Google splits stock in bonus for investors, but keeps control |
- Google splits stock in bonus for investors, but keeps control
- Boeing plans super-secure Android smartphone for top echelons
- Top US science wonk wants Grand Challenges and 3D printers for the kids
- Developer leaks Microsoft product plans for next two years
- Red Hat joins OpenStack community
- <i>El Reg</i> hurls EMC onto the rack, drills into VSPEX
- Amazon turns A9 search engine into a cloud service
- OnApp spins up bullet-proof SAN, punts it to cloud providers
- Student stiffs penetration tool BackTrack Linux with 0-day
- Publishers fork out $52m in Apple ebook pricing settlement
- Facebook updates data archive tool, upsets privacy warriors
- Nokia on 'brink of failure', warns analyst
- We were right: EMC's VSPEX <i>will</i> take on FlexPods
- Naked gyrating iPad vid exposes truth behind Apple's billions
- Apple, publishers and ebook pricing – what does it all mean?
- Motorola's bid to sink Windows, XBoxes sales snubbed
- Nintendo puts 3DS in the Louvre
- Real-time movie FX editing on the Flash PCIe cards
- Scotland Yard under fire over ex-Murdoch man role
- 1&1 outage knocks down websites in Spain, UK
- .XXX registry in .porn, .adult, .sex extension grab bid
- Whitehall needs to dump 'unacceptable IT' – outbound G-Cloud chief
- Emirates wedges national ID cards inside NFC phones
- Death Star dinosaur aliens could rule galaxy
- Wondershare PowerCam
- 'Woz' wants $100,000 for Mac 128K prototype
- Sony axes 10,000 workers, eyes up mobile and medical biz
- Amazon green-lights in-app purchasing for Android
- Teens break up with Facebook
- Break out the bubbly: World PC market GREW 2.3%
- Banks on the business end of DDoS attack surge - report
- Publishing giants sue open textbook startup over layout
- LOHAN dives into <i>Reg</i> forums mosh pit
- Most anticipated videogames of 2012 revealed
- Dot-London squeaks under ICANN deadline
- UK.gov has shaved off 16% of IT staff in 4 years
- Microsoft opens trenchcoat, reveals 'in-memory' Big Data column
- Softphones strangled by smartphone battery life
- Gov: Give Ofgem clout to force energy firms to cough up
- Chinese coders beat all-comers
- Ten... Kitchen Gadget Treats
- Japanese bank palms off customers with biometric ATMs
- Aus apps take on Chinese handsets
- NetBank unavailable to 'many customers'
- Over half of IT hires in Asia are duds
- Intel discloses sub-10-watt 'Centerton' Atom chip
- Cloud Foundry aiming to be 'the Linux of the cloud'
- Bacteria isolated for four million years beat newest antibiotic
- Sweden: talk, text and drive? OK
- SAP flashes cash to pump up HANA biz
| Google splits stock in bonus for investors, but keeps control Posted: 12 Apr 2012 03:09 PM PDT Revenue results at top end of estimatesGoogle has reported good figures for the last quarter, with revenues up 24 per cent, and is to split the company's stock, creating a new non-voting stock in the company quoted on NASDAQ.… |
| Boeing plans super-secure Android smartphone for top echelons Posted: 12 Apr 2012 02:31 PM PDT Stealth phone due to take off later this yearBoeing is planning to launch an own-brand super secure Android smartphone for military, government, and high-level commercial users by the end of the year.… |
| Top US science wonk wants Grand Challenges and 3D printers for the kids Posted: 12 Apr 2012 02:15 PM PDT But asks for curiosity driven jellyfish poking to continue tooChallenging engineers to build a starship and giving school kids 3D printers were among several big ideas put out by a top US Government science wonk in a speech in Washington this morning.… |
| Developer leaks Microsoft product plans for next two years Posted: 12 Apr 2012 12:30 PM PDT Launch details on Office 15, Phone and IE 10A Microsoft developer has taken the unusual step of publishing a partial Redmond roadmap for some of the company's most important software.… |
| Red Hat joins OpenStack community Posted: 12 Apr 2012 12:15 PM PDT Governance suits Shadowman, finallyCommercial Linux and middleware distributor and server virtualization and cloud wannabe Red Hat has finally joined the open source OpenStack community, in the wake of the hammering out of the governance rules for a foundation that will control OpenStack.… |
| <i>El Reg</i> hurls EMC onto the rack, drills into VSPEX Posted: 12 Apr 2012 11:03 AM PDT Channel, software questions answeredOn Thursday EMC announced its new stackable and modular server box templates called VSPEX - a piece of kit that raised more questions than a particularly fast-paced edition of University Challenge. Your humble El Reg hack's subsequent Q&A with an EMC bod, published here, reveals among other odds and sods software availability and how the channel can take advantage of the kit.… |
| Amazon turns A9 search engine into a cloud service Posted: 12 Apr 2012 10:43 AM PDT CloudSearch added to other heavenly waresRetailing giant and cloud computing juggernaut Amazon has taken its in-house A9 search engine and converted it into a search service that you can buy through its Amazon Web Services unit to comb through your own documents and files.… |
| OnApp spins up bullet-proof SAN, punts it to cloud providers Posted: 12 Apr 2012 10:31 AM PDT Bombastic sprog or the real thing?UK-based cloud infrastructure supplier OnApp says it has created a scalable and resilient SAN for cloud service providers by using the provider's virtualised application server's local storage and aggregating it with virtual smart controllers running in the same servers.… |
| Student stiffs penetration tool BackTrack Linux with 0-day Posted: 12 Apr 2012 10:04 AM PDT Network daemon fingered in after-school gameA student has discovered a critical vulnerability in BackTrack, a flavour of Linux that's a favourite among security pros.… |
| Publishers fork out $52m in Apple ebook pricing settlement Posted: 12 Apr 2012 09:29 AM PDT US states follow DoJ suit, but they're looking for cashPublishers Hachette and HarperCollins have forked out $52m to settle a lawsuit that alleged the pair had been involved in price-fixing in the ebook market.… |
| Facebook updates data archive tool, upsets privacy warriors Posted: 12 Apr 2012 09:02 AM PDT Falls short of handing TOTAL CONTROL to usersFacebook is dishing up a more comprehensive archive of the data it stores and tracks, after the Irish data protection commission requested that the dominant social network give its users full control of that information.… |
| Nokia on 'brink of failure', warns analyst Posted: 12 Apr 2012 08:28 AM PDT Prepare Plan BNokia's comeback will fail unless Microsoft pulls its finger out, according to one analyst. Ian Fogg of IHS isn't isn't optimistic, however, and recommends the Finns develop a Plan 'B' - in case Windows Phone fails to crack the Android-Apple duopoly.… |
| We were right: EMC's VSPEX <i>will</i> take on FlexPods Posted: 12 Apr 2012 07:58 AM PDT Sub-Vblocks built by channelEMC has devised a set of converged server system reference templates called VSPEX, offering complete application, soup-to-nuts modular stack designs to be sold and built by its Velocity Partner channel.… |
| Naked gyrating iPad vid exposes truth behind Apple's billions Posted: 12 Apr 2012 07:26 AM PDT Behind-the-scenes shock tape rocks webVideo Foxconn has allowed a journalist to film inside an Apple iPad factory in Shenzen, revealing a fresh-faced workforce.… |
| Apple, publishers and ebook pricing – what does it all mean? Posted: 12 Apr 2012 06:59 AM PDT Answer: Champagne corks popping at AmazonAnalysis Aren't monopoly watchdogs supposed to bust monopolies rather than create them? That question is fairly widespread today after the US Department of Justice's intervention into the nascent ebook market.… |
| Motorola's bid to sink Windows, XBoxes sales snubbed Posted: 12 Apr 2012 06:26 AM PDT US judge rules German Microsoft ban bid is kaputMicrosoft has won its fight in the US to stop Motorola Mobility from enforcing a banning order on Windows and XBox sales that a German court may award the phone-maker.… |
| Nintendo puts 3DS in the Louvre Posted: 12 Apr 2012 06:06 AM PDT Itsa me... Mona LisaNintendo has bridged the gap between videogames and art through a partnership with the Louvre which will see visitors use 3DS consoles as an interactive tour guide.… |
| Real-time movie FX editing on the Flash PCIe cards Posted: 12 Apr 2012 06:01 AM PDT Fusion-io ioFX's 420GB block bluster for blockbustersFusion-io is putting a rocket up workstations in Hollywood with an ioFX flash card that features some of the technology used to create the visual effects in orphan-meets-robot family flick Hugo.… |
| Scotland Yard under fire over ex-Murdoch man role Posted: 12 Apr 2012 05:36 AM PDT Cop watchdog: 'Professional boundaries became blurred'Senior Met police officials "breached" Scotland Yard employment policies and demonstrated "poor judgment" when it came to their relationship with Neil Wallis – a former News of the World deputy editor – the UK's cop watchdog said today.… |
| 1&1 outage knocks down websites in Spain, UK Posted: 12 Apr 2012 05:13 AM PDT But hosting company's UK team 'not aware' of issuesWebsites using hosting firm 1&1 are down today while the company deals with a problem with "one of its nodes", according to some of its customers.… |
| .XXX registry in .porn, .adult, .sex extension grab bid Posted: 12 Apr 2012 05:00 AM PDT ICM promises not to stiff smut starsExclusive ICM Registry, which runs the controversial .xxx top-level domain, today revealed that it has applied to ICANN for the gTLDs .porn, .sex and .adult.… |
| Whitehall needs to dump 'unacceptable IT' – outbound G-Cloud chief Posted: 12 Apr 2012 04:46 AM PDT Our cloud or the highway (please pick our cloud)Updated Outgoing government G-Cloud programme director Chris Chant has harangued civil servants and tech vendors telling them times are a-changing and so must they.… |
| Emirates wedges national ID cards inside NFC phones Posted: 12 Apr 2012 04:32 AM PDT ID-by-handset to become norm after gov inks deal with EtisalatThe United Arab Emirates has signed up local operator Etisalat with a view to getting the national ID card embedded into mobile phones.… |
| Death Star dinosaur aliens could rule galaxy Posted: 12 Apr 2012 04:16 AM PDT Boffin: 'We would be better off not meeting them'Rather than dying out in the dimly lit aftermath of a ginormous asteroid impact, dinosaurs on Earth may have instead spread to other planets and built a terrifying space-conquering empire.… |
| Posted: 12 Apr 2012 04:00 AM PDT Powerful photo effects with no editingiOS App of the Week I thought that the recent one-two punch of Adobe's Photoshop Touch and Apple's iPhoto would have knocked out most of the competition from other photo apps, but Wondershare's PowerCam shows that the big-name boys don't have a monopoly on good ideas.… |
| 'Woz' wants $100,000 for Mac 128K prototype Posted: 12 Apr 2012 03:50 AM PDT Early integrated 5.25in drive includedA functional Macintosh 128k prototype has been put up for sale on eBay, complete with rare "Twiggy" 5.25in floppy drive, original keyboard, mouse and power lead.… |
| Sony axes 10,000 workers, eyes up mobile and medical biz Posted: 12 Apr 2012 03:44 AM PDT Cash-squandering giant in global spring cleanSony Corp confirmed today that it will lay off 10,000 workers worldwide in a move to turn around its TV biz, strengthen its core digital imaging, gaming and mobile divisions, and chase sales in emerging markets.… |
| Amazon green-lights in-app purchasing for Android Posted: 12 Apr 2012 03:29 AM PDT Whacks down another plank in Googleplex assaultAmazon has enabled in-application billing for Android apps sold through its US Appstore, though it's reserving the right to control the amount punters end up paying.… |
| Posted: 12 Apr 2012 03:16 AM PDT Bad for IPO, good for Twitter ...Open... and Shut In May 2012 Facebook is set to launch one of the top-25 IPOs in history. By May 2013 it may well be scrambling to keep investors happy, given the apparent flight of teenagers to Twitter, Pinterest, and flavor-of-the-month social media. It's not that Facebook has lost its mojo. It's that it may be becoming cool with the wrong sort of people: parents.… |
| Break out the bubbly: World PC market GREW 2.3% Posted: 12 Apr 2012 03:01 AM PDT Doom'n'gloom analysts caught with pants down in first quarterSuch is the parlous state of the global PC market that a return to marginal growth is lauded as a pretty good result - especially since declines were forecasted by bean-counters.… |
| Banks on the business end of DDoS attack surge - report Posted: 12 Apr 2012 02:39 AM PDT Shorter, bigger attack trend continuesFinancial firms were in the crosshairs of cyber-attackers during the first three months of 2012, while a threefold increase in DDoS attacks was recorded.… |
| Publishing giants sue open textbook startup over layout Posted: 12 Apr 2012 02:18 AM PDT Suit alleges web firm nicked pagination, image-labellingA copyright lawsuit has pitted three of the four big American textbook publishers against a web startup in a dispute over the layout of textbooks.… |
| LOHAN dives into <i>Reg</i> forums mosh pit Posted: 12 Apr 2012 02:00 AM PDT Get to close quarters with our heavenly sky queenAt the behest of reader Joeman, there's now a Reg forum open into which which you can throw your Low Orbit Helium Assisted Navigator (LOHAN) comments and/or suggestions.… |
| Most anticipated videogames of 2012 revealed Posted: 12 Apr 2012 01:31 AM PDT Which titles whet your appetite?With current-gen consoles nearing the end of their lifespans, 2012 has hardly been a golden year for game releases. But that hasn't stopped punters from getting excited at what is to come.… |
| Dot-London squeaks under ICANN deadline Posted: 12 Apr 2012 01:27 AM PDT Offshore firm picked to run capital's vanity addressLondon's official PR agency has filed its application with ICANN to get its hands on a new .london top-level internet domain, just before the deadline closes.… |
| UK.gov has shaved off 16% of IT staff in 4 years Posted: 12 Apr 2012 01:02 AM PDT Department for Transport ICT lost 1 in 5 workersThe number of IT staff members working at four key Whitehall departments has fallen by 16 per cent in recent years.… |
| Microsoft opens trenchcoat, reveals 'in-memory' Big Data column Posted: 12 Apr 2012 12:32 AM PDT Just the (100 billion) facts, manIf there's one thing scarier than the big data tsunami, tech vendors tell us, then it's tech vendors getting left out of the big-data conversation.… |
| Softphones strangled by smartphone battery life Posted: 12 Apr 2012 12:20 AM PDT PC startup times also an issue, says ShoreTelSoftphones aren't making inroads onto smartphones or the desktop because the former lacks battery life and the latter take too long to start up, according to Jamie Romanin, ShoreTel's Regional Director for Australasia.… |
| Gov: Give Ofgem clout to force energy firms to cough up Posted: 12 Apr 2012 12:02 AM PDT Regulator 'well-placed' to haggle over compensation paymentsGas and electricity companies that breach regulations could be forced to compensate customers directly under plans being consulted on by the government.… |
| Chinese coders beat all-comers Posted: 11 Apr 2012 11:48 PM PDT Technology gulf between east and west clear to seeDoes China have the best hackers in the world? Well, new stats from code sprint site Interview Street would seem to indicate that they certainly dominate the global rankings when it comes to programming skills.… |
| Posted: 11 Apr 2012 11:00 PM PDT 'Why didn't *I* get any soup?' |
| Japanese bank palms off customers with biometric ATMs Posted: 11 Apr 2012 10:30 PM PDT "You are the cash card", apparentlyJapan-based Ogaki Kyoritsu Bank is claiming to be the first in the world set to offer its customers the option of using ATM services without the need for a cash card or passbook, thanks to palm-scanning biometric technology from Fujitsu.… |
| Aus apps take on Chinese handsets Posted: 11 Apr 2012 09:54 PM PDT Smart Trans gets appy with DigitoneAustralian mobile software developer SmartTrans has secured a break through deal in China in an agreement with Beijing Digitone Telecom.… |
| NetBank unavailable to 'many customers' Posted: 11 Apr 2012 09:27 PM PDT CBA looking into problems with 64-bit Windows 7 and Internet ExplorerSome users of the Commonwealth Bank of Australia's NetBank service are unable to use the service, thanks to a bug that impacts PCs running the 64-bit version of Windows 7.… |
| Over half of IT hires in Asia are duds Posted: 11 Apr 2012 09:14 PM PDT Employers not happy with recruitsThe IT and telecoms sector will lead the way when it comes to hiring expectations in Asia over the next three months, but over half of new recruits in China and Singapore are duds, according to new stats from Hudson.… |
| Intel discloses sub-10-watt 'Centerton' Atom chip Posted: 11 Apr 2012 07:30 PM PDT You've seen microservers - behold the, um, picoserver?Server chip juggernaut Intel is hosting its Forum Beijing summit with partners and customers this week, and Diane Bryant, the new general manager of the company's Data Center and Connected Systems group, talked a little bit about some forthcoming Xeon and Atom processors for microservers.… |
| Cloud Foundry aiming to be 'the Linux of the cloud' Posted: 11 Apr 2012 05:47 PM PDT One year in and VMware adds new featuresSteve Herrod, CTO of VMware, has high ambitions for the company's app development platform Cloud Foundry, saying he wants it to be the Linux of the cloud.… |
| Bacteria isolated for four million years beat newest antibiotic Posted: 11 Apr 2012 05:30 PM PDT Ancient bacteria share genes with bugs exposed to modern medicineBacteria found deep inside a cave that has had scant exposure to the outside world for at least four million years share some of the same antibiotic-resisting traits that other bugs are supposed to have developed in response to modern medicines.… |
| Sweden: talk, text and drive? OK Posted: 11 Apr 2012 05:03 PM PDT A ban wouldn't work anywaySweden is bucking the international trend towards restricting the use of mobiles in cars, reasoning that drivers would just ignore a ban.… |
| SAP flashes cash to pump up HANA biz Posted: 11 Apr 2012 04:55 PM PDT In-pocket database, in-face LarrySAP hasn't had a product as popular as its HANA in-memory data processing engine since the R/3 enterprise resource planning suite launched two decades ago and took off like wildfire, transforming the German software company into the dominant application software provider in the world. SAP wants to hit replay with HANA, and it is willing to shell out cash to make sure it happens.… |
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