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- AT&T's iPhone 4 drops 2.5 times as many calls as Verizon's
- Apple pressures Toyota to kill jailbreaker ad
- Nimbula floats 'instamatic' cloud builder
- Couchbase serves Membase for OS X
- Nokia admits 'open' Symbian is not open
- Cycle Computing fires up 10,000-core HPC cloud on EC2
- Malware baddies crank up Trojan production
- Microsoft crowns Capossela as new consumer channels head
- Georgian granny disconnects Armenian internet
- Cisco CEO: 'We have disappointed our investors'
- The Sun still not shining on Nintendo's 3DS
- Antarctic meteorite yields exotic new mineral
- British bank shuts website until April 2012
- Sage blames downloads for downtime
- SpaceX unveils new Falcon Heavy rocket - WORLD'S BIGGEST
- Nokia floats out a collection of cool concepts
- Israel mulls creation of elite counter-cyberterrorist unit
- Ofcom Radio pokes at potential pirates
- HTC Desire S Android smartphone
- Culture minister rejects calls for UK probe of Google search biz
- Richard Branson to prowl oceans' hadal depths in flying sub
- US Army releases new vid of Judge Dredd computer smart-rifle
- Civil servants just can't keep a grip on their BlackBerrys
- Online ticket company ordered to release data on ticket sellers
- Buying Solutions launches office supply framework
- Salt Lake City goes wallet-free with Isis
- SCO trading suspended in US
- Judge flips $625.5m Apple patent payout
- Yuri Gagarin in triumphant return to London
- McAfee recovers from Sesame Street email filter mix-up
- One basket only? Proceed to self service
- Satyam pays $10m to end fraud probe
- Wordpress backup vuln published
- Toshiba: PS3 chip too hot for tellies
- Ex-director permanently banned from revealing confidential info
- It's the oldest working Seagate drive in the UK
- EMC gets fat and flashy with Greenplum appliances
- Apple Digital AV Adapter
- Microsoft shows how to crowd-source spectrum management
- Why is ILM such a failure?
- Internet retail tax threshold 'probably irrelevant'
- US House votes to bar FCC net neut rules
- Pac Fibre invites tenders for Au-NZ-US cable
- Canonical kills free Ubuntu CD program
- HP whips out 6 ILM products
- Facebook Data Center: If if won't run ARM, what will it run?
- Burnout Crash gets PG rating
- Intel expands 'Sandy Bridge' Xeon E3 lineup
- Google Chrome to warn of malicious Windows executables
- <i>MythBusters</i>: Savage and Hyneman detonate truthiness
| AT&T's iPhone 4 drops 2.5 times as many calls as Verizon's Posted: 06 Apr 2011 12:28 PM PDT 'You can't hear me now'Owners of AT&T's GSM iPhone 4 experience over two-and-a-half times as many dropped calls as do those using Verizon's new CDMA model.… |
| Apple pressures Toyota to kill jailbreaker ad Posted: 06 Apr 2011 11:20 AM PDT 'Legality? We've heard of it'Apple has fired another shot in its war against iOS jailbreakers by pressuring Toyota to stop an ad campaign it was running on ModMyi.com, a website catering to jailbroken iPhones, and to pull a Toyota iOS "theme" available through the site.… |
| Nimbula floats 'instamatic' cloud builder Posted: 06 Apr 2011 10:34 AM PDT Ex-Amazon man offers your very own AmazonNimbula – the build-your-own-cloud outfit founded by a former vice president of engineering at Amazon – has officially released Nimbula Director, its "cloud operating system".… Free Webcast: The workload challenge - Integrating the mainframe into today's IT |
| Couchbase serves Membase for OS X Posted: 06 Apr 2011 10:00 AM PDT Big Data pie for fanboisMac-happy coders are getting served a slice of Big Data pie, courtesy of NoSQL shop Couchbase.… |
| Nokia admits 'open' Symbian is not open Posted: 06 Apr 2011 09:55 AM PDT Open is the new closedNokia has admitted that its "open and direct" Symbian source code is not open, proving – once again – that the word has been stripped of all discernible meaning.… |
| Cycle Computing fires up 10,000-core HPC cloud on EC2 Posted: 06 Apr 2011 09:05 AM PDT Only $1,060 per hour, management includedSetting up a 10,000-core physical server cluster to run supercomputing workloads is a tough task that can take weeks or months, and cost millions of dollars including the servers, storage, switching, and personnel overhead. And the thing about a cluster is that no matter how hard you try to share it, it is very tough to get anywhere near peak utilization over the course of the year.… |
| Malware baddies crank up Trojan production Posted: 06 Apr 2011 08:09 AM PDT Hi ho! Hi ho!Malware authors have stepped up production rates still further in their efforts to overwhelm anti-virus defences with banking Trojans and other crud.… |
| Microsoft crowns Capossela as new consumer channels head Posted: 06 Apr 2011 07:58 AM PDT I'll fetch the suitcase from the vanMicrosoft has created a new consumer channels division and plonked the company's Office marketing boss in the chair to head up the group.… |
| Georgian granny disconnects Armenian internet Posted: 06 Apr 2011 07:43 AM PDT Beware copper-scavenging septuagenariansA Georgian granny faces a possible three years in jail after a copper-scavenging expedition ended in Armenia's disconnection from the internet.… Free Webcast: The workload challenge - Integrating the mainframe into today's IT |
| Cisco CEO: 'We have disappointed our investors' Posted: 06 Apr 2011 07:42 AM PDT John Chambers outlines turnaround strategy in lengthy memoJohn Chambers has led Cisco into becoming too broadly spread, undisciplined and caused three quarters of poor results disappointing investors. Now he wants to turn the tide and get Cisco back on track.… |
| The Sun still not shining on Nintendo's 3DS Posted: 06 Apr 2011 07:06 AM PDT Causes high heart rate, OMFG!The Sun stepped up its slagfest towards Nintendo's 3DS today, subjecting a self-less volunteer to two hours of 3DS gaming to show just how bad the console may be for your health.… |
| Antarctic meteorite yields exotic new mineral Posted: 06 Apr 2011 07:02 AM PDT NASA scientists spy specks of 'Wassonite'NASA has announced the discovery of a new mineral inside a "historically significant"* meteorite recovered from Antarctica in December 1969.… |
| British bank shuts website until April 2012 Posted: 06 Apr 2011 06:50 AM PDT Why not phone us? Or send your butler. Next yearA British bank is closing the website for its investment accounts while it works on "a fresh new site which is more secure and easier to use".… |
| Sage blames downloads for downtime Posted: 06 Apr 2011 05:58 AM PDT All fine now thoughSage 50 customers should be able to access the cloud-based service now after almost a week of intermittent access.… |
| SpaceX unveils new Falcon Heavy rocket - WORLD'S BIGGEST Posted: 06 Apr 2011 05:50 AM PDT Elon Musk moves towards dream of boots-on-Mars glorySpaceX, the famous upstart startup rocket company founded on PayPal hecamillionaire Elon Musk's internet fortune, has announced details of its latest and mightiest launcher - which will be the most powerful rocket in the world.… Free Webcast: The workload challenge - Integrating the mainframe into today's IT |
| Nokia floats out a collection of cool concepts Posted: 06 Apr 2011 05:39 AM PDT Folding phone with a nose of its ownConcept phone designs sometimes materialise into real products, so although Nokia's latest line-up of maybes seem unlikely, we can keep our fingers crossed eh?… |
| Israel mulls creation of elite counter-cyberterrorist unit Posted: 06 Apr 2011 05:18 AM PDT Unit would protect private sector firms and gov agenciesIsrael is mulling the creation of a counter-cyberterrorism unit designed to safeguard both government agencies and core private sector firms against hacking attacks.… |
| Ofcom Radio pokes at potential pirates Posted: 06 Apr 2011 05:14 AM PDT Frequency don't come for freeLondoners can now tune into Ofcom's own radio station, which is transmitting for a week or two to let people know they shouldn't be.… |
| HTC Desire S Android smartphone Posted: 06 Apr 2011 05:00 AM PDT Gingerbread temptation?Review The revised version of HTC's more than capable Desire offers an updated look and runs Gingerbread, the latest Android 2.3 OS. What the Desire S brings to the mix is a faster, more responsive handset with improved keyboards and video calling options, all for a reasonable price.… |
| Culture minister rejects calls for UK probe of Google search biz Posted: 06 Apr 2011 04:47 AM PDT Ed Vaizey agrees to meet with Foundem membersCulture minister Ed Vaizey has rejected calls for UK regulators to investigate Google's search business practices.… |
| Richard Branson to prowl oceans' hadal depths in flying sub Posted: 06 Apr 2011 04:23 AM PDT Virgin Oceanic – coming soon to a trench near youSir Richard Branson has set his sights on conquering the world's oceanic depths in a revolutionary carbon fibre and titanium "flying" submarine.… |
| US Army releases new vid of Judge Dredd computer smart-rifle Posted: 06 Apr 2011 04:00 AM PDT Definitely needs voice-command ammo selectorThe US military has released a new video showing the XM-25 computer smartgun being fired in trials.… Free Webcast: The workload challenge - Integrating the mainframe into today's IT |
| Civil servants just can't keep a grip on their BlackBerrys Posted: 06 Apr 2011 03:51 AM PDT Aging smartphone platform is most 'lost' or 'stolen' itemBlackBerrys have become the most lost or stolen item at the Department of Transport, a minister revealed yesterday, although thieves also seem to have a taste for heating fuel too.… |
| Online ticket company ordered to release data on ticket sellers Posted: 06 Apr 2011 03:41 AM PDT Trade of tickets at above face value cost breached RFU's T&CsAn online company must hand over personal data of its customers, according to a High Court ruling.… |
| Buying Solutions launches office supply framework Posted: 06 Apr 2011 03:17 AM PDT Computer supplies and hardware included in wide-ranging tender documentBuying Solutions has tendered for the first of its nine frameworks designed to provide a centralised procurement model.… |
| Salt Lake City goes wallet-free with Isis Posted: 06 Apr 2011 03:07 AM PDT Trial run for national rolloutOperator consortium Isis has selected Salt Lake City as its flagship deployment to show the rest of the USA what NFC can do for them.… |
| Posted: 06 Apr 2011 02:59 AM PDT But what of the sale to UnXis?The US Securities and Exchange Commission has temporarily halted trading in SCO shares.… |
| Judge flips $625.5m Apple patent payout Posted: 06 Apr 2011 02:28 AM PDT Mirror, mirror on the wall, who's the fairest of them all?A US federal judge threw out a $625.5m patent infringement verdict brought against Apple that had been awarded to Mirror Worlds LLC in October last year.… Free Webcast: The workload challenge - Integrating the mainframe into today's IT |
| Yuri Gagarin in triumphant return to London Posted: 06 Apr 2011 02:17 AM PDT 12ft statue set to touch down in the MallLondon will later this year pay homage to Yuri Gagarin with a 12ft statue honouring the first man in space, set to touch down in the Mall on 14 July.… |
| McAfee recovers from Sesame Street email filter mix-up Posted: 06 Apr 2011 02:06 AM PDT This snafu is brought to you by the letter A and the number 533McAfee has apologised for a Sesame Street-style mix-up over the weekend that temporarily prevented any customers with addresses that start with the letter A from receiving email.… |
| One basket only? Proceed to self service Posted: 06 Apr 2011 02:00 AM PDT Making the best of a long tailIn tough economic times having lots of customers to sell to can give you a warm fuzzy feeling. But how many of them bring any real value? That warm glow could soon turn to a cold sweat of panic when you see how much it costs to sell to the low-value customers.… |
| Satyam pays $10m to end fraud probe Posted: 06 Apr 2011 01:58 AM PDT PwC coughs up tooIndian reseller and outsourcer Mahindra Satyam and its auditor PwC have paid a total of $16m to end a US investigation into fraud charges.… |
| Wordpress backup vuln published Posted: 06 Apr 2011 01:00 AM PDT BackWPup has remote execution holeA remote execution vulnerability has been discovered in Wordpress backup utility BackWPup.… |
| Toshiba: PS3 chip too hot for tellies Posted: 06 Apr 2011 12:40 AM PDT From Cell to CevoToshiba World 2011 If you're wondering why Toshiba has been rather quiet about the Cell processor of late - last year it was very keen to tell World+Dog it would be putting the PlayStation 3 chip into high-end sets - it's because it has realised it can't put the thing into televisions.… |
| Ex-director permanently banned from revealing confidential info Posted: 06 Apr 2011 12:35 AM PDT Not allowed to help rivals with the skinny on golfing trolley deviceA businessman has been ordered never to improperly reveal confidential information belonging to a company where he used to be a director.… Free Webcast: The workload challenge - Integrating the mainframe into today's IT |
| It's the oldest working Seagate drive in the UK Posted: 06 Apr 2011 12:30 AM PDT Twenty-eight years old and still spinningSeagate reckons it has found the oldest working Seagate disk drive in the UK: a 28-year-old ST-412 disk drive from 1983.… |
| EMC gets fat and flashy with Greenplum appliances Posted: 05 Apr 2011 11:00 PM PDT Take that, Teradata, Exadata, NetezzaFor one brief shining moment, when it bought Data General a zillion years ago, EMC was a server maker, and last year's acquisition of Greenplum makes it a server vendor (of sorts) once again. More like a data analytics systems integrator, but let's not split hairs.… |
| Posted: 05 Apr 2011 11:00 PM PDT The iPad does HDMI at lastReview It's not often that a mere cable merits a review of its own, but the Digital AV Adapter that Apple recently launched along with the new iPad 2 is worth a closer look.… |
| Microsoft shows how to crowd-source spectrum management Posted: 05 Apr 2011 10:00 PM PDT You do have a spare analyser, don't you?Researchers from Microsoft have proposed a new way to monitor spectrum usage, by connecting up idle analysers and providing an API allowing anyone to make use of them.… |
| Posted: 05 Apr 2011 09:00 PM PDT Unsuccessful and impractical softwareComment Information Lifecycle Management (ILM) promised much but delivered very little in practice; it was complex to implement and patchy in its coverage of a business's information assets. Now HP is having another canter around the ILM block... Will it succeed?… |
| Internet retail tax threshold 'probably irrelevant' Posted: 05 Apr 2011 07:26 PM PDT Oz Productivity Commission looking at online salesAustralia's Productivity Commission is re-igniting the debate about online retail, competition and taxation, with an issues paper published late last week.… Free Webcast: The workload challenge - Integrating the mainframe into today's IT |
| US House votes to bar FCC net neut rules Posted: 05 Apr 2011 04:39 PM PDT The circus never endsThe US House of Representatives has voted to prevent the FCC's new net neutrality rules from taking effect.… |
| Pac Fibre invites tenders for Au-NZ-US cable Posted: 05 Apr 2011 04:29 PM PDT Build our network, [insert name here]Pacific Fibre has announced that it has invited the submarine cable industry to tender for building its proposed Australia-New Zealand-US link.… |
| Canonical kills free Ubuntu CD program Posted: 05 Apr 2011 03:53 PM PDT Try-before-you-don't-buy moves to cloudSay goodbye to Ubuntu on CD. Canonical is killing the free distribution of its Linux on disc, while ramping up cloud trials for penguin-curious Windows fans.… |
| Posted: 05 Apr 2011 03:44 PM PDT Info lifecycle management updateHP has updated its information lifecycle management portfolio with six product announcements.… |
| Facebook Data Center: If if won't run ARM, what will it run? Posted: 05 Apr 2011 02:59 PM PDT Zuckerberg to unmask shiny new backendIn August, the rumor was that Facebook planned to pack its first custom-built data center with ARM servers, abandoning traditional x86 chips from the likes of Intel and AMD. The trouble was that the rumor arrived via a site calling itself SemiAccurate, and Facebook promptly told the world it wasn't accurate at all.… Free Webcast: The workload challenge - Integrating the mainframe into today's IT |
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| Intel expands 'Sandy Bridge' Xeon E3 lineup Posted: 05 Apr 2011 02:26 PM PDT Workstation incarnationIntel is rolling out more chips for single socket workstations and servers from its "Sandy Bridge" Xeon E3 lineup.… |
| Google Chrome to warn of malicious Windows executables Posted: 05 Apr 2011 02:21 PM PDT Social engineering put on noticeGoogle says it's expanding its blacklist of malicious websites to include those that use deceptive claims to push harmful Windows programs.… |
| <i>MythBusters</i>: Savage and Hyneman detonate truthiness Posted: 05 Apr 2011 01:54 PM PDT El Reg interviews lead balloon floatersThey've built working crossbows using rolled up newspapers, shot frozen chickens at airplane windshields, and tried to paint a room using dynamite. They say their crowning moment was actually floating a lead ballon, disproving the old cliché. And when their 2011 season debuts Wednesday night in the US, it's already started in the UK, they'll determine whether Mission Impossible–style masks can really bypass security systems.… |
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