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Can Sony's new supremo make the sacrifices to save his ... 1:30 PM	The Register
Can Sony's new supremo make the sacrifices to save his biz? We drill into the uphill battle ex-Playstation boss Hirai faces Comment When Faultline first began following Sony in 2003, it was worth $36 billion on the stock market. At the time Apple was worth $9.8 billion and it was about to launch the iTunes Music Store. We said that Sony should buy Apple and put Steve Jobs in charge.… Read the full article on The Register »
Tame the gas monster with sensors, suckers and a spiffy... Feb 04 2012 11:03:07	The Register
Tame the gas monster with sensors, suckers and a spiffy new fan More performance-tuning for your home and office Part 3 I'm pleased to say that what with the relatively warm 2011 and our conservation efforts we had the lowest consumption of electricity and gas at home of any year yet, a bit over 1,500kWh ('units') of electricity and under 4,000kWh of gas. (A typical UK household is nearer 3,300kWh 'leccy and 18,000kWh gas.) With our solar PV exports we were just carbon-negative for power by my calculations.… Read the full article on The Register »
Eight... HD camera smartphones Feb 04 2012 08:00:10	The Register
Eight... HD camera smartphones Sharp shooters for parties and protests Product round-up You know that really annoying person who is videoing the gig with their camera phone to stick on Facebook when they get home? That's me. These days my TV is HD and my games console is HD, so it only makes sense that my phone – the device I use the most, day in and day out – should be HD too. Luckily, HD on smartphones is becoming more commonplace and so rather than judge these handsets on their mobile merits, this round-up focuses on t... Read the full article on The Register »
Zuckerberg's 2012 personal income tax bill: $1.5 billion Feb 04 2012 01:06:43	The Register
Zuckerberg's 2012 personal income tax bill: $1.5 billion That's 'billion', with a 'b' If all goes according to plan, Facebook founder, chairman, and CEO Mark Zuckerberg's share of the profit in his company's upcoming initial public offering will result in him facing a tax bill of around $1.5bn for 2012.… Read the full article on The Register »
Study links dimwits to conservative ideology Feb 03 2012 22:46:59	The Register
Study links dimwits to conservative ideology US, UK research: Thick kids more likely to become bigots British and American children who are less intelligent are more likely to grow up to be conservative and/or bigots, according to new research published in Physiological Science.… Read the full article on The Register »
Micron CEO Appleton dies in plane crash Feb 03 2012 22:29:27	The Register
Micron CEO Appleton dies in plane crash Expert pilot, experimental aircraft Steven Appleton, the long-time CEO at memory chip maker Micron Technology, died this morning in a crash of an experimental plane in the company's hometown of Boise, Idaho. He was 51 years old and one of the youngest CEOs and chairman in the Fortune 500.… Read the full article on The Register »
Opinion poll: Anti-regulatory 'hype' unwarranted Feb 03 2012 21:58:24	The Register
Opinion poll: Anti-regulatory 'hype' unwarranted Rival small-business boosters, Obama foes disagree One advocacy group has published a survey it says proves that US small-business owners aren't unduly concerned with government regulations. Another group says that the first group's opinion poll is tainted by bogosity.… Read the full article on The Register »
Facebook post-IPO: Free not fee will make Zuck a buck Feb 03 2012 20:03:09	The Register
Facebook post-IPO: Free not fee will make Zuck a buck Dam friction-less sharing and the company is toast Open ... and Shut No sooner did Facebook file its S-1 in preparation for an IPO than speculation kicked into high gear on how Facebook could possibly sustain its $75bn to $100bn valuation. After all, despite its hugely impressive revenue and profit numbers, key components of its revenue model – like advertising revenue – are decelerating. So should we expect Facebook to impose a paywall on some or all of its users, as MyLife.com chief execut... Read the full article on The Register »
European revolt over ACTA treaty gains ground Feb 03 2012 19:11:06	The Register
European revolt over ACTA treaty gains ground Poles stall, Slovenian ambassador calls for protests The Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) treaty, signed by most European countries last week, may not be a done deal after all, as governments across the continent face a storm of protest.… Read the full article on The Register »
US adds more jobs than expected in January Feb 03 2012 19:01:20	The Register
US adds more jobs than expected in January Lots of IT workers get pink slips The US economy added 243,000 net new jobs in January and the unemployment rate has ticked down two-tenths of a point, according to statistics released by the Bureau of Labor Statistics.… Read the full article on The Register »
Apple iPhones, iPad back in German online store Feb 03 2012 18:30:05	The Register
Apple iPhones, iPad back in German online store Take 'em down, put 'em back – a busy morning for Apple IT A German court has suspended the injunction that required Apple to remove its iPhone 4 and 3Gs, and iPad Wi-Fi + 3G from its online store in that country.… Read the full article on The Register »
Biz urged to blast DNSChanger Trojans before safety net... Feb 03 2012 18:28:03	The Register
Biz urged to blast DNSChanger Trojans before safety net comes down 8 March cutoff following Operation Ghost Click Half of all Fortune 500 companies still contain computers infected with the DNSChanger Trojan, weeks after a FBI-led takedown operations targeting the botnet's command-and-control infrastructure.… Read the full article on The Register »
Dead gamer sat unnoticed for nine hours in net cafe Feb 03 2012 18:07:03	The Register
Dead gamer sat unnoticed for nine hours in net cafe Stiff competition A Taiwanese gamer sat dead in a chair at an Internet cafe for up to nine hours before fellow players noticed the poor guy had popped his clogs.… Read the full article on The Register »
Mother charged with selling fake Facebook stock Feb 03 2012 18:02:07	The Register
Mother charged with selling fake Facebook stock Bogus shares also allegedly given out as Christmas presents A Wisconsin woman has been charged over claims she tried to sell $1m worth of Facebook shares that she didn't own.… Read the full article on The Register »
Steve Jobs sighted in Taiwan flogging Android tablets Feb 03 2012 17:29:10	The Register
Steve Jobs sighted in Taiwan flogging Android tablets Rumours of PlayBook Elvis discounted In the cut-throat tablet market, a Taiwanese company has found one way to make its product stand out: paying an actor to dress up as Steve Jobs and make tasteless jokes about how he's dead.… Read the full article on The Register »
Anonymous hackers leak Scotland Yard-FBI conference call Feb 03 2012 17:11:07	The Register
Anonymous hackers leak Scotland Yard-FBI conference call Were you talking about us? Members of Anonymous have released an intercept of a conference call between investigators at the FBI and Scotland Yard during which operations against hacktivist group were discussed.… Read the full article on The Register »
IBM snatches back SPC-1 benchmark crown Feb 03 2012 17:03:10	The Register
IBM snatches back SPC-1 benchmark crown SVC does the business IBM's SAN Volume Controller has done the benchmark business, again, and passed the half million SPC-1 IOPS mark using Storwize V7000 storage.… Read the full article on The Register »
US tweet deportation: Chilling behind-the-scenes photos Feb 03 2012 16:19:53	The Register
US tweet deportation: Chilling behind-the-scenes photos The shock truth of what really went down at LAX The story earlier this week on the deportation from the US of A of two Brits who ill-advisedly tweeted they were off to "destroy America" left a few readers pretty shaken up at the way the Department of Homeland Security handles potential terrorist threats.… Read the full article on The Register »
Gun controlled lamp hits the spotlight Feb 03 2012 16:07:54	The Register
Gun controlled lamp hits the spotlight Taking the pistol One Taiwanese manufacturer took aim at traditional light switches this week and unveiled a lamp that can be turned on and off with the shot of a gun-shaped remote.… Read the full article on The Register »
Sysadmins: Don't get in your own way Feb 03 2012 16:04:05	The Register
Sysadmins: Don't get in your own way Be prepared to try new and irritating things Sysadmin blog I remember the first time I saw these automated supermarket tills. They intrigued me. Yet I was also afraid of the things. I was afraid that despite all of my knowledge and training I wouldn't be able to figure it out and I would end up looking like a fool. I avoided them for three years; the basis of this avoidance nothing more than irrational fear of that which I might not understand.… Read the full article on The Register »
ARM rains on x86 as smartphones outship PCs Feb 03 2012 15:56:01	The Register
ARM rains on x86 as smartphones outship PCs Netbooks cop a hiding Netbooks are so yesterday's technology. Shipments of the small, not-so-cheap computers plunged during 2011 by 25 per cent, figures from market watcher Canalys show.… Read the full article on The Register »
IBM bit-twiddlers want point releases for big iron Feb 03 2012 15:32:04	The Register
IBM bit-twiddlers want point releases for big iron Software gurus to 'refactor' Big Blue's systems The bit-twiddlers took over IBM's server business a year and a half ago, and it appears that they are starting to think about systems as if they were code, as if they could do dot releases in a nearly steady stream and keep their revenues from spiking up and crashing down all the time.… Read the full article on The Register »
Sony throws smartphone party with Billabong Feb 03 2012 15:16:59	The Register
Sony throws smartphone party with Billabong Blower out the water Sony has gone surf-tastic, announcing a partnership with Aussie outdoors outfitter Billabong, which sees its Xperia Active handset branded with the extreme-sports logo and pitched towards the cool-dude generation.… Read the full article on The Register »
Troubled Game wins reprieve on debt, mulls axing more s... Feb 03 2012 15:01:46	The Register
Troubled Game wins reprieve on debt, mulls axing more stores High street chain told to shape up Game Group has been given a reprieve by its lenders, but the retailer may have to sell its overseas stores to secure it.… Read the full article on The Register »
iPhones yanked from German shelves in Motorola patent war Feb 03 2012 14:37:11	The Register
iPhones yanked from German shelves in Motorola patent war Apple takes down 4 and 3G models - for now Apple has removed the iPhone 4 and 3Gs from its stores in Germany, almost certainly in response to Motorola's December action rather than today's patent win.… Read the full article on The Register »
BT reveals ultra-fast cable blowing plan for homes, biz Feb 03 2012 14:18:15	The Register
BT reveals ultra-fast cable blowing plan for homes, biz 'Fibre-to-the-premise on demand' in 2013 BT is talking up plans to bring its ultra-fast fibre-to-the-premises (FTTP) broadband network to more of its customers in early 2013.… Read the full article on The Register »
Apple FileVault cracked in under an hour by forensics biz Feb 03 2012 14:02:06	The Register
Apple FileVault cracked in under an hour by forensics biz Passware scratches Lion's belly, penetrates fruity disk Apple's FileVault disk encryption can be circumvented in less than an hour, according to a computer forensics firm.… Read the full article on The Register »
Nokia pours oil on burning Symbian Feb 03 2012 13:38:38	The Register
Nokia pours oil on burning Symbian Rips up roadmap, axes development Exclusive Nokia is said to be hastening the demise of its legacy Symbian platform, cancelling the development of all but one new Symbian-based device. Although Nokia Belle updates will continue to ship to existing customers, only one new model – a successor to the N8 high-end camera phone – will reach the market, the Register understands.… Read the full article on The Register »
Boffins crack superconducting graphene's melting mystery Feb 03 2012 13:19:12	The Register
Boffins crack superconducting graphene's melting mystery Next-gen high-speed transistors go 3D to slash leaks Scientists in Manchester appear to have solved a problem with graphene that has plagued the super-material's fans since it was sliced into being in 2004.… Read the full article on The Register »
Fibre-gobbling punters help BT deposit solid profit Feb 03 2012 13:02:10	The Register
Fibre-gobbling punters help BT deposit solid profit Cuts also counter revenue dip in Q3 BT reported this morning that its sales had fallen 5 per cent for the three months ended 31 December, however earnings and cash generation remained steady, the company added.… Read the full article on The Register »
Understanding the make-up of information management Feb 03 2012 12:48:11	The Register
Understanding the make-up of information management Time to stop beating up IT On demand On January 25th, Regcast presenter Jon Collins was joined by Freeform Dynamics’ Martha Bennett, Jason Frost from Blueprint, and Will Thompson from Microsoft for our very first live event of 2012.… Read the full article on The Register »
Euro watchdog asks Google to HALT privacy tweak Feb 03 2012 12:37:06	The Register
Euro watchdog asks Google to HALT privacy tweak Take a pause while French DP officers frisk you, Larry A European Union watchdog has written to Google boss Larry Page asking him to explain how personal data will be safeguarded when the search giant puts its revised privacy policy into effect on 1 March.… Read the full article on The Register »
Apple iPad beats Amazon Kindle Fire in satisfaction survey Feb 03 2012 12:28:07	The Register
Apple iPad beats Amazon Kindle Fire in satisfaction survey Fanboys happier than Fireboys? iPad owners are happier with their tablets than folk with other fondleslabs are with theirs, recent research reveals.… Read the full article on The Register »
Satellite phones lift skirt, flash cipher secrets at bo... Feb 03 2012 12:22:08	The Register
Satellite phones lift skirt, flash cipher secrets at boffins Security though obscurity fails yet again Researchers at the Ruhr-University Bochum have managed to extract the secret encryption algorithmns used by satellite phones, and discovered that it's a lot less secure than one might hope.… Read the full article on The Register »
Toshiba Regza 40RL858 40in LED TV Feb 03 2012 12:00:07	The Register
Toshiba Regza 40RL858 40in LED TV Smart, but no mortarboard Review Toshiba is a bit of a wild card when it comes to TVs. While some of its screens are genuinely exciting, others are merely bargain bin fillers. Buying a cheaper Tosh is a classic case of caveat emptor.… Read the full article on The Register »
RIM shot at Android: Free PlayBooks for devs Feb 03 2012 11:44:12	The Register
RIM shot at Android: Free PlayBooks for devs Knock up an app before Valentine's, get 16GB love-slab RIM is offering a free PlayBook tablet to developers who submit an Android application to RIM's App World before Valentine's Day, though the T&Cs have yet to be revealed.… Read the full article on The Register »
TV tuner maker intros mobile Freeview pick-up Feb 03 2012 11:34:04	The Register
TV tuner maker intros mobile Freeview pick-up Streams digital telly over its own Wi-Fi TV tuner maker Hauppauge has introduced a mobile gadget that streams Freeview content to you phone, tablet or computer over its own wireless network.… Read the full article on The Register »
Apple Europe poaches Xbox PR mastermind Feb 03 2012 11:24:05	The Register
Apple Europe poaches Xbox PR mastermind Prepares for battle against Microsoft's 'everything' boxes Apple has poached Microsoft's top product marketing bod in the UK to front up its app store in Europe.… Read the full article on The Register »
Samsung 'Galaxy 4S' pic posted Feb 03 2012 11:19:21	The Register
Samsung 'Galaxy 4S' pic posted Is S III stand-in snap real or Photoshop? The Samsung Galaxy S II Plus, the smartphone the South Korean giant is said to be unveiling at this month's Mobile World Congress (MWC) show in place of the Galaxy S III, will be a skinny white boy.… Read the full article on The Register »
Windows 8, Windows Phone 8 DNA splice is on - report Feb 03 2012 11:01:18	The Register
Windows 8, Windows Phone 8 DNA splice is on - report Apple-flavoured future features leaked Windows 8 and Microsoft's next major phone operating system will merge, if reports are correct.… Read the full article on The Register »
Next-gen Asus Eee Pad Transformer spied Feb 03 2012 10:42:38	The Register
Next-gen Asus Eee Pad Transformer spied TF300T snapped A previously unseen Asus tablet has surfaced on the web prompting speculation that the Taiwanese company is working on the successor to the Eee Pad Transformer Prime.… Read the full article on The Register »
100 MEEELLION .com domains now registered Feb 03 2012 10:42:09	The Register
100 MEEELLION .com domains now registered Ready for those new gTLDs yet? There are now over 100 million .com domain names on the internet.… Read the full article on The Register »
Brit space agency sends up 1st satellite Feb 03 2012 10:19:02	The Register
Brit space agency sends up 1st satellite Yes, this is news So far, the UK space agency hasn't gone in for any of that headline-grabbing stuff like landing people on the Moon or launching Martian probes that get stranded in orbit before plummeting back to Earth – it leaves that sort of stuff to NASA and Roscosmos.… Read the full article on The Register »
Fujitsu out bog standard 7in tab for big biz Feb 03 2012 10:05:45	The Register
Fujitsu out bog standard 7in tab for big biz Gingerbread do you? Fujitsu has outed a non-descript 7in Android tablet that it'll be pitching at big business when the gadget goes on sale later this month.… Read the full article on The Register »
'We're totally in LA pissing people off' Feb 03 2012 10:01:10	The Register
'We're totally in LA pissing people off' Plus 'The horror!' Quotw This was the week when Facebook finally filed for its IPO.… Read the full article on The Register »
Second 'Blue Marble' NASA sat pic apes Apollo 17's stunner Feb 03 2012 09:55:17	The Register
Second 'Blue Marble' NASA sat pic apes Apollo 17's stunner Earth-snapping Suomi gets its kit out for the labs After popular demand NASA's Suomi NPP satellite has beamed down another "Blue Marble" vision of the Earth in high definition.… Read the full article on The Register »
Facebook's Googly IPO delivers on Sun man's vision Feb 03 2012 09:01:12	The Register
Facebook's Googly IPO delivers on Sun man's vision Selling data ain't like shiftin' boxes, boy History may record Scott McNealy as a straight-dealing leader of a major Silicon Valley tech company.… Read the full article on The Register »
BT Vision throws Microsoft Mediaroom under a bus for Linux Feb 03 2012 08:04:08	The Register
BT Vision throws Microsoft Mediaroom under a bus for Linux Set-top box software to be torn out and replaced over the net UK hybrid TV service BT Vision plans to be the first customer to discard Microsoft's Mediaroom software, almost imminently, after at least a year-long effort to put in completely new software building blocks to rejuvenate the service.… Read the full article on The Register »
Orange San Francisco 2 Feb 03 2012 07:00:03	The Register
Orange San Francisco 2 More hails of the city Review The Orange San Francisco was the smartphone bargain of 2011. For £99 you got a solid little handset with a 3.5in 480 x 800 screen, Android 2.1 and a 3.2Mp camera. The fact it was falling-off-a-wet-log easy to root and change ROMs – even I managed it – was the icing on the cake.… Read the full article on The Register »
Judges retire to consider Assange’s last chance on extr... Feb 03 2012 05:33:51	The Register
Judges retire to consider Assange’s last chance on extradition Supreme Court is final shot for WikiLeaker-in-chief The UK Supreme Court judges have retired to consider their verdict in Julian Assange’s last shot at escaping extradition to Sweden, with a final verdict possible within weeks.… Read the full article on The Register »
SpaceX successfully tests SuperDraco rescue rockets Feb 03 2012 01:14:33	The Register
SpaceX successfully tests SuperDraco rescue rockets Aims to build the safest spacecraft ever SpaceX has confirmed the successful test of its SuperDraco rocket engine, which will form the backbone of safety and landing systems for its Dragon spacecraft.… Read the full article on The Register »
Riverbed virtualizes Cascade network monitor appliance Feb 03 2012 01:07:19	The Register
Riverbed virtualizes Cascade network monitor appliance Spying on virtual iron with virtual iron Riverbed Technology upgraded a whole bunch of its appliances this week, including its Cascade Shark network-monitoring products and its Steelhead WAN optimizers.… Read the full article on The Register »
AMD doubles down on existing Opteron server sockets Feb 03 2012 00:04:15	The Register
AMD doubles down on existing Opteron server sockets Shift happens – except when it doesn't As El Reg anticipated earlier this week, the new upper management at AMD has come to its senses and figured out that moving to a new core and two new sockets for its Opteron line in 2012 was not a particularly good idea for its own finances, or those of the server makers who it wants to peddle Opteron-based iron. And so, that plan has been scrapped.… Read the full article on The Register »
Zuckerberg: Facebook rakes in cash... to make world a b... Feb 02 2012 23:30:04	The Register
Zuckerberg: Facebook rakes in cash... to make world a better place Web2.0 investors masticate wildly on Zuck's gummy bubble Analysis Mark Zuckerberg: a shrewd businessman or simply the world's greatest ever opportunist. Now we can finally find out.… Read the full article on The Register »
Wotif get ad serving smarts from Webfirm Feb 02 2012 23:15:11	The Register
Wotif get ad serving smarts from Webfirm DIY digital ad platforms Online travel group Wotif has struck a commercial deal with ASX-listed digital media solutions company Webfirm to implement its Adslot end-to-end self-serve display sales platform.… Read the full article on The Register »
Jackpot: astronomers tag Goldilocks planet Feb 02 2012 23:00:12	The Register
Jackpot: astronomers tag Goldilocks planet GJ 667C is practically a next-door neighbor While the Kepler mission turns up its ever-growing crop of exoplanets, a group of astronomers has announced an exciting find closer to home: looking towards Scorpius, there’s a super-Earth-sized planet just 22 light-years distant, with a habitable-zone orbit.… Read the full article on The Register »
Kiwis pitch university IP database Feb 02 2012 22:15:12	The Register
Kiwis pitch university IP database Get your better mousetrap here KiwiNet has launched a database of New Zealand university IP with a aim to attract companies interested in developing and commercialising NZ-led research.… Read the full article on The Register »
Andreessen Horowitz raises $US1.5b Feb 02 2012 21:43:07	The Register
Andreessen Horowitz raises $US1.5b Crisis? What crisis? High profile VC firm Andreessen Horowitz has secured $US1.5 billion in new funding. The new cash brings the total funding under its management to $US2.7 billion.… Read the full article on The Register »
AMD uncloaks tablet processor plans Feb 02 2012 21:31:33	The Register
AMD uncloaks tablet processor plans Sub 2-watt x86 chippery for Windows 8 fondleslabs AMD has updated its product roadmap, announcing for the first time that it will be creating ultra-low power (ULP) processors for the tablet market.… Read the full article on The Register »
Verisign admits 2010 hack attack, mum on what was nicked Feb 02 2012 19:36:56	The Register
Verisign admits 2010 hack attack, mum on what was nicked SEC filing shows BOFH cover-up Verisign has admitted in an SEC filing that it suffered numerous data breaches in 2010, but that management wasn’t informed by staff for nearly a year after they occurred.… Read the full article on The Register »
Google Music 'an oxymoron' - outbound Warner mogul Feb 02 2012 17:58:12	The Register
Google Music 'an oxymoron' - outbound Warner mogul The thoughts of Chairman Bronfman Outgoing media mogul Edgar Bronfman Jr has warned against the Universal-EMI merger – and taken a potshot at Google. Bronfman is stepping down as chairman of Warner Music, which was acquired by Russian entrepreneur Len Blavatnik last year.… Read the full article on The Register »
Sprint gives LightSquared extra 6 weeks to get FCC thum... Feb 02 2012 17:23:04	The Register
Sprint gives LightSquared extra 6 weeks to get FCC thumbs-up Feds to consult on the issue Sprint has given LightSquared another six weeks to get FCC approval for its controversial LTE network, otherwise the wannabe operator will have to build its own network rather than piggybacking on Sprint's.… Read the full article on The Register »
Hitachi earnings hit hard in Q4 Feb 02 2012 16:58:05	The Register
Hitachi earnings hit hard in Q4 Blames Japanese tsunami and Thai flooding Japanese conglomerate Hitachi – which derives a fair portion of its sales and profits from the IT and telecom sectors – has taken it in the chin profit-wise in its third quarter of fiscal 2011 ended in December. For the quarter, sales were essentially flat at ¥2,2665bn ($29bn), but net income fell by 42.3 per cent to ¥46.4bn ($595m).… Read the full article on The Register »
Apple ousts LG from world phone biz top three Feb 02 2012 16:45:40	The Register
Apple ousts LG from world phone biz top three Nokia and Samsung still well ahead Market watcher IDC has weighed in on the 'who sells how many mobile phones' debate with its own figures. It has followed the consensus that Apple is now the world's third biggest phone maker.… Read the full article on The Register »
Symantec: We've plugged up pcAnywhere holes Feb 02 2012 16:37:08	The Register
Symantec: We've plugged up pcAnywhere holes Security giant tries to draw line under source code soap opera Symantec has said its pcAnywhere remote control software is once again safe to use, following the release of its latest security patch.… Read the full article on The Register »
Retailer drops Eee Pad Transformer Prime, claims qualit... Feb 02 2012 16:24:31	The Register
Retailer drops Eee Pad Transformer Prime, claims quality issues But Asus denies tablet problems Asus has denied that its Eee Pad Transformer Prime is suffering from the quality issues one retailer has claimed have necessitated withdrawing the Android tablet from sale.… Read the full article on The Register »
Dell names ex-CA CEO as software chief Feb 02 2012 16:21:07	The Register
Dell names ex-CA CEO as software chief Cloud on Michael's mind? Dell has appointed a former tech company CEO and blue-chip middleware executive to lead its software group.… Read the full article on The Register »
Riverbed lobs Granite at offices, WIPES OUT remote servers Feb 02 2012 16:03:03	The Register
Riverbed lobs Granite at offices, WIPES OUT remote servers Revs up WAN optimisation Riverbed says customers can dispense completely with servers in remote and branch offices by using Granite technology layered on its Steelhead-based WAN optimisation – and so deliver all IT services to remote offices as if they were local.… Read the full article on The Register »
Micro Anvika seeks channel props for CVA rescue plan Feb 02 2012 15:39:07	The Register
Micro Anvika seeks channel props for CVA rescue plan Tot Court Road old-timer battles consumer slump and store costs Troubled Tottenham Court Road retailer Micro Anvika is seeking approval from distributors to green-light a restructure package.… Read the full article on The Register »
Capita bags Quartermaine to run IT Services Feb 02 2012 15:02:24	The Register
Capita bags Quartermaine to run IT Services Gulps down SAP management firm Smith's Consulting for £10m Former Azzurri Communications chief exec Mark Quartermaine is set to take the reins at Capita IT services (ITS).… Read the full article on The Register »
Unisys wallet emptied in rebadged server, storage cash ... Feb 02 2012 14:43:06	The Register
Unisys wallet emptied in rebadged server, storage cash crash Mainframe biz profit wobbles in Q4 Mainframe maker and services provider Unisys managed to almost hold profits steady in the final quarter of 2011 despite taking a dip in revenues.… Read the full article on The Register »
Chinese admirer fancies WD's 3.5-inch hardness - insider Feb 02 2012 14:19:09	The Register
Chinese admirer fancies WD's 3.5-inch hardness - insider Watchdogs would favour Great Wall of China's disk fab chunk slurp Could China become a major hard disk manufacturing base if Great Wall snaps up a slice of Western Digital's 3.5-inch drive business?… Read the full article on The Register »
Kelihos botnet BACK FROM THE DEAD Feb 02 2012 14:04:11	The Register
Kelihos botnet BACK FROM THE DEAD Bloodied spam-spewing zombie staggers in The spam-spewing Kelihos botnet has returned from the dead.… Read the full article on The Register »
Fotoshop by Adobé: The miracle beauty treatment Feb 02 2012 13:47:07	The Register
Fotoshop by Adobé: The miracle beauty treatment 'My skin feels like plastic!' gasps blemish-free babe Our piece yesterday on L'Oreal giving Rachel Weisz a intensive age-defying makeover prompted several readers to point us in the direction of this remarkable product:… Read the full article on The Register »
French court lays le smackdown on Google Maps Feb 02 2012 13:29:05	The Register
French court lays le smackdown on Google Maps Fined for unfair competition in online cartography A French court has found Google Maps guilty of unfair competition and ordered the Chocolate Factory to pay a fine and damages to a French mapping firm.… Read the full article on The Register »
Facebook IPO: Boom or bubble? Feb 02 2012 13:11:53	The Register
Facebook IPO: Boom or bubble? We look at the numbers - and what's missing... Analysis Is Facebook hugely overvalued or a solid business with some reliable growth ahead of it? A great deal of both.… Read the full article on The Register »
Demand for safety kitemark on software stepped up Feb 02 2012 13:03:04	The Register
Demand for safety kitemark on software stepped up MPs want new standard plus web security schooling The government and industry ought to do more to promote online safety, according to an influential panel of MPs.… Read the full article on The Register »
Sony nosedives into $2.8bn loss as Hirai grabs controls Feb 02 2012 12:44:09	The Register
Sony nosedives into $2.8bn loss as Hirai grabs controls Full-year forecast torn up after cash-draining Q3 Sony's new CEO will have his hands full at the helm of the loss-making Japanese firm - the entertainment megacorp announced today that its net loss in the quarter ending in December was 159 billion yen ($2bn) and it has slashed its full-year forecast to a loss of 220 billion yen ($2.8bn).… Read the full article on The Register »
Final Fantasy XIII-2 Feb 02 2012 12:29:10	The Register
Final Fantasy XIII-2 Terminal illness Review Is it just me who remembers Final Fantasy III – actually, that’s FF VI if you’re Japanese – the mercurial tale of the evil Kefka and heroes Sabin, Edgar, Terra, et al? I recall the brilliant use of magical espers, its line-up of amazingly distinct fighters – Sabin even channelling Street Fighter-style special moves in a clever bid to keep the players on their toes – and all wrapped up in a genuinely touching fairy-tale.… Read the full article on The Register »
Robot rabbits take on Facebook, female orgasms Feb 02 2012 12:14:06	The Register
Robot rabbits take on Facebook, female orgasms Poked by a rabbit, figuratively and literally One waits ages for a story about robotic carrot-crunchers, and then two turn up at once as Karotz the robot rabbit starts talking to Facebook while app-controlled vibrator Vibease looks to sell value-added orgasms.… Read the full article on The Register »
Boffins out earbuds that sound right when inserted wrong Feb 02 2012 11:54:12	The Register
Boffins out earbuds that sound right when inserted wrong Left is right regardless Researchers have devised a method of automatically adjusting a stereo signal to match whichever ears a pair of earphones are squeezed into.… Read the full article on The Register »
Android users more likely to put out Feb 02 2012 11:45:23	The Register
Android users more likely to put out Open like their app ecosystem... Android users are more likely to be slutty, it transpires – having more one night stands, signing up to dating sites more often and being more likely to have sex on a first date, according to a Match.com survey of single Canadian mobile users.… Read the full article on The Register »
Facebook warns investors of potential SPAM DELUGE Feb 02 2012 11:44:09	The Register
Facebook warns investors of potential SPAM DELUGE IPO filing: Spamvalanche could kill us Facebook has been the first internet company to baldly state the risks it faces from hacking and spam to the markets since the SEC issued guidance on the issue.… Read the full article on The Register »
Met's email hack probe turns spotlight on The Times - MP Feb 02 2012 11:32:07	The Register
Met's email hack probe turns spotlight on The Times - MP Scotland Yard keeps mum Scotland Yard officers investigating allegations of computer hacking by News International staff have declined to "give a running commentary" on their probe, batting away MP Tom Watson's narration of the saga.… Read the full article on The Register »
JEDI alliance: Jellyfish overlords won't rule Earth aft... Feb 02 2012 11:13:26	The Register
JEDI alliance: Jellyfish overlords won't rule Earth after all Blancmange invader threat turns out to be, erm, trifling The worldwide jellyfish-threat trouser state was officially downgraded from "damp" to "wear again if necessary" yesterday as top international boffins - operating under the title "JEDI" - announced that in fact there is little evidence to suggest that planet Earth will soon be ruled by wobbling gelatinous blobominations.… Read the full article on The Register »
Five ways Microsoft can rescue Windows Phone Feb 02 2012 11:00:06	The Register
Five ways Microsoft can rescue Windows Phone A critical success, a market dud. Here's what Redmond should do next Windows Phone might be the most impressive bit of software Microsoft has produced - but it isn't setting the world on fire. The iPhone and Android go from strength to strength - the latter proliferating so widely even Google doesn't know how many Android systems are out there. (It can't count the Chinese forks which don't use any Google services and don't phone home.)… Read the full article on The Register »
World's first bamboo smartphone to enter production Feb 02 2012 10:54:10	The Register
World's first bamboo smartphone to enter production Concept blower branches out A British student will see his bamboo blower blueprint brought to market, after backers took note of the ADzero, an eco-friendly smartphone carved entirely from the fast-growing wood.… Read the full article on The Register »
Ofcom: UK broadband speed on the up as punters' package... Feb 02 2012 10:44:11	The Register
Ofcom: UK broadband speed on the up as punters' packages swell More of a shunt than a glide Average broadband speeds in Blighty are on the up, communications watchdog Ofcom concluded in a report published this morning.… Read the full article on The Register »
Samsung 'Galaxy 4S' spied in benchmark results Feb 02 2012 10:39:08	The Register
Samsung 'Galaxy 4S' spied in benchmark results Galaxy S II Plus to stand in for Galaxy S III? Samsung may be doing an Apple. Since it isn't releasing the Galaxy S III at the Mobile World Congress (MWC) show later this month, how about a tweaked version of its current flagship instead?… Read the full article on The Register »
Snaps confirm new CPU for Apple iPad 3 Feb 02 2012 10:27:03	The Register
Snaps confirm new CPU for Apple iPad 3 But maybe not a quad-core chip, after all Apple's iPad 3 will not have the same processor as its predecessor.… Read the full article on The Register »
Google 'chooses' not to censor Mosley content, MP says Feb 02 2012 10:19:08	The Register
Google 'chooses' not to censor Mosley content, MP says We'll do that as you report it, says Choc Factory lawyer Former Culture Secretary Ben Bradshaw said Google could stop links to the material appearing in results but decides not to. He made the comments during a question-and-answer session conducted by the Joint Committee on Privacy and Injunctions.… Read the full article on The Register »
CNN Feb 02 2012 10:00:05	The Register
CNN Here is the news iOS App of the Week I’m a news junkie, and when I recently cancelled my Sky subscription I found that the one channel that I really missed was CNN. So I was pleased to find that there’s a free CNN app that is available in versions for both iPhone and iPad.… Read the full article on The Register »
El Reg's comments policy? It's all in moderation Feb 02 2012 09:41:07	The Register
El Reg's comments policy? It's all in moderation House rules given a spring clean The Register has changed its comments moderation policy, making the UK's biggest IT pro talking shop even more immediate, enthralling and noisy.… Read the full article on The Register »
Apple iPhone 5 to debut at developer gig Feb 02 2012 09:40:00	The Register
Apple iPhone 5 to debut at developer gig WWDC or bust Toss straw into wind, see where it blows. Ah, it's landed on the square marked 'Apple to unveil iPhone 5 in June'.… Read the full article on The Register »
ENORMOUS BACKSIDE FILMED FROM SPACE in moon flypast Feb 02 2012 09:19:04	The Register
ENORMOUS BACKSIDE FILMED FROM SPACE in moon flypast Pale, rounded bounties probed US space agency NASA has released a new video of the back side of the Moon, filmed by its newly-arrived duo of GRAIL lunar probe craft. Here it is:… Read the full article on The Register »
Death of IE6 still greatly exaggerated, says browser hi... Feb 02 2012 09:03:09	The Register
Death of IE6 still greatly exaggerated, says browser hit squad Ex-Redmondians play to big biz holdouts Internet Explorer 6 dead? In your dreams, Microsoft, in your dreams.… Read the full article on The Register »
New Trojan routes your bank's calls to CROOKS Feb 02 2012 08:02:04	The Register
New Trojan routes your bank's calls to CROOKS That's right, I really just ordered 10 plasma tellies... Devious cybercrooks have developed a Trojan that is capable of redirecting calls your bank has made to verify suspicious transactions – straight into the waiting handsets of professional criminal caller services.… Read the full article on The Register »
LG HLX56S net savvy 3D Blu-ray soundbar combo Feb 02 2012 07:00:08	The Register
LG HLX56S net savvy 3D Blu-ray soundbar combo Smart deco Review LG’s HLX56S is an audacious all-in-one home cinema system, cast in the guise of a mild-mannered soundbar. With integrated 3D Blu-ray player, copious amplification and IPTV portal, it’s got everything you need for the upmarket man-cave, in a package easily parked beneath a 40in or larger flatscreen.… Read the full article on The Register »
Cray shrinks XE6m supers down to a rack Feb 02 2012 00:55:38	The Register
Cray shrinks XE6m supers down to a rack So long CX1000 Xeon-InfiniBand baby clusters Cray tried to sell Fords and Chevies when it launched the CX1000 entry supercomputer clusters launched back in March 2010. But to make its life easier, and to help bolster sales of its XE6 and XE6m supers that are based on Cray's own high-speed interconnect and software stack, the company has figured out how to shrink a Lexus down so it fits into the Ford and Chevy budget.… Read the full article on The Register »
Obama refuses to respond to MPAA bribery claim petition Feb 02 2012 00:17:12	The Register
Obama refuses to respond to MPAA bribery claim petition Poor wording breaks petition’s T&Cs The White House has said it won’t be responding to a petition calling for an investigation into whether comments by MPAA head Chris Dodd about paying for political support constituted an admission of bribery.… Read the full article on The Register »

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