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- Voda Oz to trial NBN Services
- Plastic semiconductor makes solar cells more efficient
- IT'S OFFICIAL: AT&T, T-Mobile deal is dead
- Channel Seven cleared by ACMA for use of RIP Facebook pics
- Oracle gooses Studio compilers for Solaris, Linux
- Virgin Oz plans onboard WiFi rollout
- Android gets 'flashy', 'social' holiday treats
- Saudi prince buys $300m sliver of Twitter
- Fusion-io board gets ex-HP hotshot
- OpenText lures new CEO from SGI
- US gov split over new domain explosion
- iPad scammers pwn Lady Gaga's Facebook page
- Parody is illegal, say barmy bureaucrats
- Benchmarks are $%#&@!!
- Creepy photo-tagging tech slotted into Google+
- A Short History of Virtualisation, now on Kindle
- Samsung hauls Apple into court over emoticon patent :-(
- AT&T gives up on T-Mobile pre-merge purge
- Comet Lovejoy survives brush with fiery solar death
- Bah, humbug! Virgin Media censors Charles D**kens
- The Best of <em>El Reg</em> 2011 now on Kindle
- Ailing HMV sees tech sales' bright spot among dire music biz
- Cops seek clues to $1.7m tablet snatch
- Laptop bags: netbooks and tablets
- Blast at Apple gear factory hurts 61
- Belkin LiveAction Camera Grip
- Sony creates paper battery
- BT's gift to Google: A patent war over ads and Android
- Zombie Microsoft antitrust case shuffles to retrial
- Vote for the year's best games
- Oracle, Cisco crow new database flash dash record
- Whitehall: Govt-related private email, texts <i>will</i> be uncloaked
- Somerset buses bin paper tickets, sniff journey-logging chips
- Shoppers love fondling iPads to fill out sex health survey
- ACCC flags shift in regulation
| Posted: 19 Dec 2011 03:00 PM PST Maybe fixed networks will work better…Vodafone Australia has announced its first trial customer connections on Australia's National Broadband Network (NBN), hooking up households in Armidale.… |
| Plastic semiconductor makes solar cells more efficient Posted: 19 Dec 2011 02:30 PM PST Qantum 'dark state' helps capture wasted energyIt sounds paradoxical, but reducing the amount of energy captured in a solar cell can make it more efficient, according to University of Texas researchers.… |
| IT'S OFFICIAL: AT&T, T-Mobile deal is dead Posted: 19 Dec 2011 02:18 PM PST Big Phone's colossal $4bn cockup concludesAT&T's planned $39bn acquisition of T-Mobile USA from Deutsche Telekom is dead – and it's costing AT&T $4bn to kill it.… |
| Channel Seven cleared by ACMA for use of RIP Facebook pics Posted: 19 Dec 2011 02:00 PM PST If you die make sure your privacy settings are on highThe Seven Network has been cleared of violating privacy provisions of the television code, after the network broadcast pictures and messages sourced from a memorial Facebook tribute page for a murdered woman.… |
| Oracle gooses Studio compilers for Solaris, Linux Posted: 19 Dec 2011 12:53 PM PST Puts on Tuxedo 11g for enterprise appsHaving cranking Solaris Unix up to 11, software giant Oracle has now revved up a new companion set of compilers that work with the new operating system as well as the current Oracle Linux clone of Red Hat's Enterprise Linux.… |
| Virgin Oz plans onboard WiFi rollout Posted: 19 Dec 2011 12:33 PM PST DIY content streaming on your gadgetsVirgin Australia passengers could soon enjoy the wonders of airborne WiFi under a joint development project with Lufthansa Systems.… |
| Android gets 'flashy', 'social' holiday treats Posted: 19 Dec 2011 12:18 PM PST Adobe gifts Flash 11.1 as promised, dev goodies unwrapped as wellThe final major update of Adobe's Flash Player for mobile devices, version 11.1, has appeared for Android 4.0, aka Ice Cream Sandwich (ICS).… |
| Saudi prince buys $300m sliver of Twitter Posted: 19 Dec 2011 10:36 AM PST Tiny-revenue microblogger really worth $10bn?A Saudi prince whose investment company claims to have a fondness for free speech has plopped $300m into the coffers of Twitter, the 140-characters-at-a-time social networking service widely touted as an enabler of this year's Arab Spring.… |
| Fusion-io board gets ex-HP hotshot Posted: 19 Dec 2011 09:21 AM PST IT giant's old chief technology officerShane Robison, the ex-HP chief technology officer, has joined the board of server flash seller Fusion-io.… |
| OpenText lures new CEO from SGI Posted: 19 Dec 2011 08:51 AM PST Barrenechea back to softwareSupercomputer maker Silicon Graphics has lost its president and CEO, Mark Barrenechea – a longtime executive with a specialty in the software business – to enterprise content management software provider OpenText.… |
| US gov split over new domain explosion Posted: 19 Dec 2011 08:33 AM PST NTIA is on ICANN's side for once ...ICANN is receiving mixed messages from the US government over its plans to dramatically expand the number of top-level domains available on the internet.… |
| iPad scammers pwn Lady Gaga's Facebook page Posted: 19 Dec 2011 08:03 AM PST We're plastic but we'll still have fun...Fraudsters have hit gold after they managed to successfully plant an iPad-themed scam on the Facebook fan page of Lady Gaga.… |
| Parody is illegal, say barmy bureaucrats Posted: 19 Dec 2011 07:32 AM PST Our prisons are full of oppressed satirists, apparentlyThe IPO chose Office Party Friday last week to unveil 15 more proposals on intellectual property reform. This is traditionally the most alcoholic workday of the year - and ministers might need another stiff drink as they digest the surprises that ideologically fanatical bureaucrats have been preparing for them. Among the proposals is the suggestion to make copyright opt-in, which means the UK will be breaching European and international law, and the strange notion that parody and satire are illegal in the UK.… |
| Posted: 19 Dec 2011 07:00 AM PST Secrets and solutions from a reformed benchmarketerAt SC11 I ran into Henry Newman, CEO of HPC consulting firm Instrumental Inc. After exchanging the usual pleasantries and deeply offensive personal insults, we got to talking about some of the recently released benchmark results – and how irrelevant most of them are to the real world.… |
| Creepy photo-tagging tech slotted into Google+ Posted: 19 Dec 2011 06:36 AM PST 'Find my face' feature landsEric Schmidt may have been creeped out by the idea of using huge facial databases to identify individuals online, but that hasn't stopped Google from debuting its own version of the technology.… |
| A Short History of Virtualisation, now on Kindle Posted: 19 Dec 2011 06:15 AM PST Share a little time, and money, with El RegIf you've ever wondered what time-sharing, multics and Unix have to do with today's hypervisor technologies, or why you should consider the global environment when planning your virtual machine strategy, then you'll want to read The Register's A Short History of Virtualisation, on Kindle.… |
| Samsung hauls Apple into court over emoticon patent :-( Posted: 19 Dec 2011 06:02 AM PST Now the big guns are coming out in smartphone warSamsung has opened a new offensive in its ongoing patent dispute with smartphone arch-rival Apple.… |
| AT&T gives up on T-Mobile pre-merge purge Posted: 19 Dec 2011 05:49 AM PST Telco mulled flogging assets to save dealTalks to sell off some of AT&T's assets to make its merger with T-Mobile USA seem a little less anticompetitive have reportedly stalled.… |
| Comet Lovejoy survives brush with fiery solar death Posted: 19 Dec 2011 05:28 AM PST Space rock improbably flies through the heat of the SunSuicidal comet Lovejoy has survived its brush with death in the furnace of the Sun, emerging from behind the star in one (smaller) piece.… |
| Bah, humbug! Virgin Media censors Charles D**kens Posted: 19 Dec 2011 05:07 AM PST EPG in ginormous Hitchc**k-up!Some Virgin Media telly customers attempting to tune in to various programmes over the weekend were greeted with ludicrous censoring of well-known names, such as Charles D**kens and Jarvis C**ker.… |
| The Best of <em>El Reg</em> 2011 now on Kindle Posted: 19 Dec 2011 04:45 AM PST Vulture picks over remains of 2011 to make enormous twizzlerWorried about spending the Festive period picking over the remains of finger buffets or over bred, under cooked turkeys?… |
| Ailing HMV sees tech sales' bright spot among dire music biz Posted: 19 Dec 2011 04:22 AM PST Behold, His Master's |
| Cops seek clues to $1.7m tablet snatch Posted: 19 Dec 2011 04:12 AM PST 22 pallets of BlackBerry PlayBooks liftedThieves made away with $1.7m worth of RIM BlackBerry PlayBook tablets last week in Chesterfield, Indiana.… |
| Laptop bags: netbooks and tablets Posted: 19 Dec 2011 04:00 AM PST Small screen carriersXmas 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 laptop bags for tablets, netbooks and Ultrabooks that Reg Hardware saw during 2011.… |
| Blast at Apple gear factory hurts 61 Posted: 19 Dec 2011 03:44 AM PST Workers hospitalised after Shanghai plant explosionAn explosion at an Apple supplier's factory injured 61 workers and put 23 of them in hospital.… |
| Posted: 19 Dec 2011 03:33 AM PST Get a grip….Geek Treat of the Week Hats off to Belkin for coming up with some really neat iOS-oriented gadgets just lately. Following on from its kitchen stands for the iPad, it has now come up with some handy little photographic accessories for the iPhone. The first one to arrive is the LiveAction Camera Grip, with an external microphone and remote control unit on the way as well.… |
| Posted: 19 Dec 2011 03:07 AM PST Pulp frictionSony boffins have built a battery out of paper.… |
| BT's gift to Google: A patent war over ads and Android Posted: 19 Dec 2011 03:01 AM PST Music, Maps, Adwords and mobile OS land Google in courtIt's open season now. BT is the latest company to sue Google, alleging patent infringement, but this latest barrage extends beyond Google's Android software - it touches to other Google services too. These include maps, music, social networking and its advertising services, including Adwords, claims BT.… |
| Zombie Microsoft antitrust case shuffles to retrial Posted: 19 Dec 2011 02:21 AM PST Jury 'hopelessly' deadlockedNovell's reanimated antitrust case against Microsoft's Word is reported to have hit "hopeless" deadlock, with Novell pushing for a fresh trial.… |
| Vote for the year's best games Posted: 19 Dec 2011 01:54 AM PST State of playReg 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.… |
| Oracle, Cisco crow new database flash dash record Posted: 19 Dec 2011 01:47 AM PST Best 2-CPU server result ever - with Violin's chipsOracle claims a world-record TPC-C result with its database running on a Cisco server and not an Exadata system, although doesn't mention that two Violin memory flash arrays were needed.… |
| Whitehall: Govt-related private email, texts <i>will</i> be uncloaked Posted: 19 Dec 2011 01:23 AM PST Civil servants told messages can targeted by Freedom of Info requestsMessages in private email accounts, text messages and other messaging systems can be disclosed under freedom of information (FOI) laws if they relate to public business, the FOI regulator has confirmed.… |
| Somerset buses bin paper tickets, sniff journey-logging chips Posted: 19 Dec 2011 01:02 AM PST The future is smartcard bus passesSomerset county council is to introduce smartcard electronic ticket reading machines for bus passengers with free passes issued by the authority.… |
| Shoppers love fondling iPads to fill out sex health survey Posted: 19 Dec 2011 12:06 AM PST 'Rate my NHS' poll suddenly popular when shiny tech appearsA survey conducted using iPads has helped an NHS cluster reach out more people in quicker time for their views on local health services.… |
| ACCC flags shift in regulation Posted: 18 Dec 2011 03:30 PM PST Future of ADSL still matters while Oz waits for NBNThe ACCC has re-opened the long-standing debate about wholesale ADSL regulation, issuing a discussion paper as the precursor to an inquiry as to whether the sector needs greater regulation.… |
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