The Reg: Look out! PEAK WIND is COMING, warns top Harvard physicist [Wed Feb 27 2013]

Daily Headlines 27 February 2013

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Business News Visa to ISVs: poke around in our wallet Make shopping fun like first-person-shooters to repel PayPal, Google Inside Intel's deal to let FPGA biz Altera use its 22nm TriGate fabs Analysis As Achronix loses its Chipzilla exclusivity HP shareholders bay for blood in $19 BEELLION writedown aftermath Updated Calls to boot two board veterans and auditor next month Intel throws open chip ovens to Altera - but who's next: Apple? Quit twiddling those thumbs, you've got FPGAs to bake Cloud News Revolution weaves predictive analytics into Hortonworks Hadoop Teaching an elephant to prognosticate like a pirate – R! Intel takes on all Hadoop disties to rule big data munching 'We do software now. Get used to it.' Cloudera sends in the auditors – for Hadoop Giving enterprises what they want: auditing, backup, and rolling upgrades Engine Yard plugs multiple IaaS players into back end PaaS lets your app skip between clouds Data Centre News Xyratex thrusts a Lustre cluster knuckleduster at Intel's bluster Storage biz gobbles HPC wizardry from Oracle Stealthy upstart PernixData mutters incantation... turns flash into SAN That's some tri... hey, is that all? Concerned about sophisticated storage solutions? Live today Cloud storage woes and wins Who'll do a Red Hat on open-source storage? Storagebod Buy-and-build units just need a brand and a package Hardware News Review: Sony Vaio Duo 11 Ultrabook Canny convertible computing - or too clever by half? Four firms pitch hi-def DRM for Flash cards Next-generation Secure Memory, anyone? Networks News Mobile data prices rise as capacity crunch bites – ACCC Regulator also watches NBN migration practices Google+ goes single sign-in, exec roasts Zuck's 'frictionless sharing' Promises not to 'spray' Web2.0rhea all over stream That Firefox OS mobe: The sorta phone left behind after a mugging MWC 2013 Why do they bother? asks our man in Barcelona in his conference sketch So a health boss, a GM veep and Qualcomm's big cheese walk into a bar MWC 2013 What happened next is strictly on the record Wi-Fi hotspots, phone masts: Prepare to be assimilated by O2's Borg MWC 2013 Finally, the tech to make mobes work properly is here Fujitsu to get oldsters out the house and thoroughly caned MWC 2013 Grandpa can't use a smartphone? Here's a GPS-backed solution Ericsson and SAP Megazord has no need for your PUNY human phonecalls MWC 2013 Duo sets sights on the machines Welcome to our Wi-Fi: Devicescape reinvents landing page Coffee shop déjà vu for a post-web world No mobile signal? Blame hippies and their eco-friendly walls MWC 2013 Cosy rooms equal less connectivity - new study Policy News Yet more world+dog patent suits, this time over encryption Apple, Dell, HP, Toshiba, etcetera BBC World Service in a jam as China blocks broadcasts Beeb strongly condemns disruption Security News Outsourcing your own job much more common than first thought RSA 2013 Verizon finds canny computer worker's business plan Adobe squashes TWO critical Flash vulnerabilities with emergency patches Two out of three threats are dangerous, being used in wild Attacker exposes ABC forum contributors 50k IDs and credentials published Stop saying 'Cyber Pearl Harbor,' RSA boss pleads RSA 2013 Some people aren't getting the message, however Malaysian hackers deface 30+ sites hosted by Melbourne company Serversinseconds.com.au and UberGlobal embroiled in hack Symantec reports early Stuxnet variant first went live in 2005 RSA 2013 'Very different' code caused gas attack on nuclear program Black hat greed reducing software vulnerability report rate RSA 2013 Zero-day market temptation: Cash out or collaborate? Japanese gov builds APT database to study targeted attack info Hopes to understand attackers' MO, share info with US Software News Apple patents situational awareness for oblivious fanbois Get ready for a sensitive iPhone that responds to your surroundings Microsoft finally ships Internet Explorer 10 for Windows 7 Last chance to block it before auto updates start Google Chrome feature helps you silence noisy tabs Canary in the browser-mine for audio popups and errant videos Apple to cough up $100m after kids rinse parents' credit cards on apps Compensation offered for virtual fruit spending sprees Science News Look out! PEAK WIND is COMING, warns top Harvard physicist Last out of the windpower future turn out the lights … Oh Trekkies detect Spock's Vulcan homeworld ORBITING PLUTO Bid to name space rock completely illogical Nexus 1 put in orbit to prove 'in space, no one can hear you scream' WARP-DRIVE-fitted shrieking mobe strapped to publicity-sat Bootnotes News US insurer punts 'bestiality' to wide-eyed kiddies, gasp 'mums' Video Girl flirts with pig in 'disgusting' roadside-assistance romp North Korean citizens told: Socialist haircuts are a thing... go get some Government proclaims: All your hairs R belong to us

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