NEWSFLASH: Amazing reversal in cheap prices |
- NEWSFLASH: Amazing reversal in cheap prices
- Huawei buys Symantec JV stake for $530m
- Spotify looks for local spin guru
- Mineral oil, GPUs and thousands of cores
- Cloud on horizon in CSIRO tender
- Google opens BigQuery for cloud analytics
- World's stealthiest rootkit pushes DNS hijacking trojan
- Nokia Siemens vs Vodafone Oz: the legal games begin
- Spaniards prototype ARM-GPU hybrid supercomputer
- Certificate stolen from Malaysian gov used to sign malware
- ARM+GPU = dream super?
- TCP/IP daddy Cerf: 'Don't rewrite the internet for security'
- Google adds 24/7 support for business Apps buyers
- AMD shoots lower with Opteron 3000 server chips
- Intel ships six-core desktop 'Extremes'
- Legendary investor scoffs IBM stake, nibble by nibble
- Micro Anvika forced into cash-only trading
- Pogoplug launches cloud sync'n'store service
- Yates of the Yard cleared of misconduct
- Now Barracuda bitten by Thai disk drought disaster
- NetApp's £1m challenge won by precisely no one
- Proprietary interconnects blaze the networking trail
- Intel takes the heat off power management
- What's that sound? It's PC sales plummeting into abyss
- Meanwhile in Japan: Your new best pal is a vending machine
- Intel implants cash register to help flog Ultrabooks
- Pass the wine, dear. Yes, that papier-mache thing
- iPhone baby clothes shop mauled by Apple
- Sage sued for pulling out too soon
- Facebook ad helps Scot cops seize fake goods, drugs
- Web keeps bent politicians honest, says Google boss
- SGI to put Intel's Xeon E5s in ICE X systems
- The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim
- Lego movie greenlighted by Warner Bros
- Server virtualisation: How to pick the right model
- Google flings Bing into search engine bin
- Top 500 Supers: Détente in East, West petaflops race
- Never lose that .uk again: Decade-long renewals OK'd
- Freebie Android anti-malware scanners flunk tests
- Conflict mineral laws <i>haven't</i> helped Congolese
- Kindle Fire ignites blazing developer interest
- Samsung RV720 17in Core i3 notebook
- Diaspora co-founder dies at 22
- O2 smears 4G trial over capital
- Pros thrash amateurs in Hong Kong iPhone 4S race
- Oracle coughs up $35m owed in unpaid overtime pay
- Dud Mars probe's explosion will spare Earth's cities
- Robo-bear helps snorers snooze more smoothly
- Vacuum cleaner set Swedish nuke plant on fire
- Intel out to add NFC payment tech to Ultrabooks
| NEWSFLASH: Amazing reversal in cheap prices Posted: 14 Nov 2011 03:47 PM PST Flash cheaper than spinning rustYou better start believing in miracles; Thai flood-caused disk drive shortages are driving up disk prices beyond flash.… |
| Huawei buys Symantec JV stake for $530m Posted: 14 Nov 2011 03:38 PM PST You can go your own wayHuawei is buying Symantec's 49 per cent share in their joint venture for $530m.… |
| Spotify looks for local spin guru Posted: 14 Nov 2011 03:00 PM PST They really must be launching downunderGlobally-ambitious digital music subscription player Spotify is continuing to ramp up its head count for its impending launch in Australia.… |
| Mineral oil, GPUs and thousands of cores Posted: 14 Nov 2011 02:54 PM PST Student Cluster Competition hardware revealedSC11 The hardware configurations for the 2011 SC Student Cluster Competition in Seattle have been released, and there are quite a few surprises. First, the most surprising surprise: the University of Texas Longhorn team has brought the first liquid cooled system to the big dance.… |
| Cloud on horizon in CSIRO tender Posted: 14 Nov 2011 02:30 PM PST On-demand and long-term IaaS under considerationAlong with desktops, laptops and servers for its 80-plus sites, a new tender from CSIRO indicates that the Australian science agency is looking at IaaS-style cloud services.… |
| Google opens BigQuery for cloud analytics Posted: 14 Nov 2011 02:18 PM PST Dangles free trial to lure doubtersGoogle Atmosphere Google is taking its BigQuery cloud data analytics engine to market, after a limited beta over the past year.… |
| World's stealthiest rootkit pushes DNS hijacking trojan Posted: 14 Nov 2011 01:49 PM PST DNS Changer dropped by TDSSOne of the world's most advanced pieces of malware is being used to spread DNS Changer, a trojan at the heart of a massive click fraud scheme that has already hijacked 4 million PCs, security researchers said.… |
| Nokia Siemens vs Vodafone Oz: the legal games begin Posted: 14 Nov 2011 01:47 PM PST Missing millions and contractual woesNokia Siemens Networks is taking legal action against customer Vodafone Australia following a tussle over compensation issues regarding network performance.… |
| Spaniards prototype ARM-GPU hybrid supercomputer Posted: 14 Nov 2011 01:22 PM PST Ubuntu Linux spans Tegra3-Fermi mashupSC11 The Barcelona Supercomputing Center in Spain has been an enthusiastic supporter of using IBM's Power970MP blade servers as a foundation for its "MareNostrum" massively parallel Linux cluster, which fills 44 server racks and delivers 94.1 teraflops of number-crunching punch.… |
| Certificate stolen from Malaysian gov used to sign malware Posted: 14 Nov 2011 11:39 AM PST Security warnings bypassedResearchers have discovered malware circulating in the wild that uses a private signing certificate belonging to the Malaysian government to bypass warnings many operating systems and security software display when end users attempt to run untrusted applications.… |
| Posted: 14 Nov 2011 11:10 AM PST NVIDIA: 'Yup, we're on it'SC11 We've seen a lot of ARM server activity in recent weeks. ARM chip upstart Calxeda announced both their 5-watt EnergyCore ARM chip (breakdown here) and a partnership with x86 giant HP (outlined here).… |
| TCP/IP daddy Cerf: 'Don't rewrite the internet for security' Posted: 14 Nov 2011 11:08 AM PST Sage advice: 'Shoot the patent lawyer'Google Atmosphere There is no need to rewrite the basic internet protocols to beef up security, Vint Cerf has said. He also warned that governments are making increasingly heavy-handed attempts to take control of the interwebs.… |
| Google adds 24/7 support for business Apps buyers Posted: 14 Nov 2011 10:20 AM PST Adds 10,000 chav tailors to customer listGoogle Atmosphere Google is adding round-the-clock telephone support for business subscribers of its Google Apps service, and is making a strong pitch for Microsoft's cloud customers.… |
| AMD shoots lower with Opteron 3000 server chips Posted: 14 Nov 2011 10:07 AM PST Bringing single-socket boxes in from the embedded cold?SC11 Chip maker Advanced Micro Devices said during a restructuring announced two weeks ago that it was going to take low-power servers seriously again. And as part of the Opteron 6200 and 4200 processor launches this morning at an event in Beijing, and at the SC11 supercomputing conference in Seattle, Washington, AMD has tweaked its Opteron roadmap and brought back the low-end, single-socket server processor.… |
| Intel ships six-core desktop 'Extremes' Posted: 14 Nov 2011 10:03 AM PST Long-awaited 'Sandy Bridge E' uncloakedIntel has released two new top-of-the-line, six-core "Sandy Bridge E" processors, the first to bring four-channel memory to the desktop.… |
| Legendary investor scoffs IBM stake, nibble by nibble Posted: 14 Nov 2011 09:16 AM PST Buffett makes first real bet on the tech sectorSuper-investor Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway biz has revealed that he has spent most of this year buying up a 5.5 per cent share in IBM.… |
| Micro Anvika forced into cash-only trading Posted: 14 Nov 2011 09:07 AM PST Fears for Tottenham Court Road veteranFears are mounting over the future of veteran Tottenham Court Road retailer Micro Anvika after credit insurers removed cover for suppliers and it was forced to trade on a cash-only basis.… |
| Pogoplug launches cloud sync'n'store service Posted: 14 Nov 2011 09:03 AM PST 5GB of free online storage, etc, etcCloud Engines, the company behind the Pogoplug DIY cloud gadgets, today launched an online storage service that doesn't require hardware at home.… |
| Yates of the Yard cleared of misconduct Posted: 14 Nov 2011 08:49 AM PST OK'ed to pass on CV of NotW's hack's kid for job at MetFormer Scotland Yard assistant commissioner, John Yates, has been cleared of misconduct, after it was claimed that he had helped the daughter of a News of the World journalist get a job at the Met.… |
| Now Barracuda bitten by Thai disk drought disaster Posted: 14 Nov 2011 08:46 AM PST Killer floods push up pricesThe deadly floods that wrecked electronic component factories in Thailand are sending Barracuda disk drive prices rocketing.… |
| NetApp's £1m challenge won by precisely no one Posted: 14 Nov 2011 08:29 AM PST Crap entries flood contestNobody won a million pounds of kit from NetApp because data centre nerds thought the offer was unbelievable or couldn't be bothered with the paperwork.… |
| Proprietary interconnects blaze the networking trail Posted: 14 Nov 2011 08:17 AM PST Ethernet and InfiniBand left behindGiven the great strides that Ethernet and InfiniBand networking have made in the past decade, you would think that there wasn't much room for proprietary interconnects linking together nodes in parallel supercomputers.… |
| Intel takes the heat off power management Posted: 14 Nov 2011 08:16 AM PST Stay cool in the data centreIntel has a new piece of software called Data Center Manager (DCM), which provides power management ranging from the individual server level up to the bird's-eye-view of your entire data centre.… |
| What's that sound? It's PC sales plummeting into abyss Posted: 14 Nov 2011 08:11 AM PST Apple, Samsung soar away from doomThe UK PC market could be bottoming out after most of the major vendors posted sequential quarterly growth, abacus stroker Gartner has claimed. However HP, Acer and Dell PC sales are still in a nosedive compared to last year's shipments.… |
| Meanwhile in Japan: Your new best pal is a vending machine Posted: 14 Nov 2011 08:02 AM PST Chirpy mobile rewards game or grim future?Vid Almost a million vending machines in Japan will be ready to start a personal relationship with shoppers, rewarding regulars with weather checks and even remembering their birthdays.… |
| Intel implants cash register to help flog Ultrabooks Posted: 14 Nov 2011 07:45 AM PST NFC tech backed by MasterCardMasterCard and Intel have announced they'll be working together to put NFC readers into Ultrabooks that will secure online shopping as well as user identity.… |
| Pass the wine, dear. Yes, that papier-mache thing Posted: 14 Nov 2011 07:31 AM PST Greenies hide booze in cheap art materialPapier-mache is no longer just for primary school art projects: eco-nuts in Suffolk have decided to start packaging wine in the stuff. You could soon be supping a fine Rioja poured from an oblong paper shell lined with a plastic bag, thanks to British start-up GreenBottle.… |
| iPhone baby clothes shop mauled by Apple Posted: 14 Nov 2011 07:21 AM PST Cupertino misses opportunity to condition kidsNot content with firing patent suits at tech rivals, Apple's lawyers have forced a baby clothes retailer to halt sales of items styled on the iPod and iPhone user interfaces and icons.… |
| Sage sued for pulling out too soon Posted: 14 Nov 2011 07:11 AM PST Former MYOB owners upset after Brit biz dumped themBritish accounting software firm Sage is being sued for pulling out of a deal to buy Australia's MYOB in August.… |
| Facebook ad helps Scot cops seize fake goods, drugs Posted: 14 Nov 2011 07:01 AM PST Tip-offs rocket: Clicks easier than phonecallsCash, drugs and illegal goods have been seized in Scotland after coppers logged into Facebook to snare the crooks.… |
| Web keeps bent politicians honest, says Google boss Posted: 14 Nov 2011 06:44 AM PST Bigs up Russia as next Silicon ValleyGoogle supremo Eric Schmidt reckons that the internet is making politics work better, telling business leaders at the sidelines of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation APEC conference in Honolulu that the web keeps governments of the world honest.… |
| SGI to put Intel's Xeon E5s in ICE X systems Posted: 14 Nov 2011 06:29 AM PST Opteron 6200s put on iceSC11 Supercomputer maker Silicon Graphics has been chomping at the bit for Intel to get its "Sandy Bridge-EP" Xeon E5 servers to market. And rather than wait until early next year to launch its new ICE X parallel machines to market, and give rival Cray and its Opteron 6200-based XE6 and XK6 supers all the headlines at the SC11 supercomputing conference in Seattle this week, SGI decided to preview the dense-pack ICE X machines that will employ the Xeon E5s and have actually begun shipping to selected customers.… |
| Posted: 14 Nov 2011 06:21 AM PST Bludgeons and dragonsReview Skyrim is set in the land of the Nords, a craggy treacherous landscape that reminds me of George R R Martin's series A Song of Ice and Fire and has the same epic scale. After the King of Skyrim is assassinated the land is plunged into civil war and the region has become severed from the rest of the empire. The game starts by leading me to my execution, luckily it is cut short by a very fiery intervention.… |
| Lego movie greenlighted by Warner Bros Posted: 14 Nov 2011 06:19 AM PST May be mangled by live action/animation hybrid platformFilm studio Warner Bros has given the green light to its animated Lego movie, which is now expected to be released in 2014.… |
| Server virtualisation: How to pick the right model Posted: 14 Nov 2011 06:14 AM PST Which is the fairest of them all?Virtualisation has become an over-used buzzword.… |
| Google flings Bing into search engine bin Posted: 14 Nov 2011 06:10 AM PST Not! even! Yahoo! can! help! us! now! master!A worrying trend for Microsoft's search engine was revealed last Friday: Bing's market share remained flat over the last two months while Google clawed back web surfers.… |
| Top 500 Supers: Détente in East, West petaflops race Posted: 14 Nov 2011 06:02 AM PST An arsenal of big iron deploying soonSC11 For the first time since the Top 500 rankings of supercomputers was started back in 1993, the top 10 machines on the list are ranked in exactly the same order as they were in the list six months ago. But the HPC racket is set to explode, with multi-petaflops machines in the works using new processors and GPU coprocessors.… |
| Never lose that .uk again: Decade-long renewals OK'd Posted: 14 Nov 2011 05:44 AM PST Or renew for just a yearUK businesses will be able to register their .co.uk internet addresses for up to a decade at a time under a new and more flexible policy agreed by registry Nominet.… |
| Freebie Android anti-malware scanners flunk tests Posted: 14 Nov 2011 05:29 AM PST Worse than uselessMany free-of-charge antivirus products fail to protect Android smartphone against malware effectively, leaving users with a false sense of security as a result.… |
| Conflict mineral laws <i>haven't</i> helped Congolese Posted: 14 Nov 2011 05:14 AM PST 20,000 miners families starve while NGOs twiddle their thumbsSo the tantalum for the capacitors in our electronics comes from columbo-tantalite, which is coltan, which comes from militias in the Congo, so we should have a law making sure that no tantalum for our electronics comes from militias in the Congo. Fine, we do have that now, it's part of Dodd Frank*, and how's it working out?… |
| Kindle Fire ignites blazing developer interest Posted: 14 Nov 2011 05:01 AM PST May 'resurrect the entire Android tablet category'Amazon's Kindle Fire has built up quite a head of steam among gadget fans in anticipation of its Tuesday release – and now a new survey shows that that developers are feeling the warmth, as well.… |
| Samsung RV720 17in Core i3 notebook Posted: 14 Nov 2011 04:57 AM PST Big screen bargain?Review Desktop replacement laptops are a genre of portable computer apparently intent on chuntering on forever without ever truly succeeding or dying. By nature, they tend not to be petite, and Samsung's RV720 is no exception.… |
| Diaspora co-founder dies at 22 Posted: 14 Nov 2011 04:51 AM PST Open-source Facebook alternative loses 'key voice'Open-source social network Diaspora has launched a redesigned alpha version of its software, with invites going out to users of the site hours before it was confirmed that co-founder Ilya Zhitomirskiy, 22, had died.… |
| O2 smears 4G trial over capital Posted: 14 Nov 2011 04:42 AM PST Growing from Slough like a 100Mb/s fungusO2 is spreading its LTE trial across The Big Smoke, connecting up a thousand people at 4G speeds for the next seven months* to see what Londoners' can do with 100Mb/s.… |
| Pros thrash amateurs in Hong Kong iPhone 4S race Posted: 14 Nov 2011 04:31 AM PST No black, no white... just greyApple's iPhone 4S launch in Hong Kong was marred by scuffles, scalpers and the turning away of over 2,000 wannabe customers, according to local reports.… |
| Oracle coughs up $35m owed in unpaid overtime pay Posted: 14 Nov 2011 04:21 AM PST Settlement after bosses sued by own staffOracle will cough up $35m to resolve a class-action dispute with 1,725 of its workers in the US over unpaid overtime and meal allowances.… |
| Dud Mars probe's explosion will spare Earth's cities Posted: 14 Nov 2011 04:09 AM PST Clock ticking on orbiting 7,500kg tank of fuelThe chief of the Russian space agency has assured the public that the stalled and uncommunicative Mars probe Phobos-Grunt will not smash into a populated area of Earth.… |
| Robo-bear helps snorers snooze more smoothly Posted: 14 Nov 2011 03:59 AM PST Tickle for a quiet nightIf you're sick of applying Sinex before sleep, fearful that snores will prompt your spouse to groan, prod and eventually stick an old sock in your mouth, then perhaps this robotic polar bear is the way forward.… |
| Vacuum cleaner set Swedish nuke plant on fire Posted: 14 Nov 2011 03:51 AM PST £170m blunder put reactor out of action for monthsA nuclear powerplant in Sweden was put out of action for seven months at a cost of 1.8 billion kronor (£170m) after a vacuum cleaner was mistakenly left inside its containment vessel during tests, according to reports.… |
| Intel out to add NFC payment tech to Ultrabooks Posted: 14 Nov 2011 03:42 AM PST Tap your card on your laptop to payIntel wants to build contactless payment tech into Ultrabooks.… |
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