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A tenth of Chinese farmland polluted by heavy metals
Your old PC is poisoning China's future. And Africa's. And India's. And...
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8th > November > 2011 Archive
SaaS
Rackspace: 'We want to be your OpenStack maniac'
Living in your own private Idaho cloud
08 Nov 00:56 |
Legal
Zuckerberg: 'Make partnerships, not war'
Names Google as most aggressive competitor
08 Nov 01:07 | 16
Applications
Apple expels serial hacker for publishing iPhone exploit
Charlie Miller excommunicated for code-signing app
08 Nov 06:00 | 54
Review
RIM BlackBerry Torch 9860 smartphone
All touch and no type
08 Nov 07:00 | 7
Science
Olympic Torch to visit Bletchley Park
May encounter George the Robot
08 Nov 08:02 | 2
Analysis
NetApp accused of short-stroking its new hardness
'Everyone short-strokes', admits industry rival
08 Nov 08:31 | 8
Science
Comp-sci boffin aims to REPROGRAM LIFE ITSELF
'I'm now moving my research into the wet lab'
08 Nov 09:03 | 21
Channel
Frisky Micron flashes its flash
Chip baker shakes its server, consumer booty
08 Nov 09:16 |
Legal
Top cops placed under Freedom of Info law
Uni admissions body fitted with loose kimono also
08 Nov 09:31 | 6
Channel
OCZ exposes bulging solid disk for 2012
Just glad to see you, really
08 Nov 09:46 | 7
Channel
London to get another £60m of CCTV surveillance
Transport, cops, boroughs all eyeing eyeing kit
08 Nov 10:02 | 5
Review
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3
Barrels of fun
08 Nov 10:10 | 25
On-Prem
UK forces offer to temporarily share some spectrum
However we'll be selling it to someone else soon
08 Nov 10:14 |
Channel
Fujitsu Eternus: It's time to settle this thing
Masked man and Schneider doff coats, get in the Jell-O
08 Nov 10:21 | 1
Personal Tech
HP seeks buyer for WebOS
For sale, one mobile OS. One previous owner. Will swap for tablet business strategy
08 Nov 10:28 | 5
Analysis
Ubuntu republic riven by damaging civil wars
Can the Linux Jedi hold things together?
08 Nov 10:30 | 81
Science
UK Space Agency OKs teeny-tiny satellite
Liftoff expected late 2012
08 Nov 10:42 | 3
Android App of the Week
BeWeather
For those who live in a kingdom of rains
08 Nov 11:00 | 8
Legal
Google's top lobbyist quits amid antitrust probe
Davidson leaps from fiery Washington
08 Nov 11:11 | 2
Personal Tech
Panasonic preps rubber-clad Android tablet
Ten incher for men on poles
08 Nov 11:13 | 10
Channel
Best Buy UK spent £200m on failed megastores
Consumer meltdown, delays and Dixons forced closure
08 Nov 11:23 | 19
Bootnotes
Prince Harry given free run of Arizona town's womenfolk
'Thank you,' pants ecstatic waitress
08 Nov 11:31 | 27
Legal
Men most likely to friend dodgy Facebook strangers
Risky behaviour
08 Nov 11:43 | 24
Legal
Oregon offers vote by fondleslab-swipe
Special service for disabled citizens
08 Nov 11:52 | 3
SC11
Bright Computing bursts HPC to EC2 clouds
A veritable – and virtual – cluster
08 Nov 12:02 |
Review
Samsung PS64D8000 64in plasma 3D TV
Widescreen whopper
08 Nov 12:14 | 14
Legal
Apple trains store bosses to
Apple trains store bosses to ignore deal with unions
Up the workers. Right up 'em
08 Nov 12:18 | 43
Legal
Huawei butters up Microsoft to avoid Android patent war
Shock new approach for UK mobe launch
08 Nov 12:28 | 14
Personal Tech
Honda upgrades humanoid robot to SERVE BEER
Asimo gets voice, face recognition too
08 Nov 12:29 | 20
Personal Tech
Huawei brings Android tablet to Blighty
Fresh smartphone too
08 Nov 12:35 | 1
Security
EU advisors: Tighter web privacy will stamp out bullies
Sensitive info leaking to tormentors and paedos – report
08 Nov 12:41 | 6
Bootnotes
New plastic telescope ammo machine gun is light as a rifle
Every soldier could get heavy-weapons firepower in future
08 Nov 12:52 | 66
Security
The Register Guide on how to stay anonymous (part 2)
The Evercookie: Like trying to kill Steven Seagal
08 Nov 13:03 | 52
Security
Anonymous blasts El Salvador offline
Ay, caramba!
08 Nov 13:13 | 3
Open ... And Shut
Red Hat finds its feet in cloud gold rush
Hang on, lads, I've got a great idea
08 Nov 13:23 |
Science
New pics of giant black sphere hurtling toward Earth
Vast spaceball 'safely will safely fly past' - NASA
08 Nov 13:32 | 81
Bootnotes
Feds warn 'pox party' zealots not to send viruses in post
Poxy spit safer than 'live' vaccine say refuseniks
08 Nov 13:41 | 29
Legal
Theresa May won't quit job over UK Border Agency fiasco
Home Secretary still standing despite relaxed checks row
08 Nov 13:47 | 22
Personal Tech
HTC prepares quad-core smartphone for 2012
Beastly blower bad for battery?
08 Nov 13:48 | 39
Security
UK firm slammed for flogging spy software to Iran
Lord fingers biz with Foreign Secretary links
08 Nov 13:58 | 14
Legal
Report: World digital music sales to soar £250m
CD and LP sales flag, but discs beat downloads
08 Nov 14:19 | 5
Security
Boffins: Punters can't get a grip on online privacy tools
Config and confusion issues make anti-tracking kit useless
08 Nov 14:39 | 4
Security
Elite DARPA cyber heroes will protect interwebs
'We invented it, we'll save it'
08 Nov 15:01 | 8
Channel
Ultrabooks will rescue PC industry – beancounters
But only if prices fall below the $1,000 bracket
08 Nov 15:21 | 10
Channel
Barclays knocks RIM shares down a peg
BlackBerry crumbles in the eyes of investors
08 Nov 15:39 | 5
Legal
Upcoming EU data law will make Europe tricky for Facebook
Must gain explicit consent to use your data
08 Nov 15:45 | 25
Channel
Dealer bosses jailed for flogging fake Cisco kit
Networking's not working for them now
08 Nov 16:01 | 6
Legal
Secret US 'Jedi' ghost-copters kept out of bin Laden raid
Downed Stealth Hawk was actually second-rate kit
08 Nov 16:19 | 45
Personal Tech
Ryanair ponders in-air mucky movie service
Boogie flights
08 Nov 16:23 | 51
Science
Boffins give chatty robots a creepy human face
Face/on
08 Nov 16:39 | 14
Security
Hackers can spring Death Row crims from cells
Researchers prove SCADA jailbreak risk
08 Nov 17:03 | 22
Personal Tech
Only Samsung will challenge Apple's iPad in 2012
Single-figure market shares for the rest
08 Nov 17:11 | 10
Channel
Flood-hit HDD parts supplier resumes production
Motor maker Nidec re-opens two factories
08 Nov 17:29 | 3
Science
NASA deep-space ship gets 2014 unmanned test flight
'We're still going to the Moon, not listening to Obama'
08 Nov 17:50 | 17
SC11
Intel stretches HPC dev tools across chubby clusters
Cluster Studio XE ready for MICs, not for GPUs
08 Nov 18:21 |
Personal Tech
Consumer Reports: iPhone 4S antenna doesn't suck
Antennagate closed
08 Nov 19:50 | 10
On-Prem
Optus latest to reveal fibre service pricing
Oz number two carrier also testing service aggregation
08 Nov 20:00 |
Software
Mozilla updates to Firefox 8, disables add-ons
New browser adds Twitter search for desktops
08 Nov 20:15 | 76
Security
Advertiser settles charges for use of Adobe Flash cookies
Makes it easier to stop online tracking
08 Nov 20:18 | 5
On-Prem
Telstra targets SMEs in next cloud push
‘Small’ means you have a spare hundred a month or more
08 Nov 21:30 | 5
Science
Russian Mars mission launches after multi-year delays
Phobos-Grunt scheduled to head to Mars later today
08 Nov 21:44 | 22
Security
US Supremes liken GPS tracking to 1984's Big Brother
24/7 surveillance, no warrant needed (maybe)
08 Nov 22:01 | 21
On-Prem
Dymocks dances with Google
Adds frequent reader points programme
08 Nov 22:30 |
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