For the first time in Australia and New Zealand, value chain professionals can in 2013 compete globally against fellow professionals in a unique and innovative learning format. The Fresh Connection Global Challenge is in 2013 offering an ...
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The U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency and a consortium of top semiconductor companies are handing out US$194 million to universities for research that addresses the physical limitations of semiconductors and chips. The ...
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Hybrid Memory Cube (HMC) technology is poised to take a bow in the high-performance computing space as a potential answer to the problem of one of the main bottlenecks in computing - the poor relative-performance of memory. After that, the ...
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The US Department of Energy is planning to install 100+ petaflop supercomputers within the next four years as the famous national laboratories at Oak Ridge, Argonne and Lawrence Livermore upgrade to more powerful machines. The labs, which ...
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GSX Solutions, the global leader in proactive, consolidated monitoring and reporting of enterprise collaboration environments, including Microsoft Exchange, Microsoft SharePoint, BlackBerry Enterprise Server (BES) and IBM Notes, is offering ...
Longtime VMware Chief Technology Officer Steve Herrod has stepped down from his post, leaving the company during a challenging time. Herrod has taken a job at the venture capital firm General Catalyst, where he will work as a managing ...
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Apple's iOS and Google's Android have the widest adoption among mobile BI (business intelligence) applications, as the products are becoming more mature, according to a report from market research company Ovum. Mobile BI is far from a new ...
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The chief information security officers (CISOs) of Network Rail, Commerzbank and law firm Field Fisher Waterhouse have slated bigger security software vendors for lagging behind smaller rivals in mobile security. In a panel discussion ...
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The arrivals of high performance mobile devices and robust data-carrying infrastructures have helped push mobile BI forward. Analysts at Ovum say that Mobile BI solutions have suffered from a lack of technological advancement but with ...
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Samsung was the third largest foundry in 2012 and expects to be the second largest foundry in 2013, says IC Insights. TSMC's 2012 sales were almost 4x that of second-ranked GlobalFoundries and more than 10x the sales of the fifth-ranked ...
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Lloyd Carney, CEO, Brocade Brocade’s board of directors on Tuesday announced that it had appointed networking industry veteran Lloyd Carney to be the company’s new CEO, effective immediately. He will also join Brocade’s ...
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LEXINGTON, Ky. — Tempur-Pedic International announced the retirement of Matthew Clift, executive vice president of global operations. A search for a successor is under way and Clift will continue to lead the global operations team ...
Despite a major push by rival Lenovo, Hewlett-Packard has held onto its position as the top seller of PCs worldwide, according to IDC. The researcher Thursday reported that HP maintained its worldwide PC lead in the fourth quarter despite ...
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Microsoft and a respected researcher disagreed this week about whether a bug in Windows RT is actually a security vulnerability that should be patched. The bug, revealed Jan. 5 by a hacker known as "clrokr," can be used to bypass a ...
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Computer giant IBM is considering an acquisition of data analysis software company Splunk in a deal that could be worth as much as $4bn (£2.5bn). In a report on newswire Bloomberg, Cowen & Company analyst Peter Goldmacher ...
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