16th November 2011 Archive • The Register

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Windows 8 aims to make security updates less painful

Fewer restarts, less desktop clutter

16 Nov 00:35 | 62

Hot Intel teraflops MIC coprocessor action in a hotel

Sweet nothings whispered about Xeon E5 performance

16 Nov 02:04 | 3

Microsoft moving embedded systems to Windows 8

Win 8 for smart devices, CE for dumb ones

16 Nov 02:07 | 20

Confirmed: Animal Logic will animate Lego

$AU48 million worth of CGI

Sony HMZ-T1 3D head mounted display

Strap-on movies for your pleasure

16 Nov 07:00 | 54

Fourteenth century timekeeper turns up in Queensland

What was a bit of brass to a child is a lot of brass to Bonhams

16 Nov 07:45 | 10

Bishop to bless road salt supplies for added winter safety

'The hoarfrost also as salt the LORD poureth on the earth'

16 Nov 08:03 | 51

Xio Storage CEO on his 290-mile commute

Leaders have to be smelled, not just heard

16 Nov 08:21 | 2

London councils to spunk £25m on SAP deal

Sadistic demand to model it on 'typical local gov'

16 Nov 08:39 | 16

Cable broadband making more money than cable telly

Easier piping stuff than providing it, says Virgin Media

16 Nov 08:58 | 14

Samsung pulls Galaxy Tab Android 3.2 update

Wi-Fi only tablet loses... Wi-Fi

16 Nov 08:59 | 11

Fusion plays its card: The Ten of Terabytes

Single PCIe card could hold ~~ALL~~ MUCH KNOWLEDGE

16 Nov 09:12 | 4

Nokia exec confirms 2012 Windows 8 tablet release

Firm wants to be the BMW of smartphones

16 Nov 09:27 | 10

Bagged salad contained decomposed AVIAN CORPSE

Bloke failed to notice, served it to missus anyway

16 Nov 09:31 | 49

Call off the hunt! Ex-Xio sales boss found in flash biz

Start-up SolidFire lures Glasgow

HP unwraps Ultrabook

Biz-centric box for the curve-averse

16 Nov 09:50 | 18

New 'nauts move into International Space Station

Russian rocket delivers them intact

16 Nov 09:59 | 3

UK broadband speeds crippled during 'rush hour'

Too much traffic on the line

16 Nov 10:11 | 45

NFC in a SIM: They might just have done it

Inside Secure demonstrates NFC in every phone

16 Nov 10:21 | 4

Time to dig out the CV: NASA 'naut applications now open

Got a PhD? Pilot licence? American? Apply within

16 Nov 10:31 | 9

Five... great network games for iOS

Unreal tournaments

16 Nov 10:35 | 7

Apple elects new chairman, cosies up to Mickey Mouse

Levinson hoisted, Disney CEO jumps on board

16 Nov 10:41 | 2

Too rude for the road: DVLA hot list of banned numberplates

What idiot would buy PE12 VRT anyway?

16 Nov 10:50 | 143

Reg man the most-flamed recruiter in the UK?

Dom Connor IS 'the unemployment problem', readers declare

16 Nov 11:00 | 102

Thai floods pour cold water on Dell's stiff growth

Enterprise, beam us up!

HP revamps Envy laptop line

New look, more power

16 Nov 11:15 | 4

Drama as Thai frogmen struggle to save world PC market

Elite navy divers sent in to salvage flood-hit disk fabs

16 Nov 11:19 | 19

Sunderland hires IBM to build cloud infrastructure

Part of its 'economic masterplan' for digital domination

16 Nov 11:29 | 7

Sony to target Sky, Virgin with net telly channel

16 Nov 11:30 | 2

Official: Facebook filth flood nowt to do with Fawkes virus

Ordinary indecent criminals

16 Nov 11:41 | 6

US stealth bombers finally get nuke-nobbling super bomb

15-ton steel pencil ready to spike underground factories

16 Nov 11:51 | 88

Stripper nicked for 'nicking knickers' with kids in tow

'I can't believe this is happening ... again'

16 Nov 12:02 | 33

Gov justifies e-petitions as MPs mull upping debate threshold

100,000 online votes too small a barrier to cross

16 Nov 12:11 | 18

Acer Aspire S3 Core i7 Ultrabook

First among equals?

16 Nov 12:16 | 18

Japanese telco to splurge £2bn a year on LTE

NTT Docomo to roll out network and mobiles by 2015

TalkTalk gears up to 2012 YouView roll-out

Test in Q1, launch in the Spring

16 Nov 12:24 | 3

Chinese boffin uses panda poo for world's priciest cuppa

Mmm, a truly extinctive aroma....

16 Nov 12:31 | 20

Two bosses axed in Azlan makeover

Enterprise distie cuddles up to vendors

Jobs mulled building own mobile network for iPhones

World's most famous control freak wanted to bypass telcos

16 Nov 12:39 | 38

Proposed US piracy legislation labelled draconian by Schmidt

'Laws hit our bottom line! And besides, it's censorship'...

16 Nov 12:51 | 22

The Register Guide on how to stay anonymous (part 3)

Browser privacy at work

16 Nov 13:00 | 43

Goldman Sachs slapped over iPad price-cut call

Investment banker talking 'absolute nonsense'

16 Nov 13:21 | 15

New iPhone and Android mobes secure enough for spooks

Platforms to get some serious security packages to rival BlackBerry

16 Nov 13:32 | 5

Mozilla stirs netizens against US anti-piracy law

Dancing cats take-down threat

16 Nov 13:41 | 15

Data Protection Directive revamp: UK looking sidelined?

Economic protectionism could mean more than privacy

16 Nov 13:49 | 4

Equipping pre-teens with web mobes spreads beyond West

Four in five eight-year-olds tote mobiles in Cairo

16 Nov 14:01 | 8

Avere destroys NetApp benchmark after just 13 DAYS

Rival plots SPECsfs2008 payback

16 Nov 14:14 | 3

IPhone overtakes BlackBerry in the corporate world

Mobile workers would be 'distraught' without handsets

16 Nov 14:23 | 17

BT, Fujitsu in final pole dance rehearsals

Pair get ducts in a row for infrastructure sharing

16 Nov 14:31 | 1

Object storage suppliers: We want your big data

Claim to be fast and cheap

16 Nov 14:41 | 3

Facebook says it's winning against Justin Bieber smut onslaught

Scrubs punters' walls clean of bogus celeb porn

16 Nov 14:51 | 26

SCC11: LINPACK results released

Shocker in Seattle, Longshot comes through

16 Nov 14:52 | 1

Army raygun to boost power with starlight de-twinkling tech

Cool astronomer tool to make laser blasts extra hot

16 Nov 15:07 | 33

Boffins reckon Mars quite blustery actually

Shifting sand dunes caused by wind, not carbon dioxide frost

16 Nov 15:21 | 12

Just trolling: It's OK to poke fun at Christians, says ASA

Film ad claimed monsters can smell God botherer blood

16 Nov 15:44 | 87

Star Wars 3D holo displays becomes a reality

Obi-Wan Kenobi, you're my only hope

16 Nov 15:55 | 38

Brandjacked Google+ page slings insults at Bank of America

Who really occupies identity street?

16 Nov 16:01 | 9

Boffins discover prehistoric moth's dayglo green warning

You eat me, I'll kill you...

16 Nov 16:19 | 7

Politicians call for Modern Warfare 3 censure

Will no one think of the children (who shouldn't be playing it anyway)?

16 Nov 16:36 | 78

Open... and Shut

Cloud's new rules promise old-school satisfaction

Common ground for IT groups

16 Nov 16:41 | 1

Bethesda promises fix for Skyrim Xbox graphics glitch

Multi-platform patches coming

16 Nov 17:06 | 23

Sharon Stone greets returning US troops ... with a web vid

Not the most welcoming she's ever looked on screen

16 Nov 17:19 | 5

Huge potentially inhabited water lake found on Jupiter moon

Europa ice-cap now best known prospect for alien life

16 Nov 18:00 | 37

Facebook vows 'consequences' for extreme porn scammers

Responsible parties already identified

16 Nov 18:52 | 11

Google 'obstructed' Senate hearing on copyright

See no evil, do no evil

Amazon's new Kindle Fire stripped naked

Divining the entrails of the low-cost iPad competitor

16 Nov 19:03 | 39

Virtualisation: just a lot of extra software licences?

Counting the cost

16 Nov 19:31 | 29

Microsoft takes fight to Google over cloud apps defections

Redmond strike team offering big bounties and more

16 Nov 20:27 | 31

Oz cloud outfit wins angel backers

Baxter and Bell take on the cloud

IBM pushes BlueGene/Q to 100 petaflops

Weather boffins buy Power 775 super nodes

16 Nov 21:57 | 2

BIND security update protects against serious server crash

Attacks may already be underway

16 Nov 22:17 | 5

Primus joins AGIMO panel

Selected for Melb data hosting digs

Too many cooks spoil the data warehouse broth

Cut your staffing costs

16 Nov 23:00 | 7

Kindle Fire gets root access

Bug, feature, or ‘don’t really care’?

16 Nov 23:00 | 33

Amazon gooses HPC cloud with Xeon E5s

Passes the Linpack speed test

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