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- Oz consumer watchdog makes beeline for Smurf game
- IBM names Ginni Rometty prez and CEO
- ACCC to NBN Co: 'get cracking'
- Schooner adds asynch replication to MySQL appliance
- Uncrackable quantum crypto undermined by new attack
- US decommissions massive Cold War nuke
- RIM links with Microsoft for cloud services
- VI and Brocade in SAN-monitoring DEATH MATCH!
- Japan's Parliament, defense contractor, pierced by hackers
- Arrays take on servers in storage smackdown
- Big Blue gives Big Sam big bags of cash
- 3D tape backup biz taps Mr StorageTek
- Tweens would miss web and mobes more than TV
- Riverbed lets loose Stingray virty appliances
- Larry Ellison takes a bath on San Fran mansion
- Cisco chief's package shrinks 65 per cent
- Rockstar officially announces Grand Theft Auto V
- 5 SECONDS to bypass an iPad 2 password
- Still got too much Information
- No licence required: Ofcom sets bandwidth bundle free
- Israeli gov nabs 6 for leaking population register
- Jaguar recalls over 17,600 X-types in the UK
- What flash needs is a little TLC
- Survey: Future IT guys will 'crowd-source' to fix stuff
- Fusion-io hires ex-TMS president
- Web czar: 'Drag your nan online'
- SAN-banner scores $25m from ex-Sunner
- Groupon sues ex-sales heads for defection to Google
- Top general warns of cyberspy menace to UK biz
- Apple shouldn't bother with TV...
- RM chief exec Sweeney steps down
- Father-of-three attacked teen after Call of Duty jibes
- BT cable ballsup hooks up punters to wrong numbers
- London Comic Con kicks off Saturday
- Sony Ericsson Xperia Ray Android smartphone
- Union enraged by secret driverless Tube plan
- Hack reveals Android tablet within Sony e-reader
- ARM elbows through chip market with bumper profits
- Acer UK boss Watkins quits
- US carrier smartphone sales slip
- Huawei stuffs LTE into TV bands
- Updating to Windows Phone 7.5
- Scot.gov plots its own superintranet
- Could a snapshot plug your backup window?
- Dell intros '14in screen, 13in body' notebook
- K-9
- Cryptoboffin: Secure boot a boon for spooks' spyware
- Ofcom to finally yank sat broadband biz off the air
- EMC supremo succession photo clue
- TomTom Go Live TopGear Edition
| Oz consumer watchdog makes beeline for Smurf game Posted: 25 Oct 2011 03:00 PM PDT 'Shonky Award' for in-game price stingIt's hard for the games business to get a look-in when the competition includes cosmetic-only car roof rails, an insurance industry that redefines "flood" to dodge claims, and snake-oil slimming products. However, Beeline Interactive has managed a placing in Choice's annual Shonky Awards.… |
| IBM names Ginni Rometty prez and CEO Posted: 25 Oct 2011 02:58 PM PDT Palmisano steps down, remains chairmanThe suspense over who is going to run Big Blue after Sam Palmisano retires has ended.… |
| ACCC to NBN Co: 'get cracking' Posted: 25 Oct 2011 02:35 PM PDT What is taking the special access undertaking so long?The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) has threatened to step in with price regulation if it thinks that NBN Co, the company building the country's National Broadband Network, is moving too slowly.… |
| Schooner adds asynch replication to MySQL appliance Posted: 25 Oct 2011 01:51 PM PDT Remote disaster recoverySchooner Information Technology, which makes a line of virtual machine appliances that goose the performance of MySQL databases and Memcached web cache programs by using CPU threads, cores and solid state disks in modern x86-based servers, has tweaked its MySQL appliance to give it better disaster recovery.… |
| Uncrackable quantum crypto undermined by new attack Posted: 25 Oct 2011 01:36 PM PDT Bell test blinded by lasersHopes of building an uncrackable cryptographic system using quantum mechanics have been called into question, after scientists devised a way to cheat a test used to detect secret keys that have been intercepted.… |
| US decommissions massive Cold War nuke Posted: 25 Oct 2011 01:28 PM PDT Bunker buster bustedThe US has begun decommissioning its last B53 bomb, one of the largest thermonuclear devices ever built for its Cold War arsenal.… |
| RIM links with Microsoft for cloud services Posted: 25 Oct 2011 12:07 PM PDT When its network is up, that isRIM has begun a beta of BlackBerry Business Cloud Services, a system designed to manage its users' devices remotely and allow access to Microsoft Office 365 applications online.… |
| VI and Brocade in SAN-monitoring DEATH MATCH! Posted: 25 Oct 2011 11:28 AM PDT CEO opens email war frontVirtual Instruments' former partner Brocade is "trying to put VI out of business" VI's marketing VP Len Rosenthal says, as a private disagreement becomes a messy and public dispute.… |
| Japan's Parliament, defense contractor, pierced by hackers Posted: 25 Oct 2011 11:23 AM PDT Emails, fighter jet plans, exposedSensitive data belonging to 480 lawmakers and their staff may have been exposed for more than a month, after computers in Japan's Parliament were infected by malware, it was widely reported on Tuesday.… |
| Arrays take on servers in storage smackdown Posted: 25 Oct 2011 11:00 AM PDT Location, location, location: Where's a storage box's soul?Comment There is a battle going on behind the scenes over the location of storage's soul: the controller hardware and software. Oracle, Dell, EMC and VMware want it to be in the server, while NetApp and HDS want it to be in the array, an array operating with servers but distinct from them.… |
| Big Blue gives Big Sam big bags of cash Posted: 25 Oct 2011 10:03 AM PDT Not for himself, but for stock buybacksIBM's board of directors wants to give the company's top brass plenty of maneuvering room to engineer the earnings per share growth that they have promised Wall Street, and therefore has authorized the company to spend an additional $7bn on stock buybacks.… |
| 3D tape backup biz taps Mr StorageTek Posted: 25 Oct 2011 09:17 AM PDT Jon Benson joins SpectraThe guy who guided StorageTek when it developed and shipped its StreamLine tape library, who persevered through Sun's ownership of StorageTek, and then wound up in Oracle, which depends on StreamLine to this day for tape credibility, has finally taken a hike. He's joined SpectraLogic.… |
| Tweens would miss web and mobes more than TV Posted: 25 Oct 2011 08:29 AM PDT Take a wild guess how they watch telly, thoughFor the first time ever, 12- to 15-year-olds in the UK would miss their mobile and the internet more than they would miss watching the telly.… |
| Riverbed lets loose Stingray virty appliances Posted: 25 Oct 2011 08:16 AM PDT Traffic manager, content optimizer, and firewall swim togetherIn the wake of its acquisitions of Zeus Technology and Aptimize back in July, WAN optimization appliance maker Riverbed Technology has tweaked three software appliances for speeding up and securing cloudy applications to complement its Steelhead appliances.… |
| Larry Ellison takes a bath on San Fran mansion Posted: 25 Oct 2011 08:00 AM PDT A four million-dollar bathOracle boss Larry Ellison is set to lose $4m on a Bay Area property in Woodside, south of San Francisco.… |
| Cisco chief's package shrinks 65 per cent Posted: 25 Oct 2011 07:48 AM PDT Forced to make do with $6.6 million pay packetCisco chief John Chambers' total direct remuneration package slumped 65 per cent in fiscal 2011 to a mere $6.625m (£4.14m), according to an SEC filing.… |
| Rockstar officially announces Grand Theft Auto V Posted: 25 Oct 2011 07:31 AM PDT Cop a load of thisDeveloper Rockstar has officially announced work has begun on Grand Theft Auto V. A debut trailer is expected next week.… |
| 5 SECONDS to bypass an iPad 2 password Posted: 25 Oct 2011 07:31 AM PDT Foreground fudge-upVideo The password protection of an iPad 2 running iOS 5 can be circumvented in less than five seconds with just three simple steps.… |
| Still got too much Information Posted: 25 Oct 2011 07:16 AM PDT Get over itPart 2 Welcome back to Reg Ltd, where Graham finally has his trousers on. But there's crisis in the air: ahead of the annual meeting, Ronald's slashing budgets and threatening to take the company bowling. How can Microsoft cloud technologies smooth the process of planning the budgets? How can Emily hang on to her share?… |
| No licence required: Ofcom sets bandwidth bundle free Posted: 25 Oct 2011 07:01 AM PDT Not all radio is goldOfcom has proposed removing licence requirements from a handful of frequency bands, releasing microwave links and short-range radios, not to mention personal locator beacons, from the licensing burden.… |
| Israeli gov nabs 6 for leaking population register Posted: 25 Oct 2011 06:31 AM PDT Personal details of 9 million citizens, including kids, onlineAn employee of the Israeli Social Affairs Ministry has been arrested on suspicion of copying the personal details of nine million citizens listed in the population registry, according to the Justice Ministry.… |
| Jaguar recalls over 17,600 X-types in the UK Posted: 25 Oct 2011 06:30 AM PDT Cars' cruise control hit by code bugLuxury car manufacturer Jaguar was left with egg on its face this week after a glitch in its cruise control code forced it to recall 17,678 vehicles in the UK.… |
| What flash needs is a little TLC Posted: 25 Oct 2011 06:00 AM PDT Two bits good, three bits betterComment The breakthrough when flash becomes affordable is thought by many people to be TLC (triple-level cell) – 3-bit multi-level cell NAND – which adds a third more capacity to flash cells. But how far are we with TLC implementation, and when will we see it in mainstream IT?… |
| Survey: Future IT guys will 'crowd-source' to fix stuff Posted: 25 Oct 2011 05:46 AM PDT 'So most of you don't think we need a firewall, eh?'Dell and Intel expect that crowd-sourcing will be a challenge that IT managers and chief information officers will have to meet in the next 10 to 15 years. Businesses will want to do it, and IT managers will have to work out how deliver it, they predict in a survey about IT in the workplace commissioned from research group TMS.… |
| Fusion-io hires ex-TMS president Posted: 25 Oct 2011 05:31 AM PDT Woody Hutsell leaves Texas for CaliforniaStorageSearch has revealed that Fusion-io has hired a 10-year TMS veteran as its senior director for product management.… |
| Web czar: 'Drag your nan online' Posted: 25 Oct 2011 05:14 AM PDT Would you give up an hour to get mates and family online?The UK's digital champion Martha Lane Fox has launched a campaign to get the 30 million people in the country who use the internet to help the 8.7 million who still haven't gone online onto the web in the free hour when the clocks change.… |
| SAN-banner scores $25m from ex-Sunner Posted: 25 Oct 2011 05:00 AM PDT Nutanix promises cheap, speedy storage for cloudy serversKhosla Ventures, the private equity fund set up by Sun Microsystems cofounder Vinod Khosla, is kicking in a hefty chunk of dough in the second round of funding for cloud appliance maker Nutanix.… |
| Groupon sues ex-sales heads for defection to Google Posted: 25 Oct 2011 04:52 AM PDT E-coupon outfit frets over trade secretsSoon-to-go-public online voucher site Groupon has thrown sueballs at two former workers of the company, over claims that the ex-sales managers had taken trade secrets to their new employer Google.… |
| Top general warns of cyberspy menace to UK biz Posted: 25 Oct 2011 04:42 AM PDT Stealing secrets is costing Brits billionsA senior general has said that cyberattacks represent the biggest threat to national security, warning that British firms routinely lose commercially sensitive information to overseas rivals as the result of hacking.… |
| Apple shouldn't bother with TV... Posted: 25 Oct 2011 04:35 AM PDT Press manipulation FROM BEYOND THE GRAVEAnalysis Can nobody rid of us the barefoot CEO? He may be gone, but Steve Jobs continues to manipulate the press from the beyond – this time through his biographer, Walter Isaacson. The Steve Jobs biography launches the hype for Apple's next great product, a TV.… |
| RM chief exec Sweeney steps down Posted: 25 Oct 2011 04:29 AM PDT Company restructures, plans to axe one in five jobsRM chief Terry Sweeney is stepping down amid a company-wide restructure after 13 years of service at the education supplier.… |
| Father-of-three attacked teen after Call of Duty jibes Posted: 25 Oct 2011 04:17 AM PDT Pwned and irateAn angry gamer has avoided jail for attacking a teenager who mocked his online gaming skills after he was gunned down in Activision's Call of Duty: Black Ops.… |
| BT cable ballsup hooks up punters to wrong numbers Posted: 25 Oct 2011 04:16 AM PDT Are you a fax machine, or just happy to hear from me?Several BT phone customers in Surrey ended up fielding calls from strangers after engineers screwed up while rewiring their cables.… |
| London Comic Con kicks off Saturday Posted: 25 Oct 2011 04:07 AM PDT Games'n'mags'n'sci-fiSF, comics and videogames fans, don't forget that London Comic Con takes place this weekend at the Capital's Excel centre.… |
| Sony Ericsson Xperia Ray Android smartphone Posted: 25 Oct 2011 04:00 AM PDT Light touchReview Smartphones seem to be getting bigger and bigger, but among the recent models from Sony Ericsson is the Xperia Ray, a slim and stylish Android 2.3 device with a sharp 3.3in widescreen. It also sports a well-featured 8Mp camera with 720p HD video recording and a host of other handy functions at a mid-range price.… |
| Union enraged by secret driverless Tube plan Posted: 25 Oct 2011 03:44 AM PDT Leaked masterplan would axe 1,500 jobsUnionists are up in arms today after a report showed Transport for London (TfL) investigated new technologies that would have led to job cuts.… |
| Hack reveals Android tablet within Sony e-reader Posted: 25 Oct 2011 03:32 AM PDT £129 E Ink fondleslab, anyone?Sony's latest e-book reader, the Wi-Fi enabled, touchscreen-equipped PRS-T1, is now on sale in the UK for £129, making it one of cheapest big-name Android gadgets out there.… |
| ARM elbows through chip market with bumper profits Posted: 25 Oct 2011 03:31 AM PDT Hand over the doshBusiness is brisk at British chip designer ARM where pre-tax profit and revenue ballooned during the company's third quarter, which ended on 30 September.… |
| Posted: 25 Oct 2011 03:20 AM PDT Industry old-timer Marshall set to take the hot seatUpdated: Acer UK boss Bobby Watkins has quit after a string of disastrous quarters in which the firm's sales collapsed, The Register can reveal.… |
| US carrier smartphone sales slip Posted: 25 Oct 2011 03:16 AM PDT Android in decline?Interesting stats have been published by US finance house Morgan Keegan and with then comes a warning for makers of Android handsets: be prepared for a tough Q4.… |
| Huawei stuffs LTE into TV bands Posted: 25 Oct 2011 03:01 AM PDT 4G without the expensive spectrumWhile the world's network operators pay billions for 4G radio frequencies, Huawei is calmly testing LTE in the licence-free white space spectrum, though squeezing it into the required mask will be tough.… |
| Posted: 25 Oct 2011 02:33 AM PDT The stone in the MangoReview Just like Apple iPhone users needn't own a Mac to sync data and apply updates, Windows Phone 7 users needn't be reliant on a PC either. To broaden the appeal of Microsoft's latest handset OS, the company offers a Mac software alternative.… |
| Scot.gov plots its own superintranet Posted: 25 Oct 2011 02:31 AM PDT Anything London can do...It has been a while since Scotland had something resembling a national strategy for public sector ICT. In the early 2000s it had the 21st Century Government Unit, and the Modernising Government Fund provided money for workstreams such as data standards, smartcards, a national land and property database, e-procurement and various customer contact initiatives. More recently, although there have been fresh initiatives, there has been no one office to co-ordinate the effort and no national framework for progress.… |
| Could a snapshot plug your backup window? Posted: 25 Oct 2011 02:19 AM PDT Sounds satisfying, doesn't itVMworld Europe Talking with Dmitri Joukovski, product management VP at backup firm Acronis, we were discussing backup and snapshots and I asked whether backup was still the best choice. He turned the conversation around and asked me what is backup?… |
| Dell intros '14in screen, 13in body' notebook Posted: 25 Oct 2011 02:09 AM PDT World's thinnest 'full function' laptop, apparentlyDell took the wraps of its compact, "14in display in a 13in body" Inspiron 14z notebook at the IFA consumer electronics show in September, but now it has formally launched the XPS 14z, a skinnier version.… |
| Posted: 25 Oct 2011 02:00 AM PDT Power user emailAndroid App of the Week With its focus on the Gmail app, the Android stock e-mail client is a bit of a red-headed stepchild. It works well enough but it clearly doesn't feel the love of its creators. That leaves a gap in the Market for a good e-mail client and luckily Android has one: K-9.… |
| Cryptoboffin: Secure boot a boon for spooks' spyware Posted: 25 Oct 2011 01:33 AM PDT State-sponsored trojans will be harder to get rid ofA leading computer scientist has warned that the latest so-called Trusted Computing proposals may restrict the market for anti-virus and security software.… |
| Ofcom to finally yank sat broadband biz off the air Posted: 25 Oct 2011 01:04 AM PDT ITU asked to revoke ICO's frequency rightsOfcom has written to the International Telecommunications Union asking it to rescind the spectrum allocation to ICO Satellite after the company's 32-month campaign failed.… |
| EMC supremo succession photo clue Posted: 25 Oct 2011 12:24 AM PDT Picture tells a thousand words when only two neededBlocks & Files Photo If you are still wondering who is going to be filling EMC CEO Joe Tucci's boots, there is a clue on the storage company's website.… |
| TomTom Go Live TopGear Edition Posted: 24 Oct 2011 11:00 PM PDT The best satnav... in the world?Review The monumental cock-up that saw the BBC grant then withdraw permission for TomTom to use Jeremy Clarkson's voice in a satnav must have the Dutch navigation wallahs jumping for joy.… |
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