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- GlobalFoundries becomes an IBM supplier
- Gigaclear scores the Battle of Epping Forest
- Safari gets terrible write up
- Smut drives smartphone market
- China strengthens its firewall
- UK minister gets his IT head round a Mars Bar
- Intel gets its 4G knickers in a twist
| GlobalFoundries becomes an IBM supplier Posted: 01 Jul 2015 03:43 AM PDT
And today IBM announced that that would mean to its future business. GloFo will become IBM's exclusive semiconductor supplier for the next 10 years – so it will make its POWER chips that go into Big Blue servers. It's not the end of the story for IBM semiconductor engineers, however. IBM Research will carry on doing semiconductor and material science and that will help the company to continue selling mainframes, storage and POWER systems to aid it in its push into cloud, big data and analytics systems. IBM said that its semiconductor and material research has delivered important technology including copper chips, silicon germanium and quantum computing. It's good news for GloFo. The Abu Dhabi based company, which acts as a foundry to produce semiconductors for its customers, also gains access to leading IBM technology, including its state-of-the-art fabrication plant (fab) in New York State. |
| Gigaclear scores the Battle of Epping Forest Posted: 01 Jul 2015 03:36 AM PDT
The Essex project will cost £7.5 million and is part of a deal signed with Superfast Essex, Essex Council's Broadband Delivery UK (BDUK) programme. Superfast Essex wants to connect 65,000 properties at a cost of £24.6m during the first phase of the scheme. So far it has managed over half this with a year left to run. Phase 2a was won by BT which will add 51,000 properties at a cost of £18.9m and will begin in 2016. Gigaclear won Phase 2b which was a pilot programme aimed at filling gaps that BT could not reach. Gigaclear has accepted state aid before. In Essex it will invest £2 for every £1 of government money, contributing a total of £5.5m. It expects to start digging in October and aims to have its first customers in some of the hardest to reach communities in Epping Forest live before Christmas. |
| Posted: 01 Jul 2015 03:15 AM PDT
Security expert and developer Noland Lawson has named and shamed Apple's Safari as the worst browser in terms of, well everything really. Lawson said that there is a general feeling among web developers that Safari is lagging behind the other browsers. "When you go to a conference like EdgeConf, it really strikes you just how wide the gap is. Apple has shown no public interest in any of the important APIs," he said. "When Apple does implement newer APIs, they often do it halfheartedly. For example, IndexedDB was proposed more than five years ago and has been available in IE, Firefox, and Chrome since 2012.” Apple, on the other hand, didn't release IndexedDB until mid-2014, and when they did, they unveiled a bafflingly incompetent implementation that was so bad, it's been universally derided as unusable. A year later Apple has fixed a two bugs in IndexedDB (out of several), and they've publicly stated that they don't find much value in working on it, because they don't see "a huge use" This is probably because Apple has broken it so badly no one in their right mind would use it, Lawson muttered. Apple never sends anyone to web conferences, their Surfin' Safari blog is a shadow of its former self, and nobody knows what the next version of Safari will contain until that year's WWDC. "Apple is like Santa Claus, descending yearly to give us some much-anticipated presents, with no forewarning about which of our wishes he'll grant this year. And frankly, the presents have been getting smaller and smaller lately," Lawson said. |
| Posted: 01 Jul 2015 03:13 AM PDT
New research from Juniper Research beancounters claims that the average smartphone owners will watch a staggering 348 adult videos on his or her mobile phone in 2015. This huge figure means that if you have never seen online adult content there is one person who is collecting your share. In other words 136 billion adult videos watched on smartphones in the next year alone. That is a lot of people with too much er time on the hands. And that number is set to increase by 55per cent over the next five years. Juniper's report claims that while there will be a marked increase in usage levels in developing markets, net growth will be greatest in the US. More mature markets, such as Western Europe, are seeing a more modest increase. “In developing regions, service uptake will be rapid, driven by increasing availability of 4G and Wi-Fi, as well as increases in smartphone and tablet ownership.” The report with the catchy title "Digital Adult Content: Market Trends, Forecasts & Revenue Opportunities 2015-2020, claims revenue for the adult industry will also increase steadily over the next five years. |
| China strengthens its firewall Posted: 01 Jul 2015 03:11 AM PDT
Under the law, passed by the standing committee of the National People’s Congress (NPC), all key network infrastructure and information systems will be made “secure and controllable”. Foreign businesses and diplomats have argued that the law is vague and fear it could require that technology firms make products in China or use source code released to inspectors, forcing them to expose intellectual property. Zheng Shuna, vice chairwoman of the Legislative Affairs Commission of the NPC standing committee, downplayed those concerns said that the country will continue to follow the path of peaceful development but we absolutely will not give up our legitimate rights and absolutely will not sacrifice the country’s core interests. So that is alright then. The national security law is part of a raft of government legislation which have followed in the wake of the news that US spooks implanted snooping code under the bonnet of US tech. |
| UK minister gets his IT head round a Mars Bar Posted: 01 Jul 2015 03:08 AM PDT
And he said the impact of IT on the UK economy is a bit like a Mars Bars, which helps you "work, rest and play". He said the government wants to make it easier for people to shop online, and across borders too and to scrap unnecessary burdens which stop businesses and start ups from doing business throughout the European Union. He claimed so-called superfast broadband is now available to over 80 percent of homes and businesses in the UK and that the government has dished out over 25,000 broadband vouchers to small and medium enterprises (SMEs) across Brtain. He said British companies earn one in every £5 from the internet and that data driven firms are 40 percent more likely to introduce products and services than their rivals. But 90 percent of large companies and 73 percent of smaller companies had an IT breach of security last year. Those supplying the government now need to hold a Cyber Essentials certificate. He claimed the digital sector is a UK success story and employs over 1.3 million people. But the UK needs a million new people working on digital stuff within the next 10 years. |
| Intel gets its 4G knickers in a twist Posted: 30 Jun 2015 06:03 AM PDT
Apparently, according to Digitimes Research, the design of the chip is ready and could be rolled out in vast quantities tomorrow. But there's problems with the software, it appears. That means, according to the report, that Intel will have to rely on its SoFIA 3G chips to satisfy its rather few mobile customers that choose the chip giant as a supplier. And there's more trouble on the horizon, the analysts suggest. The SoFIA 4G chip will be built using a 28 namometre process and if it is true that it is delayed until next year, that may well put a spanner in the works for a 14 nanometre application processor that was planned for next year. Intel has at least two big problems on the mobile front. The first is that handset vendors, despite subsidies, aren't that willing to be in the gentle hands of the behemoth. The second is that the chips it does make for the mobile market are way too pricey, probably because, above all, Intel is a manufacturing company with the concomitant high costs. You can find more about this, here. |
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