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- Intel, Micron double single-chip flash capacity
- Solar installations skyrocket in Oz
- Ericsson scores slice of Kiwi fast network
- MapR cranks out updated Hadoop data muncher
- Military contractor warns of new Adobe Reader exploit
- Verizon denies blocking competitive Google Wallet
- Artists craft the ultimate iPhone fanboi holiday gift
- ‘Evil’ pleads guilty in Platform Networks case
- ‘Blogger not a journalist’ says Oregon court
- Motorola rolls out Australia’s biggest digital radio network
- Boffing boffins create 3D map of orgasmic female brain
- Cisco wants to build your cloud
- Facebook security hole exposes Zuckerberg's privates
- India asks Facebook and friends to screen content
- Last of the space shuttle commanders retires from NASA
- Sony networks boss on PlayStation, Sky and Google
- Code-probing, not <i>Angry Birds</i>, will define cloud's success
- Cnet slammed for wrapping Nmap downloads with cruddy toolbar
- Google set to begin appeal against Italian guilty verdicts
- .xxx opens for business as smut site slings lawsuit
- Apple probed by EC antitrust arm over ebooks market
- More BT heads roll amid biz transformation
- Cash-bloated startup takes on data protection giants
- US trade commission delays decision on HTC
- Infographic: The road to desktop virtualisation
- <em>El Reg's</em> life of Steve Jobs - now available on Kindle
- Kindle Fire to consume half of Android tablet biz
- US military pays SETI to check Kepler-22b for aliens
- Windows 8 fondleslabs: Microsoft tip-toes through PC-makers' disaster
- Bumblebee boffins rediscover long-vanished species
- Codebreakers find evidence for hidden puzzle in GCHQ challenge
- China gets 64 quid Android 4.0 tablet
- Another flash array upstart attacks SAN goliaths
- 2011's Best... DVRs and Media Streamers
- Navy pays 2x purchase price to keep warship docked for 5 years
- Samsung imagines see-through bendy tablet of the future
- IPO: Patent laws must change to attract Big Pharma to UK
- Asda knocks 20 quid off Kobo WiFi
- Microsoft researchers build spam filter for HIV
- Samsung seeks new chip factory in China
- UK.gov to require YOU to opt out of data-sharing plan with drug firms
- Boffins: Japan was hit by 'double-wave' tsunami
- LG chisels wedge-shaped Ultrabook
- Cocktail Flow
- Opera spruces up email client in 11.60 browser cut
- Roberts reveals radio with raunchy recording features
- Tax dept staff are HM's biggest e-learners
- Facebook 'acq-hires' Gowalla brains, shuts service down
- Voyager probe reaches edge of Solar System's 'bubble'
- British shoppers are doing it on the interwebs
| Intel, Micron double single-chip flash capacity Posted: 06 Dec 2011 03:13 PM PST How does a speedy 128Gb grab you?Intel and Micron, through their IM Flash Technologies (IMFT) joint venture, have announced the development of what they call the world's first 20-nanometer, 128-gigabit, multilevel-cell flash-memory chip, and that they have begun "mass production" of their 20nm 64Gb chip.… |
| Solar installations skyrocket in Oz Posted: 06 Dec 2011 03:00 PM PST PV now on half a million roofsIn spite of cutbacks in various government programs that subsidized home solar installations, installations in Australia passed the half-million mark during 2011, according to the Clean Energy Council.… |
| Ericsson scores slice of Kiwi fast network Posted: 06 Dec 2011 02:30 PM PST Set to deploy GPON for NorthpowerEricsson will be rolling out one of the first commercially available GPON networks developed under the New Zealand government's Ultra-Fast Broadband initiative.… |
| MapR cranks out updated Hadoop data muncher Posted: 06 Dec 2011 02:20 PM PST Lays foundation for MapReduce 2.0There are a slew of companies that want to be the Red Hat for open source Hadoop data chewing, making money by beefing it up and selling support for the collection of programs. MapR Technologies, which came out of stealth mode in May, has some proprietary extensions to Hadoop, but all of the goodies being added with MapR Distribution Version 1.2 are available in its open source distribution.… |
| Military contractor warns of new Adobe Reader exploit Posted: 06 Dec 2011 02:15 PM PST Attacks already under wayAttackers are exploiting a vulnerability in the latest versions of Adobe Reader and Acrobat applications to hijack computers running Microsoft Windows, Adobe warned on Tuesday.… |
| Verizon denies blocking competitive Google Wallet Posted: 06 Dec 2011 02:08 PM PST Not blocking – just don't expect it to workVerizon Wireless has denied blocking its users from Google's Wallet system, but has admitted that that its customers won't be able to use the payment application anytime soon.… |
| Artists craft the ultimate iPhone fanboi holiday gift Posted: 06 Dec 2011 02:05 PM PST Meet the $800, gold-plated shofarApparently inspired by the alpenhorn and shofar, an Italian design firm has created the ultimate in glitzy, ritzy sound support for the iPhone: the Megaphone.… |
| ‘Evil’ pleads guilty in Platform Networks case Posted: 06 Dec 2011 02:00 PM PST Upside: no more 'NBN hacker' headlines?David Noel Cecil, who earlier this year was arrested on accusations that he had hacked into computers operated by Platform Networks, has pleaded guilty to two counts of causing unauthorized modification of data.… |
| ‘Blogger not a journalist’ says Oregon court Posted: 06 Dec 2011 01:56 PM PST The $2.5 million defamation distinctionAn Oregon court has denied a blogger protection under that state's "shield laws" because she isn't employed by a media organization – a distinction which has cost her $2.5 million in a lost defamation suit.… |
| Motorola rolls out Australia’s biggest digital radio network Posted: 06 Dec 2011 01:30 PM PST Network first unites emergency servicesMotorola Solutions will deploy Australia's largest integrated digital radio network as part of a state-wide emergency services network for Western Australian government.… |
| Boffing boffins create 3D map of orgasmic female brain Posted: 06 Dec 2011 12:34 PM PST Women are complicated. Who knew?A team at Rutgers University claims that women use up to 80 different points in their brain when orgasming, a discovery achieved by mapping the moment in 3D using a MRI scanner.… |
| Cisco wants to build your cloud Posted: 06 Dec 2011 11:52 AM PST Might as well face it, you're addicted to videoNetworking giant and server wannabe Cisco Systems put the word out on the street that it was making a big cloud announcement today, but if you were expecting the company to launch a big wonking public cloud and take a run at the Amazon compute cloud juggernaut, you can forget it.… |
| Facebook security hole exposes Zuckerberg's privates Posted: 06 Dec 2011 10:31 AM PST And possibly yours, tooA security hole on Facebook has been exposing private pictures of countless users, including the Social Network's founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg.… |
| India asks Facebook and friends to screen content Posted: 06 Dec 2011 09:11 AM PST Google and other net giants in meetings with gov over 'offensive content'Indian officials have joined the many governments that are beginning to get edgy about social media and the web, asking internet firms to get rid of content it considers offensive.… |
| Last of the space shuttle commanders retires from NASA Posted: 06 Dec 2011 08:49 AM PST Atlantis skipper hangs up his pressure suitThe last astronaut to command a space shuttle mission is retiring from NASA at the age of 50, after 13 years at the agency.… |
| Sony networks boss on PlayStation, Sky and Google Posted: 06 Dec 2011 08:42 AM PST Tim Schaaff: 'We don't have to be 100 per cent efficient to be successful'Interview Tim Schaaff has one of the most interesting jobs in technology and media, as president of Sony's Network Entertainment. Under his guidance, Sony has built out the PlayStation Network and launched Music Unlimited. It's also one of the most challenging jobs, as Schaaf's vertical division spans several competing fiefdoms at the giant, which employs 168,000 people.… |
| Code-probing, not <i>Angry Birds</i>, will define cloud's success Posted: 06 Dec 2011 08:22 AM PST No sex please we're testingOpen ... and Shut The cloud promises a new era of cost reduction and agility for IT, and enterprises are diving in (warning: PDF) to secure these benefits.… |
| Cnet slammed for wrapping Nmap downloads with cruddy toolbar Posted: 06 Dec 2011 07:42 AM PST Babylon's Burning ...Cnet has come under fire for wrapping downloads of the popular Nmap network analysis tool and other open-source software packages with a toolbar of dubious utility.… |
| Google set to begin appeal against Italian guilty verdicts Posted: 06 Dec 2011 07:22 AM PST GoogleVid Three to fight privacy-breach convictionsGoogle is shortly expected to appeal against suspended sentences handed out to three of its executives accused of breaching Italian privacy laws.… |
| .xxx opens for business as smut site slings lawsuit Posted: 06 Dec 2011 07:02 AM PST Policies proposed on child pr0n, piracy and censorshipThe .xxx top-level domain will open for registrations from the public this afternoon, over a decade after the controversial adults-only internet address was first proposed.… |
| Apple probed by EC antitrust arm over ebooks market Posted: 06 Dec 2011 06:42 AM PST Did publishers and Cupertino stifle competition in EU?Brussels opened a formal investigation into the sales of ebooks in Europe this morning to determine whether five publishers, with the help of Apple, had breached competition rules within the EU.… |
| More BT heads roll amid biz transformation Posted: 06 Dec 2011 06:21 AM PST 'Disgusting the way staff are being treated' say reseller workersUpdated BT Engage IT company insiders claim staff morale has hit rock bottom as further details of the redundancies come to light.… |
| Cash-bloated startup takes on data protection giants Posted: 06 Dec 2011 05:58 AM PST What the heck is going on at Actifio?Ash Ashutosh's Actifio startup has been flooded with cash by VCs - $59.5m since its founding in 2008 - to create a virtualised data protection and availability device. Is it on fire?… |
| US trade commission delays decision on HTC Posted: 06 Dec 2011 05:46 AM PST Wants another week to decide if it's violating Apple's patentsThe US International Trade Commission seems to be having a tough time making up its mind whether HTC has violated Apple patents, postponing a decision due today until 14 December.… |
| Infographic: The road to desktop virtualisation Posted: 06 Dec 2011 05:30 AM PST We're on a road to somewhereSo much been said over the years about desktop virtualisation, so many claims, so much noise, so much clutter.… |
| <em>El Reg's</em> life of Steve Jobs - now available on Kindle Posted: 06 Dec 2011 05:23 AM PST For you, for a friend, and for less than an eggnog latteThe Register has launched its first Kindle book, "The Life and Times of Steve Jobs", by Rik Myslewski.… |
| Kindle Fire to consume half of Android tablet biz Posted: 06 Dec 2011 05:18 AM PST Three vendors in 2012: Apple, Amazon and 'others', says analystAmazon's Kindle Fire will account for half of the Android tablets bought in 2012.… |
| US military pays SETI to check Kepler-22b for aliens Posted: 06 Dec 2011 05:14 AM PST 'Space situational awareness' cash for Allen ArrayThe Search for Extra Terrestrial Intelligence (SETI) has announced that it is back in business checking out the new habitable exoplanets recently discovered by NASA's Kepler space telescope to see if they might be home to alien civilisations. The cash needed to restart SETI's efforts has come in part from the US Air Force Space Command, who are interested in using the organisation's detection instruments for "space situational awareness".… |
| Windows 8 fondleslabs: Microsoft tip-toes through PC-makers' disaster Posted: 06 Dec 2011 05:03 AM PST Winning consumers and influencing content-makers2012 should be a landmark year for Microsoft. It will be the year 2011 should have been.… |
| Bumblebee boffins rediscover long-vanished species Posted: 06 Dec 2011 04:39 AM PST Rare US insect had not been seen since 1956Scientists have rediscovered an extremely rare species of bumblebee in the US, which hasn't been seen since 1956.… |
| Codebreakers find evidence for hidden puzzle in GCHQ challenge Posted: 06 Dec 2011 04:32 AM PST 'Tell me I'm on the right track, GCHQ, so I can get some sleep'Codebreakers are split over whether there might be a hidden challenge in the GCHQ-set code-breaking puzzle set last week.… |
| China gets 64 quid Android 4.0 tablet Posted: 06 Dec 2011 04:17 AM PST Ainol outs seven-incherIt's not politically correct to snigger at foreign folks' names, but we're not sure how well the Ainol tablet will play with Westerners - even if it does cost as little as $100 (£64) and come with Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich.… |
| Another flash array upstart attacks SAN goliaths Posted: 06 Dec 2011 04:14 AM PST XtremIO gets fresh flash fundingXtremIO is another flash array upstart aiming to wrest server networked storage away from the six SAN giants: Dell, EMC, HDS, HP, IBM and NetApp.… |
| 2011's Best... DVRs and Media Streamers Posted: 06 Dec 2011 04:00 AM PST Telly content, off your Lan, off the netXmas Gift Guide The days of piling shelves high with videotape recordings of shows once broadcast then forgotten are long gone. The current generation of DVRs and media streamers ensures that no TV programme remains unwatched for long, whether you snare it with a series link or stream it via a catch-up service.… |
| Navy pays 2x purchase price to keep warship docked for 5 years Posted: 06 Dec 2011 03:46 AM PST You'll never guess the name of the contractorA contract has been awarded to keep a Royal Navy warship stored and unready for sea in dock for five years. The amount to be paid is approximately double what the ship cost to purchase in the first place.… |
| Samsung imagines see-through bendy tablet of the future Posted: 06 Dec 2011 03:40 AM PST Dream OLEDYes, it'll be many a year before we're all running around the globe, unfolding our transparent OLED mobile internet devices - which will seemingly operate without batteries and circuitry - and gaining useful local knowledge through a mix of mobile broadband, augmented reality and 3D.… |
| IPO: Patent laws must change to attract Big Pharma to UK Posted: 06 Dec 2011 03:29 AM PST Stringent testing rules strangle drug development, say companiesThe government is likely to change patent laws because some pharmaceutical companies are at risk of breaking patent law when carrying out clinical testing, the Intellectual Property Office (IPO) has said.… |
| Asda knocks 20 quid off Kobo WiFi Posted: 06 Dec 2011 03:17 AM PST Basic e-book reader even cheaper for ChrimboAsda will be selling Kobo's most basic e-book reader for just 67 quid this Christmas, the retail giant wanted us to tell you.… |
| Microsoft researchers build spam filter for HIV Posted: 06 Dec 2011 03:14 AM PST Turns out spammers behave a lot like deadly virus...Researchers at Microsoft have discovered that tools first developed to fight email spam can be applied in helping to understand how the process by which HIV mutates to avoid attack by the immune system.… |
| Samsung seeks new chip factory in China Posted: 06 Dec 2011 02:58 AM PST Applies for NAND production facilities for mobes and tabsSamsung has applied to build a new flash memory chip plant in China, likely to cost around $4bn.… |
| UK.gov to require YOU to opt out of data-sharing plan with drug firms Posted: 06 Dec 2011 02:44 AM PST Confidential NHS records to be 'opened up'Plans to share confidential NHS records with private medical researchers have been revealed by Prime Minister David Cameron.… |
| Boffins: Japan was hit by 'double-wave' tsunami Posted: 06 Dec 2011 02:22 AM PST Two became oneBoffins from NASA and Ohio State University have discovered that the tsunami that hit Japan in March 2011 was a so-called 'merging tsunami'.… |
| LG chisels wedge-shaped Ultrabook Posted: 06 Dec 2011 02:04 AM PST Air-spirational?LG has revealed its first Ultrabook offering: the Xnote Z330, a 13.3in, 1366 × 768 machine with a MacBook Air-esque wedge design.… |
| Posted: 06 Dec 2011 02:00 AM PST Bottoms up!Android App of the Week My knowledge of cocktails is limited to seeing how many I can drink at press launches, so for those occasions when I have guests who aren't impressed by my endless supply of bottled real ale, this app is a lifesaver.… |
| Opera spruces up email client in 11.60 browser cut Posted: 06 Dec 2011 01:39 AM PST Ragnarök: An ending, or a beginning?Opera has given one of its best-kept secrets - its email client - a facelift in the latest general release of its browser, available this morning.… |
| Roberts reveals radio with raunchy recording features Posted: 06 Dec 2011 01:34 AM PST Noise "Я" usRoberts has launched a fresh DAB radio that lets users record their favourite broadcasts to an SD card.… |
| Tax dept staff are HM's biggest e-learners Posted: 06 Dec 2011 01:23 AM PST Friggin tax-collecting boffins know too much!HMRC staff took more than 615,000 e-learning courses last year...… |
| Facebook 'acq-hires' Gowalla brains, shuts service down Posted: 06 Dec 2011 12:57 AM PST 'We know you loved Gowalla, but they offered cash money'Facebook has confirmed that it is bringing the team behind Gowalla into the social network's fold.… |
| Voyager probe reaches edge of Solar System's 'bubble' Posted: 06 Dec 2011 12:46 AM PST 'Soon we find out what interstellar space is really like'NASA's famous Voyager 1 space probe, sailing outwards into the interstellar void far beyond the orbit of Pluto, has entered a new and never-before-seen region of space thought to be the very edge of the "bubble" maintained around the solar system by the power of the Sun.… |
| British shoppers are doing it on the interwebs Posted: 06 Dec 2011 12:31 AM PST Web and mobiles now a large part of retail therapyThe British are taking to online shopping faster than most other countries, according to a new study.… |
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