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by Shaun Nichols on (#MW9Y)
Boeing boffin suggests harnessing noise pollution for power A researcher with Boeing has floated a plan to convert the noise from departing planes into a power source.…
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by Paul Kunert on (#MVXZ)
Owner Raiffeisen Bank offloading after upheaval for interests in Ukraine, Russia Microsoft reseller titan Comparex has whittled down its list of prospective buyers to just two, The Channel can reveal.…
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by Lewis Page on (#MVV3)
Climate scientists revise history, call for Vultures' arrest In extraordinary developments, assorted scientists and other academics have waded into the debate over the widely-acknowledged absence of global warming seen over the last 15+ years.…
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by SA Mathieson on (#MVPR)
The 400-year-old Uni library with a big-box backer Geek's Guide to Britain The Botanic Gardens, Sheldonian Theatre, Museum of Natural History – there’s plenty to see in Oxford. Off limits, however, was the New Bodleian Library, arguably the city’s greatest treasure and jewel in the nation's academic crown.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#MVMG)
Close, so close to getting its ReRAM afloat before Intel and Micron barge in Resistive RAM memory tech startup Crossbar has snagged $35m in D-round funding to push the commercial ramp of its non-volatile memory (NVM) technology.…
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by Andrew Orlowski on (#MVG0)
That's another fine turf war you've got me into Comment Try getting through a day without using Google, Facebook, Amazon, PayPal or a music service. Even if you heroically avoid stepping on any of their properties, it’s likely that your activity will have been tracked and recorded.…
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by Alexander J Martin on (#MVBY)
Cybercrims may be safe at home, but Feds dare them to go on holiday Cloudsec Yesteryear's hack of Sony Pictures was an act of war, stated FBI Supervisory Special Agent Timothy Wallach, who delivered the FBI's gradation system of cybercriminals to net security conference Cloudsec on Thursday, 17 September.…
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by Paul Kunert on (#MV9G)
'Charges against us were dropped'. Yep, but not the new one Quadsys has tried to allay concerns in the channel about a pending fraud case involving the owner and MD by circulating police documents showing that criminal charges were dropped.…
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by Simon Travaglia on (#MV87)
On the helldesk, nobody can hear you scream Episode 14 …
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by Paul Kunert on (#MV6W)
'Forget this quarter's celebrations, you'll miss OUR estimates for the next' Financial analysts last night ejected everyone from Adobe’s party prematurely as weaker-than-expected forecasts for the current quarter eclipsed the good progress made in cloud services, causing a share dip.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#MV5Q)
Hey, Tegile and Tintri. Are you ready for this? Comment Hybrid array supplier Nimble is going to introduce an all-flash array, joining other hybrid vendors in riding two horses at once, against a background of coming intense supplier consolidation in the storage industry.…
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by Jennifer Baker on (#MV2R)
Is that the whiff of personal data flying through the electronic ether? Sick of filling out online forms in triplicate for basic government services? So are EU officials.…
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by John Leyden on (#MV1W)
Schteve McClaren not thought to be involved in investigation The use of "flawless Dutch phrases" has seen two suspects, thought to be behind the spread of the CoinVault ransomware, arrested in the The Netherlands, in a case where security software firms offered technical knowhow to the Dutch police.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#MTZC)
Recovery tools for MySQL, MongoDB, Cassandra and others Datos IO is a new database recovery startup which claims it's reinventing recovery for next-generation databases.…
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by John Leyden on (#MTT8)
All in with Odlanor Spyware is targeting users of the Full Tilt Poker and PokerStars online games – and it is said to allow cheats to get a sneaky advantage over honest players.…
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by Simon Crisp on (#MTR7)
Diminutive do-it-all Celeron storehouse Review Qnap’s TS-453mini is the latest addition to the company’s TS-x53 Pro mid-range series of NAS units for SMBs.It is available in two basic models, the TS-453mini-2G (2GB DD3L) and the TS-453mini-8G, the flagship model of the range. The one I have to review has the maximum amount of memory the unit supports: 8GB of DDR3L running at 1,333MHz.…
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Everyone reading this will be DEAD Exclusive The government has fallen woefully short of its promise to provide mobile coverage to 60,000 homes in "not spot" areas across the UK, having only erected a meagre eight masts in more than two years.…
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by Jennifer Baker on (#MTMA)
Computer science as important as algebra, chemistry or physics, says MS president Microsoft announced on Wednesday (September 16) that it would dish out $75m to teach kids computer science.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#MTH0)
Signed downloads perused by parties unknown, who haven't done anything evil … yet Red Hat software has revealed “an intrusion on the sites of both the Ceph community project (ceph.com) and Inktank (download.inktank.com)†that resulted in signed code being accessed.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#MTEW)
Oh FFS FSNet Thousands of UK internet users were cut off from email after their ISP failed to renew the domain name used to route them.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#MTE0)
Christmas is RUINED for ONE MILLION KIDS promised a free (rubbish) computer The BBC has admitted that the Micro:bit, the computer it plans to give to up to one million children, is not going to arrive on time due to quality problems.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#MTCS)
PC bathes its bits in Scotland's other famous drink An enterprising Scot has built a PC cooled by Irn-Bru, and called it the “Aye Macâ€.…
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by Lester Haines on (#MTBS)
That's one small step for a man, but we need one giant wall to hang it on We're delighted to report that we at Special Projects Bureau HQ have just taken delivery of the updated version of the famous Integrated Space Plan (ISP), although we're not quite sure if we have a wall space big enough to accommodate the breathtaking scope of its vision.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#MT8R)
Procurement commences for billion-buck Welfare Payment Infrastructure Transformation Remember today's date – September 18th 2015 – as on this day Australia's Federal government commenced procurement for the nation's Welfare Payment Infrastructure Transformation (WPIT).…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#MT6Z)
EMC first, daylight second, but sales dipping sharply and Microsoft in the wings Abacus-wielder IDC has run its eye over the “purpose-built backup appliance†(PBBA) market and proved, if it were necessary to do so again, that by golly things are changing quickly in the storage caper.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#MT3R)
Redmond reveals Azure Cloud Switch, its in-house software-defined networking OS Sitting down? Nothing in your mouth?…
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by Chris Williams on (#MT0C)
Heat death of the universe will occur before this finishes Apple should be granted an injunction banning Samsung from selling crappy old Galaxy smartphones in America because they infringe iOS patents, a US appeals court ruled on Thursday.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#MSXK)
Chap releases Python and Smalltalk-inspired language, complete with shrubbery A Venn diagram describing the overlapping populations of Monty Python admirers and software developers would probably show a very large intersection between the two groups.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#MST2)
This time version 5.5 gets its third major update VMware's updated vSphere again, this time with a refresh for version 5.5.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#MSRF)
Icy, foggy curves on display with New Horizon's 'crescent' photos Pics NASA's New Horizons team has released a new set of images taken as the craft had just finished its closest approach to the surface of the icy dwarf planet.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#MSPV)
Rogue traders told to do their paperwork if they want to sell BTC options The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) has declared that Bitcoin, and indeed all virtual currencies, are officially commodities.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#MSNC)
Regulator puts out new rules to bring internet in line with telephone world Incredible as it may seem, there are currently no rules around the reporting of outages in submarine cables.…
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by David Gordon on (#MSKK)
Come along to JAMF Nation in Sydney and Melbourne Promo Sydney and Melbourne readers, here's your chance to learn Mac management in the enterprise.…
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by Alexander J Martin on (#MSFN)
El Reg blows lid on NCA's 'colocation' dream with IT security bods Cloudsec The UK's National Crime Agency – Blighty's equivalent of the FBI – wants its staff to "colocate" with private-sector IT security companies around the world. In other words, investigators and infosec employees placed alongside each other to sniff out cyber-criminals.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#MSDM)
Watchdog fines biz after ridiculous claims The US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has fined a developer $150,000 who claimed its mobile apps could improve a user's eyesight.…
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by Chris Williams on (#MS6Y)
Buggy bug bag bug will spill software secrets If you or your organization is running Bugzilla, and you're using email-based permissions, make sure you've updated to the latest version – namely 5.0.1, 4.4.10, or 4.2.15.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#MS4D)
Publicity over relay takedown drives demand A dozen libraries across the US have asked for details on how to host Tor exit nodes following a decision by the small town of Lebanon, New Hampshire, to forego police warnings.…
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by Andrew Orlowski on (#MS4F)
Are you getting a locked-in feeling? The UK's Parliament has launched a probe into Silicon Valley's giant internet plantations platforms – and wants to know if they're treating suppliers fairly. It also wants to know whether you're happy that you can switch from one platform to another, or whether they're trying to lock you in.…
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by Simon Rockman on (#MS37)
No one can guarantee a spot on the first page of results, says ad goliath Google has taken exception to SEO outfit Local Lighthouse that apparently wrongly implied it has an affiliation with The Chocolate Factory.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#MRY8)
If at first you don't succeed, why worry? You've got billions of dollars to blow Amazon has pumped out its latest attempt to stake a claim in the luggable electronics market with a $50 tablet.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#MRSW)
Total Inability To Shift Upset Passengers American Airlines is blaming a computer breakdown for grounding its flights across the US today, sparking chaos.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#MRNF)
Life is full of companies that do (too) many things in a shoddy way Interview We came across what seemed like just another file sync and sharer, and sighed. Yet checking ownCloud's product out showed there was a lot more to it than that, which made us curious.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#MRH7)
$10m to spread NVMe fabric array story far and wide NVMe flash card and fabric flash array startup Mangstor has gained $10.2m in B-round funding to build out its market-facing infrastructure worldwide, and head towards a 2016 IPO.…
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by Simon Rockman on (#MRDR)
You’ve ‘no respect’, says powerless, unknown official A former Vodafone Australia employee's spying on Fairfax journalist Natalie O'Brien, and the global mobile operator's subsequent conduct, has aroused the interest of the United Nations.…
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China and US at forefront of taxi war US "sharing economy" taxi firm Lyft has teamed up with Chinese equivalent Didi in a "strategic partnership" designed to see off the global threat posed by Uber.…
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by Simon Rockman on (#MR6Y)
New technique removes need to rewrite after every read A new memory technology which harks back to the 1950s is to be launched by the Ferroelectric Memory Company (FMC), a commercial venture being spun out of the Technical University of Dresden’s nano and micro-laboratory (NaMLab).…
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by Chris Mellor on (#MR3Q)
Biz claims no overlap at all with its bazillions of similar boxen EMC's ScaleIO Node is a super-scalable server SAN that presents EMC and its users with interesting product positioning decisions compared to EVO: SDDC (EVO: RACK that was), VxRack, VMAX, VNX, VSAN, and VSPEX Blue.…
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by Paul Kunert on (#MR29)
Cough, yell ball-gripping bods at investment biz Citrix – currently held in a vice-like grip by activist investor Elliot Management – has hired Kimberly Martin as global channel chief.…
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Tim Kelsey grabs the reins at Oz's Telstra Health next July The architect of Blighty's hated Care.data scheme, Tim Kelsey, has today announced he will quit as the NHS's National Information Director.…
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by Lewis Page on (#MQWD)
Red planet? Don't hold your breath, people NASA says that the long awaited return to manned space missions which go further from Earth than low orbit will be delayed just a little longer, to 2023.…
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