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- VMware lets Apple fondleslabs tickle Windows VDI
- Microsoft to Apple: 'Oh, yeah? Well, your font is too small'
- Gmail auto sorts bulk mail, notifications, forum messages
- Google juices VP8 open source video codec
- Discovery glides into history
- Republicans believe in 'climate change' but not 'global warming'
- Internet Explorer 9 pulls on best pants for 14 March release
- The public cloud ... why bother?
- Angry Birds flies to Facebook
- Tree-keen Toyota plans major e-car roll outs
- DDoS botnet attacks gold miners and wine makers
- Fusion-io files for IPO
- Honey I shrunk the chip ... now what?
- Police expert caught with abuse images
- How do you quantify service performance
- Canonical pares Ubuntu down to 2 editions
- Cute download Firefox, 'treat a cub' vid downed by IE glitch
- HP to put a WebOS in every PC
- Look before you leap into desktop virtualisation
- <strong>[NSFW]</strong> Boffin demos melon-matching tech
- Pr0n stars to demo against .xxx
- Man jailed after cops uncover 'crack in bum'
- Murdoch's music dot.com pockets $77m
- Dentist cuffed for using lost credit card to pay for pizza
- Gwyneth Paltrow rouses Discovery crew
- Anti-religious campaigners smack down census Jedis
- ASA rules BT Wi-Fi service works with invisible routers
- Virtualising and customising desktops
- Apple MacBook Pro 13in
- Government needs to bring IT skills in-house
- Tesco heralds 2011 as YEAR OF ANDROID
- iPhone lead in ad revenue generation slipping away
- Croatian brainboxes deploy calculus-based CAPTCHA
- Building Windows 7 skills - will we need another 10 years?
- Samsung teases with trim tablet snap
- Mole points to April iOS 5.0 outing
- Irish distie grabs Advent
- EMC blows benchmark away - again
- VMware buys WaveMaker to float casual developers' boats
- Org charts on steroids
- Anobit shipping flash stash
- Google guilty of copyright wrong
- Bury council considers mass outsourcing
- Govt working on 'browser-based' solution for new cookie law
- Q2 motion-controlled internet radio
- Facebook lets users report friends who post suicidal content
- Google to kill Gizmo5 VoIP on April 3
- Microsoft's pledges mobile open source love
- Anonymous probed for hack threat against WikiLeaker captors
- AMD claims 'fastest graphics card in the world'
| VMware lets Apple fondleslabs tickle Windows VDI Posted: 09 Mar 2011 12:05 PM PST You know you want itHot on the heels of a new 4.6 release of its View virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI), launched last week, VMware is allowing a new client to reach back across the internet or internal corporate networks to use server-based Windows desktops: Apple's iPad and impending iPad 2 fondleslabs.… |
| Microsoft to Apple: 'Oh, yeah? Well, your font is too small' Posted: 09 Mar 2011 11:29 AM PST Size matters in trademark smackdownMicrosoft has filed another legal salvo at Apple in the ongoing dust-up over whether the term "App Store" is worthy of being trademarked.… |
| Gmail auto sorts bulk mail, notifications, forum messages Posted: 09 Mar 2011 11:26 AM PST Google claims high IQ for robot labelersGoogle has introduced a new Gmail tool designed to automatically identify and sort certain types of messages, including "bulk" mail, group mailing list "forum" messages, and notifications such as online account statements and receipts.… |
| Google juices VP8 open source video codec Posted: 09 Mar 2011 10:14 AM PST Swimming poultry breed does faster encodesGoogle has released a new SDK for its open source and royalty-free VP8 video codec, promising faster encoding and improved video quality.… |
| Posted: 09 Mar 2011 09:12 AM PST Veteran shuttle lands at end of final missionSpace shuttle Discovery ended its 39-mission career this afternoon at 16:57 GMT, when it landed at Kennedy Space Center.… |
| Republicans believe in 'climate change' but not 'global warming' Posted: 09 Mar 2011 09:09 AM PST Democrats believe in it no matter what it's calledThe likelihood of an average American agreeing that world temperatures are rising is strongly affected by the name used for the phenomenon. Americans believe strongly in "climate change", but acceptance that "global warming" is taking place is much less common.… |
| Internet Explorer 9 pulls on best pants for 14 March release Posted: 09 Mar 2011 09:07 AM PST 'We want to make the interwebs a more beautiful place', say two grey MS menMicrosoft is to release its forthcoming browser Internet Explorer 9 on 14 March.… |
| The public cloud ... why bother? Posted: 09 Mar 2011 08:32 AM PST Money isn't everythingGiven the amount of noise around cloud computing at the moment, the signal can be difficult to discern. One question that tends to be forgotten in the debate is – why should you bother? Is it just about the money, as some pundits would have you believe? Given that the public cloud is not going to be right for everything, when does it make sense?… |
| Posted: 09 Mar 2011 08:13 AM PST Social nestworkingRovio's Angry Birds is officially in-flight toward Facebook, with a version planned to hit the social network site this May.… |
| Tree-keen Toyota plans major e-car roll outs Posted: 09 Mar 2011 08:08 AM PST Sylvan dream machineToyota is banking on a big jump in the price of oil: it said today that it plans to launch rather a lot of new e-cars by 2015.… |
| DDoS botnet attacks gold miners and wine makers Posted: 09 Mar 2011 08:06 AM PST Malware with posh tasteSecurity researchers have discovered a strain of DDoS botnet agent that launches an attack against large corporate investment groups and mining-related interests.… |
| Posted: 09 Mar 2011 08:02 AM PST Cashing in on the flash boomPrivately-owned solid state storage vendor Fusion-io has filed for an initial public offering (IPO), hoping to cash in on the booming flash market.… |
| Honey I shrunk the chip ... now what? Posted: 09 Mar 2011 08:00 AM PST Lumpy atomsBigger is better in pastries, paychecks and bank accounts, but not in electronics. A recent story in HPCwire caught my interest and got me thinking about what the end of the shrink road might portend – and the potential alternatives.… |
| Police expert caught with abuse images Posted: 09 Mar 2011 07:50 AM PST Techie gets 14 monthsA technology expert given special clearance to examine police computers has been caught with child sex abuse images.… |
| How do you quantify service performance Posted: 09 Mar 2011 07:45 AM PST ...and how does the customer pay for it?Datacentre Service availability and performance are key to running businesses efficiently, given today's massive reliance on computing systems. How do you determine how a system should perform, and how do you measure that performance?… |
| Canonical pares Ubuntu down to 2 editions Posted: 09 Mar 2011 07:19 AM PST Simplify, simplifyCanonical, the commercial entity behind the Ubuntu distribution of Debian Linux, is going to make it easier for people to consume its operating system.… |
| Cute download Firefox, 'treat a cub' vid downed by IE glitch Posted: 09 Mar 2011 06:56 AM PST Red hot panda action, live!Mozilla is trying to encourage more people to download the final beta of its soon-to-be-released Firefox 4 browser by streaming various web cams capturing red panda cubs in captivity at Knoxville Zoo in Tennessee.… |
| Posted: 09 Mar 2011 06:54 AM PST Platform shootout extends to the desktopHP is planning to put WebOS onto every PC it sells in 2012 in an attempt to attract developers to the platform, not to mention selling HP as a provider of cloud services.… |
| Look before you leap into desktop virtualisation Posted: 09 Mar 2011 06:53 AM PST Mapping the road aheadDV Desktop virtualisation is today's hot topic in IT circles but as with every innovation, rushing headlong into it without proper planning could land you in trouble. How can you go from zero to 60 in measured, sensible steps and avoid a car crash along the way?… |
| <strong>[NSFW]</strong> Boffin demos melon-matching tech Posted: 09 Mar 2011 06:38 AM PST App snaps apple, will locate orchardNSFW-ish With a firm grip on facial recognition tech already, Japanese boffins have turned their attention to food and developed a tool to identify fruit and veg.… |
| Pr0n stars to demo against .xxx Posted: 09 Mar 2011 05:46 AM PST What do we want? When do we want it...Porn stars are set to rally against the proposed .xxx top-level domain name outside the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) public meeting in San Francisco next week.… |
| Man jailed after cops uncover 'crack in bum' Posted: 09 Mar 2011 05:30 AM PST Halfway to a speedballA sharp-eyed Reg reader has alerted us to the hardline policing approach taken by coppers investigating drugs crime in North London, as exposed by the Islington Gazette.… |
| Murdoch's music dot.com pockets $77m Posted: 09 Mar 2011 05:26 AM PST Has Beyond Oblivion a hope?"Beyond paid downloads, beyond subscriptions, beyond piracy, and Beyond Oblivion is Music Liberation." In true 1999-era dot.com style, that's how Adam Kidron's music startup signs off its corporate communications.… |
| Dentist cuffed for using lost credit card to pay for pizza Posted: 09 Mar 2011 05:24 AM PST Millionaire miser cuffedA millionaire has been busted after apparently buying pizza with credit card he found on the street.… |
| Gwyneth Paltrow rouses Discovery crew Posted: 09 Mar 2011 04:50 AM PST Singing thesp heralds last hours in spaceThe crew of space shuttle Discovery was roused this morning by Gwyneth Paltrow's Coming Home, a choice wake-up ditty selected by the space station flight controllers in Mission Control.… |
| Anti-religious campaigners smack down census Jedis Posted: 09 Mar 2011 04:50 AM PST 'Aren't you a little short for a stormtrooper?'First signs that the purity of census results may be swayed by internet campaigning emerged this week, as the Twittersphere declared itself opposed to Jediism. Elsewhere, Jewish organisations were urging people to put themselves down as Jewish, in order to increase pressure for more Jewish faith schools.… |
| ASA rules BT Wi-Fi service works with invisible routers Posted: 09 Mar 2011 04:11 AM PST OpenZone does work - it's just a bit shyThe Advertising Standards Authority has ruled that BT's Wi-Fi network does extend into open spaces, even if the router isn't visible in the adverts.… |
| Virtualising and customising desktops Posted: 09 Mar 2011 04:00 AM PST All needs not equalWebcast Although we've been talking about desktop virtualisation for years, uptake remains modest.… |
| Posted: 09 Mar 2011 04:00 AM PST Shiny, silver Sandy Bridge systemReview Love or loathe Apple, you can't deny it makes gorgeous-looking computers. Are there cheaper machines? Sure. Better spec'd? Maybe not, now that the new MacBook Pros are here, complete with Intel's very latest mobile processors and an interconnect tech no one else has yet.… |
| Government needs to bring IT skills in-house Posted: 09 Mar 2011 03:35 AM PST Easier to identify a problem than achieve change, according to committee...A parliamentary committee heard yesterday that government relies too much on outsourcing and needs better in-house IT skills.… |
| Tesco heralds 2011 as YEAR OF ANDROID Posted: 09 Mar 2011 03:27 AM PST Grocery customers favour 'droid over iPhoneTesco is now selling more Android smartphones than iPhones.… |
| iPhone lead in ad revenue generation slipping away Posted: 09 Mar 2011 03:17 AM PST Europe's Androids turn on to advertisingAndroid users are seeing almost as many adverts as iPhone users, in Europe at least, and that is despite Apple customers seeing more than a billion adverts in January from independent ad network InMobi alone.… |
| Croatian brainboxes deploy calculus-based CAPTCHA Posted: 09 Mar 2011 03:06 AM PST Head-scratching puzzlerBoffins at Croatia's Ruđer Bošković Institute are confronting surfers with difficult maths problems as an alternative to conventional CAPTCHA conundrums.… |
| Building Windows 7 skills - will we need another 10 years? Posted: 09 Mar 2011 02:54 AM PST The training challengeTen years of Windows XP means that the whole world knows how to use it, from administrators to users. How much training does it take to migrate to Windows 7?… |
| Samsung teases with trim tablet snap Posted: 09 Mar 2011 02:51 AM PST Camera never lies, right?Samsung has posted a teaser shot for its upcoming 8.9in Galaxy Tab, which for some reason interweb pundits believe proves the tablet will be a skinny affair.… |
| Mole points to April iOS 5.0 outing Posted: 09 Mar 2011 02:33 AM PST MobileMe tooApple may have announced the release of iOS 4.3 will take place this coming Friday, 11 March, but within weeks it will show off iOS 5.0, it has been claimed.… |
| Posted: 09 Mar 2011 02:28 AM PST Office Supplies R UsIrish distributor DCC has bought Advent Data Limited – the Leeds-based office consumables supplier.… |
| EMC blows benchmark away - again Posted: 09 Mar 2011 02:17 AM PST NFS before, CIFS nowEMC has blown another file-serving benchmark away with a result more than four times faster than the previous best.… |
| VMware buys WaveMaker to float casual developers' boats Posted: 09 Mar 2011 02:16 AM PST I caught my first tube today... SirVMware has bought open-source web apps outfit WaveMaker for an undisclosed sum.… |
| Posted: 09 Mar 2011 02:10 AM PST Who's the boss of you?Workshop Quick, grab the org chart. Today's org chart can show much more than just who looks after the paperclips; it can also indicate departmental structure, vacancies, reporting lines, accountabilities, even job performance.… |
| Posted: 09 Mar 2011 02:01 AM PST From Hynix to Apple with loveSecretive Israeli flash controller start-up Anobit is now shipping its controller with 2-bit (we think) Hynix NAND to "a world-leading provider of mobile computing devices". Well (hint, hint), Hynix supplies Apple, iPad two is shipping ... nuff said.… |
| Google guilty of copyright wrong Posted: 09 Mar 2011 01:28 AM PST Big fine to pay in FranceA French court has found Google guilty of copyright infringement and ordered it to pay half a million euros compensation to rights holders.… |
| Bury council considers mass outsourcing Posted: 09 Mar 2011 12:30 AM PST 'Increased role for the voluntary sector' too ...Bury council is considering a transformation programme that would involve transferring the delivery of most services to private or third sector organisations.… |
| Govt working on 'browser-based' solution for new cookie law Posted: 09 Mar 2011 12:00 AM PST Cookies settings may be 'enhanced', says spokesmanThe government is working with browser manufacturers to create new settings that will help businesses comply with a controversial new EU law on cookies that is due to come into force in May.… |
| Q2 motion-controlled internet radio Posted: 08 Mar 2011 11:00 PM PST It's only rock and roll...Review The Q2 is the simplest Internet radio you're likely to find. It's good looking too, with its tidy cube shape, rubberised casing and five colour options: white, black, lime and a couple of flowery pink and blue versions.… |
| Facebook lets users report friends who post suicidal content Posted: 08 Mar 2011 10:00 PM PST Sign of the timesFacebook has introduced a service that allows users to report friends who have posted suicidal content on their account pages.… |
| Google to kill Gizmo5 VoIP on April 3 Posted: 08 Mar 2011 09:07 PM PST Pure VoIP Google Voice under testGoogle will shut down the standalone Gizmo5 VoIP service on April 3, 16 months after acquiring Gizmo5 and rolling the startup's engineers into its Google Voice team.… |
| Microsoft's pledges mobile open source love Posted: 08 Mar 2011 04:11 PM PST Android and Apple stores failing compliance?Microsoft is clarifying which open source apps are allowed in the Windows Phone Marketplace just as a survey reckons that a number of iPhone and Android open source apps are breaking those platforms' licensing rules.… |
| Anonymous probed for hack threat against WikiLeaker captors Posted: 08 Mar 2011 03:09 PM PST 'Operation Bradical' to avenge Manning treatmentThe Pentagon has asked for an investigation into threats made by the Anonymous hacking collective against officials at Quantico, the Marine brig that is holding accused WikiLeaker Pfc. Bradley Manning.… |
| AMD claims 'fastest graphics card in the world' Posted: 08 Mar 2011 02:23 PM PST Two Cayman GPUs, no waitingAMD has unveiled a dual-GPU, easily overclockable, 3D-capable, DirectX 11–supporting consumer graphics card that it claims is "the fastest graphics card in the world".… |
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