3 September 2010, 4:31 pm
Betcha.com craps out
Washington state's highest court has delivered a fatal blow to a website that billed itself as a person-to-person betting platform that connected people who wanted to make wagers.…
3 September 2010, 4:18 pm
EU complaint echoed in US
Google is facing an antitrust investigation in Texas over claims the company unfairly manipulated results on its search engine.…Free On-Demand Webcast - Virtualizing the Hard Stuff
3 September 2010, 2:46 pm
Balls of steel, baby, balls of steel!
Duke Nukem Forever is the video games world's equivalent of the flying car: mothballed in the garage.…
3 September 2010, 1:06 pm
Beta mongoose flaunts new face
Review Ubuntu fans, fire up your virtual machines. The beta release of Ubuntu 10.10 is here. Maverick Meerkat, as this release is known, is actually several weeks ahead of the original schedule, and that means Ubuntu 10...
3 September 2010, 12:28 pm
Music to watch monsters go by
Love Doctor Who, love the theme music - this is hardwired into the DNA of most Brits.…
3 September 2010, 12:14 pm
Un-Flash eyes world of Google
Steve Jobs forbids you from building iPhone applications with a language other than Objective C, C, or C++. If that other language is Adobe Flash. What about if it's not Adobe Flash? Are you still forbidden?…
3 September 2010, 11:58 am
Hunting 'mugu' in America
A Nigerian man has been sentenced to more than 12 years in US prison for orchestrating an advance payment scam that bilked victims out of more than $1.3m.…
3 September 2010, 10:05 am
Gay Fun your life must be...
An Oz primary school head is taking a bit of stick after insisting that kiddies should not follow the exact letter of Kookaburra Sits in the Old Gum Tree.…
3 September 2010, 8:57 am
Can you handle the truth?
In the past seven days, Reg Hardware reviewed many products from the worlds of consumer electronics and mobile communications.…Free On-Demand Webcast - Virtualizing the Hard Stuff
3 September 2010, 8:51 am
That's Doctor Brown to you, says unemployed PM
Former Prime Minister Gordon Brown has buddied up with the Greatest Living Briton by becoming a director of the World Wide Web Foundation.…
3 September 2010, 8:29 am
The opposite of NIL desperandum
Seagate may be facing the abandonment of a favoured future technology as the price for hard disk drive (HDD) industry unity.…
3 September 2010, 8:24 am
'I've lost the ball again...'
Football minnows Bulgaria face an uphill struggle in their forthcoming clash with England, because not only will they confront some of the most talented, hard-working and successful players in the history of the beautifu...
3 September 2010, 7:47 am
Evolution and management of the client computing environment
Let's face it, the desktop and laptop environment is one of the major points at which the rubber meets the road when it comes to business computing.…
3 September 2010, 7:46 am
Joins BoA and Visa in trials
Wells Fargo is joining the effort spearheaded by Visa to help NFC break in the difficult American market.…Free On-Demand Webcast - Virtualizing the Hard Stuff
3 September 2010, 7:42 am
Run for your lives, kids. The ice cream man is coming!
Eric Schmidt has been portrayed as a depraved privacy pervert by the US-based ConsumerWatchdog.org, which is running an advert in New York’s Times Square that mocks the Google boss.…
3 September 2010, 7:27 am
June and July not as bad as all that
The US Department of Labor kicked out its monthly jobs report, and there's some good news for once. First of all, private sector employers added 67,000 jobs last month, although the overall economy shed 54,000 job...
3 September 2010, 7:00 am
Execution wins. Not ideas
Open...and Shut Businesses aren't built on ideas. They're built on execution. Google didn't win because it was the first to the search market. It won because it did search better than anyone else, and devised an ingenious wa...
3 September 2010, 6:52 am
Nicht ein biggie
German hackers successfully used off-the-shelf kit to extract personal data from the federal government's supposedly secure ID cards, but the government has downplayed the significance of the attack.…
3 September 2010, 6:38 am
Follow that photo!
An update for the TomTom app on the iPhone is "coming soon".…
3 September 2010, 5:50 am
12 months for CD & USB shenanigans
Ex-MI6 worker Daniel Houghton has been sentenced to 12 months in prison for unlawfully disclosing top secret material, in breach of the Official Secrets Act.…Free On-Demand Webcast - Virtualizing the Hard Stuf...
3 September 2010, 5:47 am
Going down for the last time
Comment This is the day that Apple lost the war for Over The Top content, not only in America, but globally. The winner can’t yet be announced, but this was the shot that Apple had to get it right, and to us it’s bung...
3 September 2010, 5:20 am
Coming soon: Hypobaric chamber - The Revisiting
The Paper Aircraft Released Into Space (PARIS) team is preparing to turn down the pressure with a second visit to Qinetiq's hypobaric chamber.…
3 September 2010, 5:01 am
Also: New vid of unsold P-791 Walrus suck-belly ship
US aero-weapons goliath Lockheed, builder of the famous P-791 airship prototype, was beaten to a half-billion-dollar deal to supply spy ships above Afghanistan earlier this year - but the firm is s...
3 September 2010, 4:32 am
IBM looking peaky
IDC's latest quarterly disk storage tracker shows EMC and HP competing for the market lead, with EMC growing faster than HP. NetApp is growing faster still but has a lot of ground to make up.…
3 September 2010, 4:27 am
El Reg is hiring
Situation Publishing, owner of The Register and Reg Hardware, is looking for a full time developer to primarily work on HTML(5), CSS, JavaScript/jQuery and template engines such as XSLT and Perl’s Template Toolkit.…Free On-Demand...
3 September 2010, 4:18 am
Drops unwanted code in open source developer laps
Google has boxed up its unsuccessful Wave project and handed the unwanted code to open source developers.…
3 September 2010, 4:11 am
More like 2013
Toshiba may be gearing up to release a no-specs 3D TV in Japan by the end of the year, but Philips' 3D TV development partner reckons we will have to wait longer. It doesn't reckon any vendor will have one out before 2013.…
3 September 2010, 4:02 am
Snazzy new social thing walled off
Ping, Apple's latest foray into social networking, won't play nice with Facebook - despite the connection appearing in Steve Jobs's on-stage demonstration and in the documentation.…
3 September 2010, 3:55 am
Qi gets branded products
The wireless power consortium, Qi, is celebrating the launch of a solution with a known brand - Energizer - attached, but the technology is still a long way from the mainstream.…
3 September 2010, 3:51 am
Celeb Taoist conman on the run
A celebrity Taoist monk has gone awol after it was revealed he probably couldn't in reality sit crossed-legged under water for two hours.…
3 September 2010, 3:48 am
For OS fence-sitters
Here is ViewSonic's other Android-based tablet, though here the Google OS is secondary to Windows 7.…
3 September 2010, 3:47 am
£194m shelled out
Capgemini has bought a 55 per cent stake in Brazilian reseller CPM Braxis for £194m.…
3 September 2010, 3:45 am
Europe's stuck in the mud, says former Ofcom head, comms czar
Lord Stephen Carter, the founding head of Ofcom whose blockbuster report provided the basis for the Digital Economy Act, made a return to the public stage this week.…Free On-Demand Webca...
3 September 2010, 3:21 am
But no Gigabit performance just yet
Netgear has announced what may well be the world's first consumer networking products based on the as-yet-unratified IEEE P1910 next-gen powerline Ethernet standard.…
3 September 2010, 3:03 am
Quick off the mark
Spammers have been quick off the mark in exploiting Apple's new iTunes social network to punt survey scams.…
3 September 2010, 2:58 am
Apple flavoured?
More laptops have been announced at the IFA show by Samsung. This time it's the "premium" QX series - given a "airfoil design exterior" that's aluminium clad like as certain fruit-branded manufacturer's notebooks.…
3 September 2010, 2:22 am
Firms will just have to get used to it
The secretary general of the International Telecommunications Union has stepped into the lawful interception debate, saying that companies are just going to have to provide governments with access somehow.…
3 September 2010, 2:09 am
#hackiswacked
Symantec's attempts to link up with Snoop Dogg to launch a cybercrime rap contest have descended into farce after it emerged that vulnerabilities with a dedicated site can be easily rickrolled.…Free On-Demand Webcast - Virtualizing th...
3 September 2010, 2:06 am
Yours for £12 a month
Virgin Media is offering the BlackBerry Curve 8520 - reviewed here - in what it claims os the "most competitive" pay-monthly package this smartphone can be found on.…
3 September 2010, 2:05 am
Worldwide recall of ball burners
Toshiba and US and Canadian consumer watchdogs are recalling three laptop models after receiving reports that people have been burned by the AC adapters.…
3 September 2010, 1:39 am
Prehistoric luminary's explosive antics revealed
The equivalent of a "rock star", having lived a "fast, flashy life and died young" apparently exploded with unimaginable violence in the year 161,000 BC and spewed "guts" across an enormous area. The e...
3 September 2010, 1:30 am
The story that refuses to die
New allegations of phone hacking at the News of the World have resulted in the suspension of one of the Sunday paper's reporters, pending legal and disciplinary action over allegations of tapping into the voicemail messa...
3 September 2010, 1:20 am
Maverick Meerkat skips Alpha 4
The beta instalment of Ubuntu's Maverick Meerkat has arrived slightly earlier than expected.…Free On-Demand Webcast - Virtualizing the Hard Stuff
3 September 2010, 12:08 am
Ovi could do with the support
Nokia is backing ITV's X Factor with a dedicated application and exclusive content, but it will take more then Auto Tune to make Ovi a Christmas number one.…
3 September 2010, 12:01 am
PMP trickle-down effect
Review Typically, smartphones make less than satisfying PMPs, especially given the issue of video formats, with very few phones supporting the good old AVI container or Xvid/DivX codecs. Also, sound quality is usually a bit if...
2 September 2010, 3:05 pm
Remember the Googasm
Google is celebrating Chrome's second birthday by releasing a new stable version of its rapidly evolving browser, offering a slightly simpler user interface, an automatic form filler, and the ability to synchronize extensions and...
2 September 2010, 2:11 pm
Mobile chips warming up as PC chips chill
While chip makers are not white-knuckled with fear as they were during the economic meltdown of late 2008 and early 2009, they were hoping that the recent boom in chip sales would hold for a couple of quarter...
2 September 2010, 2:01 pm
Teaching old apps new tricks
Microsoft has released a new version of a software tool that developers and administrators can use to harden older applications against common vulnerabilities.…
2 September 2010, 1:58 pm
You rent from his cloud
Analysis With its Apple TV revamp announced Wednesday, Apple dipped its toes into the entertainment cloud — if you'll forgive a muddled metaphor. It's a tentative baby step, but expect more cloudy offerings from Cupertino if...
2 September 2010, 1:01 pm
'We're more consistent. And we're here'
Microsoft has tried to justify its Silverlight media player in the age of HTML5.…