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- Mobile app developer heads to the valley
- Nine drives away from Carsales.com
- Skype to test advertising
- Shuttleworth sees fewer clouds in Ubuntu's future
- Google ads banned from Facebook apps
- Obama to overhaul heinous US patent system
- Hacker kills his own Pwn2Own bug for Android phones
- New 'supercritical' generators to boost nuclear output by 50%
- Intel's vPro biz chips cross Sandy Bridge
- Nokia washes hands of Qt
- NEC goes out on a limb with arm-tap gadget control
- Alan Sugar takes hot seat at YouView
- Football goal-line tracking tech delayed
- Clear Channel turns digital billboards into 'store fronts'
- Legally binding e-documents: Germany pushes secure email option
- Sony to serve up Wimbledon in 3D
- Prepping the great Windows 7 migration
- US companies added lots of jobs last month
- RIPA changes in Freedoms Bill don't protect privacy enough
- Storage sale SHOCK: WD to buy Hitachi GST
- Chinese Twitter to double staff
- Spaniards bemoan 'joke' speed limit cut
- Multimillionaire hires ex-NASA 'naut to work on private spaceship
- Punters take tech to bed, breakfast
- Crime UK site gets 400m hits, drives down property values
- Wordpress traces 2nd DDoS assault to China
- Toshiba NB500 budget netbook
- BAE Systems faces 'debarment' from exporting US war-tech
- CBI demands action from Osborne
- Captain Kirk hails space shuttle Discovery
- Charlie Sheen fake filth flick powers Facebook survey scam
- Amazon outlines Android bill of rights
- Three pushes UNLIMITED data to PAYG punters
- WD works on hybrid drives
- <strong>[NSFW]</strong> YouTube punts filth to shocked <i>Reg</i> readers
- Orange first with iPad 2 sales pitch
- We7 revamps for radio
- Second US 'secret space warplane' now in orbit
- HP overtakes NetApp in IDC rankings
- NASA scientist spies extraterrestrial life
- Asian server sales make like a tiger
- How to do a Windows 7 roll out
- Google vanishes 'DroidDream' malware from citizen phones
- Salmat to close city and regional call centres
- Mozilla challenges Apple, Google with 'open' app store
- Intel: 'All your clouds are us inside'
- Red ink sinks green data centre
| Mobile app developer heads to the valley Posted: 07 Mar 2011 12:40 PM PST Oz geek drain continues as VC cash lures MobileNationAustralian DIY mobile app developer MobileNation has made its international debut at the DEMO start-up conference in the US and is currently dong the VC rounds. MobileNation was the only Australian company of the 53 start-ups selected to launch at the DEMO.… |
| Nine drives away from Carsales.com Posted: 07 Mar 2011 12:39 PM PST Pimp my ride, for half a billion or soAustralia's old media continues to shuffle its new media plays, with TV network owner Nine Entertainment flogging its 49.1% stake in Carsales.com for AU$565.5 million.… |
| Posted: 07 Mar 2011 12:38 PM PST From innovation to desperation?If you're one of the millions of people who have learned to love unreliable service and uncertain call quality, Skype has good news: its intention to introduce advertisements to inflate its value ahead of the IPO won't change a thing.… Reg Webcast: Video in the workplace - The future of business comms? |
| Shuttleworth sees fewer clouds in Ubuntu's future Posted: 07 Mar 2011 12:06 PM PST 'Firm decisions' neededThere are some tough decisions ahead about which cloud open sourcers should support in the next major version of Ubuntu.… |
| Google ads banned from Facebook apps Posted: 07 Mar 2011 11:24 AM PST Zuckerberg plants once and future 'AdSeed'?Facebook applications are now barred from using Google's AdSense advertising network, and though the story behind the ban is less than clear, we can safely blame it on the increasingly heated rivalry between the two web giants.… |
| Obama to overhaul heinous US patent system Posted: 07 Mar 2011 11:18 AM PST No more crustless peanut butter sandwichesThe Obama administration is launching an effort to reform the slow-motion train wreck that is the US Patent and Trademark Office.… |
| Hacker kills his own Pwn2Own bug for Android phones Posted: 07 Mar 2011 10:30 AM PST Android Market remote install peril remainsUpdated A vulnerability that a researcher planned to use to compromise an Android cellphone at a hacking contest later this week got squashed after Google fixed the underlying bug in the Android Market.… |
| New 'supercritical' generators to boost nuclear output by 50% Posted: 07 Mar 2011 09:11 AM PST 'Not a question of if, but when' – US gov boffinsUS government boffins say they – or perhaps their rivals – will soon roll out a new and much more efficient type of turbine generator which is expected to be a boon to so-called "thermal" powerplant technologies such as coal, gas, oil and nuclear.… Reg Webcast: Video in the workplace - The future of business comms? |
| Intel's vPro biz chips cross Sandy Bridge Posted: 07 Mar 2011 09:09 AM PST Desktops and laptops now, workstations soonUpdated The vPro line of Core chips for business-class desktop PCs launched today, and Intel is working on extending vPro to upcoming laptops and workstations, too.… |
| Posted: 07 Mar 2011 09:05 AM PST Flogs off licensing bizNokia is flogging off the Qt commercial licensing and services business it acquired with Trolltech three years ago. Finnish software house Digia will pick up the business – and 19 developers from Nokia – for an undisclosed sum.… |
| NEC goes out on a limb with arm-tap gadget control Posted: 07 Mar 2011 08:26 AM PST Clap trap?NEC has taken Nintendo's Wii Remote to its logical conclusion and announced that it is developing device controls you wear on your wrist.… |
| Alan Sugar takes hot seat at YouView Posted: 07 Mar 2011 07:51 AM PST Peer inherits from MeekLord Sugar is to become the new non-exec chairman of YouView, formerly Project Canvas. His predecessor, Kip Meek, had been in the job less than eight months.… |
| Football goal-line tracking tech delayed Posted: 07 Mar 2011 07:50 AM PST Contenders fail to tickle Fifa's fancyA programme to test the use of goal-line technology in football has been extended by a year, after none of the ten systems trialled last month met the criteria set by Fifa.… |
| Clear Channel turns digital billboards into 'store fronts' Posted: 07 Mar 2011 07:34 AM PST Fewer adverts, more interactionThe CEO of Clear Channel says there will be fewer billboards in the future, but that those which remain will be screens, and able to sell you stuff too, the Financial Times reports.… |
| Legally binding e-documents: Germany pushes secure email option Posted: 07 Mar 2011 07:14 AM PST De-mailGermany is putting its legislative and industrial muscle behind a new secure email system, dubbed De-mail, that aims to become an alternative to conventional paper documents for legally binding transactions.… Reg Webcast: Video in the workplace - The future of business comms? |
| Sony to serve up Wimbledon in 3D Posted: 07 Mar 2011 07:07 AM PST Strawberries in cinemas?This year's Wimbledon is to be filmed in 3D for the first time, with the finals screened in HD in cinemas around the world.… |
| Prepping the great Windows 7 migration Posted: 07 Mar 2011 06:39 AM PST Decisions are easy, jobs are hardDeciding to move to Windows 7 is the easy bit. The crunch comes in planning and executing the migration. Should it be a big bang or incremental? How much new hardware and software is needed? What can go wrong?… |
| US companies added lots of jobs last month Posted: 07 Mar 2011 06:23 AM PST IT firms do their share, mostlyA snowy January put hiring in the United States on ice, but it looks like things thawed out a bit in February.… |
| RIPA changes in Freedoms Bill don't protect privacy enough Posted: 07 Mar 2011 06:11 AM PST Changes bring neglible improvement in privacy protectionComment The "Protection of Freedoms Bill" has a wholly misleading title; the legislation simply does not do what it says on the tin. The CCTV provisions (see here) have more to do with efficient surveillance than privacy protection. We reviewed the Information Commissioner's concerns about the use of personal data in DNA profiling or in vetting here.… |
| Storage sale SHOCK: WD to buy Hitachi GST Posted: 07 Mar 2011 06:00 AM PST Coyne's coupWestern Digital is buying Hitachi Global Storage Technologies for $4.25bn in a friendly takeover – so much for a Hitachi GST IPO.… |
| Chinese Twitter to double staff Posted: 07 Mar 2011 05:37 AM PST Planning to make money at some point, tooChina's own Twitter, Sina Weibo, is planning to almost double its staff.… Reg Webcast: Video in the workplace - The future of business comms? |
| Spaniards bemoan 'joke' speed limit cut Posted: 07 Mar 2011 05:22 AM PST 'They're winding us up'Spanish drivers are less than impressed with a "temporary" reduction of the maximum speed limit on motorways from 120 to 110 km/h, which came into force today as a measure to reduce petrol imports by five per cent a year.… |
| Multimillionaire hires ex-NASA 'naut to work on private spaceship Posted: 07 Mar 2011 05:12 AM PST Secret cheese capsule readied for manned flightUpstart startup rocket company SpaceX, bossed by renowned geek idol and internet nerdwealth kingpin Elon Musk, has recruited a NASA astronaut to help make the company's spacecraft ready to carry people into space.… |
| Punters take tech to bed, breakfast Posted: 07 Mar 2011 04:59 AM PST Studies state the bleedin' obviousThere are two winners of the Sybil Fawlty "bleedin' obvious" award this week.… |
| Crime UK site gets 400m hits, drives down property values Posted: 07 Mar 2011 04:40 AM PST Just how antisocial are hoax calls?The UK's crime map has received over 400 million hits as worried citizens desperately try to get a grip on the level of hoax calls.… |
| Wordpress traces 2nd DDoS assault to China Posted: 07 Mar 2011 04:27 AM PST ShockBlogging service WordPress suffered a further series of denial of service assaults on Friday, days after recovering from a particularly debilitating attack.… |
| Posted: 07 Mar 2011 04:00 AM PST A true Small, Cheap Computer at last?Review Few netbooks have been truly cheap - well, few of the decent ones, anyway - but now we're at the third generation of Intel's Atom processor family, an opportunity has arisen for netbook makers to offer less pricey models based on older chippery.… |
| BAE Systems faces 'debarment' from exporting US war-tech Posted: 07 Mar 2011 03:57 AM PST Doesn't care - mainly an American firm these daysUS-centred but UK-headquartered arms globocorp BAE Systems may soon face serious restrictions on its operations imposed by the US government.… Reg Webcast: Video in the workplace - The future of business comms? |
| CBI demands action from Osborne Posted: 07 Mar 2011 03:49 AM PST Budget hopes ahoyBusiness lobby group the CBI warned Chancellor George Osborne that the Budget must focus on helping UK companies grow by improving access to finance, cutting energy costs and increasing exports.… |
| Captain Kirk hails space shuttle Discovery Posted: 07 Mar 2011 03:41 AM PST 'Space, the final frontier...'The crew of space shuttle Discovery were roused from their slumbers this morning by the theme from Star Trek and a special message from actor William Shatner.… |
| Charlie Sheen fake filth flick powers Facebook survey scam Posted: 07 Mar 2011 03:34 AM PST This one has Tiger BloodScammers have exploited actor Charlie Sheen's increasingly bizarre antics as a lure for the latest in a long line of survey scams on Facebook.… |
| Amazon outlines Android bill of rights Posted: 07 Mar 2011 03:16 AM PST Galloping away from Google MarketplaceAmazon's foray into mobile applications is getting firmer, with the company's approach to copy protection showing how it plans to differentiate itself from Google's Marketplace, or not.… |
| Three pushes UNLIMITED data to PAYG punters Posted: 07 Mar 2011 03:11 AM PST Hungry smartphones, go forth and feedThree today extended its unlimited - no, honest - data package to pay-as-you-go customers, who can now gobble up as much content as they like for £15 a month.… |
| Posted: 07 Mar 2011 03:07 AM PST Seagate expands hybrid drive offeringsWestern Digital is working on developing a hybrid drive combining spinning disk and solid state storage, along the lines of Seagate's Momentus XT.… Reg Webcast: Video in the workplace - The future of business comms? |
| <strong>[NSFW]</strong> YouTube punts filth to shocked <i>Reg</i> readers Posted: 07 Mar 2011 02:39 AM PST Hot pr0n TV actionNSFW We're obliged to shocked reader Darrin Maunders and indeed to all of you who emailed to express your disgust at copping an eyeful of filth down at YouTube over the weekend.… |
| Orange first with iPad 2 sales pitch Posted: 07 Mar 2011 02:34 AM PST Subsidised second-gen fondleslab coming soonOrange has confirmed it will offer the iPad 2 3G at some point in the future.… |
| Posted: 07 Mar 2011 02:30 AM PST Putting on Pandora pantsMass market music service We7 is moving closer to Pandora and Last.fm with the latest revision of its mobile app. It's not something that will appeal to music fanatics, who know exactly what they want, but should prove popular to the more traditional radio audience.… |
| Second US 'secret space warplane' now in orbit Posted: 07 Mar 2011 02:28 AM PST Military minishuttle's mystery missionThe second X-37B "secret space warplane" operated by the US military has successfully reached orbit at the beginning of a classified mission, whose intent and duration remain unknown.… |
| HP overtakes NetApp in IDC rankings Posted: 07 Mar 2011 02:20 AM PST Hitachi Data Systems catches up with DellNetApp's long run of growth could be slowing; IDC's quarterly storage tracker shows a resurgent HP overtaking it in worldwide external disk storage systems factory revenue.… |
| NASA scientist spies extraterrestrial life Posted: 07 Mar 2011 01:59 AM PST Meteorites show signs of bacteria – allegedlyA NASA scientist claims to have identified signs of extraterrestrial bacteria in meteorites, and if he's right, it means a strong boost to the theory that such entities are common and could be the origin of life on Earth.… Reg Webcast: Video in the workplace - The future of business comms? |
| Asian server sales make like a tiger Posted: 07 Mar 2011 01:46 AM PST Australia throws whole pallets of servers on the barbieThe box counters at IDC and Gartner have already given out their report cards for server sales and shipments in the fourth quarter and for the full year on a global basis, which El Reg has dutifully reported and analyzed. Just for fun, and perhaps to show us all what a real server market looks like, Gartner put out a set of statistics for the Asia/Pacific region.… |
| How to do a Windows 7 roll out Posted: 07 Mar 2011 01:11 AM PST Step by step, piece by pieceWebcast We know from research we've done with you that lots of you are either knee deep in a Windows 7 roll out, or you're about to be, so we thought we'd try and help.… |
| Google vanishes 'DroidDream' malware from citizen phones Posted: 06 Mar 2011 09:28 PM PST Android 'kill switch' flippedGoogle has acknowledged that it removed "a number" of malicious malware applications from the Android Market on March 1, and it has now reached out over the airwaves to remove the apps from end users devices as well.… |
| Salmat to close city and regional call centres Posted: 06 Mar 2011 08:47 PM PST Blames lost Telstra contractCall centre outsourcing company Salmat has announced that Telstra is dispensing with most of the call centre services it supplies to the carrier.… |
| Mozilla challenges Apple, Google with 'open' app store Posted: 06 Mar 2011 08:00 PM PST HTML5 on road to recovery with Web ApplicationsFirefox daddy Mozllla has released early code in its campaign to create a completely open alternative not only to Apple's app stores but also Google's fledging Chrome web store.… |
| Intel: 'All your clouds are us inside' Posted: 06 Mar 2011 07:00 PM PST Xeon and Atom in the eye of the stormIntel is getting used to being the big chip on the data center campus, and it is not about to let upstart vendors peddling other chips (that means you, Advanced Micro Devices) or architectures (that means you, ARM Holdings and friends) move in on its server turf. Not without a serious fight, at least, and certainly not in the cloudy infrastructure portion of the server racket that is exploding.… Reg Webcast: Video in the workplace - The future of business comms? |
| Red ink sinks green data centre Posted: 06 Mar 2011 02:06 PM PST Update: Next stop, liquidationAn unexpected withdrawal of offshore investment in Melbourne's multi-million dollar "green" data centre facility ADX1, has plunged the project into administration.… |
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