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IK Multimedia iRig and AmpliTube iPhone app
Review Back in the days when I was lugging around a beefy Peavey Centurion Mark III bass-amp head, if you had told me that someday I'd be gigging with my phone I would have slowly backed away, thinking that you were either dangerously high or simply deranged.…
Sagemcom RTI90-320 Freeview+ HD recorder
Review Since Freeview HD hit the terrestrial airwaves late last year a decent selection of standalone receivers and TVs has gradually become available but only now are retailers starting to shift the first DVRs. The not so snappily-named RTI90-320 T2 HD is the first Freeview HD product from Sagemcom, formerly part of French telecommunications mega-brand Sagem.…
Reg Hardware Reviews Digest
In the past seven days, Reg Hardware reviewed many products from the worlds of consumer electronics, photography, gaming, mobile communications and information technology.…
SGI trumpets one-stop HPC training shop
SGI has opened a one-stop high-performance computing (HPC) training shop described as "the industry’s first complete, vendor-agnostic training portal" but it misses out many important HPC suppliers.…
IT insider admits stealing info for 2,000 bank employees
A former IT worker for the Bank of New York has admitted to stealing personal information of 2,000 employees and using it to steal more than $1m from charity bank accounts, city prosecutors said.…
Robotic cargo spacecraft misses rendezvous with ISS
An unmanned Russian cargo ship missed its scheduled rendezvous with the International Space Station on Friday after a telemetry lock between the two spacecraft failed. Engineers are scrambling to figure out why.…
Apple's iPhone 4 denial: insulting or ignorant?
Comment Apple released a surreal missive on Friday morning that said the only thing wrong with the iPhone 4 is the way it calculates signal-strength bars. That letter is either an honest explanation or total bullshit — and it's high time that a competent, unbiased antenna-engineering team found out.…
OpenOffice gets Ubuntu-media friendly
OpenOffice has adopted the Ubuntu-friendly GStreamer media framework to reach a broader swath of Linux and Unix users.…
Why we love to hate Microsoft
Microsoft watcher Mary Branscombe has an excellent ZDNet post on Why do we (love to) hate Microsoft, and asks:…
Scroogle's future in doubt
The long-term future of proxy server Scroogle is seriously in doubt, according to operator Daniel Brandt. Scroogle has scraped Google pages since 2002 by piping results through an anonymizing server. By using the service surfers could remain anonymous, but more importantly use Google without the compulsory 40-year cookie.…
OFT to disqualify unwitting directors to deter competition abuses
Directors who should have known that their companies were breaking competition laws will be just as likely to be pursued for disqualification as those who actively committed offences, the Office of Fair Trading (OFT) has said.…
Apple denies iPhone 4 antenna glitch, blames inaccurate signal bars
Apple has denied that its recently released iPhone 4 has any problems with the antenna, as reported by many disgruntled customers of the company’s latest device.…
'Huge airships to carry freight starting 10 years from now'
The long-touted idea of using airships to replace cargo aircraft is in the news again, courtesy of former head government boffin Professor Sir David King, who says "this is something I believe is going to happen".…
Extreme porn now illegal north of the border
If you thought you could hide your extreme porn stash in a secluded location north of the border – think again. For this week, the Scottish Parliament finally fell into line with its English counterpart south of the border, passing laws - included within the Criminal Justice Bill - making it a criminal offence to possess images that were extreme and pornographic in nature.…
Computer grads can't even get jobs offering personal services
Computer science graduates have even less chance than media studies grads of being in gainful employment six months after leaving college, government figures show.…
US $250m superbomber 'almost as good' as $8m robot
General David Petraeus - the famous US officer who oversaw the "surge" in Iraq and is now set to take over the war in Afghanistan - has delivered a stinging bitchslap to the US Air Force's fleets of heavy manned bombers. Petraeus says that a mighty 200 tonne, quarter-billion-dollar B-1 "Lancer" is "almost" as good as having a much cheaper unmanned aircraft.…
'Unlimited' ads are dumb and misleading, says 3
3's UK boss Kevin Russell UK has called for an overhaul of mobile broadband marketing, particularly misleading "unlimited" allowances.…
Dell orchestrates Scalent buy
Dell has expanded its data centre tool kit by snapping up Scalent, a supplier of data centre control and co-ordination software.…
China hits back at EC dumping probe
China has criticised a European Commission probe into pricing policies for wireless wide-area network modems.…
Apple iPhone 4
Review Let's be honest here, what really makes the the iPhone 4 stand out is its new 'Retina Display'.…