24th November 2012 Archive

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• European Parliament votes to fight ITU internet power grab

  Hey you, get off of my cloud

  The European Parliament has passed a resolution protesting plans by the International Telecommunications Union to seize regulatory control of the internet. "[The European Parliament] believes that the ITU, or any other single, centralised international institution, is not the appropriate body to assert regulatory authority …

  Networks 24 Nov 00:01

• Ten PlayStation 3 games you may have missed

  Games Round-up The Sony side of the street

  While summer was a fairly dry time for games releases, this autumn has gone haywire in the build up to Christmas and as a result, it feels like more titles are being handed out than knighthoods. As usual, we've sifted through the good and the bad to compile a list of any worthy ones you may have missed. While the following ten …

  Games 24 Nov 08:00

• Ten Xbox 360 games you may have missed

  Games Round-up Console food for the Microsoft massive

  Our second helping of our console game roundups, caters for those playing on Microsoft's Xbox 360. Sure you may be preoccupied connecting up smartphones through the new SmartGlass feature, but we wouldn't want you to be caught out for Christmas and be lost among the hundreds of new titles, unsure of what to purchase. So …

  Games 24 Nov 08:01

• Asteroid miners hunt for platinum, leave all common sense in glovebox

  Analysis El Reg metals expert drills into sci-fi biz

  Isn't it exciting that Planetary Resources is going to jet off and mine the asteroids? This is every teenage sci-fi geek's dream, that everything we imbibed from Verne through Heinlein to Pournelle is going to come true! But there's always someone, isn't there, someone like me, ready to spoil the party. The bit that I cannot …

  Science 24 Nov 12:01

• Why 'slow light' might just save the Internet

  Photonics lights a path to a high-speed, low-energy, Internet

  If we want to keep expanding the performance and the reach of the Internet, we need an inflection point: otherwise, its electricity consumption will become catastrophic. This isn’t some hippie greenie Luddite concern: even if we ignore the climate question, we need to be able to supply our telecommunications networks with …

  Networks 24 Nov 21:30