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Man held on NI computer hack claims

A 52-year-old man is being questioned by detectives investigating claims that private investigators working for News International were involved in computer hacking.

IBM opens 3 new offices in India

New Delhi, Nov 23 (UNI) IT giant IBM today announced the opening of three regional offices in India at Dehradun, Guwahati and Raipur as part of the company’s

Stand By For Big Bounce In IBM

What is especially interesting about the relentless sell-off in IBM is the fact that the stock was rallying to near 52-week highs just a week ago. In fact, IBM has sold-off every single session since that

Cisco Expands Videoscape with BNI Video Acquisition for $99M

Cisco, the world’s networking giant, has finally agreed to buy BNI Video in a $99M all-cash deal. This acquisition is one of the serial purchases that Cisco has made in the past few days, in order to bolster its Videoscape … Continue reading → Cisco…

Inside Google’s Ice Cream Sandwich phones, tablets

Google’s new mobile operating system will run on snappy new silicon, and the first chip out of the gate is a Texas Instruments’ dual-core 4460 processor. Originally posted at Nanotech – The Circuits Blog

Virus infection expands on mobile terminals

China’s computer virus infection ratio declined for the third consecutive year in 2010, although viruses continue to expand rapidly among various mobile terminals, said sources with the National Computer

BlackBerry BBX operating system may tread on trademarks

Less than a week after it announced plans for a new platform called BBX for its smartphones and tablet, Research In Motion is facing the threat of legal action from a software company that claims that BBx is

Ballmer on not buying Yahoo: 'Sometimes you're lucky' | Microsoft …

Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer told the crowd how happy he was that he failed to buy Yahoo in 2008. Read this blog post by Paul Sloan on Microsoft .

News: Microsoft and Silver Lake among the Suitors Lining Up to Buy …

News : Microsoft and Silver Lake among the Suitors Lining Up to Buy Yahoo. October 21, 2011. Private equity, pension plans and public companies are in talks to buy internet giant Yahoo. By

Microsoft’s Ballmer Ribs Android, Praises "Beautiful" iPhone

“You … need to be a computer scientist to use… an Android phone” — Steve Ballmer

Apple Earnings Miss Can’t Mask Growth

Investors are shocked, but the bottom line is the same: The iPhone 4S is flying off the shelves, margins are huge, the company is sitting on…

Soft PC sales likely to hold back Microsoft profit

SEATTLE (Reuters) – Microsoft Corp looks set to report flat or lower demand for its flagship Windows product on Thursday, a victim of limp personal computer sales, casting a shadow over otherwise strong earnings in a troubled global economy.

Dell Looks in Mirror, Sees Hip Silicon Valley Startup

Dell is doing its best to turn itself into a hip Silicon Valley cloud startup.

New Mac Trojan disables Apple’s automatic malware updates

F-Secure has reported on a new, scarier-than-usual Mac Trojan horse. The good news is that you can only get infected if you double-click on a rogue file masquerading as a …

Microsoft ‘consortium’ considers bid for Yahoo

Microsoft and private investors are assembling a multi-billion-dollar offer to purchase Yahoo!, the Wall Street Journal reported on Thursday.

IBM introduce preconfigured analytics servers

IBM on Wednesday introduced mainframe and Power-based systems for analytics in an effort to compete with Oracle’s Exadata.

Mercury Federal Systems Delivers Onboard Real-time Processing Technology for USAF Gorgon Stare Surveillance System

CHELMSFORD, Mass. | Mercury Computer Systems, Inc., a trusted provider of commercially developed application-ready ISR subsystems, announced that its Mercury Federal Systems subsidiary is part of…

Juniper Networks Powers New Gates and Hillman Centers at Carnegie Mellon University

EX Series Switches Deliver Customer Savings of 15 Percent in Capital Expenditures, 60 Percent in Floor Space, and 70 Percent in Power

Sweet innovation for citrus fruits

Researchers in Spain have developed sophisticated machines to sort citrus fruit before they reach consumers. The prototypes can detect and separate rotten oranges, and can classify mandarin …

Apple closes shops in Jobs’ memory

Computer firm Apple will close its shops while it holds a memorial service for employees to celebrate the life of company co-founder and former chief executive Steve Jobs.

Computer classes at B Street Center helping community

Eunice Burch, left, gets some help from instructor Evelyn Lewis in using computers at the B Street Community Center in Lake Wales. Monday, October 3, 2011

Computer Backup Company Uses Affinnova’s Technology to Advance its Advertising Strategy

Affinnova, Inc., the global leader in marketing innovation software and services, announced that Carbonite, Inc., a Boston-based provider of online computer backup and recovery services,

American Writers & Artists Inc. Announces Breakthrough Program for Landing Lucrative Clients as a Freelance Writer

American Writers & Artists Inc. announces it’s newest program, where the program’s creator, bestselling author and marketing consultant Winton Churchill, reveals his system for using global job and …

First-time employer revs up ISM placement

This year, authorities at the cradle hope that all 807 students across different courses would bag jobs.

Computer Science Professor Andreas Zeller receives Europes most prestigious research award

Andreas Zeller, professor for software engineering at Saarland University in Germany has obtained an ERC Advanced Grant, the highest research award of the European Union. The funding will comprise of up to 2.3 million EUR over the next five years.

IBM earnings up but stock slides on sales miss

IBM reported a 7% increase in earnings for the third quarter Monday, but shares fell after hours as the tech giant’s sales just barely missed forecasts.

On the Call: IBM finance chief on business levers

When IBM Corp. reported third-quarter revenue Monday that slightly missed analyst forecasts, many questions on a conference call with analysts turned to macroeconomic concerns. While IBM handily beat the earnings per share forecast, and raised its full-year profit guidance, fears about a possible spending slowdown…

Gazette.Net: Team from Montgomery Blair receives award at World Maker Faire

Students from the Montgomery Blair High School Science, Mathematics, and Computer Science Magnet Program were awarded MAKE Magazine’s Editor’s Choice Award at the World Maker Faire.

Microsoft gears up for Novell antitrust suit

Bill Gates is expected to take the witness stand in a forthcoming lawsuit brought by Novell, which claims that Microsoft violated antitrust laws ( ZDNet UK – Compliance )

Cloud computing contract with ties to Microsoft and Google needs changes, GAO says

A proxy battle between Google and Microsoft in their ongoing war to provide lucrative cloud computing services to the federal government appears to have resulted in a decision favoring Microsoft. The General Services Administration , which is spearheading a contract program to help federal agencies use …

Discover Card Brings Back One-Time Use Credit Card Numbers [In Brief] (Gawker)

Discover Card Brings Back One-Time Use Credit Card Numbers [In Brief] (Gawker)

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No, Really: Cisco, HP Partner For Data Center Integration

Cisco and HP collaborated on a “Fabric Extender” that will make it easier for customers to use Cisco Nexus products with their HP BladeSystem C-series infrastructure

Switching to Windows

Over the last month I’ve done the opposite of many computer users. I’ve switched from a Mac to a PC. Sure, it’s not the coolest thing to be doing – at least if I pay…

Looking forward: energy efficiency from the computer to the cloud

Last month MIT’s Technology Review reported on a new development that the energy efficiency of computers doubles roughly every two months: [More]

Fast-food biz whiz beat cancer — and Bill Clinton in TV clash

Herman Cain went to Purdue University for a master’s degree in computer science for one reason — his boss said the program was too hard for him. That bold move, detailed in his autobiography, was just one of a lifetime of challenges for

Computer science students build mobile site for major online startup

Six Washington University students are working to design a mobile website for FindTheBest, a search engine that helps more than 2 million consumers compare online deals every month. FindTheBest gathers data for a wide range of products and services and…

Dell technology, support help Team Lotus blossom

Dell technology, support help Team Lotus blossom

First State threatens customer with vulnerability repair bill

Superannuation fund demands to access security researcher’s computer.

BLOG: Cloud computing – Why semantics matter

In earlier posts, I have written about how the term, private cloud, offers little value and is arguably a term that is used by legacy IT suppliers to exploit concerns about their customers migrating computing resources to the (public) cloud. Is the private cloud simply a

Deadline for RI student cyber competition looming

The Associated Press The Associated Press WARWICK, R.I. The deadline for the Rhode Island Cyber Foundations Competition is approaching. The last day for high school students to enroll in the contest …

Table salt used to boost digital storage: scientists

Scientists in Singapore said Friday they have discovered a process that can expand the data storage capacity of computer hard disks six-fold using a common kitchen ingredient — table salt.

Computer games, Facebook can trigger ‘dementia’ in kids

London, Oct 14 (ANI): A leading neuroscientist has cautioned that overuse of technology, like computer games and Facebook, is extremely dangerous for kids and may lead to temporary

Dell Shifting Focus to Work-and-play Tablets, Smartphones

After achieving “moderate success” selling smartphones and tablets to consumers, Dell will shift its focus to devices that straddle both work and play, a company…

Air Force denies that computer virus compromised drone aircraft

Concerns last week that combat drone aircraft were compromised by a computer virus were dismissed by the U.S. Air Force.

Dennis Ritchie dies at 70; computer scientist helped develop Unix

Dennis Ritchie also helped write the popular C programming language. Dennis Ritchie, a computer scientist who wrote the popular C programming language and helped develop the Unix operating system, has died. He was 70.

Microsoft completes Skype acquisition for $8.5B

After months of negotiations, software giant Microsoft finally completed its $8.5-billion acquisition of videoconferencing juggernaut Skype this week.

IBM to sell global data migration engine, NAS/iSCSI SAN

ORLANDO – IBM next week plans to unveil software that will allow data to be automatically migrated between storage tiers on an array and between arrays — no matter where they are in

IBM expands SmartCloud offerings to help with migration, private clouds

IBM has expanded its SmartCloud services, giving customers more tools to migrate their existing processes and data onto IBM’s PaaS (platform-as-a-service) offerings, or…

Experimental Mathematics: Computing Power Leads to Insights

In their article “Exploratory Experimentation and Computation”, to appear in the November 2011 issue of the Notices of the American Mathematical Society, David H. Bailey and

HP expands lead in PC shipments, Apple gains in U.S.

HP increases its share of global PC shipments in the third quarter, while Lenovo surges into the No. 2 spot for the first time–at Dell’s expense.

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