20th January 2013 Archive

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• Wireless performance will collapse, prices rise: Deloitte

  More devices shipping than spectrum to feed them

  Deloitte is predicting a looming spectrum crunch that will result in higher prices and poor performance, even on LTE networks. In its annual 2013 Technology, Media and Telecommunications predictions, the company says carriers worldwide can’t keep pace with device adoption – especially because “the average smartphone drives 35 …

  Networks 20 Jan 21:11

• SGI swings to a gain despite $50m in 'LMDs of profit destruction'

  Time for Nvidia or Cisco to buy the NUMAlink interconnect

  Supercomputer and cloud server maker Silicon Graphics ran a dog and pony show last week on Wall Street at the Needham Growth Conference, and because it was going to talk about its business the company had to release preliminary financial results for its second quarter of fiscal 2013 to avoid being busted for selective disclosure …

  HPC 20 Jan 21:17

• NASA sends Mona Lisa into space by LASER

  Lunar orbiter's laser ranger becomes optical communicator

  NASA has fired a greyscale image of the Mona Lisa to its Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, as part of an experiment using optics instead of radio for deep-space communications. Any space-watcher knows the frustration at the delays imposed by skinny radio channels in anything involving a deep-space mission. NASA is intensely …

  Science 20 Jan 22:10

• Mega launches with mega FAIL

  Site stalled since launch, offers lots of "no piracy" legalese

  Kim Dotcom's new cloud file locker, mega.co.nz, has all-but-failed to appear online, with its mastermind claiming global enthusiasm for the site has overwhelmed its resources. But The Reg can report the site has been flaky since shortly after its launch, when the press-only login we were sent did not work. Regular attempts to …

  Networks 20 Jan 23:35