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Intel ordered to dish documents on deleted antitrust lawsuit e-mails

Internal interviews must be disclosed to AMD

AMD vs Intel Intel has been ordered to hand over secret employee interviews from an internal investigation looking into documents and e-mails that went missing during its antitrust trial with AMD.â€¦

Feds nab modern-day Bonnie and Clyde

'We rob banks. And PayPal.'

Federal prosecutors have charged a Philadelphia couple with conspiracy, aggravated identity theft and a host of other violations, after they allegedly stole credit cards, billing statements and other sensitive information from friends, neighbors and bar patrons during a 13-month crime spree that netted more than $119,000.â€¦

Botnet sics zombie soldiers on gimpy websites

More SQL injection insanity

The miscreants who have poisoned more than half a million web pages aren't the only attackers thinking big. People behind a botnet known as Asprox have recently rejiggered their army to infect websites in a similar fashion.â€¦

Scientists discover galaxy's youngest supernova

Victorian stellar explosion

Where have all the Milky Way's supernovas gone?â€¦

IBM rejects deduplication for new VTL

A 3.4PB beast

IBM has revealed a new TS7530 virtual tape system with no deduplication capabilities at all, just hardware compression.â€¦

Google kills Anonymous AdSense account

How Scientology funded the anti-Scientology movement

Exclusive Google has murdered the AdSense account run by one of the web's most influential anti-Scientology sites.â€¦

Spammers open new front on social networking sites

Poked full of Viagra

Social networking sites have become the new front in the war against spam, according to security watchers.â€¦

Oracle substitutes previews for product

JDeveloper 11g - a work (still) in progress

Exactly a year after releasing the first preview of version 11g of its JDeveloper Java integrated development environment (IDE), Oracle has quietly slipped out preview number four - yes, count 'em - four.â€¦

Build a 1TB MacBook

MCE's guide to storage bloat

MCE Technologies has a dual 500GB hard disk drive kit to produce 1TB MacBooks by using the SuperDrive optical disk drive bay.â€¦

How to rescue Java from the men in suits

Gives us liberty, not legalese

JavaOne Open source and Java developers are calling on Java's governing body - the Java Community Process - to open up beyond the big players.â€¦

EU IT commissariat has lightbulb moment over green IT

Like watching your dad dance

The European Commission has decided that it is the information technology industry's job to lead the Euro Community into a greener future by reducing energy use and therefore carbon emissions.â€¦

MSI card-cooler 'inspired by weed'

The underwater variety, no less...

MSI engineers have found stimulation in the briny depths for its latest graphics card innovation: a cooling fan with vanes modeled on seaweed.â€¦

EC slaps Becta complaint on the Microsoft evidence pile

Forms 'indirect' part of anti-trust probe

The European Commission (EC) will not treat Bectaâ€™s interoperability grumbles about Microsoft as a formal complaint.â€¦

Samsung to demo next-gen, 240Hz LCD TV tech

OLED beater?

Samsung has developed what it claims its the world's first LCD panel with a 240Hz image frame rate - double that offered by top-end LCD tellies today.â€¦

True Group deploys near-field from the SIM

Not waiting for NFC handsets

TrueMove, the mobile arm of Thailand's media conglomerate the True Corporation, is deploying near-field payments and ticketing, but they're not waiting for compatible handsets as they've managed to squeeze the technology into their SIMs.â€¦

Bulletproof quantum crypto dinged by implementation weakness

Trust but verify

Security researchers have identified possible weaknesses in quantum cryptography implementations. A team from LinkÃ¶ping University in Sweden has also come up with suggestions about how the attack could be blocked.â€¦

HP leaves Dell with an EDS-shaped hole

Partner swap leaves Dell feeling at a loose end

Analysis Dell looks like being one of the losers after HPâ€™s buy of EDS yesterday.â€¦

Sony: world PS3 sales pass 12.8m consoles

Sony not worried about Xbox 360

Strong sales across all of Sonyâ€™s PlayStation hardware range over the past financial year have left the electronics giant feeling confident that it can still fend off Microsoftâ€™s Xbox 360.â€¦

Royal Navy warships could run on sunflower oil - if fresh

'Dammit, Number One, this fuel's gone mouldy'

A study by marine engineering experts has set out the likely effects of using biodiesel fuel in Royal Navy warships. As British warships are mostly powered by gas turbines derived from aircraft jet engines, the results are also interesting in the context of future biofuelled aviation and power generation.â€¦

Icahn builds Yahoo! stake

Activist investors at the gate

Carl Icahn has quietly built up a four per cent stake in Yahoo! since Microsoft withdrew its offer for the company.â€¦

Bell Canada chokes P2P and privacy?

'J'accuse!'

What's worse than an ISP throttling your peer-to-peer traffic? An ISP throttling your peer-to-peer traffic while stepping on your privacy.â€¦

Vatican star watcher says aliens may be out there

ET spiritus sancti

The Catholic Churchâ€™s top astronomer has said there is no contradiction between the one true faith and believing in aliens.â€¦

Music coalition takes on Microsoft, Google and pals

You are entering my white space

A coalition representing the American music industry has petitioned the FCC - with typically understated claims - to prevent exploitation of white-space frequencies, claiming that such use will interfere with wireless microphones.â€¦

O2 XDA Orbit 2 smartphone

Rather good?

Review What we have here is basically a traditional Windows Mobile smartphone loaded to the gunwales with Wi-Fi, GPS, Bluetooth, 3.6Mb/s HSDPA, quad-band GSM/GPRS/Edge, three-megapixel camera, FM radio, 8GB-capable MicroSD slot and a touchscreen.â€¦

Touchscreen BlackBerry 'Thunder' to storm to market in Q3?

RIM rumbles on

Stormclouds could be forming over Research in Motion's headquarters - and for once we're not referring to the 3G iPhone. It has been claimed that the company will unveil a touchscreen BlackBerry in Q3.â€¦

MySpace wins record $230m judgement against spammers

'Spamford' Wallace hauled over the coals

MySpace has won a $230 million anti-spam judgment against notorious spammer Sanford Wallace and his partner Walter Rines. US District Judge Audrey Collins made the order - reckoned to be the largest ever in an anti-spam case - after the duo failed to appear in court.â€¦

Dell denies death of XPS to aid Alienware

One for custom jobs, the other for mass-produced systems

Dell has denied that it plans to kill off the XPS gaming PC brand and promote its Alienware gaming PC subsidiary instead. Both names will "live on", it said last night.â€¦

Google trials Street View face-blurring tech

International anonymity for New Yorkers

Google has begun to roll out Street View images with the faces of innocent bystanders to its drive-by captures suitably blurred - a response to increasing privacy concerns over the service's indiscriminate broadcasting of the unwashed masses.â€¦

Craigslist gets personal with eBay countersuit

'Used shareholding unlawfully'

Craigslist has filed a blistering countersuit against rival and shareholder eBay, accusing the auction giant of a range of transgressions including abusing its role on classified ad site's board.â€¦

NASA bites nails over Phoenix landing

Lander's Red Planet encounter looms

NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander is on its final approach for a slated touch-down on the Red Planet's Arctic region on 25 May amid a certain amount of nail-biting as to whether it will survive the landing.â€¦

MoD begins full UFO-files public release

Alien puppet regime starts coverup propaganda dump

The UK Ministry of Defence (MoD) has begun releasing its voluminous files regarding unidentified flying objects, aerial phenomena, possible alien visitations etc. The documents will all become available to the public via the National Archives over the next three years.â€¦

Wireless can be good for your health

Ofcom stares into healthcare crystal ball

With an aging population there's going to be bundles more cash to splash on health care in years to come, if you believe UK regulator Ofcom and this year's edition of its future technology report, the Wireless World of Tomorrow.â€¦

SMS costs more than using Hubble Space Telescope

Teenagers. Harder to reach than distant galaxies

A British boffin has calculated that text messages are a horrendously expensive method of handling information, costing many times more than it does to access data from the Hubble Space Telescope.â€¦

Adaptec makes low-end RAID gear ROC hard

Series 5 begat Series 2

Adaptec is launching a new line of entry-level unified serial RAID controllers today, using the revamped design of its top-tier Series 5 gear announced in March.â€¦

Microsoft updates squash four critical bugs

Patch Tuesday calls for Windows and Office disinfectant

Microsoft on Tuesday issued updates to plug a half-dozen security holes, four of which were rated critical.â€¦

Sun gives servers an Opteron quad job

Three new boxes and a five-pack refresh

Sun has been sluggish to release servers based on AMD's four-core Opteron processors, but today it got around to the quad job.â€¦

Visual Studio update dents Silverlight development

Back to the time-shifting

Developers building applications for Microsoft's much-ballyhooed Silverlight media player won't be able to use Visual Studio 2008 running the company's latest software update.â€¦

IBM's Cell blade boosted by memory and floating point gains

Now shipping with more relevance

IBM's Cell attack will gain some added muscle next month thanks to a new blade server. The system will run on a refreshed version of the Cell chip that includes better support for mathematical calculations and memory. As a result, the Cell-based blades could tempt a larger set of customers.â€¦

Romanian and Turkish scientists turn circuit boards into oil

Biomess goes biomass

Whether through a force of expanding environmental activism or just compliance with government edicts , the IT sector is in a pinch over how to safely recycle defunct computers and equipment.â€¦

Google and Facebook socialize world+dog

Having faces is not enough

Following quickly in the footsteps of MySpace , both Facebook and Google have announced new-fangled tools that allow social-networking types to shuttle their online data from site to site.â€¦

Next Ubuntu LTS in 2010, unless Linuxes synchronize

Common components

Mark Shuttleworth, head of Canonical and founder of the Ubuntu project, has called on other Linux developers to synchronize releases of new versions of their distros.â€¦

Debian fixes serious crypto bug

Locksmith overtime for sys admins

Debian has warned of a vulnerability in its cryptographic functions that could leave systems open to attack.â€¦

Google Android winners shun publicity

No, I don't want to be your 'friend'

Mystery surrounds the identity of four winners in Google's $10m Android mobile applications competition , announced last November.â€¦

Windows Server 2008 bundles get first 'public' airing

Taking care of the little guy

Microsoft today announced that it will launch a â€œpublic previewâ€ program for two of its first Windows Server 2008-based bundles.â€¦

Brocade cranks its Fibre switches and HBAs to 8Gb/s

Speedier SAN selection sighted

Brocade is primed to move its 8Gb/s networking gear to a market it entered just one year ago , server bus host adapters (HBAs). It's also giving the 8Gig work-over to its Fibre Channel switch lineup.â€¦

AT&T defends 'open' wireless network

A mixed message

Innovation '08 Three years ago, Jason Devitt was speaking at an industry conference when he criticized a mobile application just released by a big-name wireless carrier. And the big-name wireless carrier wasn't happy.â€¦

Dallas kids tracked for their own good

No more playing by the ol' water hole

Tracking children from dawn to dusk might seem extreme, but in Dallas, Texas, it seems to be working to reduce truancy and get more kids graduating.â€¦

Welsh Darth Vader dodges jail

'The drink is strong in this one'

A Welsh man, Arwel Wynn Hughes, from Holyhead has avoided jail for attacking two would-be Jedis with a crutch while disguised as Darth Vader.â€¦

Son of 419 victim contacts El Reg

Dad taken for $70k, pondering suicide

It's sad to report that amid all the merriment to be had at the expense of Nigerian 419 fraudsters and their improbable tales of MARIAM ABACHA, Congolese banks stuffed with illicit loot and other entertaining yarns concerning riches beyond the wildest dreams of avarice, there are all too real people ready and willing to believe the Lads from Lagos.â€¦

Korean DMZ droids 'unfit for combat'

Fleshy troops hand tin soldiers a can of whup-ass

The South Korean armed forces have announced that a year-long trial of robotic guard systems versus human troops has been judged a failure for the mechanoids. South Korea remains committed to significant automation of its defences, but intends to move forward with different kit - possibly with overseas involvement.â€¦