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- Verizon slips $3.6bn shiv into AT&T, T-Mobile ribs
- Feds clear Google, AdMeld melding
- iPhone banned in Steve Jobs' ancestral home
- NoSQL hopeful cozies up to Hadoop data-muncher
- Baby-kissers battle over what to do with White Spaces
- ESA gives up on duff Russian Mars probe Phobos-Grunt
- NetApp loses ground again in IDC's Storage Tracker
- Apache: Old, out of touch, but worth it...
- Cloudy servers find their niches
- Java tops for hackers, warns Microsoft
- Groupon grotty grotto rage forces Santa's chief elf to quit
- Yahoo! 0-day! exploit! hijacks! status! updates!
- Dead at 13: Napster 1998-2011
- RIM swallows $485m charge to clear PlayBook tablet mountain
- Capita signs £560m deal with BBC
- Micron's glass memory monster chews up slowcoach flash
- Just who are you and why does it matter?
- UK cops seek boffins to build handheld DNA sniffer kit
- TV writer quells rumours of <i>Doctor Who</i> movie
- RIM's BlackBerry PlayBook rooted
- YouTube morphs into TV-wannabe with a splat of social goo
- 'I'm the first to admit that we've made a bunch of mistakes'
- Germany gloomy over AT&T merger
- Quantum computing comes closer as diamonds get spooky
- Acer releases second-gen Android tablet
- OpRobinHood more likely to stiff punters than bankers
- Greatest ever first-person shooter* brought back to life
- Couldn't be there? Our conference vids for you
- Brussels' statement of objections against Google is MEATY
- Happy birthday, Apple QuickTime
- Facebook disses Effin Irishwoman
- Cyber-war law would expose customer privates to spies
- WD dries out flood-trashed fab, pumps out first disks
- Man's phone burns, toasts trouser region
- Supercomputer helps boffins crack 3D material sims...
- Facebook now has 1,000 times the referrals of Google+
- Antarctic ice formed at CO2 levels much higher than today's
- Dutch delay wireless wallets: T-Mobile waves, doesn't pay
- Vodafone releases Samsung Android 4.0 smartphone
- WD My Passport Studio 1TB external hard drive
- UK lays carbon plan before Earth Goddess
- College sticks cloud into geothermal igloo data centre
- Top beak: Ignorant lawyers fumble electronic evidence
- Dell cooks up new HPC strategy
- Software copied functions, but <i>didn't</i> infringe copyright
- Apple Thunderbolt Display 27in monitor
- High Court reinstates Oz Galaxy 10.1 ban
- NASA busts booster booster
| Verizon slips $3.6bn shiv into AT&T, T-Mobile ribs Posted: 02 Dec 2011 01:20 PM PST Wireless pecking order exploded by massive spectrum purchaseIn a surprise move that sent shivers through its competitors, Verizon announced on Friday that it will pay $3.6bn to acquire a broad swath of Advanced Wireless Services (AWS) spectrum from SpectrumCo, a consortium composed of Comcast, Time Warner Cable, and Bright House Networks.… |
| Feds clear Google, AdMeld melding Posted: 02 Dec 2011 11:19 AM PST Justice Department: 'Competitive'. Others may disagreeAfter nearly six months of deliberation, the US Department of Justice has cleared Google's acquisition of online advertising firm AdMeld, saying that the market is still competitive.… |
| iPhone banned in Steve Jobs' ancestral home Posted: 02 Dec 2011 10:46 AM PST Syrian regime tightens respressive screws another turnThere may be a fine line between "administration" and "regime", but Syria's president Bashar al-Assad has definitely crossed it. His government's latest repressive move? Banning the iPhone.… |
| NoSQL hopeful cozies up to Hadoop data-muncher Posted: 02 Dec 2011 10:21 AM PST Big data love-inNoSQL data store CouchDB has become Hadoop's latest convert with delivery of a connector tying together the two big-data architectures.… |
| Baby-kissers battle over what to do with White Spaces Posted: 02 Dec 2011 10:02 AM PST Politicians divided on free airwaves and broadcast TVTwo bills before the US government lay out plans for selling off broadcast TV channels, but one grabs the cash to pay for emergency services, while the other preserves licence-free options.… |
| ESA gives up on duff Russian Mars probe Phobos-Grunt Posted: 02 Dec 2011 09:44 AM PST Russians vow to keep trying until it comes down burningThe European Space Agency has abandoned attempts to revive dud Martian probe Phobos-Grunt after days of trying to contact the clapped-out craft with no success.… |
| NetApp loses ground again in IDC's Storage Tracker Posted: 02 Dec 2011 09:42 AM PST Third quarter repetitionNetApp has lost ground for the second quarter in succession, Dell is pretty flat and HP growing steadily. These are the headlines from IDC's quarterly storage tracker for external disk storage.… |
| Apache: Old, out of touch, but worth it... Posted: 02 Dec 2011 09:21 AM PST GitHub who?Open ... and Shut The Apache Software Foundation has come under withering attacks lately, with accusations of its politics and bureaucracy getting in the way of its ability to foster open-source software.… |
| Cloudy servers find their niches Posted: 02 Dec 2011 09:16 AM PST Minimalist boxes for hyperscale cheapskatesThe cookie-sheet servers created by Google for its own use – recently commercialized by all the top-tier vendors in one form or another as hybrid rack-blade boxes – have become a sizeable and important part of the server business.… |
| Java tops for hackers, warns Microsoft Posted: 02 Dec 2011 09:03 AM PST Apply patches to known holesPatch up warmly this winter if you're running Java. That's the advice from .NET shop Microsoft, which reckons Oracle's platform is the single biggest target for hackers.… |
| Groupon grotty grotto rage forces Santa's chief elf to quit Posted: 02 Dec 2011 08:42 AM PST How the Groupon voucher stole ChristmasSanta Claus won't have to look too hard to fill out his naughty list this year: seriously irate parents have been yelling abuse at his staff in a Christmas grotto in York over a dodgy Groupon deal.… |
| Yahoo! 0-day! exploit! hijacks! status! updates! Posted: 02 Dec 2011 08:23 AM PST Right now I'm: spamming my contacts with malware linksSecurity researchers have discovered an unpatched flaw in Yahoo! Messenger that allows miscreants to change any user's status message.… |
| Posted: 02 Dec 2011 08:15 AM PST P2P pioneer, later online music shop, closed in USSo, farewell then, Napster.… |
| RIM swallows $485m charge to clear PlayBook tablet mountain Posted: 02 Dec 2011 08:01 AM PST Lowers Q3 sales outlook, takes $50m hit from service outageA troubled RIM has written down the value of its little loved PlayBook tablet, taking a $485m charge on the nose in a bid to clear inventory.… |
| Capita signs £560m deal with BBC Posted: 02 Dec 2011 07:42 AM PST Auntie spends big to make savingsThe Beeb has signed a £560m eight-year deal with Capita to manage TV licences, deploying tech and analytics in a bid to cut costs and boost revenues.… |
| Micron's glass memory monster chews up slowcoach flash Posted: 02 Dec 2011 07:18 AM PST Chip's got the write stuffMicron has demonstrated Phase-Change Memory (PCM), enabling an app to run around 50 times faster than it would on NOR memory.… |
| Just who are you and why does it matter? Posted: 02 Dec 2011 06:41 AM PST World's latest endangered species: our private livesBook review After a year spent watching people use the internet, and questioning more than 5,000 of them, two Alcatel Lucent staff have distilled into a modest-sized book their conclusions on how we balance online privacy with web identities.… |
| UK cops seek boffins to build handheld DNA sniffer kit Posted: 02 Dec 2011 06:22 AM PST Just zoom and enhance - like CSI on the tellyThe National Policing Improvement Agency wants to hear from companies that can supply Blighty's cops with mobile tech that spots DNA.… |
| TV writer quells rumours of <i>Doctor Who</i> movie Posted: 02 Dec 2011 05:59 AM PST Moffatt says no film yet ... but if there was one, it'd be BritishTV writer Steven Moffat has dismissed rumours of a Doctor Who movie coming soon, despite comments from director David Yates, supposedly in the driving seat for the adaptation.… |
| RIM's BlackBerry PlayBook rooted Posted: 02 Dec 2011 05:39 AM PST Hackers plan to unleash tool to penetrate tabletThe BlackBerry PlayBook tablet has been rooted, just like the Amazon Kindle Fire and other fondleslabs before it, in a development that promises tech enthusiasts the ability to install apps of their choosing, rather than being stuck with those already pre-loaded onto the device.… |
| YouTube morphs into TV-wannabe with a splat of social goo Posted: 02 Dec 2011 05:19 AM PST Google badly wants to cash in on YOUR VIEWING EYESIdentity farmer Google has redesigned its YouTube product to bring it more into line with the rest of the company's online estate.… |
| 'I'm the first to admit that we've made a bunch of mistakes' Posted: 02 Dec 2011 05:03 AM PST Plus 'The last Kardashian clan I heard of were on Star Trek'Quotw This was the week when an Android app developer claimed he had conclusive proof that millions of smartphones are secretly logging key presses, locations and even messages.… |
| Germany gloomy over AT&T merger Posted: 02 Dec 2011 04:52 AM PST Fears T-Mobile deal is kaputThe German government, the largest shareholder in Deutsche Telekom, is not sharing the telco's optimism that the deal to merge its US mobile operations – T-Mobile USA – with AT&T will go through.… |
| Quantum computing comes closer as diamonds get spooky Posted: 02 Dec 2011 04:40 AM PST Boffins 'entangle' synthi-gems at room temperatureInternational boffins are chuffed today to publish cunning research in which they demonstrate quantum entanglement - the "spooky action at a distance" so disliked by Einstein - between a pair of small synthetic diamonds: and, this is the clever bit, at room temperature rather than in a cryogenic chamber or similar, so bringing the long hoped-for quantum computer hardware that bit nearer.… |
| Acer releases second-gen Android tablet Posted: 02 Dec 2011 04:40 AM PST Pledges Ice Cream Sarnie update next monthUpdated Acer has taken the wraps off its next-gen Android tablet, the 10.1in Iconia Tab A200, oddly numbered successor to the Iconia Tab A500.… |
| OpRobinHood more likely to stiff punters than bankers Posted: 02 Dec 2011 04:36 AM PST Stealing from the rich, giving grief to the poorCharities are unlikely to benefit from an Anonymous-led operation attempting to use stolen credit card details to make donations to worthwhile causes.… |
| Greatest ever first-person shooter* brought back to life Posted: 02 Dec 2011 04:24 AM PST Halo forebear Marathon is backBungie's Marathon series was ground-breaking. Not the first ever first-person shooter, not even on the Mac, but certainly the game that showed there's more to the genre than the 'kill monsters, open doors' gameplay of Doom and its followers.… |
| Couldn't be there? Our conference vids for you Posted: 02 Dec 2011 04:14 AM PST The Register and Intel LIVE 2011 |
| Brussels' statement of objections against Google is MEATY Posted: 02 Dec 2011 04:14 AM PST Antitrust probe to deliver 400-page wad detailing complaintsGoogle will be hit with a statement of objections document from the antitrust wing of the European Commission that is reportedly more than 400 pages in length.… |
| Happy birthday, Apple QuickTime Posted: 02 Dec 2011 04:00 AM PST Released 20 years ago todayApple's multimedia foundation, QuickTime, was released to the public 20 years ago today.… |
| Facebook disses Effin Irishwoman Posted: 02 Dec 2011 03:48 AM PST Bans 'offensive' villageAn Irishwoman from the picturesque village of Effin is a bit put out that Facebook has unkindly dubbed her place of birth "offensive".… |
| Cyber-war law would expose customer privates to spies Posted: 02 Dec 2011 03:31 AM PST Big biz and US govt propose info sharingUS lawmakers are backing a bill that will let spy agencies share top-secret information on cyber threats with certain pre-approved companies, and allow firms to give out data on their customers to the spies.… |
| WD dries out flood-trashed fab, pumps out first disks Posted: 02 Dec 2011 03:16 AM PST Deadly Thai disaster cost biz at least $50m to clean upWD has partially restored hard disk production at one of its flood-hit fabs in Thailand and expects to start pumping water from its second facility within ten days.… |
| Man's phone burns, toasts trouser region Posted: 02 Dec 2011 03:06 AM PST Samsung Galaxy S II goes up in smokeIt's not just iPhones that have their incendiary moments - some fellow's Samsung Galaxy S II went up in smoke too. In his trouser pocket.… |
| Supercomputer helps boffins crack 3D material sims... Posted: 02 Dec 2011 03:00 AM PST Tokyo Tech nabs Gordon Bell Prize and $10k for metal materials workSC11 So who cares about dendrites and dendrite solidification? If you're an auto manufacturer facing a mandate to radically increase the fuel economy of your cars, you care a lot. Or if you're working on new jet engines and need to cut some pounds while increasing durability. Actually, if you rely on any alloy that has to have those 'just right' properties, then dendrite solidification is crucially important to you.… |
| Facebook now has 1,000 times the referrals of Google+ Posted: 02 Dec 2011 02:42 AM PST Numbers dropping fast as Google plans major upgradesThe amount of activity on Google+ is falling, according to the latest data from web monitoring firm NetApplications, with Facebook massively ahead of the competition.… |
| Antarctic ice formed at CO2 levels much higher than today's Posted: 02 Dec 2011 02:27 AM PST Not going to melt any time soon, says boffinNew research has shown that the mighty ice sheet covering the Antarctic froze into being when the world had a much higher level of carbon dioxide in its atmosphere than it does today.… |
| Dutch delay wireless wallets: T-Mobile waves, doesn't pay Posted: 02 Dec 2011 02:18 AM PST NFC rollout pushed back 12 monthsThe Dutch consortium which promised to deliver NFC payments to the Netherlands in 2012 will now deliver in 2013, and without T-Mobile, but it's the EU's fault.… |
| Vodafone releases Samsung Android 4.0 smartphone Posted: 02 Dec 2011 02:01 AM PST Audio bug fixed, operator offers Ice Cream Sarnie phoneConfirmation - if it was really needed - that Vodafone was holding back the Samsung Galaxy Nexus because of the infamous volume drop glitch: the day after Google and Samsung fix the bug, Vodafone starts selling the Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich handset.… |
| WD My Passport Studio 1TB external hard drive Posted: 02 Dec 2011 02:00 AM PST Metal storage for MacsAccessory of the Week Despite the prevalence of online sync'n'store services like Dropbox, and of cheap USB thumb drives, fast, high-capacity hard drives are still favoured by those who need to store photographs, video or large graphics files.… |
| UK lays carbon plan before Earth Goddess Posted: 02 Dec 2011 01:42 AM PST Better buy a sweater, thoughThe planet is a little safer today after Britain's envoy to Gaia (and energy minister) Chris Huhne confirmed that the UK is on course to meet its CO2 emissions target.… |
| College sticks cloud into geothermal igloo data centre Posted: 02 Dec 2011 01:21 AM PST Investing in Iceland. What could go wrong?It's cold, it's bleak, and it's best known economically for its fisheries industry and the 2008 banking crisis, but Iceland is also the source of a radical solution in managing data centres that has led an English further education college to do a deal that will be available for the education sector throughout the UK.… |
| Top beak: Ignorant lawyers fumble electronic evidence Posted: 02 Dec 2011 01:03 AM PST Handling emails and files sends legal bills soaringLawyers and judges must be properly trained on how best to examine electronic documents and email evidence or risk wasting vast sums of money in legal costs, a senior judge has warned.… |
| Dell cooks up new HPC strategy Posted: 02 Dec 2011 12:35 AM PST Not just a box-slinger anymoreHPC blog As I trudged toward a swanky hotel for a meeting with Dell, the Seattle sky was spitting cold rain like an old man realising the soup in his mouth is way too hot. (Adding more drama to these intros, nice, right?)… |
| Software copied functions, but <i>didn't</i> infringe copyright Posted: 02 Dec 2011 12:01 AM PST ECJ advisor: No source-code sauciness in software smackdownA computer program does not infringe the copyright of another one just because it performs the same function as it, but it could do if it copies the means by which the other program works, an advisor to the European Court of Justice (ECJ) has said.… |
| Apple Thunderbolt Display 27in monitor Posted: 01 Dec 2011 11:00 PM PST Dream screen?Review After Apple's hoo-ha about the Thunderbolt port on its newest Macs and MacBook Pros, it's great to finally have something to plug into it. But I began testing this monitor with tainted expectations: less 'OK show me what you can do' and more 'oh lordy, yet another locked-in connectivity standard'.… |
| High Court reinstates Oz Galaxy 10.1 ban Posted: 01 Dec 2011 07:55 PM PST Turn around again, SamsungSamsung, which was hoping that it could kick of Australian sales of its Galaxy 10.1 Tab next week, has again been thwarted – this time by Australia's High Court.… |
| Posted: 01 Dec 2011 03:30 PM PST Confiscates BLOODY BIG rocket after Web saleAn RL-10 rocket booster – the kind that just lifted the Martian Space Laboratory on its trip to the Red Planet – has been confiscated by NASA after being offered for sale on the Internet.… |
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