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HackingCough: June 2010 Archives
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Tom Whitwell, assistant editor at. And responsible for developing the newspaper’s paywalled online site, did not hide his irritation at some of the helpful advice dished up by internet observers since the decision to ask people for money to read the news. 8220;How it’s been reported: it’s like we haven’t noticed [the problems],” said Whitwell in a session on paid-for sites at the News Rewired. 8220;We looked at how we could expand the site. We looked at how much money that expansion would bring in an...
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HackingCough: July 2010 Archives
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Against the shiny, glowing iPad, the latest iteration of the Amazon Kindle. Is not much to look at. But the price, look at the price. $140 for the basic model. The device is now within spitting distance of where it needs to become a near-disposable piece of electronics hardware, much like a digital watch or a pocket calculator. It’s at that point you can stick them in airport shops. You can offer three preloaded bonkbusters and expect holidaymakers to pick one up, knowing that it will last all ...Once be...
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Linaro scratches the chipmakers' software itch - Shrinking Violence Blog
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Linaro scratches the chipmakers' software itch. June 4, 2010 9:39 PM. You’d think people would be bored with forming embedded Linux consortia by now. But the creation of Linaro. Demonstrates that there was least one unfilled niche. Set up by ARM and a bunch of chipmakers. Linaro is different to some of the others that have appeared over the past few years, which are mainly intended to provide ready-made environments for mobile phones and internet tablets. It will be interesting to see if other independen...
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Globalfoundries' turn in tit-for-tat expansion plans - Shrinking Violence Blog
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Globalfoundries' turn in tit-for-tat expansion plans. June 1, 2010 9:21 AM. The people from GlobalFoundries travelled to Taiwan to let number-one foundry TSMC know that the youngest foundry is ready to keep on spending in what has become a capacity war in that business. It follows soon after TSMC’s own decision to push harder on capacity expansion with the building of its own Fab 15. There’s more. GlobalFoundries’ owner ATIC said it would build a 3km. 8216;technology cluster’ in its home of Abu Dha...
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Shrinking Violence Blog: Chipmaking Archives
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Forget petascale, here comes the exascale supercomputer. June 8, 2010 5:17 PM. Belgium-based research institute IMEC has teamed up with Intel and a group of local universities on a programme that is intended to pave the way for exascale computers – supercomputers that are close to a thousand times more powerful than those being commissioned today. Floating-point calculations per second. The most powerful supercomputer being made today is the Cray XT5 Jaguar with a rated performance of close to 2 petaflops.
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Direct action - HackingCough
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The often less-than-happy link between journalism and PR is breaking apart as PRs look to do more that is aimed direct at consumers, as reported in the Independent. To be honest, I thought trade/B2B sector would see this first, pointing to the possibility back in 2007. I forgot to factor in the larger amount of money that goes into consumer PR, which could translate into a greater willingness to take chances. By Peter van der Sluijs. June 7, 2010 12:03 PM. Surely a senior Edelman flack can't have missed ...
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Ebooks: not quite déjà vu all over again - HackingCough
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Ebooks: not quite déjà vu all over again. My favourite comment from Gizmodo's coverage of Sony's e-book reader, launched this week at CES. Was Tom of MusicThing. Party like it's 1999! And 1989, for that matter - anybody remember VC Hermann Hauser. The design mutated into the EO tablet computer before the whole project disappeared along with Microsoft's first tablet efforts and as Apple's more famous Newton PDA flamed out. But the e-book reader is one of those concepts that just won't lie down and die.
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Cadence tries to avoid the Tality trap - Shrinking Violence Blog
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Cadence tries to avoid the Tality trap. May 10, 2010 9:47 AM. When Cadence Design Systems said last week. It was getting back into the business of supplying intellectual property (IP). My first reaction was: “Oh look, they’ve reinvented Tality.” I wasn’t alone. Just about everyone who I talked to afterwards before and during the International Electronics Forum in Dresden said more or less the same thing: “It’s Tality all over again.”. Vishal Kapoor, vice president of product management at Cadence and res...
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OVP hitches ride on TLM2 wagon - Shrinking Violence Blog
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OVP hitches ride on TLM2 wagon. November 21, 2008 10:05 PM. If you don't like stuff about obscure standards in system-level modelling, look away now. A round-robin email from Simon Davidmann of Imperas. And the self-styled Open Virtual Platforms (OVP) group. OVP launched onto the scene just as the work on TLM2 was drawing to a close. Imperas claimed OVP could be much faster than TLM2 and, although it was not meant to be a complete replacement for TLM2, the emphasis within their camp was that you would, f...
