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Alan Turing: 10 ideas beyond Enigma

Alan Turing: 10 ideas beyond Enigma

...two years with his groundbreaking involvement in building and fully exploiting decoding machines;His seminal role in the actual designing and programming the early computers... Read more

3 March, 2012 by S Barry Cooper
Inside Nokia's phone-testing facility

Inside Nokia's phone-testing facility

...to find the last straw before the proverbial camel does. This mesmerising machine flips a row of mobile phones closed, open, and closed again.Photo... Read more

13 October, 2011 by Jessica Dolcourt
Server app virtualisation in Microsoft's sights

Server app virtualisation in Microsoft's sights

...and this creates a hard link between the application and a specific machine or OS image. By separating that state, server application virtualisation allows that... Read more

17 June, 2010 by Roger Howorth

IBM promises virtual machines in minutes

...immediately in an open beta, can create and deploy a single virtual machine in seconds, dozens in a few minutes and thousands in less than... Read more

2 March, 2011 by Lucy Sherriff
HP Labs unveils G-Cloud demo facility

HP Labs unveils G-Cloud demo facility

...size, so those services have autonomic behaviour. You're seeing new virtual machines flying in [pictured, top left] as they are provisioned to the service... Read more

17 November, 2010 by Jack Clark
Acronis update aims to make VMs safer

Acronis update aims to make VMs safer

...Acronis has launched the third version of its virtual machine management, backup and recovery software, Acronis vmProtect 7. The software was released... Read more

6 March, 2012 by Jack Clark
Acronis vmProtect 6

Acronis vmProtect 6

...affordable package that's capable of protecting an unlimited number of virtual machines. Installation is straightforward, with a choice of either loading up a self... Read more

23 January, 2012 by Alan Stevens

Verizon boss stands ready to reap M2M rewards

...Verizon chief executive Lowell McAdam said that the promise of machine-to-machine connections — including vending machines, buildings and healthcare sensors — is ready... Read more

9 December, 2011 by Larry Dignan
V-Locity 3

V-Locity 3

...be a thing of the past — at least for companies with virtual machines running Diskeeper's V-Locity 3. This "virtual doctor for virtual platform... Read more

8 November, 2011 by Alan Stevens
Intel builds sensor grenade for firemen

Intel builds sensor grenade for firemen

...Rapid Prototyping Group has been working on technologies in the field of machine-to-machine (M2M) communications. On Monday, at its Intel Developer Forum in... Read more

13 September, 2011 by Jack Clark

Virtual networks get cloud standard boost

...phone numbers allow us to take calls virtually anywhere, separation of a machine's network ID from its physical location enables more mobility and efficiency... Read more

1 September, 2011 by Jack Clark
Microsoft forecasts a hybrid-cloud future

Microsoft forecasts a hybrid-cloud future

...departments are using. IT teams using Microsoft Azure, System Center and Virtual Machine Manager (VMM) 2012 will be able to offer public and private clouds... Read more

6 August, 2011 by Mary Branscombe

Red Hat and IBM team up on virtualisation push

...Tuesday they will collaborate to create products based on kernel-based virtual machine technology, with the aim of driving open-source virtualisation in the enterprise... Read more

4 May, 2011 by Larry Dignan

Apple wins $625m Cover Flow patent case reversal

...of Apple in a patent suit, which targeted Cover Flow and Time Machine. Credit: Apple The case, in which a jury had found Apple liable... Read more

5 April, 2011 by Josh Lowensohn

Google Translate to tackle European patents

...Google has partnered with the European Patent Office to provide machine translations of patents into various languages. Benoît Battistelli, president of the European... Read more

29 March, 2011 by David Meyer

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Horace Ontalhold

...... and PDP11s too

29 minutes ago by Horace Ontalhold on Fusion-io lays minefield with a billion IOPS
BrownieBoy

I had a quick skim through the PDF. It seems to be that many of these so-called cost savings would be down to a hardware refresh. Although...

2 hours ago by BrownieBoy on Using Windows XP is a waste of money, says IDC
bobandroid

496,999 BT Fon Hotspots lovingly situated in your next door neighbours garden, no matter how you dress that up its still a pup... Not where I need...

4 hours ago by bobandroid on London Olympics: BT needs 25,000 more Wi-Fi hotspots
apexwm

Jack : I was hoping you could provide us a summary since you are familiar with this report. I am not yet sure how much of my time I'd like to...

5 hours ago by apexwm on Using Windows XP is a waste of money, says IDC
Smilig Eddie

2 – 4 more weeks of waiting: how many buyers are going to decide instead to see what the iPhone 5 offers? Consumer trust in the brand has also...

5 hours ago by Smilig Eddie on Samsung Galaxy 'S3' delayed by special paint
SRist

So it looks like this was a complete red herring - Adobe are allowing upgrades from Photoshop CS3, CS4 and CS5 at the same price. When did this...

6 hours ago by SRist on Photoshop users attack Adobe upgrade policy change
Jack Schofield

@apexwm Have you considered either (a) reading the story above or (b) reading the PDF? There are answers in both.

8 hours ago by Jack Schofield on Using Windows XP is a waste of money, says IDC
apexwm

I would love to hear why Microsoft believes that "upgrading from Windows XP to Windows 7 pays for itself in a year, in increased productivity and...

9 hours ago by apexwm on Using Windows XP is a waste of money, says IDC
debsmk

I have just changed mine to white they said 3 to 5 days

10 hours ago by debsmk on Samsung Galaxy 'S3' delayed by special paint
Atangana

I would like a job for me and do good to their tackiness vellent my help I will do my best to help you mercie for all

11 hours ago by Atangana on UK's 15-year-old World Excel champion offered £100k job
BrownieBoy

Well done to IDC for producing a report that says using XP is a waste of money. Only 11 years too late with it is all....

11 hours ago by BrownieBoy on Using Windows XP is a waste of money, says IDC
Jack Schofield

@Burn-IT ...which doesn't mean it isn't true ;-) I'll be interested if you can find any properly-researched, independent data from any of the...

13 hours ago by Jack Schofield on Using Windows XP is a waste of money, says IDC
Burn-IT

As said, sponsored by Microsoft........

13 hours ago by Burn-IT on Using Windows XP is a waste of money, says IDC
mrbigdong

@620W, I mine 1 BTC/daily for cost of 1.7eur, they naysayers regurgitate the rubbish they read as usual

13 hours ago by mrbigdong on A minor Bitcoin miner injury?
Mike Denton

If the link to the next section existed that would be awesome.... Guess I have to ask uncle google where it is

18 hours ago by Mike Denton via Facebook on Security on the farm: Accounts and permissions
minzhu

Don't blame CEO, they want RIM win. RIM has strange culture and self distruct political environment. In RIM if a new hired person figure out...

19 hours ago by minzhu on RIM CEO: Time to squash BlackBerry myths
Thomas Gellhaus

I've been very pleased with Mageia 2. My review went up on Sunday. My only issue is that my particular wireless printer hasn't been detected on...

22 hours ago by Thomas Gellhaus via Facebook on Scorecard - Linux Mint 13 and Mageia 2
knapper

That we have :-) Retailers don't buy stuff to lie around in warehouses, particularly with fast moving technology products. If they didn't think...

1 day ago by knapper on Windows Phone, Android take bite out of BlackBerry
JohneKerr

I think that we have been here before, shipments are not equal to sales. Correct?

1 day ago by JohneKerr on Windows Phone, Android take bite out of BlackBerry
Iain Sutherland

I received the notification of Mageia 2 being released on Saturday, was already running Mageia 1. After running the installation X came back up...

1 day ago by Iain Sutherland via Facebook on Scorecard - Linux Mint 13 and Mageia 2