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- Revolution speed stats on Hadoop clusters
- Turnbull storms Paris with NBN’s doom
- Apple loses bid to trademark 'multi-touch'
- HPC 2.0: The New New mash-up
- Mac security update leaves users open to ugly Flashback
- New York drops $400m to lure next-gen wafer bakers
- Facebook wants to poke politicians 'who share our goals'
- Microsoft’s Mango update falls from tech tree
- New flash RAM tech promises 99% energy drop
- Zombie mobile Linuxes mate
- Cray ships Mongolian cluster...
- Ellison rides SPARC T4 SuperCluster into data centers
- Axiom to boot out NetApp at Oracle
- WikiLeaks memoir races to 537th on bestseller chart
- Apple confirms iPhone event on 4 October
- Facebook's complexity will be its doom
- 2009 game footage appears in ITV show as 1988 IRA vid
- Rich List tech baron 'retreats to Switzerland'
- Lenovo, Compal snuggle up to build notebook plant
- Elon Musk's SpaceX to build 'Grasshopper' hover-rocket
- Power cut knocks Miliband off-air mid-speech
- Violin strings out fresh flash trio
- Clouds overshadow 'shrinking' UK server market
- Tosh puts 1TB in the palm of your hand
- 'Delayed' Facebook iPad app claims lead coder casualty
- Brit web firms tweet way out of slump
- Second-hand E-m@iler spews old emails, passwords
- Ex-Microsofties' IE6 kill squad hits UK
- Should your system offer Mr, Ms ... and Mx?
- YouView to adopt Freeview channel list rules
- Hands on training with SQL Azure
- David Caminer, creator of the first business computer
- Spotify tethers future to Facebook
- Sonex calls in administrators
- Interference-dodging app sidesteps Wi-Fi band-hoggers
- Three offers UNLIMITED data to all its customers
- Google+ chases MySpace for second place
- Lewd voicemail hack on MP prompts probe
- Amazon to kindle Fire tablet tomorrow
- Ed Miliband signs up for another hour of insults from Twitter
- Android outsells Apple 2:1
- Plex flexes media server pecs
- Microsoft mulls OEM distie shake-up
- Cumulo Ethernet: Building Ethernet cloud fabrics
- HeyTell voice messenger
- Taxmen extend biz record check pilot
- Ex-NASA man stuffs OpenStack with Paxos
- Apple Thunderbolt Macs have chips for optical links
- Samsung welcomes WinPho 7.5 with Omnia W
- Sonos Play:3 network music player
| Revolution speed stats on Hadoop clusters Posted: 27 Sep 2011 03:38 PM PDT R language teaches 'meaningful' math to elephantsRevolution Analytics, the company that is extending R, the open source statistical programming language, with proprietary extensions, is making available a free set of extensions that allow its R engine to run atop Hadoop clusters.… |
| Turnbull storms Paris with NBN’s doom Posted: 27 Sep 2011 03:30 PM PDT Killing the Australian network at long distanceIn the midst of a blitzkrieg tour through Germany, Paris and the UK seeking tête-à-tête meetings with some of Europe's leading telco brains trust including Ofcom, Australia's shadow communications Minister Malcolm Turnbull delivered a typically caustic attack on Australia's NBN project to a packed Broadband World Forum in Paris, yesterday.… |
| Apple loses bid to trademark 'multi-touch' Posted: 27 Sep 2011 03:07 PM PDT But 'app store' fight with Microsoft kept aliveThe US Patent and Trademark Office has rejected Apple's appeal to obtain a trademark for the term "multi-touch".… |
| Posted: 27 Sep 2011 01:53 PM PDT Big Data. Oh yesBlog IBM recently invited a handful of really smart HPC-centric industry analysts (and me too, for no apparent reason) to spend the day talking about where the market is going and how IBM intends to address it.… |
| Mac security update leaves users open to ugly Flashback Posted: 27 Sep 2011 01:16 PM PDT One threat down, another to goApple has updated the malware protection built into its Mac operating system to flag a recently discovered trojan that hijacks users' machines by masquerading as a benign document. Malware disguised as an Adobe Flash installer, meanwhile, remained unchecked.… |
| New York drops $400m to lure next-gen wafer bakers Posted: 27 Sep 2011 12:25 PM PDT 'We don't have earthquakes here very often'New York governor Andrew Cuomo wants to make his state a high tech employer – and taxpayer – and has now primed the political pump with $400m in investments to go along with the $4.4bn that five chip companies plan to spend in the state over the next five years as they research 450mm wafer technology.… |
| Facebook wants to poke politicians 'who share our goals' Posted: 27 Sep 2011 12:07 PM PDT Mr. Zuckerberg's money goes to WashingtonFacebook is looking to get a firmer grip on Washington by bankrolling its own Polticical Action Committee, which will back politicians it wants to be friends with.… |
| Microsoft’s Mango update falls from tech tree Posted: 27 Sep 2011 11:44 AM PDT Update to dribble out over the next monthMicrosoft as begun rolling out the version 7.5 "Mango" update to its Phone 7 OS – but only 10 per cent of the user base will be getting it at first.… |
| New flash RAM tech promises 99% energy drop Posted: 27 Sep 2011 11:30 AM PDT Faster, lower power – what's not to like?Nanotechnology boffins are exploring a new type of nonvolatile memory that not only has the potential of being faster than today's flash RAM, but also requires 99 per cent less energy.… |
| Posted: 27 Sep 2011 10:31 AM PDT MeeGo and LiMo cadavers elopeThe two leading mobile Linux flops are merging, according to a reputable source: LiMo and MeeGo are throwing their lot in together to produce one unified mobile Linux flop – or perhaps there is an afterlife, after all.… |
| Cray ships Mongolian cluster... Posted: 27 Sep 2011 10:12 AM PDT Seriously: It's an XE6mYak yak yak. Supercomputer maker Cray has landed an XE6m minicluster deal in Mongolia.… |
| Ellison rides SPARC T4 SuperCluster into data centers Posted: 27 Sep 2011 10:00 AM PDT Four star general purpose, sir!Just putting out four new entry and midrange servers based on its new eight-core SPARC T4 processor is not sufficient to get SPARC/Solaris customers fired up about buying gear from and paying system maintenance to Oracle. Every CIO wants to know – in fact needs to know – that there is headroom in their systems in case their workloads grow.… |
| Axiom to boot out NetApp at Oracle Posted: 27 Sep 2011 09:29 AM PDT El Reg peers into crystal ball of storageAnalysis It's surely axiomatic: Oracle will replace the NetApp E Series-sourced 6000 line of storage arrays with the Pillar Axiom.… |
| WikiLeaks memoir races to 537th on bestseller chart Posted: 27 Sep 2011 09:12 AM PDT 644 copies of Assange bio fly off shelves in 3 daysA moist Jemima Khan once described WikiLeaks' Líder Máximo as "the new Jason Bourne" – but Julian Assange just isn't selling like the Robert Ludlum hero.… |
| Apple confirms iPhone event on 4 October Posted: 27 Sep 2011 09:10 AM PDT Let's talk... you listenApple has started to send out invites for an announcement on 4 October and, judging by the familiar app icons in the email artwork, accompanied with the tagline "Let's talk iPhone", the event will be all about unveiling the next Apple handset.… |
| Facebook's complexity will be its doom Posted: 27 Sep 2011 08:59 AM PDT Farewell, 'Wal-Mart of the internet'Open...and Shut Facebook released some impressive updates to its ubiquitous social platform at last week's F8 developer conference. It also managed to scare the pants off even the most ardent Facebook admirers. Like me.… |
| 2009 game footage appears in ITV show as 1988 IRA vid Posted: 27 Sep 2011 08:49 AM PDT WhoopsAn ITV documentary rehashing well-known links between terrorist/freedom-fighter organisation the Provisional IRA (PIRA) and one-time Libyan leader Colonel Gaddafi has drawn fire for seemingly presenting a sequence of game video masquerading as real footage.… |
| Rich List tech baron 'retreats to Switzerland' Posted: 27 Sep 2011 08:33 AM PDT His Itopia reseller biz enters administrationTroubled London-based VAR Itopia Group has gone into administration, The Reg can confirm.… |
| Lenovo, Compal snuggle up to build notebook plant Posted: 27 Sep 2011 08:13 AM PDT Firms invest $100m into joint ventureLenovo has moved to beef up its manufacturing base by forming a joint venture with Chinese ODM Compal Electronics to build notebooks and all-in-one desktops.… |
| Elon Musk's SpaceX to build 'Grasshopper' hover-rocket Posted: 27 Sep 2011 08:01 AM PDT 100ft-tall booster to lift, land back on padSpaceX, the upstart start-up rocket company founded by famous techwealth kingpin Elon Musk, is to build and test-fly a "Grasshopper" hover rocket based on the massive first-stage fuel tank of the company's Falcon 9 vehicle, capable of carrying ten tonnes of cargo or seven people into orbit.… |
| Power cut knocks Miliband off-air mid-speech Posted: 27 Sep 2011 07:50 AM PDT Blue Screen for Red EdA live broadcast of Ed Miliband's Labour party conference speech fell off the airwaves when a power failure cut him off mid-sentence.… |
| Violin strings out fresh flash trio Posted: 27 Sep 2011 07:39 AM PDT Will arrays be music to CIOs' ears?Shared flash array supplier Violin Memory is announcing three new products, beefing up both the capacity and performance of its products.… |
| Clouds overshadow 'shrinking' UK server market Posted: 27 Sep 2011 07:21 AM PDT Analyst: Vendors face 6pc hardware revenue dropThe UK server market is forecast to shrink next year as the corporate refresh nears it end of cycle and more SMEs turn to cloud computing instead of buying hardware.… |
| Tosh puts 1TB in the palm of your hand Posted: 27 Sep 2011 07:00 AM PDT End of STOR.EToshiba has slimmed down its handheld external drives by using a thinner two-platter spinner inside.… |
| 'Delayed' Facebook iPad app claims lead coder casualty Posted: 27 Sep 2011 06:45 AM PDT 'Feature complete', still no release, so developer takes job at GoogleThe release of a Facebook iPad app remains in stasis despite the fact that it has been worked on for the best part of a year. Now a lead developer at the social network has quit the firm and vented his frustrations about the delay.… |
| Brit web firms tweet way out of slump Posted: 27 Sep 2011 06:30 AM PDT Social media, weak pound blessed by bossesTweeting and faffing with Facebook are helping British internet businesses avoid the economic slump, according to a survey by Sage Pay.… |
| Second-hand E-m@iler spews old emails, passwords Posted: 27 Sep 2011 06:00 AM PDT You mean somebody actually used it for email?A Mac developer was surprised to discover both emails and stored passwords on a second-hand Amstrad E-m@iler Plus he picked up at a charity store.… |
| Ex-Microsofties' IE6 kill squad hits UK Posted: 27 Sep 2011 05:46 AM PDT Former IE team members aid aging web appsA team of ex-Microsoft staffers have set up shop in Blighty to finally wean British netizens off IE6.… |
| Should your system offer Mr, Ms ... and Mx? Posted: 27 Sep 2011 05:28 AM PDT Time to phase gender out of your databasesAnalysis Last week the Australian government announced new rules for declaring a gender on passports. This week UK authorities revealed they are conducting their own review of gender on passports. What are the implications for systems design and management?… |
| YouView to adopt Freeview channel list rules Posted: 27 Sep 2011 05:18 AM PDT Scheme to minimise EPG envy?Would-be standard IPTV platform YouView wants to order channels in its electronic programme guide (EPG) according to rules used by Freeview, an approach that puts the UK's main terrestrial channels at the top of the list.… |
| Hands on training with SQL Azure Posted: 27 Sep 2011 05:15 AM PDT Trevor gives MVA course a twirlMicrosoft Virtual Academy (MVA) is Microsoft's online training facility. Like any such endeavour, you read articles, watch movies and take a self assessment at the end to see how much you remembered.… |
| David Caminer, creator of the first business computer Posted: 27 Sep 2011 05:00 AM PDT We salute the architect of LEOUnsung Heroes of Tech Business without computers would be unthinkable today. Spare a thought then for those who first made the connection; who not only realised that a computer could be used to run a company, but who also knuckled down to build a system from the ground up and put it to use driving a huge commercial enterprise.… |
| Spotify tethers future to Facebook Posted: 27 Sep 2011 04:43 AM PDT Social network membership mandatory for subscribersThis is a story with huge implications for the future of the web. Even if you don't use Facebook or Spotify - I don't - and couldn't care less, you can nevertheless start to see how business relationships will develop.… |
| Posted: 27 Sep 2011 04:32 AM PDT Parent of 15 Sony Centres runs out of cashSonex Communications has called in the administrators to seek a way forward for its 15 ailing Sony Centres.… |
| Interference-dodging app sidesteps Wi-Fi band-hoggers Posted: 27 Sep 2011 04:22 AM PDT Dumb cards detect and avoid rival signals from other protocolsAirshark is an experimental application bringing detect-and-avoid frequency-hopping to previously dumb Wi-Fi cards, without the addition of any new hardware.… |
| Three offers UNLIMITED data to all its customers Posted: 27 Sep 2011 04:14 AM PDT AYCE for £3 a monthNetwork Three has extended its all-you-can-eat data offer to every mobile customer - for an extra £3 a month.… |
| Google+ chases MySpace for second place Posted: 27 Sep 2011 04:11 AM PDT Jury still out on chocolate-flavoured networkGoogle+ unsurprisingly saw a spike in visitors after Mountain View opened the new social network to all-comers last week.… |
| Lewd voicemail hack on MP prompts probe Posted: 27 Sep 2011 04:01 AM PDT What's the story, moaning Tory?A prankster hacked into an MP's parliamentary voicemail and left a sexually offensive message for callers, the Mail on Sunday reports.… |
| Amazon to kindle Fire tablet tomorrow Posted: 27 Sep 2011 03:46 AM PDT Based on BlackBerry tab?Amazon's Kindle tablet will be called the Fire and be based on the same core technology as RIM's BlackBerry PlayBook, it has been claimed a day ahead of the retailer's big announcement.… |
| Ed Miliband signs up for another hour of insults from Twitter Posted: 27 Sep 2011 03:45 AM PDT #askEdM: Labour leader will face the Great British PublicLeader of the Labour Party Ed Miliband has signed himself up for another hour of pasting and personal insults from the Twittersphere by agreeing to answer questions on the #askEdM hashtag for an hour on Wednesday afternoon.… |
| Posted: 27 Sep 2011 03:36 AM PDT But BlackBerry is the real loserNew numbers from market tracker Nielsen show that more than half of smartphone punters who acquired their handset in the past three months opted for Android.… |
| Posted: 27 Sep 2011 03:30 AM PDT Let me be your one true content aggregatorWatching some of the world's largest companies - Apple, Amazon, Google, Netflix, etc - duke it out in a digital media distribution Battle Royale is fun. It forms a not insignificant portion of my weekly entertainment. But every so often, it is worth taking the time to look at up-and-coming companies.… |
| Microsoft mulls OEM distie shake-up Posted: 27 Sep 2011 03:30 AM PDT Redmond pushes firms out on beauty paradeMicrosoft has pushed its OEM software franchise out to tender among new and existing distributors amid a consumer market meltdown.… |
| Cumulo Ethernet: Building Ethernet cloud fabrics Posted: 27 Sep 2011 03:12 AM PDT Scaling up: what are the effects?Expert Clinic Scaling up Ethernet for the cloud means longer wires and many more of them, plus many more switches. What are the effects of linking all this gear together? Do new risks emerge? Can we get economies of scale? What about security with multiple users of network links? Is ordinary Ethernet good enough?… |
| Posted: 27 Sep 2011 03:00 AM PDT The text message gets vocalAndroid App of the Week Like the mutant offspring of the text message and the walkie-talkie, HeyTell is perfect for anyone who wants to relay vocal messages but who doesn't want the palaver of having an actual conversation.… |
| Taxmen extend biz record check pilot Posted: 27 Sep 2011 02:28 AM PDT Root around for extra SME revenueMore small and medium businesses will have their records scrutinised by HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) as its record-checking programme has been extended.… |
| Ex-NASA man stuffs OpenStack with Paxos Posted: 27 Sep 2011 02:02 AM PDT Uncork some Googly BigTable compute for cloudy goodnessOne of the NASA brains behind the project that became OpenStack is taking the wraps off a start-up that promises an enterprise-grade cloud using open source.… |
| Apple Thunderbolt Macs have chips for optical links Posted: 27 Sep 2011 01:56 AM PDT Circuitry, yes - but what about optical ports?Got a new Mac with a Thunderbolt port? Then it is compatible with upcoming optical cables, Intel has revealed.… |
| Samsung welcomes WinPho 7.5 with Omnia W Posted: 27 Sep 2011 01:35 AM PDT Mango ringer in-boundSamsung has thrown the first of its Windows Phone 7.5 'Mango' hats in the ring, announcing a fresh Omnia to join its WinPho range.… |
| Sonos Play:3 network music player Posted: 27 Sep 2011 01:28 AM PDT The best starter streamer bar none?Review Sonos wireless music systems have always been deeply desirable but they have also always been rather expensive. Now Sonos has released a one-box player aimed at those of us who don't own our own Caribbean island.… |
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