Sudden Rise of the Tablet

Sudden Rise of the Tablet

It is getting quite ridiculous, all the news coming out about the iPad. It was reported quite recently that the American Customer Satisfaction Index  (ACSI) rated the iPad at 86 points out of a 100. Purportedly the iPad scored higher than any of the products ACSI has ever tracked. Quite a glowing endorsement if you

How Secure Are You Online?

How Secure Are You Online?

The Internet frees up the flow of information and yet also gives cyber criminals easy access to the gullible. Arming himself with a firewall, anti-virus software and a firm resolve not to open ‘unsafe’ attachments, the average user still gets feelings of unease

Apple, The Living Legend

Apple, The Living Legend

Amidst a global sky of technology lies somewhere in North America the lair of a corporation that has grown to what is now a financially frightening army with millions of devoutly loyal followers. Apple, strongly shrouded around a web of secrecy and built from a single man’s vision is now a tech giant that has built itself up from humble beginnings

Phones Just Keep Getting Smarter

Phones Just Keep Getting Smarter

Smartphones have seen a huge surge in popularity over the last few months. Apple’s iPhone is no longer the only ‘it phone’ as customers begin to clamour for more choices. They certainly are getting it, with the plethora of Android phones available as well as the upcoming Microsoft Windows Phone launch

Has Social Computing Changed Us?

Has Social Computing Changed Us?

When the Internet started gaining momentum in the mid to late 90’s, many of us didn’t anticipate how big a part it would play in our lives in the near future. Many brushed it off as mere child’s play or even as something only the privileged few can afford to fiddle with


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Kingston Adds 32GB Class 10 microSDHC Card

Kingston has commenced shipments of a 32GB Class 10 microSDHC card, adding to its family of 4GB, 8GB and 16GB Class 10 cards. The Kingston 32GB Class 10 microSDHC card is perfect for users with substantial memory needs.

Kingston’s Class 10 microSDHC cards are compatible with many of the latest smartphones, hi-def cameras and popular tablet PCs. The Class 10 cards have a fast minimum data transfer rate of 10MB/s and when combined with an optional adapter, can be used as a full-size SDHC card. The cards come as a standalone, with an SD adapter or as a Mobility/Multi-Kit which includes the card, SD adapter and USB card reader.

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HP launches Paul McCartney’s private cloud-based digital library

McCartney’s collection currently includes more than 1 million items, including photographs; video footage from live concerts; rolls of film, videotapes and reels; music recordings; original works of art; as well as memorabilia. With HP, McCartney’s personal assets are now digitized.

HP Enterprise Services experts worked with MPL Communications, Ltd. to plan, develop, integrate and test the library. The library is built on an HP Converged Infrastructure, based on modular building blocks of HP servers, storage, networking and management software. The assets are housed in a private cloud managed from HP commercial data centers.

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Paramount Corporation’s Educational Services Division Invests in Oracle’s PeopleSoft Enterprise Campus Solutions

Paramount Corporation Berhad’s Educational Services Division – comprising primary & secondary school, university college, college, post executive education and a soon-to-commence international school (collectively KDU) – will implement Oracle’s PeopleSoft Enterprise Campus Solutions 9.0 (Campus Solutions) as an integral part of its expansion plan. KDU’s expansion plan also includes a brand new main campus for its university college and a more aggressive student recruitment programme. KDU selected Oracle after a detailed evaluation process that emphasised the need for a scalable, comprehensive and robust campus solution to cater to a wide range of student management requirements.

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Microsoft Aids Quake-struck Japan

As Japan struggles to cope with the aftermath of the earthquake that struck it recently we’ve been seeing response to the situation on many different levels. Even software giant Microsoft has contributed towards the effort in its own way to help the community.

Microsoft has reached out to customers, local government, inter-government and nonprofit agencies to support relief efforts. Together, they have commenced putting in place a range of services and resources to support relief efforts in Japan.

These include;

  • Working with customers and partners to conduct impact assessments.
  • Providing free incident support to help customers and partners impacted by the earthquake get their operations back up and running.
  • Offering free temporary software licenses to all impacted customers and partners as well as lead governments, nonprofit partners and institutions involved in disaster response efforts.
  • Making a cloud-based disaster response communications portal, based on Windows Azure, available to governments and nonprofits to enable them to communicate between agencies and directly with citizens.
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Seagate Ships 3TB Monster

Seagate recently began shipments of the Barracuda XT hard drive, a 3TB behemoth that allows users to take advantage of every bit of that capacity without the need for additional hardware or software. To date, this is the highest available drive capacity in a single unit.

Legacy PC BIOS designs and device drivers and older operating systems such as Windows XP are incapable of using hard drive capacities beyond 2.1TB. The upshot is that existing desktop drives with more than 2.1TB of storage capacity must be deployed with additional software or hardware and may also require extra device drivers to overcome this limitation.

The Barracuda XT hard drive with free Seagate DiscWizard software is a complete, easy-to-deploy solution. DiscWizard software makes it simple to configure the computer operating system and device drivers to access the full 3TB of capacity on legacy systems using Windows XP and PC BIOS and on personal computers equipped with newer versions of Windows or the new UEFI BIOS. The new DiscWizard software is available for free download at www.seagate.com/beyond-2TB.com.

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