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Warns of more bumps ahead
Gordon Brown is set to announce the Budget will happen at the end of the month, increasing the likelihood that the election will be on 6 May.… Case Study: WhatsUp keeps Legoland turnstyles ringing
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Kiss and don't tell
Celebrity publicist Max Clifford has agreed to accept a £1m plus payoff in exchange for dropping phone hacking allegations against the News of the World.… Offloading malware protection to the cloud
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Turn left here and jump that red light
Google is offering a cycling option for users of its map service.… Offloading malware protection to the cloud
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Hard to resist
Review The flourishing Android operating system has appeared on phones made by Motorola, Sony Ericsson, Samsung, LG and HTC. Now Google has launched its own handset, though it’s actually made by HTC, which has made the bulk of Android handsets so far.…
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Practical Matters discussed live
Webcast: 10am If virtualisation is creeping across your organisation you’ve presumably ticked some of the security boxes, right? Well, whether you have or not, you may still want to tune in to our webcast at 10am today: Virtualisation and Security: Practical Matters.… Web threats: Why conventional protection doesn't work
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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
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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?
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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?
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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
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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
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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 topologies on its floating interwebs service.… The power of collaboration within unified communications
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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
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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 pre-emptive copies.… The power of collaboration within unified communications
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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
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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
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322 Tbps of bandwidth (not quite) here
How will Cisco "forever change the internet"? With a new router.… Offloading malware protection to the cloud
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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
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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
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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".…
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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?
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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
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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
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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?
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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
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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
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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?
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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?
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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
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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
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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
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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?
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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.…
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Android phone comes riddled with bots
Updated Vodafone has been blamed for shipping Mariposa botnet malware and other nasties on a HTC Magic Android smartphones it supplied.… Offloading malware protection to the cloud
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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
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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
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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
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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.…
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More shop assistants, fewer management
Vodafone will be 375 heads smaller by the end of March, though in the next few months company will apparently be recruiting an additional 170 "customer facing" individuals.… Offloading malware protection to the cloud
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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?
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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
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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
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Nvidia GPUs sit up and bark
Remember Terra Soft and its Yellow Dog Linux for Power processors?… Web threats: Why conventional protection doesn't work
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Invention made in 'exploding turnip' town. Coincidence?
Intriguing and/or terrifying news from the world of paintballing today, as it has emerged that an inventor in America has been granted a patent on a fearsomely powerful new paintball gun, powered by the same "bunker buster" principle as secret World War II Nazi superweapons.… Offloading malware protection to the cloud
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Graphics beyond Java
Google has opened the door to iPhone-like 3D games on certain Android handsets, offering support for the OpenGL ES 2.0 graphics standard with its latest Android Native Development Kit (NDK).… What is your recession sales strategy?
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This Tweet kills fascists
US citizens are now free to invite Iranian, Sudanese, and Cuban citizens into the Web2.0rhea revolution.… Web threats: Why conventional protection doesn't work
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Random choices now random
Microsoft has updated the algorithm used to generate the browser ballot screen it's pushing out to certain Windows users in the European Union, after some complained that the ostensibly random ballot was far from random.… Case Study: WhatsUp keeps Legoland turnstyles ringing
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