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- First US CTO Aneesh Chopra resigns from post
Logs out for possible political career
The first US government chief technology officer Aneesh Chopra has announced heâs leaving the job.â¦
- GaleForce control freak paints clouds KVM red
Spanning more devices and hypervisors
Gale Technologies, one of the many companies that wants to manage your private and public clouds, has revved up its GaleForce cloud control freak to 6.0, and is improving its support for XenServer-based clouds and adding KVM to the mix.â¦
- Polish lawmakers don Guy Fawkes masks to protest ACTA
Thousands roil Polish streets â more protests planned for Friday
Over 30 Polish lawmakers held up paper replicas of the Guy Fawkes mask, made famous by both Anoymous hacktivists and the Occupy movement, during a protest in parliament of their country's signing of the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA), the EU's highly controversial online-piracy legislation.â¦
- Quantum shares plunge after results
Turning the corner
Revenues for the third quarter of fy2012 were $173m, 2 per cent down on the $176m of a year ago. Net income was $3.94m, down from the $5.8m recorded a year ago. These earnings exceeded the Street's expectations so why did investors decide to sell the shares?â¦
- America abandoning DSL in favour of faster cable
Dash to fibre as people abandon twisted copper
ADSL connections to US homes are on the slide as companies and consumers turn to cable and fibre for faster connectivity.â¦
- Enterprise gets social: Twitter-style data streams, engagement 'apps'
Little numbers, big software and the data deluge
Open ... and Shut The winning game plan for enterprise software has long been to "play it safe."â¦
- Juniper stalled by jittery service providers, product transitions
Switch hitting
Juniper Networks warned Wall Street earlier this month that the fourth quarter was going to be rough because key service provider customers are cutting back on spending at the same time that the company is putting the finishing touches on some new switches and routers.â¦
- Dumb salesmen are hurting us β Nokia CEO
Incentivising the McJobs
Analysis Stephen Elop got a pretty indulgent reception from analysts, and most of the press yesterday, after delivering some shocking results. Nokia turned a profit of â¬2bn into a loss of â¬1bn in the new boss's first full year; volumes are down by 29 per cent; sales of the new Windows phone are unremarkable (to put it generously); and Elop has scrapped guidance for the rest of the year. [Summary] News like this would normally have analysts reaching for the panic button - but not today. Why would this be?â¦
- Nominet puts the squeeze on rude members
Scammers, speculators warned
Nominet, which runs the .uk domain registry, has proposed a new code of conduct that would ban unprofessional behaviour by its members.â¦
- Facebook flings clickjack spam lawsuit at ad-slingers
Social network teams up with Washington State to hound marketing firm
Facebook and US state of Washington have filed lawsuits against marketing firm Adscend Media over alleged clickjacking and spam practices, as the social networking giant finally gets tough with scammers operating on the site.â¦
- RIM slashes BlackBerry PlayBook tablet prices
Up to 58 per cent off launch cost
RIM has taken an axe to the prices it charges for its BlackBerry PlayBook tablets in the UK - again.â¦
- Spotify reckons 1 in 5 freebie-gulper eventually pay up
Takes pop at labels for withholding
Spotify executive Ken Parks says Spotify has 3 million paying customers, and 20 per cent of people who get on to the free, ad-supported part of the service are signing up to become paying punters. Most of those, 15 per cent, sign up to the premium tier, Parks claimed. The premium tier gives you offline and mobile access to the music.â¦
- US lawmakers question Google over privacy policy
Politicos ask if Chocolate Factory's new rules violate an FTC agreement
Google is insisting that its new privacy policy will still give its users control, after criticism in a letter from US members of Congress.â¦
- Judges set timetable for McKinnon case resolution
Pentagon hacking suspect has been waiting for 10 YEARS...
Senior judges have set a timetable to speed up resolution in the long-running Gary McKinnon extradition case, effectively setting a deadline for the Home Office to respond to evidence that McKinnon is too infirm to withstand the stress of a US trial and likely imprisonment over alleged Pentagon hacking offences.â¦
- Microsoft schtum on Dropbox snags with IE
Possible SmartScreen dislike of Amazon caused hiccups
Microsoft has so far declined to explain why Internet Explorer this week flagged Dropbox as a phishing threat, in an apparent clash with Amazonâs S3 cloud storage.â¦
- Snake slides back onto Nokia smartphones
Nostalgic grub gobbling
Most people enjoyed playing Snake on their ancient Nokias, gobbling dots and chasing their tail in zig-zags around the screen, at some time in their lives. Well, gamers can now revisit the past and install the ol' classic on their Lumia handsets, retro stylee.â¦
- Microsoft exec says Safe Harbor framework is 'alive and well'
Privacy critic: 'It's dead. We just forgot to bury it'
CPDP Privacy advocates have expressed concern about Brussels' Commissioner Viviane Reding's decision to leave in place the Safe Harbour framework used by some companies to transfer data from Europe to the US.â¦
- Apple Italy throws up ruling on its store site
We accept that they think we were wrong
UPDATE: Apple Italy has posted details of the ruling against it, as required by the Italian courts, though we don't yet know if Cupertino will be coughing up the â¬1.2m fine too.â¦
- Google lets youngsters in to Google+. Officially, that is
ZitFaceBook to offer 'nuance, richness, meaningfulness'
Google has finally opened the doors of its Google+ social networking service to kids, but was careful to keep their ârents onside with new online safety features, as its desperate efforts to catch Facebook continue.â¦
- Apple: Yes there are horrendous accidents, but we CARE
Tim Cook sends letter after Chinese factory horror exposé
Tim Cook has sent a letter to all Apple employees stressing how much the company cares about industrial accidents in its Chinese factories.â¦
- Galaxy drives up profits for Samsung
Smartphone sales fuel massive multi-billion dollar investments
Samsung's smartphones have helped drive the company to an operating profit of â©5.3 trillion ($4.7bn) in the fourth quarter of last year.â¦
- NAO: British bobbies wasting Β£80m BlackBerry stash
Some forces share 1 among 100, some have 150 for 100 officers
Brit coppers are not getting enough benefits from their £80m splurge on BlackBerrys and other mobile devices, the National Audit Office has said.â¦
- Stab victim protected by Bulgarian airbag
Jub job saved Florida woman's life, doc reckons
A Florida woman who was set upon by her ex-fiance's knife-wielding new squeeze survived the attack thanks to one of her Bulgarian airbags, according to this report.â¦
- North Korea labels phone users war criminals
Hundred-day ban on blowers
North Korea has banned the use of mobile phones for 100 days while it formally mourns the death of its late "glorious leader" Kim Jong-Il. Those who disobey the dictat will be treated as war criminals and punished accordingly, it has been claimed.â¦
- Update Facebook by thrusting your hips to, er ... 'Like' things
NFC belt buckle lets you show affection with a friendly hump
Seventies throwbacks who like big belt buckles, and pelvic thrusting in public, can now check into a location, or "Like" a friend, with no more than a flick of the hips.â¦
- Trevor goes hands-on with Microsoft Training
Screencap recap
Reg columnist Trevor Pott's recent review of the Microsoft Virtual Academy sparked several comments that largely said the same thing: "where's the pics?"â¦
- Sony BDP-S185 Blu-ray player
Review A little gem - ICANN responds to smut portal antitrust lawsuit
'We do not make or sell anything,' says $75m non-profit
ICANN and .xxx manager ICM Registry want a California judge to throw out an antitrust lawsuit, saying plaintiff Manwin Licensing is just miffed that it missed out on the juiciest domain names.â¦
- 'You will download your sneakers within 20 years. Yarr'
Plus: Fruity smugness - 'momentum is incredibly strong'
QuotW This was the week when Microsoft filed a lawsuit against a Russian man who allegedly created and operated the Kelihos botnet before it got taken down in September last year.â¦
- Nintendo unveils Network for console connectivity
Wii U to get NFC tech too
Nintendo has spilled the beans on its next-gen Wii U console's connectivity capabilities to be built around an online service called the Nintendo Network.â¦
- BT seeks apartment dwellers to sign-up to 'superfast' FTTP trial
We really wanna blow you some cable, dears
BT is on the lookout for around 1,000 residential buildings to sign up to a pilot to allow the national telco to test superfast broadband speeds in apartment blocks.â¦
- BT comes clean on Infinity modem 'upgrade'
Replacement boxes rolled out due to faulty chip
National telco BT has been sending letters out to its Infinity broadband customers saying that it will swap their modems for a better version for free, but failing to mention that the real reason for the generous offer is because they could be faulty.â¦
- Boffins make graphene micro-distillery
Wonder stuff cooked up super-strength vodka
Graphene-creating boffins have discovered a new purpose for the wonder material - a teeny-tiny distillery.â¦
- Google must channel SOPA rage again β against your privacy
Once more unto the breach, dear netizens
Put down the NOHO, victorious SOPA protestors â the mothership needs your help once again. Google needs to mount a SOPA-like campaign against European privacy protection proposals, says a US academic. It's for the greater good, apparently.â¦
- Spring launch for Apple OLED TV with Siri, says retail mole
Can it really make money when Sony et al can't?
Apple's voice-controlled 42in OLED TV could be out this April. Assuming, of course, that the Mac maker is indeed working on such an improbable beast.â¦
- UK sight-loss charity sues BMI
Excuses over inaccessible website don't fly with us
The Royal National Institute of Blind People (RNIB) has taken the unusual step of suing BMI after the airline failed to make changes to its website to make it accessible to blind and partially sighted people.â¦
- Twitter cosies up to governments with country-level filters
The tweets must flow, unless we're told they shouldn't...
Micro-blogging phenomenon Twitter has modified its commitment to the free flow of information online by adding a new feature enabling the removal of users' tweets at a country level while allowing them to be viewed elsewhere.â¦
- World Solar Challenge: The Musical
Oz heliowheels race for your viewing pleasure
Video Last October, we at El Reg's Special Projects Bureau jetted off to Oz in pursuit of the World Solar Challenge â a gruelling 3,000km test of the planet's most advanced solar cars.â¦
- Samsung eyes enormofridges for see-through screens
No beer? Tap for more
Samsung's 46in see-through LCD screen will go into production this month, paving the way for the transparent tech's appearance in ordinary folks' living rooms.â¦
- Startup goes titsup: Beyond Oblivion's crash is beyond belief
Murdoch, charity also face write-offs as digital music outfit goes bust
It isn't just scofflaw copyright criminals who cause grief for the music business. Sometimes it's quite capable of lining up its own feet for a shooting party.â¦
- iPhone grabs 6% of world phone shipments
But Nokia and Samsung tower over Apple
Apple increased its share of the world phone market in Q4 2011, accounting for 8.3 per cent of mobile shipments, but it's still a small fry compared to the likes of Nokia and Samsung.â¦
- Maxwell: Under G-Cloud, gov will buy IT 'like stationery'
Public ICT contracts to be measured 'in months, rather than years'
The G-Cloud will usher in an era of public ICT contracts that are measured in months, rather than years, according to Liam Maxwell, the Cabinet Office's director of ICT futures.â¦
- Samsung outsold Apple in world smartphone arena
iPhone overtaken in 2011
Apple may have shipped more smartphones than Samsung in Q4, but the South Korean giant sold more of the gadgets during the year as a whole.â¦
- EU: Time running out for web companies on 'do not track' system
Steely Neelie: Agree on it by June, or I'll force one on you
Internet companies have been urged to establish a final standardised system that will allow users to control their privacy settings across websites.â¦
- Eurocom Panther 2.0 Core i7, SLI notebook
Just what does a £5k laptop get you these days?
Review While currently every notebook manufacturer seems to offering the thinnest, lightest and easiest to carry around notebook ever, in a bizarre way, itâs quite refreshing to find a company wandering off message and offering notebooks at the other end of the scale. Enter Eurocomâs Panther 2.0, the heaviest, most amazingly specified, most expensive and without doubt the fastest performing notebook Iâve ever come across in over ten years of laptop testing.â¦
- Newt Gingrich wants Moon to be 51st US state
Promises permanent Moon base by 2020, Mars as next target
Presidential hopeful Newt Gingrich is telling the people of Florida about his plans for a permanent base on the Moon, and suggesting it may be possible for the satellite to become the 51st US state.â¦
- Planet-hunting Kepler hits EXOPLANET JACKPOT
11 systems, 26 planets added to inventory
NASA's exoplanet-hunting Kepler spacecraft has identified a slew of new subjects, adding 26 planets in 11 systems to its inventory.â¦
- Untangling the question of antimatter mass
Boffins spin up positronium
A group of researchers at University of California Riverside hopes to chip away at one of physicsâ âquestion of questionsâ â why the blazes weâre here at all. Their hope is to make electron/positron pairs live long enough to measure the positronâs mass and find out if itâs different to the electron.â¦
- Most EU states sign away internet rights, ratify ACTA treaty
European Parliament observer resigns in protest
Representatives of 21 of the EUâs member states, including the UK, have signed off on the controversial Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) â the European version of the US SOPA and PIPA rolled into one and cranked up to 11.â¦
- Two Megaupload execs bailed
No net for Batato or van der Kolk
Two of the Megaupload executives arrested in last weekâs raid on the company in New Zealand have been granted bail. Bram van der Kolk and Finn Batato will have to submit to strict bail conditions including electronic monitoring.â¦
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