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Extortionists target Web bookies with child porn threats
News Blackmailers warned UK-based online bookmaker Blue Square on Tuesday that they would send out emails in Blue Square's name containing child pornography unless the company paid a demand for €7,000. The threat followed a more traditional denial of...
[October 27, 2004, 13:45]
IBM delivers Europe's biggest supercomputer
News ASCI White takes up the area of two basketball courts, or 9,400 square feet, while Blue Gene/L should fit into half a tennis court, or about 1,400 square feet. IBM's forthcoming Blue Gene/L, which Sanchez said will be more powerful than the current...
[February 19, 2004, 15:54]
IBM seeks to make virtualisation 'ubiquitous'
News In 2005, IBM plans to bring a significant feature from higher-end servers to the next generation of its PowerPC 970 processor line used in Apple machines and Big Blue's own blade servers. Big Blue also is rounding up other partners to promote and...
[December 22, 2004, 8:30]
Web bookies demand higher security standards
News A lot of [ISPs] have started to address the problem of DDoS [attacks]said Peter Pedersen, chief technology officer at online betting site Blue Square, speaking at the e-Crime Congress in London. Blue Square is one of many online gambling companies...
[April 5, 2005, 16:55]
Having a snail of a time!
News UK betting service Blue Square organised the race, which involved six snails racing up 427mm poles away from water. In today's race, the "black" snail roared to the finishing line like a true pro, while the less orthodox "red" snail left its own...
[September 25, 2000, 13:16]
Holographic storage: Virtual reality?
News This allows holographic disks to currently store over 250GB per square inch of disk surface when using a nm blue laser. This involves taking the light from a coherent laser source — in the Tapestry drive this is a 407nm blue laser of the sort...
[November 15, 2005, 11:55]
Motorola: New chip will bring GPS to all
News The Instant GPS chip measures only 49 square millimetres, or less than half the area of a Pentium 4 chip. A boon for Big Blue Although Motorola has its own large semiconductor division, the Motorola Automotive Group chose to contract with IBM to...
[September 24, 2002, 8:11]
IBM conserves power with new chip
News That compares with Big Blue's current P690 "Regatta" system, which has 16 dual-core Power4 chips that function as a 32-processor server. Power5 will measure 389 square millimetres and contain 276m transistors, according to IBM.
[October 15, 2003, 8:40]
IBM supercomputer achieves petaflop
News A two-feet-square circuit board containing 32 of the Blue Gene/P chips can churn out 435 billion operations a second. IBM has devised a new Blue Gene supercomputer — the Blue Gene/P — that will be capable of processing more than three quadrillion...
[June 26, 2007, 10:29]
IBM sets up mobile computing lab in Korea
News Big Blue announced last Friday that the lab will be set up by December, with investment from Korea's Institute of Information Technology Assessment. IBM Korea is making the initial investment by securing the 2,600 square metre site for the lab.
[October 28, 2003, 10:20]
IBM to build fastest supercomputers to date
News As for physical size, ASCI Purple will weigh about 197 tons, be linked to 119 miles of optical cable and 28 miles of copper cable, and occupy 8,900 square feet of floor space -- or about two basketball courts.
[November 19, 2002, 9:53]
UK bookies toe the US government line
News Ed Pownall, spokesman for online bookmaker Blue Square, said: "Obviously the US is holy grail territory for us, but we've never accepted US bets, which is a policy based on the fact that if in 10, 15 or 20 years' time they do start awarding...
[May 9, 2003, 14:50]
Computer tipster promises riches
News However, Ed Pownall from online bookie Blue Square believes sport is still full of enough inherent vagaries to leave such a scientific analysis fundamentally flawed. Any gamblers who lost money on the weekend's sporting action may do well to turn...
[December 16, 2002, 11:27]
Magnetic tape prototype makes data leap
News In 2002, scientists at Big Blue came up with a tape capable of a density of 1 billion bits per square inch. Researchers at IBM's Almaden Research Center and Fuji Photo have devised a prototype storage system utilising a dual-side magnetic tape that...
[May 16, 2006, 9:05]
IBM: A wearable world beyond your clamshell
News The 10in square and 2in thick device also features sensors that allow InfoPortal to adjust its position to the person using it. Big Blue is experimenting with a number of unusual designs, including wearable PCs, watch computers and even a computer...
[February 8, 2001, 10:11]
Matchbox hard drive packs in 4GB
News The company's 4GB "Microdrive" is slated to be available from 20 February, according to Big Blue's Web site. This new Microdrive weighs less than an AA battery, has a footprint measuring less than one square inch, and can hold almost 2,800 times...
[February 12, 2004, 7:40]
Stepping up to a giant
News What's more, Lindows was one of the first software companies to put on the virtual blue vest for Wal-Mart shoppers, selling boxed software and partnering with hardware makers to sell low-end Linux-based PCs priced at $300 or less.
[August 6, 2003, 11:40]
Financial watchdog threatens Y2K laggards with closure
News Currently, under Action 2000's colour-coded system of measuring Y2K preparedness, 66 percent of high impact financial services are blue (no risk of bug disruption), 32 percent are amber (some risk) and 2 percent are red (severe risk).
[July 12, 1999, 14:14]
Estonia's cyberattacks: Lessons learned, a year on
News The movement of the Bronze Soldier, a Soviet-era war memorial commemorating unknown Russian soldiers who died fighting the Nazis, from a square in the capital Tallinn to a military cemetery, has been traced as the main flashpoint for the attacks.
[May 1, 2008, 14:04]
SCO prepares to send invoices for Linux
News In July, SCO chief executive Darl McBride described the licensing programme as "a solution that.gets you square with the use of Linux, without having to go to the courtroom. The move triggered a countersuit from Big Blue as well as a separate legal...
[September 3, 2003, 8:50]
