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Lees meerAmazing how a big cash payout focuses the mind A Vermont state employee drove 6,000 miles in six weeks to prove that the cellular coverage maps from the US government suck – and was wildly successful.…
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Lees meerYes, it plans to appeal again Apple has, for the fourth time now, lost an appeal against a $440m patent-infringement damages award, payable to VirnetX – and pledged to appeal the decision.…
Lees meerController tech precedes NAND-tastic summer An SSD controller company has demonstrated faster SSD access with a gen 4 PCIe controller that was twice as fast as gen 3 PCIe.…
Lees meerTop US justices hear oral arguments in copyright battle Rimini Street and Oracle were once again at odds in the courtroom yesterday, as the US Supreme Court heard oral arguments in the pair's long-running copyright battle.…
Lees meerHalf a billion dollars plus of funding, and counting Palo Alto storage software startup Rubrik has inhaled $261m in an E-round of funding, taking its total funding to north of $553m and giving it a $3.3bn valuation.…
Lees meerSubject to German competition authority approval, natch IBM is to buy Deutsche Telekom's ailing maniframe unit, according to multiple sources.…
Lees meerChipzilla says it has 'options' to source Optane 3D XPoint, 3D NAND production elsewhere Micron has confirmed it will indeed buy Chipzilla’s interest in their IMFT flash foundry joint-venture based in Lehi, Utah.…
Lees meerAlso: US Commerce Dept blocks export of tech developed by Silicon Valley subsidiary It's only the third week of January, but 2019 is turning into a horror year for Huawei: the company's phones have now been reportedly banned from a major research in…
Lees meerSilicon Valley box slinger clams it's first on the block with Intel processor... which isn't out yet In brief Supermicro is touting what's said to be the "first to market" Intel Cascade Lake AP Xeon server – and it's fitted with Optane DIMM modules…
Lees meerAs legal storm over weather app location data brews, its new year's resolution is: 3km IBM's embattled Weather Company subsidiary has said it is building a GPU-tastic supercomputer to model global weather conditions faster and more accurately.…
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Lees meer50.9% of of total IT turnover, according to analyst Abacus-strummer IDC has clocked that quarterly revenues of IT infrastructure (that's servers, storage, and Ethernet switches) for the cloud have officially squeezed past sales into traditional envi…
Lees meerVirty OS's latest version rolls up the best bits of 2018 Invisible Things Lab pushed out a point release of Qubes OS this week in the form of version 4.0.1…
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