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- Dell cranks vStart virty server stacks to 1000
- Linux Mint joins mini-PC hardware business
- Windows is the OS of the cloud, says Microsoft
- Apple introduces 'next generation' MacBook Pro with retina display
- AMD tiptoes past sparring rivals in embedded CPU foray
- Apple's online store goes offline
- French writers say OUI! to Google's book-slurp deal
- An early iPad adopter? You smut-ogling filth-gobbling perv!
- Google co-founders face FTC antitrust grilling
- 'Zombie bullets' fly off US shelves after wave of undead attacks
- Microsoft assembles a private cloud so you don't have to
- Google to axe Meebo apps on 11 July
- Lamborghini drives Androids towards wealthy pockets
- Android activations near a million a day
- Belfast promises free city-wide Wi-Fi in cash grab hope
- Insider cuts into Apple, peels off Intel Mac OS X port secrets
- Serco gulps more gov contracts with VDS gobble
- Passwords pillaged from League of Legends wand-strokers
- Facebook changes data-use policy despite 87% poll opposition
- Now TalkTalk cuts Brits' access to The Pirate Bay
- Male, female Chinese 'nauts prep for trip to Heaven and back
- Brit judge orders Facebook to rip masks from anonymous cowards
- Asus-made Google pad set for June debut
- LG 47LM670T 47in passive 3D smart TV
- Smart meters are 'massive surveillance' tech - privacy supremo
- Intel rivals crash Hot Chips party with full-fat server silicon
- LG's quad-core Optimus tabphone powers into Europe
- Silicon Valley Bank lures Brit startups with sacks of cash
- Microsoft 'mulled Nokia buyout, ran away screaming'
- Why MongoDB? It's the developers, stupid
- 'That's a FUBAR train wreck waiting to happen'
- Habeas data: How to build an internet that forgets
- Students face off in Hamburg home-cooked cluster clash
- Europe crams ultra-fast 4G into tight spectrum crack
- All-flash IBM V7000 smashes Oracle/Sun ZFS box
- Telefonica steps back from China as debts mount
- India to greenlight state-sponsored cyber attacks
- Japan still in love with the fax
- CERN confirms neutrinos don't break light speed
- Microsoft so sorry for limp wedding tackle gag gaffe
| Dell cranks vStart virty server stacks to 1000 Posted: 11 Jun 2012 01:31 PM PDT Converged blade data center for raw ironWith new servers, switches, and storage arrays in the field, the next thing that a modern IT supplier needs to do is create converged system stacks based on that new iron, focusing on the hardware and pitching the benefits of having everything pre-integrated.… |
| Linux Mint joins mini-PC hardware business Posted: 11 Jun 2012 12:54 PM PDT Smooth and ribbed minty boxes for your pleasureLinux Mint, flush with its recent popularity in the distro stakes, is looking to take the pain out of installation with its first hardware line, called mintBox, that comes in smooth and ribbed versions.… |
| Windows is the OS of the cloud, says Microsoft Posted: 11 Jun 2012 11:29 AM PDT Aims performance broadside at VMwareTechEd Redmond has opened its 20th annual TechEd jamboree with a keynote from Microsoft Server and Tools Business president Satya Nadella that pitched Windows to IT managers as the best OS for building clouds.… |
| Apple introduces 'next generation' MacBook Pro with retina display Posted: 11 Jun 2012 11:06 AM PDT What other company could sell a base model $2,199 laptop?In addition to updating its existing MacBook Air and MacBook Pro lines, Apple has introduced what it's calling the "next generation" MacBook Pro, complete with a 15.4-inch, 2880-by-1800 pixel, 220ppi "retina display".… |
| AMD tiptoes past sparring rivals in embedded CPU foray Posted: 11 Jun 2012 10:05 AM PDT There's more to life than PCs and serversThe new management team at Advanced Micro Devices is looking everywhere, including under the couch cushions, to find some money so it can afford to explore the embedded systems market again. The chip biz hopes rivals Intel and the ARM collective are too distracted to notice the foray as they fight over each others' territories in PCs, servers and mobile devices.… |
| Apple's online store goes offline Posted: 11 Jun 2012 09:17 AM PDT Major hardware announcements slated for Monday's WWDC keynoteIf you had any doubt that Apple would be announcing new hardware on Monday, doubt no more.… |
| French writers say OUI! to Google's book-slurp deal Posted: 11 Jun 2012 09:01 AM PDT Beret-wearers will sell wafflings via web giantGoogle has come to an arrangement with French authors and publishers, who sued for copyright infringement after the web giant began scanning and indexing their books. The deal clears the way for the search goliath to resume digitising tomes for the first time since 2006.… |
| An early iPad adopter? You smut-ogling filth-gobbling perv! Posted: 11 Jun 2012 08:34 AM PDT Well, you like to fondle, don't you?Seems that people who fell for the fondleslab early like to fondle more in general.… |
| Google co-founders face FTC antitrust grilling Posted: 11 Jun 2012 08:02 AM PDT Page and Brin have lawyered-up, claim sourcesGoogle co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin will be quizzed by antitrust investigators at the US Federal Trade Commission, according to well-placed moles.… |
| 'Zombie bullets' fly off US shelves after wave of undead attacks Posted: 11 Jun 2012 07:43 AM PDT Well, how else will you tackle a shuffling corpse horde?Special ammunition optimised for fighting zombies is selling like hot cakes in the USA, according to reports, following sensational media coverage of incidents involving flesh-eating and similar undead-esque behaviour.… |
| Microsoft assembles a private cloud so you don't have to Posted: 11 Jun 2012 07:20 AM PDT Trevor's infrastructure drill-downThe backbone of a cloud is infrastructure. At its core, it is an attempt to deliver compute power, networking and storage as efficiently and responsively as possible. Every serious public cloud player has its own industry-leading approach.… |
| Google to axe Meebo apps on 11 July Posted: 11 Jun 2012 07:01 AM PDT Bites, chews, spits toolbar biz outGoogle acquired Meebo for $100m last month and has already started to shut down the advertising service's products.… |
| Lamborghini drives Androids towards wealthy pockets Posted: 11 Jun 2012 06:54 AM PDT Richer gearLamborghini has upped the gears with its own range of mobile products, including a tablet and a gold-plated Android handset, both set to drive into the hands of oligarchs this summer.… |
| Android activations near a million a day Posted: 11 Jun 2012 06:42 AM PDT Rubin rouses ahead of WWDCAlmost a million Android devices are activated every 24 hours, according to Google's Andy Rubin.… |
| Belfast promises free city-wide Wi-Fi in cash grab hope Posted: 11 Jun 2012 06:29 AM PDT Given its website glitches, that public money couldn't come soon enoughHaving scored £6m of central government cash to improve its broadband coverage, Belfast Council hopes to get another £7.7m to rollout free Wi-Fi across the city.… |
| Insider cuts into Apple, peels off Intel Mac OS X port secrets Posted: 11 Jun 2012 06:04 AM PDT Project Marklar was a one-man skunkworksThe wife of a former senior Apple engineer has spilled the beans on Apple's transition, and it's a sweet and surprising story.… |
| Serco gulps more gov contracts with VDS gobble Posted: 11 Jun 2012 05:39 AM PDT Job Centre, child maintenance deals in £55.5m buyoutServices and systems colossus Serco has taken charge of more government contracts by buying out Vertex Public Sector's data division: Vertex Data Science (VDS).… |
| Passwords pillaged from League of Legends wand-strokers Posted: 11 Jun 2012 05:18 AM PDT Euro gamers' very private jewels sniffed by hackersPasswords, email addresses, dates of birth and other sensitive data have been plundered from the player databases of fantasy strategy game League of Legends.… |
| Facebook changes data-use policy despite 87% poll opposition Posted: 11 Jun 2012 05:03 AM PDT Our secret vote only drew 'unrepresentative' usersFacebook has ignored a vote "cast" by 297,883 of its members who agreed that the social network shouldn't update its data use policy.… |
| Now TalkTalk cuts Brits' access to The Pirate Bay Posted: 11 Jun 2012 04:41 AM PDT Downloaders WalkWalk the plankTalkTalk became the final major telecoms company in the UK to comply with a High Court judge's order to block access to The Pirate Bay via its network.… |
| Male, female Chinese 'nauts prep for trip to Heaven and back Posted: 11 Jun 2012 04:26 AM PDT 'Genuine manned tool' readied for orbital couplingChina is gearing up for its first manned space docking mission, which will attempt to latch onto the Tiangong-1 space laboratory in mid-June.… |
| Brit judge orders Facebook to rip masks from anonymous cowards Posted: 11 Jun 2012 04:17 AM PDT Hey, real names are part of our culture ... bitchA 45-year-old woman from Brighton who was subjected to a litany of abusive messages on Facebook has won a landmark High Court order forcing the social network to reveal the identities of anonymous internet trolls who labelled her a paedophile and a drug dealer.… |
| Asus-made Google pad set for June debut Posted: 11 Jun 2012 04:14 AM PDT All eyes on Google I/OAn Asus staffer has let slip that the Taiwanese tablet maker is indeed working on a seven-incher for Google and that the gadget will be announced at the end of the month.… |
| LG 47LM670T 47in passive 3D smart TV Posted: 11 Jun 2012 04:00 AM PDT Fashionably thinReview If design is the most potent weapon in a TV manufacturer's armoury right now, LG is wielding a pretty big shooter with its new Cinema Screen line. Offering corner to corner glass, a 10.5mm bezel and what the brand calls a 'floating metal ribbon stand,' these 2012 flatties are genuine head-turners.… |
| Smart meters are 'massive surveillance' tech - privacy supremo Posted: 11 Jun 2012 03:41 AM PDT Euro watchdog demands data law to protect puntersThe European Data Protection Supervisor has warned that smart meters are a significant privacy threat and wants limits on the retention and use of customer data before it's too late.… |
| Intel rivals crash Hot Chips party with full-fat server silicon Posted: 11 Jun 2012 03:18 AM PDT Hey baby, wanna come upstairs and see my pipeline?After hogging most of the oxygen in the server market with its new Xeon E3 and E5 processors this spring, Intel is going to get a little competition this summer as its rivals in the server racket trot out their upcoming server processors at the Hot Chips 24 symposium at Stanford University.… |
| LG's quad-core Optimus tabphone powers into Europe Posted: 11 Jun 2012 03:03 AM PDT Pace and displayThe big-screen LG Optimus 4X HD has joined the growing list of quad-core party members, with the company's Nvidia Tegra 3 powerhouse shipping across Europe this week.… |
| Silicon Valley Bank lures Brit startups with sacks of cash Posted: 11 Jun 2012 03:02 AM PDT Sci-tech fund pump opens Blighty branchUS tech-loving bank Silicon Valley has opened its first branch in the UK to offer cash and services to Britain's IT startups.… |
| Microsoft 'mulled Nokia buyout, ran away screaming' Posted: 11 Jun 2012 02:42 AM PDT Why Windows 8 giant will wait for Finns to bleed some moreAnalysis Rumours of a Microsoft buyout of fallen phone champ Nokia have re-emerged, prompted by nothing more, it seems, than Nokia's sickly share price.… |
| Why MongoDB? It's the developers, stupid Posted: 11 Jun 2012 02:18 AM PDT Second-hottest skill after HTML5Open ... and Shut Increasingly the third standard within enterprises for databases, MongoDB, has been claiming a lot of victories lately. In relative terms, it has become the second-hottest skill to have on one's resume, right after HTML5, according to Indeed.com job trend data. And despite plenty of hating on its technology, with one person telling me recently that "it sets database technology back 25 years," MongoDB continues to get deployed for numerous, large mission-critical applications.… |
| 'That's a FUBAR train wreck waiting to happen' Posted: 11 Jun 2012 02:13 AM PDT Plus: 'It is fairly simple to stop HULK attacks'Quotw This was the week that was all about security - or the lack thereof.… |
| Habeas data: How to build an internet that forgets Posted: 11 Jun 2012 02:02 AM PDT Hoarders and hypesters don't want expiry dates on YOUR dataComment All it takes one tiny pinprick to burst a bubble. I think I've seen one pin that might pop two huge bubbles - and it may well be the most subversive idea you'll hear all year.… |
| Students face off in Hamburg home-cooked cluster clash Posted: 11 Jun 2012 01:28 AM PDT Hell on the Elbe: You pick the winners at ISC'12HPC blog We're a little less than two weeks away from the tip-off of the first ISC/HPCAC 2012 Student Cluster Competition. University teams representing the US, China, and host nation Germany will meet in an epic benchmark battle to prove which team can design and build the fastest homemade cluster. The only constraint is electricity – they get only 13 amps to work with. (For full details on the competition and rules, click your mouse here.… |
| Europe crams ultra-fast 4G into tight spectrum crack Posted: 11 Jun 2012 01:02 AM PDT Outta the way 3G, the new kid is hereEuro telecoms regulator CEPT has released 120MHz of shiny new radio spectrum for "ultra-fast mobile broadband", which would be more impressive if the bands weren't full of reasonably fast data already.… |
| All-flash IBM V7000 smashes Oracle/Sun ZFS box Posted: 11 Jun 2012 12:02 AM PDT SPC-1 benchmarkFlash strikes again. IBM's newest storage array, the Storwize V7000, has trounced an Oracle/Sun ZFS array, delivering almost the same performance for less than half the price and 4 per cent of the capacity.… |
| Telefonica steps back from China as debts mount Posted: 10 Jun 2012 11:48 PM PDT Reduces stake in China Unicom by halfSpanish network giant Telefonica revealed just how much financial trouble it may be in after it was forced to sell half of its shares in China Unicom back to China's number two telco.… |
| India to greenlight state-sponsored cyber attacks Posted: 10 Jun 2012 10:56 PM PDT Gov agencies will get the nodThe Indian government is stepping up its cyber security capabilities with plans to protect critical national infrastructure from a Stuxnet-like attack and to authorise two agencies to carry out state-sponsored attacks if necessary.… |
| Japan still in love with the fax Posted: 10 Jun 2012 08:39 PM PDT Hi-tech nation of contradictionsDespite being hailed for its techno-innovation, Japan is a little more traditional than many people think – over half of homes apparently still contain fax machines.… |
| CERN confirms neutrinos don't break light speed Posted: 10 Jun 2012 08:26 PM PDT Faulty fibres flamed for fatuous FTL findingNeutrinos are most definitely not faster than light after all, says CERN.… |
| Microsoft so sorry for limp wedding tackle gag gaffe Posted: 10 Jun 2012 03:51 PM PDT Norwegian dance routine 'inappropriate', says RedmondMicrosoft has apologised for a performance at its Norwegian developers conference that it now says "involved inappropriate and offensive elements and vulgar language".… |
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