Monthly Archives: December 2011

2012 tech predictions: From IDG’s editors worldwide

Consumerization of IT is the consensus choice of the new year's major technology force, one that will manifest itself in several forms Continue reading

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Websites, apps vulnerable to low-bandwidth, bot-free takedown, say researchers

Hackers armed with a single machine and a minimal broadband connection can cripple Web servers, researchers said Wednesday. Microsoft today shipped an emergency update to fix the flaw. Continue reading

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A glance back at 2011

2011 could be described as “The Year of …” many things. The tablet market heated up beyond the Apple iPad. 4G wireless took off with the emergence of big-time LTE networks. Governments and hackers screamed for attention by taking down networks, w… Continue reading

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China racing to expand data center capacity

China is in the midst of an unprecedented data center construction boom that's providing business opportunities for U.S. companies and could see China emerge with one of the most advanced computing infrastructures in the world. Continue reading

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Snooping ODBC connection

ODBC is a very popular database access mechanism though it is considered old compared to others such as OLEDB, etc. Data Direct (Progress) has released a light weight version of snoop some time back. It allows us to connect to local port on your computer for logging ODBC activity. You need to run snoop tool [...] Continue reading

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Five open source technologies for 2012

Next year, if all goes according to plan, Red Hat will become the first open source software company to generate more than $1 billion a year in revenue. It will be a watershed moment for the open source community, who have long seen their approach of c… Continue reading

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IBM’s Watson shows up for work at Cedars-Sinai’s cancer center

IBM’s Watson supercomputer is being used in the Cedars-Sinai cancer center to develop applications that will assist doctors in diagnosing and prescribing treatments for patients. Continue reading

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Russia building 10-petaflop supercomputer

T-Platforms, a Moscow-based tech company that is behind some of that nation’s largest systems, is building a 10-petaflop supercomputer for M.V. Lomonosov Moscow State University, the company said this week. Continue reading

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RightNow shareholders approve $1.5B sale to Oracle

Oracle's $1.5 billion purchase of cloud software vendor RightNow Technologies took another step forward as a vast majority of RightNow shareholders approved the deal. Continue reading

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RightNow shareholders approve US$1.5 billion sale to Oracle

Oracle's US$1.5 billion purchase of cloud software vendor RightNow Technologies took another step forward on Thursday as a vast majority of RightNow shareholders approved the deal. Continue reading

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