Articles Archive for November 2008
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Vax on a three day week
A Wizard whispers in your ear: “The password of Sheffield Library Packet Switching Service is ABC1234XYZ.”…
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The new Silicon Valley parlour game
Comment Silicon Valley has a new parlour game: what’s going to happen to Sun after the cuts? Rumours suggest it will merge with EMC, that HP or IBM will take it over, that Fujitsu will buy its hardware business, or even that the StorageTek storage business unit will be spun off. Do Sun’s leaders want to be redeemed or to retire?…
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The new silicon valley parlour game
Comment Silicon Valley has a new parlour game: what’s going to happen to Sun after the cuts? Rumours suggest it will merge with EMC, that HP or IBM will take it over, that Fujitsu will buy its hardware business, or even that the StorageTek storage business unit will be spun off. Do Sun’s leaders want to be redeemed or to retire?…
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Makes 3-bit MLC SSDs feasible
SanDisk is soon to announce new technology needed for its solid state drives to take on hard disk drive storage.…
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Makes 3-bit MLC SSDs feasible
SanDisk is soon to announce new technology needed for its solid state drives to take on hard disk drive storage.…
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Hidden process developer linked to Sony USB fiasco
Researchers have unearthed rootkit-like functionality in an enterprise security product.…
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Whatever that means
Analysis It is a story we hear again and again from the IT vendors: They are going to double down and make aggressive moves into the small and medium business space because the growth rates for IT spending are higher than they are among larger enterprises – at least when those businesses are all lumped together.…
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Could match resellers to lure cash-strapped US customers
Apple is holding a one-day sale for turkey-tired customers in the US on Black Friday, traditionally one of the busiest shopping days of the year.…
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Mozy’s tasteful new t-shirt campaign
With a (D)echo of French Connection’s FC UK ad campaign, Mozy is distributing t-shirts bearing the legend “BACK THE F:\ UP” to people tasteless enough to wear them. I look quite good in mine.…
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Mozy’s tasteful new t-shirt campaign
With a (D)echo of French Connection’s FC UK ad campaign, Mozy is distributing t-shirts bearing the legend “BACK THE F:\ UP” to people tasteless enough to wear them. I look quite good in mine.…