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- Germany nixes EMI suit against HanseNet
- Optus censored but still selling
- IBM loans SMBs $1bn to buy stuff
- Enterprise computing imperiled by cloudy mobes
- Burned by DigiNotar, Mozilla tells cert cops to audit security
- Foxconn churns out '150,000' iPhone 5s a day
- Microsoft inks new patent pacts over Android...and Chrome
- Google: SSL alternative won't be added to Chrome
- MS, Samsung to show Windows 8 tablet at Build
- Google greedily goobles foodie guide Zagat
- LG may axe up to 30% of overseas mobile staff
- Cybercrooks prey on 9/11 anniversary
- Double-barrel net infrastructure hack threatens ecommerce
- Hitachi GST sandwiches Seagate with 4TB big boy
- Amazon to give up the fight in California
- Oracle rejects Google's man for mediation
- China sprouts another Android fork
- Swedish cops free boozy moose from tree
- Three complains to Brussels over NFC exclusion
- Erwan Menard joins fellow HP vets at DataDirect
- End of UK local dialling in sight as numbers run out
- Orange Monte Carlo budget Android smartphone
- Satellite gives better picture of solar flares' effects on Earth
- Amazon solves wait-at-home-for-deliveries problem
- Designer styles bendy Samsung smartphone
- Gartner predicts UK PC market nosedive for 2011
- UK.gov coder defines open standards: 'A lot like porn'
- JP Morgan has a Playmobil moment
- AMD Steam-game offer suspended after keys pilfered
- UK.gov works on YET ANOTHER open-source push
- Ultrabook makers turn to fibreglass to cut costs
- Adobe CreatePDF
- HP readies AMD, Intel sub-notebook
- Disk sales up 4%: No sign of Flash or Cloud impact yet
- Patent wars: Apple attacks Samsung in Japan
- The Reg dips toe into social media ocean
- Is using your own kit at work a good thing?
- McAfee: Cyber thugs will turn your car into <i>Christine</i>
- London public transport tap-cash plans will be 'entirely safe'
- Lost memory stick had 87 NHS patients' info unencrypted
- Three in ten Americans urge feds to read their email
- Kingston Wi-Drive wireless flash storage
- Google feeds patents to HTC for assault on Apple
- Hitachi Data Systems gobbles BlueArc
- StreetView gets the willies in Victoria
- Solar lays hands on Holy Grail
- Early Earth’s ‘golden shower’
- Oracle suit outs Google's closed source Android tactics
- Righthaven struggles in court and at home
| Germany nixes EMI suit against HanseNet Posted: 08 Sep 2011 04:00 PM PDT Cologne case stank, it seemsA Cologne court has dealt yet-another setback to the music industry's international strategy to force ISPs to police its copyrights.… |
| Optus censored but still selling Posted: 08 Sep 2011 03:33 PM PDT Thou shalt not sledge NBN CoOptus will continue to sell, market and invest in wireless services despite a stringent condition regarding wireless marketing contained in its $AU800 million agreement with NBN Co.… |
| IBM loans SMBs $1bn to buy stuff Posted: 08 Sep 2011 02:53 PM PDT The Big Blue BankBig Blue wants to make more sales in the small and medium business space, and it is shelling out $1bn over the next 18 months to make it happen.… |
| Enterprise computing imperiled by cloudy mobes Posted: 08 Sep 2011 02:50 PM PDT Every app an enterprise appEnterprise computing practices are under attack by a rapidly advancing army of cloud-hungry mobile devices.… |
| Burned by DigiNotar, Mozilla tells cert cops to audit security Posted: 08 Sep 2011 12:41 PM PDT Do it or elseMozilla has directed all web authentication authorities trusted by its software to conduct security audits to ensure they aren't being abused to issue counterfeit secure sockets layer certificates.… |
| Foxconn churns out '150,000' iPhone 5s a day Posted: 08 Sep 2011 11:46 AM PDT 22 million by year's endThe word out of Taiwan is that the iPhone 5 is now being churned out of Foxconn Electronics |
| Microsoft inks new patent pacts over Android...and Chrome Posted: 08 Sep 2011 10:18 AM PDT 'Helps address IP issues' at Acer, ViewsonicMicrosoft has inked patent-licensing deals with Acer and Viewsonic that cover devices running both Google's Android operating and its browser-based Chrome OS.… |
| Google: SSL alternative won't be added to Chrome Posted: 08 Sep 2011 10:14 AM PDT Path converges into security quagmireStill smarting from a counterfeit secure sockets layer certificate that threatened at least 300,000 of its users in Iran, Google has no plans to fortify its Chrome browser with an experimental technology that bypasses the current system for validating websites.… |
| MS, Samsung to show Windows 8 tablet at Build Posted: 08 Sep 2011 09:44 AM PDT New device gets dev conference demoSamsung and Microsoft will show off a Windows 8 tablet next week.… |
| Google greedily goobles foodie guide Zagat Posted: 08 Sep 2011 09:20 AM PDT Information gourmands, rather than gourmetsGoogle has acquired Zagat, the US restaurant guide, to tag onto its search engine and mapping application. The purchase price is undisclosed.… |
| LG may axe up to 30% of overseas mobile staff Posted: 08 Sep 2011 08:07 AM PDT You remember, LG. ChaebolLG Electronics may cut 20 to 30 per cent of its overseas mobile staff in a bid to reform the loss-making unit.… |
| Cybercrooks prey on 9/11 anniversary Posted: 08 Sep 2011 07:38 AM PDT Malware, 'commemorative coin' auctions and fake charity donationCybercrooks are gearing up for the 10th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks with a range of malware traps and hacking attempts both on social networks and the wider internet, net security firm BitDefender warns.… |
| Double-barrel net infrastructure hack threatens ecommerce Posted: 08 Sep 2011 06:53 AM PDT DNS redirection hack + forged digital certs = chaosAnalysis Security watchers warn that hackers might be able to develop potent attacks that would be extremely hard to foil by combining DNS hacks of the kind that affected The Register and other high-profile websites over the weekend with DigiNotar-style forged digital certificates.… |
| Hitachi GST sandwiches Seagate with 4TB big boy Posted: 08 Sep 2011 06:38 AM PDT Desks groan under contest of mighty gruntersThe day after Seagate launched its 4TB external drive, Hitachi GST did exactly the same with its launch of its 4TB desktop whopper.… |
| Amazon to give up the fight in California Posted: 08 Sep 2011 06:22 AM PDT Offers to pay up later if it doesn't have to fork out nowAmazon has cut a deal to lay down its arms in its battle with Californian legislators over the introduction of a sales tax for online retailers in the state.… |
| Oracle rejects Google's man for mediation Posted: 08 Sep 2011 06:18 AM PDT Come on judge, we want the Two Larrys!We didn't really expect Larry Page to take two full days out of the Googleplex to sit down and talk about patent infringements with the software company Oracle – he's got maths to do, nerds to manage and Google+ updates to write. But Google could have come up with someone a bit senior to meet the mediation team from the enraged software company.… |
| China sprouts another Android fork Posted: 08 Sep 2011 06:08 AM PDT Like 10,000 spoons when all you need is a knifeQQ, the world's biggest social networking service, is to launch its own handset and yet another fork of Google's Android, bringing the count up to four Android variants in China.… |
| Swedish cops free boozy moose from tree Posted: 08 Sep 2011 06:05 AM PDT Sozzled scrumper refused to call it a daySwedish police were called to the aid of a pissed-up elk after it chomped on fermenting apples and became trapped in a tree that had been doubling up as its free bar.… |
| Three complains to Brussels over NFC exclusion Posted: 08 Sep 2011 05:55 AM PDT We want in to the bonk-n-bleep allianceThe UK's smallest operator, Three, has launched a preemptive strike against the NFC gang of three which was announced in June, claiming its exclusion is competitively motivated.… |
| Erwan Menard joins fellow HP vets at DataDirect Posted: 08 Sep 2011 05:38 AM PDT Contender bulks up to take on the big boysHPC and big data storage supplier DataDirect Networks (DDN) is gearing up for expansion, growing its operations and adding information extraction software onto its data storage platform roots.… |
| End of UK local dialling in sight as numbers run out Posted: 08 Sep 2011 05:20 AM PDT Bournemouth locals first for tiring fingering ordealDialling your neighbour is going to take longer as Ofcom abolishes local calls in some areas of Britain, warning that numbers are running out.… |
| Orange Monte Carlo budget Android smartphone Posted: 08 Sep 2011 05:01 AM PDT That Riviera touchReview If during the last 12 months you wanted a cheap but decent prepaid smartphone there was really only one choice, the Orange San Francisco. But now its big brother is in town – the Orange Monte Carlo.… |
| Satellite gives better picture of solar flares' effects on Earth Posted: 08 Sep 2011 04:58 AM PDT Deliver more energy than was thought: Big implicationsTop boffins reviewing data from a NASA satellite dedicated to probing the secrets of the Sun say that some solar flares directed towards Earth deliver much more energy than had previously been thought.… |
| Amazon solves wait-at-home-for-deliveries problem Posted: 08 Sep 2011 04:44 AM PDT Tiny snag: You have to go to the shopping centreAmazon is planning to roll out digital lockers in the UK, so people with busy schedules can go to pick up their online purchases instead of taking the day off work to wait for the postman.… |
| Designer styles bendy Samsung smartphone Posted: 08 Sep 2011 04:36 AM PDT Wrap starSamsung has demo'd flexible, foldable OLED displays, and here's a concept one designer has posted to show how such a screen might change the phones we choose.… |
| Gartner predicts UK PC market nosedive for 2011 Posted: 08 Sep 2011 04:27 AM PDT Rest of world to go on grow-slow, Blighty stuffedExclusive The UK PC channel is stuffed for 2011: both in terms of unsold kit and weakened demand across all market segments, according to Gartner.… |
| UK.gov coder defines open standards: 'A lot like porn' Posted: 08 Sep 2011 04:15 AM PDT If you can think of it, there's an open standard of it?TransferSummit As the government works on drawing up yet another definition for open standards, the man in charge of the Cabinet Office's team of IT coders is keen to talk about a future where all government tech is based on, well, open standards.… |
| JP Morgan has a Playmobil moment Posted: 08 Sep 2011 04:01 AM PDT Euro debt crisis explained in miniatureThey say imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, so we're well and truly flattered that JP Morgan has taken a leaf out of the El Reg Bootnotes book and decided that figurines are the best way to illustrate important news.… |
| AMD Steam-game offer suspended after keys pilfered Posted: 08 Sep 2011 03:29 AM PDT DiRTy snatch leaves gamers worriedData security problems have led to the suspension of a free-videogame-with-every-Radeon-graphics-card offer from AMD and Codemasters.… |
| UK.gov works on YET ANOTHER open-source push Posted: 08 Sep 2011 03:19 AM PDT Home Office battles internal 'communism' beliefsTransferSummit Yet another government definition for the term "open standards" is incoming because the Home Office isn't satisfied with the current wording of its so-called Action Plan.… |
| Ultrabook makers turn to fibreglass to cut costs Posted: 08 Sep 2011 03:13 AM PDT Cheaper to make, cheaper to sellTake this as you will, but it's claimed that many upcoming Ultrabook laptops will use a fibreglass chassis to bring production costs down to the point where their vendors can sell the machines for under $1000 (£627).… |
| Posted: 08 Sep 2011 03:00 AM PDT PDF conversion from the creator of PDFiOS App of the Week There are plenty of PDF viewer apps available for iOS devices, so it's a little surprising that it's taken this long for Adobe - deviser of the Portable Document Format - to release this CreatePDF app.… |
| HP readies AMD, Intel sub-notebook Posted: 08 Sep 2011 02:48 AM PDT Steers clear of Ultrabook brandHP has updated its 11.6in notebook-not-netbook machine, the dm1.… |
| Disk sales up 4%: No sign of Flash or Cloud impact yet Posted: 08 Sep 2011 02:37 AM PDT Possible hoarding driven by Japanese quake worriesDespite the impact of the global downturn on global markets, disk sales in the second quarter were 4 per cent higher than in the first.… |
| Patent wars: Apple attacks Samsung in Japan Posted: 08 Sep 2011 02:36 AM PDT Fly into the rising sun... Apple, suing everyoneAnother day, another tech giant starts a patent lawsuit.… |
| The Reg dips toe into social media ocean Posted: 08 Sep 2011 02:06 AM PDT Majority pursuitsToday, The Register's official Twitter account http://twitter.com/#!/regvulture reached 5,000 followers.… |
| Is using your own kit at work a good thing? Posted: 08 Sep 2011 02:02 AM PDT The Big Reg Consumerisation SurveyOne of the latest buzzwords to contaminate this great language of ours is 'consumerisation'. According to many marketeers, it defines the future of end user computing.… |
| McAfee: Cyber thugs will turn your car into <i>Christine</i> Posted: 08 Sep 2011 01:57 AM PDT Maybe. One dayPoorly secured embedded systems in next-generation cars create a way in for hackers, according to a new study by McAfee.… |
| London public transport tap-cash plans will be 'entirely safe' Posted: 08 Sep 2011 01:28 AM PDT Only bankers can take money from your card, not crooksFraudsters will not be able to extract confidential information from a person's contactless bank card or other compatible technology as the type of data held on such cards will be restricted, Will Judge, head of future ticketing at Transport for London (TfL) has said.… |
| Lost memory stick had 87 NHS patients' info unencrypted Posted: 08 Sep 2011 12:54 AM PDT Medical student fingered in thumb drive fiascoA medical student who copied the private data of 87 patients onto a memory stick – and then lost it – has landed the University Hospital of South Manchester in trouble with the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO).… |
| Three in ten Americans urge feds to read their email Posted: 07 Sep 2011 11:49 PM PDT 9/11 anniversary survey finds in favor of tortureA survey into attitudes ten years after the 9/11 attacks has found that three out of ten Americans are happy to let the government read their emails without a warrant. And this rose to 47 per cent for emails addressed to foreigners.… |
| Kingston Wi-Drive wireless flash storage Posted: 07 Sep 2011 11:00 PM PDT Fondleslab file fattenerReview The lack of any direct storage expansion in Apple's iOS products has been one of the more enduring causes of complaint for those using or pondering on owning one of these devices. Kingston Technology demonstrated its idea of a workaround when it previewed the MobiSX at CES at the beginning of the year. Now in production, with a name change to boot, the Kingston Wi-Drive relies on wireless data transfer to deliver its 16GB or 32GB iOS storage expansion.… |
| Google feeds patents to HTC for assault on Apple Posted: 07 Sep 2011 09:48 PM PDT After Motorola gave them to GoogleAndroid phone manufacturer HTC has sued Apple using nine patents it bought from Google. And Google acquired four of the nine from Motorola.… |
| Hitachi Data Systems gobbles BlueArc Posted: 07 Sep 2011 08:55 PM PDT The end of stand-alone NAS supplyAt last. Hitachi Data Systems is buying hardware-accelerated filer supplier BlueArc for an undisclosed cash sum, leaving NetApp as the last significant man standing from the filer side of the industry and giving HDS a powerful file storage capability.… |
| StreetView gets the willies in Victoria Posted: 07 Sep 2011 06:39 PM PDT Look what popped up in the middle of nowhere…In the great tradition of pranking Google's photographers, someone has penned a phallus on a Google StreetView camera-van in Australia.… |
| Solar lays hands on Holy Grail Posted: 07 Sep 2011 06:00 PM PDT Industry claims Australian PV electricity now at 'grid parity'While the solar industry continues its campaign against the new NSW state government, which in its fist budget cut back further on subsidies to solar installations, another landmark event has passed with much less notice: various experts and analysts now put PV power cost at parity with the cost of buying electricity from the grid.… |
| Posted: 07 Sep 2011 05:01 PM PDT Shiny yellow stuff arrived on meteorsRocks from Isua in south-west Greenland have been hailed as providing evidence for what geologists believe is the source of complex and heavy elements on Earth: an asteroid shower that endowed our young planet with gold (as well as platinum, iridium, nickel and tungsten).… |
| Oracle suit outs Google's closed source Android tactics Posted: 07 Sep 2011 04:30 PM PDT 'Do not develop in the open,' Google tells selfOracle's lawsuit against Google over its Android mobile operating system has turned up an internal Google presentation that plainly shows how the web giant shares closed source Android code with select partners to ensure they play by its rules.… |
| Righthaven struggles in court and at home Posted: 07 Sep 2011 03:58 PM PDT Rumours of death 'exaggerated'The notorious |
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