IT giant Intel has just launched an online service platform so that carers in Britain can support each other and also get advice from professionals. The firm states that the …
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New computing milestone set
A supercomputer has achieved a new computing milestone. The IBM machine has been demonstrated to run at amazing ‘petaflop speeds’ that equate to one thousand trillion calculations every second. What …
Efforts are on to take the heat off the chip industry and future processors
Heat is perceived as one of the main hurdles in producing ever quicker and smaller chips. The movement of electrons through the small wires, which connect the millions of components …
aCelera: A new application acceleration platform
Virtualisation has moved well beyond applications themselves to software, which can make those applications run quicker over a network. Certeon, the WAN (wide-area network) acceleration vendor, has introduced aCelera. It …
The Sims – a virtual family designed by players – becoming brand-conscious
The Sims – a virtual family designed by players – is now becoming brand-conscious. Starting this June, those who choose to play The Sims 2, the existing version of this …
UK banking scheme to allow one-day cash transfers on the Internet or over the phone
A banking scheme, allowing one-day cash transfers on the Internet or over the telephone, has started in the UK. The £300m Faster Payments Service has been developed by 13 banks. …
The Roku Netflix Player has many innovative and user-friendly features
The Roku box (a generic plastic box, and actually Roku’s new Netflix Player) points to the fact that the future of video is surely Internet streaming to the television. It …
Fighting e-crime and the role of Soca
The Serious Organised Crime Agency’s (Soca) 2007-2008 report talks in detail about the work done by the agency in the past year. Its noteworthy cyber crime successes include Operation Ajowan, …
Citi group completes the first stage of its biggest IT project
Banking giant Citi group has completed the first stage of its biggest IT project, which looks to integrate five companies of the group. The project will culminate in standardisation of …
