NETFLIX says it restored streaming video services a day after an outage triggered by technical problems at web service provider Amazon stretched across the Americas. The outage affected customers in the Americas starting about 12.30pm PST ...
OTTAWA, ONTARIO–(Marketwire – March 13, 2012) - Focus Metals Inc. ("Focus" or the "Corporation") (TSX VENTURE:FMS)(OTCQX:FCSMF)(FRANKFURT:FKC) and partner SOQUEM Inc. ("SOQUEM") are pleased to report the results of the fall 2011 ...
Tags: Canada, Exploration, Quebec, Rare Earth
IDG News Service - India has asked Internet service providers to block certain websites and restricted users from sending bulk SMSes for two weeks after threatening content caused panic across the country, official sources said. About 156 ...
Tags: India, Internet service, SMSes, websites
Network World - It's not clear if the Federal Trade Commission is throwing up its hands at the problem or just wants some new ideas about how to combat it, but the agency is now offering $50,000 to anyone who can create what it calls an ...
Tags: Federal Trade Commission, commercial robocalls, mobile phone
Computerworld - Fred Abounader, a performance systems engineer at chip maker AMD, recently deployed a 6TB all-NAND flash storage array into a virtual server test environment. The result, he said, was astounding. In AMD's virtualization ...
Tags: Fred Abounader, performance systems, flash storage array
Infoworld - Hewlett-Packard may be best known for its ubiquitous printers and laptops, but in the enterprise world, it is just as recognized for its servers. Now that the idea of the cloud is taking over, HP is joining the marketplace and ...
Tags: Hewlett Packard, laptop, HP, HP Cloud
Pakistan and Bangladesh have ordered a block on YouTube in their countries, in protest against Google's reluctance to block a controversial movie trailer that mocks the Prophet Muhammad on the video-sharing site. Pakistani Prime Minister ...
Tags: Pakistan, Bangladesh, block, YouTube, Google
China has officially rejected a request by the US, Europe and Japan to have a special panel of the World Trade Organization arbitrate a dispute over the country's controversial policy of restricting exports of rare earths. China mines ...
Tags: China, Rare Earth, USA, Metallurgy
Three advocacy groups plan to file a formal complaint against AT&T, alleging the carrier is violating the U.S. Federal Communications Commission's net neutrality rules for blocking a video-conferencing application on Apple's iPhones and ...
Tags: advocacy groups, complaint, U.S., FCC
IDG News Service - Google has dropped a major part of its wide-ranging patent-infringement battle against Apple, withdrawing a complaint to the U.S. International Trade Commission. Google had sought to block iPhones, iPads and iPod Touch ...
Tags: Google, Apple, Motorola Unit, Motorola patents, ITC
IDG News Service - Content delivery accelerator Akamai Techologies has launched a service for adapting websites to the device used to access them, which it says also simplifies the upgrade to IPv6. The service, Aqua Ion, has been shaped ...
Tags: Akamai Techologies, Blaze Software, Akamai platform, smartphones
SGS Geostat has determined a base case Inferred mineral resource of 219.8 million tonnes containing 1.88% TREO, an Indicated mineral resource of 27.7 million tonnes containing 1.90% TREO, and a Measured mineral resource of 1.6 million ...
Tags: Canada, Commerce Resources Corp., Rare Earth, Rare earth metals
IDG News Service - The Russian version of Wikipedia went black on Tuesday to protest a proposed law that could become the basis for Internet censorship. Wikipedia's protest is backed by other large Russian online businesses such as the ...
Tags: Internet censorship, electronic curtain, firewall, Wikipedia
After months of polemic and legal battles, Australian rare earths miner, Lynas (ASX:LYC), has finally begun production at its Malaysian processing plant following a recent court triumph. The company said Friday that the first rare-earth ...
Tags: Lynas, Malaysian, Rare Earths, Metallurgy
An international research team has been exploring the role of gate oxide border traps in devices being developed for future electronics.The researchers presented their results at the 2012 International Electron Devices Meeting[D.Lin et ...
Tags: international research team, role of gate oxide border traps