star
RSS star
The Weekly Round-Up: 13.11.09
Round-Up While ikee doesn't put your personal data at risk, it could certainly damage your street cred: it replaces infected iPhones' default wallpaper with a picture of Rick Astley - the pop star whose 'Never Gonna Give You Up'... [13 Nov 2009]
iPhones under attack from Rick Astley worm
News Some iPhones have come under attack from a worm that replaces the devices' default wallpaper with a picture of Rick Astley - the pop star whose 'Never Gonna Give You Up' song is the subject of the Rickrolling prank craze. [09 Nov 2009]
Exclusive: Jimmy Wales on what's next for Wikipedia
Comment In the days before Wikipedia, they were probably spending a lot of time watching Star Trek or. In an exclusive interview, Wikipedia founder and silicon.com Agenda Setter Jimmy Wales talks to Natasha Lomas about what's... [05 Nov 2009]
Windows 7 to trump Snow Leopard?
Comment The iPhone's star continued to rise with sales up 41 per cent quarter-on-quarter. A revitalised Windows raises the bar for Apple's Snow Leopard, says Seb Janacek. Apple reported record fourth quarter results this week,... [20 Oct 2009]
Jimmy Wales
AS Profile Jimmy Wales, co-founder of the free encyclopaedia Wikipedia, is a familiar face on the Agenda Setters list and one whose star is rising. He made the top 10 in 2006; the top five in 2008; and lands in the top three this... [08 Oct 2009]
Netbooks, Apple goodies, vintage kit and a futuristic datacentre
Photo Photo credit: Wolverhampton Express and Star Bonhams previewed some vintage tech last month as the London auctioneer prepared to put a selection of classic hardware under the hammer. The sale includes Sinclair computers... [02 Oct 2009]
Chery Automobile Cuts Development Training Costs by 80% and Reduces Implementation Expenses by 30%
White Paper Chery Automobile engaged Oracle Partner Beijing Galaxy Golden Star to deploy Oracle SOA Suite and Oracle WebLogic Suite 10g; serving as the backbone of Chery Automobile's IT infrastructure and to support integrated... [01 Oct 2009]
Photos: Computer history goes under the hammer
Photo It's a video laser disc player and includes film classics such as Star Wars, Easy Rider and Goldfinger. This is the Lyons Electronic Office - LEOII/3 electronic programmable storage computer which was first demonstrated... [29 Sep 2009]
The Weekly Round-Up: 25.09.09
Round-Up The Deal Or No Deal star has introduced a new iPhone app for those who believe Cosmic Ordering can bring order, purpose and meaning to life. For the Apple II it was the early spreadsheet VisiCalc. For the IBM PC it was... [25 Sep 2009]
Convergence Speed of Binary Interval Consensus
White Paper The paper instantiates the bound for particular networks of interest, including complete graphs, star-shaped networks, and Erdos-Renyi random graphs, and in the former two cases compare with alternative computations. [16 Sep 2009]
Photos: Restoring one of the world's oldest computers
Photo Photo credit: Wolverhampton Express and Star Photo credit: Wolverhampton Express and Star Work began this week on restoring what will be the world's oldest working stored-program electronic computer.... [04 Sep 2009]
HP Workstations, 80 PLUS Power Supplies, & Energy Star 4.0
White Paper With the availability of new and highly efficient 80 PLUS Power Supplies (PS), a new and rigorous ENERGY STAR (ES) standard will be introduced on July 20, 2007 to replace and rescind any previous ES qualifications. [02 Sep 2009]
World 's Second Largest HMO Moves 2-Terabyte BI Data Warehouse to SQL Server 2008
White Paper Clalit Health Services wanted to upgrade its Business Intelligence (BI) data warehouse to Microsoft SQL Server 2008 to take advantage of new features, including data compression and star join functionality to enhance... [01 Sep 2009]
Energy-Efficient Platforms: Designing Devices Using the New Power Management Extensions for Interconnects
White Paper With Energy Star active and idle power requirements, system level power consumption is not just a battery life issue. Ever since the Personal Computing (PC) platforms were launched in the 1980s, there has been a constant... [30 Aug 2009]
Asiana Airlines Enhances Business Credibility and Customer Service With Real-Time Enterprise (RTE)
White Paper Asiana Airlines has a total of 59 aircrafts as of October 2006 and a global network spanning 841 cities in 157 countries worldwide through Star Alliance, the world's largest airlines alliance. Asiana Airlines wanted to... [28 Aug 2009]
