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IntelLeadingLight

So here's what I've been reading on my iPhone 4 this week - well, in those moments my left hand isn't blocking the antenna, that is.

 

The UK's coalition government is going to scrap 75% of all government websites, reports IT Pro.

 

A new report from the Central Office of Information (COI) found development and running of just 46 sites had cost the Government £94 million in 2009 – 2010, plus £32 million in staffing costs.

 

PC Pro takes a look at the surprise decision by Microsoft to drop its Kin phone, just weeks after it hit the market.

 

So why the rapid cancellation? Well, it was done hours before the end of the Microsoft financial year. Clearly, this is an attempt by Andy Lees, the VP in charge of mobile, to wrap up all the pain and debt into the current financial year in order to give Windows 7 Mobile the best possible spreadsheet position in the next financial year.

 

Enterprise Storage lists 10 storage start-ups worth taking a look at.

 

CSO.com has an interesting report on research into the views of IT security professionals.

 

The research includes the responses of 591 IT and IT security practitioners and found 83 percent believe their organization has been the target of an advanced threat, with 71 percent reporting an increase in advanced threats over the past 12 months.

 

And finally, here's a bit of video taking a very early look at Meego, Intel and Nokia's mobile OS, running on a handset. Looks promising.

 

 

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IntelLeadingLight

Tech trawl

Posted by IntelLeadingLight Jun 23, 2010

So let's take a whizz through some of the items catching my eye in the RSS feed right now....

 

 

IT Pro reports on Microsoft's launch of Health Vault in the UK. It writes:

 

The free service, which was introduced in the US three years ago, lets users store their personal health information. In addition it provides a platform for applications that use the data to help individuals monitor various aspects of their health.

 

We're still in the early days of services combining the cloud with personal health information and down the road there is going to be a big debate about security, ethics and insurance.

 

The Register reports on the implications of George Osbourne's first Budget:

 

ToryDem chancellor George Osborne handed a massive tax boost to business today in his first budget. But the move will be cold comfort for public sector suppliers, banks or video games developers.

I know many British video game developers will be disappointed to put it mildly that a pledge on tax breaks promised under Labour and supported by the Conservatives as they came into office has been ditched at the first opportunity.
The Inquirer has a lovely piece looking at the recent vintage computer fair at Bletchley Park, home of the World War II codebreakers.
Several exhibitors said they were into old machines because computing is no longer the fun it was when you often had to write your own software, and even design hardware, to get something done
The BBC also did a feature which included reporting on a ZX Spectrum running Twitter!
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Changing gears, and Enterprise IT World believes it has uncovered virtualization's "dirty little secret" -  that it complicates, not simplifies, data backup issues.
Data Center Knowledge has an interesting report on how Google is helping to make the web faster, reporting from the Velocity 2010 conference.
The average web page takes 4.9 seconds to load and includes 320 KB of content, according to Urs Hölzle, Google’s Senior Vice President of Operation. Hölzle said Google has seen a 12 percent improvement in the performance of its sites through refinements in its implementation of TCP/IP.  He said Google also could serve pages faster if it had more information from DNS servers about an end user’s location.
Finally, Intel CIO Diane Bryant delivered a keynote at a HP Tech Forum this week and IT Business reported on her speech:
Her advice to IT professionals amidst the rapidly changing IT landscape is that they need to make investments to understand any given business, create and maintain "strong partnerships" to help make transformation happen and to also have a "continuous plan" that addresses the question of "what next" within their organizations in order to deliver real business value.

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IntelLeadingLight

And so to our semi-regulator feature rounding up the news and features we've spotted on our RSS travels.

 

Perhaps the most unusual story of the week comes courtesy of EWeek Europe, which reported that a quarter of Germans were happy to have chips implanted in their heads if it means shorter lines at the supermarket.

 

Silicon.com reports on Minister for Digital Britain Stephen Timms telling told the European e-skills conference in London that CEOs of UK tech companies weree "finding it hard to persuade universities" to run the courses that the IT industries most need.

 

ZDnet reports on a partnership between Intel, EMC, RSA, and VMware to take advantage of Intel's Trusted Execution Technology in its Westmere processing chips.

 

The Register writes about Intel's 48-core chips that are being shown at CeBit this year.

 

Speaking of CeBit, Mobile Computer Mag takes a look at two new laptops from Asus, and comments on the Atom processors inside...

 

Finally, Information Week has the inside track on new servers from IBM, which incorporate Intel's 45-nm Nehalem processors.

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IntelLeadingLight

It's time for one of our semi-regular looks at some of the best stories and features out there on the web.

 

IT Pro Portal has an interesting story about the Chinese authorities shutting down the country's biggest "hacker training centre". Of course, this comes just weeks after Google claimed that its own services in China were being targeted by hackers.

 

Network World looks into claims that there is a shortage of data centre expertise on the market, especially in the virtualization space. Very apposite given our roundtable on virtualisation today here on IT Galaxy.

 

BBC News has a fascinating piece looking at how mobile devices could benefit from a trick in quantum physics to create pressure sensitive touch interfaces. I'm no expert in quantum physics but essentially scientists have created a material that can detect different pressures by taking advantage of a phenomenon called "tunnelling". I suggest you read more if you want to really understand how it works.

 

The Rackspace website has a post rounding up stats from uptime monitoring firm Pingdom.com Apparently, in 2009 over 90 trillion e-mails were sent across the net.  Every day 200 billion spam e-mails are sent - and most of them seem to land in my inbox.

 

Smaller and more efficient home consumer electronics could be on the way if a Sony innovation takes off. The Register reports on Sony's new wireless technology designed to replace wires inside devices. Instead of using wires, the technology can transmit data at very high speeds but at extremely short distances.

 

From the Register: "Using a 1mm antenna, Sony was able to get a 11Gb/s transmission speed over a distance of just 14mm. The effort used 70mW of power. Better, more directional aerials can be used to get the distance up to 50mm"

 

And why do this? Well, it could mean the replacement of components inside devices making them more power efficient and even smaller.

 

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