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Coprocessors ride again
The idea that hybrid computing is becoming a mainstream technology was one of the major threads running through SC09 last week. Convey Computer, founded in 2006, has a different take on how to best implement hybrid architectures, to deliver better performance and to simplify use.…
Palm Pre update inbound
The Pre smartphone will be refreshed with an updated webOS “within the next few days”, manufacturer Palm has promised.…
Microsoft stands tall over Xbox Live lawsuit threat
The possibility of class-action lawsuit arising from the ban of roughly 1m gamers from Xbox Live doesn’t worry Microsoft, because the firm believes it is in the right.…
Fusion-io whips out fast gov-grade ioDrive
Fusion-io has put eight of its ioDrives on a single PCIe card to produce 800,000 IOPS and 6GB/sec bandwidth.…
New hacker peril for older IE versions
Internet Explorer users are at risk from a newly discovered and unpatched vulnerability in older versions of Microsoft's browser.…
Looking back at packaged application rigidity and lock-in
Workshop When packaged applications first appeared on the scene a quarter of a century ago, it was normal for them to be very proprietary in nature.…
Dell details smartphone spec
Dell has come clean on the full specifications of its Mini 3i smartphone, and it doesn't impress.…
O/S bloat: What's the cure?
Comment It is becoming increasingly obvious that a virtual server wastes great chunks of its memory occupied by the operating system wrappers around the applications in the virtual machines (VM) running in the physical server. If each VM occupies 50MB, and 20MB of that is the Windows O/S, then around 40 per cent of the servers's DRAM holds repetitive and relatively useless code.…
eBay blames success for failure
eBay suffered an embarrassing failure on Saturday as no one was able to search on the site - not a good thing at the start of Christmas shopping season.…
E-book readers to stay pricey next year
Holding out for a £100 e-book reader before snapping up one of these gadgets for yourself? You may get lucky this year, but don't expect prices to fall any further.…
DVLA doubles annual IT spend
The Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency is to more than double what it spends annually on its IT deal with IBM.…
Virtualisation in the smaller business
Lab Many of your comments on some of the virtualisation articles we have written to date have suggested that smaller organisations have different challenges and priorities when it comes to virtualisation. Here we report back on what we have been told so far and ask you for your insights.…
New sensitive space gloves: NASA spends wad freely
NASA handed out $350,000 in prize money to astronautical haberdashers vying for glory in the space agency's Astronaut Glove Challenge this weekend.…
eBay stamps on Mussolini's brain
Customers of online tat bazaar eBay were on Friday denied the chance to bid for bits of former Italian dictator Benito Mussolini, when the site swiftly pulled a listing for samples of his blood and brain.…
Murdoch puffs Microsoft over Google
Rupert Murdoch is in talks with Microsoft over his plans to delist his newspaper websites from Google.…
Chrysler dumps e-car plans
Leccy Tech Chrysler's e-car strategy has vanished down the plughole, taking with it any chance of us getting intimate with the Lotus Europa-based Dodge Circuit.…
Imation ships wirelessly-connected hard drive
Imation has announced its external hard drive that connects by wireless USB to PCs and Macs is now shipping.…
Freeview HD - your questions answered
With the first Freeview HD transmissions scheduled to start on the 2 December in the London, Liverpool and Manchester areas, Register Hardware answers all your questions about the new telly technology.…
EU ministers agree e-government aims
European ministers have signed a declaration outlining policies to deliver 'smarter' online public services by 2015.…
Atlantis astronaut flying high over baby's birth
NASA astronaut Randy Bresnik ventured out on his first spacewalk on Saturday, just hours before his daughter was born 220 miles below.…