| Bromium twists chip virty circuits to secure PCs and servers Posted: 20 Jun 2012 01:46 PM PDT Trust nothing, protect the Byzantine general kernel Bromium, the security startup launched a year ago by the techies behind the open source Xen server virtualization hypervisor, are lifting the veil a bit on the software that they are cooking up, while at the same time announcing a big new bag of cash to pay for the ongoing development of what the company is calling a microvisor.… |
| No cookie-cutter laws for Australia Posted: 20 Jun 2012 01:00 PM PDT EU cookies Directive not entirely ignored down Canberra way The European Union's directive that web site operators must not use cookies to visitors' personal information won't be adopted in Australia, but the idea behind the directive may yet be offered as advice to local businesses and government agencies.… |
| Foxconn daddy: 'Don't buy Galaxy S III, wait for iPhone 5' Posted: 20 Jun 2012 11:13 AM PDT No love lost for 'snitching' Samsung Samsung's highly anticipated Android-based Galaxy S III smartphone may be basking in attention that it's receiving during its official launch on Wednesday, but there's at least one top tech exec who's snubbing it.… 
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| Microsoft's uncloaks Phone 8 developer preview Posted: 20 Jun 2012 10:59 AM PDT One Windows kernel to rule them all Microsoft held its developer preview of the Windows Phone 8 operating system on Wednesday, and revealed that it is shifting the platform to share core kernel features with Windows 8 for better integration.… |
| Storage company promises INFINITE IMMORTALITY Posted: 20 Jun 2012 10:07 AM PDT Your data shall be like unto the gods themselves NetApp has announced a major minor release of its data ONTAP storage operating system, promising data immortality and infinity.… |
| HP rolls up virty desktop system bundles for SMBs Posted: 20 Jun 2012 09:32 AM PDT Switch and router refresh for small fries HP has refreshed its server lineup with the myriad Xeon E5 processors in its ProLiant Gen8 machines, so small and medium businesses now have lots of options from which to choose. But these days, SMBs are not just interested in buying raw iron. Sometimes they want to plunk in a new stack, appliance style, that solves a specific problem – and HP is now bundling some new help for them.… |
| Syrian rebels targeted using commercial Skype trojan Posted: 20 Jun 2012 08:59 AM PDT It's already encrypted, EFF warns dissidents Syrian activists are coming under attack from a new Trojan, based on a commercial spyware application.… |
| Adobe feeling drained by new model, but hopes things will improve Posted: 20 Jun 2012 08:26 AM PDT No going back to boxy bust'n'boom Adobe's second quarter net income eased on poor European demand as well as its move to take Creative Suite into the cloud.…
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| Mounties, flics, cops snap on bracelets after Québec hacktivism Posted: 20 Jun 2012 08:02 AM PDT Allô, allô, allô - qu'est-ce que tout cela est, eh? Six alleged hacktivists have been arrested in Canada following a series of attacks on Quebec government websites.… |
| Ten... pieces of tat for Apple fanboys Posted: 20 Jun 2012 08:00 AM PDT Obsessive, or what? Product round-up Apple fans are known to take their obsession to extremes. While that often means queuing outside the Apple store for days ahead of a new product release, some push the boat out further with accessories, clothes, and even tattoos.… |
| Speaking in Tech: NASA dumps OpenStack... for Amazon cloud Posted: 20 Jun 2012 07:52 AM PDT Sorry guys, the Feds cut our budget |
| Team America, take two: Meet Colorado's cluster kids Posted: 20 Jun 2012 07:50 AM PDT Hardened SC veterans need a dose of good luck HPC blog The other US-based team in the 2012 ISC Student Cluster Challenge is the University of Colorado, whose members hail from Boulder. Colorado is by far the most experienced team in the ISC version of this competition, having sent teams to all six SC cluster competitions.… |
| What do we know about GPUs? Tianhe-1A lives at our school Posted: 20 Jun 2012 07:40 AM PDT China's NUDT team brings hybrid power to Hamburg HPC blog China's NUDT (National University of Defense Technology) was the first Chinese team to compete at a Student Cluster Competition, making the trek to SC in Seattle in 2010. They came very close to winning the whole competition, finishing a very close second to Taiwan's Tsinghua University.… |
| Meet China's cluster Pop Idol winners, Team Tsinghua Posted: 20 Jun 2012 07:30 AM PDT First of two ultra-competitive national teams HPC blog China universities have gone student cluster crazy over the past year. When China was allotted two team slots at the ISC 2012 Student Cluster Competition, more than 300 universities expressed interest in participating.…
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| Win! a Samsung 830 SSD Posted: 20 Jun 2012 07:28 AM PDT Speedy storage could be yours Competition Don't forget, folks, you still have a chance to win one of Samsung's rather desirable 830 SSDs in Reg Hardware's latest competition.… |
| US veterans Stony Brook face cluster compo crunch Posted: 20 Jun 2012 07:20 AM PDT Seawolves: Our software just doesn't stack up... HPC blog The Stony Brook Seawolves are one of two US teams competing in the ISC 2012 Student Cluster Challenge in Hamburg this week. This isn't the first time the school has participated in a contest like this, but it's probably their longest road trip in terms of distance and culture (although NYC to Portland, Oregon is a close second).… |
| Student HPC whizzkids in unusual competition start Posted: 20 Jun 2012 06:58 AM PDT Brief bit of shirt-lifting before mental engagement HPC blog The ISC Student Cluster Challenge kicked off last night in a unique manner. Rather than a simple shouted "Go!" or a loud tone sent over a bullhorn, the organisers confronted the university teams with a physical challenge, along the lines of the old Le Mans auto races.… |
| ISC Klusterkamph: Meet the home squad, Team KIT Posted: 20 Jun 2012 06:47 AM PDT We take a peek at German students' packages Germany's cluster-competition entry, team KIT, is defending their home turf at the ISC 2012 Student Cluster Challenge this week in Hamburg. We spent a few minutes chatting with them as the competition was beginning. They were all smiles, but it was clear that they are serious about winning the competition.… |
| ISC cluster smackdown: Students whip out their tools Posted: 20 Jun 2012 06:27 AM PDT White Intel bread with GPU sprinkles HPC blog The final system configurations for the ISC 2012 Student Cluster Challenge have been locked down and can now be revealed. For the ISC inaugural event, we're seeing a lot of sameness but a few key differences.… |
| Mcafee gets fierce about resellers (but in a good way) Posted: 20 Jun 2012 06:26 AM PDT 'We play nicely with all partners' To Marbella, for sun, sea and the McAfee EMEA partner summit.… |
| IT pro or manager? Go East, young man. But don't expect servants Posted: 20 Jun 2012 06:00 AM PDT Plenty of scope, but cushy ex-pat days are done Analysis Ambitious Britishers have long looked abroad to make their fortunes, and the rise of China and its satellites is drawing a new generation ready to swap family ties and predictable working hours for a slice of the new Wild East.…
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| World+Dog goes ape for smartphone cases, add-ons Posted: 20 Jun 2012 05:30 AM PDT $20bn industry? Madness! Sales of smartphone accessories will generate a staggering $20bn (£13bn) this year, a figure set to rise to $38bn (£24bn) by 2017.… |
| LCD TV shipments slip for FIRST TIME EVER Posted: 20 Jun 2012 05:24 AM PDT Industry in crisis? TV makers are desperate for the Next Big Thing. It's not hard to see why: even LCD TV sales are now falling. Year-on-year LCD shipments fell for the first time ever during Q1, market watcher NPD DisplaySearch said today.… |
| Microsoft Surface: Join the Windows 8 teardown Posted: 20 Jun 2012 05:10 AM PDT Good enough to touch? Have your say on Friday @ 2pm BST Live chat PC makers' slipups have forced Microsoft into designing its Surface tablet, but can a software company succeed where the HPs and Dells of the world have failed... can it become more like Apple?… |
| Flame was scout ahead of Stuxnet attack on Iran nukes - US spooks Posted: 20 Jun 2012 04:58 AM PDT Israel blamed for cyberweapons' escape into the wild Flame was created by the US and Israel in order to collect intelligence on Iranian computer networks as part of the same covert operation that spawned Stuxnet.… |
| Chick-lit naughty girl MP Mensch starts own web-jabber service Posted: 20 Jun 2012 04:44 AM PDT Politishn's 'menshn' reaps exploshn of derishn You read it here first, courtesy of our top Shoreditch-'til-I-die columnist Steve Bong: Tory chick-lit MP Louise Mensch - a serial user of Twitter - has now launched her own chatroom-cum-microblogging service.… |
| Assange's Ecuador asylum bid has violated £200k UK bail, say cops Posted: 20 Jun 2012 04:29 AM PDT Celeb chums rinsed of cash by diplomatic sofa stay WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange™ – who is currently holed up in the Ecuadorian Embassy in London - has breached his UK bail conditions, Scotland Yard confirmed this morning.…
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| William Shatner confirms Devon town actually prostitute free Posted: 20 Jun 2012 04:15 AM PDT 'Sex for value' still happening, claims TJ Hooker William Shatner has apologised to the burghers of Ilfracombe for claiming, on national TV, that the Devon seaside town is a hotbed of prostitution.… |
| Speedball 2 Brutal Deluxe Posted: 20 Jun 2012 04:00 AM PDT Foul play Antique Code Show I know it's not 2095 yet but with Boris back in power and the Olympics imminent, I am preparing myself to witness London fall into terminal decline due to sports related overspending and aggressive austerity measures. Indeed, I can envisage an appetite for a Rollerball-style games event; entertaining the galleries of corporate sponsors. A spectacle probably quite similar to a game I used to play, Speedball 2.… |
| Kodak says Apple patent moves prevent any end to its misery Posted: 20 Jun 2012 03:48 AM PDT Cupertino 'using its substantial cash position to delay' Bankrupt photography veteran Eastman Kodak is suing Apple in the US, claiming the fruity firm is trying to interfere with its plans to sell its patent portfolio.… |
| 'BPM: From Back Office to Front Office and Beyond' Posted: 20 Jun 2012 03:45 AM PDT You have the questions, we have some answers Live event On June 29 at 11:00 BST/ 12:00 CEST, we are broadcasting a live discussion on the intricacies of BPM.… |
| AWS adds Australian edge location Posted: 20 Jun 2012 03:41 AM PDT No word on local data centre as CloudFront and Route 53 gain Sydney address Amazon Web Services (AWS) has added an Australian edge location, as foreshadowed* by The Register last week.… |
| ASA: Rooney tweet was advert, not written expression of his thoughts Posted: 20 Jun 2012 03:38 AM PDT Obviously nobody thought it could be, argues Nike Nike UK has been slapped for slipping a marketing tweet into Wayne Rooney's Twitter account without clearly marking it as an advert. In the ruling today, The Advertising Standards Agency banned Nike from doing it again.…
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| 'Unbreakable' Samsung Galaxy Note II to take on iPhone 5 Posted: 20 Jun 2012 03:34 AM PDT Harder, better, faster, stronger Samsung will launch a Galaxy Note successor with an "unbreakable" screen this autumn.… |
| Ex-Soviet space gunboats to be FOUND ON MOON Posted: 20 Jun 2012 03:22 AM PDT Just £150m to join 2015 lunar invasion in 1970s ship Isle of Man based space tourism firm Excalibur Almaz has said that it will be ready to rocket the rich to the Moon by 2015.… |
| Brit telco flagship BT joins blockade of Pirate Bay Posted: 20 Jun 2012 02:57 AM PDT ISP battle squadrons unlikely to end raiding, however BT has glued shut conventional access to The Pirate Bay in the UK, which means all the major ISPs in Blighty have now complied with a High Court judge's order to block thepiratebay.se from their networks.… |
| Reloaded Doom 3 shoots onto shelves this autumn Posted: 20 Jun 2012 02:45 AM PDT Big F**kin' Game? iD Software's Doom 3 is to be rereleased as an "enhanced version" this autumn, bringing the classic first-person shooter to PS3 "for the first time", and once again to the Xbox 360 and PC.… |
| CIOs should fear the IP police ... have your get-out-of-jail files ready Posted: 20 Jun 2012 02:41 AM PDT Let's hope nobody wins this, it's disaster either way Opinion The powers that be in the copyright world continually push for ever-stricter copyright with longer terms. They seek to externalise the cost of enforcement onto society at large. Society at large, on the other hand, wants easier, quicker access to content with fewer restrictions. Regular businesses can easily be caught in the crossfire.… |
| Vendors have second stab at smart TV standard Posted: 20 Jun 2012 02:37 AM PDT Set to die screening? Major TV manufacturers are making another stab at persuading their competitors to jointly develop and support a standard platform for smart TV apps.… |
| Holographic storage: We're going to do it this time. No, really Posted: 20 Jun 2012 02:14 AM PDT 'Hey, it's no slower than watching a vid on CNN' Holo-disc start-up hVault, which slurped the blueprints for InPhase Technologies' holographic storage technology, has vowed to breathe life into the technology, with product promised for next year. Of course, we've already passed the spring of 2012, when hVault originally said it would be shipping the kit.… |
| Does the existence of Facebook really merit a rewrite of data law? Posted: 20 Jun 2012 01:58 AM PDT EU digital enlightenment types mesmerised by Zuck Comment The British government is keen for more public data and private transactions with taxpayers to be pushed online at precisely the same time as the Home Secretary demands more powers for security services to effectively snoop on communications traffic with the help of telcos and social networks.…
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| EMC confesses burning Lustre lust Posted: 20 Jun 2012 01:45 AM PDT Offers all comers plenty of five-nine action ISC 2012 no-show EMC launched a high-performance computing version of its generic mid-range VNX array today.… |
| Daisy Group plans to keep buying up biz, despite hole in purse Posted: 20 Jun 2012 01:21 AM PDT Made big losses for third consecutive year Acquisition-hungry business comms provider Daisy Group plans to continue hoovering up firms despite posting significant operating losses for the third consecutive year.… |
| Sun dying on its arse behind the Oracle walls Posted: 20 Jun 2012 01:14 AM PDT Lipsticked schweinhund looking poorly Analysis Playing with the annual revenue numbers Oracle has just released indicates Sun HW-related revenues fell by $1.4 billion from 2011 to 2012.… |
| Serco ate our IT supplier: Now what? – London boroughs Posted: 20 Jun 2012 12:58 AM PDT Council peeps get second set of corporate badges IT services relationships at the London tri-borough group of Westminster, Hammersmith and Fulham and Kensington and Chelsea are likely to become more complex following the acquisition of Westminster's IT supplier Vertex by Serco.… |
| You want the Cloud? You can't have proper copyright, then Posted: 20 Jun 2012 12:39 AM PDT And you so do want the Cloud. Apparently UK law makers and the judiciary should take note of new research that has claimed that a narrow reading of copyright law exceptions can result in an erosion of investment in new technologies, an expert has said.… |
| SolidFire gets out all-Flash carton of thin provisions Posted: 20 Jun 2012 12:19 AM PDT No need to boil an ocean to make a Cloud any more All-flash array startup Solidfire has doubled the capacity of its array but left performance untouched.…
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| EU boffins ponder robot copters that carry people but no pilots Posted: 20 Jun 2012 12:00 AM PDT The problem's not flying cars, it's flying drivers Automation is supposed to make life easier: allowing us to loll around eating doughnuts while the machine does its thing. But when the machine stops working, humans have to throw their half-eaten baked goods to one side and deal with the screw-up. And while that's one thing on a factory production line, it's another when you're 200ft in the air in a miniature helicopter.… |
| When buying an air ticket on your mobe - what makes you give up? Posted: 19 Jun 2012 11:29 PM PDT If you were Chinese, you would know Thirty-four per cent of Chinese flyers have booked a ticket on a mobile phone in the last year, compared to 6 per cent globally, but that's ramping up as customers expect to manage all their transactions on the move.… |
| Japanese boffins plumb darknet for cyber attack alerts Posted: 19 Jun 2012 11:11 PM PDT DAEDALUS system monitors unused IP addresses Japanese boffins at the National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT) have been showing off a new real-time alert system designed to help security teams spot and visualise cyber attacks more effectively.… |
