Monthly Archives: June 2012
Oracle Jumps Gun, Preannounces Profit Surge in Q4 2012 Earnings
In a rare jump-the-gun earnings announcement, Oracle on June 18 took its good news to Wall Street and its investors three days earlier than...
Nokia Down, but Not Out in Smartphone Market: IDC
Nokia and Microsoft both needed each other for Nokia to try to regain its smartphone dominance and for Microsoft to build sales of Windows...
Intel Wraps Xeon Phi Branding Around MIC Coprocessors
Intel executives are shedding more light on their efforts in the high-performance computing (HPC) space, and their desire to reach exascale computing by 2018,...
Google Finds Government Requests for Personal Information Increasing
The number of requests that Google receives from governments around the world to remove what they argue is "offensive" content posted by users continues...
IBM Hot-Water-Cooled Supercomputer Is Europe’s Fastest
In addition to nabbing the worlds fastest supercomputer title, IBM also can boast producing the first commercial hot-water-cooled supercomputer.IBM announced June 18 that the...
Sequoia Put U.S. Back on Top
Sequoia Put U.S. Back on Top
IBM's Blue Gene/Q supercomputer at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory hit a performance of 16.32 petaflops, putting the United...
Promise Technology Unveils Smartphone-Size, Flash-Based Desktop Storage Device
Consumer and small-business storage device maker Promise Technology on June 18 introduced the Pegasus J2, a Thunderbolt interface storage device, which the company claims...
Modest Job Growth in the Cards
Modest Job Growth in the Cards
Although more than four in 10 executives at technology companies that KPMG polled said their firms' workforces have increased...
LinkedIn Password Theft Underscores Cloud Security Dangers
By: Robert LemosThe leak of LinkedIn passwords has underscored that users of online services should choose unique and complex passwords for access to cloud...
iOS Preferred Over Android By Developers of Both Mobile Platforms
Mobile app developers whose workloads include creating both iOS and Android apps say Apples iOS is their preferred platform, Piper Jaffray analysts Gene Munster...