Republican filibuster blocks Senate Cybersecurity bill |
- Republican filibuster blocks Senate Cybersecurity bill
- Martian lakes seen where NASA Curiosity rover WON'T BE GOING
- New target for 419 fraudsters: Struggling 'weak' banks
- RIM doses PlayBook with 4G super serum
- Amount of CO2 being sucked away by Earth 'has doubled in 50 years'
- Nokia stuffs Groupon deals into Maps app
- Russia slashes space station ship trip to just six hours
- Oi, missile boffins! Stop ogling web filth at work - Pentagon
- Blame crap mobe apps for swap-by-bonk hacks, say NFC bods
- Licensed to kill: Amazon revamps Cloud Player to take on iTunes
- Using Facebook causes less eco damage than farting, figures show
- RIM, Samsung thrash Apple in UK fondleslab sales growth
- Facebook: 83 million IMPOSTERS stalk our network
- Hundreds of websites go titsup in Prime Hosting disk meltdown
- Google opens up pay-by-bonk Wallet to all credit cards
- Sharp: we'll be shipping new iPhone screens this month
- Will Samsung's patent court doc leak backfire spectacularly?
- O2 joins pocket hotspot party
- Shock ZOMBIE attack could kill off Nokia's 3G phones
- India: We DO have the BlackBerry encryption keys
- Apple extends tablet market lead
- MYSTERY as six people SURVIVE deadly VAMPIRE BAT BITES
- Raspberry Pi served with Ice Cream Sandwich
- Race to super-slim Ultrabooks: More ultra-thin hybrid drives on way
- Samsung outs mobile Flash that cuts a dash
- Thanks for all this data, UK.gov, but what on Earth does it mean?
- Russian tech baron shocks physicists with £3m cash wad
- DDoS crooks: Do you want us to blitz those phone lines too?
- British Gas parent to grab £500m North Sea gas tax break
- 6 London boroughs haul all their kit to 1 Oracle biz product
- Fujitsu, NEC, Docomo team up on mobile chip dev
- Humax YouView DTR-T1000 IPTV Freeview PVR review
- Analyst says Surface could hurt Ultrabook, Windows 8 tablets
- Huawei looking into critical router flaw claims
- Booth babes banned by Chinese gaming expo
- Fraternising through flash to fight EMC
- Fusion-io flies into flash SAN space
- EMC says virtual arrays a sales tool, not a threat
- PwC: 27 percent of Aussies will buy IPTV by 2016
- Apple demands Samsung flogged for 'unethical' court doc leak
- Twitter launches vox populi index for US presidential race
- Judge: Oracle must remain on Itanic
- AGIMO issues invitation to cloud party
- Nokia shutters Qt Brisbane office
| Republican filibuster blocks Senate Cybersecurity bill Posted: 02 Aug 2012 01:03 PM PDT Online security includes abortion rights it seemsThe latest attempt by the US government to ensure some kind of security standards for its critical infrastructure has failed, with Senate Republicans having blocked legislation over concerns at over-regulation of business and the weighing-down of the bill with useless ammendments.… |
| Martian lakes seen where NASA Curiosity rover WON'T BE GOING Posted: 02 Aug 2012 12:33 PM PDT Ancient wetlands 'were on the shortlist'The European Space Agency says its probe craft in orbit above Mars has seen strong evidence of ancient lakes and rivers - but at a location which WON'T be visited by NASA's nuclear-powered Curiosity rover, which will come in to land on the red planet on Monday.… |
| New target for 419 fraudsters: Struggling 'weak' banks Posted: 02 Aug 2012 09:01 AM PDT 'I'm an American. Fannie Eubanks of Omaha'Desperate banks have become the target for so-called 419 advance-fee fraud scams.… |
| RIM doses PlayBook with 4G super serum Posted: 02 Aug 2012 08:33 AM PDT Stimulant for sales success?In a bid to improve the flavour of its chunky 7in tablet and make it more tasty for punters, RIM has spiced up its PlayBook with a little 4G LTE sauce.… |
| Amount of CO2 being sucked away by Earth 'has doubled in 50 years' Posted: 02 Aug 2012 08:28 AM PDT 'Surprising study' means models need changing. AgainUS federal government boffins have announced a "surprising new study" which reveals that the amount of carbon dioxide being drawn out of the air and absorbed by the world's landmasses and oceans doubled from 1960 to 2010.… |
| Nokia stuffs Groupon deals into Maps app Posted: 02 Aug 2012 07:57 AM PDT US Lumia users no longer in dark on where to get fish pedicuresNokia's desperate search for something to plug the hole in its sinking ship has hit upon the idea of stuffing Groupon voucher deals into its Maps application.… |
| Russia slashes space station ship trip to just six hours Posted: 02 Aug 2012 07:28 AM PDT Faster route for 2,600kg craft beats usual two-day jauntRussia's space agency Roscosmos has successfully tested a new route that gets its spaceships to the International Space Station in an eighth of the time it usually takes.… |
| Oi, missile boffins! Stop ogling web filth at work - Pentagon Posted: 02 Aug 2012 07:02 AM PDT Top brass puts a rocket up defence agency's smut addictsPentagon top brass have ordered missile defence boffins to stop using government computers to surf for porn.… |
| Blame crap mobe apps for swap-by-bonk hacks, say NFC bods Posted: 02 Aug 2012 06:31 AM PDT Radio tech defended after hacker's revelationsThe Near Field Communications (NFC) Forum has defended its short-range radio standard, and blamed flaws in apps that use the tech for the security vulnerabilities revealed at the Black Hat conference last week.… |
| Licensed to kill: Amazon revamps Cloud Player to take on iTunes Posted: 02 Aug 2012 06:02 AM PDT The world is not enough for web bazaar and Big-4 labelsOne year after it introduced online music locker Cloud Drive, Amazon has revamped its built-in streaming service Cloud Player with a raft of features to take on Apple's incredibly successful iTunes.… |
| Using Facebook causes less eco damage than farting, figures show Posted: 02 Aug 2012 05:46 AM PDT Hippies delighted, naturallyData Journalism Free-content advertising giant Facebook has released comprehensive data on its carbon emissions, revealing that a person who uses the giant website causes rather less damage to the planetary ecosystem by doing so than he or she can expect to cause by simply farting.… |
| RIM, Samsung thrash Apple in UK fondleslab sales growth Posted: 02 Aug 2012 05:36 AM PDT iPad maker falls behind UK averageSome things in life are certain: death, taxes, Boris Johnson's blond mop top, and the Apple iPad's continued dominance in the tablet sector.… |
| Facebook: 83 million IMPOSTERS stalk our network Posted: 02 Aug 2012 05:04 AM PDT Three 'key' staffers slip out as shares continue to tumbleFacebook is still racking up false accounts even as it continues to try and flush out imposters on the dominant social network, which is seeing its value close to being halved on Wall Street.… |
| Hundreds of websites go titsup in Prime Hosting disk meltdown Posted: 02 Aug 2012 04:48 AM PDT UK biz brought up servers using months-old backupsHundreds of UK-hosted websites and email accounts fell offline when a disk array failed at web biz Prime Hosting. As many as 860 customers are still waiting for a fix more than 48 hours after the storage unit went titsup.… |
| Google opens up pay-by-bonk Wallet to all credit cards Posted: 02 Aug 2012 04:31 AM PDT If you're happy to pop your details into the ad giant's cloudVid Google has extended its phone-based wallet into its cloud, allowing it to claim that any credit card can now be used to pay with a bonk of the handset.… |
| Sharp: we'll be shipping new iPhone screens this month Posted: 02 Aug 2012 04:22 AM PDT IGZO inbound?No word from Apple on the existence - or otherwise - of a new iPhone in the near future, but Sharp has effectively said the next-gen handset is coming.… |
| Will Samsung's patent court doc leak backfire spectacularly? Posted: 02 Aug 2012 04:04 AM PDT Running off to reporters could hand Apple an easy winAnalysis Samsung's decision to leak evidence banned from court could hand Apple an automatic win in the warring tech titans' patent trial.… |
| Posted: 02 Aug 2012 03:46 AM PDT Wi-Fi hub, or just happy to see me?O2 launched the Pay & Go Pocket Hotspot today, a portable Wi-Fi hub for those on the move.… |
| Shock ZOMBIE attack could kill off Nokia's 3G phones Posted: 02 Aug 2012 03:41 AM PDT US court brings InterDigital patent spat back from the deadA US appeals court has brought an InterDigital patent gripe against Nokia back to life today, three years after the International Trade Commission kicked it to the kerb.… |
| India: We DO have the BlackBerry encryption keys Posted: 02 Aug 2012 03:23 AM PDT RIM: Er, I think you'll find you don'tIndian government officials have apparently claimed that Research in Motion has handed over the skeleton keys used to encrypt BlackBerry communications – once again ignoring the fact that such keys don't exist.… |
| Apple extends tablet market lead Posted: 02 Aug 2012 03:11 AM PDT But rivals show greater growthDon't write off Apple's competitors in the tablet market just yet. While the iPad may have regained much of the strong lead it lost to Android slabs during 2011, its rivals were showing the strongest growth in Q2 2012.… |
| MYSTERY as six people SURVIVE deadly VAMPIRE BAT BITES Posted: 02 Aug 2012 02:45 AM PDT I think we all know what's happening hereRed-hot news on the science wires from Peru today, as it emerges that US federal boffins have identified six people who have apparently suffered no ill effects from being bitten by infected, blood-drinking VAMPIRE BATS: such attacks are typically fatal.… |
| Raspberry Pi served with Ice Cream Sandwich Posted: 02 Aug 2012 02:27 AM PDT Android updateThe Raspberry Pi Foundation has ported Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich to its inexpensive ARM-based motherboard, allowing owners to install apps from Google Play and make use of touchscreen tech.… |
| Race to super-slim Ultrabooks: More ultra-thin hybrid drives on way Posted: 02 Aug 2012 02:19 AM PDT Chunky hybrid HDDs are so yesterday – WD and SeagateWD is developing thin and ultra-thin hybrid hard disk drives for the Ultrabooks market with a likely transition to energy-assisted recording in 2015 – enabling 1TB 2.5-inch disk drive platters.… |
| Samsung outs mobile Flash that cuts a dash Posted: 02 Aug 2012 02:15 AM PDT Ultra-fast storage for phones, fondleslabsSamsung is now mass-producing "ultra-fast" Flash memory - the fastest of its kind, the Korean company claims - for phones and tablets.… |
| Thanks for all this data, UK.gov, but what on Earth does it mean? Posted: 02 Aug 2012 02:02 AM PDT MPs want more than just large dumps of numbersThe coalition government needs to work harder if it's to convince the public that shovelling out spades of raw data will make it an open and transparent administration, MPs have said.… |
| Russian tech baron shocks physicists with £3m cash wad Posted: 02 Aug 2012 01:42 AM PDT Social network kingpin starts new theoretical physics prize fund worth $27mA Russian social-network billionaire has set up a foundation to hand out the biggest prizes in physics history to nine lucky theoretical physicists every year.… |
| DDoS crooks: Do you want us to blitz those phone lines too? Posted: 02 Aug 2012 01:18 AM PDT Miscreants offer to down mobe and fixed line services for $20 a dayCybercrooks are now offering to launch cyberattacks against telecom services, with prices starting at just $20 a day.… |
| British Gas parent to grab £500m North Sea gas tax break Posted: 02 Aug 2012 01:03 AM PDT New allowance for investors in UK Continental Shelf productionThe government has announced a new tax relief for operators of shallow-water gas fields in the UK Continental Shelf, ahead of its planned long-term gas strategy to be published this autumn.… |
| 6 London boroughs haul all their kit to 1 Oracle biz product Posted: 02 Aug 2012 12:33 AM PDT HR, finance and procurements finally joined upSix London boroughs intend to generate £6m savings from a plan to implement the same version of Oracle's E-Business Suite.… |
| Fujitsu, NEC, Docomo team up on mobile chip dev Posted: 02 Aug 2012 12:27 AM PDT No room for Samsung and Panasonic this timeJapanese tech giants Fujitsu and NEC have decided to team up with the country's largest mobile operator Docomo on a joint venture to develop smartphone chips, in a bid to become more self-sufficient in semiconductors.… |
| Humax YouView DTR-T1000 IPTV Freeview PVR review Posted: 02 Aug 2012 12:00 AM PDT In time for the Olympics, but is it a champ?YouView is the ambitious but agonisingly delayed joint venture from the UK's main broadcasters involved in Freeview along with telcos BT and TalkTalk. As expected from that bunch, it combines a digital terrestrial recorder with internet-TV extras such as catch-up programme players and (soon) on-demand video, including optional pay-TV packages.… |
| Analyst says Surface could hurt Ultrabook, Windows 8 tablets Posted: 01 Aug 2012 10:55 PM PDT MSFT subsidies could mean US$499 Surface price and death for Android tabletsTaiwanese analyst outfit Trendforce thinks Microsoft's forthcoming Surface devices will cannibalise the market for ultrabooks, put price pressure on Android tablets and confuse consumers.… |
| Huawei looking into critical router flaw claims Posted: 01 Aug 2012 09:41 PM PDT Telecoms kit maker defends its incident response systemChinese telecoms kit maker Huawei has said it is investigating claims by researchers that two of its router products contain serious vulnerabilities which could allow hackers to remotely take control of the devices.… |
| Booth babes banned by Chinese gaming expo Posted: 01 Aug 2012 09:36 PM PDT Even cosplay deemed too racy for impressionable teensChinese gaming fans got a little less than they bargained for last week when one of the country's biggest digital entertainment expos, ChinaJoy 2012, kicked off without the obligatory bikini-clad "booth babes" that have become virtually ubiquitous at consumer tech shows.… |
| Fraternising through flash to fight EMC Posted: 01 Aug 2012 08:31 PM PDT An anti-EMC flash forceBlocks and Files Fusion-io's flash SAN software is helping Cisco, HP and NetApp fight EMC and its Thunder/Xtremio flash SAN technology.… |
| Fusion-io flies into flash SAN space Posted: 01 Aug 2012 08:31 PM PDT It's flash SAN warIt's flash SAN marketing war: Fusion-io has expanded upwards from its PCIe server flash card base into networked flash SAN storage, taking on Violin Memory, Pure Storage and all the other all-flash array players via OEMs and system builders who combine Fusion's flash hardware and SAN software with server systems.… |
| EMC says virtual arrays a sales tool, not a threat Posted: 01 Aug 2012 08:22 PM PDT Pretend arrays an on-ramp to tin purchases, not a revenue drainVirtual storage arrays may become more attractive to customers, but EMC believes the pace of data growth will mean many users still need physical appliances.… |
| PwC: 27 percent of Aussies will buy IPTV by 2016 Posted: 01 Aug 2012 06:10 PM PDT IPTV ≠ freetarding, may = Foxtel delivered in new waysShowing the kind of optimism that only large analyst firms can muster, PriceWaterhouseCoopers has boldly predicted that 27 percent of Australians will have an IPTV service by 2016.… |
| Apple demands Samsung flogged for 'unethical' court doc leak Posted: 01 Aug 2012 05:41 PM PDT You'll pay for this, oh you'll pay...Apple has said it will file an emergency motion of censure against Samsung after its South Korean rival released information to the press that had been barred in court.… |
| Twitter launches vox populi index for US presidential race Posted: 01 Aug 2012 05:39 PM PDT Measuring the twittering classesTwitter has launched a new website that will announce daily measurements of how Twitter users feel about US presidential candidates Barack Obama and Mitt Romney, calling it "a new barometer for the election."… |
| Judge: Oracle must remain on Itanic Posted: 01 Aug 2012 04:37 PM PDT Upholds HP's breach of contract claimA California court has ruled that Oracle is contractually obligated to produce software for Hewlett-Packard's Itanium-based servers and must continue to do so for as long as HP sells them.… |
| AGIMO issues invitation to cloud party Posted: 01 Aug 2012 04:24 PM PDT New guidelines and panel fling feds forward to the fluffThe Australian Government Information Management Office (AGIMO) has made two significant cloud-related announcements.… |
| Nokia shutters Qt Brisbane office Posted: 01 Aug 2012 03:25 PM PDT Linux exit takes its tollAustralian Qt developers are the latest to feel the bite of Nokia's decline, with the Finnish company deciding to shutter the operation's Brisbane outpost.… |
| You are subscribed to email updates from The Register To stop receiving these emails, you may unsubscribe now. | Email delivery powered by Google |
| Google Inc., 20 West Kinzie, Chicago IL USA 60610 | |
