h4'The concept was ahead of its time'/h4 pimg align="right" src="http://regmedia.co.uk/2008/11/19/championshipgamingseries.jpg" width="212" height="209" alt=""…/p

h4'Because that's just the kind of person he is'/h4 pThose betting attention-starved web entrepreneur Mark Cuban would keep silent about a href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/11/17/mark_cuban_sec_charges_insider_trading/"insider-trading charges/a filed against him by the US Securities and Exchange Commission just lost their dollar. Easiest cash I ever made.…/p

h4DDoS, botnets, SWAT calls, bomb threats, credit fraud.../h4 pA juvenile hacker with a reputation for stirring up trouble in online gaming groups has admitted to multiple computer felonies, including cyber attacks that overwhelmed his victims with massive amounts of data and the placing of hoax emergency phone calls that elicited visits by heavily armed police teams.…/p

h4We are not amused/h4 pLondon's Victoria amp; Albert museum has overwhelmed its original SAN with digitised images of its collection and is moving to a new one with room to grow more than 50 times larger.…/p

h4Pay-as-you-go caching/h4 pimg src="http://regmedia.co.uk/2008/09/04/amazonlogoyo.jpg" height="49" width="173" align="right" alt=""Amazon's ever-cumulating cloud is today rolling into the business of speedy Internet content delivery.…/pa href="http://ad.uk.doubleclick.net/jump/reg.rss.4159/main;sz=336x280;ord=1234567894?" target="_blank"img src="http://ad.uk.doubleclick.net/ad/reg.rss.4159/main;sz=336x280;ord=1234567894?" border="0" alt=""/a

h4'Spy on anyone from anywhere'/h4 pFederal watchdogs have shut down a website that advertised a comprehensive snooping service that included a stealthy trojan, online support, and a database that sorted and stored the confidential passwords, chat transcripts, and activities of those being stalked.…/p

h4Jobsian caprice smiles on CastCatcher/h4 pApple's iPhone caprice continues.…/p

h4RIA lipstick wars/h4 pstrongAdobe MAX/strong The next version of Flex Builder will help Windows developers slap an Adobe-authored front-end on data-centric .NET applications.…/p

h4Layoffs? Let's talk new iron/h4 pstrongSC08/strong Hot on the heels of job cuts that will see some 5,000 to 6,000 company employees given pink slips, John Fowler, the executive vice president in charge of the newly constituted Systems Platforms group at Sun Microsystems, was on hand at the SC08 supercomputing trade show to give a preview of products that Sun will be rolling out in the coming months.…/p

h4McColo dials Russia as world sleeps/h4 pMcColo, a network provider that was yanked offline following reports it enabled more than half the world's spam, briefly returned from the dead over the weekend so it could hand-off command and control channels to a new source, security researchers said.…/pa href="http://ad.uk.doubleclick.net/jump/reg.rss.4159/main;sz=336x280;ord=1234567894?" target="_blank"img src="http://ad.uk.doubleclick.net/ad/reg.rss.4159/main;sz=336x280;ord=1234567894?" border="0" alt=""/a

h4Big release, big Windows tie in/h4 pstrongPreview/strong Visual Studio is locked so closely to Microsoft's platform that it cannot be prized apart and assessed in isolation. The forthcoming Visual Studio 2010, for better or worse, continues this tradition.…/p

h4Just like the third wave - with more marketing/h4 pstrongSC08/strong The annual Supercomputing 2008 trade show kicked off this morning in Austin, Texas with a strikesales call/strike keynote by local billionaire and sometime HPC player, Michael Dell. As chairman and once again chief executive officer of a company that's trying to make a more substantial run at the HPC area, he can be forgiven (perhaps) for giving a keynote address that at times seemed to be more of a commercial for his company than a revelation about HPC (as supercomputing is now called).…/p

h4San Francisco shindig/h4 pIntel celebrated the official launch of its Core i7 processor at an event last evening in San Francisco, featuring the first high-end desktops running the next-generation micro architecture.…/p

h4Arguably the most long overdue sequel emever/em/h4 pemTron/em - quite possibly the best example of a movie that could benefit from a legitimate sequel - is finally getting one. And who knew? A few dedicated - and better informed - film buffs maybe. But for the rest of us sci-fi supporters, certainly on this side of the Pond, it remained a secret.…/p

h4Tape backup not enough/h4 pFor EMC users, the tape backup world is not enough. These days, data is backed up to disk, deduplicated, and - horror of horrors - EMC shops might have NetApp and Data Domain boxes in them. So EMC has upgraded its Backup Advisor product to reflect these facts of life.…/pa href="http://ad.uk.doubleclick.net/jump/reg.rss.4159/main;sz=336x280;ord=1234567895?" target="_blank"img src="http://ad.uk.doubleclick.net/ad/reg.rss.4159/main;sz=336x280;ord=1234567895?" border="0" alt=""/a

h4More ZEOs, fewer Peapods, please/h4 pstrong'Leccy Tech/strong Lou Rhodes, Chrysler's VP of Advanced Engineering, has said electric cars are central to the motor company's future and key to "a long-term viable business for Chrysler."…/p

h4Near-Field Comms standardisation required/h4 pEveryone should be able to use their mobile phone like a wallet as soon as possible, the world’s trade group for the mobile industry has demanded.…/p

h4Investigation centred on text message sent before crash/h4 pA Labour Peer has been charged with dangerous driving after allegedly sending text messages shortly before hitting a car on the M1 on Christmas Day, 2007.…/p

h4Too used to the other sort/h4 pThree London Hospitals shut down their computer systems on Tuesday in response to a computer virus infection.…/p

h4But 'nothing decided' on comms überdatabase, says Home Office/h4 pThe government Interception Modernisation Programme (gIMP), a plan by spy chiefs to centrally collect details of every phone call, text, email and web browsing session of every UK resident, could be in place by 2012, according to a Home Office minister.…/p