Orange can't find BlackBerry maps 1 hours ago Original link
But will sell you their alternative
Punters getting themselves a BlackBerry Bold from Orange are finding the in-built mapping application absent, and are being asked to pay for the Orange alternati...
Nokia growth ends 1 hours ago Original link
Shares fall sharply on falling market share
Nokia has signalled an end to its uninterrupted growth, predicting that its market share would shrink, slightly, during the current quarter - though it w...
Sony recalling UK laptops too 1 hours ago Original link
Burning laptops not just in US
Sony secretly wrote to its UK channel partners earlier this week warning them that the company planned to recall some Vaio TZ-series laptops, The Register has learned.…
America's CTO: We have a winner 2 hours ago Original link
The people's choice vs Larry
Poll Results In one of the tightest contests ever seen in a Reg poll, columnist and software developer Ted Dziuba has emerged as the people's choice to be Barack Obama'...
DARPA funds radical disco-copter concept 2 hours ago Original link
Spinning-platter switchblade chopper takes wing
Pentagon boffinry chiefs, not content with the existing panoply of wacky new whirly-copter concepts, are to fund still another radical rotary wing pr...
Sun and NetApp gain market share 3 hours ago Original link
Gartner data bad news for top 5 external storage vendors
Sun showed everyone a clean pair of heels as it grew its external disk storage market share faster than any other vendor in the second quart...
Debian components breach terms of GPLv2 3 hours ago Original link
You want source code with that?
A top Debian contributor has been left "pretty disappointed" by elements of the Debian community for failing to comply with the conditions of the GNU GPLv2 license.…
Sophos DNS snafu creates update problems 3 hours ago Original link
Bad hair day nothing to do with hackers
Domain name system problems left some users of Sophos unable to get security updates on Friday. The same issue, blamed on a mistake by one of the security fi...