Robotic surgeon successful in first prostate snip |
- Robotic surgeon successful in first prostate snip
- Dutch birdman admits flight was filmic fantasy
- Pro-China hackers target Tibetan activists with malware
- Micron's revenues circle drain for third straight quarter
- Survey scammers fling spam at Pinterest punters
- Investor sues Oracle over $200m whistleblower payout
- Facebook: Your boss asks for your password, we'll sue him! Maybe
- US broadcasters put the squeeze on small-town cable TV
- Rovio: Actually there will be Angry Birds Space on Windows Phone
- Hackers booby-trap WordPress site with botnet-weaving Trojan
- More 'retina' display piccies spied within Mac OS X
- Wave, Buzz... <i>Android</i>? What Apple teaches Google
- RAC's Bristol data centre breaks down
- Worst movie poll screening delayed 7 days
- Revealed: Google's SECRET London office
- Has virtualization really ended all your worries?
- Moneybags Apple loses $1.2m Italian warranty fine scrap
- Windows Phone left on launchpad by Angry Birds in spaaace
- Baffling barcode-on-steroids stickers plaster the EARTH
- Apple tightens grip on tablet market with iPad 2 and 3 pincer move
- Analyst eyes Q3 2013 for Xbox 720 release
- Google patents mobile ads that sense noise, temp, light
- US movie viewers make sudden shift to net
- Computacenter rips up £43m council contract over razor-thin margin
- iPhone outsells RIM's BlackBerry in Canada for the first time
- Hard-up Iceland plumps for cheaper open source
- Intel next-gen netbook chip to sport Ivy Bridge graphics
- Florida man 'fesses to naked Scarlett Johansson outrage
- Arcam rDock
- Thai floods derail Hadron-colliding antimatter boffinry
- Cocky Foxconn tells tech biz: We'll design your mobes, you do the ads
- Half of iPad 3s sold will sport 4G, says bank
- El Reg Forums FAQ
- Sony to serve Ice Cream Sandwich to tablets
- Snowboards and BIG DATA for WORLD PEACE
- HP and EMC battle for the soul of server storage
- BT Vision to stream UKTV channels
- Scores of US federal agencies still open to 2008 cache attack
- Third European supply podule blasts off en route to space station
- Medieval warming WAS global – new science contradicts IPCC
- Council to chuck £28m wad at schools' ICT supplier
- Fujitsu has phone fraudsters in its sights
- Singapore lures big biz with mega data protection regime
- China's censors out in force as coup rumours spread
- Resident Evil: Operation Raccoon City
- China takes Android and iOS activations crown
- Football rules punt Oz IPTV into touch
- GIANT KANGAROOS wiped out by humans, not climate change
- NetApp to unleash virtual array
- SKA committee defers final decision
| Robotic surgeon successful in first prostate snip Posted: 23 Mar 2012 01:28 PM PDT Low-cost robot could save NHS millionsA man suffering from cancer has become the first Briton to have his prostate removed by robotic surgery.… |
| Dutch birdman admits flight was filmic fantasy Posted: 23 Mar 2012 12:54 PM PDT Human-powered flap'n'fly too good to be true, sadlyThe "Flying Dutchman" who enthralled world+dog earlier this week with a video of him flying through the wild blue yonder by flapping homemade wings has admitted that the entire airborne affair was but a hoax.… |
| Pro-China hackers target Tibetan activists with malware Posted: 23 Mar 2012 12:01 PM PDT Spammers in the service of the People's RepublicPro-China hackers have started spoofing security firm AlienVault's email address in spam messages in an attempt to infect pro-Tibetan recipients with malware.… |
| Micron's revenues circle drain for third straight quarter Posted: 23 Mar 2012 11:02 AM PDT Down, down, down for DRAM and flash makerThe numbers are straightforward. In its second financial 2012 quarter, ending 1 March, DRAM and NAND maker Micron sold $2.1bn of chips and SSDs and made a loss of $224m. This reflects the deepening of a trend that has been underway for seven quarters, with declining revenues and falling profits turning into losses.… |
| Survey scammers fling spam at Pinterest punters Posted: 23 Mar 2012 10:44 AM PDT Black Hat Tools offers spring bot collection...Cybercrooks have latched on the success of social networking site Pinterest by launching a variety of money-making scams.… |
| Investor sues Oracle over $200m whistleblower payout Posted: 23 Mar 2012 10:34 AM PDT Ellison & Co. charged with 'gross mismanagement'An Oracle shareholder has filed a lawsuit against Larry Ellison & Co. for "gross mismanagement" in their handling of a long-running whistleblower case, alleging that by fighting a case they knew to be grounded in fact, they drove the ultimate settlement up to a hefty $200m.… |
| Facebook: Your boss asks for your password, we'll sue him! Maybe Posted: 23 Mar 2012 10:29 AM PDT Or we might delete you. That will helpFacebook's Chief Privacy Officer has condemned employers who ask for the Facebook log-ins of employees or job applicants. It comes after a young man blogged that a potential employer had asked for his Facebook password during a job interview.… |
| US broadcasters put the squeeze on small-town cable TV Posted: 23 Mar 2012 10:03 AM PDT You're gonna pay more for less service, hayseed. Gotta problem with that?Small cable TV networks are having to increase their prices just to offer content that the owner will happily give away, and they want the FCC to do something about it.… |
| Rovio: Actually there will be Angry Birds Space on Windows Phone Posted: 23 Mar 2012 09:29 AM PDT 'What? No, nobody called from Redmond or Nokia'Rovio has apparently changed its mind, with the company's CEO telling Reuters that a Windows Phone 7 port of Angry Birds in Space is in the offing, though he's not saying when.… |
| Hackers booby-trap WordPress site with botnet-weaving Trojan Posted: 23 Mar 2012 09:28 AM PDT Crooks lure punters in with LinkedIn liesMalware-flingers are taking advantage of vulnerable WordPress sites as part of an attack ultimately designed to spread an information-stealing botnet agent.… |
| More 'retina' display piccies spied within Mac OS X Posted: 23 Mar 2012 09:10 AM PDT Mountain Lion paving way for pixeltastic MacBooks?Software hackers have been uncovering ultra-high resolution graphics in Apple OS updates for more than a year now, so it comes as no surprise that Ars Technica has found a few more, in the Mac OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion Developer Preview.… |
| Wave, Buzz... <i>Android</i>? What Apple teaches Google Posted: 23 Mar 2012 09:01 AM PDT Freedom is more than just a wordOpen ... and Shut For developers looking to avoid the Dementor's Kiss of Apple's all-consuming iOS ecosystem, Google has long played the knight in shining open-source armour. Indeed, latest data from IDC and Appcelerator suggest developers are still betting big on Google, expecting its broad range of social products to mint them money. But given Google's track record in social, is this faith misplaced?… |
| RAC's Bristol data centre breaks down Posted: 23 Mar 2012 08:55 AM PDT Day-long outage sparked by server crashMotor insurance biz RAC suffered a day-long outage after something went kaput in its data centre in Bristol.… |
| Worst movie poll screening delayed 7 days Posted: 23 Mar 2012 08:42 AM PDT Sheer weight of nominations buries El RegWe've been obliged to postpone our promised poll of the worst film ever until next Friday due to a stampede of nominations.… |
| Revealed: Google's SECRET London office Posted: 23 Mar 2012 08:18 AM PDT Remarkable snaps of subterranean bunker complexEarlier this week, El Reg got its sweaty paws on some exclusive snaps of the new Google outpost in London's Central St Giles building.… |
| Has virtualization really ended all your worries? Posted: 23 Mar 2012 08:00 AM PDT The very real limits of happinessOK, so you've virtualised a bunch of servers and saved yourself a bit of money on hardware. Life is a little easier because you no longer have to go through the server procurement and provisioning cycle quite so often to meet new requirements.… |
| Moneybags Apple loses $1.2m Italian warranty fine scrap Posted: 23 Mar 2012 07:39 AM PDT Foxconn-rebrand biz sets sights on formal appealAn Italian court has refused to suspend fines slapped on Apple for failing to properly advertise EU-mandated warranties.… |
| Windows Phone left on launchpad by Angry Birds in spaaace Posted: 23 Mar 2012 07:27 AM PDT Microsoft lacks the gravity to attract a portUpdated Rovio has shunned Windows Phone for the latest outing of the super-soaraway Angry Birds franchise, saying that it can't support every platform and has no plans to support that one.… |
| Baffling barcode-on-steroids stickers plaster the EARTH Posted: 23 Mar 2012 07:02 AM PDT 18 years on, QR codes are getting even stickierSysadmin blog QR codes are everywhere. They have completely overrun Japan and are becoming well-established in the rest of the world as well. There are plenty of convenient uses for this technology, as well as several less carefully considered uses.… |
| Apple tightens grip on tablet market with iPad 2 and 3 pincer move Posted: 23 Mar 2012 06:44 AM PDT Just when you thought it was safe to go into the mid market ...Comment Following the launch of Apple's new iPad the company has been criticised again for the lack of design overhaul, with some arguing this will inhibit sales. But the 7 March actually saw yet another Apple masterstroke – for two reasons.… |
| Analyst eyes Q3 2013 for Xbox 720 release Posted: 23 Mar 2012 06:27 AM PDT Seller of pre-owned games spins against disc-less consoleMicrosoft's next Xbox console will launch in Q3 2013 and, contrary to widespread rumours, will not be a download-only platform, one analyst reckons.… |
| Google patents mobile ads that sense noise, temp, light Posted: 23 Mar 2012 06:19 AM PDT Hey, you look cold - there's a coat shop over thereGoogle wants to deliver adverts based on the environment around people, as well as their behavioural profile, and has filed for a patent on the concept.… |
| US movie viewers make sudden shift to net Posted: 23 Mar 2012 06:11 AM PDT More films watched online this year than on discLovefilm subscribers in the UK are already streaming more content over the net than they're receiving on disc through the post, and now it's been claimed that folk in the US will acquire more paid video content online this year than on physical media.… |
| Computacenter rips up £43m council contract over razor-thin margin Posted: 23 Mar 2012 06:02 AM PDT Five-year ICT deal ends before it beginsComputacenter chief exec Mike Norris says the reseller giant stepped out of an ICT services contract with Cumbria County Council (CC) before kick-off because it was "confident" the deal would be loss-making.… |
| iPhone outsells RIM's BlackBerry in Canada for the first time Posted: 23 Mar 2012 05:57 AM PDT But sexting Middle Eastern teens remain loyal to BBMThe iPhone is outselling the BlackBerry in its home territory, Canada, in another humiliating mark of decline for mobe-makers RIM.… |
| Hard-up Iceland plumps for cheaper open source Posted: 23 Mar 2012 05:41 AM PDT Public sector has one year to flee from Microsoft and coIceland's government is accelerating its move to open source at the expense of proprietary software from the likes of Microsoft and Oracle.… |
| Intel next-gen netbook chip to sport Ivy Bridge graphics Posted: 23 Mar 2012 05:24 AM PDT What, with a 1024 x 600 screen and Windows Starter?Hardware sites are abuzz with news that Intel is preparing a 22nm Atom chip with a state-of-the-art integrated graphics core on board.… |
| Florida man 'fesses to naked Scarlett Johansson outrage Posted: 23 Mar 2012 05:18 AM PDT Hot pics nicked from email boxes, leaked to gossip ragsA Florida man has admitted hacking into the email accounts of celebrities including Mila Kunis and Scarlett Johansson.… |
| Posted: 23 Mar 2012 05:00 AM PDT The cradle will RAAAWKAccessory of the Week Arcam's rDock is a hefty slab of cast alloy, designed to accommodate an iPhone, iPod Touch or iPad in it's Dock connector.… |
| Thai floods derail Hadron-colliding antimatter boffinry Posted: 23 Mar 2012 04:42 AM PDT CERN experiment runs low on hard disksThe world's hard drive shortage, caused by deadly flooding in Thailand, is holding back CERN's antimatter research, a top scientist at the boffinry nerve center said last night.… |
| Cocky Foxconn tells tech biz: We'll design your mobes, you do the ads Posted: 23 Mar 2012 04:16 AM PDT Factory barons upbeat after smashing profit predictionThe phone-making division of Foxconn swung into the black with a net profit of $75.1m (£47.5m) in 2011, according to its latest preliminary report to the Hong Kong Stock Exchange [PDF].… |
| Half of iPad 3s sold will sport 4G, says bank Posted: 23 Mar 2012 04:06 AM PDT More punters favour faster connectivtiyBrits may have no need for the new iPad's 4G connectivity, but Americans are going to lap up the LTE-enabled tablet, UBS has forecast.… |
| Posted: 23 Mar 2012 04:00 AM PDT Have we missed anything? |
| Sony to serve Ice Cream Sandwich to tablets Posted: 23 Mar 2012 03:49 AM PDT Android 4.0.3 in AprilAndroid 4 Ice Cream Sandwich is coming to Sony's Tablet S and Tablet P fondleslabs - review links below, folks - the Japanese giant has revealed.… |
| Snowboards and BIG DATA for WORLD PEACE Posted: 23 Mar 2012 03:23 AM PDT You pay, I save the day. Simples!¡Bong! [After a minor accident snowboarding in Tignes this week, Mr Bong has submitted a shorter column than usual. Thank the Lord - ed.]… |
| HP and EMC battle for the soul of server storage Posted: 23 Mar 2012 03:03 AM PDT Donatelli repels Gelsinger storage invasionThere is a fight going on for the soul of server storage and HP and EMC are in the front line trenches getting ready for all-out marketing war.… |
| BT Vision to stream UKTV channels Posted: 23 Mar 2012 02:59 AM PDT Fresh outlet for BBC repeatsUKTV, the BBC co-owned satellite and cable channel, is to open an IPTV stream through BT Vision.… |
| Scores of US federal agencies still open to 2008 cache attack Posted: 23 Mar 2012 02:27 AM PDT Alphabet soup still wide open to poisoningUS federal agencies are still struggling to roll out mandated technology that would make it much harder for attackers to spoof their websites.… |
| Third European supply podule blasts off en route to space station Posted: 23 Mar 2012 02:21 AM PDT Robot freighters now coming off assembly line annuallyThe third European Automated Transfer Vehicle (ATV-3) robot supply craft to the International Space Station blasted off successfully from Kourou spaceport in French Guiana at 04:34 GMT this morning.… |
| Medieval warming WAS global – new science contradicts IPCC Posted: 23 Mar 2012 01:58 AM PDT 'It was consensual' claims looking shakyMore peer-reviewed science contradicting the warming-alarmist "scientific consensus" was announced yesterday, as a new study shows that the well-documented warm period which took place in medieval times was not limited to Europe, or the northern hemisphere: it reached all the way to Antarctica.… |
| Council to chuck £28m wad at schools' ICT supplier Posted: 23 Mar 2012 01:27 AM PDT Seeks 3-year deal for storage, servers, netbooks and, er, iPadsStaffordshire county council has published a tender for suppliers to join a wide-ranging ICT framework agreement for use within schools and other education establishments for both administration and curriculum purposes.… |
| Fujitsu has phone fraudsters in its sights Posted: 23 Mar 2012 01:01 AM PDT Last call for pesky scammers who target the elderlyBoffins at Fujitsu and Japan's Nagoya university are claiming to have successfully developed technology designed to prevent phone scammers by recognising certain keywords and detecting changes in voice pitch and level.… |
| Singapore lures big biz with mega data protection regime Posted: 23 Mar 2012 01:01 AM PDT Citizens may get protection from telesales pests too...Singapore based data protection law specialist Rosemary Lee of Pinsent Masons, the law firm behind Out-Law.com, said the Personal Data Protection Bill (74-page/387KB PDF) being proposed by Singapore's government would establish a single data protection regime for the nation for the first time.… |
| China's censors out in force as coup rumours spread Posted: 23 Mar 2012 12:59 AM PDT Is the Party about to implode? Nah, probably notChina's internet censors have been forced into overdrive this week after rumours swirled the country's popular micro-blogging weibo platforms of an attempted coup in Beijing and the mysterious death of a man driving a Ferrari in the capital.… |
| Resident Evil: Operation Raccoon City Posted: 23 Mar 2012 12:00 AM PDT Dead againReview At the core of zombie fiction lies a deep-seated sense of hopelessness and inevitability. That no matter how hard you fight, no matter how many lucky escapes you pull off, and no matter where you flee to, your eventual, grisly demise is assured by the indomitable Pepé Le Pews of horror.… |
| China takes Android and iOS activations crown Posted: 22 Mar 2012 09:00 PM PDT Smart device growth surging in People's RepublicChina has passed yet another mobile milestone, beating the US to top spot in iOS and Android activations for the first time and surging to become the world's fastest growing market for mobile applications, according to new stats from mobile analytics firm Flurry.… |
| Football rules punt Oz IPTV into touch Posted: 22 Mar 2012 08:21 PM PDT Minister will decide who gets to play with balls and whenAustralia's nacent IPTV industry won't be able to win business with the entertainment industry's time honoured practice of paying outrageous prices for exclusive rights to broadcast live sport, thanks to a new plan outlined yesterday by Minster for Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy Senator Stephen Conroy.… |
| GIANT KANGAROOS wiped out by humans, not climate change Posted: 22 Mar 2012 07:51 PM PDT Ancient poo suggests hunters proved too tough for giant marsupialsIn a land before time – or at least Australia about 40,000 years ago – five meter kangaroos bounded across the landscape. Some were fleeing colossal marsupial lions. Others were trying to stay out of the way of Emus twice the size of today's specimens or Diprotodon Optatum, a rhinoceros-like beastie that was the largest marsupial of all time.… |
| NetApp to unleash virtual array Posted: 22 Mar 2012 06:41 PM PDT ONTAP-V to go on sale soonNetApp will join the virtual storage appliance party by releasing the ONTAP-V product it currently resells only through Fujitsu and it's Primergy BX400 S1 server.… |
| SKA committee defers final decision Posted: 22 Mar 2012 05:25 PM PDT Australia/NZ still in running for super-scopeThe Australia-New Zealand bid to host the Euro1.5 billion Square Kilometre Array (SKA)uber satellite project is not lost. Despite reports earlier in the month that recommendations had been tipping rival bidder South Africa in the box seat, the SKA Organisation said it will delay its decision to further discuss the opportunities.… |
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