MSN China shoots for e-retail push to grow business |
- MSN China shoots for e-retail push to grow business
- Armenia jails Bredolab botmaster for 4 years
- HP started then spiked HP-UX on x86 project
- Red Hat could cash in with open-source cloud juggling act
- VMware sees Mirage, buys up company
- Speaking in Tech: Leo Apotheker vs Meg Whitman
- Seagate poised to swallow LaCie, haul fattened bod into channel
- CompSci eggheads to map Android malware genome
- The most dangerous job in America: Keeping iPhones connected
- Red Hat lures in JRuby power pair
- Oracle gobbles upstart Facebook, Instagram biz tout
- SAP hopes to embiggen its cloud with Ariba slurp
- 'We've done nothing wrong' - Schmidt on Euro antitrust probe
- Shoreditch a hub of 'exciting innovation', says science minister
- Wireless remote control inventor zaps out at 96
- Open Data Institute pours golden £10m shower on upstarts
- Nvidia Kai to enable cut-price Android tablets for all
- MPs wrestle slippery bureaucrats in intellectual property Jell-O
- Boffins cram binary data into living cells' DNA
- Facebook IPO plunge sparks tidal wave of lawsuits
- MASSIVE Chinese web cannons blast 123-reg offline
- Volvo claims V40 is first car with an airbag for pedestrians
- Apple design chief Jony Ive knighted - but not by the Queen
- Sky Movies monopoly probe scrapped as rivals turn up
- Jailed Facebook hack Brit targeted Justin Bieber's girlfriend
- Everything Everywhere activates top-secret erections
- Google warns against ISPs hard on web filth
- Return to Castle Wolfenstein
- Lenovo's on fire - and this time in a good way
- Serco close to flogging UK defence nuke tech biz
- Why on Earth is Microsoft moving to Euro pricing now?
- UK.gov energy policy: You can't please all the people much of the time
- Apple tops tablet, mobile computer markets in Q1
- Greedy LOHAN draining away mankind's vital fluid ... allegedly
- Wyse ties with Rise in cloudy client clinch
- TfL delays wave-and-pay tickets until 2013
- Alcatel-Lucent tinkers with Telstra's enterprise network
- Chuck Exchange mailboxes into the cloud... sysadmin style
- Dole Office staff snooped into private data 992 times in 10 months
- EMC's hunt for Joe Tucci replacement continues
- Ten... Mi-Fi HSPA 3G wireless mini-routers
- 2011 sets new record for counterfeit electronics
- Huawei enterprise to be 100% channel 'in 3-5 years
- Indian SMBs facing advanced attack threats
- Facebook underwriters accused of hiding forecast
- Canary Islands host long-distance quantum teleportation
- Windows XP update fails in infinite .NET patch loop
- NSW gov backs mobile apps
- Apple, RIM didn’t infringe Kodak patents
- Boffins track birds ... from Spaaaaaaaace
| MSN China shoots for e-retail push to grow business Posted: 23 May 2012 01:00 PM PDT Bing and Windows Phone Marketplace tie-up on the cardsMicrosoft is reportedly set to expand its MSN China business, with a push into the e-commerce space and increased integration with Windows Phone, whilst looking to grow the presence of its Bing search engine in the People's Republic.… |
| Armenia jails Bredolab botmaster for 4 years Posted: 23 May 2012 12:03 PM PDT First computer crime conviction in the former Soviet republicA cybercrook who established a 30 million computer strong botnet has been jailed for four years in Armenia.… |
| HP started then spiked HP-UX on x86 project Posted: 23 May 2012 11:01 AM PDT Juicy Itanium trial document firehose openedAs part of the ongoing lawsuit about whether or not Oracle had committed itself to supporting its software on Hewlett-Packard's Itanium-based servers, the software giant did a core dump of very interesting documents that show what many of us suspected: that HP did indeed mull acquiring the Sparc/Solaris business and that HP did in fact have a skunkworks that was porting the HP-UX variant of Unix to the x86 processor from Itanium.… |
| Red Hat could cash in with open-source cloud juggling act Posted: 23 May 2012 10:29 AM PDT From Linux to big-data shifterOpen ... and Shut The good open source lord giveth, and it taketh away, and no one knows this better than Red Hat.… |
| VMware sees Mirage, buys up company Posted: 23 May 2012 10:21 AM PDT Virty giant eats Wanova for VDI flavouringVirtualization juggernaut VMware gobbled up four year old VDI vendor Wanova today, giving the virtualization juggernaut another weapon to fire at Citrix.… |
| Speaking in Tech: Leo Apotheker vs Meg Whitman Posted: 23 May 2012 10:04 AM PDT Money man Chris lynch talks to Greg and the gang about who did it better |
| Seagate poised to swallow LaCie, haul fattened bod into channel Posted: 23 May 2012 09:23 AM PDT Cali firm dives into deeper international watersSpinning disk supremo Seagate has nailed down an agreement from Paris-based external drive products manufacturer LaCie to snap it up, and LaCie is up for it – though the trade union and regulatory stuff is still being worked out.… |
| CompSci eggheads to map Android malware genome Posted: 23 May 2012 09:18 AM PDT Aim for taxonomy of droid illsMobile security researchers are teaming up to share samples and data on malware targeting the Android platform.… |
| The most dangerous job in America: Keeping iPhones connected Posted: 23 May 2012 09:01 AM PDT AT&T blamed for deaths of cell-tower climbersAn investigation into the deaths of workers putting up cell towers has shown how US network operators distance themselves from those taking the risks, with AT&T's dash to provide iPhone connectivity allegedly killing more than most.… |
| Red Hat lures in JRuby power pair Posted: 23 May 2012 08:42 AM PDT Linux shop polishes cloud languagesRed Hat has lured two of the brains behind JRuby, Charles Nutter and Thomas Ebeno, who once worked at Sun Microsystems.… |
| Oracle gobbles upstart Facebook, Instagram biz tout Posted: 23 May 2012 08:19 AM PDT Social networking marketer Vitrue joins Larry's cloudOracle has snapped up social media marketing company Vitrue for an undisclosed sum.… |
| SAP hopes to embiggen its cloud with Ariba slurp Posted: 23 May 2012 07:39 AM PDT Still seeking a secure foothold in fast-growing marketSoftware giant SAP is hoping to beef up its cloud with an offer to slurp business commerce company Ariba for $4.3bn.… |
| 'We've done nothing wrong' - Schmidt on Euro antitrust probe Posted: 23 May 2012 07:17 AM PDT Defiant Google supremo buttonholed by El RegBig Tent Google chairman Eric Schmidt has declined to be drawn on possible incoming antitrust law infringement charges in Europe.… |
| Shoreditch a hub of 'exciting innovation', says science minister Posted: 23 May 2012 07:07 AM PDT David Willetts lays out economic recovery with data appsBig Tent Science minister David Willetts told a gathering at Google's Big Tent event this morning that future scientific research will rely heavily on the mining, slicing and dicing of data from the public sector.… |
| Wireless remote control inventor zaps out at 96 Posted: 23 May 2012 06:46 AM PDT Eugene Polley took the knobs off technologyThe man who took the knobs off the TV set and made a significant innovation in wireless technology, Eugene Polley, died yesterday in Illinois, aged 96.… |
| Open Data Institute pours golden £10m shower on upstarts Posted: 23 May 2012 06:27 AM PDT Taxpayer-funded teams to tackle public info dumpsThe Open Data Institute has launched with a taxpayer-funded £10m pot to turn the government's public information dumps into something tangible. Or that's the promise.… |
| Nvidia Kai to enable cut-price Android tablets for all Posted: 23 May 2012 06:25 AM PDT Quad-core and a whole lot more?Nvidia has let slip 'Kai', the quad-core ARM-architecture system-on-a-chip it hopes will get powerful tablets into World+Dog's hands for $199 (£127) a pop.… |
| MPs wrestle slippery bureaucrats in intellectual property Jell-O Posted: 23 May 2012 06:19 AM PDT 'Evidence base weak' for IP, says UK's IP top copAnalysis The all-party group of MPs looking into the UK's looming obliteration of copyright rounded on their quarry yesterday - and it turned out to be an enthralling battle of wits.… |
| Boffins cram binary data into living cells' DNA Posted: 23 May 2012 06:01 AM PDT Biological non-volatile storage survives reproductionPic In a move that could have appeared in a Michael Crichton novel, Stanford University brainiacs have written and read a binary digit encoded in a DNA cell sequence which survives cell reproduction - a non-volatile genetic bit.… |
| Facebook IPO plunge sparks tidal wave of lawsuits Posted: 23 May 2012 05:44 AM PDT Shares plummet, investors sue everyone, regulators pull out their probesInvestors in Facebook's IPO are not taking the stock's drubbing lying down and have launched lawsuits against the social network, its underwriters and NASDAQ, while regulators probe the way the debut was handled.… |
| MASSIVE Chinese web cannons blast 123-reg offline Posted: 23 May 2012 05:36 AM PDT UK's largest hosting biz titsup in DDoS outrageA "massive" distributed-denial-of-service attack emanating from China has taken down 123-reg, the UK net biz that hosts 1.4 million websites.… |
| Volvo claims V40 is first car with an airbag for pedestrians Posted: 23 May 2012 05:27 AM PDT Protection for head-in-clouds textersVolvo has devised an automobile airbag for pedestrians.… |
| Apple design chief Jony Ive knighted - but not by the Queen Posted: 23 May 2012 05:12 AM PDT Steve Jobs' 'spiritual partner' honouredApple's VP of Industrial Design Jonathan Ive was knighted today by the Princess Royal at Buckingham Palace.… |
| Sky Movies monopoly probe scrapped as rivals turn up Posted: 23 May 2012 05:01 AM PDT Competition Commission U-turns at sight of LoveFilm, NetflixThe Competition Commission has called off the attack dogs against Sky's movie business, for now. The regulator has revised its views following the entry of Amazon's LoveFilm and Netflix into the pay-movie market.… |
| Jailed Facebook hack Brit targeted Justin Bieber's girlfriend Posted: 23 May 2012 04:39 AM PDT Selena Gomez 'told' fans her boyfriend 'sucks' in attackA British man jailed for a year after hacking into a private Facebook account targeted Justin Bieber's actress-turned-singer girlfriend, it has emerged.… |
| Everything Everywhere activates top-secret erections Posted: 23 May 2012 04:18 AM PDT Orange and T-Mobile finally complete network love-inCustomers of Orange and T-Mobile are now using one network, with handsets switching seamlessly to the nearest cell tower, though the company still refuses to say exactly where those cell towers are.… |
| Google warns against ISPs hard on web filth Posted: 23 May 2012 04:07 AM PDT Meanwhile, Mail columnist visits p0rn site. GaspBig Tent Google may not be willing to comment on how much money it makes from pornography online, but the search giant's UK public policy head Sarah Hunter has unsurprisingly urged caution when it comes to ISPs filtering content over their networks.… |
| Posted: 23 May 2012 04:00 AM PDT Ex the AxisAntique Code Show As a nipper during the 1970s and early 80s, there can't be a war movie I haven't seen, either at the cinema or on telly on a rain Sunday afternoon. You can surely say the same of Grey Matter Interactive, because its Return to Castle Wolfenstein lets you play pretty much every famous war film scene.… |
| Lenovo's on fire - and this time in a good way Posted: 23 May 2012 03:41 AM PDT Closing in on HP yet making loss in emerging marketsLenovo set its sights on emerging and "PC+" markets as it seeks to build on what it describes as a record year.… |
| Serco close to flogging UK defence nuke tech biz Posted: 23 May 2012 03:18 AM PDT Amec admires Technical Consulting Services wingIT outsourcing monster Serco is locked in talks with engineering consultancy and project management services outfit Amec to sell its Technical Consulting Services biz.… |
| Why on Earth is Microsoft moving to Euro pricing now? Posted: 23 May 2012 03:02 AM PDT Time to take a sniff at the coffee, perhapsAnalysis I find it quite amusing that a company would decide to have uniform pricing right across a continent in a currency that looks like it might not survive the phasing in period of the new pricing regime. But that's what Microsoft seems to be doing.… |
| UK.gov energy policy: You can't please all the people much of the time Posted: 23 May 2012 02:43 AM PDT 'Lights kept on' - but at a priceComment Try and please everyone, and you can end up pleasing no one. The government's new draft Energy Bill risks just this.… |
| Apple tops tablet, mobile computer markets in Q1 Posted: 23 May 2012 02:27 AM PDT Lagging in laptops, mindThe usual caveat applies: these numbers only work if you factor in tablet sales. Do, says market watcher DisplaySearch, and Apple is once more the world's top-selling maker of mobile computers.… |
| Greedy LOHAN draining away mankind's vital fluid ... allegedly Posted: 23 May 2012 02:17 AM PDT Irresponsible globe embulgement - is it really an issue?We at El Reg's Special Projects Bureau have, over the last few months, been challenged by various readers as to why we're using helium to lift our audacious LOHAN spaceplane towards its stratospheric date with destiny.… |
| Wyse ties with Rise in cloudy client clinch Posted: 23 May 2012 02:01 AM PDT Dell and FastHosts by another nameWyse Technology has struck a deal to push cloud services through the UK channel along with hosted services provider Rise.… |
| TfL delays wave-and-pay tickets until 2013 Posted: 23 May 2012 01:36 AM PDT Wants more time to make kit 'more robust'Transport for London's (TfL's) plan to introduce contactless ticketing across the whole of its network is likely to happen in 2013, and will not be completed by the end of 2012 as previously announced by the authority.… |
| Alcatel-Lucent tinkers with Telstra's enterprise network Posted: 23 May 2012 01:23 AM PDT Vanquishes Juniper to add 'smarts' for cloudy productsTelstra is revamping the network smarts of its enterprise IP offerings in an Asia Pacific-first roll out of the Alcatel –Lucent supplied Application Assured Networking (AAN) service.… |
| Chuck Exchange mailboxes into the cloud... sysadmin style Posted: 23 May 2012 01:01 AM PDT UC certificates, MX records and how to make a teeny bit of extra doshSysadmin blog How do we migrate Exchange mailboxes into the cloud? A customer of mine has recently approached me with a request to move his mail hosting into the cloud, and it had to include BlackBerry support. After some discussion of the options available, a hosted exchange solution was deemed best, with Microsoft's own Office 365 emerging the winner.… |
| Dole Office staff snooped into private data 992 times in 10 months Posted: 23 May 2012 12:27 AM PDT And that's just the times they were caught...Staff at the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) were disciplined a total of 992 times for unlawfully or inappropriately accessing individuals' social security records between April 2011 and January this year.… |
| EMC's hunt for Joe Tucci replacement continues Posted: 23 May 2012 12:02 AM PDT Will they have to drag him back like last time?EMC's CEO succession looks to be in trouble with no clear internal successor to Joe Tucci who is just months away from retirement. Could EMC look outside the company for its next CEO?… |
| Ten... Mi-Fi HSPA 3G wireless mini-routers Posted: 22 May 2012 11:00 PM PDT DIY hotspots |
| 2011 sets new record for counterfeit electronics Posted: 22 May 2012 10:31 PM PDT IHS iSuppli says most counterfeits come from Asia, at a rate of one every 15 secondsAsian countries led by China are responsible for the vast majority of reports of counterfeit electronics parts, which have reached 12 million over the past five years in a potentially lethal development for the global supply chain, according to analyst IHS iSuppli.… |
| Huawei enterprise to be 100% channel 'in 3-5 years Posted: 22 May 2012 09:28 PM PDT Seeks partners to marry comms, appsHuawei's year-old enterprise division wants to put all of its business through the channel in three to five years, according to Jeff Hwong, the company's regional sales director for Southern Pacific Enterprise Business.… |
| Indian SMBs facing advanced attack threats Posted: 22 May 2012 09:10 PM PDT Symantec warns of lack of security know-howIndia's growing urban population is under concerted cyber attack as criminals increasingly focus advanced targeted techniques on small- and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) and look to exploit piecemeal security and low levels of awareness, according to the latest report from Symantec.… |
| Facebook underwriters accused of hiding forecast Posted: 22 May 2012 09:09 PM PDT Revenue numbers revised on the quiet, says ReutersReuters is airing accusations which, if true, would cast the Facebook IPO process in a very poor light indeed. The news service claims that underwriters Morgan Stanley cut its revenue forecasts for The Social NetworkTM but withheld the information from all but a privileged few.… |
| Canary Islands host long-distance quantum teleportation Posted: 22 May 2012 05:20 PM PDT Spooky action between La Palma and Tenerife, with space the next stopThe Canary Islands of La Palma and Tenerife have been briefly connected by a quantum teleportation system that sets a new distance record for the spooky communications technique.… |
| Windows XP update fails in infinite .NET patch loop Posted: 22 May 2012 05:00 PM PDT UPDATE: MSFT slow to publicise fix for faulty patchMicrosoft has issued guidance on how to fix problems created by its last bunch of patches.… |
| Posted: 22 May 2012 04:59 PM PDT Seven projects for govt get cashThe NSW government has awarded grants to seven mobile consortiums under the Collaborative Solutions program for Mobile Government. The government will provide around AUD$1 million to help the consortiums develop new mobile solutions for the public sector after a competitive pitch.… |
| Apple, RIM didn’t infringe Kodak patents Posted: 22 May 2012 04:30 PM PDT Smartphone vendors rehearse grave danceKodak's hopes to parlay its patent portfolio into a get-out-of-Chapter-11 card have been dealt a blow, with a ruling that Apple and RIM haven't infringed its digital image preview patents.… |
| Boffins track birds ... from Spaaaaaaaace Posted: 22 May 2012 04:15 PM PDT Endangered, not-so-angry, birds capture big dataAn elite group of black Carnaby's cockatoos has been fitted with satellite tracking devices in an Australian first bird data collection measure.… |
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