IBM’s Cell blade boosted by memory and floating point gains 13. May 2008
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IBM’s Cell attack will gain some added muscle next month thanks to a new blade server. The system will run on a refreshed version of the Cell chip that includes better support for mathematical calculations and memory. As a result, the Cell-based blades could tempt a larger set of customers.
Air Force Aims for ‘Full Control’ of ‘Any and All’ Computers
Posted by Nerdmaster in : Hacks & Mods , add a commentThe Air Force wants a suite of hacker tools, to give it “access” to — and “full control” of — any kind of computer there is. And once the info warriors are in, the Air Force wants them to keep tabs on their “adversaries’ information infrastructure completely undetected.”
Romanian and Turkish scientists turn circuit boards into oil
Posted by Nerdmaster in : Hacks & Mods , add a commentBiomess goes biomass
Whether through a force of expanding environmental activism or just compliance with government edicts, the IT sector is in a pinch over how to safely recycle defunct computers and equipment.
Jumsoft releases new Aperture Web themes
Posted by Nerdmaster in : Hacks & Mods , add a commentAperture, Apple's photo application for pros, can now produce prettier Web Galleries and Web Journals with an add-on from Jumsoft.
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Some Final Thoughts on Our Friend Michael Arrington
Posted by Nerdmaster in : Hacks & Mods , add a commentMichael Arrington scores a syndication deal for TechCrunch with the Washington Post. We questioned his inherent conflict of interest in writing about companies he advises or invests in. Arrington fires back, but the question remains.
Pop Artist Robert Rauschenberg, 82, Dies
Posted by Nerdmaster in : Hacks & Mods , add a commentThe pop art pioneer turned everyday objects into art, sometimes bizarrely so, but he was also an accomplished painter, sculpture and choreographer, a major 20th century American artist.
Stupid marketing tricks (InfoWorld)
Posted by Nerdmaster in : Hacks & Mods , add a commentInfoWorld - So my phone rang one day last week and, naturally, there was a computer on the other end. But this wasn't a political robo-call trying to confuse me into voting for the wrong candidate. This was a commercial robo-call from a Web site called MerchantCircle, telling me there was a “new review of my service” on the site.
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Sprint faces tough questions (Reuters)
Posted by Nerdmaster in : Hacks & Mods , add a comment<p><a href=”http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/tech/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080513/bs_nm/sprint_shareholdermeeting_dc”><img src=”http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/nm/20080513/2008_05_13t130700_450×297_us_sprint_shareholdermeeting.jpg?x=130&y=85&q=85&sig=rLlhbSlkIIWNADjlMreNuw–” align=”left” height=”85″ width=”130″ alt=”Dan Hesse, president and CEO of Sprint Nextel, speaks during a keynote address at the CTIA Wireless convention in Las Vegas, Nevada April 1, 2008. (Steve Marcus/Reuters)” border=”0″ /></a>Reuters - Sprint Nextel faced multiple
questions about how it will turn itself around and stop
customers from fleeing its cell phone service at its annual
shareholder meeting on Tuesday.</p><br clear=”all”/>
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HP Buying EDS With Its Head in the Clouds
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Five years ago, if Hewlett-Packard bought EDS, everyone would’ve thought it was pretty much like when IBM bought PwC — a play to create a powerful data processing consulting business that could coexist with a computer hardware business. In fact, that’s been a great model for IBM.
But with HP today buying EDS for $12 billion, the smart thinking goes in a different direction. It’s looking like a red-hot area going forward for IBM, Amazon and Google will be so-called cloud computing — a.k.a. hardware as a service.
If you’re a startup or a corporate IT manager, you increasingly won’t have to buy computers to run your business. You just rent capabilities from some computing giant and move the information there and back over the internet. If something crashes, the data is always backed up and stored somewhere out there in the cloud. This is the ubiquitous computing idea IBM has pushed for a decade — making computer power something like electric power.
If you tack together some of HP’s other purchases under CEO Mark Hurd — as Om Malik did — it seems even more obvious that HP is at least as interested in cloud computing as consulting. And EDS is a solid cloud-computing play because a core business is owning and running giant data centers.
As part of the interview I did with Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos (the video is now on Portfolio.com), we discussed Amazon’s push into cloud computing.
“We’ve been working on our Infrastructure Web Services for four years,” Bezos said. “We launched our first one two years ago, the Simple Storage Service, and I am astonished — I rarely meet a startup company these days who isn’t using our web services and now we’re starting to get, you know, deployment inside Enterprise level data centers as well. So it’s a very exciting.”
Asked about Google’s plans to get into a similar business, Bezos said: “Well … we really do have a practice of not talking about other companies. But this, like our retail business, (there) is not going to be one winner. I think there are going to be multiple winners pursuing different flavors or strategies, different kinds of products…. I think our web services business is going to be part of what becomes an important industry. And … important industries are rarely made by single companies.”
So maybe there is room for HP, Amazon, IBM, Google and others to play in the cloud computing space. The HP deal is telling us that the concept is ready for prime time.
Don’t Peel & Stick Me, Bro!
Posted by Nerdmaster in : Hacks & Mods , add a commentTaser International is introducing a peel and stick laminate that “becomes electrified, providing a powerful deterrent to protect officers and keep suspects or rioters at bay.” What could possibly go wrong?
Dallas kids tracked for their own good
Posted by Nerdmaster in : Hacks & Mods , add a commentNo more playing by the ol’ water hole
Tracking children from dawn to dusk might seem extreme, but in Dallas, Texas, it seems to be working to reduce truancy and get more kids graduating.
Jordbävningen kraschade mobilnät
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Jordbävningen i Kina har inte bara lett till ofantligt mänskligt lidande och materiella skador. Även kommunikationer har slagits ut. I Chengdu, en av de hårdast drabbade städerna, kraschade hela mobilnätet.
HP planerar att köpa EDS
Posted by Nerdmaster in : Hacks & Mods , add a commentHewlett-Packard planerar att köpa amerikanska tjänsteföretaget EDS för upp till 13 miljarder dollar. Genom en sådan affär skulle HP kunna utmana IBM som i dagsläget är den ledande leverantören av it-relaterade tjänster i världen.
Messenger-TV klar for Norge
Posted by Nerdmaster in : Hacks & Mods , add a commentMicrosoft lanserer videodeling i nettpratklient.
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Online network puts health front and center (Reuters)
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Monday that it is forming the Digital Health Network, a group
of Web sites that will distribute health-focused videos
produced by the network.
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McCain Breaks From Bush on Climate Change, Calls for Mandatory Caps
Posted by Nerdmaster in : Hacks & Mods , add a commentSen. John McCain throws his support behind the idea of placing mandatory limits on greenhouse gas emissions. He calls for the United States to lower its emissions to “at least 60 percent below 1990 levels by the year 2050.”
International Hackers Indicted for Sniffing Credit Cards from Dave & Buster’s 12. May 2008
Posted by Nerdmaster in : Hacks & Mods , add a commentThree alleged hackers have been indicted in the United States and are accused of siphoning credit card information from customers at a national restaurant chain, Dave and Buster’s. The data was purloined as the customers paid for their meals. One of the accused had millions of of stolen credit card numbers in his possession, most unrelated to the restaurant chain, when arrested in July.
Wind Could Power 20 Percent of U.S. Grid by 2030
Posted by Nerdmaster in : Hacks & Mods , add a commentA new 248-page report from the Department of Energy suggests that, with the right conditions, wind could power 20 percent of U.S. homes, businesses and factories by 2030.
Kinky fotball
Posted by Nerdmaster in : Hacks & Mods , add a commentIfølge Dagbladet har Odd og Start tatt tak i en ny måte å dra publikum på. Jeg følger ikke med på fotball og jeg blir heller ikke pirret av dette.
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10 uforanderlige lover om sikkerhet
Posted by Nerdmaster in : Hacks & Mods , add a commentMicrosoft Security Response Center som tar imot sårbarhetsmeldinger og sørger for at sikkerhetsoppdateringer går ut deretter, har laget en liste på 10 viktige sikkerhetsaspekter.
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