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IBM's Efforts to Expand The Use of Its Power Chips in Hyperscale Data Centres
Apr 30, 2014IBM's efforts to expand the use of its Power chips in hyperscale data centres just got a big shot in the arm from Google. The online giant showed its first home-built server board based on IBM's upcoming Power8 processor at an IBM ...
Tags: IT, IBM, Software, Computer Products
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Managers Had to Put in an IT Request,a Drawn out Process
Feb 8, 2014Once upon a time within Dell, managers who needed a business analysis report had to put in an IT request, a drawn out process that drove business units to set up their own shadow IT systems to run these numbers instead. Now each business ...
Tags: Dell, Self-Serve Analytics
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Not All Kuiper Belt Objects (KBOs) Play Nicely with The Nice Model
Jan 18, 2014The Kuiper belt—the region beyond the orbit of Neptune inhabited by a number of small bodies of rock and ice—hides many clues about the early days of the Solar System. According to the standard picture of Solar System formation, ...
Tags: Consumer Electronics
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Valve Started Developing The Steambox After Microsoft Launched Windows 8
Oct 11, 2013Valve, the company behind the popular Steam games website and portal, has released the technical specifications of its Steambox, a games console intended to take the popular service from the desktop PC to the living room. Valve started ...
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Microsoft Needs to Work on Its Branding Issues
Oct 1, 2013While Microsoft's recent acquisition of Nokia's smartphone division is potentially good news for Microsoft, the company needs to work on its branding issues if it's to start seeing greater success in the mobile hardware industry, a Gartner ...
Tags: Computer Products, software
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Canonical Is in Talks with Dell on Making a Version of Ubuntu
Aug 28, 2013Canonical is in talks with Dell on making a version of Ubuntu supported by the Chinese government available as a pre-installed OS on the PC maker's upcoming products destined for the Chinese market. Dell is a global partner for Canonical, ...
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Canonical Will Produce Its Ubuntu Edge Smartphone for Launch in Early 2014
Aug 23, 2013Canonical will produce its Ubuntu Edge smartphone for launch in early 2014, despite failing this week to achieve the $32m funding it sought on crowd-funding website Indiegogo. According to CEO Jane Silber, the company will push ahead ...
Tags: Computer Products, software
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ZTE Will Sell The Mozilla Firefox OS-powered ZTE Open on Auction Site eBay
Aug 16, 2013Chinese smartphone maker ZTE has revealed that it will sell the Mozilla Firefox OS-powered ZTE Open on auction site eBay, retailing at a price of £59.99 [$79.99]. The device, first revealed at Mobile World Congress earlier this ...
Tags: Computer Products, smartphone
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Canonical's First Corporate Backer Signed up to The $80,000 "Enterprise 100" Package
Aug 13, 2013Canonical has claimed its first corporate backer for its Ubuntu Edge smartphone after Bloomberg, the financial news giant, signed up to the $80,000 "Enterprise 100" package. Canonical has resorted to the Indiego "crowdfunding" website in ...
Tags: Bloomberg, Smartphone
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Hackers Stole up to 1.82 Million User Names and Passwords
Jul 24, 2013USERS of Linux who subscribe to the online forums of popular strain Ubuntu have been urged to change their passwords after hackers stole up to 1.82 million user names and passwords. This especially applies to Linux users who use the ...
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The Nature of Computing Has Changed Deu to Linux's Rise as a Cornerstone of IT
Jul 18, 2013Mark Shuttleworth's recent closure of Ubuntu Linux bug No. 1 ("Microsoft has a majority market share") placed a meaningful, if somewhat controversial, exclamation point on how far Linux has come since Linus Torvalds rolled out the first ...
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Verizon Wireless Became The First U.S. Carrier to Join The Ubuntu Carrier Advisory Group
Jul 16, 2013Verizon Wireless became the first U.S. carrier to join the Ubuntu Carrier Advisory Group, but it is not clear whether it will eventually promote phones running the open-source Ubuntu OS on its network. Canonical, the company behind the ...
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Mark Shuttleworth Closed Ubuntu's Seriocomic Bug #1 Report on Thursday
May 31, 2013Open-source advocate Mark Shuttleworth closed Ubuntu's seriocomic Bug #1 report on Thursday after leaving it open nearly nine years. The move heralded a major shift in rhetoric from the leader of the world's most popular Linux distribution. ...
Tags: Ubuntu, Bug#1 Report
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New Ubuntu Operating System Offers Better Boot Times and More Efficient Power Management
Apr 26, 2013The latest release of the Ubuntu operating system, version 13.04, which will be released today, uses less system and memory resources, offers better boot times and more efficient power management, according to Canonical, the company behind ...
Tags: Computer Products, software
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BeagleBoard.org Has Introduced a Bare-Bones PC Starting at $45
Apr 25, 2013Open-source board maker BeagleBoard.org has introduced a bare-bones PC starting at $45, bringing it closer to the popular Raspberry Pi, which offers basic models for $25 and $35. The $45 BeagleBoard Black has no casing and comes in the ...
