New Apple patent may spell trouble for Android

---

• New Apple patent may spell trouble for Android
• Baidu touts mobe with 100GB web drive
• Greenpeace targets Apple with 10-foot Pod stunt
• Cheques not checking out just yet
• Nvidia's Kepler pushes parallelism up to eleven
• US Supremes hammer final nail into Psystar coffin
• EMC rolls new VMAX bundle for cloud pushers
• Scammers exploit wannabe demon-slayers hyped by Diablo III
• US dope farmer in Walmart rattlesnake chomp shock
• Bubble 2.0 startups will crash out before they cash out
• Kepler chip drought leaves Nvidia gasping for moolah
• Mole sheds light on incoming illuminated Amazon Kindle
• The key questions you must ask to save your virty desktop dream
• Coupon-spaffer Groupon starts to sniff actual profits
• Bitcoin bank Bitcoinica still titsup after cyberheist
• ICO blasted offline by DDoS cannon in Leveson protest
• 'IT is no place for the little ladies', says Dell mouthpiece
• UK's '£1.2bn software pirates' mostly 'blokes under 34'
• Lenovo intros carbon-fibre ThinkPad Ultrabook
• Red Hat hits 10-year, $1bn Enterprise Linux birthday
• Siri subtly shifts smartphone allegiance
• VMware puts on new vFabric suite, takes your database on a date
• Facebook ups IPO shares to $38, edges towards $104bn value
• Inside the Skynet ghost town built by bunker-based boffins
• World+Dog as likely to view vids on PC as TV
• Virgin straps on phone masts for the flying upper classes
• Apple scrubs old Leopards of Flashback Trojan infections
• IMDb
• Apple's Siri nominates Nokia as best phone maker
• HP plonks newcomer into hot seat for EMEA Enterprise Group
• HTC fires up latest Desire
• Steve Jobs' death could clear way for more open Apple - Woz
• NHS 'pays up to THREE times over the odds' for IT gear
• London's Oyster card website still down after 12-hour outage
• Nokia outs budget phone pair
• Sony to add full HD display to 15in Ivy Bridge laptop
• US-Russian trio blast off to space station in Soyuz launch
• IBM smashes Flash out of Wimbledon, serves up HTML5 app
• Fastest-ever hydrocarb scramjet hits Mach 8, doesn't explode
• Spy under your car bonnet 'worth billions by 2016'
• Google compressed-filth legal battle with smut site ended in US
• Flashy mutant Ultrabooks to shove pure SSD chaps off cliff
• West Midlands plods get mobile fingerprint tech
• HP Envy 14 Spectre Ultrabook
• AMD: New Trinity laptop chips out-juice Intel graphics
• 125,000 Ubuntu PCs to land in Pakistani students' laps
• Game goes titsup in Australia
• Thailand dries off and ramps up IT spending
• ESA seeks doctor for Antarctic spaceflight sim
• Indian government to buy in tech for social good

New Apple patent may spell trouble for Android Posted: 15 May 2012 02:57 PM PDT Soft-keyboard patent's threat hinges on lawyers' cunning The US Patent and Trademark Office has handed Apple's legal team what may turn out to be a powerful weapon in their ongoing battles against anyone with the temerity to launch products competitive with the iPhone and iPad: a patent on soft keyboards that modify their keys with the tap of an on-screen button.…

Baidu touts mobe with 100GB web drive Posted: 15 May 2012 02:01 PM PDT $158 cloud-backed smartphone from 'China's Google' Baidu, the company which dominates China's search business as Google dominates elsewhere, has launched a smartphone using the company's cloud platform to reduce the price and keep the users loyal.…

Greenpeace targets Apple with 10-foot Pod stunt Posted: 15 May 2012 01:29 PM PDT Fanbois drool over prospect of iOS-based home Silicon Valley cops arrested two Greenpeace activists who sealed themselves into a huge (i)Pod outside Apple HQ today, but chose not to cuff another bunch of activists who were dressed as giant iPhones.…

Cheques not checking out just yet Posted: 15 May 2012 01:00 PM PDT Electronic payments surge in Oz, but don't bounce paper rivals Electronic payments surging, but cheques not about to bounce Electronic payments are replacing the humble cheque, but not so fast that the descendants of the promisory note are irrelevant or should be hustled towards a hastened retirement.…

Nvidia's Kepler pushes parallelism up to eleven Posted: 15 May 2012 12:00 PM PDT Hyper-Q and Dynamic Parallelism make GPUs sweat GTC 2012  When Nvidia did a preview of its next-generation "Kepler" GPU chips back in March, the company's top brass said that they were saving some of the goodies in the Kepler design for the big event at Nvidia's GPU Technical Conference in San Jose, which runs this week. And true to its word, the Kepler GPUs do have some goodies that will make them considerably more useful for graphics and HPC compute workloads.…

US Supremes hammer final nail into Psystar coffin Posted: 15 May 2012 11:22 AM PDT The fat lady croons doom tune over hackintosher's corpse The long and sordid Psystar saga creaked to its anti-climactic close on Monday: the US Supreme Court has refused to hear the hackintosher's request to review an appeals court's September 2011 decision not to overturn a December 2009 permanent injunction preventing the Florida company from selling Mac OS X–based clones.…

EMC rolls new VMAX bundle for cloud pushers Posted: 15 May 2012 11:02 AM PDT Array plus SW plus services platform It just sits there and rakes in money for you as users get provisioned, use the space and get billed: that's the message EMC is pushing to cloud service providers with a new VMAX bundle of array, software and services.…

Scammers exploit wannabe demon-slayers hyped by Diablo III Posted: 15 May 2012 10:03 AM PDT Go straight to hell Cybercrooks latched onto the release of Diablo III on Monday with a run of scams themed around the widely anticipated video game.…

US dope farmer in Walmart rattlesnake chomp shock Posted: 15 May 2012 09:34 AM PDT Mulch shopping trip ends in 'six bags of anti-venom' A Walmart customer required the urgent administration of "six bags of anti-venom" after a rattlesnake sank its fangs into him at a Washington state tentacle of the retail monolith.…

Bubble 2.0 startups will crash out before they cash out Posted: 15 May 2012 08:58 AM PDT Why Facebook and Amazon won't come a callin' Open ... and Shut  It's possible your next startup idea will earn you $1bn, but don't count on it.…

Kepler chip drought leaves Nvidia gasping for moolah Posted: 15 May 2012 08:29 AM PDT Profit halved in Q1, everyone wants a piece of TSMC Supply shortages for 28 nanometer GPUs from fab partner Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Corp adversely impacted GPU chip and coprocessor maker Nvidia once again in its most recent quarter.…

Mole sheds light on incoming illuminated Amazon Kindle Posted: 15 May 2012 08:23 AM PDT No colour reader, though The E Ink display in Amazon's Kindles may be great for reading in bright sunshine, but it's pants on gloomy days and totally useless in the dark. But that may soon change: Amazon is said to be preparing a front-lit version of the popular e-book reader.…

The key questions you must ask to save your virty desktop dream Posted: 15 May 2012 08:03 AM PDT Shifting to stateless? Don't turn it into a nightmare Sysadmin blog  What is required for a successful stateless desktop deployment? Planning. Every implementation will be different, and experience has taught me that there are very few hard and fast rules.…

Coupon-spaffer Groupon starts to sniff actual profits Posted: 15 May 2012 07:37 AM PDT And those marketing costs are way down Groupon significantly reduced the amount of money it lost in the first quarter of this year, only ending up with a net loss of $11.7m compared to a loss of $146.5m in the same quarter of 2011.…

Bitcoin bank Bitcoinica still titsup after cyberheist Posted: 15 May 2012 07:18 AM PDT More than $90k in tokens snatched Bitcoin exchange Bitcoinica remains offline following a hack against its systems last week that resulted in the theft of digital currency valued at approximately $90,000 (£56k).…

ICO blasted offline by DDoS cannon in Leveson protest Posted: 15 May 2012 07:01 AM PDT Anonymous-linked hacktivists shell site for days The UK's Information Commissioner's Office website has been blown offline by a distributed-denial-of-service attack that appears to be a hacktivist protest over the Leveson Inquiry.…

'IT is no place for the little ladies', says Dell mouthpiece Posted: 15 May 2012 06:39 AM PDT It's called box shifting for a reason Texan tech titan Dell has been forced to assert its commitment to equal rights in the workplace after a Danish funnyman compering its channel event in Copenhagen rattled off a string of sexist jokes.…

UK's '£1.2bn software pirates' mostly 'blokes under 34' Posted: 15 May 2012 06:27 AM PDT Tougher laws needed to stem dodgy downloads, says BSA The BSA is again bemoaning the lack of deterrents for software piracy after the commercial worth of unlicensed programs in the UK for 2011 remained at £1.2bn, unchanged on the previous year.…

Lenovo intros carbon-fibre ThinkPad Ultrabook Posted: 15 May 2012 06:04 AM PDT Dozens of other black laptops launched too It's ThinkPads a-go-go at Lenovo, with dozens of the black-clad laptops announced today in four families: the T, X, L and W series.…

Red Hat hits 10-year, $1bn Enterprise Linux birthday Posted: 15 May 2012 06:01 AM PDT How a Unix killer crawled from the dot-com bust Making a Linux distribution is easy, and lots of people have done it and continue to do it. All you have to do is get the source code and integrate the pieces you like and slap your logo on it.…

Siri subtly shifts smartphone allegiance Posted: 15 May 2012 05:40 AM PDT No longer nominates Nokia kit Conspiracy theorists and Apple haters, rejoice! Siri, Cupertino's iPhone 4S voice assistant, is no longer suggesting the Nokia Lumia 900 WinPho handset might be the best cellphone.…

VMware puts on new vFabric suite, takes your database on a date Posted: 15 May 2012 05:37 AM PDT Virty giant gets flirty with PostgreSQL VMware pretty much owns the virtualization layer on X86 iron inside of enterprises, but it has a long way to go to get the same kind of uptake for its vFabric application framework.…

Facebook ups IPO shares to $38, edges towards $104bn value Posted: 15 May 2012 05:18 AM PDT You want some stocks? Pay more... bitch! Facebook has reportedly raised the price range on its IPO shares from the $28-$35 range to $34-$38 each, as the growing interest of investors has boosted the valuation of the firm to up to an eye-watering $104bn.…

Inside the Skynet ghost town built by bunker-based boffins Posted: 15 May 2012 05:02 AM PDT Brainiacs beaver beneath barren burg called CITE Analysis  It's an empty city in the middle of the New Mexico desert ringed by a security perimeter. The wind will blow down barren streets, whisper through a vacant school, round high-rise offices cleared of commuters and out through lonely houses in suburbia. Unseen boffins will beaver away in underground bunkers.…

World+Dog as likely to view vids on PC as TV Posted: 15 May 2012 04:42 AM PDT But viewing figures down Folks, you're as likely to watch video content on your computer as your TV, if stats collated by asking tens of thousands of web-surfing consumers around the world is anything to go by.…

Virgin straps on phone masts for the flying upper classes Posted: 15 May 2012 04:39 AM PDT 'HELLO? Hello darling, I'm on a Virgin- What? No..' Flyers heading to New York on Virgin Atlantic will be able to make calls from the plane, thanks to a mobile mobile base station and a satellite uplink, but expect to pay through the nose for a service which hasn't proved popular elsewhere.…

Apple scrubs old Leopards of Flashback Trojan infections Posted: 15 May 2012 04:22 AM PDT Security airdrop saves legacy fanbois from nasties Apple has released patches that defend users of its older Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard operating system against security threats.…

IMDb Posted: 15 May 2012 04:00 AM PDT Film fan's feast Android App of the Week  If you're a fan of the movies then this app should be right up your aisle. Not only can IMDb tell you just about everything you could ever wish to know about just about every film ever made, but it has all the information you need to plan your movie-going night out too.…

Apple's Siri nominates Nokia as best phone maker Posted: 15 May 2012 03:56 AM PDT You cannot be Siri-ous Who'd've thunk it? Apple's voice-assistant, Siri, has suggested Nokia's Lumia 900 as the lead candidate to be the best cell phone ever.…

HP plonks newcomer into hot seat for EMEA Enterprise Group Posted: 15 May 2012 03:56 AM PDT But future role for HP EMEA MD unconfirmed in shakeup HP has shuffled the management deck in EMEA in a restructure that's bagged big cheese Peter Ryan the top job at the Enterprise Group.…

HTC fires up latest Desire Posted: 15 May 2012 03:42 AM PDT Budget Ice Cream Sarnie phone HTC would like you to know about the Desire C, a Beats Audio-equipped phone running Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich.…

Steve Jobs' death could clear way for more open Apple - Woz Posted: 15 May 2012 03:42 AM PDT But don't sacrifice the shininess Apple could be more open and just as successful - but don't take it from us. That's from company co-founder and computing idealist Steve Wozniak.…

NHS 'pays up to THREE times over the odds' for IT gear Posted: 15 May 2012 03:31 AM PDT Health bosses told to stop blowing taxpayers' cash The NHS is paying double or even triple normal prices for trivial tech gear including printer parts, cables and optical mice, according to a poll of IT bosses.…

London's Oyster card website still down after 12-hour outage Posted: 15 May 2012 03:22 AM PDT Transport for London: We did this on purpose Transport for London's Oyster card website jumped the tracks and fell offline for 12 hours, leaving anyone wanting to top-up, cancel or renew their card online unable to do so.…

Nokia outs budget phone pair Posted: 15 May 2012 03:17 AM PDT Two-Sim simple handset Nokia has unwrapped a couple of budget phones this morning, pitching the 110 and 112 as internet devices despite their - by modern standards - tiny 1.8in, 128 x 160 screens.…

Sony to add full HD display to 15in Ivy Bridge laptop Posted: 15 May 2012 02:44 AM PDT Budget Vaios outed too Two laptop lines were refreshed by Sony this morning: the Vaio E and S.…

US-Russian trio blast off to space station in Soyuz launch Posted: 15 May 2012 02:38 AM PDT Spacemen get ready for Elon Musk's Dragon docking Three new crew members blasted off in the wee hours of this morning for a two-day flight aboard a Russian Soyuz rocket to the International Space Station.…

IBM smashes Flash out of Wimbledon, serves up HTML5 app Posted: 15 May 2012 02:19 AM PDT Adobe's double fault: too snazzy and doesn't work on Apple kit Next month's Wimbledon tennis championship in London will serve up more player data than ever before and, for the first time, deliver live video to game fans over the web.…

Fastest-ever hydrocarb scramjet hits Mach 8, doesn't explode Posted: 15 May 2012 02:01 AM PDT HIFire 2 engine successfully lights match in a hurricane The successful test launch of the hydrocarbon-fuelled scramjet HIFire 2 by the US brings mankind a step closer to practical travel at over five times the speed of sound.…

Spy under your car bonnet 'worth billions by 2016' Posted: 15 May 2012 01:32 AM PDT Break the speed limit, break the bank with your insurance quote Technology that allows cars to snoop on motorists and tell insurers about their bad driving will form a worldwide market worth $14.4bn (£8.95bn) by 2016, analysts reckon.…

Google compressed-filth legal battle with smut site ended in US Posted: 15 May 2012 01:01 AM PDT Miniature nudies aren't porno piracy A publisher of adult photos can no longer raise claims that Google infringed its copyright in the US following a stipulation by a district court in California.…

Flashy mutant Ultrabooks to shove pure SSD chaps off cliff Posted: 15 May 2012 12:29 AM PDT Ultrabook makers will embrace hybrid trend Storage industry research firm TrendFocus says Ultrabooks will increasingly use hybrid disk drives for their near-SSD speed, HDD capacity and ability to undercut pure SSD Ultrabook prices. Seagate thinks hybrid drives will eventually enter every part of its product portfolio.…

West Midlands plods get mobile fingerprint tech Posted: 15 May 2012 12:01 AM PDT Portable mobile dab-slabs lead to Brummie collars felt West Midlands police is to introduce fingerprint scanning devices, which allow officers to find out if a person is wanted by police or the courts.…

HP Envy 14 Spectre Ultrabook Posted: 14 May 2012 11:00 PM PDT Shiny slab of laptop lusciousness Review  The test unit I reviewed was forwarded on to me from the Harrods press office. That alone should tell you a lot about the HP Envy 14 Spectre. For you, Harrods may conjure images of oil sheiks browsing bling, affectatious middle classes buying ham and feeble-minded tourists ogling Saint Diana's soiled crockery, but Harrods makes a point of not selling crap.…

AMD: New Trinity laptop chips out-juice Intel graphics Posted: 14 May 2012 10:00 PM PDT 'Ultrabook? Fuggedaboutit. Ultrathin is in' Laptop manufacturers hoping to flog ultrabooks – or, as Intel has trademarked them, Ultrabooks™ – may be able to shave their prices a bit now that AMD has released its second-generation A-Series accelerated processing units (APUs), code-named "Trinity".…

125,000 Ubuntu PCs to land in Pakistani students' laps Posted: 14 May 2012 09:58 PM PDT Education booster or vote-buyer? As the One Laptop Per Child initiative goes from strength to strength around the world, there are signs that Pakistan may be getting the message too, after the Punjab government began handing out 125,000 free Ubuntu-based laptops to college and university freshers.…

Game goes titsup in Australia Posted: 14 May 2012 09:53 PM PDT Administrator installed Competition from online retailers has claimed another casualty in the high street with the demise of the australian incarnation of chain store retailer, Game.…

Thailand dries off and ramps up IT spending Posted: 14 May 2012 09:17 PM PDT Smartphones and services set to propel country to second in SE Asia Thailand is back on the scene and spending like there's no tomorrow, according to new IDC stats which show the country is set to complete its rehabilitation from the devastating floods last year and jump to number two spot in IT spending in Southeast Asia.…

ESA seeks doctor for Antarctic spaceflight sim Posted: 14 May 2012 09:09 PM PDT 13 months of cold, dark, cramped quarters a "very interesting analogue" The European Space Agency (ESA) wants to interview "doctors who are not afraid of the dark" for a spaceflight research gig at one of the coldest, darkest places on earth.…

Indian government to buy in tech for social good Posted: 14 May 2012 08:52 PM PDT Acquisition fund could start on farming tech next year The Indian government has revealed ambitious plans to set-up a Technology Acquisition Fund designed to facilitate the purchase of technologies from across the globe in order that they may be modified and commercialised domestically to benefit the whole of Indian society.…

You are subscribed to email updates from The Register To stop receiving these emails, you may unsubscribe now.	Email delivery powered by Google
Google Inc., 20 West Kinzie, Chicago IL USA 60610