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- Skytap control freaks dev/test cloud
- Apple profits almost double on iOS product sales leap
- Facebook IPO 'delay' as Zuckerberg keeps Wall St 'waiting'
- Dell flashes 40GE blade switch, fabric manager
- Supernovae blasts shape climate, life on Earth, reckons boffin
- Number-munching clouds are godsend for cybercrooks - experts
- Google motors into cloud storage with Drive
- Tech sector <i>X Factor</i>: The customer isn't always right
- IBM hikes dividend, boosts share buybacks by $7bn
- David Willetts: UK firms need to 'fess up to security boobs
- Hackers now pick tools from script kiddies' toybox – report
- LOHAN gasps at stiff and slippery tube
- That global freetard crackdown: Three emails ... and carry on
- Skype dials onto PlayStation Vita
- China backs Proview in Apple iPad trademark war
- Waiting for Godin: Lenovo's UK, Irish ops finally get a boss
- SpaceX launch put off for a week
- Tin can communication set to return
- Theresa May: No emails sniffed in web super-snoop law
- BT invites telcos to sign up to FTTP trials
- Capita to hoover up small pile of SMEs in 2012
- Floppy disk drives jam James Bond theme
- UK biz pays heavy price for skimping on security - PwC
- 'Asteroid mining company' makes classic hypegasm debut today
- Gaia scientist Lovelock: 'I was WRONG and alarmist on climate'
- Six of the best ways to mess up IT change management
- Up to 390 TalkTalk jobs face axe as Northampton site shuttered
- Murdoch junior admits to a culture of 'cavalier risk' at <cite>NotW</cite>
- Yahoo! couldn't! even! strike! deal! with! Yahoo! Japan!
- A history of HUS: HDS's file-development hustle
- Google Currents
- Apple set to drop 17in MacBook Pro, says watcher
- Suspected freetards to face piracy letters in 2014
- HDS swaps out AMS for HUS file-block-and-object stuffed box
- Toshiba decides not to pick over Elpida's corpse
- US trade commission: Xbox 360 violates Motorola patents
- Microsoft unveils Windows 8 'release preview' for June
- XtremIO buy to spark flash array startup-gobbling frenzy
- Sony denies Netflix app to older Bravia smart TVs
- Masabi takes phone ticketing across the Pond
- Bit9 wants to bin 'broken' antivirus, install whitelisting tech
- Educating Rory: Are BBC reporters unteachable?
- Brit upstart flogs cloudy SaaS to clipboard-waving bods
- Reg Hardware Retro Week Complete Coverage
- Euro Central Bank to tighten grip on web cash security
- NHS trusts offer £5m wad for pics and comms gear
- Look back in Ascii: Computing in the 1980s
- NBNCo loses lynchpin exec
- Four CEOs better than one as Huawei profits slump
- China's rare earth policy backs Apple into a corner
| Skytap control freaks dev/test cloud Posted: 24 Apr 2012 02:05 PM PDT Bean-counter friendlySkytap, the application development and testing cloud that is funded in part by Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, is tweaking its service once again, adding a new management interface and other features to make it easier for IT departments that use Skytap to give coders a better experience and rein in the budget.… |
| Apple profits almost double on iOS product sales leap Posted: 24 Apr 2012 01:53 PM PDT A money making machine with just one buttonApple sold buckets more iPhones and iPads in its second quarter, helping it almost double net income year on year to $11.6bn and driving up gross margins.… |
| Facebook IPO 'delay' as Zuckerberg keeps Wall St 'waiting' Posted: 24 Apr 2012 01:03 PM PDT Just too busy to meet masters of the universe?Facebook's much-awaited IPO may be pushed back into June reports claim, as its glamourous and youthful CEO Mark Zuckerberg is just too busy to meet Wall St.… |
| Dell flashes 40GE blade switch, fabric manager Posted: 24 Apr 2012 11:10 AM PDT Force 10 works for the new bossThe engineers who used to work at the formerly independent Force 10 have forged the first 40 Gigabit Ethernet switch for new owner Dell's PowerEdge M1000e blade server chassis.… |
| Supernovae blasts shape climate, life on Earth, reckons boffin Posted: 24 Apr 2012 11:03 AM PDT 'Our world's biology is reflection of the sky'A new paper by cosmic ray researcher Henrik Svensmark suggests that the abundance of diversity of biological life on Earth is closely correlated to our planet's proximity to supernovae.… |
| Number-munching clouds are godsend for cybercrooks - experts Posted: 24 Apr 2012 10:34 AM PDT Perfect platform for password forcing, DDoS attacksCloud computing providers came under fire today from security experts who blamed them for giving cyber-criminals the tools to launch attacks more easily, efficiently and anonymously than ever before.… |
| Google motors into cloud storage with Drive Posted: 24 Apr 2012 10:28 AM PDT Grey day for DropBox et alGoogle has thrown its hat into the cloud storage ring with the long-expected launch of Google Drive, an online vault integrated with Google Docs that allows sharing and collaboration online.… |
| Tech sector <i>X Factor</i>: The customer isn't always right Posted: 24 Apr 2012 10:02 AM PDT Splunking from Twitter to FlickrOpen ... and Shut Curing cancer is probably worth a few billion dollars to whoever figures it out. But so is helping enterprises search machine data to find patterns and problems, as Splunk has learned in its 1999-style IPO last week.… |
| IBM hikes dividend, boosts share buybacks by $7bn Posted: 24 Apr 2012 09:44 AM PDT Still not the Big Blue cash machine of the mainframe eraAt this rate, in about 25 years IBM will be a privately held company.… |
| David Willetts: UK firms need to 'fess up to security boobs Posted: 24 Apr 2012 09:21 AM PDT Cloak-and-dagger approach leads to embarrassment later – ministerUK Science and Universities Minister David Willetts told assembled IT bods in London that companies should 'fess up to their security boobs.… |
| Hackers now pick tools from script kiddies' toybox – report Posted: 24 Apr 2012 09:02 AM PDT Automated attack weapons help blackhats spread the painInfosec 2012 Hackers are increasingly turning to automated software tools to launch attacks.… |
| LOHAN gasps at stiff and slippery tube Posted: 24 Apr 2012 08:41 AM PDT Hot PTFE action for spaceplane's mighty rodWe do like a bit of unboxing down here at the Special Projects Bureau, so there was a decided frisson this afternoon when we took delivery of a stiff and deliciously slippery tube.… |
| That global freetard crackdown: Three emails ... and carry on Posted: 24 Apr 2012 08:18 AM PDT How infringement penalties look in Spain, France and USRome wasn't built in a day, Hadopi won't be built in two years: those were the exact words of Marie-Francois Marais, the head of the French anti-piracy programme, speaking in London yesterday.… |
| Skype dials onto PlayStation Vita Posted: 24 Apr 2012 08:03 AM PDT Call of the gamerSkype for the PlayStation Vita went live today, with owners of the Sony-made handheld games console now able to make video calls using the Microsoft-owned chat platform.… |
| China backs Proview in Apple iPad trademark war Posted: 24 Apr 2012 07:59 AM PDT Copyright wonk says monitor minnow is rightful ownerA top Chinese official has said his government regards the IPAD trademark as the property of Shenzhen Proview Technology, piling extra pressure on Apple to settle over the alleged unauthorised use of the word.… |
| Waiting for Godin: Lenovo's UK, Irish ops finally get a boss Posted: 24 Apr 2012 07:46 AM PDT UK grows out of Mature GroupHigh-flying PC firm Lenovo has made company veteran Marc Godin the head of its UK and Irish operations, a role that has been vacant for nearly three years.… |
| SpaceX launch put off for a week Posted: 24 Apr 2012 07:27 AM PDT Let's just check everything one more time...The history-making launch of SpaceX's Dragon capsule to the International Space Station has been delayed by up to a week so that the space firm's engineers can do some more testing.… |
| Tin can communication set to return Posted: 24 Apr 2012 07:23 AM PDT No strings attachedIt isn't just Reg Hardware celebrating all things old school this week. A group of retro enthusiasts want to bring back the days of tin can communication, punting a modern USB version on fundraising site Kickstarter.… |
| Theresa May: No emails sniffed in web super-snoop law Posted: 24 Apr 2012 06:57 AM PDT 'No real-time monitoring' Home Sec retortsHome Secretary Theresa May denied today that spooks will monitor emails in real-time under her proposed web-snoop law, which is due to be announced in the Queen's Speech next month.… |
| BT invites telcos to sign up to FTTP trials Posted: 24 Apr 2012 06:39 AM PDT Ultrafast broadband among product scrutiny tests ahead of full launchBT has kicked off a trial and pilot scheme to which rival ISPs can sign up. It will run until mid-June this year.… |
| Capita to hoover up small pile of SMEs in 2012 Posted: 24 Apr 2012 06:18 AM PDT Will flog 40 million shares to fund acquisitionsCapita is flogging 40 million new ordinary shares in an institutional pacing to fund a "pipeline" of small and medium sized bolt-on biz acquisitions.… |
| Floppy disk drives jam James Bond theme Posted: 24 Apr 2012 06:07 AM PDT Q the music |
| UK biz pays heavy price for skimping on security - PwC Posted: 24 Apr 2012 06:01 AM PDT One in seven big firms penetrated by cybercrimsInfosec 2012 Hacking attacks against Blighty's top firms hit a record high according to figures for 2011.… |
| 'Asteroid mining company' makes classic hypegasm debut today Posted: 24 Apr 2012 05:48 AM PDT James Cameron now OK with resource exploitation in spaceA group of wealthy advertising and software kingpins have allied themselves with celebrity auteur James Cameron and prominent "new space" business figures to launch a business focused on mining asteroids for precious resources.… |
| Gaia scientist Lovelock: 'I was WRONG and alarmist on climate' Posted: 24 Apr 2012 05:25 AM PDT 'I swore Earth should be frying by now'Environmental luminary Dr James Lovelock says he now regrets being "alarmist" about climate predictions.… |
| Six of the best ways to mess up IT change management Posted: 24 Apr 2012 05:20 AM PDT How many do you recognise?We at Freeform Dynamics have been running surveys and interactive workshops with The Register's readership since 2006 on a wide variety of topics. Looking back, we see the same themes coming up time and time again.… |
| Up to 390 TalkTalk jobs face axe as Northampton site shuttered Posted: 24 Apr 2012 05:07 AM PDT Workers hit by office reshuffleISP TalkTalk is shuttering its Northampton office, "simplifying" its UK operations and "creating jobs nationally" while threatening to axe others.… |
| Murdoch junior admits to a culture of 'cavalier risk' at <cite>NotW</cite> Posted: 24 Apr 2012 04:44 AM PDT Did 'swashbuckling attitude' damage reputation of former Sunday redtop?James Murdoch – unlike his father Rupert – told the Leveson inquiry into press ethics this morning that he only read News International's now-defunct Sunday paper, News of the World, "from time to time".… |
| Yahoo! couldn't! even! strike! deal! with! Yahoo! Japan! Posted: 24 Apr 2012 04:33 AM PDT US biz wanted to flog stake in Japanese joint ventureYahoo! Japan confirmed today that it held talks on buying the stake Yahoo! Inc owns in the Asian joint venture, but the pair couldn't reach any agreement.… |
| A history of HUS: HDS's file-development hustle Posted: 24 Apr 2012 04:14 AM PDT NAS replacement issues ...Hitachi Data Storage's new unified storage – HUS – has had an involved file storage background, according to channel sources.… |
| Posted: 24 Apr 2012 04:00 AM PDT Go with the flowAndroid App of the Week When Google's Currents news and magazine reader was released late last year, I thought it one of the most visually attractive apps ever to come out of Mountain View.… |
| Apple set to drop 17in MacBook Pro, says watcher Posted: 24 Apr 2012 03:53 AM PDT Plans up in AirApple's 17in MacBook Pro will be phased out in 2012, one analyst has predicted, in favour of an Air-style refresh of the line that excludes the company's largest notebook.… |
| Suspected freetards to face piracy letters in 2014 Posted: 24 Apr 2012 03:46 AM PDT Digital Economy Act: remember that?Letters will be sent to suspected copyright infringers under the Digital Economy Act in 2014, a ministry of fun top wonk outlined yesterday.… |
| HDS swaps out AMS for HUS file-block-and-object stuffed box Posted: 24 Apr 2012 03:34 AM PDT Hitachi Command and control...Hitachi Data Systems (HDS) has replaced its mid-range AMS storage array with the Hitachi Unified Storage (HUS) array that stores block, file and object data in one box. It is managed by the Hitachi Command Suite which is now a single software management facility for all HDS products.… |
| Toshiba decides not to pick over Elpida's corpse Posted: 24 Apr 2012 03:14 AM PDT Firm fails to get a partner to bid for bankrupt firmToshiba is reportedly no longer in the running to pick over the bones of bankrupt chipmaker Elpida Memory after it couldn't put together a joint bid with other firms.… |
| US trade commission: Xbox 360 violates Motorola patents Posted: 24 Apr 2012 03:05 AM PDT Microsoft stungThe US International Trade Commission (ITC) has ruled that Microsoft's Xbox 360 does indeed infringe Motorola's intellectual property rights.… |
| Microsoft unveils Windows 8 'release preview' for June Posted: 24 Apr 2012 02:57 AM PDT Is this an RTM I see before me?Windows 8 will be signed off and released to PC manufacturers in June, paving the way for a September or October launch.… |
| XtremIO buy to spark flash array startup-gobbling frenzy Posted: 24 Apr 2012 02:42 AM PDT EMC's portfolio gap-fillerWe're being told by people close to the action that EMC is buying XtremIO for its peer-to-peer, shared, scale-out flash array technology.… |
| Sony denies Netflix app to older Bravia smart TVs Posted: 24 Apr 2012 02:22 AM PDT VoD service limited to 2012 modelsSony today heralded the arrival of Netflix on its Sony Entertainment Network, the content it provides through its smart TVs, Blu-ray Disc players, media streams and, of course, the PlayStation 3.… |
| Masabi takes phone ticketing across the Pond Posted: 24 Apr 2012 02:22 AM PDT American trains get barcodedPassengers riding Boston's trains will, by the autumn, be able to pay for and download tickets with their mobile phone – even if it's not particularly smart.… |
| Bit9 wants to bin 'broken' antivirus, install whitelisting tech Posted: 24 Apr 2012 02:02 AM PDT A question of trustInfosec 2012 Bit9 is using the Infosec show as a launchpad for its move into Europe as part of its wider ambitions to displace traditional antivirus technologies from corporate desktops and data centres.… |
| Educating Rory: Are BBC reporters unteachable? Posted: 24 Apr 2012 01:32 AM PDT Some says it's a lost cause. Others disagreeMailbag Rory Cellan-Jones yesterday returned to the scene of the crime after his piece last week detailing the day he spent in Silicon Roundabout "learning computer programming".… |
| Brit upstart flogs cloudy SaaS to clipboard-waving bods Posted: 24 Apr 2012 01:03 AM PDT Hit compliance standards for lessInfosec 2012 UK-based startup SureCloud is flogging a cloud-based auditing and compliance platform at mid-market businesses with high info-security standards.… |
| Reg Hardware Retro Week Complete Coverage Posted: 24 Apr 2012 01:00 AM PDT Step back to the 8-bit world |
| Euro Central Bank to tighten grip on web cash security Posted: 24 Apr 2012 12:31 AM PDT Seeks new standards to protect accountsThe European Central Bank (ECB) is consulting on new standards to increase the security of internet payments in the European Union.… |
| NHS trusts offer £5m wad for pics and comms gear Posted: 24 Apr 2012 12:01 AM PDT Will include voice recog and image archivesThree health trusts in south-west England are seeking a new picture archive and communications system (Pacs).… |
| Look back in Ascii: Computing in the 1980s Posted: 23 Apr 2012 11:00 PM PDT When computing was truly personal |
| Posted: 23 Apr 2012 10:02 PM PDT Telstra deal architect Tim Smeallie departsNBN Co's third foundation employee Tim Smeallie, the architect of the cornerstone Telstra network deal, is leaving the carrier.… |
| Four CEOs better than one as Huawei profits slump Posted: 23 Apr 2012 08:33 PM PDT Rotating CEO plan not to be criticised as "Leniency will help them succeed"Chinese telecoms equipment maker Huawei has taken the unusual step of appointing a panel of three CEOs and a plan to rotate them every six months, after its latest financials (PDF) saw profits plummet 53 per cent despite revenue rising 11.7 per cent to around 204 billion yuan (£20bn) last year.… |
| China's rare earth policy backs Apple into a corner Posted: 23 Apr 2012 08:24 PM PDT Report says fondleslabs factories are located near sourceApple's shiny fondleslabs are made in China not only because of the low cost of labour in the People's Republic but also due to the surging prices and tightening export restrictions on rare earth minerals which the nation has a near monopoly on, according to a report.… |
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