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Washing someone else's dirty laundry in public is always fun – for onlookers The Clinton Group, wanting to have its own slate of Imation board members, has released an emphatic diatribe of a proxy vote presentation, designed to disgust investors with what it says are the value-destroying failings of the current board and CEO.…

Just what world is HP's Helion group in, anyway? Analysis HP doesn't plan to abandon its public cloud business after all, a top company exec has said, but that still doesn't mean it intends to go head to head with the likes of Amazon Web Services, Google, and Microsoft.…

Convince us you ain't, says bold Commissioner Vestager The EU’s chief competition regulator alleged today that Google is illegally abusing its dominant position in the search market.…

Mad skillz + $10k = DIY NSA Infiltrate A default feature of Cisco routers can readily be abused to collect data, security researchers warn.…

Mastering that wrist flick is all important

The Chocolate Factory adds substance to its cloud It's double your dates time: Avere has evolved its FXT front-end filer accelerator into a cloud storage gateway, first with Amazon and now with Google.…

HTTPS is the future, says security engineer, to the surprise of nobody Calls to finally move away from HTTP and on to HTTPS are, like grumbles to oust an aging dictator, finding themselves encouraged by the public square/echo chamber of Mozilla's developers' platform.…

And some of the developers need to understand this Worstall on Wednesday Given the massive, but not startling*, success of dating apps like Grindr and Tinder it might sound, well, it will sound, a little odd to state that in one way at least they're like the anti-internet.…

Watchdog hunts online networks Last year saw a 136 per cent increase in identified and subsequently removed child abuse imagery, according to a just-released report from the Internet Watch Foundation (IWF).…

Gov, cars, manufacturing, cars, geo-blocking, cars, and cars The EU's warring digi-chiefs — Vice President Andrus Ansip and Commissioner Gunter H-dot Oettinger — finally seem to be singing from the same hymn-sheet.…

Humanity is wasting its time on monitoring life rather than living The British Medical Journal has staged a debate on the topic “Can healthy people benefit from health apps?”…

Free endpoint tool debuts, along with UCS-as-disk-backup appliance idea Veeam's making waves again, with two new initiatives sure to get backup software rivals – and tin-makers – a little riled.…

Finland to be HQ, Bell Labs brand to stay, €900m in savings flagged after share swap deal goes down Nokia and Alcatel-Lucent have confirmed rumours about a possible merger by saying it will happen, as “The two companies have entered into a memorandum of understanding under which Nokia will make an offer for all of the equity securities issued by Alcatel-Lucent”.…

Money-munching mercenaries blitz bug bounty budgets Kate Moussouris says security defenders should spend cash to acquire and build the tools of the bug hunting trade rather than dole out cash for warm bodies or endless zero day.…

Worldlet is no dusty rock thanks to 'active' past producing varied geology Dwarf planet Ceres has ten bright spots, not just the two that the Dawn spacecraft saw as it approached the worldlet in February.…

Real time fleecing of instant ad buys is a thing, says researcher Gergő Varga reckons Verizon, Fedex, and Smirnoff are being robbed half a million dollars a month by advertising scammers.…

Bigger than Justin Bieber and infinitely more interesting NASA has let it be known its working on an API portal so it can put more data into developers' hands.…

Purple Palace says it will have hundreds of software-defined petabytes by year's end Strap yourself in, storage-buyers: those pushing a software-defined approach and/or object storage will soon be telling you that their wares are ready for anything because Yahoo!'s exascale photo storage service has re-platformed itself on Ceph. The Purple Palace also says it will soon have hundreds of petabytes under software-defined control and plans a storage-as-a-service service.…

FTP bug sends doc hunters on nasty detours Jouko Pynnönen, a security chap with Finnish firm Klikki Oy, has found a since patched bug he says could affect a billion Apple iDevices.…

Is this software-defined networking thing hot or not? January 2014, Dell announced it would make it possible to run Cumulus Networks' operating system on its networking gear.…

Good news for one, bad news for the other Microsoft has confirmed it will roll out Skype for Business – the service formerly known as Microsoft Lync – across its subscription-based Office 365 cloud this month.…

Patch now before someone writes exploits for these bugs Microsoft has delivered its latest monthly batch of security updates to address flaws in Windows, Office and Internet Explorer.…

Apps scrubbed from AT&T, Verizon mobes, because choice Microsoft has been working with smartphone makers to get its mobile apps onto more customers' phones, but as long as carriers have a say in it, Redmond might not be able to obtain the broad reach it's hoping for.…

NPAPI killed off completely by September The latest release of the Chrome web browser, version 42, will block Oracle's Java plugin by default as well as other extensions that use the deprecated NPAPI.…

Space Station 'nauts will get their espresso fix on Friday SpaceX has launched its sixth resupply mission to the International Space Station – but the attempt to land the lower stage of its Falcon rocket for reuse has not gone according to plan.…

'Lower than expected' sales kept Chipzilla's revenue flat Intel announced its earnings based on its new financial reporting structure for the first time on Tuesday, but despite having lumped its ailing Mobile & Communications unit in with its PC Client business, there was no hiding that the three months ended on March 28 were a tough quarter for Chipzilla.…

Patent used to launch legal fights ruled 'unpatentable' The US Patent and Trademark Office has torn up parts of a video-streaming technology patent used against Adobe and Level 3 Communications in a patent-infringement legal scrap.…

Gains transaction-safe MongoDB distro plus speedy database tech MySQL consulting and services outfit Percona has acquired Tokutek, makers of a commercial, transaction-safe distribution of the open source MongoDB NoSQL database.…

Narcissis-sticks outlawed at app-maker confab in June Apple is selling tickets to this year's Worldwide Developers Conference – though if you get hold of one, leave your selfie stick in the hotel room.…

Video surveillance-friendly hard disks get a spring makeover Western Digital has tweaked its Purple-branded hard drives for video surveillance to double the supported camera count.…

We don't even need the money, laughs CEO as Valley sugar daddies shovel more cash Linux container-wrangling outfit Docker, flush with cash from a fresh round of funding, says it will release its first commercial product to general availability this quarter.…

Oetti fans flames as EU antitrust chief heads off to the US EU digi-chief Gunther Oettinger has poured fuel on the rumours that the European Commission will take Google to task with antitrust charges this week.…

Media industry repays usefulness with multiple partnerships SpectraLogic's BlackPearl disk/object gateway-to-tape archives need front-end apps amended or developed to send data, prompting a raft of partnerships announced at NAB in Las Vegas.…

Life in the fast lane SSDs have been the subject of hype, hype and more hype. Any of us who have used them in our personal computers know the benefits SSDs bring, but personal experiences and hype alone don't explain the robustness of enterprise flash adoption.…

Ticks all the boxes and then some, as long as Win10 doesn't ruin it Review Is the Nokia Microsoft Lumia 640 an Office subscription with a free phone, or a phone with a free Office subscription? Either way, it's likely to be the biggest mobile device for Microsoft since the days of Zune and Kin – and the company is getting more aggressive with its marketing.…

They still want the Snoopers' Charter, though Election 2015 Hot on the heels of Labour, the Conservatives today launched their manifesto – which matched their rivals for the sheer lack of detail on tech-related policy.…

No longer for nerds and HPC geeks How many PCI Express (PCIe) lanes does your computer have? How many of those are directly provided by the CPU? With only a few exceptions, nobody except high-end gamers and the High Performance Computing (HPC) crowd care. Regular punters (maybe) care about how many PCIe slots they have.…

Dare we say a truly win-win situation Contradicting rumours we heard that it was buying Dot Hill, storage biz Quantum, already a Dot Hill OEM, is taking on master channel distribution rights for the network array maker's products.…

Budge up Johnson & Johnson and Medtronic Apple has partnered with IBM to use Big Blue’s former Jeopardy contestant Watson to crunch cloudy data obtained from Cupertino's fruity and still hard-to-come-by watches.…

Rapid deployment tool for Hadoop clusters here we come Hortonworks decided it needed an automated tool to launch Hadoop clusters in the cloud, or any environment supporting Docker containers, and one buy of SequenceIQ later, ’tis done.…

Divergence and convergence brings us back to the future? Hyper-converged systems integrate compute, storage and networking into a single purchasable entity that is easier to deploy, operate and manage than traditional best-of-breed component systems.…

Impressive double for Georgia marksman A Georgia man who took a 9mm pistol to an armadillo also managed to pop a cap in his wife's mum after the round ricocheted off the animal, "hit a fence, went through the back door of his mother-in-law's mobile home, through a recliner she was sitting in, and into her back".…

Trade committee split on mandatory or voluntary version of Dodd-Frank MEPs will vote whether or not to make electronics manufacturers find out where the minerals in their products come from.…

Cryptech in need of funds An open-source hardware project aimed at making the internet "a little bit safer" needs an influx of cash to continue its work.…

Deal would create €26bn firm to rival Ericsson Nokia has confirmed it is in talks to snap up Alcatel-Lucent.…

All we needed was some isotopically enriched silicon. Well, duh! The long-awaited arrival of quantum computers could be one step closer, as boffins from Oz have for the first time encoded quantum information in silicon.…

Hit and miss? Or on the money? Speak your brains Poll Radio 4 has dipped a toe into Lake Geek with a five part series looking at computer languages. Or more accurately the history and reputation of four computer languages: Fortran, Cobol, Basic and Java.…

EU digi-commish picks up hammer, sees a screwdriver problem, treats it like a nail Europe’s Digital Commissioner, Gunther H-dot Oettinger, says we are all far too laissez-faire with our passwords.…

An easy* way to ID a million leakers Developer Bruno Cauet has offered HBO a series of mathematical equations that could have tracked the Game of Thrones season five leaker, or even killed the leak completely.…