Archive for the 'Technology' Category

Michael Dell heralds supercomputing fourth wave

Tuesday, November 18th, 2008

Just like the third wave - with more marketing

SC08 The annual Supercomputing 2008 trade show kicked off this morning in Austin, Texas with a sales call keynote by local billionaire and sometime HPC player, Michael Dell. As chairman and once again chief executive officer of a company that’s trying to make a more substantial run at the HPC area, he can be forgiven (perhaps) for giving a keynote address that at times seemed to be more of a commercial for his company than a revelation about HPC (as supercomputing is now called).…

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Intel celebrates Core i7 launch with Dell and Gateway

Tuesday, November 18th, 2008

San Francisco shindig

Intel celebrated the official launch of its Core i7 processor at an event last event in San Francisco, featuring the first high-end desktops running the next-generation micro architecture.…

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Tron sequel already in production - who knew?

Tuesday, November 18th, 2008

Arguably the most long overdue sequel ever

Tron - quite possibly the best example of a movie that could benefit from a legitimate sequel - is finally getting one. And who knew? A few dedicated - and better informed - film buffs maybe, but for the rest of us sci-fi supporters, it remained a secret.…

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EMC launches Data Protection Advisor

Tuesday, November 18th, 2008

Tape backup not enough

For EMC users, the tape backup world is not enough. These days, data is backed up to disk, deduplicated, and - horror of horrors - EMC shops might have NetApp and Data Domain boxes in them. So EMC has upgraded its Backup Advisor product to reflect these facts of life.…

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Tron sequel already in production

Tuesday, November 18th, 2008

Arguably the most long overdue sequel ever

Tron - quite possibly the best example of a movie that could benefit from a legitimate sequel - is finally getting one. And who knew? A few dedicated - and better informed - film buffs maybe. But for the rest of us sci-fi supporters, certainly on this side of the Pond, it remained a secret.…

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Chrysler: the future’s bright, the future’s electric

Tuesday, November 18th, 2008

More ZEOs, fewer Peapods, please

‘Leccy Tech Lou Rhodes, Chrysler’s VP of Advanced Engineering, has said electric cars are central to the motor company’s future and key to “a long-term viable business for Chrysler.”…

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PC virus forces three London hospitals into computer shutdown

Tuesday, November 18th, 2008

Too used to the other sort

Three London Hospitals shut down their computer systems on Tuesday in response to a computer virus infection.…

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Wacky Jacqui’s £12bn gIMP could be unleashed by 2012

Tuesday, November 18th, 2008

But ‘nothing decided’ on comms überdatabase, says Home Office

The government Interception Modernisation Programme (gIMP), a plan by spy chiefs to centrally collect details of every phone call, text, email and web browsing session of every UK resident, could be in place by 2012, according to a Home Office minister.…

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Lord Ahmed faces dangerous driving charge

Tuesday, November 18th, 2008

Investigation centred on text message sent before crash

A Labour Peer has been charged with dangerous driving after allegedly sending text messages shortly before hitting a car on the M1 on Christmas Day, 2007.…

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World needs mobile phone wallets, cries trade body

Tuesday, November 18th, 2008

Near-Field Comms standardisation required

Everyone should be able to use their mobile phone like a wallet as soon as possible, the world’s trade group for the mobile industry has demanded.…

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