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- Dell uncages Xeon E3 servers for SMBs
- Serial hacker admits breaching Federal Reserve computers
- Google native code browser plug-in gets tickled
- Everything Everywhere stops plundering the charity box
- Iron Mountain dislodges CEO
- German prangs dad's £275k supercar
- Help desk tools for Windows shops
- Belgian ISP does not have to filter out copyright-infringing traffic
- Apple's 'Do Not Track' feature goes on Safari
- Lads from Lagos pop up in Libya
- Whatever happened to ... website-blocking?
- Best practices in virtualisation
- NetApp becomes Quantum reseller
- What did the Open Data Center Alliance ever do for us?
- Winfrasoft touts pattern-based password alternative
- Fired-up eco-boffin gives it '180 per cent'
- Free Libyana: Gadaffi networkjacker speaks!
- Dell flings Froyo tablet at Brits
- Obama gets personal V-22 Osprey tiltrotor
- WTF is... 4K x 2K?
- Research scientist: Cloud is good for IT pros
- Reconceptualising IT security
- Victorian cops collar camera cooker
- Mozilla rejigs Firefox release schedule in nod to Google's Chrome
- OFT probes extended warranties
- Supercomputer simulates neutron star-black hole SMACKDOWN
- Apple cloud strategy changes with the weather
- Spotify throttles free listeners
- White iPhone 4 out by month's end
- French hacker cuffed after bragging on telly
- Sony Pictures opens wallet for <i>Bond 23</i>
- Fujitsu £2bn broadband project throttled at both ends
- When information sharing goes wrong
- O2: Sony Ericsson PlayStation phone ready to go.... almost
- Everything Everywhere accused of lining pockets with charity cash
- Sony Ericsson posts Android bootloader unlock code
- Viking Modular plugs flash chips into memory sockets
- Oregon legislators salute Rick Astley
- Samsung SuperSpeed drives out next month
- US Marines splurge on Brit troops' armoured pants
- Dixons' best chance? Quit the UK and move to Sweden
- Asus Eee Pad tablet-cum-netbook ship date slips
- 360 Browser
- Huawei to forge big red Itanium iron
- Feds commandeer botnet, issue 'stop' command
- Intel on Itanium: 'It's all about the OS'
- Microsoft reveals WinPhone 7 'Mango' details
- Earthquake emergency drives Kiwi copyright bill
- Middle East questions get under RIM boss’s skin
| Dell uncages Xeon E3 servers for SMBs Posted: 14 Apr 2011 12:35 PM PDT Homegrown PowerConnect switchesDell has made a good living selling single-socket servers to small and medium businesses, and it is out there in front again supporting Intel's just-announced "Sandy Bridge-DT" Xeon E3-1200 processors in its PowerEdge machines.… |
| Serial hacker admits breaching Federal Reserve computers Posted: 14 Apr 2011 11:16 AM PDT Faces 10 years in slammerA Malaysian national has admitted hacking a computer network operated by the US Federal Reserve Bank and possessing stolen payment card data.… Free Webcast: Making the decision on hosted apps - What's the risk and reward? |
| Google native code browser plug-in gets tickled Posted: 14 Apr 2011 09:00 AM PDT It's like JavaScript without the JavaScriptThe Tcl scripting language has been plugged into Google's Native Client, allowing Tcl code to run inside the Google Chrome browser in much the same way that JavaScript does.… |
| Everything Everywhere stops plundering the charity box Posted: 14 Apr 2011 08:46 AM PDT Enter the repentant villain, stage leftEverything Everywhere has suspended its practice of taking 10 per cent of charitable donations, and claims it is now working on an alternative, and more sustainable, model.… |
| Posted: 14 Apr 2011 08:18 AM PDT Bob Brennan goesIron Mountain, the successful supplier of physical record vaulting and unsuccessful supplier of digital vaulting services, has dumped its CEO, Bob Brennan, and made board chairman Richard Reese CEO in his stead.… |
| German prangs dad's £275k supercar Posted: 14 Apr 2011 08:06 AM PDT 225 mph Gumpert Apollo a total write-offGerman cops are investigating whether a 20-year-old may have been doing a tad over the 50 mph speed limit when he pranged his dad's £275k, 225 mph Gumpert Apollo.… |
| Help desk tools for Windows shops Posted: 14 Apr 2011 08:00 AM PDT Support tools and patience?Desktop Getting managed desktops under control is all about getting some distance; you need to get away from expensive, time-consuming deskside visits.… Free Webcast: Making the decision on hosted apps - What's the risk and reward? |
| Belgian ISP does not have to filter out copyright-infringing traffic Posted: 14 Apr 2011 07:47 AM PDT European Court of Justice advisor says it would violate users' rightsBelgian ISP Scarlet should not have to filter copyright-infringing traffic from its service because to do so would invade users' privacy, an advisor to the EU's top court has said.… |
| Apple's 'Do Not Track' feature goes on Safari Posted: 14 Apr 2011 07:26 AM PDT Never eat yellow snowThe next version of Apple's Safari browser will reportedly come loaded with a "Do Not Track" feature that Mozilla has already debuted in Firefox.… |
| Lads from Lagos pop up in Libya Posted: 14 Apr 2011 07:11 AM PDT GOLDEN OPPORTUNITY to trouser vast wad of wongaThey get about a bit, the Lads from Lagos, and evidently couldn't resist a quick jaunt to Libya, where they've stumbled across a vast wad of wonga.… |
| Whatever happened to ... website-blocking? Posted: 14 Apr 2011 07:08 AM PDT Hunt received Code months ago, and stalledWhy has the Digital Economy Act run into the mud? The laborious business of implementing the Act is taking longer than anyone envisaged a year ago. We've now learned of one reason.… |
| Best practices in virtualisation Posted: 14 Apr 2011 07:00 AM PDT A pitch for ITILGetting IT aligned with the business's needs and strategies is probably one of the toughest elements of any IT manager's job - yet remains among the most essential, right up there with keeping the lights on.… Free Webcast: Making the decision on hosted apps - What's the risk and reward? |
| NetApp becomes Quantum reseller Posted: 14 Apr 2011 06:25 AM PDT For StorNextNetApp has signed up to resell Quantum's StorNext software, opening the way for it to sell hybrid disk and tape systems.… |
| What did the Open Data Center Alliance ever do for us? Posted: 14 Apr 2011 06:00 AM PDT Let Intel cloud man be your guidePodcast The Open Data Centre Alliance is an independent group of vendors and end users - who seem to constitute the core of the steering committee - that aims to help smooth the inevitable standards wars that emerge with the battle for the Cloud space.… |
| Winfrasoft touts pattern-based password alternative Posted: 14 Apr 2011 05:25 AM PDT Sudoku for secure remote accessUK software developer Winfrasoft is pushing visual patterns as an alternative to traditional passwords.… |
| Fired-up eco-boffin gives it '180 per cent' Posted: 14 Apr 2011 05:19 AM PDT Leaves 110 per cent footballing lads sick as a parrotOld school football managers are often heard to confess they're "as sick as a parrot" because despite the lads "giving it 110 percent", their team has just taken a severe pasting.… |
| Free Libyana: Gadaffi networkjacker speaks! Posted: 14 Apr 2011 05:09 AM PDT Abushagur tells the Reg how he nabbed a networkOusama Abushagur stole a mobile phone network from Colonel Gadaffi's son, and has told El Reg how it was done and what the future holds for Free Libyana.… |
| Dell flings Froyo tablet at Brits Posted: 14 Apr 2011 05:04 AM PDT Seven-incher to take on Galaxy TabDell has released its 7in Android tablet, the Streak 7, in the UK, pricing the fondleslab at £299.… |
| Obama gets personal V-22 Osprey tiltrotor Posted: 14 Apr 2011 05:01 AM PDT Plane-copter combocraft take on 'Marine One' rolePresident Obama's personal helicopter fleet will soon include the famous, controversial V-22 Osprey tiltrotor, according to reports. However it seems unlikely that the amazing plane-copter combo craft will land on the White House lawn very often.… Free Webcast: Making the decision on hosted apps - What's the risk and reward? |
| Posted: 14 Apr 2011 05:00 AM PDT What, Full HD not good enough for you?If you're a keen Reg Hardware reader, there's a pretty good chance that you've already got a high definition TV, and possibly a Blu-ray player too. Technology, of course, doesn't stop there. While the switch over from analogue 405-lines to 625-line broadcasts - and TVs - took decades, changes occur more swiftly in the digital world, and even the 1080 lines of HDTV is starting to look outdated as bigger screens become more popular.… |
| Research scientist: Cloud is good for IT pros Posted: 14 Apr 2011 04:45 AM PDT Skilling up"Cloud computing does not mean the end of the IT professional." So says Professor Marin Litoiu, research professor at York University in Canada, erstwhile IBM research director and now one of the world's foremost thinkers on cloud.… |
| Posted: 14 Apr 2011 04:30 AM PDT Back to basicsWhitepaper Traditional approaches to information security are incapable of dealing with today's threats.… |
| Victorian cops collar camera cooker Posted: 14 Apr 2011 04:28 AM PDT Thousands of infringements alteredThe E-Crime Squad of Victoria Police has arrested a 36-year-old man for tampering with infringement data from red light cameras and speed cameras.… |
| Mozilla rejigs Firefox release schedule in nod to Google's Chrome Posted: 14 Apr 2011 04:25 AM PDT Channelling browser energy onlineMozilla has added a new channel to its Firefox release schedule in a move to release more browser software code at various stages of its pregnancy.… |
| OFT probes extended warranties Posted: 14 Apr 2011 04:16 AM PDT More bad news for DixonsThe Office of Fair Trading is launching a short, sharp investigation into the market for extended warranties, having found some stores are not complying with rules imposed after a previous probe.… |
| Supercomputer simulates neutron star-black hole SMACKDOWN Posted: 14 Apr 2011 04:15 AM PDT Datura will measure crashing waves of space-timeA German supercomputer will simulate what happens when neutron stars collide with black holes.… Free Webcast: Making the decision on hosted apps - What's the risk and reward? |
| Apple cloud strategy changes with the weather Posted: 14 Apr 2011 04:11 AM PDT Looking to recruit cloud engineers... or notApple is looking to build up its cloud computing engineering team. Or maybe not.… |
| Spotify throttles free listeners Posted: 14 Apr 2011 03:45 AM PDT Puts on a shrinking capSpotify is throttling the amount of free listening available to users of the service in a set of small but complex changes.… |
| White iPhone 4 out by month's end Posted: 14 Apr 2011 03:43 AM PDT Wait over?Apple's almost mythological, fully vapourous white iPhone 4 is merely a few weeks away from launch.… |
| French hacker cuffed after bragging on telly Posted: 14 Apr 2011 03:42 AM PDT D'eau!A French hacker who boasted of breaking into the systems of a government security contractor on national television has suffered some unsurprising consequences.… |
| Sony Pictures opens wallet for <i>Bond 23</i> Posted: 14 Apr 2011 03:20 AM PDT Co-financing deal for 007Sony Pictures has inked a deal with MGM to co-finance and distribute Bond 23 – the next outing for 007 slated hit to hit cinemas on 9 November 2012.… |
| Fujitsu £2bn broadband project throttled at both ends Posted: 14 Apr 2011 03:16 AM PDT Needs £500m from public purse, and for BT to get real with pricingFujitsu's plans to bring rural broadband to five million UK homes over the next three to five years could be seriously hamstrung not only over a row with BT about its prices, but also if it fails to secure £500m from the public purse.… Free Webcast: Making the decision on hosted apps - What's the risk and reward? |
| When information sharing goes wrong Posted: 14 Apr 2011 03:00 AM PDT Trust in the supply chainWorkshop One of the most troubling phone calls I have ever received was from the irate managing director of an IT reseller. I was working as a channel manager for a major software company at the time and the complaint was that we had a leak.… |
| O2: Sony Ericsson PlayStation phone ready to go.... almost Posted: 14 Apr 2011 02:57 AM PDT New code quashes bugs, but not all of themO2 has said Sony Ericsson's Xperia Play smartphone - aka the PlayStation phone - is ready to go on sale.... nearly.… |
| Everything Everywhere accused of lining pockets with charity cash Posted: 14 Apr 2011 02:42 AM PDT Just covering costs guv'Everything Everywhere has been taking 10 percent of charitable text messages, excepting its selected charities, on the flimsy excuse of having to cover its processing costs.… |
| Sony Ericsson posts Android bootloader unlock code Posted: 14 Apr 2011 02:35 AM PDT Open up your XperiaSony Ericsson has made good on its pledge to publish details showing "advanced developers" how they can legitimately unlock the bootloader code incorporated into certain SE Android smartphones.… |
| Viking Modular plugs flash chips into memory sockets Posted: 14 Apr 2011 02:34 AM PDT Not a DIMM idea at allWhat a brilliant idea: put flash chips into memory sockets. That's what Viking Modular is doing this with its SATADIMM product.… |
| Oregon legislators salute Rick Astley Posted: 14 Apr 2011 02:28 AM PDT 'Never gonna give you up', promises House of RepresentativesOregon legislators have proved they're down with the kids by slipping the lyrics to Rick Astley's immortal Never Gonna Give You Up into otherwise deadly serious House of Representatives business.… |
| Samsung SuperSpeed drives out next month Posted: 14 Apr 2011 02:14 AM PDT USB 3.0 HDDs, anyone?Out next month: Samsung's latest USB 3.0 external hard drives, both 2.5in portable and 3.5in desktop units among them.… Free Webcast: Making the decision on hosted apps - What's the risk and reward? |
| US Marines splurge on Brit troops' armoured pants Posted: 14 Apr 2011 01:58 AM PDT Blighty's ballistic lunchbox tech impresses YanksIt doesn't happen often, but today it has. US troops, serving alongside British forces in combat, have looked enviously at the kit furnished to our boys and girls and demanded that the Pentagon get off its ass and buy them similar stuff.… |
| Dixons' best chance? Quit the UK and move to Sweden Posted: 14 Apr 2011 01:55 AM PDT When rent is greater than profits...Dixons' best chance of surviving is to close its UK business and concentrate on its Scandinavian business.… |
| Asus Eee Pad tablet-cum-netbook ship date slips Posted: 14 Apr 2011 01:45 AM PDT Pre-order punters advised of long delayThe Eee Pad Transformer, which maker Asus is pushing hard as a netbook-tablet combo - with the appropriate optional extras, natch - has slipped, at least according to Amazon.… |
| Posted: 14 Apr 2011 12:00 AM PDT Thumb from page to page, literallyiOS App of the Week There isn't a proper version of Firefox available for iOS, but the 360 Web Browser is perhaps the closest alternative I've seen so far. Version 3.0 has just been released and its feature list is ridiculously long, including an option to sync with Firefox, a built-in download and file manager, the ability to upload files to a Dropbox account, and a plug-in architecture similar to Firefox.… |
| Huawei to forge big red Itanium iron Posted: 13 Apr 2011 10:32 PM PDT Inspur goes Itanic tooIntel has added two more server makers to the roster of those who want to build Itanium-based systems: Huawei Technologies and Inspur. That's a 50 per cent growth rate in the Itanium OEM base.… |
| Feds commandeer botnet, issue 'stop' command Posted: 13 Apr 2011 04:55 PM PDT Notorious Coreflood gets dose of own medicineFor the first time ever, the US government has attempted to take down a botnet by setting up a substitute control channel that temporarily disables the underlying malware running on hundreds of thousands of infected end user computers.… |
| Intel on Itanium: 'It's all about the OS' Posted: 13 Apr 2011 03:21 PM PDT 'Poulson' in 2012. For sureThe Big Statement from Intel on Itanium didn't happen at the company's Developer Forum, as many expected, but Intel did make a few more concrete statements about the processor in an effort to put Hewlett-Packard HP-UX, OpenVMS, and NonStop customers at ease after Oracle's announcement that it will cease development its database, middleware, and applications on Itanium machines.… |
| Microsoft reveals WinPhone 7 'Mango' details Posted: 13 Apr 2011 03:15 PM PDT Faster, more open, less battery suckageThe next version of Windows Phone is getting faster, opening up and - Microsoft has promised - won't suck your battery dry.… Free Webcast: Making the decision on hosted apps - What's the risk and reward? |
| Earthquake emergency drives Kiwi copyright bill Posted: 13 Apr 2011 02:49 PM PDT Three strikes and your city gets reconstructed?The New Zealand government has outraged internet users by rushing through a new anti-P2P copyright bill under cover of an emergency session of Parliament.… |
| Middle East questions get under RIM boss’s skin Posted: 13 Apr 2011 02:24 PM PDT Interview ends when talk turns from products to securityResearch In Motion co-CEO Mike Lazaridis has terminated an interview with the BBC's Click programme when questioned about Blackberry security in the Middle East.… |
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