8th November 2009 Archive

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Sun files $120m loss on the hush

Only $120m. Well done

It was a week later than El Reg expected, but the behavior was the same. After the stock market closed on Friday and everyone was heading home for the weekend, server and operating system maker Sun Microsystems snuck out its financial results for the first quarter of fiscal 2010. Revenues fell 25 per cent to $2.24bn. Sale have …

Servers 8 Nov 03:43
'World-mode' iPhone due next year, says fanboi rumor

CDMA meets Jobsian cult

The Jobsian cult is hard at work on a "world-mode" iPhone capable of tapping both CDMA and GSM/UMTS wireless networks, according to the fanboi rumor mill. Citing a report from investment research firm OTR Global - which cites unnamed sources in the Taiwanese handset supply chain - Apple Insider says this dual-standard Jobsian …

Mobile 8 Nov 05:51
Deja vu in Adobe's Flash fight with Microsoft

Give us the tools

At times I had to pinch myself at Adobe Systems' Max conference last month In Los Angeles, California. Was this an Adobe, or a Microsoft event? First there were the case studies, like the MLB.com - Major League Baseball - web video, originally seen at Microsoft's Mix 2007 when it used Silverlight, and now at Adobe Max as a …

Developer 8 Nov 06:02
El Reg's LHC visit - Deleted Scenes

'An impossible machine that could not be built'

The Large Hadron Collider - the gigantic underground double-barrelled particle cannon assembled by top boffins deep beneath the Franco-Swiss border - is to start up again "around the 20th" of this month. Not only is the LHC tremendously cool (quite literally) in its own right, it's also the focus of a global hypercomputing grid …

Physics 8 Nov 10:02
Police fail to dampen down bonfire night Westminster protest

Met backs down in face of massed ranks of Guy Fawkes

Officers responsible for Parliamentary security stayed calm this week, despite the unexpected arrival - on the 404th anniversary of an infamous plot to blow up the Houses of Parliament - of several dozen masked men and women dressed as Guy Fawkes. Meanwhile, a distinct lack of instant response from the Met to what most passers …

Policing 8 Nov 12:02
World's first iPhone worm Rickrolls angry fanbois

Hey, jailbreakers: ikee never gonna give you up

iPhone owners in Australia awoke this weekend to find their devices targeted by self-replicating attacks that display an image of 1980s heart throb Rick Astley that's not easily removed. The attacks, which researchers say are the world's first iPhone worm in the wild, target jailbroken iPhones that have SSH software installed …

Security 8 Nov 22:25