17th November 2011 Archive • The Register

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Swearing doesn’t help pain if you do it too much

That’s a nice theory f**ked, then

17 Nov 00:01 | 35

Rambus tumbles in antitrust reversal

Micron and Hynix win Calif. court case

17 Nov 01:06 | 13

Google opens Android music store in iTunes' face

Artists can sell direct just like developers

17 Nov 01:18 | 50

China outsourcer creates Melbourne jobs

VanceInfo taps into Vic IT funding

17 Nov 01:30 | 2

New openSUSE heads for cloud, virtual markets

Google’s Go gets a groupie

17 Nov 02:22 | 1

HTC wrestles with smutty outfit rival over new handset

Vivid tries to heave Asian opponent into legal Jell-O

17 Nov 09:10 | 9

Over 250 suppliers dash to snatch up G Cloud tender

'We really want to do this but we're still learning'

17 Nov 09:11 | 1

Sony Bravia KDL-55HX923 55in LED 3D TV

Viewing it large

17 Nov 09:15 | 10

Make it easy for biz to report cyber robberies, say MPs

Backdoor broken into? Why not call ... the police!

17 Nov 09:23 | 6

Fedora 16: A GNOME lover's paradise

Verne triumphs over rough edges

17 Nov 09:40 | 37

Implementing, serving, and using cloud storage

The SNIA's great introduction to cloud storage

Survey: UK biz is using more encryption

But users still shove unprotected USB sticks in holes...

17 Nov 10:09 | 4

EU puts Hitachi GST on the menu for hungry WD

Takeover will create world's biggest disk drive maker

Galaxy Tab case tweaked to evade Germany ban

Will injunction-busting bezel work?

17 Nov 10:31 | 45

Telcos snub UK.gov broadband cash pot

Duct, pole sharing plan 'hampered' by BT

17 Nov 10:45 | 17

Caringo predicts stiffer penetration of big data boxes

Pokes stuffed filers with hockey stick growth

17 Nov 10:52 | 1

Think your CV is crap? Your interview skills are worse

Really, why do you even bother...

17 Nov 11:00 | 187

iOS App of the Week

Coach's Eye

Play like the pros

Release the brakes on your virtual servers

Step up the pace

17 Nov 11:11 | 3

New human-brain chip can be adjusted for cannabis effect

Hey, chip for brains!

17 Nov 11:23 | 28

Punters lose backups in cloud storage biz spat

Data evaporates in credit card payments row

17 Nov 11:31 | 23

Obama says his birthplace is 'in Asia'

Presidential whoopsie liable to fuel 'birther' tomfoolishness

17 Nov 11:42 | 72

Taiwan source forecasts mass exit from tablet biz

Amazon, Apple only players by 2013. Apparently

17 Nov 11:44 | 10

Orange revisits San Francisco with another budget blower

California beaming

17 Nov 11:44 | 7

Ubuntu loses HP cloud crown status

'Others' might be offended

17 Nov 11:51 | 6

Product Round-up

Ten... remastered videogame classics

Old favorites get a facelift

17 Nov 12:00 | 68

UK Treasury flogs Northern Rock to flirty Virgin

Nationalised bank offloaded in £747m cash deal

17 Nov 12:12 | 20

£1m 'Nobel prize of engineering' named after the Queen

Blighty plc looks to inject some glory into technology

17 Nov 12:21 | 33

McKinnon might get UK hacking trial after all

Extradition review not binding, says attorney general

17 Nov 12:32 | 24

Boffin bothers frogs until they spill super power secrets

What makes them leap so far?

17 Nov 12:42 | 12

Jilted man swaps engagement ring for Halo suit

Aisle be the Master Chief

17 Nov 12:43 | 19

US general: 'We're cleared to cyber-bomb enemy hackers'

Curiously, his command website went down after he said it

17 Nov 12:51 | 12

Open-source Java: Part Two

Java's 'Steve Jobs' moment in 2012?

OpenJDK: Right ideas, wrong timing

17 Nov 13:00 | 20

IPO: Should stand for Intellectual Property Obliteration

Sir Humphrey's onslaught on creators' rights

Samsung confirms Android 4.0 update for Galaxy S II

Ice Cream Sarnie taster

17 Nov 13:15 | 1

No charge after woman gave fellow prisoner a cop-car BJ

No need to be down in the mouth after Texas drugs arrest

17 Nov 13:24 | 16

Oops: Public backs web blocking in Google-funded poll

Can we elect a new population?

PETA claims anti-Mario campaign was a joke

You think we're over-reacting?

17 Nov 13:34 | 27

Romanian authorities cuff NASA hack suspect

The Iceman cometh

17 Nov 13:42 | 6

Swedish college girls now twice as slutty as in 2001

... but use fewer condoms: 'worrying research'

17 Nov 13:54 | 63

Muvizu animation suite

Unreal 3D modelling without the boring bits

17 Nov 14:00 | 5

Apple plugs iTunes Ghost Click hole

Another 120MB security update... fantastic

17 Nov 14:12 | 10

Boring BOFHs want cash prize more than space flight

DBAs would prefer to boldly go to their bank

17 Nov 14:22 | 31

China decrees in-flight cellphone calls are safe

你好，我是在飞机上*

17 Nov 14:33 | 24

Ice Cream Sandwich phone a no-show on Vodafone

Carrier still 'testing' Android 4.0 Samsung Galaxy Nexus

17 Nov 14:42 | 12

Earning cash not a priority for new Foursquare rival

Upstart startup touts trendy nights-out app

17 Nov 14:47 | 4

Boffins build bionic battery

Ten times' Li-ion capacity, charges in a tenth of the time

17 Nov 14:54 | 36

One in six Americans used social web to get their job

Going on Facebook to find work, not avoid it

17 Nov 15:02 | 8

Oi! BBX is ours, software biz tells RIM

BlackBerry maker sued over OS name

17 Nov 15:16 | 4

Banks bung hard-up Acer £315m loan

Five-year deal to get back on its feet

17 Nov 15:32 | 3

Supercomputer Watson too thick to use Siri

We're still smarter than computers, phew

17 Nov 15:43 | 8

First private-sector space station docking delayed

Elon Musk's Dragon not yet ready for mating

17 Nov 16:00 | 15

Nvidia's Maximus: Hard-core 3D graphics on speed

Quadro-Tesla mashup for animation acceleration

17 Nov 16:01 | 3

US nuclear aircraft carrier George Bush crippled by toilet outages

Sailors drenched as bottles of piss emptied into wind

17 Nov 16:22 | 86

Russians Bear Down at SCC11

Will LINPACK win fuel overall triumph?

Purdue Rolls the Dice

Strategy and final SCC11 thoughts

Costa Rica Cluster Finale

Rainforest Eagles compete to finish

Buffalo's in the Hunt?

Final SCC11 Colorado ramblings

SCC11: Home Stretch

Team China preps for finish

Team Boston Crunch Time

AOL AIM boss legs it from yet another web biz

Peanut! butter! man! joined! from! Yahoo!

LinkedIn dumped by biggest sugar daddy

Shares flogged to raise $90m

17 Nov 16:51 | 6

Couple rewarded for naming newborn after Elder Scrolls Skyrim hero

Games for life, baby

17 Nov 16:57 | 20

Visa's amazing answer to e-wallet domination: A new logo

Take that, PayPal

17 Nov 17:08 | 20

China spacecraft masters the art of docking

Shenzhou-8 lands safely in Mongolia after coupling with space lab twice

17 Nov 17:26 | 14

NetApp, Wall St is very disappointed in you

Two uninspiring quarters

17 Nov 18:02 | 2

Big guns turn sights on cancer-causing genes

Backup is a lifesaver

17 Nov 18:18 | 4

Crooks make it rain by seeding cloud with zombies

Your compute resources rented out

17 Nov 18:20 | 9

Tech firms jostle for position in LTE market

Ericsson and Alcatel Lucent lead, Huawei sneaking up behind

17 Nov 18:24 | 1

SCC11: The Marathon Begins

46 hour grind starts grinding

17 Nov 19:22 | 3

Open source team creates apocalypse survival kit

DIY handbook for 50 top civilization-saving tools

17 Nov 20:03 | 50

New Asia Pac cable launched for bandwidth express

Links Philippines to Japan, HK, Singapore

17 Nov 21:44 | 1

Phishers net Norwegian secrets

E-mail trojans sweep hard drives

Water utility hackers destroy pump, expert says

SCADA breach 'a really big deal'

17 Nov 22:03 | 67

Amazon prepping cheap-as-dirt smartphone?

Kindle Fire, meet Kindle Fone

17 Nov 22:17 | 16

'Grow up': Assange's mother to Obama-struck Oz

Parliament House protest during 'Au-bama' frenzy

17 Nov 22:30 | 12

Have everything. Own nothing. Learn the difference

ReDigi and the RIAA

17 Nov 23:00 | 34

IBM reveals secrets of Watson’s Jeopardy triumph

Too many rules can spoil the ~~bouillon~~ ~~bisque~~ broth

17 Nov 23:23 | 13

AGIMO outlines Oz government cloud rules

Wraps a net around the fluff

17 Nov 23:30 | 1

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