Google adds handwriting to mobile search site |
- Google adds handwriting to mobile search site
- World celebrates System Administrator Appreciation Day
- Google taking orders for Kansas City gigabit fiber network
- Paying by iPad, sir? Apple buys US security firm for $350m
- Oracle cans IBM attack ad after ticking off from watchdog
- Ouya Android console gets OnLive onboard
- Fujitsu: We'll go on the 'offensive' in fight for IT dollars
- Capita IT Services second-in-command Hewitt leaves today
- QLogic: We can't flog adapters when no one's buying servers
- Tony Blair bod's Gmail hack teen gets 6 months
- Google: Oops, we've STILL got Street View's slurped Wi-Fi data
- Samsung: 'Apple's proto-iPhone Jony is a Sony phone phoney'
- Samsung snubs slump, slurps stunning smartmobe sales
- Money can't buy open-source love... only code can
- Twitter impostors stop at NOTHING to drag athletes through mud
- Surface slab WILL rub our PC-making pals the wrong way – Microsoft
- Samsung plonks universal search BACK into Galaxy S IIIs
- Twitter titsup: Our failover was actually just FAIL ALL OVER
- Watch Smarter: video guide to... SSD installation
- World's biggest distie Ingram admits it can't keep up growth in UK
- Wall Street gives LSI 16% fist-bump for quadrupling flash revenues
- IT support bod? Whatever you earn, it's not enough
- Twitter airport bomb joke conviction binned in common-sense WIN
- Chip and PIN keypads 'easily fooled' with counterfeit cards
- Gobble gabblers: 'Seagate will put up $1 BEEELION for OCZ'
- Natwest freezes debit cards, online banking in fresh cock-up
- Hidden Grand Canyon-sized ICE-HOLE hastens Antarctic melt
- How do you measure up at the Olympics?
- UK's HECToR supercomputer in 27PB MEGA-storage boost
- 'We asked firms if they were looking at Windows 8, most laughed'
- Microsoft bundles BlueHat finalist tech into anti-exploit tool
- HP Envy 4-1010ea 14in Ultrabook review
- China denies US chopper tech espionage claim
- Apple disappoints at first Black Hat briefing
- Nokia set to axe China R&D jobs
- Why one storage admin fears Justin Bieber
- Lawyers try to seize Chinese IPAD trademark
- Baidu opens R&D lab in Singapore
- IT departments are BRATTY TEENAGERS
- Australian government wants IT apprentices
- NVIDIA joins Miracast club
- Texan scientists create tiny, tiny laser
- Stuxnet: 'Moral crime' or proportionate response?
- Facebook posts loss despite strong revenue growth
| Google adds handwriting to mobile search site Posted: 27 Jul 2012 01:48 PM PDT For budding fingersmithsFondleslab not getting enough love? Google has unveiled a new way to tickle your favorite shiny object, in the form of handwriting recognition for its search homepage.… |
| World celebrates System Administrator Appreciation Day Posted: 27 Jul 2012 12:31 PM PDT Time to buy your BOFH a drinkIn a tradition started twelve years ago, the IT community is celebrating another global System Administrator Appreciation Day (SAAD), a time to recognize the talents for your favorite BOFH.… |
| Google taking orders for Kansas City gigabit fiber network Posted: 27 Jul 2012 12:11 PM PDT But they have to really, really want itGoogle is ready to flip the switch on its new gigabit residential fiber network in Kansas City – that is, provided the locals can rally enough of their neighbors to pre-register to justify wiring up the houses.… |
| Paying by iPad, sir? Apple buys US security firm for $350m Posted: 27 Jul 2012 10:33 AM PDT Could be a move to attract enterprise-grade fondlersApple has forked out about $350m in cash for a security company that makes embedded security solutions for mobile devices, according to an SEC filing.… |
| Oracle cans IBM attack ad after ticking off from watchdog Posted: 27 Jul 2012 10:01 AM PDT Big Blue shed big blue tearsOracle has pulled an attack advert that claimed its Exadata system is twenty times faster than IBM Power systems - because it isn't, and an advertising watchdog wasn't impressed.… |
| Ouya Android console gets OnLive onboard Posted: 27 Jul 2012 09:27 AM PDT Cloud cover forecastThe much hyped Ouya Android console has attracted the attention of cloud-gaming outfit OnLive, which confirmed it will be available on the Rubik's Cube-sized box from launch.… |
| Fujitsu: We'll go on the 'offensive' in fight for IT dollars Posted: 27 Jul 2012 09:02 AM PDT Conglomerate ready to grow as Japan starts recoveryJapanese tech conglomerate Fujitsu had exactly as bad a first quarter of fiscal 2012 as it expected when it warned investors back in April. The company says it will be more aggressive in its pursuit of growth now that its home country is on the mend after of last year's earthquake and tsunami – and despite the uncertainties in Europe and an economic slowdown in the United States.… |
| Capita IT Services second-in-command Hewitt leaves today Posted: 27 Jul 2012 08:31 AM PDT Man in charge of Unity transformation programme exitsCapita IT Services has told its workforce that operations director Russ Hewitt – the man in charge of the Unity cost cutting and change programme – is leaving today.… |
| QLogic: We can't flog adapters when no one's buying servers Posted: 27 Jul 2012 08:02 AM PDT Pins hopes on ASICs, mystery server-based products after dire resultsQLogic, in the stagnant and low-growth adapter businesses, has announced weak quarterly results, and is pinning its hopes on ASICs and soon-to-be-revealed new server-based products unlike anything it has produced before.… |
| Tony Blair bod's Gmail hack teen gets 6 months Posted: 27 Jul 2012 07:43 AM PDT 'TriCK' also sentenced for anti-terror hotline prankTeen hacker Junaid Hussain was sentenced to six months in a youth detention lock-up today for breaking into an email account linked to Tony Blair among other attacks.… |
| Google: Oops, we've STILL got Street View's slurped Wi-Fi data Posted: 27 Jul 2012 07:27 AM PDT 'Fesses up to UK info watchdog, other authoritiesGoogle has apologised after discovering it still has some payload data slurped from unsecured Wi-Fi networks via its controversial Street View spycars.… |
| Samsung: 'Apple's proto-iPhone Jony is a Sony phone phoney' Posted: 27 Jul 2012 06:50 AM PDT Mobe design rip-off allegation emerges in court battleSamsung is pulling out all the stops in its patent battle with Apple. The latest allegation, which emerged in a court filing submitted yesterday, is that Apple based its iPhone 4 design on some early sketches that appear to borrow from a Sony design.… |
| Samsung snubs slump, slurps stunning smartmobe sales Posted: 27 Jul 2012 06:18 AM PDT Slow down? What economic slow down?Strong smartphone sales banked Samsung a $4.56bn profit in the three months to 30 June, according to its latest bean counting exercise. The South Korean giant posted a 48 per cent year-on-year rise in net income in preliminary results announced last night [PDF].… |
| Money can't buy open-source love... only code can Posted: 27 Jul 2012 06:02 AM PDT Linus Torvalds started with nothingOpen ... and Shut Money can't buy you happiness, but Meteor, a web-apps startup focused on enterprise app development, seems to think it can buy it an open-source community.… |
| Twitter impostors stop at NOTHING to drag athletes through mud Posted: 27 Jul 2012 05:43 AM PDT @UsainBoltt: fanks 4 teh pr0n link lmao!!1Analysis Malware-slingers and mischief-makers are ramping up the creation of fake celebrity profiles on social networks in time for the start of the Olympics on Friday. El Reg spoke to "reputation managers" of the stars about the problem.… |
| Surface slab WILL rub our PC-making pals the wrong way – Microsoft Posted: 27 Jul 2012 05:22 AM PDT Redmond admits 'jeopardising' friendships with Windows 8Microsoft's tablet-like-laptop Surface will compete with machines from PC partners, thus jeopardising manufacturers' commitment to Windows 8. That's the bottom line revealed in Microsoft's latest SEC filing for Wall St's moneymen.… |
| Samsung plonks universal search BACK into Galaxy S IIIs Posted: 27 Jul 2012 05:05 AM PDT Us, scared of Apple? Pah!Samsung today conceded it was wrong to remove the universal search function from Galaxy S III phones in its latest software update - and has promised punters in the UK another firmware patch will restore the functionality.… |
| Twitter titsup: Our failover was actually just FAIL ALL OVER Posted: 27 Jul 2012 04:48 AM PDT Double trouble after data centre double-whammyTwitter fell offline last night for several hours because - the company has now confirmed - redundancy in the micro-blogging site's data centres failed to kick in.… |
| Watch Smarter: video guide to... SSD installation Posted: 27 Jul 2012 04:47 AM PDT Speedy storage transplant made easySmarter Storage An SSD is arguably the best hardware upgrade you can instal on any laptop or desktop PC. These hard drive replacements come in a range of capacities and prices delivering instantly noticeable improvements in performance along with enhanced reliability.… |
| World's biggest distie Ingram admits it can't keep up growth in UK Posted: 27 Jul 2012 04:34 AM PDT We're hot, but not that hotIngram Micro reckons the double-digit sales growth it filed for the UK and Germany in Q2 – helping soften the top line declines across Europe – is not sustainable.… |
| Wall Street gives LSI 16% fist-bump for quadrupling flash revenues Posted: 27 Jul 2012 04:23 AM PDT Solid second quarter after flashy boostIntegrated circuits and storage systems biz LSI scored $622m in revenues in its second 2012 quarter, 26 per cent higher than a year ago and 6 per cent higher than the first quarter after "better-than-expected growth". Profits were $59m, 11 per cent up on the year-ago profit number but $16m less than the first quarter. But the market seemed pleased with the result, as evidenced by the jump in share price of 16 per cent, according to Bloomberg.… |
| IT support bod? Whatever you earn, it's not enough Posted: 27 Jul 2012 04:00 AM PDT Betwixt chair and keyboard sits the problem of which you speakSomething for the weekend, Sir? It might amuse you to read that one of the senior IT support managers at one of my client workplaces confessed this week that his experience of IT support 'from the other side' was disappointing. By 'from the other side', of course, I mean as a user: my colleague is not a spectral secret shopper from beyond the grave.… |
| Twitter airport bomb joke conviction binned in common-sense WIN Posted: 27 Jul 2012 03:56 AM PDT Obviously, you must be having a laff, says High CourtA bloke found guilty of tweeting a "menacing" joke about blowing up a UK airport has had his conviction quashed by the High Court today. A collective sigh of relief was heard moments later from comedians addicted to the micro-blogging website.… |
| Chip and PIN keypads 'easily fooled' with counterfeit cards Posted: 27 Jul 2012 03:21 AM PDT Blighty researchers head to Vegas to show 'em howBlack Hat 2012 Retail Chip and PIN devices might easily be attacked using a specially prepared chip-based credit card, according to security researchers.… |
| Gobble gabblers: 'Seagate will put up $1 BEEELION for OCZ' Posted: 27 Jul 2012 03:05 AM PDT If you believe biz rumours, OCZ buy is ONReports that HHD Seagate is going to buy OCZ have been around for weeks, but now there's a price tag of a billion bucks being floated around. This comes after last week's rumours sent OCZ stock into overdrive, adding about $68m to the company's share value, according to Reuters. Seagate itself is worth $11bn.… |
| Natwest freezes debit cards, online banking in fresh cock-up Posted: 27 Jul 2012 02:53 AM PDT Hardware death blamedAnother IT cock-up at Natwest halted customers' debit card transactions last night and took down online services.… |
| Hidden Grand Canyon-sized ICE-HOLE hastens Antarctic melt Posted: 27 Jul 2012 02:24 AM PDT Huge chasm explains rapidly thinning Western ice sheetsVid A geoboffin and glacioboffin team have discovered a Grand-Canyon-sized chasm hidden under the ice in West Antarctica that they believe is helping the ice to melt.… |
| How do you measure up at the Olympics? Posted: 27 Jul 2012 02:01 AM PDT Lane-watchers, touch pads, stop watches and time triggersIn Rome in 1960, a very strange thing happened in the men's 100m freestyle Olympic swimming final: the man who recorded the fastest time was given the silver medal.… |
| UK's HECToR supercomputer in 27PB MEGA-storage boost Posted: 27 Jul 2012 01:42 AM PDT Disks, tapes and GPFSHECToR, the Edinburgh-based supercomputer used by UK researchers to do the math on some of the more thorny scientific problems, is having petabytes of disk and tape storage installed in a massive storage expansion.… |
| 'We asked firms if they were looking at Windows 8, most laughed' Posted: 27 Jul 2012 01:02 AM PDT Plus: 'Stop being evil and we'll give your products a chance'QuoTW This was the week when Microsoft's latest operating system Windows 8 got what can only be described as a bashing from the folks over at Gartner.… |
| Microsoft bundles BlueHat finalist tech into anti-exploit tool Posted: 27 Jul 2012 12:33 AM PDT Give 'em enough ROPeMicrosoft has beefed up one of its anti-exploit tools with technology from a $200K contest finalist.… |
| HP Envy 4-1010ea 14in Ultrabook review Posted: 27 Jul 2012 12:00 AM PDT Cost-effective compromise?HP made quite a fuss when it launched its Spectre Ultrabook back in May, and whilst we praised its gleaming, glass design we also noted that the Spectre was a bit on the porky side for what was meant to be an 'ultraportable' laptop. It was also burdened by a £1200 price-tag that might make even Apple blush.… |
| China denies US chopper tech espionage claim Posted: 26 Jul 2012 11:25 PM PDT Says US Courts handed out US$75m fine in errorThe Chinese government has hit back at claims that technology used in its first fleet of attack helicopters was illegally sold to it by a US defence contractor.… |
| Apple disappoints at first Black Hat briefing Posted: 26 Jul 2012 11:07 PM PDT Rehashes old info and scarpers before question timeBlack Hat 2012 Apple's first Black Hat presentation was one of the most highly anticipated talks at this year's infosec gathering in Las Vegas, but many delegates were left feeling more than a little short-changed.… |
| Nokia set to axe China R&D jobs Posted: 26 Jul 2012 11:03 PM PDT Belt-tightening hits BeijingNokia's woes in the world's biggest mobile market are set to continue after reports emerged that the ailing Finnish firm has been forced to purge some of its Chinese R&D team as part of the 10,000 lay-offs announced last month.… |
| Why one storage admin fears Justin Bieber Posted: 26 Jul 2012 09:06 PM PDT HINT: He works for two girls schoolsWhat are storage admins afraid of? We imagine failed backups, wee-hours SMS alerts and vendor maintenance bills are high on the list, with rampant data growth a constant low-level worry. Warbling teen pop idols? Probably not so much.… |
| Lawyers try to seize Chinese IPAD trademark Posted: 26 Jul 2012 08:12 PM PDT Proview's unpaid lawyers try to grab name to force paymentApple may be waiting some time yet before it gets the rights to use the IPAD name in China after reports from the region suggested that lawyers of its court room opponent Proview are requesting temporary seizure of the trademark until they are paid.… |
| Baidu opens R&D lab in Singapore Posted: 26 Jul 2012 07:43 PM PDT Chinese answer to Google gets into speech recognitionChina's search giant Baidu is following Google's polyglot path by opening its first tech lab in Singapore.… |
| IT departments are BRATTY TEENAGERS Posted: 26 Jul 2012 05:51 PM PDT Submit to tough love from ITSM father figure, says BMC process wonkIT Departments behave like bratty teenagers by insisting they know best and must always figure out their own way to get anything done, according to Doug Mueller, a Corporate Architect at BMC Software.… |
| Australian government wants IT apprentices Posted: 26 Jul 2012 05:24 PM PDT Get thee to Canberra, young geeksAustralia's Federal Government has opened its 2013 ICT Apprenticeship Program, and hopes bright young people who can spell HTML and pass a security clearance will jump at the chance to earn up a wage of around AUD$40k (actual pay varies by agency and seniority) |
| Posted: 26 Jul 2012 04:45 PM PDT Is WiFi's 'AirPlay-killer' getting legs?The Miracast certification being touted by the WiFi Alliance has a new adherent, with NVIDIA announcing that its Tegra 3 display proceesor will support the technology.… |
| Texan scientists create tiny, tiny laser Posted: 26 Jul 2012 04:30 PM PDT Boon for on-chip opticsThe University of Texas at Austin has unveiled a laser built from a 28 nanometer rod and a 5 nm silicon dioxide layer.… |
| Stuxnet: 'Moral crime' or proportionate response? Posted: 26 Jul 2012 04:28 PM PDT Security experts split on cyberwarDelegates at the Black Hat conference in Las Vegas are sharply split on the merits (or otherwise) of malware like Stuxnet that can be used offensively to take down infrastructure.… |
| Facebook posts loss despite strong revenue growth Posted: 26 Jul 2012 04:24 PM PDT Zuck's first earnings report fails to impressOn Thursday Facebook gave its first-ever earnings report since becoming a public company, and although it posted a loss, it generally met analysts' expectations and showed strong revenue growth, aside from some nagging weaknesses in the mobile market.… |
| You are subscribed to email updates from The Register To stop receiving these emails, you may unsubscribe now. | Email delivery powered by Google |
| Google Inc., 20 West Kinzie, Chicago IL USA 60610 | |
0 comments:
Post a Comment