| ARM tags GlobalFoundries for future chip tech Posted: 13 Aug 2012 02:10 PM PDT Doing the 20 nanometer two-step ARM Holdings, the development company behind the ARM RISC collective that is expected to give x86 a run for its processor money, can't depend on one wafer baker partner, because with the exception of Intel, no one can. And so it is teaming up with GlobalFoundries on future chip tech, mirroring an existing deal with Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Corp.… |
| Kim Dotcom pressing on with Megabox music service plans Posted: 13 Aug 2012 01:41 PM PDT Vows new ventures to launch this year Embattled file storage mogul Kim Dotcom says his ongoing court battle with US authorities won't stop him from launching new online businesses "this year," including his planned Megabox music service and possibly even a new, Megaupload-style file sharing site.… |
| AntiLeaks boss: We'll keep pummeling WikiLeaks and Assange Posted: 13 Aug 2012 01:39 PM PDT Group claims Trapwire timing was just a coincidence As the nine-day DDoS hammering of WikiLeaks continues, hacking group AntiLeaks, has said that attacks will continue and widen, but have nothing to do with the Trapwire monitoring system the whistle-blowing site has been documenting.… |
| Climate change blamed for rise of LIFE-DRAINING HORRORS* Posted: 13 Aug 2012 10:53 AM PDT * Probably, anyway Climate change could help parasites get nastier and nastier preceding a terrifying global epidemic, possibly.… |
| OpenStack dons a Red Hat Posted: 13 Aug 2012 09:27 AM PDT Shadowman previews cloud control freak distro Red Hat just about owns the commercial Linux distribution business and it has a pretty hefty slice of the commercial Java application server racket, too. Now it is taking those products up into the clouds by rolling up a commercial distribution of the OpenStack cloud controller that was created by NASA and Rackspace Hosting two years ago.… |
| HP gears down NonStops for midrange, emerging markets Posted: 13 Aug 2012 09:01 AM PDT Cheaper than a Linux cluster – and less hassle Hewlett-Packard's NonStop servers tolerate faults even though new CEO Meg Whitman and Wall Street, which is breathing down her neck, can't. And now, in a hope to offset declines on its HP-UX Itanium server business and get its NonStop Integrity machines into emerging markets, HP has trimmed down the configurations and prices on the NonStops so they are within economic reach of more customers.… |
| IBM tells electrons to strictly come dancing in spintronics first Posted: 13 Aug 2012 08:01 AM PDT Waltzing in lock step into fast binary storage A persistent spin helix sounds like a possessed washing machine rather than a doorway to a massive overhaul in the speed of computer electronics. Yet that's the science behind a breakthrough by IBM boffins, who have used spintronics to store persistent binary data.… |
| El Reg probes pregnant Playmobil lass Posted: 13 Aug 2012 07:06 AM PDT Playmonaut denies dalliance with Lindsay Lohan lookalike Plastic figurine giant Playmobil has released its first ever pregnant woman: an oven-bunned redhead with more than a passing resemblance to Lindsay Lohan.… |
| Google may face grilling by MPs over 'immoral' tax avoidance Posted: 13 Aug 2012 06:18 AM PDT Politicos rattle sabre Google could be hauled in front of MPs after the 2011 results for its UK subsidiary showed it paid £6m in corporation tax.… |
| YouTube escapes Google's piracy site smackdown Posted: 13 Aug 2012 05:44 AM PDT One law for us, and one for you Analysis Google has admitted its own YouTube operation will not be affected by algorithm changes designed to demote pirate sites.… |
| Blinkbox to sell <i>Game of Thrones</i> series 2 by stream Posted: 13 Aug 2012 05:14 AM PDT House Tesco triumphant? If you can't face waiting any longer for the DVD or Blu-ray release of Game of Thrones' second series, you'll be able to watch it today courtesy of Tesco IPTV service Blinkbox.… |
| Lone config file in Mac OS X SIGNALS DEATH OF THE DVD Posted: 13 Aug 2012 05:07 AM PDT Apple may or may not ditch optical drives from expensive gear An avid Mac OS X 10.8 rummager reckons Apple may give the boot to optical drives - a suggestion based merely on the contents of a configuration file.… |
| Apple 'offered Samsung $30-per-mobe' patent licence truce Posted: 13 Aug 2012 04:30 AM PDT Sammy turned down offer it could definitely refuse Apple offered Samsung a patent licensing deal at $30 per smartphone after warning the South Koreans they were infringing its fruity designs, a court heard.… |
| Acer Aspire Timeline M3 Ultra review Posted: 13 Aug 2012 04:15 AM PDT The affordable Ultrabook It seems safe to say that Ultrabooks haven't given the PC market the shot in the arm that Intel was hoping for. The high prices haven't helped, of course, and there also seems to be some evidence that many people are turned off by the relatively small 13in screens that dominate the Ultrabook category.… |
| Upstart DEY touts Facebook-style storage for all and sundry Posted: 13 Aug 2012 03:54 AM PDT Step 1: Buy hard disks. Step 2: ??? Step 3: Become Google Data juggling upstart DEY Storage claims it can bring Amazon, Facebook and Google-style storage to businesses with a silky software coating.… |
| CSC UK waves ta-ta to axed staff, sharpens axe for next round Posted: 13 Aug 2012 03:33 AM PDT Two thirds of techies opt to walk with bigger payout CSC UK has concluded the 90-day consultation period for workers at risk of redundancy with roughly two thirds of staffers heading for the door voluntarily, insiders claim.… |
| Watch the cloud get bigger and change its shape Posted: 13 Aug 2012 03:00 AM PDT Gazing into the future What are the key trends we can discern in cloud networking?… |
| HP test pilots fly secret four-socket Xeon E5 blade in public Posted: 13 Aug 2012 02:47 AM PDT Top of the SPECs – for now Hewlett-Packard has yet to announce a blade server based on Intel's latest Xeon E5-4600 processors for four-socket servers - but that hasn't stopped it bragging about their performance.… |
| Google to axe 4,000 Motorola Mobility staff Posted: 13 Aug 2012 02:24 AM PDT A new kind of design team aka a much smaller one Under Google's leadership a fifth of Motorola staff will be cut, and a third of the offices closed, shifting the focus onto a handful of devices dialling up the innovation.… |
| Alleged 'Xbox 720' dev box eBay'd for $20,100 Posted: 13 Aug 2012 02:16 AM PDT Intel-based tower could have been yours Would you buy an Xbox 720 development kit for 20 grand? Someone just has - paying in dollars rather than sterling, of course - after the "Microsoft Xbox Durango Development Kit" appeared on eBay last night.… |
| Intel: Xeon breaks Calxeda's ARM in Apache benchmark Posted: 13 Aug 2012 02:12 AM PDT Power lines, damn power lines and statistics Intel has hit back at upstart server rival Calxeda, which claimed its ARM-powered servers could out do Chipzilla's machines.… |
| NetApp StorageGRID now on cloud nine: Would you put 100PBs in it? Posted: 13 Aug 2012 01:48 AM PDT Show us the money an actual installation Analysis NetApp continues its slow development of its object storage capability by adding a cloud interface to it.… |
| Cars, lorries stalked via GPS to create live traffic super-map Posted: 13 Aug 2012 01:19 AM PDT Highways Agency trial bungs real-time tracking on web The Highways Agency is trialling combining GPS tracking with data from its existing sources to provide real-time information to drivers on a 'beta' version of its traffic information map for drivers in England.… |
| BMW slams ad machine into reverse, screeches out of pirate den Posted: 13 Aug 2012 01:02 AM PDT Flash motors parked alongside dodgy MP3 downloads Musicians are claiming a small victory in pressuring BMW to rethink its internet advertising policies.… |
| Don't get sued or cuffed on Twitter: Read these top 10 pitfalls Posted: 13 Aug 2012 12:26 AM PDT See just how easy it is to end up looking like a twit Debates in Parliament, home visits from the police and distressed celebrities have all left tweeters a little unsure as to what is and what is not acceptable by law on Twitter.… |
| New Intel Ultrabooks to spray HOT JUICE into mobes Posted: 13 Aug 2012 12:01 AM PDT Svelte laptops to sling charge - fresh rumour Intel will build wireless charging into its svelte laptops, aka Ultrabooks, and smartphones by the middle of 2013, according to whisperings on Chinese rumour mill Digitimes… |
| Hong Kong has fastest broadband on the planet Posted: 12 Aug 2012 11:56 PM PDT Slaps South Korea into second as UK finishes out of the medals in 21st Asian countries topped the global broadband charts again in the previous quarter, with plucky Hong Kong knocking long-time champ South Korea from its lofty perch to register the fastest services in the world for both mobile and fixed connectivity.… |
| Intel, Sina and others launch OpenStack-friendly alliance Posted: 12 Aug 2012 10:59 PM PDT China Open Source Cloud League has lift off Burgeoning Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) initiative OpenStack received a welcome endorsement last week when Intel teamed up with some local Chinese players to launch the China Open Source Cloud League (COSCL) – a new alliance which will accelerate development of the project in the huge domestic cloud market.… |
| Kidney-for-iPad fanboi sues after illness strikes Posted: 12 Aug 2012 08:48 PM PDT At least he's still got his fondleslab An 18-year-old Chinese lad who used money from selling one of his kidneys to buy an iPhone and iPad 2 is now suing for compensation of 2.27 million yuan (£227,785).… |
| Pixar open sources production animation code, patents Posted: 12 Aug 2012 06:59 PM PDT That's not stealing, it's downloading with style Vid Disney-owned Jobs-derived animation outfit Pixar has open-sourced some of its production software.… |
| AGIMO picks two data centre providers Posted: 12 Aug 2012 06:16 PM PDT Government agencies herded into approved bit barns The Australian Government Information Management Office (AGIMO) has announced two providers for its Whole-of-Government Data Centre Facilities Panel.… |
| Curiosity's new OS upgrade ready to go live Posted: 12 Aug 2012 05:49 PM PDT Weekend pics reveal watery rocks Curiosity Mars Mission Martian robot tourist Curiosity's new operating system will go into production on 13 August after it was successfully uploaded and installed by mission scientists. The boffins had said the remote upgrade represented a major milestone for the craft.… |
| Moderate comments or face penalties: ACCC Posted: 12 Aug 2012 05:12 PM PDT 'You have 24 hours' The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) has weighed into the row over corporate Facebook pages, telling the The Age it would expect large businesses to be able to act on comments within 24 hours.… |
| Patent troll Intellectual Ventures is more like a HYDRA Posted: 12 Aug 2012 04:45 PM PDT 1200+ shell companies guard 10,000 patents very fiercely Stanford University researchers have compiled the most extensive set of documentation to date of the activities of patent troll Intellectual Ventures – and their work reveals a behemoth of truly epic scale.… |
| Hipster craft site bans sales of blood and skulls Posted: 12 Aug 2012 04:00 PM PDT Human teeth and hair still are okay though Etsy, the crafty hipster's version of eBay, has issued an edict curbing its contributor's creativity with raw materials such as drugs and human body parts.… |
