30th June 2010 Archive

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Hulu to charge $10 for iPad and Playstation 3 TV

Departs from Flash and HTML5 script?

Hulu has confirmed it will charge viewers for programs delivered to iPads, some TVs, and other devices — but apparently without using either Flash or HTML5. Hulu, the US broadcasters' version of the BBC's iPlayer, said on Tuesday that its long-rumored Hulu Plus service will cost you $9.99 a month. If you like paying for …

Music and Media 30 Jun 00:08
Google Chrome will block out-of-date plug-ins

One-ups Mozilla

Google will soon prevent insecure versions of plug-ins from running on top of its Chrome browser to make sure they don't contain security bugs that can be exploited by malicious websites. In a blog post, members of Google's security team said the feature, to be delivered "medium-term," will prevent Chrome from running "certain …

Applications 30 Jun 02:50
Sony Vaio L13 touchscreen PC

Review A touch of class?

The Sony Vaio L series of all-in-one touchscreen PCs launched last year, now has some new additions. The Vaio L13, L11 and L12 models share the same basic features including a 24in 1920 x 1080 multi-touch glossy screen, 4GB RAM and 64-bit Windows 7 Home Premium. Touch and go: Sony's Vaio L13 The L11 model costs £1019 and …

reghardware 30 Jun 07:02
Billionaire's betting exchange backs Android

Apple's a bit uptight

Irish billionaire and betting man, Dermot Desmond, is looking to Google's Android to boost the fortunes of his core business, Betdaq, not least because it's impossible getting a gambling app in the iStore. Betdaq is expecting mobile betting to fuel its expansion and reckons that though the iPhone has been useful to mobile take …

Small Biz 30 Jun 08:13
Beeb sends teaboy outside with iPhone

Ditches Getty Images for stunning in-house snappery

We're delighted to report that the BBC has taken El Reg's advice and sent the teaboy outside with an iPhone to grab a snap of its own building. To recap, we reported yesterday that the Corporation was using a Getty Images stock photo to illustrate an illuminating piece by Robert Peston: Well, here's how that looks this …

Music and Media 30 Jun 08:14
Fake IBM playboy pleads guilty

Team Big Blue was big lie

A 36-year old Dutch man conned thousands of pounds out of show jumpers and horse riding fans by claiming to be the son of a big boss at IBM. George Carlo Schouten of Finchampstead, Berkshire said his old man was helping out by sponsoring his show jumping team, a Reading court heard yesterday. He convinced one of Britain's …

Crime 30 Jun 08:20
Loud sex ASBO woman spared jail again

Final warning over raucous rumpy-pumpy

The Tyne and Wear woman who simply cannot put a sock in it while making the beast with two backs has been spared jail for a second time. Caroline Cartwright, 49, was slapped with an ASBO back in April 2009, ordering her to refrain from "making excessive noise, knocking, shouting, screaming or vocalisation that can be heard in …

Bootnotes 30 Jun 08:47
Budget to cost over a million jobs: Official

Double-dip recession feared

Figures from the Treasury suggest the UK economy is likely to shrink by 1.3 million jobs. The figures are a Treasury assessment of the impact of George Osborne's misery budget. Civil servants expect to see between 500,000 and 600,000 jobs go in the public sector and redundancies of between 600,000 and 700,000 in the private …

Small Biz 30 Jun 08:49
Nipper's naked arse provokes Street View outrage

Mum's 'fury' at paedo-friendly flash

A Greater Manchester mum is "angry, disgusted and upset" after Google flashed her three-year-old son's arse at Street View surfers. Claire Rowlands, 25, told the Manchester Evening News of her horror at discovering the Great Satan of Mountain View's spymobile had grabbed her nipper's backside while he was butt naked in his …

Bootnotes 30 Jun 09:04
Stratus makes $50,000 zero downtime promise

Guarantees VMware performance

Fault-tolerant server company Stratus is betting real money that its latest range of servers running VMware will never fail - for at least six months. The company is backing its words with action: it has issued a promise that new and existing Stratus users will experience no unplanned downtime with its new top-of-the-range 2. …

Virtualization 30 Jun 09:08
Microsoft's 'New Busy' Hotmail has lie-in

Only 1% of users have latest version two weeks after launch

Microsoft has confessed that the rollout of the latest version of Hotmail is taking longer than customers might have expected, especially given the fanfare that accompanied the release. The software giant confirmed yesterday that only one per cent of its 360 million-strong user base has what it describes as “Wave 4” of the …

Applications 30 Jun 09:16
Cumbria massacre top cop also patrols cyberspace

Analysis Favours internet self-policing, 'sexy technical stuff'

The UK's top e-copper has been put under the microscope over his force's heavily criticised response to Derrick Bird's fatal shooting spree. Deputy Chief Constable (DCC) Stuart Hyde was the public face of the Cumbrian Constabulary in the days following Bird's murderous Lake District rampage. His boss, Chief Constable Craig …

Policing 30 Jun 09:17
Medion says splash out on waterproof speakers

Perfect player for pool parties?

Play your WAVs among the waves with this waterproof wireless speaker from electronics vendor Medion. Aesthetically slick with a spherical design, the Medion Life E6901 is powered by AA batteries and floats on the water's surface, withstanding damage if submerged, the company claims. Drop the beat! Connect whatever device …

reghardware 30 Jun 09:32
SoftBank punts free ADSL for femtocell folk

Interested now? No?

Free ADSL and a free femtocell, but you still have to pay for mobile calls: Japanese punters now have a new business model from SoftBank Mobile. Rather than offer better coverage, or discounted calls, SoftBank Mobile is turning the femtocell business around by offering free ADSL to anyone who'll extend the operator's coverage …

Mobile 30 Jun 09:33
Shadow Analyser speeds digital analysis of recovery files

Lifting the veil on hidden files

Researchers at UK computer forensics firm Disklabs have helped develop technology that will drastically speed up the forensic analysis of 'Volume Shadow Copies' (VSC) of suspect Windows computers. The introduction of VSC technology in Windows 2003 created a huge headache for forensic investigators, who have struggled to find a …

Virtualization 30 Jun 09:35
Carnegie Mellon SEI scores $1bn military software dev deal

For 'R&D pertinent to national defense'

The Software Engineering Institute (SEI) at Carnegie Mellon university has been awarded an almost $1bn military contract for "software research and development pertinent to national defense". This doesn't mean that the $994,997,561 deal is meant for some secret project, or any specific programme at all; rather it makes funding …

Developer 30 Jun 09:45
Isilon bellyflops into Smart Pools

Storage maker clusters scale-out clusters

Scale-out file storage supplier Isilon is clustering its clustered systems into Smart Pools with automatic data movement between them to provide better balanced storage resources across storage tiers for its customers' applications. Isilon supplies scale-out clusters for file storage: the S-Series for IOPS-focussed …

Storage 30 Jun 10:03
HK 'Dog Man' cuffed for voodoo ritual sex

Expels student's 'ghost embryos' with his magic wand

A Hong Kong "voodoo master" dubbed the "Dog Man" is in court accused of duping a 20-year-old student into ritual sex to expel "ghost embryos", HK's The Standard reports. The victim, known only as Miss X, met 63-year-old acoustics technician Lo Fuk-yee* through his girlfriend Wong Mei-yin, "who was the janitor at X's school". …

Bootnotes 30 Jun 10:05
Seagate hits GoFlex with bunch of fives

Extra platter for extra goodness

A report says Seagate is using five platters in its 3TB monster FreeAgent GoFlex external disk, not four. That's a quickie fix to up the capacity and not a significant increase in areal density as we suggested it might be. Western Digital, Seagate and Hitachi GST each have 2TB, 3.5-inch form factor internal drives, and have …

Storage 30 Jun 10:07
Apple support-drone scripts leaked

Don't blame yourself. Although it really is your fault

Apple won't be appeasing anyone with a free bump case - a "leaked" script shows the apparent aim is to blame the customer, as long as the customer is at fault. Tech blog Boy Genius Report has laid its hands on the script that Apple support are allegedly using for those who call up with antenna problems. This explains how the …

Mobile 30 Jun 10:15
Ricoh readies 'flick to transfer' photo app

Ping pictures from one iPhone to another

Camera company Ricoh has released an iPhone app that allows users to send photos and videos straight to each others' handsets. The app is actually intended to allow you to access an online storage system called Quanp, which sounds like some seedy character out of a Dickens novel and is a Dropbox-style service. Ricoh owns …

reghardware 30 Jun 10:16
Apple in the workplace

Mini Poll Do you love it or loathe it?

Apple's success as a manufacturer of consumer electronics is beyond question. The kit has become an accepted part of many people's lives, and the brand is one of the most well respected and desired on the planet. You might think this is good or bad. You might not care. This is secondary to the fact that the Apple phenomenon is …

IT Director 30 Jun 10:24
Ads watchdog whacks Orange over coverage claim

Geographical reach != population spread

Orange has been told not to claim in its adverts that its 3G mobile broadband network "covers more people in the UK" than any other operator's network does - at least without defining 'coverage' more tightly. The judgement, from the UK's Advertising Standards Authority (ASA), follows a complaint from rival carrier Three, which …

reghardware 30 Jun 10:38
The Linux Chronicles, Part 1

From dot com Linux mania to something that actually works

Last Autumn I volunteered to review Windows 7. But in the following weeks, I found Linux to be preferable in many ways. This is pretty significant progress, and outside the 'community' has gone largely unnoticed, too - I haven't seen all that many Ubuntu stories in the Wall Street Journal. But what comes next is going to be …

Operating Systems 30 Jun 10:58
Job club firm loses thousands of details

Laptop nicked

A4e, the company that runs League of Gentlemen-style job clubs and administers the Home Office test for would-be citizens, has apologised to 24,000 people whose details were on a laptop stolen from one of its staff. A4e said it had written to 24,000 people in Hull and Leicester to warn them, but it believes the risk of illegal …

IT Director 30 Jun 11:02
Phorm's losses top $100m

Revenues: $0

Phorm will shift some of its operations from London to Brazil to save money after announcing another heavy loss for 2009. The web monitoring and profiling firm lost $29.7m last year, it told investors today. That's down from $49.8m in 2008, mainly thanks to layoffs at the beginning of 2009. Phorm also said it may seek more …

Telecoms 30 Jun 11:07
Microsoft quietly readies small biz version of Office 2010

Screenshots: Emerging markets-flavoured suite coming soon

Microsoft looks set to release a small business version of Office 2010 for emerging markets, but is currently remaining silent on the issue even though alleged screenshots of the software package have appeared online. Smart Max News and My Digital Life both reported yesterday that an Office Small Business Basics 2010 SKU - …

Small Biz 30 Jun 11:10
Hornby opens part-time visitor centre

Trains, planes and automobiles - Hornby, Airfix and Scalextric

Model train maker Hornby is opening a visitor centre in Margate for fans of tiny transport toys. But don't be trying to get in mid-week - opening hours are Friday, Saturday and Sunday. And you need to pre-book tickets too. And no unaccompanied kids under the age of 18 either. The centre promises "a fascinating journey through …

Bootnotes 30 Jun 11:26
Tesla IPO successful: Stock up 40% on day one

Market bets that gov-backed Model S can wipe out past

Famous electric car firm Tesla Motors, which has now delivered over a thousand li-ion powered $100k Roadster sportscars, has had a successful IPO. The company's stock, after a slight initial dip, climbed by 40 per cent during its first day listed on the NASDAQ exchange. Initially priced at $17, Tesla stock closed at $23.89, …

Financial News 30 Jun 11:36
StorageCraft promises two minute server image resurrection

Backup recovery boost

StorageCraft has promised its ShadowProtect backup product can have a server image booted as a virtual machine in two minutes from a backup set if the server crashes. The technology is called VirtualBoot and involves right-clicking a backup image and selecting the VirtualBoot option to have the backup image boot as a virtual …

Virtualization 30 Jun 11:46
Cash woes hold back National Insurance IT improvements

Old-school data storage slows service

A National Audit Office report says that limited money for IT is hampering improvements to the administration of National Insurance. The report, published on 30 June, says that HM Revenue and Customs' Contributions Office, which maintains personal records on the National Insurance (NI) database, would like to make significant …

Government 30 Jun 12:01
Happy with your mobile provider?

Workshop Our survey says yes...and no

It seems that mobile operators are doing something right. According to the results from our recent mobile poll, a pretty convincing majority - close on 80% of you - have told us that you would be happy to recommend your provider. And it would seem that when it is good, it can be very good. Quotes such as the one from this Reg …

Mobile Workshop 30 Jun 12:02
IPVision FetchTV SmartBox 8000 DVR

Review Freeview recorder with Sky Player and iPlayer to boot

The Freeview market has been getting more crowded recently, stimulated – as were we all – by the long-awaited addition of new high-definition channels to the service. However, there’s still plenty of new kit that out there that merely tunes into standard definition, such as the FetchTV SmartBox 8000 from IPVision. What makes it …

reghardware 30 Jun 12:02
Sony posts patch to ease overheating Vaio risk

Gentlemen, recallibrate your thermal sensors

More than 500,000 Vaio notebooks around the world contain mis-callibrated temperature sensors that could allow the laptops to overheat, Sony has admitted. The machines are part of the Vaio F and CW2 series, and have been on sale in Europe since January. Some 103,000 of them have been shipped into the region. It's not clear …

reghardware 30 Jun 12:09
Free 'sat lav' app locates loos for bursting punters

Carry on at your convenience

Touching cloth and can't hold it in? Make sure this app is the first thing to run. Toilet Finder, from developer BeTomorrow - no, not Pee Tomorrow - uses the GPS co-ordinates of your iPhone or Android device to generate a map of public conveniences in the vicinity. Bum steer: Toilet Finder locates lavs The app lists more …

reghardware 30 Jun 12:09
Regular domains beat smut sites at hosting malware

99 to 1, study finds

New research pours scorn on the comforting but erroneous belief that Windows surfers who avoid smut and wares on the web are likely to avoid exposure to malware. A study by free anti-virus firm Avast found 99 infected legitimate domains for every infected adult web site. In the UK, Avast found that more infected domains …

Crime 30 Jun 12:10
Pictures of Ubuntu: Linux's best photo shots at Windows and Mac

Best of Linux F-Spot, Shotwell, RawTherapee in the frame

When it comes to photo applications it seems Windows and Mac have things nailed down, with plenty of individual applications and several packages packed with tons of features. In this second look at how media and storage applications for Linux, and particularly Ubuntu, compare, I found the Gnome camp has plenty of options too …

Applications 30 Jun 12:11
Cisco man stays neutral in Red Hat-VMware battle

Ex-VMware co-founder takes no side

Update: This story originally said that VMware founder Ed Bugnion had assumed the role of CTO at Cisco. This is not the case. Bugnion is the CTO of Cisco's server access and virtualization technology group. Ex-VMware co-founder and current Cisco man Ed Bugnion isn't taking sides in the battle between RedHat and VMware. …

Virtualization 30 Jun 12:12
Finn finishes Finnish mini-digger odyssey

Crowds cheer 5-day-late, 2mph arrival at Finnish line

A plucky Finn's quest to be the first man to traverse much of the length of Finland riding a small imported Chinese mechanical digger has ended in success. An inspiration to us all. To rapturous applause from crowds of fans, freelance excavator repairman and salesman Jukka Mutanen chugged very slowly into the northern …

Bootnotes 30 Jun 12:16
BCS rebels apologise ahead of crunch meeting

Place your bets now

The rebel group opposed to recent changes at the British Computer Society have issued an apology to Ken Olisa, a BCS trustee who had accused the rebels of libel. The rebels have removed a previous message questioning the management of the BCS and made clear it was a general criticism and not aimed at Olisa personally. The BCS …

IT Director 30 Jun 12:31
How can UK.gov spend £35m on a website?

Comment Here's how...

The Central Office of Information (COI), the UK Government's centre of excellence for marketing and communications, has just published a report on the costs, usability and quality of selected UK Government websites in 2009-10. It's a detailed report and the data is available to download. It shows how the UK Government spent £ …

Government 30 Jun 12:50
Lenovo sets back smartbook launch

Xmas outing for improved hardware?

Lenovo's Skylight ARM-based netbook may arrive rather later than expected - but with a better processor. Moles in Taiwan suggest that the Skylight will be upgraded from single-core 1GHz processor to a dual-core part running at 1.5GHz, DigiTimes reports, both from Qualcomm's Snapdragon line. Lenovo introduced Skylight at the …

reghardware 30 Jun 12:52
ASA tuts at Orange after 9 months pondering complaint

Don't do it again

The Advertising Standards Authority has upheld a complaint against Orange's claims that its 3G network is the biggest in the UK. Orange won't be able to repeat the claim that its 3G network "covers more people in the UK than any other operator", but coming nine months after 3UK filed its complaint the decision is hardly going …

Mobile 30 Jun 13:28
German arrested for Adolf Hitler ringtone

Nokia pledges 'destruction of world Jewry'

A German man could face six months in prison after selecting an Adolf Hitler speech as his mobile phone ringtone. According to the Telegraph, the 54-year-old's Nokia gave forth several times during a train journey in Hamburg, with Adolf pledging the "destruction of world Jewry". Fellow passengers alerted the police, who …

Mobile 30 Jun 13:29
UK small firms better get used to Dell's 65-day payment terms

Interest free?

Dell has insisted that its decision to extend its payment times will not affect small businesses in a range of countries - none of which are the UK. The slightly troubled PC giant announced earlier this week that it would stretch out standard the time it waits before cutting a cheque to its suppliers to 65 days, instead of the …

Channel Register 30 Jun 13:32
French regulator orders Google to reinstate Gatso-buster's account

AdWords terms discriminatory, not transparent, lack objectivity...

Google has "a dominant position in search advertising", said France's antitrust authority today as it gave the company four months to open up about its cancellation of the AdWords account of Navx, a vendor of speed camera warning devices. Ominously for Google, the regulator also noted the company's 90 per cent share of the …

Music and Media 30 Jun 13:39
Windows group policies in the real world

Sysadmin Blog Trevor's technical tidbits

I admit: group policy is a pretty dry subject. If you are reading an article about group policy, you aren’t here for my sense of humour. This means that you are seeking a few technical tidbits. In Windows, it's not easy to do this. Group policy changes with every iteration of Windows. Some group policy topics can be approached …

Desktop Mgmt Blog 30 Jun 13:54
The 3G coverage picture that can't be published

Ofcom says no

Today's victory for mobile operator Three against Orange in their advertising spat shouldn't obscure a bigger problem - we don't know the true extent of mobile coverage. Ofcom knows, but won't say. 3G coverage is increasingly important now, with mobile broadband dongles affordable and ubiquitous, and thanks to the iPhone, …

Mobile 30 Jun 14:08
Visa tightens rules for small sellers

You have 24 hours to comply

From tomorrow small businesses that take credit card payments will be obliged to enrol in the credit card industry's Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) compliance programme. From 1 July small and medium enterprises using electronic point of sale terminals and e-commerce systems need to reach basic …

Small Biz 30 Jun 14:25
Dutch send submarine to fight Somali pirates

Stealth snoop boat to lurk around buccaneers' back doors

International naval forces battling piracy in the lawless seas off the Horn of Africa are to be joined for the first time by a submarine. A single Dutch Walrus-class boat will operate in the area from September to November this year as part of NATO's Operation Ocean Shield taskforce. They don't like being the Royal …

Science 30 Jun 14:39
Brace yourself for 4TB drives next year

Makes 3TB look like... 2TB

If you think 3TB drives are big think on this; 4TB ones are coming. Isilon's marketing head, Sam Grocott, was asked today about customers moving old data to tape and said: "With 4TB drives around the corner will people bother?" They may not indeed as an Isilon clustered system built on 2TB drives could theoretically double …

Blocks and Files 30 Jun 14:45
Palm retrospectively discounts developer fees

Not desperate or anything, really

Not content with halving the price of applications, Palm has dropped its $50 listing fee too, and will be refunding fees already paid. Developers were notified by email, and many passed the message on to Pre Central. Some developers fear that the price cut will lead to a rush of spam-based applications, while others reckon it …

Mobile 30 Jun 15:18
Asus unwraps desktop CPU netbook

Two cores and Nvidia Ion too

Asus, concerned that your average netbook doesn't deliver sufficient processing welly, is preparing a model with a desktop processor. The Eee PC 1215N will contain a dual-core Intel Atom D525, a desktop-centric beast - it draws up to 13W, double what the netbook-oriented N475 does - running at 1.8GHz. Add to that Nvidia's …

reghardware 30 Jun 15:41
Google: Flash stays on YouTube, and here's why

HTML5 doesn't cut it

Google has confirmed that Adobe Flash will continue to "play a critical role" on YouTube, saying the fledgling HTML5 video tag doesn't meet the site's needs. "It's important to understand what a site like YouTube needs from the browser in order to provide a good experience for viewers as well as content creators," reads a …

Music and Media 30 Jun 18:35
US VoIP subscribers 21 million strong

Skype not included

The US Federal Communications Commission reports that there are 21 million VoIP subscriptions stateside, and that the vast majority of them are residential customers. But it didn't count Skype subscribers. These figures were announced by the FCC to accompany the release of its highly detailed 31-page report, "Local Telephone …

VoIP 30 Jun 18:36
Medical diagnoses for 130,000 people vanish into thin air

'Dear Patient'

New York-based Lincoln Medical and Mental Health Center has become one of the latest medical providers to expose highly sensitive patient data after CDs containing unencrypted data sent by FedEx never made it to their destination. The breach exposed medical and psychological diagnoses and procedures for 130,495 patients, …

Security 30 Jun 18:37
Database duo deliver Windows Phone 7 apps storage

Plugs Microsoft's mobile hole

A tiny database duo are promising what mighty Microsoft won't deliver with the first Windows Phone 7 - an on-phone database for non-Microsoft applications. McObject will support its object-oriented Perst .NET open-source database on Windows Phone 7 after Perst was ported and offered as a product by enterprising consultant APPA …

Mobile 30 Jun 19:20
Red Hat bumps Enterprise Linux 6 to Beta 2

One step closer to prime time

Commercial Linux distributor Red Hat said today that it has kicked out the second beta of its Enterprise Linux 6, moving the operating system one step closer to production. In a blog post announcing Beta 2, Red Hat said that the updated stack includes a tweaked installer, fixes for issues that were raised in Beta 1, and some …

Operating Systems 30 Jun 20:45
Cisco revamps Nexus, Catalyst switches

~~Heaven~~ The Inter-clouds can wait

Wednesday was the big day for Cisco Systems' Data Center 3.0 announcement. And rather than talk about the glorious world of the inter-clouds — the fifth phase of Cisco's plan to take over the data center — the company simply rolled out two new switches and some fabric softener. The first new switch from Cisco is the new F- …

Data Networking 30 Jun 21:05
Facebook apps must now seek permission for user data

What took so &#@!ing long?

In a move hailed by privacy advocates, Facebook on Wednesday deployed a feature that allows its users to better control what personal information can be accessed by third-party applications and websites. The new authorization process, which Facebook CTO Bret Taylor announced in a blog post, is activated whenever a user …

ID 30 Jun 21:14
Apple seeks antenna engineers after 'Death Grip' debacle

iPhone help wanted

Apple may be subtly telegraphing a tacit admission that the iPhone 4's "Death Grip" reception problems may not merely be due to users holding their brand-new smartphones incorrectly: the company has recently posted job openings for antenna engineers. The company is now advertising three jobs under the heading "Antenna Engineer …

Mobile 30 Jun 21:17
Microsoft sees spike in attacks targeting 0day Windows bug

With help like that ...

The number of malicious attacks exploiting an unpatched vulnerability in older versions of Windows has mushroomed over the past week, prompting Microsoft to warn customers to deploy countermeasures until an update is released. Microsoft said on Wednesday that its security team has detected more than 10,000 distinct computers …

Malware 30 Jun 22:30
VMware makes VMs Go vroom

Online VM builder is better and still free

The VMware Go online and freebie virtual machine builder that VMware created to spur adoption of its ESXi embedded and free server hypervisor is getting some tweaks that will make it more appealing to small and medium businesses that might otherwise go with Microsoft's freebie Hyper-V. VMware Go was announced last August at …

Virtualization 30 Jun 22:36
Microsoft's KIN is dead, long live Windows Phone 7

Curse of Zune lives

Microsoft is killing its ill-conceived KIN social network phones, just six weeks after launch. The devices were meant to usher in the next generation of smartphone. The software giant told The Reg in a statement Wednesday that it no longer plans to launch the KIN in Europe and that it will work with US carrier Verizon to sell …

Mobile 30 Jun 23:22
Motorola advert revels in anti-iPhone schadenfreude

Jobs & Co set for 'Death Grip' recall?

Motorola is taking advantage of the iPhone 4 'Death Grip' debacle by kicking Apple when it's down: the Droid maker ran a full-page ad in Wednesday's New York Times ridiculing the Jobsian handset's antenna problems. In the advert — underneath a photo of Motorola's upcoming Droid X, complete with the obligatory comely lass — is …

Mobile 30 Jun 23:31
Facebook bars crawls from all but select few

Use the API...bitch

Facebook has updated its robots.txt file so that the site can only be crawled by a short list of search engines, including Google, Microsoft's Bing, China's Baidu, Russia's Yandex, and a few others. Previously, Facebook's robot.txt allowed anyone to crawl the site, although the company had threatened to sue at least one …

Music and Media 30 Jun 23:35