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- Microsoft inflating cloud PC-management option
- British Airways IT found guilty of plotting terror attack
- Buzzmeisters value Twitter at $4.5bn
- Nvidia revs up CUDA GPU coder toolkit
- Julian Assange™ applies to trademark himself
- Android phone to replace shop till
- Tainted ads punt scareware to surfers on LSE and Myvue sites
- Cloud gaming storms into the UK
- Faces of the iPad 2 and iPhone 5 revealed
- Traffic-light plague sweeps UK: Safety culture strangles Blighty
- Midnight theft left Vodafone users bereft
- Bank of America retrofits BlackBerrys with NFC
- Gmail users howl in anguish at 'disappeared' accounts
- Digital TV group sets 3D standard
- Kinect blesses rescue robot with 3D sight
- Nokia DC-14 bike charger
- Ads overseer told to bring down 'up to' broadband speeds
- Anon <em>Mail</em> commenters to stay anon
- Protecting users from themselves
- GM declares Ampera e-car 'production ready'
- Mac Trojan uses Windows backdoor code
- Toshiba sells Cell chip plant to Sony
- Asian soup peril menaces bionic shark
- Iron Mountain's eDiscovery made 2010 a rusty mess
- Vodafone's network knackered by thieves
- Facebook flick wins three Oscars
- German data regulators move to tighten IP address laws
- Cabinet Office pushes suppliers on open source
- SeaMicro drops 64-bit Atom bomb server
| Microsoft inflating cloud PC-management option Posted: 28 Feb 2011 11:57 AM PST Win 7 Enterprise Edition upgrades welcomedNext month, Microsoft will release PC management software anchored in the cloud.… |
| British Airways IT found guilty of plotting terror attack Posted: 28 Feb 2011 11:20 AM PST Encrypted emails aired after 9 month brute force crackAn IT expert for British Airways has been found guilty of using his position to plan a terrorist attack on behalf of the Yemen-based radical cleric Anwar al-Awlaki, according to news reports.… |
| Buzzmeisters value Twitter at $4.5bn Posted: 28 Feb 2011 09:55 AM PST JP Morgan money toss explainedOver the weekend, the interwebs were a-twitter about JPMorgan Chase dumping a load o' cash into Twitter – $450m for a 10 per cent stake, said the Financial Times, which as you math whizes out there have surmised, would value the micro-messaging service at $4.5bn.… Reg Guide to the challenges of Virtualization - Free Download! |
| Nvidia revs up CUDA GPU coder toolkit Posted: 28 Feb 2011 09:48 AM PST Unified CPU and GPU memoriesNvidia has staked a large part of its future on the idea that GPUs and their massively parallel architectures can replace CPUs for a big chunk of computational jobs. But parallel programming on one device is tough, across two incompatible devices is very difficult, and across clusters of hybrid machines can be very tricky indeed. That's why Nvidia's CUDA parallel programming environment is probably as important as any chip or Tesla GPU co-processor that Nvidia will ever ship.… |
| Julian Assange™ applies to trademark himself Posted: 28 Feb 2011 08:30 AM PST Also time-travels to 1970s, stars in politically-incorrect sitcomCross-dressing, occasionally smelly man-child webmaster Julian Assange - catapulted to global fame after publishing colossal amounts of classified-yet-humdrum US government data - has applied for a UK trademark on his own name.… |
| Android phone to replace shop till Posted: 28 Feb 2011 08:21 AM PST Google phone rings up the billAlcatel-Lucent has demonstrated Google's Nexus S being used to accept a Near Field Communications (NFC) payment, showing that NFC can do more than replace a customer's wallet.… |
| Tainted ads punt scareware to surfers on LSE and Myvue sites Posted: 28 Feb 2011 07:54 AM PST Autotrader.co.uk, and possibly eBay.co.uk, also hit by malvertising attackSeveral highly trafficked UK sites – including the website of the London Stock Exchange – served malware-tainted ads as the result of a breach of security by a third-party firm they shared in common.… |
| Cloud gaming storms into the UK Posted: 28 Feb 2011 07:51 AM PST Try EA games in your browser for freeCloud-based gaming is again in the limelight today with the announcement that game service Gaikai has gone live in the UK for all to trial.… |
| Faces of the iPad 2 and iPhone 5 revealed Posted: 28 Feb 2011 06:48 AM PST All white on the night?Images of the iPad 2 and iPhone 5 faceplates have surfaced online, giving credence to rumours of a front-facing camera and a larger screen, respectively.… |
| Traffic-light plague sweeps UK: Safety culture strangles Blighty Posted: 28 Feb 2011 06:10 AM PST Stealthy 2005 gov rule favoured feet over wheelsAnalysis A massive increase in the number of traffic lights – and an un-discussed 2005 increase in the priority given to pedestrians – is gradually causing the roads to grind to a halt, according to a new report.… Reg Guide to the challenges of Virtualization - Free Download! |
| Midnight theft left Vodafone users bereft Posted: 28 Feb 2011 05:51 AM PST Switch-lifters fingered for phone co fubarVodafone's Monday morning outage was caused by thieves who broke into the operator's Basingstoke exchange and lifted a load of switches.… |
| Bank of America retrofits BlackBerrys with NFC Posted: 28 Feb 2011 04:37 AM PST Is that a battery, or a wireless payment wallet?Bank of America is bringing pay-by-tap to the masses, or at least a small trial group of BlackBerry users, by using a removable card and a replacement battery.… |
| Gmail users howl in anguish at 'disappeared' accounts Posted: 28 Feb 2011 04:36 AM PST Cloud dispersalTens of thousands of Gmail users have at least temporarily lost months or years of messages and chat dialogues after Google accidentally reset their accounts on Sunday.… |
| Digital TV group sets 3D standard Posted: 28 Feb 2011 04:19 AM PST DVB-3DTV approvedThe overseers of the DVB digital TV specification have given the thumbs up to a proposed standard for broadcasting 3D footage.… |
| Kinect blesses rescue robot with 3D sight Posted: 28 Feb 2011 04:04 AM PST Peripheral visionMicrosoft's Kinect sensor can be used for much more than just entertainment. In fact, it's already being utilised in a device that could save lives.… |
| Posted: 28 Feb 2011 04:00 AM PST Pedal powerReview Most of us are happy to be green so long as it doesn't put us too far out of our way. With this in mind, Nokia has released a gizmo for turning your pedal power into battery power with a bike charger for its phones.… |
| Ads overseer told to bring down 'up to' broadband speeds Posted: 28 Feb 2011 03:53 AM PST Punters don't believe themUK watchdog the Advertising Standards Authority has been advised to ban the advertising of broadband speeds prefixed with the phrase 'up to'.… |
| Anon <em>Mail</em> commenters to stay anon Posted: 28 Feb 2011 03:34 AM PST High Court rules they have right to privacyThe Daily Mail does not have to identify the people behind two anonymously posted comments on its website because to do so would breach their rights to privacy, the High Court has said.… Reg Guide to the challenges of Virtualization - Free Download! |
| Protecting users from themselves Posted: 28 Feb 2011 03:34 AM PST Because yesterday's security doesn't workWebcast "The problem with making things foolproof is that we keep evolving a better class of fool", as the old saying goes. And nowhere is this more true than in security where breaches remain regular and commonplace despite all the investment that has gone into it.… |
| GM declares Ampera e-car 'production ready' Posted: 28 Feb 2011 03:29 AM PST But still not out until 2012General Motors will show off what it calls the "production ready" Vauxhall Ampera at the Geneva Motor Show this week - even though the e-car won't actually go on sale here for another ten months.… |
| Mac Trojan uses Windows backdoor code Posted: 28 Feb 2011 03:11 AM PST Ha! Yeah! See? etcMiscreants have adapted a Windows Trojan in an attempt to create malware that established a backdoor on Macs, as part of an apparent bid to drum up commercial interest for their dastardly wares.… |
| Toshiba sells Cell chip plant to Sony Posted: 28 Feb 2011 03:09 AM PST Sold to Sir Howard for 400 million quidToshiba has effectively sold its Cell processor factory to the CPU's co-developer.… |
| Asian soup peril menaces bionic shark Posted: 28 Feb 2011 02:51 AM PST Augmented hammerhead study predicts maneater scarcityWorrying news for evil billionaires today, as pioneering research by top boffins – in which a large hammerhead shark was augmented with high technology – reveals that large, endangered elasmobranches suitable for the in-lair pool disposal of troublesome government operatives may soon be even harder to get hold of.… |
| Iron Mountain's eDiscovery made 2010 a rusty mess Posted: 28 Feb 2011 02:19 AM PST Services priced too highIron Mountain's 2010 business was badly affected by mismanagement of its eDiscovery business, which lead to a $284m impairment charge.… |
| Vodafone's network knackered by thieves Posted: 28 Feb 2011 02:03 AM PST Silicon Corridor loses mobile coverageMillions of Vodafone customers were disconnected this morning after an overnight break-in. Calls, text and data are intermittent west of London with a fix in progress.… Reg Guide to the challenges of Virtualization - Free Download! |
| Facebook flick wins three Oscars Posted: 28 Feb 2011 01:20 AM PST Leo drops the F-bomb as The King's Speech picks up best movie gongThe King's Speech beat Facebook flick The Social Network to grab the best picture prize at the Oscars on Sunday night.… |
| German data regulators move to tighten IP address laws Posted: 28 Feb 2011 12:15 AM PST Marketers shouldn't pass on your IP without your OKPassing along IP addresses of web visitors to a third party without their permission could become illegal in Germany.… |
| Cabinet Office pushes suppliers on open source Posted: 27 Feb 2011 11:07 PM PST Govt wants to create a 'level playing field' for OS in its ICT policyThe government's deputy chief information officer has told suppliers that it wants to open source technology to feature in its ICT strategy.… |
| SeaMicro drops 64-bit Atom bomb server Posted: 27 Feb 2011 09:00 PM PST 'This is Intel's mantle to lose'If SeaMicro has been "awash in business" as company founder, Andrew Feldman, tells El Reg it has been in the wake of last June's launch of the 512-core, 10U Atom-based SM10000 server, then the company had better batten down the hatches and prepare for the deluge. Because today SeaMicro is shipping the second generation of its ultra-dense integrated server/switch/load balancing platform based on a 64-bit version of Intel's Atom processors.… |
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