Previous DayCourt pressed to unseal AMD-Intel antitrust records
News News outlets and pressure groups have requested access to 'unnecessarily and unjustly' sealed records of the long-running antitrust dispute
The future of machine intelligence at IDF
Photo The chipmaker painted a bullish future for tech, with advances in power transmission, communications, robots and human-computer interfaces
Nokia's Series 40 won't be open-sourced
Blog Heard the rumour about Series 40 being made open source? No? Well, I did, so I asked Nokia. According to a spokesperson, they have "no plans to open source Series 40". They also thought I might...
Gartner: Server market still growing
News Despite the economic downturn, server sales are on the up, with Dell seeing the largest growth, according to the analyst house
Nokia confirms flaws in Series 40 handsets
News The company says the flaws, revealed by a Polish researcher, do not pose a significant risk to handsets using the operating system
iPhone nano and iPod micro-nano
Blog As promised here are the two other pics from my mini trip to Vigo. If you look carefully the iPhone has some pretty nifty features.... Have a good weekend Utz
Not even THAT is the cloud
Talkback I agree with teh overall sentiment of what you say, but I dispute even your definition of cloud. I was drawing clouds 20 odd years ago in SNA networks that also had terminals (3270 & 5250) and...
Power management through Intel's Nehalem
Video At IDF, Patrick Gelsinger, senior vice president of the company's digital enterprise group, speaks about advances the Nehalem processor will bring to power management
Kudos to the Cloud Crowd for Re-Inventing the Wheel!
Talkback One thing 30 years in the IT industry has taught me is that the more things change, the more they stay the same. Another is that the only memory we seem to access is short-term. A third is that...
Worker suspended over loss of prisoner data
News An employee at Home Office contractor PA Consulting has been suspended after the loss of a memory stick holding the unencrypted details of every prisoner in England and Wales
Cubans prefer Linux to sex
Blog Website monitoring company Pingdom thinks it's got a handle on the worldwide distribution of interest in Linux. But has it? It's hard to pin down who's using Linux and open source, and how much...
Intel touts Moorestown mobile chip
Video At IDF, the chipmaker shows a wafer with 'Lincroft' — the main processor for Moorestown
Police to spend £40m on fingerprint biometrics
News The National Policing Improvement Agency has put a contract out to tender for the provision of mobile fingerprinting devices
Yoggie Gatekeeper Card Pro
Review Yoggie's Gatekeeper Card Pro delivers powerful plug-and-play protection for notebooks, removes the need to manage multiple software subscriptions and can boost your notebook's performance by...
Atom-based ultraportables at IDF
Photo At the Intel Developer Forum, the chipmaker displayed a range of ultramobile computers powered by its new Atom CPU
MoD announces winner of robot challenge
Photo The Saturn system of robots, which can analyse battlefields from a macro and micro level, has won the Ministry of Defence's Grand Challenge
New Logitech QuickCam Software Release (11.8)
Blog Logitech has made QuickCam Software version 11.8 available. They seem to have followed the pattern that they did with the 11.7 release, for some reason trying to keep it "low key", not putting it...
Salesforce shares dip on cautious outlook
News The software-as-a-service company gave lower-than-expected revenue guidance for the third quarter, sending its shares down
Google plans real-time assessment of ad quality
News The company is updating its process for judging ad-quality scores, a critical measurement that influences whether ads are placed next to search results
US charges Brazilian with operating botnet
News The indictment alleges the man had a role in operating a botnet made up of more than 100,000 infected computers designed to send spam
DNS attacks occurring, warns Kaminsky
News Security researcher Dan Kaminsky says attacks on unpatched DNS systems are happening now, and more are to come
RE:Intel SSD - details. 32-160GB, production in next 30 days, £...
Blog Comment I think the reason they focused on 5400 rpm HDDs is that is the speed selection that most closely resembles the actual speed a 7200 rpm HDD would be running at in a laptop when you add in power...
