Anti-phishing DMARC adoption gathers (free) steam

Anti-phishing DMARC adoption gathers (free) steam


Anti-phishing DMARC adoption gathers (free) steam

Posted: 24 Feb 2012 01:55 PM PST

Biggest webmail names open anti-spam intelligence

The world's biggest names in the consumer webmail space are sharing security intelligence with businesses for free to help drive adoption of the DMARC email-authentication system.…

El Reg issues CIO scrapheap challenge

Posted: 24 Feb 2012 01:54 PM PST

Let's do vox pop

Dear reader, we are conducting an experiment in vox pop journalism, and that means we want to involve you, the man or woman on the IT street.…

Dell mothership hovers over backup startup, beams it aboard

Posted: 24 Feb 2012 11:01 AM PST

AppAssure absorbed into enterprise wing

Dell has acquired its own continuous data protection software by buying AppAssure for an undisclosed amount.…

Chinese cops bust culinary Apple trademark thieves

Posted: 24 Feb 2012 10:43 AM PST

'Yes, sir, this iPhone will boil your noodles'

Steeley-eyed industrial gumshoes in the east-central Chinese city of Wuhan have foiled a nefarious plan by dishonorable appliance punters to exploit the power of the Apple brand.…

Cisco's 3-ring circus: Xsigo CEO on bait and switches

Posted: 24 Feb 2012 10:02 AM PST

OEM keepaway game

Blocks and Files: Cisco's John Chambers has EMC, HP and NetApp dancing to his tune and helping to sell his UCS servers and networking gear. But how does that work?…

Death to Office or to Windows - choose wisely, Microsoft

Posted: 24 Feb 2012 09:36 AM PST

Apple makes Microsoft look good, again

Open ... and Shut  Windows is dead, and Microsoft Office has killed it. Or will, once the rumours about Microsoft porting its wildly popular Office product to the iPad become reality.…

Wake up, small biz: Learn to speak internet

Posted: 24 Feb 2012 09:04 AM PST

Get searchable, get on Facebook - or lose your customers

Blog  Today I wanted to buy a metal business card case I could carry around in my pocket. I asked Google Maps politely if it knew where in Edmonton I could find such a widget, preferably on the way home. Google didn't have the faintest clue where I could get such a thing, no matter how delicately I phrased the request.…

Flood-hit Thai disk fabs to pour out 140m drives

Posted: 24 Feb 2012 08:33 AM PST

Factories running full tilt amid high prices

The production of hard disk drives is nearing full capacity after flooding last year in Thailand sent shockwaves through the supply chain, with output set to reach around 80 per cent of pre-flood levels.…

Google adds Do Not Track button to Chrome

Posted: 24 Feb 2012 08:02 AM PST

But you don't have to push it, pleads ad giant

Updated  Google's Chrome browser has added a Do Not Track option that will prevent websites using your browser history to target ads at you.*…

Private Manning keeps mum at Wikileaks plea hearing

Posted: 24 Feb 2012 07:42 AM PST

Alleged classified info leaker buys more time

WikiLeaks suspect Private Bradley Manning declined to enter a plea on Thursday at the start of his court martial over charges that he had handed over reams of US Army classified data to the website, AP reported from the court.…

Oracle: 'US Navy tricked by illegal Solaris touts'

Posted: 24 Feb 2012 07:17 AM PST

Two channel firms sued in download and resell row

Oracle has launched legal action against channel firms in the US, accusing them of a "gray market conspiracy" to nick its software and flog Sun Solaris OS support.…

Student cluster warriors battle it out in Hamburg

Posted: 24 Feb 2012 07:02 AM PST

Hell on the Elbe

ISC2012  The International Supercomputing Conference (ISC), due to kick off in Hamburg in mid-June, is Europe's leading supercomputing event. This show has almost everything you'd expect: keynote speeches by research computing stars; presentations, tutorials, demonstrations, and exhibits; and a huge variety of logo-imprinted tote bags. This year, they're adding a Student Cluster Competition to their growing slate of offerings.…

Google Goggle glasses ARE WATCHING YOU

Posted: 24 Feb 2012 06:39 AM PST

Meat in the Cybernetic Sandwich

"So we have the human operator surrounded on both sides by very precisely known mechanisms," an American physicist called John Stroud once observed, referring to anti-aircraft gunners in the Second World War.…

New password-snatching Mac Trojan spreading in the wild

Posted: 24 Feb 2012 06:19 AM PST

Exploits Java vulns and packs fake certificate

Security watchers warned on Friday that a new variant of a Mac-specific password-snatching Trojan horse is spreading in the wild.…

HP caught with SIX Windows 8 PC packages up its sleeve

Posted: 24 Feb 2012 06:01 AM PST

Home, Ultimate and Starter revamped?

Windows 8 is being re-packaged into six versions in a move that looks like it might kill off four editions of the desktop client currently sold.…

UK-French drone aircraft blueprints nicked at Paris station

Posted: 24 Feb 2012 05:38 AM PST

No botnet required for low-tech theft

Old-school crooks managed to steal documents related to secret plans to build a joint French-British drone aircraft after snatching a briefcase at a Paris railway station.…

Getting to grips with the dynamic data centre

Posted: 24 Feb 2012 05:38 AM PST

(Recon)figuring it all out

Reader research  Many companies have now undergone a wave of server consolidation, enabled by virtualisation.…

Apple fanbois forced to go on the pull by Motorola patent

Posted: 24 Feb 2012 05:17 AM PST

Germans won't get the message after iOS court defeat

Apple has switched off push notifications in Germany, responding to Motorola Mobility's successful patent lawsuit, so iCloud users in Germany will have to learn to pull together.…

HP, Dell warn of price hikes after Foxconn wage rise

Posted: 24 Feb 2012 05:01 AM PST

Consumer backlash passed on to, er, consumers

Tech giants HP and Dell have revealed that they are keeping a close eye on developments in the Chinese labour market and may even be forced to put up their prices if wages keep increasing in the region.…

'Nobody can resist the charming of iPAD'

Posted: 24 Feb 2012 04:38 AM PST

Plus 'The kids' app ecosystem needs to wake up'

Quotw  This was the week when Microsoft decided that its new Windows logo should actually look like a window, resulting in this streamlined and modernistic (or uncolourful and mundane depending on your viewpoint) effort:…

Sony to strike gold with PS Vita - if it cuts the price

Posted: 24 Feb 2012 04:25 AM PST

Analyst says success comes for less than $200

Sony may shift more than $2.2bn worth of PlayStation Vita handheld consoles - some 12.4m units - by the end of 2012, it has been forecast. The catch: the price has to come down under $200.…

Apple chief thinks about his MOUNTAIN OF CASH a lot

Posted: 24 Feb 2012 04:19 AM PST

Cook's not dishing out surplus dough

Apple has given in to shareholder pressure on director voting, but is still thinking about what to do with its vast mountain range of cash.…

Syndicate

Posted: 24 Feb 2012 04:00 AM PST

Bullfrog classic revived

Review  Cyberpunk's lasting appeal is often attributed to its familiar tropes: dystopian near-future settings, rapid technological advancements, massive societal upheaval and, of course, alienated loners living off-the-grid. But it's not the conventions that sustain the genre, but its allegories.…

Mozilla's app Marketplace tempts HTML5 worshippers

Posted: 24 Feb 2012 03:44 AM PST

Prays for devs at telco bash

MWC  Mozilla takes the open web to Microsoft, Google, Apple and others next week with an invitation to developers to start coding for its technology-agnostic apps store.…

iPad owners 'considerably richer than yow'

Posted: 24 Feb 2012 03:26 AM PST

But tablet ownership shifting to the lower orders

iPad owners are far more likely to be able to claim they are considerably richer than you, a study of the thickness of tablet fondlers' wads has revealed.…

Apple gobbles apps search robot Chomp

Posted: 24 Feb 2012 03:17 AM PST

Oz startup drafted in to improve iTunes

Apple has scooped up a search engine for apps in an acquisition for an undisclosed sum yesterday, although Bloomberg said a source had revealed the price at around $50m.…

Global warming COULD SHRINK THE HUMAN RACE

Posted: 24 Feb 2012 03:01 AM PST

Prehistoric horses downsized to survive - and so could we

Modern mammals, including humans, could be at risk of shrinking as a result of global warming, just as teeny prehistoric horses shrank to an even smaller size when temperatures rose 56 million years ago.…

Tiniest ever 128Gbit NAND flash chip flaunted

Posted: 24 Feb 2012 02:39 AM PST

A little bit of TLC from SanDisk, Toshiba

SanDisk and Toshiba have jointly developed the smallest 128Gbit NAND flash chip in the world by using a 3-bit multi-level cell design (TLC) and a 19nm process.…

UltraViolet passes million download mark

Posted: 24 Feb 2012 02:24 AM PST

Hollywood's movies-in-the-cloud service sprockets up

More than 800,000 US homes have signed up for Ultraviolet, the Hollywood-backed movies-in-the-cloud platform. And they've used it to download more than 1m copies of films.…

Proview parks IPAD battle tanks on Apple's US lawn

Posted: 24 Feb 2012 02:18 AM PST

iPad maker sued in California, accused of treachery

Asian monitor biz Proview has taken its legal scrap with Apple to the US - and alleged that it was hoodwinked when it sold its IPAD trademark to the fruity tech titan in 2009.…

Belkin Keyboard Folio case for iPad

Posted: 24 Feb 2012 02:00 AM PST

True to type

Accessory of the Week  The myth that the iPad is only for content consumption was debunked many moons ago. And this Belkin Keyboard Folio is as good an example as any of how the iPad, with a little help, can in some circumstances be a replacement for a laptop.…

Asus teases MWC 'retina display' revelation

Posted: 24 Feb 2012 01:46 AM PST

Starts posting Transformer Android 4 update too

It's official: Asus has begun posting its Android 4 Ice Cream Sandwich update for its Eee Pad Transformer tablet.…

The cyber-weapons paradox: 'They're not that dangerous'

Posted: 24 Feb 2012 01:29 AM PST

A war boffin talks to El Reg

When it comes to bombs, the more powerful they are, the bigger their impact. With a cyber-weapon, the opposite is true: the more powerful it is, the more limited the damage it causes. The deeper a bug can get into any given system, the less likely it is to trouble anything else.…

Report: Most council workers granted access to Facebook, Twitter

Posted: 24 Feb 2012 12:59 AM PST

Followers and Likers on the up in the public sector

Most councils allow employees to access social media. This is compared with only one-third of them allowing it two years ago, research by Socitm indicates.…

GreenBytes goes on SME flash array gig

Posted: 24 Feb 2012 12:03 AM PST

Flash solidarity

ZFS-using disk array storage supplier GreenBytes has set out on a flash project with its Solidarity flash array offering faster than disk performance at lower than disk cost for small and medium business.…

Roku 2 XS IPTV player

Posted: 23 Feb 2012 11:00 PM PST

Smarten up your TV viewing

Review  In the US, Roku has ridden to prominence on the back of services like Netflix and Hulu, and the phenomenon of 'cord cutting', where people discontinue pay TV services in favour of, well, paid IPTV services. That's perhaps not surprising when their entry level box costs less than £40 including tax for US customers.…

TNZ braves the demerger with strong profits

Posted: 23 Feb 2012 06:14 PM PST

While Stephen Fry gets throttles

The freshly de-merged Telecom New Zealand has posted a net profit of $NZ1 billion after what the CEO described as the "most complex corporate transaction in recent New Zealand history."…

3D processor-memory mashups take center stage

Posted: 23 Feb 2012 05:51 PM PST

'I have seen the future, and it is stacked'

ISSCC  A trio of devices that stack layers of compute units and memory in a single chip to boost interconnect bandwidth were presented at this week's International Solid-State Circuits Conference in San Francisco.…

Court rejects Tesla’s latest libel spat with <i>Top Gear</i>

Posted: 23 Feb 2012 05:07 PM PST

Battery bricking rumors cause stock dip

Tesla's on-going libel case with the BBC over a negative portrayal of its Roadster electric sports car on Top Gear suffered another setback when the courts ruled that it could not amend its claim.…

Schmidt's $1.45bn Google stock sale compelled by adultery?

Posted: 23 Feb 2012 03:47 PM PST

May top Murdoch for world's most expensive divorce

Eric Schmidt's recent sale of over $1.45bn (£914m) in Google stock raised eyebrows on Wall Street, but a report now suggests he needs the liquidity to pay off his wife for a divorce.…

Aus business learns to love the NBN

Posted: 23 Feb 2012 03:32 PM PST

Alca-Lu report reveals digital urges

Australian businesses claim that resource gaps are hindering their participation in the digital economy, specifically broadband.…

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