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  • Intel tunes Nehalem for HPC

    SC09 Super NEC pact

    Chip maker Intel is tweaking its future eight-core Beckton Nehalem EX processors, making a special version aimed just at HPC customers. On Monday at the SC09 supercomputing trade show in Portland, Oregon, Intel also announced a partnership with NEC to build Xeon based suppers. NEC already uses Intel's Xeon and Itanium …

    HPC 17 Nov 06:02

  • US regulators eye HPCom trade surge

    Pre-deal jump

    A spike in 3Com options trading just hours before HP's $2.7bn cash takeover bid has caught the eye of US regulators, according to reports. 3Com's call trading surged to an astounding 26-month high on November 11 - four hours before the acquisition was disclosed after the market closed that day, Bloomberg said. Now the US …

    Business 17 Nov 06:02

  • Sputnik, spaghetti and the IBM SPACE machine

    The 50th anniversary of the 1401

    The fall of 1957 was a low point not only for the United States, but for another high-minded world power: IBM. As the US looked up at Sputnik, without a satellite of its own, IBM was haunted by a rival machine known as the Gamma 3. Built by an upstart French outfit, the Gamma had trumped Blue Blue's fledgling computer tech - …

    Hardware 17 Nov 06:19

  • Adobe debuts full mobile Flash (minus the mobile)

    Beta now, Player later

    The full version of Adobe Systems' Flash Player especially turned for mobiles is now in beta, just don't expect it running on any handsets yet. Today, Adobe made Flash Player 10.1 and AIR 2.0 available for beta, but only for use on familiar old PCs, laptops and notebooks running Windows, Linux, or Mac. Betas for mobile …

    Developer 17 Nov 06:39

  • Mark Cuban counsels Google-busting bribery

    Bargain-basement Bing boost

    A famous loose-cannon/American billionaire has a plan for unseating Google from its search-engine throne - and at a mere $1bn, his idea is significantly less expensive than the billions Microsoft is sinking into that Bing thing. Broadcast.com co-founder and Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban's idea is simplicity itself: Just …

    Music and Media 17 Nov 06:45

  • Becta strikes Home Access deal

    Keytools to provide assistive tech

    The government's education technology agency has struck a deal for the supply of adapted hardware devices for recipients of the Home Access programme. Becta has signed up Keytools to provide assistive technology to learners who need devices such as adapted mice, keyboards and keyboard stickers. It is part of the government's …

    Channel Register 17 Nov 07:02

  • Oxford American Dictionary dubs 'unfriend' Word of the Year

    Facebook craze sacks 'teabaggers'

    Blame social networking for the latest cutesy-pie neologism tapped as the New Oxford American Dictionary's 2009 Word of the Year: unfriend. Up against a range of tech-related buzzwords that included "netbook," "sexting," and "paywall," the North American verbal tome maker decided to celebrate the asocial side of online …

    Odds and Sods 17 Nov 07:02

  • Samsung N510 Nvidia Ion-based netbook

    Review Decent HD performance in a mini-laptop at last?

    You don't have to dig too deep to see that the diversity of Samsung's netbook range is a case of flattering to deceive. Sure, there are plenty of them, but the differences are essentially peripheral and cosmetic with all bar the NC20 having 10.1in screens and the usual netbook-norm Intel Atom chippery. Samsung's N510: a full …

    Reg Hardware 17 Nov 08:02

  • EC forms industry body to probe behavioural ad issues

    Consumer commissioner fed up with web snooping chicanery

    The European Commission has formed a new group in an attempt to regulate companies' growing gathering and use of customers' personal data. The group has been formed to address problems the Commission says are eroding consumer trust. Online retail is increasingly dependent on information on users' browsing habits and …

    Law 17 Nov 08:02

  • ARM pitches for Android developers

    Talking shop

    ARM has launched an online forum it hopes will encourage device manufacturers, component suppliers and software developers to co-operate on the development of devices based on its chippery and the Android OS. The prosaically titled Solution Centre for Android provides a way of contacting and picking the brains of more than 35 …

    PCs & Chips 17 Nov 09:02

  • Time Warner names day for AOL spin-off

    The end's in sight

    Time Warner has detailed the departure date for its troubled internet business AOL. On 9 December all Time Warner shareholders will get one AOL share for every 11 TW shares they own. Time Warner shares will continue to trade as normal with the ticker TWZ and AOL shares will trade under the AOL ticker. When the two first merged …

    Financial News 17 Nov 09:22

  • Office 2010 beta lands in laps of MSDN, TechNet coders

    Final countdown to public testing begins

    Microsoft has begun pumping the Office 2010 beta out to members of its MSDN and TechNet developer groups, ahead of the code’s imminent arrival later this week. The vendor also pushed out the 64-bit beta version of Office Web Apps to subscribers yeterday. The company will almost certainly spin out the code for wider public …

    Applications 17 Nov 09:25

  • Official Bruce Schneier action figure steps onto market

    Coiffure options: 'Ponytail', 'Bald' or 'Cyborg'

    Good news for devotees of ponytailed crypto guru of all our hearts Bruce Schneier: it's now possible to buy an officially endorsed "Bruce Schneier action figure". The action figure, which can be purchased here, comes with a range of costumes ("casual Bruce", "smart Bruce" and "head only"), and also features "scalp" options (" …

    Security 17 Nov 09:58

  • Microsoft opens Marketplace to the masses

    Well those running 6.0 and 6.1, anyway

    Microsoft's on-device marketplace is now available for Windows Mobile 6.0 and 6.1, allowing older phones to download the very latest in farting applications. Microsoft reckons there are more than 800 applications in the Marketplace: we assume that's worldwide, as the UK offering seems somewhat Spartan. But everything you might …

    Mobile 17 Nov 10:04

  • 'Ave a desktop says Avamar

    EMC's Quantum and CommVault bludgeoning dedupe upgrades

    EMC's fifth version of Avamar has extended its capability from servers to desktop and notebooks, increased Data Store capacity by over 60 per cent and can write deduplicated data directly to tape. Avamar is deduplicating technology that runs in the system holding the data and removes block-level duplication, before sending the …

    Channel Register 17 Nov 10:26

  • Firefox syncing tool Weaves its way into beta status

    Anytime, anyplace, anywhere - more or less

    Mozilla’s experimental app that syncs up the "Firefox experience" across multiple browsers has been promoted to beta status. The open source outfit said the first beta release of Mozilla Weave 1.0 marked “a significant step towards making Weave Sync a production quality add-on.” It said the beta version has effectively ramped …

    Applications 17 Nov 10:29

  • Is there any such thing as ‘The Business’?

    Reader Workshop IT as matchmaker, referee and policeman

    A seasoned CIO of a large multinational once remarked: “All of these vendors keep telling me that IT must be aligned with the needs of ‘the business’, as if I just had one customer. "The reality is that I am constantly refereeing in squabbles over budgets, resources and priorities between the heads of the eight divisions I …

    Evolving Apps 17 Nov 10:35

  • Nintendo exec reignites Wii HD speculation

    Fils-Aime talks up “additional capability”

    Despite only recently stating that “there is no Wii HD” in development, the President of Nintendo America has since hinted that HD support isn’t the only new feature that may be added to a next-generation Wii. Reggie Fils-Aime said during a recent interview with website Kotaku that when Nintendo “move to the new generation” it …

    Reg Hardware 17 Nov 10:41

  • Cable and Wireless borrows big to finance split

    Bye then

    Cable and Wireless has today settled on the details of its long-planned split, which has been delayed by the recession. The demerger, establishing CWI and Worldwide as separate firms, is now due to be completed by the end of March. To ensure both new firms have enough cash to meet their debts and operate, Cable and Wireless …

    Telecoms 17 Nov 10:43

  • What upcoming plans do you have for your server estate?

    Mini Poll And what do you do with your old stuff?

    It's coming up to budget setting time again. As many of you are likely to be making changes to your server estates, we would like to know what plans you have for the coming year. Do you intend splashing out on new kit or will you be carrying on with what you have? Of course, if you are buying new stuff, the question arises of …

    Server Management 17 Nov 10:46

  • UK.gov hoovers up data on five-year-olds

    What I did on my holidays, and all the other days

    The government obsession with collecting data has now extended to five-year-olds, as local Community Health Services get ready to arm-twist parents into revealing the most intimate details of their own and their child’s personal, behavioural and eating habits. The questionnaire – or "School Entry Wellbeing Review" – is a four- …

    Government 17 Nov 11:02

  • Sony unveils Mills & Boon Reader

    E-book romance?

    Sony has come over all amorous in the run-up to Christmas, launching a version of its Reader e-book viewer inspired by romance publisher Mills & Boon (M&B). Sony's Mills & Boon version of the Reader Pocket Edition Steve Haber, President of Sony’s Digital Reading Division, said back in September that UK e-book buffs “should …

    Reg Hardware 17 Nov 11:15

  • Web manhunt child abuser gets 20 years

    Interpol internet appeal pays dividends

    A US child abuser who became the target of an internet manhunt last year has been jailed for nearly 20 years after abusing boys as young as six. Wayne Nelson Corliss, 60, was sent to prison for 19 and a half years and ordered to pay $5,000 by a court in Newark, New Jersey on Monday, AFP reports. Corliss was arrested in May …

    Policing 17 Nov 11:28

  • EU sweeps up dodgy ringtone companies

    70 per cent of sites breaking rules

    An EU investigation found that 70 per cent of the 554 ringtone sites examined were breaking the rules, resulting in 54 of them disappearing. The figures aren't quite as bad as they appear - the sweep was directed by national regulators who earmarked sites they suspected of breaking the EU rules on visible pricing and …

    Mobile 17 Nov 11:41

  • BeautifulPeople shun hairy Reg hack

    Just not beautiful enough for Aryan online club

    It's with a heavy heart that I today report I've been given the elbow by BeautifulPeople.com - the exclusive lovely-people-only website which invites potential members to prove themselves worthy of entry to the elite club by posting a fetching snap and short profile. Once you've made your pitch, existing members rate you as " …

    Bootnotes 17 Nov 11:45

  • MoD redefines 'public' with online poll

    We forgot to announce it. Whoops!

    The UK Ministry of Defence (MoD) is holding an online poll to get the views of the public on the massive reorganisation of the nation's armed forces - for which read cuts - expected next year. In the spirit of openness with which the entire defence review will probably be conducted, the MoD has let the "public" poll proceed …

    Government 17 Nov 12:01

  • Making Muvizu: DIY animation is here

    Prepare for an inbox avalanche of animations

    Even though it's in the alpha stage, Digimania's Muvizu is one of the most impressive new technologies I've seen in the past few years. But don't take my word for it. You're going to be annoyed by Muvizu output pretty soon. What the software - pronounced "Movie Zoo" - does is simplify 3D animation to the point that a child can …

    Applications 17 Nov 12:02

  • Can the UK have its identity strategy back, Mr President?

    US gov dusts off abandoned nine-year-old UK ID plan

    There was a lot of razzmatazz and back-slapping in the US in early September as President Obama's team announced a partnership with ten leading companies to provide federated digital identities acceptable for use with online government services. All part of the big push towards better, more open government, as set out in Obama …

    Government 17 Nov 12:02

  • Sky talks up subscription 3D merits

    "Other broadcasters” only offering 3D taster, apparently

    Channel 4’s week-long 3D TV spectacular only started last night, but rival broadcaster Sky has already chipped in with its opinion on how viewers should experience 3D in their living rooms. While Sky told Register Hardware that it isn’t “blasting” C4’s 3D TV week, a spokesperson for the subscription-only broadcaster said... …

    Reg Hardware 17 Nov 12:09

  • Parascale ups its cloud storage game

    'Chutes and scores

    Parascale has integrated its private cloud NAS with virtual servers meaning you can boot backed-up VMs straight from the cloud. The company provides a loosely-coupled network-attached storage (NAS) cluster as a cloud resource with network file storage (NFS) access - of course - as well as WebDav, HTTP and FTP. The cluster is …

    Storage 17 Nov 12:13

  • Orange touts free tweets

    Well, kinda

    UK operator Orange has signed a deal to push out tweets for free, though sending them will cost as usual. The deal means that Twitter users can receive alerts from their followed-themes by SMS message, and even upload pictures to their own feed via MMS (at 30p a pop) which Orange will host, automatically sending out a link to …

    Mobile 17 Nov 12:21

  • Appeal Court: Mod chips infringe game copyright after all

    Even if it is only a little bit at a time

    A man who sold computer chips that enabled pirated video games to be played on consoles was rightly convicted of copyright offences, the Court of Appeal has ruled. Christopher Paul Gilham sold the devices - called mod chips because they modify a console - to people who were able to use them to play unlicensed copies of video …

    Law 17 Nov 12:21

  • Sony Reader PRS-300 Pocket Edition

    Review The e-book reader for everyone?

    With the price of the Reader PRS-600 Touch Edition having been hiked up by 25 per cent over the original PRS-505, Sony clearly thinks there's room for a cheaper alternative. Hence the launch of the Reader PRS-300 Pocket Edition which does without a touchscreen and has a 5in rather than 6in screen. Sony's Reader Pocket Edition …

    Reg Hardware 17 Nov 13:02

  • Murdoch: Google is mortal and together we can kill it

    Or at least tame it

    "Everybody loves the BBC and it doesn't cost anything, Murdoch should learn a thing or two." - Comment by reader 'peter 3' at The Register Everyone's missed the clever part of Rupert Murdoch's broadside against Google last week. Murdoch said he'd block Google from spidering his websites' content, and may use litigation against …

    Music and Media 17 Nov 13:02

  • Riverbed looking to expand by buying Expand

    In the end, there can only be WAN

    Riverbed is looking to develop its WAN optimisation product line by buying its competitor, Expand Networks. The Israeli Globes media outlet reports that advanced negotiations are under way, although neither company would comment. Both companies have technology to speed the transmission of data across wide area networks (WAN …

    Storage 17 Nov 13:05

  • Microsoft co-founder battles cancer

    Paul Allen diagnosed with non-Hodgkins lymphoma

    Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen has been diagnosed with non-Hodgkins lymphoma. A memo which went round his firm, Vulcan Inc, yesterday, revealed that 56-year-old Allen had begun chemotherapy for "diffuse large B-cell lymphoma, a relatively common form of lymphoma", according to the Seattle Times. The memo added that Allen was …

    Financial News 17 Nov 13:12

  • Trojans likely to follow Win 7 activation hack

    Beware Greeks bearing security bypasses

    Trojan attacks are likely in the wake of the Windows 7 product activation system cracks developed last week, less than a month after the release of Microsoft's latest operating system. The RemoveWAT (and the similar ChewWGA) utility allow a prospective Windows 7 user to bypass the Windows Genuine Advantage registration …

    Enterprise Security 17 Nov 13:12

  • If I wanted to get there, I wouldn’t start from here!

    Webcast An alternative perspective on business productivity

    The Register’s panel of experts are discussing alternative perspectives to business productivity in a live webcast from 10am on 3 December. Share your opinions and put questions to the panel, all from the comfort of your desk - register your interest today. To some, the word 'productivity' just provides a means to squeezing …

    Tech Panel 17 Nov 14:14

  • Mobile phones - fighting cancer, causing car crashes

    Boffin Watch Everybody's free to wear sunscreen while being run over

    New research has shown that people who receive text messages reminding them to use sunscreen are more likely to use sunscreen. However, worrying results from a separate study implies that this positive effect could be negated by an increased likelihood of you being hit by a car. Research from the University of California has …

    Mobile 17 Nov 14:17

  • Cardiff Airport gets more security theatre

    Got a face, sir? Step this way

    Cardiff Airport is joining Manchester in using facial recognition technology to automate passport checks for inbound passengers. Anyone over 18 with a biometric passport issued since 2006 can choose to have their face scanned, matched to the picture held on a chip on their passport and, assuming there's a match, be allowed in …

    Government 17 Nov 14:20

  • Pirate Bay says tracker tech is so yesterday, man

    Takes seat at distributed hash table

    The Pirate Bay has kyboshed its tracker technology and replaced it with a decentralised peer-to-peer network that all modern clients can hook up to. The so-called distributed hash table (DHT) allows freeloaders to circumnavigate use of a tracker in order to download torrents. Instead, they connect to a DHT network to find …

    Music and Media 17 Nov 14:36

  • Guide names mass e-car adoption potholes

    Leccy Tech Electrification Coalition speaks mind

    A US-based pro leccy vehicle organisation has recommended that 25 per cent of the country’s new car sales be for battery-electric or plug-in hybrid cars by the year 2020. The Electrification Coalition – described as a not-for-profit body “committed to promoting policies and actions that will facilitate the deployment of …

    Reg Hardware 17 Nov 14:42

  • Latest Navy carrier madness: 'Sell 'em to India'

    Analysis Grauniad has lunch with BAE

    Yet another scheme by the MoD for cutting costs on the Royal Navy's new aircraft carriers has surfaced in the media, with claims now being aired that one of the two ships might be sold to India. The Guardian reports that India "has recently lodged a firm expression of interest to buy one of the two state-of-the-art 65,000 …

    Government 17 Nov 14:52

  • Swindon council promises townsfolk free Wi-Fi XTC

    Leaves citizens feeling ten feet tall

    Swindon council has bought into the municipal Wi-Fi dream, taking a 35 per cent stake in a firm that will build a mesh network to give the Wiltshire town's citizens free net access. Swindon Borough Council has partnered with aQovia to put up 1,400 access points in the city, and target the technology at other towns in the UK. …

    Wireless 17 Nov 14:56

  • Clove confirms Acer Liquid Android phone launch

    Weeks, or possibly days, to go

    Acer’s Liquid A1 smartphone will hit Blighty this month, it has emerged. Acer's Liquid A1 smartphone: out later this month through Clove Said to be the world’s first smartphone to combine an 800 x 480 touchscreen with Qualcomm’s 1GHz Snapdragon processor and version 1.6 of Android, the Acer handset will be available from …

    Reg Hardware 17 Nov 15:06

  • UK2 email migration still not finished

    Seventeen days and counting

    Hosting company UK2 has still not finished migrating customer emails across to a new system. Just to recap: on 6 November, one week after the original problems, UK2's managing director Martin Baker promised us all mails would be restored by Sunday night. On Monday, the mails still hadn't moved. On Tuesday 10 November, network …

    Telecoms 17 Nov 15:08

  • V-22 Osprey, stealth jumpjet 'need refrigerated landing pads'

    Hover-ships' hot exhaust melting decks of US warships

    It's now official. The new generation of high-tech hovering aircraft - namely the famous V-22 "Osprey" tiltrotor and the upcoming F-35B supersonic stealth jump-jet - have an unforeseen flaw. Their exhaust downwash is so hot as to melt the flight decks of US warships, leading Pentagon boffins to look into refrigerated landing …

    Science 17 Nov 15:27

  • Staff at UK mobile co sold customer records

    Updated Info Commissioner recommends jail for miscreants

    Staff at an unnamed mobile operator have been selling customer details to the competition, and the Information Commissioner reckons that it will take a spell in chokey to stop the leaks. According to the BBC, a T-Mobile spokesman has confirmed that T-Mobile is the company in question. The spokesman tells the BBC that the …

    Mobile 17 Nov 15:47

  • IT workers top UK inertia league

    Too much coffee, too little exercise

    Personal training outfit Fat Free Fitness has shockingly revealed that the UK's IT workers top the nation's inertia league - drinking too much coffee and doing way too little exercise. A probe of 1,734 employees found idle IT so-and-sos are Blighty's least energetic, with just 19 per cent meeting the gov's activity guidelines …

    IT Director 17 Nov 15:49

  • Activision denies Modern Warfare 2 Russian ban

    Controversial airport level ditched

    The publisher behind Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 has dismissed claims that the videogame has been banned in Russia because of a violent level set within a Russian airport. “Reports that Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 has been banned in Russia are erroneous,” Activision said. The source of Russian contention is MW2’s “No …

    Reg Hardware 17 Nov 15:50

  • Most security products not up to scratch

    But most of all, you've let yourself down

    Only four per cent (one in 25) information security products pass muster when first tested under a widely-used industry kitemark scheme. Most products require two or more cycles of testing before achieving certification, according to security testing outfit ICSA Labs. ICSA Labs, which has tested anti-virus and firewall …

    Security 17 Nov 15:56

  • Japan gov poised to cancel 10 petaflops Keisoku super

    SC09 Fujitsu has to do some financial jujitsu

    Rumours were circulating around late last week ahead of the SC09 supercomputing trade show in Portland, Oregon, that the Japanese government might severely curtail its funding of HPC projects. This comes after a panel of axe-wielding government bureaucrats charged with removing waste from the Japanese government budget …

    HPC 17 Nov 16:11

  • Northamber warns things still rough in UK channel

    Future's not clear to see

    UK distie Northamber updated the markets on its first quarter performance to 30 September and sales are down nine per cent on the same period last year. It said the fall in sales was similar to levels of price erosion over the period but "significantly lower than the 22 per cent decline in sales for the year to 30 June 2009". …

    Channel Register 17 Nov 16:18

  • HELL-beam project now one step from jet-fighter raygun

    DARPA fridge laser. Advantage: Shark

    US military boffinry chiefs have stated that they will shortly issue a brace of contracts for "refrigerator sized" laser blaster cannons. One of the deals will see a full-power ground prototype built which will be the final stage prior to America's first raygun-equipped jet fighter. The news comes in a pair of notices issued …

    Science 17 Nov 17:15

  • €2m iPhone bounty stolen

    Thieves slice open roof to pinch 4000 iPhones

    The iPhone could be in short supply across Belgium this Christmas, because thieves have stolen some 4000 units of the smartphone worth an estimated €2m (£1.7m/$2.9m). After using a fire ladder to climb onto the roof of a logistics company’s “immense” warehouse in Willebroek, Belgium last weekend, the smart phone thieves then …

    Reg Hardware 17 Nov 17:19

  • Romanian cops to $150k ATM skimming spree

    'All your PIN are belong to us'

    A Romanian national has admitted he defrauded Bank of America of about $150,000 in a scheme that secretly recorded customer information as it was entered into automatic teller machines. Victor Vasile Constantin, 23, pleaded guilty in US District Court in Connecticut to one count each of bank fraud and aggravated identity theft …

    Crime 17 Nov 17:51

  • ARM opens Android happy place

    Developers unite

    ARM has unveiled a place where Android developers can help each other be Android developers. The chip designer calls this place The Solution Center for Android, boasting that "more than" 35 ARM-friendly developers have already joined the fun. Android - Google's open source mobile stack - was originally written for an ARM- …

    Developer 17 Nov 18:48

  • Google target slips ads into iPhone apps

    AdMob indeed

    AdMob - the self-described "world's largest mobile advertising marketplace" that was recently snapped up by Google for tidy $750m - is introducing a new in-app advert and product-purchasing system for the iPhone. Reports scurried across the web yesterday about Apple being in talks with AdMob about a possible acquisition before …

    Mobile 17 Nov 18:54

  • Microsoft 'Dallas' muscles Google data crusade

    PDC Crunches Red Planet

    Microsoft is hoping to out-Google Google by unlocking the world's information and slapping a GUI on the front end. Today, the company unveiled Dallas, which chief software architect Ray Ozzie said would deliver "data as a service." He described it as a "game changing" subsystem of Microsoft's Windows Azure computing and …

    Software 17 Nov 19:22

  • Intel brass sued over antitrust wrangle

    Shareholder dubs board patsies

    Intel CEO Paul Otellni and a host of other top Intel brass past and present have been fingered by a shareholder lawsuit, accused of ignoring and pandering to antitrust misconduct that resulted in record fines for the company. The lawsuit was filed last Friday in US District Court in Delaware by shareholder Charles Gilman. The …

    PCs & Chips 17 Nov 19:49

  • T-Mobile raises Sidekick from the dead

    Microsoft meltdown (not) forgotten

    T-Mobile resumed sales of its benighted Sidekick smart(ish)phone on Tuesday morning, six weeks after a cloudburst swamped the once-popular status symbol. In early October, a catastrophic server failure at a Microsoft subsidiary - the all-too-prophetically named Danger - wiped out Sidekick users' personal data that had been …

    Mobile 17 Nov 20:11

  • Intel: 3D Web to save HPC

    SC09 The super killer app

    Intel CTO Justin Rattner has a stark warning for the HPC community: Come up with a killer application or the business will stagnate. As the person who spearheaded the creation of the ASCI Red massively parallel system for the US Department of Energy's Sandia National Laboratories - the first machine to break through the 1 …

    HPC 17 Nov 20:23

  • Microsoft ordered to halt Win XP sales in China

    IP champion accused of IP theft

    Microsoft has been ordered to stop selling Windows XP in China after a court ruled that certain fonts in the operating system infringe on a Chinese firm's intellectual property. On Monday, Beijing's 1st Intermediate People's Court decided that Microsoft had overstepped a deal with Zhongyi Electronics to include the company's …

    Operating Systems 17 Nov 21:22

  • Fedora 12 debuts after Halloween slippage

    November trick or treat

    Fedora 12 made its official debut today, after a two-week slippage in its release schedule. Codenamed "Constantine," the new RedHat community Linux distro includes power management features pulled from RHEL 5, improved support for netbooks, and a much-improved NetworkManager. The latter provides a graphical display of the WiFi …

    Operating Systems 17 Nov 21:47

  • Hacktivists ransack Hitler defender's email

    David Irving's private musings bared

    Self-proclaimed anti-fascist hackers have struck a major blow at controversial World War II historian David Irving by taking down two of his websites and publishing scores of his emails and private information. The 16,000-word missive posted to Wikileaks contains the names and contact details of supporters of Irving, who - …

    Music and Media 17 Nov 23:07

  • Microsoft delivers 'almost ready' Azure cloud

    PDC Play now, play later - much later

    Microsoft is fiddling around with the launch dates of the highly anticipated Windows Azure while showing off the cloud service's latest advances. The company said on Tuesday that Azure, unveiled in October 2008, would continue as a Community Technology Preview (CTP) through to the end of this year. Azure will be opened to …

    Servers 17 Nov 23:08