Updated: 01:31 Sat, Jan 28 2012. (+7 mins) |
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webOS daddy Jon Rubinstein exits HP - (00:51:50 GMT)Enough is enough: 'I'm gonna go for a swim, have a little lunch..."Jon Rubinstein, late of NeXT, FirePower, Apple, and Palm, has resigned from his position at HP, where he endured the mismanagement and eventual overboarding of Palm's webOS mobile operating system.… |
Students busted for hacking computers, changing grades - (23:36:57 GMT)'Very bright kids' too bright for their own goodThree high school juniors have been arrested after they devised a sophisticated hacking scheme to up their grades and make money selling quiz answers to their classmates.… |
First US CTO Aneesh Chopra resigns from post - (19:14:59 GMT)Logs out for possible political careerThe first US government chief technology officer Aneesh Chopra has announced he’s leaving the job.… |
GaleForce control freak paints clouds KVM red - (18:44:52 GMT)Spanning more devices and hypervisorsGale Technologies, one of the many companies that wants to manage your private and public clouds, has revved up its GaleForce cloud control freak to 6.0, and is improving its support for XenServer-based clouds and adding KVM to the mix.… |
Polish lawmakers don Guy Fawkes masks to protest ACTA - (18:41:13 GMT)Thousands roil Polish streets – more protests planned for FridayOver 30 Polish lawmakers held up paper replicas of the Guy Fawkes mask, made famous by both Anoymous hacktivists and the Occupy movement, during a protest in parliament of their country's signing of the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA), the EU's highly controversial online-piracy legislation.…  |
Quantum shares plunge after results - (18:02:12 GMT)Turning the cornerRevenues for the third quarter of fy2012 were $173m, 2 per cent down on the $176m of a year ago. Net income was $3.94m, down from the $5.8m recorded a year ago. These earnings exceeded the Street's expectations so why did investors decide to sell the shares?… |
America abandoning DSL in favour of faster cable - (17:27:11 GMT)Dash to fibre as people abandon twisted copperADSL connections to US homes are on the slide as companies and consumers turn to cable and fibre for faster connectivity.… |
Enterprise gets social: Twitter-style data streams, engagement 'apps' - (17:01:10 GMT)Little numbers, big software and the data delugeOpen ... and Shut The winning game plan for enterprise software has long been to "play it safe."… |
Juniper stalled by jittery service providers, product transitions - (16:34:08 GMT)Switch hittingJuniper Networks warned Wall Street earlier this month that the fourth quarter was going to be rough because key service provider customers are cutting back on spending at the same time that the company is putting the finishing touches on some new switches and routers.… |
Dumb salesmen are hurting us – Nokia CEO - (16:19:05 GMT)Incentivising the McJobsAnalysis Stephen Elop got a pretty indulgent reception from analysts, and most of the press yesterday, after delivering some shocking results. Nokia turned a profit of €2bn into a loss of €1bn in the new boss's first full year; volumes are down by 29 per cent; sales of the new Windows phone are unremarkable (to put it generously); and Elop has scrapped guidance for the rest of the year. [Summary] News like this would normally have analysts reaching for the panic button - but not today. Why would this be?… |
Nominet puts the squeeze on rude members - (15:58:06 GMT)Scammers, speculators warnedNominet, which runs the .uk domain registry, has proposed a new code of conduct that would ban unprofessional behaviour by its members.… |
Facebook flings clickjack spam lawsuit at ad-slingers - (15:50:05 GMT)Social network teams up with Washington State to hound marketing firmFacebook and US state of Washington have filed lawsuits against marketing firm Adscend Media over alleged clickjacking and spam practices, as the social networking giant finally gets tough with scammers operating on the site.… |
RIM slashes BlackBerry PlayBook tablet prices - (15:37:44 GMT)Up to 58 per cent off launch costRIM has taken an axe to the prices it charges for its BlackBerry PlayBook tablets in the UK - again.… |
Spotify reckons 1 in 5 freebie-gulper eventually pay up - (15:34:06 GMT)Takes pop at labels for withholdingSpotify executive Ken Parks says Spotify has 3 million paying customers, and 20 per cent of people who get on to the free, ad-supported part of the service are signing up to become paying punters. Most of those, 15 per cent, sign up to the premium tier, Parks claimed. The premium tier gives you offline and mobile access to the music.… |
US lawmakers question Google over privacy policy - (15:02:06 GMT)Politicos ask if Chocolate Factory's new rules violate an FTC agreementGoogle is insisting that its new privacy policy will still give its users control, after criticism in a letter from US members of Congress.… |
Judges set timetable for McKinnon case resolution - (14:39:03 GMT)Pentagon hacking suspect has been waiting for 10 YEARS...Senior judges have set a timetable to speed up resolution in the long-running Gary McKinnon extradition case, effectively setting a deadline for the Home Office to respond to evidence that McKinnon is too infirm to withstand the stress of a US trial and likely imprisonment over alleged Pentagon hacking offences.… |
Microsoft schtum on Dropbox snags with IE - (14:27:11 GMT)Possible SmartScreen dislike of Amazon caused hiccupsMicrosoft has so far declined to explain why Internet Explorer this week flagged Dropbox as a phishing threat, in an apparent clash with Amazon’s S3 cloud storage.… |
Snake slides back onto Nokia smartphones - (14:07:37 GMT)Nostalgic grub gobblingMost people enjoyed playing Snake on their ancient Nokias, gobbling dots and chasing their tail in zig-zags around the screen, at some time in their lives. Well, gamers can now revisit the past and install the ol' classic on their Lumia handsets, retro stylee.… |
Microsoft exec says Safe Harbor framework is 'alive and well' - (13:56:06 GMT)Privacy critic: 'It's dead. We just forgot to bury it'CPDP Privacy advocates have expressed concern about Brussels' Commissioner Viviane Reding's decision to leave in place the Safe Harbour framework used by some companies to transfer data from Europe to the US.… |
Apple Italy throws up ruling on its store site - (13:46:05 GMT)We accept that they think we were wrongUPDATE: Apple Italy has posted details of the ruling against it, as required by the Italian courts, though we don't yet know if Cupertino will be coughing up the €1.2m fine too.… |
Google lets youngsters in to Google+. Officially, that is - (13:32:06 GMT)ZitFaceBook to offer 'nuance, richness, meaningfulness'Google has finally opened the doors of its Google+ social networking service to kids, but was careful to keep their ‘rents onside with new online safety features, as its desperate efforts to catch Facebook continue.… |
Apple: Yes there are horrendous accidents, but we CARE - (13:14:11 GMT)Tim Cook sends letter after Chinese factory horror exposéTim Cook has sent a letter to all Apple employees stressing how much the company cares about industrial accidents in its Chinese factories.… |
Galaxy drives up profits for Samsung - (13:01:53 GMT)Smartphone sales fuel massive multi-billion dollar investmentsSamsung's smartphones have helped drive the company to an operating profit of ₩5.3 trillion ($4.7bn) in the fourth quarter of last year.… |
NAO: British bobbies wasting £80m BlackBerry stash - (12:43:18 GMT)Some forces share 1 among 100, some have 150 for 100 officersBrit coppers are not getting enough benefits from their £80m splurge on BlackBerrys and other mobile devices, the National Audit Office has said.… |
Stab victim protected by Bulgarian airbag - (12:27:10 GMT)Jub job saved Florida woman's life, doc reckonsA Florida woman who was set upon by her ex-fiance's knife-wielding new squeeze survived the attack thanks to one of her Bulgarian airbags, according to this report.… |
North Korea labels phone users war criminals - (12:22:32 GMT)Hundred-day ban on blowersNorth Korea has banned the use of mobile phones for 100 days while it formally mourns the death of its late "glorious leader" Kim Jong-Il. Those who disobey the dictat will be treated as war criminals and punished accordingly, it has been claimed.… |
Update Facebook by thrusting your hips to, er ... 'Like' things - (12:17:27 GMT)NFC belt buckle lets you show affection with a friendly humpSeventies throwbacks who like big belt buckles, and pelvic thrusting in public, can now check into a location, or "Like" a friend, with no more than a flick of the hips.… |
Trevor goes hands-on with Microsoft Training - (12:06:37 GMT)Screencap recapReg columnist Trevor Pott's recent review of the Microsoft Virtual Academy sparked several comments that largely said the same thing: "where's the pics?"… |
Sony BDP-S185 Blu-ray player - (guid isPermaLink="false">tag:theregister.co.uk,2005:story/2012/01/27/review_sony_bdp_s185_blu_ray_player/)Review A little gem |
ICANN responds to smut portal antitrust lawsuit - (12:02:02 GMT)'We do not make or sell anything,' says $75m non-profitICANN and .xxx manager ICM Registry want a California judge to throw out an antitrust lawsuit, saying plaintiff Manwin Licensing is just miffed that it missed out on the juiciest domain names.… |
'You will download your sneakers within 20 years. Yarr' - (11:47:08 GMT)Plus: Fruity smugness - 'momentum is incredibly strong'QuotW This was the week when Microsoft filed a lawsuit against a Russian man who allegedly created and operated the Kelihos botnet before it got taken down in September last year.… |
Nintendo unveils Network for console connectivity - (11:42:57 GMT)Wii U to get NFC tech tooNintendo has spilled the beans on its next-gen Wii U console's connectivity capabilities to be built around an online service called the Nintendo Network.… |
BT seeks apartment dwellers to sign-up to 'superfast' FTTP trial - (11:29:05 GMT)We really wanna blow you some cable, dearsBT is on the lookout for around 1,000 residential buildings to sign up to a pilot to allow the national telco to test superfast broadband speeds in apartment blocks.… |
BT comes clean on Infinity modem 'upgrade' - (11:14:10 GMT)Replacement boxes rolled out due to faulty chipNational telco BT has been sending letters out to its Infinity broadband customers saying that it will swap their modems for a better version for free, but failing to mention that the real reason for the generous offer is because they could be faulty.… |
Boffins make graphene micro-distillery - (11:09:04 GMT)Wonder stuff cooked up super-strength vodkaGraphene-creating boffins have discovered a new purpose for the wonder material - a teeny-tiny distillery.… |
Google must channel SOPA rage again – against your privacy - (11:04:10 GMT)Once more unto the breach, dear netizensPut down the NOHO, victorious SOPA protestors – the mothership needs your help once again. Google needs to mount a SOPA-like campaign against European privacy protection proposals, says a US academic. It's for the greater good, apparently.… |
Spring launch for Apple OLED TV with Siri, says retail mole - (10:50:37 GMT)Can it really make money when Sony et al can't?Apple's voice-controlled 42in OLED TV could be out this April. Assuming, of course, that the Mac maker is indeed working on such an improbable beast.… |
UK sight-loss charity sues BMI - (10:47:10 GMT)Excuses over inaccessible website don't fly with usThe Royal National Institute of Blind People (RNIB) has taken the unusual step of suing BMI after the airline failed to make changes to its website to make it accessible to blind and partially sighted people.… |
Twitter cosies up to governments with country-level filters - (10:26:08 GMT)The tweets must flow, unless we're told they shouldn't...Micro-blogging phenomenon Twitter has modified its commitment to the free flow of information online by adding a new feature enabling the removal of users' tweets at a country level while allowing them to be viewed elsewhere.… |
World Solar Challenge: The Musical - (10:03:04 GMT)Oz heliowheels race for your viewing pleasureVideo Last October, we at El Reg's Special Projects Bureau jetted off to Oz in pursuit of the World Solar Challenge – a gruelling 3,000km test of the planet's most advanced solar cars.… |
Samsung eyes enormofridges for see-through screens - (09:43:28 GMT)No beer? Tap for moreSamsung's 46in see-through LCD screen will go into production this month, paving the way for the transparent tech's appearance in ordinary folks' living rooms.… |
Startup goes titsup: Beyond Oblivion's crash is beyond belief - (09:28:08 GMT)Murdoch, charity also face write-offs as digital music outfit goes bustIt isn't just scofflaw copyright criminals who cause grief for the music business. Sometimes it's quite capable of lining up its own feet for a shooting party.… |
iPhone grabs 6% of world phone shipments - (09:20:04 GMT)But Nokia and Samsung tower over AppleApple increased its share of the world phone market in Q4 2011, accounting for 8.3 per cent of mobile shipments, but it's still a small fry compared to the likes of Nokia and Samsung.… |
Maxwell: Under G-Cloud, gov will buy IT 'like stationery' - (09:01:04 GMT)Public ICT contracts to be measured 'in months, rather than years'The G-Cloud will usher in an era of public ICT contracts that are measured in months, rather than years, according to Liam Maxwell, the Cabinet Office's director of ICT futures.… |
Samsung outsold Apple in world smartphone arena - (08:53:06 GMT)iPhone overtaken in 2011Apple may have shipped more smartphones than Samsung in Q4, but the South Korean giant sold more of the gadgets during the year as a whole.… |
EU: Time running out for web companies on 'do not track' system - (08:04:07 GMT)Steely Neelie: Agree on it by June, or I'll force one on youInternet companies have been urged to establish a final standardised system that will allow users to control their privacy settings across websites.… |
Eurocom Panther 2.0 Core i7, SLI notebook - (07:00:10 GMT)Just what does a £5k laptop get you these days?Review While currently every notebook manufacturer seems to offering the thinnest, lightest and easiest to carry around notebook ever, in a bizarre way, it’s quite refreshing to find a company wandering off message and offering notebooks at the other end of the scale. Enter Eurocom’s Panther 2.0, the heaviest, most amazingly specified, most expensive and without doubt the fastest performing notebook I’ve ever come across in over ten years of laptop testing.… |
Newt Gingrich wants Moon to be 51st US state - (01:23:25 GMT)Promises permanent Moon base by 2020, Mars as next targetPresidential hopeful Newt Gingrich is telling the people of Florida about his plans for a permanent base on the Moon, and suggesting it may be possible for the satellite to become the 51st US state.… |
Planet-hunting Kepler hits EXOPLANET JACKPOT - (01:05:49 GMT)11 systems, 26 planets added to inventoryNASA's exoplanet-hunting Kepler spacecraft has identified a slew of new subjects, adding 26 planets in 11 systems to its inventory.… |
Untangling the question of antimatter mass - (01:00:07 GMT)Boffins spin up positroniumA group of researchers at University of California Riverside hopes to chip away at one of physics’ ‘question of questions’ – why the blazes we’re here at all. Their hope is to make electron/positron pairs live long enough to measure the positron’s mass and find out if it’s different to the electron.… |
