Wallace & Gromit teach Oz kids to respect copyright

Wallace & Gromit teach Oz kids to respect copyright

Wallace & Gromit teach Oz kids to respect copyright

Posted: 22 May 2012 02:00 PM PDT

Museum exhibit "contains strong and accurate IP messages"

Wallace & Gromit have taken on their toughest challenge yet: teaching Australian kids to respect intellectual property rights.…

Social media off to war with propaganda posts

Posted: 22 May 2012 01:15 PM PDT

Disinformation campaigns will start with NSFW honeypots

Social media posts which lure readers with the promise of illegal, amoral or forbidden products and services may become a cold war cyber weapon, according to Kaspersky Labs CEO Eugene Kaspersky.…

Suppliers knock up 1,000-node cluster workbench for big data brains

Posted: 22 May 2012 01:02 PM PDT

Greenplum and data beast mates team up to push Hadoop forward

Hadoop, the big data file system named after a toy elephant, now has a group of suppliers behind it. The data giants are collectively aiming to develop the popular big data beast with a 1,000 node cluster – dubbed the Analytics Workbench – as a laboratory.…

Ballmer says 500 MILLION 'users' to 'have' Windows 8 in 2013

Posted: 22 May 2012 12:28 PM PDT

Promises 'deepest, broadest' penetration with new tool

Microsoft's given its first indication of how many devices it expects to ship running Windows 8 next year.…

iPad grabs lunch money from mobile PCs, pushes them in the stingers

Posted: 22 May 2012 12:01 PM PDT

Steve Jobs' soul goes marching on ... in the Channel

iPad sales trounced sales for netbooks and notebooks in the first quarter of 2012 pushing Apple to the dominant position in the mobile PC market, show new figures from analysts NPD.…

Microsoft's FDS data-sorter crushes Hadoop

Posted: 22 May 2012 11:37 AM PDT

Getting Bing to sit up and bark

Techies at Microsoft Research, the big brain arm of the software goliath, have taken the crown in the sorting benchmark world. The researchers are thinking about how to implement new sorting algorithms in the Bing search engine to give Microsoft a leg up on the MapReduce algorithms that underpin Google's search engine and other big data-munching applications.…

Anonymous hacktivists dump 1.7GB load slurped from DoJ site

Posted: 22 May 2012 11:03 AM PDT

US Justice Department: 'It was nothing major'

Anonymous-affiliated hackers dropped a 1.7GB torrent of data allegedly onto file-sharing networks on Monday after hacking into the US Bureau of Justice Statistics.…

Amazon offers cloudy app test drives

Posted: 22 May 2012 10:31 AM PDT

Casting Android handsets as very thin clients

Amazon is extending its cloud-based Test Drive to its on-device store, offering browsers a quick shot at an Android app, on their own phone, as a prelude to closing the sale.…

US space programme in shock metric conversion

Posted: 22 May 2012 09:26 AM PDT

Falcon 9 launch proves a 'small, one-metre step for man'

We are sure our readers have been enjoying NASA's footage of the SpaceX Falcon 9 launch to the ISS earlier today, but amid the excitement, you may have missed another historic moment for the US space programme. Listen carefully...…

New UK MVNO offers white list calling for kiddies' mobes

Posted: 22 May 2012 09:02 AM PDT

Data to follow in September

The UK has a new virtual operator, one specifically targeting parents who believe their children need a mobile phone before they're old enough to cope with the pressure of having one.…

Big Bang secrets hidden in hundreds of petabytes of tape

Posted: 22 May 2012 08:42 AM PDT

Blue Waters supercomputer spews into Spectra kit

The NCSA Blue Waters petascale supercomputer is getting massive amounts of Spectra Logic tape library storage.…

Orange pulls out of women's Fiction

Posted: 22 May 2012 08:26 AM PDT

No longer the only kind of fruit

The Orange Prize for Fiction, awarded annually to the best English-language novel from a female human author, will henceforth be known as the "Prize for Fiction" as Orange is taking its money elsewhere.…

Greene King pubs to offer free <s>beer</s> Wi-Fi

Posted: 22 May 2012 08:15 AM PDT

Ale Caesar

Pub chain Greene King will soon offer free Wi-Fi access in all of its 2400 boozers and eateries, courtesy of The Cloud.…

EMC takes on Box, SugarSync and other sync 'n' sharers

Posted: 22 May 2012 08:04 AM PDT

Buys Syncplicity

EMC is buying Syncplicity for its file-sharing and synchronisation technology and thus taking on Box, SugarSync, and other enterprise Dropbox look-alikes.…

VIA outs $49 Raspberry Pi-alike

Posted: 22 May 2012 07:47 AM PDT

'Bicycle for your mind', apparently

El Reg hasn't written about VIA for yonks, but it's one of the original x86 CPU makers, thanks to its purchase of processor design firm Centaur in 1999. VIA has long pitched low-cost, low-power CPUs, and now it's trying to do so again, this time with ARM technology, in a bid to take a bite out of Raspberry Pi.…

Steve Jobs' 'private Apple spaceship' seeks public love

Posted: 22 May 2012 07:28 AM PDT

Can Cupertino locals swallow biz baron's glass doughnut?

Apple's head bean counter has asked his company's neighbours to back plans for a new 2.8 million sq ft glass doughnut office in Cupertino, California.…

Google officially buys Motorola, hits refresh on CEO

Posted: 22 May 2012 07:28 AM PDT

Plonks senior veep Dennis Woodside in driving seat

Google has officially bought Motorola Mobility and gifted Mountain View's senior veep Dennis Woodside with the task of the running the company.…

Official: Apple, IBM are world's most valuable brands

Posted: 22 May 2012 06:59 AM PDT

While Microsoft is the McDonalds of the tech world

Technology companies dominate a listing of the hottest worldwide brands with Apple and IBM taking the top slots, though how much of a benefit this is for resellers might be open to question.…

Star Trek's Scotty boldly goes where he always wanted to

Posted: 22 May 2012 06:37 AM PDT

James Doohan's ashes hitch a ride on the SpaceX Dragon

Elon Musk's Dragon spaceship that successfully took off this morning was carrying extra special secret cargo: Star Trek's Chief Engineer Scott.…

Fake Facebook pull-down tricks social climbers into swallowing vile load

Posted: 22 May 2012 06:17 AM PDT

Malware-slingers understand your need to network

Scammers are attempting to trick prospective marks into opening malware via spam messages falsely warning that their Facebook account is in the process of being closed.…

Why can't ICANN just 'get s**t done', ask dot-brand hopefuls

Posted: 22 May 2012 06:04 AM PDT

gTLD registration site relaunches amid brickbats

Web overlord ICANN has reopened its bug-plagued new top-level domain name registration system almost six weeks after taking it down to patch an embarrassing security hole.…

Apple's trial experts are 'slavish fanbois who believe in magic'

Posted: 22 May 2012 05:38 AM PDT

Samsung wants witnesses tossed out of patent battle

Samsung has asked a Californian court to dismiss seven of Apple's expert witnesses in a patent case - and claimed their "slavish" love for the Foxconn-rebrander means they are unable to give useful testimony.…

Titsup WHMCS calls the Feds after credit-card megaleak

Posted: 22 May 2012 05:21 AM PDT

Web billing biz ransacked, smashed offline by hacktivists

WHMCS, which provides billing and customer support tech to many web hosts, was comprehensively hacked on Monday and remains offline.…

Activision may bung Bungie $2.5m ratings-based bonus

Posted: 22 May 2012 05:14 AM PDT

Destined to make big bucks?

Halo developer Bungie's lucrative ten-year deal with games publisher Activision has been made public, revealing the coder is set to receive an unprecedented bonus should its next title win critical acclaim.…

IT distributors: The only people adding value to the world economy

Posted: 22 May 2012 05:02 AM PDT

More than just middlemen...

Why distributors? More specifically, why electronics distributors? Why have these intermediaries in the markets at all?…

Kcom shrugs off revenue slip to boost profits

Posted: 22 May 2012 04:43 AM PDT

Promises bigger dividends and brags about Cisco hookup

Comms services provider Kcom jacked up profits for its full year despite a slip in revenues, preliminary results released this morning show.…

Ex-Yahoo! bigwig! admits! insider! trading!

Posted: 22 May 2012 04:28 AM PDT

He spilled beans on Microsoft search deal

The US stock market regulator has charged an ex-Yahoo! exec and a pal with insider trading after the pair discussed a search engine partnership between Yahoo! and Microsoft.…

Virgin Media mauls UK.gov for pumping millions into BT

Posted: 22 May 2012 04:13 AM PDT

Cash gift 'not in Blighty's best interests'

Virgin Media's monopolistic cable network is closed to competition - unlike BT's - but that hasn't stopped the telco from grumbling about government subsidies being dished out to its rival.…

Will Nvidia 'n' pals pwn future gaming?

Posted: 22 May 2012 04:04 AM PDT

GeForce Grid could disrupt everything

HPC blog  With the introduction of VGX and the announcement of Nvidia's GeForce Grid offering, Nvidia and their partners are taking square aim at one of the biggest market opportunities around: gaming. Video games are big business.…

Vodafone's cash mountain rocked by eurozone emergency

Posted: 22 May 2012 03:43 AM PDT

Hung up on Italy, Spain, Portugal and Greece

Vodafone is rolling in cash thanks to a healthy year in the US and stability in the UK, Germany and the Netherlands. However the telco is still only drawing 14.5 per cent of its £43bn service revenue from mobile data, despite the fact that it represents the majority of traffic carried.…

EMC pushes out FORTY-TWO products at megalaunch

Posted: 22 May 2012 03:32 AM PDT

Avamar, VPLEX, Atmos, Isilon gear and more

EMC has dubbed its EMC World in Las Vegas a megalaunch with some 42 product announcements.…

Sony's customisable Xperia U hits retail

Posted: 22 May 2012 03:22 AM PDT

Whatever NXT

Sony's latest Android smartphone, the Xperia U, hit retail today, completing the first trio of handsets in the company's NXT collection.…

ICO: Managed to comply with Cookies Law? Go help the other kids

Posted: 22 May 2012 03:14 AM PDT

Commish tells gov websites to learn as they go and share what they discover

The Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) wants public sector bodies that have made their websites comply with EU cookie regulations to share their knowledge with others.…

Report: SAP exec charged with $1,000 LEGO bar-code caper

Posted: 22 May 2012 03:01 AM PDT

eBay sales claimed

An SAP executive is reported to have been charged with stealing LEGO from shops using the assistance of home-made bar codes before allegedly selling the kits online.…

Barclays online banking falls over in outage riddle

Posted: 22 May 2012 02:38 AM PDT

'No idea why, but our new Pingit app is working!'

The Barclays online banking website has been offline since about 8am BST this morning for reasons unknown.…

Chrome spends a week at the top of the browser charts

Posted: 22 May 2012 02:17 AM PDT

Asian and South American popularity pushes it to glory

Google's Chrome browser has overtaken Internet Explorer to become the world's most popular browser.…

Evernote

Posted: 22 May 2012 02:00 AM PDT

Popular app gets Ice Cream Sarnie treatment

Android App of the Week  As a long-time user of Catch Notes it was going to take something quite impressive to get me to jump ship to arch-rival Evernote but a recent update and integration with the latest versions of HTC's Sense have persuaded me to do so.…

Mm, just what the boss wanted: Live charts about your cloud

Posted: 22 May 2012 01:29 AM PDT

Real-time compute, storage and network stats mashup

EMC is mashing up operational data reporting from its products to build dashboards integrating customer spreadsheet and database information to provide charge back and resource usage in an IT-as-a-service scenario. This bridging between EMC operational data and customer data leads to the mashup's moniker: DataBridge.…

SpaceX Dragon, first private ship to the ISS, launched successfully

Posted: 22 May 2012 01:02 AM PDT

Another giant step for Elon Musk's space programme

Pic  History is just days away from being made as SpaceX' Dragon cargoship finally blasted off successfully on its Falcon 9 rocket this morning on its way to a rendezvous with the International Space Station.…

Isilon Maverick flyboy in EMC World flyby

Posted: 22 May 2012 12:29 AM PDT

I feel the need, the need for... reliability

EMC's coming "Mavericks" Isilon software update aims to help it play nicely in the enterprise IT zone while keeping its scale-out NAS top gun title.…

China hits back at Pentagon's cyber spy allegations

Posted: 22 May 2012 12:07 AM PDT

US needs to "change its mind-set", says PRC

China has been forced to strongly deny claims made in a new Pentagon report that it is the world's number one cyber spy and represents a growing threat to US economic security.…

Chinese social network to recruit in-house censor

Posted: 22 May 2012 12:05 AM PDT

Job ad for 'monitoring editor' points to web crackdown

Eagle-eyed users of China's popular Twitter clone Sina Weibo have spotted an unusual job ad for the company, posted on its site on Monday – internet censor.…

News leech's fresh cash deal with rags 'reasonable' – tribunal

Posted: 22 May 2012 12:04 AM PDT

Formerly 'uneconomic' costs suddenly affordable for article scraper

The fees that businesses will have to pay news aggregators of newspapers' online content for their services have been set after a Copyright Tribunal determined the terms were "reasonable".…

Eugene Kaspersky frustrated by Apple’s iOS AV ban

Posted: 21 May 2012 11:32 PM PDT

Wants to retaliate first before crooks crack iOS

Eugene Kaspersky is "a little bit disappointed … Apple won't let us" develop antivirus software for iOS devices, as he feels it is only a matter of time before criminals target the operating system.…

Raspberry Pi

Posted: 21 May 2012 11:00 PM PDT

Bare bones computing

Review  No review is ever written in isolation, absent from context. Usually, you can guess the reviewer's bias within a few paragraphs, and compensate accordingly. He hates LCD display quality, she dislikes proprietary software, they yearn for the days of full bandwidth vinyl. You get the idea.…

Samsung boss warns of Chinese tech spending slow down

Posted: 21 May 2012 09:56 PM PDT

Kim Young-ha is worried, but stats tell a different story

Samsung's head honcho in China is reportedly worried that domestic spending on technology products in the People's Republic is slowing down, fears which if realised could have a significant knock-on effect for the global economy.…

Kim Dotcom resists password grab

Posted: 21 May 2012 07:34 PM PDT

Megaupload founder demands 'judicial process'

And so it winds on further: in the latest installment to the Aotearoan legal battle, Kim Dotcom's lawyer that he will only hand over his passwords as part of a "proper judicial process".…

3D TV fails to excite, gesture UIs to flop: analyst

Posted: 21 May 2012 07:29 PM PDT

Apple, Sony, to pounce as connectivity craze catches

3D television is not exciting global TV buyers, says analyst firm NPD.…

NextIO bags some more cash for virty server I/O push

Posted: 21 May 2012 06:21 PM PDT

Mystery strategic investor pumps in US$12.3m

There are plenty of ways to skin the server virtualization cat, and NextIO's means of doing so is to create a PCI-Express switch that links server nodes to each other and to Ethernet network, Fibre Channel SAN, and external peripherals such as flash drives or GPU coprocessors that are housed in an external chassis. Trying to convince data centers to converge their networks at the PCI-Express peripheral bus instead of in the Ethernet or Fibre Channel network takes a bit of work, and money. And that is why NextIO is happy to be getting $12.3m in Series F funding.…

Defend your phone against loose networks? There’s an app for that

Posted: 21 May 2012 05:17 PM PDT

Researchers unveil 'middlebox detection' software

A group of researchers from the University of Michigan has released an Android app designed to defend against a common firewall vulnerability which they say commonly exposes smartphones on cellular networks.…

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