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Defends right to sell itself
Tired of taking it on the chin from bully activist investors, Yahoo! executives are counting the reasons why they're better off forging a advertising partnership Google rather than selling the company's search business to Microsoft.
Financial News
26 00:21
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I'm feeling lucky
Google has finally found a new chief financial officer, ending a nearly year-long search to replace its current CFO, George Reyes.
Financial News
26 00:27
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Who needs a macro network anyway?
The Femto Forum has hooked up with the Next Generation Mobile Network alliance to push femtocells into network planning for 4G deployments, potentially cutting costs and allowing a more phased roll-out.
Mobile
26 08:02
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Certification process could slow games releases
If changes to the classification of videogames in the UK - as proposed by the Byron Review - get the go-ahead, then gamers will be forced to wait longer for titles to hit the shops, Electronic Arts has warned.
Games
26 08:02
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'Fundamental moral and legal protections'
Spain yesterday laid the groundwork for legislation which would grant great apes the right to life and freedom, Reuters reports.
Law
26 09:40
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Quelle surprise
Orange has priced up the 3G iPhone: it'll cost French folk €149 ($234/£118) for the 8GB model, or €199 ($312/£158) for the 16GB version.
Mobile
26 09:49
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Outlook 'challenging'
DSG International (DSGi) saw annual profit tumble 30 per cent today, after the struggling electrical retailer was forced to cut prices to shift stock amidst a tightening of consumer spending.
The Channel
26 09:55
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It's real and it's coming soon
The Knight Rider satnav won global acclaim after being spotted earlier this week. But anyone doubting its authenticity can now rest easy, as maker Mio has confirmed it's existence. And a demo video has surfaced.
Science
26 09:58
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ISP-music talks get serious
Legal broadband subscription services that permit file sharing may appear on the market by the year's end, according to music industry sources - after government intervention brought both music suppliers and ISPs to the table.
Media
26 10:04
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Can't find a 'compelling' reason to upgrade, says IT dept. insider
Windows Vista is not for Intel, it has been claimed. The chip giant will not be installing the new operating systems on its many thousands of desktop PCs. It has "no compelling case" to do so.
Operating Systems
26 10:22
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Half of TVs sold in UK last year were analogue
You’d be forgiven for thinking that analogue TV sales had gone the way of the valve radio and the Ford Capri. But half of the TVs sold in the UK last year were analogue, and most buyers still don’t realise that the sets will soon become obsolete.
Hardware
26 10:30
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Guilty until proven innocent
An independent think tank has today blamed the government's increasing reliance on "anti-paedophile" criminal record checks for making UK adults scared to have any contact with other people's children.
Government
26 10:41
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Censors mum's birthday cake surprise
Mum Gail Jordan's amusing plan to celebrate her son's 21st birthday by presenting him with a cake sporting a snap of him as a bare-cheeked bouncing baby came off the rails when Asda staff declared the image "pornographic", the Telegraph reports.
Bootnotes
26 10:43
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Plus large fines and jail if grannie scarpers...
People who sponsor visits to the UK by relatives from overseas under new visa rules will be required to undergo Criminal Records Bureau checks, and will be liable for penalties of up to £5,000 or even a prison sentence if the relative goes AWOL, immigration minister Liam Byrne announced this week. It will still be possible to visit the UK using a standard tourist visa, but those sponsored by a relative will receive preferential visa treatment, and in order to sponsor, the relative will need to be licensed.
Government
26 10:44
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Hard time for hardened furniture worrier
The Ohio man caught on camera having sex with a picnic table has been jailed for six months, NBC reports.
Bootnotes
26 12:04
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Get involved with the experts
El Reg invites you to tighten up your security as we hook up with some of the industry's biggest names and you - the UK's biggest technology community - for two live and fully interactive events exploring the latest menaces and threat-busting initiatives. Whether you're a CTO, developer, consultant or home user, if the security of your IT is important to you make sure these two are in your diary.
Security
26 12:06
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Happy snapping
It's clear that the design of Sony Ericsson's C902 is far more conventional than the likes of the K810 or K850. Gone is the 'small key' design, the keypad now being a sort of cross between that of a W960 and a K800.
Phones
26 12:08
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Read my... oh
Having lasted less than three years, the Linux Phone Standards (LiPS) Forum is folding itself into the Linux Mobile (LiMO) Foundation. The closure comes a scant six months after the completion of version one of its standard.
Operating Systems
26 12:13
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$35? Nah, you keep it
$93,660 (£47,201/€59,631) can’t be much to the publisher of Grand Theft Auto. But that’s the paltry maximum amount it could've paid out so far over the infamous ‘hot coffee’ incident in GTA: San Andreas, simply because hardly anyone’s filed a claim.
Games
26 12:16
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'We've found the crater to prove it,' boffins claim
New data from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter and Mars Global Surveyor backs a theory that the Red Planet's huge northern hemisphere Borealis basin was created by an impact 3.9bn years ago by a body some 1,900km (1,200 miles) in diameter, or larger than Pluto.
Science
26 12:58
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Physics for GTX
Nvidia has posted a version of its PhysX software that enables the physics-on-GPU technology on its GeForce GTX 200-series and 9800 GTX graphics chips.
Hardware
26 13:33
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But only in the US, sigh
Sony has confirmed that it’ll launch its movie downloads service for the PlayStation 3 in the US this summer. However, European film fans will have to wait a little longer.
Games
26 13:36
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American ingenuity and exceptionalism transforms weeds into, er, pork
Read the daily reports on what to do to counter high gas prices, and you'll see the importance of magic in US energy strategy. A rich variety of schemes have been put forward, literally within weeks of the gas crunch, delivered with the traditional slogan that occurs to every editorial writer who believes children's fairy tales about American ingenuity and exceptionalism.
Science
26 13:38
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Internet safety scheme too
The Byron Review, it seems, was just the beginning. The UK government has unveiled a comprehensive action plan designed to develop ways of making videogames and the internet safer for children.
Government
26 13:45
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Flattering release
Love Red Hat Enterprise Linux and want the latest edition, but can't stand the company and refuse to give it a single red cent? You're in luck.
Servers
26 14:47
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Too slow and too invasive
The Brown government has changed its mind on placing security scanners at every London tube station and mainline train stations across the country, because the technology does not work and the public would not tolerate the long delays such scanning would require.
Government
26 15:42
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Like a mainframe but closer to angels
Amazon CTO Werner Vogels believes that cloud computing will be commonplace within two years.
Servers
26 15:51
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BPI wins another ISP ally
BT, the UK's largest broadband provider, has begun threatening subscribers with disconnection from the internet if it is told they are sharing copyright music over peer-to-peer networks, The Register has learned.
Law
26 16:10
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Better late than never, eh?
Microsoft today hustled its delayed Hyper-V hypervisor software out the door.
Software
26 16:15
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Fat cats and bourgeoisie called to action
Fresh from challenging Silicon Valley to invest in ethical Web 2.0 efforts, a blogger-cum-consultant has proclaimed a "manifesto" for the next industrial revolution using Web 2.0.
Software
26 17:25
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Sees itself at the center of everything
Meeting the deadlines set with its original Host Bus Adapter (HBA) roadmap, Brocade today is rolling out a second-generation of devices with more respectable performance.
Data Networking
26 19:50
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Don't like .com? How about .thispagerocks?
ICANN, the organization that oversees internet addresses, will soon allow anyone to apply for his very own generic top-level domain (gTLD). In other words, you'll soon have the power to put almost anything at the end of your url, eschewing existing top-level domains such as ".com" or ".edu."
Law
26 19:54
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$70,000 tissue tussle
A technology director who was fired from her job has been accused of hacking in to the organ donation company where she worked and deleting donor information and accounting files.
Security
26 19:59
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'You could use some more DR over here, Jim'
You may not be a Fortune 100 company, but you deserve tiered storage too, right? Right?!?!
Storage
26 20:08
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Take a number
Call it the impossible dream. Every so often, somebody - usually from the Java side of the tracks - wants to best Microsoft's Visual Studio.
Developer
26 21:45
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A modest proposal
With successful attacks against websites reaching epidemic levels, Microsoft and HP have released a free set of tools that help developers check their web applications for the mistakes that leave them open to exploits that can steal sensitive information and harm visitors.
Security
26 23:05
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Where's the ham and cheese?
AVG has rejiggered the fake traffic it's spewing across the internet, causing new headaches for the world's webmasters.
Broadband
26 23:36
