 Citrix tries to woo crowds with XenApp 5 Aug 26, 2008 | Source: The Register
Lands next month
Citrix Systems yesterday announced the imminent release of XenApp 5, in its latest attempt to strengthen its hold on the data centre and desktop virtualisation market.…
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 AMD offloads TV chip unit on Broadcom for $193m Aug 25, 2008 | Source: The Register
You ought not to be in pictures
As AMD struggles to gain altitude against Intel, the distant second rival chip maker is tossing excess weight where it can. Today, AMD said it intends to sell its digital television business to Broadcom for $192.8m cash.…
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 Amazon gives marching orders to cloudy storage Aug 21, 2008 | Source: The Register
Nomadic volumes
Amazon.com continues to offer deeper penetration into its cloud. The company this week unfurled a storage service for hard-core users that will let you keep data and file systems in separate piles.…
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Intel hands out rose tinted polarizing glasses to chip geeks Aug 21, 2008 | Source: The Register
One-eyed Katz
IDF Intel just can’t get the stars out of its eyes this week. Hollywood uber cartoon geek Jeffrey Katzenberg took to the stage at IDF Wednesday to plug the deal the two signed barely a month ago.…
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Microsoft slaps another $100m on Novell interop pile Aug 20, 2008 | Source: The Register
Save all your kisses for me
Microsoft plans to cough up $100m in additional subs to software rival Novell with the payment being made no later than 1 November, the odd couple confirmed today.…
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IBM wraps fat tentacles around fluffy clouds Aug 20, 2008 | Source: The Register
13 data centres, unlucky for some
IBM will splash $300m on 13 new data centres around the world in its latest bid to fluff up cloud computing.…
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Intel does SSD flash dance Aug 19, 2008 | Source: The Register
Now with Dynamic Wear Leveling
IDF Full of what we call "self mettle," Intel has championed its "highly anticipated line" of big daddy solid state drives (SSDs).…
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S3 announces Chrome 400 Series Feb 15, 2008 | Source: The Inquirer
INQUIRER staff the Inquirer, Friday 15 February 2008. 16:36:00
Cooler DX10 than your average
BAY AREA video chipset manufacturer S3 Graphics announced a new line of graphics processors today. The Fremont, California based firm reckons its S3 Graphics Chrome 400 Series sets new standards in energy-efficient HD multimedia and DirectX 10.1 gaming....
 
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Wanted: 1 million storage staff Feb 15, 2008 | Source: The Inquirer
Ambrose McNevin the Inquirer, Friday 15 February 2008. 15:44:00
Apply within
MEGA, GIGA TERA, peta and exabyte numbers getting bigger we know about but now the world will need one million workers just to handle all that data. A study (The Expanding Digital Universe: A Forecast of Worldwide Information Growth Through 2010), projects a six-fold annual information growth from 2006 to...
 
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Brit robots to put phone mast on moon Feb 15, 2008 | Source: The Inquirer
Mark Ballard the Inquirer, Friday 15 February 2008. 15:33:00
And to do some geology, possibly
NASA HAS backed a proposal for an unmanned UK space mission to test mobile phone masts on the moon. Called MoonLITE, it effectively trains British scientists on the task of providing logistical support to future US lunar missions, and perhaps doing some geological research while they are there.... 
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SGI buys into Linux clustering Feb 15, 2008 | Source: The Inquirer
Martin Veitch the Inquirer, Friday 15 February 2008. 13:19:00
And gets more funds
SGI IS BUYING Linux Networx, a company that develops clusters on the open-source OS. Ever since its restructuring in the wake of Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, SGI has made it clear that tit sees its future in the high-performance computing world rather than in the workstation business where the company...
 
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Net Neutrality bill is introduced in the US Congress Feb 15, 2008 | Source: The Inquirer
Egan Orion the Inquirer, Friday 15 February 2008. 12:36:00
Internet freedom at stake
A BILL labeled HR5353 (pdf) entitled the "Internet Freedom Preservation Act of 2008" has been introduced in the US House of Representatives, cosponsored by Democrat Ed Markey of Massachusetts and Republican Chip Pickering of Mississippi.... 
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Swedish boffin turns mobile phone into electrocardiogram Feb 15, 2008 | Source: The Inquirer
Nick Booth the Inquirer, Friday 15 February 2008. 11:12:00
Now you can wear your heart on your sleeve
BOFFINS IN SWEDEN have invented a system turns any mobile phone into a heart monitor and sort of personal guardian. The system, the creation of Stockholm based Kiwok, turns any mobile phone handset into a mobile ECG (electro-cardiogram).... 
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 Computing from the bottom up Aug 28, 2008 | Source: CNET.com
The IT industry is in a qualitatively different place than it once was. The enterprise architects still have a job to do. But no small part of that job is now integrating with tools that users and departments have brought in on their own
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Google, Verizon, others sued over voice mail patent Aug 26, 2008 | Source: CNET.com
Patent holding company Klausner Technologies targets Google, Verison, Cox, LG, and others in latest patent infringement lawsuit, bolstered by settlement wins in suits against Apple, AT&T. 
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Best Western details hack of German hotel Aug 28, 2008 | Source: CNET.com
Hotel chain admits systems in a Berlin hotel were compromised but claims only 10 customers have been affected, not the 8 million cited in a newspaper report.
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British man to face hacking charges in U.S. Aug 28, 2008 | Source: CNET.com
Gary McKinnon, recently diagnosed with Asperger syndrome, says he hacked into NASA and military systems in search of UFO data. After losing appeal, he is set to be extradited.
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Houston, we have a virus Aug 27, 2008 | Source: The Register
Worm infects International Space Station laptops
A computer worm that ferrets out passwords managed to stow away on laptops aboard the International Space Station, NASA has confirmed. It is not the first time a NASA computer has become infected.…
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Crypto guru thinks outside the box with Cube attack Aug 26, 2008 | Source: The Register
Stream ciphers easily split (maybe)
Senior cryptologist Adi Shamir is developing a new attack for rooting out potential weaknesses in encryption ciphers, dubbed the Cube Attack.…
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Scumbags punt Trojan with baby kidnap lure Aug 26, 2008 | Source: The Register
A new low
With a sick email malware campaign, pond dwelling scumbags are claiming to have kidnapped the children of would-be targets of infection.…
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Minister warns of national grid hack threat Aug 26, 2008 | Source: The Register
And theft of commercial secrets
A UK government minister has warned that cyber-terrorists were attempting to take out the national grid.…
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