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Google's Nexus One phone was a flop as a sold-direct-to-consumer "superphone," but according to the company, it's a huge hit in its new incarnation as a developer platform.…

Google lands Gmail video chat on Linux

Posted: 20 Aug 2010 10:13 AM PDT

Ubuntu and other Debians

Google has introduced a Linux incarnation of the online voice and video chat client that integrates with Gmail and other Google services.…

Big biz loved Dell servers and storage in Q2

Posted: 20 Aug 2010 09:22 AM PDT

Bespoke hyperscale server biz softens

Large corporations are not buying servers, storage and PCs like it is 1999, and neither are their SMB counterparts, but if Dell's numbers for the second quarter of fiscal 2011 are any indication, they are acting a bit like it is early 2008 before the bottom dropped out of the global economy.…

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Ethernet storage protocol choices

Posted: 20 Aug 2010 09:04 AM PDT

AoE, iSCSI or FC?

You The Expert: We're moving to a world in which all storage network protocols run over Ethernet. That means both file and block. There's no dispute about running file access over Ethernet but the block world is squaring up for a three-way tussle.…

DARPA orders VTOL robots for 'covert payload placement'

Posted: 20 Aug 2010 08:54 AM PDT

Tailsitter two-stroke 'V-Bats' drop off surprise packages

DARPA, the US military research bureau occasionally prone to embarrassing tumbles from the teetering kitchen stool of unreasonable risk while groping wildly for the inaccessible biscuit tin of technological dominance secreted atop the unscalable refrigerator of unfeasibility, has done it again.…

Mobile phones: Where does the money go?

Posted: 20 Aug 2010 08:14 AM PDT

Android licensees risk the WinMobile Disease - analyst

One of the oldest mottos at Vulture Central is Show Us The Money. There's one even better, I think, which is Show Us The Profits. Are there any? If there are, where are they going?…

Google Street View captures miracle Heisenloo

Posted: 20 Aug 2010 08:10 AM PDT

Cover one eye, stand on one leg

Of all the miracles captured by Google Street View, the public convenience that disappears when you walk past it could be one of the strangest. To see this spectacle, position yourself here on Liverpool's Lodge Lane in Toxteth. You will see the loo behind the bus stop.…

Trojan-ridden warning system implicated in Spanair crash

Posted: 20 Aug 2010 08:03 AM PDT

Cascading fail

Malware may have been a contributory cause of a fatal Spanair crash that killed 154 people two years ago.…

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Mobile PC buyers buying peppier boxes

Posted: 20 Aug 2010 07:52 AM PDT

Worldwide PC chip units and sales rise in Q2

Usually, PC processor shipments fall moving from the first quarter to the second, but in the wake of the economic meltdown, trends continue to wiggle in funny ways as a new level of normality tries to establish itself. Which is why PC chip unit shipments and revenues rose sequentially in the second quarter, according to IDC.…

Intel's embedded security strategy faces tech obstacles

Posted: 20 Aug 2010 07:24 AM PDT

Security vendors react to blockbuster deal

Security vendors have welcomed Intel's $7.7bn acquisition of McAfee as confirmation of the importance of security in the future of computing but warned plans to embed security in chips will pose difficult technical challenges and may upset existing partners.…

Overland sues BDT for patent infringement

Posted: 20 Aug 2010 07:23 AM PDT

No win, no fee law firm deal

Struggling tape and disk array data protection vendor Overland Storage is suing BDT, a Germany-based tape automation supplier for using its patented technology unlawfully.…

Google's Wave flop: Spare us the warm fuzzies

Posted: 20 Aug 2010 07:02 AM PDT

Behemoth acting alone is suspicious

Open...and Shut Google's Wave has crashed, but the trick for Google is to learn the right lessons from its failure.…

PARIS acquires visual tracking capability

Posted: 20 Aug 2010 06:22 AM PDT

Sets telescopic sights on Vulture 1

Our Paper Aircraft Released Into Space (PARIS) programme continues to advance on multiple fronts, with the Vulture 1-X structure coming along nicely, a Mark 2 release mechanism ready for testing and our logistics team pondering just how to get the maximum bangs for bucks from launch day - when it finally arrives.…

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Google co-founders to be immortalised on silver screen

Posted: 20 Aug 2010 06:00 AM PDT

Adam Sandler and Tom Cruise to play leading roles, perhaps?

Facebook boydroid Mark Zuckerberg isn't the only web kingpin to be portrayed on the silver screen, as a film about Google founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page has reportedly been optioned.…

UK mobile networks more popular than ever

Posted: 20 Aug 2010 05:48 AM PDT

Even if they are making less money...

The UK's mobile sector has never carried more traffic, but revenue was down last year for the first time ever as users demanded and got more service for less money.…

WIN a Plantronics .Audio 646 DSP stereo headset

Posted: 20 Aug 2010 05:02 AM PDT

ideal for Skypers and gamers

Giveaway Plantronics' .Audio 646 headset is one of the smartest USB-connected stereo headsets out there, and Reg Hardware was one pair to give away to one lucky reader.…

MOON SHRINKING FAST - shock NASA discovery

Posted: 20 Aug 2010 04:50 AM PDT

LHC-spawned black hole gobbling it from within?*

Imagery from a NASA spacecraft has revealed that the Moon has shrunk significantly in recent times: indeed, instruments placed by the Apollo astronauts are thought to have recorded the rumbling, crunching sounds of lunar shrinkage carrying on in just the last few decades.…

Scareware tries to trick marks into dropping defences

Posted: 20 Aug 2010 04:48 AM PDT

Strip for me, baby

Virus authors have developed a strain of malware that attempts to con users into uninstalling legitimate security packages.…

Intel needs to rethink security to profit from McAfee buy

Posted: 20 Aug 2010 04:46 AM PDT

Power, performance and (now) protection

Analysis Intel's surprise $7.76bn acquisition of McAfee is not only the biggest pure-play security deal in history, but the most significant statement of intent by an IT superpower since Microsoft launched its Trustworthy Computing initiative back in 2002.…

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Information Commissioner calls in tech experts

Posted: 20 Aug 2010 04:12 AM PDT

Aims to avoid future pants-down incidents

The Information Commissioner plans to appoint a panel of experts to advise his office on new technologies, following criticism it has been caught off-guard by emerging privacy threats.…

Prudish Google slammed for Aussie censorship

Posted: 20 Aug 2010 04:06 AM PDT

Can you see what it is yet? Nope!

Google's Australian tentacle has been slammed for censoring a political party advert which had already aired on TV.…

Nokia gets into analytics

Posted: 20 Aug 2010 04:05 AM PDT

A declining share measured is still declining

Nokia is to buy analytics service Motally, providing the technology to measure precisely how few people are using Nokia phones these days.…

Salesforce.com hoists fiscal year outlook as Q2 income slides

Posted: 20 Aug 2010 04:03 AM PDT

Parklife up in clouds

Salesforce.com jacked up its outlook for the year yesterday, after reporting second quarter sales that beat Wall Street expectations on revenues but which saw net income slide.…

OCZ's automated flash-HDD tiering for PCs

Posted: 20 Aug 2010 03:58 AM PDT

Like EMC's FAST but for consumers

OCZ is extending its RevoDrive PCIe flash card to deliver automated hot data placement on solid state storage from a direct-attached SATA hard disk drive, using adaptive cache storage management software.…

Met to improve information handling

Posted: 20 Aug 2010 03:51 AM PDT

Copper bottomed tech plan

The Metropolitan Police Service has outlined a number of IT plans aimed at improving its information processes.…

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Online sales hit £5bn a month

Posted: 20 Aug 2010 03:41 AM PDT

Even better if you've got a shop too

Online retail sales hit £5bn in the month of July thanks mainly to rubbish UK weather pushing people onto the internet to book last-minute holidays.…

Nokia drops Nokia from Nokia Music

Posted: 20 Aug 2010 03:13 AM PDT

What's an Ovi?

The world's biggest mobile company is to remove the obscure and confusing "Nokia" branding from its key strategic music service, Comes With Music, and lavish it with the world-renowned and highly respected "Ovi" brand, instead.…

Apple crushes Quattro as RIM hot-wires own ads vehicle

Posted: 20 Aug 2010 03:07 AM PDT

The fast, the furious and the expensive

As Apple shuts down Quattro Wireless in favour of its own advertising platform iAds, it seems that RIM is looking to make a similar move into mobile advertising.…

HP confirms 'Palm pad' to ship early 2011

Posted: 20 Aug 2010 03:00 AM PDT

Windows 7 tablet out sooner

HP will bring its WebOS-based tablet to market early next year, a company executive has stated.…

Orange gives the green light

Posted: 20 Aug 2010 02:56 AM PDT

It's all working now - apparently

Orange UK tells us the network snafu that's been leaving customers with slow or broken data connections is now fixed, so any remaining problems aren't its fault.…

BBC heralds next <i>Doctor Who</i> download game

Posted: 20 Aug 2010 02:30 AM PDT

Episode three imminent

Updated The BBC will post the third in its series of free, downloadable Doctor Who games "soon", the Corporation said today.…

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It's time to presume the web is guilty

Posted: 20 Aug 2010 02:29 AM PDT

Trevor's got a plan to save the internet

Sysadmin blog The security defenses available to us are clumsy and inadequate. Anti-malware applications are grand at dealing with well known threats, but pathetic and worthless at dealing with emerging ones. Software vendors are too entrenched in politics, feasibility studies and bad attempts at public relations to bother to properly and expediently patch their software.…

Intel swallows McAfee: Why?

Posted: 20 Aug 2010 02:06 AM PDT

The three Ss: security, security, security

In its biggest acquisition ever, Intel has pledged to spend $7.6bn for security firm McAfee in a bid to add security to its portfolio of mostly chippy stuff. There are lots of stories all over webdom covering this, including the Reg's own from John Leyden. A CRN think piece discusses more background and talks about how Intel and McAfee have been working together for nearly two years on more closely integrating security and hardware.…

Organ banks on horizon as boffins prep tissue-freeze tech

Posted: 20 Aug 2010 01:30 AM PDT

Worryingly, experiments include human cells and flies

Once again disregarding the warnings of science fiction, boffins in America are seeking to develop technology which will allow human parts to be frozen indefinitely in organ banks for use in on-demand transplants.…

Big Blue promises jobs for few

Posted: 20 Aug 2010 01:20 AM PDT

We few, we happy few

IBM is starting an apprentice scheme for the first time which might just rescue people who got bad news in the post from yesterday's A-level results.…

SanDisk bigs up its flash postage stamp

Posted: 20 Aug 2010 01:19 AM PDT

Just keep taking the tablets

SanDisk has announced a postage stamp-sized flash iSSD product for tablet computers at the Flash Memory Summit, with capacity ranging from 4GB to 64GB.…

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Cops cuff armed white supremacist in banana costume

Posted: 20 Aug 2010 01:13 AM PDT

Indecent exposure kicks off lively afternoon in Washington

A Washington state US Marine reservist was earlier this week cuffed following a lively Tuesday afternoon which saw him dress in a child's banana costume, indecently expose himself and wave a shotgun in the street while shouting "something or other about white supremacy".…

Panasonic DMC-G2 interchangeable lens camera

Posted: 20 Aug 2010 12:02 AM PDT

Micro Four-Thirds touchscreen tour de force

Review The Panasonic Lumix DMC-G2 is another addition to the growing Micro Four Thirds family of cameras. I think we know the drill now; cuter form factor for a traditional interchangeable lens system, similar features to a DSLR but no reflex mirror, and a bit more discreet.…

Hitachi Data Systems buys ParaScale

Posted: 19 Aug 2010 11:22 PM PDT

Scoops up assets of crashed startup

Remember ParaScale and direct access to cloud storage? The start-up crash-landed in June and Hitachi Data Systems has just bought the intellectual property assets and engineering team.…

Coder cooks up Java-built Flash Player

Posted: 19 Aug 2010 10:02 PM PDT

OpenGL gurus sought

A version of Flash is being built using Java, two years after Adobe Systems opened the player's closed formats to external inspection.…

Google opens Chrome Web Store to devs

Posted: 19 Aug 2010 05:33 PM PDT

Upload your 'installable web apps'

Google is now allowing developers to upload applications to the as-yet-un-open Chrome Web Store, an online gallery of web applications and web extensions for the company's Chrome browser and its upcoming Chrome OS operating system.…

Researcher: Code-execution bug affects 200 Windows apps

Posted: 19 Aug 2010 05:31 PM PDT

Ain't no cure for binary-planting blues

About 200 Windows applications are vulnerable to remote code-execution attacks that exploit a bug in the way the programs load binary files for the Microsoft operating system, a security researcher said Thursday.…

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Dell rides enterprise to 22% revenue jump

Posted: 19 Aug 2010 04:36 PM PDT

But margins shrink

Dell revenues climbed 22 per cent to $15.5bn in the quarter ending July 30, thanks largely to increased demand among corporate customers.…

HP rings up Hurd's final quarter

Posted: 19 Aug 2010 04:31 PM PDT

Farewell profit leap

Mark Hurd, the ousted president, chief executive officer, and chairman of IT giant Hewlett-Packard, turned in a decent final quarter.…

Fear as motivator: why Intel acquired McAfee

Posted: 19 Aug 2010 03:29 PM PDT

Beyond 'WTF?'

Analysis Intel and McAfee made a surprise announcement early Thursday that the chip megamaker plans to acquire the security-software giant in a $7.68bn all-cash deal, and across the technical and financial communities, the response was a nearly unanimous "WTF?"…

Unhackable PS3 finally jailbroken, video claims

Posted: 19 Aug 2010 02:21 PM PDT

We'll see...

An Australian seller of videogame modchips claims Sony's PlayStation 3 console has been jailbroken by a hack that allows users to run backup and home-brewed copies of games — not to mention titles that have been pirated.…

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