16th April 2011 Archive

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• Feds indict poker sites, seize domains

  Bank fraud, illegal gambling, money laundering charges

  The founders of three of the internet's largest gambling sites have been indicted and charged with bank fraud, money laundering and illegal gambling offenses by US authorities. Eleven individuals have been charged in total by the US Department of Justice with running operations that violated the Unlawful Internet Gambling …

  Crime 16 Apr 01:16

• Arcam FMJ AVR400 AV receiver

  Review Brit audio dynamite

  A new AV receiver from British stalwart Arcam is always worthy of note, as the brand has an enviable reputation for creating audio electronics that are uniquely musical. Musical box: Arcam's FMJ AVR400 An Arcam amp, be it a seven-channel monster like the FMJ AVR400 reviewed here, or one of the brand’s lauded two-channel …

  reghardware 16 Apr 07:00

• How to find the next Google. Or at least a free taco

  A wild night of daring demos, goofy games, dashed dreams

  Outside a nondescript warehouse under a San Francisco freeway was a roach coach serving free tacos to an assembled mass of geeks, entrepreneurs, and dressed-down corporate types, all of whom were hoping that in the next few hours they'd witness the unveiling of the next Facebook or Google or Skype. This is SF New Tech, billed …

  Developer 16 Apr 08:00

• Servers, networks and storage sold as monoblocs

  Stack those racks

  Building a data centre has traditionally been a long process, with one of the major tasks being to equip it with computing devices. Specifying these, testing the various configurations and ensuring that they meet the specifications and perform the required tasks is time-consuming. It was a lot easier in the days of the …

  Data Centre 16 Apr 12:00

• Server vendors and the dead hand of commoditisation

  Comment They didn't invent PCIe flash. Why not? 

  The leading server vendors have known about the inhibiting effect of slow disk drive performance on their users for years, yet have done nothing about it. It's been left to companies like Fusion-io and Virident to solve that problem by inventing and popularising PCIe flash. The problem is well known. When users run …

  Blocks and Files 16 Apr 14:00