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EMC remixes Decho and the Funnymen

Posted: November 19th, 2008, 3:02am EST

Connecting a Hoover to a personal information bank
What is Decho about?…
Championship Gaming Series runs out of quarters

Posted: November 18th, 2008, 10:20pm EST

'The concept was ahead of its time'
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Mark Cuban answers SEC insider-trading charges

Posted: November 18th, 2008, 10:10pm EST

'Because that's just the kind of person he is'
Those betting attention-starved web entrepreneur Mark Cuban would keep silent about insider-trading charges filed against him by the US Securities and Exchange Commission just lost their dollar. Easiest cash I ever made.…
Teen hacker confesses three-year crime spree

Posted: November 18th, 2008, 7:36pm EST

DDoS, botnets, SWAT calls, bomb threats, credit fraud...
A juvenile hacker with a reputation for stirring up trouble in online gaming groups has admitted to multiple computer felonies, including cyber attacks that overwhelmed his victims with massive amounts of data and the placing of hoax emergency phone calls that elicited visits by heavily armed police teams.…
Victoria & Albert overwhelms museum SAN

Posted: November 18th, 2008, 5:34pm EST

We are not amused
London's Victoria & Albert museum has overwhelmed its original SAN with digitised images of its collection and is moving to a new one with room to grow more than 50 times larger.…
Amazon's cloud spreads into content delivery

Posted: November 18th, 2008, 5:22pm EST

Pay-as-you-go caching
Amazon's ever-cumulating cloud is today rolling into the business of speedy Internet content delivery.…
Feds shutter one-stop stalker shop

Posted: November 18th, 2008, 5:16pm EST

'Spy on anyone from anywhere'
Federal watchdogs have shut down a website that advertised a comprehensive snooping service that included a stealthy trojan, online support, and a database that sorted and stored the confidential passwords, chat transcripts, and activities of those being stalked.…
Apple rescinds version change App Store ban

Posted: November 18th, 2008, 5:08pm EST

Jobsian caprice smiles on CastCatcher
Apple's iPhone caprice continues.…
Adobe's Flex Builder to woo Microsoft C# developers

Posted: November 18th, 2008, 5:06pm EST

RIA lipstick wars
Adobe MAX The next version of Flex Builder will help Windows developers slap an Adobe-authored front-end on data-centric .NET applications.…
Sun measures HPC backorders in petaflops

Posted: November 18th, 2008, 4:06pm EST

Layoffs? Let's talk new iron
SC08 Hot on the heels of job cuts that will see some 5,000 to 6,000 company employees given pink slips, John Fowler, the executive vice president in charge of the newly constituted Systems Platforms group at Sun Microsystems, was on hand at the SC08 supercomputing trade show to give a preview of products that Sun will be rolling out in the coming months.…
Dead network provider arms Rustock botnet from the hereafter

Posted: November 18th, 2008, 3:13pm EST

McColo dials Russia as world sleeps
McColo, a network provider that was yanked offline following reports it enabled more than half the world's spam, briefly returned from the dead over the weekend so it could hand-off command and control channels to a new source, security researchers said.…
Visual Studio 2010 - reading the Redmond runes

Posted: November 18th, 2008, 2:44pm EST

Big release, big Windows tie in
Preview Visual Studio is locked so closely to Microsoft's platform that it cannot be prized apart and assessed in isolation. The forthcoming Visual Studio 2010, for better or worse, continues this tradition.…
Michael Dell heralds supercomputing fourth wave

Posted: November 18th, 2008, 2:10pm EST

Just like the third wave - with more marketing
SC08 The annual Supercomputing 2008 trade show kicked off this morning in Austin, Texas with a sales call keynote by local billionaire and sometime HPC player, Michael Dell. As chairman and once again chief executive officer of a company that's trying to make a more substantial run at the HPC area, he can be forgiven (perhaps) for giving a keynote address that at times seemed to be more of a commercial for his company than a revelation about HPC (as supercomputing is now called).…
Intel celebrates Core i7 launch with Dell and Gateway

Posted: November 18th, 2008, 1:42pm EST

San Francisco shindig
Intel celebrated the official launch of its Core i7 processor at an event last evening in San Francisco, featuring the first high-end desktops running the next-generation micro architecture.…
Tron sequel already in production

Posted: November 18th, 2008, 12:45pm EST

Arguably the most long overdue sequel ever
Tron - quite possibly the best example of a movie that could benefit from a legitimate sequel - is finally getting one. And who knew? A few dedicated - and better informed - film buffs maybe. But for the rest of us sci-fi supporters, certainly on this side of the Pond, it remained a secret.…
EMC launches Data Protection Advisor

Posted: November 18th, 2008, 12:43pm EST

Tape backup not enough
For EMC users, the tape backup world is not enough. These days, data is backed up to disk, deduplicated, and - horror of horrors - EMC shops might have NetApp and Data Domain boxes in them. So EMC has upgraded its Backup Advisor product to reflect these facts of life.…
Chrysler: the future's bright, the future's electric

Posted: November 18th, 2008, 12:05pm EST

More ZEOs, fewer Peapods, please
'Leccy Tech Lou Rhodes, Chrysler's VP of Advanced Engineering, has said electric cars are central to the motor company's future and key to "a long-term viable business for Chrysler."…
World needs mobile phone wallets, cries trade body

Posted: November 18th, 2008, 11:30am EST

Near-Field Comms standardisation required
Everyone should be able to use their mobile phone like a wallet as soon as possible, the world’s trade group for the mobile industry has demanded.…
Lord Ahmed faces dangerous driving charge

Posted: November 18th, 2008, 11:14am EST

Investigation centred on text message sent before crash
A Labour Peer has been charged with dangerous driving after allegedly sending text messages shortly before hitting a car on the M1 on Christmas Day, 2007.…
PC virus forces three London hospitals into computer shutdown

Posted: November 18th, 2008, 11:10am EST

Too used to the other sort
Three London Hospitals shut down their computer systems on Tuesday in response to a computer virus infection.…
Wacky Jacqui's £12bn gIMP could be unleashed by 2012

Posted: November 18th, 2008, 11:04am EST

But 'nothing decided' on comms überdatabase, says Home Office
The government Interception Modernisation Programme (gIMP), a plan by spy chiefs to centrally collect details of every phone call, text, email and web browsing session of every UK resident, could be in place by 2012, according to a Home Office minister.…
Endeavour pair prep for ISS spacewalk

Posted: November 18th, 2008, 10:37am EST

First mission STS-126 EVA this afternoon
Endeavour mission STS-126 specialists Steve Bowen and Heide Stefanyshyn-Piper will this afternoon venture outside the International Space Station for the first of four planned spacewalks on this shuttle jaunt to the orbiting outpost.…
DARPA seeks 'Machine Reading' AI auto-analysis bot

Posted: November 18th, 2008, 10:14am EST

Human analysts' unanimous view - it'll never work
The US military is seeking revolutionary new AI software which would be able to read text - and so effectively do research - in the same way that humans do. The so-called "Machine Reading" ware would initially be used for such tasks as automated military-intelligence analysis, but it would have wide consequences in civilian life as well.…
InfiniBand and 10GbE break data centre gridlock

Posted: November 18th, 2008, 10:06am EST

Bandwidth bonanza in the data centre
Analysis Data centre network pipes are getting choked up. Imagine Germany minus the autobahns or the US without interstate highways and you get the picture - cities trying to send goods and people by road to other cities and the single carriageway roads jamming up, consigning everybody to gridlock.…
Mobe firm gives birth to pair of kid tracking phones

Posted: November 18th, 2008, 9:50am EST

I can't sleep without Teddy Phone
Not in the least discouraged by the abject failure of the last two attempts, Mobile Please has announced two new handsets aimed at paranoid parents while styled for their kiddies.…
BNP membership list leaks online

Posted: November 18th, 2008, 9:31am EST

Rightwingers left exposed
The British National Party has lost its membership list - the whole thing has been published online.…
HP beats street on Q4 but reins in Q1 outlook

Posted: November 18th, 2008, 9:24am EST

Uncommon currency hurts revs
HP made some rivals realise just how badly they're doing when it today announced preliminary fourth quarter results that showed it edging ahead of analysts' forecasts.…
EC slams national cybercrime responses as inadequate

Posted: November 18th, 2008, 8:30am EST

Super regulator back on the agenda?
The European Commission has launched a consultation on how it can strengthen the European Union's response to computer attacks. The Commission is canvassing views ahead of a debate early next year about an EU-wide coordination of computer security.…
Palin webmail 'hack' trial delayed

Posted: November 18th, 2008, 8:16am EST

Time-out for computer forensics
The trial of the student accused of breaking into the email account of Sarah Palin in the run-up to the US presidential election has been pushed back to next May.…
Microsoft rolls out online Exchange and Sharepoint for the US

Posted: November 18th, 2008, 8:04am EST

Just dollars a user a month
Microsoft added another rung to its online rope ladder yesterday with the general release of its web-based Sharepoint and Exchange products aimed at business customers in the US.…
Sapphire Radeon HD 4850 X2 dual-GPU graphics card

Posted: November 18th, 2008, 8:02am EST

One card, two very fast graphics chips
Review The thinking behind the ATI Radeon HD 4870 X2 seems quite clear. One 4870 and a bunch of GDDR 5 is the basis for a decent graphics card that costs £200-240 but lacks the grunt to take on the GeForce GTX 280. Join two 4870s together on a single card and you have the "fastest gaming graphics card in the world", allegedly.…
First self-inflicted identity donor cards to ship in late 2009

Posted: November 18th, 2008, 7:56am EST

Criminal Records chief takes charge of rollout
A "small number of citizens" will be issued ID cards in late 2009, says the Home Office. These will be the throngs of people who can't wait for ID cards discovered by Jacqui Smith earlier this month, when she said she wanted to "find a way to allow those people who want a card sooner to be able to pre-register their interest as early as the first few months of next year."…
Mobile phones will 'cut off' Al Qaeda

Posted: November 18th, 2008, 7:34am EST

US puts faith in mobe-issued boarding passes
Michael Chertoff, the US Secretary of Homeland Security, reckons that putting boarding passes onto mobile phones will stop terrorists boarding planes with forged documents, and make the skies a safer place for all.…
MPs grill BBC heads over Manuelgate

Posted: November 18th, 2008, 7:23am EST

'A very serious editorial lapse', admits director general
MPs at a meeting of the Culture, Media and Sport Committee have been giving BBC bosses a bit of a hard time over the Russell Brand and Jonathan Ross Manuelgate scandal, the corporation reports.…
British pilots ramp up opposition to ID cards

Posted: November 18th, 2008, 7:15am EST

'Unfair' plan could prompt strike action
The British Airline Pilots Association (Balpa) is meeting this weekend to decide what action to take over the government's decision to force airside staff at two airports to carry ID cards.…
Smut email hubby claims iPhone glitch

Posted: November 18th, 2008, 6:56am EST

Lewd snap 'accidentally' attached
A cheating hubby who apparently emailed the extramarital object of his affections a candid snap of himself via his iPhone claimed the whole thing was a glitch after his missus rumbled his dirty dealings.…
SSH sniffer attack poses minor risk

Posted: November 18th, 2008, 6:31am EST

Shadow of a doubt
UK security researchers have discovered hard-to-exploit cryptographic weaknesses in the Secure Shell (SSH) remote administration protocol.…
The Long Fail: Web 2.0's faith meets the facts

Posted: November 18th, 2008, 6:13am EST

Guest opinion Hope is all you need
Kim Kardashian in Miami beachslapping

Posted: November 18th, 2008, 6:04am EST

Shift your arse, love, we're trying to work here
Since Kim Kardashian is now officially El Reg's stand-in celebutard - assuming vital no-IT-angle-whatsoever duties whenever Paris Hilton drops off radar - we think it only right and proper to bring you news that the amateur grumble flick star had her not insubstantial derrière shifted off a Miami beach over the weekend after gatecrashing a Victoria's Secret photoshoot.…
Carphone Warehouse plans for split after pre-tax loss

Posted: November 18th, 2008, 6:02am EST

Sprawling company still in 'good shape'
Carphone Warehouse boss Charles Dunstone has launched a "formal review of the group's corporate structure" which could lead to the breakup of the telecoms group.…
Intel Core i7 'Nehalem' CPUs go on sale

Posted: November 18th, 2008, 5:47am EST

Old-gen 'energy efficient' quad-cores coming
Intel's first 'Nehalem' processors, the desktop Core i7 series, is now on sale, but that hasn't stopped it adding new Core 2 Quad chips to its roadmap.…
NASA images LA wildfires

Posted: November 18th, 2008, 5:12am EST

Aqua satellite in smoke detector mode
NASA has released an image captured on 16 November by its Aqua satellite, showing the extent of the California wildfires which, the BBC estimates, had by yesterday destroyed a total of 800 homes and razed roughly 22,000 acres (8,900 hectares):…
Roachzilla menaces Florida

Posted: November 18th, 2008, 5:01am EST

Lizard owners fingered for monster cockroach threat
University of Florida scientists have warned that several species of imported giant cockroach, favoured by reptile owners as an alternative to putting crickets on the menu, could escape and thrive in the state's roach-friendly climate.…
Adobe, profs working on web time-machine app

Posted: November 18th, 2008, 4:55am EST

'Zoetrope' travels into distant past 1990s
A collaborative effort between Adobe and the University of Washington intends to offer a new web archiving and search app called Zoetrope, which would allow users to search past versions of the web as well as what is out there at the moment.…
Chips are down for Transmeta

Posted: November 18th, 2008, 4:23am EST

Silicon Valley darling sold
The low power chip company Transmeta has been sold to Novafora - the VC-backed "video processor" firm.…
SuperSpeed USB 3.0 spec finalised

Posted: November 18th, 2008, 4:04am EST

Ten times the speed of USB 2.0
USB 3.0 is complete, the group of companies behind the project announced last night. The specification is now officially at version 1.0.…
Virgin Mobile Lobster 621 budget phone

Posted: November 18th, 2008, 4:02am EST

Low-end price meets mid-range feature set
Review Virgin’s bizarrely named Lobster brand of youth-oriented mobiles tends towards the cheap and cheerful an the emphasis on value for money rather than specs with big numbers.…
agámi sales VP casualty finds home

Posted: November 18th, 2008, 3:02am EST

Nexsan gains from wreckage
Michael McGuire, described as an ex Sun VP for Americas storage sales, has joined Nexsan, where he becomes the grandly titled Chief Commercial Officer. In fact he joins from the data highway road kill that was once known as agámi.…
Privacy watchdog issues guidance on FOI exemptions

Posted: November 18th, 2008, 2:02am EST

Tips on keeping secrets
Public authorities who want to keep information secret to protect the commercial interests of companies they work with must explain exactly what damage will be done by disclosure, the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) has said.…
Gartner: open source software 'pervasive'

Posted: November 17th, 2008, 11:45pm EST

Here, there, not everywhere
It is a wise manager that does not make decisions based on the survey data put together by the major IT market researchers. But sometimes a skinny bit of survey data is all you have to start with, and that data is better than no data at all - particularly if you're trying to make a case to upper management either for or against the deployment of a specific bit of hardware or software.…

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