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First reported 45 mins ago - Updated 45 mins ago - 1 reports

Nutanix trims down and fattens up server-storage halfbloods

Still not acquired after bragging two months ago of an 80 per cent sequential revenue bump and an $80m annualized run rate as it exited the first quarter, virtual server-storage appliance maker Nutanix is widening its market appeal with new low-end and ... [Published The Register - 45 mins ago]

Entities: Intel Corporation, Memory, Ports, VMware View, Fusion-io Inc

First reported 4 hours ago - Updated 1 hour ago - 1 reports

NASA

NASA probe eases through Saturn's ring to grab Earth snapshot

NASA's Cassini spacecraft will take a picture of Earthlings' home planet from the viewpoint of aliens on Saturn today, snapping the image from hundreds of millions of miles away."While Earth will be only about a pixel in size from Cassini's vantage point ... [Published The Register - 4 hours ago]

Entities: Saturn, NASA, Rings of Saturn

First reported 2 hours ago - Updated 1 hour ago - 1 reports

Facebook Inc

Facebook: We now have a MEEELLION real admen stalking you. Huzzah..?

Facebook claimed it has – for the first time – surpassed 1 million active advertisers who used the network in the last 28 days.The company told Reuters that many small biz outfits were using Facebook to display ads.However, the Mark Zuckerberg-run company, ... [Published The Register - 2 hours ago]

Entities: Stalking, Facebook Inc, Dan Levy, Small Businesses

First reported 14 hours ago - Updated 1 hour ago - 1 reports

John Culberson

House bill: 'Hey NASA, that asteroid retrieval plan? Fuggedaboutit'

If the Republican-led House Subcommittee on Space has its way, NASA's proposed asteroid-retrieval mission will be killed, the agency's budget will be capped for the next two years at about 5 per cent less than last year's, and NASA's Earth observation ... [Published The Register - 14 hours ago]

Entities: NASA, Planetoid, John Culberson, Lori Garver

First reported 1 hour ago - Updated 1 hour ago - 1 reports

Amazon.com Inc

Dynamo-spawn RIAK spreads to other clouds

Amazon cloud casts long shadowWannabe cloud provider Tier3 has created an object storage service based on the Riak distributed datastore.The adoption of Riak was announced by Tier3 on Wednesday and provides further proof of the huge influence Amazon Web ... [Published The Register - 1 hour ago]

Entities: Amazon.com Inc, Open Source, Adoption, Ecosystem

First reported 2 hours ago - Updated 2 hours ago - 1 reports

Virtualisation: Where are my savings?

Three years ago you listened to vendors telling you how much we would all save from virtualisation. It seemed so plausible, but for most of us the savings never arrived. Why not? And what can we do about it?Good news: if you’re using VMware for virtualisation ... [Published The Register - 2 hours ago]

Entities: Virtualization, Freeform Dynamics, Tim Phillips

First reported 18 hours ago - Updated 2 hours ago - 1 reports

Increased cell phone coverage tied to uptick in African violence

'Significantly and substantially increases the probability of violent conflict'The increasing availability of cell phone coverage in Africa is contributing to an increase of violence on that continent, a recent study contends."Utilizing novel, spatially ... [Published The Register - 18 hours ago]

Entities: Cellphone, Insurgents, Jacob Shapiro

First reported 14 hours ago - Updated 3 hours ago - 1 reports

Foreign keys, JavaScript support on deck for MySQL Cluster update

Following more than 12 months of development and preview releases, Oracle has announced general availability of MySQL Cluster 7.3, bringing a number of important new features and enhancements to the open source clustering add-on for the MySQL databas ... [Published The Register - 14 hours ago]

Entities: MySQL, JavaScript, SQL, Oracle Corporation, Database

First reported 7 hours ago - Updated 7 hours ago - 1 reports

Washout 2012 summer, melty Greenland 'nothing to do with Arctic ice or warm oceans'

Last summer was a washout for us Brits, and indeed top meteorologists are meeting at the moment to find out just why. Some other odd things happened last year, too: exceptionally large areas of the Greenland ice sheet surface melted, as did record amounts ... [Published The Register - 7 hours ago]

Entities: Greenland, Arctic Ice, JET STREAM, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, Sheffield

First reported 10 hours ago - Updated 10 hours ago - 1 reports

Nuke plants to keep PDP-11 UNTIL 2050!

HP might have nuked OpenVMS, but its parent, PDP-11, is still spry and powering GE nuclear power-plant robots and will do for another 37 years.That's right: PDP-11 assembler programmers are hard to find, but the nuclear industry is planning on keeping ... [Published The Register - 10 hours ago]

Entities: PDP-11, OpenVMS, Nuclear, Robotics, COBOL

First reported 11 hours ago - Updated 10 hours ago - 1 reports

Google erases G8 venue from Earth: Microsoft doesn't

Cameron and chums to hold confab in empty field, apparentlyAs all the world that cares knows, the leaders of the eight most powerful nations in the world have just been holding a summit meeting at the Lough Erne Resort in Northern Ireland. Most accounts ... [Published The Register - 11 hours ago]

Entities: Group of Eight, Microsoft Corporation, Google Inc

First reported 16 hours ago - Updated 16 hours ago - 1 reports

Kiwi telco Two Degrees to roll out 4G in 2014

BNZ backs Huawei kit buyJunior New Zealand telco Two Degrees Mobile is getting ready to roll out 4G, with deployment to start in 2014.The decision to launch into the 4G market follows confirmation of a funding facility from the Bank of New Zealand, worth ... [Published The Register - 16 hours ago]

Entities: 4G, Huawei Technologies Co Ltd, New Zealand, Two Degrees Mobile Limited

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"Certain environments, particularly in retail store locations, are very light when it comes to compute needs," says Ting. "They want to go even smaller than we have with the NX-1050, so we are looking at other processor options."

Nutanix trims down and fattens up server-storage halfbloods [Published The Register - 45 mins ago]

Facebook’s small biz director Dan Levy said: "Most small business owners start off as Facebook users, then migrate to become page owners, and from there migrate to become advertisers."

Facebook: We now have a MEEELLION real admen stalking you. Huzzah..? [Published The Register - 2 hours ago]

"Ever since we caught sight of the Earth among the rings of Saturn in September 2006 in a mosaic that has become one of Cassini's most beloved images, I have wanted to do it allall over again, only better" said Carolyn Porco, Cassini imaging team lead at the Space Science Institute

NASA probe eases through Saturn's ring to grab Earth snapshot [Published The Register - 4 hours ago]

"[The summer of] 2012 seems not to be climatically representative of future ‘average’ summers projected this century" write Hanna and his colleagues

Washout 2012 summer, melty Greenland 'nothing to do with Arctic ice or warm oceans' [Published The Register - 7 hours ago]

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