Iran displays video footage of captured US spy drone |
- Iran displays video footage of captured US spy drone
- Google splashes $US300m on HK data centre
- Some aspects of NBN anti-competitive, says PC
- OpenDNS puts crypto in beta
- Netflix set to make your video history public
- Broadcom bullish in 802.11ac and in-car Ethernet
- Cloudera gets proactive with Hadoop management
- Digital certificate authority suspends ops following breach
- North America makes entry into dino fatty league
- Brocade has 2-year Fibre Channel headstart on rival
- Microsoft welcomes OSI open source to Win8 store
- Former Ingram Micro MD joins distie TD Maverick
- Feds probe alleged World Cup bid email hack
- Ofcom sets out ambitious plans for 2012/13
- Small biz owners plan for stingy Xmas celebrations
- Judge Dredd vs Zombies
- Facebook tries to grow up by undergoing corporate rejig
- New account of Flight 447 disaster published
- The pace of change parts 1, 2 and 3
- iOS finally gets Palm compatibility
- TomTom axes 10% of workforce
- Tech firm deals collapse on fears of double dip
- WD to research flash in Taiwan
- Patchy app development security slammed
- Domesday Book put on touchscreen at Bletchley Park
- Nokia to sell off luxury phone brand
- Laptop bags: 15-inchers
- Taxpayers to cough <i>more</i> for multi-billion pound failed NHS IT project
- Fusion-io: SSDs are useless ... Let's build one
- Retailer reveals Nokia Lumia 710 UK debut date
- Steve Jobs' last design: New Apple HQ pics
- Why are Android anti-virus firms so slow to react on Carrier IQ?
- <i>Mythbusters</i> cannonball ‘myth-fires’
- Apple preps TV enabled iMac ahead of own-brand telly
- Amazon: The Microsoft of the cloud
- NASA rover finds evidence of water flowing on Mars
- KitchenPad
- Insurance and IT firms agree rules on sharing price details
- Oedipal shower romp wins crap sex award
- Criminal Records Bureau checks to go online
- EC data protection proposals could open up Zuck's 'social graph'
- Cabinet Office extends G Cloud deadline
- Acer Aspire 5749 budget 15in laptop
- China pad peddler wins iPad name from Apple
- Greenplum previews unified Hadoop biz-intel stack
- UltraViolet: Hollywood's giant digital gamble is here
- Stars behind the clouds: Oz government wants ratings
- Bill Gates discusses nuclear development deal with China
- Eyes on stalks: ancient predator a real monster
| Iran displays video footage of captured US spy drone Posted: 08 Dec 2011 03:07 PM PST Lodges official complaint over airspace violationsIranian state television has shown video of what it claims is a US spy drone that was hijacked by its army's electronic warfare unit.… |
| Google splashes $US300m on HK data centre Posted: 08 Dec 2011 03:00 PM PST Oompa-Loompas for Honkers by 2013Google's first Asia Pacific data centre is currently under construction in Hong Kong and looking for staff.… |
| Some aspects of NBN anti-competitive, says PC Posted: 08 Dec 2011 02:45 PM PST It's a monopoly, what did you expect?In the kind of decision that will go down in the annals of the astonishingly obvious, Australia's Productivity Commission has found that some aspects of the National Broadband Network might be considered anti-competitive.… |
| Posted: 08 Dec 2011 02:00 PM PST DNSCrypt tries to block snoopingWhile the world slowly implements DNSSec in the backbone of the Internet, OpenDNS has put forward its solution to securing the user-side of DNS, with the preview version of a DNS encryption tool.… |
| Netflix set to make your video history public Posted: 08 Dec 2011 01:42 PM PST That Jenna Jameson phase will haunt youNetflix has been given the legal green light to integrate information of customer's video viewing habits on social networks following the passing of a bill by the US House of Representatives.… |
| Broadcom bullish in 802.11ac and in-car Ethernet Posted: 08 Dec 2011 01:30 PM PST No need to rip-and-replace Wi-Fi yetBroadcom has been outlining its plans for the next year, including a big push into the 802.11ac wireless arena and a new venture for in-car Ethernet.… |
| Cloudera gets proactive with Hadoop management Posted: 08 Dec 2011 10:20 AM PST Lets loose freebie control freakCloudera might have been the first company to try becoming the Red Hat for stuffed elephants, but with MapR, Hortonworks, IBM, Oracle, DataStax, and EMC all trying to commercialize Hadoop, Cloudera has to keep on its toes and perhaps even balance on a ball.… |
| Digital certificate authority suspends ops following breach Posted: 08 Dec 2011 09:44 AM PST Hackers access database, gain control over websiteWebsites belonging to a Netherlands-based issuer of digital certificates were unavailable following reports hackers penetrated their security and accessed databases that should have been off limits.… |
| North America makes entry into dino fatty league Posted: 08 Dec 2011 09:19 AM PST 73-tonne dino is US's biggest yetSeems like Americans have been fatties for longer than we thought. The heaviest creature to have walked on land lived in New Mexico circa the Late Cretaceous period, according to an article by Montana State Uni researchers.… |
| Brocade has 2-year Fibre Channel headstart on rival Posted: 08 Dec 2011 09:04 AM PST Cisco you laggard ...Brocade is making 16gig Fibre Channel hay while Cisco is still lagging up to two years behind, having made a wrong bet with FCoE.… |
| Microsoft welcomes OSI open source to Win8 store Posted: 08 Dec 2011 08:33 AM PST GPL blocked at the doorMost, but not all, open-source apps are being welcomed by Microsoft into the Windows 8 Windows Store.… |
| Former Ingram Micro MD joins distie TD Maverick Posted: 08 Dec 2011 08:22 AM PST Plumping up the European marketChannel veteran Julian Klein has pitched up at AV distie TD Maverick as European development director.… |
| Feds probe alleged World Cup bid email hack Posted: 08 Dec 2011 08:03 AM PST We wuz robbedFederal investigators are investigating claims that email accounts of the US bid team for the 2022 World Cup were hacked of part of an alleged dirty tricks campaign that may also have affected the 2018 bid process.… |
| Ofcom sets out ambitious plans for 2012/13 Posted: 08 Dec 2011 07:43 AM PST Spectrum auctions, Olympic Games and live complaints systemUK communications regulator Ofcom has set out its plan for the next year, and wants to know if anyone disagrees with its priorities.… |
| Small biz owners plan for stingy Xmas celebrations Posted: 08 Dec 2011 07:22 AM PST Workers forced to pull their own crackerMore than half of small biz owners are cancelling Christmas – well the annual festive lunch to be specific – as cash is in short supply.… |
| Posted: 08 Dec 2011 07:06 AM PST 'I am the Law'Review Cop of the future Judge Dredd has been pounding the streets of Mega City One since 1977, but it took host comic 2000AD's acquisition by software developer Rebellion in 2000 to see the lawman to star in a decent videogame. Dredd has appeared on the PC, the PlayStation and the Xbox, and now he's meting out justice, shot by shot, on the iPad and iPhone.… |
| Facebook tries to grow up by undergoing corporate rejig Posted: 08 Dec 2011 07:02 AM PST Be private and communicate to your stalkerbase... bitchFacebook has reportedly overhauled its corporate structure in (probably) a sly nod to Google and (more likely) as a strategic move ahead of the company's expected IPO.… |
| New account of Flight 447 disaster published Posted: 08 Dec 2011 06:43 AM PST Computer rashly let pilots take overLack of manual flying experience contributed to the crash of a fully functional commercial airliner two years ago, killing all 228 people aboard.… |
| The pace of change parts 1, 2 and 3 Posted: 08 Dec 2011 06:18 AM PST Or, what cloud means for your companyOn demand Vendors are always talking about cloud this and cloud that, as if you're all the same. Well, maybe to them, you are but wavy company in every sector has different needs for IT, and so different needs for cloud technology.… |
| iOS finally gets Palm compatibility Posted: 08 Dec 2011 06:02 AM PST As long as apps are wrapped up warmLove the iPhone, but still in love with Palm OS? You can have it all as StyleTap is standing ready to wrap up your Palm OS apps with an Apple-friendly iOS coating.… |
| Posted: 08 Dec 2011 05:43 AM PST Overhauls R&D groupsSat-nav maker TomTom is axing 10 per cent of the workforce and reorganising the R&D budget to speed up the time it takes to get products to market.… |
| Tech firm deals collapse on fears of double dip Posted: 08 Dec 2011 05:22 AM PST Mergers and acquisitions down 20 per cent in NovemberTech M&A activity across Europe dropped by one-fifth in November compared to the previous month amid biting concerns over the state of the economy and a potential slide into a second recession.… |
| WD to research flash in Taiwan Posted: 08 Dec 2011 05:03 AM PST New R&D centreDisk drive supplier Western Digital is planning a solid state drive (SSD) research and development centre in Taiwan.… |
| Patchy app development security slammed Posted: 08 Dec 2011 04:47 AM PST Eight out of 10 tested apps riddled with flawsEight in 10 applications failed to pass stricter security testing standards in test by application security assessment firm Veracode.… |
| Domesday Book put on touchscreen at Bletchley Park Posted: 08 Dec 2011 04:39 AM PST If Minority Report had been about medieval peasants ...The first Domesday book was published on vellum in the 11th century. 900 years later when the BBC wanted to mark the anniversary of Britain's oldest surviving dataset, they gathered a whole new clutch of information about Britain in photos, videos and text, and because it was 1986 saved it all on laser discs.… |
| Nokia to sell off luxury phone brand Posted: 08 Dec 2011 04:16 AM PST Gem-encrusted blower biz on blockNokia is planning to sell off Vertu, its wholly-owned luxury-phone brand, which sells basic mobile phones with classy cases to the overpaid.… |
| Posted: 08 Dec 2011 04:00 AM PST For folk with large luggablesXmas Gift Guide Fed up of lugging your laptop around in a tatty old backpack? Fancy something a little more stylish? Feel your other half ought to carry a pack that's more chic? Here are five of the best bags for 15in laptops that Reg Hardware saw during 2011.… |
| Taxpayers to cough <i>more</i> for multi-billion pound failed NHS IT project Posted: 08 Dec 2011 03:47 AM PST CSC will reportedly continue work despite ginormous cockups. DoH!A contract extension costing the taxpayer up to £2bn has reportedly been granted to Computer Sciences Corporation, even though the botched NHS IT project the American company had been working on was axed by the health secretary in September.… |
| Fusion-io: SSDs are useless ... Let's build one Posted: 08 Dec 2011 03:34 AM PST Developing super-speed SSD – SCSI Express accelerates SSD interfaceAfter knocking SSDs for poor performance, Fusion-io is now building one itself – but throwing out existing speed-limiting SSD interfaces designed for disk drives.… |
| Retailer reveals Nokia Lumia 710 UK debut date Posted: 08 Dec 2011 03:17 AM PST Not before ChrimboNokia's second Windows Phone handset, the Lumia 710, will be available over here on 6 January 2012, one online retailer reckons.… |
| Steve Jobs' last design: New Apple HQ pics Posted: 08 Dec 2011 03:14 AM PST Doughnut of doomThose who think that Apple is a strange cult will only have their suspicions confirmed by the recently released renderings of Apple's new Cupertino HQ published online yesterday.… |
| Why are Android anti-virus firms so slow to react on Carrier IQ? Posted: 08 Dec 2011 03:02 AM PST Release of |
| <i>Mythbusters</i> cannonball ‘myth-fires’ Posted: 08 Dec 2011 02:42 AM PST Misses target, hits houses and carIf non-US readers have ever wondered how far the Alameda County bomb disposal range (beloved of Discovery Channel show Mythbusters) is from homes, it seems it's at least close enough for a misdirected cannonball to hit a house.… |
| Apple preps TV enabled iMac ahead of own-brand telly Posted: 08 Dec 2011 02:33 AM PST Siri to control the UIAll the rage - well, among PC makers, if not consumers - in the early 1990s, the PC TV is set to make a comeback, courtesy of Apple.… |
| Amazon: The Microsoft of the cloud Posted: 08 Dec 2011 02:21 AM PST Will AWS eat all the competition?Open ... and Shut Is there a cloud market, or is there an Amazon market?… |
| NASA rover finds evidence of water flowing on Mars Posted: 08 Dec 2011 02:00 AM PST 'Sort of thing that makes boffins leap out of their chairs'NASA's famous robot rover Opportunity, still prowling the haematite steppes of the Meridiani Planum on Mars seven years after setting down, appears to have discovered concrete evidence that liquid water once flowed across the surface of the red planet.… |
| Posted: 08 Dec 2011 02:00 AM PST Book the cooksiOS App of the Week The big problem when preparing the Christmas mega-feast is synchronising the timings for all the different dishes. My oven just has a single timer on it, so KitchenPad's ability to create multiple timers is just what I need.… |
| Insurance and IT firms agree rules on sharing price details Posted: 08 Dec 2011 01:43 AM PST Blabbing pricing intentions to each other looked fishy to OFTSix insurance companies and two IT software and service providers have agreed to change the way price information for motor insurance is shared following concerns that previous practices were violating competition laws.… |
| Oedipal shower romp wins crap sex award Posted: 08 Dec 2011 01:23 AM PST Mum abuses son 'with a bar of soap', author David Guterson explainsUS author David Guterson has walked off with this year's Literary Review Bad Sex in Fiction Award, for an admirable contribution to the genre in his novel Ed King.… |
| Criminal Records Bureau checks to go online Posted: 08 Dec 2011 01:02 AM PST Status check removes need for fresh papers for each job applicationThe Criminal Records Bureau (CRB) is to introduce an online status checking service for employers to verify that potential employees have been cleared for relevant jobs. It is intended to save people from having to request a new certificate every time they apply for a new role.… |
| EC data protection proposals could open up Zuck's 'social graph' Posted: 08 Dec 2011 12:27 AM PST Will Facebook be required to allow info transfer to *gasps* Google+?Draft proposals on the European Commission's "general data protection regulation" have been leaked online.… |
| Cabinet Office extends G Cloud deadline Posted: 08 Dec 2011 12:03 AM PST Suppliers get more time to bid for public sector cloud bizThe Cabinet Office has extended the deadline for suppliers to apply to join its G Cloud framework by three weeks to 19 December.… |
| Acer Aspire 5749 budget 15in laptop Posted: 07 Dec 2011 11:00 PM PST How much performance does 400 quid get you?Review Acer's Aspire line has become synonymous with affordable computing power, providing an air of quality even towards the lowest end of the pricing scale. With an asking price of £399, the 15.6in Aspire 5749 isn't going to break the bank and it certainly won't be shattering records, but can so little money buy reasonable performance?… |
| China pad peddler wins iPad name from Apple Posted: 07 Dec 2011 05:49 PM PST Cupertino and local channel face legal barrageApple and its Chinese resellers are facing a wave of legal action in the wake of a court ruling which found that Cupertino does not own the trademark to the iPad name in China.… |
| Greenplum previews unified Hadoop biz-intel stack Posted: 07 Dec 2011 04:54 PM PST Time to buy MapR and dust off the Aviion brandUpstart data-warehousing appliance maker Greenplum said on Wednesday that it is getting set to mash up its data-warehousing software with its OEMed distribution of the Hadoop big data muncher to create a single über data platform that it is logically calling the Unified Analytics platform.… |
| UltraViolet: Hollywood's giant digital gamble is here Posted: 07 Dec 2011 04:02 PM PST Boxing Day launch for UKHollywood's big plan to update the industry for the digital era - UltraViolet - comes to the UK on 26 December, the consortium behind it has revealed. It will be an inauspicious start, represented by just one new movie release, but there's no mistaking the ambition of the project. Three years in the planning, UV is Hollywood's attempt to get right what the music business has got woefully wrong, and it isn't unreasonable to describe it as the biggest shift in thinking in the history of the movie industry.… |
| Stars behind the clouds: Oz government wants ratings Posted: 07 Dec 2011 03:30 PM PST Security, privacy and trust should be standardizedThe Federal government has decided that the pursuit of cloud computing is so urgent that it's just released a cloud issues paper dated October.… |
| Bill Gates discusses nuclear development deal with China Posted: 07 Dec 2011 03:07 PM PST TerraPower plans new form of low-risk nuclear reactorBill Gates is holding talks with the China National Nuclear Corporation about building the first of a new breed of nuclear reactors that are fueled with what is currently considered radioactive waste.… |
| Eyes on stalks: ancient predator a real monster Posted: 07 Dec 2011 03:00 PM PST Throw this shrimp on the barbieA group of scientists working on fossils from Kangaroo Island in South Australia has turned up a Cambrian predator with horror-movie specs: razor serrations in a circular mouth, claws at the front of its head, and compound eyes on stalks.… |
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