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- HP welds data center containers into EcoPODs
- Mac OS X Lion debuts in July as $29.99 upgrade
- Apple opens iCloud to world+dog
- HP erects common storage platform
- Stolen RSA data used to hack defense contractor
- Oracle cranks Red Hat Linux clone to 6.1
- Microsoft drops Halo 4 hint ahead of E3 keynote
- Adobe rushes out patch for all-platform Flash vuln
- Desktop virtualisation: Yes, it's cheaper
- Cameron calls for ISP-level parental censorship tools
- Speck SeeThru MacBook Air cover
- Gov fails to have knowledge of itself on websites
- Mellanox forges switch-hitting ConnectX-3 adapters
- Tech 'tecs quiz Yorkshireman in Facebook hack probe
- Boffins develop working MALE PILL
- Apple hit by new competition complaint as iCloud launches
- HP enterprise bigshot packs it in after just three months
- Movie-goer punts 3D-to-2D cinema specs
- 'Dodgy Android apps are breaking our phones' - Motorola
- IDC slashes PC sales forecast for 2011
- Google grabs social networking trawler PostRank
- FBI affiliates hacked by LulzSec
- LG Optimus 3D dual core Android smartphone
- Sandi Toksvig puts the 'n' into cuts - on the Beeb
- Xbox 360 sales reach Sony-smashing milestone
- Google acting as a 'political tool', says China
- Japan seeks unheard-of new uses for cell location data
- Oxfam's 'Grow' world hunger plan: More peasants
- Virgin IT dept shocked by donkey-shagging Taliban
- Aussie vendor pledges to ship 'first' Chrome laptop this week
- Strange portents in the storage world
- Scality shows off its mighty RING
- Windows 8: Microsoft’s high-stakes .NET tablet gamble
- Auf Wiedersehen, Hipster Hitler
- Antimatter hangs around at CERN
| HP welds data center containers into EcoPODs Posted: 06 Jun 2011 02:43 PM PDT 69 kilowatts per rackHewlett-Packard is still one of the big believers in containerized data centers, and the reason is simple: A select number of customers who are focused on power efficiency, speed of deployment, or both pay HP money to weld these things together and slap a coat of paint on them.… |
| Mac OS X Lion debuts in July as $29.99 upgrade Posted: 06 Jun 2011 02:39 PM PDT Jobs claims 250 new features, 3,000 new APIsMac OS X Lion – the next incarnation of Apple's desktop, notebook, and server operating system – will go on sale in July at a price of $29.99.… |
| Apple opens iCloud to world+dog Posted: 06 Jun 2011 01:47 PM PDT Jobs: 'It's not as crap as MobileMe. Promise'Apple's new iCloud will be the online repository for Contacts, Calendars, Mail, Photos, and iTunes. Less expected – but hoped for – was news that the cloudy storage locker will also be available to third-party developers to provide document storage and retrieval for their apps.… |
| HP erects common storage platform Posted: 06 Jun 2011 11:58 AM PDT Ibrix, LeftHand, and StoreOnce embracedHP has announced Store360, common storage services software that uses underlying ProLiant and BladeSystem hardware, with storage personalities layered on top.… |
| Stolen RSA data used to hack defense contractor Posted: 06 Jun 2011 11:52 AM PDT SecurID woes catch up to Lockheed MartinDefense contractor Lockheed Martin has confirmed that a recent attack on its network was aided by the theft of confidential data relating to RSA SecurID tokens employees use to access sensitive corporate and government computer systems.… |
| Oracle cranks Red Hat Linux clone to 6.1 Posted: 06 Jun 2011 10:31 AM PDT Ellison laughs at anti-cloning tacticsIf you needed a demonstration that Oracle is not CentOS, then look no further than the fact that only two weeks after Red Hat announced its Enterprise Linux 6.1 update, software giant Oracle has kicked out its Linux 6.1 clone. This is despite Red Hat's attempts to slow down the RHEL cloners and others – such as Oracle and the former Novell – that offer technical support for RHEL distributions.… |
| Microsoft drops Halo 4 hint ahead of E3 keynote Posted: 06 Jun 2011 09:09 AM PDT Cock-up or conspiracy?Microsoft has let slip its E3 lineup ahead of this afternoon's keynote, with the topic of Halo 4 high on the agenda, apparently.… |
| Adobe rushes out patch for all-platform Flash vuln Posted: 06 Jun 2011 08:35 AM PDT Came out on Sunday - must be importantAdobe has fixed a potentially serious cross-platform security bug in its Flash Player software with an out-of-sequence security update.… |
| Desktop virtualisation: Yes, it's cheaper Posted: 06 Jun 2011 08:29 AM PDT PCs burn through the moneyOpinion Yes, a virtualised desktop environment can save you money - and trouble - if you do it right. Get it wrong and it can cost you more, so it's worth planning properly before jumping in feet-first.… |
| Cameron calls for ISP-level parental censorship tools Posted: 06 Jun 2011 08:09 AM PDT Save our online nippers from porn and - worse - adsPrime Minister David Cameron has warned ISPs to be more robust with their plans to provide better tools to help parents censor sexualised content online, or else the government could step in with its own regulation measures.… |
| Speck SeeThru MacBook Air cover Posted: 06 Jun 2011 08:00 AM PDT Colour your metalTxt Take Daily Product reviews in 140 characters...… |
| Gov fails to have knowledge of itself on websites Posted: 06 Jun 2011 07:46 AM PDT Mandarins unable to achieve releaseThe Cabinet Office has missed a key deadline for the release of information on the number of central government websites in operation.… |
| Mellanox forges switch-hitting ConnectX-3 adapters Posted: 06 Jun 2011 07:29 AM PDT The server companion to SwitchX switch chipsNetworking chip, adapter card and switch maker Mellanox is rounding out its converged InfiniBand-Ethernet product line with the debut of the ConnectX-3 integrated circuits and network adapter cards built using the chips.… |
| Tech 'tecs quiz Yorkshireman in Facebook hack probe Posted: 06 Jun 2011 07:08 AM PDT 'Ecky thoomp! Rum 'un pwns t' social network?Police have arrested and questioned a Yorkshire man over allegations that he hacked into social networking website Facebook.… |
| Boffins develop working MALE PILL Posted: 06 Jun 2011 06:39 AM PDT For mice and (maybe soon) menStateside boffins think that they may have delivered a long-sought boon: a male oral contraceptive without undesirable side effects.… |
| Apple hit by new competition complaint as iCloud launches Posted: 06 Jun 2011 06:15 AM PDT Germans' streams choked off by fondleslab strangleholdA German music site has lodged a competition complaint against Apple ahead of its iCloud launch later today.… |
| HP enterprise bigshot packs it in after just three months Posted: 06 Jun 2011 05:51 AM PDT No replacement yet lined up for vanishing FrenchmanHewlett-Packard has confirmed that the SVP and GM of sales for its enterprise server, storage and networking (ESSN) division across EMEA has resigned just three months after taking on the role.… |
| Movie-goer punts 3D-to-2D cinema specs Posted: 06 Jun 2011 05:21 AM PDT Changing dimensionsAre you regularly forced to sit through 3D kids' flicks in the cinema, generating inevitable headaches and eyestrain, powerless to do anything except hide behind your popcorn and cower at the daunting visuals?… |
| 'Dodgy Android apps are breaking our phones' - Motorola Posted: 06 Jun 2011 04:58 AM PDT Claim 70% of duff handset returns caused by crappsMotorola's CEO reckons 70 per cent of smartphone returns are caused by third-party applications dragging down their devices, thanks to the openness of the Android platform.… |
| IDC slashes PC sales forecast for 2011 Posted: 06 Jun 2011 04:41 AM PDT Fear the fondle slab!IDC today nearly halved its worldwide PC shipment growth forecast for 2011 on the back of continued sluggish consumer demand in mature markets.… |
| Google grabs social networking trawler PostRank Posted: 06 Jun 2011 04:31 AM PDT May land rich catch of slippery, malodorous marketeersGoogle has bought PostRank – an analytics firm which claims to make sense from the likes of Facebook, Twitter and other social networking sites.… |
| FBI affiliates hacked by LulzSec Posted: 06 Jun 2011 04:13 AM PDT Mischiefcreants, password-reusing 'hat swap mudMischief-making hacking group LulzSec hacked into the systems of an FBI-affiliated public-private partnership organisation, defacing its website and leaking its email database in the process.… |
| LG Optimus 3D dual core Android smartphone Posted: 06 Jun 2011 04:01 AM PDT Outstanding display?Review Fancy a Nintendo 3DS so you can play 3D games on the move but don't have the pocket space for a console and a mobile? LG has come up with an alternative in the (sizeable) shape of its Optimus 3D. Like the Nintendo games machine, this phone offers 3D without those darn glasses you need at the cinema. And it also has twin cameras, so you can shoot 3D stills and video.… |
| Sandi Toksvig puts the 'n' into cuts - on the Beeb Posted: 06 Jun 2011 04:00 AM PDT Only children who can spell properly could be offendedThe BBC has defended a joke by The News Quiz presenter Sandi Toksvig which, according to the Daily Mail, may have irreparably undermined the very bedrock of decency on which Middle England stands.… |
| Xbox 360 sales reach Sony-smashing milestone Posted: 06 Jun 2011 03:51 AM PDT Microsoft has X-factor in popularity contestMicrosoft has revealed it passed the 55m mark for sales of the Xbox 360 console last week, putting it ahead of the PS3 in the overall global sales standing.… |
| Google acting as a 'political tool', says China Posted: 06 Jun 2011 03:43 AM PDT 'Chimerical' spear-phish story breathed on by the DragonChina has issued a clear warning against Google's plans to grow its business in the People's Republic and labelled the company a "political tool" after hacking claims the company made against Beijing last week.… |
| Japan seeks unheard-of new uses for cell location data Posted: 06 Jun 2011 03:29 AM PDT Big Brother by no means the only interested partyJapanese operator NTT Docomo plans to use its store of location data to work out where to build more houses, and how many people get stuck during an earthquake.… |
| Oxfam's 'Grow' world hunger plan: More peasants Posted: 06 Jun 2011 03:06 AM PDT Hippie-crats correct on axing farm subsidies, thoComment Oxfam's latest campaign, "Grow", seems so lovely and cuddly that to criticise it is almost like torturing puppies. What could be wrong with trying to feed the hungry and thus make the world a better place? Alas, if wishes were kings we could all be monarchs for the day and what's wrong with the campaign is not the initial wish but the list of damn fool things it intends to do.… |
| Virgin IT dept shocked by donkey-shagging Taliban Posted: 06 Jun 2011 02:26 AM PDT Four battle airline in porn spam-shot sack rumpusFour Virgin Atlantic employees at Gatwick airport were sacked after a video purportedly showing a member of the Taliban having sex with a donkey was emailed to the airline's entire IT department.… |
| Aussie vendor pledges to ship 'first' Chrome laptop this week Posted: 06 Jun 2011 02:09 AM PDT To Pommies, tooWant a notebook based on Google's Chrome OS? Want it this week? Aussie online retailer Kogan is promising Brits just that.… |
| Strange portents in the storage world Posted: 06 Jun 2011 01:58 AM PDT IDC minstrels tell of the vanished giant DellBig changes are afoot in the storage world, with IDC's storage tracker showing NetApp outgrowing everybody, Dell fading and HDS coming on strong. EMC is still top dog but HP and IBM are faltering.… |
| Scality shows off its mighty RING Posted: 06 Jun 2011 01:01 AM PDT 'Our ring is resilient and self-healing'French supplier Scality has updated its RING software with a major release which proves, it claims, that object-based storage can be faster than SAN or NAS for unstructured data operations.… |
| Windows 8: Microsoft’s high-stakes .NET tablet gamble Posted: 05 Jun 2011 08:00 PM PDT No room in the HTML/Javascript lifeboatThere is a long discussion over on the official Silverlight forum about Microsoft's Windows 8 demo at D9 and what was said, and not said; and another over on Channel 9, Microsoft's video-centric community site for developers.… |
| Auf Wiedersehen, Hipster Hitler Posted: 05 Jun 2011 07:22 PM PDT RedBubble don't Reich youWhat started as a row over tasteless art is now engulfing RedBubble co-founder Martin Hosking in a conflict-of-interest furore as well.… |
| Antimatter hangs around at CERN Posted: 05 Jun 2011 04:51 PM PDT Anti-hydrogen lives for 1,000 secondsScientists at CERN have published the results of experiments in which they captured anti-hydrogen particles for 1,000 seconds before annihilation.… |
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