19th June 2011 Archive

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• Xeon E7 servers run with the big dogs

  Deep Dive Gives chase to RISC and Itanium foxes

  Intel has come a long way in the server racket, and the new "Westmere-EX" Xeon E7 processor, launched in April and making its way into systems now, is arguably its most sophisticated processor for servers to date. The Xeon E7 processors cram ten cores onto a single die, but the Xeon E7 design is a bit more than taking an eight …

  Enterprise Tech 19 Jun 11:00

• US Senators pen Act to ban location-based stalking

  Watching the watchers

  Two US senators have filed a new Act called the Location Privacy Protection Act, which would require stricter controls and more transparency for all cellular companies that collect location data. The Bill, brought by Senator Al Franken and co-sponsored by Senator Richard Blumenthal would make it illegal to divulge location …

  Mobile 19 Jun 16:00

• Bitcoin collapses on malicious trade

  Mt Gox scrambling to raise the Titanic

  The fragility of the Bitcoin peer-to-peer crypto-currency has been thrown into sharp relief when a large sell transaction sent the trade value of Bitcoins to zero. According to the Mt Gox exchange, the sell order came from a compromised account. Mt Gox has taken its exchange offline (however, a screen grab of Bitcoins’ …

  Security 19 Jun 22:07

• HP-Oracle: It’s war for sure, Miss Scarlett

  HP vs Oracle Sink the Itanic

  The hot war between HP and Oracle got quite a bit hotter last week as HP filed suit accusing Oracle of breaching contracts and demanding a jury trial in California. The Reg has been all over this story, with articles from our pal TPM (latest here ) and Andrew Orlowski (here). The court filing is interesting reading. It …

  Servers 19 Jun 23:00