Worldwide tablet shipments increased by two-thirds over the last year, with the market booming for most but not all major manufacturers, statistics from IDC have shown. The analyst house said on Thursday that around 25 million tablets shipped in the second quarter of this year, 66 percent up from around 15 million in the corresponding […]
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Fusion-io gives servers a SAN makeover
Fusion-io has created a software package for its flash cards that lets datacentre administrators imbue them with the characteristics of a SAN, allowing companies to save on equipment costs and boost application performance. The Fusion ION software can turn servers equipped with Fusion-io’s high-performance flash ioMemory cards into part of a network-accessible storage pool. This […]
Fusion-io gives servers a SAN makeover
Fusion-io has created a software package for its flash cards that lets datacentre administrators imbue them with the characteristics of a SAN, allowing companies to save on equipment costs and boost application performance. The Fusion ION software can turn servers equipped with Fusion-io’s high-performance flash ioMemory cards into part of a network-accessible storage pool. This […]
Using homegrown tech to quell cyberespionage can backfire
Governments that choose to use only locally developed technology as a way to eliminate foreign cyberespionage must realize the tradeoffs in doing so, and should consider other ways to allay such worries. Ng Kai Koon, senior manager for legal and public affairs at Symantec Asia-Pacific, noted that in the ever-changing techology landscape, keeping pace with […]
Using homegrown tech to quell cyberespionage can backfire
Governments that choose to use only locally developed technology as a way to eliminate foreign cyberespionage must realize the tradeoffs in doing so, and should consider other ways to allay such worries. Ng Kai Koon, senior manager for legal and public affairs at Symantec Asia-Pacific, noted that in the ever-changing techology landscape, keeping pace with […]
Google to invest another $180 million to expand datacenter in Finland
Citing the increased demand for online access to video and data Google has announced a $184 million expansion project for its Hamina Datacenter. The data center in Finland, Google’s first to repurpose an existing, non-datacenter facility, is possibly best known for an innovative cooling scheme that uses seawater from the Bay of Finland to reduce […]
Google to invest another $180 million to expand datacenter in Finland
Citing the increased demand for online access to video and data Google has announced a $184 million expansion project for its Hamina Datacenter. The data center in Finland, Google’s first to repurpose an existing, non-datacenter facility, is possibly best known for an innovative cooling scheme that uses seawater from the Bay of Finland to reduce […]
RIM keeps quiet on 4G LTE PlayBook UK release date
Research In Motion has announced that it will be launching its 4G version of the BlackBerry PlayBook in Canada on 9 August. While the device will be available in other countries — in the US, Europe, South Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean, according to RIM — a spokesman for the company said it could […]
RIM keeps quiet on 4G LTE PlayBook UK release date
Research In Motion has announced that it will be launching its 4G version of the BlackBerry PlayBook in Canada on 9 August. While the device will be available in other countries — in the US, Europe, South Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean, according to RIM — a spokesman for the company said it could […]
Facebook datacentres’ carbon footprint revealed
Facebook has revealed the carbon footprint and energy use of its US datacentres, and has pledged to use 25 percent sustainable energy by 2015. Across the US, Facebook’s datacentres used 509 million kWh of energy, and produced carbon emissions of 207,000 metric tonnes of carbon dioxide equivalent in 2011, the company said on Wednesday. Facebook […]
Facebook datacentres’ carbon footprint revealed
Facebook has revealed the carbon footprint and energy use of its US datacentres, and has pledged to use 25 percent sustainable energy by 2015. Across the US, Facebook’s datacentres used 509 million kWh of energy, and produced carbon emissions of 207,000 metric tonnes of carbon dioxide equivalent in 2011, the company said on Wednesday. Facebook […]
Can Anonymous evolve into something bigger?
commentary Watching members of Anonymous talk among themselves can sometimes be a little bit painful. There’s sometimes misinformation, trolling, fools that walk in to a conversation looking to cause trouble, and a carnival-style chaos that, to the average bystander, doesn’t make much sense. But during the theft of AAPT’s data, the Australian branch of Anonymous […]
NSN to cut more jobs in China
Nokia Siemens Networks is planning to lay off of another 300 employees in China. China Daily reported on Wednesday that the news was released internally on Friday and was part of the telecoms equipment maker’s plan to cut 17,000 employees globally by end-2013, according to a China-based company spokesperson. This is the company’s second round […]
Bharti Airtel fined for subscriber harassment
Bharti Airtel has been ordered by a consumer forum to pay 25,000 rupees (US$453.35) to a post-paid subscriber as compensation for harassing him. In the complaint by customer Manjoy Kumar Sharma filed to the Consumer Disputes Redressal Forum on Oct. 2009, he said that he had been using an Airtel post-paid connection for more than six […]
Domestic phonemakers drive China smartphone growth
Chinese smartphone manufacturers, not international vendors, are driving growth in the domestic market, resulting in China becoming the top single country market with 27 percent of the 158 million global smartphone shipments in the second quarter of 2012. According to a study by Canalys on Thursday, China’s smartphone shipments grew 199 percent year-on-year to reach […]
Freehills picks Fujitsu for e-discovery cloud
Australian law firm Freehills has decided to host its e-discovery applications with Fujitsu as it prepares for global expansion. E-discovery refers to the legal process of obtaining evidence for a court case from the opposing party through electronic information. With 1200 lawyers across Australia and Singapore, Freehills is preparing to more than double its staff […]
NBN just one piece in broadband puzzle: Akamai
Providing 100 megabit-per-second (Mbps) fibre connections to 93 per cent of the Australian population on the National Broadband Network (NBN) will not guarantee superfast speeds, unless the rest of the network is kept up to scratch, according to content delivery company Akamai’s co-founder and chief scientist Dr Tom Leighton. Tom Leighton (Credit: Akamai) The man […]
MediaTek, MStar merger approved in Taiwan
Taiwan’s Fair Trade Commission (FTC) has approved chipset maker MediaTek’s acquisition of rival MStar Semiconductor, saying the merger will not hamper market competition and can benefit the local economy. According to a report Wednesday by Central News Agency, the FTC said there were many international rivals competing in the business so chip buyers still had options in […]
China’s online B2B transactions hit $466.7B
Business-to-business (B2B) e-commerce transactions in China generated 2.95 trillion yuan (US$466.7 billion) during the first half of 2012, representing a 13 percent year-on-year growth. According to a report by Sina Tech on Wednesday, the number of companies in China using B2B platforms exceeded 16.5 million during the six months period ended June. This helped service […]
Philippine police arrests S. Korean hackers
Eight South Koreans have been arrested in the Philippines for allegedly hacking into Globe Telecom, one of the country’s largest telcos, in order to lower the cost of international mobile phone calls for other countrymen there. Philippine police cybercrime division chief Gilbert Sosa said the hackers were rounded up Monday in four raids around metropolitan […]