Distributed-database company TransLattice has sailed into Amazon's AWS Partner Network, giving developers confidence that they'll get the most out of their database when running it on the AWS cloud.…
Rackspace Hosting is doing something right – many things, actually – as proven by its latest financial report that revealed hefty increases in customers, revenues, and profits.…
Plucky startup Pertino Networks has taken aim at Cisco's Meraki with the release of its new network-as-a-service, ummm, service.…
The failings of Apple Maps are in the spotlight again, after an app that uses the service fell foul of its infamous inability to find decent-sized towns.…
Dropbox is changing its cloud storage service to reassure IT administrators that they can control their users and not have sensitive information taking wing out of their corporate servers.…
Amazon has encroached further onto the turf of traditional web-hosters with a DNS Failover upgrade to its Route 53 DNS service.…
How to make a mini aquarium.
This tiny tank is its own complete ecosystem: it doesn't need a filter or frequent cleaning.
By: Kathy Ceceri, Edited by: David Cornish
Wondering how to introduce your children to 8-bit ASCII binary without sending them into a ones-and-zeros-induced coma? Break out the beaded jewellery and get creative. Using just two colours and some simple translation, they can spell out their name or a secret message on a badge or necklace.
By: Kathy Ceceri, Edited by: David Cornish
A computer program capable of reverse engineering extinct languages has been created by a team from Canada and Colifornia.
The system takes theories and rules about how the spoken word change over time to work and applies them to contemporary languages. It is then possible to both test the theories and establish reconstructions of extinct root languages which act as common ancestors.
By: Philippa Warr, Edited by: Olivia Solon
North Korea has conducted a third nuclear test prompting a meeting of the UN Security Council.
Geological monitoring confirmed a 5.1 magnitude artificial earthquake in Kilju county where the testing site is located, according to a report on Yonhap news agency cited by AFP.
By: Philippa Warr, Edited by: Olivia Solon
Two men have been jailed for 16 months for nicking large volumes of copper cable from BT's network. The pair posed as workmen to swipe the metal, cutting off telephone and internet connections to hundreds of homes and businesses.…
Gemalto and Ericsson have partnered to create SIM-less mobile phones aimed at machines rather than people - though the technology and techniques developed will be well-received in Cupertino.…
O2 customers in Birmingham have been listening in to callers in Scotland with the kind of crossed lines not seen on a telephone network for decades.…
The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission is taking an interest in the “net neutrality” debate in Australia, according to the Australian Financial Review.…
Microsoft's Azure cloud is grappling with an "unexpected outage" in its SQL Reporting component.…
Want to try your hand at inking? You can make your own tattoo gun for less than £10 with a razor blade, a guitar string and some basic DIY know-how. Not, of course, that you should use it on yourself or any living creature -- unless your local Hells Angels chapter stops by…
By: Charlie Foster, Edited by: David Cornish
Autographic Insight is a "creative data" company that builds interactive, automated dashboards for visual reporting pulling in multiple data sources in real time. The team aims to present data that would typically be placed in static charts in Excel and PowerPoint in a more visually-engaging and dynamic way -- somewhere between and infographic and a dashboard. The team works with clients to create web-based reports which automatically update using key metrics within the business, with a view to cut the amount of time staff spend in reporting. The company was launched by Max Lewis, who says he's experienced "fist hand the time wasted on routine reports, the poor presentation of these reports and consequently the lack of interest shown in them." He works alongside creative director David Jacobs and data analyst and technical director Leon Pidgeon. Wired.co.uk caught up with Jacobs.
By: Wired.co.uk Staff, Edited by: Olivia Solon
Vodafone is urging iPhone 4S owners to not upgrade to iOS 6.1, the latest available, because it believes the software jams 3G and phone connections.…
Pope Benedict announced his resignation today, becoming the first pope to relinquish the leadership of the Catholic Church in six centuries - and just months after becoming the first pontiff to join Twitter.…
A €9.2bn fund proposed by Brussels officials to help bring faster broadband to the 27 Member States by 2020 has been obliterated after the European Union agreed to a budget cut that was engineered by Brit Prime Minister David Cameron.…
Data Robotics (Drobo) and BlueArc founder Geoff Barrall's new small biz Connected Data has revealed itself after gaining $6m in A-round funding and cash from a Kickstarter launch.…
This delicate pink flower is a power storehouse. Made from the semiconductor germanium sulphide, the structure "can be used as a lithium-ion battery or a super capacitor", says Linyou Cao, a material scientist at North Carolina State University, who co-authored a paper on the substance. The secret to its abilities is in its shape: each nanopetal is about 0.1mm long but only 20nm thick, and thousands of petals make up the flower. "Because of its surface area, more lithium ions can be crammed into this space than in a standard battery," says Cao.
By: Madhumita Venkataramanan, Edited by: David Cornish
At the DICE Summit on Thursday, Valve CEO Gabe Newell laid out his vision for how the PC, as a gaming platform, can move into the living room.
"Traditionally, people say nobody wants a PC in the living room," Newell said. But he sees that changing soon, and pointed to a "good/better/best" scenario in which different users will have different solutions for playing PC games on their television.
By: Chris Kohler, Edited by: Olivia Solon
Michelin restaurant guides have issued a cease-and-desist notice to a blogger who has nabbed the URL michelinguides.com and filled it with photoshopped pictures of European football boss and 1984 European Championship top goalscorer Michel Platini.…
Companies are paying £61 a month for every device their workers bring into the office, but less than half of IT departments have any say in mobile strategy these days.…
Global cellular networks are reeling under remarkable growth rates that look like they will be sustained over the next five years, and this will be driven by video, says a recent report.…
When there was a power outage during the Superbowl, it only took minutes for someone to claim responsibility on behalf of “Anonymous”.…
A small but mighty UK-built satellite is about to take flight.
STRaND-1, billed as the world's first "smartphone satellite", will be a demonstration of the power of even the smallest orbiting machines. Although it is only controlled by a Google smartphone running an Android operating system, it includes capabilities common to satellites including taking pictures, doing computer calculations at high speed and staying in constant communications.
By: Elizabeth Howell, Edited by: David Cornish
BT's latest phone, the BT6500, can prevent spammers from getting through to the harassed householder, forwarding them to an integrated answerphone - so BT still gets paid, of course.…
Taiwanese manufacturer Polytron has showed a prototype of a transparent smartphone and thinks they could reach the market by year's end.…
The Frequency Division Duplex (FDD) flavour of LTE will be shunned eventually in favour of Time Division Duplexing (TDD), it’s just a case of when, according to Chinese telecoms infrastructure giant ZTE.…
Facebook Connect, the single sign-on tool Facebook uses to allow its accounts to serve as logins to other online services, has experienced a glitch that froze users out of many popular websites and sent them to an error message.…
Google Drive has turned on a feature that lets the cloud storage service become a limited web host.…
By acquiring Force 10 Networks back in July 2011, privatizing IT giant Dell moved itself from a maker of low-end switches to a contender for a slice of the top-end market for 10 and 40 Gigabit Ethernet switches that are ever so slowly becoming the backbone of data centers. But you have to keep up with the times, and that means providing a 10GBaseT port alternative to SFP+ ports and cables that are commonly required on 10GE gear, and it also means adding OpenFlow management to the switches.…
Yahoo! has inked a contextual advertising deal with Google, the financial terms of which were kept secret.…
Vodafone Group's UK revenue dropped more than five per cent in its third quarter ended 31 December 2012, demonstrating that Northern Europe just isn't the counterweight to southern losses it used to be.…
Big names in private equity have started talks on a potentially hefty £10bn buyout bid for UK 4G network operator EE.…
Menshn.com, the sleepy chatroom-blogging thing co-founded by former Tory MP Louise Mensch, has closed following a falling out between its two principals.…
A critical vulnerability discovered in an industrial control system used widely by the military, hospitals and others would allow attackers to remotely control electronic door locks, lighting systems, elevators, electricity and boiler systems, video surveillance cameras, alarms and other critical building facilities, say two security researchers.
The vulnerability in the Tridium Niagara AX Framework allows an attacker to remotely access the system's config.bog file, which holds all of the system's configuration data, including usernames and passwords to log in to the framework and control systems managed by it.
By: Kim Zetter, Edited by: David Cornish
Microsoft is going large into Africa, pushing White Space networks out to the most rural of locations and getting Huawei to launch an Africa-only handset pushing Windows Phone into the continent.…
Zeptonics, the Australian company promoting the “world's fastest switch”, has suffered a legal reversal after Australia's Federal Court decided the company's technology was not its own.…
Four months after its formal launch, not only has Windows Phone 8 failed to win Microsoft a bigger piece of the mobile pie, but Redmond's share of US smartphone subscribers is actually still shrinking, according to the latest figures from analytics firm comScore.…
Cloudy infrastructure provider Morphlabs is revving up its private cloud iron while at the same time wooing service providers with add-on software that makes it easier to run the OpenStack cloud control freak to create public clouds.…
Big Blue is rounding out its RackSwitch top-of-rack switches in conjunction with the launch of entry and midrange Power7+ servers earlier this week.…
Star2Star CTO Kristian Kielhofner has identified a buggy implementation the Intel 82574L Ethernet controller that makes some kit subject to a “packet of death” that hangs the port receiving the packet.…
British cloud operator Elastichosts has splashed down in Asia, renting space in Sydney and Hong Kong data centres and declaring it is ready to cash in on the boom in cloud and the healthy economies of Asia.…
BSkyB will switch its broadband service to network-level filtering later this year in a clear move away from allowing subscribers to control what content they want their families to access online in their own homes.…
Dutch university boffins working with meteorological experts and, er, T-Mobile have mapped rainfall using records of radio attenuation, producing real-time maps as good as radar and a lot cheaper.…
A cloudy startup called Ravello Systems raised eyebrows last March when it partially uncloaked as a bunch of techies who created the KVM hypervisor at Qumranet (now part of Red Hat) and got back together for some unknown purpose. Now we know what that purpose is.…
Cisco has joined a trio of investors committing $8bn to OpenStack startup Piston Cloud, which has a tech team led by an ex-NASA brain.…
Is a BlackBerry that doesn't use BlackBerry's email service still a BlackBerry? The Company-Otherwise-Known-As-RIM (TCOKARIM*) hopes so.…
Kim Jong-Un has a smartphone -- you might struggle to make it out in the poor quality picture, above, released by the Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) -- and the South Korean media is all in a tiz wondering which model it is.
It might not seem to the most remarkable of news, and indeed when the picture was released on 27 January to accompany an otherwise dry report about a meeting at an undisclosed location somewhere in the Hermit Kingdom there wasn't much notice paid at first either. But, AFPreports, when the South Korean media picked up on it the discussion quickly became one of frenzied speculation. Could he, they wondered, be using a Samsung smartphone? If he is, it's a pretty careless way of de facto accepting that the South is more technologically advanced than the North.
By: Ian Steadman, Edited by: Olivia Solon
Twitter has reportedly spent big on acquiring social media analytics startup BlueFin Labs.…
Kids as young as five should be taught how to stay safe online, with tips and advice coming from their mates as well as teachers, a UK children's charity has said.…
Virgin Media confirmed this morning that it is in buyout talks with cable giant Liberty Global.…
A Dutch advertising company has set up Wi-Fi-free zones, promoting chocolate bars with what the UK's regulator would certainly rule to be illegal radio jamming.…
Taiwanese smartphone maker HTC's profits slumped 91 per cent in the last quarter, but the firm received an unlikely endorsement after North Korean leader Kim Jong Un was apparently seen using one of its devices.…
Almost 17,000 votes were cast by Reg readers when we asked you all to name the best - and the worst - tech products of 2012.…
After a long wait – almost six months – a jailbreak method for iOS 6 is finally available, allowing the iPhone 5, the iPad Mini, and the fifth-generation iPod Touch to join the jailbreak party for the first time.…
TalkTalk customers are piling up complaints on the company's social network pages and forums after days of paralysed connections in the south east of England.…
The man behind Wine, the not-an-emulator which runs Windows applications on Linux, has been showing off an early Android version for those desperate to run MS Office on a phone.…
The NFC SD consortium - a collaboration attempting to capitalise on the use of removable memory to secure pay-by-bonk transactions - has called it a day seeing that no one wants to secure transactions using a Secure Digital (SD) card.…
Excitement is growing over the approach of an asteroid that will make the closest ever flyby of Earth to have been predicted well in advance later this month.
The chunk of space rock, about 50 metres wide, will give us such a near miss that it will skim our planet inside the geosynchronous orbits of many TV and communications satellites on 15 February.
By: Paul Sutherland, Sen.com, Edited by: Ian Steadman
Ofcom has published plans to refarm mobile radio spectrum into 4G goodness, letting operators deploy whatever technology they like in their existing holdings as well as the bands on which they're currently bidding.…
BT has claimed that it will kill off traffic management on its broadband service and stop capping usage limits on all but its entry-level products.…
A consortium of UK universities have banded together to spend some government cash building very small LEDs with a view to creating broadcast networks capable of hitting 1Gbps.…
Lars Nyberg resigned as CEO of TeliaSonera, the main telco of Sweden and Finland, following accusations that he and the board failed to properly investigate the Uzbekistani business with whom TeleSonera worked when expanding into that country.…
The first attempt at measuring a black hole's mass by looking at the molecules swirling around it has been successfully completed.
A team of astrophysicists led by Timothy Davis measured the mass of a black hole in the NGC4526 galaxy, and found it to be approximately 450 million times more whopping than our Sun. Their result have been published in Nature.
By: Duncan Geere,
A prototype of a stealth fighter jet has been unveiled by the Iranian government as part of ceremonies to celebrate its 1979 Islamic revolution.
The Qaher 313 has a distinctive design, with relatively small wings, a twin tail and a tiny, bare, cockpit. Iran's defence minister Ahmad Vahidi said "The aircraft will be different from the other fighter jets Iran has already made."
By: Duncan Geere,
What is it with technology giants plonking award-winning pop vixens into top jobs to tout their new gear? Are they a mere distraction or underrated business executives?…
Following a string of revelations this week from several media companies who announced they had been recently hacked, Twitter announced on Friday that it had also been the target of a sophisticated attack.
The company wrote in a blog post ironically titled "Keeping our users secure" that it detected unusual patterns this week that led it to identify attempts to access user data.
By: Kim Zetter,
This week we discuss the controversial Boyfriend Trainer app and investigate the truth behind Neanderthal baby cloning. Plus we go hands on with BlackBerry's new phones and talk through the rest of the week in Wired news.
By: Nate Lanxon,
BT reported to the City this morning a total revenue fall of 6 per cent for the national telco's final three months of 2012.…
Three billion years after inanimate chemistry first became animate life, a newly synthesised laboratory compound is behaving in uncannily lifelike ways.
The particles aren't truly alive -- but they're not far off, either. Exposed to light and fed by chemicals, they form crystals that move, break apart and form again.
"There is a blurry frontier between active and alive," said biophysicist Jérémie Palacci of New York University. "That is exactly the kind of question that such works raise."
By: Brandon Keim, Edited by: Olivia Solon
China's government has slapped fast-growing Chinese web firm Qihoo with a warning for unfair competition, alleging the firm used its security software to trick users into downloading its browser.…
Facebook has finally found a way to get its users to hand over hundreds of dollars, by creating its own gift cards.…
