Topic: COMPUTER - on October 9, 2013 at 3:50:00 PM CEST
Data Becker wird 2014 geschlossen
Der IT-Verlag und Software-Anbieter Data Becker aus Düsseldorf macht im kommenden Jahr dicht. Das bestätigte das Unternehmen der WirtschaftsWoche: „Data Becker schließt zum 31.3.2014 den Betrieb“, so eine Sprecherin von Data Becker auf Anfrage. „Es ist vorgesehen, bis dahin insbesondere Weiterentwicklung, Vertrieb und Support wesentlicher Softwareprodukte an Dritte zu übergeben.“
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Topic: COMPUTER - on October 2, 2013 at 2:33:00 PM CEST
Latest 100 Gigabit Attack Is One of Internet's Largest
Quite possibly, the largest raw packet bandwidth attack in history slams a site for nine hours, but the site under attack stays afloat. Unbeknownst to many people in the world, late last week one of the largest attacks in the history of the Internet was taking place—a massive nine-hour barrage that leveled an unrelenting 100 Gigabits of traffic at its peak.
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Topic: COMPUTER - on September 17, 2013 at 3:47:00 PM CEST
Angry Brazilian whacks NASA to put a stop to ... er, the NSA
Multiple NASA websites were defaced last week by a Brazilian hacktivist who may have misread the sites' URLs, because he wasn't protesting about the US space agency giving joyrides to inhuman stowaways – he was protesting against NSA spying.
“BMPoC” hit kepler.arc.nasa.gov and 13 other sites with messages protesting against US spying on Brazil, as well as a possible US military intervention in Syria.
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Topic: COMPUTER - on September 12, 2013 at 1:48:00 PM CEST
T-Shirt Size Distribution at a Computer Science Conference
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Topic: COMPUTER - on September 4, 2013 at 2:40:00 PM CEST
Tiny $45 Cubic Mini-PC Supports Android and Linux
SolidRun refreshed its line of tiny 2 x 2 x 2-inch mini-PCs with four new community-backed models based on 1.2GHz multi-core Freescale i.MX6 SoCs. The CuBox-i devices support Android 4.2.2 and Linux, offer HDMI, S/PDIF, IR, eSATA, GbE, USB, WiFi, and Bluetooth interfaces (depending on model). All the models offer 1.2GHz clock speeds, OpenGL/ES 2.0 3D support, and video acceleration for 1080p video, while the two higher-end ones supply more robust GPUs that add OpenCL 1.1 support.
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Topic: COMPUTER - on August 20, 2013 at 2:11:00 PM CEST
Double — Wheels for your iPad
Double is the simplest, most elegant way to be somewhere else in the world without flying there. The minimalist design and intuitive touchscreen controls allow you to freely move around without inconveniencing others. You can stay at eye level, whether sitting or standing, by adjusting your height remotely, which makes conversations fluid and real. Retractable kickstands will automatically deploy to conserve power when you are not moving around. Efficient motors and lightweight design give Double the ability to last all day without recharging the battery.
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Topic: COMPUTER - on July 30, 2013 at 4:53:00 PM CEST
Creating a $99 parallel computing machine is just as hard as it sounds
Ten months ago, the chipmaker Adapteva unveiled a bold quest—to create a Raspberry Pi-sized computer that can perform the same types of tasks typically reserved for supercomputers. And... they wanted to sell it for only $99. A successful Kickstarter project raised nearly $900,000 for the so-called "Parallella," and the company got to work with a goal of shipping the first devices by February 2013 and the rest by May 2013.
As so often happens, the deadlines slipped, but Adapteva has done what it set out to do. Last week, the company shipped the first 40 Parallellas and says it will ship all 6,300 computers ordered through the Kickstarter by the end of August. Anyone who didn't back the Kickstarter can now pre-order for delivery in October.
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Topic: COMPUTER - on July 23, 2013 at 6:34:00 PM CEST
The Bell Labs of Quantum Computing
Raymond Laflamme can’t yet sell you a quantum computer. But he’ll sell you a $13,000 logic board for measuring entangled photons.
It’s a start.
Laflamme is head of the Institute for Quantum Computing at the University of Waterloo, a research center that’s part of a quixotic, grandiose effort by Mike Lazaridis, cofounder of the smartphone maker BlackBerry, to invent a quantum computer and turn this city 70 miles from Toronto into a “Quantum Valley.”
Since 1999, Lazaridis has put $270 million behind his vision, paying to recruit some of the world’s best theoretical physicists. While he thinks a true quantum computer is still 10 years away, he believes initial discoveries can be commercialized now, turning Waterloo into a thriving industrial cluster built around quantum information science.
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Topic: COMPUTER - on July 17, 2013 at 2:31:00 PM CEST
Gazprom-Chef will iPad um 3,7 Millionen Dollar
Für Stirnrunzeln sorgt derzeit eine Ausschreibung, die auf der russischen Gazprom-Seite eingestellt wurde. So möchte der Chef des Gasproduzenten ein Tablet auf iOS-Basis, das aber auch alle Desktop-Funktionalitäten abbildet. Das Super-Tablet für Gazprom-Chef Alexey Miller ist dem Konzern 3,7 Millionen Dollar wert.
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Topic: COMPUTER - on July 4, 2013 at 12:47:00 PM CEST
Doug Engelbart, Who Foresaw the Modern Computer, Dies at 88
Douglas Engelbart — the father of the computer mouse and so many of the other basic concepts that drive our personal machines and the modern internet — has died at the age of 88.
According to an email from his daughter, posted to a mailing list dedicated to classic computers, Engelbart died “peacefully” in his sleep at his home in Atherton, California.
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Topic: COMPUTER - on June 11, 2013 at 5:31:00 PM CEST
Bank Employee In Germany Naps On Keyboard, Accidentally Transfers Millions
An obviously tired German bank employee fell asleep on his keyboard and accidentally transformed a minor transfer into a 222 million euro ($293 million) order, a court heard Monday.
The Hessen labour court heard that the man was supposed to transfer just 62.40 euros from a bank account belonging to a retiree, but instead "fell asleep for an instant, while pushing onto the number 2 key on the keyboard" -- making it a huge 222,222,222.22 euro order.
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Topic: COMPUTER - on August 3, 2012 at 10:47:00 PM CEST
Computer Prospekt von 1984
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