9th July 2011 Archive

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Airport screener stuffs stolen iPad into (own) trousers

Luggage larcenist admits $50K in nicked gadgets

Although US Transportation Security Administration screeners are encouraged to caress others' trousers, one blue-shirted crotch watchmen used his own as a temporary cache for an iPad he'd bagged from a traveller's bag. TSA employee Nelson Santiago was spotted by a Continental Airlines employee as he was stuffing said …

Crime 9 Jul 00:34
Is Facebook worth more than Google?

Open...and Shut $1 trillion valuation, ahoy

We've certainly entered the silly season of Silicon Valley tech valuations, but one company strikes me as not richly valued enough: Facebook. You can argue about the company's privacy policies, its data hoarding policies, its choice of that ugly blue but one thing seems beyond doubt: Facebook is worth at least as much as Google …

Business 9 Jul 00:37
Oracle wants seal busted on HP's Itanium suit

HP disagrees to agree

Oracle has called on a California court to publicly reveal the sealed portions of the lawsuit HP brought against the software company over Intel's Itanium processor. HP says its happy to make the documents public, but there's a caveat involving the settlement agreement between the two companies over ex–HP CEO Mark Hurd. Even …

Servers 9 Jul 06:26
Toshiba Regza 42RL853 42in LED TV

Review Affordable net set, anyone?

Toshiba is pushing the envelope in the world of TV technology. From its growing preoccupation with auto-stereoscopic (glasses-free 3D) screens, to cerebrally smart TVs that use Cell and CEVO processors for multitasking and advanced picture processing, the brand seems desperately keen to take television to the next level. IPTV …

reghardware 9 Jul 07:00
Entering a storage jail

Opinion Copy-protection bars

Storage, at a consumer and personal level, has been about ownership. Our shelves are full of books, CDs and DVDs. How quaint. Is all this going away? Storage has been about ownership of data and information by business too, witness the ubiquitous filing cabinets and desk drawers. This physical ownership is beginning to …

Blocks and Files 9 Jul 13:00
HP opens Big Data front with Oracle

Gets analytical with Vertica acquisition

With all of the attention focused on the war raging between Oracle and Hewlett-Packard, a significant HP announcement in late June seemed to slip under the radar of the industry press. On June 20, the company announced general availability of Vertica 5.0, the newest version of the Vertica Analytics Platform, along with some …

HPC Blog 9 Jul 13:32