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09-07-10 -
A series of disorderly events
Doomsday Weekend 2: Trevor Pott and the Domain of Fire Sysadmin Blog On Doomsday Weekend we completely replaced our Windows domain. It was a miserable experience. It’s hard to describe how much work is involved in replacing a mature domain; cert...
09-07-10 -
DVLA says council snoopers are free to take the WEE
Gov officials just doing their job, ma'am Government officials hit back at accusations last week that they were encouraging councils to break the law and snoop on local residents, claiming instead that not only are they entitled to do so, but that...
09-07-10 -
European CIOs get consolidation
Supplier diversity could suffer More than three-quarters of businesses in Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA) are looking to consolidate their existing IT infrastructure in the next 12 months, according to Brocade-commissioned research.…
09-07-10 -
DWP spent 1m on search engine 'biasing' in single year
Civil servants throw cash at Google and friends The Department for Work and Pensions has spent more than £1.1m on search engine biasing over the last four years.…
09-07-10 -
Google's fancy-pants doodle sucks up CPU
What a balls-up Google's latest animated logo on its search homepage has caused a kerfuffle among many surfers whose CPU has been besieged by the ballsy doodle.…
09-07-10 -
Godly Aussie MP accused of being online 'smut' junkie
NSFW in NSW Another day, another God-fearing Australian politician is accused of surfing hardcore adult websites.…Free On-Demand Webcast - Virtualizing the Hard Stuff
09-07-10 -
Northamber musters 'cautious optimism'
Is that a light at the end of... Veteran distributor Northamber allowed itself a glimmer of optimism today as it unveiled its preliminary full year results.…
09-07-10 -
Panasonic adds iPlayer, Twitter to tellies
Software upgrade available... if you know where to look Panasonic has quietly rolled out a software update for its 2009 series of internet-connectable HD TVs. The patch usefully adds BBC iPlayer and - perhaps less so - a Twitter client.…
09-07-10 -
UK jobs growth grinds to a halt
Public sector down, private sector not really up The UK jobs market is unlikely to get any better this year - public sector jobs are falling and private sector posts are barely growing.…
09-07-10 -
Sony updates PS3 system software
Blocks homebrew hack? Sony UK has posted PlayStation 3 firmware version 3.42. The update incorporates a "patch... added to address security vulnerability in the system software".…
09-07-10 -
Greenland ice loss rates 'one-third' of what was thought
New results 'deviate sharply' from established wisdom The rate at which ice is disappearing from Greenland and Western Antarctica has been seriously overestimated, according to new research.…
09-07-10 -
Google rejigs privacy policy after ice-cream van man slam
Gotta wait until 3 Oct, though Google announced that it tweaked its privacy policy last Friday, just hours after a satirical video ad appeared on a huge screen in New York's Times Square that poked fun at the firm's boss.…
09-07-10 -
TechCrunch purges Zeus malware attack
Oh, God TechCrunch Europe has cleaned up its website following the discovery of malicious code that left visiting surfers exposed to infection by a variant of the infamous Zeus banking Trojan.…Free On-Demand Webcast - Virtualizing the Hard Stuff
09-07-10 -
Dell Streak causes user fury
Android fluffs it again Dell's Streak might now be running Android 2.1, but those who've upgraded are finding the newer OS takes away more than it adds to the tablet/phone crossbreed.…
09-07-10 -
LG smartphones to get Tegra 2
Optimus line primed LG is to power a series of smartphones with Nvidia's tablet-oriented dual-core Tegra 2 system-on-a-chip.…
09-07-10 -
Would you pay for a cooler, less creepy Facebook?
Big Chill founder launches a members' social network Sick of creepy, unaccountable social networks that are little more than hoarders and traders of personal information? Pete Lawrence, founder of the Big Chill Festival is too, and will today unve...
09-07-10 -
Druva delivers deduping laptop backup
Outlook and Office-aware Three-year-old start-up Druva is opening an office in the UK and delivering global deduplicating backup software for laptops. It's Outlook and Office-aware to reduce network transmission loads, and it provides user self-se...
09-07-10 -
Think tank calls for gov IT commoditisation
Big savings from little projects The Network for the Post Bureaucratic Age has published a paper urging the government to break down its IT projects into smaller chunks.…
09-07-10 -
Retailers price up Samsung 7in Android tablet
Ouch Samsung's upcoming 7in Android tablet, the Galaxy Tab, is beginning to be priced up by retailers ahead of its anticipated arrival next month. Alas, it looks like it'll be a pricey offering.…
09-07-10 -
Custodial offence for deliberate invasion of data protection? Forget it!
You had your chance, Labour I must confess that I find it rich that New Labour Ministers, who were in government for more than a decade, are now huffing and puffing about their “phone inboxes being hacked”. The sad truth is that, in government...
09-07-10 -
Symantec stumbles, drops further behind EMC
Shaky second quarter The gap between EMC and Symantec storage software revenues is widening, according to IDC's worldwide quarterly Storage Software Tracker.…
09-07-10 -
Happiness: Yours for 50k a year
Optimum income for joie de vivre US researchers have found that happiness can be yours for an income of $75k a year (or £48,814.44 as of this morning), although trousering more than that won't necessarily increase your joie de vivre.…
09-07-10 -
UK patent attorneys: ECJ should reject advisors' opinion
Pan-EU patent court a good thing The European Court of Justice should reject the opinion of its advisors and put pragmatic economics ahead of legal technicalities and approve a pan-EU patent court, the UK patent attorneys' trade body has said.…
09-07-10 -
Bowers and Wilkins P5 headphones
Aural excitement Review Renowned for it high-end hi-fi, Bowers and Wilkins’ decision to make headphones is a bit of a departure for the company. At first glance, its debut set of cans, the P5s, certainly appear an impressive addition to its resp...
09-06-10 -
Intel and USB 3.0
The cougar gets it DigiTimes thinks Intel could add a USB 3.0 host controller to its Cougar motherboard reference design.…
09-06-10 -
Ellison taps ex-HP CEO Hurd as Oracle co-prez
Phillips replaced by Larry tennis buddy Ex-HP CEO Mark Hurd has been named co-president at Oracle.…Free On-Demand Webcast - Virtualizing the Hard Stuff
09-06-10 -
Mozilla 'cloud' code editor breaks with Lando Calrissian
Skywriter goes Javascript Mozilla's Bespin project – an open source effort to build a web-based code editor – has been rechristened Skywriter, and its official repository has been moved to GitHub so that developers can more easily fork the pro...
09-06-10 -
119 iPad apps for admins, coders, and geeks
Stuff for web monkeys, iPad junkies, EE flunkies Part three This – the third installment of apps for admins, coders and geeks – is our final foray into demonstrably useful apps for Apple's "magical and revolutionary" tablet.…
09-06-10 -
GlobalFoundries says Intel process squeezes chip devs
Future chips: extreme, ultraviolet & metal GTC 2010 According to AMD-spinoff GlobalFoundries, chip-baking is about to hit a wall — but they're ready for it. They also claim that their way of handling the latest advance in chip materials ...
09-06-10 -
MS probes mystery IE bug
URL shortening shenanigans Microsoft is investigating reports of a new bug in Internet Explorer.…
09-06-10 -
East Midland Trains passengers get Wi-Fi
On-board internet access service goes live East Midlands Trains has rolled out wireless internet access to its rolling stock.…Free On-Demand Webcast - Virtualizing the Hard Stuff
09-06-10 -
Drummers: Looking for a throbbing BumChum?
Click here for hot ass action It's only September, but we feel pretty confident that the El Reg 2010 Product Name of the Year will be awarded to the spectacularly-titled BumChum - a silent bass drum monitoring system which promises lively "bo...
09-06-10 -
Vodafone announces 4G roll-out for Germany
But US gets first handset Vodafone has announced its 4G roll-out for Germany, though it seems it'll be Americans making the first 4G phone call.…
09-06-10 -
Pamela Anderson gets her kit off for Nokia
And you can too... What a brilliant idea for a competition! Nokia has hired Pamela Anderson and Gossip Girl actor Ed Westwick to appear in The Commuter a short film short shot entirely on the not-quite-launched Nokia N8 - and you can appear in it ...
09-06-10 -
Sonic Screwdriver controller coming to Wii
More fun than a Stattenheim Remote Control? Good news for budding Doctors: there will be a sonic screwdriver-style remote out in time for upcoming Wii title Doctor Who: Return to Earth.…
09-06-10 -
Blighty suffers 'real shortage of serviceable conkers'
Bad weather hits supplies hard There's some grim news today for those kids who are still allowed to play conkers, albeit in full body armour with helmet and visor: the crap summer weather has caused a "real shortage of serviceable conkers&quo...
09-06-10 -
'Jetpack' inventors: US military showing interest. Honest
No jets involved, nor is it a pack. 'Blower-throne'? A New Zealand company founded by a garage inventor says it is in talks to sell its so-called "Jetpack" - actually a personal ducted-fan aircraft too heavy to be lifted by its user - to...
09-06-10 -
Two and a half days in hell
Part one of Doomsday Weekend: who can you trust? Sysadmin blog As sysadmins, we have to test before we deploy. We need to test before even upgrading a driver. We should test absolutely everything before a major deployment. It seems obvious. It is ...
09-06-10 -
ICO chides TalkTalk over sneaky StalkStalk trials
Malware monitoring tech draws official ire Christopher Graham, the Information Commissioner, has rebuked TalkTalk for following its 4.2 million customers around the web without telling them.…
09-06-10 -
Symantec finally secures HackIsWack
It's such a bungle, sometimes, it makes you wonder... Symantec has belatedly secured its laughable HackIsWack competition website.…
09-06-10 -
Children's rights group threatens ICO with judicial review
Action over inaction against Youth Justice Board Children's Rights Group ARCH has threatened to take the Information Commissioner to a judicial review after the data regulator declined to take enforcement action the Youth Justice Board for unlawfu...
09-06-10 -
Don't get mad, get even
My crappy component inferno: our first reader audio blog World of Reg If you're mad as hell and you're not going to take this any more, if you're blissfully happy and can't wait to tell the world, or if you're just tired of listening to product ma...
09-06-10 -
Russia's Cold War raygun air fleet back in operation - reports
Monster laser-planes ready to blind US satellites? Reports suggest that Russia has re-started work on a Cold War project intended to produce a laser cannon mounted on an enormous military transport aircraft in the style of the USA's Airborne Laser...
09-06-10 -
Craigslist blocks US escort ads
Save our sensitive souls Craigslist has bowed to pressure and stopped access to erotic services ads for its sensitive US customers.…
09-06-10 -
Angry Birds take wing on Android
Fight or flight?
09-06-10 -
iPad scammers hack Kirstie Allsopp's Twitter
Posh property presenter pwned iPad scammers managed to reach a huge potential audience last weekend after they took over a Twitter profile maintained by British TV presenter Kirstie Allsopp.…
09-06-10 -
HPC goes mainstream
Marrying IT to HPC Workshop Many people tend to associate High Performance Computing (HPC) with exotic supercomputers with esoteric CPUs, high-end networking and storage fabrics, and custom applications simulating nuclear explosions, virtually cra...
09-06-10 -
Air mouse targets TV - Apple to follow?
Gesticulating at the telly will actually make things happen! Movea, the company behind the Gyration Air Mouse, is pushing into television with a module for adding gesture control to the humble zapper.…Free On-Demand Webcast - Virtualizing the Ha...
09-06-10 -
Browser security warning lookalike pushes malware
Zeven deadly sins Scareware peddlers have developed a new ruse that relies on mimicking browser warning pages.…
09-06-10 -
Judge Dredd returns to the silver screen
'Futuristic neo-noir' action flick promised Those of you still recovering from Sylvester Stallone's 1995 interpretation of Judge Dredd will have to wait until 2012 to see if Karl Urban can make a better hash of bringing the classic 2000 AD charact...

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