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- Google Go boldly goes where no code has gone before
- iOS lauded as top moneymaker
- Domain security comes to .co.uk
- Cisco pares down bloated corporate structure
- Intel brings protected DVD, BD playback to WiDi
- EU pay-by-tap accepts operator independence
- Slack bank practice creates opportunity for phone phishing scams
- Francis Maude outlines Public Data Corporation plans
- Virgin space rocketship trials 'feather' re-entry system
- Cell site data sinks into black hole of local bureaucracy
- IBM preps Power7+ server chip rev
- Let the Cloud Developer Wars begin
- Skype mulls going online with offline Facebook, Google contacts
- Adobe, Apple, Google hit by wage-fixing case
- SOCOM 4
- Nokia touted Meego to rivals, but nobody wanted to know
- DARPA, NASA look to spawn STARSHIP enterprise
- LastPass resets passwords following possible hack
- O2 revises PlayStation phone release date
- <em>Reg</em> reader lost for words over blank HP keyboard
- Boffins herald end of stiff screens
- Harman Kardon SB 16 soundbar
- Three unlimited data plan gets no tie-in option
- Rethinking desktop virtualisation
- Dear Mr Beefy ex-soldier: Your BT needs you
- Bradley Manning now in nicer Army prison
- X Factor hack exposes personal data of fame-seeking contestants
- Surrey voted tops for tits in birdwatching poll
- Apple iPad 3 to sport 3D screen a 'dead cert'
- Fraud charges for 3 former Torex execs
- iOS 5 said to sport over-the-air update facility
- HP's new EVA: The big reveal
- Janet 3G to go live in June
- Facebook fails webmail tests
- Sccope best price finder
- IE is tough on Flash cookies but ignores homegrown threat
- CNET sued for giving kids LimeWire
- Oracle U-turns on Hudson open source control
- Want an untracked Android? Here’s how
- Red Hat revenues pumped by partners
- Oracle subpoenas Apache in search of Google smoking gun
- Voda stops worrying, learns to love the NBN
- Oz boffins in quantum computing breakthrough
- EA buys Aussie game studio
- Groupon starts buying Australian rivals
- End of the tether: Google plays nice with carriers
- Red Hat answers Microsoft Azure with OpenShift dev cloud
- Apple squashes location tracking 'bugs' with iOS update
| Google Go boldly goes where no code has gone before Posted: 05 May 2011 12:18 PM PDT How to build all the Google stuff Google won't talk aboutEvery Google data center has a Chubby, and Heroku wanted one too.… |
| Posted: 05 May 2011 11:20 AM PDT iPad, iPhone rake in 'freemium' cashThe iPad and iPhone are the most valuable and profitable devices available for your software-development business – at least according to Evernote CEO Phil Lipin.… |
| Domain security comes to .co.uk Posted: 05 May 2011 11:19 AM PDT Will DNSSEC ever be sexy?Nominet plans to bring a higher level of security to UK domain names within the next two weeks.… |
| Cisco pares down bloated corporate structure Posted: 05 May 2011 09:09 AM PDT Engineering a turnaroundNetworking giant and adjacent market wannabe Cisco Systems has taken some hit points in recent quarters from its bloated business lines and unfocused product and marketing efforts, and has announced its expected corporate reorganization. Most of the changes are in its engineering efforts, which is a tacit admission that Cisco has a hardware and software problem as much as it has a sales problem.… |
| Intel brings protected DVD, BD playback to WiDi Posted: 05 May 2011 08:21 AM PDT Wirelessly stream content - if you have the right kitIntel has tweaked its WiDi 2.0 software to support the playback of DRM-protected content - DVDs and Blu-rays, essentially - as promised four months ago.… |
| EU pay-by-tap accepts operator independence Posted: 05 May 2011 08:13 AM PDT GSMA not involved this time aroundThe European Payments Council guidelines for NFC proximity payments are up for debate, and this time the operator isn't considered an essential component though still the preferred partner.… Free Webcast: Making the decision on hosted apps - What's the risk and reward? |
| Slack bank practice creates opportunity for phone phishing scams Posted: 05 May 2011 07:46 AM PDT A question of authenticationOpinion There is a scene during the underrated '70s conspiracy thriller Three Days of the Condor when Robert Redford's bookish spy is asked to verify his identity when calling into base. He resists, insisting that the person who took his call needs to verify their own identity before he gives anything away.… |
| Francis Maude outlines Public Data Corporation plans Posted: 05 May 2011 07:44 AM PDT Policy framework for new open gov data org ready by autumn 2011The government intends to have a data policy framework in place by autumn 2011 as part of its preparations for the Public Data Corporation (PDC), according to Cabinet Office minister Francis Maude.… |
| Virgin space rocketship trials 'feather' re-entry system Posted: 05 May 2011 07:15 AM PDT Plummets toward Mojave with tail pointing straight upThe SpaceShipTwo suborbital rocketplane, commissioned by beardy biz-lord Richard Branson in order to offer zero-G exoatmospheric joyrides to wealthy customers, has flight-tested its unique "feathering" re-entry mode.… |
| Cell site data sinks into black hole of local bureaucracy Posted: 05 May 2011 07:11 AM PDT The perfect solution... for the network operatorsIt seems that UK mobile operators do publish the location of every base station, but they then mail that information to local authorities who do almost nothing with the data.… |
| IBM preps Power7+ server chip rev Posted: 05 May 2011 06:59 AM PDT Ponders Power8It has been more than a year since IBM got its first Power7-based machines out the door, and about six months since the chips were fully ramped across the Power Systems lineup. The server processor racket waits for no one, and a slowpoke will quickly get left behind in the volume and midrange space. And so Big Blue has to continue to advance the Power chips if it wants to get all of those systems, software, and services revenues these chips drive.… Free Webcast: Making the decision on hosted apps - What's the risk and reward? |
| Let the Cloud Developer Wars begin Posted: 05 May 2011 05:52 AM PDT Damn right it's better than yoursMicrosoft is all for the cloud, says chief executive Steve Ballmer. IBM has its new Smart Business Cloud. Oracle has its Exalogic cloud in a box. Amazon's cloud services are growing apace. Salesforce.com and Google have always been cloud.… |
| Skype mulls going online with offline Facebook, Google contacts Posted: 05 May 2011 05:27 AM PDT Report points at chats 'n' thatFacebook has reportedly been in talks with Skype, and the company's boss Mark Zuckerberg is said to have mulled over buying the web video chat service.… |
| Adobe, Apple, Google hit by wage-fixing case Posted: 05 May 2011 05:00 AM PDT Class action for secret poaching dealsSix of Silicon Valley's largest companies have been named in a class action suit seeking compensation for anti-competitive employment practices to which the companies have already admitted.… |
| Posted: 05 May 2011 05:00 AM PDT Another banger?Review If the murder-sim genre has taught us anything, it's that gamers require little pretext to kill. It helps, of course, when justification is provided through exposition, or by that simplest casus belli of all, an enemy pulling the trigger first. But occasionally, along comes a game like SOCOM 4 to prove all we really need to know to justify our virtual bloodlust is, to quote Aliens' Vasquez, "where they are."… |
| Nokia touted Meego to rivals, but nobody wanted to know Posted: 05 May 2011 04:53 AM PDT One Linux too manyNokia touted its former "platform of the future" Meego to industry rivals, but was rebuffed, chief executive Stephen Elop said.… |
| DARPA, NASA look to spawn STARSHIP enterprise Posted: 05 May 2011 04:49 AM PDT Self-building interstellar shipbuilder soughtMore details have emerged on the US government's plan to build a spacecraft capable of "a journey between the stars". Astoundingly, it is expected that this can be achieved with no more than "several hundred thousand dollars" of government funding.… Free Webcast: Making the decision on hosted apps - What's the risk and reward? |
| LastPass resets passwords following possible hack Posted: 05 May 2011 04:34 AM PDT Precautionary change-upPassword management system LastPass has reset users' master passwords as a precaution following the discovery of a possible hack attack against its systems.… |
| O2 revises PlayStation phone release date Posted: 05 May 2011 04:31 AM PDT Out early June, if Sony Ericsson splats last few bugsSony Ericsson's Xperia Play smartphone will finally make it to O2 next month, the network operator said this week.… |
| <em>Reg</em> reader lost for words over blank HP keyboard Posted: 05 May 2011 04:28 AM PDT Wireless ... and letter-less tooPics PC buyers have become used to having to do most of the donkey work when it comes to setting up their machines, but Hewlett Packard has gone one better by supplying keyboards that are not just wireless, but letter-less and digit-less too.… |
| Boffins herald end of stiff screens Posted: 05 May 2011 03:46 AM PDT Your iPhone will be obsolete in five yearsFlexible e-ink is, again, being heralded as the future of mobile computing, this time with navigation by manipulation of semi-rigid jabber-slablets, as well as grey-on-grey animated action.… |
| Posted: 05 May 2011 03:45 AM PDT Fat sound for thin telliesReview It's a sad fact that as the picture quality of flatscreen TVs have been steadily improving, their audio performance has been dropping off. This is mainly due to the fact that TVs are becoming slimmer and slimmer, leaving less room for decent sized speakers. If your other half won't hear tell of a surround sound systems and all the associated cables, then a soundbar might provide a more harmonious route to beefier audio from your TV.… |
| Three unlimited data plan gets no tie-in option Posted: 05 May 2011 03:31 AM PDT Now available on one-month rolling contractNetwork operator Three has made its all-you-can-eat data tariff, The One Plan, available to punters who don't want a two-year tie-in.… |
| Rethinking desktop virtualisation Posted: 05 May 2011 03:30 AM PDT It's not just thick versus thinDesktop Virtualisation It used to be simple. Users could either run a local operating system, or use a thin client with screen, keyboard and mouse talking to an operating system running on the server. Today there are many models of desktop virtualisation, and few safe assumptions.… Free Webcast: Making the decision on hosted apps - What's the risk and reward? |
| Dear Mr Beefy ex-soldier: Your BT needs you Posted: 05 May 2011 03:24 AM PDT A land fingered by heroesBT wants to enlist tough, muscly ex-armed forces personnel to help the telco roll out faster broadband in the UK.… |
| Bradley Manning now in nicer Army prison Posted: 05 May 2011 03:16 AM PDT 'We'll do what we like', Marines reportedly told docImprisoned US soldier Private Bradley Manning, who is charged with leaking huge amounts of classified data from military computer systems, is now under a much less severe confinement regime.… |
| X Factor hack exposes personal data of fame-seeking contestants Posted: 05 May 2011 03:13 AM PDT Tales of security breaches and Cowell's chest-high britchesThe personal information of more than 250,000 would-be X-Factor contestants may have been exposed after hackers broke into systems maintained by producers of the US edition of the TV talent show.… |
| Surrey voted tops for tits in birdwatching poll Posted: 05 May 2011 03:10 AM PDT It's the most wooded county in England after allSurrey is the best place in England to spot tits in gardens, a survey has revealed.… |
| Apple iPad 3 to sport 3D screen a 'dead cert' Posted: 05 May 2011 02:39 AM PDT Studios gagging for it, insists movie biz moleIf claims that Apple's next iPad will sport a 2048 x 1536 display containing four times as many pixels as the current one stretched credibility, one rumour, that successor to the iPad 2 will incorporate a glasses-free 3D screen, takes it to breaking point.… |
| Fraud charges for 3 former Torex execs Posted: 05 May 2011 02:29 AM PDT Former chairman, accountant and legal director accused of dodgy dealingsThe Serious Fraud Office (SFO) is charging three former executives of Torex Retail Plc with fraud offences.… Free Webcast: Making the decision on hosted apps - What's the risk and reward? |
| iOS 5 said to sport over-the-air update facility Posted: 05 May 2011 02:10 AM PDT Patches pushedApple's iOS 5 will support over-the-air firmware updates, it has been claimed.… |
| Posted: 05 May 2011 02:07 AM PDT The P6000 could look like ...HP has told us all that the EVA is morphing into the P6000. El Reg can reveal a little more about this coming P6000 line.… |
| Posted: 05 May 2011 02:04 AM PDT Academics wired up to higher education resourcesJanet (UK), the organisation responsible for the UK's higher education and research network, has announced that a new high capacity data service for universities and colleges will be launched in June 2011.… |
| Posted: 05 May 2011 12:50 AM PDT Nearly as bad as HushmailConsumer organisation Which? reckons Facebook provides one of the worst free webmail services available.… |
| Posted: 05 May 2011 12:00 AM PDT Consume with confidenceiOS App of the Week I decided to avoid last week's royal rave-up by engaging in some retail therapy. We've seen a number of shopping-related apps recently, but this price-comparison app is the one I've found most useful when I'm in shopping mode.… |
| IE is tough on Flash cookies but ignores homegrown threat Posted: 04 May 2011 08:03 PM PDT Dear Microsoft: There's a Silverlight log in your eyeMembers of Microsoft's Internet Explorer team are giving themselves a pat on the back for making it easier to delete the privacy menace known as Adobe Flash Cookies. Too bad the IE developers aren't tackling a similar snoop threat embedded in Microsoft's very own Silverlight framework.… |
| CNET sued for giving kids LimeWire Posted: 04 May 2011 08:00 PM PDT Downloads equal piracy, says film producerEven as the LimeWire damages case grinds its way through the courts, a group of film and music artists led by wealthy film producer and founder of FilmOn.com Alki David are suing CBS Interactive and CNET for distributing the LimeWire application.… Free Webcast: Making the decision on hosted apps - What's the risk and reward? |
| Oracle U-turns on Hudson open source control Posted: 04 May 2011 07:53 PM PDT Hudson can't have Hudson. But Eclipse canOracle is relinquishing control of the Hudson project after a heavy-handed attempt to stay in charge prompted most community members to fork themselves and undermine the project's viability.… |
| Want an untracked Android? Here’s how Posted: 04 May 2011 07:00 PM PDT Marlinspike firewall manages device connectionsSelf-described hacker Moxie Marlinspike has released WhisperMonitor, a firewall for the Android operating system that among other things blocks its location-tracking features.… |
| Red Hat revenues pumped by partners Posted: 04 May 2011 06:30 PM PDT Getting by with a little help from the channelRed Hat is ramping up to be the first billion-dollar open source baby, and more than anything else, the commercial Linux operating system and middleware distributor has its channel partners to thank for the growth.… |
| Oracle subpoenas Apache in search of Google smoking gun Posted: 04 May 2011 05:27 PM PDT Trawls for Android Java violationsOracle is going after the Apache Software Foundation and its open-source version of Java to find the smoking gun it clearly believes will prove Google deliberately violated patents and copyrights it owns on Java.… |
| Voda stops worrying, learns to love the NBN Posted: 04 May 2011 04:10 PM PDT Joins mainland retail services trialsVodafone Hutchison Australia (VHA), the entity created when the country's two junior mobile telcos merged in 2009, has given a double endorsement to the government's National Broadband Network (NBN) plans while delivering its annual results on Wednesday in Sydney.… Free Webcast: Making the decision on hosted apps - What's the risk and reward? |
| Oz boffins in quantum computing breakthrough Posted: 04 May 2011 04:07 PM PDT NSFMP*If you think testing a chip with a gazillion transistors is a challenge, try testing a handful of qubits in the quantum computing world. To confirm all the possible states of just eight qubits needs four billion or so measurements.… |
| Posted: 04 May 2011 04:04 PM PDT Firemint founder becomes instant millionaireElectronics Arts has swooped on Melbourne-based mobile gaming developer Firemint for a reported estimate of somewhere between US$20-40 million.… |
| Groupon starts buying Australian rivals Posted: 04 May 2011 04:04 PM PDT Crowdmass gets critical massGroup buying behemoth Groupon has added Melbourne based coupon site Crowdmass for an undisclosed sum.… |
| End of the tether: Google plays nice with carriers Posted: 04 May 2011 03:42 PM PDT 'Free ride' apps disappear from Android MarketApplications that allowed users to tether Android devices to PCs – without buying a suitable plan from their carrier – have started disappearing from searches of the Android Marketplace.… |
| Red Hat answers Microsoft Azure with OpenShift dev cloud Posted: 04 May 2011 01:57 PM PDT PaaS master speaksRed Hat has launched a "platform-as-a-service" cloud called OpenShift, a service for building, hosting, and readily scaling applications. Think of it as a Microsoft Azure that isn't so Microsoftee.… Free Webcast: Making the decision on hosted apps - What's the risk and reward? |
| Apple squashes location tracking 'bugs' with iOS update Posted: 04 May 2011 01:18 PM PDT Cell tower and Wi-Fi database cache shrunkApple has released an iOS update that changes the way its mobile operating system treats the database cache at the heart of the recent kerfuffle over the Jobsian location services.… |
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