IT-Code-News: IT News HeadLines (THE INQUIRER) 29/10/2010

Friday, October 29, 2010

IT News HeadLines (THE INQUIRER) 29/10/2010

The 2011 Intel Xeon update: the holy socket trinity
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WE'VE ALREADY DISCUSSED the upcoming Intel Sandy Bridge roadmap for the next year, which will be closely followed by the Ivy Bridge 22nm generation in the same sockets a year after. However, how many sockets will be there actually? The answer is, more than the Nehalem and Westmere generation had. Or, to be precise, three.

Nvidia powers world's fastest supercomputer
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IT MIGHT no longer be the undisputed leader in graphics cards, but Nvidia has managed to power what is currently the fastest publicly known supercomputer.

FPGA manufacturer claims to beat Moore's Law
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CHIP DESIGNER Xilinx has announced that it can beat Moore's Law by introducing stacked silicon interconnects.

Russian spammer is in the slammer
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HAVEN FOR SPAMMERS Russia has taken unprecedented action against an alleged spammer by bringing forward a criminal case against him.

Virgin Media rolls out 100Mb broadband
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BROADBAND INTERNET service provider Virgin Media has revealed its plans for rolling out 100Mb broadband connections, explaining that it will make the service available this December.

Viewsonic Viewpad 10 video demo
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PREVIOUSLY called the 100, the Viewsonic Viewpad 10 will be available from 1 November but can be pre-ordered at a price that varies from £479 to £499 depending on what website you go to. In a trade-in scheme Viewsonic calls Viewpad upgrade buyers can get £125 cash back and a further £10 to cover the postage of the old laptop.

Video demo of Viewsonic Viewpad 7
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AVAILABLE from 15 November, the Viewsonic Viewpad 7 can be pre-ordered now from various websites. Its price varies around the £400 mark. If buyers have a netbook or laptop that is four years old or younger with a power supply unit, they can trade that in for £100 cash back and a further £10 for mailing the old laptop. Further details about the scheme can be gained from www.viewpadupgrade.com.

HTC leaks a handset on its own website
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PHONE MAKER HTC has let one of its models slip through the cracks and appear on its HTC Sense website.

IBM and boffins try to save Europe from standby mode
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BIG BLUE IBM and boffins at the Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (EPFL) have announced a research initiative aimed at increasing electronic devices' energy efficiency by up to 10 times when active and virtually eliminating power consumption when they're idle.

Americans want the President to have Internet kill switch
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MOST PEOPLE IN AMERICA think that their President should have the right to switch off the rest of the world's Internet.

Americans want the President to have an Internet kill switch
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MOST PEOPLE IN AMERICA think that their President should have the right to switch off the rest of the world's Internet.

Firefox and Thunderbird get security updates
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THE MOZILLA FOUNDATION has fixed a hole in its Internet browser Firefox and email client Thunderbird in record time.

HP will not say if CEO will testify in SAP case
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THE MAKER OF EXPENSIVE PRINTER INK, HP is refusing to say if its brand new CEO Leo Apotheker will testify in a high-profile trade secrets case involving Oracle and SAP.

Opera sings its way onto Symbian
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WEB BROWSER OUTFIT Opera has made its way onto the Symbian operating system.

Google gets off lightly for snooping in the US
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WHILE THE EU has been giving the search engine Goolge a good kicking for snooping on people's WiFi networks with its Street View cars, US regulators have said they don't really care.

The 2GB/sec PCIe SSD is coming
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THE PROMISE of solid state disk (SSD) storage with up to 2GB/sec performance at low system latency is being promoted by an industry group.

HP fails to take advantage of WebOS
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Analysis
MAKER OF EXPENSIVE PRINTER INK HP has in the last week reassured Apple that it can continue to run rough-shod over its customers and its rivals.

Research finds that databases are unreliable
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ACCORDING TO RESEARCH by Informatica Corp, databases are not doing the job they were intended to do.

Meego 1.1 is a go go on N900 smartphone
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THE OPEN SOURCE, Linux based Meego mobile operating system has been given a 1.1 release update today.

Oracle presses its Java lawsuit against Google
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THE LEGAL BATTLE between Oracle and Google rolls on with the former pressing its complaint that Google infringed its Java copyrights and patents to create the Android operating system.

Galaxy Tab gets content deals
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KOREAN GIANT Samsung has announced three content partnership deals for its upcoming Galaxy Tab.

Google debuts Place Search
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SEARCH GIANT Google has launched a cluster link based search service for local information.

Fear the baa of the Firesheep
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MORE FIRESHEEP fun is to be had as one of its creators has blogged to say that future versions are still to come.

Visitors to Nobel website get a different prize
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WEB BROWSER OUTFIT Mozilla has admitted to a zero-day security flaw in Firefox that saw the Nobel Prize website offering up malware.

HP fails to take advantage of WebOS
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Analysis
MAKER OF EXPENSIVE PRINTER INK HP has in the last week reassured Apple that it can continue to run rough-shod over its customers and its rivals.

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