Down under climate messages get more strident |
- Down under climate messages get more strident
- Cray notches another XE6-Cascades super deal
- WordPress’ Google potshot: users deserve better
- Google researchers propose fix for ailing SSL system
- Insanely great PCIe 4.0 bit rate locked in
- HP confident on HPC future
- Oz robo-soldiers in US Marines' firing line
- Facebook, FTC settle over privacy ‘deception’
- Microsoft issues first upgrade to Office 365
- European court advisor slams software copyrights
- Intel sneaks out low-power microserver chip
- Cisco salivates over exploding data center traffic
- Mint Linux freshens up web searches
- Red Hat sales chief tapped as Acronis CEO
- US boffins unleash piezoelectric insect cyborg
- Apple, Google apps face smut and violence ratings
- HP invites just its best friends to 2012 partner bash
- Acer, Samsung, Lenovo line up behind Nvidia Tegra 3
- Desktop Virtualisation for highly legislated environments
- Supply snitches: 4in iPhone 5 screens shipping now
- Consumer interest in Windows 8 tablets slumps
- Grooveshark bunged staff bonuses 'for pirating music'
- LOHAN: Reader vacuum pump plans <i>really</i> suck
- Duff Mars probe team sweats under Medvedev menaces
- UK.gov slaps £100m on broadband investment pile for urbanites
- Danger worm hijacks Facebook accounts to inject banking Trojan
- Gone in a Flash: Adobe's long march to HTML5
- Iran bans Tehran invasion first-person shooter
- Distie-loving cloud kingpin beds Ingram Micro
- Ten... top Xbox Live game downloads
- Revealed: Full specs on Mars rover's nuclear laser heat ray
- Lone! sugar! daddy! yearns! to! seduce! Yahoo! US!
- Groupon shares plunge: Drain in sight
- Give Osborne a shovel: UK economy stuck in deep hole
- Driving customer focus with information
- Sky's mobile movies move leaves Apple, Amazon gasping
- How digital audio ate itself ... and the music biz
- Schneier: Teens and treaties - our cyber-war saviors
- Brit security biz Clearswift pockets £30m from sugar daddies
- MPs: This plan for proper navy carriers and jets is crazy!
- iOS 5.1 name-checks next-gen iPad, iPhone
- 13 MILLION gamers in ID theft scare after Nexon breach
- Toshiba readies zero Watt standby mode telly
- Virtually indestructible robostarfish penetrates tiny cracks
- Smart TV shootout
- UK's top tech startup: Glasgow's tiny circle of animation wizards
- British Library sprinkles digital dust on dusty newsprint
- HP's fraught union with Autonomy bears first fruit
- HTC insists German 3G mobe sales ban is kaput
- Jarmageddon: Marmite spill sparks biohazard threat
| Down under climate messages get more strident Posted: 29 Nov 2011 03:00 PM PST Southern ocean warming worries scientists, heatwaves terrify governmentAustralia's government has warned that rising global temperatures already represent a health risk – one that's going to get worse as the country records more heatwave days.… |
| Cray notches another XE6-Cascades super deal Posted: 29 Nov 2011 02:49 PM PST Dancing the Japanese two-stepCray's future "Cascade" family of supercomputers, which sport a new interconnect and means of linking into processors and coprocessors, are not even fully developed yet and the company has inked another deal for one of the boxes.… |
| WordPress’ Google potshot: users deserve better Posted: 29 Nov 2011 02:00 PM PST AdSense state of the art? 'Sad'WordPress is in a tie-up with Federated Media to try and offer it users something better than what it calls Google's 'sad' AdSense.… |
| Google researchers propose fix for ailing SSL system Posted: 29 Nov 2011 01:57 PM PST Changes would overhaul net's foundation of trustSecurity researchers from Google have proposed an overhaul to improve the security of the Secure Sockets Layer encryption protocol that millions of websites use to protect communications against eavesdropping and counterfeiting.… |
| Insanely great PCIe 4.0 bit rate locked in Posted: 29 Nov 2011 01:53 PM PST 'Boutique' spec aimed at rarified speedstersThe PCI-SIG has settled on a bit rate for its next-generation PCIe 4.0 interconnect specification, and the winner is – insert drumroll – 16 gigatransfers per second, as expected.… |
| Posted: 29 Nov 2011 01:38 PM PST Wants to be the 'HP' in HPC, not the 'dot' in dot-matrixBlog A quick meeting with HP at SC11 confirmed that the company is feeling good about their HPC achievements and prospects for the future. HP is the second biggest HPC vendor on the most recent Top 500 list with 141 systems (28 per cent). However, they're still behind market leader IBM, which has a 44 per cent share with 223 total systems.… |
| Oz robo-soldiers in US Marines' firing line Posted: 29 Nov 2011 01:00 PM PST Take out the dummy on the Segway, sarge!Sydney based robotics manufacturer Marathon Targets has delivered its first cyber troops to the US Marine Corp as part of a multi-million dollar contract.… |
| Facebook, FTC settle over privacy ‘deception’ Posted: 29 Nov 2011 12:55 PM PST All Friends again - for 20 years at least"It is ordered", says the FTC's proposed settlement with Facebook, that the social network "shall not misrepresent in any manner … the extent to which it maintains the privacy or security" of its users.… |
| Microsoft issues first upgrade to Office 365 Posted: 29 Nov 2011 12:30 PM PST SkyDrive updated, support for Lync and OS X Lion addedMicrosoft has issued its first update to the Office 365 cloud portfolio, adding support for the Windows Phone 7.5 Mango release and Apple's OS X Lion operating system, and updating storage and sharing services.… |
| European court advisor slams software copyrights Posted: 29 Nov 2011 12:24 PM PST SAS loses round in World Programming caseA senior court advisor has issued an opinion to the European Court of Justice that software functions cannot be copyrighted.… |
| Intel sneaks out low-power microserver chip Posted: 29 Nov 2011 11:10 AM PST Dusts off Pentium brand for one more goIntel has not made a big fuss about it, but the chip maker has kicked out a promised 15 watt processor aimed at the fledgling and sometimes cloudy microserver market.… |
| Cisco salivates over exploding data center traffic Posted: 29 Nov 2011 11:02 AM PST Transmuting gigabits per second into dollars per quarterSwitch and router powerhouse Cisco Systems has released its data center traffic forecast – the "Global Cloud Index" – which shows data center traffic growing in leaps and bounds, and set to explode in coming years.… |
| Mint Linux freshens up web searches Posted: 29 Nov 2011 10:32 AM PST We've got our own engine. Swallow that, Google and MicrosoftTired of having your search habits hoarded by Microsoft and Google and want a little anonymity online? Linux Mint could be your answer.… |
| Red Hat sales chief tapped as Acronis CEO Posted: 29 Nov 2011 10:04 AM PST Pinchev to push growthBackup company Acronis has changed its CEO: Jason Donahue has been replaced by Alex Pinchev, who has been an Acronis board member since November 2010. Before that he had been at Red Hat for nine years, most recently as president for global sales, services and field marketing.… |
| US boffins unleash piezoelectric insect cyborg Posted: 29 Nov 2011 09:34 AM PST 'Leccy-generating beetle for hazardous missionsScientists from the University of Michigan's College of Engineering have developed a prototype insect cyborg with an eye to one day using electricity-generating six-legged critters to venture forth into potentially hazardous environments.… |
| Apple, Google apps face smut and violence ratings Posted: 29 Nov 2011 09:06 AM PST Five-point scale to separate PG from adult-only filthApps could be scored on sex and violence if Apple and Google approve a voluntary rating system proposed by the American Wireless Association, the CITA, and the Entertainment Software Rating Board (ESRB).… |
| HP invites just its best friends to 2012 partner bash Posted: 29 Nov 2011 08:42 AM PST 'We couldn't invite everybody'HP's worldwide partner shindig in back on the agenda for 2012 but the event is likely to be a more cosy affair with fewer resellers invited.… |
| Acer, Samsung, Lenovo line up behind Nvidia Tegra 3 Posted: 29 Nov 2011 08:20 AM PST Five-core fondleslabs from the three of 'emAdd the names Acer, Lenovo and Samsung to that of Asus as members of the list of manufacturers who'll be offering Android tablets based on Nvidia's five-core Tegra 3 chip.… |
| Desktop Virtualisation for highly legislated environments Posted: 29 Nov 2011 08:16 AM PST Legal eagles tap into desktopInterview Implementing virtual desktops across a whole enterprise is rarely as easy as it sounds in vendor white papers. Rich Raether, IT manager, and Dan Putnam, published systems architect at large US law firm Quarles & Brady faced a unique set of challenges when they decided to roll out virtual desktops as a means of improving the firm's business continuity stance.… |
| Supply snitches: 4in iPhone 5 screens shipping now Posted: 29 Nov 2011 08:03 AM PST 'Sharp, Hitachi making big hi-res OLED screens'Don't spit your coffee out, but further rumours today make it more likely that the iPhone 5 will have a 4-inch screen.… |
| Consumer interest in Windows 8 tablets slumps Posted: 29 Nov 2011 07:46 AM PST Too late to market?Punters appear to be turning away from the Windows 8 tablets Microsoft hopes will get it back into the fondleslab game.… |
| Grooveshark bunged staff bonuses 'for pirating music' Posted: 29 Nov 2011 07:46 AM PST Universal Music accuses streaming site in court docsMusic streaming site Grooveshark paid employees by the amount of music they illegally uploaded to the site, filings in a lawsuit allege. Universal Music says Grooveshark's own staff submitted at least 100,000 sound recordings "to boost [owner] Escape's library of infringing content and to make the service more attractive to prospective users".… |
| LOHAN: Reader vacuum pump plans <i>really</i> suck Posted: 29 Nov 2011 07:31 AM PST Top quality amateur boffinry from El Reg spaceplane fansWe at El Reg's Special Projects Bureau are, as ever, grateful to all those readers who offered suggestions for the low-cost, garden-shed vacuum pump rig we need for our Rocketry Experimental High Altitude Barosimulator (REHAB) experiment.… |
| Duff Mars probe team sweats under Medvedev menaces Posted: 29 Nov 2011 07:20 AM PST Phobos-Grunt relapses into silenceLost Martian probe Phobos-Grunt has gone back to its silent orbiting again, remaining unresponsive to Russian space agency attempts to contact it on Monday night.… |
| UK.gov slaps £100m on broadband investment pile for urbanites Posted: 29 Nov 2011 07:17 AM PST 'Super-connected cities' planned. But no extra cash for rural areasThe government will take £100m from the £5bn national infrastructure investment pot over the course of this Parliament in a move to speed up broadband networks in selected urban areas. Rural areas, meanwhile, have been passed over.… |
| Danger worm hijacks Facebook accounts to inject banking Trojan Posted: 29 Nov 2011 07:02 AM PST Beware of poisoned photo linksA dangerous worm is using Facebook to spread itself by posting malicious links on the social networking website that point to malware-tainted sites loaded with a variant of the Zeus banking Trojan as well as other nasties.… |
| Gone in a Flash: Adobe's long march to HTML5 Posted: 29 Nov 2011 06:46 AM PST Rise and fall of the PlayerAnalysis Surf the web and it's ubiquitous. Ask most web developers building media content what runtime stack tools set they should – or do – target. The answer is simple: Flash.… |
| Iran bans Tehran invasion first-person shooter Posted: 29 Nov 2011 06:35 AM PST Shopkeepers arrested for stocking Battlefield 3EA's Battlefield 3 has been outlawed in Iran, with police allegedly arresting shop owners that secretly stock the game.… |
| Distie-loving cloud kingpin beds Ingram Micro Posted: 29 Nov 2011 06:29 AM PST 'Distributors are future cloud brokers'Ingram Micro has become the first distributor to join the Cloud Industry Forum (CIF), the not-for-profit organisation trying to promote a Code of Code and open debate among suppliers.… |
| Ten... top Xbox Live game downloads Posted: 29 Nov 2011 06:00 AM PST Match pointsProduct Round-up After looking at ten top videogames for PlayStation Network last week, it's Microsoft's turn to step up to the table.… |
| Revealed: Full specs on Mars rover's nuclear laser heat ray Posted: 29 Nov 2011 05:56 AM PST Megawatt beam to disintegrate the red planet's pinheadsThe Register rayguns desk is pleased to report that we have now obtained full specifications on the powerful laser heat-ray disintegrator blaster fitted to the NASA Mars rover Curiosity, which departed planet Earth on Saturday and is even now hurtling through the void of space towards a rendezvous with destiny in the red planet's Elysium Planitia region.… |
| Lone! sugar! daddy! yearns! to! seduce! Yahoo! US! Posted: 29 Nov 2011 05:52 AM PST Single investment firm just wants American bizPrivate equity firm Thomas H Lee Partners is looking into slurping Yahoo!'s US operations, rather than taking a minority stake or teaming up with Asian firms.… |
| Groupon shares plunge: Drain in sight Posted: 29 Nov 2011 05:41 AM PST Cyber Monday not a good day for coupon siteOn Cyber Monday, a day when tech firms are supposed to be doing quite well, Groupon saw its shares take another tumble on the Nasdaq, landing firmly below the IPO price at $15.24.… |
| Give Osborne a shovel: UK economy stuck in deep hole Posted: 29 Nov 2011 05:32 AM PST Blames Eurozone, Labour, ANYONE but govt for 'debt storm'The "debt storm" currently circling above the Eurozone is to blame for the gloomy state of the British economy, said the Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne, who delivered his autumn statement to the House of Commons today.… |
| Driving customer focus with information Posted: 29 Nov 2011 05:26 AM PST Big data to the rescue?Broadcast Given today's economic background, organisations of all shapes and sizes are recognising they can no longer just spend money on new technology. While prevalent in the past, this approach has led to information and process silos that can be a long way from optimal. With quantities of information continuing to increase, but with belts tightening and budgets cut, how can such organisations move forward?… |
| Sky's mobile movies move leaves Apple, Amazon gasping Posted: 29 Nov 2011 05:12 AM PST It actually produces content, too...It has been five years since Apple unveiled its TV tuner – and it increasingly looks like Cupertino missed the boat.… |
| How digital audio ate itself ... and the music biz Posted: 29 Nov 2011 05:00 AM PST Part Two: The attack of the clonesSpecial Report In the first part of this series, we looked at how digital audio emerged in the studio, going beyond its Compact Disc domestic debut. As Moore's law impacted on the cost of digital audio recording, studio techniques were emerging to add colour to this transparent medium – first in hardware, then in software. Digital signal processing went beyond the studio and landed on everybody's desktop. The creative and corrosive consequences of these developments are explored in this final part.… |
| Schneier: Teens and treaties - our cyber-war saviors Posted: 29 Nov 2011 04:51 AM PST We're all going to die! Er, no, we're not...We can expect at least another 10 years of unbridled and irrational fear about the threat of cyber war before things calm down.… |
| Brit security biz Clearswift pockets £30m from sugar daddies Posted: 29 Nov 2011 04:43 AM PST Email and web guardian bought by LyceumInvestment house Lyceum Capital has bought UK-based content security firm Clearswift. Financial terms of the deal, announced on Tuesday, were imprecise but a spokeswoman said that around £30m will be ploughed into the business.… |
| MPs: This plan for proper navy carriers and jets is crazy! Posted: 29 Nov 2011 04:32 AM PST Quite simply not a clue what they're on aboutAnalysis Today sees the release of two new reports into the UK's plans for its future aircraft carriers and their aircraft. As is common practice, a National Audit Office document is accompanied by one from the MPs of the Commons Public Accounts Committee.… |
| iOS 5.1 name-checks next-gen iPad, iPhone Posted: 29 Nov 2011 04:24 AM PST Apple's upcoming telly too?Apple released iOS 5.1 to app developers yesterday, and already coders are poring over the update in search of references to future products.… |
| 13 MILLION gamers in ID theft scare after Nexon breach Posted: 29 Nov 2011 04:22 AM PST Game items offered to punters who change their passwordsAn estimated 13 million gamers have been left at greater risk of ID theft following a breach at gaming firm Nexon.… |
| Toshiba readies zero Watt standby mode telly Posted: 29 Nov 2011 04:13 AM PST Hero and zeroWith the price of electricity always on the rise, the juice consumed by kit kept on standby can nibble away at the pennies. Now Toshiba has addressed this issue with a new chip said to create standby modes that require no power whatsoever.… |
| Virtually indestructible robostarfish penetrates tiny cracks Posted: 29 Nov 2011 04:11 AM PST Wriggling flexi-bot created by Harvard boffinsA squishy robot based on a starfish has pushed the frontiers of robotic movement by proving bots can wriggle.… |
| Posted: 29 Nov 2011 04:00 AM PST The major players go head-to-headReview It's about 18 months since I last rounded up internet-connected TVs - or "Smart TVs" as they're now being named by all the manufacturers these days. Since then, all the brands have upped their game considerably, and just about all of their offerings are much more powerful than the 2009 models I looked at last time.… |
| UK's top tech startup: Glasgow's tiny circle of animation wizards Posted: 29 Nov 2011 03:51 AM PST The world of MuvizuComment Tech startups that can truly be considered game-changers are rare - especially in Shoreditch. The more hype that the Silicon Roundabout "leisure startup" scene receives, the more painfully apparent it is that the emperor has no clothes – see these comments for example. Which is a pity, for less attention is paid to genuinely creative British tech startups.… |
| British Library sprinkles digital dust on dusty newsprint Posted: 29 Nov 2011 03:43 AM PST Online archive opens up – at a costThe British Library and its commercial partner brightsolid opened up a pay-per-view online archive of newspapers today, after a crack team scanned 4 million searchable pages that mainly date from out-of-copyright papers published in the 19th century.… |
| HP's fraught union with Autonomy bears first fruit Posted: 29 Nov 2011 03:32 AM PST IDOL 10 turns big biz data chaos into some sort of senseHP has announced the first offspring of its mammoth $10.24bn (£6.6bn) union with British software firm Autonomy.… |
| HTC insists German 3G mobe sales ban is kaput Posted: 29 Nov 2011 03:21 AM PST Android handset maker and IPCom spar over injunctionGerman patent firm IPCom has hit back at HTC's claim that an injunction granted in a Mannheim court will have no effect on its sales.… |
| Jarmageddon: Marmite spill sparks biohazard threat Posted: 29 Nov 2011 03:12 AM PST Lorry crash jams M1, leaves cops in the brown stuffA flood of yeast extract has blocked the M1 motorway in South Yorkshire after a truck containing the Marmite ingredient crashed and spilled its load.… |
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