Dimension Data opens big digs in Sydney

Dimension Data opens big digs in Sydney


Dimension Data opens big digs in Sydney

Posted: 20 Sep 2011 03:09 PM PDT

Invests $AU107m in local ops

Dimension 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 SMB

Dell 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

Chocolate Factory blogs answers to anti-competition allegations

Just ahead of its grilling in front of the Senate in Washington, Google has set up a blog page answering some of the anti-competition allegations against it.…

Android bug lets attackers install malware without warning

Posted: 20 Sep 2011 12:40 PM PDT

Google patch cycle puts users at risk

It'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 counts

Those 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.…

Watching hurricanes

Posted: 20 Sep 2011 12:00 PM PDT

Data center design titbits

America'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 Inquisition

Microsoft 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.…

Google+ opened to world+dog

Posted: 20 Sep 2011 10:08 AM PDT

You too can embrace Google's Facebook envy

Google 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 Redmond

In 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 performance

VMworld 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 hoodie freetard

Liberal Democrats yesterday passed a motion approving the party's radical new internet policy – including a technically-challenged proposal to make all internet traffic flow at one speed.…

SAP gobbles Facebook-for-biz firm

Posted: 20 Sep 2011 08:07 AM PDT

Enterprise software giant gets social

A 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 PJs

Almost 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 happiness

HP 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 hacked

Disgraced 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 answers

Game 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 firms

Big 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 fate

HP is laying off up to 525 staff from its global webOS hardware biz, according to reports.…

Google Wallet pockets Visa

Posted: 20 Sep 2011 05:48 AM PDT

Credit colossus joins digital cash service

Visa 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 Terror

The 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 tricky

Amazon 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 talks

The 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 $19.95

Scareware pushers have turned to Skype with automated messages to pressure marks into buying worthless 'security' software.…

Gears of War 3

Posted: 20 Sep 2011 05:00 AM PDT

Get the rounds in

Review  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 fiddling

Can'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 project

Failure 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... bitch

f8:  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' module

Kids have been invited to join the hunt for a NASA mooncraft that has been lost in space for more than 40 years.…

The data centre on your terms

Posted: 20 Sep 2011 04:03 AM PDT

Four practical management tasks

On 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 claims

Deep 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 nearer

The 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 up

Reseller giant Insight Enterprises has swallowed US-based professional services outfit Ensynch.…

Elixir 2

Posted: 20 Sep 2011 03:00 AM PDT

Android's Swiss Army Knife

Android 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 A5

Another 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 changed

An 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 benefit

Extending 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.…

Philips GoGear Muse 3 PMP

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 JavaScript

If 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 fears

Nearly 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 more

It 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 behemoth

Servers 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 days

The DIY hardware enthusiast's platform of choice, Arduino, will be shipping a new ARM-based platform this year.…

EA shutters another Oz studio

Posted: 19 Sep 2011 06:00 PM PDT

In Dead Space, nobody can hear you swear

Visceral, 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 pop

Open...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 console

A 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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