The RegisterBiting the hand that feeds ITOfcom steps up the power for unlicensed broadcasting- August 18, 2008 But only for those topping 10GHz UK regulator Ofcom has published a consultation on increasing the limits on broadcasting above 10GHz, claiming that at such high frequencies the range is so small it's not going to bother anyone anyway.http://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.co.uk/2008/08/18/ofcom_ten_gigahertz/ Pandora prepares to join titsup.com club- August 18, 2008 Web radio outfit struggling to cover royalties This weekend saw a cry for help from personalised web radio outfit Pandora. It blubbed that music industry royalties are too high for it to survive on meagre web 2.0 advertising revenues.http://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.co.uk/2008/08/18/pandora_shutdown_possible/ MoD judges clone-drone deathmatch- August 18, 2008 It's Robowars with guns Comment The UK Ministry of Defence expects to announce the winner of its "Grand Challenge" urban-warfare robotics competition tomorrow. The last three days have seen the contending droids - those which came up to the start line in a serviceable condition, anyway - battling it out for the title in a purpose-built small town used by the British forces to practice city fighting.http://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.co.uk/2008/08/18/mod_grand_challenge_final/ Dell cloud computing denied- August 18, 2008 Why does it always rain on me Dell has lost its bid to trademark the widely-used term cloud computing.http://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.co.uk/2008/08/18/dell_cloud_computing_denie... Rude Tintin pulls out- August 18, 2008 Saucy Spanish comic besmirches Snowy image A salacious Spanish reinterpretation of a Tintin story has been yanked from bookshops as a yucky stain on the comic book character.http://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.co.uk/2008/08/18/naughty_tintin/ Qualcomm: Interview with a cellular vampire- August 18, 2008 A trace of humanity now Analysis The 1976 Anne Rice novel Interview with the Vampire which showed the a sympathetic and softer side of the vampire and which uncovered both the mind-numbing ennui of being immortal and the complete lack of a sense of belonging, and other disadvantages to being uniquely powerful and yet disliked, was the first image that struck us while listening to Qualcomms analyst relations conference the week before we took our summer break.http://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.co.uk/2008/08/18/qualcomm_vampire/ Cisco plugs online meeting bug- August 18, 2008 Buffer buffed Cisco has plugged a buffer overflow flaw involving its popular WebEx online meeting client.http://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.co.uk/2008/08/18/cisco_webex_vuln/ Acer Aspire One A110- August 18, 2008 The Eee-beater to beat Review It was all so simple at the start of the year. You wanted a Small, Cheap Computer, you bought an Asus EeePC 701. Now we have a plethora of SCCs to choose from - and Dell has still to get in on the act.http://go.theregister.com/feed/www.reghardware.co.uk/2008/08/18/review_acer_aspire_one/ AMD hits Intel with Shanghai surprise- August 18, 2008 Game, chipset and match AMD plans to dish up a server platform based on a new chipset in the first half of 2009 - meanwhile, its 45 nanometre Shanghai processor will be released in the fourth quarter of this year.http://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.co.uk/2008/08/18/amd_shanghai_new_chipset/ National DNA database grows on the genes of the innocent- August 18, 2008 Kids swell numbers Almost 600,000 genetic profiles taken from innocent people have helped swell the National DNA Database to cover about seven per cent of the UK population.http://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.co.uk/2008/08/18/ndnad_new_figures/ |