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• Kids think Apple is smug
• Google pushes further into health care
• Data centres face revolution
• Microsoft to change suicide server settings
• Chinese give Qualcomm a novel suggestion
• US begins McCarthyite purge of scientists
• Next year’s server wars may be cancelled
• Qualcomm releases Snapdragon 210
• Apple eclipses Intel
• MP hits out at Welsh blog site

Kids think Apple is smug Posted: 11 Sep 2014 06:34 AM PDT A survey claimed that only one in 10 American schoolkids are interested in the recently announced Apple iWatch. The survey, conducted by Chegg, also reveals that Apple doesn't hold the allure for college and high school kids it formerly had. Seventy one percent of these students think Google is "cool" while only 64 percent think that Apple is "cool". more»

Google pushes further into health care Posted: 11 Sep 2014 06:24 AM PDT Ambitious search giant Google has bought a company which helps people with Parkinson's disease. The firm, Liff Labs, will become part of Google's R&D division – Google X.  Google X works on projects such as driverless cars and Google glasses. Financial terms are not disclosed but according to a Google blog, a spoon made by Liff includes sensors that can pick up tremors in a patient's hand are cance them. more»

Data centres face revolution Posted: 11 Sep 2014 06:15 AM PDT Four disruptive forces are set to change the face of the data centre by 2016. That's according to market research firm Gartner, which estimates that although the data centre market seems poised for growth, existing assumptions will be challenged. Vendors like the 50 percent or more gross margins in storage and networking hardware and software but  one vendor might decide to slash its margins, so forcing a price war in the data centre industry. more»

Microsoft to change suicide server settings Posted: 11 Sep 2014 02:34 AM PDT Software giant Microsoft has had enough of a suicide server setting in ASP.NET which too few sysadmins can be bothered disabling. Microsoft said that all future versions of ASP.NET will enforce the deprecation of EnableViewStateMac="false". This was in a security advisory in December 2013, when Redmond has warned the setting had a privilege escalation vulnerability. more»

Chinese give Qualcomm a novel suggestion Posted: 11 Sep 2014 02:34 AM PDT The Chinese government, which is currently about to release its antitrust watch-dogs onto US chipmaker, Qualcomm has come up with a novel way for the outfit to avoid trouble. Qualcomm has been told that if it helps Chinese companies become so competitive that they can give the company a good kicking, then the watchdogs will be sent back to their cages. more»

US begins McCarthyite purge of scientists Posted: 11 Sep 2014 02:33 AM PDT The US's obsession with imaginary terrorists has resulted in what appears to be a McCarthy style purge of academics. According to Science the latest to be purged is Valerie Barr who, in 1979, when she was 22, handed out leaflets, stood behind tables at rallies, and baked cookies to support two left-wing groups, the Women's Committee Against Genocide and the New Movement in Solidarity with Puerto Rican Independence. more»

Next year’s server wars may be cancelled Posted: 11 Sep 2014 02:31 AM PDT The major battle in the server space planned for next year may be only a minor skirmish with the usual suspects winning. Intel needs to see off the expected competition from ARM and is going to chuck a lot more cash in the area to keep its position as market leader. more»

Qualcomm releases Snapdragon 210 Posted: 11 Sep 2014 02:31 AM PDT Qualcomm has released its new Snapdragon 210  chip which should mean more LTE smartphones running high-quality video. Sticking two fingers up at its rival MediaTek, Qualcomm has built a 28-nm chip for the entry-level market. It has based around a 1.1 GHz quad-core Cortex-A7 CPU, Adreno 300-series GPU, supports up to 8 megapixel cameras, and has a resolution of up to 720p.  more»

Apple eclipses Intel Posted: 10 Sep 2014 10:31 AM PDT As far as we can see, Apple's announcement of its iWatch put chip giant Intel in the shade yesterday. Yesterday  was supposed to be Intel's day, but as it doesn't really have very much to say about anything except wearable technology, it didn't really stand a chance. more»

MP hits out at Welsh blog site Posted: 10 Sep 2014 07:25 AM PDT The Tory MP for Aberconwy, Guto Bebb, has hit out at a local anonymous blog site in an attempt to prevent trolling and malicious gossip. Bebb asked Michael Penning, the policing minister, in an adjournment debate what the Home Office attitude was to sites such as "Thoughts of Oscar", which he said "is probably best described as a small town poison pen letter blog". more»

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