The RegisterBiting the hand that feeds ITMr Barrett goes for Washington on education, innovation- August 19, 2008 'Teachers are the ultimate tools' IDF Intel chairman Craig Barrett got political at the opening of the Intel Developer Forum this morning, taking aim at the US records on education, healthcare and investment in R&D.http://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.co.uk/2008/08/19/barrett_keynote/ Microsoft dashes hopes for 'major' Windows server upgrade- August 19, 2008 2008 sticking around Microsoft has re-committed itself to an interim release of its Windows server operating system, countering reports it had planned to go straight to a major release instead.http://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.co.uk/2008/08/19/windows_7_interim_release/ Sun double teams Xeon chip- August 19, 2008 Makes grunty boxes IDF No server vendor worth its hot swappable fans will let an Intel Developer Forum go by without announcing some new kit. So here's Sun Microsystems doing its part for the epic Intel ecosystem with a pair of new servers.http://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.co.uk/2008/08/19/sun_idf_boxen/ Mystery Fedora disruption prompts security fears- August 19, 2008 Did security breach prompt ground-up rebuild The majority of servers supporting the Fedora Linux distribution were back online on Tuesday following a mystery disruption.http://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.co.uk/2008/08/19/fedora_outage/ Microsoft slackens VM licensing rules- August 19, 2008 Give 'em enough rope... Microsoft will relax its virtual machine licensing policy to make it easier for businesses to move a VM freely about physical servers.http://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.co.uk/2008/08/19/microsoft_lifts_vm_restric... Spice up your Apple applications- August 19, 2008 Splash of Aqua Mac Secrets Apple's "Professional" range of applications such as Final Cut Studio, Aperture or Logic Express have a completely different look to the standard Aqua color scheme. This comes courtesy of a private framework called ProKit.framework, intended to make Apple's professional software stand out from the crowd.http://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.co.uk/2008/08/19/poking_the_prokit/ Free the airwaves, cries Google- August 19, 2008 FCC to consider petitions, analysis and dancing phones Google has launched another round in the PR battle over American white space, with a new website asking visitors to sign a petition to convince the FCC to allow unlicensed use of the spaces between TV channels.http://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.co.uk/2008/08/19/free_the_airwaves/ UK.gov to spend hundreds of millions on snooping silo- August 19, 2008 berdatabase pork barrel ahoy Exclusive The government is pressing ahead with plans to spend hundreds of millions of pounds on a massive central silo for all UK communications data, The Register has learned.http://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.co.uk/2008/08/19/ukgov_uber_database/ Russell Crowe to play Bill Hicks- August 19, 2008 Oz thespo working on draft script It appears we have the leaves of Sherwood Forest to thank (or blame, depending on your viewpoint) for a possible outing of Aussie thespo Russell Crowe as legendary US comedian Bill Hicks.http://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.co.uk/2008/08/19/crowe_hicks/ 3 launches second-gen Skypephone- August 19, 2008 Call for free, in style Skype and network operator 3 obviously think theyre onto a winner with the Skypephone, so the duos teamed-up again to launch the brands second handset.http://go.theregister.com/feed/www.reghardware.co.uk/2008/08/19/skypephone_s2/ |