UC interoperability still a bad joke: Gartner |
- UC interoperability still a bad joke: Gartner
- Los Alamos fires BLOODY BIG MAGNET
- Visa shows off data centre "moat"
- RightScale: Hybrid clouds on the rise
- Hollywood studios line up to kick Kim Dotcom
- Amazon names date for Kindle Touch touchdown
- High school student expelled for dropping F-bomb in tweet
- Solar power towers overpower PV panels by 20X
- Arista juices switch with x86 server, FPGA, atomic clock
- Privacy watchdog blasts FTC's federal limpness
- Microsoft partner centre: X-IO storage bricks really stack up
- Panasonic talks up TV for the blind
- Zombie LulzSec brags of exposing loved-up privates
- Harry Potter e-books go on sale
- Plastic that SELF-REPAIRS using light unleashed by prof
- 'Ugly' MongoDB defies NoSQL death rumour
- AVG nukes stalking ads at press of BIG SHINY BUTTON
- The Register channels jobs into jobs channel
- Spain donates Enigma gear that kick-started Brit code-breaking
- AMD plots an end run round Intel with SeaMicro's 'Freedom'
- Bio student thrown in the clink for Muamba Twitter rant
- Friends Reunited rebrands as memory bank for oldsters
- Egypt ponders smut suppression
- Cameron flaunts footage of pristine, featureless bottom
- Devs spanked for touching vulnerable open-source packages
- Force Google to black out searches in new privacy law - MPs
- Goldman Sachs in email muppet hunt
- Dijit
- Judge orders O2 to name suspected smut burglars
- BMW recalls 1.3m motors over fire risk
- Mobe hackathon contest spits out Wi-Fi-by-bonk app wonder
- Spooked spooks made Symantec end Huawei fling - new claim
- Wii U graphics said to be no better than current consoles
- Everything Everywhere's 4G monopoly stalled by Ofcom
- Size DOES matter: Nokia snubs Apple's royalty-free nano-SIM
- Norfolk lobs out top council gigs on Twitter
- Cleversafe pumps up object store, slaps on big data sticker
- Oz regulator to Apple: Don’t call it 4G if you can’t connect
- EC tears duvet off Universal-EMI mega-music romp
- OFT warns wallet-raiding debt collectors over web ads
- Sitting down all day is killing you
- Scality opens Ring for close scrutiny
- Apple New iPad 3 Wi-Fi + 4G
- Twitter a poor predictor of movie success
- Female Chinese astronauts must have no scars, straight teeth
- Decision delayed for 100-petabyte Oz research storage cloud
- Apple's Tim Cook visits China, meets officials
- James Cameron back from dive to world's deepest point
- Climate change linked to EXTREME weather surge
- Facebook files to dismiss ownership dispute
| UC interoperability still a bad joke: Gartner Posted: 27 Mar 2012 03:32 PM PDT Analyst blasts vendors for dumping problems on VARs, crimping BYODUnified Communications systems still don't play together nicely, and Ken Agreess, a Research Director with Gartner IT Professionals Research, says vendors' attitudes of asking value-added resellers to fix problems they create is a "failure".… |
| Los Alamos fires BLOODY BIG MAGNET Posted: 27 Mar 2012 03:30 PM PDT Even better: it didn't smash itself to bitsThey call it their own "moon shot", but there isn't – unfortunately – any "oh wow" visual when you fire a 100-plus Tesla magnet: just a powerful new instrument to use in physics and materials science.… |
| Visa shows off data centre "moat" Posted: 27 Mar 2012 02:55 PM PDT Why have an air gap when you can have a water barrier?Credit card company Visa has boasted that one of its US data centres possesses the ultimate security feature – a moat designed to trap would be ram-raiders from accessing the facility.… |
| RightScale: Hybrid clouds on the rise Posted: 27 Mar 2012 02:43 PM PDT Like sex in high school"The hybrid cloud is a little bit like sex in high school," explains RightScale CEO Michael Crendell. "Everybody is talking about it, but not everybody is doing it – except us."… |
| Hollywood studios line up to kick Kim Dotcom Posted: 27 Mar 2012 02:13 PM PDT Valcom, Microhits launch civil suitIn what could almost be seen as a vote of no-confidence in the FBI's battle with Megaupload and founder Kim Dotcom, two content owners are filing civil lawsuits against the company and its extravagant boss.… |
| Amazon names date for Kindle Touch touchdown Posted: 27 Mar 2012 02:06 PM PDT Yeah, but what about the Fire?Amazon has announced the release data for the second of its latest-generation Kindles in the UK: the Kindle Touch.… |
| High school student expelled for dropping F-bomb in tweet Posted: 27 Mar 2012 12:49 PM PDT Principal sees red after witty tweetAn Indiana student has been expelled from school after sending a profane – if rather witty – tweet from his personal account.… |
| Solar power towers overpower PV panels by 20X Posted: 27 Mar 2012 11:54 AM PDT MIT researchers reap rewards of cheapo photovoltaicsA group of researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology has developed 3D mounting techniques for photovoltaic cells that can increase power output per footprint by up to 20 times over that of fixed flat panels.… |
| Arista juices switch with x86 server, FPGA, atomic clock Posted: 27 Mar 2012 11:20 AM PDT Not a God box – but closeUpstart switch-maker Arista Networks, founded by serial entrepreneur Andy Bechtolsheim, is at it again, mashing up new kinds of iron to tackle problems in the data center. This time, Arista is bundling an atomic clock, a baby x86 server, flash memory, and field programmable gate arrays into its Ethernet switches to create what it is calling an "application switch".… |
| Privacy watchdog blasts FTC's federal limpness Posted: 27 Mar 2012 10:28 AM PDT Data-gobblers won't go on a diet on their ownThe American Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is making a mistake by leaving web and data companies to regulate themselves, privacy watchdog Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) said today.… |
| Microsoft partner centre: X-IO storage bricks really stack up Posted: 27 Mar 2012 10:02 AM PDT Hyping up Hyper ISEThe Microsoft Partner Solutions Center is raving about X-IO's ISE storage brick performance, saying it outperformed all other storage systems that the centre has tested over the past three years.… |
| Panasonic talks up TV for the blind Posted: 27 Mar 2012 08:37 AM PDT Spoken menus for the optically challengedPanasonic has announced that its 2012 Viera TVs will speak out to blind and optically challenged folk and tell them what the sets are showing.… |
| Zombie LulzSec brags of exposing loved-up privates Posted: 27 Mar 2012 08:28 AM PDT Reborn hack gang claims military dating site raidA group claiming to be the re-animated corpse of the LulzSec hacking group is getting its lulz from messing up the love lives of army personnel. The personal details of tens of thousands of servicemen and women may have been exposed following a hack on a US-based military dating website.… |
| Harry Potter e-books go on sale Posted: 27 Mar 2012 08:13 AM PDT DownloadiarmusFans of JK Rowling's student sorcerer will be pleased to know the Pottermore Shop - the only place to buy Harry Potter e-books and audio books - is now open for business.… |
| Plastic that SELF-REPAIRS using light unleashed by prof Posted: 27 Mar 2012 08:11 AM PDT Holy Grail of materials paves way for self-healing carsSelf-repairing plastic that can heal cuts and scratches on its own surface has been presented at a meeting of the American Chemistry Society.… |
| 'Ugly' MongoDB defies NoSQL death rumour Posted: 27 Mar 2012 07:35 AM PDT Big data that suits youOpen ... and Shut Someone clearly forgot to tell the MongoDB crowd that they lost. Ever since an anonymous poster on HackerNews called the MongoDB baby "ugly", I've been watching to see if MongoDB's early rise would taper off and fall.… |
| AVG nukes stalking ads at press of BIG SHINY BUTTON Posted: 27 Mar 2012 07:02 AM PDT That's the way the cookies crumbleAVG is adding active "Do Not Track" technology to its security suites in a move designed to give consumers more control over their online privacy.… |
| The Register channels jobs into jobs channel Posted: 27 Mar 2012 06:54 AM PDT Editorial initiativeRecently we slipped out a new editorial channel to cover work issues. It's called "Jobs" and you can find a link on the main nav bar which appears at the top of every page of The Register.… |
| Spain donates Enigma gear that kick-started Brit code-breaking Posted: 27 Mar 2012 06:42 AM PDT Gift unlocks overlooked chapter in Bletchley Park boffinryA pair of historic Enigma machines used during the Spanish Civil War have been donated to Britain.… |
| AMD plots an end run round Intel with SeaMicro's 'Freedom' Posted: 27 Mar 2012 06:18 AM PDT Can clouds and virt move the battle off the chip?Analysis As last week was winding down, Advanced Micro Devices took control of upstart server maker SeaMicro, and guess what? AMD is still not getting into the box building business, even if it does support SeaMicro's customers for the foreseeable future out of necessity.… |
| Bio student thrown in the clink for Muamba Twitter rant Posted: 27 Mar 2012 06:03 AM PDT Troll earns 8-week stint for mocking footie aceA Welsh biology student was jailed today for tweeting racist abuse at footballer Fabrice Muamba after the Bolton midfielder collapsed during a match.… |
| Friends Reunited rebrands as memory bank for oldsters Posted: 27 Mar 2012 05:38 AM PDT Old school is, er, coolFriends Reunited is relaunching itself as a "share the memories" site, inviting users to remember and post about everything from Winston Churchill to the wedding of Prince Charles and Lady Di and chewing on the sickly fruitiness of Refresher bars from the school tuck shop.… |
| Egypt ponders smut suppression Posted: 27 Mar 2012 05:16 AM PDT Nerds to cancel holiday plans?Nerds planning the ideal vacation destination may soon be forced to strike Egypt off the list. The nation's government plans to impose a ban on internet pornography.… |
| Cameron flaunts footage of pristine, featureless bottom Posted: 27 Mar 2012 05:14 AM PDT Fails to ram robot fist into it (with Rolex on wrist!)Celebrity mega-auteur James Cameron, fresh from his partially successful submarine mission to the deepest recess of the oceans, has stunned the interwebs with the release of some video showing the "featureless" seabed which he reached after such great efforts.… |
| Devs spanked for touching vulnerable open-source packages Posted: 27 Mar 2012 05:02 AM PDT Broken code often reused while fixes left on the shelfDevelopers are sucking buggy open-source programming frameworks off the web unaware that newer fixed versions exist, according to a new report.… |
| Force Google to black out searches in new privacy law - MPs Posted: 27 Mar 2012 04:40 AM PDT Web giant could be compelled to obey banning ordersGoogle should be forced to block content via its search results where a court in Blighty has found that such material breaches an individual's privacy, MPs and peers cautioned in a lengthy report published today.… |
| Goldman Sachs in email muppet hunt Posted: 27 Mar 2012 04:16 AM PDT 'Toxic and destructive' leak sparks grep bingeGoldman Sachs has launched an investigation into its corporate email following accusations from a former senior employee that there is a "toxic and destructive" culture at the merchant bank.… |
| Posted: 27 Mar 2012 04:00 AM PDT Remote control app plus Griffin Beacon IR blasterAndroid App of the Week It's two-for-one this week as I take a look at the Dijit remote control app and Griffin Technologies' Beacon accessory, which connects to your phone over Bluetooth and then operates your home entertainment kit.… |
| Judge orders O2 to name suspected smut burglars Posted: 27 Mar 2012 03:38 AM PDT Ben Dover wins battle to halt backdoor leakageA top judge in Blighty has ordered telco Telefonica to hand over the names of O2 broadband customers suspected of sharing porn online.… |
| BMW recalls 1.3m motors over fire risk Posted: 27 Mar 2012 03:22 AM PDT Seven-year glitchBMW has recalled more than a million cars across the globe because a battery cable they contain might malfunction. It it did, it could cause a fire, the company said.… |
| Mobe hackathon contest spits out Wi-Fi-by-bonk app wonder Posted: 27 Mar 2012 03:18 AM PDT Developer hothouse sucks cash out of NFCUpdated The weekend's NFC hackathon turned out 17 working applications, 16 of which could just about have been done with barcodes, and one which will see two strangers going into business together.… |
| Spooked spooks made Symantec end Huawei fling - new claim Posted: 27 Mar 2012 03:01 AM PDT Affair thwarted info sharing with US spiesSecurity biz Symantec called time on a joint venture with Chinese telecoms equipment goliath Huawei because it feared the tie-up would prevent it from gaining access to classified US intelligence on cyber-threats, according to a new report.… |
| Wii U graphics said to be no better than current consoles Posted: 27 Mar 2012 02:58 AM PDT No notch up for Ninty?Nintendo's next-gen console, the Wii U, will present visuals to match, not exceed, current-generation rivals. The new machine's display resolutions and textures will be no better than those supported by the Xbox 360 or PS3, it has been claimed.… |
| Everything Everywhere's 4G monopoly stalled by Ofcom Posted: 27 Mar 2012 02:38 AM PDT Rivals get extra month to land fresh blowsOfcom has extended the deadline for those responding to its proposal for Everything Everywhere to deploy 4G early, giving the competition more time to get its retaliation in.… |
| Size DOES matter: Nokia snubs Apple's royalty-free nano-SIM Posted: 27 Mar 2012 02:18 AM PDT Finns happy with their smaller packageApple has reportedly offered to waive its patent fees in order to get its new design of SIM accepted as a standard, removing a roadblock to adoption which never really existed.… |
| Norfolk lobs out top council gigs on Twitter Posted: 27 Mar 2012 02:03 AM PDT Fancy a contract? Tweet us if you're keenNorfolk county council has started publishing all of its contract tenders on Twitter.… |
| Cleversafe pumps up object store, slaps on big data sticker Posted: 27 Mar 2012 01:31 AM PDT Cheaper boxes for bigger dataObject storage supplier Cleversafe is claiming its new arrays have the lowest cost/TB of any disk-array on the market, and the lowest watt per terabyte too.… |
| Oz regulator to Apple: Don’t call it 4G if you can’t connect Posted: 27 Mar 2012 01:03 AM PDT Caveat emptor starts nowAs with most jurisdictions that aren't America, Apple's new iPad, which is only associated with the number "4" as in "4G", can't connect to 4G networks in Australia. That's disturbed the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC), which is taking Apple to court over the issue.… |
| EC tears duvet off Universal-EMI mega-music romp Posted: 27 Mar 2012 01:02 AM PDT Eurocrats snap on glove, prepare to probe takeoverAs expected, Eurocrats are anxious to probe the mega-merger of Universal EMI, fearing the effect on digital music markets. The merger sees the world's largest record label (and the largest music publisher) Vivendi-owned Universal Music, take over the fourth-largest label EMI – with the EMI publishing business spun out to Sony.… |
| OFT warns wallet-raiding debt collectors over web ads Posted: 27 Mar 2012 12:28 AM PDT Regulator cooks up rules on false or misleading claimsDebt management companies have been warned over their use of the internet and social networking when promoting themselves or their services to consumers.… |
| Sitting down all day is killing you Posted: 27 Mar 2012 12:11 AM PDT Get off your butt and make some tea if you want to liveA study of more than 220,000 people aged 45 or more has come to a startling conclusion: sitting down all day is killing you.… |
| Scality opens Ring for close scrutiny Posted: 27 Mar 2012 12:01 AM PDT First object storage to be openly performance testedIt seems to be a world first: public and independent assessment of object storage performance compared to hard disk drive (HDD) block-based SAN arrays. The object storage supplier is Scality and the assessor is tech analyst ESG, which finds that Scality's Ring has performance comparable to, if not better than, high-performance file and SAN storage arrays.… |
| Posted: 26 Mar 2012 11:00 PM PDT My generationReview Let's face the elephant in the room first. The 'New iPad Wi-Fi + 4G' as Apple calls it - I'll use iPad 3 - may be branded 4G but that's eff-all value to us Brits. The tablet's cellular radio doesn't work with the frequencies being proposed for UK 4G communications.… |
| Twitter a poor predictor of movie success Posted: 26 Mar 2012 09:43 PM PDT Weak link between good reviews and real-world success could mean marketing rethinkTwitter users' reviews of movies are kinder than those found on other social networks, but none are good predictors of how a film will fare at the box office.… |
| Female Chinese astronauts must have no scars, straight teeth Posted: 26 Mar 2012 08:37 PM PDT Shenzhou-9 mission will have two women on boardMore than a quarter of the astronauts on China's next manned space mission will be women, but they were selected according to a strict set of criteria which rules out any with pronounced body odour or bad teeth.… |
| Decision delayed for 100-petabyte Oz research storage cloud Posted: 26 Mar 2012 08:12 PM PDT RDSI host universities and vendors must wait for crucial meetingAustralia's Research Data Storage Infrastructure Project (RDSI) has delayed the announcement of its preferred vendors by a month.… |
| Apple's Tim Cook visits China, meets officials Posted: 26 Mar 2012 08:06 PM PDT Groups petition Apple CEO over labour practices againApple boss Tim Cook has made his first visit to China as CEO, something his illustrious predecessor never managed to do, but faced renewed calls from NGOs and unions to improve pay and working conditions at the tech giants' suppliers.… |
| James Cameron back from dive to world's deepest point Posted: 26 Mar 2012 05:55 PM PDT Sadly, no pacifist aliens found in the abyssFilmmaker James Cameron has made it back from his first excursion into the deepest point on the Earth's surface, the bottom of the Challenger Deep at nearly 36,000 feet below the ocean waves.… |
| Climate change linked to EXTREME weather surge Posted: 26 Mar 2012 05:49 PM PDT Global warming = 'loaded dice'A pair of climate scientists has examined the thorny question of whether the cluster of recent extreme weather events has been caused by increasing global temperatures. Their answer? No proof, but it seems likely.… |
| Facebook files to dismiss ownership dispute Posted: 26 Mar 2012 04:47 PM PDT Ceglia's lawsuit 'a fraud and a lie', says Zuckerberg & Co.Lawyers acting for Facebook have filed a motion to dismiss the ownership case brought by former fuel salesman and alleged fraudster Paul Ceglia, which claims he is owed at least half of the company after an early investment of $1,000.… |
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