11th November 2007 Archive

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Tumbleweeds outnumber punters, as iPhone's First Night flops

Let me through - I'm a journalist

Journalists and PR minders outnumbered buyers on Friday night as interest in Apple's iPhone miserably failed to live up to the pre-launch hype in the UK. The iPhone went on sale at stores operated by retail titan Carphone Warehouse, exclusive operator O2, and Apple's own retail chain. The days preceding the launch had been …

Mobile 11 Nov 2007, 02:37
Home snoop CCTV more popular than Big Brother

Forget the web, we want to watch real crims

The scheme that gave residents of Shoreditch links to local CCTV cameras through their TV sets had better viewing figures than Channel 4's Big Brother, according to an internal report by the local authority's rejuvenation body. The Register has learned how residents took to the Shoreditch Digital Bridge scheme in order to scan …

Law 11 Nov 2007, 08:02
Filtering starlight to probe new worlds

Interview In the solar system and beyond

European star gazers have been filtering stellar light through the atmospheres of the three inner planets to find out what they are made of. Venus Express, the European Space Agency's (ESA) mission to our twin planet, is watching starlight as it passes through Venus' thick swirling atmosphere for the first time. The …

Space 11 Nov 2007, 09:02
The broken terror systems that killed de Menezes

Analysis A study in systemic failure

Killers were on the loose and, to quote Friday's Guardian, "terrible risks had to be balanced... it flowed from this that something might go terribly wrong." Except, as the Stockwell One report into the de Menezes shooting makes clear, that's not exactly what it flowed from, and given the systems in place on the day, "might" …

Law 11 Nov 2007, 11:02
Great War diary reveals original Captain Blackadder

Grimly black humour amid the carnage

Blackadder would have approved. On 9 November 1916, Captain Alexander Stewart of Scottish regiment the Cameronians wrote from the Western Front: "I am very much annoyed by memos sent round from Headquarters that come in at all hours of the day and night; they stop me getting a full night's rest and some of them are very silly …

Music and Media 11 Nov 2007, 11:02
Never have to hear of the iPhone again

Reg web app will take away the pain

You've got your shiny new iPhone, so the last thing you want is to read any more about it, luckily we can now offer a Web App which will remove all references to Apple's slate and replace them with a term of your preference: at least while you're surfing El Reg. Some people here at The Register are getting a little bored of …

Mobile 11 Nov 2007, 19:25
Intel jabs bruised AMD with 12 new Xeons and desktop dynamo

Plentiful Penryn

Months of torturous fanfare come to a close on Monday as Intel will officially start shipping its family of "Penryn" processors built with a whiz-bang new manufacturing process. Normally, Intel tries to keep the launch date of a new chip or chip family secret for as long as possible. Even when scurrilous hacks manage to nail …

Servers 11 Nov 2007, 20:17