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The 64-core laptop
The oft-cited Moore’s Law is the fulcrum of the IT industry in that it has provided the means of giving us ever-faster and more sophisticated computing technology over the decades. This in turn allowed the IT industry to convince us that every one, two, or three years, we need new operating systems, better [...]

Crash bang wallop
A system-crashing bug with potential malware implications has been uncovered in Vista. But a fix for the vulnerability, which revolves around flaws in the operating system’s network stack, may have to wait until the next service pack.…

Crash bang wallop
A system-crashing bug with potential malware implications has been uncovered in Vista. But a fix for the vulnerability, which revolves around flaws in the operating system’s network stack, may have to wait until the next service pack.…

Putting a cap on with a plug-in
It took a little bit longer than expected, perhaps, but IBM has finally delivered its Active Energy Manager plug-in for its Systems Director system management tool. The tool can be used to monitor power consumption and thermal conditions of IBM and non-IBM systems, as well as capping the power [...]

Emulation is the sincerest form of fattening
Here’s a story you’ve heard a bunch of times: IBM liked the software so much, it bought the company. And so the story ran again last week, when Big Blue bought software emulation specialist Transitive for an undisclosed sum. Transitive makes a bit of software called QuickTransit, which allows [...]

Flash just a flash in the pan, seemingly
A Texan boffin says he has seen the future of storage – and it’s graphite based. Professor James Tour of Rice Uni in Houston believes that his proposed graphene arrays could be many times denser and faster than existing storage tech, and they’d be more reliable too.…

Sequential, yes; random, no
Samsung has begun churning out 256GB solid-state drives, and it claimed the new models are more that twice as fast as their predecessors.…

Boxed software pre-dated final build by 22 days
Parallels has admitted shipping two versions of its Parallels Desktop v4.0 (PD4) software with a 22-day difference between them, leading to accusations it has shipped pre-release software into the channel.…

Blames problems on hardware modders
Sky is considering reversing an update to the software on its PVR boxes after it froze customers out of the programme guide and left them unable to record TV.…

Sequential, yes; random, no
Samsung has begun churning out 256GB solid-state drives, and it claimed the new models are more that twice as fast as their predecessors.…