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- AMD shares suspended after revenue warning
- Polite malware updates your computer
- Submerge your supercomputer in liquid
- Greek Geeks flee economic Thermopylae
- Samsung sings the blues
- Tablets to sort Scots wolves from English sheep
- LG claims breakthrough on lightweight displays
- Samsung beats rivals in reputation stakes
- More Pepper robots are on the way
- Server memory prices set to change
| AMD shares suspended after revenue warning Posted: 07 Jul 2015 01:45 AM PDT
The company said in a statement that it now thinks revenues for its second quarter – which are declared formally on 16th July – will be down eight percent. It had previously expected its revenues to fall by three percent. The reason for the shortfall is being blamed on "weaker than expected consumer PC demand" which has affected sales of its application processor units because its original equipment manufacturing customers aren't buying enough kit. The shares were briefly suspended but after trading was re-started, its stocks were being traded at $2.47. Intel also announces quarterly earnings in mid July. |
| Polite malware updates your computer Posted: 07 Jul 2015 01:38 AM PDT
The Kovter ad fraud Trojan, infects computers through Web-based exploits, but its behaviour was recently observed by a malware researcher called Kafeine. Kovter hijacks the browser process and uses it to simulate user clicks on online advertisements in order to generate revenue for its creators. According to Kafeine's research, the Trojan targets vulnerabilities in browsers and Flash Player, Adobe Reader, Java and Silverlight plug-ins. Once it is installed it closes the door behind it by upgrading the software. It isn't the first time a malware program patched the flaws it used to get in. However, such cases are rare because malware writers normally want to leave as many backdoors as possible. In this case the malware writer is shutting out rivals, making the Trojan the dominant species. |
| Submerge your supercomputer in liquid Posted: 07 Jul 2015 01:37 AM PDT
The Vienna Science Cluster uses immersion cooling which involves putting SuperMicro servers into a dielectric fluid similar to mineral oil. The servers are slid vertically into slots in the tank, which is filled with 250 gallons of ElectroSafe fluid, which transfers heat almost as well as water but doesn't conduct an electric charge. The Vienna Science Cluster 3 system has a mechanical Power Usage Effectiveness rating of just 1.02, meaning the cooling system overhead is just 2 percent of the energy delivered to the system. This means that 600 teraflops of computing power uses just 540 kilowatts of power and 1,000 square feet of space. Christiaan Best, CEO and founder of Green Revolution Cooling, which designed the immersion cooling system. "It is particularly impressive given that it uses zero water. We believe this is a first in the industry." Most data centres cool IT equipment using air, while liquid cooling has been used primarily in high-performance computing (HPC). But cloud computing and "big data," could make liquid cooling relevant for a larger pool of data centre operators. The Vienna design combines a water-less approach with immersion cooling, which has proven effective for cooling high-density server configurations, including high-performance computing clusters for academic computing, and seismic imaging for energy companies. |
| Greek Geeks flee economic Thermopylae Posted: 07 Jul 2015 01:35 AM PDT
According to ZDNET they are headed away from their homeland and into other countries which can actually pay them. One developer said that in the last three years, almost 80 percent of his friends, mostly developers, left Greece. From a developer’s perspective, the choice is simple one: an experienced Java or a C++ specialist can earn up to three times their Greek salary and will be paid according to what their contract states rather than what suits the employer. An Endeavour study estimates that 200,000 Greeks below the age of 35 have left the country between 2010 and 2013. Most of them are “highly educated and skilled,” the report says, with medical, finance, and ICT among the sectors seeing the biggest brain drains. They are leaving behind only those IT professionals who have families with children, need to take care of their aging parents, or they simply haven’t got the chance to leave the country. Half of those that have already left the country don’t plan on returning in the near future, a study conducted by ICAP Group involving over 1,300 Greeks working abroad found. The reasons being cited for leaving is the lack of meritocracy and the corruption in the country, mentioned by 37 percent of those interviewed for the ICAP study. Second is the absence of suitable jobs (35 percent): Others quote the economic crisis and the need to seek better development prospects (each mentioned by 33 percent of respondents). Meanwhile it is set to get worse. Seven out of ten university graduates in Greece would like to work abroad, while one in ten is actively seeking a job overseas or plans to continue their education there, thinking that they’ll have access to other job markets, a Kapa Research study showed. Most Greek IT professionals who decide to build their future somewhere else pick European countries such as the UK, Germany, the Netherlands, and Switzerland. Others look farther afield, to the US or even Australia. |
| Posted: 07 Jul 2015 01:34 AM PDT
This was caused by a supply shortage which gutted the sales of its latest smartphone. There was also weak demand from key markets. This suggests that Samsung will struggle to replicate the growth it recorded at the turn of the decade as smartphone competition intensifies and demand softens in China and Europe. Operating profit for the second quarter is predicted to fall four percent from a year earlier to $6.13 billion, Samsung said in a filing, its best profit in four quarters but also the seventh straight period of annual decline. Revenue for the quarter is expected to fall 8.3 percent from a year earlier to $48 million, well below the $53.4 million average analyst forecast and the fifth consecutive quarter of annual decline. Samsung’s annual profit is expected to rebound this year from a three-year low in 2014, but its shares have languished in recent months amid doubts about sales of its new Galaxy S6 smartphones. A failure to make enough curved-screen S6 edge models to meet demand likely hurt mobile-related earnings, analysts believe. |
| Tablets to sort Scots wolves from English sheep Posted: 07 Jul 2015 01:30 AM PDT
Chris Grayling, leader of the House of Commons, said the Tory party is a "passionate supporter of the Union" of England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. As there are 50-odd Scottish Nationalist Party (SNP) members in the Commons, and sundry other MPs from the other two countries, the logistical matter of separating the Scottish, Welsh and Irish wolves from the English sheep is a bit of a problem. The Tory party only has one MP in Scotland after the SNP staged a landslide victory which swept away nearly all Labout MPs as well as Liberal Democrats. Currently, when MPs vote they file through two lobbies – one for yes and one for no – and are counted by human tellers. But in a move which will propel MPs from Gladstone’s days into the 21st century, the Clerks have come up with a new system of telling using tablet computers to account for the differences in nationalities. The tablets, said Grayling, will "give the Tellers an immediate tally of whether a measure has a majority of English MPs". He did not say which brand of tablets will be used, but the method won't apply to the House of Lords because, well, it just won't. Grayling's plans were picked up by Pete Wishart, the shadow SNP leader of the House of Commons. He said: "What a lot of constitutional bilge and unworkable garbage!" He said the plans will create two classes of members of parliament. "We would do as well to stamp the foreheads of Scottish MPs before they go into the Lobby, and I thought that the Leader of the House was quite close to suggesting or proposing it." Grayling said: "The honourable Gentleman seems a tad on the exercised side". |
| LG claims breakthrough on lightweight displays Posted: 06 Jul 2015 07:33 AM PDT
The technology, called Advanced In-Cell Touch (AIT) uses a touch sensor inside the LCD panel itself, rather than as an add on on the top of a notebook display. These type of panels are already in use in some smartphones, including the LG G4s but the company said it is the first time they will be produced for notebook PCs. The panel's thickness has been reduced by a millimetre and its weight by 200 grams, compared to ordinary 15.6 inch touch embedded panels with Full HD. LG also claims that it will offer a brighter and clearer screen picture. The company claims it has already signed contracts with a number of global notebook PC manufacturers in 14-inch and 15.6-inch sizes, but it declined to say which customers had signed on the dotted line. LG said that in 2014 10 percent of notebook PCs were touch sensitive, a figure that is expected to rise to 20 percent in 2016 and 30 percent in 2019. |
| Samsung beats rivals in reputation stakes Posted: 06 Jul 2015 07:20 AM PDT
Samsung held number 28 position in the Reputation Institute's 2015 study, with other big technology names way down the list. Sony and Nikon hold positions 37 and 38, while HP only makes it to 44 and Microsoft ro 46. Google comes well down the list at number 50, while SAP at number 85 pops Intel way down the list at number 87. If you divide the reputation list by sector, Apple is number 21 out of 25. The list measures corporate reputation, defined as social responsibility, having a nice place to work, and product and service excellence. The figures are based on a survey of 50,000 people. |
| More Pepper robots are on the way Posted: 06 Jul 2015 06:55 AM PDT
Japanese giant Softbank and Taiwanese manufacturer Hon Hai are preparing another batch for release in Japan at the end of this month. When the 28KG Pepper robot was released first on June 20th, it immediately sold out. Only 1,000 Peppers can be manufactured a month and they are not cheap at over $1,500 – the big obstacle has been lack of apps for the device but now there are as many as 200 available. Softbank is also renting Pepper robots for companies to peddle their goods. Softbank is developing additional abilities for Pepper including 12 hours of battery life and collision detection censors. Pepper can trundle along at three kilometres per hour, and so you don't have to feel anxious if you let your magic Pepper tortoise go. |
| Server memory prices set to change Posted: 06 Jul 2015 06:24 AM PDT
But, according to market research company Trendforce, although that glut was caused because of general weakness in the notebook sector, sales of servers are very healthy. Google, Facebook, Amazon and Microsoft have all boosted demand in the server market, so pries of memory for this sector remained comparatively strong. But growth in the server market is beginning to slow down, according to Trendforce, and a price gap between DDR4 and DDR3 memory is narrowing. The analysts said that the averprice of DDR R-DIMMs fell between seven bu ine price but compared to DDR4, that's nothing. Prices of this modules have fallen by close to 20 percent. DDR4 will be the predominant memory product for servers by the fourth quarter of this year. Trendforce thinks that demand will be stimulated later on this year because Intel is promoting new server processors later this year. Many anticipated that data centres would revive the marketplace for servers but it appears that uncertainty about the global economic situation will slow down growth for the rest of this year. |
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