Internet Explorer takes unexpected jump in market share
Just when you thought Internet Explorer was on a years-long losing streak, about to drop below 50 percent of all browsing activity worldwide, the January figures from Net Applications showed a substantial, remarkable 1.19 percent jump in IE use in January. Just as surprisingly, there are concomitant decreases in market share for all three of IE’s primary competitors: Firefox (down nearly 1 percent from December), Chrome (down nearly 0.2 percent) and Safari (down nearly 0.1 percent).
Samsung NC110-Pororo Netbook For Kids
Samsung has announced the availability of the NC110-Pororo netbook. Designed for kids, the netbook provides a second-generation dual-core Intel Atom processor, a 10.1-inch display, HDMI and WiFi.
Cray shrinks XE6m supers down to a rack
Cray tried to sell Fords and Chevies when it launched the CX1000 entry supercomputer clusters launched back in March 2010. But to make its life easier, and to help bolster sales of its XE6 and XE6m supers that are based on Cray’s own high-speed interconnect and software stack, the company has figured out how to shrink a Lexus down so it fits into the Ford and Chevy budget. The CX1000 blended Xeon-based blade servers and InfiniBand networking get a lower ...
Samsung Galaxy R vs. LG Optimus 2X: Affordable dual-cores
Introduction Yep, you read that right. Affordable and dual core would not normally belong in the same sentence. In 2011. And you do not need to press fast forward. Just sit back and enjoy. There’s a lot stewing in the industry’s pot and we think the place smells of quad core already. So, two inexpensive dual-core Android smartphones it is. The Samsung Galaxy R and the LG Optimus 2X have been duly and thoroughly reviewed but we thought a head-to-head ...
Oracle reels off one exabyte in tape storage
Object storage a rival? Not even close. At least, not yet Oracle has been boasting about its dominance in tape, saying it has now shipped more than an exabyte’s worth of media for StorageTek T10000C tape drives in the nine months after its release – a faster ramp than for any other StorageTek product. Oracle also shipped more enterprise tape drives than any other vendor in the first half of 2011, according to an IDC report, which also declared: Oracle ...
VMTurbo upgrade supports all three major virtualization platforms
VMTurbo has upgraded its operations management suite to support the three major virtual environments and to improve its capacity-planning tool. With the new 3.0 version of Operations Manager, the software can now manage Citrix XenServer, Microsoft Hyper-V, and VMware’s vSphere individually or in multi-hypervisor deployments, the company says. This version adds XenServer to its capabilities. [ Doing server virtualization right is not so simple.
Alienware M14X R2 Gaming Laptop
Alienware is ready to launch the M14X R2 gaming laptop. Designed for hardcore gamers, the laptop features a choice of an AMD Radeon HD 7970M, an nVidia GeForce GTX 660M, or an nVidia GeForce GTX 675M graphics card. The Alienware M14X R2 is available in red or black model. No word on pricing so far. [PCLaunches]
NEC MEDIAS ES N-05D is a Japan only handset with killer specs
We have yet another case of Android smartphone goodness, which is bound only for the Japanese market, folks. Meet the NEC MEDIAS ES N-05D – an ultra thin, waterproof Android handset, headed for NTT Docomo. The Android 2.3.6 Gingebread device features a Snapdragon S3 chipset with two Scorpion cores, clocked at 1.5GHz.
Obama washes hands of O’Dwyer piracy extradition case
President Obama has stated he has nothing to do with the decision by US authorities to extradite British student Richard O’Dwyer on copyright charges for linking to pirated content. On Tuesday, Obama took part in a Google+ hangout and answered questions submitted and voted on by the public. The top-ranked question, given the thumbs up by 2,073 people in the debate, concerned the O’Dwyer case, and came from the delightfully named Michael Mozart in Connecticut: “Why are you personally supporting ...
13 Windows 8 features worth knowing about
Upgrades, system migration, support headaches — IT folks are probably dreading the next major Windows rollout. Yet Windows 8, which is scheduled to move to the beta stage in late February and will likely launch in the fall, does offer several compelling new features for both IT and end users. By far the most talked-about aspect of Windows 8 is the Metro interface. Designed for touchscreen computers and tablets, and built to use HTML5 and CSS3, Metro ties into Internet ...
