Study links dim wits to conservative ideology |
- Study links dim wits to conservative ideology
- Micron CEO Appleton dies in plane crash
- Opinion poll: Anti-regulatory 'hype' unwarranted
- Facebook post-IPO: Free not fee will make Zuck a buck
- European revolt over ACTA treaty gains ground
- US adds more jobs than expected in January
- Apple iPhones, iPad back in German online store
- Biz urged to blast DNSChanger Trojans before safety net comes down
- Dead gamer sat unnoticed for nine hours in net cafe
- Mother charged with selling fake Facebook stock
- Steve Jobs sighted in Taiwan flogging Android tablets
- Anonymous hackers leak Scotland Yard-FBI conference call
- IBM snatches back SPC-1 benchmark crown
- US tweet deportation: Chilling behind-the-scenes photos
- Gun controlled lamp hits the spotlight
- Sysadmins: Don't get in your own way
- ARM rains on x86 as smartphones outship PCs
- IBM bit-twiddlers want point releases for big iron
- Sony throws smartphone party with Billabong
- Troubled Game wins reprieve on debt, mulls axing more stores
- iPhones yanked from German shelves in Motorola patent war
- BT reveals ultra-fast cable blowing plan for homes, biz
- Apple FileVault cracked in under an hour by forensics biz
- Nokia pours oil on burning Symbian
- Boffins crack superconducting graphene's melting mystery
- Fibre-gobbling punters help BT deposit solid profit
- Understanding the make-up of information management
- Euro watchdog asks Google to HALT privacy tweak
- Apple iPad beats Amazon Kindle Fire in satisfaction survey
- Satellite phones lift skirt, flash cipher secrets at boffins
- Toshiba Regza 40RL858 40in LED TV
- RIM shot at Android: Free PlayBooks for devs
- TV tuner maker intros mobile Freeview pick-up
- Apple Europe poaches Xbox PR mastermind
- Samsung 'Galaxy 4S' pic posted
- Windows 8, Windows Phone 8 DNA splice is on - report
- Next-gen Asus Eee Pad Transformer spied
- 100 MEEELLION .com domains now registered
- Brit space agency sends up 1st satellite
- Fujitsu out bog standard 7in tab for big biz
- 'We're totally in LA pissing people off'
- Second 'Blue Marble' NASA sat pic apes Apollo 17's stunner
- Facebook's Googly IPO delivers on Sun man's vision
- BT Vision throws Microsoft Mediaroom under a bus for Linux
- Orange San Francisco 2
- Judges retire to consider Assange’s last chance on extradition
- SpaceX successfully tests SuperDraco rescue rockets
- Riverbed virtualizes Cascade network monitor appliance
- AMD doubles down on existing Opteron server sockets
| Study links dim wits to conservative ideology Posted: 03 Feb 2012 02:46 PM PST US, UK research: Thick kids more likely to become bigotsBritish and American children who are less intelligent are more likely to grow up to be conservative and/or bigots, according to new research published in Physiological Science.… |
| Micron CEO Appleton dies in plane crash Posted: 03 Feb 2012 02:29 PM PST Expert pilot, experimental aircraftSteven Appleton, the long-time CEO at memory chip maker Micron Technology, died this morning in a crash of an experimental plane in the company's hometown of Boise, Idaho. He was 51 years-old and one of the youngest CEOs and chairman in the Fortune 500.… |
| Opinion poll: Anti-regulatory 'hype' unwarranted Posted: 03 Feb 2012 01:58 PM PST Rival small-business boosters, Obama foes disagreeOne advocacy group has published a survey it says proves that US small-business owners aren't unduly concerned with government regulations. Another group says that the first group's opinion poll is tainted by bogosity.… |
| Facebook post-IPO: Free not fee will make Zuck a buck Posted: 03 Feb 2012 12:03 PM PST Dam friction-less sharing and the company is toastOpen ... and Shut No sooner did Facebook file its S-1 in preparation for an IPO than speculation kicked into high gear on how Facebook could possibly sustain its $75bn to $100bn valuation. After all, despite its hugely impressive revenue and profit numbers, key components of its revenue model – like advertising revenue – are decelerating. So should we expect Facebook to impose a paywall on some or all of its users, as MyLife.com chief executive Jeff Tinsley suggests it could?… |
| European revolt over ACTA treaty gains ground Posted: 03 Feb 2012 11:11 AM PST Poles stall, Slovenian ambassador calls for protestsThe Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) treaty, signed by most European countries last week, may not be a done deal after all, as governments across the continent face a storm of protest.… |
| US adds more jobs than expected in January Posted: 03 Feb 2012 11:01 AM PST Lots of IT workers get pink slipsThe US economy added 243,000 net new jobs in January and the unemployment rate has ticked down two-tenths of a point, according to statistics released by the Bureau of Labor Statistics.… |
| Apple iPhones, iPad back in German online store Posted: 03 Feb 2012 10:30 AM PST Take 'em down, put 'em back – a busy morning for Apple ITA German court has suspended the injunction that required Apple to remove its iPhone 4 and 3Gs, and iPad Wi-Fi + 3G from its online store in that country.… |
| Biz urged to blast DNSChanger Trojans before safety net comes down Posted: 03 Feb 2012 10:28 AM PST 8 March cutoff following Operation Ghost ClickHalf of all Fortune 500 companies still contain computers infected with the DNSChanger Trojan, weeks after a FBI-led takedown operations targeting the botnet's command-and-control infrastructure.… |
| Dead gamer sat unnoticed for nine hours in net cafe Posted: 03 Feb 2012 10:07 AM PST Stiff competitionA Taiwanese gamer sat dead in a chair at an Internet cafe for up to nine hours before fellow players noticed the poor guy had popped his clogs.… |
| Mother charged with selling fake Facebook stock Posted: 03 Feb 2012 10:02 AM PST Bogus shares also allegedly given out as Christmas presentsA Wisconsin woman has been charged over claims she tried to sell $1m worth of Facebook shares that she didn't own.… |
| Steve Jobs sighted in Taiwan flogging Android tablets Posted: 03 Feb 2012 09:29 AM PST Rumours of PlayBook Elvis discountedIn the cut-throat tablet market, a Taiwanese company has found one way to make its product stand out: paying an actor to dress up as Steve Jobs and make tasteless jokes about how he's dead.… |
| Anonymous hackers leak Scotland Yard-FBI conference call Posted: 03 Feb 2012 09:11 AM PST Were you talking about us?Members of Anonymous have released an intercept of a conference call between investigators at the FBI and Scotland Yard during which operations against hacktivist group were discussed.… |
| IBM snatches back SPC-1 benchmark crown Posted: 03 Feb 2012 09:03 AM PST SVC does the businessIBM's SAN Volume Controller has done the benchmark business, again, and passed the half million SPC-1 IOPS mark using Storwize V7000 storage.… |
| US tweet deportation: Chilling behind-the-scenes photos Posted: 03 Feb 2012 08:19 AM PST The shock truth of what really went down at LAXThe story earlier this week on the deportation from the US of A of two Brits who ill-advisedly tweeted they were off to "destroy America" left a few readers pretty shaken up at the way the Department of Homeland Security handles potential terrorist threats.… |
| Gun controlled lamp hits the spotlight Posted: 03 Feb 2012 08:07 AM PST Taking the pistolOne Taiwanese manufacturer took aim at traditional light switches this week and unveiled a lamp that can be turned on and off with the shot of a gun-shaped remote.… |
| Sysadmins: Don't get in your own way Posted: 03 Feb 2012 08:04 AM PST Be prepared to try new and irritating thingsSysadmin blog I remember the first time I saw these automated supermarket tills. They intrigued me. Yet I was also afraid of the things. I was afraid that despite all of my knowledge and training I wouldn't be able to figure it out and I would end up looking like a fool. I avoided them for three years; the basis of this avoidance nothing more than irrational fear of that which I might not understand.… |
| ARM rains on x86 as smartphones outship PCs Posted: 03 Feb 2012 07:56 AM PST Netbooks cop a hidingNetbooks are so yesterday's technology. Shipments of the small, not-so-cheap computers plunged during 2011 by 25 per cent, figures from market watcher Canalys show.… |
| IBM bit-twiddlers want point releases for big iron Posted: 03 Feb 2012 07:32 AM PST Software gurus to 'refactor' Big Blue's systemsThe bit-twiddlers took over IBM's server business a year and a half ago, and it appears that they are starting to think about systems as if they were code, as if they could do dot releases in a nearly steady stream and keep their revenues from spiking up and crashing down all the time.… |
| Sony throws smartphone party with Billabong Posted: 03 Feb 2012 07:16 AM PST Blower out the waterSony has gone surf-tastic, announcing a partnership with Aussie outdoors outfitter Billabong, which sees its Xperia Active handset branded with the extreme-sports logo and pitched towards the cool-dude generation.… |
| Troubled Game wins reprieve on debt, mulls axing more stores Posted: 03 Feb 2012 07:01 AM PST High street chain told to shape upGame Group has been given a reprieve by its lenders, but the retailer may have to sell its overseas stores to secure it.… |
| iPhones yanked from German shelves in Motorola patent war Posted: 03 Feb 2012 06:37 AM PST Apple takes down 4 and 3G models - for nowApple has removed the iPhone 4 and 3Gs from its stores in Germany, almost certainly in response to Motorola's December action rather than today's patent win.… |
| BT reveals ultra-fast cable blowing plan for homes, biz Posted: 03 Feb 2012 06:18 AM PST 'Fibre-to-the-premise on demand' in 2013BT is talking up plans to bring its ultra-fast fibre-to-the-premises (FTTP) broadband network to more of its customers in early 2013.… |
| Apple FileVault cracked in under an hour by forensics biz Posted: 03 Feb 2012 06:02 AM PST Passware scratches Lion's belly, penetrates fruity diskApple's FileVault disk encryption can be circumvented in less than an hour, according to a computer forensics firm.… |
| Nokia pours oil on burning Symbian Posted: 03 Feb 2012 05:38 AM PST Rips up roadmap, axes developmentExclusive Nokia is said to be hastening the demise of its legacy Symbian platform, cancelling the development of all but one new Symbian-based device. Although Nokia Belle updates will continue to ship to existing customers, only one new model – a successor to the N8 high-end camera phone – will reach the market, the Register understands.… |
| Boffins crack superconducting graphene's melting mystery Posted: 03 Feb 2012 05:19 AM PST Next-gen high-speed transistors go 3D to slash leaksScientists in Manchester appear to have solved a problem with graphene that has plagued the super-material's fans since it was sliced into being in 2004.… |
| Fibre-gobbling punters help BT deposit solid profit Posted: 03 Feb 2012 05:02 AM PST Cuts also counter revenue dip in Q3BT reported this morning that its sales had fallen 5 per cent for the three months ended 31 December, however earnings and cash generation remained steady, the company added.… |
| Understanding the make-up of information management Posted: 03 Feb 2012 04:48 AM PST Time to stop beating up ITOn demand On January 25th, Regcast presenter Jon Collins was joined by Freeform Dynamics' Martha Bennett, Jason Frost from Blueprint, and Will Thompson from Microsoft for our very first live event of 2012.… |
| Euro watchdog asks Google to HALT privacy tweak Posted: 03 Feb 2012 04:37 AM PST Take a pause while French DP officers frisk you, LarryA European Union watchdog has written to Google boss Larry Page asking him to explain how personal data will be safeguarded when the search giant puts its revised privacy policy into effect on 1 March.… |
| Apple iPad beats Amazon Kindle Fire in satisfaction survey Posted: 03 Feb 2012 04:28 AM PST Fanboys happier than Fireboys?iPad owners are happier with their tablets than folk with other fondleslabs are with theirs, recent research reveals.… |
| Satellite phones lift skirt, flash cipher secrets at boffins Posted: 03 Feb 2012 04:22 AM PST Security though obscurity fails yet againResearchers at the Ruhr-University Bochum have managed to extract the secret encryption algorithmns used by satellite phones, and discovered that it's a lot less secure than one might hope.… |
| Toshiba Regza 40RL858 40in LED TV Posted: 03 Feb 2012 04:00 AM PST Smart, but no mortarboardReview Toshiba is a bit of a wild card when it comes to TVs. While some of its screens are genuinely exciting, others are merely bargain bin fillers. Buying a cheaper Tosh is a classic case of caveat emptor.… |
| RIM shot at Android: Free PlayBooks for devs Posted: 03 Feb 2012 03:44 AM PST Knock up an app before Valentine's, get 16GB love-slabRIM is offering a free PlayBook tablet to developers who submit an Android application to RIM's App World before Valentine's Day, though the T&Cs have yet to be revealed.… |
| TV tuner maker intros mobile Freeview pick-up Posted: 03 Feb 2012 03:34 AM PST Streams digital telly over its own Wi-FiTV tuner maker Hauppauge has introduced a mobile gadget that streams Freeview content to you phone, tablet or computer over its own wireless network.… |
| Apple Europe poaches Xbox PR mastermind Posted: 03 Feb 2012 03:24 AM PST Prepares for battle against Microsoft's 'everything' boxesApple has poached Microsoft's top product marketing bod in the UK to front up its app store in Europe.… |
| Samsung 'Galaxy 4S' pic posted Posted: 03 Feb 2012 03:19 AM PST Is S III stand-in snap real or Photoshop?The Samsung Galaxy S II Plus, the smartphone the South Korean giant is said to be unveiling at this month's Mobile World Congress (MWC) show in place of the Galaxy S III, will be a skinny white boy.… |
| Windows 8, Windows Phone 8 DNA splice is on - report Posted: 03 Feb 2012 03:01 AM PST Apple-flavoured future features leakedWindows 8 and Microsoft's next major phone operating system will merge, if reports are correct.… |
| Next-gen Asus Eee Pad Transformer spied Posted: 03 Feb 2012 02:42 AM PST TF300T snappedA previously unseen Asus tablet has surfaced on the web prompting speculation that the Taiwanese company is working on the successor to the Eee Pad Transformer Prime.… |
| 100 MEEELLION .com domains now registered Posted: 03 Feb 2012 02:42 AM PST Ready for those new gTLDs yet?There are now over 100 million .com domain names on the internet.… |
| Brit space agency sends up 1st satellite Posted: 03 Feb 2012 02:19 AM PST Yes, this is newsSo far, the UK space agency hasn't gone in for any of that headline-grabbing stuff like landing people on the Moon or launching Martian probes that get stranded in orbit before plummeting back to Earth – it leaves that sort of stuff to NASA and Roscosmos.… |
| Fujitsu out bog standard 7in tab for big biz Posted: 03 Feb 2012 02:05 AM PST Gingerbread do you?Fujitsu has outed a non-descript 7in Android tablet that it'll be pitching at big business when the gadget goes on sale later this month.… |
| 'We're totally in LA pissing people off' Posted: 03 Feb 2012 02:01 AM PST Plus 'The horror!'Quotw This was the week when Facebook finally filed for its IPO.… |
| Second 'Blue Marble' NASA sat pic apes Apollo 17's stunner Posted: 03 Feb 2012 01:55 AM PST Earth-snapping Suomi gets its kit out for the labsAfter popular demand NASA's Suomi NPP satellite has beamed down another "Blue Marble" vision of the Earth in high definition.… |
| Facebook's Googly IPO delivers on Sun man's vision Posted: 03 Feb 2012 01:01 AM PST Selling data ain't like shiftin' boxes, boyHistory may record Scott McNealy as a straight-dealing leader of a major Silicon Valley tech company.… |
| BT Vision throws Microsoft Mediaroom under a bus for Linux Posted: 03 Feb 2012 12:04 AM PST Set-top box software to be torn out and replaced over the netUK hybrid TV service BT Vision plans to be the first customer to discard Microsoft's Mediaroom software, almost imminently, after at least a year-long effort to put in completely new software building blocks to rejuvenate the service.… |
| Posted: 02 Feb 2012 11:00 PM PST More hails of the cityReview The Orange San Francisco was the smartphone bargain of 2011. For £99 you got a solid little handset with a 3.5in 480 x 800 screen, Android 2.1 and a 3.2Mp camera. The fact it was falling-off-a-wet-log easy to root and change ROMs – even I managed it – was the icing on the cake.… |
| Judges retire to consider Assange’s last chance on extradition Posted: 02 Feb 2012 09:33 PM PST Supreme Court is final shot for WikiLeaker-in-chiefThe UK Supreme Court judges have retired to consider their verdict in Julian Assange's last shot at escaping extradition to Sweden, with a final verdict possible within weeks.… |
| SpaceX successfully tests SuperDraco rescue rockets Posted: 02 Feb 2012 05:14 PM PST Aims to build the safest spacecraft everSpaceX has confirmed the successful test of its SuperDraco rocket engine, which will form the backbone of safety and landing systems for its Dragon spacecraft.… |
| Riverbed virtualizes Cascade network monitor appliance Posted: 02 Feb 2012 05:07 PM PST Spying on virtual iron with virtual ironRiverbed Technology upgraded a whole bunch of its appliances this week, including its Cascade Shark network-monitoring products and its Steelhead WAN optimizers.… |
| AMD doubles down on existing Opteron server sockets Posted: 02 Feb 2012 04:04 PM PST Shift happens – except when it doesn'tAs El Reg anticipated earlier this week, the new upper management at AMD has come to its senses and figured out that moving to a new core and two new sockets for its Opteron line in 2012 was not a particularly good idea for its own finances, or those of the server makers who it wants to peddle Opteron-based iron. And so, that plan has been scrapped.… |
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