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The Weekly Round-Up: 06.11.09
Round-Up Yes, Autonomy and ARM continue to fight the good fight, along with a host of other high-tech start-ups, but when will the UK produce a regular, bonafide mega-tech behemoth? Question: What do Britain's hairdressers and IT... [06 Nov 2009]
Magic Mouse - Apple's best ever?
Comment The Apple mouse has long been the weak link in its hardware set-ups. Seb Janacek asks: Can the new Magic Mouse change all that? I have a dream… a dream that Apple finally gets around to creating a really great mouse. [03 Nov 2009]
New Release - Diskeeper 2009 with InvisiTasking: It's Smart. It's Transparent. It Will Take Your PC from Zero to Sixty--Automatically!
White Paper It slows access to a crawl and causes delayed application launches and slow boot ups. File fragmentation--the splitting of files in tens, hundreds or thousands of pieces--puts the brakes on system performance. [16 Oct 2009]
Cash won't cut it: Time to get creative in attracting skilled workers
Comment They are more plentiful among self-employed professionals, portfolio workers, freelance entrepreneurs, forward-thinking start-ups, self-organising online communities and skilled people overseas with valuable new... [13 Oct 2009]
Niklas Zennström
AS Profile As well as co-founding Skype - and selling it on yet keeping hold of the P2P technology which underpins the service - Zennström has a raft of other start-ups to his name. Niklas Zennström is best known as co-founder of... [08 Oct 2009]
Acorn co-founder on the BBC Micro and the early days of personal computing
Comment Andy Hopper says that today's technology start-ups need to be savvy to survive (Image credit: University of Cambridge) But he is concerned that research into technologies is being stifled in the UK, which he blames on... [07 Oct 2009]
Netbooks, Apple goodies, vintage kit and a futuristic datacentre
Photo Technology start-ups from Cambridge unveiled their hottest gadgets at the Diving with Dolphins exhibition last month. Bonhams previewed some vintage tech last month as the London auctioneer prepared to put a selection of... [02 Oct 2009]
New Communication Behaviours in a Web 2.0 World - Changes, Challenges and Opportunities in the Era of the Information Revolution
White Paper However, associated technological advances, such as email, messaging, rich internet applications, content generation application, mash-ups and enterprise applications, have also played a major role. Social communication... [02 Oct 2009]
Calculating Total Cooling Requirements for Data Centers
White Paper This document describes how to estimate heat output from Information Technology equipment and other devices in a data center such as UPS, for purposes of sizing air conditioning systems. All electrical equipment produces... [01 Oct 2009]
Reliability Analysis of the APC InfraStruXure Power System
White Paper The APC InfraStruXure product line offers an alternative architecture to the central UPS. MTechnology, Inc.used the techniques of Probabilistic Risk Assessment (PRA) to evaluate the reliability of the 40 kW InfraStruXure... [01 Oct 2009]
Reliability Analysis of the APC Symmetra MW Power System
White Paper This paper is a quantitaive reliability analysis of the APC Symmetra MW UPS performed by MTechnology, Inc. MTech). In contrast to common MTBF calculations based on summing component failure rates, this study used... [01 Oct 2009]
Battery Technology for Data Centers and Network Rooms: Lead-Acid Battery Options
White Paper The lead-acid battery is the predominant choice for Uninterruptible Power Supply (UPS) energy storage. Over 10 million UPSs are presently installed utilizing Flooded, Valve Regulated Lead Acid (VRLA), and High Density... [01 Oct 2009]
Preventing Data Corruption in the Event of an Extended Power Outage
White Paper Protecting computer systems with Uninterruptible Power Supply (UPS) hardware is part of a total solution, but power management software is also necessary to prevent data corruption after extended power outages. [01 Oct 2009]
Making Large UPS Systems More Efficient
White Paper As energy resources become scarcer and more expensive, electrical efficiency is becoming a more important performance factor in the specification and selection of large UPS systems. There are three subtle but significant... [01 Oct 2009]
Leading Consulting Engineers Discuss Power Factor, Real Power, and UPS Overload
White Paper Read this paper for documentation of expert opinions from leading consulting engineers regarding various power trends that are occurring in the IT industry. [01 Oct 2009]
