A federal court in Chicago this week granted class action status to a lawsuit accusing comScore, one of the Internet's largest user tracking firms, of secretly collecting and selling Social Security numbers, credit card numbers, passwords ...
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Viking Technology is shipping a memory board that combines DRAM and NAND flash memory to create a non-volatile standard DIMM card that can be used in servers and storage arrays. Viking's ArxCis-NV DIMM board has several purposes. With ...
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More than 75% of corporations have policies that prohibit the use of consumer online file sharing and collaboration tools, yet employee use of the services is still rampant, according to an Enterprise Strategy Group survey. "The thing is, ...
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Oracle has extended its data center fabric to its Sparc-based Unix platforms, promising to let enterprises tie more servers and applications into the high-speed infrastructure. The fabric technology, which Oracle acquired in its purchase ...
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ARM and TSMC say they have produced the first Cortex-A57 processor on finfet process technology. The Cortex-A57 processor is ARM's highest performance processor and is leading the Cambridge-based firm's attack on the high end server ...
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Total worldwide semiconductor revenue fell 2.6 per cent to $299.9bn in 2012, according to figures released today by analyst group Gartner. Intel remained the runaway market leader for the 21st year in a row with revenues of $49.09bn, but ...
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Not fazed by a takeover battle looming on the sidelines, members of Dell's research division are putting together the pieces for prototype ARM supercomputers that could be deployed in the future. Dell has a good idea what an ARM ...
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A flaw in the widely used BIND DNS (Domain Name System) software can be exploited by remote attackers to crash DNS servers and affect the operation of other programs running on the same machines. The flaw stems from the way regular ...
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Saudi Arabia has threatened action against Internet-based communications applications if they do not meet local rules, suggesting that the kingdom is ready for a showdown with some of these providers over local monitoring of their services. ...
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Not fazed by a takeover battle looming on the sidelines, members of Dell’s research division are putting together the pieces for prototype ARM supercomputers that could be deployed in the future. Dell has a good idea what an ARM ...
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As Dell works with three possible investment suitors to take itself private, it has consolidated itself internally while also planning to build a bridge across its storage platforms. Over the past three months, Dell has consolidated its ...
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Alcatel-Lucent is promising more manageable cloud computing through Nuage Networks, an internal startup that is making its formal debut on Tuesday. Nuage has been Alcatel's wholly owned vehicle for developing its SDN (software-defined ...
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Global spending on PCs, tablets, mobile phones and printers would reach $718bn Global IT spending is predicted to rise 4.1% in 2013 to $3.8 trillion compared to $3.6 trillion spent in 2012, according to a new report from Gartner. ...
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Cisco this week reduced its workforce by about 1% -- or 734 people - as the company realigns to face the advent of software-defined networking, cloud computing and its impact on routing and switching. "We routinely review our business to ...
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A distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack of unprecedented scale that targeted an international spam-fighting organization last week ended up causing problems for Internet users around the world, experts say. The DDoS attack started ...
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