5th April 2010 Archive
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Elgato Netstream DTT networkable TV tuner
Review Freeview, streamed across your home network
Elgato has made some darn fine TV tuners in its time, and its Eye TV DVR software remains a key Mac media application, but sometimes you have to question its wisdom. Why release a brand new tuner in the UK without supporting the free-to-air terrestrially broadcast HD TV platform? The EyeTV NetStream DDT, you see, won't pick up …
reghardware 5 Apr 08:02
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Data loss fines hit £500K from today
Hundredfold increase to scare firms into shape
From Tuesday 6 April, the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) will get enhanced powers to fine organisations up to £500,000 for serious breaches of the Data Protection Act. Previously the maximum fine was a paltry £5,000. The tougher measures will be imposed alongside compulsory audit notices to central government …
Law 5 Apr 08:02
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Chronos EZ430: An SDK packing watch for real techies
It's a timepiece, but not as we know it
When does The Register take interest in a $50 sports watch? When it comes with an SDK and wireless connectivity, and packing a screwdriver. The Chronos EZ430 from Texas Instruments is no consumer product, despite its appearance and low price. It's really a development platform designed to show off what TI's embedded sensor …
Developer 5 Apr 10:02
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Discovery blasts off to ISS
Shuttle launch runs on rails
Space shuttle Discovery today lifted off at 10:21 GMT from Kennedy Space Center's Launch Pad 39A on its STS-131 mission to the International Space Station. On board are commander Alan Poindexter, pilot Jim Dutton, and mission specialists Rick Mastracchio, Stephanie Wilson, Dorothy Metcalf-Lindenburger, Japan Aerospace …
Space 5 Apr 10:23
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Google gets Episodic with web video
Eye on IPTV?
Google has purchased Episodic, a San Francisco-based startup offering a platform for delivering live and on-demand video via the web. Episodic trumpeted the deal on Friday with a post to its blog. The startup says that in joining Google, it will continue its work to deliver video to desktops and notebooks, mobiles, and IPTV …
Music and Media 5 Apr 17:43
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Microsoft pulls plug on Intel's Itanic
Wintel core-partner jumps ship
Microsoft is abandoning Intel's Itanium platform after the current release of its server and tools software. The software giant said Monday that Windows Server 2008 R2 and the forthcoming SQL Server 2008 R2 and Visual Studio 2010 would be the last versions of these server and tools products to run on Intel's giant chip …
Operating Systems 5 Apr 18:16
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Firefox plans fix for decade-old browsing history leak
'I know where you surfed last summer'
Firefox developers say they're close to plugging an information leakage hole that has plagued every major browser for more than a decade. The cascading style sheets history attack makes it easy for web masters to compile vast lists of links visitors have previously viewed. It exploits technology in virtually every browser that …
Security 5 Apr 18:28
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Apple understates iPad demand
Cupertino hypemeisters low on hype
Apple says it "sold over 300,000 iPads in the US as of midnight Saturday, April 3." But that figure is an uncharacteristic understatement by Cupertino's hyperactive hypemeisters. As The Reg noticed - and MacDailyNews also pointed out - Apple's press release refers only to "deliveries of pre-ordered iPads to customers, …
Mobile 5 Apr 18:52
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Chips sales took dip in February
But this ain't 2009
Global chip sales took a 1.3 percent sequential dip to $22bn in February, according to the latest estimates form the Semiconductor Industry Association. While the February numbers were a bit off the $22.3bn in worldwide semiconductor sales in January, they were up 56.2 per cent compared to a truly awful February 2009, when only …
PCs & Chips 5 Apr 18:54
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Apple to reveal hallowed iPhone 4.0 on Thursday
Exposé exposé?
Apple will uncloak a new incarnation of its iPhone operating system on Thursday morning during an event at its Cupertino headquarters. According to CNet, the Jobsian cult sent invitations to certain members of the media on Monday morning that said it would be providing "a sneak peek into the future of the iPhone OS." But The …
Mobile 5 Apr 20:09
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HP slides Slate into iPad slipstream
Color me Pink
Hewlett-Packard is riding on the back of Apple's iPad by touting features of its planned Slate rival, which runs Windows 7. The company has released a video that demonstrates at least four features not included in Steve Jobs' iPad: two cameras - one for photos and one for video conferencing on Skype, a USB port to connect to …
PCs & Chips 5 Apr 22:15
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Privacy service knocked offline by 'no bullsh*t' registrar
GoogleSharing kneecapped by Gandi.net
A recently launched anonymization service suffered a setback last week when Gandi.net, a France-based registrar that bills itself as a "no bullshit company," revoked its secure sockets layer certificate without warning. Last week's move against GoogleSharing caused its 30,000 users to instantly lose service, according to Moxie …
ID 5 Apr 22:52
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Apple borgs (alleged) iPad chip designers
Intrinsity vanishes into Jobsian embrace
Apple has consumed at least part of Intrinsity, a small microprocessor outfit that allegedly designed the chip at the heart of the iPad, according to a report citing the LinkedIn profiles of multiple Intrinsity employees. Last week, EDN reported that Intrinsity had been sold, and guessed that Apple was the buyer. Then on …
PCs & Chips 5 Apr 23:16
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Dell gets flexible with server
memorychipsWhat Intel's 'Nehalem-EX' is really good for
Maybe what Intel really needs to do with its future Xeon processors is stop jacking up the core count so high and start putting more memory controllers on the chips and more memory channels in each socket. Maybe Intel should get back into the memory business. When server maker Dell launched its two-socket and four-socket …
Servers 5 Apr 23:17
