Intel grazes Q2 numbers, but 'growth will be slower' in Q3

Intel grazes Q2 numbers, but 'growth will be slower' in Q3


Intel grazes Q2 numbers, but 'growth will be slower' in Q3

Posted: 17 Jul 2012 01:50 PM PDT

Revises full-year projections downward

Intel has reported its second-quarter 2012 financial results, and you can almost hear the Wall Street moneymen breathe a muted sigh of relief – although the sound of popping champagne corks is not likely to be heard.…

Cisco buys Virtuata for virty security

Posted: 17 Jul 2012 12:56 PM PDT

Taking on Bromium? Beating Citrix to the punch?

Networking juggernaut and server player Cisco Systems has snapped up Virtuata, a stealthy startup that is working on security software for virtual machines that has not really said much about itself to date – and now never will.…

iPhone 5 poised to trounce Android, devastate BlackBerry?

Posted: 17 Jul 2012 12:46 PM PDT

Small-scale survey sees 80 million iPhone 5 sales 'in the bag'

A new report on smartphone buying plans provides excellent news for Apple, so-so news for Android-handset manufacturers, and downright lousy news for RIM.…

CumuLogic puffs up Java platform cloud 1.0

Posted: 17 Jul 2012 11:09 AM PDT

Memory pricing is the wave of the future

CumuLogic, a platform cloud provider founded by some ex-Sunners with Java and cloud expertise, is delivering its first platform cloud layer for public and private infrastructure clouds.…

Dell airdrops military-grade data-centre-in-a-crate

Posted: 17 Jul 2012 10:03 AM PDT

Big data goes to war

You need to compute everywhere and anywhere in this world these days, and thankfully you can always get some iron on the end of a cable to crunch the numbers.…

Micron mass-produces Phase Change Memory

Posted: 17 Jul 2012 09:01 AM PDT

Flash superseded? Maybe...

Memory maker Micron has become the first firm to put Phase Change Memory (PCM) - one of the possible non-volatile successors to Flash - into mass production. Caveat: we're talking the technology's use for mobile devices only.…

Hacktivists lift emails, passwords from oil biz in support of Greenpeace

Posted: 17 Jul 2012 08:57 AM PDT

Operation get behind the hippies

An Anonymous cadre has hacked into major oil corporations' computers to protest against drilling in the Arctic.…

Fresh shift of 'nauts comes aboard space station from Soyuz podule

Posted: 17 Jul 2012 08:16 AM PDT

What craft needs 83% of its crew to be flight engineers?

The latest shift of 'nauts has successfully boarded the International Space Station for their stint of orbital duty, arriving at the sky-high outpost last night (UK time) aboard a Soyuz TMA-05M spacecraft sent up from Russia.…

Nasa guides Mars Rover with Kinect

Posted: 17 Jul 2012 08:13 AM PDT

Lunar Lander de nos jours

Nasa has launched a free game for Kinect owners which sees players guide the Mars Rover through its landing sequence.…

Morphlabs distills concentrated OpenStack cloudy system

Posted: 17 Jul 2012 08:02 AM PDT

A stiff one for service providers, SMBs

Morphlabs, Are offounded five years ago to peddle a cloud management tool called AppSpace on top of Amazon's EC2 compute cloud, is moving more aggressively into the cloudy hardware business with its second preconfigured cloud-in-the box setup based on the open source OpenStack cloud controller.…

New UK immigration IT system late and £28m OVER BUDGET

Posted: 17 Jul 2012 06:57 AM PDT

On time, on budget, works. Pick two, er, one. Er ...

A £385m computer system being built for the UK's Border Agency and Border Force to process immigrants' paperwork is a year behind schedule and £28m over budget. That's according to the National Audit Office (NAO), which today published findings from a study it undertook in March into the stumbling IT project.…

New 'Madi' cyber-espionage campaign targets Iran AND Israel

Posted: 17 Jul 2012 06:40 AM PDT

Attackers 'fluent in Persian', say security sinkholers

Security researchers have discovered a new cyber-espionage campaign targeting victims in the Middle East.…

Wouldbe Apple App Store killer WAC disappears into GSMA

Posted: 17 Jul 2012 06:23 AM PDT

The Once and Future best hope of the networks

The Wholesale Applications Community has been voluntarily subsumed by the GSMA, selling off its technology and giving up its independence. The app store which never was will now never be.…

VMware CEO exile rumour: Not a punishment for Maritz

Posted: 17 Jul 2012 05:52 AM PDT

The message - Our future is cloudy. Sorry! Cloudy

Analysis  VMware boss Paul Maritz is rumoured to be exiting his virtualisation software powerhouse - and could be replaced by Pat Gelsinger, the head of storage products at parent company EMC.…

EMC CEO succession blown wide open by VMware rumblings

Posted: 17 Jul 2012 05:27 AM PDT

Pat Gelsinger to run VMware, Maritz to run, er, what?

Analysis  The VMware cloud spinout rumour mill has churned up speculation that VMware CEO Paul Maritz is leaving - and will be replaced by Pat "golden boy" Gelsinger of parent company EMC.…

Microsoft 'didn't notice' it had removed Browser Choice for 17 months

Posted: 17 Jul 2012 04:53 AM PDT

Brussels may get 'severe' over breach of competition pact

Brussels' competition commissioner has opened a fresh investigation into Microsoft's practice of using its Windows operating system to push people into using its Internet Explorer browser, following allegations of non-compliance with an EC settlement deal the software giant agreed to in late 2009.…

Skype so sorry for sending that saucy IM to mum instead of pash

Posted: 17 Jul 2012 04:27 AM PDT

Wait for update, or simply join the Foreign Legion?

Skype has admitted its IP-chat software can accidentally send punters' private messages to the wrong person on their contact lists.…

'Unfair' tariff tweaks yield networks £90m

Posted: 17 Jul 2012 04:04 AM PDT

Fixed-price contracts need fixing, says Which?

Mobile networks unfairly make up to £90m a year thanks to contract Ts&Cs which allow them to raise the price of fixed-rate tariffs, consumer reviews site Which? has claimed.…

Making SMEs cyber-safe for fun and profit

Posted: 17 Jul 2012 03:45 AM PDT

Let the Vultures show you how

Whitepaper  Big firms stand to lose a lot when their defences are breached. But small companies have their own crown jewels, and stand to lose at least as much as their larger rivals without the resources to fall back on.…

Google makes fresh offers in Euro anti-trust negotiations

Posted: 17 Jul 2012 03:44 AM PDT

Ads dominatrix hopes to slip out of Brussels' clutches

Advertising giant Google has sent a revised package of concessions to Europe's competition commissioner after it was asked to clarify aspects of its proposed antitrust settlement, according to the Financial Times.…

Euro cellcos hoard nano Sims ahead of iPhone 5 launch

Posted: 17 Jul 2012 03:40 AM PDT

Order! Order!

More evidence, perhaps, for the iPhone 5's not-far-off-now launch: European mobile network operators are eagerly ordering millions of nano-sized Sim cards.…

Samsung swoops on Brit chip biz CSR, grabs talents'n'patents

Posted: 17 Jul 2012 03:33 AM PDT

Actual real technology, no web-2.0 rubbish here

A British chip-design company has sold its mobile and GPS location-finding tech wing to Samsung for $310 million (£198m).…

Finally some QUALITY apps for Android: PalmOS emulator ported

Posted: 17 Jul 2012 03:17 AM PDT

Just woken up with long beard, curly fingernails?

PalmOS users who've become objects of ridicule with their refusal to upgrade can now switch to Android while keeping the favourite PalmOS apps.…

Valve to raise Steam for Ubuntu

Posted: 17 Jul 2012 03:15 AM PDT

Zombies let loose on Linux

Valve has confirmed that Steam will launch on Linux, with an Ubuntu port of the 'iTunes for PC games' download service set to roll out alongside zombie thriller Left 4 Dead 2.…

Much of China still has rubbish net connections, stats show

Posted: 17 Jul 2012 03:01 AM PDT

Fleabitten British lion still faster than snoozing dragon

China may have the full weight of the government behind its push towards improving fixed line broadband penetration in the country, but it's still lagging far behind the UK, according to the latest stats from local content delivery firm ChinaCache.…

iPhone 5 to be skinniest Apple yet SHOCK

Posted: 17 Jul 2012 02:57 AM PDT

But as much to do with the battery as the touchscreen tech

The next iPhone will be skinnier than the current one, but not entirely - as the Wall Street Journal would have us believe - because Apple will use advanced touchscreen tech.…

Raspberry Pi used as flight computer aboard black-sky balloon

Posted: 17 Jul 2012 02:43 AM PDT

PENGUINs in SPAAAACE!

Pics  A Brit amateur balloonist has pulled off two major achievements: getting his hands on a wallet-sized Raspberry Pi computer and then sending it heavenwards to 39,994m (131,200ft).…

Are things looking up in biz? Rosier prospects for Computacenter

Posted: 17 Jul 2012 02:29 AM PDT

In the English Channel and across the English Channel

Computacenter's UK ops have begun to shine again, driven by IT services wins, following something of a stagger in the opening three months of the year.…

Intel prunes SSD prices

Posted: 17 Jul 2012 02:19 AM PDT

Extends budget range too

Intel has pledged to make its solid-state drives less expensive. It has reduced what it charges resellers for its 320, 330 and 520 SSDs.…

Sky's TV-on-demand registers with regulator just hours before opening

Posted: 17 Jul 2012 02:14 AM PDT

Took that long to work out who the regulator was

Sky today launched its Now TV vid-on-demand service, but only managed to notify the right regulator hours before the off as it's getting harder to remember who controls what.…

Cleversafe cuddles up to MapReduce, kicks HDFS out of bed

Posted: 17 Jul 2012 02:02 AM PDT

Hey Hadoop, we think your filesystem sucks

Object storage specialist Cleversafe is after a piece of Big Data analytics action, and has wheeled in MapReduce to make it happen. In the same stroke it rejected HDFS as vulnerable and wasteful of storage capacity.…

Acer EMEA boss: PC crash hit us like a coal mine GAS BLAST

Posted: 17 Jul 2012 01:39 AM PDT

Lessons learned, hopefully in time for the Olympics

Acer's channel-cramming strategy that left it with a pile of unsold PCs almost visible from space was "terribly wrong", a top boss has admitted.…

Lenovo ups in-house notebook production

Posted: 17 Jul 2012 01:30 AM PDT

It's all about control...

It could be sweaty palm time for Taiwan's ODMs after reports emerged that Lenovo is set to step up in-house production of its notebooks and PCs.…

EMC in comprehensive reshuffle of top sales chaps

Posted: 17 Jul 2012 01:22 AM PDT

We're just madly busy driving and building things here

EMC has replaced its sales boss and three top regional sales heads and recruited an OEM/HPC heavy-hitter.…

LG execs fingered in Samsung OLED tech theft

Posted: 17 Jul 2012 01:03 AM PDT

Samsung wants its rival to come clean

Samsung has urged its South Korean tech rival LG to 'fess up and apologise after several of its execs were indicted on charges of orchestrating corporate espionage relating to Samsung's OLED display technology.…

Behold: First look at Office 2013, with screenshots

Posted: 17 Jul 2012 12:52 AM PDT

So you say you want Metro everywhere, all the time?

Microsoft announced the details of Office 2013 at noon on Monday, San Francisco time, so your humble Reg hacks have only had it their sweaty paws for a few hours, but it's not too soon to give some first impressions of the suite, and in particular its revamped UI.…

Cockfighting <i>Reg</i> hack cursed with cancer

Posted: 17 Jul 2012 12:29 AM PDT

Animal lover less than impressed with battling poultry

FoTW  My piece last week on a chance encounter with the film Cockfighter didn't go down to too well with one anonymous animal lover.…

We'll punish crims faster... with lots of shiny new tech - minister

Posted: 17 Jul 2012 12:02 AM PDT

Computers, is there anything they can't do?

Effective use of technology will be at the heart of the criminal justice system, the Ministry of Justice (MoJ) has promised.…

Dell Inspiron 17R SE 17in Ivy Bridge notebook review

Posted: 17 Jul 2012 12:00 AM PDT

Core i7 beast of burden

I'm currently mourning the demise of the 18-inch Dell XPS that I've been using as a TV/DVD player in my bedroom for the last five years. Hardly anyone seems to make 18-inch laptops anymore, but Dell has come up with a good alternative in the form of the new Inspiron 17R SE (Special Edition).…

US, Iraqi lawn chair balloonists blown out of sky

Posted: 16 Jul 2012 06:28 PM PDT

Record-setting attempt ends around the bend from Bend

A pair of intrepid aerial adventurers aiming to fly from Bend, Oregon, to southwestern Montana in a tandem-seated lawn chair craft buoyed by 350 five-foot balloons had their dreams deferred when their aircraft came down in a thunderstorm 30 miles from liftoff, dumped them off, then sailed away on its own, destination unknown.…

More Steve Jobs iPad mini attacks from beyond the grave

Posted: 16 Jul 2012 03:45 PM PDT

Not just 'sandpaper', but 'developers, developers, developers, developers'

Rumors of an impending Apple iPad mini continue to proliferate, with The New York Times being the latest to weigh in, and Bloomberg and The Wall Street Journal already having had their say, so it's a good time to recount the late Steve Jobs's arguments as to why such a device will be doomed to failure.…

Dell bundles up SQL Server 2012 data warehouse appliance

Posted: 16 Jul 2012 03:18 PM PDT

Swaddled in PowerEdge metal, sipping Boomi ba-ba

Dell might be chasing large enterprises like mad these days, but it has not forgotten the small and medium business customers that made the company a player in IT. SMBs need data warehouses as much as the big boys, but they have less money and less skills with which to slap one together. That's where, Dell hopes, its QuickStart Data Warehouse Appliance 1000 comes in.…

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