Japanese boffins fire up 802 teraflops <i>ceepie-geepie</i> |
- Japanese boffins fire up 802 teraflops <i>ceepie-geepie</i>
- Embattled Foxconn raises wage slaves' salaries
- Last year's iOS sales surpassed all Macs ever sold
- CloudOn brings Office to UK iPad users
- Ex-Akamai man: Stop being faithful to your CDN
- Anonymous knocks FTC site offline
- Apple antagonist Proview unveils its own iPad
- Is HP's Gen8 good news for HPC?
- NetApp rides stiff rise in sales but profits droop
- Telcos in Canada: Ethics, monopolies and regulation
- IBM puts AIX 5.3 on extended life support
- Man surfs slopes at night in LED suit
- Oracle v SAP has to take June retrial or wait till next year
- Yelp values itself at a modest $840m
- Elonex to set up tech fab in Coventry, create 400 jobs
- T-Mobile clams up over Full Monty 'speed-cap' claims
- Apple's Messages beta will self-destruct on Mountain Lion launch
- Chinese woman sparks net craze with virgin website
- FTC tears into Apple, Google over kids' privacy - or lack of
- EU shoves telly signals aside for next-gen mobile broadband
- Modern Warfare 3 shoots onto Steam for free
- Big Blue wrings hands over channel cloud skills gulf
- Anglo-French nuke pact blesses 4th-gen reactors
- Two UK airports scrap IRIS eye-scanners
- Google swings new mobile unlock patent punch at Apple
- Spotify v. Pure Music
- PARIS soars to Guinness World Record
- 'Exploitative' Proview slammed by trademark judge ... in 2010
- Two thirds of Brits crippled by mobile phone loss terror
- Intel pushes Ivy Bridge out a little further
- Baidu plunges into mobile: First China, then THE WORLD
- Node.js Native breakthrough: cloudy C++ on steroids
- Ageing Mario blamed for Nintendo's woes
- 'The full harm to Apple cannot be calculated'
- Russian cosmonauts take six-hour stroll in space
- Apple lands slide-to-unlock patent blow on Motorola
- Freecom Mobile Drive Sq 500GB external HDD
- Revealed: Inside Apple-bothering Proview's crumbling factory
- Netherlands plans to make 'copyrighted material easier to use'
- Southwest One gets £10m IBM loan amid 'staggering' losses
- Philips intros dual-view telly tech
- Steelseries SRW-S1 PC gaming steering wheel
- Twitter gets hit with defamation suit downunder
- Vocus doubles revenue and data centre space
- Texan TSA crew accused of nude scanner ogling scheme
- Feds to carmakers: 'Rein in high-tech dashboards'
- Oracle claims 70X speed-up with MySQL Cluster 7.2
- You gotta fight for your right ... to net neutrality
- HP's Whitman suggests Googorola may close Android
| Japanese boffins fire up 802 teraflops <i>ceepie-geepie</i> Posted: 17 Feb 2012 03:12 PM PST Another Xeon E5 machine, with some FPGA special sauceUpstart supercomputer maker Appro International has started up another Xeon E5-based supercomputer, this one a hybrid CPU-GPU Xtreme-X machine installed at the University of Tsukuba in Japan.… |
| Embattled Foxconn raises wage slaves' salaries Posted: 17 Feb 2012 03:01 PM PST Double that of three years agoChina's Foxconn contract-manufacturing group, which for years has come under fire for alleged workforce abuses, has responded in part by giving its workers raises of from 16 to 25 per cent.… |
| Last year's iOS sales surpassed all Macs ever sold Posted: 17 Feb 2012 12:40 PM PST If at first you don't succeed, go mobileApple sold more iOS devices in 2011 than the total number of Macs sold in all 28 years since the original Macintosh 128k first hit store shelves in late January 1984.… |
| CloudOn brings Office to UK iPad users Posted: 17 Feb 2012 12:31 PM PST Microsoft silent on free appAfter a rocky start, CloudOn is now opening its free application, which allows limited use of Microsoft's Office suite on an iPad, to UK users.… |
| Ex-Akamai man: Stop being faithful to your CDN Posted: 17 Feb 2012 12:02 PM PST You need multiple relationships to perform wellOpen ... and Shut Many of the benefits of cloud computing are lost in translation as enterprises attempt to force the "new wine" of cloud's flexibility into the "old bottles" of traditional data centers. By running a cloud environment within one's data center, the full benefits of infinitely scalable and flexible infrastructure fade, as Amazon has argued and as Cedexis, a French company with a growing roster of big-name customers, aims to prove.… |
| Anonymous knocks FTC site offline Posted: 17 Feb 2012 11:36 AM PST Smacks several consumer sites with Anti-ACTA activist actionAt least two US government websites were knocked off the web earlier today by Anonymous, claims the group's "official" Twitter account AnonymousIRC.… |
| Apple antagonist Proview unveils its own iPad Posted: 17 Feb 2012 11:05 AM PST Striking resemblance to another Apple iconChinese shell-of-a-company Proview Shenzhen, embroiled in a trademark dispute with Apple over the name "iPad", held a press conference in Beijing to plead their case and to show the assembled journos an assortment of marketing materials for their own iPAD.… |
| Is HP's Gen8 good news for HPC? Posted: 17 Feb 2012 11:04 AM PST Raw speed not always top consideration in enterprise serversHPC blog HP trotted out its newest line of x86-based Proliant systems this week. These new boxes, fueled by Intel Sandy Bridge processors, will sport speedy PCIe 3.0 slots, custom HP disk controllers (for tri-mirroring and error correction), and provide a wide range of features aimed at improving system flexibility and manageability. Our pal Timothy Prickett Morgan outlines the systems here.… |
| NetApp rides stiff rise in sales but profits droop Posted: 17 Feb 2012 10:27 AM PST Third quarter improves thanks to virtualisationNetApp saw off its last quarter's major account weakness and grew third quarter revenues to $1.57bn, though profits dropped 35.5 percent.… |
| Telcos in Canada: Ethics, monopolies and regulation Posted: 17 Feb 2012 10:01 AM PST How the Canadian regulator forces Big Biz to play ball ...Sysadmin blog Telecommunications Politics in Canada is pretty standard. There are people worried that our regulator – the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) – has succumbed to regulatory capture. There is the common burden of institutional inertia and there are the usual sorts of shenanigans involving various levels of upper government.… |
| IBM puts AIX 5.3 on extended life support Posted: 17 Feb 2012 09:41 AM PST Venerable i5/OS V5R4 sunsetted, tooTwo of IBM's oldest and most popular operating systems for its Power-based servers are being put out to pasture after years of service.… |
| Man surfs slopes at night in LED suit Posted: 17 Feb 2012 09:38 AM PST GlowboardingFilmmakers lit up the world of extreme sports this week with footage of a pro snowboarder in an LED light suit, gliding through snow in the dead of night.… |
| Oracle v SAP has to take June retrial or wait till next year Posted: 17 Feb 2012 09:18 AM PST Judge: Take last two weeks of June ... or August 2013A US court has told Oracle and SAP that they can have their retrial in the last two weeks of June or wait until next year.… |
| Yelp values itself at a modest $840m Posted: 17 Feb 2012 09:02 AM PST Online reviews site's IPO expected soonOnline reviews site Yelp priced itself up yesterday for an upcoming, but as yet unspecified, IPO date, modestly telling the markets that its worth up to $840m.… |
| Elonex to set up tech fab in Coventry, create 400 jobs Posted: 17 Feb 2012 08:33 AM PST Gets wodge gov cash to haul in Chinese manufacturing kitElonex is importing manufacturing equipment from China to a Coventry-based facility in order to assemble tech products locally.… |
| T-Mobile clams up over Full Monty 'speed-cap' claims Posted: 17 Feb 2012 08:13 AM PST All sausage no sizzle?T-Mobile has rejected claims that its Full Monty tariff has a 1Mb/s speed cap, but has refused to discuss whether there is a higher limit on the plan.… |
| Apple's Messages beta will self-destruct on Mountain Lion launch Posted: 17 Feb 2012 08:03 AM PST OS X 10.8 clue found in test-drive IM app's codeThe beta build of Apple's new Messages app for Macs, released as a free download yesterday, will self-terminate unless you buy Mac OS X Mountain Lion when it comes out in the summer.… |
| Chinese woman sparks net craze with virgin website Posted: 17 Feb 2012 07:28 AM PST No, Sir Richard, it's not one of yoursA 38-year-old virgin has become the talk of the web in China this week after she set up a site devoted to her near four decades of abstinence - and urged the nation's youth to join her in saying no to hanky-panky before marriage.… |
| FTC tears into Apple, Google over kids' privacy - or lack of Posted: 17 Feb 2012 07:04 AM PST 'Impossible' to know data collected by apps, watchdog fumesUS regulators have told smartphone software makers to do more to protect the privacy of kids using their apps - or face the watchdogs' wrath.… |
| EU shoves telly signals aside for next-gen mobile broadband Posted: 17 Feb 2012 06:33 AM PST LTE: A-roaming we will goEvery country in Europe will be required to clear TV transmissions out of the 800MHz band by the end of 2012 in the hope of enabling cross-europe roaming for LTE phones.… |
| Modern Warfare 3 shoots onto Steam for free Posted: 17 Feb 2012 06:15 AM PST Weekend of weaponry anyone?Activision is offering Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 completely free on Steam this weekend, with access to the full range of multiplayer features on show.… |
| Big Blue wrings hands over channel cloud skills gulf Posted: 17 Feb 2012 06:02 AM PST Better wise up: Market estimated to be worth $143bn by 2013IBM UK's latest channel chief says the readiness sell to cloud services among its reseller network remains incredibly varied.… |
| Anglo-French nuke pact blesses 4th-gen reactors Posted: 17 Feb 2012 05:43 AM PST UK wants to take ASTRID homeThe UK is borrowing heavily on French nuclear energy know-how in a pact signed today. France and the UK will extend co-operation to R&D and training in several areas, but the most interesting is the commitment to develop 4th Generation (Gen IV) nuclear reactors on the French ASTRID prototype.… |
| Two UK airports scrap IRIS eye-scanners Posted: 17 Feb 2012 05:21 AM PST Border Agency puts multimillion-pound system under reviewThe UK Border Agency's multi-million-pound hi-tech eye-scanner programme is in danger of being scrapped, with two airports ditching the service and registration now closed.… |
| Google swings new mobile unlock patent punch at Apple Posted: 17 Feb 2012 05:02 AM PST Android overlord designs two-icon widgetUpdated Here's a potential way out for Google after Apple's recent win on its slide-to-unlock patent in Germany. A patent application for unlocking mobile devices that Google filed in August 2010 was published earlier this month – which means it will now form full prior art for other patent applications worldwide.… |
| Posted: 17 Feb 2012 04:54 AM PST On-line tunesmiths sounded outReview Spotify began as the cool on-line portal that set a high benchmark for music streaming services. It's now a fast growing, song spewing giant but it is not alone, as entertainment corps and smaller contenders want a piece of the action too.… |
| PARIS soars to Guinness World Record Posted: 17 Feb 2012 04:44 AM PST Highest paper plane launch ever – officialFans of our Paper Aircraft Released Into Space (PARIS) mission will doubtless want to join us in raising a glass today to our Vulture 1 aircraft – now officially the holder of the record for the highest launch of a paper plane in the history of aviation.… |
| 'Exploitative' Proview slammed by trademark judge ... in 2010 Posted: 17 Feb 2012 04:26 AM PST Court said monitor biz deliberately tried to injure AppleTaiwanese monitor maker Proview's refusal to honour a deal to sell Apple the IPAD trademark in China smacks of a conspiracy driven by greed, according to a Hong Kong judge who ruled in Apple's favour back in 2010.… |
| Two thirds of Brits crippled by mobile phone loss terror Posted: 17 Feb 2012 04:12 AM PST Nomophobic neighbourhoodsNomophobia is on the rise in the UK, with 66 per cent of the population suffering from a fear of being without their mobile phones.… |
| Intel pushes Ivy Bridge out a little further Posted: 17 Feb 2012 03:54 AM PST Ultrabook refresh holds its breathIntel is set to delay the launch of its next-gen processor, Ivy Bridge.… |
| Baidu plunges into mobile: First China, then THE WORLD Posted: 17 Feb 2012 03:40 AM PST Chinese search giant wants to rub Google's face in itBaidu rounded off a busy week on Friday with the Chinese search giant promising to ramp up its mobile search and social media offerings, after decent fourth quarter financials.… |
| Node.js Native breakthrough: cloudy C++ on steroids Posted: 17 Feb 2012 03:21 AM PST Cancer or performance buster?Cancer or not, Node.js is attracting plenty of interest, and just like smoking cigarettes at school Node.js is seen as the cool thing to do.… |
| Ageing Mario blamed for Nintendo's woes Posted: 17 Feb 2012 03:12 AM PST Busted flush?Mario has been blamed for Nintendo's less-than satisfactory turnaround in 2011, after a Japanese newspaper claimed the mascot hampers the company's ability to evolve into the digital age.… |
| 'The full harm to Apple cannot be calculated' Posted: 17 Feb 2012 03:03 AM PST Plus LightSquared's rage as the FCC 'changes its mind'Quotw This was the week when MySpace, which some of you may remember as once being a social network, came back from the dead thanks to its reinvention as a "meaningful social entertainment experience around content" with a million new users signing on since December last year.… |
| Russian cosmonauts take six-hour stroll in space Posted: 17 Feb 2012 02:37 AM PST Todo list: Space station housekeeping, search for aliensVid Two cosmonauts successfully completed a six-hour spacewalk around the International Space Station (ISS), captured on their helmet cams, at 22.46 GMT last night.… |
| Apple lands slide-to-unlock patent blow on Motorola Posted: 17 Feb 2012 02:17 AM PST Android mobe maker needs Ice Cream Sandwich ASAPMotorola's Android handsets are infringing Apple's slide-to-unlock patent, in Germany at least, though an appeal may be lodged.… |
| Freecom Mobile Drive Sq 500GB external HDD Posted: 17 Feb 2012 02:00 AM PST Designer driveAccessory of the Week This stylish mobile hard drive from Freecom is described by its manufacturer as "almost square", which is another way of saying it's rectangular.… |
| Revealed: Inside Apple-bothering Proview's crumbling factory Posted: 17 Feb 2012 01:27 AM PST Ailing IPAD-trademark-row biz ideal setting for next zombie flickNew pictures have emerged of the Shenzhen manufacturing base of Proview, the Taiwanese monitor maker currently winning an iPad trademark battle with Apple, and they don't look good.… |
| Netherlands plans to make 'copyrighted material easier to use' Posted: 17 Feb 2012 01:01 AM PST EU copyright law 'too rigid', says state committeeThe Dutch Government is proposing to make it easier to use copyrighted material without infringing copyright owners' rights and plans to do this "unilaterally" of the EU, according to media in the Netherlands.… |
| Southwest One gets £10m IBM loan amid 'staggering' losses Posted: 17 Feb 2012 12:02 AM PST Joint venture is failing on several fronts, Somerset council leader saysThe leader of Somerset county council, Ken Maddock, has said that Southwest One is failing to deliver, that its accounts show "staggering losses" of £31.5m and "failures to hit modest savings targets".… |
| Philips intros dual-view telly tech Posted: 16 Feb 2012 11:30 PM PST Seeing doublePhilips went tellytastic today and revealed a vast range of TV sets, several of which include the dual-view display mode that essentially makes splitscreen gaming redundant.… |
| Steelseries SRW-S1 PC gaming steering wheel Posted: 16 Feb 2012 11:00 PM PST Taken for a spinReview Admittedly, until recently my idea of a racing game was Super Mario Kart as I don't play too many driving games. However, the Steelseries SRW-S1 steering wheel certainly had me intrigued enough to want to take it for a spin.… |
| Twitter gets hit with defamation suit downunder Posted: 16 Feb 2012 08:33 PM PST Social media's scarlett woman Marieke Hardy starts chain reactionTwitter has been hit with a potentially ground breaking defamation suit from wrongfully accused Australian Twitter 'stalker' Joshua Meggitt.… |
| Vocus doubles revenue and data centre space Posted: 16 Feb 2012 05:55 PM PST Big data drives growthDark fibre and data centre provider Vocus Communications has doubled its revenue in the first half of 2012 reflecting the company's shift from a niche provider of wholesale Internet into a core provider of infrastructure based telecommunications services.… |
| Texan TSA crew accused of nude scanner ogling scheme Posted: 16 Feb 2012 05:42 PM PST Love Field pervs taking airport name too literallyAn investigation into the actions of TSA staff has uncovered a series of complaints from self-described "semi-attractive" female travelers who claim they were targeted for scanning based on their figures, and not on the likelihood of them being terrorists.… |
| Feds to carmakers: 'Rein in high-tech dashboards' Posted: 16 Feb 2012 05:29 PM PST Facebooking at highway speeds not a good ideaThe US National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) has issued its first-ever guidelines designed to curb driver-distracting dashboards stuffed with electronic gadgets, gimcrackery, and gee-gaws… |
| Oracle claims 70X speed-up with MySQL Cluster 7.2 Posted: 16 Feb 2012 04:52 PM PST New cluster capable of a billion queries a minuteOracle has released its latest GPL update to its MySQL cluster, with huge speed boosts promised, better support for web users added, and new support for NoSQL integration.… |
| You gotta fight for your right ... to net neutrality Posted: 16 Feb 2012 04:22 PM PST Mike D kicks it with the SEC and carriersBeastie Boys chief protagonist Mike D has put his weighty beats into the net neutrality debate, forcing US wireless carriers to allow shareholders to vote on the issue.… |
| HP's Whitman suggests Googorola may close Android Posted: 16 Feb 2012 03:59 PM PST 'We've got our swagger back,' says webOS cheerleaderHP CEO Meg Whitman foresees a great future for webOS, the mobile operating system that her company acquired in the $1.2bn Palm deal and is now contributing to the open source community – and part of her reasoning is based on her distrust of Google.… |
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