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- Bittorrent.com's software download hacked to serve malware
- Intel promises '20X' power reduction with 'Haswell' chips
- Intel wireless display tech coming to netbooks, tablets, phones
- Stonebraker's VoltDB adds catastrophe protection
- Intel, Google 'optimize' chips for Android
- Intel pushes Ultrabooks for Xmas
- NASA offers space shuttle food and tiles to schools
- Windows 8: First contact with Microsoft Touch
- DRAM, Flash in same box named after killer mountain
- Belgians aim to be third neutral-net nation
- SAP coughs $20m to feds in Oracle slurp spat
- Hunt: We'll slightly inconvenience pirate sites
- AMD snags Guinness World Record for clockiest chip
- Anti-gay bus baron rages at being stuffed in Google closet
- Got a non-iPad tablet? Weirdo
- Facebook music dashboard: Revenue at last?
- Murdoch to reappear before MPs in phone-hack case
- Nintendo 3DS gets more stick
- Dead Island
- Cloud startup's business model defies laws of physics
- Mainframe shops (a little) more optimistic about System z
- BT to fibre-up another 114 exchanges
- HP extends deadline as Autonomy shareholders drag feet
- Is Cisco's 16-year CEO Chambers ready to go?
- AMD: Windows-8-on-ARM app compatibility is relative
- Ofcom begins crackdown on auto-renew telco contracts
- Momentary Micron skirt-lift reveals big flashy box
- MPs blast dole-office-online plans
- Skifta
- Lincs bloke fined in deceased hedgehog outrage
- Dolby wins licensing fees on BlackBerry, PlayBook
- Minister seeks to rip 'Like' buttons off German gov web
- Hands-On Data Centre
- More details on HP's OpenStack cloud coming
- Big Music trumpets ‘Cliff Richard’ term extension
- Seagate adding flash embulgement to Thins
- iRobot Roomba 780 automated vacuum cleaner
- State-sponsored spies collaborate with crimeware gang
- AppFog dev cloud envelops Ruby, Node
- Out of the diamond planet, a research group emerges
- Why Android houses should give Google the 'fork you'
- Miranda Kerr suffers digital deletion
- IBM’s <i>Jeopardy</i> super hired to search healthcare data
- LibreOffice uncloaks online extension cache beta
- Gravity wave detector gets more sensitive
| Bittorrent.com's software download hacked to serve malware Posted: 13 Sep 2011 02:53 PM PDT File-sharing with fake AVAttackers hijacked two popular Bittorrent websites and tampered with their download mechanisms, causing visitors trying to obtain file-sharing software to instead receive malware.… |
| Intel promises '20X' power reduction with 'Haswell' chips Posted: 13 Sep 2011 02:40 PM PDT Sandy Bridge successor aims for UltrabooksIDC 2011 Intel claims that platforms built around its Haswell microarchitecture – the successor to the today's Sandy Bridge, scheduled for 2013 – will use one-twentieth the power of today's stingiest low-power platforms.… |
| Intel wireless display tech coming to netbooks, tablets, phones Posted: 13 Sep 2011 02:30 PM PDT Will gain multi-room music streaming tooIDF 2011 Intel's Wireless Display - aka WiDi - technology is set to expand into music streaming and to a broader array of devices.… |
| Stonebraker's VoltDB adds catastrophe protection Posted: 13 Sep 2011 01:08 PM PDT 'NewSQL' 2.0VoltDB – the new-age database outfit founded by industry high priest Mike Stonebraker – has unveiled version 2.0 of its flagship distributed database, offering new logging tools designed to protect users from catastrophic system failures.… |
| Intel, Google 'optimize' chips for Android Posted: 13 Sep 2011 11:56 AM PDT Today, tomorrow, and forevermoreIDF 2011 Intel will add another layer to its ongoing partnership with Google, announcing that the two companies will work together to optimize all future releases of Android for Intel-architecture processors.… |
| Intel pushes Ultrabooks for Xmas Posted: 13 Sep 2011 10:58 AM PDT But admits better ones coming in the new yearIDF 2011 Intel may be keen for World+Dog to buy an Ultrabook this Christmas - it's "working with industry partners to deliver mainstream-priced products beginning this holiday season" - but smart buyers may choose to wait until 2012.… |
| NASA offers space shuttle food and tiles to schools Posted: 13 Sep 2011 09:45 AM PDT See if you can tell which is which, kids!Food and heat-resistant tiles once destined for orbit will soon end up in the grubby little hands of schoolchildren, in a scheme aimed at inspiring a future generation of astronauts and space engineers.… |
| Windows 8: First contact with Microsoft Touch Posted: 13 Sep 2011 09:05 AM PDT Strong enough to ARMwrestle Android and iOS?Preview Microsoft is facing up to the million-dollar question: how does it compete with Apple's iPad and Google's Android when Windows was designed for keyboard and mouse rather than touch control?… |
| DRAM, Flash in same box named after killer mountain Posted: 13 Sep 2011 08:20 AM PDT But it's OK: Unlikely to kill you, not actually mountainYou can now buy a tiered solid state device with both DRAM and flash because Kaminario has added Fusion-io flash to its DRAM-based K2 storage box.… |
| Belgians aim to be third neutral-net nation Posted: 13 Sep 2011 07:46 AM PDT Obviously some doubts could be cast on their neutralityBelgium could be the second European country after the Netherlands to adopt net neutrality for both fixed and mobile networks. Three political parties have joined forces to launch a proposed law (in Dutch), which they hope will be approved early next year.… |
| SAP coughs $20m to feds in Oracle slurp spat Posted: 13 Sep 2011 06:57 AM PDT Ellison's lawyers undaunted as legal orgy continuesSAP will cough up $20m to resolve the criminal side of its spat with rival Oracle over illegal software downloading by SAP's subsidiary TomorrowNow.… |
| Hunt: We'll slightly inconvenience pirate sites Posted: 13 Sep 2011 06:41 AM PDT And let that be a lesson to them! No, not that lessonIn August the government said it wouldn't implement the Digital Economy Act's web-blocking powers. But it still thinks pirate websites hurt British business and wants something to make accessing them more more difficult, and to make sanctions against them less expensive.… |
| AMD snags Guinness World Record for clockiest chip Posted: 13 Sep 2011 06:00 AM PDT A pint of vitamin G for AMDIDF The overclocking scamps of "Team AMD FX" are celebrating the Intel Developer Forum's opening day in their own special way: by accepting a fastest-chip-ever award at an event a mere block away from Intel's geekfest.… |
| Anti-gay bus baron rages at being stuffed in Google closet Posted: 13 Sep 2011 05:58 AM PDT 'It's not up to them where I appear on their site!'The founder of Stagecoach is accusing Google of censoring him by dumping his personal website from their search engine results. Sir Brian Souter is a Scottish businessman who controversially funded a campaign in 2000 to keep the anti-gay legislation of Section 28 in the Local Government and Finance Act.… |
| Posted: 13 Sep 2011 05:44 AM PDT Actually even Jobsian slabbers are a small minorityAround 3.62 million Britons are fondling slabs, 73 per cent of which are an Apple iPad, according to new research.… |
| Facebook music dashboard: Revenue at last? Posted: 13 Sep 2011 05:30 AM PDT Ad-clicker pennies are not enough ... bitchAnalysis We all know why Facebook has such astronomical valuations. It is already as ubiquitous as Tesco. It is a place a billion people go to: whereas they only ever leave Google search, to go somewhere else. But people hanging around, poking, throwing cows, ignoring the adverts and goofing around doesn't pay the rent. To increase revenue, Facebook needs to sell more stuff: products and services.… |
| Murdoch to reappear before MPs in phone-hack case Posted: 13 Sep 2011 05:14 AM PDT Simply can't do without his companyMPs are expected to grill James Murdoch for a second time, but no date has been set by the media, culture and sports committee yet.… |
| Posted: 13 Sep 2011 05:10 AM PDT Pad pushing performance enhancerNintendo is touting an attachment to the 3DS, which plonks an additional slide pad to the right of the button set and readies the handheld machine for dual-stick gaming action. This extra functionality puts it on a par with more conventional console controllers.… |
| Posted: 13 Sep 2011 05:00 AM PDT Death takes a holidayReview Sweaty locals and voodoo always remind me of Angel Heart and I was as confused as Mickey Rourke after watching Dead Island's appalling intro. Seriously, who says "git" these days? Must be all those red pills and JD. This may explain the reverse time trailer I saw a few months back, which mislead me into thinking there might be some semblance of a plot to get to grips with here.… |
| Cloud startup's business model defies laws of physics Posted: 13 Sep 2011 04:58 AM PDT 'INFINITE storage' for $10/monthStart-up Bitcasa invites you to shove all your data into the cloud and use your hard drive as a cache. It's offering infinite storage capacity, it says, for 10 bucks a month. Really.… |
| Mainframe shops (a little) more optimistic about System z Posted: 13 Sep 2011 04:45 AM PDT zEnterprise bump to turn into a grindThere are only about 4,000 IBM mainframe shops in the world, but they sure do spend a lot of money. And according to a new survey, they are going to keep on spending it for the foreseeable future.… |
| BT to fibre-up another 114 exchanges Posted: 13 Sep 2011 04:42 AM PDT 'Local monopolies benefit no one' thunders execBT is upgrading a further 114 exchanges – the majority of which will receive fibre to the cabinet (FTTC) technology.… |
| HP extends deadline as Autonomy shareholders drag feet Posted: 13 Sep 2011 04:32 AM PDT What could lie behind this odd reluctance?HP has extended the acceptance deadline for its Autonomy bid as fewer than half the UK software developers' shareholders approved the £7bn deal.… |
| Is Cisco's 16-year CEO Chambers ready to go? Posted: 13 Sep 2011 04:14 AM PDT Secret internal wars of succession said to be underwayRumours that Cisco CEO and chairman John Chambers may be considering his resignation have gathered pace. Chambers has spent 16 years at the head of the firm.… |
| AMD: Windows-8-on-ARM app compatibility is relative Posted: 13 Sep 2011 04:07 AM PDT No hard and fast answer on legacy appsThe matter of whether existing Windows applications will run on Windows 8 on ARM – putting them on tablets – has been kicked back and forth a lot this year.… |
| Ofcom begins crackdown on auto-renew telco contracts Posted: 13 Sep 2011 04:00 AM PDT 'Man, we're already totally competitive', grumbles BTTelcos have until the end of this year to lock landline and broadband customers into automatically renewed contracts after Ofcom kiboshed the practice.… |
| Momentary Micron skirt-lift reveals big flashy box Posted: 13 Sep 2011 03:39 AM PDT Enterprise SSD to stride the catwalk next MondayMicron is dropping heavy hints about a new enterprise solid-state storage system next Monday.… |
| MPs blast dole-office-online plans Posted: 13 Sep 2011 03:15 AM PDT Poor folk can't afford internet until they're on benefitThe Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) plans to get 80 per cent of Jobseeker's Allowance claimants transacting online by September 2013, but has no clear plan of how to achieve this, says the public accounts committee.… |
| Posted: 13 Sep 2011 03:00 AM PDT Streams at your fingertipsAndroid App of the Week With so many connected devices now carrying a DLNA or UPnP sticker, shunting media from or through your phone – to a Wi-Fi enabled music player, telly or gaming console – is fast becoming an everyday requirement.… |
| Lincs bloke fined in deceased hedgehog outrage Posted: 13 Sep 2011 02:38 AM PDT Broad daylight cable-laying rocks the FensA Lincolnshire man who decided to take a dump on a dead hedgehog on a roadside verge in broad daylight has been fined £100 for the cable-laying outrage.… |
| Dolby wins licensing fees on BlackBerry, PlayBook Posted: 13 Sep 2011 02:19 AM PDT Lawyers successful in $15m RIM jobDolby Laboratories has scored in the patent wars, winning "standard terms" from Research in Motion in two lawsuits over use of audio technologies.… |
| Minister seeks to rip 'Like' buttons off German gov web Posted: 13 Sep 2011 02:18 AM PDT Sozialtechnologie-Schweinhunde und ihre gefallensknöpfe!Germany's consumer protection minister Ilse Aigner is once again calling on her peers to ditch the use of Facebook by government officials, citing what she believes are valid "justified legal doubts" raised about the social network.… |
| Posted: 13 Sep 2011 02:07 AM PDT Practical management to help you take controlBroadcast In the real world, you need to manage hundreds of apps, multiple operating systems, many classes of service. And now they're asking for cloud, too.… |
| More details on HP's OpenStack cloud coming Posted: 13 Sep 2011 01:58 AM PDT What do you mean, even we don't know what they are yet?Hewlett-Packard Co plans to share more details of its OpenStack-based cloud service at the end of September, The Reg understands.… |
| Big Music trumpets ‘Cliff Richard’ term extension Posted: 13 Sep 2011 01:29 AM PDT EU seals copyright deal - with strings attachedThere's quiet satisfaction across large parts of the music industry as Europe formally extends the copyright term on sound recordings from 50 to 70 years. The music business fought off a rearguard action from Pirate Party MEP Christian Engstrom – whose raging against the corruption of the European Parliament may have eased the passage of the controversial measure. Not everyone loves a Pirate.… |
| Seagate adding flash embulgement to Thins Posted: 13 Sep 2011 01:00 AM PDT Anorexic platter fatter but still good for ultrabooksSeagate is thinking of fattening up its single platter Momentus Thin drive with flash, making a Hybrid Thin.… |
| iRobot Roomba 780 automated vacuum cleaner Posted: 12 Sep 2011 11:00 PM PDT Rug munching machineReview The Roomba is the most widely known of the robot cleaners, and with competition mounting, the company, iRobot, has not been sitting on its laurels. The Roomba 780 is the latest model, and boasts a larger collecting bin, built in scheduling and HEPA filters.… |
| State-sponsored spies collaborate with crimeware gang Posted: 12 Sep 2011 10:00 PM PDT The Unholy APT-botnet unionHackers sponsored by the Chinese government and other nations are collaborating with profit-driven malware gangs to infiltrate corporate networks storing government secrets and other sensitive data, researchers say.… |
| AppFog dev cloud envelops Ruby, Node Posted: 12 Sep 2011 09:00 PM PDT PHP maven takes fight to HerokuThis summer, PHP Fog changed its name to AppFog, vowing to expanded its "platform cloud" beyond PHP. And now it has.… |
| Out of the diamond planet, a research group emerges Posted: 12 Sep 2011 06:00 PM PDT Taking the |
| Why Android houses should give Google the 'fork you' Posted: 12 Sep 2011 05:59 PM PDT Follow the AmazonOpen...and Shut As details leak about just how closed Google's Android development can be, the billion-dollar question is why mobile handset manufacturers bother to play ball with Mountain View at all.… |
| Miranda Kerr suffers digital deletion Posted: 12 Sep 2011 05:02 PM PDT Domain authority shuts her down after cybersquattingAustralia's domain name authority auDA has shut down and deleted the domain mirandakerr.com.au in a public stand against cybersquatting.… |
| IBM’s <i>Jeopardy</i> super hired to search healthcare data Posted: 12 Sep 2011 04:57 PM PDT Big Blue supermachine joins real worldIBM has signed a deal with health insurance provider WellPoint to use Big Blue's Watson question-and-answer system to help doctors decide what's wrong with you – and offer possible remedies.… |
| LibreOffice uncloaks online extension cache beta Posted: 12 Sep 2011 04:50 PM PDT Plus: LibreOffice-on-a-stick!LibreOffice has opened a new online storage facility to house extensions and templates for its open source productivity-software suite, as well as for OpenOffice software and compatible applications.… |
| Gravity wave detector gets more sensitive Posted: 12 Sep 2011 04:00 PM PDT Getting rid of quantum noiseOne characteristic of quantum physics is being used to defeat another, with the aim of making more sensitive gravity wave detectors, in an international project with contributions from the University of Western Australia, the Australian National University, and the GEO600 Gravitational Wave Observatory in Germany.… |
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