Google offers I/O tickets to atone for Code Jam snafu

Google offers I/O tickets to atone for Code Jam snafu


Google offers I/O tickets to atone for Code Jam snafu

Posted: 20 Apr 2012 01:40 PM PDT

Developers get happy ending

Google has decided on its "least unfair" solution to its mistakes in the Code Jam tournament to win tickets to its I/O conference: everyone will be a winner.…

Apple claims Aussie 3G is so good it's 4G

Posted: 20 Apr 2012 12:43 PM PDT

Novel defence for Australian iPad 4G connection claims

Apple has hit back at claims it misled Australian buyers of "the new iPad" with the unusual defense that Australia's 3G networks are so fast they are in fact 4G in all but name.…

Workers' comp covers sex-related injuries, judge rules

Posted: 20 Apr 2012 12:31 PM PDT

Peace of mind while on the job AND on the job

Injuries sustained while having sex on a work trip are covered by workers' compensation, an Australian federal judge has ruled.…

Sandisk's revs circle drain as mobile flash demand drops

Posted: 20 Apr 2012 11:02 AM PDT

Heads for a second quarter loss

We thought flash demand was booming, but flash supplier Sandisk's quarterly revenue has dropped to its lowest point in seven quarters after price drops and demand falls. It expects the next quarter to be even worse.…

Anonymous crashes Formula One site over Bahrain protests

Posted: 20 Apr 2012 10:38 AM PDT

Nervy petrolheads face three days of protests

Hackers claiming to be from Anonymous have taken down the official Formula One website as protests grow over this weekend's controversial Grand Prix in the Kingdom of Bahrain.…

Oracle pops cork as cut-price ZFS array creams NetApp rival

Posted: 20 Apr 2012 10:33 AM PDT

Plenty more bang for your bucks in SPECsfs2008 benchmark

An Oracle ZFS 7420 storage array provides 40 per cent more performance than a NetApp FAS6240 at a $700,000 lower price point.…

Ubuntu signs HP as heavy-metal support act

Posted: 20 Apr 2012 10:01 AM PDT

Pair enter pact for x86, ARMed Linux cloud tour

Canonical's cloudy ambitions and Metal-as-a-Service vision for Ubuntu have landed the muscular backing of Hewlett-Packard.…

Oracle v Google round-up: The show so far

Posted: 20 Apr 2012 09:24 AM PDT

What's going on here? Who's winning?

After years of waiting for the contenders to open fire, the Oracle-Google shooting match is now on, and the bullets are pretty expensive. The opening salvos have landed, so let's take stock.…

Nokia's older mobes infringe IPCom patent – court

Posted: 20 Apr 2012 08:59 AM PDT

Firm: New ones are fine so we don't care

Nokia has lost a patent dispute with intellectual property firm IPCom in the Mannheim regional court in Germany.…

'I'm no visionary': Torvalds up for $1.3m life-changing gong

Posted: 20 Apr 2012 08:27 AM PDT

Anyone who's used the Linux supremo's Git tool certainly agrees

Open-source poster child Linus Torvalds, who kickstarted development of the Linux operating system kernel, has been nominated for the €1m Millennium Technology Prize - but says he's "no visionary" and is surprised Linux has been so successful.…

Qualcomm runs out of chips as punters wolf down SnapDragons

Posted: 20 Apr 2012 08:01 AM PDT

Can't make 'em fast enough for smartphone boom

Qualcomm can't make its Snapdragon chips fast enough, forcing some companies to consider alternatives while waiting for supplies of the 28nm powerhouse.…

Hamburg court: Google must police YouTube content

Posted: 20 Apr 2012 07:32 AM PDT

GEMA notches up another copyright victory

German composers and music publishers' society GEMA has notched a copyright victory in its long-running dispute with Google. A Hamburg court ruled that The Chocolate Factory is responsible for what it publishes, and may need to install filters on uploaded video material.…

Ten... mad materials made into tech

Posted: 20 Apr 2012 07:27 AM PDT

Substance abuse?

Whether they're attempting to increase durability, lower production costs or simply impress with aesthetics, manufacturers are always looking for new materials to build their tech with.…

Behind Facebook's $1bn Instagram antitrust dodge

Posted: 20 Apr 2012 07:03 AM PDT

A free pass for Zuck, not Microsoft

Open ... and Shut  Apparently it's wrong to dominate the market for free search and free web browsers, but it's perfectly fine to dominate the market for photo sharing. That seems to be the lesson from the curious silence from antitrust authorities on Facebook's proposed $1bn acquisition of Instagram.…

Nanodot memory smashes RAM, sets new speed record

Posted: 20 Apr 2012 06:28 AM PDT

Electro-optics boffins on a charge

Boffins in Taiwan and the University of California predict that nanoscale CMOS memory could soon be on its way after research showed nanodot memory operating 10 to 100 times faster than current RAM. The electro-optics researchers also emphasised that they had used materials that are compatible with mainstream integrated circuit technologies...…

Public IT supplier frameworks aren't baffling – gov organ

Posted: 20 Apr 2012 06:00 AM PDT

'No confusion' over trio of overlapping deals... say procurement peeps

Government Procurement Services (GPS) has defended the matrix of monolithic public sector IT purchasing frameworks, claiming purse-holders will figure out where to spend taxpayers' cash.…

2,500 copycat hack attempts on abortion provider site – report

Posted: 20 Apr 2012 05:38 AM PDT

BPAS under siege following hacker's arrest

Five weeks after a man was cuffed by police for swiping around 10,000 records of women who registered with British Pregnancy Advisory Service (BPAS), the site remains under sustained hack attempts, the BBC reports.…

Home Office 'technologically clueless' on web super-snoop law

Posted: 20 Apr 2012 05:19 AM PDT

Ex-top cop, net experts trash real-time UK packet sniff

Scrambling for Safety 2012  Computer experts, politicos, civil liberty campaigners and even a retired top cop universally agreed yesterday that the Home Office's real-time mass internet surveillance plan demonstrated just how "clueless" Theresa May's govt department is on implementing such a system.…

Mellanox rides the Xeon E5 wave

Posted: 20 Apr 2012 05:01 AM PDT

Big supers bump up network gear sales

Switch and server adapter card maker Mellanox Technologies is surfing on two upgrade waves: Its own shift to faster InfiniBand and Ethernet products and Intel's launch of the Xeon E5-2600 processors, which came out in early March.…

Rapidshare tells world+dog: Stop PIRACY now!

Posted: 20 Apr 2012 04:46 AM PDT

Cyberlocker says it's on the straight and narrow

Rapidshare wants to lose its notoriety as a haven for copyright infringement – and become a legitimate cloud service. The cyberlocker's chief lawyer Daniel Raimer has written a four-page "anti-piracy manifesto" and hopes this will head off stronger laws that will make legitimate takedowns of infringing websites easier.…

Biologists create synthetic DNA capable of EVOLUTION

Posted: 20 Apr 2012 04:29 AM PDT

Morph-happy bio-soup strained

Synthetic DNA and RNA has been shown to be capable of evolving in the lab, carrying hereditary traits with it.…

Analyst: 'revolutionary, compelling' iPhone 5 out in October

Posted: 20 Apr 2012 04:21 AM PDT

Waiting for Qualcomm

Apple's iPhone 5 will be out in October and sport a "revolutionary" industrial design. That, plus 4G LTE connectivity courtesy of 28nm Qualcomm chippery, will make the handset a "compelling upgrade".…

No more 'rip-off' IT disasters – UK.gov will be too busy tweeting

Posted: 20 Apr 2012 04:14 AM PDT

RT @SirHumphrey_Appleby A courageous move, minister

Blighty's government has promised that its new "digital by default" campaign will put a stop to billion-pound IT catastrophes that have dogged the public sector for years.…

What kind of LOSER sits in front of a PC...

Posted: 20 Apr 2012 04:00 AM PDT

...to read a book?

Something for the Weekend, Sir?  I have just wasted half a day at the London Book Fair, hoping to discover some new e-book readers with a view to reviewing them for El Reg.…

Everything Everywhere begs Blighty to back 4G push

Posted: 20 Apr 2012 03:46 AM PDT

Grassroots campaign spotted in greenhouse

Exclusive  Everything Everywhere is planning a "grassroots" lobbying campaign for 4G infrastructure, but sadly 4G Britain hasn't the space to say who's funding it, or who stands to gain most from its success.…

Nvidia: phone GPUs to outplay current consoles by 2014

Posted: 20 Apr 2012 03:34 AM PDT

End of gaming as we know it?

The smartphone killed the PDA, the MP3 player and the PMP - will it kill the games console next?…

New tech revolution: Small biz begins to lock out industry giants

Posted: 20 Apr 2012 03:32 AM PDT

VDI, BYOD, SaaS and cloud salad could free us all from vendor lock-in

Sysadmin blog  Software as a Service (SaaS) combined with Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI)-style technologies promise to free us from vendor lock-in once and for all. The consumerisation of IT, Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) and hybrid cloud-based applications are additional marketing buzzwords relevant to this discussion.…

Apple, Google and Intel to face angry ex-IT workers in court

Posted: 20 Apr 2012 03:13 AM PDT

Class action suit over no-poaching rules goes ahead

A US judge has ruled that Apple, Google, Intel and other firms have to face their former employees in court in an antitrust lawsuit that alleges the firms conspired to keep wages down by stifling competition.…

'Searching staff emails would be time-consuming'

Posted: 20 Apr 2012 03:02 AM PDT

Plus: 'You got it all wrong, I LOVE Facebook and Apple'

Quotw  This was the week when the details of Facebook's acquisition of revenueless app firm Instagram – for $1bn – emerged.…

Microsoft seeks Skype for Xbox engineering gang

Posted: 20 Apr 2012 02:53 AM PDT

Talking tiles

Microsoft's plans to bring Skype to the Xbox appear well underway, if job postings for positions in a new "Skype Xbox Engineering Team" are anything to go by.…

<i>Battlefield Earth</i> ruled worst film EVER

Posted: 20 Apr 2012 02:38 AM PDT

Sci-fi cobblers cops Reg reader shoeing

It's official: Battlefield Earth is the worst film ever according to our beloved moviegoing readers.…

NetApp dips a toe into Flash Pool

Posted: 20 Apr 2012 02:17 AM PDT

New NAND stuff at Sunnyvale

NetApp has revealed plans to enhance its flash offerings and offer a single tier, flash cached array design with a sexy new name. Remember Hybrid Aggregates? They have become Flash Pools.…

iKlip Studio

Posted: 20 Apr 2012 02:00 AM PDT

The ideal tablet stand for musos?

Accessory of the Week  The hackneyed old cliché about the iPad being a consumption device was long blown out of the water. The Apple tablet is used by creative professionals for a variety of tasks, but one group who who have been drawn to it more than most are musicians.…

Norwich FC scores own goal in net kit leak

Posted: 20 Apr 2012 01:55 AM PDT

Fans cry foul over bully boy tactics

Norwich City FC has apologised for its thuggish response to a teenage fan who grabbed pictures of the the football team's new strip from its own website.…

Top UK.gov CIOs dealt string of pay cuts and freezes

Posted: 20 Apr 2012 01:32 AM PDT

Purses and wallets tightened over past four years

A number of major Whitehall departments have slashed their CIO salaries since 2008, according to central government figures.…

Channel bites Apple's hand off for any old iPads in Q1

Posted: 20 Apr 2012 01:01 AM PDT

Euro sales via indie disties soared by 42%

Apple sales via independent distributors across Western Europe soared 42 per cent in Q1, figures from channel analyst Context reveal.…

Three questions Fusion-io's rivals face after flash API bombshell

Posted: 20 Apr 2012 12:29 AM PDT

Apps bypassing OS and disk to store hot data - chaos or breakthrough?

Happy days are coming for the denizens of data centre technology areas. Applications are going to get such an incredible speed boost that they will become jet-propelled, turbo-charged, super-charged. The average app will virtually be able to stop doing disk I/O ever again... well, for most things.…

Killers laugh in face of death penalty threat, say US experts

Posted: 20 Apr 2012 12:03 AM PDT

Expensive executions fail as a deterrent

Researchers have concluded there's no concrete evidence that the death penalty has any effect on homicide rates in the United States.…

Stray SMS leads to aborted landing

Posted: 20 Apr 2012 12:00 AM PDT

This is your Captain texting

On May 27th, 2010, as an A310 flying from Darwin to Singapore descended to just 500 feet above terra firma, crew noticed the craft was not ready to land.…

Just NINE per cent of Asia Pac operators have commercial 4G

Posted: 19 Apr 2012 11:45 PM PDT

Must try harder...

Asia Pacific mobile operators have caught up their rivals in North America and Europe but only nine per cent have commercial 4G LTE networks up and running, according to new research from analyst ABI Research.…

Intel to ship 30 MILLION Ultrabooks in 2012 - report

Posted: 19 Apr 2012 11:18 PM PDT

Chipzilla's target is 40 per cent of consumer notebooks by end of year

Intel has reportedly estimated that Ultrabook shipments will not exceed 30 million in 2012, a figure which could be some way lower than the one bandied about by CEO Paul Otellini, who predicted that 40 per cent of consumer notebooks would be Ultrabooks by the end of the year.…

Lytro light field camera

Posted: 19 Apr 2012 11:00 PM PDT

Shoot first, focus later

Review  Since before the days of Fox Talbot, cameras have worked like the human eye. A lens focuses an image on a plane, be it a retina, silver halide or electronic sensors. The Lytro is different…

ISPs facing global clamp down on piracy

Posted: 19 Apr 2012 09:09 PM PDT

Service providers told to up their game in spite of court win for Oz ISP

Aussie ISP iiNET might have won the battle in a High Court ruling today but the war internationally is swinging in the favour of the copyright holders, with service providers facing increasing pressure to act on notifications of infringement, according to one legal expert.…

Microsoft CRM to go browser and mobile OS agnostic

Posted: 19 Apr 2012 08:52 PM PDT

Chrome, Firefox welcomed, native iOS, Android and WP7 clients coming

Just weeks after Microsoft revealed SharePoint is now, and will forever be, more friendly to browsers other than Internet Explorer, the company has revealed that another of its enterprise applications will soon play nicely with others.…

How iiNet beat Big Content

Posted: 19 Apr 2012 07:55 PM PDT

Lawyers explain the crucial bits of the case

The High Court's decision to dismiss Big Content's appeal of the Federal Court's decision absolving iiNet of copyright infringement relies, in part, on inadequacies in Australia's Copyright Act that may need to be dealt with by Australia's Parliament.…

Curtin Uni app comp goes national

Posted: 19 Apr 2012 05:15 PM PDT

oZAPP prize open in August

Western Australia's Curtin University has launched a national app competition that follows on from a successful local competition held last year.…

iiNet wins High Court trial

Posted: 19 Apr 2012 05:09 PM PDT

AFACT says decision exposes 'failure of copyright law'

Updated  Big Content has lost its appeal against the Federal Court's decision that iiNet did not infringe copyright when it ignored allegations of theft by its customers sent to it by the Australian Federation Against Copyright Theft (AFACT).…

FBI seizes Mixmaster servers

Posted: 19 Apr 2012 04:40 PM PDT

Pittsburgh Uni threat investigation heating up

Non-profit Riseup claims the FBI has seized a Mixmaster server from a colo shared by Riseup Networks in New York City.…

Oracle v Google: Lindholm takes the stand in Java trial

Posted: 19 Apr 2012 04:36 PM PDT

Insists 'smoking email' has been misinterpreted

The Google engineer who wrote a contentious email that Oracle is hinging part of its Java patent case on has said that his words are being misconstrued.…

Kiwi three strikes law closes on first victims

Posted: 19 Apr 2012 04:15 PM PDT

Telstra Clear and Vodafone issue enforcements

New Zealand's controversial 'three strikes' copyright crackdown law may be eliciting its first hefty fines from downloading culprits, since being introduced in September last year.…

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