Dell building its own Exadata killer |
- Dell building its own Exadata killer
- Apple snubs Samsung's Oz patent peace offering
- Apple outs iPhone micro USB adaptor
- Oracle previews Solaris 11, due in November
- Rumors of iPod classic's death prove exaggerated
- Tuesday's iPhone event more than Apple.com can bear
- Apple stuffs Intel desktop CPU into iPhone 4S ad
- iPhone 5 a no-show at Apple's 'Let's talk iPhone' event
- Red Hat snatches storage Gluster file system for $136m
- Why grill Google over web dominance? It has none
- Systemax fills hole left by shamed US boss
- Symantec alliance with Huawei put on countdown
- Put down the Java manual
- HP anoints Mayer in global networks boss role
- Fedora 16: Linux home for lost Ubuntu GNOMEs
- McAfee, IBM gobble rival security-intelligence firms
- HTC's Mango handsets hit shelves in Blighty
- GridIron fires up its turbocharged bandwagon
- Look who's talking ... about your Facebook Page
- Oracle's mighty column stuffs databases
- Oracle to NetApp: 'I'm a faster, cheaper storage lover'
- Ten reasons why you shouldn't buy an iPhone 5
- HTC to plug private data backdoor leak slurp vuln
- Hospital data boob: Records left in bin room got binned
- id Software's Rage
- RIM invites BlackBerry users into MS Office cloud beta
- Lumison swallows DediPower Managed Hosting
- Chrome browser 'is becoming Number Two'
- Premier League loses footie decoder case
- NHS claws back £170m refund on duff IT system
- Facebook: 'We didn't patent stalking logged-off users'
- Growing arrays need bigger pipes
- HTC Evo 3D Android smartphone
- Ballmer: Uninspiring performance and a small package
- Sony: all new PS3 titles will require PSN Pass for online play
- Facebook to scrub itself clean of filthy malware links
- Fusion-io deploys PCIe flash toaster
- SanDisk Memory Zone
- Core facts: Windows 8 truthiness dissected, Mango sliced
- New iPhone offered for sale via unauthorised outlets
- HP finally swallows Autonomy
- Scotland Yard cyber-crime squad 'saved £140m'
- Amazon to whup Apple rivals when Kindle Fire hits UK
- UK.gov goes back to school to avoid future IT blunders
- Gov to spread mobile masts to remote corners of Blighty
- Crystal Acoustics MediaMatchBox
- Innovatio targets Wi-Fi <i>users</i> with patent suits
- Thailand PM's Twitter account breached
- Microsoft updates Hotmail to deal with grey spam
- Check your machines for malware, Linux developers told
| Dell building its own Exadata killer Posted: 04 Oct 2011 02:34 PM PDT Runs Oracle on PowerEdge 12G serversOpenWorld Way back when, before Oracle bought Sun Microsystems, and even before Hewlett-Packard became hardware buddies with Big Red with the original Exadata Database Machine, Dell was Oracle's chosen buddy for running parallel Oracle databases using Real Application Cluster on top of Linux. But now Oracle is in the hardware business, and it looks like Dell is fixing to take the parallel Oracle database fight to Oracle.… |
| Apple snubs Samsung's Oz patent peace offering Posted: 04 Oct 2011 02:30 PM PDT Cupertino wants Galaxy kit banned ASAPApple has rejected Samsung's peace deal in an Australian court, preferring instead to go to trial where a win could influence its other lawsuits around the world.… |
| Apple outs iPhone micro USB adaptor Posted: 04 Oct 2011 02:05 PM PDT Euro-standard power feedIt's not only the iPhone 4S that will ship on 14 October - so too will Apple's long-promised dock-to-micro-USB adaptor.… |
| Oracle previews Solaris 11, due in November Posted: 04 Oct 2011 01:31 PM PDT Clarifies Ellison's position on x86 serversOpenWorld If you expected Solaris 11 to be announced at the OpenWorld extravaganza taking over San Francisco this week, you probably weren't alone. But you're going to be a little disappointed, at least for a while. It won't be launched until sometime in November.… |
| Rumors of iPod classic's death prove exaggerated Posted: 04 Oct 2011 12:50 PM PDT The clickwheel lives on, touch-based iPods upgradedUpdated The lack of an iPhone 5 announcement at Apple's "Let's talk iPhone" event wasn't the only pundit–defying act performed by Apple CEO Tim Cook and his merry men: despite rumors to the contrary, the venerable iPod classic also lives.… |
| Tuesday's iPhone event more than Apple.com can bear Posted: 04 Oct 2011 12:32 PM PDT Apple.com implodes under its own weightApple may be an unstoppable force in the eyes of its competitors, fans and pretty much everyone else, but no one more so than the webmasters running Apple.com.… |
| Apple stuffs Intel desktop CPU into iPhone 4S ad Posted: 04 Oct 2011 12:08 PM PDT Quad-core Core i7 reborn as A5? Surely not...Apple's new iPhone 4S contains a chip the Mac maker calls the A5. But if a pic of the beast included in the 4S advert shown at the handset's launch is anything to go by, the A5 actually contains a pair of Intel 'Nehalem' processors - aka the first-gen Core i7.… |
| iPhone 5 a no-show at Apple's 'Let's talk iPhone' event Posted: 04 Oct 2011 11:39 AM PDT iPhone 4S, however, not exactly chopped liverApple surprised nearly every pundit who was breathlessly following its "Let's talk iPhone" event – it didn't introduce an iPhone 5.… |
| Red Hat snatches storage Gluster file system for $136m Posted: 04 Oct 2011 10:22 AM PDT What's inside Pandora's box, in factCommercial Linux distributor Red Hat is paying $136m to acquire Gluster, the privately held maker of the GlusterFS cluster file system that is used by some hot properties on the intertubes.… |
| Why grill Google over web dominance? It has none Posted: 04 Oct 2011 09:58 AM PDT Nobody wants Chocolate Factory chocolate any moreOpen ... And Shut Google chairman Eric Schmidt was recently hauled before the US Senate to answer antitrust inquiries. After all, Google dominates the online search market, with 64.8 per cent of the market in August 2011, according to comScore (and much higher market share, according to Net MarketShare), and increasingly abuses that power to disadvantage competitors and hurt consumers, according to some.… |
| Systemax fills hole left by shamed US boss Posted: 04 Oct 2011 09:29 AM PDT David Sprosty to don the cursed hat of FiorentinoSystemax has hired former Best Buy exec David Sprosty as the CEO of its Technology Products division in North America, finally filling the role that was vacated by shamed exec Gilbert Fiorentino earlier in the year.… |
| Symantec alliance with Huawei put on countdown Posted: 04 Oct 2011 09:26 AM PDT There can be only one, or many, but not twoSymantec Vision Symantec CEO Enrique Salem said the Huawei-Symantec joint venture will have its fate known by the end of the year: either one of the partners will buy it or there will be an IPO.… |
| Posted: 04 Oct 2011 09:00 AM PDT ...Step away from it nowApparently, there is a perceived shortage of C# and Java programmers. Certainly a good percentage of all job ads are for these languages.… |
| HP anoints Mayer in global networks boss role Posted: 04 Oct 2011 08:37 AM PDT Praised for her history of biggeningHP has confirmed that Bethany Mayer - caretaker of its global networking biz for the last four months - will get the job on a permanent basis.… |
| Fedora 16: Linux home for lost Ubuntu GNOMEs Posted: 04 Oct 2011 08:16 AM PDT What lies beneath the Jules Verne submarine art?Review The Fedora Project has released the first beta of Fedora 16.… |
| McAfee, IBM gobble rival security-intelligence firms Posted: 04 Oct 2011 08:03 AM PDT SIEMs like a good idea to tool upMcAfee and IBM have both bought into the expanding security intelligence market with the acquisition of start-ups NitroSecurity and Q1 Labs, respectively. Financial terms on both deals, announced Tuesday, were undisclosed.… |
| HTC's Mango handsets hit shelves in Blighty Posted: 04 Oct 2011 08:02 AM PDT Next-gen WinPhos to goHTC's pair of impending Windows Phone handsets have gone on sale in the UK ahead of time.… |
| GridIron fires up its turbocharged bandwagon Posted: 04 Oct 2011 07:38 AM PDT That's the Big Data one - just happened to be passingOpenWorld GridIron says its way of turbo-charging SAN access means more database instances can be virtualised and run faster - like, say, 16 virtualised Oracle RAC nodes in a physical server juggling one million queries a second.… |
| Look who's talking ... about your Facebook Page Posted: 04 Oct 2011 07:24 AM PDT New blabber analytics are wet dream for stats nerdsFacebook has launched new ways to help its advertisers bank sackfuls of cash and no doubt cause privacy advocates to despair.… |
| Oracle's mighty column stuffs databases Posted: 04 Oct 2011 07:02 AM PDT Enough grunt to pack a petabyte into 60TBOpenWorld Oracle says it can squeeze its databases in ZFS and Pillar Data arrays with Hybrid Columnar Compression (HCC).… |
| Oracle to NetApp: 'I'm a faster, cheaper storage lover' Posted: 04 Oct 2011 06:42 AM PDT Take a look at what my box can do, babyOpenWorld Oracle says it has scored an SPC-1 benchmark win over NetApp; its ZFS storage box delivers twice the SPC-1 speed of a NetApp array for less than half the cost.… |
| Ten reasons why you shouldn't buy an iPhone 5 Posted: 04 Oct 2011 06:15 AM PDT The thing is an insult in phone formComment Here we are again on iPhone day, and once more the world waits on the edge of its seat to see what the fruitchomp masterminds of Cupertino have in store.… |
| HTC to plug private data backdoor leak slurp vuln Posted: 04 Oct 2011 05:57 AM PDT Fix on the way for promiscuous Droid system appHTC has admitted some of its Android handsets have a flaw which could allow malicious apps to read customer locations and account details, but a fix is on the way.… |
| Hospital data boob: Records left in bin room got binned Posted: 04 Oct 2011 05:37 AM PDT 10,000 patients' records destroyed in NHS blunderBungling hospital staff accidentally destroyed patient data after a worker put 10,000 records in the wrong room, an investigation by the Information Commissioner's Office [ICO] revealed today.… |
| Posted: 04 Oct 2011 05:29 AM PDT Apocalypse wowReview Is it an RPG? Is it a first-person shooter? This is a question which reverberates around my mind while I wander through Rage's wastes. Why the confusion? Because id's latest shooter hovers somewhere in the middle of these genres, a chimera with, oddly enough, lashings of Motorstorm-esque racing thrown in for good measure.… |
| RIM invites BlackBerry users into MS Office cloud beta Posted: 04 Oct 2011 05:19 AM PDT Get an early snort of Office 365 cumulusBlackBerry users wanting to get into Microsoft's cloudy Office 365 only have a few months to wait, and the properly impatient can sign up for the beta this month.… |
| Lumison swallows DediPower Managed Hosting Posted: 04 Oct 2011 04:58 AM PDT Hungry ISP gobbles another server babysitterLumison has snapped up Reading-based cloud and co-lo player DediPower Managed Hosting for an undisclosed sum.… |
| Chrome browser 'is becoming Number Two' Posted: 04 Oct 2011 04:42 AM PDT Could supplant Firefox, analysts predict tight finishGoogle's Chrome browser will edge past Mozilla Firefox in a matter of months, web stats poking firms have concluded. Irish company StatCounter foresees the Google browser becoming the second most used browser on the net by December.… |
| Premier League loses footie decoder case Posted: 04 Oct 2011 04:39 AM PDT Euro court rules in favour of pub landladyThe European Court of Justice has judged that Brits must be allowed to buy satellite TV smartcards and decoders from other single-market countries.… |
| NHS claws back £170m refund on duff IT system Posted: 04 Oct 2011 04:27 AM PDT 'Lorenzo' snake oil found to be worthlessAn American IT company has returned £170 million to the NHS after a project they promised to deliver was declared impossible.… |
| Facebook: 'We didn't patent stalking logged-off users' Posted: 04 Oct 2011 04:14 AM PDT We're just hunting unicorns ... bitchFacebook has rebuffed claims that a patent it was recently granted describes the ability to track logged-out users.… |
| Growing arrays need bigger pipes Posted: 04 Oct 2011 04:00 AM PDT Be generous with bandwidthStorage array and disk drive vendors have excelled themselves and delivered the high-capacity goods. But some of us are still not happy, because although we have big fat data vaults they are being held back by anorexic pipes.… |
| Posted: 04 Oct 2011 04:00 AM PDT 'D' is for dud?Review LG might have been first with its Optimus 3D, but HTC hasn't wasted any time coming up with a glasses-free 3D phone of its own.… |
| Ballmer: Uninspiring performance and a small package Posted: 04 Oct 2011 03:43 AM PDT Head Microsoftie leaves board members unsatisfiedSteve Ballmer has failed to dazzle the Microsoft board in the last year, and his pay cheque seems to reflect that fact.… |
| Sony: all new PS3 titles will require PSN Pass for online play Posted: 04 Oct 2011 03:32 AM PDT Taxing secondhand-game buyersSony has officially extended its tax on gamers who buy secondhand PlayStation titles, confirming that all future Sony games with network functionality will be mediated through an online pass system.… |
| Facebook to scrub itself clean of filthy malware links Posted: 04 Oct 2011 03:31 AM PDT Websense to sniff out stinky URLs on social networkFacebook has recruited Websense to scan its vast social network for links to malicious sites.… |
| Fusion-io deploys PCIe flash toaster Posted: 04 Oct 2011 03:13 AM PDT Self-healing powers claimed if you play the magic cardFusion-io has refreshed the whole of its ioDrive product range with smaller flash chip dies and new controller firmware to produce high performance, longer lasting flash using less silicon.… |
| Posted: 04 Oct 2011 03:00 AM PDT Take charge of your phone, cloud storageAndroid App of the Week SanDisk is a name more associated with memory cards than apps, but its new Memory Zone offering should prove useful to anyone who wants to manage and monitor their local and cloud storage from one place.… |
| Core facts: Windows 8 truthiness dissected, Mango sliced Posted: 04 Oct 2011 02:40 AM PDT Black swan for Microsoft's Sinofsky?MicroBite: number 31 With 500 new features, Mango's a juicy release for Microsoft's Windows Mobile team: third-party application multi tasking, HTML5-compliant browser and video voice mail.… |
| New iPhone offered for sale via unauthorised outlets Posted: 04 Oct 2011 02:26 AM PDT 'Expect shortages', says man punting $1000 Jesus mobesAn unauthorised market in Apple's next-gen Jesus mobe is emerging ahead of today's much anticipated launch with price tags that would reduce most desperate fanbois to tears.… |
| Posted: 04 Oct 2011 02:12 AM PDT Looks a bit queasy, starts doing little eggy burpsHP has finally concluded the $10.24bn acquisition of Cambridge-based enterprise search and BI software firm Autonomy.… |
| Scotland Yard cyber-crime squad 'saved £140m' Posted: 04 Oct 2011 01:58 AM PDT ePlods predictably feel they're too valuable to cutThe Metropolitan Police's e-crime busting squad claims to have saved £140m in its last six months of fighting cybercrime.… |
| Amazon to whup Apple rivals when Kindle Fire hits UK Posted: 04 Oct 2011 01:52 AM PDT Brits' ideal tablet price: £250Apple's tablet rivals will face "almost impossible competition" when Amazon brings its Kindle Fire to the UK, pollster YouGov has predicted.… |
| UK.gov goes back to school to avoid future IT blunders Posted: 04 Oct 2011 01:27 AM PDT GCHQ level of expertise needed across governmentWhitehall's waste of £470m on a botched attempt to modernise fire service control rooms in England begs questions about what UK plc is doing to prevent a similar haemorrhage of money in the future.… |
| Gov to spread mobile masts to remote corners of Blighty Posted: 04 Oct 2011 12:55 AM PDT We'll each pay £2.42 to hook up the shepherdsThe UK's Chancellor has confirmed that the government will sink £150m into buying up cell sites with the intention of extending rural coverage to 99 per cent of the population.… |
| Crystal Acoustics MediaMatchBox Posted: 04 Oct 2011 12:00 AM PDT Tiny media player with fantastic format supportReview This minuscule media player from home theatre specialist Crystal Acoustics combines a go-anywhere form-factor with play-anything decoding.… |
| Innovatio targets Wi-Fi <i>users</i> with patent suits Posted: 03 Oct 2011 11:44 PM PDT Promises not to sue individuals. For nowHaving found Cisco and Motorola (prior to its Google borgification) in the mood for a vigorous fightback, Innovatio IP Ventures is changing tack and filing lawsuits against Wi-Fi users for patent infringement.… |
| Thailand PM's Twitter account breached Posted: 03 Oct 2011 05:30 PM PDT Suspect faces 5 years in prisonThe Twitter account belonging to Thailand Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra has been suspended after someone took control of it and used it to send messages critical of her administration.… |
| Microsoft updates Hotmail to deal with grey spam Posted: 03 Oct 2011 05:29 PM PDT Redmond strives to remake its web mail as (somehow) relevantMicrosoft is making a series of changes to its Hotmail service aimed at cutting down the amount of old mail stuck on servers, falsely labeled spam.… |
| Check your machines for malware, Linux developers told Posted: 03 Oct 2011 05:15 PM PDT Kernel.org reopens under hacking pallFollowing a series of embarrassing intrusions that hit the servers used to maintain and distribute the Linux operating system, project elders have advised all developers to check their Linux machines for signs of compromise.… |
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