Facebook unfriends 19-inch data center racks |
- Facebook unfriends 19-inch data center racks
- Apple blocking Dropbox SDK over in-app buying
- VMware gussies up View and Horizon post-PC virty tools
- CPU and RAM hogs overstaying their welcome? Here's a fix
- Google finally wins DoI cloud apps contract
- Nokia cries patent 'Havoc!', unleashes dogs of law on two continents
- Facebook button triggers tidal wave of human organs
- OCZ flexes its Flash guns, predicts further embulgement ahead
- Spotify dances onto iPad
- Kaspersky: Apple security is like Microsoft's in 2002
- HP elbows Apple off global PC throne
- How politicians could end droughts FOREVER: But they don't want to
- Publishers' club lauds UK e-book sales surge
- Microsoft's Twilio VoIP cloud deal buffs Apple and Amazon
- Facebook IPO: The date is set, Zuckerberg casts the dice at last
- The Ethernet Alliance is thinking fast
- Fanboys excited by ancient Google Qwerty Nexus plan
- Rowdy clusters put to the grindstone by Grid Engine 8.1
- Black Ops II to take gamers to open worlds... and destroy them
- Intel chums up with Huawei for Oriental style flexible 4G push
- RIM shares take a bath after uninspiring BlackBerry 10 unwrap
- Total War Battles: Shogun
- Barnes & Noble plans instore NFC Nook-book bonk-buying
- Dell sneaks out Ivy Bridge special edition Inspirons
- GCSE, A-level science exams ARE dumbed down - watchdog
- Dinosaurs were DRAINED of blood by GIGANTIC HORROR FLEAS
- Nokia's 41Mp cameraphone shoots towards retail
- 'Oppressive' UK copyright law: More cobblers from IP quangos
- REVEALED: Samsung Galaxy S III is a PHONE
- Speaking in Tech: What's a Klouchebag, is it anything like Apple?
- Sony outs its first Ultrabook
- TLC flash gets tender loving care from DensBits boffinry
- Public sector exempted from swingeing Microsoft UK price hike
- Teradata gobbles eCircle to biggen digi-marketing message blast
- ICO mulls stiffer probe into Google Street View Wi-Fi slurp
- Hitachi GST to demo first 12Gbit/s SAS SSD
- UK plc 'needs a chief engineer' - also a chief trick-cyclist
- Chinese feel pressure to work longer hours
- ARM creators Sophie Wilson and Steve Furber
- Moon at annual perigee this weekend
- Mystery as Google offloads SketchUp 3D drawing tool
- Computer prices down 8.1% per year … since 1984
- Crocodoc tries to take bite out of Adobe dominance
- Intergalactic speed demon stars bid Milky Way farewell
- Aus lags in cloud wave
- Uni preps facility to build bionic eye chips
| Facebook unfriends 19-inch data center racks Posted: 02 May 2012 03:19 PM PDT Time for a new standard, says Open ComputeSocial media giant Facebook had built precisely one data center in its short life, the one in Prineville, Oregon, before it had had enough of an industry standard that was part of the railroad infrastructure and then the telephone infrastructure build outs and bubbles: The 19-inch rack for mounting electronic equipment.… |
| Apple blocking Dropbox SDK over in-app buying Posted: 02 May 2012 01:00 PM PDT Storm brews over cloud storage fine-printDevelopers using the latest Dropbox cloud storage SDK have been having applications rejected from Apple after Cupertino apparently decided that its terms and conditions have been breached.… |
| VMware gussies up View and Horizon post-PC virty tools Posted: 02 May 2012 12:23 PM PDT Project Octopus file sharing goes betaServer virtualization juggernaut VMware pretty much owns the hypervisor and management tools market for enterprise data centers on x86 iron, but if it wants to keep parent EMC and therefore Wall Street happy, it can't rely on servers alone.… |
| CPU and RAM hogs overstaying their welcome? Here's a fix Posted: 02 May 2012 11:00 AM PDT exLudus's Linux layer takes care of unwanted guestsHPC Blog Multicore processors drive everything these days from the biggest HPC cluster to the lowliest tablet – even smartphones. While parallel programming has come quite a way, there are still many apps that aren't well-behaved at all.… |
| Google finally wins DoI cloud apps contract Posted: 02 May 2012 10:11 AM PDT Two years of battling against Redmond bears fruitGoogle has snatched victory from the jaws of defeat by winning the US Department of the Interior (DoI) contract for its Apps for Government platform, after Microsoft had snaffled the original deal.… |
| Nokia cries patent 'Havoc!', unleashes dogs of law on two continents Posted: 02 May 2012 09:01 AM PDT HTC, RIM and Viewsonic face slavering Finnish packNokia has filed suit against HTC, Research in Motion and Viewsonic in two different countries all in one day.… |
| Facebook button triggers tidal wave of human organs Posted: 02 May 2012 08:26 AM PDT We're all heart. And liver, kidneys, pancreas ...Thousands of Facebook users packed with fresh, reusable organs have signed up to the organ donor lists in the US and the UK.… |
| OCZ flexes its Flash guns, predicts further embulgement ahead Posted: 02 May 2012 07:56 AM PDT Bulked-up new kid barges onto the SSD biz blockIt must be doing something right; flash storage supplier OCZ increased annual revenues 92 per cent in its latest financial year and expects 80 per cent growth next year. What about profits? Moving on ….… |
| Posted: 02 May 2012 07:47 AM PDT Slatest hitsSpotify has pushed its music platform onto Apple's iPad. The new app, specifically designed for tablet use, takes things up a notch from what is currently available through the iPhone and other smartphone versions.… |
| Kaspersky: Apple security is like Microsoft's in 2002 Posted: 02 May 2012 07:27 AM PDT Get ready for the era of the sick MacApple customers are more at risk from malware now because of their misconception that their iDevices and Macs are secure and because of Apple's poor attitude to security, according to experts.… |
| HP elbows Apple off global PC throne Posted: 02 May 2012 06:58 AM PDT Just 40,000 sales separate tech titans in Q1Apple's rise to the summit of the global personal computer market at the end of last year was short lived: HP has regained the top spot in Q1, Canalys figures reveal.… |
| How politicians could end droughts FOREVER: But they don't want to Posted: 02 May 2012 06:37 AM PDT They'd rather ration your water than do some simple sumsAnalysis Last month in old London town and across England, formal water rationing came into force again for the second time in just six years - and the creeping rationing of water meters continued to spread. Despite the rainiest April since records began, government minsters are openly speculating that total mains cutoffs and standpipes in the street may be required next year.… |
| Publishers' club lauds UK e-book sales surge Posted: 02 May 2012 06:33 AM PDT But Brits buying fewer booksBrits are buying more e-books than ever before. Sales of digital tomes in 2011 leapt 366 per cent over 2010's total, the Publishers Association said today.… |
| Microsoft's Twilio VoIP cloud deal buffs Apple and Amazon Posted: 02 May 2012 06:01 AM PDT Windows Azure climbs on shoulders of giantsDespite owning loss-making voice chat biz Skype, Microsoft is cuddling up to the Amazon-friendly Twilio to float a Windows Azure-powered communications hub.… |
| Facebook IPO: The date is set, Zuckerberg casts the dice at last Posted: 02 May 2012 05:38 AM PDT Ads and free content - you know you want more ... bitchFacebook's IPO is finally shaping up with the likely start of trading slated for May 18 after a roadshow starting next Monday.… |
| The Ethernet Alliance is thinking fast Posted: 02 May 2012 05:38 AM PDT Terabit speeds are round the cornerMake no mistake: the flood of data flowing across networks today will grow into several Niagaras. We can foresee zettabytes of information crossing the internet – and the lion's share will flow via Ethernet links.… |
| Fanboys excited by ancient Google Qwerty Nexus plan Posted: 02 May 2012 05:35 AM PDT Keyboard smartphone a thing of the pastClaims that Google is to revive smartphones with physical Qwerty keyboards - a rumour based on a patent that shows designs for just an Android handset with a slide-out keyboard - appear unfounded, after closer inspection of the documents show it was actually filed half a decade ago.… |
| Rowdy clusters put to the grindstone by Grid Engine 8.1 Posted: 02 May 2012 05:01 AM PDT Batch number-crunching in the trendy cloud eraThe advent of virtualized and cloudy infrastructure has not diminished the need for scheduling software like Grid Engine. It's obvious just how necessary such schedulers are for orchestrating and aggregating capacity of server computing pools.… |
| Black Ops II to take gamers to open worlds... and destroy them Posted: 02 May 2012 04:48 AM PDT Future Call of Duty to lose linearityWhile confirmation that Call of Duty will return this year with Black Ops II is far from surprising, the fact that developer Treyarch's sequel will be set in the future with a non-linear storyline might refresh the franchise.… |
| Intel chums up with Huawei for Oriental style flexible 4G push Posted: 02 May 2012 04:43 AM PDT Eastern fancy for time-duplexing not so inscrutableIntel will set up an interoperability testing site in China, with local firm Huawei, to ensure its TD-LTE kit will work properly even if no-one seems very interested in using it.… |
| RIM shares take a bath after uninspiring BlackBerry 10 unwrap Posted: 02 May 2012 04:14 AM PDT Last Chance Saloon bouncers eye troubled Canadian drinkerInvestors were less than impressed with Research in Motion's demo of its new BlackBerry 10 operating system and the developer tools to go with it, sending shares sliding by 5.76 per cent.… |
| Posted: 02 May 2012 04:00 AM PDT Play it again, SamuraiiGamer For fans of the PC series, the first hour of Total War Battles: Shogun - on iOS but coming soon to Android - will be defined purely by what's missing.… |
| Barnes & Noble plans instore NFC Nook-book bonk-buying Posted: 02 May 2012 03:43 AM PDT Can we expect a 'publish to Nook' button in Word?B&N's CEO reckons NFC will be the glue to holds the disparate parts of the business together, with the help of Microsoft's money and a following wind.… |
| Dell sneaks out Ivy Bridge special edition Inspirons Posted: 02 May 2012 03:22 AM PDT 14- and 15-inchersDell's Singapore operation has outed a "special edition" Inspiron 15R equipped with an Ivy Bridge processor.… |
| GCSE, A-level science exams ARE dumbed down - watchdog Posted: 02 May 2012 03:19 AM PDT Are tests too easy? A: Yes. B: Yes. C: All of the above.Questions expecting short answers and the use of multiple choice have made biology and chemistry exams easier in the UK, according to assessment assessor Ofqual.… |
| Dinosaurs were DRAINED of blood by GIGANTIC HORROR FLEAS Posted: 02 May 2012 02:58 AM PDT Huge insect bites 'like having a hypodermic shoved in'As if impending extinction wasn't enough, dinosaurs were also plagued by giant mega-fleas that impaled their soft underbellies and feasted on their blood.… |
| Nokia's 41Mp cameraphone shoots towards retail Posted: 02 May 2012 02:46 AM PDT PureView to a thrillNokia focused attention on its PureView range this morning and announced that the first of its 41Mp cameraphones will shoot onto shelves this month.… |
| 'Oppressive' UK copyright law: More cobblers from IP quangos Posted: 02 May 2012 02:38 AM PDT Write out 100 times, this has nothing to do with consumer rightsAnalysis A new report by intellectual property campaigners has again put the UK on the naughty step.… |
| REVEALED: Samsung Galaxy S III is a PHONE Posted: 02 May 2012 02:21 AM PDT Looks like one. Smells like oneSamsung formally unveils its Galaxy S III device later this week, but already the blogosphere is alive with rumours that the gadget will be some sort of phone.… |
| Speaking in Tech: What's a Klouchebag, is it anything like Apple? Posted: 02 May 2012 02:18 AM PDT Tax dodges, EMC World and the Oracle v Google smackdown |
| Posted: 02 May 2012 02:03 AM PDT Not its first slimline laptopSay hello to Sony's first Ultrabook - though it's not the Japanese giant's first oh-so-skinny compact laptop. Remember: Ultrabook is not a category, just an Intel brandname.… |
| TLC flash gets tender loving care from DensBits boffinry Posted: 02 May 2012 02:03 AM PDT DSP claims to boost endurance to 10,000 erase cyclesIsraeli upstart DensBits says it can make short-life TLC flash run longer than some long-life MLC rivals because of its fancy adaptive controller tech.… |
| Public sector exempted from swingeing Microsoft UK price hike Posted: 02 May 2012 01:37 AM PDT Redmond keen to avoid another Maude handbagThe British government will not feel the squeeze of Microsoft price rises on volume licensing when the three-year Public Sector Agreement (PSA)12 launches on 1 July, The Register can reveal.… |
| Teradata gobbles eCircle to biggen digi-marketing message blast Posted: 02 May 2012 01:21 AM PDT German data weapons will target customers ANYWHEREData warehousing giant Teradata has been building up its application portfolio ahead of its acquisition of Aprimo in late 2010, and now it is fleshing out its app stack by snapping up eCircle, the largest provider of digital messaging software in Europe.… |
| ICO mulls stiffer probe into Google Street View Wi-Fi slurp Posted: 02 May 2012 01:01 AM PDT Fresh revelations may pave way for some actual punishmentThe UK's data protection watchdog may still take enforcement action against Google over its unlawful collection of personal information from unencrypted Wi-Fi networks following the recent publication of a US regulator's report into the matter.… |
| Hitachi GST to demo first 12Gbit/s SAS SSD Posted: 02 May 2012 12:34 AM PDT Doubles the speed limitHitachi GST has announced that it will soon demonstrate the industry's first 12Gbit/s SAS interface solid state drive.… |
| UK plc 'needs a chief engineer' - also a chief trick-cyclist Posted: 02 May 2012 12:03 AM PDT Plonk technical bods in Blighty's driving seat, say MPsBritain should appoint an official chief engineer to ensure technical talent lurking within the civil service is put to best use, according to a new report.… |
| Chinese feel pressure to work longer hours Posted: 01 May 2012 11:25 PM PDT Ineffectual unions may mean Foxconn is the normThe average Chinese worker spends eight hours and forty minutes a day exchanging their labour for currency, and 30% work for at least ten hours, according to a new study by the nation's Institute of Social Science, together with Peking University and recruitment agency Zhaopin.com.… |
| ARM creators Sophie Wilson and Steve Furber Posted: 01 May 2012 11:00 PM PDT Your phone, your tablet - their chip techUnsung Heroes of Tech Back in the late 1970s you wouldn't have guessed that this shy young Cambridge maths student named Wilson would be the seed for what has now become the hottest-selling microprocessor in the world.… |
| Moon at annual perigee this weekend Posted: 01 May 2012 08:39 PM PDT No need to duck, panic, batten down for mega-tidesIf you stumble out of the pub this weekend and the moon appears unusually large, there's no need to swear off the strong stuff.… |
| Mystery as Google offloads SketchUp 3D drawing tool Posted: 01 May 2012 07:50 PM PDT Spatial specialist Trimble partners with big G to keep SketchUp warehouse aliveGoogle has decided that the 3D modelling business is non-core and has sold its SketchUp tool to spatial specialist Trimble.… |
| Computer prices down 8.1% per year … since 1984 Posted: 01 May 2012 05:15 PM PDT Computer and mobile phone now a "relative necessity" for Australian householdsThe price Australian consumers pay for audio visual and computing products has fallen an average of 8.1% every year since 1984, according to the new AMP.NATSEM Income Report.… |
| Crocodoc tries to take bite out of Adobe dominance Posted: 01 May 2012 05:00 PM PDT Office and PDF viewer aims to assassinate AcrobatCrocodoc is looking to take a big chunk out of Adobe's market share with an HTML5 viewing and annotation system for PDFs and Office documents that eliminates plug-ins or vulnerable software.… |
| Intergalactic speed demon stars bid Milky Way farewell Posted: 01 May 2012 04:59 PM PDT Down and out after black hole close encounterIt takes a lot to kick a star out of a galaxy, but a group of Vanderbilt University astronomers say they've found a group of more than 675 stars that look like they're headed for the exit door.… |
| Posted: 01 May 2012 04:12 PM PDT ICT spend slows, clouds lining looks silverCloud computing could be the life line for dwindling ICT expenditure at the top end of town, according to a new report from KPMG.… |
| Uni preps facility to build bionic eye chips Posted: 01 May 2012 04:06 PM PDT A fab vision for smartphones to help implantsThe University of NSW (UNSW) is trumpeting an advance in its contribution to Australia's "bionic eye" project, opening a fabrication facility to underpin the development effort.… |
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