Billion dollar telescope snaps galactic head-on |
- Billion dollar telescope snaps galactic head-on
- Hundreds of websites share usernames <i>sans</i> permission
- Crims prefer old exploits: Microsoft
- High-frequency traders attract regulator’s interest
- 'iTunes in the Cloud' has arrived in iTunes 10.5 update
- Overland to ring Nasdaq bell, tease products
- Microsoft flags Firefox and Chrome for security failings
- IBM nabs Platform for cloud control freakery
- Sutter: C++11 kicks old-school coding into 21st century
- Steve Jobs death certificate: 'respiratory arrest'
- RSA defends handling of two-pronged SecurID breach
- Android apps now playable on Windows PCs
- Privacy watchdog: Some things just aren't personal
- 'Buggy' Facebook iPad app finally emerges
- Oak Ridge changes Jaguar's spots from CPUs to GPUs
- Hard-up OpenOffice whips out begging-cap website
- Infosec 'needs warrior cryptoboffins' to beat hackers
- BlackBerry BBM, email offline AGAIN
- Dubstep ringtone wins Nokia compo
- Wall Street protest app Vibe is secure enough, cries dev
- Trusteer rebuffs bank security bypass claims
- Oracle's Sparc T4 prices mask improved value
- Royal Navy halts Highlands GPS jamming
- NHS IT spending: The winners and losers
- Ten... Freeview HD recorders
- Pay Jobs due respect - by crushing the empire he created
- Feds slurp WikiLeaker's email with secret court order
- Sneak peek: Revamped Opera gets turboboost
- Dark Souls
- Spotify's rising revenues gobbled by royalties blackhole
- The rise of the modular Cloud?
- IBM preps boost for Power Systems
- CyanogenMod 7.1 brings 24 Android phones into fold
- Cloudy challenge looms over networking
- Viz Profanisaurus
- MS <s>kills, un-kills</s> kills Zune player line
- VeriSign demands website takedown powers
- YouTube ships movie rental service to UK
- BlackBerry users back online after outage
- Smut oglers told to opt in to keep web filth flowing
- Half of Whitehall's websites axed in a year
- UK patent office spawns free search site
- Would you let your car insurer snoop on you for a better deal?
- XIO tosses the dice one more time
- Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini Pro Qwerty Android smartphone
- Nanotubes, sulfur expand battery storage
- iPlayer founder launches next big TV thing-Zeebox
- Get your numbers right, NBN Co tells <i>Economist</i>
- <em>El Reg</em> follows World Solar Challenge
- Oz broadband speeds leap 917% in TWO WEEKS!
| Billion dollar telescope snaps galactic head-on Posted: 11 Oct 2011 02:58 PM PDT First images arrive from 100 square mile telescope arrayThe first images are in from the immense ALMA radio-telescope array, under construction at 16,500 feet in the Chilean desert, and they reveal a galactic collision of near-unimaginable violence and equally mind-boggling beauty.… |
| Hundreds of websites share usernames <i>sans</i> permission Posted: 11 Oct 2011 02:42 PM PDT Photobucket, Wall Street Journal, Home Depot take liberties with your personal infoHome Depot, The Wall Street Journal, Photobucket, and hundreds of other websites share visitor's names, usernames, or other personal information with advertisers or other third parties, often without disclosing the practice in privacy policies, academic researchers said.… |
| Crims prefer old exploits: Microsoft Posted: 11 Oct 2011 02:23 PM PDT Zero-day threat is overratedWhile media around the world are excited by the announcement of every new zero-day vulnerabilities, attackers yawn, according to Microsoft.… |
| High-frequency traders attract regulator’s interest Posted: 11 Oct 2011 01:10 PM PDT Big-iron trading systems face crackdownFinancial authorities in the UK and US are considering a new batch of regulations to limit the use of high-frequency trading computer systems by investment houses.… |
| 'iTunes in the Cloud' has arrived in iTunes 10.5 update Posted: 11 Oct 2011 12:25 PM PDT Start downloading all your purchased tunes todayUpdated Apple has released iTunes 10.5, adding "iTunes in the Cloud" support in preparation for Wednesday's scheduled launch of the long-gestating iCloud service and iOS 5 mobile-device operating system – and downloading previously purchased songs is already up and running.… |
| Overland to ring Nasdaq bell, tease products Posted: 11 Oct 2011 11:03 AM PDT Gather round now, |
| Microsoft flags Firefox and Chrome for security failings Posted: 11 Oct 2011 11:02 AM PDT Guess what it says about IE 9Microsoft has unveiled a website aimed at raising awareness of browser security by comparing the ability of Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, and Google Chrome to withstand attacks from malware, phishing, and other types of threats.… |
| IBM nabs Platform for cloud control freakery Posted: 11 Oct 2011 10:42 AM PDT HP thinking too much about AutonomyIf you want Big Blue to buy your software company some day, you can increase the odds by moving it near Toronto – that location just did the trick for Platform Computing.… |
| Sutter: C++11 kicks old-school coding into 21st century Posted: 11 Oct 2011 10:02 AM PDT Language officially infused with Java-like multi-core supportThere's a new C++ in town: C++11 has been approved and published by international standards chiefs.… |
| Steve Jobs death certificate: 'respiratory arrest' Posted: 11 Oct 2011 09:33 AM PDT Memorial service set for October 19Steve Jobs died at home from respiratory arrest and a pancreatic tumor, according to his death certificate, which was obtained by The Wall Street Journal.… |
| RSA defends handling of two-pronged SecurID breach Posted: 11 Oct 2011 09:29 AM PDT 'Our adversaries left information' exec says, as FBI probe continuesRSA Europe Two groups from the same country teamed up to launch a sophisticated attack against RSA Security's systems last March, EMC's security division said.… |
| Android apps now playable on Windows PCs Posted: 11 Oct 2011 08:56 AM PDT BlueStacks' software unleashedBluestacks has released an alpha-test version of software which allows Android apps to be run on Windows machines.… |
| Privacy watchdog: Some things just aren't personal Posted: 11 Oct 2011 08:54 AM PDT Orgs get top tips on coughing complaint filesOrganisations do not have to issue all the information stored in complaint files in order to comply with individuals' personal data access requests, the UK's data protection watchdog has said.… |
| 'Buggy' Facebook iPad app finally emerges Posted: 11 Oct 2011 08:31 AM PDT Stalking slab smudgers are smiling, thoughMerely one year, six months and a week after the iPad was launched in April 2010, the Facebook app for iPad has finally hit the iTunes app store.… |
| Oak Ridge changes Jaguar's spots from CPUs to GPUs Posted: 11 Oct 2011 08:03 AM PDT Nuke lab's super upgraded to a 20-petaflops TitanThe mystery surrounding the architecture of the future "Titan" supercomputer to be installed at Oak Ridge National Laboratories and funded by the US Department of Energy is over.… |
| Hard-up OpenOffice whips out begging-cap website Posted: 11 Oct 2011 07:31 AM PDT Coders seek new sugar daddyHamburg-based open-source project OpenOffice will embark upon a major fundraising campaign this week to defend itself against a looming shutdown.… |
| Infosec 'needs warrior cryptoboffins' to beat hackers Posted: 11 Oct 2011 07:05 AM PDT Drop and give me 50 better data sets, maggotRSA Europe The infosec industry needs to move beyond "faith-based security" to an evidence-based approach that takes ideas from battlefield combat if corporations are ever to get ahead of hackers and keep security spending down to manageable levels.… |
| BlackBerry BBM, email offline AGAIN Posted: 11 Oct 2011 06:44 AM PDT Yet another RIM job to take care ofBlackBerry services are offline again after a burst of precious uptime that followed 20 hours of fail yesterday.… |
| Dubstep ringtone wins Nokia compo Posted: 11 Oct 2011 06:33 AM PDT Dreadful ditty makes line noise sound like MozartNokia has selected a winning ringtone, and either we're way too old to understand what the young things are listening to these days or Nokia has lost it completely.… |
| Wall Street protest app Vibe is secure enough, cries dev Posted: 11 Oct 2011 06:02 AM PDT This is between you, me and any determined FedsThat new "anonymous Twitter" app we wrote about last week? It is more anonymous than Twitter – but it isn't actually very anonymous.… |
| Trusteer rebuffs bank security bypass claims Posted: 11 Oct 2011 05:42 AM PDT Smacks down Times and researchersTrusteer has downplayed the significance of reports that it might have been possible to bypass its anti-keylogger online banking protection technology.… |
| Oracle's Sparc T4 prices mask improved value Posted: 11 Oct 2011 05:28 AM PDT Similar bang, more capacity, similar bucksAnalysis When Oracle announced the eight-core Sparc T4 processor and the four systems that make use of the new chip to run Solaris workloads two weeks ago, the one thing that was missing on announcement day was pricing for the systems. Having lived through Oracle OpenWorld, El Reg figures now is a good time to circle back and take a look at packaging and pricing for the Sparc T4 machines and how they stack up to prior generations of Sparc T-class iron.… |
| Royal Navy halts Highlands GPS jamming Posted: 11 Oct 2011 05:16 AM PDT Exercises knocked furious fishermen off courseFollowing complaints from local fishermen, the Royal Navy has suspended satnav signal jamming during its ongoing Joint Warrior naval exercises, despite making every attempt to let people know.… |
| NHS IT spending: The winners and losers Posted: 11 Oct 2011 05:06 AM PDT Integrators lose out as CfH budgets dive 35 per centThe pot of dosh dished out by NHS Connecting for Health to IT suppliers evaporated in fiscal 2011. Integration giants were the biggest losers as resellers gained ground.… |
| Posted: 11 Oct 2011 05:00 AM PDT Timeshifting telly treatsProduct Round-up The UK's ongoing digital switchover means that Freeview HD has probably now rolled out to a transmitter near you. If you're using old digital TVs or set-top boxes, you won't get the four – soon to be five – high-def channels through your aerial, alongside the standard line-up.… |
| Pay Jobs due respect - by crushing the empire he created Posted: 11 Oct 2011 04:48 AM PDT Real entrepreneurs don't settle for second bestOpen ... And Shut In all the eulogies dedicated to the remarkable Steve Jobs, people seem to be overlooking his legacy: the push to "think different". Rather than buying into his declaration that we should not "waste [our lives] living someone else's life" – namely, his – we see far too many products that seek to ape Apple, not beat it.… |
| Feds slurp WikiLeaker's email with secret court order Posted: 11 Oct 2011 04:34 AM PDT Message headers prised from Google, ISPInformation about WikiLeaks volunteer Jacob Appelbaum's emails could already be in the hands of the US government after wonks obtained secret court orders against Google and Sonic.net.… |
| Sneak peek: Revamped Opera gets turboboost Posted: 11 Oct 2011 04:28 AM PDT So much is new, but it's mostly under the hoodPictures Oslo: Opera has lifted the lid on a range of new technology today – and is making fresh versions of the Mobile and Mini browsers available to world+Android-using dog this afternoon. The first alpha version of version 12 for the desktop follows on Thursday. We had a sneak peek at them all in Oslo this morning.… |
| Posted: 11 Oct 2011 04:00 AM PDT Death awaitsReview Plunging from a treacherous rampart, slowly succumbing to the poisonous bite or bludgeoned by a monstrous ice giant – Dark Souls wants you dead. And it doesn't care how.… |
| Spotify's rising revenues gobbled by royalties blackhole Posted: 11 Oct 2011 03:42 AM PDT Spend a lot of money to make not quite as much moneyStreaming services face a brutal few months, but leader Spotify can at least point to solid revenue. Spotify UK, which was responsible for the bulk of the music company's global business until last month, saw its revenues increase to £63.17m in 2010, up from £11.32m in 2009, the first year of its rollout.… |
| The rise of the modular Cloud? Posted: 11 Oct 2011 03:38 AM PDT With a little help from JANETBroadcast Dr Phil Richards from Loughborough University heads into The Reg studios on October 20th at 10am (BST) to tell us how he's building modular hybrid clouds.… |
| IBM preps boost for Power Systems Posted: 11 Oct 2011 03:23 AM PDT Just don't call it Power7+Big Blue is getting ready to do a bunch of enhancements on its Power Systems lineup either this week or perhaps next week, but don't expect any kickers to the current eight-core Power7 processors, which first made their debut in February 2010 and were rolled out through the summer of last year.… |
| CyanogenMod 7.1 brings 24 Android phones into fold Posted: 11 Oct 2011 03:19 AM PDT Custom firmware updatedAndroid smartphone owners, rejoice! CyanogenMod, one of the better custom phone firmware offerings has been updated, adding support for 24 more handsets.… |
| Cloudy challenge looms over networking Posted: 11 Oct 2011 03:08 AM PDT Gearing up for growthThis cloud computing thing has legs. The announcements from the Build conference confirms what we have known for a while: that Microsoft has bet the farm on it.… |
| Posted: 11 Oct 2011 03:00 AM PDT NSFW. 'Nuff said.Android App of the Week Fist published in 1998 Roger's Profanisaurus is a compendium of words and phrases inspired by the lexicon and philosophy of Viz comic's foul-mouthed northern TV reporter Roger Mellie.… |
| MS <s>kills, un-kills</s> kills Zune player line Posted: 11 Oct 2011 02:54 AM PDT WinPho to the foreZune hardware really is dead. Microsoft has re-posted the end-of-life notice it put up on its website last week and then took it down a day later.… |
| VeriSign demands website takedown powers Posted: 11 Oct 2011 02:44 AM PDT No court order necessaryVeriSign, which manages the database of all .com internet addresses, wants powers to shut down "non-legitimate" domain names when asked to by law enforcement.… |
| YouTube ships movie rental service to UK Posted: 11 Oct 2011 02:42 AM PDT Take to hire ground?YouTube has brought its movie rental service across the pond to Blighty.… |
| BlackBerry users back online after outage Posted: 11 Oct 2011 02:34 AM PDT Quick, organise a riot while you canRIM has been issuing a flurry of apologies for yesterday's network outage, which knocked out connections in Europe, the Middle East and India, and assures us that everything should be tickety boo by now.… |
| Smut oglers told to opt in to keep web filth flowing Posted: 11 Oct 2011 02:19 AM PDT Cameron brandishes tool at ISPs to keep Britain cleanGrubby smut gazers will be forced to "opt in" to view porn under government-backed restrictions to be imposed on ISPs.… |
| Half of Whitehall's websites axed in a year Posted: 11 Oct 2011 02:01 AM PDT There are still over 400 online, though ...The government has claimed to have almost halved the number of Whitehall websites over the past year. Its annual Central Government Websites report, published by the Cabinet Office, says that 444 are now open compared with 820 a year ago.… |
| UK patent office spawns free search site Posted: 11 Oct 2011 01:40 AM PDT Hopefully no one's patented thatThe Intellectual Property Office (IPO) has launched a new online service to reduce the cost to business of requesting patent documents.… |
| Would you let your car insurer snoop on you for a better deal? Posted: 11 Oct 2011 01:20 AM PDT How's my driving? Ask the box of sensors in my motorHaving your driving style assessed by a back-seat black box of tricks sounds galling – but if it can shave money off your insurance premium, a beancounting firm reckons you'll put up with it. Particularly if you're an 18-year-old pimple-faced lad.… |
| XIO tosses the dice one more time Posted: 11 Oct 2011 01:00 AM PDT C'mon ... virtualisation!Comment Neither-fish-nor-fowl storage supplier XIO is looking to server virtualisation for growth spurt that has so far eluded it. If this fails then all XIO's bets could be off.… |
| Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini Pro Qwerty Android smartphone Posted: 10 Oct 2011 11:00 PM PDT Small talkReview Sony Ericsson may not be churning out Android handsets in the bulk of HTC or Samsung, but its has produced some consistently good phones recently in its Xperia range. Building on last year's X10 Mini Pro, this new version adds a slightly bigger screen, faster processor and Gingerbread, the latest version of Android for mobiles.… |
| Nanotubes, sulfur expand battery storage Posted: 10 Oct 2011 06:30 PM PDT Blast-proof battery boffins backThe group that last year gave the world the unexplodable lithium battery is back, this time using a combination of nanotubes, sulfur and an electrolyte additive to achieve what they say is a tenfold improvement in capacity.… |
| iPlayer founder launches next big TV thing-Zeebox Posted: 10 Oct 2011 05:21 PM PDT Anthony Rose unveils the secret to connected TVThe tech wizard behind Kazaa and the BBC's iPlayer, Anthony Rose, has unveiled his long awaited next project – Zeebox.… |
| Get your numbers right, NBN Co tells <i>Economist</i> Posted: 10 Oct 2011 05:09 PM PDT What's a few million households between friends?The Economist Intelligence Unit, which The Register had reason to criticize back in February, is still on the attack regarding Australia's planned National Broadband Network.… |
| <em>El Reg</em> follows World Solar Challenge Posted: 10 Oct 2011 05:00 PM PDT Hot and bothered about electric cars
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| Oz broadband speeds leap 917% in TWO WEEKS! Posted: 10 Oct 2011 04:30 PM PDT Akamai versus Pando: the fun of speed surveysJust a little over a fortnight ago, Australia's average broadband speed was just 348 Kbps; now, apparently, it's 3.54 Mbps, a stunning ten-times acceleration.… |
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