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- Spectrum Bridge solves the white space problem Parcel it up and sell it cheap Last month saw the launch of SpecEx, allowing companies to sell on spectrum licences - but SpecEx backers Spectrum Bridge want to see us all competing for a few MHz in the brave new world of secondary markets.?
- EU battery rule may zap iPhone, blow away MacBook Air
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The EU is readying a new set of directives that could spell trouble for Apple's iPhone and any other gadget that lacks an easily removable power pack.?
- Lithium-ion battery beater to debut in 'major' laptop release ZPower's silver-zinc tech finally coming to market? Left-field battery developer ZPower has signed up a "major notebook computer" manufacturer, which will release a laptop fitted with its silver-zinc power packs next year.?
- Yahoo! engineer arrested in Indian terror swoop Authorities arrest 15, including three 'terror techies' A group of 15 alleged Islamist terrorists arrested in India yesterday included a trio of techies - one a principal engineer at Yahoo!?
- Fish snapped snacking at 4,200 fathoms 'Absolutely amazing footage' from the hadal depths An international team of marine scientists has obtained "absolutely amazing footage" of fish feeding at a hadal 7,700 metres down in the Pacific Ocean's Japan Trench.?
- AMD shares jump at birth of The Foundry Company Now AMD stands for Abu Dhabi AMD shares rose more than 18 per cent on Wall Street this morning, following confirmation from the struggling chip maker that it will spin off its manufacturing operations and build a wafer fab in conjunction with its money-spinning bedfellow, the Advanced Technology Investment Company (ATIC).?
- Dell's disk-to-disk backup box Turn it on and go Dell is introducing a DL2000 disk-to-disk (D2D) backup appliance that comes with integrated Symantec or CommVault backup software and is meant as an alternative to tape backup, which is relegated to offsite backup.?
- Get snapping for Freedom
Taking on the Surveillance Society is no picnic
If you have a camera, are ever so slightly worried about the burgeoning surveillance society in the UK, and are prepared to brave the hostility of police and passers-by, then you too could take part in "Freedom Not Fear Day" this weekend.?
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It?s all new at The Register right now, and today Reg Books is launching its brand new feature - Geeks Guide2.? - Renault looks to wee-hued windows to cut car power draw Leverages Insulated bodywork and psychology too 'Leccy Tech Say 'bonjour' to Renault's electric city car concept, the imaginately monikered ZE - for 'Zero Emission', if you have to ask - which it expects to put into full-scale production three years down the 'pike.?
- Indian Moon mission is go for 22 October Hi-tech survey gig for Chandrayaan-1 India is all set to launch its first unmanned Moon mission on 22 October - the Chandrayaan-1 probe, which will over two years survey our satellite's surface with a rack of hi-res kit.?
- Net-stock fraudster Moller offers flying saucer on eBay No bargepole long enough Famous flying-car inventor Paul Moller, who was fined in 2003 by the US authorities for selling "fraudulent unregistered stock" on the internet, is now selling his personal flying saucer prototype on eBay. Our advice: buyer beware.?
- UK.gov and UK.biz pour £60m into IT skills gap Your timing is impeccable The government today announced that it will spend £30m to create a National Skills Academy for IT, in an attempt to train more of the workers employers are demanding.?
- UK stockings bereft of Nokia Tube
Next year? Bah
Nokia's first push into touch-control, the 5800 XpressMusic, won't be available in major markets until next year, including both the USA and UK.?
- Fraud victims urged to use DPA to rebuild credit ratings You've got me all wrong UK victims of identity fraud are being urged to use the Data Protection Act as a tool to restore their credit rating.?
- German methanol unit wins Pentagon portable-power prize Fuel-cell/battery combos sweep the rankings The US defence department has announced the winner of its "Wearable Power Prize", a contest to develop a portable powerpack which could lessen the crippling load of batteries carried by modern soldiers. The $1m purse has been taken by US firm DuPont, partnered with Germany's SFC (Smart Fuel Cell).?
- NetApp faces Sun lawsuit loss Patents weakened - more could fall Sun is crowing that a judicial ruling in the NetApp_Sun IP lawsuit has effectively invalidated another NetApp patent. The US Patent Office also appears to be rejecting NetApp's key patents in the law suit. NetApp's position looks like it's crumbling.?
- Oxbridge lectures now on iTunes Grey matter shuffle The universities of Oxford and Cambridge are to make lectures by well-known academics available through Apple's iTunes.?
- Sharp shows first 'zero-emission' telly Solar power to the people If your electricity bills are getting you down, then perhaps it?s time you started living off grid? And, thanks to Sharp, you?ll still be able to watch TV while cuddling up to Mother Nature.?
- Wireless-data LED lamps to replace lightbulbs - US profs
'The era of hyperconnectivity is upon us'
The US government is funding research into using next-generation LED lighting as data network access points. Room or street lamps would link with devices using visible light, carrying data beyond over existing power lines.?
- Cold War comfort on software engineering’s birthday Yesterday's issues at 40 Forty years ago today, at the height of the Cold War, around 50 computing experts gathered in the southern German market town of Garmisch to change history.?
- LG HFB-500 solar-powered Bluetooth car kit Here comes the sun... at last Review If your job involves making a lot of phone calls in cars, or you just like to be available when you're on the move, a Bluetooth headset or an easy-fit car kit is the best option.?
- No mile-high pr0n for Delta passengers Seatbelt signs off, smut filters on... The skies are looking bleaker for those who like to enliven dull plane trips with a bit of internet porn - Delta Airlines has announced it intends to filter "inappropriate" websites on its planned airborne Wi-Fi service.?
- Lords to attack UK.gov failings on internet security Fraud reporting recommendations ignored Members of the House of Lords Science and Technology Committee will this Friday call on ministers to do more to battle security threats online.?
- Nintendo to limit DSi games with DVD-style region locks Bid to stop halt 'underage gamers', apparently The upcoming DSi handheld games console will be region locked, Nintendo has confirmed.?
- Spy chiefs plot £12bn IT spree for comms überdatabase Black boxes to keep Black's firm in the black Billions of pounds of public money will soon be up for grabs for private IT contractors ready to serve the Interception Modernisation Programme - UK spy chiefs' plan to store details of every call, email, text and web browsing session.?
- NASA's IBEX to sniff interstellar boundary
Looking beyond the termination shock
NASA's Interstellar Boundary Explorer, aka IBEX, will on 19 October lift off from Kwajalein Atoll in the Marshall Islands on a mission to probe the interstellar boundary beyond our heliosphere's termination shock1 - a region where "the hot solar wind slams into the cold expanse of space", as NASA nicely puts it.?
- Mosley asks Europe to change UK privacy laws 'I should have been told first!' Motor racing chief Max Mosley has applied to the European Court of Human Rights in an attempt to reform the UK's privacy laws. He wants editors to be forced to tell people when they are about to publish stories about them.?
- iPhone squares up to Android Have at you with your Google Street View Apple is aiming to get off the back foot when it comes to phone features with the forthcoming release of iPhone firmware - hopefully before the Googlephone gets into circulation.?
- Xyratex speeds up arrays and doubles protection End-to-end 8gig SANS coming? Disk array sub-system supplier Xyratex has introduced its fastest-ever array by adding an 8Gbit/s Fibre Channel (FC) product along with new RAID 6 capabilities.?
- Videos cast light on BlackBerry Storm Launch date still unknown The BlackBerry Storm handset is as good as confirmed now, following the airing of a Storm advert on US TV and the leak online of a promotional Storm video.?
- New NASA nuclear Mars rover hits budget, time problems
Laser rock-crushing droid tank attack for '11?
NASA's plans for a huge, nuclear powered laser-toting robot tank to succeed the present rovers on the surface of Mars have hit budget problems, according to reports.?
- Reading privacy policies takes 10 minutes on average Too long to read: Researchers Website privacy policies take on average 10 minutes to read and sometimes run into thousands of words, researchers have found. While some are short, others would take over half an hour to read.?
- SAP shares tumble after sales warning Loose lips sink ships SAP saw its shares fall 16 per cent on Nasdaq yesterday, in a market which fell five per cent, after it warned it had seen sales fall off a cliff in the last two weeks of September.?
- AMD spins off manufacturing biz Fabless future for x86 number two AMD is splitting into two companies - one to design chips and one to carry out the debt-dependent business of actually making them.?
- Visa finds a home inside a Nokia Handset vendor or bank? Visa and Nokia have signed a deal to embed Visa functionality in the NFC-touting Nokia 6212 Classic, enabling US owners to upload their Visa accounts onto the handset as well as transferring money between handsets over the wireless network.?
- Win a Palm Treo Pro smartphone
One £399 handset could be yours
Competition To celebrate the launch of its latest Windows Mobile smartphone, Palm wants to give one of the gadgets away to one lucky Register Hardware reader.?
- iPhone secure enough for Japanese enterprise Makes you wonder what they know While the iPhone might be not secure enough for American and European enterprises, BrearingPoint has decided to equip 1,000 of its Japanese employees with Apple's uberphone.?
- Lehman Brothers' India ops saved from economic meltdown As 300 Accenture jobs die in the UK A Japanese financial services outfit has agreed to purchase Lehman Brothers' India-based operational support businesses, rescuing roughly 3,000 people - including 1,200 IT professionals - from the worldwide economic meltdown.?
- Amazon patents 'customer review incentives'
Bezos unreformed
? - Jesus Phone vuln delivers fanboys to phishermen Apple silent on 'pretty dumb design flaw' A security expert is advising iPhone users to steer clear of the device's default email application until engineers rework what he calls "a pretty dumb design flaw" that could expose users' email addresses to spammers and other online frauds.?
- Microsoft plans science of appliance for next SQL Server
2010 or bust
Start your clocks and count the delays: Microsoft has named the first half of 2010 as the window for the next version of SQL Server - codenamed Kilimanjaro.?
- Big Blue shares cloudy thinking with developers+dog Get your apps in the sky on the net If there was an index for how many times a vendor hops onto a new buzzword and tried to slap it on every product in their catalog, then it is probably safe to say that IBM would be the most actively traded stock on the Cloud Computing Exchange.?
- Judge traps RealDVD in legal limbo Hollywood gets its wish RealNetworks has been forced to shut down sales of its DVD copying software, RealDVD, while a California judge decides if it violates US copyright laws.?
- Windows Update to trumpet Vista Capable debacle? Class-action call up Little did Microsoft executives realize when they blessed the seemingly brilliant wheeze of "Windows Vista Capable" as a way of flogging the operating system that the idea could turn into a bitter pill their company might have to swallow.?
- Boffins (finally) publish hack for world's most popular smartcard Mifare weakness official Two research papers published Monday have finally made it official: The world's most widely deployed radio frequency identification (RFID) smartcard - used to control access to transportation systems, military installations, and other restricted areas - can be cracked in a matter of minutes using inexpensive tools.?
- STEC spills prelim Q3 numbers
SSD outfit solid as a rock - for now
EMC's favoured solid-state drive (SSD) supplier STEC has announced excellent preliminary results for its third 2008 quarter.?
- Verari noses HP, IBM with third gen blades It's cooler on the botttom While Hewlett-Packard and IBM have the lion's share of commercial blade server sales in the world, there are a number of other players hanging on in the space, trying to stay ahead of the crushing marketing force of Big Gray and Big Blue with technology innovation and playing to niches. One of the niche players, San Diego-based Verari Systems, has just updated its blade boxes to have a stronger appeal to enterprise customers.?
- Bull lands 200 teraflop German super deal Taps Sun and ParTec French server maker and reseller Bull has just become prime contractor for a 200-teraflops cluster called Juropa being installed at Forschungszentrum Jülich. This is a government-sponsored research center located in the German city of Jülich, where some of the most powerful HPC iron in the world warms feet.?
- NetApp signals recession kick-off Uh oh Batten down the financial hatches - NetApp has put hiring plans on hold, and is seeing customers putting off spending. CEO Dan Warmenhoven says it's spreading like a nuclear chain reaction from the automotive and financial sectors.?
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