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Resellers: Microsoft price hike was 'demanded by Euro country bosses'
Insiders say UK channel exploited weak pound to fuel deals on continent
Microsoft's planned overhaul of volume-licensing prices was in response to cries of frustration from its European country managers unhappy their UK counterpart were benefiting from the regional disparity to win biz on the continent, channel sources claim.…
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Quarter of Wolfram Alpha brainteasers come from Siri
Apple's smart-arse software relies on boffinry website
A quarter of traffic to the intelligent computational engine Wolfram Alpha comes from Siri, Stephen Wolfram said in a New York Times article.…
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Revealed: Apple's plea for fairness in mobile patent war
Letter to telecoms body begs for level playing field
In November Apple wrote to the European Telecommunications Standards Institute suggesting an overhaul of the whole FRAND system of licensing patents fairly and reasonably.…
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Mozilla explains user-tracking proposal for Firefox
Telemetry has no UUID, Metrics Data Ping might
In a story published yesterday your humble Reg writer wrongly confused Mozilla's Telemetry project with the open-source outfit's so-called Metrics Data Ping proposal. Mozilla has been in touch to clear things up.…
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Virident flasher claims Oracle database streak record
Solid disks thrust into willing 80-core NEC box
Exit Exadata, Fusion-io and Violin Memory - so to speak: the Oracle database random IO speed record has been smashed by an 80-core NEC server fitted with eight Virident flash drives.…
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Indonesian train roof fare-dodgers given the brush off
Foul-smelling brooms purge carriages of surfing commuters
Indonesian train operators have come up with yet another ingeniously cruel system designed to discourage fare-dodging commuters from blagging a free ride on the roof of their carriages - this time involving brooms covered in putrid gunk.…
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Glad to be hybrid: Office 365 flits from cloud to cloud
Public and private partnership
Interview “The hybrid cloud environment is a great place for Office 365,” evangelises Simon May, appropriately enough a tech evangelist at Microsoft UK.…
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Now HDS joins server flash party
Still no comment from HP
Hitachi Data Systems intends to join the server flash storage party, throwing its NAND hat into the ring to speed application I/O and increase the virtual machine population.…
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LinkedIn offers MORE SECURE hobnobbing option
Social-network-for-suits finally gets some SSL love
LinkedIn is now gradually rolling out secure browsing for its social-networking-for-suits service.…
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Marlinspike asks browser vendors to back SSL-validator
'Convergence' open source dev needs vendors to balance the load
Analysis Moxie Marlinspike is encouraging browser developers to support an experimental project to shake up the security of website authentication by moving beyond blind faith in secure sockets layer (SSL) credentials.…
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Nokia: No Belle download for Apple users
Even if they have its own Mac OS X updater app
Nokia has told Mac-using owners of handsets capable of being upgraded to its Belle operating system they need to switch to a PC to apply the update themselves.…
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Android's Chrome finish comes too late for Flash coating
Adobe confirms Flashless browsing
Google may have got its Chrome browser running on Android, but Adobe is standing by its decision not to port Flash to any new mobile browsers, not even Chrome.…
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Halliburton latest biz to dump BlackBerry for iPhone
But our developers are raking it in, screams RIM
Citing better application support, oilfield services giant Halliburton will be handing out iPhones in future - despite RIM's claims that its app developers have never had it so good.…
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Yahoo! chairman! falls! on! his! sword!
Bostock and three directors quit ailing web biz to save it
Yahoo!'s chairman and three other board members are stepping down as the once-mighty web firm continues its drawn-out internal shake-up.…
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Greenpeace releases meaningless 'Cool IT' rankings
Hippies' 'leaderboard' apparently made using dartboard
Analysis International hippie* collective Greenpeace has issued a "Cool IT leaderboard" of apparently randomly selected major firms which it has assigned meaningless self-generated scores intended to indicate how eco-friendly the companies are.…
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Apple's new TV allegedly spotted... in Canadian office
Will be controlled by Siri, waving, unicorns
Prototypes of the hotly anticipated Apple TV are sitting in the offices of telcos in Canada, reports newspaper The Globe and Mail. The report adds that the new TVs will feature voice-control through Siri, gesture control and video chat.…
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Toshiba 14in USB LCD Mobile Monitor
Panel beater?
Review It sounds like a great idea: a 14in LCD monitor that connects using USB. Perfect for tablets, netbooks and mobile phones, right? Well no, because it doesn’t work with them.…
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Virgin Media finally turns an annual profit
Only took five years since beardie rebrand
Virgin Media pulled in annual revenue that was just shy of £4bn, the company reported this morning.…
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Samsung reveals Tocco Lite 2 release details
Budget blower inbound
Samsung revealed it will launch the successor to its popular Tocco Lite handset this March, with the budget blower targeting the social network generation. No surprise there, then.…
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Russians drill into buried 20 million-year-old Antarctic lake
Will boffins find prehistoric life - or secret Nazi files?
Russian scientists have drilled through to a 20-million-year-old lake under Antarctica, which, depending on who you listen to, could harbour alien life forms, prehistoric microbes or Hitler's secret hideout.…
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Amazon 'rolling out a retail store in Seattle'
Apple Store-inspired Kindle-pushing boutique rumoured...
Amazon could be about to open a bricks-and-mortar store in Seattle aimed at selling the Kindle - according to rumours on blog goodereader.…
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T-Mobile's Full Monty speed 'capped at 1Mb/s'
Cellco denies, confirms cap
T-Mobile's unlimited tariff, The Full Monty, has come under scrutiny after reports surfaced that the cellco may have placed a speed limit of just 1Mb/s on the package.…
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Huawei's super-skinny Ascend P1 S headed to China in March
Home market gets first dibs on 0.26-inch 'iPhone-killer'
Chinese electronics giant Huawei could be set to launch what it claims to be the world’s slimmest phone as early as next month, according to reports.…
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HP may be going the server flash route
Company won't confirm it, but the G8 looks pretty flashy
HP's new G8 servers will sport lots of flash, according to a knowledgeable HP fan.…
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NFC leader Inside Secure to IPO this month
It's no Facebook, but it does actually design stuff
Inside Secure has filed for an initial public offering, looking to raise almost €80m a day after it celebrated shipping 20 million chips, and signed up a major handset manufacturer.…
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Nokia axes 4,000, shifts smartphone manufacturing East
Factories hit in cost-cutting drive
Having reviewed operations at its manufacturing facilities in Hungary, Mexico and Finland, Nokia has decided to halt its assembly lines there. Smartphones will still be customised at the three sites, but the gear itself will be built in Asia.…
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Coke-snorting cop bots to replace sniffer dogs
Roboplod finds could count as evidence in court
Sniffer dogs can get tired, but fibre-optic sniffer robots don't have the same problem. And they are just as good at detecting cocaine, says Tong Sun, a professor of sensor engineering at City University London.…
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Heathrow facial recognition tech stalled by borders fiasco
Airport's scanner rollout to miss Olympics target
Heathrow airport may now not get facial recognition technology at all five of its terminals in time for the Olympics as planned, according to the Financial Times.…
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Move over cybercrims, DDoS now protesters' weapon of choice
Attackers swap rifles for machine guns with laser sights
Ideological hacktivism has replaced cybercrime as the main motivatation behind DDoS attacks, according to a study by Arbor Networks.…
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Apple won't rule out all singing, all dancing iBooks on Kindle
But they must be free. And will need an Android app
Apple has come under fire for keeping all products of its new interactive book-making tool within its walled garden. According to a tough End User License Agreement, any iBooks created by the iBooks Author software can only be sold through the iBookstore so Apple can help itself to a 30 per cent cut.…
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