31st May 2010 Archive

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WIN a Motorola Milestone Android smartphone

Competition Top notch telephone could be yours

Motorola's Milestone is one of best smartphones around and it could be yours. Thanks to mobile phone specialist eXpansys, Reg Hardware has one of these popular Qwerty keyboard handsets, worth £350, to give away along with £20 of eXpansys vouchers - more details at eXpansys' website. With its big, bright 3.7in, 480 x 854 …

reghardware 31 May 07:02
Blur vs Split Second Velocity

Review Which of these new racing games takes the chequered flag?

Combat racing games are like buses. You wait ages for one and then two come along in the same week. Get out my lane! Unlike the buses where I live, though, both games arrive with high expectations (and no shank-wielding yoots on the back seats). Their developers have real pedigree in satisfying petrol-head gamers. Split …

reghardware 31 May 07:44
How to... read comics on the iPad

Kerpow!

E-book reader, portable telly, digital newspaper, big-screen games console, movie player - the iPad all of these incredibly well. It's also a darn fine comic viewer, its richly coloured, bright 1024 x 768 screen ideal for presenting sequential art. Love comics? Here's Reg Hardware's quick guide to enjoying them on your iPad …

reghardware 31 May 08:02
Satellite firm offers 4G network on back of 2G business model

Can Harbinger really change the industry?

Harbinger is an equity fund with really big plans: the idea is to build a national 4G network of 36,000 base stations using LTE technology, and then lease it to network operators too poor to build their own. But to do that the company will have to launch a satellite or two and raise some serious cash, but if it can be done then …

Mobile 31 May 09:02
Orange outlines cheap Android roadmap

Boston frugal

Following through on a promise made in April, Orange is leading the charge to put Android smartphones into the hands of budget users. It plans a range of affordable devices, including its so-called 'Boston' device, which will cost only $2 upfront with a low end contract, and will be targeted at the carrier's growing presence …

Mobile 31 May 09:02
Exposed: Voyeurism and surveillance

Does it live up to the billing?

Surveillance is everywhere today, and thanks to Facebook and Google, we are all now voyeurs, monitoring each other electronically. Perfect timing, you would think, for the new exhibition at Tate Modern Exposed: Voyeurism, Surveillance and the Camera which sets out to explore our relationship with the camera and its use to …

Music and Media 31 May 09:48
Three In-Car Wi-Fi

Review Road testing the superhighway

As we all get increasingly used to the benefits of broadband it gets harder than ever to tear ourselves away from our streamed music and video, online gaming, immediate e-mail access and the rest. Smartphones take us part of the way to remaining fully connected when on the move, but now Three - the company formerly known as, er …

reghardware 31 May 11:02
5 charged in $450,000 e-banking malware swindle

California city bitten by Talex trojan

Federal prosecutors have filed charges against five people accused of trying to swipe more than $450,000 from a California city using stolen login credentials associated with its bank account. The five individuals used online bank accounts to launder the stolen loot shortly after it was siphoned out of an account belonging to …

Crime 31 May 14:02
Top 500 supers – The Dawning of the GPUs

Coiled for the 10 petaflops spring

With the International Super Computing conference underway this week, the Top 500 ranking of the world's most powerful supercomputers is out, and the bi-annual is just starting to be transformed by the advent of cheap flops embodied in graphics co-processing engines from Nvidia and Advanced Micro Devices. While the 1.76 …

HPC 31 May 14:06
Tokyo Tech dumps Sun super iron for HP, NEC

Embraces GPUs for Tsubame 2.0

The Tokyo Institute of Technology - which put Sun Microsystems back on the HPC map along with floating point accelerator maker ClearSpeed back in the summer of 2006, with the 87 teraflops Tsubame 1.0 supercomputing cluster - has decided to go with different vendors and technologies in its next generation 2.4 petaflops Tsubame 2. …

HPC 31 May 15:02
iPeds, iRobots, and the Chinese iPad clone machine

Plus: the Nigerian connection

Surprising no one, iPad clones are sprouting up in the IP rip-off capital of the world — China — including one charmingly and thoroughly unimaginatively known as the iPed. Apple's iPad escaped across the US border Friday and landed in the UK and eight other countries. If — when? — it arrives in China, it will find an army of …

Music and Media 31 May 16:02