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  • Deutsche Telekom shatters data-transfer speed record

    734 kilometers, one second, 77 CDs

    Researchers at Deutsche Telekom's T-Labs have blasted bits at impressive velocity down a single optical fiber, breaking the previous long-distance data-transfer record by more than a factor of two. The bit boffins achieved a 512 gigabits-per-second transmission rate over a single optical fiber from Berlin to Hanover and back, …

    Data Networking 7 Mar 00:29

  • EFF accuses Warner of spamming DMCA takedown notices

    Computerized checking misses the mark

    The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has accused Warner Brothers Entertainment of using a flawed computer program to send out takedown notices without proper oversight. The claims were made in an amicus curiae (friend of the court) filing in the ongoing legal battles between the entertainment industry and Hotfile, which …

    Law 7 Mar 00:59

  • Anonymous smacks Panda in revenge attack

    Updated Website graffiti for LulzSec arrests

    In a predictable backlash against the sweep that has netted suspected LulzSec members in America and Europe, Anonymous has defaced some web pages of the security firm Panda Security. As previously reported by The Register, the arrests turned on the assistance of Hector Xavier Monsegur, known in LulzSec circles as Sabu. …

    Security 7 Mar 01:58

  • STUNNING NEW APPLE DEVICES that will follow the iPad 3 HD!

    Rumours are aswirl ahead of launch, and that's a FACT

    Sources in the Asian component supply chain and others close to Cupertino have revealed to the Register that Apple intends to follow up its global fondle-slab dominance by introducing new and groundbreaking products intended to eliminate the flaws inherent in the slablet form factor. "It all makes sense when you think about it …

    Bootnotes 7 Mar 02:02

  • Xeon E5 is hot stuff, but not all in a good way

    Harry Potter render farm likes the speed, feels a little singed by heat

    Early Australian users of Intel's new server flagship, the Xeon E5, say it is satisfyingly speedy, but one says it's also worryingly hot. Doctor Jonathan Kozc of Swinburne University's Centre for Astrophysics and Supercomputing has used an early sample of the CPU to crunch numbers for his research into pulsars. Speaking at …

    Hardware 7 Mar 06:28

  • Ten... e-cars and hybrids

    Car Week The best plug-in hybrids and pure-play EVs

    What started out as a dribble in 2011 is becoming a deluge in 2012 as e-cars in the form of pure electrics, range extenders and plug-in hybrids capabilities start to become ever more common. Until we see a major breakthrough in battery tech, the day will belong to the plug-in hybrids and REs, but that’s clearly not the view of …

    reghardware 7 Mar 07:00

  • 2 in 3 Android anti-malware scanners not up to the job

    Threat test: Droid malware grows 450% in 4 months

    Two-thirds of Android anti-malware scanners failed to protect against a range of malware in independent tests. AV-Test put 41 different virus scanners for Android through their paces. Almost two-thirds of these scanners are not yet suitable for use as reliable products, identifying less than 65 per cent of the 618 types of …

    Malware 7 Mar 08:02

  • Toshiba prices up glasses-free 3D TV for Blighty

    If you have to ask, you can't afford it

    Got £7000 to spare? From Monday, 12 March you'll be able to order Toshiba's Regza ZL2 glasses-free 3D TV. The LED array-backlit, 9,000,000:1 contrast ratio 55in set has a native resolution of 4K x 2K, relying on onboard upscaling bring 1080p and lesser content up to scratch. The extra pixels allow the set to show the various …

    reghardware 7 Mar 08:11

  • Bring-your-own server: TeamDrive flashes cloudy sync 'n share

    Blackberry and Windows mobile clients coming

    TeamDrive 3.0 provides file sync, storage and sharing for enterprise – in the cloud or on a business's own servers – with encryption keeping the data safe. But it is quick to point out that it's not just DropBox for business. Dropbox and Box.net both offer file synchronisation and sharing services in the cloud: Dropbox for …

    Storage 7 Mar 08:34

  • NHS strikes new deal with CSC for electronic patient records

    Maybe US firm will make some profit now?

    CSC and the Department of Health look to have concluded negotiations around the future of its Lorenzo system in the NHS. A revised deal announced by CSC will see the US-based firm deliver additional implementations of the Lorenzo electronic patient records system beyond the 10 have already been rolled out, with "options for …

    Government 7 Mar 09:02

  • Fujitsu lures devs to new cloud store with 'SaaSification' sweeties

    CeBit Wanna make some money, kids?

    If selling software is one way to make money, selling other people's software is an even easier way to make money – just take a look at the App Store. Fujitsu is importing the app store model into enterprise software, opening up a Business Solutions Store, where users can browse apps and buy subscriptions to software services …

    Cloud Business 7 Mar 09:33

  • Suitably-endowed punters lured into bonking for Vaseline loving

    NFC frisking of street posters for fun and profit

    Vaseline is one of 13 brands taking part in a trial of contact-less advertising in Reading, inviting those with an NFC-equipped phone to bonk for more details. The trial will run for four weeks, and involve posters on 300 bus stops and around 25 larger posters, all equipped with wireless NFC tags against which the passing …

    Mobile 7 Mar 10:02

  • Sub-£400 svelte lappies hurled in Ultrabook preemptive strike

    Here's something we made cheaper

    Taiwan-based laptop vendors are planning a push in the second quarter to fill what they see as a gap in the market for cheaper ‘Ultrabook-style’ machines before Intel’s Ivy Bridge rollout makes the real thing more affordable. Tech manufacturing rag Digitimes claims that the vendors are likely to use cheaper components in order …

    PCs & Chips 7 Mar 10:21

  • X-com reboot's gameplay showcased

    Alien activity caught on video

    2K has released the first in-game footage of Xcom: Enemy Unknown, the anticipated refresh of the much-loved RTS. The clip below shows various combat gameplay and a new base, which players can customise and use to interact with characters. The game itself, developed by Firaxis, will seem quite different to those familiar with …

    reghardware 7 Mar 10:33

  • Mammoths, sabre-tooths MURDERED by second giant space boulder

    First the dinos, then the mastodons ... then ...

    A 16-strong team of international boffins have added more evidence for the controversial theory that a gigantic asteroid smashed into the Earth 12,900 years ago and wiped out a range of furry mammals, including the mammoths. The researchers found an ancient layer of thin, dark sediment buried at the bottom of Lake Cuitzeo in …

    Science 7 Mar 10:41

  • Stop the wedding! WD, Hitachi GST told to wait a day

    Loved-up disk spinners ordered to shed weight

    In a bare statement after the US stock markets closed on Monday, Western Digital and Hitachi GST announced that their expected 7 March marriage would take place – only one day later. Western Digital is trying to buy Hitachi GST in a $4.5bn transaction that was attached to a condition that WD would pay Hitachi GST $250m by way …

    Storage 7 Mar 10:43

  • Banned Facebook promises Chinese devs GLOBAL glory

    Zuck's lads poke around superpower's backdoor

    Facebook has drilled into China’s burgeoning software development industry to expand its range of apps despite the social network being banned in the country. David Lim, an engineer in the firm's mobile dev division, told Bloomberg that programmers from the People’s Republic make up about 20 per cent of Facebook’s network in …

    Developer 7 Mar 11:01

  • Facebook goes titsup in Europe

    Not saying how outage happened ... bitch

    Facebook was hit by downtime this morning that affected some of its addicts in Europe, the Middle East and Africa. The dominant social network declined to explain to The Register what had gone wrong, nor was it willing to reveal how many people were unable to access their accounts during the outage. “Today we experienced …

    Hosting 7 Mar 11:17

  • Three curbs data tariff excesses

    Cap in hand

    Three has abolished out of bundle data charges on all new smartphone contracts, so that customers who aren't on the network's all-you-can-eat plan can surf without the fear of costly overspend. Starting at £18 per month, the Ultimate Internet packages offer Three's renowned all-you-can-eat data plan, with 100 free minutes and …

    reghardware 7 Mar 11:30

  • Nekkid Tech: Cloud storage fluffs itself up

    Podcast Dropbox all over the news, SXSW and the Bitnorth bash

    This week it's all about the cloud at Nekkid Tech. Greg Knieriemen and trusty sidekick Ed Saipetch (@edasi) chat to Gina Minks (@gminks) and special guest Alistair Croll (@acroll). This week we discuss... Ed and Gina's trip to SXSW; the Bitnorth Conference; Dropbox and Box all over the media; double-billing on consumer …

    Infrastructure 7 Mar 11:41

  • BT ordered to cut Openreach fees for rivals

    Telco not happy with 'underlying assumptions'

    National telco BT will cut the amount it charges its rivals to use Openreach telephone and broadband lines after Ofcom officially set the company's wholesale prices this morning. The proposed fall in fees was submitted to the European Commission by the UK's communications watchdog last month. Ofcom regulates BT's Openreach …

    Telecoms 7 Mar 11:46

  • Carmageddon

    Antique Code Show More Top Gore than Top Gear

    Has there ever been a driving game quite as gleefully bloodthirsty, so nihilistically violent and as downright daft as Stainless Games' Carmageddon? The blood red hued baldy leering out from the front of the box set the tone: this isn't a game about simulating the driving experience, or even winning races, so much as …

    reghardware 7 Mar 12:00

  • Intel Xeon E5s pruned for single-socket workstations

    A place to plug in your discrete GPU

    Intel's "Sandy Bridge-EP" Xeon E5 server chip launch extravaganza is not just about servers. It also includes some chippery for their forebears: old-fashioned, heavy-duty, desktop machines that are still called workstations. Intel usually has a variant of its single-socket server processors – in years gone by, the Xeon SP and …

    PCs & Chips 7 Mar 12:22

  • Acer claims first discrete graphics Ultrabooks

    CeBit 2012 Optical drive squeezed in too

    Acer has been busy at the CeBit trade show this week, with announcements of a fresh 15in Ultrabook and a range of slimline notebooks. The Acer Aspire Timeline Ultra M3 packs a 15in display with the latest Intel Core processor and a dedicated Nvidia GeForce GT640M graphics chip. The latter ending sole reliance on Intel's …

    reghardware 7 Mar 12:30

  • The true, tragic cost of British wind power

    Analysis You could save the planet for a fraction of the price

    Two studies published this week calculate the astounding cost of Britain's go-it-alone obsession with using wind turbines to generate so much of the electricity the nation needs. Both studies make remarkably generous concessions that favour wind technology; the true cost, critics could argue, will be higher in each set of …

    Energy 7 Mar 12:41

  • Katie Price's teasing 'strapline reveal' avoids bust

    Jordan & Rio Ferdinand's Snickers-bar naughtiness OK'd

    It's official: Katie Price, AKA once-upon-a-time-glamour-model Jordan, is clueless about the European debt crisis unless an ad campaign takes over her Twitter account and waxes lyrical about economics for the sake of punting a chocolate bar. Advertising watchdog the ASA batted aside two complaints this morning that challenged …

    Bootnotes 7 Mar 13:02

  • Nokia issues another Lumia 800 battery fix

    A bug's life

    Nokia has pushed out another Lumia 800 update, which finally appears to have cracked the handset's battery woes and almost triples its staying power. The Finnish outfit played Numberwang again with firmware update 1600.2487.8107.12070, which rolled out across Singapore this week. As well as managing screen brightness better …

    reghardware 7 Mar 13:09

  • Steve Jobs' death clears way for Apple-Android peace talks

    iPad maker and rivals at patent negotiation table

    Apple is reportedly negotiating with Android manufacturers to license its patent portfolio as it continues to pile up the ammunition such negotiations will need. The news comes from the Dow Jones news wire, which talked to the omniscient "people familiar with the matter", and discovered that Apple plans to abandon its policy …

    Business 7 Mar 13:18

  • Creating information management Initiatives that deliver

    Live broadcast Ofsted, Parity and Reg readers offer advice

    On March 13th at 11:00GMT El Reg front-man Jon Collins is packing our studio with some information management experts that we hope will give you a leg-up on your BI initiatives. Tony Lock from Freeform Dynamics is coming along with a stash-bag of findings from the latest research that many of you took part in. We’ve also got …

    Business 7 Mar 13:32

  • Microsoft stumps up titsup Azure cloud compo

    Credit dished out to make up for leap day bug

    Microsoft has confirmed to El Reg that it will cough up service credits for customers walloped by the recent Azure outage. Under its T&Cs, Redmond offers financially backed service level agreements (SLAs) covering its cloud portfolio, and previously dished out credit notes to BPOS users for a seven-hour blackout in the summer …

    Channel Register 7 Mar 13:47

  • Sony Xperia S NXT series Android smartphone

    Review Big is beautiful?

    So farewell, then, Sony Ericsson. The Xperia S is the first phone for a decade to be branded with the Sony logo, and very nice it looks, too. As does the phone itself, a large screen with matt-black rubberised casing and a curious transparent strip across the bottom. It feels good in the hand, thanks to the curved back, though …

    reghardware 7 Mar 13:54

  • Foxconn pay hikes 'driving tech titans into Philippines'

    China's wage bump is a boon, says Manila's top trade wonk

    More signs have emerged that China’s rising labour costs are driving electronics firms out of the country: Philippine officials claim that foreign biz barons are looking to relocate to the small south-east Asian nation. Philippine trade secretary Gregory Domingo reported “very strong interest” from Japanese electronics, ship …

    Business 7 Mar 14:01

  • Euro watchdog snarls at data protection law overhaul

    EDPS joins ICO in dissing Reding's 'half-baked' plan

    A key advisory body, which is lending a hand in the rewrite of Europe's law for safeguarding information, has today reeled off its concerns over Viviane Reding's draft data protection bill. The European Data Protection Supervisor (EDPS) warned that the rules laid out in the justice commissioner's proposal, which was published …

    Law 7 Mar 14:09

  • Peter Molyneux parts with Microsoft and Lionhead

    Gaming maverick cans plans

    Peter Molyneux has called time on his position at Microsoft and Lionhead Studios, after 15 years involvement. The man behind titles such as Fable, Populous, Black & White and Syndicate dropped the bombshell on Twitter. "I have left the lovely amazing Microsoft and Lionhead," said Molyneux. "Now for something really amazing, …

    reghardware 7 Mar 14:15

  • SUNKEN LINER Titanic iceberg riddle answer FOUND ON MOON

    'Odds against rare astronomical event were astronomical'

    Scientists probing the circumstances surrounding the sinking of the ocean liner Titanic in 1912 say that a very rare conjunction of the Earth, Sun and Moon may have led to unusually high numbers of icebergs in the doomed vessel's path. “It was the closest approach of the Moon to the Earth in more than 1,400 years, and this …

    Space 7 Mar 14:18

  • Samsung celebrates iPad 3 day by suing Apple AGAIN

    iPhone 4S and iPad 2 patent showdown in South Korea

    Samsung Electronics has filed yet another lawsuit against arch-rival Apple, this time in Seoul's Central District Court, claiming the iPhone 4S and iPad 2 infringe three of its patents. "This lawsuit is separate from the proceedings filed against Apple in Seoul in April 2011 regarding infringement of telecommunications …

    Business 7 Mar 14:31

  • Apple blocks booze, cigs sales with parental control patent

    Also snares rights on 'media gift' flinging tech

    Apple has won a patent for its tap-to-pay iWallet tech that will block kids' accounts if they try to buy beer and tell their parents if they go shopping on Amazon. The "parental controls" patent filed in January 2009 and granted yesterday establishes a set of rules governing what Apple's tap-to-pay chip would be capable of …

    Mobile 7 Mar 14:43

  • Google's Android 'let down' sinks iPad rivals - IDC

    Apple bags 80 per cent of UK slab sales

    UK punters' love affair with the iPad shows no sign of abating after figures revealed Apple accounted for nearly four out of five fondleslabs sold into channels last quarter. More than 1.2 million tablets were flogged to disties, retailers and vendors' stores in Q4, up 91 per cent year-on-year, with iOS accounting for 79 per …

    Channel Register 7 Mar 15:04

  • SAP tosses out stock-linked sweeteners to staff

    CeBIT Work harder, don't leave, and make us cloudy!

    SAP employees will continue to bag cash incentives in the form of phantom stocks as the enterprise computing behemoth works harder to hang onto valuable talent. “I do believe it makes a lot of sense to have incentive programmes for the employees as well, which make them interested in the share price of the company and give …

    Business 7 Mar 15:31

  • TI, Nvidia dominate 'not iPad' tablet chip biz

    Intel, Qualcomm "missed the boat", says analyst

    It's no great surprise that Apple tops market watcher Strategy Analytics' list of the leading tablet chip makers of 2011. So strong were iPad sales in comparison with other tablets, it couldn't fail to take the number one slot. So how well are its rivals doing? According to SA, Texas Instruments and Nvidia fill out the top …

    reghardware 7 Mar 15:40

  • Secure cloud biz Trustwave equips M86 anti-malware guns

    Grabs security 'through the cloud' with acquisition

    Cloud-security firm Trustwave has bought web security and anti-malware firm M86 Security. Financial terms of the acquisition, announced Tuesday, were undisclosed. Trustwave said the deal allowed it to add web security to its portfolio of compliance, application, network and data security products and services. It promised that …

    Cloud Business 7 Mar 16:02

  • Apple's App Store parades surprise new Catalog model

    This is news to us, sniff devs

    Apple has launched a new App Store category called Catalogs in what could be a tantalising glimpse of something bigger to be unveiled tonight at the next-gen iPad launch. The outing of the Catalogs section (in some places spelled "Catalogues" presumably for Brits) seems to be a little premature - certain apps are listed in it …

    Developer 7 Mar 16:18

  • US, European iPad ownership rockets

    World+Dog wants Apple tablet

    iPad ownership is rocketing in Europe's five leading economies, with more than 11.4 million people now in possession of an Apple fondleslab, market watcher ComScore said today. That total, for January 2012, is almost double - the rate is 75 per cent - the 6.5m iPads in punters' hands in France, Germany, Italy, Spain and the UK …

    reghardware 7 Mar 16:27

  • PlayStation Suite gets sweetener

    Sony touts SDK to devs

    Those with PlayStation certified Android devices will be pleased to know Sony has launched an SDK for developers to bring more PS games to the mobile platform. Following the Xperia Play's release last year, the number of PS Suite games remained limited with Sony keeping dev cards close to its chest. An SDK - set to be …

    reghardware 7 Mar 16:35

  • Micron warms up solid hardness, shoves in PCIe hole

    Hot-swap flash drives get cosy with Dell boxes

    It's PCIe flash, but not as we know it. A Micron SSD can now snuggle up as close as it likes to servers because it has been given a server PCIe bus interface. Dell loves the idea. Dell is using the PCIe-interface version of Micron's P320h SSD in its 12G PowerEdge servers. We knew it was using Micron SSDs, which normally have …

    Storage 7 Mar 16:41

  • DragonFly BSD developer stung by Opteron bug

    New 'Bulldozer' cores not affected

    Matthew Dillon, the lead developer behind the DragonFly BSD fork of the open source FreeBSD Unix variant, had some issues with crashes on Opteron-based systems running his operating system for more than a year - and now Advanced Micro Devices says it's a bug in earlier generations of Opteron processors. The errata does not …

    Operating Systems 7 Mar 17:03

  • The one tiny slip that put LulzSec chief Sabu in the FBI's pocket

    Analysis IRC relays 'infiltrated by the feds'

    The man named by the FBI as infamous hacktivist Sabu was undone by an embarrassing security blunder, it has emerged. The alleged LulzSec kingpin eventually copped to a battery of hacking charges last August and was reported to have been "co-operating" with the FBI in the months leading up to yesterday's arrests. Police locked …

    Crime 7 Mar 17:33

  • Will Apple's iPad 3 HD touch you in a special way?

    Updated Senseg-made haptic textures rumoured

    The cryptic teaser - "And touch" - in Apple's invitation for its much-hyped event today has prompted speculation that the screen on its next-generation iPad will be a silky, lumpy riot of shifting textures that will delight the spasming fingertips of those lucky enough to fondle it. We have something for you to see. And touch …

    Hardware 7 Mar 17:44

  • Java won't curl up and die like Cobol, insists Oracle

    QCon 2012 We've got versions 8, 9 and 10 to prove it

    With Java 8 still on its way in mid-2013, Oracle is already prepping for Java 9 and 10, and protesting that reports of a Cobolesque slide into irrelevance are much exaggerated. Java 9 and 10 will tackle big data, multi-language interoperability, cloud and mobile and ship in 2015 and 2017 respectively, Oracle said Wednesday. …

    Developer 7 Mar 18:01

  • WD fattens up S25 with third juicy platter

    3G drive swells up to 900GB

    The third generation S25 drive from Western Digital has had a third platter added to reach the 900GB capacity point. WD's S25 is a 2.5-inch enterprise disk drive spinning at 10,000rpm with a 6Gbit/s SAS interface. It comes in 150, 300 and 600GB capacity points and competes with Seagate's Savvio 10K – the 10K.4 600GB version of …

    Storage 7 Mar 18:32

  • Pacific nation prepares to flee rising seas

    Kiribati starts to pack its suitcases

    The Pacific nation of Kiribati has initiated a long-term plan to up sticks to Fiji, as rising sea levels threaten to swallow its homeland. Kiribati comprises 32 coral atolls in four island groups spread across 1,351,000 square miles (3,499,000km2) of ocean. The total land area is 313 square miles (811km2), with the highest …

    Energy 7 Mar 19:02

  • 'The new iPad' revealed: Full specs, rumor scorecard

    Updated 4G, high-res display, new processor, 1080p camera...

    As expected, Apple announced its latest iPad at an invitation-only event* in San Francisco to a crowd of happy journos and live-bloggers. There's a good bit new about the latest iPad – but not its name. The updated Cupertinian fondleslab was merely referred to as the "the new iPad" or the "third-generation iPad". For weeks …

    PCs & Chips 7 Mar 19:46

  • Adaptec trickles RAID RoCket fuel into new Xeons

    CeBIT PCIe 3 is I/O gulper

    It all came together at CeBIT for Adaptec with a searingly fast 6.6GB/sec supply of data across a PCIe gen 3 bus to a Xeon E5-2600 server – twice as fast as gen 2 PCIe servers. The configuration for the demo used a prototype SRVc RAID-on-Chip (RoC) card from Adaptec, now owned by PMC-Sierra, hooked up to a server using Intel's …

    Storage 7 Mar 20:03

  • Sun belches wonking solar flare

    Get out your tinfoil hats

    Sol is having a bit of fusion indigestion again and has belched forth one of the largest solar flares to come hurtling towards Earth in the past five years, according to NASA. NASA said in a statement that the solar flare on March 6 at 7 PM Eastern time weighed in at X5.4 on the solar flare scale. The flare came from an area …

    Space 7 Mar 20:42

  • Amid iPad frenzy, Apple staff say 'Remember the workers'

    Unionization of Apple retail making slow progress

    The world + dog has been following the announcements from Apple today, but for one employee watching the preparations, the chief wish wasn't a shiny new fondleslab or fancy TV system, but union rights. Cory Moll, an organizer for the Apple Retail Workers Union (ARWU), popped by the event before clocking in for work at his …

    Business 7 Mar 21:04

  • Telstra tips assets into NBN Co

    The AUD$11b break up it had to have

    Telstra has committed to the final step towards its pivotal part in the deployment of Australia’s national broadband network rollout, with the long anticipated finalisation of Definitive Agreements with the government and NBN Co. The $AU11 billion deal will ensure the nations incumbent carrier’s pit-and-duct infrastructure …

    Business 7 Mar 21:15

  • Tevatron refines Higgs boson picture

    Fermilab’s final fling brings ‘fuzzy’ picture of God particle

    “Unfortunately, this hint is not significant enough to conclude that the Higgs boson exists”, says Fermilab physicist Rob Roser – but the difficult last particle is getting closer to revealing its secrets. Today’s particle physics excitement comes from Fermilab results presented at a conference in La Thuille in Italy, where …

    Physics 7 Mar 21:30

  • Fanbois will get wet queuing for iPad 3

    Sale date for iPad 3 has ≥ 75% chance of rain

    Sydney, Newcastle, Melbourne and Brisbane each have a better than 75% chance of rain on 16 March, the day Apple will put the new iPad (which our US bureau covers in magnificent detail) on sale in its Australian retail stores. Even Perth, the other city graced with an Apple store, has a 25-50 per cent chance of rain on the day …

    PCs & Chips 7 Mar 21:59

  • Qantas lets fly with 'net access

    No place left to hide from your email

    Qantas is taking The Internets to the skies with the officially launch of an in-flight A380 connectivity trial this week. Flyers jetting between Australia and the United States will be able to access the internet and email from the air borne seats across six Qantas A380s via Wi-Fi enabled laptops and personal electronic …

    Mobile 7 Mar 22:00

  • Boffins unlock gorilla genome, find lazy sperm gene

    Embiggening knuckle pads also important in ape evolution

    Genes controlling hearing, the creation of knuckle pads and sperm formation have caught the interest of boffins who today published the first sequenced gorilla genome. The data from the project, which sequenced over 140 billion base pairs over a five-year period, implies that in 30 per cent of its genome, the gorilla is closer …

    Biology 7 Mar 22:03

  • Atlassian buys its way into HipChat

    Aussie software coolster swoops on Frisco kid

    Atlassian, is adding a real time component to its collaboration software suite with the acquisition of San Francisco-based HipChat. The Australian software trailblazer would not disclose terms of the deal but HipChat’s three co-founders Pete Curley, Garret Heaton and Chris Rivers will be joining Atlassian to continue to grow …

    Business 7 Mar 22:30

  • Cook & Co. boost Apple TV to 1080p, update interface

    'Hobby' device gets iCloudy upgrade

    In addition to introducing "The new iPad" on Wednesday morning in San Francisco, Apple has upgraded its Apple TV set-top box to 1080p, given it a new user interface, and added a few bells and whistles. "Apple TV is easier than ever to use with its new icon-based interface and the ability to access your purchased movies, TV …

    Hardware 7 Mar 23:24

  • Foxtel offers small olive branch to Oz IPTV operators

    Access to content, with caveats

    In its ongoing bid to acquire Australian pay TV company Austar, Foxtel has made a small concession to the country’s fledgling IPTV industry, saying it will forgo some of its exclusivity if allowed to make the acquisition. The concession comes in a draft undertaking submitted to the Australian Competition and Consumer …

    Telecoms 7 Mar 23:32