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Red Hat plays Switzerland in balkanized cloud world
If you listen to all of the major cloudy infrastructure players - and some of the minor ones too - they all sound like they have all the answers and you need only come to them to solve all your fluffy IT problems. But no one actually has a complete cloudy stack. Even Red Hat, which tried again today to give that impression while at the same time espousing its openness as it fleshed out some of the details of its Cloud Foundations stack.…
Microsoft trips on Visual Studio Lightswitch
Review Microsoft's Visual Studio LightSwitch, just released to beta, is a new edition of Visual Studio 2010 and will become the next step up from the free Express.…
Apple kills Jailbreakme Mac bug
Apple has purged Mac OS X of a browse-and-get-hacked vulnerability that first came to light three weeks ago, when the popular Jailbreakme service used it to root fully patched versions of the iPhone.…
Apple to reveal musical something on September 1
Fanbois, mark your calendars: Apple has sent out invitations to a music-themed event to take place in San Francisco next Wednesday morning.…
Wikileaks publishes secret CIA memo
Wikileaks posted a classified CIA memo on Wednesday, three weeks after the Pentagon warned the self-described whistleblower website to return a huge cache of of unpublished documents believed to be in its possession.…
Robocopter combat cargo skyhook chosen by US forces
A US military competition aimed at finding a robotic unmanned helicopter able to haul supplies to isolated bases in Afghanistan has a winner, according to reports.…
Citrix takes bare-metal hypervisorl to PCs
On Wednesday, Citrix Systems kicked out XenClient, a bare-metal (or type 1 in virt lingo) hypervisor aimed at desktop and laptop PCs, perhaps in an attempt to steal a little thunder from VMware and its upcoming VMware View 4.5 virtual desktop infrastructure software, expected to be announced at the VMworld conference in San Francisco next week.…
Stripped-down IE9 interface leaks in Russia
Internet Explorer 9 is getting a stripped down interface, if a screenshot leaked online is to be believed.…
Intel chief: Obama (still) driving US off cliff
Intel CEO Paul Otellini believes that the US is heading towards a second-rate status as a technology leader, and it's the Obama administration's fault.…
Google unleashes phone calls from Gmail
Google has announced that you can now place and receive phone calls inside Gmail, a day after a report revealed that such a service was under test.…
Pentagon confirms attack breached classified network
The Pentagon has opened the kimono on what it described as the “most significant breach of US military computers ever,” in which a flash drive in 2008 was used to infect large numbers of computers, including those used by the Central Command overseeing combat zones in Iraq and Afghanistan.…
Undead Commodore 64 comes back for Christmas
The Commodore 64 will rise from the grave before Christmas, according to the tiny company determined to reanimate the long-dead 80s icon.…
Facebook leapfrogs Google's Orkut in India
Facebook’s popularity has overtaken Google’s Orkut in India, where Mountain View’s social network site had previously – and somewhat surprisingly – reigned supreme.…
Server recovery picks up steam in Q2
The recovery in the server business is building momentum, and the box counters at IDC believe that server makers peddled and pushed $10.9bn in aluminum, tin, and iron in the second quarter of 2010, an increase of 11 per cent compared to last year.…
BBC adopts <i>El Reg</i> units
We're delighted to announce that the Beeb appears to have got with the programme and adopted official El Reg units.…
Consumers Union calls for NFC regulation
As America wakes up to the idea of pay-by-phone the Consumers Union is calling for greater regulation, concerned that proximity payments may not receive any protection at all.…
PARIS team cracks Vulture 1-X wing
The Paper Aircraft Released Into Space (PARIS) team has spent the last couple of days working on a definitive Vulture 1-X wing structure, having already tried and rejected a few options.…
Playlist.com goes titsup
Labels both large and small, as well as songwriters' organisations, are owed millions after Playlist.com filed for bankruptcy.…
Home Office unveils new UK passport
The Home Office has said that new UK passports with 'strengthened security features' will be issued from October.…
Royal Society opens inquiry into why kids hate tech
The Royal Society has opened its investigation into why kids are so bored with technology and computing classes in British schools - even if they're obsessed with their mobiles and iPods and applications like Facebook.…
