Romney promises to announce VP choice via mobile app |
- Romney promises to announce VP choice via mobile app
- NASA's nuclear Mars tank prepares for high pucker-factor landing
- Anonymous declares war after French firm trademarks its logo
- Microsoft: Gmail rival Outlook.com will 'look good on your iPad'
- Neurotrash creativity 'expert' created Dylan quotes from thin air
- Giant idol 'STRUCK DOWN by the Wrath of God' unearthed in Turkey
- Brit cops manacle another journalist in computer hacking probe
- Sony slides expose saucy Xperia slate
- Hooper's copyright hubs - could be a big British win with BBC backing
- Olympic athletes compete in RAYGUN SHOOTING for the first time
- Cloudy emails up in smoke for FIVE days after fire knackers Giacom
- Isaacson fights outing of heart-to-heart chats with Steve Jobs
- Google+ mission creep continues with Hangouts slotted into Gmail
- Pair collared after 'mobe giant hacked, info on 8.7 million sold'
- Disk demand after Thai floods drains away - unlike Seagate's coffers
- Boy cuffed after Twitter troll's drown threat to Olympic diver Tom Daley
- Fusion-io straps on NetApp feedbag for cache feeding frenzy
- Samsung docs tease 11.8in, 2560 x 1600 tablet
- OFT probes Expedia and pals over hotel room price-fixing
- Virgin Media nukes downloads after SuperHub 'upgrade'
- 'Ex climate sceptic' Muller's latest BEST stuff is the worst so far
- Tesco in unencrypted password email reminder rumble
- Freeview EPG revamp set for September
- Toshiba: Strong yen CHEWED our tripled profit, spat out loss
- Ex! interim! CEO! leaves! Yahoo! after! second! snub!
- Ever considered putting a rocket up someone's backside?
- Go Daddy big daddy gone
- London CGI firm scores DON'T-HIT-the-PEDESTRIAN test contract
- Lords blast UK.gov's fixation on broadband speed over reach
- IBM crashes, Cisco soars, at Brisbane airport
- Sellers flogging vid games to underage kids face jail, unlimited fine
- Solar, wind, landfill to make cheapest power by 2030
- Nintendo 3DS XL review
- HTC leaves South Korea to Samsung, LG et al
- Chinese student's smut obsession lands 2,000 in JAIL
- Siri sued again as Taiwan uni cries foul over patents
- Marlinspike demos MS-CHAPv2 crack
- The asymmetry implicit in Internet data retention
- Jury selection delays start of Apple/Samsung patent showdown
- AIIA takes the ‘Australian’ out of price-gouge concerns
- Microsoft unveils fondle-ready keyboards, mice
- Jackson’s <i>Hobbit</i> becomes a trilogy
| Romney promises to announce VP choice via mobile app Posted: 31 Jul 2012 02:47 PM PDT 'We'll just need a little bit of information first'Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney has yet to announce his choice for vice president, but when he does, he says smartphone users will be the first to hear about it.… |
| NASA's nuclear Mars tank prepares for high pucker-factor landing Posted: 31 Jul 2012 12:24 PM PDT Red Planet astro-truck to go down like none before itPics NASA's Mars Science Laboratory team is working on a landing procedure for Red Planet rover Curiosity, due to touchdown on the dust world this weekend.… |
| Anonymous declares war after French firm trademarks its logo Posted: 31 Jul 2012 12:12 PM PDT Really bad business plans 101A French company trying to trademark the Anonymous logo and slogan for commercial purposes has inspired an angry response from a team claiming to be affiliated with the hacking group.… |
| Microsoft: Gmail rival Outlook.com will 'look good on your iPad' Posted: 31 Jul 2012 09:33 AM PDT Cloudy Hotmail successor features Metro-like UIMicrosoft has launched a successor to its venerable Hotmail web-based email service, in hopes that a revamped UI, integration with social networks, and tighter ties to the software giant's cloudy online services will woo users away from rivals, in particular Gmail.… |
| Neurotrash creativity 'expert' created Dylan quotes from thin air Posted: 31 Jul 2012 08:56 AM PDT Journo and author resigns, book pulped. Imagine thatA self-appointed expert who used brain scans to "demystify" human creativity has admitted he was overly creative in his "journalism". Jonah Lehrer confessed that he made-up quotes he had attributed to Bob Dylan, and has quit his job at the New Yorker magazine.… |
| Giant idol 'STRUCK DOWN by the Wrath of God' unearthed in Turkey Posted: 31 Jul 2012 08:04 AM PDT 'His purpose is to destroy, to put an end to nations'Top archaeologists are chuffed as ninepence this week to announce that they have unearthed a massive statue - perhaps as tall as 4m when it was erect - which was probably an "idol" tumbled down by a terrible race of warriors referred to in the Bible as "the rod of my [God's] anger, in whose hand is the club of my wrath".… |
| Brit cops manacle another journalist in computer hacking probe Posted: 31 Jul 2012 07:52 AM PDT 'Not trying to burn sources, it's about blagged mobes'A 37-year-old man has been arrested by Met police officers investigating alleged computer hacking.… |
| Sony slides expose saucy Xperia slate Posted: 31 Jul 2012 07:24 AM PDT Tablet S refresh?Sony looks set to launch a Tablet S successor after internal slides escaped its HQ and revealed a lighter, thinner, brawnier device, known only as the Xperia Sony Tablet.… |
| Hooper's copyright hubs - could be a big British win with BBC backing Posted: 31 Jul 2012 06:52 AM PDT The report the bureaucrats DON'T want you to readAnalysis A British copyright swap-shop may turn out to be one of the coalition government's unexpected success stories.… |
| Olympic athletes compete in RAYGUN SHOOTING for the first time Posted: 31 Jul 2012 06:29 AM PDT Pentathletes swap bullets for laser pistolsThus far, we here at the Register have struggled to hang much of a tech angle on the ongoing London Olympics. As there are also few obvious Paris Hilton angles to be found on the 2012 spectacle-fest, and few Vultures have any deep expertise in sports or physical exercise, we have thus far confined ourselves to a few pieces on stadium construction, IT kit in use etc.… |
| Cloudy emails up in smoke for FIVE days after fire knackers Giacom Posted: 31 Jul 2012 06:02 AM PDT Data centre offline, MessageStream dried up on FridayUK cloudy firm Giacom's data centre has been knocked offline by a fire at a nearby electricity substation.… |
| Isaacson fights outing of heart-to-heart chats with Steve Jobs Posted: 31 Jul 2012 05:47 AM PDT Biographer battles subpoena in Apple ebook court showdownBiographer Walter Isaacson is fighting a subpoena to unlock his unpublished interviews with Steve Jobs in the Apple ebook price-fixing case.… |
| Google+ mission creep continues with Hangouts slotted into Gmail Posted: 31 Jul 2012 05:23 AM PDT You can still use it with pals on Google+! If anyGoogle's social networking mission creep continued with Gmail on Monday when the ad giant slotted its Google+ Hangouts function into its web email service.… |
| Pair collared after 'mobe giant hacked, info on 8.7 million sold' Posted: 31 Jul 2012 05:04 AM PDT Another 7 probed for buying private data in South KoreaPolice have arrested two South Koreans who allegedly leaked the personal information of 8.7 million mobile phone subscribers. The pair have been charged with hacking into the systems of KT Corp, the country's second biggest mobile carrier, and selling on the data.… |
| Disk demand after Thai floods drains away - unlike Seagate's coffers Posted: 31 Jul 2012 04:43 AM PDT Not buying OCZ despite money mountainSeagate may not have done as well as it had hoped to do in its latest quarter, which was down on the previous three months, but its $1bn earnings are still much, much better than a year ago.… |
| Boy cuffed after Twitter troll's drown threat to Olympic diver Tom Daley Posted: 31 Jul 2012 04:22 AM PDT Arrested on suspicion of malicious communicationA teenager has been arrested on suspicion of malicious communications after Brit Olympic diver Tom Daley was swamped by abusive tweets.… |
| Fusion-io straps on NetApp feedbag for cache feeding frenzy Posted: 31 Jul 2012 04:01 AM PDT Virtual flash storage insanityNetApp and Fusion-io are working to link flash-accelerated servers with NetApp arrays and dynamically move data from the arrays to Fusion's ioMemory flash cards in the servers using NetApp's VST technology.… |
| Samsung docs tease 11.8in, 2560 x 1600 tablet Posted: 31 Jul 2012 03:48 AM PDT My slab is bigger than your slabFurther products have been unveiled through the Samsung Apple legal spat, this time an upcoming 11.8in Samsung tablet with a 2560 x 1600 display.… |
| OFT probes Expedia and pals over hotel room price-fixing Posted: 31 Jul 2012 03:44 AM PDT May have broken EU competition lawExpedia, Booking.com and InterContinential Hotels Group may have broken EU competition law by restricting the ability of travel agents to discount the prices of room-only hotel accommodation, thereby squeezing out their competition.… |
| Virgin Media nukes downloads after SuperHub 'upgrade' Posted: 31 Jul 2012 03:27 AM PDT But it's OK, only a few punters are spitting bloodVirgin Media has dismissed claims that a software update for its SuperHub kit is at fault after punters complained their downloads are being damaged.… |
| 'Ex climate sceptic' Muller's latest BEST stuff is the worst so far Posted: 31 Jul 2012 03:14 AM PDT 'Non-partisan' group abandons pretence of neutralityAnalysis Richard Muller's Berkeley Earth Surface Temperature (BEST) project, which began with goodwill from all corners of the climate debate, has made a series of bold announcements (without benefit of peer review) to the effect that global warming is definitely serious and definitely caused by humans. This has aroused derision among formerly supportive climate sceptics, caused an eminent climatologist to abandon the project, and even drawn criticism from generally alarmism-sympathetic media commentators.… |
| Tesco in unencrypted password email reminder rumble Posted: 31 Jul 2012 03:02 AM PDT Price check on saltTesco's admission that it still merrily emails passwords to punters in plain text has alarmed anyone with a grasp of computer security.… |
| Freeview EPG revamp set for September Posted: 31 Jul 2012 02:46 AM PDT Channel funnelYou'll need to retune your Freeview set-top boxes and TVs yet again this coming September. DMOL, the organistion that provides the Freeview EPG, is rejigging the terrestrial broadcasting servicer's channel listing.… |
| Toshiba: Strong yen CHEWED our tripled profit, spat out loss Posted: 31 Jul 2012 02:44 AM PDT And no one wants our LCD telliesDespite a massive hike in operating profit, Toshiba's overall results for the quarter are at a loss as restructuring costs and the high rate of Japanese yen ate into the cash.… |
| Ex! interim! CEO! leaves! Yahoo! after! second! snub! Posted: 31 Jul 2012 02:17 AM PDT Levinsohn departs jingling with cashEx-interim Yahoo! chief Ross Levinsohn is leaving the ailing web firm behind after losing out on the top spot to fragrant Googler Marissa Mayer.… |
| Ever considered putting a rocket up someone's backside? Posted: 31 Jul 2012 02:01 AM PDT Aussie's experiment in management jargon, er, backfiresMany of us - most, perhaps - have carelessly spoken of putting a rocket up someone's backside. But now, a pioneering Australian researcher has shown that in fact this would be a highly unwise act: not only would the recipient of the combustibles be unlikely to be galvanised into helpful activity, he or she might also wind up in the cooler helping the police with their enquiries.… |
| Posted: 31 Jul 2012 01:42 AM PDT Adelman legs it, new owners grab the wheelWarren Adelman has quit as chief executive of market-leading domain names and hosting company Go Daddy after less than eight months on the job.… |
| London CGI firm scores DON'T-HIT-the-PEDESTRIAN test contract Posted: 31 Jul 2012 01:23 AM PDT DSA inks deal with animators for hazard-perception examsThe Driving Standards Agency (DSA) has awarded animation firm Jelly a contract for CGI technology.… |
| Lords blast UK.gov's fixation on broadband speed over reach Posted: 31 Jul 2012 12:56 AM PDT Hook up every community, light the dark fibresThe British government's broadband policy is failing to create a built-to-last national network because it is too fixated on speed, a House of Lords committee has concluded.… |
| IBM crashes, Cisco soars, at Brisbane airport Posted: 31 Jul 2012 12:49 AM PDT VCE deemed too expensive en route to destination VDIIBM has been deported from Brisbane Airport's data centre, with its X-series servers shoved on a flight to oblivion as the red carpet was rolled out for the triumvirate of VMware, EMC and Cisco.… |
| Sellers flogging vid games to underage kids face jail, unlimited fine Posted: 31 Jul 2012 12:31 AM PDT New age-rating rules come into forceTraders which supply video games without displaying the age rating could face two years in jail and an unlimited fine.… |
| Solar, wind, landfill to make cheapest power by 2030 Posted: 31 Jul 2012 12:16 AM PDT Australian study says coal's crown is slipping, thanks in part to carbon pricingSolar and wind technologies will be the cheapest way to make electricity by 2030, according to a new Australian Energy Technology Assessment from the Australia's Bureau of Resources and Energy Economics.… |
| Posted: 31 Jul 2012 12:00 AM PDT Thumbs down?Review Nintendo has supersized its 3DS with a 4.9in screen that's almost twice the |
| HTC leaves South Korea to Samsung, LG et al Posted: 30 Jul 2012 11:12 PM PDT Exits quietly, but not very brilliantly ...Mobile device biz HTC has abandoned its operations from Samsung's home market of South Korea, in yet another blow to the beleaguered Taiwanese handset giant.… |
| Chinese student's smut obsession lands 2,000 in JAIL Posted: 30 Jul 2012 09:59 PM PDT Living in China is such a drag ... a mum took away your best porno siteChinese police have smashed a major internet porn site and arrested more than 2,000 suspected users after being alerted to its existence by a mother who spied on her son after she noticed his school grades were slipping.… |
| Siri sued again as Taiwan uni cries foul over patents Posted: 30 Jul 2012 09:12 PM PDT 'Is our patent portfolio going to get us into trouble, Siri?'Apple's know-it-all voice-operated assistant Siri is in more legal trouble after a Taiwanese university launched a patent infringement lawsuit against it in a Texas court.… |
| Marlinspike demos MS-CHAPv2 crack Posted: 30 Jul 2012 05:57 PM PDT 'The strength of a single DES encryption' not enoughSecurity researcher Moxie Marlinspike has turned his attention to VPNs based on Microsoft's MS-CHAPv2 protocol, demonstrating software at Defcon that can capture and crack passwords.… |
| The asymmetry implicit in Internet data retention Posted: 30 Jul 2012 05:30 PM PDT By the way: Anonymous go homeAs we speak, apathetic Australians are failing to lodge submissions objecting to the government's ill-defined data retention proposals.… |
| Jury selection delays start of Apple/Samsung patent showdown Posted: 30 Jul 2012 04:57 PM PDT 'When did you last see your iPhone?'The jury has been picked for the forthcoming patent trial between Apple and Samsung to determine who has the rights to produce a rectangular fondleslab with rounded corners, among other things.… |
| AIIA takes the ‘Australian’ out of price-gouge concerns Posted: 30 Jul 2012 04:45 PM PDT Sock-puppetting the case for higher pricesAs predicted by The Register, once the IT and related industries lumbered into motion to respond to the Australian Parliament's inquiry into IT pricing in Australia, the rent-seeking would begin.… |
| Microsoft unveils fondle-ready keyboards, mice Posted: 30 Jul 2012 04:42 PM PDT Aping Apple with custom kit for Surface slabsOffering the latest evidence that Microsoft is moving toward an Apple-like integrated product strategy, on Monday Redmond announced a new collection of keyboards and mice that cater not just to Windows 8's spare aesthetic, but also to the design of Microsoft's upcoming Surface tablets.… |
| Jackson’s <i>Hobbit</i> becomes a trilogy Posted: 30 Jul 2012 04:22 PM PDT All those dwarves don't come cheapLord of the Rings Director Peter Jackson has revealed that his next work, a film adaptation of The Hobbit, will span three films.… |
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