Mystery buyer scoops working Apple 1 at auction |
- Mystery buyer scoops working Apple 1 at auction
- FCC: Let's kill analogue early, fob diehards off with converter boxes
- Apple must be tried for the bug in every fanboi's pocket
- Apple, Samsung snatch smartphone biz booty
- Apple-Moto patent punchup can come into court, says judge
- Successful remnant of Motorola acquires successful remains of Psion
- UK.gov Open Data site fills up with spam
- US culture to spread worldwide by means of Kindle, not iPad
- Ethiopia to send Skype users to the slammer
- Council chief overrules blackout on Scots 9-yr-old's school lunch blog!
- Windows Metro Maoist cadres reach desktop, pound it flat
- Retina Display detachment
- Tumbleweed-plagued Google+ is minus Bejeweled and Wooga
- German KIT v Fighting Seawolves in student cluster deathmatch
- Apple 15in MacBook Pro with Retina Display
- Scots council: 9-yr-old lunch blogger was causing 'distress and harm'
- Must try harder: Cumbria tells BT and Fujitsu to resubmit fibre plans
- Microsoft plots entry into tablet trade
- Unilever cutting tech bods, moving jobs to Bangalore: 800 face axe
- Office 365: <i>This</i> cloud isn't going to put any admins out of a job
- Scottish council muzzles 9-year-old school dinner photo blogger
- Facebook set to file motion: Will blame NASDAQ for IPOcalpyse
- 'Google released a dairy product'. What, it's cheesy?
- ICANN eggfaced after publishing dot-word biz overlords' personal info
- Is it time for enterprise PC outfits to carry Apple Macs?
- Apple 13in MacBook Pro to fall into line this autumn
- 'Scientists' seek to set world social, economic, tech policy at Rio+20
- Mighty Blighty's channel like a giant looming across the, er, Channel
- Vodafone's small, controversial tax bill validated by UK.gov
- Phishing, cybersquatting scum could ruin gTLD fun for biz
- Tesco grabs Peter Gabriel's musical streamer
- iPhone denies existence of Gibraltar, other bits of British empire
- Oz WiFi guys score top Euro inventor award
- Ten... Father's Day gifts
- Cabinet Office promises to challenge 'culture of secrecy' on IT projects
- Inside HP's latest global bit barn
- BT to China: let me in!
- Court delays Apple Proview ruling
- Asteroid zips past Earth
- May 2012 was second warmest on record. The warmest? 2010
- British LulzSec suspect charged in US over hacking
- Australian company claims world’s fastest switch
- Solar power can head out of the clouds says CSIRO
- Amazon slides MapR into elastic Hadoop service
| Mystery buyer scoops working Apple 1 at auction Posted: 15 Jun 2012 01:21 PM PDT Bidding war ends in $374,500 saleA working Apple 1 computer has broken records at auction, with a mystery buyer shelling out $374,500 for the system, with a handwritten memo from Steve Jobs also selling for well over the guide price.… |
| FCC: Let's kill analogue early, fob diehards off with converter boxes Posted: 15 Jun 2012 11:01 AM PDT Only thing left on the channels is fat ladies singingOpinion Every pay TV market has its idiosyncrasies, particularly for Multi System Operators (MSOs) such as Time Warner or Comcast in the US and Virgin Media in the UK. And in the US, one of these idiosyncrasies is the requirement that cable operators retransmit so called "must-carry" signals in both analogue and digital formats.… |
| Apple must be tried for the bug in every fanboi's pocket Posted: 15 Jun 2012 10:35 AM PDT Yes, she's talking about the iPhoneApple will stand trial over accusations that it misled iPhone owners by storing detailed information about their location even when location was switched off, a judge ruled yesterday.… |
| Apple, Samsung snatch smartphone biz booty Posted: 15 Jun 2012 09:05 AM PDT Grab all the profit, flog the most unitsWho's making money selling smartphones? Apple and Samsung and… er… that's it, market watcher ABI Research said today. Together, these two raked in more than 90 per cent of the market's profits.… |
| Apple-Moto patent punchup can come into court, says judge Posted: 15 Jun 2012 08:51 AM PDT But you're not exactly blowing my judicial skirt up hereThe US judge who "tentatively" dismissed an Apple v Motorola case last week has decided to give the companies another chance to prove each other wrong with an injunction hearing.… |
| Successful remnant of Motorola acquires successful remains of Psion Posted: 15 Jun 2012 08:39 AM PDT Farewell at last to the ghost of British pocket-putersPsion Plc, once famous for producing excellent pocket computers and still selling handheld computing into vertical markets, has been bought by Motorola Solutions and will be subsumed into its new US owner.… |
| UK.gov Open Data site fills up with spam Posted: 15 Jun 2012 08:18 AM PDT Opened-up government floodgates work both waysSpammers have forced the Cabinet Office to close portions of the UK's open data website.… |
| US culture to spread worldwide by means of Kindle, not iPad Posted: 15 Jun 2012 08:02 AM PDT Walk softly and carry an e-reader with central connectionThe US State Department has defended its decision to deploy thousands of Amazon Kindle devices over the next five years, saying that putting the bid out to tender would be pointless as Amazon's rivals just won't do the job.… |
| Ethiopia to send Skype users to the slammer Posted: 15 Jun 2012 07:37 AM PDT Call the lawyer... on a landlineThe Ethiopian government has outlawed Voice Over Internet Protocol (VoIP) services. Those who disobey and continue to use programs such as Skype face up to 15 years in chokey.… |
| Council chief overrules blackout on Scots 9-yr-old's school lunch blog! Posted: 15 Jun 2012 07:22 AM PDT 'No place for censorship here', thunders local polAn hour after accusing a nine-year-old girl of causing distress with her "inaccurate" lunch blog, the Argyll and Bute council has overturned its cameras-in-the-canteen ban and once again allowed school children the option of photographing their lunch.… |
| Windows Metro Maoist cadres reach desktop, pound it flat Posted: 15 Jun 2012 06:58 AM PDT 3D effects are bourgeois revisionismThe revolutionary dogma of Metro is sweeping through the old Windows desktop, too, a new leak of Window 8 confirms. The leaked build, newer than the public release of a fortnight ago, abandons the 3D design elements introduced into Windows in 1990 for a resolutely two-dimensional world. The 'legacy' desktop in Windows 8 is denuded of anything that takes advantage of human depth perception, such as window shadows, gradients or sculpted controls. It's a flat, flat world.… |
| Posted: 15 Jun 2012 06:00 AM PDT It's not what Apple adds, it's what it cuts, stupidSomething for the Weekend, Sir? Those Cupertino Infinite Looping gits have done it again. I don't mean this in an upbeat, admiring, I-can't-believe-it's-not-butter kind of way. I mean it more in a they're-selling-us-less-for-more-cash, not to mention a downbeat now-everyone-else-will-do-the-same, kind of way.… |
| Tumbleweed-plagued Google+ is minus Bejeweled and Wooga Posted: 15 Jun 2012 05:48 AM PDT EA'd rather have 70% of something than 95% of buggerallTwo games developers are withdrawing from Google's troubled social network Google+. Kiddie game dev Wooga and Popcap, which is owned by giant Electronic Arts, confirmed they are deploying their resources elsewhere. Popcap markets the popular Bejeweled game.… |
| German KIT v Fighting Seawolves in student cluster deathmatch Posted: 15 Jun 2012 05:27 AM PDT Reg bookie reports from the digital ringsideHPC blog According to bettors, the upcoming ISC'12 Student Cluster Challenge in Hamburg will come down to a competition between home-country team KIT (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology) and the New York-based Stony Brook University Fighting Seawolves. (No, I don't know what a 'Seawolf' is either.)… |
| Apple 15in MacBook Pro with Retina Display Posted: 15 Jun 2012 04:44 AM PDT Simply, a stunnerReview You've got to hand it to Apple. Having created the first Ultrabook about three years before Intel even got around to coining the brand, it has now taken another step forward with the new MacBook Pro With Retina Display.… |
| Scots council: 9-yr-old lunch blogger was causing 'distress and harm' Posted: 15 Jun 2012 04:26 AM PDT Canteen pic blackout will prevent 'misrepresentation'A Scottish council have said that a nine-year-old food blogger was misrepresenting her school dinners and distressing the canteen staff, by publishing a photoblog about her lunch.… |
| Must try harder: Cumbria tells BT and Fujitsu to resubmit fibre plans Posted: 15 Jun 2012 04:05 AM PDT Sends them homeward to think againResidents in Cumbria have long complained about their broadband coverage being one of the weakest in the UK, and now the county's push for a faster fibre network faces delay after its council rejected bids from BT and Fujitsu.… |
| Microsoft plots entry into tablet trade Posted: 15 Jun 2012 03:31 AM PDT Arm's its weaponMicrosoft will launch its own tablet device next week, entering the booming slate market without the help of a separate hardware manufacturer, it has been claimed.… |
| Unilever cutting tech bods, moving jobs to Bangalore: 800 face axe Posted: 15 Jun 2012 03:27 AM PDT Welsh ITers can no longer live off Marmite and Pot NoodleUnilever is entering into a redundancy consultation process with techies amid plans to relocate the UK tech hub from Ewloe in Wales to its head office in Merseyside and outsource "some" roles to India, although it would not confirm how many. Around 800 staff will face the chop by 2013.… |
| Office 365: <i>This</i> cloud isn't going to put any admins out of a job Posted: 15 Jun 2012 03:15 AM PDT Who says Redmond doesn't love you?Sysadmin blog Moving all of your email onto Office 365 is pretty easy; making it work properly once it's there is another story. As a salable product, I find Office 365 extremely curious; it's workable enough if you have a decade or two's experience beating Exchange into submission ... but a little too complex for anyone else. The cloud is supposed to be "push button receive bacon", and in practice I have found Office 365 to be anything but.… |
| Scottish council muzzles 9-year-old school dinner photo blogger Posted: 15 Jun 2012 02:57 AM PDT Hastily organised salad bar fails to stem criticismA Scottish council has been accused of crushing free speech by banning a nine year old girl from blogging about her school dinners.… |
| Facebook set to file motion: Will blame NASDAQ for IPOcalpyse Posted: 15 Jun 2012 02:44 AM PDT The fools gave people a chance to think!Facebook is planning to file a motion in the US to consolidate all its shareholder lawsuits and blame the NASDAQ stock market for its disappointing IPO.… |
| 'Google released a dairy product'. What, it's cheesy? Posted: 15 Jun 2012 02:30 AM PDT Plus: '...' - mute kids after Apple silenced themQuotW This was the week when Apple held its Worldwide Developers Conference in San Francisco to confirm the many rumours that |
| ICANN eggfaced after publishing dot-word biz overlords' personal info Posted: 15 Jun 2012 02:14 AM PDT Bumbling wordseller opens CANN of whup-ass on selfAfter proudly revealing the details of almost 2,000 new generic top-level domain applications, red-faced ICANN was today forced to yank the whole lot after applicants complained that their home addresses had been published by mistake.… |
| Is it time for enterprise PC outfits to carry Apple Macs? Posted: 15 Jun 2012 02:03 AM PDT Mac-maker is hard to ignore, despite being a 'difficult' vendorFor years, the Apple Mac has played a small and niche role in enterprise computing, finding favour in areas such as desktop publishing, graphical design and video or content production.… |
| Apple 13in MacBook Pro to fall into line this autumn Posted: 15 Jun 2012 01:55 AM PDT Nurse, the screensAnalyst Ming-Chi Kuo of KGI Securities, a stockbroker, has a good record on forecasts: he accurately predicted the launch of the 15in MacBook Pro with Retina Display just before the machine's announcement. He also correctly said Apple would kill off the 17in MacBook Pro.… |
| 'Scientists' seek to set world social, economic, tech policy at Rio+20 Posted: 15 Jun 2012 01:44 AM PDT No babies, no technology, work 'til you dieComment An international body claiming to represent the world's scientists has issued a set of demands ahead of the "Rio+20" summit this month. In essence the would-be spokesmen say that people should largely stop having babies, old folk should be put to work and most modern technology should be suppressed. The rich nations of the world should accept a much lower standard of living, while poor ones should accept that their scope for improving their lot will be sharply limited, forever.… |
| Mighty Blighty's channel like a giant looming across the, er, Channel Posted: 15 Jun 2012 01:28 AM PDT 'We're a nation of |
| Vodafone's small, controversial tax bill validated by UK.gov Posted: 15 Jun 2012 01:14 AM PDT See that cell tower? That's actually in SwitzerlandThe National Audit Office, asked to look into Vodafone's negotiated tax bill of £1.25bn, has decided it was a reasonable deal considering the cost of taking legal action against the company.… |
| Phishing, cybersquatting scum could ruin gTLD fun for biz Posted: 15 Jun 2012 12:59 AM PDT Expert: Firms can't judge the risk until ICANN approves the domainsBusinesses face extra costs and risks because of new internet domains, but the publication of a list of newly applied-for domains will not allow them to calculate those risks precisely, an expert has said.… |
| Tesco grabs Peter Gabriel's musical streamer Posted: 15 Jun 2012 12:39 AM PDT Unexpected item in bagging areaBritish music service We7 is being acquired by Tesco, which is taking a 91 per cent stake in the company for £10.8m. A full acquisition is expected.… |
| iPhone denies existence of Gibraltar, other bits of British empire Posted: 15 Jun 2012 12:18 AM PDT Does cater for non-existent South Georgians, thoughThe iPhone will not accept that people live in Gibraltar, a reader has pointed out to us, highlighting that the phone will not acknowledge this as a possibility when users are entering country names in their address book.… |
| Oz WiFi guys score top Euro inventor award Posted: 15 Jun 2012 12:06 AM PDT In 1997, they couldn't find investors cos no-one wanted WiFi ...The original Australian CSIRO research team that created and patented WiFi technology has been international recognised with the European Patent Office (EPO) Inventor Award.… |
| Posted: 15 Jun 2012 12:00 AM PDT Delights for daddy-oProduct round-up While it could be a confusing day for chavs across the country and many of us wouldn't pick up the phone let alone buy a gift, we're all reminded to show appreciation to our dads this Sunday. But with several of the El Reg team fathering new offspring this year, we reckon he should be treated to something special, particularly if he worked that hard for your blissful upbringing.… |
| Cabinet Office promises to challenge 'culture of secrecy' on IT projects Posted: 14 Jun 2012 11:30 PM PDT New annual report will contain audits of major projectsThe Cabinet Office has insisted that it will publish details of the progress of major government IT projects, despite fears that government promises of transparency were in danger of being watered down in the face of departmental opposition.… |
| Inside HP's latest global bit barn Posted: 14 Jun 2012 09:32 PM PDT New Sydney data centre will serve global customersHP has unveiled its newest global bit barn and says it will form part of the network used to deliver its converged cloud services to customers around the world.… |
| Posted: 14 Jun 2012 09:22 PM PDT British telco has formed partnerships but wants full accessBT has turned up the heat on the Chinese government, demanding that international telcos be allowed to sell their wares directly into the country.… |
| Court delays Apple Proview ruling Posted: 14 Jun 2012 08:35 PM PDT 'IPAD' trademark still up for grabs in ChinaThe never-ending battle over rights to the IPAD trademark is set to drag on even longer after news emerged that a Chinese court will delay its ruling while settlement talks between Apple and Proview continue.… |
| Posted: 14 Jun 2012 07:10 PM PDT 500m space rock spotted on Monday gets within 5.3 million kmAn asteroid spotted by Australian astronomers early in the week missed Earth by just 5.3 million kilometres.… |
| May 2012 was second warmest on record. The warmest? 2010 Posted: 14 Jun 2012 06:01 PM PDT Sgt. Joe Friday meets climatology: 'Just the facts, ma'am'The US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has released its monthly State of the Climate Global Analysis report for this May, and my, my, it's rather toasty out there: the month was the second warmest May since record-keeping began in 1880 – and the warmest was just two years ago.… |
| British LulzSec suspect charged in US over hacking Posted: 14 Jun 2012 05:17 PM PDT Busy, busy Essex boy Cleary faces 25 years insideAmerican prosecutors have filed charges with a federal grand jury against accused British LulzSec member Ryan Cleary over hacking attacks on Sony, Fox, and several US hosting companies.… |
| Australian company claims world’s fastest switch Posted: 14 Jun 2012 04:52 PM PDT Traders the target, but 130ns latency has storage industry sniffing aroundA new Australia company, Zeptonics, has created what it claims is the world's fastest network switch.… |
| Solar power can head out of the clouds says CSIRO Posted: 14 Jun 2012 04:28 PM PDT It's always sunny somewhere, so smarter grids could make large-scale renewables viableThe old saw about solar power is that the sun isn't always shining – but in a country as large as Australia, good engineering and intelligent grids can go a long way to overcoming the challenge of intermittency, according to Australia's CSIRO.… |
| Amazon slides MapR into elastic Hadoop service Posted: 14 Jun 2012 04:21 PM PDT Rolls up 2.0 releases for M3 and M5 distrosHadoop World 2012 MapR Technologies, one of the main distributors of commercial-grade Hadoop data-munching software, has been tapped by Amazon Web Services to be an alternative to the open source Hadoop stack in the Elastic MapReduce service that Amazon sells to people who don't want to manage their own Hadoop clusters.… |
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