July 2009

Nissan Developing Electric Car iPhone App

The Nissan application will offer convenience and energy efficiency, allowing drivers to remotely monitor the battery's charge, as well as turn on the air conditioner before they get behind the wheel

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University Of Southampton Buys IBM Supercomputer

The University of Southampton, which has research centres for such subjects as oceanography, medicine and the Internet, is buying a massive IBM iDataPlex supercomputer that will hold more than 8,000 quad-core Intel Xeon processors

Boohoo For Microhoo!

Everyone thinks that the combination of Microsoft Bing and Yahoo will be good for consumers, but is that really so? Beware the deadly duopoly, warns Jim Rapoza

Woohoo for Microhoo!

The deal is finally here - and if it shakes Google's complacency, it will be a good one for enterprise search users, says Don Reisinger

Hyper9 Takes on Virtual Machine Sprawl

Hyper9 is rolling out the second version of its flagship Virtualization Optimisation Suite, which is designed to give businesses improved insight into their virtualised environments and better ways to manage their VMs

Greenpeace Paints Toxic Symbol On HP HQ

Ecology activists claim that IT giant Hewlett-Packard is doing an about-face on its public statements about eliminating key toxic chemicals in its printers, computers, servers and storage products by the end of 2009

Girlfriend Of Apple ‘Suicide’ Worker Given Laptop

Apple manufacturer Foxconn, which produces the company's iPods and iPhones, plans to compensate the family of engineer Sun Danyong, who fell to his death on 16 July after a fourth-generation iPhone prototype in his possession disappear ...

Apple Bans Google Voice Apps From iPhone

Apple shuts the door on all Google Voice applications, including third-party applications that support search engine giant Google's VOIP and telephony product, which is rolling out to more users

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Hardware Savings Diverted Into Innovative Software

As businesses continue to cut back on IT infrastructure spending—on such items as PCs, telecommunications and networking devices—they are looking to roll those savings into software that can help them drive innovation and g ...

Details Of Microsoft Stores Leaked Online

Details about Microsoft's retail stores have been kept heavily under wraps ahead of their Autumn launch, at least until a massive slide show of early concepts for the stores leaked online

Intel Appeals $880m EC Fine

Intel officials are appealing the European Commission's $1.45 billion fine for antitrust violations, saying European regulators ignored the realities of a competitive processor market

Google: The Limits Of Security

Don't ask to run Google Apps on your own server. If you want that, you're wrong, says Google's Eran Feigenbaum. But does Google use two-factor authentication or not?

Why Should We Trust A Green Printer Maker?

Users need to save money and resources by printing less, but printer vendors want to sell more printers. There's no conflict, says Graham Long of Samsung: it's up to vendors to face the inevitable and lead the way

Dell Takes Aim At The Data Centre

At the annual Dell analyst day, Dell executives say the company is looking to change its product mix, moving more upstream into the data centre with a solutions-based approach and away from its heavy reliance on PC sales

Energy Star 5.0 Debunked

As the new standard comes into effect, Peter Hopton takes us through half a dozen of the leading "eco marks" out there and discusses their practical implications

Developers Give Their Take on Google Chrome OS

Google announced its Chrome operating system on 7 July and developers have been weighing in on what it means for the developer ranks ever since the company said it was building an OS based on its Chrome browser

AMD: Enhanced Opterons Are Greener

The new Opteron processors offer better performance and energy efficiency than their quad-core predecessors, and AMD officials are aiming them at HPC and cloud computing environments

Sun xVM VirtualBox 3.0 Review

The important addition of symmetric multiprocessing (SMP) to this desktop virtualisation tool could give VMware Workstation serious competition.

US Sues Social Networking Site For Privacy Breach

US New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo plans to sue social networking site Tagged.com for allegedly stealing the identities of its members, raiding their e-mail contact lists and sending out spam in a bid to lure recipients to the s ...

Bing Grew Fast In June

Microsoft Bing grew to more than five percent of the US online search market during its first month - clocking up a growth rate of 25 percent per week, according to Hitwise

Lenovo T400s Review

With better ports, a slimmer profile and enhanced wireless capability the T400s deserves your full consideration.

Sun’s OpenSolaris Review

With the new Crossbow network virtualisation system and VirtualBox supported, OpenSolaris wets appetites for upcoming Solaris features.

iPhone 3GS Hardware Review

OS upgrades aside; the iPhone 3GS hardware is faster, has doubled its memory and if you want an anti-fingerprint coating on the screen, then upgrading the OS won't be enough.

Open Source Flies In A Recession, Says Ingres

Open source software is the only way for users to meet the economic crisis, says Roger Burkhardt of Ingres. But they will have to take some short term pain to get out of proprietary licence structures.

HP Talks Rubbish On Green Printing

Schemes to recycle cartridges are more about preventing users from refilling them than saving the environment, says Peter Judge. HP could do so much better if it harnessed its engineering talent