 US Air Force orders 2200 Sony PS3s Nov 25, 2009 | Source: The Register
Extending supercomputing Linux cluster
The US Air Force plans to buy a whopping 2200 PlayStation 3 games consoles which it will use to expand an existing PS3-based supercomputer.…
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OCZ promising USB 3 desktop SSD Nov 25, 2009 | Source: The Register
Partnering with Symwave
The dreary wait for slow desktop and notebook booting could be halted in its tracks for those with USB 3 interfaces and and cash, as OCZ is developing a fast and large capacity USB 3 SSD.…
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Apple wants life ban for clone maker Nov 25, 2009 | Source: The Register
No sequel for Psystar
Apple is seeking a permanent injunction to stop Psystar ever again selling cloned Mac software or hardware.…
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EMC stages $100m international reorganisation Nov 25, 2009 | Source: The Register
One holding company to bind them all
EMC is reorganising its various international operations into a single holding company and repatriating $4bn to EMC USA at a cost of $100m in taxes.…
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Unified networking: Reality or a marketing myth? Nov 25, 2009 | Source: The Register
We all know that the IT Infrastructure has a life of its own. In the vast majority of organisations the infrastructure evolves over time rather than being designed as a whole. This applie s to all of the underlying components: the servers, the storage and -an area very easy to overlook - the network or networks that tie everything together.…
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Data Direct offers native file system Nov 25, 2009 | Source: The Register
Nehalem replaces FPGA hardware
DataDirect, a shipper of very high-speed block-access storage to the high performance computing (HPC) and media worlds, is now offering native file access.…
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Orchestration and the server environment Nov 24, 2009 | Source: The Register
Just pie in the sky?
Workshop Few words in the IT industry’s vocabulary are more grandiose than ‘orchestration’, evoking images of symphonic movements, rows of groomed musicians and wild-haired, baton-pointing conductors. Just how the term came to be used for the allocation of server resources must leave IT managers more than a little flummoxed, however.…
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 Is server virtualization ready for production? Nov 24, 2009 | Source: The Register
Beyond the low hanging fruit
Lab The adoption of server virtualization technology follows several trajectories. We could consider the breadth of its penetration in terms of the number of organisations using it today, or we could consider the depth of its use in individual organisations, in terms of what they actually do with it.…
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Collisions at LHC! Tevatron record to be broken soon? Nov 24, 2009 | Source: The Register
Boffins tear up schedule in race for dimensional portal
Forging ahead much faster than had been expected, particle-smashing boffins at the Large Hadron Collider have now carried out actual collisions - blasting beams of protons into one another at a healthy 450 giga-electron-volts each for total whack of 900 GeV.…
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EMC Revises Outlook; Execs Dump Shares Nov 24, 2009 | Source: InternetNews.com
The storage software provider said it will take a $100 million charge in the fourth quarter while a trio of executives unload almost 2 million shares of stock.
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Apple Joins AT&T/Verizon Food Fight Nov 24, 2009 | Source: InternetNews.com
iPhone maker jumps in on the side of its network provider in an increasingly nasty war of words over smartphones and 3G networks.
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Firefox hopes to one-up IE with fast graphics Nov 24, 2009 | Source: CNET.com
Windows 7 features called Direct2D and DirectWrite will speed up Internet Explorer 9 performance. But Firefox hopes it might retool for the same benefit first.
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Unboxing the free PDC laptop (photos) Nov 24, 2009 | Source: CNET.com
CNET has a look as one developer at the Microsoft PDC gathering in Los Angeles unboxes an Acer laptop, which were given to most attendees.
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3G wireless still holds promise Nov 25, 2009 | Source: CNET.com
The next generation of 4G wireless may get all the headlines, but advanced 3G technology will likely dominate services for the next few years.  
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eBay launches holiday deals app for iPhone Nov 24, 2009 | Source: CNET.com
App is designed to steer holiday shoppers to the best buys on the auction site. App lets you browse pre-selected deals or search for your own.
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New Apple ads to Verizon: Can Droid do this? Nov 24, 2009 | Source: CNET.com
Apple decides to fight back against Verizon and Droid advertising. With simple product demonstrations, it asks just how much doing Droid can really do.
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Ralsky jailed for four years over stock fraud spam scam Nov 24, 2009 | Source: The Register
Godfather of spam sent down
Notorious spammer Alan Ralsky has been jailed for more than four years over his role in a masterminding a stock fraud spam campaign that made him an estimated $2.7m.…
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Opera update plugs heap big buffer overflow bug Nov 24, 2009 | Source: The Register
Major upgrade features baked-in web server tech
Opera has fixed three potentially nasty security vulnerabilities with the release of a major new version of its web browser software.…
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Symantec Japan website bamboozled by hacker Nov 23, 2009 | Source: The Register
Plaintext passwords revealed
A Symantec-run website was vulnerable to Blind SQL Injection problems that reportedly exposes a wealth of potentially sensitive information.…
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iPhone worm highjacks ING customers Nov 23, 2009 | Source: The Register
No messing this time
The second worm to infect jailbroken iPhone users reportedly targets customers of Dutch online bank ING Direct.…
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First malicious iPhone worm slithers into wild Nov 22, 2009 | Source: The Register
Jailbreakers under assault
A Dutch internet service provider has identified a worm that installs a backdoor on jailbroken iPhones and makes them part of a botnet.…
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 QinetiQ mail virus patent attracts barbs Nov 20, 2009 | Source: The Register
Looks a bit familiar
An anti-virus expert has poured cold water on a patent from British technology firm QinetiQ that supposedly offers a new technique for tackling malicious email attachments.…
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