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- Dimension Data opens big digs in Sydney
- Dell shrinks vStart cloud boxes
- Google defends itself before Senate antitrust hearing
- Android bug lets attackers install malware without warning
- Samsung bakes lower-voltage server memory
- Watching hurricanes
- Microsoft faces fresh antitrust probes in Ireland and Spain
- Stallman: Android evil, Apple and Microsoft worse
- Google+ opened to world+dog
- Microsoft milks Casio for using Linux
- Off-the-shelf servers spar with million-dollar storage arrays
- Lib Dems vote for pirate-friendly 'one-speed net'
- SAP gobbles Facebook-for-biz firm
- US survey: 1 in 5 telecommuters work an hour or less a day
- Hitachi GST flashes HP 3PAR OEM deal
- DigiNotar goes titsup: Disgraced certificate firm is sunk
- Why was Duke Nukem Forever s**t?
- Antitrust settlement over Big Blue's big iron nears
- HP axes up to 525 webOS hardware staff
- Google Wallet pockets Visa
- Baltimore 'toilet bomber' acquitted
- DfE probed over Gmail use for official business
- Amazon's app store spotted outside US
- Round two for Larry vs Larry Java face-off
- Crooks push fake anti-virus via Skype calls
- Gears of War 3
- Windows 8 fondleslabs rock up on eBay
- MPs: 999 HQ revamp FAIL cost £469m
- f8: Facebook Zucks in video and music for content king crown
- Hunt for long-lost Apollo 10 moon lander adrift in space
- The data centre on your terms
- Motorola seven-inch slate snapped
- Getting to grips with SSD performance
- US <i>Matrix</i>-style Cyberwar firing range moves forward
- Reseller Insight gobbles consultancy biz
- Elixir 2
- 'iPhone 5' chippery captured on camera
- How to go from the IT dept to being a rogue trader
- Mobile voice revenue slowdown predicted from 2013
- NHS loses CD of 1.6 MILLION patients' records
- EU recording copyright extension 'will cost €1bn'
- Philips GoGear Muse 3 PMP
- Skype for iPhone makes stealing address books a snap
- More high-tech firms 'will merge to escape financial risk'
- Cisco's virtual switching comes to Hyper-V 3.0 next year
- ScaleMP (finally) glues together 128 Opteron servers
- Arduino to add ARM board this year
- EA shutters another Oz studio
- Yes, there's a Tech Bubble. But that's OK
- Games review site goes titsup at launch
Dimension Data opens big digs in Sydney Posted: 20 Sep 2011 03:09 PM PDT Invests $AU107m in local opsDimension Data has invested in a global service centre worth $AU107 million in Sydney.… |
Dell shrinks vStart cloud boxes Posted: 20 Sep 2011 02:26 PM PDT 50 VMs for the heavenly SMBDell has put its vStart cloudy infrastructure bundles in the marketing dryer and shrunk them down to a size more suitable for a small and midsized businesses.… |
Google defends itself before Senate antitrust hearing Posted: 20 Sep 2011 01:00 PM PDT |
Android bug lets attackers install malware without warning Posted: 20 Sep 2011 12:40 PM PDT Google patch cycle puts users at riskIt's been more than a month since researchers reported two serious security vulnerabilities in Android, but so far there's no indication when they will be purged from the Google-spawned operating system that's the world's most popular smartphone platform.… |
Samsung bakes lower-voltage server memory Posted: 20 Sep 2011 12:00 PM PDT When every watt countsThose hyperscale data centers that are trying to cram 10 pounds of servers into a 5-pound rack have gotten a little more help from Korean memory maker Samsung Electronics.… |
Posted: 20 Sep 2011 12:00 PM PDT Data center design titbitsAmerica's National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) put the cart before the horse to some degree when purchasing a new supercomputer to track hurricanes.… |
Microsoft faces fresh antitrust probes in Ireland and Spain Posted: 20 Sep 2011 11:25 AM PDT Company not expecting the Spanish InquisitionMicrosoft is facing more antitrust scrutiny as Spanish competition authorities announced an 18-month review of Redmond's licensing practices in Spain and Ireland.… |
Stallman: Android evil, Apple and Microsoft worse Posted: 20 Sep 2011 10:40 AM PDT GNU founder: 'Show me the source'Android isn't free software but the mobile operating system is better for developers than Microsoft's Windows Phone and Apple's iOS.… |
Posted: 20 Sep 2011 10:08 AM PDT You too can embrace Google's Facebook envyGoogle has allowed world+dog onto Google+, its latest attempt to turn itself into Facebook.… |
Microsoft milks Casio for using Linux Posted: 20 Sep 2011 09:27 AM PDT Go penguin, you're often paying RedmondIn the latest news from the tech world's ongoing global hunt to find someone to sue over/deal with on patents, Microsoft has signed a licensing agreement with Casio.… |
Off-the-shelf servers spar with million-dollar storage arrays Posted: 20 Sep 2011 09:01 AM PDT Cheap-as-chips Nexenta squares up to EMC and NetApp over performanceVMworld 2011 Cheap and cheerful storage from Nexenta matched EMC and NetApp's multi-million-dollar systems in VMworld 2011's Hands On Lab, and took up some of the slack from its rivals when difficulties arose on the first day. EMC and NetApp have cooly brushed off Nexenta's claims it outperformed them.… |
Lib Dems vote for pirate-friendly 'one-speed net' Posted: 20 Sep 2011 08:23 AM PDT Hug a |
SAP gobbles Facebook-for-biz firm Posted: 20 Sep 2011 08:07 AM PDT Enterprise software giant gets socialA Munich-based company that provides secure "social networking" for business has just been snapped up by German enterprise software giant SAP.… |
US survey: 1 in 5 telecommuters work an hour or less a day Posted: 20 Sep 2011 08:01 AM PDT And a third of them stay in their PJsAlmost one in five Americans who work from home only clock in for an hour or less a day, according to a survey, while a third stay in their pyjamas.… |
Hitachi GST flashes HP 3PAR OEM deal Posted: 20 Sep 2011 07:30 AM PDT My SSD plus your array equals happinessHP 3PAR has picked Hitachi GST flash drives to speed array data access.… |
DigiNotar goes titsup: Disgraced certificate firm is sunk Posted: 20 Sep 2011 07:29 AM PDT Secrecy caused as much trouble as getting hackedDisgraced digital certificate firm DigiNotar has filed for bankruptcy in The Netherlands.… |
Why was Duke Nukem Forever s**t? Posted: 20 Sep 2011 07:09 AM PDT Developer demands answersGame developer Gearbox has put together an online survey asking for feedback on its widely-panned game Duke Nukem Forever.… |
Antitrust settlement over Big Blue's big iron nears Posted: 20 Sep 2011 06:31 AM PDT IBM agrees to supply commitments to other firmsBig Blue has almost settled its differences with the European Commission over the supply of mainframe spare parts to third-party maintainers.… |
HP axes up to 525 webOS hardware staff Posted: 20 Sep 2011 05:58 AM PDT Tech titan also mulling over PC division's fateHP is laying off up to 525 staff from its global webOS hardware biz, according to reports.… |
Posted: 20 Sep 2011 05:48 AM PDT Credit colossus joins digital cash serviceVisa will be joining MasterCard in Google Wallet, making the Chocolate Factory's service acceptable just about everywhere - if you have the right app installed.… |
Baltimore 'toilet bomber' acquitted Posted: 20 Sep 2011 05:36 AM PDT Robot, sniffer dogs deployed against Throne of TerrorThe mysterious "toilet bomb case" which has held the city of Baltimore gripped since February has reached its close, as a jury found Duane Gerald Davis Senior not guilty of leaving a fake exploding toilet outside a courthouse.… |
DfE probed over Gmail use for official business Posted: 20 Sep 2011 05:29 AM PDT Whitehall wonk: 'I will only answer things that come from Google accounts'Education Secretary Michael Gove was under fire this morning after it was revealed that his department used private email systems for official business that – it is claimed – included sensitive information.… |
Amazon's app store spotted outside US Posted: 20 Sep 2011 05:19 AM PDT Downloading ANYTHING proves trickyAmazon users around the world are reporting that the retailer's Android store is now selling apps worldwide, despite the company's denials and our own failure to buy anything.… |
Round two for Larry vs Larry Java face-off Posted: 20 Sep 2011 05:11 AM PDT Google-Oracle patent case goes into second day of mediation talksThe two Larrys will be back in mediation tomorrow, after a day of talks failed to come to any resolution in the Oracle versus Google case over Java patents.… |
Crooks push fake anti-virus via Skype calls Posted: 20 Sep 2011 05:00 AM PDT Robot on line 1 demands $19.95Scareware pushers have turned to Skype with automated messages to pressure marks into buying worthless 'security' software.… |
Posted: 20 Sep 2011 05:00 AM PDT Get the rounds inReview When it comes to goodbyes, Gears of War 3 proves that parting truly is the sweetest of sorrows. A swansong of bewildering scope and ambition, it's a near-flawless conclusion to Epic's highly acclaimed series.… |
Windows 8 fondleslabs rock up on eBay Posted: 20 Sep 2011 04:44 AM PDT Premium price for Microsoft fiddlingCan't wait to touch and poke a Windows 8 fondleslab? Well now you can, but it'll cost you big bucks.… |
MPs: 999 HQ revamp FAIL cost £469m Posted: 20 Sep 2011 04:24 AM PDT Public Accounts Committee slams fire service IT projectFailure to understand IT was one of the core reasons for what the Public Accounts Committee has called "one of the worst cases of project failure in many years".… |
f8: Facebook Zucks in video and music for content king crown Posted: 20 Sep 2011 04:14 AM PDT Read. Watch. Listen up... bitchf8: Facebook wants its social network to become a platform churning out video, music and news feeds – and the company is expected to reveal just how much it wants to be the content king of the interwebs later this week at its f8 developer conference.… |
Hunt for long-lost Apollo 10 moon lander adrift in space Posted: 20 Sep 2011 04:05 AM PDT UK schoolkids to search skies for 'Snoopy' moduleKids have been invited to join the hunt for a NASA mooncraft that has been lost in space for more than 40 years.… |
Posted: 20 Sep 2011 04:03 AM PDT Four practical management tasksOn Demand On September 15th Reg Broadcast Editor Tim Phillips was joined by Reg reader and Inframon founder Gordon McKenna to talk about four ways in which you can manage the datacentre on your terms.… |
Motorola seven-inch slate snapped Posted: 20 Sep 2011 04:02 AM PDT Xoom Jr?Motorola has suggested in the past that the 10in Xoom won't remain its only tablet, so it was only a matter of time before some daring mortal went all MI5 with a spy camera and uploaded some shots of the bloomin' thing.… |
Getting to grips with SSD performance Posted: 20 Sep 2011 04:00 AM PDT Lies, dammed lies and SSD performance claimsDeep dive Ever been annoyed that solid-state disk (SSD) performance can drop off precipitately once the wretched thing has gone through a few writes, erases and re-writes? That's because the fresh-out-of-the-box (FOB) performance can bear no relation to the steady state performance – none at all. This deep dive explains what's going on and how this tetchy problem can be fixed.… |
US <i>Matrix</i>-style Cyberwar firing range moves forward Posted: 20 Sep 2011 03:41 AM PDT Sim-people's endlessly repeated armageddon draws nearerThe US military's plans to create a cyberwarfare firing range in which to test cyber weapons and train the cyber warriors of tomorrow is to continue, with a further $10.77m of funding just announced.… |
Reseller Insight gobbles consultancy biz Posted: 20 Sep 2011 03:28 AM PDT Services outfit Ensynch snapped upReseller giant Insight Enterprises has swallowed US-based professional services outfit Ensynch.… |
Posted: 20 Sep 2011 03:00 AM PDT Android's Swiss Army KnifeAndroid App of the Week It's hard to know where to begin with the Elixir 2 toolkit because it does so many different things. It's part user interface, part system status indicator and part control panel.… |
'iPhone 5' chippery captured on camera Posted: 20 Sep 2011 02:47 AM PDT Scaled up to A5Another week, another influx of next-gen iPhone rumours and speculation. This time, though, we have images of what appears to be the chipset that'll be used within Apple's upcoming handset.… |
How to go from the IT dept to being a rogue trader Posted: 20 Sep 2011 02:30 AM PDT Remember, the successful ones are still out there |
Mobile voice revenue slowdown predicted from 2013 Posted: 20 Sep 2011 01:57 AM PDT Who'll pay for all the data traffic then?Ovum reckons revenue from voice will start dipping within two years, and the increasing data revenues won't be enough to replace it either.… |
NHS loses CD of 1.6 MILLION patients' records Posted: 20 Sep 2011 01:27 AM PDT 'We reassure you it was old data'. Sure, my DOB's changedAn NHS trust has told patients that it is acting to improve its data handling practices after a rebuke from the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) for losing a CD containing details on 1.6 million people.… |
EU recording copyright extension 'will cost €1bn' Posted: 20 Sep 2011 01:06 AM PDT Academic: Record companies, not artists, will benefitExtending the term of copyright protection for sound recordings from 50 to 70 years will cost the general public more than €1bn, an intellectual property academic has claimed.… |
Posted: 20 Sep 2011 12:00 AM PDT The iPod alternative?Review Any portable media player has to contend with the entire smartphone market. If you don't mind running down the battery, mobiles can be as good as dedicated players. New PMPs need extra frills to stand out. With its third-generation GoGear Muse, Philips has added some interesting tweaks. But are they enough?… |
Skype for iPhone makes stealing address books a snap Posted: 19 Sep 2011 10:08 PM PDT Just add JavaScriptIf you use Skype on an iPhone or iPod touch, Phil Purviance can steal your device's address book simply by sending you a chat message.… |
More high-tech firms 'will merge to escape financial risk' Posted: 19 Sep 2011 10:00 PM PDT Revenues recover, but rising debt sparks bankruptcy fearsNearly half of high-tech firms are still at risk of financial distress after the recession, prompting the latest spate of mergers, acquisitions and downsizing, according to AlixPartners.… |
Cisco's virtual switching comes to Hyper-V 3.0 next year Posted: 19 Sep 2011 09:00 PM PDT Not just for VMware any moreIt looks like Microsoft's Hyper-V server virtualization hypervisor is maturing enough at the jump to Windows 8 Server next year that Cisco Systems needs to make it a full peer to VMware's ESXi hypervisor, which has been the preferred virtualization layer on the "California" Unified Computing System servers from Cisco for the past two years.… |
ScaleMP (finally) glues together 128 Opteron servers Posted: 19 Sep 2011 09:00 PM PDT The 8,192 core, 64TB AMD behemothServers are going virtual these days, so maybe it is time for server chipsets and interconnects to do the same.… |
Arduino to add ARM board this year Posted: 19 Sep 2011 06:30 PM PDT Pre-release developer version on sale within daysThe DIY hardware enthusiast's platform of choice, Arduino, will be shipping a new ARM-based platform this year.… |
Posted: 19 Sep 2011 06:00 PM PDT In Dead Space, nobody can hear you swearVisceral, contributor to games like Dead Space and Dante's Inferno, has followed Team Bondi and two THQ studios into the void with the loss of 21 jobs.… |
Yes, there's a Tech Bubble. But that's OK Posted: 19 Sep 2011 05:57 PM PDT Facebook will live. Groupon will popOpen...and Shut Even as Silicon Valley sages Marc Andreesen and Peter Thiel pooh-pooh the notion of a tech bubble, there are clear signs that tech is frothier than may be sustainable.… |
Games review site goes titsup at launch Posted: 19 Sep 2011 05:30 PM PDT Topless reviewers to jiggle the consoleA pair of adult industry personalities who also happen to like games are set to combine their interests with a site offering topless game review videos and walkthroughs.… |
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