Patent trolling cost the US $29 BILLION in 2011

Patent trolling cost the US $29 BILLION in 2011


Patent trolling cost the US $29 BILLION in 2011

Posted: 27 Jun 2012 03:05 PM PDT

Boston Uni researchers slam 'NPE' lawsuits

New research from Boston University suggests that "patent trolling" is a very expensive business, costing $US29 billion in 2011 in America alone, and that trolling reduces the funds available for innovation.…

Google wingmen rain Project Glass on San Francisco

Posted: 27 Jun 2012 02:36 PM PDT

Wearable computers launched in style

Google I/O  Google's Sergey Brin has confirmed that the first units of Project Glass, his pet project of wearable computing systems previewed earlier this year, will be available to US customerearly in 2013.…

Red Hat: Keep clouds open, like Linux

Posted: 27 Jun 2012 02:35 PM PDT

You'd expect Shadowman to say that – again

Red Hat Summit  At last year's Red Hat Summit, it was CEO Jim Whitehurst who preached to the open source choir about the need to keep virtualization and the cloudy extensions of it open. And at this year's event in Boston, it was Paul Cormier, president of products at the billion-dollar commercial open source software powerhouse, who banged on the open drum as he and the Red Hat team fleshed out the latest cloudy tools, launched this week.…

Google unveils Nexus 7 tablet, Android 4.1 and Nexus Q

Posted: 27 Jun 2012 02:09 PM PDT

Balls to Apple, Microsoft and Amazon

Google I/O  Google has used its annual developer conference, Google I/0 2012 in San Francisco, to announce its long-expected tablet, the Nexus 7, along with a new 4.1 build of Android (codenamed Jelly Bean) and a hackable home streaming Android computer called the Nexus Q that is shaped like a ball.…

Microsoft concocts cloudy mixture with System Center 2012

Posted: 27 Jun 2012 12:48 PM PDT

False dawn or genuine breakthrough?

Is it possible to have cloud and on-premise computing intermingled in a hybrid called the private cloud?…

Atari turns 40: Pong, Pac-Man and a $500 gamble

Posted: 27 Jun 2012 09:00 AM PDT

Did 1980s joystick deathgrip give you a claw hand?

Forty years ago today, one of the most iconic names in computing was born: Atari.…

UK Supremes back Oracle against reseller who brought Sun kit to EU

Posted: 27 Jun 2012 08:48 AM PDT

What happens in China stays in China. Until Larry says

Oracle has won a UK Supreme Court ruling in its long-running battle with dealer M-Tech Data that upholds the database-maker's right to be the first to bring its gear to EU markets.…

SurfTheChannel site operator found guilty of conspiracy to defraud

Posted: 27 Jun 2012 08:34 AM PDT

First major UK decision against a links site

A landmark legal case has ended with the operator of streaming links website SurfTheChannel.com being found guilty.…

Microsoft says tablets will trump PCs in 2013

Posted: 27 Jun 2012 08:13 AM PDT

Slate domination

Microsoft reckons tablets will outsell standard PCs next year - and Windows 8 will be the catalyst for the shift.…

Microsoft's offices gutted in Athens arson attack

Posted: 27 Jun 2012 07:57 AM PDT

When the Greeks flame someone ...

Microsoft's Greek headguarters in Athens have been attacked by arsonists, who caused serious damage but didn't injure anyone.…

HPC whizzkids battle own software on final day of student compo

Posted: 27 Jun 2012 07:35 AM PDT

Stony Brook Uni team repairs, rewinds and completes

ISC 2012  It's the last day of the 2012 ISC Student Cluster Competition, and Stony Brook University (profile here) has had their work cut out for them so far... From the very beginning, they had software problems with their cluster, requiring them to concentrate on troubleshooting and repairing while their competitors were running code. Despite this, they managed to complete the competition and turn in credible scores on the benchmarks and applications.…

Scaling the heights of private cloud

Posted: 27 Jun 2012 07:30 AM PDT

Take me, take me to the top

Infographic  We've done it again. Another couple of slices through our Private Cloud research, delivered in stunning Technicolor gloryvision.…

ISC 2012: China's 'Pop Idols' seek Klusterkamph glory

Posted: 27 Jun 2012 07:01 AM PDT

Intra-China winners look for win in Germany

ISC 2012  The Tsinghua University team (profile here) didn't take the easy route to the ISC 2012 Student Cluster Competition in Hamburg. They had to fight their way in a Pop Idols-style smackdown along with five other universities, which all competed to carry the Chinese flag in an intra-country play-in round.…

Fraudsters phish for NatWest clients with 'Stephen Hester' email

Posted: 27 Jun 2012 06:58 AM PDT

Web link snare asks for personal info

NatWest customers are being targeted by a run of fake "phishing" emails exploiting the recent disruption in the bank's services, Action Fraud warns.…

China's NUDT students hope GPUs will grind down rivals

Posted: 27 Jun 2012 06:33 AM PDT

GPU-heavy system surprised punters back in Seattle

ISC 2012  China's National University of Defense Technology (NUDT, profile here) is staying true to its heritage by being the only team to use a hybrid CPU/GPU system at the ISC 2012 Student Cluster Competition in Hamburg.…

Suppliers finally get contracts for £4bn gov IT shopping centre

Posted: 27 Jun 2012 06:26 AM PDT

Appeals process ends, programme goes live from July

Suppliers bidding for a place on the delayed IT Hardware & Services (ITH&S) framework have finally been awarded their contracts.…

Speaking in Tech: Who uses Google Wallet?

Posted: 27 Jun 2012 06:01 AM PDT

Surface vs Nexus, the resurrection of Lotus Notes

HP open sources WebOS TouchPad tablet GUI

Posted: 27 Jun 2012 05:39 AM PDT

Luna system manager code posted

HP has released the first part of WebOS Community Edition (WOCE), the latest incarnation of the one-time Palm operating system.…

ISC cluster kids KIT plan to drive off with vendor swag

Posted: 27 Jun 2012 05:33 AM PDT

... and perhaps a trophy too

ISC 2012  The home team at the 2012 ISC Student Cluster Challenge, Team KIT (profile here), are a confident bunch. Not quite cocky, but confident. They made it through their first cluster competition with almost-flying colours – they had significant problems on only one of the surprise applications (WRF) on the first day of competition.…

YouView 'launch event' to take place next week

Posted: 27 Jun 2012 05:07 AM PDT

Hush-hush pre-launch trial begins today

YouView may be about to finally go public with its would-be IPTV platform standard. It has scheduled an announcement next week and is today kicking off a in-home trial of the service.…

HP asks court to force Oracle to obey Itanium contract

Posted: 27 Jun 2012 04:54 AM PDT

'But there is no contract!' - Oracle

HP has told a US court that it should force Oracle to keep supporting its Itanium-based servers for as long as HP sells them.…

Star Trek app warps into TiVo space

Posted: 27 Jun 2012 04:36 AM PDT

Remastered original series, cartoons too

Star Trek buffs who still haven't bought all the DVDs, HD DVDs and Blu-rays will be able to enjoy the original series on telly, courtesy of Virgin Media's CBS Action channel, which is not only showing the series again but has a tie-in app for Virgin's TiVo box.…

SanDisk drives to Valley, picks up new kid for enterprise flash

Posted: 27 Jun 2012 04:29 AM PDT

Schooner strengthens server flash cache and memory creds

Flash product maker and shaker SanDisk has bought Schooner Information Technology, which makes virtual machine-based MySQL and Memcached web cache program acceleration software using cores, threads and solid state drives.…

Microsoft loses appeal against EU antitrust smackdown

Posted: 27 Jun 2012 04:14 AM PDT

Court upholds fine, but knocks it down to €860m

The EU's second-highest court has rejected Microsoft's appeal on the antitrust fine levied by the European Commission four years about, although it did knock a cool €39m (£31.2m) off the total.…

Dell extends XPS laptop line

Posted: 27 Jun 2012 04:09 AM PDT

14in Ultrabook and more

Dell has extended is XPS line of laptops, with 14in and 15in models joining the 13in Ultrabook it launched earlier this year.…

Bletchley Park gets £7.4m to tart up WWII code-breaking huts

Posted: 27 Jun 2012 04:04 AM PDT

Donations + lotto cash will also help build exhibition centre

Bletchley Park has successfully raised the £2.4m it needed to start restoration on code-breaking huts at the World War II site and build a new visitor centre.…

T-shirt race stragglers aim for student cluster compo crown

Posted: 27 Jun 2012 03:46 AM PDT

Colorado Buffaloes DID breeze through the supercomputing bits

ISC 2012  We catch up with the University of Colorado team (profile here) on the last day of the 2012 ISC Student Cluster Competition (aka Hell on the Elbe) in Hamburg.…

Raspberry Pi to skipper microship across Atlantic

Posted: 27 Jun 2012 03:30 AM PDT

FishPi served

Raspberry Pi's journey to punters pockets has hardly gone swimmingly, but as it prepares to cross the Atlantic in a homemade autonomous boat - aptly dubbed FishPi - the budget Linux PC continues to make quite a splash in the tech pool.…

Automated bank scam 'Operation High Roller' stole from the rich

Posted: 27 Jun 2012 03:29 AM PDT

To give to unknown auto-mule crims in the cloud

Security researchers have uncovered a sophisticated, multi-tiered financial fraud ring that may have defrauded businesses, wealthy individuals and banks of tens of millions of dollars.…

FBI nabs 24 in card-fraud forum sting

Posted: 27 Jun 2012 03:17 AM PDT

Feds had been having tips-and-tricks with fraudsters for YEARS

Updated  An FBI sting operation against an underground carding forum has resulted in 24 arrests.…

Doug Cutting: Hadoop dodged a Microsoft-Oracle stomping

Posted: 27 Jun 2012 03:00 AM PDT

Elephant daddy on breaking into mainstream IT

Interview  We've all heard plenty about open source changing the dynamics of the tech industry and upsetting the old order. Open source, we're told, is manifest destiny. Companies that ignore it will be consigned to history and CIOs who assert there's no freebie code behind their firewalls are out of touch with devs happily humming to Tomcat, Apache, Linux and PHP. At least that's how the story goes.…

Apple iPhone turns five this Friday

Posted: 27 Jun 2012 02:43 AM PDT

Staggering money spinner - and that's just the hardware

The iPhone first went on sale five years ago this week and it has already clocked up more than $150 billion in revenues - more than the annual GDP of Hungary - for Apple.…

Data-furtling execs look to establish cohabiting silos

Posted: 27 Jun 2012 02:43 AM PDT

It's all about contextual relationships

EqualLogic alumni are at it again; running a storage startup to virtually tier data in different silos and extract information simply without complex server analytics software.…

Apple wins US ban on Samsung's Galaxy Tab 10.1

Posted: 27 Jun 2012 02:29 AM PDT

No American can fondle Korean firm's slabs

A US judge has granted Apple's request to ban Samsung Galaxy Tabs 10.1 in the US over a single patent.…

Crypto boffins: RSA tokens can be cracked in 13 MINUTES

Posted: 27 Jun 2012 02:13 AM PDT

No practical risk to SecurID 800 users – RSA

Crypto boffins have developed an attack that's capable of extracting the protected information from hardened security devices such as RSA's SecurID 800.…

Administrator eyes DVR firesale after TVonics collapse

Posted: 27 Jun 2012 02:06 AM PDT

Freeview HD recorder firm founders

UK DVR maker TVonics has gone into administration. The maker of Freeview HD recorders, including the DTR-Z500HD and DTR-HD500, was placed in the hands of Bell Advisory on 12 June. And, though it's been in administration before and survived, back in 2008, things don't look good this time round.…

Ultrabook makers take the Ivy Bridge path

Posted: 27 Jun 2012 02:00 AM PDT

Intel sets the rules

Extreme Hardware  Intel launched quad-core versions of its Ivy Bridge processor in April but held back on dual-core versions, apparently to sell out its Sandy Bridge dual-core chips. With the dual-core Ivy Bridge CPUs out this month, PC makers are already starting to announce notebooks based on the new architecture.…

Be co-founder mows BT's long grass in bid for fibre success

Posted: 27 Jun 2012 01:44 AM PDT

'We can best service a lot of the council estates'

Interview  Dana Pressman Tobak can probably be spotted in the footnote of broadband history, having founded Be Unlimited with her university pal Boris Ivanovic, before quickly selling it on to O2 within a year of offering the product to the company's customers. And now the duo are back, this time under the guise of Hyperoptic – a Shepherd's Bush-based outfit that claims download and upload speeds of 1Gbit/s for high-rise-living Londoners. In an exclusive interview with The Register, Tobak tells us just how much fibre she hopes to quickly feed to the UK.

Android Firefox: Screaming, awesome, you'll go blind etc

Posted: 27 Jun 2012 01:27 AM PDT

Really my dears, you'll wear yourselves out

Updated  Mozilla has galloped a new version of Firefox for Android out of the gates just ahead of the expected full launch of Chrome on mobes later this week.…

Automatic Wi-Fi roam, signup and billing via SIM card to be tested

Posted: 27 Jun 2012 01:14 AM PDT

Like cellular data but without the cell network

Thirty-seven communications companies around the world have signed up to trial Hotspot 2 Wi-Fi roaming – and billing – using commercially available routers later this year, it has been announced. Hotspot 2 tech allows a mobile handset (or tablet, or ereader) to automatically detect, connect to and register with a Wi-Fi base station. But while Hotspot 2 has the potential to be more disruptive than Wi-Fi was, the disruption may already have started.…

Microsoft: We tried to use Azure ourselves last year, and couldn't

Posted: 27 Jun 2012 01:00 AM PDT

But now we're fully ready to cannibalise our own server biz

In the first half of 2011, Microsoft made a series of changes at the top of the team running Windows Azure, its cloud.…

69,000 sign petition to save TV-linker O'Dwyer from US extradition

Posted: 27 Jun 2012 12:44 AM PDT

Gov might be made to listen - if it wasn't Jimbo Wales

Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales has got over 69,000 signatures on a petition to save a 24-year-old Briton from extradition to the US.…

Cabinet Office: We've cut taxpayers' SAP and Microsoft bills

Posted: 27 Jun 2012 12:29 AM PDT

Tearful giants face starvation on < £300m this year

The Cabinet Office estimates it will squeeze out £65m in savings this fiscal year through a public-sector-wide deal it recently cut with Microsoft.…

I'm the world's fastest! No, I am! And I'm staggering, too!

Posted: 27 Jun 2012 12:19 AM PDT

HPC works of heartbreaking genius argue as HP goes SMB

ISC 2012 Xyratex has formally launched its ClusterStor high-performance computing drive arrays, saying it's the fastest data storage array for high-performance computing in the industry. At the other end of the scale HP has revved its X5000 NAS filer upping capacity and adding iSCSI SAN access.…

NASA counts down to nuclear tank invasion of Mars

Posted: 27 Jun 2012 12:00 AM PDT

Blitzkrieg from space over in 7 minutes of terror

New vid  It's T-40 days unti NASA's nuclear powered Curiosity rover arrives at Mars and commences re-entry and descent to the surface beneath its hover-rocket sky crane lander - and the space mission's engineers are biting their nails.…

Biz MPs gung-ho for 'Google Review'

Posted: 26 Jun 2012 11:34 PM PDT

Happy for bureaucrats to gain new powers – over your stuff

The Parliamentary committee which monitors the Business Department has warmly backed No 10's copyright revolution, and urged the Hargreaves' Independent Review of IP and Growth – aka the Google Review – to speed ahead.…

Anonymous turns ire on Japan after anti-piracy law passes

Posted: 26 Jun 2012 11:15 PM PDT

Key sites get a good DDoS-ing

It was only a matter of time – hacktivist group Anonymous has taken aim at the web sites of political parties and government departments in Japan in retaliation for a tough new anti-piracy bill passed last week.…

Sony SmartWatch Android remote

Posted: 26 Jun 2012 11:00 PM PDT

Bluetooth strap-on second coming

Review  Sony has tried this remote phone manager and viewer malarkey before with its LiveView that first appeared almost two years ago. The idea was sound but the execution was somewhat undermined by the fact it just didn't work. Evidently, Sony thinks it's time for another crack at this concept with the SmartWatch…

Tech giants on trial as report reveals more Chinese factory abuses

Posted: 26 Jun 2012 10:52 PM PDT

VTech in the firing line as attention shifts from Foxconn

Analysis First it was Apple and Foxconn, now Motorola, AT&T, Sony, Deutsche Telekom and others have come under the spotlight after a new report made shocking allegations of human and labour rights violations at the Chinese factories of technology supplier VTech.…

Zeebox set to put ze bomb under Aus broadcasters

Posted: 26 Jun 2012 05:53 PM PDT

Ex-BBC CTO launching Oz social TV with mystery broadcaster

Anthony Rose, the brains behind the BBC's iPlayer and former Kazaa CTO, is preparing to launch his social TV platform Zeebox in Australia.…

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