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- “Geek” image scares women away from tech industry
- Cray revenues spike on XE6, XK6 super sales
- Hard disk prices help shore up Ingram Micro sales
- Swedish men ordered to present cervices in database flub
- Scientists slurp conductive fluid for paintable solar panels
- Lenovo forced to expand 'flaming' PC recall
- University of Florida drops plans to axe CompSci for sports
- Ubuntu 12.04 LTS strikes Hyper-V first with Microsoft
- Intel to use Cray IP to score boffo DARPA dosh
- HP spreads Superdome vPar partitions across Integrity line
- IOV tech could give Violin storage platform status
- Mobile phones still safe... probably
- Networking giant Emulex stumbles at third quarter hurdle
- E-health FAIL: £1.59 iPhone apps dole out drugs to kids in A&E
- Linux Left 4 Dead port fuels Steam for Ubuntu talk
- G-Cloud boss begs UK.gov wonks: 'Speak out against s**t IT'
- Netgear scores 802.11ac basestation first
- Simple ways to tune your private cloud infrastructure
- Doh! Sage Pay forgets to renew SSL certificate
- Bendy, twisty keyboard wins Microsoft input tech competition
- Commentards! Know a good hosting firm? Recommend a good laptop?
- Global cop squad busts 36 credit card data-selling sites
- HP confirms Hunter to head up PC-and-printer borg
- Infosec and B-Sides: Security biz exhibitions face off in London
- Google throws weight behind network of 'reformed terrorists'
- Star Trek role-players' privates sniffed by alien invader
- Murdoch 'sorry' he didn't shut <cite>News of the World</cite> years ago
- Good Tech: Apple dominates mobile enterprise
- White Space trial: First Cambridge, then... THE WORLD
- Indiana cops arrest violent 6-year-old
- Opera retires Unite, widgets in latest browser cut
- Office 365 in the real world
- CloudOn
- O2 launches Wallet: Plays pay-by-text card, again
- Brydge pledges to turn iPads into MacBooks
- Report: Microsoft tried and FAILED to offload Bing on Facebook
- HUS dual-controller array muscles into the mid-range
- Seagate's latest GoFlex kit 'bolts into stores
- UK2.NET smashed offline by '10-million-strong' botnet
- Graham: ICO will blow £3m on IT services
- Oracle RMAN straps on rocket, hands admins launch button
- Ofcom: The Office of Screwing Over Murdoch?
- Samsung heralds quad-core chip 'first'
- IPCom's 'priority call' patent ruled too broad, world+dog faints
- UK biz needs fattening up on gov IT contracts, says No10 bod
- Tech City hailed as saviour of THE ENTIRE PLANET
- Baidu thrives as Google Drive is blocked in China
- Nokia's fontastic Pure wins 'design Oscar'
- Facebook shares URL blacklists with security companies
- China goes green with rare earth plea
| “Geek” image scares women away from tech industry Posted: 26 Apr 2012 03:26 PM PDT Girls in ICT Day suggests new ways to attract women to the fieldWomen don't consider IT careers because "the popular media's 'geek' image of the technology field" along with other factors including a lack of female role models and support at home and work "tend to dissuade talented girls from pursuing a tech career."… |
| Cray revenues spike on XE6, XK6 super sales Posted: 26 Apr 2012 03:05 PM PDT Swings to a profit, looks for an edge in softwareIf you were wondering why Cray has sold off its supercomputer interconnect to chip giant Intel for $140m, a close look at the company's first quarter financial results will give you a clue.… |
| Hard disk prices help shore up Ingram Micro sales Posted: 26 Apr 2012 02:21 PM PDT But post flood bonanza will dry up in Q2Ingram Micro saw revenues stall but net income jump in its first quarter, as it reaped the benefit of rising disk drive prices, and sales growth in America, Germany and the UK.… |
| Swedish men ordered to present cervices in database flub Posted: 26 Apr 2012 12:37 PM PDT Health official promises 'in-depth' investigationA database screw-up saw 2,056 Swedish men ordered to report to their gynecologists and midwives for smear tests.… |
| Scientists slurp conductive fluid for paintable solar panels Posted: 26 Apr 2012 12:33 PM PDT Sunshine-converting paint moves a step closerScientists at the University of Southern California have developed a conducting fluid that would allow tiny solar crystals, just four nanometers across, to be painted onto surfaces and conduct electricity.… |
| Lenovo forced to expand 'flaming' PC recall Posted: 26 Apr 2012 11:50 AM PDT In other recall news: saw blades pose laceration hazardLenovo has been forced to expand the recall of possibly flamey desktops it first announced back in March.… |
| University of Florida drops plans to axe CompSci for sports Posted: 26 Apr 2012 11:07 AM PDT Geeks win out over meatheads (for once)A plan by the University of Florida (UF) to axe most of its computer science department while increasing sports funding is being reconsidered after the news went viral.… |
| Ubuntu 12.04 LTS strikes Hyper-V first with Microsoft Posted: 26 Apr 2012 10:59 AM PDT Cloud before politics, says CanonicalThere's a little love and yet a lot of rivalry between the latest Ubuntu build and Microsoft's Windows.… |
| Intel to use Cray IP to score boffo DARPA dosh Posted: 26 Apr 2012 10:32 AM PDT But what's Cray going to do with the Intel cash?HPC blog In a bold and unexpected move, Intel bought out rights to Cray's networking and interconnect technology a couple of days ago for $140 million in cold, hard cash. Like our pal TPM said in his comprehensive story, it was quite a surprise to HPC industry watchers. I hadn't heard speculation about Cray looking to sell any assets. In fact, given the recent introduction of their Big Data play, YarcData, I had expected any Cray M&A news to be about their acquisition of some analytics pieces to round out their offerings.… |
| HP spreads Superdome vPar partitions across Integrity line Posted: 26 Apr 2012 10:12 AM PDT Tweaks other virty tools for HP-UX UnixHewlett-Packard has just rolled up an update to its venerable Unix platform that gives more virtualization options to more customers and better control over virtualization hypervisors and guests running on its Itanium-based Integrity and Superdome iron.… |
| IOV tech could give Violin storage platform status Posted: 26 Apr 2012 09:58 AM PDT Flash array startup could pull off a NetAppBlocks and Files Violin Memory might well become the next platform storage company. But to do that it needs three product technologies and it only has one at the moment: its shared all-flash Memory array.… |
| Mobile phones still safe... probably Posted: 26 Apr 2012 09:39 AM PDT Pesky mathematical laws still deny certaintyThe UK's Health Protection Agency has examined the evidence for mobile phones causing cancer, and concluded that there isn't any, but left plenty of wriggle room for naysayers and doom merchants, not to mention headline writers.… |
| Networking giant Emulex stumbles at third quarter hurdle Posted: 26 Apr 2012 09:17 AM PDT Oops: Did we say FCoE was going to be the next big thing?Emulex's latest earnings show a fall compared to the previous quarter: which was the first profitable quarter after six loss-making ones. This means execs at the networking giant are probably on high alert for any further signs of a return to that slough of despond.… |
| E-health FAIL: £1.59 iPhone apps dole out drugs to kids in A&E Posted: 26 Apr 2012 08:59 AM PDT Stop watching Star Trek and get some blood on your screensChildren arriving at A&E are having their drug dosages calculated with a £1.59 iOS app which has not been certified and whose use is not monitored. It has been downloaded more than 500,000 times. This statistic was offered as an example of the development of "electronic health" technology at present at the Future World Symposium in London this week.… |
| Linux Left 4 Dead port fuels Steam for Ubuntu talk Posted: 26 Apr 2012 08:54 AM PDT Valve picks open source OS for games console?Valve appears to be launching Steam on the Linux platform, with prototypes in the works and a native version of Left 4 Dead set to accompany the client's release.… |
| G-Cloud boss begs UK.gov wonks: 'Speak out against s**t IT' Posted: 26 Apr 2012 08:41 AM PDT Outsourcing handed suppliers the keys to Blighty's techThe UK government's technology shopping catalogue G-Cloud is creeping through the corridors of power - but a wave of outsourcing decisions has sapped Whitehall's ability to set the nation's tech strategy, and the entrenched interests of incumbent IT suppliers stand in its way.… |
| Netgear scores 802.11ac basestation first Posted: 26 Apr 2012 08:27 AM PDT Router 1, Clients 0Networking hardware maker Netgear will have its next-gen Wi-Fi machine, the R6300 router, out next month.… |
| Simple ways to tune your private cloud infrastructure Posted: 26 Apr 2012 08:18 AM PDT Put the symphony on hold"Dynamic workload management" and "private cloud" are just two of the terms currently in vogue to describe new approaches to the management of IT systems.… |
| Doh! Sage Pay forgets to renew SSL certificate Posted: 26 Apr 2012 08:02 AM PDT Second screw-up in 2 daysCustomers logging into "secure and efficient payment service" Sage Pay this morning were served up an error message saying that the site could not be trusted, and didn't have a valid security certificate.… |
| Bendy, twisty keyboard wins Microsoft input tech competition Posted: 26 Apr 2012 07:55 AM PDT Designer devicesMicrosoft last night announced the winner of a student design competition which saw two dozen scholars conceptualise ideas for future input devices.… |
| Commentards! Know a good hosting firm? Recommend a good laptop? Posted: 26 Apr 2012 07:49 AM PDT Readers want your adviceFor a few months in 2008 Reg Hardware ran a Q&A column. The format was very simple: readers sought advice – and commentards were invited to supply answers.… |
| Global cop squad busts 36 credit card data-selling sites Posted: 26 Apr 2012 07:31 AM PDT SOCA, Feds and others shut down fraud-in-a-trolley scammersAn international team of cops has taken down 36 websites that were being used to shift vast quantities of stolen credit card and bank account data.… |
| HP confirms Hunter to head up PC-and-printer borg Posted: 26 Apr 2012 07:01 AM PDT Who's on Bradley's list?HP UK and Ireland PC boss Paul Hunter is the new chief of the merging Personal Systems and Imaging and Printing Groups.… |
| Infosec and B-Sides: Security biz exhibitions face off in London Posted: 26 Apr 2012 06:26 AM PDT Contrasting picture of infosecurity techShow diary Infosec and B-Sides both came to London this week to display the contrasting faces of the information security industry.… |
| Google throws weight behind network of 'reformed terrorists' Posted: 26 Apr 2012 06:01 AM PDT Choc Factory think tank dips elbows in counter-radicalisationGoogle has confirmed its support for an online network made up of former terrorists and victims of extremism.… |
| Star Trek role-players' privates sniffed by alien invader Posted: 26 Apr 2012 05:38 AM PDT Cryptic Studios coughs to database hackGaming studio Cryptic, the company behind Star Trek Online, Champions Online and City of Heroes, has admitted that its players' details were lifted in an unauthorised database access two years ago.… |
| Murdoch 'sorry' he didn't shut <cite>News of the World</cite> years ago Posted: 26 Apr 2012 05:17 AM PDT 'Felt blast of Milly Dowler phone-hack scandal come through window'Media tycoon Rupert Murdoch wished he had closed down the News of the World that has been at the centre of the phone-hacking storm that has gripped his corporation "years ago".… |
| Good Tech: Apple dominates mobile enterprise Posted: 26 Apr 2012 05:03 AM PDT iPad 2, iPhone 4S choices of big bizApple CEO Tim Cook said this week he wants to get more iPads into big business. The latest figures from enterprise gadget management software company Good suggests it's already happening.… |
| White Space trial: First Cambridge, then... THE WORLD Posted: 26 Apr 2012 04:59 AM PDT 'Do your worst, Dolly Parton – we'll win in the end'Despite blanketing Cambridge with trials, and White Space kit becoming legal in the USA, the White Space Summit in Duxford yesterday was still focusing on trying to convince the world that the technology will change everything – and for the better.… |
| Indiana cops arrest violent 6-year-old Posted: 26 Apr 2012 04:43 AM PDT Serial offender kicked school principalIndiana cops detained a "belligerent" six-year-old last week, after the cantankerous nipper kicked his school principal and threatened to kill two other members of staff.… |
| Opera retires Unite, widgets in latest browser cut Posted: 26 Apr 2012 04:32 AM PDT Stroke our extension instead, browser biz tells devsOpera made the latest version of the its desktop browser available this morning in a beta release. Old hands may notice a few things missing in version 12.0. Voice-control support in the user interface has been axed, along with Opera Unite and widgets. The browser company wants developers to use the extensions API instead.… |
| Posted: 26 Apr 2012 04:16 AM PDT The Devil, and much of the goodness, is in the detailOn the 3 May at 11am BST The Register's Lucy Sheriff will be joined by Julian Elve, of The Schools Network, to talk about his recent Office 365 migration.… |
| Posted: 26 Apr 2012 04:00 AM PDT Microsoft Office on your iPad, courtesy of the cloudiOS App of the Week There have been a lot of rumours recently about Microsoft launching a version of Office for the iPad. I doubt it - it would amount to a pre-admission of the failure of Windows 8 on tablets.… |
| O2 launches Wallet: Plays pay-by-text card, again Posted: 26 Apr 2012 03:43 AM PDT Tired of waiting for technology and regulationTelefonica brand O2 has finally launched O2 Money version two: O2 Wallet, a pre-paid wallet held in the cloud and accessible from any mobile phone, regardless of the model or network.… |
| Brydge pledges to turn iPads into MacBooks Posted: 26 Apr 2012 03:37 AM PDT Span in the worksTablet naysayers will - not unreasonably - claim that adding a keyboard to a fondleslab only goes to show how much better laptops are in the first place.… |
| Report: Microsoft tried and FAILED to offload Bing on Facebook Posted: 26 Apr 2012 03:28 AM PDT Cites anon insiders familiar with talksMark Zuckerberg reportedly declined to take Microsoft's Bing off the software vendor's hands last year.… |
| HUS dual-controller array muscles into the mid-range Posted: 26 Apr 2012 03:13 AM PDT ASICs, FPGAs and four NAS controllersNot your average dual-controller array: that's the conclusion after a canter through HDS's new HDS Unified Storage (HUS) 100 series array controller architecture.… |
| Seagate's latest GoFlex kit 'bolts into stores Posted: 26 Apr 2012 03:12 AM PDT Speed of ThunderSeagate rolled out its latest batch of external hard drives this week alongside a new Thunderbolt adaptor, bringing the high-speed connectivity tech to its entire GoFlex range.… |
| UK2.NET smashed offline by '10-million-strong' botnet Posted: 26 Apr 2012 03:02 AM PDT Punters' websites go titsup after DNS servers nobbledBritish web hosting outfit UK2.NET was on the business end of a distributed denial-of-service attack last night that took down customers' websites.… |
| Graham: ICO will blow £3m on IT services Posted: 26 Apr 2012 02:38 AM PDT Plus: 'Web-snoop law can't be honey-pot for anyone'Infosec 2012 The UK's Information Commissioner's Office is looking to spend around £3m on its IT, with an invitation for tenders expected at the end of next month.… |
| Oracle RMAN straps on rocket, hands admins launch button Posted: 26 Apr 2012 02:19 AM PDT Data Domain Boost cuts bandwidth by stonking 99%Oracle Recovery Manager (RMAN) has been integrated with Data Domain Boost by EMC, which claims it ramps up backup performance by up to 50 per cent and cuts LAN bandwidth requirements by up to 99 per cent.… |
| Ofcom: The Office of Screwing Over Murdoch? Posted: 26 Apr 2012 02:01 AM PDT How the Tories' broken quango promise came back to haunt themAnalysis There are several winners in the wake of News Corp's collapsed BSkyB takeover, but the most unlikely is one we've all overlooked. It might surprise you, too.… |
| Samsung heralds quad-core chip 'first' Posted: 26 Apr 2012 01:54 AM PDT Galaxy S III processor outed?Samsung introduced not the world's first quad-core processor for mobile devices but, it claimed, the world's first quad-core processor for mobile devices built with a High-k Metal Gate process.… |
| IPCom's 'priority call' patent ruled too broad, world+dog faints Posted: 26 Apr 2012 01:34 AM PDT Nokia quickly chucks mobes back on shelvesA patent that allows network operators to prioritise police calls over everyday network traffic is too broad to be valid, the European Patent Office ruled yesterday.… |
| UK biz needs fattening up on gov IT contracts, says No10 bod Posted: 26 Apr 2012 01:03 AM PDT Downing St adviser wants to spread wealth - as long as it stays in BlightyTim Luke, a policy adviser to Number 10, wants Blighty's government IT contracts spread more broadly and punting more money towards companies that don't to sell out abroad. He also thinks kids should be taught to code like real men.… |
| Tech City hailed as saviour of THE ENTIRE PLANET Posted: 26 Apr 2012 12:27 AM PDT Profit isn't that important – Silicon Roundabout ambassador"Tech City can be a catalyst that improves the lives of the whole area, the city, the country and in fact the whole world," the Prime Minister's ambassador to Tech City told Queen Mary University's Mile End Group in a lecture this week.… |
| Baidu thrives as Google Drive is blocked in China Posted: 26 Apr 2012 12:03 AM PDT Cloud storage service joins Dropbox on the banned listGoogle's chances of challenging old search foe Baidu in the Chinese market look even more remote, after the Chinese government blocked the Chocolate Factory's much-hyped Google Drive service.… |
| Nokia's fontastic Pure wins 'design Oscar' Posted: 26 Apr 2012 12:01 AM PDT So THAT'S why Microsoft bedded the mobe-makerNokia Pure - the "humanist sans" typeface of the Finnish mobemongerer - has won the graphics category of this year's UK Design Museum Design Awards.… |
| Facebook shares URL blacklists with security companies Posted: 25 Apr 2012 11:14 PM PDT Creates "AV marketplace" with free AV software from five vendorsFacebook has formed a two-faceted relationship with five prominent players from the security industry.… |
| China goes green with rare earth plea Posted: 25 Apr 2012 11:10 PM PDT We're trying to save the planet, man...China played the green card yesterday in an apparent bid to settle the on-going dispute over its throttling of rare earth exports, offering foreign firms the chance to co-develop the industry there in a more environmentally-friendly manner.… |
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