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- Activist claims victory in forcing Facebook vote over rule changes
- Jobs gloom in the US: But a few bright spots in IT
- Newcomer gets out its box, plans to sell it cheaply to all comers
- Japanese giant NTT gobbles London data centre biz Gyron
- EMC drops secret cash wad on Canadian software firm
- WHMCS under renewed DDoS blitz after patching systems
- US officials confirm Stuxnet was a joint US-Israeli op
- US secret spaceplane will come back to Earth sometime soon
- Look out, world - Mad Leo Apotheker's back!
- My part in the GREATEST IPO SUCCESS of ALL TIME
- Microsoft and Nokia dub Google troll moan 'desperate', 'frivolous'
- LOHAN sucks <i>Reg</i> reader's instrument to death
- LucasArts unveils Star Wars game for grown-ups
- Windows 8: We kick the tyres on Redmond's new tablet wheels
- Facebook stock plunge leaves tax-dodge Saverin WORSE off. Haa ha
- Terror cops hunt laptop snatched from retired MI5 spookmistress
- Ultrabooks: objects of desire but just too darn expensive
- Google aiming to buy dot-lol cyberland, and not just for the lulz of it
- You only want me for my BYOD
- The Great Border Agency IT Crash: Just who was responsible?
- Sharp to show OLED 'retina' display for laptops
- Facebook goes offline, shares stabilise at merely disastrous level
- Eurozone death spiral forces Microsoft to ease UK licensing price hike
- Are your applications ready to live in the cloud?
- Motorola adds THIRD SIM to Qwerty handset
- 82 London Underground stations to get free Wi-Fi for the Olympics
- LINX 'downed by ethernet loop' on external network
- Three releases 'value' MiFi modem
- iLuv Vibro Classic II
- Fans get date with Lara Croft
- Tube bosses: 'Wireless tickets too slow, we think'
- 'Europe two years late' to the US cloud party
- Department of Health tests online NHS 111 helpline
- French court: YouTube has done 'enough' to avoid copyright liability
- Microsemi rebuts silicon backdoor claim
- Google to show China what it's missing
- Acorn Archimedes is 25
- Magnetic medicines hit the cancerous spot
- Hong Kong firms also at risk from Chinese hackers
- Chargeback exposes IT shops as slow, expensive suppliers
- Apple and Foxconn back under fire for working conditions
- Firm applies for .sucks domain
- Google files EU complaint over Nokia/Microsoft patent trolling
- Universe has more hydrogen than we thought
- Oracle case crippled after judge rules APIs can’t be copyrighted
- US reiterates resistance to ITU-Internet land grab
| Activist claims victory in forcing Facebook vote over rule changes Posted: 01 Jun 2012 02:13 PM PDT Can Facebook users be bothered to vote?The Europe-v-Facebook campaign organized by Austrian law student Max Schrems is claiming victory after the social networking giant announced it is holding a vote on updates to its operating policy.… |
| Jobs gloom in the US: But a few bright spots in IT Posted: 01 Jun 2012 10:57 AM PDT Truly, it's us carrying the rest on our backsFactory output is slowing in China. Europe is still struggling with debts in Greece, Spain, and Ireland. And now the United States is adding a lot fewer jobs than needed. And, as it turns out, American companies have in the past few months added even fewer jobs than the Department of Labor originally thought.… |
| Newcomer gets out its box, plans to sell it cheaply to all comers Posted: 01 Jun 2012 10:03 AM PDT I swing all ways, iSCSI, Fibre Channel, CIFS, long timeHere's another hybrid flash/disk array that's using dedupe and compression to produce impressive cost/GB numbers.… |
| Japanese giant NTT gobbles London data centre biz Gyron Posted: 01 Jun 2012 09:27 AM PDT 'I sold that', insists Vince Cable. 'Me!'NTT Communications has coughed an undisclosed financial fur ball to take a majority stake in data centre services provider Gyron.… |
| EMC drops secret cash wad on Canadian software firm Posted: 01 Jun 2012 09:01 AM PDT Watch4net will manage hybrid cloud element performanceEMC is on the acquisition trail again, if it ever really stepped off it. The latest target was Watch4net, a Montreal-based supplier of performance management software for undisclosed wads of cash.… |
| WHMCS under renewed DDoS blitz after patching systems Posted: 01 Jun 2012 08:27 AM PDT 'Undesirable people' are all over usWHMCS, the UK-based billing and customer support tech supplier, has once again come under denial of service attacks, on this occasion following an upgrade of its systems to defend against a SQL injection vulnerability.… |
| US officials confirm Stuxnet was a joint US-Israeli op Posted: 01 Jun 2012 08:14 AM PDT Well, sure ... so why are you telling us, Mr President?Cyberattacks on Iranian nuclear program were a US-Israel effort started under the Bush administration and continued by President Obama, The New York Times reports.… |
| US secret spaceplane will come back to Earth sometime soon Posted: 01 Jun 2012 07:58 AM PDT Air Force says black minishuttle due back in JuneThe US Air Force is preparing for the imminent landing of its second secret spaceplane, which is expected sometime at the beginning of June.… |
| Look out, world - Mad Leo Apotheker's back! Posted: 01 Jun 2012 07:27 AM PDT Oh those crazy FrenchiesComment Wild-eyed former HP CEO Leo Apotheker is back in the IT hot seat after bagging a spot on the supervisory board at French tech outfit Steria.… |
| My part in the GREATEST IPO SUCCESS of ALL TIME Posted: 01 Jun 2012 07:00 AM PDT Chewing the face off the Facebook¡Bong! [The founder of Shoreditch's leading VC investment boutique has been helping Facebook with its IPO - Ed]… |
| Microsoft and Nokia dub Google troll moan 'desperate', 'frivolous' Posted: 01 Jun 2012 06:27 AM PDT Hello Mr Kettle, will you accept a call from Mr Pot?Nokia has labelled Google's patent trolling complaint to the EU "frivolous" and "wrong" while Microsoft said the move was a "desperate tactic".… |
| LOHAN sucks <i>Reg</i> reader's instrument to death Posted: 01 Jun 2012 06:00 AM PDT Strange doings in the shed at our mountaintop REHAB complexAs followers of our Low Orbit Helium Assisted Navigator (LOHAN) project will be aware, we've done quite a bit of head scratching as to how we're going to fire the rocket motor of our Vulture 2 spaceplane.… |
| LucasArts unveils Star Wars game for grown-ups Posted: 01 Jun 2012 05:59 AM PDT Bounty be popularLucasArts announced its latest videogame this week, Star Wars 1313, which pushes the franchise towards a more mature audience with its proposed 18-certificate rating.… |
| Windows 8: We kick the tyres on Redmond's new tablet wheels Posted: 01 Jun 2012 05:27 AM PDT Tastes like chickenReview The surprising thing about the Windows 8 Release Preview just delivered is not how much has changed from February's Consumer Preview, or even the Developer Preview from September 2011, but rather how little.… |
| Facebook stock plunge leaves tax-dodge Saverin WORSE off. Haa ha Posted: 01 Jun 2012 04:58 AM PDT Imagine one's concernWhile taking a break from sipping Cristal Champagne at his home in tax-haven Singapore, Eduardo Saverin - who stumped up $30,000 to get Facebook going when he was Mark Zuckerberg's roommate at Harvard - sparked a political firestorm last month when he renounced his American citizenship ahead of the social network's stock market debut.… |
| Terror cops hunt laptop snatched from retired MI5 spookmistress Posted: 01 Jun 2012 04:43 AM PDT Hapless thief may accidentally read her turgid novelsA laptop belonging to the former boss of MI5 has been nicked while she was passing through Heathrow Airport.… |
| Ultrabooks: objects of desire but just too darn expensive Posted: 01 Jun 2012 04:34 AM PDT Priced to stay on shelves?Here's a snippet of market data of interest to folk keeping tabs on the Ultrabook market. In the UK, during the past four years, laptops costing £800 or more have never taken more than 7.5 per cent of notebook sales as a whole.… |
| Google aiming to buy dot-lol cyberland, and not just for the lulz of it Posted: 01 Jun 2012 04:23 AM PDT Vint Cerf sniffs potential creative innovation in gTLDsGoogle has revealed it is jockeying for a variety of top-level domains (TLDs) including .lol and .google.… |
| Posted: 01 Jun 2012 04:17 AM PDT Get your kit off... my cloudSomething for the Weekend, Sir? They've taken advantage of my goodwill yet again. The really annoying thing is that I pleaded with them to do it, so it's my own fault. And it may be yours, too.… |
| The Great Border Agency IT Crash: Just who was responsible? Posted: 01 Jun 2012 04:00 AM PDT Stand by for more trouble at Lunar House, say insidersIT biz Atos caused last month's disastrous Border Agency computer meltdown that caused chaos for foreigners resident in the UK, according to the agency's chief. And well-placed sources have told The Register they expect similar problems in future.… |
| Sharp to show OLED 'retina' display for laptops Posted: 01 Jun 2012 03:37 AM PDT 3840 x 2160 screen, anyone?Fancy a 3840 x 2160 display in your next 13in laptop? Form an orderly queue outside Sharp's offices then, and loudly demand it turns its latest prototype panel into shipping product.… |
| Facebook goes offline, shares stabilise at merely disastrous level Posted: 01 Jun 2012 03:27 AM PDT Hey, nobody forced you to buy the toy money ... bitchIt's not just Facebook's share price that's been down in the dumps - the site itself fell off the interwebs for some users on Thursday.… |
| Eurozone death spiral forces Microsoft to ease UK licensing price hike Posted: 01 Jun 2012 03:13 AM PDT Somewhat smaller pillow for Brit customers to biteMicrosoft has confirmed that the pending price hike on volume licensing will not be as steep as the initial preview indicated due to the weakening of the Euro currency in recent weeks.… |
| Are your applications ready to live in the cloud? Posted: 01 Jun 2012 03:00 AM PDT It's all in the preparationSo, you are ready for a journey to the cloud. You have evaluated the benefits and you think you are ready to migrate your applications to a castle in the sky.… |
| Motorola adds THIRD SIM to Qwerty handset Posted: 01 Jun 2012 02:56 AM PDT Threesome with a BrazilianMotorola is no stranger to mobile devices with two Sim-card slots, however with its Motokey 3-Chip handset, the bar has been raised to include a third.… |
| 82 London Underground stations to get free Wi-Fi for the Olympics Posted: 01 Jun 2012 02:36 AM PDT After that, you're paying. And it's a monopolyVirgin Media has begun rolling out its wireless network to the London Underground with Oxford Circus, Stratford, Kings Cross, Liverpool Street and Leicester Square being among the first stations to offer a Wi-Fi service to commuters.… |
| LINX 'downed by ethernet loop' on external network Posted: 01 Jun 2012 02:16 AM PDT Who typed 'Google' into Google this time?The London Internet Exchange (LINX) suffered an hour-long outage yesterday evening, after an unnamed external network caused an ethernet loop and protective measures failed to work.… |
| Three releases 'value' MiFi modem Posted: 01 Jun 2012 02:04 AM PDT Tethered phone alternativeThree has priced up - and released - its "value" portable modem-cum-wireless-router.… |
| Posted: 01 Jun 2012 02:00 AM PDT Feel the noiseAccessory of the Week ILuv's Vibro II is notable for two things. The first is its size. It's tiny for a speaker dock, around the width of a traditional bedside radio alarm clock and not much taller.… |
| Posted: 01 Jun 2012 01:55 AM PDT Don't hate the playersSquare Enix already revealed Lara Croft's next outing in Tomb Raider had been pushed back but today it announced a definitive release date for the game.… |
| Tube bosses: 'Wireless tickets too slow, we think' Posted: 01 Jun 2012 01:32 AM PDT TfL hasn't actually tested NFC tech since 2009Transport for London's director of customer experience thinks wireless payments are still too slow for London's Tube, though he admits TfL hasn't tested them since 2009.… |
| 'Europe two years late' to the US cloud party Posted: 01 Jun 2012 01:01 AM PDT Privacy, security and economic meltdown blamedCloud adoption in Europe will lag the US by a minimum of two years due to concerns over data privacy, security and regulations.… |
| Department of Health tests online NHS 111 helpline Posted: 01 Jun 2012 12:32 AM PDT
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| French court: YouTube has done 'enough' to avoid copyright liability Posted: 01 Jun 2012 12:02 AM PDT Google not responsible for filtering vids uploaded to site – rulingThe Tribunal de Grande Instance said that Google had made enough of an effort to remove copyrighted content that had been uploaded by YouTube users which the biggest TV company in France held rights for when told about the material's existence. The efforts made were sufficient to remove Google from liability for that infringement, according to reports by news agency Reuters and the New York Times.… |
| Microsemi rebuts silicon backdoor claim Posted: 31 May 2012 11:46 PM PDT Researchers aren't talking so verification is hardMicrosemi, manufacturer of the ProASIC3 field-programmable gate array (FPGA) that researchers Sergei Skorobogatov and Christopher Woods claim has a highly hackable backdoor, has issued a statement (PDF) about the attack.… |
| Google to show China what it's missing Posted: 31 May 2012 11:09 PM PDT Will tell users when Great Firewall blocks their searchesGoogle could be set for another tense showdown with the Chinese government after changing its search experience for users in the People's Republic in a way that will explicitly notify them when their searches are being blocked by the authorities.… |
| Posted: 31 May 2012 11:00 PM PDT The first ARM kitFeature The Acorn Archimedes is 25 years old this month. The first machines based on the company's ARM (Acorn Risc Machine) processor were announced in June 1987, the year after the 32-bit chip itself was launched.… |
| Magnetic medicines hit the cancerous spot Posted: 31 May 2012 09:38 PM PDT Boffins develop iron core for anti-cancer drug, drag it to tumours with magnetsA team of researchers in Australia and Scotland has designed an iron core for the anti-cancer drug Cisplatin, so that it can be dragged by magnets to wherever in your body it can do its best work.… |
| Hong Kong firms also at risk from Chinese hackers Posted: 31 May 2012 09:13 PM PDT Experts warn multinationals to batten down hatchesSecurity experts have warned multinationals with bases in Hong Kong that they are not immune to cyber attack from China despite the shared sovereignty between the Special Administrative Region (SAR)and its mainland parent.… |
| Chargeback exposes IT shops as slow, expensive suppliers Posted: 31 May 2012 08:50 PM PDT Pay-per-byte tech slowly evolving past politicsIn the heady days of 2008, when server virtualisation was young-ish and low hanging fruit of physical servers could be found on every rack in data centres and server rooms around the world, VMware slipped out an update to its Lifecycle Manager that included chargeback features.… |
| Apple and Foxconn back under fire for working conditions Posted: 31 May 2012 08:08 PM PDT Nothing's changed two months on from FLA deal, says groupApple and Foxconn are yet to make significant changes to labour practices that see Chinese workers work unpaid and excessive overtime,endure bullying and work in unsafe working conditions, according to not for profit group Students & Scholars Against Corporate Misbehaviour (SACOM).… |
| Firm applies for .sucks domain Posted: 31 May 2012 06:24 PM PDT Says brands will use it to swallow online criticismA new company is planning to operate .sucks as a top-level internet domain, and its CEO says he expects big brands to embrace the concept.… |
| Google files EU complaint over Nokia/Microsoft patent trolling Posted: 31 May 2012 05:29 PM PDT Flays Finns for fibs, takes aim at MOSAIDGoogle has lodged a complaint with the European Commission over Microsoft and Nokia's patent activities.… |
| Universe has more hydrogen than we thought Posted: 31 May 2012 04:59 PM PDT 'Undark' matter hidden in plain viewA re-analysis of radio telescope observations from three countries has yielded a surprising result: nearby galaxies harbour one-third more hydrogen than had previously been estimated.… |
| Oracle case crippled after judge rules APIs can’t be copyrighted Posted: 31 May 2012 04:15 PM PDT Champagne corks popping at Google tonightGoogle has won a major victory in its legal fight with Oracle over the use of Java in Android after the presiding judge ruled that the APIs under dispute can't be copyrighted.… |
| US reiterates resistance to ITU-Internet land grab Posted: 31 May 2012 04:02 PM PDT Lawmakers post the 'no trespass' signsAmerican lawmakers and officials are continuing to give the International Telecommunications Union (ITU) the "hands off our Internet" signal ahead of a key meeting of the body late this year.… |
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