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This article is about the technology news website. For other uses, see Register (disambiguation).

The Register
A screenshot of The Register's home page from November 2020
Type of site
technology news
Available inEnglish
Headquarters
London
,
England
OwnerSituation Publishing
Created byMike Magee
John Lettice
URLwww.theregister.com
Commercialyes
Registrationoptional
Launched1994; 30 years ago (1994)
Current statusactive

The Register is a British technology news website[1] co-founded in 1994 by Mike Magee, John Lettice and Ross Alderson.[2] The online newspaper's masthead sublogo is "Biting the hand that feeds IT."[3] Their primary focus is information technology news and opinions.

Situation Publishing Ltd is listed as the site's publisher. Drew Cullen is an owner and Linus Birtles is the managing director. Andrew Orlowski was the executive editor before leaving the website in May 2019.[4]

History

The Register was founded in London as an email newsletter called Chip Connection. In 1998 The Register became a daily online news source. Magee left in 2001 to start competing publications The Inquirer, and later the IT Examiner and TechEye.[5]

In 2002, The Register expanded to have a presence in London and San Francisco, creating The Register USA at theregus.com through a joint venture with Tom's Hardware.[6] In 2003, that site moved to theregister.com.[7] That content was later merged onto theregister.co.uk. The Register carries syndicated content including Simon Travaglia's BOFH stories.[8]

In 2010 The Register supported the successful launch of the Paper Aircraft Released Into Space, a project they announced in 2009 that released a paper plane in the extreme upper atmosphere.[9]

The Register also ran the websites Register Hardware and Channel Register, which merged into The Register.

Readership and content

In 2011 it was read daily by over 350,000 users according to the Audit Bureau of Circulations,[10] rising to 468,000 daily and nearly 9.5 million monthly in 2013.[11] In November 2011 the UK and US each accounted for approximately 42% and 34% of page impressions respectively, with Canada being the next most significant origin of page hits at 3%.[10] In 2012 the UK and US accounted for approximately 41% and 28% of page impressions respectively, with Canada at 3.61%.[11]

Channel Register covers computer business and trade news, which includes business press releases. News and articles for computer hardware and consumer electronics is covered by Reg Hardware. Reg Research is an in-depth resource on technologies and how they relate to business.[12][13]

Their stories are cited by major news sources[14] and also used for backup information.[1] [15] Stories in other periodicals were based on their exposés.[16] InformationWeek ran a story about TheRegister's story about a New York Times article[17]

In September 2018, the Alexa ranking was #7,194.[18]

Writers

The Register has an editorial staff of 16 writers and production experts. [19] Chris Williams is editor-in-chief. Paul Kunert is UK editor, Iain Thomson is US news editor and Simon Sharwood is Asia-Pacific editor. Columnists include Mark Pesce and Rupert Goodwins.

Intel chips flaw investigation

Further information: Intel Atom § Issues

On 6 February 2017, The Register was the first news outlet to accurately trace a recently discovered flaw in Cisco (and other makers) gear to a serious defect on Intel's Atom C2000 series processors.[20]

Further information: Meltdown (security vulnerability) and Spectre (security vulnerability)

Around 3 January 2018, The Register broke news about Google's long-ongoing investigation into Intel's processor design, which revealed that a serious flaw in the design of their chips would require Microsoft, Linux and Apple to update operating systems for computers around the world.[21]

Criticism

The Register has written both headlines and stories that have resulted in controversy with The Guardian. Using a style illustrated by Gawker's 2008 coverage of Sun-Sentinel's involvement in a short term[22][23][24] stock drop, ("How Robots Destroyed United Airlines")[25] The Register used headlines and wordings] to, The Guardian accused,[26] "seriously misrepresent" a Nature paper in a controversial manner.

References

  1. ^ a b Dan Mitchell (26 November 2005). "Big Google Becomes Big Target". The New York Times.
  2. ^ Grossman, Wendy M. (2 June 2006). "How online journalism got its UK start". Press Gazette. Wilmington Media Ltd. Archived from the original on 5 November 2013.
  3. ^ Chris Mellor (15 October 2015). "Dell-EMC merger could leave Lenovo out in the cold – analysts".
  4. ^ "It's been fun". The Register. 9 May 2019.
  5. ^ Walsh, Bob (2007). Clear Blogging: How People Blogging Are Changing the World and How You Can Join Them. Apress, ISBN 9781590596913
  6. ^ Cullen, Drew (25 February 2002). The Register Comes to the US. The Register
  7. ^ Cullen, Drew (24 February 2003). theregister.com goes live. The Register
  8. ^ Adams, Andrew A., McCrindle, Rachel (2008). Pandora's Box: Social and Professional Issues of the Information Age. John Wiley & Sons, ISBN 9780470065532
  9. ^ "Paper plane launched into space captures Earth images". BBC News. 11 November 2010. Archived from the original on 14 November 2010. Retrieved 15 November 2010.
  10. ^ a b "The Register" (PDF), abc.org.uk, Audit Bureau of Circulations Limited, retrieved 19 January 2012
  11. ^ a b "The Register" (PDF), abc.org.uk, Audit Bureau of Circulations Limited, retrieved 1 October 2013
  12. ^ "CES: FTC chairwoman warns how IoT device data can secretly be used against you". Computerworld. 7 January 2015.
  13. ^ "Vista: the 'Anti-Linux'?". InformationWeek. 1 May 2006.
  14. ^ David Streitfeld (25 January 2012). "Groupon Promotion Goes Too Far". The New York Times.
  15. ^ "See http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016 ... "Worst Passwords Of 2015 Reveal Our Stupidity". InformationWeek.[permanent dead link]
  16. ^ Hugo Barra: "Android VP Barra Exits For Chinese Smartphone". InformationWeek.
  17. ^ "Apple Preparing Enhanced iPhone Security, NYT Reports". InformationWeek. The Register ran an article on it here: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/02/25/apple_ ... {{cite magazine}}: External link in |quote= (help)
  18. ^ "Theregister.co.uk Traffic, Demographics and Competitors - Alexa". alexa.com. Archived from the original on 13 September 2018. Retrieved 12 September 2018.
  19. ^ "Contact The Register". www.theregister.com. Retrieved 26 April 2021.
  20. ^ Thomas Claburn (6 February 2017). "FYI: Intel's Atom C2000 chips are bricking products – and it's not just Cisco hit". The Register.
  21. ^ Wakefield, Jane (2018). "Major flaw in millions of Intel chips". BBC News. Archived from the original on 6 July 2018. Retrieved 20 January 2018.
  22. ^ "UPDATE 1-US SEC opens probe into UAL share price drop--WSJ". 11 September 2008.
  23. ^ "UAL Shares Fall as Old Story Surfaces Online". Wall Street Journal. 9 September 2008.
  24. ^ "S.E.C. Said to Have Opened Inquiry into UAL Stock Drop". The New York Times. 12 September 2008.
  25. ^ "How Robots Destroyed United Airlines". Gawker. 10 September 2008.
  26. ^ Martin Robbins (12 October 2010). "One climate paper, two conflicting headlines". Archived from the original on 31 December 2016.
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