Archives for December, 2009

3PAR bounces on takeover chatter


Rumor du slow news jour
The cost of acquiring exotic disk-array maker 3PAR Data went up by nearly 12 per cent today on a slow holiday news day when a report in Barron’s, the weekend stock-rag companion to the Wall Street Journal, suggested that 3PAR was ripe for the picking.…

Bad glass delayed Apple tablet?


But it’s coming, dear fanbois, it’s coming
While here in the States Apple-tablet rumors are churning the waters as turbulently as a pool of piranhas into which has been dumped a truckload of honey-dipped hamsters, over in the Far East the iWhatever’s impending release is being treated as a fait accompli.…

3PAR bounces on takeover chatter


Rumor du slow news jour
The cost of acquiring exotic disk-array maker 3PAR Data went up by nearly 12 per cent today on a slow holiday news day when a report in Barron’s, the weekend stock-rag companion to the Wall Street Journal, suggested that 3PAR was ripe for the picking.…

What is your recession sales strategy?

SGI inks deal for Tasmanian cluster


‘Cluster-what‘ is up to you
Supercomputer maker Silicon Graphics has inked a deal to build the Tasmanian Partnership for Advanced Computing – which has the rap name TPAC – at the University of Tasmania on the eponymous Australian island state. The gig: creating a new x64-Linux cluster for climate research.…

Speculative Googlenetbook specs surface


‘A Ferrari for the price of a Mini Cooper’
Mere days after the first rumors of an impending Google-built netbook hit the web, purported details of its innards have surfaced.…

Microsoft IIS vuln leaves users open to remote attack


Beware of the ’semicolon bug’
A researcher has identified a vulnerability in the most recent version of Microsoft’s Internet Information Services that allows attackers to execute malicious code on machines running the popular webserver.…

Offloading malware protection to the cloud

Micron’s near billion dollar turnaround


Sails serenely into profit after restructuring
DRAM and NAND flash manufacturer Micron recorded a $204m million profit in its first fiscal 2010 quarter, contrasting vividly with a $718m loss in the year-ago quarter.…

What is your recession sales strategy?

Software fraudster ‘fooled CIA’ into terror alert


Spooks ‘f*cking livid’ over links to gambling, lying fraudster
A con man fooled US spooks into grounding international flights by selling them “technology” to decode al-Qaeda messages hidden in TV broadcasts, it’s claimed.…

Web threats: Why conventional protection doesn’t work

Micron’s near billion dollar turnaround


Sails serenely into profit after restructuring
DRAM and NAND flash manufacturer Micron recorded a $204m million profit in its first fiscal 2010 quarter, contrasting vividly with a $718m loss in the year-ago quarter.…

Micron’s near billion dollar turnaround


Sails serenely into profit after restructuring
DRAM and NAND flash manufacturer Micron recorded a $204m million profit in its first fiscal 2010 quarter, contrasting vividly with a $718m loss in the year-ago quarter.…