Microsoft and Apple: 25 years of couples therapy
Saved by a giant head
Macworld Expo Microsoft wants you to know that it's not just the Mac that's holding a 25th birthday party: 2009 marks the 25th year that Redmond has developed software for Apple's quarter-centarian computer.… | Tue, 06 Jan 2009 01:38:48 GMT |
VCs still pump dough into green tech, renewable energy
Q4 takes a bit of a haircut
The economic meltdown has put a damper on a lot of things, but it seems to have been less of a wet blanket for investors in startups in the green technology and renewable energy in 2008 - if you exclude the final quarter of the unusually dismal year.… | Mon, 05 Jan 2009 23:43:13 GMT |
Iomega aims at TVs with home server
Backs up PCs and plays digital media files
Iomega has announced a home storage and media server that backs up files on connected PCs and plays digital media content to connected output devices.… | Mon, 05 Jan 2009 16:42:19 GMT |
Don't shout at your disk drives, warns Sun engineer
Have a heart for your hardware
Those among you who are prone to vocal outbursts of rage at cantankerous kit should be aware that hardware has feelings too, and directing your ire at disk drives can provoke "unusually high disk I/O latency".… | Mon, 05 Jan 2009 12:13:44 GMT |
Adobe gets tellybox Flash with Intel
Plans to ship CE3100 with Flash Lite support by mid-2009
Adobe has teamed up with Intel to port the software giant’s Flash platform to Chipzilla’s Media Processor CE 3100.… | Mon, 05 Jan 2009 12:06:30 GMT |
Fujitsu tells WD the deal's off
Zero chance of WD buying Fujitsu's hard drive business
Fujitsu did not give Western Digital a Christmas present - in fact it said 'No deal'.… | Mon, 05 Jan 2009 11:25:43 GMT |
EMC adding open sauce to Decho mix
Snapping up SourceLabs?
Update Storage giant EMC is rumoured to have bought SourceLabs, a Seattle-based open source startup with nifty software technology for identifying developer problems and finding answers, for its Decho 'digital echo' business unit.… | Mon, 05 Jan 2009 10:45:16 GMT |
Lenovo 'planning' to slash 200 jobs
Management reshuffle expected
Chinese computer maker Lenovo looks set to axe 200 jobs at the firm’s headquarters in Beijing.… | Fri, 02 Jan 2009 16:06:23 GMT |
Mac Tablet/Mega iPod Touch due fall 2009 who knows when
A history of disappointment
Today's Apple-product rumor comes from TechCrunch: a seven- or nine-inch iPod Touch, to be released in the fall of 2009.… | Thu, 01 Jan 2009 05:03:51 GMT |
Atom challengers poised for 2009 debut
Intel rivals prep dual-core netbook chips
2009 promises to be the Year of the Dual-Core Netbook, what with low-power dualies from Freescale, AMD, and VIA Technologies poised to join Intel's dual-core Atom 330.… | Wed, 31 Dec 2008 20:35:20 GMT |
Apple media server rumored for Macworld Expo
In yo' face, HP
The pre-Macworld Expo rumor machine has been in low gear this year - perhaps due to Apple's SVP Phil Schiller taking over keynote duties from His Steveness - but thanks to 9to5Mac, we have a new bit of speculation to report: an internet-based media server from Apple.… | Tue, 30 Dec 2008 20:39:16 GMT |
AMD details job cuts
More than expected
AMD laid off 600 people in the fourth quarter of 2008, rather than the 500 it expected to let go.… | Tue, 30 Dec 2008 10:39:52 GMT |
Intel births Meltdown-friendly mobile quad core
And a litter of dual cores
Intel has birthed a recession-friendly quad core mobile processor. And you can find one at the heart of a new Acer laptop. Maybe.… | Mon, 29 Dec 2008 22:10:16 GMT |
Apple wants to swipe your iPhone
Patent application stretches multi-touch
On Christmas day, the US Patent & Trademark Office slipped a little present under our collective trees: an Apple patent application entitled "Swipe Gestures for Touch Screen Keyboards."… | Mon, 29 Dec 2008 20:22:13 GMT |
Server racket to slow in 2009?
Upgrade Cycle v Meltdown
With some 2 million-plus physical boxes still being shipped every quarter on a global basis, the server racket is still a pretty good one. In the first three quarters of 2008, vendors peddled some $40bn in gear, and if you use IDC data as a gauge, they've collectively managed to boost revenues by 3.5 per cent for the year so far. For all intents and purposes, the fourth quarter of 2008 is done in terms of server sales, but we won't know how well or how poorly vendors performed in Q4 for a few months yet. It takes time to dice and slice the numbers.… | Mon, 29 Dec 2008 19:51:50 GMT |
Big Blue urged to open Notes and Domino
Free advice for rich deaf ears
Ian Tree, the chief architect at IT consultancy Hadleigh Marshall Netherlands b.v. of Eindhoven, The Netherlands, has some free advice for IBM's Software Group: Take the Notes/Domino groupware stack open source with a community-developed programming model. The idea is to keep the Notes client and the Domino server relevant in a world becoming more accustomed to open source products.… | Mon, 29 Dec 2008 15:09:57 GMT |
Walmart's Jesus Phone no better, no worse
Save two bucks!
Mercilessly squashing any vestiges of what rumors remained of a $99 iPhone, the megamall-master Walmart today let the world know that, yes, they will be offering the Jesus Phone to the world beginning on Sunday, but no, they won't be adding a $99 super-savior to the mix.…
| Fri, 26 Dec 2008 19:10:44 GMT |
Getting animated about a 6,000 core Soho supercomputer
Can you get me 413,138 mouse hairs?
London's Soho has become a thriving media rendering and animation centre, with creative media professionals using the latest model IT gear in shiny studios between buildings full of 'models' selling the oldest professional services of all.… | Fri, 26 Dec 2008 08:02:04 GMT |
Global notebook sales finally beat desktops
PCs are up, Macs are down
Global sales of notebooks in the third quarter exceeded desktops for the first time in history, according to market watcher iSuppli.… | Wed, 24 Dec 2008 00:18:15 GMT |
New Unisys CEO tightens the belt
Layoffs and other cost-cutting moves
Ed Coleman, who took the helm at struggling server and services vendor Unisys in October, has made his first big moves in getting the company aligned to the tougher realities the IT market is facing thanks to the turbulent economy.… | Tue, 23 Dec 2008 23:20:41 GMT |
Sun boosts OpenSolaris on Atom
Long way to go to beat Linux
Intel has announced that the OpenSolaris variant of Unix is now better supported on its Atom processors.… | Tue, 23 Dec 2008 21:26:37 GMT |
The Mac OS 10.5.6 update saga continues
Apple suggests fix for Mail suicides
Apple is hoping that its latest support bulletin will calm down some of the uproar over problems caused by its latest Mac OS X upgrade - in this case, the propensity of Apple's email client to unexpectedly quit.… | Tue, 23 Dec 2008 16:59:24 GMT |
VMware piles up next virtual stack for servers
Lots of new code coming in 2009
While VMware still has the lion's share of the money and installed base in the server virtualization software racket on x64 platforms, 2009 is shaping up to be a year when various contenders ratchet up the pressure on the company and try to steal away some business. But VMware has plenty of its own smart techies, and a marketing machine that can - and will - compete against the likes of Microsoft, Citrix Systems, Red Hat, and others.… | Tue, 23 Dec 2008 15:59:10 GMT |
Livedrive's livewire, high-living CEO
Pop storage idol
Livedrive's Andrew Michael is not your average storage CEO.… | Tue, 23 Dec 2008 15:21:22 GMT |
Lenovo preps dual-display Frankenlaptop
3,353,088 pixels, at your service
Word has leaked out that Lenovo plans to release the world's first dual-display laptop at next month's Consumer Electronics Show (CES).… | Tue, 23 Dec 2008 01:14:51 GMT |
Supermicro does micro server for SOHOs
Because you can't have too many servers
Motherboard and server maker Supermicro is not a tier-one corporate-server supplier itself, but it does sell a lot of motherboards to tier-two players. Now wants to get a piece of the small-office/home-office (SOHO) market with a new single-socket mini-tower server.… | Tue, 23 Dec 2008 00:03:25 GMT |
Wireless-power pioneers band together
Circle wagons against credit crunch
The Wireless Power Consortium has opened its doors in the hope of building standards for wirelessly recharging gadgets, and perhaps even getting some products into the market.… | Mon, 22 Dec 2008 21:10:28 GMT |
Apple graphics partner gets Intel cash
Need a job? They're hiring
The world economy may be in a tailspin and jobless rates worldwide may be rising to unprecedented heights, but there's one happy company that's raising cash and beefing up its staff size: Imagination Technologies.… | Mon, 22 Dec 2008 20:08:34 GMT |
Visionman launches Nehalem Core i7 servers
Why wait for the Nehalem Xeons?
The single-socket server space has been a niche part of the server space, just as machines with more than four sockets has never been a particularly high volume part of the market.… | Mon, 22 Dec 2008 18:00:51 GMT |
Dell restructuring puts 2,000 Limerick jobs under threat
Rhyme or reason?
Around 2,000 jobs are under threat at Dell's Raheen, Limerick plant as the company reviews its operations.… | Mon, 22 Dec 2008 17:04:28 GMT |
Middle Earth says hi to Sony's new Vaio
Kiwis peck away at teaser website
From the far side of the world Sony New Zealand is telling us that a new Vaio is coming.… | Mon, 22 Dec 2008 14:24:41 GMT |
IBM reneges on Solaris GPFS promise
'A decommitment of intent'
IBM has a love, hate, love, hate, hate, hate relationship with Solaris, Sun Microsystems' Unix variant. And becoming an OEM partner of Sun's to distribute Solaris has apparently changed none of that.… | Sat, 20 Dec 2008 05:50:06 GMT |
Coffers Coffee Republic gets own cashless system
Credits could add up to a couple of grande
Coffee Republic is the latest entity to launch an NFC-based pre-paid system for those who like to pony up in advance for their caffeine fix and have their usage tracked in exchange for a ten per cent rebate.… | Sat, 20 Dec 2008 04:50:01 GMT |
Chinese automaker launches 'leccy lizzie
PRC punts plug-in
'Leccy Tech If you've been waiting for the Chevy Volt or Toyota's as-yet unnamed offering before you buy a plug-in hybrid automobile, you'll need to sit tight until their planned 2010 releases. If you must have a plug-in right now, however, you'll need to move to China. That'd be the PRC, not Taiwan.…
| Sat, 20 Dec 2008 04:43:31 GMT |
Mac OS 10.5.6 problems? Apple suggests shampoo
Advice a bit frothy
Apple has finally responded to numerous reports from disgruntled Mac users about their inability to upgrade Mac OS 10.5, Leopard, from version 10.5.5 to 10.5.6. Their advice: Try again.… | Fri, 19 Dec 2008 23:54:35 GMT |
New alliance tunes into the 'net
Radio Radio
Add another acronym to your collection of tech-industry alliances. A group of internet-media movers and shakers, including broadcast services and device makers, have joined together to form the IMDA, aka the Internet Media Device Alliance.… | Fri, 19 Dec 2008 23:46:35 GMT |
Dogs and arson feature in top 10 data recovery disasters
Tales of the unexpurgated
Computer forensics experts need a talent for data recovery.… | Fri, 19 Dec 2008 10:42:14 GMT |
Sun and Micron extend flash life
Magic million write/erase cycles
Sun and flash memory vendor Micron have collaborated to extend the life of enterprise flash memory to one million write/erase cycles, higher than any other NAND technology available.… | Fri, 19 Dec 2008 10:15:16 GMT |
Rackable servers goin' mobile
Watch the police and the tax man miss IT
The joke with containerized data centers - putting racks of servers, storage, and networking into shipping containers instead of into brick-and-mortar data centers - is that if you put them in the corporate parking lot, as some vendors have suggested, you only make it easier for thieves to walk off with - well, drive off with - millions of dollars in computing gear.… | Thu, 18 Dec 2008 22:58:55 GMT |
Apple signals its mobile-graphics future
Cupertino's $4.8m hint
Word surfaced today in a "Listing of shares" announcement by British SoC developer Imagination Technologies that "Apple Inc. is subscribing for 8,200,000 new shares of Imagination Technologies Group plc." Apple is shelling out around $4.8m for that 3.6 per cent stake in the graphics and video chip designer.…
| Thu, 18 Dec 2008 22:22:20 GMT |
Red Hat extends RHEL release support
Keeping older software longer saves money
Commercial Linux distributors have an advantage over proprietary operating system makers in that they are only interested in securing a single-year or multi-year support contract from a customer. They are not looking to sell an upgrade to a new version or release, since the support contract already covers them.… | Thu, 18 Dec 2008 20:17:22 GMT |
MontaVista's new ARM11 Linux goodies
Big (endian) deal
Even if you're a seasoned ARMy brat, you're to be forgiven for having seen MontaVista Software's recent announcement that it was offering Linux support for the ARM1176JZ-S and ARM1176JZF-S, and asking "So what?"… | Thu, 18 Dec 2008 19:54:55 GMT |
Sun revs VirtualBox desktop virtualization
Put your chip in a (virtual) box
Over the years, the server virtualization strategy at Sun Microsystems has been spotty, but recently it has been evolving to include a variety of new techniques. Dynamic domains, Solaris containers, logical domains, and on x64 iron, support for Xen and ESX Server hypervisors are all part of the fare now.… | Thu, 18 Dec 2008 19:18:10 GMT |
Taking control of desktop TCO
Regcast Reduce your PC management costs by 30 per cent | Thu, 18 Dec 2008 12:45:58 GMT |
Novell ditches 2009's recession-bitten BrainShare tradeshow
No more rubbing in Salt Lake City
Novell has cancelled its annual BrainShare trade shindig that was supposed to be taking place in Salt Lake City in March 2009.… | Thu, 18 Dec 2008 11:23:23 GMT |
US delays Royal Navy satellite comms project
Only 31 months late
A Royal Navy communications project is 31 months late because development of components at the US Department of Defense is behind schedule.… | Thu, 18 Dec 2008 11:14:18 GMT |
Tosh touts world's first half-terabyte laptop SSD
Guinness World Record anyone?
Toshiba has developed what it claims is the world’s first 512GB 2.5in solid-state drive.… | Thu, 18 Dec 2008 10:55:10 GMT |
Sony's Super AIT - a fall from grace
Reorg slices through tape format's future
Comment Sony is reeling, with 16,000 job losses and restructuring looming for its sprawling electronics division. Super AIT tape comes out of that sprawl, and its time may be drawing to a close, squeezed out by LTO much as AIT was squeezed out by DAT.… | Thu, 18 Dec 2008 08:02:04 GMT |
Western Digital hits the buffers
2,500 face the axe
Western Digital has faced up to the deepening recession by announcing the loss of up to 2,500 jobs, executive pay cuts and the closure of manufacturing plants in Malaysia and Thailand.… | Wed, 17 Dec 2008 15:06:25 GMT |
Three short papers about desktop TCO
Wintel camp beats the same drum
Our weekly ransack of the Reg Whitepaper library yields three Wintel papers all promoting best desktop PC practice. First up is Intel and vPro, which has been a bit of a marketing flop and, in its first iteration, a tad lacking on the management front. Intel wants us all to look again at vPro for reduced total cost of ownership (TCO) and all round environmental goodness. And then to Microsoft for its seven-phase model of the enterprise lifecycle.… | Wed, 17 Dec 2008 13:36:05 GMT |