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- Apple limits Design Awards to App Store residents
- Java daddy borged by Google
- Kaminario drops DRAM SSD pricing drawers
- Intel gets spanking new SSD
- Apple confirms dev conference, but not much else
- Composers, songwriters feel squeeze from disappearing CD
- eBay splashes $2.4bn for ecommerce services firm
- Hosts with the mosts: Getting to grips with SLAs for the cloud
- iOS 5 falls back to autumn, say moles
- HMS Ark Royal goes under the hammer
- Spotify apologises for tainted ad kerfuffle
- Facebook friends Obama's ex-press rep
- Airship 'Sky Tugs' ordered from Lockheed for Canadian oilfields
- The Reg Guide to server virtualisation scale-up
- Comodo-gate hacker brags about forged certificate exploit
- Mobile phones immobilise bones
- <i>The Professionals</i> set to abseil into cinema
- Making the decision on hosted apps
- Lindsay Lohan ditches her surname
- Zomm wireless leash
- Google in mobile payments ménage à trois
- Nvidia flexes Tesla muscles
- The challenges of desktop configuration
- Sales, meet Finance (redux)
- <em>El Reg</em> is recruiting reporters
- Nokia talks Pure typographic cobblers
- Fire-quenching electric forcefield backpack invented
- EU bodies schooled on ethical data-gathering
- Apple lands patent blow, but the slugfest continues
- iPad 2 tougher than iPad 1. True
- Have you thought about using a mainframe for that?
- Internet pioneer Paul Baran dies
- MySQL.com hacked via... SQL injection vuln
- Sony Ericsson preps Gingerbread for Xperia X10
- Osborne tosses £3bn gift to the green elite
- Curiosity kills 3D Cameron cams
- Asus prices up netbook-convertible Android tablet
- MoJ goes cloudy
- MPs now free to surf and tweet
- iPad 2 3G price-plans compared
- 120 Underground Wi-Fi hotspots will erupt in 2012
- Dell's storage vision: From reseller to innovator
- Oracle's Itanium gambit: A play for HP's checkbook
- Windows Server pushed to the super limit
- Quanta crams 512 cores into pizza box server
- Steve Jobs screws my wife (out of $944)
- Flipboard joins bubble brigade with US$200M valuation
- The Weinsteins go geeky
- Alcatel-Lucent sin-binned in Malaysia
- Infernal affairs: NZ govt sites attacked
| Apple limits Design Awards to App Store residents Posted: 28 Mar 2011 11:52 AM PDT You're either on the bus, or you're off the busApple has piled another brick onto the ramparts of its walled garden: to be eligible for this year's Apple Design Awards, Mac OS X developers must sell their apps through the Mac App Store.… |
| Posted: 28 Mar 2011 10:26 AM PDT Gosling succumbs to 'road more travelled'James Gosling, the father of Java, has joined Google – despite his previous criticism of the company's Java-happy Android operating system.… |
| Kaminario drops DRAM SSD pricing drawers Posted: 28 Mar 2011 09:05 AM PDT Raises capacity knickersKaminario, which supplies DRAM-based solid state drives, has dropped its entry-level pricing and raised its maximum capacity.… |
| Posted: 28 Mar 2011 08:55 AM PDT X25-M replacementIntel has replaced its mainstream X25-M solid state drive with the 320, which is more than two times faster doing sequential writes.… |
| Apple confirms dev conference, but not much else Posted: 28 Mar 2011 08:20 AM PDT Fanboys head to San FranciscoApple developers will be heading to San Francisco in June for a five-day beano of coding and fondle-slabbing.… |
| Composers, songwriters feel squeeze from disappearing CD Posted: 28 Mar 2011 07:57 AM PDT While miserable tight-fisted internet giants won't pay upComposers and songwriters are feeling the pinch as the CD disappears from the High Street, and tight-fisted internet giants refused to pay for music.… |
| eBay splashes $2.4bn for ecommerce services firm Posted: 28 Mar 2011 07:56 AM PDT It's entirely complementaryeBay has splashed out $2.4bn to buy ecommerce services outfit GSI Commerce in a deal will do little to dampen concerns about wonky valuations in the tech sector.… |
| Hosts with the mosts: Getting to grips with SLAs for the cloud Posted: 28 Mar 2011 07:48 AM PDT Hey baby, I'm your telephone manWhen email is down, businesses cease to function. If the email goes down due to a mishandling of the Exchange server, the appropriate sysadmin is found and duly berated.… |
| iOS 5 falls back to autumn, say moles Posted: 28 Mar 2011 07:47 AM PDT Sensational September iStuff revamp? Yes pleaseDon't expect iOS 5.0 to be available to download as early as June - it'll be out in September.… |
| HMS Ark Royal goes under the hammer Posted: 28 Mar 2011 07:39 AM PDT Get your bids in for some serious kitWe at El Reg have always fancied our own navy, so we're seriously considering making a bid for the recently-decommissioned aircraft carrier HMS Ark Royal.… |
| Spotify apologises for tainted ad kerfuffle Posted: 28 Mar 2011 07:38 AM PDT Can't stop the musicSpotify has promised to review its security following an attack that exposed users of the free version of its music streaming service to malware on Thursday.… |
| Facebook friends Obama's ex-press rep Posted: 28 Mar 2011 06:57 AM PDT Ready to fight regulatorsSocial networking giant Facebook is shortly to hire Obama's ex-press secretary.… |
| Airship 'Sky Tugs' ordered from Lockheed for Canadian oilfields Posted: 28 Mar 2011 06:56 AM PDT P-791 military hover suck-blimp gets civil applicationThe famous P-791 prototype airship - built last decade for a military transport programme which eventually came to nothing - is to give birth to new, mighty commercial versions of itself with Canadian financial backing.… |
| The Reg Guide to server virtualisation scale-up Posted: 28 Mar 2011 06:26 AM PDT Removing barriers to entryIn December, our research partner Freeform Dynamics polled Reg readers about your experiences with server virtualisation projects: some 458 IT pros took time out to reply. Thank-you.… |
| Comodo-gate hacker brags about forged certificate exploit Posted: 28 Mar 2011 05:46 AM PDT Tiger-blooded Persian cracker boasts of mighty exploitsAn Iranian hacker has stepped forward to claim responsibility for the SSL certificate hack against Comodo, providing an insight into how the high-profile hack might have been pulled off.… |
| Mobile phones immobilise bones Posted: 28 Mar 2011 05:41 AM PDT Not just your brain you have to worry aboutForget about brain tumours, mobile phones may also cause your bones to crumble, scientists in Argentina appear to have discovered.… |
| <i>The Professionals</i> set to abseil into cinema Posted: 28 Mar 2011 05:30 AM PDT Big screen outing for Bodie and DoyleArse-kicking CI5 operatives Bodie and Doyle are to be brought out of retirement for a big-screen version of The Professionals.… |
| Making the decision on hosted apps Posted: 28 Mar 2011 05:19 AM PDT What's the risk and reward?Webcast On the 29th March at 16:00 we have Reg reader Chet Loveland – who's also the CISO from MeadWestvaco Corporation (MWV), a 20,000 strong global business – giving us a practical run through how and why he moved a large chunk of his users into the cloud.… |
| Lindsay Lohan ditches her surname Posted: 28 Mar 2011 05:09 AM PDT Serious blow to El Reg space plane bureauBespeckled thespiatrix Lindsay Lohan has dealt a serious blow to the El Reg space paper plane bureau by announcing she's going to drop the "Lohan" and emerge as just "Lindsay".… |
| Posted: 28 Mar 2011 04:58 AM PDT For your dog and boneReview The Zomm is a pebble-shaped wireless 'leash' for mobile phones. It pairs to a phone using Bluetooth and if the two devices are separated by a few meters then the Zomm alerts you, first by vibrating, then flashing and a few seconds later by beeping.… |
| Google in mobile payments ménage à trois Posted: 28 Mar 2011 04:52 AM PDT MasterCard and Citigroup slip into bed with search giantMasterCard and Citigroup will be deploying NFC payment applications into Google's Nexus S phone, with other handsets to follow, as part of the chocolate factory's bid to turn phones into wallets.… |
| Posted: 28 Mar 2011 04:51 AM PDT Opens kimono, talks strategy2010 was the breakout year for Nvidia's Tesla division, according to Tesla VP Andy Keane, who spoke at the company's Industry Analyst Day earlier this month. I think it's pretty obvious that he's right, and a quick review of the last year tells the story.… |
| The challenges of desktop configuration Posted: 28 Mar 2011 04:28 AM PDT Firing at moving targetsDesktop For businesses, many of the problems with PCs come from the 'personal' part of personal computer. If every system is set up differently, with different applications, updates, security settings, power management and interface options, the individual user might be happier.… |
| Posted: 28 Mar 2011 04:25 AM PDT Business process re-tweakingWorkshop Both public and private organisations deploy business applications as a way of providing a more joined-up view of company information across departments. In many cases the aim is to minimise re-keying – two people entering the same data, or worse, one person taking information from one computer system and typing it into another.… |
| <em>El Reg</em> is recruiting reporters Posted: 28 Mar 2011 04:21 AM PDT Think of it as journalism with benefitsThe Register is looking for ambitious reporters to join its London editorial team. The Register is the UK's biggest technology and science news website. We're also pretty big in the US, Canada, Europe and India.… |
| Nokia talks Pure typographic cobblers Posted: 28 Mar 2011 04:09 AM PDT Whalesong heralds new 'seamless, fluid' fontLogoWatch As we announced last week, Nokia has unleashed its new "Nokia Pure" font on an unsuspecting world, but we seriously underestimated just how much whalesong and joss-sticks went into the creation of its "humanist sans face".… |
| Fire-quenching electric forcefield backpack invented Posted: 28 Mar 2011 04:08 AM PDT Conflag stifler to replace sprinkler systems, fire hosesBoffins in America say they're on the track of a backpack electro-beam forcefield device capable of snuffing out raging fires without any need for water, hoses or other traditional firefighting apparatus. Apart from portable applications, they raise the possibility that the new technology might replace building sprinkler systems with ceiling mounted conflagration-squelching zapper terminals.… |
| EU bodies schooled on ethical data-gathering Posted: 28 Mar 2011 04:06 AM PDT You should find out before giving up your data that it might be releasedEU bodies should tell people that some personal information on them might be made public before gathering any personal data, the bodies' privacy watchdog has said. The bodies should adopt 'a presumption of openness' in certain cases, it said.… |
| Apple lands patent blow, but the slugfest continues Posted: 28 Mar 2011 03:59 AM PDT iPhone ban looking less likelyApple has gained ground in the ongoing patent spat with Nokia. The US International Trade Commission (ITC) investigation judge has made an initial determination that Apple isn't infringing five Nokia patents.… |
| iPad 2 tougher than iPad 1. True Posted: 28 Mar 2011 03:50 AM PDT Smashing revelationThe iPad 2 is more durable than its predecessor, at least as far as its glass face is concerned. The new model incorporates a much stronger, more flexible screen than the old one did.… |
| Have you thought about using a mainframe for that? Posted: 28 Mar 2011 03:45 AM PDT Managing Enterprise Workloads in large environmentsData centre managers and IT operations staff in large enterprises are now faced with a bewildering array of demands from their users, who take for granted that systems will work without any form of service interruption, planned or otherwise.… |
| Internet pioneer Paul Baran dies Posted: 28 Mar 2011 03:16 AM PDT Packet switching? It'll never catch onPaul Baran, one of the pioneers of packet-switched networking, the basis for the internet, has died in his home in California aged 84.… |
| MySQL.com hacked via... SQL injection vuln Posted: 28 Mar 2011 03:15 AM PDT *facepalm*MySQL.com was hacked over the weekend via an attack which used a blind SQL injection exploit to pull off the pawnage.… |
| Sony Ericsson preps Gingerbread for Xperia X10 Posted: 28 Mar 2011 03:06 AM PDT One last Android upgrade pipelinedSony Ericsson has changed its corporate mind and decided to upgrade its Xperia X10 smartphone's on-board software beyond Android 2.1 Eclair.… |
| Osborne tosses £3bn gift to the green elite Posted: 28 Mar 2011 02:46 AM PDT We're all in it together. But some are more together than others ...Something interesting is happening in politics at a quite seismic level, and as usual, the professionals haven't noticed. Let's start with the details.… |
| Curiosity kills 3D Cameron cams Posted: 28 Mar 2011 02:32 AM PDT No Avatar remake for NASA's new Mars roverNASA has decided to ditch plans to equip its Curiosity Mars rover with a pair of 3D cameras.… |
| Asus prices up netbook-convertible Android tablet Posted: 28 Mar 2011 02:30 AM PDT Qwerty will cost youAsus' tablet-meets-netbook, the Eee Pad Transformer, will cost the best part of £500 when it goes on sale here on Wednesday.… |
| Posted: 28 Mar 2011 02:03 AM PDT Savvis picks up £14mThe Ministry of Justice is spending £14m on a five-year cloud contract.… |
| MPs now free to surf and tweet Posted: 28 Mar 2011 01:59 AM PDT Warned not to take debate from the Chamber to the interwebsMPs appeared last week to have overtaken the somewhat more cautious House of Lords, with the publication of new guidelines allowing MPs to tweet – and surf – during debates in the Commons, so long as they do it tastefully, and don't take up too much room.… |
| iPad 2 3G price-plans compared Posted: 28 Mar 2011 01:56 AM PDT Three are the bestUpdated Planning to buy a 3G-enabled iPad 2? To help you choose the right package, here are how the UK operators stack up. We'll be adding other carriers as they announce prices.… |
| 120 Underground Wi-Fi hotspots will erupt in 2012 Posted: 28 Mar 2011 01:00 AM PDT Spewing LOLcats all over 19th century caverns ...Transport for London is tendering for bidders to open Wi-Fi hotspots at underground stations, and possibly even at bus stations and stops.… |
| Dell's storage vision: From reseller to innovator Posted: 27 Mar 2011 09:00 PM PDT Fluid Data goes externalComment Having bought storage technologies and companies to gain entry into new storage categories, Dell is now rolling out a unified storage architectural vision embracing file systems added to every storage offering, and Ocarina-deduplication everywhere. Compellent's fluid data idea is being applied across Dell's storage portfolio from entry level PowerVaults, through SME, and the enterprise out to the cloud.… |
| Oracle's Itanium gambit: A play for HP's checkbook Posted: 27 Mar 2011 08:00 PM PDT One way or another, Apotheker will payComment Everything Oracle does is about money. You have to look at any of its actions - no matter how peculiar or provocative they may be - through an economic lens, focusing on the benefit those actions will provide to Larry Ellison and the company he co-founded decades ago.… |
| Windows Server pushed to the super limit Posted: 27 Mar 2011 07:00 PM PDT SGI puts Microsoft on 256 coresServer maker Silicon Graphics doesn't think it can take on the entire Windows server market, but the company – which is best known for supercomputers and hyperscale rack servers – does think it can chase and win deals in the evolving HPC market for windows.… |
| Quanta crams 512 cores into pizza box server Posted: 27 Mar 2011 06:00 PM PDT Tilera chips spotted in wildQuanta Computer – the Chinese manufacturer that builds the majority of laptops in the world and that wants to break into the server racket in a big way – has started shipping its first production machine based on massively multicored processors designed and manufactured by chip upstart Tilera.… |
| Steve Jobs screws my wife (out of $944) Posted: 27 Mar 2011 05:00 PM PDT What do you do with an iPad 2?Comment I couldn't tell who was more excited about our new electronic toy: me or my wife.… |
| Flipboard joins bubble brigade with US$200M valuation Posted: 27 Mar 2011 03:41 PM PDT Revenue? We've heard of itFlipboard, a nifty app that assembles social media feeds into a nicely-presented iPad magazine, is on the funding hustings and looking to capitalise on the now-emerging tech bubble 2.0.… |
| Posted: 27 Mar 2011 02:59 PM PDT New gaming division for moviemakersHollywood heavyweights Harvey and Bob Weinstein have spun out a new gaming division which will work with technology partners to develop and publish video games for mobile, social, and console platforms.… |
| Alcatel-Lucent sin-binned in Malaysia Posted: 27 Mar 2011 02:58 PM PDT Banned for one year on bribe karmaAustralia's NBN Co has refused to comment on the woes of its key network provider Alcatel Lucent in Malaysia. The vendor has been banned from bidding on any new telecommunications contracts for a year by Telekom Malaysia and mobile operator Axiata.… |
| Infernal affairs: NZ govt sites attacked Posted: 27 Mar 2011 02:53 PM PDT Anonymous, or merely anonymous?Online hacktivists Anonymous have been accused of bringing down the New Zealand Government's Department of Internal Affairs last week – or perhaps they haven't.… |
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