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...to keep everyone else in line Supernova Google vice president Bradley Horowitz has indicated the web giant avoids hiring too many talented minds in an effort to keep the rest of the world from going to ruin.… Offloading malware protection to the cloud
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Down, the new up for Apple Windows 7 saw healthy growth in web-tracked usage in its first full month of release while Mac OS X found itself moving in a direction Cupertino is not used to: downward.… Case Study: WhatsUp keeps Legoland turnstyles ringing
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No ID, no call India has blocked service to an estimated 25 million mobile phones lacking valid identity codes over concerns criminal or militant groups could use them to organize attacks.… The power of collaboration within unified communications
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May and June earmarked Delivery dates for two eagerly awaited pieces of software from Microsoft have slipped out.… What is your recession sales strategy?
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Demo graphics In a recent blog, I wrote how tiny ARM-based compute nodes were assembled into a 16-way cluster and displayed at the recently concluded SC09 supercomputing conference.… Web threats: Why conventional protection doesn't work
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Tell me about the cluster, Buster The annual Supercomputing show is refreshing in that it pulls exhibitors of all stripes, ranging from colleges and research labs to the usual slate of large system, software, and infrastructure vendors.… The power of collaboration within unified communications
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SGI's Geoff Noer talks us through UltraViolet Large shared-memory computing seems to be making a bit of a comeback. The two players we have already talked about ScaleMP and 3Leaf , use primarily off-the-shelf servers (with a special ASIC, in 3Leaf’s case) along with Infiniband connections and ...
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Liquid cooling OK, sure: liquid can hold and transfer way, way more heat than air – we all know that. But is dropping an entire rack of servers into what looks like an enormous deep fryer the right solution? The answer from the folks at Green Revolution Cooling is a resounding, “Yes!” … Case ...
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Mirrors AT&T suit Nokia has filed a lawsuit against eight display manufacturers over claims they colluded to fix prices for LCDs used in mobile phones.… Offloading malware protection to the cloud
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After 13 months of bandwidth capping Comcast has flipped the test switch on a broadband meter that actually tells customers how much bandwidth they're using before they reach the company's 250GB-a-month bandwidth cap.… Web threats: Why conventional protection doesn't work
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Breaches R Us A group of restaurants is demanding millions in dollars in damages from two companies accused of selling point-of-sale terminals that exposed customer data to criminal hackers.… What is your recession sales strategy?
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Real-time is real money With Red Hat, Novell - and now Intel, thanks to its $884m acquisition of Wind River - all crowding into the real-time Linux space, Concurrent has to keep on its toes and keep its RedHawk Linux, well, current .… Web threats: Why conventional protection doesn't work
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But it ain't over til it's over Apple and Psystar have settled a large chunk of their legal wrangling, with the Hackintosher agreeing to pay Apple $2.7m rather than continue to trial in federal court in Northern California.… What is your recession sales strategy?
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New social engineering wheeze appears in east Miscreants have developed a ransomware package that blocks internet access in a bid to force infected users into paying up by sending a text message to a premium rate SMS number, lining the pocket of cybercrooks in the process.… Web threats: Why ...
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Open has its limits A cloud interoperability hopeful has dismissed mighty Microsoft's attempt to patent technology for customers to transfer data between different services.… Web threats: Why conventional protection doesn't work
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$1.99 non-downloads Google is in talks with TV execs to stream commercial-free TV shows on YouTube for a buck ninety-nine each on the day after they're originally broadcast.… The power of collaboration within unified communications
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Murdoch fodder Google pockets more than half of the online revenues generated from "unlicensed" newspaper content, according to a new study.… The power of collaboration within unified communications
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It's gonna play in the mainstream SMB and HPC markets Acer has shown off its SMB and HPC entry tickets at a Milan show today.… Offloading malware protection to the cloud
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Test suggests collaboration is the way to fight the wrong'uns The combined efforts of anti-spam products outperform any individual products alone, according to an experiment by Virus Bulletin, the independent security certification organisation.… Offloading malware protection to the cloud
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Asks Microsoft, Google if they want a monopoly The FCC has invited those interested in running a white space database to explain how they would manage it, and if they're expecting to be handed a monopoly.… The power of collaboration within unified communications
