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  • HP hooks up with Calxeda to form server ARMy • The Register

    By itself Calxeda has made some big plans attempting to create computers like the SeaMicro SM10000. But the ability to manufacture on any scale and then sell that product is a bit limited. But as of today HP has partnered with Calxeda to sell product and help design a server using the reference design for…

  • Always nice to get an update on the elmcity project from Jon Udell. It is the ‘calendar’ of calendars and a great project showing how one can leverage open data, but at the same time confront some technological challenges too. Jon Udell As I review and improve the elmcity hubs in selected cities, I am…

  • U.S. Requests for Google User Data Spike 29 Percent in Six Months | Threat Level | Wired.com

    In a fight between Superman and Spiderman who would win? That’s a game we used to play as kids. Nowadays the question is more like in a fight between your personal data and a Government request to Google to access that data who would win? All evidence points to you being the loser. Read On:

  • Originally posted on High Tech History: This past June, fellow High Tech History writer Gil Press wrote an entry  in recognition of International Business Machines’ centennial. In the interim, I came across a documentary created by noted filmmaker Errol Morris  for IBM that draws on the experiences of, among others, the corporation’s former technicians and executives to tell…

  • Originally posted on Erik Duval's Weblog: Wolfgang Greller made some interesting comments on his blog about an interview with me on Learning Analytics. I’m a bit puzzled by his remark that Duval being a computer scientist strongly believes in the power of data and the revelations it holds. Actually, I am not sure what would be…

  • Pioneering Campus CIOs Say Necessity Drives Shift to Cloud — Campus Technology

    Pioneering Campus CIOs Say Necessity Drives Shift to Cloud By David Raths 10/25/11 A recent survey of campus IT leaders suggested that most colleges and universities are still gun shy about cloud computing. Yet if attendance at conference meetings is any gauge, there is widespread curiosity about the experience of early adopters. via Pioneering Campus…

  • AnandTech – ARM & Cadence Tape Out 20nm Cortex A15 Test Chip

    In past readings of announcements and analysis of announcements from ARM and Calxeda, I got the impression everyone was looking forward to ARM-15 4core cpus that had 64bit capability, specially the 64-bit addressing for large amounts of DRAM. Well now the first test chip for ARM-15 has been announced. And the timescale for the production…

  • MIT boffin: Salted disks hold SIX TIMES more data • The Register

    Disk drive technology has gone through revolutions and evolution at different times in its history of manufacture. From the introduction of the original IBM RAMAC to the newest 4TByte SATA hard drive progress has always been made towards higher densities at the least and higher speed access at the most. Now conventional magnetic recording techniques…

  • Intels Plans for New SSDs in 2012 Detailed

    The race is to supply PCIe SSDs is really heating up now. Many competitors in the top-end Enterprise level are battling it out with each new revision of the SandForce drive controller. In the Middle and Low ends, there’s a little more variety thanks to OCZ and now Intel entering the race. Hopefully prices will…

  • AnandTech – Qualcomms New Snapdragon S4: MSM8960 & Krait Architecture Explored

    Given Tuesday’s announcement of the first ARM-15 architecture chip from ARM and TMSC, the ball is rolling now. We’re getting closer and closer to desktop capable CPUs in terms of clock, core and now data/instruction bus widths. Once the ARM-15 64bit chip hits the market Qualcomm is going to need to accelerate its development of…