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Connectivity issues
Full trading has yet to restart on the London Stock Exchange after computer problems this morning forced it to suspend dealing.…
Microhoo! chances 'negligible'
Yahoo!'s share price dipped to $17.75 on Thursday, hitting its lowest point since October 2003.…
Shares fall sharply on falling market share
Nokia has signalled an end to its uninterrupted growth, predicting that its market share would shrink, slightly, during the current quarter - though it will of course still increase over the whole year.…
Checking out 'various opportunities'
The flash memory market is abuzz as Korean news sources, along with Reuters and Bloomberg, are reporting that Samsung Electronics is thinking about buying SanDisk.…
So the survey says
An IT administrator scorned is not to be trusted, according to a study recently conducted by Cyber-Ark.…
UK.gov promises legal explanation for secret trials this month
After its share price slumped to a new low, Phorm today sought to allay investor fears about the ISP-level adware business by repeating assurances that a critical third trial with BT will go ahead.…
The missing Softwar tapes
A federal judge has upbraided Oracle CEO Larry Ellison for withholding evidence in a class-action suit brought by company stockholders.…
See-through acquisition
Oracle has bought SOA (Service-Oriented Architecture) business software maker ClearApp for an undisclosed sum.…
Captain declines to go down with ship
The founder of NebuAd, the company best described as the US version of Phorm, has quit as its CEO.…
'Perfect ad' be damned
Nowadays, even Google is questioning Google's rose-colored portrait of its ever-expanding search advertising monopoly.…
Crazy case contains printer, laptop stand, power
Travelling salespeople have a hard time, often working from their car, without enough space for laptop, let alone use of a printer. But now all their problems have been solved - with one suitcase.…
Will share its toys with Microsoft?
Microsoft will soon have an extra $20m in the bank and new business partner now that it's settled a long running legal spat with vibration-feedback firm Immersion.…
More speculation, not less, is the key
We all know what to do about this subprime mess, the credit-crisis final-end-of-capitalism farrago, don't we? Hang the bankers, hang them high, banish greed and stupidity from the human soul, bring in a very real change to our mass, crass, consumerism and usher in a society free from the shackles of late stage fiancierism? OK, not everyone quite approaches this in the manner of Dave Spart, but there's any number insisting that this burp from the maw of capitalism is proof perfect that we must abandon the very concept.…
Fingerprints, iris scans sprayed to all comers
An exhibition designed to show off the whizzy high-tech futurescape of biometric identity has succumbed to a bout of very contemporary gremlins, by emailing dozens of fingerprints and iris scans to the wrong people.…
Bad Day at Round Rock
Dell posted a surprise 17 per cent drop in profits for its fiscal second quarter, even though its revenues handily beat Wall Street estimates.…
What else can you give California's richest man?
The richest boss in tech just got a little bit richer, and this time it's not his customers squeaking.…
Market share up
Acer increased sales in the first half of 2008 by 31 per cent to $8.14bn.…
BT insists orders will be delivered
Online retailer Dabs.com has told customers to hang fire for a few days while orders due to be delivered by Amtrak are reassigned to another courier.…
Bad weather, Olympics, leaves on line credit crunch blamed
Ticket sales at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe were down ten per cent this year, in part because of the technical failure of its box office system.…
Offshoring blamed for cash bonanaza
The IT skills shortage in the UK is being made worse by the routine offshoring of entry-level tech jobs.…
The Reg Readers have spoken
Tech Panel The results of our Security Poll are in, and like medal-toting 'Team GB', they show that being game counts a lot. The entire report is now available for consumption over in our whitepaper library - grab your very own copy today.…
Blackberry v iPhone v Windows Mobile
It used to be pretty simple. If you were a large organisation with a hard-core mobile email requirement, the only serious option from a security, robustness, manageability, usability and ease of deployment perspective was Blackberry. If you had a need to develop custom applications, then provided you were happy to construct your own middleware and management stack, then Windows Mobile was the accepted way forward.…
Goodbye Mom and Pop
Online tat bazaar eBay is changing how it charges to encourage more fixed price sales instead of auctions.…
Tragedy of errors
The software outfit behind the chaotic implementation of the Edinburgh Festival Fringe’s box office system has gone titsup.…
50 per cent Q2 growth won't cut it
Software as a service poster-child Salesforce.com today dished out second quarter results that showed a massive rise in revenue, which did absolutely nothing to impress investors.…
Computers and currency do their thing
In a world of financial doom and gloom, sales of PCs are offering a glimmer of light. Don't believe us? Just look at Hewlett-Packard, which on Tuesday reported a third-quarter profit that beat Wall Street expectations and forecast healthy sales in the current period.…
.ohdear
Network Solutions - the company that resells top level domains like .com and .net - seems to have misplaced its own website.…
Recession, recession, recession
Finance professionals’ confidence in the IT sector is slipping as UK businesses face the toughest trading environment since the early 1990s, according to a new report.…
Incumbency creep
Reg Tech Panel Business Process Management is not a particularly new term, but it has received a pretty big boost in visibility recently as some vendors seem to be positioning it as the next big thing in IT.…
Eat my class action...bitch
Facebook is being sued for breaking privacy and wire-tapping laws by introducing Facebook Beacon - the ad service which tracked what you did on other websites.…
Bazillionaire waves 55 million shares
Following through on its pact with Wall Street kingpin Carl Icahn, Yahoo! said today that two Icahn pals have been added to its board of directors.…
Settles Jobs backdating case
The former top lawyer at Apple has agreed to pay $2.2m to settle federal charges she illegally cooked the company's financial books to conceal backdated stock options issued to CEO Steve Jobs and other top executives.…
Halifax doesn't need a little extra help after all
Halifax Bank of Scotland (HBOS) is slashing around 100 IT jobs as part of a cost-cutting exercise aimed at reducing duplication between mortgage brands.…
Restructure hits bottom line
Restructuring charges battered Logica's first half profits despite first half revenues growing by six per cent, figures released today show.…
Blighty staff worry if they'll ever meet HP
Updated EDS has more than doubled the pool of workers pinpointed for possible voluntary redundancies in the UK, The Register has learned.…
Cultivated surge planned
NetApp's earnings climbed 11 per cent during its fiscal first quarter 2009, but margins were thin due to growing interest in low-end storage and an investment "surge" that the company expects to pay off in the second half of the year.…
User generated discontent
When it debuted in July of 2004, Yelp reinvented the notion of online city guides, giving "real people" the power to write "real reviews." For many, it represents the best of something called Web 2.0, a site built by you and me and everyone else. But in its struggle to turn clicks into cash, the San Francisco startup has been known to hedge this egalitarian ideal, playing games with the very concept that made it so popular.…
Tat seller wins rights to tat
A court in Belgium has thrown out a complaint by L'Oreal that eBay was not doing enough to combat sales of fake versions of the cosmetics giant's products on its site.…
Election crowd pleasing = higher pump prices?
There's something about the oil business that turns even intelligent people into frothmouthed loons: they're raping the planet, shafting Joe Sixpack or, from the other side, insisting that the drill in every back yard is the very definition of America. I realise that in the middle of an election that the small still voice of reason isn't going to get much airplay but let's give it the old school try anyway.…
Distress grounds for additional compensation
Delays, rudeness and poor claims handling are grounds for ordering financial services firms to compensate customers, the Financial Ombudsman Service (FOS) has said. Payments can be ordered in addition to other remedies.…
Disappointing disaster
Last month, Nvidia promised to bomb its second quarter. Today, the company delivered on those promises in smashing fashion.…
Bringing down the house
Edinburgh Fringe organisers will wait until after the last acts have packed up and gone home before picking over the bones of its box office system fiasco.…
Don't they teach BCC at PR school?
We've almost got bored of stories about people sending emails to lots of subscribers without using the BCC field, but not when the mail is sent to 20,000 people.…
Investors bearish on Napster sales
Napster continues to bumble along as one of those curious technology oddities haunting the NASDAQ exchange.…
Overstock CEO demands naked shorting mea culpa
We spoke too soon. The web's longest running farce is alive and well.…
Joke system leaves promoters baying for blood
Officials at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe are to launch an independent inquiry into the failure of its box office system.…
Says Saas bucking market
MessageLabs, the utility messaging service, said it is ready for an IPO if and when market conditions improve.…
But industry still begging for science skills
Employers expect a dismal time ahead in the jobs market because of a rise in redundancies accompanied by a downturn in recruitment.…
We need your help to get to the meat
Reg Technology Panel One of the rapidly evolving solution areas in the IT industry is what vendors and analysts refer to as 'Business Process Management', or BPM for short. The premise behind BPM is that operational processes in many organisations cut across departmental and system boundaries, are based on a lot of manual processing, and often don’t work that well because of the resulting fragmentation and inconsistency.…
Contract talks stalled
Mega American telco Verizon Communications is just three days from a possible union strike that would see the company lose 65,000 employees - about a third of its workforce.…