In a new partnership with Chinese Range Technology Development and the Hebei provincial bureau of industry, IBM will build the largest, most advanced cloud-enabled data storage center in China. – In March 2010, IBM announced that it
would begin investing big time in selling and building cloud computing systems
in China.
On Jan. 24, the huge American IT company made good on at least part of the
promise by announcing that it will partner with Chinese Range Technology
Development and the…
Now known as the largest Smartphone in the world, the Google Nexus 42 inch Android phone has been exhibited at San Carlos, California. Desipte the fact that the largest iPhones were created using 56 inch iPads, the Google Nexus S was originally only produced for promotional purposes. The Nexus Smartphone features a mammoth 42 inch [...]
T-Mobile has decided to call its speedy HSPA+ network 4G, instead of 3.5G, and is now selling the T-Mobile myTouch 4G and Dell Inspiron Mini 10 4G for tapping into it. – T-Mobile officials are calling their HSPA+ network “4G,” despite
previously describing it as “3.5G.” And to complement what they are now
branding “Americas Largest 4G Network,” the officials announced the
expansion of its 4G mobile broadband service to six additional cities,
as well as the avail…
Western Digitals WD Caviar Green is available as both 2.4 TB and 3 TB internal SATA drives for current-generation desktop and server hardware. –
Western Digital has unveiled what it claims is the largest
capacity internal SATA hard disk drive on the market.
As part of the WD Caviar Green family, the disk drive will
ship in 3Tb and 2.5 Tb sizes, the company said. The WD Caviar Green 2.5 Tb and
3 Tb hard drives will be used primarily fo…
A “false front” building from the Old West. Towns built false fronts to make the town look more substantial and prosperous than it really was.The tidal wave of evidence showing that the giant banks have engaged in fraudulent foreclosure practices is …
‘Canadian Pharmacy’ spam goes quiet as Spamit voluntarily shuts down, significantly reducing global spam volume. – In a rare bit of good news in the effort to reduce the relentless volume of
junk e-mail, Spamit has closed its doors, dramatically decreasing global spam
volumes, wrote a researcher on Cisco
Systems security blog.
quot;We don’t often hear about spam getting better, quot; IronPort Systems
Senio…
Mainboard-listed United Envirotech, one of the leading membrane-based water and wastewater treatment solutions providers, says it has completed Asia’s largest underground municipal Membrane Bioreactor (MBR) plant in Guangzhou city.
The contract, worth a total value of RMB264 million ($51.9 million), has a design capacity of 100,000 cubic metres per day. With an underground depth of 20metres, the Jing Xi MBR plant takes up the smallest ground area among all wastewater treatment plants in China, 1/10 of a traditional water and wastewater treatment plant.
Oracle OpenWorld attendees take San Francisco by storm, but some JavaOne folks feel slighted about accommodations despite this being a “green” conference. – SAN
FRANCISCO It’s official. This year’s Oracle OpenWorld
is the largest conference in Oracle’s history, with more than 41,000 attendees,
the company said.
Opening
up the conference here with a series of statistics, Judith Sim, Oracle’s senior
vice president and chief marketing officer, said…
ComfortDelGro Corporation has made a A$38.8 million ($46.8 million) takeover bid for Swan Taxis Limited, the largest provider of taxi services in the Perth metropolitan market with 1,667 taxis or a 91% share of the market.
If successful, ComfortDelGro says the move will further extend its presence in Australia where it is already one of the largest private bus operators in New South Wales and Victoria.
JP Morgan says that the Gulf oil spill will help the economy.This is an odd thing to say, given that the spill is our modern dust bowl, which could very well deepen and prolong our economic woes.What might explain such an odd statement?Well, JPM is app…
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Over 200,000 attendees are expected for this year’s Electric Daisy Carnival (EDC),
North America’s largest
electronic
music experience which returns to the Memorial Coliseum & Exposition Park in downtown Los
Angeles Friday, June
25 and Saturday, June 26. Insomniac, the promoter of EDC, has officially unveiled the
line-up of over 80 artists that
will appear at five custom-designed stages throughout the festival.
The final line-up for Electric Daisy Carnival in Los Angeles is:
FRIDAY, JUNE 25:
Kinetic Field: Deadmau5, Swedish
House Mafia (Axwell, Steve Angello, Sebastian Ingrosso),
Kaskade,Dirty South, Chuckie, Oscar G, Joaquin Bamaca.
Circuit
Grounds: Moby (DJ set),
Basement Jaxx (DJ set), Infected
Mushroom (live), BT (live), Z-Trip, Afrojack, Savoy.
Cosmic Meadow
(presented by Dim Mak): Armand
Van Helden, Travis x A-Trak, Jack
Beats, Steve
Aoki, Bart B More,
Dada Life, Spank Rock, Congorock, Autoerotique,
Breakdown, Hyphy
Crunk.
Neon Garden: Claude VonStroke, Avicii, The Japanese
Popstars, Felguk featuring
Sporty-O, Vive La Bunny, Manufactured
Superstars.
Bass Pond (presented by Bassrush): Shy FX, Dieselboy, Excision, Marcus
Intalex vs Calibre, Evol Intent (live),
Xample, Circuit, special
guest 12th Planet,
MC’s Armanni, Messinian, Dino,
Questionmark.
SATURDAY, JUNE 26:
Kinetic Field: Armin van
Buuren, Above &
Beyond, Benny Benassi, will.i.am, Laidback Luke, Afrojack, Bart B
More, Dada Life, Joaquin Bamaca.
Circuit
Grounds: Groove
Armada
(DJ set), Sasha,
Fedde Le Grand, Roger Sanchez, James Zabiela, Chuckie, Avicii, special guest
Boys Noize.
Cosmic
Meadow: MSTRKRFT, Duck Sauce, Wolfgang Gartner, LA Riots, Harvard Bass, Felix Cartal, Sound
of Stereo, Huoratron, Two Fresh, Them Jeans.
Neon Garden:
Christopher
Lawrence, Gareth Emery, John
“00” Fleming, Aly &
Fila, Simon
Patterson, Sean Tyas.
Bass Pond
(presented by Bassrush): Andy
C, Friction,
DJ Marky, LTJ Bukem,
Dirtyphonics (live), Logistics,
Fury, Subflo, MC’s GQ, Dynamite MC, Conrad,
Dino, Questionmark.
UK insurer Prudential PLC’s (PRU.LN) biggest shareholder is possibly moving toward breaking up the insurer that could derail its purchase of AIG’s (AIG) Asian unit, the U.K newspaper The Times reported, citing unnamed sources.
Mainboard-listed Hyflux’s subsidiary, Hydrochem (S), has been awarded a $35.8 million contract by PUB, Singapore’s national water agency, to design, construct, test and commission a membrane bioreactor plant with a designed capacity of 68,000 cubic metres per day.
The plant at the Jurong Water Reclamation Plant will be Singapore’s largest. It will also be the largest membrane bioreactor plant to be built by Hyflux.
Hundreds of thousands of Hindu devotees took a ritual bath in India’s holy Ganges river before daybreak Thursday as the world’s largest religious gathering got under way. Braving chilly weather, hordes of pilgrims rose before sunrise in and around the northern town of Haridwar and made their
China’s exports rose 17.7 percent in December, state media has reported, suggesting the country has overtaken Germany as the world’s largest exporter. The rise, compared to a year earlier, breaks a 13-month decline in trade as a result of the global downturn.
Sara Flounders writes:By every measure, the Pentagon is the largest institutional user of petroleum products and energy in general. Yet the Pentagon has a blanket exemption in all international climate agreements.***The Feb. 17, 2007, Energy Bulletin d…
The IBM supercomputer at Brown University is 50 times more powerful, six times more energy efficient and can hold 70 times more memory than the system it’s replacing. Researchers and scientists across the region will have access to the supercomputer, which will have a peak performance of more than 14 teraflops. The supercomputer includes IBM’s iDataPlex and holds 1,440 microprocessors. The Marine Biological Laboratory, in Woods Hole, Mass., will be one of the first users.
– IBM has built a multimillion-dollar
supercomputer at Brown University
in Rhode Island that will help
researchers there and throughout the region tackle a host of computational
projects. The center opened Nov. 20.
The supercomputer at the Providence, R.I., university’s Center for
Computation an…
