e-gold directors avoid jail
Controversial money transfer service given second chance
Three directors of digital currency firm e-gold avoided a spell behind bars on Thursday after earlier pleading guilty to offences for money laundering and running an unlicensed money transfer business.… |
Virtual servers and economic gloom boost Wyse Technology's message
'Wyse up and toss those PCs'
Comment The recession is an opportunity for some. Wyse reckons it can boost its thin client business by pushing its thin client server running as a virtual machine overcoming Windows thin client inadequacies.… Free Download - The Reg Guide to Storage and Storage Platforms
|
Server virtualization ain't all that...
Immature headline for immature technology?
Mini Poll If you listen to a lot of the vendors, server virtualisation is now pretty mainstream, and the impression you get is that it’s just a case of getting on with it - if you haven’t done so already. But how realistic is this?… |
US teen tops himself live online
Sad end for Florida teen
A US teenager has used a video sharing website to broadcast his suicide live across the internet.… |
Reuters yanks reporter from Sadville
Last one to leave, turn off the flying penis
Reuters has pulled its embedded reporter out of Second Life, it confirmed today.… |
BBC Trust pulls plug on local video plans
Fails public value test
The BBC Trust has rejected the broadcaster's plans to set up local video news sites for different areas of the country.… |
BlueSky Positioning snags Sagem
SIM manufacturer in strategic deal with pipe dream
BlueSky Positioning, the company that promised to have GPS working in a SIM by June last year, has entered a "strategic relationship" with respected SIM manufacturer Sagem Orga.… Free Download - The Reg Guide to Storage and Storage Platforms
|
BBC Trust brands Manuelgate a 'deplorable intrusion'
No sack for Ross, though
The BBC Trust has branded the Brand/Ross Manuelgate outrage a "deplorable intrusion with no editorial justification".… |
DARPA wargamer calls for US X-Men superplane fleet
JFK would have gone for it, Mr Obama
A prominent US wargames and military crazytech expert has called for the Obama administration to build a large fleet of X-Men style stealth transport planes, able to deliver America's secret elite forces anywhere in the world regardless of the local government's wishes.… |
Enterprise storage is for the little people too
Not the boxes, the thinking...
Reg primer Small and medium-sized businesses are the great untapped market for the computer storage industry. They remain untapped, for good reason. Money.… |
Nominet chairman embroiled in governance row
Seat on exec salary committee questioned
Nominet chairman Bob Gilbert sits on a committee to determine the salaries and bonuses of senior executives, but not his own. Critics say this contravenes the not-for-profit domain registry's corporate governance rules, but Nominet denies any such breach.… |
DCSF reins in ContactPoint scope for police and A&E staff
Frontline access frozen by political fears
The Department for Children, Schools and Families is resisting broadening access to the ContactPoint database for police officers and A&E staff, two groups most people would consider to be the frontline of spotting child abuse.… 
|
IT Crowd: spot Reg gear
Third series starts tonight
The first episode of the third series of Graham Linehan's The IT Crowd is on Channel 4 tonight at 10.00pm.… |
Sony Vaio TT slim'n'light laptop
Small form-factor, hefty price tag
Review Sony has been pitching small, slim laptops at executives for years now, packing in as much functionality into as compact a chassis as it can and charging a premium for it. Why mess with a successful formula? So the new Vaio TT doesn't.… |
WIN a BlackBerry Storm!
The season's hottest handset could be yours
Competition Samsung Omina? 'Orrible! Apple iPhone? I don't think so! No, Research in Motion's BlackBerry Storm is the touchscreen mobile to go for this season, says Vodafone, and it's putting its money where its mouth is to give three lucky Register Hardware readers one of the in-demand handsets.… |
NASA orbiter reveals buried Martian glaciers
Vast water ice sheets under rocky debris
The ground-penetrating radar aboard NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) has identified extensive Martian glaciers buried under "protective blankets of rocky debris".… |
Vote now for your top net neologism
Asshats, f*cktards and lusers - your time has come
Reader poll Ok, let's get straight down to it - below are the twenty contenders vying for the crown of El Reg top net neologism, as chosen by you, our beloved commentards readers.… |
London Hospital back online after computer virus shutdown
On the mend
Computer systems at three major London hospitals are largely back online on Friday morning, three days after a major computer virus outbreak forced staff to disconnect the network.… |
The GUI that almost conquered the pocket
Farewell then, UIQ
The death of UIQ deserves a footnote for posterity – and a chance to take look back at a decade in which almost everything that everyone predicted for mobile data proved to be wrong. Given the way the market turned out, it didn't stand a chance.… Free Download - The Reg Guide to Storage and Storage Platforms
|
Collaboration: A dirty word, still, for some
So what do you think about all this social software malarkey?
Mini Poll Let's get personal here. Do you like collaborating with work colleagues? Do you like giving up your hard won knowledge for the greater good? Some people do. Some people don't.… |
Promoter hunts stars for McKinnon benefit gig
Rock against extradition
Updated Rock band Marillion have offered to take part in a gig in support of accused Pentagon hacker Gary McKinnon with proceeds going to autism charities, according to local media reports.… |
Verizon suspends staff for ogling Obama's phone bill
Verizon staff caught snooping
Staff at Verizon face disciplinary action after accessing Barack Obama's phone bill and taking a peek at who the president elect had been calling.… |
Apple updates iPhone firmware
Google Street view cometh
Apple has released a firmware update for the iPhone, giving Jesus phone devotees access to Google Map’s Street View, keyboard settings and more.… |
PM quizzed over McKinnon extradition
Brown supports repatriation, in principle
Prime minister Gordon Brown has spoken about the Gary McKinnon extradition case for the first time, supporting the principle of repatriation of sentenced prisoners while declining to get into the specifics of the case, which remains under judicial review.…
|
Nokia goes to tinsel town
Hoping to make it big in the flicks
Continuing to distance itself from boring-old mobile phones, Nokia has announced plans to open a research lab in Hollywood packed with movie executives rather than those engineers the company so recently laid off in Finland.… |
Police probe Baby P text messages and websites
Contempt warnings
The Metropolitan Police is investigating websites which are naming the mother of Baby P and her boyfriend at time of the child's death.… |
Brocade results are solid as a rock
A couple of blips
Brocade turned in satisfyingly solid results in its final 2008 quarter, beating its own guidance. The Foundry acquisition is on track, Cisco competition contained and it is preparing for a challenging first half in 2009.… |
Law firm argues links to its website abuse its trademarks
Jones Day wrestles BlockShopper.com
One of the world's biggest law firms is suing a small Chicago-based website for naming the firm and linking to two of its associates' biographies. A judge rejected an attempt to have the case thrown out last week.… |
HP breaks Japanese excessive packaging record
Still destroying the planet, one big box at a time
Those of you who don't like trees very much will appreciate HP's continuing efforts to deforest the planet by using the maximum cardboard possible when dispatching items to expectant customers. Here's a big box the company recently delivered to loyal Reg reader Simon Lucas, who's based in Tokyo:… Free Download - The Reg Guide to Storage and Storage Platforms
|
Dassault to build aerospace-factory Sims
Gaming engines to model complex aviation projects
Graphic engines used in the latest videogames are set to be see more and more service in the French aerospace industry, according to reports.… |
Government still losing at least a computer a week
Don't care, won't care
A year and a day after losing child benefit records for every family in the UK and promising to reform data handling the British government is still losing a laptop every single week.… |
Group Test: Blu-ray Disc players
Fuel for your HD TV
Round-up Happy Christmas, the format war is over. Now that Toshiba has abandoned HD DVD, Sony’s Blu-Ray has emerged as the new standard for high-definition discs, and the millions of folk who've been watching ye olde standard-def TV programmes on their HD TVs can go out and buy themselves a Blu-ray player safe in the knowledge it's not about to become obsolete.… |
Spammers look east after McColo shutdown
Zombie networks likely to resurface in two weeks
Analysis One week after rogue ISP McColo was shut down spam levels have yet to return to normality. But security experts are under no illusions that this represents anything more than a temporary reprieve, which will probably come accompanied by a change in tactics by spammers.… |
San Francisco enters Agassi's electric car dream
'Just do what Shai tells us to do'
The San Francisco Bay Area has embraced Shai Agassi's Better Place vision, announcing a "sweeping plan" to drive public and private investments in electric cars and the infrastructure needed to run them.… |
Does it feel good when I twist your circuits?
Now it does!
|
Company sues Facebook over somethingorother
Unified, horizontal system for communications...bitch!
An Ohio-based technology company is suing Facebook for patent infringement, claiming it invented the platform the insanely popular social networking site uses to store and manage information.… |
Dell profits take (small) hit in Q3
Cost cutting saves the day
If you were looking for some good news out of Dell today as it reported its fiscal 2009 third quarter financial results, you will probably be disappointed. But not as much as you might think. That's good news of a sort considering the miserable week the global economy is having.… |
Regulators back Bell Canada choking indie ISP traffic
Rented tubes should still be clear tubes
Canada's telecom regulators gave Bell Canada the OK to throttle peer-to-peer Internet traffic on pipes it leases to third-party ISPs.… |
SGI shows off Molecule concept machine
SC08 A dense cluster of Intel Atoms
While supercomputer maker Silicon Graphics was showing off its existing Altix lines of Xeon and Itanium servers at the SC08 supercomputing show in Austin, Texas, this week, the most interesting thing the company touted was not yet a real computer, but a concept system, called Molecule.… |
Microsoft's Internet Explorer 8 planned for 2009
Third beta, then release
The "standards-compatible" next edition of Internet Explorer has been bumped into 2009 by Microsoft.…
|
Phisher-besieged PayPal sends users faux log-in page
Error.com's missed opportunity
PayPal, the online payment service that is a major target of phishers, has been caught sending customer emails that confuse its own login page with a third-party landing site that offers spyware protection and a bevy of other products.… |
eHarmony settles over same-sex dating
All's fair in love and court
Online dating service eHarmony.com has agreed to create a new website for matching same-sex couples, as part of discrimination settlement with New Jersey's Civil Rights Division.… |
Agilistas are to architects as Neo is to...
This is not The Matrix. But it is
QCon 2009 Agile development practices may be growing in popularity among developers, but agilistas aren't getting much love from software architects.… |
Hitachi GST spots oyster, seeks HDD pearls
Storage doesn't have to spin
Comment When you are recovering from a long period of hard times and light appears at the end of the tunnel and gets closer and closer until you emerge into glorious daylight, you get a spring in your step and start making plans. Now you're back on your feet, the world becomes an oyster again, and you go off in different directions pursuing pearls. That's the feeling I get talking to Hitachi GST.… |
Google - the world's first firewalled monopoly
Pricing power goes virtual
Antitrust 2.0 Why did Google leave outgoing Yahoo! chief executive Jerry Yang heartbroken at the search engine altar? If you believe the words chief ad broker and CEO Eric Schmidt funneled through The New York Times, Google chafed at the prospect of winning a Department of Justice (DoJ) antitrust suit.…
|
SGI preps supers for future Intel chips
To Itanium or not to Itanium
SC08 Architectures can change quickly in the supercomputing space, and slow-moving vendors can get left behind or at least find themselves out of step with the next big wave of sales in the HPC area. This has happened in the past with Silicon Graphics, and the company is determined to not let it happen again.… |
Sun adds Query Analyzer to MySQL
Subscription service customers only
In brief Sun Microsystems has added a query analysis tool to MySQL, but for paying customers only.… |
Project Hyperion: A super testbed for HPC apps and hardware
Freebie teraflops for ISVs
SC08 When it comes to parallel supercomputing, and indeed any kind of parallel processing, the hardware is the easy part. The systems software, including a tuned software stack and middleware for managing data, visualization applications for turning datasets into something human beings can use to make decisions or understand some phenomenon, is a bit trickier.… |
Heidemarie 'Toolbag' Piper set for second spacewalk
While ISS crew hunt missing spider
Endeavour mission specialists Shane Kimbrough and Heide Stefanyshyn-Piper are getting ready for the second mission STS-126 spacewalk outside the International Space Station this afternoon, scheduled to get under way at 18:45 GMT.… |
Scots vote out ID cards
MSPs say nae, but move means naething
The Scottish Parliament has voted against the government's proposed ID cards, in a gesture of Pythonian futility.…
|