India restricts SIM sales |
- India restricts SIM sales
- Windows 7 passes XP, Mac OS X passes Vista
- Sony Vaio 11 Duo hybrid PC hands on review
- Firefox, Opera allow crooks to hide an entire phish site <i>in a link</i>
- Elon Musk says he's planning a 'supersonic, electric hover jetplane'
- Global strategic maple syrup reserves hit in Canadian mega-heist
- Markets to remain glutted with rapidly-depreciating Facebook shares
- 3G Google Nexus 7 inbound
- Samsung: We can't find any child labour at our Chinese contractor
- Cleversafe: Our mad rig can gobble A TERABYTE in A SECOND
- Vodafone inks deal with Zain to fly its flag across Middle East
- Phoenix IT Group fesses up to 'accounting irregularities'
- Apple iDevice dock port to drive wireless streaming
- Bruce Willis didn't Buy Hard: His girls can't inherit his iTunes
- Thanks ever so much Java, for that biz-wide rootkit infection
- Asus CEO sounds netbook death knell
- Microsoft awards itself Google-esque power over Hotmail, SkyDrive etc
- Now Apple wants Samsung S III, Galaxy Notes off the shelves too
- O2: no Ice Cream Sandwich for some Sony Xperia owners
- Former Russian officer sentenced for part in Kaspersky kidnapping
- PCs get touchy ahead of Windows 8 launch
- Wireless Power breakthrough: Iron Man can lose the chest reactor
- IBM and Somerset council in tiff over South West One venture
- Patent flame storm: <i>Reg</i> hack biteback in reader-pack sack attack
- X-IO vows to end hot-swap disk pops with next-gen arrays
- Boffins create super-muscular 'Hulk' mice: Humans next
- Dodgy audio connections conceal more than just words
- TripAdvisor didn't defame hotel by putting it on 'top 10 dirtiest' list
- War-Droid: Smartphone app 'that could CALL IN drone strikes'
- Cambridge Uni publishes free Pi-OS baking course
- Chinese boffins build brain-powered camera 'copter
- North Korea and Iran sign 'Axis of Tech Evil' deal
- ‘Pre-bionic’ eye implanted in blind patient
- AWS adds some CORS blimey to S3
- Curiosity parks for a day, looks back in wonder
- Space Jam: stripped bolt bugs spacewalkers
- US congress wants a word with ZTE, Huawei
- Taiwan to ramp up cyberwar efforts
- US Geological Survey detects earthquake on Twitter
- Pirate Bay founder arrested in Cambodia
| Posted: 03 Sep 2012 03:30 PM PDT Tourists get time limits, bulk sales barred, in crime crackdownIndia's telecoms regulator, the Department of Telecom (DoT), will try to put a crimp on mobile cybercrime by keeping a tight leash on visiting foreigners and their SIM cards.… |
| Windows 7 passes XP, Mac OS X passes Vista Posted: 03 Sep 2012 12:36 PM PDT Lift a pint to salute XP, forget VistaTwo aging Windows operating systems slipped a ranking each in the market share race this August, with Windows 7 overtaking Windows XP as the world's most popular desktop operating system, and Apple's OS X overtaking the late, lamented Windows Vista.… |
| Sony Vaio 11 Duo hybrid PC hands on review Posted: 03 Sep 2012 09:33 AM PDT A keyblet? It's an Ultrabook, apparentlyIFA 2012 Examples of Windows 8 tablet plus detachable keyboard combo devices were all over IFA like a rash. However, Sony's Vaio Duo 11 has a different approach that keeps the two components together. There are advantages and disadvantages to this arrangement, whichever way you look at it. Great, I'll never lose that keyboard... mmmh, this tablet is a bit heavy.… |
| Firefox, Opera allow crooks to hide an entire phish site <i>in a link</i> Posted: 03 Sep 2012 08:52 AM PDT Watch out for the tinyurl that isn'tA shortcoming in browsers including Firefox and Opera allows crooks to easily hide an entire malicious web page in a clickable link - ideal for fooling victims into handing over passwords and other sensitive info.… |
| Elon Musk says he's planning a 'supersonic, electric hover jetplane' Posted: 03 Sep 2012 07:53 AM PDT Florida 'wet dress' rehearsal leaves space fans excitedHecamillionaire space cowboy Elon Musk has revealed new and ambitious plans for the future - among them the idea of a "supersonic electric jet" able to make hovering landings and takeoffs.… |
| Global strategic maple syrup reserves hit in Canadian mega-heist Posted: 03 Sep 2012 07:05 AM PDT How long until US troops are sent in to ensure supplies?Commodity markets worldwide and pancake-gobbling North Americans have been left reeling by the news of an audacious theft which may have seen as much as five thousand tons of maple syrup burgled from planet Earth's "global strategic reserve" of the sticky gunge.… |
| Markets to remain glutted with rapidly-depreciating Facebook shares Posted: 03 Sep 2012 06:30 AM PDT You may be able to set them against your idiot-tax billFacebook's stock continued to slide south late last week, hitting an all-time low of $18.02 a share on Nasdaq.… |
| Posted: 03 Sep 2012 06:07 AM PDT Production rampingAsus is ramping up production of a 3G-enabled Google Nexus 7, it has been claimed.… |
| Samsung: We can't find any child labour at our Chinese contractor Posted: 03 Sep 2012 05:58 AM PDT 'The under-18 workers were unpaid, which makes it legal'Samsung insists there were no child workers at the factory of its supplier HEG - and that student interns at the plant were above board because they were over the age of 16.… |
| Cleversafe: Our mad rig can gobble A TERABYTE in A SECOND Posted: 03 Sep 2012 05:34 AM PDT Big Data? This is Giant Fat Chair-smashing Bastard DataCleversafe claims it has the biggest mouth for objects on the planet, gulping them in at a terabyte a second.… |
| Vodafone inks deal with Zain to fly its flag across Middle East Posted: 03 Sep 2012 05:00 AM PDT Going to Iraq on hols? Now you can roam with VodaRoaming in the Middle East should get easier as local mobile operator Zain will carry Vodafone's traffic and sport Voda's brand across the region.… |
| Phoenix IT Group fesses up to 'accounting irregularities' Posted: 03 Sep 2012 04:38 AM PDT 'Repeated, deliberate circumventions' at ServoPhoenix IT Group has suspended a business manager amid a probe into accounting irregularities that the firm reckons will result in £14m being wiped from net assets.… |
| Apple iDevice dock port to drive wireless streaming Posted: 03 Sep 2012 04:29 AM PDT Analog audio out, AirPlay inWill Apple's new dock connector, expected to debut on the iPhone 5, signal the end of low-cost audio docks? The makers of such kit seem to think so.… |
| Bruce Willis didn't Buy Hard: His girls can't inherit his iTunes Posted: 03 Sep 2012 04:21 AM PDT Testy action star flips his wig, may sue AppleUpdated Hollywood actor Bruce Willis could reportedly take Apple to court over a massive digital music library that he wants to pass on to his kids when he dies.… |
| Thanks ever so much Java, for that biz-wide rootkit infection Posted: 03 Sep 2012 04:00 AM PDT Cup of coffee actually a carboy of toxic Kool-AidSysadmin blog Right on cue, Java has responded to my hatred in kind. Shortly after I awoke to discover my previous article denouncing the language had been published, a client called to inform me his computer had contracted some malware. Java has, if you'll forgive the anthropomorphization of a bytecode virtualization engine, decided to exact its revenge.… |
| Asus CEO sounds netbook death knell Posted: 03 Sep 2012 03:47 AM PDT Eee be doomed?Asus CEO Jerry Shen has apparently called time on the company's pioneering Eee PC family of netbooks.… |
| Microsoft awards itself Google-esque power over Hotmail, SkyDrive etc Posted: 03 Sep 2012 03:43 AM PDT We can do stuff with your stuff 'to the extent necessary'Microsoft has tweaked its fine print so it can reuse its users' photos, emails and chat messages to polish its online services.… |
| Now Apple wants Samsung S III, Galaxy Notes off the shelves too Posted: 03 Sep 2012 03:29 AM PDT Probably also dusting off patents on fire, the wheel, etc.Apple has now claimed Samsung's flagship gadgets the Galaxy S III and the Galaxy Note infringe its mobile phone patents in a SECOND lawsuit in the US.… |
| O2: no Ice Cream Sandwich for some Sony Xperia owners Posted: 03 Sep 2012 03:27 AM PDT Let them eat GingerbreadO2 won't be certifying Android 4.0 for Sony's Xperia Neo, Arc and Ray handsets, the network operator has said, after testing the OS on these devices and finding it "didn't meet our requirements".… |
| Former Russian officer sentenced for part in Kaspersky kidnapping Posted: 03 Sep 2012 03:16 AM PDT Ex-Captain in Kremlin guards handed military porridgeA former captain in the Russian Federal Security Guard Service* has been sentenced to four and a half years in prison after he was convicted of involvement in the kidnapping Ivan Kaspersky, son of Kaspersky Lab founder Eugene, the Moscow Times reports.… |
| PCs get touchy ahead of Windows 8 launch Posted: 03 Sep 2012 02:43 AM PDT Good news for screen wipe marketIFA 2012 PC manufacturers have been busy unveiling their touchscreen laptops at IFA this week in hot anticipation of Microsoft's Windows 8 release.… |
| Wireless Power breakthrough: Iron Man can lose the chest reactor Posted: 03 Sep 2012 02:42 AM PDT And in the real world, pacemakers won't need batteriesEngineering boffins in the States have announced details of a new method of wireless power transmission which can reach inside a human body to power tiny implanted devices, so removing the need for repeated surgery in order to change batteries - or movie-style options such as the chest-socket "arc reactor" or hand-carried car battery as favoured by Tony Stark in Iron Man.… |
| IBM and Somerset council in tiff over South West One venture Posted: 03 Sep 2012 02:19 AM PDT Blues for Big Blue's blue-light IT setupIBM and Somerset County council are currently in a dispute over their joint venture outsourcing company South West One.… |
| Patent flame storm: <i>Reg</i> hack biteback in reader-pack sack attack Posted: 03 Sep 2012 01:58 AM PDT You know who else hated patents? Kim Jong-ilAndrew's Mailbag My piece on patents on Tuesday received a record number of votes of disapproval for a Reg article. I'm not in the least bit surprised.… |
| X-IO vows to end hot-swap disk pops with next-gen arrays Posted: 03 Sep 2012 01:42 AM PDT Chucks in some extra spindles tooX-IO has halved the number of SSDs in its Hyper ISE hybrid flash-disk arrays, increased overall performance by 50 per cent and cut prices by 20 per cent. It has also vowed to spare users the horror of popping a failed disk.… |
| Boffins create super-muscular 'Hulk' mice: Humans next Posted: 03 Sep 2012 01:14 AM PDT You wouldn't like me when I'm squeakyTopflight biology brains say they have identified a key protein, the furtling of which could allow massively increased muscular development and strength in human beings. Genetic manipulation of the "Grb10" compound has already been tried out in mice, producing "hyper-muscular" rodents capable of almost super-murine feats.… |
| Dodgy audio connections conceal more than just words Posted: 03 Sep 2012 01:02 AM PDT How much will HD Voice tell you?Researchers at BT, working with UCL, have been looking at voices to see what's stopping the machines from working out how you feel as well as what you're saying.… |
| TripAdvisor didn't defame hotel by putting it on 'top 10 dirtiest' list Posted: 03 Sep 2012 12:39 AM PDT Unverified user review ranking: It's a diss, but it's not defamatory – judgeWebsite operators that base their rankings of goods or services on the "unverified" views of online users cannot be sued for defamation, a US judge has said.… |
| War-Droid: Smartphone app 'that could CALL IN drone strikes' Posted: 03 Sep 2012 12:00 AM PDT Can also be used as police speed gun, golf rangefinderEngineering boffins in Missouri say they have come up with a new Android app which allows any modern smartphone - potentially - to call in a devastating precision airstrike by simply snapping a picture of the target to be struck.… |
| Cambridge Uni publishes free Pi-OS baking course Posted: 02 Sep 2012 11:54 PM PDT 12 step program to build a very basic OSCambridge University has joined the ranks of terribly prestigious universities giving computer science classes away online, releasing a 12-step course teaching how to create what it calls a "basic terminal Operating System" for the Raspberry Pi.… |
| Chinese boffins build brain-powered camera 'copter Posted: 02 Sep 2012 10:00 PM PDT Noggin-operated flying machine could help disabledThe evolution of brain-computer interface (BCI) technology appears to have taken another leap forward thanks to a group of Chinese boffins who've invented a toy quadracopter that can be controlled by human thought alone.… |
| North Korea and Iran sign 'Axis of Tech Evil' deal Posted: 02 Sep 2012 09:03 PM PDT Now where did we put those missile codes?Everyone's favourite naughty nations Iran and North Korea have taken another step closer to each other by signing an agreement on future co-operation in various science and information technology fields.… |
| ‘Pre-bionic’ eye implanted in blind patient Posted: 02 Sep 2012 08:43 PM PDT 'I could see a little flash' says recipientAustralian researchers have claimed a world's first by successfully implanting a 'pre-bionic eye' in a blind patient.… |
| AWS adds some CORS blimey to S3 Posted: 02 Sep 2012 08:00 PM PDT Web devs can now code drag and drop cloud storage uploadsAmazon Web Services (AWS) has added support for cross-origin resource sharing (CORS) to its simple storage service (S3), an inclusion that should get web developers a teensy bit excited because CORS lets a web page access resources from another domain.… |
| Curiosity parks for a day, looks back in wonder Posted: 02 Sep 2012 05:50 PM PDT Lays down some morse codeWall•E wannabe Curiosity has driven another 21 metres, then given itself a day off to admire the view.… |
| Space Jam: stripped bolt bugs spacewalkers Posted: 02 Sep 2012 05:45 PM PDT Orbital DIY failIf you messed up a do-it-yourself job around your home over the weekend, you're in good company: a new power switching unit at the International Space Station has had to be tethered and left partly-fitted, after a jammed bolt led to the spacewalking electricians abandoning their installation attempt.… |
| US congress wants a word with ZTE, Huawei Posted: 02 Sep 2012 05:20 PM PDT Considers laws to deal with national security threat posed by Chinese kitChina's dominant telco vendors ZTE Corp and Huawei will take part in US congressional hearings next month regarding investigations of alleged Chinese spy threats to US telecommunications infrastructure.… |
| Taiwan to ramp up cyberwar efforts Posted: 02 Sep 2012 04:51 PM PDT 'Chinese hackers' attacking government networksWhile budget constraints are crimping its overall military spending, Taiwan is to increase its outlays on cyberwar, according to the Taipei Times.… |
| US Geological Survey detects earthquake on Twitter Posted: 02 Sep 2012 04:12 PM PDT The Earth moved for Filipino Tweeps before needles moved for boffinsTwitter has beaten instruments to the punch at the US Geological Survey – but the geeks at the country's lead earth-sciences agency are perfectly happy.… |
| Pirate Bay founder arrested in Cambodia Posted: 02 Sep 2012 03:33 PM PDT Shades of Assange as international warrants unleashedPirate Bay co-founder Gottfrid Svartholm Warg, has been tracked down and arrested in Cambodia.… |
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