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- Amazon unveils new hi-def Kindle iPad-killers
- Boffins computerize giant cyborg cockroaches
- NEC, Egenera tag team on cloudy infrastructure freakage
- Nokia apologizes for faking Lumia 920 ad
- DARPA builds faster-than-Usain-Bolt Cheetah robot
- Microsoft hires 1,000 more workers in China
- QLogic drops veil on new flashy adapter technology
- WD touts slimline external HDDs
- No Apple TV this year: Media moguls still won't cough up content
- Raspberry Pi production back in Blighty
- Dell makes unexpected grab for the PAYG storage cloud
- GSMA politely asks Uzbekistan to free locked-up telco bods
- AVG kicks out new touchy-feely UI to grab smartphone-fondlers
- Apple Java update fails to address mega-flaw – researcher
- South Korea probes 'mobe patent bully-boy' Samsung
- It's time to burn the schedules and seize control of OUR TVs
- Ballmer predicts 400 million Lumia and Surface fumblers
- LinkedIn adds nagging notifications to social-network-for-suits
- Investors toss $5m to UK firm: Just keep making that White Space kit
- Tape makers strap on skis, glide down slope to oblivion
- Dixons: We had a good summer, though southern Europe was a drag
- Home Sec to decide Gary McKinnon's fate by 16 October
- New Nokia Lumia mobes fail to inspire investors
- Motorola outs Jelly Bean friendly phones
- SpectraLogic smacks back at Overland for 'unwarranted' lawsuit
- Agility without anxiety
- Apple eyes $$$ iDevice adapter bonanza
- Skype inks deal to tack payments onto your mobile bill
- Dawn probe slips Vesta's grip, heads for icy dwarf planet
- Thecus chucks 2 new NAS boxes at SOHO punters
- Kobo revamps e-reader line, intros mini model
- Online bank punters tricked into approving theft of their OWN CASH
- Arqiva swallows IPTV-on-Freeview upstart
- Blighty's National Museum of Computing names first director
- Wales: We'll encrypt Wikipedia if reborn gov net-snoop plan goes live
- UK.gov's web filth block plan: Last chance to speak your brains
- New crime-busting Sherlock Holmes app sought for Brit cops
- Apple urged to defy China's one child policy
- Build a bonkers home cinema
- CIOs' most likely job move is a sideways shift
- China and Japan face off over Pacific Ocean rare earth rights
- Raspberry Pi 2.0 ready to ship
- Apple land-grabs iThingy feature management patent
- Canberra set to host solar farm
- Intel's 'Mobile Etiquette' survey uncovers global peevishness
- Anonymous considering another tilt at Australia
- Google to rent Chromebooks for $30 per month
- Toothbrush fixes ISS’ stuck bolt
- Samsung accused of using child labor in its own factories
- Huawei denies spying, calls for global security standards
| Amazon unveils new hi-def Kindle iPad-killers Posted: 06 Sep 2012 02:53 PM PDT Would you like cheap 4G wireless with that? You got it!Amazon has announced a refresh of its entire Kindle line, including updated models of its basic e-readers and fondleslabs, plus a new family of upscale tablets designed for viewing high-definition content.… |
| Boffins computerize giant cyborg cockroaches Posted: 06 Sep 2012 02:17 PM PDT Why bother with robots when evolution's already done its job?A team of scientists have developed a microchip backpack that allows them to control the movements of a cockroach by stimulating its nerve endings.… |
| NEC, Egenera tag team on cloudy infrastructure freakage Posted: 06 Sep 2012 12:02 PM PDT PAN Manager paired up with SigmaBlades, NblocksJapanese server maker NEC has teamed up with automation and management software company Egenera of Boxborough, Massachusetts, to make the latter's PAN Manager physical and virtual server control freak the preferred – though by no means exclusive – tool for managing the former's SigmaBlade blade servers.… |
| Nokia apologizes for faking Lumia 920 ad Posted: 06 Sep 2012 10:36 AM PDT 'This is Lumia' – except it's notNokia has issued an apology over charges that it sexed up the qualities of its new Lumia 920 handsets in an ad intended to show off its new image stabilization system, dubbed "PureView".… |
| DARPA builds faster-than-Usain-Bolt Cheetah robot Posted: 06 Sep 2012 09:33 AM PDT Still caged in a lab at Pentagon's mad scientist bureau... FOR NOWA terrifying legged robot has beaten its own speed record and bagged a world first by reaching 28.3 mph (45.5km/h) over 20 metres in a lab trial. The beast is currently locked up in the DARPA research facility.… |
| Microsoft hires 1,000 more workers in China Posted: 06 Sep 2012 09:04 AM PDT Contract-hunting software giant rewards Beijing for bootleg crackdownMicrosoft will hire 1,000 extra employees in China over the next year, adding to the 4,500 it already has in the country.… |
| QLogic drops veil on new flashy adapter technology Posted: 06 Sep 2012 08:31 AM PDT HBA flash cachingQLogic is adding flash caching capability to its storage network adapter cards in a project called Mount Rainier.… |
| WD touts slimline external HDDs Posted: 06 Sep 2012 08:23 AM PDT Shaves 2mm off the Mac version, adds £8 to the price"Skinny external hard drives for all!" shouted Western Digital today while launching an 11mm-thick USB 3 unit.… |
| No Apple TV this year: Media moguls still won't cough up content Posted: 06 Sep 2012 08:11 AM PDT Why won't you give us your revenue stream?Media execs unwilling to sign a deal with the suits at Cupertino HQ have scotched hopes for an Apple TV in 2012, Bloomberg reports. Wrangles for control in such areas as the user interface have kicked Apple's TV plans into the long grass, and we won't see a TV of any sort in Apple's 12 September reveal, according to the site.… |
| Raspberry Pi production back in Blighty Posted: 06 Sep 2012 07:43 AM PDT South Wales jobs boostThe Raspberry Pi is to be manufactured in the UK - possibly the first time a microcomputer has been produced here, as opposed to simply being assembled, for a number of decades.… |
| Dell makes unexpected grab for the PAYG storage cloud Posted: 06 Sep 2012 07:34 AM PDT Using Nirvanix cloud storage serviceDell quietly released an announcement a few days ago that it was offering a cloud storage service in partnership with Nirvanix. There was no press release, neither from Dell nor Nirvanix, no video, no PR blast, no nothing, just a single tweet, which was promptly retweeted by Nirvanix.… |
| GSMA politely asks Uzbekistan to free locked-up telco bods Posted: 06 Sep 2012 07:01 AM PDT Would be terribly nice, old boy, if you eased up on those RuskiesMobile industry body GSMA has written to Uzbekistan's president in hope of resolving the country's tiff with Russian-owned operator MTS, a dispute that cut off punters and led to the "interrogation" of staff.… |
| AVG kicks out new touchy-feely UI to grab smartphone-fondlers Posted: 06 Sep 2012 06:34 AM PDT Freebie scanner firm adds support for Windows 8 kitAVG launched a revamped range of its security products on Thursday that it said offered faster scanning and support for the latest touchscreen Windows 8 devices through an updated user interface.… |
| Apple Java update fails to address mega-flaw – researcher Posted: 06 Sep 2012 06:03 AM PDT Chocolate coffee-potApple released a Java update on Wednesday but it does not tackle a high-profile flaw that has become the target of attacks over recent weeks.… |
| South Korea probes 'mobe patent bully-boy' Samsung Posted: 06 Sep 2012 05:42 AM PDT Apple takes phone feud to rival's home turfSouth Korea's Fair Trade Commission is investigating whether Samsung abused its position as a wireless patent hoarder following a complaint by Apple.… |
| It's time to burn the schedules and seize control of OUR TVs Posted: 06 Sep 2012 05:24 AM PDT Today's tellies will show us anything - yet viewers are stuck in the 1980sAnalysis Freesat's redesigned user interface for its set-top boxes is a welcome improvement even if it is aping YouView. But the way in which we command and control our TVs will remain locked in the last century until everyone knows just what a modern telly set can do these days.… |
| Ballmer predicts 400 million Lumia and Surface fumblers Posted: 06 Sep 2012 05:04 AM PDT Not 235,456,783 then?Steve Ballmer's back in the numbers game, this time predicting sales of Windows 8 and Windows Phone 8 kit to draw in application developers.… |
| LinkedIn adds nagging notifications to social-network-for-suits Posted: 06 Sep 2012 04:48 AM PDT NOW with even better stalking modeSocial-network-for-biz-types LinkedIn has begun offering a Facebook-like feature that notifies a user when another member connected to their network views that person's profile, accepts an invitation or carries out other creepy stalking habits as is de rigueur in the Web2.0 world.… |
| Investors toss $5m to UK firm: Just keep making that White Space kit Posted: 06 Sep 2012 04:29 AM PDT Ofcom drags feet on making Neul's gear legal in BlightyCambridge-based developer of White Space kit Neul has raised another $5m to keep it operational while hardware improves, and Ofcom gets round to making its devices legal.… |
| Tape makers strap on skis, glide down slope to oblivion Posted: 06 Sep 2012 04:19 AM PDT $169m sales in a quarter - are you taking the piste?Figures from number-crunchers at Santa Clara Consulting Group show a tape market with no bottom in sight - yet. Increasingly, storage standard Linear Tape-Open (LTO) is the tape market.… |
| Dixons: We had a good summer, though southern Europe was a drag Posted: 06 Sep 2012 04:05 AM PDT Unleashes corrective action for Europe's bottom bit and web shop PIXmaniaDixons Retail says a "busy summer of events" helped maintain momentum in its UK and Irish operations as sales climbed 7 per cent, but it's not yet ready to crack open the bubbly.… |
| Home Sec to decide Gary McKinnon's fate by 16 October Posted: 06 Sep 2012 03:48 AM PDT NASA hacker's appeal date already pencilled in the diaryA timetable has finally been set for the next phase of NASA hacker Gary McKinnon's long-running fight against extradition to the US.… |
| New Nokia Lumia mobes fail to inspire investors Posted: 06 Sep 2012 03:35 AM PDT Shares drop after new Windows 8 phones launchNokia failed to excite any investors with its new WinPhones yesterday, its stock slumped 15.9 per cent as the Lumia 920 and 820 were launched.… |
| Motorola outs Jelly Bean friendly phones Posted: 06 Sep 2012 03:23 AM PDT Razr gangWhile Nokia was showing off its new Windows Phone 8-based Lumias, the Google-owned Motorola Mobility was unwrapping three Android 4.0.4 Ice Cream Sandwich smartphones from its Razr line.… |
| SpectraLogic smacks back at Overland for 'unwarranted' lawsuit Posted: 06 Sep 2012 03:17 AM PDT 'You waited... too long'Tape library vendor SpectraLogic has filed its response to on-the-ropes storage biz Overland's lawsuit, which accused Spectra of patent infringements.… |
| Posted: 06 Sep 2012 03:08 AM PDT Does deliver early, deliver often equal deliver badly?Live event 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".… |
| Apple eyes $$$ iDevice adapter bonanza Posted: 06 Sep 2012 02:54 AM PDT Quids in over new pin outDoes anyone feel umbrage that Apple will be the only supplier of adaptors to bridge its new, nine-pin and old, 30-pin dock connectors at the outset?… |
| Skype inks deal to tack payments onto your mobile bill Posted: 06 Sep 2012 02:49 AM PDT VoIP operator becomes even more OTTMicrosoft's VoIP operation Skype has signed a deal with MACH linking customers' Skype accounts and their mobile bills, allowing them to bypass credit card firms and PayPal when they cough up their payments.… |
| Dawn probe slips Vesta's grip, heads for icy dwarf planet Posted: 06 Sep 2012 02:34 AM PDT Spacecraft exits orbit of virgin goddess, sets off on 3-year trip to CeresNASA's Dawn spacecraft has left the gravitational pull of the giant asteroid Vesta behind after over a year of study and is rocketing towards the dwarf planet Ceres.… |
| Thecus chucks 2 new NAS boxes at SOHO punters Posted: 06 Sep 2012 02:22 AM PDT Atom-powered products spin WD Red drivesDesktop and low-end rackmount NAS boxes keep on getting more powerful and Thecus has just introduced a brace of new ones, together with directly attached storage box that can be daisy-chained to a master unit.… |
| Kobo revamps e-reader line, intros mini model Posted: 06 Sep 2012 02:16 AM PDT Nippier Android tablet tooAmazon rival Kobo has revamped its e-book reader line ahead of an anticipated Kindle relaunch from the online retail giant.… |
| Online bank punters tricked into approving theft of their OWN CASH Posted: 06 Sep 2012 02:02 AM PDT Man-in-browser Trojan attack discoveredSecurity researchers have discovered a malware-based attack against the chipTAN system used by bank customers in Germany to authorise transactions online.… |
| Arqiva swallows IPTV-on-Freeview upstart Posted: 06 Sep 2012 01:43 AM PDT All your channel are belong to usNot content with a virtual monopoly on broadcast, UK giant Arqiva has bought Connect TV, the outfit that has been slipping IPTV channels into the Freeview Electronic Programme Guide for the last year.… |
| Blighty's National Museum of Computing names first director Posted: 06 Sep 2012 01:28 AM PDT Ex-BCS prez David Hartley to lead collection at Bletchley ParkThe National Museum of Computing has appointed its first director just after celebrating its fifth birthday.… |
| Wales: We'll encrypt Wikipedia if reborn gov net-snoop plan goes live Posted: 06 Sep 2012 01:14 AM PDT But what is the plan? Sorry, that's a secretJimmy Wales, talking in a purely personal capacity, has lambasted Britain's Home Office for its plans to massively increase online surveillance of all UK citizens. The Maximum Leader says that such a draconian measure would prevent him from plonking Wikipedia servers on Blighty's soil.… |
| UK.gov's web filth block plan: Last chance to speak your brains Posted: 06 Sep 2012 01:01 AM PDT Now if you could just fill in this Word doc about your pr0n habit...Analysis A 10-week public consultation on blocking online pornography to "protect" children browsing the web ends today. And unsurprisingly many of those for and against such a plan have been lobbying hard as the deadline for opinions on the matter closes.… |
| New crime-busting Sherlock Holmes app sought for Brit cops Posted: 06 Sep 2012 12:28 AM PDT You know my |
| Apple urged to defy China's one child policy Posted: 06 Sep 2012 12:19 AM PDT There's no app for thatChinese activist and exiled dissident Chen Guangchen has waded into the controversy surrounding working conditions at the Chinese suppliers of big name tech brands by calling on Apple and others to stand up against his country's infamous one child policy.… |
| Posted: 06 Sep 2012 12:00 AM PDT It's showtimeProduct Round-up It's a curious fact that when you ascend into the rarefied atmosphere of specialist hi-fi, products transform into creations of often astounding beauty. Do the same with home cinema, and they usually mutate into the unapologetically hideous. This is doubtless a consequence of hi-tech Darwinism. Top class AV gear sits unseen in darkened rooms, often swaddled in acoustically transparent cloth. So be warned: what follows isn't necessarily pretty – but it is jaw-droppingly beautiful in flight. Time to build a totally bonkers AV system…… |
| CIOs' most likely job move is a sideways shift Posted: 05 Sep 2012 10:31 PM PDT CEOs don't seek advice from CIOs and expect them to leaveCIOs have a great opportunity to boss innovation in their organisation, but they're not valued as strategic advisors by their CEOs, most of whom think they'll be out of the door soon, according to analysts and IT leaders.… |
| China and Japan face off over Pacific Ocean rare earth rights Posted: 05 Sep 2012 10:10 PM PDT Asian foes both submit applications to trawl seabedJapan and China's maritime stand-off is set to extend to the Pacific Ocean after both submitted applications to sweep vast swathes of the seabed for copper, cobalt and the rare earths so beloved of hi-tech manufacturers.… |
| Raspberry Pi 2.0 ready to ship Posted: 05 Sep 2012 07:15 PM PDT Two new holes, several fixes, no big changesA new version of the Raspberry Pi has made its way into distribution channels.… |
| Apple land-grabs iThingy feature management patent Posted: 05 Sep 2012 06:45 PM PDT Keeping the locker-room private with camera-crimping-zones techThe world's change-rooms and fitness clubs might get that little bit more private, if Apple actually implements its latest patent, to enforce a shut-down of a phone's camera in "a sensitive area".… |
| Canberra set to host solar farm Posted: 05 Sep 2012 06:16 PM PDT FRV wins contract for 20 MW plantSpanish renewables firm FRV has won a "reverse auction" for a feed-in tariff entitlement that will support the construction of a 20 MW solar farm for the Australian Capital Territory.… |
| Intel's 'Mobile Etiquette' survey uncovers global peevishness Posted: 05 Sep 2012 06:04 PM PDT And presents it in a slick interactive presentation you've gotta check outIntel has published its annual "Mobile Etiquette" study, an effort that makes two things abundantly clear: first, that worldwide online information sharing is ubiquitous; and second, that Intel and its survey partner Ipsos Observer certainly know how to compress a shedload of data into a whiz-bang interactive presentation.… |
| Anonymous considering another tilt at Australia Posted: 05 Sep 2012 05:52 PM PDT Displeased by speech on data retention, but also going straight when it suitsAnonymous is not at all pleased with the speech Australia's Attorney-General Nicola Roxon gave earlier this week, and is considering another round of action to make its point that data retention is an unacceptable erosion of personal liberty.… |
| Google to rent Chromebooks for $30 per month Posted: 05 Sep 2012 05:29 PM PDT Well, it can't just give them away, can it?Google must have a lot of unsold Chrome OS devices lying around, because it has launched an unusual new scheme to get them into customers' hands. Beginning on Wednesday, customers can rent the boot-to-browser machines on a month-to-month basis for as long as three years or as little as a single month.… |
| Toothbrush fixes ISS’ stuck bolt Posted: 05 Sep 2012 04:43 PM PDT Spacewalkers go dentalThe International Space Station has hosted its first "maker fair", with astronauts Akihiko Hoshide and Sunita Williams spending last weekend fashioning tools to fix the power module's jammed bolt.… |
| Samsung accused of using child labor in its own factories Posted: 05 Sep 2012 04:43 PM PDT Chinese labor watchdog charges massive overtime and exploited workersSamsung is facing fresh allegations of employing illegal child workers – this time in its own Chinese factories – a day after the company said that an independent review had cleared one of its main suppliers of similar charges.… |
| Huawei denies spying, calls for global security standards Posted: 05 Sep 2012 04:32 PM PDT 'We're not the ones throwing malware around'Even as execs of the Chinese telecom giant Huawei prepare to testify before Congress over concerns that the company's networking equipment may pose a security threat to US infrastructure, the company issued a public statement claiming that it has never participated in cyber espionage or any other illegal act, and that it would never do so.… |
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