Monday, January 12, 2015

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Scientists grab photons on silicon chips

Posted: 12 Jan 2015 04:26 AM PST

MIT building - Wikimedia CommonsResearchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) claim to have built light detectors that can register individual photons on a silicon chip. The MIT team said they have increased the accuracy of the detectors and transferred those that work to an optical semiconductor. more»

Worldwide IT spending still to grow

Posted: 12 Jan 2015 04:14 AM PST

Pic Mike MageeIT spending worldwide will reach $3.8 trillion 2015 – that's up 2.4 percent from last year. But market intelligence company Gartner has warned that its earlier prediction of 3.9 percent will be affected by the rise in the price of the US dollar as well as conservative sentiment about services and devices. more»

GloFo takes aim at China

Posted: 12 Jan 2015 04:03 AM PST

renesas-chips (1)Abu Dhabi foundry company Global Foundries (GloFo) is seeking to make more partnerships in mainland China. GloFo, which was spun off by Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) some years ago, recently bought IBM's foundry business, along with a large number of patents for $1.5 billion. more»

Broadband essential to SMEs

Posted: 12 Jan 2015 03:51 AM PST

oldphoneA survey has revealed that Britain's small to medium enterprises (SMEs) still have worries about growing their businesses in 2015. The survey, commissioned by TalkTalk Business, asked 1,000 British small businesses how optimistic they are about revenues and growth this year. more»

QNAP brings AMD NAS to market

Posted: 12 Jan 2015 03:39 AM PST

QNAP-tvs873-frontFor a while now AMD has been largely ignored by the makers of NAS x86 gear – who have tended to favour Intel or, more lately,  ARM.

QNAP has become the first vendor to bring an AMD-based x86 NAS to the market and was showing off its wares at CES over the weekend. more»

EMC warns of the perils of masses of small data

Posted: 12 Jan 2015 03:38 AM PST

zxzzzzd1Guy Churchward, head of EMC’s $20-billion core technologies division, has warned that small data is going to cause even bigger headaches than the big stuff.

Taking to the Economic Times  Churchward said that data challenges for the Internet of Things or driverless cars were huge,

He said that millions of driverless cars, and billions of other internetconnected devices will not be Big Data. more»

Big Content forces Chilling Effects to self-censor

Posted: 12 Jan 2015 01:49 AM PST

 seal_3Big Content has pressured the Chilling Effects DMCA archive to censor itself, just as the world is starting to see those who stand up to censorship as heros.

The organisation decided to wipe its presence from all popular search engines to prevent it being sued by copyright holders. more»

Ellison is up to something with Kurian

Posted: 12 Jan 2015 01:48 AM PST

 Larry EllisonThe appointment of Safra Catz and Mark Hurd as co-CEOs at Oracle made considerable sense to Wall Street, but sources in the database firm were surprised that Thomas Kurian did not come out of it as well as they expected.

This indicates that Chairman Larry Ellision is up to something. more»

AMD shuns the Internet of Things

Posted: 12 Jan 2015 01:46 AM PST

1-AMD-s-New-Steamroller-Architecture-to-Bring-Significant-PerformanceWhile Intel is pinning its future on the Internet of Things (IoT), AMD appears to be spurning it as if it were a rabid dog.

Its senior vice president and general manager of the computing and graphics business group John Byrne thinks that it is much wiser to keep pushing into the PC market, which is still a $40-billion-a-year opportunity. more»

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