BREAKING: Kiwis collar Kim Dotcom as US war on Megaupload gathers pace |
- BREAKING: Kiwis collar Kim Dotcom as US war on Megaupload gathers pace
- Canberra fire demonstrates emergency messaging limits
- SOPA from a distance: multiplying the trade threats
- Ericsson's Saba heads to Indonesia
- NewSat scores $AU7.5m in new deals
- Intel beats Street with record year
- MIT boffins devise faster Fast Fourier transform
- Sikorsky plays killer copter sim on SGI Altix UV 1000
- It's official: Google is the happiest place in the USA
- Apple launches three-pronged education assault
- Feds cuff coder accused of US bank source code swipe
- Microsoft injects Windows 7 mojo into server biz
- Dell, Nvidia insider traders nabbed by Feds
- Windows 8 will show where it likes to be touched
- Grooveshark croaks in Germany
- Kodak's moment: Camera biz files for bankruptcy
- SOPA is dead. Are you happy now?
- GiffGaff mobile network goes titsup for 3 weeks
- VCs shower WhipTail with cash
- Thousand-gamer FPS fragfest shoots for world record
- Facebook registers mysterious fBoriGin domain names
- Sony Ericsson announces pre-slurp loss
- Spam-squirting hole found in McAfee antivirus kit
- 'Space Monkey' craze: Texan students 'get high' by choking each other
- NT daddy turns his hand to Xbox
- Holographic storage's corpse twitches
- Japanese cops cuff six smut-scam ransomware suspects
- EU asks why credit cards are so expensive
- Asus Transformer Prime Android Tablet
- Facebook litters Timeline with apps
- Apple iPhone 4S grabs back ground lost to Android
- More Brits desert high streets to spend £50bn online
- Second Nokia Lumia update inbound
- EU probes 'nature of concerns' from Google rivals
- Blogger bully site yanks MPAA's chain in poison-pen letter
- Number cruncher charts rise of the personal computer...
- Nuke support in UK hits record high
- Asus tackles Eee Transformer Prime tablet GPS woes
- Record numbers of readers flock to The Register
- HP optimistic it can sort that pesky UK downturn
- LG, Lovefilm sign smart TV pact
- Facebook, experts spar over Ramnit worm contagion
- Errands To-Do List
- Ultrabooks to account for 35% of Acer laptop shipments
- Boffins dig up prehistoric popcorn in Peru
- Teen net addicts pee in bottles to stay glued to WoW
- Asda peddles phones for £12.50
- Careless care charity loses unencrypted patient data stick
- Blighty's film biz asks gov to hurry up pirate crackdown
- Wacom Bamboo Fun S Pen and Touch
| BREAKING: Kiwis collar Kim Dotcom as US war on Megaupload gathers pace Posted: 19 Jan 2012 03:35 PM PST Anon retaliation downs DoJ, RIAA, MPAAAmerica's war on file-dump site Megaupload has escalated dramatically, with founder Kim Dotcom and three others in Auckland among seven people arrested in connection with the site.… |
| Canberra fire demonstrates emergency messaging limits Posted: 19 Jan 2012 03:30 PM PST Too many calls for one exchangeA report into a major chemical fire in Canberra last year has found that many automatic emergency calls were not made, because the systems in place did not have sufficient capacity.… |
| SOPA from a distance: multiplying the trade threats Posted: 19 Jan 2012 03:00 PM PST Congress creating an international protection racketWhile punch and counter-punch continue over the legislative insanity of SOPA, the Stop Online Piracy Act, it seems from Australia that non-American governments like our own either don't understand, or have chosen to hold their silence, about the threat the bill poses to Web-based businesses outside the US.… |
| Ericsson's Saba heads to Indonesia Posted: 19 Jan 2012 02:30 PM PST Makes way for new Aus CEOThe outgoing CEO of Ericsson Australia, New Zealand and Fiji, Sam Saba, will be moving to Asia to take on the role of as President and Director of Ericsson Indonesia within the Southeast Asia and Oceania region.… |
| NewSat scores $AU7.5m in new deals Posted: 19 Jan 2012 01:41 PM PST Mining boom helps drive satellite demandAustralian listed satellite company NewSat has secured a raft of new contracts across oil, gas, mining, construction, aviation and government sectors, totalling $AU7.5 million.… |
| Intel beats Street with record year Posted: 19 Jan 2012 01:27 PM PST Analysts underestimate ChipzillaIntel had a record-breaking 2011, with record revenues of $54bn, record net income of $12.9bn, and record earnings per share of $2.39.… |
| MIT boffins devise faster Fast Fourier transform Posted: 19 Jan 2012 12:43 PM PST New technique dramatically speeds processingResearchers at MIT have published a paper detailing a new approach to Fast Fourier tranforms (FFT) that could increase the speeds of image and sound processing tenfold.… |
| Sikorsky plays killer copter sim on SGI Altix UV 1000 Posted: 19 Jan 2012 12:28 PM PST Stephen Hawking sticks with Altix iron, as wellTechnically, a Silicon Graphics Altix UV 1000 could play Crysis, but in the case of the machine being installed at Sikorsky Aircraft, its game is more realistic: an advanced helicopter flight simulator to create things that really do blow stuff up.… |
| It's official: Google is the happiest place in the USA Posted: 19 Jan 2012 12:20 PM PST |
| Apple launches three-pronged education assault Posted: 19 Jan 2012 11:02 AM PST The end of textbooks as we know them?As expected, Apple has announced a major foray into the education arena with the release of three new – and free – apps, one for reading interactive textbooks, another for creating said textbooks, and a third for accessing K-12, college, and university course materials in iTunes U.… |
| Feds cuff coder accused of US bank source code swipe Posted: 19 Jan 2012 10:33 AM PST Alleged thief 'nicked $9.5m software to train his students'A computer programmer has been charged with stealing source code worth $9.5m from the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, according to the FBI and prosecutors.… |
| Microsoft injects Windows 7 mojo into server biz Posted: 19 Jan 2012 10:03 AM PST Shakeup freezes out PR droids, turns on engineersMicrosoft's $14bn server and tools division is undergoing a massive reorganisation so that it's run more like Microsoft's Windows operation.… |
| Dell, Nvidia insider traders nabbed by Feds Posted: 19 Jan 2012 09:47 AM PST The Big (Illegal) ShortCrusading US Attorney Preet Bharara, famous for bringing down two insider-trading rings associated with the hedge fund Galleon Group, has worked with the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Securities and Exchange Commission to bring down another insider-trading ring, this one comprised of analysts and hedge fund employees who illegally profited or avoided losses to the tune of $61.8m.… |
| Windows 8 will show where it likes to be touched Posted: 19 Jan 2012 09:32 AM PST A five-fingered shuffle is mandatoryWindows 8 gadgets fitted with NFC will have a logo showing where on the case a pay-by-wave radio signal can be picked up, given a tablet might be bigger than the wireless technology's range.… |
| Posted: 19 Jan 2012 08:58 AM PST Blames royalty shakedown, but collection society says they never called...Controversial streaming site Grooveshark has pulled out of the German market, blaming royalty demands from collection society GEMA. But GEMA says the reason offered is false – and no negotiations ever took place, Billboard reports.… |
| Kodak's moment: Camera biz files for bankruptcy Posted: 19 Jan 2012 08:34 AM PST Will $1bn lifeline be enough to save it?Comment Iconic and inept US camera and film company Kodak has finally pressed the shutter button: it has filed for Chapter 11 protection.… |
| SOPA is dead. Are you happy now? Posted: 19 Jan 2012 08:02 AM PST It was a bad bill, but world needs IP incentive to keep producingOpen ... and Shut In response to internet technology companies leading a rousing protest against SOPA and PIPA, these bills appear to be doomed to ignominious defeat. Even the co-sponsors of these anti-piracy bills are deserting their legislation, leaving the tech world to cheer its success.… |
| GiffGaff mobile network goes titsup for 3 weeks Posted: 19 Jan 2012 07:33 AM PST GiffGaffePeople-powered phone network GiffGaff left some of its punters without a mobile connection for three weeks and mixed up customers' numbers for several days.… |
| Posted: 19 Jan 2012 07:03 AM PST Crain cranks up development as AMD becomes customerFlash array start-up WhipTail has had an eight-figure B-round of funding less than six months after its A-round as AMD becomes a customer and its development pace accelerates.… |
| Thousand-gamer FPS fragfest shoots for world record Posted: 19 Jan 2012 06:42 AM PST Gib to goA Swedish tech outfit is to pit no fewer than one thousand first-person shooter players against each other simultaneously in a bid to set a world record.… |
| Facebook registers mysterious fBoriGin domain names Posted: 19 Jan 2012 06:42 AM PST Is Zuck's network about to get in online family tree game?Facebook registered a curious bunch of domain names yesterday with the moniker fBoriGin.… |
| Sony Ericsson announces pre-slurp loss Posted: 19 Jan 2012 06:17 AM PST Hopes things will look up after Sony takes reinsSony Ericsson has announced what it no doubt hopes will be one of its last quarterly losses for the end of 2011, just before it gets slurped in full by Sony.… |
| Spam-squirting hole found in McAfee antivirus kit Posted: 19 Jan 2012 05:59 AM PST Ironic server-side flaw exploited, patch promisedMcAfee is promising to patch a vulnerability in its hosted anti-malware service after it found a flaw that allowed systems where the product was installed to be turned into potential spam-relay nodes.… |
| 'Space Monkey' craze: Texan students 'get high' by choking each other Posted: 19 Jan 2012 05:44 AM PST Forget bongs and beer, it's nooses now for the hip kidsKids these days don't need drugs or alcohol to have fun, according to a new study. The latest craze sweeping American youth - and thus, no doubt, British youth in due course - is "Space Monkey", aka "The Choking Game", in which thrill-seeking youngsters strangle or suffocate themselves or each other "in order to achieve a high".… |
| NT daddy turns his hand to Xbox Posted: 19 Jan 2012 05:34 AM PST Code wizard Dave Cutler to turn play-crate into everything-boxEx-DEC VMS code king Dave Cutler, who moved to Microsoft to drive the development of Windows NT and later focus on Azure, is working to evolve the Xbox into a "complete home entertainment device".… |
| Holographic storage's corpse twitches Posted: 19 Jan 2012 05:19 AM PST Storex sniffs cash, but InPhase out of luckFailed holographic storage start-up InPhase is selling off its patents as Eugen Pavel's Storex has developed 2nm optical lithography which could lead to a 100 exabyte optical disk.… |
| Japanese cops cuff six smut-scam ransomware suspects Posted: 19 Jan 2012 05:06 AM PST Victims forced to pay stiff chargesJapanese police have arrested six suspected cyber-crooks over a one-click billing fraud scam that allegedly targeted sweaty smut surfers.… |
| EU asks why credit cards are so expensive Posted: 19 Jan 2012 04:49 AM PST Reckons industry could save €300bn in six yearsThe European Commission is asking for input on better ways to integrate electronic payments across the European Community, and whether today's opaque billing mechanisms can be allowed to continue.… |
| Asus Transformer Prime Android Tablet Posted: 19 Jan 2012 04:43 AM PST First Nvidia Tegra 3 five-core fondleslabReview It's only been a little over six months since the original Eee Pad Transformer landed but Asus has already launched a new model that advances the breed to such an extent that the original model appears obsolete and with it every other 10in Tegra 2 Android tablet on the market.… |
| Facebook litters Timeline with apps Posted: 19 Jan 2012 04:38 AM PST It's the fat of the interwebs land ... bitchFacebook may be slowly tip-toeing its way gently around cry babies who have yet to turn their profiles into scrapbooks for their "friends" via the new Timeline feature. But the dominant social network has a new tactic up its sleeve: the company is trying to entice more people into its "frictionless sharing" playpen with the arrival of apps.… |
| Apple iPhone 4S grabs back ground lost to Android Posted: 19 Jan 2012 04:24 AM PST Lead narrowsApple's decision to launch a tweaked iPhone 4 - the 4S - rather than a brand new iPhone 5 may have flabbergasted some pundits, but punters have taken to the phone and narrowed the gap between iOS and Android.… |
| More Brits desert high streets to spend £50bn online Posted: 19 Jan 2012 04:14 AM PST Unmerry Christmas for Comet, bonanza for eBayEvidence of the agonising demise of Blighty's high streets piled up today as comparison website Kelkoo announced that UK e-sales jumped 14 per cent to nearly £50bn last year.… |
| Second Nokia Lumia update inbound Posted: 19 Jan 2012 03:59 AM PST Finnish-ing touch?Nokia has announced its second Lumia 800 battery update will hit its WinPho handsets in two weeks' time.… |
| EU probes 'nature of concerns' from Google rivals Posted: 19 Jan 2012 03:48 AM PST How much of a sticky mess is the Chocolate Factory in?UK-based vertical search engine Foundem – which spearheaded antitrust investigations into Google in the US and Europe – is patiently awaiting a response from competition officials in Brussels, who are meticulously scrutinising complaints from the internet giant's rivals.… |
| Blogger bully site yanks MPAA's chain in poison-pen letter Posted: 19 Jan 2012 03:28 AM PST Dear Chris, *** ******* suck, lots of ****, Righthaven.comThe new owner of the domain name Righthaven.com, which until recently belonged to a notorious copyright troll, has used his purchase to openly mock the Motion Picture Ass. of America.… |
| Number cruncher charts rise of the personal computer... Posted: 19 Jan 2012 03:23 AM PST ...and its fall at the hands of smartphones, tabletsA map of the rise and rise of the personal computer over the past 30-odd years shows that the platform's popularity may have at long last peaked.… |
| Nuke support in UK hits record high Posted: 19 Jan 2012 03:14 AM PST Keeping calm and carrying onPublic support for nuclear energy has reached an all-time high in the UK, less than a year after the Fukushima incident. There is an interesting gender gap, though.… |
| Asus tackles Eee Transformer Prime tablet GPS woes Posted: 19 Jan 2012 03:13 AM PST Buyers offered patches, refunds, extended warrantiesAsus has begun rolling out a firmware update for its Eee Pad Transformer Prime that some owners are suggesting goes some way to solve the tablet's GPS problems.… |
| Record numbers of readers flock to The Register Posted: 19 Jan 2012 03:00 AM PST Hey Mister Tally man, tally me NovemberThe Register and its sister publications Reg Hardware and Channel Register climbed new heights in November 2011, bagging 46 million page impressions and 6.6 million "uniques" for the month. We now have a certificate to prove it.… |
| HP optimistic it can sort that pesky UK downturn Posted: 19 Jan 2012 02:42 AM PST Helping SMBs to rescue the economy ...In a slight alleviation of the general economic doom and gloom, HP said today that UK small and medium businesses had seen double-digit growth in the second half of last year.… |
| LG, Lovefilm sign smart TV pact Posted: 19 Jan 2012 02:27 AM PST More tellies to get Amazon IPTVLG is to add Lovefilm to its smart TVs, the telly maker and Amazon-owned video streaming firm said today.… |
| Facebook, experts spar over Ramnit worm contagion Posted: 19 Jan 2012 02:21 AM PST Security boss says stalking site is free of bank account-raiding malwareFacebook has downplayed the significance of Ramnit, a recently discovered worm that attempts to steal login credentials for the social networking site.… |
| Posted: 19 Jan 2012 02:00 AM PST Task tracking for the terminally disorganisediOS App of the Week For some reason, I just don't get on with the new Reminders app that Apple introduced with iOS 5, so I recently went looking for a decent task manager to take its place.… |
| Ultrabooks to account for 35% of Acer laptop shipments Posted: 19 Jan 2012 01:45 AM PST Fondleslabs? Pshaw!We already know that, having failed to set the world alight with its tablets, Acer is keen to talk up alternatives, most notably Intel's Ultrabook platform. So it comes as little surprise that the PC maker is saying it's going to sell a lot of them this year.… |
| Boffins dig up prehistoric popcorn in Peru Posted: 19 Jan 2012 01:42 AM PST Bit soggy now: Man wolfed down treat 6,700 years agoMankind was scoffing prehistoric popcorn 1,000 years earlier than previously thought, reckons a top archaeologist.… |
| Teen net addicts pee in bottles to stay glued to WoW Posted: 19 Jan 2012 01:28 AM PST Brits' screen-break aversion doesn't bode well for desk job futureBritish youngsters have become so addicted to the internet that they will relieve themselves into bottles rather than step away from their screens to visit the lav, reports the, er, Sun.… |
| Asda peddles phones for £12.50 Posted: 19 Jan 2012 01:21 AM PST Budget blower bonanzaSupermarket mogul Asda is selling budget blowers for the PAYG market, with shoppers able to pick up handsets from as low as £12.50.… |
| Careless care charity loses unencrypted patient data stick Posted: 19 Jan 2012 01:02 AM PST Whoops, won't happen againA care provider with offices in the Isle of Man and Northern Ireland has committed to improving its data protection standards after losing a memory stick containing unencrypted patient data.… |
| Blighty's film biz asks gov to hurry up pirate crackdown Posted: 19 Jan 2012 12:03 AM PST Anti-file-sharing measures only kick in 2013The government should implement anti-piracy measures contained in the Digital Economy Act (DEA) "as quickly as possible", an independent panel appointed to review the future of the UK film industry has said.… |
| Wacom Bamboo Fun S Pen and Touch Posted: 18 Jan 2012 11:00 PM PST Graphics tablet and trackpad in oneReview Take TWO pointing devices into the shower? Not me, I use Wac-and-Go.… |
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