VMware confirms ESX source code had been stolen and published |
- VMware confirms ESX source code had been stolen and published
- Dr. Web disputes Flashback Mac Trojan bot army estimates
- EU privacy body slams ACTA as 'unacceptable'
- Unisys grows in Q1, swings to profit
- Ted Nugent fined for failing to kill bear
- Acer Q1 profit falls
- Intel came a-knockin' for Cray super interconnects
- Symantec trims targets as subscriptions put off payday
- Microsoft takes on Spotify with sound of Woodstock
- LinkedIn edges closer to China with new Hong Kong gaff
- SAP still not a force in cloud after sales cash drizzle
- Major science fiction publisher to zap DRM
- HTC to produce exclusive Facebook smartphone, bitch
- LG back in black after six-month cash bleed
- Hanging's too good for 'em - so what do you suggest?
- Sage Pay card stroker goes titsup for NINE hours
- Smartphones finally outsell featurephones ... in Japan
- Google Drive stalls on LAUNCH DAY
- Ex-BP engineer cuffed 'for deleting Deepwater spill texts'
- Iran cuts off oil plants hit by mystery data-destroying virus
- Crytek: Schemes to strike second-hand games biz 'awesome'
- Jeremy Hunt clings on as SpAd quits over News Corp emails
- US doc finally fingers elusive G-spot
- Can Windows 8 bag Microsoft another 20 years of success?
- Wannabe-human bots face 2012 Turing Test in Turing's old office
- Official: Britain staggers into double-dip recession doom
- Tim Cook rejects Apple's old business model of suing everyone
- Sony cloud-based sync'n'store service goes live
- Panasonic DMP-BDT320 3D Blu-ray player
- Wannabe infosec kingpins: Forget tech, grab a clipboard
- Internet's first 'Hall of Fame' REVEALED
- Olympic champ ad blitz dents Virgin Media despite £1bn sales
- FIVE-day ZoneEdit outage freezes thousands of sites
- IT Department seeks clowns and jugglers
- Tablets are the future of the PC, says researcher
- Uni plagiarism site buckles under crush of last-minute essays
- SSH firm aims to untangle crypto key hairball
- WIN an HTC One X with Reg Hardware
- Behold the new awesomeness: CHANNEL REGISTER RE-BORN!
- Cloudy crypto SSO firm: Passwords must go
- Speaking in Tech: Cisco haters, Kim Dotcom and virtual networking
- Ten... eight-bit classic games
- Billionaire astro mining venture long on hype and timescale
- Nikon recalls camera batteries
- Super Micro grows despite Xeon E5 delay, disk shortages
- Facebook wonk among 'digital' advisers to Cabinet Office
- Intel reels in Cray's supercomputer interconnect biz
- Fabulous execution prompts Apple to rein back Q3 outlook
- Google ups bug bounty to $20,000 per flaw
| VMware confirms ESX source code had been stolen and published Posted: 25 Apr 2012 03:05 PM PDT Penetration from Hardcore CharlieVMware has confirmed that software posted online is part of the source code for its ESX hypervisor and has warned that more code could be released.… |
| Dr. Web disputes Flashback Mac Trojan bot army estimates Posted: 25 Apr 2012 11:43 AM PDT Much bigger than Symantec saysEfforts by Apple and anti-virus vendors to kill the vast botnet assembled by notorious Flashback Mac Trojan may be much less successful than previously thought.… |
| EU privacy body slams ACTA as 'unacceptable' Posted: 25 Apr 2012 11:39 AM PDT Law would threaten privacy AND dataThe European Data Protection Supervisor (EDPS) has issued its findings on the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) and the results aren't good.… |
| Unisys grows in Q1, swings to profit Posted: 25 Apr 2012 11:32 AM PDT Services fills hardware gapsMainframe and services seller Unisys saw some growth in the first quarter, with sales up 1.9 per cent to $928.4m thanks to a bump in services bookings and despite a slight downtick in hardware sales.… |
| Ted Nugent fined for failing to kill bear Posted: 25 Apr 2012 11:03 AM PDT Probably won't kill Obama either, Secret Service saysTed Nugent – the hunter, "conservative activist" and rock guitarist whose Marshall amps probably go up to 12 – has been fined for failing to finish off a black bear he wounded with a bow and arrow.… |
| Posted: 25 Apr 2012 10:58 AM PDT Not yet time for turnaround timeAcer's recovery at the end of last year was short lived as Q1 sales and profits moved south.… |
| Intel came a-knockin' for Cray super interconnects Posted: 25 Apr 2012 10:04 AM PDT 'Once a Crayon, always a Crayon'The news that supercomputer maker Cray was selling off its interconnect hardware business to chip giant Intel was a bit of a shocker yesterday, and the top brass at Cray got on the horn with Wall Street bright and early this morning to explain the deal a bit more.… |
| Symantec trims targets as subscriptions put off payday Posted: 25 Apr 2012 09:34 AM PDT Salem's lot not quite so bigSymantec's customers are cutting back on purchases and the company's revenues are going to be lower this quarter. Why is demand for its products lower?… |
| Microsoft takes on Spotify with sound of Woodstock Posted: 25 Apr 2012 09:16 AM PDT Zune successor on show at E3?Microsoft will unveil its Zune platform successor at E3 2012, a Spotify-like music service codenamed 'Woodstock', it has been claimed.… |
| LinkedIn edges closer to China with new Hong Kong gaff Posted: 25 Apr 2012 09:01 AM PDT Social network for suits has eyes on the holy grailBusiness social networking site LinkedIn took another step towards expansion in China this week with the opening of an office in neighbouring Hong Kong, its ninth in an Asia Pacific region which is home to more than 25 million of its members.… |
| SAP still not a force in cloud after sales cash drizzle Posted: 25 Apr 2012 08:33 AM PDT Q1 not quite the deluge of euros software biz hoped forGerman software maker SAP AG is facing an uphill battle to become a force in the cloud market after revealing subscription-based sales amounted to just €29m (£23.7m) in Q1.… |
| Major science fiction publisher to zap DRM Posted: 25 Apr 2012 08:08 AM PDT E-books unencumberedSpecialist Sci-Fi publisher Tom Doherty Associates, best known for its Tor, Forge and Starscape imprints, is calling time on DRM..… |
| HTC to produce exclusive Facebook smartphone, bitch Posted: 25 Apr 2012 08:07 AM PDT Wall flower?Talk of a Facebook phone resurfaced today amid familiar rumours that the Zuckerberg-owned firm has joined forces with phone-maker HTC to produce an Android handset heavily customised for social networkers.… |
| LG back in black after six-month cash bleed Posted: 25 Apr 2012 08:01 AM PDT Business picks up in tellies and mobesAfter two quarters of losses, LG Electronics has pulled itself out of the doldrums with a net profit of ₩243bn ($213m, £131m) in the first quarter of this year.… |
| Hanging's too good for 'em - so what do you suggest? Posted: 25 Apr 2012 07:39 AM PDT Reader alternatives to capital punishment invitedOur report last week that there's no evidence capital punishment has an effect on the murder rate in the US of A prompted a lively reader debate on the subject of execution.… |
| Sage Pay card stroker goes titsup for NINE hours Posted: 25 Apr 2012 07:14 AM PDT 1,000 email addresses leaked in outage apologySage Pay's card payment system choked up yesterday for nine hours in an intermittent outage that affected its 30,000 customers in the UK and Europe.… |
| Smartphones finally outsell featurephones ... in Japan Posted: 25 Apr 2012 07:03 AM PDT You took your time, ladsForget China – Japan proved that its domestic mobile market is one of the most mature on the planet with new stats showing smartphone sales passed feature phone sales for the first time ever in February.… |
| Google Drive stalls on LAUNCH DAY Posted: 25 Apr 2012 06:32 AM PDT Error: Disk not ready yetBlocks and Files For this Mac user, Google Drive is just spin. Despite the fact that Google has made the announcement, it seems that the cloudy storage service is still being rolled out.… |
| Ex-BP engineer cuffed 'for deleting Deepwater spill texts' Posted: 25 Apr 2012 06:02 AM PDT Allegedly destroyed evidence during oil disaster cleanupA former BP engineer has been arrested and accused of covering up how badly the Deepwater Horizon oil spill clean-up was going by deleting text messages.… |
| Iran cuts off oil plants hit by mystery data-destroying virus Posted: 25 Apr 2012 05:44 AM PDT Lockdown as officials drill into malware riddleMalware discovered at an Iranian oil terminal forced Iran to disconnect key oil facilities on Sunday.… |
| Crytek: Schemes to strike second-hand games biz 'awesome' Posted: 25 Apr 2012 05:28 AM PDT First person onlyCult games developer Crytek this week shouted its support for next-gen consoles that take means to prevent second-hand games being played, calling such a prospect "absolutely awesome".… |
| Jeremy Hunt clings on as SpAd quits over News Corp emails Posted: 25 Apr 2012 05:27 AM PDT Culture Sec's adviser 'went too far' in BSkyB bid affairUK Culture Secretary Jeremy Hunt came under intense pressure to quit today following James Murdoch's revelations at the Leveson Inquiry into press ethics.… |
| US doc finally fingers elusive G-spot Posted: 25 Apr 2012 05:17 AM PDT 83-year-old corpse flashes Earth-moving buttonA retired US doctor reckons he's finally nailed the elusive Gräfenberg Spot – the alleged nerve bundle in the vagina's front wall which can legendarily provoke a profound earth-moving experience.… |
| Can Windows 8 bag Microsoft another 20 years of success? Posted: 25 Apr 2012 05:01 AM PDT Argue the toss live online this FridayLive chat Microsoft opened the 1990s with two pieces of software that paved the way to its total domination of home and business PC computing: Windows 3.0 and 3.1.… |
| Wannabe-human bots face 2012 Turing Test in Turing's old office Posted: 25 Apr 2012 04:42 AM PDT Bletchley Park chosen to mark 100th anniversary of boffin's birthAn artificial intelligence software contest devised as an experiment by mathematician Alan Turing will be held this year in his old office at wartime code-breaking HQ Bletchley Park. The location was chosen to mark the centenary of his birth in 1912.… |
| Official: Britain staggers into double-dip recession doom Posted: 25 Apr 2012 04:28 AM PDT Programmers, telly producers lose brave battle to save Blighty's economyBritain has slipped back into recession, preliminary figures released by the Office of National Statistics showed this morning.… |
| Tim Cook rejects Apple's old business model of suing everyone Posted: 25 Apr 2012 04:16 AM PDT CEO just wants to settle and get back to rebranding Foxconn kitApple head honcho Tim Cook has indicated that he'd be willing to settle the wide-ranging, ongoing patent disputes raging over smartphones and fondleslabs - provided of course that his adversaries admit everything and pay up.… |
| Sony cloud-based sync'n'store service goes live Posted: 25 Apr 2012 04:04 AM PDT PlayMemories takes on Dropbox et alSony launched its cloud-storage service PlayMemories Online today, with registered Sony Entertainment Network users handed 5GB of space free.… |
| Panasonic DMP-BDT320 3D Blu-ray player Posted: 25 Apr 2012 04:00 AM PDT Disc spinner with a new twistReview Panasonic's DMP-BDT320 is both fabulous and frustrating. Leading the brand's mainstream Blu-ray brigade, and positioned as an understudy to the audiophile grade DMP-BDT500, it packs a towering performance into a chassis barely 27mm tall. It also comes with a new-style remote control that tries far too hard to be clever.… |
| Wannabe infosec kingpins: Forget tech, grab a clipboard Posted: 25 Apr 2012 03:37 AM PDT Ditch the debugger, bone up on biz risk managementBudding chief information security officers (CISOs) would be better off boning up on business, communication, and risk management skills than getting bogged down in detailed discussions about technology, according to a panel of senior security professionals.… |
| Internet's first 'Hall of Fame' REVEALED Posted: 25 Apr 2012 03:18 AM PDT Which net shlebs do you think made the red-carpet list?The Internet Society has announced its inaugural Internet Hall of Fame featuring web stars who've helped literally make the internet.… |
| Olympic champ ad blitz dents Virgin Media despite £1bn sales Posted: 25 Apr 2012 03:01 AM PDT Crosses finishing line with record revenue in Q1Virgin Media spent a whopping £52.6m on marketing costs in the telco's first quarter ended 31 March.… |
| FIVE-day ZoneEdit outage freezes thousands of sites Posted: 25 Apr 2012 02:41 AM PDT Mystery glitch knocks out DNS configHundreds of thousands of websites have been hit by an unexplained outage at DNS services provider ZoneEdit, with users seeing five full days of downtime.… |
| IT Department seeks clowns and jugglers Posted: 25 Apr 2012 02:30 AM PDT It's a circus out thereWorking in IT can sometimes feel like working in a circus. You're expected to juggle the priorities of the business, often based on who shouts loudest or who has the most clout. And you've got to walk the tightrope of budget management with your business, IT vendors and the inevitable consultants telling you to deliver more with less. In the case of the latter bunch – vendors and consultants – you're inevitably going to have to 'spend to save.' And you know how the FD loves that principle in recession years..… |
| Tablets are the future of the PC, says researcher Posted: 25 Apr 2012 02:24 AM PDT Fondleslabs to eat into laptop sales, boost desktopsAsk Frank Gillett, a researcher with market watcher Forrester, whether tablets are going to dominate how people interact with content and the internet - what most folk do with laptops and such - and the answer is a resounding 'yes'.… |
| Uni plagiarism site buckles under crush of last-minute essays Posted: 25 Apr 2012 02:22 AM PDT 'The internet ate my homework'Student-sniffing site Turnitin went down in the UK for 24 hours over Monday and yesterday, leaving last-minute essays piled up in the plagiarism spotter's inbox.… |
| SSH firm aims to untangle crypto key hairball Posted: 25 Apr 2012 02:01 AM PDT Fo' SHHizzleInfosec 2012 Secure Shell (SSH) certificate management – a key internet protocol used for remote access and file transfer for nearly 20 years now – can become quite a tangled issue if there isn't a clear management policy in place, and SSH Communications Security, one of the security exhibitors at Infosec, claims it has a solution.… |
| WIN an HTC One X with Reg Hardware Posted: 25 Apr 2012 02:00 AM PDT Eight of the beauties to give awayCompetition Reg Hardware has buddied up with HTC to offer you the chance to bag one of its flagship new phones, the HTC One X, a handset we called "a quad-core corker" in our review of the beast.… |
| Behold the new awesomeness: CHANNEL REGISTER RE-BORN! Posted: 25 Apr 2012 01:30 AM PDT Like some kind of phoenix-Vulture, it's ON FIRE and NEWChannel Register, an indispensable source of information for resellers, distributors and service providers, is set for a brand spanking relaunch on 30 April.… |
| Cloudy crypto SSO firm: Passwords must go Posted: 25 Apr 2012 01:02 AM PDT Ping Identity: Forget 'insecure and annoying' logins... and buy our kitInfosec 2012 Cloudy crypto firm Ping Identity is pushing the benefits of using cloud-based technologies to reduce, and perhaps even eliminate, password headaches.… |
| Speaking in Tech: Cisco haters, Kim Dotcom and virtual networking Posted: 25 Apr 2012 12:01 AM PDT Plus: Ed smacked down for technical fouls |
| Ten... eight-bit classic games Posted: 24 Apr 2012 11:00 PM PDT An Antique Code Show Special |
| Billionaire astro mining venture long on hype and timescale Posted: 24 Apr 2012 05:32 PM PDT First launch in 2014, mining in 2022The much-hyped launch of Planetary Resources has been held in the august surroundings of the Museum of Flight in Seattle; so now we've got some details how feasible are the plans?… |
| Nikon recalls camera batteries Posted: 24 Apr 2012 05:26 PM PDT EN-EL15 battery "overheats and deforms the camera body"Nikon has issued a recall for the EN-EL15 Lithium Ion battery, an accessory for its D800, D800E, and D7000 digital-SLR cameras, and the Nikon 1 V1 advanced camera.… |
| Super Micro grows despite Xeon E5 delay, disk shortages Posted: 24 Apr 2012 05:20 PM PDT The Romley server romp beginsMotherboard and system maker Super Micro has been anticipating the bump in revenues from Intel's "Sandy Bridge" family of Xeon E5 chips and their related "Romley" server designs for nearly a year, and finally the Romley romp has begun.… |
| Facebook wonk among 'digital' advisers to Cabinet Office Posted: 24 Apr 2012 05:01 PM PDT No room on board for Google or telcos, though...Facebook's head Brussels' policy wonk Richard Allan is among the names joining a digital advisory group created by the Cabinet Office.… |
| Intel reels in Cray's supercomputer interconnect biz Posted: 24 Apr 2012 03:41 PM PDT Trumping AMD's SeaMicro buy?Intel really is taking networking and system interconnects very seriously, and is buying the interconnect hardware business from massively parallel supercomputer maker Cray for $140m.… |
| Fabulous execution prompts Apple to rein back Q3 outlook Posted: 24 Apr 2012 03:16 PM PDT Jacks up enterprise, channel focusApple's third quarter figures will come in below Wall St forecasts the vendor revealed today, but that's just fine because it's just because it did so well in the second quarter.… |
| Google ups bug bounty to $20,000 per flaw Posted: 24 Apr 2012 03:15 PM PDT Researchers offered major paydayGoogle is increasing the amount it is willing to pay to security researchers for bugs, with the most serious flaws now priced at up to $20,000.… |
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