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2/3 of Android Apps Use Private Data Suspiciously

admin — Mon, 18 Oct 2010 17:39:54 +0000

For those who “love” Android, google “loves” your personal data too. Computer scientists at Pennsylvania State University, Duke University, and Intel Labs conducted analysis of 30 of the most popular applications from the Android Marketplace. The researchers used a special firmware loaded with software called TaintDroid to track how applications are handling the data that [...]

Fastest CPU in the World from IBM

admin — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 11:23:36 +0000

Tuesday during the Hot Chips 2010 conference, IBM revealed more details surrounding its 5.2 GHz microprocessor, the z196. The chip isn’t designed for consumer consumption, but rather for the company’s Z-series of mainframes. Its cost is estimated to be in the hundreds of thousands–perhaps even over a million bucks. Read full version at Tomshardware.com

Android OS is ‘Hideous’ Says a Developer

admin — Sat, 04 Sep 2010 09:40:04 +0000

Software programmer Joe Hewitt, known for his work on the Firefox web browser and creating the Facebook app for Apple’s iPhone and iPod Touch, recently slammed the Android platform, calling it "hideous." He also added that the OS reminded him of Windows–a developer-friendly platform but "sloppily designed." He also mentioned that the Android OS still [...]

New IBM Power7 Server Processors

admin — Sat, 04 Sep 2010 09:30:13 +0000

IBM this week introduced a range of new Power 7-based servers that fill out its System p offerings on both the high-end and low-end of the performance scale. The new servers come a few months after the first batch of mostly mid-range servers came on the market, the first to support IBM’s Power 7 processor. [...]

Intel’s Next Server Processor Will Have 10 Cores

admin — Sat, 04 Sep 2010 09:25:01 +0000

At Hot Chips, Intel engineer Dheemanth Nagaraj told everyone in attendance that the next server processor from the company would have 10 cores and be able to process 20 threads. Read the full version at Tomshardware.com