9th January 2012 Archive

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New PCIe drive chip lives life in the flash lane

Marvell and OCZ go ARM in arm into nippy storage

Every day widespread industry adoption of PCIe flash drives comes closer - and now storage controller supplier Marvell is launching modules to make building these little beasts a lot easier. Sticking solid-state drives (SSDs) directly onto a server or workstation's PCIe bus reduces data access latency markedly below that of …

PCs & Chips 9 Jan 08:04
Who will be David to EMC's external disk Goliath?

Unstoppable storage king and NetApp crush rivals

For seven years EMC and NetApp have increasingly dominated the external storage industry. Can they stay at the top? Charts produced by Stifel Nicolaus analyst Aaron Rakers using his own and IDC numbers and company data show EMC and NetApp as growing at the expense of other mainstream suppliers, including Dell, HP, Hitachi Data …

CIO 9 Jan 09:01
Mobile phone mast-in-a-chip biz sells out for $50m

Blighty-based Picochip finds Californian sugardaddy

Mindspeed Technologies has agreed to buy UK femtocell leader Picochip for £33.4m ($51.9m), with more than half of that in cash, to help it jump into the burgeoning femtocell business. Picochip employs about 150 people, most of them at its Bath offices, and leads the world in squeezing femtocell technologies into single chips. …

CIO 9 Jan 09:32
Netflix goes live in Blighty

'Lovefilm without the DVDs' for £6 a month

Netflix goes live in the UK today, offering Brits streaming access to its collection of online content for £6 a month. The US company said it will also offer one-month trials for free. At launch, Netflix is offering films and TV programmes from All3Media, the BBC, CBS, Channel 4’s 4oD, Disney, ITV, Lionsgate, MGM, Miramax, …

reghardware 9 Jan 09:44
Former coder, NASA 'naut to lead DARPA starship dream

Galactic bus boss also Trekkie, 1st African-American woman in space

The bevy of boffins over at the occasionally madcap Pentagon agency DARPA have chosen a former astronaut to lead their highly ambitious drive to get the first manned interstellar spaceship flying out of the solar system by 2111. The so-called 100-Year Starship project will be headed up by Dr Mae Jemison, the first African- …

Space 9 Jan 10:01
LG: 1mm bezel on your telly, anyone?

CES 2012 Almost borderless TV demo'd

LG's highlight at this year's Consumer Electronics Show (CES), which kicks off in Las Vegas this week: an HD TV with a bezel that's just 1mm thick. The set is part of LG's Cinema 3D line of smart TVs - in this case, it's one of the company's active 3D tellies. LG has used that to deliver two separate 2D images effectively …

reghardware 9 Jan 10:13
Urban Wi-Fi is back... in Westminster and Kensington

Made in Chelsea gets wireless blanket

O2 will be providing blanket Wi-Fi coverage on behalf of Westminster, Kensington and Chelsea, installed into street furniture and providing free connectivity to residents and visitors. How comprehensive the coverage will be remains to be seen; deployment will start this month and there's no schedule for blanket coverage which …

Wireless 9 Jan 10:23
CES Week 2012: Complete Coverage

CES 2012 Stories and more from the World's biggest consumer electronics event

The Consumer Electronics Show - CES to its friends - takes place in Las Vegas this week. It's the biggest show of its kind in the world and is the launch pad for almost all of 2012's most important technology products. Just ahead of CES' official opening tomorrow, 10 January, Reg Hardware today starts its CES Week - seven …

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Microsoft's veteran server and tools chief punches eject

Office man steps in

The veteran running the business side of Microsoft's Windows server and tools software is leaving after 16 years. Robert Wah(na)be out of Redmond...Pic from Microsoft.com Corporate vice president Robert Wahbe is leaving Microsoft at the end of next month, according to an updated version of his corporate biography here. …

CIO 9 Jan 10:49
Mars rover seeks perfect suntan spot to survive winter

Opportunity's solar panels get juiced up on Greeley Haven slopes

NASA's ageing Mars exploration rover Opportunity is heading for Greeley Haven for the winter - a site with a sun-facing slope to catch the meagre rays of our star on its solar panels. False colour image of Greeley Haven taken by Opportunity. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Cornell/Arizona State Univ The thick layer of dust on …

Space 9 Jan 10:58
Acer intros skinny 15in notebook

CES 2012 Big screen, thin chassis

We can't call Acer's newly announced slimline 14in and 15in Aspire Timeline Ultra laptops 'Ultrabooks' - that's an Intel trademark for a well-defined class of machine. So how about 'skinnybook'? Acer didn't specify the either Timeline Ultra's thickness, but they'll be impressively slim if the pics are anything to go by. …

reghardware 9 Jan 10:59
Nikon raises bar with fresh flagship DSLR

XQD debuts on high ISO snapper

Nikon has unveiled a new flagship DSLR, catering for the professional market and those with extremely fat wallets. The Nikon D4 may cost just short of five grand, but it packs in over 45 new or improved features than that of its predecessor. The freshly developed 16.2Mp FX format sensor throws in the most recent Expeed 3 …

reghardware 9 Jan 11:01
HDS joins string of disk floggers hiking drive prices

'Temporary' increase after deadly Thailand flooding

All mainstream disk array suppliers seem to be raising prices. Here's what Hitachi Data Systems, the latest one to do so, says: As with other companies in our industry, HDS has witnessed a global cost increase from hard disk drive (HDD) manufacturers due to the devastating floods in Thailand. To date, Hitachi has absorbed …

Storage 9 Jan 11:14
BSkyB nabs stake in telly babble app biz Zeebox

Multi-million pound tie-up to study viewing habits

BSkyB has taken a 10 per cent equity stake in social telly chitchat app Zeebox. Anthony Rose's interactive TV venture launched last October, yet Sky has already bought into the business. The broadcaster said it would offer "unique 'augmented' TV viewing features" to its customers in the first half of this year. Rose - who …

Music and Media 9 Jan 11:31
iPhone demand strong months after 4S release

Smartphone buying survey shows Samsung on the rise

Apple and Samsung are rapidly establishing themselves as the two key smartphone sellers - in the States at least. So says market watcher ChangeWave Research after taking a look at the results of the latest in a regular line of 4000-buyer polls it conducts. Its most recent figures, produced in December 2011, show that 13 per …

reghardware 9 Jan 11:32
SEVENTY-FIVE wirelessly charged devices will demo at CES

CES 2012 If we built it, will they come?

Seventy-five new devices featuring wireless charging will be demonstrated over the next week, with Motorola joining the effort to push the technology over the tipping point. The demonstrations will take place at the Consumer Electronics Show, about to kick off in Las Vegas, and most of the products will be the usual battery …

Wireless 9 Jan 11:47
Lenovo outs Ice Cream Sarnie telly

CES 2012 Dual-core Google goggle-box

Lenovo has announced what it claims is the world's first TV to sport Google's latest OS, Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich. It's also the first set with a dual-core processor. Having already pitched its new ThinkPad laptop range for the Consumer Electronics Show 2012, the company turned attentions to the living room tech-head, …

reghardware 9 Jan 11:51
Archos G9 101 8GB Android tablet

Review The cheapest 10in Honeycomb fondleslab?

Over the years, Archos has pitched much of its kit at the impecunious rather than the technically demanding. However, some of its Android devices like the 43 media player have appealed to both camps. Now it’s trying to repeat the trick with the G9 series of Android 3.2 Honeycomb tablets. Archos G9 Android tablet For the …

reghardware 9 Jan 12:00
How's Cameron's favourite Shoreditch startup doing? Oh.

Last.fm scrobbled deeper into debt

If Cameron and his Number 10 advisors are to believed, the future of the British economy powered by Shoreditch web startups is going to be so bright, we'll all need sunglasses. The Conservatives have sought to promote Old Street's webtastic firms as epitomes of entrepreneurship. So how are they faring? Let's look at one that …

CIO 9 Jan 12:16
Lenovo primed with keyboard-connectable tablet

CES 2012 Inspired by Asus?

Continuing the Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich theme at CES comes the Lenovo IdeaTab S2, a dockable tablet rather in the style of Asus' Eee Pad Transformer Prime. The Prime, of course, comes with Nvidia's new five-core Tegra 3 processor. The 10.1in Lenovo IdeaTab S2, however, comes with a plain old dual-core chip, running at …

reghardware 9 Jan 12:24
1TB USB stick shoved into Swiss Army knife

CES 2012 Cutting edge solid state blade, but where's the tiny useless nail file?

Victorinox is making a Swiss Army penknife with a 1TB USB stick inside it, claiming it's the world's highest USB stick capacity. It's being shown at CES 2012 in Las Vegas. You can either buy the stick on its own – the airline-friendly version swings out from a standard-looking Swiss Army penknife container, coloured red or …

PCs & Chips 9 Jan 12:33
Acer unveils 'world's thinnest' Ultrabook

CES 2012 First Windows laptop with Thunderbolt

Acer has become the most recent company to stamp the 'world's thinnest' moniker upon an Ultrabook release - Toshiba has already made that claim - launching the Aspire S5, which it reckons will also be the first Windows-based PC to feature a Thunderbolt port. The Aspire S5 measures just 15mm at its thickest point, weighs less …

reghardware 9 Jan 12:39
How not to steer a business

Broadcast Lessons from the bankers

The mainstream media generally portrays the financial services industry as being in a total mess, with customers failing to be served and management often apparently serving themselves. Against this background, a recent Reg Reader study looking at the way information is captured and used in the financial services sector …

CIO 9 Jan 12:44
Parrot takes flight with next-gen quadricopter

CES 2012 RC chopper cherry-picks footage

Parrot spread its wings at CES this week and launched a new version of its popular smartphone-controlled quadricopter, the AR.Drone, adding 720p video capture to the chopper, as well as improving its controls and aerodynamics. The Parrot AR.Drone 2.0 has been upgraded to support resolutions of 1280 x 720, broadcast back to a …

reghardware 9 Jan 12:48
Marvell updates hybrid NAND/disk controller

Second piece of NAND chippery

Hot on the heels of its 9145 PCIe flash controller component, Marvell is launching a new controller to make building hybrid drives, spinning disk plus NAND flash, a lot easier. Hybrid drives pair NAND flash with spinning disks to combine NAND speed with disk capacity and low cost/GB. Seagate provides its Momentum XT drive with …

Storage 9 Jan 13:03
CES Week 2012: Complete Coverage

CES 2012 Stories and more from the World's biggest consumer electronics event

The Consumer Electronics Show - CES to its friends - takes place in Las Vegas this week. It's the biggest show of its kind in the world and is the launch pad for almost all of 2012's most important technology products. Just ahead of CES' official opening tomorrow, 10 January, Reg Hardware today starts its CES Week - seven …

reghardware 9 Jan 13:17
Facebook VERY SLOWLY rolls out Timeline

As privacy outfit bangs on FTC door again

Facebook isn't in any great hurry to update its users with the company's "frictionless sharing" feature Timeline, despite boss Mark Zuckerberg enthusiastically announcing it in September 2011. The dominant social network began rolling out Timeline, which Zuck dubbed as "a place you're proud to call your home", last month. …

Music and Media 9 Jan 13:22
File stroker AutoVirt ascends into the clouds - in a bad way

Document virtualiser is no more

AutoVirt is now like Monty Python's Norwegian Blue parrot: bereft of life, it rests in peace. If it wasn't nailed to its perch it'd be pushing up the daisies. It's not very funny for the employees who have lost their jobs, nor for the investors, channel partners and the founder who has seen his vision and attendant enthusiasm …

Storage 9 Jan 13:39
Elgato readies Thunderbolt-fed external SSD

CES 2012 Fast, but expensive

Best known for its TV tuners, Germany's Elgato is moving into the storage biz. Announced at the Consumer Electronics Shows (CES) today: a Thunderbolt-connected SSD. The solid-state drive is packed into a stylish casing that's the same size as your average portable hard drive. But instead of a USB 2.0 micro or mini port …

reghardware 9 Jan 13:48
Angry iPhone users bring antitrust class action against Apple

New suit argues AT&T tie-in and App Store are anticompetitive

Four American iPhone users have launched a class action suit against Apple over its exclusive deals with carriers in the country and the way it runs the App Store. Apple partnered with US carrier AT&T when it first brought the Jesus-mobe to stores in 2007, in a five-year exclusivity agreement that tied users to an AT&T SIM …

Law 9 Jan 14:01
AR app brings aid to tailgaters

CES 2012 Scans road ahead, warns if cars too close

Here's an augmented driving app that will no doubt make a neat addition to any petrolhead's motoring experience. iOnRoad is a universal app for iOS tablets and smartphones - there's an Android version on the way - which lets a driver know how close a vehicle is in front of them. Have a ganders at the demonstration video …

reghardware 9 Jan 14:18
Chrome beta promises super-fast URL loads

Beat it... if you can

Chrome 17 has hit beta with the promise Google's browser will start loading web pages before you've completed the URL. The Chrome team blogged here that Chrome 17 loads some pages in the background and if the URL auto-completes then Chrome will begin pre-rendering the page. Google software engineer Dominic Hamon wrote: "Pre- …

Developer 9 Jan 14:19
Did Vatican commit Cardinal sin over Wikipedia bios?

Murder, adultery, asses... nothing here about plagiarism though

The Vatican has once again declared "blessed are the freetards" by justifying the appointment of 22 new cardinals with a raft of backup material culled from Wikipedia. The Holy See's press department not only lifted biographical details on the latest crop of "princes of the Church" from the online fact bazaar for a press …

Odds and Sods 9 Jan 14:42
Lovefilm knocks a pound off streaming sub

Netflix countering tactic

Lovefilm is to reduced the price of its most basic subscription package in a bid to compete with the eagerly anticipated arrival of Netflix in the UK. A basic, streaming-only Lovefilm account will now cost £5 a month, down a pound from £6. That package gives punters no access to games or movie discs, but then neither does …

reghardware 9 Jan 14:51
Smart meter SSL screw-up exposes punters' TV habits

Also showed researchers WHETHER OR NOT THEY WERE HOME

White-hat hackers have exposed the privacy shortcomings of smart meter technology. The researchers said German firm Discovergy apparently allowed information gathered by its smart meters to travel over an insecure link to its servers. The information – which could be intercepted – apparently could be interpreted to reveal not …

Security 9 Jan 15:03
Google accused of meddling with S Korean probe

Search giant refutes anti-competition officials' claims of missing files

Google has been accused of methodically interfering with an anti-competition investigation into Android by South Korea's Fair Trade Commission. Google deleted files and made its employees work from home in an attempt to frustrate the investigation, alleges the commission in an interview with a South Korean newspaper. The non- …

Business 9 Jan 15:19
Nexenta trashes Win8 Storage Spaces

Good for baby pics, but ain't enterprise-class, says rival

Nexenta has scoffed at Microsoft's self-healing Storage Spaces, which is billed as a means of creating and managing pooled virtual drives on Windows 8. What came as a real kick in the pills for the OpenSolaris-meets-Linux biz is the suggestion that Redmond's latest operating system capability has ZFS-like features and that …

Storage 9 Jan 15:43
Ion refreshes arcade cabinet for iOS

CES 2012 Swings both ways

Ion has revealed its successor to the iPad-oriented arcade accessory, the iCade, reducing its form factor and introducing a new, even-smaller version for the iPhone. The iCade Core rocks up with the same control setup as its predecessor, throwing in Bluetooth connectivity and an identical charging cable. The company has …

reghardware 9 Jan 16:01
HMV faces the music after crap Christmas

But CEO insists gadget store facelift is working

British High Street store HMV will inch away from CD and DVD retail and re-angle itself as a gadget seller, it announced today after another disappointing Christmas performance. With an 8.1 per cent yearly drop in like-on-like sales for the 2011 Christmas period, HMV is turning to technology to spare it financial doom. The …

Music and Media 9 Jan 16:04
Nokia gets another OS

Norwegian acquisition for touch screen phones

Nokia has gone out and bought itself another operating system. It has snapped up the privately-held Norwegian company Smarterphone, which licenses a touchscreen featurephone OS, for an undisclosed sum. The company describes its eponymous platform (now up to version 3.0) as competing in the market of $25 to $75. The business …

Operating Systems 9 Jan 16:19
Nuclear Mars tank prepares for 8-thruster dance

MSL's engines fire up in choreographed sequence in push for Mars

The Mars Science Laboratory, the "nuclear-powered robot laser tank" carrying NASA's shiny new rover, Curiosity, is due to fire its engine in two days' time for the biggest manoeuvre on its trip to the Red Planet. Artist's concept of MSL during cruise phase. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech On Wednesday night at 11pm GMT, the MSL …

Space 9 Jan 16:42
Ford unwraps '2013 Mondeo'

Detroit Motor Show Fusion line-up includes Energi e-car

The great and good of the Ford Motor Company today whipped the dust covers off the new Fusion at the North American International Motor Show in Detroit. Should we care? Yes, because this is the 2013 Ford Mondeo, give or take a few minor technical details. It is based on Ford's new global C/D platform that will provide the …

reghardware 9 Jan 16:47
Is Amazon cooking up cloudy big data service?

More than Elastic MapReduce

There's speculation and scuttlebutt that cloud computing juggernaut Amazon is pondering fluffing up a big data crunching service as part of its Amazon Web Services subsidiary. A blog at the New York Times suggests that the retailing giant, which has some of the best analytics in the world to run its online operation, might …

Cloud 9 Jan 17:02
Canon focuses on compact snapper spruce-up

CES 2012 PowerShot X1 hits the G spot?

Canon has snapped into action at CES, introducing the long-awaited next-gen addition to its highly-popular G series of premium compact cameras. The Canon PowerShot G1 X sits alongside its previous top dog, the PowerShot G12, displacing it at the head of the food chain as the company's best point-and-shoot. The 14.3Mp super …

reghardware 9 Jan 17:14
Mr SANRAD, bring me a flash dream, sings OCZ

NAND virtualiser bought by storage biz for $15m

Sleepless flash drive supplier OCZ, known for constantly spraying out new products, has gone and bought SANRAD for its virtualised server flash cache usage software. OCZ makes two kinds of flash products: solid-state drives (SSDs) and PCIe flash cards. It isn't well-known as a supplier to enterprises but wants to be one. …

Storage 9 Jan 17:21
LG calls up 720p IPS screen smartphone for Verizon

CES 2012 Nitro by any other name

LG has just unwrapped the LTE-capable version of its Nitro HD smartphone: the Spectrum. Designed for the Verizon network in the US, the Spectrum boasts a 4.5in, 1280 x 720 IPS LCD screen - specs that give it a dot density of 329ppi. LG's pitching the handset as "true HD", and we wonder how many buyers will be disappointed …

reghardware 9 Jan 17:27
HP sneaks out printer firebomb firmware security fix

Says no one has blown up any LaserJets

HP has quietly patched a serious security vulnerability that had left its LaserJet printers open to attack by net villains. The security bug, first discovered by researchers at Columbia University, created a means for miscreants to install malware on vulnerable devices simply by uploading new firmware to them over a network or …

Security 9 Jan 17:42
802.11n Wi-Fi uploaded to SD card spec

CES 2012 Wireless pic transfers for your camera

The SD Association - the organisation behind the ubiquitous memory card - has written 802.11n Wi-Fi into the technology's specification. Prosaically called the "Wireless LAN SD" standard, the new spec allows card makers to build in 802.11n radios that operate in the 2.4GHz and 5GHz bands. They can do so with full-size SDs …

reghardware 9 Jan 17:57
Ubuntu Linux shop reveals 'TV for human beings'

CES 2012 Penguin programming-on-the go

Canonical is pitching a TV-of-the-future concept maximising its touch-based Linux distro and Ubuntu cloud. The Ubuntu shop used the spotlight of the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) on Monday to preview Ubuntu TV, a project percolating inside Canonical that received a shot of publicity late last year from Mark Shuttleworth. …

Music and Media 9 Jan 18:01
Phone maker punts AA-powered blower

CES 2012 15 years battery life, apparently

Mobile outfit SpareOne has unveiled a new dinky dialler powered by a single AA battery that, it claims, lasts 15 years before requiring replacement. The SpareOne is a basic GSM blower with little on offer except the breath-taking battery claims. Okay, so 15 years is quite a bold assertion, but the company does highlight it …

reghardware 9 Jan 18:07
Apple patent stashes passwords in chargers

Forgot your login? Your power adapter will spill the beans

Apple has filed a patent on a power adapter that helps users to get back forgotten passwords. The system works by storing login information in a memory chip in the power supply and a key on the computer or server to unlock the secret. The documentation describes one scenario in which a computer user's login password is …

Law 9 Jan 18:33
Ex-Intel engineer now AMD strategy chief

Girding loins for battle with Chipzilla

The new AMD CEO Rory Read is getting close to building the executive team that he intends to take into battle against archrival Intel with the appointment of Rajan Naik as senior vice president and chief strategy officer. A year ago, former AMD CEO Dirk Meyer was shown the door. Intel's gadfly in the x86 chip space, and Nvidia …

PCs & Chips 9 Jan 18:34
Netgear debuts first next-gen powerline network kit

CES 2012 IEEE 1901 adaptor launched

Netgear is upgrading its compact powerline Ethernet adaptor line to 500Mb/s operation - not only that but the next-gen powerline spec IEEE 1901 into the bargain. The Powerline Nano 500 isn't Netgear's first 500Mb/s adaptor, but it is rather smaller, taking up 67 per cent of the space that the previous model does, launched …

reghardware 9 Jan 19:29
Sony outs Xperia Ion

CES 2012 Yes, 'Ericsson' now banished from maker's moniker

Sony has begun to drop 'Ericsson' from new smartphones following its acquistion of the Swedish comms kit company's share of the pair's mobile phone business. Exhibit A (above) is the Xperia Ion, announced at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) today. It's an Android boy with a 4.6in, 1280 x 720 display - bigger than yours, …

reghardware 9 Jan 19:50
Asus updates netbook line with Intel, AMD chippery

CES 2012 Small, cheap computers show Flare

Asus has formally outed its next netbook release: the Eee PC Flare series. The Flares are a long cry from the clunky, chunky SCCs of yore - even if the spec isn't. Flare: Eee PC 1025C Yes, we're talking 10.1in, 1024 x 600 display, Windows Starter 7, 1GB of memory, 2.4GHz 802.11n Wi-Fi, 100Mb/s Ethernet, VGA and USB 2.0 …

reghardware 9 Jan 20:20
Intel demos transparent-lid hybrid PC

CES 2012 Tablet-cum-notebook with a 'very strange name'

Intel has developed a concept tablet-cum-notebook PC, dubbed Nikiski, that uses a full-width, two-sided transparent touchpad that allows you to view and interact with half of the notebook's display when the clamshell is closed. "Nikiski is a very strange name, I agree," said Mooly Eden, general manager of Intel's PC Client …

PCs & Chips 9 Jan 20:34
NextDC starts data centre work in Perth

Eyes the resource and cloud sectors

West Australian mining and resource companies, cloud service providers, and government agencies are in the sights of ambitious data centre operator NextDC which has received the green light for its Perth data centre operation. The 10,500 square meter P1 data centre will provide 3,000 square meters of high density technical …

Cloud Business 9 Jan 20:56
Apple, RIM deny claims of data backdoor for Indian government

Updated Symantec hackers claim intelligence memo shows secret deal

Apple and RIM have denied providing the Indian government with backdoor access to customers' data, after the release of a memo that appears to suggest that they and Nokia did a deal in exchange for access to the Indian smartphone market. The document purportedly comes from the Indian Directorate General of Military …

Mobile 9 Jan 21:45
Brocade sale rumours bursting out

All over the street

Based on a Reuters report, rumours of Brocade shopping itself to private equity buyers are pouring onto the net. Brocade is the dominant supplier of Fibre Channel SAN switches and directors, and also has an Ethernet switch business through buying Foundry Networks. It is struggling to grow fast and make consistent profits. A …

Data Networking 9 Jan 21:52
Huawei uncloaks sleek, slim, sexy smartphones

CES 2012 'World's slimmest' handset - iPhone killer?

Chinese telecom giant Huawei has unveiled a pair of high-end Android smartphones, including one that it dubs "the world's slimmest smartphone" – and at a mere 6.68mm, it's a skinny li'l fellow, indeed. The Huawei Ascend P1 S, like its 7.69mm sibling, the Ascend P1, runs Android 4.0, aka Ice Cream Sandwich. Both are powered by …

Mobile 9 Jan 22:23
OLPC shows off XO 3 tablet running Android or Linux

CES 2012 Confirms spring shipments of XO 1.75 laptop

One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) has been showing off the first models of its XO 3 tablet at the Consumers Electronics Show in Las Vegas. The 8-inch tablet uses the 1GHz Marvell ARMADA PXA618 processor, 512MB of RAM and comes with a 1024x768-resolution LCD, or a lower cost Pixel Qi sunlight-readable display. Connectivity is via an …

PCs & Chips 9 Jan 22:50
Mellanox VMA 6.0 juices high freaky trading

Making Linux sit up and make money

If you use Connect-X host bus adapters from Mellanox Technologies for your Ethernet or InfiniBand networks and you use Linux, then there's a turbo boost mode available for $300 per server. The software used to be called Voltaire Messaging Accelerator and came to Mellanox through its November 2010 acquisition of networking …

Servers 9 Jan 22:59