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05 Sep 08
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Ten tweaks for a new Acer Aspire One Take charge of Linpus
Hands on Acer's Aspire One is ready to go out of the box, but if you've opted for the Linux version and you're new to the OS, you may be wondering how to started. Here are ten things to try.… |
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05 Sep 08
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US startup launches online airwaves market Secondhand spectrum swap
Spectrum trading - the ability for licence holders to sell on, or sub let, their frequencies - has been broadly endorsed by both the FCC and Ofcom, so now a US company has done the obvious thing and set up a market for the buying... |
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05 Sep 08
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Orange can't find BlackBerry maps But will sell you their alternative
Punters getting themselves a BlackBerry Bold from Orange are finding the in-built mapping application absent, and are being asked to pay for the Orange alternative despite the original adverts clearly stating the... |
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05 Sep 08
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MS preps four critical updates for September Patch Tuesday train chugs into view
Microsoft plans to release four security bulletins next Tuesday as part of the September edition of its monthly Patch Tuesday update cycle.… |
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05 Sep 08
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Sun and NetApp gain market share Gartner data bad news for top 5 external storage vendors
Sun showed everyone a clean pair of heels as it grew its external disk storage market share faster than any other vendor in the second quarter of the year according to Gartner. IDC's quarterly disk... |
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05 Sep 08
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Debian components breach terms of GPLv2 You want source code with that?
A top Debian contributor has been left "pretty disappointed" by elements of the Debian community for failing to comply with the conditions of the GNU GPLv2 license.… |
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05 Sep 08
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Blazing Vaios: Sony's hot-tops hit the UK, too Burning laptops not just in US
Sony secretly wrote to its UK channel partners earlier this week warning them that the company planned to recall some Vaio TZ-series laptops, The Register has learned.… |
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05 Sep 08
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America's CTO: We have a winner The people's choice vs Larry
Poll Results In one of the tightest contests ever seen in a Reg poll, columnist and software developer Ted Dziuba has emerged as the people's choice to be Barack Obama's "Chief Technology Officer". Dziuba beat off a stiff... |
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05 Sep 08
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DARPA funds radical disco-copter concept Spinning-platter switchblade chopper takes wing
Pentagon boffinry chiefs, not content with the existing panoply of wacky new whirly-copter concepts, are to fund still another radical rotary wing project - the "DiscRotor".… |
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05 Sep 08
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Nokia growth ends Shares fall sharply on falling market share
Nokia has signalled an end to its uninterrupted growth, predicting that its market share would shrink, slightly, during the current quarter - though it will of course still increase over the whole year.… |
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05 Sep 08
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Employee has no privacy on company computers, US court rules What's yours is ours
Employees do not have a reasonable expectation of privacy for material stored on computers owned by their employers, a US court has ruled.… |
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05 Sep 08
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Columbia set to resurrect Ghostbusters Egon, your mucus - again
Columbia Pictures has asked The Office co-executive producers Lee Eisenberg and Gene Stupnitsky to work up a script for a third outing of Ghostbusters, Variety reports.… |
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05 Sep 08
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Chubby crims more likely to leave dabs 'You're nicked, fatty'
Obese criminals are more likely to leave their fingerprints at crime scenes because of the amount of salty food they eat.… |
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05 Sep 08
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Pure Digital Evoke Flow internet radio Pure entertainment pleasure
Review After two years in development, Pure Digital has created what it hopes will become internet radio’s first genuinely iconic product.… |
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05 Sep 08
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Hadron boffins: Our meddling will not destroy universe No 'strangelet soup' for you
Boffins preparing to fire up the most powerful particle-smasher ever built have released another reassuring report which says that their machine will definitely not destroy the universe - nor even the planet Earth.… |
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05 Sep 08
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DNA database costs soar Prying is pricey
Home Office figures show that the cost of running the national DNA database has more than doubled since 2002-03.… |
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05 Sep 08
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Boffins use heartbeat to thwart wireless implant hack Chinese cardiac crypto
Interfering with wireless medical implants sounds like a movie threat plot rather than a real risk - but if there is a threat, Chinese boffins have come up with an ingenious solution for combating it.… |
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05 Sep 08
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I was a government guinea pig, and all I got was this lousy t-shirt Gargantuan US child health study - all take?
What will the US government owe the hundreds of thousands of Americans it will swab, prick, track and trace over the next 21 years, in the largest children's health study ever? So far, the answer from the... |
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05 Sep 08
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Sophos DNS snafu creates update problems Bad hair day nothing to do with hackers
Domain name system problems left some users of Sophos unable to get security updates on Friday. The same issue, blamed on a mistake by one of the security firm's service providers rather than hostile action, left... |
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05 Sep 08
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Police quiz BT on secret Phorm trials RIPA? Never heard of it officer...
City of London police questioned BT earlier this week as part of a probe into the covert wiretapping and profiling of the internet use of tens of thousands of BT customers during tests of Phorm's adware system.… |
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05 Sep 08
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EA free petrol stunt triggers north London gridlock Shoot-em-up promo creates real life car chaos
Another great moment in the annals of computer game PR stunts today - Electronic Arts caused gridlock this morning by offering £40 of free petrol to punters in Finsbury Park, north London.… |
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05 Sep 08
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Wireless music streamers Sends songs to your hi-fi with these four systems
Group Test The Roku Soundbridge M1001, Logitech's Squeezebox Duet, Philips' Streamium NP1100 and the Sonos Digital Music System all offer ways to get the music on your hard drive to pump out of your... |
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05 Sep 08
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How Chrome puts the skids under Nokia What does Gears mean for the mobile web?
Analysis Google's first web browser is here, and I've been trying it out.… |
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05 Sep 08
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Government told: Release secret Iraq documents Additions to sexed-up weapons docs
The Information Commissioner Richard Thomas has told the government that it should release draft versions of a dossier about Iraq's supposed weapons of mass destruction and comments made on it by spy chiefs.… |
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05 Sep 08
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Facebook - The Movie! Exclusive storyboard peek White-knuckle rollercoaster of a movie in prospect
The recent shock news that Sony had commissioned West Wing creator Aaron Sorkin to knock together a screenplay about how Facebook redefined just about every paradigm open to redefinition was greeted with... |
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05 Sep 08
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Enough is enough! Plasmon board recommends sale $25 million private equity bid approach supported
Enough's enough! Get me outta here. The Hanover Investors-backed Plasmon board has had it up to here and is pulling the plug.… |
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05 Sep 08
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My name really is Ivan O'Toole, admits Ivan O'Toole Parents, eh?
The regular readers among you will know we're a bit fond of stories relating to parents who slap their sprogs with ill-advised or downright perverse names, as evidenced by the cases of 4Real, Metallica, @, John Blake Cusack Version 2.0,... |
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05 Sep 08
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North Korean Mata Hari in alleged cyber-spy plot Tales of sex, spying and spyware
South Korea has accused its neighbour North Korea of cyber-espionage during the trial of a suspected Mata Hari-style spy.… |
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05 Sep 08
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Carbonite muscles alongside Mozy in Lenovo Cloud backup for IdeaPad notebooks
According to a report, Lenovo, which picked EMC's Mozy cloud backup for its SL business notebook line, has rejected EMC and picked competing Carbonite cloud backup for its consumer IdeaPad notebooks… |
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05 Sep 08
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HDS revving AMS Monterey mid-range storage refresh coming
The wires are humming that Hitachi Data Systems is going to update its AMS mid-range storage array line with three new Monterey models. We should expect an announcement quite soon.… |
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05 Sep 08
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Bosch strategy boutique fails greenwash test Saving the planet, one space shuttle launch at a time
The marketing robots at the UK tentacle of remorseless Teutonic engineering firm Bosch haven't quite mastered the art of eco-friendly promotion guff.… |
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05 Sep 08
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Those old timer sign results in full And the winners are...
It's hats off to you, our beloved readers, for your massive response to our challenge to create an "Elderly people" sign to replace the current couple of cripples hobbling down to the bingo - an image which doesn't much impress... |
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05 Sep 08
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Dell plots worldwide factory sell-off Outsource to compete
Dell is trying to offload ownership of its factories worldwide as part of an overhaul of its production strategy, reports say.… |
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05 Sep 08
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NetApp brings StoreVault home to mom StoreVault becomes standard NetApp product available world-wide
NetApp has brought its separate low-end StoreVault product range in-house, as a standard NetApp S family product available to its worldwide resellers.… |
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05 Sep 08
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Next-gen netbook Intel Atom due Q3 2009 Roadmap reveals dual-core CPU-GPU debut
Intel's next-gen Atom processor for Small, Cheap Computers - the successor to today's 'Diamondville' - will debut a year from now, according to the chip giant's latest roadmap.… |
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05 Sep 08
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7-year-old faces M&S Inquisition Not just data protection, this is M&S data protection
Calls by the Information Commissioner for organisations to stop hiding behind the Data Protection Act (DPA) fell on deaf ears this week as Marks and Spencers insisted on a 7-year-old giving... |
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05 Sep 08
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Samsung set to buy SanDisk? Checking out 'various opportunities'
The flash memory market is abuzz as Korean news sources, along with Reuters and Bloomberg, are reporting that Samsung Electronics is thinking about buying SanDisk.… |
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05 Sep 08
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How to stop worrying and enjoy paying for incoming calls Learning to love termination fees
Termination fees - the money paid to a receiving network for connecting a call - are for the chop. The question is what, if anything, will replace them; moreover, will ordinary punters ever even notice they're paying to... |
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05 Sep 08
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88% of IT admins would steal data if fired So the survey says
An IT administrator scorned is not to be trusted, according to a study recently conducted by Cyber-Ark.… |
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05 Sep 08
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Report: IRS networks riddled with vulns, rogue servers Taxpayer beware
The US Internal Revenue Service is putting tax payers at risk by operating thousands of web servers that contain security vulnerabilities or have not received proper authorization, a new report has concluded.… |
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05 Sep 08
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Amazon opens (American) video streaming shop Down with downloads
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05 Sep 08
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Comcast files FCC impotence suit 'We will comply without complying'
As expected, Comcast has appealed the landmark FCC order that sanctioned the American ISP for secretly blocking BitTorrents and other peer-to-peer traffic.… |
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05 Sep 08
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Open source release takes Linux rootkits mainstream Script kiddies, the DR will see you now
The art of burying invisible malware deep inside a Linux machine is about to go mainstream, thanks to a new open-source rootkit released Thursday by Immunity Security, a firm that supplies tools for penetration... |
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04 Sep 08
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Scammers skirt spam shields with help from Adobe Flash The Viagra two step
Online scammers have found a new way to skirt anti-spam filters, this time by making use of Adobe Flash files hosted on free websites.… |
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04 Sep 08
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US noses past Western Europe in 3G stakes No, really
Though the US still trails in terms of freedom from mobile tyranny, it has surpassed Western Europe in the great race towards 3G.… |
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04 Sep 08
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Applet accelerating Java update M.I.A. Last minute glitch kills welcoming party
Sun Microsystems planned to push out a significant update to Java today, but a last-minute snag has made its date of arrival uncertain.… |
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04 Sep 08
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3 punts mobile email for £2.50 a month Some bits are more equal the others
UK operator 3 is celebrating their first year of mobile broadband by launching a new data tariff of £2.50 for unlimited email use, though the price doubles to a fiver a month for suit-wearers using Exchange or Note... |
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04 Sep 08
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Chrome: A new force for web applications? Promise through the froth
Review Google's new web browser has provoked an orgy of comment almost rivalling that for a new trinket from Apple. There's plenty of froth, but for once the interest is justified.… |
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04 Sep 08
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Vodafone grabs carrier exclusive on HSDPA Dell Minis Carrier wins exclusive sales rights
Vodafone has become the first carrier to say that it'll sell Dell's newly announced Inspiron Mini 9 little laptop.… |
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04 Sep 08
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Anonymous fights Scientology in schools We don't need no...
The Anonymous collective has announced a new phase in its protests against the Church of Scientology, targeting the alleged mistreatment of youngsters by Scientologists.… |
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