The fat lady croons doom tune over hackintosher's corpse The long and sordid Psystar saga creaked to its anti-climactic close on Monday: the US Supreme Court has refused to hear the hackintosher's request to review an appeals court's September 2011 decision not to overturn a December 2009 permanent injunction preventing the Florida company from sell
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Array plus SW plus services platform It just sits there and rakes in money for you as users get provisioned, use the space and get billed: that's the message EMC is pushing to cloud service providers with a new VMAX bundle of array, software and services.…
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Go straight to hell Cybercrooks latched onto the release of Diablo III on Monday with a run of scams themed around the widely anticipated video game.…
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Mulch shopping trip ends in 'six bags of anti-venom' A Walmart customer required the urgent administration of "six bags of anti-venom" after a rattlesnake sank its fangs into him at a Washington state tentacle of the retail monolith.…
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Why Facebook and Amazon won't come a callin' Open ... and Shut It's possible your next startup idea will earn you $1bn, but don't count on it.…
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Profit halved in Q1 to just $60.4m Supply shortages for 28 nanometer GPUs from fab partner Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Corp adversely impacted GPU chip and coprocessor maker Nvidia once again in its most recent quarter.…
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No colour reader, though The E Ink display in Amazon's Kindles may be great for reading in bright sunshine, but it's pants on gloomy days and totally useless in the dark. But that may soon change: Amazon is said to be preparing a front-lit version of the popular e-book reader.…
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Shifting to stateless? Don't turn it into a nightmare Sysadmin blog What is required for a successful stateless desktop deployment? Planning. Every implementation will be different, and experience has taught me that there are very few hard and fast rules.…
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And those marketing costs are way down Groupon significantly reduced the amount of money it lost in the first quarter of this year, only ending up with a net loss of $11.7m compared to a loss of $146.5m in the same quarter of 2011.…
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More than $90k in tokens snatched Bitcoin exchange Bitcoinica remains offline following a hack against its systems last week that resulted in the theft of digital currency valued at approximately $90,000 (£56k).…
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Anonymous-linked hacktivists shell site for days The UK's Information Commissioner's Office website has been blown offline by a distributed-denial-of-service attack that appears to be a hacktivist protest over the Leveson Inquiry.…
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It's called box shifting for a reason Texan tech titan Dell has been forced to assert its commitment to equal rights in the workplace after a Danish funnyman compering its channel event in Copenhagen rattled off a string of sexist jokes.…
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Tougher laws needed to stem dodgy downloads, says BSA The BSA is again bemoaning the lack of deterrents for software piracy after the commercial worth of unlicensed programs in the UK for 2011 remained at £1.2bn, unchanged on the previous year.…
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Dozens of other black laptops launched too It's ThinkPads a-go-go at Lenovo, with dozens of the black-clad laptops announced today in four families: the T, X, L and W series.…
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How a Unix killer crawled from the dot-com bust Comment Making a Linux distribution is easy, and lots of people have done it and continue to do it. All you have to do is get the source code and integrate the pieces you like and slap your logo on it.…
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No longer nominates Nokia kit Conspiracy theorists and Apple haters, rejoice! Siri, Cupertino's iPhone 4S voice assistant, is no longer suggesting the Nokia Lumia 900 WinPho handset might be the best cellphone.…
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Virty giant gets flirty with PostgreSQL VMware pretty much owns the virtualization layer on X86 iron inside of enterprises, but it has a long way to go to get the same kind of uptake for its vFabric application framework.…
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You want some stocks? Pay more... bitch! Facebook has reportedly raised the price range on its IPO shares from the $28-$35 range to $34-$38 each, as the growing interest of investors has boosted the valuation of the firm to up to an eye-watering $104bn.…
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Brainiacs beaver beneath barren burg called CITE Analysis It's an empty city in the middle of the New Mexico desert ringed by a security perimeter. The wind will blow down barren streets, whisper through a vacant school, round high-rise offices cleared of commuters and out through lonely houses in suburbia. Unseen boffins will beaver away in under
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But viewing figures down Folks, you're as likely to watch video content on your computer as your TV, if stats collated by asking tens of thousands of web-surfing consumers around the world is anything to go by.…
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'HELLO? Hello darling, I'm on a Virgin- What? No..' Flyers heading to New York on Virgin Atlantic will be able to make calls from the plane, thanks to a mobile mobile base station and a satellite uplink, but expect to pay through the nose for a service which hasn't proved popular elsewhere.…
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Security airdrop saves legacy fanbois from nasties Apple has released patches that defend users of its older Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard operating system against security threats.…
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Film fan's feast Android App of the Week If you're a fan of the movies then this app should be right up your aisle. Not only can IMDb tell you just about everything you could ever wish to know about just about every film ever made, but it has all the information you need to plan your movie-going night out too.…
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You cannot be Siri-ous Who'd've thunk it? Apple's voice-assistant, Siri, has suggested Nokia's Lumia 900 as the lead candidate to be the best cell phone ever.…
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But future role for HP EMEA MD unconfirmed in shakeup HP has shuffled the management deck in EMEA in a restructure that's bagged big cheese Peter Ryan the top job at the Enterprise Group.…
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