Ex-Sun journalist charged with handling a stolen mobile phone
An ex-Sun journalist has been charged with a computer hacking offence and also faces a second charge relating to the alleged handling of a stolen mobile phone.
Ben Ashford, 34, had worked on Rupert Murdoch's tabloid newspaper, which is published by News International (since rebranded as News UK), for four years from 2006.
"The …
Google: Thanks for the billions in revenue, UK. Here are your taxes, that's ... £11m
Google paid Britain £11.2m in corporation tax in 2012, the company confirmed today.
That's slightly more than the £7.3m the ad giant coughed up in 2011.
But the latest figure, confirmed by Google to The Register this afternoon, will no doubt enrage the search king's critics - including Labour MP and Parliament's Public Accounts …
Fresh shift of 'nauts arrives at Space Station, planning torch jaunt
Astronauts and cosmonauts from Russia and the US had a fuss-free journey to the International Space Station, where they have just arrived for a five-and-a-half-month stint working and living on the hurtling lab.
Oleg Kotov, Mike Hopkins and Sergey Ryazanskiy took just under six hours from lift-off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in …
'Bet Lynch' types BANNED from zoo for upsetting not-so-wildlife
A UK zoo has enforced an animal print ban, after visitors clad in tiger-like attire were found to be confusing and upsetting its captive creatures.
Zebra, giraffe, leopard, cheetah and tiger are reportedly among the prints to have been outlawed by Chessington World of Adventures in Surrey.
The zoo has hired people to police the …
Chinese tat bazaar Alibaba snubs Honkers, eyes up Wall St float
Chinese web marketplace Alibaba reportedly looks set to field its initial public offering in the US after it failed to secure a stock exchange listing in Hong Kong.
The online-shopping powerhouse, which is headed up by Jack Ma, could float on Wall Street early next year with a price tag valued at $70bn, the Wall Street Journal …
Speaking in Tech: 'Why are you talking on your iPad Mini?'
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Not even customers like NASA and National Geographic can guarantee your safety as a cloudy storage biz. This week in Speaking in Tech, your hosts Greg Knieriemen, Ed Saipetch and Sarah Vela, the three amigos of El Reg's tech-cast, talk about Nirvanix's shock implosion; …
Space truck Cygnus left idling outside ISS after data format snafu borks docking
The operators of Cygnus – a commercial unmanned spacecraft sent on a demonstration mission to the International Space Station – have been forced to delay its docking with the microgravity laboratory after they discovered a software glitch.
It means that Cygnus won't dock with the ISS until Saturday, 28 September, at the earliest …
Just how flash is your enterprise storage rig?
Enterprise storage is really important. Flash is the hot new storage technology. So surely the use of flash in enterprise storage infrastructures is the hottest, most important issue of the moment?
Well, that’s where we’d like you to help us out. We’ve put together a mini-poll to help us gauge just how much attention Reg readers …
Gorillas, StorageBeers, sexy flash models: It's all here in Speaking in Tech
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It's another episode of El Reg's podcast, bringing you news, views, and rumours about enterprise kit, hot flash models (the enterprise kind, don't be a perve), consumer baubles, hip-hop gorilla memes, next week's StorageBeers (at London's Lamb and Flag pub from about 17:30 …
Twerking 'ell! Google BUMPs and grinds way to another app slurp
Google has bought mobile app maker Bump – the outfit behind photo-sharing tech Flock – for an undisclosed sum.
A number of reports have said that the acquisition price tag was anything between $30m and $60m, but Google has not confirmed the figure.
Bump CEO David Lieb, who co-founded the company in 2008, said in a blog post: …
Speaking in Tech: 'I'm not a pimp just because I wear a fedora'
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It's another episode of El Reg's weekly Wednesday tech news cast, giving you the run-down on everything worth knowing about in the enterprise and consumer tech world this week. This week, co-hosts Greg Knieriemen and Sarah Vela are slacking off while Ed Saipetch flies solo …
Google backs gallery of computer-crazed female boffinry at Bletchley Park
Google UK has sponsored a new gallery celebrating the achievements of women in computing at The National Museum of Computing (TNMOC) in Bletchley Park.
Women in Computing Gallery at The National Museum of Computing
The new exhibition opened as part of a "Google-inspired Heroines of Computing" event, according to TNMOC*. The …
Phone-blab plod breaks PRIVACY law after crash victim's 5hr ditch ordeal
A Norfolk police official broke a privacy law after blurting out "sensitive information" to the relative of a 54-year-old bloke – who had been seriously hurt in a car crash and left unnoticed in a ditch for five hours.
The Independent Police Complaints Commission today said that one of the force's control room operators had …
Speaking in Tech: Stay a virgin at VMworld – wear a rubber unicorn head
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This week, your Speaking In Tech podcast hosts Greg Knieriemen, Ed Saipetch and Sarah Vela are dropping it live from VMworld with special guests Stephen Spellicy, senior director product management and enterprise data protection at HP and Bryan Beal, director at cloud and …
Billionaire Google founder splits with wife, allegedly beds Google Glass minx
Google Glass marketing manager and "real woman" Amanda Rosenberg, 26, is reportedly Google co-founder Sergey Brin's new squeeze.
The billionaire super-geek has split from his wife of six years - and is now apparently enjoying a cosy relationship with his techno-goggles-touting colleague.
All Things Digital revealed that Brin …
Speaking in Tech: Hitachi Data Systems veep on 'software defined silliness'
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For this week's podcast, your host Ed Saipetch is in the driving seat – with co-hosts Greg Knieriemen and Sarah Vela riding in the back. The whole gang is together in San Francisco at VMworld with special guest Michael Hay, vice president and chief engineer at Hitachi Data …
iPad classes for DOGS offered in New York
In a development which was perhaps inevitable, a canine lyceum in New York has started offering classes in which dogs are taught to "use" iPads.
According to an in-depth report on Today.com, doggy pedagogue Anna Jane Grossman ("who had recently left journalism to pursue dog training full-time") was inspired to offer fondleslab …
Facebook unwraps SHARING IS CARING photo album function
Facebook has created a new photo-sharing feature that will allow users of the free content ad network to post snaps to an album that can be populated by up to 50 contributors.
Each Facebooker can share up to 200 photos within the album – which means it could contain anything up to 10,000 pictures submitted from a variety of …
Speaking in Tech: OpenStack not for enterprise? Come off it, Pat
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Another episode of El Reg's consumer and enterprise tech podcast makes its way to loyal listeners, who'll be sad to hear hosts Greg Knieriemen, Ed Saipetch and Sarah Vela want to shut the whole thing down because of NSA snooping (not really).
Also in the news this week: …
Essential maintenance website down for, er, essential maintenance
B&Q won't let you do things for yourself at the moment, since its website, diy.com, has collapsed, presumably under the weight of pre-bank holiday DIYers.
The site is unavailable "due to essential maintenance", rather ironically, according to its landing page. Oddly enough, no-one on Twitter seems to have noticed that the site …
Election 2013: What does it mean for Australian IT pros?
Australia goes to the polls on September 7th, when the nation will elect a new government.
At the time of writing the right-of-centre opposition Liberal/National coalition is favoured to form government, replacing the incumbent Labor party.
The two groups differ in important ways for the technology industries.
The most …
Speaking in Tech: So you wanna take on Amazon in the cloud. Here's how
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Our weekly Speaking in Tech podcast is back with Greg Knieriemen - and for this week's episode, special guest Rodney Rogers.
Greg's co-hosts Ed Saipetch and Sarah Vela are away, so we welcome Rodney, a serial entrepreneur and chairman and CEO of Virtustream, who is gently …
Speaking in Tech: You shouldn't EVER store data off-premises
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In the latest Speaking in Tech podcast, your hosts Greg Knieriemen and Ed Saipetch talk about folk who still mend their own servers, sometimes with the help of a nifty rack-mounted flashlight-cum-laser pointer. Get with the programme, bumpkins: pay to inhale some cloud. Oh, …
Samsung Galaxy Gear smartwatch: Cloak lifted on secret details
Patent documents filed by Samsung have revealed details - for the first time - about what the South Korean tech behemoth's R&D department have been working on over the last few months: a smartwatch.
According to a filing with the US Patent and Trademark Office, the gadget - dubbed Samsung Galaxy Gear - falls under the "wearable …
Zuck on this, Twitter! Now Facebook switches on embedded posts
Facebook users' status updates, videos and photos can now be embedded in websites beyond the free-content advertising network.
At present, only a small number of publishers including CNN and Huffington Post can use the feature, however. But once they've tirelessly worked the hamster wheel, Facebook said world+dog will get to …
Speaking in Tech: Will Google's telly dongle dangle ding Apple?
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It's another episode of The Register's best and only podcast, bringing you everything the industry is saying about the latest enterprise and consumer tech – from the Silicon Valley of Power and the vast, cool data centres of Texas to the strange, giant watercooler that is …
Ha ha, Osborne, these Gov 2.0 web wranglers have wiped out UK debt
"A digital revolution, masterminded by a team of dress-down civil servants, could save the taxpayer billions," The Times newspaper gushed on Tuesday. And behold: it already has. The UK has apparently paid off its national debt years ahead of Chancellor George Osborne's predictions.
Alas, it's no miracle, but an infographics cock …
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Speaking in Tech: You hit Y for YouTube at work and up pops YouPor..
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In the latest Speaking in Tech podcast, your hosts Greg Knieriemen and Sarah Vela hit the mics to banter about their week, Sarah's shoulder op and six weeks of typing hell, wrestling with web browsers on touchscreen gadgets, Google versus Samsung, and other technology making …
Speaking in Tech: We chat to Microsoft man about THAT Ballmer memo
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In the latest Speaking in Tech podcast, your hosts Greg Knieriemen, Ed Saipetch and Sarah Vela chat to special guest Marc Farley of Microsoft. The team grill Marc about what he's been up to lately (on holiday, by the sounds of things) before getting into the nitty-gritty of …
Speaking in Tech: Forget Venezuela, Snowden. Go to Anna Chapman's pad!
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It's another episode of El Reg's podcast, bringing you news, views, and rumours about enterprise kit, tech execs' shenanigans, consumer baubles and more...
Hiding out from the NSA this week are all three SIT presenters: Greg Knieriemen, Sarah Vela and Ed Snowden Saipetch. …
I'm 'pretty comfy' with PRISM + 'It's Google. What else do you expect'
This was the week when the Snowden saga took a few major plot twists, with one president's plane grounded while another president claimed the whole PRISM-snooping thing was for the best.
Poor Bolivian president Evo Morales had his plane pulled out of the sky after expressing some sympathy for NSA-leaker Edward Snowden's asylum …
Speaking in Tech: 'Wanna come upstairs and look at my VRTX?'
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Another fine instalment of El Reg's all-encompassing tech podcast wings its way to loyal Reg readers (and listeners), hosted by Greg Knieriemen, Ed Saipetch and Sarah Vela. This week all three of the terrific trio are together for the first time in weeks!
Technet's gone …
Dish DASHED: No Sprint, no Clearwire, no spectrum. No sale
Dish Network has officially withdrawn its offer for Clearwire, giving up the fight against Sprint for control of the firm and its coveted radio spectrum.
The satellite TV company was already slogging it out in a losing battle, after the board said it favoured majority shareholder Sprint's bid to buy, because it had upped its …
Speaking in Tech: I say 'software defined storage', you win the internet
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It's another episode of El Reg's best and only podcast, bringing you everything you need to know about the goings-on in enterprise and consumer tech. This week's episode is hosted live from Cisco Live by Ed Saipetch and Greg Knieriemen (co-host Sarah Vela is MIA). Ed and …
Hugs all round as Google relaunches Groups service
Google has ditched the old version of its Groups service after revamping the tool to allow users to share an inbox with others.
Mountain View explained:
Imagine you and a few friends are organizing an event for your school and want a single email address to coordinate with vendors, parents, and volunteers.
Members of the …
Speaking in Tech: We find someone who hasn't heard of Prof Brian Cox
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Once again it's time for the weekly Speaking in Tech podcast, hosted by Greg Knieriemen, Ed Saipetch and Sarah Vela - although this week Sarah is hiding.
So it's just Ed and Greg with special guest Ben Kepes - the well-known tech evangelist, investor, commentator and …
Google erases G8 venue from Earth: Microsoft doesn't
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.
Most accounts suggest that this is a 5-star golfing hotel complex, but according to Google Maps and Google Earth it is just a muddy field:
Damn, …
Speaking in Tech: Doc, I've got a cough. Here's my DNA, now find a cure
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This week, Speaking in Tech regular Greg Knieriemen has fled to Germany, leaving the ever-capable Ed Saipetch and Sarah Vela to host a panel session at the Dell Enterprise Forum in San Jose, California.
Today's special guests are Tim Carroll, a director at Dell Research …
Speaking in Tech: Endorsing LinkedIn skills on LinkedIn implodes the web?
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For the latest Speaking in Tech podcast, Ed and Greg catch up after Greg's recent disappearance on secret-squirrel IT missions, while regular SiT co-host Sarah Vela is AWOL. Maybe her and Ed are the same person and they just alternate every week?
Among the hard-hitting tech …
Twitter, Facebook are 'a MENACE to society', says Turkey's PM
Turkey's Prime Minister has labelled Twitter and other social networks as "the worst menace to society" following days of unrest in the country.
Recep Tayyip Erdogan's comments came after tens of thousands of people took to the streets of Istanbul to protest against government plans to demolish a public park to build a shopping …
Speaking in Tech: 'It's the democratisation of the internet GONE MAD'
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For El Reg's latest Speaking in Tech podcast, Greg Knieriemen and Sarah Vela are joined by Irish tech monster Storagezilla (aka EMC bod Mark Twomey), while regular SiT co-host Ed Saipetch disappears on a secret mission.
Storagezilla waxes lyrical about comic book characters …
Speaking in Tech: Portland hipsters gagging for yesterday's web tool
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For El Reg's latest Speaking in Tech podcast, Ed Saipetch is hosting the chat live from DrupalCon 2013, which is in hipster central Portland this year, while co-hosts Greg Knieriemen and Sarah Vela put out fires elsewhere.
Eddie is joined by special guests Joaquin Lippincott …
Oi, Google! Stop LIBELLING us Germans, fix your autocomplete
Google has been ordered by a German court to block defamatory words appearing in its search engine's autocomplete function.
The Federal Court of Justice in Karlsruhe ruled that the advertising giant must remove libellous material from its algorithms that automatically attempt to guess what one is searching for - but only once …
Speaking in Tech: All our stuff's on Amazon's cloud... what if it goes titsup?
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It's another banter-packed episode of El Reg's one-and-only podcast, helping you catch up on everything that has happened this week in enterprise and consumer tech. This week: does a private company have a duty of disclosure in the public interest? Is it really a cost saving …
Integration gets back on track with the vertical stack
What is the role of integrated stacks, in which compute, networking, storage and management are vertically integrated? And how do you avoid vendor lock-in?
Let's get the discussion started with three expert submissions, one from an analyst, one from an IT practitioner and one from a vendor. And tell us what you think in the …
It's official: Nokia's Verizon Lumia 928 is here
Nokia's long-rumoured exclusive phone for Verizon, the Lumia 928, has been officially announced.
It's really a Lumia 920 with a more tapered body, an AMOLED (Active-Matrix Organic Light-Emitting Diode) screen, and a proper, grown-up Xenon camera flash.
It's also lost some weight: at 161.5g, it's a fair bit lighter than the 920' …
Speaking in Tech: 'You can't NOT look like a douche wearing Google Glass'
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It's another episode of El Reg's weekly enterprise tech podcast, hosted by Ed Saipetch, Greg Knieriemen and Sarah Vela. Do only white guys wear Google Glass? Just what did Sarah get up to at school with Reid Hoffman? And what the hell kind of weirdo endorses people for " …
Has any employer ever delivered the training it promised?
Does this sound familiar? You tell the interviewer you're willing to learn, they tell you they are deeply committed to funding ongoing personal development of all their employees.
Three months in you're still spending your free time reading through The Idiot's Guide to ERP that you paid for yourself.
Six months on you're …
US Labor Dept website serving malware to innocent visitors
The US Department of Labor's website has been hacked and malicious code stuck behind the scenes, security tools firm AlienVault says.
Since yesterday, the DoL site has been serving out malicious code that installs malware on unsuspecting users' computers, AlienVault's labs director Jaime Blasco told The Register.
The DoL said …
