StreetView disappears Dutch office tower

StreetView disappears Dutch office tower


StreetView disappears Dutch office tower

Posted: 09 Feb 2012 03:00 PM PST

Because it's Friday…

It's one of those wonderful discrepancies that happens when a site has to wait a year or so between visits from the Google StreetView photo-harvesters.…

IBM does financing deals for Power, storage kit

Posted: 09 Feb 2012 02:41 PM PST

Low or no interest rates

It's a new year and a new first quarter and a new and somewhat challenging economy in North America, and therefore IBM is offering financing deals in the United States and Canada.…

Elon Musk helps AsiaSat with new regional satellites

Posted: 09 Feb 2012 02:30 PM PST

Asia Pac enjoys a satellite bonanza

Hong Kong satellite operator AsiaSat and space launch company Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX) will launch two new communications satellites in 2014 servicing the Asia Pacific region.…

Teradata surfs big data wave in Q4

Posted: 09 Feb 2012 02:26 PM PST

Big data = big bucks

Data warehousing pioneer and big data playa Teradata has just turned in the best fourth quarter and full year in the company's 33 year history, thanks to the big data wave and a number of key acquisitions that the company that have moved it beyond its core data warehousing biz.…

Eolas falls at first hurdle in bid to tax browser apps

Posted: 09 Feb 2012 02:13 PM PST

Google grins at Adobe jury's verdict

A jury in Texas has ruled against Eolas Technologies in its patent battle to lay claim to the concept of in-browser applications and most plug-ins.…

Coming to a continent near you: America

Posted: 09 Feb 2012 02:00 PM PST

Also Asia, Europe and Africa

It's going to be a heck of a reunion: the Pangea supercontinent that broke up to create the atlas we know today will one day reform in the Northern hemisphere.…

Hackett bookish after Internet sale

Posted: 09 Feb 2012 01:06 PM PST

Aus tech entrprenuers back new publishing house

Internode founder Simon Hackett is behind the launch of Australia's newest cross-platform book publishing house, MidnightSun Publishing.…

Oracle inhales Taleo for $1.9bn

Posted: 09 Feb 2012 12:06 PM PST

Blows it onto the Fusion app cloud

Only two months ago, Taleo, the seller of online talent management software, was saying that it intended to remain independent despite the cloud software feeding frenzy. But today, Larry Ellison, CEO and co-founder of Oracle, made Taleo CEO Mike Gregoire an offer he couldn't refuse: $1.9bn.…

FBI investigated Steve Jobs' reality distortion field, LSD use

Posted: 09 Feb 2012 11:55 AM PST

Sex, drugs and bomb threats

Steve Jobs' drug use, court cases and personality flaws were all investigated by the FBI, as a file released on Thursday reveals.…

What's in the box, Windows BOFH?

Posted: 09 Feb 2012 11:03 AM PST

What lurks inside the Windows admin's toolkit...

Sysadmin blog  Windows is a powerful and complex Operating System (OS). As with any modern OS, it comes equipped with numerous features, utilities, and applications. But Windows' default tools are not always the best widget for the job at hand.…

AON: Give us cash, we'll emit 10TB holographic cube

Posted: 09 Feb 2012 10:19 AM PST

They do it with mirrors

Access Optical Networks says it has developed a 1.2TB holographic storage cube that can transfer data at 155MB/sec and last longer than 50 years. Oh, and it's done using mirrors – but no smoke.…

Googorola's desire for iPhone royalties will upset Apple cart

Posted: 09 Feb 2012 09:37 AM PST

Moto patents at heart of latest fair licensing row

Analysis  Google's outline of how it will use Motorola Mobility's intellectual property – should regulators allow the buyout – has sparked fierce debate as pundits worry about how the smartphone patent wars will pan out.…

Kodak to kill off digital cameras

Posted: 09 Feb 2012 09:16 AM PST

End in sight for snappers, camcorders

Kodak is knocking its line of budget digital cameras on the head, part of its plan to revive the fortunes of the troubled firm.…

Hitachi GST pushes out boosted SSD

Posted: 09 Feb 2012 09:04 AM PST

Intel's new NAND

Hitachi GST has birthed a boosted Ultrastar SSD using Intel's latest 25nm NAND. Intel launched its own 520 just a few days ago.…

Appcelerator adds Titanium backend with Cocoafish buy

Posted: 09 Feb 2012 08:29 AM PST

I like backends and I cannot lie

Mobile platform developer Appcelerator has completed its second purchase of the last year, snapping up Cocoafish to gets its APIs and server backend system.…

Google will swap you a box of crisps for your web privacy

Posted: 09 Feb 2012 08:02 AM PST

Or anything else from Amazon for $25 if you agree to be stalked

Google has revealed exactly how little cash it thinks a user who is willing to "sell" their data to the search giant is actually worth.…

Airport bomb Twitter joker in second fine appeal bid

Posted: 09 Feb 2012 07:43 AM PST

Judges deliberating whether or not to quash conviction

Paul Chambers, the Twitter joker turned misdemeanour conviction martyr, returned to court on Wednesday to launch a second appeal against a conviction over a "threatening message" to blow Doncaster's Robin Hood Airport "sky high".…

Vodafone squirrels cash into Blighty nightly as Europe falters

Posted: 09 Feb 2012 07:17 AM PST

Spain, Italy disappointing - Turkey, India a pleasant surprise

Vodafone's numbers for the tail-end of 2011 show the network doing pretty well, though it admitted husbanding cash back to the UK nightly just to be on the safe side.…

What downturn? Lenovo stuffs pockets with 54% extra profit

Posted: 09 Feb 2012 07:01 AM PST

World's number 2 PC maker buoyed by China performance

Lenovo Group is one of the few PC makers still in the pink, beating market expectations with a fat third-quarter net profit.…

Ofcom: Make it easier for punters to switch ISPs

Posted: 09 Feb 2012 06:41 AM PST

But could middleman plan jack up prices?

Broadband and landline customers could soon find it a lot simpler to ditch one telco in favour of another, after Ofcom published its proposals on cutting the hassle out of switching providers for punters in the UK.…

Alibaba! suspends! shares! amid! Yahoo! stake! buzz!

Posted: 09 Feb 2012 06:30 AM PST

Chinese biz counts readies to buy back web biz's share

Alibaba.com has suspended its shares on the Hong Kong market, pending news from its parent company Alibaba Group, which reportedly wants to buy back Yahoo!'s stake in the company.…

Microsoft sets date for Windows 8 preview - at mobile shindig

Posted: 09 Feb 2012 06:16 AM PST

Barcelona, it was the first time that we met

Microsoft will unveil Windows 8 at Mobile World Congress, says an invitation sent out today.…

How Zuck wields power over Facebook for a few hundred bucks

Posted: 09 Feb 2012 06:01 AM PST

CEO's voting rights and package exposed

Mark Zuckerberg's effortless swagger into the business world got an airing in public yesterday when Facebook filed more documents to the US Securities and Exchange Commission ahead of the company going public in a few months' time.…

Ethernet standards for hyper-scale cloud networking

Posted: 09 Feb 2012 05:45 AM PST

Always just over the horizon

What if the largest Ethernet networks we see today are just precursors, initial steps on the path to what's been called hyper-scale cloud networking?…

Ingram Micro CEO outlines growth plan as 2011 profits falter

Posted: 09 Feb 2012 05:33 AM PST

Weak Euro consumer biz and challenged Oz operation blamed

Ingram Micro's new chief exec has set out three strategic priorities as he gets to grips with the challenges facing the world's largest distributor and looks to bolster bottom line goodness.…

Groupon loses $42.7m in Q4, shares tumble

Posted: 09 Feb 2012 05:32 AM PST

Hang on to your coupons, we'll make a profit next quarter

Groupon (GRPN) has posted a net loss of $42.7m for the last three months of 2011, disappointing Wall Street's expectation that the coupon-pushers would make a small profit. Groupon stocks closed the day at $24.58 but in after-hours trading stocks tumbled 15 per cent to $20.75 – suggesting that Groupon shareholders might want to brace themselves for a rocky ride when Thursday trading opens in New York.…

UK cops set up new £30m bases to nail cybercrooks

Posted: 09 Feb 2012 05:22 AM PST

They're proper champion e-bobbies

The UK is to establish three regional policing e-crime hubs as part of efforts to boost the capability of British police to tackle the growing problem of cybercrime.…

New sat data shows Himalayan glaciers hardly melting at all

Posted: 09 Feb 2012 05:01 AM PST

Results 'really were a surprise', say climate profs

New scientific analysis of satellite gravity measurements has shown that ice is melting from glaciers around the world much less quickly than had been thought. The new research is important as worldwide glacier melt is thought to be one of the main factors which could drive rising sea levels in future.…

Google Wallet PIN security cracked in seconds

Posted: 09 Feb 2012 04:39 AM PST

Luckily no one important is using it

A researcher at website categoriser zvelo has discovered Google Wallet's PIN protection is open to a brute-force attack that takes seconds to complete. And Google is powerless to fix the problem, it seems.…

Royal astro-boffin to MPs: Stop thinking about headlines

Posted: 09 Feb 2012 04:17 AM PST

'Nuclear biz is screwed, chill out about carcinogens'

"In politics the urgent seems to trump the important," venerable astro-boffin Lord Martin Rees told a committee of MPs yesterday, saying that it there needed to be "bipartisan consensus on long-term issues" such as energy and the environment if Britain is to haul its sorry ass into the next century.…

Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning

Posted: 09 Feb 2012 04:00 AM PST

Hit and myth

Review  Like a mage's potion, Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning is based on a tried and tested formula: the essence of Fable II, a dash of Oblivion, the gizzards of God of War. And let's not forget the vital binding agent, of course: a liberal dose of Tolkien's legendarium.…

iPad 3 shell shots spied on web

Posted: 09 Feb 2012 03:58 AM PST

Snaps point to bigger battery. Possibly

Snaps are circulating Apple and iPad fansites revealing that the upcoming iPad 3 will hold a larger battery than its predecessor… probably.…

Google drive cloud to rain on Apple, Dropbox parade

Posted: 09 Feb 2012 03:39 AM PST

Web giant has our email and docs, might as well hand over everything else

Never one to miss out on an up-and-coming tech trend, Google is all set to launch its very own cloud storage service, competing with the likes of Dropbox, Microsoft and Apple.…

Asus posts patch for Prime random reboot bug

Posted: 09 Feb 2012 03:28 AM PST

Tablet's auto-restart glitch fixed

Asus UK has posted a firmware update for its Android tablet, the Eee Pad Transformer Prime.…

Japan enlists foreign bloggers to revive tsunami-hit tourist biz

Posted: 09 Feb 2012 03:24 AM PST

Will 10 gaijin really make a difference?

The Japanese government is trying to get foreign bloggers to do PR for it by inviting them to earthquake- and tsunami-hit areas to write compassionately about the progress being made in reconstructing the ravaged north-east of the country.…

Life-size Portal gun to shoot onto shelves soon

Posted: 09 Feb 2012 03:07 AM PST

Hole in the wall

Despite the fact they generally sit on the mantlepiece as a decorative reminder of where one's interest lies, replica weapons are a big business and gaming enthusiasts are an eager audience to target.…

Trustwave admits crafting SSL snooping certificate

Posted: 09 Feb 2012 03:03 AM PST

Allowing bosses to spy on staff was wrong, says security biz

Certificate Authority Trustwave has revoked a digital certificate that allowed one of its clients to issue valid certificates for any server, thereby allowing one of its customers to intercept their employees' private email communication.…

HP hands in-house Android code to TouchPad tablet hackers

Posted: 09 Feb 2012 02:49 AM PST

Developed as a WebOS fall-back plan?

Top marks to HP for handing over an Android kernel it once coded for its TouchPad tablet to fondleslab hackers.…

Now Siri brushes up on Russian, Japanese languages

Posted: 09 Feb 2012 02:42 AM PST

Mandarin lessons going well too, says Apple dev mole

Apple is already testing Chinese, Japanese and Russian language support for its voice-activated personal assistant technology Siri - and will roll out the new functionality next month as its efforts to cosy up to customers in these lucrative markets gathers pace.…

Privacy warriors sue FTC over Google's policy tweak

Posted: 09 Feb 2012 02:24 AM PST

Failure to halt imminent changes makes EPIC angry

The Electronic Privacy Information Center is suing the US Federal Trade Commission for failing to take action against Google's plans to change its terms of service on 1 March.…

Lenovo slates Ice Cream Sandwich for ThinkPad tablet

Posted: 09 Feb 2012 02:12 AM PST

Unlock your fondleslab with your face

Lenovo will update its ThinkPad Android-based tablet to Ice Cream Sandwich in May, the PC giant said last night.…

British Red Cross First Aid

Posted: 09 Feb 2012 02:00 AM PST

In case of emergency, break out app...

iOS App of the Week  The Red Cross was in the news recently when it issued new guidelines for performing CPR - Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation - and it has followed this up with a free First Aid app that's worth downloading in case of emergencies.…

MongoDB straps SQL to Google's MapReduce

Posted: 09 Feb 2012 01:37 AM PST

One toasting too many for NoSQL?

To NoSQLers he's the Devil who flames their work. Bring up his name while interviewing the CEO or founder of any NoSQL start-up, as I have, and the interviewee withers to a tight smile.…

Hackers claim to have penetrated Foxconn backdoor

Posted: 09 Feb 2012 01:17 AM PST

We don't care about iPhones or workers, only lulz

It had to happen eventually. Controversial hardware manufacturer Foxconn was reportedly hacked late on Wednesday and a heap of staff email log-ins and intranet credentials posted online which could allow third parties to lodge fraudulent orders.…

Licked RIM has a lifeline: a social network in a box

Posted: 09 Feb 2012 01:02 AM PST

Don't forget the secret power of BBM

Analysis  RIM's fortunes have taken a catastrophic, Nokia-style nosedive in the past year - but it has a chance of pulling up. Admittedly, the odds are long, but this week the Canadian company began its fightback.…

IBM stuffs XIV array with flash tech

Posted: 09 Feb 2012 12:33 AM PST

Big Blue puts pedal to the metal

IBM has pressed the gas pedal to the floor with its third generation XIV array and given it up to 6TB of solid state drive cache storage.…

NHS hands out 3G slabs and phones to roving nurses

Posted: 09 Feb 2012 12:02 AM PST

Should help community care workers cut down on desk-time

The Northern Devon Healthcare NHS Trust is piloting mobile devices for its community care nurses and therapists to enable them to access files, capture data and update back office systems remotely.…

Asus UX21E Zenbook 11.6in Ultrabook

Posted: 08 Feb 2012 11:00 PM PST

Thin! Small! Mad! Gorgeous!

Review  Having already reviewed the slightly larger Asus UX31E Zenbook for El Reg, and quite liking it, I whinged that sending me the UX21E model would be a waste of time. It wasn't, obviously, because you're reading this. I loved it. In fact, I preferred it.…

Apple Stores getting petitions on ethical conduct for breakfast

Posted: 08 Feb 2012 07:16 PM PST

250,000 signatures for fair treatment of iWorkers

Breakfast at Apple retail outlets in Washington, DC, New York, San Francisco, London, Sydney, and Bangalore will come with a side order of protest on Thursday morning, as "concerned Apple customers" will be dropping off 250,000-signature petitions calling out Apple on supplier working practices.…

Robot surgery gets virtual at Euro Space Agency

Posted: 08 Feb 2012 06:00 PM PST

CAMDASS augmented reality for astronaut patch-up

The European Space Agency is showing off an augmented-reality kit which it says will ultimately pave the way for diagnosis and even surgery for astronauts.…

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