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World's Data Will Grow By 50x in Next Decade, Idc Study Predicts
The number of servers managing the world's data will grow tenfold over the next 10 years, according to the IDC Digital Universe study. The study also predicts...
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PC Era Giving Way to 'Contextual Intelligence,' Say Top IT Execs
Many information technology leaders say the importance of a single type of device, such as the computer, tablet, or smartphone, is waning as more data moves to...
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'hadoop Alternative' to Be Open Sourced
LexisNexis will open source its HPCC Systems supercomputing platform and offer developers an alternative to the Hadoop framework for large-scale data processing...
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Ibm's New Future: Quantum Computing
Over the next 20 years, the potential of quantum computing could lead to a development boom in chip and hardware design similar to what Silicon Valley experienced...
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Arm: Intel Has Tough Road Into Mobile Market
Intel may have made a big splash this week announcing it's going to focus on the mobile market, but its rival in the space says the chip maker has an uphill climb...
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It Employment Passes 4 Million Again, Regains Recession Losses
In November 2008, two months after Lehman Brothers declared bankruptcy and Hewlett-Packard announced plans to lay off some 25,000 workers, IT employment reached...
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Hp Advances Next-Gen 'memristor' Memory Technology
Hewlett-Packard and University of California, Santa Barbara researchers have mapped out the basic chemistry and structure of what happens inside a memristor during...
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World's Servers Process 9.57zb of Data a Year
University of California, San Diego researchers estimate the world's 27 million business servers processed 9.57 zettabytes of information in 2008, with most of...
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Facebook Helps Tornado Victims Find Lost Items
People who have found items in the aftermath of the tornadoes that recently ripped through the southeastern United States are using Facebook to find the items'...
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Bin Laden's Villa Lacked Internet, Phone Service
The absence of Internet and telephone service at Osama bin Laden's $1 million hiding place helped tip off intelligence experts that the Al Qaeda leader was indeed...
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Justices Question Microsoft's Vision of Patent Law
U.S. Supreme Court justices questioned Monday whether they should side with Microsoft and weaken the legal standard needed to invalidate a patent, with some justices...
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Iranian General Accuses Siemens of Helping .s., Israel Build Stuxnet
An Iranian military commander Saturday accused the German electronics giant Siemens with helping U.S. and Israeli teams craft the Stuxnet worm that attacked his...
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Mentorship Key For Women in It, Says Collaborate Panel
A recent panel discussion at the Collaborate 11 Oracle user conference concluded that mentors and sponsors are crucial to helping women advance their careers in...
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Computer Science Enrollments Rebound, p 10% Last Fall
Computer science enrollments increased for the third consecutive year at Ph.D.-granting institutions, are up 10 percent from a year ago, but are still below the...
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Ibm's Watson Not As Smart As You Think
As smart as IBM's Watson supercomputer may have seemed while defeating two former Jeopardy champions, it wouldn't be able to hold a conversation with or speak...
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U.s. Can Conduct Offsite Searches of Computers Seized at Borders, Court Rules
Laptop computers and other digital devices carried into the U.S. may be seized from travelers without a warrant and sent to a secondary site for forensic inspection...
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What a Cyberwar With China Might Look Like
A cyberwar scenario hypothesized by former U.S. State Department diplomat Christopher Bronk in a report published in the U.S. Air Force's Strategic Studies paints...
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Multicore Coding Standards Aim to Ease Programming
The Multicore Association has established specifications for a programming model designed to make it easier to write software for multicore chips, particularly...
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Yahoo Working on Hadoop Mapreduce 2
The next generation of Apache Hadoop will likely be released this year, says Yahoo!'s Todd Papaioannou. Apache Hadoop enables batch processing of petabytes of...
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