Nieuws
Feds cuff JihadJane
A suburban Pennsylvania woman who went by the online alias JihadJane used the internet to recruit Islamic terrorists and to plot the assassination of a Swedish cartoonist who depicted the Prophet Mohammed, according to a federal indictment unsealed Tuesday.…
Offloading malware protection to the cloud
2010-03-10T07:02:02Z - Suburban woman accused of using net to recruit terrorists
Dual-node MS2 cluster
Criticising the pain of single silo deduplication products, Sepaton has introduced a dual-node clustered product that can be upgraded to its larger ES2 system.…
What is your recession sales strategy?
2010-03-10T07:02:02Z - Sepaton in anti-Data Domain pitch
Doggies digitized for your protection
Even if your beloved Westie is spending her declining years curled up by the hearth, Home Secretary Alan Johnson suggests she should be microchipped for the protection of her potential victims, and you should pony up for dog-attack insurance.…
Case Study: WhatsUp keeps Legoland turnstyles ringing
2010-03-10T06:02:01Z - UK pol touts canine chip implants
The non-iPad iPad clone
The publicity whores at China's Shenzhen Great Loong Brother tablet-PC maker are at it again.…
What is your recession sales strategy?
2010-03-10T06:02:01Z - Tablet maker threatens, then robs Apple
One stop Google bolt-on shop
The Mountain View Chocolate Factory has unveiled an online marketplace for third-party applications that hook into its Google Apps suite of web-based businessware.…
The power of collaboration within unified communications
2010-03-10T05:57:06Z - Google opens Google Apps app store
Is it real? Or is it Skytap?
Skytap - the Jeff Bezos-backed startup that lets you mimic internal IT infrastructure in the so-called cloud - has introduced a new set of automation tools designed to facilitate the creation of complex network toplogies on its floating interwebs service.…
The power of collaboration within unified communications
2010-03-10T01:38:21Z - Floating IT lab mimics multi-tiered networks
Agrees to safeguard customer data
An Arizona company that sells services designed to prevent identity theft has agreed to pay $12m to settle charges it oversold their effectiveness and didn't adequately protect sensitive customer data.…
Offloading malware protection to the cloud
2010-03-09T23:17:58Z - Fraud-prevention service ponies up $12m for 'false' ads
Reliability boost roadmap
Pillar Data Axiom storage arrays can go a whole lot faster, use less energy, and be more reliable, thanks to a range of new features from flash drive enclosures to preemptive copies.…
The power of collaboration within unified communications
2010-03-09T21:18:18Z - PIllar juices flash drive box
The first rule of iPhone Club is...
In the 1999 movie Fight Club, Brad Pitt famously tells a huddle of pugilistic aspirants: "The first rule of Fight Club is: you do not talk about Fight Club."…
Offloading malware protection to the cloud
2010-03-09T20:54:57Z - Apple's draconian developer docs revealed
The new Microsoft
Adobe's ubiquitous Reader application has replaced Microsoft Word as the program that's most often targeted in malware campaigns, according to figures compiled by F-Secure.…
Web threats: Why conventional protection doesn't work
2010-03-09T20:33:45Z - It's official: Adobe Reader is world's most-exploited app
322 Tbps of bandwidth (not quite) here
How will Cisco "forever change the internet"? With a new router.…
Offloading malware protection to the cloud
2010-03-09T19:45:17Z - Cisco 'forever changes internet' with...a router
Satellite TV meets YouTube meets online ad machine
Google is privately testing a television set-top box that lets users search satellite TV programming as well as video websites like its very own YouTube, according to a new report.…
Web threats: Why conventional protection doesn't work
2010-03-09T19:24:59Z - Google tests TV set-top search, says report
IE 6 and 7 users targeted
Online thugs are exploiting a security bug in earlier versions of Internet Explorer that allows them to remotely execute malicious code, Microsoft warned on Tuesday.…
Offloading malware protection to the cloud
2010-03-09T19:08:33Z - New Internet Explorer code-execution attacks go wild
Vostro 3000 line debuts
Dell has introduced a set of new Vostro notebooks, pitching the products as "a range of new thin, lightweight and durable laptop computers".…
2010-03-09T17:29:49Z - Dell intros restyled biz laptops
Lancaster Gate-gate
Reported attempts to sell recordings of conversations between England squad players and coaches have sparked a security breach investigation at the FA.…
Offloading malware protection to the cloud
2010-03-09T16:20:46Z - FA launches security probe after England team bugged
Web Sessions gets some tweaks, too
If you want to make money, and perhaps especially in the open source software racket, you have to keep improving your software to help it get more widely adopted among enterprise customers who get nervous if they don't hand over big wads of cash to someone to babysit the code. That's why Terracotta, a maker of systems programs that help Java applications scale, has made a number of acquisitions and has tweaked two key programs in its portfolio.…
Web threats: Why conventional protection doesn't work
2010-03-09T16:13:31Z - Terracotta's Ehcache back-ends Hibernate
WeatherFist shows phone vulnerability, devs claim
Security researchers fooled nearly 8,000 iPhone and Android users into joining a mobile smartphone "botnet" under the guise of installing an apparently innocuous weather app.…
Case Study: WhatsUp keeps Legoland turnstyles ringing
2010-03-09T15:37:26Z - Smartphone app botnet experiment blows up a storm
The fall of Nav4All
A customer of the late Nav4All has filed a complaint with the EU, alleging that Nokia abused its market position to drive the competition out of business.…
Web threats: Why conventional protection doesn't work
2010-03-09T14:48:31Z - Nokia killed free navigation, alleges EU complaint
SCR ain't ready for primetime
The British Medical Association is calling on the Department of Health to suspend the roll-out of summary care records.…
What is your recession sales strategy?
2010-03-09T14:36:02Z - Doctors tell government to stop the health records roll-out
Simon Phipps rides out of Ellison town
Sun Microsystems' veteran Simon Phipps quit his chief open source officer post at the Oracle-owned company yesterday.…
Offloading malware protection to the cloud
2010-03-09T14:30:18Z - Open source boss quits
Is this the wrong question?
Conservative culture front bencher Jeremy Hunt is asking what’s the point of BBC3 and BBC4? It’s a good time to ask the question. In an interview with the Independent, Hunt queried why £100m was being spent, merely to attract "very, very small" audiences.…
Case Study: WhatsUp keeps Legoland turnstyles ringing
2010-03-09T14:24:53Z - Tories ask: Why BBC3, BBC4?
Has gov gotten cold feet on ID scanning centres?
Comment The initial rush to join the government's ID card scheme appears to have eased, with applications from people in the Northwest running at an average of as little as 14.5 per working day.…
What is your recession sales strategy?
2010-03-09T13:37:19Z - Northerners give up ID cards for Lent figures suggest
It's the only game in town, says the maker of the other iPad
What might the iPad have been? Apple announced it as a Magical and Revolutionary Device, defining "an entirely new category". But it actually only addresses a small part of the yawning gap between mobile handsets and notebook computers, where there's still a lot of defining to be done. There's space there for dramatically different reimaginations of the iPhone, for counter-attacks from handset companies, and for diverse devices based on Google's Android.…
The power of collaboration within unified communications
2010-03-09T13:35:22Z - Android - the winning formula for tablets and netbooks?
Old warrior clobbered
Older versions of the Windows flavour of Apache's web server software are vulnerable to a critical code injection flaw as well as a pair of lesser security bugs.…
Offloading malware protection to the cloud
2010-03-09T13:13:00Z - Critical bug does a Custer on Apache for Windows
Report shows state of international surveillance heavyweights
A new report highlights a depressingly consistent drift towards ever greater control of the population using new technologies.…
What is your recession sales strategy?
2010-03-09T13:11:09Z - UK still lousy on electronic nosiness
Stock jumps as rumors fly
Today will see Cisco making an announcement that it claims will "forever change the internet". The stock market certainly believed it, sending the IP giant's shares to their highest level in more than a year ($26.34) yesterday. Given Cisco's heritage and product strategy it has more likelihood than most of delivering on its claim, but remains tightlipped about the details - sparking rumors from a gigabit wholesale network to an extended wireless core play to a set-top box.…
What is your recession sales strategy?
2010-03-09T13:09:08Z - Cisco promises to 'forever change the internet'
Third degree assault rap for 'biohazard' mam squirt
A Kentucky woman cuffed for public intoxication added a third degree assault charge to her rap sheet after allegedly squirting breast milk into a sheriff's deputy's face.…
Offloading malware protection to the cloud
2010-03-09T12:15:11Z - Kentucky woman breastfeeds sheriff's deputy
Send fewer to uni, charge 'em more
A recruiters group is calling for an end to government targets to get 50 per cent of school leavers involved in higher education.…
Web threats: Why conventional protection doesn't work
2010-03-09T12:14:29Z - Employers call for end to Mickey Mouse degrees
Pretty much slotting into Microsoft's typical roadmap, then...
Microsoft has pulled the release of Windows 7 Service Pack 1 forward to the final quarter of this year, according to a speculative report.…
Offloading malware protection to the cloud
2010-03-09T12:13:05Z - Windows 7 speculation claims SP1 will land in Q4 2010
Samsung's iPhone pitch comes to life
Samsung has been showing its first Bada phone, able to download applications from Samsung's version of iTunes and nowhere else. But will Bada really challenge Apple and the iPhone?…
What is your recession sales strategy?
2010-03-09T11:42:59Z - What's so bad about Samsung's Bada?
Superbike performance?
Review When you think of Italian superbike marques, you think of the colour red - a vigorous, powerful, thrusting hue. Yet Toshiba has chosen to deck its Ducati-themed Satellite U500 out in - dare we say it, slightly feminine - white.…
2010-03-09T11:27:38Z - Toshiba Satellite U500 Ducati Edition
Android phone comes riddled with bots
Vodafone has been blamed for shipping Mariposa botnet malware and other nasties on HTC Magic Android smartphones it distributes.…
Offloading malware protection to the cloud
2010-03-09T10:56:43Z - Vodafone ships Mariposa-infected HTC Magic
Hooverpreneur promises cultural change
James Dyson's policy review for the Tory party calls for cultural changes to put science and engineering at the centre of British society.…
The power of collaboration within unified communications
2010-03-09T10:49:19Z - Tories promise medals not money for science and R&D
Muff driving incident astounds Highway Patrol
A Florida Highway Patrol officer has admitted his incredulity at a woman who pranged her car while shaving her privates.…
The power of collaboration within unified communications
2010-03-09T10:45:11Z - Florida woman prangs car while shaving her privates
At last, the C word
Lab IT, like every industry, is from time to time compelled by those with PR budgets to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous marketing. Over the course of the last two years we have witnessed one of the most over-hyped marketing terms being pushed with such vigour that it is today almost impossible to speak with any vendor without them claiming their solutions are designed to help customers make an inevitable transition to using cloud services.…
Offloading malware protection to the cloud
2010-03-09T10:40:48Z - Virtualisation and the private cloud
Still got a whole lot of love for white box sellers
Intel will continue to offer coop marketing funds and discounts to the channel on Europe whatever the outcome of its appeal against a Brussels ruling that it had abused its monopoly.…
2010-03-09T10:22:20Z - Intel Euro boss pledges Brussels-friendly marketing funds
More shop assistants, fewer management
Vodafone will be 375 heads smaller by the end of March, as 545 staff get the boot and the company recruits an additional 170 "customer facing" individuals.…
Offloading malware protection to the cloud
2010-03-09T10:21:48Z - Vodafone cuts 545 more staff
Indignation logic short-circuit threatens democracy
Fans of the Twat-O-Tron will be delighted and disturbed in equal measure to learn that one Daily Mail commentard has managed to surpass the hideous turdspurts which emanate from Middle England's automated indignation generator.…
What is your recession sales strategy?
2010-03-09T09:53:43Z - Daily Mail commentard out-tw*ts the Tw*t-O-Tron
Either that or people just don't care
The financial industry's lack of understanding is what's preventing us from using our phones to pay for things, so the Mobey Forum is going to educate it.…
Offloading malware protection to the cloud
2010-03-09T09:02:01Z - Mobile-phone wallet stymied by lack of understanding
Cash for homegrown multicores
Last November, El Reg told you about how multicore chip maker Tilera was lining up its third round of venture capital funding, a $25m pile of cash that would include $10m from Taiwanese PC maker and server wannabe Quanta Computer. On Monday, when the funding finally closed, it turned out that chip maker Broadcom and the financing arm of Japanese telco NTT are also kicking in some dough.…
Offloading malware protection to the cloud
2010-03-09T08:02:02Z - Tilera wins VC from Broadcom, Quanta, NTT