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3rd January 2011 Archive

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  • Pre-holiday chip sales go flat

    Ho ho slow

    Global semiconductor sales as the world entered the 2010 holiday season, according to new data released by the Semiconductor Industry Association. The softening in revenues across all types of chips was inevitable given the massive recovery that the business had in 2010 in the wake of the Great Recession. Don't get the wrong …

    The Channel 3 Jan 2011, 16:02

  • EMC to open Israeli R&D center

    Beersheva boost

    EMC will set up a new Research and Development center in Israel. According to a report from Globes, the system giant will announce the new Beersheva-based facility in a few weeks. EMC already has an Israeli presence. It operates R&D facilities in Netanya, Herzliya, and Ramat Gan. These arrived with its 2006 acquisition of …

    The Channel 3 Jan 2011, 17:25

  • Intel aims flash at tablets, netbooks

    Comment Shrunken X25-V gets m-SATA treatment

    Intel has implemented its X18-M and X25-V flash products in a tablet and netbook form factor with the m-SATA SSD 310 line. The 40GB 310 has exactly the same I/O performance as Intel's 40GB X25-V with 25,000 random read IOPS, 2,500 random-write IOPS, and 170MB/s sequential-read and 35MB/s sequential-write speeds. Its 80GB …

    Storage 3 Jan 2011, 18:59

  • IE 0day accidentally leaked to Chinese hackers

    Oops

    Details concerning a potentially serious security vulnerability in fully patched versions of Microsoft's Internet Explorer have been leaked to people in China, a researcher warned over the weekend. Michal Zalewski, a security researcher at Google, blogged that data concerning at least one “clearly exploitable crash” in the …

    Security 3 Jan 2011, 19:34

  • Novell's Microsoft patent sale referred to regulators

    Open sourcers fear patent attacks

    Open sourcers have asked German authorities to probe a Microsoft-backed purchase of hundreds of patents owned by Novell as part of that company's purchase by Attachmate. The Open Source Initiative (OSI) has written to the German Federal Cartel Office saying that the purchase of 882 patents for $450m by never-heard-of-before …

    Developer 3 Jan 2011, 20:27

  • Germans pick Xeon over Power for three-petaflops super

    Big Blue licks Bavarian HPC cream

    The Partnership for Advanced Computing in Europe (PRACE), which is upgrading its pan-European supercomputing facilities across a number of large HPC labs, has announced that it has commissioned IBM to build a 3-petaflops massively parallel super using the company's iDataPlex blade-rack hybrid machines and the next-generation of …

    HPC 3 Jan 2011, 21:56

  • Sirius to top $1bn in sales with MSI Systems acquisition

    Big in the midrange

    The rate at which private equity firms are gathering cheap money to make acquisitions combined with an IT industry consolidating on many fronts can make you dizzy. That's why it's not much of a surprise that Sirius Computer Solutions has acquired MSI Systems Integrators for an undisclosed sum. Both are among the largest players …

    The Channel 3 Jan 2011, 22:16

  • Cellphone snooping now easier and cheaper than ever

    Breaking GSM for $650

    Cryptographers have devised a low-cost way to intercept phone calls and text messages sent over the majority of the world's mobile networks. The attack, which requires four $15 Motorola handsets, a medium-end computer and a 2TB hard drive, was demonstrated last week at the 27th annual Chaos Communication Congress in Berlin. It …

    Security 3 Jan 2011, 22:20