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- Intuit ups SMB cloud credentials with Demandforce buy
- iPhone 5 in ICE CREAM SANDWICH photo riddle
- WD soaked in sales cash bonanza after Thai flood hell
- Google to FCC: Protecting Street View coder didn't derail probe
- Redmond man unmasked: UK.gov open standards stalled
- Shuttle Enterprise comes home to New York
- Apple fanboi offers to change name to get WWDC ticket
- Space-cadet Schwartz blows chunks out of Oracle's Java suit
- Elgamal, Marlinspike join dream team tackling SSL screw-ups
- Cure IT ills with a holistic approach to management
- Zynga shares wobble as biz bleeds $85.4m in Q1
- Samsung overtakes Nokia, Apple in mobile handset race
- Betting on Box in a SkyDrive and Google Drive world
- Sony planned Xperia Play with dual keyboard design
- Europe seals air passenger name-swap deal with US
- Shock sales surge sends Amazon shares soaring
- Microsoft squashes Hotmail password hijack bug
- James May 'hologram' raves about old tech at Science Museum
- Inside Turing: Computer boffinry to cuffing cups to radiators
- Ubuntu 12.04 LTS: Like it or not, this Linux grows on you
- Panasonic touts monster 8k by 4k 'flickerless' plasma
- Standing NEXT to an HTML coder is like standing NEXT TO GOD
- Samsung... no, Apple... no, Samsung tops Q1 smartphone sales chart
- Gigantic lava spirals wreck Mars ice valley theory
- Computer nostalgia is 10 PRINT 'BOLLOCKS'
- Nintendo: PS3 rules Europe, Xbox tops US
- Barclaycard site falls over, web payments impossible
- Steve Jobs' death clears way for Broadway star to play Woz
- MIT boffins play BUILDING-SIZED Tetris
- FTC hires hotshot lawyer for Google antitrust probe
- The shortest Google Drive review you'll read today
- Arcam rPac
- 'We're going to have a renaissance – let's do it'
- The Big Reg data centre survey
- Ghost of HTML5 future: Web browser botnets
- Oz court blows away cloud PVRs
- Blackpool ICT boss: BYOD doesn't save money
- Samsung DOUBLES profits on strong phone sales
- You can flog 'used' software, but read Ts&Cs first – ECJ
- Microsoft guns for web sales biz in piracy crackdown
- No sex please, we're Telstra
- Basic instinct: how we used to code
- New satellite will blow your socks off - and spot them from spaaaace
- Patriotic hackers face off in South China Sea
- TV Now was too good, and that was its downfall
- Predatory IP threatening the progress of open innovation
- Rugby League kicks back, wins Optus TV Now appeal
- Saturn's moon Phoebe may be captured planetoid
| Intuit ups SMB cloud credentials with Demandforce buy Posted: 27 Apr 2012 01:19 PM PDT $425m in cash for cloud marketing machineWith the US tax season largely out of the way Intuit, makers of Quicken and TurboTax financial software, has paid $425m for SaaS marketing operation Demandforce to make a bigger play for the lucrative SMB cloud sector.… |
| iPhone 5 in ICE CREAM SANDWICH photo riddle Posted: 27 Apr 2012 11:07 AM PDT Microsoft browser on Android, according to shock snapPic An eagle-eyed Reg reader has sent this shocking reveal of the iPhone 5 on a billboard in China, but it's all confused.… |
| WD soaked in sales cash bonanza after Thai flood hell Posted: 27 Apr 2012 10:29 AM PDT Number 2 HDD maker banks record net incomeWestern Digital, the world's number two hard drive vendor, is bouncing back after Thai floods wiped out disk assembly lines - but not quite enough to grab Seagate's crown.… |
| Google to FCC: Protecting Street View coder didn't derail probe Posted: 27 Apr 2012 10:01 AM PDT No need to out engineer in Wi-Fi data slurp, says ad giantGoogle has claimed to the US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) that protecting the identity of the engineer responsible for the Street View data slurp had no consequence on the watchdog's investigation.… |
| Redmond man unmasked: UK.gov open standards stalled Posted: 27 Apr 2012 09:27 AM PDT Findings scrapped after 'conflict of interest'The government has had to delay closure of talks on open standards in public sector IT following what it called a "conflict of interest" involving a Microsoft consultant.… |
| Shuttle Enterprise comes home to New York Posted: 27 Apr 2012 09:20 AM PDT Buzzing the Big AppleIt's not every day NASA does a flyby for us, but the El Reg space desk pulled a few strings with the Obama Administration to have Space Shuttle Enterprise do her final flight into New York harbor and up the Hudson River and down again on a chilly and cloudy morning right over the head of the New York bureau.… |
| Apple fanboi offers to change name to get WWDC ticket Posted: 27 Apr 2012 08:49 AM PDT Will also do your community service - too late for LohanA crazed Apple fanboi has offered to change his name by deed poll to the name of whoever will sell him a ticket to the Apple dev conference in June.… |
| Space-cadet Schwartz blows chunks out of Oracle's Java suit Posted: 27 Apr 2012 08:32 AM PDT Thanks Jonathan. Come back any timeAnalysis Google unveiled its secret weapon against Oracle this week: Jonathan Schwartz.… |
| Elgamal, Marlinspike join dream team tackling SSL screw-ups Posted: 27 Apr 2012 08:02 AM PDT Security superheroes turn e-commerce AvengersInfosec 2012 A non-profit organisation has brought together a team of experts to tackle SSL governance and implementation issues and promote best practice.… |
| Cure IT ills with a holistic approach to management Posted: 27 Apr 2012 07:42 AM PDT Lighten the loadWhen systems are implemented and managed in isolation, it can be difficult to get an end-to-end view of how they interact.… |
| Zynga shares wobble as biz bleeds $85.4m in Q1 Posted: 27 Apr 2012 07:24 AM PDT Farmville HQ reports net loss despite revenue hikeFreshly public online gaming outfit Zynga reported a first quarter net loss of $85.4m to Wall Street yesterday.… |
| Samsung overtakes Nokia, Apple in mobile handset race Posted: 27 Apr 2012 07:01 AM PDT Objective one, achievedSamsung has overtaken Nokia in phone handset shipments according to Q1 2012 figures from analysts.… |
| Betting on Box in a SkyDrive and Google Drive world Posted: 27 Apr 2012 06:32 AM PDT Documents in the skyOpen ... and Shut As the desktop is consumed by the rising tablet market, the file system as we know it is doomed. No, we won't suddenly lose the need to keep track of files and folders. But how we do so is undergoing a dramatic shift.… |
| Sony planned Xperia Play with dual keyboard design Posted: 27 Apr 2012 06:16 AM PDT Brick layersSony has flirted with the idea of an Xperia Play-style handset that features both a gamepad and a physical keyboard pieced together through two sliding drawers tucked behind the phone's display.… |
| Europe seals air passenger name-swap deal with US Posted: 27 Apr 2012 06:02 AM PDT PNR welcomed by EU councilA contentious new deal allowing the European Union to swap airline passenger information with US officials has been agreed by EU interior ministers.… |
| Shock sales surge sends Amazon shares soaring Posted: 27 Apr 2012 05:42 AM PDT Investors reassured by Q1 resultsAmazon shares rose at least 16 per cent in pre-market trading today after the etailing giant reported a lift in first quarter revenue.… |
| Microsoft squashes Hotmail password hijack bug Posted: 27 Apr 2012 05:31 AM PDT Hackers offer to crack accounts for £12Microsoft has smacked down a Hotmail bug that allowed hackers to lock users out of their own accounts.… |
| James May 'hologram' raves about old tech at Science Museum Posted: 27 Apr 2012 05:16 AM PDT Top Gear's Captain Slow stars in mobe appPictures Top Gear presenter James May has been transformed into a floating chatterbox spectre that hovers next to exhibits in the London Science Museum.… |
| Inside Turing: Computer boffinry to cuffing cups to radiators Posted: 27 Apr 2012 05:01 AM PDT Life celebrated at Bletchley as Reg reader crafts Android EnigmaThe National Museum of Computing celebrated the upcoming centenary of the birth of Alan Turing with a lecture at Bletchley Park on Thursday night. The event, Turing and his Times, is the second of three Turing-themed events linking three of the top computing museums in the world*.… |
| Ubuntu 12.04 LTS: Like it or not, this Linux grows on you Posted: 27 Apr 2012 04:43 AM PDT Happiness is HUD+UnityReview Ubuntu 12.04, the fourth major Long Term Support (LTS) release for Ubuntu, is serious stuff. LTS editions of Ubuntu are delivered every two years and have extended support from Canonical. They also set the look of the coming years' releases. And this LTS, codenamed Precise Pangolin, has had its support extended from three to five years by Canonical.… |
| Panasonic touts monster 8k by 4k 'flickerless' plasma Posted: 27 Apr 2012 04:29 AM PDT 145in big enough for ya?Panasonic has revealed it will produce a 145in plasma screen with a resolution of 7680 x 4320, the world's first 8k display not to require a backlight, apparently.… |
| Standing NEXT to an HTML coder is like standing NEXT TO GOD Posted: 27 Apr 2012 04:28 AM PDT Give me the boy¡Bong! "The New Aesthetic has the 'scenius' of London's Silicon Roundabout to support it. These people are working creatives of Bridle's generation, with their networked tentacles sunk deep in interaction design, literature, fashion and architecture. If you wanted a creative movement whose logo is a Predator supported by glossy, multicolored toy balloons, London would be its natural launchpad." – Bruce Sterling… |
| Samsung... no, Apple... no, Samsung tops Q1 smartphone sales chart Posted: 27 Apr 2012 04:20 AM PDT Bean counters come up with different totalsHere's a classic case of why you shouldn't rely entirely on market watchers: two of them yesterday claimed different phone makers top the world smartphone charts.… |
| Gigantic lava spirals wreck Mars ice valley theory Posted: 27 Apr 2012 04:12 AM PDT Student goes looking for water, finds yet more rockA boffin-in-training has discovered huge snail-like coils of lava on Mars that suggest the flow of molten rock formed valleys on the surface rather than ice.… |
| Computer nostalgia is 10 PRINT 'BOLLOCKS' Posted: 27 Apr 2012 04:00 AM PDT Memory wobblier than a Sinclair RampackSomething for the Weekend, Sir? "The music is reversible but time is not. Turn back! Turn back! Turn back! Turn back!"… |
| Nintendo: PS3 rules Europe, Xbox tops US Posted: 27 Apr 2012 03:42 AM PDT Go figuresNintendo told investors last night that Sony's PlayStation 3 is leading the race in European console adoption, with the number of units snapped up exceeding sales of its own 3DS handheld, as well as those of Microsoft's Xbox 360.… |
| Barclaycard site falls over, web payments impossible Posted: 27 Apr 2012 03:39 AM PDT DNS failure locks out punters for 16 HOURS and countingBarclaycard customers trying to buy things online have found that their cards don't work. The Barclaycard problems started at 6pm yesterday and are still dragging on.… |
| Steve Jobs' death clears way for Broadway star to play Woz Posted: 27 Apr 2012 03:18 AM PDT But we STILL don't know who'll play BallmerSticking with their casting policy of picking actors-who-look-quite-a-lot-like-the-character, the makers of the Steve Jobs biopic are in talks with tubby TV funnyman Josh Gad for the part of Steve Wozniak.… |
| MIT boffins play BUILDING-SIZED Tetris Posted: 27 Apr 2012 03:02 AM PDT Video: Now this is what you call 'scale out'HPC blog This is one of those stories that just makes me grin and giggle (not a simpering, girlish giggle, but a strong, manly giggle). In their latest display of technical hackery, MIT students built a Tetris game that uses an entire building as the game board.… |
| FTC hires hotshot lawyer for Google antitrust probe Posted: 27 Apr 2012 02:41 AM PDT Paves way for courtroom showdown with Larry PageGoogle could face court action over its business practices, after the US consumer watchdog – the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) – appeared to step up its antitrust scrutiny of the company on Thursday.… |
| The shortest Google Drive review you'll read today Posted: 27 Apr 2012 02:21 AM PDT Known unknown error leaves Mac in neutralComment Google notified your humble Reg scribe that Google Drive for the Mac was ready. It installed and promptly crashed.… |
| Posted: 27 Apr 2012 02:00 AM PDT Sound investment?Accessory of the Week Arcam's rPac is a digital-to-analogue converter (DAC) and headphone amp designed for anyone who listens to music on a computer.… |
| 'We're going to have a renaissance – let's do it' Posted: 27 Apr 2012 01:34 AM PDT Plus: 'We just want people to invent their own stuff'Quotw This was the week when it looked like the case against Megaupload and Kim Dotcom could be brought to its knees on the mere technicality that the site had never been served with papers in the US.… |
| The Big Reg data centre survey Posted: 27 Apr 2012 01:16 AM PDT Calling all the unsung data centre heroesWhen it comes to data centres, we know that most of you think they are pretty modern and up to date, although some tweaking wouldn't go amiss. We also know that many of you have started consolidating servers by using virtualisation to make better use of your existing kit – and a fair number of you think that you've got about as much out of this as you can.… |
| Ghost of HTML5 future: Web browser botnets Posted: 27 Apr 2012 01:01 AM PDT With great power comes great responsibility ... to not pwn the interwebB-Sides HTML5 will allow web designers to pull off tricks that were previously only possible with Adobe Flash or convoluted JavaScript. But the technology, already widely supported by web browsers, creates plenty of opportunities for causing mischief.… |
| Oz court blows away cloud PVRs Posted: 27 Apr 2012 12:45 AM PDT Carriers don't have same copying and time shifting rights as individualsAustralia's Federal Court has decided that personal video recorders in the cloud violate (PVRs) sporting groups' copyright.… |
| Blackpool ICT boss: BYOD doesn't save money Posted: 27 Apr 2012 12:27 AM PDT It would cost less for council to cough for new kitRolling out bring your own device (BYOD) policy is costing Blackpool Council more than it would to provide the mobiles itself, according to the local authority's head of ICT services.… |
| Samsung DOUBLES profits on strong phone sales Posted: 27 Apr 2012 12:15 AM PDT Battle of the superlatives as Huawei predicts great thingsMobile tech giants Samsung and Huawei turned up the heat on their rivals this week after the Korean electronics behemoth doubled its profits in the first quarter thanks to stellar phone sales and its Chinese rival revealed ambitious plans to sell over 100 million mobiles this year.… |
| You can flog 'used' software, but read Ts&Cs first – ECJ Posted: 27 Apr 2012 12:04 AM PDT Program-makers don't lose all their rights when cash touches palm...Companies that sell 'used' licences for other firms' copyrighted computer programs that are downloadable from the internet can legitimately do so – but only provided the terms of the rights-holders' licence do not put a bar on reproduction without their consent, a legal advisor to the EU's top court has said.… |
| Microsoft guns for web sales biz in piracy crackdown Posted: 26 Apr 2012 11:28 PM PDT Seeks ONE MILLION pounds from pesky license evadersMicrosoft reportedly has two more companies in its sight as the software giant's licensing crackdown focuses on China.… |
| Posted: 26 Apr 2012 11:24 PM PDT No more NSFW vids on BigPondTelstra has decided not to promote access to "adult oriented content" on BigPond's video download service.… |
| Basic instinct: how we used to code Posted: 26 Apr 2012 11:00 PM PDT In praise of Beginners All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code |
| New satellite will blow your socks off - and spot them from spaaaace Posted: 26 Apr 2012 09:51 PM PDT WorldView-3 can pick out things as small as 31cmA new satellite set to fly in 2014 will offer the chance to spot objects just 31 centimetres across … from SPAAAAAACE.… |
| Patriotic hackers face off in South China Sea Posted: 26 Apr 2012 09:21 PM PDT Dispute over islands claimed by China and Philippines goes onlineThe Philippine government has appealed in vain for patriotic hackers in the country to "be the bigger man" and not retaliate against China for a series of suspected attacks on university and government web sites, as the stand-off between the two countries over a set of disputed islands continues.… |
| TV Now was too good, and that was its downfall Posted: 26 Apr 2012 07:00 PM PDT Optus loss not the end of the roadAbsent an appeal to the High Court, Optus' TV Now service infringes copyright. It is not, however, a threat to the whole of the Internet, cloud services – nor even, necessarily, to the use of cloud to record TV.… |
| Predatory IP threatening the progress of open innovation Posted: 26 Apr 2012 06:44 PM PDT PARC celebrates 10 years anniversary with a warningThe predatory use of intellectual property by companies and individuals is causing a serious impediment to the process of open innovation that is driving the latest changes in technology.… |
| Rugby League kicks back, wins Optus TV Now appeal Posted: 26 Apr 2012 04:09 PM PDT Next stop, the High CourtThe Australian Football League and Australian Rugby League have won their appeal against a Federal Court decision ruling that the Optus TV Now service did not breach copyright.… |
| Saturn's moon Phoebe may be captured planetoid Posted: 26 Apr 2012 03:53 PM PDT It came from the Kuiper beltNew analysis of images of Phoebe, one of Saturn's many moons, suggests it may be have started life as a planetoid in the Kuiper belt.… |
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