Mozilla developers have downplayed the severity of a security feature in Firefox that often fails to warn users when they've encountered obfuscated URLs that might lead to malicious websites.…

SGI previews Q4 financials

Posted: 17 Aug 2010 11:46 AM PDT

On Intel's team in DARPA's HPC challenge

Supercomputer maker Silicon Graphics is implementing a new revenue-accounting method in the fourth quarter, and the changes to the way it keeps its books have forced it to push out its financial results for two more weeks. SGI had been expected to report its numbers after Wall Street closed Tuesday.…

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Verizon demos 1Gbps over existing fiber network

Posted: 17 Aug 2010 11:24 AM PDT

Another poke in the eye for AT&T

Verizon has conducted a demo in which it pumped nearly a gigabit per second to a remote customer over its existing fiber infrastructure.…

IBM completes Power7 server arsenal

Posted: 17 Aug 2010 09:39 AM PDT

Shooting low and high

The roll-out of the Power7-based rack, blade, and tower servers finishes up today with the debut of five Power Systems machines. Big Blue is launching four itty bitty boxes and one behemoth.…

New US swarmsats will scatter to avoid space-war strikes

Posted: 17 Aug 2010 09:01 AM PDT

F6 Bomb-burst manoeuvre will avoid actual bomb bursts

The USA's new "fractionated" swarm satellites - in which groups of small wirelessly-linked modules in orbit will replace today's large spacecraft - will be able to scatter to avoid enemy attacks and then reform into operational clusters.…

Intel and Micron expose 3-bit flash

Posted: 17 Aug 2010 08:57 AM PDT

Targets SD with MLC

No sooner has a leaked Intel flash roadmap shown enterprise-grade multi-level cell (MLC) flash than Intel and Micron announce they are sampling 3-bit MLC product.…

Apple fans drool over Liquidmetal widget

Posted: 17 Aug 2010 08:29 AM PDT

Amazing material put to mundane use

It should come as no surprise that Apple fanboys are moistened by their favourite vendor's use of novel materials, and you can understand that excitement when a device uses a clever new compound in its construction.…

HP slurps up security software firm

Posted: 17 Aug 2010 08:19 AM PDT

Fortify strengthens security

HP has bought Fortify Software, strengthening its application security software portfolio.…

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Local councils will carry on splurging on IT

Posted: 17 Aug 2010 08:17 AM PDT

Outsourcing by local.gov to grow

Despite the recession Kable believes UK local government ICT budgets will rise to nearly £4bn by 2016.…

Best Buy slaps 'God Squad' priest with cease-and-desist order

Posted: 17 Aug 2010 07:24 AM PDT

...father, son, and holy ghost Geek

Best Buy is pursuing an American god botherer who ripped off the company's Geek Squad logo.…

Americans demand Twitter-watching police

Posted: 17 Aug 2010 07:15 AM PDT

But almost half assume they don't

Americans expect their emergency services to respond to postings on their web sites and Twittered messages, but more than half would give them a call just to make sure.…

Spurs soothsayer predicts Young Boys thrashing on Twitter

Posted: 17 Aug 2010 07:01 AM PDT

Unofficial tweet caught offside

Spurs has apologised over a misguided update to the club's Twitter account that predicted the North London club would thrash Euro opponents Young Boys on Tuesday night.…

iPad hits Asus Eee PC sales

Posted: 17 Aug 2010 06:02 AM PDT

Netbook popularity plunges

Still not convinced that Apple's iPad is eating into sales of netbooks? Just ask netbook supremo Asus.…

Storage big three to define HDD way ahead

Posted: 17 Aug 2010 05:40 AM PDT

Suppliers can't go it alone

Comment Is the future of hard disk drive (HDD) technology bit-patterning or heat-assist?…

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Ikea forecasts fluffy, fully teched kitchen of the future

Posted: 17 Aug 2010 05:26 AM PDT

Fish'n'chipboard

Thirty years from now, your kitchen will be "almost alive" and "respond actively" to your culinary needs "like only a mother could".…

BT mulls upping apprentice numbers

Posted: 17 Aug 2010 05:12 AM PDT

More popular than university

BT is considering increasing the number of apprentices it employs after receiving over 100 applications for each place.…

Pink Floyd wipe albums from web

Posted: 17 Aug 2010 05:09 AM PDT

Wish you weren't here

Long-playing records by Pink Floyd have vanished from the iTunes and Amazon stores, the result of a dispute with record label EMI.…

Microsoft goes double bubble with server beta releases

Posted: 17 Aug 2010 05:03 AM PDT

One for the cloud, and one for home

Microsoft slung out a brace of server betas yesterday for its home and cloud biz customers.…

Electric mass-driver catapults to beat Royal Navy cuts?

Posted: 17 Aug 2010 04:53 AM PDT

New tech could save Blighty's carrier force

Hints are emerging that the Royal Navy's new aircraft carriers may be equipped with innovative electromagnetic catapults in order to operate cheaper aircraft as part of the ongoing, behind-closed-doors UK defence and security review/cuts process.…

Google seeks UK privacy lobbyist

Posted: 17 Aug 2010 04:30 AM PDT

Large Californian, 12, WLTM flexible London lawyer

Are you a privacy lawyer? Would you take pride in working for a company with "a real soul"? Is your brain impervious to cognitive dissonance? Could you grow a brass neck?…

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Hacked Axl Rose Twitter account spreads false tour news

Posted: 17 Aug 2010 04:23 AM PDT

GNR frontman relaxed about hack

Axl Rose's Twitter account was hacked on Sunday to spread false rumours that Guns N' Roses was cancelling an upcoming European tour.…

America's top model fights off 'pervert' at Star Wars convention

Posted: 17 Aug 2010 04:14 AM PDT

Imperial Stormtroopers and Sith Lords subdue non-fan

America's ex next top model Adrianne Curry has taken to the social networks to detail her alleged molestation at a Star Wars convention in Miami over the weekend.…

WiMAX forum touts version 2. Again

Posted: 17 Aug 2010 04:09 AM PDT

If we build it someone will come. Won't they?

The WiMAX forum has again announced that its version 2 specification will be available later this year, as it seems no-one was listening last time around.…

Microsoft's volume licensing site goes titsup - again

Posted: 17 Aug 2010 03:50 AM PDT

Weekend 'update' spirals into bloody Monday

Microsoft's volume licensing site once again went titsup on Friday and was out for several days with very little explanation from the software vendor about what had gone wrong.…

STEC's magic MLC sauce

Posted: 17 Aug 2010 03:42 AM PDT

No details released though

STEC, IBM and EMC's favourite enterprise flash drive supplier, says it has cracked the multi-level cell (MLC) flash conundrum, making it a viable enterprise choice by dealing with its poor write endurance and reliability.…

Vodafone tunes Wi-Fi hotspot dongle

Posted: 17 Aug 2010 03:33 AM PDT

Share your 3G connection

It's got a Micro SDHC slot and the ability to share an HSDPA 3G connection with up to five devices over 802.11b/g Wi-Fi - yes, it's Vodafone's Wi-Fi R201 mobile hotspot.…

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Oracle dumping HPC: Genius or foolhardy?

Posted: 17 Aug 2010 03:15 AM PDT

What are the long-term costs?

Blog Quietly - very quietly – Oracle has been dropping out of the HPC market. We're finally seeing some outward reaction to the company's internal moves with news stories (The Reg here and HPCwire here) discussing Oracle's retreat from HPC. No comments from Oracle either confirm or deny the move, of course.…

Symantec knits VMware safety net

Posted: 17 Aug 2010 03:05 AM PDT

Virtualise biz-crit apps with confidence

Symantec says you will be able to virtualise the most critical business applications with confidence because it's providing the necessary safety net, Application HA. It's also sorted the virtual desktop image provisioning and storage problem with VirtualStore.…

Network Solutions pulls widget that tainted up to 5m websites

Posted: 17 Aug 2010 02:34 AM PDT

Parked domains borked by long running security fail

Network Solutions has admitted that a software widget designed to help small business to build websites was contaminated with malware.…

India puts threatened BlackBerry ban on paper

Posted: 17 Aug 2010 02:30 AM PDT

RIM promises to explain how hard things are

RIM will be talking to the Indian government this week - trying to explain just how difficult it is to intercept encrypted communications, while promising to do just that.…

Nokia intros keypad, touchscreen combo candybar

Posted: 17 Aug 2010 02:24 AM PDT

X3 revamped

Nokia has revamped its X3 sliderphone as... a candybar.…

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Cynicism, grumpiness cause heart attacks, strokes

Posted: 17 Aug 2010 02:02 AM PDT

Old Git syndrome 'may not be confined to Italy'

Irascible, grumpy cynics have a significantly higher risk of suffering heart attacks and strokes compared to mellow, amiable, trusting people, according to a new study.…

Paris jub-flash mugger busted

Posted: 17 Aug 2010 01:27 AM PDT

Cashpoint breast bandit makes final withdrawal

Police have busted the Paris jub-flash mugger who, along with an accomplice, earlier this month relieved a man of €300 after distracting him with her chesticles.…

Dell, 3PAR and legal parasites

Posted: 17 Aug 2010 01:22 AM PDT

Hard to stomach lawyers

The simple clarity and straightforwardness of the 3PAR and Dell deal is being muddied by the activities of US law firms that are as beneficial in many people's eyes as an HIV infection.…

Alleged bad Appler pleads not guilty

Posted: 17 Aug 2010 01:21 AM PDT

Suppliers cough to consultancy fees

Paul Shim Devine, a 37-year old Apple manager, has pleaded not guilty to wire fraud and conspiracy charges related to accusations that he took a series of bribes from suppliers to help them win work from the computer and phone maker.…

MS lists Windows Phone 7 gaming launch line-up

Posted: 17 Aug 2010 12:41 AM PDT

Xbox Live on the go

Microsoft has listed the Xbox Live games that will run on Windows Phone 7 handsets when the smartphone platform launches later this year. Among them, some well known titles.…

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Disney sued for spying on kids with 'zombie cookies'

Posted: 17 Aug 2010 12:02 AM PDT

Snooping with 'little available redress for users'

Walt Disney's internet subsidiary and several of its partners have been sued for allegedly using cookies based on Adobe's Flash Player to track highly personal information about their users, many of whom were minors.…

Acer Liquid E Android smartphone

Posted: 17 Aug 2010 12:02 AM PDT

Dripping with features?

Review Acer has been a bit of a late starter in the smartphone game but has been working hard to catch up and gain a similar reputation to what it has with computers – decent quality machines that deliver the specs without excessive prices.…

iPod meltdown strands Tokyo commuters

Posted: 16 Aug 2010 11:02 PM PDT

'Truly regrettable' Apple response

Apple's iPod flame-out woes continue. The latest victims: Tokyo commuters.…

Fujifilm readies revamped 'true' 3D camera

Posted: 16 Aug 2010 11:02 PM PDT

Dual sensor, lens compact

Fujifilm has taken the wraps off its latest two-lens, two-sensor 3D-capable compact camera.…

MS to Kinect up UK in November

Posted: 16 Aug 2010 10:47 PM PDT

Motion control and more

Microsoft's Kinect will come to Blighty on 10 November, the Xbox maker revealed this morning.…

Chair maker punts $6,000 iPad recliner

Posted: 16 Aug 2010 10:02 PM PDT

The Lazyfanboi™

What might an obscenely rich, profoundly indolent fanboi choose as the ultimate iPad accessory? Might we suggest the six-thousand dollar Elite Home Theater Seating iPad Chair?…

DARPA funds Mr Spock on a Chip

Posted: 16 Aug 2010 09:02 PM PDT

Lyric's probability processor

The US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency financed the basic research necessary to create a processor that thinks in terms of probabilities instead of the certainties of ones and zeros. And now Lyric Semiconductor, the spin-off from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology where the work was done, is going to spend the next couple of years building a commercial probability processor called the GP5.…

US fanbois await freedom from Big Phone

Posted: 16 Aug 2010 05:28 PM PDT

Over a third on hold

If, as is rumored, Verizon will end AT&T's exclusive US hold on Apple's iPhone beginning in January, it may mean big trouble for Big Phone.…

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Google dubs Oracle suit 'attack on Java community'

Posted: 16 Aug 2010 03:01 PM PDT

Java daddy backs, er, Microsoft

Google has called Oracle's Android lawsuit an attack not only on Google but also on the open-source Java community.…

Canonical reveals next Ubuntu's touchy side

Posted: 16 Aug 2010 02:31 PM PDT

Meerkat's gesture APIs and engine released

Touchy tablets are hogging the headlines and giving Steve Ballmer sleepless nights, but Linux netbooks are the focus of Canonical's latest push.…

Android app secretly uploads GPS data, warns Symantec

Posted: 16 Aug 2010 02:30 PM PDT

Like a Tapsnake in the grass

Researchers from anti-virus provider Symantec have outted a gaming application in Google's Android Market that tracks users' whereabouts so they can be secretly monitored in real-time.…

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