HP launches first version of Open WebOS in beta
Months after Hewlett-Packard originally announced the open-source version of WebOS, the beta version of the platform is on its way out the door. Today’s release includes two environments for developers. The first is the laptop construct, which is alleged to give you the ideal development atmosphere for designing the WebOS user experience with more features […]
Memristors in silicon promising for dense, fast memory
Researchers have revealed details of a promising way to make a fundamentally different kind of computer memory chip. The device is a “memristor”, a long-hypothesised but only recently demonstrated electronic component. A memristor’s electronic properties make it suitable for both for computing and for far faster, denser memory. Researchers at the European Materials Research Society meeting now […]
Cyber-spying on the rise
When Linda Trottman’s husband landed a promotion at his company, a co-worker congratulated her on it a few days later. Trottman says she hadn’t even realized her colleague monitored her husband’s profile on LinkedIn, a professional-networking site, where he had posted his new title. “It hit me that he was targeting my husband’s previous position,” […]
That didn’t take long: Tim Cook rated top CEO
Apple CEO Tim Cook hasn’t even been in his job for a year, but already he’s the working world’s highest-rated chief executive, according to a new report. Careers site Glassdoor announced today that Cook received a 97 percent approval rating from employees over the past 12 months that ended March 15, beating out Ernst & […]
Apple unveils its new, sharper iPad3
Apple said the new iPad, which will go on sale March 16, will have a screen with higher resolution than conventional high-definition televisions. Apple updated the iPad on Wednesday with a high-definition screen, faster wireless connection and several other refinements. As recent history has shown, though, even those relatively modest changes could be enough for […]
HP To Support Solaris On ProLiant Servers, Blades
Hewlett-Packard will sell and support Sun Microsystems’ Solaris on ProLiant servers at the same level it currently does with Microsoft Windows and other operating systems. The two generation companies, who compete within the server hardware trade, on Wednesday unveiled the expansion of a multiyear partnership settlement beneath which HP will distribute and provide technical enhance […]
How Apple cuts costs building its gadgets
On the backs of iPods, iPhones and iPads, and on the bottom of Mac laptops, an inscription reads: Designed by Apple in California. Assembled in China. The portions themselves come from more than 150 corporations from various parts of the arena. the vast majority of those antennas, glass, steel, sensors and silicon are synthetic overseas. […]
A New Net
In 2003 Martìn Casado found himself with no small challenge on his hands: he needed to reinvent the technology that underpins the Internet. It had been developed decades earlier and was proving unsuited to an era of cyberwarfare. Casado, then a researcher at Lawrence Livermore nationwide Laboratory, have been approached through a usa intelligence agency […]