TPG surges, plots IPTV future |
- TPG surges, plots IPTV future
- US watchdog chimes in on iPad ‘Hotplategate’
- EMC wants to be the Linux of big data
- Google cools data center with bathtubs, dishwashers ...
- EMC-Isilon swallows software storage firm Likewise
- Microsoft fires two key Bing staff after investigation
- Big data enters open-source hype cycle
- Symantec buys mobile app management firm
- Avere attacks filer VDI boot slowdown
- Verizon unveils offspring surveillance service
- Supercomputers sold like hotcakes in 2011
- Foxconn is world's 10th biggest employer: 1.2 MILLION on payroll
- Report: Feeble spam filters catch less junk mail
- Bankrupt DRAMurai survivor seeks cash-laden Samsung rival
- French data watchdog bends Google over for rigorous frisking
- LightSquared hits FCC right where it hurts
- Xoreax grids up Windows to goose apps
- Integrator Tieto slashing 1,300 jobs
- Horny VIKING MICE raped and pillaged Euro pipsqueaks
- Russian cops cuff 8 in Carberp Trojan case
- Braben sticks knife into secondhand games market
- BT fibre-to-the-cabinet rollout penetrates 73 more exchanges
- WD intros 'world's first' 2TB portable HDD
- US teens confess to 60-a-day texting FRENZY
- WTF... should I pay to download BBC shows?
- Big Media drags 142,000 through UK's courts IN A YEAR
- Is private cloud the next step for the data centre?
- Adobe can't penetrate punters' tight wallets: Users holding out for CS6
- GiffGaff gaffe charity spaff to quell miffed riffraff
- N7Player
- Tiny pile of Windows 8 ARM slabs slated for October
- Symbian smacked by Windows Phone
- Trial finds EIGHT WAYS to defeat Google, PayPal and other SSOs
- Mobile biz bigwigs crack heads over Wi-Fi roaming charges
- Blizzard ponders World of Warcraft for iPad
- New iPad sales hit 3 million in first 4 days
- Seagate strikes trillion bit HAMR blow
- Giant planet pileups in far-flung star systems: Computer says yes
- Now CHINA complains of surge in cyber-attacks
- The Register obtains covert snaps of Google's new London offices
- Confirmed: iPad 3 runs hotter than iPad 2
- Tape eats dust of spinning rust, says object data biz
- Blighty's 'leccy power plant reform deals gas a winning hand
- Oz billionaire says CIA backs Greenpeace
- BBC iPlayer added to Xbox
- Dot Hill dismounts NetApp, searches for new hard partners
- UK drivers' privates fondled overseas in new outsource plan
- Fragmentation bomb wounds Android in developer war
- Twisted Metal
- Asian online shopaholics to drive internet economies
| Posted: 20 Mar 2012 03:08 PM PDT Riding high on rush to bundlesTPG, fast becoming the standard-bearer of Australia's "tier two" ISPs, has announced a 17 percent lift in EBITDA to $AU131.9 million and is preparing to follow iiNet into the IPTV set-top-box market.… |
| US watchdog chimes in on iPad ‘Hotplategate’ Posted: 20 Mar 2012 02:59 PM PDT It seems that 116°F is 'uncomfortable'US consumer organization Consumer Reports has backed punters' assertions that the new iPad can overheat in normal use.… |
| EMC wants to be the Linux of big data Posted: 20 Mar 2012 02:44 PM PDT Opens up Chorus tool, borgs agile coders Pivotal LabsTo broaden its reach in the big-data arena, disk-array maker EMC's Greenplum division, which peddles data warehousing and Hadoop appliances and software, announced that it will open source its Chorus management and collaboration tools. EMC also has acquired Pivotal Labs, experts in agile programming, to help it build better big-data software and, equally importantly, help others do so.… |
| Google cools data center with bathtubs, dishwashers ... Posted: 20 Mar 2012 02:23 PM PDT No, not toilets or urinals – yetGoogle has partnered with a local water-treatment utility to cool a massive data center using greywater – that's water recycled from residential bathtubs, showers, washing machines, and the like.… |
| EMC-Isilon swallows software storage firm Likewise Posted: 20 Mar 2012 12:28 PM PDT Hot little NAS-enablerEMC's Isilon business unit has splashed out and bought a fast-growing startup, Likewise, whose software both EMC and other OEMs and enterprises use to NAS-enable Unix- and Linux-based storage devices.… |
| Microsoft fires two key Bing staff after investigation Posted: 20 Mar 2012 12:17 PM PDT Duo downed for 'mismanagement of company assets'Two senior Microsoft executives have been fired after an internal investigation into the use of corporate resources.… |
| Big data enters open-source hype cycle Posted: 20 Mar 2012 12:05 PM PDT Riches for some, mostly not VCsOpen ... and Shut As breathless projections go, IDC's big data market forecast may be in for a serious asthma attack. The venerable analyst firm pegs the brave new world of big data at $16.9bn by 2015. Yet it's unclear just how new this market is and whether anyone but big data start-ups are really cashing in on the gold rush.… |
| Symantec buys mobile app management firm Posted: 20 Mar 2012 11:28 AM PDT Plans to hoover up BYOD bucksSymantec has bought privately held mobile application management firm Nukona. Terms of the deal, announced Tuesday, were undisclosed.… |
| Avere attacks filer VDI boot slowdown Posted: 20 Mar 2012 11:01 AM PDT Boot storm delay goes awayNAS accelerator supplier Avere can make NetApp VDI boot storm delays go away, and it has the numbers to prove it.… |
| Verizon unveils offspring surveillance service Posted: 20 Mar 2012 10:44 AM PDT Don't trust your kids? Track 'em down with Family LocatorVerizon Wireless had added a new service that puts a 21st century spin on Orwell's Big Brother, ushering in a brave new world of surveilance monitored by Big Mother and Big Father.… |
| Supercomputers sold like hotcakes in 2011 Posted: 20 Mar 2012 10:40 AM PDT Shoppers waffle on smaller HPC systemsSales of supercomputers last year were a bit better than the prognosticators at IDC expected, with sales up across all types of systems by 8.4 per cent to $10.3bn. IDC's earlier projections had called for sales to jump by 7.2 per cent from the $9.5bn level set in 2010.… |
| Foxconn is world's 10th biggest employer: 1.2 MILLION on payroll Posted: 20 Mar 2012 10:19 AM PDT |
| Report: Feeble spam filters catch less junk mail Posted: 20 Mar 2012 09:59 AM PDT Weaker products or EVIL GENIUS malware-flingers?Enterprise spam filters are blocking less junk mail, according to independent tests from Virus Bulletin.… |
| Bankrupt DRAMurai survivor seeks cash-laden Samsung rival Posted: 20 Mar 2012 09:38 AM PDT Elpida fab and tech could help bidder crush Korean firm – reportJapan's Nikkei paper is reporting (paywall) that Japan's sole and now bankrupt DRAM manufacturer, Elpida, is soliciting bids to rescue it from bankruptcy, with Micron and Intel identified as potential white knights for the stricken DRAMurai chip-maker.… |
| French data watchdog bends Google over for rigorous frisking Posted: 20 Mar 2012 09:19 AM PDT CNIL demands answers to 69 questions on privacyThis month Google - in the face of widespread criticism in Europe - implemented changes to its privacy policy even though French info watchdog CNIL declared that the tweak would violate the EU's data protection law.… |
| LightSquared hits FCC right where it hurts Posted: 20 Mar 2012 08:58 AM PDT Offers let-out clause, but it won't be easyLightSquared has issued a formal response to the threatened suspension of its licence, accusing the FCC of political bias and riding roughshod over precedent and Constitutional rights.… |
| Xoreax grids up Windows to goose apps Posted: 20 Mar 2012 08:34 AM PDT SETI@RedmondGrid computing is nothing new, but Xoreax, a company that created a set of tools to distribute the job of building and compiling applications across a network of PCs and servers, has come up with a new twist on the idea. It's called process virtualization, and when implemented in a more general purpose "virtual supercomputer" service, the company calls it Xoreax Grid Engine, or XGE for short.… |
| Integrator Tieto slashing 1,300 jobs Posted: 20 Mar 2012 07:58 AM PDT Plans to save €50m to compete with services rivalsFinnish IT services house Tieto is axing 1,300 jobs in a bid to wipe €50m from its overheads.… |
| Horny VIKING MICE raped and pillaged Euro pipsqueaks Posted: 20 Mar 2012 07:28 AM PDT Tiny raiders revelled in 10th century rampagesVirile Norse mice rampaged through Scotland, Ireland and Iceland impregnating locals and mixing their Viking mouse genes in the native rodent populations, according to research published by the BMC Evolutionary Biology journal.… |
| Russian cops cuff 8 in Carberp Trojan case Posted: 20 Mar 2012 07:02 AM PDT Alleged to be millionaire phishing gangRussian police have arrested a group of eight men suspected of making millions in electronic banking fraud using the Carberp Trojan and other strains of malware.… |
| Braben sticks knife into secondhand games market Posted: 20 Mar 2012 06:50 AM PDT 'It's killing single-player titles'Elite co-creator and Raspberry Pi backer David Braben reckons the secondhand games market is detrimental to the development of core-gamer and single-player titles because most retailers won't give them long-term sales support.… |
| BT fibre-to-the-cabinet rollout penetrates 73 more exchanges Posted: 20 Mar 2012 06:38 AM PDT No pulsing optical light to shine on premises this timeBT has named the next 73 exchanges to be upgraded to its broadband fibre technology with all of them running optic cable as far as the street cabinets.… |
| WD intros 'world's first' 2TB portable HDD Posted: 20 Mar 2012 06:23 AM PDT SuperSpeederWD has outed what it claims is the world's first portable hard drive with a 2TB capacity.… |
| US teens confess to 60-a-day texting FRENZY Posted: 20 Mar 2012 06:18 AM PDT SMS and IM are hot, phone calls and email are notA rise in boys and older teens texting has pushed the average number of text messages American youngsters send to 60 a day, ten more than in 2009.… |
| WTF... should I pay to download BBC shows? Posted: 20 Mar 2012 06:07 AM PDT Project Barcelona peeves the freetardsFeature The outgoing Director General of the BBC, Mark Thompson, recently announced plans for Project Barcelona, a download store for material from the BBC archives.… |
| Big Media drags 142,000 through UK's courts IN A YEAR Posted: 20 Mar 2012 05:59 AM PDT And the strange hypocrisy of the BBC's rivalsComment Not one Hollywood studio or record label company has ever incarcerated anyone merely for not paying for media consumption. A few years ago the entertainment industry filed civil suits against individuals, but received so much criticism it stopped. Now they target industrial-scale pirates, or push for milder sanctions such as speed slowdowns and contract termination.… |
| Is private cloud the next step for the data centre? Posted: 20 Mar 2012 05:48 AM PDT I can see clearly nowThe Register has constructed a lovely survey about Private Cloud, which will form the basis of a freely available report that will be published in the coming weeks. The survey is, admittedly quite a chunky, one-pager and will take maybe 10mins of your time.… |
| Adobe can't penetrate punters' tight wallets: Users holding out for CS6 Posted: 20 Mar 2012 05:27 AM PDT Sales at Digital Media unit down by $100mAdobe's first quarter profits took a bashing as customers of its legacy desktop software deferred purchases in anticipation of forthcoming Creative Suite 6 and Creative Cloud.… |
| GiffGaff gaffe charity spaff to quell miffed riffraff Posted: 20 Mar 2012 05:16 AM PDT Begging for forgiveness cheaper than building redundancyGiffGaff, the O2-owned mobile network that collapsed for eight hours last week, will give £10,000 to a customer-selected charity to say sorry, and promises free calls next time its service goes titsup.… |
| Posted: 20 Mar 2012 05:00 AM PDT Got music coveredAndroid App of the Week It's not often that I come across an application that displaces a default choice on my phone within minutes of me downloading it, but the N7Player music player is just one such. I think it's brilliant.… |
| Tiny pile of Windows 8 ARM slabs slated for October Posted: 20 Mar 2012 04:47 AM PDT This is only a test, peopleIt's not the timing but the numbers that are really interesting when it comes to Windows 8's planned delivery.… |
| Symbian smacked by Windows Phone Posted: 20 Mar 2012 04:38 AM PDT Nokia deals the blowMicrosoft's smartphone operating system, Windows Phone 7, is now outselling Symbian - and it's all thanks to former Symbian stalwart, Nokia.… |
| Trial finds EIGHT WAYS to defeat Google, PayPal and other SSOs Posted: 20 Mar 2012 04:32 AM PDT Multiple flaws in web service single sign-onUS security researchers have unearthed flaws in the single sign-on (SSO) services operated by a number of portals, including Google and PayPal.… |
| Mobile biz bigwigs crack heads over Wi-Fi roaming charges Posted: 20 Mar 2012 04:14 AM PDT The tech was trivial, now paying for it gets toughThe Wireless Broadband Alliance has joined forces with mobile operator clique GSMA to put the most important part of Wi-Fi roaming in place: ensuring that everyone gets billed properly.… |
| Blizzard ponders World of Warcraft for iPad Posted: 20 Mar 2012 04:04 AM PDT MMO to go mobile?Blizzard has hinted it may bring World of Warcraft to smartphones and tablets, saying it believes a developer would be "foolish" not to be planning such a move.… |
| New iPad sales hit 3 million in first 4 days Posted: 20 Mar 2012 03:59 AM PDT GLOWING DELUGE of fondleslabs poured upon happy shiny worldThe glow-screened 3.1million pixel iPad has been flying off shelves even faster than either of the two previous iPads on its opening weekend. Apple has announced sales of 3 million new iPads in the four days since the tablet's launch in 12 countries on 16 March.… |
| Seagate strikes trillion bit HAMR blow Posted: 20 Mar 2012 03:43 AM PDT Trillion bits per square inchSeagate has demonstrated heat-assisted magnetic recording technology with 1 trillion bits per square inch, a 30 per cent improvement in Toshiba's production record of 744Gbit/in2 with its MQ01ABD drive – a 2.5-inch, 5400rpm, SATA II drive.… |
| Giant planet pileups in far-flung star systems: Computer says yes Posted: 20 Mar 2012 03:41 AM PDT Boffins crack stellar 'celebrity' migration riddleTop brainboxes armed with a British supercomputer say that they've cracked the riddle of just why it is that massive planets - spied across the vasty interstellar gulfs in recent times - tend to prefer certain orbits around their faraway parent stars.… |
| Now CHINA complains of surge in cyber-attacks Posted: 20 Mar 2012 03:22 AM PDT MASSIVE pot calls kettle blackChina is claiming attacks on public and private organisations from outside of its borders have rocketed in the past year - from five million computers affected in 2010 to 8.9m in 2011.… |
| The Register obtains covert snaps of Google's new London offices Posted: 20 Mar 2012 03:01 AM PDT Lapdancing booths, Teletubbies-style roof garden and allExclusive Undercover Register snappers have penetrated Google's new London offices to bring you an early look at the type of working conditions the Chocolate Factory offers its London-based Ooompa Loompas.… |
| Confirmed: iPad 3 runs hotter than iPad 2 Posted: 20 Mar 2012 02:53 AM PDT Heat cam shows five-degree differenceThermal camera imagery has confirmed what iPad 3 owners already knew: the new Apple fondleslab runs hotter than its predecessor did.… |
| Tape eats dust of spinning rust, says object data biz Posted: 20 Mar 2012 02:33 AM PDT All except Hitachi Data SystemsObject storage suppliers tend to look at tape storage like a real ale fan looks at cheap fizzy lager: "I'm not going to touch that!"… |
| Blighty's 'leccy power plant reform deals gas a winning hand Posted: 20 Mar 2012 02:03 AM PDT Energy biz encouraged to splash cash, says govThe most significant reforms to the electricity market in 30 years will include measures designed to provide "long-term certainty" to gas investors, the government has said.… |
| Oz billionaire says CIA backs Greenpeace Posted: 20 Mar 2012 01:58 AM PDT Anti-coal campaign apparently a cunning plot to help US minersAustralian Mining Magnate Clive Palmer has declared the CIA is behind a Greenpeace campaign that aims to slow the growth of Australia's export coal industry.… |
| Posted: 20 Mar 2012 01:45 AM PDT Gesture at the tellyMicrosoft has added BBC iPlayer to the Xbox.… |
| Dot Hill dismounts NetApp, searches for new hard partners Posted: 20 Mar 2012 01:29 AM PDT Disk box biz suffers Q4 droop after contract exitOEMing drive arrays to mainstream vendors is a risky business because big contracts can go away just like that, leaving you with a damaged revenue stream and losses. That's what's happened to Dot Hill, which has exited a NetApp supply contract.… |
| UK drivers' privates fondled overseas in new outsource plan Posted: 20 Mar 2012 01:01 AM PDT Transport bosses mull granting access to sensitive dataTransport for London (TfL) has proposed that the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency's (DVLA) vehicle keeper data - which includes names, addresses and registration plate numbers - should be accessed outside the UK by contractors working on the capital's congestion charge scheme.… |
| Fragmentation bomb wounds Android in developer war Posted: 20 Mar 2012 12:01 AM PDT Devs losing interest in the li'l green guyA new study conducted by IDC and mobile-developer platform and services company Appcelerator has determined that as Google's open source Android operating system becomes more and more fragmented, fewer and fewer developers are putting it on their "must-code-for" list.… |
| Posted: 20 Mar 2012 12:00 AM PDT Crash and burnReview David Jaffe's vision for car-based deathmatching has always split gamers down the middle. Its love-it-or-hate-it mix of |
| Asian online shopaholics to drive internet economies Posted: 19 Mar 2012 10:17 PM PDT UK still number one though...Asian nations including India and China are set to drive unprecedented levels of internet-related economic growth among G-20 countries in the next four years, although the UK will remain top dog, according to new research from the Boston Consulting Group.… |
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