4K LCD TV output to outstrip OLED production |
- 4K LCD TV output to outstrip OLED production
- HGST floats helium for low power, MASSIVE capacity HDDs
- Intel to take felon-foiling tech to phones, slates
- Microsoft keeps Win Phone 8 under hype-boosting wraps
- Nintendo Wii U launch and pricing disclosed
- Intel builds 'can't be built' working digital RF transceiver chip
- Blackhole 2: Crimeware kit gets stealthier, Windows 8 support
- 'Google strangled Acer phone using Alibaba Android rival at birth'
- iPhone 5 adaptors goldrush begins
- Smartphone sales to new users 'have peaked'
- IT chiefs' purses drained, security budget still safe - report
- Microsoft seizes Chinese dot-org to kill Nitol bot army
- Who's afraid of Windows 8? Trio leads Microsoft migration pack
- VCs snaffle £200m of UK taxpayer gold ... to bet on high-risk biz
- UK govt to KILL OFF Directgov within weeks
- New monkey species with massive blue arse found in Africa
- Ding dong, the Ping is dead! Apple brings in Facebook for iTunes
- Humanity facing GLOBAL BACON SHORTAGE
- RIP Howard Strowman: The stock doctor
- Ten... iPhone 5 challengers
- Cambridge boffins: Chip-and-PIN cards CAN be cloned – here's how
- Who cares about Big Data
- Journo bung probe cops cuff armed-forces bloke and wife
- Apple iPhone 5 hands-on review
- EE screams UK iPhone 4G exclusive, rest of pack sobs quietly
- Yahoo! to! guzzle! £4.7bn! in! Alibaba! stake! sale! 'next! week!'
- Apple: Thanks for the iPhone 5s, China, now get to the BACK of the queue
- Hate the Windows 8 touch UI? Try Kinect-like finger shaking instead
- Agility without anxiety
- Prof casts doubt on Stuxnet's accidental 'great escape' theory
- Osborne hands £80m tax break to punters drilling in 'old' oil, gas fields
- NHS eye hospital embiggens in-house open source system
- Foxconn to investigate iPhone 5 factory woes
- One more try: Metro apps are now 'Windows Store' apps
- Intel backs 'overhyped' HTML5 for cross-platform app dev
- Congress report warns: drones will track faces from the sky
- <i>Reg</i> hack runs Windows 8 on 82-inch touchscreen
- ESA preps space junk radar
- AMD aims at big data crunchers with SeaMicro SM15000
- Microsoft Visual Studio 2012 launch spreads desktop app love
- Apple Lightning adaptors reveal limitations
| 4K LCD TV output to outstrip OLED production Posted: 13 Sep 2012 03:33 PM PDT Smart picture tech too late to market?An interesting snippet here from market watcher NPD DisplaySearch: the momentum behind 4K x 2K TVs is rather greater than that behind large OLED sets.… |
| HGST floats helium for low power, MASSIVE capacity HDDs Posted: 13 Sep 2012 03:28 PM PDT Up to seven platters in one driveA new hard drive technology from HGST promises to improve drive performance in virtually every category, the company says – including capacity, power, cooling, and storage density – all because the drives are filled with helium instead of air.… |
| Intel to take felon-foiling tech to phones, slates Posted: 13 Sep 2012 03:11 PM PDT Lock up your datasIDF 2012 Intel has confirmed that it will bring its Anti-theft Technology (AT), currently being pitched at Ultrabooks, to Atom-based smartphones and tablets.… |
| Microsoft keeps Win Phone 8 under hype-boosting wraps Posted: 13 Sep 2012 12:51 PM PDT 'Not all features have been announced'The reason Microsoft isn't sharing more information about Windows Phone 8 with developers is because it doesn't want to let the cat out of the bag regarding the features of its new smartphone OS, the company says.… |
| Nintendo Wii U launch and pricing disclosed Posted: 13 Sep 2012 11:55 AM PDT Two models inboundNintendo today officially revealed Wii U release dates, foreign pricing structures and launch titles.… |
| Intel builds 'can't be built' working digital RF transceiver chip Posted: 13 Sep 2012 10:59 AM PDT Analog out as radios enter SOCsIDF 2012 Intel has developed a truly digital radio chip, a part that replaces the analog elements in today's radio frequency transmission and reception circuitry with digital equivalents.… |
| Blackhole 2: Crimeware kit gets stealthier, Windows 8 support Posted: 13 Sep 2012 10:03 AM PDT Malware-flinging tool to target mobiles tooCybercrooks have unveiled a new version of the Blackhole exploit kit. Version 2 of Blackhole is expressly designed to better avoid security defences. Support for Windows 8 and mobile devices is another key feature, a sign of the changing target platforms for malware-based cyberscams.… |
| 'Google strangled Acer phone using Alibaba Android rival at birth' Posted: 13 Sep 2012 09:20 AM PDT Cancelled launch event leaves journos millingGoogle has reportedly forced Acer to cancel the launch of a phone that used an Android rival as its operating system.… |
| iPhone 5 adaptors goldrush begins Posted: 13 Sep 2012 09:15 AM PDT Conversion kit manufacturing mother lodeAs Apple's iPhone 5 packs an all-new Nano Sim, those with two handsets will probably need a fresh Sim card adaptor. These have already hit the market, of course.… |
| Smartphone sales to new users 'have peaked' Posted: 13 Sep 2012 08:43 AM PDT It's an upgrade business from here onThe smartphone market will establish its maturity this year: 2012 will be the last time the shipment of handsets to new users grows.… |
| IT chiefs' purses drained, security budget still safe - report Posted: 13 Sep 2012 08:33 AM PDT CIO study finds spending maintained or rising, despite recessionSecurity looks set to be one part of companies' IT budgets that will be comparatively safeguarded in the recession, if the beancounters at Gartner are to be believed.… |
| Microsoft seizes Chinese dot-org to kill Nitol bot army Posted: 13 Sep 2012 08:01 AM PDT Takedown after infected new computers sold to victimsMicrosoft has disrupted the emerging Nitol botnet - and more than 500 additional strains of malware - by taking control of a rogue dot-org website. The takedown is the latest in Microsoft's war against armies of hacker-controlled PCs.… |
| Who's afraid of Windows 8? Trio leads Microsoft migration pack Posted: 13 Sep 2012 07:38 AM PDT Internet Explorer a hurdle for most, says consultantWindows 8 isn't ideal for many big businesses and government users. In fact, the majority of operations running tens of thousands of PCs are only now replacing Windows XP with Windows 7 at any meaningful scale – despite Microsoft's claims to the contrary. But a few brave businesses are planning on jumping into touch and swipe with Windows 8 in the next 12 months.… |
| VCs snaffle £200m of UK taxpayer gold ... to bet on high-risk biz Posted: 13 Sep 2012 07:03 AM PDT All systems are BONG!The UK government has showered venture capitalists with £200m of taxpayers' money for high-risk investments, the science and universities minister David Willetts told MPs today.… |
| UK govt to KILL OFF Directgov within weeks Posted: 13 Sep 2012 06:32 AM PDT Replacement GOV.UK nearly ready for showtimeNew Labour's Directgov is about to be tossed into the rubbish bin, after it was revealed today that Britain's public services website would be replaced by the Cabinet Office's single government domain on 17 October.… |
| New monkey species with massive blue arse found in Africa Posted: 13 Sep 2012 05:58 AM PDT Possibly record-breaking buttocks stun boffinry worldA species of monkey previously unknown to science has been discovered in Africa: and boffins say that it has an "extensive" bright blue bottom which rivals that of the largest and most colourful known monkeys on Earth.… |
| Ding dong, the Ping is dead! Apple brings in Facebook for iTunes Posted: 13 Sep 2012 05:22 AM PDT Whether you Like it or not... bitchApple has quietly done away with Ping, its music-based social network in iTunes. The move came as Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg took to the stage at the iPhone 5 launch last night, and announced all the ways his website will integrate with the latest version of Apple's music'n'vids software.… |
| Humanity facing GLOBAL BACON SHORTAGE Posted: 13 Sep 2012 04:58 AM PDT Stuff climate change, this is seriousDoomwatchers are painting an apocalyptic picture of a world where weeping humanity is reduced to scraping meagre nourishment from mash without bangers, hole without toad, scratchings without pork and, chillingly, sarnies without bacon.… |
| RIP Howard Strowman: The stock doctor Posted: 13 Sep 2012 04:41 AM PDT Industry, friends and family mourn IT channel heroObituary The career and life of Howard Strowman, who died in a motorbike accident this weekend, mirrored the ever-changing fortunes of the UK's high-tech sector.… |
| Posted: 13 Sep 2012 04:24 AM PDT Smart alternatives on price and performanceProduct Round-up It's that time of year again when the Autumn leaves begin to fall and a young man's thoughts turn to a shiny new iPhone. Or perhaps, this year, something running Windows Phone 8? Redmond's new baby is also just about to be thrust mewling and |
| Cambridge boffins: Chip-and-PIN cards CAN be cloned – here's how Posted: 13 Sep 2012 04:02 AM PDT Chip and skimBoffins at Cambridge University have uncovered shortcomings in ATM security that might be abused to create a mechanism to clone chip-and-PIN cards.… |
| Posted: 13 Sep 2012 04:01 AM PDT What do you thinkTech Panel "Big Data" today clearly rules the web pages as market makers promote the topic at the drop of a hat. But with so much effort, and money, being spent promoting BD, is anyone actually doing anything in everyday businesses to exploit this loosely grouped family of technologies?… |
| Journo bung probe cops cuff armed-forces bloke and wife Posted: 13 Sep 2012 03:45 AM PDT Suspects quizzed by police after 6am swoopMet cops investigating allegations of corrupt payments to police and public officials arrested two suspects in Surrey this morning.… |
| Apple iPhone 5 hands-on review Posted: 13 Sep 2012 03:20 AM PDT The Lightning seedsFirst look Last night in San Francisco, Apple CEO Tim Cook presented his third keynote in fine, relaxed form. There were announcements about iTunes, a longer iPod nano and colourful iPod touch models. But the night belonged to the iPhone, not to be dubbed the new iPhone, but the iPhone 5.… |
| EE screams UK iPhone 4G exclusive, rest of pack sobs quietly Posted: 13 Sep 2012 03:04 AM PDT O2, Vodafone unable to join Apple's partyOnly Everything Everywhere will be able to offer islands of 4G connectivity to the 4G-capable iPhone 5 when it arrives in the UK.… |
| Yahoo! to! guzzle! £4.7bn! in! Alibaba! stake! sale! 'next! week!' Posted: 13 Sep 2012 02:41 AM PDT Troubled web biz needs cash for spending spreeChinese internet giant Alibaba is set to get back half of Yahoo!'s 40 per cent stake in the company for a whopping $7.6bn (£4.7bn) outlay, as the two firms near the end of their bumpy relationship.… |
| Apple: Thanks for the iPhone 5s, China, now get to the BACK of the queue Posted: 13 Sep 2012 02:18 AM PDT Hong Kong braces for Chinese fanboi invasionChinese fanbois will have to rely on grey market imports and dubious online sellers yet again as their country was left off Apple's list of nations to get the new iPhone 5 next week.… |
| Hate the Windows 8 touch UI? Try Kinect-like finger shaking instead Posted: 13 Sep 2012 02:00 AM PDT Game console tech to stop punters fondling the screenMicrosoft is pushing hard to promote Windows 8: its first operating system to let you point, swipe and prod your way through desktop applications and actions - quite possibly without the need for a touchscreen or mouse, thanks to gesture-sensing tech.… |
| Posted: 13 Sep 2012 01:56 AM PDT Does deliver early, deliver often equal deliver badly?Some Reg readers think so. This is what a few of you tell us about agile development: "Often of a lower standard and the system will inevitably be less reliable". "If you don't have good people, you're screwed". "It leads to several wheels being reinvented in disparate ways".… |
| Prof casts doubt on Stuxnet's accidental 'great escape' theory Posted: 13 Sep 2012 01:32 AM PDT How DID the super-weapon flee Iran's nuke plant?Analysis An expert has challenged a top theory on how the infamous Stuxnet worm, best known for knackering Iranian lab equipment, somehow escaped into the wild.… |
| Osborne hands £80m tax break to punters drilling in 'old' oil, gas fields Posted: 13 Sep 2012 01:03 AM PDT Brown Field Allowance will 'repair damage' from 2011 rise – energy law expertA new tax break for operators of older "brown field" oil and gas fields in the North Sea shows that the government understands their continuing importance to the wider economy, an energy expert has said.… |
| NHS eye hospital embiggens in-house open source system Posted: 13 Sep 2012 12:28 AM PDT What's that? An e-patient record system that works?Moorfields Eye Hospital NHS Foundation Trust has said that it has added three new modules for prescribing, operations notes and correspondence to OpenEyes, its open source e-patient record system.… |
| Foxconn to investigate iPhone 5 factory woes Posted: 12 Sep 2012 08:40 PM PDT Undercover hack claims filthy conditions, bullyingFoxconn, the Chinese contract manufacturer, has admitted it's "not perfect" and promised to investigate conditions at its Tai Yuan plant after an undercover exposé by an undercover reporter revealed filthy dorms and bullying by managers on the iPhone 5 production line.… |
| One more try: Metro apps are now 'Windows Store' apps Posted: 12 Sep 2012 06:20 PM PDT Microsoft really means it this timeAnother week, another chapter in what must be one of the worst branding and marketing disasters in the history of computing: what to call the blocky, touch-centric apps designed for the new Windows 8 Start Screen, formerly known as Metro-style apps.… |
| Intel backs 'overhyped' HTML5 for cross-platform app dev Posted: 12 Sep 2012 05:18 PM PDT Resistance is futileIDF 2012 HTML5 is overhyped, slow, and insecure, says Intel senior VP of software and services Renée James – but Chipzilla thinks it's the future of software development anyway.… |
| Congress report warns: drones will track faces from the sky Posted: 12 Sep 2012 05:08 PM PDT I am the eye in the sky, looking at youWith the FAA working on rules to integrate drones into airspace safety by 2015, the US government's Congressional Research Service has warned of gaps in how American courts might treat the use of drones.… |
| <i>Reg</i> hack runs Windows 8 on 82-inch touchscreen Posted: 12 Sep 2012 04:37 PM PDT Size mattersTechEd Australia Back in July, Microsoft acquired a company called Perceptive Pixel which makes 82-inch capacitative multi-touch screens.… |
| Posted: 12 Sep 2012 04:30 PM PDT Contracts signed for test platformsThe European Space Agency has announced €4 million in funding to build a demonstrator of a radar system to detect space junk before it puts operational equipment at risk.… |
| AMD aims at big data crunchers with SeaMicro SM15000 Posted: 12 Sep 2012 04:28 PM PDT 'Petabytes are everywhere'Earlier this week, ahead of the kickoff of the Intel Developer Forum, cheeky AMD launched its next generation of microservers sporting both Intel and AMD chips and a revamped SM15000 chassis that links storage arrays directly into the system "Freedom" interconnect fabric at the heart of the SeaMicro system it acquired earlier this year.… |
| Microsoft Visual Studio 2012 launch spreads desktop app love Posted: 12 Sep 2012 04:00 PM PDT Free tools for C++, C#, VB devs now availableAs expected, Microsoft officially launched the latest iteration of its developer tools on Wednesday, including Visual Studio 2012, .Net 4.5, and the surprise debut of a new member of Redmond's Express family of free IDEs, this one for building Windows desktop applications.… |
| Apple Lightning adaptors reveal limitations Posted: 12 Sep 2012 03:43 PM PDT Missing the bus?Apple has introduced a Micro USB adaptor for its new Lightning dock connector. Speed freaks will be disappointed to hear it's a USB 2.0 connector.… |
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