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Mr. Susan Sarandon fears nationwide election meltdown
Susan Sarandon's common law hubby was miffed this morning when election officials at his local polling station couldn't find his name.
Bootnotes
05 00:19
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Bon voyage!...or else
Nearly all employees at Dell are being asked to take a week of unpaid leave. If they don't obey, another round of layoffs will begin.
Financial News
05 01:08
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All takin' and no givin'
Defying TV broadcasters, wireless microphone makers, God, and Dolly Parton, the FCC has opened America's "white spaces" to unlicensed net devices.
Mobile
05 01:11
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Alleged sniffer mods
A New York man has been charged with aiding the alleged leader of the hacking gang accused of stealing more than 40 million credit and debit card numbers from stores owned by TJX Companies and other companies.
Security
05 01:13
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EMC and Cisco snag 1 million shares
Intel's investment arm plans to pawn half its stake in VMware, a recent regulatory filing has revealed.
Financial News
05 01:14
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It's the end of the net as we know it
The battle is now on for the soul of the Australian internet. The outcome could have enormous repercussions for the future of the internet in the UK.
Law
05 02:02
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Palin-tology defeated
Barack Obama has defeated John McCain to become the next president of the United States and the first African-American to hold the highest office in the land.
Government
05 04:29
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Marketing dept takes the hit
Nokia will close its site at Turku, Finland and redeploy the staff there to Salo or near Helsinki. The company has also announced a "sharpened focus" that will put 130 research staff at risk - plus another 35 "workforce adjustments" in operations.
Mobile
05 07:02
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Students to swot by smartphone
A London school’s pencilled in plans to ditch old-style textbooks because it wants pupils to swot up using mobile phones instead.
Phones
05 08:02
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Film fans and game buffs, rejoice
Creative's X-Fi sound cards have been around for a while, but with the Sound Blaster X-Fi Notebook we have the first ExpressCard 34 iteration of the breed.
Hardware
05 09:02
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We're not sex workers, pair tell Number 10
Two lapdancers from the Spearmint Rhino chain yesterday shimmied their way to Downing Street to present a petition protesting against the attempted reclassification of their places of work as “sex encounter establishments”.
Bootnotes
05 09:02
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Prising cash out of the banks
Business group the Confederation of British Industry (CBI) called on banks to free up lending to small and medium enterprises this winter, warning that many firms will be looking for funding.
Small Biz
05 09:50
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Irresponsible idiot? Want a kitten? We can help
The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) is consulting on new guidelines for gormless pet owners who don't know a dog's arse from whatever it has in lieu of an elbow.
Government
05 10:02
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'T-hawk™' petrol peepers: Now with swivel spyeyes
The US military has ordered a further 180 hovering ducted-fan spyeye robots, renowned for their ability to operate in tight places and "stare" through windows at will.
Government
05 10:04
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Completing the set of terrestrial broadcasters
Channel Five will arrive on free-to-air satellite broadcasting network Freesat in a couple of weeks.
Media
05 10:21
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Brace yourself, this one's a cracker
There's a lot of stuff running on servers that underpin the majority of your organizations applications and end user computing.
Reg Technology Panel
05 10:58
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Anti-Atom partnership dissolved, claim moles
Nvidia and VIA have reportedly canned their plan to jointly develop a reference design for Small, Cheap Computers based on their chippery.
Hardware
05 10:59
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Q&A
I play Crysis and Half-Life 2-based games on a PC connected to a 50in Pioneer Kuro plasma, but my ATI Radeon 1950 Pro is starting to show it's age. What should I replace it with?
Hardware
05 11:02
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Thinks two heads are better than one
Dell is going to have two de-duplication technologies, not a single de-duplication architecture across its products,
Storage
05 11:06
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HELLO? YES, I'M IN A TWISTED METAL CARCASS!
The number of people charged for driving while talking on the mobile has been climbing steadily for the last few years. The majority were Londoners, who are also the most adept in getting away with it.
Mobile
05 11:18
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US vehicle based on British motor tech
Grab your shotgun, a six-pack and smell-hound because a 400+ bhp electric version of Ford's F-150 pick-up has been unveiled at the 2008 Speciality Equipment Market Association (SEMA) show in Las Vegas.
Science
05 11:32
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Universal snooping plans trailed again at ISP jaw-jaw
A confused and technically illiterate account of Jacqui Smith's government Interception Modernisation Programme (gIMP) by The Independent crosses our desk this morning.
Government
05 11:36
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History search vuln exorcised
Opera has updated its browser to plug a pair of critical security holes.
Security
05 11:37
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Zeitgeistgasm: Rubbish/media security recycling
City workers not yet living in old fridge boxes under motorways will now be able to receive news of their redundancies even faster, as a new video news channel may soon deploy onto street screens across the Square Mile. The screens will be attached to recyclo-eco-bins - which will also feature secret terrorist-bomb-proofing technology.
Science
05 11:45
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Small pilots still angry, though...
Jacqui Smith's plans for ID cards for airport workers are in deeper trouble, with the news that next year's rollout has been downscaled to an 18 month trial at only two airports, Manchester and City of London. According to a report in today's Financial Times, the Home Secretary is due to announce the trial on Thursday - but the paper adds that no agreement has yet been reached on whether or not the trial would cover existing workers, or only new employees.
Government
05 12:09
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Asus UK has said it's not going phase out its 7in and 8.9in Eee PC netbooks next year after all. In fact, these models may be in for a revamp in the near future.
Hardware
05 12:15
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UK Gamers shifting to dedicated devices?
Videogame sales in the UK will eclipse the combined value of music and video purchases in the UK this year for the first time ever, despite plummeting demand for PC titles.
Games
05 12:28
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Withdraws sales of old-timer OS
Microsoft finally withdrew its ancient operating system, Windows for Workgroups 3.11, on 1 November from the embedded market.
Operating Systems
05 12:46
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Sun shines out dept...
Sun showed it can still get ahead of the crowd last night, as it became the first tech company to try and grab some reflected glory from Barack Obama's victory in the US election.
Servers
05 12:48
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The best netbook with integrated 3G goodness
Dell may be late to the netbook party, but it's turned up with something very fashionable on its arm to make up: the Inspiron Mini 9, bulging in all the right places with HSDPA 3G mobile broadband goodness.
Hardware
05 13:02
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Calls for 'less and better targeted aid'
The European Commission has opened a period of consultation on its proposals to change the rules governing state aid handed to broadcasters.
Media
05 13:08
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ANPR alone too easy to beat
The UK's Transport minister has confirmed that technical trials of road-pricing systems are underway.
Government
05 13:10
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Fewer incidents but bigger losses
Financial losses in UK government rose last year despite a decreased number of incidents, according to official Treasury figures.
Government
05 13:28
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Orange has taken exclusive delivery of LG’s latest talker: a stylish clamshell device with two screens.
Phones
05 13:29
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Spring release?
Japan's Oki has developed an office chair that, it claims, can jump. And we thought all they were good for is spinning around and skating along on the casters.
Hardware
05 13:29
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Civil servants went rogue on partisan missive, DCSF Sir Humphrey says
A top government official has apologised after civil servants working on the ContactPoint project wrote a memo to local authorities that was sharply critical of Tory policy on child data sharing.
Government
05 13:33
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Mozilla gets its jiggy on
Popular browser Firefox has snatched more than 20 per cent market share during two separate weeks in October, according to new statistics.
Applications
05 13:40
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Blows up junior transport minister
A Libertarian celebration of Guy Fawkes and Bonfire Night has put junior transport minister Tom Harris in trouble - and yet again, it is his shoot-from-the-hip style of blogging that is the cause of his discomfort.
Government
05 14:05
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There should (will) be a law against it
Cynical, viciously nihilist bloggers are destroying British political culture, claims Communities Secretary Hazel Blears. And furthermore, she is due to say today in a speech to the Hansard Society, they're all Tories.
Government
05 14:23
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Ermine-clad defenders of our liberty
The House of Lords forced another climb-down by the government yesterday by voting to amend the rules for the DNA database to allow innocent people to have their DNA samples destroyed and removed from the database.
Government
05 14:37
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SAN Virtualisation Services Platform
HP is introducing a SAN storage virtualisation platform, using LSI software, to combine mid-range HP and third-party drive arrays into a single pool of storage.
Storage
05 14:56
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Details of an upcoming Olympus digital SLR camera have been released by an online retailer.
Hardware
05 15:19
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Playing nicely in the white spaces
The FCC has voted to allow unlicensed use of White Space spectrum between the TV stations. Meanwhile UK-regulator Ofcom today published a statement on cooperative common spectrum, but both proposals are based on technically unproven concepts of radio agility that hardly stack up.
Broadband
05 15:27
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Tuned out
What if you launched an IPTV service, and nobody cared? That's the question that has apparently led Orange execs to ditch plans to offer broadband customers pay TV down their phone lines.
Broadband
05 15:29
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Advertisers and regulators win the day
Google is abandoning attempts to push through its ad-sharing deal with Yahoo!
Financial News
05 16:13
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Slow random writes hidden in fast sequential writes
SanDisk has come up with a tweak for solid-state drives that, it claims, will accelerate SSD random write speeds by a factor of 100.
Hardware
05 16:20
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Samba De Amigo advert used real chimp
An animal rights group went bananas when it discovered that Sega had used a real chimpanzee in an advert for its latest Wii game. But the gaming firm has now promised to end its monkey business.
Games
05 16:26
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Smart swarms to eliminate ICBM 'threat clusters'
The US Missile Defence Agency has assigned a further $442m for work on "multiple kill vehicles", designed to let a single American interceptor rocket destroy several orbital targets. The multi-kill capability is seen as vital if the nascent US missile shield is ever to become a credible defence.
Government
05 16:44
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Microblogging service explodes with Twittard wits
It was an epic night for nettards and social inadequates as Barack Obama beat that guy the Vietnamese tortured to become the United States' first black African-American president-elect. And hey, it was all go down at Twitter, as the microblogging service exploded in a veritable bukkake of inanities and half-baked blogulations.
Bootnotes
05 16:59
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Video surveillance storage bank seeks cash
Start-up Atrato has made Steve Visconti, previously EVP for sales and marketing, its new CEO. The previous CEO, Dan McCormick, becomes chairman of the board and will focus more on fund raising.
Storage
05 17:13
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Terminal jive
Redmond is giving a select bunch of software startups thousands of dollars worth of development tools and server software at a big discount for up to three years.
Applications
05 17:18
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Linux border patrol
Technology that claims to pick up traces of illicit images on PCs has attracted the interest of Australian cops. The software, developed in an Australian University, might eventually be used to screen PCs for pr0n during border inspections.
Security
05 17:26
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The Great Tech Feedback Loop
The processor and operating system technologies that made Sun Microsystems one of the first big Silicon Valley startups got their start three decades inside the computer science departments of two universities. It was Stanford University for the hardware and the University of California at Berkeley for the operating system that would eventually become Solaris.
Servers
05 17:48
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Jurassic Park novelist had cancer
Michael Crichton - the author, filmmaker, and television producer best known for his 1990 novel Jurassic Park - is dead at the age of 66.
Bootnotes
05 19:28
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'Serious amount of files' lifted
Sophisticated overseas hackers broke in to the computer systems of both the Barack Obama and John McCain campaigns and stole a large amount of data, according to an article published Wednesday by Newsweek.
Security
05 19:30
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Earnings closer than you think
Recent figures from Microsoft and Apple reveal some interesting changes to how the companies compare financially. Apple's earnings may be closer to Microsoft's than you think.
Financial News
05 20:31
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Norwegian rodents dying against will
The Norwegian lemming population is dwindling - through no fault of its own.
Science
05 21:13
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Gaping loophole = easy root access
Hackers have managed to jailbreak T-Mobile's new G1 phone by exploiting a gaping loophole in Android, the open source operating system supplied by Google.
Security
05 21:23
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Keeping sales warm in a cold world
You're Sun Microsystems. You have a server lineup you brag about all the time. You have one of the best operating systems in the world in Solaris. And you shelled out $1bn in cold, hard cash to acquire the most popular open source database in the world, MySQL.
Servers
05 21:50
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Vanish™ - the detergent for killers
Thanks to a new breed of detergent, getting away with murder isn't the daunting task it once was.
Bootnotes
05 23:00
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Loses touch with reality
World of Warcraft creator Blizzard Entertainment's lawsuit against MDY Industries is getting a little dose of bat-shit insane before the case rolls to trial.
Law
05 23:08
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Vista all over again
Microsoft is in hot water again for again taking the name of someone else's software for one of its fledgling products
Developer
05 23:40
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Short turnaround, high volume
Malware purveyors have wasted no time capitalizing on Barack Obama's landslide victory in the US presidential race. Within 12 hours of his acceptance speech Tuesday night, net users were being treated to scams involving Google AdWords and prodigious volumes of spam.
Security
05 23:46
