-
Grim outlook for Big Storage as revenues dip across board
Snapping up the minnows only keeps the wolf at bay for so long Mainstream storage vendors seem to be in trouble as Dell, HP and IBM's storage revenues have tanked over the past two years.…
-
INSIDE GCHQ: Welcome to Cheltenham's cottage industry
'If this snooping HQ didn't exist, neither would I' says Reg man Geek's Guide to Britain For staff at the Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) in Cheltenham, there’s an air of Fight Club about the place. The first rule about GCHQ is you don’t talk about GCHQ.…
-
China’s state-run rags brand Mars One mission a scam
Beijing doesn't like the idea of its citizens visiting RED planet Chinese state-run media has branded the Mars One mission designed to land successful applicants on the Red Planet in 2023 a “hoax” and probable “scam”, in what appears to be a co-ordinated attempt to undermine the non-profit behind the project.…
-
US Senator introduces 'Patent Abuse Reduction Act'
Rackspace and industry groups like it, trolls maybe not so much US Senator John Cornyn, who represents Texas, has introduced the “Patent Abuse Reduction Act of 2013”.…
-
'Catastrophic failure' of 3D-printed gun in Oz Police test
Panic on the streets of Sydney, as US says printed guns 'unstoppable' The New South Wales Police Force, guardians of Australia's most-populous state, have gotten themselves into a panic over the Liberator, the 3D-printable pistol.…
-
Peak Facebook: British users lose their Liking for Zuck's ad empire
One in 10 UK Facebookers: I quit this... bitch Facebook's popularity is slumping in the UK as users become fed up with being bombarded with advertising, a YouGov survey has revealed.…
-
SoftBank gives Washington veto over Sprint board job
The things you do to stop spooks worrying about Huawei Japanese company SoftBank, currently wrapping a deal to buy 70 per cent of US mobile carrier Sprint, has taken the unusual step of giving the US government veto power over one member to be elected to the board of its acquisition target.…
-
STROKE this mouse to make apps POP, says Microsoft
Windows 8 Start button comes to Redmond's rodents Microsoft has unveiled two mice that for the first time pack a button that sends users straight to the Windows 8 Start screen, the unloved abode of The interface Formerly Known As Metro (TIFKAM).…
-
Oz shared services collapse looks bad for NetApp
Central IT agency didn't deliver, likely to quit storage-as-a-service caper Opponents of shared IT services in government have a new case study they point to, and NetApp's busy executives have another tricky item to consider after a major Australian shared services organisation failed.…
-
Googlerola loses bid to ban US Xbox sales after ITC slapdown
Microsoft escapes $4bn payout The International Trade Commission (ITC) has denied an attempt by Google to impose a US-wide sales ban on Microsoft's Xbox by rejecting the claim that might have cost Redmond $US4bn in royalties.…
-
Samsung, carriers tout first Tizen mobes for late 2013
HTML5 seen as key to open source smartphone success TDC2013 You could be forgiven for thinking there's not much going on with Tizen, the Linux Foundation's open source mobile OS. It's been two years since the project was launched and there still are no Tizen devices on the market. But that's about to change – and there has been a lot happening behind the scenes, as well.…
-
Google to double encryption key lengths for SSL certs by year's end
2048-bit keys will be the norm Google is about to start the first upgrade to its SSL certification system in recent memory, and will move to 2048-bit encryption keys by the end of 2013. The first tranche of changes is planned for August 1.…
-
Facebook Home phone plans canned in the UK
Support for new devices put on ice as well The HTC First "Facebook phone" is not coming to the UK after its frigid reception in the US, and the social networking company is going back to work on the app after mass user apathy.…
-
Joyent cuts prices on cloudy infrastructure
Aligns with AWS instances, and offers the same or lower prices Joyent, one of the upstart cloudy infrastructure providers that is taking a custom software stack to market to peddle virty server and storage, has done a major revamp of the way it carves up slices on its Joyent Compute Service cloud.…
-
Yahoo! continues quest for youth with yet another acquisition
PlayerScale purchase gives foothold in gaming market Marissa Mayer has continued her acquisitions spree with the purchase of gaming software house PlayerScale for an undisclosed sum.…
-
Internet2 superfast boffin network peers with Azure cloud
Microsoft waives data egress rates for US researchers Ultra-fast US academic network Internet2 is going to peer with Microsoft's cloud to give researchers from over 200 institutions high-speed reliable access to Azure at a discounted rate.…
-
Google slashes App Engine NoSQL data storage prices by 25 per cent
Amazon cuts DynamoDB costs, and Google follows suit Amazon doesn't care much about profits and both Google and Microsoft have monopolies that give them deep pockets. And so it is no surprise that the three companies will be engaged in a cloud price war that will very likely leave a lot of smaller cloud providers dead by the side of the road in the coming years.…
-
Orange customer clobbered with SIX FIGURE phone bill
If your handset's overheating, check your data connection EE's Orange arm managed to bill a customer £163,000 for a month's data use, thanks to a dodgy handset which was opening a data connection every 20 minutes.…
-
Tipsters exposed after South Africa's national police force hacked
Whistleblowers, crime victims laid bare by 'Anon splinter group' The identities of more than 15,000 South Africans who reported crimes or provided tip-offs to the police have been exposed following an attack on a SAPS (South African Police Service) website.…
-
Samsung flogs slim, flashy new model: Protection included
Server-level SSD gets endurance, capacity upgrade Samsung has upgraded its SM843 server-level SSD, doubling its capacity and tripling its endurance.…
-
Another Chinese thing you can see from space: Lenovo's sales
'Lenovo', or 'what we call PCs now' PC maker Lenovo appears to drawing ever closer to its goal of seizing the global box-shifting crown from giant HP.…
-
New York cop in alleged love-polyhedron email hack spree
Veteran plod 'blew $4k on romanta-rival logins' A New York detective allegedly hired hackers to spy on 19 fellow cops and at least 11 others - apparently in a bid to discover if any of them were sleeping with his ex.…
-
Penguin pays $75m to settle ebook price-fixing case
Apple left to swing it out with DoJ Penguin has agreed to hand over $75m along with costs to sort out US antitrust allegations over ebook price fixing.…
-
'Leccy car biz baron Elon Musk: Thanks for the $500m, taxpayers...
Tesla repays the Feds nine years early Electric car manufacturer Tesla has paid back a government loan of half a billion dollars almost a decade earlier than expected.…
-
Apple cored: Samsung sells 10 million Galaxy S4 in a month
Beware of South Koreans bearing Android Samsung's Galaxy S4 has become the South Korean firm's fastest selling smartphone after shifting some 10 million units since its launch in April.…
-
Brit spooks bugged Edward VIII's phones, records reveal
Plus Churchill and Stalin had a massive drinkathon in Moscow Intelligence files kept hidden for nearly 80 years have shown that the British government was bugging King Edward VIII's phones in the days leading up to his abdication.…
-
Virgin Media slides fat 10Gbps pipes into Murdoch's BSkyB
I wanna be your backhaul man The business end of Virgin Media has revealed more details about a £49m deal to beef up BSkyB's broadband network.…
-
China's exposed crack cyberspy crew dumps 'most' of its kit
APT1 team 'retooling' as they lick their wounds - report The infamous APT1 cyberespionage crew is diminished but not defeated following its public exposure three months ago.…
-
SAP in search of autistic software engineers who 'think different'
Pilot scheme goes global after team productivity boost SAP wants to hire engineers diagnosed with autism - or people who "think differently" in the words of the enterprise software giant.…
-
George Soros pumps £50m into fibre-gobbling ISP Hyperoptic
Wants to sign up 500k UK homes by 2018 Hyperoptic - a relatively new player in the UK's ISP market - confirmed today that it had received a massive cash injection of £50m from investors to help the company expand its fibre-to-the-home business.…
|
