11th April 2012 Archive • The Register

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Unexpected nanotube heat transfer suggests new way to cool processors

Spooky action at a (small) distance

11 Apr 00:01 | 10

SpaceX taps Texas for 'commercial Cape Canaveral' site

Hang in there for the tedious environmental review, Mr. Musk

11 Apr 00:19 | 12

Massive organ blown with Kinect

Melbourne Town Hall's instrument gets hands-free performance

11 Apr 00:49 | 10

NBNCo sets up contact centre on the Gold Coast

130 new jobs for GC

11 Apr 01:36 | 1

Julian Assange™ telemovie coming to Oz TV

Portrait of the artist as a young hacker

11 Apr 02:00 | 19

Wavii aims to transform news delivery with social data

Machine learning used to guess headlines of interest

11 Apr 04:01 | 4

IBM gets flexible with converged Power, x86 system

Cloudy server, storage, networking, and software mashup

11 Apr 04:22 | 15

Chinese app stores host malicious apps

Government scolds carriers for poor security efforts

11 Apr 04:39 | 1

Trojans target pro-Tibet organisations

Gh0st RAT implicated again in attacks targeting Mac and Windows systems

11 Apr 05:10 | 1

MS Office coming for Symbian

Dying platform gets more productive

11 Apr 05:31 | 31

The Hardware Hacker's Guide to Home Automation

Doctorin' the house

11 Apr 06:00 | 52

Crowdfunding, startup fever, come to Indonesia

Kickstarter clones sprout, hope for better payment technologies

Android spanking iOS in world's BIGGEST mobile market

Google OS wins up to 70 per cent of China's mobile market

11 Apr 06:37 | 78

'As seen on TV' claims can't be made about unbranded props

Ad body: Cannot refer to appearance in paid-for ad either...

11 Apr 07:02 | 44

NHS farms out £125m deal for hardware, medical tech

Health service sets out tender for X-ray kit, laptops and more

11 Apr 08:03 | 2

LOHAN lifts lid on revised mission summary

Where we are with our audacious spaceplane plan

11 Apr 08:32 | 30

Too small to fail: Obama signs Nontrepreneurs Act

Accountability, disclosure rules relaxed for webtastic startups

11 Apr 08:59 | 23

New ZeuS-based Trojan leeches cash from cloud-based payrolls

Adds phishing mules to employee roster

11 Apr 09:39 | 6

DARPA boffins seek Terminator-style disaster-zone rescue robot

Car-driving, tool-using tsunami-surviving android needed

11 Apr 09:57 | 27

Apple to maintain tablet lead over Android

RIM, Microsoft elbow in as rivals fight

11 Apr 10:08 | 12

Kelway gulps down Microsoft reseller, plots march on Europe

Irish BSS embiggens swollen belly of serial UK acquirer

Microsoft seals up Windows zero-day flaw in April Patch Tuesday

Kill Bit for every MS boy and girl

11 Apr 10:28 | 7

Yahoo! pleads! for! ad! juice! as! products! guru! exits!

CEO tells staff it's time for YET ANOTHER makeover

11 Apr 10:43 | 5

Antique Code Show

Jazz Jackrabbit

11 Apr 11:00 | 17

Speaking in Tech: Is Instagram really worth $1 BILLION?

Bubble 2.0 ready to burst, plus: Cloud wars, sucky mobe apps

11 Apr 11:14 | 15

Hardware hacker knocks up own Google AR glasses

Smashing Project Glass attempt

11 Apr 11:20 | 6

AOL investor: $1bn Microsoft patent deal not good enough

Selling IP to Redmond – good. Not giving us the cash – bad

11 Apr 11:28 | 12

Samsung sales-floor rejig leads to layoffs in B2B push

Names Graham Long veep of corporate and channel sales

11 Apr 11:47 | 2

Vintage alien tech crash-lands in field

Reg reader in Staffordshire Nazca lines shocker

11 Apr 12:01 | 31

Dream:ON iPhone app-maker seeks sleepy fanbois for testing

You won't feel a thing...

11 Apr 12:18 | 13

Nokia drops Lumia 900 price to $0 in response to bug outrage

Hey, no mobile data - it's a feature not a <arrgh>

11 Apr 12:29 | 86

DoJ could start Apple ebook price-fixing lawsuit this week

US Justice Dept gears up to throw sueball

11 Apr 12:37 | 28

iPad to reign unchallenged as KING of FONDLESLABS

Moses would have used Apple tablets

11 Apr 12:47 | 38

MPs: Border Agency's own staff don't trust airport-scanner tech

Bioscanning e-Gates and £9.1m IRIS cash splurge were big mistakes – report

11 Apr 13:02 | 52

Spotify adds web button: Just push... Play

Like SoundCloud, but with added ColdPlay

11 Apr 13:32 | 5

Nokia shares fall as it drops first quarter forecast

Finnish phone firm didn't get off to a good start this year...

11 Apr 13:57 | 47

Leisure Suit Larry set for second coming

Antique code growth

11 Apr 14:40 | 14

Employers' group: New comp sci GCSE driven by vendor agenda

Prepare 'em for life, not Microsoft MCSE

11 Apr 15:02 | 20

Hands on with the Huawei Ascend G300 low-cost Android phone

Budget blower packs a punch

11 Apr 15:07 | 27

Malware-infected flash cards shipped out with HP switches

Vendor fields ProCurveBall

11 Apr 15:26 | 19

BT fattens fibre customer pipes for free - with a contract extension

Requires commitment before coming across

11 Apr 15:42 | 40

Apple trails behind world+Microsoft in 'Flashback' malware debacle

Finally pulls head from sand, pledges patch

11 Apr 15:56 | 37

How Apple revived publisher-set pricing and got sued for it

But DRM got off, scot-free

11 Apr 16:09 | 5

170m people 'upgrade' to Google+, but how many stick around?

Major UI revamp leaves us with more questions than answers

11 Apr 16:17 | 41

SGI storage gets a head transplant

ZFS-based Nexenta NAS head

11 Apr 16:37 | 2

Citrix chomps Podio for cloudy workspaces

GoTo heavenly project management

Judge: Checking Facebook at work is not a crime

'Sometimes we use computers for ... play'

11 Apr 17:17 | 28

US sues Apple, publishers over ebook pricing strategy

Alleges conspiracy to fix prices and stick it to Amazon

11 Apr 17:38 | 41

WD pushes out super-slim shock-resistant Ultrabook drive

11 Apr 18:01 | 10

US Trade Rep criticises tech trade barriers in Oz, NZ

Wary of telecoms, cloud, patent and copyright rules

11 Apr 22:41 | 16

German scientists link two labs with ‘universal quantum network’

Communicating with entangled distant atoms

11 Apr 23:48 | 63

SAP flashes cash to pump up HANA biz

In-pocket database, in-face Larry

11 Apr 23:55 | 7

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