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- AT&T ends illicit freetard handset tethering
- Google to enforce SSL encryption on developer APIs
- <strong>[NSFW]</strong> Duke Nuke teases with sapphic siblings
- X-51 hypersonic scramjet test bird ready for second test
- TV sitcom opens up the world of penetration testing
- Microsoft Kinect powers DIY Eye of Sauron
- Three to drop mobile smut shield
- Phones4U sold on again
- Cisco shells out first dividend
- Actress meets feds investigating nude photo Gmail hack
- RIM ruffles operator features with NFC play
- Apple 'gay-cure' app severely slapped
- Homefront
- Woman fingers ex in 15-foot strip pole theft mystery
- Yahoo! to! offload! Delicious! as! early! as! next! week!
- Google's copyright review: Google lays down the Google law
- Fukushima one week on: Situation 'stable', says IAEA
- I floated a site into the cloud, and it didn't rain down in chunks...
- A glimpse at Amazon's app store
- Government to scrap COI, axe up to 1,000 communication jobs
- MS claims credit for Rustock botnet takedown
- O2 ups 3G speeds by 30%
- Cloud music boom: everyone wins, except the creators
- Sweden postpones EU data retention directive, faces court, fines
- Virtualization: Solving the problems of success
- Moving to Windows 7: Is it worth it?
- How Google taped up its email outage wounds
- US e-book sales double as dead tree demand dips
- Choosing a client for desktop virtualisation
- Nokia Software Updater for Mac Beta
- Vince Cable to cut training and flexible work rules
- Nikon D7000 DSLR camera
- HP's 'vision' should embrace Apple, not copy it
- Groupon worth 'as much as $25 billion'
- RIM PlayBook to sync with Microsoft Exchange cloud
- Supercomputer charts killer tsunami's course
- Google (finally) releases antidote to Google ad webpage drag
- RSA breach leaks data for hacking SecurID tokens
- Download data versus piracy claims: the figures don’t add up
- IE9: Downloads beat Angry Birds, lag Firefox and Opera
- Patent-pimping pair attacks Apple, PayPal, Victoria's Secret
- Apple: Yes, Safari outperforms embedded iOS web viewer
| AT&T ends illicit freetard handset tethering Posted: 18 Mar 2011 11:16 AM PDT Don't try to hide - they know who you areAT&T is clamping down on subscribers who have jailbroken their iOS devices or rooted their Android handsets in order to tether their computers or tablets to the intertubes without paying for that service.… |
| Google to enforce SSL encryption on developer APIs Posted: 18 Mar 2011 10:35 AM PDT September 15: HTTPS or nothingGoogle will soon require the use of SSL encryption with three of its developer-facing APIs.… |
| <strong>[NSFW]</strong> Duke Nuke teases with sapphic siblings Posted: 18 Mar 2011 09:46 AM PDT Trailer trash?NSFW Here's a trailer for the highly anticipated Duke Nukem Forever.… |
| X-51 hypersonic scramjet test bird ready for second test Posted: 18 Mar 2011 09:09 AM PDT Mach 6 success could indicate spaceplane potentialThe X-51A hypersonic scramjet project is back on track, according to its chiefs, with problems that occurred on the inaugural test flight now ironed out and a second flight pencilled in for 22 March.… |
| TV sitcom opens up the world of penetration testing Posted: 18 Mar 2011 08:39 AM PDT Can they hack it?The world of penetration testing has become the unlikely topic of a new sitcom from Fox.… |
| Microsoft Kinect powers DIY Eye of Sauron Posted: 18 Mar 2011 08:25 AM PDT Mordor-ballMicrosoft's Kinect has been wielded for numerous applications, but now it has been used to create a giant eyeball that follows you round the room.… |
| Three to drop mobile smut shield Posted: 18 Mar 2011 08:12 AM PDT Pay monthly punters pr0n filters to be pulled downNetwork operator Three is to stop filtering out smut that monthly subscribers are attempting to view on their mobile phones.… |
| Posted: 18 Mar 2011 08:06 AM PDT BC Partners makes the callMobe retailer Phones4U has been bought by BC Partners from its previous private equity owners.… |
| Cisco shells out first dividend Posted: 18 Mar 2011 07:31 AM PDT Calming screaming shareholders with shiny penniesCisco Systems has finally grown up and is starting to pay a quarterly dividend to shareholders.… |
| Actress meets feds investigating nude photo Gmail hack Posted: 18 Mar 2011 07:21 AM PDT Leery hacking ring targets Hollywood celebsActress Vanessa Hudgens has met with federal investigators who are probing a reported hack of her personal Gmail account. The hack led to the online distribution of nude photos and videos of the High School Musical star.… |
| RIM ruffles operator features with NFC play Posted: 18 Mar 2011 07:20 AM PDT Whose customers are they anyway?RIM is the latest manufacturer to pitch NFC as something that bypasses network operators to the advantage of manufacturers, rather to the annoyance of said operators.… |
| Apple 'gay-cure' app severely slapped Posted: 18 Mar 2011 07:08 AM PDT Jobs forced to choose between Christian chums and gay BFFApple is today accused of anti-gay discrimination, following the release of an iPhone app that aims to help people find "freedom from homosexuality".… |
| Posted: 18 Mar 2011 06:46 AM PDT Dog eat dogReview THQ has made it abundantly clear that it intends to step it up as a publisher, marquee titles – the likes of De Blob 2, Red Faction: Armageddon and indeed Homefront are all part of that plan – as the publishing house looks to take on Activision and EA, specialists in the art of the cross-platform blockbuster.… |
| Woman fingers ex in 15-foot strip pole theft mystery Posted: 18 Mar 2011 06:31 AM PDT 'Smooth pole' disappears into thin airA Florida woman has turned on her ex-boyfriend after the sudden disappearance of her 15-foot "expert dancing pole" following the couple's breakup.… |
| Yahoo! to! offload! Delicious! as! early! as! next! week! Posted: 18 Mar 2011 06:29 AM PDT Report suggests StumbleUpon could be new suitorYahoo! is reportedly close to bagging a new suitor for its bookmarking web property Delicious.… |
| Google's copyright review: Google lays down the Google law Posted: 18 Mar 2011 06:26 AM PDT Dear Professor Hargreaves. This is what you will do...Google's contribution to the review of the intellectual property created to please Google was always going to be an important document. And here it is, typos and all; what a shame Google didn't review it on the way out of the door - some parts are unreadable.… |
| Fukushima one week on: Situation 'stable', says IAEA Posted: 18 Mar 2011 05:56 AM PDT Shameful media panic very slowly begins to subsideThe situation at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear powerplant in Japan, badly damaged during the extremely severe earthquake and tsunami there a week ago, continues to stabilise. It is becoming more probable by the day that public health consequences will be zero and radiation health effects among workers at the site will be so minor as to be hard to measure. Nuclear experts are beginning to condemn the international hysteria which has followed the incident in increasingly blunt terms.… |
| I floated a site into the cloud, and it didn't rain down in chunks... Posted: 18 Mar 2011 05:31 AM PDT My baby steps migrationThe "cloud" is still somewhat in its novelty phase as with virtualisation and (say) XML of yesteryear, when simply waving them at an application would magically make all your troubles drop away, like sessions on a crashing web server.… |
| A glimpse at Amazon's app store Posted: 18 Mar 2011 05:22 AM PDT Price divergence and exclusive dealsBored bloggers at a German website tried typing the expected address of Amazon's forthcoming app store, and were rewarded with a glimpse of the initial stock and pricing.… |
| Government to scrap COI, axe up to 1,000 communication jobs Posted: 18 Mar 2011 05:21 AM PDT Create new centre, then cut staff looseUK.gov plans to replace the Central Office of Information with a new executive agency that deals with the government's marketing and advertising activity.… |
| MS claims credit for Rustock botnet takedown Posted: 18 Mar 2011 04:57 AM PDT All salute the zombie slayerAction taken by Microsoft and law enforcement agencies was responsible for the takedown of the infamous spam-spewing Rustock botnet, the software giant said today.… |
| Posted: 18 Mar 2011 04:40 AM PDT Capacity boost follows 900MHz switch-onO2 has begun sending HSPA 3G through the 900MHz band, using it to up the capacity of its 3G service… |
| Cloud music boom: everyone wins, except the creators Posted: 18 Mar 2011 04:31 AM PDT Let them eat vinylHurrah! Research company ABI has predicted a boom in paid-for streaming music services benefitting a long list of winners. There's just a few groups in the loser column... including the artists who make the music.… |
| Sweden postpones EU data retention directive, faces court, fines Posted: 18 Mar 2011 04:30 AM PDT But Austria finally swallows it after court battlesSweden is to delay the implementation of the controversial EU data retention directive for a year, risking a heavy fine of up to €68m, whereas Austria has decided to implement the directive after a European Court of Justice ruling in 2010.… |
| Virtualization: Solving the problems of success Posted: 18 Mar 2011 04:00 AM PDT A Reg GuideThe Register has written a guide for you, a five-pager called Virtualization: solving the problems of success.… |
| Moving to Windows 7: Is it worth it? Posted: 18 Mar 2011 04:00 AM PDT Well ...Windows 7 may be prettier than XP; but does it really pay to ditch a working Windows XP network and replace it with Microsoft's shiny new version?… |
| How Google taped up its email outage wounds Posted: 18 Mar 2011 03:35 AM PDT Is there still a role for the reels ...Comment Does tape have a role in cloud computing?… |
| US e-book sales double as dead tree demand dips Posted: 18 Mar 2011 03:34 AM PDT Fiction KindledThe US is experience a boom in demand for e-books. Sales were up almost 116 per cent during January when compared to the same month in 2010, hitting $69.9m.… |
| Choosing a client for desktop virtualisation Posted: 18 Mar 2011 03:30 AM PDT Which one suits where?Many organisations will assume that a virtualised desktop is best delivered on a thin client device. However there's a good case for reusing existing PCs, and not all thin clients are created equal. How should you determine the best client device for your desktop virtualisation solution?… |
| Nokia Software Updater for Mac Beta Posted: 18 Mar 2011 02:59 AM PDT Beta late than never?Review There was a time when having to use anything but a Nokia phone would evoke fears of disorientation and a general unease about straying from my comfort zone. Sony Ericsson? Where is everything? Motorola? Does it do iSync? Samsung? Er... Even though Nokia never actually overwhelmed Mac users with its support for the platform, if you picked the right phone, then Apple's iSync could be used on a number of handsets to synchronise address book and calendar data.… |
| Vince Cable to cut training and flexible work rules Posted: 18 Mar 2011 02:47 AM PDT Red tape bonfire for small, and tiny, bizThe Department for Business Innovation and Skills is promising to cut regulations on flexible working and training for smaller companies.… |
| Posted: 18 Mar 2011 12:00 AM PDT The return of the fiddle factorReview In the months following the launch of its new mid-range DSLR at Photokina, Nikon struggled to keep up with demand, so successful and fabled the D7000 had quickly become. But does it really live up to the hype?… |
| HP's 'vision' should embrace Apple, not copy it Posted: 17 Mar 2011 11:00 PM PDT Owning the future. Without buying the pastOpen...and Shut Hewlett-Packard needs to grow, but its chief executive Leo Apotheker has made it very clear that he intends to boost HP's fortunes in a very non-Oracle sort of way.… |
| Groupon worth 'as much as $25 billion' Posted: 17 Mar 2011 10:00 PM PDT Er, can we get a coupon for the IPO?Online daily-discount provider Groupon is rumored to be talking with banks about a public offering that would value it at as much as $25bn.… |
| RIM PlayBook to sync with Microsoft Exchange cloud Posted: 17 Mar 2011 09:00 PM PDT Office 365 in your lapThe PlayBook – the iPad challenger from BlackBerry maker RIM – is following Apple's device into the workplace with the assistance of Microsoft.… |
| Supercomputer charts killer tsunami's course Posted: 17 Mar 2011 08:00 PM PDT NOAA simulates destructive wavesThe US National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has run simulations that show how the tsunami triggered by last Friday's 9.0 Miyagi earthquake in northeastern Japan propagated across the Pacific Ocean.… |
| Google (finally) releases antidote to Google ad webpage drag Posted: 17 Mar 2011 05:49 PM PDT Relief from browser hangGoogle has rolled out a new AdSense script that will load the company's ubiquitous contextual ads significantly faster than in the past.… |
| RSA breach leaks data for hacking SecurID tokens Posted: 17 Mar 2011 05:39 PM PDT 'Extremely sophisicated' attack targets 2-factor authAttackers breached the servers of RSA and stole information that could be used to compromise the security of two-factor authentication tokens used by 40 million employees to access sensitive corporate and government networks, the company said late Thursday.… |
| Download data versus piracy claims: the figures don’t add up Posted: 17 Mar 2011 03:55 PM PDT Debunking the content industry's scare campaignComment First, a declaration of interest. Before I joined El Reg, I was working on an analyst project (PDF/721 KB) with Sydney company Market Clarity led by long-time friend Shara Evans.… |
| IE9: Downloads beat Angry Birds, lag Firefox and Opera Posted: 17 Mar 2011 02:47 PM PDT 2.3 million hits in perspectiveMicrosoft is claiming 2.3 million downloads of Internet Explorer 9 in the first 24 hours since the browser was officially released on Monday.… |
| Patent-pimping pair attacks Apple, PayPal, Victoria's Secret Posted: 17 Mar 2011 02:25 PM PDT Amazon '1-Click' imbroglio reduxApple, PayPal, and Victoria's Secret have been slapped with a patent-infringement suit which alleges that their one-click online transaction-processing systems violate a 2004 patent held by a pair of companies that are no strangers to legal dust-ups.… |
| Apple: Yes, Safari outperforms embedded iOS web viewer Posted: 17 Mar 2011 01:58 PM PDT iPhone web API lacks optimizations, Apple tells El RegApple has confirmed that the web viewer embedded with iOS 4.3 does not offer certain optimizations included with the Safari browser bundled with Apple's mobile operating system.… |
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