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 Dell does rack workstation Jul 23, 2008 | Source: The Register
Better than a blade?
Dell has launched a rack workstation to challenge blade workstations.…
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Cisco is moving into your house Jul 23, 2008 | Source: The Register
Buys into home networking
Cisco is paying $120m for home networking firm Pure Networks, underscoring its desire to become a consumer brand.…
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Rogue SF sysadmin coughs up passwords Jul 23, 2008 | Source: The Register
City regains access to its own network
San Francisco City Council regained access to its own computer network today after Mayor Gavin Newsom convinced network administrator Terry Childs to give them the passwords.…
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 Brocade buys Foundry Networks for $3bn Jul 22, 2008 | Source: The Register
Playing with the big boys now
Brocade is to acquire Foundry Networks for $3bn in cash and stock. The storage networking vendor has secured a $1.5bn debt facility from Bank of America and Morgan Stanley to grease the purchase.…
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Intel slashes Xeon, Core 2 Duo prices Jul 21, 2008 | Source: The Register
Not to mention a Core 2 Quad
A week after trumpeting a healthy second quarter profit leap, Intel has slashed the prices of several server and desktop processors.…
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CherryPal launches $249 mini PC into ad-backed cloud Jul 21, 2008 | Source: The Register
Buzzword chimera the size of a paperback
Start-up CherryPal is taking pre-orders today for its partly cloudy "desktop" that mashes web-hosted computing, going green, open source, and social networking into a 10 ounce box.…
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Dell hits all the wrong keys – again Jul 21, 2008 | Source: The Register
You say tomayto, we throw tomahtoze...
Dell isn’t having much luck with keyboards this summer. The computer giant admitted Friday that some of its XPS One machines have been wrongly shipped to the UK with US keyboards.…
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 Dublin airport was crippled by flakey network card Jul 18, 2008 | Source: The Register
Flight into terror tedium
An air traffic control fault that brought Dublin airport to its knees last week has been traced to an intermittently flakey network card.…
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AMD loses $1.19bn and CEO Ruiz Jul 17, 2008 | Source: The Register
Thanks for the, er, nightmares
AMD today hit Wall Street with a one-two punch. It lost a stunning $1.19bn during the second quarter. And it nudged Hector Ruiz out of the CEO role, replacing him with longtime planned successor Dirk Meyer, who has been President and COO.…
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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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EMC, AT&T Send Tech Stocks Higher Jul 23, 2008 | Source: InternetNews.com
Strong results from the two tech bellwethers eased fears about a tech spending slowdown on Wednesday.
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Data Demand Fuels AT&T Earnings Jul 23, 2008 | Source: InternetNews.com
Carrier posts 4.7 percent revenue increase amid increasing wireless data competition.
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Romanian phisher confesses to scam targeting financial giants Jul 23, 2008 | Source: The Register
Scammer faces five years in slammer
A Romanian man has admitted he took part in a sophisticated phishing scam that targeted PayPal and at least nine other financial institutions by tricking their customers into giving up their account credentials.…
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Drive-by download attacks menace UK.gov Jul 23, 2008 | Source: The Register
No one is safe
The number of drive-by download attacks has tripled and they are beginning to affect government websites as well as small business operations.…
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Rogue SF sysadmin coughs up passwords Jul 23, 2008 | Source: The Register
City regains access to its own network
San Francisco City Council regained access to its own computer network today after Mayor Gavin Newsom convinced network administrator Terry Childs to give them the passwords.…
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RIM issues patch for serious BlackBerry flaw Jul 23, 2008 | Source: The Register
Business users: apply now
Research in Motion has issued a patch for a serious security flaw that puts businesses using the ubiquitous BlackBerry at risk.…
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Convicted spammer goes AWOL from federal prison Jul 23, 2008 | Source: The Register
Prolific pump-and-dump conman walks away
A convicted spammer who who generated millions of dollars blasting out pump-and-dump messages has gone AWOL from the federal prison camp where he was serving a 21-month sentence.…
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Photos: Tracking Last HOPE hackers Jul 21, 2008 | Source: CNET.com
The New York conference, where attendees are tracked via RFID, attracts hacker celebrities including the guys behind the phone phreaker movement and the TV-B-Gone remote control.
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