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- Apple's iPhone 5 connector said to be a control freak
- ICANN anoints new internet kingpin
- Powering your iPad costs $1.36 per year
- Cisco bends UCS rack and blade metal around new Xeon E5s
- Hackers publish payday loan emails after failing to levy 'idiot tax'
- Facebook loses face: Faced down in faceoff over face-placing
- Are you a hot BABE in heels and a short skirt? SCIENCE is for YOU
- Kepler space telescope peers at hot alien couple
- Office printers spew reams of garbage as 2-year-old Trojan runs wild
- Iran: Our nuke facilities still under attack by US, Israelis 'and MI6'
- Nintendo supersizes 3DS
- Public / Private Cloud – The Emperor’s new clothes or stylish business wear?
- Gone fishin' with Nokia
- Lollipop Chainsaw
- TERROR in SEATTLE: Gang of violent LEPRECHAUNS on the loose
- Assange: Australian neglect made me flee to Ecuador embassy
- Why I love Microsoft’s vapourware tablet
- Developers get to touch Microsoft's SmartGlass
- Natwest, RBS: When will bank glitch be fixed? Probably not today
- Kodak's using bankruptcy to rob us of our rights – Apple
- Microsoft's Surface proves software is dead
- Texas sues Google for 'withholding' documents from antitrust probe
- Alan Turing 100: Visionary, war winner ... <i>game maker?</i>
- Neo-Nazis scoop YouTube ad revenue from UK telcos
- Sony deploys 11in Vaio to battle Apple Air
- <i>El Reg</i> official units of measurement: Linguine, Jubs, Hiltons and all
- Firefox 'new tab' feature exposes users' secured info: Fix promised
- Kensington Virtuoso Mini collapsible stylus
- Samsung frees fanboys from iPhone with freeware
- 'People should be free from Peeping Toms' snapping pics of them!
- Yahoo! and Facebook beg US court for more time
- Microsoft rejects Google-Moto patent pact proposal
- GSMA pledges end to data roaming bill shock
- One court order could gag EVERY ISP in Denmark
- Arts & social-sci students briefly forced to do useful work at Foxconn
- Tesco exec brands UltraViolet 'too complicated' for Brits
- Canon PowerShot G1 X compact camera
- Mars has more water than thought
- FCC boss applauds moves to block UN internet control
- Apple flat-screen TV to ship by holiday season?
- Google launches field force management tool
- NuStar spreads its arms out wide
Apple's iPhone 5 connector said to be a control freak Posted: 22 Jun 2012 01:52 PM PDT 30-pin? Nope. Micro-USB? Nope. Power grab? YupRumors that the iPhone's familiar 30-pin connector will be replaced in the iPhone 5 with a Micro-USB port have riled the fanbois universe, inciting charges of planned obsolecense and worse. New reports, however, point not to a standard Micro-USB port, but a new – and proprietary – Apple port.… |
ICANN anoints new internet kingpin Posted: 22 Jun 2012 12:29 PM PDT Meet the new boss, not like the old bossThe Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) has confirmed that it will have new CEO to replace outgoing boss Rod Beckstrom, but not until October.… |
Powering your iPad costs $1.36 per year Posted: 22 Jun 2012 12:21 PM PDT And other wacky stats from wooly electro-boffinsIf you charge your fully depleted iPad every other day, it'll cost you a buck thirty-six per year, according to a just-released study by the Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI) of Palo Alto, California.… |
Cisco bends UCS rack and blade metal around new Xeon E5s Posted: 22 Jun 2012 11:32 AM PDT Where's the C420 M3 racker?Server upstart Cisco Systems has updated its B-Series blade servers and C-Series rack servers in the "California" Unified Computing System line, bringing itself on par with the latest Xeon E5 machines available from rivals HP, Dell, and IBM.… |
Hackers publish payday loan emails after failing to levy 'idiot tax' Posted: 22 Jun 2012 09:03 AM PDT 'World King' doesn't care for the word extortionHacker group Rex Mundi has published thousands of loan-applicant details it siphoned off from US payday loan outfit AmeriCash Advance.… |
Facebook loses face: Faced down in faceoff over face-placing Posted: 22 Jun 2012 08:44 AM PDT OK, we'll get out of your Face ... bitchFacebook is expected to cough up around $20m, and amend certain features of the site, to end litigation brought against the dominant social network following the arrival of its much-disliked "sponsored stories" feature.… |
Are you a hot BABE in heels and a short skirt? SCIENCE is for YOU Posted: 22 Jun 2012 08:09 AM PDT 'Science - It's A Girl Thing', says the EU. WhoopsVid The EU have clearly acknowledged that there is a problem with getting women into areas like science and technology. Issues such as educational bias, the lack of role-models and certain sorts of institutional sexism have all been cited as problems in the past, and at national level the topic has been discussed at conferences such as the Westminister Education forum last week.… |
Kepler space telescope peers at hot alien couple Posted: 22 Jun 2012 08:02 AM PDT |
Office printers spew reams of garbage as 2-year-old Trojan runs wild Posted: 22 Jun 2012 07:25 AM PDT Different kind of garbageComputer printers around the world are spewing garbage following a flare-up of a strain of malware first detected two years ago, Symantec warns.… |
Iran: Our nuke facilities still under attack by US, Israelis 'and MI6' Posted: 22 Jun 2012 07:01 AM PDT Now pay attention 007, this is a computerThe Iranian government has warned of yet another cyberattack against its nuclear facilities.… |
Posted: 22 Jun 2012 06:34 AM PDT From small to XLNintendo has revealed an larded-up 3DS handheld console with a display almost twice the size of its predecessor, although the absence of other improvements has left fans up in arms.… |
Public / Private Cloud – The Emperor’s new clothes or stylish business wear? Posted: 22 Jun 2012 06:32 AM PDT Reg Readers spill the beans on the latest IT fashionReg Research 'Cloud Computing' has been on the lips of every IT vendor marketing manager for the past two or three years and Reg readers have always been forthright in telling us what is happening in their organisation compared to the hype. While some vendors think 'Private Cloud' to be a contradiction in terms, Reg readers disagree, with many having a good grasp of the solution architecture as well as generally accepting the term itself.… |
Posted: 22 Jun 2012 06:00 AM PDT Sign of the times |
Posted: 22 Jun 2012 05:30 AM PDT Cheerleader gets chopper outReview Its name alone could be enough to suggest the origins of Lollipop Chainsaw. It's a title that somehow immediately resonates with Suda51's Grasshopper Manufacture Inc, whether you knew it was one of its titles or not.… |
TERROR in SEATTLE: Gang of violent LEPRECHAUNS on the loose Posted: 22 Jun 2012 05:11 AM PDT |
Assange: Australian neglect made me flee to Ecuador embassy Posted: 22 Jun 2012 04:58 AM PDT Oz should have told Sweden, UK to leave me alone. Or elseJulian Assange™ has spent his third night in the Ecuadorian embassy in London as he continued to await the outcome of his plea for political asylum from the South American country.… |
Why I love Microsoft’s vapourware tablet Posted: 22 Jun 2012 04:30 AM PDT Probe beneath the SurfaceSomething for the weekend, Sir? When I first got into this journalism lark in the late 1980s, the exploding nature of the personal computer market would force the hand of IT companies to reveal products far in advance of their intended launch date.… |
Developers get to touch Microsoft's SmartGlass Posted: 22 Jun 2012 04:10 AM PDT Xbox mobilisedMicrosoft has released a software development kit (SDK) to encourage coding for its upcoming SmartGlass application, which lets mobile devices interact with the Xbox 360 console "in an intelligent way".… |
Natwest, RBS: When will bank glitch be fixed? Probably not today Posted: 22 Jun 2012 04:02 AM PDT Wish we hadn't fired all those techies now ...On the fourth day of a IT systems choke-up that has left customers unable to access money and in some cases unable to buy food or travel, Natwest and RBS – which both belong to the RBS group – still have no idea when the issues will be fixed.… |
Kodak's using bankruptcy to rob us of our rights – Apple Posted: 22 Jun 2012 03:46 AM PDT Ah, the old go-bust-and-die ploy, eh?Apple has hit back at Kodak's attempts to get the firms' patent issues sorted out in bankruptcy court, filing a motion in district court asking the judge to move the row there.… |
Microsoft's Surface proves software is dead Posted: 22 Jun 2012 03:30 AM PDT Ballmer finally gets |
Texas sues Google for 'withholding' documents from antitrust probe Posted: 22 Jun 2012 03:14 AM PDT |
Alan Turing 100: Visionary, war winner ... <i>game maker?</i> Posted: 22 Jun 2012 02:54 AM PDT When he appears to reappear in a machine his legacy will be completeWe all know Alan Turing was a Nazi cipher breaker, which is already cool enough, but a computer games and AI pioneer? That's a story that's told less often.… |
Neo-Nazis scoop YouTube ad revenue from UK telcos Posted: 22 Jun 2012 02:45 AM PDT Blood and dishonourNeo-Nazis operating in the UK have reportedly used YouTube's advertising revenue-sharing system to gobble up payments from companies that include BT, O2 and Virgin Media.… |
Sony deploys 11in Vaio to battle Apple Air Posted: 22 Jun 2012 02:33 AM PDT Same size screen, half the priceSony has turned to AMD for processors to power its 11in sub-notebook, the Vaio E 11.… |
<i>El Reg</i> official units of measurement: Linguine, Jubs, Hiltons and all Posted: 22 Jun 2012 02:30 AM PDT The return of Lucy SherriffVid Earlier this week, the Beeb described IBM's Sequoia supercomputer as being so potent that it could do in one hour "what otherwise would have taken 6.7 billion people using hand calculators 320 years to complete if they had worked non-stop".… |
Firefox 'new tab' feature exposes users' secured info: Fix promised Posted: 22 Jun 2012 02:13 AM PDT Unlucky version 13 not ideal, Mozilla admitsPrivacy-conscious users have sounded the alarm after it emerged the "New Tab" thumbnail feature in Firefox 13 is "taking snapshots of the user's HTTPS session content".… |
Kensington Virtuoso Mini collapsible stylus Posted: 22 Jun 2012 02:00 AM PDT Quick on the drawAccessory of the Week Dabbing away at a smartphone touchscreen is all very well if all you're doing is checking email, searching Google, or replying to a text message. But if you want to paint - using the excellent Brushes, say - sketch, or take handwritten notes, it's far from ideal.… |
Samsung frees fanboys from iPhone with freeware Posted: 22 Jun 2012 01:58 AM PDT Apple 'make it easy to migrate' strategy appliedApple waged a broadly successful campaign to persuade Windows PC owners to migrate to the Mac by making compatibility tools readily available, and now Samsung is trying the same trick - on iPhone users.… |
'People should be free from Peeping Toms' snapping pics of them! Posted: 22 Jun 2012 01:30 AM PDT 'No place for photo censorship in Argyll', thoughQuotW This was the week when a top US senator laid down the law with Google and Apple over their Maps apps. Or actually, he didn't, he just laid down his suggestion that maybe having "military-grade spy planes" flying around snapping pics of the whole world was less than desirable.… |
Yahoo! and Facebook beg US court for more time Posted: 22 Jun 2012 01:14 AM PDT We're negotiating here, bitchYahoo! and Facebook have asked a US court for more time to prepare their filings because their lawyers think that may help them to reach a settlement.… |
Microsoft rejects Google-Moto patent pact proposal Posted: 22 Jun 2012 12:58 AM PDT 'Can't believe they told the press', lawyer tells pressMicrosoft has rejected a proposed offer by Motorola to settle patent disputes between the two companies that threaten to stop the flow of Moto's Android kit and Redmond's Xboxes and Windows gear into the US. This is after the software giant said it reckoned that Motorola was looking for "excessive" royalties.… |
GSMA pledges end to data roaming bill shock Posted: 22 Jun 2012 12:42 AM PDT But prices still high for Asian biz travellersMobile industry body the GSMA reckons it has come up with a plan which should help international business travellers avoid bill shock and better understand their data usage.… |
One court order could gag EVERY ISP in Denmark Posted: 22 Jun 2012 12:42 AM PDT It's not just the herring that's fishyInternet service providers (ISPs) and copyright holders in Denmark have agreed on a framework that would see all ISPs in the country block access to copyright-infringing content if one of the providers is ordered to do so by a court.… |
Arts & social-sci students briefly forced to do useful work at Foxconn Posted: 22 Jun 2012 12:19 AM PDT |
Tesco exec brands UltraViolet 'too complicated' for Brits Posted: 22 Jun 2012 12:00 AM PDT Digital movie locker? They won't get thatTesco's entertainment products chief has branded UltraViolet, Hollywood's would-be standard for digital movies, "too complicated" for British film fans.… |
Canon PowerShot G1 X compact camera Posted: 21 Jun 2012 11:00 PM PDT CSCs – who needs 'em?Review Canon's ever-popular Powershot G-series has a new and exciting addition that promises to expand the line-up rather than just upgrade it. While the new Powershot G1 X keeps some of the looks and features of its predecessor – the G12 – it also departs from previous models in significant ways.… |
Mars has more water than thought Posted: 21 Jun 2012 06:00 PM PDT An apatite for H2OIt's a big day for extra-terrestrial water: not only are there hints of water on the moon, but now Carnegie says that the mantle of Mars might have water concentrations similar to those found on Earth.… |
FCC boss applauds moves to block UN internet control Posted: 21 Jun 2012 04:35 PM PDT ITU headman warns of trouble from 'credulous members of the public'FCC chairman Julius Genachowski has issued a public statement of support after a senior Congressional committee unanimously approved a resolution condemning moves to bring the internet under new management.… |
Apple flat-screen TV to ship by holiday season? Posted: 21 Jun 2012 04:34 PM PDT Includes 'special' motion detection, 'unique' remote controlIt's time for another rumor about Apple's long-buzzed-about flat-screen television – and here comes one, right on schedule: it'll ship in time for 2012's holiday shopping season.… |
Google launches field force management tool Posted: 21 Jun 2012 04:00 PM PDT "Coordinate" aims to extend maps dominance into businessesThe Sydney-based team that gave the world Google Maps has released a new product, "Google Maps Coordinate", which offers field force management through a web app and Android.… |
NuStar spreads its arms out wide Posted: 21 Jun 2012 03:30 PM PDT |
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