NASA brainstorms with John Q Public for 2018 Mars mission

NASA brainstorms with John Q Public for 2018 Mars mission


NASA brainstorms with John Q Public for 2018 Mars mission

Posted: 13 Apr 2012 02:28 PM PDT

If the money's in the pot, that is

NASA is asking for ideas from the general public for probes and tools to send to Mars in 2018, as part of its longer term plan to have humans visit the Red Planet in decades to come.…

Balsillie planned to bust open BlackBerry network before leaving

Posted: 13 Apr 2012 01:16 PM PDT

Board rejected scheme to focus on new handsets

Ousted RIM co-CEO Jim Balsillie spent his last few months at the helm developing a radical strategy to transform the fortunes of the trouble Canadian company by opening up its network to provide basic data plans to non-smartphone users.…

Starck brewing 'fairly, if not very, revolutionary' Apple THING

Posted: 13 Apr 2012 11:04 AM PDT

'I regularly visit Steve Jobs' wife,' adds Frenchman

Gallic product design hotshot Philippe Starck says he's working on a "fairly, if not very, revolutionary" project with Apple that will be out in time for Christmas.…

FBI track alleged Anon from unsanitised busty babe pic

Posted: 13 Apr 2012 10:26 AM PDT

Body of evidence

An alleged member of Anonymous has been tracked down after he posted a picture of his scantily clad girlfriend in an image bragging about his hacking exploits.…

Gartner snips 2011 IT spending forecast – again

Posted: 13 Apr 2012 10:03 AM PDT

A little more off the top, and some off the bottom

The prognosticators at market research firm Gartner are polishing their crystal balls again and have gazed into 2012 to see what the IT spending picture looks like, and it's a bit worse than they expected only a few months ago. And thus they have taken a little more off the top of their IT spending projections for the current year, after doing so a bunch of times already.…

Thais trample over Chinese to snatch Asia's e-shopping crown

Posted: 13 Apr 2012 09:32 AM PDT

Mobile driving growth in emerging markets

Thailand has emerged as the surprise leader in online shopping in Asia thanks to its strength in the mobile space although it is China which will run away with the global e-commerce crown by 2015, according to two new reports out this week.…

Cloud WAR! Open season on Amazon for cloudy rivals

Posted: 13 Apr 2012 09:04 AM PDT

From tire-kicking to tire-buying

Open... and Shut  The industry's most promising cloud platforms have one thing in common: none of them are winning. At least, not if we equate "winning" with "lots of users" and "lots of revenue" or, more simply put, with "displacing Amazon Web Services."…

It's all in the wrist: E-ink smartwatch Pebble bags $2m

Posted: 13 Apr 2012 08:33 AM PDT

Upstart wanted just $100k, clocked much more

A group of people who designed an e-ink watch and were looking for $100,000 to fund its production raised that in a couple of hours – and they're now well on their way to having $2m to spend.…

CAPITALISM without PROFITS - Welcome to the Instagram Era!

Posted: 13 Apr 2012 08:15 AM PDT

Let's put Fraud Laws on the scrapheap - where they belong

¡Bong!  Doubters, shut your mouths now - and nail them shut. Two great pieces of news from the US have validated Silicon Roundabout as the pulsating heart of a new British economy. And a whole new way of doing capitalism.…

Microsoft UK boss Frazer takes slow boat to China HQ

Posted: 13 Apr 2012 08:02 AM PDT

Picks up office keys from Michel van der Bel

Microsoft UK boss Gordon Frazier is heading east to the COO office in the Greater China Region (GCR), swapping roles with Michel van der Bel.…

Ultrabook price vice prised open by flash-disk half-breeds

Posted: 13 Apr 2012 07:32 AM PDT

Analyst: Pressure on performance and cost will spark hybrid demand

Hybrid disk drives are on their way to becoming a fixture in computing: Seagate has had design wins at Dell and other OEMs.…

Apple finally deploys Mac Flashback Trojan terminator

Posted: 13 Apr 2012 07:01 AM PDT

Zombie OS X bot army drops to 270,000 strong

Apple has released a tool that removes the infamous Flashback Trojan from infected Macs.…

Daisy Group blows £28m on VoIP blower biz

Posted: 13 Apr 2012 06:39 AM PDT

Lose a COO, gain Worldwide Group Holdings

Acquisitive business communications provider Daisy Group has coughed £28m to acquire audio-conferencing and call-handling player Worldwide Group Holdings (WGH).…

Google boss points to low-end tablet for fight with Amazon

Posted: 13 Apr 2012 06:35 AM PDT

Fire it up

Google has hinted that it's rumoured forthcoming tablet will compete with Amazon's Kindle Fire rather than high-end slates such as Apple's iPad 3.…

MIT's mind-reading Mosh pits itself against SSH daemons

Posted: 13 Apr 2012 06:17 AM PDT

No! I meant rm * not rm .*

Researchers at MIT have refined the Secure Shell network protocol and boasted their replacement system overcomes some of SSH's more annoying drawbacks.…

Texas judge lets Apple duel patent sabre-rattler Lodsys

Posted: 13 Apr 2012 06:01 AM PDT

Foxconn-rebrander lifts sword to defend iOS devs

A Texas judge has decided Apple will be allowed into the trenches to fight patent-holding firm Lodsys, on behalf of iOS developers, almost a year after Cupertino made the request.…

Printers SMASHED to bits in Office Space copycat revenge vid

Posted: 13 Apr 2012 05:38 AM PDT

Volunteers queue to get own back on irksome tech

Vid  Of all the devices making our working lives harder, printers take top billing. Never mind computers that crash mid-PowerPoint or smartphones that inexplicably can't find the network – these, at least, are complicated, multi-function devices with a lot going on.…

Euro climate probe Envisat silenced, boffins baffled

Posted: 13 Apr 2012 05:16 AM PDT

ESA loses contact with ageing space workhorse

Engineers at the European Space Agency have lost contact with their environment-studying satellite Envisat, which stopped sending data five days ago.…

Fate of punters' Megaupload files to be thrashed out in court

Posted: 13 Apr 2012 05:02 AM PDT

25PB of data could head to The Great Recycling Bin In The Sky

A court in the US could decide today whether or not to dump the files of Megaupload users, seized in the case against founder Kim Dotcom.…

So what's the worst movie NEVER made?

Posted: 13 Apr 2012 04:41 AM PDT

Reader pitches invited for imaginary cinematic outrages

Competition  Our hunt for the worst movie ever proved highly popular with you, our beloved cinema-going readers, and the list of nominees makes such chilling reading that we began to wonder if it would be possible to shoot a film so atrocious that it would prompt audiences to run screaming from the cinema vowing never again to badmouth Battlefield Earth.…

Kinect gives Skyrim fans something to shout about

Posted: 13 Apr 2012 04:35 AM PDT

Dragons, talk to me

The Elder Scrolls V is set to support Microsoft's Kinect for Xbox 360, meaning Dragonborn fans can take control of their Skyrim experience through voice and gesture control.…

Two teens cuffed after Blighty's anti-terror hotline hacked

Posted: 13 Apr 2012 04:12 AM PDT

Officials' private chats recorded, bunged on YouTube

Two teenagers have been arrested after hackers attacked Scotland Yard's anti-terror hotline, eavesdropped on a conversation between officials and uploaded a recording to the internet.…

Laptop computers are crap

Posted: 13 Apr 2012 04:00 AM PDT

Time to flush them away

Something for the Weekend, Sir?  Occasionally, the crumbs scavenged by the Dabbs clan are supplemented with purchases from a local food emporium, the expenditure being partly funded by product reviews that I submit to El Reg.…

Star sacrifices 2,000 comets a DAY to cloak twin planets in dust

Posted: 13 Apr 2012 03:38 AM PDT

Ice cloud hid worlds from boffins - until now

Pic  Astroboffins using a new multinational observatory have spotted evidence of two planets orbiting nearby star Fomalhaut – which is just 25 light years away and cloaked in a comet graveyard.…

Valve seeks geek to design 'platform hardware'

Posted: 13 Apr 2012 03:30 AM PDT

New kit on the box

Valve has hinted it is building its own hardware platform, possibly to tie in with its Steam online games service, after reaching out for an experienced electronics engineer to help with the project.…

ICANN: Privates leaked in top-level domain land grab blunder

Posted: 13 Apr 2012 03:17 AM PDT

gTLD applications viewable by rival web biz barons

ICANN has revealed that it took down its top-level domain application system yesterday after discovering a potentially serious data leakage vulnerability.…

Australia OKs iOS for classified comms

Posted: 13 Apr 2012 03:00 AM PDT

Spooks get guide on 'hardening' iPhones, iPads

Australia's Defence Signals Directorate, an agency charged with collecting signals intelligence and educating the rest of the government about security, has green-lit Apple's iOS for use in "classified Australian government communications".…

Sharp starts punching out IGZO LCDs for retina screens

Posted: 13 Apr 2012 02:44 AM PDT

Apple 'iTV' contender?

They came too late for the iPad 3, but Sharp has now begun producing ultra-high resolution LCD panels based on its IGZO technology.…

Intel penetrates PCIe flash biz with long-lasting hardness

Posted: 13 Apr 2012 02:42 AM PDT

Duracell-Bunny-styled SSD 910 goes on... and on

A little while after its competitors, Intel has come up with its own PCIe flash card, the SSD 910. It is not a speed king, but boy, does it last: five years at 10 full writes a day.…

'Selling your citizens to foreigner is not acceptable!'

Posted: 13 Apr 2012 02:23 AM PDT

Plus: 'This will be the most significant iPhone upgrade'

QuotW  This was the week when flagging Finnish phone firm Nokia had a few fumbles.…

Pasce Minirig micro speaker

Posted: 13 Apr 2012 02:00 AM PDT

Powerhouse

Appeals court cracks open Google AdWords v Rosetta Stone case

Posted: 13 Apr 2012 01:41 AM PDT

Second look at whether keyword ad policy infringed trademark rights

Google may be liable for direct and contributory trade mark infringement as well as trade mark dilution because of the way it allowed a language learning software company's trademarks to be bought as "keyword advertising" terms by others, a US court has ruled.…

Hitachi spins up 'leccy fan motor sans rare earths

Posted: 13 Apr 2012 01:15 AM PDT

Where's your monopoly now, China?

Japanese electronics giant Hitachi has unveiled what it claims to be a highly efficient mid-sized electric motor built without using the rare earth minerals which have become essential to the production of much of modern technology.…

'Real time' PAYE pilot goes live at HMRC

Posted: 13 Apr 2012 01:02 AM PDT

10 employers volunteer to take part in the trial

HMRC has launched a pilot of Real Time Information (RTI) for PAYE.…

ICANN flubs new domain deadline after site snafu

Posted: 13 Apr 2012 12:40 AM PDT

'Unusual behaviour' blamed in gTLD hiccup

ICANN has extended the deadline for companies to apply for new generic top-level domains after "unusual behaviour" forced it to shut down its online application system.…

New fake anti-virus shakes down frightened file-sharers

Posted: 13 Apr 2012 12:27 AM PDT

Scareware brands Windows Registry Editor a smut 'tool', punts 'safe' torrents

Security researchers have discovered a strain of fake anti-virus software that tries to intimidate supposed file-sharers into paying for worthless software.…

Chinese whispers point to Huawei bid for Motorola

Posted: 13 Apr 2012 12:14 AM PDT

Google could take the patents and run

Huawei remained tight lipped today on rumours that the Chinese handset giant is set to sign a deal for ailing mobile biz Motorola just eight months after Google splashed $12.5bn on acquiring the firm.…

Life on Mars found – in 1976

Posted: 13 Apr 2012 12:05 AM PDT

Re-analysis of Viking data suggests microbes took the bait

The USA's Viking mission found life on Mars, says a new paper that has re-analysed data collected by the two probes.…

Soup up your home network

Posted: 13 Apr 2012 12:00 AM PDT

Tips for tuning a modern LAN

India orders 7.5 million Microsoft cloud services

Posted: 12 Apr 2012 07:27 PM PDT

Technical education colleges adopt Live@Edu, Office 365

The All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) has just handed Microsoft it's biggest order for cloudy wares, in the form of a deal that will see seven million students and half a million staff hook up to the Redmond cloud.…

Vevo comes to Australia

Posted: 12 Apr 2012 06:43 PM PDT

MCM takes the local reigns

The joint venture music video service devised by Sony Music Entertainment and Universal Music Group, Vevo, has entered the Australian market in partnership with local player MCM Media.…

ICANN top shelf domain rush derailed by tech glitch

Posted: 12 Apr 2012 05:39 PM PDT

Not too late to register your dot brand

The closing submission to register for ICANN's elite and pricey brand-centric generic top level domains (gTLDs ) has been extended, due to a software snafu.…

Map of Tasmania to be redrawn

Posted: 12 Apr 2012 03:27 PM PDT

State government kicks off Spatial Information Foundations project

Tasmania will spend $AU3m to refresh the technological framework that underpins the State's Land Information System (LIST).…

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