HPs technology powers the data center that drives Cowboys Stadium, the state-of-the-art home of the vaunted Dallas Cowboys football team. – ARLINGTON,
Texas — Though the Dallas
Cowboys will not be playing in the Super Bowl this year, the team has a history
of winning. And with the help of Hewlett-Packard, that history is extending beyond the
football field and has permeated the landmark Dallas Cowboys Stadium, where
this years Sup…
Australian fast bowler Ryan Harris will be out of action for at least three months due to an ankle injury. Harris suffered the injury during the fourth Test, in which England thrashed Australia by an innings and 157 runs Wednesday to retain the Ashes on away tour after 24 years. Harris will undergo a surgery [...]
Yesterday, Google finally unveiled what people had been anticipating for a long time – the Google eBookstore. Google claims that it’s the world largest collection of ebooks – more than 3 million of them at your disposal. Be it the latest bestsellers or the old classics, you should find them all. First things first, the [...]
Jessica Simpson has cleared pregnancy rumors after downing margaritas and tequila shots with fiancé Eric Johnson. The singer took a table of 20, which included father Joe Simpson, her assistant and security guards at Stanton Social after performing at the Rockefeller Center tree lighting on Tuesday. “They were very well-mannered and drank basil lime gimlets, [...]
Serbia’s economy in 2010 will mark a slow growth of 1.6 percent, and the moderate recovery will continue in 2011. Next year the economy will grow by 2.9 percent, lead economist at the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) Peter Sanfey stated on Wednesday.
1981: Citing their socially destructive effects, Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos bans videogames in his country. Filipinos are given two weeks to hand over or destroy their game consoles.
Marcos was no stranger to imposing draconian solutions. The Philippines lived under martial law throughout the 1970s, Marcos’ way of dealing with the increasingly radical elements — mainly [...]
Australian model Miranda Kerr has put up her Manhattan apartment for sale, as she and husband actor Orlando Bloom nest at his LA mansion ahead of the arrival of their child. The one bedroom apartment has been priced at 1.395 million dollars, meaning Kerr, 27, would make a modest 295,000-dollar profit should she get her [...]
At its Professional Developers Conference (PDC) 2010, Microsoft put its focus on the cloud, showing developers new ways to build apps for the cloud, the desktop and the new Windows Phone 7 platform. – REDMOND,
Wash. – At its Professional Developers
Conference (PDC) 2010, Microsoft laid out its plans for how developers can
build applications for the cloud.
Microsoft
CEO Steve Ballmer and the companys tools president Bob Muglia showed how
Microsoft is enabling developers to build cloud apps a…
Chip Eng Seng Corporation says the company’s wholly-owned subsidiary, CEL Development (CEL) and Choicehomes Investments (CHI) have jointly tendered for and emerged as the top bidder of the land parcel at Pasir Ris E3 for Executive Condominium housing development. The purchase price for the site was $89.9 million or $263 psf per plot ratio.
Two new models in Gateway’s ZX One Series of all-in-one desktops come with Blu-ray drives, Intel processors and pretty details, making them a fit for dorm rooms and savvy family spaces. – Gateway is updating its ZX One line of all-in-one consumer desktops with the Sept. 29 introduction of the ZX4951 and
ZX6951. Pitching the touch-screen PCs as perfect for living rooms, kitchen
counters and dorm rooms, Gateway has made an effort to update the systems
inside and out.
At 21.5 an…
Acer’s new line of Aspire TimelineX notebooks boasts a range of Intel Core processors. The emphasis across the lineup is ultra-mobility meets high performance. – Acer is introducing a boosted line of Aspire TimelineX notebooks outfitted
with Intel Core series processors and a promised battery life of up to 8 hours.
Geared toward quot;road warriors, quot; with the notebooks, Acer is putting an
emphasis on a mix of lightweight ultra-mobility and high perfo…
Talking with analysts as Oracle OpenWorld wrapped up, CEO Larry Ellison said he may buy a semiconductor vendor, industry-specific software makers and possibly NetApp. – Oracle CEO Larry Ellison is still in an acquisitive mood, and he now
could be setting his sights on buying a semiconductor company.
At a meeting with analysts Sept. 23, as Oracles
OpenWorld show wound down in San Francisco, Ellison reportedly said his
company would be interested in buying a proc…
A redesigned Twitter.com will include photos, videos and other information directly on the Web page. The main change is a detail pane on the right that pops out maps, photos, videos and other content. – Twitter is slowly rolling out a redesigned Twitter.com Web site, departing
from the spartan design to include photos, videos and other information
directly on the Web page.
While the traditional Twitter timeline will be featured, users will see
additional info under each tweet. When users click …
The third annual GigaOM Structure gathering in San Francisco followed hard on the heels of IDC’s Cloud Leadership Forum and was spiced up by the Salesforce Chatter release the previous day. With sales figures and customer counts in hand, cloud vendors and academicians alternately wooed and blustered CIOs and each other at the first day of the cloud confab. Here are some of the more interesting topics and technologies I came across during the first day of GigaOM 2010. – …
Acer’s updated Aspire One netbooks, the AO521 and the AO721, highlight how far netbooks have come in the last few years. They feature AMD Athlon II Neo processors, ATI Radeon graphics and versions of Windows 7, and can reportedly juggle high-definition games, Websites and e-mail. – Acer has updated
two netbooks in its Aspire One line, offering evidence, should anyone still
need it, that gone are the days of netbooks as low-powered couch surfers.
The Aspire One AO521 and AO721 each feature AMD
Athlon II Neo processors and ATI Radeon HD
4225 graphics with 384MB of dedi…
Millennium & Copthorne Hotels plc says wholly-owned subsidiary, King’s Tanglin Shopping Pte Ltd (KTSPL), has signed a collective sales agreement with respect to its strata-titled interest in Tanglin Shopping Centre, a shopping-cum-office development situated at Tanglin Road within the Orchard Road tourist district of Singapore.
Cisco is unveiling a host of enterprise collaboration products that take advantage of social networking and consumer technologies to expand enterprise communications capabilities. The offerings include the Quad collaboration platform and a prosumer version of the Flip video camera. Cisco will demonstrate some of the products at the Enterprise 2.0 show in Boston. – Cisco Systems is drawing on social networking and consumer
technologies to help businesses improve their collaboration capabilities.
Cisco on June 11 unveiled a host of new offerings, led by the much-discussed
Quad
collaboration platform, which are designed to enable employees to more
easily co…
At the International Supercomputing 2010 show, SGI announced a new computing platform that takes advantage of general-purpose GPUs from Nvidia and AMDs ATI business to scale up to a petaflop of computing power in a single server cabinet. – SGI has created a computing platform that takes advantage of
graphics processing capabilities to get a petaflop of compute power
into a single cabinet.
SGI announced the hybrid computing platform June 1 at the International Supercomputing 2010 show in Hamburg, Germany.
Like a growing number of s…
Several Asus netbooks and notebooks sold by Amazon.com will now come with the Amazon Kindle for PC application preinstalled. Among other features, the app allows users to sync their e-books across their Kindle, PC or Mac, or to enjoy e-reader features without actually owning a Kindle. – Asus announced May 24 that the Amazon Kindle for PC application will
come preinstalled on several lightweight Asus netbooks and notebooks
for sale on Amazon.com.
The Kindle for PC application acts as a stand-in Kindle e-reader,
allowing users to sync pages and pick up where they left off o…
