The RegisterBiting the hand that feeds ITPanasas teams with Penguin on clustergasm- July 8, 2008 Mad Scyldz Clustered storage system vendor, Panasas, is teaming up the Linux cluster house, Penguin Computing, to well, obviously combine some of the former's goodies with the latter's.http://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.co.uk/2008/07/08/panasas_and_penguin/ Fiorina threatens to get in McCain's antique cabinet- July 8, 2008 Er, but Bush already mastered the 'Invent' agenda Having turned HP into a model of consistency . . . Having morphed HP into a no-nonsense juggernaut . . . Having guided HP through the smoothest mega-merger in history . . . Er, okay. How about - Having rubbed out the Hewlett-Packard brand, the HP Way and HP's competitive position against IBM and Dell, Carly Fiorina would now like to lend her insight gained about running large organizations and alienating as many people as possible to the White...http://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.co.uk/2008/07/08/fiorina_mccain_cabinet/ Facebook value drops $11.25bn- July 8, 2008 A pauper poking Court papers have told the world what it already knows: Facebook is not worth $15bn.http://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.co.uk/2008/07/08/facebook_valuation/ Rogue IT troubleshooter pleads guilty to scamming Cisco- July 7, 2008 The old bait and port trick A former city contractor from New Jersey is pleading guilty to pilfering nearly $6.9m by exploiting Cisco's part replacement program.http://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.co.uk/2008/07/07/cisco_replacement_scam_gui... ISPs laud their data pimping services but refuse to use them- July 7, 2008 The view from the Front Porch Another American ISP has frozen its plans to embrace behavioral ad targeting.http://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.co.uk/2008/07/07/massillon_and_newwave_use_... Microsoft criticizes EU's 'unreasonable' judgement- July 7, 2008 Your manifest error blocks our manifest destiny Microsoft has opened its promised appeal against a European Union court fine of $1.4bn (899m euros), calling the charge "unreasonable" and "error prone".http://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.co.uk/2008/07/07/microsoft_launches_ec_fine... Segway CTO scoots to Apple's design team- July 7, 2008 Moves to street-legal devices Segway's original boss of scooter development is retiring his gyroscopes to craft future merchandise for Apple.http://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.co.uk/2008/07/07/segway_cto_joins_apple/ Blind spot - the trouble with optical drives- July 7, 2008 Why so maligned Optical drives should be popular. They hold lots of gigabytes, can be intrinsically WORM and hold data for a guaranteed 30 years or more without the periodic refreshes needed by tape. But they are simply not used as a general data archiving product by business, having become niche products in areas such as medical image recording.http://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.co.uk/2008/07/07/optical_drives/ Holidaymaker gets 31k data roaming bill- July 7, 2008 3 dons cap Another jet-setting TV addict has fallen foul of unreasonable roaming fees, this time to the tune of 31,500, just to get their TV fix - just as the EU considers how best to curtail the operators' roaming rates.http://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.co.uk/2008/07/07/mobile_roaming_overpriced/ Trousers Brown: Blighty faces 'food security' threat- July 7, 2008 It's all about the energy, stupid Analysis Just in case we didn't all have enough to panic about these days - what with energy prices, global financial gloom, impending ecopocalypse, terrorism etc - the government says any British trouser not yet besmirched by fear is definitely worn by someone who isn't paying attention. Apart from all of the above, we now face a "food security challenge".http://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.co.uk/2008/07/07/brown_trouser_food_securit... |