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11th September 2011 Archive

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  • Ten years after the Twin Towers: What's the Reg angle?

    9/11 changed the tech world, too

    In one of the first stories The Reg posted following the attack on September 11, 2001, then-reporter Kieren McCarthy said the internet had faced its first real test as a communicator – and failed. "It seems that the internet has failed in its first truly hard test as a news disseminator. The best coverage is coming from the …

    Government 11 Sep 10:00

  • Telstra's branding plans leaked to El Reg

    Wants us to like it

    What do you do if you’re the most-attacked name in the least-liked industry? Pitch a new campaign. In an internal e-mail that went out to staff last week, The Register has learned that Telstra wants to position itself as “Australia’s best loved brand.” The e-mail from CEO David Thodey outlines a consumer charm offensive to be …

    Telecoms 11 Sep 22:26

  • Industry pitches piracy research ahead of Attorney General meeting

    Lobbying paper points the bone at Aussies, again

    Sixty percent of Australians don’t use downloading or streaming sites, but that’s not the way the latest research into piracy activity in this country is being spun. The research that gave nearly two-thirds of us clean hands in the piracy debate – and seems to ignore the growth in legal streaming services like the ABC’s iView …

    Law 11 Sep 22:38

  • Google Ventures invests in friend finder app

    Little Sir Echoecho, I want to stalk my friends

    Google’s investment arm, Google Ventures, has contributed to a round of seed funding for location-based, mobile friend finder app Echoecho. The investment was part of a $US750,000 funding round that included investors UK-based venture firm PROfounders Capital and a select group of angel investors. The LA-based company says it …

    Business 11 Sep 23:00

  • Asia Pac app-gasm to hit five billion this year

    Ovum names Android as the leader

    Mobile phone app downloads are forecast to reach 14 billion in the Asia Pacific by 2016 with revenues of $US2.2 billion, according to the latest research from Ovum. The Asia Pac app market will hit 5 billion downloads by the end of the year with revenues from mobile phone apps poised to reach $US871 million. This compares to 1 …

    Music and Media 11 Sep 23:30

  • Cancellation technique doubles wireless throughput

    Full duplex, one frequency, no trouble

    Researchers at Rice University have pulled a neat trick of noise cancellation which they say could double the throughput of wireless systems, by allowing full-duplex communications using a single frequency. As El Reg readers surely know, wireless systems use either time- or frequency-domain multiplexing (or a mixture of the …

    Wireless 11 Sep 23:31