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Fifty, fired and fretful: Three chaps stare down CAREER MORTALITY

Reg chats to fifty-ish fellows, learns of hopes, dreams, fears etc

Jobs 18 Jun 05:58

Global tax data exchange plan floated to recoup cash

OECD outlines plan for automatic exchange of data if IT can agree on formats, crypto

Policy 18 Jun 05:27

When UK.gov asks 'Who's your daddy', companies HAD BETTER reply

HMRC will be able to access details of firms' beneficial owners

Government 18 Jun 05:03

'Smart ring' revealed by upstart Chinese mobe-maker

Kiss the ring to your mobe and you'll unlock something to share

Phones 18 Jun 04:34

AMD lifts the veil on Opteron, ARM chip plans for 2014

Not much action going on in 2013, though

Servers 18 Jun 04:02

Samsung plans LTE Advanced version of Galaxy S4

1Gbps download capability could stiffen drooping S4 sales forecasts

Phones 18 Jun 03:34

Internet fraud still stings suckers

Australians twice as gullible as Americans

Security 18 Jun 02:56

Oracle's Ellison outlines plans for Hawaiian Electriclarryland

Solar-sourced eau d'Oracle the key to island revival

Bootnotes 18 Jun 02:07

Australian unis to test quantum-comms-over-fibre

Tests to see if entangled photons can survive real-world networks

Science 18 Jun 01:03

Google Brain king slashes cost of AI gear

Anything CPU can do GPU can do better

Software 18 Jun 00:52

New material enables 1,000-meter super-skyscrapers

Before you read on, see if you can guess how the new stuff will be used

Science 18 Jun 00:29

Boffins build headless robo-kitties

Video Soft kitty, warm kitty, cuddly little ball of wire kitty

Science 17 Jun 23:29

Fusion-io's founding CEO quits board

Flynn flies off

Storage 17 Jun 23:18

Google Chromebooks now in over 6,600 stores

Major, worldwide retail push begins this summer

Laptops 17 Jun 21:57

NSA: We COULD track you by your phone ... if we WANTED to

Honestly, too much work, can't be bothered

Government 17 Jun 21:05

First look: iOS 7 for iPad

Screen grabs No, Apple hasn't released it yet, but that doesn't stop intrepid devs

Tablets 17 Jun 20:51

NSA whistleblower to tech firms, Obama: 'Grow a pair!'

Ed Snowden: Email tracking grabs 'IPs, raw data, content, headers, attachments, everything'

Government 17 Jun 19:12

Intel previews future 'Knights Landing' Xeon Phi x86 coprocessor with integrated memory

ISC 2013 It can swing both ways: multicore CPU or offload engine

HPC 17 Jun 17:14

Intel widens Xeon Phi HPC coprocessor lineup

ISC 2013 We are family – and spoiling for a feud with Nvidia Teslas

HPC 17 Jun 17:00

White Space wonga time: White House tips $100m into next-gen comms

Empty frequencies right place for tomorrow's mics, phones and fridges

Networks 17 Jun 15:56

Samsung wins Apple MacBook contract, starts spitting out PCIe SSDs

Blocks and Files Small-time card-shufflers are toast

Hardware 17 Jun 15:31

Icahn scratching head over BEEELLLIONS needed for Dell deal

Never mind how rich I am, you need HOW MUCH?!

The Channel 17 Jun 15:04

Swedish watchdog: Google's chocolate cloud? Nej, not private

Bans official use of ad giant's apps suite

Cloud 17 Jun 14:33

Julian Assange: Google's just an arm of US government

Pale, embassy-dwelling blond claims conspiracy betweeen ad giant, politicians

Cloud 17 Jun 13:59

Major Brit IT provider denies turning to fellow resellers after burning up lines of credit

Mutterings tell of another refinance for Azzurri

The Channel 17 Jun 13:41

Seagate reveals a NASty side, tears wraps off WD Red copycat disk

Meow!

Storage 17 Jun 13:24

Supercomputer vid proves NASA black-hole ring sniffers were RIGHT

Video BILLION-DEGREE blasts from cosmic halos turn up in simulation

HPC 17 Jun 12:44

Bjarne Again: Hallelujah for C++

Stob Plus: Now officially OK to admit you never used STL algorithms

Verity Stob 17 Jun 12:05

Google flings another £1m at online child sex abuse vid CRACKDOWN

See, see, we're trying, ad giant tells Daily Mail UK.gov

Cloud 17 Jun 11:45

Telecoms band wants to drag White Space into the real world

Big players pressing for green light on data networking tech

Networks 17 Jun 11:25

NSA PRISM snoop-gate: Won't someone think of the children, wails Apple

10,000 things probed, mostly about missing kids, Alzheimer patients, we're told

Cloud 17 Jun 11:10

Ecuador: All right, Julian, you CAN stay on our sofa - it's your human right

Minister and Wikileaker share cosy chat in tiny London flat

Government 17 Jun 10:39

Fusion-io opens trenchcoat, flashes cheap PCIe cards

Wants to slurp up R&D cash and spaff it on ioScales

Storage 17 Jun 10:19

Bone up on fresh EU privacy law - or end up in the clink, IT biz warned

McAfee Channel Summit Resellers no longer just flogging boxes - now they must offer legal advice

The Channel 17 Jun 09:58

HP sacks English employees to bag Scots gov jobs cash

My taxes went to Scotland and all I got was this lousy P45

The Channel 17 Jun 09:29

When to say those three little words: 'I am quitting'

Feature Ruthless headhunter also dispenses tips on when NOT to

Jobs 17 Jun 09:04

Ad-slingers! Punting peeps' pics into promos? You must read THIS

If you're sucking Twitter twits dry for stuff, you need to follow the law

Law 17 Jun 07:59

Don't wait to check your parachute until you're out of the plane

Does it do what it says on the tin? Credit insurance, that is

The Channel 17 Jun 07:33

Top500: Supercomputing sea change incomplete, unpredictable

ISC 2013 A mix of CPU and hybrid systems jockey for HPC hegemony – and lucre

HPC 17 Jun 07:00

You don't need phone lines or cable for ANYTHING, says Dish

The satellite-dish man can sort you out with phone and broadband over the air too

Data Networking 17 Jun 06:58

Boffins find evidence Atlantic Ocean has started closing

'Embryonic subduction zone' that flattened Lisbon headed for Blighty

Science 17 Jun 06:43

Anon posts Filipino president's phone numbers

Attempts to give Aquino a wake-up call and democracy a kick-start

Security 17 Jun 06:23

Google launches broadband balloons, radio astronomy frets

A careless Loon could blind the square kilometre array

Science 17 Jun 05:57

Panda-peddlers cuffed for chess gambling gambit

More porridge on the menu for Chinese coders after second offence

Law 17 Jun 05:28

Shy? Socially inadequate? Fiddling with your phone could help

App 'tells the brutal truth' about social inadequates' chatup lines

Applications 17 Jun 05:03

'BadNews is malware' says outfit that found it

Google says code harmless but Lookout says code base is evolving

Security 17 Jun 04:43

Rally supports Snowden amid claims GCHQ tapped G20 summit

NSA accused of ops on UK soil

Security 17 Jun 03:32

Sony allows hacking of its unloved SmartWatch

Flash your bits to take firmware off the wrist

Developer 17 Jun 02:09

SCO vs. IBM battle resumes over ownership of Unix

Zombie lawsuit back and wants to suck the brains out of Linux

Servers 17 Jun 00:48

Nearly-transparent screen adds solar charge to phones

French startup hopes to market in 2014

Phones 17 Jun 00:05

Rackspace elastic cloud goes live in Australia

Premium pricing for new region

Cloud 16 Jun 23:02

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