memory in news
RSS memory in newsHP unleashes virtualisation products
News Asked to justify that billing, Mansell said that as memory is absolutely crucial to the efficient running of blades, there are now 16 memory slots on the blade where there used to be eight. HP on Tuesday launched a wide-range of virtualisation... [03 Sep 2008]
"Shambolic" security behind Home Office data breach
News This latest loss means that sensitive data on over half the UK's population has been lost over the last 12 months… You've got to take human error out of the loop and encrypt data automatically on disks, or when it's copied onto memory sticks or CDs. [27 Aug 2008]
Prisoner data breach firm paid £100m
News But this week it emerged a USB memory stick containing unencrypted data on all the prisoners in England and Wales - some 84,000 individuals - had been lost by the company. Details stored on the memory stick include names, dates of birth and some... [22 Aug 2008]
Home Office loses data on 84,000 prisoners
News Contractor PA Consulting alerted the Home Office to the loss on Monday evening - and by midday Tuesday the contractor confirmed "rigorous" searches had failed to uncover the whereabouts of the memory stick and its cachet of sensitive information. [22 Aug 2008]
Microsoft's 'Patch Tuesday' targets six critical flaws
News The vulnerabilities, as detailed in Microsoft Security Bulletin MS08-045, relate to HTML objects memory corruption, HTML component handling and uninitialised memory corruption. The memory allocation, calculation, and parsing overflow... [13 Aug 2008]
Intel's Atom cracks into PC World
News These specifications tally with the Wind but there are three key differences: the 4211 comes with YouCam webcam software preinstalled for easy uploading to YouTube; drive-based recovery for reinstalling Windows, if necessary, without needing an... [08 Jul 2008]
Google: Server efficiency needs different approach
News But chips are actually better than hard drives, memory and network adapters at reducing power consumption during periods of moderate activity. Chipmakers have been applying lessons learned in mobile computing to servers in an effort to increase... [25 Jun 2008]
Celebrating 60 years of computing
News In modern terms, the prototype Baby had a random access memory (RAM) of just 32 locations or 'words'. Each word in the RAM consisted of 32 bits and a total of 1,024 bits of memory. On Saturday, it will be exactly 60 years since the world's first... [20 Jun 2008]
Firefox 3 is a go
News During Firefox 3's development, memory-usage improvement has been a consistent theme. As expected, the latest version of Mozilla's Firefox web browser, Firefox 3, was made available for download at 18:00(BST) on Tuesday. [18 Jun 2008]
IBM smashes the supercomputing petaflop
News With 80 terabytes of memory, the Roadrunner system and is housed in 288 IBM BladeCentre racks occupying 6,000 square feet. Computing giant IBM has built a supercomputer that can operate at one petaflop - 1,000 trillion floating point operations per... [11 Jun 2008]
Unveiled: The 3G iPhone
News A second model, with 16GB of memory, will sell for $299, said Jobs. Steve Jobs unveiled the long-awaited 3G iPhone at the company's World-Wide Developer Conference in San Francisco on Monday with prices starting at $199 for the 8GB storage model. [10 Jun 2008]
Microsoft readies "Quebec" embedded Vista OS
News The forthcoming Quebec embedded release will include BitLocker drive encryption, Windows Firewall, Windows Defender, Address-Space Load Randomisation - and on the memory-management front, support for SuperFetch, ReadyBoost and Dynamic System... [06 Jun 2008]
IBM gets chips to chill out in water
News But before that, one would probably see chips with one core layer and a memory layer sitting on top that can still be cooled with [an] outside system," Brunschwiler said. Scientists from the IBM Zurich Research Lab and the Fraunhofer Institute in... [06 Jun 2008]
600 HMRC workers caught snooping
News The HMRC has discussed 11 data security incidents involving customer information with the Information Commissioner's Office since April 2005, has stopped data transfers unless there is a business critical need and now demands adequate security... [01 May 2008]
Ballmer: Windows XP may live and breathe for longer
News It's a category that covers machines with slower processors, smaller screens and, in many cases, flash memory, rather than a traditional hard drive, for storage. The death of Windows XP may have been greatly exaggerated. [24 Apr 2008]
