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ISO rejects latest OOXML appeals
News According to a statement late last week from the International Organization for Standardization (ISO), "none of the appeals… received the support for further processing of two-thirds of the members of the ISO Technical Management Board and IEC... [19 Aug 2008]
Microsoft's 'Patch Tuesday' targets six critical flaws
News The Security Bulletin Summary for August 2008 also gives details of five patches rated as 'important', including a vulnerability in IPsec policy processing. Microsoft has released six critical patches for August's 'Patch Tuesday', including a fix... [13 Aug 2008]
Microsoft's Midori not ready for tasting?
News That syncs with the SDTimes report, which talks about Midori as an OS for the age in which computing resources can be either local or in the internet cloud and in which processing tasks can be split among multiple processors and multiple machines. [06 Aug 2008]
Amazon unveils online-payments service
News Google introduced a similar online payment processing system called Google Checkout in 2006 but analysts say it has been slow to catch on with merchants and consumers. Amazon.com unveiled on Tuesday a new online-payment service it will offer to... [30 Jul 2008]
Yahoo!, HP, Intel meet in the cloud
News s commitment to cloud computing stems from its involvement in the Apache Hadoop project, an open-source project for large-scale data processing, similar to Google's proprietary MapReduce software. HP, Intel and Yahoo! [30 Jul 2008]
RIM patches PDF security hole
News RIM's initial workaround was to prevent the BlackBerry Attachment Service from processing PDF files within the BlackBerry Enterprise Server, however, a patch is now available from RIM's website. RIM has released a patch for a security flaw in... [23 Jul 2008]
Businesses fear Sepa debit fraud risk
News In a survey conducted by Experian in April, 98 per cent of respondents have no plans to enhance payment fraud checks as they join Sepa, even though the increased volume in high speed transaction processing could expose their systems to frausters. [22 Jul 2008]
Google Docs: Now more than just spreadsheets
News Users of Google Docs, the online applications for word processing, spreadsheets and presentations, now have a wide range of templates to choose from. The best of Google Earth From Hollywood to Vegas and racetracks to controversial domes.click here... [18 Jul 2008]
Security heading for the cloud
News But the analyst adds that criminals will also make use of the cloud to reduce the cost of heavy processing in attacks such as breaking encryption keys or finding vulnerabilities in software. Kelly Kavanagh, principal analyst at Gartner, said in a... [17 Jul 2008]
The 15-petabyte network behind the Cern atom smasher
News The LCG will allow researchers to tap into the distributed processing power of almost 100,000 CPUs, crunching through vast amounts of data from the detectors and speeding their hunt for clues about the fundamental nature of the universe. [15 Jul 2008]
Aviva strikes $1bn BPO deal
News WNS will provide life and general insurance processing functions including policy administration and settlement, finance and accounting, customer care and other support services. Insurance giant Aviva is to sell off its offshore operations and... [11 Jul 2008]
Artificial Intelligence - alive and kicking
News The technology is also seen in voice recognition tech and vision processing software. Artificial intelligence technology (AI) is being used all around us but don't expect any philosophical discussions with your hoover quite yet. [10 Jul 2008]
Terrorists turning to tech, warns gov't
News Instead of collecting and processing ever larger amounts of information in the hope of discovering terrorist plots, Black said, the next-generation approach would be to detect anomalous behaviour in real-time by combining information collected... [04 Jul 2008]
Roadrunner runs away with supercomputing prize
News This year that computer ranked number two, reaching a maximum processing speed of 478.2 teraflops. Roadrunner has topped the Top500 supercomputers released yesterday at the International Supercomputing Conference in Dresden, Germany. [19 Jun 2008]
IBM smashes the supercomputing petaflop
News Roadrunner's processing speed of one quadrillion calculations per second enables real-time simulations of events, said Divari. Computing giant IBM has built a supercomputer that can operate at one petaflop - 1,000 trillion floating point operations... [11 Jun 2008]
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