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- Skype bug gives attackers root access to Mac OS X
- Web privacy Do-Not-Track laws gain US momentum
- HP's beloved 12c calculator turns 30
- Dear Google and Facebook: You don't want Skype
- Canonical CTO Matt Zimmerman steps down
- <i>Elite</i> coder readies £15 programming gadget for schools
- White House warns <i>El Reg</i> over kitten-killing content
- Russian tycoon buys Warner Music
- Tales from the storage frontier: What's next for flash, disk and tape
- Microsoft ID guru quietly skips away from Redmond
- Freedom of Information Act inquiry ducks FOIA requests
- Jaguar hybrid supercar gets green light
- Samsung, Apple knock Nokia off top handset spots
- US adds jobs, but unemployment rate jumps in April
- MIRACULOUS new AIRSHIP set to fly by 2013
- Google offers to pop round and take some piccies
- Brocade shindig sees the fabric king stretching out
- JVC Everio GS-TD1 3D camcorder
- What treasures will the US really find on bin Laden's hard disk?
- UK.gov would pay to have benefit claimants' tattoos erased
- World 3D TV sales to jump in 2011
- Java-based malware tries Mac-smacking cross-platform attack
- Woman with 15 IDs gets 7 years for multiple VAT fraud
- Google sprays customers with cash in AdWords cockup
- IT service fitness: prevention is better than cure
- Everest climber finds 3G signal, sends Tweet
- Duke Nukem taken to the shrink
- TalkTalk goes silent
- Parents get iOS analytical toolkit to track kids' progress
- Sony Ericsson intros Xperia minis
- Apple reportedly plans ARM shift for laptops
- Government close to reduced NHS IT deal with CSC
- NASA shortlists three contenders for next robo-probe mission
- Sophos buys security appliance firm Astaro
- Websites should notify European users about privacy breaches
- A handy guide to cloud service measurement
- Fake certificate attack targets Facebook users in Syria
- Quiet May Patch Tuesday follows record April
- Boffins develop method of driving computers insane
- Nutter preflames <i>El Reg</i> 'cockheads'
- Crystal Acoustics PicoHD5.1
- Perl and Python float on open source VMware cloud
- Red Hat: Cloud will anoint next Microsoft
- PC rental store hid secret spy hardware in laptop, suit says
- New York attorney general escalates Sony attack probe
- <i>Wall Street Journal</i> launches own WikiLeaks
- Sony continues slog from pit of shame
- Intel PC hegemony facing ARMy attack
- Court rejects Google call to end 'Android not open' suit
- TIO has record complaints quarter
| Skype bug gives attackers root access to Mac OS X Posted: 06 May 2011 12:40 PM PDT 'Extremely wormable and dangerous'Mac users running Skype are vulnerable to self-propagating exploits that allow an attacker to gain unfettered system access by sending a specially manipulated attachment in an instant message, a hacker said.… |
| Web privacy Do-Not-Track laws gain US momentum Posted: 06 May 2011 12:14 PM PDT Google on wrong side of power brokersA national law limiting the information businesses can gather on consumers online is looking increasingly likely after the chairman of the powerful US senate commerce committee became the latest politician to jump on a growing bandwagon for do-not-track legislation.… |
| HP's beloved 12c calculator turns 30 Posted: 06 May 2011 12:08 PM PDT Reverse Polish Notation. The geekerati's bondOne of the most durable examples of mobile electronic goodness is turning 30: the HP 12c Financial Calculator.… |
| Dear Google and Facebook: You don't want Skype Posted: 06 May 2011 10:33 AM PDT Give it to Cisco. Or AT&TOpen...and Shut The word is out that Facebook and Google are now considering partnerships with or acquisition of Skype. The big question, however, is what they'd do with it. As eBay discovered to its hurt, Skype isn't a product that necessarily plays well with others.… |
| Canonical CTO Matt Zimmerman steps down Posted: 06 May 2011 09:55 AM PDT Natty Narwhal herding no moreUpdated Matt Zimmerman, chief technology officer at commercial Linux distributor Canonical, is stepping down.… Free Webcast: Making the decision on hosted apps - What's the risk and reward? |
| <i>Elite</i> coder readies £15 programming gadget for schools Posted: 06 May 2011 09:24 AM PDT PEEK in a POKEThe Raspberry Pi Foundation may sound like a school for aspiring bakers, but it aims to promote computer science by producing an inexpensive miniature PC called Raspberry Pi.… |
| White House warns <i>El Reg</i> over kitten-killing content Posted: 06 May 2011 08:49 AM PDT Vulture Central hack runs for reinforced bunker complexI fear this may be the last copy I ever file, following a chilling warning from the White House regarding stories I may or may not write next week, and which could have devastating consequences for the future of humanity.… |
| Russian tycoon buys Warner Music Posted: 06 May 2011 08:33 AM PDT Len Blavatnik shells out $3.3bn for the music groupWarner Music has been sold to US businessman Len Blavatnik, according to credible reports, in a $3.3bn deal. The company's $1.9bn debt is also transferred to its new owner, valuing Warner at $1.3bn.… |
| Tales from the storage frontier: What's next for flash, disk and tape Posted: 06 May 2011 08:22 AM PDT Disk spinning slower and slowerFlash is the new disk and disk is the new archive: so said an AOL presenter at Brocade's Techday summit. What was he smoking? Is this just spin?… |
| Microsoft ID guru quietly skips away from Redmond Posted: 06 May 2011 07:30 AM PDT Report points digital identity poster child at door marked exitUpdated Microsoft's top identity architect Kim Cameron, who was last seen on these pages bemoaning Apple's "duplicitous" privacy policies, reportedly quit Redmond earlier this week.… |
| Freedom of Information Act inquiry ducks FOIA requests Posted: 06 May 2011 07:18 AM PDT Climategate email investigator and UEA both clam upAn academic inquiry which recommended that scientists respond more honestly to FOIA requests has found a creative way to evade FOIA requests.… Free Webcast: Making the decision on hosted apps - What's the risk and reward? |
| Jaguar hybrid supercar gets green light Posted: 06 May 2011 07:07 AM PDT C-X75 yours for at least 700 grandHybrid Jaguar supercar, anyone? Yours for £700,000-plus, though you'll save your VED payments, if you want to put your name down for one of the 250 that Jaguar will build.… |
| Samsung, Apple knock Nokia off top handset spots Posted: 06 May 2011 06:48 AM PDT King dethroned in European marketsNokia has been knocked off the top spot as Europe's best-selling phone maker by Samsung, and in the smartphone arena by Apple.… |
| US adds jobs, but unemployment rate jumps in April Posted: 06 May 2011 06:37 AM PDT IT manufacturing and consulting riseWith the US economy recovering, people are piling back into the job market, as expected, and that is causing the unemployment rate to rise even as the economy added 244,000 net new jobs in April.… |
| MIRACULOUS new AIRSHIP set to fly by 2013 Posted: 06 May 2011 06:10 AM PDT Helium buoyancy issue solved at last?Intriguing news on the airship beat today, as it is reported that a mysterious, well-nigh miraculous new technology – one which could potentially lead to the appearance of enormous aerial vessels fit to dwarf even the zeppelin leviathans of the 1930s – is to get flight trials within two years.… |
| Google offers to pop round and take some piccies Posted: 06 May 2011 05:35 AM PDT Takes the View off the streets: Go on, just a few tasteful snapsGoogle is asking businesses to invite it in to take photographs, extending Street View into hotels, restaurants and shops to show what's inside as well as what's outside.… |
| Brocade shindig sees the fabric king stretching out Posted: 06 May 2011 05:10 AM PDT 'We're gonna change the industry'Comment The data centre without walls: that's the vision that's driving Brocade. The Fibre Channel fabric king held a Techday Summit in San Jose on May 2 and 3 and outlined its cloud-optimised thinking around the data centre becoming the network in virtual enterprises.… |
| JVC Everio GS-TD1 3D camcorder Posted: 06 May 2011 05:00 AM PDT Purpose-built stereo shooter for Avatar aficionadosReview Let's cut to the chase: JVC's £1,600 GS-TD1 is the most sophisticated 3D camcorder you can buy. While Panasonic may have pioneered DIY 3D moviemaking with its bolt-on 3D accessory lens, this is the first stereoscopic shooter aimed squarely at the pro-sumer. It's been unabashedly built for 3D from the ground up.… |
| What treasures will the US really find on bin Laden's hard disk? Posted: 06 May 2011 04:50 AM PDT Rants? For sure. Porn? Maybe. Intelligence? UnlikelyAnalysis Computers and digital media seized from alleged al Qaeda supporters in Britain, Iraq and other hotspots in the war on terror have generally not provided forward intelligence enabling governments to prevent and deter new attacks.… Free Webcast: Making the decision on hosted apps - What's the risk and reward? |
| UK.gov would pay to have benefit claimants' tattoos erased Posted: 06 May 2011 04:26 AM PDT Signing off before signing offThe government has confirmed that it is prepared to pay for plastic surgery for tattoo-emblazened benefit claimants – if the inked-up individuals get a job offer first.… |
| World 3D TV sales to jump in 2011 Posted: 06 May 2011 04:23 AM PDT But still only a small percentage of tellies shippedWorld shipments of 3D TVs will jump 463 per cent this year, market watcher IHS iSuppli has forecast, as TV makers tone done their feverish promotion of the technology.… |
| Java-based malware tries Mac-smacking cross-platform attack Posted: 06 May 2011 04:19 AM PDT Write once, pwn anywhereMalware-writers have developed a Java-based, equal-opportunity botnet Trojan in an apparent bid to infect more machines outside the Windows ecosystem.… |
| Woman with 15 IDs gets 7 years for multiple VAT fraud Posted: 06 May 2011 04:18 AM PDT Catherine, Allison, Mallory, Claire, Verity, Jessica, tooA Bristol woman has been jailed for using a complex web of 15 different identities and companies to defraud the Revenue out of £118,000.… |
| Google sprays customers with cash in AdWords cockup Posted: 06 May 2011 04:11 AM PDT £100 voucher morphs into gigantic £75,000 bonanzaGoogle mistakenly credited huge sums of money into an unknown number of UK customers' AdWords accounts, after some were handed a £100 voucher from Mountain View to redeem on the service.… |
| IT service fitness: prevention is better than cure Posted: 06 May 2011 04:00 AM PDT The omnipresence of ITWebcast Delivering a service is dependent on getting networks, storage, servers, operating systems, middleware and applications to work together to agreed levels. But we know how difficult it is to keep these complex chains running reliably; and the problem gets more acute when we throw virtualisation in to the mix.… Free Webcast: Making the decision on hosted apps - What's the risk and reward? |
| Everest climber finds 3G signal, sends Tweet Posted: 06 May 2011 03:50 AM PDT Cloudline computingA British climber has allegedly become the first person to Tweet, use Facebook and make a 3G phone call from atop Mount Everest today, raising the point that nowhere, not even the top of the effin' world, is safe from the reaches of cellphones and social networking.… |
| Duke Nukem taken to the shrink Posted: 06 May 2011 03:39 AM PDT Action ManVideo Duke Nukem 3D's Shrinker weapon returns in DK Forever - with comic results. Nuff said.… |
| Posted: 06 May 2011 03:31 AM PDT Integrated services, integrated failureTalkTalk, the Lidl of telephony providers, has suffered a catastrophic network failure that has taken down its website and disrupted voice calls for customers.… |
| Parents get iOS analytical toolkit to track kids' progress Posted: 06 May 2011 03:30 AM PDT With Facebook links to show off their progeny's intellectual prowessBusy parents worried about raising their kids while making full use of their data plan can now use The SmarTots platform to keep tabs on how their children are progressing though their (iOS-powered) education. The app will even suggesting new applications and even some offline activities should time allow.… |
| Sony Ericsson intros Xperia minis Posted: 06 May 2011 03:17 AM PDT Gingerbread bicciesSony Ericsson has outed 2011's successors to 2010's Xperia X10 Mini and X10 Mini Pro.… |
| Apple reportedly plans ARM shift for laptops Posted: 06 May 2011 02:41 AM PDT 'Done deal', apparentlyApple may - and we emphasis that last word - have decided to transition its laptops from Intel processors to ARM-based CPUs… |
| Government close to reduced NHS IT deal with CSC Posted: 06 May 2011 02:37 AM PDT 'Reduced scope' for implementations of Lorenzo software, less cash for CSCThe Department of Health has said it has reached the closing stages of negotiations with CSC, one of the two local service providers to the NHS National Programme for IT, over a new memorandum of understanding covering its future work for the health service.… |
| NASA shortlists three contenders for next robo-probe mission Posted: 06 May 2011 02:31 AM PDT Ice-moon sailboat, Martian drillrig, comet-furtlerNASA has announced the shortlist for its next "Discovery" robot solar-system explorer mission and has also selected three groovy new space technologies for further funding.… |
| Sophos buys security appliance firm Astaro Posted: 06 May 2011 02:21 AM PDT Getting into the God-box businessUK-based net security firm Sophos is getting into the hardware game with the purchase of all-in-one security appliance firm Astaro. Terms of the deal to acquire privately held Astaro, announced Friday, were not disclosed.… |
| Websites should notify European users about privacy breaches Posted: 06 May 2011 02:18 AM PDT European justice commish says EU privacy laws should be extendedEurope-wide laws which require telecommunications companies to notify users if their data is at risk should be extended, the European justice commissioner has said.… Free Webcast: Making the decision on hosted apps - What's the risk and reward? |
| A handy guide to cloud service measurement Posted: 06 May 2011 02:15 AM PDT That new black magicCalculating Return On Investment (ROI) for internal IT services is messy. Businesses want costs justified on a service-by-service basis. This approach has its flaws; IT service delivery is more than the sum of its parts.… |
| Fake certificate attack targets Facebook users in Syria Posted: 06 May 2011 02:11 AM PDT al-Assad family suspected of spying on its subjectsA man-in-the-middle attack is being run against users of the secure version of Facebook in Syria, the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) warns.… |
| Quiet May Patch Tuesday follows record April Posted: 06 May 2011 01:38 AM PDT The calm after the stormMicrosoft is giving hard-pressed sysadmins a bit of a breather this month with plans to release only two updates during the May edition of its regular Patch Tuesday monthly update cycle.… |
| Boffins develop method of driving computers insane Posted: 06 May 2011 12:57 AM PDT Test machine 'claimed responsibility for terrorist bombing'Boffins in America report that they have successfully developed a method for driving computers insane in much the same way as human brains afflicted by schizophrenia. A computer involved in their study became so unhinged that it apparently "claimed responsibility for a terrorist bombing".… |
| Nutter preflames <i>El Reg</i> 'cockheads' Posted: 05 May 2011 11:00 PM PDT Pre-emptive strike against Barnes & Noble outrageFoTW God alone knows, we at El Reg are used to taking a bit of stick, but it's come to something when the nutters crawl out of the woodwork before we've even had a chance to offend.… Free Webcast: Making the decision on hosted apps - What's the risk and reward? |
| Posted: 05 May 2011 11:00 PM PDT Compact, media savvy player for under-equipped telliesReview Most TVs now have memory card slots and USB ports for showing digital photos or playing music and video from your own collection. The Crystal Acoustics PicoHD5.1 media player provides the same features for just about any TV, especially HD-ready ones. If your set lacks the sockets, or doesn't play the formats you want, you can just add one of these £40 gizmos.… |
| Perl and Python float on open source VMware cloud Posted: 05 May 2011 10:00 PM PDT ActiveState heavy-lifts so you don't have toPHP might dominate the web LAMP stack, but ActiveState is taking steps to fluff the two other dynamic languages that put the "P" in LAMP: Python and Perl.… |
| Red Hat: Cloud will anoint next Microsoft Posted: 05 May 2011 09:00 PM PDT Don't pick Microsoft againIt is not enough in this world to be for something. You also have to be against something. And if one message was delivered by Red Hat's top brass at its eponymous Summit in Boston this week, it's that the company is for open source and openness and that it's absolutely against Microsoft and VMware.… |
| PC rental store hid secret spy hardware in laptop, suit says Posted: 05 May 2011 08:00 PM PDT Keystrokes, screen shots, webcam pics tappedA Wyoming couple has filed a federal lawsuit claiming a computer they purchased came with secret spying hardware that allowed the seller to monitor their every move.… |
| New York attorney general escalates Sony attack probe Posted: 05 May 2011 07:00 PM PDT Subpeona issuedNew York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman has put Sony Computer Entertainment America, Sony Network Entertainment and Sony Online Entertainment on the rack over the data breach.… |
| <i>Wall Street Journal</i> launches own WikiLeaks Posted: 05 May 2011 06:00 PM PDT SafeHouse for whisteblowersA new chapter has started in the long and complex story of Julian Assange's relationship with mainstream media, with the Wall Street Journal launching a competitor whistleblower site.… Free Webcast: Making the decision on hosted apps - What's the risk and reward? |
| Sony continues slog from pit of shame Posted: 05 May 2011 05:32 PM PDT PSN and PC networks in 'final stages of internal testing'It is now day 15 of The Great Sony Cock-Up of 2011™, and the Japanese giant finally has some good news. No, not that their PSN and PC gaming networks are up and running again, but that they should be soon.… |
| Intel PC hegemony facing ARMy attack Posted: 05 May 2011 03:41 PM PDT ARM set for '13% share by 2015'ARM-based processors will bite off a significant chunk of Intel's PC hegemony in the next few years, achieving a 13 per cent share of the PC-processor market by 2015.… |
| Court rejects Google call to end 'Android not open' suit Posted: 05 May 2011 03:17 PM PDT Skyhook gathers evidence on Google 'interference'A Massachusetts court has denied Google's efforts to dismiss a hot-button lawsuit that accuses the company of unfairly using its Android operating system to strong-arm mobile handset makers into using Google location services rather than those of rival Skyhook.… |
| TIO has record complaints quarter Posted: 05 May 2011 02:59 PM PDT Vodafail strikes againThe Telecommunications Industry Ombudsman has reported 59,532 new complaints between January and March 2011, an increase of more than 14,000 new complaints on the previous quarter.… |
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