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TheRegister: Skywriter goes JavascriptMozilla's Bespin project – an open source effort to build a web-based code editor – has been rechristened Skywriter, and its official repository has been moved to GitHub so that developers can more easily fork the project.… Stuff for web monkeys, iPad junkies, EE flunkiesPart three: This – the third installment of apps for admins, coders and geeks – is our final foray into demonstrably useful apps for Apple's "magical and revolutionary" tablet.… Future chips: extreme, ultraviolet & metalGTC 2010 According to AMD-spinoff GlobalFoundries, chip-baking is about to hit a wall — but they're ready for it. They also claim that their way of handling the latest advance in chip materials is superior to that used by Intel and soon to be introduced by their ginormous competitor, TSMC.… URL shortening shenanigansMicrosoft is investigating reports of a new bug in Internet Explorer.… On-board internet access service goes liveEast Midlands Trains has rolled out wireless internet access to its rolling stock.… Free On-Demand Webcast - Virtualizing the Hard Stuff Click here for hot ass actionIt's only September, but we feel pretty confident that the El Reg 2010 Product Name of the Year will be awarded to the spectacularly-titled BumChum - a silent bass drum monitoring system which promises lively "bottom-end thump".… But US gets first handsetVodafone has announced its 4G roll-out for Germany, though it seems it'll be Americans making the first 4G phone call.… And you can too...What a brilliant idea for a competition! Nokia has hired Pamela Anderson and Gossip Girl actor Ed Westwick to appear in The Commuter a short film short shot entirely on the not-quite-launched Nokia N8 - and you can appear in it too.… More fun than a Stattenheim Remote Control?Good news for budding Doctors: there will be a sonic screwdriver-style remote out in time for upcoming Wii title Doctor Who: Return to Earth.… Bad weather hits supplies hardThere's some grim news today for those kids who are still allowed to play conkers, albeit in full body armour with helmet and visor: the crap summer weather has caused a "real shortage of serviceable conkers".… No jets involved, nor is it a pack. 'Blower-throne'?A New Zealand company founded by a garage inventor says it is in talks to sell its so-called "Jetpack" - actually a personal ducted-fan aircraft too heavy to be lifted by its user - to the US military.… Free On-Demand Webcast - Virtualizing the Hard Stuff Part one of Doomsday Weekend: who can you trust?Sysadmin blog As sysadmins, we have to test before we deploy. We need to test before even upgrading a driver. We should test absolutely everything before a major deployment. It seems obvious. It is obvious.… Malware monitoring tech draws official ireChristopher Graham, the Information Commissioner, has rebuked TalkTalk for following its 4.2 million customers around the web without telling them.… It's such a bungle, sometimes, it makes you wonder...Symantec has belatedly secured its laughable HackIsWack competition website.… Action over inaction against Youth Justice BoardChildren's Rights Group ARCH has threatened to take the Information Commissioner to a judicial review after the data regulator declined to take enforcement action the Youth Justice Board for unlawfully collecting and distributing data.… My crappy component inferno: our first reader audio blogWorld of Reg If you're mad as hell and you're not going to take this any more, if you're blissfully happy and can't wait to tell the world, or if you're just tired of listening to product marketing managers who don't know what it's like to get your hands dirty, now's your chance. Don't rant in the pub: share it with millions of Reg readers instead.… Free On-Demand Webcast - Virtualizing the Hard Stuff Monster laser-planes ready to blind US satellites?Reports suggest that Russia has re-started work on a Cold War project intended to produce a laser cannon mounted on an enormous military transport aircraft in the style of the USA's Airborne Laser Testbed 747.… Save our sensitive soulsCraigslist has bowed to pressure and stopped access to erotic services ads for its sensitive US customers.… Fight or flight? Posh property presenter pwnediPad scammers managed to reach a huge potential audience last weekend after they took over a Twitter profile maintained by British TV presenter Kirstie Allsopp.… Marrying IT to HPCWorkshop Many people tend to associate High Performance Computing (HPC) with exotic supercomputers with esoteric CPUs, high-end networking and storage fabrics, and custom applications simulating nuclear explosions, virtually crash-testing cars or designing the aerodynamics of the latest jetliner.… Gesticulating at the telly will actually make things happen!Movea, the company behind the Gyration Air Mouse, is pushing into television with a module for adding gesture control to the humble zapper.… Free On-Demand Webcast - Virtualizing the Hard Stuff Zeven deadly sinsScareware peddlers have developed a new ruse that relies on mimicking browser warning pages.… 'Futuristic neo-noir' action flick promisedThose of you still recovering from Sylvester Stallone's 1995 interpretation of Judge Dredd will have to wait until 2012 to see if Karl Urban can make a better hash of bringing the classic 2000 AD character to the silver screen.… Demand for Symbian is 'invisible'Samsung is focus on Android and Bada for its smartphones after claiming there is no demand for Symbian phones and only "specialised" demand for Windows Phone 7.… Commies unleash filth on primary school innocentsKids at the Adolf Reichwein School in Essen got an unexpected treat on the first day at primary school: porn-projecting pens provided by the German Communist Party.… The jury's still outVMworld VMware is taking some big steps in the security and network management arena with its vShield product set. I sat in on a deepish dive into the somewhat new security products being offered by VMware to deliver on the ‘secure’ part of their “Secure Hybrid Cloud” initiative.… Free On-Demand Webcast - Virtualizing the Hard Stuff Mind how you goA 46 year-old woman wearing headphones was run over and killed by an ambulance in Sydney, Australia at the weekend. Police think she may not have heard the sirens.… Gentlemen, start your downloadsO2 has updated its version of the Dell Streak 5in internet tablet - reviewed here - to Android 2.1.… Inter-network roaming imminentOrange and T-Mobile customers will be able to roam freely between the two networks from 5 October, as the companies consolidate their morph into Everything Everywhere.… Gadget's manufacturer identifiedThe Australian Federal Court has maintained the injunction banning four local retailers from importing and selling the PSJailbreak USB dongle that allows PS3s to play pirated games.… Don't call it creativeIf Google is trying to shake off its reputation for a pathological hostility to creative businesses, then at least one senior policy hasn't got the memo. Google's UK policy chief called for Government to give creative industries the bum's rush last week - arguing that Britain's retailers were just as important.… 'Ere... wanna buy a high-ranking disk drive operation?Opinion Hitachi is reported to be considering an IPO or sale of Hitachi GST, its disk drive operation, ranked third in the industry behind Seagate and Western Digital. How much is it worth? Who would want to buy it?… Keychain copsA memory stick containing anti-terror training manuals and other sensitive material was reportedly found on a street outside a Manchester police station.… Free On-Demand Webcast - Virtualizing the Hard Stuff And he's back in the roomMark Hurd, pushed from the top job at HP after allegations of sexual harassment and misfiling of expenses, is about to get a board post at Oracle.… Family favourite?Review Those who want their notebook PCs to play music and video while managing a burgeoning digital image collection should cast an eye at the HP Pavilion dv6-3085ea. It's an attractively slim computer with a design outline that's generally reminiscent of Apple's MacBook Pro. The clamshell even stays closed thanks to Apple-style magnets, instead of a conventional sliding catch.… But does it really need it?Comment Intel has embarked on a major shopping spree to counter the pressures on its traditional businesses, which prompted it to issue a results warning at the end of last week. That was swiftly followed by the announcement that it would acquire Infineon‘s wireless arm, as widely expected, for $1.4bn, hard on the heels of the purchase of security software firm McAfee.… The price of a Tweetbookish Gmail modGoogle has agreed to pay $8.5 million to settle a class action lawsuit claiming it violated the privacy of Gmail users when it released Google Buzz, a Gmail bolt-on that turned the email service into a Tweetbookish social networking tool.… Betcha.com craps outWashington state's highest court has delivered a fatal blow to a website that billed itself as a person-to-person betting platform that connected people who wanted to make wagers.… EU complaint echoed in USGoogle is facing an antitrust investigation in Texas over claims the company unfairly manipulated results on its search engine.… Free On-Demand Webcast - Virtualizing the Hard Stuff Balls of steel, baby, balls of steel!Duke Nukem Forever is the video games world's equivalent of the flying car: mothballed in the garage.… Beta mongoose flaunts new faceReview Ubuntu fans, fire up your virtual machines. The beta release of Ubuntu 10.10 is here. Maverick Meerkat, as this release is known, is actually several weeks ahead of the original schedule, and that means Ubuntu 10.10 is on track for its final release October 10.… Music to watch monsters go byLove Doctor Who, love the theme music - this is hardwired into the DNA of most Brits.… Un-Flash eyes world of GoogleSteve Jobs forbids you from building iPhone applications with a language other than Objective C, C, or C++. If that other language is Adobe Flash. What if it's not Adobe Flash? Are you still forbidden?… Hunting 'mugu' in AmericaA Nigerian man has been sentenced to more than 12 years in US prison for orchestrating an advance payment scam that bilked victims out of more than $1.3m.…
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