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  • Xiotech in spin transplant

    Comment New CEO means new marketeer

    Incoming Xiotech CEO Alan Atkinson has replaced Xiotech's head marketeer with an IBM recruit. Xiotech is the vendor that made a huge marketing noise in 2008 about its Emprise modular array consisting of sealed canisters of drives, with Intelligent Storage Elements (ISEs) being used instead of Xyratex, LSI or Dot Hill-sourced …

    Storage 18 Nov 06:02

  • Ofcom preps for World Radiocommunication

    2012 looming

    Ofcom has laid out its plans for the World Radiocommunication Conference 2012, and it's seeking input from anyone who cares enough to comment. The conference is still three years off, but the agenda was laid out in 2003 and then tweaked in 2007, so its high time Ofcom decided what its going to care about when everyone gets …

    Wireless 18 Nov 06:02

  • GooHooSoft bear-hugs 'Apache for web specs'

    Open source meets open standards

    Google, Microsoft, Yahoo!, Facebook, and other web-happy types have embraced a new effort to promote the use of free and open specifications across the net. Yes, that's Google and Microsoft working arm-in-arm. The wonders never cease. Today, as part of its ongoing effort apply open-source-software licensing to web …

    Music and Media 18 Nov 06:02

  • NASA maps Mars with child labor web games

    Hey kid, Be a Martian

    NASA is outsourcing laborious Martian cartography to Earth children with a website that entices users to make a game out of sorting through the space agency's hundreds of thousands images of the Red Planet. In collaboration with Microsoft, NASA has created the "Be a Martian" website, where helping to improve Mars map data …

    Space 18 Nov 06:02

  • Isilon doubles capacity

    2TB drives in the house

    Isilon has doubled the capacity of its largest clusterable network-attached storage (NAS) system by using 2TB drives. The new model is called the IQ 72000X and houses 36 2TB Hitachi GST SATA drives in its 4U enclosure. Isilon says it means there is a 10PB single volume capacity in clustered form, with up to 144 nodes. …

    Storage 18 Nov 07:02

  • Man charged in $111k domain name theft

    eBayed to basketball pro

    A New Jersey man has been charged with stealing the p2p.com domain name and selling it to a professional basketball player for more than $111,000 in the first US indictment for domain name theft. In May 2006, Daniel Goncalves, now 25, of Union City, illegally accessed accounts of domain name registrar GoDaddy "for the purpose …

    Crime 18 Nov 07:02

  • IDC Ecco Personal

    Review Points the way, literally

    Forgotten where you parked your car? Lost your hotel, tent or even family and friends? For the terminally disorientated, the Ecco Personal Pocket GPS Locator is designed to put you back on track. Indeed, this hi-tech key fob proves to be more than just the novelty item that it first appears. IDC Ecco: for keys that have lost …

    Reg Hardware 18 Nov 08:54

  • Quantum's small tape libraries get big

    At least a little

    Quantum has entered the small tape library market with products that provide more than the everyday 2 and 4U boxes offered by everybody else. One manufacturer - BDT - makes the 24- and 48-slot entry-level LTO4 tape libraries made by Dell, HP, IBM, Overland, and Sun. Quantum has decided to forego OEM'ing the BDT boxes and has …

    Storage 18 Nov 09:02

  • Microsoft feeds Excel to supercomputer

    SC09 Windows HPC chases Linux

    If the quants in financial services get tools for running their models more quickly, will the economy get better or worse? Who knows? But thanks to Microsoft, we're all going to find out. At the SC09 supercomputing trade show in Portland, Oregon, this week, Microsoft is trumpeting the parallel programming smarts its baking …

    HPC 18 Nov 09:02

  • The great ‘build versus buy’ debate

    Mini Poll What's your view on the role of packaged applications?

    Following our discussions earlier in the week on the pros and cons of packaged applications, the ‘build versus buy’ debate rolls on. Whether it’s ERP, CRM or other solutions for dealing with core business requirements, we’d be interested in gathering a bit more information on where you are today and how this is changing. So, …

    Evolving Apps 18 Nov 09:11

  • OCZ unveils 1TB SSD Colossus

    Enormous capacity - even bigger price

    Memory and storage specialist OCZ has unwrapped its latest SSD and it's a biggie: the Colossus packs in 1TB of solid-state storage. The price is enormous, too: $3572 (£2123/€2392) for that terabyte capacity, though cheaper (sort of) 500GB, 250GB and 120GB versions are available for the less well-heeled. OCZ's Colossus: 3.5in …

    Reg Hardware 18 Nov 09:45

  • Mellanox pushes InfiniBand to 120Gb/s

    SC09 Offloading IB processing from CPUs to ConnectX-2s

    If 40 Gb/sec InfiniBand is not enough for you, then you'll be happy to hear that InfiniBand switch maker Mellanox Technologies is going to crank its switches past 11 to deliver 120 Gb/sec ports in its MTS and IS switch families. As it turns out, the InfiniScale IV chips that Mellanox created for its 40 Gb/sec IS5000 switches, …

    HPC 18 Nov 09:58

  • Macs not all that for reliability

    Pretty though

    A survey of 30,000 laptops has found one in three machines die within three years and netbooks do even worse, suffering 20 per cent more hardware failures than larger laptop machines. Apple is fourth placed for reliability behind, in ascending order, Sony, Toshiba and in first place Asus. To be fair to Apple there's not much …

    Channel Register 18 Nov 09:59

  • AMD intros dual-GPU monster graphics card

    Overclockers rejoice

    AMD has whipped out its latest top-of-the-line dual-GPU graphics card, as expected. Dubbed the ATI Radeon HD 5970, the DirectX 11-supporting card can drive up to three displays simultaneously - there are a pair of DVI connectors and a DisplayPort on the back - and one screen at up to 7680 x 1600. The board's two 40nm GPUs run …

    Reg Hardware 18 Nov 10:08

  • MS store staff in spontaneous electric boogie

    Video Gobsmacked witness 'absolutely floored' by life-changing dance experience

    Those of you who object to a) Microsoft, b) California and c) effusive Yanks gushing complete and utter cobblers are advised to look away now, because what follows is really going to put a downer on your day. Introducing Brad Slavin, who just happened to be in a shopping mall in Mission Viejo, unaware he was about to …

    Bootnotes 18 Nov 10:13

  • NetApp and Fujitsu to integrate products

    Living together, not marriage

    NetApp and Fujitsu are partnering to integrate some of their products, enable faster data centre server system deployment, and develop a joint go-to-market strategy. Fujitsu is a general IT supplier with products ranging from mainframes, through servers, storage and networking to PCs and notebooks. It includes Fujitsu …

    Storage 18 Nov 10:18

  • T-Mobile coughs to data theft

    But can't understand all the fuss

    T-Mobile has admitted it was the operator whose staff sold customer data to competitors, but can't understand why the Information Commissioner decided to share the information. Staff at the network operator had developed a sideline selling customer records to brokers who then called up the customers to offer alternative …

    Mobile 18 Nov 10:21

  • Xbox bigwig pooh-poohs Natal's November 2010 launch

    Gadget 'still in the baking'

    Project Natal won’t launch in November 2010, despite recent claims to the contrary, a UK Microsoft executive has stated. Neil Thompson, the UK head of all things Xbox, said: “We’re still very much in the baking on Natal and there’s a lot of things to get decided on it,” a report by website Games Industry said. Last week, …

    Reg Hardware 18 Nov 10:53

  • iPhone to become Blighty's favourite smartphone

    Canalys Mobility Forum Sales to bloom with end of O2 exclusivity

    Apple's iPhone could become Britain's best-selling smartphone, market watcher Canalys has claimed - and it's all due to the end of O2's exclusive on the handset. Speaking at the Canalys Mobility Forum in London yesterday, analyst Pete Cunningham revealed that the iPhone was France's favourite smartphone in Q3 2009. That, he …

    Reg Hardware 18 Nov 10:54

  • How the Dunning-Kruger effect will stop techies buying houses

    Oh, and murder the economy as well

    By Jove, I think we've finally got an explanation for the unremitting horrors of so much of modern life - the way in which anything touched by politics, bureaucracy or officialdom simply turns to shite. No, it's not simply the current shower of authoritarians who are in power, and it's not that they're all paid too much/too …

    Small Biz 18 Nov 11:02

  • Are your Server Estate Policies Fully Mature?

    Workshop And is IT Governance a help or a hindrance?

    You know what happens: everyone in marketing focuses on the processor speeds, the cache size, the go faster stripes and the other fancy new features of the server and its component parts. You also know that the real challenges of any system only start with the business case and getting it installed. IT Governance is an area …

    Server Management 18 Nov 11:13

  • Fortinet launches rare net security IPO

    Roll-up, roll-up

    Fortinet has set a price of $12.50 a share for its initial public offering on Wednesday. If all goes to plan, the security appliance firm and its investors stand to rake in a more than $156m through the offer. Fortinet shares are due to begin trading on Nasdaq on 18 November under the ticker symbol "FTNT", as part of the first …

    Enterprise Security 18 Nov 11:16

  • High-tech 'blade runner' legs better than real ones - profs

    Olympic ban on Dr Who Cybermen seems likely

    The argument over the use of artificial legs to gain better results in athletics has taken a new turn. Following lengthy legal debates, it had been accepted that prosthetic legs confer no substantial advantage, but now the very scientists who argued that case have changed their minds. Today's new findings come from human- …

    Biology 18 Nov 11:19

  • Nokia N-series smartphones to lose Symbian by 2012

    Maemo to replace it

    Reports that Nokia smartphones could one day all use the Linux-based Maemo OS instead of Symbian just won’t die - especially now that Maemo representatives have allegedly confirmed that N-series Nokias will soon lose Symbian. At an event in London last night, unnamed members of the “Maemo marketing team” allegedly told blog …

    Reg Hardware 18 Nov 11:25

  • New Zealand rated least corrupt country

    Somalia bent as a nine bob note

    New Zealand has been rated the world's least corrupt country for 2009, topping Transparency International's "Corruption Perceptions Index" (CPI) with a squeaky-clean 9.4 out of 10 in the league table of just how corrupt, or otherwise, nations are reckoned to be. Last year's winner Denmark is relegated to second spot, with 9.3 …

    Government 18 Nov 11:55

  • Facebook battles attack by child protection chief

    Gamble unfriends social networks

    Facebook has defended itself against criticism from the Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre (CEOP) that it has refused to join a reporting scheme. Jim Gamble, the chief executive of CEOP, today took to the airwaves and newspaper pages to attack Facebook and MySpace for declining to publish his organisation's "CEOP …

    Policing 18 Nov 11:58

  • Windows Phones get to play Opera too

    Finally, more than three tabs at a time

    The new version of Opera Mobile, available for Symbian since the beginning of the month, is now available for Windows Phones too. Opera Mobile 10 is still officially a beta release, but seems stable enough and the addition of Turbo alone makes the download worthwhile. A better interface and the ability to use more than three …

    Mobile 18 Nov 12:00

  • Monitoring and managing power consumption

    You the Expert Reg Readers tell it like it really is

    We set you a challenge to join our expert panel and answer questions from our readers on how to deal with your server challenges. This week we've got the first of a series of instalments on this topic. We welcome the first contribution from our resident reader experts, Adam Salisbury and Trevor Pott. You can read their advice …

    Server Management 18 Nov 12:12

  • Universities saving skint students still waiting for loans

    Systems still struggling with applications upswing

    Three out of four English universities have had to make emergency payments to students who are still waiting for their loans to come through. Ongoing problems with processing student loans - mainly because of the big increase in applications thanks to the recession - have led to long delays for thousands of students. A …

    Government 18 Nov 12:15

  • Massive net surveillance programme on schedule

    Home Office makes 2016 year of the snoop

    A £2bn scheme to monitor all electronic communications remains within the Home Office's financial plans, despite the government postponing the relevant legislation. The Interception Modernisation Programme (IMP) is planned for completion in 2016, having started in April 2006, according to a written parliamentary answer from …

    Government 18 Nov 12:17

  • Nokia to cull Symbian in 2012

    It's the end of an Epoc

    Nokia says it will replace Symbian with its Maemo Linux by 2012. All high-end N series multimedia devices will be running the Linux OS by then. Rubbing salt in the wounds of longtime Epoc developers, it disclosed the news to a meetup of Maemo enthusiasts – Ben Smith reports at The Really Mobile Project blog. X series and E …

    Mobile 18 Nov 12:25

  • Android 2.0 debuts on touchscreen tablet

    Vega set for CES unveiling

    Manufacturer Innovative Converged Devices (ICD) has released the specifications for a sleek and sexy touchscreen tablet onto which it plans to install the Eclair edition of Google’s Android OS. ICD's Vega will run Android 2.0 and come in 7in, 11in and 15in screen sizes Vega measures 373 x 254 x 16mm and sports a gorgeous 15 …

    Reg Hardware 18 Nov 12:28

  • Google to pop Chrome OS cherry tomorrow?

    Tangos with Microsoft rival in code showdown

    Google plans to steal some attention away from Microsoft’s annual developer shindig by unveiling more details about its Chrome OS tomorrow. Mountain View will be revealing how far down the line the company’s wonks have gotten with development of its operating system, which is currently expected to debut at some point in the …

    Operating Systems 18 Nov 12:39

  • Netbooks 'not just a consumer fad'

    Canalys Mobility Forum Business keen on 'em too

    Netbooks are just a fad. Punters are only buying them because they're cheap. According to market watcher Canalys, neither of these statements are true. The company basis its claim - made in London this week at its Mobility Forum by VP Mike Welch - on around 20,000 interviews with buyers located across Europe. Out of all those …

    Reg Hardware 18 Nov 12:48

  • Fujifilm Finepix F200EXR

    Review Extra sensory perception?

    The Finepix F200EXR is the replacement for the Finepix F100fd, which we looked at last January. Although there are a number of similarities between the two cameras – they have the same sized image sensor, optical zoom and camera body – there are some differences too, not least the Finepix F200EXR’s new EXR image sensor. …

    Reg Hardware 18 Nov 13:03

  • US Navy electromagnetic mass-driver commences tests

    Electric machine will toss off Topguns from 2010

    A prototype electromagnetic mass-driver, intended to hurl jet aircraft into the sky from the decks of aircraft carriers, has gone into operation at a former airship base in New Jersey. The new kit could be even more important to the Royal Navy than it will be to the US fleet. Mass-driver kit for shooting robot jets into the …

    Government 18 Nov 13:14

  • Queen promises to make poverty and budget deficits illegal

    Tower looms for recalcitrant Chancellor

    The Queen today delivered her annual speech to the combined Houses of Parliament, setting out her government’s plans for legislation over the next six months. As expected, this was the shortest speech of the current parliament, running to just 13 minutes and contained promises to: - Enhance the governance of the financial …

    Government 18 Nov 13:19

  • Intel offers non-Jewish Saturday workforce in Israel plant row

    Compromise plan after ultra-Orthodox protest

    Intel has offered to field an entirely non-Jewish Saturday workforce at its Jerusalem chip plant, after unruly demonstrations by ultra-Orthodox Jews there at the weekend. The protest by ultra-Orthodox Jews, enraged by the company running the plant on the Jewish sabbath, prompted Intel to surround the factory with barbed wire. …

    PCs & Chips 18 Nov 13:21

  • Anti-filesharing laws are go

    Digital Queen

    The government will press ahead with plans to restrict internet access for illegal filesharers, it was confirmed in the Queen's Speech today. As expected, a Digital Economy Bill will aim to compel ISPs to penalise those persistently observed infringing copyright via peer-to-peer networks. If the overall level of illegal …

    Government 18 Nov 13:30

  • Cosmic Vampire sheds light on dark energy

    European Astro-boffs eagerly wait for supernova

    Astronomers have taken time-lapse images of a "Vampire Star" that is causing them to excitedly quiver about possible insights into the Universe's expansion. Using the imaginatively-named Very Large Telescope and "adaptive-optics techniques", scientists at the European Southern Observatory (ESO) were able to take images and …

    Space 18 Nov 13:32

  • Gene testing firm goes titsup

    DNA disease spotting ain't worth spit

    The company that all but started the industry of selling gene tests to individuals to predict their likelihood of getting certain diseases has gone bust. deCODE genetics Inc, said it was entering Chapter 11 - bankruptcy protection - in order to sell all its assets. The company said it had explored "multiple restructuring …

    Biology 18 Nov 13:44

  • Touch controls floated by Infragistics for Microsoft's Surface

    Computational fiddling

    A trial set of controls to build touch-based applications with input from different users on Microsoft's Surface have been released by interface specialist Infragistics. The company is expected to today announce three types of controls have been customized for Surface and are available under a Community Technology Preview (CTP …

    Developer 18 Nov 14:01

  • Facebook revises privacy policy

    Plain English update

    Facebook has published a simpler, easier to understand privacy policy which removes complicated technical and legal terms in the previous document without changing much of substance. Less than 7,000 people commented on the social networking site's proposals to change its privacy policy. This allows the company to adopt the …

    ID 18 Nov 14:11

  • Wall-punching Brit gamer foams (milk) at the mouth

    NSFW Didn't much like Modern Warfare 2, YouTube vid suggests

    We don't know what the gamers among you make of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2, but here's one young Brit's analysis of it after an evidently intense 17 hour session at the console (NSFW): Well, suffice it to say that since posting his thoughtful critique last week, this petulant young man has become a bit of a YouTube …

    Bootnotes 18 Nov 14:14

  • LHC starts beaming Saturday: Collisions Dec 3

    Exclusive Reg reader unlocks secret CERN web

    As all the world knows, the Large Hadron Collider - the mightiest particle-punisher in the world and possible portal to other dimensions - is shortly to fire up again, following last year's catastrophic liquid helium superfluid explosion. You can learn that much by following other media outlets like any ignorant drone. But you …

    Physics 18 Nov 14:41

  • E-car driven from Dover to Calais

    Leccy Tech John Surtees goes for subterranean spin

    Veteran racing driver John Surtees has become the first man to drive from Britain to France in an electric car. John Surtees at the Channel Tunnel's halfway point Credit: David Barzilay Surtees – the only man to ever win world championships on both four and two wheels – yesterday drove a prototype Ginetta G50EV through the …

    Reg Hardware 18 Nov 15:01

  • Yahoo! Go! Going! Nowhere!

    Gah

    Yahoo is shutting down its Go! service early next year, saying that it's easier to do things in mobile browsers these days. Go! is a Java client, which was supposed to consolidate Yahoo's various services as well as providing a platform on which third-parties could deploy widgets. The problem is that they didn't, and Yahoo has …

    Mobile 18 Nov 15:15

  • UK cybercops cuff ZeuS Trojan suspect pair

    Alleged Bonnie and Clyde of malware

    A Manchester couple have been arrested on suspicion of using the notorious ZeuS Trojan horse to commit banking fraud. The unnamed man and woman, both 20, were arrested by officers from the Metropolitan Police's newly established Central e-Crime Unit (PCeU) on 3 November. The pair were arrested for offences under 1990 Computer …

    Crime 18 Nov 15:17

  • Mozilla kicks rebel coders to kerb with Firefox 3.6 'lockdown'

    Components directory to become Firefox-only playpen

    Mozilla plans to debut a "lockdown" feature in Firefox 3.6 to force third party application developers to toe the line by preventing them from adding their own code into the browser's components directory. "Firefox is built around the idea of extensibility - it’s part of our soul," proclaimed Mozilla's Jonathan Nightingale in …

    Developer 18 Nov 15:31

  • Ombudsman slams EC Intel probe

    Where's your working out?

    Intel, hit by the largest ever fine by the European Commission, can find a little solace today as its complaint about how the investigation was carried out has been upheld. European complaints monitor - the European Ombudsman P Nikiforos Diamandouros - agreed with the chip giant that the Commission failed to take proper notes …

    Channel Register 18 Nov 15:33

  • Sony wireless e-book Reader priced, dated

    North America only, alas

    The UK’s e-book lovers are panting with anticipation that Sony’s 3G-connected Reader Daily Edition will arrive here by Christmas, following the firm’s creation of a pre-order page for the gagdet in North America. But Sony isn’t making any promises that the Reader Daily Edition – which provides free access to the firm’s eBook …

    Reg Hardware 18 Nov 16:01

  • Acer, Asus dominate Euro netbook biz

    Canalys Mobility Forum Demand rises despite recession

    Who rules the European netbook market? Acer, by a long chalk, despite the positive write-up given to rival machines from Samsung and Dell. Speaking this week at the Canalys Mobility Forum in London, Canalys analyst Natalie Spitz said Acer commanded 32.4 per cent of the netbook market in Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA …

    Notebooks 18 Nov 16:02

  • US data firm blows s**t out of server

    Hail of lead does for innocent box

    This will cheer up those backroom boys among you who've ever had a strong desire to let a server have it with an arsenal of weapons, but didn't have a Springfield Armory M14, Heckler & Koch MP5 or IMI Uzi to hand: Marvellous, and we offer a round of applause to keepgoing.biz, which promises to protect your data in …

    Bootnotes 18 Nov 16:02

  • Renegade weatherman forecast today's storm weeks ago

    Mystic Met baffled

    Piers Corbyn's renegade weather outfit has comprehensively trumped the taxpayer funded Met Office. Back in August, Corbyn's WeatherAction forecast storms for 17-19 November. Or more accurately, WA made this prediction, upgrading it to 85 per cent accuracy: N Sea Storm Surge Stormy with heavy rain - snow & blizzards in Scot & N …

    Environment 18 Nov 16:15

  • Windows 7's dirty secrets revealed

    PDC Hidden work arounds and complex dependencies

    While chief technology officer Ray Ozzie was away in the clouds at Microsoft's Professional Developer Conference, technical fellow Mark Russinovich got down and dirty with the true heart of Windows - the kernel. He presented a two-hour session on changes made to the kernel used by both Windows 7 and Server 2008 R2, shedding …

    Operating Systems 18 Nov 17:02

  • Microsoft squirts out Office 2010 public beta

    Testing times ahead

    Microsoft plans to punt five different flavours of its Office 2010 suite when it lands in the first half of next year. Customers will be able to get their hands on Ribbon-wrapped Standard, Home and Business, Professional Plus, Professional and Home and Student editions of the software, with three of those versions hitting …

    Applications 18 Nov 18:02

  • Sony Ericsson slashes US presence

    Layoffs trail shrinking sales

    Sony Ericsson, bowing to the pressures of a Meltdown-induced decline in worldwide handset sales, has announced more layoffs in conjunction with a wide-ranging restructuring. On the same day that President Obama warned that the US economy runs the risk of a "double-dip recession," Sony Ericsson doubled-down on its employee …

    Mobile 18 Nov 18:08

  • Second-hand ATM trade opens up fraud risk

    Craigslist cash machine contains 1,000 card numbers

    Second-hand ATM machines containing sensitive transaction data are easily available for purchase on eBay or even Craiglist, according to an investigation by a US-based security consultant. Robert Siciliano, a security consultant to Intelius.com and personal ID theft expert, was able to buy an ATM machine through Craigslist for …

    ID 18 Nov 18:23

  • IBM lab builds computerized cat brain

    ROTM Feline consciousness sim

    Mad scientists at IBM say they've made "significant progress" towards creating a computer chip that can emulate the human brain's ability to sense, perceive, comprehend, and interact with the real world*. Big Blue says its ultimate goal is to develop computer systems that can handle with real-world ambiguity and interact with …

    HPC 18 Nov 19:37

  • Office 2010 fights Google with SharePoint bloat

    Review Decent upgrade gets out of shape

    Office is in a curious competitive position. On the desktop, Office is untouchable - even the free OpenOffice.org has done little to shift its hold, especially in business. Microsoft should worry though about competing online document authoring and collaboration tools, especially those from Google. They lack features now, but …

    Applications 18 Nov 20:12

  • Intel cash pays down AMD debt

    Good news. For Intel

    Less than a week after accepting $1.25bn from Intel in exchange for dropping its legal actions against Chipzilla, AMD has announced how it plans to use that windfall. In a trio of Wednesday announcements, the world's second-largest microprocessor designer revealed a plan to slash its debt by as much as $1.4 billion, thus …

    Financial News 18 Nov 21:34

  • Microsoft unleashes Silverlight 4 beta

    PDC Delivers IE 9 standards vagueness

    Microsoft has unveiled major and long-awaited basic features in the next version of Silverlight, hoping to take on AJAX and Adobe Systems' Flash. Om Wednesday, the company announced Silverlight 4, which has been designed to simplify both the development and consumption of rich-media applications and content by programmers and …

    Developer 18 Nov 22:11

  • Egyptian telecom counts cost of football riot

    Police brace for trouble after World Cup grudge match

    Police in North Africa were braced for further trouble on Wednesday night after Algeria secured a 1-0 win to advance to the World-cup finals next year at the expense of arch-rivals Egypt. The play-off in neutral Karthoom follows sparked by an earlier match between the two. Egypt won the final group qualifying game 2-0 against …

    Odds and Sods 18 Nov 22:38

  • Google and the myth of the open cloud

    The world's most closed open company

    It is a truth universally acknowledged that if Google offers the world a web service, large numbers of people will convince themselves that it's superior to anything else they can get their hands on - and less likely to condemn them to some sort of Redmondian future in which a single corporation has them in a metaphorical vice …

    Developer 18 Nov 22:52

  • Salesforce insists on 'Facebook for enterprise'

    Dreamforce 09 More Chatter

    Tired of the Facebook hype and metaphors stretched to breaking point? Well, now you've got "Facebook for the enterprise" from Salesforce.com, trying to stake out its place in enterprise collaboration. On Wednesday, the software-as-a-service provider announced Salesforce.com Chatter, which it described as providing "realtime …

    Software 18 Nov 23:27