The RegisterBiting the hand that feeds ITVendor touts PC's Mac OS X compatibility- July 22, 2008 But won't sell it with Apple's OS. Apple Legal, we laugh in your face! Brassy computer company Open Tech is cocking just such snook Jobs-wards, though we note it's not brave enough to publish an address on its website...http://go.theregister.com/feed/www.reghardware.co.uk/2008/07/22/pc_vendor_pushes_hackintos... Blighty's electro-supercar 2.0 uncloaked today- July 22, 2008 Fast-charge Lightning to bitchslap Tesla Updated Here at the British Motor Show in London, there are lots and lots of cars to see. Quite a few of them have electric or part-electric power trains. A few of these use or plan to use advanced battery technologies such as lithium-ion. Only one has moved on further still, to a technology which promises genuinely usable electric cars, able to do pretty much everything an internal-combustion vehicle can.http://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.co.uk/2008/07/22/lightning_fast_charge_supe... The Guardian's excellent Web 2.0 blog-up- July 22, 2008 If we build it, they'll shrug Comment Late last month The Guardian quietly put to sleep its exercise in fighting climate change via the power of blogs, Tread Lightly. Nine months of weekly personal CO2 reduction pledges by Guardian readers had shown, Carolyn Fry wrote bravely, "that even relatively small weekly carbon savings can add up to significant amounts if enough people commit themselves to the task in hand."http://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.co.uk/2008/07/22/tread_irelevantly/ Watching the security landscape- July 22, 2008 Stay safe with Vulture Vision RegCast It's a proud day here at El Reg - behold our first live video webcast, now snugly fitted into the archives and available for your delectation. We took an unflinching look into the evolving security landscape, and we'd like to invite you to take a good hard stare too.http://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.co.uk/2008/07/22/security_regcast_200807/ Divorce for shouty YouTube wife- July 22, 2008 Belligerent blonde Broadway banshee blasted by beak Broadway mogul Philip Smith has been granted a divorce from the actress whose dull video rants inexplicably clocked up over 3m hits on YouTube.http://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.co.uk/2008/07/22/youtube_divorce/ If your SSD sucks, blame Vista, says SSD vendor- July 22, 2008 SanDisk pledges next-gen Flash disks will be better It's Windows Vista's fault that solid-state storage isn't performing as well as its proponents predicted. So said SanDisk CEO Eli Harari, but at least he didn't go as far as saying it's Microsoft's problem to fix.http://go.theregister.com/feed/www.reghardware.co.uk/2008/07/22/sandisk_ssd_vista_beef/ Police told: Delete old criminal records- July 22, 2008 Dump innocents' DNA while you're at it The Information Tribunal has told five police forces to remove old, minor criminal records from their databases.http://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.co.uk/2008/07/22/police_information_ruling/ Home Office classes openness review a secret- July 22, 2008 Silly Season opens here It may be a little early for the silly season, but if last weeks antics by the Home Office and the Daily Mail are anything to go by, it is already upon us.http://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.co.uk/2008/07/22/password_protected_openess... Vodafone shares tumble on interims- July 22, 2008 Economic weakness Vodafone, the world's largest cellco, grew revenues to 9.1bn, up by nearly 20 per cent, or 1.7 per cent organic growth, in the three months ended 30 June 2008.http://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.co.uk/2008/07/22/vodafone_interims_spain/ Vultures circle over IT jobs- July 22, 2008 Large suppliers make hay from greater pricing pressure Big IT firms are likely to do better from the credit crunch than smaller suppliers, as greater economies of scale allow them to offer cheaper prices.http://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.co.uk/2008/07/22/job_survey_goldman/ |