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- Sony implicates Anonymous in PlayStation Network hack
- Seagate to unveil 'perfect iPad companion'
- Amazon and PSN outages won't halt cloud revolution
- Intel debuts '3D transistors' with 22nm chip recipe
- Virgin outsources techies, pulls plug on Trowbridge call centre
- Sony calls in data Sherlocks to unpick megahack disaster
- Fierce tablet fight to be rough for Apple's rivals
- US spooks to build 60 megawatt data center
- Freeman Dyson: Shale gas is 'cheap and effective'
- Goodyear blimps to be replaced by German Zeppelins
- Cross-dresser kills goat while high on bath salts
- Powerline networking pops up in parliament
- Lewisham Services move to the cloud
- 'Boil the ocean' data loss prevention needs to change
- California Do-Not-Track web privacy law moves forward
- Books biz talks up Kindle effect
- Panasonic DMP-BDT310 Blu-ray player
- Amazon jumps on time-limited sales
- US operators shelve banking plan for Isis
- Amazon tablet, touchscreen Kindle on course for H2, say moles
- Sensible security strategies for SMBs
- <cite>Star Wars</cite>: From dream sci-fi bride to perfect Blu-ray wife
- Novell bags anti-trust appeal against Microsoft
- New top-secret stealth choppers used on bin Laden raid
- Samsung quietly lowers tablet graphics chip spec
- Motorola's laptop-dock Android phone out on Orange
- NHS Barnet reveals 187 breaches of personal data
- NetApp duplicates deduplication
- Go forth and deduplicate
- Spotify's new desktop client cuts off iTunes
- Brocade puffs CloudPlex and Virtual Compute Blocks
- Bin Laden corpse pics will be malware, says FBI
- Sage butters up SMEs in fiscal first half
- Nintendo to whack Wii price by 28%
- Parliamentary committee suspends intellectual property rights inquiry
- Spotify denies movie deals (not very convincingly)
- Logica ups revs and orders
- Can two small startups solve big storage pains?
- Google Shopping hits Oz, still in beta (surprise)
- Elgato Tivizen iOS Wi-Fi TV tuner
- Platform embiggens Symphony financial grids
- Is there anything to find on bin Laden's hard drive?
- Apple ex-evangelist Kawasaki pans, praises Jobs
- FreeNAS 8.0 hits the street
- There is no big Silicon Valley tech bubble, says VC king
- Vividwireless expands 4G footprint
- Apple thinks Intel is fab?
- Google Oz slips A$600 million through tax loophole
- Oz minister ties privacy law review to PSN hack
- EchoStar, Dish Network cough up $500m in TiVo settlement
| Sony implicates Anonymous in PlayStation Network hack Posted: 04 May 2011 11:52 AM PDT Legions 'duped,' company saysForensics experts investigating the security breach on Sony's PlayStation Network found a file on one of the hacked systems that was titled "Anonymous" and contained the phrase "We are Legion," the company's chairman told members of congress.… |
| Seagate to unveil 'perfect iPad companion' Posted: 04 May 2011 10:58 AM PDT Takes the tabletsSeagate says it's going to announce a "perfect companion" for iPads and other tablets later this month.… |
| Amazon and PSN outages won't halt cloud revolution Posted: 04 May 2011 10:27 AM PDT You wanna go back to Windows?Open...and Shut For all its promise, cloud computing has taken on a murky hue over the past few months. Most recently Amazon's EC2 and Sony's Playstation Network (PSN) were both brought down through human error and malevolence, respectively, leaving developers and consumers to wonder if cloud computing is all it's cracked up to be. Yet no matter how problematic cloud security and resilience may be, there's arguably no going back to the good old days.… |
| Intel debuts '3D transistors' with 22nm chip recipe Posted: 04 May 2011 10:16 AM PDT How do ya like them, Apple?Intel has unveiled its 22nm manufacturing process.… Free Webcast: Making the decision on hosted apps - What's the risk and reward? |
| Virgin outsources techies, pulls plug on Trowbridge call centre Posted: 04 May 2011 09:21 AM PDT 80 tech jobs cut immediately - sourcesVirgin Media has announced a major overhaul of its IT operations on the same day it revealed plans to shutter a call centre in Trowbridge, Wiltshire, which has almost 500 staff members.… |
| Sony calls in data Sherlocks to unpick megahack disaster Posted: 04 May 2011 08:54 AM PDT Plus Inspector Lestrade of the FBISony has drafted in security experts to figure out who hacked into its systems - and how they did it - before stealing personal data on 100 million consumers of the company's services.… |
| Fierce tablet fight to be rough for Apple's rivals Posted: 04 May 2011 07:39 AM PDT Less successful to exit market by year's end?Here's a notion: there will be so many tablet wannabes fighting for market share in the second half of the year that rather a lot of them will be left with unsold stock on their warehouse shelves.… |
| US spooks to build 60 megawatt data center Posted: 04 May 2011 07:33 AM PDT What Federal budget crisis?The Obama administration might have been wrestling mightily with a recalcitrant Republican Congress high on strong tea over the US government's fiscal 2012 budget, which had tens of billions of dollars in spending slashed, but the one thing that both Democrats and Republicans can agree on is that the National Security Agency needs a new data center weighing in at 60 megawatts.… |
| Freeman Dyson: Shale gas is 'cheap and effective' Posted: 04 May 2011 06:37 AM PDT Carbon reduction without the dodgy renewables?Renowned British-born boffin Freeman Dyson has given a cautious welcome to shale gas – the energy revolution that has caught energy experts, politicians and civil servants by surprise.… Free Webcast: Making the decision on hosted apps - What's the risk and reward? |
| Goodyear blimps to be replaced by German Zeppelins Posted: 04 May 2011 06:14 AM PDT Revival of 1930s flying Cloudbase partnershipThe long-running era of the Goodyear Blimp has finally ended: but it's good news for airship enthusiasts, not bad. Goodyear has decided to replace its famous fleet of inflatable blimps with more sophisticated semi-rigid "Neue Technologie" ships designed by the modern-day German successor to the original Zeppelin company.… |
| Cross-dresser kills goat while high on bath salts Posted: 04 May 2011 05:57 AM PDT Multi-day high ends in caprine tragedyA 19-year-old American man has blamed the narcotic effects of bath salts* for sparking an episode that resulted in the death of a pygmy goat.… |
| Powerline networking pops up in parliament Posted: 04 May 2011 05:45 AM PDT But the song remains the sameDavid Mowat has demonstrated that even MPs can't get a straight answer on powerline networking, although Ofcom has refined its initial explanation that not enough people care.… |
| Lewisham Services move to the cloud Posted: 04 May 2011 05:25 AM PDT Love them clean streets, babyVideo The streets of Lewisham, and beyond, are a whole lot cleaner thanks to the quick thinking of Nigel Tyrell, who's head of Environment for Lewisham.… |
| 'Boil the ocean' data loss prevention needs to change Posted: 04 May 2011 05:15 AM PDT Check Point slams security so complex you never get around to turning it onCheck Point is pushing its vision of consolidating disparate security products, managed from a single dashboard and centred on enterprise firewalls.… Free Webcast: Making the decision on hosted apps - What's the risk and reward? |
| California Do-Not-Track web privacy law moves forward Posted: 04 May 2011 05:08 AM PDT Browser alone isn't tough enoughCompanies trading online in California could soon be forced by law to give consumers the right not to be tracked across the web.… |
| Books biz talks up Kindle effect Posted: 04 May 2011 05:07 AM PDT Paper down slightly, but digital is still tinyDigital book sales in the UK rose 38 per cent last year, but they still represent a drop in the ocean. The year saw £120m in reported digital sales out of total sales of £3.1bn reported to the Publishers Association: accounting for just under 4 per cent.… |
| Panasonic DMP-BDT310 Blu-ray player Posted: 04 May 2011 05:00 AM PDT Image is everything?Review When it comes to raw performance in the mainstream Blu-ray market, Panasonic is a force to be reckoned with. The brand has consistently pushed the envelope in terms of picture quality. However, during 2010 it fell behind some of its high street rivals when it came to features and functionality. It's a situation Panasonic has clearly set out to address with the DMP-BDT310, that now tops its Blu-ray player range.… |
| Amazon jumps on time-limited sales Posted: 04 May 2011 04:46 AM PDT Next big thing, or late to the 'alternative' online retail party?Amazon is getting into time-limited sales of men's, women's and kids' clothes with the launch of a stand-alone website called MyHabit.com.… |
| US operators shelve banking plan for Isis Posted: 04 May 2011 04:23 AM PDT Isis will be a wallet, not a bank cardUS operators' initiative Isis won't be an NFC payment system as originally planned, just a wallet to hold payment cards and without a revenue stream to call its own.… |
| Amazon tablet, touchscreen Kindle on course for H2, say moles Posted: 04 May 2011 04:04 AM PDT And a quad-core fondleslab from AsusUnnamed industry moles say Amazon will have a tablet out in the second half of the year - cheaper Kindles too - and that Asus will release a slate based on Nvidia's upcoming quad-core Tegra chip.… |
| Sensible security strategies for SMBs Posted: 04 May 2011 04:00 AM PDT Mind the gap!On demand Mind the Gap, our latest Regcast, sees BitDefender's Andrew Maguire, FreeForm Dynamics' Andrew Buss and Reg broadcast editor Tim Phillips discussing:… Free Webcast: Making the decision on hosted apps - What's the risk and reward? |
| <cite>Star Wars</cite>: From dream sci-fi bride to perfect Blu-ray wife Posted: 04 May 2011 03:58 AM PDT A new hope to sell even more Skywalker tatHere's a pun-splattered heads-up to all you Star Wars fans out there. In about two hours' time news will reach us from a secret server located on the distant planet Bespin that Maythe4thbewithyou will prove a good day for the Lucasian franchise.… |
| Novell bags anti-trust appeal against Microsoft Posted: 04 May 2011 03:56 AM PDT 'Reversed and remanded'A US appeals court has pumped fresh blood into an anti-trust lawsuit brought by Novell against Microsoft that was first filed in 2004.… |
| New top-secret stealth choppers used on bin Laden raid Posted: 04 May 2011 03:54 AM PDT Wreckage shows whisper silencing, IR, radar pimpageThe US special-ops troops who killed Osama bin Laden at the weekend appear to have travelled to their target in previously unknown stealth helicopters. One of the secret choppers was disabled during the raid and blown up by the departing SEAL commandos in a largely successful attempt to prevent its technology falling into non-US hands, but surviving fragments of the tail offer intriguing clues as to the aircraft's design.… |
| Samsung quietly lowers tablet graphics chip spec Posted: 04 May 2011 03:40 AM PDT Not only 3G that the Wi-Fi-only Tab lacksSamsung has annoyed buyers of the Wi-Fi-only version of its 7in Galaxy Tab Android tablet by equipping the gadget with seemingly lesser chippery than the 3G model.… |
| Motorola's laptop-dock Android phone out on Orange Posted: 04 May 2011 03:34 AM PDT Get tapped into the AtrixMotorola's netbook-powering Android smartphone, the Atrix, goes on sale today exclusively from Orange.… |
| NHS Barnet reveals 187 breaches of personal data Posted: 04 May 2011 03:21 AM PDT Most leaky of 30 London NHS orgs that responded to data breach FoI requestA North London primary care trust has suffered the most personal data breaches among NHS trusts in the capital over the past three years, according to figures obtained by Guardian Healthcare.… |
| NetApp duplicates deduplication Posted: 04 May 2011 03:07 AM PDT Two much of a good thingComment By buying Engenio, NetApp gets engineers working with Permabit's Albireo deduplication technology to increase the effective capacity of Engenio's arrays. Trouble is it looks better than NetApp's in-house A-SIS dedupe. Oops. What does NetApp do now?… Free Webcast: Making the decision on hosted apps - What's the risk and reward? |
| Posted: 04 May 2011 03:00 AM PDT Will it benefit my data centre?Deep dive El Reg has teamed up with the Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA) for a series of deep dive articles. Each month, the SNIA will deliver a comprehensive introduction to basic storage networking concepts. This month the SNIA examines data deduplication.… |
| Spotify's new desktop client cuts off iTunes Posted: 04 May 2011 02:46 AM PDT While Apple stomps on less-ligit alternativesThe latest client from music streaming service Spotify will talk directly to an iPod, removing the need for iTunes to vet everything copied onto every Apple music player.… |
| Brocade puffs CloudPlex and Virtual Compute Blocks Posted: 04 May 2011 02:35 AM PDT Data centres without wallsBrocade has developed a CloudPlex architecture with Virtual Compute Blocks, saying it is aimed at helping enterprises becoming virtual enterprises running data centres without walls.… |
| Bin Laden corpse pics will be malware, says FBI Posted: 04 May 2011 02:11 AM PDT Team Six headshot headshots unlikely to appear in emailThis just in from the FBI's department of the bleedin' obvious: if someone emails you with pictures of Osama bin Laden's bullet-riddled corpse*, this is probably an attempt to compromise your computer rather than a public-spirited effort intended to confirm that he really is dead.… |
| Sage butters up SMEs in fiscal first half Posted: 04 May 2011 01:59 AM PDT But US wing of biz still flaggingBritish software outfit Sage saw a mild upswing in pretax profit and revenue in the first half of its fiscal year as SMEs tentatively splashed some cash.… Free Webcast: Making the decision on hosted apps - What's the risk and reward? |
| Nintendo to whack Wii price by 28% Posted: 04 May 2011 01:59 AM PDT 'Wii 2' groundwork beginsWe know Nintendo's next console will be out in 2012, and now we know the videogames pioneer is pruning the price of the Wii to keep the machine selling in the meantime.… |
| Parliamentary committee suspends intellectual property rights inquiry Posted: 04 May 2011 01:35 AM PDT Hargreaves review out soon, will suggest freeing up 'orphan' worksA parliamentary committee has dropped its inquiry into the Digital Economy Act (DEA) and whether it is the right mechanism to protect copyright on the internet.… |
| Spotify denies movie deals (not very convincingly) Posted: 04 May 2011 01:19 AM PDT P2P is still the killer appSpotify has denied claims it has inked deals with the major Hollywood studios ahead of an expansion into video on demand. Daniel Ek rubbished the report, by Michael Arrington of rumour site TechCrunch, that Spotify had deals in place with four studios.… |
| Posted: 04 May 2011 01:12 AM PDT Rest of the world saves UKLogica had a decent first quarter and grew revenues by 5 per cent to £978m, compared to £932m last year.… |
| Can two small startups solve big storage pains? Posted: 04 May 2011 12:58 AM PDT Scality and Nasuni should work togetherExplosive data growth is a big pain for every IT manager on earth. Many enterprises have their global infrastructures scattered among two or three continents. Maintaining file servers or filers all around the world isn't a simple matter: some of them are unattended, there are security concerns, backup/archive policies can't be complied with and on, and on.… |
| Google Shopping hits Oz, still in beta (surprise) Posted: 04 May 2011 12:32 AM PDT Fetid Froogle lurches into the sunlight, againPolice with water cannons had to be deployed in Sydney yesterday to quell the celebrations, as hundreds of thousands of retailers held a wild street party to celebrate the launch of Google Shopping in Australia* (warning: don't follow the link if you have a low tolerance of folksy, patronising, "say I wanted to buy a camera" prose).… Free Webcast: Making the decision on hosted apps - What's the risk and reward? |
| Elgato Tivizen iOS Wi-Fi TV tuner Posted: 04 May 2011 12:00 AM PDT Freeview on your fondleslabReview If the pictures of Elgato's Tivizen TV tuner look familiar, it's probably because you read Reg Hardware's review of the similarly named Tizi, from Equinux, back in February.… |
| Platform embiggens Symphony financial grids Posted: 03 May 2011 11:00 PM PDT Piggybacks HadoopGrid computing software maker Platform Computing has goosed its low-latency Symphony financial grid as well as some add-ons to its Load Sharing Facility (LSF) gridding wares for more traditional HPC parallel cluster grids.… |
| Is there anything to find on bin Laden's hard drive? Posted: 03 May 2011 10:00 PM PDT Mining the 'mother lode' of intelligenceUS officials are already referring to the trove of computer drives and disks seized from Osama bin Laden's compound as "the mother lode of intelligence." Such gloating is probably premature.… |
| Apple ex-evangelist Kawasaki pans, praises Jobs Posted: 03 May 2011 09:00 PM PDT 'Apple's existence proves there is a god'Apple fanboys may have religious fervor, but so too does its ex–chief evangelist Guy Kawasaki, who reckons that Apple's continued existence is evidence that there must be a God.… |
| Posted: 03 May 2011 09:00 PM PDT Bitten by the enterprise bug: home user features missingThe FreeNAS project has released version 8.0 of its popular FreeBSD-based network storage server, and in doing so has managed to alienate some of its user base.… |
| There is no big Silicon Valley tech bubble, says VC king Posted: 03 May 2011 08:00 PM PDT Just hundreds of small onesForget what you may have heard: there is no massive tech bubble in Silicon Valley.… Free Webcast: Making the decision on hosted apps - What's the risk and reward? |
| Vividwireless expands 4G footprint Posted: 03 May 2011 08:00 PM PDT Everybody, move close to a universityVividwireless (which affects a "no capitals" company name that plays with sub-editors' heads) has announced expanded coverage, adding bits of Adelaide, Brisbane and Canberra to its network.… |
| Posted: 03 May 2011 07:00 PM PDT Rumor says foundry switch on cardsApple is considering switching its iOS device silicon supply from Samsung to Intel. The switch would complete Intel's dominance in Cupertino, according to a report in EE Times… |
| Google Oz slips A$600 million through tax loophole Posted: 03 May 2011 06:00 PM PDT The old Irish jigThe Sydney Morning Herald has popped another installment in its long-running game of pinging Google's Australian tax liability as revealed in its financial statements.… |
| Oz minister ties privacy law review to PSN hack Posted: 03 May 2011 04:55 PM PDT Don't just do something, sit there!In the wake of the deepening crisis over Sony's lax gaming network security, Australia's Privacy Minister Brendan O'Connor has hopped on the bandwagon, tying disclosure laws to Sony's incidents.… |
| EchoStar, Dish Network cough up $500m in TiVo settlement Posted: 03 May 2011 04:54 PM PDT Patent suit ends, at lastThe long-running patent lawsuit in which TiVo sued Dish Network and its former division, EchoStar, has been settled with the defendants agreeing to pay US$500 million to Tivo.… |
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