Technology News

Could have bought ordinary Google Earth for that

Pentagon boffinry chiefs have decided to spend more than a hundred million dollars on a new military database/map system which will let troops in the field collect, share and organise intelligence more effectively.…

Offloading malware protection to the cloud

Second this month

Google has bought another display ad company - the second this month.…

Web threats: Why conventional protection doesn't work

Refused to virtually disperse Justin Bieber mall mob

Long Island police last week cuffed Island Def Jam Records vice prez James Roppo for failing to disperse a crowd of hysterical teenagers with the social networking equivalent of the water cannon - a tweet.…

What is your recession sales strategy?

Virtual troops should play by the same rules real ones do

Videogames should respect the real-world rules governing wars, a report has concluded, following research into how many videogames break them.…

Petitions and protests are planned in the wake of government plans to tackle persistent pirates.

Nine-hour battery life – hit or myth?

Review With smooth, curved edges and an eye-pleasing design, the 15.6in X520 slips into Samsung’s new X-series range. There are two other X-series models: the 11.6in X120 and 14in X420. The focus is on mobility here and, as such, all feature so-called CULV - Consumer Ultra-Low Voltage - processors and integrated graphics from Intel.…

This isn't rocket science... it's brain surgery!

You now have the option of pepping up your sorry notebook by using an Imation solid state drive (SSD) upgrade kit, but only if you are happy getting inside its casing and swapping out its hard drive for the SSD.…

But there's an Android approaching

Apple's iPhone now accounts for 50 per cent of worldwide smartphone usage, according to a new report. But off in the distance, there's an Android approaching.…

Offloading malware protection to the cloud

Evening out

Public sector spending on ICT is set to stabilise over the next five years.…

Web threats: Why conventional protection doesn't work

Where have all the fiddlers gone?

Wikipedia is leaking free labor - and fast.…

Web threats: Why conventional protection doesn't work

Gotta Steel yourself

Adaptec has suddenly fired John Noellert, its worldwide sales boss, and Adaptec's CEO has been voted off the board.…

Case Study: WhatsUp keeps Legoland turnstyles ringing

Cash for number clunkers

SC09 The SC09 supercomputing trade show finished up late last week, but El Reg still has a bunch of things to tell you about. One of them is a preview of the Opteron blade server for the upcoming high-end XT6 and midrange XT6m supercomputers from Cray.…

Web threats: Why conventional protection doesn't work

Everything else takes a swim

Hewlett-Packard's profits grew 14 per cent in the fiscal fourth quarter, boosted by corporate cost-cutting and solid performance by its enormous services unit.…

What is your recession sales strategy?

'Click da button, baby!'

Facebook administrators have blocked a clickjacking exploit that displayed images of a scantily clad woman on profile pages without first prompting the user for permission.…

Offloading malware protection to the cloud

Engineers operating the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) have smashed together proton beams in the machine for the first time.

Neuroscientist hairs on end

Responding to its nation's sovereign call to develop electronics with the intelligence of a cat, IBM last week announced a major step in feline gray matter simulation. But professional rivalries clearly run deep inside puss brain replication circles, with a leading neuroscientist blasting the project as a "scam" and a "mass deception of the public."…

Case Study: WhatsUp keeps Legoland turnstyles ringing

Mobile advertising firm AdMob today released its October 2009 Mobile Metrics Report, detailing the devices and platforms requesting ads from its network. While much of this month's report focuses on the breakdown of devices using Research in Motion ...

Black hat recon courtesy of Microsoft

A bug in Microsoft's Internet Explorer browser is causing more than 50 million files stored online to leak potentially sensitive information that could compromise user privacy, a security researcher said.…

What is your recession sales strategy?

Jobsian VP defends trademark police

Apple marketing veep Phil Schiller has put another smiley face on company's capricious iPhone App Store approval process - but at least one developer who spent months battling the App Store police isn't buying Schiller's spin.…

Offloading malware protection to the cloud

Microsoft's Black Friday redemption

Bing has boosted Microsoft's retailer revenues by nearly 50 per cent, according to a new search-ad study.…

What is your recession sales strategy?