IDG News Service-CERN scientists announced on Wednesday that they observed a particle that strongly resembles the long-sought after Higgs boson,the final missing ingredient in the standard model of particle Physics. The scientists ...
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A Taiwanese government office is warning local PC vendors of a new Apple patent for its MacBook Air that could be used in legal action to try and stop the sale of ultrabook models. Last month, Apple received a U.S. patent for the exterior ...
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Thomas Nielsen has stepped down after just eight months as CEO of RealNetworks, the Seattle-based company best known for its RealPlayer multimedia-streaming software. Rob Glaser, the company's founder and chairman, has returned to the CEO ...
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Mozilla rebranded its mobile operating system -- which it's been working on for more than a year -- as Firefox OS to tie it with its best-known product, the Firefox browser. Smartphones powered by the new Firefox OS will be manufactured ...
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Computerworld - Microsoft on Monday announced a promotion that later this year will let users of Windows XP, Vista and Windows 7 PCs upgrade to the new Windows 8 Pro for $39.99. Even though he declined to label the price as "aggressive," ...
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Google at its I/O conference is emphasizing its growing number of music,movies and TV shows available for Android tablets and smartphones through its Play store,and those entertainment options will be available on Google TV devices in the ...
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Apple is running servers from IBM and Oracle with flavors of the Unix operating system at its Maiden, N.C. data center, according to a job entry posted on the company's website. Apple is looking for a Solaris systems engineer with five ...
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In the second day of its annual TechEd developers conference in Amsterdam,Microsoft presented the case for Windows 8 in the enterprise. Unlike its predecessor,Microsoft has introduced the concept of a runtime(RT)environment,available on ...
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Paul Calleja, director of the high performance computing service at the University of Cambridge, maintains that supercomputers should be accessible to as wide a range of businesses and academic researchers as possible. And that means one ...
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IBM has climbed back to the top of the global supercomputer list with Sequoia,a 1,572,864 core BlueGene/Q system installed at the US Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory-which has achieved 16.32Pflop/s on the Linpack benchmark. ...
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While the CPU market is growing in single digit percentages,the applications processor market is growing at 40%a year and,by 2015,the value of the markets will match at around$33-34bn,according to Nomura. With ARM-based processors ...
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The next generation of supercomputers will require a radical re-think in technology, as computer design begins to run up against the limits of Moore's law. Research is underway around the world to develop supercomputers containing ...
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The US has overtaken Japan in the race to develop the world's fastest supercomputer. The Sequoia computer at Lawrence Livermoor National Laboratory was today named the most powerful supercomputer,capable of 16.32 petaflop/s. It ...
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Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) and ARM Holdings have joined forces to offer PC software developers additional security features. US-based AMD is to license technology from UK-based ARM to add an ARM-based processor to its computer chips ...
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Computerworld-Apple's Retina MacBook Pro is now shipping faster to online customers,according to the company's e-stores for the U.S.,Brazil,Canada,China,France,Germany,Japan and several other countries. The higher-resolution notebook now ...