HP P10000 storage array more and less than expected

HP P10000 storage array more and less than expected


HP P10000 storage array more and less than expected

Posted: 23 Aug 2011 03:26 PM PDT

New ASIC, yes; SAS support, no

HP's new P10000 3PAR Storage System array, announced Tuesday, is both more and less than expected, with a new ASIC but no SAS drive support. Array federation across 3PAR and LeftHand arrays was also announced.…

Facebook revamps privacy settings (again)

Posted: 23 Aug 2011 02:23 PM PDT

Promises more control over who sees what

Facing heat from finer-grained privacy settings in Google+, Facebook has revamped the controls account holders use to designate who gets to see their pictures, posts, and other content.…

Jesus Phone gives Sprint redemption 'this October'

Posted: 23 Aug 2011 02:15 PM PDT

Mobile soothsayers speak

Sprint Nextel will become the third US wireless carrier to offer Apple's iPhone, according to the ever-loquacious "people familiar with the matter".…

Lenovo ThinkPad Tablet goes on sale

Posted: 23 Aug 2011 02:11 PM PDT

iPad competitor touts business chops

Mere days after HP threw its TouchPad tablet under the bus, Lenovo has tossed its new iPad-killer candidate into the marketplace.…

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Hong Kong police cuff suspect in stock market attacks

Posted: 23 Aug 2011 12:54 PM PDT

Crashed website disrupted trading

Police have arrested a man they say is connected to a website attack earlier this month that disrupted trading on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange.…

Ruby on Rails cloud envelops PHP shop

Posted: 23 Aug 2011 12:33 PM PDT

Orchestra plays in the Engine Yard

Engine Yard – a San Francisco startup offering a "platform cloud" for Ruby on Rails applications – is buying Orchestra, a Dublin-based outfit that provides a similar service for PHP applications.…

Nuke plant shut down after US earthquake

Posted: 23 Aug 2011 12:29 PM PDT

Diesel backups kick in

A strong earthquake with its epicenter in central Virgina has caused two nuclear reactors at Louisa County's 1,806 megawatt, two-unit North Anna Power Station to be automatically taken offline.…

Samsung says Apple lifted iPad from Kubrick's <i>2001</i>

Posted: 23 Aug 2011 10:13 AM PDT

'I'm sorry, Dave. I'm afraid I can't run Adobe Flash'

In courts across the world, Apple has accused Samsung of pilfering ideas from the brains of Jobsian fondleslab engineers. And Samsung has now responded by accusing Apple of pilfering ideas from the brain of Stanley Kubrick.…

Hey, Music Industry. You're suing the wrong people

Posted: 23 Aug 2011 10:13 AM PDT

Price is the problem. Not pirates

Open...and Shut  After years of lawsuits and fearmongering by the music industry, one thing is clear about piracy: the industry has been suing the wrong people.…

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EMC/Cisco virtual venture CEO vanishes

Posted: 23 Aug 2011 09:16 AM PDT

VCE chief disappears, like an old oak table

VCE – the EMC and Cisco backed Virtual Compute Environment – appears to have lost its CEO.…

New GPL licence touted as saviour of Linux, Android

Posted: 23 Aug 2011 08:01 AM PDT

Tough on lawyers, and on the causes of lawyers

The Free Software Foundation reckons its new version of the General Public Licence removes the problems bedevilling version two, but not everyone is convinced the problem even exists.…

NASA to work on approved sci-fi books

Posted: 23 Aug 2011 07:51 AM PDT

Will feature a manned US space programme

NASA is working with a publisher to create a series of sci-fi books inspired by NASA's work.…

Four months' porridge for 20-minute Facebook riot page

Posted: 23 Aug 2011 07:41 AM PDT

Bangor unsurprisingly did not burn to the ground

A 21-year-old man has been sentenced to four months in jail for a brief riot-supporting post on Facebook.…

Facebook looks to gobble 7 more companies this year

Posted: 23 Aug 2011 06:47 AM PDT

Who wants to be Zuckerberg's new bitch?

Facebook wants 2011 to be the company's biggest year to date for acquisitions.…

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Google closes Android developer complaint forums

Posted: 23 Aug 2011 06:23 AM PDT

Silent support costs more, but it's less embarrassing

Google is shutting down the Marketplace forums which have, until now, required Android developers to resolve their problems in public and without much in the way of official support.…

iRumours: Flash sources point to cheap iPhone 4. Or 5

Posted: 23 Aug 2011 06:10 AM PDT

Or whatever

A Korean company is apparently manufacturing a Flash drive for an 8GB version of the Apple iPhone 4, according to sources interviewed by Reuters.…

Nokia goes gold with sparkly smartphone

Posted: 23 Aug 2011 06:04 AM PDT

Bling ringer

Nokia continued its bling initiative today, announcing a gold-clad smartphone for the aspiring Del Boy or extravagant pimp.…

BlackBerry Curve 9360 hits UK

Posted: 23 Aug 2011 06:00 AM PDT

All fingers and thumbs

Hands on  RIM has launched the BlackBerry Curve 9360 in the UK, featuring BlackBerry 7 OS and BBM6, the company's fuel in the crowd jewel-in-the-crown messenger service.…

Facebook, Twitter: Doing better than before Google+

Posted: 23 Aug 2011 05:52 AM PDT

Swelled visitor numbers in July ... bitch

The demise of Facebook appears to have been much exaggerated, as July saw the social network's highest ever unique visitor numbers, according to comScore.…

Microsoft Hyper-V floats Chinese military Linux

Posted: 23 Aug 2011 05:26 AM PDT

Red cloud rising

Microsoft's virtualisation stack is being updated to run a flavour of Linux built for China's national defence and other government systems.…

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New Samsung-funded Flash disruptor uncloaks

Posted: 23 Aug 2011 05:14 AM PDT

Storage applecarts tumble like leaves in a gale

You want flash disruption? You got it. Pure Storage's FlashArray is cheaper and faster than enterprise disk drive arrays but just as available and reliable. Cue major oops and headaches in Hopkinton, Sunnyvale, Palo Alto and other storage vendor HQ locations.…

Deus Ex: Human Revolution

Posted: 23 Aug 2011 05:00 AM PDT

Augmented realty

Review  Forget the lacklustre sequel Invisible War, Deus Ex: Human Revolution is the true, worthy successor to Deus Ex, a breathtaking paragon of the genre the original helped define.…

Just when you thought it was safe to enter the data centre

Posted: 23 Aug 2011 05:00 AM PDT

Always assume the horse has bolted

It is surprising that thieves don't target data centres more often. All that expensive kit and copper is worth a pretty penny, not to mention all the data that's on it.…

Cloud music-locker ruling: MP3tunes claims '99% victory'

Posted: 23 Aug 2011 04:43 AM PDT

The 1% leaves Robertson still on the hook, however

The legal fight in US Courts between record labels and music-locker cloud services continues into a full-blown case – despite both sides claiming something favourable from court rulings yesterday.…

Getting your business software requirements right

Posted: 23 Aug 2011 04:30 AM PDT

It's all in the definition

Whitepaper  Why do few developers get requirements definition right? Understanding what end-users want from a software project at the outset is crucial if projects are to remain on track. Yet a combination of poorly understood processes and inadequate tools often compromises this important phase.…

Second e-petition hits 100K: Calls for Hillsborough docs

Posted: 23 Aug 2011 04:14 AM PDT

Brits mainly care about riots and football tragedy

A second e-petition has crossed the 100,000 votes barrier, which means it will be discussed by a Commons business committee and could get debated in Parliament.…

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'The most ambitious project at eBay for a long, long time'

Posted: 23 Aug 2011 04:00 AM PDT

Inside the auction leviathan's search megaproject

"It's one of the most ambitious projects that's been undertaken at eBay for a very, very long time," vice president of search and experience technology Hugh Williams tells us on the phone. "I'd argue it's on the scale of any major search engine re-write a company has done."…

iPhone app tracks Android-equipped Surrey cops

Posted: 23 Aug 2011 03:42 AM PDT

PC459 Is: <Giving a clip round the ear> To: <Your kid>

Residents of Runnymede can now follow the goings-on of their local plod on a free iPhone app, assuming plod decides to record his location on his Huawei-supplied handset.…

Boffins build powerful yet 'table-top size' atom-smasher

Posted: 23 Aug 2011 03:28 AM PDT

Suitcase plasma cannon collider surfs on friggin LASERS

Forget about mounting your lasers on the nearest shark, what you really want is a laser plasma accelerator you can put on your kitchen table.…

Detection systems guard against network intrusion

Posted: 23 Aug 2011 03:24 AM PDT

Prevention is better than cure

Moaning Scots told 'cheer up FFS' on broadband cash

Posted: 23 Aug 2011 03:17 AM PDT

A third of the UK landmass - but 8% of the revenue

UK.gov's Secretary of State for Scotland wants the Scottish government to stop moaning about the recent rural broadband funds allocated to the country.…

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Cerberus

Posted: 23 Aug 2011 03:00 AM PDT

Three-headed smartphone protection

Android App of the Week  We've all lost our phone at one time or another. Actually, that's a lie - I've never lost my phone, wallet or car keys in my life. But assuming that to err is indeed human, Cerberus provides a simple, reliable and fairly cheap way to locate and, if necessary, disable your Android pride and joy.…

Amateur balloonists hit record 40,575m above East Anglia

Posted: 23 Aug 2011 02:44 AM PDT

Helium space orb glory marred by Antipodean beer insanity

An Oz PhD student has pulled of a bit of a blinder by hitting 40,575 metres (133,120 ft) with a helium-filled meteorological balloon - a UK record and pretty close to the all-time international amateur altitude maximum.…

Sony turns to augmented reality to sell tellies

Posted: 23 Aug 2011 02:32 AM PDT

See how your new set will look in situ

After a new telly but not sure how it'll look in your living room? Sony has come up with a neat way to find out, using augmented reality.…

Mystery railway buys 80 terabytes of Flash

Posted: 23 Aug 2011 02:25 AM PDT

'First all-silicon firm in Europe', murmurs source

Diamond Point International has sold two Violin Memory arrays, totalling 80TB of capacity, to a mystery European rail service provider.…

Nintendo said to be readying replacement for 3DS

Posted: 23 Aug 2011 02:02 AM PDT

The eyes have it

Nintendo may be preparing a 3DS revision that plays down the handheld's ability to display games and media in 3D.…

Ofcom mulls smackdown for rogue religious TV channel

Posted: 23 Aug 2011 01:58 AM PDT

Ribena is not the blood of Christ and won't cure cancer

Satellite channel Believe TV has broadcast advertisements during programmes, made unsupported claims of curing cancer and repeatedly improperly exploited its audience, says Ofcom – enough to make even the normally hands-off regulator consider a fine.…

Storage world punch-up over whether VCE is a start-up

Posted: 23 Aug 2011 01:32 AM PDT

EMC: $40m-a-quarter losses are 'expenses'

Comment  Is VCE, the VMware-Cisco-EMC entity set up to sell integrated virtualised server-networking-storage Vblocks, a startup? And how is it doing, given EMC's revelation that VCE is costing it more than $40m a quarter?…

Docs and devs: Health secretary wants healthcare apps

Posted: 23 Aug 2011 12:58 AM PDT

Death, taxes and nurses

Health secretary Andrew Lansley has launched a call for new ideas for health apps to help patients make informed decisions about their care.…

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Dell extends EqualLogic range

Posted: 23 Aug 2011 12:27 AM PDT

First iSCSI over DCB: Eat that

Dell has extended its EqualLogic iSCSI storage arrays with new products, 2.5-inch drive support, and automated tiering between EqualLogic group nodes.…

VMware's open source doppelganger gets cloudy

Posted: 22 Aug 2011 11:26 PM PDT

Convirture does Amazon, Eucalyptus, OpenStack

Convirture – an outfit that has long offered tools for managing open source hypervisors – will soon release a new version of its (partially) open source software that also oversees the use of various "infrastructure clouds", including Amazon EC2 as well as similar but private services based on platforms such as Eucalyptus and OpenStack.…

Apple MacBook Pro 17in 2011

Posted: 22 Aug 2011 11:00 PM PDT

Flagship quad-core notebook

Review  A slap across the face is what I need. It's the only language I understand. My problem is that I have played with too many Apple MacBooks over the past 18 months. They were starting to look similar, a little standard perhaps, maybe even ordinary.…

God particle back in hiding

Posted: 22 Aug 2011 06:30 PM PDT

Champagne cork back in bottle

Less than a month ago, Large Hadron Collider boffins thought they were closing in on the Higgs boson particle, but the results they had observed now look like a statistical quirk.…

Oz A-G to host ISPs and copyright industry in ‘three strikes’ confab

Posted: 22 Aug 2011 05:30 PM PDT

Don't spill blood on the carpet

Australia's attorney-general Robert McClelland will host what could be a very uncomfortable meeting in September, with the copyright industry on one side of the table, and ISPs on the other.…

HP: webOS will still run PCs and printers

Posted: 22 Aug 2011 05:05 PM PDT

'We killed it. But it's not dead'

After killing off its webOS hardware division last Thursday, HP has been working to assure the world – read: webOS developers – that there's "a dance in the old dame yet".…

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Ukrainian authorities charge four in huge carder ring

Posted: 22 Aug 2011 04:30 PM PDT

$20 million in alleged harm

Ukrainian authorities said they arrested four people who were part of organized hacking gang that caused about $20 million in damages through the use of fraudulent payment cards.…

CSC secures A$25m utility deal

Posted: 22 Aug 2011 04:30 PM PDT

10-year history stays electric

Utility Powercor-CitiPower has awarded CSC a renewed five-year IT services contract worth AU$25m.…

Apple rumor mill predicts 'all new Mac'

Posted: 22 Aug 2011 04:13 PM PDT

Un-Mac Mac arrives 'this year'

Apple is planning to release an entirely new Mac by the end of this year, according to a Japanese news 'n' rumor website.…

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