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Most users still on legacy platforms and feature phones
Android may have an insurmountable lead in the Chinese smartphone market, but when it comes to internet-connected mobiles Symbian and Nokia are still number one according to new stats from search giant Baidu.…
Africa to be main site for giant radio telescope
The square kilometre array (SKA) will be shared between Australia and South Africa.…
Web application payback
Open ... and Shut Just a few short years ago, MySQL was the undisputed king of the open-source database hill. But with the NoSQL market emerging at an 82 per cent compound annual growth rate (CAGR), it's looking like MySQL may get bulldozed by its NoSQL peers.…
Tier 1 is old-school, says CTO
Blocks and Files NetApp's CTO of cloud is predicting the death of EMC's VMAX and other tier 1 storage arrays. What will kick them off the data centre stage? Flash arrays and storage-class memory, apparently.…
We'd rather be fending off global cyberwar, sniff Feds
A small town US mayor and his son have been arrested over allegations they hacked into a website calling for his recall.…
Actually he was alive when patent was submitted, but still a surprise
Steve Jobs famously hated the idea of styluses on tablet computers. But, er, it looks like Apple is thinking about making one given the revelations from the US Patent Office yesterday.…
VC deal has only just been done
Dell could be looking to buy Quest Software, according to reports.…
Sticking it to The Man, man, but for lulz too
A new activist group is drumming up recruits for a cyberwar campaign against corporate giants due to launch on Friday, 25 May.…
Can't be bothered carrying small change
At a time when Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg is coming under flak for his personal gains from Facebook shares, Tim Cook has turned down a $75 million dividend on his Apple shares.…
BYOD doesn't save cash, leaves Big Blue with security headache
IBM has banned employees from using Dropbox and Apple's iCloud at work as it claws back permission to use third-party cloud services. The rethink has also resulted in a edict against the iPhone 4S's Siri voice recognition technology at Big Blue.…
El Reg drills into Ballmer's '500 million by 2013' figure
Microsoft doesn’t really expect that 500 million "users" will have Windows 8 next year, but it’s still juggling the numbers.…
Tonight there's gonna be a jailbreak
iDevice jailbreakers: you can now take almost all of Apple's iOS 5.1.1 gadgets out of the walled garden, thanks to hacking tool Absinthe 2.0, released today.…
Reg reader narrowly escapes Kensington-Chiswick warzone
Pic Reg reader Graham Schofield was this morning offered perhaps the most sensational reason for being late to work we've ever seen: an air raid affecting the A4 in west London.…
Elon Musk's team makes history, astronaut has cheesy line ready
Elon Musk's SpaceX has just made history with the first ever commercial cargoship to be captured by the International Space Station's robotic arm.…
35 years, six movies, 120 games
Round-up Star Wars - there was no 'A New Hope' or 'Episode IV' back then - shot onto cinema screens on 25 May 1977, which means the franchise celebrates its 35th birthday today.…
Want a small laptop? Get an Ultrabook
Another sure sign the netbook's day is done: Toshiba's US wing has confirmed it will no longer offer new versions of the laptop-lite machines.…
To be like HP? Or not to be like HP? And what's with the silence on channel?
Dell's Q1 earnings call this saw the one-time bete noire of traditional IT suppliers undershoot expectations, and admit that it was walking away from business where it couldn't compete and where it was having trouble closing "transactional" business.…
Rendezvous sensors need last-minute tweak, but SpaceX is a go
The SpaceX Dragon is still approaching the International Space Station and on course, with a few minor delays.…
Broadband platform manoeuvres for snail mail outfit
Fujitsu and its strategic partner TalkTalk have won a contract that could be worth £500m to supply a broadband network to the Post Office.…
You can take it to the bank. In fact you'll have to
Barclays Online banking has suffered its second weekday working-hours outage in a matter of days, offering only intermittent service for most of this morning according to Register readers and throwing a complete double-six at lunchtime today.…
Plus: 'Disaster for Apple!'
Quotw This was the week when Facebook stocks took an early drubbing in the market before recovering somewhat to a more stable, albeit reduced, price.…
Security is an illusion
Something for the Weekend, Sir? When did you reach burnout? For me, it was spring 2009. Looking back, I did well to last as long as I did but the constant pressure of coming up with something new, again and again, became too much.…
Can bricks-and-mortar houses resist lupine halitosis forever?
Dixons Retail has inked a £300m revolving credit facility with its financial backers that should ease the cash flow of Blighty's largest retailer.…
A Channel Reg cut-and-keep guide...
This is your handy guide to surviving the coming disintegration of the euro. Umm, OK, the coming possible, maybe even likely, disintegration of the euro.…
Redmond challenged record antitrust punishment
On 27 June, Microsoft will find out whether its appeal against a record antitrust penalty has been successful in the EU's General Court.…
None might buy or sell save with the Number of the Beast ... which is 365
The Vatican has blessed Microsoft's cloud apps strategy in the shape of deal that could see Office 365 being rolled out to 43 million Catholic students worldwide.…
Head of Fraud, indeed
A former Lloyds Banking Group head of digital banking fraud and security has been charged with defrauding her employer.…
Time to kill
Review With a tip of the hat to director John Woo and The Matrix, Remedy Entertainment's Max Payne wowed the gaming world in 2001 with its unique slow-mo shooting action. And since Max Payne 2 appeared in 2003, I've been holding my breath in anticipation of the third in the series.…
New UK lab pledged to study citizens in real-time
London will be a guinea pig for future smart city technology after Intel pledged to spend a slice of £25m ($40m) on a new lab in the capital. The chipmaker will also plough millions into research centres dotted around Blighty.…
And yes, it has colour filters
Facebook has launched a new Instagram-like mobile camera app via Apple's iTunes store.…
Drumroll, please
Poll result Well, ladies and gentlemen, the time has come to announce the winner of our reader poll to select the worst film never made.…
Will 2012 be the year of immersive mineral oil cooling?
HPC blog | Vid I first met the Green Revolution guys back at SC09 in Portland, Oregon. As I roamed the exhibit hall, people kept telling me to check out "those guys with the deep fryers full of servers". At last I found them out in the lobby, which is the kids’ table section of the show.…
Disrobed servers give Dell an eyeful in 4-socket arena
Pics Like all the other tier one server makers, IBM is ramping up shipments on the next wave of Xeon chips from Intel inside of its System x, BladeCenter, and Flex System machinery. Big Blue says the new machines will help fill in some gaps in its x86 system lineup, which previously had been exploited by rivals Hewlett-Packard and Dell.…
Stove jobs
Aga, oven maker by appointment to the rural chattering classes, has turned up the heat of technology on famously basic ranges to create the iTotal Control Oven, a stove equipped with a cellular modem to allow chefs to command their cooker remotely.…
Trebles and Skillrunes all round
Diablo III has become the fastest selling PC game of all time, publisher Blizzard has claimed, after shifting 3.5m copies within 24 hours of release.…
800 tech roles from 100 companies... and FREE coffee
Got your own nunchuks? Spent a day learning HTML? Get down to Shoreditch's Silicon Roundabout this weekend and get yourself a job at a startup. A waged job.…
E-book readers, media streamers too
It won't surprise anyone to learn that Brits are buying more tablets than ever before, but they're increasingly keen on e-book readers and set-top media players too.…
Laptop conversion kit
Accessory of the Week There’s no shortage of iPad keyboard cases to choose from, but this one from Belkin, designed for the new iPad, has a neat trick up its sleeve: the keyboard is detachable, held in place by Velcro.…
50,000 punters sound off on privacy policy rewrite
Facebook may be forced to make changes to its data use policy after campaigners helped drive enough complaints about the company's own proposed amendments to trigger a user vote on the matter.…
Specialist Computer Holdings sees sales and profits rise
Specialist Computer Holdings (SCH) tweaked the nose of the recession to record double-digit sales and profit rises in fiscal 2012 ended March.…
Plagiarism or total coincidence?
Nokia Siemens Networks has pointed out close similarities between its marketing material and Huawei's.…
Uses crunchy Nvidia graphics cards
HPC blog While wandering the exhibit floor at GTC12, my attention was captured by what looked like a massive (12ft x 4ft, 3.66m x 1.22m) electronic whiteboard with fast-moving screens portraying information in lots of different forms. Each window was being created, resized, moved, then closed at high speed without lag or distracting video artifacts. The demonstrator was also able to handwrite callouts and notes without missing a beat. With the hook firmly set in my fish-like mouth, I had to find out more.…
Fyodor’s finest since 2009
Popular open source network discovery and security auditing tool Nmap has reached version 6.0.…
Secure personal health record project canned from March 2013
The Department of Health has confirmed that HealthSpace, NHS patients' personal health records organiser, will close by March 2013.…
Fesses up to 'disappointing' customers with pre-clicked boxes for 'free' trials
Real Networks has agreed to hand over US$2.0m to satisfy disgruntled customers, who were railroaded into buying content thanks to pre-clicked boxes in web forms or "free" offers that nonetheless requested credit card details and did not make recurring costs plain.…
Fake email mimics Australian Taxation Office formats
Queensland Police are warning residents of the Sunshine State about a new phishing scam that sees emails arrive in Australian Taxation Office (ATO) livery, complete with promise of a refund.…
Two plane-loads of crooks flown to China, amid suspicions of high-level Police corruption
Police across South East Asia have swooped on an international telephone fraud gang, arresting over 480 people in eight countries after an investigation lasting six months.…
Asus-built device now rumoured for July release
Google fans eagerly awaiting the arrival of the Chocolate Factory’s much-hyped 7in tablet are going to have to wait a little longer after reports suggested it wouldn’t hit the stores until July.…
NASA spots drift in 1999 RQ36
New NASA measurements of the orbit of the half-kilometer asteroid 1999 RQ36 have given space science its most precise measurement of such space rocks' orbit – and revealed a 160km deviation from the orbit predicted by gravity.…
