Oracle revs home-tweaked Linux kernel to 2.0 |
- Oracle revs home-tweaked Linux kernel to 2.0
- EC researchers demo multi-gigabit fibre-to-the-home
- CSIRO: warming up to five degrees by 2070
- Tech industry climbs out of Silicon Valley, moves abroad
- Apple patches steaming heap of Safari bugs
- UK Home Secretary approves TVShack's O'Dwyer extradition
- Atari pings Pong Apple champion wannabes
- Lords say data roaming costs 'unacceptably high'
- Finders of lost mobes can't resist staring at privates
- Could tiny ebooks really upset the mighty Apple cart?
- Everything Everywhere grabs UK 4G wheel, rivals thrown off bus
- Jester hacker brags of mobe attack on Anonymous, baby-kisser
- Google bod: Fast net 'absolutely CRITICAL' to UK future
- TalkTalk takes broadband to 80Mbps
- Dell splashes cash on SonicWall's powerful firewall erections
- Apple to kick start 'iTV' production in Q2
- Blighty's pay-by-bonk gang goes cap in hand to Euro watchdog
- Apple, Motorola Mobility held patent war peace summit
- Phone-hack cops nab six 'including Prime Ministerial horse lender'
- CBS supremo: Apple TV is still dead to me, just like ...
- Top DARPA bomb boffin in explosive move to Google
- iPad 3 benchmarked
- Panasonic CF-53 Toughbook 14in rugged laptop
- DLNA blesses HomePlug Ethernet-over-mains tech
- JavaScript shogun deflects Google's mid-air Dart attack
- Sony intros Xperia Sola with no-need-to-touch screen
- Samsung Galaxy S II punters get a lick of Ice Cream Sarnie
- Big biz nuts about iPad, says researcher
- West Yorkshire Gay Police Association in email list leak FAIL
- Tim Cook scoffs $11m slice of warm Apple pie
- Microsoft shakes SQL Server 2012's business end at big data
- Microsoft hikes SQL Server 2012 price 'by 20 per cent'
- TuneIn Radio Pro
- Just like a real computer: Android gets Android IDE
- iPlayer repeat fees threaten BBC earthquake
- China's soft censors clamp down on micro blogs
- ICT for Highlands and Islands fire and rescue 'inadequate'
- Report: UK falls behind as smart meters rolled out across Europe
- SanDisk Extreme 120GB SSD
- Asian PC market slowed by HDD misery
- China's online video giants shake hands on $1bn deal
- IT pros lack recent skills
- Microsoft wants super-sensitive finger strokes
- Halo friends frag harder, longer
- CEO takes leave of Sensis
- Anchors away for Aus web hosties
- New Yorker sues Apple: 'Misleading and deceptive' Siri ads
- Twitter buys microblogging service Posterous
- HP readies public cloud for May launch
- Oldest skeleton found in South Australia
| Oracle revs home-tweaked Linux kernel to 2.0 Posted: 13 Mar 2012 02:06 PM PDT RHELison gets all kinds of new goodiesSoftware giant Oracle has gussied up the second iteration of its own kernel for Ellison's Enterprise Linux distro, dissing Red Hat's own tweak on the mainstream Linux 3.0 kernel.… |
| EC researchers demo multi-gigabit fibre-to-the-home Posted: 13 Mar 2012 02:04 PM PDT Running rings around copper broadbandEuropean Commission-funded researchers have declared a high speed broadband research project a success, stating that the "Sardana" project (Scalable Advanced Ring-based Passive Dense Network Architecture) has demonstrated the feasibility and robustness of 10 Gbps fibre-to-the-home networks.… |
| CSIRO: warming up to five degrees by 2070 Posted: 13 Mar 2012 02:03 PM PDT State of the climate report casts gloomy predictionsEven an La Niña event and cool weather in Australia in 2010 and 2011 haven't reversed the overall long-term trend to a warmer globe, according to Australia's latest State of the Climate report.… |
| Tech industry climbs out of Silicon Valley, moves abroad Posted: 13 Mar 2012 11:02 AM PDT Have open source, will travelOpen... and Shut Silicon Valley may well be the center of the technology universe, but it's no longer the locus for technology jobs.… |
| Apple patches steaming heap of Safari bugs Posted: 13 Mar 2012 10:28 AM PDT Fixes record number of security vulns, adds speedApple has released an update for its Safari browser that patches a record number of serious security vulnerabilities, promises JavaScript performance improvements, and eliminates the annoying "white flash" page-switching bug.… |
| UK Home Secretary approves TVShack's O'Dwyer extradition Posted: 13 Mar 2012 10:10 AM PDT Website bod faces five in the slammerBlighty's Home Secretary Theresa May has approved the extradition of Richard O'Dwyer to the US on charges of copyright infringement stemming from his TVShack website.… |
| Atari pings Pong Apple champion wannabes Posted: 13 Mar 2012 09:32 AM PDT Bushnell judging $100,000 App Store raceAtari founder Nolan Bushnell will judge entrants in a $100,000 competition to bring iconic ball-fondling game Pong to Apple iGadgets.… |
| Lords say data roaming costs 'unacceptably high' Posted: 13 Mar 2012 09:31 AM PDT Do something about it, govt toldThe House of Lords EU Sub-Committee on the Internal Market, Energy and Transport has said that Britons are paying too much to use smartphones for data when traveling to other European countries.… |
| Finders of lost mobes can't resist staring at privates Posted: 13 Mar 2012 09:01 AM PDT Experiment: Half of them try to find the ownersA Symantec-sponsored experiment has discovered that people who find lost smartphones* almost invariably attempt to have a sneaky peek at their owners' data.… |
| Could tiny ebooks really upset the mighty Apple cart? Posted: 13 Mar 2012 08:32 AM PDT Steve Jobs' last big deal may turn into costly roadblockAnalysis You wouldn't think that Apple had any problems right now. Its share price is so grossly high that it is ranked as the most valuable company in the world. Fans will queue up in their thousands for the chance to buy its latest iDevice – the new iPad – so much so that there won't be anywhere nearly enough devices in stock to satisfy demand on launch day.… |
| Everything Everywhere grabs UK 4G wheel, rivals thrown off bus Posted: 13 Mar 2012 08:02 AM PDT Ofcom green-lights 2012 LTE monopolyEverything Everywhere will be allowed to deploy 4G this year, at 1800MHz, while the other UK operators will just have to stand in line for next year's auction.… |
| Jester hacker brags of mobe attack on Anonymous, baby-kisser Posted: 13 Mar 2012 07:38 AM PDT Pwned by QR code - or wind-up?A hacker known as The Jester claims to have siphoned personal information from prominent members of Anonymous, a US politician and other assorted "enemies" after running a mobile malware-based attack that relied on the curiosity of his intended victims. The raid is unconfirmed.… |
| Google bod: Fast net 'absolutely CRITICAL' to UK future Posted: 13 Mar 2012 07:17 AM PDT Pukka mobile needed to save hard-up BritsDigital London Google is championing the need for improved fixed and mobile internet access while flying the flag for British small businesses online.… |
| TalkTalk takes broadband to 80Mbps Posted: 13 Mar 2012 07:13 AM PDT High fibre gobblesTalkTalk has doubled its broadband speed, offering customers up to 80Mbps through a new fibre optic setup.… |
| Dell splashes cash on SonicWall's powerful firewall erections Posted: 13 Mar 2012 07:07 AM PDT Buys up biz to lock down end-point to data centerUpdated John Swainson, president of Dell Software, took control of the giant's nascent software business last week and has moved fast, using the Dell checkbook to snap up SonicWall – a firewall and threat-management software and appliance maker – for an undisclosed sum.… |
| Apple to kick start 'iTV' production in Q2 Posted: 13 Mar 2012 07:01 AM PDT 2-5m units pipelined, reckons analystApple will start punching out 2-5m so-called 'iTVs' during the latter part of Q2, one financial analyst has forecast.… |
| Blighty's pay-by-bonk gang goes cap in hand to Euro watchdog Posted: 13 Mar 2012 06:42 AM PDT Project Oscar files plan, US's ISIS bangs out a logoIn the United States, the ISIS platform for NFC apps finally has a logo and is preparing itself for launch, while the UK equivalent – Project Oscar – is off to Europe for competition approval.… |
| Apple, Motorola Mobility held patent war peace summit Posted: 13 Mar 2012 06:18 AM PDT EU Googorola papers reveal licensing chitchatApple and Motorola Mobility held peace talks at the end of last year to end their patent row with a cross-licensing agreement, according to an EU document.… |
| Phone-hack cops nab six 'including Prime Ministerial horse lender' Posted: 13 Mar 2012 06:01 AM PDT Op Weeting plods search gaffs, bracelet suspectsOfficers arrested five men and one woman this morning in a coordinated swoop relating to the Met's probe into alleged phone-hacking at Rupert Murdoch-owned News International.… |
| CBS supremo: Apple TV is still dead to me, just like ... Posted: 13 Mar 2012 05:39 AM PDT Shan't be prying it out of anyone's handsThe CEO of broadcasting company CBS made Steve Jobs furious by telling him that he knew more about the "television business" than him. Jobs apparently blew up at brodcast exec Leslie Moonves because he had refused to sign up to a content agreement for Apple TV.… |
| Top DARPA bomb boffin in explosive move to Google Posted: 13 Mar 2012 05:21 AM PDT Counter-terror expert disarmed by Choc Factory's charmGoogle has reportedly poached DARPA chief Dr Regina Dugan, who will apparently shortly be joining the Chocolate Factory as a top exec.… |
| Posted: 13 Mar 2012 05:06 AM PDT 1GHz CPU, 1GB Ram confirmed?The iPad 3 does indeed contain 1GB of memory and sports a processor clocked at 1GHz, it has been claimed.… |
| Panasonic CF-53 Toughbook 14in rugged laptop Posted: 13 Mar 2012 05:00 AM PDT A bit of a hard caseReview Skinny Ultrabooks may be getting all the press at the moment but what it you want a laptop that will withstand the knocks, drops and tribulations of use on the road and in the great outdoors rather than the board-room? Panasonic's semi-rugged CF-53 Toughbook may be just the ticket.… |
| DLNA blesses HomePlug Ethernet-over-mains tech Posted: 13 Mar 2012 04:43 AM PDT Stream your content over power linesThe Digital Living Network Alliance, the organisation behind the DLNA media streaming standard, has given the thumbs-up to powerline networking.… |
| JavaScript shogun deflects Google's mid-air Dart attack Posted: 13 Mar 2012 04:42 AM PDT Wirfs-Brock preaches HarmonyQCon 2012 Google might be pressing on solo with JavaScript-killer Dart, but those backing JS reckon their language - while not perfect - will thrive for another 25 years.… |
| Sony intros Xperia Sola with no-need-to-touch screen Posted: 13 Mar 2012 04:26 AM PDT Cursor controlled with floating fingersSony today introduced an Android smartphone, the Xperia Sola, that you can can control without touching.… |
| Samsung Galaxy S II punters get a lick of Ice Cream Sarnie Posted: 13 Mar 2012 04:18 AM PDT Older models fed Gingerbread+Samsung has started upgrading its handsets, with the Galaxy S II getting Ice Cream Sandwich. The aging Galaxy S, meanwhile, will be upgraded to Gingerbread with extra bits.… |
| Big biz nuts about iPad, says researcher Posted: 13 Mar 2012 04:05 AM PDT And that's before the new one was announcedThink tablets are just for folk at home? Think again. New research suggests big business is becoming increasingly keen on the iPad.… |
| West Yorkshire Gay Police Association in email list leak FAIL Posted: 13 Mar 2012 04:01 AM PDT Details of Pride sign-ups spilledThe Information Commissioner's Office is looking into an alleged breach of the Data Protection Act after the West Yorkshire branch of the Gay Police Association (WYGPA) mistakenly leaked names and email addresses to around 100 people signed up to an LGBT mailing list.… |
| Tim Cook scoffs $11m slice of warm Apple pie Posted: 13 Mar 2012 03:39 AM PDT Fruity tech chief flogs 20k sharesTim Cook took advantage of some of his oodles of Apple stock over the end of last week, taking possession of 37,500 shares and converting them to cash.… |
| Microsoft shakes SQL Server 2012's business end at big data Posted: 13 Mar 2012 03:29 AM PDT Still holding out for HadoopReview Those not in "Denali Denial" will be interested in SQL Server 2012, which has just been unwrapped and is currently being delivered to manufacturers.… |
| Microsoft hikes SQL Server 2012 price 'by 20 per cent' Posted: 13 Mar 2012 03:04 AM PDT April Fools' Day will be no laughing matterMicrosoft will hike licensing prices for the soon-to-launch SQL Server 2012 Enterprise edition by an average of 20 per cent, resellers have claimed.… |
| Posted: 13 Mar 2012 03:00 AM PDT Radio killed the video starAndroid App of the Week I stumbled across TuneIn while reviewing the Archos 35 Home Connect - it's preinstalled as that device's main radio portal - and since that chance encounter it has ended up on all my Android devices.… |
| Just like a real computer: Android gets Android IDE Posted: 13 Mar 2012 02:33 AM PDT What's developed on Android stays on AndroidAndroid developers can now hack code on the move with the beta release of AIDE, the Android developer kit which runs on an Android device to create Android applications.… |
| iPlayer repeat fees threaten BBC earthquake Posted: 13 Mar 2012 02:02 AM PDT What's fairer than 'pay as you go'?Analysis Is it fair to ask people to pay a second time for media they've already paid for? Or is it fair to charge people for media they never use - and send them to prison if they decline to pay? Of these two injustices, which is the greater?… |
| China's soft censors clamp down on micro blogs Posted: 13 Mar 2012 01:48 AM PDT 'Weibos' riddled with 'harmful' rumoursNew research by a US university has shone a little more light on the murky world of Chinese web censorship to tell us that, yes, home grown social media is policed pretty damn effectively in the People's Republic.… |
| ICT for Highlands and Islands fire and rescue 'inadequate' Posted: 13 Mar 2012 01:33 AM PDT Wads of cash needed to bring Scots' systems up to scratch, says watchdogHighlands and Islands fire and rescue service's ICT infrastructure is inadequate and requires significant investment to be effective, says an Audit Scotland report on behalf of the Accounts Commission.… |
| Report: UK falls behind as smart meters rolled out across Europe Posted: 13 Mar 2012 12:59 AM PDT 'Deregulated' Blighty could struggle to fit smart meters by 2015The number of smart meters installed in European homes is likely to "accelerate swiftly" over the next three years, according to research published by a provider of the technology.… |
| Posted: 13 Mar 2012 12:00 AM PDT Sata 3 Sandforce speedsterReview Another week and yet another new range of Sandforce controlled drives has been pitched into battle in an already crowded market place. Still, here's hoping the increased competition will impact on prices. Arriving hard on the heels of Intel's new 520 range reviewed recently, is the Extreme series from flash memory experts SanDisk – the company's second generation of consumer drives using a Sandforce controller.… |
| Asian PC market slowed by HDD misery Posted: 12 Mar 2012 10:45 PM PDT Thai floods continue to hamper shipments in south-east AsiaHard disk drive production levels may be reaching full capacity again after the widespread flooding in Thailand last year but the PC market in south east Asia is likely to be disrupted for some time to come after taking a severe knock in the last quarter, according to IDC.… |
| China's online video giants shake hands on $1bn deal Posted: 12 Mar 2012 10:16 PM PDT Merger will create new SUPERCOMPANYChinese online video giants Youku and Tudou have announced they are to merge in a billion dollar deal which should see the two finally put their well publicised courtroom battles behind them.… |
| Posted: 12 Mar 2012 10:07 PM PDT CompTIA says technology outpaces training46% of IT workers struggle to keep their skills up to date with new technology, according to CompTIA, a non-profit trade association advancing the global interests of information technology professionals.… |
| Microsoft wants super-sensitive finger strokes Posted: 12 Mar 2012 09:48 PM PDT Says fondleslabs must go faster to satisfyMicrosoft says today's touch screens have latency of 100 milliseconds between a finger hitting the glass and the image on the screen changing. At that speed, says Paul Dietz, Assistant Director of Microsoft Applied Sciences, fingers have moved ten centimetres and the "analogy of moving a real physical object breaks down."… |
| Halo friends frag harder, longer Posted: 12 Mar 2012 09:13 PM PDT Study says more kills and betrayals when friends play togetherPlaying Halo with or against close friends means more kills, according to a new study titled Friends FTW! Friendship and competition in Halo: Reach by US researchers Winter Mason and Aaron Clauset.… |
| Posted: 12 Mar 2012 05:59 PM PDT CEO Akhurst out as profits plungeTelstra's directory business, Sensis, has parted ways with CEO Bruce Akhurst.… |
| Anchors away for Aus web hosties Posted: 12 Mar 2012 05:34 PM PDT Sets up POP in CaliforniaAustralian hosting outfit Anchor has expanded to the US to service Australian companies with a growing US customer base.… |
| New Yorker sues Apple: 'Misleading and deceptive' Siri ads Posted: 12 Mar 2012 05:25 PM PDT Is the ol' girl getting dumber? Woz says she isA New York man has filed a class-action suit alleging that Apple's adverts and claims about its Siri voice-activated info system are bunk, guff, bosh, and bull – and no, that's not the name of the law firm he has hired.… |
| Twitter buys microblogging service Posterous Posted: 12 Mar 2012 04:25 PM PDT Rumors suggested pre-Posterous saleTwitter has bought the microblogging service Posterous and will be running it as an adjunct to its main client – for the time being, at least.… |
| HP readies public cloud for May launch Posted: 12 Mar 2012 04:21 PM PDT Like Amazon, but really OpenStack in a suitAfter three CEOs and several years, it looks like server juggernaut HP is finally getting ready to launch its public cloud.… |
| Oldest skeleton found in South Australia Posted: 12 Mar 2012 04:00 PM PDT 500 million year old fossil like 'a thimble with needles'Researchers from the University of California Riverside and the South Australian Museum have turned up a surprising creature more than half a billion years old, showing signs of a skeleton.… |
| You are subscribed to email updates from The Register To stop receiving these emails, you may unsubscribe now. | Email delivery powered by Google |
| Google Inc., 20 West Kinzie, Chicago IL USA 60610 | |
0 comments:
Post a Comment