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- Negroponte plans tablet airdrops to teach kids to read
- NSW plods’ bugs jump
- Accused Hollywood hacker does about face, pleads not guilty
- AMD to pins exascale vision on Fusion APUs
- Americans to get five-year wireless tax freeze
- LightSquared CEO wants industry's 'dumbest' wireless pipe
- AOL foresees long-spooned rush to sup with 'Project Devil'
- Anonymous confusion in clash with Mexican drug cartel
- Thousands of WordPress sites commandeered by Black Hole
- Tech Data sues LCD panel makers over price-fixing
- Spectra builds MONSTER TRUCK of tape libraries
- iPad 2 made from T-Rex fossils costs £5m
- Fujitsu makes biggest Eternus even bigger
- All change at top of HP storage biz
- Steve Jobs named most influential game guy – ever
- US Navy in new electromagnetic railgun milestone
- Symantec looks steady as biz spends on security
- Appro goes to extremes with new Xtreme-X supers
- Minnow Android slab maker BEATS Apple in court
- Virtualisation turns PCs into personal clouds
- Let's build some better HPC benchmarks
- Mars probe crippled by buggy SSD successfully jury-rigged
- Fujitsu busts K super through 10 petaflops
- Catholic Bishops: 'Would you mind not bringing guns to church?'
- What is wrong with the Data Protection Act?
- Report: Popular CAPTCHAs easily defeated
- PlayStation 3 sales catch up with Xbox 360 total
- Fondleslabs are next on Lenovo chief's hit list
- Eggheads use Twitter to work out if it's raining
- BlackBerry nicks iPhone's UK smartphone crown
- Supersleuthing BOFHs could help crack cybercrimes
- Opera updates Jesus phone, BlackBerry browser versions
- Hard-up Big Biz's docs lobbed into cheap cloud
- The storage boom and bust cycle
- Record flight is step toward HYPERSONIC SPACE AIRSHIP
- India uncloaks new thorium nuke plants
- UK.gov needs fresh law to protect taxpayers' ID
- Gadget Shop kingpin cuffed in nightclub 'toilet sex' incident
- Three touts dongle-sharing DIY hotspot box
- Civil servants cough up more lost BlackBerrys
- Broadcast television is 75 years old today
- Experts: Firms need to come clean about cyber attacks
- Panasonic DMR-PWT500 3D BD Freeview HD DVR
- Voda to plug not-spots with mini-masts in boozers
- Palestine fingers Israel for blasting Gaza off the net
- Assange brings down British justice system
- Is your old hardware made of gold, or just DIRT?
- Systemax blows £250k on ex-CEO legal probe bills
- Cops cuff London Apple Store 'scooter raiders'
- Five... great games for the Xperia Play
| Negroponte plans tablet airdrops to teach kids to read Posted: 02 Nov 2011 02:54 PM PDT Market forces are failing the poor, he warnsOpen Mobile Summit Nicholas Negroponte, the brains behind the One Laptop Per Child initiative, is detailing a new plan to inspire the world's poorest children to teach themselves to read using tablet computers.… |
| Posted: 02 Nov 2011 02:42 PM PDT 'First state' first in interceptionThe Attorney-General's Department has reported increases in the use of listening devices and telecommunications interception warrants in the year to June 2011, with NSW leading the way, according to reports tabled in parliament.… |
| Accused Hollywood hacker does about face, pleads not guilty Posted: 02 Nov 2011 02:22 PM PDT Previously apologized for invading celeb's privacyA Florida man has pleaded not guilty to charges he broke into the email accounts of actresses Scarlett Johansson and Mila Kunis, and as many as 50 other celebrities, and made off with nude photos and personal information.… |
| AMD to pins exascale vision on Fusion APUs Posted: 02 Nov 2011 02:19 PM PDT The rebirth of vector processingBecause Advanced Micro Devices has not yet announced its 16-core "Interlagos" Opteron 6200 processors, it has to talk about something, and in situations like that, it is best to talk about the far-off future. And so AMD rounded up a bunch of its partners on Wednesday in San Francisco for a shindig to talk about the challenges of exascale computing.… |
| Americans to get five-year wireless tax freeze Posted: 02 Nov 2011 12:57 PM PDT New Yorkers already paying more than UKThe US House of Representatives has imposed a five-year freeze on new wireless taxes, forbidding states or municipal authorities from imposing any new taxes until 2016.… |
| LightSquared CEO wants industry's 'dumbest' wireless pipe Posted: 02 Nov 2011 12:44 PM PDT You didn't ask Edison to build toastersOpen Mobile Summit The CEO of LightSquared has said telecommunications firms are making a mistake in trying to build intelligence into their networks, and should instead go dumb.… |
| AOL foresees long-spooned rush to sup with 'Project Devil' Posted: 02 Nov 2011 12:27 PM PDT Web giant covers (some of) its bloggers in goldAOL still believes there's money to be made in local journalism, while revealing that they are shelling out big bucks - $40.9million projected for this year - to keep on names from the media outfits they've bought up including Huffington Post and Techcrunch.… |
| Anonymous confusion in clash with Mexican drug cartel Posted: 02 Nov 2011 11:58 AM PDT 'It's WAR' - Anons far away. 'No it's not' - MexicansPlans by Anonymous to expose members and associates of a Mexican drug cartel have reportedly been abandoned, at least locally, amid doubts whether a member of the hacking collective was ever really kidnapped by the group.… |
| Thousands of WordPress sites commandeered by Black Hole Posted: 02 Nov 2011 11:48 AM PDT Webmasters, update TimThumb now!Mass attacks that exploit a known vulnerability in the WordPress publishing platform have continued to bear fruit for hackers, with thousands of websites claimed in the past few weeks, a researcher said.… |
| Tech Data sues LCD panel makers over price-fixing Posted: 02 Nov 2011 11:29 AM PDT Distie giant seeking damages from cartelTech Data is suing several LCD panel makers, alleging that they formed an international cartel to fix prices over at least a decade.… |
| Spectra builds MONSTER TRUCK of tape libraries Posted: 02 Nov 2011 11:01 AM PDT Tape-osaurus Rex: Upgraded T-Finity beats 'em allSpectraLogic has built the biggest, baddest mother of a tape library you can imagine, a 400,000 slot T-Finity monster with a 3.6 exabyte capacity.… |
| iPad 2 made from T-Rex fossils costs £5m Posted: 02 Nov 2011 10:44 AM PDT Extreme blingWe've seen hardware go so overboard with gem-encrusted bling, that it was difficult to imagine it getting any more expensive. Insert some dinosaur fossils though and - hey presto! - you can sell an iPad for £5,000,000.… |
| Fujitsu makes biggest Eternus even bigger Posted: 02 Nov 2011 10:21 AM PDT Dual controller array with ambitionFujitsu is taking on EMC's VMAX, saying its series 2 DX8700 storage array extends modular array technology into the monolithic array space.… |
| All change at top of HP storage biz Posted: 02 Nov 2011 10:16 AM PDT Richard Masterson taking on sales director role for global accountsHP is trying to find an heir to its StorageWorks division (SD) in the UK and Ireland following an internal move from boss man Richard Masterson to become sales director of global accounts.… |
| Steve Jobs named most influential game guy – ever Posted: 02 Nov 2011 10:06 AM PDT Most influential platform? Guess...Who has been most influential person in gaming history? The late Steve Jobs. What is the product that has most influenced game development? The iPhone.… |
| US Navy in new electromagnetic railgun milestone Posted: 02 Nov 2011 10:04 AM PDT New model can fire more than once before destroying selfUS Navy boffins are chuffed to announce that they have managed to fire their thousandth shot from a test electromagnetic railgun, addressing one of the most serious weaknesses of such weapons: that they tend to damage or wreck themselves after only a few shots.… |
| Symantec looks steady as biz spends on security Posted: 02 Nov 2011 09:40 AM PDT But services sector let it down in Q2Services revenues prevented software giant Symantec recording excellent results across the board in its second fiscal 2012 quarter.… |
| Appro goes to extremes with new Xtreme-X supers Posted: 02 Nov 2011 09:23 AM PDT Machines? Check. GPUs? Check. New x86 CPUs? Er ... soon.Boutique supercomputer maker Appro International is previewing its third generation of Xtreme-X blade-based supercomputers – but "previewing" is just about all it can do without some help from Intel and AMD.… |
| Minnow Android slab maker BEATS Apple in court Posted: 02 Nov 2011 09:21 AM PDT Spanish biz countersues after year-long ban on salesSpanish computer maker NT-K had its Android tablets impounded, at Apple's request, but has now been vindicated by a local court and is seeking damages from Cupertino for lost earnings and reputation.… |
| Virtualisation turns PCs into personal clouds Posted: 02 Nov 2011 09:00 AM PDT Desktops break freeIf IT managers had had it their way decades ago, we would have never been allowed our own personal computers.… |
| Let's build some better HPC benchmarks Posted: 02 Nov 2011 09:00 AM PDT Sustained performance in, Peak outSC11 As part of our preview of the upcoming SC11 event, I had a conversation last week with Jim Costa and Bill Kramer, the co-chairs of the SC11 Technical Committee. Conveniently, I recorded this conversation and even ran up some slides to guide us through various topics. The resulting webcast covers a lot of ground and shows the range of what you can see at SC in Seattle (or online if you can't make the trip).… |
| Mars probe crippled by buggy SSD successfully jury-rigged Posted: 02 Nov 2011 08:46 AM PDT Ingenious space BOFHs overcome memory faultExclusive A space probe in orbit above Mars, crippled by a fault in its solid-state memory, has been brought back on line and is now once again handling scientific data.… |
| Fujitsu busts K super through 10 petaflops Posted: 02 Nov 2011 08:29 AM PDT When will this monster machine go commercial?The massive Sparc64-based K supercomputer built by Fujitsu for the Japanese government has been fully deployed and has, as hoped, broken through 10 petaflops of sustained performance, the first such machine to do so.… |
| Catholic Bishops: 'Would you mind not bringing guns to church?' Posted: 02 Nov 2011 08:14 AM PDT Wishy-washy response on Wisconsin's weapons rulesWisconsin's Catholic hierarchy have told the faithful that they'd really prefer them not to pack heat when they go to Mass, after the state enacted a new law authorising the carrying of concealed weapons.… |
| What is wrong with the Data Protection Act? Posted: 02 Nov 2011 08:03 AM PDT FOI infraction saga hits the buffersBad news guys! I have just received my Tribunal Decision which throws out my attempt to find out what is wrong with the UK's Data Protection Act. The decision means that 60 million data subjects and one-third of a million data controllers will not fully understand why the European Commission thinks that the UK's implementation of Data Protection Act has been deficient since 2004. I think this is a shocking state of affairs.… |
| Report: Popular CAPTCHAs easily defeated Posted: 02 Nov 2011 07:46 AM PDT Researchers build CAPTCHA dispatcher Decaptcha ...Security researchers have discovered the vast majority of text-based anti-spam tests are easily defeated.… |
| PlayStation 3 sales catch up with Xbox 360 total Posted: 02 Nov 2011 07:44 AM PDT Neck and neckAlmost five years since it was first launched, Sony's PlayStation 3 has nearly caught up with Microsoft's Xbox 360 - when it comes to sales figures.… |
| Fondleslabs are next on Lenovo chief's hit list Posted: 02 Nov 2011 07:29 AM PDT Juggernaut thunders into second place in PC bizThe unstoppable force that is Lenovo recorded double-digit sales and profit gains in fiscal Q2 as its operation in mature markets outweighed its homeland market in China for the first time.… |
| Eggheads use Twitter to work out if it's raining Posted: 02 Nov 2011 07:16 AM PDT Also reveals when flu season beginsMaths boffins of the University of Bristol's Intelligent Systems Lab have found another great use for Twitter – to work out if it's raining. They can also use the social network to monitor the prevalence of flu, according to freshly published research.… |
| BlackBerry nicks iPhone's UK smartphone crown Posted: 02 Nov 2011 07:02 AM PDT Barely 100,000 units between 1st, 2nd, 3rd place in Q3Smartphone sales went backwards in the UK during Q3 as customers abandoned Nokia and Apple. The figures don't look good when compared to last year's storming sales, and it's clear shoppers held off buying new gear during the build up to the latest iPhone launch.… |
| Supersleuthing BOFHs could help crack cybercrimes Posted: 02 Nov 2011 06:45 AM PDT MS exec: Sysadmins should gather evidence for the copsLCC System administrators should be the detectives in cyber investigations, a top Microsoft security bod said.… |
| Opera updates Jesus phone, BlackBerry browser versions Posted: 02 Nov 2011 06:44 AM PDT Data counter to help those on stingy data plansAfter what seems like an eternity, iPhone users can download a new version of Opera. Two weeks ago the Norwegian web company updated its Mobile and Mini versions just for Android, but now it has brought those updates to other platforms – including the Jesus Phone.… |
| Hard-up Big Biz's docs lobbed into cheap cloud Posted: 02 Nov 2011 06:31 AM PDT EMC OnDemand forced to go virtualEMC has countered claims that the price of its enterprise-grade document handling software exceeds business value – by offering them as on-demand cloud services.… |
| The storage boom and bust cycle Posted: 02 Nov 2011 06:16 AM PDT Save cash, manage betterBroadcast Tomorrow at 11:00 GMT we'll be broadcasting live from our St Paul's studio with a program, and some experts, that look at the challenge of improving storage management without just throwing money at it.… |
| Record flight is step toward HYPERSONIC SPACE AIRSHIP Posted: 02 Nov 2011 06:02 AM PDT Ion-drive dirigibles to orbit from aerial 'Dark Sky' baseInventors in America are claiming an altitude record for airships after a recent test flight in which an unmanned electrically-propelled helium dirigible successfully manoeuvred under power at 95,085 feet above the Black Rock Desert in Nevada. The "Tandem" craft is intended to demonstrate the first stage of radical plans which would see enormous, permanently inhabited "Dark Sky Stations" floating high in the atmosphere at the edge of space - to act as bases for radical hypersonic airships which would slowly fly themselves into orbit over a period of days using hybrid ion drive propulsion.… |
| India uncloaks new thorium nuke plants Posted: 02 Nov 2011 05:52 AM PDT Won't have to look far for fuel, eitherIndia has revealed its plan for a new nuclear reactor design using the thorium fuel cycle.… |
| UK.gov needs fresh law to protect taxpayers' ID Posted: 02 Nov 2011 05:41 AM PDT Offloading data to private biz already racks up £10m billExclusive The Cabinet Office's grand plan to farm out the handling of taxpayers' online identities to the private sector will almost certainly be subjected to primary legislation, The Register can reveal.… |
| Gadget Shop kingpin cuffed in nightclub 'toilet sex' incident Posted: 02 Nov 2011 05:29 AM PDT Gorman OBE and wife 'found in bogs' with another blokePolice in Orlando have confirmed they arrested Scottish technology entrepreneur Chris Gorman and his wife following an alleged tryst in the toilets of Roxy Club in Orlando, Florida.… |
| Three touts dongle-sharing DIY hotspot box Posted: 02 Nov 2011 05:24 AM PDT Immobile broadbandYes, you can use your Android or iOS 5 smartphone as a hotspot, but that hasn't stopped Three buying in a stack of ZTE-made 3G dongle-sharing Wi-Fi boxes anyway.… |
| Civil servants cough up more lost BlackBerrys Posted: 02 Nov 2011 05:21 AM PDT Whitehall sofas must be chock-full of smart devicesFurther evidence of civil servants' apparent inability to hold onto their BlackBerrys emerged yesterday as ministers' revealed further losses of the smart devices.… |
| Broadcast television is 75 years old today Posted: 02 Nov 2011 05:13 AM PDT London callingTelevision celebrates a monumental anniversary today: it has been exactly 75 years since the first public service broadcast was transmitted.… |
| Experts: Firms need to come clean about cyber attacks Posted: 02 Nov 2011 05:11 AM PDT Dutch counter-terrorism head says gov was last to know on DigiNotar hackLCC Businesses need to 'fess up when they've been the victims of cyber attacks, experts at the London Conference on Cyberspace (LCC) said today.… |
| Panasonic DMR-PWT500 3D BD Freeview HD DVR Posted: 02 Nov 2011 05:00 AM PDT A bit of a show-offReview In the Twilight Zone between Blu-ray players and DVRs you'll find Panasonic's DMR-PWT500 that boasts a combination disc spinner and digital TV timeshifter. Space-saving convenience is main USP of this hybrid, so if you want one box that can do it all, it's certainly worth an audition.… |
| Voda to plug not-spots with mini-masts in boozers Posted: 02 Nov 2011 04:52 AM PDT Self-configuring kit to fill mobile blackholesVodafone hopes to improve coverage in 12 communities by popping small base stations into pubs, clubs and telephone boxes or nailing them to telegraph poles.… |
| Palestine fingers Israel for blasting Gaza off the net Posted: 02 Nov 2011 04:43 AM PDT Services wiped out in DDoS attackA Palestinian minister is blaming foreign hackers for taking out internet services and servers in the West Bank and Gaza.… |
| Assange brings down British justice system Posted: 02 Nov 2011 04:35 AM PDT Six-fingered WikiLeaker-in-chief sticks it to THE MANThe Judiciary.gov.uk website went spectacularly titsup this morning, minutes after WikiLeaks chief Julian Assange lost his appeal against being extradited to Sweden.… |
| Is your old hardware made of gold, or just DIRT? Posted: 02 Nov 2011 04:30 AM PDT Why it's not worth much, unless it's really oldSo you want the money to pay for the office Christmas party, naturally. We're all told endlessly that all those piles of old electronics and high tech'n'stuff are denuding the planet of valuable metals, so you should be bundling up your kit and sending it off to people like me who will melt it down for the dosh, yes? I'll send back a brown envelope or two of cash and it's trebles all round!… |
| Systemax blows £250k on ex-CEO legal probe bills Posted: 02 Nov 2011 04:21 AM PDT Misco parent turns profit despite retail meltdownRising biz sales fuelled Systemax's third quarter even though the consumer spending freeze showed no signs of thawing.… |
| Cops cuff London Apple Store 'scooter raiders' Posted: 02 Nov 2011 04:11 AM PDT Teen girl and pals charged for part in 48 robberiesThe Met has attempted to smash a network of suspected young burglars who are accused of hitting 48 retail premises in London over a seven-month period - including last month's raid on the Apple Store in Covent Garden.… |
| Five... great games for the Xperia Play Posted: 02 Nov 2011 04:07 AM PDT Top titles for the 'PlayStation phone'iGamer Touchscreen gaming on a small screen has two inherent problems. Firstly, the very act of controlling the game involves obscuring the view with your fingers and, secondly, with no physical controls you can sometimes end up pressing furiously at entirely the wrong part of the screen as you get cut down like a dog, squashed flat, crash in a fireball or fall off a cliff.… |
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