SoftLayer tailors HPC clouds with GPU lining

SoftLayer tailors HPC clouds with GPU lining


SoftLayer tailors HPC clouds with GPU lining

Posted: 17 Apr 2012 02:05 PM PDT

Have Tesla, will crunch

Hosting and cloud computing service provider SoftLayer is getting into the modern hybrid supercomputer racket with the launch of GPU-enhanced server instances.…

Intel beats Q1 expectations, jacks up revenue forecast

Posted: 17 Apr 2012 01:50 PM PDT

Says Thai flood effect now all washed up

Intel crept in over expectations with its Q1 results today, though its silicon business dipped 2 per cent on the previous year's slightly longer quarter.…

Appcelerator ties on cloudy back-end for Titanium devs

Posted: 17 Apr 2012 01:04 PM PDT

Waves $5,000 at Titanium 2.0 launch

Appcelerator has updated its Titanium mobile developer platform to add scalable cloud service integration to the back-end of applications following its acquisition of Cocoafish in February.…

WD lets loose ferocious 1TB VelociRaptor

Posted: 17 Apr 2012 11:04 AM PDT

Doubled-capacity drive-maker tears into weak flash hybrids

WD has boosted the capacity of its 10K VelociRaptor disk drive, jumping to a 1TB capacity from the current 600GB.…

Microsoft goes global with System Center 2012 at MMC

Posted: 17 Apr 2012 10:53 AM PDT

Windows Server gets 2012 moniker too

Microsoft announced the global release of System Center 2012 at its 10th annual Microsoft Management Summit in Las Vegas this morning, and has confirmed that the server version of Windows 8 will be released as Windows Server 2012.…

Austrian village considers a F**king name change

Posted: 17 Apr 2012 10:39 AM PDT

Residents to spare blushes with double G-string

An Austrian village with an amusingly obscene name has decided to throw in the towel and vote on whether to change it.…

Toshiba gobbles IBM's POS biz for $850m

Posted: 17 Apr 2012 10:01 AM PDT

Big Blue sheds another hardware biz

As was rumored, IBM is indeed selling off its Retail Store Systems (RSS) division to competitor Toshiba. And it will be getting $850m (£530m) for it.…

Speaking in Tech: Forget G-Drive hype, try Dropbox-for-Big-Biz

Posted: 17 Apr 2012 09:33 AM PDT

Plus: iOS versus Android in enterprise security

Microsoft details Halo 4 release

Posted: 17 Apr 2012 09:18 AM PDT

Master Chief is back

Microsoft has said that the keenly awaited Halo 4 will be launched worldwide on 6 November 2012.…

Dad sues Apple for pushing cash-draining 'free' games at kids

Posted: 17 Apr 2012 09:02 AM PDT

Rugrats ran up bill with in-app purchases

An iPhone-owner whose daughter downloaded $200 (£125) worth of "Zombie Toxin" and "Gems" through in-app purchases on his iPhone has been allowed to pursue a class action suit against Apple for compensation of up to $5m (£).…

Google faces WHOPPING FTC fine for Safari privacy gaffe

Posted: 17 Apr 2012 08:31 AM PDT

Millions of juiced Apple surfers could add up to huge blow

Google is reportedly going to be slapped with a bigger regulatory fine than the meagre one handed down to it from the US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) late last week.…

Windows 8 diet exposes Microsoft's weak ARM

Posted: 17 Apr 2012 08:01 AM PDT

Three boxes, two tablets, no clear choice

Microsoft has put Windows marketing on a diet, cutting the number of packaged editions from six under Windows 7 to just three main versions for its latest OS, which is due later this year.…

Samsung boss vows siblings won't see a penny of inheritance

Posted: 17 Apr 2012 07:32 AM PDT

Lee Kun-hee claims they already got their share

Samsung Electronics chairman Lee Kun-hee has vowed that his siblings won't see a penny more of his father's inheritance than they already have – and said that he'd sue them right back.…

POWERFUL solar flare belched at Mars rover Curiosity

Posted: 17 Apr 2012 07:03 AM PDT

NASA robot hit by giant blast en route to Red Planet

Vid  NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory satellite has spotted a giant eruption off the surface of the Sun that will hit rover Curiosity on its way to Mars.…

Mystery hologram disc upstart gobbles InPhase blueprints

Posted: 17 Apr 2012 06:31 AM PDT

Storage biz flickers into life, beams up rival's assets

3D holographic storage upstart hVault has bought assets of crashed rival InPhase and announced it will ship systems in the spring.…

ICANN battled dot-word TLD registration leak bug for WEEKS

Posted: 17 Apr 2012 06:02 AM PDT

Reopening of wonky application site stalled

Red-faced ICANN has delayed its new generic top-level domains programme again as it struggles to deal with the fallout of a security bug that exposed confidential data about applicants.…

Telefonica recruits EA to lure punters with games, deals

Posted: 17 Apr 2012 05:39 AM PDT

O2 might be a bit-pipe, but Telefonica won't be

Telefonica Digital, the service branch of O2's owner, has signed a content deal with Electronic Arts in the hope of cementing customer relationships with bundled deals.…

RIM mulls pimping BlackBerry OS to Samsung – report

Posted: 17 Apr 2012 05:16 AM PDT

Troubled biz brings in the bankers

RIM is seeking a financial consultant to help it with its recent money woes and is considering licensing out its mobile operating system, according to a report in Bloomberg.…

Apple screws UK disties, punts just 13,000 iPads to channel

Posted: 17 Apr 2012 05:00 AM PDT

Foxconn-rebrander shifts 3m latest slabs on its own

Apple neglected the channel when divvying up stocks of the latest iPad, but disties that laid hands on the device found the margins were slightly more generous than on previous generations.…

What’s life like for VARs, Resellers, Distributors and SIs?

Posted: 17 Apr 2012 04:44 AM PDT

Is business picking up or looking down?

The New Year is now well past the first flush of youth and spring budgets should be in the air. But how are things shaping up in the businesses that get IT solutions into the hands, or at least computer rooms and racks, of most companies? If you are working in a VAR, a reseller, a distributor, systems integrator or consultancy advising on IT purchases, we want to find out how you see the markets shaping up in your neck of the woods.…

Ikea to integrate TV, Blu-ray, sound system into sideboard

Posted: 17 Apr 2012 04:32 AM PDT

Flat-pack AV kit, anyone?

Ikea, the Swedish flat-pack furniture giant, is to offer its design-conscious punters consumer electronics equipment, it said today.…

BT wants to poke fingers in EVERY broadband cash pie

Posted: 17 Apr 2012 04:21 AM PDT

Minister grilled as telco bids for all eight cabling gigs

Broadband minister Ed Vaizey confirmed to MPs yesterday that BT was bidding for all eight cabling projects currently in procurement.…

Panasonic PT-AT5000E LCD projector

Posted: 17 Apr 2012 04:00 AM PDT

Fully loaded home Hollywood

Review  Panasonic has notched up some memorable firsts when it comes to home cinema projection. Not only was it the first brand to introduce a native 16:9 widescreen model, it led the way with Full HD too.…

Cellco execs lay into Nokia's Lumia

Posted: 17 Apr 2012 03:52 AM PDT

WinPho efforts inadequate, apparently

Major European mobile phone network operators reckon Nokia's Lumia smartphones simply aren't good enough to compete with the likes of Apple and Samsung.…

Cameron 'to change his mind' on the one thing he got right in Defence

Posted: 17 Apr 2012 03:42 AM PDT

US carrier kit would be really expensive ... says BAE

Comment  The Strategic Defence and Security Review of 2010 was, overall, a total cockup: but there was one major decision in it which made good sense for British servicemen and taxpayers. It now seems more and more likely that Prime Minister David Cameron, prompted by arms mammoth BAE Systems and by the RAF, intends to reverse that move and continue the destruction of British combat power which has been underway now for more than a decade.…

Paddy Power website fell at Grand National first fence

Posted: 17 Apr 2012 03:18 AM PDT

Wagering whale fails for 20 mins on race day

Irish betting behemoth Paddy Power is giving out a free bet to customers after its website crashed for 20 minutes just before the Grand National horse race on Saturday.…

Hitachi's flexible servers sport homegrown LPAR virtualization

Posted: 17 Apr 2012 03:02 AM PDT

And maybe an OEM agreement with IBM, too

Sometimes Hitachi and IBM are bitter enemies, as they were in the peak days of the mainframe market, and sometimes they are partners, as they have been with Hitachi making some entry mainframes for Big Blue in recent years while also reselling IBM's Power-based AIX servers in Japan. It looks like the two are working together on their new converged systems, too.…

SpaceX Dragon gets green-light for launch to Space Station

Posted: 17 Apr 2012 02:39 AM PDT

Treat-laden private rocket in May ISS hookup

Pic  Elon Musk's SpaceX is getting ready to make history after its Dragon spacecraft was given the go-ahead for a 30 April launch for its resupply mission to the International Space Station.…

Oracle v Google could clear way for copyright on languages, APIs

Posted: 17 Apr 2012 02:12 AM PDT

And here's why that would be a VERY BAD THING

Analysis  Computer languages and software interfaces may fall under copyright protection if Oracle succeeds in its Java lawsuit against Google. Amazingly, "copyfighters" appear to have paid little or no notice to this rare extension of copyright into new realms. But the consequences and costs for the software industry could be enormous.…

Instagram

Posted: 17 Apr 2012 02:00 AM PDT

A picture tells 1000 words 140 characters

Android App of the Week  At last, the much vaunted iPhone picture blogging app has arrived on Android and, judging by the one million downloads it saw on the day of release, it's been eagerly awaited.…

Google G-drive app leak sparks 5GB file vault riddle

Posted: 17 Apr 2012 01:39 AM PDT

Will Gmail giant enlarge docs package?

Scads of rumours are belting through the internet regarding Google's supposed entry into online file storage and sharing next week - giving the likes of Dropbox a heart attack in the process.…

HP loses MoD payroll and pensions deal to CSC

Posted: 17 Apr 2012 01:02 AM PDT

US firm snaps up 7-year service bods and veterans contract

HP has lost the contract to supply pay, HR and pensions administration to the Service Personnel and Veterans Agency (SPVA) for the UK armed forces.…

Hold on, Booker prize judges - Stob's penned a steampunk hit

Posted: 17 Apr 2012 12:33 AM PDT

Everyone has a novel in them. Sadly this includes Reg columnist Verity

Stob  Somewhere on the hard drive of every programmer-wannabe-writer's laptop there is the first chapter of an unfinished steam punk novel. Here's mine.

Nordic region, Ireland adopt new 'connected telly' standard

Posted: 17 Apr 2012 12:01 AM PDT

Follow in Europe's footsteps - leaving Blighty's YouViewers behind

Nordig, the parent broadcasting organisation for the Nordic countries, plus Ireland, has issued a new specification for broadcasting. It has dropped MHP as its interactive primary broadcasting protocol and adopting Hybrid Broadcast Broadband TV (HbbTV). The standard is already taking off in Germany, France, the Netherlands and Spain, and to this we can now add most of the Nordic countries. This leaves the UK, which has instead chosen its own YouView standard, more and more isolated.…

Global chocolate crisis looms

Posted: 16 Apr 2012 11:10 PM PDT

Expert warns of 'instability in cacao growing areas'

The world's chocolate supply is at risk, according to Professor David Guest of the University of Sydney's Faculty of Agriculture and Environment.…

Toshiba Regza 46YL863 46in Smart TV

Posted: 16 Apr 2012 11:00 PM PDT

A visible difference

Review  Powered by a multitasking image processor and dressed by Danish design house Jacob Jensen, Toshiba's 46YL863 is not your run-of-the-mill 3D TV. Indeed, its maker's herald it as one of the most sophisticated TVs ever. But can it really justify such hyperbole?…

Twitter gets all aggressive with Japan expansion

Posted: 16 Apr 2012 10:47 PM PDT

Firm has one eye on China as it spreads its wings

Japan beware – micro-blogging phenomenon Twitter has stated its intent to expand "aggressively" in the land of the rising sun.…

China's bullet trains to get face-invading cameras

Posted: 16 Apr 2012 10:05 PM PDT

Ticket to ride ... all the way to jail

Chinese police will soon be able to use face recognition technology to catch crims, with cameras to be installed at several stations on the Beijing to Shanghai high speed railway.…

ATA CEO resigns

Posted: 16 Apr 2012 10:00 PM PDT

Call centre body to look for replacement

The ATA, the peak body for call centre industry, has lost its CEO Michael Meredith, who held the position for 12 years, has resigned to pursue other business activities.…

China warns domestic mobile phone makers of IP dangers

Posted: 16 Apr 2012 08:14 PM PDT

Beware of the big bad patent bogeyman...

China's IT ministry has warned domestic handset makers to beware of getting sucked into the escalating number of intellectual property disputes currently disrupting the smartphone industry.…

Google finally secures gmail.de domain

Posted: 16 Apr 2012 08:11 PM PDT

German trademark dispute ends after eight years

After an eight year fight, Google has secured the domain gmail.de.…

Microsoft to bake Windows 8 in three flavours

Posted: 16 Apr 2012 06:31 PM PDT

'8' and '8 Pro' for PCs, 'RT' for tablets

Microsoft has announced that Windows 8 will come in three versions.…

Telstra to launch MOG streaming music service

Posted: 16 Apr 2012 05:44 PM PDT

Launch timed to beat Spotify?

Telstra has announced it will soon launch the MOG streaming music service on antipodean shores.…

TV sports rights survive Optus’ TV Now win

Posted: 16 Apr 2012 05:01 PM PDT

'Worthless' equals $AU1.2 billion

Back when Optus won its first-round court battle with a Federal Court finding that TV Now does not breach copyright, the warnings were dire: Australia's broadcasters would not pay a cent for rights with Optus streaming games to mobiles.…

Google-backed research fights review spam

Posted: 16 Apr 2012 05:00 PM PDT

Seeing through the sockpuppet

University of Illinois at Chicago researchers are taking aim at fake reviews, which they say can seriously damage online businesses.…

Pew study finds one in five Americans still won't go online

Posted: 16 Apr 2012 04:50 PM PDT

Luddite fringe exposed as internet use plateaus

A hardcore 20 per cent of Americans ain't using the internet and don't want to neither, according to the latest survey data from the Pew Internet and American Life project.…

Microsoft sharpens Azure media tools ahead of Olympics

Posted: 16 Apr 2012 04:37 PM PDT

Redmond goes Vegas to tempt big media

Microsoft has announced the "preview" of Windows Azure Media Services, a set of tools to let media companies host, stream and encode content.…

German software giant plucks London software outfit

Posted: 16 Apr 2012 04:03 PM PDT

my-Channels is now Software AG's

Software AG has hoovered up a UK-based messaging software developer founded by a bunch of Deutsche Bank alumni.…

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