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7th November 2009 Archive

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  • Sun's surviving staff hit with 'motivation' missive

    Exclusive Code: Your solace, our savior

    Sun Microsystems has set software engineers seven goals in the wake of new layoffs, hoping to keep them focused amid uncertainty but to also hit existing corporate objectives. Among the targets: focus all their efforts on Sun's Kenai hosting and collaboration service, and deliver a "solid, scalable internal proof-of-concept" …

    Software 7 Nov 2009, 00:04

  • Animal lovers say no to radioactive NASA monkeys

    Appeal irradiated monkeyshines

    Animal rights groups are apparently not pleased with NASA's plan to zap squirrel monkeys with repeated doses of radiation for science. The US space agency will expose between 18 to 28 of the moneys to low doses of radiation daily to better understand the effects of long-term exposure outside Earth's protective magnetic shield …

    Science 7 Nov 2009, 00:07

  • Vint Cerf: 'Google doesn't know who you are'

    Identifiers don't identify

    Interwebs founding father and Google evangelist Vint Cerf has insisted that when you search Google, the company doesn't know who you are. Thursday morning, at a mini-conference in San Francisco, the always entertaining Cerf sat down with Wall Street Journal columnist Walt Mossberg and other tech luminaries to discuss "open" …

    Security 7 Nov 2009, 00:17

  • El Reg shrinks seven days onto one webpage

    Week in Review Attention span not required

    As a service to our with readers with (particularly) short attention spans, we at The Reg have squeezed the week that was into a single webpage. Or at least most of it. Before your attention drifts elsewhere, we should get to it: Jimmy Wales is awarded a €10,000 prize, Carly Fiorina stands for US Senate, Esther Dyson gets NASA …

    Bootnotes 7 Nov 2009, 05:22

  • Mozilla aborted IE in Firefox clothing

    Google we're not

    At one point, Mozilla considered building a plug-in that would turn Microsoft's Internet Explorer into a decent browser. But unlike Google, it quickly abandoned the idea. Mozilla Corp.'s director of community development Asa Dotzler tells The Reg that during its Firefox Summit two summers ago, developers discussed a plug-in …

    Applications 7 Nov 2009, 07:18

  • Elgato DTT Deluxe

    Review World's smallest USB TV tuner

    Elgato's previous EyeTV DTT Deluxe, which we reviewed in September 2008, was heralded as the world's smallest USB TV tuner. Just over a year on, and the company has launched a second record breaking tuner - one that's about half the size of its predecessor. Elgato's EyeTV DTT Deluxe: ridiculously small And there's another …

    Hardware 7 Nov 2009, 09:02