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- BSA marks down SOPA: ‘must try harder’
- Not <i>so</i> fast: Italian boffins say neutrinos not faster than light
- Oracle says HP is paying Intel to prop up Itanium
- Robot ostrich spy outpaces world’s fastest sprinters
- Manning to get day in court
- iiNet buys a slice of Canberra for $60m
- 'Organized' hack targets AT&T wireless subscribers
- eBay slurps Hunch to match ads with shoppers
- Smart meters blamed for Wi-Fi, garage opener interference
- AMD smacks Xeon 5600s with Opteron 6200s
- Larger Kindle Fire coming soon, say moles
- Ice Cream Sandwich WILL get Flash
- Sony signs Voda as Vita connecta
- San Diego Baywatch rules out exploding dead whale
- Flood-hit WD takes half-billion kidney punch from Seagate
- Seafaring boffin bots in record-breaking bid to chart Pacific
- <i>Reg</i> reader ratings go worldwide
- Breaking news: Man lands on Moon!
- Is your small biz the best at mobile boffinry? Prove it
- No chance now to save Phobos-Grunt Mars mission
- Flashing upstarts tempt tech titans' throbbing disks
- Rumoured iPhone 5 'will have 4in screen' against Jobs' wish
- Gov web boss: Our sites look like bleak council estates
- Royal Mail fights to address website outages
- Floods really will bring armageddon in 2012, insist resellers
- Fujitsu parades 16-core Sparc64 super stunner
- UK.gov ends 'speed dating' romps with tech suppliers
- Google guru blasts Android virus doomsayers as 'charlatans'
- Virtual server farm goes titsup TWICE in a month
- Spanish firemen grapple naked stairs sex Brit
- Kindle hackers give Nook a thorough rooting
- NASA nuclear Mars tank launch delayed by one day
- Kindle Fire demand hits iPad rivals not iPad
- Atomic time boffins build better second-watcher
- Women love phone cams, for snapping pics of cute babies
- Japanese boffins demo sound-powered vibe lights
- YouTube-linked microwave shows vids as it nukes
- Swedish political party pledges War On Wolves
- New 'plasma lamps' to replace fluorescent bulbs, LEDs
- Inside the mysterious US satellite hacking case
- RIM BlackBerry Curve 9360 Qwerty smartphone
- Man sues boss for 'condemning him to eternal damnation'
- Bug silences Samsung Galaxy Nexus
- Why have VCs hosed down an obscure startup with cash?
- Swearing fine quashed as teens have heard it all before
- Bill Gates summoned in antitrust case that WILL NOT DIE
- Apple to outship HP in 2012 says analyst firm
- 'Occupy Flash' web hippies aim to rid world of Adobe plugin
- EA sued over broken Battlefield pledge
- Keep it simple with one-size-fits-all networking
| BSA marks down SOPA: ‘must try harder’ Posted: 21 Nov 2011 03:00 PM PST Pirate hunter worries about anti-freetard lawsSOPA, the Stop Online Piracy Act, is increasingly looking like an orphan: the Business Software Alliance has decided the legislation is looking over-the-top.… |
| Not <i>so</i> fast: Italian boffins say neutrinos not faster than light Posted: 21 Nov 2011 02:30 PM PST Pistols at dawn at Hotel Gran Sasso?A team of 68 scientists led by the Gran Sasso National Laboratory in Italy claims to have refuted the OPERA faster-than-light neutrino result, even as the OPERA researchers are generating a new buzz by releasing their newer, more-finely-calibrated short-pulse tests that seem to confirm their original statement.… |
| Oracle says HP is paying Intel to prop up Itanium Posted: 21 Nov 2011 02:19 PM PST Weekend at |
| Robot ostrich spy outpaces world’s fastest sprinters Posted: 21 Nov 2011 01:53 PM PST Two legs good, four legs badResearchers are building a prototype design that would enable a two-legged robot modeled on an ostrich to run at around 50mph. In simulations, it can already outpace human sprinters.… |
| Posted: 21 Nov 2011 01:31 PM PST America's biggest leaker to face first hearingDecember 16 has been named as the date for the first hearing in the military trial for PFC Bradley Manning, a mere 18 months after he was first arrested.… |
| iiNet buys a slice of Canberra for $60m Posted: 21 Nov 2011 01:28 PM PST TransACT gets sold for a songAcquisition-hungry ISP iiNet has snapped up the pioneering triple-play fibre network TransACT Communications for $AU60 million, just a fraction of the value of the carrier's network asset investment.… |
| 'Organized' hack targets AT&T wireless subscribers Posted: 21 Nov 2011 12:57 PM PST 'Auto script' attack fails to breach accountsHackers used automatic scripts to target AT&T wireless subscribers in an unsuccessful attempt to steal information stored in their online accounts, company officials said.… |
| eBay slurps Hunch to match ads with shoppers Posted: 21 Nov 2011 12:07 PM PST Hoping 'Taste Graph' will suit customers' palateseBay has bought data-mining firm Hunch in a move to increase the effectiveness of personally targeted ads on the online auction house's sales site.… |
| Smart meters blamed for Wi-Fi, garage opener interference Posted: 21 Nov 2011 11:37 AM PST Utility not doing enough, advocate saysSmart meters issued by an electric utility in Maine are interfering with a wide range of customers' electronic devices, including wireless routers, cordless phones, electric garage doors, and answering machines.… |
| AMD smacks Xeon 5600s with Opteron 6200s Posted: 21 Nov 2011 11:07 AM PST Xeon E5 counterattack imminentAnalysis Advanced Micro Devices is currently winning the core count battle in the x86 server-chip war with the just-announced and now shipping "Interlagos" Opteron 6200s, which cram 16 cores into a big fat G34 socket. That's the same G34 socket that the prior generation Opteron 6100s used, so adopting the new chip is a snap for those server makers who did Opteron 6100 boxes. Ditto for the forthcoming Opteron 4200s, which plug into the existing C32 sockets.… |
| Larger Kindle Fire coming soon, say moles Posted: 21 Nov 2011 10:11 AM PST Holiday surge to be followed by spring sproing?If you're thinking of plopping down a brace of Benjamins for a 7-inch Kindle Fire this holiday season, you might think of waiting a couple of months for the 8.9-inch version, which looks increasingly likely to be released next spring.… |
| Ice Cream Sandwich WILL get Flash Posted: 21 Nov 2011 09:26 AM PST Information furnished by singing fat lady, howeverAndroid version 4, AKA Ice Cream Sandwich, will get a Flash player for its browser later this year, but it will be the last mobile platform to have one - from Adobe at least.… |
| Sony signs Voda as Vita connecta Posted: 21 Nov 2011 08:58 AM PST Names 'preferred' cellcoSony shook hands with Vodafone today, naming the network its "preferred provider" of 3G for the PlayStation Vita in Europe.… |
| San Diego Baywatch rules out exploding dead whale Posted: 21 Nov 2011 08:58 AM PST Hoff namesake fears huge rotting carcass will kick up stinkA dead beached whale in San Diego is going to be sticking around for another few days as authorities wait for better tides to help them shift the 50-foot (15m) cetacean.… |
| Flood-hit WD takes half-billion kidney punch from Seagate Posted: 21 Nov 2011 08:44 AM PST 'We'll still consummate our desire for Hitachi GST'Beset by Thai floods, WD has just been hit by an amazing arbitration court decision which means it has to pay Seagate $525m - if the decision survives appeal.… |
| Seafaring boffin bots in record-breaking bid to chart Pacific Posted: 21 Nov 2011 08:22 AM PST Wave-powered robo-boat probes launched by Java granddaddyJames Gosling's wave-powered robot company has launched four bots on a record-breaking epic across the Pacific.… |
| <i>Reg</i> reader ratings go worldwide Posted: 21 Nov 2011 08:18 AM PST Your chance at last to press the Orgasmic buttonA short note. In 2008, we introduced reader ratings to some Register stories and then to all stories on the site.… |
| Breaking news: Man lands on Moon! Posted: 21 Nov 2011 07:43 AM PST How Facebook shares skew the news with old tatFacebook's frictionless sharing apps are dredging up decade-old news stories and putting them at the top of national news sites.… |
| Is your small biz the best at mobile boffinry? Prove it Posted: 21 Nov 2011 07:34 AM PST Top, er, prizes up for grabs in new DTI contestAre you working for the UK's most innovative mobile company? Would you like the legal right to say so? Then you're in luck, as that's the prize in a new government competition.… |
| No chance now to save Phobos-Grunt Mars mission Posted: 21 Nov 2011 07:18 AM PST Duff Russian probe continues to stubbornly circle EarthThe window to contact the stranded Phobos-Grunt and send it on its mission to the Martian moon has now closed.… |
| Flashing upstarts tempt tech titans' throbbing disks Posted: 21 Nov 2011 07:04 AM PST If you can't beat 'em, buy 'em insteadBlocks and Files Should mainstream disk array vendors buy the flash startups, which are going to take their lunch money, now or later?… |
| Rumoured iPhone 5 'will have 4in screen' against Jobs' wish Posted: 21 Nov 2011 06:49 AM PST Shock new claim: Fanboi-beating rod extendediPhone 5 will grow 8mm in length to accommodate a new 4in screen, according to rumours on iLounge that conjure the shape of the next Jesus mobe out of the mists of speculation.… |
| Gov web boss: Our sites look like bleak council estates Posted: 21 Nov 2011 06:38 AM PST Vows to ape Google, make pages more sexyThe Cabinet Office's freshly uploaded digital boss Mike Bracken is on a mission to sex-up government services online.… |
| Royal Mail fights to address website outages Posted: 21 Nov 2011 06:26 AM PST Upgrade knocks stamp service offlineParts of the website for the Royal Mail still aren't operational today, after the site reportedly went down over the weekend.… |
| Floods really will bring armageddon in 2012, insist resellers Posted: 21 Nov 2011 06:17 AM PST We're not just using Thai disaster to mark up disksPC shortages are affecting the UK earlier than expected but the rapid swing from inventory overload to relative hardware famine has led to some customers dismissing resellers' warnings as sales opportunism.… |
| Fujitsu parades 16-core Sparc64 super stunner Posted: 21 Nov 2011 06:01 AM PST Top of the FLOPSSC11 Ahead of the SC11 supercomputer conference in Seattle last week, recently awakened supercomputing giant Fujitsu rolled out the kicker: a commercialized version of the K supercomputer that is at the top of the flops charts in the world right now.… |
| UK.gov ends 'speed dating' romps with tech suppliers Posted: 21 Nov 2011 05:52 AM PST Maude: Enough of one-night stands, we need relationshipsCabinet Office minister Francis Maude has labelled the public sector's old way of procuring IT products as a "speed dating approach" and added that UK.gov needed to learn from its European neighbours such as Germany and France.… |
| Google guru blasts Android virus doomsayers as 'charlatans' Posted: 21 Nov 2011 05:50 AM PST Says iOS perfectly safe from security 'scammers', tooGoogle's open-source program manager has launched an entertaining rant against firms offering mobile security software, accusing them of selling worthless software and of being "charlatans and scammers".… |
| Virtual server farm goes titsup TWICE in a month Posted: 21 Nov 2011 05:43 AM PST Punters blast FasthostsUK hosting firm Fasthosts has suffered its second outage in a couple of weeks as its virtual private servers went down on Sunday afternoon.… |
| Spanish firemen grapple naked stairs sex Brit Posted: 21 Nov 2011 05:31 AM PST Left dangling by her ankle after rumpy-pumpy tumbleA 49-year-old British tourist was rescued by "surprised" Tenerife firemen after an energetic shag ended with her dangling naked by her ankle from a flight of holiday apartment stairs.… |
| Kindle hackers give Nook a thorough rooting Posted: 21 Nov 2011 05:24 AM PST Fondleslab exposed to nerdy fiddlingGadget enthusiasts have managed to root the Nook Tablet.… |
| NASA nuclear Mars tank launch delayed by one day Posted: 21 Nov 2011 05:13 AM PST Will search for red-planet life, and burn it with a laserThe launch of the Mars Science Laboratory (MSL), which contains the Curiosity rover, has been delayed by a day to November 26.… |
| Kindle Fire demand hits iPad rivals not iPad Posted: 21 Nov 2011 05:06 AM PST Two-horse race being runAmazon's Kindle Fire tablet is being portrayed as the first real competition Apple's iPad has had, but initial evidence from potential tablet buyers suggests it's Apple's rivals who really need to worry.… |
| Atomic time boffins build better second-watcher Posted: 21 Nov 2011 05:00 AM PST NPL and precision on the final frontierUS researchers recently named the atomic clock at the UK's National Physical Laboratory (NPL) in London the most accurate atomic timepiece on the planet.… |
| Women love phone cams, for snapping pics of cute babies Posted: 21 Nov 2011 04:50 AM PST God dammit, some of us just like gadgets!Opinion The précis of a recent survey for AdAge by JWT Intelligence, titled "Always On Women: A Survey of how women are using technology today" will have many women spitting blood.… |
| Japanese boffins demo sound-powered vibe lights Posted: 21 Nov 2011 04:39 AM PST Son et lumière, literally. Plus: The Song of e-MoneyBoffins at the University of Tokyo have been demonstrating LED lights driven by directional sound waves, but reckon the technology for delivering electricity has even better applications.… |
| YouTube-linked microwave shows vids as it nukes Posted: 21 Nov 2011 04:34 AM PST Cook time equals play timeStudents have found a way to spice up microwave meals by attaching a tablet to their radiation-oven, playing YouTube videos while the food cooks.… |
| Swedish political party pledges War On Wolves Posted: 21 Nov 2011 04:29 AM PST Midlands footballers worried by anti-lupine pogrom planA new political party has launched on a single issue platform: all wolves must die. At least within the borders of Sweden.… |
| New 'plasma lamps' to replace fluorescent bulbs, LEDs Posted: 21 Nov 2011 04:19 AM PST Boffins bid for spinout riches on flat, bendy glow-sheetsBoffins hope to be rolling in cash after finding a new way to use plasma to make light bulbs.… |
| Inside the mysterious US satellite hacking case Posted: 21 Nov 2011 04:09 AM PST Ground station denies hack, US cyber general baffledAnalysis The cause and perpetrators behind interference against two US scientific satellites remains unknown to American military commanders more than three years after the mysterious event.… |
| RIM BlackBerry Curve 9360 Qwerty smartphone Posted: 21 Nov 2011 04:00 AM PST Thumbs up?Review There's been a rash of activity from RIM recently, with a range of subtly different BlackBerry models designed to appeal to different segments of the smart phone market. The Curve 9360 is towards the budget end but still packs in a full Qwerty hard keyboard, 5Mp camera and the latest version of BlackBerry's OS.… |
| Man sues boss for 'condemning him to eternal damnation' Posted: 21 Nov 2011 03:59 AM PST 666 sticker was portal to hell, argues ChristianAn American man has brought a wrongful dismissal suit over his former employer's attempt to make him wear the number of the beast - in the guise of a safety record sticker.… |
| Bug silences Samsung Galaxy Nexus Posted: 21 Nov 2011 03:53 AM PST Ice Cream Sarnie smartphone experiences audio freezeIt looks like Vodafone was right to hold off on the release of the Samsung Galaxy Nexus. The Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich phone, which went on sale last week, is infuriating punters with a particularly annoying bug.… |
| Why have VCs hosed down an obscure startup with cash? Posted: 21 Nov 2011 03:52 AM PST Our man ponders on the secret that has money men droolingLookout provides mobile phone protection and management services in a friendly Mozy pre-EMC kind of way, kind of like a helpful uncle, but its revenue potential seems to be making VCs salivate.… |
| Swearing fine quashed as teens have heard it all before Posted: 21 Nov 2011 03:43 AM PST Fair f*cking shout, your honourShouting obscenities in public should no longer be considered offensive as teenagers and coppers have heard it all before.… |
| Bill Gates summoned in antitrust case that WILL NOT DIE Posted: 21 Nov 2011 03:32 AM PST Unkillable legal zombie reaches out of grave once againMicrosoft chairman Bill Gates will be quizzed in court today in the antitrust suit that will not die - the one first brought by Novell against the firm in 2004.… |
| Apple to outship HP in 2012 says analyst firm Posted: 21 Nov 2011 03:26 AM PST Tablets keeping PC biz on growth trajectoryMarket watcher Canalys has bullishly forecast that Apple will begin to ship more personal computers than current market leader HP at some point during H1 2012.… |
| 'Occupy Flash' web hippies aim to rid world of Adobe plugin Posted: 21 Nov 2011 03:21 AM PST Anti-Flash mob not actually occupying anywhere, thoughAn "Occupy Flash" website is urging PC users to rip Adobe's ubiquitous media player off their computers and embrace HTML5.… |
| EA sued over broken Battlefield pledge Posted: 21 Nov 2011 03:14 AM PST Free game AWOLEA is facing court action after unhappy fans accused the publisher of reneging on a promise to include a free copy of Battlefield 1943 with the PlayStation 3 version of Battlefield 3.… |
| Keep it simple with one-size-fits-all networking Posted: 21 Nov 2011 03:11 AM PST No more crossed wiresThis isn't the sort of thing that sysadmins usually admit to, but I have recently developed a grudging sort of respect for cable monkeys.… |
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