Category: Technology
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Samsung, Mozilla and Google Browser News
Samsung and Mozilla collaborating on ‘next generation’ Android browser engine: Mozilla and Samsung have announced a partnership to build a new web browser engine for ARM devices and Android, Servo. Mozilla says the new engine will take advantage of “tomorrow’s faster, multi-core” computing architectures, casting aside “old assumptions” about how a browser engine should work.…
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Problem Management Screws Up Our Metrics!
Problem Management Screws Up Our Metrics!: “Perhaps Problem Management is such as challenge due to the fact that we have lost sight of the forest by focusing on the daily grind of managing trees! Or perhaps a more accurate statement is that we don’t have a forest or trees problem at all. What we have…
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Tableau Files For IPO As Strong Run For Business Software Companies Continues
Tableau Files For IPO As Strong Run For Business Software Companies Continues: Tableau Software is set to hold its initial public offering, according to an S-1 filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission today, continuing a strong period of market debuts for enterprise software companies. The data visualization company is the latest business software firm…
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How Samsung Became the World’s No. 1 Smartphone Maker
How Samsung Became the World’s No. 1 Smartphone Maker: Samsung is having a moment. It’s dominant in TVs and sells a lot of washing machines, but it’s smartphones that made Samsung as recognizable a presence around the world as Walt Disney and Toyota Motor. If Samsung isn’t yet as lustrous a brand as Apple, it’s…
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End of the road for Roadrunner
End of the road for Roadrunner: LOS ALAMOS, N. M., March 29, 2013—Roadrunner, the first supercomputer to break the once-elusive petaflop barrier—one million billion calculations per second—will be decommissioned on Sunday, March 31. Found via World’s top supercomputer from ‘09 is now obsolete, will be dismantled: Five years ago, an IBM-built supercomputer designed to model…
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Mumps: the NoSQL Proto Database
Mumps: the proto-database (or how to build your own NoSQL database): I think that one of the problems with Mumps as a database technology, and something that many people don’t like about the Mumps database is that it is a very basic and low-level engine, without any of the frills and value-added things that people…
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New Amazon CloudHSM service vows enterprise-grade security
New Amazon CloudHSM service vows enterprise-grade security: Amazon Web Services runs on tons and tons of shared hardware. That’s a huge benefit in terms of cost but also spooks customers with strict regulatory requirements that prevent them from running their applications on shared infrastructure. […] CloudHSM could make regulation-constrained companies and agencies more comfortable entrusting…
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When spammers go to war: Behind the Spamhaus DDoS
When spammers go to war: Behind the Spamhaus DDoS: Over the last ten days, a series of massive denial-of-service attacks has been aimed at Spamhaus, a not-for-profit organization that describes its purpose as “track[ing] the Internet’s spam operations and sources, to provide dependable realtime anti-spam protection for Internet networks. Background article about the biggest DDoS so far. Two…
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Roll Your Own Hardware and The Disruption of the Enterprise Server Market
Roll Your Own Hardware and The Disruption of the Enterprise Server Market: In December of 2004, Adam Bosworth wrote a seminal essay entitled “Where have all the good databases gone. Now it’s time to think about the servers… because the cloud businesses cannot sustain the high margins of Dell, HP, Oracle & Co.
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With new Sparc systems, Oracle begins shift to single chip architecture
With new Sparc systems, Oracle begins shift to single chip architecture: Oracle has announced a batch of servers based on new Sparc processors and in the process has begun an expected shift toward converging its two families of Unix servers onto a single chip architecture. The new M-series server, called the M5-32, is a high-end…
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