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Google speeds up Chrome

Google has released a new beta version of its Chrome browser, adding speed improvements, HTML 5 functionality and other tweaks. Google introduced Chrome in September, and it has been working on adding standard features found in competing web browsers, ...

From MATTHEW BROERSMA, ZDNet UK,  6 Aug 2009
Related Topics: Microsoft Corporation

Hitachi ships fastest 2TB disk drive

Hitachi Global Storage Technologies on Thursday launched a 2TB hard disk drive for desktops, the industry's first to run at 7,200 rpm. The Deskstar 7K2000 competes with devices such as Seagate's 2TB Barracuda LP drive, which operates at 5,900 rpm, and ...

From MATTHEW BROERSMA, ZDNet UK,  6 Aug 2009
Related Topics: Hitachi, Ltd.,  Western Digital

Judge prevents SCO selling off assets

A bankruptcy court judge has denied a request by the SCO Group to sell off part of its business, a move that could have helped it pursue court cases against Novell and IBM. SCO, which has been in bankruptcy court since 2007, had proposed to sell off ...

From MATTHEW BROERSMA, ZDNet UK,  6 Aug 2009
Related Topics: SCO Group, Inc.,  IBM,  Novell, Inc.

Canonical's Landscape goes local

Canonical is introducing a version of its hosted Ubuntu system management tool that can be installed locally in a company's datacentre. Landscape Dedicated Server, announced on Tuesday, is an addition to the company's two-year-old Landscape offering. ...

From MATTHEW BROERSMA, ZDNet UK,  5 Aug 2009

High court cracks down on WEEE waste dodge

The high court in London has ruled that electronics manufacturers should not collect more electronics waste than they have produced. In a decision reached on Friday, Mr Justice Wyn Williams found that plans by compliance schemes to collect more waste ...

From MATTHEW BROERSMA, ZDNet UK,  5 Aug 2009
Related Topics: Environment Agency

Toshiba to launch first 64GB SDXC card

Toshiba is set to launch its first SDXC memory card, packing 64GB of storage into a standard SD card form factor. The manufacturer said on Tuesday that it would begin shipping samples of the new SDXC cards the largest yet in that specification in ...

From MATTHEW BROERSMA, ZDNet UK,  5 Aug 2009
Related Topics: Toshiba,  Sony

Sony open sources digital effects software

Film effects specialist Sony Pictures Imageworks has released five digital image-manipulation software tools under open source licenses. While Imageworks has released other open source software in the past, the release of five tools at once brings its ...

From MATTHEW BROERSMA, LXer,  4 Aug 2009
Related Topics: Sony Pictures,  Google Inc.

OECD sees signs of tech turnaround

The global ICT industry is showing signs of recovery from the economic downturn, according to a report by the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development. "There are signs of recovery, with the rate of decline bottoming out and turning up in ...

From MATTHEW BROERSMA, ZDNet UK,  31 Jul 2009

PHP framework gets enterprise features

PHP specialist Zend has released a new version of Zend Framework, its open-source web application framework, with support for PHP 5.3 and directory services from Microsoft and Novell. A web application framework is used to simplify programming web ...

From MATTHEW BROERSMA, ZDNet UK,  30 Jul 2009
Related Topics: Microsoft Corporation,  Novell, Inc.

Samsung launches two-platter 1TB disk drive

Samsung has taken advantage of rising hard-disk memory storage densities to launch a new line of high-end products with capacities of up to 1TB. The Spinpoint F3 line, announced on Tuesday, uses technologies such as perpendicular magnetic recording ...

From MATTHEW BROERSMA, ZDNet UK,  30 Jul 2009
Related Topics: RPM, Inc.

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