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- Intel demos Panel Self-Refresh power-saving tech
- Windows 8 to ship with built-in malware protection
- Pano Logic woos SMBs with 'one-step' VDI
- Ballmer reprises 'developers, developers, developers' chant
- Intel pitches netbook-cum-tablet 'hybrids'
- Intel keeps mum on Ice Cream Sarnie support for Atom tablets
- Apple preps MacBook Pro refresh
- Windows Server 8 plays catch-up with VMware and Unix
- Intel goes virtual to root out rootkits
- Be chums offer 1Gbit/s fibre-to-the-premises in London
- University of Tsukuba orders 800Tflop Xeon E5 hybrid
- Now Windows 8 goes into the ring to face Apple's iOS
- Romanian dragon-wolves aim for virtualised security
- Securo-boffins call for 'self-aware' defensive technologies
- Beyond WAR: How I bitchslapped Google
- UK cyber security plan delayed till October
- HTC knocks out the Beats
- Celebs, victims selected to join in phone-hack probe
- Defendant presents Playmobil rendering of court in court
- Intel-Google love-in leaves MeeGo going nowhere
- Report: Involve IT experts in releasing gov datasets
- Feds probe eBay over Craigslist plunder allegations
- ASA probes Microsoft cloud reliability claims
- Facebook lets users have separated social, er, Circles
- Moto beat Google up by a third in Googorola haggling
- LOHAN to suck mighty thruster as it goes off, in a shed
- Apple pulls smartphone slavery app
- Winter for webOS, winter for Droid, but springtime for iPad!
- Star Control
- TouchPad sales doubled after it was discontinued
- Google plan to kill Javascript with Dart, fight off Apple
- Virgin Media finally offers network options on SuperHub
- Facebook security profiling doesn't like African log-ins
- Winklevoss twins: Zuck on our salty nuts
- Twitter contests ad company's 'tweets' trademark
- Overland Storage preps private cloud rescue
- More transistors, Moore’s Law, less juice
- Ten... digital voice recorders
- Intel's Xeon E5 server chips due 'early 2012'
- Intel preps 15-Watt 'Sandy Bridge' for micro servers
- Malware burrows deep into computer BIOS to escape AV
- Hands on with the Windows 8 fondleslab
- Android banking trojan intercepts security texts
- 'Find My Car' iPhone app finds anyone’s car
- Google flight search engine lifts off
- CPU cycles for stars: theSkyNet wants your sandbox
- Oz authors join book scanning lawsuit
- Aussie Sex Party takes the whip to .xxx domains
- Microsoft touts Windows 8 fondleslabness
- Health Services Union boss accused of IT tender badness
| Intel demos Panel Self-Refresh power-saving tech Posted: 14 Sep 2011 03:05 PM PDT DisplayPort screens store their own pictureIDF 2011 Intel today demo'd an interesting screen-based power-conservation technology: Panel Self-Refresh (PSR), part of the Embedded DisplayPort (eDP) standard.… |
| Windows 8 to ship with built-in malware protection Posted: 14 Sep 2011 01:44 PM PDT 'Tons of security features' addedMicrosoft's next version of Windows will ship with "tons of security features," including one that automatically scans boot drives for malware and a revamped version of the Windows Defender antivirus program, company executives said.… |
| Pano Logic woos SMBs with 'one-step' VDI Posted: 14 Sep 2011 12:42 PM PDT Size of step may varyDesktop virtualization outfit Pano Logic has uncloaked two new server contraptions that feed virtual desktops to its "zero clients", curiously small silver cubes meant to replace big and beefy client PCs.… |
| Ballmer reprises 'developers, developers, developers' chant Posted: 14 Sep 2011 12:13 PM PDT Windows is a money machine, howls MS bossBUILD Steve Ballmer has told developers that if they want the biggest market for their software, the only choice is Microsoft.… |
| Intel pitches netbook-cum-tablet 'hybrids' Posted: 14 Sep 2011 11:55 AM PDT Best of both worlds - or neither fish nor fowl?IDF 2011 Can't decide whether you want a tablet or a netbook? Have both, says Intel.… |
| Intel keeps mum on Ice Cream Sarnie support for Atom tablets Posted: 14 Sep 2011 11:22 AM PDT Focusing on HoneycombIDF 2011 Expect to see the first Intel-based tablets running Android in Q1 2012. They might even run Ice Cream Sandwich.… |
| Apple preps MacBook Pro refresh Posted: 14 Sep 2011 09:42 AM PDT Sandy Bridge speed bumps aheadApple is preparing a Macbook Pro refresh, that'll bring all models up to speed with Intel's current Core i5 and i7 processors.… |
| Windows Server 8 plays catch-up with VMware and Unix Posted: 14 Sep 2011 09:30 AM PDT Microsoft rolls 'cloud-based operating system'Preview "The cloud is a tectonic shift," said Microsoft's corporate vice president of server and cloud Bill Laing, introducing an in-depth press preview of Windows Server 8 and mixing metaphors with abandon.… |
| Intel goes virtual to root out rootkits Posted: 14 Sep 2011 09:28 AM PDT DeepSafe: Follow the malwareIDF 2011 Intel bought McAfee so it could bring antivirus and intrusion detection closer to the chip, and with DeepSafe – a technology that CEO Paul Otellini previewed at Intel Developer Forum in San Francisco this week – the company will be making good on that promise.… |
| Be chums offer 1Gbit/s fibre-to-the-premises in London Posted: 14 Sep 2011 08:35 AM PDT Hyperoptics hypes its opticsA new ISP arrived today courtesy of Be Broadband's founders, offering extremely speedy fibre connections. However the telco currently has very limited reach to some larger residential and commercial properties in London.… |
| University of Tsukuba orders 800Tflop Xeon E5 hybrid Posted: 14 Sep 2011 08:00 AM PDT Ceepie-Geepie splices x64, GPUs into powerful chimeraSupercomputer upstart Appro International has bagged a deal to supply Tsukuba University in Japan with an 800 teraflops machine based on Intel's impending "Sandy Bridge" Xeon E5 processors.… |
| Now Windows 8 goes into the ring to face Apple's iOS Posted: 14 Sep 2011 07:36 AM PDT Bloodied webOS, RIM tag in the big bruiserAnalysis Does Windows 8 mean Microsoft can finally close the technology and credibility gap with Apple, putting a touchable mass-market version of Windows on tablets?… |
| Romanian dragon-wolves aim for virtualised security Posted: 14 Sep 2011 07:21 AM PDT BitDefender looks to build bigger with BRICsBitDefender is focusing on providing better security for virtualised environments and says expansion into emerging markets is key to its plans for growth.… |
| Securo-boffins call for 'self-aware' defensive technologies Posted: 14 Sep 2011 06:58 AM PDT Say they should be used to protect 'leccy, gas, waterSecurity boffins should concentrate on creating self-aware technologies that can learn from cyber attacks, summit experts say, proving that none of them have ever seen a movie about artificial intelligence.… |
| Beyond WAR: How I bitchslapped Google Posted: 14 Sep 2011 06:00 AM PDT Bagging the sticky eyeballWAR on the cloud 5 In part 4 I had a quick peek at the performance of Rackspace's CDN and liked what I saw. Now I'm starting to use the CDN with my main site, but I discovered that I had plenty of other things to fix to make the CDN worthwhile and get my home page faster to load than Google's!… |
| UK cyber security plan delayed till October Posted: 14 Sep 2011 05:52 AM PDT 'Tier 1 national priority' wasn't ready in timeThe UK government's Cyber Security Strategy publication for this year is now expected in mid-October, after being delayed until after the party conference season.… |
| Posted: 14 Sep 2011 05:41 AM PDT Sonic SensationHTC has officially unveiled the HTC Sensation XE, the first of many handsets to feature Beats audio technology.… |
| Celebs, victims selected to join in phone-hack probe Posted: 14 Sep 2011 05:38 AM PDT Rowling, Gazza, McCanns, Hugh Grant ... not RebekahFormer News International boss Rebekah Brooks will not take part in a judicial inquiry into culture, practices and ethics of the British press.… |
| Defendant presents Playmobil rendering of court in court Posted: 14 Sep 2011 05:29 AM PDT Creates requirement for impossible infinitesimal figuresA Maltese woman accused of fraud and breach of copyright for flogging Playmobil dioramas on eBay earned herself a few pints on the El Reg Bootnotes department yesterday by turning up in court with a miniature rendering of her own trial.… |
| Intel-Google love-in leaves MeeGo going nowhere Posted: 14 Sep 2011 04:58 AM PDT Red-headed penguin stepchild CinderellaComment Intel has jumped into bed with Google, but the palpable excitement emanating from both companies seems incongruous - as it signals doom for the chip giant's child from its previous marriage of convenience, MeeGo.… |
| Report: Involve IT experts in releasing gov datasets Posted: 14 Sep 2011 04:42 AM PDT All too easy to violate privacy without tech insightA review (84-page/927KB PDF) of information transparency and privacy commissioned by the Cabinet Office has concluded that IT experts should help decide whether to release datasets and the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) should have a greater technical awareness.… |
| Feds probe eBay over Craigslist plunder allegations Posted: 14 Sep 2011 04:25 AM PDT Tit-for-tat tat spat goes criminalUS prosecutors have launched a criminal investigation into allegations eBay employees stole confidential information from Craigslist, according to a grand jury subpoena.… |
| ASA probes Microsoft cloud reliability claims Posted: 14 Sep 2011 04:12 AM PDT It's only Office 365 if you round upThe Advertising Standards Agency (ASA) is checking out a complaint about claims from Microsoft that it can guarantee 99.9 per cent uptime on its cloud services.… |
| Facebook lets users have separated social, er, Circles Posted: 14 Sep 2011 03:56 AM PDT You know when you said no spam? Say it again ... bitchFacebook slotted a new feature into the ubiquitous social network yesterday that immediately got the blogosphere arguing over whether the company was copying Google+ and its people-curating Circles function.… |
| Moto beat Google up by a third in Googorola haggling Posted: 14 Sep 2011 03:43 AM PDT Chocolateers unable to contain their lustGoogle was so eager to land Motorola Mobility, it raised its offer by 33 per cent over two weeks of negotiations, according to a regulatory filing.… |
| LOHAN to suck mighty thruster as it goes off, in a shed Posted: 14 Sep 2011 03:30 AM PDT Our cunning DIY hypobaric rocket-test rigOur piece earlier this week on possible power plants for our Low Orbit Helium Assisted Navigator (LOHAN) rocket-powered spaceplane got you lot thinking about how one would go about testing a rocket motor which needs to fire at altitude and -60°C.… |
| Apple pulls smartphone slavery app Posted: 14 Sep 2011 03:27 AM PDT Child labour exposé 'excessively objectionable'An iPhone game that documents the process of creating a smartphone has been removed from the App store, after its content proved too excessive for Apple's guidelines.… |
| Winter for webOS, winter for Droid, but springtime for iPad! Posted: 14 Sep 2011 03:13 AM PDT Sing along with the fondle-slab forecastIDC has upped fondleslab shipment forecasts as the mature PC market looks set to plateau.… |
| Posted: 14 Sep 2011 03:00 AM PDT Captain's log...Antique Code Show Star Control 2 is a bloody good game, but not the game I fell in love with. Yet it was playing the original Star Control on my Sega Genesis that just makes me feel all squidgy inside. With colour spaceships that battle across my screen to eerie alien toonz, I didn't need Arnie in Total Recall to fulfil my sci-fi fetish.… |
| TouchPad sales doubled after it was discontinued Posted: 14 Sep 2011 02:44 AM PDT Fire sale caught fire: Last chance at Carphone WarehouseHewlett-Packard doubled its fondleslab shipments after revealing plans to ditch them and more importantly gutting the price.… |
| Google plan to kill Javascript with Dart, fight off Apple Posted: 14 Sep 2011 02:29 AM PDT Leaked email speaks of battle to save the web from iOSGoogle has apparently invented its Dart web programming language as a replacement for Javascript.… |
| Virgin Media finally offers network options on SuperHub Posted: 14 Sep 2011 02:01 AM PDT For best 5GHz results, get rid of your walls and doorsVirgin Media has finally issued an update for its SuperHub box that allows its customers to configure custom network set-ups with the kit.… |
| Facebook security profiling doesn't like African log-ins Posted: 14 Sep 2011 02:00 AM PDT Social network nearly cost Kenyan employee his jobA tip-off from a source has turned up an interesting quirk in Facebook's security measures. He claims the social networking site appears to discriminate against log-ins from Africa.… |
| Winklevoss twins: Zuck on our salty nuts Posted: 14 Sep 2011 01:39 AM PDT Rapier wit on display as brothers stick oar in againThe Winklevoss twins are back in the limelight (well, sort of) by starring in a US telly advert for pistachios that sends up the brothers' legal fight with Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg.… |
| Twitter contests ad company's 'tweets' trademark Posted: 14 Sep 2011 01:19 AM PDT If you aren't a bird, you can't use our wordTwitter said that a trademark belonging to Twittad "threatens to block" it from registering "tweet" as its own "legitimate" mark, according to the company's legal submission to a district court in San Francisco.… |
| Overland Storage preps private cloud rescue Posted: 14 Sep 2011 01:00 AM PDT Oh my white fluffy knight, take me away from all thisTroubled tape and disk storage vendor Overland Storage has seen revenues drop and losses rise over its last fiscal year, but fared better in its final quarter. A clustered filer product and private cloud offering is coming, hopefully lifting Overland out of the prolonged hole it has been in.… |
| More transistors, Moore’s Law, less juice Posted: 13 Sep 2011 11:35 PM PDT "Koomey's Law" examines power per computationIt looks like an accident that Moore's Law has been shadowed by a parallel phenomenon: that over time, the amount of power required per unit of computation falls. That's the conclusion of Stanford PhD and consulting professor Jonathan Koomey, whose work has already been dubbed "Koomey's Law".… |
| Ten... digital voice recorders Posted: 13 Sep 2011 11:00 PM PDT Modern dictatorsProduct Round-up As mobile phones and other electronic gizmos generally pack their own voice recorders these days, the necessity of buying of a standalone dictaphone seems doubtful. Yet a dedicated model has distinct advantages with typically better recording quality, a longer battery life and voice actuation. Also, recordings are not going to be interrupted by phone calls and if colleagues need to use it, you'll be less bothered than handing over your phone.… |
| Intel's Xeon E5 server chips due 'early 2012' Posted: 13 Sep 2011 10:00 PM PDT Wait 'til next yearIDF 2011 Intel CEO Paul Otellini gave the opening keynote at the company's Developer Forum this morning in San Francisco, and uncharacteristically, he didn't have much to say about servers. That's because contrary to the expectations of many customers, Intel is not ready to launch the Xeon E5 server variants of its "Sandy Bridge" processors.… |
| Intel preps 15-Watt 'Sandy Bridge' for micro servers Posted: 13 Sep 2011 09:57 PM PDT Brings back the PentiumIDF 2011 Micro servers – those tiny machines suitable for dedicated hosting and Web infrastructure workloads – are not exactly taking the market by storm, but they are carving out a niche for themselves.… |
| Malware burrows deep into computer BIOS to escape AV Posted: 13 Sep 2011 09:53 PM PDT Mebromi rootkit also targets master boot recordResearchers have discovered one of the first pieces of malware ever used in the wild that modifies the software on the motherboard of infected computers to ensure the infection can't be easily eradicated.… |
| Hands on with the Windows 8 fondleslab Posted: 13 Sep 2011 09:49 PM PDT Beefy tablet passes musterBUILD Developers attending Microsoft's BUILD conference will go home with a brand new Windows 8 tablet from Samsung. And it's not half bad.… |
| Android banking trojan intercepts security texts Posted: 13 Sep 2011 09:00 PM PDT Thought you were so clever, Mr Banker GuyDevelopers of the SpyEye banking trojan have started bundling it with malware for phones running Google's Android operating system to intercept text messages many financial institutions use to prevent fraud, researchers said.… |
| 'Find My Car' iPhone app finds anyone’s car Posted: 13 Sep 2011 07:24 PM PDT Blogger tags security and privacy howlerAn iPhone app released a few days ago called "Find My Car" has just turned into a PR disaster for shopping centre operator Westfield.… |
| Google flight search engine lifts off Posted: 13 Sep 2011 05:31 PM PDT Soars into antitrust airspaceGoogle has launched its flight search service, five months after sealing the acquisition of flight-data outfit ITA Software.… |
| CPU cycles for stars: theSkyNet wants your sandbox Posted: 13 Sep 2011 05:30 PM PDT And you can win a trip to the desertThe International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research is the latest to borrow the name of the Terminator antagonist with theSkyNet, a project to crowd-source spare CPU cycles to process astronomy data.… |
| Oz authors join book scanning lawsuit Posted: 13 Sep 2011 05:01 PM PDT Our children aren't orphans, says ASAThe Australian Society of Authors (ASA) has announced that it is joining an American lawsuit against the publication of US universities' scanned-book archive.… |
| Aussie Sex Party takes the whip to .xxx domains Posted: 13 Sep 2011 04:30 PM PDT Gives ICM Registry a dressing-downThe Australian Sex Party has joined a growing international chorus of voices accusing ICANN and ICM Registry of a shakedown over the .xxx domain space.… |
| Microsoft touts Windows 8 fondleslabness Posted: 13 Sep 2011 03:43 PM PDT Would you like to touch my operating system?BUILD Steven Sinofsky has touted Windows 8 as one Microsoft's most significant redesigns since the arrival of Windows 95 more than 15 years ago.… |
| Health Services Union boss accused of IT tender badness Posted: 13 Sep 2011 03:29 PM PDT Cops called to sort out double-dippingThe national president of the Health Services Union (HSU), Michael Williamson, is at the centre of a New South Wales police investigation over allegations of secret commissions and serious conflicts of interest.… |
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