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- It's official: Microsoft, Skype marriage consummated
- Google takes buzz saw to Buzz, other appendages
- Mass ASP.NET attack causes websites to turn on visitors
- Drone nerve centre malware was <i>Mafia Wars</i>' infostealer
- Big data centers spending big bucks on big hardware
- Intel mad for power, but stacked-up dies keep MELTING!
- Winning new UK pylon design may never be used
- Sixth of Britain's cellphones have traces of poo on them
- Samsung takes another hit in patent punch-up
- Top Tory 'lost voters' personal info' days before ID fraud week
- Hadoop: A Linux even Microsoft likes
- Punters to favour Smart TV over 3D TV
- If the name’s not on the whitelist it can’t come in
- Ubuntu's Oneiric Ocelot: Nice, but necessary?
- Forza 4
- Big biz told to reveal hack attacks
- Thai floods threaten Seagate hard drive supply chain
- Apple's US bid to ban Samsung tabs hinges on design
- Norton blocks Facebook as 'phishing site'
- Collapsing cranes and cantankerous cars
- Texan lone star Dell lassoes storage into servers
- OMG! Berners-Lee has an iPhone
- 'A prime example of our complete failure'
- Computacenter squeezed by drop in demand
- Europe backs changes to FOI laws
- Sony Ericsson stems losses with smartphone sales
- Dropbox rival touts 50GB free cloud storage for iOS fans
- Brit cyberwarriors, your country needs <i>you</i>
- Digital UK names date for end of analogue TV era
- Bandwidth restrictions can affect the memory
- Samsung, Google to out Ice Cream Sarnie next week
- Iranian TV claims royals ordered Ofcom to ban it
- Dell signals Windows 8 fondleslab range
- World+Dog goes bonkers for iPhone 4S
- Belkin Conserve
- Energy minister gives grudging nuke endorsement
- O2 to trial VoIP over Wi-Fi
- Toshiba tears into enterprise drive space
- WHSmith launches e-book reader rivals to Amazon Kindle
- Toyota Yaris 2011
- Facebook accused of violating US wiretap law
- Apple versus Samsung: key points in the ruling
- Financial company heavies researcher for reporting vulnerability
- Wannabe Obama replacement tried to hire Ballmer
- Astronomy crowd spots PLANET KILLER!
- So where is IBM's Power7+ CPU?
- IBM juices I/O and memory on entry Power Systems
- Hubble snaps dark matter warping spacetime
- Microsoft twists some pixels
- Solar car teams bask in Darwin sunshine
| It's official: Microsoft, Skype marriage consummated Posted: 14 Oct 2011 12:40 PM PDT Skype chief praises new master's 'disruptive innovation'Microsoft is wrapping up the last regulatory approvals, and has formally added Skype as a new division within the company, closing the deal that cost Redmond $8.5bn.… |
| Google takes buzz saw to Buzz, other appendages Posted: 14 Oct 2011 12:33 PM PDT Management machete hacks off more chunksGoogle's first stab at social networking, the failed Google Buzz, is just one of a group of projects and programs that Mountain View has cast off in a "fall sweep", the sequal to its "fall spring-clean" of last month.… |
| Mass ASP.NET attack causes websites to turn on visitors Posted: 14 Oct 2011 12:24 PM PDT 614,000 pages so far in ongoing epidemicAn infection that causes poorly configured websites to silently bombard visitors with malware attacks has hit almost 614,000 webpages, Google searches show.… |
| Drone nerve centre malware was <i>Mafia Wars</i>' infostealer Posted: 14 Oct 2011 10:29 AM PDT Don't panic - it was only the weapons and spy systems infectedMore details have emerged on how systems ground systems that control US military drones came to be infected by malware.… |
| Big data centers spending big bucks on big hardware Posted: 14 Oct 2011 10:25 AM PDT No recession in the glass houseJust like the rich keep getting richer, the biggest data centers in the world keep getting bigger. And they're spending more money on servers, storage, and networking.… |
| Intel mad for power, but stacked-up dies keep MELTING! Posted: 14 Oct 2011 10:01 AM PDT Moore's Law good for 10 years easy - top Chipzilla boffinERIC Moore's Law is going to be good for at least another decade, according to chip-maker Intel.… |
| Winning new UK pylon design may never be used Posted: 14 Oct 2011 09:29 AM PDT Thanks anyway, have £5k for your troubleEco Strategy Boutique A Danish company has won a competition to design a new electricity pylon for the UK. The Department of Energy and Climate Change announced the winner, Bystrup, today.… |
| Sixth of Britain's cellphones have traces of poo on them Posted: 14 Oct 2011 09:01 AM PDT Playing Angry Birds on the loo: There are consequencesOne in every six mobiles in the UK has got traces of poo on it, according to a new study.… |
| Samsung takes another hit in patent punch-up Posted: 14 Oct 2011 08:55 AM PDT Korean firm loses bid to ban Apple products in the NetherlandsIn the third blow against Samsung this week, a Dutch court has turned down its application for an injunction against Apple's products on the basis of 3G patents.… |
| Top Tory 'lost voters' personal info' days before ID fraud week Posted: 14 Oct 2011 08:29 AM PDT Watchdog probes claims of papers binned in parkJust days before the start of National Identity Fraud Prevention Week on Monday, the Prime Minister's chief policy advisor Oliver Letwin has been snapped binning what appear to be documents containing personal information in a public park.… |
| Hadoop: A Linux even Microsoft likes Posted: 14 Oct 2011 08:02 AM PDT Big Data brings people togetherOpen... and Shut There was a time when Microsoft despised open source, because open source essentially meant "Linux," and Linux was a serious threat to Microsoft's operating system business.… |
| Punters to favour Smart TV over 3D TV Posted: 14 Oct 2011 07:23 AM PDT Big growth for app-running tellies forecastTelly buyers are keener on Smart TV tech than they are on 3D, but both features are going to be taken up more enthusiastically than televisions in general over the next three years.… |
| If the name’s not on the whitelist it can’t come in Posted: 14 Oct 2011 07:10 AM PDT Keep the riffraff out of your systemsThe poor old corporate endpoint has had a bit of a battering in the last few years. Malware is more widespread and complex than ever and it is easy to get infected simply by visiting legitimate sites that have been hacked.… |
| Ubuntu's Oneiric Ocelot: Nice, but necessary? Posted: 14 Oct 2011 06:29 AM PDT Behind Unity's polishReview Oneiric Ocelot, or Ubuntu 11.10 as it is known, has been delivered and refines the core of the Unity environment Canonical built at the expense of GNOME.… |
| Posted: 14 Oct 2011 06:02 AM PDT PetrolheadonismReview Driving simulators - you either get them or you don't. For those of you who can't tell your carburettors from your crankshafts, there's perhaps little chance that anything written here will convince you to invest. Shame, because Forza 4 is perhaps the most accessible driving sim yet designed. It has the depth demanded by the motorsport devotee, yes, but it's buried beneath presentation which keeps everything user-friendly.… |
| Big biz told to reveal hack attacks Posted: 14 Oct 2011 06:00 AM PDT Investors need to know about compromises, says SECPublicly listed companies in the US have been asked to disclose when they've been hacked, according to new guidance issued by the Securities and Exchange Commission.… |
| Thai floods threaten Seagate hard drive supply chain Posted: 14 Oct 2011 05:51 AM PDT Disties stockpile as factories go under waterSeagate is assessing the potential impact of flooding in Thailand on the production of hard disks that forced arch rival WD to temporarily halt manufacturing this week.… |
| Apple's US bid to ban Samsung tabs hinges on design Posted: 14 Oct 2011 05:45 AM PDT Samsung's lawyer couldn't tell Galaxy and iPad apartA US judge has said that she won't ban Samsung tablets on functionality, but might still do so based on design, and that Cupertino has yet to demonstrate those patents are valid.… |
| Norton blocks Facebook as 'phishing site' Posted: 14 Oct 2011 05:15 AM PDT Well, it does collect private infoSymantec has withdrawn an update to its Norton consumer security software that branded Facebook a phishing site on Wednesday.… |
| Collapsing cranes and cantankerous cars Posted: 14 Oct 2011 05:00 AM PDT Another day at the solar racesWSC It's all go here Down Under at the World Solar Challenge, as the rival teams prepare their vehicles to depart Darwin on Sunday, with nothing more than a quick 3,000km drive between them and the finishing line in Adelaide.… |
| Texan lone star Dell lassoes storage into servers Posted: 14 Oct 2011 04:44 AM PDT Directly feeding CPUs with data ASAPDell World Texans have a certain swagger, and today in the Austin Convention Centre it was Dell's turn to sashay onto the stage. EMC World, Symantec Vision, Dell World, NetApp Insight - the single-vendor trade shows give corporates a catwalk on which to strut their stuff, and Michael Dell strode out to walk the walk and talk the talk as behoves the CEO of a $30-plus-billion corporation.… |
| OMG! Berners-Lee has an iPhone Posted: 14 Oct 2011 04:29 AM PDT Anti-iTunes web daddy still hates proprietary techRSA Europe Sir Tim Berners-Lee surprised assembled hacks when he turned up to a press roundtable at the RSA conference on Thursday with an iPhone.… |
| 'A prime example of our complete failure' Posted: 14 Oct 2011 04:01 AM PDT Plus: Finding one's love-truncheon in a hornet's nestQuotW This was the week when Research in Motion's BlackBerry services, including email, BBM and internet were in, and then out and in, out and shaking all about. To many readers' horror, the London Olympics 2012 seemed likely to run on Windows Vista, and then it wasn't and Operation Hackerazzi bagged a suspect, allowing naked celebrities everywhere to heave a sigh of relief.… |
| Computacenter squeezed by drop in demand Posted: 14 Oct 2011 03:59 AM PDT Q3 revs look droopyComputacenter's (CC) UK biz was squeezed in calendar Q3 by falling demand for bulky professional services deals and a continued drop in product sales.… |
| Europe backs changes to FOI laws Posted: 14 Oct 2011 03:50 AM PDT Transparency rules to keep politicians on their toesOn Tuesday the European Parliament's Constitutional Affairs Committee voted to support minor amendments to Commission's proposals to alter existing EU regulations on public access to EU documents. Both the Commission and the Committee want to update the regulations to reflect new access requirements to documents agreed under the Lisbon Treaty.… |
| Sony Ericsson stems losses with smartphone sales Posted: 14 Oct 2011 03:40 AM PDT Thank heavens for the Android bandwagonSony Ericsson had a good third quarter, turning in a respectable profit on higher-margin smartphones, but won't comment on the rumours that Sony is looking to buy out the partnership.… |
| Dropbox rival touts 50GB free cloud storage for iOS fans Posted: 14 Oct 2011 03:24 AM PDT More file space in cyberspaceCloud storage provider Box.net has unveiled an unmissable offer for iOS-heads, giving users heaps of free storage - ten times the amount Apple chucks in for nowt with iCloud.… |
| Brit cyberwarriors, your country needs <i>you</i> Posted: 14 Oct 2011 03:21 AM PDT Spooks tap up IT security boffins to protect nationThe government is proactively addressing its failure to retain internet specialists to deal with cyber security threats, according to a document (PDF) presented to Parliament by Prime Minister David Cameron.… |
| Digital UK names date for end of analogue TV era Posted: 14 Oct 2011 03:20 AM PDT So long, PALDigital UK has warned telly viewers in Britain that they have until 24 October 2012 to ditch their analogue receivers, or equip them with a digital set-top box.… |
| Bandwidth restrictions can affect the memory Posted: 14 Oct 2011 03:00 AM PDT Don't let aging systems slow you downEvery now and again, a conversation at the pub goes somewhere interesting.… |
| Samsung, Google to out Ice Cream Sarnie next week Posted: 14 Oct 2011 02:55 AM PDT New Android, new smartphoneSamsung and Google have rescheduled the announcement of their latest smartphone collaboration, putting a mark in the calendars on 19 October - next Wednesday.… |
| Iranian TV claims royals ordered Ofcom to ban it Posted: 14 Oct 2011 02:39 AM PDT Watchdog still mulling how to bitchslap bonkers Press TVPress TV, not waiting to get its official reprimand for broadcasting a dodgy interview, has accused Ofcom of being in league with the Royal Family to get it taken off the air.… |
| Dell signals Windows 8 fondleslab range Posted: 14 Oct 2011 02:19 AM PDT Tech supremo drops hints, slates AndroidDell World At Dell World today Michael Dell pretty much said his company will produce a Windows 8 tablet.… |
| World+Dog goes bonkers for iPhone 4S Posted: 14 Oct 2011 02:13 AM PDT Sales well up on iPhone 4 launch, says O2O2 has claimed it sold more iPhone 4S handsets in the first hour the gadget has been on sale than the number of iPhone 4s it shifted in 2010.… |
| Posted: 14 Oct 2011 02:00 AM PDT Gets you out of a green jam?Accessory of the Week Like many folk, I tend to leave my TV, Sky box and other AV kit in their low-power standby mode when I retire to my boudoir in the evenings.… |
| Energy minister gives grudging nuke endorsement Posted: 14 Oct 2011 01:33 AM PDT With friends like the minister, who needs enemies?Comment UK Energy Minister Chris Huhne has given a ringing endorsement of nuclear energy and lauded the potential of thorium reactor technology, in his speech to the Royal Society today.… |
| Posted: 14 Oct 2011 01:03 AM PDT While T-Mobile starts giving away calls to the USAO2 has announced it is going to try some VoIP services, under the brand of O2 Connect, while in America T-Mobile has opened up its Bobsled service to compete with Google Voice.… |
| Toshiba tears into enterprise drive space Posted: 14 Oct 2011 12:36 AM PDT 300GB 15K small form factor spinnerCourtesy of its acquisition of Fujitsu's disk drive business, Toshiba has entered the enterprise 2.5-inch disk market with a bang: with a 300GB, 15K drive to be precise.… |
| WHSmith launches e-book reader rivals to Amazon Kindle Posted: 14 Oct 2011 12:33 AM PDT Calls on KoboWHSmith will next week launch against Amazon's Kindle with a pair of e-book readers of its own.… |
| Posted: 13 Oct 2011 11:00 PM PDT Gadgets galoreReview It's a testament to the enduring popularity of the first two incarnations of Toyota's little Yaris that between them they lasted for 12 years before the third version rolled off the production line. But has Yaris 3.0 still got what it takes to cut the mustard in the super-competitive B segment?… |
| Facebook accused of violating US wiretap law Posted: 13 Oct 2011 10:00 PM PDT 'Like' cookies tracked users, even when logged outA Mississippi woman has accused Facebook of violating federal wiretap statutes by tracking her internet browsing history even when she wasn't logged onto the social networking site.… |
| Apple versus Samsung: key points in the ruling Posted: 13 Oct 2011 09:11 PM PDT Cupertino only won by a nose in Oz trialYesterday's (October 13) judgment granting Apple its requested injunction preventing Samsung from selling its Galaxy 10.1 fondleslab in Australia has been published.… |
| Financial company heavies researcher for reporting vulnerability Posted: 13 Oct 2011 08:09 PM PDT Sledgehammer meets walnut: shrapnel fliesAn Australian security researcher has found himself questioned by police and threatened by a commercial law firm – for reporting a vulnerability to a financial company.… |
| Wannabe Obama replacement tried to hire Ballmer Posted: 13 Oct 2011 05:32 PM PDT Republican prez hopeful addresses Microsoft staffMitt Romney, one of the leading contenders for the US Republican Party's presidential nomination, has revealed he once tried to hire Steve Ballmer.… |
| Astronomy crowd spots PLANET KILLER! Posted: 13 Oct 2011 05:30 PM PDT Just kidding, folks, but still coolUnravelling DNA, identifying exoplanets, and now, spotting near-Earth asteroids: is there anything that science can't outsource to an Internet crowd?… |
| So where is IBM's Power7+ CPU? Posted: 13 Oct 2011 05:28 PM PDT And when?As El Reg told you earlier this week, IBM was, indeed, getting ready to enhance its Power Systems line of servers. But Big Blue did not, despite evidence to the contrary, have the Power7+ processors coming "just around the corner", as it was telling customers only a few weeks ago.… |
| IBM juices I/O and memory on entry Power Systems Posted: 13 Oct 2011 05:26 PM PDT And more Power7 cores for the Power 780 beastIf you are a user of an entry or somewhat biggish Power Systems server and you are memory or I/O constrained, then IBM has some new Power7 machines it wants to sell you. If not, the company is perfectly happy to sell you the existing Power7 machines, which don't support as much main memory and which only use PCI-X and PCI-Express 1.0 peripherals.… |
| Hubble snaps dark matter warping spacetime Posted: 13 Oct 2011 05:20 PM PDT Galactic funhouse mirror from 4.5 billion years agoThe Hubble Space Telescope has taken a 19-hour snapshot of galaxies whose images have been warped by the presence of the baffling interstellar substance known as "dark matter", residing in an intervening galactic cluster.… |
| Posted: 13 Oct 2011 05:01 PM PDT Borgs another gaming studioMicrosoft has swooped up game development house Twisted Pixel, in a move to bolster its incubation team for gaming and entertainment content for Microsoft Studios. The Austin, Texas-based studio has a history with Gatesville collaboration, developing award-winning Xbox Live Arcade titles since launching in 2006, Spolsion Man has featured as their biggest hit.… |
| Solar car teams bask in Darwin sunshine Posted: 13 Oct 2011 04:54 PM PDT Plucky Brits versus American juggernautSolarcar The El Reg's elite Special Projects Bureau team touched down in a very hot and sticky Darwin yesterday, as teams challenging for the World Solar Challenge crown prepared their vehicles to face the vast interior of Oz.… |
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