2011 03:53 AM PDT ASA ruling after Virgin Media complains to watchdogThe war of words between Virgin Media and BT has once again landed on the steps of the UK's advertising watchdog, which upheld one out of three complaints brought by Virgin Media against its rival ISP.… |
| Mathematicians slam UK.gov plans to fund statistics only Posted: 21 Sep 2011 03:42 AM PDT Strips all proper boffinry of its foundationsMathematicians across the UK have written to David Cameron protesting that plans to restrict Maths research funding to Statistics and Applied Probability only is a short-sighted approach that will strip the UK of a generation of science leaders.… |
| Microsoft bumps up dividend by 25 per cent Posted: 21 Sep 2011 03:28 AM PDT Redmond raises divvy to calm restless investorsMicrosoft is giving its shareholders a 25 per cent boost in its December dividends, forking out $0.20 per share from its cash stockpile.… |
| Sepaton recruits ex-Quantum CTO Posted: 21 Sep 2011 03:19 AM PDT Where to now for the 'no tapes' company?Analysis No-tapes backup data storage company Sepaton (read it backwards) has recruited a new chief technology officer, who comes to it via Quantum and NetApp.… |
| 'Angry Bird in the Sky' spotted by astronomers Posted: 21 Sep 2011 03:00 AM PDT Glowing red space chicken features in 'scope snapPic Astronomers peering through a mighty telescope in Chile have produced this stunning snap of the Lambda Centauri Nebula, also known as the "Running Chicken Nebula":… |
| World's Smallest Camera gives big snappers the finger Posted: 21 Sep 2011 02:52 AM PDT Honey, I shrunk the DSLRHammacher Schlemmer has been zapping tech with Duke Nukem's shrink ray once again, now reducing a digital camera down to the size of a gobstopper.… |
| Self-planting plant discovered in Brazil Posted: 21 Sep 2011 02:50 AM PDT The ultimate gift for lazy gardenersThose Register readers who possess a garden yet are not fond of spending time on their knees clutching a trowel – take heart! Science has found a possible answer to your needs with the discovery of a type of plant which does not merely release its seeds, but actually bends down and buries them in the soil for you.… |
| HTC to bring souped-up Sense to handbag handset Posted: 21 Sep 2011 02:44 AM PDT Rhyme and reasonHTC has officially unveiled the Rhyme, a sleek handset that comes with the company's freshly updated Sense platform.… |
| Blighty's slow-crawling broadband streets revealed Posted: 21 Sep 2011 02:19 AM PDT Live in Halesworth if you wanna party like it's 1999Dial-up speeds of 56Kbit/s may be a thing of the past for many UK residents, but some people throughout the land remain saddled with painfully slow internet connections, courtesy of their local broadband infrastructure.… |
| BBC website ditches modules in facelift Posted: 21 Sep 2011 02:03 AM PDT In come fondle-inspired slides and carousels. Really.The BBC is the only UK website which ranks in the top 100 sites in the world, and it's getting a fresh look today. The home page is dropping its customisable "modules" in favour of a more modern navigation design, partly inspired by the iPad.… |
| Why <i>do</i> these traders get billions to play with, unchecked? Posted: 21 Sep 2011 01:39 AM PDT Because they're supposed to be hedging every betOne of the most misunderstood concepts in all of finance is that of "arbitrage". It looks very much like speculation from afar but it isn't, it's very much the opposite. There are also a lot of people who describe what they do as arbitrage and they're damned liars: they're speculators. Ivan Boesky used to claim to be an arbitrageur but he wasn't even a speculator, he was an insider trader.… |
| Samsung may try to block next iPhone in Europe too Posted: 21 Sep 2011 01:28 AM PDT Jesus mobe's fifth coming could see fanboi frustrationSamsung could try to get the iPhone 5 delayed or banned in Europe, a source has told South Korea's Maeil Business Newspaper today. The Korean giant is considering a lawsuit against the next version of the Apple smartphone due in October, in the expectation that iPhone 5 will make use of some basic telecoms technology that Samsung has patented.… |
| Will SaaS make you more efficient? Posted: 21 Sep 2011 01:10 AM PDT If so, how?SaaS might give you more availability, it might cut your capital costs, and it might give you a big empty server room in your basement where you can play ping pong after work, but will it make your business more efficient?… |
| O2 tries to one-up the Apple store with SMB lounge Posted: 21 Sep 2011 12:58 AM PDT Facemail hookup hangout for those who don't have officesThe O2 Workshop is a small-business drop-in centre, carved out of the company's Tottenham Court Road store, which hopes to provide an Apple-store environment only for suits.… |
| Posted: 21 Sep 2011 12:30 AM PDT Mine's smaller than yoursWhile flash fabs are producing 20nm-class product Hynix has gone one better, planning to present a 15nm flash geometry at the next International Electron Devices Meeting.… |
| Google Android Market fee favours big brands Posted: 21 Sep 2011 12:22 AM PDT Andy Pad maker coughs to using unlicensed app storeAndrew Kerry, head of the company behind the Andy Pad cut-price Android tablet, has coughed to implementing the Android Market on his product without Google's permission.… |
| Posted: 21 Sep 2011 12:00 AM PDT Diesel economy meets petrol refinementReview Nissan's fourth-generation Micra didn't make much of a splash when it launched in the UK last year thanks to the absence of headline-grabbing technical advances. The forgettable styling didn't help, Nissan abandoning the idiosyncratic look of the previous model in favour of something that looked decidedly plain alongside its visually challenging Juke.… |
| MySQL founder savages Oracle’s move to 'open core' Posted: 20 Sep 2011 11:34 PM PDT Monty yearns for the good old daysOne of the key founders of the MySQL project, Ulf Michael 'Monty' Widenius, has savaged Oracle's decision to start selling commercially exclusive extensions to MySQL.… |
| Greenplum appliances swing both ways Posted: 20 Sep 2011 09:01 PM PDT Spinning up data warehouses and HadoopThe Greenplum data analytics unit of disk storage giant EMC is tweaking its Data Center Appliances, not only offering a more modular architecture and pricing scheme that lets companies start small and grow their analytics, but also allowing for the mixing of the Greenplum parallel database with Hadoop nodes within the same infrastructure and firing up either node as the workloads demand.… |
| Posted: 20 Sep 2011 05:30 PM PDT Melbourne to get own BOFH-in-the-cloudCloud providers are continuing their game of "capture the flag" in Australia, with yet another international provider announcing a local outpost. This time, it's Zendesk, which provides cloud-based helpdesk software.… |
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