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- Google names names in amended 'shills' list
- Police mistake reveals plan for Assange's Embassy capture
- Google crafts algorithms to get more women in more positions
- Court confirms $675,000 fine for sharing 30 songs
- Storage crumblies, newbies race to push out flashiest gear
- Going viral 9,500 years ago: 'English descended from ancient Turkey'
- Salesforce losses swell, despite rise in sales
- Hotel keycard firm issues fixes after Black Hat hacker breaks locks
- HP storage unit battered as buyers dodge EVA, tape
- Hard-up Kodak selling consumer film biz
- Endangered aphid-stroking ants don wee radio backpacks
- iPhone's market share in China sliced in HALF
- Vodafone phone and mobe biz service goes titsup
- Security biz U-turns on Gauss, Flame joint cyberspy hub claim
- Three beds Samsung for its own LTE mobe broadband kit
- Nokia's WinPho 8 double date announced
- Shove off Prince Harry, now Norway's teen royal in fresh photo uproar
- News Corp's digi boss departs ahead of Murdoch's biz split
- Groupon loses second top sales bod in a week
- Mr Bank Manager, help yourself to my smartphone contents
- Facebook updates iOS app, still poking around for mobile dollars
- South Korea bans Apple's AND Samsung's ageing phones, tabs
- Has cash corrupted open source?
- Teflon slips smoothly over LOHAN's mighty rod
- Post-pub nosh deathmatch: Pierogi versus patatas revolconas
- Former Gov.UK sweetheart Logica evaporates after CGI swills it down
- 'United States must renounce its witch-hunt against WikiLeaks'
- Only 3% of UK's TV oglers want more sex
- E-criminals nicked £205m from UK retailers last year
- Sony NSZ-GS7 Google TV internet player review
- Global slowdown bites Japan's semiconductor crowd
- China could penetrate US with new huge missile
- Indian censors media, Twitter critics
- Reagan slams webmail providers for liberal bias
- Angry Sunfish in piscene boss battles
- Technology tops Forbes list of 100 most powerful women
- Coming to a cloud near you: dirty laundry
- New US rule aims to crack down on Congolese capacitors
- Boffins confirm sunspot-weather link
- Akihabara unplugged: Tokyo's electric town falls flat
| Google names names in amended 'shills' list Posted: 24 Aug 2012 03:06 PM PDT Employees, consultants, trade groups outedAs ordered by the court, Google has submitted a new and longer list of bloggers and other commentators who have written about its ongoing patent litigation with Oracle, even as it continues to insist that it has never paid anyone to report or comment on the case.… |
| Police mistake reveals plan for Assange's Embassy capture Posted: 24 Aug 2012 03:05 PM PDT That policeman's lot is not a happy oneA fairly basic security slip has showed just how far the British police are preparing to go to make sure Julian Assange doesn't leaving the UK without getting his collar felt.… |
| Google crafts algorithms to get more women in more positions Posted: 24 Aug 2012 01:24 PM PDT And keep them coming back, tooGoogle has fine-tuned its search algorithms to hone in on many things, from web pages to stock quotes and flight times, but its latest challenge may be its most ambitious yet. It's hoping its vaunted data-crunching prowess can help it bring in more women.… |
| Court confirms $675,000 fine for sharing 30 songs Posted: 24 Aug 2012 12:07 PM PDT Tenenbaum is toast in haggle with big mediaJoel Tenenbaum has lost his request for a mistrial in his long-running case against the music industry over sharing music and now faces financial ruin.… |
| Storage crumblies, newbies race to push out flashiest gear Posted: 24 Aug 2012 10:33 AM PDT HDS, NexGen and Pure Storage announce new kitThe flash storm among storage vendors is becoming more frenzied with a major announcement from HDS, the addition of iSCSI support by Pure Storage's flash arrays, and a performance guarantee from flash/disk hybrid iSCSI array startup NexGen, along with Veeam and vCenter support.… |
| Going viral 9,500 years ago: 'English descended from ancient Turkey' Posted: 24 Aug 2012 09:31 AM PDT Cunning linguists back Indo-European chat theoryLinguiboffins have traced the origins of Indo-European languages to Turkey using the same methods developed to track bird flu, HIV and other viruses.… |
| Salesforce losses swell, despite rise in sales Posted: 24 Aug 2012 09:00 AM PDT Soz about the SaaS ...Software-as-a-Service pin-up Salesforce.com reported growing losses despite increased sales.… |
| Hotel keycard firm issues fixes after Black Hat hacker breaks locks Posted: 24 Aug 2012 08:32 AM PDT But want customers to pay for them...Hotel lockmaker Onity has developed fixes to safeguard millions of hotel keycard locks against an attack demonstrated at the Black Hat conference last month. But the most comprehensive of the two approaches involves a partial hardware replacement that will cost hotels a substantial amount of cash to apply.… |
| HP storage unit battered as buyers dodge EVA, tape Posted: 24 Aug 2012 08:06 AM PDT 3PAR and StoreOnce stars shine brightHP's storage results sank 5 per cent year-on-year in its latest quarter due to declining EVA array and tape product revenues.… |
| Hard-up Kodak selling consumer film biz Posted: 24 Aug 2012 07:28 AM PDT Scanners and photo booths goingHard-up Kodak is selling its consumer film, scanner and photo kiosk businesses as part of a restructuring.… |
| Endangered aphid-stroking ants don wee radio backpacks Posted: 24 Aug 2012 06:57 AM PDT 1,000 beasties tagged to help probe insects' social networkBoffins are fitting 1,000 northern hairy wood ants with teeny-tiny backpacks to track them in their habitat.… |
| iPhone's market share in China sliced in HALF Posted: 24 Aug 2012 06:29 AM PDT Apple's mobe grabs just 10% of coveted millions of subscribersApple's piece of China's smartphone market has almost halved to just 10 per cent in the second quarter as fanbois wait for the next iPhone model or even, gasp, switch brands.… |
| Vodafone phone and mobe biz service goes titsup Posted: 24 Aug 2012 05:52 AM PDT Hello? Hello? Is anyone there?Vodafone's One Net service has gone down, leaving businesses with no working phones.… |
| Security biz U-turns on Gauss, Flame joint cyberspy hub claim Posted: 24 Aug 2012 05:45 AM PDT FireEye mistook rival's sinkhole for command serverComputer security biz FireEye has withdrawn claims that the Gauss and Flame super-viruses may be linked.… |
| Three beds Samsung for its own LTE mobe broadband kit Posted: 24 Aug 2012 05:22 AM PDT Huawei's advance misses a beatSamsung will be supplying Three's 4G network, squashing ideas that the network-sharing deal with EE would simply be extended and giving Samsung a significant foothold in an increasingly competitive market.… |
| Nokia's WinPho 8 double date announced Posted: 24 Aug 2012 05:13 AM PDT Flagship wavingNokia will unveil Windows 8 phones during its joint event with Microsoft this September, sources stating the bleedin' obvious revealed.… |
| Shove off Prince Harry, now Norway's teen royal in fresh photo uproar Posted: 24 Aug 2012 05:00 AM PDT Blue-blood's Instagram splurge sparks tabloid rowBlighty's playboy Prince Harry isn't the only royal hitting tabloid headlines for inappropriate snaps: Norway's monarchy has defended one of its own blue-blooded teens after his web photo uploading spree supposedly sparked a security scare.… |
| News Corp's digi boss departs ahead of Murdoch's biz split Posted: 24 Aug 2012 04:41 AM PDT Jonathan Miller exitsNews Corp's digital chief, Jonathan Miller, has resigned from Rupert Murdoch's media company ahead of its planned split into two "distinct" firms.… |
| Groupon loses second top sales bod in a week Posted: 24 Aug 2012 04:22 AM PDT Voucher bazaar can't hang onto execsGroupon is losing its US sales boss Lee Brown, who followed other senior execs who scarpered off earlier this year.… |
| Mr Bank Manager, help yourself to my smartphone contents Posted: 24 Aug 2012 04:00 AM PDT Bend over for a thorough digital rogeringSomething for the Weekend, Sir? Hacking through the 1,100 press releases waiting for me upon my return from vacation has been a daunting task and has, as yet, revealed few surprises. Once I disposed of the misdirected ("I thought you might be interested in a case study from Golfbreaks.com...") and semi-literate ("Hi hope your well?") missives, most of the remainder appear to be anticipated product launch updates and scores of less-than-fascinating VP appointments.… |
| Facebook updates iOS app, still poking around for mobile dollars Posted: 24 Aug 2012 03:39 AM PDT Time to speed things up... bitchFacebook is yet to crack the mobile revenue conundrum as its stock continues to be hammered on Wall Street, but in the meantime the company has finally updated its dog of an iOS app.… |
| South Korea bans Apple's AND Samsung's ageing phones, tabs Posted: 24 Aug 2012 03:19 AM PDT Patent court dishes out pocket-change fines tooBoth Apple and Samsung got teeny fines and had some of their products banned in South Korea, after a court in Seoul found they infringed on each other's patents.… |
| Has cash corrupted open source? Posted: 24 Aug 2012 02:58 AM PDT Money for nothing, hacks for freeOpen ... and Shut There once was a time when open source was all about peace, love, and Linux, a bottom-up community of self-selecting hackers that chummed together for the love of good code.… |
| Teflon slips smoothly over LOHAN's mighty rod Posted: 24 Aug 2012 02:29 AM PDT Ice proves no impediment to Vulture 2 launchOur audacious Low Orbit Helium Assisted Navigator (LOHAN) project is advancing rapidly on multiple fronts, and as well as mission control boards and fantastical flying trusses, we've been able to dedicate some time to the icy issue of the controversial Vulture 2 launch rod.… |
| Post-pub nosh deathmatch: Pierogi versus patatas revolconas Posted: 24 Aug 2012 02:00 AM PDT Polish pastry squares up to Spanish spudsNow that the dust has settled on the ultimate sliced-pork butty controversy - a furious debate prompted by our Bauernfrühstück v bacon sarnie deathmatch - we feel it's time to crack a few cold ones and head out into the sunshine for another culinary clash of titans.… |
| Former Gov.UK sweetheart Logica evaporates after CGI swills it down Posted: 24 Aug 2012 01:37 AM PDT London Stock Exchange to rub out its name this weekCGI's completion of its acquisition of Logica will see the departure of the company from the Stock Exchange at the end of this week and effectively the end of the Logica brand.… |
| 'United States must renounce its witch-hunt against WikiLeaks' Posted: 24 Aug 2012 01:19 AM PDT Plus: 'We are frankly shocked' – Vodafone clutches pearls over EE's 4G monopolyQuotw This was the week when the UK's telecoms regulator Ofcom decided it totally wouldn't make any difference to competition if it just went ahead and gave Everything Everywhere a 4G monopoly. Plus the fact that Britain wants to be seen as a modern country worthy of bucketloads of investment even though it still doesn't have an up to date network was kind of embarrassing so EE can help with that.… |
| Only 3% of UK's TV oglers want more sex Posted: 24 Aug 2012 01:02 AM PDT Ofcom study finds smut, violence and swearing all in fine fettleOfcom has been polling viewers about television standards, finding that most seem happy with how things are, even if they aren't entirely clear how the current state of play is maintained.… |
| E-criminals nicked £205m from UK retailers last year Posted: 24 Aug 2012 12:28 AM PDT Twice as bad for shops as thefts and fraud in meatspace – studyOnline fraud and other 'e-crimes' have cost British retailers operating over the internet at least £205m in a year according to the first comprehensive study of the make-up and scale of crimes affecting e-commerce.… |
| Sony NSZ-GS7 Google TV internet player review Posted: 24 Aug 2012 12:00 AM PDT Second sightGoogle and hardware BFF Sony will be hoping the second time's the charm for their latest joint foray into the living room. The first Google television adventure floundered in the States, scuppered by hardware complexity and inadequate software. This time around we have a simpler set top box proposal, the NSZ-GS7, and the Google Play store to back it up. What could possibly go wrong?… |
| Global slowdown bites Japan's semiconductor crowd Posted: 23 Aug 2012 11:44 PM PDT Revenue fell by 7.5 per cent over past yearThere was more bad news for Japan's beleaguered semiconductor industry on Thursday as it emerged the country's big name chip suppliers were hit hard by a global slow down in the second quarter which saw worldwide sales plunge by over $2bn from the previous year, according to analysts.… |
| China could penetrate US with new huge missile Posted: 23 Aug 2012 11:38 PM PDT Uh oh...It might be time to sweep the cobwebs out of that old nuclear bunker at the bottom of the garden after reports in state-run Chinese media confirmed that the People's Liberation Army is actively developing an intercontinental missile capable of penetrating US defences.… |
| Indian censors media, Twitter critics Posted: 23 Aug 2012 11:27 PM PDT Riot response overkill alert!The Indian government has blacklisted media reports and social media accounts as part of its ongoing attempts to prevent the spread of rumours and calm simmering sectarian tensions.… |
| Reagan slams webmail providers for liberal bias Posted: 23 Aug 2012 07:08 PM PDT Claims free email helps line Obama's coffersThe adopted son of former US President Ronald Reagan has taken to Fox News to remind American conservatives that when they use free email services they are helping the liberals win.… |
| Angry Sunfish in piscene boss battles Posted: 23 Aug 2012 06:00 PM PDT Princeton turns fish into gamersPrinceton University researchers investigating the behaviours of predatory fish have developed a kind of "video game" testing the feeding preferences of the bluegill sunfish.… |
| Technology tops Forbes list of 100 most powerful women Posted: 23 Aug 2012 05:32 PM PDT The need for a list shows its own problemsThe latest list from Forbes of the 100 most powerful women on the planet suggests that the technology industry is leading the way in promoting sexual equality, contributing 15 per cent of the spots overall and a quarter of the top 20 positions.… |
| Coming to a cloud near you: dirty laundry Posted: 23 Aug 2012 05:02 PM PDT Panasonic Android app will control whitegoodsPanasonic has announced an Android application to control home appliances. The only catch: users also have to be prepared to shuffle their data through a cloud service for it all to work.… |
| New US rule aims to crack down on Congolese capacitors Posted: 23 Aug 2012 04:08 PM PDT Companies must report use of minerals from conflict areasIn an effort to stem the flow of foreign money into war-torn Africa, the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has issued new rules requiring manufacturers to publicly disclose whether they use minerals extracted from the conflict-torn Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) or any neighboring countries.… |
| Boffins confirm sunspot-weather link Posted: 23 Aug 2012 04:02 PM PDT Sunspots still don't account for climate changeA group of scientists led by German researcher Frank Sirocko of the Johannes Gutenberg University at Mainz has provided a long-term statistical study relating weather to the Sun's 11-year cycle.… |
| Akihabara unplugged: Tokyo's electric town falls flat Posted: 23 Aug 2012 03:45 PM PDT Reg hack finds fancy dress maids playing darts, but few unique gadgetsSpecial report Tokyo's Akihabara district may be fabled the world over as a geek wonderland and a tech writer's dream, but the reality as El Reg found out last weekend is rather different.… |
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