Time to say goodbye to Risc / Itanium Unix?

Time to say goodbye to Risc / Itanium Unix?
A cloud hangs over the sysadmin
Samsung UE40D6530 LED 3D TV
The New C++: Lay down your guns, knives, and clubs
Inside the 'funky' history of Groupon's biggest shareholder

Posted: 11 Jun 2011 05:00 AM PDT

Depends upon your coffee cup collection

Twenty years ago open systems was the battle cry that shook the absurdly profitable proprietary mainframe and minicomputer markets.…

A cloud hangs over the sysadmin

Posted: 11 Jun 2011 03:00 AM PDT

Reasons to be fearful?

The IT job sector has been under increasing pressure. A couple of decades ago it was easy to imagine IT as a job for life, but outsourcing, offshoring and the dot-bomb brought wave upon wave of uncertainty to IT professionals.…

Samsung UE40D6530 LED 3D TV

Posted: 11 Jun 2011 12:00 AM PDT

Cut-price super-skinny telly with all the trimmings

Review When it comes to features, Samsung's UE40D6530 40in LED telly doesn't skimp on anything much. Freeview HD, 3D, Video on Demand, Skype, integrated web browser, social media apps, media streaming, PVR recording to external hard drive – it's all here. This isn't so much a TV as an all in one entertainment centre. And priced at £1099, Samsung is clearly planning to shift a lot of these puppies.…

The New C++: Lay down your guns, knives, and clubs

Posted: 10 Jun 2011 07:52 PM PDT

Pick up your multI-cores

"The world is built on C++," Herb Sutter tells The Reg. Considering he's one of the language's chief stewards, we question his impartiality. But he does have a point.…

Inside the 'funky' history of Groupon's biggest shareholder

Posted: 10 Jun 2011 05:03 PM PDT

Remember The New Economy? You better

A decade before he helped found Groupon – the online daily-deals site that turned so many heads last week when it filed for an IPO valuing itself at $30bn – Eric Lefkofsky ran a startup called Starbelly.com.…

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