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Submission + - The Productivity Suites That Could Unseat Office (infoworld.com)

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snydeq

on Wednesday May 04, 2011 @10:38AM

snydeq writes: "InfoWorld's Serdar Yegulalp provides an in-depth comparison of productivity suites with an eye toward uncovering the alternative best suited to unseat Office. 'How well do the alternatives shape up? And how practical is it to switch to them when you have an existing array of documents created in Microsoft Office? Those are the questions I had in mind when I sat down with both the new version of Microsoft Office and several other programs (and one cloud service) that have been positioned as low- or no-cost replacements,' Yegulalp writes in reviewing Microsoft Office 2010, OpenOffice, LibreOffice, Lotus Symphony, SoftMaker Office 2010, WordPerfect Office, and Google Docs."

Submission + - DARPA building futuristic space exploration group (networkworld.com)

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coondoggie

on Wednesday May 04, 2011 @10:38AM

coondoggie writes: "What started out as an idea about how to further explore the outer reaches of space is now beginning to take more serious shape as the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) today issued a call for industry information on how to form such as cosmic entity.
Specifically DARPA said it issued a Request For Information intended to solicit ideas and information on structure and approach, and identify parties qualified and interested in furthering what’s known as the 100 Year Starship project."

Submission + - AMD Launches Fastest Phenom Yet, Phenom II X4 980 (hothardware.com)

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MojoKid

on Tuesday May 03, 2011 @08:35AM

MojoKid writes: "Although much of the buzz lately has revolved around AMD's upcoming Llano and Bulldozer-based APUs, AMD isn't done pushing the envelope with their existing processor designs. Over the last few months AMD has continued to ramp up frequencies on their current bread-and-butter Phenom II processor line-up to the point where they're now flirting with the 4GHz mark. The Phenom II X4 980 Black Edition marks the release of AMD's highest clocked processor yet. The new quad-core Phenom II X4 980 Black Edition's default clock on all four of its cores is 3.7GHz. Like previous Deneb-based Phenom II processors, the X4 980 BE sports a total of 512K of L1 cache with 2MB of L2 cache, and 6MB of shared L3 cache. Performance-wise, for under $200, the processor holds up pretty well versus others in its class and it's an easy upgrade for AM2+ and AM3 socket systems."

Submission + - Seagate Unveils Hard Drive With 1TB Per Platter (net-security.org)

Submitted by Orome1 on Tuesday May 03, 2011 @08:11AM

Orome1 writes: Seagate unveiled the world’s first 3.5-inch hard drive featuring 1TB of storage capacity per disk platter, breaking the 1TB areal density barrier. Seagate’s GoFlex Desk products are the first to feature the new hard drive, delivering storage capacities of up to 3TB and an areal density of 625 Gigabits per square inch. Seagate is on track to ship its flagship 3.5-inch Barracuda desktop hard drive with 3TBs of storage on 3 disk platters – enough capacity to store up to 120 high-definition movies, 1,500 video games, thousands of photos or virtually countless hours of digital music.

Submission + - New Supernova looks promising (rochesterastronomy.org)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 03, 2011 @08:08AM

An anonymous reader writes: A recently discovered extra-galactic supernova is looking promising for amateur astronomers with even small telescopes. The exploding star, called 'Supernova 2011by' lies in the relatively obscure galaxy 'NGC 3972', which sits in the constellation of Ursa Major. Discovered at the end of April, the supernova quickly brightened above 14th magnitude, and is still on the rise. Amateurs are keenly watching the supernova, which is getting brighter by the night. If you have a telescope, it is definitely worth observing. Some drawings of the supernova can be found at http://gkastro.tk/, and more images from the main URL.

Submission + - windfarms paid to not generate electricity (bbc.co.uk) 1

Submitted by doperative on Sunday May 01, 2011 @11:46AM

doperative writes: Six Scottish windfarms were paid up to £300,000 to stop producing energy, it has emerged. The turbines, at a range of sites across Scotland, were stopped because the grid network could not absorb all the energy they generated.

Submission + - Android Conunrum: Tablets Tank, Smartphones Surge (infoworld.com)

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GMGruman

on Friday April 29, 2011 @11:14AM

GMGruman writes: "Android smartphones have overpowered the iPhone in market share, yet Android tablets barely register in sales versus the iPad. Android tablets are as competitive in most respects against the iPad as Android smartphones are against the iPhone. So why the difference in success? Galen Gruman examines five theories for the gap, and concludes the reason is that Android tablets' real competitor is in fact not the iPad."

Submission + - Hackers Tried To Sell Credit Card Data To Sony (ibtimes.com)

Submitted by RedEaredSlider on Friday April 29, 2011 @10:28AM

RedEaredSlider writes: Several media outlets reported today that the PSN hackers have begun advertising their exploits on online forums. Looking to sell the information, which also includes customer names, passwords, and addresses, the hackers have priced the credit card database at $100,000 for 2.2 million credit card numbers, or about 4.5 cents for each one. There is even some evidence the hackers tried selling the credit card numbers back to Sony, though a company spokesperson denies it.

Submission + - Can Open Source Hardware Feed The World? (itworld.com)

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jfruhlinger

on Monday April 18, 2011 @10:26AM

jfruhlinger writes: "When it comes to food scarcity in the developing world, one of the major problems is production capacity: land that could be arable using modern techniques goes underutilized because locals don't have the abbility to build or buy equipment. A group calling itself Open Source Eclology is trying to solve that problem. They've developed a set of open source hardware specs for 50 different industrial machines, which they're calling the Global Village Construction Set."

Submission + - First Look: Office 365 Beta (infoworld.com)

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snydeq

on Monday April 18, 2011 @10:25AM

snydeq writes: "InfoWorld's Woody Leonhard provides an in-depth preview of Office 365 Beta, Microsoft's hosted server application suite. The offering includes cloud-based versions of Exchange, SharePoint, and Lync, as well as Office Web Apps, stripped-down versions of Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and OneNote. 'A few pitfalls notwithstanding, the beta itself seems quite stable,' Leonhard writes. 'Microsoft has done a remarkable job of making Admin functions accessible to people with no Exchange, SharePoint, or Lync experience' — a proposition that has some wondering whether the service is a threat to IT."

Submission + - Microsoft releases bugged Powerpoint Patch (technet.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 18, 2011 @10:06AM

An anonymous reader writes: Don't know how many are affected by this but last week's Powerpoint patch makes it impossible to open existing presentations. While some might consider disabling Powerpoint to be some sort of divine providence, you may want to avoid the patch until Microsoft has a fixed version.

Submission + - Open Source Programming Tools on the Rise (infoworld.com)

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snydeq

on Monday April 18, 2011 @10:02AM

snydeq writes: "InfoWorld's Peter Wayner takes a look at 13 open source development projects making waves in the enterprise. From Git to Hadoop to build management tools, 'even in the deepest corners of proprietary stacks, open source tools can be found, often dominating. The reason is clear: Open source licenses are designed to allow users to revise, fix, and extend their code. The barber or cop may not be familiar enough with code to contribute, but programmers sure know how to fiddle with their tools. The result is a fertile ecology of ideas and source code, fed by the enthusiasm of application developers who know how to "scratch an itch".'"

Submission + - F1 computing kit: 1,500 cores, Linux & SSDs (pcpro.co.uk)

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Barence

on Monday April 18, 2011 @09:11AM

Barence writes: "PC Pro has taken a peek behind the scenes at the Lotus Formula 1 garage — and the computing technology used to power the team. It's server farm comprises of 1,500 cores in a room full of blade servers, connected to 96TB of iSCSI storage. Currently, the farm is running on Linux, because that OS is apparently what best supports the number-crunching engine for the computational fluid dynamics (CFD) software. Meanwhile, all the laptops in the pit are now running on SSDs, because of the increased risk of disk failure caused by the high vibration levels experienced near a running F1 car."

Submission + - Update: Wind power firm sees no evidence of hack (networkworld.com)

Submitted by alphadogg on Monday April 18, 2011 @07:42AM

alphadogg writes: One day after a hacker posted screen shots and data to a hacking mailing list, saying he had broken into a New Mexico wind turbine facility, the company that runs the turbines says it has seen no evidence of a computer intrusion. The hacker, who calls himself Bigr R, made the claims Saturday, posting screenshots of the facility's management interface, screenshots of an FTP server and project management system, as well as Web server info and configuration data from a Cisco router.

Submission + - Final Report: Pan-European Cyber Security Exercise (net-security.org)

Submitted by Orome1 on Monday April 18, 2011 @06:46AM

Orome1 writes: The EU's cyber security agency, ENISA, has issued its final report on the first Pan-European cyber security exercise for public bodies, Cyber Europe 2010. The exercise was conducted on the 4th of November, 2010. Its objective was to trigger communication and collaboration between countries in the event of large-scale cyber-attacks. Over 70 experts from the participating public bodies worked together to counter over 300 simulated hacking attacks aimed at paralyzing the Internet and critical online services across Europe. During the exercise, a simulated loss of Internet connectivity between the countries took place, requiring cross-border cooperation to avoid a (simulated) total network crash.

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