Former HP boss Patricia Dunn dies at 58 |
- Former HP boss Patricia Dunn dies at 58
- Supermassive surprise: the biggest black holes EVER
- $AU1.7 million for speech-text startup
- Australia Network stays in Aunty's lap
- HP tempts Elite computer buyers with capacious Box
- Redmond rolls with Exchange 2010 SP2 update
- New Apple data center to snuggle with Facebook?
- Big Blue buys little green partner
- Storage software sales strong
- NASA confirms first Earth candidate in habitable zone
- Former ICO deputy head denies blocking press probe
- Asus phone-tablet pair set for 2012 launch
- Microsoft's futurologists virtualise the poor
- Vote for the year's best mobile kit
- Napster will live on in the UK
- Former RIM Indonesia chief faces negligence charge over stampede
- NASA probe now closer than ANY OTHER spacecraft to Pluto
- Swiss insist file-sharers don't hurt copyright holders
- Mexico shuts down drug gang's antennas, radios
- IDC: Google needs DEEP tablet price slash to crack Apple
- InMage: VMware backup can be done 80% faster
- Anti-Kremlin websites complain of DDoS attacks
- Insurance giant: IT dealers will survive the downturn
- No Samsung ban for Apple in US
- Sony region-locks digital content on PS Vita
- Snowbound Alaskan survives on frozen beer
- Potential ALIEN LIFE habitats FOUND ON MOONS
- 2011's best... E-book Readers
- Japan, Russia in plan for elephant to birth CLONE MAMMOTH
- Take this survey: Win an iPad 2
- Tablets to outship regular notebooks by 2016
- Samsung brings out superskinny flash drives for ultrabooks
- Assange™ can request final hearing against Swedish extradition
- GCHQ spooks' code-breaking puzzle solved
- Mozambique menaced by flesh-eating bananas
- Turn your WinPhone into an Xbox remote
- Flash prices FALL
- Mozilla denies OS X Leopard 2012 kill
- Samsung Galaxy Note
- Ideas pits physical servers against fake ones
- Silverlit Spy Cam
- Man gets £12,500 after girlfriend probes his medical data
- Bankrupt Borders flogs 65,536 IP addresses at $12 a pop
- Cross-border shopping wars: EC proposes free online arbitration
- Blighty promised £43m prang-predicting supercomputer
- It's the customer, not stupid
- Facebook checks in with Gowalla
| Former HP boss Patricia Dunn dies at 58 Posted: 05 Dec 2011 03:20 PM PST Legacy sullied by 'pretexting' scandalPatricia Dunn, former chairman of HP, died on Sunday at the age of 58 after a long fight with cancer.… |
| Supermassive surprise: the biggest black holes EVER Posted: 05 Dec 2011 02:30 PM PST A blackholearama of a day!Here's a genuine record-breaker: a black hole with nearly ten billion times the mass of our Sun, an event horizon that would stretch five times further than the orbit of Pluto if we had the misfortune to have it drop in, and a gravitational sphere of 4,000 light-years.… |
| $AU1.7 million for speech-text startup Posted: 05 Dec 2011 02:00 PM PST Swag of inventions in $AU10 million handout roundAustralian speech–to-text streaming technology Ai-Live has been awarded a $AU1.7 million dollar government development grant to accelerate global commercialisation of its platform.… |
| Australia Network stays in Aunty's lap Posted: 05 Dec 2011 01:57 PM PST Murdoch empire out in cold as tender scrappedThe Australian government has scrapped all future intentions for a competitive tender for the Australia Network broadcasting contract and has instead handed national public broadcaster the ABC with a permanent contract.… |
| HP tempts Elite computer buyers with capacious Box Posted: 05 Dec 2011 01:28 PM PST Adds online storage to three hardware linesHP has done a deal with online storage firm Box to offer reduced cost – or free – services to buyers of the Compaq 6200 and 6005 Pro series and Compaq 8200 Elite series PCs.… |
| Redmond rolls with Exchange 2010 SP2 update Posted: 05 Dec 2011 12:41 PM PST OWA for all and hybrid cloud supportMicrosoft has released the second service pack for Exchange 2010, including a tweak for mobile Outlook Web App (OWA) and better support for Exchange in hybrid cloud systems.… |
| New Apple data center to snuggle with Facebook? Posted: 05 Dec 2011 12:27 PM PST 'Maverick' said to be planned in OregonApple is reported to be planning a massive data center just a quarter-mile south of Facebook's facility in Prineville, Oregon.… |
| Big Blue buys little green partner Posted: 05 Dec 2011 11:10 AM PST IBM gets into unemployment, welfare managementIf you work for IBM and you get the sack, it may be Big Blue that administers your unemployment or welfare payments from your local government.… |
| Posted: 05 Dec 2011 09:42 AM PST Second-largest revenue quarterStorage software sales for the third 2011 quarter were the second highest ever, with Hitachi recording the highest annual growth followed by market leader EMC. NetApp, Symantec and IBM grew less than the average though, with NetApp nearly flat at 0.3 per cent.… |
| NASA confirms first Earth candidate in habitable zone Posted: 05 Dec 2011 09:22 AM PST Kepler finds Earth 2.0 just 600 light years awayNASA's Kepler mission has spotted the first possibility for a planet to escape to if it turns out the Mayans were right about 2012.… |
| Former ICO deputy head denies blocking press probe Posted: 05 Dec 2011 09:01 AM PST 'I never said the press was too big to take on'The ICO's deputy commissioner has denied ever saying that the press was "too big" for the commission to take on.… |
| Asus phone-tablet pair set for 2012 launch Posted: 05 Dec 2011 08:43 AM PST Quad-core, of courseAsus' tablet-docking smartphone, the Padfone, will make its debut at Mobile World Congress 2011 and sport an Nvidia Tegra 3 processor.… |
| Microsoft's futurologists virtualise the poor Posted: 05 Dec 2011 08:39 AM PST They'll always be with us - just less smellyBeggars will still be with us in the future, according to a futuristic video by Microsoft's Office Labs team - but at least technology will be able to keep our distance from them.… |
| Vote for the year's best mobile kit Posted: 05 Dec 2011 08:25 AM PST Name the best - and the worst - kit of 2011Reg Hardware Awards 2011 Ladies and gentlemen, the annual Reg Hardware Awards are here and, once again, we need your help finding the best - and the worst - consumer electronics and infotech products of 2011.… |
| Napster will live on in the UK Posted: 05 Dec 2011 08:21 AM PST No Rhapsody name change here?Napster has won itself a reprieve - at least in the UK and Germany.… |
| Former RIM Indonesia chief faces negligence charge over stampede Posted: 05 Dec 2011 08:19 AM PST Cops say Canadian banned from travelling overseasIndonesian police have said they may charge the outgoing Research in Motion chief in the country with negligence in connection to the stampede last month at a BlackBerry event in a mall in Jakarta.… |
| NASA probe now closer than ANY OTHER spacecraft to Pluto Posted: 05 Dec 2011 07:58 AM PST Breaks Voyager 1 record set in 1986A NASA probe came closer to Pluto than any other vessel in the history of space travel on 2 December.… |
| Swiss insist file-sharers don't hurt copyright holders Posted: 05 Dec 2011 07:50 AM PST P2P still OK for personal use, government rulesThe Swiss government has ruled that downloading pirated copies of films, music and videogames for personal use will remain legal because it is of not detrimental to copyright owners.… |
| Mexico shuts down drug gang's antennas, radios Posted: 05 Dec 2011 07:37 AM PST Army says deadly Las Zetas used some of the kit to track the militaryThe Mexican government has shut down a secret mobile network reckoned to be run by one of the country's drug cartels, possibly the ruthless Zetas.… |
| IDC: Google needs DEEP tablet price slash to crack Apple Posted: 05 Dec 2011 07:16 AM PST Must collaborate with rivals to stop iPad's dominance - analystGoogle must work closely with the fondleslab makers to slash prices if it is to loosen Apple's strangehold on the market.… |
| InMage: VMware backup can be done 80% faster Posted: 05 Dec 2011 06:55 AM PST V3 of vContinuumInitial virtual machine backup and replication over a wide area network can be up to 80 per cent faster with v3.0 of InMage's vContinuum software, says the company. V3.0 was developed to back up and restore virtual machines better in large VMware environments.… |
| Anti-Kremlin websites complain of DDoS attacks Posted: 05 Dec 2011 06:34 AM PST Election fraud monitors: 'We were silenced as Russia went to the polls'Websites publicising doubts about the fairness of the Russian parliamentary election last weekend have become the victim of denial of service attacks.… |
| Insurance giant: IT dealers will survive the downturn Posted: 05 Dec 2011 06:13 AM PST A lot of b2b resellers are 'agile' and can 'adapt' - Euler Hermes bossThe UK boss at credit insurer Euler Hermes reckons that although channel insolvencies may edge up again next year, B2B resellers are in comparatively rude health.… |
| No Samsung ban for Apple in US Posted: 05 Dec 2011 05:52 AM PST Fruity firm loses bid to block smartphone salesA US court has rejected Apple's bid to get an early ban on Samsung products in the country.… |
| Sony region-locks digital content on PS Vita Posted: 05 Dec 2011 05:42 AM PST But games region-freeThe PlayStation Vita will be region-locked for digital content, Sony has confirmed. It said the device requires a factory reset to jump between different PlayStation Network accounts.… |
| Snowbound Alaskan survives on frozen beer Posted: 05 Dec 2011 05:31 AM PST Quick drive ends in terrifying Coors Light ordealAn Alaskan man who ill-advisedly went for a drive without adequate emergency supplies and got stuck in a snow drift was obliged to subsist for three days on nothing more than frozen cans of beer.… |
| Potential ALIEN LIFE habitats FOUND ON MOONS Posted: 05 Dec 2011 05:10 AM PST Endor, Pandora turn out to be inspired guessesInternational boffins, poring over the results from mighty telescopes both spacegoing and ground-bound, say they have identified at least 16 potentially habitable Earth-like planets orbiting other stars: and at least 30 potentially habitable moons along the lines of the scientifictional Endor and Pandora, orbiting planets in other solar systems.… |
| Posted: 05 Dec 2011 05:03 AM PST For lovers of literatureXmas Gift Guide World+Dog might fancy a glossy, colour tablet, but for the more literary inclined an e-book reader will likely prove a more suitable option. Yes, they're not as flash as fondleslabs, but their screens are legible both indoors and out, and their batteries last an age between charges. And, to please the canny gift buyer, they're relatively cheap too.… |
| Japan, Russia in plan for elephant to birth CLONE MAMMOTH Posted: 05 Dec 2011 04:46 AM PST Dumbo surrogate crucial to Pleistocene Park schemeJapanese and Russian boffins are planning to impregnate an elephant with a mammoth embryo cloned from viable fossil DNA discovered frozen beneath the icy Siberian tundra, according to reports.… |
| Take this survey: Win an iPad 2 Posted: 05 Dec 2011 04:30 AM PST Here's the dealPromotion Neverfail, the business continuity software specialist, is offering Reg readers in the UK the chance to enter a lucky dip which will see the winner take away a shiny new iPad 2. Oh yes.… |
| Tablets to outship regular notebooks by 2016 Posted: 05 Dec 2011 04:03 AM PST But Ultrabooks will keep the clamshell on topIntel may be hoping that 40 per cent of the notebooks that ship in 2012 will be Ultrabooks, but independent research suggests the chip giant will have to wait until 2015.… |
| Samsung brings out superskinny flash drives for ultrabooks Posted: 05 Dec 2011 03:57 AM PST It's no good. Who wants a cheaper, better MacBook Air?Samsung is shipping mini-Serial ATA interface solid state drives for ultrabooks, the attempt by Intel to spark a Windows equivalent of MacBook Air thin notebooks into being.… |
| Assange™ can request final hearing against Swedish extradition Posted: 05 Dec 2011 03:44 AM PST WikiLeaker-in-chief to take fight to Supreme CourtJulian Assange can request a final appeal against his extradition to Sweden, judges ruled this morning.… |
| GCHQ spooks' code-breaking puzzle solved Posted: 05 Dec 2011 03:30 AM PST 'Rather disappointing', says prof - both puzzle and prizeThe GCHQ-set code-breaking puzzle was solved over the weekend.… |
| Mozambique menaced by flesh-eating bananas Posted: 05 Dec 2011 03:20 AM PST Emails warn of carnivorous fruitBanana sales in Mozambican capital Maputo have taken a serious hit as a result of email and text message warnings of the dire consequences of contact with killer plantains.… |
| Turn your WinPhone into an Xbox remote Posted: 05 Dec 2011 03:11 AM PST xBox xmasMicrosoft's Xbox 360 Dashboard update this week will introduce a smart phone application that turns your Windows Phone handset into an Xbox system remote.… |
| Posted: 05 Dec 2011 02:46 AM PST Thai floods mask falling demandFlash chip prices are falling thanks to over-supply and slow markets in Europe and the USA.… |
| Mozilla denies OS X Leopard 2012 kill Posted: 05 Dec 2011 02:42 AM PST Discussions will happenMozilla has denied that the death of Firefox on OS X Leopard, released just four years ago, is coming.… |
| Posted: 05 Dec 2011 02:21 AM PST Wee tablet, big phone? No, the ideal in-betweenerReview With Android tablets starting at seven inches and phones now reaching just under five, something was bound to come along to occupy what little middle ground remains and blur the distinction between phone and tablet irrecoverably. That something is the Galaxy Note.… |
| Ideas pits physical servers against fake ones Posted: 05 Dec 2011 02:21 AM PST Sizing up the cloudsLooking to try to size up the workloads running on your physical servers and see what it would take to move them onto public clouds? There's an app for that.… |
| Posted: 05 Dec 2011 02:00 AM PST Spy in the skyGeek Treat of the Week Never mind all my boasting about training for a helicopter pilot licence to help me survive the zombie apocalypse, it's been a long time since I had a go at flying anything. Looking back, that was a mistake because this Spy Cam 'copter is fun, fun, fun.… |
| Man gets £12,500 after girlfriend probes his medical data Posted: 05 Dec 2011 01:31 AM PST Nurse ex-partner's data breach cost him a jobThis is a rare event indeed: a data subject has taken successful action for compensation under section 13 of the Data Protection Act. Normally what happens if a data controller has caused damage is that there is an out-of-court settlement with a gagging (sorry "confidentiality") clause so no-one is the wiser.… |
| Bankrupt Borders flogs 65,536 IP addresses at $12 a pop Posted: 05 Dec 2011 01:01 AM PST Scarce network numbers offloaded to healthcare bizThe bankrupt bookseller Borders wants to sell its stash of 65,536 IP addresses to healthcare software vendor Cerner for $12 per address.… |
| Cross-border shopping wars: EC proposes free online arbitration Posted: 05 Dec 2011 12:33 AM PST Better refs for inter-country click-trade buy boostThe European Commission has proposed a free online dispute resolution platform through which traders and consumers could resolve disputes over online purchases.… |
| Blighty promised £43m prang-predicting supercomputer Posted: 05 Dec 2011 12:01 AM PST Science minister pledges £158m to boost Brit boffins' ITThe government is to invest £158m in IT infrastructure, including data storage, networks and high performance computing, to support research institutions and industry.… |
| Posted: 04 Dec 2011 11:00 PM PST Data deluge, data desert, or both?Broadcast Organisations of all shapes and sizes know they can no longer just spend money on new technology, especially in the light of today's economic travails.… |
| Facebook checks in with Gowalla Posted: 04 Dec 2011 03:30 PM PST Location is somethingFacebook has bought the location-based service Gowalla, according to CNNMoney.… |
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