Baidu sets up shop in Australia

Baidu sets up shop in Australia


Baidu sets up shop in Australia

Posted: 03 May 2012 02:48 PM PDT

China's Google-slayer wants your searches

China's Google killer Baidu has set up shop in Australia as it moves on an aggressive international expansion drive.…

ElasticHosts makes cloudy servers newbie friendly

Posted: 03 May 2012 12:42 PM PDT

Partners with Cloudways, Hybrid Sites

ElasticHosting, the British hosting and cloudy infrastructure provider that is pitting its homegrown ElasticStack cloud fabric against the likes of VMware and the OpenStack and CloudStack projects, has tweaked its cloud offerings to make them suitable to relatively unsophisticated users.…

Oracle claims $777m in new trial over SAP infringement

Posted: 03 May 2012 12:41 PM PDT

TomorrowNow business balls-up haunts SAP

Oracle is going back to court with a claim of $776.7m against SAP over the software-stealing antics of subsidiary TomorrowNow.…

Samsung shows 'designed for humans' handset

Posted: 03 May 2012 12:07 PM PDT

Galaxy S III offers 'whole new experience like never before'

Samsung has unwrapped the Galaxy S III, a handset it boasted is "best smartphone in the world" thanks to its "nature-inspired" design, voice recognition and eye-tracking.…

'Giant vampire squid' seeks social media guru

Posted: 03 May 2012 10:33 AM PDT

Money talks, Goldman Sachs tweets

Goldman Sachs, the bank described as a "giant vampire squid wrapped around the face of humanity", is looking for a social media community manager. The role of the job, as the title suggests, will be to "foster a positive community".…

Bought a new Mac Pro? 1-in-100 chance it'll destroy your data

Posted: 03 May 2012 09:59 AM PDT

Dodgy drives spark Apple UK recall

Apple is recalling a batch of Mac Pro towers in the UK after a "small number" sold last month turned out to have defective hard disks, Channel Reg has learned. The dodgy drives put fanboys' data at risk, Apple said in its recall notice.…

Data warehouse sales soar in Q1 for Teradata

Posted: 03 May 2012 09:28 AM PDT

Marketeers of the world, crunch!

If you were wondering if all this yammering about big data is real, data warehousing pioneer Teradata has just turned in the best first quarter in its history and the best quarter for product growth that the company has ever had. So at least as far as Teradata is concerned, big data is big business.…

Apple to dominate tablet biz, PC market for years

Posted: 03 May 2012 09:15 AM PDT

Fondleslabs more popular than notebooks by 2016

Apple took a greater share of the tablet market during Q1 and, in a remarkable turnaround, will continue to do so through 2013, market watcher NPD DisplaySearch believes.…

Suppressed data on mutant H5N1 human-killer virus PUBLISHED

Posted: 03 May 2012 09:01 AM PDT

Information wants to be free

Strains of bird flu that could spread among humans have been created in the lab - and now full details on just how this was done have been published openly, raising fears that the research could be used by terrorists to craft a deadly bio-weapon plague.…

iPad swipes more of tablet market

Posted: 03 May 2012 08:46 AM PDT

Apple defies gravity as Kindle burns low

Apple extended its lead in the tablet market during the first three months of the year, as much because of a slump in sales of rival product as the arrival of the iPad 3.…

Globe-spanning patent bombs touted by Euro, UN pen-pushers

Posted: 03 May 2012 08:33 AM PDT

EPO, WIPO agree to revamp worldwide rights treaty

The European and UN patent-handling bodies have agreed to join forces to encourage companies and inventors to file their designs under an improved worldwide Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT).…

Google counters juice V8 Javascript engine

Posted: 03 May 2012 07:59 AM PDT

Beta channels primed

Google's V8 engine is getting more picky about the Javascript code it optimises to boost the performance of the search giant's browser.…

Microsoft kills Windows Live brand

Posted: 03 May 2012 07:28 AM PDT

Windows 8 incriminated

Microsoft is killing its Windows Live brand ahead of launching Windows 8, citing "customer confusion".…

Glider pilot 'swallowed camera memory' say plunge tragedy cops

Posted: 03 May 2012 07:02 AM PDT

Attempt to purge the record will backfire, say plods

A hang-gliding pilot who allegedly ate a memory card from a video camera has been charged with obstructing the course of justice by a Canadian court and has been held in custody until it re-emerges.…

Man sues pr0n starlet after Twitter rejection

Posted: 03 May 2012 06:54 AM PDT

Follow me or face the judge

When you follow someone on Twitter, only for them to not return the favour, are you left with a feeling of rejection? Does it rile you up into a vengeful fit of rage?…

Botnet army flicks 'off' switch at UK crime agency website

Posted: 03 May 2012 06:26 AM PDT

Suspiciously close to Soca's shutdown of stolen-data shops

The UK's Serious Organised Crime Agency's website has been taken offline following a DDoS attack that started last night and is still going on.…

Crazy old black hole's X-ray ultra-belch makes galaxy blush

Posted: 03 May 2012 06:02 AM PDT

Space telescope sniffs outburst more powerful than MILLION Suns

A powerful blast of X-rays - equivalent to the energy emitted by a MILLION Suns - has been fired out of a black hole in the spiral galaxy M83, lighting up the space around it.…

UK's new drivers now in safe hands... of laser-wielding robots

Posted: 03 May 2012 05:38 AM PDT

Credit-card chip biz promises 80m non-forgeable licences

Secure token biz Gemalto has landed the contract to print the next 80 million identity documents for the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency (DVLA), including next-gen driving licences to be deployed next year.…

Virgin Media cuts Pirate Bay access for millions of punters

Posted: 03 May 2012 05:19 AM PDT

First major telco to implement court order

Virgin Media has become the first major telco in Blighty to implement a court order blocking access to notorious BitTorrent search website The Pirate Bay.…

<cite>Star Trek</cite>'s Wesley Crusher blasts Google+ landgrab

Posted: 03 May 2012 05:01 AM PDT

Wil Wheaton asks blogosphere to Stand By Him on Choc Factory outrage

A former Star Trek: The Next Generation actor, who is plastered all over the internet, has blasted Google for trying to force people into signing up to its social network.…

Microsoft mulls phone-style contracts for Xbox

Posted: 03 May 2012 04:51 AM PDT

Subsidised console coming?

Microsoft has plans for a subscription package that'll offer customers an Xbox 360 console and Kinect add-on, as well as access to the Xbox Live Gold service and media content, for a monthly fee.…

London Olympics 'not immune' to cyber attack

Posted: 03 May 2012 04:46 AM PDT

Blighty puts together crack team to guard against intrusion

Cabinet Office minister Francis Maude has warned that the London Olympics will not be immune to cyber attack.…

Symantec: Big as ever... just not growing

Posted: 03 May 2012 04:31 AM PDT

Tripled profits but flat revs in Q4 disappoint shareholders

Symantec earned a staggering amount of money in its latest quarter but is stuck fast at a $1.6 to $1.7bn quarterly revenue level, seemingly unable to grow.…

O2 drops Joggler family tablet

Posted: 03 May 2012 04:29 AM PDT

No more support for Linux gadget

O2 is severing support for its 7in Linux-based tablet, the Joggler, at the end of the month.…

GCHQ's spy death riddle shines light on UK hacker war

Posted: 03 May 2012 04:14 AM PDT

Was Gareth Williams spotted at Blackhat or Defcon?

British intelligence agent Dr Gareth Williams' last mission before he was "unlawfully killed" was to infiltrate and report on US hacker meetings, evidence given at his inquest this week has indicated.…

ARM creators Sophie Wilson and Steve Furber

Posted: 03 May 2012 04:00 AM PDT

Part Two: the accidental chip

Unsung Heroes of Tech  The Story so Far At Acorn, Sophie Wilson and Steve Furber have designed the BBC Micro, basing the machine on the ageing MOS 6502 processor. Their next challenge: to choose the CPU for the popular micro's successor. Now read on...

Oracle: HP settlement is 'not going to happen'

Posted: 03 May 2012 03:42 AM PDT

Lawsuit over Itanium processor to hit trial on 29 May

An Oracle attorney has said that the company won't be settling with HP in the lawsuit over the Itanium processor, after the judge denied both their motions to summarily hand over the win to them.…

Nokia: 'hybrid' mobiles will save us

Posted: 03 May 2012 03:38 AM PDT

Finnish first

Nokia is working on "hybrid" mobile devices and harbours the hope that future tablets, fresh form-factors and cross-breed tech will turn around the Finnish phone giant's handset business.…

Scotland Yard officers cuff ex-cop in latest police bung probe

Posted: 03 May 2012 03:32 AM PDT

27th arrest in Op Elveden inquiry – courtesy of tip-off from News Corp

A retired special ops detective has been arrested by officers investigating allegations of illegal payments to police in relation to an ongoing inquiry into the phone-hacking scandal that has swamped Rupert Murdoch's British newspaper business.…

Everything Everywhere flexes 4G muscles at Ofcom, rivals

Posted: 03 May 2012 03:22 AM PDT

Telco gives high-speed mobe bandwagon a shove

Everything Everywhere switched on another 4G trial network yesterday, proving that it has the radio spectrum and the political support to deploy the high-speed mobile broadband standard in Blighty - if only the pesky regulator would let it.…

Beyond the macro jockies: Salesforce lures devs with Java juggle

Posted: 03 May 2012 03:02 AM PDT

Serious enough in an Amazon world?

Salesforce is growing: just not enough or in the right direction, it seems. The company that started life serving up customer relationship management (CRM) as a service to the suits is now reaching out to real coders.…

Praise for slick six's entries in dirty snaps compo

Posted: 03 May 2012 02:34 AM PDT

Old computer buffs get the glory

On 14 April we had old computer buffs salivating over our dirty snaps puzzle, and now we can celebrate the top six Reg readers who sent in their answers to the puzzle.…

Hampshire council throws BYOD party, hires extra security

Posted: 03 May 2012 02:11 AM PDT

Just in case a mobe gets lost - with your info on it

Hampshire county council is to begin rolling out a bring your own device (BYOD) scheme later this year.…

NHS trust goes 100% over IT budget in patient records rollout cockup

Posted: 03 May 2012 01:38 AM PDT

A £1m here, a £1m there ... it adds up after a while

North Bristol NHS trust has confirmed it has overspent on its IT budget by almost 100 per cent in recent months as a consequence of the rollout of its Cerner electronic patient record (EPR) system.…

Telly is becoming moving wallpaper for constantly online Brits

Posted: 03 May 2012 01:20 AM PDT

Plus: UK is nation of liars - only 14% admit viewing porn

Wiggin's gigantic annual media survey is out and, as ever, the results are full of intriguing figures covering everything from fondleslabs to filth.…

Britain prepares for government by iPad

Posted: 03 May 2012 01:02 AM PDT

Fondleslab rule as MPs offered free fruitware

MPs may have had their heavy parliamentary drinking habits curtailed, but the 650 politicos occupying the Palace of Westminster might be cheered by the fact that they will soon be issued with their very own fondleslab.…

BSkyB boss: 'I don't work for Rupert Murdoch, remember'

Posted: 03 May 2012 12:38 AM PDT

He's just some guy

The boss of BSkyB isn't Rupert Murdoch despite what many might think. Today the UK broadcaster and telco reminded the world of that fact as it attempted to distance itself from the 81-year-old media mogul, who has been labelled by MPs as being "not fit" to run a multinational outfit.…

HP: Our 3PAR kit can cram twice as many VMs into your server

Posted: 03 May 2012 12:20 AM PDT

Offers 'virtual guarantee' to back punchy boast

HP is so confident its 3PAR storage arrays will double a server's virtual machine count it's guaranteeing it - and will pay for any extra 3PAR storage needed beyond what it replaces to get to the 2x VM count number.…

RIM wakes up woozy in Australia

Posted: 02 May 2012 11:44 PM PDT

Apple store stunt snares blogger, criticism

Research In Motion's attempts to remind Australians that its phones can be quite useful for business have rebounded on the embattled company.…

Wayward footballer turns to iPod cure

Posted: 02 May 2012 11:30 PM PDT

The crowd roars

Australian Rules footballer Sam Reid of the Sydney Swans may turn to technology in an attempt to repair his wayward kicking.…

SnapGuide

Posted: 02 May 2012 11:00 PM PDT

RTFM? WTFM!

iOS App of the Week  There are zillions of 'how to' apps that provide expert – or not-so-expert – advice on pretty much any topic you care to name. However, SnapGuide is a free app that puts you in the driving seat and allows you to share your know-how and wisdom with the rest of the world.…

European Space Agency heads for Jupiter's moons

Posted: 02 May 2012 10:51 PM PDT

JUICE mission will inspect Europa, Callisto and Ganymede

The European Space Agency has decided against pursuing the New Gravitational wave Observatory (NGO) the Advanced Telescope for High-Energy Astrophysics (ATHENA) and will instead head for Jupiter with a craft dubbed the Jupiter Icy moons Explorer - or JUICE for short.…

Google unleashes BigQuery analytics tool

Posted: 02 May 2012 10:28 PM PDT

Big Data reaches the cloud

Do you have a few hundred million rows of data that need sorting?…

Why embossed credit cards are here to stay

Posted: 02 May 2012 09:51 PM PDT

Mobile blackspots, global compatibility, keep bumpy numbers alive

Embossed numbers on credit cards are here to stay, and probably for a very long time, say the big three credit card issuers.…

Facebook's new Open Compute V2 servers

Posted: 02 May 2012 07:02 PM PDT

AMD and Intel do boards for high freaky trading

Now that Intel and AMD have finally launched their respective Xeon E5-5600 and Opteron 6200 processors for two-socket servers, the Open Compute Project, a foundation created by Facebook to open source its data center technologies, can finally divulge the feeds and speeds of the Open Compute V2 machines.…

Pilots asking not to fly F-22 after oxygen problems

Posted: 02 May 2012 06:24 PM PDT

Take my breath away

Some of the US Air Force's top pilots are asking not to fly the highest-tech aircraft in the fleet over fears about the safety of the oxygen system built into the F-22 Raptor.…

Software functionality not subject to copyright: EU court

Posted: 02 May 2012 06:08 PM PDT

WPL-vs-SAS case gets Court of Justice opinion

In a far-reaching decision for the software industry, the European Court of Justice has decided that the functionality of software – as distinct from the actual code – is not covered by copyright.…

EA unplugs Rock Band for iOS

Posted: 02 May 2012 05:19 PM PDT

The day the music dies is May 31

The iOS version of Rock Band will go out of tune forever on May 31.…

Black hole swallows star in GALACTIC SUPER-GUZZLE!

Posted: 02 May 2012 05:04 PM PDT

Astroid-gazing telescope catches distant star flare-out

With billions of galaxies to choose from, it shouldn't be hard to catch, but it is. Astronomers are celebrating after capturing the whole sequence of a star falling into a supermassive black hole.…

Amazon Cloud Drive updates for Windows and Apple desktop

Posted: 02 May 2012 04:47 PM PDT

Playing catch-up in competitive cloud market

After a wave of cloud storage announcements, Amazon has updated its Cloud Drive system with a desktop access application for Windows and Apple systems.…

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