Monthly Archives: April 2012
Small-Business Hiring Halted by Economic Concerns: Manta
Small-business owners were planning to hire at this time last year, but the majority (80 percent) havent hired a single employee in the first...
IBM Targets Linux Midmarket With New PowerLinux Offerings
IBM has launched an aggressive strategy for its PowerLinux systems with three solutions to focus on big data, industry apps and open-source infrastructure services.Big...
Google Ups Bounty for Security Flaws to $20,000
Google is increasing the amount of money its willing to pay to security researchers, hackers and others who find security holes in the search...
Mira
Mira
The Argonne Leadership Computing Facility (ALCF) started deployment of Mira in January 2012 with the delivery of two single-rack systems. By early March, all...
‘Soft’ iPhone Sales Can’t Dampen ATandT’s Q1 Bottom Line
AT&T executives announced April 24 that everything was up, up, up!The carrier sold 4.3 million Apple iPhones during the first quarter, 21 percent of...
Samsung Details Ice Cream Sandwich Updates for Smartphones, Tablets
News has dribbled out about which Android smartphones will receive the update to Ice Cream Sandwich, as version 4.0 is known. But Samsung, at...
Dell Unveils 40GbE-Enabled Networking Switch
Dell, leveraging its acquisition last year of networking vendor Force10 Networks, is adding new hardware and software offerings to its open networking platform, including...
Intel Launches Quad-Core Ivy Bridge Chips for High-End PCs
Intel is launching the first wave of its new Ivy Bridge processors, a collection of quad-core chips aimed at the desktop and high-end laptop...
Haptics-Enhanced Steering Wheel
Haptics-Enhanced Steering Wheel
Taking GPS navigation to the next level, this haptics-enhanced steering wheel is dotted with "actuators" that vibrate in succession—clockwise for a right...
Microsoft Launches Skype for Windows Phone
Microsoft has released version 1.0 of Skype for Windows Phone, the app the company announced in beta at the Mobile World Congress in February.The...