30th March 2013 Archive

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Dell directors foresee unremitting brutality in PC market

PC-led business as appealing as cold sick to Mickey D and the gang

The global PC business is in a woeful state, and Dell founder, chairman, and CEO Michael Dell thinks the best way to put his eponymous company back on top is give it reconstructive surgery away from the prying eyes of the public stock market. In a 274-page proxy filing with the SEC on Friday, information trickled out about …

Management 30 Mar 00:33
Jobs' first boss Nolan Bushnell: 'Steve was difficult but valuable'

'To most potential employers, he'd just seem like a jerk in bad clothing.'

Steve Jobs' first boss, Atari cofounder Nolan Bushnell, has written a book in which he offers advice on how to find, hire, and retain visionary talent – even though such creative types can be as difficult to deal with as Apple's cofounder. "The truth is that very few companies would hire Steve, even today," Bushnell writes. " …

Management 30 Mar 00:53
Second International Cat Video Festival coming to Oakland CA

Somewhere Tim Berners-Lee is questioning his legacy

The second international festival celebrating cat videos will be held in Oakland, California, this May, an event at which grimalkins and their bipedal slaves will spend a day reveling in the art of filméd felines. No, it's not yet April Fool's Day; there really is an International Cat Video Festival. The inaugural bash was …

Media 30 Mar 00:54
Production-ready ZFS offers cosmic-scale storage for Linux

Über-reliable filesystem now ready for wide deployment

The maintainers of the native Linux port of the ZFS high-reliability filesystem have announced that the most recent release, version 0.6.1, is officially ready for production use. "Over two years of use by real users has convinced us ZoL [ZFS on Linux] is ready for wide scale deployment on everything from desktops to super …

Storage 30 Mar 01:09
Arista wires software-defined networking into its kit

Joins rest of industry in collective hypegasm

Network speed-freak Arista Networks has woven software-defined networking technologies into its operating system. The company announced on Thursday that it had integrated SDN support via OpenStack Quantum and the OpenFlow protocol into key parts of its network software, the Arista Extensible Operating System. The move sees …

Data Networking 30 Mar 01:43
Giant ad company (Google) offers tool assessing worth of ads

Blimey, results show mobevertising is mega effective!

Google has launched a new calculator to let advertisers work out if their mobile spots are worth the money, complete with whizzing graphics and condescending video to explain the idea. Called "The Full Value Of Mobile" the calculator takes in the results from Google's Click Type Report, which can be generated from the AdWords …

Media 30 Mar 08:09