27th November 2012 Archive • The Register

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US & EU celebrate 'Cyber Monday' by seizing 132 websites

Counterfeit-goods sting nets transatlantic miscreants

27 Nov 00:09 | 12

‘Anonymous’ takes down Texan RFID-tracking school

Hacktivists toying with school district’s site

27 Nov 00:32 | 56

Visual Studio 2012 Update 1 arrives, first of many

Rapid releases planned to fix bugs, add features

27 Nov 01:04 | 18

Samsung suppliers broke labour laws, but didn't hire kids

Unveils long list of new policies to stop abuses

27 Nov 05:37 | 11

Network giants want software-defined network standards

Virtual networks coming to mobile and metro networks … and beyond!

27 Nov 05:39 | 2

Outsourcing fingered as UBS cops £30m fine

Rogue trader should have been spotted in outsourced report

27 Nov 05:42 | 19

Man facing rare refusal-to-unlock-encryption charge: Court date set

Accused of DDoS attacks against police, Oxbridge websites

27 Nov 05:58 | 89

Google plans touchscreen Chromebook for 2013 - report

Chocolate Factory has ordered 20 million own-brand devices

27 Nov 06:17 | 19

Fallen flash pioneer's CEO bets $600k it can rise again

Must be sick of watching flash newbies grab the big bucks

27 Nov 06:33 | 1

Tool time with Trevor: 'Organic' sysadmins' spice mush still pretty edible

When 'eat what's in front of you' just won't wash

27 Nov 07:00 | 13

Nokia Lumia 820 WinPho 8 review

Smaller, cheaper... nicer

27 Nov 07:30 | 90

BT.com blats small privacy bug, ignores GAPING HOLE

Allow anyone to hike your bill? Yes, that's what we call customer convenience

27 Nov 07:58 | 26

Capita cans Employee Forum a year after launch

No connection with redundancy programme closing, none at all, say sarcastic staffers

27 Nov 08:28 | 4

Eucalyptus pushes pedal to metal, turns cloud control knob up to 3.2

'Harder on the inside, softer on the outside'

27 Nov 09:03 | 2

Only Kinect: Microsoft boffins build Minority Report-style tools

Big, expensive goggles no longer compulsory for AR

27 Nov 09:22 | 26

Druva: We can do a mixture of anything you can do

Voodoo that we do quite different from that which you do

BYOD: A bigger headache for IT bosses than Windows Metro?

Your survival guide to giving users what they want

27 Nov 10:00 | 47

Peter Moore: IT consultant and Iraq hostage – Part One

Stripped, pistol whipped, cold conked, bored stiff

27 Nov 10:15 | 3

Amazon's secret UK sales figures revealed by Parliamentary probe

You guys don't buy much from us - honest

27 Nov 10:29 | 54

Harley allows Apple to use 'Lightning' brand on 'playthings'

Bikers keep rights for lace, ribbons, flowers and bows

27 Nov 10:44 | 35

Steam stats show surge in honest PC gaming

6 million concurrent users

Yahoo! email! hijack! exploit!... Yours! for! $700!

Cybercrook: It's a bargain, guys... They usually cost way more

27 Nov 10:58 | 3

ITU to EU: We don't want to control the internet... honest

But who's listening when Google says otherwise

27 Nov 11:24 | 13

Revealed: Google's manual for its unseen humans who rate the web

Technology? Yes, but also toiling home-workers

27 Nov 11:30 | 24

Bash Street bytes: Do UK schools really need the Raspberry Pi?

Does Britain really need to be a nation of coders?

27 Nov 11:49 | 149

Elon Musk envisions small town of vegetarians on Mars

Offers $500k one way tickets to 'people in their mid 40s'

27 Nov 11:55 | 117

Data cops: Facebook privacy plans must be 'modified'

We don't need your consent ... bitch

27 Nov 11:58 | 23

Second PAC-MAN orbiting SATURN: Local absence of dots explained

'Could be a whole arcade out there,' says NASA boffin

27 Nov 12:19 | 10

One in 10 Brit smartphone owners 'can't afford' to pay for apps

Beggared themselves buying iPhones, now can't find 69p

27 Nov 12:38 | 72

Video: High school kids fend off university challenge in student cluster battle

For a little bit, at least...

Power station, airport SCADA defences 'dead as a dodo'

Security bod promises to help fix holes rather than flog exploits

27 Nov 12:54 | 5

Nowhere to hide for Google users as Play is given Plus treatment

Anyone reviewing products now gets name, photo attached

27 Nov 13:07 | 68

Conmen swipe 100,000 Brits' sensitive info in UK.gov fraud bid

Cops probe database ransack, attempted Treasury raid

27 Nov 13:29 | 4

Lawsuit launched against HP following Autonomy catastrophe

Mad Leo, Whitman both named by shareholders' lawyers

27 Nov 13:44 | 4

Google parks panzers on Germany's lawn over 'link tax' plan

Geld spricht, Stier Scheiße Wanderungen

27 Nov 14:10 | 52

Bradley Manning to speak in public for first time in two years

Army private and alleged Wikileaker called as witness

27 Nov 14:24 | 82

Oracle de-cloaks JavaScript Nashorn project

JavaScript shall speak unto JVM

27 Nov 14:37 | 10

Cloud-building Fedora 18 goes into beta

OpenStack and Eucalyptus included, OpenShift on the way

27 Nov 15:00 | 2

Ten technology FAILS

Tech that might have revolutionised your life but you have now completely forgotten

27 Nov 15:02 | 242

FCC: Let Dish deploy 4G? Imagine a $1bn pile of cash ... ON FIRE

LTE in sat-phone frequencies 'will turn public asset into private windfall'

27 Nov 15:23 | 2

Nintendo shrinks Wii for Crimbo

Mini Mii for Canada

27 Nov 15:28 | 19

Ericsson sues Samsung for un-FRANDliness

Empties both barrels of patent shotgun at Koreans

27 Nov 15:54 | 17

Minnesota store CUPBOARD was full of rocks FOUND ON MOON

Apollo 11 booty shoved in drawer by National Guard

27 Nov 16:22 | 11

OS/2 a quarter century on: Why IBM lost out and how Microsoft won

Let's pile into the DeLorean to see what might have been

27 Nov 16:35 | 101

Antarctic discovery: ALIEN LIFE may be FOUND ON MOON of Jupiter

If I can make it here, I can make it anywhere - microbes

27 Nov 16:36 | 30

New iMac in shop windows FRIDAY but you'll wait to take one home

Literally-bleeding-edge deskslabs use Brit welding

27 Nov 17:07 | 7

Chevrolets to get 'Eyes Free' mode for driving with Apple Siri

Took my Chevy to the levee, my phone said it was dry

27 Nov 17:35 | 25

Apple's former retail boss spills magic beans on store strategy

Ron Jonhson on improving icommunities, transforming ilives

27 Nov 18:13 | 28

Apple granted patent for microphone silhouette

Shambolic Siri's icon blessed by hard-working USPTO drones

27 Nov 19:48 | 88

Hotel blames burglaries on hacked Onity card locks

Black Hat demo exploited in the wild

27 Nov 20:13 | 26

Red Hat takes OpenShift platform cloud private

'If you can run RHEL, you're good'

27 Nov 20:19 | 2

Melbourne IT looks to offload business units

Tough times for SME services

27 Nov 21:00 | 4

Exec responsible for Apple iOS map fiasco walks the plank

No, not that guy, another guy

27 Nov 21:40 | 48

LHC CMS yields unexpected 'new stuff'

What’s the ‘matter’? A color-glass condensate - maybe

27 Nov 22:05 | 19

Astrobioboffins seek funds to search for ALIEN HAIRSPRAY

If a planet has CFCs, it likely has intelligent life

27 Nov 23:02 | 17

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