| Forget widgets, invest in staff say Black Hat alumni Posted: 25 Jul 2012 02:10 PM PDT Planning for the next 15 years of security Black Hat 2012 Five of the speakers at the original Black Hat conference in 1997 have been reunited at this year's session to discuss the next 15 years of security, and all agree that people are the key investment area, not gadgets.… |
| Well-funded Meteor poised to impact web development Posted: 25 Jul 2012 01:20 PM PDT The 'web era' of apps was so five minutes ago The developers behind the Meteor open source project say they want to revolutionize how applications are built, and they've just been handed a whopping $11.2m in Series A funding to do it.… |
| Foreign intelligence agencies are biggest online threat, ex-Fed warns Posted: 25 Jul 2012 12:11 PM PDT Pot, meet the kettle of color – allegedly Black Hat 2012 Former FBI executive assistant director Shawn Henry has warned that the biggest threat online comes not from terrorists or hackers, but from foreign intelligence organizations looking to steal intellectual property.… |
| Stratus slides Avance virtual clusters onto Xeon E5 servers Posted: 25 Jul 2012 11:01 AM PDT Juggles more and fatter virty machines Stratus Technologies has revved up Avance, its high-availability clustering software that hosts virtual servers.… |
| Galaxy S III dumps universal search, tries to dodge Apple's sueballs Posted: 25 Jul 2012 09:28 AM PDT OUCH... Last one hit Samsung in the wallet Samsung has rolled out an Galaxy S III update that disables the universal search function on its handset – a result of the ongoing patent dispute with Apple.… |
| UK.gov's IT catalogue Cloud Store knackered by login gremlin Posted: 25 Jul 2012 09:04 AM PDT Suppliers and tech buyers locked out Update A glitch in the UK's IT shopping catalogue Cloud Store is preventing access for suppliers and public sector buyers.… |
| Tintri trousers $25m to crank out flash storage grease Posted: 25 Jul 2012 08:46 AM PDT Kerrr-ching: Cashes in on the server virtualisation trend Accelerating virtualised servers is proving a profitable game for Tintri. The start-up has been doubling revenues every quarter since its launch last year and has just gained a large slug of cash from venture capitalists who see great prospects of a large payout.… |
| Old-timer Odyssey to babysit Curiosity's Mars landing Posted: 25 Jul 2012 08:07 AM PDT 10-year-old orbiter to keep an eye on rover's hidden descent NASA has managed to nudge veteran spacecraft Odyssey, which has been orbiting Mars since October 2001 – into a better position to pick up communications from rover Curiosity as it lands on Mars on 5 August.… |
| Apple CEO: Frothing fanboi iPhone 5 hype screwed our sales Posted: 25 Jul 2012 07:39 AM PDT Cupertino Head Cook lashes out at rumour mill Flat demand for iPhones in Europe, and hitches in getting products to the Chinese market, trampled Apple's latest quarterly profits, CEO Tim Cook has admitted. The head honcho was speaking to investors after the company posted its below-expectations results.… |
| Symantec bundles CEO out the door, parachutes in chairman Posted: 25 Jul 2012 07:09 AM PDT It's you, not us, Enrique Analysis Software jack-of-all-trades Symantec has replaced dapper CEO Enrique Salem with board chairman Steve Bennett. Salem, we think, got the bullet for failing to conquer the mobile security market, his handling of the Backup Exec outrage, and his humdrum financial performance.… |
| Microsoft unfurls patent lasso, snares Linux servers Posted: 25 Jul 2012 06:33 AM PDT Cable telly biz is made an offer it couldn't refuse Microsoft's crusade to lock Linux companies into patent protection deals has netted Redmond's first service provider.… |
| Capita: Is that a bulge in your books or are you pleased to see us? Posted: 25 Jul 2012 06:02 AM PDT Chief exec Pindar 'has clear visibility of growth' Either the sun is getting to Capita boss Paul Pindar or excitement caused by the looming Olympic extravaganza has temporarily moved him.… |
| O2 floods London with free Wi-Fi Posted: 25 Jul 2012 05:50 AM PDT Surf the streets Undaunted by its recent network outage fall from grace, O2 is now offering Londoners free Wi-Fi access in several of capital's busiest areas including Leicester Square, Piccadilly Circus and Regent Street.… |
| Mac malware Crisis as Apple lets slip its Mountain Lion Posted: 25 Jul 2012 05:43 AM PDT Includes bonus Windows Trojan, stealth ninja style Miscreants have developed a sophisticated multi-platform attack dog designed to maul Windows and Mac OS X computers.… |
| Apple Mac OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion Posted: 25 Jul 2012 05:31 AM PDT Out on sale today, but is it all talk and power naps? First look So, here it is at last, the latest big cat in the Apple game reserve. There are plenty of new features, and numerous improvements but are they enough to tempt Mac users who felt bitten by the radical changes Lion to upgrade?… |
| Virgin Media's 'bye-bye to buffering' beardy Bolt boast BANNED Posted: 25 Jul 2012 05:16 AM PDT False start: Olympic champ ad ruled misleading Virgin Media is banned from suggesting that its broadband is fast enough to spare punters from "buffering" delays online after rival BT complained.… |
| Siemens squashes Stuxnet-like bugs in SCADA kit Posted: 25 Jul 2012 05:02 AM PDT Loading DLL files willy-nilly? What could POSSIBLY go wrong? Siemens has corked vulnerabilities in its industrial control kit similar to those exploited by the infamous Stuxnet worm.… |
| Google Nexus 7 blighted by brightness blunder Posted: 25 Jul 2012 04:54 AM PDT 'Seriously wrong' claims expert Google's Nexus 7 tablet has been warmly welcomed all round, however one display specialist claims the fondleslab's screen has something "seriously wrong" with it.… |
| Nearly half of Google's Moto gobble cash was spanked on patents Posted: 25 Jul 2012 04:44 AM PDT A cool $5.5bn to line Googorola's legal war chest Google has finally put a price tag of $5.5bn on the patents it snaffled in its $12.4bn purchase of Motorola Mobility.… |
| ARM knees semi groins with 2 billion chip feat Posted: 25 Jul 2012 04:22 AM PDT UK design biz trousers better-than-expected profit in Q2 Two billion processors designed by ARM shipped in the first quarter of 2012, banking the UK chip biz forecast-busting profits for Q2.… |
| Watch Smarter: video guide to... optical disc drives Posted: 25 Jul 2012 04:15 AM PDT All the info you need Smarter Storage Over the years, the capacity of optical drives has steadily increased, with new formats offering cost-effective storage to suit archiving needs, as well as the demands of high-resolution movie playback. If you fancy upgrading your PC from CD to DVD or DVD to Blu-ray or perhaps prefer an external option it's probably cheaper than you think.… |
| Network upgrading punches Everything Everywhere in the wallet Posted: 25 Jul 2012 04:01 AM PDT Cellco's losses widen, eagerly awaits 4G dominance Mashed-up mobile operator Everything Everywhere is still losing money as it merges its Orange legacy systems with its T-Mobile systems, invests in its network and taps its foot impatiently for Ofcom's 4G nod.… |
| LG, Samsung, Sony: Smutty Smart TV apps turn us off Posted: 25 Jul 2012 03:50 AM PDT Philips, Panasonic: Bring on the filth The adult entertainment industry is having a hard time convincing a number of TV manufacturers to cut it some slack. LG, Samsung and Sony, to name a few, have all steered clear of implementing filthy Smart TV apps and wish to keep their respective hands clean for now.… |
| TMS puts the boot into flash Posted: 25 Jul 2012 03:45 AM PDT Start your server engines TMS has given its server flash cards the ability to boot operating systems – so servers can start up faster.… |
| The future of Networks Posted: 25 Jul 2012 03:45 AM PDT What does it hold? Roundup The Register's Network Futures workshop is gone, but it should not be forgotten. We have decided to commemorate this important event with a white paper which has most of the best bits in it, free to download.… |
| Speaking in Tech: VMware is building the Death Star Posted: 25 Jul 2012 03:19 AM PDT The Empire strikes back |
| Spy Hunter Posted: 25 Jul 2012 03:03 AM PDT Captured by the game Antique Code Show Take my money! Spy Hunter at the arcade was definitely school of hard knocks, just trying to stay alive meant keeping my foot on the brake as the Peter Gunn soundtrack, with it's chugging beeps, ricocheted around my head.… |
| BT shares droop as sales go limp at hard-up Europe Posted: 25 Jul 2012 02:57 AM PDT Wholesale wing also hit by rules on fleecing 'regulatory price cuts' in Q1 BT revenues fell some 6 per cent in the national telco's first quarter as the company coughed to "tough conditions" in the financial sector as well as in Europe hampering its global services division.… |
| Devs can't be bothered with Nokia's Windows Phone – report Posted: 25 Jul 2012 02:44 AM PDT 12% drop in app-maker love after mobe sales sink Interest in building applications for the current generation of Windows phones from Nokia has plummeted among developers.… |
| Indian outsourcers Infosys outsource to WISCONSIN Posted: 25 Jul 2012 02:17 AM PDT Apple partner also builds giant software hub in Bangalore Indian outsourcing company Infosys has set up a new software centre in Wisconsin, and a much bigger one in Bangalore. The new American office will service a Harley Davidson contract and will house 125 staffers in the MidWest. The new Bangalore office will be the base of 1,400 software engineers and developers purported to be working solely on iOS kit, although neither Infosys nor Apple would confirm this.… |
| EU edges toward dropping Google 'abuse of dominance' charges Posted: 25 Jul 2012 02:08 AM PDT Fat concessions package pleases antitrust commish Europe's antitrust watchdog has said Google's revised proposed changes to its business practises, which came in the wake of "abuse of dominance" allegations, may be enough for the web giant to avoid formal penalties.… |
| Transport Dept dishes out £1.9m rail database deal to Capita Posted: 25 Jul 2012 01:46 AM PDT DB admin checks passenger numbers, interior carriage volume ... faints The Department for Transport (DfT) has awarded Capita Symonds a contract for a rail passenger counts database system, worth £1.9m.… |
| Commission to Euro biz: Show us your breaches Posted: 25 Jul 2012 01:19 AM PDT Draft EU cyber-laws will ask firms to 'fess up about violations EU businesses could be required to flag up any breaches of their "network and information systems" under a new "strategic" action plan to combat cyber security problems across the trading bloc.… |
| India crowned global spam-spewing zombie king AGAIN Posted: 25 Jul 2012 01:04 AM PDT Ha ha, do keep up, China India has cemented its position as the world's biggest fire hose of spam email, according to new figures.… |
| Droid X360 hybridises PS Vita and Android Posted: 25 Jul 2012 12:45 AM PDT Nice knockoff The market is awash with knockoff consoles shipped from China, but some certainly look more appealing than others. Check out this Droid X360, a PlayStation Vita lookalike that runs Android 4.0.… |
| What happens when Facebook follows MySpace? Posted: 25 Jul 2012 12:28 AM PDT The web is no place for happy memories Open ... and Shut While it may be true that the web has an infinitely long memory, I'm struggling to figure out where to store pictures and anecdotes from the lives of my children.… |
| Dell channels Dr Who, shoves Big Data into Small Data Tardis Posted: 25 Jul 2012 12:02 AM PDT RainStor to play the time lord's photogenic assistant Dell reckons it can turn Big Data into, er, Small Data. Hoarded information could be squeezed down to size - potentially reducing disk occupancy by 97 per cent - if the tech titan's numbers add up.… |
| CO<sub>2</sub> warms Earth FASTER than previously thought Posted: 24 Jul 2012 11:48 PM PDT |
| Huawei profits tumble as global economy falters Posted: 24 Jul 2012 11:20 PM PDT Crouching tiger tamed by fierce competition China's largest telecoms kit maker Huawei has seen its profits for the first half of 2012 slump by nearly a quarter, thanks to the sluggish global economy.… |
| Anonymous to expose 40GB of ISP data Posted: 24 Jul 2012 10:51 PM PDT More than 600,000 Oz punters at risk Anonymous is preparing to reveal 40GB of data its members say came from an Australian internet service provider (ISP) and contains "600k+" of customer data.… |
| WTO to probe China rare earth stranglehold claims Posted: 24 Jul 2012 10:42 PM PDT Better late than never The World Trade Organisation has finally agreed to investigate claims by the US, EU and Japan that China is unfairly strangling rare earth exports in order to favour its domestic manufacturing industry.… |
| Japanese govt sucked dry for TWO YEARS by Trojan Posted: 24 Jul 2012 09:26 PM PDT Nastie may have nicked meeting documents The Japanese government has uncovered an advanced Trojan attack which may have lain undiscovered on its networks leaking confidential data for over two years.… |
| Google launches partner program for Cloud Platform Posted: 24 Jul 2012 05:23 PM PDT Tools, training, and support for building cloudy apps It's official: Google's collection of cloud services is now known as the Google Cloud Platform, and to get everyone used to the idea, the search giant has kicked off a partner program for companies that can help customers use the cloudy offerings.… |
| Black Hat draws world hacking gang – and Apple – to Sin City Posted: 24 Jul 2012 05:20 PM PDT New faces, and a few old ones Black Hat 2012 The 2012 Black Hat conference is kicking off in Las Vegas, and this year's session will see Apple presenting for the first time, as well as a reunion of some of the team behind the first briefings 15 years ago.… |
| Tax office will let you deduct virtualisation software Posted: 24 Jul 2012 04:50 PM PDT Want to use e-tax on a Mac? Australian Tax Office says you can deduct virty software The Australian Taxation Office's (ATO's) e-tax software doesn't run on Macs, which has long been a grumpiness-inducer for those who like their computers fruity and their tax affairs digital.… |
| Unisys swings to profit on ClearPath mainframe spike Posted: 24 Jul 2012 04:49 PM PDT Pays off debts ahead of schedule Mainframe maker and services provider Unisys raked in more dough than it might have expected in its second quarter, thanks to a jump in sales of its ClearPath mainframes – and it used the occasion and the cash to prepay some if its debts to get its balance sheet in order.… |
| Murchison adds astronomical cluster Posted: 24 Jul 2012 04:30 PM PDT Linux GPU lovin' for WA's widefield radiotelescope Hard on the heels of yesterday's win for Cray at The Pawsey Centre, the Murchison widefield array in Western Australia is pulling in some new iron in the form of a high-powered Linux cluster from IBM.… |
| Greenland melt surprises NASA Earth-watchers Posted: 24 Jul 2012 04:06 PM PDT Giant slushy attributed to 'heat dome' Repeated ridges of warm air passing over Greenland since May have induced what NASA says is the largest surface melt in the mostly-frozen island in the age of satellite observations.… |
| ABS pulls Census app, points it at the <i>right</i> data Posted: 24 Jul 2012 03:55 PM PDT Party like it's 2006 For a couple of days, the Australian Bureau of Statistics looked like the coolest government statistician on Earth, after it launched an iOS app linked to Census data.… |
| iiNet buys up more bandwidth on Southern Cross Posted: 24 Jul 2012 03:53 PM PDT Need for speed behind deal, not TPG/PPC1 hookup iiNet has boosted its international cable capacity reserves by securing a new supply agreement with Southern Cross Cables, which will upgrade the ISP's bandwidth from 20Gbps to 200Gbps.… |
