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Last year's iOS sales surpassed all Macs ever sold
If at first you don't succeed, go mobile
Apple sold more iOS devices in 2011 than the total number of Macs sold in all 28 years since the original Macintosh 128k first hit store shelves in late January 1984.…
CloudOn brings Office to UK iPad users
Microsoft silent on free app
After a rocky start, CloudOn is now opening its free application, which allows limited use of Microsoft’s Office suite on an iPad, to UK users.…
Ex-Akamai man: Stop being faithful to your CDN
You need multiple relationships to perform well
Open ... and Shut Many of the benefits of cloud computing are lost in translation as enterprises attempt to force the "new wine" of cloud's flexibility into the "old bottles" of traditional data centers. By running a cloud environment within one's data center, the full benefits of infinitely scalable and flexible infrastructure fade, as Amazon has argued and as Cedexis, a French company with a growing roster of big-name customers, aims to prove.…
Anonymous knocks FTC site offline
Smacks several consumer sites with Anti-ACTA activist action
At least two US government websites were knocked off the web earlier today by Anonymous, claims the group's "official" Twitter account AnonymousIRC.…
Apple antagonist Proview unveils its own iPad
Striking resemblance to another Apple icon
Chinese shell-of-a-company Proview Shenzhen, embroiled in a trademark dispute with Apple over the name "iPad", held a press conference in Beijing to plead their case and to show the assembled journos an assortment of marketing materials for their own iPAD.…
Is HP's Gen8 good news for HPC?
Raw speed not always top consideration in enterprise servers
HPC blog HP trotted out its newest line of x86-based Proliant systems this week. These new boxes, fueled by Intel Sandy Bridge processors, will sport speedy PCIe 3.0 slots, custom HP disk controllers (for tri-mirroring and error correction), and provide a wide range of features aimed at improving system flexibility and manageability. Our pal Timothy Prickett Morgan outlines the systems here.…
NetApp rides stiff rise in sales but profits droop
Third quarter improves thanks to virtualisation
NetApp saw off its last quarter's major account weakness and grew third quarter revenues to $1.57bn, though profits dropped 35.5 percent.…
Telcos in Canada: Ethics, monopolies and regulation
How the Canadian regulator forces Big Biz to play ball ...
Sysadmin blog Telecommunications Politics in Canada is pretty standard. There are people worried that our regulator – the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) – has succumbed to regulatory capture. There is the common burden of institutional inertia and there are the usual sorts of shenanigans involving various levels of upper government.…
IBM puts AIX 5.3 on extended life support
Venerable i5/OS V5R4 sunsetted, too
Two of IBM's oldest and most popular operating systems for its Power-based servers are being put out to pasture after years of service.…
Man surfs slopes at night in LED suit
Glowboarding
Filmmakers lit up the world of extreme sports this week with footage of a pro snowboarder in an LED light suit, gliding through snow in the dead of night.…
Oracle v SAP has to take June retrial or wait till next year
Judge: Take last two weeks of June ... or August 2013
A US court has told Oracle and SAP that they can have their retrial in the last two weeks of June or wait until next year.…
Yelp values itself at a modest $840m
Online reviews site's IPO expected soon
Online reviews site Yelp priced itself up yesterday for an upcoming, but as yet unspecified, IPO date, modestly telling the markets that its worth up to dollarsignr840m.…
Elonex to set up tech fab in Coventry, create 400 jobs
Gets wodge gov cash to haul in Chinese manufacturing kit
Elonex is importing manufacturing equipment from China to a Coventry-based facility in order to assemble tech products locally.…
T-Mobile clams up over Full Monty 'speed-cap' claims
All sausage no sizzle?
T-Mobile has rejected claims that its Full Monty tariff has a 1Mb/s speed cap, but has refused to discuss whether there is a higher limit on the plan.…
Apple's Messages beta will self-destruct on Mountain Lion launch
OS X 10.8 clue found in test-drive IM app's code
The beta build of Apple's new Messages app for Macs, released as a free download yesterday, will self-terminate unless you buy Mac OS X Mountain Lion when it comes out in the summer.…
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