The digital breadcrumbs left behind when people use Internet-connected gadgets are what led California investigators to recover iMacs, iPads and other items stolen from the home of the late Apple CEO Steve Jobs. Based on the police ...
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IBM has bought flash storage specialist Texas Memory Systems,a 34 year-old,100-employee,developer of solid state memory modules. TMS has a flash based storage product family for servers called RamSan which IBM says it will incorporate ...
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Computer giant IBM has acquired high-performance Flash memory maker Texas Memory Systems (TMS) for an undisclosed sum. The Houston, Texas-based company employs about 100 staff and has been developing solid-state disk accelerator ...
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Computerworld - As promised, Microsoft today released the final version of Windows 8 to MSDN and TechNet subscribers. But it also posted a 90-day evaluation copy of Windows 8 RTM (release to manufacturing) that anyone can download. At ...
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IDG News Service - Some AT&T customers are being affected by a failure in the carrier's DNS (Domain Name System) servers that began Wednesday morning. Initial reports indicate the failure is hitting companies across the U.S., but few ...
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Next month the National Institute of Standards and Technology(NIST)plans to put out for public review its draft for a new government encryption standard that,when finalized,is going to compel federal agencies with older websites to replace ...
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In what it says is an attempt to turn the tables on malicious hackers,security vendor Prolexic on Tuesday released details of vulnerabilities it has discovered in a toolkit family used by hackers to launch distributed denial of service ...
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Job site RecruitmentGenius.com has cut hosting costs by 90%by moving to cloud infrastructure. RecruitmentGenius.com is saving GBP112,000 a year by moving onto hosting provided by ElasticHosts. RecruitmentGenius.com uses the cloud ...
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Computer Weekly takes a look at how we experienced "the most connected Games ever" with our round-up of technology stats. The technology behind the Olympics largely went unnoticed, which is an indication of its success. "Delivering the ...
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IDG News Service - Responding to the trend of streamlining data-center management, Zenoss has added to its network monitoring software support for a popular open-source messaging bus. "This is one of the most significant launches in our ...
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IDG News Service - Violin Memory plans to add deduplication, thin provisioning, snapshots and other features in a software update for its all-flash storage arrays, in a bid to match some key features that enterprises are used to getting in ...
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Battle.net, the service that hosts videogames company Blizzard's massively multiplayer online game World of Warcraft, has come under attack from hackers, according to a security update on the game's website. Mike Morhaime, president and ...
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Network World-Linux operating system distributor Suse says it is gaining ground among cloud service providers as their choice platform for delivering the open source OS to customers,but at least one analyst says the market is still split ...
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USA-grandMA2 has gone country playing key roles on the Brothers of the Sun tour,with Kenny Chesney and Tim McGraw,and at CMA Music Festival,which held concerts at Nashville's LP Field. "I've been one of the beta testers for the ...
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Warren East,CEO of chip designer ARM,discusses the growth of machine to machine technology,the on-going patent wars and why he hopes the company will retain its independence. It seems there is no stopping ARM,with the company having ...
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