19th June 2013 Archive

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• Icahn doubles down on Dell offer with $14 per share buyback scheme

  Confirms he's now Dell's largest private investor – short of Big Mike, that is

  With exactly a month to go before the special meeting of Dell shareholders that could decide the company's fate, investor Carl Icahn has increased the pressure for a better deal for shareholders – chiefly himself.

  Business 19 Jun 00:10

• Foreign keys, JavaScript support on deck for MySQL Cluster update

  All this and faster performance, too

  Following more than 12 months of development and preview releases, Oracle has announced general availability of MySQL Cluster 7.3, bringing a number of important new features and enhancements to the open source clustering add-on for the MySQL database.

  Developer 19 Jun 01:09

• House bill: 'Hey NASA, that asteroid retrieval plan? Fuggedaboutit'

  Republican-led committee also swings budget axe at climate science

  If the Republican-led House Subcommittee on Space has its way, NASA's proposed asteroid-retrieval mission will be killed, the agency's budget will be capped for the next two years at about 5 per cent less than last year's, and NASA's Earth observation efforts will be cut back.

  Science 19 Jun 01:14

• Huawei muses on Nokia's future

  'Open minded' about acquisition

  Growing its smartphone shipments by 94 percent from Q1 2012 to Q1 2013 might not be enough to satisfy Huawei: it's reportedly floated the idea of acquiring Nokia.

  Business 19 Jun 01:58

• Six nations ask Google for answers on Glass privacy

  Canada, Oz, NZ, Mexico, Switzerland and Israel send 'Dear Larry' letter

  36 Privacy Commissioners from around the world have written to Google to ask, in the polite-but-firm language of international diplomacy, for some details about Google Glass.

  Security 19 Jun 02:17

• Spear phish your boss to win more security cash

  Websense CSO recommends fake attacks on suits to open their wallets

  Despite weekly news of successful and nasty online attacks damaging organisations of every stripe, executive types remain blasé about security and don't pay it enough attention, says Jason Clark, chief security officer at Websense, who recommends fighting back by phishing CEOs and board members.

  Security 19 Jun 03:03

• Chinese hackers launch PRISM scare campaign

  Supposed 'CIA list' with you on it actually contains malware

  The Chinese group behind the recently discovered NetTraveler attacks is now using widespread interest in the infamous National Security Agency (NSA) PRISM surveillance program to encourage users to open malicious email attachments, it has emerged.

  Security 19 Jun 03:55

• Google erases G8 venue from Earth: Microsoft doesn't

  Cameron and chums to hold confab in empty field, apparently

  As all the world that cares knows, the leaders of the eight most powerful nations in the world have just been holding a summit meeting at the Lough Erne Resort in Northern Ireland.

  Bootnotes 19 Jun 04:58

• COLD BALLS OF FLAME light up International Space Station

  Keep Calm: Bright sparks, not aliens, set this fire

  At first glance, lighting a fire on the International Space Station (ISS) seems like a good way to earn a Darwin Award and the opprobrium of all humanity. Yet boffins have been doing it for some time in an effort to learn more about how flames behave.

  Science 19 Jun 05:33

• Nuke plants to rely on PDP-11 code UNTIL 2050!

  Programmers and their walking sticks converge in Canada

  The venerable PDP-11 minicomputer is still spry to this day, powering GE nuclear power-plant robots - and will do so for another 37 years.

  Operating Systems 19 Jun 05:59

• EU Justice Department stalls India's security clearance

  Without a 'data secure destination' cert India's locked out of $30bn euro-sourcing market

  India’s outsourcing giants are likely to face more delays in their frustrated bid to tap a potential IT services market worth $30 billion, after a report emerged suggesting the EU still has big data security concerns with the country.

  Government 19 Jun 06:29

• Out with a bang: The Last of Us lets PS3 exit with head held high

  The current generation of consoles can still thrill

  I’ll soon be offering my thoughts and reflections on this year’s E3, but before all that it seemed worth waxing lyrical about new PS3 exclusive The Last of Us, a game that points the way to what the next generation should really be aspiring to do.

  Games 19 Jun 07:04

• Exagrid hires former IBM exec, Hitachi bod to help flog disk grid tech

  CEO: Public cloud OK for archiving data but not for backup

  Exagrid, a supplier of deduplicated disk grid systems, clearly isn't worried about its products, but it has added two new execs to help boost the business side of things.

  Storage 19 Jun 07:38

• Washout 2012 summer, melty Greenland 'nothing to do with Arctic ice or warm oceans'

  Could have been 'natural variability'

  Last summer was a washout for us Brits, and indeed top meteorologists are meeting at the moment to find out just why. Some other odd things happened last year, too: exceptionally large areas of the Greenland ice sheet surface melted, as did record amounts of the Arctic ice cap, and ocean temperatures were high. How were all these things linked? What was the underlying cause?

  Science 19 Jun 08:03

• Norks taunt, yank Yanks' crank over PRISM: US is 'rights abuse kingpin'

  NSA web snooping 'against mankind' sneers tubby boy-king's pravda

  Poverty-stricken dictatorship North Korea says the leak of NSA web-snooping project PRISM shows that the US is the “kingpin” of civil-rights abuses.

  Government 19 Jun 08:34

• PC makers REALLY need Windows 8.1 to walk on water - but guess what?

  Upgrade is no 'miracle', sniffs IT analyst

  An updated Windows 8 from Microsoft will NOT be the "miracle cure" for traditional PC makers in need of a sales and profits injection. And that's according to IT biz analysts Context.

  The Channel 19 Jun 08:59

• Hey mobile firms: About that Android thing... Did Google add a lockout clause?

  EC probes for details of deals

  The European Commission has asked mobile telecoms firms and manufacturers of devices to provide details of any agreements they have with Google regarding the use of the technology giant's Android operating system.

  Mobile 19 Jun 09:24

• Sneaky Seagate slips 'world's fastest' enterprise disk mutant into the wild

  Flash-packed Savvio found lurking in Big Blue iron

  Seagate has quietly built an enterprise-class 600GB hybrid drive: it combines the capacity of spinning platters with a fast flash cache of hot data.

  Servers 19 Jun 09:44

• Supercomputer sage Cray musters Lustre cluster storage hustler

  Bold move - HPC legend starts standalone storage biz

  Supercomputer company Cray is starting up a standalone storage company with a Cray Cluster Connect product for rustling up business supplying X86 Lustre clusters.

  HPC 19 Jun 10:05

• Julian Assange: I'm quite happy to sleep on Ecuador's sofa FOREVER

  Wikileaker won't leave London embassy even if Sweden no longer wants him

  Julian Assange says he'll stay in the Ecuadorian embassy in London even if allegations of sexual assault against him in Sweden are dropped.

  Government 19 Jun 10:19

• Wi-Fi Alliance takes grid place, revs engine in race to 802.11ac

  Those little labels on the boxes? Pretty important, actually

  The Wi-Fi Alliance is now formally certifying devices conforming to 802.11ac, the 5GHz wireless standard capable of delivering 1Gb/sec, only a year after manufacturers started shipping kit.

  Networks 19 Jun 10:44

• IT mercenaries and buy-to-let landlords are my HEROES - here's why

  Rent more because high home ownership means high unemployment

  High rates of home ownership increase the unemployment rate, says a new study. This doesn't, at first, sound very sensible; we'd probably think that anyone with a house is working so damned hard to pay the mortgage that they'd have no time to be unemployed.

  Jobs 19 Jun 11:04

• Ex-Systemax veep cuffed, charged with $230m fraud

  Carl Fiorentino bailed for $1m over wire, mail and laundering scams

  Carl Fiorentino, a former president at reseller Systemax, has been charged with accepting bribes worth millions of dollars in return for directing $230m worth of business to certain components suppliers. He was arrested yesterday and released on a $1m personal surety bond.

  The Channel 19 Jun 11:24

• NASA probe will ease through Saturn's ring to grab Earth snapshot

  See that tiny blue dot? That's our corner of ZZ9 Plural Z Alpha, that is

  NASA's Cassini spacecraft will take a picture of Earthlings' home planet from the viewpoint of aliens on Saturn next month, snapping the image from hundreds of millions of miles away.

  Science 19 Jun 11:45

• BT boss QUITS telecoms giant for front-bench gov job

  Prime Minister poaches CEO - Gavin Patterson to take his place

  Ian Livingston has quit the top job at BT, after being poached by Prime Minister David Cameron to take on a key trade and investment role for the government.

  Networks 19 Jun 11:57

• Thousands of fingered crims, informants spaffed in web security COCK-UP

  UK privacy watchdog pokes server config gaffe

  An IT blunder splashed photos of suspected criminals and details of Brits who reported them over the internet, The Register can reveal.

  Security 19 Jun 12:34

• AXE-WAVING BIKER GANG SMASHES into swanky Apple UK store

  Pair cuffed after helicopter chase sparked by Cupertino idiot-tax-avoiding raid

  Cops have arrested two men following a failed “smash and grab” robbery at Apple’s flagship store on Regent Street, London.

  Hardware 19 Jun 12:56

• Virtualisation: Where are my savings?

  Map, compass, boots

  Three years ago you listened to vendors telling you how much we would all save from virtualisation. It seemed so plausible, but for most of us the savings never arrived. Why not? And what can we do about it?

  Data Centre 19 Jun 13:25

• Facebook: We now have one million real admen stalking you. Huzzah..?

  That's right, people are still using us ... bitch

  Facebook claimed it has – for the first time – surpassed 1 million active advertisers who used the network in the last 28 days.

  Networks 19 Jun 13:57

• Dynamo-spawn Riak spreads to other clouds

  Amazon cloud casts long shadow

  Wannabe cloud provider Tier 3 has created an object storage service based on the Riak distributed datastore.

  Cloud 19 Jun 14:19

• Oracle: We WON grey market software and Solaris support case

  Um, HOW much did they pay you in the settlement?

  Oracle is claiming victory in a case of alleged grey market trading against a US business that sells network, software and services management support to the enterprise. ServiceKey and its CEO Angela Vines inked a settlement deal with Larry's lot at the end of last month.

  The Channel 19 Jun 14:45

• Stay away from the light, Kodak! Look, here's $406m to keep you alive

  Photo finish for fallen camera giant's race against death

  Eastman Kodak's creditors have backed its plan to sell 34 million shares worth $406m as it prepares to exit bankruptcy protection.

  Financial News 19 Jun 14:58

• Nutanix trims down and fattens up server-storage halfbloods

  Going for branch offices and big data in two fell swoops

  Still not acquired after bragging two months ago of an 80 per cent sequential revenue bump and an $80m annualized run rate as it exited the first quarter, virtual server-storage appliance maker Nutanix is widening its market appeal with new low-end and high-end configurations.

  Servers 19 Jun 15:18

• You're still hired: Viglen bosses get to keep jobs for another year

  No need for Lord Sugar to get his finger out

  Viglen's financial performance has improved, meaning chief exec Bordan Tkachuk and chairman Claude Littner will avoid Lord Sugar's fearsome finger - which is usually waved about when numbers are down or Apprentice wannabes get the boot.

  The Channel 19 Jun 15:45

• Dish abandons Sprint sprint, now in mad dash for Clearwire

  Satellite telly firm refuses to make a new offer before Sprint's deadline

  Dish has elected to ditch its pursuit of Sprint for the time being and concentrate on its potentially winning bid for Clearwire.

  Networks 19 Jun 15:59

• Speaking in Tech: We find someone who hasn't heard of Prof Brian Cox

  Brit physics heartthrob yet to conquer US - plus actual tech views

  Cloud 19 Jun 17:13

• John McAfee releases NSFW video on how to uninstall security code

  Naturally this requires sex, drugs, and firearms

  International fugitive, criminal suspect and self-described eccentric millionaire John McAfee has released a tongue-in-cheek video explaining how to uninstall the security software that still bears his name.

  Bootnotes 19 Jun 17:24

• Adobe CEO admits need to 'tweak' Creative Suite's cloud-only policy

  But way forward for cloud sceptics 'not identified'

  Adobe dropped the D-bomb during a Q2 conference call with analysts after admitting some customers are "disappointed" it decided to murder future copies of its boxed Creative Suite.

  The Channel 19 Jun 17:26

• Google joins Amazon, HP, Rackspace in easing HDD data importing

  'Give us your disks!' bellows Chocolate Factory.

  Google has followed in the footsteps of Amazon by making it easier for businesses to load in masses of data to the company's cloud platform.

  Cloud 19 Jun 17:48

• Google's JavaScript challenger gains better tools, performance

  Dart enters beta with beefed up editor, compiler

  Hot on the heels of Microsoft's latest TypeScript release, Google has shipped the first beta SDK for Dart, its own JavaScript killer alternative web language, including bug fixes, performance enhancements, and an improved editor.

  Developer 19 Jun 19:35

• Microsoft breaks bug-bounty virginity in $100,000 contest

  Black Hat sets phasers to stun on Windows 8.1 and Internet Explorer 11

  Microsoft is breaking its long-standing tradition of not paying for security vulnerabilities by offering a $100,000 cash prize for the first penetration tester to crack Windows 8.1 and a $50,000 bonus to explain how they did it.

  Security 19 Jun 20:37

• Reg to Australia: Here's your chance to find NBN answers

  Let's crowdfund a proper, pre-election, NBN study

  The Register is tired of Australia's broadband debate. As we explained yesterday, we're sick of the tribalism, parochialism and politicking.

  Site News 19 Jun 20:40

• Google preps wave of machine learning apps

  Chocolate Factory engineers automate own jobs out of existence

  Google is preparing to unleash a wave of apps that get intelligence from its mammoth machine learning models.

  Software 19 Jun 20:54

• Kim Dotcom victim of 'largest data MASSACRE in history'

  Megaupload servers wiped – were Feds to blame?

  Mega mogul Kim Dotcom says he's "in tears" after a Dutch hosting company wiped data from servers formerly used by his now-defunct Megaupload business, an act that he claims destroyed "critical evidence" in his long-running legal battle with the US government.

  Networks 19 Jun 21:16

• Microsoft caves on Xbox One DRM and used-game controls

  Consumer power might still mean something

  Faced with a growing tide of angry gamers, Microsoft has pulled a U-turn on its forthcoming Xbox One console's terms and conditions to allow game sharing and internet-free gaming.

  Games 19 Jun 23:24

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