Speaking in Tech: Leo Apotheker vs Meg Whitman
Podcast Money man Chris lynch talks to Greg and the gang about who did it better Read more...
The Register, Today, 1:04pm
Seagate poised to swallow LaCie, haul fattened bod into channel
Cali firm dives into deeper international waters
Spinning disk supremo Seagate has nailed down an agreement from Paris-based external drive products manufacturer LaCie to snap it up, and LaCie is up for it – though the trade union and regulatory stuff is still being worked out.… Read more...
The Register, Today, 12:23pm
CompSci eggheads to map Android malware genome
Aim for taxonomy of droid ills
Mobile security researchers are teaming up to share samples and data on malware targeting the Android platform.… Read more...
The Register, Today, 12:18pm
Google CEO Larry Page on Charlie Rose
Google CEO Larry Page was interviewed on Charlie Rose recently, and there was certainly some interesting stuff in there. Sadly, the interview suffers from the curse of modern journalism in that it was all a bit timid and civil (no truly harsh and confronting questions), but despite that, it's still a good watch. Two quotes from Page really stood out to me. Read more...
OSNews, Today, 12:13pm
The most dangerous job in America: Keeping iPhones connected
AT&T blamed for deaths of cell-tower climbers
An investigation into the deaths of workers putting up cell towers has shown how US network operators distance themselves from those taking the risks, with AT&T's dash to provide iPhone connectivity allegedly killing more than most.… Read more...
The Register, Today, 12:01pm
Red Hat lures in JRuby power pair
Linux shop polishes cloud languages
Red Hat has lured two of the brains behind JRuby, Charles Nutter and Thomas Ebeno, who once worked at Sun Microsystems.… Read more...
The Register, Today, 11:42am
Oracle gobbles upstart Facebook, Instagram biz tout
Social networking marketer Vitrue joins Larry's cloud
Oracle has snapped up social media marketing company Vitrue for an undisclosed sum.… Read more...
The Register, Today, 11:19am
SAP hopes to embiggen its cloud with Ariba slurp
Still seeking a secure foothold in fast-growing market
Software giant SAP is hoping to beef up its cloud with an offer to slurp business commerce company Ariba for $4.3bn.… Read more...
The Register, Today, 10:39am
'We've done nothing wrong' - Schmidt on Euro antitrust probe
Defiant Google supremo buttonholed by El Reg
Big Tent Google chairman Eric Schmidt has declined to be drawn on possible incoming antitrust law infringement charges in Europe.… Read more...
The Register, Today, 10:17am
Shoreditch a hub of 'exciting innovation', says science minister
David Willetts lays out economic recovery with data apps
Big Tent Science minister David Willetts told a gathering at Google's Big Tent event this morning that future scientific research will rely heavily on the mining, slicing and dicing of data from the public sector.… Read more...
The Register, Today, 10:07am
Wireless remote control inventor zaps out at 96
Eugene Polley took the knobs off technology
The man who took the knobs off the TV set and made a significant innovation in wireless technology, Eugene Polley, died yesterday in Illinois, aged 96.… Read more...
The Register, Today, 9:46am
Open Data Institute pours golden £10m shower on upstarts
Taxpayer-funded teams to tackle public info dumps
The Open Data Institute has launched with a taxpayer-funded £10m pot to turn the government’s public information dumps into something tangible. Or that's the promise.… Read more...
The Register, Today, 9:27am
Nvidia Kai to enable cut-price Android tablets for all
Quad-core and a whole lot more?
Nvidia has let slip 'Kai', the quad-core ARM-architecture system-on-a-chip it hopes will get powerful tablets into World+Dog's hands for $199 (£127) a pop.… Read more...
The Register, Today, 9:25am
MPs wrestle slippery bureaucrats in intellectual property Jell-O
'Evidence base weak' for IP, says UK's IP top cop
Analysis The all-party group of MPs looking into the UK's looming obliteration of copyright rounded on their quarry yesterday - and it turned out to be an enthralling battle of wits.… Read more...
The Register, Today, 9:19am
Boffins cram binary data into living cells' DNA
Biological non-volatile storage survives reproduction
Pic In a move that could have appeared in a Michael Crichton novel, Stanford University brainiacs have written and read a binary digit encoded in a DNA cell sequence which survives cell reproduction - a non-volatile genetic bit.… Read more...
The Register, Today, 9:01am
Facebook IPO plunge sparks tidal wave of lawsuits
Shares plummet, investors sue everyone, regulators pull out their probes
Investors in Facebook's IPO are not taking the stock's drubbing lying down and have launched lawsuits against the social network, its underwriters and NASDAQ, while regulators probe the way the debut was handled.… Read more...
The Register, Today, 8:44am
MASSIVE Chinese web cannons blast 123-reg offline
UK's largest hosting biz titsup in DDoS outrage
A "massive" distributed-denial-of-service attack emanating from China has taken down 123-reg, the UK net biz that hosts 1.4 million websites.… Read more...
The Register, Today, 8:36am
Volvo claims V40 is first car with an airbag for pedestrians
Protection for head-in-clouds texters
Volvo has devised an automobile airbag for pedestrians.… Read more...
The Register, Today, 8:27am
Apple design chief Jony Ive knighted - but not by the Queen
Steve Jobs' 'spiritual partner' honoured
Apple's VP of Industrial Design Jonathan Ive was knighted today by the Princess Royal at Buckingham Palace.… Read more...
The Register, Today, 8:12am
Sky Movies monopoly probe scrapped as rivals turn up
Competition Commission U-turns at sight of LoveFilm, Netflix
The Competition Commission has called off the attack dogs against Sky's movie business, for now. The regulator has revised its views following the entry of Amazon's LoveFilm and Netflix into the pay-movie market.… Read more...
The Register, Today, 8:01am
Jailed Facebook hack Brit targeted Justin Bieber's girlfriend
Selena Gomez 'told' fans her boyfriend 'sucks' in attack
A British man jailed for a year after hacking into a private Facebook account targeted Justin Bieber's actress-turned-singer girlfriend, it has emerged.… Read more...
The Register, Today, 7:39am
Everything Everywhere activates top-secret erections
Orange and T-Mobile finally complete network love-in
Customers of Orange and T-Mobile are now using one network, with handsets switching seamlessly to the nearest cell tower, though the company still refuses to say exactly where those cell towers are.… Read more...
The Register, Today, 7:18am
Google warns against ISPs hard on web filth
Meanwhile, Mail columnist visits p0rn site. Gasp
Big Tent Google may not be willing to comment on how much money it makes from pornography online, but the search giant's UK public policy head Sarah Hunter has unsurprisingly urged caution when it comes to ISPs filtering content over their networks.… Read more...
The Register, Today, 7:07am
Return to Castle Wolfenstein
Ex the Axis
Antique Code Show As a nipper during the 1970s and early 80s, there can't be a war movie I haven't seen, either at the cinema or on telly on a rain Sunday afternoon. You can surely say the same of Grey Matter Interactive, because its Return to Castle Wolfenstein lets you play pretty much every famous war film scene.… Read more...
The Register, Today, 7:00am
Lenovo's on fire - and this time in a good way
Closing in on HP yet making loss in emerging markets
Lenovo set its sights on emerging and "PC+" markets as it seeks to build on what it describes as a record year.… Read more...
The Register, Today, 6:41am
Serco close to flogging UK defence nuke tech biz
Amec admires Technical Consulting Services wing
IT outsourcing monster Serco is locked in talks with engineering consultancy and project management services outfit Amec to sell its Technical Consulting Services biz.… Read more...
The Register, Today, 6:18am
Why on Earth is Microsoft moving to Euro pricing now?
Time to take a sniff at the coffee, perhaps
Analysis I find it quite amusing that a company would decide to have uniform pricing right across a continent in a currency that looks like it might not survive the phasing in period of the new pricing regime. But that's what Microsoft seems to be doing.… Read more...
The Register, Today, 6:02am
UK.gov energy policy: You can't please all the people much of the time
'Lights kept on' - but at a price
Comment Try and please everyone, and you can end up pleasing no one. The government's new draft Energy Bill risks just this.… Read more...
The Register, Today, 5:43am
Apple tops tablet, mobile computer markets in Q1
Lagging in laptops, mind
The usual caveat applies: these numbers only work if you factor in tablet sales. Do, says market watcher DisplaySearch, and Apple is once more the world's top-selling maker of mobile computers.… Read more...
The Register, Today, 5:27am
Greedy LOHAN draining away mankind's vital fluid ... allegedly
Irresponsible globe embulgement - is it really an issue?
We at El Reg's Special Projects Bureau have, over the last few months, been challenged by various readers as to why we're using helium to lift our audacious LOHAN spaceplane towards its stratospheric date with destiny.… Read more...
The Register, Today, 5:17am
Wyse ties with Rise in cloudy client clinch
Dell and FastHosts by another name
Wyse Technology has struck a deal to push cloud services through the UK channel along with hosted services provider Rise.… Read more...
The Register, Today, 5:01am
TfL delays wave-and-pay tickets until 2013
Wants more time to make kit 'more robust'
Transport for London's (TfL's) plan to introduce contactless ticketing across the whole of its network is likely to happen in 2013, and will not be completed by the end of 2012 as previously announced by the authority.… Read more...
The Register, Today, 4:36am
Alcatel-Lucent tinkers with Telstra's enterprise network
Vanquishes Juniper to add 'smarts' for cloudy products
Telstra is revamping the network smarts of its enterprise IP offerings in an Asia Pacific-first roll out of the Alcatel –Lucent supplied Application Assured Networking (AAN) service.… Read more...
The Register, Today, 4:23am
Chuck Exchange mailboxes into the cloud... sysadmin style
UC certificates, MX records and how to make a teeny bit of extra dosh
Sysadmin blog How do we migrate Exchange mailboxes into the cloud? A customer of mine has recently approached me with a request to move his mail hosting into the cloud, and it had to include BlackBerry support. After some discussion of the options available, a hosted exchange solution was deemed best, with Microsoft's own Office 365 emerging the winner.… Read more...
The Register, Today, 4:01am
Dole Office staff snooped into private data 992 times in 10 months
And that's just the times they were caught...
Staff at the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) were disciplined a total of 992 times for unlawfully or inappropriately accessing individuals' social security records between April 2011 and January this year.… Read more...
The Register, Today, 3:27am
EMC's hunt for Joe Tucci replacement continues
Will they have to drag him back like last time?
EMC's CEO succession looks to be in trouble with no clear internal successor to Joe Tucci who is just months away from retirement. Could EMC look outside the company for its next CEO?… Read more...
The Register, Today, 3:02am
Ten... Mi-Fi HSPA 3G wireless mini-routers
Product Roundup DIY hotspots Read more...
The Register, Today, 2:00am
2011 sets new record for counterfeit electronics
IHS iSuppli says most counterfeits come from Asia, at a rate of one every 15 seconds
Asian countries led by China are responsible for the vast majority of reports of counterfeit electronics parts, which have reached 12 million over the past five years in a potentially lethal development for the global supply chain, according to analyst IHS iSuppli.… Read more...
The Register, Today, 1:31am
Huawei enterprise to be 100% channel 'in 3-5 years
Seeks partners to marry comms, apps
Huawei's year-old enterprise division wants to put all of its business through the channel in three to five years, according to Jeff Hwong, the company's regional sales director for Southern Pacific Enterprise Business.… Read more...
The Register, Today, 12:28am
Indian SMBs facing advanced attack threats
Symantec warns of lack of security know-how
India’s growing urban population is under concerted cyber attack as criminals increasingly focus advanced targeted techniques on small- and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) and look to exploit piecemeal security and low levels of awareness, according to the latest report from Symantec.… Read more...
The Register, Today, 12:10am
Facebook underwriters accused of hiding forecast
Revenue numbers revised on the quiet, says Reuters
Reuters is airing accusations which, if true, would cast the Facebook IPO process in a very poor light indeed. The news service claims that underwriters Morgan Stanley cut its revenue forecasts for The Social NetworkTM but withheld the information from all but a privileged few.… Read more...
The Register, Today, 12:09am
"What Is NASA, Alex?" New Trebek Video Promotes NASA In Your Life
The king of quiz shows, Alex Trebek, is helping answer the question, "How does NASA affect our daily lives?" The host of the long-running syndicated program "Jeopardy" is featured in a new public service announcement released Wednesday. Read more...
NASA Breaking News, Yesterday, 12:00am
NASA, NSBRI Select 29 Proposals To Support Crew Health On Missions
NASA's Human Research Program (HRP) and the National Space Biomedical Research Institute (NSBRI) of Houston will fund 29 proposals to help investigate questions about astronaut health and performance on future deep space exploration missions. Read more...
NASA Breaking News, Yesterday, 12:00am
Canary Islands host long-distance quantum teleportation
Spooky action between La Palma and Tenerife, with space the next stop
The Canary Islands of La Palma and Tenerife have been briefly connected by a quantum teleportation system that sets a new distance record for the spooky communications technique.… Read more...
The Register, Yesterday, 8:20pm
Windows XP update fails in infinite .NET patch loop
UPDATE: MSFT slow to publicise fix for faulty patch
Microsoft has issued guidance on how to fix problems created by its last bunch of patches.… Read more...
The Register, Yesterday, 8:00pm
NSW gov backs mobile apps
Seven projects for govt get cash
The NSW government has awarded grants to seven mobile consortiums under the Collaborative Solutions program for Mobile Government. The government will provide around AUD$1 million to help the consortiums develop new mobile solutions for the public sector after a competitive pitch.… Read more...
The Register, Yesterday, 7:59pm
Apple, RIM didn’t infringe Kodak patents
Smartphone vendors rehearse grave dance
Kodak’s hopes to parlay its patent portfolio into a get-out-of-Chapter-11 card have been dealt a blow, with a ruling that Apple and RIM haven’t infringed its digital image preview patents.… Read more...
The Register, Yesterday, 7:30pm
Chromium: a tale of two pwnies (part 1)
"Just over two months ago, Chrome sponsored the Pwnium browser hacking competition. We had two fantastic submissions, and successfully blocked both exploits within 24 hours of their unveiling. Today, we'd like to offer an inside look into the exploit submitted by Pinkie Pie." A work of pure art, this. Also, this is not the same person as the other PinkiePie. Also also, you didn't think I'd let a story with a headline like this go by unnoticed, did you? Read more...
OSNews, Yesterday, 7:26pm
Boffins track birds ... from Spaaaaaaaace
Endangered, not-so-angry, birds capture big data
An elite group of black Carnaby’s cockatoos has been fitted with satellite tracking devices in an Australian first bird data collection measure.… Read more...
The Register, Yesterday, 7:15pm
Dell gets a frightful haircut in Q1
Tough competitive environment
Slowing sales of notebook PCs, sluggish markets in Europe and Asia, and tepid buyers in the public sector all combined to shave Dell's revenues and give its net income a serious haircut in its first quarter of fiscal 2013.… Read more...
The Register, Yesterday, 7:06pm