Tas Uni helps align ice observations |
- Tas Uni helps align ice observations
- Telstra Int in anti-DDoS crusade
- NEC ramps up regional broadband wholesale
- Vodafone told to shape up or face mega fines
- Are Oracle's Exadata racks fluffing Apple's iCloud?
- Iran spy drone GPS hijack boasts: Rubbish, say experts
- Nekkid Tech: Vendors don't respond to how we use tech
- Humans, insects set to OBLITERATE frankincense supply
- Christmas cosmonauts set out safely for ISS
- O2 denies Nokia WinPho handset cull
- Facebook's 'Darwinian' nature keeps users safe - Irish gov
- Texas Memory Systems longs to seduce 'larger player'
- Ofcom grills pirates, loses report under fridge for two years
- Ofcom maps out what 'psychics' are allowed to do on TV
- Channel 5 snubs Freeview HD again
- Happy Birthday Intel 4004, and thanks for all the chips
- Facebook shoves your face into creepy 'sponsored stories' in 2012
- Sony Tablet P split-screen Android fondleslab
- Google Wallet hacked onto Verizon phones
- HP posts Pre 3 WebOS update
- Amazon, MS and Nokia sniff around RIM
- Whisper open-sources Android text-encryption app
- Mozilla, Google extend 'sweethearts' browser deal for 3 years
- NASA finds first Earth-sized planets outside the solar system
- Sony PSN class-action lawsuit ban prompts... lawsuit
- A simple HTML tag will crash 64-bit Windows 7
- Santa's Xmas Caper
- Lovefilm buys right to stream Sony Pictures content
- Ministry of Justice dreams of £1bn mega IT framework
- Neighbours not Liking Facebook's new campus
- ISP ordered to drop 'three strikes' rule against pirates
- Phone-hack scandal: News Int'l settles with 7 more claimants
- 3M CP45 pocket camcorder and projector combo
- Oracle hammered as hardware sales soften
- eBay scam nets suckers on both sides of the road
- AT&T's megablunder payout revealed
| Tas Uni helps align ice observations Posted: 21 Dec 2011 03:00 PM PST Seeking ground truth for the CryoSat-2 missionHow's this for a summer activity: dragging a GPS hundreds of kilometers across Antarctic ice to grab a GPS measurement?… |
| Telstra Int in anti-DDoS crusade Posted: 21 Dec 2011 02:30 PM PST Launches protection in the cloudTelstra has unveiled a global DDoS protection service for its international clients.… |
| NEC ramps up regional broadband wholesale Posted: 21 Dec 2011 02:00 PM PST Celebrates completion of regional backhaulWith the last link of Australia's Regional Backhaul Blackspots Program (RBBP) network – from Darwin in the Northern Territory to Toowoomba in Queensland – going live, NEC has announced an expansion of its regional wholesale broadband footprint.… |
| Vodafone told to shape up or face mega fines Posted: 21 Dec 2011 01:30 PM PST Regulator short of patienceVodafone Australia is facing $AU250,000 fines from the ACMA if it does not continue to lift its game on network performance, customer care and privacy issues.… |
| Are Oracle's Exadata racks fluffing Apple's iCloud? Posted: 21 Dec 2011 11:02 AM PST Larry rains on Big Blue's Power paradeOracle did not have a good fiscal Q2, as El Reg reported on Tuesday after the market closed. Server sales plummeted and new software license sales did not grow anywhere near what Ellison & Co expected.… |
| Iran spy drone GPS hijack boasts: Rubbish, say experts Posted: 21 Dec 2011 09:03 AM PST Cockup far more likely than conspiracy, as usualDoubts that Iran managed to bring down an advanced US drone over the country last month using an advanced GPS spoofing attack have been raised by experts, who say that attacks of this type would be extremely tough to pull off.… |
| Nekkid Tech: Vendors don't respond to how we use tech Posted: 21 Dec 2011 08:31 AM PST 'Every time somebody installs VMware View on a Kindle ...'Podcast Last week, Nekkid Tech host Greg Knieriemen chatted with Greg Schulz of StorageIO and Dell storage evangelist Gina Minks on various topics including the Infosmack mashup mess, how to pitch an ebook and what to do about those pesky IT admins...… |
| Humans, insects set to OBLITERATE frankincense supply Posted: 21 Dec 2011 08:02 AM PST Boots counter next Christmas?Scientists are warning that frankincense supplies are failing fast, and that 90 per cent of the world's supply could be gone in the next 50 years, thanks to some spectacularly unwise men.… |
| Christmas cosmonauts set out safely for ISS Posted: 21 Dec 2011 07:32 AM PST Along with ESA and NASA astronautsSoyuz TMA-03M blasted off from Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan at 13.16pm GMT today without a hitch, carrying the next three crew members for the ISS.… |
| O2 denies Nokia WinPho handset cull Posted: 21 Dec 2011 07:11 AM PST Lumia 800 just 'out of stock' despite absence from websiteO2 today insisted it has not dropped Nokia's Lumia 800. The Windows Phone 7 handset is simply "out of stock", according to the network operator.… |
| Facebook's 'Darwinian' nature keeps users safe - Irish gov Posted: 21 Dec 2011 06:59 AM PST Billions of web2.0 monkeys one day to evolve into humans?Facebook's handling of its user data in Ireland is legitimate, the Irish data protection commissioner's office said today.… |
| Texas Memory Systems longs to seduce 'larger player' Posted: 21 Dec 2011 06:29 AM PST Who will flash the cash for this flash cache stash?Fancy spending splashing some cash to buy some flash? Then go to the Lone Star state, where Texas Memory Systems has put itself up for sale.… |
| Ofcom grills pirates, loses report under fridge for two years Posted: 21 Dec 2011 06:04 AM PST 'Music, vids pirated because they're too expensive' shocker!Analysis On Monday Ofcom published two studies it commissioned into digital piracy: one attempting to quantify the level of piracy, the other a smaller study collecting pirates' opinions.… |
| Ofcom maps out what 'psychics' are allowed to do on TV Posted: 21 Dec 2011 05:42 AM PST Chicken bones are not, in principle, problematicThe UK regulator, Ofcom, has issued a clarification for purveyors of TV programmes based around psychic powers, basically reminding them that they are all frauds.… |
| Channel 5 snubs Freeview HD again Posted: 21 Dec 2011 05:22 AM PST Home of the Eddie Stobart docu sticks to SDChannel 5 is giving up on filling a Freeview HD channel, so fans of Celebrity Wedding Planner will just have to live with standard definition. Or go to Virgin or Sky for its Channel 5 HD offering.… |
| Happy Birthday Intel 4004, and thanks for all the chips Posted: 21 Dec 2011 05:04 AM PST Regards delivered by KindleIt's 40 years since Intel baked the first microprocessor, so celebrate by buying The Register's latest ebook, Happy Birthday Intel 4004.… |
| Facebook shoves your face into creepy 'sponsored stories' in 2012 Posted: 21 Dec 2011 04:43 AM PST A personalised ad party ... if you Like it, bitchFacebook will begin adding photos of its users to third-party adverts appearing in users' news feeds come early next year, so if you're the sort who's a bit free with your thumbs-up button, there's no way out of being featured alongside a tin of baked beans or a pair of knickers on the social network.… |
| Sony Tablet P split-screen Android fondleslab Posted: 21 Dec 2011 04:22 AM PST Hinge benefits?Review Now here's an odd one. Sony has created what looks like a monster Nintendo 3DS but is actually an Android Honeycomb tablet computer. So you get a sort of flattened tube that folds out to reveal two screens. Will it work? Should it work? Read on…… |
| Google Wallet hacked onto Verizon phones Posted: 21 Dec 2011 04:22 AM PST Telco exiled tap-to-pay Android app from Galaxy Nexus mobesVerizon's controversial decision to ask Google for Wallet-less builds of the Galaxy Nexus might be moot, as hackers have discovered that the functionality is there none the less.… |
| Posted: 21 Dec 2011 04:18 AM PST Last patch before open sourcerers set to work?HP has pushed out an WebOS update for its Pre 3 smartphone.… |
| Amazon, MS and Nokia sniff around RIM Posted: 21 Dec 2011 04:01 AM PST Many potential suitors as flagging firm attempts reboundBuyers including Amazon, Microsoft and Nokia have expressed some interest in hoovering up the remains of Research in Motion, as it reeled from one disaster to another this year.… |
| Whisper open-sources Android text-encryption app Posted: 21 Dec 2011 03:42 AM PST It has moxie... and Twitter for a daddyWhisper Systems has open-sourced TextSecure, its secure text messaging client for Android smartphones.… |
| Mozilla, Google extend 'sweethearts' browser deal for 3 years Posted: 21 Dec 2011 03:22 AM PST A marriage made in search heavenMozilla has extended its revenue deal with Google for another three years, following some will-they-won't-they speculation about the future of that "sweethearts" partnership.… |
| NASA finds first Earth-sized planets outside the solar system Posted: 21 Dec 2011 02:41 AM PST Unfortunately, they're hellishly hot ...NASA's Kepler mission, tasked with the illustrious mission of finding an Earth 2.0 for humankind, has located the first Earth-sized planets orbiting a star outside our solar system.… |
| Sony PSN class-action lawsuit ban prompts... lawsuit Posted: 21 Dec 2011 02:17 AM PST And it's seeking class-action status tooSony is being sued over its insistence that it not be sued.… |
| A simple HTML tag will crash 64-bit Windows 7 Posted: 21 Dec 2011 02:07 AM PST 0-day leaves kernel in the wrong iframe of mindAn unpatched critical flaw in 64-bit Windows 7 leaves computers vulnerable to a full 'blue screen of death' system crash.… |
| Posted: 21 Dec 2011 02:00 AM PST Jingle bell-end?Antique Code Show So let's just get one thing straight: 99.99 per cent of Christmas-themed games suck.… |
| Lovefilm buys right to stream Sony Pictures content Posted: 21 Dec 2011 01:44 AM PST Arthur Christmas exclusive - stitch that, NetflixThe tit-for-tat announcements from Lovefilm and Netflix continue as the arrival in the UK of the US streaming giant and the biggest threat to the Amazon-owned incumbent gets closer.… |
| Ministry of Justice dreams of £1bn mega IT framework Posted: 21 Dec 2011 01:42 AM PST So much for centralised approach to tech buyingThe Ministry of Justice (MoJ) has begun to sound out the market for an IT services framework that would be one of the biggest deals in government and effectively duplicate arrangements elsewhere in Whitehall.… |
| Neighbours not Liking Facebook's new campus Posted: 21 Dec 2011 01:23 AM PST Rapidly expanding workforce could cause traffic and parking issuesFacebook has only just moved into its new digs at Menlo Park, but already there are rumours of problems with the neighbours over traffic disruptions and parking spaces.… |
| ISP ordered to drop 'three strikes' rule against pirates Posted: 21 Dec 2011 01:02 AM PST Using IP addresses to ID them invades privacyThe Irish data protection watchdog has ordered the country's largest internet service provider (ISP) to stop using its 'three strikes' system for identifying and warning alleged illegal file-sharers, according to media reports.… |
| Phone-hack scandal: News Int'l settles with 7 more claimants Posted: 21 Dec 2011 12:02 AM PST Reportedly dishes out 'hundreds of thousands of pounds'News International has paid hundreds of thousands of pounds in seven civil lawsuits to individuals who allegedly had their voicemails intercepted by individuals working at the now-defunct News of the World.… |
| 3M CP45 pocket camcorder and projector combo Posted: 20 Dec 2011 11:00 PM PST Making light of your photographyReview The 3M CP45 is a combination HD camcorder, 5Mp camera and LED-lit LCOS projector. Not much bigger than a couple of copulating iPhones, it can film and throw an image up to 65in onto a convenient wall.… |
| Oracle hammered as hardware sales soften Posted: 20 Dec 2011 04:15 PM PST Software sales flaccid, as wellSoftware behemoth and systems player Oracle missed its projections for both hardware revenues and new software license sales in its second quarter of fiscal 2012. While Oracle was facing a very tough compare, the miss is something that will make Wall Street and the rest of the IT community jittery for a spell – at least until they can spike their egg nog.… |
| eBay scam nets suckers on both sides of the road Posted: 20 Dec 2011 03:30 PM PST Buyers and merchants fall for empty box ripoffGreedy eBay customers and merchants have both been caught by scammers punting empty boxes as containing high-priced kit at a 50 percent discount.… |
| AT&T's megablunder payout revealed Posted: 20 Dec 2011 03:02 PM PST Cash? Here's $3bn. Spectrum? Bunches. Roaming? Sure!Details of AT&T's "we screwed the pooch" payout to Deutsche Telekom over the failed T-Mobile USA acquisition have emerged, and right ... about ... now ... AT&T chairman and CEO Randall Stephenson should be barricading himself in his corner office as pitchfork-brandishing shareholders demand his head on a platter.… |
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