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Sunday 30 September 2012
BlackBerry sales fell again in Q2 but RIM's loss narrowed
Shipments of its BlackBerry smartphones fell in the quarter ended Sept. 1 as Research In Motion posted its third straight loss. There were 7.4 million BlackBerrys sold in the quarter, down from 7.8 million in the company's March-to-May quarter. RIM's revenue fell to $2.9 billion, compared with $4.2 billion a year earlier. But the company's revenue beat the consensus estimate of analysts polled by Thomson Reuters, of $2.5 billion.
Servers: Server Snuff: 7 Videos of a Sysadmin’s Worst Nightmares
Think of a typical server room and what do you see? Racks of machines organized into endless rows. Tightly packed boxes of metal and wire stretching across one of those massive data centers that powers the internet. It's big and ...
Source: http://www.wired.com/wiredenterprise/2012/09/server-room-nightmares/
How to Get Paid for iTunes Tweets
If you tweet links to music, your followers can easily stream previews of songs and buy tracks from iTunes. Twitter's implementation of Apple's affiliate program means you can earn money in the process. Here's how.
Source: http://www.wired.com/underwire/2012/09/get-paid-for-itunes-tweets/
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Paradox of Hoaxes: Back to the Future to Spinach
This summer's Back to the Future hoax wasn’t the first time a fudged screenshot of the DeLorean’s time counters spread across the internet. Not not only were people spreading incorrect information, but the collective internet consciousness didn’t recognize the return of the same error. And when we do recognize such errors, we can’t fix them as easily as we might like -- even given our unprecedented ability to crowdfix mistakes.
Source: http://www.wired.com/underwire/2012/09/paradox-of-hoaxes/
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The Physics of Nike+ Hyperdunk
Nike makes some cool stuff. In particular, the Nike+ gear is quite interesting. These are different sensors that you can use to measure your performance in sports like running, training, or basketball. Clearly, there is some physics to explore here – and thanks to the good folks at Nike, I have a pair to play [...]
Source: http://www.wired.com/playbook/2012/09/the-physics-of-nike-hyperdunk/
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Is the Rare Biosphere More Accessible Than We Thought?
Scoop up a fistful of soil, and you’ll be holding billions of microbes. Most of them belong to a relatively small number of species. But many do not, and they form the Rare Biosphere – low-abundance organisms lurking in plain view. This Rare Biosphere appears to serve as a sort of “seed bank,” a repository [...]
Source: http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2012/09/is-the-rare-biosphere-more-accessible-than-we-thought/
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Data Centers: ‘Trailer Park Computing’ Busts Out of Google and Into Mainstream
Taking a page from the likes of Google and Microsoft, a wide-range of companies are now selling data centers stuffed into shipping containers.
Source: http://www.wired.com/wiredenterprise/2012/09/data-center-containers/
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LastPass teams with PwnedList to flag stolen accounts
Starting today, users of online password manager LastPass will receive email notification about a free and potentially invaluable new service that is based on the extensive list of hacked accounts maintained by PwnedList.
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Saturday 29 September 2012
Oracle likely to announce Exadata sequel soon
Many signs suggest that Oracle is about to introduce a next-generation version of the Exadata database machine, the first and apparently most successful of its "engineered systems" that combine Oracle software with servers, networking, and storage.
For one thing, Oracle's OpenWorld conference kicks off Sunday with a keynote from CEO Larry Ellison, and contrary to prior years, this time Oracle has told the public a bit of what Ellison plans to say.
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Apple's Cook: Use Google, Bing, Nokia -- anything but Apple Maps
Mapocalypse -- or Mapplegate, if you prefer -- is the gift that keeps on giving. And it shows no signs of letting up.
Salesforce.com links up with Facebook for targeted ad delivery
Salesforce.com customers interested in using the vendor's emerging family of marketing software could benefit from a new partnership it has formed with Facebook for targeted ad delivery.
The companies announced the pact late Thursday during Salesforce.com's Dreamforce event in San Francisco.
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Software: NYU Experiments With Codecademy’s Online Hacker Lessons
New York University is teaming up with the computer programming tutorial site Codecademy to offer a free, non-credit programming class for NYU students. Codecademy seeks to democratize computer programming by offering lessons via the web, and this NYU partnership puts ...
Source: http://www.wired.com/wiredenterprise/2012/09/nyu-teams-up-with-codecademy/
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Mark Zuckerberg's opinion of HTML5 is meaningless
Mark Zuckerberg may be a legendary entrepreneur, but he's no programming genius.
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Found Contest: Imagine the Future of Detention
Your next challenge: imagine the future of after-school detention. How will students be disciplined in online classrooms? Will schools outsource detention to private prison contractors? Will the "dunce caps" of the future provide a jolt of brain power—or shock their wearers ...
Source: http://www.wired.com/rawfile/2012/09/ff_found_contest_detention/
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When is an apple simply an apple? Never, says Apple
Even though Steve Jobs is no longer with us (and possibly hovering over Silicon Valley in a glass-encased heaven, if Buddhist monk Phra Chaibul Dhammajayo is correct), it's nice to know some things at Apple never change.
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Maker of Smart-Grid Control Software Hacked
The maker of an industrial control system designed to be used with so-called smart grid networks disclosed to customers last week that hackers had breached its network and accessed project files related to its control system software.
Source: http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2012/09/scada-vendor-telvent-hacked/
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Friday 28 September 2012
Developers: Up with iOS, down with HTML5
A just-released survey of more than 5,000 developers put another massive dent in in HTML5's reputation as a development platform for mobile apps, locking in its reputation as one of the most overhyped technologies in years. Apple, though, still shines in the hearts of developers. Android? Not so much.
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Salesforce Touch promises write-once, deploy-anywhere mobile development
Salesforce.com this week at Dreamforce rolled out Salesforce Touch, a new mobile app
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In U.N. Speech, Assange Demands U.S. End Persecution of WikiLeaks and Bradley Manning
In a speech to a U.N. panel, Julian Assange called on the U.S. Wednesday to stop persecuting Wikileaks and live up to the words spoken by President Obama the day before.
Source: http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2012/09/assange-speaks-to-un/
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Oracle likely to announce Exadata sequel soon
Many signs suggest that Oracle is about to introduce a next-generation version of the Exadata database machine, the first and apparently most successful of its "engineered systems" that combine Oracle software with servers, networking, and storage.
For one thing, Oracle's OpenWorld conference kicks off Sunday with a keynote from CEO Larry Ellison, and contrary to prior years, this time Oracle has told the public a bit of what Ellison plans to say.
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Bonfire of the Van-ities: Burning Question Fuels Photog’s Social Media Rise
What would you take with you if your house caught fire? That's the burning question Foster Huntington came up with to filter potential dates, a provocative query that eventually turned into a wildly successful blog and book.
Source: http://www.wired.com/rawfile/2012/09/foster-huntington/
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Latest Version of Chrome Steps Up its Gaming Game
Chrome 22 is getting closer, but Google's web browser still hasn't quite caught up with Emacs in the great version number race. In the mean time Chrome users can content themselves with a new Mouse API that promises to make online, first-person shooters much more enjoyable.
Source: http://www.webmonkey.com/2012/09/latest-version-of-chrome-steps-up-its-gaming-game/
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Wired Science Space Photo of the Day: The Cosmic Seagull
If you're like us, you could look at photos of galaxies, planets, moons and nebulas all day. But you don't have all day, so let Wired Science bring you the most intriguing, beautiful or mysterious view of space we can find. We promise they will be mind-blowing and tempt you to replace your desktop background on a regular basis.
Source: http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2012/09/wired-science-space-photo-of-the-day-the-seagull-nebula/
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Review: VMware Workstation 9 vs. VirtualBox 4.2
When it comes to virtualization on the desktop, two products stand front and center: VMware Workstation and VirtualBox. The former is the long-standing original keeper of the flame, from the company that gave us PC-centric virtualization technology as we know it. The latter is an open source project now under the stewardship of Oracle, with its own strongly competitive set of features.
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Thursday 27 September 2012
How to secure the Internet with a single service
I've been writing about how to secure the Internet for almost a decade, including in this InfoWorld position paper (PDF), which gives most of the details. My proposal is this: A new Internet channel must be created to establish pervasive authentication and improved services for identifying the bad guys.
That might seem like a tall order in today's ultramalicious online world, but it can all be readily done using existing protocols and integrate with all legacy systems.
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SAP NetWeaver Cloud platform as a service may be close to general release
SAP could be close to announcing the general availability of its foray into the PaaS (platform-as-a-service) market, NetWeaver Cloud, which will go up against rival offerings from the likes of Oracle and Salesforce.com.
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RIM signs up to Microsoft's ExFAT file-system standard
Microsoft today announced that Research in Motion (RIM) is licensing Microsoft's ExFAT file system for use in BlackBerry mobile devices.
Microsoft has also been increasingly successful at getting other tech companies to support ExFAT. For example, Apple incorporated ExFAT into Mac OS X "Lion" in 2011, providing interoperability for file storage between the Windows and Mac operating systems. And just over a month ago, Sharp licensed the ExFAT technology for use in its Android smartphones.
Amateur Astronomer Maps Jupiter’s Moon Ganymede in Impressive Detail
Using little more than a backyard telescope and his own expertise, amateur astronomer Emmanuel Kardasis has produced a detailed albedo map of Jupiter’s largest moon Ganymede.
Source: http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2012/09/amateur-ganymede-map/
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They Did It for the Reblogs: Art Poppers MS MR Create Tumblr-Influenced EP
Tumblr came first for the members of indie art-pop duo MS MR, who optimized their debut EP, Candy Bar Creep Show, for the popular microblogging site. Musical acts increasingly use Tumblr to reach listeners, and MS MR's method made it easy for fans to reblog more than just a single track or image. The New York duo released a series of tracks, remixes, photos and videos exclusively through the microblogging site to build buzz for Candy Bar Creep Show, including the trippy image-collage video for "Ash Tree Lane," which premiered Monday.
Source: http://www.wired.com/underwire/2012/09/ms-mr-tumblr-album/
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Review: Dell blade servers tip the scales
It seems that Dell has been quite busy, especially where its blade offerings are concerned.
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Off the Grid: Mennonites: Connected to the Land, Not the Web
In eastern Bolivia, where photographer Jordi Ruiz Cirera recently spent time with the Mennonites who've settled there, families still use gas lights and travel by horse and buggy. They're not used to the conveniences of the modern world and are ...
Crowd-sourced storage service charges bytes instead of bucks
Peer-to-peer cloud storage vendor Symform announced it is offering unlimited online capacity to customers who pay by contributing local disk capacity instead of money. Symform uses a crowd-sourcing strategy to create a virtual pool of capacity through the use of peer-to-peer technology.
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Wednesday 26 September 2012
Cloud storage: The final nail in tape's coffin
More than two years ago, I wrote about the persisting value of tape as an archival backup medium. At the time, the LTO-5 tape standard had recently been announced in an effort to stave off ever-increasing pressure from disk-to-disk backup products. Since then, a lot has changed. Although the nearly twice-as-capable LTO-6 tape standard will hit the market soon, disk-to-disk backup has become a much more popular way to back up the enterprise.
Bossies 2012: The Best of Open Source Software Awards
Welcome to the sixth annual Best of Open Source Software Awards, otherwise known as the Bossies.
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Software: NYU Experiments With Codecademy’s Online Hacker Lessons
New York University is teaming up with the computer programming tutorial site Codecademy to offer a free, non-credit programming class for NYU students. Codecademy seeks to democratize computer programming by offering lessons via the web, and this NYU partnership puts ...
Source: http://www.wired.com/wiredenterprise/2012/09/nyu-teams-up-with-codecademy/
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Review: Dredd 3D Puts Splashy Slo-Mo Spin on Ultraviolence
Review: Dredd 3D, out in theaters Friday, is a beautiful and fun shoot-'em-up movie made with an incredibly cool aesthetic. It's the perfect action flick to end the summer blockbuster season.
Source: http://www.wired.com/underwire/2012/09/review-dredd-3d/
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Mark Zuckerberg's opinion of HTML5 is meaningless
Mark Zuckerberg may be a legendary entrepreneur, but he's no programming genius.
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How many CFOs does it take to screw in a lightbulb?
How long does it take to move a fax machine from one location to another in the same building? Normally about 15 minutes -- 30 tops. Of course that assumes you're working under efficient management. The following story, which happened a few years ago, exemplifies how bureaucratic red tape can take a normally quick and easy task and drag it out much longer than is acceptable.
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One number to rule them all: What smartphones miss today
All eyes are on smartphones. Last week saw the Lumia 920, Nokia's attempt to become relevant to mobile users through digital photography, along with Motorola Razr upgrades that showed Google's Motorola Mobility is still mired in device thinking.
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Why OpenStack owes its success to Amazon
Who would have thunk it. The OpenStack Foundation now has a 24-person board, $10 million in funding, and, oh, yeah, 5,600 members. This is becoming more than momentum in the cloud computing market, and it certainly exceeds my expectations from when the standard was first launched.
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Tuesday 25 September 2012
Another new iPhone? Beam me up, Scotty
I really don't understand what it is about phones that gets people in such a tizzy.
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SAP bundles analytic apps with IQ database
SAP on Monday announced a new family of products that marry its Business Objects BI (business intelligence) software with the Sybase IQ analytic database and include specialized business content for use by various industries.
The four offerings include BI suite, analytics edition; BI platform, analytics edition; Edge analytics edition; and Crystal Server, analytics edition. The latter two are mostly aimed at small and medium-size companies.
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Salesforce.com links up with Facebook for targeted ad delivery
Salesforce.com customers interested in using the vendor's emerging family of marketing software could benefit from a new partnership it has formed with Facebook for targeted ad delivery.
The companies announced the pact late Thursday during Salesforce.com's Dreamforce event in San Francisco.
July 24, 1959: Nixon, Khrushchev Have a Chat in the Kitchen
The two leaders stage an impromptu "kitchen debate," with each extolling the virtues and technological achievements of his respective ideology.
Source: http://www.wired.com/thisdayintech/2012/07/july-24-1959-nixon-khrushchev-have-a-chat-in-the-kitchen/
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The feds' shift to Android could give it a big business boost, too
It was the kind of late-afternoon announcement most people missed and probably would have passed on anyhow: Defense contractor General Dynamics bought Open Kernel Labs, a small mobile virtualization vendor known best (if at all) for its collaboration with Citrix Systems on Project Nirvana, which let cellphones run two operating systems separately via virtualization. Consumers saw this technology at work in the Motorola Atrix 4G and its Lapdock.
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What you lose if you switch to the iPhone 5
Those who preordered the new iPhone 5 while stocks were still available last Friday or who are lucky enough to get a new iPhone this Friday after waiting in what are sure to be long lines at stores will get their shiny new smartphone.
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Good Technology kicks the BlackBerry when it's down
Oh, the irony. IT shops that have stalwartly defended the BlackBerry platform despite business users' demand for iOS and other mobile platforms seem to be suddenly losing faith that Research in Motion will be around in a year. The fear is strong enough that Good Technology, one of the major mobile management vendors, today announced a rapid-conversion service for companies that want to get rid of BlackBerrys in six months or less.
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Dear user: Details do matter
Plenty of on-the-job stress inducers lurk for us IT pros, including big-picture items such as business initiatives or tech adoption. But like slow and steady drips of water, the little stressors add up. Even an issue as minor as a user who gives incomplete details about a tech problem can sap precious energy reserves.
Source: http://www.infoworld.com/t/it-jobs/dear-user-details-do-matter-202140?source=rss_infoworld_blogs
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Monday 24 September 2012
The 'bootkit' menace is a paper threat
Is Windows 8's security compromised from the start? Two recent papers laying out the groundwork for next-generation rootkits seem to argue the point, but a significant caveat makes all the difference.
Cloud: Rackspace Hands Over Keys to Open Source Cloud
When Rackspace and NASA started OpenStack -- a collection of open source tools for building Amazon-style clouds in any data center -- Rackspace shouldered the responsibility for organizing the community. But as that community grew, it became clear that the project needed a more neutral steward, and the company started taking steps to hand the project over to the non-profit OpenStack Foundation. On Wednesday, that transition was completed.
Source: http://www.wired.com/wiredenterprise/2012/09/openstack-2/
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iOS 6's Apple Maps: Yes, it's that bad
We're looking for a granite shop in a city along the eastern part of San Francisco Bay, so I plug the address into the Apple Maps app on my iPhone 4 that's running iOS 6. (I'm navigating, not driving.) The directions look right, and off we go. The interface is a bit awkward, so as we take the freeway exit and get into the complicated part of the directions I zoom in. But the screen jumps to a different stage in the directions.
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Prepare for the era of the data center in a box
While several of the largest storage vendors, such as EMC, Hewlett-Packard and NetApp, have entered into agreements with server, software and networking vendors to offer bundled products, purpose-built products are just beginning to emerge.
For example, last year startup Nutanix unveiled a virtualized server that is clustered together with solid-state and hard drive storage, all of which can be managed under a single console view.
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Cloud: Amazon Rival Brings Nuke Know-How to the Data Center
Joyent is best known for offering its own Amazon-like "cloud" services, but it also sells stuff that help companies running cloudy architectures in their own data centers. On Tuesday, the company pumped up this side of its business, unveiling a partnership with electrical equipment giant Emerson meant to help companies track how much energy is consumed by their in-house cloud applications.
Source: http://www.wired.com/wiredenterprise/2012/09/joyent-and-emerson/
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Fore! Duffers Navigate Strip Joints, RVs on ‘World Urban Golf Day’
PORTLAND, Oregon — Scotty Mazariegos opened the city’s latest golf tournament with some last-minute changes to the course. Some inconsiderate lout left an RV on the first hole, which was not as big a problem as the hazardous waste strewn about the place. “There’s a lot of dog sh*t and human sh*t on the first four [...]
Source: http://www.wired.com/playbook/2012/09/world-urban-golf-day/
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Romantic or Reckless? The Plan to Message Aliens with Twitter
If you've ever pondered what you would say to an alien, you may get that chance between 7:30 and 8 p.m. PT tonight. Tweets in Space is a project to capture 30 minutes worth of tweets with the hashtag #tweetsinspace to beam toward an exoplanet in hopes of messaging any aliens that live there.
Source: http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2012/09/tweetsinspace-messaging-aliens/
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Watch out! iOS 6 can jack up your phone bill
There are many nice enhancements in iOS 6, but if you have an iPhone or cellular iPad running the updated Apple mobile OS, watch out. Several new settings can quickly run up your cellular bill or exhaust your data allotment before you realize it. Here's what you need to know if you've upgraded your iPhone 3G S or later or your iPad to iOS 6.
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Sunday 23 September 2012
Crowd-sourced storage service charges bytes instead of bucks
Peer-to-peer cloud storage vendor Symform announced it is offering unlimited online capacity to customers who pay by contributing local disk capacity instead of money. Symform uses a crowd-sourcing strategy to create a virtual pool of capacity through the use of peer-to-peer technology.
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SSDs boost Instagram's speed on Amazon EC2
Instagram can drive data to its computing systems on Amazon.com's EC2 service 20 times as fast with solid-state drives, a co-founder of the photo-sharing service said on Thursday at the GigaOm Mobilize conference in San Francisco.
Source: http://www.infoworld.com/d/cloud-computing/ssds-boost-instagrams-speed-amazon-ec2-202889
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NASA Scientists Use Unmanned Aircraft to Spy on Hurricanes
Hurricane researchers are gathering unprecedented data this month by using two NASA Global Hawk unmanned aircraft. The airplanes were originally developed for the military, but have been modified to aid in atmospheric research. One of the Global Hawks was flown to its new base at NASA’s Wallops Island Flight Facility on Virginia’s Atlantic coast earlier [...]
Source: http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2012/09/nasa-hurricane-hunter-planes/
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WD claims new Thunderbolt desktop hard drive is faster than SSD
Western Digital (WD) today released a portable external drive for Macs and a dual-disk external desktop backup drive that it claims is faster than a solid-state drive (SSD).
WD announced the My Book VelociRaptor Duo desktop backup drive and the My Passport for Mac. The My Passport for Mac portable drive comes with one 5Gbps USB 3.0 port.
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802.11ac will be faster, but how much faster really?
Six months from now, enterprise IT groups will be facing a big change for their Wi-Fi networks: the shift to 802.11ac, which promises wireless data rates that start at 433Mbps. But what's on paper and what happens in the real world are two different things.
Source: http://www.infoworld.com/d/networking/80211ac-will-be-faster-how-much-faster-really-202923
New Search Tool Brings Command-Line Power to GitHub
GitHub has launched a new, supercharged search tool with a command-line-style interface reminiscent of its Git namesake. The new tool means it's easy to navigate the popular code sharing website without ever lifting your fingers from the keyboard.
Source: http://www.webmonkey.com/2012/09/new-search-tool-brings-command-line-power-to-github/
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Microsoft hustles, patches IE to ward off increasing attacks
Microsoft today released an emergency patch for IE (Internet Explorer) to stymie active attacks that have been exploiting a bug in the browser, finishing a job it started only Monday. "Let's call it five days from advisory to patch," said Andrew Storms, director of security operations at nCircle Security. "I'd like to see anybody pull that off."
Source: http://www.infoworld.com/d/security/microsoft-hustles-patches-ie-ward-increasing-attacks-202951
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Salesforce.com links up with Facebook for targeted ad delivery
Salesforce.com customers interested in using the vendor's emerging family of marketing software could benefit from a new partnership it has formed with Facebook for targeted ad delivery. The companies announced the pact late Thursday during Salesforce.com's Dreamforce event in San Francisco.
Source: http://www.infoworld.com/d/applications/salesforcecom-links-facebook-targeted-ad-delivery-202929
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Saturday 22 September 2012
Mr. Monitor Goes to Washington, Kills Mutants
The Monitor is tackling a ton of stuff this week, ranging from the season premiere of Parks and Recreation to two great new albums to the highly anticipated Borderlands 2.
Source: http://www.wired.com/underwire/2012/09/monitor-parks-rec-borderlands-2/
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802.11ac will be faster, but how much faster really?
Six months from now, enterprise IT groups will be facing a big change for their Wi-Fi networks: the shift to 802.11ac, which promises wireless data rates that start at 433Mbps. But what's on paper and what happens in the real world are two different things.
Source: http://www.infoworld.com/d/networking/80211ac-will-be-faster-how-much-faster-really-202923
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Unpublished Photos of Steve Jobs and Silicon Valley’s Early Days Finally Surface
For days on end Menuez wandered the halls of companies like Apple, NeXT and Adobe, witnessing events that have become the lore of the digital world. He was able to capture images that told an in-depth story about the developing culture, dress code, work routines and technological innovations that now rule Silicon Valley.
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Video: Rob Zombie on His Haunted-Record Horror Flick, Lords of Salem
Rob Zombie is never clean. For years he made metal-rock that sounded so rough and gnarly it scared mothers across America. As a director, he's bringing the same down-and-dirty style to filmmaking.
Source: http://www.wired.com/underwire/2012/09/rob-zombie-lords-of-salem/
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Stunning Shots of Space Shuttle Endeavour‘s Final Flight
Over the last three days, the Space Shuttle Endeavour made its way from Kennedy Space Center in Florida to Los Angeles, where it will go on display at the California Science Center. Along the way, the space plane -- bolted to the top of a modified Boeing 747 -- hammed it up, treating cities and NASA centers across the southern United States to low-altitude flybys. Here is a sampling of some of the best images from the journey, from NASA escort jets and fans on the ground.
Source: http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2012/09/space-shuttle-endeavour-gallery/
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Introducing “The Half-Life of Facts”
My book The Half-Life of Facts, about the science behind how knowledge changes, is coming out next week and I am very excited about it! It brings together a number of different fields of science and mathematics to explore the regularities behind how what we know grows and changes as we improve our understanding of [...]
Source: http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2012/09/introducing-the-half-life-of-facts/
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Prepare for the era of the data center in a box
While several of the largest storage vendors, such as EMC, Hewlett-Packard and NetApp, have entered into agreements with server, software and networking vendors to offer bundled products, purpose-built products are just beginning to emerge.
For example, last year startup Nutanix unveiled a virtualized server that is clustered together with solid-state and hard drive storage, all of which can be managed under a single console view.
Mac virtualization face-off: VMware Fusion 5 vs. Parallels Desktop 8
It's a rare year that sees updates to both OS X and Windows, but 2012 marks such an occasion. About a month after Apple released OS X Mountain Lion and two weeks after Microsoft finalized Windows 8 (not shipping until Oct. 26 but available for download by developers and Microsoft partners) come updates to two products that bring the two OSes together.
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Friday 21 September 2012
Review: Google Compute Engine rocks the cloud
You're sitting around. You have some computing to do. Ten years ago, you would ask your boss to buy a rack or two of computers to churn through the data. Today, you just call up the cloud and rent the systems by the minute. This is the market that Google is now chasing by packaging up time on its racks of machines and calling it the Google Compute Engine.
HP aims three-part effort at network virtualization
Hewlett-Packard is readying three new software capabilities that are designed to help enterprises pool their computing and storage resources across a network.
The advances should make it easier for IT departments to link data centers spread around the world, shield multiple tenants' virtual machines from each other, and control storage from virtualized appliances.
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Servers: Ultimate Silicon Valley Perk: Custom Chips From Intel and AMD
Asked if Intel customizes microprocessors for its biggest customers, Diane Bryant said: "Yes." She didn't go into details, but her words shine a light on another part of the big-time chip business that's rarely discussed. There are cases where chip makers such as Intel and AMD will provide certain customers with chips that other may not have access to -- and this could become a key battleground as web giants such as Google and Facebook extend their efforts to redesign the hardware underpinning their massive web services.
Source: http://www.wired.com/wiredenterprise/2012/09/intel-amd-custom-chips/
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Aug. 14, 1901: Before the Wright Bros., There Was Gustave
We've been drinking it in with mother's milk for a century now: The first heavier-than-air manned flight was made by the Wright Brothers in 1903. Or was it? Does the name Gustave Whitehead ring a bell?
Source: http://www.wired.com/thisdayintech/2012/08/aug-14-1901-before-the-wright-bros-there-was-gustave/
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The top 7 new features in Microsoft's Lync Server 2013
Microsoft is at it again, preparing to roll out new versions of its suite of business servers. Last week, I detailed eight great new features in the forthcoming Exchange 2013. This week, I turn my attention to what's new in Lync Server 2013, Microsoft's collaboration and conferencing server.
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EMC rolls out Symmetrix disk library for mainframes
EMC Monday unveiled a high-capacity mainframe disk archive based on its flagship VMAX Symmetrix storage array.
The new DLm8000 Disk Library follows three earlier versions of "disk libraries" or disk archive arrays -- the DLm1000, DLm2000, and DLm6000. The earlier disk libraries were built using either EMC's Data Domain virtual tape library or its midrange VNX storage array.
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Aug. 7, 1991: Ladies and Gentlemen, the World Wide Web
Tim Berners-Lee makes his little research project available to the world, and the nature of human communications begins a transformation unseen since the advent of the printing press. Or television, anyway.
Source: http://www.wired.com/thisdayintech/2012/08/aug-7-1991-ladies-and-gentlemen-the-world-wide-web/
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Deathmatch: Windows 8 vs. OS X Mountain Lion
With the final version of Windows 8 now complete, how does Microsoft's great hope for reinventing itself for the post-PC world compare to Apple's new flagship? The short answer: not well.
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Thursday 20 September 2012
Study: America Will Be Overwhelmingly Obese by 2030
We’re a nation of fatties with rapidly expanding waistlines, and unless we start eating better and exercising a lot more, a majority of Americans will be obese by 2030. That troubling state of affairs could increase health care costs by as much as $66 billion.
Source: http://www.wired.com/playbook/2012/09/f-as-in-fat/
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July 24, 1959: Nixon, Khrushchev Have a Chat in the Kitchen
The two leaders stage an impromptu "kitchen debate," with each extolling the virtues and technological achievements of his respective ideology.
Source: http://www.wired.com/thisdayintech/2012/07/july-24-1959-nixon-khrushchev-have-a-chat-in-the-kitchen/
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New IE exploit variant used to distribute PlugX malware, researchers say
Researchers from security vendor AlienVault have identified a variant of a recently discovered Internet Explorer exploit that is used to infect targeted computers with the PlugX RAT (remote access Trojan) program.
VMware turns attention to small businesses with vSphere 5.1 Essentials Plus
Although most of the focus of VMworld 2012's Day 1 keynote two weeks ago was concentrated on the enterprise market, EMC VMware showed signs it's courting the small-business community as well, primarily with an updated version of vSphere 5.1 Essentials Plus.
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Paracanoeing Improves Stability, Balance in Wounded Athletes
The sport, which makes its Paralympic debut at the 2016 Summer Games, is growing in popularity as disabled athletes discover the physically and mentally restorative powers of rowing.
Source: http://www.wired.com/playbook/2012/09/paracanoe/
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Cloud: Heroku Heats Up Its Java Service
Heroku is what's known a platform cloud, and some people see platform clouds as little more than online service where developers tinker with software code. But Salesforce.com -- the company than now runs Heroku -- hopes to change that perception. On Wednesday, Saleforce launched a new version of the service that revamps the old pricing model and beefs up tools for building applications with the Java programming language, all with large enterprise customers in mind.
Source: http://www.wired.com/wiredenterprise/2012/09/heroku-enterprise-java/
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How Sports Would Be Better With Doping
A look at what it would mean for sports if we all accepted that doping is a routine occurrence and simply legalized it.
Source: http://www.wired.com/playbook/2012/09/sports-and-doping/
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Poisoning the (Female) Tourist in Asia
This summer, four young women set off on vacations in Southeast Asia. Here's what they had in common: They were all from North America; they were all in their 20s; they were all pretty, bright, adventurous. And one more commonality: They are all now dead.
Source: http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2012/09/poisoning-the-female-tourist-in-asia/
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Wednesday 19 September 2012
Developers blast Microsoft for limiting Windows Phone 8 Preview
Microsoft managed to rile up the Windows Phone developer community this week by announcing that the forthcoming Windows
Kindle Fire vs. iPad: The battle at home may hurt your iPad at work
While everyone's been speculating on whether Apple would release an "iPad Mini" (all but certain) for the holidays to compete with the well-liked Google/Asus Nexus 7 and the anemic Amazon.com Kindle Fire, Amazon.com has been working to reinvent and improve on the Kindle Fire.
July 10, 1962: Swedes Set to Belt Us All … Safely
Swedish engineer Nils Bohlin receives a U.S. patent for the three-point, lap-and-shoulder, vehicle safety belt.
Source: http://www.wired.com/thisdayintech/2012/07/july-10-1962-swedes-set-to-belt-us-all-safely/
Battle lines drawn in the war on Java
While organizers of the JavaOne conference seem oblivious, there's a crescendo of complaints and near-universal agreement among security researchers that the Java Runtime Environment is full of holes and Oracle's attempts to shore it up have been ineffective.
Good Technology kicks the BlackBerry when it's down
Oh, the irony. IT shops that have stalwartly defended the BlackBerry platform despite business users' demand for iOS and other mobile platforms seem to be suddenly losing faith that Research in Motion will be around in a year. The fear is strong enough that Good Technology, one of the major mobile management vendors, today announced a rapid-conversion service for companies that want to get rid of BlackBerrys in six months or less.
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Blackhole exploit kit gets upgraded to evade antivirus software
The creators of the infamous Blackhole exploit kit have announced version 2.0 of the malware, claiming to have rewritten the code entirely from scratch so as to evade popular antivirus software.
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The BlackBerry 10 and BES confusion untangled
If Research in Motion ships its reinvented BlackBerry devices by April 2013 as currently promised, IT will face a big decision: whether to support the new BlackBerry 10 platform, which requires an entirely new management server than the BlackBerry Enterprise Server (BES) that has been part of IT ships for well over a decade.
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