HP opens up public cloud to public beta |
- HP opens up public cloud to public beta
- Intel CEO predicts DOOM for fab industry and competitors
- New SGI CEO builds firewall around unprofitable sales
- IBM taps new execs to run Power Systems, mainframes
- Apple OS X update puts elderly Flash out of its misery
- Carriers, prepare to bleed: EU pops a cap on data roaming
- British 4G mobile data rollout 'will mean NO TELLY for 2m homes'
- Pirate stomping by Google et Cie won't work, says expert
- Cameron's F-35 U-turn: BAE Systems still calls the shots at No 10
- Enormous British PC mountain finally shovelled out onto markets
- Root canal surgery officially more desirable than cloud migration
- Ten... crowd-funded games from veteran devs
- 'Fake Carla Bruni' Twitter account spreads Thatcher death rumour
- EMC chugs down flash freshman XtremIO for $430m
- Did dicky power supply silence climate-change probe Envisat?
- Sony blames record $5.7bn loss on everything but Sony
- Mozilla and Google blast IE-only Windows on ARM
- Quantum shrinks, hopes to swell up after Big Data booster shot
- Wi-Fi warping wallpaper hardens homes to hackers
- China admits plot to conquer the world ... with its own 4G
- OLED to take 0.02% of TV sales through 2014
- Supersize shifting sand dunes stalk surface of Mars
- Microsoft SkyDrive
- €165bn in e-commerce every year - and not a plastic card in sight
- Facebook launches App <strike>Store</strike> Center
- Keep out of the Olympics' way, earn a haircut from TfL app
- Boffins crack on with ultimate roboass
- Norwegian teens arrested over SOCA DDoS attack
- VMware whips out whopping rebate in pursuit of virty virgins
- Microsoft digs Doppler to effect gesture detection
- Horde of customers storms Dixons – too late to save 2012 sales
- Samsung says 55in OLED über TV 'ready'
- At last! A use for Blighty's phone-boxes: Free Wi-Fi hotspots
- BT's cost-slashing plumps up earnings but full-year sales drop 4%
- Orange launches TV app to snag wandering eyes
- LOHAN Playmonaut jets off to Blighty
- HMRC's real-time PAYE pilot trousers 310 more employers
- Nimbus boots EVA out of Mitsubishi
- Best and the Rest: ARM Mini PCs
- Ape Apps help Orangutans talk to people
- Asian mobile web traffic TRIPLED in past two years
- Optus to appeal TV Now decision
- NSW unveils “foundations” for integrated ticketing
- Anonymous takes the Kremlin offline in Putin protest
- Amazon Web Services gets into the events business
- Telstra brings configurable QoS to IP networks
- VW STUNS WORLD+DOG WITH REAL HOVER-CAR!
- Kiwi ISP offers geo-block workaround
- Navman outsources satnav hardware to US vendor
- Researchers propose solution to ‘bufferbloat’
| HP opens up public cloud to public beta Posted: 10 May 2012 03:13 PM PDT Partners line up to peddle waresAs El Reg told you it would a month ago, Hewlett-Packard today has opened up its HP Cloud Services public cloud – aka HP Cloud because by definition a cloud is a service, right? – for a full-on beta onslaught from John Q Public.… |
| Intel CEO predicts DOOM for fab industry and competitors Posted: 10 May 2012 11:03 AM PDT We'll be top dog for years, Otellini tells investorsThe semiconductor industry is at a major inflection point Intel's CEO Paul Otellini predicted today at the company's analyst day, with the increasing cost of manufacturing causing a shake-out among the biggest chip players that, he said, would only leave two or three companies at the leading edge of chip design.… |
| New SGI CEO builds firewall around unprofitable sales Posted: 10 May 2012 10:51 AM PDT Inks $27.8m, 1.5 petaflops DoD deal with Uncle SamSGI tapped a new CEO, Jorge Titinger, back at the end of February to get the company back on an even keel, and in the wake of SGI's reporting its financial results for its third quarter of fiscal 2012, Titinger conceded that he has his work cut out for him because SGI, like many other server makers from time to time, has been focusing a little too much on revenue growth and not enough on the bottom line.… |
| IBM taps new execs to run Power Systems, mainframes Posted: 10 May 2012 10:01 AM PDT Potential future CEO moves on up the corporate ladderThe executive who has been running IBM's combined Power Systems and System z mainframe units has taken a new high-level position working out Big Blue's overall strategy for the future for new CEO Ginni Rometty, and the company has appointed new leaders for its Power and mainframe units in the wake of that appointment.… |
| Apple OS X update puts elderly Flash out of its misery Posted: 10 May 2012 09:27 AM PDT Security fixes include new Safari that executes old pluginsApple has pushed out a slew of security updates for Macs running Snow Leopard (OS X 10.6) and Lion (OS X 10.7).… |
| Carriers, prepare to bleed: EU pops a cap on data roaming Posted: 10 May 2012 09:01 AM PDT 56 pence a megabyte from JulyThe EU has renewed its caps on mobile roaming, this time including a cap on data roaming and a promise to let travellers choose their roaming carrier by 2014, all coming in from 1 July.… |
| British 4G mobile data rollout 'will mean NO TELLY for 2m homes' Posted: 10 May 2012 08:28 AM PDT Have YOU got a Freeview booster?A pressure group campaigning for high-quality broadcasting has warned that 4G phone networks could knock out TV in one in ten UK homes - and by the time anyone notices it will be too late to fix.… |
| Pirate stomping by Google et Cie won't work, says expert Posted: 10 May 2012 08:01 AM PDT Search guys not making it easy for rights holders? No!Plans developed by search engines that would define how rights-holders engage with them over the removal of links to copyright infringing content seek to introduce new thresholds over notice and takedown standards that EU law does not require, an expert has said.… |
| Cameron's F-35 U-turn: BAE Systems still calls the shots at No 10 Posted: 10 May 2012 07:40 AM PDT Threat of cheap, powerful kit for UK forces warded offComment So there it is: done. As this is written, Defence minister Phillip Hammond is on his feet in the House of Commons, trying to justify the fact that he and his boss, David Cameron, have decided that the Royal Navy's new aircraft carrier (maybe carriers) will not now have any catapults or arrester gear in order to save money. This means that the only aeroplanes able to fly from British decks will be the F-35B supersonic stealth jumpjets.… |
| Enormous British PC mountain finally shovelled out onto markets Posted: 10 May 2012 07:26 AM PDT Stinky old kit no longer cramming distie warehousesUK PC sales into the channel grew slightly in Q1, indicating that distributors have finally shifted the ageing inventory lingering from early 2011.… |
| Root canal surgery officially more desirable than cloud migration Posted: 10 May 2012 07:01 AM PDT Unicorn spotting more likely than app transfer in pollSome IT decision makers would prefer to undergo root canal surgery than deal with migrating their business to a private or public cloud.… |
| Ten... crowd-funded games from veteran devs Posted: 10 May 2012 06:48 AM PDT Kickstart my career revamp?Project round-up The world is awash innovative ideas and clever product blueprints, although the folk who come up with them are often too penniless to take things further. Which is why fundraising site Kickstarter has been such a success of late.… |
| 'Fake Carla Bruni' Twitter account spreads Thatcher death rumour Posted: 10 May 2012 06:29 AM PDT Newswire covered in shame after hasty retweetA fake celebrity Twitter account posing as that of outgoing French first lady Carla Bruni has been used to spread false rumours that former British prime minister Margaret Thatcher had died.… |
| EMC chugs down flash freshman XtremIO for $430m Posted: 10 May 2012 06:02 AM PDT We're taking you to Vegas, baby....Israeli business newspaper Globes is reporting EMC has bought Israeli-headquarted NAND array startup XtremIO for $430m, giving EMC boss Joe Tucci a nice flashy toy to brandish at EMC World in Las Vegas later this month.… |
| Did dicky power supply silence climate-change probe Envisat? Posted: 10 May 2012 05:38 AM PDT Or had the silent craft seen enough of our planet?Pic The European Space Agency has all but given up hope of contacting its long-lived Envisat mission, a month after the satellite went silent.… |
| Sony blames record $5.7bn loss on everything but Sony Posted: 10 May 2012 05:19 AM PDT Quake, floods, strong yen, Moon's alignment with JupiterDisasters both natural and manmade have led to tech megacorp Sony reporting a record loss for the fiscal year ending in March.… |
| Mozilla and Google blast IE-only Windows on ARM Posted: 10 May 2012 04:59 AM PDT Microsoft throws browsers back to 'Dark Ages'Mozilla and Google are crying foul over Microsoft restrictions blocking rivals from Windows 8 on ARM, due later this year.… |
| Quantum shrinks, hopes to swell up after Big Data booster shot Posted: 10 May 2012 04:46 AM PDT New object technology supplierStorage software and hardware provider Quantum Corp is shrinking – not a lot, but it's visible – yet it wants to grow so very much. It has decided to ship Amplidata object storage technology for big data as its latest growth strategy. Will it succeed?… |
| Wi-Fi warping wallpaper hardens homes to hackers Posted: 10 May 2012 04:38 AM PDT No protection from Thargoid brain-probe beams, mindTinfoil hat wearer? Here's what to slap on your walls: wallpaper that keeps Wi-Fi signals boxed in - and, maybe, alien brain-probe waves out.… |
| China admits plot to conquer the world ... with its own 4G Posted: 10 May 2012 04:33 AM PDT People's Republic ordered to invade mobilesThe Chinese government has demanded more trials of its homegrown 4G mobile broadband standard TD-LTE in hope of eventually rolling it out across the globe, according to China Daily.… |
| OLED to take 0.02% of TV sales through 2014 Posted: 10 May 2012 04:17 AM PDT Liquid Crystal DominationSamsung may be keen to tout OLED as the future of television tech, but it'll be a good few years yet before sales of organic LED screens come to match plasma and even CRT, let alone LCD.… |
| Supersize shifting sand dunes stalk surface of Mars Posted: 10 May 2012 04:13 AM PDT New photos are key clue to cracking Red Planet's pastPic NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter has found the wind blows much more fiercely across the surface of the Red Planet than previously thought - reshaping sand dunes at around the same rate as those on Earth.… |
| Posted: 10 May 2012 04:00 AM PDT Sync'n'store moreiOS App of the Week I looked at SkyDrive back in early 2011 and was impressed by the 25GB of free cloud storage that it offered. Unfortunately, it also suffered from the Microsoft's traditional 'designed by committee' syndrome, and lacked the simplicity of rivals such as Dropbox and, more recently, Apple's iCloud.… |
| €165bn in e-commerce every year - and not a plastic card in sight Posted: 10 May 2012 03:43 AM PDT Gambling and smut pop the virtual money floodgatesAlternatives to traditional credit and debit cards are now processing €165bn ($214bn, £133bn) annually – 22 per cent of global e-commerce – and that's just the start as the next generation of consumers grows up without seeing a plastic card.… |
| Facebook launches App <strike>Store</strike> Center Posted: 10 May 2012 03:28 AM PDT It's just a gallery of mobile applications ... for nowFacebook is launching an App Center to recommend mobile applications based on demographic preferences as well as user ratings, just as long as they're tied into users' Facebook credentials – with a view to monetising the process eventually, of course.… |
| Keep out of the Olympics' way, earn a haircut from TfL app Posted: 10 May 2012 03:16 AM PDT Coupons to make Londoners ditch the train for trainersIn the race to get London's road and tube network ready for the Olympics, Transport for London has endorsed a new app called re:route: a map app with reward vouchers.… |
| Boffins crack on with ultimate roboass Posted: 10 May 2012 03:13 AM PDT CheekyJapanese scientists have cracked one of robotics' untouched areas: they have unveiled a mechanical bum that not only look realistic - apparently - but tense, twitch and respond to touch in the same way a real rear would.… |
| Norwegian teens arrested over SOCA DDoS attack Posted: 10 May 2012 03:01 AM PDT Also accused of pwning online newspaper, financial services groupNorwegian police have charged two teenagers suspected of taking part in denial of service attacks against the UK's Serious Organised Crime Agency and other targets.… |
| VMware whips out whopping rebate in pursuit of virty virgins Posted: 10 May 2012 02:43 AM PDT Resellers told to penetrate small bizVMware has ratcheted up rebates for certified resellers who sign up virtualisation virgins - prospective clients that most likely reside in the SME market.… |
| Microsoft digs Doppler to effect gesture detection Posted: 10 May 2012 02:24 AM PDT Sound thinkingMicrosoft Research took motion detection to new levels this week when it unveiled a new gesture recognition system for laptops.… |
| Horde of customers storms Dixons – too late to save 2012 sales Posted: 10 May 2012 02:18 AM PDT 5% Q4 surge after months-long struggle to shift productA late flurry of consumer spending in the UK boosted Dixons Retail's Q4 sales but came too late to prevent a full-year fiscal 2012 decline, the firm revealed in a trading statement.… |
| Samsung says 55in OLED über TV 'ready' Posted: 10 May 2012 02:16 AM PDT Factories on stand-byIt pays to read the small print, folks. Samsung once again showed off its 55in OLED TV today, but if you think it has gone into mass-production, you'd be wrong - it's merely "ready for mass-production", the South Korean giant admitted.… |
| At last! A use for Blighty's phone-boxes: Free Wi-Fi hotspots Posted: 10 May 2012 02:00 AM PDT Street-clutter clutters streets with puntersSpectrum Interactive is opening up its phone-box-based hotspots around London, offering free access to anyone prepared to share their contact details and download a coupon or two.… |
| BT's cost-slashing plumps up earnings but full-year sales drop 4% Posted: 10 May 2012 01:51 AM PDT Carrying rivals' traffic hits revenue due to regulatory price cutsBT's Openreach division was the only wing of the company's business to up its sales figures compared with the same period a year earlier, but all other areas of the national telco's biz saw revenue decline for the year ended 31 March 2012.… |
| Orange launches TV app to snag wandering eyes Posted: 10 May 2012 01:32 AM PDT Don't watch that, watch thisOrange has launched a TV-enhancing iPhone app that is synchronised to 25 Freeview channels. The operator hopes it will keep the fiddling-generation focused on big screen content while catching their straying eyeballs where necessary.… |
| LOHAN Playmonaut jets off to Blighty Posted: 10 May 2012 01:00 AM PDT Joins Southampton Uni Vulture 2 teamOur heroic Low Orbit Helium Assisted Navigator (LOHAN) Playmonaut has just jetted off to Blighty to join the Southampton University postgrads who are tackling the design of the Vulture 2 spaceplane.… |
| HMRC's real-time PAYE pilot trousers 310 more employers Posted: 10 May 2012 12:29 AM PDT Taxman still ironing out bugsA further 310 employers have joined HMRC's pilot of Real Time Information (RTI) for PAYE (Pay As You Earn).… |
| Nimbus boots EVA out of Mitsubishi Posted: 10 May 2012 12:02 AM PDT SAP flies on flashMitsubishi Power Systems' Americas (MPSA) says its SAP applications positively fly using flash arrays from an industry newbie – after being hamstrung on HP storage.… |
| Best and the Rest: ARM Mini PCs Posted: 09 May 2012 11:00 PM PDT New shoots from an old acorn |
| Ape Apps help Orangutans talk to people Posted: 09 May 2012 09:57 PM PDT Fondleslabs fold under simian swipesOrangutans at Miami Zoo are using iPads to communicate with humans.… |
| Asian mobile web traffic TRIPLED in past two years Posted: 09 May 2012 09:19 PM PDT Region leads the world into a mobile futureThe percentage of users accessing the web from their mobile device has almost tripled in Asia since 2010 and in some countries mobile web traffic now accounts for nearly half of all browsing, according to new research from site monitoring firm Pingdom.… |
| Optus to appeal TV Now decision Posted: 09 May 2012 08:54 PM PDT Give us cloud PVRs or give us freedom … from innovation and choice, pleads telcoOptus has decided to take the fight over its personal video recorder as a service to the High Court, after lower courts recently decreed the service breaches copyright.… |
| NSW unveils “foundations” for integrated ticketing Posted: 09 May 2012 08:23 PM PDT New displays on train ticket gates will become part of "Opal" systemTransport for NSW has installed new displays on ticket barriers at several Sydney railway stations, and says the new units "will set the right foundations for the introduction of Opal electronic ticketing."… |
| Anonymous takes the Kremlin offline in Putin protest Posted: 09 May 2012 07:58 PM PDT Hacktivist group reacts as former president sweeps back to powerHacktivist group Anonymous has been up to its old tricks again, this time briefly taking out the web site of the Russian president as a show of support for the growing opposition to newly re-crowned leader Vladimr Putin.… |
| Amazon Web Services gets into the events business Posted: 09 May 2012 07:10 PM PDT We're going to Vegas, baby!Amazon Web Services seems to have reached the point at which it has so many customers it can go down the well-worn road of |
| Telstra brings configurable QoS to IP networks Posted: 09 May 2012 06:53 PM PDT Automated, elastic, policy-driven network controls coming real soon now™Telstra has added user-configurable quality of service to its NextIP network and has even reached out to its Trademark lawyers to give it a flashy name: Application Assured Networking™.… |
| VW STUNS WORLD+DOG WITH REAL HOVER-CAR! Posted: 09 May 2012 06:19 PM PDT Or: viral vid success, critical thinking failIt would be nice if it were true, but El Reg has difficulty believing that this video of a VW concept hover-car in China is genuine:… |
| Kiwi ISP offers geo-block workaround Posted: 09 May 2012 05:28 PM PDT No more "second-grade-third-world-digital-boat-people people"A newly-launched New Zealand ISP, FYX, promises to try and avoid geo-blocking regimes that restrict access to certain content to residents of a select group of nations.… |
| Navman outsources satnav hardware to US vendor Posted: 09 May 2012 04:30 PM PDT CalAmp sets up R&D shop in NZUS based wireless gear provider CalAmp will establish an R&D center in Auckland, New Zealand, following a US$25 million supply deal with Navman Wireless.… |
| Researchers propose solution to ‘bufferbloat’ Posted: 09 May 2012 04:15 PM PDT New fix for age-old problemYour network is fast, but your download isn't: it might not be your provider or the server, because in the middle there are too many buffers in the way. The problem is ancient, even though the term that labels it ("bufferbloat") was only coined in 2010.… |
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