China links with Taiwan undersea |
- China links with Taiwan undersea
- Data on the couch: how analysing customers gives companies the edge
- Junior tech moguls rock rich list
- Faster-than-light back with surprising CERN discovery
- HP dumps Apotheker for Whitman
- Finance software bug causes $217m in investor losses
- OpenStack adds web dashboard to 'floating Linux kernel'
- Teradata update chews up, spits out columns
- HP expected to hand Whitman full fat CEO role
- Facebook suggests sharing everything all the time
- Microsoft turns to FBI in hunt for Rustock ringleader
- Inconvenient truther hints at multiple iPhone October
- LightSquared to magic away GPS interference in 2 weeks
- Memo to open source moralists: Put a sock in it
- Work begins on radical Gordon super flash-computer
- Autodesk shifts design apps to the cloud
- Cache IQ adds another NAS accelerator
- CERN's boson hunters tackle big data bug infestation
- Web surfers stumble upon new planets
- Brit ISPs shift toward rapid pirate website blocking
- Yoof survey: 'Internet as vital as air'
- HP storage hobbled by board's indecision
- Gartner: Apple rivals can't touch iPad
- Cyberspy attacks targeting Russians traced back to UK and US
- EC: New principles agreed for out-of-print book licensing
- Isle of Man floats government IT into the cloud
- Local radio stations band together against DAB
- HP may NOT spin off PC biz
- Attention metal thieves: Buy BT, get 75 MILLION miles of copper
- Acer Ethos 5951G 15.6in Core i5 notebook
- TalkTalk still the most whinged about telco
- Ford spins pop-out anti-prang door shield
- Bargain-basement botnet kit – yours for just €5
- Ministers kill off failed £12.7bn NHS IT revamp
- Former HP exec to run Citrix EMEA
- Surviving the Facebook app 'swamp' with Azure
- OnLive pushes game stream service to UK punters
- EMC exec flames <i>El Reg</i>
- US military satellite to get attack-warning equipment
- Sage sells off US healthcare biz
- Twitter discovers MMS for photo tweeting
- Google cleared in ad keyword-squatting court case
- Lancs shale to yield '15 years' of gas for UK
- EU dons kid gloves for Google competition probe
- Scottish Boundary Commission: We don't need no stinkin' PDFs
- Orange Barcelona Android Qwerty phone
- Mars trips could blind astronauts
- Acid3 browser test drops DOM tripper-upper
- $20m to find 'next transistors'
| China links with Taiwan undersea Posted: 22 Sep 2011 04:00 PM PDT Cable set to be completed early 2012The first cross-strait cable linking Taiwan and China has been given the green light.… |
| Data on the couch: how analysing customers gives companies the edge Posted: 22 Sep 2011 04:00 PM PDT Digging for victoryIt used to be that quality and price were the key differentiators but increasingly these days organisations are relying on business analytics – the methodical exploration of the organisation's data to measure performance – to deliver competitive advantage.… |
| Junior tech moguls rock rich list Posted: 22 Sep 2011 03:30 PM PDT Australia breeds geeky gurusAtlassian's founders Mike Cannon-Brookes and Scott Farquhar have made the top five of BRW magazine's annual Young Rich List, with combined riches of $AU360 million, up from $AU314 million last year.… |
| Faster-than-light back with surprising CERN discovery Posted: 22 Sep 2011 02:39 PM PDT Where'd that neutrino come from? The futureOnly weeks since mathematicians proved it couldn't be done, CERN boffins have put the smile back on sci-fi fans' faces everywhere by discovering neutrinos travelling faster than light.… |
| HP dumps Apotheker for Whitman Posted: 22 Sep 2011 02:09 PM PDT 'After careful and thoughtful deliberation'HP has named Meg Whitman as its new president and chief executive officer, parting ways with Leo Apotheker, who took the reins at the IT giant just ten months ago.… |
| Finance software bug causes $217m in investor losses Posted: 22 Sep 2011 01:46 PM PDT Dev pays $2.5m for hiding decimal-percentage flawA developer of financial software has agreed to pay $2.5 million to settle charges stemming from his concealment of a bug that caused $217 million in investment losses.… |
| OpenStack adds web dashboard to 'floating Linux kernel' Posted: 22 Sep 2011 01:38 PM PDT Devil code does authentication tooOpenStack – the open source "infrastructure cloud" project founded by Rackspace and NASA – has released a new version of its platform, adding over 70 tools to the existing code while unveiling two new creations: a web "dashboard" for both administrators and users, and an authentication system that spans the platform.… |
| Teradata update chews up, spits out columns Posted: 22 Sep 2011 01:21 PM PDT Plus: SQL-MapReduce alliance applianceData warehousing pioneer Teradata is turning up the dial on its eponymous parallel database to 14, adding in slew of new features that include the ability to process columnar data as well as the more standard-row-based chewing in relational databases. The company has also released an appliance running the hybrid row/column nCluster database that it got through its acquisition of Aster Data in March for $263m.… |
| HP expected to hand Whitman full fat CEO role Posted: 22 Sep 2011 12:32 PM PDT Apotheker set for nightflight to Frankfurt?Meg Whitman will be handed the reins at HP for the long term, multiple reports said today.… |
| Facebook suggests sharing everything all the time Posted: 22 Sep 2011 12:09 PM PDT Your life as a 'product'Mark Zuckerberg says new features on Facebook will allow the sharing of everything automatically and give people access to your entire life history.… |
| Microsoft turns to FBI in hunt for Rustock ringleader Posted: 22 Sep 2011 12:07 PM PDT Targets Cosma2k after botnet victoryMicrosoft lawyers have sealed their victory over the operators of what was once the world's biggest source of spam after winning a court case giving them permanent control over the IP addresses and servers used to host the Rustock botnet.… |
| Inconvenient truther hints at multiple iPhone October Posted: 22 Sep 2011 11:27 AM PDT Al Gore: 'new iPhones' imminentThe use of the letter "s" by a former US vice president has fueled speculation that Apple is poised to release more than one iPhone model this October.… |
| LightSquared to magic away GPS interference in 2 weeks Posted: 22 Sep 2011 09:58 AM PDT US Space Commander begs to differLightSquared has signed a deal with Javad GNSS that will see GPS filters capable of resolving interference issues, within two weeks.… |
| Memo to open source moralists: Put a sock in it Posted: 22 Sep 2011 09:40 AM PDT Tech is amoral. Thank GodOpen...and Shut Those who look to technology for their religious fix are going to be sorely disappointed, despite the fact that a recent article in The Economist highlights a range of priestly types who see Christian principles throughout the open-source software movement.… |
| Work begins on radical Gordon super flash-computer Posted: 22 Sep 2011 09:28 AM PDT One of Intel's secret Xeon E5 testbeds, perhaps?Supercomputer maker Appro International has finally begun building the "Gordon" flash-heavy supercomputer at the San Diego Supercomputer Center, which was funded by a $20m grant from the National Science Foundation nearly two years ago. The machine is a testbed to analyze what happens when you get the I/O and floating point operations in a parallel supercomputer in balance.… |
| Autodesk shifts design apps to the cloud Posted: 22 Sep 2011 09:23 AM PDT Looks for customers it doesn't know it hasAutodesk is planning to take the bulk of its software onto cloud services in the next three years, beginning with AutoCAD WS.… |
| Cache IQ adds another NAS accelerator Posted: 22 Sep 2011 09:02 AM PDT NAND cache to make filers go with a flashStart-up Cache IQ is adding its caching product to the existing roster of plug-in filer accelerators.… |
| CERN's boson hunters tackle big data bug infestation Posted: 22 Sep 2011 08:01 AM PDT It's the software or the science that's been wrongTens of thousands of bugs have been eliminated from the program CERN's atom-smashers are using to identify Higgs boson – just don't expect an answer to life the universe and everytime anytime soon.… |
| Web surfers stumble upon new planets Posted: 22 Sep 2011 07:44 AM PDT Amateur astronomers sift Kepler satellite dataHumans have leap-frogged computers by identifying planets outside our solar system that the machines missed. The internet users detected the rocky Earth-like planets in their spare time by scanning the data from the Kepler satellite on the site PlanetHunters.… |
| Brit ISPs shift toward rapid pirate website blocking Posted: 22 Sep 2011 07:22 AM PDT Agree to act, just not howExclusive Leading UK ISPs are now privately agreed on the principle of restricting access to websites in response to hastily obtained court orders, according to sources close to discussions that took place in Westminster this week. The shift follows the landmark Newzbin2 ruling in July, which affirmed the responsibility ISPs have to enforce copyright laws.… |
| Yoof survey: 'Internet as vital as air' Posted: 22 Sep 2011 07:15 AM PDT Students and yuppies rate web as essentialA third of college students and young professionals feel that the internet is as important as air, food, water or shelter, according to a new survey.… |
| HP storage hobbled by board's indecision Posted: 22 Sep 2011 07:00 AM PDT Instability at the very topOpinion The future of HP's vibrant storage business has been made uncertain by HP CEO and board shenanigans, culminating with the latest uncertainty over CEO Leo Apotheker.… |
| Gartner: Apple rivals can't touch iPad Posted: 22 Sep 2011 06:45 AM PDT Forecast for Android slashed by 28 per centPretenders to Apple's fondleslab crown will not overcome the domination of the iPad any time soon if the beancounters at Gartner are to be believed.… |
| Cyberspy attacks targeting Russians traced back to UK and US Posted: 22 Sep 2011 06:31 AM PDT Re-writing the scriptSecurity researchers at Trend Micro have discovered a sophisticated cyberspy network geared towards attacking systems in Russia and neighbouring countries.… |
| EC: New principles agreed for out-of-print book licensing Posted: 22 Sep 2011 06:15 AM PDT Rights-holders can 'opt out'Libraries, publishers, authors and collecting societies have agreed principles that will shape future licensing agreements on digitising out-of-print books, the European Commission said.… |
| Isle of Man floats government IT into the cloud Posted: 22 Sep 2011 06:02 AM PDT Patient records, email and more held in private systemThe Isle of Man government has set up a cloud-based infrastructure for its public services, moving more than 1,000 applications including email, financial accounting, customer relationship management and health services to the service.… |
| Local radio stations band together against DAB Posted: 22 Sep 2011 05:45 AM PDT 'It's a car crash waiting to happen'Ofcom's DAB consultation is supposed to be about measuring coverage and assigning multiplexes, but more than 50 local radio stations have teamed up to voice their frustration over the whole process.… |
| Posted: 22 Sep 2011 05:30 AM PDT 'We just decided to screw our share price for a laugh'In another world, Mark Hurd is getting out of the shower amid a haze of steam as CEO of HP – the sex pest claims were never made and he is still at the helm of the tech titan.… |
| Attention metal thieves: Buy BT, get 75 MILLION miles of copper Posted: 22 Sep 2011 05:14 AM PDT Telco is worth less than its expensive assetsAnalysis British Telecom is, as a telecoms company, worth minus £30bn. Yes, that's a negative number there. And yet it is literally sitting on top of billions in assets.… |
| Acer Ethos 5951G 15.6in Core i5 notebook Posted: 22 Sep 2011 05:00 AM PDT Holey moley, a detachable touchpadReview The Acer Ethos 5951G laptop, with its matt black casing and blue activity LEDs, looks rather purposeful. I continued to be impressed by the cosmetics as I hefted the 3.3kg slab onto my lap even though a closer look revealed the brushed finish on the lid was nothing more than plastic, rather than the implied aluminium skin.… |
| TalkTalk still the most whinged about telco Posted: 22 Sep 2011 04:41 AM PDT Ofcom numbers show provider is most bemoaned in the second quarterTalkTalk has retained its tarnished crown as the telco consumers complain most about, according to Ofcom's sums.… |
| Ford spins pop-out anti-prang door shield Posted: 22 Sep 2011 04:38 AM PDT Close to the edgeTime was when many car doors were fitted with a rubber doohickey to stop drivers and passengers opening them too rapidly and scratching the paint or denting the car they were parked next to.… |
| Bargain-basement botnet kit – yours for just €5 Posted: 22 Sep 2011 04:29 AM PDT German hacker serves up the 'people's bot'Bargain-basement cybercrooks have begun selling a cut-price botnet tool on underground forums for just €10 or less a pop.… |
| Ministers kill off failed £12.7bn NHS IT revamp Posted: 22 Sep 2011 04:22 AM PDT Doomed project's costs doubledGPs and hospitals have been told to look locally for IT help as the government finally spikes a £12.7bn nationwide NHS computer system.… |
| Former HP exec to run Citrix EMEA Posted: 22 Sep 2011 04:09 AM PDT Carlos Sartorius set to fill the big seat in EMEACitrix has lured HP's global networking head Carlos Sartorius to run its EMEA operation.… |
| Surviving the Facebook app 'swamp' with Azure Posted: 22 Sep 2011 04:01 AM PDT Cloud platform, cloud client. Is Facebook and Microsoft Azure the perfect fit?"Developing with Facebook is like building a house on a swamp," says Microsoft's Nathan Totten. He should know. He used to work at social media company Thuzi, and when the company needed to write a C# Facebook application, he and his colleague Jim Zimmerman were so disappointed by the existing C# SDKs that they built their own.… |
| OnLive pushes game stream service to UK punters Posted: 22 Sep 2011 03:54 AM PDT Cloud playCloud-based game service OnLive opened its gates to the UK public this morning, providing access to over a hundred titles and offerings exclusive deals for punters with BT internet connections.… |
| Posted: 22 Sep 2011 03:44 AM PDT Veep lashes out at our coverageFlame Smack! Our story about Nexenta at the VMworld 2011 Hands-on Lab (HoL) created a frisson, more than that in fact, and an impassioned EMC exec who was quoted in the story sent in this rebuttal comment. It's forthright stuff. Here it is:… |
| US military satellite to get attack-warning equipment Posted: 22 Sep 2011 03:30 AM PDT Guarding against mysterious inopportune accidentsA US military satellite is to be fitted with equipment which will enable it to detect hostile action and inform ground controllers what's going on, according to reports.… |
| Posted: 22 Sep 2011 03:00 AM PDT News, from source to 'padiOS App of the Week Flipboard has been around for a year or so now, and has garnered all sorts of awards along the way. However, it was updated recently and has just gained the tech industry's ultimate accolade: that of being imitated by Google, which is reported to be developing a "Flipboard killer" under the codename 'Propeller'.… |
| Sage sells off US healthcare biz Posted: 22 Sep 2011 02:30 AM PDT UK software firm offloads US unit, gives back to its shareholdersBritish software firm Sage is selling off its US healthcare unit to a private equity firm for £205m so it can focus on its core American customer base.… |
| Twitter discovers MMS for photo tweeting Posted: 22 Sep 2011 02:10 AM PDT That took a while...Twitter users can now pump pictures directly into their tweet stream using the Multimedia Messaging Service that has been languishing, barely used, for years.… |
| Google cleared in ad keyword-squatting court case Posted: 22 Sep 2011 02:00 AM PDT But classified ads site bitchslapped for buying up brand keywordsGoogle has been cleared of misleading web users in a court case brought by an Australian watchdog that accused the Chocolate Factory of mixing adverts into search results. However, Trading Post – the country's top online classified ads site – was rapped for buying ads on Google using keywords for brands it didn't own.… |
| Lancs shale to yield '15 years' of gas for UK Posted: 22 Sep 2011 01:24 AM PDT 200 trillion cubic feet of gas will net £6bn in taxThe Cuadrilla Consortium has published its eagerly expected estimate of shale gas reserves in the North West of England. The group reckons it can extract 200 trillion cubic feet from sites near Preston and Liverpool – more than the current national estimates for Poland.… |
| EU dons kid gloves for Google competition probe Posted: 22 Sep 2011 12:34 AM PDT Investigators to take 'special care' over free serviceGoogle's business model is forcing EU regulators to take "special care" in their assessment of whether the search giant is abusing its market dominance in breach of EU laws, Europe's Competition Commissioner has said.… |
| Scottish Boundary Commission: We don't need no stinkin' PDFs Posted: 22 Sep 2011 12:13 AM PDT Scots publish constituency maps in open format to avoid data dramaThe Boundary Commission for Scotland (BCS) has said it will publish shapefiles of its initial proposals for constituencies after the Boundary Commission for England (BCE) was criticised for not doing so.… |
| Orange Barcelona Android Qwerty phone Posted: 22 Sep 2011 12:00 AM PDT City slicker?Review HTC's ChaCha aside, BlackBerry-style Android messaging phones are a rare and unimpressive breed. And I, for one, am not all that sure about the look, price or point of the Facebook-centric ChaCha.… |
| Mars trips could blind astronauts Posted: 21 Sep 2011 11:49 PM PDT Lack of gravity is the main culpritA manned trip to Mars could end up blinding its astronauts suggests research by the American Academy of Ophthalmology. The report says that long amounts of time spent in space damages astronauts' eyes.… |
| Acid3 browser test drops DOM tripper-upper Posted: 21 Sep 2011 09:00 PM PDT Real-world reflection?A browser test that tripped up Microsoft and helped pull the company into greater compliance with web standards has itself been updated for the changing web.… |
| $20m to find 'next transistors' Posted: 21 Sep 2011 06:27 PM PDT SRC and NSF sling semiconductor research dollarsResearch into the use of graphene in semiconductors is one of 12 projects to share $20m in funding from the National Science Foundation and Semiconductor Research Corporation.… |
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