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- Unisys gets 'stealthy' with secure virtual terminal
- Apple finally purges Mac OS of disgraced DigiNotar certs
- Apollo 17 Moon landing: Shock revelations
- Brit tech brings in-stream ads to Canadian TV webcast
- Typo-squatting domains can harvest corporate emails
- British warming to NUKES after Fukushima meltdown
- W3C announces web-tracking privacy protection group
- Fujitsu strike to hit back-office across UK.gov
- Google tells Iranians: Change your Gmail password
- Al Gore wants to borrow your Facebook and Twitter accounts
- VMware 'to work with just five storage companies'
- HP PC boss: I'm so loving being spun off
- Galaxy Tab remains illegal in Germany
- Java on the Windows Azure Cloud
- Driver San Francisco
- Google brings out new programming language
- Waterstone's to take on Kindle and Nook with own reader
- Nike auctions Back to the Future trainers
- UK, US ink boffinry pact on laser fusion 'star power'
- Apple plan to rate shops etc by number of iPhones visiting
- Yahoo! 'f**ked me over'! says! Carol! Bartz!
- ChaCha promises answers-by-SMS for free, sort of
- HP gets ready to make a cloud ... by boiling the ocean
- Windows 8 to boot in 8 seconds
- Office 365, Hotmail and SkyDrive hit by outage
- Panasonic DMW-LVF1 clip-on viewfinder
- Office and Windows fixes star in quiet Patch Tuesday
- Twitter reaches 100 million active users
- Parliament has no time for 100,000+ signature e-petitions
- Public-sector software and services looking limp
- Hey Commentards! [This title is optional]
- Big Blue hits DataDirect box with spade
- Onkyo TX-NR609 AV network receiver
- PC sales tank on fears of Meltdown, Part Deux
- Intel kicks dough to cloud, analytics startups
- Firesheep addon updated to exploit Google info leak
- Vale Michael Stern Hart
- 'Lost' dollars turn up in gaming outfit
- HP, Microsoft dumped from Dow Jones 'green' list
- ‘We save trips to the library’ – Google
- ACMA gives telcos five months to clean up act
| Unisys gets 'stealthy' with secure virtual terminal Posted: 09 Sep 2011 12:44 PM PDT Military-grade encryption on a USB stickRich people and public sector workers can now get the kind of network security that used to be reserved for military organizations.… |
| Apple finally purges Mac OS of disgraced DigiNotar certs Posted: 09 Sep 2011 11:35 AM PDT iPhone and iPad users still wide openApple has finally purged the imprimatur of disgraced web authentication authority DigiNotar from its Mac operating system.… |
| Apollo 17 Moon landing: Shock revelations Posted: 09 Sep 2011 08:35 AM PDT New photographic evidence blows lid on massive cover-upThe recent release of Apollo landing sites snaps, captured by NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO), was a serious kick in the 'nads for the black helicopter brigade and their tiresome insistence that the good old US of A faked the Moon landings.… |
| Brit tech brings in-stream ads to Canadian TV webcast Posted: 09 Sep 2011 08:13 AM PDT Works on iPads without app, lets you fast-forwardThe Canadian Broadcasting Corporation is deploying VoD technology from UK-based YoSpace, enabling targeted adverts to be dropped into the stream like it's 1999.… |
| Typo-squatting domains can harvest corporate emails Posted: 09 Sep 2011 07:26 AM PDT Executive butterfingers get slurped by honeypotsTypo-squatting domains might easily be used to intercept misdirected corporate emails, according to new research.… |
| British warming to NUKES after Fukushima meltdown Posted: 09 Sep 2011 07:04 AM PDT Wizz for atomms!Despite the massive and often neurotically inaccurate Western media coverage of the Fukushima nuclear accident, British public confidence in nuclear power has increased. In a poll by Populus for the British Science Association, 41 per cent of respondents said the benefits of nuclear power outweighed the risks – up 3 per cent.… |
| W3C announces web-tracking privacy protection group Posted: 09 Sep 2011 07:01 AM PDT Google, Opera do not back Do Not TrackThe World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) has announced the creation of a Tracking Protection Working Group to address online privacy concerns, but the task of getting all the players to agree on what standards should be adopted could yet be a sticking point.… |
| Fujitsu strike to hit back-office across UK.gov Posted: 09 Sep 2011 06:36 AM PDT 1,057 to walk out across Revenue, Defence, DVLA, ONSDelays in the delivery of driving licences and tax returns could result from a threatened strike by 1,000 of Fujitsu's 10,000 British workers.… |
| Google tells Iranians: Change your Gmail password Posted: 09 Sep 2011 05:43 AM PDT And check for forwarding to the Revolutionary GuardsGoogle has issued a blanket instruction advising Iranian users to check if their Gmail accounts might have been hacked before changing their passwords.… |
| Al Gore wants to borrow your Facebook and Twitter accounts Posted: 09 Sep 2011 05:37 AM PDT Plans 72-hour green spam avalanche for your followersWould you trust someone else with your Facebook account, giving them enough access to post status updates on your behalf? What if that person was Al Gore and it was all for a good cause?… |
| VMware 'to work with just five storage companies' Posted: 09 Sep 2011 05:25 AM PDT Is EMC's stepchild golden, or red-headed?VMware is planning logical storage containers that do away with Logical UNits (LUNs) and NFS mount points - and could stifle storage developments outside a group of five suppliers.… |
| HP PC boss: I'm so loving being spun off Posted: 09 Sep 2011 05:05 AM PDT Tablets? Pff. Dell? They speak with forked tongueHP's public statement that it will explore alternatives for its PC business has sent "ripples" across the entire organisation, according to a senior exec.… |
| Galaxy Tab remains illegal in Germany Posted: 09 Sep 2011 05:04 AM PDT Judge: Non-iPad fondleslabs must be rough and complicatedSales of the Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 remain illegal in Germany, a Dusseldorf court decided this morning.… |
| Java on the Windows Azure Cloud Posted: 09 Sep 2011 05:03 AM PDT Pros and consMany people are surprised to hear that running Java on Windows Azure is even possible, but there are already large Java-based financial services and scheduling applications running in production.… |
| Posted: 09 Sep 2011 05:00 AM PDT Speedy detective workReview Defusing bombs, rounding up drug runners and saving damsels in distress, just a sample of the heroic acts possible while behind the wheel of a high performance vehicle – who knew? Driver San Francisco is a game that rather lacks any semblance of plausibility, yet holds such a penchant for the ridiculous that you'll be amused enough to not particularly care.… |
| Google brings out new programming language Posted: 09 Sep 2011 04:42 AM PDT Strongtalk duo to pitch Dart at browser app bullseyeGoogle has built a brand-new programming language for "structured web programming", one that appears to be suited to browser-based apps.… |
| Waterstone's to take on Kindle and Nook with own reader Posted: 09 Sep 2011 04:27 AM PDT Another chance to buy someone's cash register for themWaterstone's is to launch its own ereader in the hopes of competing with Amazon's Kindle next year.… |
| Nike auctions Back to the Future trainers Posted: 09 Sep 2011 04:19 AM PDT Replica Air Mags going, going...Look, we'd prefer a hoverboard, but we understand that some sci-fi buffs out there have always had their eye on the sneakers Michael J Fox wore in Back to the Future II. We can't have a hoverboard, but you can have a pair of Nike Air Mags.… |
| UK, US ink boffinry pact on laser fusion 'star power' Posted: 09 Sep 2011 04:15 AM PDT Hope for self-powering bucket of sunshine in CaliforniaUsing nuclear fusion – star energy – to power the world's dishwashers, TVs and servers has long been a twinkling in the misty eyes of physicists, but it inched closer to reality this week as the American National Ignition Facility (strap line: "Bringing Star Power To Earth") struck a deal with the UK company AWE and Oxford-based Rutherford Appleton Laboratory.… |
| Apple plan to rate shops etc by number of iPhones visiting Posted: 09 Sep 2011 03:57 AM PDT Why has the butcher started selling turtlenecks?Apple has patented software that will automatically log the visits of iPhone users to restaurants, stores and business and then use the number of visits by Jesus-mobe owners as an indication of how good/popular/worthy-of-a-high-search-ranking that business is.… |
| Yahoo! 'f**ked me over'! says! Carol! Bartz! Posted: 09 Sep 2011 03:43 AM PDT May have to put $10m in Purple Palace swear-boxBreaking up is hard to do for recently fired Yahoo! boss Carol Bartz, who learned she had been sacked via a telephone call from the company's chairman Roy Bostock.… |
| ChaCha promises answers-by-SMS for free, sort of Posted: 09 Sep 2011 03:29 AM PDT Race to the bottom of vanishing old-fashioned marketUS question-answering service ChaCha has launched in the UK, promising to provide for free a service that others have failed to make viable at a pound a time.… |
| HP gets ready to make a cloud ... by boiling the ocean Posted: 09 Sep 2011 03:14 AM PDT If only it was Sun, we'd have a headline hat-trickThe goals of Hewlett-Packard's OpenStack cloud are immodest, perhaps even heretical in a Valley where people casually caution you against "boiling the ocean" – or trying to do everything at once.… |
| Windows 8 to boot in 8 seconds Posted: 09 Sep 2011 03:06 AM PDT Save our kernel sessionsMicrosoft is touting very fast boot times for Windows 8, thanks to the clever trick of writing the kernel state to disk at shutdown.… |
| Office 365, Hotmail and SkyDrive hit by outage Posted: 09 Sep 2011 03:05 AM PDT Microsoft clouds go darkA new month and another outage for Microsoft's Office 365 cloud service. This time it had company as Hotmail and SkyDrive were also downed by the same DNS (Domain Name System) issue.… |
| Panasonic DMW-LVF1 clip-on viewfinder Posted: 09 Sep 2011 03:00 AM PDT Get an eye-fullAccessory of the Week Yes, you can argue that compact cameras, especially premium ones, should have a viewfinder built in. But the fact is, they don't, and while manufacturers are so keen to pitch LCD sizes and resolutions, it seems unlikely that they will anytime soon.… |
| Office and Windows fixes star in quiet Patch Tuesday Posted: 09 Sep 2011 02:38 AM PDT No criticals for once among the backdoor plugsSeptember's Patch Tuesday will include five bulletins, none of which are rated as critical.… |
| Twitter reaches 100 million active users Posted: 09 Sep 2011 02:12 AM PDT Not a little blue sparrow can fall without being tweetedThe inexorable rise of the actively twittering masses has hit a new high, with 100 million people regularly tweeting their fascinating insights into what they had for breakfast and how happy they are that Beyonce is pregnant.… |
| Parliament has no time for 100,000+ signature e-petitions Posted: 09 Sep 2011 01:57 AM PDT You wouldn't believe how busy we areThe UK's e-petitions initiative, intended to get the public's issues debated in the Commons, has fallen at the first hurdle, with two petitions on ice due to lack of time.… |
| Public-sector software and services looking limp Posted: 09 Sep 2011 01:28 AM PDT Outsourcing IT departments the only bright spotResellers punting software and IT services (SITS) to the public sector have been warned to prepare for meagre times ahead with only business process outsourcing providing major pockets of growth.… |
| Hey Commentards! [This title is optional] Posted: 09 Sep 2011 01:27 AM PDT Reg forum tweaksSite news Yesterday, we added three new features for Reg commentards.… |
| Big Blue hits DataDirect box with spade Posted: 09 Sep 2011 12:58 AM PDT Rolls corpse behind hedge, introduces new NetApp lovelyIBM is killing off its DCS9900 disk array OEM'ed from DataDirect Networks, and replacing it with a NetApp Engenio box.… |
| Onkyo TX-NR609 AV network receiver Posted: 08 Sep 2011 11:00 PM PDT Multichannel maestroReview AV receivers have made a concerted effort to keep up with TVs, consoles, set-top boxes and disc players in recent years by incorporating an Ethernet port to play your digital music collection over a network as well as internet radio and extras like Last FM and Napster.… |
| PC sales tank on fears of Meltdown, Part Deux Posted: 08 Sep 2011 10:00 PM PDT Gartner: 'Take two tablets and call me in 2012'The prognosticators at Gartner have again taken out their box cutters and sliced off the top of their worldwide PC shipment forecasts – and this time they're slashing both this year and the next.… |
| Intel kicks dough to cloud, analytics startups Posted: 08 Sep 2011 09:33 PM PDT Daddy ChipbucksIntel Capital, the investment arm of the supplier of chips for most of the world's PCs and servers, is spreading around some of its vast wealth once again, trying to seed the applications that will ultimately drive its processor, chipset, and networking businesses.… |
| Firesheep addon updated to exploit Google info leak Posted: 08 Sep 2011 09:24 PM PDT Your click history revealedResearchers have released a Firefox extension that demonstrates the risks of using Google search services on Wi-Fi hotspots and other unsecured networks: With just a few clicks, attackers can view large chunks of your intimate browsing history, including websites you've already visited.… |
| Posted: 08 Sep 2011 07:00 PM PDT Project Gutenberg founder is deadObituary The man who arguably gave the world its first glimpse of non-Sci-Fi e-books, Michael Stern Hart, founder of Project Gutenberg, has died at the age of 64. Hart's passing was announced in this obituary, posted on the Gutenberg Project's Website.… |
| 'Lost' dollars turn up in gaming outfit Posted: 08 Sep 2011 06:00 PM PDT JJ Abrams backs FactoryMade in digital content playFilm and TV auteur J.J. Abrams has backed a cross platform entertainment company, FactoryMade Ventures, pitched as a hybrid entertainment, media business development and digital consulting firm.… |
| HP, Microsoft dumped from Dow Jones 'green' list Posted: 08 Sep 2011 05:34 PM PDT $8 billion at riskThis year's Dow Jones Sustainability Index is out, and the news isn't good for Microsoft and HP – both companies were booted from the highly respected investors' guide to companies that demonstrate "Corporate Sustainability".… |
| ‘We save trips to the library’ – Google Posted: 08 Sep 2011 05:30 PM PDT Greenwashing the Chocolate Factory's vast power billSure, a data centre is a power hog. Sure, Google has more data centres than everybody else. Courtesy of a new interview, we now know just how much electricity is consumed by the Chocolate Factory: 260 megawatt hours in 2010.… |
| ACMA gives telcos five months to clean up act Posted: 08 Sep 2011 04:30 PM PDT You will or we will: choiceThe Australian Communications and Media Authority has given telecommunications providers a five deadline to improve customer services as a result of the 12 month investigation into the industry's consumer code of practice.… |
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