Duff Russian Mars probe spotted flying in reverse |
- Duff Russian Mars probe spotted flying in reverse
- Google Maps takes scenic route
- Sir Howard's days as Sony prez said to be numbered
- US economy hands IT a mixed bag in December
- Symantec downplays source-code trophy theft
- Free iPhone 4S deal tempts Chinese fanbois
- Enterprise and govt chief Bell exits Dell
- Microsoft's master stroke: Pay store staff per WinPhone sold
- iPad SURVIVES FALL FROM SPACE
- Cops cuff rectal shoplifter
- CouchDB daddy unplugs from Apache hive
- BEAST SSL fix in supersized Patch Tuesday
- Samsung rakes in record profits as HTC sales dive
- Microsoft's RemoteFX is fab - but will it play Crysis?
- Sony website defacer pwned by second hacker
- London 2012 team pulls swamped ticket resale site
- Mafia hit suspect cuffed after BlackBerry chatter intercept
- HSBC pinpoints branches with sub-atomic accuracy
- Xbox 720 and PS4 on show at E3 2012
- Amazon says soz for foisting mag sub onto Kindle-touchers
- CES outing for 'world's thinnest' tablet, Ultrabook, says Toshiba
- Arctic freshening not due to ice melt after all, says NASA
- New AOL IM considered harmful by privacy warriors
- 'You have to worry about the management of Twitter'
- Moog goes boom with itty-bitty bass synth
- World's first mixed-embryo rhesus monkeys born in US
- Lovefilm signs BBC streaming deal
- Microsoft revives flight sim by giving it away free
- Star Wars: The Old Republic
- Motorola goes mini with bijou blowers
- iPad typos are Apple's fault, not yours - new claim
- Asian canaries revive 'one year, two iPads' launch rumour
- US 'space warplane' may be spying on Chinese spacelab
- Lenovo pitches two-CPU ThinkPad
- Satnav mishap misery cure promised at confab
- Sony intros high-end camera storage card
- NetApp will jack up disk prices next month
- LG tunes in to Google TV
- Weeting cops cuff 17th phone-hacking suspect
- GM offers Volt drivers battery upgrade
- E-gambling tax will spark web bet shop exodus - report
- ICO to 'focus' on health sector when enforcing info rights
- GCHQ wants to enlarge 'experienced' specialists' packages
- Samsung SSD 830
- Fusion-io demos billion IOPS server config
- The next Steve Jobs is: Kanye West
- Apple said to threaten legal action over Steve Jobs doll
- Amazon cloud double fluffs in 2011
- Parasites spark swarm of ZOMBIE BEES
| Duff Russian Mars probe spotted flying in reverse Posted: 06 Jan 2012 01:10 PM PST Video shows why contact with Phobos-Grunt failedA veteran skywatcher has captured a video of the doomed Russian Martian space probe Phobos-Grunt that provides evidence of why ground control has only sporadically been able to contact it.… |
| Google Maps takes scenic route Posted: 06 Jan 2012 12:39 PM PST Take the long way home…A few days ago, this author noticed some oddities in Google Maps: it seemed to be unable to route relatively short distances on major highways.… |
| Sir Howard's days as Sony prez said to be numbered Posted: 06 Jan 2012 12:27 PM PST Younger blood may lead the struggling companySir Howard Stringer may be out of his job as president of Sony, according to a report in the Nikkei Business Daily.… |
| US economy hands IT a mixed bag in December Posted: 06 Jan 2012 11:13 AM PST Add jobs here, cut them thereIt looks like the IT industry is faring no better or worse than the US economy as a whole when it comes to creating jobs.… |
| Symantec downplays source-code trophy theft Posted: 06 Jan 2012 11:03 AM PST Indian hackers posted 5-year-old Norton codeSymantec has confirmed earlier versions of its anti-virus source code have leaked, following a security breach of what the company said was the network of a "third party entity" rather than their own.… |
| Free iPhone 4S deal tempts Chinese fanbois Posted: 06 Jan 2012 10:40 AM PST Two or three-year contract, zero dollars downUpdated China Unicom is offering a no-money-up-front iPhone 4S to Chinese customers in a deal that is sure to make iPhone users worldwide feel a wee bit underappreciated and overcharged.… |
| Enterprise and govt chief Bell exits Dell Posted: 06 Jan 2012 10:07 AM PST Felice gets consolidated top sales jobDell has done a little executive boardroom chair-moving this morning, announcing that Paul Bell, a long-time executive who has run various units of the company and who is currently president of its Public and Large Enterprise group, will be departing the company.… |
| Microsoft's master stroke: Pay store staff per WinPhone sold Posted: 06 Jan 2012 09:33 AM PST Redmond fights back with its favourite weapon: moneyOpen... and Shut Microsoft, which has suffered years of irrelevance in mobile, has a new game plan, which looks suspiciously like its old game plan: pay retail employees to sell Windows.… |
| Posted: 06 Jan 2012 09:01 AM PST Fondleslab fails to fractureRugged case manufacturer G-Form sought to prove its hardware protection credentials this week, launching an iPad into space before letting it plummet to Earth. Needless to say, the fondleslab survived the fall - we probably wouldn't write the story otherwise.… |
| Posted: 06 Jan 2012 08:37 AM PST Bum rapPolice in the Czech Republic have arrested a man who attempted to steal a digital music player by concealing it in his anus.… |
| CouchDB daddy unplugs from Apache hive Posted: 06 Jan 2012 08:32 AM PST 'It's not personal, it's business'CouchDB's founder is "moving on" from the Apache project he founded to build a "better" and commercially successful version of his NoSQL database without Apache's democratic foot-dragging.… |
| BEAST SSL fix in supersized Patch Tuesday Posted: 06 Jan 2012 08:02 AM PST Microsoft's 2012 kick-off features 7 security bulletinsMicrosoft plans to start 2012 with a surprisingly large Patch Tuesday that covers seven security bulletins which collectively address eight separate vulnerabilities. Previous January releases have normally featured only one or two bulletins.… |
| Samsung rakes in record profits as HTC sales dive Posted: 06 Jan 2012 07:42 AM PST Booming phone sales helped Koreans ward off PC chip chillSurging smartphone sales have brought in record quarterly profits for Samsung, the world's biggest technology company by sales.… |
| Microsoft's RemoteFX is fab - but will it play Crysis? Posted: 06 Jan 2012 07:22 AM PST We all need something to do between emails and build runsSysadmin blog Microsoft supports two very different types of remote desktop computing: Remote Desktop Session Host (RDSH) and Remote Desktop Virtualization Host (RDVH). Those of us who don't speak Redmondian know these technologies as Terminal Services and VDI, respectively.… |
| Sony website defacer pwned by second hacker Posted: 06 Jan 2012 07:02 AM PST It's a dog-eat-dog worldA defacer affiliated with Anonymous vandalised Sony's online front door this week over the corporate behemoth's support of SOPA, a hated anti-piracy law proposed in the US.… |
| London 2012 team pulls swamped ticket resale site Posted: 06 Jan 2012 06:51 AM PST No finish line in sight for unhappy puntersLondon 2012 punters hoping to offload tickets they no longer want faced frustrating problems with a resale website, which was launched by the event's organisers today.… |
| Mafia hit suspect cuffed after BlackBerry chatter intercept Posted: 06 Jan 2012 06:39 AM PST Cops keep schtum on sniffing RIM dataCanadian police have apparently used BlackBerry communications to arrest murder suspect Raynald Desjardins in a move seen as an unprecedented use of intercepted data.… |
| HSBC pinpoints branches with sub-atomic accuracy Posted: 06 Jan 2012 06:18 AM PST Bank's 'find your nearest tentacle' accurate to 17 decimal placesThose of you who are sticklers for accuracy will doubtless applaud banking monolith HSBC and its splendid "Find your nearest branch" service.… |
| Xbox 720 and PS4 on show at E3 2012 Posted: 06 Jan 2012 05:58 AM PST Next-gen announcements expectedHere at Reg Hardware, it's difficult to keep track of which rumours we see more of, forthcoming Apple products, or whispers of next-gen game consoles. Either way, here's another one of the latter.… |
| Amazon says soz for foisting mag sub onto Kindle-touchers Posted: 06 Jan 2012 05:51 AM PST Fury as punters 'billed' for rag they hadn't asked forAmazon has annoyed Kindle owners by appearing to sign them up to a paid-for bi-weekly magazine subscription they hadn't requested.… |
| CES outing for 'world's thinnest' tablet, Ultrabook, says Toshiba Posted: 06 Jan 2012 05:47 AM PST IFA-announced gadgets to make US debut next weekToshiba, for one, seems keen to continue offering netbooks in spite of the rise of the tablet - it's going to show off a new model at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES).… |
| Arctic freshening not due to ice melt after all, says NASA Posted: 06 Jan 2012 05:42 AM PST Calm down, hippiesConcern that the Arctic Ocean is becoming massively less salty due to its ice cap melting - which could have knock-on consequences for the planet's climate - is unfounded, NASA scientists have said.… |
| New AOL IM considered harmful by privacy warriors Posted: 06 Jan 2012 05:23 AM PST EFF baulks at centralised chat logging by defaultPrivacy advocates have raised concerns about beta versions of AOL's latest IM client, urging privacy-sensitive surfers to stay on older versions of the software.… |
| 'You have to worry about the management of Twitter' Posted: 06 Jan 2012 05:02 AM PST From Wendi Deng fake to Phobos-Grunt's fiery fateQuotw This was the week in which we learned that the techie surprise at the bottom of many, many Brits' Christmas stockings was some form of Amazon Kindle, if you believe pollster YouGov.… |
| Moog goes boom with itty-bitty bass synth Posted: 06 Jan 2012 04:49 AM PST Analogue sound generationSynth-sectarians will be swiping saliva off their chins this morning after Moog unveiled its latest analogue bass synth, the Moog Minitaur.… |
| World's first mixed-embryo rhesus monkeys born in US Posted: 06 Jan 2012 04:42 AM PST Normal, healthy chimeric primates created during stem cell researchGenetic researchers have created the world's first chimeric monkeys, primates who were created from a combination of cells from separate rhesus monkey embryos.… |
| Lovefilm signs BBC streaming deal Posted: 06 Jan 2012 04:29 AM PST Extends ITV pact tooLovefilm's war with Netflix has yet to begin, but the battle lines are being drawn. The Amazon-owned disc rental service today said it has licensed BBC and ITV content to stream.… |
| Microsoft revives flight sim by giving it away free Posted: 06 Jan 2012 04:24 AM PST One of Redmond's longest-running lines gets rebootMicrosoft has said that it will be reviving its Flight Simulator franchise this spring with a free version of the game entitled simply Flight.… |
| Posted: 06 Jan 2012 04:00 AM PST In a galaxy far, far away...Review Star Wars: The Old Republic is a massive game with hundreds of hours of game play, so this review is just a chicken scratch on the surface of something we will see develop and grow over months, if not years. Undoubtedly, SWTOR has a solid foundation but does it have enough successful constituent parts to be enduring?… |
| Motorola goes mini with bijou blowers Posted: 06 Jan 2012 03:50 AM PST Defy styleMotorola Mobility has slimmed down its handset range, signalling the launch of two new Android 2.3 Gingerbread smartphones this spring.… |
| iPad typos are Apple's fault, not yours - new claim Posted: 06 Jan 2012 03:43 AM PST Touchscreen key-presses go AWOL in slowmo replayVid The iPad's soft keyboard has been caught failing to pass key presses to applications, introducing errors and letting the typist take the fall.… |
| Asian canaries revive 'one year, two iPads' launch rumour Posted: 06 Jan 2012 03:29 AM PST iPad 3 in March, iPad 4 in October. ApparentlyThe notion that Apple will release not one but two new iPads this year is back. If you're hoping one will be a 7in tablet, you may be disappointed: both models are 9.7-inchers, moles maintain.… |
| US 'space warplane' may be spying on Chinese spacelab Posted: 06 Jan 2012 03:25 AM PST Is X-37B's secret mission watching Heavenly Palace?The US Air Force's second mysterious mini-space shuttle, the X-37B, could be spying on China's space laboratory and the first piece of its space station, Tiangong-1.… |
| Lenovo pitches two-CPU ThinkPad Posted: 06 Jan 2012 03:05 AM PST 'Hybrid' laptop has Intel and Qualcomm chippageLenovo has outed the first ThinkPad notebook with a secondary processor and operating system for fast-boot internet access.… |
| Satnav mishap misery cure promised at confab Posted: 06 Jan 2012 03:02 AM PST Govt will bang heads together to push latest maps to driversEver get that sinking feeling after your satnav misdirects your car into a ditch? Relax, the government is wading in to help stressed-out drivers get more accurate information from the road-mapping devices.… |
| Sony intros high-end camera storage card Posted: 06 Jan 2012 02:41 AM PST XQD to displace CompactFlash?And here's a new memory card format, courtesy of Sony. Just what the world needs, no?… |
| NetApp will jack up disk prices next month Posted: 06 Jan 2012 02:31 AM PST Deadly Thai flood ripple effect continuesNetApp is raising disk drive prices as a result of the Thai flooding.… |
| Posted: 06 Jan 2012 02:03 AM PST Android-equipped tellies out in 2012LG has hopped on the Google TV bandwagon.… |
| Weeting cops cuff 17th phone-hacking suspect Posted: 06 Jan 2012 01:54 AM PST Essex woman nabbedA 47-year-old woman was arrested at an address in Essex this morning by cops investigating allegations of phone hacking by people working for the now-defunct Sunday tabloid News of the World.… |
| GM offers Volt drivers battery upgrade Posted: 06 Jan 2012 01:43 AM PST Safety concerns spark power cell patch planGeneral Motors has offered owners of its Volt e-car a free optional battery pack resilience upgrade in a bid to calm fears heightened after one of its cars caught fire after a crash.… |
| E-gambling tax will spark web bet shop exodus - report Posted: 06 Jan 2012 01:34 AM PST Good odds on firms fleeing Blighty to murky watersOnline gamblers could turn to unregulated markets if Government plans to tax betting operators on the basis of where bets are placed are introduced, a report commissioned by a leading betting operator has said.… |
| ICO to 'focus' on health sector when enforcing info rights Posted: 06 Jan 2012 01:05 AM PST A breach too far?The Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) is to give "particular regulatory attention" to health organisations as it focuses on areas most likely to result in damage to people's information rights, the watchdog has said.… |
| GCHQ wants to enlarge 'experienced' specialists' packages Posted: 06 Jan 2012 12:04 AM PST Spooks offer 'retention payments' to keep online security expertsGCHQ is offering its expert tech employees bonuses to prevent more staff from leaving for high-tech companies such as Google and Microsoft.… |
| Posted: 05 Jan 2012 11:00 PM PST Sata 3 scorcherReview When it came to putting together a list of SSDs together for your latest upgrade, one name that you could easily overlook until recently was Samsung. Compared to its rivals in the marketplace the company hardly trumpeted its solid state storage products.… |
| Fusion-io demos billion IOPS server config Posted: 05 Jan 2012 10:28 PM PST Previews software with serious gruntFusion-io has achieved a billion IOPS from eight servers in a demonstration at the DEMO Enterprise event in San Francisco.… |
| The next Steve Jobs is: Kanye West Posted: 05 Jan 2012 10:03 PM PST Hip-hop star launches design institute stuffed with dope ... mindsSteve Jobs may have passed away, but his mantle has fallen on ready shoulders... those of the hip-hop artist Kanye West, who promised last night on Twitter that he would continue the great man's work.… |
| Apple said to threaten legal action over Steve Jobs doll Posted: 05 Jan 2012 05:53 PM PST Chinese action-figure maker committing a 'criminal offense'?If you're a Jobsian fanboi jonesing for the recently announced Steve Jobs action figure, we have some bad news for you: Apple doesn't want you to have one.… |
| Amazon cloud double fluffs in 2011 Posted: 05 Jan 2012 04:12 PM PST There's a rumble in the data jungleBeing the touchstone for cloud computing, online retailing giant Amazon wants to brag about its compute, storage, and other cloud services that are sold under the Amazon Web Services brand. For whatever reason – probably to obscure the costs and possibly the profits of the AWS subsidiary – Amazon has not broken out the business, and still lump it into the Other bucket.… |
| Parasites spark swarm of ZOMBIE BEES Posted: 05 Jan 2012 03:59 PM PST California infestation grave, declare buzz boffinsResearchers have found a type of parasite that turns bees into zombies, causing them to exhibit strange behavior before dying.… |
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